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THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.
VoL. I.
MILLEDG'EVILLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1810.
No. 45.
PUBLISHED BY SEATON GRANT!.AND,
(PRINTER TO THE STATE,) ON JEF
FERSON STREET, OPPOSITE THE
NORTH END OF THE STATE-HOUSE.
TERMS THREE DOLLARS PER AN
NUM, ONE HALT TO BE PAID IN AD
VANCE.
‘ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE THANK
FULLY RECEIVED, AND PUBLISHED
AT THE CUSTOMARY PRICES.
Notice.
IA copious, sure, and excellent mass
Administrator's Sale.
On the first Tuesday in October
next, WILL BE SOLD at the
Court-house in Jones county, the fol-
.lowing
Tract of Land
beng part of the real estate of Phi
lip Hunter, deceased.
O ne Lot in the tenth district on
the waters of big Cedar Creek,
known by No. 174, containing 202
1-2 acres, more or less.
Terms of sale made known on that
clay.
Elisha Hunter, Adm’r.
August 8. 41 6t,
Entertainment.
THE SUBSCRIBER respectfully
infotms his friends and the public,
that lie has taken the building lately
erected by Capt. Thomas, fronting
the Public S-juare y Milledgeville,
and opened a house for PUBLIC
ENTERTAINMENT, and will
make every exertion to suit the wish
es of gentlemen who will favor him
with a call—He is supplied with
Mich artic les as the country will pro
duce, and has some choice liquors
lie expects from New-York in a few
•days, articles to completely furnish
his house in a handsome style, and
will also receive additional supplies
of such articles as will enable him to
suit the taste of every person who
will oblige him with their commands.
Thomas G. Collier.
August 8. 41 — tf.
For Sale,
All perfona having demands on ihe eftatei WClr W"** is hius secured lor
of Robert Tait, late of Hancock county, |CVer to our country at the exptT.ce
. • . . r .l r • *• i a*
deceased, are requested to render them to
me duely atteded, and thole indebted to
said eftate, are requested to make immedi.
ate payment.
Appleton W. Roseter, Ex’r
July ll. 37 ,f.
CjT° Maj. iienj. Taliaferro
will he a candidate at the ensu
ing election, to represent the citi
zens of Baldwin, in the Senate of
this State.
August 1. " 40 tf.
FOR SALE,
at this office, Fifty Reams
Medium printing paper,
of good quality Price S4 50cts.
per Ream.
March 5 25 tf
Take Notice !
I forward all perfona from harboring or
rading with my wife Eli/.3, flic having left
my brd and board without any provocati
on. Ail thole acting in contravention of
this notice, will be profccuted to the ut-
moft rigor of the law.
James Cupp.
Jc'y 25. 59 26t>
Holt’s Ferry.
All persons travelling on horse-back,
may cross at my Ferry for half price.
Thaddeus Holt.
March 13 20—tf
The Subscriber,
Will take TWO ACTIVE BOYS,
about 14 years of age, as Apprenli
the burde n of pm chase.
>i those foreign nations who former
ly furnished them, and who have in
trenched upon our personal and pub
lic rights and interests on the high
seas. Those who in the phrenzy ol
avarice, have temporarily suspended
our commerce have, by that very with our savage neighbors and, in
measure,pennanentlij established ourlconsequence, to be exempted from
adult manufactures. Our leathern
manufactures alone are at this mo
ment worth much more per annum
than were all our exports in the first
year under our present national con
stitution. Peace in Europe will res
tore our commerce, but nothing can
deprive us of our established manu-
tacturss. They have passed the in
fantine state. They are now adult.
They have grown naturally and un
forced, out of our own land, our own
• r aters, our own woods and our own
wants. The presence of those raw
materials, which cultivation, fishing,
hunting, mining, or our various soils
our unforced and naturally growingjmade to go deep or light, according
manufactures give ns cheap and surcito the nature of the soil md the in
military supplies, with a view to cm tended crop,
white rivals and foes, they diminish
our occasion for those costly objects
in respect to the conciliated Indians.
It is well in the hour of necessity to
be able to procure cheap supplies, but
it is better, thus to remain in peace
The most important result of this
thorough tillage is fine crops, and,
what is not to he disregarded, the ut
most neatness in the appearance of
the country ; for no balks are to be
seen near the hedges, filled with
weeds and bushes.
