The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1851-03-21

season, at least a. high as The bridge, enables
them to transport heavy produce 50 low that
| il would be losing business for the planter to
pass through here and 90 to the river tor i.
4,h. The fact that this Is and viii always con
tinue to be, the county town, Is great induce
ment 10 those who have business with any oi
the courts, 10 make this also the point for OBJ
tanning supplies, thus concentrating all their
business at one point. 18th. The health Of the
town win always make 1t d most desirable
place Of residence, while its location gives to
Real Estate q real value, not subject to the de-
pressing influences Of oyeraows, caying banks
&C., &C., which so retard improvement and
paralyze the energies of the owners OF proper
ty in river rtowns. improvements therefore are
permanent here, and the individual who makes
them, in view Of the facts above stated, can
look forward to sure reward
Though our article has extended far beyond
the limits originally anticipated, yet if it suti-
ces to explain the causes of the.recent great
increase of business here, and TO give assur-
ance of still greater prosperity in the future,
our design will have been accomplished, and
should its perusal afford or readers mOiety Of
the pleasure which the thoughts called forth
during its preparation have afforded US, we
shall be more than amply rewarded.
MusIcAI. CRITICISM. confess to most
woful deficiency Of musical taste. We have
heard Jenny LfEd, but being aware of our i'm
perfections in this respect, we have attempted
no eulogy, nor do We profess to have been
enraptured by her nightingale notes to an ex,
tent requiring our enthusiasm to find vent in
a silly attempt at "highfalutn" eneomium, as
has recently been the case with so many of the
Editorial fraternity. We have never studied
the technieaIities of the art, and though we
have sometimes read musical criticisms, We feel
compelled to, say with Charles Lamb, that
"Sostenuto and ddagio stand in The like rela-
tion of obscurity to US; and sol fa, mi re- is as
conjuring as Baralipton" From this general
objection however, we must except musical
critique in one of Thackeray's recent works.
The authoris describing the performance By
Miss Wirt-"a highly accomplished lady7-of
the variations on sSieh a gitten up STAIRS
which he does in the following graphic style;
sShe first, with great deliberation, -playedthe
original and beautiful melody, cutting it, as it
were, out of the instrument, and firing off each
note so loud that it must have been heard in
the stable. When she had banged out the tune
slowly, she began different manner of ,gettin'
up stairs and did so with fury and swiftness
quite incredible. She spun up stairs, she
~hired up stairs; size galloped up stairs; she
ratified up stairs; and then, having got The
tune TO the top landing, as it were, she hurled
II down again sfrieking to the bottom floor.
where,it shrank in acrash, as ifexhausted with
the GREATNESS rapidly of the descent. Then
Mss w. played the 'gettin' up stairs with
most pathetic and raysliing soiemnity, plain
tive means and sobs issued from the keys
you wept and trembled as you were "gettin up
stairs" and Miss WIS hands seemed TO faint,
and wall, and die in variations. Again, and she
went up with savage clang andclash and rush
of trumpets, as if Miss w. was storming a
breachsS' &c, &c.
Nov we can understand that; 1t comes right
home7to our comprehension, and is so vivid
and life-like, that we are almost led TO believe
Miss w. some acquaintance of our boyish days,
the eeho of uhOso astounding music still rings
upon the ear of memory, (f there is such a
thing.) A critiqae ofthis kind is quite refresh
ing after The surfeit of lackadaisicai encomums
upon Miss Lind's performances, which have re.
Gently gluttcd ourexchanges, and we hope that
Thackeray viii establish new era in this
branch Of criticism.