New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-17

MISSISSIPPI STATE FAIR.
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| Special to the New Orleans Cresccntl .N..
JACKSON Mss Monday night Nov. u, 1889.
Ed. crescem-1our correspondent took his first
ride on the Jackson Railroad to-day, and this even
ing reached the city of Jackson the capital Of all
the Mississippis. Your correspondent was insane
enough, when he kicked the dust of New Orleans
from his shoes, at the depot on Callope street. to
fancy that he was going to travel thro' country
OF Arcadian greenness and freshness, and to dis.
cover in the city of Jackson, little Elysium of
poetic relaxation and rcpose. With humiliation he
confes5es, as he writes, that the only green or
fresh thing he has seen so far is himself.
The whole country, all the way up, had a
parched Desert-ofSahara sort of look and as for
the dust-don't talk In New Orleans there are
wateringcarts: along the Jackson Railroad there
are none. "Snffis to say,'' the passengers who
| entered the cars in garbs of many colors, came
out in general uniform of premature gray. The
only things along the road that wore a decently
natural look were the pines and that was be-
cause they happened to be tall enough to tower
| over tile dust if not over the drought. In many
| Places along the road fire was greediy licking up
| shlyerlng earths blanket of autumnal leaves, and
| making particular barbecue of each PROSTATE
log, and grand fireworks display of each dead
tree that had mt fallen. AT point, the trestle
| work of the railroad had condescended to sue
cumb to the fiery rim of the ground conhagration.
The timbers were in brisk blaze when the train
arrived, and the fire would soon have cut off COM
muncation
The drought, however, is blessed all through the
cotton country, for it has facilitated the picking.
| Most of the fields we passed were picked to the
last shred; and the enormous trains of heavily
loaded cotton trucks we met, showed what the
| picking had amounted to.
| The different towns and stations along the road
struck this correspondent with their square and
modern style appearance, and their fresh and saw
msh look all procaiming, as distinctly as if they
had said it in English see what railroad will do
in new and fertile country like this ~
| But, to return to dust, mot the dust that the
preachers tell of but the aboriginal dust which
has so long been illustrating the atomic origin of
| things,) if you would like to know what dust is,
you should be here. arrived here in the midst of
darkness and dust. / have groped around enough
to discover that each street in Jackson is river of
| dust; each house is bank of dust the larger
buildings are monuments of dust; the commons
are placid lakes Of dust; the gardens are billows
Of dust Big clouds and whirlwinds of dust, every
minute, choke the streets in all directions They
would be considered phenomena, but for the sup.
posed fact that each has for its invisible center and
momentum, cab carriage If this be the dust
to which, as the good book hath it, we must all re-
turn, this goody city of jackson offers about
as sumptuous inducements with her dust as any city
or town ever had the luck of visiting.
If you think Jackson isn't crowded, why then
think so. The town was what they all called
crowded several days ago. To-day it is gorged.
1t seems to be gutta-percha sort of town, how
ever for notwithstanding that every railroad train
from South, North and West brings its crowd
have not heard Of any one sleeping in the streets
yet. The Bowman House (from which | write)
had every room engaged more than a week ago,
and it is big hotel for the city in which it stands
Still, the people pile into it, and most find friend
who can spare the edge Of his bed or blanket by
the fireplace. SO Mine host, Mr.. II. Hilzheim,
hasn't slept for week, and doesn't expect to
sleep for another week. No mate of ship or
steamer ever more thoroughly exhausted his skill
in stowage than our host of the Bowman House.
| considered myself lucky in securing the offer of
half bed in a room in the fourth story-there
being double-bed in each corner, and three cots
in the middle. went il while ago to look after
my half of my friends bed. l found half dozen
sets of human spoons snoring away, and all the
passages stuffed with exploded carpetbags and
general wreck of boots and wearing apparel. /
couldn't get to the bed in which had so great an
interest, and backed out; but am satisfied, for
have a pre-emption on a mattress in the ladys
parlor. My scrbbling is in the only secluded part
of the whole hotel-the wine room.
But to ''return to our mutton.r l headed this
with something about the State Fair, but haven't
said Fair once. Well, to-day was consumed in
preparations. The Fair did not open, as an.
nounced, but will open tomorrow. have not had
a chance to see anything yet; but hear that the
preparations are commodious and well conceived,
and that the agricultural and industrial resources
of Mississippi will be well represented, as well as
the mechanical genius of other States. Great num-
bers of the visitors are from New Orleans, and New
Orleans and Louisiana will be well represented in
the machinery and some other departments Ishall
post you about all that takes place.
AS l close there is great demand for walters
all over the building. The bell multiplication table
is going it without rest like an automaton edition
of the Swiss bell-rngers. The walters are stam-
peding up stairs and down and all around and Wis.
sitting the bar-room and carrying drinks Of they
don't know what, to they don't know who The
Bowman House is one of the houses Just now G,
BLOODY AND FATAL Row AT A C1RcUs.-The
Petersburg Express publishes the following letter
from WHITEHALL N. c.. dated Nov. s.:
A bloody and exciting row occurred at this place
this afternoon about o'clock. A man named
Grantham, who was inebriatcd, attempted to enter
Robinson's Circus, but was repelled by the door
keeper. A difficulty ensued in which circus men
and the friends of Grantham participated. The
fight was very desperate, bowie knives were used
and pistols fired. Mr.. Leach, schoolmaster here
was killed by pistol shot, and brother of Gran
than was dangerously wounded in the same man
ner. He is expected to die.
One of the circus men named Robinson-I have
not learned whether he was the proprietor-was
dreadfully stabbed on the shoulder. The wound is
about four inches in length, and went to the bone
The matter will be legally investigated. Writs
have been issued for the arrest of all parties con-
cerned.
JOHN Browns PIKEs.-Charles Blair, the manu-
facturer of John Browns pixies, says that Brown
never informed him what he intended to do with
them. He says:
In March, 1851, old Brown came to this town and
exhibited some weapons which he claimed to have
taken from Capt H. G. Pate at the battle of Black
Jack. Among others was bowie. knife or dirk
having a blade about eight inches long. Brown
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