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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. I.
From the Farm and Home.
The Bivouac of tlie Bead.
BY THEODORE o'IIAKA.
[The Legislature of Kentucky caus
ed the dead of that State who fell at
Buena Vista to be brought home and
interred at Frankfort, under a splen
did monument. Theodore O’Hara,
a gifted Irish-Kentuckian soldier and
scholar, was selected as the orator
and poet of the occasion, whence the
beautiful eulogy which, alone, suffi
ces to rescue his name from oblivion.
The poem was written mire than
twenty years ago. It has the same
application to-day.]
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on life’s parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few,
On fame’s eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards, with silent round,
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe’s advance
Now swells upon the wind
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved one’s left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior’s dream alarms;
Nor braving horn, nor screaming fife
At dawn shall calico arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust,
Their plumed breast are bowed—
Their haughty banner trailed in dust
Is now their martial shroud!
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms by battle gashed.
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle’s siirring blast;
The cliarge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and the shout are past;
Nor war’s wild note, nor glory’s peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
The Knot of Blue and Gray.
Upon my bosom lies
A knot of blue aud gray;
You ask me why, tears fill my eyes,
As low to you I say—
-1 had two brothers once,
Warm hearted, bold and gay;
They left my side—one wore the blue,
The other wore the gray.
One rode with Stonewall and his men,
And joined his fate with Lee,
The other followed Sherman's march
Triumphant to the sea.
Both fought for what they deemed the
right,
And died with sword iu hand;
One sleeps amid Virginia’s hills,
And one in Georgia’s sand.
The same sun shines upon their graves.
My love unchanged must stay;
And so npon my bosom lies
This knot of blue and gray!
• »
Sweet “Sometime.” —It is a sweet,
sweet song, flowing to and fro among
the topmost boughs ot the heart, aud
fills the air with such joy and glad
ness as the songs of birds do, when
the summer morning comes out of
the darkress, and the day is born on
the mountains.
We have all our possessions in the
future, which we call “sometime.”
Beautiful flowers aud sweet sing
iDg birds are there, only our hands
seldom grasp the one, or our ears
hear, except the faint far-off strains of
the other.
But O, reader, be of good cheer,
for to all the good there is a golden
sometime.’’
When the hills and valleys of time
are all past ,when the wear and the
fever disappointments and sorrow of
life are over, then there is the peace
and the rest appointed of God.
O, homestead, over whose blessed
roofs no sorrow, even of olouds
across whose threshold the voice of
sorrow is never heard; built upon
eterna! hills, and standing with thy
spires and pinacles of celestial beau
ty among the palm trees of the city
on high, those who love God shall
rest under thy shadows, where there
is no more sorrow, nor pain, nor the
sound of weeping.
A lovely mode of reasoning—Man
and womau putting their heuds together.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, November 15, 1871.
Written for the Gwinnett Herald.
Pen and Ink Sketches—No. 1($.
DR. PHILO HALL. .
I have no means of obtaining
any memoranda of this gentleman,
as he has left no relatives amongst
us, and I shall have to rely solely
upon my own lecollection of him,
and therefore I can only promise
the reader a brief outline of his
character.
That he was, in some respects,
a remarkable man, some who yet
live, and knew him will admit.—
That he was a man of many re
deeming traits of character, will
be denied by no impartial mind
that knew him, however much they
may have objected to some of his
peculiar characteristics.
He came to Lawrenceville from
Weston, Connecticut, about the
year 1820, and built the house
where Judge Lainkin now resides*
and occupied the south end as a
family residence and the other
end as a Doctor shop.
He had married a sister of Wm.
Maltbie in Connecticut, and I sup
pose was induced to move here by
that gentleman, who had proceed
ed him to this section several years
before he came.
lie practiced medicine from the
time he came here until his death,
which embraced a period'of twen
ty years or more, and no physi
cian had the confidence of his
patrons more fully than he, es
pecially the women and children.
During the whole time of his
residence he was my father’s fami
ly physician, and the writer, Who
was a feeble, sickly boy in bis
earlier years, well remembers, that
when often very sick, the coining
in of Dr. null always re assured
him, and he felt that he would be
cured without a doubt.
He was a warm friend, and de
votedly attached to all who em
ployed him, but hud no good words
for those who employed another.
He did a large practice, and
was as successful in his casus as
any physician who has lived
amongst us. He kept his accounts
upon a day-book; never kept a
ledger, and did not “post” his
accounts; hence, when his custo
mors came to settle, he had to
look through his whole book, very
often, to find the items.
It was his boast that he never
sued a man in his life, or asked
any of his patrons for money.
