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Office up Stairs, over the Post-Office.
VOL. I.
E 1
It Published every Friday Morning, in the new Town of
Oglethorpe, Maeon. County. Ga.,
C. B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher.
T£Bnss9 Per advance,
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One Dollar per square (of 12 lines or less) for the first
asertion, and Fist v Cents for each insertion thereafter.
A liberal deduction will be made to those whoadver-
notspecified as to time, will be pub
lished till ordered out and charged accordingly.
R. H. SIMS. St CO.,
general dealers in
Groceries nod Domestic Goods.
ALSO ju
Boots, Shoes, Huts, Caps, Bugging, R<*ipe,
Iron, .Steel, Nails,
At tha Brick Store, Conner of Sumter and Chatham Sts.,
’ OGLETHORPE GA.
N. B. All Orders Promptly At
tended TO.
R. H. Sims, T. J. Threlkeld.
October 3. 1851. 25—6 m
W. YV. CHAPMAN it CO.
WARE-HOUSE
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Conner of Baker and Chatham Streets,
OGLETHORPE, GA .
ARCHIBALD W. MARIN, W.,W. CHAPMAN & CO.
Octobers, 1851. 25.—6 m.
p7g. arrington;
attorney at law,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
lOelctliorpc, Msicoi* County, Ga.
April 17, 1850. a ~ ly
hTn. gray
Attorney and Connseor at Law,
Blakely, EarlyCo„Ga.
arch 25, 1851-
UR. I. B. HALL,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Ogle
thorpe and vicinity. His ofice is in Mrs,
Khwsou’s house, on the corner of Chatham
and Macon streets, where he may be found
at all times, unless absent on professional
bust ness, Jan, 30,1852,
MEDICAL CARD.
DR. William Ellis having permanently
located in the city of Oglethorpe, most
respectfully tenders his services to its Citi
zens and vicinity. With an experiece of more
than twenty-five years, together with prompt
and diligent attention to the duties ot his
profession, lie hopes to merit and receive a
liberal share of patronage. He may be found
at Snead Drug store or at his residence
on Baker street.
Oglethorpe Feb, 4th 1852. 42 if.
BRUSHES, all kind for sale by
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 If
URGICAL and Denial Instruments
Gold Foil, Sic. For sale by.
• SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851 27 if.
Received to-day.a o f
Cherry Pectoral, Cod Liver Oil, Dr
Chiisiies Galvanic Remedis, Townsends
and Sand’s Sarsaparillas, “Pepsin” the
Great Dyspepsia Remedy; and various other
Patent niedisins.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
N*r. 17th, 1851 33—ts.
LIKEHBSSES.
a DAGUERREOTYPE Likenesses ta-
MIW ken in the best style of art by
B.J. LESTER.
Feb. 12 1852. 3-ts-
CIGARS.
50,000 £ p .*oSb, C1 ’
* R. H. SIJVI<S &. Cos.
Oglethorpe Feb. 4th, 1852, 42—ts.
COOK &MONTFORT
MW haw.
OGLETHORPE, GA.,
TjrlLL practice in the Counties of Taylor Houston,
TV Mcon, Dooly Sumter, Marion, Talbot, and Craw
ford. One of the firm always at the office.
Feb. 20,1852. 44-ly.
Books! Books!!
60 COPIES OF THE
jMarried Woman's Medical Companion,
For sale at the “South-West Georgian” Of
fice by C. 8. YOUNGBLOOD.
Pt S. All orders front abroad promptly
attended to.
Sept. 12,1851.
ANEW supply of Blanks for sale
at this Office, atone Dollar per
quire.
SfyelSottt Ij-wist ©tirgkiu
Over 10,000 Pairs of
ft BOOTS AND
■*TK? SHOES.
Keep it bejore the People that
BANKS & CO.
ON SUMTER STREET,
TWAVE now opened two doors from
MM. R. H. SIMS & Co.,and intend keep
ing constantly on hand the largest and best
STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES
ever offered iu South.-Western Georgia. A
large portion of jyllich is of their own man
uluctnre, nd warranted not to rip, consisting
of all qualities and prices; 2,000 puirs home
made Negro Shoes, double soled; 1,000
pairs of Kip Sewed and Pegged Boots; —
250 pairs Men’s Double-Soled Water-Proof
Boots; 500 pairs single and Double soled
Calf Brogans; 1,500 pairs Ladies’ Leather
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 paiis
Men’s Home-made Double soled Black Byo
gans; 250 pairs Bovs’do.; 300 pairs gen
tlemen’s and Ladies’ Rubber Over shoes ;
800 pairs Nothern Negro shoes at 90c.
