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The q-eorgia Weekly Telegraph. TH-K.TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1869. The PleasurcN or Rural Mfc. Human Litoral nre since its birth has been el oquent upon the happiness, seenrity, end moral, xuenl it and physical healtlifnlness of mral life. All poesy, fn all ages of the world, is fall of it, and it is the concurrent testimony of the most, eminent philosophers and sages of ancient and modern timos, Christian and heathen, fbat'agri- eullurc is tho best, as feat and ruost ennobling occupation of man. And hov» largely Ihese august authorities hare illustrated such opinions in their own personal lives and practices is known to every intelligent reader. Space would fail, in the attempt to give ftny jnst idea of tho number of theso illnstrions non in all ages of the world, who have sought in rural pursuits tho sweetest solace of hours wrested from the anxious cares and weighty re sponsibilities of the highest positions in the po litical, social, religions and literary world. Our own American history is full of such il lustrations—of which George Washington bim- Belf constitutes the strongest nnd biighfest ex ample. It was ever a stern sense of duty which toro him reluctant from tho nttrnctioi s end en joyments of his Mount Vernon plantation. He 1 ft them as the lover leaves his mistress or the fond father bids adieu to his flock, nud he hur ried back to thorn wilb a transport, which is Bcarcely veiled by the extraordinary dignity. Ootnpo-nre and placidity of his majestic din me ter. With all bis large experience of great sta tion and exilted honors, bo embodied Ids ideas of rnral life in the declaration that “agriculture is the most noblo and beneficent employment of mankind.” Aro our young men in Georgia insensible to the opitiionaand practices of the most illnstrions of mankind in all ages of the world? Cun they seriously reflect npon the testimony snd cxnu- plo of all tho wisest, greatest and he-t of men. and then prefer the sharp and demoralizing con tentions and competitions of trade to agricul ture? What perverted and ignoble taste drives them to the shops and the warehouses nud i» the hot and eager chaffer over exclnng-s—to the long, weary and generally fruitless c inten tion of wits and the social and moral coutug'oi. or crowds—when a so much surer snd richer pecuniary prize is held out to them by Georgia agriculture ? Ctn their fancy paint no charms In a wefl- OTdt-red farm, with rich crops springing ili'o maturity nil around them? Cm they see no pleasure in the wood embowered c-ittnge—the abode of a lovely mate snd sweet, children—the BAUc’nurv of a refill- d domestic bliss—the centre of all good .and hallowing influences. H«ve they no ambition to nrirk God’s green earth with such a blest nvmnment of their own in dustry. skill and cnl'nre ? Is there one capable of reflection who«e judgment does not incline to spend his life and grow old among such Beenes, tlinn r.mid tho eager strife nud torment ing pares and disappointments of traffic? And if this be so, why are so many of them turning their backs upon the country and choos ing the compsrativ !v ignoble places of the •own ? -Why alionld they disregard the sngges- W*. * wisdom, as well as tho serious convie- Uoa4F<n -wn judgment, and sacrifice a life iions oft tfl-Tr v ..; se 0 f youthful antie.ipn- (o tho delusive jPOi.. * ir plans and tastes tions? Let them fora* tra. • - * ~r'can safe- ttpnn sound models, and then Its., atnrer ly look for incrci sing enjoyments in tu» years. Now is the time and opportunity for our Geor gia yotiiha to lay. in sgricnllurrd and rural pnr- Buits, tho found “ions of a solid prosperity. Neglect if, and their places will be supplied by wiser strangers. But we have been betrayed by the ire- of the subject, into a wide *■’ -portance Tlie Northern JExcursIoniats. As the ppecial train conveying the Northern excursionists, guests of the State Agricultural Fair, approached Macon, yesterday afternoon, a meeting was held, at which the following pro ceedings took place: On motion of Col. John W. Forney, of .Penn sylvania, ITon. George W. Woodward, Represen tative in Congress, from the Luzerne District, and late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, was called to the chair; on taking which he said: Gentlemen: Thus far we have come safely with every prospect of reaching our destina tion. We have traveled with great comfort to ourselves, nnd have received every attention from our Georgia friends. For myself I feel un der great obligations to Governor Bullock, Gen eral Hulbert, Mr. True, and the gentlemen comprising tlie committee, who have provided for pur journey. It is the first time I have had the pleasure of visiting this part of our country, and it seems projier before we reach Macon, that we should give some united expression of our gratitude to tho gentlemen who have thus antici pated our wants. The following committee was thereupon ap pointed by the Chair, to carry out the object of the meeting: Hon. Simon Cameron, Senator in Coiiprivs from Pennsylvania; Hon. C. Delano, Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Hon. Horace Capron. Commissioner of Agriculture; Professor Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute; Dr. J. P. Trimble, of New Jersey; A E K«pp. President State Agricultural Socie ty of P-itn«j Iv.iui- ; Solon Robinson, of tho New York Tribune., and Colonel J. W. Forney. Tn reporting the resolutions, lion. Simon Oimeri.n said: “Gentlemen. I take great pleas ure'in expressing my gmfitnde, not only for the kiiairi. hs we lmvo received during this long -journey, but for the extraordinary ease and rapidity of the journey. We have traveled nearly a thousand miles as comfortably as if «ve hud occupied our own chambers, nnd every .filer, from the highest to the lowest, along •he whole route, bus treated us not only with respect, hut with kindness. I feel sure that i-veiy nu mber of our party agrees with mo upon this subject, and it wonid, therefore, he foly to spe ,k at- length. We are anticipating a oreat deal of pleasure from our Southern trip, and I fed certain we are all animated by those kindly feelings which should characterize br.it> era meeting brothers. I intend to see a good deal this Southern country before I go home. • I do not know that I would change my home for any other spot in the world, but if I dasireH to seek another, I thiuk it would be in the S.in*h, for I am sure that a few years will make it the choice section of onr country." Senator Cameron then offered the following resolutions, which were read and unanimously adopted, and the Macon papers respectfully ai-ki-d to publish them: Resolved, That we return our sincere and orateftil acknowledgements to his Excellency, R B. Bullock, Governor of Georgia, CoL E. Enlbert, Superintendent of the W. & A. Rail road, nnd to W. K. deGraffenreid, Capt. A. O. Bacon, Col. E L. Best, Capt. B. H. True, B. C- Smith, Esq.. G W. Gnstiu, E-;q., Fred H. Walk er, Esq. and C. L. Ross, E-q.. members of tho Committee of the Agricultural Fair, for their generons foresight during our trip from Washington to Macon, nnd that we shall never forget the cordiality of their welcome to Geor gia and their unwearied efforts to promote onr comfort. Resolved, That we are greatly indebted to the President and officers of tho Orange and Alex- -^ria and Virginia and Tennessee roads for «*»-- co-operation with Gov. Bnllock, their hearty -"embers of the Commit- Col. Hulbert and the of our visit to tee, in promoting tho pleasniP our fellow-citizens of Georgia. ° _ **• : Hoc. George W. aon. Stmon Cameron, . — , rr .