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VOL. I.
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ft Published every Friday Sforning, in the new Town of
‘ fbgleihorpe. .llacon County. Ga.,
C. B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher.
.TCRIHS“O9 Per Pear in advance,
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One Dollar per square (ofl2 lines or less) for the first
asertion, arid Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter.
!1 A liberal deduction willbe made to those whoadver
*,tie# by the year. .....
Advertisements not specified as to time, will be pub
lished till ordered out and charged accordingly.
*R. H. SIMS, fc CO.,
GENERAL DEALERS IN
Groceries and Domestic Goods.
ALSO
Bsots, Shoe*, Huts, Caps, Bagging, Rope,
Iron, Steel, Nails, Sec.
At the Brick Store, Conner of Sumter and Chathapp hits.,
OGLETHORPE G 4.
N. B. All Orders Promptly At
tended 70.
p. H. Sims. T. J.
October 3. 1851. 25—Cm
W. W. CH\PM.\N b CO.
WARE-HOUSE
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Conner of Baker and Chatham Streets,
OGLETHORPE, GA.
ARCHIBALD W. MAR IN, W. W. CHAPMAN k CO.
October 3, 1851. 25.—6 m.
P. 0. AftftTMTONA
attorney at law,
and NOTARY PUBLIC,
tflgieiliorpc, Macon County, Ga.
lpfit 17, ABSO. 2—ly
H.H. GRAY
Attorney and Counscor at Law,
EnrlyCo.’Gn.,—
DR. I. B, HALL
RESPECTFULLY tenders hi* profes
sional services to the citizens of Ogle
thorpe and vicinity. His oftce is in Mrs,
Rawsott's house, on the corner of Chatham
•ud Ma on streets, where he may be found
at all times, Hl||es's qljgeqt on professional
bu(j|]t‘fs, Jan, 30, 1852, 41-tl
MEDICAL CARD.
DR. William Ellis having permanently
located in the city of Oglethorpe, most
{Tspeptfuljy tepdi f* his set vices to its C><i
*"ll Hid v|cjiti|V. AY I'll ri'l experiece of more
‘ban twenty-five yei|rs, together with pmiiipf
jnd diligent attention to the duties of his
I profession, he hopes to merit and receive a
jberal share of patronage. He may be found
snead Rrug store or at hi* residence
RQ palter street,
Oglethorpe Feb, d|h ]Bfi'2. 42—if.
BRUSHES, all kind for sale lav
SNEAD b CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 if
URGICAL and Dental Instruments
Gold Foil, be. For sale bv.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Qet. ]7 1851 27 ts.
Tra ECEIVED to-day a large lot of
it Cherry Pectoral, Cod Liver Oil, Dr
Christies Galvanic Rentedis, Townsend’s
•nd Sancf 1 * Sarsaparillas, “ Pepsin” the
Great Dyspepsia Remedy; and various other
Patent medisins.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Nov. 17th, 1851 33—ts.
LIKENESSES.
M DAGUERREOTYPE Likenesses ta
fl W ken iu the best style of art bv
B.J. LESTER.
Feb. 12 1852. d-ts-
CIGARS.
50, 000 ZZ'Zf
1 R. H. SIMS&Co.
Oglethorpe Feb. 4tlt, 1852, 42—if.
COOK&M OYTFORT
OGLETHORPE, GA.,
TI7ILL practice in the Counties of Taylor Houston,
W Mcon, Dooly Sumter, Marion, Talbot, and Craw
ford. One of the firm always at the office.
Feb. 20,1852. 44- ly.
Books! Boqjtys!
60 COPIES OF THE M
Married Woman' Medical Companion,
For sale at (lie M Bouth-West Georgian” Of
fice by C. B. YOUNGBLOOD.
P. S. All order* from abroad promptly
attended to.
. Sept. 12,1851.
ANEW supply of Blanks sos sale
ftt this Office, at one Dollar per
quire.
