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MISCELLANY.
»oii^*he reflector.
Mr. Editor—A communication in your pa
per somo time last spring, dated at Eaton-
ton, excited much enquiry and guessing in
the vicinity, to find out the author—finally
it was most unjustly, and, as Ltliouglit, slan
derously attributed to me. Notwithstanding
the most solemn asseverations to thecontrary,
I could not convince my accusers that I was
not the author. As I had been for some
time previously, « fully determined in my
own mind to marry,” and being so unjustly
accused of having becii the author of so
boasting a production, I determined to evince
my itmocqnS* fully, by marrying. What fa
vored this design not a little, 1 had previous
ly selected from the group of my female ac
quaintance, one whose personal charms, and
mental endowments lead fixed my attach
ment. This ne plus ultra of female excel
lence, had been (I don't know how long
though) to a celebrated boarding school,
where she learned French, Painting, Music,
and a long list of et cetera accomplishments,
“ too tedious to mention”—in fact sir she was
thought in our neighborhood, to be a tho
roughly accomplished young lady. You
know Mr. Editor, that wo farmer’s sons,
bred up to no profession but agriculture,
know as little about the French language, as
an Icelander does about the culture of cot
ton. As to music, we generally judge of it,
as my old schoolmaster used to say, by the
« quantum” of sound ; so whoever made the
most noise, on any instrument, in the short
est time, was the best performer. Shortly
after my Julia (for that is my wife’s name)
returned from school, all the old aunts anil
maids of the neighborhood, for miles around,
would come to hear her play on the Piano,
and talk French, just as I have seen the lit
tle country bumkins gather round a little ur
chin that had just commenced reading Latin,
to hear him rehearse sentences fin Syntax.—
Julia, though not of b. very accommodating
disposition, yet as it flattered her vanity (for
really she has a good stock of it) to hear
herself solavishly praised, for her incompa
rable performance, by such a group of con
noisseurs, she would forego her little whims
of ill nature, and amuse them for hours to
gether, by thundering away on the Piano,
the « Overture to the Deserter, Bonaparte’s
Grand March, Fisher’s Hornpipe, Yankee
Doodle,” Ac.—by talking French and exhi
biting her paintings of peach flowers, butter
flies, cats and little dogs, to the no small gra
tification of her idolizing parents, and to the
vast amusement and edification of all her old
aunts and country cousins. From such a
centre you may well suppose the radii of her
fame spread far and wide. Such was the
assiduity with which her society was court
ed, that she did but little else beside receive
and return visits, until we were married. 1
need hardly mention, that from all these noi
sy accomplishments, it would he natural e-
nough to expect Miss Julia to have many
admirers, and so she had ; for with all her
aforementioned acquirements, she could
dance most gracefully, and was handsome
enough to be any man’s wife. Taking it for
granted, that as she could speak French (or
what she told us was French) so fluently,
and make a Piano Forte “ discourse so mu
sically,” her mind must be Well stored with
useful knowledge, and well calculated to
make a most excellent wife ; and implicitly
confiding in the general report to that effect,
I resolved to enter myself on the list of her
most earnest suitors. Just about this time
the publication before mentioned appeared.
It being so roundly asserted that 1 was the
author, and fearing the assumed indepen
dence of the author’s sentiments, might dis
parage me in the estimation of the fair, I re
solved (if I could) to marry Miss Julia as
soon as possible. Being brought up to the
ordinary profession of tilling the ground, I
had strong doubts of success, with so digni
fied a personage; however, having often
heard aunt Fanny (who is a venerable old
maid of forty-seven) say, that “ a faint heart
never gained a fair lady,” and being esteem
ed moderately handsome, and, above all,
having a “ decent abundance” to commence
the world w ith, I made the attempt; and
permit me to say, was but too successful.—
After the gordian knot was tied, we remain
ed at her father’s for some time. During
this period things went on most charmingly.
