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114 SLAVERY 1ST THE SOUTH.
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when the Levee gave way , and tlie upper part of the city wasfloodedthe snakes took possession of the housesand drove the
, _, inhabitants out . Indeed , since we have been here a poisonous water-snake was found close by our street . While I was talking
to Mr . O a " young tornado " began to blow , and the rain to fall in a torrent . These storms are not common so far upbut
, on the coast are of frequent occurrence , and do great mischief . Mrs . F said that the island where she and her children had
visited as a summer watering-place , had been absolutely submerged in one of these storms—not one house left , and many
hundred peop # " le drowned & . _# & & There goes the gun—the eight o'clock gunto send in
the-No one can be out now without a , orif he isthe negroes "watchman . nabs him , and sends him to jail rig pass ht away , , . Did I , tell
you that I went with Mrs . S to one of the astrologers ?—there are three near us . I only waited in the outer room to see the
people , while Mrs . S went in , and asked if she might take lessons in the art ! There were nine or ten ladies coming and
going while I was there . I begin to think there are few ladies here who have not consulted some of these people . The old
Africans are supposed to be especially gifted in magic , and they practise the same conjurations here that they do in Algiers , and
many believe in the Great Serpent , even when professing Christianity . As soon as the weather is fine I go down to the
plantation . New Orleans , Feb . 10 th , 1858 . —We have stayed here a week
for nothing—that is , the visit to the plantation has come to nothing . The L —' s children are ill , and this cold air is considered too
severe for them out of town , so the family stay in New Orleans , and I do not see the estatewhich I am very sorry for , as it is
, one of the finest sugar plantations in Louisiana , and I should have seen a new phase of negro life , which would have been a good
letter for you . This week the air has been chilly , but healthy , and the skies cloudy and beautiful . I have only painted in-doors ,
and have walked about studying life in various forms here in the town . I went to see a refuge and school the Government has
established for girls found idling about the streets , orphans , or girls with bad parents . It is a well-managed placeand the matron
well chosen . Sometimes there are sixty , sometimes , only sixteen , inmates of the refuge . It was the chief of the police who took
us there , and he showed us as we went a street , called Battle Row , because the inhabitants are always quarrelling and fighting
one another there . Four years ago , two men murdered Hive others for an old grudge about Irish politics . In the workhousewhich
. , is a prison for small offences , as well as a refuge for destitutes , I saw again Irish , most of them in for drink . TJie men work at
their trades , and one year—last year , I think—paid the expenses of
114 Slavery 1st The South.
114 SLAVERY 1 ST THE SOUTH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/42/
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