

LUTHERANS. 



485 



PARISHES. 



Ascension 



Assumption 



Avoyelles 



Baton Rouge, East 

 Baton Rouge, West 



Bienville 



Bossier 



Caddo 



Calcasieu 



Caldwell 



Cameron. ... 

 Carroll, East 

 Carroll, West. 



Catahoula 



Claiborne 



Concordia 



De Soto 



Feliciana, East.... 

 Feliciana, West . . . 



Franklin 



Grant 



Iberia 



Iberville 



Jackson 



Jefferson* 



Lafourche 



Lafayette 



Lincoln 



Livingston 



Amount. 1 PARISHES. Amount. 



$1,255 50 Madison $94100 



1,196 50 Morehouse 716 50 



1,223 50 ! Natchitoches 2,395 75 



1,333 50 ' Ouachita 990 50 



549 75 | Orleans 14,236 75 



892 50 Plaquemiues 804 00 



1,290 00 I Pointe Coupee 1,274 25 



1,610 50 Rapides 1,815 25 



977 75 Red River 548 50 



463 00 ! Richland. . . , 672 50 



137 GO | Sabine... 



624 25 i St. Bernard 



St. Charles 



St. Helena . . . 



195 75 

 773 50 



1,503 25 



St. John Baptist. . 



670 00 

 294 00 

 487 75 

 595 75 

 731 75 

 1,063 (10 

 2,994 50 



975 00 St. James., 



1,273 75 St Landry 



1,143 50 St. Martin 1,002 25 



1,03226 St. Mary 1,39000 



464 25 St. Tammany 519 25 



52450lTensas 1,21350 



805 25 

 1,107 75 

 922 00 

 430 00 

 444 50 

 737 50 

 466 75 



Total $68,750 00 



Redistricting for members of Congress has 

 not yet been ordered. The United States cen- 

 sus of 1880 gives Louisiana a white population 

 reaching 455,063, and a colored population of 

 485,200. The whole population is 940,263. 

 This shows an increase during the last decade 

 of 213,988. The population in 1870 was, Avhites, 

 362,065 ; blacks, 364,210 ; aggregate, 726,275. 



The debt of the State of Louisiana on Janu- 

 ary 30, 1880, was as follows : 



Consolidated bonds at 7 per cent, not yet accept- 

 ing the provisions of the new Constitution $11,449,500 



Consolidated bonds accepting new constitutional 

 provisions, and stamped for reduced interest of 

 2 per cent 156,600 



New constitutional bonds issued for $233.300 old 

 bonds, at 75 cents, and bearing interest at 4 per 

 cent 175,025 



Total debt, old and new bonds $11,781,125 



Holders of old bonds are not compelled to 

 scale at seventy-five cents on the dollar and 

 take new four per cent, bonds, but the State 

 Treasurer believes that they will prefer that 

 mode. In that event the refunded debt will 

 be $8,879,550 at four per cent, interest. The 

 option is the face of the consolidated debt with 

 two per cent, for five years, three per cent. 

 for fifteen years, and four per cent, thereafter. 

 There can be no increase beyond the funding 

 of a few outstanding bonds, which have not 

 yet been converted into consolidated bonds, 

 and which do not amount to $250,000. 



The assessment of the parish of Orleans in 



1330 was $97,352,405 72 



The assessment of country parishes in 1SSO 



was 79,276,227 00 



Total assessment of Louisiana in 1880 was $176,628,632 72 



The rate of taxation is six mills. 



LUTHER ANS. The following is a summary 

 of the statistics of the Lutheran Synods in 

 America, as they are given in the " Church 

 Almanac " (Philadelphia) for 1881 : 



* This amount is subdivided as follows : Right bank, 

 $635.50; left bank, $162.50. 



The statistics given in other Lutheran alma- 

 nacs widely differ from the above. An almanac 

 published at Allentown, Pennsylvania ("Lu- 

 therische Kalender"), gives a total of 3,174 

 ministers, 5,683 congregations, and 700,418 

 communicants; while, according to the "Lu- 



