“THIRTEEN DUELS have been fought in and near the city during the week; five more were to take place this morning.”

The “New Orleans Merchant” of March 20, 1838, says: 

“Murder has been rife within the two or three weeks last past; and what is worse, the authorities of those places where they occur are perfectly regardless of the fact.”

The “New Orleans Bee” of September 8, 1838, says: 

“Not two months since, the miserable BARBA became a victim to one of the most cold-blooded schemes of assassination that ever disgraced a civilized community.  Last Sunday evening an individual, Gonzales by name, was seen in perfect health, in conversation with his friends.  On Monday morning his dead body was withdrawn from the Mississippi, near the ferry of the first municipality, in a state of terrible mutilation.  To cap the climax of horror, on Friday morning, about half past six o’clock, the coroner was called to hold an inquest over the body of an individual, between Magazine and Tchoupitoulas streets.  The head was entirely severed from the body; the lower extremities had likewise suffered amputation; the right foot was completely dismembered from the leg, and the left knee nearly severed from the thigh.  Several stabs, wounds and bruises, were discovered on various parts of the body, which of themselves were sufficient to produce death.”

The “Georgetown (South Carolina) Union” of May 20, 1837, has the following extract from a New Orleans paper.

“A short time since, two men shot one another down in one of our bar rooms, one of whom died instantly.  A day or two after, one or two infants were found murdered, there was every reason to believe, by their own mothers.  Last week we had to chronicle a brutal and bloody murder, committed in the heart of our city:  the very next day a murder-trial was commenced in our criminal court:  the day ensuing this, we published the particulars of Hart’s murder.  The day after that, Tibbetts was hung for attempting to commit a murder; the next day again we had to publish a murder committed by two Spaniards at the Lake—­this was on Friday last.  On Sunday we published the account of another murder committed by the Italian, Gregorio.  On Monday, another murder was committed, and the murderer lodged in jail.  On Tuesday morning another man was stabbed and robbed, and is not likely to recover, but the assassin escaped.  The same day Reynolds, who killed Barre, shot himself in prison.  On Wednesday, another person, Mr. Nicolet, blew out his brains.  Yesterday, the unfortunate George Clement destroyed himself in his cell; and in addition to this dreadful catalogue we have to add that of the death of two, brothers, who destroyed themselves through grief at the death of their mother; and truly may we say that ’we know not what to-morrow will bring forth.’”

The “Louisiana Advertiser,” as quoted by the Salt River (Mo.) Journal of May 25, 1837, says: