. The dream of "Ellen N" : an illustrated descriptive and historical narrative of southern travels . BE.\S M.\RDI-GR,\S. the merchandise of an extensive and ever-growing trade. There are hales and hales of cotton, hundreds ofharrels of sugar, and hogsheads of molasses without number; while there are enough roustatxjuts, allsinging their strange songs, to people a colony. The great ocean steamers lie side by side with the floatingpalaces that ply up and down the Mississippi. Perhaps a man-of-war lies in mid-channel, with her bowsturdily pointed up-stream, while the flag of her nation floats fro
. The dream of "Ellen N" : an illustrated descriptive and historical narrative of southern travels . BE.\S M.\RDI-GR,\S. the merchandise of an extensive and ever-growing trade. There are hales and hales of cotton, hundreds ofharrels of sugar, and hogsheads of molasses without number; while there are enough roustatxjuts, allsinging their strange songs, to people a colony. The great ocean steamers lie side by side with the floatingpalaces that ply up and down the Mississippi. Perhaps a man-of-war lies in mid-channel, with her bowsturdily pointed up-stream, while the flag of her nation floats from the peak. Across the river lie thetowns of Algiers and Tunis. The river makes a grand sweep as it flows toward the Gulf beyond the city,and this is called the English Turn. In the war of 1S12 the English sailed up to this point, but theynever went further. Gen. Jackson stopped them, and the old battle-ground is still to be seen. In thelate war the batteries of Chalmette were planted on the spot, and hard by is the Great National Cemetery,where hundreds of the lx)ys in blue lie awaiting the bug
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