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P. G. ARRINGTON,
ATTORNEY AT LA IV,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
Ojrimborpc, Macon County, Ga.
April 17, 1850. a—ly
DR. I. B. h.\ll
RESPECTFULLY lenders his profes
sional services m the of Ogte
thorpe and vicinity. His ofice is in Mrs,
Raws on’s house, on the corner of Chatham
and Macon streets, where lie may be found
at all times, unless absent on professional
business, Jan, 30, 1852, 41-if
MEDICAL CARD.
DR. William Ellis having permanently’
located in the city of Ogleihorpe, most
respectfully tenders his seivices to its Citi
zens and viciivly. With an experiece of more
ihan twenty-five years, togeiher with piompt
and diligent attention to the duties of his
profession, he hopes to merit and receive a
liberal share of patronage. He may be found
ai Snead Drug store or at his residence
on Baker street.
Oglethorpe Feb, 4t!i 1852. 42—if.
COOR & >IO^TFORT
OGLETHORPE, GA.,
VJUX practice in the Counties of Taylor Ifouston
” Mron, Dooly Sumter, Marion,’Talbot, amt Craw
s -Til. Oho of the firm always at the office.
Feb. 20, 1852. 44-ly.
¥¥ W r*. w c? vt sis
Jm Ift mh o h JSc o. *
a DAGUERREOTYPE L ikonesses ta-
MJc ken in the best style of art bv
B.J. LESTER.
Feb. 12 1852. d-ts..
wTh. TURPIN,
*l Manufacturer of, and
WHOLESALE AND DETAIL
Plain Tin and Japanned Ware,
Hollow, Wood, Hard-Ware, (look
ing nnd Parlor Stoves Ac.
T’in-Ware of every description, repaired,
On Sumter Street , Oglethorpe Ga.
February 20, 1852. 44-ly.
BRUSHES, nil kind lor sale bv
SNIJAD CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 ts
URGICAL and Dental Instruments
Gold Foil, Sir. For sale bv.
?NRAD & CHAPMAN.
Pel. 17 1851 27 ts.
RECEIVED to-day a large lot of
Cherry Pectoral, Cod Liver Oil, Dr
Chiislies Galvanic Rrmedis, Townsend’s
find Sand’s Sarsaparillas, “ Pepsin” tlie
Great Dyspepsia Remedy; and various other
Patent met!isins.
SNEAD 4 CHAPMAN,
Alov. 17th, 185 J 33—-ts.
CIGARS.
ItA SPANISH Ci
vV* v/DD gars tor sale by
7 R. 11. SIMS &, Cos.
Oglethorpe Feb. 4th, 1852, 42—ts.
Carriage Jii Making
and and
Buggy Repairing.
SHOP ON SUMTER SI.
- Near the Spinhaslcins Hotel ,
OGLETHORPE, GA.
THE New Firm of Wright, 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 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
ticles. ,•
WRIGHT WILLIAMS h Cos.
December, 26th, 1851, 37—if.
Job Work neatly ex
ecuted, and all kinds of
Blanks for sale at this
OFFICE.
®l|c ©corgimiv
THE NEW DRUG STORE.
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
If* h o l e s a l c and Retail
DRUGGISTS
(S UMP TER S TREE TANARUS.)
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 wjll
keep constantly on hand, e 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 Stud', Choice Spices
Essences, Patent Medicines, &c. &.c.,atid
a full assortment of whatever belongs to
he business.
fty* Having had six years Practica
Experience in the Drug Business, and
being determined to devote to it their
whole-attention, they hope to merit and
receive a liberal patronngp.
Every article jaut 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
M erchants 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 “ill not fail to give satisfaction.
SNEAD St CHAPMAN.
October 17, 1851- 27—ly.
WII/TE Lead. For sale by
SNEAD & CHAPMAN.
Oct. 17 1851. 27 ts
NOTICK. ~
m,fRS. S. A. JACKSON has just opened
Lfl and is still receiving a Fine and well
selected Stock of Silks, Bonnets, Ribbons,
Trimings for Dresses which she 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 J
TjiTHE subscriber respectfully anounces to
li the ciiis'-ns of Oglethorpe, and the sur
rounding Country, that he has commenced
the Tailoring business in this city, all work
entrusted to his care will he made in a style
not to he surpassed by those whose name
exceeds their talent.
