There Was A Very Manifest Difference
Between The Two Sides Of The Main-Deck Of This Vessel; One Was
Scrupulously
Clean, the other by no means so; and, on inquiring the
reason, I was told that the clean side was
Reserved for strangers!
Although this yard scarcely deserves the name of an arsenal, being the
smallest of all which America possesses, the numerous guns and the piles
of cannon-balls show that she is not unprepared for aggressive or
defensive war.
The Merchants' Exchange, where every change in the weather at New Orleans
is known in a few minutes; the Post-Office, with its innumerable letter-
boxes and endless bustle; the Tremont Hall, one of the finest music-halls
in the world; the water-works, the Athenaeum, and the libraries, are all
worthy of a visit.
There is a museum, which we visited in the evening, but it is not
creditable to the taste of the inhabitants of this fine city. There are
multitudes of casts and fossils, and stuffed beasts and birds, and
monsters, and a steam-engine modelled in glass, which works beautifully;
but all these things are to hide the real character of this institution,
and appeared to be passed unnoticed by a large number of respectable-
looking people who were thronging into a theatre at the back - a very
gloomy-looking edifice, with high pews. A placard announced that Dickens'
'Hard Times,' which it appears from this has been dramatised, was about
to be acted.
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