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I2 Broad,cay, Neto York Cit;
Now York, May 2gth, Io2o. fi-eo u
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17

the more scattered palms. Within view,
were some carefully TILED fields, with strong
wheat, lupins, and purple bean blossoms, and
some melon and cucumber patches were not
far off; cattle were tethered beside the houses
and on bank near sat an old woman and
girl, basling in the last rays of the sun, with
evident enjoyment, though the magical colo
ring given by an Egyptian atmosphere could
not be 50 striking as to English eyes. But
what must it have been in the memory of
the Israelites wandering in the desert, where
there iApo color except at sunset, but only
glare pached rocks and choking dust or
sand. u not attempt now, for no one
has eva succeeded in such an attempt, to
conveYany impression of the appalling drea-
riness be depths of the desert. l can on
ly say III when it rose up before me in con
trast with that nook of valley at sunset,
at last understood the surrender of the heart
and reason on the part of the Israelites, and
could sympathize inetheir forgetfulness of past
woes-in their pining for yerdure and streams,
for shade and good food, and for a perpetual
sight of the adored river, instead of the hate
full sights which hemmed them in whichever
way they turned.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
ani an al0ne ID Iay e.haIaboE aow.


And the midnight hOui is near;
And the iaggot's crack and the clocks dull tick,
Are the only sounds hear,
And over my soul in its solitude,
Sweet feelings Of sadness glide,
For my heart and my eyes are full when ] think
OF the little boy that died.
went one night to my fathers house
Went home 10 the dear ones ALL
And softly l opened the garden gate,
And softly the door Of the hall.
NV mother came out TO meet her SON
She kissed me- and then she sighed
And her head fell on my neck, and she wept
For the little boy that died.
shall miss him when the flowers come,
In the garden where he played;
shall niss-him mora by the fTe-side,
When the flowers have dscayed.
shall see his toys and bis empty chair,
And the horse he used 10 ride:
And they will speak with a silent speech
OF the little boy that died.
We shall 60 home TO our Fathers house
To our Fathers house in the skies.
Where the hope Of our souls shall have no bigll5
Our love no broken ties
We shall roam on the banks of ihe river 81 pence.
And bathe In its blissful tide
And one Of our Joys Of fhe heaven shall be
The little boy that dieds
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
GOING WEST.

A correspondent furnishes the following
information to the Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post, for the benefit Of those desi-
rous of going West. It is worth reading:
JACKSONVILLE, Ill, March 10, 1854
In your paper of March IL, are some in
quiries about the West, made by men in the
East, which l shall take the library of trans
cribing and replying to in my own way. The
article, it appears, was copied from the New
York Tribune, but as l first noticed it in
your paper, send you the reply.
To my personal knowledge, the West has
been flooded with just such queries for the
last twenty years, until we are heartily tired
of them. We know by experience that if we
tell the truth in the matter about the agricul-
tural facilities of the West not one in ten
thousand of all those who live in the East,
and have never been fifty miles from home,
will believe it; of course it is matter Of in
difference to many what they believe.
The first question comes from Cambridge
port, Massachusetts, and reads as follows:
(which is the best time for going West,
the spring or autnmn9"
The best time for going West is when
you have the most money about you, and
the least fear Of losing it. Ifyou come in the
spring you are sure to shake yourself to death
with the ague before spring, if you don't
freeze to death before you get here. If you
come at all, you had better get your stomach
lined with water proof cement, so that to be
able to digest corn bread, bacon and whisky,
for this is all we have to eat except a few
French frogs and bilious looking tadpoles,
which we catch when the river runs down:
Second question-eWhatp part Of the West
is the best to emigrate to, taking into consid-
Grafton the healthiness Of the clinate9"
A variety Of opinions about that, my dear
fellow. Our Senator, Mr.. Douglas, says Ne
braska is the best. So it is, if you want to
90 into the stock business, raising an unruly
kind of mix colored cattle, that viii stray of
to Canada, in spite Of the compromise Of 1850,
1920, or Senator Douglas. Or if you want
to speculate in papooses, white scalps, and
get yaur own scalp taken off scientifically, GO
to Nebraska by al means. If you want to
play poker for living, and set up whisky
drinking for business, live on corn bread
and bacon week days, and slippery elm bark
and tadpoles on Sunday, come to Illinois,
IF you want to &c where they don't have nc
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17

