TRAVELLING ROUTES
The facilities which this metropolis affords for reaching any accessible portion of the world, particularly all sections of the union, are not excelled. Steam and sailing ships of the first class, hold commercial intercourse with almost every nation. Steamboats, with accommodations equal to the best regulated hotels, are plying through every river and bayou. Four to five thousand miles can be achieved, in those floating palaces, with perfect ease, and comparative safety.
The principal routes between the north and the south are here given, as also the intermediate places, together with those inland most frequented by the traveller and the man of business, and the distances carefully noted as they diverge, in their various directions. Beside the four annexed routes to New York, there are several that lead to favorite watering places, and other points attractive to travellers of leisure, which it would be quite impracticable to lay down in a work of this kind. They can always obtain information of these resorts, from intelligent companions on the road, that will prevent their deviating much from the point they wish to attain. The distances on the river have been corrected agreeably to the latest survey. The other routes conform to the most approved authorities; and, frequently, have been corrected by personal observation, with the utmost care and attention.
Route 1.—From New Orleans to New York, via Pittsburgh, Pa., by Steamboat.
Route 2.—New Orleans to New York, via St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo, (see route 1.) to Mouth of the Ohio, Steamboat to St. Joseph.
Route 3.—New Orleans to New York, via Wheeling and Baltimore.
| Miles. | ||
| To Wheeling, by steamboat, (see route 1.) | 1912 | |
| Cumberland, by stage, | 131 | 2043 |
| Hancocktown, Md., rail-road | 39 | 2082 |
| Williamsport, Md., do | 27 | 2109 |
| Frederickstown, Md., do | 27 | 2136 |
| Poplar, Md., do | 20 | 2156 |
| Ellicott's, Md., do | 17 | 2173 |
| Baltimore, Md., do | 10 | 2183 |
| Havre de Grace, Del., do | 31 | 2214 |
| Wilmington, Del., do | 36 | 2250 |
| Philadelphia, Pa., do | 26 | 2276 |
| New York, (see route 2.) | 88 | 2364 |
Route 4.—New Orleans to New York, Mail line.
| Miles. | ||
| Point Pontchartrain, by rail-road, | 5 | |
| Fort Pike, by steamboat | 21 | 26 |
| Bay St. Louis, do | 33 | 59 |
| Biloxi, do | 31 | 90 |
| Pascagoula, Miss., do | 20 | 110 |
| Cedar Point, Al., do | 26 | 136 |
| Mobile, Al., do | 28 | 164 |
| Junction of Alabama and Tombigbee river, do | 65 | 229 |
| Claiborne, do | 72 | 301 |
| Black Bluff, do | 46 | 347 |
| Dale Town, do | 35 | 382 |
| Canton, do | 14 | 396 |
| Portland, do | 29 | 425 |
| Cahaba, do | 21 | 446 |
| Selma, do | 18 | 464 |
| Benton, do | 35 | 499 |
| Vernon, do | 39 | 538 |
| Loch Ranza, do | 6 | 544 |
| Washington, do | 16 | 560 |
| Montgomery, do | 12 | 572 |
| Chehaw, Al., by rail-road, | 40 | 612 |
| Covington, Ga., by stage, | 155 | 767 |
| Augusta, Ga., by rail-road, | 121 | 888 |
| Charleston, S. C., do | 136 | 1024 |
