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About Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1821)
Mvsefe\\am*ous Articles. FROM THE STATESMAN. Boast not thyself of To-Morrow. THIS sun of life. whoae fleeting* ray Ofhope, of joy, »nd sorrow, Shines with effulgent beams to-day. Mav be extinct to-moiihow. The rose that opes its coral leaves; Increasing nature's charms, To-*onrow's fell embrace receives, And withers in its arms. And he who sows the seeds of joy, Expecting fruit on earth. Will see to-womßow's blast destroy llis opening buds of mirth. Let virtue then each heart array, To hear each grief and sorrow; The soul that weeps on earth to-day May smile in heaven to-morrow. FIIOM THE PORT-TOLIO. WOMAN. From the Italian of Claudian. What slighter than a feather Dust, my friend, in dryest weather, What’s lighter than the dust, l pray ? The wind that wafts it far away; Pi •av what i, ighter than the wind? I The lightness of a woman’s mind ? And what is lighter than the last ? Nay, now my friend, you have me fast. WITHERED VIOLETS. Long years have passed, pale flowers! since Were culled and given, in brightest bloom, By one whose eye eclipsed your blue— Whose breath was like your own perfume. Long years I but, tho’ your bloom be gone, The fragrance which your freshness shed Survives as memory lingers on When all that blessed its birth is fled. Thus hues and hopes will pass away— Thus youth and bloom and bliss depart ; Oh 1 what is est when these decay ? The faded leaf the withered heart I [ Vational (laz. FROM THE CRAFTSMAN. “In truth, lloratio 'til no more a lie. That owls do preach and Witches sweep the sky, For on my father’s farm near Holy Hood, I've seen coek-turkies lead their silly brood.” During the month of June last, it tvas noticed by some of the domestics in the family of Mr. F Hasbrouck, a worthy farmer in the town-of New Paltz, that a black cock turkey became from day to day very troublesome in a pen where a hen of ins species was con fitted with her brood. He appeared extremely anxious to conciliate the good will of the young, and byway of manifesting his paternal benignity, he frequently squatted down and encouraged them to gather under his wings. As his modes ty, however, did not extern! so far as to stint him in the indulgence of his voraci ous appetite, with the food which at intervals was thrown into the pen for the consumption of the brood, it was denned a measure of necessity to im prison the poor fellow in a kind of sty, where one of the In ns lud hatched. The loss of liberty seemed, at first like greatly to affect him; but like William Cobbeit, Sir Francis Burdett, and other eminent prisoners of the human species, lie was not long in forming a scheme to divert Ids mind during the solitary hours of confinement. Fortune, it seems, in one of her capi icious humours, had pre served the addle eggs in the old nest of his prison, and upon these eggs, with out more adoa he carefully settled down. When lie hail thus hatched away two tedious weeks upon eggs that were destined never to fulfil Ids hopes, his mistress, in nay for tile motherly solici tude evinced by him, removed the two addle eggs, ami filled his nest with up wards of twenty fresh ones from the j common dunghill fowl. Upon these ' <ggs he continued to hatch with the ! same good faith and anxiety, pecking ! violently any thing that was* tlvust in to the sty to disturb him. till at length, , in due sen sun, he had the happiness to timi Ids uncommon case rewarded by the production of a large and beautiful brood of chickens. It wa> now that all the finer feefi gs of his nature appear ed to be calle 1 firth, lie guarded, and -lilt continues to guard, with ever watellful eve the welfare of his little flock gathering them carefullv un der his wings at night—scratching the •arth with hi- long black legs in search of food —taking up the grains in his bill, and dropping them again when he ha> called hi' troop together by a sort of sharp clucking, similar to that of the hen. In a word, this black cock-turkey, with a brood of twenty two tine chick ens follow ing him with filial attention over the farm yard, exhibit's pheno menon upon winch the natiiranst mav gaze w ith wonder and delight, />/se nf cry.—A decoction of the roots of blackberry bushes, is a safe, sure, and speedy cure for the dysentery. TlanUv’a llc\>ositoY>f. The task of working improvement on the earth, is much more delightful to ail un debauched mind, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of con quests. WASH! SOTOS. FROM THE AMERICAS FARMER. . V PEA IIAV. Br T iuimas Pinckney, Jin. F.s«. Altamont, Sept. 9, 1819. Dear Sir, A committee of this society was appointed during the last year, and charged to discover and recommend some mode of Inaintaining farm stock, besides the incessant application to the corn crib. This committee among oth er substitutes and aid, recommend pea hay, a9 affording a rich fond for horses and cattle, and whose culture at the same time, was easy, and its growth beneficial to the soil. Believing the recommendation to be judic’ous, f have i adopted it, and now take the liberty of j submitting to the society the result of my first crop of Pea Hay. The first of April I ploughed up an old field which had been in corn the preceding year, a stiff - red clay much worn, and of which about two acres had been manured for corn the preced ing year.