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ISP The land belonging to the Cliero- General Association of Kiddle Ten- j From the Avar Orleans Crescent, Oct. 23.
CASSVILLE, GEO.
THURSDAY MORNING,
NOV'II 4. 18*3.
J.
FOR SOLICITOR-GENERAL,
A. W. JOHNSON,
OF M Ult ItAY COCXTY.
Take Notice.
Advertisers must he prepared
kee Baptist College, intended for building
purposes, advertised to have been sold on
Tuesday last, was sold at private sale.
{S§F" The American Cotton Planter and
Soil of the South, for November, has been
received. Published monthly, at Mont
gomery, Ala. Terms, one dollar a-year,
in advance.
nessee and North Alabama. ■
The Baptists in Council at Lehenon— |
Great Excitement—Prolonged Discus-
The Burning of the Ben Franklin-
Loss about $250,000.
The telegraph yesterday briefly an-
sion—J. E. Grace*sustained and cho-| nouneed the burning of the New Orleans
sen Moderator—Delegation from Dr. ! and Memphis mail line packet Ben Frank-
! lin, above Vicksburg.
Cant Clarke and several other officers of
Unwelds Church Excluded.
The General Association of the Baptist •
j Church of Middle Tennessee and North ! the burnt boat having got down to Yicks-
j Alabama convened at Lebenon on Satur- j burg by the steamer Arkansas, reached
The Waynesboro’ News is the ti-j day, 23d ult
I this city last evening by the Jackson Rail*
j Georgia—" There She Stands! Look
at Her!”
How to Estimate Crops per Acre.
A friend communicates the following
tie of a new paper just established at | After the usual preliminaries, the Asso- j road. 1 o the courtesy of the captain, we
Waynesboro’, Burke county, Ga., by Mes-; ciation commenced receiving the delega- | arc indebted for the following particulars j who arc far behind us in civilization,^ bor-
S. A. Gray and II. J. Blount j tions from the different churches, and ex-1 of the disaster:
From the Louisville Courier.
The Artesian Well at Louisville— j
Interesting History of its Progress I
and Completion. ,
Artesian wells are named from Artesi-i ing to the stockholders more than an av- j rye, oats, or barley^ which he says h«
um, the ancient name of Artois, a pro-i
vince of France. They were successfully I - i...
bored in that countrv at an early period,' miles of additional road, completed and we give the plan, and hope it will be
and hence took the name of this province.j equipped, will be in operation. These roads, | tried at the next harvest time.
The wells were known in ancient times. I with but a single exception, are mainly the J Frame together four light sticks, mc«.
as we find accounts of them by classic au-j results of the enterprise, the energy, and j unng exactly a foot square inside, and,
! thors. That strange people, the Chinese,! capital of our own people. I with this in hand, walk into the field and
We have Cotton and Wool and Paper ; select a spot of fair average yield, and low-
Georgia has over twelve hundred miles J method of making an estimate of the
! of Railroad built and paid for, and yield- j yield per acre of a growing crop, of wheat,
• ing to the stockholders more than an av- j rye, oats, or barley, which he says has
: crage of seven per cent, yearly dividends, j been correct in England. As it seems ea-
Within the next year, two hundred s y of application and approximately cor-
srs.
Terms $2 a-year.
j perienced no trouble until the credentials J At three o’clock on Thursday morning
ed artesian wells, and printed with blocks j Factories, Rolling Mills—Marble Yards— j cr the frame square over as many heads
of wood long before we thought of either j Gold and Copper and Coal Mines—all in j «« »t will inclose, and shell out the heads
i of the first church in this city were pre-; when the boat was approaching Ashton, [ of these arts. It is not our purpose, how- ; a flourishing condition, and remunerating j thu^ ^tTfair toni^iimfth^h 11 ^
Forthe Standard. ' sentei \ discussion arose in regard to ! about 00 miles above Jicksburg, smoke j ever, to enter into a history of these wells, j the proprietors hv handsome returns on j » ^ ^ ^ ^ ( r e P r °-
" 'the claims of that church, and those who j was discovered issuing from the hold thro’ | The subject is interesting, but we have : the capital invested.
Bev. J. R. Graves.
