Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-05
Price Four Cents.

about seven miles out The trip costs 15 cents and is beautiful one On arrival YOU behold second Coney Island on ake Pouchartrain. Remain as long as you will enjoy the cool breeze; partake of fish or other provender to the satisfaction of your appetite. The old Spanish fort is another of the same kinds of resort the opposite shore. These resorts were built and kept by the two railroad companies, each trying to outdo the other, and are well patronized in this warm season. which is long one and they are supposed to pay at the low rates Sundays especially are they said to be full From Canal street, near St. Charles also, start perhaps twenty lines of street cars, going everywhere for five cents. These cars are drawn by one mule. Every one on entering deposits his nickel No conductor is neces- sary, as evading fares is unknown in New Or leans. The score of cemeteries, most of them about three miles out, on Canal street are visited by all strangers They are ob- jects of great interest. The burials almost universally are made in vaults built above ground. Some elegant and costly monu- ments are to be seen The grounds are all decorated beautifully with flowers, magno- has and evergreens. A car ride through St. Charles street, Prytania Camp, or Magazine street. or to Carrollton, pays well, as on all these may be seen magnolias from twenty to fifty feet high in full blossom and the most elegant door yards and gardens full of roses and other flowers to delight the eye. One gentleman from ConEecticut whom I know well has been so fascinated that he has made purchases to the amount of thirty thousand dollars in city houses and plantation within
 short distance City property is selling at auction daily that is rented from twelve to twenty per cent. of the sale price.
 New Orleans has not changed much for
 twenty years, but the appearances now are
 that the city is going to look up. Railroads
 are projected hither and thither to regain
 and retain the former prestige of the city A
 new road has just now been finished to Texas
 which we expect to try on this trip, it being a continuous line to San Antonio and in con
 nection with the great system of roads run
 ming to Kansas, through the Indian Terrto- ry, we'll as with the Little Rock route.
 New Orleans is tke largest cotton market in the world Every bale leaves, as commis- sions, insurance, drayage and for compress ing, at least five to six dollars in the city One 'fcompress" we saw, which cost forty or fifty thousand dollars, had the power of four mil lion, four hundred thousand pounds press ure, reducing the original size of bale of cotton two thirds, thus enabling the storage of three times the quantity in a given ship that otherwise could be accomplished. The bed of this ''compress' weighed eight tons, and had been once broken by the immense power, although it was eight feet in thick ness. A steamer from up river has been for days unloading at the levee it's enormous freight of nine thousand two hundred and twenty-six bales, which are to go through the compressing process.
 The sewerage question has been the great absorbing question for some time. New Or leans, which from time immemorial has been drained through its gutters is to be severed, and Imaginable have been the arguments pro and con on the subject. One declared he would leave the city if the sewerage was not adopted; his son was in college. but he would never allow him to settle in an unsew- cred city. Another declared he would not remain in a city which underlaid with drains for the infection of the city. Another thought his vault had been used by his an- cestors for fifty years it was good yet he wanted nothing better than his fathers had; ''Tam the sewers and the doctors car boique." The club house and fair grounds are institutions to which ride in the street cars for five cents pays. The Jockey Club races have been in operation the last week, but as my taste or business is not in that di- rection I can only mention the fact The ice manufactories are interesting to visit. We need not go back many years to remem- Der the first cargo of ice sent from the North. A few days since I noticed on the corners of the streets death notice, which is very com mon. Somehow I was inclined to read it it was MT. c. w. Hotchkiss, formerly of New Haven, Conn, (brother-in law of Mir Wm Thompson, the mason). I knew him when
 
 funeral, but circumstances prevented. MT. Hotchkiss had been engaged in the iron bus mess for many years.
 On the leyee the customary amount of business is going on, from four to eight steamers departing each day at p. m., and many arriving during each night. These steamers floating palaces. The old French market is. formerly, an attraction, but appears to be losing somewhat of its na- tionality. Here of a Sunday morning you can hear French. Spanish, English and h. dian, Jew and Gentle, all in one gaoble. A fire company going down St Charles street Sunday noon with it's band of music had only passed when military company with brass band moved in the opposite direction. questioned, Where are they going? The answer 1 read in the morning papers, which told of their successes at target firing. The late overfowing of so large part of the city, I was surprised to find, was not caused by the high water in the Mississippi, b by the high winds in the Gulf and on Lake Ponchartrain, causing the waters to be higher than the levees, which were supposed to be high enough for protection, but they proved insufficient All traces of the flood have dis appeared.
 Another observation I have made in New Orleans, viz, nearly all the mules driven here have full tails. I have often asked the question why are the tails of mules generally sheared, and have never received satis- factory answer, but here see the fact. Mules with tails are far better looking ami nal than without. I covet great pair with full caudal appendages. Real estate sells for low prices, but at better paying interest than per cent. I have in my eye ct this moment theatre property which cost one hundred thousand dollars and is in the market for twenty thousand. A prominent corner has just been purchased for a cotton exchange for about one hundred thousand A funeral at this moment passing reminds me of custom heretofore noticed, that is. the persons in carriages carry flowers in their hands These emblems of affection are for the purpose of ornamenting the rest ing place of the departed M.