Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-05
orEEv CITY OF THE s0UTM.
"a. New and Carioas Points Of His-
rortc Interest

..s New ana tuffous Eoihs pi bis-
teric Interest
-uv ACCOUNTS OF THREE SUCCESSIVE RuL-
- RACES TO BE GENERALLY AUDITED
xr WINTER AT THE WORLDS ExPosI
rIos.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. q. 1894.
The city of New Orleans. since the
.,.base of Louisiana. by the United
S.,,ss has always been more or less a
= ..,,sr o: attraction, especially during
'..v;,ter season, when its balmy weath
:. and It's Mardi-Gras festivities have
~ooed the rich of colder climes to enter
.h.msoic circle of it's thoroughly Latin
gsgsiy.
Hnsrv Exposition to be held through
-;n,ar to summer, this city has become
:, obiect of unusual interest. and truly
!. deserves the attention not only Of CAP
s.l;sts and business men, but also of
-, fortunate intermediate class-so
s~msrous in this republic-that DOS
go culture and the means of induiq-
-, their taste to the increase of that
.s,,nre. which even those, who cavil at
\ IN secret, most ardentIy admire.
Nav Orleans has always been to the
eonthern States az the Hub to New Eng
i.rd Her society and her literary dicta
ave furnished models for Southern
soush. and today her peculiar Creole el-
ssmeDt. brought into notice by the facile
ren of Mr., Cable, has redirected and re-
Souhlsd upon her tho attention of the
mass of readers all over the country.
Nav Orleans certainly owes a debt of
ratitude to this novelist, although her
G,eoIes account him, as their daily pa
rsr puts il "un petit cleyt joudHt au doc
,nr1 Il il indeed true that he knows
noshius of the Creole life he has dared
o attempt, and that bis books are sim
Div exquisite absarditIes, characterized
b. the same amusing ignorance and
amazing bigotry which makes much of
(arlyle's life 80 ouriousiy entertaining.
Nj. Cable, however. must be admitted TO
oosstss considerable grace in descrip-
i've passages, and much force as a carl
snturist, which, when linked with geper-
4 honesty of purpose, could hardly fail
10 be productive of some, II not many,
galuable results-and one result OF his
writing has been to "blazo" a path for
the long blind authors of New Orleans,
u the clear daylight fields of Nor
tbern interest and solid cash conse-
quence.
Everything touching Louisiana life Is
wizd upon nowadays with avidity by
Northern readers. and this State that
oucs ranked third in proportionate
wealth, has now re-entered upon CON-
mercial career of which her historic past
furnished many fair prediction. From
the time when the hospitable Indians on
the Delta offered the adventurous La
Sale their daintiest titbits of dried hu-
man flesh. which however, not even bis
Parisian poIiteness could induce him to
sccept-from that time, 200 years ago,
when this magnificent territory was ad-
ded to the French crown TO remain but
briefly, although it was the richest jewel
that ever shone there-from that time
ill now her history has been tissue of
rossate romance, though too often those
roses have been cruelty crimsoned.
Al AtoG tnC kEOub @otdtCt httu bt1tCo-
man, Bienville, whose name alone sur
vves attached to An obscure street in
New Orleans, suffered the supreme ago
ny Of seeing the colony he had founded
and governed so long and we'll, tossed
hike paltry bourbon by the stupid King
Of France into the greedy NAV of Spain.
The great Bienville left the court, retired
10 his chateau, and died of a broken
heart.
Five years of lawlessness ensued in the
colony-and then O'keilly, an: Irish
man from Spain. by colorinR his flag
With the best Creole blood, made IL an
object of respect. He was another
man of the LaSalle and Raleigh type,
wrecks of whose deeds still float on the
river Of oblivion. He was the first great
author in land nov teeming with that
genus, and his Lawbook. the Code
0Reilly, was the firstv0lume ever printed
south of the Ohio. But one copy OF this
legal curiosity remains, which will be
exhibited among the rarest treasur, OF
the Worlds Exposition whose more than
hundred gates, like those OF ancient
fhebes, are now beginning to swing up
On their hinges.
Brief bat brilliant was the reign Of
Spain. In l776, Galvez, appointed Gov
amor while yet n minor, got order from
His Catholic Majesty, who bad gotten
orders from His Holiness the Pope, to
aid our thirteen original COLONIES y IN their
protest against Protestant England. IL
Is probably not very widely known how
much we owe the Catholic church for its
secret countenance of our great rebel
ion hundred and odd years ago. Spain
vas then our friend first and best, and
young Governor Galvez, OF spanish
Louisiana. with mere soupcon OF an
army, drove the redcoats out of the val
ley of the Mississippi, ont of their hold
10 Mobile Bay. and of the shores Of
Florida. Not satisfied with this. he fiat
boated TO Pittsburgh for the use Of the
Revolutionary army u continual supply
Of powder and of shot; so that We won
oar national independence with ammu-
hilton furnished by the city of New Or
leans. This Galvez was indeed q mar.
ssllous boy; he came TO be viceroy of
Mexico. He died at thirty by fall
from his horse, and left his name 10
designate a drain In New Orleans; but
before long the Spanish Americans pro-
pose 10 honor his memory with fitting
monument on the spot where he built bis
great fert, and where the United States
Mint new stands.
In 1852. the French having reeained
Louisiana, sent de Carondelet to govern
!he colony. The chief cotton street In
| New Orleans 10 named after him, and
she adjoining street after his wife Nine.
a Baronne. The Baron was thorough
business man, a sanitarian and worker
ei posterity. He dug drains and plant
utrees, started newspapers, aud encour-
seed churches. He was merry little
oul, totsis terss atqas rotssdas, and II ira
o'tion bstrayeth not, believed In keeping
we damp out of his system according 30
ne system Of si,aiiia sisaiiibes csraafar.
- ictS the United States purchased from
france Louisiana and the vast half-ex-
plofed stretch of French h-America 20 the
sreat lakes and the Pacific. In 1872.
louisiana became a State--and soon al
sf witnessed the decisive battle which
aaRns Eagiand that she was no longer
We mistrese Of the world.
ihe history of Louisiana as a state is