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MISCELLANY.
I OR TUB MIUiTJDUBVm.E HE FLU CTO II.
■Dear Mr. Reflector,—I, together with sun-
flry other females of ray acquaintance, (par
ticular friends indeed,) have suffered disap
pointments, and labored under grievances
that are no longer bearable, and as we have,
relied in vain on our own ways and means,
the generosity and gallantry of the gentle
men, the justice and policy of the government
(who have an extensivo country to people
and colonize,) I must appeal to you, as our
last resource, and endeavor to eugage in our
behalf what I have heard Mr. Timothy Dab
ble, tlit great politician of our neighborhood
call tire engine of public opinion—-the press
Without further preface, then, I will proceed
to give the particulars of my own case, which
embraces those of many others.
You must know then, that I was once
great beauty (as my mamma and a maiden
aunt used to tell me) and when I came out in
to the world, I expected I should be plagued
to death with admirers, that the beaux would
flock about me like flies around a pot of ho
ney. So indeed they did ; but very unlike
the said flies, they were content to let the ho
ney alone—mcro humming birds; buzzing
about without ever making a pitch.
For three years I tossed my head, flirted
my fan, and played oft'all the pretty airs that
I had been told were bewitching, and likely
to set oflf my beauty to advantage. All would
not do. I had the mortification to hear, eve
ry week, of some simple Susan or other, not
half as handsome as myself, that was maid
ed ; while I, if y»u will believe me, Mr. Re
flector, in ail that time, by neither gentle nor
simple, was ever asked the question, though
I gavo every possible encouragement, and
went to evei’y hall and horse race I could
hear of. I had no doubt whatever of my
beauty, for I heard of it. every -day, but I
suspected my bad success must be owing to
my not being fashionable enough. I accord
ingly began to strip in the very genteelest style
in vogue, barred my neck—((.had like to
have confessed a great deal more)—exposed
my my ancles, (that’s high enough,)
and trailed Along the streets silk sufficient to
ha ve clothed me decently. 1 froze my body
another three years only to chill my hopes
ami expectations -again. I then tacked a-
boitt, made amends to my poor bosom for all
its sufferings, and wore as many ruffs as I
coo'd peep the tip of my nose over, and was
pressed and screwed up every -day in corsets
until cords and ribs cracked again. But all
in vam. The fellows were as insensible to
my beauty and sufferings as if they had been
stocks and stones. I was enduring all the
.tortures of martyrdom for them and not one
would have the kindness to cut the strings of
my corsets. My patience could hold out no
longer, and I thought of nothing hot re
venge, when one day, last fail, Biddy FYrt
came over to our house, in the greatest hur
ry imaginable, and told me the Governor,
{blessings on his honest heart,) intended to
recommend to the Legislature to tax the
fcatcheloi's to the amouut of one third of their
ootton crops every year, to portion ladies that
were in rather a blue wr.y about getting hus
bands. Just then I saw your Prospectus, and
I and a dozen more young logics, (yes sir,
sufficiently young-sir, l assure you, so none
of your sneering.) myself, as I was saying,
and a dozen more young ladies of us, in
P m county, subscribed for your paper.
flunking we should, through you, learn all a-
bout it. And who in all the round world, out
©f Georgia, will believe it, Mr. Reflector? —
The Legislature thought more of the Setni-
nolos, and General Glascock, and Colonel
Arbtickle, and the Choctaws, and them sort
of people, than they did of all the girls in
the state J !
I bail, however, now become a great rea
der. I read the whole Reflector over every
Week. I read the old Schoolmaster’s com
plaint of his scholars, as how that while
“ Hk laid down positions and strove to explain,
4t They thought of Eliza, and Mary, and Jane.*
That would'nt be in Georgia, thought I.
