The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-12-09
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NOTICE.
Edilorlal eorrespondenee.
NEw ORLEANs. Noy. 28. I8a


Congress, but 10 two Democratic Congress
men. Captain Barksdale from the State at
large and Judge Harris from The fourth dis
triet, Tor detention and damage 10 the amount
of twenty dollars, They hayings by their
interesting discourse. kept me beyond the
time Of the departure Of tie fine steamer
Frank Lyon, our old friend and favoriteI
Capt. Estes, master. and compelled US as
dernief resort to come down on that YAM
kee craft, thessouthern Belle. 1t panied
me considerably. to see Capt. White in a
situation where it will inevitably happen to-
Linn that he viii meet the fate Of poor Tray
for whose melancholy history refer
him to Webster's old spelling book bound
in blue paper with q yellow sheepskin back.
I have heard it suggested, that maybe the
Southern Belle win make a trip up the
Yazoo when the water is hight she does,
I sincerely hope that those.mho have cotton
to ship or wish to make a pleasant trip TO
New Orleans, viii give her a wide
berth-that's al.
The fever has almost entirely left the city.
and stranger. judging from appearances,
would scarcely believe the terrible pestilepce
had swept off ten thousand Of its citizens.
The Delta Of the Goth, thus speaks:
'sAll signs Of The late pestilenee have.
been oblilerated by the waves Of prosperity
that roll.aIong our levee and through onI
Streets We never saw IL loe bright
er nor - le "a better spirits. The
croakers have been all silenced.s Their evil
auguries have all proved false prophecies
There is scarcely visible mark Of. scar left
By the epidemic. Money is abundant: trade
IS active; produce flows rapidly into our
port labor commands high rates. and every.
department Of trade and business prospers.
Rel eefate, The value Of which was deem
ed flie most critical point Of attach. or infu-
ence by the. epidenaies so far from being af-
feeted uafavofably, exhibits decided adj
vance on rates Of last.year
When the tNo facts are slated, that with
in six weeks Of the disappearance Of the
fever from our city, three hundred and fifty
swamp lots we're sold az advance rates, and
fifteen thousand bales Of cotton changed
hands in one day, we shall certainly not be
required to give further proofs Of The pros
porous condition Of our city -of the uncon-
querable energies Of our people. Let it
not be supposed, however, that we pretend
hat 50 great scourge as that which re-
Gently filed our streets with grief and mourn
ing, had not inflicted some injury upon our
city. OF created some obstacle in its. onward
path. On the contrary, We believe that the
present prosperity Of the city is the effect
Of an impulse communicated to it before the
fever broke out, and that that impulse would
have been greatly augmented if the fever
had never visited us
All kinds Of amusements are going on
The Orleans has full and attractive corps.
-Placide,s Varieties is open.-Dan Rice is
here and the Campbell Minstrels.- Balls
and Masquerades are being given. and
strangers and citizens are nightly drowning
in pleasure the terrible memories Of the late
scourge
Although the newspapers say not much
aboutit, there is Iittle doubt that the cholera
s.here, and that several deaths have occur
red from It in the House ef Refuge aud the
Hospitals The first thing that attracts a
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stranger nolice-or rather nostrils--is the
absolutely filthy condition Of thes streets
The late pestiience is By some called the
great Democratic scourge and if one
inquiries little into the municipal history
of the city. they viii at once see that The
Term has 4 broader aceeptation than the
well attesled fact that about eigbt-tenth
Of The persons Who died Of fever last sum
mer and fall were Democrats d the obYiou
and criminal neglect d ihe Democratic
Board g Council, % falling Ionalse appro-I
pEiatons for cleansing tie streets and using
other sanitary measures ill Il vas TOO late
and death stalked unappeased through the
length and breadth q The devoted city. Sill
what Is strange q The laleelection, altho
The mortality had beensso great among the
faithful that even their sachems believed
the Wings would triumph as they haes
heretofore after az epidemic, Ass us
qaila II Denoeratis r0tes aid q railing az q
Whfg, which result leads % DE conclusion
tiaf though foreign Democratic voters die,
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