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Three Dolls.per ann.~j Volume VIII.] FOR SALE AT THE MONITOR-OFFICE. The following pamphlets. Os which a great allowance will be made to those who pur chase by the doz.n or hundred. (viz.) POPE's ESSAY ox MAN. BIBLE BAPTIST , By the Rev. John Leland. A BLOW at the ROOT j a sermon, by the Rev. John Leland, author of the “ Bible Baptist.” RICE's SERMON , On the revival of Religion, in Kentucky. Q< KELLEY's APOLOGY, For protesting against the Meth odist Episcopal Church. Doct. RUSH'S INQUIRY Into the effedts of Spirituous Li quors upon the Human Body. HISTORY of JACK NIPS , —an answer to Lorenzo Dow’s travel to the House of God. JACK'S ALMANAC , —Being a pack of Cards which constitute both an Almanac and a Prayer-book. ■■--*- - An ORATION In commemoration of the anm vAfary of American Indepen dence, delivered July 4th, 1807, by E. H. Cummins, Esq. HULL'S HYMNS- A few (heets remain of the old flock. ALSO, The following Blanks—’ Subpoenas, ** Juftices’ war- Executions, ** rants, Warrants of ap- ** Fi-Fa’s, praifement, # * Ca-Sa’s, Administrator’s ** Indentures, bonds, ** Letters of ad- Letters tefta- * # ininiftration. mentary. ** Letters of Guardian bonds, # * guardianflup Marriage licen- ** Juftices* exe ces, with the # * cutions. certificates an- ** Conftables* nexed. # * bonds. Commiflioners’ ** and interrogatories.** Deeds. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , TO the proprietors, their agent , or trustees of the following trail of land , situate in Oglethorpe county —that unless they , their agent , or trustees do come forward and settle the taxes due on said land within six months from this date , it will be sold by the collcftor of said coun ty, agreeable to law , —viz: TWO hundred acres of land, in the countv of Oglethorpe, on the waters of Cloud’s creek, adjoining hnds of Weftan Williams and o thers. Alexander, M‘Ewen, r t r. July 5, 1808. 6tn. MONITOR. Washington, (Georgia) Printed weekly for Sarah Hillkouse. DESULTORY. From the Lamp. For the LADIES. Finery to Crank, and Crank to Finery. Mr. Crank, What fhail Ido ? lam nearly 25 years old, and am not yet mar ried ! I am shocked at the idea of becoming an old maid, but how to prevent that awful catastrophe I do not know. You have done won ders they tell me in your fponforial office, and I implore the assistance of your fkiil to help me out of my perplexing situation. I fhail be plain and open to you, for a doctor cannot cure a patient that does not tell him where the paia lies. lain an amazing pretty woman : I will not go too far when I fay I am a right down beauty. My looking glafs tells me so, and it don’t tell lies. lam four feet and an half high, and weigh exactly 120. You know this is a charming size. My eyes are hazle brown, bold and large, and overfhaded with the larg ed eye tefhes you ever saw. No man from 18 to 90 can (land my iueks- fuf- a~fccond ‘without fofoy put into a terrible flutter. My eye brows are well arched and charm ingly saucy. My nose is fine, and exactly one third of the length of my face. My mouth is fmal!, my lips are roly and pouting. My skin is fair, my hair is brown. My fmiie bewitches, my frown diftradts. My arm is that oi a princess, my hand that of a queen. I dance like a goddess, and sing like an an gel—and yet with all these charms, with ail this raviffiing beauty, with all these enchanting accomplish ments, I am—2s years of age-and -single! 1 What can be the cause of this? I never said that I did not w'ant to marry ! I can play the lady of the house to admiration. I can whip the negro wenches like five hundred when they make ine mad. Rose! hand me the bread —why. dont you make haste you lazy slut ?—Fillis! pin my fhawl— quick, quick! make haste! why are you so long a fumbling about it, you aukward huffy?—Sylla! rub the tables—Jenny! brush the hearth —Either! give me my watch from the bureau—Jack! flir the fire Dont you think that I would make an excellent house-wise ? But with all these economical talents, I am— -25 years of age~and~fingle! Dear Mr. Crank! cannot you tell me what is the reason of it? The young gentlemen need not be afraid that I fhail meddle with the affairs of my future husband ; for I fhail do nothing but eat, dress and visit. I fhail never prerend to know any thing better than my future spouse, for I do not know how to read or to write—Brother wrote this letter for me. Mamma never sent me to fchool, for that studying would spoil my frefh color. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1808. Dear, good old man ! I wish you to take my case into consideration, and fend me ycur opinion on it, and your advice about it as soon as possible. Yours, SUSAN FINERY. Advice Learn to read, to write & cypher -—it is not too late. Break your looking-glass, and never buy your felf another. Never whip nor scold your negroes. Overlook the kit. chen ; knit and few, and flay at home. if you will follow this advice, I will give you the choice among twelve of the llneft, richcft, smartest suitors in the (late. ADAM CRANK. v From the Hudson Bee. The Steam Boat, is certainly an interfiling curiosity to strangers. To fee this large and apparently un wieldy machine, without oars or fail, propelled through the element by inviftble agency, at a rate of four miles in an hour, would be a nov elty in any quarter of the globe, as we understand there is none in Eu rope that has succeeded on the plan upon which this is con It rutted. The length of the boat is 160 feet, and her width in proportion, so as —The machine which moves her wheels, is called, we believe a twenty horse machine or equal to’ the power of so many herfes, and is kept in motion by fleam from a copper boiler, 8 or 10 feet in length. The wheels are on each fide, fimiiar to these of water mills, and under cover they are moved backward or forward, separately or together, at pleasure.—Her principal advantage is in calms or against head winds : When the wind is fair, light Iquare fails, See. are employed to increale her speed. Her accommodations (52 births besides fofas, &c.) are laid to be equal or superior to any vessel that floats on the river, and are necessarily extensive, as all the space unoccupied by the machinery is fitted in the moft convenient man ner. Her route (between New- Yoik and Albany) is a distance of 160 miles, which she performs re gularly twice a week, sometimes in the short period of 82 hours, ex clusive oi detention by taking in and landing passengers. On her pafiage last week she left New-York with upwards of 100 passengers, and Albany with 80 or 90. Indeed this aquatic stage from Albany, with the Experiment of this city, bid fair to attach the greatest part of the tra vellers which pass the Hudson, and afford them accommodation not ex ceeded in any other part of the world. IDLENESS. Biffiop Taylor once toiti a tedy of his acquaintance, who was neg lectful of the education of her son, “ Madam, if you do not choose to fill your boy’s head with fometbtng, believe me, the devil will.” The Spanish preverb has it, “ The devil tempts every man, but an idle man positively tempts the devil.” On the Lombardy poplar , tsfe. It appears Iroia the manner that j Lombardy poplars grow within the vicinity of Philadelphia, that they would form a very excellent live fence, by being planted at the dis tance of 7 or 8 feet from each oth* ? er. If cuttings of about one inch ; in diameter were (tuck down at the above-mentioned distance, and well protected from cattle for a few? j years in ground tolerably rich, they | would soon be fufficiently strong to mortise rails into; otherwise it would be moft proper to plant them in a nursery and when they were a bout the thickness of a man’s wrist, plant them out at the feme distance above mentioned ; fhould not be mortiftd in more than is just ! lufficient to keep them in their pla ! ees, for they will loon be secured fufficiently by the growth ot the tree, when it’would be advisable to fill up the vacancies with clay or fome of Forfyth’s composition, to ! prevent the decay of the tree as | much as possible. In making this kind of fence, there should be a • dhch run along perhaps about four I feet wide and proportionably deep, to prevent the communication of j the roots with the fields intended to ’ vhe cult!cared qln ;^g f Ivver an excellent purpose, on ac ’ count of the very great quantity cf j leaves that will collect, which may be bawled into the barn-yard or or fprt*d on the fields when they are wdl rotted.—This kind of fence would supply the country with vast quantises ot fuJ at the time they are cut over, which may be done at the height of a lour or live rail I fence or higher if thought proper; [ when the tops should be clayed o ver for thcabove-mentioned reason, they will afterwards fend out very strong shoots, which in a few years may be used again dor fuel. On the Locust tree for fencing. Ihe Locust tree would answer on fome accounts for fencing bet ter than the Lombardy poplar, the wood is more valuable for many purposes; it has been said that it will neither iwell nor shrink; a good locust poll has been said to last one hundred years, it produces great quantities of odoriferous flow ers, which afford a delicious harvest |to the honey bee, but as they are | of a mere spreading growth thaa / the Lombardy poplar, it would be better to plant one at every post of the fence, which is 10 and 1! feet apart, they would be large enough by the time anew fence decayed to succeed it; there should be a ditch run along fide of them for the fame reason as the Lombardy poplar; they enrich the ground by their spreading roots, so that if any poor * piece of ground is planted with lo cult trees in a few years it wjiltje very much improved, but as the Lombardy poplar is of a very quick growth perhaps that may be as great an objedt, with many, as the difference in point of durability. [Payable half yearly. [Number 392. . & ■