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VOLUME II
NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER Jl, 1819.
NUMBER 90:
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AGRICULTURAL.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
On the Grape Vine y with its wines, br an-
dies, salt, and dried jriats.
No. IV. - '
The state of this culture in the Spa
nish North American province of Co
hauila, is worthy of the most particular
attention of the people of the Southern
and Western states and territories. " That
.'Spanish province extends from 26 ' de-p.-ees-NortW
latitude to 32. The culture
of the vine there was and is prohibited
by the orders of the Spanish crown, to
prevent the interference of their colonial
agriculture with the wines,- brandies, and
hied grapes, which, are produced in
every province of European Spain. This
royal law was not made and continued
without a conviction in the successive
councils 6f Spain that the culture of the
vine was practicable in Spanish North
America. But the capacity andiprbduc
ttr.i of theextensive district of Cohauila,
is fully proved by the printed report of
Don Miguel j Ramos de Arispe, Curate
(or Rector) of the Spanish church of
Borhpn, and Deputy from the American
province of Cohauila to the Cortes, which
report was printed at Cadiz, in A. D.
1312. I'. ; ' .; . !
Cohauila is bounded on the North by
Texas and New.. Mexico; oni-the East
and South by St. .LouliPqtosi, Racate
cos, New Leon, and New St. Ander ;
and West by New Biscay. Its northern
part is west oti the states of Alabama,
Jlississippij and Louisiana, from their,
coasts on the Gulf rf .Mexico ..to the lati
tudes of. Natchez, Washington. (Miss.)
and a fewminutes north. Cohauila is
also west of the whole coast of Georgia,
and East Florida; the south cape of the
Savannah river-being about 32 degrees
north. The precise situation of this well
established Spanish North American vine
district, is of great consequence, as a po
sitive proof that no parr of the United
States is too far south, or too hot for the
"vine. It is probable that the exotic
grapewi Spanish America have been
brought from European Spain, and that
their wines are? like those of the mother
country. This fact gives us a reasonable
hope of making such jwines as those of
Xeres and St. Lucar? which are all often
called Sherry. It is distinctly and'offi
daily stated by the deputy, from Co
hauila to the Cortas of A. D. 1812, (Don
W. Ramos de Arispe,) that this North
American province produces considera
ble quantities of good wine, a number of
districts & vineyards giving wines as deli
cious as those of Castile, in Spain. He
fields, that their raising of wine is one of
the most productive branches of their agri
i
culture, and so great, that they supply
a 1 1 - t . WA
uie neigijoonng colonies, ana even sena
some of their finest to Mexico where
they must . sustain' -a competition with
those of the Metropolitan European coun
iry. '.:
It is remarkable that the Spanisji and
Portuguese nations have established more
considerable,1 more, excellent, and mare
profitable vineyards, in their .colonies and
islands, than .all other European nations,
and Cohauila appears to equal any colo
ny of Spain."
On the whole, the profitable growth of
the vine and the manufacture of wine, in
the Northa-n section . of- the American
continet, from the Southern partf Co
hauila, in 26 degree's north to the vicinity
( Columbia, (in South.Carolina,) in 33.
Srees, and to the irst rising country in
Carolina, in 34 to 36 30 iminutes,
and to Glasgow, in Kentucky, in ,37 de
grees, N. and to Vevay and Harmony, in
Indiana, in'SS degrees 30 minutes ' to 38
degrees 45 minutes, gfve us the most in
dubitablej assurances of a yine district, or
a vine region, in the United States,1 from
ur coast on the Gulf of Mexico, north
ward to the end of the 39th degree.
This is a matter of th5 greatest direct in
terest to that extensive country of the
For sale by Mr. Mellish, at Phila
''elphia. The rivers of Cohauila ae the
Hio Biavo del Norte, or Grande, or JMe-naj-Sania
Rosas, Parras,Meillos, Nuda-
es. and St, Joraiutio
vine oC the IJuited States, and must j
iao mi; iiiusi sure ana lavoranie enects
in the settlements of its lighter lands
with a free white population, as in Spain,.