„ q Wood wand, Pa. ; Hon. Joseph Henry, no. Delano. lion. Horace Capron, Washington, D. COAL, IRON AND OIL IK NORTHWEST GEORGIA. REPORT •f Kev. B. XT. Howard to Col. E. llnlbert, Nupcrlntendcnt V trnd Atlantic III. 11- riond, on tlie Con W -on and Oil forma- tiens, of Xo rill we*, jeorjia. W. & A. B., Superintendent’s Office, 1 Atlanta, Ga., September 3,1869. / Rr*. C. W. Howard, Kingston, Ga.: Sir:—Impressed with the conviction that valuable deposits of coal exist on, or not far from, the line of the W. & A. R. R., and be lieving it to be of vital importance to tke Road and people of Georgia to be assured of the fact, if it be bo, that the business of the Road may be augmented nnd the development of other great Interests facilitat'd, I hereby authorize and em power you to make a general preliminary ex ploration of the portion of the territory of Geor gia between the W, & A.; R. B., and the State of Alabama and Tennessee, north of Rome, Ga., with a view to testing whether or not coal ex ists there. Although the information.sought is of great importance, it is desirable that the time cm ployed should be as short, and the trip as inex pensive as possible. Hoping and believing your search will be successful, and wishing yon a pleasant and instructive tour, I am, yours re. spectfully, E. Hulbert, Supt. \V. & A. R. R. Kingston, October 25,18C9. Col. E. Hulbert, Sup't W. & A. Railroad: Sir:—Under your direction, I have made a general examination of the coal and iron beds of Northwestern Georgia, including Chattooga and Walker counties; also of the oil jndicaiions of those counties, including a portion of Floyd county. As to the report of my trip, which I now make, I beg to say that I do not pretend to a scientific knowledge of geology and mineralogy. My knowledge of those subjects is that of a care ful general reader. My report, therefore, will not be a scientific one, but will give the result of my observations, chiefly on the surface, as to coal, iron and oil in the counties referred to. I thought it best to begin near tho North and Northwest Georgia lines bordering on Tennessee and Alabama. I ascended Lookont Mountain at Cooper's Gap, between fifteen nnd twenty miles west of liinggold, on tho Western and Atlantic Railroad. Lookout Mountain at this point is between five and six miles broad. About midway of the mountain and on the top, there rises a comparatively small mountain, which is called Round Mountain. This eleva tion is 300 or 400 feet high above the general surfuce of Lookout. It is about two miles in diameter at its base, abont six miles in circum ference. I fonud coal cropping out at ten dif ferent places around the base of the mountain. Three different seams show themselves at dif ferent elevations. These seams vary in thick ness from twenty-fonr to forty inches, bnt always increase in depth as they are opened. The coal is of excellent quality, very free from- sulphur, and burning freely on a wood fire. Seventeen different blacksmith shops in the valley are now using this coal. The smiths prononuce it to be better than any of the Ten nessee coal which they have used for their pur poses. It is free from slate, and leaves but little ashej. They find no difficulty in working steel with it. The quantity of coal in this lo cality mnst be enormous. The seams are hori zontal and the opportunity for drainage admi rable. The bed now mostly worked was discov ered in a gullv in a field. There are abont three feet of earth above it. Tbe coal is merely uncovered and thrown out for sale. It is sold in small quantities to the blacksmiths at tbe mine, at 12 cents per bushel. Round Mountain and vicinity can supply tho coal wants of Geor gia for nu indefinite period. It is fifteen miles from LaFayette'and abont the same distance from Chattanooga, to which place they aro now hauling hemlock bark in large quantity for tanning. It (Ronnd Mountain) is about two and a half miles from the brow at Lookont on both sides, and is distant from Trenton, on the Alabama nnd Chattanooga Railroad, five miles. Chalybeate springs of excellent quality are found in connection with every seam. Tho views from the eastern brow are magnificent. On the west they are less striking, ns the moun tains which aro visible nre ridges presenting no peaks. Opposite to Trenton there is a huge vuasui, pernaps a nan mile wide at its month, miming back more thsn a mile into the moun tain. The perpendicular rocks on hoth sides are between one and two thousand feet high. It is a fearfully grand spectacle. ’ - This portion of Lookout. Mountain has a con- original dCeigai wL- .opartnre from cur | 'CoL John W. Forney, Pa.; Solon Robin- I Kklerit '; 1 " population, one militia district entire- MlicWi **" ■ —-n penning tho head of this New . York Tribune ; Prof. Henry nnd j on , 0 f ‘he monntain casting one hundred *- uja was simplv to call attention to a daughter, Washington; A. E. Kapp, Pa.® r - I an( j e icbtv votes. This popnlation is destitute ^antifol ‘rendering of one of tbe Epodes of J- P. Trimble N J. ; Hon George Earle, l f ent ^ - Hke , mr ir , 0 untaineers generally, beautiful ren.li r.n 0 oi one o * Washington; Col. Thomas P Knox. Pa.; Hon. bnt is ‘ iet and or ,lerlv. Horace, by L-rd Lvtion in his recent work a p Wal g > Carlisle, Pa.; William Calder, Pa.; At th \. baS0 of Logout Mountain, in MeLo- translation of and commentary npon the poet. p ro f. g. A. King, Boston; Dr. C. P. Culver, I more * B COV o, there are very large beds of fossi- We find it in the conrse of a review in the last Samuel J. Sharpless, G. D. Coleman, M. F. jjf erons i r0 a ore of excellent quality, sufficient T. Onirtorlv The reviewer pronounces I Hildrup, Pa.; Dr. Nichols. Washington; y| to fiU p f) ly n number of furnaces. London .Quart y. P D Brnycbre nnd wife, N - Y - i J?- | At Dug G,.p in Pigeon Mountain, bounding it a passage of stlh-nlar sweetness and pnn y, ^ . E Clarke Alvord, Wis.; G. B. P. Ring- , be cove on the South, there occurs a largo and every reader of taste will agree with him. j wa it ( Washington, D. C. quantity of shale. So no years since the papers —4M— I contained an account of a volcano in Walker The Tourney and Hie Plow. Bounty, which occasioned groat alarm to the _ I inhabitants. This shale had been thrown out Tlie Sun and Times and the Augusta Oonsu- j Q d jggj U g the gap, and some logs had been I tutionalist are fleshing their keen and trenchant pji cd U p 0n jt. The woods being on fire, the I blades in tho mock tonmeys for which there flames were communicated to tllKdry logs, and Diaaes in mo j nmnn „ »i, 0 from theso to the loose shale, which continued has of late sprang np such a rage among tho | ^ mac *.YhnnsfA(1. HencQ the atorv It is as follows: . . , Blessed is lie—remote as were tho mortals Of tlie first age, from bnsinosa and its care*— Who plows paternal fields with his own oxen, Free from the lmnde of credit or of debt. No soldier lie. loused by the savage trumpet, Not hie to shudder at the angry sea; Hie life escapes from the contention- forum And shuns tho insolent thresholds of tho groat. A ad no ho marries to the amorous tendrils Of the young vine the poplar’s lofty stem; Or marks'from far tho lowing herds that wander Lei-mrely down tho calm sccluoed vale; ... . .. . to burn until it was exhausted. Hence the story young men of the South; but, at tho 881118 0 f the volcano. time, they admit it is innocent sport and ealeu- Tho strongly bituminous character of this latedto foster that chivalrous devotion to the shalo indicates oil beneath it. These mdica- | fair„.hid.ails«™7JSJK»*?