New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-03

Under it the people forgetting many OF inc IRA
ditions aud sentiments Of common society. PuDhc
education 10 tumbling to ruin, tho laws are partly
obsolete. there is no financial understanding; moth
ing but Creolism. ringed round about with small
domestic bandits, ruling in the name Of the dead
and now corrupt Confedsracp
BUSY CITY.
Yet this a stranger does not see at first, as ne
drinks IN the bright co!ors and sensuous life OF the
spreading and noble city of the great river, to my
mind the most agreeable city of the Union. pext to
New-York. The coal smoke which enfolds all the
Western and OF the Southern cities, barely tells
here in place-aong the line of the levees where
the steamers which ride on higher water than the
level of the streets lift above their cardboard archi
lecture tall pairs of pipes. gracefully ornamented
like tropical palms. which arc exbaliug their car
bonic acid gas from the tops OF the stems Every
where else the brightest sun. like perpetual May
day, sparkles in the fig and orange bushes and the
glossy ma guoa trces, and peeps up lanes and vstss
full of Spanish color aud French character ana lies
like great white hand and aru upon the broader
Americspized streets where shops OF inhnlte
riches and variety show everything beneath the
long awnings or arcades. and the whole population
il out of doors; the cafes and restaurants are num-
crous and vivacious fruit Is on every corner car
riages and fine horses, and bouevards crowded Win
street and steam great green verandahs OF IRON
covering all the house fronts to the roofs,
streets paved with granite in large smooth docks
and marble tiles and sidewalks not uncommon par
rots calling from their yellow and crimson stufhng
like vocal fruit. cigar shops every where open TO the
street as at q fair. and bar-rooms wide and ex-
posed. old book-shops full of libraries in
French. Spanish and English, invading
the sidewalks pedlers and booths scattered along
the curbs the long, large suburbs lined with cool
houses often in bright colors, and surrounded with
groves aud gardeus streets parked down the middle
with maroon or lime, or even live OAK Trees cluo
houses hero and there in business ne'Rhborhoods,
old French dwellings Of the bon ton, with low, conf
cal roofs and story. old Spanish dwellings OF
adobe painted yellow or green or red, and bending
under heavy roofs Of TILES mules trOtiDg TO drays,
the huge levee q thousand feet wide banked with
sugar hogsheads and cotton bales, and guano and
merchandise; such IS New-Orleans in a mornings
ak.
NETWORK AND NEw-oRLEASs
You would not think that New York and New
Orleans had any Typographical resemblance. but IL
is So The Mississippi River is about OF the breadth
of the Hudson Algiers. opposite. corresponds to
Jersey City, and has mills, factories and shipping.
The bayous and canals back of New-Orleans give 1t
some of the insular character Of New-York; Lake
PontchartraD. due north, has the majesty OF Long
Island Sound and is connected with tue river by |
vessel passages corresponding 10 the East and mar
lem Rivers. Pontchartran is a lake so great that
the horizon a water line north. east and west AZ
the elevated railway runs to Harlem the steam cars
every half hour start to Pontchartrain from place
ia New-Orleans as central the front of HE |
TRIBUNE Office. They wisely reserved place IN |
the middle of Canal-st. for steam purposes-prob- |
ably filing up former canal there-and it is just as
If up the middle of Broadway several streetcar
tracks and two steam-car tracks among lines OF
shade trees, with a broad paved carriage street
either side. One of these steam railways turns OH
to the east and goes to another Coney Island resort
called the Spanish Fort. At Lake Pontchartrain rs
a hotel quite as respectable in every appointment
and nearly as large ~ the great hotels OF Coney
Island with a grand bar. rooms single or en- suite.
acres of board walks. lighthouses on the lake.
statue in bronze of Gambrinus or some other
beIlied hero, music stand and tables and
chairs, q huge picnic hall. and a dining
nall larger than any at Coney Island.
the whole new as Yesterday. The beer is from Mil
waukee and st. Louis: the claret wine of New-Or-
leans 10 cheaper and better than in New York, keep
ing better in that climate and purchased BY French
men who know claret better, and 1T Is sold at the
numerous good restaurants for rs cents quart bot
tie. know of no equal table claret ia New-fork at
the price. As to the ocean resemblance be-
tween New-Orean and New-York, it is found in the
same direction, east. where the coast line shrnks
inward and the lakes empty into the sea. and villas
and bathing villages like those of Long Islands
south side line the railway toward Mobile. There
are also rivers parallel with the Mississippi to the
west, corresponding to our Passalc and Haekensack
and Raritan. The lofty ridges and scaris and hills
are absent from New 1t is the water land
scape of New-York with the city profile shaver
down. Observation confirms the wisdom of the
locators of the Capital of Louisiana even when Lou
siaua was an empire and embraced Illinois, Mime
sofa and Missouri for there Is spot so admirable
to take advantage at once of the great rivers of the
world and of the gulf and IF the ocean lakes, and
of the intricate interior bayous of Louisiana. The
statues of lberville aud of Jackson are carved to
gether in the Custom House on either side OF the
great shield which bears the violated words. Union
Justice and Confidence"
MARSHAL WHARTON.
One of the most interesting men in Louisiana ia
tho United States Marshal, Jack Wharton. HIS
repu alton is almost national as q storytcer and
a brilliant stump-speaker. He IS probably forty
five years Of age and native Of the State OF Mary
land, born at the foot Of the Blue Ridge. about
Hagerstown His family is one Of the most respcc-
table IN that State. When young-hardly in his
teens-be received from a relative about $50 600
in money, as a testament and spent it without
much trouble, HIS natural force of character, how
ever led him to study law, aud he went to Kansas.
early in her history, and engaged in practice.
A number of young men from Maryland surrounded
him his popularity at that time Of life being, sp-
prOximately. as great as now as a bon rirdnt and
bright companion and he was unable to take that
rank of the bar to which his brilliant qualities en-
titled him. He became poor that he and another
companion were employed by Captain-afterward
AZ conductors of train across
10 the Pacific Ocean. General Harvey. who knew