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JONES k WILLINGHAM.
VOLUME XXV.!
Attorneys.
w. o. Ttioai.io.
AfTOItN^KY AT l,AW,
i Ormigr, Ocoi-rIh.
AI.I1ICHT II. COX,
AtTOUNllY At t.AW,
iGriingc, C.'cor^lu.
III.L praotlco In all tho Courts of tlm Tallapooi
Circuits. nmrr.lt to
TOOLIS A MABRY,
ATTOlltfEYH AT. LAW.
, . l«a(2rnngr, Georgia,
wl\1TILL practice in tlm Superior (Niurls of tho counties
if of Troup, Hoard, Carroll, Coweta, Meflwother ami
Harris. AIho, in tlm Supremo Court of deoi'mil, ana in
, tlm United States IMhO-IcI Court at Atlanta.
Jtjr OFFIOK-Enst Side of tlm Public ftytUUta. octkl-tf
h. c. VKiinKt.r,, I s. j. iUmmoni*. I k. w. hammonu,
LaOrnnge, Oa. | Atlanta, Ga. | I,aOrangC', Ga.
FICKHEI.b, It' I MOM 1) & B1U).,
LA OKAXGE, GA., ElUD.VY MORXLNU, NOVEMBER 26, 1809.
{NUMBER 48. b;
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It 13 POUT
Of Rev. C. W. {Inward to Cot. R. Halbert, Super
intendent U'Vyforn <t* Atlantic Railroad, on the
foul, Iron j (inti Oil formation of Northwest Oeor-
gln.
W. &. A. 11., Superintendent's Office, )
Atlanta, (Ja , 8 opt. 3, 1809. )'
Rcr. C. W. Howard, Kingston, Go.:
Hih:—Impropgqd with tho convjction that vulu-
rtlili; deposits of coal exist on, or not far from,
the lino of tho \V. A. A. R. It., nncl believing it
to bo of vital importauco to the Road and peo
ple of Georgia to bo assured of tho faot, if it bo
ho, that tho buHincHH of tho Hoad may bo aug-
montod and tho development of oilier great in
tercuts facilitated, I hereby authorize and em
power yon to make a general preliminary explo
ration of the portion of the territory of Georgia
betwcon the W. tfc A. It. It. and the State of Ala
bama and Tonucsscn, north of Home, Oa., with
II View to testing whether or not coni oxistn there.
Although the information sought is of great
importance, it is desirable that the time employ-
very slow impression upon them. Nature seems
to have guarded her treasures of coal by these
rocky emhattlements cast and west. Hound
Mountain makes tin reception. It rises from
this central basin. Its sides not being rooky,
are donued into ravines by water, hence the coal
hIioWs itself freelyi Kquill quantities may exist,
and reasoning from analogy, probaly do exist,
elsewhere on the mountain, Unt from the nature
of things, they do not ana call not with equal
facility exhibit themselves. AuKyUAir. Facili
ties Foil TRANSPORTATION, ONLY, WILL INDtJrtE
LAIIOIIIOUH AND COSTLY KXCAVATIoV.
Before leaving Lookout Mountain, I cannot
refrain from some remarks upon the scenes of
great interest which meet tho eye upon different,
points on tho top (you cannot say summit) of
Lookout. One is ttPrtf the residence of William
Dougherty, ftsq. It is from tho point of de
parture nl Pigeon Mountain from Lookout.—
From their junction the monster mountains
widen. Lookout Mountain goes on until tho
Tennessee river washes it away. Pigeon Monn-
. „ tain expires within sight. Tho cove enlarges at
ed should ho as short, and the trip as inoxpeu- j your feet until at last the landscape closes by
Dentistry.
II. II. ALFIIED,
sUnaison dknti^T,
La Grange, Georgia
Ih»
January 8th, ItflVj.
T. lIOUUIMN,
sunn eon nuNTrsT,
HAVING located at T.aOrange, rcspoetfully
tender* Ida profeftHional services to the citizens
—of tho place and surrounding country. All
'ortt done at Ida offieeshnll bn nnilly rtnd substantially
executed and warranted to give satUfactlou, at rcaHouabln
Bhargen.
For reference apply to Hoi. Ttugh Hucbannn. Hoi. W. F.
Wrlglit. Dr. Calhoun*. Dr. Wellborn. Ncwnaii, (la.; and Dr.
Btanl.cy and lir. Wintblah; IdiGrango. (la.
OlttM Up filairH over I'ullcn k Cox's old ntand. Northweat
tSornor of Public. Square. Jans
Medical,
offer their r
to tho cltlileUft of LoGrange aiul Hurroumling country
Duriua the day they can bo found nt tho Drug Store of
llradflcld k Pitman, ami »t night, at their respective rcsi-
neneca. Dr. Ilaugh may bo found al the residence lately
becupled by Dr. J. A. Long. S. D. LlTTLK,
Murch 0. 1H68.—l'.’tf J. A. nAUGH.
NKDIC VL XOTICK J
I'vn. n. A. T. TUDLKY. having associated with himself.
1 f his son. Dr. CHAULKH 11. IUDLKY. a recout uradu-
Ate of the Now Orleans School of Modieino. Wmild offer
their services in tho various branches of the Medical I*
fesslon, to the citlzi
country.
A residence of tliirtv years lit La .-.
during that time, by the
possible. Hoping and believing your
search will be sucr.essful, and wishing you a
pleasant and instructive tour,
I am yours respectfully,
E. IIuLDEnT, Supt. W. k A. It. H k
ltiNOSTON, October 25, 18G9.
Col. K. Halbert Snp't IF. rf* A. Railroad:
Siu: Under your direction, I have made a
| general examination of the coal and iron beds
of £ Northwestern Georgia imfiuding Chattooga
and Walker counties', also of the oil indications
of tho counties, including U pOl'tion of Floyd
county.
As to the report of my tl'ip which I now make,
I beg to say that I do not protend to n scientific
knowledge of geology and mineralogy. My
knowledge of those subjects is that of* a care
ful general reader. My roport, therefore, will
not ho a scientific ono, hut will give tho result
of my observations, chiefly on tho surface, as
to coal, iron and oil in the counties referred to.
