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j.nif. Tl'RSDAY MOItWXG, M VY 19. ther Monster—A Mr. Crawford, at Prairie 11,lias transmitted to Dr. Mitchell, of N. i account of a monster discovered near outli f the river St. Peters, at a rock which | a noted cave. A hunting party passing by lick, were attracted by a noise resembling |!hnviug of a buffalo at a distance. Some ( paity immediately proceeded in search of fcjcct, and on reaching the mouth of the cave filtered a serpent of a most prodigious ap ace, fifteen feet in length and proportioned pkness, with four short legs, resembling the His head was disproportionablj large, glossy eyes situated towards the back part : head. The back was a shining black, c.o- | with strong and apparently impenetrable A party has been formed for the purpose Itching ’.his wonderful creature this spring. President has issued a proclamation di- : the sale of the public lands in the Missou. Story, which have been surveyed. The sale fincnce at St. Louis on the first Monday in it, October, December, February and April Thirty townships will be offered at each tginning with the mo.t eastern ranges west ffifth principal meridian line and proceed- fsterly. At the seat of justice for Howard y, on the first M .fi lav in September and ' sr, there will be offered lor sale thirty fliipa, the first to be in a square form, and to Je the seat of justice of said county. ders have been issued by our government for ktablishinent of a new military post at the :h of Yellowstone river, latitude 48, where it s the Missouri, about eighteen hundred miles St. Louis. The object of this post is tu |rol the communication of the Indians within nited States with the North West and llud- |Bay Companies. Major Bradford with a de- neat of two hundred riflemen have been or- to repair to tiiis point. teiical Prize Questions.—The Boylston Me- ' Committee, of Harvard College, (Mas.) i offered a premium of fifty dollars, or a me- that value, to the person who shall pro- i the best dissertations on the following prize stions, at their meeting in December neat: 11. Is there any communication from the sto- i to the b’adder, more direct than that thru’ birculaling system and llie kidneys?” I 2. On the vegetable articles, the growth of [United States, who li have been or may be jrantngeouily employed as emetics or catliar- Incendinries.~The repeated attempts (says the Augusta Chronicle) which have been recent ly made to fire the city of Savannah, leave ho doubt upon our minds that that place is infested by a gang of daring incendiaries. From circum stances which come within our knowledge, it is not exciting needless apprehension to warn our Police and citizens generally to be on the alert. Three patriot brigs captured, a few days since, two Spam«li vessels, bound to St. Augustine, one of winch was an armed vessel, with 14,000 dol lars on board, for the payment of the troops at that place.—Sav. Museum. Steam fillip Company.—Yesterd,\y morning a subscription paper was opened at the Exchange, for the purpose of establishing a“ Savannah Steam Ship Company,” and we understand the shares apportioned for this city were all subscribed for before noon.—ib. Savannah river Navigation Company.—Sub scription books for establishing a company to be called the *• Savannah River Navigation Compa ny,” were opened yesterday at 11 o’clock, and in one hour afterwards more than one half of the shares were taken up, and the balance would have been subscribed for in the course of the day, but the commissioners deemed it advisable to close the. books, and re-open them this day, in order that every individual may have a chance to sub scribe.—ib. \ spirit of internal improvement has burst forth in the state of Geoigia, that bids lair to render t 'e city of Savannah a successful rival of our u\vn— An association has been formed for the pur pose of clearing and improving the navigation of Savannah river, that great artery through which so much of the wealth of Georgia flows—and such was the universal desire throughout the state to participate ill the design, that only one thousand shares were apportioned for Savannah. A su’)*crip’i n has also been opened for the purpose ol building a Steam-ship Packet, to run between that port and Liverpool. A project fir thejestablisliment of a Building anil Insurance Hank, has also been submitted to the citizens—Its capita! would