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VOLUME VI GREENVILLE* SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1860." ~ " NUMBER 12.
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THE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE
. U Im?4 Bt.it TfcOT4?r MoaIbi, Wr
SCJXUNKIN & BAILEY,
PROPRIETORS.
lfrtJanklg. .... John O. Bkiltr.
Ill Year, in idfinee \ $1.50, if delayed
H JtltrWi ;
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Loved Onee. * >
Ja Mr ?
JQt*.;.!?? ? ?. e.mowjfiKO.
Jiywnrit 1
J dashed, ?sM
-Bartk'i I?; tbf
tos jarrtng yea ami ??jr, ?
:<* ion ;
The Mhbed-farewell, the welcome, luouraMlet;
Bet all dW leaven the air ' i - >
With elm hitter leaven of wrt despair, ?
Than theso words "I loved once."
iMflfV JS'A , # ' iaii ? I* t:? %
? And who aalth " I loved once 7"
Not angel*, whom clear eye*, love, love fore me,
% through eternity ;
Who, to loth, do apprehend to he,
If oh Uod, called Love, Iti* noblo crown-namo coating
? A light too brood for bloating ;
& great God, changing not from everlasting, I
* Salth never "I loved thee."
^ Nor ever the u Loved onco,"
Doet thou say* vie tie* Christ, misprised friend
| The ores* and onrse may rend )
Bet, having loved, thoa lovest to the end.
It!, man's saying?man's. Too weak to more
w One sphered star above,
l^hn desecrates the etornal God-word lore
With his "no more," ahd "onoo."
.How say ye, "We loved ones,"
Blal phewer* 7 Is your earth not cold enow,
, Mourners without that snow 7
A}, friend* I sad would ye wrafeg each other so 7
And comld ye say ef some, whose love is known,
Whose prayers have mot your own?
Whose tears havo fallen for yon, whose smiles have
sbown,
Sunk words, "We loved them once."
Could ye, " We loved her once,"
Buy calm of me, sweet friends, -when oat of eight ?
When hearts of better right
Stand in between me and your happy light 1
And when, aa flowers kept too long in the shade,
Ye And my colors fade,
And all that is not love in me decayed,
Huch words, " Ye loved movers t"
Could ye, "We loved her once,"
Say cold of me, when further put away
In efcrtk's sepulchral clay? m
When mute the lips which depruoate to-day 7
Net tof not then. least then! When lift is shriven,
And death's full joy is given?
Of those who sit and lore you up in heaven,
Shy not, "We laved them onee."
Say never ye loved once t
God is too noar above, the grave below,
And all our moments go
Too quickly'past our souls, for saying so.
The aaViLnrini of Ufa anil rln&th avanira
Affection*, light of mngo?
Thar* com** no change to justify that change,
Whatever ootno*?loved once.
And ydt that word af oaee
I* humauty acceptive! King* have said,
v. Shaking a discrowned head,
44 We raled onee "?dotard*, " We oaee taught and
lad"
Cripple* oaee daaoed I* the fkiee and bard* approved
Were onoe by *ooraings, moved.
Batlove strike* on* hoar?Lor* / Those aerer loved,
Who dreapaed that they loved once.
JfiratfllBwmta IRrnhmg.
Mr. Adhmore't Rem&rks,
Made In the House of Representatives, upon
casting hie vote for Mr. McClmnaxd, of Illinois,
for Speaker:
, Ma. Auhou?I declined to tote an the first
roll-call, not becanae I had any doubt of my
duty, or in what direction, under existing circumatnaeee,
1 abonld eaet my rote. Bat I declined
for a purpose. That purpose was to see, to know,
and to aaccrtain how certain gentlemen who hold
data on thie floor would eaet their votes. Z believe
that every gentleman who has been voted
for beta will do me the justice to say that I hare
neither privately nor publicly aeked htm a single
queetiesi, or pat a tingle interrogatory to him at
to the character or complexion of bia political
feelings.' I came here with the knowledge that
dlaoordant elementa would hava to combine to
beat the common eoerov?the Black Republican
party of the country ; and I came here determined
to nae toy voice, but more particularly my vote,
U any form which my judgment might tell me
would accomplish that object. I hava cast my
ota again and again, aa other gentlemen have
done. and have not -1-? ' ? I
candidate, whether be was a Democrat, an A roar
lean, or aa antl-Lceompton Democrat, any elate*
ment aa to hie peculiar complexion of polities.?