—Across this ploughing I drill ed in peas with a shovel plough, three feel apart, on the Gth and 7th of May. I ploughed them twice ; the first time between the Ist and 3d of June ; the second time between the 20th and 24th June: I hoed them once, the end of June. This is all (lie culture they re ceived. On the 26th of August, 1 be gan to cut the pea vines, and finished the 27th, cutting half the field, which ] consists of 14 acres. Vn most places I the dry weather had injured them, and | they did not look as flourishing as I ex- i pectcd. Four days after cutting; them, | 1 turned them ; putting two rows into one, and on the sixth day I turned 1 them again. On the morning of the Bth day, I began to haul them in, and ‘ finish the next day ; and they have produced me twenty-five heavy wagon loads of rich good fodder. As this pro- j duce may be best understood by com- i parisott, I will state that I had a field <>f corn of twenty two acres adjoining, of new land, only the second crop, which had been planted very early, and had not suffered hy the drought; the fodder was very good, and was cart fully saved, and produced tne sixteen wagon loads. I am extremely sorry I had not the means of weighing a load of the pea fodder, but 1 should think a wagon load of blades to the acre, and more than I three loads of pea fodder to the acre. If it Je true, as has been stated to me, from the best authority, that a peck basket of these vines, chopped in a common cutting box, twice a day, is good and sufficient fond for a horse, with a small portion of blades, when not at hard work. 1 should not hesi tate to believe this produce to be supe rior to that of a regular corn crop, on such land, which could not be expected to produce much more than ten bush els to the acre. Indeed 1 know posi tively from my memorandum book, that its produce last year, under favorable circumstances, was but ten bushels and a half. At this rate my seven acres and a half would produce me but se venty eight bushels of corn and about five wagon loads of fodder. Let us suppose a heavy load of this fodder to be equal to seven bushels of corn, (and 1 w ould not exchange it for ten,) these seven acres and a half have produced me that which is equal to 173 bu.'hels of corn, in feeding cattle and horses ; and 1 know it would puzzle the best farmer to produce half this quantity I : from these seven acres and a half, in | ; their present state. If to these' advan- I tages w e add that peas are an amclio : rating crop, drawing very little from the jrarth, and shading and protecting it from the powerful influence of the sun, that their leaves are mostly left on i the soil, to enrich it, and that they are a tine preparatory crop for wheat, as they may be got off the land exactly in j | time to prepare it for seeding. 1 think ; i that we shall agree that the committee ! have been very judicious in recommend ing the pea culture; and 1 hope my , success will induce some of my bro- ' ther tanners who have fields requiring j ; vest or sliitt, to substitute a crop of peas tor the common mode of sowing oats or wheat which are exhausting crops. 1 he society will readilv perceive the i error l committed in this crop: the yeas weto sown, as 1 have stated, on 6th and 7th of May, when they ouuht to h..\e been sown as early is the tro-t would permit, fhis circumstance and the late dry weather evidently in- I j tired them very much. I am, dear >n\ very respectfully vour obedient humble servant. HIOS PINCKNEY, Jr. J. r. L *.wts, l*.sq. C(trees. Soc’rv of the Pendleton Farmer's Society, Soiuh- Caroliaa. One, Hundred Hollars REWARD. ESCAPED from the Jail of Barn well District. (S. C.) on th< j evening of the 20th inst. disguised in female clothes, John Anthony. Sen’r. who was confined in Jail undir sentence of death, for the murder of Elias Morgan —The .said John Anthony, is about 58 years of age, rather bejow the middle sise, pale complexion, thin visage, black pierc ing eyes, white teeth,sharp nose and 4liin, stooped shoulders, when walk ing appears to be bow legcd. about five feet six inches high—no doubt changed his clothes immediately as ; ter his eschpe. The above reward ! will be paid by the subscriber upon ! receiving the said John Anthony, I Sen’r. Joint Walker, S. H, I). Barnwell (. 11. 