The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-09-10
CRESCENT CITY.
NEw ORLEANS, Sent. 9th.

| NEN ohLE2ANS, btpC. OIu, 1000.
DEAR JoURNAL-A few days in the
Crescent City is quite enough to en-
! large if not change our views. Per-
haps many of your readers have new
er been within its merry confines,
and few words descriptive, by way of
preface, may be entertaining. Upon
the ordinary railway map, New Or
leans seems to be on the west bank of
the Mississippi, and indeed Algries,
which forms part Of it, is there.
The city proper, however, extends
from the river to Lake Pontchartrain,
a distance of about seven miles, and
along the river about fourteen. Ca
nal street is the dividing line betw cen
the old and the new town, or to use
the language of the citizen, divides
the American from the French
Running the entire length of Canal
street is the neutral ground" IN
tended as place for shade trees and
children, but under the peculiar city
government, which, has for long
time blessed us, has passed into the
control of the various street car com
panies. Canal street is to the strang-
er, the attractive point, and always
to the ladies most attractive one.
What the public square in Marietta
is to the fair danes of Gritter, Red
Rock or Post Oak, such is this prone
made to the aristocracy of st. Charles,
or Jackson street, as well as to those
of Esplanade or Rampant. Dry
goods establishments are upon every
side, and wares of the most attractive
nature are everywhere displayed. As
consequence here sweet woman is
seen in her best attire; the fair hair
of the Saxon and the French bru-
nette. The Creoles, of whom we
hear 50 much and of whom we really
know so little, are slandered class.
They are h0spitable and courteous to
the gentlemen, but are quick to de-
tect, as well as despise men, who like
Mr.. Cable, only seek an entrance to
their homes, to betray the straits to
which poverty, incidental to the man,
has put them. Few who visit here
ever see, perhaps know the Creole.
That they are brave, good people,
can not be denied, and that the no
men are beautiful, can only be ques-
toned by those who have never seen
the best of them. They are exelu-
sive and their prudence is especially
proper, inasmuch as it is quite un-
certain when they may, instead of
entertaining an ''angel unawares,"
take to themselves another traitor in
the shape OF Mr.. Cable.
The Creoles are not Americans,
and that is the worst which may
properly be said Of them. The French
Creoles love, and only love LA Belle
France" The Spanish Creole yet
looks for the resurrection of De Soto.
This only applies to the uneducated
classes, who are comprised of people
much like those mythical personages
in North Georgia, who are said to
yet drop ballot for Andrew Jack
son as the election days present them
selves.
Here l find no titles. Generals Ear
ly and Beauregard are familiar fig
ures, but the Georgia Colonel is not
to be found.
The weather is simply delightful, a
trlie warm at midday perhaps, but
no summer, at your mountain home,
has ever afforded me the real, solid
comfort, which is to be found here.
The death rate is small, very small,
and it is especially remarkable, be-
cause it is the dirtiest place on the
face of the globe.
GNIK.