Newspaper Page Text
POETRY.
CONSCIENCE.
Will doMTnv beds op afomatlc flower*,
Sequestered shades or amaranthine bowers,
Illunt the keen anguish of a troubled breast.
When guilty thoughts the startled soul invest ?
Not all the riches of wide India’s store,
Arabia's *weeta or Afric's golden shore,
Can heal a wounded soul, or ease the smart
By vice inflicted on a guilty heart;
Nature and art hi vain their charms bestow,
’Tin innocence alone true peace can know.
Mftiy starts the 'murderer thus at every noise ?
Where arc his transports fled, his hometelt joys ;
Wiicrelore in vain her notes does music pour,
Or fortune all her glittering favors shower ?
Stung with remorse, the plunderer dreads the weight
Of rigorous justice, and avenging fate ;
A broken seal now meets his gu.lty sight,
A letter opened, wonders brought to light j
For tliis he starts, if gentle zephyrs shake
The pattering leaves, or tremble in the brake.
The toiling peasant's breast no cares annoy,
llis life is Tabor, and hts labor's joy,
His guiltless bosom knows not to relent—
Rich in his liomely fare and sweet content;
In his lone cot the golden treasure lies,
Which neither wealth can buy nor pomp supplies;
Grant then, thou Power divine, whose single nod
Can make the trembling world confess its God,
That guilt my honest heart may never stain,
Nor pungent conscience dart afflicting pain.
MISCELLANY.
ton THE MILLEDGEVILLE REFLECTOH.
Dear Mr. Rejleclor—On Tuesday morning
Hast, j ust as I had dono my breakfast, and
was feeding my cats, in ran Miss Biddy Flirt
with your paper in her hand, crying out in a
tremendous voice, “ Great news Miss Fid-
gctilla !” I was very much alarmed you may
depend. I was sure the prisoners had broke
out of the Penitentiary, or that the Indians
had massacrccd our wlioio army, or that
Commodore Aury whs coming to kill us all
or something like that. But Mr. Reflector,
my fright was soon removed by reading in
your notice to correspondents that two old
Bachelors had addressed me, and that .one
of their pieces would appear in your next
paper. I was mighty well pleased to be sure.
Never was any mortal so anxious to sec
any thing as I was to see tlio old Bachelor’s
address. I would have given ton times as
much to have seen it as I paid this winter to
see the Buffalo, and the Wax-Figures, and
the Rope-Dancers, and all them there trilling
tilings that every body hates. Never*did
one week secin so long and unpleasant. If
I had been exiled to tbc Dismal Swamp, in
North-Carolina, among all them old maids,
I could not have been more miserable. At
length I received my paper; aud never was
any mortal so disappointed ! He commen
ces bis address by a very modest assur
ance of his philanthrophy and the sympathy
excited in him for my disappointments and
distress. Now, thought I to myself, this is a
mighty clever fellow, and he certainly will
point out ways and means to provide for me
at least, as I had courage enough to tell him
my situation, and there are a great many-
more as b.« oft' as I am, but are ashamed to *.* w “ '•‘‘ Clv some who don't come
tell it. But instead of that tbe trilling fellow j- luro pleasure, and y et you know they
begins with a long-wiuded story about his c . a, 1 ‘, , without eating ; though pale, ami
nn ,l I.O., m i. i. _ Sickly* thev niliut. tmn'nl K.*t ...III
ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
\ou seem sir, {said governor Johnson, ol
Maryland, to Ids friend) very fond of col
lecting anecdotes of general Washington:
I’ll tell you one, to which you inay attach
the most entire faith, for I have heard it u
dozen times, and often from the lips of a ve
ry valuable man and magistrate of Coues
toga, a Mr. Conrad Hoffmcycr. Just be
fore the revolutionary war, said Mr, H. I
took a trip for my health's sake, to the Sweet
Springs of Virginia, where I found a world
of people collected—some like me looking
for health, others for pleasure. In conse
quence of the crowd, I was at first rather
hard run for lodgings, but at length was
lucky enough to get a inatrass in tbe but of
a very honest baker of ray ai quaintancc,
who often visited these springs for the bene
fit of Ids oven. Being tbe only man of the
trade on the turf, aud well skilled in the sci
ence of dough, lie met with no small encou
ragement : and jt was really a matter of
gratitude to sec what heaps of English loaves,
Indian pones, French bricks, cakes and
crackers, lay piled upon his tables every
morning.