I lbought it best to begin near the North and
Northwest Georgia lines bordering on Tunnessoo
and Alabama. I ascended Lookout Mountain
at Cooper’s Gap, between fifteen and twenty
miles W r est of Ringgold, on the Western A* At- j tom, and approached by a
lantic Railroad. Lookout Mountain at this j fucifig the chasm. These e
point is between five and six miles broad.—
About midway of tho mountain and on tho top,
j there rises a comparatively small mountain,
which is called Round Mountain. This eleva
tion is 800 or 400 feet high above the surface of
Lookout. It Is about two miles in diameter at
its base, about six miles in circumference. I
! found coal cropping out at ton different places
1 around the base of the mountain. Three dif-
i ferent seams show them selves ut different ele-
| vations. These scams vary in thickness from twen
ty-four to forty inches, hut always increase in
i depth as they are opelled. The coni is of cx-
eellont quality, Very freo from sulnliur, and
burning freely on a wood fire. Seventeen diffor-
, out blacksmith shops in the volley are now
; using this coal. The smiths pronounce it to he
j better than any of tho Tennessee coal which
' they have used for their purposes. It is free
from slate and leaves but little ashes. They
LaUraiiRC
Mve nr
Uia fln
eithar fro
ami faithfully ntt'MKLd t
tltf- (MW ono door North of Pullm
and three doors South of tin* Post off’
Kmc
quantity of coal m this locality must he onor-
id surrounding j mous. The seams are horizontal and the opper-
id on oxt<Mi- • tanitv f° r drainage admirable.
member of ! mostly worked was discovered in a gully
plo that all . gully in a field. There are about three feet
»c promptly j Q f 0ur th above it. The coal
t old stand i ft iul thrown out for sale. 1
’ i quantities to the blacksmith at the mine, at 12
Waldron’s Ridge running athwart it, iar away
in the distance in Tennessee.
The other scene is that presented lit llio falls
of Lit to River, near tho lino between Georgia
and Alabama. Twenty-five years ago my atten
tion was drawn In them by reading Norman’s
rambles in Yucatan, in which reference is made
to these falls. I visited them then. Tho im
pressions of a second visit were greater even
than the first. These falls are comparatively
unknown, yrt from tho combination of objects
of natural and artificial interest they afford one
of the most striking scenes on this continent.—
They can be reached, via Ohdttanooga, by the
Alabama & Ulmttanooga R. R., being some ten
miles from AVinston, on that road.
There afe two falls, ono of about forty *the
other about eighty feet. Within fifty feet below
tho falls, a precipice lias assumed tho appear
ance of a horse shoe, enclosing three or four
acres on top. Across tho heel of the shoe, there
are the remains of two stone walls, thirty steps
apart, extending across from brow to-brow of
the prooipire. There is also a demi-lude cover
ing a portion of tho outer walls. On tho side
f tho precipice, about thirty feet from tho hot-
narrow ledge, and
humbors which are
partially closed in front by solid stone pillars,
vary from ton to three or four feet in height.—
It is altogether a most extraordinary locality.
It lias evidently at a very remote period, been a
place of refuge and defence. But for and by
whom? There are large ehestnut-oaks growing
out of and Hipping with their roots tho rocks of
these walls. Who did this ancient and curious
work V It is to these rock chambers that Nor
man chiefly refers.
It will ho proper,'in this connection, to refer
to Rock Town, on Pigeon Mountain, 7 or 8 miles
from Lafayette. Tills locality I did not visit,
hut it is described as being a very curious place;
of about one-half a mile in length and a quarter
of a mile in breadth, the rocks stripped of all
their earthy covering rising rising to a consid
erable height, as houses of sevoral stories sepa
rated by streets and lanes.
These scenes of interest are refered to, although
Thicker seams doubtless exist below thorn. But
this is to bn tested. At Round Mountain they
are now ready for profitable work.
This examination lias cost much exposure,
discomfort and fatigue, on my part. But the
»»"'{» l«‘ v f B'inu mi uilc»iJ(icU'i1ly raliHftictriry
thiil, I would have uiidoivmio uitich more in ur-
Iler tn ntlftin them. TiikV nwpLOlut * vast
AMOUNT ON DattMANT WATFJUU. HKRKTOFQIIE AND
How WUOI.I.Y UHKI.EHH TO TUB Sl'ATK.
It Ih proper in this cnnnodtlon lo offer Koine
Word* of enution. There ,iro wlmt nre railed
"fiilne mill nienBiiren." which lire cn-exteimlve
with the Appnhicliifin coni liimin. Them Inlwj
nieiKuriu extend from the ('ulukill to thu Hnntli-
orn terminus of Lookout Mountain. Tills stratum
lms been picked and pried inlo nt inanv locali
ties, and occasionally thin seams of crushed and
impure coal are found, but too impure, irregular
ami thin to lie of any curtain commercial value."
’I lie best authorities indicate the fact that Look
out Mountain is the eastern boundary of work-
aide coal in Ooorpia. I certainly have found
some of tho coal flora in SiiKar Valley, Gordon
count}’, within Are miles of tho Western and
Allantic Knilrnnd. lint there is reason to fear
Unit these nre indications only of the "fnlRccnnl
measures," and that coal, if found, would ho so
thin and impure ns to lie utterly valueless,—
With the present lights, it would'be unwise to
expend money in an exploration for coal in
Georgia east of Lookout Mountain. It is for
tunate for Us I lint Lookout, in Georgia, contains
u full supply of coal for all our wants.
The question unw arises ns to whether It would
remunerate the State In i/ecriop them doriintu/ re-
smirirs by nffordiny lolhcm rallrotul irnnxporinllon.
It is now a srvni.rl) Tact that wi: imvh coal,
rnoN OIIK, AND PHOllADI.T OtT„ IH ORKAT AnUNUANOB,
Tlinv AIIE NOW WORTHLESS FOR WANT OF TRANS
PORTATION. 1 hero is not now nufllcient private
capital in (ho Slate to afford it. In order to
learn wlmt would be tho effect upon Georgia of
tho development of these resources, we must
xnmino its effects in other Stales, where they
allows itself nt intervals, giving reason to be
lieve that tlie surface ih untfol'liild with coal
■ranis, at greater or less depth, and of greater
or less thickness, and discoverable hv mining
with greater or luss profit. Tho coal territory is
some forty miles long, and averaging six miles
|n breadth, and contains about 140,000 acres.
These lauds, for the most pari, would not sell
for an average of ono dollar per nero. If, by
tlm development of coal at different points,
rage_value could lie brought up to Suit)
per acre, their value Would bo t:t,000,000. Tim
annual Slate tax, at existing rates, would amount
to somewhat under *12,000, against less than
ulilo ruluii
mu tlin alio
JVcw Advertisements,
ttttttt
tKlvurtisyniunti will ini ''liat-gud 2& pof
ndmgJoHchcAn^
furnish ull oIuhsch with constantuxployn
T'nu
the Whulo of tluf time
ness new, light and profitable. Fersous ofaolther Hex I
easily enrn from Gf*e. to $5 per evening, and u proportion- ,
a! Slim by devoting their whole time to the buatuoHH.— •
Hoys and girls earn nearly as much uh men. Thftt nil who 1
see this notice mny send their iiddress. an J test the ImihI-
ness, We make this unparnlloled offer: To snrh ns are not !
well sutistled, we will send $1 to pay for the trouble ol 1
writing. Full pnrtieularH. n valuable sample, which will
.New Advertisements.
