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About Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1809)
VoL. I.) ATHENS, GEORGIA ; PRINTED BY ALEXANDER *M CONNELL, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1809. TERMS OF THE GEORGIA EXPRESS, . x. IT will be printed weekly, at three dollars per annum 3 one half to be paid in advance, rhe remainder at the expiration of fix months. 2. Advertisements will be charg ed at the rate of fixty-two and a half cents per fquare for the firft tnfertion, and Filey cents for each continuation. 3. No papers will be difconnnu ed without a to that effedt 1 nor then if in arrears. All letters dire&ed to the Editor muft be poft paid. The following Gentlemen are author rized to receive Subfcr ip ticks for this Paper :— Clarksboro'— Poft -Mailer. -, ;* Jejferfnn — M.aj. Edwin L. Harris. /Yatkinfville —E. B. Jenkins, efq. and Mr. Edward B >nd. Lexington —Poft Matter, & Capt. Wackins. N Oglethorpe—Nix. Samuel Shields, and William Lumpkins, Efq. Walnut Grove- r-Mr, Lee Atkins. Goofe-pond —Mr. H. T. Woody. Madifon —Jsmes G. Sims, Efq. Greenesboro ’ —Capt. T. D^wfon. Sparta —Da 6l, or W. Terrell. Warrenton — Poft- Matter. Powelion— Poft-Matter. MUledgeville —Thomas Mounger ad James Bozeman, Efqrs. hatonton —Chriftopher B. Strong, Efq. Elberton — -Pol. Wm. Chiflom. Petersburg —Alex. Pope, Efq. & Do&. Watkins.. Vienna —S. B.\ Shields, Efq. t Wilkes —David Terrell, Efq. Sc Do&or Bibb. Lincoln —Captain N. Allen, and Capt. John Hughes. Louifville —Me If. Day & V/hee ler. Augufta —J. S. Walker, Efq. & Do£>< r Smelt. . Waynesboro * —Col,. John Davies. Sandcrfville —Mr.’ Win. MflVlur fay. Savannah —Mr* H. H. Moun ger, and Mr. A. W. Scribner. . 11 ■. 1 inn 1 From the National Intelligencer. Solid National Profperity . Notwithftanding all that has been faid agaioft the embargo, it may be quellioned, Whether within any year fince her independence Ame rica has made a greater progrefs in foltd wealth than during the laft.— To thofe who only view the ftfrface of things this remark may be con fidered as vifionary ; but it will on ly require a difpaflionate attention to faists of the greateft notoriety and confiderations of indifputable accuracy, to induce us, at the leaft, to withhold an arrogant rejedrion of it. In the Eaftern feftlon of the.U nion there has been an aftonifliing prog r efs made in manufactures, in the middle ftCtion internal improve ments have advanced with unpre cedented ftep% whiie in the fouth -1 erh and wellern dates, although fevercly prefled, much labor GEORGIA EXPRESS.’ MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED* * “ ‘J has been advantageoufiy employed in the improvement of their farms. That this has been the cafe the in .creafed price of lands, and. the un diminifhed price, of labor, are almoft conclufive proofs.* Thefe.are the great barometers of national, prof perity j and while they keep up, it may be confidently affirmed that the country is free from general diftrefs. The Cotton manufadlo ries of Rhode Ifland have afiumed a magnitude that promifes to. rival thole of Britain, and fimilar aflTici ations in Maflachufetts have become fo numerous as ro require a general a<st of her leg’flature regulating the mode of condu&ing their operati ons.,. In Connecticut the patriotifm and perfeverance of Col. Humph ries, both in the introduction and railing of the be ft fheep, and the manufacture of the fineft cloths, have overcome almoft every diffi culty. , In New-York, Chancellor Livingfton Judging a vigorous com petition. In New-Jerley the rail ing of fbeep has commanded g r eat a.id fuccefsful attention, •in which no one has been more inftrumental than Mr. Miles Smith, } an enlight ened and wealthy, emigrant from England, whofe virtues and prin ciples every way qualify him for the citizen of a republic. ; Pafling on to Pennfylvania, the favorite feat ©f arts, enterprife and induftry, Ph'ladelphia and its neighborhood difpjay the charaCltriftics of a ft u --rilhing mantifaClurirg fettlement, and Pit;fburg, at a diftance of three hundred miles, with the powerful agency of fteam in acotten manu factory has begun to draw q>on the inexhauftible riches of, perhaps, the noblcft coal mines on this refource (hall be brought into full activity, what may we not ex-. peCt from a place, in the.midft of a fertile country! at the head of a na vigation that leads to the ocean bv a circuit of two thbufand miles, and through a country, part of which is* already well fettled, and all cfwh'cK will, in a fhort period time, fuftain a crowded population. In Phila delphia and its vicinity property has never rifen with fuch rapidity { and never has Philadelphia receiv ed fo much improvement as during the laft year. If any one wifhes to form a tolerable idea of the manu factures in and about this place, he has only occafion to pafs through Germantown, a Aourifhing village, commencing about five miles from the city, and continuing almoft without interruption five miles fur ther, a town almoft exclufively fup ported by manufactures. The ftate of Delaware, on the fine waters of the Brandywine, follows boldly in the footfteps sf her more opu lent After. Progre fling to the ftate of Maryland, we find a capital of a million formed, and an immenfe eftablifhmcnt nfing in the neigh borhood of Baltimore,’ with every promiie of fucceis. Let us not paf3 our own cicy, without noticing, with becoming modefty, an infant inftitution, the germ, perhaps, of future greatnefs, with