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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL. VOL. I. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1810. No. 12. PUBLISHED BY SEATON GRANTLAND, i (PRINTER TO THE STATE,) ON JEF- FERGON STREET, OPPOSITE THE NORTH END OF THE STATE-HOUSE. TERMS......TIIREE DOLLARS PER AN NUM, ONE HALF TO BE PAID IN AD VANCE. ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE THANK TULLY RECEIVED, AND PUBLISHED AT THE CUSTOMARY PRICES. be' brought to'the Superior or Inferi-jbe understood that a spirit of indus- or courts in this state, an4 the ver-try does by no means pervade the ge- dict of the jury shall be for a sum neral population ; the greatest num- under thirty dollars, the defendantiber are extremely poor for want of shall not be charged' with more costjindustry. The hunting life is here than would have necessarily accrued, at an end ; but a prediction for the provided said recovery had been be-hunter’s life pervades a great part of tore a justice ot the peace; and the the Cherokees, and many are waiting .Austerlnz, remainder of the court charges may,to hear whether the government will Mniesteaux be retained out of the sum so reco- give them the necessary aid and en-!(; 0j ' nmci tc , j e vered ; and if the verdict of the ju-|cOUragement to migrate to the west!p. ir u ' ftatog of <Scot0ia. AN ACT To regulate the rates of tavern li cense in this state. § 1 BE it enacted by the Senate, tmd House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly Diet, and it is enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, each person ob taining tavern license, shall pay for such license, the sum of five dollars, any law to the contrary notwithstan ding ; provided, nothing in this act shall be construed to controul the rates which now are, or may be es tablished by the corporations ofSa vunnah and Augusta, or any other incorporated town in this state. § 2 And be it further enacted, Thai any person on application, and com The following is said to be an accu rate list of the French fleet at Tou- far forgets himself and his station. Ion, Genoa and Corfu, in the state as to be betrayed into undignified tnd unavailing querulousncss. in which they were in February last. Grand Napoleon, 140 guns building. the ju-jc6Uragement to migrate ry be not of sufficient amount, the side of the Mississippi. plaintiff shall be bound to pay the same ; provided, this act shall not extend to, and govern cases where the demand set forth in the declara tion, shall be proven to exieed the sum of thirty dollars. Provided\ no standing this they have strong localj] <e Boreas attachment to the place of their birth,fr/UTm * and to the sepulchres of their fa- ! L e ]y jmi j je thers. This being the case, to in-'f^, Hanibal' duce great numbers to migrate, theylj^,. Dunawcit must be excited by advances of such,j iC (> cnoa thing herein contained shall extend kind as they need to establish them-Bralot, to any case sounding in damages BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the IIoufe of Represent. HENRY MITCHELL, President of the Senate. Executive Department, Georgia, Assented to, 12th December, 1809. D. B. MITCHELL,Governor. MISCELLANY. The following view of the conditi on of the Cherokees cannot fail ge nerally to interest our readers, or to ... .afford peculiar gratification to the plymg With this law, may have li- philanthropist. It confirms the most cense to retail spirituous liquors, - 4 without being obliged to keep other public entertainment ; provided, such person shall give bond and sufficient security to the Inferior court, in the sum of five hundred dollars, to keep an orderly house. And provided also, that if they do keep a house of enter tainment, they shall not be allowed any other pay than agreeable to ta vern rates. BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. HENRY MITCHELL, President of the Senate. Executive Department, Georgia, Assented to, December 13th, 1809. D. B. MITCHELL, Governor. sanguine expectations that have been entertained of ameliorating the lot of the Aborigines of our country, & must operate as a sufficient motive to a strenuous perseverance in the enlightened policy that has hitherto characterised our conduct towards them.—Nat. hit. Letter from Return J. Meigs, Esq. to the Secretary at War. Highwassegarrison, 1st Dec. 1809. Sir, I now transmit a General Sta tistical Table for the Cherokee nati- Paris Notwith-lLe Robuste, selves on the rivers mentioned ; viz.