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GWINNETT HERALD PUBLISHED EVER* WEDNESDAY, BY PEEPLES & YARBROUGH. TYLER M. PEEPLES, Editor. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. •] One Copy one year $2 00 4 One Copy six months §1 00 5 One Copy three mouths 50* Subscription rates. are cash—payable f in money or provisions. Any one obtaining five Subscribers, and the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another, tnust state the name of the post-office from which tbt’y wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ■Sheriff sales, per levy $2 50 Mortgage Cfa sales, per square... 500 ■s Collector’s “ , “ “.,. 600 Betters of administration 3 00 |B>tice to debtors and creditors... 5 00 Brave to sell land 5 00 Bale of land, per square 5 00 Betters of dismission 4 50 for homestead. 2 00 jfcEstray notices 3 00 fisa?* Sales of land, by administrators, executors or guardians, are required by gkiw to be held on the first Tuesday in the Rnonth, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in ' a public gazette 40 days previous to the iday of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an f estate must also be published 40 days. for the sale of personal proper- be given in like manner, 10 days to sale day. BLnb-e that application will be made " IB Court of Ordinary for leave to ■P must be published for four weeks. |Bvjtations on letters of administration, wu>m'diansl)ip, &c., must be published 30 HctL: for dismission from administration, TpAilhly, three months; for dismission guardianship, 40 days. nUPßulos for the foreclosure of mortgages fjftiAt be published monthly, four mouths ; stablishing lost papers, for the full |£< :ee of three months; for compelling Biles from executors or administrators, Bfc»£re bond has been given by the de- Blfced.tlic full space of three months. Bier iff ‘s salt s must be published for weeks. HBfstray notices, two weeks. will always be continued 'According to these, the legal requirements, ‘unless otherwise ordered. I • PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Hi V( ' ----- ■Tam. J. WINN. WM. B. SIMMONS. I WINN & SIMMONS. I , . ATTORNEYS AT LAW, I|> B&wkknceville Georgia.' •‘■Practice in Gwinnett and the adjoining Bauntiee. marl 5-1 y ■Bthan r. HUTCHINS, jarnbtt m’mii.lan, HLiwreneeville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga. WkuTCHiNs 4* McMillan, * ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offices at Lawrenceville and Clarksville. Practice in the counties of the Western Cjguit, and in Milton and Forsyth of the BCe Ridge. mar 15-ly J X. GLENN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I.IVRKNCKVILLK, HA. Vdl promptly attend to all business eul«)*ed to his cere*and also lo Land, li.tffl) and Pension claims mar 15-6 m ’PEEPLES, Attorney at law, MAWptCEVILLE,.. GA. trices in the counties of Gwinnett, HutiKkson and Milton. , *pon claims promptly attended to , JF TANDY K. MITCHELL, ** KWRENCEVILLE, GA., Tactfully tenders a continuation'of {.is pfessional services to the citizens gpuerty Keeps constantly on hand a good of drugs and chemicals. PrsJVjfnons carefully prepared. inaJF-ly A. .SHAFFER,M.D., PHYICIAN AND SURGEON, iawrenceville, ga. nxr-ft>-6m ” LK. T. G. JACOBS, SURGEON DENTIST, Being prepared to practice his profes sion in all ils branches, informs the citi zens of laT <renceville and vicinity that he will be at nis office in Lawrenceville from the stb to tbe lath of each month. By prompt attention to business, and reason able prices; he hopes to secure a liberal patronage.. All work warranted. ruar22‘ly „p, f 7 ro 1 be rt s, Attorney at Law, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, Will attend to aM business entrusted to’ his cure if die Blue Ridge circuit; also in the counties of llall and Gwinnett of the Western circuit Connected with £ol. IIMI. Walker in Pension, Land Warrant « and Claiii cases (ujainst the United States Oavetnmnt. v june 14-f>m IV. Ilotlund Co., AUCTIONEERS and produce brokers W 8 Bay'tStreet,.Savannah, Ga. SpeeUl attention given to sale of Wild Tends, Seals, Flour, Dry Goods, House ! hold Furniture, Carpets, Cash *1 vonoes made wbuii required. \ug 14 3 m Weekly Gwinnett Herald. T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ] Vol. I. LONG INGS. BY MATTHIAS BARK. I may long for the quiet of the lonely brake, And Ihe hedgerows white with may; For the beauty that grows on the dim pled lake, When kissed by the dying day: I may yearn lor Jhc music that haunts thc # woods Leafy, and grand, and old; For the thunder that roars in the moun tain floods, And the fields with their sheaves of gold: I may sigh for a sight of the gentle iiowers, And the butterfly’s tinted wing; For the glorious vision in twilight,hours Of love at the wayside spring: But the sounds, oh! the sounds I am doomed to hear Are the sotlnds of the busy street; And tbe sights that my spirit