The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-11-13


the most sublime, and the most terrific sight
the world ever behe Id -
THE IRREvoCARLE DooM.-The hour is
coming, and it is fearful and solemn hour,
even 10 the wsest and best; the hour is COM
| ing, when we must bid adieu to the scenes
which please US, to the family we love, to
the friends we esteem. Whether we think
or whether we think not, that the body
which is now warm and active with life,
shall be motionless with death-the coun.
tenance must be pale, the eye must be clos
ed, the voice must be silenced, the senses
must be destroyed, the whole appearance
must be changed BY the remorseless hand
of our last enemy. We may banish the re
membrance of the weakness of our human
nature, we may tremble at the prospect of
dissolution; but our reluctance to reflect up
on it, and our attempts to drive it from our
recollection, are in vain. We know that
we are sentenced to die, and although We
sometimes succeed in casting off for sea-
son the conviction Of this unwelcome truth,
we never can entirely remove it. The re~
Election haunts US still; it attends us in soils
tude, il follows us into society, it lies down
: with US at night, ii awakens US in the morn.
ing. The irrevocable doom has been passed
upon US apd too we'll do We know it, ''dust
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"
ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OF THE STATES.
> Main was so called as early as 1888, from
: Main in France, Of Which Henrietta Marie
: Que OF England, was at tho time proprie-
= tor.
= New Hampshire was the name given to
;, the Territory conveyed by the Plymouth
{ Company to Captain J. Mason, by patent
November Z, 1889, with reference to the pa
~ tentee, who was Governor of Porthsmoutt
: in HaEppshire. England.
s Vermont was so called by the inhabitant
- in their declaration of independence, Janua
4 ITy l6, 1878, from the French uerb greer
- and mont mount.
- Massachusetts was Tribe of Indians
- the neighborhood of Boston. The tribe
;, thought to have derived its name from Ih
"A Blue Hills Of Milton. Il hive learned
~ says Roger Williams, "that the Massachl
,fs sets were so called from the Blue Hills
-, Rhode Island was so called in 1914,
. reference to the Island of Rhodes in Il
or Mediterranean.
l.. Connecticut was so called from the Ind
~ an name Of its principal river.
- New York was 50 called in reference
- the Duke of York and Albany to whom tn
nd territory was granted.
- Pennsylvania was so called in 1851, aft
90 William Penn.
n Delaware wss so called inl7O3, fro
L., Delaware bay, on which it lies, and whiC
- received its name from Lord De La Wa
who died in this bay
Maryland was so called in honor Of He
n.y. rietta Mare, Queen Of Charles l., in his p;
zen ent 20 Lord Baltimore, June 80 1893.
all Virginia was so called in 1884, after Eli
re' abetb, the virgin Queen of England.
!Fe' Carolina was so called by The French
ing 1864 in honor of King Charles TX, Of Franc
!he Georgia was so called in 1922, in hor
'ng of King George II.
ook Alabama was so called in 1917 from
eL principal river.
the Mississippi was so called in 1900, from
me western boundary. Mississippi is said
the denote the whole river, that is the ri
rem formed by the union of many
lea' Louisiana was so called in honor Of Lo
9 a XIV, of France.
the Tennessee was so called in 1896, from
mas principal river The word Tennessee
oy said to signify curved spoon.
ana Kentucky was so called in 1872, from
l,'he principal ri ler..
'he.r Illinois was so called in 1909, from its p
ands cipal river. The word is said to signify
Is o. river of men.
mes Indiana vas so called in 1862. from
Inc American Indians.
lures Ohio was SO called in 1902 from its so
9 lo' ern boundary.
and Missouri was SO called in 1921, iron
: principal river.
) ana Michigan was so called in 1905. from
III 10 lake on its borders.
ring Arkansas.wa so called in 1919, from
ldOLn principal river,
Florida was 50 called by Juan Pouc
, Ma Leon, in 1872, because il was discoverc
more Easter Sunday, IN Spanish, PaScGs Foic
) had "
d ev. EMIGRATION TO TExAs.--We unders
city that some of our New York capitalist,
by tensively, but hitherto unprofitably, en-
Hugh ed in land speculations in Texas, are