The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-23
The Summer on the Gulf.
Pleasure, Comfort, Health and Business
in the Crescent City Something
About the Worlds Exposition.
Special Correspondence to The Bulletin;

New ORLEANS, Aug. 49, 1884,
The Crescent City has already passed the
line Of summer heat. The thermometer
which one day in July marked tempera.
turc Of (94O ninety -four and seven tenths,
the highest point in years, averaged the
past month 1853 eightyfve and three
tenths; but for fortnight now the mercu-
ry has barely passed rs dogs. Our nights
are cool, and bed coverings are essential to
comfort. The evening breezes begin to
come laden with the rich perfumes of our
etc dor Of the semi-tropics. Our days are
shortning and are ending with the richest
sunsets of cream and crimson.
But more than all, the sign of all signs
to US that the spell Of summer ideness has
passed, the steamboats, or cars are hurrying
in to US the
FLEECY STAPLE
OF the new years crop. The always ia
nous first bale reached US from the Texan
interior two weeks ago. Mississippi was
next heard from, then Alabama and then
North Louisiana, and now every train on
the six railroads that reach out like fingers
from our Southern metropolis, and gather
ITS treasures into its commercial palm
brings its load while the steamboats, that
paddle through our thousands of miles of
outrageous bsyous and shallow lagoons
come in loaded down With the product,
the need and power Of winch makes cotton
king.
The summer Of
ENFORCED IDLESEss
which has been marked popularity of this
city in olden times is being done away with.
New Orleans has come to find plenty else
to do for her willing hands besides trund-
ling cotton through her warehouses to her
wharves and extorting tare for the hand
ling. Once four.ffths Of her population
subsis,ed literally on cotton; but since the
war other industries have developed so that
three-f.ths Of her bread winners are sup
ported by other labor, aud well supported
all the year round.
The time has gone by when the planter
lived here for the benefit of trade, to obtain
wealth with which he hicd away to the
pleasure grots Of the North, or journeyed
over the sea to the higher toned eujoyments
of Europe The
CURSE OF ABsENTEElsM,
Which has sapped much OF the blood from
the heart Of Louisiana in years past, is be-
coming only tradition, Louisiana has
become a good enough home for anybody
to live in. 1t is proved that its climate is
cooler and its cities healthier than those
thousand miles to the north and east of US,
while within easy reach we have a line of
seaside suburbs such as no Northern State
possesses, and which, laying on the high
way between monOtonous Florida and the
sparkling Crescent City, are becoming pop
uIsr as winter resorts for the people of the
North as they are the resorts in summer of
the Oraleanese.
There ls nothing in the Loussnian that
holds him back from high achievements
save opportunity and occasion; and in the
changed state OF affairs in the new South
and occasion seem to be com.
ing nearer and nearer to him all the time.
The
CREOLE BOY
has no trouble when he goes abroad, as is
shown by the careers of thousands of living
men of this city all over the North and in
Europe. Generations ago New Orleans
gave to the world an Audubon, a Colts
chalk, a Menkin, and Morphy, each SUI
prcme in an individual line. Her native
singers and actors OF more or less note ere
ccatt,rad all ovnr rho land and craOlp bOys