. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . ows the stitches in the seams of his bootsand the nails in the horse shoes, sword, spurs, etc. On the granitebase are the words, The Union must and shall be also saw Live Oaks, magnolia, orange trees and orangeson them; banana trees and shrubs and flowers of every we went to the French Cathedral, this is one of the hand-somest church edifices in the United States as well as one of theoldest. In the church the paintings, statuary and scenes areexceedingly fine. Among the paintings is one represen
. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . ows the stitches in the seams of his bootsand the nails in the horse shoes, sword, spurs, etc. On the granitebase are the words, The Union must and shall be also saw Live Oaks, magnolia, orange trees and orangeson them; banana trees and shrubs and flowers of every we went to the French Cathedral, this is one of the hand-somest church edifices in the United States as well as one of theoldest. In the church the paintings, statuary and scenes areexceedingly fine. Among the paintings is one representingThe Lords Supper. The rocks sundered in twain, and theLord coming forth to meet Mary Magdalene. We then visited the statue of Henry Clay on Cannal is a bronze statue, he stands in full dress with a roll of manu-script in his hands as though he were about to make a came the Robert Lee statue, this also is bronze, standingon a tall white shaft. The shaft stands on a granite base. Thereis not a letter of any kind on either monument or base. From /. ooPi —< WPi o m 2:o THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTon, LPNOX t!lD&n foundstions TRAVELS 15 here we started for the Battle-field of New Orleans on the steamerIsabel. We saw the United States National Cemetery, of 14acres of ground, in which there are 13,000 Union soldiers buried,A quarter of a mile north, and up the river from this place iswhere General Jackson had his headquarters and where theAmericans had their fortifications, some of which are still to beseen. \Miile about 300 yards down the river was Lord Park-house headquarters, with four Live Oak trees and the Britishline, Lord Parkhouse was killed under these trees and his en-trails are buried there. In one of the trees you can still see andput your hands on two cannon balls that are imbedded in it. Then came Spanish Fort, the old Fort said to have been builtby the Spaniards when they owned the country. We also sawhere six of the largest alligators
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