Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-10-18

ated by the poisonous and reason DESTROYING h.
erages prepared mot by nature, but by erring M.
I believe that it is generally admitted tbs, ~.
had not been for the continual entreaty. and con
slant application of the iron rods, poles of wood :
gether with auger and pump by the persever;1.
Jack, that old Nep never would have consented s
deliver thirty gallons of his choice element ev.s
minute, four feeta bove the ground in the ce,.,
of Main treet.
Well, as our friend Jack has been the cons,.
companion of the old gentleman, his father :
regulating the sprnging forth of the waters in .nI
about Columbus, and the trumpeter of his ah.~
of depth &c, either by the of his vocal =,
gans, or by the means of chalk, which is a co.,.
compound of fossillferous shells &c, and VIII,
shells, if not so large, were equally contored ana
fully as useful in making known the depth Of q,
well, as the one used by Triton, in trumpa,;,.
the approach and viii of Neptune. 1t NAV M
therefore, be entirely out of place to apply f.
same words to our friend Jack, that Virgil did II
Tritus:
aHim and his martial train Triton bears:
High on his poop the sea-green god appears.
Browning he seems his crookek shell to sound
And at the blast the lcaterS danced around
The excellent artesian well just complete in Maj,
street by Mr. Copeland and his step-son, Andrew
Evans, is little over $50 feet deep, DISCHARGE,
about 80 gallons of water per minute, four feet
above the ground. The location of the we'll !,
about 100 feet above low water mark The ten.
perature of the water is 65o F., while the temper
ature of the ordinary wells in Columbus, from 30
to 40 feet deep is 620 F.
The strata bord through are as follows, viz -
1-Feruginous Clay, sand, and water worn sl.
icous PEBBLES fifty feet.
2-Green sand, composed of fine grains of silk.
chorate of iron, mica, alumia, and small Dor
ton of lime-16O feet. A few feet of the lower
portion of this stratum contains a considerable
number of small black water-worn pebbles and
also Ignite.
| 3.-Argilo*-Micaceous EARTH As feet.
4.-Incoherent argilaceous earth, of light ash
colour, containing Ignite and iron pyrtes. This stra.
tum resembles in structure pressed dried prunes,
with the intersties glazed. The caving tendency
of this stratum occasioned more difficulty than
any other portion of the well, five feet thick.
-Argiolo-macaceous earth, with a small
portion of fine sand, 90 feet.
! 6.-Argilo-Silicious earth, darker than the 5.b,
also containing Ignite 10 feet
Brown colored argilite, sufficiently hard
when dry for slate pencils, interspread with Ignite
7 feet thick.
: 8.-Fine grit, ash color, with fine particles Of
mica. The grit in this stratum has been used b!
some on razor straps, and pronounced very good,
feet thick.
3 ga continuation of the same fine grit, with
alternate layers of like colored argilacious EARTH
II feet thick.
5 10.-Yellowish colored argilacious earth, harC
5 when dry IL feet thick.
: 11.-Brown colored arglaiceous earth, Difficult
a to bore, hard and brittle when dry, 90 feet.
: 12.-Compact green sand, resembling stratum
second feet thick; and then passing into a coarse
drift sand, with green particles of chloratc of ror
+. DC.
? Nnext the water came gushing forth, and my
friend Jack has not furnished me with geological
specimen since. l. however, suspect that the next
geological specimen that he procured was of the
aurJerouS character which he felt disposed to slip
into his own pocket, without submitting it to me
] for examination. WIN. SPILLMAN
Columbus, Oct. 10, 1851.
*The terms argyll, or argilaceous, used in
! this article, as synonymous with Shale, from the
fact that each stratum where the term is applied,
the shale was of a plastic nature.
P. ST have been requested to publish a seri-
es OF numbers the geology of this portion Of
the State of Mississippi. To enable me to do this,
L would esteem it favor, if persons living in the
: vacinty of fossil shells, or petrifacons of any
kind, if they would send me few specimens Of
each species that they may be able to procure
The present cotton hauling time would be favor
able opportunity of sending such specimens, eth
er to West Port or this place. WIS
D For tie STANDARD.
EDITOR OF THE STANDARD Sir, far from an
intrusive desire, towards generous comfy al
ready received yet feel solicous to see the pur-
port and value of the doctrine, declared by Ken
: lucky and Virginia. against the alien and sedtiOn
: laws of John Adams, ascertained, determined
d and defined. Regarding brevity and perspiculy,
as the life of the press 1 SHALL on your permis-
It sion, be laconc concise in alusion to this top
: ic
|, The resolutions of Thomas Jefferson in 1898,
adopted by Kentucky and Virginia, seem, not to
De clearly understood or Justly appreciated; either