Portugal, Italy, the south of France, of
Germany, and of Switzerland. It will
also benefit the cultivators of Cotton, su
gar, tobacco, and rice, by. preventing the
overdoing of their production, . as they
may" be respectively in danger of being
too plentiful in themarkets of the Uni
ted States, and of , foreign countries.
but the vine cultivation will also be im
portant in employing the population and
laborers south of the 40th degree (with
cotton, ricf and , sugar,) so as to leave
the more of the culture of grain, and the
breeding of working and imeat cattle, and
. the catching of, sea fish!, to the states
north of the 39th dearee!
A measure of manifest imp6rtance to
the tbflrqugh investigation of our capaci
ty and actual inceptions in the vine' and
wine business, is now proposed to be sug
gested to all persons of experience in the
culture of the grape vine, and the manu
facture of wine, in those parts of the ,U
nited States where the vine cultivation
has been. attempted, on a great or small
st'ale. " The respectable gentleman who
superintends, the -vineyardsat our Anie
rican A'evay, has happily led the wa'.
hi the second nuii.ber of this series liis
interesting statement is given. . It will
serve as a guide to those wlio may follow
him1, which they may use to advantage,
adding whatever has occured within thejr
own experience, or in their observations
upon their neighbors and their books.
It appears that a difference of two weeks;
between the crop time or vintage of Ve
vay, and Glasglow in Kentucky, is stat
ed. The latter place is supposed to be
a little more than one hundred miles due
south of Vevay. The difference of two
weeks in the time of gathering is there
fore worth)' of attentive consideration.
It is observed that the country in which
our, Glasgow is -situated is called barren
country-v If the name has been given
from the inferiority of the soil, compared
with the better counties, then the success
ufj the vine in soil lighter (if it so be)
than that of Vevay, and with a degree
and a half more of southing, and per
haps in a dryer, or even an arid country,
would be matters' of curiosity and of in
terest. The history of " the. great tun
of Glasgow" Mr. Ivlerchod's large cask,
and of his vineyard, from the beginning,
with its present state and prospects, would
jg useful and entertaining to the public.
An account of the scupper now?, &; other
grapes of North and South Carolina, es- ,
pecially in the vicinity of Raliegh , and i
Columbia, would be also of much inter- :
est; and the more so, because it is con-
siclered by persons of experience and ob-1
servatibn that there is a strong similarity i
of temperature, and a sufficiency in soil,!
betweeii "the French Claret, Sauterne,
Grave, and Hermitage wine country, and
our country in the two Carolinas, Ten
nessee, Georgia, Albama, & Mississippi,
and Westward in the whole 34 and. 35th
degrees of N. latitude.
We shall conclude this paper by a few
remarks intended to remote those doubts
and those objections -which- prudence, or
the interest of judicious foreigners, of
countries which now have- the profits. of
supplying us with wines brandies, and
dried fruits, very naturally offer. It is
no longer a speculation in the possible or,
probable fitness of ourcIimate,, soil, and.
country, for the 'various, kinds of grapes
and wines. We find in Cohauila from
26 to 22 in our'hemisphcre, n our con
tinent, in the northern section of it, in a
new a no! much wooded country, between
the Atlantic and the Pacific, that the vine
succeeds, in quantity and quality, though
prohibited by the government. , .
We firfd, also, 'that, in a. place so far
north as - Vevay,. five hundred gallons
have been produced by. the acre of land,
and tliat the vine is equally prosperous
at Hprmonv, in Indiana ; and more so at
Glasgow, in Kentucky. The fitness of
the intermediate country, in the propel
situations, which offer to us in every
county, cannot be doubted.' It is res
pectfully recommended, that the assist
ants of the marshals in the United States
be directed to enquire into and report,
every case of a regular vineyard, great
or small, at which wine 1ias been regu
Inrlv manufactured, of what age and kind
' .
. . ... i r ... 1 . n
ot grape,
in what quantity, ana oi whoi
nnalitv nd color.
A Friend to the National Industry.
Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1819- ;
HANDBILLS,
BLANKS, and
CARDS. CIUL'Ul-AKV-.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
i TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Honorable the General Assembly
of the State of North- Carolina.
