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Office up Stairs, over the Post-Office. £ VOL. 2. spurn Musis’ ©ia©ia.©3^.ss- Is Published every Friday Morning, in the new Town of Oglethorpe, Macon Comity,tia., C. B. TOUNGBLOOD, Editor and Publisher. TfRKIS—S2 Per Year in advance, RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollarpersquare (of 12 lines or less) for the first nsertion, ami 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 shed till ordered out and charged accordingly. s#- Notice 1 jm,-: PERSONS wanting Brick work done are hereby informed that the under* signed are prep9red to execute all work in their line as cheap or cheaper than any other company can do it. For further particulars apply to JAMES LANDERS &CO. Oglethorpe, April 30, 1852. “ 2 3m OGLETHORPE Candy Manufactory. AND CONFECTIONERY. WARREN JACKSON, Has the pleasure of announcing to the public that he has opened in the Citv of OGLETHORPE, on SUMTER St next door South of the Brick Store of R. H ,Sims & Cos., a large and extensive lot of CONFECTIONERIES, Such as Candies, Cakes, Syrups, Presei ;s, Jellies, Jams, Pickles, Almonds, Rais,ns, Currants, Brazil and Haul Nuts, .English Walnuts, Apples, Oranges, Cocoa Nuts. Bananas, Plaintains, Dried Figs, Prunes, Ci gars Tobacco, Cheese, Crackers, Cordials.” Wines, for medical purposes, together with OYSTERS, pickled and fresh, and FISH in their season, and all other articles in the Con., fectionery line. They will also MANUFACTURE, in the most superior style, and of the best materi ials, all sorts of CANDIES CANDY ORNAMENTS, &c., and will neatly Emboss and Ornament Cakes, for Balls, Parties, and Weddings, at short notice, and on as reasonable terms as any establishment in Georgia. As they intend doing business strictly on the Cash Principle, all Xmlers for any ot the above articles must be accompanied with the CASH, to in'si re attention. In connection with their CONFECTION ERY they intend keeping a regular and genteel, E VTING-HOUSE, and they will be happy at all tiines\to serve up to their friends, amf.the public generally, HAM AND EGGS, OYSTERS FISH, (intheir season,) GAME, HOT COFFEE &c. By strict attention to business, and a desire to please, they- hope to receive, as they will endeaVor to merit, a liberal share of public patronage, Oct. 31,1851, 29^=U TO THE PUBLIC. is prepared to execute in the most workmanlike manner, all work in his line, sHich as koijse building, (Jin Gearing, Screw building, MHI writing &c, on as reasonable terms as any other work man in South West Georgia. AH letters ad dressed to him in Oglethorpe Ga, will re ceive prompt attention. ALEXANDER SMITH Oglethorpe; May 14, 1852 4——ts TmWgROOERT STORE. _ THOMPSON Si F£H£. ©© Respectfully inform theirfriends and the public generally, that they keep constantly on hand a full assortment of Family Groceries, such as Flour, Bacon, Lard, Butter, Cheese, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, Syrup, Rice, Mackerel, Corn Meal, &c., together with every variety of Spices, Fruits, Nuls, &c. Also, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, and many other articles 100 tedious to mention —all of which they will sell as low as any other establishment in the city. Call and try them—store on Cuyler street. May 7,1852. 3 ly S.&D. MILLER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, HAVE removed from Lanier, and will Practice in the Superior Courts of the Counties of Macon, Sumter, Marion, Dooly, Houston, Crawford, Bibb and Twiggs, and in the Supreme Court at the ?ity of Macon. STEPHEN F. MILLER, DANIEL W. MILLER. January 16, 1852. 39-ts. ‘BACON, CORN <Tm&AL!4 A LARGE and superior lot.Tennes im. see Bacon, Corn and Meal in Store, and for sale by McDonald &, willis. Oglethorpe, June 15, 1852. 