New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-13

enJs LOT music and singing, for besides d fine
baritone voice, he would accompany himself
with the guitar, and understood equally as
well the handling of the violin. Hence
this trip had been performed to the satisfac-
ton Of everybody, crew, patrons and passen-
gers-Gor there We're a few of these latter that
came down in such conyeyances then to the
metropolis of Louisiana. The Western pro-
duce brought on, reached very desirable
market; for although there was no lack Of any
provisions then in the lower delta, still
the concentrating of the United States
forces, the assembling of the yolunteA
militia from the adjoining States and terrific
rles for the defense of New Orleans, rendered
the accumulation of sufficient store or guam
tity of provisions and army supplies very de-
suabIe 1t was then in the middle of Novem-
Der or perhaps, the latter weeks of that
month, that the keel barge reached the upper
P"lS OF the New Orleans landing, where al
reauy several proclamatons from Genera!
jackson from Mobile, and Gov Claiborne
had aroused the whole of the J,orisiono NOM.
iaton to knowledge of the impending dan
ger OF an invasion. Our readers have so often
already had recitals of the memorable events
OF that short campaign of 1914 and 1915, that
we shall not, upon this occasion, 90 over the
often trodden ground, and only now observe
that the still unfinished monument, which is
erected near the line of the defense of the Sth
of January, 1915, has yet to be completed. by
carrying out the original design, to-wit an
obelisk. In its present state, hidden as it is |
behind some unseeully farm barns and out
houses, it rather looks, from afar, like an
extraordinary pigeon house, or some new
fashioned lookout bird stand for driving
away the carrion crows or other voracious
vultures OF field pests, Strangers who 90
to inspect this monumental structure can be
little edited by its present unfinished and
prosaic appearance But we shall leave this
subject and return to the adventurous mer-
chant prince of Hamburg, who, upon the an
nouncement Of the peace concluded with Great
Britain, on the eve of Christmas, the 24tb
December, 1914, in Client, resolved immedi-
ately to make preparations for his return
to his beloved fatherland which he had left
nearly a decade before that is in the eventfnl
year of 1906 when, for the first time, that
tree republican metropolis of the north of
Germany had to submit to the imperial woke
Of the powerful invader We shall. however
now advert to the singular coincidence that
the first battle fought upon Louisiana ground,
by the heroic jackson against the cohorts. If
me British lion, was on the 23d Decem-
Der, whilst the next day, in Europe the peace
vas signed at Ghetn, on the oath of December.
hat is, Christmas eve.
We have seen it reported in newspaper ex-
racts that Henry Clay, then one of the five
sent from the Congress of the
United States to negotiate peace with the
3ntlsh ambassadors upon that occasion, after
lgnlng the act concluding the peace neeo-
latlon, made an offer to one of the British
lords to bet that his countrymen had then
'on victory over the invading army of Pack
nham, and that his offer was declined. So
MI Of confidence were the Americans in gem =
raj, with respect to the indomitable valor of
Teneral jackson, who had been intrusted u
18th the defense of Louisiana, and equally Of
ontident was Henry Clay in the innate at y,
lchment of the native Louisianians to their a.
alive soil and the love of the Union, when
omprising them as an integral part Of the -
reat American nation Henry Clay and his
rother which latter died in our metropolis,
ere both connected by family ties to the ma
We born population of our State-the ancient
mily of Durable then being part Of the -
lay relations. Nay it was generally conceded 81
at the ancient spirit Of French colonial 10y -
ty had been transferred from its former ma p.
7nality to thenewAmerican generation or pop
ar formation hence, all descendants Of for
er trench'ancestors, such as the Bayards of !
elaware, We're looked upon as the very pillars the
ID foundations of American nationality in
ntradistinction to British, or old England's ret
herents and supporters, that is, as per-
'tuators or eontinuators Of that detested ma
onality,. -.. s4.. -