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POETRY. A GOOD CAUSE FOR WAR. CLUMP and £lorl, two surly clowns, A reeling home one night, J'rom Ale House where their happy crowns, They soak'd in saddling plight. . While all the aaure' tinted sky, Spread out -its clear'expanse, /. id all the glittering train on high, Seem’d o’er their head to dance. ■Quoth Clump to Clod, ?-tell thee what, ‘I only wish thatfll, As muqh good pasture land had got, As I can sec blue sky. And I quoth Clod to Clump, should like; Thy wish to heat by far, And have, to prove a'wealthier tyke, An ox tor every star. Ah, but, says Clump, to feed them all, What pasture could be foifnd; Enough, says Clod, for great and small, I'd feed them on your ground. What, and without my leave ? says Clump ) Aye, that 1 would says, Cloddy i •Quoth Clump, then thee my hide shall thump* Or I will thump thy hotly. •So to’t they w ent, both Clump and Clod, As fast as fist could tag ■, Till both lay sprawling on the sod, And scarce a fist could wag. Now, where’s your oxen, Clod ? says Clump, And where, says Clod, vour ground ? Both sigh’d and.carcase rais’d on rump, In vain, lor both look’d round. Then shaking hands, they cursed all jars, And all deceiving eyes, That look for oxen in the stars, And pasture from the skies. agriculture. MISCELLANY. Some account of the literary contest between isauc Hick- erstafF, esquire, and 4ohn Partridge, esquire, two cele brated astrologers and almanack makers. Mr. BicLwstftfr, to injure his rival in his Almanack for 1807, said, “ My first predic tion is but a tritie, but I will mention it ; it relates to Partridge the Almanack maker; I have consulted the stars of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever; therefore 1 ad vise him to consider of it, and settle his af fairs in time.” This wicked prediction brought Mr. Par tridge into a world of trouble, of which he published ** a true and impartial account,” after the day appointed for his death had pas sed. The following are extracts from that account—« The 29th of March, A. D. 1708, being the night this sliam prophet had so im pudently fixed for my last, (which made lit tle impression on myself, but I cannot answer for my whole family ; for my wife, with a concern more than usual, prevailed on me to take somewhat to sweat for a cold ; and be tween the hours of eight and nine, to go to bed,) the maid, as she was warming my bed, •with a curiosity natural to young wenches, runs to the window, and asks of one passing the street, who the bell tolled for ? Dr. Par tridge, says he, that famous Almanack ma ker, who died suddenlly this evening. The puor girl provoked, told him he ly’d like a rascal; the other very sedately replied the sexton had so informed him, and if false, he was to blame for imposing upon a stranger, << I could not s(ir out of doors for the space of three months after this, but presently one comes up to me in the street, ‘ Mr. Partridge that collin you was lately buried in 1 have not yet been paid for.’ ‘ Doctor,’ cries ano ther dog, ‘ how d'ye think people can live by making of graves for nothing ? Next time you die, you may even toll out the hell your self, for Ned.’ A third rogue tips me by the elbow and “ wonders how I have the eon science to sneak abroad without paying my funeral expenses.’ * Lord,’ says one, ‘ 1 durst have sworn that was honest Dr. Partridge, my old friend, but poor man, he is gone. ‘ l beg your pardon,’ says another. ‘ you look so much like my old acquaintance that I used to consult on some private occasions ; hut u- lack, he’s gone the way of all flesh,’ ‘ Look look, look,’ cries a third, after a competent space of staring at me, would not one think our neighbor the Almanack maker was crept out of his grave take t’other peep at the stars in this world, and show how much he is improv ed in fortune-telling by having taken a jour ncy to the other ?’ May, the very reader of our parish, a good sober, discreet person, has sent two or three times for me to come and be buried decently, or send him sufficient rea sons to the contrary, or if I have been inter red in any other parish, to produce my certi lie ate as the act requires. My poor wife is almost run distracted with being called will ow Partridge, when she knows its false, and once a term she is cited into court to take out letters of administration. But the greatest grievance is, a paltry quack, that takes up my calling just under my nose, and with his printed directions with N. B. says he lives in the house, of the ingenious Mr. John Par trhlgc, an eminent practitioner in leather physic and astrology.” A gentleman wishing to convey with a gen tic reproof, an useful lesson to his gardner. who had omitted from day to day to prop a valuable fruit tree, until it was in consequence damaged by the wind, observed “ you sec gardnor the danger of putting off from day to day the doing of any necessary work ; yet in this w ay foolish men defer their repentance until in some unexpected moment the wind of death comes and blows them into eternity.” EMPLOYMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. “ Huppy the man whose wish and care A tew paternal acres bound, Content to brCathe his native air, In Ins own ground. Whose herds with mdk, whose -fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.”