. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ir lives and live very much among themselves. French by nature and training, they getbut a faint reflection of the excitements in these United States. It is also aston-ishing to see how little the ordinary American citizen of New Orleans knows ofhis French neighbors; how ill he ap-preciates them. It is hard for him totalk five m
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ir lives and live very much among themselves. French by nature and training, they getbut a faint reflection of the excitements in these United States. It is also aston-ishing to see how little the ordinary American citizen of New Orleans knows ofhis French neighbors; how ill he ap-preciates them. It is hard for him totalk five minutes about them withoutsaying, Well, we have a non-progres-sive element here; it will not be con-verted. Having said which, he willperhaps paint in glowing colors the vir-tues and excellences of his Frenchneighbors, though he cannot forgivethem for taking so little interest inpublic affairs. Here we are again at the Arch-bishops Palace, once the home of theUrsuline nuns, who now have, furtherdown the river, a splendid new conventand school, surrounded by beautifulgardens. This ancient edifice was com-pleted by the French Government in1733, and is the oldest in Tuscan composite architecture, itsporters lodge, and its interior garden. The interior garden, with its curious shrine. with its curious shrine, make it well worth preserving, even when the tide ofprogress shall have reached this nook on Conde street. The Ursuline nunsoccupied this site for nearly a century, and it was abandoned by them onlybecause they were tempted, by the great rise in real estate in that vicinity, tosell. The new convent is richly endowed, and is one of the best seminaries inthe South. Many of the owners of property in the vicinity of the Archbishops Palacehave removed to France, since the war, — doing nothing for the benefit of themetropolis which gave them their fortunes. The rent of these solidly-con-structed old houses once brought them a sum which, when translated fromdollars int
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