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Office ap Stairs, over the Post-Office, | VOL. I. ses sawsaa^'wisa ®a©3&®sdwisf 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.’ ISO 50.