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pffice up Stairs, over the Post-Office, j VOL. 2. I 9?3HIS|S3 SWIfI&=WISSRp QIS.TIQJCABj’ fs Published every Friday Morning , in the new Town of Oglethorpe, Jtlacon Counly,Ga„ t. B. YOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher. TEBMS- k $S Per Year in advance, RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of 12 lines or less) for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each insertion thereafter. A liberal deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. Advertisements nqt specified aa to time,.will be pub shed till ordered out and charged accordingly. 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.