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Entered according to Act ofCongress, in June, 1870, by J. W. Burke & Cos., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the So. District ol Georgia Vol. IV—-No. 7. GENERAL OGLETHORPE. ‘SjpENERAL JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE, the founder of the Colony of Georgia, was the son of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, and was born in London, on the 21st of December, 1688. At the age of sixteen he was admitted a student of Corpus Christi College, but he did not finish his studies, the military profession hav ing more charms for him than literary pursuits. His first commission was as Ensign. After the death of Queen Anne, he entered into the service of «-3? r inee Eugene. When twenty - four years of age he was brought into Par liament, and continued a member more than thirty-two years. In November, 1732, Oglethorpe, with one hundred and sixteen settlers, em barked for Georgia, and on the 13th of January, 1733, the ship dropped an chor outside of the bar at the port of Charleston, South Carolina. By the Governor he was received with the greatest kindness. A few days after wards, he proceeded on his voyage, and arrived at Yamacraw, where he marked out a town, and called it Savannah. After he had placed his colony in as good a situation as circumstances would allow, he secured the good will of the Indians. He continued to take a deep interest in the prosperity of the colony for many years. In 1743, he left Georgia for England, to answer charges brought, against him by Lieutenant Colonel Cook. A court martial declared the charges groundless and malicious, and Cook was dismissed from the service. In 1744, he was appointed one of the field-officers under Field-Marshal the Earl of Stair, to oppose the expected invasion of France. General Oglethorge died on the Ist of July, 1785. The Chinese have a saying that an unlucky word dropped from the tongue cannot be brought back again by a coach and six horses. MACON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 13, 1870. *-Qoßsrnrx. so. : GENERAL OGLETHORPE. , Stoop a Little. 'i HE last time I saw your father (says Dr. Franklin in a letter v to Dr. Mather) was in 1724. In taking my leave he showed me a short way out of the house, through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam over-head. We were still talk ing as I withdrew, he accompanying me behind, and I turning towards him. He said hastily, “Stoop! stoop I' I’’ 1 ’’ I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed an occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he said to me, “You are young and have the world before you ; Stoop a little as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps ! ” This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it when I see pride mortified and misfortune brought upon a people by carrying their heads too high. Whole No. 163. Written for Burke’s Weekly. THE YOUNG- EXPLOBEES; OR, BOY-UFE IN TEXAS, BY JOHN C. DUVAL, Author of “Jack Dobell; or, A Boy's Ad ventures in Texas," “ The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace," etc. CHAPTER V. The Expedition Determined upon —Uncle Seth lie Agrees to go ‘on Certain Conditions — He gives Jack and Lawrence their First Lesson Mrs. Fivers Capitulates to Mr. Pitt. HE next morning, when break- U* fast was over, I was reminded of my promise to speak about the expedition, by divers winks and blinks from cousins Henry and Hugh, and sundry nudges slyly administered by Will. I therefore broached the sub ject to Uncle Rivers, and asked him if he had made up his mind in regard to it. “4es,” said he, “I see but one difficulty in the way, or rather two. One is, for the boys to get their mo ther’s consent, and the other is to get Uncle Seth, as they call him, to go along with them, and take command of the expedition. Uncle Seth is an old hunter and Indian trailer, who lives near here, and who is thoroughly ac quainted with the woods and Indian character; and with him at the head of affairs, I should have but little appre hension for the safe return of the expe dition.” “Its all settled, then,” said Will to me in a whisper, “ Uncle Seth, I know will jump at the chance of going on such a trip, for he is always ready for anything of the sort; and as for Ma, I can soon bring her to terms, if your friend Mr. Pitt will only help me a little ; for since he’s told her and sister Sophia so much about the fashions, and the way the women wear their hair and their dresses now-a-days, they think he is a mighty smart fellow.” “With prudence and caution,” said