Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-02-07

a few exceptons) consists principally Of sand-bars,
occasionally by the sight of stray alligator, or
woodward, where ladies (of color) may be seen pi-
linz wood There are no towns Of Importance ex-
cent Memphis, Tenn, and Helena, in the God-for-
saken State Of Arkansas. The river is very crook
ed, and the navigation very uncertain at low wa
ter, on account of the rolling sand-bars; and
Mississippi pilot has to look sharp. for where the
channel is to-day may be a sand-bar month hence.
This part Of the voyage is generally very tedious,
and the passengers on the boat amuse themselves
with performance known as Liquoring on the
Mississippi" You have heard Of Grating on the
Mississippi "playing poker on the Mississippi"
and occasionally "blowing up on the Mississpp;"
but Liquoring on the Mississippi is the great
eat institution Of ALL The bar is crowded from
morning till night with rowdes, who look small
bowie-knives at the bar-keeper, while they call for
"gn cocktails -dcck-hands, who take their IL
ouor neat" without the vulgar admixture Of wa
trr.--middle-aged men who drink nt-juleps, and
individuals in white neck-cloths, who, calling for
shcrry-cobblcrs, suck paradise through q straw,
anu urcau OF thc uot oheNp VI tuS hOuoC VI
And this sometimes leads to another performance
known rs Fighting on the Mississippi" and IL q
few occasionally get stabbed or flung overheard, il
doesn't mako mu CHI difference, as they have gen.
orally paid their passage, and the world is as vel
off without them.
Once past the Louisiana line there is vast i'm.
provcment, and things begin to look civilized
The green leyees and the handsome dwellings o
the planters, surrounded with orange tees, anC
the negro huts, are exceedingly picturesque, ant
whom seen in the gorgeous light Of II southern sun
set after the negroes have returned from labor
when the sound of voice and banjo rings merrill
from the Shore and you sit in front of the boat in
hsling the combined odors Of orange blossoms an
choice Havana, it is positively charming. tn
Coast" from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, look
like n wcll-cultiyated garden, and you have q fu
view Of the surrounding country from the river
which, were it not for the lcvces, would constant
overflow the land. But now that VIC have got
New Orleans, l will pause, and reserve descriT
ton of this wonderful city, together with its hsto
ry since it was first discovered by Pittsburg Goa
boat, to the present time, for another paper.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. IA, 81.
Mn. EDIroR-Thc glorious 9Th was celebrate
here as patriotic holidays usually are, with va
expenditure of powder and patriotism. The Cit
Council appropriated $1,000 to celebrate the bait
Of New Orleans and my birthday, but forgot to as
me to the dinner it provided. Old Jordan In
't'other side, but General Jackson's negro drum
mcr,) beat the rcyeillc and paraded the streets.
Murder is again rife in the city, and the Ca
rollton cars were stopped OH the LIST and several
tho employees killed. 1t would seem the murdc
ers arc known, and walk the streets unwlipt of ju
tice, but they are noli me tangere sort Of folks,
tho public wisely let them alone. .r D..
Yours, II. c. w.