@l)e Stfnty-tttot #£orgiiML
Over 10,000 Pairs of
0 BOOTS AND
SHOES.
Keep it before the People that
BANKS&CO.
ON SUMTER STREET,
HAVE now opened two doors from
R. H. SIMS St, Cos., and intend keep
ing constantly on hand the largest and best
STOCK OF ROOTS AN D SHOES
ever offered in South-Western Georgia. A
large portion of which is of their own man
ulacture, and warranted not to rip, consisting
of all qualities and prices; 2,000 pairs home
made Negro Shoes, double soled; 1,000
pairs of Kip Sewed and Peeeed Boots;
250 pairs Men’s Pottble-soled Water-Proof
Tioois; SOO pairs single and Double soled
Calf Brogans ; 1,500 pairs Ladies’ Ley titer
Cloth, Morocco and Enameled Bootees and
shoes; 1,500 pairs Misses’ and Youths’ Boots
and shoes, all kinds; 1,500 pairs Boys’
Kip and Thick Boots and shoes; 500 paits
Men’s Home-made Double soled Black Bro
gans; 250 pairs Bovs’do.; 300 pairs gen
tlemen’s and Ladies’ Rubber Over shoes ;
800 pairs Nolhern Negro shoes at 90c.; —
10,000 lbs. Sole Leather, Calf, Lining and
Binding Skins, Lasts, Shoe Thread, Pegs,
Shoemaker?’* Tools, &,c.
All we ask of Planters and other? ig to ex
amine our Stock before tjiey purchase, as
we expect to Sell exclusively for CASH,
which will enable us to sell lower than any
house that does a credit business.
Give us a Call!
And if tye can’t sell we will charge noth.,
ing for showing otty Stock. Any amount of
BEEF HIDES taken in Exchange for shoes
or Leather.
Oglethorpe, Oct. 10th, 1851. 2b 6tn
THE NEW HUI G STORE.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
If’ h ole $ ate and Re tail
DUUGGISTS
{SUMPTER STREET.)
Oglethorpe, Gr,
THE undersigned would respectfuly
ly inform their friends and the pub
lic, that they have just opened a DRUG
S TORE in Oglethorpe, where they w ill
keep constantly on hand, p large and
fresh assortment of Drugs and Medicines,
Surgical and Penial Instruments, gold
F*il, Perfumery, Soaps and choice Toi
let articles. Also, Paints, Oils, Potash
Window Glass DyeSlufl', Choice .Spices
Essences, Patent Medicines, be. be., and
a full assortment of whatever belongs to
lie business.
CC?* Having had six years Practical
Experience in the Drug Business, and
being determined to devote to it their
yyltole attention, they “hope to merit and
receive a liberal patronage.
Every article put up in the neatest
iininiier and Warranted Fresh and Pure,
or liable to be returned.
Physicians’ proscriptions put up with
care and dispatch.
The attention of Physicians, Country
Merchants and piatilers, is called to our
stock, as we feel confident yye can sup
ply them with all articles in our line, on
terms that will not fail to give satisfaction.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
October 17, 1851* 27—ly.
Carriage iu Making
and juL. and
Buggy Up Repairing. ;
SHOP ON SUMTER ST.
Near the Spinkatkins Hotel,
OGLETHORPE, GA.
THE Ne-v Firm of Wright, Wil
liams Cos., have associated
themselves together for the pm pose of making
uud repairing Carriages, iu a neat and fash
ionable style, widi good materials, at as low
pricestas in any other southern market. We
therefore solicit the patronage of our friends
and the public generally. Those wishing
any thing in our line will do well 10 give us
a call, as we intend not to he excelled in ar
ticles.
WRIGHT WILLIAMS b Cos.
December, 26th, 1851, 37—if..
W. H. TURPIN, “
Manufacturer of, and \
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
racism m 1
Plain Tin and Japanned Ware, ‘
Hollow, Wood, Hard-Ware, Look- -
lag-and Parlor Stove* dec.
