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

NUMBER ONE.

After the close Of the gigantic struggle
which had we'll nigh lasted from the yea1
1898, or the outbreak of the French revolu
ton, until 1914, or the first abdication of the
Emperor Napoleon and his retiracy to the
island Of Elba in that same year, it became
evident that the great war between the con.
tending powers then still existing between
Great Britain and the United States would
now receive an increased impetus on the part
Of the great maritime nation which had come
out Of its struggle completely triumphant
over its fallen rival, the prostrated French
empire. This being the state of the case
after the temporary pacifcation in Europe in
the spring Of the year 1914, it also naturally
orced upon the minds of sensible people in
the United States at that epoch, the idea that
the issue between the still belligerent forces
would soon be brought to a Close and peacea-
bic transactions again take up their course
Hence, notwithstanding the alarming news
OF great expedition fitting out in old
England against the United States, and of
which it was surmised that the Southern
States Of the Union would be more particu-
larly the object and aim, our merchant adj
yenturer, of whom we have given to our
readers in our last numbered the former series
q preliminary introduction, resolved to under
take the then very tedious voyage across the
Cumberland mountains by the land route
bearing the same name, and which had lust
been opened by the national Congress.
His stock of West India produce (mostly
Porto Rico coffee,) for unsaleable money or
cash funds he had found means to exchange
with a Philadelphia firm (the Montgomervs
for like quantity of cotton and other
staple produce equally unsaleable then in the
New Orleans market, and held here by the
agents of the Philadelphia house, the Messrs
W, W, & Jonathan Montgomery. Under the
prospect that universal peace would soon
restore general mercantile activity throughout
the world, the German merchant undertook
the trip over the mountains and down
the Ohio and Mississippi, as we have had
already occasion to state aforetime. We shall
not, therefore, repeat the details of this voyage.
which was in the forepart Of the fall months Of
1914, the stage of waters, both in the Ohio
and the great Father of Rivers, being most
extraordinarily low and thus rendering the
navigation in the long fat-bottomed keel
barges very dangerous and difficult. How
sver, this trip was accomplished in something
ike forty or fifty days, the Canadian crew
being picked men and of a most desirable
So that our informant. the
principal of the present writer afterwards
Who delighted in recounting his many travel
ng adventures, assured us that he had
ever met with such willing and obedi-
mt hands than in those young Canadian
'oatmen, and they reminded him of the light
earted Frenchmen whom he had often met
a his sea voyages among the West Indian
Stands and around the French colonial DOS
essions For our part, we have had less in
ercourse with this formerly much dispersed /
scattered population; but we entertain no
oubt that the national character has been
lueh preserved in all the several branches of
ne same nationality-fro m the northern
anadian borders down to the inland waters
our lower delta. The PEG uliar trait of
ms national disposition is a buoyant, Joyous
oirlt, always full of e,gouemeat and lively
unor, never firing under the most Strenuous
Iorts singing and dancing whene yer the
ast chance for such. pastimes offer them
ives, such characters suited precisely our
lYellng merchant who was himself thoqt,h
erlnan born, Of very sanguine and gener- n
IS disposition, ever disposed to enliven his
.oarages, or surroundings, by his own tall