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THE REFLECTOR.
MILLEDGEVILLE, G. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1818.
NO. 52.
MISCELLANY.
FOB TQK nKFLECTOlt.
ET OF COLUMBIANUS.
SCRAP II.
irit Independence let me share
the lion heart and eagle eye!
I follow with my bosom bare,
the storm that howls along the sky.”
. SMOLIKT.
n of freemen, who ardently wish
-, “ while the earth bears a plant
-tils a wave”—every sentiment
, and every truth that braces the
rty is precious. The pages of
harangues of patriots, the songs
l abound in negative and positive
the value and preservation of
est boon to man.” Dead is the
'ever felt a warm and throbbing
hen already chilled by the nar-
anny gone by ; it ponders on the
of the interesting and snbliine
f this family of republics. In-
e spirit that does not spontanc-
rescrvedly transmit itself into
titution of this country, and
identify itself with them. For
inges every thing nearest the
udestin character—every thing
~nt and protect humble life.—
aborated by invaluable blood,
y unparalleled sacrifices, and
triarchal virtue. O liberty, shall
dies men, who abound in free as
ish governments, use thy light
tiously to gain thy recess, and
munitics but to weaken thy de-
ness of legislation is and should
'o the legislative body, the eyes
, to a man should be unwinkingly
or hope of good and fear of evil,
tion, should not the voter be so-
pressed with the obligations la
thers who won,—himself and con
s who now enjoy, and the illitnit-
of posterity who ought to inherit
legacy of freedom ? Upon t la-
elect should he not scrutinously
retain the pure, inflexible and in
ublic servant « after whom popu-
)ws,” and the huckstering, mcr-
dangerous public servant, “ who
pularsty?” My eyes have seen
have heard it; my heart has
unsovereign manner, in which
ns of honor and power bestow their
when they meet to elect repre-
In the courts of justice, in the
’gations between citizens, none
d to testify in their own behalf;
andidacy to represent the pco-
gnty, the grossest egotism pro
gust, and the boldest testimony
date in his own favor, alarms no
The reverse happens. The rest-
er for suffrage, who wearies the
unts the path of the citizen, of-
aps, secures his confidence. In
vatc agencies, the applicant who
lis appointment most earnestly,
ost unblushingly on his fitness,
suspected. Yet in the highest
cy—I mean the delegation of the
‘eincn—such applicant is often
The planter's observation
never sleeps. From morning to
isses the ploughshare against the
weeds and grass. How slight
cial the survey he takes ol
whom he entrusts his dignified
blc share in the state ; how su-
e suffer tho hurtful weed of uu-
ition to outgrow and supplant
ability, worth ami modesty.
American stands at the hustings
ken shackles that once fettered
free and judicious ticket in his
a sight that angels might pe-
y.” When he stands tln-re a
duped by fraud, biased by
lo favor, and purchased by a
I weep for his delusion and
brruption. When an American
at in a legislature, with talents
nd, virtue to pursue and intrepedi-
in the good & glory of the land, my
tes with proud enthusiasm, and
date him with the venerable dc-
protected us in the storm and
us in the dark. But he whom 1
through the turns of cunning
gs of falsehood ; dodging the
oncst men behind the pile of plau-
! ons, and passing the sentinels
leu mantleofpatriotism, and with
countersign of disinterestedness;
t there a small pedlar of legisla-
for the pitiful earnings of pri-
e and personal consequence
uiy pen disdains to sketch him
ten to oblivion ; if he be stopt
n, the moral atmosphere must
1y tainted.
incs, I could apostrophize with
the electrical eloquence which can arouse the*
apathy that suffers, and shock the delusion
that creates this state of things ; I would
give my days and nights to the labor. As it
is, I can only say, O voter ! l-emcinber your
fathers, respect yourselves, and feel for your
descendants. O legislator, think of what
you are, and study the subjoined faint outline
of what you should be.
THE LEGISLATOR.
