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P. G. ARRINGTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
Oglethorpe, Alacon County, Ga.
April 17, 1850. - . 2—ly
DR. I. B. HALL,
RESPECTFULLY lenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Ople
tliorpe and vicinity. His ofice is in Mrs,
Rawson's house, on tire corner of Chatham
and Macon streets, where lie may be found
at ail times, unless absent on professional
business, Jan,- 530, 1852, 41-ts
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 dulitsof his
profession, he 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—ts.
COOK&M CK\T FORT
av® ij.w,
OGLETHORPE, GA ,
WII A practice in the Conn ties of Taylor Houston
Moon, Dooly Sumter, Marion, Talbot, and Craw
ford. One of the firm always at the office.
Feb. 20,1852. 44 ly.
LIK EIE3SBS,
gxAGUERREOTYPE Likenesses ta-
MJ? ken in the best style of art hv
B. J. LESTER.
Feb. 12 1852. d-ts..
W. H. TURPIN,
Jlfamifacturcr of, and
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
11M11 S C'T
Plain Tin and Japanned Ware,
Hollow, Woorl, Hurd-Ware, Cook
ing nnd Parlor Stoves Arc.
Tin-Ware of every description, repaired.
On Sumter Street, Oglethorpe Ga. ~
February 20, 1852. 44-ly.
BRUSH EsTall “kinder sale by~
SNEAD b CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 if
URGICAL and Dental Instruments
Gold Foil, &ic. For sale by.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851 27 ts.
RECEIVED to-day H large Tot Os
Cherry Pectoral, Cod Liver Oil, Dr
Chiisties Galvanic Remedts, Townsend’s
and Sand’s Sarsaparillas, “ Pepsin” the
Great Dyspepsia Remedy; and various other
Pateut ntedisins.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Nov. 17th, 1851 33—ts.
CIGARS.
50,000 “:„r
” R. H. SIMS & Cos.
Oglethorpe Feb. 4th, 1852, 42—ts.
Carriage Ju Making
and and
B utrtry Repairing.
SHOP ON SUMTER ST.
Near the Spinhaskins Hotel,
OGLETHORPE, GA,
THE Ne*v Firm of Wright, Wil
liams &Z. 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 be excelled in ar
“CIeS‘WRIGHT WILLIAMS h Cos.
December, 26th, 1851, 37 ts.
NOTICE.
MESSRS. NELSON & GUMMING would inform the
M public that person* hirimr Huggiei from their Stable
mum expect to pay on the delivery of them, and pereone
boardinghomea with them must pav monthly. I heir ne
ceaaitiei require this course. All peinon* indebted to
them by note or account will please settle immediately.
April 24th, 1851;
@I)C Sontl)~wiot (Georgian.
THE NEW PRIG STOKE.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Wholesale a mlKitrtil
• DRUGGISTS
(.S’ UM*> TREE 7’,)
r Gut.
THE undersigned would respecifuly
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, Btc. &c., and
a full assortment of whatever belongs to
he business.
05“” Having had six years Practical
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 pul 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 & CHAPMAN.
October 17, 1851- 27—ly.
WII7TE Lead. For sale by
SNEAD bCHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 ts
NOTICE.
S. A. JACKSON has just opened
.T 1 and is still receiving a Fine and well
selected Stock of Silks, Bonnets, Ribbons,
Trimings for Dresses which site offers to
sell low for Cash,
N. B. Dresses and Bonnets made to or
der with neatness and dispatch.
Oglethorpe March 12th 1852. 3w.
TAILORING t /
ITiriHE subscriber respectfully anounces to
II the citizens of Oglethorpe, and the sur
rounding Country, that he has commenced
the Tailoring business in this city, all work
entrusted to his care will be made in a style
not to be surpassed by those whose name
exceeds their talent.
Cutting and repairing done with neatness
and Dispatch.
WILLIAM WALSH.
March, 12th 1852. 47—3-i.
tJflcDonald & Willis ,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERY MERCHANTS,
And dealers in Country Produce.
One door north of Lewis &f Trice's Ware
house, ‘Oglethorpe Ga.
WOULD Respectfully inform their
friends and the public generally that
they have opened, and expect to keep con
stantly on hand, a g-meral assortment of.
