The South-west Georgian. (Oglethorpe, Ga.) 1851-18??, June 12, 1851, Image 1

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& II t t — .* v,‘ J - -?•’ l. . > VOL. L ■ff-sa 1 isPuMished every Thursday Morning, in the new Town of Oglethorpe, Macon Counfj.Ga., CHARLES B. YOUNGBLOOD, Publisher. teafiEßt W. ALLEN, TRAVELING AuENT. I'EBillS“s9.l*ct i l’ear in advance RATES OF ADVERTISING. ‘One Dollar per square (of 12 lines or less) for the first BKrlion, and Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Ad vertisement* not specified as to time, will be pub lished till ordered out and charged accordingly. All Letters on business must be addressed to the Publish ■> Post Paid, in order In secure attention. The California Emigrant BY M. S. A. Across the snowclad mountains, along the barren plains— Through winter’s icy fetters, through sum. nier's copious rains— The tide of emigration, like a mighty riv er, rolled; The sea towards which it (lowed along— that ‘promised land” of gold! From many a cheerful fireside, from many a happy home; With bright anticipations those brave gold seekers roam; from many an anxious bosom wrung the bitter tear, When parting from their best beloved witli mingled hope and fear. Yet ever bright before them rose that glit tering land of gold ! From love's fond arms it tore them with a sorrow half untold; Whithin the inner chambers of many a manly heart Strange fears had cast their shadows dark when came tee hour to part. Still gold, bright gold, is glittering, and etriving with its niialit To chase away the darkening gloom that shrouds their spirits 1 jiglit; It whispers, its ‘possession unto them will pleasure bring;’ Aud to the winds and waters all their doubts and fears they fling, They fancied not that perils would encom- - pass them around; Over land and sea they traveled, and di rest suffering found, And ever on their journeying? were groans wrung from their hearts, From homesick, weary spirits, pierced with keen remorseful darts ! Dark and dreary were the hours, as they slowly flitted by, Unto one youthful wandeter— afar from home to die ; Witli no fond arms wherein to rest his weary, aching head— No hand to wipe the death-dew from his cold brow as life fled! Vain yearnings fiill his stricken heart for the comforts ol that home I From which, for paltry worthless gold, all reckless did he roam; And oh ! like^ Is h -the ■ o his fevered ‘brain of past happy hours, Unto his soul conic longins to behold his friends once more, And his heart clings fondly to thorn, though his feet are on the shore Os those illumined waters, in’the waves of that broad sea That flowetlt oil for evermore, to join Eternity! Oh ! ‘California gold mines,* what a fear lul curse they’ve brought! • Wiih what heart-rending sorrows has that • search for dross deen fuugbt ! How many tearful partings, acd how many lives untold Have been laid upon the altar of this ra.- ging thirst for gold ! From the New York Organ. THE LOTTERY GAMBLER OR One step towards a Drunkard’s grave. “ One excitement leads to another. Fixed F^ts. Secret evils in a community art - the worst of evils. Others can be retheiljeil c— can be guarded against. The* mur derer is caught and the law is enforced. And so it is with most crimes knqAvn in our staule book. The, commnnUvsus tain the might and niaj<j#iy of the (C who afe entrusted with its execution fail to do their duty, the cilixens soon dis countenance and supercede them. They abhor the murdL'er and thief. But 1 there are other lawgkwhich are openly and shamelessly brown; but as largf E num bers of our mostTrespectablc citixens en courage and sustain a clafU'who should be state criminals, or buseverely punish? ed, the autholitics/shflit their eyes, and the law i* lWked in such cases. i- ‘ • We allude to Sellers and Policy Dealers. against them. Lotteries are forhiatfeji in this Slate. The selling of drawn in other States is also IIIMMM Lotteries to be drawn out of the forbidden to be advertised; and vet it is ho- | torious that there is a paper published in litis city, and scattered by thousands eve ry week, in which all the lottery schemes got up in oilier Slates are published in the most attractive characters, and slat ing also where the tickets in such schemes can be purchased. It is notorious that hundreds of thousand of dollars are drawn every month from the pockets cf our cit izens which eventually find their way to the States where the lottery is drawn— tints making a double robbery. They rob individuals, they rob the Slate—and, worse than all, the individuals so robbed become so infatuated by the lottery man ia, that they, in turn, rob their employ ers or somebody else, and eventually rob iheir families of comfo.it and happiness; and, to drown their remorse fly to the excitements of intemperance, bring up in the alms house, or die in a gutter or rum shop the horrid death of a drunkard. This is no fancy sketch and the melan choly narrative