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flrtgfrr#i mm . YOUNGBLOOD & ALLEN, Proprietors!!^ IVOL. I. ipsa® gsfwsugfcwsis?? ©g®®sASf Is Published every Thursday Morning , in the new Town of Oglethorpe, Jtlacon County,G a., CHARLES B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher. EGBERT W. ALLEN, TRAVELING AgENT. TERMS—>S3 Per Pear in advance RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of 12 lines or less) for the first noertion, and Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Advertisements not specified as te time, will be pub lished till ordered out and charged accordingly. Soug for Thinkers. BY CHARLES SWAIN. Take the spade of Perseverance, Dig the field of Progress wide; Every rotten root of faction Hurry out, and cast aside; Every stubborn weed of Error; Every seed that hurts the soil; Tares, whose very growth is terror— Dig them out, whate’er the toil! Give the stream of Education Broader c.hanel, bolder force; Hurl the stones of Perscution Out, where’er they block its course; Seek for strength in self-exertion; Work, and still have faith to wait; Close the crooked gate of fortune; Make the road to honor straight ! Men are agents for the Future ! As they work so ages win Either harvest of advancement, Or the product of their sin! Follow out true cultivation, Widen Education’s plan; From the majesty of Nature Teach the magisty of man ! Take the spade of Perserveraoce; Dig the field of Progress wide; Every bar to true instruction Carry out and cast aside; Feed the plant whose fruit is wisdom Cleanse front crime the common sod; So that from the throne of Heaven It may hear the glance of God; From Author’s Home Gazett. The Drop Game. DP JOHN JONES, JR. Come, Laban Lee, said the Post Mas ter of a certain vUliage in New Jersey, situated within ten miles of Philadelphia. You must take a paper this year. How can you live, man, without the news? The news! returned Lee. Humph! 1 have more news now than a is greeable. in fact, 1 don’t believe in y'our news mon gers, no how. Every man mind his bu siness—that is my motto. Yes, but friend Lee, it is of interest to Sing on in the woel* 1 erest “ • people's concerns ? It :oWs give more milk, nor ore bushels to the acre, ure of that. Aint you? No. Well, 1 am then. There are farmers whose cows give more qiilk than yours, and whose land yields a better increase. From these you might learn something to your advan n tage. But what has that to do with newspa ipers? A great deal. Intelligent farmers in form the public of their agricultural ex periments; and give the new method by which they obtain large yields of pro duce. Book farming ! exclaimed Laban Lee in a tone of contempt. Never believed in it; and never expect to. The good old fashioned way is good enough for me industry and economy—that is my mot to, and i teach it daily to my children.— . Hand work is worth all the newspapers in the world. dt&i&k 1 am not so sure of that, retained the post Master. Hand work j# badly off without head word, and will soon find it self in the rear. • I'm not in the leastnnxious, said Lee, with a self-satisfied air, as he turned off and went on his wdy towards the city, his tubs well filled with butter, and his wagon loaded telth a goodly stock of poultry and fruit. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.—he kept on talk ing to himself. When there is a dollar in my pocket, 1 know what I’ve got.— But, ifisptiiid it for a newspaper, what is there to show for it ? I never knew any good lo come of taking the papers They only put nonsense hto the younJMMML pie’s heads, and mak\ them think tliemsehl ves wiser than their Wents. Dad! and they shan’t come intoNny house. Laban Lee, if the ti\th must be told, a sordid love of monb> T(, e dollar was always held so closeNp t ( ie ax ; s 0 f vision, that little beyond the^ Qunt j bright coin was ever discernahle. Byl ar( j W ork industry and economy, he had Gradually gained upon the world, until he\ B t | ie owner of a snug piece of ground tier ing about fifty acres, well stocked, as well tilled as his good old way of farming would permit. The over careful in saviug, when love of money subdues almost every other sen timent, are not generally over honest in getting. The every.-one..for-himself prin* ciple of action generally leads to a disre gard of other’s interests, a tresspass upon other’s rights, and a departure from truth in dealing. Into these defects Laban Lee naturally fell, as many a citizen, who had bought tough chickens, bad butter, and spoiled turkeys; from the fair and honest countryman, could testify. Lee knew how much was gained in these transactions; but never had any idea of how much he lost. Faroftener than any of his customers guessed, bis butter, or at least a carefully arranged portion con tained in his tubs, lacked several ounces of the true weight; and more than once had he come near losing a goodly num her thereof, at the kands of the Clerk of the Market, Such a man was Laban Lee. As the countryman wended his way towards the city, his thoughts were busy iu summing up the profitable amount he would receive for the contents of his mar ket wagon; yet this occupied state of mind did not keep his eyes from resting with intelligent discrimination upon the road he traveled. Money, and articles of value, had been found by others, and why might he not be so fortunate ? Such things were frequently lost by the care less. Tiie idea of restitution never oc curred to him; this was kept obscured by the pleasurable anticipation of gain, as the finder of lost property. Once, and only once, had Laban Lee been fortun* ate. On a certain occasion as he walked along the road, he espied, a short distance in advance, a bright object, partially concealed in the sand. Eagerly he sprung forward, snatched it from the ground, and was rewarded by obtaining half a dollar I Small as the sum was, to gain it thus, awoke in his mind the most pleas* ing sensations. From that time, wheth er in town or country, few square rods of earth or pavement over which lie passed, escaped his watchful eyes. On the present occasion, notwithstand ing Lee examied the road by which he traveled to the city with his usual care, no -treasure was found. Better fortune, however, attended him on the day follow ing. He had sold out his butters poul try and fruit’ and over thirty dollars, re ceived in exchange therefor, were in his pocket. Prices ranged pretty high, and the farmer felt satisfied with his sales.— Just as he was preparing to leave, the sudden exclamation of a man by his side startled him, and turning quickly, he saw a gentlemanly looking stranger, with a well filled pocket book in his hand. Somebody’s dropped this! said the stranger, addressing Lee. And it’s filled with money. The farmer’s eyes were instantly dis tended. He felt his knees tremble. Is ityour’s, friend? enquired the stran ger, blandly. Lee could, with difficulty, refrain from saying that it was. But he forced out the words— No; I believe not. What’s to pay ? half carelessly enquir ed a third party, coming up at this mo ■■ ■ Somebody’s lost a pocket book was replied. ■'* Indeed! Much money in it ? It’s full. See there I And the posessor of the book showed the folds and edges of a large bundle of bank bills. Gracious me! What are you going to do with it ? I don’t know, I’m sure. It’s not mine. Whoever lost it ought to have it. But, as I am a stranger in this city, and shall leave in an hour, it will be impossible for me to restore it. No doubt a large reward will be offered for its reovery, in the morning papers. What’s to be done ? I’m really in a quandary. You ought to get the reward, said the -OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1851. Acond comer. For you are the finder, ■hue replied the man. But I can’t Pttjbly remain in the city until to.-mor- must see me in New YorBBS-, Ifyoffihoose to take it, said the per son whoHame up last, I will give you fifty dollars j|gyVour chance in the re- Fifty dollars, musing reply.— I don’t know what say about that The reward will doubtless be two or three hundred. There cajb, be less than twenty thousand dollars’ the pocket .book. j 1 wouldn’t like to risk more, was response to this. i* Nje possessor of the pocket book irresolute for some moments. Iti• r e at len S th sa ’ d > lake ‘*• But hard"ba\ U in are drivi " s on me ave The oiL t j,rust |,j s | )atu j ; nto h j s poc -e ,an \_ r f ee | m g a bout i| lere f or some moments -j ° Thai’s unfo\ , rveleft et book at the stc. But come with me and ill give you t Nfif do | |ars> Where is your On the wharf. ’ O dear ! No, I’m down there. Then uJfi Lee, the stranger said mos , jn . sinnatmg manner. \ Why can’t you take it frieh, Havn’t got fifty dollars, re> j L(?e book yCS fairly sloali " S ° n xpocket How much have you ? Only thirty. ’ \ The man shrugged his shoulders, shook his head. You’d better come down to my,j re> No.—South Wharves. I’ll give yW fjf’ ty dollars. Or, if you will takL ur friend’s thirty dollars, I will make itV lv fnr him, the moment he shows himself my place of business. 1 suppose 1 will have to do so, said ft holder of the pocket book, in a changA sober, and rather disappointed voice.-J But, it is giving up a large amount for mere trifle. Eagerly Laban Lee drew his thirty dollars, handed it to the man, and grasp the treasure. Come down to No.