9—ts gig 00ttfl|4tte$ #corgk!t Dry Goods & Grocery Store. (On the comer of Sumter Cuyler Sts.) JA ¥I ODGES, would res • peclfully inform his former patrons and the public generally, that he now occupies the Store House formerly occupied by Dawson, on the corner of Sump ter and Cuyler streets, where he will keep a large and well selected stock of Fancy and Staple Dry-Goods, Hardware, Crockery, Sadlery, Boots, Shoes &c. He will also keep constantly on hand a large lot of GROCERIES OF EVERT DESCRIPTION. The public are respectfully requested to-call and examine for themselves. Oglethorpe, Juno 4, 1852. 7—if GEORGIA 1 George W. Taunton Macon Countv. sos the 741st District G. M. of said State, loirs lufnr me, Haivey Rodgers a justice of the peace in said Dis trict, one estray hay Horse Mule seven or eight years old with some black marks a-, round his logs, live feet high; appraised by William McDowell and Harvey Taunton at one hundred and twenty dollars. This No vember 21st 1851. .-HARVEY RODGERS, J. P. A true extract from the estray book—this 17th February 1852: ’ W. J. COLLINS, C, T. C. Feb. 27tlt, 1852. Jfe Valuable Property For Sale. ;'T; THE Unde'rsigheJ subscriber desires to sell on accomodating terms, Lots of Land, No. 32 33 64 65 66 98 91) 126 127 128 129 130 132 158 and 159 in the-tenth district, jjflso No. 23 4 23 28 29 30 32 82 97 in the'four teenth district; No. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35- 36 in the fifteenth district < f Dooly County. Some of the above lands have-val uable Improvements on them anti can be pur chased either in single or collective lots to suit the purchaser. Also one tract of valuable Tobacco land containing 720 acres in'tlig. county, of Gads den Florida, 8 miles N. E. of Quincy on Little River. Persons wishing any informa tion respecting the lands in Dooly county will please call and see the Proprietor of the Pavilion House ip the'-City of Oglethorpe or at Cedar Hill, or Slade’s Mills, in the coun tv of Dooly,, Any person wishing informa tion respecting file tract of land in Florida will please cafi and.see Mr. Daniel M. Hin son Gadsden Cos., Florida or the propfiotor of the Pavilion House in this place. wm. slade;, Oglethorpe April 20th 1852. - I—ly. To Wagoners and Stockdrivers. THE undersigned would take this meth od of informing Stock Drovers and Waggoners, that he has fitted up an extoq sive ar.d WAGGON YARD, at tlie fork of the road leading from Oglethorpe to Traveler’s Rest and Americas, within the corporate limits of the city of Oglethorpe, where lie is prepared to accom modate all those who patronize him, on lib eral terms. W. B. JONES. April 30, 1852. 2 3m BLACKSMITH ING. Peter CJ roffli an, (Late of Macon Gy.) HpAKES this method of in(brining hit friends and the A public generally that he is carrying on the Black smithing business in all its branches in the Ciiy of Ogle ttmrpe, where be hopes by strict hJtentiori to business <to receive and merit g, liberal share of patronage. Par ticular attention will ne given to making or repairing Plantation tools. All work done by himr will be war ranted. v. ftgp Shop next door to Messrs*. HimnicuTt & Little’s Carriage -S’hop, on Chatham Street. Oglethorpe, April'23d, 1852. - I—3m-, PAVILION HOUSE. OGLETHORPE GA. Oposite the Depot By Wm. Slade. Proprieior will be pleased at all Jk times to have a liberal share of patron age and will try at all times to make his pat rons As comfortable as lie can possibly do by the close at’ention of himself and servants to their Welfare during their slay with him. WM. SLADE: Oglethorpe Gal April 23 1852'. I—ly. Sash, Blinds, Pannel Boors <J*c. made to order, BY WM. ROBINSON & SON. Shop on William Street, West Oglethorpe. Feb. 20,1852. 44-al2o. Georgia—Macon Comity. TWO Momhs after dale application will be made to the ordinary of said Comity the leave to sell Lot of land Number 143 in the Third district secon I section of originally Muscogee now .Marion county, also Lot on land number 275 in the seventh district Third section Cherokee. Belonging to the estate of Addison C. Scott, late of Macon County eceased. E. W. ALLEN ExV, Oglethorpe Arpil 23J 1852. I—2m OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 1852. From the Masonic Journal. Prudence, No. VI. BY MISS C. W. BARBER. Prudence protects and guides us : wit betrays : A splendid source of ills, ten thousand wuys.