A Wonderful Memory--A Nation Without Debt--Crushing the National Bank--Rise of State Banks--Inflated Currency--Grand Flare-up--Take Care of Yourself--Commencing Anew--Failing to Reach an Obtuse Heart--King Alcohol does his Work--Prentiss and Foote--Love Me, Love my Dog--A Noble Spirit Overcome--Charity Covereth a Multitude of Sins CHAPTER XXVI. ACADIAN FRENCH SETTLERS. Sugar _vs._ Cotton--Acadia--A Specimen of Mississippi French Life-- Bayou La Fourche--The Great Flood--Theological Arbitration--A Rustic Ball--Old-Fashioned Weddings--Creoles and Quadroons--The Planter--Negro Servants--Gauls and Anglo-Normans--Antagonism of Races CHAPTER XXVII. ABOLITION OF LICENSED GAMBLING. Baton Rouge--Florida Parishes--Dissatisfaction--Where there's a Will, there's a Way--Storming a Fort on Horseback--Annexation at the Point of the Poker--Raphignac and Larry Moore--Fighting the "Tiger"--Carrying a Practical Joke too Far--A Silver Tea-Set CHAPTER XXVIII. THREE GREAT JUDGES. A Speech in Two Languages--Long Sessions--Matthews, Martin, and Porter --A Singular Will--A Scion of '98--Five Hundred Dollars for a Little Fun with the Dogs--Cancelling a Note CHAPTER XXIX. AMERICANIZING LOUISIANA. Powers of Louisiana Courts--Governor William C.C. Claiborne--Cruel O'Reilly--Lefrenier and Noyan Executed--A Dutch Justice--Edward Livingston--A Caricature of General Jackson--Stephen Mazereau--A Speech in Three Languages--John R. Grymes--Settling a Ca. Sa.--Batture Property--A Hundred Thousand Dollar Fee CHAPTER XXX. DIVISION OF NEW ORLEANS INTO MUNICIPALITIES. American Hotel--Introduction of Steamboats--Faubourg St. Mary--Canal Street--St. Charles Hotel--Samuel J. Peters--James H. Caldwell--Fathers of the Municipality--Bernard Marigny--An Ass--A.B. Roman CHAPTER XXXI. BLOWING UP THE LIONESS. Doctor Clapp--Views and Opinions--Universal Destiny--Alexander Barrow --E.D. White--Cross-Breed, Irish Renegade, and Acadian--A Heroic Woman--The Ginseng Trade--I-I-I'll D-d-die F-f-first CHAPTER XXXII. GRADUAL EXTINCTION OF THE RED MAN. Line Creek Fifty Years Ago--Hopothlayohola--McIntosh--Undying Hatred--A Big Pow-wow--Massacre of the McIntoshes--Nehemathla--Onchees--The Last of the Race--A Brave Warrior--A White Man's Friendship--The Death-Song--Tuskega; or, Jim's Boy CHAPTER XXXIII. FUN, FACT, AND FANCY. Eugenius Nesbitt--Washington Poe--Yelverton P. King--Preparing to Receive the Court--Walton Tavern, in Lexington--Billy Springer, of Sparta--Freeman Walker--An Augusta Lawyer--A Georgia Major--Major Walker's Bed--Uncle Ned--Discharging a Hog on His Own Recognizance --Morning Admonition and Evening Counsel--A Mother's Request-- Invocation--Conclusion THE MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS. CHAPTER I. REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS.