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SATURDAY, "July 27, 1805. AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, GAZETTE OF TH E STATE. FREEDOM ot th* PRESS and TR I A *t JURY shall ssmaik inviolate* Confutation of Georgia* * —— , AUGUST A: Printed by D. DRISCOL* near the market. [3 Dolls, per Annum ,] «* • ■ 1— •"•' —————• —1 ■ , 1 .... ■■ ■■■'■ 1 ■■ '' ■ From the National Intelligencer. To JAMES ELLIOT, Esq. . Sir —Should a person, b j a (Turning the garb of rcpublicamfrn, he elevated fro* ob feurity, to the lion, rank of a member of Congress, and afterwards be so forgetful of the duty which he owes his condiments snd his country, as to become the coadjutor, or prehaps the tool, of a Junto, who are endeavoring to excite local jealtujiel \ and unfounded alarms in certain parts of the Union, either for the purpose of regaining their loft authority and influence, or Ihouid they fail in this, to prepare the public mind for a dfmemherment of the American Republic ; permit me to ask you, fir, whether such a person ought to escape public animadversion ? I will not presume to fay t( than art the man ” but (hall leave the decision oi it to the impartial tribunal of our fellow citizens. I (hall however take the liberty of fubmittirg to your confidera ti*n the viz. x. Did you or did you not soon, after taking your feat in Congress, become a warm partizan of the ft- dev ant Vice Preji dent, although you knew at the faraa time, that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the Republicans 2. Were you or were you not often pre sent at those secret conclaves (competed of “an union of all honejl men ,”) which were held at Washington, during the winter of 1803—4, for the purpose of palming a se cond time, on the republicans, a man, by whose secret machinations and intrigues, the republicans had nearly like to have been deprived of the tervices of that diftinguiftied patriot, who is now at the head of govern ment ? 3. Did you or did you not oppose the drjlgnating principle being introduced into the constitution, —and what was your ob jeft and that of your federal coadjutors, in so doing, unless with a view to leave op?n a door for corruption and intrigue, which feme future Catalme might improve, and place himfelf at the head of government, contrary to the voice of the sovereign peo pie ? 4. Did you or did you not express a strong folieitude for the luccefs of Col. lurr, at the time he was a candidate for the office of Governor of New. York; and did you or did you not flatter yourfelf that (hould he succeed, that this refpeftable state would withdraw its support from the administra tion ? y. Were you or were you not pretent at fcveral of the noSurnal meetings which were held during the last session of congress, by the Junto computed of “ an union of all ho. nefi men" — and were not the fubjeft of your deliberations, that of digesting a plan to foment divisions among the friends of the administration ? 6. What can be the objeft of your inve nt© attacks on the patriotic date of Virgi nia, unless you flatter yourfelf that by ex citing local cr rather clannijh prejudices, you will effeftualiy prevent hereafter any person from being taken up fpf President (let him be ever so pre-eminent a character) (hould he unfortunately be a Virginian ? These enquiries are made fir, from hav ing fo«e knowledge of the dark and mifte xious intrigues which hare been in opera tion for the last two years, as well as from the perusal of the letters you have lately addrefied to your constituents, which I ob serve arepublithed with avidity in all the federal papers (for to the honor of the repub. lican editors, they would not fuffer such kind of communications to appear in their gazettes.) 1 fay fir, from the perusal of those valuable documents, I have been con firi*;d in «ny belief, that a few malcontents , Have for some time past determined to form “an union of all honejl men,” with those persons who have so long disgraced the A merican character by their vile and unprin cipled attacks both on the private as well as the public character of the virtuous and pariotic JefFcrfon. I (hall now fir, con cluds with calling upon such of my fellow citizens as may lie deceived (by the ma chinations of designing characters) u to o peo their eyes and confider the management of those ambitious men, who, to make thcmfelves powerful in their party, study nothing but how they may foment divijions in (i *fnen<wealtb," CATO. i Fro.'it the Kentucky Gazette . The party of dlfcovery, under the com mand of captains Lewis and Clark, left the mouth of the Midouri on the 19th day of May, 1804. An express with dispatches from their winter quarters, which left them the 14th April, has returned to St. Louis, By the express, letters were received from Capt. Clark to his correfpondcnts in Ken tucky, A gentleman from Jefferfon county, has obligingly favored the editor of the Kentucky Gazette with the following ac count, which he obtained from one of the men who returned with the express, and from letters from some of the party. They fortified therafelves in November last, on the bank of the Mlffouri, 1609 miles from the mouth, by adual ineafureinent, in lati tude 47, 21, north ; called then Fort Man dane, after a nation of Indians who redds in the neigborbood, and who have been ve ry friendly to them.