It was like “ the glympse a saint has of Hea
ven in his dream,” which like holy rcveal-
ings, opened to us the most exquisite plea
sures. But when we moved home, when we
began house keeping, then the charm was
broke, the film was removed, and she ap
peared in her true character. I too soon
found that chattering French (or what went
for it) would not get my breakfast, nor the
stunning sound of the Piano, chase away an
^appetite, rendered keen by the wholesome
exercise of attending to a farm; neither
would painting and embroidevy discharge the
domestic duties, w hich, though little in them
selves, the neglect of w hich renders a mar
ried woman, however handsome and accom
plished, a contemptible house-wife.
To add to my disappointments and dis
gust, I found that in all her witty and fine
savings, she was only the retailer of the
goods of others ! She had never read a soli
tary author, except Scott antFBryon, the u-
suai school books, and a few of the most de
testable novels—and as to the domestic du
ties of a wife, she was totally ignorant, or
too lazy to attend to them. Whenever I ask
her to sew on a button that had been acci
dentally pulled oiF, or stitch up a rent in my
coat or pantaloons, she tells me “ carry it to
the tailor.” If I ask her to mend my stock
ings, she tells me to “ get a new pair, or
wear them soand what completes my
mortification, she is not only content to wear
her own so, but with her heels entirely bare,
and her shoes slip shod. If I remonstrate"
in the mildest possible terms, against the dir
ty and slovenly manner in which the servants
do up iny linen, with a look of the most
“ untender fire,” she tells me if I am “ not
pleased with it, to attend to it in future my
self.” Should 1 with the most tender affec
tion, chide her for her inattention and neg
lect of duty, she will with the most ineffable
contempt, set parting her foot, with her lips
pouched out, and indignantly tells me she
“ will be a slave for no body.”
By the beard of Mahomet, Mr. Editor,
(as a inusselman would say) if you could
deliver me from tins accursed thraldom, 1
would willingly be a “ Batchelor of Choice,”
or of “ Necesity,” or any tiling else but what
I am. How things will hereafter eventuate,
Heaven only knows—my misery and discon
tent are already visible ; and several of my
former associates, who are still happy batch-
elors, begin to rally me, by sarcastically
saying « what, my old friend, does Hymen’s
golden Chain already begin to gall you ?” The
twilight visibility of my fallen countenance,
With the loss of my lbrmer hilarity and
How of spirits, too unequivocally answer in
the affirmative. Full :„''ten have i sighed
and wished, that like Longstaff’s uncle John.
L had “ resolved to look sharp, weigh mat
ters well, and know what’s what,” before 1
married. If it he in your power, or that ol
any of your correspondents, to afford the;
least alleviation to my poignant and increas
ing sufferings, never did a galley slave quit
the oar, with more heart felt gratitude to his
deliverer, than the information would be re
ceived by your unfortunate, though humble
servant,
MALEDICT IIVMEV.
Putnam county, July 10,1818.
M EPICAL. ~~~
TREATMENT Ob’ CONSUMPTION.
There is some reason for thinking prussic
acid, though it be the most active of poi
sons, may, when properly diluted, be used
with success, in pulmonary complaints.
Six drops of Scheet’s acid, diluted with
three ounces of water, or vegetable infusion
given in doses of a spoonful every two hours,
lias effectually quieted very severe coughs.
From a number of experiments made by
Dr. Magendie cf Paris, he thinks himself
warranted in concluding “ that the prussic
acid, given in small doses, mixed with a cer
tain quantity of water, may be advantage
ously employed as a palliative treatment of
the consumption, with a view of calming
the cough, facilitating the expectoration and
procuring sleep ; and that as such, it must
he considered as the first among the sub
stances usually employed for similar pur
poses ; as it does not seem to excite like the
opiates any colliquative sweat.” The fol
lowing points appear to Dr. Magendie to he
already ascertained :—1st, that the pure
prussic acid is a substance eminently dele
terious and altogether unfit to be used as a
medicine. 2dly, That the prussic acid dilu
ted with water is beneficial in cases of chro
nic and nervous cough. 3dly, That this
same acid may be useful in the palliative
treatment of ptliysis, by diminishing the in
tensity and frequency of the cough, and in
procuring sleep, Ac. 4thly, That there is
reason to hope that this same substance may
become advantageous, as a curative treat
ment of pulmonary pthysis, particularly
when in an incipient state.