** Nor art thou skillecrin awful schemes alone,
Ancl how to make a mighty people thrive ;
But equal goodness, sound integrity,
A firm unshaken, unctfrrupted soul
Amid a sliding age, and burning throng,
Not vainly blazing for thy country’s weal,
A steady spirit, regularly free; v
These each exalting, each the statesman light
Into the patriot; these the public hope,
And eye to thee converting, hid the muse
Kccord, what envy dares not flattery call.—Thompson.
WHY loves the soul to linger in the scene t
Now nuirr’d and rais’d, where Sparta’s lights hath been ?
Where Athens glitter’d to the brightest sun,
Where Home’s wide round of glory hath been run ?
’ Tis not the gorgeous pomp of palace,—not the show
Of countless trains that triumph as they go,
O’er captive monarch or submissive chief,
Who’d fill’d their camps with slain, their homes with grief
Oh no—Such pageants consecrate no spot;
Sublime no virtue ; meliorate no lot;
That beam is quench’d—the sun fr#m which it shone
Sunk in the waste of ages, long since gone;
Nought but the painted tints remain in sight,
And those not seen in the unlctter’d night.
We love to haunt those hallow’d grounds to scan
The deathless sage refining laws for man,
To raise his nature and redress his state;
To point his virtues and his woes abate.
We love to see young legislation bred
By wisdom’s side in strong proportion spread,
And wedd.ng vivtvic propagate a train,
Of thrifty blessings tor each lull and plain.
We love to mark when freedom young on earth,
Clung for support to men of highest worth.
Antiquity thy shades with such a charm,
Cold as they are, still keep the bosom warm ;
And still entice with facination sweet,
The modern pilgrim to thy mouldering scat.
But short his pause in that dim twilight now -,
Our early councils, gathered from the plough,
With energies unknown in Greece or Home,
Recall the fond researcher, glowing home.
The tombs of perish’d nations, where he heaid
In holy dream distinct, each burning word
Of matchless orators, long mute irreiust,
\Vho.-»e thunder scath'd and shiver'd where it burst,
Whether on I’h.lhp, Cvmon, Cataline,*
And awful guarded freedom’s ancient shrine.
No longer chain h.m in the dusk of lime,
I’hro* whosest.il shadows all things loom sublime.
A higher pitch of eloquence is he’rei
Diviner yu\ues in that hall appear,
Fill’d with the ablest of the age gone bye,
Who held their scats, authentic horn the sky.
No dross of self—no ocum of vain applause,
Once tarnish’d or deform’d the glorious cause.
No sleek obliquity, asquat to seize
K ell bubble scheme that promised but to please,
While good substantial that .11 prospect lay
Was made the very bug-bear t>f the tl.»y :
No bart’rmg interchange of holy power
To serve the petty groundlings of an hour :
No puny idea vaporised, to haze
The bill’s clear horizon, and sense to maze :
No bantling crudity by folly spawn’d,
Wet-nurs’d to law, and into favor fawn’d :
HedwarlM or stain’d that bright gigant.c band,
The lights and prophets of the struggiug laud.
As denser grew the cloud upon the scene,
See Henry’s lightning flash more fierce and keen,
Hear deeper burst his thunder to awake—
While the grave body with amazement shake.
With arms uplifted “ we must fight” he cr.es ;
The buru,ng nation “ we must fight” replies.
Never since senates met on earth was felt,
A stroke like that—enforcing all to melt
With instantaneous fusion into zeal,
And spring to liberty beneath the peal.
Never since senates met on earth were seen,
Such grasp of mind, such majesty of mien,
Such pure identity of hope and will,
W ith those for whom that sacred post they fill.
By love and reverence elect, they came
l’o toil for ages, not lo dip for fame,
Along the babbling stream of shallow speeches,
Or, wriggle their mere legislative leeches;
Heady to fix on any scheme that swam,
Right but by blunder, and sincere tor sham.