wo are, to relate is true in every particular. Before we proceed with it, however, we must say a few words more about Lottery Dealers and Policy Venders. The person who buys lottery tickets can keep it a secret from all the world- He can lose hundreds, aye thousands of dollars in the purchase of lottery tickets, and it is only known to himself, for in the lower part of the city of New York alone there are filly places where lottery tick ets are unbfushingly sold to anv one who will buy them. Nearly every ‘Exchange Office’ has them for sale in a back part of their office, which is partitioned, or screened off. The authorities are aware that such is the case, but they overlook it, and many of our policemen are as great lottery and policy purchasers, in a small way, as can be found about our city. The anxiety, care and eventual wretch edness of a lottery purchaser, can only be imagined. He loses daily, (as loose he must,) and his loses increase his aijfjtv. iety to make them up by drawing a $50,- 000 ot even a SSOOO prize) and lie bor rows, —ay, steals often to get life means whereby he can try Ids luck once more, and when his money and hope are both gone, be resorts to drink for- excitement, and the shame faced lottery buyer be comes a sol and a drunjiurd. Many of our drunkards, (who have been respecta ble men in other days,) have been made so by purchasing lottery tickets and cau sed more failures, more bankrups, and made more thieves, drunkards and vaga bonds, than any other known vice. This may startle many gdtxl people who do not even dream of such- an alarming evil in the heart of our city. As we have said, it is to a certain extent a secret evil, and only wounds deeper and more dead ly because it is so. Like mortification in the human body, if not cut out, and eradicated entirely, the poor victim must perisli. YVe shall have a little to say about pol icy vending. The policy venders are legion, they are scattered all over the ci ty, and can otdy be counted by hundreds. Many who are too poor to buy even the smallest denomination of lottery tickets, can buy a policy, for the price ranges from three cents to an unlimited number of dollars, which can be invested in the various ways of ‘ (laying’ a single num ber buying a saddle,’ which is two num bers, or a * pig,’ which consist of three numbers. The result is dc<ided by the drawings oflotleries in Washington, (Del? Vvare,) Baltimore, or Alexandria. These drawings are sent Jigre by telegraph.— On a ‘day’ a person may pay $1 on a certain number; say 50—if 50 is drawn or * if 50 comes out,’ the policy payer wins back $6, but there are about 70 numbers, (1 to 76) and only 13 are drawn the chances are 6 1-4 in 1 that he loses his dollar. If he takes a ‘ saddle,’ say 50 and 10 for sl, he may win S2O if both of these numbers ‘ come out’ in the same drawing. But the chances are 30 to 1 that these two numbers, for any oilier two he may select will not both come out. — If he buyp a ‘gig,’ he fixes upon three numbers, say • 10, 25, 50,’ and pays sl, lie may get SIOOO to 160,’ (if the policy dealer don’t break or run away,) but the chances that numbers 10, 25 and 50, will not come out in one draw OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUKE 12, 1851. ing is about 200 to 1, and yet silly peo plewill, day after day, follow up this ru inous’ game. It was slated in the colored convention*, recently held in this city, that over $ 100,? are annuylly sunk by the colored in *lus hazzardous game—the of gambling. then, must be sunk by the poor wlim population ? At least half a million,wfidi goes to enrich the law brea kers who selmhe policy tickets. Where are bur atnhofifes ? Five years h®y)assed over our head since we becaiftegßouainted with a young man of the name of Mhu Greenwood. He was about tweniv-fivlfv&irs of age, of a very prepossessing of superior mitnl.excellein edtfeiUipii. des cended from a highly respectable fiytjJy in New Jersey, was a member of an Epis copal Church, and very much beloved by all who knew him. He was die con fidential clerk of a large shipping house in South Street, kept their books, and re ceived an annual salary of $1,500. — Having some transactions with the firm where lie was a clerk, we became acquain ted, and an intimacy sprang up between us, which very shortly led to an invitation from him to visit iiis home, and becoming acquainted with his family. We cheer fully aud gladly availed ourselves of it. We found him living in a two story house it N M Street, which was handsomely furnished, and was introuuc.- ed to his wife, a sweet lovely woman, and their three interesting children. .The el dest was a boy four years old, the second a girls, and third was a hoy baby, in the cradle by the fireside. We never in our life envied a married man so much as we did our friend Greenwood. We believ ed that if every man possessed every el ement for domestic happiness, and a iifi| of comfort, it was him. Il'^w.