10,000 lbs. Sole Leather, Calf, Lining and
Binding Skins, Lasts, Shoe Thread, Pegs,
Shnemakers’s Tools, &c.
All we ask of Planters and others is to ex
amine our Stock before they 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 I
And if we can’t sell we will charge noth.,
ing for showing our Stock. Any amount of
BEEF HIDES taken in Exchange for shoes
or Leather.
Ogleihorpp, Oct. 10th, 1851. 2b 6m
THE NEW DKIG STORE.
SNEAD Sc CHAPMAN.
Whole sale and Retail
DRUGGISTS
(SUMPTER STREET,)
Oglethorpe , Ga.
THE undersigned would respectfuly
ly inform their friends and the pub
lic, that they have just opened a DRUG
STORE in Oglethorpe, where they will
keep constantly on hand, ? large and
fresh assortment of Drugs and Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments, gold
Foil, Perfumery, Soaps and choice Toi
let articles, Also, Paints, Oils, Potash
Window Glass Dye Stuff, Choice Spices
Essences, Patent Medicines, &tc. &,c., and
a full assortment of whatever belongs to
lie business.
ff?“ Having had six years Praclical
Experience in the Drug Business, and
being determined to devote to it their
whole attention, they hope to merit and
receive a liberal patronage.
Every article put up in the neatest
manner 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 Planters, is called to our
stock, as we feel confident we can sup
ply them with all articles in our line, on
terms that will not fail to give satisfaction.
SNEAD &i CHAPMAN.
October 17, 1851- 27—ly.
Carriage i\\ Making
o 111 O
and and
Buggy USB Repairing.
SHOP ON SUMTER ST.
Near the Spinkaskins Hotel ,
OGLETHORPE, GA.
THE New Firm of Wrigh’l, Wil
liams Si Cos., have associated
themselves together for the purpose of making
and repairing Carriages, in a neat and fash
ionable style, with good materials, at as low
prices as 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 to give us
a call, as we intend not to he excelled in ar
ticles.
WRIGHT WILLIAMS & Cos.
December, 26th, 1851, 37—ts,
W. H. TURPIN,
Manufacturer of and
WHOLE-SALE AND RETAIL
MAMIE SIS?
Plain Tin and Japanned Ware,
Hollow, Wood, Ilnrd-Ware, rook
ing nnd Parlor Stoves dec.
Tin-Ware of every description, repaired.
On Sumter Street, Oglethorpe Oa.
February 20, 1852. 44-ly.
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16 1852.
The Spirit of the Press.
A spirit moves abroad the earth,
Infusing into inind
The genius of its own high birth
To elevate mankind.
Where’er, as here, unfettered, free,
It vindicates the right,
And wrong and crime before it flee,
As darkness flees from light.
That rpirit, sleepless, watches o’er
The freeman's chosen land—
Alike protects the licit and poor,
And links them hand in hand !
It guides Columbia in the path
Os glory and renown,
While tyrants crouch before its wrath,
And tremble at its frown !
The Press!—behold its glory where
The lightning flashes play,
For Franklin stamped his image there,
And caught the burning ray!
Behold it where pure knowledge twines
Her bright, unfading wreaths—
For there that glory brightly shines,
And there that spirit breathes!
Oh, ’twere a glorious theme to trace
Beyond the trackless sea,
From clime to clime, and race to race,
This spirit, cliainless, free!—
To mark its steps where kindly might
a. Had made of millions slaves,
men, aroused, were nerved to fight
J? For freedom or for giaves !
In Europe, faint and trembling still,
#bis spirit, crushed, shall lise—
Yet once again her patriots thrill,
And shp w them freedom’s prize 1
Then ruthless kings shall bow before
The people’s majesty.
And dearest rights, withheld of yore,
Be wrung from tyranny !
All hail, then,;ilie Spirit of the Press !
Thy mission, high, sublime,
The nations, freed, shall surely bless,
Through ail the course of time !
For thou hast gone abroad the earth,
Infusing into mind
The genius of*jjbine own high birth
To elevate mankind!
The Sword and the Press.
