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VOL. 2 .
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”~P. G, ARRINGTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
Slrlliorpc, Macon County, C:;
April 17, IHSU. 2 —ly
MJb. hall,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his profes
sional services to (lie citizens of Ogle
thorpe and vicinity, His oftce is in Mrs,
house, on the corner of Chatham
and JVlacon streets, tvhere he may be found
at all times, unless absent on professional
business, Jan, 30,1852, 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 dutitsof his
profession, lie hopes to merit and receive a
liberal share of patronage. lie may he found
at Snead Drug store or at his residence
on Baker street.
Oglethorpe Feh, 4th 1852. 42—if.
C OOK & AIOXTFOKT-
Aspspoiiaxraisrs at mi/ (
OGLETHORPE, GA.,
Tin Llj practice in the Counties of Taylor Houston
” Mcon, I> <ly Sumter, Marion, Talbot, and Craw
ford. One of the firm always at the office.
Feb. 20,1852. 44- ly.
w y rr y* ‘fit ‘¥% cs :c<i ys cn
JUI it Kd 11 Mootd & m
,J i?* AG UER R LOT YPE Likenesses ta
-IH’ ken in the best style of r( hv
B. J. LESTER.
Feh. 12 1852. d-ts..
wThTtukpiiv,
Manufacturer of and
WHOLE'SALE AND RETAIL
Plain Tin and Jiipannod Ware,
Hollow, Wood, Hard-Ware, €ook
img aiMt Parlor Stoves A c.
Tin-Ware of every descriptio'i, repaired.
On Sumter Street , Oglethorpe Ga.
February 20, 1852. 44-ly.
BRUSHES, all kind lor sale l>v
SNEAD k CIIAP.MAN.
Oct. 17 ISSI. 27 ts
URGIC AL and Dental Instruments
F3 Gold Foil, &,c. For sale hv.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851 27 if.
KECEIVED to-day a large lot of
Cherry Pectoral, Cod Liver Oil, Dr
Christies Galvanic Remedis, Townsend’s
and Sand’s Sarsaparillas, “ Pepsin” tlie
Great Dyspepsia Remedy; and various other
Patent medisins,
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Nov. 17th, 1851 33—ts.
CIGARS.
*O,OOO ZSSIf
1 R. n. SIMS & Cos.
Oglethorpe Feh. 4tli, 1852, 42—ts.
Carriage |\\ M ak in
and iL and
Buggy IfSp Repairing.
SHOP ON ‘ K ~” SUMTER ST.
Near Ihc Spinkaskins Hotel,
OGLETHORPE, GA.
THE New Firm of YVright, Wil
liams & 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 (lie patronage of our friends
and the public generally. Those wishing
* any thing in our line will do well to give us
a call, as wo intend not to be excelled in ar
tides,
WRIGHT WILLIAMS k Cos.
December, 2Gth, 1851, 37—ts.
NOTICE.
IfESSUS. NELSON & CUMMINU wonlfi inform the ,
1” public that persons hiring Hu rjies from their Stable
must ex|>ectto pay on the delivery of them,and person* 1
boardiiigborses with them must pay monthly, ’t heir ne
cessities require this course. All persons indebted to
them by note or account will plstce settle immediately.
April 24th, 183 L 3-ts I
TIIE NEW BID G STORE.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
IPfc o l e s a l e and Retail
DRUGGISTS
(SUMPTER STREET,)
Oglethorpe, Ga.
THE undejijig.'icd would respectfuly
ly inform their friends and ilie pub
lic, that they have just opened a DRUG
STORE in Oglethorpe, where they will
keep constantly on hand, p large and
fresh assortment of Drugs and Medicines,
Surgical and Denial Instruments, gold
Foil, Perfumery, Soaps and choice Toi
let articles, Also, Paints, Oils, Potash
Window Glass Dye Stuff, Choice Spices
Essences, Patent Medicines, See. fee., and
a full assortment of whatever belongs to
he business.’
Oy Having had six years Practical
Experience in the Drug Business, anti
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 feej 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—1 y.
WII/TE Lead. For sale by
SNEAD k. CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 ISSI. 27 ts
NOTICK.
MRS. S. A. JACKSON has just opened
and is still receiving a Fine and well
selected Stock of Silks, Bonnets, Ribbons,
Trimings for Dresses which she offets to
sell low for Cash,
N. B. Dresses and Bonnets made to or
der with neatness and dispatch.
