The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-10-18


Of her eng des,ined for America with dis
patches. fearing again my dtsertion, I was
sent again on board the Royal William. and
from her o. board the shamrock. bound 20
Portu ,,ai--was cast away of St. Mary,s-
seat TO Lisbon, and put ora board the Bel
Hour. / here made a third, last, aud thank
God. successful attempt a. desertion.
%. .. VIM. PARKER.
Boston. Oct. 8. 1911.
From the Democratic Press.
4 CL OF HE R-Mo. n :,
TO TOBAccoP, STERs AND SHEEP
BREEDERS. q, -
, It's wonderful That the profits. of ,sheefh
and MOOT have remained so long unobserved
III the United States. This branch of far
ming particnlarl, suits our country, because
we nave ss,grera quantity Ut land, and so
moderate a population in proportion to our
extensive territory. One man, boy, or .~o
man can take care of many sheep. In Scot
land, the least fertile country upon earth,
that sagacious. steady and energetic people
produce wool in their poorest counties. and
sell It as low as "a. Cd. and IS. sterling, for
a stone Of % and 26 pounds : This IS less
than seven cents per pound! OF this wool
coarse hats and bonnets, carpets and stock
% eNse. uooCs CuT POOteSl utotItCtS are
all miIder than Scotland aud more fertile
than one half of it's sheep districts They
are also much drier, which favors the health,
mesh and wool of sheep. With the ex,en>i-
on ut sheep, the ext epsion of manufactures
should and will go hand in hand. Manu-
features are one os the landmarks Of agri-
Culture. Our steepest lime stone ia1ds are
very favorable to sheep. They are so heal
tiny on that strong kind OF soil, as to thrive
well on IL. without salt. Since beef. pork
and grain may be low. in the ensuing year,
because our vessels are captured, let us use
our beef, veal and pork. and feed our poul-
try with our grain for our own table and
snare our sheet for one or two years, and
thus increase cur. stack of hem. BY grid
ling in. all our lightly wooded lands, we may
open the surface of ,..he earth TO the air
and sun. and make good sheep pastures.
The brush scythe will cut up the brambles,
briars and underwood The brush scythe
or b,nsh cutter would be better always in
our sh p-keepeys' hands, than the Shep-
nerds crock and pipe
we Certainly ought Oery considerably to
aiminisa our tobacco cultivation. Sugar
iands are employing part. of our Southern
iaoorers, who used TO make tobacco, cotton,
indigo. rice and corn. Sheen win employ
a number Of hands, which were lately en-
gagged in raising Cotton. tobacco, hemp. in
dIso, rice and corn, The poorest and blea-
krst lands in the northern states may be
or'ught into use for sheep, though too STONY
or too s'eeP f'r,he plough. BY thus adopt.
ing new modes of agriculture. and new
modes OF indus ry, we shall give ourselves
= COMPLETE self detcndence under benign
r evidence. :.
It is fact. (Which Sinclair's Statistics o,
Scotland prove, and which MIR. .4rthur
fonns's English farming books confirm)
that our oak narrens and underwood plains
may De probably applied to sheep. The
brush scythe. or other, cutting instrument,
would rapidly bring them into condition
Tor range The ourm lands of many neigh
borhoods could be employed advantaseously
for sheep-walks
The streams. which fall from our hilly
lands. could be made. by little channels, 70
water their sides and produce great QUAINT.
ties OF grass in poor and stony and broken
grounds good employment for the in
dustrious shepherd.
AS manufacturers should be ever in view
to support the value of wool, sheep and
lands, the trade of dressing skins should be
aihused through all the counties, in the mo.
rocco style. and for book-binders. glovers.
wool card makers and others. A pound of
leather gloves can be brought from tie STATE
81 Ohio to Philadelphia for alive cent piece.
30 OF pound or square yard of merino SD !.
perhnc cloth.
See Sir John Sinciair'e 5ooks Of, Scot.
land and its PARISHES, in IL voiunsrs /: a
work iull OF instruction to the /armere, free
holders s=a ft:lanters.
EcfTcc:-|rom Forf Stoddort. SEM 10,
- Four comfanies of the second regiment
Of infantry, am informed, qoiH Starr in
the course of tsvo or three weeks TO ohen
zoagson road, and bridges oper all hrac
tcable streams Of zvafer, tefween Fort
Stodder9 and Tennessee. understand The
road nil hasS on the qvestern side of the
Iomdig6y river. and through the Choctaay
connfry--and also from Fort Sfoddert to
Georgia. 6yMe hresent mali route, through
me Creek nation. The troohs cautioned ON
the Muscle Shoals. and at Fort HaSykins.
are 10 commence clearing and ohening from
those places resfect.Ueiy. and zcH continue
on MI they meet Me comhanies from this
fosf. Hfart ofthe consolidated regiment.
comfosed Of comHdnies from, severak Of
fhe nezr regiments under the command Of
cot Constant, at Baton Rouge, nil. chr a
good zods3en road. and bridge ;fhe route
from hence TO Fort ofoddart-fhey nil
commence earlyin October, The distance
from Fort Ssoddcrf TO Tennessee. bv me
route. is $50 mi'es-to Rort
Hasvkfns 329--or 10 dIHedgeuiYe. Geore,a.
S6O-and TO Baton Rouge $50 mles Gen.
erdf HAMPTON seems TO be delighted in car
rygst, -.