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VOL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY M'DONNELL y HARRIS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1808. TERMS OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS. 5. IT will be printed weekly, at three collars per annum j one half to be paid in advance, the remainder at the expiration of fix months. 2. Advertifements will be charg ed at the rate of fixty-two and a half cents per fquare for the full Jnfortioo, and fifty cents for each continuation. 3 * No papers will be difcomlnu ed without a notice to that effect; nor then if in arrears. All letters direded to the Editors muff be poll paid. The fallowing Gentlemen are autho rized to receive Subscriptions for this ‘paper : CTar is boro' — Poll - M after, Jefetfon —Gen. B. Harris. Watki-ifv'Ue — E. B Jenkiffe, efq. Lexington —Poft jMaUcr, & Capt. Watkins. , <¥• ithorpe —Mr. Samul Shields, and William Lumpkins, Efq. Walnut Grove —Mr. Lee A kins. Strong's Store —Pott-Mutter. Greenes bow'—Capt. T. Daw Ton. Sparta— D odor W. Terrell. War rent on — Pott-Matter. Powelton —Pott-M aide r. ivniied-seviUc- — i nomas Mounter and James Bozeman,. E'q.s. Elberton—~CcA. Wm. Chiflom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. Zz Dod. Watkins. Vienna —3. B. Shields, Efq. Wilkes —David Terrell, Eiq. Sc Doctor Bibb. Lincoln —Cap *a:n N. Allen, and Cart, loan Hughes. Loiifville— Mtff. Day & Whee ler. Augufia —T, S. Walker, Efq. & Doctor Smelt. Waynesboro' —Col. John Davies. Sandtfville —-Mr. W m M‘Mur ray. Savannah —Mr; H. H. Mo lin ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. S FRAYED TEROM the Public Stable on the A Okmulgee feme lime in Fe bruary Jaft, a Chefnut Sorrel Mare, fix years old, fifteen hands hig h , well mad?, trots naturally, was fhod all round when fhewtnr away— without artificial marks —her natu ral marks are, a far in the forehead forming a fhort dull blaze, with one or both hind feet white, fome Eddie fpots on the mounting file. She wasfoen on the path leading to Oglethorpe court-houie, and is iup pokd tc be run eff by fome perfon. Any perfon giving information fo that the faid mare is obtained by the owner (if ftraved) fhall receive ten dollars—and fffrv dollars if fto len fo that the thief be brought to pun? foment. DENISON DARIffNG, Agent for the General poll-office. Athens, Julv a 9, 1808. BLANK DEEDS For fale at this office. GEORGIA EXPRESS. MAhY SHALL Run to and fro, and knowledge shall EE increased. WASHINGTON CITY, Ocl. The following is another mod important and powerful atteftation to the wifdom of the Embargo, and forcibly manifefts the light in which that mealure is viewed by the moft: refpedable and beft informed men at a diftance from the political paf fions which here diforder every thing. Mr. Murdock is a nacive of the ttate of Maryland, where he was educated, and (pent a confider able portion of his life in sheefteem of his fellow citizens. During the war he ferved with high reputation in our armv $ ard has fiure eftab lifoed hitnfelf in mercarui’e l.fe in London, where he racks among >be 111 off opulent and refpedable rrt r chants. We add, that his poi.rics, wdien he refided in the U. States, were federal.— Nat. Intel. Ex trad cf a letter from William Murdock , Efq merchant , London. Lon dm, July 24. iBcB. “ With regard to your Embargo, I think it a wiie meafure, and if it fliould ire ceHevtred in, it will be 1 J the means of prtf rvlng peace and fav?rg America from ruin ; whereas, if it Ih >uld be taken off before the otd rs in council and French de crees are annulled, America will fuffer, and in the end he ruined, and wiil furnifo an example cv r after for any foreign nation to lay any reftridion they pleafe on your commerce. If it is righr and law ful for this country to compel by her orders in council, all your pro duce to come here to perifo for want of a market, and moreover to tax one of your principal article s 91. per pound before it can be re exported —-I mean cotton —if this is to be fobmitted to, it would be far better for you to become colon fts again. I afk any one on your fide who is oppufed to the Embargo, to point out to m- 3 the and fforence between a foreign ration compeil ir g 11 your produce to come to cur maiker, foert: to tax it before it can be re-expoited, or to go over to America and celled the tax before it can be exported ? There is a and ffVrence in the mode, but none in the principle. If one article is lia ble to be taxed, every other, by the fame rule, is equally fo. “ It cannot be denied, that eve-y country has a right to rtgula e her own commerce, and lay whanduues foe choofes : but Die has no right to order the produce of another country into her own pors, and then to tax it before it can go to a foreign market. The Fren h de crees arc equally pernicious and ob jedSonable in principle as the or ders in council, and both ought to be refitted with great firinntfs.’ s October 14. We have the gratification oflay irg before our readers another in ttrcffi g letter from a merchant in Londom of the ffrft character and fortune, and principally engaged in the American trade. The original is in our poffo ffion, and will be foewn to ary perfon of reJpedabiii ty, The name is withheld from the public by the gentleman to whom it was addreffod, from motives of deli cacy, but will, with the letter, be cheer folly foewn bv application to the Editor.