at the top, with spacious foreheaad, and Z
scant allotment Of cheek. Prim is the worc
though. There is nothing in bis appearance
which is ever SO remotely suggestive Of the
romantic. He is not even pale, and as for &
rolling shirt-collar or a Byronic tie, he is ey
identity not the man to think Of such things
Romance, in fact, is the article he lives by
and like other men chooses to sink the shop
at least when he sits for his portrait.
DUMAS,
On the contrary, is a burly fellow. His
large, red, round cheeks stand out till they
seem to stretch the very skin that covers
them, and it looks as smooth as a polished
apple. His black, crisp hair is piled high
above his forehead, and stands divided into
two unequal masses, one inclining 81 the
right and the other to the left His eyes are
dark and his mouth sensuous, but not to the
degree of vulgarity. His person is large,
and his flowing mantle red. He is the gen
tleman to lay bear the throat and look ro-
mantle, not Byronically so, but practically
Yet he looks good humored, and like a man
whose capacity for political enjoyment of all
kinds is boundless. His negro blood is eyi-
dent to one who knows he has it but it
would not be detected by one who know it
not. 1t appears in the peculiar rotnndity of
the man and all his parts. 1t crisped and
heaped his hair, it gave the fulness TO his
mouth, and it made him dress up in flowing
red to have his picture taken. But his com
plexion is only a shade darker than the aver
age. The portrait reminds us for moment
Of the late Thomas Hamblin, the actor
EUGENE SUE.
Is neither prim nor burly. He is a man
Of large Frame over which loose black coat
is carelessly buttoned. Complexion light,
eyes blue hair once black and bushy, now
pepper-and salt-whiskers voluminous-eye-I
brows, black and thick-good forehead and
lower face ample. This conveyed no better
idea of the mans appearance than the de-
scription in a French passport. But the
truth is, Sues countenance and figure have
none of those peculiarities which make de-
scription possible He looks in this portrait
like comfortable, careless, elderly gentle
man, taking his ease in an easy coat. He
does not look like an author-authors seldom
do. His hair is rather that of prosperous
citizen. Sue is only forty-ive years old, but
he has lived fast and looks fity-fve. La
MARITIME is sixtythree and would pass easily
for fifty-three. Dumas is fifty and could get
credit for thirty-eight.-N. Y. Times.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
PrOtestanIsrn and Catholicism

Extremes do sometimes meet, but we never
met with more striking illustration of the
fact than is contained in the first resolution
adopted by the 5000 New England clergy
men, together with their appendix from Chi
cago, in their protest against the Nebraska
BILL 1t is as follows
"lst That the ministry is the divinely APP
pointed institution for the declaration and en-
forcement of Gods will upon all points OF NOR
al and religious truth, and that as such, 1t IS
their duty to reprove, rebuke and exhort, with
all authority and doctrine"
Now, to put this proposition to fair test,
it Is only necessary to change a word or two
in it. and we shall find that it embodies one
of the most obnoxious features Of Papal pre-
tention. Let us read as follows:
That the Papacy is the divinely appointed
institution for the declaration and enforcement
of Gods will upon all points OF moral and rell-
gious truth, and that, as such, 1t is the duty oil
the Pope to reprove, rebuke and exhort, with all
authority and doctrine"
We have italicised two expressions con-
tanned in the extract from the protest. and in
our paPal paraphrase Of it. 1t is hardly ne
cessary for us to say that we equally object
to the assumption of supremacy, as thus set
forth, emanate from what quarter it may
And we hope the time will never come when
the people Of this country shall be willing to
yield their assent to any such pretension.
Let us imagine these three thousand cler-
gymen assembled in convention, and any one
point Of doctrine embodied in theology pre-
aented for their opinion upon it. Does any
body suppose that there would be unanimity
IN the result On the contrary, would there
not be as much diversity of opinion, in all
probability, as there were denominations rep
resented And it may be fairly presumed
that there would also be a considerable show
of individual sentiment, peculiar and indie
pendent But out of such dividend, i
divinely appointed institution, 7 where woulc
be the authority to . enforce" to say moth
ing of the power The ayowal Of the sen
timent contained in the quoted resolutions is
however, significant. We perceive that tn
wiH is With this institution" to assume " al
authority in moral and religious affairs
and the right to enforce that will,
q Gods will" is distinctly claimed. Let u
congratulate ourselves, that in this country
the Do.oer to carry out such sentiments j. no
equal to the will, and at the same time tax
care that it never shall he, BY whonsoeyer
may be assumed Baltimore Sun.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
An Enignla.

We find this old puzzle unearthed again
after sleep of years. 1t is from the pen
the celebrated Wing statesman of the Reyo
lutionary epoch, Charles James Fox 1t is
an admirable thing of the kind.
We would invite solution of it, only re
questing that they only who have never be-
fore seen or heard the enigma viii send US
any answer to it:
Ifit be true, as Welshman say,
Honor depends on pedigree,
Then stand by clear the way
Betire, ye sons of naughty Cover,
And cen the spawn of old Glendower,
And let me have fair play.
For though you trace. through ages dark,
Your pedigree from Noah's ark,
Painted on parchment nice,
I'm older still, for was there,
As, before that, I did appear
With Eve in Paradise.
For was Adanl-Adam l !;
And l was Eve, and Eve was ],
In spite of wind or weather;
Yet mark me- Adam was not /;
Neither was Mistress Adam l.
Unless they were together.
Suppose, then, Eve and Adam talking.
With all my heart, but if they're walking,
There ends all simile;
For though I've tongue and often talk,
Andalso legs yet il walk,
1t puts an end to me.
Not such an end but that I've breath.
Therefore, to such kind of death
l make but slight objection;
For sJon come again in view,
And, though a Christian, yet It's true
die by resurrection.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
The LitiIe Roe Tiaf Dfe1I.

