New Orleans

(-or-lenz'.) (Fr., LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS.) An important city and commercial emporium of the U. States, C. of the State of Louisiana, is situate on the Mi i ippi, about 120 m. from its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico, in N. Lat. 29° 58′, W. Lon. 90°. It is a finely-built place, and one laid out with regularity in a convex form-whence the designation of Crescent City, sometimes given to it. N. O. is divided into the Old, or French, and the New, or American, cities -each of which po e es its own distinct architectural features; and is replete with fine public buildings too numerous for specification in this article. This city, ranking as the third shipping-port in the Union, constitutes the grand commercial outlet of the trade of the vast valley of the Mi i ippi, and is especially noteworthy as being the principal port whence American cotton finds its way to Europe and the Atlantic ports. It connects with Lake Pont chart rain by canal, and by railroad with all parts of the Union. Founded by the French in 1717, N. O. pa ed into Spanish hands in 1769, where it remained for some 35 years. In 1815 (Jan. 8), the British sustained a memorable defeat here, by the Americans commanded by Gen. Jackson; and the city, after a 12 months' occupation by the Confederates, 1861-2, surrendered to the Union arms on the 28th April in the last-named year. Pop. 191,418. New Philadelphia, in Ohio, a town, C. of Tuscarawas co., abt. 100 m. E.N.E. of Cincinnati. Pop. 3,143. New Philippines. See CAROLINE ISLANDS. [s. 642]