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lyiO presentation of the advantages offered by Louisiana to immigration 

 iw would be salHsfactory or complete without some allusion to the press of 

 the State. 



This great agent and engine of popular education and enlightenment 

 is rcpreseated by 172 serial publications, of which, 14 are issued daily; 3 

 semi-weelirfy ; 147 weekly ; 3 semi-monthly, and 6 monthly. Of tliese, 7 arc 

 printed in both French and English ; 3 in French wholly; 3 in Gorman ; 3 in 

 Italian, and 1 in Spanish. They are for the most part well-coiilncted and 

 are excellent exponents of the local interests of the several parishes and dis- 

 tricts in wluch they are printed. Tlie intending settler can thusl<'arn all that 

 he desires short of a visit to the locality which he propo.ses to examine, and 

 tlierefore they should be carefully consulted by persons at a distance. The 

 Stsvtes press is made up of secular, religious, trade, professional and literary 

 publications representing all classes and every important interest. 



The leading newspaper published in Louisiana is the New Orleans Pic- 

 ayune. It was started in Janiiaiy, 1837, and has attained its 58th year. It is 

 the oldest English paper in the city or in the State, its age being surpassed 

 only by that of L'Abeille (the Bee), which is ten years older and is printed 

 in the French langmige, and with the two exceptions of the Bee and the 

 Deutsche Zeitung or German Gazette, it is the only paper in New Orleans 

 that has sm-vived the civil war. 



The PiCA'YUNE has always been an able, conservative, enlightened rep- 

 resentative of the best interests of Louisiana and of the great southwest in 

 whose progress and development it has had a large share, and no paper in this 

 country has been so close to the i)eople themselves. It is their great tribune 

 and advocate, ever standing against political trickery and oflRcial dishonesty, 

 and being free from all corrupt jobs and seliish schemes it has always main- 

 tained the highest place in public confidence and favor. 



The Picayune was started by the brilliant and famous George Wilkins 

 Kendall, one of the most distinguished wits of his day, and, perhaps, the 

 first journalist in the world who played the part of a correspondent for the 

 press from military headquarters in the field, Mr. Kendall having accompa- 

 nied the United States army of invasion to Mexico dmiag the war of 1846-47, 



