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Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. I.
A Itciimrkiiblc Prophecy.
The following, which is known
as “Mother Shipton’s Prophecy,"
was first published in 14S8, and
republished in 1641. It will be
noticed that all the events pre
dicted in it, except that mentioned
in the two last lines—which is
still the future—have already conic
to pass:
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water shall yet more wonders do,
Now strange, yet shall be true.
The woild upside down shall be,
And gold be found at foot of tree.
Through hills men shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his side.
Under Water men shall walk;
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall tulk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green.
Iron in the water shall float,
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found, and found
In a land that’s not now known.
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit a Jew.
The world to an end shall enmo
In eighteen hundred and eighty two.
For the Gwinnett Herald.
PEN AND INK SKETCHES.
Jesse Rambo.
“Uncle Jessie” was an odd genius
—full of eccentricities and quaint
sayings.
Every body knew Jesse Rambo.
Those who ever came to “Town”
had seen the old man—beard his
queer talk—went home and told
about the strange little old man
they had seen; therefore, every
body, big. little, old and young,
black and white knew Jesse Rambo.
Ue was queer in his looks —
queer in his talk—queer in his no
tions —queer in bis habits, and
queer in every thing.
We miss the old man from our
town —with his good humor —his
anecdotes —his droll sayings, and
droll expressions.
Twelve years have passed since
he died, yet all these are vivid in
our mind ; and the memory of the
man, and what he used to say—
how he used to look —how he used
to act, comes hack on the memory
and makes us laugh.
To write properly of him rc
'quiies a more graphic pen than
mine—to portray his idiosyncra
cies (which was all of him) is an
undertaking I feel incompetent
for.
He was a character such as I
never 6aw before—shall never see
again. That‘‘He was a man, take
him for all in all, we shall ne’er
look upon his like again”—is an
aphorism to whidt all who knew
him will assent!
A man of good property, good
farm, a good many slaves, cribs
fult of corn, smoke-house full of
bacon, yet “he was always going
to starve to death and no other
chance.” lie would often speak
of his poverty-stricken condition
so piteously, aud apparently so
truthfully, that one was ready to
believe it and sympathize with him,
thougli they might know to the
contrary.
Once when he was bewailing his
poverty in our town, and'his inex
orable fate of starvation, a stran
ger who was present and did not
know him, was touched in his
sympaties for the poor old man,
and taking out his purse said:
“Old man, I am a poor man my
self but am able to work and you
are not,” and, handing him a dol
lar, said : “If this will do you any
good you are welcome to it.”
Mr. Ranibo drew back with sur
prise, and, taking off his hat, said :
“I thank you, sir! I am mighty
poor but, will try to make out with
out your charity!”
He was a close man —saving of
his money—not given to bestow
charity much, but was honest, and
only wanted his own, but he want
ed all of that.
lie was very friendly with “Asa”
Smith, had great confidence in him
and generally divided his little tra
dings at his store —in a small way.
He would frequently go behind
the counter lookiug about. John
Smith, one day—to tease him—
slipped a ball of shoe thread in the
pocket of his long tail blue coat.
I never think of that old blue coat
but what I think of “Old Grimes”
and the stimza which I learned
when a boy :
"Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall sec him more—
He used to wear an old blue coat,
All buttoned down belere !”
lie did not find it out until he
got home, and did not know how
it got there. He was very much
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, February 7, 1872.
perplexed and troubled, and finally
concluded that John Smith, “the
mischievous rascal,” must have
put it there. Next morning bright
and soon he went back much dis
concerted, and asked John if he
put the thread in his pocket!
Smith expressed great astonish
ment —was greatly surprised that
he should have taken it—had al
ways thought he was an honest
man—had allowed him to go be
hind the counter when he pleased
—had no idea he would take any
thing—had missed the ball of
thread but had not thought he
took it; and would have to watch
him hereafter! But it was too
serious with the old man to make
a joke of; he was indignant, and
never while lie lived, lorgave
John Smith.
Forty-five years ago the Hunny
cutts lived in Lawrenceville and
worked at the black smith’s trade.
