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POETRY.
TO MARY.
WH AT tho* *tis true, I've talk’d of lovo,
And other beauties idly strove,
My heart to f.-ce from Mary’s chain,
Unbroke the golden links remain,
Entwin'd round every part.
For if another's cluirnia I prais’d,
Those charms some fond remembrance tfcis'd,
Perhaps 'twos not her tresses flowing, ,
Dimpled check or blushes glowing,
Uh, no ! Oh, no !
'Twas Mary’s lip, or Mary's eve,
'Twas Mary’s self that caus’d the sigh.
Still Mary rul’d my heart.
1 own, betray’d by youth or wine,
I’ve sworn a face or form divine.
Or when an me witching svren sung,
My yielding soul bewildered hung,
Enraptur'd with her art *
Ilut soon the feeble spell was gone.
Some faint resemblance rais’d alone ;
Could tones less sweet and looks less smiling,
Long delude, my sense beguiling,
Oh, no ! On, no!
’Twa.% Man’s voice, or Mary's glance,
"Twas Mary’s self that caus'd the trance.
And touch'd my conscious heart.
THE COQUETTE
Dresses so neatly for a ball,
In truth she’s hardly dress’d at all;
A thing to Yankees quite distressing,
- It leaves so little room for guessing,
As how th’ angelic little dragon,
Would look, without a single rag on.
JMf A MAN WHOSE.CHOICE IT tVA$ TO BE HAN0F.D
OR MARRIED.
Lo ! here’s the Bride, and there’s the Tree,
Take which of these best Vketh thee ;
The choice is bad on either port,
The woman’s worse—drive on the cart.
CHARACTERS.
FRANCIS JEFFREY, ESQ.
Few writers of the present time occupy a
larger share of the attention of literary men
than Mr. Jeffrey. He is the editor of the
Edinburg Review, and the author of some of
the best papers in that popular journal; and -
it is allcdged that few critics have exposed
the faults and deficiencies of the candidates
for literary distinction with less indulgence
and more presumption. Many who have
smarted under the lash of his ridicule regard
hnn with indignation, while they endeavor
to persuade themselves that he is only worthy'
of their contempt. It is to be imped,
however that among tiie vast number, who
have felt the impartial malice of Jiis pen, there
may be some whm will acknowledge, although
he is always severe, that he lias been some
times just—but never in their own particular
case. It would indeed be folly to deny the
talents and merits of a writer who has so es
sentially contributed to establish the reputa
tion of the Edinburg Review.
It must he, conceded to the exasperated vic
tims against whom lie has so bitterly direct
ed the rpiibs and scorn of the time*, that an
author who is only known as a critic can as
sert hut a negative claim to distinction ; for
it is easier to point out the faults of tho no
blest work of art than to execute the mean
est. Mr. Jeffrey must hot he allowed to im
agine. himself superior in genius to any of the
authors whom he lias reviewed, merely be
cause l-.e has successfully made them objects
of mirth or derision ; his merits lie in other
qualifications than the glibness of his satire ;
for with every allowance that may be grant
ed to the invidiousness of cotemporaries, it
cannot be denied that there is a strong basis
of good sense in liis strictures, of which the
pungent and sparkling acrimony of liis man
nor is the flavor arid effervescence. He of
ten errs in estimating the general abilities of
the writers whom he reviews, and allows his
distate to their works to be improperly di
rected against themselves ; assuming, in this
way, a privilege of censuring, which is not
permitted in good society, and is never exer
cised without exciting feelings of resentment,
destructive of the quiet reciprocities of social
intercourse. His taste is sometimes capri
cious, and is evidently more under the influ
ence of the moment than regulated by settled
principles ; but, upon the whole, a spirit of
justice may be discovered in his most merci
less animadversions. Sometimes lie has re
leased his victims from the rack, when it
might have been thought that he intended to
inflict a capital punishment; at others lie lias
gamboled to the last; and, with true feline
cruelty, only ended their misery when lie
was tired of tormenting them. But we are
acquainted with no writer who more youth
fully states liis own taste and predilections;
and, if there is some degree of conceit in his
ingenuousness, it must be allowed that, when
he ad .ocates the principles of those opinions
in which his judgment is settled and matured
he docs it with a manilcss that has nothing
superior in the literature of any age.