be two millions of dollars divided into twenty thousand shares, ol one hundred dollars each. AVe have often heard it remarked, ami we believe it a correct obser vation, that there was more public spirit in the city of Savannah in the prosecution of designs for internal improvement, than in any metropolis on the continent—Charleston Times. Specie—AA’e have the pleasure to notice the arrival ot several handsome lots of specie—hoping that some of the banks, which do not pay their debts, will purchase it and do justice to their cre ditors. Several sums have been received in gold within the last week, as well as 450,000 crowns and 55,lit- dollars in silver,from France; 400,000 dollars from England, and 50,000 from Antigua. The three last arrived at New-York in the same day.—A'iles. Mail Rubbery.—The western mail between this city, Athens, and Greeusborough has been rubbed by a man named Turner, who was the mail carrier from Augusta to Athens. He has been apprehended, anu committed to prison for trial at the next circuit court of the United States. Turner confesses that he took letters with mo tile dissertations are to be transmitted to Da- 1 Townsend, M. 1). of Boston. Each disserta-. ■i must he accompanied with a sealed packet, n ®J ou * °* y ie mal * * ,a S- Several persons in this [which shall be written some device or sentence, Pl ace l,avc lost money by this robbery. AYh‘*n I within shall be enclosed the author's name turner was, arrested lie had about 150 dollars residence. j with him—the balance he gambled off.—Su. Rep. Ohio Taper Currency.—Frequent enquiries are made by people who have more paper ol a certain kind than they know what to do with, as to staini ng of the banks. The following is the best ac count we are able to give at present: Parkersburg Notes.—Good—for nothing, as' they have been, and probably ever will be. A saddlebags load of paper was distributed by two or three people, not a dollar of which, we believe, bus ever been paid. New Salem, Penn.—Gone, “ hook and line,” and with it tile reputation of all those concerned in it; and in fact the persons of some of them. Granville.—The key lost! at least such was the report a few weeks since. It is hoped it will soon be found, as many good people nave large quantities of paper, which they are desirous of returning to the bank for safe keeping. Tliougl the credit of these notes is lost, lor a while, we trust the directors have not lost their honor. New Philadelphia bank.—Rather short for cash at present, but expecting a supply soon. Owl Creek.—This respectable institution still exists. AVc understand sonic of the stockholders generously oiler fifty cents of good money for one dollar of Owl Creek—to pay their installments. Canton.—Not chartered by the legislature, but maintaining its credit against all attacks. Mansfield.—Very scarce, a id for a good rea son too. A supply of paper is on its way from N York soon, when doubtless the public can be "ac commodated” if they wish to be. Virginia Saline.—As it was six months ago Perryopolis, or Glass Bottle bank.—Broke! not even the pieces saved. New Salem, Ohio —Down, and we hear of r:o effort to raise it. Steubenville, Farmers and Mechanics.—Few in circulation. German Bank of Wooster.—Of‘‘questionable” stability at present. A few days will determine its real character.—Ohio paper. General St. Clair.—The Salem Gazette, con tains a letter from the western country, to the editor, giving an affecting narrative of the brave General St. Clair. “ On our journey,” says the writer, “ we stoppid at his log house to warm us. tie was then confined to Lis chamber with illness. His wife exhibited a most striking picture of fall en greatness. She was a tall magestic figure, 86 years of age, (1 think she said .) Her feature were noble, and her deportment lad like.