The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-10-07

ing the serious border trouble, which re
suited from this boundary dispute II i
as follows: There having been great dis
senslons between the people resident in
the nelghborlng counties OF Buncombe and
Walton, and the said di~scn>icI. having
produced many riots, routs, affray~. A.
eauit>, batteries, trcspasses. woundiu-s.
and lmprI>OnmentS Is well on one SIDE a.
on th' other, and it being Of primary IN
portance that peace and TRANQUILITY should
be restored. and all anmosity and II viii
/ forever buried etc etc., and Il, the ont
RACES committed proceeded rather from
mistaken zeal IN support Of the respec-
! tive governments of the parties, than
from a desire To iniure their neigh
| bOrs, the commissioners Jointly agreed to
recommend to the Legislatures Of the two
States, the adoption of acts of amnesty
| and forgiveness.
The survey was accordingly made. The
| North Carolina commissioners selected
| and took with them, as their surveyor
or astronomical observer the President OF
| the | University. the late DR. JOSEPH CALp-
WELL, who was equally distinguished for
learning and for elevated character. The
Georgia Commissioners employed AS sur
veyor an eminent citizen, Mr.. MEiGS II
VIII be sufficient to state the result OF the
survey i'll the language of the Georgia
satisfactory from the considerat on that
their statement Is a sad confession Of dis
appointment. No doubt a similar report
was made to the Governor or Legislature
OF North Carolina, by the commissioners
of the State; and it should be found among
the archives at Raleigh. But the Geor-
gla report suf1ices. 1t bears date July
25th, S01
Alter recltlng some of the facts which
have been stated above, Messrs Carnes
and Barnett proceed to say, very truly,
that the proposition of the North Carolina
commissioners, to make soI.,e arrange
ment for secur,,1a tnc rights of North
Ca3ol,pa patentees of land, showed
that they expected the result Of the sur
vey would sustain the claims of Georgia
The Commissioners having made their
arrangements, left AsheyilI9 apout the
30tE OF June, f14 ,h7 disputed territory
Thf} made their first observation at the
house of a Mr.. Justice which they sup
posed to be upon, or near. the dividing
line Of g AegfePQ Blu, .heY were con
sigalnf ID tp state as the result of the OBJ
servations, that taking The mean differ
enee, il il found eAat Justices is on
latitude do- "a IA co." In other
words, instead Of the house of Mr.. Justice
being on the line which divides the two
states, rs MAS (u44isa5Y1 We a<tloqomical
ol e,Yat.Ols showed that it was twenty
two miles witAln old Buncombel Tire re
port continHeS: ,;W. taks leave TO state
that when the report of this first observa
ton made at Justices was received our
astonishment and disappointment were
great in the extreme. We, Wha had been
,s.qghy 10 believe, rom preceding eacula-
tlGns, and these made under the authority
of our government, and by person whose
/ public station Obliged US to believe that a
| scientific fault could not he o;.ts ,bAted to
him, hat, ,he mas9 abundant REASON TO be
a.stonished and mortified at the result of
this first attempt, which made differ
! ence, and varied from the preceding OBJ
servatlon twenty fa,,es o. UPWARDS. The
| caeo was tho more perpieXfng and unac
| countable When I'VE reflected that all the
observations, both by the Snryq,Yor- zen
| eral OF this State, .,nd the present artists,
| were made by the Same Kind Of instru
mehts, and snch as have heqp}9e prayYr-
bal for their Ypyltf ana a{.cAi4,ty. Wo
were, p8neEet- accompanied by an artist,
| appointed by che government, whose tai
ents and integrity we had no reason to
doubt, and of course We're under the ne
cessity of suspending OF assQ4ishAent,
and pro eedias "a me duty assigned ".
i t5H thb 33nd of June the Commissioners
proceeded about fifteen miles West; and
there at the mouths of Davidson's and
Little Rivers, where NJ. <tufaes the
GEORGIA Surveyor t.eperaJ ascertafne1 the
thirty nth degree Of North latitute to be. :"
another careful observation was made by
the 0hsPryat ioa Of Mr.: Meigs was less
fayo1ablq' tQ the Georgit claim than that
Of >tr Caldwell, although tbe,e Was sub
st Eial agreement between them:
MI. Caldwell reports 359 = g. 81
Mr.. Meiss reports 80 1S> 10<> 22><<
Upon this report the Georgia Commits
sioners remark that ''Aster finding, from
! the f.rQgoing observation, that were
upward Of seventeen minutes (or miles,
North of the desired point, we agreed to
proceed to CAESARS Head, 2 ,>la.o Oh the
Blue Ridge, abort tWe.va horizontal miles
directly South and III the vicinity of
three observations were taken, the FIRST on
the cath of .I!g.e, lvsuited as follows:
Mf. Meigs' observation SO II - or
Nj. Caldwell's observation SO g 15/
a1>~
1t Will be noticed again that the ohser-
vation of Mr.. Meigs was less favorable to
the Georgia claim than that of Mr.. Cald-
well.
The second observation Was ;aaAa IN the
goth Of luaaY the 3,th having Necn cloudy
Il resulted as follows:
By~Mr Meigs 350 g. 2O>> 24>>>
BY Mr.. Caldwell as = 81" ll>>>
On the aath of June the last observation
was made, with the following result.
By Mr.. Meigs 80 OF 51N 56>>>
BY Mr.. Caldwell So O4> 81 o."
The Commissioners SAY thas this las
observation pp the asth, was made andcl
unfayprable circumstances. only {
glimpse of the sun could be seen when a
+ the meridian. They add:
3 ''The Commissioners on the part of eacl
l State, believing from the ohseryation
f made and reported by the attendant ar
e lists that the thirty fifth degree of Nortl
! latitude could not lie found on the SUNNI
! or to the Narth of the most Southern poin
5 OF the Blue Ridge, agreed to and signe'
0 certain articles of agreement, which ar
i called articles supplementary t2 t,.qae en-
e tered into at AsheYi,lle TO whi{h We be
: leave 70 Tefef.s'
: The supplementary articles reiterate tn
i above statement in a preamble. Articl
h first is as follows:
Article |. The commissioners of Geol
e gia for, aud qp tie part Of their State
3 acknowledge and admit, which aeknow
: edgement and admission are founded o
a the aforesaid astronomical observations