Interesting discovery.—In the history of
medicine since the discovery of the circula
tion of the blood by Dr. Hevvey, we have
not heard of any of equal importance ;
except a discovery lately made in England
by Sir Everard Home, which w ill most prob
ably overturn the whole of the present prac
tice in medicine. It has been a prevailing
idea, that a drop of any fluid introduced or
injected into any of the veins produced an
immediate coagulation of the blood ; hut
Sir Everard Home lias ascertained by re
peated experiments, that medicines direct
ly injected or introduced into the veins , pro
duce their effects more rapidly, with more
benefit, and with less injury to the system,
than when they are swollowed and then pass
from the stomach into the circulation. Sir
Everard Home has ascertained not only
from experiments made upon himself, but
upon many others, that a vinous infusion of
the colchicum autum note or meadow safron
injected into the Veins of the ankle or the
leg, will cure the most violent Gout. Sir Ev
erard states that he completely recovered
from a most violent attack of the Gout in
less than twenty hours, by injecting into the
circulation sixty drops of this medicine.
Sir Everard mentions, that infusions of ipe
cacuanha and Jalap injected into the jugular
vein, produced their respective effects of
vomiting and purging much more rapidly,
and with more ease to the patient, than when
taken by the mouth. An infusion of Rhu
barb when injected, causes a profuse flow ol
urine. In short, according to the experi
ments of Sir Everard Home, all medicines
whatever act better, are less injurious to the
constitution, when injected into the veins,
than w'hcn swallowed by the mouth. Al
though the reputation of Sir Everard Home
in the science of medicine is of the first rank
yet we would wish to have more satisfactory
evidence of the effects of this practice, be
fore we should recommend a trial of it. We
have no doubt that all those sciences imme
diately connected with the animal and veget
able kingdoms are yet in their infancy, and
that great improvements will be made before
the lapse of many years.—Pet, Inteh
IMPORTANT INVENTION.
T HE undersigned having obtained a Patent
for the invention of an horizontal and per
pendicularly moving water Wheel, and being sen
sible that conclusions drawn from theory alone,
are not always confirmed by experiment, ami
though supported in his opinion of its operative
power and general utility, by the most cogent the
oretical reasons ; yet, rather than obtrude it on
the public notice, supported by theory only, he
determined to make a full and satisfactory expe
riment of its operative power and general utility,
on a scale that would test the principle beyond
the possibility of doubt. He accordingly has
built and elected in the edge of Elk River, (near
Elkton, Giles county, West Tennessee) a water
wheel on the above plan, 32 feet diameter, with
12 arms, to which the floats, 8 feet by 4 in sur
face, are suspended by two hinges, and support
ed by rods connected to the lower edge and the
arms that follow, in a way not to prevent the mo
tion of the float until fully unfolded. The float
begins to fold up on the eddy or that side of the
wheel returning against the current, and is car
ried easily over an inclined plain, by means of:
a small wheel or roller, fixed in the lower edge of
the float, and pass offtne float so soon as it can be
acted on by the current. The inclined plain can
he dispensed with in tide water; the ebb and
flood actiug alternately on the different sides ol
the wheel, and without changing or altering its
motion. The wheel is suspended by two swords,
indented on one side and passing through blocks
on the arms of the cog-wheel and retained by
catches and is raised or lowered by leveas to suit
the different stages of the water, or to increase
or diminish its operative power. The inclined
plain rises and falls with the water. The current
in the part ut the river on which the above wheel
is erected, is far from being brisk ; yet the wheel
performs one and a half revolutions in a minute,
driving a stone ol four feet diameter with great
power and with a velocity of one hundred and
twenty revolutions in the minute.
