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POETRY.
voa THE I1ILI.ICDUEVII.LE REFLECTOR.
Writ.cn on a scat erected by a friend and fellow student
of tlic author on the bank of a beautiful brook, to which
he usually resorted for the purpose of study.
To nature’s verdant charms he was not blind,
Who, lonely, wander’d to this green retreat,
’i'u indulge the lofty visions of his mind,
And rais’d this simple, solitary seat.
Here oft reclining in the green oaks’ shade,
(Wlulc at his feet, the streamlet glides along,)
Ue thinks, with rapture, of the lovely maid,
To whom his faithful heart will fcre belong.
Metbinks he onoe pour’d forth this tendei strain:
<• O Julia (.whom my ardent soul adores,
*• When shall I clasp thy lovely form again,
"To this fond heart, which is forever yours.
" With anxious mind I wait the joyful time,
“ When 1 (releas’d from servitude of books,)
“ Again shall seek rich Georgia's genial clime,
"Again bebless’d with thy seraphic looks.
" But let me not supinely spend those days,
"Which science Sc bright wisdom’s page should claim
“ Lest I should forfeit fame and Julia’s praisP,
“ And prove an object of my own disdain.'*
Thus gentle love and emulation join,
To make him learning’s rugged path pursue,
And round his brows, the Muses will entwine,
A wreath of honor to his genius due. L.
LITERARY.
*« LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH.”
The author’s remarks on Charitable So
cieties arc, we think, eminently just. If
there he any one evil in our community that
cries out for extirpation more titan another,
it is the increase of pauperism, principally
assignable to the manner in which alms are
distributed by public charities, as the cause.
On this subject, the, following observations
must be confessed by all to contain too much
truth to be lightly overlooked. The author
Fad been charged by his friend and cor
respondent, with “ cherishing a confirmed
antipathy-to charitable institutions, and es
pecially to those venerable married ladies,
and thrice venerable spinters, who go about
our cities like roaring lions, doing good.”
To this charge the author thus replies :
“ Here too, you mistake me. 1 only ob
jected to the infinite number of these institu
tions, which are placed solely under the di
rection of women, whose easiness of belief,
and want of experience of the various dis
guises under which the vicious practice on
the credulity of the charitable, render
incompetent to such a task. I am sati^red
that this almost indiscriminate charity causes
far more misery than it alleviates ; panders
to vice and immortality, by taking from the
laborirg class the strongest inducement to
industry and economy, namely, the. convic
tion that these alone would keep them from
starving ; by rendering it easier to get re
lief by begging than by work ; and finally,
by giving a sort of respectability to pauper
ism and beggary, which drnroys the salu
tary contempt we. used to feel towards those
now right honorable and thri^ng professions.
The moment you make beggary a tolerably
respectable calling j the moment you relic rc
it from the tax which it pays to society, by
being despised ; that moment you create ar
mies of Lazarones, and convert the idle and
indolent, whom the sense of shame hail hith
erto deterred, into sturdy beggars. When
I was last in*your sity, where there is a so
ciety for. the relief of every thing, I was
struck with the bold and confident air which
pauperism had assumed, which I suppose
partly arose from the unwonted respectabili
ty of the dress it had assumed. Formerly,
it was necessary for a beggar to be both rag
ged and dirty., and to exhibit the strongest
symptotfiKbCigiabillty to work. But dur
ing the period of my visit, 1 was several
times nrensted by stout, hearty fellows, who
under pretence they could not get work, beg
ged without a blush. The friend with whom
J. stayed, complained to mo, that there wav
hardly a day in which he wa9*not called on
for charitable contributions, either to rcHcvi
somebody, or to convert the Hindoos or Hot
tentots, by some of those good ladies 1 spoke
of, who are such sturdy beggars that there is
no refusing them. One day, as I was sitting
alone in the drawing-room, thinking about
matters and things in general, 1 was roused
by a most confident yap at the door. On o-
•pening it, a smart dressed young lady trip
ped in. Professing a great respect for the
sex, I bowed most profoundly, and invited
her into the parlour. The moment she sat
down, without being asked her wishes, and-
with the air of a demand rather than a re
quest, she told me that her -mother being in
want of ten dollars, she hail come with
Miss ^’s compliments, ami a request that
1 would let her have the money • Now Miss
was secretary, or treasurer, I forget
Which, to several charitable institutions, and
exceedingly potent in the beau momlc ; so 1
paid the ten dollars, to escape the “ terrible
areopagus” of the tea-table. The young la
dy took the money, with the air of receiving
her due rather than a favour ; slightly lisped
“ Obliged t« you, Sir—Ma can now send me
to a dancing-school this winter”—and slid
nut of the room with a right fashionable air.
Ten dollars—laid up in heaven • thought I.