I have heard him tell an anec
dote that illustrates his cliaraater
for leureucy to those that were
indebted to him, and it seemed to
give him great satisfaction to tell
it. A man"who lived in Hog Moun
tain distiict, whose name was
Jackson—l believe—had a sickly
family, aud Dr. Hall was bis phy
sician, and he had atteuded them
for a considerable time, and the
account had run for two or three
years, for the man was poor aud
unable to pay. Finally, despair
ing to be able to make the money
where be then lived, he concluded
to move; but then, how could he
get away without paying Dr.
Hall’s account 1 He called in to
see the Doctor one day on the
subjeot—stated to him his condi
tion —his difficulties—his inability
to pay him, and the improbabil
ity that he ever wuuld be if he
staid on his little poor place, and
said: “I have concluded to move
to Campbell, if you will let me
got”
Dr. Hall responded at once, in
his blunt, abrupt way, “go along,
I shanl hinder you —I havu’t asked
you for the money!”
Three years after, as the old
Doctor was sitting in his “shop”
one morning, smoking his pipe, to
his surprise Mr. Jackson stepped
in and greeted him with a warm
shake of the hand, which was cor
dially, though bluntly returned by
the Doctor. After some couvcrsa-
“ COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
. " . —* t
tion between them; well, says Mr.
Jackson, “I am now able to pay
you, and have come to do so; get
out my account and count the in
terest.” After a long search the
account was made up and paid off
—the Doctor saying to him, ‘‘You
are a fool if you think I would be
willing to charge such a man as
you interest.” lie told the Doc
tor that he had done well at
his new home—had taken it a foot
to pay him his money —had two
good horses, but they were at home
plowing in wheat; had plenty of
cattle and hogs, and a large crib
of corn, and bad made cotton
enough to pay his debt and had
fifty dollars left; ana now he
did not owe a cent in the world!'*
lie remained until next morning,
and in getting ready to start back,
the Doctor went to his bureau,
took out a fine case of razors,
saying ‘. “I want to make you a
present. If these razors shave
good you’ll remember me, if they
pull you’ll be sure to remember
me.” I have ofteu heard him say,
“as long as Jackson lived there
would be one honest man in the
world.”
He once had a fight with Alston
Boyd on the street near where
Harvey’s tailor shop now stands.
Boyd was a merchant and occu
pied the house now owned by B.
E. Strickland. No one who ever
saw Dr. Ilall would have taken
him for a fighting man. He was
large, and pussy like FallstntT, and
1 would as soon have looked for
a light at fisticuffs by an old fat
woman. He was returning from
the Post Office one day, and had a
newspaper open aud was reading
it as he passed down the street. —
Boyd came out of his store and
attacked hirfl, and when the light
was over, (which was very soon,
for Boyd was a poor fighter, too,)
the Doctor said: “I whipped the
damned rascal and read my news
paper all the time.”
He owned a negro boy named
“Ham”’ and be was black as the
“Ace of Spades,” and as ugly as
a baboon. He bought him when
a small boy, aud petted him a good
deal, and kept him about his lot
to feed his horse, black his shoes,
slash about bis lot, and do small
jobs generally.
Han was a great rascal, and
would often transgress. The Doc
tor kept an account against him.
When he would neglect his horse,
he would charge it to him ; when
he failed to black his shoes good,
be would enter it; when be would
throw rocks at the chickens aud
break their legs, he would charge
that*, and so on and soon; aud
when his account got large enough
for a settlement, he would call
him up, call over the account,
item by item, then thrash him
and credit the account “in full.”
He kept this up until Ham grew to
be a man, and he grow rebellious,
lu atte. ipting to settle the bill one
day, the Doctor—apprehending
some resistance —caught hold of
his shirt bosom and commenced
the settlement, when Ham tore
loose from him aud rau away,
greatly to the chagrine of • the
Doctor. In speaking of it after
wards, and telling of the groat
strength of tho negro—which
he always manifested—he said:
“’Twou'd have been as easy to
have held a thunder bolt with a
cotton thread as to have held him
by his osnaburg shirt.” After this
be sold him, and he turned out to
be a bad negro and soon went to
“Davy Jones’, alias the devil.
Doctor Hall was, no doubt, a
descendant of the “Pilgrim Far
thers,” that came to Aliis country
on'the May “Fewer,” aud lauded
at Plymouth Rock.
He was peculiar in his personal
appearance aud habits. In stat
i ure he was six feet two or three
inches high—large frame—of con
siderable embon point—{a good deal
after the style of Fal!st iff) —black
eyes—bald on bis crown —the hair
brought up from his temples and
tied in a knot on the top of his
head —with fat cheeks and full
face.
lie was the most cleanly man I
oversaw, and was as punctillimis
in this respect as an old maid.—
He shaved every day, and half
inch below the skin—put on a
clean shirt every morning when at
home—always, winter and sum
mer, Wore low-quartered shoes,
well polished, and white stock
ings—a drab beaver hat, which
he always brushed and then
smoothed over with his silk hand
kerchief, before going out, and in
summer always wore a huge, long,
“morning gown.”
