FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   >>  
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847, by Albert James Pickett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847 Author: Albert James Pickett Release Date: May 26, 2010 [EBook #32539] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW ORLEANS *** Produced by Alison Hadwin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) EIGHT DAYS IN NEW-ORLEANS IN FEBRUARY, 1847, BY ALBERT J. PICKETT, OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. NOTE. The following Sketches of New-Orleans originally appeared in the Alabama Journal of Montgomery. For the purpose of presenting them to the perusal of his friends at a distance, the author has caused them to be embodied in the present form. These pages were written from the recollection of only a few days sojourn in the Crescent City. The period allowed the author of collecting information was very limited. It is also his first essay at descriptive and historic writing. The author fondly indulges the hope that these things will be taken into consideration by his charitable friends, and will cause them to cast the veil of compassion over imperfections. MAY 18TH, 1847. CHAPTER I. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.--DESOTO'S EXPEDITION,--HIS DEATH,--THE FATE OF HIS PARTY, ETC. On a recent excursion to the Crescent City, I collected some facts and statistics which are respectfully submitted to the public. In attempting a description of this magnificent emporium of commerce, as it exists at the present day, I will briefly allude to its early history, commencing with the great "drain" of the western world, which is destined to bear upon its turbid bosom half the commerce of the American Union. Three hundred and thirty years ago the noble Mississippi rolled its waters to its ocean home in native silence and grandeur, hitherto seen by no European eye, when suddenly one morning HERNANDEZ DE SOTO stood upon its banks. How awfully sublime must have been the
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   >>  



Top keywords:

author

 

Orleans

 

Crescent

 

ORLEANS

 

present

 

friends

 

commerce

 

Pickett

 
Albert
 
American

February

 
Gutenberg
 

Project

 

EXPEDITION

 

excursion

 
collected
 

statistics

 
respectfully
 

recent

 

submitted


imperfections

 
consideration
 

charitable

 
things
 

indulges

 

compassion

 
ACCOUNT
 

DISCOVERY

 

MISSISSIPPI

 

DESOTO


CHAPTER
 

public

 
hitherto
 

grandeur

 

European

 

silence

 

native

 

rolled

 

Mississippi

 

waters


suddenly

 

sublime

 
HERNANDEZ
 
morning
 

allude

 

briefly

 

history

 

commencing

 

exists

 

description