Year: 1859

DR.. David Dale Owen, now engaged in the gso-
logical survey Of Arkansas, has published letter In
which he states that there is possibility Of finding
diamonds in certain parts Of the State. he says


During my geological Reconnaissance this season Ii
Jefferson county have discovered large quantities Of
l6 and II, township s. range Is, and It will doubtless
be found in corresponding course in many localities
east and west south Of west and north OF east Of
these tracts. OF this remarkable formation shall
take this occasion, however, to call more particularly
the attention of the citizens who may reside along the
range OF country to the associates which chemistry in
dicates possible accompaniments Of this geological
formation. The silicied wood in question was once
largely composed Of carbon. That carbon is now
more or less removed and its place occupied BY se.
and so intimate and precise has this replacement
Of carbon with sex been that the vegetable bse ne
tains its original structure and form perfectly that
the fossile wood, at few yards distance, may be
readily mistaken for wood unaltered In external ap
Pearance except that produced BY ordinary partial
decay although now hard enough to strike ilre with
steel.


Now it is during such slow and gradual process
Of mineral metamorphism or transfer Of carbon from
the vegetable cell that that element likely to assume
its crystalline form in other words, to produce dis
monds, this mineral being in fact, the pure crystaI


inc, native form of carbon (the cobusble principle
Of charocaD.


By this process of reasoning we arrive st the con.
cusion that there is possibility of finding diamonds
along the range Of the silcifed wood, and It would
be well for those residing in the vicinity OF this for
nation to be alive to this fact and look out for them
If they in this district they most likely to be
discovered in the earth subjacent to the silic6ed
stumps Their peculiar adsmantine lustre, exceeding
hardness, well crystalline form, will serve to dis
tinguish them from limpid quartz, with which they
are often confounded.


A FoRLoRN BENEDIcr-D Marriage, Loue, AbGn.
donment and Strong Ritin."-The Fremont (Ohio)
Messenger publishes the following rich letter from
destitute husband, and vouches for its authenticity


We copy the letter verbatim ct teratim to preserve
| its originality


AUGUST the 1859.
Dear Ser Cant make friend OF you cant help
but believe that you will prove faithful to me want
you to Watch my wife and let your neighbars now
that she is Married in Gall houn Co Ill at Hamburg
And am her husband. We was to gether SO days
And She become dissatisfied and wanted me to give
her money enough to gov to her grand father in Ohio
And nothing would do but that Cryed like Child
and reasoned the Case with her And nothing Would
do but she must gov though We parted in good hu-
NOR loved her to well to quarl with her Want
you to tell her neighbars that she is married That is
what want you to do Mr. il you please Show this
letter to her Grand father.


love her for forever Expect to her Father and all


her Brothers tells me that / am right She treated


me like negro And not like A man though love
her her name is Lucinda Victory O.
And my name is


| Obadiah N C.


4 Address this letter il you please ShowAt to her


grandfather and nefghbars yours truly Obadiah Il