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VOLUME II. NEW-BERN, N. Ci SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1820. NUMBER 98. 1 , rtTVA CENT1NEL IS PUBLISHED Carolina cpmi I- TH TERMS. T i pi carpTTn j Be it enacted by the Senate and House JOHN 1. rAa v of Representatives of the United States of At Three Dollars per annum, one in Congresi assembled, That the third payable in advance. register of the land office and receiver of v. Vnpr vill be discontinued until all ,v tT No paper win y Ul - public moneys of the United States in. the arrearages are paid up, except at me P" , state of Mississippi west of Pearl River, tion of the publisher. : - i be an(J they'are hereby, authorized and Advertisements inserted at 50 cents .directed twelvraonth 4fter the r square me urSl w, u , square for each succeeding insertion. (BY AUTHORITY.) AN ACT making a partial appropriation ! for the military service of the Urn!; c en, fUf vpar one thousand ehrht hundred and twenty. I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, . the following sums De, aiiu? are uereuy, appropriated to the objects herein speci- iied, to wit: - v For the subsistence of the army of the United States two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For the national armories, fifty-six thousand dollars. For arrearages, on the settlement of outstand claims, fifty thousand dollars. Section 2. And be it further enacted, That, the said sums be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap propriated. - H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives, DANIEL D. TOMPKINS. V ice President of the United States and President of the Senate. .Tanuarv 14, 1820. Approved: JAMES MONROE. .. ' . -. , ; i , : AN ACT in addition to the "act making anDropriations for :the support of the Navy of the United States,. for the year --: one thousand eight hundred and nine teen. Rt if. enacted bv the Senate and House &f Representatives of the United States of Arnnrim in i '.nncrrp.ss asscmoica. 1 11HI uie following sums, in. additior to those ap propriated by the act to which this is a supplement, be, and tne same are nei euy, aonrooriated : i For pay and subsistence of the offkers, and pay of the seamen, two hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred dot Jars. - i For provisions, forty-one thousand four hundred dollars. . 3 Fbr medicines, hospital stores and ex pen ces on account of the sick, including those of the marine corps, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. J For repairs of vessels, one hundred and One thousand two hundied dollars. f For contingent expenses, eleven thou- J sand dollars. , . . . j For the salaries of two agents," and a surveyor, appointed under the authority of the act of Congress of the first March, one thousand eight hundred and seven teen, entitled " An act making reserva tion of certain public lands to supply tim ber for naval purposes," and contingent expenses for carrying the same into effect, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And-be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap . - propriated. H.CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. January 14, 1820. Approved: JAxMES MONROE. AN ACT allowing Sarah Allen theboun tv land and nav which would have ; been due to hei son, Samuel Drew, 1 had he lived, for his services as a pn- , vate in the late war. ' . Be it enacted bu the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress, assembled That the Secretary of War be "authorized to issue, in the name of Sarah Allen a land warrant for the bounty land which Samu el Drew, a soldier in the Army of the United States, deceased, would have been entitled to, had he lived. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That j whatever sum shall be found due to the said Samuel Drew, for his service as a private soldier, on settlement of his ac count, be paid to the said Sarah Allen, out of any money in the Treasury hot otherwise appropriated. ' H. CLAY, 1 Speaker of the House of Representatives. DANIEL D. TOMPKINS, Vice President of the United States and . President of the Senate. January 10, 1820.- Approved : JAMES MONROE. AN ACT for the relief of the legal re-: nrfphtativ rf Philm Rarhnur rlP r- "" --r ceased. ,i PaSsa2e of this act, to report to the Com- missioner of the General Land Office the value of fifteen hundred aeres of land, situated on the" river Mississippi, at the i mouth of liior Hlnrk . rnmmnn v rallpn I the Grand Gulph, patented in me yefr one thousand seven hundred and seventy, u i r r T7i.-j Philip Barbour, deceased; the said regis- ter and receiver having, in making such estimate, a due regard lo the time when the said land, or anv nart of it. was sold by. the government of the United States: whereupon the said Commissioner of the - . . 