| Wilmington, N. C., by steamboat, | 220 | 1244 |
| Weldon, N. C., rail-road, | 170 | 1414 |
| Richmond, Va., do | 124 | 1538 |
| Washington City, do | 122 | 1660 |
| Baltimore, Md., do | 40 | 1700 |
| New York, (see route 3.) | 181 | 1881 |
Route 5.—New Orleans to Fort Gibson by steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Arkansas river, (see route 1.) | 620 | |
| Arkansas, | 62 | 682 |
| New Gascony, | 71 | 753 |
| Pine Bluff, | 25 | 778 |
| Little Rock, | 150 | 928 |
| Lewisburg, | 66 | 994 |
| Scotia, | 50 | 1044 |
| Morrison's Bluff, | 33 | 1077 |
| Van Buren, | 72 | 1149 |
| Fort Smith, | 8 | 1157 |
| Fort Coffee, Mo., | 10 | 1167 |
| Fort Gibson, | 84 | 1251 |
Route 6.—New Orleans to Balize, and Gulf of Mexico, by Steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Battle Ground, | 5 | |
| English Turn, | 6 | 11 |
| Fort St. Leon, | 5 | 16 |
| Poverty Point, | 18 | 34 |
| Grand Prairie, | 27 | 61 |
| Fort St. Philip, | 9 | 70 |
| South West Pass, | 9 | 79 |
| South Pass, | 2 | 81 |
| Pass a' l'Outre, | 2 | 83 |
| Balize, | 4 | 87 |
| Gulf, | 5 | 92 |
Route 7.—New Orleans to the Raft on Red River, by Steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Mouth of Red River, | 236 | |
| Black River, | 28 | 264 |
| Bayou Saline, | 20 | 284 |
| Alexandria, | 56 | 340 |
| Regolet de Bondieu, | 18 | 358 |
| Bayou Cane, | 36 | 394 |
| Natchitoches, | 24 | 418 |
| Bastian's Landing, | 40 | 458 |
| The Raft, | 40 | 498 |
Route 8.—New Orleans to Pittsburg, Miss., by Steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Mouth of Yazoo River, Miss., | 420 | |
| Satartia, | 66 | 486 |
| Liverpool, | 5 | 491 |
| Manchester, | 25 | 516 |
| Tchula, | 88 | 604 |
| Marion, | 37 | 641 |
| Mouth of Yalo Busha river, | 33 | 674 |
| Cochuma, | 38 | 712 |
| Pittsburg, | 27 | 739 |
Route 9.—New Orleans to Nashville, Tenn., by Steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Cumberland river, | 1097 | |
| Eddyville, K., | 56 | 1153 |
| Canton, | 20 | 1173 |
| Dover, Tenn., | 30 | 1203 |
| Palmyra, | 31 | 1234 |
| Red River, | 6 | 1240 |
| Harpeth River, | 20 | 1260 |
| Nashville, | 40 | 1300 |
Route 10.—New Orleans to Florence, Al., by Steamboat.
| Miles. | ||
| Tennessee River, | 1085 | |
| Petersville, Tenn., | 71 | 1156 |
| Reynoldsburg, | 36 | 1192 |
| Perryville, | 42 | 1234 |
| Carrollville, | 27 | 1261 |
| Coffee, | 26 | 1287 |
| Savannah, | 9 | 1296 |
| Waterloo, | 25 | 1321 |
| Bear Creek, | 12 | 1333 |
| Colbert's Ferry, Tenn., | 14 | 1347 |
| Florence, Al., | 24 | 1371 |
GENERAL INDEX
- Academies for Females, 44
- Algiers, a description of, 194
- Alligators, killed for their skins, 42
- American Theatre, erected in 1823, 67
- description of, 180
- Amusements, 176
- Ancient Settlements supposed to have existed, 11
- Anecdote of an old Frenchman, 68
- early cotton growing, 47
- Annunciation Square, 183
- Church, 100
- Armories, 149
- Association, Young Men's Howard, 115
- Associations for charitable and other purposes, 110
- Asylums of New Orleans, their excellence, ib.