£.«-ST Grafts happier tleman, be he young or old. Furthermore, Besides the mineral products of this cove and °o7aCam thefle^ee of bis rendi^ sheep ’ brethren, it is a first-rate school of horseman- tbe adjacent mountains, few pentons have a Or when brown Autumn from tlio fields nnliftctU bJ d manly graco and dexterity. correct idea of the extent and agncnltnral valuo a i. •»».•■>«• t •£? to connection with tbe great and serious business tvvent y.fl v0 miles in leugth, and averaging per- of life, but the world, natural, social and politi- h a ps eight to ten miles in breadth. With the cal is full of such trifles. The beautiful and exception of a few ridges, it is an almost nnbro- has a wonderful balance in favor of the former. should bo found in our own State.— The wild flowers vastly out-nnmber the edible Besides, the middle of this cove is about ten frnits of tho earth—there are a great many miles from the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail- it. . * „ road. Tho Lookont Mountain sinks so low at more roses tlwn potat^s and cabbages and I “ certa , n point that it will bo attofided with millions more singing-birds than swine, bo we Bma jj expfiES0 , comparatively, to dig out a road must be tolerant with the natural longings of | f rom tf, 0 CO ve to that railroad. It is a question worth ir until aiiii.111 . .. .. , Brows with ripe coronal of rrmts adorned. What j-.y to pluck tho pear himself hath graneo, ' Anil las own grape that with tho purple vies. Where" iili ho pave thee, rural god Triapna. And landmark-guardian, Siro Svlvanns thee. Free to recline, now under aged ilex. Now in frank i-unahine on the matted grass, While through the steep banks slip tho gliding wa- | Andbirda are plaintive in tho forest glens, A»d lira id fountains with adrowsy tinkle Invito the light wings of tlie noonday ejeep- A Nlnpeflcd Man, . ^ _ ^ . Tkere was a man yesterday in Macon, abont I yonn g for the ornamental rather than the I of political economy whether it wiilnotbe w fly yeare old, in a stupefied condition. He ■ ■ 1 a serious outlay by the State to save theso middle from both aides, both brows beiDg high er than the middle. Hence the imperfect de nudation. On each side of the.mountain there are impregnable masses of rock. Water roakek a very slow impression upon them. Nature seems to-have guarded her treasures of coal by these reeky embattloments, east and west. Round Mountain makes an exception. It rises from this central basin. Its sides not being rocky, are denuded into ravines by water, hence the coal shows itself freely. Equal quantities msy exist, snd reasoning from analogy, probably do exist, elsewhere on the mountain, bnt from the nature of things they do not and cannot with equal facility exhibit themselves. Adequate facilities for transportation, only, will induce laborious and costly excavation. Before leaving Lookont Mountain, I cannot refrain from some remarks upon the scenes of great interest which meet the eye npon different points on the top (you cannot say summit) of Lookont. One is near* tho residence of Wm. Dougherty, E-q. It is from tho point of do- partnre of Pigeon Mountain from Lookout. From their junction the monster mountains widen. Lookont Monntain goes on until tho Tennessee river washeB it away. Pigeon Moun tain expires within sight. The cove enlarges at your feet until at last the landscape clones by Waldron’s Ridge running athwart it, far away in the distance in Tennessee. The other scene is th it presented at tlie falls of Little River, near tho line between Georgia and Alabama. Twenty-five years ago my atten tion wus drawn to them by reading Norman’s Rambles in Yucatan, iu which reference is made to these falls. I visited them then. The im pressions of a second visit were greater even than the first. These falls are comparatively unknown, yet from the combination of objects of natural and artificial interest, they afford one of the most striking scenes on 'this conli nent. They can be reached, via Chattanooga, by the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad, being some teiLiniles from Winston, on that road. There are two falls; one of about forty, the other about eighty feet. Within fifty feet be low the falls, a precipice has been worn on the side of tho chasm, of some 200 feet of sand rock and elate. The precipice has assumed the appearance of a horse-shoe, enclosing three or four acres on the top. Across the heel of the shoe, there are the remains of two stone walls, thirty steps apart, extending across from brow to brow of the precipice. There is also n demi lune covering a portion of the outer wails. On the side of the precipice, nbont. thirty feet from the top, and nearly 200 feet from the bottom, and approached by a narrow ledge in tho rook, there are three chambers cut into the solid rock, connecting with each other and approachable only by this - narrow ledge, and facing tbe chasm. These chambers, which nre pirtinlly closed in frout by solid stone pillars, vary from ten to three or four feet iu height. It is alto gether a most extraordinary locality. It hai- evidently, at a very remote period, been a place of refuge and defence. But for and by wliom ? There aro large chestnut oaks growing out ol and lapping with their roots the rocks of these walls. Who did this ancient and curious work? It is to these rock chambers that Norman chief ly refers.- It will be proper, in this connection, to refer to Rock Town, on Pig-on Monntain. 7 or 8 miles from Lafayette. This locality I did not visit; but it is described as being a very curi ous place, of' about ope-half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, the rocks stripped of their earthy covering rising to a con siderable height, as houses of several stories separated by streets and lanes. These scenes of interest are referred to, al though.not strictly within the bounds of my re port, because, should a railroad render them accessible, they will give to our people a de lightful met hod of passing their summer months without going out of tho bounds of their own State. I descended the monntain by Henderson's Gap, with an intention of following the moun tain still further south into Alabama, as far as tbe point at which Little River pitches off the monntain on the ea-t side, but was prevented by being told that' the chasm was inaccessible, nud that I could learn nothing of the structure of tho mountain. Along the base of the Lookont, and separa ted by a narrow valley of an average one half mile, there is n small mountain culled Shinbone, which accompanies Lookout from Gadsden to tho terminus of Pigeon Mountain. It is the “ n T d if « *»"«*«• One of the minor throes m uhicb Lookout wa« thrown nn in the great agony of the earth fiomthe depths below. Tbi- Shinbone monntain is an almost continuous bed of pare fo6siliferous iron ore, from