4 I<IIS. GOOD lir , l w l'lLit—>|itdc from J gallon of
Milk, without drugs. Send iifte. and stamp and got
reeipe with full prirtirtiFarH Very valuiiblo. Adilrtm
N, At. LINTON. )VilnitngtaUf Ctalo. »
dJitoi.rr A IUV.-XI now articlos («.r Agents. Ran.-
pl»K/rrc. If. 11. SHAW, Alfred, Mo.
V * K „ ? oin »»» ni ugglMl for SWEET
fil IMNK—it • qunls (hitter) Quinine. Wuimfao-
^\ by BTICANN, FA 11K A (XJ., (Themlata, V, Y, ,
■rago value of $20 por acre. As late as 1820,
the coal lands of the Pennsylvania mountains
were worth no more than the present value of
the Lookout lands. Yet the Pennsylvania coal
lands sell at an average of $250 per acre. Good
coal lands can he pinch used at $150 per acre,
hut they also command $1,000 pur acre. It is
seldom thut a large coal tract can ho purchased
without taking in a portion of unproductive land.
English coal hinds, containing one half the
workable thickness of coal, Bell readily at $5,000
per acre. The whole anthracite region of Penn
sylvania contains 220,000 acres, about double
the quantity of land on Lookout mountain in
Uhattooga and Walker counties. Yet the value i
ot these anthracite lands in Pennsylvania is es
timated at $80,000,000. The capital invested in '
mining them Is $-10,000. The value of the rail- j
roads built to transport the coul is $70,000,000 I
of eaimlH for the same purpose, from $-10,000,-
000 to $50,000,000, making a grand total in-j
vested in the extraction and transportation of j
coal alone, in this small area of 500 sqnurc <
miles, of $230,000,000. Those figures will ex
hibit the vastuess of tho coal interest when fully j
developed. This estimate docs not include the !
investment of iron and oil, onr coalalone. Thus
■ . ,« —.■ | iu an area in Pennsylvania less in size than one ,
Have been developed. Upon this subject, I have of our large counties, wo find an investment i
procured a niiiss of infonnatiou Iron the recent | in taxable property more than equalling the
Georgia, in 18G0, in I
SIKH), provided tax bn now paid on nil of them I ll ” *" 'W'ninenw work on, anil s cony of 1% I’nmlt'i /.,!■
different bU { " Il,w ,cir H < * cullleriei a, ; I
different points to advance the lunds to an av- want purwaiunt. proiltuble work, Htldr«-nn .
AugUHta, Maine
AGENT8.
- Of our NEW IL-
• any llouk Agent
ALLKN Ar
FREE TO ROOIv
\f r K will send a haiidaontn i;n»HiM*«-t
}) I.LSTHATFD FAMILY I1U1LE
free of charge. Address NATH >NAL PUBLISHING
i'liila, I'h.. Atlanta, Ota,, or at. Louis, Mo.
\ GENTS WANTED—For How to Haki
the Fiirin I»«y—A sure, safe aiul pra.-tieul guide
to every Farmer, Stock HatKi-ri Gardener and Fruit (Jul-
turiht. By Ui*s booh yearly pIoHta may hr doubled, lat
incrensod In value men made rich, and hottest lain
rewarded. A' .g(»*A and Cmndn. I’.verybody bilya it.
imsj Hold in u I ;\v townshipH. Hundreds in a single towi
Hliip. Agents 'r.,i llnd no »>i-tter work during the Fall an
kr #10U i*
t- OJ 'Ul. UN 1. S PA 1 ENT
r regular Hliapcd Axes for these ftoasoiik' 5
deeper. .Vfff/m/—it dnu’ttalok in tho t
va w..,. Third— It does not J«r the hut id. Touflii—No
jublcd, laud *[>"" Is wasted in taking the Axe out nf the cut. Fifth-
f R better tba
I Fir it—It c
With tin
with tin
lubo,
until. Send for clrcului
I'liila., Pn
ZKlGLKlt. Mr
h regular A»i
(ood qualith ri of this Axe, ICr Mil oUt* i
i;d. If your hurdwarc store does not keep our
* will gladly aiiHwer Inquiries or fill your orders
PltiHburgh, Pa.,
IJPPINCOrf k
OUR NEW PICTORIAL FAMILY BIBLE
The Mom! Contains more than 1,000 large and authen-
1'i pu iur tic IllUhtrBtiona; 50.000 Uifereucea, Direr-
him! lions for the Vroflttble Heading of the
Profi tn bit* Scriptures. Chronological anti Genealogical
_«f till Tables, Tables of Measures, Weights, Coins, 1
. u beautiful Family Ho cor'd and Family i
of Colburn's aud Itod Jacket Pufcents.
« kI ii M< > l l(> 'i-1
r JT
It iH proi
ill other o
Alin;
•d by competent jildgei, to be Sllpel'lnr to
rocurca a muss ot lntoriiiatlou iron the recent in taxable property mon
nd admirable work of T. II. Dmlilow, of Potts- whole taxable property of
ilh», l'a., on Coul, Iron, anil Oil. The impor- I coni alone.
Holy Itlble, for the uae'c'f fainl- I Winnli
lies, ministers, Htudouta ond others. Our Agents are huv ]'. H
lug an unprecedented harvest. For CireulnrH and full i
particulars, address JOHN K. I'O'ITLK k CO., I'ub’rH,
Cl t and 0!7 Hans'im Kt.. Phllndelpbia. Pn. , —
Dollnr, shipping all Goods the
di having a lurge stock to seloct
Iruni ot ilrat-dpHs (ioodH, bought expressly for fall trade;
and to KatiNry ull Hint we nre reliable, we give below, (ro-
by permission,) Jordan. Marsh k Co., George 8.
"Inns Co., Leu k Shepard.