As many of my readers never
saw such a garment, and proba
b'y never heard of it, I will try to
describe it, although it was a
nondescript thing, and difficult to
describe.
The material vvas of calico or
ginghams, and required 15 yards
or less—to make one for him—ex
tending from his neck to his heels,
with large flowing sleeves—after
the style of the “mutton leg”
sleeves worn by ladies 30 years ago
—and the gown, when iu.lated by
the wind as he would walk the
streets, resembled a balloon—just
ready to go up—cut half in two!
In seeing the Doctor with his
morning gown on, I was always
reminded of the curt reply of the
boy. who went to seliool with a
bad litiing coat, and the first coat
he had ever had; when, being
asked by another boy—in derision
who cut his coat, replied—
“’twantcut, ’twus torn out!”
But peace to the ashes of the
good Doctor. He saved my life,
1 have no doubt, by his skill, and
I love his memory, and he was my
friend.
AH that is mortal of h'm lies at
the old grave yard in Lawrence
vilie, and he “sleeps well!” 1
tisited his grave yesterday, and
it brought up many a pleasant
reminiscence of “Auld Lang Syne.”
I give the epitaph on his grave
tablet, which is truthful and ap
propriate:
“In fnemory of Hr. Philo Hall,who
was born in the town of Weston,
(JoiuiectiObt, April 27th, 1784, and
died in this village, March 17th,
1839. He waß a skillful and hu
mane physician, and his memory
will be long and gratefully cher
ished in that community where
the success of bis professional
exertions has been so frequently
realized.” W.
Value fflr Husbands. —We fre
quently hear about tho value of a
good wife, and stirring appeals are
made to husbands to love aud cher
ish them. Here is something perti
nent, on the other side of the ques
tion, which we clip from an exchange:
“Ladies sometimes do not value
their husbands as they ought. They
not {infrequently learn the value of a
good husband for the first time by
the loss of him. Yet the husband is
the very roof-tree of the house—the
corner stone of the edifice—the key
stone called home. lie is the bread
winner of the family—its defense aud
its glory—the beginning and ending
—the golden chain of life which sur
rounds it—its controller, lawgiver,
and its king. Yet, we say, how frail
is that life on which so much dopends.
How frail is the life of the husband
and father 1 When he is taken away
who shall fill his place ? When he
is sick, what gloomy clouds hover
over the house ! When he is dead,
what darkness, weeping agony !
Then poverty, like the murderous
assassin, breaks in the window—star
vation, like a famishing wolf, howls
at the door. Widowhood iu too of
ten an associate of sack-cloth aud
ashes. Orphanage 100 often menus,
desolation aud woe.”
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Gen. Beauregard on the Situ
ation.
Gen. Beau regard has recently vis
ited Kansas City, end while there
submitted to be interviewed by the
Times of that place. After a discus
sion of tho horrible misrule under
which Louisiana suffers, the conver
sation proceeded as follows :
Times—What are your personal
views upou the “new departure,” as
it is called ! Do you look upon it as
available in the South ?
Beauregard—lt suits me, sir. i
favor it as the nearest and boat road
to Democratic success. It meet* my
views as being progressive. I am
tired of living only for defeat on ob
solete dead issues. The Democratic
party must place itself in tho van o
progress if it would be victorious.—
Let the past go. We want some
thing more than traditions. We
must be in sympathy with the pro
gressive age we live in. The demo
cratic party cannot stand still. It
has done well to accept tho situation
and take a front rank in this age of
progress
Times—llow do the people of the
South regard the ’‘new departure” of
the Democracy ?
Beauregard—As far as I have been
able to observe they are willing to
accept and endorse it. They are
willing to accept anything that will
insure them from military despotism,
and military despotism we surely
will have if Grant succeeds in being
re-elected.
Times—Whom do you consider
the first choice of the South for Pres
blent f
Beauregard (hesitating)—l can
hardly say. For my own part I
prefer General Hancock, as being a
patroit, a scholar and a statesman ;
while the name of Gratz Brown is
hailed by tho people of the South as
the most available. I think Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, upon the new
departure platform, would sweep the
South in ’72.
Times—Graiz Brown is looked
upon in the Northwest as our best
man, and would certainly draw forth
a strong vote.
Beauregard—l thing so, but with
us of the South, we have nothing to
say upon that head. We are propar
ed to support heartily and unitedly
whoever the Northern Democracy
may nominate. We care not who
it may be we shall work for the elec
tion of the ticket. Let us once effect
a change ; anything is bettor than the
present unhappy condition of the
South. The Southern people know
that the battle will have to be fought
and won by the Northern Democracy
if won at all. They, therefore, will
give every aid and acquiesce in what
ever may be deemed the best to en
sure a Democratic victory in 1872.