—The substantial part of her dress was of the course fabric of the country, to which were superadded such ornamental articles us were in fashion prob ably 40 or 50 years ago, and which like herself, bore visible marks of the hand of time. Sliecon- versed with a Frenchman, a fellow passenger with us, in his language, which was familiar to her. Her manners also were French. But time and sorrow had evidently weakened her mind, which, judging from her countenance, was originally vigorous. T.'iis mental debility was strikingly exhibited in her confounding important events ol distant dates, and almost forgetting that we had an American government. A Mr. Massey, of Connecticut, has invented a machine which he culls the Rut Level, for the purpose of filling, levelling and hardening ruts in turnpike loads. It is said to be cheap, simple expeditious and effectu.il. POETICAL. roil THE REFLECTOR. To M *****• ’TIS true, stveet girl, I love thee dearly. And O ’tis true that thou art fair; But still ’twas not thy beauty merely, AVhich lur’d my steps to love’s bright snafe. Whene'er you sing my soul enraptur’d, Yields to the" spell of strains divine; But still, ’twas not your song that captur’d, This fond, adoring heart of mine. Whene’er you dance, tho’ all the Graces, Throw round your form resistless charms ; Yet still not in Cotillon mazes, Did love first sound his soft alarms. Your wit oft cheers the social circle, i But ne’er inflicts a wanton wound; ’Tis hymless as the timid turtle, And bright as gems in ocean found. But tho' your wit may beam and sparkle, Dike those pure lights of love,your eyes; And make vice blush and dulness startle, Still, still, there's something mure I prize. Ask not, dear girl, what made foe tovea! Or, what the charm that thus can bind ? Inspect your heart, you’ll soon discover, For there perfection is enshrin’d. Mdledgeville, May, 1818. torrid murder of infants !—A tnan anJ wo- i have just broil committed tu the jail of kson, for murdering her child, perhaps 5 or C Irsold. This child was ail illegitimate be- |ten by another man ; its mother had received romisc ot marriage from her co-prisoner, pro- Bcnjamiii Gray, who was committed to Fay etteville jail, (N. C.) some months past, upon charge ul" burglary, has heeti tried uud found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the 22d inst. This is the same person who robbed a bank in Charleston some years since and escaped with impunity Two millions of herrings, be ides a number of shad were caught in the vicinity of Ilavre-de- Grace, Maryland, on the 29th ultimo. ed this child was put out of the way; tiiey eed tu put it away ; a time and place were loin ted in the woods for the purpose, to which jman repaired ; thetnother took the child to i, then and there the little creature was knock- in the head. The woods afterwards had ta- fire, and , when the body was found a fow l's sitice, it had been burnt to an awful rate, lese unfortunate parties have, we learn, con- lied this business. . man was committed to Clark Jail on the 26th i for cutting theHhroat of a child 4 or 5 years , , , This child was the illegitimate offspring of) !‘...A:...i . brother. He was bound as security for the Jntninance <>f the child fora certain time : anil was his plan to relieve himself from that rea- lable tlitigation.—Athhis Gazette. ■> r , . .. A New Orleans Hog !—AA r e observe in an nil- Passed through this city, a .civ days since, hi- vertisement in a New Orleans paper, of a ho* It from At ashington. the lion. Judge 1 ait, one i („ be exposed to public view, 50 cents admittance! ■bur Congressional Senators—AA e are autlmrj- ., weighing from three tu four hundred pounds : | to state, thatthe Judge willnot be a candi-1 its body is short, but as thick as a flour barrel ; its tail is on its back ! its hinder parts similar to those of a bear; its eyes almost reaching to its At the theatre, Charleston,(S. C.) on the eve ningof the 18th,during the performance, a young man iu the gallery threw from a bottle a quantity of Phosphorus on the floor, which, flashing tip and throwing a sudden glare of light around, a- larined the audience with the idea that the house was ou fire. Fire ! was instantly echoed from eve- anil in a few minutes the house was emptied ; but without any serious injury to any one. Several ladies fainted ; lion no is, hats and shoes were lost, clothes turn, &c. ffcc. before the truth could be made known and order restored. TWENTV FIVE DOLLARS ItEWAuj?. D ESK RTF, D Oil the 16th ult. a non-commis- sioued officer by the name of Joseph llenrv, who belonged to the Penitentiary Guard, lie is 27" years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, fair com plected, blue eyes, dark hair, and a hatter by trade. Has a tolerable good education, dresses genteel—is a native of New-York, and enlisted on the 6th of January. The above reward will be paid to any person who will deliver the said deserter to me at the Penitentiary, Mdledgeville. JOHN BOZEMAN, Officer of