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Office up Stairs, over the Post-Office, j VOL. 2. sis® s It Published every Friday Morning, in the new Town of Oglethorpe, .IMacon County.tin., G. B. YOUNGBLQjDJIpEditor and Publisher. TCBMS-Si.Pcr l'ear iigvdßhAce, <( RATES OF ADVERjipiN^^^ One nsertion, and Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Advertisements not specified as to time* will be pub ished till ordered out and charged accordingly. 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.