I often also amused myself in marking the
various airs anti manners of the diflerent
waiters, who in gay liveries and smiling
black faces came in every morning, rattling
their silver, and tripping away with bread
by the basket. Among these plump, (j a ,
looking sons and daughters of Africa, I saw
every now and then a poor laaarite, with
sallow check and hollow eye, slowly creep
ing to the table, aiftl at a nod from the ba
ker, eagerly seize a fine loaf and boar it off
without depositing a cent. Surely thought
I to myself, this- baker must be the best man
or the greatest fool in the world ; but fear
ing that this latter cap better fitted his peri
cranium, 1 one morning could not l.rn break
ing my mind to him, for crediting Ins bread
to such unpromising dealers, a Stopbel ”
lor that was his name, “you seem to sell’a
world of bread here every day, but notwith
standing that i fear you don’t gain much by
i . “ No ! squire, why what makes you
think so ? “ You credit too much, StonheL”
“ No j indeed Sir, not I • L do, ’t credit a
n in £; ri , A rv h r ** ^e that
out, Stopbel. don 11 see these poor people
carrying away your broad and yet paying
you nothing for it!”_« Pshaw, no matter
for that, squire, tliey’JI pay ,„e all in a lump
at last, Jit last ! Jit lust ! Olio ! at the last
day, I suppose you mean, Stopbel, when you
have conscience to expect tbe God Almighty
,, stant * paymaster, and wipe oft - all your
old scores for you.*’ u oi, no ! squire, we
poor bakers can’t give such long credit: but
I 11 tell you bow we manage tbe matter
that good man, Col. Washington, is here ;
every season as soon as ho comes, ho calls
and says to me, “ Stopbel, you pccin to have
a good deal of company, and among tbc
rest I fear there are some who don’t come
begins with a long ¥
courting two girls, and being engaged to be
married, and then tbe girls wanting to be off,
and letti-ig all that had passed go for nothing,
and all that! Every body say it is ail a story.
Now, Mr. Reflector, 1 wonder what com
fort it would give that old Bachelor of Ne
cessity, if he was seeking ways and moans
to ascend a difficult and dangerous steep, at
the top of which he was assured he should
fir 1 a gem of the greatest value, to be grave
ly told by a pretended and oilicious friend
that he. had twice fallen iu attempting to go
up that same place, even after be bad got
Hear the top, and had like to got his neck
broke ? So by iiis friendship and abuudance
of tbe milk of human kindness, (as Shakes
peare calls it,) be would out of pity and com
passion frighten every body, and this valua
ble gem be entirely useless, if every body
believed Ids tale, l’oor gentleman ! 1 thank
him for his good intentions, but pity his cre
dulity and want of assurance. Now it is ten
to one if both tlio young ladies lie was en
gaged to did not turn him oil', (as it is called)
just in fun, or for the want of something to
say just at so critical a time; for 1 guess
be talked to them as serious as a judge pas
sing a sentence on a criminal. I’ll warrant
they have been sorry for it since. 1 really
reckon this Mr. Bachelor of Necessity, is a
mighty modest unassuming young man—like
the young men of Milledgeville : they were
so very modest they could not even give us
a Ball on the 22d of February, in commemo
ration of Washington's birth-night. Now
what in all the world will the people abroad
say at this ? I know it will give them a had
opinion of the whole of us here at the me
tropolis, where the people ought to be most
polite and fashionable.
Now, Mr. Bachelor of Necessity, I would
advise you, if either of the young ladies re
main single, (and I guess they both ace, or
they have been mote fortunate than many ol
us,) to court her again ; andMon’t be so se
rious and positive about it ; but laugh and
jest and talk as though you did’nt care any
thing about it. When they find you so very
earnest, they think, they have you safe
enough, and make free to take liberties in
pretending to deny you, which they would
not do if you were, not so much in earnest.
