The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-24

the part of Georgia adjoining, it being divided
nearly equally between the two States. 1t con-
sists of an eliptcal valley, about seven miles
long by three wide, almost closed in by lofty
mountains, and diagona!Iy cut across by the
Ocoee river dashing tributary of the Hiwas-
see and Tennessee. Within this ellipse, six
bold and distinct veins of copper have been
upheaved by some mighty convusion, which
has tilted the once horizontal strata to an angle
of so degrees, and forced up the metal be-
tween the layers of rock.
The veins approach to within 25 to 100 feet
| of the surface and are marked by an out crop
of porus oxide Of iron called gossau, all the
copper from which has disappeared under the
action of the elements. Along the tops of the
veins are found the black and grey oxides, the
sillicate and carbonate of copper, or malachite.
containing 90 to 60 per cent. of metal; and be-
meath lies the yellow sui phuret or copper pyrtes,
not so rich as the others, but far more valued
by the miner, from its being inexhaustibe.
Several large companies are at work in this
isolated valley, some belonging to England,
some to New York and one to Mobile. and with
capitals varying from $40O, 900 to Sc, ,25o,0O0.
Thousands of tons of ore and regulus or smell
ted copper, are annually shipped by the Geor-
| Ola roads to Baltimore and New York and even
to England, to be re-smelted and refined for
commerce and the arts. -
Now as this deposit lies near the East Ten
nessee and Virginia railroad, might not some
effort on the part Of our transportation compa-
nies draw part or the whole of these products
to the seacoast through our territory And,
further, considering our abundant coal and
water power, far exceeding that of any other
city near the coast, might not Richmond share
in the profits of smelling and refining the ores,
now enjoyed entirely by northern cities and by
| England.
These remarks have been suggested by the
perusal of report made by captain M. F.
Maury, of the navy, and professor Currev,
geologist, Of Tennessee, of a recent visit made
| by them to the Ducktown mines. 1t forms a
neat pamphlet Of about 80 pages, and has just
been printed at Knoxville for DR. L. H. Ander-
son, of Alabama, at whose invitation the scien
tiGc gentlemen above named, visited the mines
1t is entitled the "Alleghany mining company
of Tennessee, its mineral resources and mining
prospects,"
The company has very liberal charter from
the State of Tennessee a capital of 81 100000
which amount, by the provsi ion of the charter.
may be almost indefinitely expanded 1t is
based upon 1867 acres of land, lying in the
heart of the deposit, and including two well
proven and extensively developed mines. One
of these has sent to market, in less than IS
months, ores worth nearly 100000, averaging
235 per cent of pure metal. This mine is on
the Tennessee side. The other is in Georgia,
at the southwestern extremity of the property.
Its not SO fully open, but gives ample evidence
of being scarcely less valuable. Both are
happily situated on a hill side, and can be
worked and drained by horizontal tunnels or
adits, instead of by perpendicular shafts-an
immense saving of labor and expense. Besides
these there are, perhaps, twenty other places
on the property, where mines equally rich could
probably be opened, as they lie on the same
: lodes and Immediately between those already
j, so successfully explored. The report leaves
little doubt in the mind as to these matters.
[Richmond (Va.) Enquirer.
A GOOD PLArFoRM.-A democratic editor in
Alabama, being sick, has entrusted his paper
t to friend who is an old line whg, and an in
t corrigibIe know nothing. To GUARD against an
f apprehension that the politics of the paper will
suffer under his administration, the editor pro
f tenn. lays down the following platform:
: 1st. We are opposed to spirtuous, vinous,
} and malt liquors, with perhaps a mental reser-
walton in favor of Scotch ale and Sherry cob
bers
g. We are opposed to patent medicine of
whatever nature, from the 'Medicamentum
Gratis Probatum," down to cdr Gehogan's
Hydropiper," (Phebus, what a namely via
"Goalicke's Matchless Sanative.''
5 8. We are in favor of letting the "retired
: physicians sands of lfe' run out.
4th. We are in favor of the passage of an
Il Il, IL, l
navigable to this place.
Lasty-We are i'll favor of crinoline under
all circumstances, except in equestrian per-
formances. .,
These princip pies we believe do not conflict
with the political opinions which our friend has
so ably advocated in the columns of the Star,
and upon his recovery, we will TRANSMIT them
5 unimpaired'' to his keeping.
A New GOLDEN SrATE.-A letter to the
f Boston Journal from Lawrence, says: "There
| is movement of some Importance going on
relative to these gold discoveries. 1t is the
formation of new territory from the western
, portion of Kansas. The parties in the vicinity
f of Pixies Peak, it is said, will at an early day
elect delegate to congress, and send him on
to the next session with a petition for new
, territorial organization. 1t is said that a gen
teman from Kansas city, who is to start with
one Of the trains leaving this week, will return
as the embryolic congressman. The grounds
upon which they ask this action of congress
will be that, situated as they are five hundred
miles from the well settled portions of Kansas
and its seat of government it will be impossible
for them to find any protection from our terrific
rial authorities; and that unless furnished with
an organization of their own, mob law must
prevail, and they must suffer from general
anarchy. Seven hundred miles, they claim,
are quite too much for the length Of State
: where railroads are unknown and steamboats,
timpracticable.' We have seen no allusion in
the Kansas newspapers to this movement, which
will doubtless be frustrated, at least for the
present, on account of the recent unfayoraba
reports from the "gold region" """
ScAFFoLD CoNyERsIoNs.-The FrederIcks~
burg Recorder has an article on the extraor-
diuary conversions which murdcrers are wont