Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-01

" OOdviIIe and SOuIhern MIssis.
slpDI-CIIntOn, Louisiana, Con.
dIIiOn OF People BuIIdOXerS.
Etc.
Editor Herald
S. slight is the intercourse with
WOOdvillr, aud that portion OF the
State. of Your people that it IS a sort
of Terra i%ncOgnlta' 10 most OF Us.
And yet 1t is most interesting country
and a refined aud hospitable people.
The railroad from Bayou Sara runs to
Woodyille srmI.oCclsiOua -runs did
say, walks would be more apprOpri.
ate. l. il a slow coach, Stopping at the
'lAniings." a. they are called, along the
road, every mile or 81 TO put OIL
irCight-here a bucket OF butter. Il kr2
If lard, here q little corn, or oats, 0.
cork. sud all OF II such stuff NJ economy
aul good tArmiI = caches should be-
prUducrd at home. NJ wonh,r the
cry Ut hard times i. hratd through the
iind, when people with ucA pastures,
lovely climate, aud fertile vi par
tribute TO the West, The later Is
growing in material wtai Il year BY
year our condition | need not refer to.
II j. vtri ~ islaclOry 10 HE minds o:
some ptupi' IN the South TO heac trav.
Cicrs LAY, that cur condition Il better
than at the Nor b. II i a tal'acy, for
slrangers q, lhi- line see u,
when the crop is cpmiug IN. and
are not aware that the people
IN the country hsve caIen It ur
before it was made Woodvilc i, a
pretty town, built on 4 ,qusrc, the
COurt-hOu-e being thu ceulre. Its
trade has frlIen Oh since the war, For;
Adams taking I'll some Of il, aud C.iu.
ton, La" a p%o::ion. The people VI the
latter places are more enterprising
ia opening roads and facilities
for getting to these points. The high
price OF transporlrlirn over the rail-.
road from Bay "a Sara to Woodville
also gives aE excuse :or the merchants
Of The latter place 10 put higt figures on
tu-ir wares. | heard Of thirty 10 tLir.
ty-tive dollars being charged for pork
on time. | came near say ing being
paid Tor it, but who can pay out OF
deb, at such tigurcsE The consequence
is that The cotton planter is poor, aud
remains in deb;. and The merchant IL
gich in lands aud On his books. The
who,t system !, radically wrong, and
TAI, he credit system is abolished tie
porte. merchants. and planters wi!l re.
main pOor. Clinton, La. is a nice
place, pr, lilly built, aud full OF live
people, but laborers are leaving for the
river, owing tU the trouble, il the al.
ioiuing count! oil Amite, IN MississiI .
ri, and there j. q desire among them &c
90 " Il bra" Il beria) a pl ice that
ills their thoughts like "a mule and
forty acres" u-cd 10 do. There was,
during the war, salt works In this
~neighborho d called Liberia" aud be.
ing then OF note, most of them heard OF
/. it, aud thiuk Liberia in Africa is an
overland route. Whilst in Clinton |
saw the man who originated the slang
expression "hull dOCz,' and not bull
dvl as the Northern papers have it,
ILL, EAIue, | learn, is WAGNER, a Pc.
lander, and u drinking character, work
ius one day and idle six. lie saw a
party Of regulators riding up the street,
who had been out 10 stop cattle and
hog thieves from prowling over the
d. parish, and lie cried out, half drunk 81
, he Was, "here comes bul'doOzers." II
created a laugh, and grew into use, and
. is now recognized slang. A.