—South Wharves sounded in his ears. A moment after, and he stood alone, yet so bewildered that all his ideas were in a whirl af confu sion. Soon a calmer state followed. He crept into his cart, and there, safe from prying curiosity, opened the pocket book in order to feast his eyes upon the sum o twenty thousand dollars, and to debate the question of restoration. Alas ! From what a height of imagin ation down to the very bottom of the pii of reality did Laban Lee -oon fall. Wrap ped around by three or four one doliat counterfeit bills, was a mass of soiled, crumpled, and blotted strips of bank note paper; and this was a)i the treasure con. tained in the pocket! No wonder that in his bitter disap pointment, the farmer groaned aloud, ii was some minutes before even a gleam ol light broke in upon the darkness that en veloped him. Then lie thought of the who had agreed to give fifty dollars for the pocket book. He would go lo him instantly', and concealing the discovery had made, get from him the promised sum, and thus shift the loss upon an other. Os course he did not find the individ ual he sought at No.—South Wharves. He was the victim, and this man an ac complice: Two days afterwards, the Post Master of Lee’s village said to him— Aha! So the drop game boys have bee trying iheir hand on you. f Drop game ? What do you mean ?.A* turned Lee. Listen. The Post Master dre-* a P a_ per from his pocket and read.. Yester day a farmer from New Jewry, named Lee, was silly enough to pay a couple of sharpers thirty dollars for * pocket book which they pretended to have found.— Os course, this Lee doesn’t lake newspa pers, or he never could have fallen into a snare that has been so ofien exposed.— We have little pity for men who are wil fully ignorant.” Laban Lee turned off suddenly and walked hurriedly away. The next time he went to the city, he ordered a news-i paper. ~ I Account him thy real friend who dc sires thy good, rather than (hv good-wii OUR CO UNTR Y'S GOOD IS OURS. From Arthur’* Home Gazette. WOMAN’S SPHERE. There is much dispute now-a-days in certain quarters about what shoid be Wo man’s Sphere, Woman’s Mission, and Woman’s Rights, it may all be sum med up in a few words, but they are wonderfully comprehensive. Her sphere is every where, her mission, usefulness, her rights without limit. Her sphere is every where. This may need a little explanation to some who supppose a person cannot influence or act except in corporal presence; but minds ac customed to observe well, know that the tnost powerful agents in nature are often like the mountain spring, work unsuspected and silently their migh ty results. Thpg let it be with woman— not in broils, or tumults, or maddening political jars may shf be found, but ever giving forth an influence, a sphere; of light, love and virtue, that shall move through all an electrical impulse of irre sistible power. Her sphere is usefuness. Not that she be made, as in heathan countries, the drudge and slave of society. Ob, no ! still let her labor be the lighter and more ele gant branches of industry; but, in the name of common justice, let her be ade.- qnately paid. Shame on that miserable parsimony that would exult on a paltry saving in the making of a garment, or the teaching of a school, because done by a woman I If the work is well done, promptly done, what matter who does it ? Does it not deserve a fair recompense? Is it the work, or the sex of the worker that you O-TC fi Jl l —jy—-L.-* me dice tit rfris vJ -p’ city yes, even here, where the rights aud privileges of woman arp roots adequately appreciated than in most places, of widows and fatherless children toiling year after year for a bare subsistence, when the same labor, perfor med by a man, would soon secure a com plete competency. It is useless to urge that is not the design of Providence that women should be self-dependent, it pro bably would not be necessary in a per fectly harmonic state of society. But so ‘png as life has so many discordant ele ’ Vnts at play, so longjas destruction may htterthe products of a lather’s toil, or 9 *hd rob his children ol their patrimony, i s Amgas death may send the head of a fai ly to the spiritjworld, so long will there ’ necessity for woman’s being able to - meeq,e ills of unprotected loneiiue s, 1 and t, e w ; t h them, earnestly, hopefully, r . Y er d,en h e encouraged to labor i usefully;—but let her have the e hope dfair remuneration and the ap provinkmile of all the wise upon her es - forts. \u useful, well-trained women it that we W(], more by far than noisy - politician Their influence would be r very saniVy an{ ] applied at home, at the , fountains tgreat public rivers; surely e there woulA oon ij e a healing of the wa •> ters. Bi/lflw are women to be thus trained iiuw-n— - sition, rV by allowing the paltry excuse, t we are /I y women, and not much is ex f peeled us; but, on the contrary, by the - continuous repetition of the e oinino/words —“because we are women r and njcli i expected of us.” Surely i here f noble destiny, a labor of love, a / worl ft patience. . A woman, with the 1 full Jwelopement of her heaven-directed . eneges, with mind, and heart, and hands allis/fully, devoted to some . employment, is a being inferior to . n/ie on eat<b. Widelyand wisely different from man ft berjpb/sical and mental nature, she is ■So organized as to move in perfect har mony wMi him through a far reaching or - bit, ever revolving round the ceutrallu minary, the great AlLlather. We would not separate what He lias joined, and tend the ditserted fragments of one per fect confusion and darkness, but we would give to each the best training that cir cumstuoces will admit of here on earth, kvliiciK at best, is but the primary school of Heaven. Dring the sitting of the French Legis lative Assembljr, a few days since, an Englishman, in attempting to get out one pf the galleries, fell over the benches, and broke his leg. From an estimate of the number of drunkards in England and Wales, it ap pears that the ntnber of males is 53,583, and females 11,223, making a total of 64,806, which gives one drunkard to every 74 of the male population, and to every 434 of the female. Rnilßoiul Safely. Many people—perhaps most—when they read the accounts of frequent acci dents upon railroads, do so with a feeling of terror and insecurity, and with half re gret that by modern improvements rail roads have become almost the only means of public conveyance. They look back almost with desire to the good old days of stage coaches; as if travellers in those times had a better chance for life and limb. They have in fact the venerable senior Weller’s notion of the concentrated fright of a thousand passengers thrown into one polyglot steam whistle; and pre fer the less melodramatic fracture of a rib or two, or the dislocatfon of a thigh or a neck, by rtm-away horses, and im perfect harness. Facts, however, are a gainsl the plausibility of these supposi tions The Boston Transcript complies from official reports the following results: “During the last three years, the deaths of 152 persons have been reported by the sevral corporation, by accidents on the roads, viz., 29 passengers, 64 employees, and 50 other persons not connected with the roads. Os the passengers killed 19 met with death in consequence of their own carelessness, in attempting to get or jump from the trains, while in motion- Eighteen employees were killed while I sleeping on the track. Twenty-five mil lion, five liundled and jiinetv-tbur thou sand passengers have beeti carried over the roads, dumsg the three years.” We quote the Transcript, at second hand, and are not apprised what railroad corporation are referred to. Probably they are the New England. But let Lthat be as it may, the figures are there, by which it appears that a very lutte over one passenger in a million has been killed; and of these the large part lost their lives by violation of the rules of all roads, and the dictates of all prudence; forty persons were killed while sleeping on the railroad tracks, and these, in absence of railroads would undoubtedly have stumbled upon some other mode, quite as summary, of “shuffling off this mortal coil.” Taking the whole number, it appears that the railroads refered to have caused, directly or indirectly, the death of one person to 168,381 passengers conveyed ; a result which exhibits at the same time the won derful increase in the number of travel ers, and vast improvement in the safety of traveling. The Use of Fruit. —As the fruit sea son is approaching, and as many believe their use to be unwholesome, we copy the annexed paragraph in relation to the sub ject from Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. “Instead of standing in fear of a gen erous consumption of ripe fruits, we re gard them as positively conducive to health. The very maladies commonlv assumed to have their origin in a free use of apples, peaches, cherries, melons and wild hurries, have been quite as prevalent, if not equally destructive, in season of CftOemti> —•*->- - •**- • . , notions entertained of the bad enects ol fruits,that it is quite time a counteracting impression should be promulgated, hav ing its foundation in common sense and based on the common observation of the intelligent. We have no patience in reading the endless rules to be observed in this particular department of physical comfort. No one, ‘ve imagine, ever lived longer, or freer from the paroxysms of disease by discarding tl' e delicious fruits of the land in which lie finds a home. On the contrary, they are necessary to the preservaton of healili, end are there.