Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-16

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2, 1884.
ysvOrleans il not an old city. There
.sa dozen on the continent that were
s,ovipQ gray before the first cypress hut
.ss built at the mouth of the bayou, but
60, she has made history faster than any
Of them.
trifie over two hundred years ago
LA SALE,
with bis attendant clerks, priests, SOL
aisrs and oarsmen, hoated down the
,vsr with his feet Of rowboats. He
u.ssed on through the delta and out in
a the rnIf, He returned and took for
nal possession of the country IN the
name Of the King of France. He then
called laboriously back again up to the
Great lakes from whence he had cosne.
BE vas well received by the natives on
,hs lower river bank, and attached them
10 him BY espousing their cause against
gms Of their more powerful hereditary
foes When his stores of msat were ex-
hsus.ed, they supplied him with the
choicest bits of dried flesh from their
aoreh0uses The Frenchmen, discover
mo il 10 be human flesh. refused to taste
II, but their Indian ATTENDANTS regarded
il ~ the rarest of delicaciss. None OF
sas wasted.
THE MAN-EATING INDIANA
OF Louisiana were known as the Alta
kapss, and dwelt in the land of the up
per Teche, made famous III poetry IA ths
home Of
EvANGRLIEE.
Bu. better known of late as the realm
Of the Cadieus and Judge Fontelieu.
Some sixteen years aftefward the Le-
moyne brothers, ardent younR Oanadi-
ans, and full of ambition and love OF
adventure, Bienviiie. Ibervilie and Jon
vile, landed party ON the sandy shore
Of the Gulf of Mexico and built a fort
10 front Of what ~ now known as Ocean
Springs. They named it
BILOXI.
Not vestige Of this fort remains. More
ihan hundred years ago II cTum0led
away into the sea, and now deep water
rolls over the spot where stood tue fort
Ind its armament, as well as the tomb
d Jonville, the tirst governor, who died
@fiy and WIS buried within It's walls.
Even its name has been moved half
aozan miles away and attached to All
olher town.
Benvllle succeeded bis brother In
snmand. Exploring parties from his
amp soon found their way into the
body Of water that became Lake Pont-
tAaFtrain, and penetrated every lagoon
and islet along it's shores. Finally they
inferred the Bayou st. John. Here they
iound sicus Of Indian life and discov
sfed The portage where the Indians
dragged their canoes across the swampy
ssrth TO the banks of the great turbid
river, which they found already named
fos them
THE MKsCHACRBR.
La Sale had christered 1t the fieuve
H. Louis, Bienville the River Colbert,
and the Spaniards later the hio Grande,
bat II Is still To US the grand old Mes
chacebe (Mississippi) of the aborigiRes.
bieHville soon saw the mistake that had
been made in locating on tue orumbling
andy beach of the Mississippi sound
After while few rude huts were ba,lt
q the lake shore, nc the mouth of the
Bayou. Then a stockade was err cted
aud picket post located. This was
about the year
1903.
This was the point now known az the
spanish Fort. and was the place from
which the white flag with the golden
alies OF France first kissed the breeze
% the soil of Louisiana. IL is a coinci-
osnee that just a hundred years after
ward the
STARS AND STRIPES
sifss huttsred 10 the air from the dag
van at "the fort on the Bayou" when
YEN. wilkinson and Gov. Clsib rne tar
nso teere TO accept the transfer OF the
s'eas French purchase, weeks previous
the formal surrender at the Place
aafmes, in front of the cathedral.
fnaliy settlement was made at the
ueaa OF the Bayou. and along the high
riounds OF the Metairie and Gentilly.
somiortahle residences we're built aud
aeius planted here long before the river
@nk was occupied. lie whole face OF
1scountry westward from the ridge WAS
aH tne year covered by the Immense
~ame OF wafer that came rolling down
sae great river.
Hvas not till Ills that the homs gov
anment consented that Bienville should
asnRe ms settlement to the bank OF the
Nes Then he erect. d his storehcuses
- government buildings high NJ on
u1er stilts. to keep them above the
mods Of the river.
.ue sons or France in the new world
sss more loyal than their sovereign
- grateful. They had famine, fever
s Hood 10 contend with, to say no
-ne sf : savage foe 10 whom they
' sefe intrnders and despoilers; vet IN
l. sty as In prosperity they were trne
Meir king and flag. Repeatedly was
a. sA.he removed from the gov rnor
p ot the colony under charges. but
~ time be Was vind,csted and re
s su until he became too old for The
of government. Still he survived
ss.slRn OF the king over the colony hs
,ounded. In 1862 be beheld his be
"'ea colony thrown,
AMI IDLE AND uNvALusD OFT,
IL
a,o the lap of Spain. He protested
49, nis knees TO his royal master
heafs. ' "o'he anu uieo o' e'"Se'
N. I've Years Of anarchy and then dowr
~, soffidors of history echoes the be
~ ueed OF U Reilly. the Irish .Spaniard
Is hid his heavy hand on the peopl,
A ~ ncolony and made his dag respect
a. ne bathed that flag in tie best o
sss Iieoie blood. He was stern rule
~ .sssseiver. ffe eode OReilly wal
! ps,s n's TO the people b. came to suhiu
] a ana Aana govern. There is bat one cop,
/ ana NE y. quaint law book known 10 exist
neh.ssna sn's will be exhibited among tn
vas y. Treasures Of the Exposition. |
1 !, ok PRINTED SOUTH or TEE oHro
brase role Of Spain in Louisiana wa
H. s %, brilliant. In l776 commence,
| G0,nueffnl career of GAlyez, " ho ws
Ises, OF Louisiana before be was O
sks' His orders from his Catholi