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5ES1MV MORNING, MAY 12.
lion which has recently taken place in
i, has resulted in the re-election of
fclcott, and the election of republicans
kr,council, and two-thirds of the house
Itatbes. Governor Knight has been
jovernor of the state of Rhode-Island.
kusetts, Enoch Lincoln, esq. is elected
(congress in the place of the lion. A.
fccently appointed fudge of the District
laine. In Virginia, General John Pe-
Icted tocongress from the district late-
kted by Colonel P. Goodwin, deceased.
I movements.—A detachment of the 4 th
M infantry, under the command Col.
Lrched from Ualeigh, N. C. on the 20th
ed for our southern frontier. A Nor-
notices the arrival of a company of in-
hat place on the 16th inst. under Maj.
hey were to embark in a few days for
i and proceed from thence to join the
ler general Jackson. Major Dinkins
t eighty regulars, left Fayetteville, N. C.
kh ult. for the south. General Itipley
| at Baltimore a few weeks since, for
General Scott is now in N. York.
r
• College.—A college has been recent-
in Baltimore, denominated Asbury
Mid is entirely under the control of
alist society. Its professed object is
ktion of youth, and young men who
died to preach the gospel. A greatrc-
[religion has taken place in that city.
of five hundred had made a public
kn in a few weeks.
FOR THE REFLECTOR.
lines,—Living as 1 do in a remote part
|uuutry, and having but little intercourse
busy world, some of the reasons upon
he opinions are bottomed which I would
[refute, may have escaped me ; and the
flection which I have been able to give to
ijcct, may, for the want of better informa-
tve led me to improper or unsound con-
I allude to a subject which, 1 observe
|0cnrgia newspapers, has excited the wit
i spleen of many—the propriety of crying
Ihat system of paper change, which the re
lation of our country has introduced.—
summits principally used by the enemies
Irther continuation of this system, are
—That the bills are sometimes issued by
i without solid capital, by which strangers
eived ; and that they sometimes become
Jpired and torn that they are troublesome
pliojr, and small sums are lost by which
keris profitted at the expense of‘the last
i and although there may be other minor
Ions sometimes urged, 1 recollect none en-
lo serious refutation. I would say to the
ks making the first objection, that if you
been injured in this way it has been your
suit ; that unless you are able to judge cor-
[of the value of the article which is oflfer-
you in exchange for your property, you
put a bad chance in society at any rate, as
band other means are daily practised by
(you may be equally loser. And if you are
'tent to the management of your own busi-
lyou have nothing to do wlien a suspicious
inown bill is presented, but to reject it.—
lis no more difficulty in determining —.hat
lu will or will not take, than there could be
lars or bank bills were presented in their
and because counterfeits of these are
lilies circulated to the injury of the ignor-
lunweary, it would be blind policy to re-
lem altogether. The value of every man's
Ishould stand upon the opinion we have of
pvency of the maker; and there is surely
»ter difficulty in determining the solvency
[maker of a note of fifty cents than the nui-
one for fifty dollars. That in the present
if the scarcity of specie, it would be ex-
|y difficult to do the business of a small
! or neighborhood without some substitute
lall specie, none will deny, and if it is per-
I in any mail’s power to defend himself a-
‘ a loss by change bills, then I can see no
i why they are not a very good sub-tilute.
as been said indeed, that the time has ar-
vhen this species of change shoi’bJ give
i a more effective one, and although l will
[to the truth of the proposition,That silver
e is better than paper—yet the fact of the
ky of change of the better kind will tell
It we are not yet perpared to refuse all other,
gradual introduction of specie, when we
ansact business with facility without occa-
ly using paper change, [t will vanish of
J, for all will give preference to the silver.
(I conclude, that the paper change might
Ireat propriety, be left to stand upon its
merits, and needs not the great display o!
Jtism and disinterestedness which are mak-
jsomc quarters against it. No one will re-
predit for his opposition to change bills on
kt of his great desire to promote the pnb-
rf. So long then as men are left entirely
exercise of their own wills upon the sub-
pd are perfecty able to guard against in-
[themsclves, I should hold it not inconsist-
the public good or private advantage,
be hills supply the place they were iutend-
kitnout endeavoring to prejudice the com-
[by low invidious slanders, or argument-
“upon specious pretences, without regain
or soundness of deduction. The evil
bciety is ripe for the changfc, will readil
percitibly vanish. SLUIBO. *
lohoochc, April 15,1818.'
