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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
  • Female do, 110
  • Male do, 113
  • Milne do, 116
  • Poydras Female do, 113
  • Les dames de la Providence, 114
• Attakapas Prairie, 38
  • Parish, 39
  • produces abundance of live oak, 33
• Atchafalaya lands, 34

• Bank of Louisiana, 155
  • Louisiana State, 153
  • Canal, 155
  • City, 154
  • Mechanics' and Traders', 153
  • Gas, 154
• 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
  • is superseded in 1710, ib.
  • deceives the English captain, 16
  • is reappointed governor in 1717, 17
  • founds New Orleans, 1718, 18
  • sails for France in 1727, 20
  • is succeeded by Perrier, ib.
  • governor for the third time, ib.
  • resigns in 1741, ib.
• 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
  • fortifies New Orleans in 1792, 64
  • his schemes defeated by Gen. Wilkinson, 26
• 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
  • Catholic, 107
  • Protestant, 108
  • St. Patrick's, 109
• Chapel of the Ursulines, 98
  • St. Antoine's, or the Mortuary, 97
  • Wesleyan, 103
• Charitable Association, the Samaritan, 114
  • the Firemen's, 115
• Charitable institutions, 110
• Charity Hospital, 117
• Church, Annunciation, 100
  • St. Augustine, 96
  • Christ, 99
  • St. Paul's, 95
  • St. Patrick's, 95
  • First Presbyterian, 100
  • Second do, 101
  • First Congregational, ib.
  • Methodist Episcopal, 102
  • First Baptist, ib.
• Circus, the, 180
• Circus Place, 182
• Circus street Infirmity, 124
• City Exchange, (St. Louis,) 157
  • Bank, 154
  • Hall, 134
  • Improvements, an anecdote, 68
  • Proper, its extent, ib.
  • Prisons, 129
• 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
  • the quantity estimated for 1844, 45
  • opinions on the fluctuating price of, 48
  • its consumption in New England, 49
    • in England, ib.
  • will present prices sustain the planter? 50
  • the produce of Texas, ib.
  • lands, where the best, 34
  • Factories, 151
  • Presses, 152
• 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
  • of Cotton, 47
  • of madder, 51
  • of silk, 53
  • of hemp, ib.
  • of the vine, 55
  • of tobacco, 54
  • of indigo, 55
  • of orange and fig do, 20
• 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
  • Merchants', 161
  • (St. Louis,) City, 157
  • Commercial, 159
• Excursions, 191
• Extent of the territory of Louisiana, 9
  • New Orleans, in 1810, 66
  • the City Proper, 68

• Feliciana, West, parish of, 32
• Female Orphan Asylum, 110
• Fig trees introduced, 20
• Fire consumes nine hundred houses in 1778, 62
  • many buildings in 1796, 65
  • seven blocks of houses in 1844, 70
• 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
  • the Verandah, 141
  • St. Louis Exchange, 143
  • Hewlett's, ib.
  • Planters', ib.
  • National, ib.
• 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
  • crevasse in 1816 and 1844, 42
  • its appearance in the business season, 81
  • Cotton Press, 152
• 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
  • River made free in 1795, 25
  • Valley, its vast extent, 83
  • boatmen, description of them, 74
  • immensity of its produce, 82-84
  • Delta of, 37
• 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
  • in 1788, 25
  • in 1803, 26
  • of New Orleans in 1723, 59
    • in 1785, 62
    • in 1803, 70
    • in 1810, 66
    • in 1844, 71
    • comparative, ib.
• 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
  • Opelousas, 39
  • Bellevue, 40
• 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
  • libraries much wanted, 79
  • property transferred to the United States, 65
• 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
  • Carrolton, 191
  • Mexican Gulf, 193
• 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
  • Municipality Work-House, 130
  • Hall, 127
• 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
  • crops their present average, ib.
• 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
  • its discovery by de Soto, 10
  • its immense extent, 8
  • transferred to Spain in 1763, 22
• Theatre American 1823, 67
  • Orleans, 176
  • St. Charles, 178
• "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
  • Barracks, 86
  • Branch Bank, established in 1805, 66
  • Mint, 88
• 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
  • nuns arrived in 1730, 60
  • erect a new convent in 1824, 104

• 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
  • England and France, in 1756, 21
  • do and Spain, in 1779, 24
  • do and the United States, 27
• 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

• Yellow fever first introduced in 1769, 62
• Yellow Fever, opinions of its transmissibility, 121
  • No. of cases in Hospital from 1822, to 1844, 120
• Young Men's, Howard Association, 115 Literary do, 167