—Pope. In the United States the great body of the people are cultivators of the ground ; all the other citizens bear but a very small propor tion in number to these. This too syill pro bably be the state of tilings many ages to come ; for the cheapness and inexhaustible plentiness of land and the consequent dear ness of labor, will in all likelihood, prevent for along time the extensive establishment of manufactures. The inhabitants of the eastern and middle states generally cultivate their own land, and arc lords of the soil ;— and no circumstance can be more favorable to the support of freedom and independence. Idleness, with its train of destructive vices, can never contaminate this body of men, ge nerally ; extravagance and dissipation can never poison the great mass of them. Some farmers will be idle, extravagant and dissi pated, hut these will hew a very small pro portion to the whole number. In the com mon course of things there will always he a- intmg them tenfold more industry than idle ness, tenfold more instances of saving econ omy than of waste and ruinous extravagance. The daily occupations of farmers give them peculiar hardiness of body and inind, and ender them more capable than others of sus taining the fatigues and braving the dangers of warfare. Being owners of the soil, ttiey have much more interest at stake in time of invasion, than those whose property is move- able, and can be easily transported from one country to another. At the same time they are led by their interest to wish for peace with all foreign nations, and for quietness and or dcr at home. It can never be for their inte rest to leave tlicir farms and turn soiejiers, unless imperious necessity should call ; and it would bo equally contrary to their inclina tions. Therefore, they would be unwilling to engage in any but a necessary war; and in such a war, a war of invasion on the part of the enemy, they would not fail to hear hand, they would he the first to engage and the last to yield. Fur these reasons, together with others that arc obvious, the farmers are the great bulwark of the country ; and if our national independence and republican insti tutions should be preserved and perpetuated (and God grant they may he !) it would be principally by means of the substantial yeo manry, a body of men the most incorruptible, the most brave and hardy, the most attached to their country, and infinitely the most nu merous. Our farmers at the preseut day, have advantages much superior to those en joyed in preceding ages. Great improve ments have been made in agriculture, and these improvements are still progressing.— Great improvements have also been made in roads; so that it is much easier carrying pro duce to market than it was formerly. Pub lic worship and village schools arc attended with more case, social intercourse is promo ted, and friends and neighbours are brought, as it Wi it, niglier to one another ; for if by reason of better roads, the travel of 10 miles is as easy now as that of 5 miles was former ly, it is in etl'ect the same as if the local dis tance were shortened in this proportion As agriculture h.ts been ranked among the most useful and honorable employments by every civilized nation, and has been encour aged by.every wise government ; so it or dinarily affords a greater share of content ment and happiness than, peruaps, any oilier calling of lite. As it is favorable to morals, so is it also favorable to health and strength of body. Exercise in the open air gives an ppetile and lyakes food delicious—flic la boring farmer lias more pleasure in food, as well as more enjoy lnent. from sleep, than any idle epicure ever yet tasted. He inhales from his fields pleasant, salubrious and invigorat ing perfumes, liis eyes are delighted while betiulding his flocks and herds, and the pro gressive growth of his plants and vegetables. When he has rendered a barren soil fertile, by giving industry and skill, or when he has made a portion of wilderness « blossom like the rose,” he rejoices in the works of his hands; his heart is cheered with an innocent and rational satisfaction. Industrious, thriving farmers arc more in dependent than almost any other men. The merchant lies at the mercy of the winds and the waves, the trader depends upon his customers, the lawyer upon his cli ents, the physician and mechanic on their employers. But the substantial farmer can supply most of his real wants from his land ; and whilst lie is less dependent upon men than others arc, his circumstances of life lead him to teel an immediate dependence on tiiat Being “ who giveth rain from heaven and fruitful season.” All these circumstan ces put together, there is good reason to con clude that the condition of the thriving far mers is more free from disquiel-ide and more favorable to the enjoyment of contentment and happiness, than that of almost any other class ol people. Indeed many have heci, glad to exchange high rank and power forth’, retired and peaceful occupation of agricul ture. Dioclesian, the Roman emperor, was one ilk. m trio us instance, who, after he had to- * 1 luntarily left the throne, employed himself in planting and gardening, when being urged by Maxumillian to resume the reins of go vernment and the imperial purple, he remark ed « that he could shew Maximilian the cab bages which lie had planted with his own hands at Solona, he should no longer be urg ed by him to relinquish the enjoy meat of hap piness for the pursuit of power.’