Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-05

Explorers : Hunters : Packmen :
RlnSboaimen = Politicians = city
Fntherx-M crchnnfs- Mechanics.

Bluff, now grown 10 importance, and
Boosting Of railroads, telegraphs, news.
papers, a City Council and Chamber Of
Commerce -. t..I.
"La Sale, q Frenchman, who built a
cabin at the mouth Of Wolf a GEN.
tury before Mirabeau and Murat, Danton
and Desmoulins awoke the Reign Of Ter
ror. He was one of the Explorers who
made the AZ and the rife the means OF
occupancy and defense, Of settlement and
conquest He opened trade with the
Indians, and established traffic between
the Illinois country and French posts
near the Gulf"
"Who followed him ?"
Frenchmen, who lacked his skill and
courage. They quarreled with the Chick
asaws, aud the Chickssaws quarreled with
them. The result was the destruction
of Fort Prudhomme, built by LaSalle,
and resistance to French invasion. In
1889, however, Bienville and D'Arto-
quette, with twelve hundred white men,
arrived from the Gulf coast to subdue the
red men. They built Fort Assumption
near the ruins of Prudhomme, and filled
it with French recruits. The Indians for
time remained quiet but those cruel
tormentors, Yellow Jack and Dumb
Chills, worked so hard and heavy that
Bienville, the founder Of New Orleans,
had to smoke the pipe Of peace, raze the
fort, and leave the Chickasaws sole mas
tiers Of the situation"
"Who came next 2"
Hunters from Virginia and North
Caroliaa, who pierced through the wild
woods in search of game"
"Were they settlers p ao
"No, but they made known the way to
Packmen, who, finding good trade with
the Chickasaws, by peddling trinkets for
peltries, settled in log huts along the brow
Of the Bluff. They were shrewd, civil
men, and obtained foothold more
through kindness and courtesy than
bravery or bloodshed."
"Packmen are generally keen-sighted
and good-humored."
Eyes, but after them came the real
Jolly fellowship Flatboatmen. They
were the first traders of Importance; and
through their efforts. in conjunction with
the Packmen, the Bluff was settled by a
thrifty, Woodworking, honest popula-
ton"
(which progressed aud improved
without trouble?"
Sup to 1916, when Politicians stepped
in and caused quarrel. Pinch was
Memphis Major and Pickering Memphis
Miner. A sublime principle was at
stake; and whenever principle can be
snuffed in the air, then Politicians rise to
great hight of glory. The sublime prin-
ciple was that Pinch dray had right to
run free on Pickering soil. The Pinch
ties held to this principle with the strong
hold of tigers; but the Pickeringites
clamored against it with the shrillness of
ravens. The Politicians stirred the caul.
dron of dissatisfaction as usual; and there
would have been terrible charm worked
for Pickering, had the Flatboatmen and
Packmen remained neutral. Those wor.
thies loved pleasure and peace, and
stepped in with the soothing syrup of
compromise in their oily hats. 'IfMem-
phis Major said they, is determined to
arrest the progress of Memphis Minor, it
has adopted curious course. A large
number of us who do business in Pinch
reside in Pickering; our interests are
Jumped together; let us have peace; let
us have unity; let us have prosperity.
This argument had the desired eff
feet; dissolved into thin air the influence
of the Politicians; and Memphis Major
and Memphis Minor shook hands over a
dray act that would have tickled the
ribs Of John League, had he been tax
gatherer on the Bluff at the time"
at was sort of lovers quarrel, eh D"
Eyes, by-the.by, it was; for Pinch and
Pickering, in l849, amalgamated, and
became one under Common Council"
"what manner Of men were the City
Fathers?"
1.-THE oldest fellows you ever heard of.
They formed picture that would have
suited Hogarth, when they assembled
syopud wooden bench in the shape of
country tavern dining-table. They
picked their teeth with sprigs of cedar
kept their eyes on the floor, as if
rejecting on the nature Of knot
holes. The Mayor. seated in rocking
chair, unsteady as ship at sea, breasted
the pillows of debate; while Aldermen
gave their views wind, and raised tenn.
pests aroHnd the Ship Municipal"
"Did they ever sink herY
mo; they were clesr-headed as well
as Jolly, and seldom did harm"
"were they energetic =
mot very. They logged on in the old
coach style, without looking farther
ahead than their jolly noses, except
when spurred to speed by the Projectors
and Planners
"Who we're they =
The fsr-sigbted men who established
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