I had scarcely recommenced my cogita
tions, when there was another rap at the
door,'and most respectable looking mat-
rpu was shown in, who handed me a sub
scription book fyr raising money for tlic^sup-'
port of missionaries among the Hottentots.
I asked her, with all the respect I could as
sume, whether all the poor Indians of this
country were converted ? Whether the soul
of a Pottawottomy was not as well worth
saving as that of a Hottentot ? And whether
their duty to God and their country would
not be quite ns well fulfilled, by converting
dangerous and bloody savages at our doors,
into mild ami peacablc Christian neighbours,
as by going to the East for that purpose ?
“ Lord Sir,” replied the lady, “ nobody
thinks of matters so close at home. Besides
the Missionary Magazines, and Reviews
don’t say half as much about our Indians as
tliey do about the Hottentots and Hindoos.”
This was conclusive ; so I paid my contribu
tion for the conversion of the poof tlotten
tots, in hopes of getting into the Missionary
Magazine.
After this rencontre I went out, leaving di
rections with the servant to note if any sus
picious persons knocked in my absence. On
my return he informed me that six ladies,
with subscription-books, had called during
the remainder of tiie morning.
1 hope by this time you begin to compre
hend what 1 mean ; to wit, that the distribu
tion of bublic charities ought to he in the
hands of public officers, acquainted with the
world, and able to detect imposture of every
kind. It will then be bestowed with a wari
ness ami cin umspection, which, while it ope
rates as far as is possible to the relief of vir
tuous distress, does not encourage and pam
per idleness and debauchery. I can hardly
believe these good ladies, to whose desire to
do good I give every due praise, do really
benefit mankind by taking from the pockets
of the good to bestow on the worthless.”
The genius of our author is not a little
versatile ; he can, witli much ease and grace,
pass from the sarcastic and indignant rep
rehension of vice, or the sprightly and cut
ting railery of folly, to the most deep-felt
'iijoymcnt and poetical description of the
retired anil tranquil scenes of nature, or the
uclineation of the mild, benignant ami placid
features of domestic life. As a beautiful
specimen of his power in the pathetic, wc
cannot resist the temptation to quote the
following short account of the life, character
and death of a Quaker lady. After
excellent, racy remarks on the manners and I strength, accuracy, and fire of description
character so frequently assumed by young we consider this extraordinary novelist to be
economy united, this woman, by her own la
bors, kept the little‘ones together,—-ted, clo
thed aml scnt them to school, until the gaul
accidentally took fire, aud the prisoner walk
ed home. Here ho afterwards remained un
molested, for the virtue of his wife had sanc-
tifil’d his person. There is a species of calm,
persevering, courageous and unconquerable
industry, that gets the better even of late.
Sueli, it seems, was the industry of this valu
able woman, and it was rewarded even in tins
world. She lived, Coil bless her,—to see
her husband independent, and to share man)
years of independence with him. Bkc rear
ed all her children, saW them honorably settled
and, heard the old people say, that whatever
had been her sacrifices for them, they had
repaid her, by their dutiful affection, and ex
emplary conduct. Then when she at last
died, neither port made her an angel, nor
newspaper eulogy a saint; but the neigh
bors,—the neighbors, followed her to the
grave without uttering a word,—and the
husband and children stood round it with
their faces covered.
Now, if this little true story wants a mor
al, I think it will easily he found. For my
part, I cannot help believing this simple
Quaker woman was a more valuable being,
and fulfilled her duties far more to the bene
fit of society, than if she had been a member
of as many charitable societies as aunt
Kate,—and had refused as many fools as
lady I once heard of in Virginia. I must
own too, that I consider her silent, unobtru
sive, suffering, fire-side, virtue, as far prefer
able to the public and ostentatious newspa
per charity, which, in the present time, stalks
bravely forth, and beckons every worthless
vagabond to its shrine from Europe, Asia,
Africa and America.” American Month. J\Iag.
waters which his fall had disturbed, settle
calmly over him, and the unit of that IT
for which lie had pleaded so strongly
forever withdrawn frgm the sum of h UBl f
existence.” JV*. F. Daily Advertiser. * n
“ ROH ROY.”
We have hail opportunity hastily to look
over this long expected and singular work ,*
and we rail truly say it is a very entertain
ing production. That it is uniformly as
much so as the story of “ Old Mortality,”
in “ Tales of my Landlord,” may perhaps,
be doubted. But, take it together, it docs not
discredit the genius and talents of the un
known author. Many things are admirable;
some not inferior to the higher wrought pas
some!-sages in the most elevated Epic Poems. For
clergymen, the author thus indulges his con
templative mood.
