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the blooming .cheeks, no regret mingled in tha festivity. The dancing vas carried on vith nuch grace and spirit, and little past midnight the thronged assemblage repaired up stairs to a dining hall, vhore plenty, taste and good feeling presided at the bounteous feast. If the sunset of official power throws off at its going dovn, such gorgeous brightness, vhat, thought vs, vill bo the splendor that should attend the rising of another Gun,"
Tha same paper announced that n0n Wednesday night, His Excellency General Brown, Governor of the State of Mississippi, and his accomplished Lady will throvr open the door3 of tha Executive I-hnsion for tlie Inaugural Levee, to vhich members of the Legislature, Judges of the Court, strangers in tovm, and resident citizens generally are invited,* Such descriptions do not bear out Governor 7!rovmTs statement concerning the bareness of the furnishings of the Kension,
As to his statement concerning no expenditures for the Mansion, ye should also chock the records. On February ?£, 1844, Governor Brovn signed appropriation bills for .‘■■'70.00 to place Franklin lightning rods on the Jlansion, for $2^240.00 for furnishing and repairing the 5Mansion, for £5*674*96 5/6 to settle old aeeo-mts inc'iirred in building the Mansion, for $337,89 to pay Tcppan aid Terger for freight end storage on fiirrn.tvrs for the I'ansioij, &nd 0-101, to pay Villica King for hanging curtains and laying carpets in the Ifcnsion,
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