Mr. Editor : I sec an article in your j secedcd G n the first night of the trial of j the pump holes, aft the boilers. The boat' not time or space to do it justice at pres-
paper of the 28th ult, respecting the tri-1 r cv j R. Graves, which continued dur
al of Rev. J. R. Graves, of Nashville,
Tenn., which does such manifest injustice
to him, and is so utterly subversive of
truth, that I feel constrained to request
you to publish a sketch of the facts in the
in" the day, and was not brought to a
close at the hour of adjournment that
night
During Saturday night caucuses were
held and much excitement prevailed.
was at once rounded to and landed, and j ent
duct will be the 43,560th part of an acre’s
The cotton crop of the present year will i produce. To prove it go through the
bring twenty-five millions of dollars at | an ^ make ten or twenty similar cal-
t.ci'v effort made to extinguish the fire : The deepest artesian well in the world present prices. The crop of cereals is ; eolations, and estimate be the mean of
below. Steam from the boilers was turn- j is that at St. Louis, bored by the Messrs, j " or ^* t'viec that sum the sugar and to- j 11C " 10 e num ., t le result. It win
ed into the hold; and the fire pumps be-• Belcher for their sugar refinery. It is bacco crop not being included in the ac * | c< -’ taln J cna c a arn ‘ Lr to make a closer
ing manned, water was freely applied by j 2,199 feet in depth. The next deepest is ! C0l int. ! c ‘ l cu ‘ ,bon c " a * a tdd "ill produce,
hose through the forward part of the boat, j the one in Louisville, bored by the Messrs. : The State tax is not quite one-twelfth j an e can o y guessing. A. I. Tri-
to settle ' case - and in the first place I would say ! Those who favored Mr. Graves and his (holes being cut in the deck for the pur- Dupont to supply their paper mill with ' of one per cent, the net income of the . ^urte.
;vu>ui usiia hium mi; jiKjwuu iu seme * — . « *• . i ri . x t
their accounts when the time for which ( the Ba P tists hare no Ecclesiastical Court ; partv were willing to admit the delega-1 pose. At one time it was thought the fire i water. It is 2,086 feet in depth. Both bt:ltc Koad ' ViI1 he three hundred thou- , j >rJ>0RTJIE5T 0> . A R u[ R , .
their advertisements are to he published j in which thcir members are tried—that tion f rom the First Baptist Church, provi- j had been got under; but this proving to , of these wells were the result of private j sand doHars The State debt amounts to | ^ ^ Roncn jn ' * ”
lifts expired * ‘ind all personluiYin* r Anv i frsscology does not belong to oiu ,1,,^ fim r*nnmri-*c no-ainQt \Ir flrarps bo ! I>p 51. mistnkp. nnd thi* fire more iimnanii- j entemvisft nnrl i!u>v nnr In th<>' about two millions, and a tax of onc-niLn I M _ ’
kind of Job’ Printing done 'at this office I denomination-hence 1 infer the author
must be prepared to pay for it o.i its de-! ^ bc :n 'ticle i n }°nr papei kno\.s
“ . I little of Baptist Church government, Hie
little of Baptist Church government,
first church in Nashville of which Rev. J.
R. Graves is a member, did bring chargCs
livery. We must cither get pay for our
work or “ suspend operations.”
Bring Back our Key !
e The individual who harrowed the key
belonging to the door of the Press Room j certain inflammatory articles calculated
of the Standard office, is requested to re- j to stir up strife between the pastor of
turn it to its projier place ; and he is fur- j that church and some of its members, by
thermore earnestly request el to make , which the pastor was arraigned, and with-
himself.scarce about this establishment in j out taking the preliminary steps as com-
the future—else he will he dealt with in j manded by the Lord Jesus Christ in the
a manner that will he very disagreeable j 18th chapter of Matthew, Graves was
to his feelings—if lie has any. The next j sighted to appear before the Church on
time he enters the office at night, when • the. night of the 12th inst., to answer to
there is no one present, he had better step ‘ those charges. Graves protested against
careful, or lie may stumble into a “steel- { the proceedings of the Church, and ob-
trup.”
comuat w,iu ,v, v,aj,u ao uvl C „u.„v. , xne tuiru ueepesi is ai rxissengen, 0ur banks are solvent—our merchants in ^ pr ‘ ;ttn(,m &
. « . , ! 1 ° ’ 4-u u *. c i*x j xi i i to oe gentlemen, were pleased to fait
to save as much of the boat and cargo as j m Bavaria, 1,878 feet, and the fourth at the best of credit, and the people general- • 11 • 1 * 31K
ded the charges against Mr. Graves be be a mistake, and the fire more umnana- j enterprise, and they exceed any in the, aljout t' vo millions, ami a tax of one-fifth ; a jp- 0J . ( j s R „ 00( j precedent for 'i d ' •**
withdrawn, and further proceedings had. J gable than ever, after two or three hours’ | world which governments have uiidcrta- of one P cr cent, would pay it in two years- - ^ action
At a late hour those who composed the j combat with it, Capt. Clarke determined j ken. The third deepest is at Kisscngcn,
caucus dispersed. J to save as much of the boat and cargo as i in Bavaria, 1,878 feet, and the fourth at
On Sunday morning, according to ap- j possible, by the last resort of scuttling.— ! Crenelle, near Paris, 1,806 feet There *. v out oPdl; bt, " ' lb crops of cotton,
j... , — c o | pointment, Rev. Dr. Howell delivered the j The beat was scuttled but it failed to save I arc but few others known that go much corn, &&, on hand. The country is heal- mor w j 10 j ia oned to 1
against him alleging that he had publish- j annua i sermon, which was listened to by j her. At about seven o’clock, the fire broke I deeper than those which have been sunk thy, with the exception of the epidemic ^ ^ o^osfte scat ^ 'Vi d^ ' U '^*
ed in his paper (the Tennessee Baptist; on e of the largest congregations that ever | through the deck in flames, and in the j in the great desert of Sahara. : in Savannah. M e have six male colleges, 01 °PP 01 e sca • e enounced
almost ev i " U1 to tbe P ub!lc prosecutor; they were
indecently in a railroad car, even aft<r
an angry remonstrance of a worthy far-
C.iss County at the Fair.