I am not ignorant, that in our
country, individuals are sufficiently
When any branch of American aware ot these few simple and elfica*
manufactures hr.s obtained maturity,'cions principles of agriculture, and
excellence and beauty, as is really the effect is abundantly evident in
the case of our leathern commodities [the superior appearance and produce
open and covert exportations natujof their land ; but in general, cur
tally take place. Our rivals, in tin farmers push a good soil till it is
field of trade and manufactures, bring impoverished, and cultivate in an im
perfect manner, extensive tracts, a
small proportion of which, if proper
ly managed, would yield them more
upon themselves the great nCw evi
of our competition. In most useful
things of leather, for example, in the
South American markets, we can bv
and better produce.
I here is one circumstance connect
ed with the fattening of sheep and
cattle, which struck me as worthy of
price and quality effectually supplant
the European manufacturers, espe- 1
daily since the foreign orders and
lecrOes have driven our capitals imitation. The English sow a great
spontaneously produced, have occa-Trom our Ships to our workshops.—'many ot their fields with turnips, and
led the manufacture of those So Britain may furnish them for ajthey grow to an astonishing size ;
time with the lighter cottons for the the greater part of the bulk is above
luxurious and the fashionable, Init-ground. At this season of the year
ces to the Paper-Making Business. 'he wild animals.
Zachariah Sims.
Green-county, Aug. 25. 4-4—tf.
plain, good and useful commodities,
which are necessary to righteous de
fence, and to the wants and comforts
ol civilized men.
In regard to the leathern branch,
it may be useful particularly to sug
gest to the citizens of our western
states and territories, of Pittsburg,
Erie, and the towns on the Ontario,
that they-owe to their country and
themselves more reflection and exer
tion on the subject of the skins of all
file deer skin,
re shall supply them with the heavy
and substantial commodities, requir
ed by their plainer and their poorer
millions. JURISCOI.A.
Nat. Int.
rica ; and this superiority is proba
bly derived, not so much from grea
for example, often perishes in its
way from the western forests to the
Atlantic warehouses ; h frequently, _ ...
nay generally 7 sustains an expence of'mainly on tv.o great facts, faithful
TILLAGE AND MANURES.
1 he good land of England is much
more productive than that of Ame-l a „j ih this manner the whole' crop is
. fl r. . I 4 L ■ I - All., r, t.l f I A ll\A a t
they enclose their cattle and sheep
upon these turnip fields ; there is a
moveable fence, which confines them
to a particular small portion of the
turnip-ground, and when the cattle
or sheep have taten the turnips down
to the ground, and even below it,
which the sheep easily do, they are
removed to another part of the field.
consumed. That part of the root
which remains in the ground goes
ter original strength of soil, as from f or manurc , and thus nothing is lost
more skillul agriculture, depending
l o the Cultivators, the Capitalists rwt/j transportation too heavy to be borne
the Manufacturers oj the United |,y its low unmanufactured value.—
States.
There is no class of manufactures
more important and necessary to the
Every mode therefore of prepating,
dressing, and employing deer skins
in our western 5k remote settlements,
cheap and effectual supply of the pub-jshould be carefully devised, cansi-
A TRACT OF LAND, ™° !
lie force in any possible war, than
those which are made from the hide
tillage and faithful manuring.
The’English farmer does not be-
ieve, that there is any thing neces
sarily inherent in the nature of a good
soil, which makes it productive, in-
lependent of nutritious matter and
skins of the farmer’s animals,
In the 14th district of Baldwin coun- an j from those of beasts of the
ty, No. 113,containing202 l-2acres,
Fm the waters of Murder creek.
Terms of Sale, six hundred dollars,
payable 1st Jan. 1811, when titles
will be given. Apply to Alexander
Joh nson, in Savannah. The above
land was granted to Mrs. Grace,
Farley, of Savannah.
August 22 43—5t
chacc. Shoes, boots, gaitres, stock*-,
cockades, straps, belts, scabbards,
cartouch boxes, saddles, bridles, hol
sters, valaises, bags, caps, gun-slings,
harness and geers, leathern breeches
and even vests, ship pump leather,
rigging hides, and some other arti
cles, a e made in the best forms by
our various lea;tier manufacturers of
GEO It I A, Laurens County.
