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SIX PLACES HERE THF. "CAN'T-GET-AWAYS
CAN ENJOY RELAXATION FROM NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS CARES AND HEAT DURING SUMMER OF 1851
Daily Delta - Friday, July 18, 1851 - p 2 col 2
OUR CITY SUMMER RETREATS — SEA SIDE RESORTS
During a long residence, we have never seen our city so thinned down in population as it is at present. All business, except political canvasing and wire pulling, appears to be at a stand, and save a little building and repairing, ana the passage of vehicles, bearing away our fugitive people, dullness, stunor, and quiet seem to have taken uncontrolled possession of our streets.
Heat
In the meantime to aggravate the sufferings of the can1t-get-aways the DOG STAR has assumed his savagest temper, and pours his fury upon our devoted heads in a torrent of fiery wrath, such as we hardly ever experienced before in New Orleans. The last few days have been hot hot enough fully to justify Parson Clapp's assertion that we are sufficiently punished in this world for our transgressions without being delivered over to a sulphurous hell in another world.
A long drought has left our streets so dry that when the breeze arouses itself into sufficient energy and power to waft a feather, or disturb the equilibrium of a mosquito, the excited dust more than compensates by its annoyances what little momentary relief it may give to the heated brow.
On the whole, we are compelled to admit, that just at this moment New Orleans is not, climatically speaking, the most pleasant place in the world. It is true, there is some good company here, and those of us left behind are quite pleasant and sociable; iceis abundant, and deliciously cool and tempting liquiferous compounds may be got at our bars. Of nights, too, a ride down to Dan Hickok's, a bath in the lake, a light supper, and a bottle of good wine, will reconcile to many annoyances in the day, and prepare us with better spirits to wrestle with the languor and ennui of the morrow.
Across Lake Pontchartrain
If our business and cares will permit, we may extend our excursion across the lake to the sea-side, which we will find studded with pleasant places,'where all the luxuries and comforts of life may be procured in abundance.