She has an area of 46,431 square miles, equal to 29,715,840 acres. The population in 1870 numbered 732,731; she has six Representatives in Congress.

Louisiana forms a part of the fifth judicial circuit, and constitutes two judicial districts, viz.: the eastern and western districts of Louisiana. This State has one collection district, denominated the district of New Orleans; which city is the only port of entry. The shores of the river Ohio, and all the rivers emptying into the Mississippi, are attached to the district of New Orleans, though most of them do not lie in the State. Several of the cities and towns on these rivers are made ports of delivery. Collection districts are not always confined to one State.

New Orleans is the capital. The Legislature meets on the first Monday in January, once in two years. The State election is held on the first Monday in November.

The enacting clause of her laws is as follows: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened.”

UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Thomas Posey,October to December, 1812.
James Brown,from{1812to1817.
1819”1824.
Allan B. Macgruder,”1812”1813.
Eligius Fromentin,”1813”1819.
W. C. C. Claiborne,”1817”1818.
Henry Johnson,”{1818”1824.
1843”1849.
William Kelly,”1822”1825.
Dominique Bouligny,”1824”1829.
Josiah S. Johnston,”1824”1833.
Edward Livingston,”1829”1831.
Geo. A. Waggaman,”1831”1835.
Alexander Porter,”1833”1837.
Robert C. Nichols,”1833”1841.
Alexander Morton,”1838”1842.
Alexander Barrow,”1841”1847.
Charles M. Conrad,”1842”1843.
Pierre Soulé,”{1847”1847.
1849”1855.
Solomon W. Downs,”1847”1853.
John Slidell,”1853”1861.
Judah P. Benjamin,”1853”1861.
John S. Harris,”1868”1871.
Wm. Pitt Kellogg,”1868”1873.
J. R. West,”1871”1877.
INDIANA.

1. Indiana was first explored by the enterprising French Jesuits, who highly appreciated the beauty, resources, and grand future of the vast Mississippi valley. Wiser than their sovereign, Louis XIV., they would have taken firm and effectual possession of all this region, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, but Louis was too much occupied with his palaces, the splendor of his court, the banishment of Protestants, and war with his neighbors to lend a due support to their plans. They explored the region in 1682, formed a settlement at Vincennes in 1730, and made friends of the Indians. The career of the French, in Europe and America, was checked by the extravagance of the Court, and disastrous wars; and this little colony remained for nearly three generations solitary and stationary in the wilderness; fraternizing with the Indians and enjoying life as only the French can under such dreary circumstances.