Yours, as hereafter may he,
F1DGETILLA
sickly, they must have bread, but it will
never do to make them pay for it. They
seem already low spirited enough, through
sicaness and poverty ; their spirits must not
be sunk any lower by taking from them eve
ry day what little money they pinch from
their poor families at home. I will tell you
what is to be done. Stopbel $ you must give
-them a good hot loaf every morning and
charge ii to me : when I am going away I'll
come and pay for all.” And believe me,
squire, he lias often at the end of the season
pain ine as much as gso : and tlif.t too for
poor creatui • s woo did not know the haud
hat ted them—for I had stri: t orders from
jj""» ” ot to mention a syllable of it to any
a tender parent Mi a giddy child, cried dv
loud—« When the Lion rears the beasts of
the forest tremble j and when the Almighty
speaks, let the kings of the earth keep si
lence.” Thb monarch shrunk back inti*
his seat, and behaved the rest of the dis
course, with the most respectful attention.
The next day he sent for Dr. Davies, and
after complimenting him highly for an “ hon
est preacher” ordered him a check on his
banker for a hundred guineas for his col
lege.—Richmond Compiler
During the late war, a Scotchman, the
bearer of a communication from ono of the
American encampments to another, on his
route discovered about sunset, an Indian
concealing himself behind a tree within for
ty or fifty yards of him. Sawney, who by
the bye, was an expert woodsman, immedi
ately treed himself, suspended his hat on the
enu of a stick, exhibited it at the side of a
tree as thougli he was reconnoitring. The
Indian expecting to catch the Scotchman’s
head in the hat, discharged his rifle, perfo
rated the hat, with a ball. The liat fell
and the Indian advanced with his tomahawk
uplifted, aud his scalping knife, to secure
the trophies of his victory ; but lo, and be
hold ! When within ’a few paces of where
Ire expected to find his victim, the Scotch
man, with h treaty firelock in hand, sprung
out from behind the tree, demanded to know
where he was ganging with his d—d wee ax,
(meaning his tomahawk,) shot hint dead on
the spot, took off his scalp, picked up the In
dian’s rifle, tomahawk and scalping knife,
proceeded on his journey, and arrived safe
at his place of destination.
Bachelor's Description of what a Wife
ought to be.—Amiable, affectionate, agr^a-
ble, artless, afl'able, accomplished, amorous,
beautiful, benign, benevolent, chase, charm
ing, candid, cheerful, complacent, careful,
charitable, clean, civil, coy, constant, duti
lul, dignified, elegant, easy, engaging, even,
entertaining, faithful, fond, free, faultless,
good, graceful, generous, governable, good-
humoured, handsome, humane, harmless,
healthy, heavenly-minded, intelligent, in
teresting, industrious, iugemious, just, kind,
lively, liberal, lovely, modest, merciful,
neat, notable, obedient, obliging, pretty,
prudent, pious, polite, pleasing, pure, peaci-
ble, righteous, sociable, submissive, spright
ly, sensible, tall, temperate, true, unreserv
ed, virtuous, weli-foruied, witty, weli-teia-
pered, wealthy, young.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
U NDER the firm of Scarbrou-h <&■' \r»v
(successors to Barna M'Kione\ CoVI"“Sfc
ing formed a connexion in business in thuii
they beg leave to offer their services u «fi2|
Commission Merchants. g'nerfl
WILLIAM SCARBROUGH
JOSEPH P. M‘KINN1S ’
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
M JKINNE & CO. will make advances on
produce lodged with them to be forwanl
ed their friends, Scarbrough & M‘Kinne f». i
Should the Savannah market not offer ’accew'’
ble advantages, the produce, fat the option
owner) will then be forwarded to the northw.«l
or a port in Great Britain or France, and i„ ,||
instances, for the customary commission tU
will guarantee the responsibility of the
to whom it may be consigned for sale. “
Augusta, Jan. 50, 1818,
NOTICE.
