The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

was the safety they received from this
 fert The great value of this town oz
 Augusta occasioned the general to have
 path marked out through the wooas
 Cherokee Indians have marked out one
 horsemen now can ride from the town
 of Savannah to the Cherokee nation.
 Al old Ebenezer there Is Q. cowpen where the trustees have a. great mum Der of cattle and 1t Is hoped. with care. they viii amount to six or seven head they win amount to q xor seven head in another year. ss,,o
 "Near the town of Savannah we have found stone which is dug for buiIdins.
 There is also good clay. whereof bricks
 are made, and a pottery work Is car ried on with success. where common ware for common purposes is made m good plenty and exported to. the neigh boring provinces, and the master, wno Is an enterprising genius. has under
 taken, as soon as he has made proper furnaces. to make A superhne sort or such as shah not be inferior to por-
 celain itself.
 'our people are weak, being 'decreas- ed by great numbers being decoyed away to other colonies; many having taken to idleness., upon snutttng up the store, went away: but those wno stayed and yet. remained, are SUIT q body<o of the most valuable people thae find means to live comfortably.
 Tt ought not to, be passed over now ready the country ia to receive num- Der of German families accustomed to husbandry. Some of these we have al. ready had experience of, insomuch that | the people here would take off gooo number of them: and. 1t would; De ot great service to this colony. at present. to send . ship over laden with Ger mans taking care that. provisions Tor them on their passage be plentifui ana | ths at they are not crowded. on board the ships. The terms are, they pay haif |. their passage themselves on embarking, | and six weeks after their arrival to l pay the other half; but in case they do not, then, they may be bound Dy tne ships master for four or five years. II | they are above 21 years of age; but II under, they may be bound until the age of 2l if men, and IS If girls. when oI l wheresoever among us any or them have worked for their own benefit they are indefatigables and out-done by none which joined with great parsimony. nts | them for excellent settlers when tree
 Even ITO years ago there was good l roads movement in savannah. ihe
 pamphlet says: ."It is needfui for the | we'll being. of the colony that roaos | should be maintained"
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 batter of attention as early as this period. A deposition says: And this l deponent further says that he has oi- ten heard that in negro colonies me l hire of white men is more than that ol l negroes. And this deponent knows thai | in South @Carolina white@ship carpen. | ters and cauikers have about one-tnfro 1 more wages than negro Of the same profession; this deponent having often paid wages to both and also. knows that there is the aforesaid difference IT l srnetfy handlcrafts." v st%s e1 Ha | In speaking of this land of plenty | the paper gives an. extract from Journal, of Mir. Boltzius. a minister al Ebenezer at this time. Among othes l things it says: "A woman having two | years ago picked out of Indian corn. nc | more than three grains of rye (caiieo here German corn) and planting them l here at Ebenezer, one of these grains 1 produced an hundred and seventy l stalks and ears, and the three grains l yielded to her a bag of corn as large as | a coat pocket, the grains whereof were l gcod aud su3 grown and she desired
 met to send part Of them to a kind bepe- l factor in Europe One. of, our GSalz- | burgers brought me also like bag oi beans all grown out of one beam
 | Such. in brief. was Savannah nearly I 200 years ago.