They came profound and brilliant, to debate
In sacred truth, the destinies of state ;
The defecated talents of the mass,
And not the souHc:
With faction’s freshet or corruption*s flood—
And never seen immix’d with civil blood.
With delicate adjustment to sustain
Freedom’s improving, 9trength*ning, settling reign—
Such arduous duties, senators astute!
Where others chatter, struck your wisdom mute—
Such schemes divine absorb’d your mighty powers
And made your age the blessed light of ours.
Appling, September, 1818.
pours of t|ie#r>r.Afls.
Long studious iii the l&byr.mh oilman,
Or, lit by (fod, unstudied to the plun,
Those venerabje men d.d not suppose,
Their seats were dormitor.es where to dose
The ceremonial of a session out—
Or, blinking, see die rpekcu-wor^s gaily spout.
They ne’er misdeem’d the legislative hall,
A place 10 band) party’s stippcrv ball;
With main impulsion, or with •deiguiful tap,
Jusl an opposers in the.r vigils nap—
S mndly or lightly—nor presum’d die task
Of sacred custody wh.ch nations ask,
In peace or war, mechanical and trite,
Bas er and plainer than to spell or write.f
Immortal fathers, trembling, you convened,
While all your passions on your country lean’d—
The blaze of genius, and the light of lore
Illum’d the past and brightly shone before :
\nd still you trembl’d, ms \ou held the scale
Of public policy, for weui or bale.
You deeply felt, and most distinctly saw,
The holy function of enacting law—
What a wide range of knowledge hoarded long.
What depth of scrutiny—what judgment strong
To analyze, deduce, select, combine—
What honeat intrepidity should join,
'To render merely harmless all your deeds,
And crush the voluntary growth of weeds.
But to evoke the faculties that sleep
'Torpid and drown’d in the great human deep,
And animate them with a plastic touch,
Neither imped’d too little nor too much—
To seek the fountains and pursue the streams,
Sinuous and countless with which action teems
And turn the whole by miracle of skill,
Into the channel they should always fill—
Of lasting, weal that flows by ev’ry door,
Limpid and smooth, and never heard to roar,
TOPOGRAPHY.
* The adversaries of liberty against whom
Demosthenes, Pericles and {lice.ro respectively
kindled their indignation.
t The poet here saucily sijuints at the possibili
ty that men may sometimes be ambitious of ad
vancement to legislatures, who can neither spell
orihographically nor ivrite legibly. ,
-MADISON SPRINGS,—TUCCOA PALLS,—-CURRY-
HUE MOUNTAINS.
The Madison Springs, in this state, are
becoming a place of fashionable resort.
During the last season, they were frequent-
il by a crowd of visitors from the middle
arid lower counties, and from S. Carolina.
The situation is healthy—possessing a dry
soil, and a light and wholsoinc atmosphere.
The mineral water is said to contain much
medicinal virtue, and to have proved cffica-
inus in chronic diseases of inveterate char
acter. But, for ourselves, we can only say,
with l’anlding, in his “ Letters from the
South,” that whatever may bo the virtues of
the waters, he who wants to get a good appe
tite and allay it too, will do well to come
here, to eat mutton and venison. You gen-
y who get a saddle of mutton a month old,
md then hang it up till its juice exhales, and
it becomes as dry as the remainder biscuit
after a long voyage, don’t know what veni
son is, when brought down from the moun
tains fresh. I am no great epicure, you
enow—that is, I neither like terrapins, tripe,
beaver’s tails, hog fish, nor any other of the
reat dishes—but I confess to the (Madison)
Venison.” Another observation from l’auld-
ng, while descanting on our watering places,
.s equally applicable to the Madison Springs.