the Guard. FUT Y DOLLARS REWARD, jj AO any person that will apprehend, and put B in any safe goal in this state, a man who calls himself John A. Tully, whom I had hired to build me a bouse—He is about twenty-five years old, light hair, and fair complexion ; and says his mother lives near Augusta. He left my house on Sunday evening last, anil stole about fitly dollars worth of jeweliy, (three pair of ear rings, three finger rings, one breast pin, and several other ar ticles of that kind) also a piece of very nice blue casiinere, that 1 bad to make me a suit of clothes ; and between fifty and sixty dollars in cash. He hud on when he went ofi", a blue coat, ami drab colored pantaloons ; he carried away with him, a new suit of very nice black cloth that he never wore—He went away a foot, but 1 suppose stole a horse that was in the settlement. He has a brother-in-law living in the up country, either Jackson or Franklin, and l rather suppose will make that way. John h. broadnax. Putnam county, May 18, 1818. estray horse taken up. rj’VVK.KN up by the subscriber a few days 1 since a Bay Horse, 7 or 8 years old, about 5 leet 3 or 4 inches high, his two fore feet white, a switch tail and shod all round. The owner cao get said horse by applying to me on Caney-Head near the line which divides Baldwin and Jones. i at the next Senatorial election, conlemplat- [a removal to the Alabama.—A.tg. Chronicle. Counterfeiters.—An attempt was made in our r, some time lasttvm k, to pass a one dollar I of the Frankfort (Kentucky) bank, iiigenious- kltered, fur a titty. The imposter was de led ; but the person offering the bill, was un ears ; having no neck, and a snout as long that of an alligator.” Sea Fires.—« In the year 1694, the country | about Harlech in Merionethshire, was annoyed . . „ about eight months by a fiery exaltation, that lunately allowed to make a precipitate retreat j was seen only in the ‘night, and consisted of a piout undergoing a proper examination.—Ib. lived vapour, which rose from the^sea, or seemed I to come from Curnvonshire, across a bav of the Citizens of Savannah. 1 —The lapse of one and (sea, eight or nine miles broad on the west side. It spread from this bay over the land, and set lire to all the barns, stacks of hay and corn in its way. It also infected the air, and blasted the grass and herbage in such a manner that a great mortality of cattle, sheep, and horses ensued. It proceeded copstantly to and from the same place, in stormy as well as in calm nights; but more frequently in the winter than in the follow ing summer. It never fired any tiling bu,'c in the night, and the flames, which were weak, and of a bluish colour,did no injury to Viumavj creatures; for the inhabitants did frequently rush into the middle of them unhurt, to save the hay and corn. nty years cannot have erased from your re ection our city (with many others) wrapped flames. Many of you then believed it to be ork of the agents of the bloody Sathonax, nt of the French government in St. Doniin- fell destroyer of the finest island in the ition. If suen was then your belief, can _vou moment hesitate to suspect the agents of adored Ferdinand ? the restorer of the ly inquisition, the faithless, cruel, finished sier.” Is it unreasonable to doubt his capaci- "uC any tiling that is base and treacherous, or he may antifipateus inacts of hostility ?De- i hen, not a moment, to aid the proper iiuthor-1 This vapour was at last extinguished bv ringing n obliging all suspected persons, to give an I bells, firing cannons, blowing norns, and otlier- iunt of themselves—it is vtiuy duty. I will wise putting the air into motion whenever it was no more; * AwYriSES. [seen to approach the shore,” “ Anecdote of Sheridan.—They tell a comical story of Mr. Sheridan, which 1 do not assert as a fact, only because 1 did not see the circum stance. Mr. S. happened to buy a horse, but did not happen to pay for it. One day as lie was rid ing his new purchase along Park-lane, he met his creditor on a pretty pony. The poor man anx ious to touch the treasurer on the tender point of payment, and yet wishing to manage the matter handsomely, began by lioping his honor liked the horse, and said he could a so recommend the na* he was then riding. *• Let me see,” says the manager. *• Upon my honor, a nice little ani mal enough; and, I dare say an excellent trotter. Pray let me see his paces up the street.”