Jt has been objected to Mr. Jeffrey’s pa
pers, and indeed to his journal, that the want
of circumstantial and scientific knowledge
is but ill supplied by theoretical ingenuity
It cannot, however, be denied that on agrept
variety of subjects, he has manifested much
ability and information. He inay not appear
always a profound scholar, but he is uni
formly an accomplished gentleman. Some
of his bclle-lettres articles are among the
best written dissertations in the English lau
guuge ; especially those in which a vein of
historical illustration serves to develop tin
particular and relative merits of the author
under consideration.
But a light and sketchy outHnc is tic cha
hands ami feet, the idle flourishes of a free
and rapid pencil. In his manner there is
frequently much elegance, sometimes great
benuty, but always a large expanse of loose
and careless writing. Conceited and dainty
expressions may be here and there discover
ed ; they are however more of the nature of
freckles than of moles, and wc suspect are
sometimes esteemed as beauties. His wit
may be described as the antithesis of affecta
tion. A sharp natural acid, that requires
to be mixed with the nauseous alkali of folly in
others, to produce that brisk and wholesome
corrective which lias become so fashionable
to be almost necessary to the sickly appetite
of the age.
Mr. Jeffrey has without question more ad
mirers than enemies ; the latter arc only to
be found among the small class who subject
themselves to his jurisdiction, while the for
mer are spread throughout the whole com
monality of readers. But he has no disci
ples ; he has too much practical sense ever
to become the founder of a sect ; for it is not
in the nature of that quality to inspire en
thusiasm, or to allow it to be felt. His head
and heart are made up of household stuff, and
seem to have so little affinity for any thing
romantic, that wc arc inclined to think even
liis personal manners must have many angu
lar points towards those who are less earnest
to he always instructive. Tho cast of liis
mind seems to be much more ukin to that of
the inan of business than of the author ; hut
he oftencr expresses himself with the bilious
irritability of the one, than the hearty ur
banity of the other ; lie is in fact, neither n
man of the world, nor a man of genius, but
belongs to that dubious class who arc regard
ed with indulgence by the. wise, while they
are lauded by the weak, and only contemned
by the foolish. He is an author admirably
well suited to the occasional topics of his own
day ; but, when time shall have obliterated
those associations in tiie public mind, to
which lie so felicitously refers, and draws
from them so many apt and amusing illustra
tions, his style will lose much of its perspi
cuity, and a gycat deal of its life and inter
est. A critic in fact is something like a
player ; his talents arc hrouglrt out by the
ideas of others, and liis merits can only he
appreciated by comparing his efforts with
those of bis cotemporaries. Mr. Jeffrey is
clever, but not great ; eloquent, without be
ing impressive ; accomplished^ but not pro
found. His main fault belongs more to tiie
man than the author ; it is in presuming
to be the censor of private manners, where
tlie'clcar and obvious line of his duty, (as
pointed out both by the consciousness of liis
own petulcnce, and tho nature of the task lie
lias assumed,) is merely to review the merits
and defects of published books. Latterly,
however, he has more modestly adhered to
liis vocation ; « and, where there is shame,”
as Dr. Johnson says, “there may yet be
virtue.”—Monthly Ma%tiz inc.
healed very large wounds from the gnawing
of calves, horses and sheep, by a (liberal ap
plication of this plaister, secured by a ban
dage of paper or linen.
When trees arc much pruned, they arc apt
to throw oat numerous suckers from -the
boughs in the following summer; these
should be rubbed off when they first .appear,
or they may easily be broken off while
young and brittle ; cutting is apt to increase
their number.' Trees differ much in their
form, and require very different treatmertt in
pruning; it. may not be necessary in our
warm climate to trim quite so dose as in
England, but great care should he observed
to take off every limb which crosses ano
ther, or is likely so to do at a future time;
those who can conveniently do it, will find a
benefit, from forming the heads of their trees
in the nursery, the year before they remove
them; when transplanted, they will thrive
more rapidly from not being pruned at the
time of removal, which in some measure ex
hausts and weakens the tree. I have been
latterly in the habit of giving the principal
pruning to my orchards, after they have been
planted out about five or six years, their
growth, with proper cultivation, is then so
i igorous as to permit any natural defects in
their forms to lie corrected with safety,
tree pruning, and forming their branches;
the pi nliarity of growth which characteriz
es each kind is then visible, and uniformity
of shape may be iw>rc easily attained.
Apple trees should be so formed as to al
low a man and horse to pass under them in
ploughing; this elevation of the branches*
while it protects them from cattle, opens the
ground to the salutary influence of the sun,
on the crops of grain and grass.