Tin-Ware of every description, repaired. I
On Sumter Street, Oglethorpe Ga. I
February 20, 1852. 44-ly. |
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2. 1852.
When I am Old,
When lam old—and üb, how soon,
Will life’s sweet morning yield to noon,
And noon’s broad fervid, earnest light,
Be shrouded in the solemn gight;
Till like a siorv well nigh told,
Will seem my life—when 1 am old.
V.h p ,p lam old, this breezy earth
Will lose for me its voice of mirth—
The streams will have ao undeitone
Ot sadness not hy right their own;
And spring’s sweet power in vain unfold
In rosy charms—when lam old.
W hrn 1 am old, I shall not care
To deck with flowers my faded hair;
‘T will be no vain desire of mine,
In rich and costlv dress to shine;
Bright jewels and the brightest gold
Will charm me naught when I am old,
When I am old my friends will be
Old and’ nftrm and bowed like me;
Or else, their bodies ’neath the sod,
Their spirits dwelling safe with God,
Tf,ie old church bell will long have tolled
Above the rest —when la/))I a/)) old
When I am old, I’d rather bend
Thus sadly o’er each buried friend,
Than see them lose their earnest truth,
That marks the friendship of our youth;
’Ttpill be jo sad to have them cold
Or strange to me—when I am old.
Ere I am old—oh, let me give
My life to learn best how to live!
Then shall I meet with willing htart,
An early summons to depart,
Or find my lengthened days consoled
By God’s sweet peace—when 1 am old.
An Immense time in the Sanctum.
A day or two ago, while sealed in the
editorial department of our establishment
posting books, pondering over debts due
us by delinquents, and showering left
handed blessings on the credit system,
our reveries were sudden* broken in
upon by the entrance of a subscriber
wbp )|as pifcen t|ie Standard for seven
years, during which time he paid op ac
count 0 dollars, djtto cents ! ‘ Holloa !’
thought we, * here’s a promise to pay one
of these days.’ A mistake, as the follow
ing conversation proves:
Subscribe? —Mr. Printer, I believe I
have taken your paper about—let me
spe—ah, yes, about seven years ; and all
that lime, too, I have lived off the Port
age Road, how you have lived, I do not
know, but precious little of my money
have you fingered. However? make me
out a receipt no>v, and here’s your mon
p.V-
[Subscriber deposiles sl4 on the table,
which ihe editor grasps nervously, for
fear the subscriber’s mind might change
and then fills out a receipt. Exit
subscriber.]
s might mtturally be supposed, the
thermometer of the editor’s feelings went
up into sunshine 14 per cent. Another
rap at the door—
• Come in!’
[Tall countryman enters.]
Countryman —Well, Mr. ‘Newspaper,
mon, how d’ye do? ‘ Been takin your
paper a dinguation while, and it is a long
time-since I paid anything. Would’ut
be withum it tin how—us your list of mar
ket prices save rue fifty dollars a Year. —
Really too bad that 1 havu’t attended to
it sooner, fjow much is it ?
Editor —(running his eyes over the
newspaper.)—Oh, here it is—two and
one’s three, and two are five—ten dol
lars.
[Countryman deposits half a saw-horse,
takes bis receipt, bids editor an affec
tionate good-bye, and vamoses.]’
Another rap! What, not another
customer ? As I live it is ?
(Enter Irish subscriber from the moun
tain.)
Irishman—How are yees ? Bad luck
to meeself, but its owing this paper for a
long time I am, and sure a good one n
is— sorra a betther, barrin’ thim from the
old country. Fwhat am endue yees ? ■
(Editor refers to book.)
Editor.—Two years und six months—
five dollars.
[lrishman deposiles a yellow coin bear
ing the impression of the American
‘ eagle,’ pockets the ‘ raysait ’ he calls
for, and is off]
Sanctum becomes pleasant ; every
thing in it wears a brilliant hue—even |
the rattling of the sleet against ilye win
dow panes has a charming musical sound.