^xy<ts pi ous, and so was Iter mother who lived in the house with the \n>i)r)g couple. As for money, lie told u/lte had saved from his salary—and made'by little adventures, a bout $5.000—-dliich he placed in a safe investment, Pm# to be used in a rainy day, that lie was adding to it every month by his savings, and that it was accumu lating interest. For six months not a week passed that we did not spend an evening at his house, and delightful visits they were. Some times we accompanied him and his wife to a Friday night prayer meeting in the lecture room of the church to which he belonged. He was a teacher in the Sun day School, and we never saw him touch a drop of liquor or wine. Business took us across the blue water six months after Greenwood and we be? came acquainted. We were absent two years, and most of the time in Germany. We often thought of him, and often wrote to him, as we had promised to do when we parted on board the packet ship inde pendence. For several months vve re? reived a letter from .Mr. Greenwood ev ery week. They were all written by a person evidently in good spirits, who was in the enjoyment of health, happiness and comfort, and who had bright, joyous hopes here and hereafter. They were filled witli good advice as to our own conduct, both in a moral and religions point of view. In one letter which is now before us, he writes, ‘ Your last letter was cfated at ‘ Baden Baden,’ I know that it is a fashionable sort of Springs in Ger many, ami a great place for gambling, as you value your own happiness, never gamble in any way, manner or shape. It lias ruined thousands.’ We answered Mr. Greenwood’s letter, and ridiculed his fears, and added— ‘ There is no more fear of our gambling than there is that you will do so. Our rorrespodence continued about nine months and then we got no more letters from him, and we ceased writing to Mr. Greenwood - ,We never heard a ivord„good, bad or indifferent, about him until we reached New york again, after an absence of over two years. * ’ : We got ashore in the afternoon, took a room at the Carlton House, and that very evening went up to N M ——. Street to see John Greenwood aud his interesting family. In answer toour ring'al the door, a servant girl opened it, and we were about entering, when she asked — ‘ Who do you wi>h to see ?’ Mr. Greenwood or his wife—are either of them in, ?’ ‘ There is no such name lives here.— There used to be, but they moved away long ago.’ OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OCRS. ‘Have they, indeed! Do you knoxv where they have moved to ?’ * No, sir, I don’t. I believe they don’t keep house now—they are boarding.’ ‘Tliankyou. goodnight.’ And we left for our hotel, feeling that sort of uneasy depression which very often precedes bad news, and which is so unaccountable.— However, we had good night’s sleep, and ten o’clock the nex morning found us at the counting-house in South Street of Mr. Greenwood’s employers. We asked for John. ‘ He is no longer in our employ sir,’ said the matter of fact partner. ‘ Indeed! II iw long since lie lias left you ?’ ‘A year ago.’ ‘Can you inform me where lie is now, or where I can find him or his family ?’ I A Don’t know anything about him or his fiirnily, nor do I wish to know more thOT 1 do.’ And the great merchant turned his-hack upon us, as coolly.as if’ we had called to get a note renewed. For several days we made inquiries of every mutual acquaintance about John Greenwood, but vve could obtain no in? telligenceql him, and we gave up in des pair and made no mute inquiries. We had been in New York six months before vve received any information, and then we got it in a way that was any thing hut agreeable tons. We received it from Greenwood’s own lips. We wish ed to find a good washer, woman, and a friend recommended us to one that had formerly worked for him. He did not remember her name, but gave us the slreel and number where she lived. It was in the upper or attic story of an old wooden kuildijiiJ®pLjr-—•— stumbled tip stairs, got confused about the room which vve had been told down stairs was the home of our friends laundress, and so vve made a push and entered what vve thought was the right one, and there surrounded by his wife, his children and his mother-in law, was John Greenwood, lying on the floor upon an old stiavv bed, stupidly drunk. VVe were too shocked to speak. The children had forgotten us. The wife sunk upon an old broken chair, pul her handkerchief to her e ves anil wept. She could not speak. The mother alone shook hands and expressed her gladness to see us back again, and in broken tones, which went home to our heart, observed. ‘We are somewhat differently situated from what we were when you saw us last.’ ‘You are, indeed,’ vve replied, as we looked abont the little cubby-hole, and noticed the wretched furniture, and won dered where they all slept, ‘ but ivliai does all this mean ? what is the matter 1 Is John sick?’ ‘Don’t ask us any questions, Frank— or not now,’ said the weeping wife, as she put out her hand at the same time withdrew the handkerchief from Iter eyes. We did not ask any questions. We saw at a glance vvlint was needed, and vve went procured it. They were without food even. Wlton John had slept off his drunk, vve made him go witli us to our hotel, and he left it with a complete rig out as vve had on ourself. He promised he would not drink any more that night, and the next day we travelled with him and saw that lie did not, ami ere evening, he and all the his family were in a com fortable boarding house and their board for a month paid in advance. In a week John’s nerves were all right, he was so ber, and we saw no reason why lie should nut keep so, and hold his head like a man. We persuaded him to sign the pledge, and told him vve would get him back to his place as book keeper again ‘Jo mercy, don’t mention it,’said the startled iuan. ‘ Why, what on earth is the mailer? I suppose you think because you got drunk and lost your situation, that it’s all up witli you, eh? Notiseuce ! Better men than yw>n have got drunk, been drunk for months, and yet reformed and became rich and respected. Cheer up, old fel low, Only let that in'ernal stuff alone, and y'bu will come round all right. ’ ‘Never! Never! It is not altogether drink,’ said he grasping us by the arm. ‘ 1 robbed my former employers.’ ‘You did vvhal?’ sail vve, as soon as vve recovered from our first shock. ‘ I robbed them of over $4,000, and they would have put me in the Tombs, to Stands a trial, if it had not been for the the pleading of my poor innocent wife to one of the partners of the firm.’ ‘ Why, what on earth induced you to rob tin in ? Perhaps you are unjust to yourself, Rob is a bard word, explain it all to me more clearly.’ ‘ When you saw me before you went away, l was happy, very happy. I had 55,000 / could call my own. A that sum I told you l had made in busi ness operation. 1 did not speak the truth. / drew $3,000 in a lottery. I wanted enough to get into business, and I bought and bought lottery tickets, day after day, even by packages, until 1 wasted all I had and then, hoping that I might have a run of luck, and draw a prize that might make ail straight, 1 took a lew dollars (rom my employers’ funds. You know how they trusted me, and what confidence thev placed in me. I lost the lit*le I took at first, and then more, and more, until it be came hundreds, and then thousands, as / became reckless,, and spent all for the lottery tickets. Then all was dis covered, and I was disgraced. 1 gave tip all that I had called mine. Furniture, every tiling that 1 had in the wide world. Q merciful God ? vvliat agony 1 Jtave suf fered, and mjPwife and children! God bless and protect them. 1 am their curse.’ ‘But tell me, John, liovv came you to take to drink ?, ‘ How could /avoid it ?’ I was in tor ture. I drank to ease it, until I became vvliat you found me, and liovv do yon think we have lived for a year past ? I’ll tell you. At first my wile got some dress es to make ; and at last, when we lost (after 1 had pawned a silk one to a lady, and spent it Ibraxicket in a Baltimore shajjand her mother have supported ourselves by taking io others toJ|plu I’ve told you all my sto ‘)A sad one it is, John ; but while there is life, there is hope, ‘ while the lamp holds out to bard, the vilest sinner may return.’ it’s not too late to repent yet.’ We lia've but a few words to add.— Months passed, it was in vain that friends found work for John Greenwood to do. Regardless of his wife and children, the instant he received money it.was spent for lottery tickets, and his ‘ bad luck,’ set him to drinking again worse than lie ever had done. Then his wile’s mother died, and after that lie abused bis wife and children and treated them worse than brutes. The wife gave tip all hope, and, for her chil dren’s sake she led him, and with nu al-_ most broken heart, sought refuge foiJHp self them among her relatives in the try, where she lias since maintained tier: self aud them. We were absent when the separation occurred, and had been for months pre vious to it. When vve returned we could find no trace of any of them, and soon af? ter we took charge of a daily newspaper, and our name appeared in it. A copy found its way to Mrs. Greenwood. Short - !y after vve received a letter from the wife beseeching us to obtain some news of her husband, and stating that she could help him if lie needed help. We were at our editorial desk when vve got the letter, and at once wrote a u nice, which appear ed in our paper that morning, it simply requested that any person who had seen John Greenwood, or could give any in formation in regard to him, would confer a favor by calling at the Office.