No error is more universal, than an anxie
ty for early productiveness in an orchard;
it is generally obtained at the expense of
much eventual profit, ami by a great dimin
ution of the size and vigor of the trees ; be
lieving early fecundity to be injurious to the
vigor and perfection of plants, 1 am always
attentive to pluck from the tree these eviden
ces of early maturity, in the first stages of
their existence.
It was a common practice some years ago,
to apply Mr. Forsyth’s celebrated coni posi
tion to lafge wounds produced by pruning;
that novelty, like many others, had its day
among us ; and has finally lost its populari
ty, from a general belief of its inefficacy.
Mr. Forsyth at a later period announced, as
a new discovery, what had been long known
in this part of the country ; that an applica.
tion of cow dung and urine was more effica
rious in healing the wounds of trees than liis
plaister, even in the moist climate of Eng
land. In America, our winter frosts decom
pose it, and our summer heats dry it
completely, as to render it useless for th
poses intended.”
VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY.
T HE members of the company are notifid
to appear at the court house at eleven o’cU
on the fourth Saturday in March—It is
that those who have pledged themselves toiui
form, will be completely equipped.
THAD. G. HOLT, Capt
THE SUBSCRIBERS^ *
U NDER the firm of Scarbrough # M‘Ki M .
(successors to llarna M‘Kitme & Co/)
ing formed a connexion in business in thiapbJ
they beg leave to offer their services as general
Commission Merchants. %
WILLIAM SCARBROUGH.
JOSEPH P. M‘KINNE. H
Savannah, Jan. 24,1818.
M ? K.INNE & CO. will make advances u
produce lodged with them to be fur* Jn |.
ed their fric'Js, Scarbrough & M‘Kinne,{ors»^
Should the Savannah market not offer accepts,
ble advantages, the produce, (at the option ofjiio 1
owner) will then be forwarded to the northward 1
or a port in Great Britain or France, and in all
instances, for the customary commission, they
will guarantee the responsibility of the partin
to whom it may be consigned for sale.
Augusta, Jan. 30, 1818.
NOTICE.
I N consequence of Mr. Barna M‘Kinne reth-
ing from business, the subscribers have to an-
nounce a contemplated dissolution of their con
cern, and that all transactions after the first*!
next month will be conducted by their success^
Scarbrough & M'Kinne ; who tlvey respectfuljj
beg leave to recommend to tiie same confident
and encouragment, that lias been so kindly cm,
ferred on them. BARNA M‘KINNE (kljp
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
AGRICULTURAL.
ON PRUNING OF ORCHAItUS.
BY WM. COX, OF NEW-JEHSEY.
There is no branch of the management of
orchards less understood, or more unskilful
ly performed, than the operation of prun
ing : a bcliqf of its necessity is so general,
that even the most careless will seldom omit
it—such, however, is the want of skill in
many of its operators, that total neglect
would he less prejudicial, than their perform
ance of it. If judiciously done, pruning
promotes health and early fruitfulness : and
will continue a tree in vigour, long after the
common period of its duration. Nothing
has contributed more to the imperfect know
ledge of this operation, than the wordy and
unintelligible systems which have been pub
lished respecting it: in a mere practical sys
tem, it is unnecessary to lay much stress on
wood branches and fruit branches ; which,
however \vell understood by an observing in
telligent gardener, rau scarcely be compre
hended by the laborer, employed in the bu
siness of pruning an orchard—from the ra
pidity of vegetation, which is generally as
cribed to the nature of. our climate, exces
sive pruning is very apt to generate an in
finite number of suckers from the limbs of
apple trees ; which, if suffered to grow, are
more injurious to the production of fruit than
the woody branches which are removed : our
great lieat, and dry atmosphere, render close
pruning less necessary here than in Eng
land, whence wc derive most of our instruc
tion on this point. A good general rule is,
never to shorten the branches, unless to im
prove the figure of the tree ; and then to
take them off at the separation, very close,
so that tiie wound may heal well and soon ;
the branches should shout as much as possi
ble in increasing distances, as they proceed
from the qontmon centre, inclining upwards,
by which means the sap will be more evenly
impelled, and better distributed ; the ranges
should not approach too near to each other ;
for the admission uf the rays of the sun is
uocesssary to the production and perfect ma
turity of fine flavoured fruit—in cutting off
a branch, it should bo done as close as pos
sible, never leaving a stump, for the bark
cannot grow over it, and disease in the wood
THE TELESCOPE.
