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cannon amidst the plaudits of our people.
A number of our young ssn, led by Hr. Tculne, who knew the route through tlae test sixes and bayous, went in pirogues with their rifle- ' tool: Tiart in the defense of itew Orleans.	“	•._
In those days this city was but a snail village ^th no commerce, resorted to merely as a summer retreat, -earlingtcn was the corrsercial point, -^t had bean laid out on a metropolitan scale, covering, -1 believe, near a section of land, oxd it had teen visited by the legislature, t)Bn ait ting in Columbia, in 1821 , who were sumptuously entertained, and v.ent away with the most favorable impressions. ^eai‘1 ^iver, from a point 20 miles below Colu bia, to ^onticello, was settled by wealthy planters, chiefly from South Caroline, who sent their cot tub. down in barges. shippe it to i‘OW Orleans on schooners, and brought back th3lr supplies. !fhis made Pearlington lively and prosperous, and many distinguished families resided there.
In the v.holo county we had many cultivated and influential citi zens-nuch pen as C-en. ftixon, ^o. Strong, Judge Louis Daniel, ^ol. ^tc7;art,
^en. Peter Joor, Hon. r'm. Haile, V/illis H. Arnold, iion. ^ool Jordan,
■^'hcr.as Brown, ^udge Y/ingate, Gept. John Bradford, Nicholas I-itchell, l'ill.ia~i ard Joseph iVhsat» Sidney Lenoir, i-ajor v?lcvel&nd,' -u-sa ^uss, *«. J.
Conly, John I*, Armstrong, i'rancois i-etto, A. H, -^ersey, Judge 3. Bever n. T7. I'rierson, Jordan Smith, Peyton Loo, Geo. Hoors, George “arse, ^udge v.ir.ninghor;, 3r« A. Calhoun, •&. ir. Sponce, CharlesJUtchfield , _“m.. Boardman, # ♦ Bourne, Ivl. A. Thompson,. A. »?. Uacisron, Jesse ^owand, <-’£01: Lizanna, Louis Spotorno, R. A. IThitfiold, Alsz. Booster. ^ader ^clly,
G.	Casanova, J. B. i-itchell, S, J!. i’avre, ^. A. I-iitchell, »n. and -iram Smith, A« y, Slay don, Capt. St osher, J. J. Cordages, Oonrad ^offman,
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Stanley, Captain Cuevas, Dimitry Uanna, Alexander Dimitry, Col. ~cyt, Ale;:, if. Cameron, representative csn of whom any county may be proud.
If Pearlington is no longer a cotton port, owing to the removal cf planters from Pearl -^ivc-r to the central portion of tho State, it has become one of the most important points for the sawing and shipr;ing cf lumber in the South. The mills at that place and its inrcdiato vicinity employ many steam and sailing vessels, coastwise and to foreign ports, and ever 500 hands in their various branches of business. The four mills, with four circular saws and three gengs, cut an average of 90,000 feet of lumber wer day. Allowing EGO working days per veer -this would make 23,400,000 feet.
Poitevent & i*avre sawed most of the lumber used in the construction of the ft. 0. ci LI. K. H. and its numerous bridges, within the last few months they have shipped over 1,000,000 feet to northern, western and fcreigh ports, and the}' have supplied for the Jetties 4000 round and square piles, 700,000 feet 3-inch plank for sheet piling, 2,600,000 feet mattrass strips, 35,000 feet wall timber, 215 ,000.feet promiscuous lumber