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DEER Gsssr, 1saqnena Co., Miss., Aug, 10, 1885
Hsssrs Edfors-owing to the many destinations which
nne huntisy fishing etc have for mo- have mot as yes
been able TO tear myself away from this Psrsdise for
Nimrods The seaside with its cooling Sephyrs whisper
ing winds and sparkling waves, may have charms for
some The city, with it's busy msrts Its feyersh exotic
woods for me.n
do not however remember Of having informed you Of
the whereabouts of the above named eresh excepting the
game OF tho State etc. have given you description
Of it or the way to get to it. alioald have done
their dog and gun and the yhho, and the bound
ing roe will be wanting visit this country where wild
game Of almost every kind in undsturbed frtsdom
So here goes Deer Greek is old bayou Of the Msns
sippi rYer debouehing from 1t and running into the
Yazoo distance above ts junction with the Misss
sipp 1t has no inets but number Of outlets FORM
ing in its whole length Of over hundred and fifty
miles, series of deltas. 1t runs In ts whole COURSE
parallel With hs h n aysrage d Rsts q
and the Mississippi runs Stess Bayou which il con-
neeted in many places with Deer Greek by cross bayons
On the east the sunower similarly connected with
Deer Cresk. The landings the mississippi for Deer
Creek Cammacks, which is about FIFTY miles above
Vicksburg, and "skipwithsn which y some distance
overflow of the Mississippi during the past season. tho
creek very low at present. and does not present
preposessng appearance covered a. II IS with green
slime reminding you very much Of the styx, or some
other of the internal rivers ell that is wanting to I'LL up
the picture is old Charon with his boat and little smoke
beyond The nonovsrow Of the Mississippi river in fact
the absence Of high water in all Of Southern rivers
seems to have affected almost class Of the conu-
aborng in the swarnps here cutting timber to raft to
New Orleans find at the end Of the year that they have
lost almost twelve months WORK and themselves penny
which float their timber out to the river the fine
cypress logs are left to decay in the swamp Deer Creek
generally navgabe for part of the year and could DO
the whole year. by cleaning out the snags and
cutting the leaning timber on the bank which would
been done any other place where the people are
not so absorbed In the growth OF cotton They have
however, made in the matter and have assessed
dime on all lands lying on the creek which ASSESS
to be devoted to clearing out the creek. The
contracts are already given out the way the conrac
have gone to work, thinking 1t will be finished
about the time Frank Pierce is selected President, Sc
bastopo Ii taken, the moon turns into green eheese
However, presume 1t is z mere question of time
There is great many mounds scattered up and down
the banks Of the creek some Of them large with an
of to two Many of them have been
opened, and have number of curiosties that
have been taken out Of them such as beads Of glass and
she'll substantial crockery gods and pipes OF curious
workmanship Some of the mounds are composed OF sea-
Shells and Of earth entirely different from that in the i'm
mediate vicinity. Many flat top and have been
selected by planters here build upon they making
beautiful site for cottage, .@
The latitude of Deer Creek is fine for the growing OF
most of the Southern fruits Peaches to great per-
lection the few samples have We're splendid but
this year the late frost almost entirely destroyed the
gentleman who resides out the river and who has
fac orchard informs that last he sold $500
worth peaches this year he had noa dozan his
chard. haye seen some fine looking apples here but
they cannot be compared their Northern brethren
save in looks, as they very dry and nspid
Cotton has begun to open quite fast and most of the
an unusual yield of the staple and think with good
son. the crops could not appear promising than
they do. What have seen Of the new cotton is very
fine, and the staple excellent 1t seems unaccountablc
how the Mssissippans permitted these rich lands
remain SO long unnotced while they were toipg with
unreauted labor the poor bleak hills of Adams and
Warren Counties Here the soil is exhaustless vege.a
ton gigantic scale weeds which small in other
places here large bushes cotton leaves the class
called plants and borders the tree the consequence
land Deer Greek has gone up from "a 80 to 5 and
even SS5 per acre.
But Deer Greek excels all other places much in her
wild game she does in the richness of her soil had
the least idea that there any place east Of tbs
Missouri where game was so plenty The forests abound
with deer bear panthers wild cats wild CATTLE etc Many
planters find difficulty whatever in killing sufficient for
furnishing themselves and with meat the whole
year round The deer abound countless numbers and
frequently killed in the cotton fields where they go
the young cotton. Of which they very fond You
may think rather ishy when tell you that
you back of the fields you but seldom of
sight of deer One gentleman told me that he was out
hunting few days SINCE and after loading his horse
with vensop he Killed three more deer on MS way home
and lett them for the wolves and panthers devour
such conduct is nothing but wanton cruelty, the deer
being the most innocent Of animals, and harmipg
nothing.
While stopping for few days with planter here he
would go every morning and returned without
deer and time did know Of his being absent than
hour, and sometimes not the half OF it, and did
he he says four hundred yards from his residence
Bears almost equally plenty While your riding
along the road they will close by you, walking of
with regular swinging Bowery-boy, dontcare-a-hapg
kind OF gait, giving loud snuff which in bear Language
means, shoot and Exchanged to you.o They are very
pork search for they do in the
least respect the laws of and ~ but walk into the
first pig pen they to. The panther cougar are
also very plenty, and destroy vast numbers Of the deer
out seldom attack PERSONS except when very hungry
have heard here few instances OF their having
attacked while lying asleep in camp beds They
have been killed measuring from nine to ten feet IN length
They of light yellow color, about two feet and half
high strongly built bulldog looking head, rather nn-
amiabla LOOK of their eyes and very open counte
when they licking their chops have seen but
live and he playing around the root Of tree
at the side of the road After taking rather hurried
look OF him. and not being armed considered that the
climate in that vicinity decidedly unhealthy and
memberng old adage that my father nBted into me,
that it much better to deprive ourselves OF society
than to keep bad company, left They kill many Of
them and eat them in preference to venison can
almost any kind Of meat from elephant down to mule
and possum," but eat panther is thy servant dog
that he should do such thing2n have heard here
terrible stories Of panthers bears wolves and wldcat
Of midnight attacks hairbreadth escapes by food and
eld-any persons bearing wounds attest the truth
of their stories Of how they suffered in the engagements
may at future time relate to your readers some Of
demonstrating those which not 900 redolent with
the perfume OF FISH.
Yours, in haste, ]. g. ".