The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-06-02
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE NEWS.

""'"i "V'oS 'he SPliN vi yOut Occa-
sional" correspondent 10 send you anoth-
er missiye-epistolary. The weather
has been exceedingly. pleasant during the
month of May. 1t has given us fair
skies, gentle breezes, myriads of flowers,
and love-provoking. moon-lit evenings.
All these, with the bright eyes of the
Mobile girls, are a dangerous snare for
bachelordom. May is the most delight
full month of the year in our city. The
busy hum of winter has hushed, and the
tired traders have leisure for social inter-
course with friends. Now is the time to
see the environs of Mobile in all their
beauty. A stranger who sees only the
business part of the city sees nothing of
its beauty. 1t is in the environs that the
beauties of nature and the hahdiwork of
tasteful art are exhibited. The quietlit
tie cottage down the bay, embowered in
wilderness of flowers, amid orchards
pendant with golden fruitage; the groves
where the fragrant magnolia burdens the
air with its perfume
"Where woodbines mix in am0rous play
And breathe their fragrant lives away"
No region can surpass Mobile in the
beauty, luxuriance, or abundance of its
flowers. The rose isthe admitted "queen
of flowers and in the gorgeousness of
It's iints, and the richness of its cooring,
it excelS them all; but the magnolia,
bursting in its wild beauty in the prime
val forest, scorning the tanning hand of
art, and clad in simple white is repub-
lican fower-a type of liberty, indigo
nous to our free soil. Give me then, not
the rose, but the magnolia, glorious for
its wild luxuriance, beautiful as a vestal
virgin in its simple garb of white, and
delicious in It's fragrance as the breath of
the sweet south wind,
That breathes upon bank OF ylolets
Stealing and giving odor,"
Every day a boquet of magnolias,
bought from the little gamias on the
streets, diffuses its fragrance through my |
mot ejitorial) sanctum.
Let me- correct mistake which coun-
Try people make in surprising that Mo-
bile is hot in summer. The fact is far
otherwise. There is an almost constant
ea-breezc, and if man will keep his
Dom (having it well airedD he will never
,e hot, even in August. Mobile is sew
,ral degrees cooler all the summer than
he interior is. | have never yet felt
lncomfortably warm in Mobile.
On the first of June our summer re-
sorts will be open. Point Clear is the
avorite, but Hollywood has many visi-
ors and residents in the summer. Both
If them enjoy fine sea-breeze, and fur
lish excelling sea-bathing, yachting and
fishing. The young ladies furnish any
quantity of flirting, and all together a
man may have good time at either
place--vastly better than at the North
ern humbug resorts, or at humbug
. springs" in the backwoods.
Tomorrow Judge Campbell, of the L.
S. supreme court, holds the circuit court
for this District. There are some indict-
ments found against persons for buying,
selling, or holding some of the imported
Africans of the Echo, and | presume that
the indictments will be tried. | have no
doubt of the acquittal Of the defendants.
Witnesses will be slow to testify, and ju-
ries will be hard to convince either of the
facts or the constitutionality of the law.
There is a terrible muss existing here
among the democracy. That party in
this district has large, South Carolina,
Calhounish, Southern rights element,
which does not yoke tremendously with
the federal hunkers who compose the 9TH
er part. The party has now two rival
candidates for congress. The federal
hunkers have nominated Stallworth, and
the calhounites have brought out Shep-
herd. have very little sympathy either
way, and am pretty much in the condi-
ton of the woman who witnessed the
fight between her worthless husband and
the bear, and hurraed for each as he got
temporary advantage. Shepherd, how
ever, is against the administration, and
withal is an honest man, and cove
him one (vote) for that.
The Register the democratic organ of
this city, and of the State, is distressing
its party, and edifying the opposition, by
its fiery attacks upon Mr.. Buchanan
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