And then I read about the Big Snake, and a-
bout a man killing a bear, or a bear killing a
man, l forgot which, and a great deal more
besides. J happened in the course of my
reading, {as I then thought most fortuna'efy)
to stumble upon the proceedings of Congress,
where a committee of ways and means was
Appointed. This was the very thing I had
been looking for. The folks at Washington
i reckon are another gqpss sort froi? what
we had at Mill edge ville. As I had been try
ing ways and means a long time in rain, I
was right giad Congress had taken the busi
ness in hand. I looked anxiously every
Week to find something from the committee
of ways and means. At last I saw that dear,
dear Mr. Lowndes, chairman of the commit
tee of ways and means, had leave to report!
No objection in the world ! Leave granted !
The dear man began his report! I thought
my heart would jump out of my mouth. I
«vas in a mighty flustration to be sure. Now,
thinks-I-to-mysclf, we shall ail be provided
with ways and moans. But my dear £lr,
Reflector, how shall I tell the sequel. After
pH these hopes and expectations, the ugly
|nan (I am sure he is ugly and old to-boot!)
paid not one word about husbands or forlorn
damsels ! But talked about a plan—to raise
jyfjm, and gbant tptces, (bat every bo tty
hates,-and all that. I had Pecenrtro te my
heartshorn (for I had nearly fainted at the
disappointment,) aud have hardly been able
to hold tip my head since.
Now, Sir. Reflector, all our hopes rest up
on you ; and if you do not take our caso in
hand yon need not calculate on the support, of
a single lady of my acquaintance. Wc else
will abandon the Reflector, take snuff, feed
cats, play whist, and rail at the odious crea
tures, men, as in duty bound.
1 am, sir, yours, as hereafter mav be.
FIDGETILLA.
Millcdgcvillc, Feb. 6.
LITERARY.
KOSCIUSKO.
From JFilliams' Narrative of events in France.
A Polish regiment, forming part of the
advanced guard of the Russian army, after
expelling the French from Troyes, march
ed upon Fontainblcati. The troops were
foraging in a neighboring village, and were
about to «omtiit disorders, which would
have caused considerable loss to the propri
etors without benefit to themselves ; such as
piercing the batiks, or forcing the sluices, of
some fish ponds. While they were thus em
ployed, and tkoir offioers looking on, they
were astonished to hear the words of com
mand, bidding them to cease, pronounced
in their own language, by a person in the
dress of the upper class of peasants ; they
ceased their attempt at further spoliation,
and drew near the stranger. He represent
ed to the troops the useless mischief they
were about to'comrnit, and ordered them t«
withdraw. The officers coming up were lec
tured in their turn, and heard with the same
astonishment the laws of predatory warfare
explained to them—“ Wlicn 1 had command
in the army of which your regiment is a part,
I punished very severely Bitch acts as yot
e«em to Authorise by your presence ; and ft
is not on these soldiers, bat on yon that pun
ishment would have fallen.” To ho thus lec
tured by a French farmer, in their own lan
guage, in such circastnnces and in such terms
was almost past endurance. They beheld,
the peasants at the same time taking off their
hats aud surrounding the speaker, as if to
protect him in case of violence $ whilst the
oldest among their own soldiers, anxiously
gazing on the features of the stranger, were
seized with a kind of involuntary trembling.:
Conjured more peremptorily, though respect
fully, to disclose his quality and his 'name,
the peasant, drawing his hand across his eye
to wipe off a parting tear, exclaimed with a
half stifled voice, “ I arn Kosciusko !” The
movement was eloctric.—The soldiers threw
iowu their arms, and falling prostrate on
the ground, according to the custom of their
country, covered their heads with sand. It
was the prostration of the heart. On Kos
ciusko’s return to his house in the neighbor
hood of this scene, he found a Russian mili
tary post established to protect it. The Em
peror Alexander having heard from M. dc la
1 iurpe,* that Kosciusko resided in the coun
try, ordered for iiinv a guard of honor, and
the country around ids dwelling escaped all
plunder and contributions. Kosciusko had
withdrawn some years since from the guilty
world of Bonaparte to cultivate a little farm,
rejecting every offer which was made him by
Napoleon, who had learned to appreciate his
worth. Kosciuskoknew him well. I called
on liiin one day to bid him farewell, having
read in the official paper of the morning, his
address to the l’oles on the subject of reco
vering his freedom, being named to the com-!
