The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-12

SoME Tame WRONG IN THE TIDEsss--
An article under this caption has been going 4lis
rounds for some lime. IL appears that in the Soei
ETY. Islands, high water always takes place Bel
tween the hours Of II and l. and yet at the full oil
the NOON The tides are perceptibly higher SOM
such phenonienon has been legally proved in The
Federal CeItfis Il This State. Scores Of witnesse
testified, that there IL tide of an inch at lht
mouth Of Red River. Thai in the morning liz.
waet wall fAl an inch, and at night ii will rise Al
inch, thus Corning a second exception TO the law 4
~ tidal currents. But we have always though 4
this last tide 10 be all moonshine. Law is an uncer-H
tain thing. You cannot prove in Court Of New
Orleans iheFe was a CUBA expedition, and yet yorI
can prove tide in the Mississippi which is indie
pendent Of the tide in the Gulf! and unlike al
other tides.
Beg we intended ID tell story, which is callsc
20 mind BY the queer caption Of g Some thing
Wrong IN the Tides .
Some gentlemen Of Natchez started on an explo.
ring tour into the swamps OF Louisiana. In thei,
party was skilfal Surveyor and rough woods
man, Jolly, roisleriae soul, whose house was thu
resort Of all the joval Islows in the county. Old
Siias was Falstaf in his way, and kept an open
house, sort Of Castle Raekrent, in the swamp
The party left his house in the morning, and mad,
their tedious way through The almost imperviou,
cane brake. II any man wants to be innocuIatet
with the land fever, he has only to take such
tramp through the alluvial forest Of the Mississippi
making his tolsome way by cutting the huge vine.
which hang in festoons from the gigantic cotton.
woods, or actually hewfng his path through In
closely serried canes, and when he is almost dis
courged5 q breakiH upon some clearing, where
within the rude Virginia fence Is growing cotton.
Of 1000 pounds 70 the acre Well, these gentIe
men had explored the land to their satisfaction ane
proposed to RETURN but in The devious course the,
had pursued, they had become "perplexed in The
extreme" They were fairly lost. The snfyeyor con.
suited his pockel compass but alas like the tides H.
The Pacific, il was out Of sorts. In the learned
language Rhich he was wont to use, g The com
pass had lost it, polarity.H This was the onl,
scientific Efeshod Of accounting for the obstinacy
with Which the little treInbler would point South
For the needle like wilfnl woman, will have i'll
own way. Here, then, was quandary. The
party were tired, their horses broken down. the
lunch all eaten, their bottles innocent of whisky
M the heart Of the swamp at sunset, and no way
TO get cut. Even the rubicund and round face Of
Old Sllas faded and heightened. AT last. ia smile
OF the sdUan, he determined TO follow the compass
and giving The spur 10 his jaded horse. he broke
into painful trot. All followed, and soon he gave
yell and whoop which broke the horrible stiIlnes
Of the forest. He had struck the Tensas, and il
muddy stream run just as it always had done
Well, BY -" he shouted out, cold Tensas
has not lost its polarity, whatever may have hap
gepsdlo the compass.n Soon the weary traveller
feAf1sa hs log cabin, and there substantial sup.
pss pfsiaeed with badons of the Kentucky vim
iaess soo made them forget and forgive the error.
Of the compass. 1t viii yet turn out thai the tides
have no more lost their lunarily, than the compass
had lost its polarity.