The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-18
Written for the Sunday CrsscsntI
JOCKo GOES TO JACKsOSPORr

am here, and therefore am / here. How got
here Is moving tale, for | was much moved in
doing IT, IL Was train Of events-and the Jack
son Railroad which brought me- at least, partially.
The rest OF the way took steamboat-and some
bilters.
After starting, the first man struck was a
small dog, that knocked over in my haste to get
on board. Then encountered an individual who
looked as II he might have accumulated fortune
in the wooden nutmeg business. This person ad
possession of berth in the sleeping car. and was
laboring under the pleasant deusion that he had
'bot the hull section" This l attributed to the
microscopic nature of his visual organs on the
subject of greenbacks, and went to sleep.
Breakfast happened to me next morning, in
common with some fifty other fellow sufferers
and about eleven O'Clock an insnuating gentleman
passed through the cars with what he called did
Der tickets" but recollected the morning and
bewore.
Preached Memphis in safety, about half past
three OF the afternoon after one of the most ex-
traordinary journeys ever taken, even in those
space annihil- Eating days. had left New Or.
leans about dusk, and before day break next morn.
ing had gotten to Canton. The habits and GUS
toms of his interesting Chinese city did not have
an opportunity of fully investigating. the train
only stopped about l34 minutes but | am con-
vinced that they do not eat puppies, for am con.
fdent saw thousand at the depot and heard the
voices of million more, which could not well
have been the case if they had been previously
devoured.
From Canton we wended our way in a very
wendisome manner, and next reached the ancient
capital of the Moorish empire, Grenada. Strange
to say | did not see q single specimen of the
Moresque building, tho there were more or less
houses In sight, whatever part of the town you
went into. i saw some dark complicated people,
however, and l supposed that the buildings had
gore to decay-or perhaps moved off. There are
SO many changes In the world, dear Cress.
We then retraced our steps and struck for Asia
Minor. Major Asia had gone of recruiting for
The n. h. k.-which his wife calls buying cot
tony We ran up against A. NJ. a. SaIdis, a
pleasing place of business for a nervous man, as
there is absolutely nothing to even make him open
his eyes from days end to days end, unless h. il
eccentric and sleeps with them so. Sirdis is
much reduced since Paul was there aud preached
from the steps OF the temple. On. B.. to the
printer. Look in the c. Dictionary, and If this Is
all wrong about Sardis-I mean the Paul and
the Asia Minor part-strike it out. | like to be
correct, bul Pm long way from a library, and
old mems memories are proverbially tricky
Memphis 1 need not mention. Everyb ody has
been there; sat on the Pyramids. stumbled over
the mines, talked TO the Sphynx, climbed up
Pompey's pillar, gone through the eye of Cleo
patra's needle, or been served up, 1t comes to
the same thing. Everybody that is anybody has
been to Memphis, and of course has performed
these things. and has wound up by doing the Nile.
II they haven't let them 60 to Memphis and be
sure they'll do them or their equivalent and be
pretty certain not to get away without being
"Nile-ly done.r
At Memphis | was invited by a gentleman OF a
prepossessiDg exterior and a seedy hat Ito come
and see him next time." He enforced his claims
to recollection by giving me card with " Com
mercial Hotel, 81 so a day." on il. | told him
was much obliged, when he left-which sincerely
was.
l embarked on one Of those crafts which 80
closely resemble human actions in that their
motions are mostly discovered by looking back
the uDearned call them " stern wheeiersr
"wheelbsrrows," and other insulting epithets.
On this boat made safe and expeditions pass
age OF three days 10 my present abiding place on
White river, in the State Of A-r-k-an-s-s-s. White
river Is so-called because II used TO be white,
but it has been reconstructed since, and become
one OF the United States again. and is conse-
quently of a kind of black and tan convention
color. II is said to be one of the most siDuons
streams ever known; not that il is very strong.
though II Is pretty heavy on a rise, having raised
eighteen feet in nine hours once. With all its
feet it can't walk foot, ard yet runs all the time
1t packs close. friend says there is about 900
miles of 1t slowed away in 400 miles of country.
What store! Don't add letter and make
store OF this story, its story enough II stands
without being two-story. And speaking of
stores leads me 70 Jscksonport. Jscksonport IL
principally stores. 1t has some seventy nine or
eighty Inhabitants most of which are stores-it
also has the Ku Klux. 1t had sit bad the night
got here-about two hundred of them think
didn't see them, but have heard enough to
make up for il.
Jacksonport is pretty good on steamboats,. too.
In fact it is about the stesmboaiiest place know
of, outside of Shreveport. But thea il hasn't
railroad. There 10 one which is in contemplation
and being of a contemplstive turn of mind, |
think It will stay there.
By the way forgot to tell you but Memphis
has something new. It's sundownsrJ They
look like disappointed mushroom or a sugar
scoop in bad way. They are worn By young
ladies'. and old ones too, l suppose. for they
" come down on" the countenance In a manner
to entirely preclude investigation. II they had
been called sun-rises now, could have nm
derstood it, for they certainly are the rise of any,
thing known-snd should think they were good
TO eat soup out Of. Arkansically yours,
JocK0.