mand of the Polish army by Bonaparte.—
Kosciusko hoard with a smile my cre
dulity ; but on my shewing him the address,
with ids signature, ho exclaimed “ This is
all a forgery ! Bonaparte knew me too well
to insuit mo with any offer in this predatory
expedition } he has adopted this inode which
I can neither answer her resent, and which
he attempts to color witii the pretext of Liber
ty. His notions and mine respecting Poland
arc at as great a distance as are our senti
ments on every other subject.”
Where is the eloquence that can speak the
feelings of that woman who is true to nature
yet governed by education ; whoseymlor is of;
heaven, and whose manners are for society ;
whose sensations are inspired by God, and
who'se conduct is regulated by man; whose
sensibility trembles through her whole being;
and whose reason governs her whole life ;
who is created to love, and who blushes even
to herself to confess her destiny.
Several ladies being in company with Dr.
Johnson, it was remarked by one of them,
that a learned woman Nvas by no means a
rare character in the present age: when
Johnson replied, “ I havo known a great ma
ny ladies who knew Latin, but very few who
know English.”
A lady observed, that women surpassed
men in epistolary correspondence. Johnson
said, “ I do hot know that.” ,» “ At least,”
said the lady,«they are most pleasing when
they are in conversation.” « No, madam,”
returned Johnson, •* I think they are most
pleasing when they hold their tongues.”
Ancient Family.—There is much sound,
palpable argument in the speech of a coun
try lad, to an idler, who boasted of his ancient
family-—** So much the worse for you, the
older the seed, the worse the crop,”
ference to lord Byrcu’s past productions and
the judgment we have pronounced uponlthcm
In his present performance there is little t»
excite reprehension, or indeed any tiling c i w
It is altogether unworthy his lorshipy n .n u *
tation, and only remarkable as it affords
another evidence of that incontinence hi his.
lordship which wc have so often reproved.-.
If the noble author desire posthumous fa^.
ho should treasure up a legacy for posterity.
Indeed if lie would not survive his celebrity*
he must be more prudent in his demands oil
^n.p.nUiv*, ,.»o, T Mg »«»o.
We wo aware that we are thought very , , _ . M(k j. * , v : y n *
,. , , . i .m dar’8 rasorSf was * made to sell/ JSotwitli
hardhearted, by some persons, because VMltU r..t
TUB LAMENT OF TASSO.
MV LOHTl BYRON.
If it he any alleviation to vent one’s grief
in sighs and groans, wc know no body more
likely to exhale his sorrows than lord Byron
It is certain, at least, that his lordship will
soon exhaust his readers’ sympathies, if not
his own tears. This ‘ Lament’ indeed, is by-
no means so loud, nor so deep drawn, as
some of his moans. It may bo considcr-
do not enter, with a livelier interest, into his
lordship’s sufferings. It is not that wc have
no pity for distress, hut that this sentiment is
drowned in indignation. We will leave it to
the Endinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, out
of their pure philanthropy and disinterested
benevolence, to pat the back of the spoil’d
• Cliilde,’ lest he should unhappily choke with
his own gall. For our own part, we will
confess that we consider such *. stomachy
chap much more deserving of the rod, than
of a sugar sop. flis loi;dship makes a great
parade about sentiment and sensibility; but
we must be excused for doubting the chari
ness and delicacy of that man’s affections,
who has‘so little reserve in his expressions
upon the tenderest points, and who has no se
lection in his auditors. Without inquiring
into the merits of his domestic quarrels—
though, unless his Iqrdship is becruelly belied,
he has conducted with gross brutality towards
an araiabie and estimable wife—-without in
vestigating the occasion of his separation From
an object for whom he felt, or feined, the most
violent passion—w» will s?iy that \vi have nev
er seen any tiling more despicably and unman
ly, than his lordship’s direct and indirect at
tacks on itiis deserted & defenceless woman.
