MISSISSIPPIANS IN CONGRESS.
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The following extract from the Washington
correspondence of the New York Herald we
find in the Yazoo City Whg. Who wouldn't
be Mississippi Congressman?


"En paSSdnt these Mississippians are sim
gular school of politicians, and always con-
trive to gain notoriety, in some form or other
However variant in politics, for years that
State has sent men here remarkable for their
attentions TO the ladies. Poindexter and Black,
the former Senators, and Plummer and Cage,
were much better known in the saloons of The
fair than in the halls of Congress, and on more
than one occasion got into very pretty difficult
ties; then there was Gholson, surly as bear
in the Capitol, but all tenderness in the pre-
sence of petticoat. The lofty genius of
Preniss, whose soul is as stubborn as steel,
yielded in five minutes TO the temptation of
pretty foot; and Claiborne, a tall, pale, Cassius
looking person, and the most inSinuatng man
ever met with, was perfect devotee to the
sex. OF the present delegation | can only say,
that they are clever, very clever, in all re-
spects, and Mississippi, if she has repudated
her bonds, and be in turn repudiated by all the
world besides, will never be repudiated by the
lovely women of this extraordinary metro
poliS."-RegiSter.