New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-16
The Envlrons of New Orleans
NUMBER FrFTY-sEyEN.

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small piece o. hgh ianu oe.iu nc ptesen si,e
OF Broad street. now pian.eu
trees, and NOT isr mum tiie n'1ie
DEDICATED 70 o. Nossl0 - suaS ',n'y = oLl
readers shouo nave .no " 'i'i' sat
n.y. We w. ~
that hilheuia.eS ~ p,VAlili'y .ne sl0unu az
fup1y uesoelus soA4e y ten ny
bayou, noH . sol' " oneioseu pUnu' "us "l'oh IN
anV,s' n.Ss 90 @4tn uue o',l'i par's
Of tha' "a,et naVn is issue at the 1901 OF
What y eanee Y asninston Suee.' snell ROAD way
leaolhg 70 inc bayou 81 John. ms purylng
sfouisI peins ~ 'ne oiueh tunes az lhe mead OF
bayou haylsauoh' Nlor tne people pretend that
meI' up as ial Us 'e .oths OF tne zen
my loau ana the lust named street, whist at
piessns parton 'ne FORMER haYlgaple water course
y converted INTO rlch yegetapie garden, as may
We seen ny lhspeeaohl tne Indians IN those days
Woulu carry lhelf oesa IN perogues TO the locality
ana nave them appropriately inferred. 1t is also
related that for some unatonable ofense OF crime,
When the execution OF the criminal was conferred
upon the neHtot blood, the victim and the execu-
homer would often paddle up to this spot in their
respective perogues ana then proceed to the full
hilheht q thelr tradluonary laws that IS to say,
the onehaef would voluntarily submit to his fatal
/ execution, when nothing but ms life eould atone
tof deed often committed IN the temporary IN
sanity oceasioned ny the use OF Intoxicating beVer
ages we ourselves, IN our course Of life, have
had me SAD experience whist among the aborigi-
mes IN the Natchitoehes regions, where we had
4 occasional dealings with them in the seasons of
the fur trade seeing some of the most esteemed Of
the braves fall complete victims to this fell
4 destroyer, the. intoxicating whisky demon Not
only old they Kill outright their best friends, in
the eannibal carousals, but they would actually
roll themselves into the fire and roast themselves
to death, notwithstanding all endeaVors of wives,
friends Or relations.
II There being no Indian graves in our swamps
near the city, is accounted for in what we before
y stated-they had regular burying ground for
their dead, and therefore needed no particular
i spots for this purpose. AT present the former
Indian graveyard is comprised within the enclo-D
sure or fence Of some neighboring garden, and it
is certainly as well to make some use Of this tract
of land, which has long ceased to be of any profit
to its former or original propretors. In the close
neighborAood may also be seen one Of the Oldest
little farms having over 100 years Of existence, Of
which the principal hut, made of cypress wood,
has just undergone complete renovation Some
small peach and plumb trees will indicate its posi-
ton, whilst in all other respects it is completely
isolated This property was until lately inhabited
BY a centenary black woman, whose origin dated
back from the time of the aboriginal pessessors of
that piece of ground, and who was looked upon
as the guardian of the Indian ground. until some
German and other gardeners encroached upon
this locality by virtue Of some doubtful title
deeds These are, however. now covered no
doubt, by power of uncomfortable possession
that is to say, by forty years. undisurbed use and
profit, as the thing should be- For we cannot
imagine worst state Of affairs than the eternal
litigation about rival possessions which takes
away every encouragement, every proper stimu.
liant for o cultivator Of the soil. Now, we men
toned in our last that6 before the demise of the
late Louis Allard, some curious events took place
that deserved some further notice and detail This
was indeed nothing less thanthe appearance Of an
enormous land title claim enhanced or fabricated
ont of some Anticipated French colonial docu-
ments, found or discovered, as 1t was said in the
archives Of Versailles, to which these important
papers had been transferred. In accordance with
these new claims Of parties somewhere in France.
not only was one-half Of the city Of New Orleans
included in these extravagant reclamations. bpt
even such farms and establishments as had
descended from father to son, in several genera,
uOuSJ were dllegeu 10 De unGSr the power or
danger Of legal disturbance.
Il is true that few people really much cared
for these extraordinary Prescriptions, but still
it appeared to US that 1t is going too far, in the
legal license thus accorded, to invalidate the
titles Of property by publicly exposing maps of
the city and environs Of New Orleans setting
forth these unauthorized and unacknowledged
land and property claims, We have no doubt
that tins was one cause contributing to the dis
satisfaction of several of our old real estate
owners and rural proprietors, to see their titles
questioned and publicly exposed at the city ex-
changes and auction marts, when they them
selves mad been born and lived all their lifetime
upon these same properties Under these cir
eumstahees, think 1t was, That the Allard family
consented 20 ailenate their estate and in conhec-
non WIN some other parues, had It laid out in
squares ana town lots as suburban locality. |
whist TINS plan was ripenng, and it was in con
templsaon' IN oroef 10 insure the realization Of
tals Valnaple piece OF land, to construct rail
rooao Whlen was 70 run from the old city basin
along the lett hana slae Of inc Carondelet canal
SONG down. ana winch was also to nave traYeIsed
the Alard plantation and from thence have con
dnued Its course towards Lake Ponchartrain.
Difficulties upon difficulties then arose. that shat
5erea the whole plan TO splinters. In the first