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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.’ NO 52.