Whereas Robert Sullivant has fi
lled information in my office, that So-
phiah Lomax of Wilks county, did
fraudulently and contrary to law en
ter her name in said county for a
draw or draws in the first Land Lot
terv, whereby she, the said Sophia,
drew lot No. 23, in the 2nd district
of Wilkinson county, now Laurens
county ; and wheicas it appeal s from
the sheriff’s return that the said So
phia is not to be found in the county
of Wilkes, all peisons therefore hav
ing Interest in the land in question,
are hereby requested to be and ap
pear at the next Superior court, to be
held in and for the county of Lau
rens on the 2d Monday in Octobci
next, and make themselves parties
to the suit therein commenced, to an
swer the allegation, and shew cause
if any they have, why the proceedings
had under such fradulent returnes,
or the grant itself it the same has
issued, should not be set aside and
made avoid.
Given under my hand this 28th A-
pril, 1310. A. 1.01 E, C. h. L. C.
May 1. 27—Dm
A Great Bargain
May be had for CASH, in
A TRACT of LAND
iwithin one mile of Milledgeville.—
Enquire of the Printer*
August 1$. 40 Rt.
'SELECTSCHOOL.
Ci Uankm
Has onetled his- hdcC* School in a
room adjoining Ufo Gtofgiu Journal
l*i fining office i V- ''-.re will be taught de
the Latin and Greek Languages.
Ehttoriu, Logic„ Moral FliilOr.opby
dered and executed. They are sus- foreign aliment returned to it by tin
ceptible of being well tanned. Lime,
bark and tanner’s streams, with cheap
grounds present themselves in abun
dance in all the villages, townships,
and counties adjacent to the Indian
Country. Well prepared deer-skins,
tanned, tawed and buffed, or in rus
set or in black, are fit for many com
mon purposes and military supply.
Very large quantities arc sent, dried
only in the hair, at a ruinous ex
pence of transportation, from ourre-
Vmerican and foreign hides & skins,jmotest wild to the distant inanufac-
ultivator, as a compensation for the
crops it has yielded. Hence his first,
liis principal care, is to collect and
form manure from every possibl
source
Nothing is more common, when
one is travelling in England, than to
sec in the roads adjacent to the fields,
heaps of compost, consisting of turf,
tops ol vegetables, as ol turnips and
carrots, the stubble from wheat fields,
which is cut up by a second reapin
after the crop has been removed ;
tanned, tawed, colored or in the hair,
as the ease requires. To these may
ie added for general use, trunks,
portmanteaus, saddle-bags, carriage
boots, and tops, gloves, pocket-books
aad portfolios, card faces, book co
vers, parchment, sham morocco, and
tories of transatlantic Europe. Thisldertd animals, the offals of the barn
yards and stables, and, in short, eve
ry thing which would otherwise be
lost, and which is capable of being
converted lay putrefaction into vege
table mould.
It is, vherciore, because this busi
ness of manuring is so perfectly un
subject is worthy the utmost attents
oh of the Indian trader and of the
Western merchant ; of the manufac
turers of leather and their monied
friends in our frontier states and dis
tricts. Any considerable improve
many other things to a great amount.Intent, in regal'd to the manulacture
It is stated in the report of the Se-and employment of deer skins wouldjdel stood, and so diligently practised
cretary of the Treasury, that all our be of great importance to the supph in England, more than from any o-
leathern manufactures may lie esti- of military leather, and oi course in
mated to be worth per annum twen- the operations and maintenance ol
ty millions of dollars—a very inode-our army in our young settlements
rate computation. Those of Eng- and in the scenes adjacent, in an\
land are computed at more than ten possible Indian war.