|j J *Aj aCc ; 0 anus, ammunition, beaver traps,i^,. SuiFerin blankets, and some provision of the t c Magnani.ne, bread kind, flour or corn ; com will rf 4roc Unknown siut them best. After the first year,Itwo t} l .,,; a n« they will want nothing of the govern- ment, except a factory for Indian trade, and a promise of protection by the government. These things once attained, and their attachment and friendship is secured for ever—the}’ will be proud of being closely con nected with the United States, by whom they have been raised in im provement far above the western In dians. I am, sir, very respectfully, . Your obedient servant, RETURN J. MEIGS. IVWiam Eustis, Esq. Secretary oflVar. The document referred to in this letter purports to be, “ A general Statistical Table for the Cherokee nation, exhibiting a view of their population and of improvements in the useful arts, and of their proper ty acquired under the fostering hand of government, which has principal ly been done since the year 1796. n It exhibits in detail the number of on. This was attempted in 1806 having at that time the consent of Cherokee males and females, of hor AN ACT To compel the J ustices of the Peace in this state, to keep a fair and re gular book of entry. $ 1. BE it enacted by the Senate arul House of Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General Assem bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of March next, it shall be the duty of each justice of the peace in this state, to keep a fair and legible book of entry of all civil proceedings had before him, for the recovery of debts, &c. § 2 And be it further enacted, That in all cases where any justice of the Peace in this state shall resign or re move out the limits Of the district, for which he shall have been appoint cd, it shall be the duty of such jus tice to deliver the said book, or a fair copy thereof, to his successor in of fice, withiu sixty days after he may be commissioned, or deposit the fiamc with the clerk of the Inferior court. BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representative*. HENRY MITCHELL, President of the Senate Executive Department, Ceorgia, Assented to, 13ih December, 1809. D. B. MITCHELL, Governor. 130 1 nearly flt- J ti ll Ollt, 120 Outer road. 120 Do. 84 Do. 64 Do. 84 Fitting. 84 Do. 84 Do. 84 Outer road. 84 Do. 84 Do. 84 l)o. 84 Do. 84 Do. 84 Do. 74 Do. kingdom, ought to feel, when he so It is too true, that the press in this country is deplorably licentious; and though you were cgregiously incor rect when you made this circum stance a ground of official complaint to the executive, yet all temperate Americans must deprecate the scan-' dalous calumnies, that are daily pour ed forth upon your nation, mission, and person. But it is not the free doms the press has taken with your name, that have made it odioua in America. That you may not return impressed with a belief, in which it is to lie lamented you came among us, that party is the only index to o- pinion in the United State*, or that certain violent newspapers ate the organs of the sentiments of the great body of sober and reflecting people, Eight frigates, including the Pro- J take the liberty of addressing you corpine, 2 corvettes, and a number j n the language that is almost univer- of brigs. jsally held, relative to this controvcr- Geiioa—-One frigate, one schoon- s .Vi by those native and genuine A* cr, one brig, building. BURLINGTON PORK. mcncans, who, with a natural and decided preference for the English nation, are at the same time alive to th<- their own: and alwayw Under date of Burlington, Deccm-' arc a t,' ke indignant at all foreign ag- ber 1st, a gentleman gives the l°l*,gressions whatever. It may perhaps, lowing particulars : (notwithstanding your patriotic Zeal, I send you the weight of foil r 'some what assuage vour disappoint- very extraordinary hogs, that were ment, to know that by this respecta- weighed alive this morning in the ble class your instructions arc more tay-scales of this place. They were littered in January, 1807, and are blamed than your conduct; and it is highly proper, that you should be the property of Mr. Ellis Wright,|apprised of the independent and ho- who has taken them to Philadelphia.j nor . l i J j e motives which govern them ihe weight ot the largest is ,791 His. juncture. Your nomination created some suspicion and much clamor. Pe remptorily refusing to ratify the terms E roposed by one minister, after they a “ ‘ “ of the second of the