thousand dollars, changing its name to the one it now bears, Charity Hospital of St. Charles. He then filled in the still open space on each side of the church, by a convent for the Capuchins and a town hall, the Cabildo, and he added the chapel to the Ursuline convent.
Nine years after his marriage, and as if indeed to reward the pious generosity of so good a Christian and citizen, Heaven sent a child to Don Andres, a daughter, who was christened, in the grand new Cathedral, Micaela Leonarda Antonia. Two years later, in the plenitude of his happiness and honour, Don Andres died and was buried in front of the altar of his Cathedral, where his name and lineage, and good deeds, coat of arms and motto, "A pesar de todos, venceremos los Godos," are cut as ineffaceably into the stone over his resting place, as, we trust, his remembrance is in the heart of his city.
After the death of Don Andres, his story still went on. His beautiful young widow chose a second husband, and the charivari that was given her is historical. The charivaris of New Orleans are historical, in that we read of them from the very beginnings of the city; but this one is called the historical charivari, for it was greater than any that had gone before, and none that came after ever could surpass it. Three days and nights it pursued the beautiful widow and her husband up and down the city, to and fro, across the river. Finally, to get rid of it, they had to run away.
Besides his largesse to the city, Don Andres had still wealth enough to dower his daughter with millions, so that Micaela, inheriting also the beauty of her mother, was an heiress such as the city could never even have hoped to possess. It is said, one may add, naturally,