- Asylum, Catholic Male Orphan, 114
- Attakapas Prairie, 38
- Atchafalaya lands, 34
- Bank of Louisiana, 155
- Banks' Arcade, 156
- Bard, Captain, Return of, 16
- Bar of New Orleans, 79
- Barracks, the United States, 86
- Baton Rouge taken, 24
- Battle Ground, 196
- Bayou St. John Road, 194
- Beautiful land bordering the Teche, 33
- Bellevue Prairie, 40
- Benevolent Society, Hebrew, 116
- Best lands, 31
- Bienville, made governor, 17
- Biloxi settled by Iberville, 16
- Board of Health established in 1841, 71
- Boatmen of the Mississippi, 75
- Bottom lands, their luxuriance, 30
- Boundaries of the State of Louisiana, 28
- Territory of Louisiana, 7
- Branch Mint of the United States, 88
- Branch Bank of the United States, established 1805, 66
- Breed of cattle improving, 56
- Bricks, why they are not well made, 57
- Buildings, the public, 86
- Burr, Aaron, 26
- Business season, appearance of the levee in the, 81
- Calcasieu prairie, 40
- Caldwell, James H., his great enterprise, 67
- Carmelite Convent, 104
- Carondelet appointed governor in 1792, 25
- Casa Blanca, 189
- Carrolton, 191
- Casa Calvo succeeds governor Gayosa de Lemor, 26
- is succeeded by Salado, ib.
- Catholic Cemeteries, 107
- Cathedral, 92
- Cattle, improvement in the breed, 56
- Ceded to the United States, Louisiana, 26
- Cemetery, Cypress Grove, 105
- Chapel of the Ursulines, 98
- Charitable Association, the Samaritan, 114
- the Firemen's, 115
- Charitable institutions, 110
- Charity Hospital, 117
- Church, Annunciation, 100
- Circus, the, 180
- Circus Place, 182
- Circus street Infirmity, 124
- City Exchange, (St. Louis,) 157
- Clay, of a very pure kind, 57
- Clergy, of New Orleans, 79
- Climate of Louisiana, 45
- College of Louisiana, 43
- Jefferson, ib.
- Franklin, ib.
- Medical, 168
- Colonial system introduced, 17
- carried out, 21
- Colony transferred to France in 1803, 24
- Colorado ascended by La Salle, 15
- Comedians first arrived in 1791, 64
- become teachers, ib.
- Commercial advantages of New Orleans, 81
- Commercial exchange, 159
- prosperity commences in 1795, 25
- Comparative speed of navigating the Mississippi, 80
- Congregational Church, first, 101
- Convent of Ursuline nuns, erected in 1730, 61
- its description, 103
- Convent, new one erected in 1824, 61
- its description, 104
- Coast, the, 31
- Convent, the Carmelite, 104
- at Grand Coteau, 44
- Cotton, when first exported, an anecdote, 47
- Court-house, 133
- Creoles their character, 73
- Crevasse, in 1816, 42
- in 1844, at Bonne Carre, ib.
- Crozat, Antonio, obtains an exclusive privilege, 17
- Cuba tobacco seed does well in Louisiana, 54
- Cultivation of sugar, 21
- Currency, evil of its depreciation, 19
- Custom house, description of it, 89
- Custom House, a new one contemplated, 90
- Cypress Grove Cemetery, 105
- Death of Iberville, 17
- de Soto, 10
- Delta of the Mississippi, 37
- Deposit of red river, 34
- Description of United States Barracks, 86
- Branch Mint, 88
- Description of the Custom House, 89
- Post Office, 90
- State House, 91
- Cathedral, 92
- St. Patrick's Church, 95
- St. Augustine do, 96
- Mortuary Chapel, 97
- Annunciation Church, 100
- Chapel of the Ursulines, 98
- Christ Church, 99
- St. Paul's do, ib.
- First Presbyterian do, 100
- Second do do, 101
- Methodist Episcopal do, 102
- Wesleyan Chapel, 103
- old Ursuline Convent, ib.