—On their passage up, they were delighted with the beautiful ap: pearance of the country for about 200 leagues, or to the mouth of the river La Plate, which comes in trom the fouth ; af ter which, to their winter quarters, it is deferibed not to be so fertile. The ptrrfon who brought the dispatches, speaks of the opening made by the river, being about one mile wide, with high cliffs on each fide— The bed of the river occupies about a fourth part of it, the remainder of the bottom en tirely composed ofcoarfefand, covered with cotton wood. This bottom is continually giving way either on one fide or the other, and gaining on the opposite fide. The cliffs in some places arc covered with red cedar, which, with the cotton wood, and a few small ash trees, is the only timber deferibed to he in that country. From the height, there is not a tree or twig to befeen, as far as tha fight can extend, or as they have ex- j piored. Out from the river the land goes off perfectly level, with bat few exceptions. The Soax arc the mod numerous, are or ganized in bands bearing different names, move about from place to place, from the banks of the river out to the plains, in pur lint of game and plunder, having no fixed place of residence, and in a continual state of warfare, These were the most trouble some Indians to the party of difeovery, as they expreiled a jealousy, lead thoy would supply their enemies higher up with arms, &c. The higher up they went, the more friendly they found the savages, and the better armed. They have a more regular trade with the North Weft Company, and the Hudson Say Company ; which Aipplies come to them by the way of Lake Winnep eck. The Mandanes cultivate corn, which is of a small kind, from whom the party was supplied during the winter, and their hunters kept them in abundance of meat. Buffolocs are laid to be in great numbers, asd of large size. Two defeription of deer are deferibed, those resembling the common kind in this country being larger, and the tails eighteen inches long, and the hair much longer on their bodies; the other kind having a black tail. Elks and goats are numerous. The groufc, or praire hen, are in plenty; and before the clofiog of the river, in the fall, water-fowls in abundance. Fish scarce, and those principally of the cat kind. Some of the white bear-skins had been brought to the fort by visiting Indi ans from higher up ; but the party had seen none of those animals. The Indians keep horses, which are used entirely for the chafe and in war. From such information as they have receiv ed of the country above there ; it is about fix hundred miles to the great falls, which are made by a ledge of mountains call Roc ky Mountain in which it is presumed, the Miflburi terminates. At their winter quar ters, the river is nearly a'quarter of a mile wide ; is equally as muddy at at its mouth, and has continued its rapidity, with very little alteration, as high as they have gone, though it has become considerably more (hal low ; so that they will not be able to car ry their large barge any higher. From what information they have obtained of the course of the upper part of the river, they are almost at the northwardly part. From where they wintered to the falls, is nearly a fouth course. The dcfciiption given by M'Kenzie, of the head waters of the river, is accurate. They have sent cn to the President of the United States an accurate journal, with a map of the country through whieh they palled. ' » - GEORGIA, Six of the party were Tent back—the par ty now consists of twenty.eight men, cx olufive of the two officers. They have cn joyed perfeft health, not one having been sick, except the unfortunate young man be fore mentioned, and he was taken off in a few hours with a cramp in his stomach. The greafeft friendlhip has cxifted with the parry j and the men who have returned speak in the highest terms of the humanity and uncommon pains and attention of both the captains, Lewis and Clark, towards the whole of taem ; and that they left them in good spirits, fully covinced that they would winter on the Pacific Ocean. They were told of lix nations of Indians they would have to pass, before tney would arrive at the falls, from only one of which they apprehended any difficulty-—they are called the Snake tribe, and iiefidc high up. Curiosities of different kinds.—live beasts, birds, several boxes of minerals, a pair of uncommon ram’s horns from the Rocky Mountain, felons of a new djfcevered berry, called the buffido-berry, f&c. have been brought on by the return party, and clepo fitcd with the commandiag aficer at St. Louis, to be sent by him to the President. We expsft in a few days further parti, culars relative to this interesting voyage. From the Weekly Wanderer, Mr. Printer, 1 would beg leave, through the medium of your paper, to solicit >tny brother farmers to make use of their a(hcs on their Corn Land, in dead of felling them to the mer chants for i z cents a bulhel. I will warrant them 4£ cents a bulhel clear of all expence, if rightly managed. The method is this: Wkan your corn tirft comes out of the ground put one half pint of <alhes around she hill; if your allies are not good put the more— In conversation with a venerable old gentle man the other day on the fabjed, he adored me that he had made use of alhes in this way for many years pad, and had never failed of having one bulhel of corn extraordinary for every bulhel of alhes. It is the opinion of feme men that a half pint of good alhes is rather too much for a hill, bnt this must be left to the diferetion of the farmer. I arn fcnftble it is not customary to pay much at tention to what we read in newspapers; but, my brother farmers, let us try one bulhel this year, and if it has the delired effetfl, we shall be rewarded for our trouble, and can well afford to try the experiment another year. A FARMER. From the Paris Memoirs , of Agriculture • M. de Thole having found that the oil of turpentine, when applied to animals which were covered with vermin, destroyed thole vermin without hurting the animal, the author of this memoir tried it on seve ral kinds of tree lice and other infe&s; all of which it killed without hurting the trees. He then mixed some of the oil of turpen tine with fine earth, so as to make it in corporate well, aud added water, stirring it constantly, till the whole was brought to a ccnfiderable degree of fluidity. In this mixture he dipped branches of fruit trees, covered with infers, which were entirely destroyed by it, eggs and all, without hurling the fruit, branches or leaves.