third of the fourth AN ACT To amend the twenty-sixth section of the J udiciary law of this state. Whereas a practice has been a 1 doptcd,‘aml now prevails in some- parts of this state, of bringing suits to the Superior and Interior courts for debts which constitu tionally are, and by law ought to lie exclusively cognizable in the jus tices’courts ; which practice is inju rictus and oppressive on many ot the (•good citizens of this state ; by sub jecting them to more cost than was contemplated by the constitution and j uliciary laws ui this slate ; for re medy whereof; § 1 BE it enacted by the Senate &' to House cj Representatives of the state of Ge orgiu, in General Assembly met, and it is enacted l>u the authority of the same, That where any suit shall the late Secretary of war; but the Cherokees having some unfounded jealousy, that there was something in tlit measure intended to take ad vantage of them, and expressing some reluctance to the measure, it was postponed until the last year. It has now been done with at much accuracy as possible, by the interpre ters. If there is any error, it has probably arisen from a disposition in some to report a less number of per sons, and of live stock than they ac tually have. The Cherokees on the Arkansa and White rivers, are not included in the table now transmit ted ; it is estimated that there is a bout 1000 including men, women and children on the west side of the Mis sissippi; tiny have also many cattle and horses, some of them being very wealthy. The table now forwarded, doe* not exhibit all their wealth ; they have no inconsiderable quantity of cash in cir culation, which they receive annually for the sale of cattle and swine. In 1803 they had not a single perch of waggon road in their whole country, In that year they consented at the request of the government to have a road opened for a communication be tween the states of Georgia and Ten nessee. This road with its branches was opened by those states and is a bout 220 miles, on which they have a turnpike; by agreement with the government, for which they are bound to keep the road in good condition for carriages. Since finding the ad vantages arising from roads, they have at their own expence opened up wards of three hundred miles of wag gon road for communication between East and West Tennessee. These roads intersect the first mentioned great road at different points, except one road of 100 miles in length, o pened by Doublehcad, commencing at Eranklin county, Tennessee, and runs to the Muscle Shoals, and it is contemplated to be continued to the navigable waters of Mobile. But to effect this the interposition of the go vernment will be necessary ; because, from the Shoals to the navigable wa tt rs of Mobile, the road must cross lands claimed b) t ie Cherokees and : Chickasaws. Thus far, as exhibited by the Sta tistical Table, have the Cherokees prospered by the pastoral life and by domestic manufactures; but it must black cattle, sheep, swine, spin ning wheels, looms, waggons,ploughs, grist mills, saw mills, saltpetre works, powder mills, silver smiths, schools, white people and negro slaves in each town, village and plantation, amount ing to one hundred and thirty-five. It is scarcely practicable in a news paper to present in its details such u comprehensive table ; and almost every useful purpose will be attain ed by the following condensed view of its contents. Number of Cherokee males 6,11G do. females 6,279 Total 3031 The size of the largest is as lows : Height, Length from the end of the snout to the root of the tad, Round the girth, The others are fob 3 feet 8 inches. 9 1-2 feet. 3 feet 8 inches, nearly the sa Tflcse form part of a litter of 18, partly of the English and partly of the Guinea breed. Four or five o! die litter were killed at 11 mohhts old, and weighed near 400 each.