7 -"J I r- --7 General Land Office shall issue to the le gal representative of the said Philip Bar bour, deceased, a certificate of the amount so reported by the said register and re ceiver ; which certificate shall be receiva ble in paymetit of any debt which may have accrued,' or shall hereafter accrue. to the United! States, on the sale of any W -1 i 1-' i ' r : t J T pi j tne , puouc lanas ; rroviaea, nmcevcr, That, before j the said Commissioner ot the General Land Office shall issue the certificate, the said legal representatives shall file in his office a written release,1 under his hand and seal, with all the so lemnites nececessary to make it valid and operative, whereby he shall release; to the United States all his claim to the said fifteen hundred acres ;of land. , ., H. CLAY, Speaker of th House of Re)resentatiyes. i DAPflEL L. TOMPKINS Vice President of the tjnited States and President of the Senate. ;i Januarys 14, 1S20. Approved : .'J JAMES MOxNKUE. i AN ACT supplementary;to the act, eh- titled An act to regulate and hs the compensation of the Clerks in the different Uirices,7: passed the twentietn of April, one thousand eight hundred and'eighteen. , Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Represmtatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority jgiven in the eighth section of the above r'ecitedact, to the Secretary of the Treasury, toemploy nine additional clerks in the bffice Of the third Auditor, & three additional clerks in the office of the second Comptroller of the Treasury, be, and7 the same i hereby, continued, until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand ight hundred and twenty and. no longer ; and that the sum necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, be, . and the same is hereby, appro priated, and shall be paid ot of any mo ney in the. Treasury, not otherwise ap propriated. J H. CLAY, Speaker.of the-House of Representatives. .Vice President of the United States.and ( President of the Senate. January 14, 1820 Approved : JAMES MONROE. RESOLUTION for the further Distribu tion of; the Journal of the Convention which formed; the Constitution of the United States! Resolved i by the Senate and House of) Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Slate be instructed to furnish to each? Member of the present Congress, and lhe Delegates from terri tories, (who may not: be entitled to the same, under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh ' of IIarch, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,) the President and Vice President of the United States, the Executive of each state and territory, the Attorney General and Judges of the Courts of the United States, and the Colleges and Universities in the United States, each one' copy : for the use of each of the Departments, viz : State, Treasury, War, and Navy, two copies each ; for the use of the Senate, five copies ; and for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies, of the volumes containing the Journal, Acts, and of the Convention which formed the present Constitution of the United States; and that the. residue of the copies of said Journal be deposited in the Library of Congress, for the use of the members. H. CLAY, Sneaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President ot the unuea oiaics ow President of the Senate. Janiiarv 19, 1320. Approved: HU'C ilrt JAMES iMQNROE. RURAL ECONEMY. From the American Farmer. THE ART OP MARINO COOD BACOV. -. ' l ' . ' : - In the catalogue of " good things" good bacon deservedly holds a conspicuous place. In this part of the country it is a standarddish which never clois the taste, and never fails to be treated with very Dointed resnect and attention whenever i it makes its appearance. , VV hatever there fore is calculated to diffuse the knowledge i i i . - & . . . . ; . . ?e received; n that "5i hv It lowing process, so well described by our will be sure to succeed. f To the testimony of Sylvanus we can add ours, that neither brine, or sugar, or molasses are of any use or advantage. Last year the editor was prevailed on to increase tne quantity oi saupeiere, pu pounds to 1500 weight ; j but he inclines ; to think it had a tendency to make the .i .'. t- i A a meat very hard immediately alter cooling; j he has therefore returned to the use oi tne quantity ; reccommended by SjlvanuS, whose observations convey; several new suggestions and reasons or fxa practices. . As to the1 necessity of any brine whalev- er, even what gathers m the bottom of , the tub, from the melting of the salt a- lone, the Editor will here mention.! What ; I I - La I i- A. il. Ift-ivn -' ne nas onen nearu, niaij uie iaic vawo Gibson, of Talbot county, celebrated for his good bacon, asjforjljis general, good the late Jacob management, had holes borea in me not- i torn oi ins meai iuds, roiei eeu me unuc pass oft, -j If, however, the reader will teemed by many. Ten years experience puson cannot coin money, or create prop exactly pursue the recommendations of ; wjm jt; and ten years experience without 1 erty ; but on the contrary, it compels them Sylvanus, in the selection of his- meat, and the nrocess of cUrin?. he need not fear the result. Another word in vin dication of the rights of the housewife. We shall always impartially claim irom the ladies the performance of duties prop erly within their province ; but we shall qc ctiirlirkiiclr rci ifr tVl 1 m rtfisition of hllT- th hfch;are alike ! ihcompatibl with t, - ci,srt ; th.v f1nmPstir ' circl?. and the delicacv of their constitution. We mean then to say, that the superinteri dance bf cutting up, and salting and smo king the meat i or the year's family's con sumption, docs not properly belong to the la(l 0re nom; although we know, that timesimmemorialjf this task has been, in many neighborhoods, imposed on them. It is a heavy, coarse, laborious operation,, Which ought to be done undei the eye of the master. It is his duty to prepare every thing for the hands of the i Cook, and it is not until every thing for the ta ble is placed in the kitchen, that the wife should be called on for her-attention. Editor of the American Farmer, FROM THE: AMERICAN FARMER T i Elmwood, ' ' ir ; f--! Mr. Skinner. As Dec. 29,1819. I am blockaded by the snow, to-day, I thought I would turn my