21st July, 7 Information Wauled, i HE children ot John Cu rung- Ji ham, deceased, who departed this life in Greenville, District. S C. i whose wife was named J me. . heir youngest daughter. Jane Cunniug hain, now reside* in Bloomfield .Nel son county, Ky. and is desirous of obtaining any information that, will open a correspondence between the i widow of said Cunningham, or John, 1 i James and George, children of the aforesaid John and Jane Cunning- j linm. The sid Jane as bound or pul under the care of Mrs. Armstrong of South-Carolina, who removed to Kentucky and brought the said JaDC | with her Any information relating I to them will be thankfully received by Jane Cunningham. Bloomfield Ay. Ckj" Editors of papers in v\u hingtnn 1 f'ity, North and South-Carolina, Georgia, ; Alabama, and Tennessee, will confer par i ticular obligation on an orphan child, by ■ giving the above two or three insertions in j their respective papers. July 10 3 lnfownaUtm Wanted, k NY inf 1 illation respicting Mr /V MICHAEL DW YER, (a na tive of the County of Tipperary, Ireland,) who cuine to this country i in the capacity of a Teacher ; nil | is probably now employed as sneh in j some part of this state, wil be thank- j fully received by his wife. wln> is now in Savannah. Direct to the 1 Georgian Office. ffj* Editors of papers are requested t<v give liii' an insertion or two, for tile benefit of the u.ifco tunate. July 10 3 Notice. NINE', month? after dale applies- 1 tion will be made to the Hon orable the Inferior Court of Burke county, for an order to sell the three following tracts of Land, to wit One tract, containing about 75 acres, lying on Mlti osh creek, adjoining Lands of A AJ. Allen. lisq —Due other tract, containing about 50 acres, !j lining said Allen and John Bvne j j ill another tract, lying oa Brier j reek, adjoining Aaron Barrow, con- j aioing about 30 acres—all belong ng to the heirs 'minors) of E'ergu on Cook.late of Burke county, de easetl— l’o be sold for the benefit of lie heirs and creditors of said estate. Charles Scott, Guardian of said minor. March 2<) tß2t lm9m Notice. IN K months after date, appli- I caiion will be made to t!ie Hon | 01 able tile Justices of the Inferior ! Court for the county of Burke, for j leave to sell all the real estate of : Joseph Attaway, late of said county, deceased, for the benefit of his heirs j aud creditors. Harley Attaway, Adm'r. March 7, 1821 tin9:n Notice. N INE months after date we shall apply to the Houorublc the 111- ’ ferior Court of county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for I leave to sell three hundred acres of j Pine Land, situate lying and being j in said eiunty, belonging to the es j tate of 1 tie late William D maldson, , deceased ; to be sold for the use of' , the heirs and c'editors of said dec'd. W. G. Donaldson, jr. ~ . John Slack, Mmr * January 15, 1921. Im9ni N olicc. VLL person* indebted to the es- : ate of Cradock Burnell, j 1 Esq. deceased, are requested to make I j immediate payment to the subscri- \ her othewise their notes will be pta- j ced in the hands of an attorney for ! collection; and all persons having demands against said estate are re quested to present them legally at tested fir a settlement. Matthias Ardis, Ex Y. i August 3 it 10 FOR. Svl.E, .1 PLAN TATULV. in W.,rren County, kj Georgia, eight mile* from W,tr renton and forty Bve from Augusta, on the water* of Hurl’s and \V iliiams’ ereek, adjoini g li\nds of Major ft. A. Beall and otheri—-containing se ven hundred and sixty-nine acres, | with a very commodious Dwelling i | House, with all other out houses tie- j I ecssarv.— Persons desirous of pur chasing and* in th!• up country, will j j do well to call and view it, a* I am ! determined to sell, and will dispose of it ou accommodating terms Jesse M. Butt. i N. B. The S* aiitiah Republieans aud C arleston Times, will insert the above monthly For three months, and forward the r accounts to this place for payment. IVarrenton Ga May 11,1821 93 m 3 A ¥LA*fT&TIAWS% FfJ/i S.iLK, And a Bargain Offered. HE subscriber offers for sale six JL huiKiied and seventy-seven acres I good LAND, in Abbeville District | South Carolina, seven miles from Pe tersburg. seven from Willingtou, aud within two miles of Savannah river. There are nearly t-vo hundred acres of cleared land, of which one hundred | and fifty is fresh. I'he premises are well improved and in good order.— The situation is as healthy as any in the District, and in a good neigh borhood. The subscriber being anx ious to move to the \V estern country will giVe great bargain for cash. Purchasers are invited lo call aud look at the land, that they may be the better judge, John 0. Glover, Abbeville District. 8 C. N. B Some information respecting ' the above, ean be had by reference to Mr. Sylvanus B. Groves, of Au gusta April 17 84 Ta\ Collectors Sale EUSTEOjYEII. WILD BE SOLD, The first Tuesday in Sr/ Umber next, at the Court- House in Jackson bo rough, Scnvm county, keveenthe hours of ten and three o'clock : 536 i- Acres of Laud, lying in the con ty of Seriven, 111 tinee different tracts, viz.—One tract of 234 Acres, one ditto of 150 Acres aud ; one ditto of 152$ Acres taken as the property of Claiborne lievill, to f s t fy his T x ilue for the year 1819 j —Arnouut SlO : - ALSf —- 400 Acres of Land lying in I the county of Seri'en. taken «s the j property of the estate of Jennotf, Clements, deceased, to satisfy her lax due for the year 1819—Amount gtfi cents —al*o— -306 j Acres Land, lying in the eouuty of Seriven, token us the property of Isaac Ellis to satisfy hi* lax due for the year 1819—Amount 31$ cents. w— o-8521 Acres of Land lying in the county of‘ Seriven, taken as the property of George YV. Lund ay to satisfy his Tax due for the year 1819—Amount SI4 06$ cents—Le vied on and returned to me by James Pye. Constable. Benj. Williamson, t. c. s. c. Seriven county . July 3. 