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plank for sheet piling, 2,600,000 feet mattrass strips, 35,000 feet wall timber, 215,000 feet promiscuous lumber. .	(
Add to this the turn-out from, tiie -mills at Log-town and Gainesville?all conducted on a large scale, by men of enterprise, and capital ; and the value of the brick and the; tar, resin, tallofty*, beeswax, honey, wool, hides, peltry, staves, shingle's, fruit, etc., shipped via Pearlington, and you may form some idea of the value of its commerce	?	'	'	'	,	?	?,
The bar in this county, has always been particularly strorig: Gen. Pray, Hon. John Henderson, Richard Stockton,' R. W. Webber/ Thomas B. Reed, Hon. George Adams, Robert H. Buckner, Wm: Yannerson, Buckner H. Harris, Yan-Tromp Crawford, W. A. StoiieV of Pike, ohe ?patriarch of the bar,? D.. W. Hurst, Gen. Daniel? Adams, Gen. D. C. Glenn,- Col. John II. Lamkin, E. Saffotd,' Prof. H. F. Johnson, our lamented fellow-citizen, J. C. Monet, Col. J B. Deason, S. H. Terrell,. Charles A. Sniith, W. A. Champlin, Roderic Seal, D. B. Seal, T. J. Humphries, W. 'G. Henderson)' George Wood, Elliott Henderson, and others, now practicing here,* make a brilliant array of legal learning, eloquence and moral worth. ? Gen. Pray was from Maine, a State which gave u.s the illustrious Prentiss and the lamented Judge Sarci?1 A. Boyd, of Natchez-.-Like most young New Englanders preparing for a profession, Pray probably took a school whil? reading law. In a curious book called the ?History of the County of Westchester,. New' York,? vol. 1, p. 07, there is an account df .a. m$nuine[}|, jp the cemetery of the Dutch Reformed Church, at Peeksluli, {;o the1 memory of Lieut. George McChain, with an inscription by P. R. R. Pray. It is written with much taste, and exhibits a severely classical and cultured mind. He came South, intending to settle in New Orleans, having a partiality for the civil law; but on account of his health, was induced, by the advice of Gen. Ripley, to establish himself at .Pearlington.	,	-
Lands were held in West Florida by twenty-two different tenures, according to SirWm. Dunbar, who had resided in the district under three governments, and had himself surveyed the-most important grants.	'	'?;	V'
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1.	Lands granted by the (British Government, and not abandoned by the grantees,'
or their representatives, and have been cultivated.	_
2.	Lands granted by mandamus by British government, without condition of . dccu-,? pancy, and which never have been occupied by the grantees or their agents. ?.
3.	British patents from provincial Governors, with condition of certain improve-^ ments within three ymfrs, to be forfeited by non-performance, and which lands have not'; been occupied.
.1. The last description of lands onco occupied, but 'since abandoned -	/.-itesr-fc