I >OTH in quality and quantity df Godfii;
> Will tes““ ‘
idling each
order is rece
-dpHS (ioi
por-
tance, and, to onr people, the novelty of the
subjects, as to their statistics, warrant me in j he amazed at the number
quoting largely from its very valuable and
A persoji not familiar with this subjrrt will
:l length of canuU
;i" ,,l ".iK largely irom its very valuable ancl ex- ! and ruilrouds built for the transportation of coal,
lianstivo work. In fact, the rest of mV report j As early as 1829. the Delaware and Hudson ea-
will be so much made up of either literal ex- ‘
tracts or condensations from Daddow that, with
Miscella noons.
NOTICE THIS !
Cutting nnil Work Done
CST Terms CA811: .Vo H'oi
FRANCIS A. FROST,
J t A N K I-: 11 ,
(CMtef. West Sida Kquara, next door to Wise
tnity mountain was inncccssihle
\defl-
onts per bushel. Round Mountain and
om supply the coal >cants of Georijia for On
i nite period. It is fifteen miles from LaFi
and about the same distaneo from flinttanoogn,
! to which place they are now hauling hemlock 1 of one half
j hark in largi " ‘ ‘
utain) *
cu'iso, should a railroad render them acccssahle,
they will give to our people a delightful method
The bed now of passing tli ir summer months, without going
mt of the hounds of their Own State.
I descended tho mountain by Henderson's
relv uncovered Gap, with an intention of billowing the monu-
sold in small ( tain still further South into Alabama as far as
the point at which Little River pitches off tlie
that I could
' the brow of L
taut from Trenton,
nonga Baill'oad, ti v
of excellent quality
nothing of the structure of the mountain,
Along tlm base of the Lookout, and sopamt-
<1 by a narrow valley of about of an average
Re, there is a small mountain eall-
puietity for tanning. It (Round ed Shinbone, which accompanies Lookout from
about two and a half miles from ! Gadsden to the terminus of Pigeon Mountain.
ut«
i thu
nd is dis- It is the frigate and its tende
A: Chatta- ; nor throes in which Lookout
One of the
thrown up in
les. Chalybeate springs j the great agony of the earth from the deptli
id Philadelphia KXCHANGKal
it Atlanta raton.
Special attention given to Cnlluotlons. notlO-tf
FERTILIZERS! FERTILIZERS’!
are found in connection witl
views from the eastern brow
; are maguitieent. On tho west they are less
striking, as the mountains which are visible are j and ire
| ridges presenting no peaks. Opposite to Tren-
a huge chasm, perhaps a half mile
it its mouth, running buck more than a
into tho mountain. Tho perpendicular
New rocks on both sides are between one and two
hand thousand feet high.
tacle.
portion of Lookout Mountain ha
■V nauglMi.) j tnn th
Jcorrt'n.
Shinbone iN an almost continuous
bed of pure fossilifcrous iron ore, from its be
ginning to its end. Thus the coal and iron ore,
* are within a mile of each other for
distance of more than forty miles. Tlie time
ill come when this narrow valley will be filled
ith furnaces. Thkhe is the coal, the ikon,
CMF., SANDSTONE, FIllE-CLAY, THE WOOD AND Tilt;
.,'ATKH AT.I. THAT IS NEEDED IS CAPITAL AND
a fearfully tjrand spec- j tiunspoiitatjon.
Leaving Shinbone, I crossed east to Dirt Sel-
his genoral acknowledgement, I do not think
quotation marks to he necessary.
The value of coal and iron in building Up
cities and giving them permanent prosperity is,
beyond expression, great. Murk the astonishing
growth in Great Britain of Manchester, Bir
mingham. Leeds, and Sheffield, and cam pare it
with the old and declining town of Canterbury,
W inchester, and Salisbury. Tho difturenco is
due to the presence or ahsoico of coal.
Proffessor Daniels writes thus of Pittsburg, in
Pennsylvania: “ Tf you would see what coul can
do for a people who turn it to full account, look
at Pittsburg, a city of 150,000 inhabitants, built
up by its mines of coal. It lost $30,000,000 by
the rebellion without shocking its credit. No
city on this_continent contains more solid wealth
in proportion to its population. Its prosperity
is permanent, for it is based upon the creation
of new values. Possessing in its coal the cre
ative power, it stretches out its mighty arms and
gathers in the wealth of half a continent into its
lap. It brings to its furnaces and forges the iron
and copper of Lake Superior; glass sand from
New England, Missouri and Illinois; lead from
Wisconsin and Missouri; zinc, brass and tin
from beyond tin* seas. You pass tluoUgh its
gigantic establishments, and are amazed at the
variety aiul extent of their perfected productions.
Yet all these, from the most delicate fabric of
glass to the ponderous ennnon and steam engine,
ere in ml which underlies the smoky hills
of Pittsburg. Philadelphia, VcW York, and all
the manufacturing cities of X* w England have
the greatest source of their productive power in
the mountains of Pennsylvania.
What is to ruv.vr.NT ot.’u having a Pirrsnnui
in Gr.ouoii? Wo have tho coal, tho iron ore,
the lime, tin* fire clay, and the sand rock. Shall
we not also have the transportion
follow it.
The addition to a people's physical strength
who nso coni in ihe |
(ligious. T«*n pound:
mil company had completed a line oi canal
from the Hudson to Houesdalo in Pennsylvania,
a distcnce of 108 miles, and a railroad 15 miles
long over a mountain 1,000/ce/ hiyh, at a cost of
$7,000,000, for the sole object of reaching the
coal of Wyoming valley. In 1804, 1,561,303 tons
of coal wero shipped over this route. Notwith
standing this large Investment, this company
for 40 years, has been declaring handsome div
idends. Besides this canal, there are six rail
road outlets to the coal of the Wyoming region.
By these outlets, there were shipped in 1801,
from the Wyoming region, 4,304,811 tons of
coal. |
From the Shamokin regiou, there nrn four ;
outlets by ruilrouds built for the purpose, making !
a total length of more tlmn 169 miles.
But these enumerations might he multiplied I
to weariness. The following summary will ho 1
sufficient. Total length of canals employed i:
the anthracite coal trade in Pennsvlvani
miles. The length of locomotive tracks, ii
ing sidelings, used exclusively as coal roads, is
1,5314 miles, and the length of tho main lines
856. The length of the mining tracks, inside
and outside of tho mines, including tramways
leading from mines to shipping points, is 780
miles. It must bo remembered tlmt these fig
ures refer to the small anthracite region in Penn
sylvania. When we consider tho vast regions
of bituminous coal in other States, tho length
of coal railways in the United StateN must he
very great. In view of these facts, and of our
individual poverty, will the State of Georgia hes
itate to developo her eosl domain by a short
side lino of 20 or even 60 miles in length ?
The total products of the United Stales in iron,
eoal and oil, for 1861, were as follows: In iron.