- The composition may be got off by artifi. cial watering, or left to be walhed away by the firft (bower. From these experi ments, he thinks that oil of turpentine may be as well employed tor killing various kinds, of lice that infeft domestic animals, and sometimes produce disease on fruit trees. Experiments willafcertain how far this re medy will prove efficacious in different ca ses. PEACH TREES, Obfervlng an article relative to this tree in the Farmer's Repository, I thought it might be of fcrrice to some persons, who have leisure and opportunity to make the experiment, which the writer was informed was an effectual prefcvatxve. Make boxes around your trees about one foot in hight, and in capacity (exclufivc of the tree) to hold a peck, fill this in with the Bark taken from Tan Vats, prsffing it a little together, and your trees will remain free from worms around the roots, which arc fodeftruftivc to trees, as it is found that worms will not inhabit this Bark if ever so old, Connecticut Courant , [Vot. XIX. No. ySa _ _ ... ■ ■■ ' PARIS, April 20. The army aflkmbling in the celebrated plain of Marengo, will confiit of 30,000 fckft men, which are to be reviewed by hi* majesty the emperor. NEW.YORK. July*. Capt. Morris, in 31 days from Bor deaux, informs, that on the 30th of May, an officer of the guard.fhip, in that port, told him, that the Brcft fleet failed for Ja maica on the 27th of that month. A poftfcnpt of a letter from Naptz, dat ed the aid May, fays; —“I op?n my let ter to inform you of the fafe return to Rochefort of the squadron which failed thence some time ago for the windward i flamis. It has on board the contributions levied upon the English iHands, This has occasioned no little sensation here." Another letter has been received in town, which states that the above squadron had failed again from Rochefort on a secret ex pedition. St. John’s, (Antigua) June 18. On Wedoefday last, w.e had the pleasure of feeir g the fleet under command of Vice-Admiral Lord Ndfon, confining of 12 (hips of the line, 4 frigates, 2 flaops of war, and a brig, anchor in the road of St. John, from whence his Lordihip failed the next day, about aoon, in search of the French fleet. We underfland that his Lordship in con sequence offomc information he had recei ved, failed from Barbadoes to Grenada, which in all probability, prevented his coming up with the French fleet before they pafled this island. His Lordihip did not come on Ihorc ; declaring, as we have been told, that he had not been out ot the Vic tory for two yetfts. Before his Lordihip failed, the Nettly schooner, under whofc convoy the fleet from this ilbend had failed on the Friday pre ceding, came in with the very unphafant intelligence that all the veflofs had been taken, as we had but too much reason to apprehend from the time the French fleet palled by this island—-The veflels from this island taken, were four teen in number, viz.-—The flap Kerby, Patriot, Mary, Emerald, Nancy and Prince of Wales, for London—-the Ihips Byam, Martha, Wcft-Indian, and High, lander, for Liverpool-.-the Ihips Urania, and Singleton, for Ireland—the brig Caro line, for Halifax, and schooner Argo, for New.York.---On board these VfflVls were 5,406 hogsheads of sugar, beftdes coffee end other merchandizes, which with the veflds are computed at the value of 400,000!. ftcrling. - The Northumberland, Adm. Cochrane, did not fail with Lord Nelson. And the Curieux brig was dispatched for England. Wo have the pleasure to inform the pub lic, that the 96th, a fine trong regiment under the command of Lieut. Col, Corran, were landed here on Thursday last, / NEW ORLEANS, May 13. At a meeting ot the Purteftant citizens, last evening, agreeably to previous notice the following resolutions were adopted ; Refolvcd, as the opinion of this meeting that measures ought to be taken to encou rage a clergyman of the Prmcftafit perfua flon, to come and reflde in this city, to preach the Gofpcl. Resolved, that farther and more prompt ly to carry into effeft this laudable under taking, that another meeting be held on Sunday next, at half after it A. M. pre. cifsly. Mr. Harris's Journal of hit Tour through . the Territory North.U'eji , of the Ohio. We announce the publication of this valua. blcand entertaining work, with unraixed fatisfadlion. The Journal is distinguish ed by a strain of pleasing narrative, cmichcd by fentiraent and enlivened by pifturcfque delineations of “ the foblime and beautiful in creation." The Geographical part is a plain, but fatisfactory account of a re gion never before accurately deferibed ; but eve* this is relieved with occaflonal cxcar fions, which (hew that' Genius cannot be circumscribed with a Gunter's chain... -The author’s account of the Antiquities of the fate of Ohio , difeovers great ingenuity and learning, and mutt be highly interefling to every one who ha# the least curiosity to know ay hence America n»a> fetthdy and •what hands reared those Ljy works •which rife in Jolitary grandeur in the Wefem rwilds • Btfton Gaz. • ~ V t,i ,; •■■■■ »' ’ V | .