Cutting and repairing done with neatness
and Dispatch,
WILLIAM WALSH.
March, 12th 1852. 47—3 m.
McDonald&TwWis,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERY MERCHANTS,
And dealers in Country Produce-
One door north of Lewis fy Price'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; 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, wiih 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. 49if.
FOR SALkTT
A ONE half interest in the Office of the
SOUTII-WEST GEORGIAN. For
particulars apply at this office.
March sth, 1852.
Car riage Depository.
Rockaways, and Family
Carriages.
THE Subscribers have on hand,
and w ill continue to Receive Reg
ular Supplies of eveiy Variety of Carriages,
at Macon Prices with the Freight added,
Our friends are requested to give us a tall
G. C. CARMICHAEL &. CO.
Oglethorpe April 2nd. 1852. 50—ly.
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JftjNE 11, 1852.
PAY HP AS YOU GO.
/f every man would adopt the cash sys
tem—pay for an article when lie bought
it—pay for a job when it was finished
—pay for a paper when he subscribed for
it,the community would all be better off for
it, The credit saytem, as a general thing,
is bad for all classes; particularly is it in
jurious to those who are engaged in me*’
chanical pursuits. We were talking with
one of this class the other day, who was
engaged on a piece of work. ‘l| ] could
get my pay for this job when it is com
pleted, he said, ‘I could do it ten per
cent., yes, fifteen per cent, cheaper than
what 1 shall charge for it. And for this
reason,’ he continued, ‘when my work is
done I shall have to wait for three or four
months for my pay. At the expiration
of that time 1 present my bill. My em
ployer, perhaps, does not find it conven
ient at that lime to pay the bill, and 1 am
requested to call again. After waiting a
reasonable time I call anew. /do not
find him it his place of business, ot he may
be short at the time, and 1 am again dis
appointed. And so it may be over and
over again, subjecting me to a great loss
of time w hich might have been profitably
employed. In the meantime, 1 am obliged
to obtain credit. 1 get trusted lor my
slock. 1 run up an arcYiunl with the gro
cer, the butcher, the shoemaker, Sic.,
paying an extra price for what I buy, for
there is no ntan who w ill not sell at some
discount for cash on the nail. When my
bills are paid, I can pay what ] owe; but
if my debtors disappoint me, my credi
tors have to suffer by the delay. If my
workmen were sure of gelling their pav
every {Saturday night, they would work
for considerable less per diem; but it is,
they have to get credit, or perhaps tiiey
take an ‘order,’ and you know that an or
der is vastly different front a good bunk
bill or silver dollar. The consequence
is, they have to pay an extra price. You
see how it works, there is an extra price
charged all round. There is an other e
vil attending this credit system. A man
opens an account. His credit is good, and
he finds lie has but to order an article and
lie gets it, Fie is determined to live eco
nomically, and within his means. But
when Itis bill is made out at the end of a
given time, l.e finds t|,nl lie has
insensibly run up a larger bill than he in
tended. The balance is carried forward
to anew account, perhaps, and lie does
not mind it much. But on the next set
tlement there is still a larger balance.—
Then come duns—then follow accounts
opened elsewhere—succeeded by other
balances and other dims, until the poor
fellow’ is liarrassed to death, and can hard
ly hold up his head, as a man should, in
walking the streets. Now all this vexa
tion might have been avoided, if he had
received his pay when it was due him.—
With the money in his pocket, he could
buy articles to suit him at a less price.—
He would look at his money twice before
lie let it go out of his bands; and he would
closely calculate to make it hold out un
til the end of the week, buying only what
lie absolutely needed, so that when pay
day came round, he would make both
ends meet—more likely have n lit
tle fund in store a rainy day.
