Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-21
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Politics Getting Rather Played Out
in the State.
Weather Still FaVoring the Worlds Exposi-
ton Now Close to Completion
Extraordinary Electrical
Preparations.
Special Correspondents.

Special CorrssposdeRc.
NV ORLEANS, November II, 1854
There was not thar tempest Of enthusiasm
which might have been expected here over
the election of Cleveland. Some guns were
fred. and then most ofthe people seemed to
fear they had been enthusing too previous
". as in the Tilden tune. Some FIRE works
INDUCED in by the great newspaper
office here, the Cotton Exchange aud the
Pickwick Club, but they were not all con-
ceutrated on q single night, as the Cotton
Exchange was doubtful longer than the
Times Democrat over the result. There
was a feeling Of general relief when it was
all over, and Louisiana did not care very
much, except that the defeat Of Kellogg in
his own district by s Blaine Democrat
caused some rejoicing. William Pitt ke[
logg has hal a singular political career in
this State, and even by professional
political gamblers has been cousid-
cred a great corruptionist; but the
day of his destiny seems to be over, and
the star of his fate has certainly declined.
Louisiana, on the contrary, in the opinion
of many Democrats even, has gone Demo
cratic for nearly the last time. The ma
iority in this city was only 1000, andiprop-
er organization could have undoubtedly car
ried this State for Blaine. One of the
most prominent Democrats here, Jim Hous-
ton, whose brother, the judge was beaten
by Hahn, a Republican, for Congress, said
10 me Yesterday: IF Arthur had been
nominated by the Republicans we wouldn't
have had a ghost of a show. The alluvisl
States, especially Arkansas and ! n~nisiana
would most certainly have gone for hun.
Ii has been said that good Americans
when they die go to raris, UuL it seems to
me that they would show more sense If they
only summered there and wintere1 here IN
New Orleans-thls climate is so celestial
so ~unspeakably divine. These are days in
which it is a luxury to live-days when
mere life sulices without Gould's gold or
Shakspeare's genius have put a girdle
around the Earth twice and | never saw
such weather as we are having now. To
adopt a poets picture words:
Beauty is everywhere and the slow sun,
Ascending his blue throne mid coUrtier clouds,
Smiles like = god upon a world well done
All yes. we'll done though night at last en-
shrOudS."
The rich costumes of the women on these
broad and brilliant boulevards are in keep
ing with the hectic flush of the leaves on
the forest trees that adorn macy OF the
highways, in curious contrast with the still
green magnolia and the orange tree-that
king of beauty, which to many q poor mans
garden lends q look of temporary opuleuce
with its multitude Of
Golden Globes.
Color may be said to culminate in this
city, and the perennial bloom Of its gardens
finds a parallel in the social temper Of its
people. Narcissus, who fell in love with his
W face pictured in the placid stream,
might be taken as a prototype Of this peo-
pie collectively as well as Individually, and,
/ fancy that Cable, in his Creole c~aricsture,
called Narcisse, had this fancy forming in
his mind and took q delicate malice in
suggesting it. though it seems to me
that he makes Narcisse of the novel very
tiresome, which the Narcisse Of real life
here never can be. The richness Of eol5r-
ing predominant here brings me to the Ex-
position as a subject i~nexhsustible. Much
has been published about the extraordina-
rily large and splendid buildings prepared
for exhibitors, but a recent visit to the Ex-
position grounds convinces me that they,
the grounds, will call forth even more won.
der and admiration than the palaces Of
Southern progress that rest upon them.
The establishment of these naturally at
t~ractiye grounds, which are q level lapse
of $50 acres Just on the crescent curve
Of the great, tawny river which brings so
much tribute to the city of New Orleans, is
in keeping with the character and climate
aud the tastes of delicately luxurious peo-
pie. Miniature lakes and fountains, wind,
ing walks amid clumps of tropic trees,
groups Of banana, orange, lemon, maguey,
mesquite and many others, will form a
A Dazzling Mosaic
of color in motion whenever a breeze comes
laughing with perfume up from the Cult Of
Mexico. And when the breeze may ONE
the lordly Eveoaks, which extend over much
Of the grounds the grateful protection of
their magnificent umbrage will wave their
long stresmers Of Spanish grey moSsin play
full answer to tie flagso on the Main Building
or the countless smoke wreaths of the steam
ers that crowd up the river from Europe,
the Indies, Mexico sndthe South American
republics. The illumination of the grounds
at night is on as grand a scale as the other
preparations for this international display.
In tke Lake Rubio, named after the wife Of
Gen. Por6rio Gaz, Presidenteleet Of Mexi-
co, an ornamental stand pipe rises to a
height Of 100 feet. At three intervals of
twenty-five feet each this pipe throws out q
circle of Jets, each circle lessening towards
the top ike the spray Of q fountain. On top
Of q spire extending fifteen feet above
this column, an electric lamp of
one hundred thousand candle power
Flashes It's Rays
across the waters Of the lake and over the
cadenced Jets of the fountain. In front of
FIVE Of the principal entrances q sc, 900 can.
die power Lesvitt-M uel% electric light is
placed, and in FIVE different sections of the
grounds thereare towers l25 feet high, each
lighted by ten standard arc lights of the
Jenny system and City additional Jenny arc
lamps are ranged around the grounds and
steamboat landings on the river front The
systems represented in the electric lighting
are the Edison, Leayitt-Mueler, Brush,
Jenny, Thomson and Houston, which
aggregate four thousand incandesceut
and eleven hundred standard arc lamps
requiring 1900 horse power Of engines for
the electric lamp lighting alone, or 200
morse power more for this Sorv,oa Al. Al