its begin ning to its end. Thus the coal and the iron ore nre within a mile of each other for a distance of more than forty miles. The time null come when this narrow valley will be filled with fur naces. There is the coal, the iron, lime sand stone, fire-clay, the wood and the water—all that is needed is capital and transportation. Leaving Shinbone, I crossed east to Dirt Sel ler mountain, in the southern portion of Broom Town Valley, iu Chattooga county. This moun tain runs northeast and southwest, and is about twelve miles long. I saw upon it, without ex aggeration, acres of ground literally paved with tbe heaviest and finest of fossiliferous iron ore, of which I present specimens. The northeast terminus of this remarkable mountain is sepa rated from Taylor’s Ridge by the Chattooga river. I crossed Taylor’s Ridge at what is known by some as Cumpmeetiug Gap, by others ns Treadaway’s Gap, near the head of Texas valley. I examined the iron ore of the east side of Taylor's Ridge, between Maddox Gap and Treadawag. It is impossible to exiogeeutb THE QUANTITY AND VALUE OF THIS ORE. It is in- exhaustible, and is the same fossil ferous ore now used at Cornwall and found at Round Moun tain—pertaps richer and heavier than either. I found tho people near these ridges sawing tbe is steep; on the west, it descends very gradually. Tbe Bidg&at the gap would afford no serious obstacle to a ruilroud. After passing this ridge the whole of the Zest of tho route would be a coutinous level, with the exception of Catlett’s Gap, in Pigeon Mountain. Coal would be found much nearer than at Ronnd Mountain or Lookout. But as far ns developed, the seams on iho surface south of it nre too thin to be valuable. Thicker seams, doubtless, exist below them. But this is to be tested. At Round Mountain they are now ready for profita ble work. This examination has cost mncli exposure, discomfort and fatigue on my part. But the results have been so unexpectedly satisfactory _ that I wonid have undergone much more to at tain them. They disclose is vast amount of dormant material wealth, heretofore and now wholly useless to the State. It is propor in this connection to offer some words of caution. There ore what aro called “false coal measures,” which ore co-exteusive with the Appalachian coal basin. Tbe false measures extend from the Ca'skill to the South ern terminus of Lookont mountain. This stra tum has boen picked and pried into at many localities, and occasionally thin seams of crush ed and impure coal are found, but too impure, irregularaud thin to be of any certaiucomuiercta' ▼able. The best authorities indicate the fact that Lookout mountain is the eastern bonrdary of workable coat in Georgia. I certainly have found soon of tbo coal flora in S ig ir Valley Gordon conuty, within five miles of tho West era and Atlantic railroad. Bat there is reusun to fear that these are indications only «>f tke “false coal measures,” and that coal, if fuund would.be so thiUHndimpuroastu be utterly vat- a dess. With the present lights, it would be nu wise t > expend money iu ah exploration fur coal tn Georgia east of Lookont mountain. It is fortuuate for us that Lookont, in Georgia, con tains a full supply of coal for all our wants. Iho question now arises as to whether it would remunerate tho State to develop these dormant resources by affording them railroad transportation. It is now a settled fact that we have coal, iron ore, and probably oil, in great abundance. They are now worthless for want •of transportation. There is not now sufficient private capitul in the State to afford it. In or der to learn whut would be tho effect upon Georgia of the development of these resources, we must examine its effects in other States, where they have been developed. Upon this subject, I have procured a mass of information from the recent and admirable work of T. H. Uaddow, of Poitsville, Pa., on coal, iron and ’oil. The importance and, to our people, the novelty of the subjects, ns to their statistics warrant mo in quoting largely from this very valuable and exhaustive ivoik. In fact, the rest of iny report will be so much made up of either literal extracts or condensations fruiu D iddow that, with ibis general uckuowli-dgrment, i do not think quotation marks to be necessary. The value of coal and iron in building upci'ies and giving them permanent prosperity is, be yond expression, meat Mirk the astonishing growth in Great Britain, of Manchester, Bir mingham, Leeds and Sheffield, and coin pi re it with the uld and declining towns of C tulerbnry, Winchester and* S tlislmry. The difference is due to the presence or absence of coal. Prof. Daniels writes thus of Pilt-burg, in Pennsylvania: “ If you would see wh.it coat can do for a people who turn it to foil -ccoun', look at Pittsbtng. a city of loft,<XK) mb thm.nis, built np by its mints of coal. Ittbst $30,000,- 000 by the rebellion without shocking its credit. No city on this continent contains more solid wealth iu proportion to its population. Its pios- perily is permanent, for it is Iiim-J npon the creation of new values. Possessing irt its coal ho creative power, it stretches out its mighty knit to be attained, a fit preparation by tha whole State as a commonwealth for' all the. exi gencies of the times, whether sudden or ex- jiecteri, of peace or war. The appreciation in the value of a large body of aow vsliieless lauds, and the consequent in crease in the taxable properly of the State, are objects worthy of consideration. The coal territory of Lookout Mountain covers a large space. By coal territory is meant the whole body of land in wWch coal shows itself at inter vals, giving reason t» believe that the snrface is underlaid with coal se^ma, at greater or less depth, and of greater vir less thickness, and discoverable by inuring'^hh, greater or less profit. This coal Jerri toryi^ homo forty miles loBg, and averaging eix milev i n breadth, and contains abont 140,000 acres.. ’Sfiese lands, for the moBt part, are wild lands, a*d would’ not sell for an average of one dollar pS; acre.. -If by tbe development of ci a at different points, their average value could tie brought n* to $60 per acre, their value would he $3,OOO,GU0. The animal State tax, at existing rates, would amount to somewhat tuidei $12,000, agaimt less than $600, provided tax be now paid ou all of them. It wonid require bnt a tew large collieries at different points to advance the lands to an average value of $2(1 per acre. As latea8 1820, the coal lands of tbe Pennsylvania mountains were worth no more than the pres enr value of tbe Lookont lauds. Yet the Pennsylvania coal lands sell at an av erage of $250 per acre. Good coal lands can be purchased at $150 per acre, bnt they also com- iu ind $1000 per iere. It is -"tdom that » large coal tract con be purchased without inking in a p iriidn of unproductive land Eugh-h co d hinds, containing one-half Hie workable thickness of coal, sell readily at $5,000 per aero The whole mthradto region of. Pi-nn-vtvam i contains 320,- 000 acres, abont dunblo tho q ia itity of kind on Lookont Mountain in Chattooga and Walker counties. Yet the value of these anthracite hinds .in Pennsylvania is estimated fit 80,000, ooO The capital invested in mining them is $40,000,000. The value of the railroads built to transport the coal $70,000 000; of c <nds for the same purpose, from $10,01)0,000 to $50.