The principal recipients there were Thomas Boudar, John Hogan, W.F.

Talbott, Buchanan, Carroll and Co., Masi and Bourk, and Sherman Johnson.

The outward manifests from New Orleans show in turn a large maritime distribution from that port, mainly to Galveston and Matagorda Bay.

The chief bulk of this was obviously migrant, not commercial; but a considerable dependence of all the smaller Gulf ports and even of Montgomery upon the New Orleans labor market is indicated by occasional manifests bulking heavily in the traders' ages.

In 1850 and thereabouts, it is curious to note, there were manifests for perhaps a hundred slaves a year bound for Chagres _en route_ for San Francisco.