The great object, air, waa to beat the Republican
party ; and 1 undertake to aay bare, that all partita,
and every individual of theee parties in oppoeition
to the Republicans, will rltura to their
eonatituente and claim, and perhapa receive high
approbation for having attempted to accomplish
that parpoee. 1 leave It to their eonetiteenta end
to the country at large to detarmine whether they
have done aa.
Foe myself, I intend ?? do I have been doing.
1 intend to cast my vote without knowing, ar
earing to know, what complexion of polities the
gentleman from Illinois sustains or supports. I
know that ha is and har ever been a Democrat,
f with shades of opinion which, perhaps, I could
? not end would not endorse. I know that my constituents
will never trouble me with interrogations
or attacks for the course I shall pursue. If they
did, I would moot And combat their vlewtiA believed
tliej were erroneous, and would sustain
those I noted upon, or Call under their eonenret. ~
Now, I here regretted to see this morning, thai
many of ray Democratic friends have declined to
vote, or have thrown away their votes on other
gentlemen; and I would eppeel to them,if I thought
my eppeel would hove eny effect, to roily note
once more under the Democratic bsnner, end If
we ge down, let ue all go down together under
the folds of t^e tame flag. It luu been boostfully
proclaimed on the other side of the House that
we were broken and rooted ; that our flng wad
trailing in the dust. It tnay be true^entlemeni
but yours trails to-day as low as does ours. And
whilst you claim a victory, the fight on oucgidd
bat not been altogether barren of trophies.,..
W? at least have broken the back of John Sherman
-upon bis Helper indorsement, if we taVWffbt
broken his neck. If oor ranks are dispersed andj
broken, you have changed front, and, with youn
staudord-bearer down and rolling in the dust, you
have been compelled to seek aid outside of your
organisation for success. Sir, if I thought that
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my colleagues, who represent as noble, as eon*
tiding, and aa generous constituencies na I do, 1
would appeal to tliem, and ask them to come an
here oy my side and let South Carolinians stand
shoulder to shoulder In this last effort to elect a conservative
man ; and one who, like ourselves, is an
uncompromising opponent of the Black Republican
doctrines which prevail in this House. 1
hopethey waive their peculiar notions, and without
committing themselves to the views of the gentleman
from Illinois, or anybody else, will stand
by Itlm, and let South Carolina present a solid
front in his support. This is our last chance to
defeat the opposite party. I feel satisfied, nay, eii%
I have reasone to say thai. I'm almost positively
certain, that if we do not elect on this ballot, the
Republican party will eleeton the next ballot; and
I thiuk it is our duty?a duty that we owe to the
country at large, and to out State in particular?
to preaent a united front here. Attempta have
been made here, for many years past, and persistently
insisted upon, that South Carolina and
South Carolinians were factions.- 'I deny it. I
will yield my feelings and my peculiar opinions.
and trust that they will yield some of theirs. I
know that there la not a constituency in South
Carolina that will not, evcu if they believe their
Repreeentativee in error, forgive them freely and
cordially, and nobly come to their aid and support,
if they ever aak that nid and support again,
and sustain them even though their judgment may
be that my colleagues and myself were in error.
No man, or set of men, represent more independent
or more generous aud oonfiding constituencies
than my colleagues and I do; and I nm sure that,
while moat of ray colleagues claim to be outside
of the Democratic organisation, they can, with
safety, come to it nnd support one whom their
peers on this floor from the great States of the
South have almost unanimously supported. I
aak, sir, ean we not act, and that consistently,
when wa placo ourselves side by side will* the
Representatives of the great Coram on wealth of
Virginia, and thoae of all the States south of ust
We have a common interest; we arc engaged in a
common struggle against a common enemy. Let
us have union and harmony amongst ourselves,
for the sake of the interests of all.
