The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-06-19

Standing behind counter.
| And both were mean and one was rascally-
In years long past they left the sunny
cline which gave them birth, the land
to which recollections of infancy, aud all
the endearing charms of innocent, sim
pie, gaIeless childhood would carry
them back for moments, and bring pangs
of sore. regret and modification. To
leave the. home which childhood, and all
its innocent freaks and gambols, continue
TO hallow through all the misioFtunes and
embarrassments which cross the path Of
life, is a sore task.-No matter. With
that indomilable energy and heroic self
reliance so strkingly characteristic Of
our heroes, they turned their steps west
ward, they crossed the Georgia line
! that green land was left behind, its vine
clad hills faded in the distance,-these
two beings in the hues Of youth" cast
no :" longlng, lingering look behind" but
hurried on through the 1owery meads
anv shady wales of Alabama They
plucked no roses by the way; they dwclt
with no rapture upon tho beauties which
nature with profusion displayed in that
productive latitude to their Iistless gaze;
the gifts with which she, with such boun-
teous kindness surrounds the inhabitants
of the south had no charms for them.
They had dreamed there was a gIit,ering
prize in MississiPpi-the fiery cline to
which SO many thousands have resorted.
They had dreamed this prize might be
won. 1t was money. Naugbt else would
have been prize 10 them.
A short sojourn in Alabama sulIiced.
and "once more upon the waters" they
trudged along through muddy swamps
and dusty roads TO the Golconda Of the
South, harrassed by hopes, and day
dreams and night dreams and visions
which prefgured the heaps Of treasure
in store for the lucky ones, but left tor
monting, agonizing misery -fraught doubt
as to its attainment. Oh! the sleepless
nights and miserable days they passed.
What reward could remunerate them for
so much misery2 There could be no re-
ward.
Mississippi was won--the tournament
was open-the enterprising and industri-
f GUS were entering the lists. a golden
prize in small tasselled purse was poi
sed high, high in air. A credit prize
was in large, swollen, wind pulled bag
near the ground. For the latter there
were numerous competitors who would
, run up and pierce it with their swords,
and at every pre(oration the wind exha-
led, until the bubbIe-like balloon dischar-
} ged Of its airy contents fell compressed
ly and heavily to the ground. Our he
: roes were there, and with their usual
intrepidity they made some desperate
j, lounges at the credit prize and threw
= their swords at the golden one.
G Time passed on, and no change came
e DER the spirit of their dream" They
n had made themselves home in the land
: to which they had emigrated, and a
7 whirlwind Of bank notes or piles Of gold
} continually haunted their fevered imagi
# nations; the chink of coin continually
/ sounded in their ears; their minds were
b never at rest, but their ever active men
n tai and bodily energies were planning o.
} executing some mode of accommodating
e money, that only and darling object o
i their lives.
: No subject which had for its aim gen
a eral or social good, or individual Chart,
e received any thought or countenanct
d from them, but praiseworthy desire tt
l. show favorable result to untiring per
It severance in the attainment of an object
le seemed to peryade their minds, occupy
d every thought, and employ every menta
J. and physical faculty. Great men! the
,r people gazed and hated much. Success
A. followed. Oh! most glorious result Thc
g iron box secured the long, long and ar
l. IDENTIFY sought treasure-and when other
pit were away worshipping the Omniscien
't power, they were paying their devotion
/ with the most christian-ike alteration I,
d their gold, which they in their cnthusias
of tic admiration, had dcifed. The bed OF
'e which they nightly tossed, disturbed b,