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\ a THE REFLECTOR. MILLEDGEVILLE, G. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1818. NO. 53. ORRIS Ac GINN, TO THE PUBLIC. CLLY inform the public that Woodltkv needs no trumpet, no bard his fame declare, received from New-\mkan as- His march is o’er the facr divine, his home among the fair- B ILLY WOOI)LIEF,(ut the sign of the Pole) Gentleman of the Comb, Scissors dj' Razor,* returns his grateful thanks to his old customers and solicits a continuance of their favor, and in vites Strangers to come ami see a clean Shop, and feel the comforts of a smooth razor, clean clothes, an easy chair, sweetsoap, perfumery, Sfc. dj'c. <J - c. The Ladies are informed that he winds ele gantly the convoluted curl, anti leads with taste the spiral ringlets down the lovely face. Everv article wanted in their toilets to complete the silken chain of personal decoration,” may be had at his Shop. He expects in a few weeks a large supply of Gentlemen's Corsets from the north. Those who have had the misfortune not to have been made in “ nature’s choicest mould,” and who are desir ous of an inimitable contour of form, are parti cularly recommended to make use of the gentle men’s corsets. «*« News-Papers received from various part: of the U. States, may be examined at his Shop. The Poet, fond uf the jingling line and tinsel si- milie ; the fFit, relishin'jr the pun obscene, if but the point be gross ; the Politician■ full of strange whims, seeking essays, strictures, observations ; the Physician. emulous to increase his stock of paradoxical theory—In short, all who delight “ tn the feast of reason, and the flow of sotd,” Arc invited to call at the S.gn of the POLE. Miliedgeville, vYov. 1- * JS*ote.—This title has recently been adopted by gentlemen of my profession, to distinguish them from common shavers. “ liar her,'' has been exploded as an obsolete, antiquated and barberous term. received ooks, in the various branches of mnng which are elegant quarto Bi- bindings; I)r. Gregory’s Dictions- Sciences, 3 vols. quarto, embel- engravings ; Dr. (fill’s Commen- erto, London edition ; Scott’s do. ’a do. 6 do. octavo ; M’Knight on do. do. Campbell’s Gospels 4 do. keletons, 5 do. do. Pndeux’a Con do. Paley’s Works, 5 do. do. Le- Recitation, 2 do. do. Buck’s The nary ; Brown’s Dictionary Bible s homas Coke, L. L. D. by Samuel er’sPosthumous Works; Beauties ethodist Hymns ; Thomas’ Prac- octavo Cooper’s Surgery; Dor 2vpls. Accuin’s Chemistry 2 vols. Edinburg Dispensatory ; Med- y; Hcberden’s Commentaries; nd ; Ewell's Medical Companion ; rs to Ladies ; Caldwe’l’s Cullen, 2 of Botany ; Phillip’s Mineralogy ; Muscles; History of England, 8 Bigland’s do. 2 do. do. Lernpri- Dictionary ; Walker's do. Smith’s tions; Smith’s Moral Sentiments; f Nations ; Ferguson’s Lectures, an’s Digested Index, 3 vols. 8 vo. ; Harper’s Works, 8 do Steward Lock’s Essays ; Hutton's Matbe- 'iiey’s Book Keeping; Gummere’s array’s Grammar ; Pitkin’s Sta- Works, 24 vols. Plutarch’s Lives. , 6 do. London edition ; Dobson’s Shakespeare’s Plays, 6 do ele- Burn’s Works, 2 do. do. Gil Bias. *Xotte, 4 do. Arabian Nights 4 do. T orks, 5 do. Hobhouse’s Albania, 2 s; Hobhouse’s Letters from France: vols. Amherst’s Embassy to China : to Rome and Naples; .Mrs. Opie’s vols. Raffle’s Tour; President ol' Literary Characters ; Biographical S. T. Coldridge, Esq. Rob Roy, 2 4th Canto ; Byron's Works, 3 vols. and a large assortment, of SCHOOL ich they will dispose of at New-York a handsome assortment of Station- elegant portable writing desks, and perior parchment. Millcdgeville, Geo. November 3. MUSIC TAUGHT. LAHER returns his sincere thanks citizens of Miliedgeville, for the d support he has experienced, since ongstthem. The general satisfac- od of instruction has given, in other United States, where lie has taught rte, has been highly gratifying to hi ts happy to find it has been the case options) since his arrival at the seat utof Georgia. I*is being at a very ced under some of the greatest mas- hose compositions have drawn forth i of the enlightened and refined of his experience in Europe as a per- (rariety of the most brilliant and ele- d private concerts, and also in mo»t I cities in the United States— ~esent gentlemen in Miliedgeville, nowledge the enthusiastic applause ten honored with, at musical exliibi- ey have been present. Such ad- rusts, give him no small claim on a blic. The inhabitants of the sur- ntry, who may feel disposed to give rs that part of a polite education, fails to make innocence and beauty ditional lustre) will find the expense s than by sending them to remote their homes. Another great