The Weather.—The following is an extract of
a letter from a gentleman in Riceborough, to his
friend in Savannah, dated Riceborough, April 28.
•* 1 will give you a sketch or the late unexpect
ed cold, which has proved completely destruc
tive to our promising crops. After a shower,
with some hail, on Friday, Kith ultimo, the
weather on Saturday v as fair, but a little too cool
—on Sunday morning, it was cloudy, the wind
from southwest by west, with the appearance of
approaching rain ; about 10 o’clock in the morn
ing, the wind west to northwest and blew a gale,
the cold encreasing every hour j and, on Mon
day morning, hail again returned to complete
winter, except Wednesday might, which was
cloudy, we had severe frost and thick ice every
morning up to Saturday. On Friday morning it
freezed, while l >.asin the act of washing, when
the sun was fully half an hour high. The article
of cotton seed was enquired for in every direc
tion, and it was the general opinion theie was not
enough to replant the crops, but the planters have
been attentive to the wants of their neighbors,
and have liberally spared and divided seed ; and,
at this late period, bur crops are again planted,
with a hope, at least, that we may make some
cotton, and secure seed for another year. To
the credit of our country, hot a bushel of seed
have been sold.”
[We have been informed that the fanners in
the western part ot the slate, escaped in a great
measure, the destructive iufiueuoe of the lute
Irosts, in consequence of toe backwardness of
their crops.J
By the laie treaty with the Creek Indians,
Georgia win acquire upwards of two millions of
acres of land, wmea, together with the tracts ot
country obtained last summer from the C’liero-
kees, will give to that state a country as exten
sive us the state ot Connecticut, it is now the
settled pohcy ol the geneiai government to re
move as soon as possible ail the tribes ol Indians
will) reside on tile east, to tiie west of the Mis
sissippi. It is believed the Cheroke.es will soon
yield to the wishes ot the L. States, and that in
a few years, the whole of the Cherokee country
will form another great accession to the jurisdic
tional limits ot Georgia.—dVurthern paper.
More Tires.—Since our last notice of the fre
quent fires which have taken place in our city,
wehuve now to record two more attempts, one on
Friday evening last, in Franklin ward, a little
above tiie market—the other yesterday morning,
at the we.-t end of the town. ‘ Both of them how
ever, were discovered and put out, without much
damage. Although every exertion has been
made on the part of the police, aided by the cit
izens generally, an one has as yet been detected.
Eight or nine eisons were arrested this mornin-
on suspicion audc-iumitted to goal for examina
tion.—Suvanuu.i Republican.
We learn, that, a deputation of Indians, from
some of the tribes, went in to St. Augustine, on
last Monday week, with an interpreter, for tiie
purpose of ascertaining, from the governor wheth
er it was ins wish, or rdvisable for them, to take
up arms against the white inhabitants, and at
tack tiie frontier or not ;—and whethoi they
should oppose the forces uoJer general Jackson.
Tne governor returned for answer, that it was nis
decided w ish, that tiiey should not take up arms,
or make the least resistance to any of tiie Uni
ted States’ troops, should they even enter their
towns. He requested them to return home, anil
adhere to his advice, and enjoined on them the ne
cessity of giving up, forthwith, tiie negroes that
are with them, who have either been stolen or
runaway I rum their owners, in Georgia and else
where.—Tne number of fugitives with tiie In-
cians are supposed to be between two and three
hundred.—-Provisions are scarce and high in Au
gustine and the inhabitants of that place are ap
prehensive of a visit from general Jackson.—ib.
Internal Improvement.—This favorite subject
is again brought under our notice, by the rapid
rise which lias taken place on the value of pro
perty at the town of Haywood, (N. C.) This
place is laid off at the confluence of Haw &. Deep
rivers, in Chatham, aniLbeing asituated near the
rich western counties, is supposed to bid fair for
becoming one of the principal commercial towns
j of tiie state. Five hundred per cent, is not short
I of the sum of increase which the discerning eye
id speculation has given tor the property in and
about Haywood, ami certainly more profit than
that has been realized on sales elsewhere on our
waters. All this is owing to the active interest
which the state has taken in lending her aid to
wards promoting internal navigation. The effects
are obvious. The people perceivin' the opening
of the waters is, in effect, bringing Ihe Atlantic
to the very foot of our Mountains, and that the
streams which have hitherto only given fecundi
ty to the soil, may he made to convey the rich
products of that soil to market. The great won
der is, not that our fellow-citizens have at length
opened their eyes, hut that they have kept them
so long shut. The newly established town of
Milton,on Dan river, flourishes almost with any
example in this or any other state. Property
which a year ago would mrt have sold for 1500
dollars, will now command 15,000. Lots on the
main street, sell tor 100 dollars a loot front.