The Course of True Love.—A
Eureka, California, paper relates a re
markable tale of love and constane y.
A young man in the East wished to
marry the daughter of a prosperous
merchant, but lied no money with
which to back his suit. lie was,
therefore, declined as a son-io-law,
and so he went to the Pacific coast
to seek his fortune, lie sought gold
everywhere, but found little; aud at
last, after several years’ of labor and
hardship, detenuiued to return to
bis old homo. He ergaged his pas
sage from San Francisco, wheu he
encountered his early love, now
nearly middle age, who, w:th her
brother, had gone in quest of her old
lover. Her parents and all her near
relations had died, save her compan
ion. She was wealthy, and only too
happp to give her fortune, with her
hand and heart, to the man who had
struggled valiantly and failed to earu
the meed of toil. The twain were
wedded, and returned to the East
with the dreatu of love as bright and
fresh to them a. it had been yeats be
fore.
Happiness is a perfume, and
every uuu should shed some.
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No. 36.
•Josh Billings on Marriage.
Sum marry for love, without a cent
in their pocket nor a drop of pedi
gree This looks desperate, hut it iz
the strengtii of the game. Sum mar
ry because they think wimmin will
he scarce next year, and live tew
wonder how the crop holds out. Sum
many tew get rid ov themselves, and
discover that tho game was ono that
two could play at, and neithor ov
them wiu. Sum marry the second
time tew got even, and find it a gatn
bling game—the more they putdoWtt
the less thay take up. Sum marry
tew be happy, and not fiuding it won
ders where all tho happiness goes
tew when it dies. Sum marry they
cau't tell why, and live they can’t
tell how. Almost everybody gits
married, and it iz a good joke. Sum
marry iu haste, and then sgt down
and think it carefully over. Sum
think it carefully over fust, and then
set down and marry. Both ways are
right if they hit the mark. Some
marry coquettes. This is like buying
a poor farm, treavily mortgaged,
and working the haluuce ov yuredays
to clean oph the mortgages. But, af
ter nil,married life iz full ascertain an
dry goods buisiness. Kno man kan
swear exactly wher ho will fetch up
when he touches calico. Kno man kan
tell jist what calico has made up
ts mind to do next. Calico don't
know herself. Dry goods ov all
kinds iz the child ov cicumstansis.
The man who stands on the bank
shivering, and dussent, iz more apt
to ketch cold than him who pitches
his head fust into tho river. If en
iivbody asks you whi you got married
(if it needs he) ,te!l him you don’t
recollekt.
A few nights since, at a late
hour the speaking tube at the office
of one New Haven’s popu'ar physi
cians was used by some midnight
wag, to the following effect: The doc
tor was in a sound sloep, when ho
was awakened by a “halloo” through
the tube, when the following dAlogue
took place:
“Well, what do you want?”
“Does Dr- Jones live here?”
“Yes, what do you want?”
“Are you Dr. Jones?”
“Yes—yes! what do you want?”
“Why, how long have you lived
here?”
"Somo twenty year*; why?”
“Why? why don’t you move?’^
“If you stay there about ten sec
onds more yau’ll find lain moving!”
and ho bounded out of bed, bnt the
patient was heard “moving” down
tiie street at a rate that defied pur
suit.
A well managed elopinent
cnine off recently in the vicinity pf
Gillman, 111. The lover went after
the girl in a light vehicle with muffed
wheels, while an accomplice drovo a
heavier machine adapted to making
as much noise as possible. The lady
being duly recoived at the window
and deposited in the muffed vehicale,
the heavy one dashed off towards
Gillman at a furious rate, with papa
in hot pursuit, while the lovers were
noiselessly driven in the opposite di
rection. Before morning Mr. Ward
and Miss Green were ‘made one flesh.
“What’s the matter Uncle Jerry ?”
said Mr——, as old Jormiah R. was
passing, growling, most furiously.—
“Matter I” said the old man, stopping
short; “why, here I’ve been lugging
water sll morning for Dr. C’s wife to
wash with, and what d’ye spose I got
for it?” “Why’ I suppose about ten
oents,” auswerod Mr. . “Ten
cents! She told mo the doctor
would pull a tooth for me some lime.’'
May is considered an un
lucky marrying month by some peo
ple. A young girl was asked not
long since, to unite herself to a lover
who had named May in his proposal.
The lady hinted that May was un
lucky. “Well, make it Juno, then,”
replied the swain. Casting down
her ejes with a Mush, she rejoined
‘Would not April do as well ?"