Oglethorpe March 12th 1852. Bw.
TAILORING !
(UjpillE subscriber respectfully anounces to
IS the citizens of Oglethorpe, and the sur
rounding Country, that he has commenced
the Tailoring business in this city, all work
entrusted to Ills care will be made in a style
not to he surpassed by those whose name
exceeds their talent.
Cutting and repairing done with neatness
and Dispatch.
WILLIAM WALSII.
March, 12th 1852. 47—3 m.
s/WcDonald & Willis,
Wholesale and Retail
CROCERY MERCHANTS,
And dealers in founirj Produce-
One door north of Lewis 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 general assortment of
Family Groceries and Provisions; suclt as
Flour, Bacon, Lard, Butter Cheese, Sugar,
Coffee, Salt, Molasses and Syrup, Rice
Mackerel <fcr., together with such articles as
Pepper Spice, Race and Ground Ginger,
Saieratns, 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 ul
so inform their city friends that they expect
to keep a supply of Corn and Corn-meal, and
1’ lour 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. 49if.
FOR SALEH
A ON E half interest in the Office of the
j\ SOUTH-WEST GEORGIAN. For
particulars apply at this office.
March sth, 1852.
Carriage Repository.
BuSSJ’s, Hockawnys, nml Family
C:i rriages.
THE Subscribers “have on band,
and “ill continue to Receive Reg.
ular Supplies of every Variety of Carriages,
at Macon Prices with the Freight added,
Our friends are requested to give us a call
G. C. CARMICIIcEL & CO.
Oglethorpe April 2nd. 1852. 50—yl.
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FI IDAY, JUNE 4, 1552.
From the Georgia University Magazine.
’Tis Not Thy Form I Love.
’Tis not thy fairy form I love,
Or eyes’nealh peet less brows above:
I love thy spit it pure within.
And heart that knows not guile nor sin.
’Tis not thy damask cheek Llove,
Or coral lip , that templing move ;
1 love thy soul th’ immortal part,
Thy kind design and loving heart.
Time steals the roses from the cheek,
And silvery hair, old age bespeaK,
Tlie Parian brow, will wrinkled be,
And dim will grow thy bright blue e’e.
But not as other’s love is mine,
Capricious, and destroy'd by time,
Tli’ affection which I feel for thee,
As lasting as thy soul shall be.
’Twill live, while slill on earth we dwell,
Mime and age, ils strength shall swell,
And when we pass to rolms above,
Will live there an eternal love ! Q,
Aiilit liclty on Matrimony.
Now girls, said ,/lunt Hetty, put down
your embroidery and worsted work, do
something sensible, and slop building air
castles, and talking of lovers and honey
moons : it makes me sick, it’s perfectly
amitnontal. Love is a farce—matrimony
is a Immburg ; husbands ate domestic
Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders, siglung
for other hearts to conquer after they a-e
sure of yours. The honey moon'is as
short-lived as a bu ffer match ; after that
you may wear your wedding dress at the
wash tub, and your nigiit-cnp to meeting,
and husbands would'nt know it. You
nitty pick up your own pocket-liaiidker*
chief help yourself to a chair, and split
your gown across tlie hack reaching over
the table to get a piece of butter, while
litis laying in his breakfast as if it was
the last meal lie should eat in the world ;
when lie gets through lie will aid your
digestion (while you are sipping your
first cup of coffee,) by inquiring what
you’ll have for dinner, whether the cold
lamb was all eaten yesterday ; and I'FflTe
charcoal is all out. and what yon gave
for the last lea you bought. Then he
gets up from the table, lights his qignr
with the last evening’s paper that you
have not had a chance to read ; gives
two or three whiffs us smoke, sure to give
you a head-ache for the afternoon, and
just as his coat is vanishing through tlie
door, apologizes for not doing “ that er
rand” for you yesterday—thinks it doubt
ful if he can to-day—‘so pressed with
business.’ Hear of him at eleven o’clock
taking ice-cream with some ladies at
Vinton’s, while you are at home new
lining bis coat sleeves. Children by the
ears all day, can’t get out to lake tlie air,
feel as crazy as a flea in a drum ; hus
band comes home at night, nods a how
tly’e do, Fan,’ boxes Charlie’s ears,
stands little Fanny in the corner, puts
his feet up over the grate, shutting out all
tlie fire, while the baby’s little pug nose
grows blue with cold ; reads the news
paper all to himself, solaces bis inner man
with a lint cup often, and just as you are
laboring under the halleinution that lie
will ask you to take a mouthful of fresh
air with him he puts on Ids dressing gown
and slippers, ami begins to reckon up the
family expenses! after which he lies
down on tlie sofa, and you keep time
w ith your needle, while he snores till nine
o’clock.
