The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-09-03
VOL. XVII---NO. %.
Our Mississippi Letter.
YAZoo Cry, Aug. 23d. |

lowing is description of it and its en-
virons:
Imagine yourself on an elevated Cliff
which stands some 200 feet above the
city and surrounding country, of which
you have most beautiful and complete
view. At one glance you take in
view of miles: and a grander panora-
ma was never offered artist or historian,
from which to draw picture of rural
beauty. Here in front Of us, at the foot
Of gradual slope, one mile distant,
flows the beautiful river, from which
the city derives its name, (Yazoo, signi-
flying, in the Choctaw tongue, "The
River of Death,') vending its way
through numerous serpentine curves
until it disappears, both above and be-
low, in the dense forests and UNDER
growth which line its banks. The bot
tom lands Of this county are rich and
fertile, well repaying the planter for his
outlay and trouble. The large planta-
tions of this region have been, to suit
the changed system of labor, divided
up into small farms, and prosperity and
progress mark the wisdom of this
course.
Dropping your eye TO within 200paces
of you, in a beautiful valley you will
see what. from the numerous tall monu-
: ments and broad white slabs, proves TO
be the "silent city of the dead" where
rests the mortal remains of those who
founded the site of this lively and pros
porous little city, which lays at your
feet; and like us, as you gaze upon this
solemn and deserted looking place, you
will become impressed with feelings of
awe, and shudder when you realize the
fact that this is the end of all mortals,
that those rioting within the bosom of
this yard, far from the cares and thoughts
Of this world, and whose future is only
surmised in the fertile imaginations of
living men, have but gone the course
which all are bound to 60. Then to the
southwark some four hundred yards
we find q sight almost the same, only
bearing more deserted and dilapidat-
, ed appearance. This is the remains Of
the "old grave yard" used as the place
of interment long before the city had
changed its name from that of ''Man-
chester" This place of burial has been
deserted for two very significant rea-
sons: 1st. 1t was not large enough to
y accommodate the undertaken with room
sufficient to meet his dcmqnds. Cd.
e From the peculiar formation of the SUBJ
4 strata of these hills, there i a constant
|, crumbling, sinking and caving-henco
II this old cemetery grows less with every
g fall of rain.
l. But the city itself is the most impor-
= tant feature of our sketch. Here it lays
it in quiet beauty, with its spires and roofs
If peeping out from the dense foliage of
is shade trees which ornament its side
It walks and whose leaves rustic with
e sweet musical sound in the summer
IS breeze. Main is the only business street
i in town and runs parallel with Water
y street distance Of 1000 yards. Stand
it ing down Main 100 yards below. the
postoffice, and looking up, you can im-
" agine you are looking at the crook in
, King street, Charleston, S. G. Yazoo
Il City claims $500 inhabitants, and boasts
4 "a stores, Cincludng dry goods, grocery
q and commission houses) churches, Z
10 schools, physicians, 4 divines and 4
- lawyers. The press is Numerically,
no flourishing-three papers-the Demo-
crat and the Banner, Conservative; and
the Republican, ultra Radical. The ed
u itor of the first is Colonel Gainett An
D. drews, gentleman of ability; that O
re the second is Col. j. c. Prewhett read!
10 writer, well qualified to advocate the
ai principles of his party: while the THIRD
is presided over, editorially, by Col. a
g. S. Wood, late of the Federal army
lie Candor compels me to state that the lat
ID ter is the ablest paper Of the threc-and
a. especially does its mechanical eXecu-
ton excel. Neither was it necessary
" for Col. Wood to import Northern
re printer, the gentleman in charge being
70 Mr.. Clem. Davis, Vicksburg and New
~ Orleans typo, who does honor 10 the
profession.
he Yazoo City is about 9S miles from tn,
ri mouth Of Yazoo river, and 10 milc
ell from Vicksburg-with which city ii ha'
semi-weekly connection by boat.
at The report that the worm is destroy
ne ing cotton in Mississippi is untrue.
;" saw on the day before yesterday bale
of new cotton just brought in. The
a crops are so far advanced that should
II the worm make its appearance in large
numbers it could effect no injury, Corn
- cotton and the other crops grown il
~. this country will give far greate
Weld and heavier returns than any yea
,o since the war.
d. d. Business is reviving and Louis Den
is the next Governor of this State.
CT.
ee By Arkansas values her this year