is racked to bear Are the footprinfs’of naked fcet.J And my heart it grows heavy from hour to hour Withjookingjon man's distress; With looking and longing, andjicver the power ToJigliten or make it less. Oh, breezy moan tains! Ob, glowing skies! Oh, meadows and rippling streams, Though ye come not to gladden my . waking eye 3, I Slave ye all in my dreams. Female Jealousy. —Men may bo come rivals, and even go to the ex treme, occasionally, of meeting in mortal combat, because some woman has not discrimination enougli to know her own mind, or firmness and decision enough to declare her opin ion or preference. In such eases the men are sillier, if possible, than the woman they quaarrel about ; for no woman of so little sense and deter mination of character is worth any man’s serious consideration. These tilings, however, are but the freaks of a season, and limited to a small portion of the masculine gender. As a general tiling, whatever rivalry there is between man, for tbe affec tions of the opposite sex, is good natured, and the vanquished suitor quietly retires from the field, to find one who has a higher and, perhaps, juster appreciation of his qualities. _llis intercourse with his fellows, in the meantime, remains undisturbed, and to the outward world there is littlo, if any change observable in bis manners. But between woman and woman thore is a constant “irre pressible conflict,” if not an eternal one. No woman ever forgives a successful rival, and in her heart she cherishes undying jealously of her own sex. She is constantly watching, perhaps unsuccessfully', for an oppor to gratify her spleen, and give vent to her feelings of universal jealously and seern. She shows no mercy toward one who has lapsed in the slightest degree, and loathes the very ground she treads on. In short, she lias no faith in one of her own sex, and seems to expect that every one she meets is desirous of supplanting her in the affections of man. This is strange and sad, but it is true ; and through the lion and the lamb many lie down peacefully to. gether, there is little hope of perfect reconciliation between woman and woman, so long as, sexual love sur vives to fire their hearts with the fires of jealousy. J£W To save meat about to spoil wash it, in a quart of water with two tablespoonfuls of Darby’s Prophylac tic Fluid in it, and then rinse in pure water. .You will find your meat sweat and firm. One of the most popular prepara tions wiiich we advertise it Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid. It is selling very rapidly. A man is said to be absent-minded when he thinks he has left his watch at home, and takes it out to see if he has get time to return home aud get it. Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, December 13, 1871. Written for the Gwinnett Herald. A BRIEF REVIEW Of tlieC'liurcli Articles, Signed “\V. I>. R.” and the “Pen and Ink Sketches,” Signed “W.”~by the Writer.” During the year which is now nearly' gone, and soon to be num bered with the years beyond the Flood, I have beguiled an hour now and then in penning the arti. cles above referred to, and make life pleasant for a spell in calling up old scenes, and in communing with old friends who have—most ly—lived out their brief Pilgrim age, and have passed to “That undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.” llow the task lias been performed is not for me to say\ It has been —in the main—satisfactory to me; but how to my readers, generally, I do not know. Some of them have thought— no doubt—that I omitted some things that ought to have been said in some cases, and probably said some things that ought to have been left out. I could not say all that might have been said in a brief sketch, when I feared, all the time, that I might be tres dassing on the space and on the time of the Editor to the exclusion of other matter, that in his opin ion might be more interesting to the readers of the Journal. This, if not true as to the former Editor, may have been so ol the present one. Since my article of the 14th ol May 7 , some of the Fairview people look shy at me—probably, be cause 1 said, that old church uas not what it was in the days of Wilson, Patterson and Irvin. I did not intend to reflect upon any gentleman, by saying this. It is a lamentable truth which none can deny. Others have — and still give me “the cold shoul der” because they think I intima ted that they were not as capable as Alexander Liddell, Montgome ry, Sage, Smith and Gresham. — I did not intend to reflect upon the present official members, or any one, by that statement. In iny 7 opinion, it is no discredit to these gentlemen, if I was to say they were not their equal. They were men—all of them—far above mediocrity, and we have but few such amongst ns now. Of that article, in its totality as well as in its specific's, 1 Would not modify, or “take back,” the excep