* SPURRED RTF,. - Permit me through your paper to offer to the public a few observations on Ergot or Spurred Rye—It i3 occasioned by a small black II*, of a shining hue, large wings in proportion to the size of the body ; it depo sits its eggs in the grain, about the time it be gins to harden. It perforates a bole through the glume, or outer covering of the grain, the part is immediately changed to a dingy black, a very forbidding color. The inten tion of nature being thus frustrated, on ac count of the deadly poison deposited in the grain, a chymicai decomposition takes place, the grain tastes sweet as in the proper pro cess of germination—it lias a very disagree able smell, when the germ begins to expand. Instead of producing a plant, it produces a capsule, about one inch in length, and three times as thick as the grain ; in some instan ces the three stainins and billosc stigma may be,seen on the point of the capsule; here honest nature’s efforts stop, leaving the insect to feed on the inside of the production. It first has the appearance of a small worm, which changes into a regular form, like the bug that feeds on potatoes, leaves and blos soms. The properties of the ergor arc of a very deleterious nature ; the rye that is in fected ought to be useless as food, as every part of the seed is diseased. Seed supposed to he infected ought to be soaked in brine, strong enough to hear an egg, for twenty four hours ; then mixed with slacked lime for six hours before sowing. Every prudent far mer will sow sound seed. CHARLES WHITLOW. SOLiT MICA. the circumstance that the judges chosen Cur such of them as were condemned with any forms of law, before whom they were drag ged as rebels, as traitors, as the vilest of cri minals, were men who had concurred in be traying Spain into the hands of France, who iiad deserted the cause of Ferdinand, and e- ven fought under the Danners of Joseph. ilHiM YVALSI1 1 had hopes of collecting some authentic information for my readers, concerning the origin and progress of the insurrections in South-America. But so contradictory are the accounts from that quarter, so inaccessi ble the sources of full or correct information, that 1 have preferred being silent on the sub ject, to running the risk of scantiness or in accuracy. What may he safely inferred from the past history and condition of the popula tion of South-America, what seems to be ge nerally admitted, is, that they are by no means ripe for republican institutions.— Whether they will ever be qualified to enjoy them, I very much doubt; but of this I urn sure, that they can adopt no government of their own which will be preferable to the sway tf the old Spanish cabinet. Self-go vernment in any shape exalts the being, by inspiring self-respect; revolution, anarchy f you will, generates energy, and has with in it some seeds of improvement; but the co lonial system, the domestic government of Spain, quenelles all the fire, breaks all the springs, deadens all the line susceptibilities of the human character. When I think of the government of Fer dinand, 1 have before my imagination, on one side, an “ adored monarch,” embroidering, to the passionate delight of his people, a robe for the Virgin Mary ; on another, the inten- dant of Valentia expiring on the rack ; Gen. O’Donnoghue writhing under the state-tour niquet ; tne ardent patriots of the Cortes, who sustained unshaken, through a long a- gony, the fortunes of their country and of Ferdinand himself, perishing in dungeons, as their recoinpence, or dragging an iron chain at the galley s. I am oppressed in touching on this subject, with a more intense emotion of indignation, I may say grief, as 1 have a mong these victims, a friend to whom 1 am warmly attached, and to whom the esteem of the world is eminently due. I allude to Don Augustin Arguclles, of Oviedo, who took the lead in the Cortes, particularly in the formation of that liberal constitution, the irrcmissiblo sin of himself and his colleagues, for which they are now suttering .the ven gcance of the doltish tyranny they would have corrected. Augustin Agnclles, whom I found in London, in i80r, studying at the best European school „f speculative freedom, the principles of good government, with a view to the service of Spain, would do honor to any nation by bis enlarged and various knowledge, especially in the science of poli tical legislation ; by his elegant taste, his en lightened liberality, the suavity of his nature, his elevated disinterestedness, and his patri otic ardor, which led him to devote himself wholly to the cause of his country ; and yet lie who would have died a thousand times to rescue her, has been condemned as a traitor to serve for ten years, and now serves as a common soldier at Ceuta, strictly