I earnesUy hope they will do it; and I repent,
that I arff dfertain that not one of ua will ever be
called to account for it. I do not believe there
are a dozen men in my congressional district who
will ever ask me why or wherefore 1 voted for
Mr. AlcClernand, of Illinois, in opposition to
the Black Republican candidate. The latter is a
gentleman whose private character, from all I
have heard of him, I hold in esteem, and for
whom I have great respect. The first lever heard
of him was from a Booth Carolinian, a man la
whom I have the utmost confidence. Bat the
gentleman from New Jersey is nnited with those
arhom ws consider the enemies of our country.?
I find him in the bosom of the Republican party
acting and eo-operating with them. lie is In their
hands, and will doubtless be their instrument la
constituting and appointing their committees, all
of which will be done with a view to prevent the
exercise of Democratic influence on the floor of
this Hones or in the country. Will it If
we can defeat him and elect the gentleman from
Illinois, who comes much nearer to us in notifies I
than he doeaf
I hope mjr appeal will not be in vain. I hope
my colleagues will rally to the reaene; and if. as
I have said, we go down, let us all go down together.
and go down under the folda of the f>emoeratle
lianner, nnder which we have been lighting
together, most of onr time, for more than eight
long weeks. While they are outside of its organization,
we have ever aeted with it where our
judgment and eonscience enabled as to do so. I
know of nothing in the history of the gentlman
frdtn Illinois that antagonizes with my judgment,
conscience, and duty now. I know not what his
views are on territorial sovereignty. If they differ*
from mine, I will oppose them and hiin whenever
wa come to act on them. I am erediblv informed
that he lost his Mai on this floor some year* ago
for sustaining what hisoonslitucucy charged upon
him aa pro-slavery interests.
For myself, sir, I never gave a vote ontslde of
the Democratic party in the whole period of my
life, until 1 took my seat npon the floor of this
House. But, sir, I have, ainee I have been here,
voted again and again outeide of the organisation.
I have done it? for high and noble purposes, as I
believe, and aa I will do agnin whenever the occasion
requires. And, air, in the canvass of )86?,
when 1 was running to succeed my distingnfshad
predecessor (Mr. Orr] who so honorably filled
the ehair during the Thirty-Fifth Congress, ia
the seventy-three stump speeches made by me
during a seven months' canvass, against a most
talented and worthy gentleman who opposed me,
in Die western district of South Candida, I took
the ground, then aud there, and ia every one 0f
those speeches, trint f wohM vote vHfh thafl psrlyTi
and act with it so long as Its fiction and its course ,
commended themselves to my judgment and eonscience
; hut liint I would not follow Its behceU i
one step or one inch farther.
I am here to oatxy out that policy. Althongh I
am a Democrat, and consider myself within the >
pale of the organisation of the Democratic party,
( yet whenever my Judgment or my conscience tells
me that it Is In tils' wrong, that its members are
pursuing a wftjftg coOTse and supporting a Wrong
policy, I will trtote Against the Democratic party
and against its' nominees, I tntertd, sir, to.carry
out that determination Tn n^y entire action {n this
House. But while I say that, I also say that
1 see nothing now that should cause me to hesitate
for oals montMt In givlnga free, eordial, and
hearty stipj>bK to the getitleinaVi from Illinois.?
He ia a gcniltnan. die beam the Impress upon
Ids faee ; lie carries It In every feature and lineament
of liis countenance. 1 Can vote for him with
pleasure. If we can place him in that chair to preside
over the deliberations of this House, I belie vo
he will do it with credit to himself and honor to
llie country, and that no man within the Democratic
organisation or out of it, will ever regret
that he has cast a vote to p1i\pe blm there.
To my South American Wends, or rather some
of them, 1 have a word to say. Gentlemen, I am
disannotnted in von. I h*v? K??n noinwl ? il.?
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course you have pursued. * I have no unkind or
harsh word to speak ; I am not a southern fireeater
; though I am a southern-rights man from
the crown of my head to the sole of my foot; and
I will yield to no man in my fixed purpose and
unalterable determination to sustain those rights.