tions “to the contrary nowith standing.” The Bethesda Church article— though imperfect in its details— is. in the main, satisfactory to me. First impressions thouyh are not always correct, as I afterwards found out. Not alway's. Verbum Sat. “A word to the wise is suffi cient.” “Sweet Water” was right as far as it went. Some errors it may lie, but none of importance. The Sweet Water folks, though much derided on account of their religious faith, are a clever people. “They pay' their debts — fewer ex ecutions against them unsatisfied —and fewer “homesteads taken by them and their brethren, than any other people,” (as was ex pressed to me by a good Presby terian not long since, and in which I fully concur.) They obey the Scripture injunction— “ Love the Brethren”—aud are as faithful and true to each other as “Free Masons,” and more so, in tiie present day. .“Liberty” had an important omia sion as to one of her pastors. An oversight—with me, inexcusable. Rev. James Davis served her one year, aud acceptably. I did not omit his name from the list from any waut ot respect. It was—in the hurry—an oversight—a lapsus linyuat —so to speak. I hope my good brother will be satisfied with ‘‘COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!” ihy explanation. I would not wilfully do him injustice to the value of one cent, nor be unmind ful of the lesson taught by the Cabalistic B. R. T ! My sketches of individual char acter, have probably pleased some —satisfied others, and to others still, were wholly unsatisfactory— it may be. I know they were im perfect and lame, and too meager in most cases, and many incidents left out for want of space, and many omissions which would not have been, had I been the Pro prietor of the newspaper in which they were published. * Some rW these were forgotten by lne from the long lapse of years, while of others I never know, which some of my readers remembered. I did not know that W. M. paid off the execution for his friend Crum]} 7 , when his property was under the sheriff’s hammer, and then gave him his own time to pay back the money! The old man remembers it, and will ’till his dying day. By leaving that out, my old friend—of course— considers that an unpardonable omission; and that sketch, there fore, in liis opinion, is a poor thing and a failure! In another—palliating the im perfections and foibles of the subject—and speaking of the im perfections of mortal man univer sally, I referred to the Patriarch Abraham as guilty of falsehood in representing his wife as his sister, designing, thereby, (o make a false impression. For this a churchman considers me a “revi lcr of religiontherefore, of wise, he lias no charity for me, and no interest in what I have written Is that brother free from short comings—free from sin? immacu late? Does he worship after the letter or after the Spirit ? lie may be of that, class—“l am more holy than thou;” and lie may be, but we are not to be the judge ourselves! Pray, pluck the beam out of thine own eye—if one is in it—and then you can see better to take the tnote out of mine! Others may have had objections “too tedious to mention,” for ought I know ; if so, I only wish they iiad performed the task, and performed it better. I know how difficult it i 3 to please all the rea ders of a newspaper—with their varied tastes, partialities and pre judices- I make hut small pre tensions as a writer; I never wrote a book—never expect to. I have written but little for the press in my day and time, and the same— no doubt—may be said of me when I shall have passed away. Finally, therefore, I will say, there are many other names I have not included in my sketches of the old fathers as worthy as those I have —were as good men —as useful citizens —of whom I ought to speak (as I had commenced it,) if I could be assured it was the desire of the readers of the Herald and the Editor. If I‘ had tiiese assurances, 1 might renew them at the coming of the spring-time of the new year, when life puts on its new livery, and man his new hopes—if life be spared. But a truce to them for the present, if not forever. To my good friends who have read my “pen points” with inter est during the old year, I extend my thanks and my hand. Their approbation is my highest reward, and a sufficieut compensation to me for the little trouble I have had in fixing them up. I love to please my friends. If my writings have offended any one, it is time they had got in good humor. It is an unchris tian spirit to harbor nialieu. They on friendly terms with all—ex cept scoundrels. But I would not give a flip for any man’s friend ship, unless it is “of his own free will,” And according to his con science! What 1 have written I have written, and am responsible for it. W. Exciting ? lU idents of a Rail road Trip. Binghamton, Lately. — A Fir!t«n Market man found out “what 1 know about Fanning" this wine; Said he, “John, do