I N consequence of Mr. Barna M‘Kinne refir
ing from business, the subscribers have to Vn
nounce a contemplated dissolution of their cm"
cern, and that all transactions after the first /
next month will be conducted by their succeJ»
Scarbrough & M'Kiunt-; who they resSS
beg leave to recommend to the same confident
and encouragment, that has been so kindlv r„n!
ferred on them. BARNA M‘KINNE l (V
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
PHYSIC. *
T HE public arc informed that I have finillt
located myself in this village, as a practs
turner ol Medicine—Applications made at cant
Glove, s shall be attended to, with that nunefo'
ahty, which the nature of my profession require*.
„ . .. JOHN G. SLAPPr
Monticello, Geo. Feb. 18, 1818.
Jfillpdgeville, February 28.
DR. SAMUEL DAVIES.
This great Divine, originally a poor boy
ot Hanover, but for his extraordinary ta
lents and piety, early advanced to the pro
fessorship ot Princeton College, crossed the
Atlantic to solicit the means of completing
that noble institution. His fame as a inigli
ty man of God, had arrived long before
him. He was, of course, speedily ilffRed
up into the pulpit. From a soul at once
blazing with Gospel Light, and burning
with divine love, his style of speaking was
so strikingly superior to that of the cold ser
mon readers of the Britisli Metropolis, that
the whole town was presently running after
turn. 1 here was no getting into the church
es where lie was to preach. The coaches
of the nobility stood in glittering ranks a-
round tlfe long neglected walls of Zion ;
.and even George the Third with his Royal
Consort, borne away by the holy epidemic,
became humble hearers of the American ora
tor. Blest with a clear glassy voice, sweet
as the notes of the Harmonica, aud loud
a6 the battle kindling trumpet, he poured
lortii the pious ardour of his soul with such
force that the honest monarch could not re
press his emotions; but starting from his
seat with rolling eyes and agitated manner,
at every burning period he would exclaim,
loud enough to be heard half way over the
churcfi—“ Fine ! fine i fine preacher 1 faith,
u fine preacher ; Why—why—why," Char
lotte !—Why Charlotte ! This beats our
Archbishop! 1 The people all stared at
I their king. The man of God made a full I
THE TELESCOPE.
r F'HE Editor proposes to issue this paper twice
JLa.week. He believes the paper is so well
known, as to supercede the necessity of giving
very particular detail of its contents. It con
tains ail the current news of the day, foreign and
domestic : with all local information interesting
to the Carolina* and Georgia ; a juurnel of the
Congress ol the United States, and of the Gene
ral Assembly ol South Carolina j with the most
interesting speeches and debates, and important
! bills or acts, which may occur in those bodies :
Judiciary opinions and decisions : Moral, politi
cal and agricultural essays: Notices of improve
ments in the arts, mechanics and manufactures :
Occaaionsul views of the scientific, political and
religious world s Critiques and lists of new pub
lications, &.c. The Editor has ordered all the
best American and European periodical publica
tions, from which he will enrich the Telescope
with copious extracts, carfully avoiding old
points oi religious and political controversy: and
tlms make Ins paper not merely of local'utility
but generally interesting throughout the south
ern states. Few comparatively have the oppor
tunity of plodding through these works to uepa-
rate the bullion train the dross, and thereby lose
both. Should the editor’s humble efforts be but
.partially successful in this attempt, and thus be
t ie happy instiument of extending a taste for
the productions of genius, and intellectual and
social refinement, his ambition will be amply
satisfied. 1 he editor would be gratified iu ma
king his paper a general repository for the pro-
ducuon of scientific and Jtierary gentlemen of
the south, ami invites all well written communi-
letters * U **** Je P artmeut of the republic of
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April,will be sold it
the Court house in Ealonton, between fis
usual hours, 122 1-2 acres of land, (as sunpoJ
being the real estate of Jac. Turkenett.dcceas't
situated about 8 miles from Eatbnton—about 4b
acres ol said land is cleared,ami on the same**
some cabins. Sold for the benefit of the heir*
and creditors of said deceased. Terms ma |.
known on the day of sale. All persons havist
claims against said estate, are requested to brim
them forward, properly attested, and those in.
debted arc required lo make immediate dm-
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, AdmV
j . with the will annexe*
January 13, 1818. ^
VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.
HE members of the company are notified
„nVi , app f, ar j it the , court house at eleven o’clock
on the fourth Saturday in March—It is expected
, 0 . lua „_ “*?M K ho have pledged themselves to uni-
i^top, and fixing bis eyes on him, as would) '£^0^ Capt
CONDITIONS.
