New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-11
LOUISIANA IN SLICES.
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The Parish or Natclsitochcs.
NrMnEK XVI.

A Big Freak Of Hdte9 Nat,Te- Match HocLes
Note and Long Ago = ITS tH.t'cheS: l,9'oa9
Biaoded StocE-f9e i'ost- Offices Of tte PaftSft-
1Ete Parish at Large, its Lands and lrotiue.
IS tiens--ItS Large PldnteIts-9he ''f0i1th Estate
ard Ma. N. Lepg Esq.-G10ps and lfeatitet'.
From our Special Travelling Correspondent.
| NATCarTecHBs, July 2, 1860.
Ed. Csesceats write from the ancient city OF
Natchtoches (settled in lTl7, as the stickefs for
the merit of antiquity boast) which is jsut now in
proper state of patriotic excitement, induced by
| the near approach Of the birthday of the nation
which glorious anniversary your correspondent
expects to celebrate by taking pleasant ride Of
fifty miles from here to Mansfield, in Be Soto par
ish, in a stage coach. The enthusiastic citizens
have cleared out the muzzle OF the antique
six pounder which frowns savagely down the
empty bed OF Cane river in front of the city, and
there will be burning of powder, making OF
speeches and eating and drinking, and barbecuing
| and blowing of horns, and sore heads and repent
ance next day. Hooray for the Fourth of July
Hooray South and Northl There, that's my cele-
bration; I've done it and got it off nay mind-now
/ to business.
/ Natchitoches Tor Macintosh T" in the vulgate)
by the river route is reckoned to be four hundred
and sixty miles from New Orleans, and hundred
| from Alexandria by the Red river route. Grand
Eeore is its landing on the river, from which it is
four miles distant It was no fault Of the founders
/ of the town that it is now so inconyenently To-
Gated for they established the settlement right upon
the bank of Red river, and so it stood for a hun
| dred years or so. But in 1889 Red river adopted
the convenient channel of bayou as shorter cut
and deserted its bed for distance Of no less than
| seventy.fiye miles, which is now accomplished by
the present channel in forty miles only of direct
1 course setting Natchitoches back from navigation
| four miles, and serving other old landing places
| and small settlements in the same way The old
| bed Of Red river is called Cane river. and is now,
| in front of the town, quite empty the firm sand
| over which the torrents Of Red River formerly
boiled being dry in places as the streets OF New
| Orleans in There is usually, however for
| month or so every season. water enough in Cane
river to allow light-draft craft to take the crop
away to market. When there is fifteen feet water
on the falls of Red river then Cane river is known
| to be nayigable. The very deep and wide bed of
this suspended river, with its high bluff banks on
which the town fronts, is remarkable and inter
esting aspect, and worth the seeing of those who
| go looking after strange things in nature. Cane
| river finds its way into Red river forty miles above
| Alexandria.
Natchitoches is an exceedingly pleasant and pic
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