The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-12-09

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BY cHARLEs pIoKRNs.
The extracts ws.made from this work last !
week, having, as we anticipated, proved &C. 1
ceutable and interesting 70 our readers, and
As = request has been made 10 continue them,
we have determined to do go, the more
readily 100, as at present there is an extreme
scarcity Of news Of any import.
A SMALL STEAMBOAT.
ave went on next morning, still By rail-
road. to Springfield. From that place 70
Hartford, whittier we were bound, is die
lance Of only twenty-five miles, but at that
time of the year the roads were 50 bad that
the tourney would probably have occupied
ten or twelve hours. Fortunately, however,
the winter having been unusually mild, the |
Connecticut River was 'open,' or, in otneI
words, not frozen. The captain Of email
steamboat was going TO make his first trip
| for the season that day 1.-THE second February
| tyiu. ] believe, within the memory Of mani,
and only waited for US TO go on board. Ac-1
] cordingty, we went on board, with as niue !,
/ delay as might be. He was as good as MS
word, and started directly.
Uncertainty was not called small steam
\ boat without reason. 4 omitted 10 ask the
question, but should think it must have
been of about half pony power.
Mr.. Pap, the celebrated dwarf, might nave
/ lived and died happily in the cabin, which
/ was fitted with common sash windows ike
i an ordinary dwelling house. These windows
had bright.red curtains, too, hung on slack
strings across the lower panes; so that II
looked like the parour Of q Lillputian public.
house, which had got afioat in Hood or
some other water accident, and was drifting
nobody knew where. But even in this cham
/ - ha
impossible to get on any where, in America,
81 without rocking chair.
am afraid to tell how many feet short
this vessel was, or how many feet narrow !:
to apply the words length and width 10 such
: measurement would be a contradiction in
D terms. But may state that we all kept the
4 middle Of the deck, lest the boat should un-
expectedly tip over and that the machinery,
by some surprising process of condensation,
worked betw cen il and the Keel: the whole
: forming q warm sandwich, about three feet
!. thick"
e TIE "FIvE POINTS," NEW YORK CITY.
L "Let us go on again; and passing this
Y wilderness Of a hote! with stores about liz
base, like some continental theatre, or thu
;. London Opera House shorn of it's colonnade
u plunge into the Five Points. But it is need
h full, first, that we take as our escort these TIVE
1t heads of the police, whom you would know
"a for sharp and we'll trained officers if you me
them in the Great Desert. So true it is, tina
Y certain Pursuits, wherever carried on, vii
IN stamp men with the same character. These
esd two might have been begotten, born, anC
~ bred, in Bow Street.
We have seen no beggars in the streets b,
- night or day: but Of other kinds of stTollers
III plenty. Poverty, wretchedness, and vice
n are rife enough where we are going now
We This is the place; these narrow ways, di
es verging to the right and left, and reekin
every where with dirt and filth. Such live
40 as are led here, bear the same fruits here a
to elsewhere. The coarse and bloated faces a
ne the doors, have counterparts at home, an
AZ all the wide world over. Debauchery ha
made the very houses prematurely old. Sc
how the rotten beams are tumbing down
to and how the patched and broken window
n seem to seowl dimly, like eyes that have beel
a. hurt in drunken trays. Many of those pig
:. live here.s Do they ever wonder why thei
~ masters walk upright in lieu of going on all
h tours? and why they talk instead Of grunt
III ing?
IS; So far, nearly every house is a low tavern
=, and on the bar-room walls, are coOred print
of Washington, and Queen Victoria of Eng
Is land, and the American Eagle. Among t6
nd pigeon-holes that hold the bottles, are piece
las of plate glass and colored paper, for there il
-. IN some sort taste for decoration, even here
And as seamen frequent these haunts, Their
le- are maratime pictures by the dozen: ofpart
lar ing between sailors and their lady loves
ID portraits Of William, Of the ballad, and hi
~ Black-Eyed Susan; Of Will Watch, the Boil
Smuggleri of Paul Jones, the Pirate, and tn
nS like: on which the painted eyes of Quee
la Victoria, and of Washington TO boot, rest j
ng as nge.companionship, as on most Of tn
ID. scenes that are enacted in their wonderin
presence.
T What place,is this, to which the squaIi
s street conducts us? A kind of square Of Il
az ni prcus houses, some of which are attainab
only hy crazy-WOeden stairs without. VIII,
"a lies beyond 1his Gottering flight of steps, th'
creak beneath our tread a miserable room
lighted by one dim candle, and destitute
all Cohfcrts save that which may be hidde
ON In wzetched bed. Raside it, sits a man
), his elbows Oh bis knees his forehead hiC
den IN his hands. sWhat ais that man
= asks the foremost officer. Fever he su
lenly replies, without looking up. Conceiv
-, the iancies Of afeVered brain, in such plaC
?" a. this!
Ascend these pitch-dark stairs, heedfi
or ofa false footing on the trembling board
ma and grope yDur way with me into this vol
ish den, where neither ray of light nor hreat
az of air, appears 70 come. A negro lad, star
RI led from bis sleep by the officers voice-h
AN knows It weIl-but comforted by his asst
he rance that he does not come on business
- oficiously bestirs himself to light candles
az The match fickers for moment, and show
eW great mounds Of dusky rags upon the eroun,
then dies away and leaves denser darlner
Ter than befoTes i there can Be degrees II sue
= extremes. He stumbles down The stairs a.
- presently comes back, shading fIarinr d
per with his hand. Then the mounds i
oil rags are seen astif, and rise slowly 10. an
en the door i covered with heaps 81 negro "
icy men, wsking from their sleeps their whit