satis- tthey can visit them, when they a wisn to do so. He will also give ew young gentlemen, on the violon- ' or Jlute. s made at the Office of the Georgia the Office of the Reflector will be Miliedgeville, Oct. 20. NEW STORE, briber having taken the stand on the :t corner of the Public Square, op- t-Office, respectfully informs the has just received from Ncw-Y r ork ssortmentof readymade Clothing, eatest style, and of the latest fash- "d assortment of the finest quality liineres, together with a general DRY GOODS and Fine Cutlery, isposed of on accommodating term's. SAM’l (J00UALL He, October 12. INLAND NAVIGATION. STOP I RE VILLAIN. RUNAWAY from the subscri ber. living in Putnam county, Georgia, a likely young mulatto negro fellow—he passes by vari ous names when runaway—his proper name is Dick, his head is SL-rf’syjfc-s destitute of an ear, having been -''*** cut oft’ by the Indians for steal ing a horse. He took away with him a highly finished and very excellent rifle gun, which lie stole—any person apprehending and securing: the above described villain, will do an act of jus tice, for which they shall be well rewarded ; by LEO. AUKltCltOMUIE. November 2. tUi CATION. JL second year of rn v School (near the dwell ing house of Leo. Abercrombie Esq.) is intend ed to commence on the first of February next. The Students, this present tear, are very heal thy. Hoard will be 100 dollars and tuition 32 dollars per Annum. A few male Students un der 15, and Female under 12 years old, will be admitted There will be a vacation of 3 weeks in Summer and a short intermission at Christ mas. DANIEL DCTPET. Mount Lebanon, Putnam County, Oct. 27. Ujicial report to the governor of Georgia, by l)r, Roberts, of his late survey of the Oomulgee ri ver, dated 4th Sept. 1818. Sir,—In obedience to your order of the 8t.li of July, I proceeded without delay to the dis charge of the duties therein required. I commenced on the. Ocmtilgee river, and ex amined it from Fort Hawkins to ils juncti- with the Oconee. Above Fort Hawkin'# did not particularly examine the river, in lieving that from this point upwards there is such a close succession of shoals and rapids, as would render the expense of improving the navigation of that part of the river, im equal to the benefit at present to he derived from it. Whether, in future, when the po pulation shall he extended on both sides of the river, this object may be worth the means to be employed for its accomplishment, is at present problematical. From Fort Hawkins downwards, the Oemulgccis a fine river. Though neither your order, nor the act of the legislature upon which it is predicat ed. require an actual survey and measure inent, yet in order to render my observations I he more intelligible, I have thought proper to make a survey and furnish the accompany ing chart of the river, hoping it would he of some use in forming a correct idea of its true situation. This survey is not offered as per fectly accurate, (he distances being comput ed by the time compared with the actual measurment of a given distance on the shore; but from the pains taken to render it as ac curate as possible, it is believed to he not far from the truth. Immediately below the shoal at Fort Hawkins, the river is eighty yards wide, and from three to five feet deep —it maintains nearly this width and depth down to the sand bar, or Floyd’s ford ; here in low water, boats drawing more than eigh teen inches could not pass. Thence down to major Harden’s ware-house, a distance ofa- hout six miles, there is a beautiful straight river without any obstructions, and of suf ficient depth for any boats on the river, with a very gentle current. After passing below this point, hut a very short distance, the ri ver becomes more crooked, narrow and ra pid ; and though of sufficient depth it i« ve ry much chunked up with trees and rafts. marked on the chart, would be about two hundred yards lung, and would cut off a piece of ugly crooked river, of about five niles round. A sluice already runs across here, and will in time become the main chan nel. A little labor bestowed upon it at unco would save n great deal of time, and hard toiling to boats in getting round the bend. Similar advantages of less importance, might he taken in several other places, which I have not particularly noted. As to the probable expenses attendant on. the improvements proposed to he made, it is impossible, a priori, to make any estimate. My own impression however, is, that the sunt already appropriated, if judieiuusly managed would go very far towards accomplishing all that is at present contemplated to be done.