! jected to being tried in violation of the ! to see him, believing him to he a Goliah
• express commands of the Lord, as set ’ in size, and a Demosthenes in intellect.—
assembled in Lebenon. Our informant 1 shortest possible space of time the boat
states that it was one of the greatest ef
forts of his life, and so acknowledged by
all who heard him.
Caucusing was then continued Sunday
afternoon and night, on street comers and
any other point where a number of dele
gates might happen to meet.
We are also informed that the appear
ance of Mr. Graves on the streets attract
ed much attention. Many were anxious
Rut it is with the well in our own city and colleges for the f.iir sex in
was burned to the water’s edge with tlie j that we are concerned at present. It is
whole of her cargo, consisting of three j the greatest curiosity in Louisville. It itants in thc State - Looking to tiiis .state-
thousand and thirty-eight bales of cotton, i w ill repay a visit, whether to be viewed I110nt facts, is there a Slate in Christ-
and twenty-five or thirty tons of bacon, ! with the eye of science or that of curios- cndoul in the enjoyment of so many of the
and other freight.
The boat was landed so soon after thc
■ i, . . . tried bv the Correctional Court. The sen.
cry village containing live hundred mhab- * , n
tence passed on each was imprisonment
for two months and a line of 200 francs.
I ity in search of sights. Thc water, now material elements of comfort, prosperity,
i thrown out in a beautiful jet, comes from 1 and success, as the great State of Georgia ?
i ferth in the 18th chapter of Matthew,—
Below will he found a list <0 Premiums, | whereupon one of the members of the
drawn by citizens ot Cass count; at the i moved to refer the matter back.
late State Fair, at Atlanta. It will be
seen that Cass was well represented at
the Fair, and it would seem has drawn
her share of the Premiums:
Charles T. Shohnan, Cass county, Ga.,
largest yield of Wheat grown upon
one acre, 43 J bushels—South of 32 }
degrees — Pi tcher, $25
Christopher Dadd, Cass county, Ga..
largest yield of Corn grown upon 2
acres, 73 bushels an acre—Cup 10 !
Mrs. J. W. Shepherd, Cass county, j
Ga., bushel Irish Potatoes—Cup.... 5 j
J. \V. Watts, Cass county, Ga., bush
el Early Black Field Peas—Cup....
H. B. Ilouk, Cass county, Ga., best
Horse Colt, 1 year old—Cup
II. B. Ilouk, Cass county, Ga., best
Brood Marti—Cup
Lindsay Johnson, Cass county, Ga.,
best Filly, 2 years old—Cup,
J. C. Aycock, Cass county, Ga., best
Stallion, 3 years old—Cup 10
Lindsay!Johnson, Cass county, Ga.,
largest and best Pair Mules—Cup,. . 10
II. J. Bates, Cass county, Ga., best
Bull S years old—Cup 10
II. J. Bates, Cass county, Ga., best
Bull, 1 to 3 years old—Cup 5
! that the gospel usage might be had in thc
i ease. The vote being taken, 41 voted to
i refer the case hack, and 08 to proceed
j with the trial—upon which the confer-
I ence adjourned—but previous to adjoura-
i ment notice was given that the minority
: would have a meeting in reference to the
I peculiar situation in which they were
At every corner he was greeted by friends,
and occasionally an outsider was heard to
with their baggage and everything. Quite
a number of ladies were on board, and a-
mong the gentlemen was Senator Slidell.
All the boat’s books and papers were sav-
say something about such a small man i ed. The manifest had not been made out;
holding so prominent a position.
On Monday the Association met ac
cording to adjournment.
After much discussion a vote was taken
on the proposition to admit the delegates
from the First Baptist Church, which was
voted down. The vote was as follows :
For receiving the delegates 27 ; against
j placed. Being organized and ready for | receiving, 164.
business, they set forth a declaration ofj The chair then declared Mr. Graves’de
rights, declaring themselves, thus organ- j nomination thc true Baptist Church.