The proprietor will have in full operation the
ensuing summer, two pair of stones and a saw, all
attached to and driven by the same water wheel,
l'lie great and important advantage arising from
this invention, is the substituting the common
current ol rivers, for the usual quantity of water
acting under a head, or falling under an height,
and without a dam or any other obstruction to
the current in rivers than a small triangular wharf
extending from the bank above, to half the diam-
ete of the wheel, to protect it against drift-wood,
ice, Ac.
There are few rivers that do not afford a situa
tion every mile or two for the erection of a wheel
on the above construction, and thereby affording
to farmers living on such water courses a facility
of manufacturing their own grain, sawing up and
rendering profitable, timber that otherwise would
prove an unprofitable incumbrance on their
ground ; and in short is well calculated to pro
pel all the various kinds ol machinery, whether
uu a large or small scale, by increasing or dimin
ishing the size of the wheel.
The premium for using the above described
wheel, if obtained of the proprietor, will be two
hundred dollars ; but if an agent, some what
higher. To a priviledged right will be*attached
a schedule, containing a full and accurate descrip
tion of all the parts, sizes, &c. composing the
wheel, so as to render it intelligible and easily
comprehended by the most ordinary capacity, it
being extremely simple, when seen or under
stood. WILLIAM TURN ELL.
Elkton, 22d March, 1818.
SALE OF AFRICAN SLAVES.
O N Monday the 17th of August next, in the
town of Milledgeville, will be exposed to
public sale, tu the highest bidder, between 60
and 70 prime African Slaves, which have been
forfeited to the state of Georgia, in conseqocnce
of their having been introduced contrary to the
Laws of this state, and of the United States.—
Indisputable titles will be made and prompt pay
ment required. Sales to continue from day to
day until completed.
By order of the Governor,
Charles Williamson, Agent.
June 15.
ORIN D. CARSTARI’HEN A CO.
T HE firm of Orin D. Carstarphen & Co. was
dissolved on the 25th of December last—
' All persons indebted to the said firm, will please
call at the Store of Goodrich & Carstarphen,
next door to Kendrick’s tavern, and settle their
respective accounts and notes, with Orin D. Car
starphen, who is duly authorized to grant dis
charges and receive payment.
ORIX D. CARSTARPBEX.
JESSE BLEDSOE.
WEST GOODRICH.
Eatonton, June 26, 1818.
ABNER LOCKE,
R ESPECTFULLY informs the public, that
he continues to receive and collect, upon
donation, loan or purchase, Antiquities and Curi
osities, Natural and Artificial, and solicits pat
ronage. MilledgeVUle* May 12,1818.
BOOKS, MAPS, GLOBES,
I N addition to the stock on hand, [ no ’ .
expect a very considerable sunolv f r „„ v 1
York, Philadelphia and Boston? the I
which will form a better and mure ; j
lection of Books, &c. than was ever offp 6 1,
the public, in this part of the country [ V
attend, with the above, in Monticello i*
Saturday in July, in Madison, on the’ 3,1 UV
day, and in Clinton, on the 4th Saturday -
whole will be offered at the northern prices '
p - l. Jack sox.
NOTICE TO FLOUR & RICEAmT^H
W HERE VS Oliver Kvass,
tentee of these improved invention^ r
regv rly given notice in the papers from thi.2
181u tu 1815 his tariff ol patent fees, that J”
ning in January, 1813, he would require oft
who infringed his patent, and continued so to I
those rates : that from 1813, he would call f
interest on a new sum saved in labor, board S
wages annually till license be bought and a
for; and all those who continue to violate i
law, may expect suits against them withoutli
pect to persons immediately. Those owina^l
erit fees, they will be received by his tabl/wj
interest in single damages ; but when suits i
brought against them, and judgment render
treble fees and damages will be required at n»i
bar. The patentee has found by many
dear bought experience, after being involved ij
very heavy expences to support his juit ,^(.1
that all other modes are unavailable, • ’ ^
proved fruitless.