—- Vs tlio work progresses, however, a more correct estimate can he made of the necessa ry funds, Ilian can possibly be before hand. Having finished my route on the Ocmulgeo river, 1 left my boat in the care of Benjamin Cray, esq. and hired a cart and horse for oiir transportation towards Barnett’s shoals on tliedjronec river, intending to commence my examination at that point. On my way thither, myself and all the hands 1 had with ine on the Ocmulgeo, (except one who wa9 not with us) were attacked within six hours of the same time, with a bilious remittent fe ver—hoping it wouldSie slight, we continued our march up the Skull shoals, I saving one on the way. Here it became apparent that we could not proceed any farther. Thus have I been providentially hindered from Ac complishing the work assigned me in your order. 1 have the honor to be, your excellency's obedient servant, w. Roberts. His Excellency Wm. Rahun. Georgia Legislature. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. FelliKc-citizens of the Senate and of the house of Representatives ; It is with no ordinary feelings of gratifies* tiori and thankfulness, that 1 am again, hy the blessings of Divine Providence, permit ted to meet you in this place. A retrospect of the period elapsed since wc last assembled, together with something to regret, furnishes abundant motives for gratitude and exulta- Thc obstructions multiply in your descent as] tion. For although the unexampled prospe far as Durham’s Bluff; thence to Hartford.) vity of our beloved country, has experienced some abatement, arising from unfavorable TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. D ESERTED, Oil the 24th of October last, a private soldier, belonging to the penitentia ry guard, by the name of William Stewart, 22 years of age, 5 feet 7 3-4 inches high, fair coin- pleetion, Blue eyes, light hair, a native of Geor gia, and a laborer by profession. The above re ward will be paid to any person who will de liver the said Win. Stewart to me, at the peni tentiary in Miliedgeville ; or 10 g to secure him in any safe jail in this state, so that I can get him John bozehan, officer of the guard November 3. HN U. HOLCOMBE, taken the Ware-House lately occu- Flewellin A Dickinson, offers his FACTORAGE AND COMMIS He is having his Store-Houses put ier for the reception of all kinds erchandize, Ac. ike. and strict at paid to all business entrusted to Augusta, (Geo.) July 1. )TTON WANTED, iarket price will be paid in cash on, by Cha. Armstrong, next door haw A Barrow. Miliedgeville, November 1. ■iling Confession of Richard S. ebrated Mail Robber, for sale by U. B. HOLCOMBE & CO. v. Loviclc Pierce, will preach the Rev. Hope Hull, on Sunday 29th liege Chapel, in Athens. w: NOTICE. ILL be sold by an order of the Court of Ordinary, on the first Tuesday in Decem ber next, part of the real estate of Levi Join den, leceased, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres of wood land, more or less : it being part of No. 15, adjoining Alexander Reid, Samuel Cowls and John Lee, sen. &c. Terms made known on the day of sale isham brooks, guard. Putnam, Sept 20 FALL & WINTER GOODS. r HE subscribers, in addition to their former stock, have just received an extensive sup ply of seasonable GOODS. Country merchants and Indian traders may find it advantageous to call, as they can be supplied on tin* most accom modating terms. Also 50 boxes Bloom Raisins, 50 bbls. Rye Whiskey, Linseed Oil and Paints. H. 1). HOLCOMBE A CO. Miliedgeville, Oct. 20. MILLINER'S STORE. M RS. BATE* 1 AN informs the Ladies of Millcdgevi - vicinity, that she has just received assortment ofEle gant Chip, Silk, Jeaver Bonnets of the first quality ork, which she wi dispose of on rea s, at her stole, next door to Messrs. J .ucas, main street Miliedgeville. October f3. FOR SA NE Tract ol O county, No Sept. 23. EN B y Rdd Sf corner oi tl ville, Georgia. BARGAIN, district, Wilkinson ting 202 1-2 acres. UEUT UAlEOltU. vl ENT, Union Hotel, east se square, Mijledge- though still numerous, the river is nut quite so much blocked up with them. Below Hart ford they are still less numerous, so that the whole of them from this point down to the junction, would scarcely equal those above. The obvious method of clearing away those rafts, is to cut the logs into short pieces and let them drift, commencing below and pro gressing upwards, to prevent the accumula tion of Boating timber. This being done and the points and banks cleared of the incum bent willows, Ac. a safe and easy passage will be procured for boats down to the Hart ford shoals. The shoals commence about six miles above Hartford, and end a little below. The first shoal of any note, is that at major Taylor’s