yoff know the best way to raise potatoes’” Says’ I, “I do.” Sajß lie, “How?” “Why,” eays f,“ grab hold of the tops witli both hands and pull ’em up.” Says he, “Go to grass.” So 1 started to grass, and I’m now on my a trip over the Erie Railway, It’s a good time to go on a railroad. The trees are all disrobed, and the leaves are through blushing and turning ullcollors’ What last spring was a lamblet is now a muttonlet. Gr«en peas have turned to shot, and so forth. Mistaken in his man. The first thing I did after getting into the cars was to try and make myself agreeable. The attempt proved a failure. I saw a fellow w ith a package in his hand, And I said to him, “Hare a game?” “Game of what?” said he. “Seveu-up.” said I. Thero isn’t ro much bittorness in a toil of boiled aloes as these was in the expresion of that fellow’s faee. Intense acorn and malignity struggled ffir the mastery as he yield out. “No. sir; I’m a minister.” “Well,” said f, “ you needn’t get mad. N"body ever would believe it unless you I "Id ’em so.” Then 1 told him on closer inapec. lion he did look like a minister —a minister penitentiary—and I askodi him what he was doing with those cards. lie said thoy were not cards, they woro blank tickets for the Sunday school library. Then I said, “What might your name bet” He said, “Barnes.” Then I slid, with a smile, “There are lots of barns all over the country, aint there?" To this day he has never answered that ( querlion. lie moved into another car. A POOR LITLE BOY’S TIClitT. Back of me *at a little boy. He had a half ticket. The conductor punched it. I said to hiiu, “Is that boy obliged to have a whole ticket to travel on this train?” He said “No.” “Well,” said I’ lie’s got ono.” lie han’t,” said lie. “I’ll bet you,” said I, ”It was a half ticket until you punched it; that made it a hole one.” lie intimated he would “punch me;” so we didn’t contiue to converse. TALK WITH A MILI.LU. I moved over next to a fellow who was dev'oid of nose. “Ahem,” said I, •V ase of mayhem?” ‘•No,’’ lie said, “my dorg chewed it off last July." * t Ah!’’ said I‘ “not mayhem, bet Julyhem, eh?” Be you from York?” said be. “I am,” said I. “Do you know Smith?" said he? Smith,” said I, “what Smith?” “No not Watt Smit, but Mister Smith; he keeps a store down there.” He was suprised when I told him, “I never heard of him.” “Hewer of water and chopper of grass,” I exclaimed, “what is your biz?” He said be was a miller. “Gin iniHer?” said I, "No sir,” said be, “I conduct a well regulated, Christian saw miil.” "All.’’ Bald I, **\ ou_ol*—i—mi—k— [s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. remarks. I observed, ‘‘the countiy looked fine. ,f I didn’t exact!}- know how the country ought. It** look to look fine, but I hit it right, for he mid, “Yes,” and he said wo were passing through a dtnry country. “Do they run trains night* though a dairy country?” I asked, sweetly. He said yes, and said they made mighty good cheese it' that section. I related to him how “1 didn’t like niite-v good cheese;” then I told him “Truth was mighty and would pre vail* and cheese was niite-y, and that was prevailing to considerable extent, too.” SUCKS FROM A Cl.tJlt. Then we slopped for grub, and I can swear that I saw a man sell slices sawed oil’ a policeman's club for Bologna sausage, sandwiches, and] I w-a? Served with a piece of the steak old John Rogers was burnod at, and it was burnod ten per cent, worse than lie was, and tougher than a parboiled pump handle on toast. This proprietor asked me if I had been served? I told him yes, I had been served darned meanly. When I got into the cars* again the Millerite observed, “the pen i 8 mightier than the sword.” I told him that wasn’t the case with a hug peii. Then wo communed about the grass crop. lie said he was} much troubled witli proud hogs. “So am I,” said T; “where I board we are annoyed todoath with ’email winter.” “Why,” said ho. “ do you have groun I hogs in York?” “Yes,” said I, “lots of ’em; wo cab 'em sassages." For the space of tiro minutes he bowed his head and wept. MISTAKE FOR GSOUGE WASINGTOX. As soon ns lie got tlirough weep ing I told him I had recently visited New England, and how prolific everything was uplhere, and I eb served to him how for miles along side of the railroad the telegraph poles had sprouted and were bearing apples, ipiiuces, imiekmolons, huckle berries’ and bananas. “No!’’ ss : d ho. “Yes,” said I. Then he rose and said, “Wash, I thought yomwore dead.” “My name isn’t Wash,” said I “Excite me, sir,” said he I cal! you Wash because you remind me so strongly of George Washington who did it with his hatchet—the man who never told a lie.” Says F, ‘ Sir it’s lucky vnu Hint a nigger; if you were 1 would kill you, sir, and let your family go a black burrying in October.” Then he went in the next car where the minister went, then the cars stopped five minutes, and I