watched , and, though always of a delicste constitution of body, severely tasked ! It ever there was a case in which wc should obtest heaven and whatever justice or feel ing there is yet on earth,”—if ever there was a catastrophe ominious to the principle of pa triotism, blighting for all public virtue* it is • bat of the Spanish Cortes. Were their case PROSPECTUS OP THE REFLECTOR. WHATEVER is necessary to be said of a paper that will soon speak for itself may bo comprised in a few words. The editor is in feeling and principle, decidedly a republican, attached to our political institutions, and friendly to the late and present administra tions of the general government. These sen timents will stamp the political character of his paper ; but lie does not think bimsclf in fallible, or believe all men to be ignorant or corrupt, who differ from him in opinion. Ilia feelings are tolerant, and bis conduct will be liberal. He will duly respect the opinions of those who entertain sentiments different from Ills own, and allow them to be heard if their language and manner give them a just claim to the courtesy. He will endeavor to avoid party strife and personal altercation, and la bor assiduously to soften party asperity, to convince that every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle, and to unite, as far as possible, the whole American family in. devotion to the happiness and glory of tho public. But while our country, Europe and tits whole world, except Spanish America, are at peace, and while there are.so few subjects up on which public sentiment among ourselves is divided, the political department of the pa per must necessarily be circumscribed within. ’ narrow limits. The editor rejoices at this, as it will give ample room and opportunity for* advancing objects of vital importance to the country, such as river and canal navigation, agriculture, and the useful and domestic arts, —for promoting the diffusion of scientific knowledge—inculcating a taste for elegant li» terature, and for giving ardor to virtuous principles and confidence to religious truths —employments better suited to the editor’s feelings, and which his judgment assures him will bo more beneficial to his country than a- liy other. The paper shall contain sketches of the pro ceedings of the National and Georgia Slat* Legislatures. Prices Current of Augusta, Sa- aunah and Millcdgcville. Most of the Re views, Magazines and reports and transac tions of learned bodies in America, will bs ■cgularly examined, and their quintessence adiated from the “ Reflector.” In fine, it will be the editor’s object « to hold the Mirror up to nature, to shew Virtue her feature, ami Vice her image, and the very age and body of the Time his form and pressure.” Conditions.—The “ Reflector” will be pub lished, weekly, in the town of Milledgevillc, with a good type, on paper of super-royal size, and committed to the mail, or delivered, to subscribers in town, at three dollars a year, payable in advance. Advertisements that are not improper for every eye, will be inserted on the usual terms. Each year will comprise a volume, at th* end of which an extra sheet will be pub lished containing a title page and a copious table of reference. It is therefore hoped th* subscribers will preserve and bind their vo lumes. The editor flatters himself that they will be worth preserving, and that in future years they will be advantageously consul toil is a correct history of passing events, and a* a repository of much agricultural, scientific ind literary matter of permanent interest anil value. e *. November. 18177 N0KICE. V GREEABLY to ail order of the Court of Ordinary for Baldwin county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in February next, one third of an acre LOT in tlip townof A/illedgeville, oa Hancock street, the property of Henry Johnston, deceased, sold for the benefit of bis heirs and creditors. A. F. BY 1NGTON, adm’r. November 12,1817. WARE-HOUSE. T HE subscribers having associated themselves in business, under the firm of Dickinson djf Starnes, oiler their services to their friends and the public in general, in the COMMISSION and FACTORAGE LINE. The Ware-House is en- tirelyjdetached from any building of fire, and on a good construction, immediately in the rear of Cosby Dickinson’s large new building, and oppo site the centre of the upper squares—where every attention will be given to render general satis faction. COSBY DICKINSON, EBENEZER STARNES. Augusta, Geo. Nov. 4, 1817. l-4t susceptible of aggravation, it would be from THE REFLECTOR, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY JOHN B. HINES, AT TIIRF.E DOLLARS PER YEAR, IX ADVAXCE. Advertisements under one hundred words, inserted the first time for 75 cents, cash, and 50 cents for each contin uance—longer ones in proportion. Every insertion of no tices not published weekly, charged as the first. Admin istrators’sales of real estate advertised for g 4 cash— ot personal property 3—notices to debtors and credi tors & 3—and time months’ citations & 5—one fourth more in every instance, if not settled for when left lor publication. 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