The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-07-13

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The interrog@ b q IA 6bllg u 3 hint & names,
or shepo|nl 81 tho & VII @lost) va ]. (. &
oi Washington county native 81 Tonnes.
zee. 90 |Isa littie indignant Re reputa-
|tation 81 = Isl llIat such ! question should p
'eked, rupIIed IN = fash hat provided ths
erantwas 7snnssse1n.i II was. ou seer u
tinued Col H de slifferance between q modest
Yaxoo Planter md n. there. / was frequently
calledon IN the Planters' Convention TO moke q
speech, but with due appreciation Of the honor
INTENDED me. nodestly declined but a soon Is y
was motioned to, be hoped up ike the cork Of !
champagne bottle, and nothing could stop him.
But my dear Col ! replied Y 81 they had called
on you to tuat, 'srou could have have done
that couldn't youf Yazoo knocked under TO-
Washington county that time. am afraid Il
have spoiled that bon mot IN the recital. but Il
Is too good d y lost. / never sawsthe deleg-
ate from Yazoo looored before. BY this time
aIlthe choice spirits in the room had: {Snnd out
where all the best things in the word were be-
ing said, and formed shining circle, around
our corner. Among the rest was our friend ]. .
is. B. Of Vicksburg, whose robes Of civic Office
Ihave not set SO heavy upon him a. to repress
the fine vein Of genial humor with which his
mature shounds. Hesaid .thatit had been re-
i ported that the town council, and the citizens Of
Yazoo, irrespective Of party, had voted the ssei-
sAife lsei,srsr' lion; that the people up there.
not knowing that Lion was used in aPick-
wickian' sense BY the literary Know Nothing
board, had been afraid to send their children to
school as il was understood there was i've lion
: turned loose in our streets, until one of the
wise men that had read Sha kespeare IN his youth
! suggested Bottoms precaution in Md Summer
Nights dream, and placarded the individual with
a quotation from the immortal bard
sThis isnot a Los 6ut only Billy Ssuh the
Joiner
TO give the fun mora sest, it was dis
covered that the subject, without amne giger,' !
sat within ten feet Of us, no doubt, wondering
(; what we could find to laugh Il outside 81 iii
. Lecture room. I wish had time and space Il
tel you Of Know Nothing trick which de |5oJ.
Of Raymond played % another itenernnl sIec
turer, but I hare Fsz1bIcd on without rhyme d
resson, beyond the limits Ought to ED bys wler
the mostexcellent pro TEN: editor q The Banner.
know, win have much better fhIIles that mus
be crowded out fofmy letter.
z Fashionss no, can't tell you anything abou
them. Every body dresses = re or she pleas
es, only some q little moro - There Is som,
ine and some ridiculous dre<sIl here, as there |
!, at all such assemblages 81 am sonetimes forcii
2 bly, reminded Of what ION. Col. Nc Jung SAID
some time ago, rsfrenee to IN untastsfully al
= gaudily dressed lady IN New Orleans - tha
she looked as thous6 she had been rolled il tai
\ put into cannon, dsshot through milliner
= shop, everything sticking her as she few.
2 / must not close without Saying something {
SANS prospects ia these parts Ieshave ii
: most cheering news to communicate. Tsh
9 friends Of the good cause. representing iisres
y countless have assured me of Els CROWN
2. strength in their districts. IN Warren an
Kinds counties the fear IS that the nlajorit
9 is 50 large in Sans tayor that his friends wi
ne be inert Mr. Lake|is in.tlae field. .Jsf Day
e madea speech ID yicksburg; and one ii lyarrel
e ton, which sent nearly hundred Democrats mi
e SAM ranks Il understood that Of the one hui
nd ldred and City who >sscInbled in Warren, ID
= welcomed Iisissip ia proud son to his natl,
nd lhsstb., u bun.lrt<I ,rerya K now Noth;nos s