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The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13

A gallant wag was lately sitting By the
side Of his beloved, and being Enabled to
think Of any thing else to say, turned to her
and asked why she was like Z tailor.
4 don't know said she, with poutiug
lip, unless il Is because am sitting beside
my goose.'-N. Y. Visiter.
Come under my hat, my pretty miss
said gentleman on Thursday to lady,
who was huFTying along TO get out Of the
rain. The lady without Stacking her pace,
sent back the following retort: There is
one calf's head under il now, and that Is as
many as it will coyeT.'-Ib. +,
A fashionable lady being asked how she
liked the dinner given at distinguished
poets house, her reply was, 'the dinner was
expLeHded, but my seat was so promote from
the nicknacks that could not rntity my
appetite, and the picked cherries had such
defect on my head, that ] had motion to
leave the table, but Mr.. - gave me some
harIshorn resOlUed.in water, which bereGUed
me.-Ib.
'Can you tell me, my son, what Jury Of
Inquest ISL "A Jury Of Inquest am body
Of men what sits down on a dead man tO
find out whether he are dead far sartin, Of
only playing pOssom.'
"I'm rising by degrees," As the quicksil'
yer said to the Thermometer ven it was get
ting hOt.-PensacOEa Gas.
The ladies Of Iowa are getting up an
anti-gentlemen's-go- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
ed-sOciety.
Peter, do you understand the Seventh
COMMANDMENT q rather gness do.'-
well, what is itg' why, it says you sham
play the d-l with your neighbOr's ducks.
OF what trade is the president Of the
United States? A Cabinet maker.
A brother editor writes, that he is getting
along well--plenty of subscribers wife
and ten "little responsibilities."'
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13
TO the Public.

The rights of editors and publishers of paper
have been too long neglected. Justice will neve
be done unless themselves assert their rights
and enforce the most rigid rules, which in the
end will be found alike salutary to the public anC
beneficial to those engaged In the press. Pub
fishers of papers have been so long imposed upoT
by the community at large, that they are consid
cred to some extent degraded class OF beings
when in fact there is vocation in life so honor
able, deserving of so high consideration, produc.
tive of so much good, class that exerts so power
full an influence. 1t is known to be proverbial fol
the debtors to newspaper publishers to consider
their demands as the last to be paid debts to
which there is attached no moral obligation, and
which they can refuse to pay with Justice and
honor hence, it is incumbent upon the conduc-
tors of the press to assert their own rights, and
resolve, severally and jointly, to bring all patrons
of newspapers under the same obligations that at
zach to other contracts, or always remain in pow
erty and want, with thousands due them from the
most solvent men in the country.
We call upon all editors and publishers of pa
pers who approve of the following rules, to endorse
them by their signatures-place them at the head
of their papers, and strictly adhere to them.
lst. No subscription received without payment
IN Advance.
I'd. No subscription received for less than six
months.
Sd. Advance payment will be required from
all transient advertisers.
4th. To announce no man for any office, either
State or County, without the Advance payment OF
5,h. Political circulars charged as advertise
ments and payment required in adrGnee.
Oh. All advertisements of personal alterca-
ton will be charged double and payment requir-
ed IN GdrGnce.
18th. Election tickets will not be printed with
out order, nor delivered to any person without
payment.
9Th All subscribers, without resDect to persons
who are delnquents, on the first of October, will
be stricken from the list, and their accounts put
in suit.
The above rules, we, the undersigned, pledge
JAMES A. STEVENS.
Editor and Proprietor of the Yazoo City Wing.
s. H. B. BLACK.
Editor of the Natchez Courier.
BESANCON & HALLIDAY.
Publishers of the Mississippi Free Trader.
JAMES HAGAN.
Editor ard Proprietor of the Vicksburg Sentinel.
VIM. M. SMYTH,
Editor and Proprietor of the Grand Gulf Adv.
A. B. & S. G. CORWINE,
Editors and Proprietors of the Yazoo Banner.
GEORGE A. WILSON,
Editor & Proprietor of the Hollv-Springs Banner
sTAOMAS BROWN,
Editor Of the Rodney Telegraph
J. NJ. DUFFIELD,
@~g Editor of Grand Gulf Wing
w. B. TEBO,
Editor of the Favette Advertiser
NEED & NEWTON,
Publishes of the Southern Reporter
ABAKER g. CURTIS.
Editors aud Proprietors.o Of the Southern Argus.
M, MOWER,
Publishero Of the Southern Sentinel
AREA S. CLARK.
Pnblishor of the Port Gibson Correspondent
GEO. R. KTGER.
Editor of Gallatin Star.
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13
From the New.York Whia.