1.200,000 tons of pig iron. ‘
| production was 54,000 ton
In coal, the total production in 1865 was 22,-
This includes both anthracite and
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A RK now prepared to nil nil orders for MAR1JLE, am
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j sidcvnble population, one militia (list
: ly on top of mountain rusting one hundred and t
| eighty votes. This population is destitute of t
enterprise, like out mountaineers generally, but ! a
is quiet and orderly
; At the base of Lookout Mountain iu M- Le-
inore’s e.ove, there are very large beds of fossil- | terminus of th
| iferous iron ore of excellent quality, sufficient to aratoil front Taylor’!
supply a number of fun
At Dug Gap in Pigeon Mountain, hounding [ known by some
! the cove oil the South, tlievo occurs alarge quatt-
j titv of Shale. Some years sineo* the papers eon-
ount of a voleauo in AYalker coun-
- lev mountain, in the southern portion of Broom j plied in England ti
in'Chattooga county, This momi-
ruiis northeast and southwest, and is about j 1
Vo miles long, t saw upon it, without ox- i
•ration, acres of ground literally paved with j <1
heaviest and finest of fossiliferous iron oro ! n
Inch t present specimens. Tho northeast
mrkablc mountain is sep-
Itidge hy the Glmttooga
Ivor. I crossed Taylor's Bidgo hy what is
rtueti
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ns of eoal to n year of
ons tons of coal, ap-
hanienl labor saving
the equivalent of 7,500,000 able
'died men por annum.
it would mini re 700 men to transport tho pro-
luction .of a largo colliery, producing 500 tons
*f coni per day, a distance of 600 feet porpen-
lieular. But a steam engine of 100horsepower,
using five tons of eoal a day, will do the same
Auction of steam is pro- j tinmted at 12,000 barrels per day. or more th....
al applied to the pro- 3.000,000 barrels per annum. The oil trade of
Pennsylvania alone, for 1868, is estimated at
$69,000,000. This im
crude oil, hut the arliel
In 1862, 10,887,701 gallons o! oil were exported,
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SAVANNAH, OEOnOiA,
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GOSItEN IT UTTER,
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AND VALUE OK THIS OltK. It IS INKXIH'ASTIDLK,
AND IS THK SAME FORSILIFKItOrs ORE NOW USED AT
Cornwall and found at Round Mountain—
perhaps heavier and richer than either. I
found the people near these ridge.H Rawing tho
iron ore into blocks, to put into tlie hacks of
their chimneys, as it stands tiro well. This is
general, in several localities.
Leaving Taylor’s Ridge. I passed Little sand
Mountain, containing mill stone grit and grind
stone rock, hut no iron ore. hut in John’
due of j ley tho oil upheavals, regulation of strati flea'iou
absence of fissures, richness nf fossils andhitu-|
minous shale timl bituminous lime stone rock.—
'mid boi
Val- I am
None of these indications cross the Oostnnaula to the 8.000,001) white
tv, which occasioned great alarm among the in- : tors RuUjc, between Maddox Gap ami Treadawny.
habitants. This shale had been thrown out in j It is impossible to exaggerate the quantity
digging the gap, and some logs had been piled
upon it. The woods being on fire communicat
ed to the dry logs, and from these to the loose
shale, which continued to burn until it was ex
hausted. Hence the story of tho volcano.
The strongly rituminous character of this
SIIALK INDICATESOtL llliNEATH IT. ThF.KK INDICA
TIONS OCCUR REPEATEDLY IN THE COVE, AT THE
foot of Lookout and Pigeon Mountains.
Besides the mineral products of this cove and
the adjacent, mountains, few persons have a cor
rect idea of the extent and agricultural
this magnificent body of land. It is large
enough for a respectable county, being about
twenty five miles in length, and averaging per
haps eight to ten miles in breadth. With the ex
ception of a ridges, it is an uhnosi unbroken body
of arable land, of yrentfertility.
The chief market of this cove is Chattanooga.
It should he found in our State. Besides, the
middle of this cove is about ten miles from the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad. The Look
out Mountain sinks so low at a certain point
that it will he attended with small expense, com
paratively, to dig out a road from the cove to
that railroad. It is a question of political economy
whether it icill not be. Worth rt serious outlay by the
State to sore these, products of Georijia to Gcdnjia.
I omitted at tho proper place to speak of the
excellent fire clay which is found in connection
with the coal at Round Mountain nil Lookout.
I Rubmit a specimen, together with specimens
of coal from the mountain, nml iron ore from
the eovo.
rigeon Mountain, which, for a number of
miles, is quite as high as Lookout, is a kind of
offset from the latter —Pigeon Mountain turning
sharply to tho East, while Lookout preserves
its direction. A few miles from Lafayette, Pig
eon mountain sinks and disappears. It is tho
junction of the two mountains in the form of a
V which encloses the cove. I passed down the
ontire Southern base of rigeon Mountain and
found no coal, though I had been informed dif
ferently. I again ascended Lookout. Mountain
at Neal’s Gap. I found a number of places at
which coal exhibited itself, but in all theso in
stances they were surface seams, and not thick
enough to be valuable, varying from ten to
eighteen inches in depth. No search has ever
been made, for coal, as it would noxo be valueless for
riant of tfansjror tat lorn
The mountain is, herd; from twelve to thirteen
miles wide. For tho west side ol the mountain,
the Alabama it Chattiindoga liaiiroad has opened
a coal mine some fifty feet from tho top. of the
mountain. A heavy force Is now at woilc thorei
The seam is said to be very thick, and the coal
of good quality. Tho railroad is between one
and twomilesfrom tho mine at Winstoiii Tlie
place is 44 miles from Chattaitooglli
I examined, as carefully as practicable, the
top of tho Mountain, from its junction with
. I’he following paragraphs from Daddow aro so
by some as Oampmoeting Gap, hy nth- pregnant with meaning tlmt special attention is
readaway’s Gap, near the head of Texas j invited to them. It should be remembered that
the author is a Northern man, and that liis work
' of the east side of Toy- was written before the cIorc. of the
when our defeat was a mere question of time.
“Tho chief industrial oruroductivo lorce of It requir
the Slave States was derived from the labor of well. It
their 4,000,900 slaves. Of these, perhaps not
moie than 1,000,000 were productive as full
grown persons; or the entire productive valuo of
men, women and children was equal to tho labor
of 1,000,000 full grown men. This labor, as a
rule, was exerted simply as brute force, without
the assistance of skill or mechanical means, hut
representing a capi'al valuation, accordii
The growth of this trade has been magical.-—
It afforded, for a few years, tho basis of wild
speculation. But this speculation filled an oth
erwise worthless territory with cities and rail
roads. It has now subsided into as regular and
lucrative branch of industry as eoal or iron.