Family Groceries and Provisions; such as
Flour, Bacon, Lard, Butter Cheese, Sugar,
Coffee, Salt, Molasses and Syrup, Rice
Mackerel &c., together with such articles as
Pepper Spice, Race and Ground Ginger,
Saleratus, Salsoda, Potash, Nails, Powder
and shot, with a fine lot of Tobacco, Cigars,
and snuff, and many other articles, too tedi
ous to menstion, A share of public patron
age is respectfully solicited. They would al
so inform their city friends that they expect
to keep a supply of Corn and Corn-meal, and
Flour in quantities to suit purchasers, with
vegetables of every ,variety that the surroun
ding country may afford.
john McDonald.
WM. H. WILLIS.
Oglethorpe, March 1852. 49tf.
FOR SALEM
A ONE half interest in the Office of the
SOUTH-WEST GEORGIAN. For’
particulars apply at this office.
Marcli sth, 1852.
Carriage Repository.
Buggys, ICockawnys, and Family
Carriages.
THE Subscribers have on hand,
and will continue to Receive Reg
ular Supplies of eveiy Variety of Carriages,
at Macon Prices with the Freight added,
Our friends Hre requested to give us a call
G. C. CARMICHAEL & CO.
Oglethorpe April 2nd. 1852. 50—y.l
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 28 1852.
From the Masonic Journal.
Woman and Masonry .••••A Tale.
BY MISS 0* W. BARBER.
“There is that increase tli.”—Prov.
jR in tllifel. of her
house, one pleasant afternoon in sum
mer, and sung in a low voice, fragments
of old familiar songs, learned in her
childhood. Her fingers were busy in
sewing upon some snowy white muslin
curtains, intended to adorn and exclude
the sunlight from Eddy’s room—Eddy,
her poor cripple brother. The boy’s
chair stood not far Irom her; his head
was thrown back, his eyes were closed,
his pale lips, were slightly parted, and a
moisture had stolen out upon his fore
head, wetting the curls of light chestnut
hair which were carelessly floating over
it. He was fust asleep. The book had
fallen from the clasp ol his fragile fingers
on the floor. Malla glanced up at him
and smiled ; he looked so gentle, so pla
cid, so happy and comfortable, sleeping
there under the shaddow of the cypress
vine which was trailed over the lattice
work on the side of the porch. Her ba
by, too, in the cradle at her feet, was en
joying a peaceful slumber; a bird on a
China tree in the yard, had a throat vocal
with melody. Malla laid down her work
and looked out into the pleasant sunshine
—up to the blue sky—then into the face
of her sleeping brother—to the baby—at
some house plants arranged against the
wall—at the many comforts of her neat
home. At heart she felt grateful for so
many blessings; she rememered that at
one time she had fell lonely, almost des
solate in the world. Now she had a hus
band, brother, and baby to love—a peace
ful and quiet home to enjoy. But in I
spite of herself she grew grave, and slop
ped singing. She resumed her muslin
und needle and wrought on busily as be
fore.
Just then a heavy footstep crtislied the
white sand in the yard, and the vigorous
arm of a young man seized the windless
and dropped the well-bucket to the water.
It soon filled with the silvery contents
“And dripping witli coolness, arose from the well.”
Its contents flashed for a moment in the
sunlighl, as he poised it on the curb, and
inclined it to his lips—then with a smile
he turned to the porch.
Malla raised her fingers to her lips, in
token of silence as lie approached, and
glanced in at the sleepers. He came
quietly to a seat by her side, and lifting
his hat from his forehead, lie stroked
back the moist hair from his broad, hand
some brow. He was a finely built and
athletic specimen of manhood, ills fea
tures, although not perfectly regular,
were noble and pleasing—his hand and
arm seemed made of nerve and muscle,
and lobe Herculean, almost, in strength.
He glanced around the low vine-clad
porch, and then into the thoughtful face
of his pretty wife.
‘You look very comfortable here, Mal
la,’ he said—‘the shade of (lib trees and
•He vines is very refreshing on an evening
like this> A good liome is a pleasant I
tiling.*
‘The pleasantest tiling m the world !•
said Malla. ‘When I was a little-child I
longed lor a pleasant spot like this. Be’
fore 1 met with you, my heart was hun
gry, and 1 felt lonely and dessolate. 1
now am grateful, glad and'happy. Tlie
great want of woman’s nature is satisfied.