! THE TIE THAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER.
Look abroad through the country, and see
who they are that busy themselves in the
work Of abusing the Wings, and preaching
the heTesies of Loco-FocOism. Are they
not Office holders, or in some way connect
ed with or dependent on them7 Mark who
attend the tory caucusses, and act as chair
men, secretaries, and resolution makers
Are they not invariably the parasites of
the Federal Administrator And those
who follow in the train of the President, and
throw up their caps, and appropriate the
peoples money TO pay the expense of the
royal pilgrimage they not men in the
receipt Of subsidies and stipends from the
administration See who they are that adj
VOcote Sub Treasures. Are they not Gus
tom house officers, paid attorneys and tools
of Mr.. Van Buren,, who, with the pregnant
examples Of Swartwout and Price before
them, for ought the people can know, may
"follow in the footsteps" of those great
Sub Treasures? Who are they, who rail
against banks, and cry out for hard-money
curencyi Are they not POst-masters, Gus
tom-house officers, mail contractors, and pa.
per and Irvine contract spectators? These
men would get gold for their salaries-and
the farmers would get rags and shin-pIasters
for their products In the markets. The Of.
fce-holdeTs and place men of the federal
government would indeed get Rold--tbo
Mint might be able to coin enough for them
and their salaries would be instantly in
creased BY the operation; but the People.
instead Of getting hold Of the yellow-boys.
unless they paid premium, would have to
put up with the worthless promises Of vour
Jacob Bankers, and 4. w. Dy0tts.or the sub.
treasury shin-plaSters Of the federal govern.
ment a Washington.
There can be no mistake IN this matter
The tie that binds these men together. -
their efforts to sustain corrupt administra.
ton, and Is loudest il its praises Of Mr. van
Buren,, IS paid FORTS venality, II coDtrac,s-
commissions, and official patronage. Tbers
IS not one among the whole tribe sof loro.
loco newspapers but has its prIce-ffom iba
soTacious shark Of the Globe down ~ he
small fry 0feonntFy villages, who value their
patriotism e the price Of publishing the
laws!
None Of these men seek the public well
fare. i Is incompatible with their "seyen
They cannot feel mach con-
Germ for the public honor. They care not
how wasteful may be the administration
for the more il squandsrs, the more they
get. They care not how heavy are the pub
lie hnrthens, provided they can get fat sala-
Ties and fees out of the industrious and la
boring People. This Il the length and
breadth Of Loco-FocO patriotism. Il Is not
fl 70 Be trusted.
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13
A MODERN FAUST.