(100.000 —making u grand total invested in the extrac tion ami transportation of coal alone, tn this small area of 500 square miles, of $230,000,000. These figures will exhibit tlie vastriess of the coal interest when fully developed. This esti mate dees not include iho investment of iron and oil. tint coal nlonc. ’I has, in an area in Pennsylvania less in size than one of onr large counties, we find an investment in taxable prop erty more than equalling the whole taxable property of Georgia, in I860, in coal (done. A person not familiar with this subject will re amazed at the nnmber end length of canals mid railroads tmitt for the tram-portution ot coat. As early as 1829, the Dda ware and Had* son Omni Company hud completed • a fine of can,11 from the Hudson to Uoue.-dale in IVnn- KilvsniA, a distance ot 108 miles, mid a railroad 15 imi-s long, ovi-r a luonntditi ICO!! fet-t high, nt a cost of $7,000,000, for the sole object reaching the coni oP Wyoming Valley. Iu 1864, 1,561,203 tons of evd were shipped over this r-ui'e. Notwithstanding this large inveement, this comp,iuy, for 40 years, has been declaring h. ndbome dividends. Besides this canal, there are six. railroad outlets to the coal of the Wy oming region. Bv these outlets, there were stopped, in 1864, from the Wyoming region, 4 8(4,811 tons of coal. From the Shunt'-kin region, there are four Qiflets by railroads hnilt for the purpose, making' u total length of more than 109 miles But tnese enumerations might lie multiplied to weariness. The following summary will be siifficit n' : Total length of duals employed in tho anthracite coal trade in Pennsylvania, 905 miles. The h nglb of locomotive trucks, in arms and gathers in Ihe wealth of half u e mu- ! ending sidelings, used exclusively 8s coal roads, nent into its l ip. It brings to i s furnaces and . is 1.531} miles, and the length of the main lines forges the iron nnd copper of L <ke Superior; 1.856 Too length of the nming tracks inside, pro fifty years oia, in a — | ri. se f n l. ■ . „ conld.not believe testimony or the evidenco of ^ Cons ii t nt:onatist concludes his deliver- I o^dttwUrtthe proper plao* to speak of the his own senses. People came to him witn uio ag fo jj ow3 . excellent fire clay which is found in connection ro3ultof their efforts to bbtnin admission for s„ much for the tonrnament, and so mnch with the coal at Round Mountain on Lookout, themselves and their babies to tho State Fair— , j n particular which is to take place I submit a specimen, together with specimens ftco dollars far each—babies, servants and all 1 at our Macon Fair. Bnt it must not be forgot- of coal from the mountain, and iron ore.from _ . p. a fifteen—and ten that a mnch nobler tonrnament than this is the cove. . , One man had ten ano . a { so to be contested; we mean the plowing Pigeon Mountain, which, for a number of another had twenty-fivo dollars worth of«season j , Alluding, finally, to this, Col. Lamar I miles, is qnite ns high ns Lookout, is a kind of tiokets for their own families. Did anybody j g ’ offset from tho latter—Pigeon Mountain turn over hear the like ? Isit true? Canitbetrue .Nothing has been written about this, but we fog *-° tbe ® as ‘’ L ^° Ut ^farMT Hut at the Georgia State Fair two dollars each won]A rather that a son of ours should be the £ ®™£Etaii £ to ”S!a disappear* It is member is charged for a family ticket? Is this victor in the plowing mateh than to wda do 8 u f the tw0 mountains in the form intended to illuatrato that tho State is fifty, one J of pretty ^nrile^and^bright eyes vrotridUbe I of a^V which encloses tho C8T8 j. J hundred, or five hundred, or a thousand years Tlnwort P hy the ownership of either if they should ^ e d e f g^ S n 0 ° C g a 7though°I had^beon kiformcd behind the age ? Can’t the Executive Cdmmit- fai l to bestow ^^.^dTes^anSr^S ^eSy. I^^id^L^i Moun- tee interfere and put a stop to this extortion and er who might run tho steadiest and stra g t t ^ ^ ^ G ° p j fonnd a jj nm b e r of places unreason ? Is that whut the State Agricultural _ . . ,, , ,,, I *t which coal exhibited itself, but in all these glass sand from Nt-w England, Mis.-miii and fl- j and outside of the mines, including tramways liuois; laud frmn Wisconsin and Missouri; z'nc, J Hunting from mines to (hipping points, is 780 brass and tin from beyond tueseas. Yon paus miles. It mast be romemfit-red that these fig- through its gigantic eHtiibliiditneu’9, gu d sue : ores refer to the stual! anthreqite region in auii.zed at. the variety anil exieiit ot tlu ir p r * Pennsylvania. When w& consider the vast re fected productions. Yet all these, from tl.e !gions of t ituminous coal in other States, the must delicate fabric of glass to tbe ponderous ‘ length of crel railways in the United States fnnst Cannon and $ieatu engine, are in the coal which • be very great Iu view of these facts, and of underlies the smoky hills of Puts 1 mg. Phtla-! onr individual poverty, will the State of Geor- delphia. New York, and all the iininnf setnfing ! gi» lie-ifatt d dcvelopbercoal domain by ashoit cuies of New England Dave the greatest-source | side hue of twenty, or even, sixty miles in of their productive power iu the mountains of ! h ngtli ? Pennsylvania. I .The total products of the United States in Wli-it ts to prevent onr having a Pittsburg in ! iron, rn J u> <1 y:I forJStit were as follows: In Georgia? We have the coal, the iron ore the ! iron, 1.2U0«00 tons of pig iron. In 1810 the lime, the Gre cbiv snd the sund reck Shull v.e j to‘R* ]nO ine-n..i was 54 000 tons a it also have the transportation? Capita! will < !i» **”»!, ihe*tnr*l production m 1SG- uas 22,- fo low it. ! 855.939 tons. This includes both anthracite Tne addition to a people's physical strength j and littuminons coal. , • who u-e c»i>d in the production of steam is pro-! In ml. iho total production, in la.66, was estl- digions. Ten pounds of coal eppln d to rh. ma‘«J *t 12,000 barrels per day. or more than production of mechanical power through the ! 3 000 000 barrels per aminm. The oil trade of agency of steam is equal to a day’s work of a Pennsylvania alone, for 18<>8 is estimated at strong man, or one and a half tons of coal to a , <>00. This includes not merely the erode veer of m it n .1 laltor. Ten million tons of coal, ml, bur ri,.