Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-08

qualifying an American gentleman to chat
scandal with q keeper of the Queens
hounds, and discuss with faster to roy
al tipple. One cause of the grief that
keeps our people fat, the penury that has
rendered us so prosperous as nation,
and the oppression that has made the Uni
ted States as thrifty as Jonah's guard, is,
no doubt, the neglect of the masses to i'm
itate the lascivious sentimentality of En-
ropean high life. There can be little
doubt that if the United States Govern
ment would import lordling or two every
year for the country to make an ado over
--or in defaul of such a curiosity, a toll
erably smart writer, Dickens answered
well enough once,) in the course Of time
Americans might be imbued with de-
gree of pusillanimity from which the most
suspicious results nigh be expected. The
honor of slipping tea with the courtezan of
Court has heretofore been confined TO a
few of our fashionable bloods, who have
returned to their country vastly improved
in their ideas. They damn republican
course of what Sir George Comedy
chance said 10 Lady Lucretia, with the
incest particularity--not emitting to men,
ton that Lady Lucretia would have blush
ed but for the effeminate appearance of
Sir George, who was rather attenuated in
the shank TO make good Tarquin. We
must be permitted TO state that we know
a number of Americans who have made
the tour of Europe without being bettered
. hU + lxy hoo
good republicans as they were before,
having totally neglected to improve their
principles or opinions by associations of
her most hopeful character. This hope
fitness, hewever, is not a characteristic
failing of American travellers.
Now, if the London club persists in re-
: fusing TO admit our citizens admission un-
til the Pennsylvania debt is paid off, 1t will
be seen that one of the great avenues to
} national nincompoopery is shut up to
, American progress. Hence the alacrity
| OF Pennsylvania 10 pay up back interest
If the people of Mississippi and Illinois
could be brought 10 comprehend the vast
benefits that naturally flow from a cordial
intercourse of American gentlemen with
. the waterflies :" of Cocknevdom, they
: would certainly bestir themselves to dis
: charge their debts, also. So many calam-
: tiles threaten us from the closing of the
t London club against our countrymen, and
/; such individual modification to those of
!, our citizens who consider the touch Of a
= noble lords digits as the next best thing to
: a seat in Parliament, that further procras-
+ tination in the settlement of money jobs
e might be construed into an Indifference TO
the fate Of this great Republic, and, what
is yet more heinous, a disregard of the
: community of Bond street loungers and
: Hyde Park Loafers of high and low degree
a THE INDIGNANTLY vIRTUoUs CLUBS OF
q LoNDoN.-The resolution of certain fash.
e ionable clubs in London, to blackball every
2. American proposed for membership, is one
|. of the most amusing examples of pseudo
# morality in paroxysm, which has ever
Il been presented to our notice. A person
g unacquainted with the character of the ell
q ements of which those clubs are chiefly
: composed, would naturally and innocently
}. enough imagine that they consisted of the
e most honorable, honest pure and virtuou:
J. paragons of morality and rectitude. Blu
v when it is considered that the majority o
p the members are genteel swindlers, who
r prey upon poor tradesmen, and "live BY
IT their WITS as the saying goes, a more
n. correct Judgment will be formed of thei
IS pretensions to honesty. 1t is notorious
j. fact, that the majority of the patrons o
m these club.houses never pay even the bill
IN of their poor washerwomen, and are con
se stantly driven to all sorts of shifts and con
TO trivances to escape those evil genii of Lon
a. don fashionable life-the duns. Yet thes
Us are the men - the Huntlngtowers, an
I'd Stewards, and D'Orsays and Beresfords-
Il. the gentlemanly swindlers of Londor
III who affect to talk of the honor and hone:
ne ty of States! N. Y. Herald.
to Mexico AND THE UNITED STATES
n The New York Sun states that it has il
IL dubitabe evidence that secret society fl
u the union of Merico and the United State
p exists in Mexico, embracing many of ii
an most influential characters of that Repu
'ss lie, Santa Anna himself is said to fav'
TN the project.
ak Thus are maturing the events whic
la are sooner or later to spread the Cover
Oh ment and institutions Of this glorious R
or public of the anglo-Saxon race over Il
ri whole of habitable North America.
he
With the opening of the new year, '
IN salute our patrons by rendering them 4
the first number of the fourteenth volume
of the Missssippian. We had expected
nu- have presented the old ship +" with ne