1 have found something to love—some
who love me.’ ”
As she said this she looked confidingly
into her husband’s face. He took her
hand gently between both his palms, and
had a stranger entered at that moment,
he might have supposed, from appear
ances, that lie had interrupted a couple of
lovers, rather than a social feel, a-tele be’
tween (wo had been living for more than
two years, in the holy bands of wed-lock.
‘Good mistresses make good homes,
Malla,’ said George Elliot, dropping her
hand and wheeling the cradle to his feet.
“Woman is the presiding genius of home.
I am thankful that I have found one who
understands her business so well—one
who ‘looketh well to the ways of the
household, and eatetli not the bread of
idleness.’ ’
‘.4nd good husbands make good wives.’
continued Malla. ‘We cannot make
comfortable homes unless we have mate*
rial furnished to our hands : as well might
the Hebrews have made bricks without,
straw—when the husband fails to pro-.
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS.
vide, the wife toils in vain.’
The young man leaned his head upon
his hand and mused. A train of thought
seemed to have been started in his mind
by his wife’s remarks. He picked up tlie
scissors and clipped little shreds of muslin
which Alalia had pared from her work.
have been thinking,’ at length he
said, ‘that Iliad better join the Masons.’
‘The Masons!’ exclaimed Malla, in a
voice of surprise. ‘What is your object,
pray, in doing that.'’. You know that I
am opposed to secret societies, and use
less expenditures.’
‘I am not cerlain that this would he a
useless expenditure. ‘ There is thatscat
lerelh. yet inceaseth,’ ’ said George,
without lilting his eyes Irom the scissors,
‘So we read in the good book, Malla,
and lam inclined to think that the Ma
sons belonged to that class. 1 have been
watching some of the members of the
Lodge here, for a long time, and 1 like
the men. They are good citizens—they
attend to tlier own buisines—they are
careful at all times to exhibet that cliariv
ly which tliiuketh no evil of its neighbor
—to one another, especially they are
kind in the extreme. At first, it is true,
I shall have to pay money, but with it 1
shall purchase ‘Brotherly Love, Re
lief, Truth.’ We know that an institu..
lion can not have in it much that is ob
jectionable, when the wisest and best men
of every age, have been found aiming its
champions and advocates. They would
not sanction that which was mischievous
in its tendency, or pay money freely to
support empty riles and ceremonies.—
Masonry must have in it some intrinsic
excellence, and 1 think /’II join.’
‘But it can do no good,’ said Malla,
while a shade settled on her brow, ‘and
really, George, I don’t think that we have
any money to spare. Eddy wants books
—you know the child cannot live without
them, at any rate, it would be cruel to de
prive him of the only gratification he
graves. . I -want anew carpet for the sil
ting room—the old one is both soiled and
ragged—so ragged that I told Dinah to
take it up this morning—(lie baby wants
anew crib, and you desire yearly, yon
know, to add something to the plantation.
I don’t see how you are going to spare
the money. It looks to me like throwing
it away.’
‘ There is that scaltercth.yd increased ,’
repealed George, looking up with a quiet
smile. ■/ do not believe that I shall
throw my money away, or buy shadows.
I expect to obtain substance, valuable sub
stance in exchange for it. It may never
come bark to me in dollars and cents,
but it will in kindness to myself and fam
ily, should 1 be taken a way suddenly.—
The brotherhood would shield you, and
Eddy, and my bahv-b ly here, from want.
That is no minor consideration. We do
not know what reverses of r orlutie may
overtake us.’
Malla was far from being convinced
that her husband was correct in his views,
but she say that lie was settled in his pur
pose, and, like a prudent wife, she fore
bore to urge him further. She fell as if
6ome dreadful barrier was springing up
between her nndilte husband of Iter heart.
She could not endure the idea of his be
ing in possession of a secret to which she
could gain no access. Do not call her
a weak and childish woman. The feel
ing was natural to an affectionate nature
like Iter’s—to one who seldom withheld
a thought from her husband—much less a
secret of any importance. The bird sang
on the china tree as before, but she did
not heed its music now.
Malla Elliot, ns we have before intima
ted, had been left an early orphan, but
she was not an only child. Herself, her
cripple brother, and Charles, who was
some five years her senior, were left to
buffet, as they best could, the adverse
waves of life.