‘ You have no idea of all the evils Jof
this abominable credit system,* said our
friend, who was quite earnest on the sub
ject, Here is u little job I am doing
now, worth perhaps fifty or seventy-five
cents. Instead ofgelling my pay for it
when it is finished, I shall probably be
told to charge it. Well, / charge it, and
disliking to dun a man for so small a sum
I let it run for some time, and then I have
to go for niy pay perhaps three or four
times, losing in lime twice as much as
what l charge for the work. The man
for w hom I ant doing this w ill probably
have Ins pocket full of change when he
calls lor it. Il l knew he would pay
when he took it, I should only ask him
fifty cents (or it, for it is all that the work
is honestly worth. But I know that he
w ill not, and I shall charge him seventy
five cents without any scruples, for the
exlra twenty five cents will not pay me
for the time and trouble 1 shall be at in
collecting it. These men seem to for
get that, to the mechanic, and all who
obtain their living by labor, time is liter
ally money. The merchant can lose an
hour or to without its affecting him ; but
lime is our capital, and we cannot afford
tr waste it. Every unemployed hour is
a dead loss to us. Very frequently men
coll on me to do a nine-penny job, for
whom, in all probability, I may not do
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS,
another cent’s worth of work during the
year, and yet I am requested to ‘charge
it,’ Well, I have ‘ charged ’ a thousand
such petty jobs in my life, w ithout a
thought of collecting them, sor 4 they were
not wot th the time it would take to go
after them. The whole system is a com
plete nuisance, and if I could only write
as 1 think, I should like to give a series
ofttHicles on the subject. How much
better now is the cash system. As soon
as a mechanic finishes his work his mo
ney is ready for hint, He pays bis men
and they pay their tailors, hatters, shoe
makers, grocers, Sic., Sic., for w hatever
they buy. If an article at one shop or
store does not suit them, they go loan
other. There is an end to long doubt
ful accounts —an end to living beyond
your means. Everything is done on the
square, And then, again, 1 tell yon
what it is, a man feels something like a
man who can walk the streets jingling a
spare dollar or so in his pocket, know
ing that he does not owe a cent in the
world. He can lake hold of a job with a
spirit and a will w hich he is a stranger to
w ho has to cut round corners and through
by-streets to avoid meeting a dun. A
man sleeps sounder nights, and wakes up
brighter and fresher for wotk in the morn
ing, when he is free front debt, and knows
lliat Ins labor will bring in the ready
cash.’ Something like this was the lan
guage employed by a mechanic the other
day in our hearing, and we thought it
would not be a bad idea to let our read
ers have the advantage of it.
Portland El^ctic.
A good take OFF.
The following capital hit at the late
mode of conducting Congressional de
bates, we clip from the ‘ Lantern.’ It
purports to be a prospective debate in
the House of Representatives, furnished
by a clairvoyant reporter, writing under
a Washington date of July S*h, 1852,
indicating a length of session not alto
gether to our mind, but still neither un
precedented nor improbable,
Mr, D, Facer (Dent. Kv.) brought
forward a motion for the suppression of
oral discussion. The honorable member
proposed as a substitute, that all questions
at issue should he settled with bowie
knife or pistol. He, as well as others,
were, up to the present period, in the
habit ol stickii g at nothing, and he, Mr.
Facer, thought that his proposal would
certainly obviate such a slate of things
by giving them something to stick at.
Mr. Baker (Dent. Va.) seconded the
motion, and also would be happy to sec®
ond any of the combatants in want of his
assistance. He believed that his qnalifi
cations in this respect wer well known
to that H morable House ; and if any
member was ignorant of litem, lie would
take the liberty of recapitulating. The
Honorable Member was here proceeding
to give the details of several sanguinary
‘difficulties,’ when lie was interrupted by.
lVir. Whittle (Whig, Tenn.) What
does the Hon. member mean by thrust
ing the details of his duels on die House ?
Good wine needs no praise. There was
no cull for the Honorable Member’s deeds
being trumpetet forth to the world, be
cause every body knows that murder will
out !’
Mr. Baker. —You are a thief and aliar.
[/Vo sensation whatever .l
Mr. Whittle.—The Hon. rascal has
called me a liar and a thief, and I believe
that the house will support me when I
term him a forger and assassin. [Less
sensation than before
Mr. Raker —Who lobbed the man on
hoard of the steamboat ? A li-lt!
Mr. ran away from
the Revre Hone without paying his
bill ? E-lt-h !
Air. Baker—(shaking his fists) Silver
spoons!
M . Whittle—l didn t insure my
lions for double Us value and then set
fire to it.
