The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-08
For the Republican.

FRIEND LEATHERMAN:
In my last communication, | alluded to your
sister town (city) Jackson. We will now take
a cursory view of Bayou Sara-her present
condition and future prospects, together with
the latitude and longitude of her floating pop
u%lation. You are well aware that she has, in
times past, been frequently overiown, much
to the detriment OF gardeners, aud g%revious to
the tender feelings ofhungry Dutchmen, whose
earthly bliss is annihilated by the absence OF
that national luxury, cabbage.
The levee, which was thrown up last sum
mer, is doing all ii can to protect the place,
and Notwithstanding the constant exertions of
a large number of workmen, the town, with
the exception of some few streets, is stimulated.
Altho ugh as yet there has been no crevasse
in the levy, the Transportation water is sui
icient to deluge the town, unless som efficient
exertions are made to prevent it. The pump
ing apparatus is not yet in operation, but is
expected to be in a few days. Bayou Sara
now, las the Frenchman would say) looks like
one grand magnificent punch-bopl.
Her prospects, this season, are truly preca'
rious, but yet she may survive the disaster
The local excitcments of the place are rather
limited. Religion, ordinary-Some chafl with
the wheat, although the gamers are indus
trious, and seeking every facility possible tt
improve the moral condition OF their depravet
growing crop. The soil is, however, too allu
vial and moist, and no denomination but Bap
fists could exist in their element, but untortu
nately there are none. Law is constitutional
and from the appearance visible in the coun
~tenauce of some of the barristers in court las
week, we would Judge it to be very malignan
in its nature and painful in its progress. II
witness the facial contortions and spasmodi'
Struggling of shoulders among a host OF hungr,
lawyers, seeking a case, is truly excruciating
1t is enough to excite the sympathy OF a Jew
A Ball, "grand complimentary" came OF
at the Belvidere, on Monday night last, to MI
Bruins, 90, up by his pupils and friends" an
with the appointment of twenty-three mana
gers, comprising most of the dancing people Q
the place 1t is an old saying, as just as 1t j
old. that "they who dance should pay the fd
T dlor.n and after stationing the t~wenty-thTee o
the floor, who, as a matter of course, are priv
/ legged, it must have been amusing to see tn
green ones from the country, who had pun
chased tickets, gazing peusively at the show
The election for city officers takes plac'
soon. Your colleague, Marks, of the Ledge
; is out for reelection for Mayor. Six candl
, dates are out for Aldermen, four of whom hav
the requisite qualification -~eorpuleney. !
: thin, lean, lane shadow of a shank is besid
himself to indulge the suspicion that he coul
: be elected as an alderman, and much more S
to have the vanity to think he could set as one
Such infatuation has often seized aspirants b
$ guiled by the false hope Of a constitutions
change, an increase OF appetite, and a const
quent portly frame. A great error has foun
\ its way into election laws: an alderman shOul
u never be elected by vote, but always by me'
suremeut, tailors being the umpires' Frol
time immemorial, obesity has been concede
{ 10 be the sine qua non to fill an alderman
chair. Where is there the leas, show OF dig
Q nifty in placing a Calvin Edison in an aide
!, mans chart How foolish to degrade tn
: council with thin, pale, hatchet-faced mea
I bers, to the exclusion of the joyous fat rub
. cund co~untenances that should compose j
n boardl In short, how can a can man filth
IS Office there will always be a vacancy 0
the board. IlMoIHf.
o CorrAeE GRovE, March %, 1851.
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