Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-05-20
The CITY Of New Orleans.

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issued a charter to "The Western
Company" granting the monopoly
of the trade of Louisiana for twenty.
five years. Bienville was cho ser
Governor, and the following year he
selected the site of New Orleans
Ininety-two miles from the rivers
mouth, a nd employed fifty men in
clearing the ground and erecting the
necessary buildings. The next year
1.-THE town was overfiowed and all an
doned. Three years afterward it was
re-occupied; and in 1923 the place
contained a populatip on of two h un-
dred. ~
The transfer to Spain in 1893 was
thought very much. to retard its
prosperity. The misfortune was
partly remedied by the opening OF
the Mississippi to the States, some
thirty yerrs after, and Immediately
afterward to the United States in
1903. In 1910 the population was
4,552; and in 1910, lO2,19 The
census just taken shows a decrease
since 1910; but is thought to be
very incorrect. So much, for statis-
tics.
The New Orleans levee is of wood,
is two hundred feet wide, the whole
length Of the city, and iscertainly one
Of the best in the United States.
The wharfs for five miles are crowd
ed with vessels from every foreign
and domestic port-steamboats and
flatboats almost innumerable. The
levee proper is occupied by steam
vessels. Above and below the wood
en- leyee the wharf is built in
piers, at which sail vessels are
arranged according to their size;
sloops, schooners, briggs, barques and
ships, with the most perfect regulari-
ty. The sail vessels lie from two to
five deep, those outside loading and
unloading, by means Of ways con
strueted over those between them
and the shore. Three thousand drays
are said to be employed in the re-
movaI of merchandise Of every des-
cription, and from every cline, with
which the landing is crowded.
During the year 1854, only sixty
seven years since, an American vessel,
having eighty bales of cotton on
board, was seized at Liverpool, on
the plea that so large an amount of
cotton could not have been produced
in the United States The ship
ment in 1885 amounted to fourteen
bales; in 1886 to six; in 1877 to one
hundred and nine; 17SS to three
hundred and eighty-nine; 1889 to
eight hundred and forty-two. Fifty
years ago, an old Carolina farmer,
having gathered his crop of five acres,
was so alarmed at tket yield of fifteen
bales, that he exclaimed, "Well, well,
l have done with cotton; here is
enough to make stockings for all the
people in nlerica." The cotton
crop fthe United States for 1914
was 2,300,0G0 bales.
The cultivation of the sugar cane I
commenced in this country in about
the middle of the last century At
that time, the Jesuits Of st. Domin-
60 sent some of the plants as pres
ent to the Jesiits of Louisiana, ac-
by negroes well acquaint-
ed with its cultivation, and with the
process for manufacturing it into su-
gar. The experiment was made on
a part of the ground now occupied
by the city. THESE Jesuits owned
about one-third of the city, but when
expelled in l763 by Glenn ent XIII
from the dominions of France, Spain,
and Naples, their property was con-
Iiscated. It's estimated to be worth,
It this time, {16,000,000 of dollars.