—Young. Mat Brooks was as wild a school girl, as ever was born. One flay in summer she came dancing into my room, with her hair half down, and her blue eyes sparkling in glee. ‘ I’m going to do it,’ she cried sink ing breathlessly down by rnv table. — ‘ I’m bound to do it, and such fun as I will have.’ ‘ What new mischief, Mat ?’ I said, composedly taking up my pen4;ilife and sharpening my pen : ‘ what is brewing now?’ Have you stuck the President’s chair full of burrs, or put <1 mouse into Miss Larajiee’s desk, or ‘raised Cain’ generally np at the schftol room, over turning desks and tables, and filling the water bucket full of sand? Some wild exploit I’ll warrant. Re exploit, ami explain matters quickly, for I’m in a hur ry-.’ • No, I haven’t done a thing yet,’ she -aid 1 bit I’m going to. Yet lie- Facul ty needn't lit- apprehensive : l'e torment ed them enough lately. I’m on anew track alt igetlier ; am bound to do some thing this time, that will make my name ‘One of the fexv—the imortal ones Not hoiu to die.’ I’ve been studying about it for a week.’ ‘ Avery long lime,’ I said, ‘ for you to study about any thing, but a very brief period in which to concoct a plan for immortality. Doubtless many aspi rants after fame and glory who entertain the vulgar idea, that years of thought are requisite for the accomplishment of mas* ter-pieees worthy of any renown, will be gratified to-liear Os this cross-c'ut to im mortality. Please proceed.’ ‘ Oil ly !’ she cried, starting up as if, already tired of her posture, ‘ can’t you guess what I’m going to do ? Jt seems to me that any body with any wit could* guess.’ ‘ I must acknowledge then,, that 1 hav en't any wit. ‘ Well,’ she continued, ‘ you know Joe Denlmm—he hoards at aunt Louisa’s’ I nodded, for I had an indistinct recol lection of a young man to whom 1 had been introduced in Mrs. Griffin’s par lors a few evenings before,, as Mr. Den-’ ham. He was a tall, dark, pleasant looking youth,, with a mass of curly hair hanging over bv no means tin unintelh c tual brotv. 1 had heard that he was very studious young lawyer. Mat Brooks had moreover chatted to me a thous and times, / verily believe, about Joe Denham. He filled a large space in her mind's, eye, and her question must have seemed to herself a superfluous one. The only wonder . must have been, to her, ilmt ®very body in the wide world, didn’t know such a smart, handsome chap as Jot’ Denham. Many a joke had she played off upon him—jokes for which she ackitow bulged she always sooner or later got richly paid. ‘.Well, J%e and-I have been sworn enemies, you know, gyer since Christ inas,’ she eantiqued. ‘ / don’t know any such thing,’ I said. ‘ / pray, now has that happened ? ‘ Well, I can’t stop to tell you,’ she said, ‘ but it was a real blow up, and a bool a pbilopeiia. But we’ve made np and shuck hands, as aunt Molly says, over the difficulty.’ ‘To he sure,’ I said, ‘it is not sup posable that two such w arm friends would remain enemies lor life.’ Mat looked at tr.e quizzically for a moment, and then dropped her blue eye. The corners of her month were drawn j back, until it seemed to me, that the dim ples went through both cheeks, and met, may-he, in the mouth, and a crimson flush stole to the roots of her hair. Site stood for an instant, and curled the cor ners ol her handerchief between the thumb ami fore-finger of her left hand. > We’ve made up at last,’ she contin ued, without appearing to heed , my last remark, ‘ and Joe’s going to join through nty influence, the Freemasons.’ ‘ The Freemasons !’ I repeated in as tonishment. ‘ Pfy what do you care whether he joins the Freemasons or not? I see no fun in that.’ ’ ‘ Don’t you ?’ she cried, her blue eyes twinkling with merriment. ‘ Don’t you OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS. see what I’m after ? I mean to do that w hich women can’t do, or at any rate nev er have done— find out the secret, and Joe’s got to tell it to me.’ * li he will,’ I added. ‘ O ! 