- urInilea mannfactnred from tk In applied in Eugland to mechauieal I ihor-saving j 1862 !0,rS7. .01 gallons of oil were exported, operations, is' the equivalent of 7 500,000 able ! Tins was Sold ,n Europe for specie at very high bodied me . ner .mumu - ! prices, and during lhal year of the war revived It won d require 700 men to transport the I the staggering credit of the United States enr- musofcoal ^rdav.Tdioil^oflh^'foefp^ i "The growth of this trade has been magieak Dt-Udicnl.tr 1 But a'steam engine of 100 horse It afforded, for a few years, the basis of wild power, using five tons of coal a day, will do tho j speculation. But this speculaturn fillled an oth- , T u \,.:,i. » „ | et wise worthless territory with cities ana rail- 8 ‘The fohowing paragraphs from D.iddow nre ! nmds It has now subsided into as regular and so pregnant with mea.ring that special attention ! lncrntive a brunch of tudustry as coal or iron, w inviTe.1 to them it should l.c remembered I I have stated, tn a former part of this report, that the author is a North, rn man. and that his , my firm convictii.tx.that oil am be wo-k was written before tho close ..f the - war. j muner.itive quantity in the section of the State but when our defeat was more question of ; which ••The chief industrial or pnelnctive force of i It requires about $10,000 capital to sink an oil the slave Stares w.!s derived from the labor of • well, it might require less under favorable cir- , i mm non .1 nr these nerh»D9 not cumsfatices. In view of the magnitude of the re .hmMHW J» were X full results (if the boring was successful.) could the 8i,tortsisns ironoro into blocks, to put into the backs of | of men. wmmn nnd children was equal »« »h 8 , he faj.ject, to examine tho sec- thetr chimneys, cs it stands fire well. This is jlatair of 1 000 000 nil grown men Urn labor, b(4T0 and if the indi- ceneral in Keveral localities. ! rule, umh «xertt-cl s | y » * catioos weie deemed by him sufficient, to sink 8 Leaving Taylor’s Ridge, I passed Little Sand i without the assistance of skill «r m^hHUical ^ ^ e ,p eri inen.? Iu case of failure the Mountain, containing millstone gnt and grind- means. I.ut^epreseuting a capt ■ qmmo loss to the State would be trifling. In case of stone rook, but no iron ore. In Johns Monn-jOording to Southern ntpm 8, of v- >, , ’ 8Ilrcess tho result would bo grandly advantage- tain I fonnd no iron ore, bnt in John’s Valley j The same amount of force would '-e exertwl lj succe^s^tno result ^ tho oil indications are remarkable, as upheavals, ; 150 power in steam _ ‘ J' ' * j j be par d one d, even In an industrial re regularity of stratification, absence of fissures, ring, at $100 per horse power $lo 000 000 - l tu f l J r U ®J er rinK to a well known and most richness of fossils and bituminons shale and hi- j Such nn addition of fore-e would be of tv. fold V™'™' ^["i^cident, tnminona limestone rock. None of these indi- more value to tbe 8.000.0:W whites «T te n y/hen, on a certain occasion, the city of Rome cations cross the Oostananln River. Ou the than their slave labor. Or. f - ' wa9 ^"aged by a mortal disease, Tarqnin sent west bank of that river, there rises f cliff of slave labor, under the intaUigtint dewe op .t. two of bis sous t0 cocsn it the Delphic oracle on limestone from the water forty or fifty feet iu , attainable by the uluve. the prod P”, the most effectual means of appeasing the perpendicular height. Fragments of this lime- the South won d be increased * *“”*?*£? di „’ wrath of Appollo. Brntns accompinied them, stone, when fresh broken, are offensive from -aecordmg totthe degree of mechanicalsskill - Aml)ition pv onipte d the sons of 'I arquin to in- the smell of petroloum. These indications oc- played and the uses to which power * e ht fo ‘ ro they left Dolphos, .“Which of them cur from John’s Valley to Coosaville, ten miles | The secret of the rapid decay of bontl ern re- ‘® “ | ome r P The ’ rep l y wftS , “He below Romo, at the foot of tho ridges which are. sources and means ot defense is pr nan v m on “ eturlling home, shall first salute his thrown np in wild confusion. At Johns Moun- tluur lack of coal, or thtir ^l'Preemtioti , its The princes interpreted this response tain my examinations closed. j value. Had they developed their mineral re oracle literally, bnt Brutus figuratively; A largo portion of tbe countieB of Chattooga sources, which are auundant, and inerea>ed therefore, on reaching the Italian coast, and Walker is imprisoned by mountains. Pigeon their industrial or productive power by the me- • gs , f aceidell t, and saluteit his mother on tbo north, Taylor’s Ridge on the east. Look- j chanical force denved froin the judicious use of i ear}b _ ’ Th( , Tarqu i ns were ignominionsly ex- out on the west, and Dirtseller on the south, CO al and iron, these 12,000,000 l^aiple 'V ) "l<j: pe p ed f rom B 0 me, Brutus became Consul, and forming a parallelogram. The soil thns en- nover liave rebelled; lint haviiig reliclled, would j namPt in a p t ime, will be a synonym forhe- closed, including the oovo and Armuehee Valley, never have been brought to submission. | roie patriotism. is excellent farming valley land, producing tho The ability to produce iron in sufficient quan- j F‘ ^ g pe ’j e) arCj j n 0 se nse, prostrate.— best cotton that I havo Beon this year, in HDy tiiicts to supply the wants of a nation, itnder all ^ b ^ VG f^i en to the earth, not by accident, part of the State. Tho valno is of courso n>«ch icircnmstances of war or jieace, constitutes an j feut have been 8 tncken down by the blow of a depreciated Booiety was mado for, ot*as t people to interest themselves i in the agrionltnro of the State ? Annexation an«I Fussing. less to express the opinion that the grand future I fcTer h een made for coal, as it would now be of Georgia is in the keeping of such represents- Ta i ne i eS3 f or want of transportation, tiye sons who will guide the plow next week at The mountain is, here, from twelve to thir- 1 . ... ... ,, v . with especial pride on tnose iodusi uuuie bag opened a co „i mine some nity leenrom xne Ms* naval expediUon which left now xoik ^ U 0 doubt many of the contestants will I top of t jj 0 mountain. A heavy force is now nt #* Wednesday is to take possession ot the I y 0lin g mcn who never knew the art of plow-1 wor t there. The seam is said to be very thick, Bay of Samana for the United States. It will fog practically before 1865. Our hearts will go I and the coa i 0 f good quality. The raUroadis k. remembered that tho treaty for tho purchase out with them, God bless them! for they liave between one and two miles from the bum at be remembered that tho treaty lor tuo purenase selflrespcct and will one day win their Winston. The place is 44 miles from Chatta- at this naval station was negotiated, but wa« We rej ^ lce t0 learn that this sort of nooga . not ratified by tho Senate. lonmaraent was contested at all Virginia Fairs Iexamined, ascarefollyaspracticable.thetop A portion of a self appointed delegation had |,y large numbers of young men who once “wore j ©f the mountain, from its junction trith Pigeon iew with the President to-day for the the grey,” and it is* worthy of repelitioiy that Mountain down to the point at which it leaves . ( ba annexation of tha Do the plaudits they received from the grand Yir- the Georgia- line, a distance of some 15 miles. pmpu.0 of urging the annexation of the Do were worth a monarch’s ransom Goal crops ont at intervals along the whole way, minion of Canada to the United State*. It did more beside. The youth who won the prize bnt always in the thin seams referred to. That mot appear that any active steps in that diree- at Richmond was offered $2,500 a year to there is a vast quantity of coal in Lookout lion had so far been taken. superintend a cotton plantation. This, so Mountain for forty miles withm the territory of (ton had so far been laaen , flom Enquirer, he declined, evi- Georgia I have no doubt The width of this B»r River Biudoe.