He says—“ Bathing, drinking the waters,
ating. and sleeping, are the principle occu
pations ; and for recreation they sometimes
dance of evenings—when there is any mu
sic. It is well they have this amusement,
else they would be sadly put to it; for there
is at none of these springs a drawing-room,
where such of the company as chose may
meet for social purposes, either at morning
tr evening. The ladies live in cabins, most
of them containing but one room—which, of
course, lias a bed in it—and wc Americans
are not yet in that pure state of Parisian in
nocence that we can visit a lady in her bed
room, without considerable—trepidation.
Finis the only social place of meeting is at
the spring ; and there few opportunities for
conversation occur. A neat, capacious, and
well-furnished drawing-room would add in-
!‘mitely to the pleasures of these fashiona
ble resorts.”
The country adjacent to the Springs is ve
ry sterile, broken and hilly—From the most
elevated parts, you occasionally catch a
glimpse of the lofty Alk-ganies. In the im
mediate vicinity of the Springs, however,
’lie eye is not often enamoured with Arca
dian Groves, or flower enamelled lawns—
lint, they are sometimes decorated with Syl
van Nymphs, that only want such scenic
beauties to realize to the romantic vision the
“ Vale of Cashmere.”
From the Springs you may make a little
pleasant excursion to the Tuccoa Falls, and
the Corn bee Mountain. These natural cu
riosities still remain monuments of our ig
norance of the topography of the state.
They are situated in Franklin county, about
60 miles from the Springs, in the north-wes
tern corner of our state, near the old Cher
okee boundary. The Falls are 183 feet high,
situate on a stream which springs from the
Uhattahouchie Bulge, about 5 miles distant.
Its playful waters meander carelessly along,
like the wanton child of pleasure, uncon
scious of its apparent danger, until, at once
it dashes down the frowning precipice. The
sheet of water is small; but, from its great
fall, and its consequent increased velocity,
it produces a smart breeze which would eas
ily extinguish a candle. Larce fragments
of rock lie at the bottom, precipitated, no
doubt, from the summit, or the side, (which
is of solid rock) by some convulsion of na
ture. When the sun shines brightly through
the spray, it sparkles to the eve like liquid
drops ol lire, and reflec ts through the mist a
line view of the Bow of Iris, in all its vari-
j ( gated hues. The Cattle that graze upon
| the top, are sometimes lured too near tli
verge, by the verdant pasturage, and fall in
to the awful abyss, shattered to atoms.
The Curry lice is about 3 miles from Tuc
roa—It rises in a bottom, ancl is supposed
from a rough calculation, to he 15 or 1600
feet in height. The easiest ascent, (and the
only practicable one on horseback) is from
the north side, winding round the mountain
north-westwardly. The most difficult as
cent, in this direction, is between 25 and 30
degrees. When you reach the summit
sceneofsimplegrandeurand sublimity bursts
upon your view. The whole face of the
country from east to south appears one ver
dant carpet, dotted over with picturesque
groups of cottages and farms. But from
the north and west a more magnificent scene
awaits the eye—A stupendous range of the
[Allegany mountains, for more than a hun
dred miles in extent—lifting their lofty sum
mits to the sky, arrest the attention, and ex
tort a cry of admiration ! You look upon a
world of mountains—and feel superior to
the grovelling herd beneath you, whose pet
ty jealousies and contracted desires, are in
flaming, distracting, and convulsing this ne
ther world.
With local advantages like these, we are
surprised that our citizens should over leave
the limits of Georgia to enjoy their hours of
recreation. Here, the Hygiean goddess o-
pens her arms to receive us—and our moun
tains woo the Naturalist to a contemplation
of the beautiful and sublime. Such induce
ments, we think, arc sufficient to make it a
little more fashionable to spend our time at
home—-to keep within the state its- own re
sources—and to brighten the rhaiu of social
intercourse, by a more frequent, general and
amicable association.—Jiugustn Chronicle.
P<
MUSIC TAUGHT.