George Elliot’s father, who was a dis
tant relative of (heir’s, heard of their des
titution, and feeling that he was bound
to offer them a home, not only by sympa
thy and lies of blood, but also by Mason
ic Friendship to their father, took them
all as adopted children into his household.
With George they studied and associated
as equals, and upon the little nipple, es
pecially, was poured out unbounded love.
Eddy was indeed a delicate child.—
His brain, it seemed too large when com*
pared to the rest of his body—his frame
was slight, deformed and attenuated.—
When one looked upon him for the first
time, they regarted him a mere ehild-w lien
he spoke and brought out from his intel
lectual treasury, rich gems of thought,
people wondered at the deformed
hoy, and regarded him as a prodigy.—
Books were all lie craved in life : day
after day he sal propped up in his easy
chair, with a huge volume in his lap, or
scattered crumbs from his thin pale fin
gers, to the pet squirrel—the gift of Ids
brother Charles. When Malla was six’
teen years old, the friendship and brother
ly love which had ever existed between
herself and protector’s son, look a more
vivid coloring. She became hi* wife, and
Eddy was transplanted to their home.
Charles, Irom Ids early boyhood, had
exhibited a wild, riving disposition. He
had a passionate love lor the sea, and for
tales ol sea-faring life, and at an early
age, ran away and embarked on board a
vessal bound to a foreign land. This
was a deeply painful event to those who
were left behind- To Eddy’s delicate,
nervous organization, the shock was es
pecially severe. Charles was Ids favorite
companion. There - was a charm in Ids
bold, adventurous spirit for the studious
cripple boy. gh the time our story com
mences, nothing had been heard of the
sea-faring wanderer fur many years.—
Often when the wild whiter winds moaned
through the leafless trees, and die storm
raged without, Eddy would sit with his
eyes filled with a startled expression, as if
he saw visions of shipwreck and death
floating before him. In all his draw ings
there was found a dismantled vessel, and
often at the hour of midnight lie started
and shrieked : ‘Save the drawing mari
ner ! So vividly did this pic lure seem
impressed on his mind, that the name of
Charles was seldom ever mentioned in
his hearing.
George joined the Masonic Fraternity,
as he had expressed to Malla his intention
of doing. Ihe wife, whose thoughts,
hopes and affections clustered about her
home, and who looked upon every expen
diture as useless, unless it contributed to
its adornment, was annoyed as much
by the squandering of money, as by the
secrecy connected with and maintained
by the Order. Time passed on, and
the home of George and Malla Ellioi
was enlivened by the prattle of many
voices. But disease entered in at an un
expected hour. The strong arm upon
which they all leaned forsuppuri, was pa
ralized, and George Elliot lay stretched
upon his bed, a miserable wreck. He
could not even remember his own name.
When his children were brought to his
bedside for a caress, he failed to recognise
diem, and lie called Malla, ‘that stanger.’
It was mournful to witness the otter im
becilility of what had once been noble—
god-like, even—in this mail.
it was in this hour of affliction, that
the noble Brotherhood to which lie be
longed, showed their sympathy and affec
tion. Masons looked alter his interests,
and superintended his business as though
it had been their own. They came in
I generous bands around his bedside ready
to watch, comfort and aid to the last ex
. treinity.
. It has been said that ‘troubles never
f mine single,’ this old adage seemed veri
i lied in the case of (he Elliots. The
hearse had hardly conveyed from their
■ door the remains of the husband and fa
! liter, before the scarlet feVer, that most
’ dreadful us all diseases among children,
came like the blasting breath of the si
moon to Malta's household idols. Like
the Indumeao of old, she cried, ‘ls my
house to be left unto me alone ?’ Five
out of her seven children, were shrouded
one after an other, and laid beside their
father in the villege grave-yard.
It was on the night alter the last flow
eret had withered from her household
wreath, that Malla Elliot and Ehdv sat
again in the porch. The vine was there
as of old, the birds sang again in the
china tree, Eddy was in his high hacked
chair by the lattice, but all eke—how
changed !
