. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. Sugar Cane Field, I30 NEW Under the Oaks, City Park. tudes and romances with so manydifferent masters! And this tells inits street nomenclature. THE OAKS. The Oaks, or the old duellingground of New Orleans, is now apart of the city park, and is a littleforest of gigantic live oaks withimmense branches reaching to theground. There is still great interestlingering about these famous oaksfor reason of the memories whichthey recall, and the tradition thatmakes them immortal. So well recog

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. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. Sugar Cane Field, I30 NEW Under the Oaks, City Park. tudes and romances with so manydifferent masters! And this tells inits street nomenclature. THE OAKS. The Oaks, or the old duellingground of New Orleans, is now apart of the city park, and is a littleforest of gigantic live oaks withimmense branches reaching to theground. There is still great interestlingering about these famous oaksfor reason of the memories whichthey recall, and the tradition thatmakes them immortal. So well recognized was the codebefore the war, by all who had anypretensions to good breeding, thatjudges on the bench would resent aninsult from lawyers at the bar. TheOaks became a place of rendezvousfor in the year 1835 ; priorto that date another locality was usedfor fighting. After a challenge was accepted, ifeither of the principals failed to put in an appearance, then it became theduty of the second to do the one instance two military gentle-men fought a duel with navy re-volvers at ten paces with six barrelsloaded;

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