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Saturday, jifayio, 178 ft, GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE tV ;;J ■' '1 .5 ! M .... . **•••• ■ * • , I. ‘ > .if Q * ... 1.4 - ■ M V •♦» *» » »» • • • • > * ’ * * ‘ ' * t ‘ INDEPENDENT REGISTER. ' • _U;v'M-tT ; :• f ill <■; ,** . .<-• • . ■ * ? ' * “ jV ' ' % «• • ? .*•t.... „ _ : , _ I J * • v»»1 1 <• •■a ■ «* * * e *• . . • FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Ccnjlituiicn as Georgia* ’ r-". II I ~jyi .. ;n ;r . ,I"":. 1) ' j '' , |' ' 1 ~~ ■ "' 1 711 "!■ J **■■ >— ? AVGU ST At Printed by JOHN E. SMI TH, Printer to the State ; Pfays, Articles of, Intelligence , Advert foments, &c* will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed* « : J »r' ::;l V -•* 'V' . '.: - • —~ - •" ' ' - ■"■■■"-■ _- — 1 "■»"* - ' ■ HH I **■ * 1 " . ' - • <k ) «.*> •* ' I 1« • .it ;•-» ... I ! . *■ ' . ? !.i; . < ’ <?i 5* •• • V i a*. * a if ' 4 •* ** ■ * * ; d ijt e c r 1 o n s . . FO R THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE - I N D I G 0. ’ f v *• ' r • - < ■’ , By an INDIGO PLANTER. . Os planting. CLEAR your land and grub up every root * dig it hoe deep, and endeavour to make it fine as a garden,. breaking every clod, aijd ; ijiaking about fixty ; .rows in a quarter of an acre. On bushel of feed will sow four acres. Trench Very straight, and let your rows run in ftjch a diredlibn, that the breeze may blow freely through them. Sow your feed late'in. the afternoon* .and do not cover it till early in the morning, before the fun dimes upon it,, by which means .you will find the feed fwellcd by the dew. of the night, which will cause it to grow up a week sooner than if sown and covered immediately; a very ma terial cpnfi<leratien in planting all kinds of feeds, which would probably, receive the fame benefit frdmthe fame manner of treatment* Xou xjiay plant corn among your indigo, giv ing it double the distance of what is common* and you will not hurt the indigo in the least. If your land abounds with ants, worms, or grubs, that will destroy the feed, or eat the plant when it is grown up, deep your feed in water in which crude mercury has been boiled, and sprinkle it with th.it water whiift it is yet in the ground, which will effectually destroy them all*. A pound of crude mercury will communicate its virtue to thousands of gal lons of water, it 3 own virtues unimpaired, and its quantity not in the lead diminiihed. Os C U T TIN G* When the plant is in full blossom, and be gins to Ihew pods of feed, and that the leaf, %vhen doubled, breaks freely, then cut it im mediately *, do not cut the plant nearer the ground than fix inches, and leave a few branches on the stem ; they serve to draw up the sap, and the plant will grow up the better for it; for when you cut so low as to leave a naked stalk, the weed will grow bulhy, but nlit To luxuriaut as by this method. Be sure to cut it before the fun riles, and whiift the dew is upon it; then carry it quickly to tfee vat, and pump the water on it dneftly. Af ter every cutting takes place give your field a thorough hoeing, and when dry weather sets in, give your plants a double, nay, a triple lifceing, for by cultivating in this manner, you gain the full effects of the dews, which •will keep the ground moist to a very great degree. Os STEEPING. Try, from time to time, some of the wa ter out of the deeper with strong lime water ; when the weed is deeped enough, the mud will fettle of a fine copper colour, but over steeped it will be of a black muddy colour; at firft it will be of a pale green, uext of a purple, but as yet it is not steeped enough wait for the true copper before you draw. If, oq dipping your hand down to .the middle of the vat, and taking a handful of the wood, the leaf ftietches and looka of a pale green co lour, it is a good sign that it is deeped enough, but ilz trial by licit water i« pmfcuUe. pf# trr tar •** tI-.K i'-i .** r- • w Whenever you fee a froth at the top of the water in the steeper, be sure that it is steeped enough ; when tK* pith of the stalk at the cut" end grows red,* it is over-steeped. You can not, in general, make bad indigo but by over fteeping. When you find the froth just ap pearing, and the pith just turning ed, (not ; quite crimson) you must draw off directly. ; Os BEATING. ■j ’ When the liquor is drawn off from the ; steeper, begin beating immed’ately whilst the liquor is warm ; beat briskly for half an hour to keep up the warmth, when you will per haps find a fine flalky or flat grain, or beat on till one comes ; then let the plug of the lime vat be taken out, and the lime Water will run into the beater, till you have, in hot weather, ioo gallons to 5 or 600 indigo liquor; in moderate weather 200 gallons j and in cold weather 300 gallons* Keep heating briskly until you find a large round grain, which may come in about an hour, and sometimes less after this, beat on till the water becomes of a dark purple dolour, when it will be beat enough ; then let in a small quantity of lime water, beating a little to mix it, and you will find it