Among those individuals who should have
been somewhere else yesterday morning
might have been seen at Mr.. Recorder Bald
wins Office of business pFofessed follower
of the great Faust, vulgarly known as q
"iour printer" He was a cGse-all sorts
of Casa walking edition of the striped
pig, or in other words an Wncorrected copy
of the rOrks of intemperance, seWed up
and bound by no tee-total rule of entire
abstinence. He looked blurred, or like a
bad Impression of worn-out wOod-cWt oil
our American eagle or a runaway negro.
You were found sleeping out last night
said the Recorder. tWho and what are you? 2
addressing the badly set-up bill of humanity
in the dock.
&, I'm poor-a d-n poor specimen of
the art preserVative of all arts-vulgarly
called Jour printer or typo said the
prisoner.
'And need correction said the afable
Recorder. q thought you were fo&l case.
Why were you not at your lodging last
night?'
Because lost nay place-got out of sorts
had no quoins [coinsl to get locked up
any where else in fact, out Of cash, which
is the copy of our existence. All! sir, I've
felt the pressure of the pressure of the
times as we'll as other folks-have had an
Impression, and heavy one, of the difficult
ty of jUstJying my actions by the right
measure
But correct man of your profession,
said the Recorder, would have. been at his
case setting up, at the time the Waterman
found you setting down.
Yes, but Pm gone case; and even if ]
were setting dOtOn instead of setting up, ]
don't see what alteration you should make
in the copy of your verdict
You were lying down, sir
Yes, had come to period, that's a fact
and the Waterman made pdrenthesis of
his arms TO raise me up, and note of Gd-
nsiratiOn of nv body, head downwards, while
bringing me to this new tangled press to
have proof taken, rejoined the Jour-
the Waterman charge you with being
tipsy, sir.'
4 aOet my matter too much last night, that's
a fact
'When the Waterman placed you on your
feet you did not stand straight-leaned in
every direction, and staggered about as tho
you we're sOOrking of the first sheet Of the
new grand lottery on the sidewalk.
q thought, sir, that was on rule and
figure sDork; but Charley soon gave me
rap with something more than sleeps foot,
which IN measure Strengthened me. He
we'll nigh distributed the matter Of my
sir-threw brain into pr
4 shall have to send you to the calaboose,
'ir; lock you up for thirty days"
sThirty days! What! lock up my form for
thirty days! Oh! you don't mean that, sir.
Consider what you are about. You have
10 rule for doing il. Why, sir, You might
IS we'll send me to Iie On the gallies IN the
swamp at Thirty days in the Gala
,oosel That would indeed be laying me
N the imposing stone. Let me 90 this
ime, Mr.. Recorder; will see aud correct
rrOrs, avoid all oats. such as the watch
nan discovered. II future, and present
lean and revised proof sheet Of my con-
Iuct hereafter. I'Il tell ybur honor what il
); that Watchman who handles the book So
,flel, don't always oEIoaO copy Why BE /
wore there against me as # bis oath was
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13

for one year, OF more than one million i've
hundred thousand dollars.
Il cost thirteen thousand dollars 70 pre-.
pare the Presidents house Cor the reception
Of MI. Adams. but Mr.. Van Buren, requires
nineteen thousand for the same purpose. Il
cost the people six thousand dollars more for
a pTOfessed democrat than for real one.
In 1898, the war department employed
twenty officers, With joint salary Of thirty
eight thousand six hundred and sixty dol.
lars. Il then managed the bushes Of the
Indian department. In 1887, the war dee
partment cost the people sixty-three thou
sand eight hundred and ten dollars. II then
employed forty clerks; and the Indian de-
parlment was managed as Q seperate con-
cern, by fifteen officers, with yearly salary
of nineteen thousand four hundred dollars
An increase Of only fifty.four thousand FIVE
hundred and sixty dollars.
The government ID 1898, had to pay the
following sums for newspapers subscribed
for by the President:-
Post Office Department, S307 90
War Department; S64 90
Treasury Department, 077 90
Navy department, $50 IS
Total, @2,699 IS
Besides the expenditures which are enor-
moUsly increased over the reported extrava-
CANT administration Of Mr.. Adams, we find
it also stated that the following among other
fimilar sums have been paid out Of the Trea-
sury in 1888, and which smacks little more
of official extravaganza than we think the
people ought to be willing to support Rose
bushes for the war department, ffty-six dol
lars and sixty cents-dinners at taverns for
clerks at the Post Office department, one
hundred and eighty.eight dollars and seven
ty-fouf cents-ice for the Treasury depart
went, eighty.nine dollars sixty-six and half
cents--bust for Secretary Forsyth, six dol
lars.
Are the people to be gulled with the OBJ
lection to the greatly increased expenses of
the government, and to its abhorent extra
vagance, that the President is not response
Fble, because he does not sake the GpprOPri-
GttOnS; and that the party is not responsible
because il does not pay out the money. This
kind of game may answer for some time to
amuse the readers Of the Belfast Journal,
but it is too lame and sick and sore to stand
against the pTying gaze and close ObseFva-
ton of free and industrious and intelligent
people. The gold furnished official may
approve and pass along any thing for an OBJ
lection against what helps him, but the hard
toiling freeman, viii place the responsibility,
with the majority, where it belongs; and if
the plea is, that this administration is COM
posed of men who have denied their accoun-
liability to God and men, we shall not be dis
posed to doubt 1t, but earnestly desire a
change in men, manners, principles and
practices, in the high places of our country
that she may 60 onward and upward in the
path of honor and safety.
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13
From the New Yorker.

