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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#