GALLAHER returns his sincere thanks
O to the citizens of Milledgeville, for the
patronage and support he has experienced, since
his arrival amongst them. The general satisfac
tion his method of instruction has given, in other
parts of the United States, where he has taught
the Piano Forte, has been highly gratifying to his
feelings, and is happy to find it has been the case
(with few exceptions) since his arrival at the seat
of government of Georgia. His being at a very
early age placed under some of the greatest mas
ters—men whose compositions have drawn forth
the admiration of the enlightened and refined of
all nations—his experience in Europe as a per
former, at a variety of the most brilliant and ele
gant public and private concerts, and also in most
of the principal cities in the United States—
There are at present gentlemen in Milledgeville,
who must acknowledge the enthusiastic applause
he has been often honored with, at musical exhibi
tions where they have been present. Such ad
vantages, he trusts, give him no small claim on a
discerning public. Tha inhabitants of the sur
rounding country, who may feel disposed to give
their daughters "that part of a polite education,
(which never fails to make innocence and beauty
shine with additional lustre) will find the expense
quadruple less than by sending them to remote
distances from their homes. Another great satis
faction is, that they can visit them, when they
may express a wish to do so. He will also give
lessons to a few young gentlemen, on the violon•
cello, clarionet or flute.
Applications made at the Office of the Georgia
Journal or at the Office of the Reflector will be
attended to. Milledgeville, Oct. 20.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
S TOLEN from my camp, Georgia, Franklin
county, oil the night of the 20th of Septem
ber, a likely sorrel MARE, fifteen hands high,
six years old, with a white streak in her face, and
on her right thigh a spot of mixed hair of white
and sorrel, near the size of the palm of a man’s
hand, and about six inches below tliat, a spot of
white nearly as big as a quarter of a dollar, the
end of one of her ears bent down, rough shod,
and very fat when stolen ; her mane thin and
hangs on the left side. Any person finding the
said mare, and delivering her to W. R Ander
son, Esq. near Jefferson, Jackson county, or to J.
C. Anderson, Pendleton district, S. C. shall re
ceive tlie above reward, or give any information
so that the property may be come at, shall be re
warded for alt trouble—the thief can be found if
the mare can be got.
CHRISTOPHER CRIDER.
October 20.
BLACKSMITH’S BUSINESS.
T HE subscriber respectfully informs the pub.
lie, that he has commenced the Blacksmith’s
Business in the Penitentiary, where the follow
ing articles will be manufactured upon the most
approved plan, to be bad on tho shortest notice,
viz :—Flour Mill Screws for raising mill stones,
ditto for oil and fulling mills : Saw Mill Cranks,
Inks and Gudgeons for Tub Mills, (warranted to
stand ten years) ; Saw and Grist mill irons of all
descriptions; Plantation and House work gene
rally, Tavern, House and Waggon Bells. C,
Grasshopper and horizontal carriage springs,
madeor repaired. Application to be made at the
gate for admittance.
ISAAC T. CUSHING.
Milledgeville, Aug. 4.
NEW STORE.
T HE subscriber having taken the stand on the
north west corner of the Public Square, op
posite the Post-Office, respectfully informs the
public, that he has just received from Ncw-York
a handsome assortment of readymade Clothing,
made in the neatest style, and of the latest fash
ion ; also a good assortment of the finest quality,
Cloths and Casimeres, together with a general
assortment of DRY GOODS and Fine Cutlery,
which will be disposed of on accommodating termV
sam’jl G00UALL.
Milledgeville, October 12.
JOHN C. HOLCOMBE,
H AVING taken the Ware-House lately occu-
pied by Flewellin 8c Dickinson, offers his
services in the FACTORAGE AND COMMIS
SION LINE. He is having his Store-Houses put
in complete order for the reception of all kinds
of produce, merchandize, 8cc. etc. and strict at
tention will be paid to all business entrusted to
his care. Augusta, (Geo.) July 1.
TO HIRE,
segro Girl, a j
Enquire of the printer.
LIKELY Negro Girl, a good house servant.