A Speech in Two Languages—Long Sessions—Matthews,
Martin, and Porter
—A Singular Will—A Scion of
’98—Five Hundred Dollars for a Little
Fun with the Dogs—Cancelling a Note
Chapter XXIX.
Americanizing Louisiana.
Powers of Louisiana Courts—Governor William
C.C. Claiborne—Cruel
O’Reilly—Lefrenier and Noyan Executed—A
Dutch Justice—Edward
Livingston—A Caricature of General Jackson—Stephen
Mazereau—A
Speech in Three Languages—John R. Grymes—Settling
a Ca. Sa.—Batture
Property—A Hundred Thousand Dollar Fee
Chapter XXX.
Division of new Orleans into
municipalities.
American Hotel—Introduction of Steamboats—Faubourg St. Mary—Canal Street—St. Charles Hotel—Samuel J. Peters—James H. Caldwell—Fathers of the Municipality—Bernard Marigny—An Ass—A.B. Roman
Chapter XXXI.
Blowing up the lioness.
Doctor Clapp—Views and Opinions—Universal
Destiny—Alexander Barrow
—E.D. White—Cross-Breed,
Irish Renegade, and Acadian—A Heroic
Woman—The Ginseng Trade—I-I-I’ll
D-d-die F-f-first
Chapter XXXII.
Gradual extinction of the red
man.
Line Creek Fifty Years Ago—Hopothlayohola—McIntosh—Undying Hatred—A Big Pow-wow—Massacre of the McIntoshes—Nehemathla—Onchees—The Last of the Race—A Brave Warrior—A White Man’s Friendship—The Death-Song—Tuskega; or, Jim’s Boy
Chapter XXXIII.
Fun, fact, and fancy.
Eugenius Nesbitt—Washington Poe—Yelverton
P. King—Preparing to
Receive the Court—Walton Tavern, in Lexington—Billy
Springer, of
Sparta—Freeman Walker—An Augusta
Lawyer—A Georgia Major—Major
Walker’s Bed—Uncle Ned—Discharging
a Hog on His Own Recognizance
—Morning Admonition and Evening Counsel—A
Mother’s Request—
Invocation—Conclusion
THE MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS.
CHAPTER I.
Revolutionary traditions.
Middle Georgia—colonel David
love—his widow—governor
Dunmore—
colonel Tarleton—bill Cunningham—colonel
Fannin—my grandmother’s
Bible—Solomon’s maxim
applied—Robertus love—the
Indian warrior—
Dragon canoe—A buxom lass—general
Gates—Marion—Mason
L. Weems—
Washington—“Billy Crafford.”