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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL
I'BUSHED BY seaton’ grantland,Neighboring country, which he has
9 (printer TO THE state,) on jF.F-!related in a very interesting manner,
person street, opposite THuJperfectly repaid he says, for all the
north end of the state-iiouse.jiatigue he had undergone, and the'
MILLEDGEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1810.
‘No. 36:
loubtedly as high as it sliould be, fact, that a Lieutenant Hamilton, off nflicted Ry a cannon shot, while n-
would be reduced considerably b}
having the hemp dressed in a mil.,
for which purpose a number are airca-
NUM, ONE HALF TO BE PAID IN AD
VANCE.
ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE THANK
DISCOVERY OF A RF.At, AND ENTIRE
MAMMOTH.
the United States’ Army, actual-
passed Lake Michigan into the Mis
sissippi, without being obliged to un
load his boat, or even to take it out oi
the water.”
If, then it he true, (and of its truth
we have not the least doubt) that Na-
opened a communication
terms three dollars per AN-|expence he had incurred. The mam-ldy erected about the country, and bj
moth in question appears to have converting the stocks or shieves of
been nine feet high, and fourteen feet manure, which pui pose they answer
in length, with a long and shaggy to a considerable degree.
,fully received, and published mane,but with no tail, as the elephantj There exists no danger from a^ llre ] la5
AT THE CUSTOMARY PRICES. has, and differing in some'other less glutted market, it will never be itn-'betweeii the T ike* 7VI ‘ i.-,
important particulars from that ani-,ported cheaper from abroad,?, should pi , we may anticipate the Uinpiesi
mal; they are probably varieties of.W go successfully into the cultivati-; conseqU( , nces ro th ‘ e Western Coun-
one species ; the bones of its head on o. ft, for many years to come we' trv at no remotc period, from an ex
weighed four hundred and filty should not more than equal the de- tensive commerce between the conn-
pounds. I shall conclude the very mand there would be as soon as our lry of the Lakes and Louisiana,
imperfect extract I have'given oi ships are permitted to spread their f Raleigh Register.
Mr. Adams’s account in his own sails on the ocean,
words. “On comparing the mam-j The following method of cultivali-
rnoth in my possession with the de-on has been practised with great suc-
scription oi the one discovered nearjeess.—The ground if not already bro-
New-York, there appears to be a con-jken up to be thoroughly ploughed in
siderable difference between them ;|tlie fail, that the turf may be well rot- 1
‘ The account of this interesting
discovery is given by a Mr. Adams,
an Englishman, long a resident at
St. Petersburg, whose love of science
•was not to be controlled by dangers
and difficulties, and all the horrors of
a distant journey to the frozen re
gions of Asiatic Russia.—Having
remained a few days at Jakousk on
the river Lci^a, and provided him
self with Yecommendatory letters to
the. agents of government, and to
some wealthy traders in fur, whom
the love of gain keeps wandering for
years on tin; borders of the Frozen
Ocean, in the most uncomfortable of
all climates, he proceeded to descend
the river sometimes in boats anti
sometimes on a reindeer, which he
describes the most disagreeable sub
stitute for a horse he was ever con
demned to. The people inhabiting
those' wild regipns where the Lana
falls into the sea, call themselves
Tongoux, and their county Anger-
darn. To the north of the embou
chure is an Isthmus, which, thoug
faintly marked on our maps, is of
considerable extent, and here it is u-
sual for the neighboring tribes to as
semble during the,short summer they
are favored with, in quest of fish, and
of mammoth teeth, or horns (they
may be called either) which are fre
quently found scattered upon the
strand. It‘wa9 in one of these excur
cions that a Tongoux chief called
S mmachoft, perceived in the sum
mer of 1799, an unknown mass, inca
sed towards the upper extremity of a
block of ice, which had been thrown
ftshore, and left by the waves. In
the succeeding summer lie could dis-
tinguish'one side, and afterwards the
feet of an animal of great size which he
coon conjectured to be the mammoth ;
but on his return home to communi
cate the good news, the seers of' the
tribe alarmed him by denouncing the
vengeance of heaven if he proceeded
auy farther in his enterprize. A si
milar monster had appeared but once
‘before, they said, and all who had
presumed to examine it, and thus
pry into the secretes of nature, had
fallen victims to a contageous disor
der; as all wisdom and power of
communication with the gods,
these barbarous countries resides in
a few old men, Soumachoff reproach-
•J
FORiiifiiSf.
Boston, June 7.
