Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-02-18
Weekly summary.

based /" on the refusal Of The present Me
= lean government 10 conform to the stip
laions exacted by Yucalan iniayinp dow
her arms in 1872" The following signi
cant paragraph occurs
"Thus,Rhen, that compact is annule
and the Government of Mexico sellipr
foreigners the honor Of the nation. al
subjecting itself to receive its laws from
stronger party, turns enraged towards til
yirtuous people who have formed a loya
part Of Republic worthy of better fate
This, il is believed, has reference g
the intrlgues reported to be going on fo
establishing monarchal government i
Mexico, and placing an European prime
on the throne"
A RIcH Church The property bel,
by the Trinity church, in the city ofN. Y
is estimated to be worth one hundred mil
lions oil dolars-real estate $50, 900 900
otherproperty, 20,00O,000.
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. ba.
made new discovery in the relation q
electricity to light. It is the magnetism of
light, or the illumination of the lines q
magnetic forces, and is thus described in a
letter dated London, January /, 1876,
which appears in the last New York He.
rald TTron;c
A beam Of polarzed light is DETECTED
BY the electric current, SO that il NAV be
made to rotate round the poles of a mag
net, and OF course the converse of this.
that electromagnetic rotations may be
produced by the agency of light.
Connected with astronomy, another
grand discovery has been made by Pro.
lessor Encke of Berlin. new planet near
the orbit of Vesta, one of the four small
planets IN our system. The astronomers
are all alive in consequence, and no doubt
we shall -hear something further on this
subject"
A law has passed the legislature Of Ind.
ana, which virtually abolshes capital pun
islmenl; il allows the jury to say in their
verdict whether the offender shall suffer
seath or be imprisoned for life
We heard chap irving to spout
Cowper, the other day. He commenced.
"Oh for lodge in some vast widow's
aea!"
Strike out poSt, and insert rich, and we
are thar"-if it's perfectly agree able 10
the widow.
MISSING A CRowN,-An exchange pa.
per says, that when the present King Of
the French was teaching in Philadelphia.
ne iell IN love with Miss P the daughter Of
highly respectable citizen ofthat city,
The lady was favorable to his advances,
but was compelled to yield to the authority {
Of her father, who declared that no dauqh.
ter Of his should demean herself by marry.
ing a school-master."
There is n woman in Cincinnati who is /
50 modest that she will not carry watch in t
her bosom because il has " hands" She Ii
mus; be one of the anti, Onderdonkers d
We fnd the following in the money ar. !,
icle Of the New York Morning News. c
Ills great error to suppose that bank n
issues add IN any degree TO the circulation c
Of country. Ii is law of trade thai e,
every thing that is wanted in country e.
Will come into it in spite of all the parch- 81
!e laws that can be concocted Thus "
. with sPecie-as long as there is y
want OF It Tor circulation, it will flow here n
rom abroad exactly to the extent wanted. Fra
! paper is substituted for circulation. il be
w cease to come: on the other hand. cy
nat which y here win 60 away, and The be
nOrc rapidly the greater the quantity Of
'e paper put afioat by the banks"
When Rome went to war with CARTHAGE ry
l !, naval supremacy of the latter was as co
NY established as that of England is now. Ca
ne Romans, far worse off than we, did We
OF even know how TO build war ships: but
Dklly finding model in Carthagenian 10
aley, wrecked on their coast, they went n,
work built fleet, trained their crews. M
ouly pu' to sea, and at the first encounter the
'leated the enemy as in the war of 1912, to
y constitution did the Guerrero. The in- ssa.
unable Y spirit of that heroic people stop.
y AZ no difficulties, was discouraged at
'feverses; II prompted them to the most J. "
'onlshlng efforts and achievements, and WI
s'ained them under sacrifices such as I'M
eaker souls would have shrunk from in
Perhaps the wars of Rome In IN
Iain. ass
~. thei
=, . manufacture a single yard of broad. allie
W. oy hand, and without the use of ma cult
mefy OF any kind, would require the Car
'Or 81 two men for more than year. also
,; are some Of the conundrums RON
a pt were called out by the offer of and
s Tor the best one at Baltimore few y
y ago: tice
why is the course pursued by Mr.. Cal 9
!" On NE Oregon Question like Ore
u; tlselif Because il borders on The