License may be had of John Love, of Pick.l
land, for Mills in the Northern Neck,and (™|
the subscriber for Mills from Rappahannock .1
far to the south -aid as any Machinery mq bt|
found in mills or factories, whither lam
shortly for discoveries. I
No other persons in Virginia, but those naiwil
are'authorised to receive payment and "rant "*
cense.
I am, with very great consideration and tgl
pect,jthe publics’ most obedient.
Joh.v Moody, Agent
Richmond, Va. June 16.
STOP THE RUNAWAYS.
RANAWAY from the snbt
ber’s plantation, near Eato
two negro fellows, one namedE!
Iic.c, 40 or 45 yeari of age,il
six feet high, and proportiouhl
size, of a yellowish cumploiM
nr a full blooded negro, and of humble manntnl
The other named Solomon, 18 or l9yearsoffJ
of middle size, smooth skin, and rather ilnl
complexion, thick pouting lips, full ey«,sil
bends more than usual in lus knees whenkl
walks—had on oznaburg and tow linen cloial
when they went away. They will makeforftl
ginia. A liberal reward will be given, for tW|
apprehension and securement, aud in case of
livery all expenses paid.
c. B. STRMG.
Eatonton, Georgia, July 1, 1818.
BIBLES.
TMIE subscriber has just received a box cwl
I tabling one hundred bibles, Ironi the SoiA'I
tu Auxiliary Bible Society, to dispose of agntl
file to the benevolent intentions of said societal
iz. to those who wish to read the scriptures,Ml
ire not w ell able to purchase, gratis—-thosew»|
■re able, will get them at the first PlnladelpJI
ost, say one dollar—They are at the store .1
llessrs. Wiley and Baxter, where it is hoped if I
plication will be made lor them,
MYLES GKEE5L
Milledgeville, July 10,1818. ^
NOTICE.
kTINE months after date application will1*1
^ made to the honorable the Inferior Court* I
utnam county,sitting for ordinary purposes W|
ave to sell part of the real estate of Levi •“'I
fin, deceased, for the benefit of the h* ir * I
editors of said deceased. I
.. ISHAM BROOKS
January 20, 1818.
N
NOTICE. .
INE months after date, application I
j_ made, to the honorable the Interior 1 Cl
of Putnam county, when in session for orow
purposes, for leave'to sell the real estate ol n
Reid, deceased. James u* .
in right of his ^ |
February 25th, 1818.
NOTICE. ta|
N INE months after date, application w I
made, to the honorable the Inferior c J
of Putnam county, when sitting as a Cow I
Ordinary, for leave to sell the rea ‘, es f M i[
Thomas W r . Scott, dec’d. sold for the
of the heirs and creditors. . ,
THOMAS KILPATRICK, 1 ' 1 ")'
in right of bi»«*
March 24, 1818.
NOTICE. ,.
i PPLICATION will be made npetOMM
k. law, to the inferior court of Putnam <• A
sitting for ordinary purposes, for l e3 '_ I
1 one hundred acres of land, be the same I
less, the real estate of William Ryle, Ue |
, lying on Cedar creek. ,
LEO, ABERCROMBIE, ail!"
May 26. >-
IFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD*
RAYED or stolen from the subscriber, I
he 20th day of May last, a small bay “'I
years old, with a white spot in her f°c el ' , ’ I
all round, branded on the shoulder, bat I
I not recollected, one white hind foot, ® ^ I
nd well made. The above reward ** ,jl
, to any person who will deliver to :ue c I
, and reasonable compensation will be I
y person who will inform me where she i I
RICHARD IIIGOAS olf ’
er, 8 miles from Monticello, June 24.