By Jove another knock ! ‘ Walk in !'—
May I be shot if it isn’t A. another four* i
teen dollar debtor. Oil ; it cannot be
possible that he is going to pay. Yes he I
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD iS OURS.
is! By tile beard of the Prophet he
jerketlt hip, calf-sk,ip !
G—Well, old fellow, yon have dunned
me pretty often, but of course I couldn’t
begin to blame yoo for it. I determined
to put it out of your power to dun me a
gain for a while, when Captain West
made this payment. Let gie see, fours
teen dollars I believe you said it was,
eh ?
Editor, .(rubbing his hands with gle.)
Exactly, wiliest pays op till the 12tli of
next
G.—Here’s fifteen dollars—just credit
me a dollar advance. (Exit subscriber.)
Editor (solos — A weight transferred
from your conscience to our pocket.
[Editor proceeds to enter credit and
sings, ‘Oh thus may it ever—’when
the song is cut short by the entrance of
a German patron.]
German subscriber—Veil, we gates,
Mr. Briuder, belt! Owe you for ter bab
pers, Jieh ! can’t read modi mmself, pul
mine chilterns say ter mushi has ter baper,
and 1 guess if ley mushi has him, ter oil
man must bay, Item ? (German subscri
ber who is something of a wag, chuckles
and gives the editor a dig in the ribs.)
jSditor —Squire, your bil! is only five
dollars.
German Subscril>er--Five dollar ; tat
ish vor beliint, and five 1 bays you ahead ;
vich makes den.
[German subscriber pulls out a storking
and counts down out of it twenty bright
half dollars. Editor’s eyes dilate, he
becomes exceedingly nervous, and
shows symptoms of flyir.g off the han
dle ! [Exit patron.]
The sky is clouded, but it never look
ed better, the light never was stronger.—
The horrors of a long winter are forgot
ten, and sunshine reigns iri the heart.—
Even the arcordeon in the bookstore un
derneath, which few moments ago made
an execrable noise, is now making passa
ble music. In the exuberance of his
spirits he could liuve shaken hands with
his bitterest enemy. (A heavy step is
heard on the stairs !) What is it possi
ble ? The streak has been so good that
this most be a call on the other side.
S Door opens. Enter J.]
erisalein ! If he pays, the millenium
is at hand, and the next sound will be a
blast from the final trumpet.
J. Well, my hearty, I have just suc
ceeded in collecting some old accounts,
and as I owe you considerable of a bill,
l couh! do no better than let you have a
trifle on account.
Editor, (strongly impressed with the
same opiuiou,) under such circumstances,
in the language of Dummy Allen.
‘ Happy to ir.eet, happy to part, and al
ways happy to meet again.’
[j. depnsiles two X’s on the table,
gees the entry made, and leaves.]
Editor has reached a state of perfect
bliss, and whistles Dolly Day, with va
riations, when the sanctum door again
opens, and a prominent Whig enters.
Whig. Believe I owe you Locofoco
printers a small bill for advertising.—
Don’t like the principles you advocate,
but I would just as soon do business with
oge parly as another; besides / know
you have much the largest circulation in
this vicinity ; and in short, 1 know what’s
what.
Editor, Good. Your bill is sU
[Whig pays, hands over anew advertise
ment, and leaves.]
Another knock ? . ‘ Walk in !’
(Euler, a leao, long lank cadaverous
looking, middle aged gentleman, dressed
in black, with white neck cloth. Editor
mistakes hi.m’for a preacher, and bows
deferentially.)
Stranger. lam the Travelling Agent
for Doctor Jit lions O. Killemoff’s Uni
versal Regenerating Depuraiive Resur
rection Syrup, which / wish to advertise
in your paper.
[Editor lights a cigar, cocks his leg up
on the table, and feels very independ
entj
Editor. We don’t advertise quack
medicines at this establishment unless
paid for lg advance.
Travelling Agent.. Excuse me, but
this is no quack medicine, but one highly
recommended by the faculty. What are
your terms for half a column a year ?
