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.”