Next morning ask him to leave you
‘ a little money,’ he looks at you as if to
be sure that you are in your right mind
draws a sigh long enough to inflate a pair
of bellows, and asks jou ‘ what do you
want w iih it, and if half a dollar wont do.’
Gracious King! as if those little shoes,
and stockings, and petticoats could be’
had for half a dollar! Oh girls! set
yoiir affections on cats, poodles, parrots
or lapdogs—but let matrimony alone.—
It’s tlie lieardest way on eatli of getting a
living—you never know when your
work is done op. Think of carrying
eight or nine children through the mea
sles, chicken pox, rash, mumps and scar
let fever, some of ’em twice over: it
makes my head ache to think of it. Oh
you may scrimp, and save, and twist and
turn, and dig and delve and economise,
AND DIE, and your husband will marry
again and take what you have saved to
dress liis second wife with, andjshe’il take’
your pntrait for a fireboard ; but what’s
the use of talking? I’ll warrant every
one of you’ll try it, the first chance
you get ; there’s a sort of bewitchment
about it somehow. 1 w isli onc'half of
the world warn’l fools and t’other half id- j
iots, I do. Oh dear!— Olive Branch.
OUR COUNTRY'S HOOD IS OURS.
Jmk
• f EASANT VARIETIES-
A V In financier lately procured a pic
ture of i favorite fowl, which was so na-
Ujfall H it laid on iiis table for several
weeks.
Is tl King of Japan a colored gentle*
man ? istmctly; who lias not seen bis es
entche i iri the store windows, anti hi*
title:- Warrenled Japan black-king.’
A Washington paper says:—An iu
dustrio* friend lately returned from a two
year’s rkidence in California, lias made
twenty t ousand dollars—in experience,
and bit ight home with him sixty-two
cents!’
The ti an who don’t take a paper wants
to know f Gen. Scott wasn’t killed at the
battle of Waterloo.
The entriloqiiist on the Dock.
Quite an exciting scene, says a recent
number f the Cleveland Herald, occured
at one o our wharves, yesterday.
Tlie uids on one ofour steamers were
engage:] in rolling off a cask, when to
the consignation and surprise of the per’
sons eng iged in performing, that opera
tion, a oice was heard within the cask.
‘Roll t easy, these darned nails hurt.
I’d ralhtr pay my passage than stand all
• his.
Holdiig up their hands, their visuals
expand ng to the size of two saucers, tlie
two laboers exclaimed—
‘Tha*. Jeats llie d—l.’
The dale coming up at this moment,
and uniiareof the cause of delay, com
menced fursing them for their dilatori
ness, wlfn from within (lie cask tlie voice
agaiy nine forth—
‘Willhobody let me out of this cask ?
‘Wlut’s llmt ?’ said the mate.
‘Why, jfs me!’ said the voice, ‘I
want to get out —I won’t stand it any
longer!’
•Up end dial cask, said die mate.
‘Oil don’t—you’ll kill me!’said tlie
voire. /These darned nails..prick me.—
Look oil !—don’t again said tlie casket!
tip individual, as the men were turning it
over.
‘Cooer,’ said the mate, ‘unliead dial
cask aril take out that man.’
As t ie adze sundered the hoops, and
the heal was coming out the voice again
broke tilth—
‘l3e asy, now ! is there any one about?
/don’t wan’to be caught!’
Qui ; a crowd bad now gathered round
the sceie of action, when, to the titter as
tonisht ent of the bystanders, a loud, gut
teral hugli broke forth, which made our
hair staid on end, and the cask was found
filled \ itli bacon.
‘AVI it docs it mean ? ’ said one.
*/t leats ir.y time,’ said die mate.
We enjoyed tlie joke 100 well to ‘blow,’
as we w dked off arm in arm with the‘Fa
kir of I va,’ the Ventriloquist and magi
cian.
A Good One.
Som time since the Meiliodift Episco
pal ministers of New York met in Uon
veiitioi, and denounced the fugitive slave
law as being opposed to the scriptures.