— The bow when 1'ati lied and killed Horses 6,519 Black cattle 19,165 Sheep 1,037 Swine 19,778 Spinning wheels Looms 1,572 429 Waggons 30 Ploughs 567 Grist Mills 13 Sawmills 3 Salt petre works 2 Powder mills 1 Silver-smiths 49 Schools 5 Children at school 94 White people 341 Negro slaves 583 whether he next season. A considerable number of the white men are married to Cherokee women, others are employed as croppers tor the Cherokees. Col. Ore, who carries on the ma king of salt Saltpetre at this town (Ntckajack) told me last year, that he had made in five years upwards shall kill them before If In? does not thev will average 1000 lbs. From Relf's Philadelphia Gazette. TO FRANCIs“jAMES JACK- SON, ESQ. Ex-Embassador front His Britannic Majesty to the Uni ted States of America. Sir—In the first moments of that perturbation, from which the most ac complished diplomatist cannot at ail times be exempt, and into which e ven a person of your experience may be excused for falling, on the sudden occurrence of a crisis so un expected and embarrassing, as your late discomfiture, you were indiscreet enough to alledge the constitutional liberty of the press in this country, as a charge against the executive go of 60,000 pounds of Salt petre, ajvernment, which your complaint im- considerable part of which he uscd plics that department might correct in the making of powder An estimate cj' the principal articles, their value, viz. 1037 sheep at 82 — 19778 swine at 82 — 13 grist mills at 8260 — 3 saw mills at 8500 — 30 waggons at 840 Dollars 571,500 This property has been acquired by the Cherokees within a few years. Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was on the 18th of Sept, last, elected a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at W iirsaw.—‘National Intelligencer. ad been accepted & effectuated on our part; recalling & disgracing that minister, and appointing another who had been used to treat with fleets at his heels, were not indications of a verv friendly disposition on the part of England. Notwithstanding these omens, the mass of the American na tion prepared to accredit yoil as one of the most distinguished members of that corps, which, in the states of Europe, is as regularly trained, for med and distributed, as armies and navies—aware that you were vet reeking from the discharge of a most detestable duty at Copenhagen, hut . . , . , . . hoping that vour employment on so* weig xn about 250 and the male was vera j suc h exigencies was, father id very small. I 1 rum the great size ofj fJ|( . amrH4 . 0 f your Vocation than optional, and that the fame of such achievements, preceding you here, would have the effect rather to soft en than aggravate your tone—and with nn honest confidence, trusting that you were selected lor your sit* perior talents and vetcrati skill, and coming to negociate, if not to con* elude, an accommodation. The A* inericans are a simple, peace loving people, little versed in diplomatic so phistry. Peace and plain dealing art emphatically their policy, inasmuch as one is the source, the other the on ly safeguard of their prosperity. Whatever therefore was declared by a few unimportant individuals of the insolence an. I bad faith upon which your embassy was grounded, the government, with a large majority of the country, were disposed to re ceive you with hospitality, and anx iously desirous that your terms might be tolerably amicable, and your tone tolerably decent.-*—With such terms aiul such a tone there was a temper to be satisfied ; anil it is notorious that the belief was very general, of your having entered up on discussions, which promised an arrangement. After indulging a few weeks in these flattering expectations, it was understood with amazement, and regret, anil indignation, that you came three thousand miles, with a magnificent appointment, without au* thority to adjust any one point in dispute, and with orders to couch vour communications in the most mperious, and offensive style of the new phraseology of diplomatic cor* respomlence. You came, as yotl have yourself declared to our goven* ment, expressly to do nothing : and m doing that nothing, you assumed a tone of contempt and defiance.- . — Under such circumstances, you ohould not be curprised thju i; ^ You should have recollected, that when an ambassador is most iliscon certed, he ought to appear the least 6519 horses at 830 each 195,570 disturbed ; that by the law of the land 19165 black cattle at Sb each 153,320 the executive cannot interfere with 2,074lthe press, and that when the first con 39,550{sul of France, with whose annals you 3,380havc such especial reason for being 1,500 familiar, laid a similar grievance be l,20o'fore the British ministry, he was 583 negro slaves at 8300 174,90o!told that the courts of justice were — —. the only means known to the law for punishing such offences, that Peltier was convicted by a jury, and sen tenced by my Lord Ellenborough, not by Mr. Addington or the King. These things you should have known, for they would have saved you the mortification, which every man, par ticularly the envoy exlraordinar) and. plenipotentiary from it migtuy