The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-10
Az THE SOUTH.
What E1r. 'E'=IIsMages a PreSby tee
I-i:an Preacher of Brooklyn. n.
W. saw im New Orleans.
EEis Impressions Of IEae south. AAer
institutions and Her Customs

Into New ORLEANS, brilliant with the
! living and solemn with the dead, L dropped
| by the rail train from Cincinnati, week be
| fore last. Ii was at the close OF the Mardl
| GraS. Once a year, on ShroVe Iuesuay, the
| city rises into Il scene OF hilarity net tquaied
| on the continent. For twenty years, eX-
cepting in war times and short while af-
| forwards. this municipal amusement has
| gone on, until tue approach OF that Gay
sends hundreds of thousands OF strangers
/ into the city OF New Orleans, and the pop
ulation turns cut to gaze, and laugh aud
| wonder at the procession, illustrating the
| scenes of classic fable. There are horses OF
regal trapping, glittering with purple ana
| gold-palaces and thrones, anu paVlllohs'
! and tabIeauX rolled by-gOds and god
| desses, turtles and gorgons, Agamem,
! non. and Jupiter, and Neptune, anu
| Mercury, and MoGlus, and Trojan horse
| and regime ntS in cleaning malt ana WIN
| shouldered battle axes until day ana nl%i4L
| dance with the iolity and flame with the
! splendOr of hundreds OF thousands OF Peo-
ME at The utmost of eXhilaration. Inc law
| Telaxes during that day, and the city Is put
| upon its honor, and the whole Juollahe pop
uiation do as they please, anu ior the h1ost
! mart do right A gentleman, who Is cloSe
| observer, said, during all That Gay anu ali
! chat nj CHIT. he saw not one case OF uruh hen-
ness or of improperly wish we ilau sun
| thing like that here-one great rouslng
| holiday. fifty Fourth Of Julys souhdinR III
| ono saIvo fifty Christmasses TWISTED INTO
! ~ o garland. fifty Thanksgiving DAYS stttfed
| into one turkey! [Laughter'J Lite Is heaVy
| for muititudes of our people, and they heed
| more frequent lef-up. Here fun Is eleVa7
! tintr and educational. ! am always atralo
/ Of y man who cannot laugh. He IS sure 10
/ steal something. Laughter Inc ilos'
solemn-looking mani ever me-" Ia
! Towed of metwenty-tive dollors, aau
throuoh pure deieacy of feeling never
/ mentioned the subject again Laugh
teri The world wants not SO muGn
| broader smiles as deeper iaugntSr: 49,
| ~ cod that one great Mardi Gras "a Sht
:, orch th rough all the earth, until the down
cast are compelled TO look up, and the snawi-
ed-sick shall gaze jupilant out OF the win !,
| lows and the m isanthrope Chat grows anu y,
qroans over the world I'm -
| uTnrld,s merriment. We have the pest OF
| Rocks for the authority. = A merry near
| doth good like medicine, anu ~ Is !! = x = :
time that people understood that 1neIe - ~ =
| war between the gospei u Jesus i''' 49,
| honest-hearted mirth.
Al the close of that carnival nrsG saw
| ,ha eitv of New Orleans-not a dragged
and bioodshot populace, but men anu W.
men better, stronger, Wises Cohbath never
| JaIvned on earth than the foilo~lu2. pau :
Iath The worship of God began before
us4,eoa- In the temple of the morning, tue
| feathered choirs standing anna Dus s;' "a %
:eeon,ine and orange, the cripple acting rs rs
y"n.,tor said as soon as came out OF
pav room and looked into the sunshlne, a..
| nty nj9ht of such laundering ana te!hPess
S ss' never saw, This must be someenIng %
s a. sensation we will have when ane De.
stormed nights of earth enc ~ Tug sun""' y
The most cheerful city Of the SGItn '1 in
| H. is New Orleans She rs reJolcihk Ia
Jay -escre from years of unrighteous GOV
eminent. Just now the state 5ss e q idea Of
NE .sovernm ent insulted, can De apprecla.esI
sell NJ those who come face 60 Iace W.
9 ON acts. While some Of the best pasriloas
s.st North went down with right mosiees
~ % ,s,,l IN the reconstruction OF Lne 49,
" of the South, many q 49,
gsSwrir1aists were the CASTOR apl ~.
p al&s 81 the North who, aILer 0SAn !. !
p1l.as5 anf Of Northern waters, craWIeu "
the beach q che south sun ststes had
lSsRtsrh dishonest men OF their own ML.nsI'
eno .slssratinn The day Of trouble mas passea
lm apl'sa5ana ana south Carolina for the most
.. 80 free GOV Nichols ef enc one, an
sz 81, wade Hampton Of the other, nAss IL
so ~, ,l y 81 Gre great masses Of the peoR,e
con Llas g INV one word that can describe
IN ,.ei fseling if the South to-aayi aau s'lA'