The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-12-24

ScribeS that beautiful river town, Sa-
tartia. We do not .youch for the ac-
curacy Of his dclineNion.
The only part Of the country what
dent seem to have changed none, is
that all-Ilred town what they call; Sa-
tartia, an it amt bit poorer, nor bit
meaner, than it was fen ears ago. Like !
the feller that Was born with his face
turned WrongSide outardS, its buty amt
to be spylt. . How this town cum to
be and who was the people that fust
bilt it, history don't give no account
OF. Its Sposed 10 have been founded by
that uncertain indiVidooal that WaIIop- |
ed Billy Patterson, in company with I
the illuStrious hero an the Shero, his
wife, "what butt the bull off the
bridge"
I'm mityly puzzled what to compare
the place to. SuntimeS | think OF the
last OF pea-time, an finally I've settled
down on the proposition that its the
little eend OF meanneSS, Sharpened
down to pint The people are a Gu
rious generation. Their faces is as yal- |
Ter as u ripe Simmon, supposed to cum
from eatin dirt, and ther stomickS is |
all swelled out like they'd swallerd
pumpkin seed, an washed um down
with hot water. seed gal here
tother day, said to be great buty,
whose face was all toWSelled up with
bumps an carbuncles SO that her fea-
lures put M in mind of the knots on
the bark Of blackjack saplin!-pledge
you my word | thought she'd bin
struck with lightnin! The principal
vegetable productions of the country
round is composed partly of bars an
panthers, snakes, SkeeterS, coonS, pos
sums, young babies, jimpson-weed, and
d srrinklin Of TnjinS, and mulattoeS. |
the great popularity of the country
is, that the children is mostly orphans
an nobody knows where is ther dad-
dies
Stopt at the house, tother night, Of
an old bar-hunter, an was almost chaw,
ed up bandaciouSly with muskeeterS-
cause the ole feller didn't have mol
bars to keep um out. Shure nuff, cum I
to talk TO the nabors bout why the ole !
cusS didn't keep muskeeter bars they /
sed that he and his wife and children
had ther faces SO wrinkled up and tur-
ned catterwompuS like, that the skee- I
tiers couldn't lite on en- long enuf to bite I
| tux a privit look myself, outen one
corner of my eye, at his daughter Sal, /
an, pledge you my word, | thought +
should er raised up my very bread
basket, | laffed 50! Talk about yure
Gorguns, hydras, an rymera's dyer!.'
she can beat um all holler; an as for
her har, Medusy's sarpent ringletS
Warn't patchin to ii!
The principal artikels of dyet
'mongst the Epeop1e here, is acorns,
simmons, whiSkey an ter
backer, al d Lam told that cotton-Seeds
an young gourdS, for dessert, is bein
rapidly interduced.
The chills an fevers prevails hear to
a CRATE existent, an is handed down
from father to son, to the tenth4 gener-
alton, as it turns its viktims SO yaller in
the face, that il is amost impossible to
tell white man from niger, ekSept
by his manners, an in that case, the
niger has often the advantage I've
hearn thar is one felier here, what has
bid defiance to this disease Of the sha-
kin ague for when a fit comes on him
he's SO everlastin lazy he wont shake a !
Lick. The nabors here say that thai
same chap hates to work SO bad, that
he's spent the last ten years of his lite
tryin to invent cheWin machine, to
save himself the trouble Of eatin his {
vitals. How true this is, can't for GER ]
tain say aas @
Pm gwine to leave this evenin' for
the Ohier river. an ftLe Mammoth I
Kaiv, an eVry whar else, an If some OF
them all-fired stemeboats an ralerodes
don't buSt ther bylerS, an blow me into
the middle of next week, III rite to
you again. So no more at present from
JEEMs JOHNSON JENKs, Jr.
Yours in haste, with a bad pen. T.
Curnill of thei43d Regt. of Yazoo Rap
scallions.
Note Bean: My Regiment has been
instructed to drill reglar in the corn
stalk manuel, and in the order of
"march and retreat" so as to be ready I
to do their deWty when Iscum bak, in
case their kountry should mead their
bIudd. Yourn, j. j. j. Jr.
MORE INSULT.
How long will the patience of Presi- 4
dent Fillmore's administrator endure
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