Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-06

md get ready and 60 aboard She has gooo accom-
nodations, jovial Captain and crew.
From the Neo Orleans Pic6yune.
Leftenant Carter's Som.
The United States Gazette, few days since,
gave some stanzas from an old poem, IN when
Is narrated the lamentabe fate OF
.Leftenant Carter's only son,
+ likely youth nigh twenty-one'
wich we only notice to express our asonl H",.
ment that a gentleman, OF MT o"anote.
learning should have been imposed upon oy
stnr;ons version of story so famous ana 10
preserve the memory OF the brave thougn I'M
pp..,,r.,e Young man alluded to from injustice.
The Gazette says
..He went on to the mountain high
rattle-snake he did espy!
And all at once he then did feel
That p'isen critter bite his heel"
Now this is an entire Misrepresentation of
the facts. Lieutenant Carriers only son" did
not ego on to the mountain high"-"a rattle
snake he did not espy," Gf he had seen the
snake, of course he would have kept it at a
proper distance)-no, the true version of the
story, which we copy from the earliest edition,
is as follows, and we call upon the editor OF
the Gazette to mark its superior beauties:--
Zone day this young man did 60
Down in the meadow, for to NOW;
But he had not mow'd half round the field,
When pesky warmth bit his heel2!"
The lines, as we have given them, have an
air of consistency which renders any other
guaranty of their genulneneSs unnecessary.
The poet continues (says the Gazette) BY
describing the peculiar conduct of the victim
after he had been bitten. AS he went home he
was heard
Crying aloud, all as he went,
Oh cruel, cruel Sa-arpent"
Here, we are grieved to say, is another un
fortunate error, which would represent tn,
hero of an epic in the light of whining sniv
cling boy. But we have the satisfaction O
knowing that young Mr. Carter bore himsel
on the occasion more like the son of Leften
ant
For when he felt this varmint bite,
He raised his scythe with all his might,
And fecth-ed such a deadly blow,
That soon he laid the sarpent low
And then, when he had thus, like Draw
knight, slain his enemy, like true one, he pro
ceeded TO lay the spoils which his powesr ha'
won at the feet of his "ladye love-" So
He took the sarpent in his hands,
And straightway went to Deacon Brands,
Saying, molly Brand, it's here you see
The pizen creetur that bit me!'
We would give Molly's answer if the remain
der of the story was not unfortunately "torl
Oft"
The above We copy from the Boston Pos
and we feel not only astonished but mortified
that Col. Greene, after having taken up sub
iect of such vital importance should have LET
il unfinished. He appears to be ignorant tina
after the poison began to work in the system
of the young and unfortunate Carter, that hi
painful sufferings and distressing means brougt
in the sympathizing neighbors. We give tn
poets own lines, as no other words OF oul
can picture the scene which ensued:
1.-THE Deighbors they locked in to see,
Poor Carter's mel-an-chol-li li-lee:
His sister Suzy, tainted quite away,
When she see how the pesky Sa-ar-pent
bit his heel'
Although the author has here thrown off III
shackles which generally bind our poets, an
sacrificed sound to sense, we like him all tt
better for it. He has shown an independence
a Byronical don't-care-a-d-n
highly creditable. He has staked his reput
ton, to be sure, with the jingling herd wi
cannot read piece of poetry unless itls set
music, but such magnanimous abandcnmel
of rhyme, for the sake of ringing in" lit
reason, demands and receives our warmeSt a
miration. We, with the editor of the Pc:
would say more, but unfortunately the rest
"torn Off"
Danger of Female SOciety-I cannot To-
full in pretty girls face all flashing so, wit
out being kinder dazzled and scorched.
kinder wakens me up this cold weather,
k;Ddloc e,ch a pulco in nv heart. that