PTM1E Editor proposes to issue this papertwice
I a 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 all the current news of the day, foreign and
domestic: with all^al information interesting
to the Carolinas anuPGcorgia ; ajourncl of the
Congress of the United States, and of the Gene
ral Assembly of South Carolina ; with the most
interesting speeches and debates, gnd important
bills or acts, which may occur in those bodies
Judiciary opinions and decisions : Moral, politi
cal arid agricultural essays: Notices of improve
ments in the arts, mechanics and manufactures :
Occasional views of the scientific, political and
religious world : Critiques and lists of new pub
lications, 8tc. The Editor has ordered all the
best American and European periodical publica
tions, from which lie will enrich the Telescope
with copious extracts, carfully avoiding old
points of religious and political controversy: and
thus make liis 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 sepa
rate the bullion from the dross, and thereby Use
both. Should the editor’s humble efforts "be but
partially successful in this attempt, and thus be
the happy instrument of extending a taste for
the productions of genius, and intellectual and
social refinement, his ambition will be amply
satisfied. The editor would be gratified in ma
king liis paper a general repository for the pro
duction of scientific and Itierarv gentlemen of
the south, and invites all well written communi
cations in any department of the republic of
letters.
dONWTIONS.
I. 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
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vance, or six dolfars, payable at the expiration
of the year.
II. No paper to be discontinued, but with the
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pers stopped at the expiration of their subscrip
tions, will be considered as having engaged for
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III. There will be a weekly paper printed for
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V. The legal interest of the state to be paid
on all monies unpaid from the time when they
become due. The Editor will, however, always
prefer punctual payments*
Columbia, S. C.
PHYSIC.
T HE public are informed that I have finally I
located myself in this village, as a praefr
tioner of Mediciue—Applications made atcapt
Glovei’s shall be attended to, with that punch-1
ality, which the nature of my profession renuiral
JOHN G. SLAPPY. I
Monticello.Geo. Feb. 18, 1818.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
R unaway or stolen from I
the plantation of the sut»
scriber, a likely negro man aim
ed BOBU, 37 or 28 years old, five
feet 8 or 10 inches high, a large
.scar oil the left thumb near tua I
band, tolerable bowlegged ; no other marks re‘
collected. The above reward will be given to I
any person w ho will lodge said fellow in any jail
so 1 can get him, or a suitable reward for the fel
low and thief, should he have been enticed awi&
JAMES GAREY.
Newberry district,S. C. Feb. 9th, 1818.
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April,will be soldai
the Court house in Eatonton, between IS#
usual hours, 122 1-2 acres of land, (as suppose^
being the real estate of Jac. Turkenett, deceas’d,
situated about 8 miles from Eatonton—about 40
acres of said land is cleared,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 (in
debted are required to make immediate pay,
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, Adin’r
with the will annexed*,
January 13,1818.
WAGGONS WANTED.
T HE subscribers living in Madjson, Morgan
county having on hand in said county, near
two hundred bales of cotton, which they want
in market eatly in April, will give the highest
prices for hauling, either to Augusta or Mil 1
ledgevilte.
S. W. $■ R. FEARMAN.
March 2,1818. ,
SHERIFF’S SALE.
W ILL be sold at the Court-House in Eaton-
ton, Putnam county, on the first Tuesday
in April next, between the usual hours, one large
bay HORSE, levied on as the property of Wm-
S. Hendrick, to satisfy an execution in favor df
Robert Bledsoe, surviving copartner vs. Wm. S.
Hendrick, property pointed out by Win. Brown,
and levied by B. J. Harvey, former deputy sheriff?
anil returned to me.
WM. VARNER, Sheriff.
February 23, 1818.
DOCTORS GLENN & COOK,
H AVING associated themselves in the prac
tice of Medicine, tender their profession*,
al services to their friends, and the public gene
rally. Their shop is kept in the house formerly
occupied by J. Crawford, esq. as all office.
Milledgeville, Feb. 1§, 1818.
, DISSOLUTION.
T HE copartnership of Arthur Reddnig ami
Son is this day dissolved by biutuiit don-
sent, and the business will be carried on in the
town of Clinton by Andrew Redding, who ha*
the sole management ol the store, with whom
those indebted will please call and settle their
accounts.
February It, 1818.
NOTICE.
N INE months after date hereof, application
will be made to the honorable the Court of
Ordinary of Morgan county, for leave to sell of
divide a Lot of land, the property of Andrew
Brown, late ofsaid county, deceased, wlieron trie
subscriber now lives, for the benefit of .the heirs.
JOSEPH MORROW, ad’mf.
in right of his wife-
Dec. 16,1817.
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