. Historic towns of the Southern States. a right royal little city it was de-signed to be from the first, and one worthy itsprincely godfather, Laws patron, the Duke ofOrleans. Bienville himself piloted the first royalvessel of provisions and immigrants throughthe mouth of the river, and made the firstlanding at the levee bank, crowded to-daywith commerce and shipping. Finally, in 1723,Bienville removed thither all the governmentoffices and stores, and made New Orleans thecapital of the colony. In a year, the citywas in full tide of progress, and attainingits majority as a city among the oldes
. Historic towns of the Southern States. a right royal little city it was de-signed to be from the first, and one worthy itsprincely godfather, Laws patron, the Duke ofOrleans. Bienville himself piloted the first royalvessel of provisions and immigrants throughthe mouth of the river, and made the firstlanding at the levee bank, crowded to-daywith commerce and shipping. Finally, in 1723,Bienville removed thither all the governmentoffices and stores, and made New Orleans thecapital of the colony. In a year, the citywas in full tide of progress, and attainingits majority as a city among the oldest cities ofthe continent. History and romance carry on the chronicleof its life, for it is a place whose history has be-come romance, romance history, in our neat little square checker-board preparedby Bienvilles engineers, has grown out of allregularity of proportion ; unwieldy and awk-ward enough it is now upon paper, with itsstreets that vainly strive to run straight, as*they follow the bend of the river, or Crescent. 420 New Orleans as it is called. But the first map still repre-sents the centre, the heart of the city, thesource of its tradition and sentiment. Andto the children of the city â or, we should say,the descendants of the children of the first-born of the cit)-, there has been no change inthis mother spot, save that of harmoni-ous growth and age ; â at least so they think intender reverence as they saunter throughthe old thoroughfares with the high-soundingnames. The place damies has become JacksonSquare ; the public market, the French market;the parish church, the Cathedral ; the Ursu-lines Convent, the Archbishopric ; the cem-etery is now the old St. Louis â beyondRampart Street, instead of outside the Ram-parts, as it used to be called. The vieucarve â as the original city is affectionatelycalled â has suffered its share of the vicis-situdes of cities. More than once, tornadoesand fires have swept whole quarters of it bareof dwellings. Epid
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