I have staled, in a former part of this report,
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firm conviction tlmt oil can he found in ro-
munerutive quantity in the section of the State
hut j which has been the subject of my examination.
But the land holders art; too poor to bore for it.
about $10,000 capital to sink an oil
wen. it might require less under favorable cir
cumstances. In view of the magnitude of re
sults (if tho boring w«H successful), could the
Stale act more wisely than to employ a proper
person, practically as well as theoretically fa
miliar with tlm subject, to examine the sections
which I have designated, and if tho indications
were deemed by him sufficient, to sink a well
periment? In ease of failure, the loss
f $2,000,000,000. The same ; „f the State would he trifling. In case of sne-
iVould he exerted hy 150,000
horse power in steam machinery, costing, at her.
J^ess, the result would bo grandly advantag
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B0vl2-lm * Ti A. BARNES,
Pigeon Mountain down to the point at which it
leaves the Georgia line, a distance of some 15
mileS. Coal crons out at intervals along the
whole way, but always in tho thin seams referr
ed to. That thole is a vast quantity of coal in
Lookout Mountain for forty miles withiu the
territory of Georgia I have no doubt. Tiif.
width of this Georgia coal territory Varies
from oNe To twelve miles. I infer this bocanso
I foffnd it showing itself rtt intervals accidental
ly during tho whole distance. I found it at the
tails of Little River, near the surface, and the
mountain resting upon it at llie bottom Of the
chasm at least two hundred feet deep,
As there has been no seai'Ch fof cdal Oil the
mountain, it exhibits itself only by denudation
iu the bottom of little streams. I did not hear
of n Well on tho whole mountain, springs, Roino-
times froestdno but generally chalybeate, being
abundant. I was therefore deprived of this usual
mode of determining tho strata from toil td sixty
foot beldiv the surface.
The mountain dishes gradually towards the
middle irom both sides, both brows being higher
On tho west hank of that river, there
rises a cliff of limestone from tho water fori}' or
fifty feet in, perpendicular height. Fragments
of this limestone, when fresh broken are ofi’en-
sive from the smell of petroleum. These indi
cations occur from John’s valley to C'oosavllle,
ten miles below Rome, at the foot of the ridges
which are thrown up in wild confusion. At
John’s Mountain, my examinations closed.
A large portion of the counties of Chattooga
and Walker is imprisoned hy mountains. Pig
eon on tho North, Taylor's llidge on tho east,
Lookout on the west, and Dirtseller on the
south, forming a parallelogram. Tho soil thus
enclosed, Including the^eovo and Armueheo
valley, Is excellent farming valley land, pro
ducing the best cotton tlmt I have seen this
year, in any part of the State. Tho value is of
course much depreciated hv want of transporta
tion. From many portions it costs 25 cents to qei
a bushel of wheat to market and others in proportion
Av a consequence, There is a large emigra
tion from thesf. counties, principally to Texas,
Arkansas and Kansas. This is principally from
the tenant, and laboring class, and not tho land
holders. These must suffer severely for
’ant of labor Hereafter.
Trion Factory, on the Chattooga, is a placo of
much interest. The principal building is four
stories high, 170 feet long and 44 feet wide. A
population of 450 persons is here assembled.—
The horse power is rated at 175. Fivo hundred
and thirty thousand pounds of cotton were Used
last year, and the gross sales amounted to $222.-
133. The annual expenso of transportation is
$3,fi0(h Four thousand nine hundred and thirty-
two spindles and ono hundred and sixteen looms
arc in operation, In 1866, over $12,000 freight
was paid at Ringgold. The principal proprietor,
Mr, Allgood, a gentleman of unusal intelligence
ancl energy, status that, with railroad facilities,
the products of this mill could he greatly in
creased, A few more such establishments Would
go very far towards the support of a railroad.
It the object he td reach coal and iron and oil
alono, these ends could bo obtained by a railroad
from Ringgold to Cooper's Gap, in McLenlore’s
cove, a distance of less than twenty miles.
But if, in connection with these, it is designed
to liberate the agricultural aud mineral resources
of this wliolo section, there is an easy route 1
from Kingston foi' a railroad. Turning off from
the State Rpad one and a half miles from Kings
ton, the road would cross the Oostanaula at
Hope’s Ferry, sweep up the Armuchee valley,
cross Taylor's Ridge at Treudaway’s Gap, keep
up tho valley of the Chattooga river by Trion
Factory, cross Figeou Mountain (hardly a hill)
at Catlett’s Gap; and, passing through the cove,
reach Lookout Mountain At Cooper's Gap, a dis
tance of about sixty miles. The first eight
miles of this route, after leaving Kingston, is
poor, valuable ouly for timber, which is fine.—
Four out Of these eight miles are rough, From
the Ooshitlaillft to Taylor’s Ridge, the country is
very level. Taylor’s Ridge, on the east side, is
steep; on the west, it descends very gradually.
The Ridge at tho gap would afford no serious
obstacle to a railroad. After passing this ridge,
the Whole Of the rest of the route would be a
corttindus level, with the exception of Catlett’s
Gap, itl Figeon Mountain. Coal would be found
than the middle, Hence tho imperfect denuda- much nearer than at Round Mountain or Look
tiou. On each side of the mountain, there aT6 I out. But as far as developed, the seams on the
inipreguablo masses of rock. Water makes a surface south ofJlttfroo thin to ho valuablei
slave labor. Or, if added to the slave labor,
under the intelligent development attainable hy
the slave, the productive power of tho South
would be increased a hundred fold, according lo
the degree of mechanical skill displayed and the
uses to which power is applied.
The secret- of the rapid decay of Southern re
sources and means of defense Is primarily in
their lack of coal, or their appreciation of its
value. Had they developed tlieir mineral re
sources, which are abundant, and increased their
industrial or productive power by tne mechani
cal force dorived from the judicious use of cool
and li’on, these 12,000,000 people woulfi nevor
have rebelled; but having rebelled, icouly never
hare been brought to submLssioy*
The ability to produce iron in sufficient quan
tities to supply the wants of a nation under all
circumstances of war or peace, constitutes an
element of strength never before so fully esti
mated as exemplified as in the present contest.
Our ability to produce iron is equal to our
wants, consequently we make use of that ele
ment of strength tn its fullest extent in the pro
duction of ivon-clnd ships, tho fabrication of
superior guns, the manufacture of the most su
perior small arms, and an unlimited supply of
rails, rolling stock, Me. And not only have we
tho iron iu abundance for all these purposes,
but opr iron and coal enable tillf mechanics to
multiply their labor or productive ability ovor a
hundredfold ns compared with the productive
power of the unskilled labor of tho South.
