The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-03-23


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ZONE m elsa 81 Aea oni
guide res
saw been leins talion
since 500 and know a6oul he
tie time he Emo an 1Vsr yond ou
the Lake hey what leo
81 them, q theli hIn
Next o tie stationed
Il the woods, were Gle aean md Ken
tuckIana. They were shooters. This
IS d the swamp tie ground was vet and dip
perry and the nsea veterans of coronua and
Waterloo fen ike bail before the unerring Gre
Of the Kentucky rifles
They Ted us o'er cypress swmamp
The ground vas wet and mickey.
There stood John Bull ii martial pomp,
And here stood Old Kentucky.
Our ga guide gave me ono bullet which he
had plouehed up the day before --k was 81 be
had ST was eated and looks as though It might
have carried h death pain b one Of our enc
mics on that famous Old battle day.
There Il i movement here b erect Monu-
ment to General Jackson On the ground where
this great military achievement was accomplish
ed. 1T should Be done BY all means, and pre-
sumo viii Be.
Some Of the merchants thatare q tribulation
because the cotton they have paid COR up the
Yazoo and ether tributary rivers cannot Be got
to them Oh account Of low water, are highly
edited with the action Of tie City Council in
sending deputation up % Baton Rouge to pc
tition the Legislature to give the sixty thousand
dollars out of the Swamp Land Fund g enable
them to build Ieyee from Carollton on the
Mississippi to Lake Ponchatraine to I've The.
city from in,qndatien in the expected overflow!
There has. been no rain here to speak Of since
the FIRST Of January The oldest inhabitant
says he never saw the like.
The other night / saw McKeon Buchanan
in Hamlet. It was bis first appearance since
his return to the city, and be was compliments
ed with full house at the st. Charles. II Il
had not seen the English actor, Anderson, in
the character Of the melancholy Dane i
should say Buchannan's representation of him
was perfect. Mr.. B. is still young man and
can improve He is no imitator, his acting and
reading is his own, and dare say few more
years win only be wanting 70 perfect him in the
att.
At h Fench oper theg are pla7ine S.
whit d, Ca Star
u the North.
Among the pleasant people have met here
from our own State, are Governor McRae, Col.
and Col John Duncan, of YaIabusha,
well known to many Of our lady readers When
the Governor FIRST called upon ne | was i'll, but
as told him feared he would make a requisi-
tion for me Of the Governor Of Louisiana,
made an effort and went down to see him.
asked him what became Of the Army and Navy
Of the great Magnolia State while he was away.
remember Governor Quitman had to re-
sign when he was brought e trial under pro-
cess. He explained all to my salisl aetion---that
he had been to Mobile on business connected
with the railroad Of which the State of Missis-
,ippi was stockholder, and ne d Governor Of
he STATE represented the stockholders and there
ore was iustifsed in leaving the post Of bis I'M
,ortant duties. have not tOr 4 long time met
more pleasant gentleman then Governor Nc
Tea, though my paper was sometimes hard on
i'm during the last and preceding political can
asses. But "what is writ IS writ, 2 and cam
lot say j repent much that I have ever written
n political subjects
The St. Charles Hotel is full and very pleas
int. have received every kindness from the
proprietors for which they have my
hanks INTENDED 10 BE az home By this time
ut have been oYerp studded TO remain from day
8 day.
The K. Ms, they say, are largely in the ma
ority here, though Of course don't know any
hing about them. The other afternoon took
drive out to the Lake with an Irish and a
.eofch gentleman. / told them must be frank
ia tell them the truth that I had tried hard to
et into one Of the Know Nothing Lodges, but
s they wouldn't admit me, felt at liberty toll
B as / pleased and had finally come 70 the con- /
luson to have nothing more to do with them. ,
Hoping you will not find this letter dull be-
ond your endurance, am, dear friends,
Yours &C.
H.N.P
pea For several is we have had d very ex-