fishery. Here the river divides into three channels. The widest and most direct is on the Indian shore, and has a tish-dum across it, that turns the current into the channel on the opposite shore, which is consequently the deepest, and is the chan nel through which boats at present pass. It had, when I examined it, between tlircc and four feet water, but in the lowest water pro bably not lnore than eighteen inches, as the iver was thought to bo nearly two feet above the low water mark. Between this and the main shoal at Hartford, there are three o- tiiers of nearly equal depth—then comes the principal shoal at Hartford. In ono hun dred yards, embracing the chief part of the slmal, there is a full of four and a half or five inches. The river is here at the ferry immediately below the shoal, seventy-seven yards wide, and on the shoal, from ten to twelve inches deep in low water. All the shoals below this are inconsiderable. From a careful examination into the nature of tliesi shoals, I find them all to he made of beds of loose shell stone, most of which are already sufficiently small to he conveniently manag ed, or may be easily made so hy the lever and hammer. The stones that are taken up out of the channel, may he used in construct ing dams, which should commence on each shore at some distance above the shoal, and extend obliquely downwards, gradolly ap proximating each other until their distance apart is a convenient w idth for boats to puss up and down and then continue parallel into the eddy water below. Tlius hy the twofold operation of deepening the bottom and rais ing the lo ad of water, a channel of suffi cient depth may ho made for the largest boats on the river, which when fully laden, scarce ly draw three feet water, Besides the improvements already sug gested, something might advantageously be done in making canals across the necks of considerable bends, where in many places the water has already partly accomplished the work, ’Vhe proposed cgual in particular seasons, and other natuwi.l visitations, yet not to an extent calculated to alarm or de press, but, rather to stimulate to vigilance and exertion, and to awaken in us, a suita ble recollection of our dependence on the Almighty Disposer of. events, of which man, uninterruptedly prosperous, is too prone to be forgetful. The w ar which had commenced during the last y ear, between the United States and tho Seminole Indians, bordering on our southern frontier, lias been terminated hy a mutual cessation of hostilities, without any particu lar stipulations for peace. f should not enlarge my remarks on thia subject, but for an event connected with it, which lias excited great interest throughout the «tate. The circumstance to which 1 al lude, is tho late expedition, undertaken to retaliate, and thus to repress and chastise (he atrocious audacity of the savage inhabit ants c,1 two hostile villages, designated from their chief inen Ilopauncc and Phclemme. From these dens, it was ascertained they made frequent and formidable inroads upon our defenceless frontiers, marking their course w ith the butchery of our women and children, and the other tdrrific enormities peculiar to their barbarous warfare. Afflictive and a- Iarming intelligence of these depredations, accompanied by urgent demands for protec- lion from those whose situations were most exposed, reached the Executive almost daily . An early application was made to the com manding general of the military district, for a force competent to the defence of our fron tier, but it was several months he fore it was even noticed. Under these circumstances, l should have shewn culpable insensibility to the sufferings of iny fellow citizens, and to the duties of the high and important trust with which you have honored me, had I hesi tated what course to pursue. I determined to organize a force sufficient to inflict con dign punishment on this miscreant foe, and make them feel that the frontiers of Georgia, were not to be devastated with impunity. At this juncture, captain Wright presented him self, as a gentleman recently holding a com mand in the service of the United States, and bearing recommendatory testimonials from persons of high and unquestionable respecta bility. This person by a general order of the 14th of April (a copy of which, and copies of all the documents relative to this subject will he laid before you) was authorized to col lect the troops and march them upon the vil lages notorious as the residence of the mur derers and marauders. On nearing the Uhe- haw town, they were informed that one of the hostile chiefs was harbored there, and con ceiving the spu d of their instructions war-