Dr. Chalmers is said to be the author of
the following beautiful poem, written on the
occasion Of the death Of young SON whom
he greatly loved
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17

MISS MARTINEAU GIN EGYPT.-One i'm.
preston has taken me by surprise. | used
to wonder, and always did till now, at that
stupidity of the Israelites which SO angered
their leader-their pining after Egypt after
finding it impossible to live there. 1t was
inconceivable how they could long to go
back to place of such cruel oppression for
the sake of anything it could give. now
wonder no longer, having seen and felt the
desert, and knowing the charms Of the valley
of the Nile. One evening lately, just at sun
set, the scene struck upon my heart,
depressing it with the sense of beauty. A
village was beside an extensive grove OF
palms, which sprang from out Of the thickest
and richest clover, to the height of eighty
/ feet Their tops waved gently in the soft
breeze which rufied the surface Of blue
pond, lying among grassy shores There
were golden lights and sharp shadows among
the banks, where q stream had lately made
its way. The yellow sand-hills Of the desert
lust showed themselves between the stems d
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
Personalities Of Literati.
JERRoLD.


Douglas Jerroh, known contributor to
Punch, and editor of various publications, is
man ofabout fifty years of age, and in per
son is remarkably spare and diminutive.-
His face is sharp and angular, and his eyes
are of greyish hue He is probably one Of
the most caustic writers of the age, and with
keen sensibility he often writes under the i'm
pulse of the moment, articles which his cool
er judgment condemns. Although believ-
er in hydropathy, his habits do not conform
to the internal application of Adams ale.
His Caudle Lectures have been read by eve
ry one. In conversation he is quick at re-
tort-not always refined He is husband
and grandfather.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
MAcAUrY.

The Hon T. B. Macauly is short in sta
ture, round, and with growing tendency to
aldermanic disproportions. His tread has
the same rotundity as his body, and seems
stuck on it as firmly as pin-head. This is
nearly the sum of his personal defects; all
else, except the voice, (Which is monotonous
and disagreeable,) is certainly in his favor.
His face seems literally instinct with express
sion; the eye, above all, full of deep thought
and meaning. As he walks or rather strug-
giles along the street, he seems as if in state
of total abstraction, unmindful of all that is
going on around him, and solely occupied by
his own working mind. You cannot help
thinking that literature with him is not a
mere profession or pursuit, but that it has al
most groMn part of himself, as though his
torical problems or analytical criticism were
part of his daily and regular intellectual
food.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
BAILEY.

A correspondent of the Tribune, writing
from Nottingham. England, says:
a have seen Bailey, author of Festus.'
His father is proprietor of the Nottingham
Mercury, and the editorial department. rests
with him. He is thick set sort of man
complexion dark: and in years abont thirty
and eight. His physiognon1y. would be
clownish in expression, if his eyes did not re-
deem his other features. He spoke Of Fes-
tus,' and of its fame in America, of which
he seemed very proud. In England it has
only reached its third edition, of which
eight or nine have been published in the
States.n
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
PILIMAKFR-

p. S.-Jacksonville was formerly in Wis
consin, but big freshet floated most Of the
houses down twenty miles south of the Illi-
nois River, and stuck them on a high and dry
ridge. We expect the next rise in the river
will take us down into old Kaintuck
The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17


He is one of the smallest legged, smallest
and most attenuated effigies of the human
form divine that one could meet in crowd
ed city during days walk. And if one
add to this figure clothes that are neither
fashionably cut nor fastidiously adjusted, he
will have tolerabIy rough idea of De GUM
.cey's outer-man. But then his brow, that
pushes his obtrrisive hat to the back of his
head, and his light grey eyes that do not
seem to look out, but to be turned inward,
sounding the depth of bis imagination and
searching out the mysteries of the most alb
strdse logic, are something that you would
search week to find the mates to- and then
you would be disappointed De Qnincey
now resides at Lassdale, romantic rural
village, once the residence of Sir Walter
Scott, about seven miles from Edinburgh
Scotland, where an afectionate daughter
watches over him, and where ne is the won
der of the country people for miles around
LAMARTINE.
Lamartine is-yes, young ladies, positive
IVA aor;na-looking man, with long face
short gray hair, a slender figure, and suit
Of black Put pen behind his ear and he
would look like confidential clerk Gave
his moro character. and he would remind
you Of Henry Clay. He has fine head
phrenologically speaking large and rounc
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81 SPLKNDD PIcTUREa-Those Of our resders desire
hil to visit to Piamb's Rooms Avenue. He has
exhibition there choice specimens new art
Dsguerrsotypng ID OIL which beauty excellence
There 10 portrait executed In this last
STYLE President Pierce that reflects credit on the
artist every nesmen thereof giving life expression
Mr. Piumbs reckoned among the first Dsguerr can artists
Of our time 30