The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-02-19
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IT -IofQeo u 8aNcn plea4@ Il, on V1s1tl
Vlelsburg a.fsw days since 70 notice the
chogsa and improvement which have
talsn place within the ~ 60 years. About
tie same season d the year, seven years
ago, Il the expense q ! boot, aud alter
wadlng through the mud from twoto three
feet deep upon the SIDE sgade, we managed
to make our way from the Prentiss House
tO.ehs Office Of the Planters Bank; passing
on lho way,alosus inan empty dray, Two poor
cows, and halt dozen hogs, stuck fast in
the mud. On returning to the Boat
we met about halfway up the hiH, gem
tleman with his wife and child in most
delightful pickle. They had attempted
TO get mp the hin in dray drawn by what
the drayman said was ''true horse IL
the worst place, ifIhere'r could be a worst,
where all was horrible beyond detail, the
dray ''stuck" and the ''tFne Horse could
neither be whipped nor cOaxed TO move a
"peg." So the gentleman managed by
wading or swimming, OF some how else,
to get TO the side soade, where he stood
up to his knees, looking anxiously at his
wife and child. The dtayman engaged TO
take them up to the hill on the horse; the
child 20 sit in his Jap and the lady behind;
as she protested that she could never guide
the horse through 'that sea OF mud" She
was not a very expert Equestrian, and
was either too modest or difident, to put
her arms around luberly drayman Tor he p
so very quietly sided off behind into the
mud. The last we saw of them. as we
slowly put one leg in the mud and as slow
drew out the other, the dfayman was leas.
uIely getting off the horse with the child
under his arm, the husband was pulling
and tOggining away at his legs, to exlr.-
cate them from the mud which had
settled around them, his better half
was lying on her back calling voci-
gerOusly for help, and venting curses,
"fast as millwheeIs strike" upon the town;
to which we all added most hearty amen
But wonderful change has since come
over the scene. The streets are now all
Macadamized; the ''side wades, "have Civ
en- place to fine side walks.
The City did not bear the appearance
of rapid improvement, but all the i'm.
provements that we saw in progress
were valuable anG substantial. The
place has suffered SO much by fire, that
almost all the new buildings are up.
Oh the ''fire proof" plan; polite course
certainly. Vicksburg is noted as being the
scene of some of the most interesting Incl
dents connected with the history of the
South & west. A person acquainted with
its present orderly and industrious popula.
lion, would scarcely credit the tales
of romance with which its history abounds
There has been more broken heads or bones
broken Banks, broken Merchants, and bro
ken Lawyers, and burnt houses in Vicks.
OuIS uuIluS ltS suOII uIsVoiy' tHaH dhy OtIl
er place of the ''same, age and size" il
christentom, and yet it has lived, and pros
pered through it all aud now promises to b
one If the most prosperous and importan
commercial towns in the state. We hav,
never been able to discover anything il
the ace which would Justify the inol
dinate devotion which large portion Q
the population seem to have for it; and &C
count for it upon the Otnello principle:
"IHeV love 1t for the dangers Il has pas
Ised."