The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-05-29

| - W. CAtTaVdgahce. People IN despair
always scratch their faces, and pull
handiuls oftheir hair up by theroots. This
IS a known fact, as may be seen by OBJ
serving the actions Of Bclvidera the next
time you see the character represented
by lady ofstronger feelings than Miss
O'Nlell. Your hero must, therefore, be
most strictly prohibited from showing the
slightest regard to the probable Both
in incident and behaviour, the more inn
probable you are the better. We see
how little effect the most appalling mise
RES produce the moment they are authen-
ucated. As long as we ourselves consid-
cred the history Of the BIack-hole of Cal
cutla a fiction, we used to weep over it
with the Observation-Disclosures but, when
we discovered that it was an actual re-
allty, we expe rienced u sort of reyulsion
OF feeling on the subject, and lost all com
miseration for the hundred or two who
were s.iAed, squeezed, land trampled to
death. This, we suspect, is an almost u
niyersal feeling, as we can prove from
the conduct Of certain political philan-
I thropists, who seem very properly to ex-
haust all their powers Of sympathy up
on cases Of very predetermined suffering
at the antipodes. and have not hitherto, 50
/ far as we have heard, subscribed a shil-
! ling Of their "rints'' to relieve the multi
tudes who are starving at their doors.
| twill, therefore, be advisable, in addition
/ TO the most aggerated incidents, TO place
| the scene Of them good way off,
| A slight Tecapitulation will be useful IN
impressing these rules and regulations on
the readers mind, and we will after
wards illustrate them in little tale, which
shall cXemplfy the leading points ofour
/ system.
/ There are two rules applicable almost
equally to the author and the hero, viz:
be handsome-and be melancholy.
The others, which apply more to the
personages and incidents oflhe story, are
avoid simplicity and naturalness, If
such a word IS allowable. BE lugubrioas
/ in season and out OF season. BE as ex-|
trayagant as you can, both in the adycn-
lures you narrate, and the conduct of the
actors--place your scene at distance,
use high-fown words, or, as it IS called,
indulge in 50e vritng;aHd bis heartmUstI
indeed be hardened against the nobIestI
feelings ofour nature who does not trem-I
/ bic with sympathetic enthusiasm over
the miseriss and the agonies Of suffering
humanity. Who, for instance, will re-
/ fuse his deepest signs to the following,
which we have called The Fatal Tears?
/ INTRODUCTION.
4 life spent in the dia Of battle, where
I the ceascloss caunonade Of flashing ar
|dllery reverborated from the mountain
/ Gus recesses, to which freedom patriot
ism, and the Guerilla chie(tains of the
south Of Spain retired for a season, like
/ Ant1us, to be rernyigorlted by the very
.eifort which was made 10 strangle them,
/ like the hydra. on the hour oftheir birth,
has left me worn in person, indeed. with
I the marks Of military distinction on my
/ brow and the breast Of my surtout, but
/ fresh and vigorous in mind, and tender iG
/ feeling, as when in the hours of my ear
1 ly boyhood my young heart palpitated
10 the tale Of suffering, and my bright
eyes furnisheda torrent Of tears to eve
ry tale Of wo. Yes! am thankful to
heaven, which leaves me as ready to
weep as ever; and, OIL is there a happi-
ness left to console US, like Pandora's
box, which contained Hope, at the bot
! tom Of it, greater or more delightful, or
worther Of tender and manly spirit,
nan the power Of bending the head IN
! der the weight ofaalictlon, and soothing
the wounded spirit with a briny flood!
fOfen have mourned over the miseries
of war-cg4en.wet my bed withth excre-
tions Of the lachrymatory duet, 10 think
what misery existed in the orld, and |
vitho, a chance Of being specta,or of
! The tender-heartcd reader will enter
into my feelngs--L know that his manly
eyes will be suaused-me-thinks | hear
the sobs of anguish bursting from his he
roic breast--mcthinks | see the trlckllng
drops coursing each other down his fur
rowed face--and fancy pictures tome his
handkerchief surchargcd with its pre-
cious cargo, till, to the eyes OF va gar
contemplation, it might seem TO have
/ been submerged from many lingering
J hour beneath the salt pillows Of the glo-
rious and ever resembling sea. Bcst by
nature with a face and .-rsoh such as few
men have the happiness to boast of--wlth
cheeks that alternately redeemed and pa
LED beneath the fuctuating influences Of
ain artfully varied aarrative-and eyes
that shot pie~eiug ray ofsympathy and
coincidence through the darkest clouds
that cnveloped in their shady folds the
sons and daughters Of misery and dis
tress-a form elastic and graceful in a'i
Its movements, and mind replete with
all the tenderness Of the softest nature,
vet furnished with all the thunder and
lightning ola fierce, a wild, fiery dis
position-I look back with regret to the
DAYS which waved ia seeking the bub-