The Association then proceeded to thc
election of a moderator, whereupon Rev.
J. R. Graves was unanimously elected.
Nashville Gazette.
; ized, to be the first Baptist Church of
; Nashville, and thc majority to be a seism,
i inasmuch as they had departed from the
gospel usage, and the uniform practice of
Baptist Churches in like cases; in this
declaration the minority was sustained,
by a number of ministers and visiting j
brethren from other churches. So you i
see, Mr. Editor, the facts present the case j
0 i in a very different aspect; and would you I
believe it. that Rev._ J. It. Graves, since
The Bali.oon Race.—The great Bal
loon race between Prof. Steiner and Mon-
i sieur Godard, the French aironaut, came
discovery of the smoke from the hold that j a distance of 2,086 feet in the bowels of If thcn - at this she occupies so proud j offin oh ; 0 last wt . ck p rof Steincr the
nothing was lost but the boat and cargo, j the earth, and the force necessary to raise: a position, what will she be when all her j American mronaut, came off victorious.-
The crew and passengers numbered two j a perpendicular column of fluid that dis- ( projected lines of railroad are completed— ’ M()ns Godard was in the a i r about six
hundred altogether, and all got ashore | tance is wonderfully great A subterraue-! whcn thc mincs of gold and copper and j hours> and travelled about 212 milli
on sea at that depth, with no vent but; coal tl)at no ' v he deep in tiie bosom of her j p, of ; Steiner was up about 15 minutes
that of the orifice of this well, 2,086 feet : mountains, are opened, and their rich de- j j on g cr< and travelled 230 miles. The wa-
above, with this column of water weigh- posits brought to market ? A\ hen, fil
ing upon it, would receive a p; assure silt- stead o! but a fourth, as she now has, of
licient to heave up the superincumbent 1 i ier rich lands in cultivation, the full halt nas uutluluu „ „
earth, and scatter its fragments to the j °t the rich valleys in the North shall bear j tude was . d)0U (- <;
but from the bills of lading, etc., which
Capt. Clarke brought down with him, the I winds above,
manifest will be made out and submitted
;cr was to make the greatest distance, rc-
;ardlcss of time, and hence Prof. Steiner
was declared winner. Their greatest alti-
9.000 feet. Steiner land*
a golden harvest, and the plains of the | cd ncar Sandusky, and Godard in a prai
rie 18 miles from that city, and both re
turned to Cincinnati by the same train.
An Avowed Bisnmonist.
Col. Richard T. Archer, a Virginian by
birth, and one of the largest planters in
Mississippi, in a series of vigorous articles
published in the New Orleans Delta, in re
ply to Mr. J. Johnston Pettigrew’s Report
The Messrs. Dupont undertook this well ^uth and U est shall he white with the
to the public to-day. The United States j ^ a private enterprise, to supply their pa- kingly staple? When that day shall
mails were put on board the Princess, j j )er m ;n with water. It seems, however, come, Georgia will not Only be the Em- j.
waieli boat will get down to-morrow. that the waterjuay bo more valuable for ( pi«s State of the South, but the Empire
The origin of the tire could not be ac- medic.il purposes than for making paper! State of the World.—Macon Telegraph.
counted for by any of the officers of the
boat. Her cotton was piled on the guards
to the hurricane deck, stowed abaft the
boilers, and a portion of it in the hold. It
wits from the cotton in the hold that the
fire started. The hatches were last open
at seven o’clock the previous cvenirg; and
the only lights ever used in the hold, and
used then, were glass lanterns. No tor-
It lias been thoroughly analyzed by Prof.
Lawrence Smith, of the University of,
Louisville, whose reputation its a chemist!
, , . :
needs no enuorscmenl irom us.
I
The analysis shows that the water of
E om the Southern C■ Itirator for Nodr.
Hints for the Month.
The Plantation.—Cotton.—The pick
ing, ginning and bailing of the crop shout!
this well is similar to that of the saline !
; be entirely finished by the midd e of this
chalybeate of Kissengen, in Bavaria, pilose
medical properties are celebrated all over
i the world More than half a million t>ot-
Departed this life, on the loth'of Octo-
ches were used at anv landing during thc i,, fll . . ,
n ” ties of the Kisscngcn water are sent each
night, thc moon giving all the light neces
sary. The origin of the fire was, there
to trial has been elected moderator of the I t0 our Legislature, against reopening the
African slave trade, concludes as below.—
We don’t think, however, that South Car
olina now, or ever, will “ stand isolated
from her sister States of the cotton-grow-
! general Association of Tennessee ? It is
j even the case. A BAPTIST,
j The above communication is in
j reference to a paragraph to be found in
j tlie news columns of last week’s Stand- I ' n S pan,d 3- — Ca<is. Me>c>ng.