You are southern men ; you have southern rights
and southern institutions to dufend. We have
for eight weeks been fighting a common enemy.
I came to you and supported you.. I did it with
all ray heart and ungrudgingly. I did it cheerfully
; and I would doitngnln. I repeat, gentle,
men, that some of yon have disappointed me. I
would not use n harsh or unkind word; but I submit
it to your consciences, whether you should
not do now for us what we did for you 1 Give us
a hearty and uuited support. If you do, I feel
assured tho oountry at large will thank you for
it. I vote for Mr. flcClernand, of Illinois.
Another Yankee Trick.
'1 The critter loves me! I know she loves me I"*
said Jonathan Doubkins, as he sat upon the corn
field fence, meditating on the course of true love,
that it was running just as Sbakspcare said it
did, rather roughly. " If Sukc Peabody lias taken
a shine to that gawky etammcrln' shy critter,
Gusset, jest cause he's a city feller, she ain't
the girt I took her for, that's sartin. No! it's
tho old folks, darn their ugly pictursl old Mrs.
Peabody allers was a highfalutin' critter, full of
hig notions; and the old man's regular softhead,
driven about by ids wife, just as our old one-ey
ed rooster is drove about by our cantankerous,
five toed Dolkiu hen. But if I don't.Spile lita
fun, my name ain't Jonathan. I'm going down
to the city by railroad next week, and when I
come hack wake snakes i that's all." '
The above soliloquy may serve to srive the
reader some slight idea of the land in the plena .
ant rustic village where the speaker resides.
Mr. Jonathan Donbkins was a young farmer
well to do in the world, and looking out for a
wife?he had been paying his addresses to Miss
Susan Penbody, the only daughter of Deacon
Elderberry Peabody, of that ilk, with aYfcir prospect
of success, when a city acquaintance of the
Peabodys, one Mr. Cornelius Gusset) who kept a
retail dry goods shop in Haoover street, Boston,
suddenly made his appearance in the field, and
commenced cutting out game. Dazzled with the
prospect of becoming a gentleman's wife, and
pestered by the importunities of her aspiring
mamma, the village beauty bad begun to waver,
,whcn her old lover determined upon a last and
bold stroke to foil his rival. He went to the
eity and retarood ; of his business hs said nothing,
not even to a pumping maiden sunt who
kept house for him. He went not nesr the Peabodys,
but labored away in his -corn field, patiently
awaiting the result of his mschinVl&m?
The next day, Mr. Onssett was seated with the
old folks and their daughter, in thf best room of
the Pea body mansion, chattering as pleasantly
as possible, when the door opened, and its rushed
a very dirty and furious Irish woman.
" Is it thera to are. Mr. fWnoliuo Unu<n I
Come out, yc spalpeenI la that ya promiat tna
afor the praste, ye hathcn nsgur! Running
away from me and the chllderf?forsakin' yer
laifttl wedded wife, and raniu' after Yankee gal*
ye confidential"
" Womatf, there most be some mistake here,"
stammered Gusset, taken all aback by tbis charge.
" Devil a bit of a mistake, ye sarpint ? Oh,
wirra.warra! woe it for the likea of ye that I
kicked little Dinner McCarthy, who lured the
ground i trod on, and all because ye promiat to
make a lady nv me, ye dirty thief of the world!
Will ye eome along with ine to the railroad station,
where 1 left little Patrick, because he was
too aiek with tlte am all pox to come any tnrder,
or will yo wait till I drag ye I"
"Go-go-along," gasped Gusset; "go and 1*11
follow you."
lie thought it beet to temporize.
"I give you ten minutes," said tlte virago; "if
yo aint there, Itie my eoesin, Mr. Thabby Moth
gmddy, wHl be afther ye, ye thief."
And away went this unbidden guest.
Mr. Gusset was than engaged in stamina ring
out a denial of all knowledge df the virago,
when the parlor door again opened, a_* lUtle
Mack-eyed, hatehet-faced woman, In a flashy
silk go wo ami a cap with many ribbons perched
on the top of her head, invaded tho sanctity of
tlio parlor.