Having two or three hours to spare till
dinner, we rambled about t ie church-yard,
reading the records of mortality, which,
though every where confined to a few simple
items, concerning a few insignificant people,
are always interesting. They are the his-
tury of high and low; and none can read
them without being impressed with a con
viction that all aru his brothers at last—for
all die. lie who moulders below was born,
— and died ; and whether rich, or a beggar,
his short history is that of kings. The
struggles of restless ambition, too reverses
of the great, and the story of tiie wreck ol
lofty pride, wc read as an interesting ro
mance, addressing itself solely to the ima-
inaiion : but when a monarch or a hero
dies, lie becomes our equal ; his death is an
example equally with that of the meanest,
mortal; and we here realize our common
nature, and common end.
While pouring over these tomb-stones, our
attention was attracted by a long cavalcade,
on foot, on horseback and in carriages ot
various kinds, winding slowly over one ol
the hills at a distance, it came towards the
church-yard, entered it, and stopt at a large
oak, under which was a newly dug grave
we had not noticed before. The people ol
the village were attracted by it, aud came
up, one after another, until there were, I sup
pose, two hundred, men, women and children
gathered together. Without a whisper, ex
cept that of the oaks around, the coifin was
taken from the waggon, lowered into the
grave, and coveVoil with earth. 1 never wit
nessed a silence more solemn and affecting;
and beautiful as is our church funeral ser
vice, I will venture to say it never raised a
feeling of moro,. Jeep and awful devotion
than that which.impressed the dead silence
around. There was no need ol saying “dust
to dustevery clod of earth, as it fell hol
lowly on the coffin, proclaimed that; neither
was any proof wanting that “ man who is
horn of a woman,” must die, lor a thousand
little hillocks around gave silent testimony
to the fact. When the mound over tl» t
grave Was smoothed with pious care, a little
buzzing ran through the crowd—and as it
slowly separated, some ventured to talk a-
buutthe deceased person, who was, I found,
a Quaker lady, who died—as others die, of
some common malady or other. She Was
neither a belle nor a beauty ; no crowd ever
followed her at a ball, nor cquld 1 learn that
riage, except from the person wc had left
still standing by her grave. Yet there was
something in tho story I learned of her, that
affected me, I can hardly tell why, for it was
not the least romantic.
It seems that her husband, in consequence
of imprudence or misfortune, had several
years before been confined in a prison for
debt, leaving a family of eight children des
titute. By the rare magic of industry and
unrivalled in this department of literature.—
There is also in Roi* Roy, a good portion of
that singular humor and characteristic des
cription, which is no where so well attained
as in the Scottish dialect.
We give thefollowing account of the execu
tion, by order of Rob lloy’s wife, of a man
who had been left as a hostage for his safety,
after intelligence had reached her that lie hail
been taken prisoner by the royal troops under
I he duke of Argyll*.
“ It is impossible to describe thesjeorn, the
loathing, aud contempt, with which the
wife of AI’Gregor [Rob Roy] regarded this
wretched petitioner for the poor boon of ex
istence
“ I could bid you live,” said she, “ had life
been to you the same weary and wasting bur
then that it is to me—that it is to every noble
and generous mind.—Rut you—wretch ! y^u
could creep t!m»* the World unaffected by its
various disgraces, its inaffablc miseries, its
constantly accumulating masses of crime and
sorrow—you could live and enjoy yourself,
while the noble minded arc betrayed—while
nameless and birtblcss villains tread on the
neck of the brave and long descended—you
could enjoy yourself, like a butcher dog in
the shambles, battening on garbage, while
the slaughter of tiie brave went on around
you ! This enjoyment you shall not live to
partake of; you shall die, base dog, and
that before yon cloud has passed over tho
sun."
She gave a brief command in Gaelic to her
attendants, two of whom seized upon the
prostrate suppliant, and hurried him to the
brink of a cliff which overhung the flood. He
set up the most piercing and dreadful cries
that fear ever uttered—1 may well term them
dreadful, for tliey haunted iny sleep for years
afterwards. As the murders, or executioners
call them as you will, dragged him along,
he recognized me even in thatinuincnt of hor
ror, and exclaimed, in the last articulate
words, I ever heard him utter, “ O Mr. Os-
baldistonc, save me ! save me •”
I was so much moved by the horrid spec
tacle, that, altho’ in a momentary expectation
of sharing his fate, I did attempt to speak in
his behalf, but, as might have, been expected,
my interference was sternly disregarded.—
The victim was held fast by some, while o-
tliers, binding a large heavy stone in a plaid
tied it round his neck, and others again ea
gerly stripped him of part of his dress. Half
naked and thus manacled, they hurried him
into the lake, there about twelve feet deep,
she had ever received a single offer of marv drowning his last death shriek with a loud
halloo of vindictive triumph, above which,
however, the yell of mortal agony was dis
tinctly heard.—The heavy burthen plashed
in the dark blue waters of tho lake, and the
highlanders, with their polo axes and swords,
watched an instant to guard, lest extricating
himself from the load to which lie was attach
ed, he might havc'struggled to regain the
shore. But the knot had been securely
bound ; Hie victim sunk without effort; the
TEN DOLLARS REWARdT
RAN away from the 8 „b 8Cri .