The following beautiful extract, illus
trating in a powerful manner the advan
tages of printing towunkind, is from an
essay by Thomas Carlyle, in the British
Review, published nearly twenty years
ago, when that sotnewjhat noted writer
clothed his ideas in English, and his
works could be read without the aid of. q
Glossary, and understood without a n in
sight into the mysteries of Transcenden
talism:
‘When Tramelane had finished build
ing his pyramid of seventy thousand hu
man skulls, and was seen standing at the
gate of Damascus, glittering in his steel,
with his battle-axe on his shoulder, (ill bis
fierce hosts filed out to new victories and
new carnage, the pele looker on might
have fancied that nature was in her death
throes, for havoc and despair had taken
posse-sion of the earth—the sun of man
hood seemed in seas of blood.
Yet it might be on the very gala day ol
Tamerlane, that a little hoy was play
ing ten pins on the streets of Mentz,
w hose history was more important than
that of twenty Tamerlanes. The Kham,
with Ids shaggy demons of the wilderness,
‘passed away like a whirlwind,’ to be for
gotten forever; and that German artisan
lias wrought a benefit which is yet im
tneasuably expanding itself, through all
countries and throughout nil times.—
What are the conquests and expeditions
of the whole corporations of captains,
Irom Walter Pennyless to Napoleon Bos
naparte, compared with the movable types
of Faust? Trulv, it is a mortifying
tiling for your conqueror to reflect how
perishable is the m~ial with which he
hammers with such violence; how the
kind earth will soon shroud up iiis bloody
fuot-prints, and all tiiat he had achieved
and skilfully piled together, will be but
like his own canvass city of a camp—
this evening loud with life, to-morrow all
struck and vanished—‘a few earth pits
and heaps of straw ? For here, as al
ways, it continues true that the deepest
force is the stillest; that, as in the fable,
the mild shining of the sun shall silently
accomplish what the fierce blustering of
the tempest in vain essayed. Above all,
it is ever to be kept in mind that, not by
material, but by moral power, are men
and (heir actions governed. How noise
less is thought! No rolling of drums, no
tromp of squadrons, or immeasurable tu
mult of baggage attend its
movements. In what obscure and se
questered places may the bead be medi-
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS bURS.
tating which is one day to be crowned
with more than imperial authority! for
kings and emperors will be among its
ministering servants —it will rule not over
but in all heads; and with these solitary
combinations of ideas, and with magic
formulas bend (he world to its will. The
time may come when Napoleon himself
will be belter known for bis laws than his
battles and the victory of Waterloo prove
less momentous than the opening of the
first Mechanics’ Institute.’
Franklin as a Book Seller.
Every body has known something of
Franklin as a statesman and philosopher;
we commend the following notice of him
as corrector of* lounging* to those who
need the salutary lesson :
One fine morning when Franklin was
busy preparing his newspaper for the press,
a lounger stepped into the store, and spent
an hour or more looking over the books,
&5c., and finally taking one in his hand,
asked the shop-boy the price.
* One dollar,’ was the answer.
* One dollar,’ said the lounger; * can’t
you take less than th.it ?’
‘No indeed ; one dollar is the price.’
Another hour had nearly passed, when
the lounger said—
/s Mr. Franklin at home ?’
* Yes, he is in the printing office.’
* I want to see him,’ said the lounger.
The shop-boy immediately informed
Mr. Franklin that a gentleman was in
the store, waiting to see him. Franklin
was soon behind the counter, when the
lounger, with book in hand, address
ed him thus:
‘Mr. Franklin what is the lowest you
can take for that book ?’
* One dollar and a quarter,* was the
ready answer.
‘ One dollar and a quarter ! Why,
your young man asked me only a dol
lar.’
‘True,’ said Franklin, ‘and I could,
have belter afforded to have taken a dol
lar then, than to have been lakeu out of
the office.’
The lounger seemed surprised, and
wishing to end the parley of his own ma
king,said— TisMgjW
* Come, Mr. Franklin, tell me what is
the lowest you can take for it.’
‘ One dollar and a half.’
’ A dollar and a half! Why ynu of
fered it yourself for a dollar and a quar
ter.’
‘Yes,’ said Franklin, ‘ and I had bet
ter have taken that price then than a dol
lar and a half now.’
Tite lounger paid down the price, and
went about his business—if he had any—
and Franklin returned into the printing
office.
New Theory of ihe Deluge.
A clergyman of Cincinnati, the Rev.
Mr. Stuart, lias preached a somewhat
singular sermon, in which he puts forth a
novel hypothesis respecting the Deluge
as described in the Scriptures.
