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Page 99 - in the lobby, and though that was our first acquaintance, after fifteen minutes talk (and a drink) we made a formal bargain, and Mr. McClure paid me $200 down to bind the contract and bear my expenses to New Orleans. I started
Page 102 - How solemn! sweeping this dense black tide— No friendly lights i' the heavens o'er us; A murky darkness on either side, And kindred darkness all before us! Now, drawn nearer the shelving rim, Weird-like shadows suddenly rise; Shapes of mist and phantoms dim Baffle the gazer's straining eyes. River fiends, with malignant faces! Wild and wide their arms are thrown,
Page 120 - He read by no electric lamp, Nor heard about the Yellowstone. He never licked a postage stamp,
Page 120 - dispatch. He filled his lamp with whale-oil grease And never had a match to scratch.
Page 134 - star of Hope; whose Heaven is in the future yet to come, not in the past which is gone forever. Having received my impressions of New Orleans from the race of
Page 98 - out of a job, I was offered impromptu (it happened between the acts one night in the lobby of the old Broadway Theatre, near Pearl street, New York City), a good chance to go down to New Orleans on the staff of the Crescent, a daily to be started there with plenty of capital behind it, in opposition to the Picayune. One of the owners, Mr. McClure, who was north buying material, met me
Page 120 - When Washington was President As cold as any icicle, He never on a railroad went, And never
Page 17 - a little French directory printed in "Nouvelle Orleans for 1809," the personnel of the bank boards of that year, were: Banque de la Louisiane: Julien Poydras, president; Nicholas Girod, Richard Relf, Michel Fortier, Franc Duplessis, Thomas Urquhart, Paul Lanusse, JB Labatut, Francois Livaudais, Jas. Carrick, Jean Soulie, J. McDonough, Jr., Wm.
Page 168 - by Col. Hughes J. de la Vergne.) Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Lucie Claiborne has requested me to present the portrait of her grandfather, Governor William Charles Cole Claiborne, to the Louisiana Historical Society. It is an honor and pleasure for me to offer to the Louisiana Historical Society, in behalf of Miss Lucie Claiborne, this
Page 40 - of its outstanding notes. The ten other banks reporting, about equalled these four. GLENDY BURKE. Probably the greatest crisis that the Canal Bank has met in its history, was during the panic of 1841. Every bank in the city had to suspend specie payment; this was done by mutual consent. Mr. Glendy Burke had been made a