bm living in Jasper cuunt
state of Georgia, on the | a .|
day of January but, two
groes, the one a man, about
twenty years of age, black com.
plected, thick beard, ra t|, er
crossed eyed, about 5 feet 8or
10 inches high, well made, bv the name of N ei )
his clothes not recollected. The other a woman'
by the name of Priss, about eighteen jearg old'
about 5 feet high and holes in lier ears, had ^
when she went away, a white homespun frock,
Ten dollars will be given to any person that will
secure either of the said negroes in Jail, and the
same sum with all travelling expenses, if delj.
vered to either of the subscribers, living no
Murder creek in said county, near Basses’mil],
„ ALEXANDER HEHHOK, .
james spuadlis.
February 25, 1818.
NEW STORE.
BAJIE subscriber bas just opened, at the house
R_ on the corner of Jefferson and Greene
streets, opposite the Journal Office, a New Store,
where he intends keeping a general assortment
of DRV GOODS. He lias also established t
Store in the upper end of Baldwin county, j(
the house of Mr. Gustavus Hendrick, where will
lie kept an extensive assortment of DM
HOODS <$• GROCERIES, which will be soli
at very reduced prices. John jeteb.
Mifledgevillo, March 14,1818.
N. It. Just received one trunk of elegant
Straw Bonnets of the latest fashions. j. i.
HATS,
Selling ojf at reduced prices.
FB^RE sub-criber, wishing to close his business
JL will sell at reduced prices, his extensive as*
sortment of Hats, consisting of Ladies’ Heaver*
of the latest fashion, Gentlemen’s superfine Beal
ver hats, common and low priced Fur do. Men’s
and Boy’3 Wool do. Children’s Fur and Morocdi
do. &c. &e. all of which will be sold either a|
wholesale or retail, much lower than have cvet
been, sold in this place.
Ail persons indebted to the subscriber are
earnestly requested to make payment immedi
ately ; dnd those having any demands aguind
him, to present them for payment. ’ (
a. haHsco»(,,
Milledgevillc, March 10, 1818. '
BOOT A SHOE SPORE.
M EDE Leuscur & Co. have just received from
Ncw-York and Philadelphia, and are now
opening, opposite Messrs. Terondet, Atkinson !t
Co. and south of the market, a general assortment
of ROOTS SHOES, which they will sell at
the Augusta prices.
Milledgeville, March 24.
H A CON <Y LA111J.
S EVENTY-FIVE thousand weight of excel.
lent bacon, and four thousand weight of laql
can lie had by applying iu Eatonton to
JEREMIAH HARVEY.
March 10, 1818
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
U NDER the firm of Scarbrough <5j - M Rinne,
(successors to Barna M’Kiune & Co.) hav
ing formed a connexion in business in this place,
they beg leave to offer tlieir services as general
Commission Merchants.
WILLIAM SCARBROUGH,
JOSEPH P. M’KINNE.
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
M
5KINNE& CO. will make advances oa
produce lodged with them to be forward
ed their friends, Scarbrougli & M’Kinne, for sale.
Should the Savannah market not offer accepta
ble ad vantages, the produce, (at the option of (ho
owner) will then be forwarded to the northward,
or a port in Great Britain or France, and in all
instances, for the customary commission, they
will guarantee the responsibility of the parties
to whom it may be consigned for sale.
Augusta, Jan. 30, 18!8.
NOTICE.
I N consequence of Mr. Barna M‘Kinnc retir
ing from business, the sabscribors have toan-
■■ounce a contemplated dissolution of their ccn
corn, and that ali transactions after the first of
next month will bo conducted by their successors.
Scarbrough & M’Kinue; who'they respectfully
beg leave to recommend to the same confidence
ami encouragment, that has been so kindlv con
ferred on them. BARNA M’KINNE & Co.
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April,will be sold al
the Court house in Batonton, between till
usual hours, 122 1-2 acres of land, (as supposed'
bring the real estate of Jac. Turkenett, deceas’d
situated about 8 miles from Eatonton—about 4(
acres of said land is cleared,and on the same an
some cabins. Sold for the benefit of the heir,
and creditors of said deceased. Terms tnadi
known on the day of sale. All persons having
claims against said estate, are requested to brief
them forward, properly attested, and those in
debted are required to make immediate pay
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, Adin’r
with tiie will annexed.
January 13, 1818.
WAGGONS WANTED.
1 MIE subscribers living in Madison, Morg.ii
. county having oil hand in said couiilv, mai
two hundred bales of cotton, which they wain
in market early in April, will give the liiglu’s:
prices for hauling, either to Augusta or Mi!
lcdgeville. S. W. Sr R. PE ARM AN.
March 2,1813.