— That day two persons called. One was a woman, with a hill for a week’s board against Mr. Greenwood, and bringing with her two pawn tickets io give us when vve paid her bill of three dollars and a half. We paid John’s bill and then vve went up to Simpson’s and redeemed the tickets for two dollars more. One was for his family Bible, in which was record ed liis marriage and the dates ol (he birth of his three children ! The other was for a miniature. It was one taken of liis wife in all the loveliness and beauty of the ear ly years of her marriage, with her infant first born nestling in her bosom. The other visitor was a person who was a stranger to us. lie said that three months previous John Greenwood called upon him, sick, ragged and in a wretch ed condition, that lie had advised him to seek relief and rest in the alms house.— We thanked him and went at once to the Commissioner of Alms and talked with him about John Greenwood. He prom ised to send to Bellevue, and ascertain whether there was any such person there. The next day we received a note from him. “John Greenwood was sent up to Bel levue on ihe2lsi of- and died on the 24th with the delirium tremens.” John Greenwood sleeps among the un known ones ofthc Potter’s Fieid. Wt wrdtc the facts to his wile, and mil the | TEEMS: $2 in Advance. miniature and the Bible. We heard no more about her until we learned from one who lives in the town where she sought refuge, that a few weeks since she had married a worthy deserving rnerchaut, and had found a home and luxury and comfort for herself and children. May they all be happy, and may rich and poor, old and young, avoid lottery and policy gambling, as they would avoid the hor rible fate of John Greenwood. GEMS OF TOUGHT. A loving heart incloses within itself un unfading and eternal Edeu. Our wishes are but the idle blossoms of the tree of human life, seldom bearing fruits. None go to heaven but those who have a taste for h on earth. A (Hire mind can derive more enjoy ment from this world, and from the senses, than an impure mind. This is true even of the .lowest senses Gold is a poor legacy in comparison with immortal thought. The one is hu man, worthless ; the other divine, inval uable. Birds of Paradise always fly against, the wind, and heavenly-minded soul 11 move against the current. . Some there are who gaze Unwell of (| i >o P ei °ri§ppt iug thcr own image reflected in it. T® more tender and delicate the bios? soins of joy the purer must be the hand that will cull them. The chief source of human discontent is to be looked for, not in the real, but in our fictitious wants: not in the demand of nature, but in the artificial craving of desire. A correct taste is ever the concomitant of a chaste mind ; for, as it celebrated au thor lias justly observed, ‘our taste com monly declines with our merit.’ The proper element of man is constant activity. The waters oflife are like those of the Belhesda pool— it is onl} - when they are agitated that they are healthful. in times of national disorder, great men rise to the summit of affairs as certainly as the large lumps come to the top when you The consumatioiTof sin is, ever, and in every form, the ex treme of folly. And it is that most pitia ble folly which is puffed up, with arro gance and self-sufficiency. Self'khovvledge is said to be the wav to virtue —it would be more correct to say thal virtue is the way to self-knowledge. A pure mind, like a diamond is clouded by the slightest defilement, and does not see till after its purification how many specks and stains still disfigure holes and corners. THE OLDEST REPUBLIC ON EARTH The American Quarterly Review contains a letter from G. W. Irving, giving a sketch of his visit to Sait Mari na a small republic in Italy, between the Appennines, the Po and the Adriatic. The territory of this State is only forty miles in circumference, and its population about 70,000. The Republic was founded more than 1400 years ago* on moral principles, industry aud equality, and lias preserved its liberty and inde pendence amidst all the wars and dis cords which have regarded around it.Bon? aparte respected it, aud sent an embassy to express his sentiments of friendship and fraternity. It is governed by a Captain Regent chosen every six months by the representatives of the people, (sixtysix in number.) who are chosen evry six months by the people. The taxes are light the farm houses are neat, the fields well cultivated ; on all sides are seen com foil and peace, the happy effect of moral ity, simplicity, liberty and justice. E.Vormours Outlay for Advertising. —Townsend, the Sarsaprrilla man (says the Great West,) sals that liis “books ’’ex hibit an outlay for advertising in tlio course o( fivoycurs, in the various papets of the U niled States, of $300,0011! He says, for sis months, he cut off all his udvetisements, to see if Ills medicines would not go on their own iiitiiis, just as well as by advei tising Ha lost $30,000 by it ; sales dwindled down to nothing, for his coinpetitois, seeing him drog off, went on, advetdssd heavily, and gut the start of him. N 0-9