- fore caused to make their appearance at the very time when the condition ol the body operated, upon - by deteriorating causes not always understood, requires rheir grateful, renovating influence.’, FOREIGN ITEMS, The Fedrenl Council of Switzerland has drawn up a decree for the execution of the rail ways proposed by Mr, Ste phenson. One line is to traverse the country from the Lake of Constance to Geneva, passing by Zurich. A branch line is to run from this trunk line to the Basle railway, lo unite with the German and French lines. Another line is to proceed from the Lake of Constance to Coire, in theGrisons, to be prolonged af terwards ncross the Alps by Lulunatiier into Lombardy. The total length of these lines is to be 650 kilometres (406 English miles,) and the expense 102,122,- OOOf. (£?“ This is here, you may read it or let it a/one I | TEEMS: $2 in Advance. Tlte BlodZ ell.— The tuciory > “g!&nstration at Low rangetiiffnt, turned out ‘ lo ar tlie 4th of July, dressed np in the ton on ted garment. After parading through the streets, ala Turk, one of their on belialfof the ‘meeting,’ presented a beautiful new banner to one of the fire companies of the town, who were beg ged to— ‘Accept this from those whose duties to themselves and to others demand a change from an injurious to] a healthful costume, and as brave and gallant firemen you cannot be other than the friends of women in a good cause.’ To which the gallant fireman (in pants) who replied, adverted ns follows : Ladies, once more let me return to you our honest and heart felt thanks for this beautiful token of our conduct as firemen. May the same spirit which has led you to adopt one of the prettiest costumes which you ever wore, guide you throng'll life, and the manly and hard-handed firemen of the country will bid you God speed.’ At the dinner, in the evening, this toast was given by a Mr. Sherman : #1 The Lowell Factory Operatives in K Bloomer Costume—was Solomon in all Iris rayed like one of them ! For rev dress like the Editor ol the they are not lillies, since tin y both toil and spin. Important Railroad Enterprise. —The Mayor and Aldermen of Nashville a sub scription of $50,000 stock in the Nash ville and Chatanooga Railroad Cos., as stock in the Winchester and Alabama roau, which is to ue rinmetmuety a'fri.v.j ed, pul under contract, and hastened to an early completion. This will connect Nashville with the selma road at Gunter’s landing, on the Tennessee river, thence by the Alabama river, and thence by uninterrupted navi gaton, with the Mobile Bay.—When this line of improvement shall be com, pleted, it is estimated that Nashville will be placed within fijlyduo miles of New Orleans. The Nashville Manufacturing Com* pany, encouraged by extraordinary suc cess thus far, have resolved to increase their capital and commence at once the manufacture of locomotives, having alrea dy engaged the services of one of the best locomotive builders in the United States Jouitville Journal 01/“”A Buffalo paper states that as two horses were feeding upon the grass near the precipice between the Ferry and the Horse-shoe Fall, Niagara, one of them, venturing too near the brink, fell over, and was precipitated to the bottom, a dis tance of nearly 150 feet, without receive ing any other injury than a few slight bruises. When discovered he was ta king a drink from the boiling flood at his fefii ‘Vatf, 1 ’ and’ “sfood looking over at him with much contra. One of the English bishops, on com plaining to the inspector of the Great Fair that he was closely watched by two policemen all the time that he was in the Crystal Palace, was told that the only thief who had lately been taken was a swell mobsman disguised in episcopal ger, and that the police did not know him, and suspected a second attempt of the kind. /n Paris, the soldiers of the 33d regi ment, continue to be insulted by the workmen and others for having formed part of the expedition to Rome. Baron Dudevaot, husband of the famous romance writer, George Sand, has just died at a boarding house in one of the small streets of the 12th arondissement, Paris. The Sultan has just established, at Constantinople, an academy of science and literature, under the title ‘Assembly of Knowledge.’ it consists of forty-nine members, and ol an unlimited number of foregin correspondents. Os the latter only three have at present have been named. Mr. Bedhouse, an Englishman, author of a Turkish grammer ; M. Bian chi, a Frenchman, who has complied a Turkish dictionary; and M. de Hammer Purgstall, the celebrated Austrian Orien tal scholar. The academy is to compile an Encyclopaedia of Science in the Turk ish language. NO. 17