Editor. Twenty dollars.
[Agent does not appear to be u bit taken
aback, as is usual on such occasions,
but draws his INirlmnnie.]
Agent. Here is five, agd five are ten,
and ten are -
[Scene suddenly changes } editorial room
and lank Agent fade away; Editor
finds himself at home in bed; wife
slinking him.]
Wife. It’s six o’clock. Ain’t you
going to market ?
Editor (slightly riled) —Everlasting
perdition seixe the market. Didn’t litetll
you last night I had no market money ?
[Editor turns over add tries to combine
the dream, but the charm is broken,
the spell is g,o,(ie, ao<J all that remains
is an uneasy do*e, which is interrupt
ed by the Junior of the family bestrid
ing him for a horse, and clutching his
hair for a bridle rein.)
[Scene changes to breakfast table.
Wife. I should like to know what
you was dreaming about Ibis morning.
Editor. Why ?
Wile. Because when 1 awoke you,
you continued grumbling in unintelligi
ble language. The only thing I could
understand, was, ‘ it’s an infernal shame
you didn’t wait until it was a hundred,
enough i buy paper.’
[Editor gives a gltostlv grin, seizes his
hat, rushes out of the house, goes to the
office, and works off the outside !]
Hollidaytbutg Standard.
Praire Mirage.
As if by enchantment, the cold, snow-
V surface all at once disappeared. Green
fields lay before us, trees sprang
covered with a thick and verdant foliage!
‘Cottonwoods/’ cried a hunter, as his
eye rested on those still distant groves.
Tall saplins, at that, Wagh!’ ejaculated
another.
‘Water lhar, fellow, | reckon.’ re*
marked a third.
‘Yes, sir-ee! yer don’t see sprouts as
them growing out ova dry peraria.—
Look! hilloa! ’
‘By gollies yonder’s a house!’
‘A house? One—two—three. A
house? (liars a whole town if ihars a sin
g|e shanty. Gee! Jim, look yonder.—
Wagli!’
I was riding in front with Segnin—
tile rest of the hand strung out behind us.
1 had been for some time gazing upon
the ground in a sort of abstraction, look
ing at the snow-white effervescence and
listening to the crunching of my horse’s
hoof* through its incrustation. These
exclamatory phrases caused me to raise
my eyes. The sight that met them w.is
one that made me rein up with a sudden
jerk, Seguiu had done the same, and I
saw that the whole band had halted with
a similar impulse.
We had just cleared one of the buttes,
that had hitherto obstructed our view of
the great gap. This was now directly
in front of us: and along its hasp on the
southern side rose the walls and battle
ments o( a city—a vast city—judging
from its distance, and the collossal ap
pearance of its architecture! We could
trace the columns of temples, ami doors,
and gales and windows, and balconies,
parapets, and spires! There were many
towers rising high over the roofs; and in
the middle was a temple like structure,
witlt its massive dome lowering far above
all the otlters.
I looked upon this sudden apparition
with a feeling of incredulity. It was a
dream—an imagination—a mirage. Hu!
it was the mirage.
But no! The mirage could effect such
a complete picture ? There were the
roofs, and chimneys, and walls, and win
dows! There were the parapets of for*
tided houses, with their regular notches
and embrasures! It was a reality. It
was a city.
Was it the Cicolo of the Spanish Pa.,
dre? Was the story of the wandering
priest, after all true? Who had proved
it a fable? Who had ever penetrated this
region, the very country in which the
erlesiastic represented the golden city of
Cibolo to exist?
I saw that Seguin was puzzled—dis
mayed—as well as mvsell! He knew
nothing ol litis land. He had never wit.,
nessed a mirage like that?’
For some time we Selin our saddlts, in
fluenced by emotions. Shall we go for
ward? Yes! We mist reach water. —
We are ridden only a few pares further,
when (lie hunters uttered a smith n simul
taneous cry, Anew ohjcl- an object
of terror —was before us! Along the
mountain foot appeared a string of dark
forms. They were mounted men.
