The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-02
Special Correspondence to The Bulletin

Special Correspondence to The Bulletin:
New ORLEANS Sept. 80, 1884.
Where few years ago the silent Indian
foated his canoe down the turbid waters
of the ftful Mississippi through virgin
forests, whose echoes responded wondering
ly to his call; where the wild warrior IN all
the glory of his war paint, met his enemy
and with loud yell rushed at him to OBJ
tain the cherished spoils; where two hun
dred and odd years ago solemn aud over
aweing wilderness unroled before the as.
tonished gaze of La Sale all its boun'lless
beauties and all its soundless terrors; where
such forests as Europe never knew; gigan-
tic trees loaded with the funeral moss of
centuries, stretched out In endless vista
and the murmur of these giants with
many whispering lips" mingled with the
subdued roar of that other giant who lolled
along at their feet great tawny river
called the Father of Waters; and right
: where.La Sale planted the standard of the
Golden Lilies, in just few weeks hence q
new civilization, undreamed of in his gay
philosophy, shall unfurl unnumbered ban
ners,and calling the nations from far aud
near, shall spread for them to look at, to
admire and to learn from, all the achieve
ments of ages, all the embodiments of
thought which centuries have toied to
produce--all the results of the patience and
labor of heterogeneous millions who have
long returned to the silence of original
dust. Where once only the hurrah of the
hurricane over the trembling forests, and
the turmoil of the seething flood made the
music-terrifc, yet sublime, whose strains
struck terror to the heart of the red man -
to-day the ceaseless, restless monotonous
voices of the agents and ou.comes of this
civilizston-the trade and the toll, have
deafened the splashing of waves and the
crashing of storms.
A few rude huts built about 1903 on the
shore Of the lake, became the nucleus of
the Queen City of the south-the radiant
and FRAGRANT "Nouvelle Orleans" These
huts, to which stocksde was soon added,
were on the site of the present Spanish
fort to which now every evening of sum
mer thousands of pleasure seekers repair
for music and ice. Then a settlement at
the head of the bayou began to stretch it.
self along the high ground of the Metaire
and Gentlity in 1918 Bienvile
changed this settlement to the bank of the
river.
From that time until now New Orleans
has grown steadily, despite of war and pes
thence, and the descendants of those who
first came to settle in the wilderness and to
battle with nature, may look back with
price upon the achievements of century
and half of toll and strength Of purpose
Sold and resold a ball tossed from hand to
hand plunged into the abyss OF anarchy
first French, then Spanish, then French
again-Louisiana has faithfully and I'M
dauntedly fought on, to see her struggles
crowned with success as countries older in
years and experience might envy and ad
mire; and her chief city with its gardened
mansions by the lazy food of the Missis-
sippi has gained we'll merited rank
among the great commercial certers of the
earth.
The visitor strolling along the wharves
can see here the flags Of all the scattering
nations Of the world huttering in the light
southern breeze. The products of the re-
hottest parts of our globe are brought her,
in exchange for the heecy, snow-whit
chief article of southern industry-whil
the most ingenious machines ever devised
BY human thought are working without in
termisaisn to satisfy the growing greediues
or present civilization. There is, when W
consider the continual heat, a ceaseles
rush and turmoil on the busy streets Q
New Orleans; hoavy wagons, loaded t
thsir utmost capacity, constantly trave
between the whsrfes, the warehouses an
the factories; constantly the shril! whist
~ TIE dssfsning chatter Of some arrivin