. j ard, which stated that “ thc ecclesiastical
J. tV. Watts, Cass county, Ga., best court at XashviUc have) by a vote of 89
Cow, 3 years old and upwards-cup 10 , to 1? found this gentlcman (Mr . Graves)
guilty of the second charge on which he her P°°P le a S ain t0 be d,Tlded ’ as ,n the
was arraigned, viz : that he ‘ endeavored : revolutionary struggle of l 776 ? It is said
And now, in conclusion, is South Car
olina to stand isolated from her sister
States of the cotton-growing family ? Are
10
J. tV. Watts. Cass county, Ga., best
Heifer, 1 to 2 years old—cup,
Wm. L. Rowland, Cass county, Ga.,
best Cow—cup
Wm. L. Rowland, Cass county, G&.,
best Heifer, 1 year old—cup
J. \Y. Watts, Cass county, best pen
Merinos—cup
J. W. Watts, Cass county, best pen
Long Wools—cup,
J. tt*. Watts, Cass county, <>a., best
pen Grades—cup
Hon. M. A- Cooper, Cass county, Ga.,
best Sow—cup
Mrs. M. J. Skinner, Curtersville, Ga.,
best Soft Soap—plate
Mrs. J. tt". Shepherd, Cass county,
Ga.. best lot Bacon Side?—cup. ..
Mrs. J. W. Shepherd, Cass county,
Ga., best lot Bacon Shoulders—cup
Mrs. B. W. Lewis, Cass county,
best Coverlet,
Mrs. B. AV. Lewis, Cass county,
best piece Carpeting—cup...
Mrs. B. tV. Lewis, Cass county,
best ten yards Jeans—cup
Miss Julia F. Clayton, Kingston, Ga.,
best Crochet Shawl—plate
D. N. Lewis, Curtersville, Ga., best
two-horse Wagon—cup..
A. Bobbin, Cartersville, Ga., best Fan,
cup..
Miss Jo. Latimer, Cassville. Georgia,
Painting on Glass—plate.._.
More Rascality !
By reference to our advertising columns j
it will be seen that a Reward of Twenty- j
fore, and is, a perfect mystery.
The Ben Franklin was worth about sev
enty thousand dollars, and her cargo worth
about one hundred and eighty thousand
or one hundred and ninety thousand dol
lars. Capt Clarke was unable to give us
any information as to the insurance on
thc boat. The Captain and other officers
signed a protest, which will be drawn up
and submitted to-day.
year to the sick and afflicted everywhere.
Such being the fact, thc Messrs'. Dupont
ought to be prevailed upon to Lore this
i month, in order that the planter, his ne
groes and animals, may have a little res
pite and “ breathing space” before the la-
i hors of the next crop come on. There is her, of Typhoid fever, Mrs. L. Adeline
i no branch of agriculture that requires so Trimble, wife of A C. Irimble, aged 26
! much unremitting anil continuous hard j years, 5 months and Id days. The wri-
work as tlie making of a real good Cot- j ter was well acquainted with the subject
, ... „ „ IS : ton crop, and thc wise and humane plan-j of this no ice, and can truly sav there
well no deep®" tor tear of losing this!, , ,, - --
ter should avail himself of all the leisure
stream. It liTay he worth much more for
j healing the sick than for making paper.—
I We trust that, if they must have water
lie can obtain, between crop:
tion, and the carrvin
Comptroller’s Report.
From the recent Report of thc Comp
troller General of .this State, Peterson
, , . , , ,, ation improvements, too often entirelv neir-
for their mill, thev will bore another well, , , , „ , ,, , . ... * ,
. lected. ho long as Cotfon is cultivated to
and leave this one as it is until experience i,, , , , ,
, , „ , , 1 , , the almost total
teaches how many of the ills that flesh i
heir to it will cure.
We have kept a record of tlie different
strata through which thc auger has gone j ] id)0r ' v ,hi c h we possess,
exclusion of everything
| else, we cannot hope for any high degree
j of rural improvement in the South ; but
urelv, with thc advantages of climate ari l
in reaching this great depth, but Mr. Kcl-
log, the superintendent of the mill, has
much more than we have yet done to im
prove our lands arid beautify our homes.
^ j to distract and divide the First Baptist ,
; Church by means of a conflict between i
that the measure is impracticable in the j Thweatt, Esq., we make an extract, giving j kept a more accurate one ; and we under-. ,. s at j c;ist ln . lke (Jle t . and do
nion. Be it so. Boldness in counsel is i tbc character and amount of the taxable | stand that Prof. Smith is now preparing a everything that is possible for the advance-
cver the precursor of boldness in action. ; property:
j its pastor and four of its deacons, and sev- j ^ Wm Archcr the grandfather of thc i
oral others of its influential members ’
j scientific report upon the subject. Wc ] u^nt of 0lir highly-favored region.
