Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-03-06
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leans.
CHICAGO, February 18th.-Tbere
seemed to be some difficulty on the
= Wednesday and Thursday succeed
y ing Mardi Gras In convincing the
~ good people of New Orleans that
- the Carnival was over, that Lent
!, had begun and that Rex was as dead
= as Queen Anne. On the French
p side Of Canal street the CreOles, be-
= ing orthodox Catholics, meekly ae-
= eepted the inevitable, furled their
= tiags, laid by their masks and made
up their minds for forty days abb
% stlnence from gayety and cOnVivi-
i ality--to be alleviated, perchanCe,
Dy tritiing "spurt" of music and
dancing al the Dlf-cdrene. Other.
!, wise salt fish and picked eggs and
!, the clerical gentlemen with tOnsures
n and in cassOcks would have things
I all their own way until Easter. lt
! Is equally true that so early as the
/ morrow Of Mardi Gras the profess
: OF depopulation was visible 10 phe-
! n0menal extent at all the hotels.
Throughout Ash Wednesday huge
, mountains of luggage were piled
! up in the rOtunda of the st. Charles,
, TO be carried away by the staiwart
, negro pOrters and replaced by other
, Pelions upon Ossas of trunks and
portuianteausas the hotel omnibuses
conveyed successive detachments Of
departing guests to the various rail-
way depOts. The recent holiday
makers scaTiPered away as though
Yellow Jack was at their heels-a
contingency rendered all the mere
possible by the sudden and alarm
ing sultriness of the weather IL
was as warm as an average English
July; and the mosquitoes, which
are timid and harmless when the
weather is chilly, came out in squad
rons and platOOns, blowing their
bOurdOnS and singing their war songs
and tapping the strangers blood as
though they were so many Germans
at bier-halle. With all this, the
Anglo-American element in the
Crescent City seemed generally un-
aware of the propriety of fasting
and mourning in sack-clOth and
ashes. The clicking OF the billiard
balls and the rumbling of the ten
! pins at the saloons ceased not the
bars continued crowded, and in the
night season, although Momus, Co
mus and Rex were all laid in the
dark limbo of the Things which
Once Have Been, there was much
braying Of braZen music and much
"allonging and marchongingn ofa
mercurial population. Perhaps they
were burying the Carnival with
military hOnors. Perhaps some
military or political or Masonic
"bOom had succeed that Of Mardi
Gras. At all events AnglO-Ameri-
can New Orleans continued to en-
JOY itself as though its motto was,
LET us eat, drink, and be merry,
for tomorrow we may have the vel
low fever or the carpet-baggers
back again."
We packed our needments by
easy stages, and waited until the
first rush of the departing crowd
was over. Time enough to think
about paying your bill and going
away. Time enough to leave the
the cheerful, smiling city and its
gentle, kindly people full of courte-
Gus hospitality and winning ways.
You call upon them to bid good-by,
and they call upon you again to say
goOd-by once more. They embrace
your womankind and press little
souvenirs upon you, and make you
promise to send them carfes de
Cisite when you get home; and they
will be sure TO meet you again, for
they all mean to come to England
some day or another. One gentle
man of my acquaintance in this
pleasant city, learned physician,
was always bursting forth in praises
of Burlington Gardens and Saville
row, while another was never tired
AS in bright New Orleans so In
genial Richmond. The people
seem as unfeignedly glad to well
come you as they are unfeignediy
sorry TO part with you, and you
value the.kindnesses shown to you
all the more since they ere entirely
devoid of ostentatiOn. j suppose
that the Southerners have their
faults; / suppose that most folks
have; but assuredly / have met
with no more gentle, simple-mind-
ed, loyable people than those with
whom / have been sojourning be-
tween the Potomac and the Missis-
sippi. But to go away was at length
the imperative mandate. You
might fit the halterand traverse the
cart-you might often take leave
and be loath to depart; but depar-
ture was the irrevocable doom.
Farewell summer weather i'm Fbbru-
ary; farewell oranges and straw
berries, bananas and plantains; fare
well the nightly skies ofblue velvet
powdered with silver stars; farewell
the glimmering ghosts in powder
and brocade in dear old Jackson
Square! They are all too lovely for
me, / murmured, recalling the be-
loved melody in the opera Of "The
Mountain Sylph;" and then Time
rudely took me to task, sternly re-
minding me that had been lotter-
ing in New Orleans waiting for
Mardi Gras when ! ought TO have
sped to Galveston and San Antonio
in Texas, or to Cedar Keys and
Jacksonville in Florida. "Are they
not close by?" asked the man with
the scythe and hour-glass. EYES,"
sulkily and mentally made ans
wer; and $50 are Cuba and Puerto
Rico and Hayti-all of which /
should dearly love to revisit" They
are all close by; they are all round
the corner; but traveller cannot 90
everywhere. am due In London,
England, on the 10Th of March, and
on the 3D. OF that month the Cunard
steamer Gallia leaves New York
from which am now distant 500
miles-for Liverpool. And have
not yet seen the Great West. "Go
West, young man." was the advice
of the late Horace Greeley TO the
youthful aspiranG for fame and for
tune. am not young, aud my
aspirations do not go beyond daily
bread and place; still thought that,
seeing that should In all proba-
bility never have another chance
of going West again, l might as
wen go there with all convenient
despatch. So concluded TO make
a plunge Of thousand miles to
Chicago. would have halted at
st. Louis, but that implacable Time
said no.
IRELAND is not alone In her suf-
ferings. Russia is partly in as ter
ribIe a condition, as the following
from st. Petersburg would infer.