The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-02

Is JNo HEBRoN
we visit range til
adncs oo kind friend Jo6n +. He
blsn. Gun haflIy % justice u ourself i
describing this pleasant visit mud M. Hebron
must forgive Is, Il We fan ar, very lar, short d
justice e him ltwas beautiful afternoon
such a ore a only ippi en- ever boasl
q u January seemingly day some how 90
loose from tha calandsf and slipped from curly
Autumn into winter. smiling, bright s 1rine
day playing hide-and seek Just toEnalse old whit
e. feel colder when It was gone that we start.
ed II buggy With 1Ir Hebron for his home.
IA Grange lies nine miles from Yichsburg. Hall
of go way you go out % the well known Old
Jackson road and then turn Of through hills and
hollows I'll you come upon The grounds Of the
far-faned "a Grange plantation. We must ex-
act forgiveness i We ten little anecdote about
that ride the best Of the joke IS 1t our own ez-
Pense, and therefore We have . right to tell II.
Before starting from VicIssburg ID ga friend
Of ours, who Il bit.oi 4 wag, ii irony to our
known taciturnity, told Col. Hebron that he
must look sharp o. We would do III tie talking
and not allow him % Get word q edg ise----
thai IFS besi Ian nine
start Of na and q .sn 81 bta he did
he would have how uFia 81 the
visit. A the 81 81 rash zee horse. turned
out e Washington into Gre reet Col. Fl.
commenced tallkin 81 tic Early tor1o icks-
burg, the history Of Ne WING and yafi-
Gus Interesting topics we pass ola Court
House and other Interesting localities, but ha
never sEsed.-he knew we were 1e acq s
Cd with $40 city q the Hills and much 81 tie
history not only Of IS Flush times, bui is more
modern ones. re gave is tie true history Of
men who sat for the picture Of Bolies Flush
Times We remember him well and have heard
him many time and oft tell such awful lies
Just for the pleasure Of lyingt Once only dur
ing The nine miles ride, we essayed to speak
We were going up one Of those very peculiar
hills that only Warren county can boast Of
the poor horse had hard road 70 travel and no
light load.and . interrupted our companion BY
saying i was rough. poor looking country.
s'Not 9 BIT Of i, s said he s'n weonly had some
of your Yankee q Dutch farmers hero, they
would level hs his and 81 up the rallsgs s. A.
1912 "a on---arriYed at
Col. Hehron's residence, we were received and
welcomed BY Mrs. Hebron with that peculiar
grace and warmth which makes La Grange
such pleasant place to visit. AT night we
were sereDaded By several most excellent PLAN
tation musicians, they were called IN and dance
got latter which the negroes came from the
quarter and gave us 4 Choctaw dance BY torch-
light. IN the morning we rode over one of the.
largest Pear orchards IN the world. Col Heb
ron has now an orchard Of benring pear trees
thirty-lYe hundred! and he il still.
snlaHging i. He j still adding to il and BY
spring the orchard viii number ten tioasaad
Tees. Col. Fl. has lan cssllren and 81 sssss
sach child . thousand trees ~ its portion. esti-
mating this number as equal 70 $4,000. Ills
net profits on the sale Of pears furnishing data
or this estimate. His Nursery Of Pears, Peach,
Apricot, Necta1ne and Apple trees, are perfect
orrests, and capable Of supplying all creation
With fruit trees.
Besides trees Of the rarest kind, Col. Fl. has
imported all kinds Of stock both bird and beast.
he has Bremen Gee and Shanghai and Coch-
Il China and Bantam Chickens, English Phea-
ants and Swans---and various other foreign
owls and animals whose names and country we
ave forgotten, If the Know Nothing society
ave an organization about Vicksburg, we won-
lei Col. Hebron i allowed 70 bring 50 many
liens to the country But we must close, though
alactantly our reminiscenceof this most pleas
mt visit to Lagrange. Before we parted, and
lfter we become warln,our kind host said to Us,
Mrs. Prewett, ] never was 70 disappointed in
ny one in al my life As I am in you Not
so We Fentured tohope. We
aust be excused from telling the pretty com
Ement We got. ~ but the last one. Why
aid. he, ssyou don't talk BIT too muoh And /
hen he told Us the trick that had been played
pon him which we have related above. This
ccounted FOL his volibility the day before. He
ad GOT the running start Of US, and was afraid
/ losingit Nay blessings rest upon the hap
y household Of Lagrange, for we know none
nat deserve them better.
SECRETARY MARCY oS CITIzENsHIP. - We have
sen d letter from the Premier to q distinguished
] tban gentleman at present q resident Of New
FORK. Tlle Secretary informs his correspondent
aat d declaratian 81 intention is not a Tenuncia-
on of allegiance to another power and that such /
alnnciation can only be made and excepted when
heI shall have applied decentralization to the
roper court and shall have proved to It's salts
lction lis thereto.