The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-11-11
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Who that has hailed in early dawn Of spring,
Tie noeAias bird sweet carol on the tree.
Or earliest blush q towers, whose incense
fling,
Ger ,hs awakening earth the breath ST
Araby,
Has marked the faliins Leaf IND Saiing lowers.
Without Al obb lifss OF soadly t.yeern
For somethine logel in those delightful hour.
Which 10 succeeding spring can ere alas
4sturnl
The above is one verse Of a long poem
which we shall some day publish. It ex-
presses family the feelings Of sadness and
anguish with which ne now sit down by our
befef, hearthstone, and contemplate the
changes that have happened to US all since
tie f1es were put out in the spring. as the
glad sunshine of approaching summer
streRmeI into our then cheerful sanctum.
Yazoo City is a city Of mourning The des-
troy.ng angsl has been here and few families !
have escaped his visitation. In some cases
Who'll families. have .beea swept off aud houses
that but few months ago were filed with
happy hearts and faces, viii now pass into the
HAMS o. strangers Verify there is mourning
in the land! The old and the young--she in-
fat and e man Of hercuIean streagth--the
pauaer and the man who was at ease in his
possessions and counting n longyears IF plea
sure hete"have alike falenvictims othe pest.
lence t4at has swept over our city and vicinity
s,ith the bszon OF destruction. We know that
Tine and the mercy 81 God heals all the sor-
rows Of Hie-taat the flowers bloom and new
springs ana Summers smile upon tie earth. and
ti.s changing seasons pafsaa their 5cstfaed
cou-ss. ana tie wortd goes on to-its fnal desti-
ny,wh she- man weep or smile, is born q dies
.-sut :. y@il4 be long before our little t98n re-
sumes t. &6atad life and gaiety. ard f5Fgete
the ter-ors Of the Fall Of 1883. In Our history.
Il viii ever be marked with the black stone.
For oarael, il we may be allowed to be ego
tist1cal. the earth Is henceforsh But grave
yard--lalf Of our once happy family is il Heay-
en-, and then Of ali the mournerp that weep for
Yas3o's dea5, there is none we do not sympa-
tais3 With. There Is no grief we have not suf-
fsrsd ia our tine, aad the dead are more our
companions than the living.
80, suffering sod humanity!
O, ye afflicted ones who lie
STEPPED to the lips in misery,
Ionginr, ret afraid to die,
Potent, etsorely tried!
pledge you in tilis cup Of griei.
Where floats the feanels bitter lsaf
The alarm--the strlygla-the relief
Then sleep we eide ty SIDE"
Our companions by day and night are the in
habitants Of . better world
we cit now BY table that vas for years
uaod BY Mt Prewett.-Tbs portfolio in which
We write this, was his and used by hin six years
when he edited the Natchsz Courier, and still
contains scraps Of his editorials. He bis long
been at rest in the Yazoo City graveyard. The
pen with which we write this, was one We gave
to our first born, noble boy on his tenth birth.
DAY, aad with which he penned eli the letters
he ever wrote rs. lie too Is gone--he up5n
whom we looked for future support and defence,
when coming years shall take from Us tie
strength and ability to provide for onraeF-
within the last two months the strong, apirted
Guy, has been laid Ike little bgbe to
aleen By his fathers, with Write rose hpon his
breast. It is all right though, bee6us4 God has
done it--and though 1t Is hard to bel resigned
to bis will. we try 70 initiate the trusting fatth
Of the shumanite when Gahazi asked her "Is
it well with thee, is II sgtll with thy husband.
Is it well with thy rsil5F, and say Il Is sosz
The dead Of Yazoos willlong be enshTiasai nI
the hearts Of the snrsisine citizens Who vii
soon forget the handsome ana geatlsnlsnly
John w Fosua. EIe waa fer many yssrs
Sheriff of the county and opeoF tie most pofu
lar men 10 il. Strong men saea bitlT tears
over hs untiaely ena. Capt. T. 9. WaAis i
gone teo--oaa of the CHEST and mess sssl0sn-
tai citizens al the PA - one IS missed
more than hs--so ppl ssht ana Inaaig, md saith-
fal And poor Gen. p. 3. IVi!liaassa! tie
Life aadsouI of the t0Wa-~H.iEa biz Heaial hn-
nor and laughter provoking t7ses, &c a5
realize that deeth cod 3 A.n. 49,
Vim, tie ansssis. Ra, aosqlta5!es aaas-
TIE trae fsisad ana goea man, he TOO has seea
the last Of earth. And sas beautiful. aafa5ls
and dearly believed Nrs. = 4 TEalson. 8 did
ia epasms ia her a1ariag hasesna,s arsas-sglss
eoa.3 lot survive her, d.ed Is ieS s
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