The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-12-23
TIE WEEE(S.
FRIDAY. DEoEMBER IS. la5s.
EdiOrinl Correspondence.
NEw ORLgANs. Dec. 7th, l8t

New ORLEANS; Dec. 9TH, 1868.
For the lasttWo weeks have been a con
slant patronizer Of the Magazine street ON
nibuses. and have therefore contracted sor
oftacit acquaintance with the drivers. though
/ never spoke to one Of them except to Civ,
him dime or ticket. | have been think
ing that If one would sit down & write Of the
incidents and individuals one meets in q
weeks time going up and down the city in
omniubuses, it would make narrative high,
ly interesting and instructing, as well as
vastly amusing.
The Magazine and Camp street onnibuses
are the mediums i speak in an un-spiritual
sense, for If spiritual mediums more anon
between lie homes and business Of large
portion Of the merchants of the First Dis
trict-old Second Municipality If you
wish to see Democracy afoat and have plen-
ty of cologne, 60 into a Tchoupitoulas or
New Levee omnibus. From morn till night
beautifully dressed Enthusiastically servant
girls--pretty children, and all descriptions
of the genus homo. are going up and down
these streets. No matter how full the seats
are. when lady wants to get in, there is a
gencfa move % make room for her; and
gentlemen NJ get ont and stand on the
steps to give her bis place. Here sits !
cotton speculator with three great samples
Of the staple-over there is a Eat woman
with a big market basket-she is going
down to the nnarket-beside me is little
black eyed woman with we'll worn picnic
gloves and roll of old music in her hand
she is probably music teacher going to
her pupils. Next to her is a tall square
built, prim old maid-she has a blue and
red changeable silk dress, green Parasol
and geranium pot in her hand. Maybe
it is Mrs. Stoves vermont looking for a
new Topsy to experiment upon. Over in.
the corner gazing out at every pretty girl at
the windows and doors we pass, is light
haired, moustached young man with plaid
and shirt color a Ia Byron
but of him, more hereafter. ''All right
not a bit more room-but here at the corn
nr of Bartholomew street comes a colored
nurse with a pretty baby in her arms. The
driver stops. but the cotton speculator tells
him there is no more room, and to 90 ahead
but sweet little girl says. 20, ma, here is
room, do let the baby come in. All move
up as socially as possible and baby comes
n. The fat woman with the market basket
otis up against the old maid with the green
oarasol and over goes the geranium amid
he half suppressed blessings Of Miss Yer
mont Right close by me is the lovely
Miss Vt, of Florida she reigned a
brief but delightful season at Cooper's Well
asst summer. We take notes together-in
,ur own way--the pale young man looking
IN all the while. and wondering If she is
aughing atshim. One after another our
travelling companions gets out, d here we are
n Canal street-and none are left to get
,ut at the stand but myself and the change
IDLE silk and geranium. And now for the
history Of the pale young man. When /
vent back toward dinner time, there he sat
n the same seat Of another omnibus. and |
Q saw him day after day for q week
ooking eagerly at every woman that got in
r. out--and gazing through ae open doors
md windows
The other day / missed him from his ac-
,ustomed seat. Without ever speaking. I
lad made bis acquaintance, and felt as
much at 4 loss at not seeing hinin bis corn
Il as If some malicious person had erased
he familiar words .Pos1TVELy No SHOOK
re, from the front wall. AS funerals are
f common occurrence since the cholera has
REVEALED, ! thought possibly my uis q els
lad fallen victim, and turned away from
he subject with moral reflection on the
uncertainty Of human life 10 New Orleans.
lust then the driver pulled up at Robin
tFeet, and 70 my great relief ny sentimen-
al friend with rather more detected alT
han usual. stepped in and took bis seat.
An Old man sitting near me shook him BY
he hand but I did not hear what name he
JAILED him. Away We went again tiIl ve
same Gravief and then ny sentimental hero
pulled The strap IS usual. paid his ticket and
90 ont. There. said Tie old gentleman
9 his.other hand neighboE goes Gle Big
gest foo nowin this city. 9e IS fieh plan.
lerfrom Mississippi and has gone stark mad