Had tho Confederates the means aud ability
to build iron clad rams in proportion to their
numbers and mineral resources, our great su
periority on the Water would have been realized
and their cotton made available for war purposes.
But doponding ontirely on brute force, their re
sources and means of defense have depreciated
in ratio of their loss of able bodifed men from
whatever eattse,
Virginia contains more eoal than Pennsylvania
yet, though the oldest State, she has never
made it available hy development, and not one
pound of her coal has been used for the produc
tion Of iron hy the blast fttrnace since tho com*
mcncement of the War, and but n few tons be
fore, the Richmond coal being too impure for
such purposes. Tennessee was the only Routh-
etu State iu which iron was made from mineral
coal, and tho production there ceased on the oc
cupation of Chattanooga by tho Federal forc-os.”
Will our Georgia statesmen and lawmakers pon
der these paragraphs, and avoid that fntuity by
which in the luuguage of Coleridge, “our expe
rience is a light in the stern of rt shlpj Shining
only ovor her wrtke. ”
The development of our iron and coal resources
in North Georgia hy transportation afforded hy
the State, would he not merely a local or sec
tional benefit, while every man in Georgia, in
whatever part ot it; Who Uses a saw or hrtmmer,
or drives a nail, or runs a plow or a Wttgon, is
interested in cheapening coal and irom There
is a higher and wider result to be attained; a At
preparation by the whole State as a common^
wealth for all the exigencies of tho times, wheth
er sudden or expected, of peaco or war.
The appreciation in the value of a large hodt} of
now valueless lands, and tht consequent in the tax
able property of ihe State, are objects worthy of con-
sidendlon. The coal territory of Lookout Moun
tain covers a large spaoc. By coal territory is
ttteaut the whole body of land in which coal
I may be pardoned, even in an industrial re-
, , , , , . , port, for referring to a well-known and most ap-
1 } ] \ C S . ( i utU } mn , t , hcir i P osite classical incident.
When, on a
irtain oernsinn, the city of Rome
was ravaged by a mortal disease, Tarquin sent
two of his sons to commit I lie Delphic oracle on
the most effectual meaus of appeasing tho wrath i
of Apollo. Brutus accompanied them. Am- |
bitiou prompted the sons of Tarquin to inquire
before they left Delphos, “ Which of them should
reign in Rome?’’ The reply was, “He that, on
returning home, shall first salute his mother."
The princes interpreted this response of the
oracle literally, hut Brutus figuratively; and,
therefore, on reaching the Italian coast,* lie fell,
as if by accident, rtnd saluted bis mother earth.
The Tarquin's were Ignomiunnsly expelled from
Rome, Brutus became Consul, and his name, in
all time, will be a synonym for heroic patriotism.
Wo, as a people, are, in a sense, prostrate. —-
We have fallen to the earth, not by accident, hut
have been stricken down hy the blow of a re
sistless power. God. in His Providenco, from
our greatest seeming disaster, sometimes evolve
our greatest real prosperity. This “toad" may
“wear yet a precious jewel in its head.” We
shall be wiso if we impute the Itiidcilf Brutus,
and “salute our mother" earth. If we are duti
ful, she will teach us how to rise aud achieve
greatness. For none of her children, in all her
wide domain, does she hold in storo a richer af
fluence of valuable gifts than for us. She lms
given to its, upofl our plains, that marvelous
plant, so delicate that in infancy it perishes be
fore tho slightest unkindness of the frosts of
spring, aud in its matured product, light and
frail almost ns gossamer, Yot which has modified
tho destiny rtf rt rtfoe of men, convulsed, indi
rectly, this country with war, and now r< les the
commarce of the world, croat-ing the strangest
episode of history.
Buried in her mountains, she holds in reserve for
ns her priceless treasures of eoal and iron. Wlmt
more could wo ask ordoRire? It is from our
mother earth, from her Agricultural products,
and her miuefi, that we nre to seek, not merely
restoration, but a prosperity which we have not
before known ? By the creation of new values, we
may more than compensate, for tie values we have
lost. No pressure, however gr at, save that which
tho Almighty imposes, can long hold prostrate a
State ichich Mh rfroW cotton, dud dtg coal, and
manufacture iroh, <tnd raise fond for thk laborers in
thCsc several industries. Without exaggeration,
she may be said, in a good degree, to be inde
pendent of the rest of mankind.
Allow mo to close this report with the expres
sion of an earnest hope, that prompt aud wise
wise legislation will cnablo our stricken people
lo develop our dormant but grand resources.
Respectfully, 0. W. HOWARD.
More Fires. —Tho Albany NeWs of Wednes
day of last week, relates the* following: On last
Friday the gin house on the “Leo place,” Lee
county, belonging to the Georgia Land fltid Cot
ton Company, was burnt. About thirty bales
rottdn were consumed in it The origiu of the
nfe is supposed to have been a match, which
had found its Mray intu tile fieed cotton. The
gin was in operation.
Mr. Merrill Callaway’s stettta tafll. In the
southeastern part of this county, was burnt Itbdut
threo o’clock yesterday morning- the work of au
incendiary.
Ti 11*, CKLRHRATEn
HTICVVAltT COOK sfoYE.
THF. BEST IN THE WORLD!
OVKU 100,000 IN USE!
I hr ku me amount
it uity other Stove made.
PULLER, WARREN it CO.,
TroV, K, V.
'OHcriptivc pamphlet* Kent free.
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KNITTING MAUHINEi the ouly practical Family
Knitting Machine ever invented; Price f jb. Will knit
10,000 HtitehcK per minute. A<Mivhh
AMERICAN KNITTING MACHINE CO.,
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THE MASON A HAMLIN ORGAN CO.,
PARIS EXPOSITION MEDAL,
AWAIIDKD HIGHEST HONORS,
At Induatrlnl Exhibition*,
R. I'. S. Kiiubro & Co.,
Sept H ns—30—"m Atlanta. Georgia. ,
ORIGINAL UNADULTERATED GLOBE FLOWER
COUCH SYRUP!
V CERTAIN, re liable, pUanant, aud speedy euro for
. Coughs, Colds, ilud ail kinds of Throat aud LUmt
Uncart,Thi« much esteemed and extraordinary Medl-
; hit* never failed to_ effectually cure every «p'ccies of
! Lung
• long n
i Lung disc-
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A G
s the acknowledged staiulard of ele
ment, repprclfnlly announce'that,
tended and perfected faciliticK, aud by the exclu-
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e. perfect Orgar " - * ' ’
■ th a
to Htylo and price, adapted t ..
for Drawing Beoitls, Librarier. .