I.ATEST FROM EUROPE.
onoiteriag the Spanish works befere
Jadiz. ' ■
The following is an extract of a
etter from Pari9 received yester-
3 ay :
Paris, April 17.-—“ Since the last
I wrote you, nothing at all new has
ranspin d relative to any part of the
confiscated American property, and
I can only repeat that it is vain to
hope.”
case with mine , the thick fur of mine
would imply that it had been a na
cive of the colder regions, hut still it
would be difficult to conceive how it
became incased in ice. As to the
remains of mammoths which have
been discovered in the southern parts
of Europe, the probability is, that
chey have been transported there at
i very distant period by the violence
of some great inundation.” It is ad-
led in a note that Mr. Adams pro
poses to sell his skeleton of a mam
moth, and to apply the proceeds to
die expences of an excursion which
cording to the condition of th
the ploughing to be repeated i
the soil becomes light and mellow
Nero-TopH, June 8.
SPANISH AMERICA—DECLARED IN
DEPENDENT.
By the arrival of the Brig Thomas,
capt. Ingram, from Cumana, we
have been politely favored with the
following Important state paper, issu
ed by the supreme government of
,, , .Carraccas, which we hasten to lav
Dublin papers as late as May 4th,' bdore our rc ^ e rs :
DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE.
. )m i .[intelligence by these papers is de r li-| L hfts pleased Almighty God to
U . ui uute of interest ; such as it is, howe-'S r;int U every.country .alike the na*
ver, we have extracted. U1 ™, n S ht of \ ts sovereignty,
that tvhich in peculiarly proper „ou!dl New. from Spain, in Irclaml, U *L ?“•* V Sp»».
not require more than Jo r loimhinj-A'te » *. fth April, wo have ta***""* «•* 1>™ >y her power,
in the spring ; the aeej t , bA-.v?,,Cmlfe account, to .the 1:nh ,N.vc, ami ol n s h.t ought to have S nb-
1 h ’ 11 (nutted to her guidance and direction
this last, to judge by the indication ted ; and in the spring as early as the! Dublin papers as late as May 4th,
of its teeth, must have been a car- season wilt permit, to be ploughed a- rtxeiv. 1 in town yesterday, bring our
liverous animal, which was not the gain with more or less manure, ac-'Londou dates up to April 30lh. The
of the American continent.
When the blossom falls from the made in lhe < English papers ; but all} ve ™ I "* nt ?" d . pr °- CC j°"; . .. .
nale hemp, as it w ill about the mid- counts concurred in the increasing! , ITrfiAv '"f ^
‘ ' ngers of trade upon the ContincntT he ^parallelled P^y of the fcm-
Dullhi, IMav 3.—Rotterdam i S F erorof the French, her European
wiled with French soldiers, agents'?" 1 *. 1 vanquished liy lhis treachery and
0 by his arms, and the ancient lawful
^ and acknowledged government of the
country destroyed by the violent out-
dlc of August, it is to he pulled oy
making alleys through the field, and
selecting the male from the seed
he hopes to make to the Islands ofjhe.mp which is to be left a monthp u, 4 t ;ili >tom-housc officers, all sedu-
jackclu and Siehou, not without some longer to ripen,—To be bound Iduily employed in suppressing com
■xpectation of finding there a part with rye straw in small bundles and! meroc » which they arc unlortu-
V u rye scran in small oum .es ana - too sbecessiol The na ra S Cb of his 8™gu'>nary policy, there
Ith a few days m the field to dry, that t 1 °° succesti|, . ,1 : , hc tx L s neither reason. riX. nor in*.