For a man who is capable of such base and
ungenerous treatment of a confiding female,
whose love lie has solicited, whose caresses
lie has enjyyed, and whom he is bound in law
and honor to foster and protect—for such a
man to pretend to a refinement and elevation
of soiil, that set him above the comprehen
sion of vu'»vr minds, is an insult to com
mon sense and common feeling. That lord
Byron should have the unparalleled audaci
ty, under such circustanccs, to challenge
condolence, is almost incredible,—that he
should obtain It, is a disgrace to the under
standing and virtue of the age ! Wo assume
not to be rigid censors,—we are not inclined
to pry into aiiy man’s private history, or to
expose his secret obliquities—but wc are
shocked and outraged by r the barefaced pre
sumption that can ground complaints on its
own wrongs.
If wc could ever lose sight of his lordslup in
his poetry,—if we were ever permitted to for
get the author, and to overlook the person
nl application of the sentiment, we might
enjoy, occasionally much delight in his lord
ship’s writings. But when, in the midst of
his pathos, we recollect his character, we
are disgusted with his affectation. When he
makes the pretence of paternal kindness for
his infant daughter, a cloak beneath which
to stub afresh tho bleeding bosom of that in
fant’s mother, we are tho more revolted at
the atrocity of tho act from the sanctity of
the disguise. In listening to his invocations
of solitude and silence, we ai’e led to re
flect on the causes which have rendered him
an outcast from society. When we hear
Irim arraigning Heaven, and uttering impre
cations on mankind, we cannot but call to
remeinberancc his heinous ingratitude to the
one, and his manifold injuries to the other,
Many of his sentiments, it is true, harmo
nize with his condition. But these are not of
the class which we admire.
Wo are anxious to be distinctly under
stood in regard to the nature of the irnpres
sions we are apt to receive from his lordship’s
most applauded and intrinsically finest pas
sages. The more we should approve them
ns truths, the more we should abhor them as
lies. When lord Byron murmurs in tho im
passioned and desponding tones of Petrarch,
or Camoens, or Tasso, we are affected much
in the same manner that we should be by tho
language of Cato in tho mouth of Clodius.
We must be persuaded of the sincerity of an
orator, or of a poet, before wc can yield our
selves up to his power. Mere rhetorical de
clamation,
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.
But when we perceive tho absolute mendaci
ty of the speaker, when his tongue is con
tradicted by tho whole tenor of his life, wo
are more struck by the affrontery of tho
falscheod, than with tho beauty of tho senti
ment.
Lord Byron has so impoliticly appropriat
ed to himself prominent sentiments, express
ed in tho persons of his heroes, that we arc
perhaps induced to extend tho parallel of
their situations and opinions further than his
lordship intended. Thus, this injudicious
association of himself with the creatures of
his fhney, bosidcs robbing us of the pleasure
wc might havo derived from a temporary
oblivion of his actual profligacy, has filled
our apprehensions with the spectres of mi
perpotrated crimes. Wo sincerely regret
the double injustice which his lordship has
by this means committed.