From the New Yorker
THE FAREWELL.-BYM Mrs. c. NJ. SAwYEI
Let mine eyes the farewell tell thee,
That my tongue essays in vaini
Sad hour, would might repel thee!
Though a man, dread thy pain.
Mournful seem e'en those caresses,
Love, at parting hour, NAV ask;
Cold the kiss the lip impresses,
Weak thy hands impassioned clasp.
Once, stolen kiss, the lightest,
Every nerve with rapture shook;
So the violet seems the brightest,
That in early March we pluck.
Wreaths no more, to win thy chances,
Nor the rose, Gull for thee;
1t is Spring time, dearest Frances!
But it's Autumn drear to me.
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stsrsotyped, and as if he knew me like q
book
The Recorder told this modern Faust
that he was fully impressed with the sincere
ty Of his determination to reform, but that
unless be got some person other than him.
self to vonch for il, he must give him a
a short situation, say thirty days in the Gala.
boose.--N. o. Picayune.
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The following lines were written by Mr.. Leg
gett few days before his death. They were the
last lines from his pen:-N Y E. Post.
WHY, what is death but life
In other forms Of being? life without
The coarser attributes of man, the dull
And momently decaying frame which holds
The eternal spirit in, and binds it down
To brotherhood with brutes? There's no such
thing
As death what's called so is but the beginning
OF new existence, fresh segment in
The eternal round of change.
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beckoning me on to his own bright home
every flower, and tree, and riyulet on which
our early love has set its undying seal, have
become dear to me, and ] cannot, without 2
sigh, close my eyes upon them forever"
-
have lately heard that the beautiful girl
of whom have spoken, is dead. The close
Of her life was calm as the falling of quiet
stream-gentle as the sinking of the breeze
that fingers for time round a bed of withe-
red roses, and then dies as 'twere from very
sweetness.
1t cannot be that earth is mans only abb
ding place. 1t cannot be that our life is
bubble, cast up by the ocean of Eternity to
float moment on the wave. and then sink
into darkness and nothingness. Else why
is it that aspirations which leap like angels
from the temple of our hearts are forever
wandering about unsatisfed9 Why is It that
the rainbow and the cloud come over Us
with beauty that is not of earth, and then
pass off and leave us to muse upon their ia
ded lovliness! Why is it that the stars which
hold their festival around the midnight
throne, are set so far above the gTasp ofour
limited faculties--forever mocking us with
their unapproachable glory! And, finally,
why is that bright forms of human beauty
are presented to our view and then taken
from us, leaving the thousand streams of
our affection to flow back IN cold and AL
pine torrents upon our hearts! We are born
for higher destiny than that of earth
There is a realm where the rainbow never
fades-where the stars will be spread out
before US like the island that slumber on the
ocean-and where the beautiful beings that
here pass before US like visions, will stay in
our presence forever. Bright creature of
my dreams, in that realm shall see thee
again. Even now thy lost image is some
times with me. In the mysterious silence
of midnight, when the streams arc glowing
in the light of the many stars, that image
comes floating upon the beam that fingers
around my pillow, and stands before me in
its pale, dim loVeliness, till its own quiet
spirit sinks like spell from Heaven upon
my thoughts, and the grief of years is turned
10 dreams of blessedness and peace.
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WWa39a MNWRRa
From the Public Ledger.
Description Of q Thunder storm.

