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GWINNETT HERALD PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY TYLER M. PEEPLES, Editor. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy one year $2 00 One Copy six months 00 One Copy three months.., ~.; . 50 Subscription rates are cash--pajable in money or provisions. Any one obtaining five subscribers, and the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers bhattged from one post-office to another, must state the name of the post-office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff sales, per levy $2 50 Mortgage fi fa sales, per square... 5 00 Tax Collector’s “ “ “ ... 5 00 Letters of administration 3 00 Notice to debtors aud creditors... 5 00 Leave to sell land 5 00 Sale of land, per square 5 00 Letters of dismission *4 50 Ton ■ noticbwvi 3 00 6®“ Sales of land, by administrators, teXeeutors or guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the and three in the afternoon, at 5 Court-house in the county in which ■'» .'he property is situated. * Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must also be published 40 days. _ Notice for the sale of personal proper ty must be given in like manner, 10 days previous to sale day. ie. Notice that application will be made It to the Court of Ordinary for leave to ~ sell land must be published for four weeks. Citations on letters of administration, 'uardianship, &c., must be published 30 lays; for dismission from administration, nonthly, three months; for dismission from guardianship, 40 days. k> Rules for the foreclosure of mortgages y,.iust be published monthly, four mouths ; an »r establishing lost papers, for the full fc. Spice of three months; for compelling (j, tiles from executors or administrators, Lwhere bond has been given by the de- Mceased, the full space of three months, r Sheriff’s sales must be published for four weeks. Estray notices, two weeks, ij, Publications will always be continued gsrecording to these, the legal requirements, ,y inless otherwise ordered. W PROFESSIONAL CARDS. SAM. J. WINN. WM. E. SIMMONS. WINN fe SIMMONS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lawkenceville, Georgia. Practice in Gwinnett and the adjoining counties. mar 15-ly Nathan l. hutchins, garnett m’millan, Lawrenceville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga. hutchins 4- McMillan ; ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offices at Lawrenceville and Clarksville. Practice in the counties of the Western Circuit, and in Milton and Forsyth of the Blue Ridge. mar 15-ly J. N. GLENN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. . Will promptly attend to ail business entrusted to his care, and also to Land, Bounty and Pension claims mar 15- Gm TYLER M. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAWRENCEVILLE,' GA. Practices in the counties of Gw,innelt, Hall, Jackson and Milton. Pension claims promptly attended to mar 15-6 m DR. TANDY K. MIT CHE LL, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA., Respectfully tenders a continuation of his professional services to the citizens generally. Keeps constantly on hand a good assortment of drugs and chemicals. Prescriptions carefully prepared, mar 15-ly A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.„ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. 14 mar 15-6 m j DR. T. G. JACOBS, J SURGEON DENTIST, Being prepared .to practice his profes sion in all its branches, informs the citi zens of Lawrenceville and vicinity that he will be at his office in Lawrenceville from the sth to the 18th of each month. By prompt attention to business, and reason able prices, he hopes to secure a liberal patronage. All work warranted. mar22ly B. F. ROBERTS, Attorney at Lav, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, Will attend to all business entrusted to his care in the Blue Ridge circuit; also in the counties of Hall and Gwinnett of the Western circuit Connected with Col. H. H. Walker in Pension, Land Warrantx and Claim cases against the United-States Government. june 14-l>tn Mui. IV. Holland At Co., AUCTIONEERS and PRODUCE BROKERS 178 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. Special attention given to sale of Wild Lands, Meats, Flour, Dry Goods, House* bold Furniture, Carpets, Ac., Ac. Cash advances made when required, •mg IC-3 m % Weekly Gwinnett Herald. 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. RATES OF ADVERTISING. srace 3 mo’s. | 6 mo’s. la mo's J _ 1 square 8 4 00 18. <5 00 810 00 2 sq’rs i: 00 10 00 15 00 3 sqr's 800 I 14 00 20 00 % col. 12 00 I 20 00 | 30 00 % col. 20 On I 35 is) j 00 00 one col. 40 o(> I 75 0s | 100 00 The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. A square is the space of one inch in depth of the column, irrespective of the number of lines. Marriages and deaths, not exceeding six lines, published free. For a man ad vertising his wife, and all other personal matter, double rates will be charged. 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 ?"