He insists that it is an allegory ; and
assumes that (lie Ark is intended tp re
present the Church established by Noali
and his posterity—into which was incor
porated every principle of doctrine and
duty necessary for the salvation of man
at tiiat day. To enter the ark was to be
confirmed in the life of religion which it
represented. The flood of waters he
considers the emblem of an inundation of
evil and impiety, and refers to various
passages in Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and
tile New Testament, for the purpose of
showing that the encroachment of falla
cious reasoning and false principle are
not only compared in the Scriptures to
floods of water, but are actually called
floods and the overflowing of rivers.—
This, he argues, is the real import of (lie
flood in the times of Noah. The perishing
of the millions of the deluges to be under
stood, lie says that spiritual sense, as the
perishing of souls by the overwhelming
influence ol sin.
In a lecture upon the subject, deliver
ed by Mr. Stuart, he advances many
plausible arguments in support of his the
ory. A literal flood, like that described
by Moses, the reverend gen-leman says,
could not liaye taken place. Men of
science reject as an absurdity the idea of
a universal deluge having occurerd since
the creation of man. Geology utterly
confutes this supposition. The learned
Dr. Bockland, the orthodox Dr. Hitcltv
cock, and many others equally worthy,
have abandoned it, and none stand out
for a literal flood except a stubborn few ■
who make the omnipotence of God the
scapegoat of physical impossibilities.
These are Mr. Stuart’s views, as we
find them reported in a Cincinnati paper,
and we give them as somewhat startling
innovations upon the general belief, with
out expressing any opinion as to their
soundness.— Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel.
Pleasant Varieties.
Somebody speaks of the people ol
Maine as being in the situation of the
‘Ancient Mariner’ of Coleridge:
* Water, water, everywhere,
-4nd not a ‘ drop ’ to drink.’
You often hear of a man ‘ being in ad
vance of his age ;’ but you never head of
a woman being in the same predicament.
Dean Swift said, with much truth, • It
is useless for us to attempt to reason a
man out of a thing he was never reasoned
into.’
Importance of Emphasis.-/! strang
er from the country observing an ordi
nary roller rule on the table, took it up,
and, on inquiring its use, was answered,
‘ltis a rule for counting houses.’ Too
well bred, as lie construed politeness, to
ask unnecessary questions, he turned it
over and over, and up and down tepeat
edly, and at last, in a paroxysm of baffled
curiosity, inquired, * How in the name of
wonder, do you count houses with this.'”
Why is (lie first chick of a brood like
tlie foremast of a ship ? Because it is a
head of the main hatch.
M rs. Harris says it is not as much j
trouble for a ‘ nuss’ to take care of sick
people as some folks imagine. The
most of them don’t want anything, she
says, and when they do they don’t get
it.
A dwarf said to a giant, * We have
equal rights !’— * Very true, my good
fellow,* replied tjie giant, ‘ yet thou canst
not walk iu my shoes.’ ‘ Ditto,’ said the
dwarf. % J -I!*
The Paris * Own Correspondent ’ of
a London paper, referring to a practice
so common at the theatres now-a-davs, of
throwing boquets on the stane, says,
‘ We understand the art of throwing bo
quels here tolerably well. 7 have teen
an artiste take a w hole basketful and dis
tribute them among Iter claquers, to be
thrown at her when she appeared ; I
have seen the clappers throw diem af
terwards, and die artiste take them up,
and with a graceful bow press them to
her bosom, and retire, to put them in
water, so dial they would be fit to use a
gain die next night.’
Never Satisfied.— Lately, as a
gentleman was examining an old desk,
which had stood in an old out-building
lor a long lime, he found a small bag ;
but on taking it up the bottom came out,
and, to his great surprise, out rolled 500
spade-ace guineas. Alter counting’ them,
lie said he was sorry that he hud not
found them twenty years sooner, that he
might have had the interest on them also
during that period.
An Unreasonable Proposal.—An
l risli laborer, who was in the employment
of an English gentleman, residing in Ire
land, was on one occasion about going to
a fair, held annually at a neighboring
village, when his master endeavored to
dissuade’ him from his design. ‘Yon
alwavs,’ said he, ‘come hack with a
broken head ; now, slay at home to-day,
Darby, and I’ll give you five shillings.’
—‘ Tin forever and all obliged to your
honor,’ replied Darby, • but does it stand
to rason,’ added be, flourishing his shil
lelagh over his head, ‘does it stand to
rason, that I’d take five shillings for the
great batin’ I'm to get to-day ?’
