The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-04-09
From our Nrv York Correspondent.
NEw YORK.. March 2l. 2s5l.

and, what between sky and sunshine, we
have delightful blending Of blue and gold
in our atmospheric uniform. It's an il
wind that blows no good, ami if it were II q
tor the storms We should not appreciate or
know how 10 be thankful for good weather
Accounts of damage done by the late eqnr>
noctiaI; are coming IN to US from all qu,r-
ters.
There are long anu Iold complaints oD
the failure Of the telegraphic lines to ex i
cute their promises. One of our last steam
ers can run down To NV Orleans, for in
stance about as quick as we can send a
message thher by the wires. The news.
papers manage to get their messages little
quicker, for they have lungs equal to the
seven league boots, and can make their com
plants heard a deal further than mere mer,
Giant or trader, whose grumhlo rarely cx.
tends beyond his own office or counter. 1t
Is true that those telegraph lines in the
Southern country have a great difficulty to
contend with owing 10 their wires being
necessarily conducted through "piney woods
where Ito use little hyperbole) it is al
most as common for trees to topple over as
for leaves TO fall. have a very vivid re-
collection OF sundry journeys through i'm
mense forests and seeing the gig ntlc bu
ahallow-rooted pines falling every ow and
then across the road, beneath the force or
5;crm wind. Sill, one would suppose that
the charges Of the telegraph were Sufficient.
| " high to cover the expense OF keeping
enough men stationed on their rack 10 te-
pair such injuries at once. They charg.
81 40 for sending only ten words from NV
York to New Orleans. 1t would not be OBJ
jectonable if tLey would put the message
through, as they agree to in "a hours; bu
two.thirds of all the messages that 1 have
sent by the wires, have been four or five
days on the way. | am not certain that
there would be any injustice in a law t
compel the Telegraph companies to pli
their messages through in given space, and
correctly, too, under penalty Of forleiting the
fees received for the same. lin most cases
they take care to get their pay in advance
Some Of the bunders ot the III y apt
clerks are very provoking, ana they are 10
peculiar To tn cIphrr system b., tns, o,.
cur in the printing line "a Well.
Some weeks ago sent To partner in d
-outhorn city message the most important
part OF which were the words, "secure DoyI,
| for one year." This order was thus rendrr
ID by he Telegraph to the person to whom
addressed secure some one near"
This translation Of course was as unin.
Iellisiblo as the ESIuimaux to my friend
aud the message hOugh not quite so bad a
that OF the man who sent to Calcutta for {
or monkeys and received BOB in return
was useless. However, in justice to thu
Telegraph company, will observe, that, OIL
making a proper representation to then
they impaired into il, aud tracing the fault t
clerk in their Washington office, reluudrt
the entire amount Of the fee which | ha
prepaid
The negro clergymen's convention seem
to have died a natural death After on
evenings session it was adjourned to tn
next day, but did not re.assemble.
The ''colored Iaymen's convention" wa
very slimly attended, though some ba
{ blood was exhibited.
/ Several steamers are due to-day, viz: b
. Arctic from Liverpool, the Franklin fror
1 Hayre, the Crescen! city from Chagre'
and the Ohio with California mails.
c James B. CFossman arrived in the city ye.
d IIerday escorting Ockinaweh, NicolasiS, an
e Mocischoe, three fine looking Indians Of tn
i Calaposah tribe, who have been "fnishin
!, their education" (?) at Wsstfield. Mass, an
b are now about to return to California whenc
d they came. They will probably be able
teach their counlrymen that the American
3 are an agricultural people, but TIA. there
one root they value higher even than ID
I 'ruta baga," and that is "the root Of !
evil"
The Irish people, we are told, are ma
because at The festival on 81. Patrick
d Day, a toast was drank to the Queen
:. Great Britain, and on the same oceasid
!. toasis we're given to the health i two pop
4 lar Irish regouliOnisIs whom her goyeri
i meals bad transported. ThsY depounl
. this IS inconsistent, but !. strikes me that