millions sterling, or forty-four tnilli-i The more general dressing of the
ons of dollars. A large part of the skins of hogs, (the best leather for
difference is occasioned by the ch<?np-!the seats of military saddles) would
ness of the American skins, leather be attended with good effects upon
and manufactures. In proportion to ( our public and private supplies. In
our population, the quantity of tiic the Eastern states more of the clue
goods ia America is not materially,attention is paid to this object ; but
less than that of Great Britain, in all it is really neglected in some intelli-
ihe necessary and useful kinds.—jgent and economical quarters. Since
This great value of American manu-|the usual supplies of foreign hides 5k
factures from hides and skins, is'skins is not received, and since war
higltlv useful to the country in publicjmight interrupt their importation
reign purchasers for our skins, nor
for our bark and lime, so far as the
leather branch demands them. In
every instance, American manufac
tures support the American farmer*
jv purchasing the skins of theii
sheep, Hogs, horses and horned cat
These skins are converted into
.hoes, boots, saddles, shiphides, anci
athcr necessaries and requisites iu;
1 the comfort and service of the defen
A> . ' ‘ ien of ctor efcuatry, by land and sea
and private supplies, and it is very the beneficial consequences of pre-
beneficial to the landholders and sent attention to the skins of hogs,
cultivators in the sure and steady of deer and other animals, now in
narket it affords for skins, lime,'some measure neglected, merit con-
Ijark, building materials, draughtlcideration, as it would give comfort
cattle, and the food of men and and effect to our forces, and economy
beasts employed in the business.— to our military expenditures. The
We do not stand in need of any fo- enhancement of the price, value or
demand for all Indian skins woul
render our intercourse with them
more profitable, and of course, mere
inducive of peace. Onr rival neigh
bours cannot employ the savage ban
tc-rs furs and skins, in manufactures
and consumption, on this side of tin
Atlantic. They cannot,therefore, it.
this respect so well as the Americans
.-•nipt our red neighbours into tin
.aths of friendship by the benefits ol
rude. Thus wc perceive, that while
ther cause, that their lands are so
much richer than ours. Indeed, is
it any tiling more than an imitation
of the economy of nature ?
New countries n hen first cleared
of their forests, are generally fertile,
for the obvious reason, that the an
nual growth of vegetable substances
has been, fur ages, deposited on the
surface, and there left to putrefy &
form a soil. By imitating this natural
MAMMOTH RIVERS.
I'he following account of the “ largest
rivers in the world” is extracted
from Parish's Urography.
The Amazon of South America,
the largest river in the world, is
2,500 miles in length.
The Nile in Africa ha3 a course
of 2000 miles.
The Mississippi is the largest ri
ver in North America ; its course is
south ; its length 3000 miles.
The St. Lawrence is the Second
river in North America. Its course
from the head of Lake Superior, is
2500 miles.
The Kian Ku in China, is 2200
mil a long.
The Rio dc la Plata, in South A'
mcrica, is 1900 miles in length.
The Danube in Europe, has a
course of 10()0 miles.
The Wolga, a river of Russia, is
1700 miles in length.
1 lie Ganges, a river of India, has
a course of 1400 miles.
The Euphrates, in Asia, is 1-100
miles in its course.
Population of the world, accord
ing to the latest and most correct in
formation.
Europe, 160,072,593
Asia, 524,000,000
Africa, 20,000,000
America, 26,000,000
FOR 1TIGN
Baltimore, August 6.
FROM FRANCE.
The ship George Dyer, Collard,
process, the most barren spot may beBourdeaux in the Bay—Sin?
rendered fertile ; by counteracting!''* 1 '^ Lorn Bourdeaux 8th June.—
it, that is, by removing every thing There was no change in the relati-
in crops, and returning nothing in
manure, the most fe rtile spot ntay, in
a few years,be perfectly impoverish
ed.
Moreover, the rich mould thus
formed is cultivated, with the most
faithful and skilful tillage. An Eng
lish field, when it is ready to receive
wheat, looks like a garden. It is
ploughed till there are no large mas
ons between France and the United
Slates. Mr. Lee, the American
Consul at Bordeaux, had taken the
Ship Ann pf New-York to convey
himself and family to the United
States, in which ship most of the of
ficers and crews of the American
vessels detained at St. Sebastians
would take their passage. The ship
Sally in which Oen. Armstrong was
ses of earth unbroken ; It is raised coming, was daily expected at Bof-
into ridges, which vary from six to dcaux ; it was not known when he
twenty feet in breadth, with interme- would leave France, i he Georgb
mediate drains for the water and, for Rvcr was detained a few hours by
accomplishing all this, they huve| th( -* British nquadrofi off Rochelle,
ploughs, rakes, harrows, and other
implements of various forms, and
fitted up with every contrivance,
which skilful mecannics can supply,
for rendering the operations easy,
expeditious, and exact.
The ploughs and harrows frequent
ly run on wheels, and can thus be
was examined and released. £*he h:■.*.
a great Humber of letters on board
and may be expected up in the course
of this day.
Wc have been politely furnished
with a file of Bordeaux papers tr
June 2d. They contain very little
of interest. Capt, Collard iufoim#