attention to economies. and see about hanging up my bacon. This is an article of great Importance to us country gentlemen who live -at a distance from the butchers stall ; arid as my bacon has been often praised by good judges, 1 thought 1 would give you a paper eon- taining my practice in curing it, lor the benefit of those less experienced. In December I procure hogs (without any regard to moonshine) weighing ; 150 lbs. each, avoiding smaller j more than larger sizes. I insist on their; having been corn- fed for fivebr six weeks. If I cannot get, the assurance oi any man pi truth, i trust to my own judgment. . The dispo sition of the fat when lot frozen will give a pretty good criterion j, if it 'appears to be hard and crack about the kidneys like beef suet : into small . squares. I avoid such whose fat is more clined to transparency, tenacious ana in adhering to the fineers and bearing the complexion of lard. ' i - ' -If the lard when tried and cold is hard and white, there will be no danger of de ception from any food; that w4 are now acquainted with, and we may rely on its being corn fed pork, mav do I know not. ! wnai nuia oaga I know of noting ihthe cutting up the -": " ' " J - . mI "'. nff lwflA WlT f -Si-XT meat that deserves muur aucmwu,-. cept to, keep parts together ( thatrulre an equal lime for curing, so ; that those; who cut many1 of the bswitb; the shbul-, der,doajiwjury5 quires three weeks, salting and smoking, while the ribs requires but two ; I there fore cut the shoulder as short; possi ble, and the middling, ot course, as long X .... i To everv 1000 lbs. of meat I put three Decks of ' salt, and one third or a half pound etbltoetre I wfcr raisins hi4f ground allum salt with Liverpool, for in very soft weather the Liverpool will run in oil most too quikly, ana in very ury, oeni nouseKceper win iii5pi . wwi , cold weather, the alum is too tardy , i. e. j in .May and June, and then he will see not ultimately to cure, but for the time the quality of his meat ; that which is not allowed by me so they correct each oth- cornfed will crack and oflfer places of de er. ' i posit for skippers which should be filled This composition is to be well rubbed up with ashes & if any are already depo-. on and therprfikled thickly on the cut sited let the ashes be taken out pf the hearth surface of the meat. There is no dan- as hot as fire and put in. The meat ger of over-salting from quantity, it is that is corn-fed will be close all round , length of time that has that effect. The jthe cut. A ham of the first kind will meat is now to be laid in good casks, I . . .... 1 I the hams and shoulders nrst, SKin aown- wards, and. then the middlings and smal- ler pieces. ; - In two weeks the casks are to be emp- tied and all but the hams and shoulders removed, being salted sufficiently ; whilst these larger pieces (the hams and shoul- ders)are to be repacked, putting those which seemed less salted lowest among the rine. A 'change of position is -absolute- Iv necessarv. for the Dressure is so creat. tl h in -n t Dass eaUallv through ST 1 the meat if it is not once turned. In 3 weeks from the salting the shoulders are to he removed and in four weeks the hams. i " . i Everv piece of pork on taking out of the should be ceaniy washed, by dip-! a doth -n hot water and washing offthe salt brine and dirt on th"e pave- men, and not; into the tub least that be- come brine, and ihus you would give the t second sahing instead of Washing off what was loosely; adhering. .. Tfiis washing promote the drying Of the ineai, - - . . . r'tanrls (n onil'J lt? nor thp snlinp ailU 1UI tlitl itliuo vj v. . . . flavor through the meat, and should not hf npwlprtpd. jt wiji be mpn1;on(1a the article supar. so much Jt has fu. corrected my judgement bri this article. If any person will try two their families to be supported by charity parcels, one with and the other without or to suffer ; it deprives them of their lib sugar, he will find the following result : ertyrlessens the amount of labor in the That his bacon cured with sugar will be community, humiliates the mind, and in deprived of the fine relf color two months longer for that addition ; there ii is cer tain it interferes with the saltpetre, and if the saltpetre is of any service the sugar prevents that, and I presume it adds no thinsr to compensate. The fresh mawkish taste of the saltpetre is admirably adapt- ed to temper the excessive sapid flavor of common salt, whilst the beautiful red co- lor is highly pleasing to the eye. It like- wise interferes with the salt, and prevents too lare a auantitv from being absorbed, and thus preserves the meat from that) hardness which bacon acquires when that article is left out. Hickory ashes I am told answeres nearly all the good purpos- cations, separated from their families, and -es of saltpetre. But the care of making living in worse than idleness. Multiply good bacon does not end here ; we must the 600 by 20, (the time that each manis follow it to the smoke house. JLet pch supposea 10 oe connnea,; and we have an piece be hung up clear of another, and amount of 12,000 days totally lost to the there hung till quite dry, then kindle a prisoners and the community ! If wees fire to smoke it in a fire place in the fol- timate what might have been the product lowing construction : Build a chimney of labor at 50 cents per day, we have the with a (very low fire place exactly as 'for sum of 6,000 dollars which could have a sitting room, and when the chimney i been earned, and in many instances ap carried up 4 feet, close