The semi-weekly paper will be issued about
the 1st of March, on new type aHd a good paper
every Monday and Thursday evening, at five
dollars per annum, payable half yearly in ad
vance, or six dollars, payable at the expiration
ol the year. -
II. No paper to be discontinued, but with the
consent of the Editor, until all arrearages are
paid : and all subscribers not ordering their pa
pers stopped at the expiration of their subsenp-
ino“he W rye5 e r. CO “ 8ider ^ <18 ,or
..j 11 ' f here wil1 ^ a weekly pa^er printed for
those who may prefer it, at three dollars per
annum, payable m advauce. ’
IV. Advertisement., inserted for seventy-five
cents the first and forty cents each subsequent
insertion per square—If inserted in both papers
from »in ?i n twent J per ceut ' wil1 bemad*
troin all bills amounting to 25 dollars per apn.
v. ihe lega 1 interest of the state to be paid
on all monies unpaid from tbe time wheu they
Columbia, S. C.
A 300ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE, 1
ND immediate possession given: the trad'
lies within 4 miles of Milledgeville, anil aib I
joins Messrs. Barrow and Borland, on whick
there is 140 acres cleared-ro of which is print
cotton land—There is a comfortable hewed lof
dwelling house with two rooms 5 a gin house ana
cotton machine with the running gear complete!
HSUlSM a , good threshing machin*
propelled by the wheels of the cotton gin. (Jte
fourth part of the purchase money wiJI bemus
ed 111 band, the balance in three equal annul .
payments. I can furnish the purchaser with oort-
on the premises. 1
- BOLLING HALL,
January 20,1818.
STOi; THE RUNAWAYS. ^
O N the 3d instant, two nt?r»'
fellows runaway from my I
plantation, near Washington* ]
,Wilkes countv, Georgia—dim
m of them was by the name of
J‘ I U- MANUEL, about 5 feet 6 or7
inches high. 25 years of 8gq I
speaks hastily, is pert r^dsensi-
h—^ >C °*ber is by ttie name" of CLAIBORNE,
about the same height, a few years younger, hu
a down look, and a low gutteral voice. Tel
dollars will be given as a reward for securin|
each of the above negrdes in jail, and convey-j
ing me the earliest information.
„ DAVID P. HILLHOUSE.
February 17.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
"■TUNA WAY or stolen from J
the plantation of the sub
scriber, a likely negro man nans*
ed BOBB, 27 or 28 vears old,M
feet 8 or 10 inches high, a largd
— , car on the left thumb near to*
hand, toleiaoie Dowlegged ; no other marks re
collected. The above reward will be given to
any person wbo will lodge said fellow in any jail
so 1 can get him, or a suitable reward for the fel
low and thief, should lie have been enticed awop
„ JAMES GAREV.
Newberry district, S. C. Feb. 9th, 1818.
THOMAS M, BUSH,
C ON 1INUES the Store opposite the Journal
Office, and the one in Cracker’s Neck. He
lias established a Store in the end o Mr. Fle.j-
ing’s building, opposite Mr. Rousseau’s taverUi
and one at Mr. John Bush’s, in Greene county
He lias discontinued his Eatonton Store, and
intends keeping at his Stores such Goods, Groce*
ries, &c. as suit the people. He conceives it on
ly necessary for him to say, that he continues hi*
usual prices and terms. He^ wishes to empjnf
two or three young men who are acquainted with
business, and hopes that none but such will appi/'
Milledgeville, Feb. 10.
EUBlASlIED WliliKLV, BV
J. B. IIINES,
AT THREE DOLLARS Pku TEAR, IX ADVANCE
Advertisements under -me hundred wonts, inserted lb*
firxt time for 75 cents, cash, and 50 cents tyr each contin
uance—longer ones in proportion. Every insertion of no
tices not published weekly, charged as the fust. Admin
istrators sales of real estate advertised for g4c«h-*
ot personal property g 3—notices to debtors and crea
tors g 3—and nine months citations S 5—one fourth
snore m/every instance, if not settled for when left fc*
insertion.