The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-02
Tennessee and New Orleans.

more than the assemblage Of able and eloquent men and of accom- plished aH d beautiful women, who came from the banks of the Teune- see, the Cumberland and the Hol- ton 10 celebrate tie natal day An drew Jackson on the scene of his greatest military victory.
 At the period when this hero was the most important individual in the Union, Kentucky and Tenne- see constituted the West, and New Orleans was far more remote from the knowledge oi the Eastern
 Atlantic States than Valparaiso is today. The intercourse between that West and this city was by toilsome and dangerous through defiles haunted by frontier b rig ands or, beset by staggling saw ages. The navigation was by flat boats which drifted with the cur rent, and whose unreturninng gunvales were built into the houses or laid down for the side walks of this city. It's import nav yation was by barges, which were c0rdeHed in 100 from New Orleans to the Falls of the Ohio. Then the long Tenneseean or the rolilcNng "kaintuck," in their walnut,dicd suit, gazed upon the seni-tropical scenes and peoples as the Scyth- an or Dacian soldiers may hay c beheld the wonders of Rome or Constatinople. Then the transat- lantic rivalry and the suspicion that had separa ted the Saxon and Lat in families manifested itself ill quar- rels, arrests and imprisonment of these strangers, and at last in the larger wrongs of suspending the right of Western deposit at New Orleans, and in the attempt to de- tach the western States from the
 American Union. There was q dread of religious "hcretics' which intcrposed impediments to mar
 riaee or heritage between two races, Then when tbe western man returned along the trail which connected the Nashville of that
 day with New Orleans he amazed and greeted his neighbors with
 stories of the "craowles' the aliga.
 tors and the Spanish beard' or long moss, the "ealab oose' and
 the Cathedral; then he told of the
 vast ships, the splendid merchant disc. the restaurants, the cye chdn-
 taat and open gaming tables, with
 their heaps of gold and silver
 The dark-eyed Spanish senolita or
 the graceful Louisiana lady were as houris in his sight and the ell arming picture lured the young CT hearers to shi T as hand on a flat. boat to witness for himself q region so enchanting.
 l The first interview between the descendants of the men who hsd fought at Agincourt and Crecy IS the true period for the illuStra tive fiction of Louisiana. 1t has since ripened into identity of social and political organization and the TO nance has perished forever.
 II was at this period that En- gland lost her foothold on our At lautic shores, was tempted to cap ture far larger and richer regions which extended to and come 2ted
 with her own Pacific possessions.
 IL was but few years after the sa' gacious Napoleon, to prevent their capture, had oeded L,'uisiana-for about the cost of Eda's bridge-to power which could hold it against England
 Such was the state of intercourse at the date of the British invasion, ! 1Sl4-lJ: when the soldiers of Ten ncsee, by whom the battles of Jan nary and December were mainly fought, embarked boats at the mouth of the Cumberland, if we mistake not some ninety days be- fore the battle, and occupied al. most all that time in descending the river. So slow and uncertain was this voyage, so impossible was it to know its daily progress, or it's effective force, that the'authorities of New Orleans and the Louisiana might well have deliberated, as all civilized people have been compel led occasionally 10 do, between the the futile endeavor % defend an unwalled city against a superior
 force on land and sea, and the de. fense of Zaragossa, or a Charles ion wbiph laft fayv ynetirac of tbooa