Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-05-10
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
NEW ORLEANS, April %, 157

EDITOR INTELLIeENcER:- Nearly all
large cities have some distinguishing
as a general promenade.
Boston has her "Washington, New
York her Broadway" Chicago her
madison avenue" Saint Louis her
Fourth" aud the crescent city her
grand boulevard. "Canal street." 1t IS
here the fashionable world congregate
to display their bought finery and gen.
eral make up. A particular feature OF
Canal street is the variety of characters
to be always seen there. Wealth and
Poverty, Virtue and Sin jostle each the
other-all classes and conditions of So
ciety. from the poorly clad working girl.
,hurrying along to her toll, wondering
and sometimes curslng at the evolutions
of the wheel of fortune that condemns
her ever to incessant labor. while the
aristocratic
CLARA WERE DE WERE. |
the pamFered darling of society, sweeps
by in her dainty robes. all unconscious
of the girl beside her, who. perchance.
has worked all the freshness and best
years of her life into those same silken
folds.
Not long ago one of our society ladies,
the wife OF prominent Central street
merchant, entered a store where are
kept the most costly artic es of statuary,
bric-a. .brac, &C. On the pretense OF ex-
aiming some article In the rear OF the
store, she distracted the attention OF the
gentleman in attendance, and while he
was occupied In getting the statute as
requested, she quietly filled her pockets
with several costly statuettes and vases.
Then. making some casual remark to
the clerk, she left the store. 1t was not
ten minutes after her departure that the
articles were missed. The lady was
followed and requested to hand them
over. As she was auealthy. the matter
was hushed up. and excused as klepto-
mania; had the same act been commit
ted by poor woman. with her halt
starved, half-naked children clinging to
her knees. piteously begging for bread
she would have been locked up for
theft, and fined five dollars or ten
days down. The world Is the same all
over. and money is the magical past
word The chink Of gold in the purse
of the plebian reigns more powerfully
than a wealth of intelligence, good blood
or high culture. Who shall dare say
wherein is the fault and cause OF thi
degeneration of what was once th
highest society in the land1 Even be
fore the war the much boosted creme d
la creme of "blood and bralns'' mean
those that owned the most slaves, an
/ OUR BLUE-BLooDED PURPLE
d are, after all, those who had enoug
niggers and broad acres to provid
= them with means for education. So. 3
IA ter all. it is all money-honestly earne
r or otherwise-for, to judge from the le
- cal columns of the daily papers. to b
; fashionable one must be defaulter.
n Well. the long Lenten days are owe
the sack-clo,h and ashes of the rigorol
!. observers are laid away for anotht
), year, and Easter ushers in the dawn {
e. new bonnets. lovely toilets and the usu
" epidemic OF charitable entertainment
., No one who has ever visited New .
h. leans has failed to remark upon the e:
hf quisite taste of the toilets and the beau
" of our ladies. Faultless taste III DIRE
er has always characterized the southe
ns ladies. Perhaps at no place this sease
y" have more wonderful inventions OF hon
by and foreign modistes been shown In t
he matter of dress, than at the
NV LOAN EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS,
which was opened on the 22nd at
IS. Patrick's Hall. tor the much need
'et &c benefit OF the Home of the Aged and
to firm. There are five classes of art tire;
b. ures displayed-paintings, statuary.
'es cravings, bronzes and miscellaneous {
riosities making collection of six hu
an dred articles. All these exhibits {
90, loaned by private individuals, and {
III. the art treasures of New Orleans HON
,ey One contributor alone has valued
pictures at twelve thousand dolla
ase Among the portraits is fine one of
a. JACQUES vILLERE.
ave the first creole governor OF Louisia
ms: The picture represents him as Il t;
:. handsome man of forty five yea
:. Black hair and eyes. lips thin and CO
pressed. and smooth, dimpled lace.
for dress Is that OF general OF the st
'pls militia. light-h,ting blue coat and
my pantaloons.
all "a FAMILIAR OAK'
at is simply perfect piece Of work fr
'oid the brush of well-known southern
>. al. tlst. Richard Clague. The tree ir
,sli from which the sketch ia made, Is {
standing in front Of the old Girod q
an ~, lum. near the city park. Another Of
southern artists, Julio, has also cont
Iour uted some fine paintings. One Of
ere. choicest pictures
om .'sUNsEr ON A SCOTCH MOOR"
Rad a cattle piece. by 7. S. Cooper. OF
~ two Royal Academy. England. represent
If he a few cows. resting upon the side c
one lake, while the deepening twilight c
oo,s quiet summers evening slowly spre;
with soft purple light, over the sc
rect. Another fine picture is Rubens
n Nv "LovE FEAST"
0rtly loaned by the famous Pickwick Gu
n this city. In the gateway of some
palace, near an overgrown moss
At cred fountain. are grouped knights
ladies of Eye olden times." in var
the attitudes, all expressive OF the tel
teur passion, while little nuked, blue-e
I'D I; curly headed cupids are scattered
,nua - and there.
ties, "DIANA RESTING AFTER THE CHA
aner . is by Jausen. the celebrated Flel
IT OF painter. and protegee of the quee
cited Holland. The work is exceiie
ting done. and is the chief attraction.