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GENTLEMEN,
The receipts at the Treasury of North
Carolina, for the year commencing with
the first day of November 1818, and
ending with the - 31st of October 1819,
embracing sundry payments of arreara
ges and; the public t axes of ?very descrip
tion, which became due and payable at
theTrersury within that period ; togeth
er with ' the Dividends declared by 'our
three several Banks on the stock or
shares held in them respectively by this
State, and the purchase money or. pro
ceeds of the vacant and unappropriated
lands, lately entered and paid for j a
mount to one hundred and forty seven
thousand and thirty four dollars and sixty
cents (147,034 60.)-
To this sum, the balance remaining in
the Treasury on the first day of Novem
ber 1818, and thereafter to be accounted
for, as reported by the Comptroller to
the last General Assembly, being atided,
to wit : ! One hundred and twentv-five
! thousand, two hundred and thirty-four
dollars and fifty-eight cents and one quar-
.( ter ; makes an aggregate or sum total, of
two hundred and seventv-two thousand,
two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and
eighteen: cents and one fourth of a cent,
.(272,269, 18 1-4.)
Ji'rom this aggregate sum.disbursements
have been made within the ppricd first
above mentioned, to amount of one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand, nine Hun
dred anr ninety-one dollars and five cents
and a quarter, ($125,991 5 1-4.) The
vouchers for which are in the hands of the
Comptroller, and are of course ready for
the inspection and examination of the
committee of finance.
This expenditure, taken from the sum
total abovj? mentioned, will be found to
leave a balance of one hundred and for
ty six' thousand, .two 'hundred andsevent7
eight dollars & thirteen cents, (146278
13,) remaining in the Treasury of this
State, online first day of November inst.
say on the first day of November 1819,
yet to be accounted for.
Forralspecification of the several items,
forming or composing the receipt above
mentioned, the Treasurer Would ask leave
to refer to the printed statement prepar
ed by the comptroller for the use of the
Members of the General Assembly.
:, It wil be perceived from the above,
' that the 'disbursements at the Treasury
in 1 8 1 9r have been greater than the fund
or balance remaining on nana ana re
ported as aforesaid, in the year 1818, by
the sum of seven hundred and fifty six
dollars arid forty! seven cents, and that
sum or amount was therefore, arid of ne-.
cessity, jiaid out' of the taxes of the pre
sent year: And when to this circum
stance is: added the probability that se
veral of the Navigation Companies, on
wnose books the State has ordered sub
scriptions to be made, and who have not
been as yet in a situation to claim, will
possibly iapply forJnstalments in course
of the year 1 820 : ' And when it is borne
in mind likewise, that there sue "salaries
and other known and contingent expen
ses, which operated and had a bearing
on the Treasury, for, and during apart
only of he last, year ; but which must be
fully provided for and paid throughout
the whole of the current year : the' Legis
lature alone can best determine, whether
it may not be expedient to authorize the
Public Treasurer for the time being to
borrow of one of the Banks, the sum
which shall be found necessary to cover
any deficiency of funds which may pos
sibly happen to occur, before the coming
in of the public taxes of the next year.
The nett amount of the Dividends de
clared by the State Bank-on the shares
held in it by North Carolina as above
mentioned, (after deducting the interest
retained !by that corporation as doe to it
under the act of Assembly of 1811, on
account of the unpaid for shares oi the
State up to December last,) ; was twenty,
thousand, one hundred and sixteen dol
lars and thirty six cents ; ($ 20,116 36)
which sum was paid over to the Public
Treasurer by the Bank, in money of the
emissions of 1783 and 1785, and was
thereupon burnt and destroyed, as the
law directs- f
Before closing this part of ray Report
I may be permitted to say, that I should
feelWanting towards all concerned were
I not'tdd, that notwithstanding the
pressure of the times and that scarcity of
money which are-so generally corr.plcin
ed of, the public taxes have beeq paid
with a promptness and puncuunty highly
honorable to the accounti.v Officers) and
no Iq$ creditable tq. th Ulzu9 of tlie
State generally. In no on- year hve provement to enquire into the ' expedien
greater faithfulness on the pat of the cy of changing the existing mode of keep
accounting; Officers, nor more readiness ing in repair public roads, &c. Passed
on the part of the People, been manifest- and! sent to the-other iiouse.
