First impressions--A hero of the "Three Days"--Children's ball-- Life in New-Orleans--A French supper--Omnibuses--Chartres street at twilight--Calaboose--Guard house--The vicinage of a theatre-- French cafés--Scenes in the interior of a café--Dominos--Tobacco smokers--New-Orleans society. 108
Interior of a ball room--Creole ladies--Infantile dancers--French children--American children--A singular division--New-Orleans ladies--Northern and southern beauty--An agreeable custom--Leave the assembly room--An olio of languages--The Exchange--Confusion of tongues--Temples of Fortune. 117
The Goddess of fortune--Billiard rooms--A professor--Hells--A respectable banking company--"Black-legs"--Faro described-- Dealers--Bank--A novel mode of franking--Roulette table--A supper in Orcus--Pockets to let--Dimly lighted streets--Some things not so bad as they are represented. 127
A sleepy porter--Cry of fire--Noise in the streets--A wild scene at midnight--A splendid illumination--Steamers wrapped in flames --A river on fire--Firemen--A lively scene--Floating cotton-- Boatmen--An ancient Portuguese Charon--A boat race--Pugilists--A hero 137
Canal-street--Octagonal church--Government house--Future prospects of New-Orleans--Roman chapel--Mass for the dead-- Interior of the chapel--Mourners--Funeral--Cemeteries--Neglect of the dead--English and American grave yards--Regard of European nations for their dead--Roman Catholic cemetery in New-Orleans--Funeral procession--Tombs--Burying in water-- Protestant grave-yard. 145
An old friend--Variety in the styles of building--Love for flowers--The basin--Congo square--The African bon-ton of New-Orleans--City canals--Effects of the cholera--Barracks-- Guard-houses--The ancient convent of the Ursulines--The school for boys--A venerable edifice--Principal--Recitations--Mode of instruction--Primary department--Infantry tactics--Education in general in New-Orleans. 158
Rail-road--A new avenue to commerce--Advantages of the rail-way --Ride to the lake--The forest--Village at the lake--Pier-- Fishers--Swimmers--Mail-boat--Cafés--Return--An unfortunate cow --New-Orleans streets. 171
The legislature--Senators and representatives--Tenney--Gurley --Ripley--Good feeling among members--Translated speeches-- Ludicrous situations--Slave law--Bishop's hotel--Tower--View from its summit--Bachelor establishments--Peculiar state of society. 178