"Is he heret* she cried, in a decided French
Then she added, with a scream, " Ah,
H voila i Zere ha ia Trails e monster
t "Vht (or you run away for me T l>ia two.
tree year* 1 nevnir m? you?nevalr, and my
heart broke vary had witirrly."
r< " Who are you r cried Gueeet, hie eyee "training
out of hie bead, end shivering from head to
teoi. .. ?
s !* He eek me who I em. Oh, yon w rerpcetaide
ohl geuUehoatm* 1 her ret he eek. Who I
m, perJUU/ eti I?I era your wife P
"I never raw you 'fore -bo help me, Bob,"?
cried Qtireet, energetically.
" Don't you eweer I" eeid old Dee eon Pee body, (
"if yon do I'll kick you into file; I wont beve ,
no profane or vulgar language iu my hoaee." ,
"Oh, hleee.yon, blereyeu, reepeetaUe old men, ,
tell Lira he muet come via me?tell bbn." 8obe
Interrupted her utterenee. I
" It's |>eeky bed burlnem," raid the Deacon, ,
chafing with unwonted fire. " Gurnet, yotdre a ,
rneeal." d !
Take care. Deacon Penbodj-?take care," raid
the unfortunate shopkeeper.
he r 1 a -
1 rvmarkcti you WAS * ritrU, UOSaet?
You've gone anil married two' wives, and thst ,
'ere's flat burglary, ef I know anything 'bout the ,
Revised StatooU." ,
"Two wives T" shrieked the Preneli woman.
"Half a dozen, for nuglit I know to the eon- ,
trary," said the Deacon. " Now, you clear ont i
of my house ; go away to the station, and clear <
in to Boston. 1 won't have nothing more to do
with you."
" But, Deacon, hear me."
" I don't want to lien r ye, ye sal-pint," cried the
Dcncon, stopping his ears with his hands.?
" Mnrryin two wives, and oomis' a courtiu' a
tlilid. Go long?clear out."
Kven Mrs. Peabody, who was inclined to put
in a word lor the culprit, was silenced. Susan
turned from him in horror. In despair he fled
to the railway station, hotly pursued by the
clamorous and indignnnt French woman.
That aftamoon, as Miss Susan Peabody was
walking towards the village, she was overtaken
by Mr. Jonathan Doubkins, dressed in his best,
and driving his fast-going horse before his Sanday-go-to-meeting-chaise.
lie reined up and ac.
cos ted her,
" Hello, Suke !?get in and take a ride T"
" Don't keer if I do, Jonathan," replied the
young indy, accepting the proffered seat.
Vleny, you," said Jonathan, grinning, "that
ere city fellow's turned out a poorty pup, ain't
Let"
" It's dreadful, if it's true," replied the young
l?dy. ^ I
" You had ft n?rrer e*onpej didn't ye!" pursued
the old lover. " lint lie warn't never of no neeount,
anyhow. What do the folks think about
itr
" They hfftnt said a word since he cleared out,"
Forgot thai night I rode you home from singing
school 1" asked Jonathan, suddenly branching
off.
"No, I hain't," replied the young lady, blushing
and smiling at the same lime.
44 ltemember them apples I gtn ^rOU 1"
" Oh, yea."
u Well, they was good, wasn't they T"
" First rate, Jonathan." '
." Got a hull orchard of thetn'kind of fruit,
Snke," said Jonathan, suggestively.- _
*SQsan was'silenU
"Clang!" exclaimed Jonathan, patting the
braid on the ba'dk of the horse, llave you any
idea where wc are going, Suke ?"
" I'lj going to the village."
"No, you aia't; you are goin' along with me."
" Where to !"
"Providence; and yon don't tome baok till
you're Mrs Doubkina. no how vou can fix it."
" How you talk, Jonathan.**
" Darn the old folks," said Jonathan, putting
on tlic string again, " ef I was to leave you with
them much longer, they'd be traden you off on
to some eity feller with half a dozen wives already.