Mr. Baker—ls the Honorable Mem
ber isn’t a coward lie’ll have it out with
me now !’
Mr. Whittle (jumping on the table)
Come on, you raffion !
The Speaker—Fair play, gentlemen !
Recollect, il’you please, that, our pro
ceedings will be reported.
The Honorable Members then had a
set to, in which both displayed consider
able skill, and a great deal of animosity.
Bets ran high as to who would win, and
we understand that the Speaker specu
lated heavily. Alter five rounds, how
ever, Whittle gave in, and Barker was
home by his triumphant friends
W e believe that a meeting between the
gentlemen is arranged to come off to
morrow, I his incident agreeably re
lieved the monotony ol the week’s debates,
which were growing exceedingly tedious.
A Yankee Macbeth.
The Boston Carpet Bag relates the
following laughable anecdote, in which
Charlotte Cushman and a low comedian
named Adams, figured, together;
One night Charlotte Cushman was to
play Day Macbeth, and a ‘distinguished
comedian ’ was to come ‘ Mr. Macbeth.’
The flaming handbills were posted, and
great things promised. As the hour for
the performance to begin approached,
news came that Mr. Macbeth was at
tacked with the ‘ tremens.’ The Mana
ger stormed and fretted—Charlotte was
alarmed, and a complete failure seeired
inevitable. But a fellow named Adams,
who had done the Yankee for the estab
lishment, and who had a good memory,
and had read Macbeth, volunteered to
become the hero of Dunsinane. The
play commenced—Miss Cushman was
doing up the tragic in her best style—
Mr. Adams succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations, ol the manager,
until the benquet scene ‘came on board,’
” hen poor Adams was entirely at fault.
He recollected the sentiments, but the
wording of the poetry lie had entiielv
forgotten. He ought to have said ;
’Avaunt, and quit my Right! Let earth hide thee !
■* ‘*/ hone* are morrowJcs-'t—thy blood is cold !
I! urn hast no speculation jn .liose eyes,
Which ihou dost so glare with !”
Instead of this, the immortal Adams
burst forth in his richest style : ‘ Yeou
git eout! Go hideyersell! Yer hain't
got no tnarrer in yer bones—yer blood’s
colder’n thunder—yer hain’t got no
speculation in yer eye ! Yeou git out I’
The house, stage and all, yelled with
laughter, and alter it had in a manner
subsided, Charlotte advanced to the front
ol the stage, as the writer says, looking
as seur as pickled crab-apples, and in the
words of the hook :
Tfilnk of this good peers,
Rut a- a tiling of custom, ’tis no other—
Though It spoils tlie pleasure of a time.’
Mr. Adams felt that he had ‘ sold ’
himself, and ever after, when asked to
undertake tragedy, grins a ghastly smile,
and says, ‘ yeou git eout ?’
“Zausling Tlie S’curity.”
The Spirit of the Times tells the fol
lowing vety good anecdote of a negro
bargain, which illustrates, in a homely
way, a very common but reprehensible
practice among those more elevated in
the scale of civilization than ‘cullud pus
suns’ generally are:
Some few weeks ago, I strolled into a
friend’s counting-room. He being ab
sent, I commenced a chat with his Clerk
when ajgotul looking ‘ cullud pussuii’
entered ; doffed his castor, and—
* Mas’ Bob can you leu me a quarter
till this art’noon and J pay him sariain ?’
Alas Bob applied his dexter to his vesi
pocket, but it made ‘no sign.’ I turned.
‘ Well, Buck, you look tolerably hon
est but as I don’t know you, if you will
give me security, 7’ll lend you the qnar
ter.’
His eye brightened as lie asked—
‘ Alas’ Boh will you go my s’curity.'”
‘ Yes,’ replied Bob.
I forked over, Some time afterwards,
wending the same way, ns I was about to
enter the office, the identical Buck stood
before me.
•Buck, where’s my quarter? Y'ou
did'nt pay me ns you promised.’
1 No, salt ! but 1 gif you my securi
ty !’
‘ Well, but 1 want you to pay me —l
lent von the quarter.*
‘ Dal’s true, sail, but it am the custom
down here to zaust de s’curiiy fust.’
I left.