BYSA MECHANIC.
So when the storm bursts from the troubled sky,
Hoarse thunders roar, and with'ring lghtnings fy
The shrill wind whistles through the forest wood
Whilst streams of rain swell out the raging food
Prone lies the harvest wheat, BY tempest cast,
Huge oaks uprooted, bend before the blast,
Meath shetring trees the timid herds repair,
Filling with nlournlul cries the dusky air;
The wild bird screams in terror and alarm,
And hastes to save its little ones from harm.
Now rushing headlong through the crushing gale
The ruslig peasant speeds along the vale,
Clouds heap'd on clouds, their dismal masses rear
And earth, affrighted, trembles in its sphere.
KenSington, July 81, 1899.
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13
JOHN MURDAUGH,
3AWR BRa

YGzOO City, MISSISSIPPI.
August 2 Aft
The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-09-13

thai pensive star IN which my fancy can still
picture his form looking down upon me, and
beckoning me on to his own bright home
every flower, and tree, and riyulet on which
our early love has set its undying seal, have
become dear to me, and ] cannot, without
sigh, close my eyes upon them foreVer."
The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-06-06
SUNNI A RY.

LAwYERs.--The Emperor of China
seems to be of the same opinion as Peter
the Great in reference to lawyers. The
Gar said he had but two in his dominion
and that it was his intention to hang one
of them in order to secure concord among
his subjects. The Chinese Autocrat has
issued all edict to suppress the multiply
ing of such people, who he is pleased
to designate 'villainous and perverse vag-
abonds, fond of creating disturbance.
There is something exceedingly compli-
mentary in this description.
The GREEK F1RE.-An ingenious me-
chanic, named Dupre, in Dauphing, in
France, in 1853, in the course of some
scientific investigations, discovered the in
extinguishable fire of the ancients. He
proved his discovery before Louis XIV.
and several officers Of the army and navy.
The king, however, was not pleased with
the discovery, believing that it would not
benefit mankind. He bought the secret
of the inventor, on condition that it should
not be disclosed to any other person.
The receipt was Immediately destroyed,
and after the death of Dupre, his children
looked in vain for the secret.
SAD Acc1DENr.-The National Ga
zette says that the wall of building in
lStrawbury street in Philadelphia recently
gave way and buried five or six persons,
carpenters and bricklayers, in the ruins.
Four of them, three men and a boy were
so badly injured that they died soon after.
A BROAD H1NT.-'The editor of the Sa-
lem Gazette, speaking Of the promise of
a communication from correspondent,
says, 'sWe must beg of him to take time
enough to make it short. Brevity is the
most attractive feature of newspaper ar
ticle.'
VIRTUE WITHOUT FEAR.--When, upon
reflection, you are persuaded a thing is fit
to be done do it boldly; and do not affect
privacy in it, or concern yourself at all
what impairment censures or reflection
the world will pass upon it. For if the
thing be not just and innocent, it ought
not to be attempted at all, though never
so secretly; and if it be, you do very fool
ishly of those who will themselves do i'll,
in censuring and condemning what you do
well. tictetsts.
PERsEvERE.-If seaman should put
about every time he encounters head
wind, he would never make a voyage
So he who permits himself to be bafied
by adverse circumstances, will never make
headway in the, voyage Of life. A sailor
-, al Voc
should the young man learn to trim his
sails and guide his bark, that even adverse
gales should I'LL its Delaying canvass and
send il forward or its onward course.
II meant to have told you OF that hole, :
said an Irishman to his friend who was
walking within his garden, and stumbled
into i bit full Of water. No matter y
saws Pat, blowing the mud and water ou1
LOT his mouth, ..I've found it'll
:. ~ ~ /. Il
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