“Buck” was then 1 one of the
b-hoys,” and fond of “playing”
off on Allen Dyer, Jesse Rambo
and others. It was summer-time
and the crops were tine and prom
■ ising. Mr. Rambo had a fine field
! of corn near his house.
Buck conceived the plan and
Jesse helped him carry it out.
They piocured two cow-bolls
and went over to his house, about
a mile and a half from town. It
| was night and not far from bedtime.
Buck went on one side the field
: and Jesse on the other, and they
commenced rattling the bells
The old man heard them and sup
posed his field was full of cattle.
He was in a great sputter, and
called up his negroes, and he and
they went in great haste to get
out the cows.
One of the bells would stop and
the other would ring until they
would get on that side, then it
would cease and the other would
ring; then they would break to
that side of the field, and when
they would get within a hundred
or two yards of it, it would stop
and the other would commence
In this way they kept the old
man and bis negroes two mortal
hours runuing from one side the
field to the other—he dealing out
imprecations—not swearing—“that
the damM cows would destroy all
his corn,”
One of the perpetrators of this
joke is long since dead, but
“Buck” still lives, and let me say
to him, “that was a trick well con
ceived, but you served the old
gentleman mighty had.”
Mr. Rambo, while a splutterer,
was, neverthelesss, an inoffensive
man; and I never heard of him
doing any harm to any one or to
their property but once. Robin
Craig, who was a near neighbor,
had a bull, and lie was large and
fat, and went where he pleased
a twelve-rail fence to the contrary
notwithstanding. One day Rambo
heard him coming down his lane
bellowing furiously, and visions of
destroyed corn fields flitted before
his eyes. Gathering his old shot
gun, lie met him up the lane—the
bull on the outside and lie on the
other. Getting within a short
distance, he fired through the
crack of the fence and gave him
a full dose of blue pills in his
flank, contrary to the comfort
and dignity of the' bull and the
peace and quiet of Mr. Craig.
When the animal came home
the owner found he had been shot,
and soon ascertained that Mr.
Rambo had done it, for he never
denied it.
Craig, hot as pepper, went over
to see about it, and tho following
coloqtiy, it was said, took place:
“Ranibo, did you shoot my bull?”
“Yes!”
“ Was he in your field ?”
“No!”
“Was lie doing any mischief?”
“No !”
“Where was he?”
“In my lane!”
“Then, why did you shoot him?”
“I was sick that morning and in
an ill humor 1”
“Well, sir, the next time you
get sick I want you to go to Dr.
Russell and get a dose of medi
cine, and not shoot my bull again ;
and, as you arc poor, I will pay
for it.”
lie used to say lie never bet but
once in his life. M T heu ho lived in
South Carolina, and soon afier his
marriage, a big, awkward, light
wood-smoked, spraddlc-footed piny
woodsman—without shoes, cop
peras breeches—reaching half way
from liis knees to his ankles—with
a rifle gun, marched up to his
cabin and took a seat in the yard.
He soon began to tell of his great
exploits as a marksman—the umu-
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!
her of deer and turkeys he hud
killed, and that he would never
shoot a sqirrel except in the eye.
Just at this moment a chicken
rooster came through the yard,
and the hunter said he could shoot
off his comb without touching him
otherwise, and that he would bet
a dollar on it. Mr. Rambo thought
it an impossibility—thought he
could win his money, and covered
his bet with the first and only
money he had ever earned.
The man raised his rifle—cluck
cd to the chicken to attract his at
tention-fired —shaved off the
comb as if it had been ent with a
knife—and, bis dollar was gone !
That broke him from gambling.
Mr. Karnbo came to this enmity
not far —I would say—from the
! year 1820. He came from the piny'
woods, not far from Oharlesloilp 1
| think.
I lie had been very poor, ns lie
! sai l, but by great industry and
frugality, got to be well oil'. He
never spent money for a iy tiling,
except for the education of his
only child, who is the Rev. lvin-
I chin Rambo—long a citizen of this
| county, and now a resident of
Floyd county; who is a distin
guished Primitive Baptist preach
er, and a first-class business man.
He saved his money and was a
! money lender. His friend, Mr.