a capital of 200,000 dollars fubferibed for a bridge, nearly fimlhtd,. exceeded in workmanftiip or fize, by few in the United States. We might pro ceed, and (hew that even in the Southern and Weftern dates, hi:htr~ to fo exclufively devoted to agri culture, tf)e fpirit.of manufactures has given birth 10 many a promifirg experiment*. But we have faid e nough to (hew that our citizens, however they may value trade, have too much gtmus and energy,- when drivtn by neceffi.y, not to find o ther fields of occupation., * Our furpnfe will be ditbinifhed at the general rprofperity. of the country, notwithftanding the aimed toral fuipenfion of con\mercc, when we compare,the tnflgnificant amount of that commerce, in its melt flou rifhing ftate,.. with- the amount of the total confumption of the coun+ try. H The fore : gn goods confumet} in this country have never, perhaps, exceeded forty millions of dollars in valufc ; while the total confump tion of the country does not fall fhort of eight hundred millions.- How admirably fitted is this faCt to humble the. vaunting arrogance of thofe who aferibe every thing to external, ..commerce ? It .proves that a (mall amelioration or advance in the great occupations of agricul ture and manufactures outweighs in utility ; the boldeft ftridc-s of com merce i and, perhaps, of itfelf fuf ficiencly accounts for the general profperity. .1. -* , i. ( . r Let,, it, moreover, be regarded, internal improvements of the laft year are but the feed Town, and that by far the greater portion of the harveft is ftili to be reaped j and, confequently, that the enfuing years are Ikejy to be more fertile in ; the general profperity than the lift* From the lame* The following juft tribute from the Anti Monarchijl to the virtues of Pr eft dent Adams fuper cedes all net ceffity of\eommfnt.on the letter given in our Jajt. Wt have always cn- Jidered Mr Adams as an up right man. \ His letter puts a ft amp upon bis integrity, „ . . The above letter of the venera ble revojutionary patriot John ad- AMs, ought, to be prefer vc<s as a latting evidence of hh unttiaken patriotifm. Superior to the calum nies of the day, he looks with a pe netrating eye of a ftatefman into futurity. Perceiving the dangers which may befal his country from a faftion, from foreign attachments, and, from wars, he.warns his coun trymen a gainft the exec ties into which they, may be plunged by de fining men. * . The points eftabliftied by this letter are important, and deferving the ferious at rent ion of all friends to American independence. It ap pears/ 1 ft. That, like hfs great prede ceffor, Walfiington, he is oppofed to a divifion of the ftates. 2d.’ That he is oppofed to a decla ration of war again ft France as re commended by Mr. Gore to the leg (lature of this ftate/ ac the fete ftifoju f 4 3d. That he is oppofed to the doing of the L g flature of this com monwealth, at the late ftfikm, inas much as Mr. Gore’s war report has been - accepted and approved of b] that bodyw ; • 4 v r > 4 f h. Thatvin arcordlnce with the views of the prefent tion, he is*, for maintaining and ; <f rights and independehce of thi country, at all events,” and wifhes to avoid war with both England and France as long as pofllble, - without facrificing the tffcmial inierefts of the nation. *n , jt, <tG’ f Let not the people; of MafTachu feus be hurried into exctiLs by the intemperate proceedings of the ftate 1 1 giflature,irwho’ have the laws of the Union not bindingrr r commended a War wuh France, and endeavoured to prove that there is a differance rf inteVefls between the people of, New England, and the people of .the Southern (lares.—* Let Maflachufetts rather liften to the counfels - of the firft re volutionary ftatefman and patriot. r Let her regard the warning voice of a mai grown grey in the fer vice of hfe country, of one, ; who, aloof from party politicly, can view the pafling feenes The Ro mans have great refpeft forthecoun-* cil .ofthe, aged.. Let us ipitate the example, and harken, to the advice of this venerable man, whofe virtue is truly Roman. - • .* . It is . to be regretted that he had ever placed confiience in Pick-* ering 8c Hamilton, as he thereby fubjeCted himfelf to the unmerited abufe of fome republicans who had always rcfpeCted his revolutionary fervices. Surrounded by a Bncifti faClion, it -was. d>(£culc for him ta extricate himfelf from their foils.—• Yet at tl(e clofe of hi? admin ; ftration, by difmifling Pkker.ng, and others of the fame (lamp, from his coun cil, he made a noble facrifice on the altar of patriotifm. Since that time he has v been (1 ghted and ca lumniated by the leading frderil fis, or rather by the EILx J unto, who bow control the federal party. The republicans, on the contrary,, had him as the firm revolutionary whig, the enlightened ftatelman and ho ned man. NAVYOFTHE~U. STATES. • • i ; *•/ 4 , r . The following, (fays the National In tplligenctr) we underfiand is the prefent arrangement oj , the Navy of the United States as to the com manding officers: The Conftitution Com. .Rodgers, ffefident Capt. BainbrdgeJ U. States Capt. Decatur, Chpfapeake Capt. Hull, E(R*x Cap. Smith, Wafp 4 Capt. Robinfon/ John Adam Capt. Evans, Hornet Capt. Dent, Siren Capt;. Gordon, ArgUs Lt. Jones, Vixen Lt. Dent, Enterprise, Lt. Trippe. . The Conftitution , now at New- York, will, we underftand, be com pletely prepared for fer vice in a few day*. The United States , the £ffin and the John Adams are in-the (No. 48.
