The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
For the YGzOO Democrat.
THE HISTORY OF A HOUSE.
A story Of Mississippi,
BY Z. Q. II.

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Among the ones who had heard of the
gold and crimes Of the South, was Henry
Clayton; and he determined to 60 there,
not that he might amass wealth, for he al
ready possessed that; but that he was lib
eral minded and charitable enough to think
that the people were not as bad as they
were represented to be, and that if more
true Ministers, and less refugees went to
the South, that southern morals would have
great deal less to be reprOached with
Urbana was represented by the land spec
ulators in New York, to be city Of great
rising Importance, and from its peculiar adj
vantages destined to be in few years
rival of the Crescent City; and he deter
mined to 60 there. And she too, his gen.
tie wife, was willing to leave all the friends
and comforts of home and follow him into
the swamps of NJ. Their friends
tried to dissuade them, but in vain, and as
soon as they learnt that their house would
be prepared by the time they reached Urba-
ma, they departed; and with no adventures
of import, save the blowing up of a steam
boat ON which they were, had arrived there.
! Speak of the dangers of disease and
NattIo, what are they compared with those
tho, ave met every day upon the western
81 %, n, ~rn waters The one moment
earciod sec,lri'ttE Of the steamboat, and the
no.t Tho souI :, eternity, or if alive, per-
chance suffering th,a sgOnies and ezcrucia-
ting torments Of the .Gsmned; the flesh
dropping par-boiled from TIE OOnes' me
blood running in molten streams
the heart and brain, the shattered limbs 'ne
bursted eye balls, the shrek for water ana
for relief in death, and the slow bubbllng
OF mat wafer through the broken huii' tell
ing that the fluid they crave win soon be
there, and that death too, which they de-
sire comes with it, but death from drown
ing, oh, God how terrible the scream for
help, the grasping at straws, the fearful ag-
ony Of sufFocation, the glaring and distend-
ed eyes, the blood rushing in torrents to
the brain, threatening to burst il, and the
sound of the water gurgling, gurgling, glug-
ling, framing its voice into hellish laugh,
ave. is not This suficientt To apDal the stout |
est heart
Henry and his wife being in the rear Of
the boat at the time she blew up escaped
death, and,he being a good swimmer car
ried her to the shore in safety, and without
further accident had reached their destina-
ton, las / have before stately at which
time introduced them. Clayton found
the country far different from that which il
was represented to be in the north. He
found instead Of the gorgeous palaces, and
splendid gardens, the log hut, and the dense
and nearly imPenetrable canebrakes.-
Towns, which to Judge from northern rep
reservations .Were nearly equal 70 LONDON
or Paris, he found to consist Of few scat
tered houses on the banks Of some marshy
mimpOrtant river. But il the country fail-
ed to impress him favOrably, his opinion
with regard to the people was greatly i'm
proved.
He found that they were much belied,
that most Of the instances Of demonlike
barbarity Of the South, the murders, the
duels, the lynching &c, which at the north
were cited as proofs Of the blood thirstiness
Of the people, had never occurred, except in
tho imagination Of some bainless editor,
who knew that nothing was too terrible to
be charged to the south, true be found that
violent deaths were more common than in
the north, but seeing the character Of ihe
class Of men among whom they occ'Fed,
he was not surprised. Being q new eom-
try, and one distinguished abroad Cor the
wealth it contained, men Of desperate for
tunes, the gambler, the negro siealer' the
murderer, had proceeded there and con-