1 know that I can wheedle him out of it in some way,’ she said in a self confident tone. ‘ I’ll coax, I’ll flatter, I’ll say.jilj manner words when I find iT oi!n mean to the world—write a pamphlet and explain the whole mystery, and by so doing make myself famous and immortal.* ‘ Avery Delilah !’ I exclaimed, * hut I defy you to do it. The idea is chim erical. Why should Joe Denham (ell you, what husbands will not tell their wives ?’ ‘ The women don’t know how to man age the men; that’s the reason they can’t find it out. If I had a husband, 1 could contrive some way to make him tell me, I know,’ said Mat, and she drew herself up w ith the air of a queen. I laughed. ‘ You forget,’ I said, Prudence is one of the cardinal virtues of Masonry. When Joe Denham reveals to you a masonic secret, I will take a trip to the moon in an air-balloon. How do you propose to make him do it? You say you have been studying on it for a week. You certainly must have some definite plan.’ The dimples again sunk into her cheeks—the blush overspread her face. ‘O! I know,’ I continued, ‘you ex pect to marry him, and make him confess afterwards.’ ‘ No,’ said she, ‘ that is no plain at all. Joe Denham loves me. I know he does—eross and crabbed as he has been seeming since Christmas. He loves me, and wilj ask me to marry him by and by, when I’m through college. But l won’t—l declare / won’t, if his heart breaks square in two, until he tells me that secret, i will tell him, —no se cret—no wife !’ ‘He will go and marry somebody else.’ ‘We shall see,’ said she, tossing back her hair, and relying her'hltck silk ap ron. ‘ That secret I’m bound to have, and Joe Denham, before three years have parsed away,shall tell it to me. ftemein -ber mv words,’ and out she danced as quick'y as she had danced into my room. For ujontbs after this conversation, Mat Hcooks, I verily believe was en grossed with this one idea, and perhaps expectation. Whether she really expect ed to accomplish it, I cannot tell, but she always spoke as if site did. 1 frequently saw her ami Mr. Denham together, and from Ins appearance, I judged that if lie ever,told the Masonic secret to anybody, very likely it would be to her. Aaitum succeeded summer w inter came with its'frosty bieaji. and then smiling spring refufired again, with her buds and flowers. v I lay on the lounge towards sunset one dav, with a book in my hand. 1 was musing upon tli,e subject of indirect in fluenres. ‘No mortal,’ I said to myself mentally* ‘ knows the extent of these in fluences. LiVe w here or how’we may, we must somewhere touch threads in the web-work of humanity. Each individual is a sun, from which there radiates, in ev ery direction, influences unknown, often times, eveq to themselves. It is a fear ful thing 1 to'live, because we cannot live to or lor ourselves. If we,sink, we must drag others down with us.’ 1 was interrupted by the entrance of someone. I looked up, and Mat Brooks stood beside me. ‘ /is just as /J told you,’ she_ said, ‘ months ago.’ What is just as von told me Mat ?’ ‘ Wiiy, Joe Denham loves me, amJ has told me so.’ ‘ And you replied,—no secret —no wife !’ I said laughing. ‘ That was to'be your response I believe.’ ‘ 1 did, and it accomplished what I meant it should. He promised looted me the secret to-morrow, and then I promis ed to many him.’ ‘ Indeed !’ said I, still laughing at the ridiculous idea of such a wise compro mise, ‘ but l suppose that lie lias laid you under the restrictions imposed upon all secret tellers—you are not to tell any body. Isn’t it so?’ ‘ No, he says I may tell the world if I want to —yea more, publish my pamph let. Will you help me write it ?’ ,r . out we will wail ‘ Perhaps so, I andseewhm this mighty secretes, lie will tell you to-morrow you sa). Yes, we are going to walk, and w hile we are out, he has promised to tell me all about it.’ 1 acknowledged that I waited for Mat, the next evening, with some degree of impatience. 1 wanted to see how Den ham would get out of his promise—satis fy her, and still be true to Prudence and Truth. 