The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-08-13

We ask an attentive perusal of the letter
Doctor William J. Leake, which we to-da
publish. He wohld have made an able renr,
sentative. His letter shows that it is not wa,
oi interest In the great cause which induce
aim to decline the nomination. II ia ono :
the ablest documents we have seen on tbo
feature OF the compromise which provides fo
Sne abolition of the slave trade in TIE Distric
of Columbia
After an absence Of more lhan tw
weeks we again find ourselves seated i
the chair editorial, and the ink marks fol
lowing the scratching of our quill W
have been enhaling the pure and health
giving breezes and embibing the brigh
and sparkling water" of that blest region
OF high pines and white sanb. We hav,
passed through the counties of Holmes
Attala, Winston and Noxube Of this State
and Sumpter, Green and Perry counties Of
Alabama. We have seen some beautiful
country, as fair as the foot of man has
ever trod; adorned ard beautfed with the
most exquisite taste, and some barren and
sterile, aud other portions yet a wilderness
OF p:imeval forest. We have returned
without the chills-hale and hearty with
renewed strength 10 do our part in the
great political combat now gong on, and
with yet brighter hopes as to the glorious
victory which the advocates of Southe rn
Rights are soon to achieve From every
quarter we have the most cheering ac
counts of the progress of the cause of
States Rights; our friends are beconino
more sanguine every day of CARVING the
counties of Holmes and Noxube. whilst
Winston and Alfalfa will roll up such in
creased majorities, as will make submis.
sionists every where stand "confounded
and amazed old Chapultepec seems to
De gaining every day and every where.
Ihe crops in our route presented such
an appearance as we never before saw.
They looked bad enough in Yazoo, but the
farther east we went. until reaching the
neighborhood of Greeusborough, Alabama:
the more and more apparent was the des.
olation Of the drought. In many places
(and we are sorry to know that there arc
so many the corr crop will not be worth
gathering. The farmers are cutting it
down and making a kind of hay, ont Of
the whole, ear stalk aud blade, and the cot
ton crop is not much better Six weeks
sihce and there was the most f1attering
prospect for large cotton and corn crop
That ever was presented. The realization I
IS truly distressing on some of black prair- |
lie farms-and in the cane lands of Ala
bama, and in portion of Green couatv
where the country has been blessed with
rain, the prospect is fair-but everywhers.
else The fields present melancholy g. des
olate appearance. What. is somewhat un-
fortunate too, is, that the cotton on the
stalk is opening Very fast; it will find it's
way to market early and.then by compas
Tlng the number of bales received with
corresponding dates of last year false i'm,
preston will prevail as to the extent of the
crop, which will have tendency to keen
down the price.
upoa the whole we have had quite a
pleasan: iaunt. We have seen the coun-
sees
ia Steamboat and railroad excursions.
The truth is, that this modern way of CO.
ing about by steam does not deserve the
uame of travelling at ALL One is wheeled
along so fast, and "cribbed, cabined and
confined" so much, as to be unable to see /.
u hear anything of the couatry through :
which he passes. He stops at a few towns Il
md villages, and is stared at by an abun-
lance of rlonugers abeut hotels with fierce !
and assumed looks of terrible q
erocity. whose forbidding appearances
prevent the pleasant salutation and agree !;
bile converse with which stranger ia
lIways greeted in the country. and this, a
With the disagreeable addition of being :
urfeiied with too much food, and too little 7
zamcise is about the amount-of steamboat .
raEelIing. Very different Is. it with him
Who is carried along by those good old pro-
,eiIers of horse flesh. Only think of lazy d
.ditor lounging back in light Rockaway, {
gith span Of sprighly bays and q sturdy
river, (aII borrowed) with bunch Of long a