The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-01-17

October 6,77I go
November, 1856 90
From the lst to the 18th Dec. 8,946 50
S32, 402 80
Fourteen thousand bales of cotton of the
last crop were taken into Vicksburg on the
road previous TO the 18th of last month
Two hundred thousand dollars will be re
quired 10 finish the road 10 this placer
eCt the necessary ware houses, and place a
tsuliicicnl number Of locomotives and cars
upon the road. The receipts on the road
and at the counter Of the Bank. are CHI, Ay
in their own paper and cannot be used in
finishing The road.
also transmit a letter of the Cashier of
the Grand Gulf Rail Road and Banking Com
pany, showing the amount expended in the
construction of the road and an estimate OF
the probable sum required TO complete it,
! Tedious law suits relative 10 the right OF
way, have retarded the completion Of the
work.
The report of the engineer of the Jackson
and Brandon Rail Road and ridge Company
is submitted. The total cost OF the work i
estimated at three hundred and forty five
thousand, three hundred and thirty-four dol
| lars, and fifteen thousand dollars is required
TO finish the work. proposition has been
spoken OF to surrender this road TO the state.
in payment of the debt owed by the Brandon
Bank. | am unable to say whether it would
be in the power of this Bank TO relieve the
road from the encumbrances upon it. The
contractors have not been fully paid, and
| Judgment creditors no doubt will endeayor
-,
their demands.
The report of the state Artichect herewith
transmitted, sheWs that the State prison can
| be made ready for the reception of forty or
! fifty convicts, in four or five weeks. The
prison is constructed to keep convicts, in
! solitary confinement during the night. and
at hard labor during the day. am satisfied
that solitary confinement during the night,
as we'll as in the day at hard labor, would be
preferable. Hardened Williams would thus
| be deprived of the means OF coyruptlDg those
less stepped in crime themselves. 1t would
be well to give both systems fair Trial, and
| therefore suggest the propfiety of having
the other wing OF the Penetentiary construc-
ted on the Pennsylvania plan. Ten thous-
and dollars were appropriated six years ago
for the building of mansion for the govern
u
been made, and further appropriation will
be necessary to finish the house. Personally
| have no interest in its completion. When
came into Office made great sacrifice TO
obtain a residence, and am willing to remain
in it untiIthe expiration ofmy term. found
it impossible to rent suitable house on any
terms. The constitution requires the exec
tive to reside at the seat of government
1t has been the practice o. our sister states to
provide mansions for their Chief Magistrates.
Surely the wealth and resources Of the state
Justify us in following their example.
| A Geological, Typographical, and Agricul-
tura survey of the whole state is called for
by considerations ofpublic utility. Immense
masses of coal and iron ore are known to
exist in several parts of the state. The low
price OF cotton, and the very great increase
of its production will compel many of our
planters to turn their attention to other pur-
suits The manufacture of iron and coarse
cotton cloths and bagging, fabricated out of
cotton, would no doubt be found profitable
in this state, and prevent an annual drain
of million and a half of dollars taken from
us bv those to whom we owe nothing. I'll
is now well ascertained, that bagging man
uiactured out of cotton answers an excellent
purpose. BY dispensing with the use of
hooks in rolling the bales, and keeping them
unexposed. it would soon supersede the use
of Scotch and Kentucky bagging. A home
market would thus be afforded for our infe-
rior, and trashy cotton. To advance in. the
science of agriculture, and to ascertain the
hidden treasures of the earth, proper meas
ures must be adopted by the state authorities. |
Individual enterprise cannot deveiope our
latent resources for many years. 4 large |
portion of the rich alluviaI lands in the state |
are subject toannual inundation. An ;nves- |
tigation of the means necessary to reclaim |
this valuable land might be The means OF /
bringing into cultivation several million of
acres now lying waste. The general health |
of the people of the state, more especially on I
its western borders, would be greatly bene-
fitted by draining the neighboring swamps.
When our.immense mineral resources shall
have been known, and the superior quality
of our soil and climate properly appreciated,
emigrants will pour into the country; de-
mand will exist Tor our surplus property, and
the country be soon freed from debt. Du-
ring our territorial existence, tobacco, indi-
90 and rice were cultivated to some extent.
and with considerable profit. The soil and
climate is Welladapted to the growth ofthose
articles, and it is worthy OF the consideration
IF our agriculturists, whether the cultivation
If those products would not afford good
profit.
The report of the Sank Commissioners of
he State Of Mississippi, and. copies OF my
etters to the President and Managers of the
Mississippi Union Bank, and the President
# the Planters Bank, and the statements
furnished bv them, are submitted TO your
consideration. The act approved May 12,
837, provides for the election ofthree bank
commissioners by the Legislature who shall
odd the Office for the term of two years; and
be eighth section of the act. expressly pro-
ides 'fthat whenever vacancy shall hap