A new town is establishing at the Eagle Falls,
on Dan river, 35 miles above Danville, to be cal
led Jackson.—Ualeigh Star.
The Morulas.—M om our correspondent at St.
Jfanfs, April 22.—By captain Thomas Brooks,
who tais day arrived from Kingston, Jam. after a
passage of 1G days, information has been receiv
ed here that immediately before his sailing from
that place, the packet from England had arrived
which brought news that Spain had ceded the Flo-
ridas to the Russians; that this account in Ja
maica was generally believed, and that the Rus-
•>ian fleet was hourly expected to take possession
■ f the country.
If this news is true, which we have no great
eason to disbelieve, we may shortly expect dif-
icultics. I hope our government will never suf-
r Spain to cede the Floridas to any foreign na
tion, to subject this country to inconvenience.
especially as Spain has already received the equi
valent from the United States; or, we have on
her demands for ten times the amount the Flori
das arc worth, for spoliations on our commerce.
Independent of the dangerous neighbors we should
have in Alexander, with his Cossacks of the Don,
(although lie belongs to the peace suciety of Mas
sachusetts.) \Ye have trouble enough with the
savages who remain near us, at present ; and if
it has taken us so long to quiet two or three thou
sand of them, how would we dispose of sixteen
or seventeen thousand Tartars from Siberia ? It
behoves this government ut once - to take posses
sion of the Floridas, and prevent a nation, so
powerful a§ Russia is, occupying them previous.
Her czur’s sfceptre already sways over one third
of the earth inhabited.—Sav. Museum.
Congressional.—On Saturday the 18th a mo
tion was made in the House ol Representatives,
by General Harrison, of Ohio, thaj when the
House adjourned it should adjourn to meet at 11
o’clock on the next day. Mr. Terry, of Connec
ticut, objected to this, and said, that, whatever
might he the consequence to him, he would not
obey the order of the House to meet, for the
transaction of business, on the Sabbath, a proce
dure equally opposed by his habits and liis prin
ciples. General Harrison replied, that, although
lie could not pretend to he as well acquainted
with the scriptures as the gentleman from Con
necticut, lie must have entirely misunderstood
the principles of the Christian religion if the
proposition he had made could notoe defended
upon that ground alone. It would be recollected,
that lie had suc^. sled this course when die bill
for the relief ot the venerable revolutionary pat
riot Stark was under discussion this morning,and
had proposed to dpvote the Sunday’s session ex
clusively to business of that description. The
bill long since reported, for the relief of the wid
ows and orphans of the officers and soldiers who
fell in the late war was not acted upon ; the pen
sion bill had been suspended in the Senate, from
tiie want of time to examine it; and, Mr. H.
said, that a great number of individuals would
suffer the calamities of extreme poverty if these
bills were not passed. Mr. II said he was not
willing to restrain the conscience ot any persop ;
the gentleman from Connecticut might, if he
pleased, absent himself from the House ; but,
for my part, aid Mr. II. I cannot conceive that a
more acceptable sacrifice can be offered to Hea
ven on the Sabbath, than that which vvould dry
up tiie tears of the widow and the orphan, and
provide the means of comfort and support lor
the aged and maimed soldiers, who have spent
their vigor and shed their blond in defence of the
liberty of their country'. This was his religion ;
and he hoped the motion would prevail.—A at. Int.
Extracts of a letter from a Lady in Washing
ton, Feb. 19.—“ On Wednesday we were at Mrs.
Monroe’s drawing room.—It was immensely
crowded, so much so, that tne ladies, who were
all superbly dressed, did not appear to much ad
vantage. Mrs. Monroe is an exceedingly ele
gant woman :—She was in a splended lama dress,
the border round the bottom embroidered with
gold half a yard in depth, and thickly spangled ;
her head dress of the same, with a brilliant gold
sprig in front.
