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| South America & Caribbean:William Walker seizes properties belonging to Cornelius Vanderbilt who organizes opposition in neighboring countries. Walker surrenders to the U. S. Navy attemps several returns to Nicaragua. | |||||||||||
| North America:The Dred Scott decision contridicts the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by ruling tha ta former slave living in a free territory cannot claim freedom. Mormon-led Ute Indians massacre a wagon train of Methodists after Brigham Young is removed as governor of the territory of Utah. Financial panic in New York by insurance failures and sinking in a storm of the S. S. Central America with three tons of gold. Reduced tariffs. Shipping subsidies abolished by Congress. New York linked to St. Louis by rail. University of California, Illinois State University, Marquette University, Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Atlantic Monthly begins publication. Poetry by Longfellow. Painting by Frederic Church, prints by Currier and Ives; Jinglebells, We Three Kings of Orient. Paul Morphy wins first American Chess Congress. Frederic Law Olmstead. John Deere produces 10,000 plows this year. | |||||||||||
| Europe: New French laws accelerate rail construction. Giuseppi Garibaldi returns to Italy from 5 year exile on Staten Island. Pasteur discovers living organism spoil milk. Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Little Dorit by Dickens, Fiction by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope; opera by Verdi; music by Liszt. | |||||||||||
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February 1857
The Mystic Krewe of Comus founded at a meeting above the Gem Cafe on Royal Street. Many Carnival traditions introduced by Comus in 1857 are still standing. The secret organization chooses a mythological name, coins the word krewe, stages a themed procession with floats, and ends the street parade at a tableau ball. |
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| Architect James Gallier Jr. (1827-1868) builds a house at 1132 Royal St. for his own home. Other buildings of his include the French Opera House, the Bank of America at 111 Exchange Place, the Luling Mansion at 1436 Leda, and the Bank of New Orleans once at 321 St. Charles. | A variety of gold rice is first planted in Plaquemines Parish, but pumping the water over the levee or other wise floodint the rice fields proves to be very expensive. | Louisa Street Cemetery purchased by Don Jose Llulla, one of the last fencing masters in the city. Known as Pepe, he was often the target of those seeking the notoriety of having bested the city’s best duelist. It was said that he bought the cemetery to bury his victims and even gave the widows a discount. He died of natural causes in 1888 and buried in his own cemetery. | Adrien Persac was born in Lyons, France in the early 1820s and is active in the New Orleans area from 1857 to 1872. He is a painter, sketch artist, lithographer and art teacher who did many watercolors of New Orleans buildings used in real estate transactions and paintings of plantation houses among many other works. He illustrated the famed 1858 Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River by A. Persac. | The house is built at Land's End Plantation, established by Colonel Henry Marshall in 1835. It will be used as hospital for the Battle of Mansfield, 1864. This signer of the Louisiana Ordinance of Secession and Confederate Constitution will also be a Member of Confederate Congress.
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