—“ By all means, your honor.” Accordingly up the street trots the simple jockey, anil down "the street trots the right honorable minister, excessively well satisfied, it seems, with the pretty little po ny’s performance!” ,—V f " To the Public.—Whereas-my husband Benja min has advertised me as having left his bed and board—but as he lias no bed•■nor board, (he having made over his property to his children with a view of starving me) he has now left me, to shift for myself the second time. This is, therefore, to forewarn all persons from harboring him, until he provides for my maintenance, and gives securi ty for that and his good behavior. To all good people who want him discripted, To running away he has long been addicted ; He deserted his country, being scared at a hall, And run home the greatest hero of all. For such services as this he obtained a pension, How well he deserved it l need not mention; But one thing for all 1 needs must acknowledge, lie’s the worst liusbandGod ever made to my knowledge SUSANNA CARSON. Clearfield county, Jan. 28, 1818. The author of AVaverly, Guy Mannering, ect. is said already to have received upwards ofg 100, 000 as half profits of his works.—Niles. Married, in this county, on Thursday evening last, by the Kev. Mr. Talley, Ur." James M) rick, of Jones county, to Miss Ann Fluelien. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication signed “ A Heading Youth,” does not possess the degree of polish necessary to please rea ders of taste. We think an editor’s corrections ought not to supply the place of the pedagogue’s lash. The Reflector has a general and extensive circulation in this and some of the adjoining states—therefore the! communication from “ A Citizen of Jasper county,” who seems disposed to wage an angry controversy on a sub ject of a local nature, would he read with interest but by a small portion of our subscribers. As Frank;,n once in s letter of advice to an editor remurked, “ If people will print their abuses of one another, let them do it in little pamphlets, and distribute them where they think proper. It is absurd to trouble all the world with them, and un just to subscribers ;n distant places, to stuff their papers (with matt.r so unprofitable and disagreeable. May 16. DAVIS ARNEI.Ii. TEN DOLLARS REWARD. S TRAYED from the subscriber about four weeks since, a Dark Bay Mare, well made witii her right hind foot white, has u small lump on her back, branded with the letter Y. on the coming shoulder, has a small white spot in her face, and in good order. davis arnkll. Baldwin county, May 16. NOTICE. * N INE months after date application will b# made, to the Court of Ordinary of Jasper county, for leave to sell the estate of Green M’Afec, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, adttl’r. May 7, 1813. STOLEN OR ABSCONDED, FROM the subscriber livin: Jasper county, eight miles Monticellu, on the night , ng in above „ of the 31st of January last, a negro wo man, named Priscilla, about eigh- teen years of age, upwards of five Ter husband went oil at the same time, and it is probable they are together—The woman is the property of an orphan by the name of Sarah Ann Ramsey, living on the Black War rior, in the Alabama territory, and was hired to me, for the present year, by Isaac Pennington, living some where in the Alabama territory - Any person giving me such information as will enable me to get her, or delivering her to nie shall receive a reward of ten dollars. JAMES SPRADLIN. Monticello, May 6,1818. VALUABLE INVENTION. Patent fur welding cast steel to iron, and tern- pering tools of all kinds. T HE subscriber informs the public that he lias just arrived with this useful invention, being appointed by the patentee to dispose of pa j tent rights. The utility of this invention so far surpasses any thing of the kind ever offered to the public, the subscriber anticipates a hope that it will be encouraged, that the public may be be- nefitted thereby. I deem it unnecessary to speak any more in its praise, but invite those persons who work in iron tu make a trial of it. April 27". * H. R. WARD. NOTICE. A LL persons who have any demands against the estate of Daniel Kengrey, late of Wil kinson, deceased, are hereby required to bring their accounts duly authenticated—and those in debted to said estate are requested to make im mediate payment. WILLIAM BRUNER, adm’r,. May 4, 1818.,