- new do, 104
- Court-House, 133
- City Hall, 134
- St. Charles Exchange, 137
- Verandah, 141
- City Exchange, (St. Louis,) 157
- Discovery of the Mississippi, 7
- Disputed Territory, 8
- Division of the city in 1836, 67
- Don Ulloa driven away, 22
- Don O'Reilly takes possession, 23
- Duelling punished by disfranchise, 78
- Education in Louisiana, 43
- Elliot, Andrew, 26
- "English Turn," whence derived, 16
- Exchange Hotel, (St. Charles,) 137
- Excursions, 191
- Extent of the territory of Louisiana, 9
- Feliciana, West, parish of, 32
- Female Orphan Asylum, 110
- Fig trees introduced, 20
- Fire consumes nine hundred houses in 1778, 62
- Fire department, 149
- Firemen's Charitable Association, 115
- First steamboat arrives at New Orleans, 27
- First Presbyterian Church, 100
- Congregational do, 101
- Florida invaded by Gov. Galvez, in 1779, 24
- Floating Prairies, a great natural curiosity, 35
- Flour mill, 151
- Fort Charlotte taken, 24
- Fountain of Health, 9
- Franklin College, 43
- Infirmary, 124
- Gas Works, a description of them, 144
- the city lighted with it in 1834, 70
- Gayosa de Lemor made governor, 26
- Gayosa de Lemor succeeded by Casa Calvo, 26
- German emigrants settle along the coast in 1723, 60
- supply the city with vegetables, ib.
- Grape vines, where to be cultivated, 55
- Grazing, the very best lands for it, ib.
- Gretna, 195
- Gypsum, valuable beds found, 56
- Health of New Orleans, 77
- Hebrew Benevolent Society, 116
- Hemp suited to the higher grounds, 53
- an immense article of consumption, ib.
- necessary in time of war, 54
- Hernandez de Soto, first discovery of Louisiana, 7
- his death, 10
- Historical Sketch of New Orleans, 58
- Hospitality of the inhabitants of Opelousas, 40
- Hospitals, easy access to them, 117
- the Charity, ib.
- Hotel, Exchange, (St. Charles,) 137
- Hall of Second Municipality, 127
- Hurricane devastates New Orleans 1723, 60
- Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, article, 48
- Iberville enters the Mississippi, 16
- establishes the first settlement at Biloxi, ib.
- founds Natchez, 17
- his death, ib.
- Improvement in New Orleans in 1824, 66
- Incorporation of New Orleans in 1805, ib.
- Indian massacre of the whites at Natchez, 19
- Indigo cultivated in 1728, 20
- cultivation now much neglected, 55
- Infirmary, Circus street, 124
- Franklin, ib.
- Inquisition, its establishment frustrated in 1785, 25
- Iron foundry, 150
- Jefferson College, 43
- Jesuits and Ursuline Nuns arrived in 1727, 60
- expelled by Clement XIII., in 1763, 61
- their property confiscated, ib.
- their immense wealth, ib.
- curious documents of them in archives of first municipality, ib.
- La Dames de la Providence, 114
- Lafayette Square, 182
- Lafourche, Bayou, 32
- Lakes, inlets, and sounds, 37
- La Salle descends the Mississippi to the Gulf, 14
- builds a fort at the mouth of Little Miami, ib.
- sails for France, 15
- goes into the bay of St. Bernard, ib.
- ascends the Colorado, ib.
- forms a settlement on St. Bernard's bay, ib.
- is murdered by Dehault, ib.
- his character and enterprise, ib.
- Law, John, the Scotch financier, 18
- Learned professions, divinity, law, and medicine, 79
- Le Moniteur, first paper published in New Orleans, 25
- Levee, its extent, 31
- Literary Association, Young Men's, 167
- Live oak of Attakapas, its abundance, 33
- Louisiana, territory of, its discovery, 7
- its boundaries, ib.
- transferred to Spain, 22
- retransferred to France in 1803, 26
- sold to the United States in 1803, ib.
- the State of, admitted to the union in 1812, 27
- its boundaries, surface and soil, 28
- its vast prairies, 30
- its improvement in education, 43
- College of, ib.