— Nat. Intel. I-ON DON, £f I am favored with yours of the 18th of April. All your drafts h ive had due refped. James and York rivers tobacco, fit for theufe of this country, are up to 10 & 12J. and will be higher if your embargo continues murh longer. Maryland* and common Vfomnias are without u price or demand, not befog fit for this country, and all the continental ports are fout againff this country by the French. When all the Vir ginias are worked up, then the man ufadurers mutt from neceffity fub ttitute Maryland’s, and if the em bargo foould continue fix or eight months longer, I hope by that time to run off a cargo of Maryland’s, I have had by me at 10 or iad. or more; but ail will depend on the continuance of your embargo. If it foould be taken off and the orders in council, and French decrees foould remain in force, your tobac co and other produce muff come here, or be captured, and in th's cafe tobacco and moll other arti cles of your export would literally foil for nothing, not even the hripft. In Ibort it would perifo on hand for want of a demand, for you are to be informed that net more than one fixth part cf your productions are confumed in En gland, Scotland and Ireland ; and if there was no opening to export the other five fixths, it would be good for nothing, and even the one fixth that could be confumed would fell for almoft nothing under the glut that would be forced in the marker. If indeed the orders in council aid French decrees were cancelled with the embargo that would form anew cafe, and things would then be as they foould be. From what I have learned during the whole courfe of Mr. jrfferfon’s adminiftration, he has not done an a<st fo wife and fo laudable as the embargo ; and I un derftand it is the leaft popular of any he has done. I hear it has been fhamefully evaded. A nominal embargo is a weak thing, and is urjuft, becaufe one part of the com munity benefits to the prejudice of the other. In fhort, if the embar go fhould be removed, and the orders in council and French de crees foould remain in force, every man in America that attempts to trade to Europe will be ruined.” P. S. “ Aug. 3. Nothing new in politics or commerce. Not the leaft demand for tobacco, becaufe all the continental ports remain fout againff this country, and are likely to continue fo. If your embargo foould be taken off, and the orders in council and French decrees re main in force, your country will be ruined and difgraced forever.” FROM THE DEMOCRAT PRESS. SIX MILLIONS OF AMERI CAN BLANKETS. A fair and careful < xperiment of the manufacture of the cotton blan kets for the life of the hofpi.Ys has been recently made under a cont-ccb with the Purveyor’s office. The daft of biankets attempted by the office is that denominated st three point twilled.” They were ordered to be made of the weight of 56 ounces each, or three pounds and a half. They have a broad blue ftripe at each end, with three blue points, ard meafure 6 feet in length (or 40 yards for a piece of 20 blan kets) and four feet and a half in breadth. The contrail price is two dollars and a quarter for each blanket, of the above dimenfior.S and weight, which will be found greater than the medium quality of the Britifh three point twilled wool len blanket. The cotton yarn is fpun at the Fadory of Mr. Jofeph Garlick, and ihe weaving is executed at the Fac tory of Mr.—— M‘Ginnis. It is afeertained that the foortdl upland cotton will make the beft blanker, as the fibres are more eafily railed, without breaking, into a regular and thick coal of pile by the cards, which are applied for that purpofe, as the laft operaron in the rnar.u fadure. The blankets prove to be handforoe, firm and excellent goods, meriting frank acceptance by the cilice and decided appro bation. Seven millions and one half cf per lons in the United States, at fix on a medium in each houfe, give nc the allowance of only five blankets to a family, the immenle number of 6,250,000 blankets in preffnt life in this country. The odd num ber (50,000) will forve ail the pur pofos of perfons, who fleep without the cover of houfes, from the na ture of their employments and pur fuits. The remainder will require 2r.700,000 lbs. of thvc cotton, of which Britifh orders of council and French imitation obftrud the files. Ic is refpedfully fubmitted whnher the duty on woollen blankets foould not be raifed cn the fourth of July, to-- per centum, if foreign go vernments do not appear before th ? riling of Corgrgfs, to return to the: rule of the law of nations—the la# of morals. It is with pleafure we announce to the inhabitants of the upper pact of this Diffrid, that the object :hey hive had fo much at heart, (Y a-- pening of ICeowee River) : in a great meafure accomplillv A boat belonging to Mr. Bowman has already paffod through (he rtc.v works which have been ‘H: f at Portman’s fooal, 3nd arrive.] ay the mouth of Twelve Mile Rive* ; ard is now ready to receive fo/r, /ET.; cf cotton on freight, fo: a :| There is luflieient wa’ ■ psis boats carrying n,coov. f Pendleton (S. gaper. A Prcjedor in Paris has of r: 5 to conflrud a Prefs capable c printing 1200 copies of a work n:i exceeding 24 foeets, in 24 hours He l kewife announces a prefs c* pable of Printing yvcco Infers h 12 hours, and anew method of com po.fufon, much more expedufou than that now in ufe. —Pur ra. (No. 25.