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Events noted in Orleans Newspapers

Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 23, 1822 Page 2
The cotton house, and other buildings, on the plantation of Dr. Flood, near New Orleans, was burnt on the 21st ult. Loss estimated at 14,000 dollars.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 25 1823 Page 1
By the Decatur, we have received advices from N. Orleans to the 22d May. The waters of the Mississippi had subsided, four or five feet, and no fears were entertained that further damage would be done by the flood. – Amer. Sen. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

The Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA)
29 Oct 1823 Page 3
New Orleans, Sept. 22
In the late gale Gen. Hampton’s sugar house was unroofed – and his sugar crop is expected to fall short 300 hogsheads, in consequence of the destruction of cane.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
August 4, 1824
New Orleans
Accounts from New Orleans, of the 2d inst., mention a great rise of the waters in the upper country, occasioned by long and heavy rains. The heat had been so very oppressive in the city, more so, it is said, than it had been for 15 years. The deaths from the 22d to the 28th of June were 52, three of which were by malignant fever. A man who had been confined in a dungeon under the mayor’s office, called the black hole, for resisting a constable, died of suffocation. – Nat. Intel. [submitted by Nancy Piper]