Upon the supposition that the popula-j shall not do more at present, therefore, Small Grain,
which lie has labored
” to^Hj^yee h ! ' vriter - was one of- 1,1 c earliest advocates j t; on 0 f Georgia has increased in the same I than to enumerate the penetrated strata j |>i ac k Winter and Egyptian Oats' \V
o pi o uco j nu ‘ 0 f re hel’ion against British misrule. As ratio since 1850 that it did from 1840 to | according to the popular names. When \ broadcast for a field c;on and Whe-
i articles published j TT , , 0 . _r i.„ i,„i.i i , , ... ! ....... 1 ’
mcrous inflammatory articles published! f . „ 0 ,- nn „ ntv I “ Jf, , i „ - « ° ‘ , i a,,u ” rRJl 1,1
. , „ J ‘ | High Sheriff of Amelia county, he held , lSoO, there ought to l>e returned this year | Prof. Smith s report comes out we may : the drill, for winter and earlv spring “soil-
m his paper. We have forgotten from hig cQurt drcssed in t b e hunting shirt and ; no,000 or 115,000 polls, instead of 97,048. j recur to the subject again. » j i ng ” or feeding green—all these must now
paper this P* ■ o P ' ‘ ’ , , accoutrements, then tbe insignia of rebel- j And upon the same calculation there The boring of the well began on the 1st j be sown as soon as possible.
r'rtwncnAni Innr r ltnl'C it nrtfttl I'll. . _ < ... s 3 ° i *
; as our correspondent tliinks it does’nt , ion His fricnds appalled at the bold-1
| give the facts in the case, we publish his 1
„ i communication,
5 I We
n ! versy, editorially—nor do wc expect to.
jThe paragraph complained of was P“ b * | it was the universal dress. Dr. Branch : and 7,000,000.acres not returned this year.
5 i bsbed as an ltem 0 ® ews -“ J' j T. Archer, his grandson, was tbe first man These two items of slaves and land, not
j ought to be about 50,000 more slaves in j 0 f April. 1857. The first 76 feet passed '
The Orchard, Garden and Xcrsekt.—
of
anted
j apparel. One month more, on court day, j n Georgia, there are between 6,000,000 1 following formations according
depth affixed :
never lived a more devoted wife, generous
for relaxa- friend, obliging neighbor, kind mistress,
on of various plant- j and pious, consistent Christian. Free
from guile, she moved among us the
meek, unobtrusive woman, of strong
faith and good works. Though she is
gone, she has left behind a character shin
ing with the light of every Christian vir
tue, worthy to he imitated by all. While
we can all do her body rests in the grave, we believe
her spirit rests with God in heaven.
Most truly may her bereaved husband
sing from his inmost soul, the following
stanzas:
Hushed are the winds, and still the cven-
| ing glow :
Not e’en a zephyr wanders thtongh the
grove
Whilst I return to view my Adeline's
tomb,
And scatter flowers on the dust I love.
Within this narrow cell reclines her clay—
That clay where once such animation
beamed ;
The King of Terrors seized her as his
prey,
such as Barley, Rye,
'heat
'heat in
Ga..
Ga.,
Ga.,
Our correspondent requests us to pub-
j lish the following:
| Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.
: REA'. J. R. GRAVES.
In my former letters I informed you
in Texas to propose the independence of returned, would amount toabout $50,000,-
thc 1 Lone Star’ of the misrule of Santa 000 at the present returned value of slaves
j Anna.* A mob of terrorists endeavored to | and land. Therefore, I cannot but con-
i deter him. One flash of his lion eye sub- conclude that were there a uniform
j , dued them. He proposed and carried the' an d fair valuation of all property in
j of the course of Rev. J. R. Graves an Declaration of Independence. I refer to j Georgia at this time, and were these two
i Thomas Jefferson Wharton, of Jackson, ; items returned in full, the value of taxable
| liis friends of thc first Baptist Church.-
_ j The result was that after his trial and [
| conviction by the other wing of the
_ j church, two sets of delegates were sent
Not worth, nor beauty, have her life
redeemed.
Gray limestone 100 feet.