“ flie grand saloon, or drawing room, is circu
lar ; the furniture and paper crimson and gold ;
the curtains and chairs, crimson silk, elegantly
wrought in orange silk, with gilt cornice and
Iringe to correspond.—The chair frames are mas
sy gilt. In the centre is suspended an elegant
chandelier”—The fire place is marble, the man
tle supported bv two figures carved.--The fire
geer, bronze.—The gilding, pier glasses, marble
and gilt tables are correspondingly elegant. An
other room is furnished with yellow paper, cur
tains, chairs, Ac. with a very elegant piano.
—In the centre stands a very handsome marble
table. The next room is green and gold. The
fourth, which is the dining room, is stone colored
paper, ornamented with silver The four were
opened the first levee day.—Iialt. Tel. 20th ult.
M ditar if Appointments.—The following ap
pointments have been made by the president with
the consent of the Senate, under the act just pas
sed, fur reducing; the staff'of the army. Briga
dier general William Gumming, quarter master
general; colonel George Gibson, commissary
general; Joseph Lovell, surgeon general ; Tobias
Watkins and J. G. Bronaugli, assistant surgeons
general ; S. A. Storrow and II. H. Winder,judge
advocates, and l)r. Gave Jones, chaplain and pro
fessor at the military academy.—«Yaf. hit.
Whitney's Cotton Gin.—The work effected by
this ingenious piece of mechanism, with which
the people of the Southern States are very famil
iar, attended by three hundred men, is stated by
one of the Nothern papers, to be equal to tint of
three hundred thousand persons in the old way
uf pickiug Gutton !
From the east, from the west, from the north
and from the south, we have nothing of novelty
to present oui readers. In other words, every
thing like the advancing season, is tranquil and
serene. The flowers already begin to put forth
their blossoms—
“ Spring hang:, her infant blossoms on tiie trees,
Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze”—
While the munificence of the Deity is thus unfol
ding in his works—while we shall so soon be en
veloped with such boundless variety of beauty
and of fragrance—while the mild and genial suns
are preparing to warm into life and maturity the
future treasures of autumn,—shall we complain
that no novelty is presented | True, this is no
novelty—the mercies of our heavenly Father are
as old as the creation we inhabit. When we com
plain of want of novelty we confess that we are
weary of such persevering benevolence. “Could
great men thunder (says Shakespeare) as Jove
himself does, Jove would ne’er be quiet.” How
mercitul was our Creator in denying us the en
joyment of our wishes !—This is beautifully il
lustrated in one of th ( e first satires of Juvenal,
l'cacnd Kepublicaij.
Population of thepvorld.—Europe, as is sup*
posed, contains an hundred and eighty millions ;
Asia, including Australasia and F.dynesia, live
hundred mill his; Africa fifty millions; and A-
merica thirty five millions. By a late census, the
population of {lie city of London is estimated at
1,120,900 souls.
ll is with no unaffected sensibility that we are com
pelled to commit toou»’obituary the nameof col Geo. Ar-
mistead who departed this life on the 25th ult. At a very
early period of his life , he manifested an attachment to
arms, and at the age of 15 years he entered the service
of iiis country. At this early period he gave decisive
evidence of Ins intrepidity in our conflicts with our Indi
an enemies. Ills bravery soon attracted the notice of his
superior officers, and he was employed in all the desperate
enterpnzes in those perilous conflicts. lie rose by slow
and painful advances to his late station in the army.—
“ Mis early youth was bred to warlike pains.
His soul imped'd him to the martial plains."
At a time when every heart was agitated Ibr the salvation
of Baltimore-—’when the haughty anil insulting foe, flush
ed with the conquest and conflagration of Washington,
anticipated the destruction of this city—when the fl »g of
St. George swept in proud defiance the waters of the Che
sapeake—wlien the bursting thunders of the descending
bombs were heard over Fort M'Henry,—who did not feel
and tremble at the crisis ! At this alarming moment who
did not feel for the fate of col. Armistead and his.gadant
band, who were doomed for 24 hours to abide those ex
ploding musses of descending iron, in silence and in so
litude. Tills was the season in which we fell and ac know
ledged the merits of the brave ; Baltimore was preserv
ed, and the pround flag of St. George wa9 withdrawn
from our waters. The name of Arrnistead was enrolled
among the foremost of our deliverers, and our fellow-cit
izens testified tfieir sense of lus important services, by a
superb service of s lver plate which they presented.