ed ; and the conseqaence has been that . Two bills from the House of Commotis
there is not a Sheriff in the state who has one to appoint commissioners to run the
not proved himself trust ' wbrthy and de- dividing line between the counties of Du
serving as the Collector of public mo- t plin and Onslow, and the' other to in-
nies: All nave attended in person or
have sent to the Treasury, and all have
settled in full, except in one or two in
stances, where, inconsiderable balances
remain due. ,
Pursuant to the directions of the last
General Assembly, and growing out of
the subscriptions. then made by some of
the Members, on behalf of the state, and
by the Public Treasurer, nineteen addi
tional shares have been had and obtained
for this state, in the stock 'of - the State
I3ank of North-Carolina; 'all of which
liave been fully paid for.
In the discharge of my official duty in
that regard, I have taken care that the
state should be duly and ably represented
in all the General Meetings of the Stock
holders of the several Navigation Com
panies, inuhich North-Carolina holds
shares : Tiie works of these Compa
nies have progressed, and as I am inform
ed, promise as favorable results', in most
instance1!, as might be expected, the
want of experience in business' of that
sort, and ithe novelty of such undertak
ings among Ss, considered. lr would
most willingly here dismiss this subject,
were it riot that the duty I owe the state
would seem to point out & to urge on me
the necessity of adding, that it is a fact
known to many and one much to be la
mented, that the failure on the part of a
number of Stockholders, :in most of the
Navigation Companies, regularly to pay
Up their instalments whilst it would
seem to be without excuse, is an evil of
the most serious sort; land one which
cannot fail to . retard and jeopardize
these undertakings, so vitally interesting
and important in their nature and conse
quences, and to which the public look
forward with such anxiety and high ex
pectation : It is obvious that the pros
pects of the state cannot fail to be cloud
ed, and its respectability and interest se"
riously and injuriously affected, should
such failures continue to occur and be tole
rated : but whether there, be an effectual
remedy for this great and growing evil.
and-of what kind or. nature it is mustTororo'ttee rose and obtained leave to sit
rest with this (jeneral Assembly to deter? !
mine: Having been long and well ac-J
quainted with many Members of each of
the several Directories, the high sense I
entertain of their personal worth and in
tegrity, as well as the entire and unbound
ed confidence I have in them ; utterly
forbids the admission that any blame
whatever, in this. regard, is imputable to
them or to any of them; and therefore,I
am bound to conclude, were I to risque
an opinion, that the remedy in this alarm
ing and highly interesting case (as the
evil unquestionably existsand would
saeem to be crowin? must be sought
through
ther Legislating on the subject.
In continuation of this report, it' re
mains that I ask leave to lay before and
submitjto this Ceneral Assembly, a cou
ple ofnotes ; the one written by me on
ihe first day of October last, in my offi
cial capacity, and addressed to the Presi
dent of the Branch of the United States'
Bank, at Fayetteville; and the other
written by the Predent of that Baiik,
and being in reply or.answer to ininei
I have the lionor to be. Gentlemen,
much and respectfully, your obedient ser
vant, ' - , L ;
. JOHN HAYWOOD, Tub. Treas.
Raleigh, Nov. 23, 18J9. -
The sum of eleven hundred and twenty-five
doHars, being the amount of a di
vidend of 7 l-i per cent, declared by
the " CapeFear Navigation Company
about the beginning of the last summer,
on the stock held in that Company by
North-Carolina, although it l is includ
ed in the Receipt first above mentioned,
was unintentionally and by accident omit
ted to be noticed in the enumeration, of
the sources of Revenue froniwhich that
Receipt ft formed or made up : And al
though this omission occasions no error;
nor does it affect or vary the calculations
or sumsabove mentioned, yet it is thought
proper here to notice it, in justice to the
Comnanv by which that dividend was
declared.
J. II.
IN SENATE.
; r Thursday, Nov. 25.
On motion of Mr. Dc?ihe committee
of finance was instructed to enquire into
the expediency of repealing or modifying
the 4th section of the act of last session
laying a tax on Sales at auction. .
Friday Nov. 26.