the bark inav be tougher and not iu-r l ' rc business, arising from the
jured in moving—the bundles to be peculiar circumstances in which the
Dutch traders were placed, had com-
On the Cultivation of Hemp. u • 1 j - „
'* J . . [laid, under water to rot from 10 to 90
It is believed that there is at this Javs according to the weather, 11s it
time no crop that so well compen- ro { s muc h the fdstest in warm wea-
sates the labours of the husbandman/her. Clear, standing, soft water is
as that of hemp. Many persons havejbest for this purpose, and salt water,
enoneousl\ supposed that, it rcquir- Ky a recent English publication is
ed a peculiar soil and that its ctilti- considered altogether inadmissible,
vation was attended with much un-After it is sufficiently rotted which
certainty. It is now however aster-j s easily ascertained bv drving and
tamed from daily experience, that break id g a little of it, the bundles to
not only the fertile banks of the Con- be dried in the open air and when
necticut and Genesee rivers, but thoroughlv dried to be housed ; when
mostofpur warm uplands if proper-filressed, first to be passed thro
ly prepared, produce it in abtindance.| coursc brake and afterwards till'd* a
The situation of many of our riveri common onc U ud swingled lijte flax,
towns, particularly of Wetherfields,j The seed hemp is to be pulled a
is on many accounts peculiarly favor- ;SOOil as the seed begins to fall from
able to its production. .Their light the stalk, and tube bundled and car-
warm soil, their convenience for wa-! r i C{ j immediately to the place where
ter rotting in the cove, and the fa-fir t0 be threshed,there to be set up
cility with which it may be sent to : ; n t ’ m . Slin ;i f ew j : , vs ancl t hen
market by the river, are great and tty threshed ; and again put
serve as a general c;.-
the intelligent farm
tor one years use of land for this pur- a icnee will permit, & by communicat-jthe people and government of Eng-
pose—and I am credibly informedfing the result will conier an obligati-|* 3n d. This may be considered by
tnat the town of Longmeadow haSjon on tliat class of the society of many sangui
gen-
, a . . r ... in tli
important advantages. Still without sun a days more and afterwards
these, there, are few towns in the jhreshed again—it is then to be treat
state where any other seed can be put,cd as before directed for the mal
into the ground that shall yield so hemp,
many hundred fold.—- As evidence of | This mav
the profits arising from the cultivati- rection, but
cd himself with his impiety, and hud on ^ em P’ ^ woultfstate, that thirty will make si
nearly died of a violent illness with |} ve ^°^ ar3 P er ac U , lv , e ,. e , n . P u ' cl ,bind, his situation and his conve
whigh he was shortly afterwards
seized. Finding himself alive, how
ever, at the end of five years, and his
hunting and fishing excursions had
been .more than usually .successful,
he determined to pursue his project
in defiance of the seers. It fortu
nately happened too, that the interval
of the summer having been longer
th an usual 4n the year 1804, the ice
immediately about the mammoth
Evas melted, and the body of the a-
nimal, being extricated from the case
v here it had been, for many centu
ries probably contained, and impel
led by its enormous weight, rolled
polled them to have n course to
exists neither reason, right, nor jus
tice for continuing 'ouV dependence
on a power that has no existence but
, in ,in memory ; policy and self preser-
extraordinary method for conducting!™ 1 * 00 thc,efore dcmand that we
it. It was the custom of their agents
to stipulate, for a certain per centagc
to deliver the merchandize contract
ed for, free of j?I1 risk, at the London
Custom-house. The remuneration
was lately 15 per cent ; hut in the
present state of things, 50 per cent
would not compensate the agents for
the risk they would have to encoun
ter.
We stated several days ago, that
Mr. Yorke was to go to the Admiral
ty, and Lord Muloravk to the
Ordnance—the latter appointment
has taken place, and the commission
to the former effect in progress.
Mwj 4.—-We have received the
London papers of Monday. There
is not, with the exception of the pro
rogation of the French Legislative
body, any intelligence of moment in
1 hose papers. It is worthy observa
tion, that although there is a solitary
collateral sling against the “ eternal
enemies ofthe Continent,” the speech
of the Senator Regnaidt, does not
contain the cust.nuiry attack upon
received at Boston, New-York, and which the writer of th
New-Haven, thirty five thousand dol
lars for 011c years crop. An average
crop from land in good heart may be
considered from 8 to 12 cwt. per acre ;
society
is one.
CConnecticut Courant.)
Remarkable Tree.—At Tnrtworth,
....... , . ,in the county of Gloucestershire, E11-
and toe land if propeny taken care of, ]and Uiere is a Chesnut tree, which
the second year will produce moreU - fcct from the ground , j 3 50 feet
than it did the first. A judicious in circimi f t ren ce. In the reign of
farmer in my ne.ghlmurhood lately| Stc lu . n thia tree was ca n cd the great
toid me that he had taken 8 cwt. offi chesnut trcc . From this circumstance
an acre last year and had no doubt- is calcuhued the tree mus t have,,
that with little more attention he been plaiUud in t h e rdgn of Egbert, have becn ^dued, it wiill ieave him
... should this year at least get 12 cwt.—U 800 . and this calculation is
down upon the strand below, where!^ have notl vf<. in 1 Courant thut f oundcd on t he supposition that
Soumachoff and his friends assem- » 445 per Ton had latefy been —"
me persons as,indicative
the return of a pacific disposition
on the part of Napoleon. Th
speech expatiates with great and
pardonable complacency on the
nuptials of the Emperor mid the
Archduchess of Austria. There is
no doubt that this marriage was one
of the first strokes of policy Napole
on ever exhibited. - It secures, as his
orators say, the peace of the conti
nent ; and when the Peninsula slial
hied ; delighted with their prize,
they immediately proceeded to saw
off the teeth, which weighed up
wards of four hundred pounds, and
were sold for fifty rubles, and the
t trc.iss was then abandoned to those
who chose to feed their dogs with it
and to the wild beasts of the desert.