- mutton unsurpassed, 56
- the climate of, 45
- State Bank, 153
- Medical College, 168
- Luxuriance of the bottom lands, 34
- Lyceum, Public School, 166
- the People's, 167
- Madder described, how cultivated, 51
- price, duties, and demand for it, ib.
- Maison de Sante, 123
- Male Orphan Asylum, 113
- Manufactures, 150
- Marine Hospital, United States, 125
- Markets of New Orleans, 135
- Market, Poydras street, 136
- the Vegetable, ib.
- the Meat, ib.
- Market, St. Mary's, 137
- Marquette descends the Mississippi, 13
- Marshes, extensive near the ocean, 38
- Masonic Fraternities, 80
- Massacre at Natchez, 19
- Meat Market, 136
- Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, 153
- Medical Science, 79
- Medical College of Louisiana, 168
- Merchants' Exchange, 161
- Reading Room, ib.
- Meteorological Journal, an abstract from the, 72
- Methodist Episcopal Church, 102
- Mexican Gulf Rail-road, 193
- Military strength of New Orleans in 1792, 64
- Milne Orphan Asylum, 116
- Minerals of Louisiana, 56
- Mint, Branch of the United States, 88
- Miro succeeds Galvez as governor, 25
- carries the colonial system into effect, ib.
- Mississippi River discovered by De Soto, 10
- Moral character of New Orleans, 78
- Moscoso's Adventures, 10
- Mulberry trees prolific in Louisiana, 53
- Municipal Hall, 127
- Muskeet grass, excellent for cattle, 55
- Mutton, 56
- Natchez massacre of the whites, 19
- tribe defeated, ib.
- founded by Iberville, 17
- National Hotel, 143
- Gallery of Paintings, 169
- Natchitoches tobacco, very superior, 54
- Nature of the soil of Louisiana, 29
- New Orleans founded by Bienville in 1718, 59
- a historical sketch of, 58
- New Orleans, view of, 58
- inundated and abandoned in 1719, 59
- again occupied in 1722, ib.
- visited by a hurricane in 1723, 60
- by yellow fever in 1769, 62
- divided into wards and lighted in 1792, 64
- fortified by Carondelet, ib.
- its military strength, ib.
- opened to the United States in 1795, 65
- a port of entry and delivery in 1804, 66
- incorporated in 1805, ib.
- its extent in 1810, ib.
- its appearance from various points, 69
- lighted with gas in 1834, 70
- state of its morals, 78
- its commercial advantages, 81
- its anticipated greatness, 84
- Reading Rooms, 161-2
- Police, 78
- travelling routes, 201
- Newspaper Press, 173
- first published in 1794, 25
- Olden Time, 184
- Old Ursuline Convent, 103
- Opelousas Prairie, 39
- hospitality of the inhabitants, 40
- Opposition to founding New Orleans, 59
- Orange trees introduced, 20
- destroyed by frost in 1748, ib.
- O'Reilly, the Spanish governor, 23
- his tyrannical conduct, ib.
- succeeded by Unzoga, 24
- Orleans Cotton Press, 152
- Theatre, 176
- Orphan Asylums, their excellence, 110
- Paintings, National Gallery of, 169
- individual collections of, 170
- Paving of streets first began, 67
- Pensacola taken by the French, 19
- People's Lyceum, 167
- Physic, Law and Divinity, their progress, 79
- Pine woodlands, 30
- Place d'Armes, 182
- Planing Mill, steam, 151
- Plaquemine, 32
- Planters' Hotel, 143
- Ponce de Leon, 9
- Pontchartrain Rail-road, 192
- Population in 1732, 20
- Police of New Orleans, 78
- Post Office, 90
- Pottery may be made of Louisiana clay, 57
- Poydras Female Orphan Asylum, 113
- street Market, 136
- Prairies of the State, 30
- particularly described, ib.