1 did not wait long. She came ’in before sunset, and throwing herself down in the rocking chair, commenced with a nervous twich, untying her bon net strings. Her face was flushed, as if by a long and fast walk. I untied her bonnet, and took her shawl from her hand. * You come back wiser than you went, I suppose,’said /coming towards her again and sitting.down on a cricket at her (get, • What is the long talked of secret Mat ? Now for a revelation of it to the world !’ She laid her hand softly upon my aim and looked with her blue eye into my face. There was a softened expression in if, preceded, if I nfislake not, by tears. * I have found out the secret,’ she said, ‘ and O ! what a secret it is- It is to do good with the lejt hand without letting the right one know it. I have been to day where l have seen the wretched re lieved—where I have found the orphan supported and educated —educated to lie an honor’ member of the most respectable portion of humanity. The secret of Ma sonry consists in living together, as Christ and God like to have men li ye—in one vast Brotherhood, where Peace and Love prevail; where the strong instead of tramp ling upon the weak, reach forth a sup porting hand—where might is not al ways recognized as right. Is not this a glorious secret. Will you write my pamphlet and publish it to the world ?’ I promised to aid her, and the great Public most accept of this meagre sketch as the fulfilment in part of that promise.— /n spite of the locked doors, and darken ed windows, and close mouths of those mystical creatures, called Masons, yon and 1 have, gentle reader, partly through die instrumentality ol Mat Brooks, found out (lie secret, Prudence is a gieat thing but (he Masons are not prudent enough, to fool the world. Their good deeds w ill creep to the light— the .prying, inquisitive right ha.nd, will find out what the left one has been about. They had heller look to this matter in their Lodges. A Boy Worth Claiming. Happening to he in the Michigan Central Railroad office a few days since, our attention was directed to an elderly lady and her daughter, a buxom lass, fresh from the Green Isle, both neatly and tolerably clad, each with her little world, a small bundle tied in a cotton hand kerchief, relating to our ftiend “Pliin,” the good natured and whole-souled Re ceiver, titeir simple story. It at first ooclied him not, but a second glance have them his care, and we learned the tale of their travels. A son with a heart as big as his body, settled in Michigan, and thriving in busi ness had, by the sweat of his brow, ac cumulated funds sufficient to send for four of bis relatives, and now right more of them were on their way to meet him with funds sent by him. The old lady had been left without a dime in Canada, hut found a Cristi an friend who had eared for her little dm k, who gave her three dol lars for herself and daughter to continue her journey. To hear her recital of w rongs inflicted, and trials endured by hard-hearted landlords “at home.” would stir the blood of the humane. With what earnestness the faithful son, in the letter including his last dime to his mother, writes, the extract we took from it will suffice. “7 do not expect to have you long in that country. Come to the free land of America —the home of the brave. Where Jack is ns good as his master —where tyranny is banished—where the petticoat government of the English bigotry can not extend. Here John Bull will be no longer the “Boss”—this is the land where freedom smiles with a cheerful opuntenance —where every man has eo 1 ’ crivileges if he behaves himself ’.