*
The next day, as Mr. and Mrs. Doubkins were
returning home in their chaise, Jonathan aaid,
confidentially.
" May as well tell you, now, Suite, for I hain't
got any secrets from you, that Gusset never seed
them women afore they came sb-ppin' into your
houso and blowed him up. 1 had, though.-?
Coat me ten dollars?thunder! I toadied 'em
what to say, and 1 expect tliey dono it*well!'
Old Gusset may be a shopkeeper, hut if- )ie'expects
to go ahead of Jonathan Fsonbkina,- he
innst get up a plaguey sight earlier of mornings."
Tur Mothicr.?There Is something in sickness
that breaks down the pride of manhood; thifl
softens the heart, and brings it bsck to the feelings
of infancy. Who that has languished, even
in advanced life, in sickness and despondency;
who that has pined on a weary bed, in the neglect
and loneliness of a foreign land , hut has thought
on the mother "that looked on his ehild-hood,"
that smoothod his pillow and administered to
his hslptessness? . Oh ! thore is an enduring tenderness
in the love of a mother to a son, that
transcends all other affections of the heart. It ia
neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted
by danger, nor weakened by worthlessneae, nor
stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every
comfort to his convenience ; she will \urrender
ever}' pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory
in his fame, and exult in his prosperity ; and, if
misfortune overtake him, he will be dearer to
her from misfortune ; and if diegraoe settle upon
his name, she wilt still love and aherish him in
spite of bis disgrace ; and if all the world besides
east him off, she will be ail the world to him.
A wi stents of the gospel, with not mneh of a
pufpit gift,' came Into tho place oT worship
drenched with rain, and '.said to a brother who
stood by. as hs shook and brushed, and wiped
liia slothes?
" 1 will certainly take coM if I go ihto the pub
pit so wst."
"Oh no," was the reply, "you were always
dry snough there I"
Tennessee Copper Mines.
Nkw Yokk, Jan. 27th, 18S0. 1
To the Editor? of the Journal of Commerce?In 1
a number of your paper several weeks ago, I 1
noticed an article on Copper Mines of the United
Ktates, in which yon referred briefly to -the oop- ,
per mine* in Folk county, Tennessee, but In such c
a manner as to show that yon are not well post?d
in regard to that district.
I have recently returned from a visit to the 0
Bopper mines In Tennessee; and knowing that
?m? of your readers are interested there, reipeeting
which they may be ignorant as to their
value, I have thought that a statement whatand
where tho mines are, what they are now produc- *
ing, and what they seem capable of producing, c
might be acceptable both to you m^d to your *
readers; hence this communication. *
Having been wholly engaged for the last ten 1
years In mining operations, I went to Tennessee ^
with the best facilities for acquiring the fhllest *
information it was desirable or possible to have. ^
and having availed myself of the advantages. I
give the following as the result of my investtgn- 1
lions r *
The copper district In Tennessee lies in Polk 1
Bounty, In the south-eastern part of the 8tate, T
bordering upon the States of Georgia and tforth 8
Carolina, and in the township bearing the eu. "
phonions name of Ducktown.
Polk county is in the heart of the Cherokee
Nation, from which the Indians were removed in
1836. About the year 1840, these lands were offered
for sale to the public; and from that time
to 1850, considerable portions of tho lands were
located by speculators, and others, at prices ranging
from one cent to five dollars per acre.
In the year 1860, or about that time, an effort
to make iron from the outcroppings of these
veins revealed the fact that the monstrous metallic
ledes which pass through that district were
not iron but copper veins. The district at
the time being almost inaccessible, the reports
which found their way out produced little -impression
on the public mind, until a few adventurous
strangers found their way thither, through
the fastnesses of the mountains, when it was soon
made manifest that vast treasures of wealth lay
buried in that secluded spot; and that it only requited
a judicious outlay of money, time and patience
in opening up the veins, in making roads
of ingress and egrees; and in providing other necessary
facilities, to develope and make available
the most valuable mining districts in the United
States, if not in the world.