it at top. A small plied to the sustenance and comfort of grate made with hoops or small bars of suffering families. I We say, again, that . an old gridiron, at four inches from the fhis may not be an accurate average ; but hearth, will assist the burning of the wood, it is in vain to say that something of the By having a chimney thus constructed, the blaze of the fire can never injure ei- ther house or meat, and no pieces can fall into the fire when a string or nail gives way. Houses have been burned oy pieces of meat falling into the lire, and dispersing it to the wood work. All these accidents are thus prevented, and whilst the blaze and smoke ascends the blind chimney, the smoke must 'decend again and pour into the smoke house. A small chimney in brick houses on a corner of the wall may be useful to let out the smoke, but no holes in the wall tofadmit a ray of light. Some chips and a few bil lits of hickory makes the best smoke this will.also keep the house warm, which is7 very important ; for if the smoke house is cold, as will be the case when the smoke is carried by a flue from a lower story or another house, all our former care will be lost : n damp will settle on this bacon, and it will have a bitter fla vor. (. " A Mr. A. of Baltimore taught me nev er to make a smoke In damp weather, a practice so much followed ; for as he ob seived, his meat gained no color, but got a bad taste. I am satisfied he was cor rect, and he had large experience, as he followed smoking for gain. One good fire-per diem will smoke the pieces ex actly in the same times they were salted, viz. hams 4 weeks, shoulders 3 weeks, otbei pieces in two. - When the bacon is smoked and all returned to the smoke house, a floor, if not laid before, should now be laid on the joTst ; by this means rats will be prevented from xlesending on the bacon, and the heat of the sun will be moderated, so that the bacon will not drip in the summer heats, Darkness .and epejness are necessary to preseiTa- the bacon from flies it may there hang perfect safety till wanted. But a piu jshrink in boiling, and cut but a poor fig-; .1 1 I L!ll. 1 ' 111 jure, un irm iaDie, wiuisi uie iauer wm sweU to rpuhdness and overlook the. j dish ; will look as- proud, if not as warlike as j Juvenal's lobster. When the (sharp carver enters the cover, the essence ;will flow in a stream & fill the whole disli a most delightful sauce! Such a dish, with boiled poultry and savoys, though . often repeated, never looses it relish with the laborioushusbandman, and he sel- dom thinks ot any other to set before Ins guest. . i SYLVANUS. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. ncinnatiy ( Ohio ) Jan. 14. Ye are pleased to find that a bill is be fore jthe Legislature of Ohio, to abolish imprisonment for debt.- There is some thing so absurd, not to say barbarous, in the practice of throwing men into prison, after it is known they have not the means of paying their debts, that it is really as- tonishinff it should have been so lonffcoun- . C7 o . tenanced by civilized communities. Tf the practice be examined in a general point es-lament in lavor ot it. Mo conhne men in to abandon useful employments, and leave many instances, produces despair and des- peration. Were a calculation to be made of the number of poor persons wjho are yearly imprisoned in the United States for small debts, and a fair valuation set upon each day while they are confined, ihe amount would be surprisingly great. But We will take the state of Ohio, in which we will say there are sixty counties, and that during a year ten men in eath a"e imprisoned for debt for tweny days each. The estimate may not be accu- ate, but no : matter, it will show the principle. fHere, then, we have six hun- dred men, who are shut up from their avo- kind is not yearly the effect. On a ge, nerai scale, .men, tne practice would seem 1 ! to be a public evil. To counteract which, should there not result from it some cor- I responaing utiiiiy r Jt would appear , reasonable that any law is worse than nu-v gatory, where the advantages which arise from its operation will not counterbalance the attendant evils. But to imprison a : man for debt after he has given up all his property, can produce no possible ad van-! tage, unless it be thought that punishment will do it ; and here it may be observed i that it is a misfortune, and not a crime, for a man to owe more than he can payy especially among the poorer class of soj- . ciety, on whom the present law acts with the greatest severity. Shall this1 misfor tune be enhanced, by not only "taking a man's property, but by confining him in. prison ? Reason and justice both forbid it. Let the property be taken, but-not the body. r 1 It may be contended that, in some in stances where men secrete their effects in order to defraud their creditors of their due, the terrors of a jail may be necessa-, ry to bring them to terms. This, urea ses where the amount is considerable Way be the fact; but , among- poor people, yho$e debts are small,' and who have lit tle or nothing to secrete such frauds could "not be frequent ; at least, not sufiicienly so to justify the continuance of a practice that subjects all to imprisonment, for the sake of reaching now and then an extreme case. What the sum shall be, under which no man shall be imprisoned, is for the legislature to decide. We hope thejr will determine on uch a one as will give relief t5 at least a majority of the indigent classes cf the community.' . Jiquisitor.
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