The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-03-27

o. ma. ~ caQstitnlion 81 Missouri
esIaiss that ono corporate body shall here
tier be created, renewed d cxtsndeds ilh
he privilege 81 making, issuing 81 putting
n circulation any bin, check. ticket Of cef.
lfcate, plomissory note, or other paper Of
my other bank to circulate as money"
Seventy thousand newspapers ere daily
deposited in the post Office Of New York.
STATUE OF Mr.. CLAY.-The ladies Of
Virginia have raised $4,000 10 erect statue
in honor of Henri, Clay, and only want
$4,000 more to complete the design.
1t is stated that Mr.. White, member of
congress from New York, has been prose.
cuted for $50, for two violations of the post
office law, in Thanking two letters for Ex~
Governor Seward.
The New York Colonization Society in-
tend despatching vessel to Liberia about
the first Of July next
PRErARE.-A German Astronomer has
made calculation that in or about twenty
thousand years from this period, comet
win approach the earth 50 near as to set it
on Ere and burn il up.
In Waterbury, Con-. there is pin ma.
chine, which makes eight millions of pins
each day!
TOBAcoo.-The exports of Tobacco last
year to France, from the ports Of Baltimore,
Richmond and New Orleans, amounted to
about 10000 hOgsheads, all cOntractated for
BY S. p. Pescatorc, o: Paris.
Ii is stated that there are one hundred and
twenty thousand children in Virginia, who
attend no school whatever.
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The London Railway Record says it is
estimated that &5,OOO,O0O would not pay
the mere outlay for the preparation of the
railway plans, ETC., that have been before
the Board Of Trade.
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The people Of the territory Of Iowa are
about to hold another Convention to frame
a new Stale Constitution.
The Merchants Bank of Baltimore has
obtained verdict for $4,000 against ths
United States Bank.
STATUE OF WAsHIxGToN.-In the U
Senate the Committee on the Library wer'
instructed to enquire into the expediency o
reporting bill to employ Hiram Powers t,
execute an Equestrian Statue of Washing
ton.
OF We see by the Tuscaloosa (Ala.
, Monitor, that company has been organic
3 ed in that county and stock to the amour
Of $4,000 already subscribed, for the puI
! pose Of erecting Cotton Mandatory a
r the falls of Black Warrior River.
:
SILVER MINES IN WISCONSIN, lette
published in the Pittsburgh (Pa,l Gazett,
from an English minor in Wisconsin, state
that silver mines Of great value have recent
y been discovered in that territory.
Hon. Thomas Stockton, Governor Of til
State of Delaware, died suddenly on Mon
. day evening, the I'd inst, at New Castl,
e while setting in the Office of the Clerk I
J. The Orphans Court, conVersing on business
: ENGLISH RA1LRoADs.-The number
> railway bills passed by Parliament, in ls4
: was As, requiring capital Of 500 OO0,00l
e In ls45, the number was l15, with cap
f tai of 1920, OOO,O The new railway
}, projected for ls46, in England, Ireland an
# Scotland, amount to 2O,6s7 miles.
. Slxcr1Aa.-It has recently been state
that FIFTY of the Signers Of the Declaralic
Of Independence were masons, and all ii
Major Generals Of the Revolutionary Arm
were masOns, save one, and that one Is,
Benedict Arnold.
all A rumor is going the rounds at the Nor
Is that MIR. Bancroft will give up the Nav
l. Department and accept foreign mission.
D FcREIGN RELAT1oHs.-It has been b
> derstood for some time, as we stated sever
D days ago, that the Oregon difficulty b
L been virtually, though Informally, settle
! and that the fo,malilies only waited for he
p instructions to the British plenipOtentiag
70 The rumors from Washington indicate th
% Mr.. Pakenham has received new instrn
a tiOns BY the last steamer, and has submitl'