The lal>or performed in the district has evidently
been heavy and expensive, demanding
great patience and indomitable perseverance;
but no stranger can now visit the place without
being oppressed with the conviction that the'
wealth of that small district cAnnot be computed,
even approximately. Every month seeips to
bring forth developments whieh the proprietors
hardly dared to hope for. A good wagon road
has been made through the mountains from the
mines to Cleveland on the " East Tennessee and
Georgia " Railway, a distance of 88 miles, at a
heavy expense to the mining Companies, which
has heretofore served their purppse; but now,
not less than three railroads, from aa many diffpront.
nninU apa in AnntAmnlalinn fn ?A?naai
the mines with railways extending to the sea
hoard ; some of these roads, if not all of theiu,
will soon be built.
The * Union Consolidated Mining Company " is
the principle company at' this time procuring
ores for the market, to any considerable extent
The mines embraced in this consolidation number
several very rich properties already developed,
besides several others not yet opened. They
contain in the aggregate over 8,200 acres.
The Company arc now working at only three
points, being greatly restricted in their operations
by the lack of a sufficient number of furnaces
to reduce the ores. The Company have
now i" use four furnaces, and are erecting four
more, to be ready for use as early in the spring
as possible.
For the last seven months, I was informed that
the production had been as follows, to wit:
In June....883 tons. October 650 tona
July..... .887 " November 741
August... .696 rt- .December 607 "
Sept Mb "
- Equal to 680 tons pure copper, worth in the
market at least t?6li,000.
During the coining, year, with the additions]
facilities the Company are providing, it will be
very easy for them to double their present production
of copper, although for 4he last two or
three months the production of the Compsny's
mine's l|as equaled in value the richest copper
mines in the United States in their best days.
I am informed by the officers of the Company
that they are now preparing for their first semi-'
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nuiMini uitiuoiiii, iiiuii iPiu Ufj iiiniie un iiic iiiqi>
of July noxt, and regularly thereafter on the first 1
of January and July?of each year.
While in Tennessee I was informed that a 1
party of wealthy and highly respectable gentle- 1
men in New Orleans had*j??rchased several valuable
mining properties in the heart of the district,
and had eonsolidated them nnderone man |
agement, with an organisation called the Polk i
County Copper Company. . I
This Company, I a in told, embraces several of i
the wealthiest and best business men of New Orleans
; and judging from their properties, and
the management they have secured for their
operations at the mines, together with the plan
of work already commenced, I think it is safe to
prediotthat thty will soon take rank with the'bfcst
brining Companies in the llnited States.
If any man is skeptical about these or any I
other statements he may have heard respecting 1
the Tennessee mince, let-hiin go and see; and i*
he does not return a convert to all the statements
that have been made, anil prepared himself to
go even beyond any that have preceded him, he
will be an exception to nil visitors to llmt district '
for the lust twelve months.
What effect the Urge prtdnetlon of copper In
he Tenneeeee District, may eventually have nfi
he oopper markets of the world, no one An tell I
>ut the probability is, that the gradual' decline
n the production of the old mines to ltavope,
vith the constantly increasing consumption of
upper will always maintain tlie present, if not
iven a higher market value for this metaL .
We may feel proud o( having the richest Iron,
oal and oopper mines in the world. *
WASHBURJT.
. ' Moses' Burial s.nd .Grare.
" And he buried him in a valley in the land of
loab, over against Bcthpeor; lintrno man knowith
of "his sepulchre unto this day."?Deut.,
jcxlr. #. ...
<< IL. ... I '? -? * *- *
?" " Mivwrm ui nil wpmcdn I" WIIW
he warrior dies, his comrades, with muffled
I rums and revised arms, show banners talcsq,
ell of battles wt>n, and rehearse his noble deeds,
imid the first and most honored of the land^?
ages, poets, and statesmen-4-thej lay him to rest
vhere costly monuments of bronze and marble
peak to a world of departed greatness. Dot
doses, the man of God, the bravest warrior, the
nost fhilhful sage, the inspired, poet, and the
jeatest philosopher that earth ever knew, sleeps
0 a nameless spot
" By NcWs lonely mountain.
On this side Jordan's waves."
