Louisiana; its Colonial history and romance

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LOUISIANA; ITS COLONIAL HISTORY AND ROMANCE. BY CHARLES 6AYARRE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Page CONTENTS FIRST SERIES. FIRST LECTURE. Primitive State of the Country — Expedition of De Soto in 1539 — His Death — Discovery of the Mississippi in 1673, by Father Marquette and Joliet — They are followed in 1682 by La Salle and the Chevalier de Tonti — Assassination of La Salle, 15 SECOND LECTURE. Arrival of Iberville and Bienville — Settlement of a French Colony in Louisiana — Sauvolle, first Governor — Events and Characters in Louisiana, or connected with that Colony, from La Salle's Death, in 1687, to 1701 36 THIRD LECTURE. Situation of the Colony from 1701 to 1712 — The Petticoat Insurrection — History and Death of Iberville — Bienville, the second Governor of Louisiana — History of Anthony Crozat, the great Banker — Concession of Louisiana to him, 85 FOURTH LECTURE.

Lamothe Cadillac, Governor of Louisiana — Situation of the Colony in 1713 — Feud between Cadillac and Bienville — Character of Richebourg — First Expedition against the Natchez — De l'Epinay succeeds Cadillac — The Curate de la Vente — Expedition of St. Denis to Mexico — His Adventures — Jallot, the Surgeon — In 1717 Crozat gives up his Charter — His Death, CONTENTS. Page SECOND SERIES. FIRST LECTURE. Creation of a Royal Bank and of the Mississippi Company — Effects produced in France by those Institutions — Wild Hopes entertained from the Colonization of Louisiana — Its twofold and opposite Description — History of Law from his Birth to his Death, .... 197 SECOND LECTURE. Bienville appointed Governor of Louisiana for the second time, in the place of L'Epinay — Foundation of New Orleans — Expedition of St. Denis, Beaulieu, and others to Mexico — Adventures of St. Denis — Land Concessions — Slave-trade — Taking of Pensacola by the French — The Spaniards retake it, and besiege Dauphine Island — Pensacola again taken by the French — Situation of the Country as described by Bienville — The Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut — Changes in the Organization of the Judiciary — Edict in Relation to Commerce — Adventures of the Princess Charlotte of Brunswick, of Belleisle, and others — Seat of Government transferred to New Orleans — Other Facts and Events from 1718 to 1722, .... 239 THIRD LECTURE.

Origin, Customs, Manners, Traditions, and Laws of the Natchez — Decline of that Tribe — Number and Power of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, 292 FOURTH LECTURE. Transfer of the Seat of Government to New Orleans — Its Population and Appearance in 1724 — Boisbriant, Governor ad interim Black Code — Expulsion of the Jews — Catholic Religion to be the sole Religion of the Land — Perier appointed Governor — League of all the Officers of Government against De la Chaise, the King's Commis- CONTENTS. V Page 359 sary — He triumphs over them all — Republicanism of the Colonies — The Ursuline Nuns and the Jesuits — Public Improvements made or contemplated by Governor Perier — Census in 1727 — Expenses of the Colonial Administration — Edict of Henry the Second against Unmarried Women — Other Facts and Events from 1723 to 1727 — Traditions on the Music heard at the mouth of Pascagoula River, and on the Date-tree at the corner of Dauphine and Orleans Streets, FIFTH LECTURE.