It was two years after this, in the
Year 1800, that Mr. Adams arrived
nt the spot, where, the skeleton ofthe
animal covered by the hide was still
extended. His first care was to have
'be hide taken off, and the united ef
forts pf ten men were necessary tc
drag it along, and stretch it open tt
die sun. He then seperated th'
bon -s in such a manner as to beabl«
pnt tin in together again, and re
''■ax after a few cxexrsidns iuto tlu
in Boston, for he.up raised at I.ong-
uieadow—this is a very unusual price
—it has been considered a fair price
at S 200 when our intercourse was
open with Russia ; and at that, it will
pay vastly more than any other crop,
ns may be seen by the following very
P ait * Chesnut tree is 500 years before it is
in its prime, consequently not
than one thousand years old.
lev:
important geographical fact.
Mr. P. B. Porter states in his
interesting speech, that “ it is not un
liberal estimate of cultivating andjrommou for boats, in tbe spring of
lressing the produce of one acre of the v
land that is in good order:
12 Loads of Manure, * - • 1*,0D
Ploughing and-harrowing 3'idles 9,on
2 1-4 Buihels of feed, at 4 D. - 9,00
Sowing and Ho rowing,
Pulling and Citing . .
Breaking and Sw.ogling,
Sure profit, per acre, - -
1.00
3.00
1.5.00
4*.r,f>
54.00
Haifa ton, at 200 D. - - i* >00,00
The aboye estimate which is uu-
ir, to pass from Lake Michi
gun into the Illinois, and thence by
the waters of that river and the Mis
sissippi, to New-Oileans,, without
being taken out of the water.”
The Editor of the Saratoga Ga-
/.etle, says he is in possesion ol a let-
cr from an intelligent correspondent
1 Detroit, which is confirmatory of
he truth of Mr. Porter’s statement.
at liberty to prosecute a maritime
war, or to turn the arms of the French
people, as well as of his confederate
legionaries, to the Ottoman Empire
The latter is mentioned slightly
but it may be for the purpose of con
cealing his designs. Indeed wc thini
that a Turkish war is by no means
so remote as may be generally ima
gined.
The last accounts from Lisbon ?x
Spain describe the French as suf
fering under great want of provisions
One of these letters says, “ the
French are retreating from the P01
tuguese frontier in want of every
thing. ” The same want is felt in
Spain, and the next accounts will pro
bably bring us intelligence of their
laving quited the vicinity of Cadiz.
I he Duke of Belluno (Victor) is
dated to have died at Seville, on the
Strange as it may appear, (snvs tl
Correspondent) it nevertheless a 4th April, in consequence of a woipieUance as may enabk us to defeat the
should provide for oUr common safe
ty and the protection of these pro*
vinces by taking into our own hand
the natural sovercigny of out coun
try.
The period has at length' arrived
when these United Provinces possess
both the strength and the power to
protect themselvc3. With a popula
tion of nine millions of Inhabitants,
with an extent of fertile territory su
perior to any empire on‘the globe, 89
abounding with all the riches that
bounteous muure ever bestowed oft
the human racy, it would be contra
ry to sound policy/ in the present
state of the world to submit, and ive
are determined no longer to submit to
the domination of any European or fo
reign power whatever•
For whilst a lawful government
existed in Spain, and her legitimate
king sat upon her throne, we have c-
ver been loyml to his person and faith
ful to his government, and our trea
sures have becn the only support of
the European monarchy and its al
lies, whilst we have been distressed
by a war in which we had no inte
rest whatever, and our country drain
ed ol those riches which nature has
bestowed upon the inhabitants of A-
merica, for their own* happiness,
support and defence.
Under these considerations atld to
prevent the inevitable and ruinous
onscquenccs of falling under the
yoke of the Emperor of the French,
die tyrant of Europe, and the oppres
sor of Spain—We the Spanish pro
vinces in America declare ourselves k
iree sovereign and independent peo-.
pie, not acknowledging the dominar
tion of any power on earth, refusing
submission, and denying and repel
ling the authority of whatever nation
may attempt dominion over us. This
we unanimously engage and pledge
ourselves to maintain and support
with our lives our fortunes and our
sacred honors, calling upon every in
habitant in the provinces to aid and
support in carrying into effect, this
our laudable and just resolution,
and establishing for ourselves and
our posterity a free, equitable and in
dependent government, that such
shall secure our happiness and give
us a place of honor and respect a-
tnong the independent nations of the
arth.
And we do earnestly entreat att
foreign nations to acknowledge and
guarantee our independence, and to
favor us with such ailiance and assis-