•The iron burns deep that enters the
soul,’ and Malla sat and wept. She
thought of (he many happy hours which
she had spent there with her husband and
children—of the day in which he had ex
pressed his intention of joining ilie Ma
sonic Fraternity, especeially did those
words ring in her ears, ‘there is that scat
let eth, yet increased!.*
‘How true his words were,* site exclaim
ed. “What money could have purchased
the tireless watching—the strict vigilance
the ready shmpathy—the never failing
aid which George purchased for me, w hen
he scattered that trifling sum of gold from
hi* purse. And how bitterly 7 opposed
him ! Foolish woman that I was! 1 was
| TERMS: $2 in Advance.
annoyed by the secrecy of the Order.—
1 have found out that secret now. It is
to carry bread to the hungry, comfort to
Hie afflicted, and light to the darkened.’
So engrossed was she with this theme
of thought, she did not notice that the
Bible had slid from Eddy’s hand to tl.e
floor, and that his eye was scanning with
intense interest, the figure of a man who
was slowly approaching from the public
road. He tottered in his gait, like one
was weak and suffering. His garb was
that of a sailor. He cainp almost to the
threshold of the little porch and sat
down. Eddy shaded his eyes with his
hand from a stray sunbeam, and gazed
steadily at the stranger. At length his
lip quivered with suppressed emotion, and
leaning forward he exclaimed eagerly
‘that isCltarles,as 1 have a thousand times
pictured linn, weak and suffering. I know
that face, changed though it is by time
and pain. Go, Malla, to him, 1 regret
my own inability to move.’
Malla sprung sw inly down the wooden
steps, and lightly over the white sand.—
Hope grew strung in her poor suffering
heart. As she approached the stranger,
he smiled, und extended his emaciated
hand.
It was indeed Charles, the wandering
sailor-hoy. ‘1 bless God that I have
lived to see you again, my sister,* he said,
as he folded her to his bosom. ‘I come
back a wreck in health, and strength, but
a soberer and better mail than when 1
left you. Three months ago I was cast
upon a remote coast, sick, suffering, des
titute, and a stranger to nil around me.
Bui when I showed that I belonged to a
Masonic Lodge, / found that / was not
uneared for. They fed me, clothed me,
gave me medicine and care, and through
their untiring efforts, I obtained at last,
the clue which lends me now, to my sister’s
home anti darling Eddy. I bless the
fraternity! 1 bless Goif! At a neigh,
boring Lodge, I was told of your afflic
tion, and I have hastened as fast as my
physical weakness would allow me, to aid
and comfort yon. By and by, when ntv
health is entirely restored. I can take, l
trust, in some degree, at least, the plare
of our lost George, nnd he a prop upon
which you can lean in your widowhood.’
“We are to judge a tree by its fruits’
—the mail by his words—the society bv
(lie charaiter of its operations and re
sults. Masonry does not profess to be
Religion, but canr.ot we trace in it some
resemblance to that Gospel which is full
of ‘love to God, and love to man.’—
Some affinity to that Heaven horn prin
ciple whose essence the Apostle, assures
us, consists in ‘visiting the widow and
fatherless in their affliction,’ and in keep,
ing one’s self unspotted from the world ?’ *
If it guards the portals of home from
the intrusion of vice—if it throws a safe
guard around tnnocense when exposed to
the snares of the world—if it watches
with an Argos eye, the alters of domestic
bliss, ami kindles the fire when it grow*
dim through misfortune upon the hearth
stone—if it cools the feverish brow and
eases the care-b trdened heart—if it is,
as we are assured by good men who have
been initiated into its mysteries, ‘an or
ganization of principles drawn from the
highest sources of human reason, nnd
Divine revelation—principles in their
nature profoundly philosophical, and iu
their practical exhibition, and influence,
of untold value to the family of man,’
then surely Woman cannot be opposed
to an institution like this.
Muggins, Huggins and Huggins.—
The Indianapolis State Sentinel contains
the following marriage notice extrsordin
ary :
On the 19th inst. by Esq. Muggins,
Mr. Ilenry W. Bugging, of /iodianapo
iis, to Miss Julia D. Huggins, daughter
n! Judge Deuteronomy Huggins, of the
“Queen City Race Course.”
Thus is another of the Bachelor fra
ternity launched into the immaginary
world of domestic lelicity.
“Gone—like a meteor that o’er head,
Suddenly shines, and ere we've said :
Look ! look how beautiful—*iis fled!”
Oh! unfortunate Buggins!
“We tell thy doom without a sigh,
For thou art thy wife’s now and fame’s
One of the few, ih’ immortal names
That were not boru to die.’’
NO G.