We dragged our horses to their haun
ches—our whole line halting us one man.
‘lnjuns!* was the exclamation of seve
ral!’
‘lndians they muil be,’ mutte red Se
goin. There ore no other here—/ndi
TERMS: $2 in Advance.
ans! No! There never were such at
• Item. See! they are not men—look at
their huge horses—their long guns—
they are giants! By heavens!’ continued
lie, after a moment’s pause, they are bod
iless. They are phantomes !*
There were exclamations of terror front
the hunters behind.
Were these the inhabitants of the city?
There was a striking proportion in the
collossal site of the horses and the horse
men!
Fur a moment 1 was awe-struck, like
the rest, only a moment. A sudilen
memory dashed upon me. I thought of
the Hurt* mountains and their demons.
I knew that the phenomena before us
could be no other—an optical delusion—
a creation of the mirage.
1 raised my hand above mv head.—
The foremost of the giants imitated the
motion!
1 put spurs to my horse and galloped
forward. So said he. as if to meet me;
after a lew springs I had passed the re
fracting angel; and, like thought, the
shadowy giant vanished into air!
The men hud ridden forward after me;
and having also passed the angle of re
fraction, saw no more of the phantom
host.
The tall groves were no longer to be
seen; but a low bell of green willows—
real willows—-could be distinguished
along the loot of the mountain without
the gap. Under their foliage (litre was
something that sparkled in the sun like
sheets of silver, It was water! It was
the branch of the Pr.eto!
Our horses neighed at the sight, and
shortly alter we had alighted upon its
batiks, and were kneeling before the spir
it of the stream.
A Rich Case.—Some years ago a poor
liisliinan was knocked down and robbed.
He accused a mail of having committed
the robbery,—in due lime the case came
up for trial. Ihe Irishman bemc upon
the stand, was cross examined, after hav
ing sum ii positively lu the guilt of die
prisoner, t>\ one of our keeueM lawyers,
and something like die following was die
result:
‘You say die prisoner at the bar was
die man who assaulted and robbed you?’
‘Yes, your honor.’
‘Was it moonlight when the occurrence
took place?’
•Divil the bit of it.’
•W.is it star light?’
‘Not a whit; it was so dark that you
could not have seen your hand before
ye.’
‘Was there any light shining from any
house near by?’
‘Divil a bit iy a house was there any
wlieres about!’
‘Well then Baddy, if there was no
rmon, no star light, or no lignt from any
house, and so dark that you could'ot even
see your hand before yon, how are you
aide to sw ear that the prisoner is the mutt?
How did you see him?’
‘Why, your honor, when tlse spalpeen
struck me, die fire flew out iv my eyes so
bright, you might have seen to pick up a
pin; you could, bejabers.’
What did Kossuth mean when lie said
‘bayonets think?’ The meaning is obvi
ous. Every polished bayonet is capable
of reflection.
An extravagant man having moved in
a costly manison, remarked to a friend—
‘Now everything will go on like clock
work.’
‘Yes,’ was the reply, ‘it will be tick,
lick.’
‘Do make yourselves at home, ladies,’
said a lady to her visitors one day. ‘l'm
at home myself and wish you were.’
‘What are these?’ Cromwell once in
quired, as he saw a dozen silver statutes
in the niches of a chapel.
‘The twelve Apostles,’ teplied the
trembling Dean.
‘Take them down’ said Cromwell,‘and
coin them into money, so that, like their
Master, they may go about doing good.*
•Ho? for California, ’ seems to be the
general cry atl over the country.
Yes? and hoe fur gold, after you gel
there!;
Some go to California w ith it ‘ho,’ and
return with a ‘high ho!’
Sarcastic.—‘Did you present your
account to the defendant?’ inquired a law
yer of Itis client.
‘1 did, sir.*
‘And what did he say?’
‘He told me to go to the devil.*
‘And what did you do Ihen?’
Wy, then—l came to you.’
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