*-’ t As H. read the letter. ** good woman, you •mo old lady. Tliore were pleasant “ , ° r< | “ ij* er eyes, anil as the big *e arß AHurn for the rest nf her i J ie i’^ i pny , il *'■ } h " Uv( \ ,sch instances w e were assured occu.cd daily, hut simple as it appearet. turned to our sanctum to make a note ol J it. — Buffalo Conner. | TERMS: $2 in Advance. Aii Eloquent Eiilogiimi. Anson Burlingame delivered an ora tion at New London on (lie s(h inst., which is spoken ot in the highest terms. In it he made the following beautiful al lusion to Calhoun, Clay, and Webster : Mr. Webster is the only survivi r of that illustrious trio of statesmen, “Whoshook the nations through their lips, and blaz’d Till vanquished Senates trembled as they praised.” One sleeps this beautiful day in the sweet shade of the Magnolia’s blossom, his great heart is still, and quenched is the light of his glorious eye forever. An other and fit companion of the great South Carolinian fell hut yesterday on the field of his fame, and now, cold and dead, is borne oil his bier through a weeping nation back to the generous soil of old Kentucky, there to sleep the sleep that knows no waking. The orator, the chiv alric gentleman and noble friend, is be yond the reach of malice or of praise ; never again shall he arouse us with his bugle blasts, or melt us into tenderness by the touching melody of his voice. And he, of the imperial intellect. “With due Athenian’s glowing stvle and Tally’s fire,” wanders companionless and alone, by the deep sea he loves so well, gazing with his great eyes, into that “undiscovered coun try, from whose borne no traveller re turns.” Oh ! long may he live—and may the refreshing breezes fan his brow and bring hack the roses of health to his fading cheeks. 1 refer thus to these great Americans, not to, eoncilate their friends—not as a partisan ; no ! no ! let the bugles of party this day sound a tun e ; hut in obedience to the “Emotions that start, When memory plays an old tune upon the heart.” I could not better illustrate the glory of our institutions than bv reference lu these great men, their noblest offsprings. A Remarkable Man. —At a temper ance meeting, held in Alabama, about six years ago, Colonel Lemanousky, who had been twenty three years in the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed the meeting. lie arose before the audience, tall, erect and vigorous, with a glow of health upon his cheek, and said : “You see before you a man seventy years old, 1 have fought two hundred bat. ties ; have fourteen wounds on my body, have lived thirty days on horse fl.-eh, with the bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my think, the canopy of heaven lor my covreing, without stockings or shoes -upon my feet, only a few rags of clothing. In the desserts o r Egypt, I have marched for days with a burning son upon my naked bead ; feet blistered in the scorching sand, and with eyes, nos trils and month, filled with dust—and with a thirst so tormenting that I have opened the veins of my arms, and sucked nty own blood ! Do you ask Imw l sur vived all these horrors ? 1 answer, that tinder the providence of God, 1 owe my preservation, my health and vigor, to this fact, that 1 never drank a drop of spirituous liquor in my life, and,” con tinued lie, “Baron Larry, chuff nf -dte medical staff of the french arms, has stated as a fact, that the 6000 survivors, who safely returned from Egypt, were all nl those men who abstained Irom ardent spirits.” The Macon Convention. J n reference to the future condition of our Stale, much depends on the spirit and temper that will pervade the respect ive Conventions that are shortly to assent ble at Macon. It is now becoming evi dent t'uit the prospects of Gen. l’ii are duilv diminishing through-’ nl,u .*“ Union. ’ The artificial enlV !lrn uf'nctnred to suit the *<d, is dying n ' vj y name was firs, investigations which under the.ffv developing >* •’'> ~n- are are epfor the high ofl.ee he seeks, and c “proportions begin to stand out scanty array by the side ol the “'eat and gifted men of the republic. It begins to be seen that he is not a whit sounder than he should be on any nl ,|,e great questions that have agitated, and still deeply interest, the public mind; short that he is at best a poor politi cian, and that as to anything else he is no wherein the fight. Hence there is every where a singular falling oil m the Ltd. ns I ft, the hopes of his supporter*. At rvo h.