The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-08-22
ANXIOUS.
Descriptive Elouuenoe.
"Our country It's of thee"


'Ma'am,' said free spoken, manufactured,
enthusiastic, and rather quizzical son of old
Kentucky, while paying his devoirs to one Of
the famous lady tourists Of America, 'Ma'am,
you should have been born in America, the
greatest country in the knowa world. Nature
has clustered all her stupendous and dazzling
works upon this land, and you should be among
them! We have not the greatest men, the
hnest women, the broadcast lakes, the tallest
trees, the widest praifies, the highest water
falls, and the biggest hearts in all creation.
'Ata'am, 60 and see the Falls of Niagara.-
My dear ma'am, ii | didn't think I'd walked up
IN tuturity when first seed that big slanten-
dicular puddle! (slantend cular is an algebra
word, ma'am-you mayn't know iG) Why,
ma'sm, could tell YOU something abou, them
! Falls-but you musn', put il in your book, 'css
nobody will ever believe it. The people that
live round about there all lose their speech, and
never hear each other speak for several years,
with the noise Of the cataract! Fact, ma'am,
! true as that's pencil and note book your
tahing out of your pocket. WAY, there was
a man lived there teR years, and he go; so dcej
ne never new man was speaking 10 him ill
Q pail o. water was poured down the back OF
his nec!t When YOU 90 10 see The Falls ma'am,
you do all The taking you want 10 before yOu
tef that, no a word Of any Lind can be hea d!
Then, ma'am, you should 60 and see The
great cave In Kentucky, where the bats hber-
nacuate III countless miiioas. There is no
such another hole IL lie ground 10 be found
OIL the race o. TIC earth. Mu'am, if YOU go
back to England without seeing our Mammoti
Cave, voull Put your leel in no beg youI
par@on excuse me; that's quite 4lpossio!e; bu
you'll leave big hole in the book YOU are i
going % write. There was no cad known &c
ma'am; and there Is a sait-Wa er lake il lie
middle o. il, twenty-five miles broad, Ono o
the rooms is called ne 'Antipodnon Chamber,
from The unpronoanceab'e face tIat 4 man car
walk just as easy on the ceiliog as upon thC
floor; and in dis apartment, there's naturs
fountain of pure andy! The same cave, 100
is q positive cure fot The consumption.
( You haiat been South, YET, have you, Ina am
You haint seer ihs Mississippi river and tht
city OF New Orlearns! Wen, IN .'am NeI
Orleans is hundred and twenty-five feet De
low The level Of tlIe sea, and tie Missi5sipp
Guns through Q canal bridge igl't over the cil'
The Inhabitants are chiefly aliigators ant
screen owls, the last lords have been vu!~s-
" perverted INTO Creole. TIE lool cnicl
gum, Produced from trees il the swamp, a i
WHICH they cal grmbo, There i, u pap,r CO.
led the PtcoroO.;, the name being wcH chose 4
sisni lean, of lis professed piracies UPON H1as'
Pti'oso"iy. Byyr7 NJ acis9st}, tie PHein'
Progress, Joe Miller, Wtyiia~soa Icing, an
b, c's Lie IN Lon o.. l. i, violent al,
s,upe Idous political print, and he Governmeu
of The country has endeavored i'll vain to sup
press il. One Of tie peculiar marks about hi
extraordinary city is the entire absence q
those small Quadruped Of The gcncus most com
monty known as rats. One was seen man
years ago, by citizen, who brutally murder
ed the unknown creature; but was immediate
ly sentenced 10 be hung fer the enormity.
You will hear ma'am,a great deal about III
floating populst oh OF New Orleans phyas
> which you understand whcn [ tell YOU tia
the Town is hall the year under inundation frol
the Mississippi! You Should have been Dor
in America, my dear ma'am: but as you wer
not, you may possibly die here, and that
some conSOla ion for ou.