The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-29
For the News.
NICE YOUNG, MEN

| NEoShs TDiIthS. i nave u lew words 10 SAY
under this head to and about this numerous
noisy, and peace-disturbing class of our inhabt
ants, whose nightly bacchanalian ieasts and rev
elry have too long been permitted to disturb tn,
| quiet slumbers of that portion of our Citizens
whom necessity compels to sleep within the com
pass OF their operations, VIZ: the business por
ton of our town. That such state of thing,
exict as to demand the attention and vigilance O
our town authorities as would hardly be believed
by any one who has not had the privilege of ,
nights lodging within the above named limits {,
| pleasure that none but those who have a fast,
for something deeply vulgar would epjoy). A
stranger or even our towns people who live ,
convenient distance from these points, or who
but seldom or casually visit the interior of thi.
metropolis, can have no conception to what ex
tent this is-to-be city is annoyed with drunkness
and rowdyism--
| When slumbers steal the fleeing hours of night
1t is then these nice young men sally forth to the
pleasures of their midnight carousals They drink
to drunkness, talk obscene and generally do that
which they are not willing to acknowledge when
sober As, for instance, can one of the gang be
found who will say that he assisted in obStructing
the streets on last Friday night with boxes, wag-
ons, signs, and large sticks of wood, such as any
one Of them would have been too proud and lazy
to have carried by day, though it were needed to
keep their putid carcasas from freezing, or to
have assisted in extricating wagon from our al
most impossible, but now much improved, streets
last winter i dare say not one of these nocter-
nalrowdies have taste for anything so useful
They think this senseless and Improbable anrlse-
ment fine sport. They are ever ready to do any
amount of useless labor, to dispease some indiyid-
ual the cut of whose jb don't exactly suit them,
in order, as they say to hear him curse to sec
what he will say, to have little fun, and have Il
very silly gggle over it, Such nonsense might be
overlooked in boys, but is certainly inexcusable
in men who have come to the years of maturity
and discretion, and particularly such as have iani-
lies and have taken most solemn vow to love,
cherish and protect the partners of their bosom,
perhaps an amiable and Loving wife, TO whom
they owe the hours thus spent in dissipated plea
sures.
am creditably informed that this same squad
of drunken loafcrs did not confne their sports to
merely barricadng the streets, that being ollly
step to further depreciation. Itscems
that some active exercise was necessary to give
them relish for a contemplated feast, Of which
they partook after the conclusion Of their arduous
labors The principal dish ON this occasion was
a fine gobbler which was intended to have been
served w to gentlemen, instead Of hcin,
v0ured by drunken set of niggardy cmibalS, and
which they very uncerimomously stole from the
coop of neighbor (this sneekv thievng | have
from credtable source, and have no reason to
doubt) To steal "A thing which might be had by
simply asking for it, exhibits weakness almost
to depravity, and is an act that no
man who has but the emblem of gentleman
would be guilty of. Yet, if one were to accuse
one of these fellows of stealing though he had in
reality done it, he would feel very indignant and
ready to rescnta6ach an insult Whereas, if he
had a three fold cord round his neck and nothing
but his dignity to sustain him, life would soon be
extinct and the country little damaged That
little interior village like ours, possessing the
many moral and social advantages, with no con
flicting political or religious elements, without
the least local cause such as are found in larger
places in the form of fire companies and busing
associations, to stir up enmity and cause men to
run into ri0tous excuses and drllnkuess; | ask |
isn't it strange that such an unpretendug little
rancho should be encountered with SO much men
tai filth, and some of it, too, under the mask OF
responsibility, claiming, with all the defornates
which vice is heir to, high position in society
md not only claiming but obtaining it, is an en-
gina which, to my inauguration, nothing but |
dollars and cents can unravel That it is our
iuty to encourage, sustain, elevate and reform |
hose who have erred, and endeayor to extricate
such as ARE morally degraded no one will deny,
'ut to court and equallze yourself with such men,
md who are aware of their real worth and know
he position they occupy in a moral point, who
lont desire to reform, but are aiming to bring
ii down upon level with themselves, is a positi-
N too humiliating to be desirable. 1t were bet
er for that man to have been born with a mill
tone around his neck for it would be about as
afe to loan your body to a lion, as to trust your
equation in the hands of an individual who has
10 higher aim.
Whilst the untutored peasant or savage un-
protected by the influences and examples which
elgous associations offer, are held accountable
OF every misdemeanor and violation of law, and
Who are made to suffer severely for, in some in
tances, an unattended wrong, whilst they are
lade to obey or bleed these classical and sclees-
eemed rowdies may run riot and make use of
'nguage that would be considered degrading in
London pot house, and that too, with impunitv.
nd at a time and place that would cause even a
lckpocket to blush, yet in most instances 90 nm.
unshed, their friends being usually on hand TO
lake the most plausible apologies in extenuatiop {
their conduct, claiming that they are the cley-
'est fellows in the world and don't mean a bit IF
arm; that they happened to be thrown in com.
any with some old cronies, and couldn't helm
'ttng beastly drunk, and such like fimsv excus. '
!. This equals the plea of fellow who was I
'ught in the act of burglary, which was. that 1,
me one else was the insiigator to the commits.
on of the crime, and that be Thought il rather |