- Prairie, Attakapas, 33, 38
- Prairie, Calcasieu, 40
- Prairie, Sabine, 40
- Press of New Orleans, 173
- Presbyterian Church, First, 100
- Second, 101
- Project of supplying wholesome water, 148
- Prospects of New Orleans, 82
- Prosperity of trade in 1810, 66
- Protestant Cemetery, 108
- Public buildings, 86
- Public School system, 163
- how introduced, ib.
- Public School Lyceum, 166
- Squares, 181
- Race Courses, 195
- Raft in Red River, 36
- Rail-road, Pontchartrain, 192
- Reading Room, Merchants', 161
- New Orleans, 162
- Red River deposit, its nature, 34
- raft, 36
- Residence of Governor Bienville, 189
- Road of Bayou St. John, 194
- Rope Walks, 151
- Sabine Prairies, 40
- Salvado, last Spanish governor, 26
- Samaritan Charitable Association, 114
- Sauville, the Governor, dies, 17
- Saw Mills, steam, 151
- School, Convent, 44
- Sisters of Charity, ib.
- School, Ursuline Nuns', 44
- Schools, the Public, ib.
- Second Presbyterian Church, 101
- Sheep of Louisiana, very superior, 56
- Lafourche, ib.
- Shell Road, 192
- Silk may be produced in abundance, 53
- Society in New Orleans, 73
- Soil of Louisiana, 29
- State of Louisiana described, 28
- State Legislature to be removed, 92
- House, 91
- Steamboat first arrives from Pittsburgh, 27
- Steamboats, early, their trips, 80
- extent of present navigation, 83
- Steam Planing Mill, 151
- Saw Mills, ib.
- Streets and sidewalks first paved, 67
- St. Augustine Church, 96
- St. Patrick's do, 95
- Cemetery, 109
- St. Paul's Church, 99
- St. Antoine's, or Mortuary Chapel, 97
- St. Charles Exchange Hotel, 137
- St. Louis Exchange Hotel, 143
- St. Mary's Market, 137
- (St. Louis,) City Exchange, 157
- St. Charles Theatre, 178
- St. Lorenzo, treaty of, 25
- St. Bernard bay occupied by La Salle, 15
- Sugar introduced by the Jesuits in 1751, 21
- Sugar lands, 46
- refinery, 151
- Suggestion to sugar planters, 46
- Surface of Louisiana, 29
- Tax upon chimneys to light New Orleans, 64
- Teche, excellent lands upon its borders, 33
- Territory of Louisiana, its boundaries, 7
- Theatre American 1823, 67
- "The Coast," its extent and luxuriance, 31
- Third Municipality Work-house, 133
- Tobacco Cuba, cultivated, 54
- from Cuba, fine specimens of seed, ib.
- raised at Natchitoches, ib.
- worm how to prevent it, 55
- Transfer of Louisiana to Spain, 22
- Transfer of Louisiana to the United States in 1803, 26
- Travelling Routes, 201
- Tyrannical conduct of O'Reilly, 23
- United States Marine Hospital, 125
- University of Louisiana, see note, 43
- Unzoga succeeds O'Reilly as governor, 24
- succeeded by Galvez, ib.
- Ursuline Convent, the old, 103
- Ursuline Chapel, 98
- Vaudreuil marquis de, 20
- Variety of the population of New Orleans, 73
- Vegetable Market, 136
- Verandah, 141
- View of New Orleans from various points, 69
- Vine, cultivation of the, 55
- War between France and Spain, 19
- Watchmen first established in 1792, 64
- Water, a project to supply it without charge, 148
- Water Works, supply water from the Mississippi, 70
- a description of them, 146
- Washington Square, 181
- Wesleyan Chapel, 103
- Western Company, chartered in 1717, 17
- fail, in 1732, 20
- West Feliciana, its excellent soil, 32
- Wilkinson, Gen., 26
- Woods, Col. crosses the Mississippi, 13
- Work-house of the Second Municipality, 130
- Third do, 133