in fine order; after the liquor has fet tled fob half an hour, try the top of it, and if , it is of a green colour, you have put in too little lime-water, in which case you must add a little more; but if it be a deep amber co cour, you have put in enough. Of' DRAINING. About au hour after you have done beating, open the upper plug of the vat, and if the wa ter runs clear, and not charged with any of the mud or dye, draw off, and so on to the lower plug, until you come to the mud, which take out in pails and pour into the drainer. The drainer is an oblong frame of five feet long, three feet wide, and one foot deep, with a bottom of woollen cloth laid on a bed of sand, which will admit of all the water to percolate, and retain the mud or dye. Os PRESSING. The draining prepares the indigo for the press, which may be either a ferew, a lever, a weight or wedges, as you think mod pro per. The boxes are to be made witli holes in the Tides and bottoms, and a cover to fit exaftly to the inside, to flip down as the water is prefled out of the indigo. When the mud is Sufficiently prefled, which will still have some moisture in it, you are to mix it all well together with a trowel, which will make it tough and solid ; yon are then to put it into a frame two feet long, one foot broad and two inches deep, with a board atihe bottom larger than the box to hold the indigo to dry on, af ter you have cut it in sq iares of two inches. You are not to cut it until it shrinks from the * fide of the frame, and then put into the fun to get a little cruft upon it, drying it after wards in the shade until fully dry. In rainy weather if your indigo moulds, put it in the fun till that is gone off, returning it to the fun till it is thoroughly dry, which is known when it is light in the hand, and will not stain the fingers. This last process of mixing it after piefling, prevents it from cracking, but the pieces that crack must be dipt in water, and the crack smoothed over. It is advife able to lay a thin doth over it when drying, to prevent the tne* Um to it* 01 diy* ** y # „ tNo. LXXXV.I ing it in a frame covered with Ruflia lace, would answer every purpose, and would let* the air through to dry it tufliciently quick, spread your weed immediately as you take it out of the steeper, among the young plants, if it be convenient, for it will be a benefit to . them i or burn it, for iu a heap it will breed 1 ail infinite number of flies. When the indigo is thoroughly dry, put it into open calks to sweat a few. days; this brightens its cohuny** but it contrails a mould by these means, which j you are to get off-by drying it in the fun a lit* tie, when your whole process is finilhed. -« * * ' , ;*• POLITICAL REMARKS. PATRIOTISM stands at the head of tho Social affections. It triumphs over every felfifli motive, and is a firm support to every virtue. The morals of the patriot are ever pure, and his conduil ever correct. Patrio tism at the fame time is the great bulwark of civil liberty ; equally abhorrent of despotism on one hand, and of licentioufuqfa on the other. The management of the finances of a ftato is a mod important branch of government ; and no less delicate than important. They lhould never be committed to the direction of any but men of the 1110 ft uuqueftionable integiity. And of all others, men, whose private affairs are defparate, are the Icalfc woithy of confidence-in this department. Money is not an object of commerce. It is only an inflrument used by’tonfcnt, to fa cilitate the exchange of the objeif of com merce. The prices of the objeds of commerce are in proportion to the plenty or scarcity of the circulating money. If the ciicnlating money ftiould be dimi v niflied one half, that which before was wortl* 208. would now be woith 10s.-- In the reign of Henry VII. a crown in England was as va luablc as a pound is at pielent; because it would buy as much. If wc confide* a ftatc by itfelf, it is of nor conlequence whether it has a circulating me- - dium of 200,0001 or i®o,oool because the prices of things will always bear a proportion to the quantity of money. And if the circu fating money lhould be reduced from 20o>oocI to ico,ccol* it would have no dther eftert in the end than to render one dollar as valuable as two collars were befoie. Though the low prices of every article of sale be a necefiary confeqt er.ee of the derreale of money, yet it follows not immediately upon such deoeafe. Thcie is an inteival before the alteration in the quantity of mo-* ney is intended with a proportionable altera tion in the price of commodities; and thia interval is favorable to inritifliy. A commerce in which the impotfs exceed in value the exports, will always drain a na tion of its money. If we ;in| ort goods to the value of and export produce only to the value of 80,0001. thete will be a balance against us of 10,000!. and this balance, as ie cannot be paid by us in produce, mult be paid in money. It is only by an unfavorable balance of trade that a nation is ever dta tied of its mo* ney. ( ommenial iuuuis, theriloic, drug lit hard agaiuft lU