Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-03-24
From the Marshall County Republican.
GRENADA POETS.

IF the young ladies' Of Yalobusha can
endure without wincing the horrible ver-
ses" inflicted on them through the South
ern Reporter, by certain loyesick quadru-
peds, Of Grenada, they must have nerves
of adamant Have they no friends to see
that the animals are put in the POUND, or
some other place where they could muir
der rhyme and reason without doing vio-
lence to the public sense? Scraping oys-
ter shells with sharp razor, or drawing a
coarse file across the teeth of a sharp saw,
under their lady loves windows, we think,
would be less painful to them than such
horribly discordant attempts to be rhyman.
tic. We happened to read one of the
EFFUsIoNS last evening, just before going
to bed, and in consequence dreamed all
night of lovesick ram-cats and cater
wauings. 1t was signed r. X. and ad-
dressed to "MINERVA" and if we had
proof it was intended 10 be inflicted GA a
sweet pretty Choctaw 'damoiselle, we wot
Of in ''them parts
With the rich tempting cheek of rudy bronze
And eyes that say a thousand things at once
we'd send our devil straight SUP" to GFen-
ada with pair of big shears, to demand
the ears of her barbarous tormenter.
Just read the following, which is the
conclusion ofthe piece we allude to:
'Forgive, sweet NJ, this STOLEN theme!
My inspiration BORROWED:
ALONE thy charms | can but deem
Could have called this POET forward III"
1t was not enough for the writer to show
himself an +. +. ia murderer of sound
and sense-but he must audaciously avow
himself thief and borrower! He STEALS
his theme, and BoRRows his inspiration,
and then asks ''tlweete Nj to forgive
him!" "Wonder if his anxious NANNY
knows he's out?'
BOUNDS what night we passed after
reading his PoW-WoWETRY. We dreamed
we were in YaIobusha, surrounded by a
rail fence covered with tom-cats Of every
color, and that little negur was at the
back Of each feline crittur rubbing up the
dander with broken brick-b bat. The
music brought all the dogs in the region
round about into the enclosure, and we
saw ourselves surrounded by black, brown,
white, grey, and yellow dogs, cats, hounds.
and puppies, yelping, barking, bowling
and squaAing at the top of their most
sweet volces-the little negurs all the
while rubbing and bawling
"Iye won't go home till morning"
Such Me-yow-rowing, Pow-owing and
Bow-wow-ing! Nothing could be mere
horribly discordant-except the ''worses
which caused our dream--and when we
awoke we couldn't help wishing we could
see the Grenada Ministries sittin on a rail,
with each printers devil at his back, rub
bing the verses out of him with a brick
bat.
The folowingsis an extract from one OF the
/ Lobby Notes of the Natchez Courier, fromlts
/ jackson correspondent.
/ turn from the legislature to give an item
which smacks ofromance and novelty. To-day
there arrived IN the stage, in company with
Judge Bodley, a fairfaeed and juvenile passen-
ger II. pantaloons arrayed, and on stopping at
the mansion of Madame Dixon, the said per-
sonage was consigned to a room in company
with Senator Thomas B. Ives, of Yallobuslla.
&. In few minutes suspicious were set afloat that
the stranger aforesaid was woman, whereup
on Mrs. Dixon in curious trepidation, repaired
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