Colonel Armistead was a rigid disciplinarian ; but he
mingled w.ih all the rigor of m iit^ry service the urbani
ty and politeness of a gentleman. All these qualifies were
rendered still more endearing by the relations of private
life; he was a tender husband, an affectionate father*
and as a friend constant and sincere.
The hero of fort M’Henry died a Christian ; he receiv
ed the sacrament and added his dying testimony, that his
hope of salvation rested on the sufferings of his Redeem
er. How interesting is the Christian hero in the hour of
dissolution ! That spirit which while residing among us
was bailed as our protector in the hour of danger, is in
the hour of death conducted by the angel of mercy to
the arms of its redeemer.—fki». republican.
General Thomas Posey died suddenly at Sliawnoe-
town, Indiana, a few weeks since. Among the number
of revolutionary heroes who have passed the inexorable ,
bourne, none were more deserving tiie tear «f regret, than
governor P. As a patriot, he was warmly devoted
to his country ; as a soldier, brave and enterprising; as
a Christian, pious and resigned. General Posey served
during the revolutionary war in the armies ot ins couiv-
try, and distinguished h;mself particularly at the assault
of Stoney Point, under the command of the gallant
Wayne, being the first man who mounted the walls. He
has since held a number of honorable and important ap
pointments in the civil list of the United buttes. He
was senator in congress for some time, from the state of
Louisiana, and after wards the territorial‘governor of In
diana. At the tune of h.s death, he held the office of In
dian agent.—Few men hate passed so useful and so blame
less a life.—iiEiiALU.
ABNER LOCKE,
R ESPECTFULLY inf rms the public, that
i lie continues to receive and collect, upon
don tion, loan or purchase, Antiquites and Curi
osities, JVatual and Artificial and solicits patron
age. Milledgcville, May 12,1818.
GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
W HEREAS Nancy Moore applies lo me for
letters of administration on the estate
and effects of Jesse Moore, iate of this county,
deceased : These are therefore to cite and admo
nish all and singular the kindred and creditors of
said deceased, to fie and appear at a court of or
dinary,,to fie held in and for the county of Bald
win, on the first .Monday in July next, then
and there to shew cause (if any they have) why
said letters should not be granted. Given under
mv hand at office in Milledgeville, this 4th Mav,
1818. ABNER LOCKE, cl’k."
GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
W HEREAS Arthur Danelly, sen’r. applies
to ine for letters of administration on the
estate and effects of John Danelly, late of this
county, deceased : These arc therefore to cite
and admonish all and singular the kindred and
creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at a
court of ordinary, to fie held in and for the coun
ty of Baldwin,ou the first Monday in July next,
then and there to shew cause (if any they have)
why said letters should not be granted. Given
under my hand at office in Milledgeville, this 5th
May, 1818. ABNER LOCKE, cl’k.
NOTICE.
V LL persons are hereby cautioned against
trading for two notes of hand for g27 50
each, given by the subscriber to Hugh Denard,
due four months after date, and if not punctual
ly paid to draw interest from the date, given the
6th day of April, 1818; as the consideration for
which they were given has failed, and lam de
termined not to pay them, unless compelled by
law. JOHN FRART.
May 5.
NOTICE.
A LL persons who have any demands against
the estate of Daniel Kengrey, late of Wil
kinson, deceased, are hereby required to bring
tfieir accounts duly authenticated—and those in
debted to said estate are requested to make im
mediate payment. v illiam bruner, adm’r.
May 4, 1818.
NEW DRUG STORE.
T HE subscriber has just received a large and
elegant assortment of fresh DRUGS, and
f ermine Patent Medicines, Paints 8. Dye Stuffs*
‘erfuTiery, Hair Powder, Trusses, &c. He ex
pects in a few days, a large addition of Drugs,
Pocket Instruments, Tooth Drawers Ike. and will
sell low for cash. Thompson bird.
Milledgeville, May 4, 1818.
P. S. A liberal pi ice will be given for well
dried sound Ginseng, Seneka and Virginia Snake
root. .
WATCH ES. Ac. •
T IIE subscriber has for sale, an assortment of
good plain silyer Watches, Chains, Seals,
Keys, &c. t. reic.
Milledgeville, May 5,1818,
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