1921 t 3 Administrator’s Sale. On the first Tuesday in ,Yovember next, will be sold at the Court- House, in the tott-n of ICaynesbo rough, between the usual sale hours, viz Four Negroes, David, Sala ry, Bill, and Jude, ihe above Negroes will be sold as the property of Wil liam Roys’, Sen’r. late of Burke eonnty. deceased, it being agreeable 1 to an order obtained from the Justice • of the Inferior Court, of Burke coun ty, and sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Benjamin Guest, Adm’r. j July 2 6 T N otice. 1 months after date, the stib j scriber will apply to the Hon lorabie the Judges of the Inferior Court of Burke county, for leave to | sell ail the real Estate belonging to Green Bell, iate’ of said eouuty de ceased, for the benefit of the heirs of said deceased. Jesse White, E x’or. In right of his Wife. May •, '.820. tmOra '*= Executive Department, Ga. > Aldledgeuille, Mi slug. 1821. £ The following Resolutions being taken up. it is Ordered. That they be published once a fortnight, in each of the Gazettes of this State, until the next General Election. Alt st JOHN BURCH, Sec’ry.E. D. In Senate. 9tli May, 1821. The committee to whom was re ferred the pre-.eutmeuts of the Grand • Juries of Greene and Hancock, coun ties, Report, Thai whereas it is the undoubted I right of the good peopie of this \ state, whenever they shall think fit, j to alter and change the fundamental compact by which they are associat ed ; and it has been represented to this legislature, that great number* of the citizens of the said state are de sirous of alteriug the Constitution thereof. And w hereas it is the du ty of the Legislative body to give ef fect to the public wilt, when the same shall have been correctly as certained. , BE it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of ot the Mate of Georgia in General Assembly met, That it shall be the Uuiy of the magistrates who shall preside at the eicetious for members ot the Geuerul Assembly, in the sev eral counties of the slate, at the next generul election, to receive and re gister the votes of the persons vot ing at the said election, on the pro priety of calling a Convention for tlia purpose of revising the Constimuon of Hiis state; and to this end ; the said magistrates are hereby requir-. ed, upon receiving the vote of eacn and every individual, to enquire whe ther it is the wiil of such voter, that a Couveutiou for the purpose afore said shall be culled or uot, and to record the answer to such enquiry upon the ticket given in by sucli voter, by writing thereon according to the truth of the fact, the w'ord ‘•Contention,” which shall indicate tlie will of the voter, ihat a Conven tion shall be called, or the words, “No Convention,” which shall indi cate the will of such voter, that such Convention shall not be called. Jind be it further revolved, That it shall he the duty of the magistrates aforesaid, to make a correct return of he \otes so taken as aforesaid, to tlie Governor of this ‘tale ivi;liia thirty days alter the said election, to lie by him ui.milted to the next Le gislature, to the intent, thut they may ’ make provision for calling n Conven tion, if a muf.irity of the citizens of this state shall require the same to be done, Jind he it further resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, anil he is hereby requested to have the foregoing resolutions published m j the Gazettes of this slate for three f ! months before the next general elec -1 tion, and pay for the same out of the ! contingent fund. Administrator’s Sale. Will he sold by an order of the Han oi able Inferior Court of Columbia county at the Court House on the, first Tuesday in September next :— .Sixteen acres of Pine Land with the improvements, whereon Timothy T. Barham, late of said county, deceased, fornurly resuieA.. I erms made known at the day sale. Triplett Shumate,- Mnrr. In right of his wife. , i July 6 F 2 I I IS otice. months after date, appii- cation will be made to the hon orable the Justices of the Inferior Court for tlie county of Burke, for leave to sell sixtenths part of a tract of Land, lying on Savannah River, c minoniy knowu as the shell Bluff tract, it beinga part of the real estate of William Whitehead, Esq. late of said county, deceased, for ti;c benefit of his heirs. John Whitehead, Juu’r.'i James Whitehead, Samuel Dowse. ' 2* October 12. IS2O- ’ tmOnn NOTICE. L. S | URGES and N. L. • STURGKS, J-un'r. are, eith er of them authorised to attend to the business of list- New-York Com-' mission Book More, during the ab . sence of the subscriber. Samuel Sturges, , j Agent for At'. Y. Commission Book-' ! Store. j June 5 lot I*7 PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY <s£ FRIDAY, BY WILLIAM J. lIUNCE, Augusta Georgia. AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM Payable in Advance.