This irou-ed a member of one of the
churelies, who answered this ministerial
document with pungency, and closed his
comimjnication with an extract from one
of the church expositions for the use of
Sabbath School-, as follows :
Who was Philemon ?
lie was a minister, a fellow-laborer
with St. Paul.
Who was Onesimns!
A slave of Philemon, who having rob
bed liis master, ran away from him.
What bee,imp ofOuesimus?
St. Paul found him, and after being in
strumental in liis conversation, sent him
back to his master, not feeling it lawful to
detain him.
The writer challenged these ministers
to draw any other than the following con
clusions from this passage of a book
which they taught in their Sabbath
Schools:
1. That Philemon was a minister.
2. That lie was a slaveholder.
3. Thai his slave ran away from him.
4. That St. Paul, another .minister,
found him, and returned him to liis mas
ter.
The effect produced by this communi
cation was electric. People began to
examine for themselves, and the reaction
commenced, the aides theologians in the
city taking the lead; and the result is that
now the fugitive slave law is executed in
that city as any oilier law on the stat
ute book.
Singular l'ai nuiogical Phenomena.
A case presenting features of a most
strangely interesting character, now
forms a subject of intense speculation a
mong those ofour city who are skilled in
elucidating the mysteries of psychological
and pathological phenomena.
It appears that a female about eighteen
years of age, who occupies the position
of house servant in a respectable family
on street, (by request we omit tlie
name of die street and number,) while
engaged in the performance of her duties
about two weeks ago, was, on a sudden
attack with a violent bead-ache. She
was immediately put into a bed, when her
eyes became strangely glassy and were
w holly incapable of performing their nor
mal functions. Bright objects and lights
were passed before her eyes, but tlie optic
nerves appeared to have lost their cun
ning, no indication of an impression on
the retina being perceptible. After a
while tlie mind of the patient became
dreamy and wandering, and she spoke as
if in converse with her ordinary associates.
Eventually her eyes closed, and with
their close the ‘ mind’s creative eye’ a
wakened to die possession ol more than
its accustomed powers. The dreaminess
was gone, and though the eyelids remain
ed closed, the sense of sigh returned with ‘
a keenness wholly incompatible with all
otir commonly received notions of the
laws of vision. Not only could she sec
every tiling in the room, and sew’ the
finest cambric with her eyes closed, but
with a clairvoyance unparalleled, she
could extend her vision through some
super-etherinl medium into the great
Beyond, and correctly describe facts and
events transpiring squares and even miles
away. After remaining in this condition
for several hours, the young woman re
turned, by an easy transition, into her
normal state ; but almost every day since,
she has passed, as on the first occasion,
into the clairvoyant condition, during the
continuance ofvvhieli she lias bten a psy
mslogical marvel to all observers.
In (his case we w ould give names and
particulars, but for the extreme desire of
the young woman and iier fiends that
she should not become an object of public
ciiriositv.— N. O. True Delta.
AFAB L E .
In these days of strife and dissension,
of disunion and upbraiding, tiie follow
ing fable is particularly pointed. It is from
the Madison Recorder, and compares
w itli (lie best in iEsop :
The Pin and the Needle.— A pin and
a needle, says the American Fountain,
being neighbors in a work-basket, and
both being idle began to quarrel, as idle
folks are apt to do.
‘1 should like to know,’ said the pin,
‘what yon are good for, and how you ex
pect to gel along through die world w idi
om any bead.’
‘What is the use of your bend,’ replied
the needle, rather sharply. ‘lf you have
no eve ?’
‘Wlint's the use of an eye,” said (lie
pin, ‘if there is always something in it ?’
‘I am more active, and can go il.rough
more work than \ou can,’ s.dd tlie nee
dle.
‘Yes, but you will not live long.’
‘Why not?’ said the needle.
‘Because you have always a stitch in
your side, and you are so proud you can’t
bend without breaking your back.’’
‘l’ll pull your head off, if you insult
me again.’
‘l’ll gouge your eye out if von touch
me; remember, your life hangs on a sin
gle thread,’ said the pin.
While they were thus conversing, n lit
tle girl entered, and undertaking to sew
she broke off the needle at the eye. Then
she ti<'d die thread by the neck ol the pin,
and attempting to sew with it, she soon
pulled the head off, and threw it in the
dirt by the side of the needle.
‘Well, here we are,’ said the needle.