PLEASANT VARIETIES.
With what musical instrument would
you catch fish ? Castanet.
Wood is (he thing, after all, as the man
with n dead leg said when the mad dog
bit him.
The young lady w ho saw a baby with
out kissing it, has acknowledged that her
friends’s bonnet is handsomer than her
own !
The three balls usually prefixed to the
shops of pawn brokers are said to indicate
that it is two to one that the things pledg
ed ore ever redeemed.
| TEAMS: $2 in Advance.
/Ibernethy’s prescription for the cure
of the gout, was, ‘Live upon a shilling a
day, and earn it.’
An affectionate /rishnian once enlisted
in the 75th regimeut, iu order to be near
his brothel, who was corporal in ibt
76th.
Why are seeds, when town, like gate
posts? They are planted in the earth to
propagate (prop-a-gate.)
The Athenaeum, in a lively paragraph
directed to merciless correspondents, says,
—‘Tlti ik twice before you write once.’
Punch begs leave to amend even this ex
cellent counsel, and says, ‘Think twice,
and then don't w rite at all.’
A curious mistake lately occured in a
puffing periodical. It was its first num
ber, yet, in its “Notices to Correspon
dents,’’ appeared the following “The
letter of ‘a Constant reader, shall appear
in our next.’
An Irishwoman once called upon an a
pothecary w ith a sick infant, when the a
polhecary’gave her some powder,of which
lie ordered as much as would lie on a six
pence to be given every morning; *he wo
man teplied, ‘Perhaps your honor will
lend mu a sixpence the while, as I havn’i
got one at all.’
A poem in a soutlurn paper begins,
‘l’ve jived upon thy memocry.’ That is
about ss bad as Jerry Bryant’s boarding
lions teed, where they had nothing for
dinner, aud had it warmed over for sup
per, and what was left served up next
morning for breakfast.
Like (lie generality of kings and con
querors, Frederick tiie Great had a mos*
philosophic indifference to death— in oih“
ers. In one of his battles, a battalion o‘
veterans having taken to their heels, he
galloped after them, bawling out — ‘Why
do you run away, you old blackgaurds ?
Do you want to live for ever ?’
In one of the late astronomical ac“
counts, (he writer, warming with his sub
ject, says; ‘there is at present visible on
the sun’s dies a fine group of spots.’ We
hope we are not destitute of immagina
tion, but for life of us, we cannot imagine
‘a fine firoup of spots’ The astronomer
in question must have looked at the sun
with the eye of a Alacassar.
GEMS OF THOUGHT,
Wholesome sentiment is rain, which
makes the fields of life fresh and odor
ous.
Intellect is not the moral power; con
science is. Honor, not talent, makes the
gentleman,
That Stale of life is most happy where
in superfluities are not required, and ne
cessaries are not wanting.
Pride destroys all symmetary and grace*
and affectation is a more terrible enemy
to fine faces than the small-pox.
S If-love is at once the most delicate
and the most tenacious of our sentiments;
a mere nothing will wound it, but nothing
oil earth will kill it.
Yoti cannot fathom your mind. 7’liere
is a well of thought there which has no
bottom. The more you draw from it tlie
more clear and plentiful it will be.
Years are the sum of hours. Vain is it
at wide intervals to say, ‘l’ll save this
year,’if at each narrow interval you do
not say, ‘l’ll save this hour.’
Knowledge may slumber in the memo
ry, but it never dies; it is I<ke tlie dor
mouse iu tlie ivied tower, that sleeps while
winter lasts, but awakes with the warm
breath of spring.
Real fidelity may be rare, but it exists
—in the heart. They only deny its
worth and power who never loved a
friend, or never labored to make a friend
happy.
The triumphs of truth are the most
glorious, chiefly because they are the
most bloodless of all victorie-, deriving
their highest lustre from the number of
the saved, not of the slain.
It is useless to look forward to future
state of prosperity, if the present be no*
occupied towards laying the foundation
of it. Aluny cling to a distant hope, and
reject a progressive certainty.
Anger is the most impotent passion that
influences the mind of man; it effects
nothing it undertakes; mid hurts the ma
■ that is possessed by it, more thnn the o
ject against, which it is directed*
NO 8.