The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08
For the sundsy Crescenll
IA JOCKs GOES KU-KLUxING.

My Charming Tegetable-You may perhaps
have heard q rumor Of some turning 10 OF arms
which lately is said to have occurred on the great
Father of Waters more Familiarity known as The
River "a distinguished individual, by the way
and one whose name is frequently mentioned in
the public journals.
Well, it's all so. l was there myself. / did
some Of it. was Of much assistance in doing
some more by the pious calculations which
uttered from time to time In an encouraging man.
ner. References to the future state and religious
terms in general often Of much avail 10 tight
pace. Not that any body was tight on that COCA !
sion; no, sir, not men to be affected by the
amount of whisky we found on that boat-not by
ajugfuil.
st'i,ty confidential. l would not have It dvnlged
under any circumsts noes short Of peculiar. For I
understand that Mr.. Brown Low Brown he used to-
be cslled at Knoxville. from bis associations aud
later, since his appointm ent as governor, the
people who are afraid OF hun turn IL round and
call him Brownlow bat he's every bit as low as
he ever was, and it's what consider unreason-
able 70 ask him TO be any lower;) well, Mr..
Brown, of Knoxville, and the person. forget
his nsme-who IL at present called governor Of
Arkansas, and who is stayiJG at Little Rock
they have offered q reward of three millions I
hear, for the man that did il.
i don't mean that they intend giving him that
much-oh. no, not at all-uDless he could SUBJ
siantiate claim to be somebody else and tell on
himself 10 such q case don't know how lt
would be, but. as the thing stands now, Mr..
Brown and the other maD-name not recollected-
are snxious 10 obtain Information, with q full de-
scription, dead or alive. Of the party concerned,
for the satisfaction of the state department at
Washington. Nov, as that is not the description
/ want, and as don't desire to state anything Of
the kind. IL not being my department, 1 hope
you will keep In mind what have said and not
speak OF the MATERIAL least, not beyond o few
of your most intimate-dscreet and unmarried
friends. The way came to be Ia il was thIs:
was standing on the levee at Memphis, (which.
II you recoect, is rather lofty. having been con-
structed by Nature In Q mood Of especial hill
arity.) had gone 10 Memphis from Jscksonport
in order to buy q paper collar TO officiste as
groomsman In. As fingered gentleman Of
somewhat ferocious appearance, with cock
eye. came up TO me, and drawing his hand across
bis throat-to signify death to traitors-threw a
double iip-fsp backwards and turned himself
wrong SIDE out, thus giving the sign by which
understood that he was Ku Kux.
1winked my uDoccupied eye 81 him. 1.-THE other
was looking for the Memphis cotton msrket.) took
ont my front teeth, and rolled up the left leg OF
my trousers displaying mountain no witzer cons
cealed in my boot, and he knew was one of tha
same sort; so he observed that there were des-
perate deeds in course of contemplation. aud
asked me II considered myself equal to tho
emergency. then remarked that he was in the
neighborhood Of correcttude. and we Immediately
proceeded to embark on fatbost which. con-
tanned the complement Of stores for the voyage,
consisting Of torpedoes, bowie knives and three
ton 10 strong Khan, numbering about 100, all
of them in their bones. would have beeo in
mine too only the summons was so sudden, and,
being little 1eshy, didn't have time to wriggle
GU.
We then set sail. After proceeding some IS
miles down the turbid current the man at the
masthead whispered through his speaking trum-
pet, sail no This Is nautical phrase, and has
no reference TO the trade in agricultural imple-
ments.) where awayy' answered the Cyclops-
he of the cock-eye. "Three points-and honors
easy-on tie weather beam this is an instrument
like the barometer and Is used at sea
to wegh the atmosphere when the weather gets
too dark to take an observation with the bsrome-
ter. It Is arranged for four hands on the scale
Of E-vyo-aDd admits Of numerous variatons)-
abaft our starboard quarter, a fullrigged stern
wheeler crow ding sail and flying the black flag ~
replied the lookout. Ere q moment had elapsed
the shrill tones Of the boatswain's mate, In q
piping ueble-be was 80 last August and fought
at Waterloo, having had fondness for the water
from his earliest youth-summoned all hands To-
quarters-the other small change had been spent
for drinks before leaving Memphis. We soou
overhsued the chase and brought her 10 by firing
q spittoon across her bow, and having dashed our
selves alongside We boarded her. Ut was not very
expensive, as we didn't board her long.)
The captain was desperate character who had
served through the whole war as commander OF a
Yankee transport, and immediately piecipitated
himself with the utmost GOODNESS into the river
and swan ashore. The crew, consisting of three
deck-bands ard cabin boy, was soon overpow-
cred and forced below. 1he matches were bat
tened down and sealed with the great seal of the
Khan "a graveyard rampant with the legend
= Rats Minutes" when we proceeded to the
barroom and treated round. 81
The boat being left to her own guidance, as
might have been expected Of her sex, got on a
bender. and ran up on top of a snsg where she
like 10 have turned over. We moved over to the
o her side, however, and eased her OF. but when
We went to look for the arms they had slipped
overheard, or the captain had swallowed them;
for one thing is sure, they we're on board at Mem
pbis and they haven't got to Arkansas yet.
Accordingly our duty-and the caIgo-having
been conscIentiously discharged, we returned
home chanting to the accompaniment Of sundry
horns that touching melody, by Jeremy Taylor,
"Dance, the boatman, dance"
Armsily yours, JocKo.
p. SIT is said the arms have since washed
ashore. / am glad 10 hear il, for that shore
needed washing. haven't got the mud of my
boots yet. J.