?i!r. Shcber, introducedji lesolution in-
Itructine the comraittee oh internal ira-
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crease the fees of the Surveyor of Curri
tuck county, were read the first time and
returned. , '
Saturday y Nov. 27.
Mr. Gaston, from the committee on the
judiciary, reported a bill to authorize the
Courts of TJeas and Quarter Sessions to
appoint special justices. Bead the first
time and sent to the Commons.
Mr. Wade, of Randolph, introduced a
resolution instructing the committe on the
judiciary to enquire whether any altera
tions are necessary to be made respecting
the Supreme Court ; and whether more
than adequate salaries are allowed to the
judges. Read and sent to the House, of
Commons.
Mr. Gatsion, from the judicial commit
tee, reported a bill to compel, moreeffec
tually,ytlie officers therein uamed to pass
over monies received by them in Virtue
or colour of their office. Reatf andj sent
to the House of Commons. j
Mr. Davidson, presented a bill tp. re
peal the act of 1817, concerning promis
sory notes and other negotiable papers.
Monday, Nov. 29, "
Mr. Wade's resolutionsrelativl. th
! Slate Bank, were taken up, and -after a
slight modification agreed to withbut dis
sent. ; '
' r-- Tuesday, Nov. 30.
Mr. Williams, from the financial com
mittee made an uiffavorable report on the
bill to lepeal the system of land lax, and'
bringing it back to the old ; metiiod. A
greed, to 34 to 28. . f
The bill for the appointmenof special
justices, was postponed indefinitely.
Ti V V Thursday, pec. 2.
I he Senate were engaged nearly, the
whole of this day, iri committe of the
whole, Mr. Atkinson, of PersoV, in the
Chair, on Mr. Cameron's Resolutions for
calling a Convention Mr CamWdn oc
cupied the. floor about an hour and' a half
in their favor. He was followed! by Mr.
Connor, of Iredell also in favour--Mr.
t razer ol Hertford, and Mr.
Gaston of
Craven, replied.
About two o'clock the
again.
HOUSE OP COMMONS.
Friday, Nov; 26.
On motion of Mr. Ramsay, it was pro
pdsed that the Governor be requested, on
the arrival 'and reception at this place,
of thp Statue of Gen. George Washington.
to present to the University of this State '
uiciuuimi ui me oenerai now in pos- :
session of the GeheraF Assembly. Refer
red to the Committee in relation to the
Statue. .' - . . ;
xMr. Williamson, presented a bill to a
mend the Patrol laws. r
Received from the Senate, a bill to re-
peal part of an act passed at last session,
to .increase Cpnstables fees in certain
counties therein mentioned ; and
A bUl sent from this Housedeclaring
the manner in which the vote of theStaie
shall hereafter be given in the election of -Directors
of the State Bank ; which ; was l
referred to the Committee on the Banks. -&c.
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Monday, Nov. 29.
Received from the Senate, a Resolution :
instructing the Judiciary Committee to 4
enquire whether any, and if any, what al
terations are necessary to be madees- -
pecting the , Supreme Court, and wheth
er the compensation allowed to the Judg
es be more than adequate for their sei vi- -
ces ; and that the committee report by
bill .or otherwise.
Mr. Ircffc; presented a bill to prevent
frauds, in the revocation of last Wills and
Testaments.
Tuesday, Nov. 30.
iseceived also from the Senate a Re
- of the-Committee of Fipance,;to
whom was referred the bill to repeal an
act passed in 1 81 8, fixing the sum here
after to be paid to trie State for ' vacant
lands, reccommending the rejection of the
bill Concurred with.
Mr. Hilmdn, from the Committee to
whom was refejed, the bill to amend the
Patml Laws, made a Report, recom
mending that the bill be amended byr stri
king out the whole after. the words, Be
it enacted, and inserting ia'lieo. thereof an
amendment which he produced, which
was agreed to, and the bill passed its first
reading." . ..
The following bills were presented :
By Mr. L. Martin, a bill to prevent
fraudulent trading with Negroes : J "
Mr. Grphnm, a bill to alier the" mode y
of electiha Sheriffs, ( b v the people, instead
of the county courts :j and '
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