Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-03


The approach to New Orleans by boat
shows the city and surrounding country to
greater advantage than arrival by train.
Both banks of the Mississippi are picturesque
for hundred miles above with a succession
of sugar, cotton, tobacco and rice plantations,
resembling a continuous village and IL one |
is fortunate enough TO pass the Exposition |
grounds at night in time to enjoy the bril- |
liant electrical illumination, gorgeous fire.
works and distant music, he may congratu-
late himself upon having selected the slow
but comfortable motion of tho tortoise in
preference to tho moro popular lightning
| speed of the hare.
The Mississippi river steamers usually
| land at the foot of Canal street, the Central
avenue of New Orleans, dividing tho
| American from the French quarter of the
town, and so called from its use in former
years as drainage canal to Lake Pontchar-
train. Most Of the streets here retain thoir
| primitive names-Bienville and Carondelet,
Dumaine, Dauphine, burgundy, Royalc and
Baronne recall the history of New Orleans
under French and Spanish dominion, whilst
Rampant street marks the destroyed walls of
the old city, and Esplanade street indicates
the military BsaaH ground of past ters
| miles I'm length, with green sward and rows
of tall trees down its centre, while its broad
banquettes and handsome residences, with
pomegranates, figs aud oleanders render this
Creole Faubourg a fair rival of the Garden
, district above Canal street.
, ~
, Esplanade street is not however, monopo
lized entirely by the French many Ameri
Q cans prefer this quarter of the town, and on
a | the banquettes one often hears the English
: tongue; indeed, ii is spoken with especial
A cleverness and charming intonations $50 say'
Monsignor Cape), i'm an old American
. home, which covers much ground on thu
u corner of Bourbon and Esplanade streets;
stately mansion with wide halls, high cell
l. ings and ancient adornments The best ant
J. most talented people of the South, and man.
II from the North and Europe, have here en-
:, joyed hospitality; and 10 the city of Ne,
W Orleans the generous host many years sine
s. presented a valuable library Of 5000 volumes
l. | which il known as the Fisk Free Library
and is now owned by the University
Louisiana, and enjoyed by the publi
no The private collection of volumes at I'll
= old home is still intact, although 1t has rtsse
through the dangers of war and is extensiN
no enough to excite the scorn OF the gra
N. haired waiter against all book agents wi
=, call. Such visitors are rarely adinitte
III | for Davy insists that " Dab amt no boo
as ever written what's not in our libray." Th
m. ancient colored retainer has served q
=, family for many years, and Is therefore
ne autocrat in the house. lie is wonderful
cS, | behold Oh Sunday in his high hat, DIRE
a, suit and embroidered waistcoat, which ha
"' history, and has been treasured by him
led thirty years. His wife, Aunt Hennie,
rti | equally loyal and the best OF nurses. III
| old couple have a house and a little proper
ION of their own whicli they often visit, but =
of | fer to live with ther former owners and |
md | children they have guarded in infancy.
~
on A strong bond of affection exists betwt
md Southerners and the family servants VIII
not the Northerner cannot fully appreciate. Al
nst the emancipation proclamation many Of
ono slaves remained in their old homes, AZ fa
W. full and devoted i'm tleir allegiance az e'
and some even declined regular wages, !
ferring to accept only such gifts as could
made them by their impoverished mast
An example of such an attachment Is sho
= i'm the Louisiana exhibit at the Exposit
~ 1t is portrait painted from life in 1851, D.
shth LADY, otthis stat :, in grateful recognition
htry the kind servic6s- -at hef- f-1tttirse, Anna X.
hich o a- ',,a,,e -, ta1on,,;n,, 40 ,
uiis Ursin Soniat du Fossat This servant refr
and ! To ACCEPT her liberty under the eman cipa
part | act and accompanied her mistress to Fra
pro- | Her fidelity was such as to attract the nj
,re IL | ton of the French government, which
nont sented her with the cross of honor, in Pi
May I'D, 1881.
com- Louisiana has on exhibition an interes
DE relic from the Fontanebleau sugar pla
re- tion-an old slave bell, which for many y
rship called the negroes to work on this es
AZ, oi The property has front Of nine mile
Keep | Lake Pontcbartrain and was origin
plect owned by Bernard de Mariguy, wea
MA Creole planter, who entertained Louis
crea- lippe when he visited Louisiana and WI
ureh turn received by him with distingui
COIL honors at the court of France. Tradition
eport it that one thousand Spanish dollars
place dropped by Monsieur do Mariguy into
IL is | molten metal of which this bell was cast
Il In | was remarkable for its mellow tone, wi
- under favorable circumstances, could
heard in New Orleans, across the waite
hihai Lake Pontchartrain. 1t is handsomely
rows, | scribed and ornamented with scroll an'
t has ure work, and not unlike the Old Lii
d de- bell in general appearance, having a siI
who | crack in its side. The slaves of tho pl
ton assert that on the morning of Presi
" Lincoln's emancipation proclamation
old relic of slavery fell from its supports
great | rent the fissure in its side which forev
mel fenced its silyery tongue.