New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-01

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Circus, and saints John, Peter, Paul, Mare JOIN
the Baptist, etc,
After the historical era of streetnamiuo came
the fancifuIIy poetic and sentimental. whist the
Third District has its Peace, Pisty, Love, Poet.
Music, Desire, History, Duel, and 30 on, shs IatsP
settled upper part Of the First District enrsB out
does It In the NEUROLOGICAL way CaIliope Clio.
Euprosine, Erato, ThaGa, KeIgofgene, Terpsi-
chore, Euterpe and Polymmia are IssitudfnaIfy
laid between Triton Walk and Felicity Road,
whilst they are interlaced and girded tsgstssr By
Hercules, Bacchus. Apollo, Prytanis, and the
Naiads and Dryads. u
pious interval in the public fancy seents To-
have established Annunciation and Rsiikious
streets, as well az St. James and other hsrses Of
Christian history, IN the upper part Of tlle Fifss
District.
In tire freshest end Of town, in the Fourth Dft
trictp we first come to the truly American Or PhiFa<
delphian style. of naming streets. First, SeEond,
and 80 on, up to Ninth, are crossed by Gassnuty
Live Oak, Magnolia, and ether forest names appro-
pirate 10 this region.
Jefferson City, which expects to be annexed to-
new orleans some day, has given up cempeHfx0n
with New Orleans in the naming ofstfeets; she ass
fallen back on Old Europe, and most Of her streets
are named after the principal critics Of Europe-
victory stresty in the Third DISTRICT ard Jscksor
street, in the Foarth District, have ru.rzsd re-
ference TO the battle Of ChaImestc.
| So mnch for the general naninr of the xsveefar
but what shall we say to 1ehosvaoxJas .i5jthty.
laundering TchuupitouIass The sreat arssrv 81
i Southern commeree-the d0,fG II he fsxe.crnt
City Through which has rollod cutteu enesk5s :,
make shirt for Ne whols world, and fIour. -
potatoes and whisky enough for waaxYess,r - ].
mass meeting of ths planets.
| Tchoupitoulas is the street which qsfs evsyvs-
body; not only by she ponderosity sf its csss-
msree, but by the ineomprehensbility Its name
1t Is recognized all over the United Ststes d. the
second name, alias,. Of New Orleans. lit ii 3
name which especially preserves the dentity OF
the city, with its host Of other street naEses Yet
hardly anybody knows where the wesd came
FROM or, whether it be word or not, what demo-
MAC invented it for the mystidcatien and Jaw
| twisting Of the national nsiIons .
| 1t is now generally pronounced GsoppsFbozaa.
Some call it Chappytoolasr and others drop the d
| and call it Choppy or Chappy- y-tooiah- This much
| for the sound of the name As to its origin most
people say it is an Indian word q noun sgnifying
either some lost tribe or forgotten chief. AIN this
is erroneous. The word may have sprung frpm am
Indian root but it is not the Of any Indian or
/ triDe OIL lndlanS. &S i@8$ aff 838s3
The g bit of ancient fistory,r which we mention
at the heading of this article, is rescued from
amid the misty legends Of the last century, and e.
plains the origin of the word eTehoupitonlas.u 2
| When the city was young. and Canal street was It's
upper suburb, the refuse popalaton, courtezans,
vagrants, Indians, ETC., dweIts in camps and shan
ties along the river above the city there being
street, Or any road better than q common cow
path. These people, being very poor, lived mostly
on what game they could catch in the swamp, or
fish in the river. 81 ss
At one time there was great dearsh, and Wis
itation of disease-almost famine and d pesti-
lence-and not only the mongrel population above
mentioned, but many residents Of the city, spent
their days and nights in searching for mud fish p
4 species of fresh-water trout which were always
to be found in the mnd-holes and puddles left by
the falling of the waters in the swamp. These fish
went by the name of c3upec, or tclt0upec,|a word
of uncertain derivation, either Indian French,
and meant " mud-fish." The holes inswhich they
were found went by the name Of ttlds, or tostlas,
another mongrel word Of the time, Of uIeertsin
A derivation.
/ All that region above Canal street now ira
yersed by Tchoupitoulas street, was noted for the
abundance of it's mud holes and the quantities Of
fish found therein it was famous place during
the dearth above mentioned; and Consequently
went by the name Of tcltipectuids, or Hpnud-fsA
sholes.n Hence the name Of the present mighty
street.