Dark shale 12 “
Gray limestone 52 “
Red mar! 5 “
Gray limestone 81 “
Shale 157 “
Dark limestone 149 “
Green soft shale 13
to the ■ tured In- tlie early fall rains. If you de-
; la;- until spring, you will be too much
j hurried with other work to give this iin- 0-* '■ could that King of Terrors pity feel,
| portent matter the proper attention, and ° r J “^ en reverec the dread decrets of
I it may not be done at all. Prepare the Xcd } ier g t} le mourner would his grief re-
j soil for Vineyards, and plant your Grapes; veal,
( up to the General Association at Leba- gdf - n fayor of secession of thc co tton
r i non, and that body decided in favor of ad-;
Miss., who was present. These rcsolu-: property returned on the Tax DigesLs °f 1 yi uc Limestone 107
tions were successful. I, another grand- j 1858 would be in thc neighlrorhood of] Rluc limcstonc ndxed with shale 33
son of Col. AVm. Archer, do declare my- j $650,000,000, instead of the present return ! Grav limestone 94
: of $539,055,114. Of course the $30,000 Grav limestone, with slate 26
i mittin „ the Gravcs dclc „ ation The i r Win !. SUl ’ eS fr ,° m th!S - ° f hank and railroad capital is not included j L} Rt gray limestone, very hard 40
, mtttin„ tne trraves uu(.„dtion. ; States, because thc constitution has been j ; n the estimate. AA'hite clay 1
The return on the Tax Digests for 1858 Gray i im Ltone 545
Sandstone 41
AA'hite marble 4
Sandstone 19
Sandstone mixed with light shale 36
_ friends of Dr. Howell pre.-ented a long violated, because our natural and inalien-:
j P rob ‘ st ' w * tb tbo rec iuest that it be enter- a } de r jghts have been denied, and hecaase ! s hows thc followin'* result:
5 i ed on ^ be minutes, which was refused. there can Ire no union between dominant p^n g
So Dr. Graves is likely to lae sustained, and subordinate States,
after all! In haste, Cumberland.
RICHARD T. ARCHER.
Tlie San Joaquin Republican, of August :
November Elections.
~ n ,, . . . , „ . fn . Elections will take place, during the j g^ ^hus notices an ifnstance of a mlms 43 ‘ 2 ’ 124 slaves ’
S 0 « h ^n'or-1 tCn da * VS °- N ° VembCr ’ in the StateS ! luck in the vicinity of Columbia, Califor- ! Mone - v and solvent dcbts ’
the OTaCelefeS scamp or scsimps \sho cn».cr rtf Vn«r Vrvrlr Vmr Jnts»r \focc<i/»VnKpffc . ; Pifr nr town
' j of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
ed the Female College on Saturday or i jjimoj^ Michigan, AYisconsin, Maryland,
Sunday last, and wrote all kinds of vul
garity
walls
further informed that an obscene
A person who had been about that' Foreign Bank Capital,
97,048
j Professions, • 2,978
j Free persons of color. 1,093
33,780,805 acres land val’dat $138,859,970
227,468,927
89,762,797
30,110.344
772,413
10,462,511
now is the best time to set them out. Re-
j member! that ail trees (except some Ev-
j ergreens of thc fir tribe; succeed best in
the Soutli, when planted in fail or car-
\ lv winter—that by planting now, you
; gain a year in the bearing of your Fruit
| trees, and that, if you wiil take the prop-
j er pains at first, there is little to do after-
j wards—plant more trees, they “ will grow
; while you’re slce;>ing.”
Civil War Brewing—Exciting times
I on the Borders of Indiana and Ah, no! far fly from me attempts so vain.
Nor here the muse her virtues would
relate.
But wherefore weep ? her matchless spirit
soars
Beyond where shines the splendid orb
of day,
And weeping angels lead her to those
bowers
AYhere endless pleasure virtue’s deeds
repay.
And shall presumptuous man heaven ar-
raign,
And madly God-like providence accuse?
Kentucky. ! I’lt never submission to my God refuse.
Louisville, Oct 26.—Horace Bell, who v ^ •_* i
” ’ 1 et is remembrance of those virtues dear,
released his father and brother from the •
At this ;»oint, a depth of 1,627 feet, the Bradenburg jail in Kentucky some time in
Yet fresh the memory of that beauteous
face :
r first water was penetrated that rose on July last, (the father and son were com- Still the; - call forth my warm affee ions
j City or town property.
