Population in 1732, 20 in 1788, 25 in 1803, 26 of New Orleans in 1723, 59 in 1785, 62 in 1803, 70 in 1810, 66 in 1844, 71 comparative, ib. Police of New Orleans, 78 Post Office, 90 Pottery may be made of Louisiana clay, 57 Poydras Female Orphan Asylum, 113 street Market, 136 Prairies of the State, 30 particularly described, ib. Prairie, Attakapas, 33 38 Opelousas, 39 Bellevue, 40 Prairie, Calcasieu, 40 Prairie, Sabine, 40 Press of New Orleans, 173 Presbyterian Church, First, 100 Second, 101 Project of supplying wholesome water, 148 Prospects of New Orleans, 82 Prosperity of trade in 1810, 66 Protestant Cemetery, 108 Public buildings, 86 libraries much wanted, 79 property transferred to the United States, 65 Public School system, 163 how introduced, ib. Public School Lyceum, 166 Squares, 181 Race Courses, 195 Raft in Red River, 36 Rail-road, Pontchartrain, 192 Carrolton, 191 Mexican Gulf, 193 Reading Room, Merchants', 161 New Orleans, 162 Red River deposit, its nature, 34 raft, 36 Residence of Governor Bienville, 189 Road of Bayou St. John, 194 Rope Walks, 151 Sabine Prairies, 40 Salvado, last Spanish governor, 26 Samaritan Charitable Association, 114 Sauville, the Governor, dies, 17 Saw Mills, steam, 151 School, Convent, 44 Sisters of Charity, ib. School, Ursuline Nuns', 44 Schools, the Public, ib. Second Presbyterian Church, 101 Municipality Work-House, 130 Hall, 127 Sheep of Louisiana, very superior, 56 Lafourche, ib. Shell Road, 192 Silk may be produced in abundance, 53 Society in New Orleans, 73 Soil of Louisiana, 29 State of Louisiana described, 28 State Legislature to be removed, 92 House, 91 Steamboat first arrives from Pittsburgh, 27 Steamboats, early, their trips, 80 extent of present navigation, 83 Steam Planing Mill, 151 Saw Mills, ib. Streets and sidewalks first paved, 67 St. Augustine Church, 96 St. Patrick's do, 95 Cemetery, 109 St. Paul's Church, 99 St. Antoine's, or Mortuary Chapel, 97 St. Charles Exchange Hotel, 137 St. Louis Exchange Hotel, 143 St. Mary's Market, 137 (St. Louis,) City Exchange, 157 St. Charles Theatre, 178 St. Lorenzo, treaty of, 25 St. Bernard bay occupied by La Salle, 15 Sugar introduced by the Jesuits in 1751, 21 crops their present average, ib. Sugar lands, 46 refinery, 151 Suggestion to sugar planters, 46 Surface of Louisiana, 29 Tax upon chimneys to light New Orleans, 64 Teche, excellent lands upon its borders, 33