We liavu made the above remarks In rc*
standing his lordship’s youthful deprecation
of mercenary motives, he lias of lata found
it exceedingly convenient to replenish his
empty coffers by vending ‘ the lumber of the
bniin’—and, wc believe, has discovered it to
be a gainful trade. But we did not think
that after his vehement phillippi against this
contraband tralfic, lie would so soon have ta
ken to peddling small wares.—Monthly Mag t
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY ..from the sub,
-IA> Bcriber, living in Franklin
county, North-Caroiina, untha
12th of January, 1817, a negro
man named Kandol, about 25
_________ r 27 years of age, between 5 and
6 feet higtg rattier yellow complected ; appeal*
humble when spoken to; it is expected he has
some marks of shot about his hipsj thighs, neefc
and face, as be has bee 4 n shot at several times.^
His wife belongs tq a Mr. Henry Bridges,former,
ly of this county, who started with her about thq
14th instant, to South-Carolina, Georgia, or Tea-)
nessee. It is supposed he will attempt to follow
her. This is to caution all persons from harboring
or trading for said negro. And all masters of
vessels are forbid having any thing to do with
him at the penalty of the law. The above re-)
ward and all reasonable charges will be paid t#
any pernon who will secure said negro, so that J
get him. WOOD TUCKER,
December 23,1817.
N. B. Any person apprehending the. above nd|
gro, will inform me by letter,'-directed to RanQj
som’s bridge, N. C.
The Editors of the Telescope, S. Carolina!
the Whig, Nashville, Ten. and Reflector, MiH|
ledgevilie, will insert this advertisement sis
times, and forward their bills as above.
RUNAWAY NEGROES.
B ROUGHT to Baldwin goal on the 18th insfe
a negro man, by the name of Sam, belong
ing to Bennett Terrell of Wilkinson county, aU
so a negro woman, bv the name of Amy, wli»
belongs to Randolph Jackson,; the owners arq
requested to come forward, pay expenses, anf
take them away.
F. SANFORD, Goalci*
January 19.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, GEO,
MiUedgeville, \7th January, 1818.
W HEREAS by a resolution of the legist
tore of this state passed the 20th Decern 1 )
ber last, the governor is required to direct the>
proper officers to proceed without delay, to tli*
collection of all monies due this state on account
of Fractional Surveys or Town Lot9 in Mil*
ledgevilie—it is
Ordered, that notice of the same be given by
public advertisement, in order that all persona
may make their arrangements accordingly, as
immediately after the first day of March next,
the proper officers will be directed to proceed^
gainst all such as are then in arrears.
Attest, E. WOOD, secretary.
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April, will be sold
the Court house in Eatonton, between the
usual hours, 122 1-2 acres of land, (as supposed)
being the real estate of Jacob Turkenett,deceas’i
situated about 8 miles from Eatonton—about 40
acres of said land is cleartd, and on the same art
some cabins. Sold for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. Terms made
known on the day of sale. All persons having
claims against said estate, are requested to bring
them forward, properly attested, and those ins
debted are required to make immediate payi
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, Adin’r
with the will annexed}
January 13, 1818.
LOW FDR CASH—HIGH ON CREDIT.
T WO GIGS of the latest style, best mated*
als and superior workmanship.—Also, a se-.
oond handed one, and a Sulkey—All with harne#
complete, for sale by
THOMAS M. BUSH'
January 13. „
GILDING AND SILVERING.
T HE subscribers having established a Gilding
Manufactory in this place, will repair in
neatest manner Looking Glasses of every de»
scription. Old Spectacles repaired. Orde#
from the country promptly attended to.
JOHN M. MILLER & CO.
Augusta, January 28.
PUBLISHED VTEEKIT, Bt
J. B. HINES,
ax three dollars per tear, nr abvawci.
Advertisements under one hundred words, inserted tin
first time for 75 cents, cash, »nd 50 cents for each conti»*
nance—longer ones in proportion. Eveiy insertion of tfn.
tices not published weekly, charged as the first. Admin
istrators sales of real estate advertised for 8 4 0^
of personal property g 3—notices to debtors and ersoj.
tors g 3—and nine months citations g 5—one four's
more in every instance, if not settled for when left KS
publication. .
exy The law requires land and negroes belonging *
testators and Intestates, to be advertised sixty d\vs i I***
ishkble propery, forty ; notices to debtors aad creditoij
six weeks i and citations Tor leave to sell estate, (raoB'*“_
nine months.
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