The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-16
: TRIP TO MEXICO.
New Orleans Near Half Century Ago
and To-day-- Il custom and Texas
Plains
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.)


Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.)
When travelling, am reminded OF the
old saying that experience is like the
stern lights Of ship; it reflects Oh the
path we have passed"
Forty-tHo years ago | came to New
Orleans, the journey occupied fort
night or more. Then there was one
house in Atlanta. The pony express
passed us On the way, with the weekly
cotton market quotations from Liverpool.
New Orleans vas IN its hey day. The
levee Was then the greatest com
mercia sight in the world; FIVE
miles q sailing vessels: forest of
masts, acres Of cotton, sugar, and North
vest products. The army was returning
from M"T:co. Al the beauty and fash
ion c. 81 river cities was at the St.
Charles to meet the heroes, who were
changing the t!atileWorn uniforms for
new and gIitterlug uniforms. The levee
is to-day almost bare river bank, with
now and then a boat along the shore.
The rotunda OF the st. Charles shows
we'll dressed people who look like com
meycial travellers or tourist people pass
ing through. The ore mule street car,
though we'll adapted to the level streets,
contrasts poorly with the through line
of cable cars in San Francisco. The
merchants, however, say they do more
business each year, and the city is much
better built, particularly ST. Charles
avenue The people Of New Orleans say
that produce comes by railroad That IS
rot well for them. \ city made by the
river should live by the river trade. 1t
will be like the Arabs, fold It's tents aud
quietly steal away.
Lord McCanley says Spain is a greater
country now than when she sent forth
Armada, out relatively she is small by
the side Of England. So in forty-two
years | lave seen many cities, and New
Orleans suffered By my lights. saw
the river at q higher stage OF water than
ever kn t j end yet the mighty stream
was he.@ !. lean It's banks, That means
1t will r,it deeper channel and viii be
every ,ear tirtner held II Bounds il spite
OF tempoI ,fy creyasses.
The papers calm that tweEy thous
ana square miles Of cotton lands will III
Reclaimed Who will furnish the labo
for this increased cotton crop? TIE Souti
Ati&'tllt ItdLtS lulS Will SotltS III
RACE question for us.
From the Crescent City came twt
hundred aud siXty:two miles due west
Tie frost has SO vithered ali vegetation
you cannot tell the latitude. | say
heads of Texas cattle along the road
At the end Of winter they are 0
Pharoah's lean kind. They would no
do for LaDdeer's pictures. But ! coul
V noi hut think when | saw the wild due
in the b8yous, as he took his long fl:gt
,u he iakes Of the Red river of th
= month, Il0U many thousand Of thes
4 creatures he would see, and what con
y fort their hides alone would be 70 ma,
G N-har | vas III Europe, thirty yea
g ago. there were bat few of the lesborin
y class Who wore leather shoes. Sabo
! were then the style Many Of cur geI
: eration think these t.lugs, like Topse
y lust groweG.
Il Houston has 30, O0G people and Jar:
q stores It IS the picture Of town f
the commercial traveller, and it wou
be herd for nc to say by looking at Il
people whar III he States the place W
located. ine people are mostly whit
no Cinnamon and not many blacks.
'e There is one i -autiful house, the pc
n Office pure Byzantine style, only t
II architect could not let we'll enough alo
: and stuck OF one corner q low, squ9
ae tower that Iooksllke i hoW,lal on an e
- - phant. The Moorish dome ought to
af glided
81 81 griday viii be in the city of Mexio
. I. D. HOGG