Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-03-08

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cur association to-aHy. Yesterday
re took a nsss saioyabis Zip On ne
river 10 ChGmssie.
ma Mar al Gras bah uEs gosgeous
and Rex vas very gracious IN niS ~
ospsAon 70 the sdlsoEs and thslr fhm-
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WhIls m vicksburx We viiited TIE
Setiousl Csmetery where are buried
s.ooo known sndIL5oo unknown Unit-
Cd States soIdIsrs. We noticed ne
graves Of several MissonriAns. He4fly
as shnuy people were Killed ahsrs ~
live in the town.
Ths early history Of HewOfisans ia
marvel and interesting. II was found
ed in 1877, and becsme the capital Of
the French Colony OF Louisiana IN
I72z, Bisnville, then Governor OF the
colony, moving from Biloxi to New
Orleans In that year, he having pre-
viously sent his chief Of engineers to
lay out the city.
In I7e2 France transferred Louisiana
to Spain, bat the Transaction being
kept . secret, the fact vAs notknown
ia New Orleans for two year,, 90 thet
q representative of the new Spanish
government did not arrive there I'M
til 1856 and when he did come be
brought with him two companies Of
troops. The citizens Of New Orleans,
however, did not take kindly to this
transfer, and two years later, In nes,
they drove the Spanish goveanoF out,
he with bis troops retiring aboard
the Spanish friRAte lying In the river,
which then set sal for Havana. Tins
apparently freed from Spanish rula,
steps were taken 10 form . republic
by the French Creoies. But In less
than q year in August, 1859, . new
Spanish governor By the name OF
o'Rsflly, arrived ct New Orleans with
such a large force Of Spanish troops
and vessels that il was out Of the
question to resist him. Consequently,
Spain successfully asserted itself IN
the colony for the next thirty years.
In 1900 Louislana was again trans
fsFred from Spain back to France and
in 1908 the French colonial project
landed ut New Orleans 70 prepare for
the expected arrival Of French troops.
But, instead, q French vessel brought
the news that Louisiana had been
purchased by the United States. 10
that same year, therefore, with ap.
propFlate ceremony, The keys Of New
Orleans we're delivered BY the Span
ish ofieiAl TO that Of France the latter
in turn, the next month after, VITA
similar ceremonies, turning over
Louisiana to Commissioner Olai-
borne and Wilkinson, Of the Unitsd
States.
At that time the town contained
about 10000 inhabitants, consisting
chiefly OF Louisiana CreoIss-that d,
those born in the colony Of foreign
psrentage-although even ct that
early date n had begun to partaks OF
that Cosmopolitan character for which
1t is noted. For over So years, ii win
thus be seen, New Orleans developed
under the dominant infiusuce Of the
Latin race rather than that Of the
Anglo-Saxon; aud, under the condi-
tons Of colonial life, naturally took 70
itself usages, customs and sven a
patois Of its own, leaving an impress
which is not even nov wholly obllter-
ated and which, with its subsequent
development, makes the old French
quarter OF New Orleans of such inter-
est st the present time. Some Of the
streets OF the latter retain In their
titles ed general aspects the mem.
cries of the French predominance,
while the Spanish characteristics are
particularly In evidence In architect
ural features, such as the succeed
walls, balconies, lattices and artistic
iron work, tiled roofs ana inner courts
and corridors.
A Southern lady writing OF New
Orleans, and well knowing the eharns
Of that city, summed the matter up as
follows:
ut makes not the slightest differ
ence what is ones irst impression oil
this quaint and sunny old city lyine
half asleep, blinking 81 it we're under
her luminous skies, luxuriously1o ung.
ing on the elbow Of the great yellow
riveri In the end q lie sure to con-.
clude that when she speaks, when first
her tender message lie breathed intel
the ear, II lie an invitation somsthing
Ike thiss q offer you : palm leaf fan,
N omelette souiie and = rose.' NeW
Orleans is unlike any other AmsrIcan
cityi her very name Is souvenir Of
gayeties, her breath is as sweet a.
! willow copse in June, and somethIBR
About her ALWAYS makes ma fhInk a.
he opera and bal masque, the carui.
val, the palm leaf fan, the omelstte
'oufie and the rose. She is not 10 be-
known In a day, and she will unfold
herself slowly"
Last Tuesday was . big day for New
Orleans. In fact,this has been . warm
week In every ems Of the word and
he fun has been ''fast and furious.D
Il has been the longest Carnival that
New Orleans has eyer known. NTH