Moses, whose life from bis very birth was one
if hardship, struggle and toil; who religiously
efused to become the heir of royalty; who rueeky
declined the honor which God designed should
te bestowed on Abraham's children; who, under
Jod, safely delivered them from their cruel bond*
ge and the tyrant's power; who patiently lieeDed
to the complaints and bore the reproaches
f the children of Israel; but who finally, proMr?d
-* ? ?- "?- ' ' *"
?- ??gv. nv kuo ruct ui jn^rriuno, incur*
ed the displeasure of the Lord, and forfeited his
utrance iato the promised land, whsie fertile
ields and pleasant r^t had been lh? goal of his- *
topes for more than forty years?this friend of
lod was permitted only to view the land, and
hen called to rest in his unknown grave.
Christian friend- and mourner, do you grieve
hat your husband; your child, or your friend
ies in ar, unknown spot? Do you weep because
rou cannot plant myrtles and strew flower*
ibove#the unmarked grave, and sigh that no
narhle speaks of the worth and guides to tho
esting place of the departed one! Remember
hat he who favored as no other has been, tallied
rith God " face to face," at the same time the
jrcatest and the meekest man, has, for thousands
tf years, lain where man knoweth not Hia sepal:hre.?Latir*.
Ancestral Priuk.?In Australia the pride of
incestry, it appears, is having had a' convict for
ather?the " stock " being considered more
4 plucky!" An article on the subject, by am
Engirsli writer, says: . .
The descendants of the old convicts are not a! ' *
d) ashamed of their origfh ; and considering bow
>ur own " blue blood " piques itself on (avloff
' come in with the conqueror," trhy should they .
?e? Inside?that is, in the first settled parte of
ly; colony?the old prejudice against those who
ire not lags or the offspring of lags, sQll'prevailg
imong the lower orders; they are looked upon
is an inferior, pluckless race.
Convict daughters make admirable, snatehea
n an English point of view ; and one of the last
Solicitors General of New South Walfs^?a moot
igret-ahle, gifted, gentlemanlike young fellow?
ivas a convict's son.
And see "how they talk of the same matter in
California:
Mankind at the East have a reverence for
(realll> which is here almost wholly unknown.
A California!! would hardly wnste a seeqad look,
save in the way of business, if Croesus himself
were to appear among us. lie loves money for
the sake of what it will buy, but never thinks of
it as a means of winning retpect. Family dla.{notions
are even less heeded than thosp-of for*
;une, A man who has the good lnck to be born
it all is licre just as good as one in whose veins
lows " all the blood of all the Howards." The
>on of the Great Mogul, or a descendant in direct
line from Julius Cwsar, would enjoy no higher
sonsideration than Paddy McOuite fresh from
Connaught He would find himself compelled to
"paddle his own canoe,"-di?d*pay for his own
whiskey. His merits, if he had any, would bo
acknowledged ; but as for his ancestors, he had
better follow tbeir example and "dry up," than
to uitke any claims on their account
RartoB in Trouble.?It is a poor relief from
orrow to fly to the distractions of the world:
ta well might a lost and wearied bird, susjiended
iver the abyss of the tempestuous ocean, seek a
resting" place on its heaving waves, as the child
if trouble, seek a a place of repose amid the bustling
cares and intoxicating pleasures of earth
?ud time.?Spring. ,
> ? ?
Valuable Recipe roa Dtsekte*y.?Take of
[Hatch leaves one handful, pour one pint of boiling
water over them ; then add one table spoonTul
of E)isom Halt*. Take a wine fUss full Vvepv
two op hnuA i ill ll nrw>r*fo? * 'I*"
take tli# tea without the salts three times A day
until cured. The tea must be cold in which tha
Baits Is put.
It is a singular fast that a woman cannot look
from a precipice of any height, without becoming
instantly diny. Hut what is still more singular,
the dizziness departs that eery moment
somebody pate h is arm around her waist to keep
her
<*-?' *
How Mta % portion of our lives la that wa
truly cnj?| ! 1# youth, we are looking forward
for thing* thst arc to coinc ; in old age we look
backward for things that are |M?t.