Halls, Lodfleft, ChureheH, .SchoolH, kc., iu plain a
. in grout variety
all public ami private uses,
Munir Rooms, Concert
ft, kc.i in plain fthti ele
gant enneu. all of which they MT rrtahled by their une
qualed faciliticn for manufacture to sell ut price* of inferi
or work.
The recent iinprovcmehLs in thene organs have so in
creased theii usefulness and popularity that they are un
questionably the most dosirahle instrument* obtainable
for family use, a* well us Churches, Schools, kc., while
tlie price* at which they can be. afforded (ffW to $1000
each) adapt them to the mean* and Voqulreitlent* of all
clauses. They are equnlly adapted lo *ecular and fluered
music, are elegant as fnrililure. occupy little space, are
not liable to get out of ofdor, not requiring tuning oww,
where a pianoforto ih tuned twenty time*,) ar** very dura
ble, and more easy to IfciiHHo playupon than the piano
forte.
The M. A: H. Organ Co. are now anlling FOUR OCTAVE
ORGANS for $50 each; FIVE OCTAVE ORGANS FIVE
STOPS, With two sets of VIBRATORS for $125, and othor
styles at j»roporti6nate rates.
For testimony to the *uperlority of their Organ*, the
Ma*on k Hamlin Organ Co. rc*pectfuHv refer to the mu-
Hical profession generally; a majority of the mostpromi-
orrect drawings of the different Style* and lowest price*,
vhieh arc fixed and invariable. Affdrens
THE MASON At HAMLIN OrtOAX CO„
29f» Broadway, N. Y.; 154 Tromoiil Street, N. Y.
/told to th'- magical effect* of thi*
dieine. It iflVes nlniosl instantaneon* relief
eases of Cough dr Cfoup, and is the most certain aud
’.table remedy iu the world for the cure of Consumption.
CAUTION.—None i* genuine mile** the label ha* tho
ado murk of the Globe Flower printed in Axe color*, lor
bieh we have a patent. All others are base imitation*!
id not worthy of public confidence. The trade supplied
For sale hy BRADFIELD A* PITMAN, T.nGrnn«e ;
THE WONDElR OF THE ACE i
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THE NEWEST and greatest disc,
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beauty to the lutest period of life. In short, it Id a ttoti-
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Hhonld try it. Prepared by tlie proprietors iu their Chem
ical Laboratory.
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Atlanta, Georgiai
For sale by BRADFIELD k PITMAN, LaGrango:
THE GREATEST REMEDY OF THE AGE l
COMPOUND
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till* and be conviuccd. Prepared owV Bjr
PEMBERTON, WILSON, TAYLOR Ar fid.;
Manufacturing Chemist*, Atlanta, Ga.
Noncgenuiuc unless siguedou each label, J. H. Pk.mker-
ton k Co.
For sale by BRADFIELD k PITMAN, LaGrange, np34
OLD EVER MADE NEW.
r Medicine. Rcntpost-
i«u receipt oi iu ccni*. * * *
;hor of Medical Common
lngton Ave., cor. East 28th St.^N. Y.
A WAY Wll«H Uncomfortable TRUSSES.—
Comfort and CnM far the Unpaired. Sent post-paid
ou receipt of 10 cent*. Address Df. E; B; FOOTE, No.
120^Lexington Ave., New York.
rpHE MAGIC COMB will change any colored half
JL or board to a fiermanentBlack or Brown. One Corah
gist* generally. Address
P lliOAn PER MONTH paid to Agent*,
fipl fJ H salary or commission, to sell
our PATENT WHITE WIRE CLOTHES LINE. Addrea*
HUDSOfl iUVEK VI11E WORKS.
75 Wttt; nt., N. Y., Chicago, Richmond of Mwnphifti
£31 *1 I A—How I rttnrir It in six months.—
v AA Secret and sample mailed free.
A. J. FtJLLUM, Now York.
“Boots Polished Inside"
Mt*n in Virginia citj*;
displayed on a
THE PUREST, BEST AND CHEAPEST.
tSf AflUSHED 1WW.
tol.rl v'tn df COi, NEW YORK.
■«. TRT ho A H*:
SOI.D BY ALL GROCERS.
SOUTH’N FEMALE COLLECE,
LnOranc-fi, GtfrtrgiiAi
• FACULTYi
I. IS COX. A. M., Preftldant,
Mathoraatic* aud Ancient Language*.
Itav, H. C. HORNADY,
Mental and Moral Science and Evidences Christianity)
Miss CARRIER. STARKLY—Ffeiich.
Mfli: I: F. Cdx—Botany arid A*tnmojny.
Music Department:
Mi*R CARRIE R. STARKLY, Principal,
Miss M. E. STAKELY.
Primary Department*
Mrs. I. F. OOX.
Ornamental Department and Fin© Arta:
Miss M. E. STAKELY.
TnK exercise* of thia Institution are eon*
ducted in the largo and conitiiodtoita fraHdinf
recently occupied by George C. U.eafd, Eaq.j
a* a residence. Thi* building has been
purchased and thoroughly repaired by the
Preliidoul, and udaptod to the wants of th*
College.
Au extensive chemical and philosophical apparatus, and
a cabiuet of minerals—ono of tho fineat selection* in tbtf
South—have recently been purchased for illustrating (M
natural sciences. It i* the intention of the President rd
MKntT a coutinuaucc of the patronage wbloh a generous
public has so liberally bdftlowed on him/or Iks last fkmr-
TtJtHON—$40, $50 arid $00 per annum, according to
das* of studies. Music, piano, guitar or orgau. $60.—
Use piano, $7. (kfiinrigentfee, (fhel, ink, kc ,) $4:
BOARD—Fall Tefm of fonr months, $72; wilkj
and lights, extra, $2,50 per month.
Young ladies cun obtain board iu the families of tbs
teachers Of with othor* convenient to the school room-
ImtnlMItm in drawing aiul vocal muticfiee qf charge.
PAYMENTS—Ono-half in advance; balance at the end
of thi* Term. Pupil* charged from tho find of the month
they enter. No deduction fbr lnbt Unto, tficept ftrf aich-
nefti* protracted over a month. . * •* .
Tho Fall Term opens the. lost Wednesday fit AUtpl*t,
For catalogued containing Rill pirtienlarii, apply to
Julylfi 1. Fi OOX, Preaidfffti