—Work, at last, has J dently thinking that though this was a much Georgia coal territo^ varies from one to twelve Men begun on the East river suspension bridge, j greater sum than the majontyof derks obtain, j mile*. ^ . ialaMefa eeaidentollw iltlPttWV tflfi wllfllfl IZTo fet he had back^ne enough Snd teta enough 1 taSf.at intervals accidentafly during the whole The engineers, as a first stop, are constru g j tQ ran b ; g own f arrow in the fields of success. I distance. I found it at tbe falls of Little river, i immense cone, which ifl to be lowered on the There is another consideration happily hit upon J near the surface, and the mountain resting npon mud at the bottom of tbe river. The water on by Col. Thomas Branch, in his address, that “« , inside is to be pumped out, and the work- gentleman who could take a premium for first- . . v ., - . ..., I class ploughing could borrow thousands, when men will then descend to construct tho fonnda- (h( ^ JgJ jg, troiling ho „ t Muld not borrou lion for the pier. Two sets of air pumps will I one cm t." We have no doubt Colonel Branch he supplied, to prevent accident, and to keep 1 wonid give a personal proof,rif necessary, of the the workman plentifully supplied with fresh troth of his observaUon, and he might have loe v j rr added, witheqnal troth, that a first-class plough- •ir. ... 1 man with brains can command trotting horses Mxlwaukes is engaged in a controversy abont I later in life when contemporaneous sports are vaccinating the children in the public schools. J very shaky, even on Shanks mare. it at the bottom ot the chasm at' least two hun dred feet deep. As there has been no search for coal on the mountain, it exhibits itself only by the denuda tion in the bottom of little streams. I did not hear of a well on the whole monntain, springs, sometimes freestone but generally chalybeate, being abundant. I was therefore deprived of this usual mode of determining the strata from tea to sixty feet below the surface. The monntain dishes gradually toward the from wasbij^^^ Washington, November 15 j ' stables are semi-weekly occurrence, ^ ^ construction-of wbich eOtffcSTZ****.* Ge “; V> ' lll&ms ? 0bt » valuable hor ee The President has appointed J 0a . r felW - Kingston, viceAa^^ pended. The Tribune say*, editorially: Th. nnxr in .1. » - ’ tu “ monyin the drawback frauds was H day, and so far opens the case that »h e “ name the principal conspirator. Thl S have been going on for fire or Bis ?! work must have robbed tho 61 amount of money. Samuel T. HiackL & Vl * leading spirit-his assistants bein- * Co., custom house brokers; Romerin F. A'. Howard, a clerk in tho 1^ ’ ‘ Il !l 8 s >:aai V« aaliington. Tliomoet importUiiVwn^ ^ arva:i K '• aclerk named Korn, who is familiar^ “■abactions and was an interested uartr^ eXtent - N< Ie was arrested in Janusrv bate the jn,hcoV eufferiog alone whito’,^ fenders went ^ he to M the’ .J* Dh-trict Attomcy. w.1.,^. , 8t0I J toihj withheld aro determined to eitt tho matter aminaiion is adjourned until Revenue to-day, $870,000. ' U - T ' Tbe Sheriff or Pliiladelphia has arresreiV' Supervisor Sutton, for seizing a distiUsrr Walkei’e final illness iuterrnpted a . article going to show that New York woolL exceed London as a commercial centre. ^ 10 ^ Tlie American Bank Note Printing ci mni „,. snmed tbe printing of Fedenl ' ^ The examination into tho alWed'Lj*"" 1 ' 7 ' the " reEn!lri *l haring been concluded, tho examin.tioTn/ affairs of the National Bank Note Coni DlnT f nienced to-day. Their operations h« 8 bJ pomletl until the completion of the iuTesUn,;‘ 5 " Treasurer Spinner is quite sick, ° 1 Washington, Norember 14.-R is asserted,^ much pusitivencBs, and wiU be widely r-ia t i’T° the morning, that the points of Simimr’s moi against the Alabama treaty emanated bom * J Walker, and were furnished wiih aritKof 4 during complications which would lr&d tn ation of Nora Scotia. ' toa ’ ARKIVAI, OFTKI^SPSCIALTILVIMS w . A l.nta, November 15.—Tho exenrsion trah left li-ro tis morning with Hon. Sioiou C.m r® Hon. G. W. Woodward. G-n. Horace Capmn <& J. W. Forney, Hon. Columbus Delano and daiiri,t a and otbeia. for the Fair at Macon. The « f Gov. Bollock, was decorated wi h theetm,,; *■ rifies, and the engine and coaches ailome) witi the mottoes. “To Georgia.” “Harvest “Wo Oume.” “A Common Interest join, w Hinds.’’ -Glad plenty laughs, tho vallewn®- reviving Commerce lift# her head, andhewla'i mourest at tha plow or flafi will bo the knigt.cts flay tbe draoon’s tail ” Guests have been rtMirf everywhere with marked respect, and treated tjfi the utmi Bt cordiality by the Comnattio fromthi Georgia Agricultural Sorioty, Col Hulbert and Gw. Bul’ock. FROM ALABAMA. JIoN'TooMEUT, November 15 —Tim Alabama lej. islatnre met to-day. The Govenu r's mrestge va read in lmth Houses and was very Cuntemtm He combats tlio call mado for martial 'aw, andnjt there has iieen no necessity for it. Ha sets forth the general peacefulness of tbe people and vantage offered in this State for emigration; fr<* reduction of taxes and a limitation of the SUfetfr doroQmeut to Rrilroads. Tbe message is curl) regardi d as mcrojnoderats and co.,berratiT< tin was expected. It is raining to-day. From m.\v tokr. New York, November 15.—Tbe C iban Junta bin honorably discharged tbe officers and crew ot fit Cuba, detained at Wilmington. New Yo :x, November 15 Tbo strike of bra’ s' men on the railroads continues e it ending, is engineers’ strike is apprehended. * GENERAL SEWS. San Fb vncikco, November 12.—The eastern tori W-ste-n Pacific train and the Alma U Forty tr/i, each traveling thirty-five miles per hour, collide!, Eleven dead bodies were taken from tbe wreck. D appeals that tbe accident arose trom the tender mistaking tbe gravel for tho regular trei^ and said-“all right, go- ahead.” Cleveland, Omo, November 15 —J. 6. Bad, Cashier of tbe First National Bank, committed cido to-day—cause, losses during tbe late gall panic. The officer* of tho bank publish a ml pledging themselves individually for the bank’s ob ligations. Chicago, November 15.—The journeymen taika havo struck. Fortress Mosroe, November 15—The ship 64 couda has sailed for Liberia with a number of mi grant*. Baleiou, N. C-, November 15.—The LeguU®* met hero to-day, but no cy lorum being presentii- jonmed until to-morrow. FOREIGN NEWS. London. November 15.—The Bisliop of h* 33 preached Peabody’s funeral sermon at Wot Sm* te’r Abbey to-day before an immense attenito* Tbe Bisliop paid: “No antitied commoner butts gathered such a concourse of sincere **•* around hie gravo. Ho labored to relieve th**-* of tho poor, and by them he was beloved u those who sympathize with purity, honor taJ -*■ nevolence. R was bis business to gatlitriaJ U joy to give. Two nations would ever reverd* 4 " name which forms another bond of union many, ... of wheat to market, and other things in propor-. Q ur a bilitv to produce tion. As a consequence, there is a largo eim- j c „ nwr nio n 'tlv we make use of that element of gration from these counties, principally to Tex- ■ rtren g t |, to ’its fiillert extent in the production ns, Arkansas and Kansas. This is principally , of ; ronK .i a d sliijis, the fabrication of superior from the tenant and laboring classes, nnd not | t i, e munufacturc of the most elf cctive the landholders. These must suffer severely > “ m l ]i arm , ) an d an unlimited sup|ily of rails, for want of labor hereafter. ' rolling stock, etc. Ami not only liave we the ' * V ace ; Iron In ah, ' ‘ ** * our gTeatcBt real prosperity. „ may “wear yet a precious jewel in its head. We shall bo wise if we imitate tho ancient Brn- “ “ If we aro Trion Factory, on the Chalttooga, is a place ; j ron g, abundance for all these purposes, bnt of much interest. The principal building is four: our j ron nnd coa j cna j,| e 0 ur mechanic* to mill stones high, 170 feet long and 44 feet wide, “-jriply their labor or productive ability over a popnlation of 450 persons is hero assembled. j llIrK iredfold as compared with tlie productive The horse power is rated at 175. FlV0 hundred pow(?r 0 f t j ie unskilled labor of the South, and thirty thousand pounds of cotton were nsed 1 jj ad , be Confederates tbe means and ability last year, and the gross Ba * e f “ monnt f “. to ' to bnild ironclad rams in proportion to their $222,133. The annual expense of transportation | nnmbera and m i nera i resources, our great su- is$3500. 