Live for Something.
‘ Thousands of men,’ says Chalmers,
‘ breathe, move and live—pass off the
stage of life —and are heard of no more
—why? they do not partake of good in
the world, and none were blessed by
them ; none could point to ll em as the
means of their redemption ; not a line
they wrote, not a word they spake could
be recalled ; and so (hey perished; their
light went out in darkness and they were
not remembered more than insects of yes
terday, Will you thus live and die ?
Oh man, immortal, live for something.
Do good, and leave behind you a monu
menl of virtue.’
| TERMS? $2 in Advance.
An Uncalled for Amen.
A correspondent of the Methodist
Protestant relates the following story :
A yery sensitive preacher, in a certain
village not more than a hundred miles
from Baltimore, was discoursing with
great warmth on the uncertainty of hu
man life. To give the greater effect to
his remarks, after assuring his hearers
that they might die before another hour
had elapsed, he said :
‘And I, your speaker, may be dead
before another morning dawns.’
‘ Amen !’ was the audible response of a
pious and much-beloved brother in the
congregation.
The preaclter'w asfevidently disconcert
ed for a moment. He thought lie must
havemisuuderslood his meaning. Pausing
awhile, he repeated the declaration with
still greater emphasis: ‘‘Before anoth
er hour your speaker mav be in eterni
ty !’
‘ Amen !’ shouted the brother before
him.
It wi;s too much for the sensitive man;
and, stammering out a few additional re
marks, he sal down before he had finished
his discourse.
‘ Brother—,’ said the preacher next
day to his kind-hearted friend of the ai>
men corner,’ * what did you mean bv
saying amen to my remarks last night ?
Did you wish 1 was dead ?’
‘ Not at all,’ said the good brother,
‘not at all. 7 thought if you should die
you would go straight to glory, and I
truant amen to that!’
Backing Out of Position.
A somewhat eccentric lawyer, being
engaged in defending a hard case, and
not being altogether pleased with the
rulings of the presiding Judge remarked
lhaishe believed the whole Court could
i)e bought for a peck of beans,
i The Judge, of course, took this remark
In hit:h dudgeon, and ordered the lawyer
to sit down, and demanded ol him an ap
ology lor this contempt of Cos irt, threat
ening him with conmiiment for the of
fence, if lie did not apologize.
The lawyer, after a little reflection,
remarked that lie had said he believed
the Court could he bought with a peck
ol beans: that he said it without reflec
tion, and wished to take it hack : lint,
said lie, ‘/i’l had put it at half a bushel,
I never would have taken it back in the
world !’
Tiie clerk of a village church made
the following announcement, one Sab
bath, at the close of service—
* 1 hereby give you notice that a ves
try meeting will be held at six o’clock
on Wednesday evening, in order to come
to a final conclusion as to what color this
church is to be white-washed.’
The Tattlkr. —There is not a being
that moves on the habitable globe more
degraded or more conteiriptable than a
tattler. Vicious principle, want of hon
esty, servile meanness, di>picabJs, insidi
ousness form his character. Has he wit?
In attempting to display it, lie makes him
self a fool. Has lie friends? By unv
hesitatingly disclosing their secrets he
will make them his most bitter enemies.
By telling all fie knows but little.—
Does lie covet the favor of any one ?
lie or she attempts to gain it by slander
ing others.
‘Boy, what is your father doing to
day ?’
* Well, 1 ’spose lie’s failin. I heern
him lell mother yesterday, to go round
lo the simps and get all (lie trust she
could from them and do it right ofT too,
for, he’d got everything ready to fail up
up to nothin’ ’cepiln that.’
Leap Year.— The year 1852 is Leap
Year, “ n herein,’ as an old author says,
“ ladyes may go a courting ye men, and
gentlemen, shall forfeit a fine of five dol
lars if they refuse ye addresses of ye
ladyes,’ Be up and stirring ladies, your
peculiar prerogative comes only once
in four years.
We heard the following interesting con
versation, a few days since, between two
candidates for academic honors:
‘Bill, spell cat, rat, hat, bat, fat, wilA
only one letter tor each word.’
‘lt can’t be did.’ /
Wlim! you just;i4ady to report
lim, phonetically, and can’t Vo that?
Just look here! c 80 (eightyVcat, r 80
rat. h 80 hat, b 80 bai,f 80 Jet.’
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