had a slight altercation with a saloon chap. lie sold awful smal piece, and I asked him if he would sell three pieces for a quarter. lie said no. Says I, “By gosh, you do do it.” He swore he didn’t. Then I told him he did— that there three pieces to every quarter of a pie on his coun ter, and that was three pieces for a quarter. He seta pure white black-and tan terrier at me, but ho was ao cvreed lazy before ho could opeu his mouth to bite, I was on board the cars again, ix UtXOII AHTON But heie we arc at Binghamton, lat which place I will rest for the time being. Before leaving you I will propound a conundrum. Why is a railroad travelicrlike a music teacher! Because he is al ways dealing with fiats and sharps. Rulloff wae hanged in Binghamton. “While there is life thero is hope.” Still watchless but on time. Your*, John. £-C~ The champion dog resides in Lowell, Mass., and belong to a prominent grocer. When this Intel* ligent hruto (the dog) sees half a barrel of fiour weighed out on the scales be goes and puts one foot on the platform, carelessly lookum^i^ RATES OF ADVERTISING. spa/tk 3 mo’s. 6 mo’s. 12 mo’s: I square 2TT(TITg 00 I<> Oft 1 sq'rs C 00 10 00 15 00 3 sqr s H 00 14 00 20 00 y A col. 12 00 30 00 30 00 \ col. 20 00 36 00 60 00 one cnJ. 40 75 00 lot' 00 The money for advertisements is dot! on the first msertioh. A Aqnitrtt 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 rntes will lie charged. No. 40. A Dctciiman AnorsßD—A gentle man who was taking a glass of wine at Louis’s, corner of Freeman and II -pkins streets in Cincinatta, about three weeks ago, observed, at another table, sitting with several others, a German who seemed uneasy and anxious, as if 1 there might he a Fran co Teutonic disagreementhetween his boor and himself. Presently in ran a I ttle girl, her face radiant with smiles, who exclaimed, “O, we’ve got a little hoy at home ” “Dat ish goot,’ said the Dutchman; ns the anxiety disappeared from his enuute enance ; “till up dor glasses.” Not many minutss elapsed before in rush ed tbo little girl again with the an nouncement, “0, we’re got two little boy at home ” The Dutchman look ed a great deal astonished and not altogether gratified at this little fami ly redundancy, but rising at length to the magnitude of the occasion, re maiked, “Wei! don, das is g ot; fill up tie: glasses.” In a few minutes again appeared the radiant messenger with the astounding proclamation, “O, we’ve got three little boy a| homo." This was too much for even Toutonie impassibility. There was no fuither calls fur glasses. “Well den,” says he "I goes up dare, and, by Got, I sthops der whole dam bus iness.” iNfII'KKCE OF a N KWSPAI'F.Ri— ■» A school teacher, who has been engaged a long time in his profession, and witnessed the influence of newspapers on the minds of a family of children writes as follows ; “I have found it to be the univer sal fact, without exception, that those scholars of both sexes, and of all ages, who have had access to new-spapers at home, when compared with those who have not, are better readers, ex celling in pronunciation, and conse quently read more understanding^. They »re better spellors, and define words with case and accuracy. “They obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others, as the newspaper has made them familliar with the location of the mostiinportant places, nations, their governments, and do ings c-n the globe. “They are better grammarians \ for having become so familliar with every variety of the newspaper, from the common-place advertisement to the finished and classical oration of tiie statesman, they more readily comprehend the meaning of his text, and consequently analyze its con* struction with accuracy." A Queer Blunder.— A suburban friend, blest with eleven children, and being a very domestic man, and very fond of them, told this story : One afternoon, business being very dull took the early .rain out to his happy home, and went up stairs to j put the children to bed. Being miss* 1 ed from the dressingroom, his wife went un stairs to see what was going j on. Upon opening the door, she exclaimed; “Why dear, what for mercy’s sake are you doing!” “Why,” says ho, “wifey, f am putting the children to bed, and hearing them sav their little prayers.’’ “Yes, but this is not on* of ours,” says wifey.— Sure enough, he had one of the neighbor’s children all undressed, anil he had to redress it and send it home. After that lie calls the toll every morning and night. fiT Au unreasonable and tome what misauthropic individual remarks ibat he has often heard the proved*, “A fifend in need is a friond indeed,” but ho says he cannot see whoro the laugh comes »n. lie lias a friend in ueed who is always borrowing in*m* oy of him. m ie« m X.W Two women in Kansas hate gone in as partuers into the law hue | inees. They propose to be sisters in law. A merchant our of acquaintance