shipping
iunday la. t, anrt all Ku is oi u- ( Delaware, and Louisiana-in the last on town for a Iong tim0 , and had nevcr done Merchandise,
■* r T U p,; t ^ ^ v the | the 1st of November; in Maryland on the a (Lly - s work in th( , mines, was recentlv I Ca P ,tal em P lo - Ted ln sal
rails of the l ollege building. A, e are 3d . in Wisconsin on the 4th; in Delaware by want of means to live to obtain j and tonnage,
urther informed that an oWene book, on thc 9th . and ; n the other States men-! a pick and shovd and sa]ly farth to trv } Capital employed m manufac-
was left m the C ollege by the party or tioned on tlie 2d. .All cf these States, at h : g fortune at gold He worked i tories, etc,
parties engaged m this scandalous Iran- tho , e clecrions< w iH choose their Repre- w - it h but little success for two days, i >u t! Houschold and Kltchcn Furni *
saction. It is hoped that the mines of sentat ives for the next Congress, except on the third he dag up a l imp of gold
these candidates lor the Penitentiary may j Maryland nnd Louisiana, where Congres- nearly pure wh ; c i^ ' ’
be found out, and that they be dealt w ith ■ s ; ona j elections will not be held until next nollnd< i The wt-
ture over $306,
the orifice of the well. This water was initted to jail on the charge of aiding in the
not satisfactory, and the boring was re- escape of slaves,; was taken on Saturday ;
suincl In going the remaining distance from the Fair Grounds at New Albany, in
of 458 feet through limestone, with occa- Indiana, without a warrant, and carried to
sional interruptions as above, several dif- Kentucky by police officers from Louis-
ferent streams of water were struck. At ville, Ky. AVhen it became known that
3 8C3 “36 a de P tb oP L879 feet a more powerful Bell was taken off the citizens of New
’ ’ ’ ‘ stream flowed, and at a depth of 1,900 Albany became groatly excited—the fire
2,054,505 feet sulphur water rose considerably above bells were rung—a large mass meeting
766,225
tear—
Still in my heart retain their wonted
place.
But a few days had elapsed and this af
flicted family were Called again to mourn
thc departure, on the 30th of October, of
Pneumonia, of that once loved face, now
cold and dead, James Augustus, infant
son of A. C. and L. A. Trimble, aged 4
months and 24 days.
to' the full extent of the law. All good i
citizens should aid in ferreting out these
‘♦evil doers.”
year. The result in New York and nii- to.the office of AA'eUs, Fargo, & Co.. { n :-Aggregate value of whole pro-
r -- 0 , ,, o-a the mouth of the well After this depth was held—and about one hundred excited ,
weighed seventy-two Other property not enumerated 24,9 2 8,8o6 was rcacheJ every accession of ten feet people chartered a boat with the .vowed Peafe spreads wi^ry W
j ad led to the stream of water, until a depth purpose of rescuing Bell. 1 -■ * ’
pounds ! The lucky fellow took his piece
! nois will be expected with great interest,
j as it will probably determine the com-
{ plexion of the House of Representatives
! of the next Congress.—Cons*.
Temperance Crusader.
The Proprietor of this paper will re
move .his office, sometime in December, ! . The AVashlngton States learns
ffrlia Penlield to Atlanta. Those wishing j {hit between $800,000 and $900,000 will
to subscribe for a well-conducted literary \ be required for the volunteers engaged in
CT® should lose no time in sending for j service against the Florida Indians until
the. Crusader; it is a neat sheet, ably ed-] the removal of Billy Bowie;
Columbia, by whom it was valued at four- ; _
teen thousand dollars. The place where ] ' ^ tut ‘ on in l&L
this monstrous nugget was dug is within !
a mile or two of Columbia.
$539,055,114
527,828,963
! Increase in 1858, $11,226,151
j Average value of land per acre in 1857,
An enquiring genius has “ diskivered” : $4.10; average value of slaves per head,
the ensignia of the Know Nothings. He • $534.97.
says it consists of the American Eagle , Average value of land per acre in 1858,!
fumner” by the $4.11; average value of slaves per head,
j Ah! where are now those rising charms
of 2,037 feet was attained. At this point An express had been sent from Louis- AYhich pleased our eyes before ?
the present stream of water, throwing out ville to Bradenburg warning the people i
225 gallons of water per minute, or 324,- there to be prepared for the party from i
000 per day, was reached. The force of New Albany.
this stream is such that with an inch noz- Gov. AVillard, of Indiana has promised
zle the water is thrown to the height of to issue a requisition to the Govern r of
We weep—our earthly comfort’s fled
And withered all our joys.
60 feet above the surface of the earth.”
_ , _ T holding in bis bill
it_j , . -,, , . - - - w - 0 a * bT0 * seat of his breeches,
ueo. ana snoulu be extensively pa'romz-1 pruition for this purpose has yet been
*d by thc people of the Southern States, made by Congress. See the advertisement of “The Globe” !
i $526.39.
Kentucky for the delivery of the men who
captured Bell.
Another expedition left for Bradenburg j
strong ground in his next message in fa- last night, heavily armed, and it is re-1
'. Buchanan, it is said, will take
Hore looks beyond the bounds of time,
AVhen what we now deplore
Shall rise in full, immortal prime,
And bloom to fade no more.
R. C. S.
tW We are anthnrixed to aanoonee tbo
mine of James H. J.ixn as » candidate for T»*
See the advertisement of Jos. Walker. < mad.
vor of the construction of a Pacific Rail- ported that the Kentuckians are arpied Receiver of Cassewwty. yi^n W iteadsf
! and concentrating to meet them.
1 in January next.
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