The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-03-17
The Disbandei Volunteer,
SAINT NlCHALAs HoTTEL.,

Feb, 10, 1856.
Eddyteys Of tie Sunday Times:
want TO kno efyu don't think old Sui.
furSides is heyin rayther loud gineral re.
yiya about these deysl Seems 10 me, the
way bis dissipuls is rippin inter the ten
commandments is uncommon lively. ]
should persoom the old fcler feels kwite
encurridged when he reeds the reports of
thar proceedings in the papers. Seven,
teen murders in New York in three
munts IF that doesn't satisfy the old
cuss, he must be all fired greedy. Then
thars the spirtyal entrancers, advertisin
widders Of eXtrornory muskiar power and
sangwinary anteseedents. midnite marror-
ders as cuts Up with gI0rytorm, and no
! eend OF scedOosirS, crimconnerS, iorgers
and other crnInul soopernoOmeIieS, all
/ as buzzy as bees in clover time. In fack,
the owdashus wickednes of the ongod!y is
enutt 10 make bishup blasfeme. Tain't
altogether the ministers folt. Don't they
preach TO the " tli-hi's" every SUNDAY
eyenin at the Chatham. ard to the Shag-
his at the opery house, warnin them from
the Stage, and dsScrilin the horrors Of the
pit Unlii the very iU0tliteS burn bloc, and
the lhtrest is 50 intense that you m0ught
hear a pea nut drap, ar kid glove run
tur0o faShina5eI sinners bar In coarse
they doc. Nuthin that the Lords vim
yard seems to rekWire, is left undun by
the laburcrs; but the grapes is njr.
did hope, last fail, Wen the gineral smash
brort 50 menny TO thar marry bones, that
tie rain OF the saints on airth was close
at hand, but it was Oney spirit. What
hes becum of all the Babes OF Grace that
was born agen in that proittek seesin of
failures The oney wun as seems to have
prohtjed much by his new berth is OHal
Gardner He sartinIy pitches inter sin
without gluvs and ef he winds up as Well !
u, hes begun, he needn't mind bein nocht |
outer Time inter Eternity.
But votS here and thar brand snatch
from the hurnin when the gineral senSus
of yilliany increases every kwartcr ?
Mebhee et the clergy would organize as
It relidjus perlece. armed with bibles in
stead Of l0WcnSses, it mouebt do sum
good Perhaps Mr.. Spur.in, tle CRATE
English sin elOrtererer, WAC is cunmin I
out next summer, would take the oliZ Of
superintendent. Ef a thousand clergy
men was to patrol the streetes mite aud
day, yisitin the " Ded Rabbit" holes, aud
oyerhautin the crigs Of the +" Babes ANA
" Blood Tubs, and Stteh, itmouEht hey
a blessed el.eck--Who knosc AGtorun
to the last otiiahal Gatalog, tbars 7,719
rum shops and $50 brotheIs in full blast
in this city. Old Suiltusidcs finds time
70 visit church members why shouldelt
the church return the visit at bis numerus
hedkwarters When the mounting de-
klned cumming TO Mayhumit, he went to
tAe mounting, sensably remarlin that So
they KUN together, it made no odds witch
m00yed fust. Now, as he mounting OF
InickWitty won't cum to church, mebbee
il would he as Well for the church to go
to the mounting ! Spose the Spiritya
shtperds has never takin this view Of the /
ease. Possably, eff they WAS to 90 and t
ork to the lions and tigers of tn devils :
in thar own dens, they mouglu :
git EN- topull ont thar teeth and Shed thar {
claws, and cum and lay down with the
ans. Seem that hundreds of preachers q
$ sent out to the eends Of the airtb, to Il
;0nyart the sayidges at thar own doors, it 5
NUudent be no nore'n rite, mebbee, to do |
Is much for the sayidges to hum. /
Inc in favor of Ltryin the experiment
If church perlerce, with stashins alt r
,ver the city Let EN- visit the dance
Houses, groggeries, houses of proSlitoo- t
hin, gamlin denS, marridge brokerittges,
md lottry, pollisee Offices, and try TO ar. v
est the evil dooinS OF the propriotors on
Bible warrants. They may ketch good Il
nanny stray sheep from thar own flox, too,
mixed i'll with the reglar children OF rath,
n some Of the recrulin staShins of Lucy
ar They mought take the arm of flesh
long, likewise, in the shape of half duz |
in NJ. P.'s to every possy Of ID. ID. s, 50 9
$ to be shure To make an impreShin one il
tay or turther- either ON the soles or the t;
eds Of the onriteous. h
Ell this plan won't work, go in for a b
eglar despulism--a mare for life or good
ehaver, and power to appint all his subs
nd keep the public cash box whar nobod-
y ken get il but hisself. el
Ime a demnyerat, as a gineral thing, in
, the roots Of my hair but when dem is
ckracy begins to run emptyins, like to fl
ee things put TO rites Jacksun fashnn. h,
Hopin that morril reform is impen- a,
in, tho the sines is all in favor of total OF
epravity, in
| remain yours allus, pl
A DlsBANDED VOLUNTEER. n,
az iho encinfu thnn e. ennentast hn