‘We have nothing to fight about now,’
said the pin.
‘lt seems misfortune lias brought us to
our senses.’
‘A pity we had not cotne to them soon
er,’ said the pin.
“How much we resemble human be
ings w ho quarrel about their blessings till
they lose them, and never find out they
are brothers till they lie down in the dust
together, as iv* do.’
O'?” Daniel Tucker, who has bttn so
often warned and begged to get out ol the
way, got run over by n train of cars in
Arkansas, a short time since.
| fEUMS: $2 in Advance.
Cool Impudence.
Yesterday afternoon a rather genteel
looking young man w alked into the bar
ol tlie \\ oodruff House, and called for
\\ hiskey toddy. He was served, and af*
ter lie had drank the toddy, lie obtained
a cigar, and sat by the fire and leisurly
puffed it away, lie then called for an
other toddy, and having placed it be
neath his vest, he calmly buttoned bis
coat, pulled on bis gloves and turning to
the bar-keeper said ;
‘ I’m ready.’
You are ready, are you ? replied the
bar-keeper. * Well sir, your bill is twen
ty five cents.’
‘ I was aware of that fact replied the
patron ; folding liis arms and turning his
luce towards the door, anil now I’m
ready.
‘ Ready for what ?
To be kicked out. Haint a darned
ceiit-eould’nt do without liquor— been
served like a gent! aint ashamed of
my poverty— lake your pay, sir— kick me
out ?
The bar-keeper finding the chap was
in earnest obliged him with serveral ap
plications of bis boot toe, lustily admin
istered. Tiie didier bore it in good part
and after lie had been kicked into the
street, turned round and made a polite
bow to the)bar-keeper, and then appa*
ently in a merry mood started down the
street. —C in paper.
A Case Os Conscience.
In a certain ‘Ladies Moral Reform So
ciety,’ existing not many miles from the
hanks of a certain river, the members were
required to sign a pledge not to ‘set up,’
as it is termed, or do any thing else (hat
might be supposed to have a tendency,
however remote, to immorality. One
evening, as the President was calling over
names, to know whether each member
had kept her ob igalion, a beautiful and
highly respectable young lady burst into
tears, and on being questioned as to the
cause, said she feared she had broken her
pledge.
‘Why, what have you done?’ asked
the President.
‘Oil!’ sobbed the joung lady, ‘Dr.
vvuiled on me home from meeting.’
‘Oh, well, tli at is nothing very bad,’
said the President; ‘his kissing does not
make it that you have broken the
pledge.’
‘Ob. that isn’t the wort of it,’exclaim
ed the conscientious young laliv, “1 kiss
ed him hack (lirain-’
O
Webster and Harris >n Cray Otis.—
Mr. Webster was speaking, on one occa
sion, some years since, in Fanueil Hall.
If we remember right, be was arguing ill
favor ofthe “Mai sville road’ bill. Mr.
Otis snt near him, on the platform.
-Mr. Webster proceeded as follows .•
‘1 mn in I.tvor,- Mr. Chairman, of
all roads, except —except
Here he stuck, and could not think of
any exception. Air. Otis saw bis difficu
lt , and said to him, in a low voice—
‘ Say, except the road to ruin !
Mr. Webster heard it, and, as if he
bad merely stopped for the purpose of
making his rrinmk more effective, re
peated the whole, as follows:
‘ 1 repeat it, Mr. Chairman, I am in
favor of all roads except the— road to
ruin.’
The wit in Otis, in this instance, was
well met by the presence of mind in
Webster.
Tom presented bis bill to bis neighbor
Joe for service rendered. The latter
locked it over and cxpicsscd much sur
prise at the amount. •
‘Why Tom, strikes me you have made
out a pretty round hill, he?’
‘J’m sensible its a round one,’ quoth
Tom, ‘and I have come for the purpose of
getting it squared.'’
An old writer said tlint w hen can
itens were introduced as negotiators, the
canons of the church were useless.*; —that
the world was governed first by myrlrum
and then by nyrlruni —first by St. Peter,
and then by Salt Pet re.
An apothecary’s hoy was lately sent to
leave tit one house a box of pills, and at
another six live sow ls. C infused on the
waj ,he left the pills w here the fowls should
bate gone, and the fowls at the
.pills place. The folks that received the
fowls were astonished at rending the nc
entnpanjiug directions—‘Swallow one
every two hours.’
NO 7.