4932 spindles “ Te 111 ‘ ncriority on tho water would have beenneu- operation. In 1866, over $12,000 freight was and their cotton made available for war paid at Ringgold. The principal proprietor, j oses jj a6 depending entirely on brute Mr. Allgood, a gentleman of nnusnal intern- j- orce tbeir resources and means of defense gence and energy, states that, with railroad ta- 1 bftv9 deprcc j a ted in ratio of their loss of able- eilities, the products of this mill could be great-, bod ; ed lll0n f rom whatever cause, ly increased. Afewmora snob establishments Virginia contains more coal than Ponnsylva- would go very far towards tho support of a rail road. nia, yet, thongli the oldest State, she has never made it available by development, and not one If the object b' to reach coal and iron for the pro- and oil alone, these ends' could he obtained Jj nction of iron by t h 0 JjW furnace since the by a railroad from Ringgold to Cooper 8 Gap, i commencement 0 f the war, and but a fewtons in McLemoro’s cove,' a distance of less tuan ( before, the Richmond coal befog too impure twenty miles. | for BUC b purposes. Tennessee was the only But if, in connection with ‘bese.itisdo - gouthern in which iron was made from signed to liberate the agricnltaral and mineral minoral coal> and tho pro ,iaction there oeased resources of this whole section, there is an easy route from Kingston for a railroad. Turning off from the State road one and a half miles from Kingston, the road would cross the Oostanaula at Hope’s Ferry, sweep up the Armuehee val ley, cross Taylor's Bulge at Treadaway’s Gap, keep np the valley of the Chattooga river by Trion Factory, cross Pigeon Monntain (hardly a hill) at Catlett’s Gap. and, passing through the cove, reach Lookout Mountain at Cooper t- Gap, a distance of abont sixiy miles. The first eight miles of this route, after leaving Kingston, ia poor, valuable only for timber, which is fine. Four out of these eight miles are rough. From on the occupation of Chattanooga by the Fed eral forces.” "Will onr Georgia statesmen and lawmakers ponder these paragraphs, and avoid that fatuity by wbicbJHn the language of Coleridge, ‘‘our fcxporicncd is a light in th® Bt®m of a *hip 5 shining only over her wake. The development of our iron ana coal re- Muroes in North Georgia, by transportation afforded by the State, wonid be not merely a local or sectional benefit; while every man in Georgia, in whatever part of it. who use* a saw or hammer, or drives • a nail, or run* » tbi Oostanaula to Taylor’s Ridge, the country plengh or a ws^n is inte^ted i^cheapening ia very level. Taylor’s Ridge, on the east aide, coal aad iroa. There w a higber ana wia r England and America. Madrid, November 15.—The Bishop ot E» na was arrested at Cadiz today. The Minister of Colonies said in Cortes. W treatment of the Colonies would ho siwb * ^ make tlieir inhabitants proud of being ci'-h'' ■ i 1 " iards. The Minister added that the qaest-to * abolition of slavery and the compensatiw; d j* ers would soon bo settled in away to causa the I- * injuries.- Tho answers were elicited brir' tovies from Porto Bican Depnt»«o. sjabsei-^ 11 -'" Minister said tho Government proposed w Porto Eico as a Province—not a» a Colony •* he agreed with the aboliUon. and in the ia-* cation to owners for losses. ^ Paris, November 15.—-There are e ‘ ^ meetings but thero are nieiher distun.^ 1 arrests. vot Tbe Emperor reviewed tbe troops »t 01 He was enthusiastically greeted by the peop the troops. tus, and “salute our mother” earth, dutiful, she will teach us how to rise and achieve greatness. For none of her children, fo nil her wide domain, docs she hold in store a richer affluence of valuable gifts than for ns.— She has given to ns, npon onr plains, that mar velous plant, so delicate that in infancy it per ishes before the slightest unkindness orthe frosts of spring, and in its matured product, light and frail almost as gossamer, yet which has modified foe destiny of a race of men, con vulsed, indirectly, this country with war, and now roles the commerce of the world, creating the strangest episode of history. Duried in her mountains, she holds in reserve for us her priceless treasures of coal and iron. What more oonld we ask or desire ? It is from oar mother earth, from her agricultural pro- ductH, and b§r minos, that w® nr© to seek, not merely restoration, but a prosperity which we have not before known? By the creation of new value* we may more than compensate for the values we have lost No pressure, however great, nave that which the Almighty imposes, oan long hold prostrate a State wbioh oon grow cotton, and dig ooal, and manufacture iron, and nig* food for foe laborers in these several in dustries. Without exaggeration, she may be said, fo a good degree, tobe independent of the rest of mankind. Allow me to close this report with the expres sion of an earnest hope, that prompt and wise legislation will enable our stricken people to develop our dormant but grand resources. Respectfully, 0. W. Howard. Tea in Nortli Carolina- ^ Miss Mattie H. Pearce, low county, N. C., writes to the Jcnm* 1 meroe as follows: , W I have been informed by old peM° n ^ has been grown fo North Carolina 1 ^ years. We are now only m *ajL man’s knowledge for curing it. J- • at et very prolific fo growth. It sowing. Broadcast—afterwards Sprouting fo early spring, five pickings. In July its weds five pickings, in duiy end sprout, and at thiadate blooming and seeding, rieldmgtbeucro^^ ing six mope a year. It grow five feet high, befog the ever saw. It flourishes in 1 8 “^ e a , 0 cU|f without cultivation, in marl, cloy , d jit.i In the soil about New _J°* it ^ c g to' 3 », suppose, two crops. Tbe *» tough, would make paper or rop®« wbioh I send you ia the growui ^ „ The tea will wilt wifo our ^^jjth* frost, leaving stalks “JJ* wi ? t ®. r ’_i'ws — hea or black tea. The first p g^ogt*^ green tea. (See- Encyclopedia of by Hugh Murray, volume XP»6 ^ ,an,^ several bags of tea simply 0! and tea for sale. Large ^ill snSf, I will sell for one dolUr. Tfo*^ one acre, wbioh will yield 1,M® P° Th* boiler of a saw-mill, belonging to Col. Irby, near Eufaula, burst on Saturday morning, killing one negro and severely aealdfog several ethers. A fine plantation ia offered for sale by Mr. U. J. Dtckeraon, of Savannah, Ga. Bee advertise, meat. ft ~ , of tw * It ia estimated that by foe statt^ 1869 there will be laid in fo* f round numbers, 110,000 ton equal to 1,100 miles of steel roM, ^ amount abont 38,000 tons («l™“ 8 £ 0 n. will be laid daring foe P” 8 !?.,, fifty rails are in use on morepn^ roads, and are partly of , t Q f f 1 ^ of English, and to a «U<41 Ojanufaetur*: ^ X -■ f -- -