: Cleveland, in whom he hud great
confidence, once wanted to borrow
! some money'. Mr. K. was in town
! and it was not convenient for him
to go back home after it. Mr. C.
wanted it right then, and said he
could write an order to his old lady
i and ho would send after it. That
j would do no good, Mr. Rambo
I said. She might think it a forged
order, but he sent with the mes
senger, l’crry—Mr. Cleaveland’s
colored man—his old pocket-knile,
and the 500dollais was sent.
lie was a Baptist when I first
knew him and was regular in his
attendance at his church at “Old
Red Land,” complying strictly
with all the ordinances of Ids
church, but “fell from gi ace” and
died out of the church.
In politics he was a democrat
“dyed in the wool”—both warp
and woof—and never “split his
ticket.” lie would have consid
ered it worse than sacrilege to
have voted for a whig or any one
who was not a democrat.
I might give man) 7 other anec
dotes of Jesse Rambo. I might
tell of Bob Coker wanting to go
home with him from town one day,
and the old man’s excuses for him
not to go. First—That his wife
was sick and couldn’t bear coin pa
ny—of Bob saying he was a very
quiet man and would not bo trou
blesome— then, that his cook was
sick, too—and of Bob saying lie
was a first rate cook himself and
could do the cooking—then, that
he had nothing in the world to eat
but cow-peas—and of Bub saying
he liked peas better than any thing
in the world—of the old man’s ev
ident despair of getting rid of him
—of Bub stepping finally into the
grocery to get another drink, to
give the old man a ehancc to run
—how he diil run—and how lie
made tracks in haste over the h'll
towards home, leaving a blue
streak behind him—but my space
will not admit, and the foregoing
must sulficc.
But the meanest, most diaboli
cal act I ever knew perpetrated
in cur old county, was the robbery
of Mr. Ranibo.
lie was a little old man, and his
family consisted of himself, hi»
old lady and his negroes. It was
believed, generally, that he had
money, and lie had; but, tho day
before this occurrence, he had
taken the most of it and deposited
it witli Hutchins, Cleavelaml, or
Spence, I have forgotten which.
Five or six men went to his house,
late at night, disguised. Two
guarded the negro houses, to keep
tho negroes in; and the otlio'B
went into tho house and demanded
the key of his safe. They blind
folded the old man—hit him over
the bead with a stick, and used vi
olence on the old lady by choking
her. The old man conld hear tho
gurgling of her throat and her
efforts to get breath, and begged
them to spare her life, but to kill
him if they would !
1 have heard of “honor amongst
thieves”—of magnanimity of high
way-men—but this attack on Mr.
Ran bo —the personal jvioleuce to
him—especially to his old wife —
was the worst—the most fiendish
that ever occurred in our county.
It was currently believed at the
time, and the opinion is still enter
tained, that the perpetrator* of
this f .ul dot'd were—partly at
least —of onr own citizens. Wen
who stood well in general estima
tion —men, probably, who often
prated of their honesty, integrity,
uprightness and fair dealings !
If this should meet their eye,
let mo say : “Yo hypocrites !
‘your sin will find you out!’ A
day of retribution will come !
You will yet call for rocks and
mountains to fall upon you to hide
your naked deformities from the
presence of an indignant, offended
trod !”
Finally—Jesse Rainbo was as
queer and uniqe in personal ap
pearance us lie was in sayings and
i actions.
He was about five feet eight
inches high-uvordupois 11 d pounds
i— erect and fidgety. Clad gene
Iwally in summer —with a long-tail
bine stir tout coat of home maim
factnre—copperas pants, with the
Egs stuck in his stockings—shoes
of cow leather, tanned in his own
trough and made by bis negroes —
a pair of brass-rimmed specta
cles, always on—and, for many
years, a high-topped napped hat of
the bee gum style, given hi n by
Spence—and a iiitle old blue cot
ton “mnl)i riill,” carried in his left
hand, when not st reached over him.
1 thought l could describe him
better when I commenced, but
like Dr. Hall’s morning gown, he
was a non do script—indescriba
ble—outre in all his parts, and I
have made a failure.
Hut the queer old man is sleep
ing in his grave and I will not
disturb him.
I always liked him—for his
oddities —his good nature and his
great flow of quaint l.umor.
It was a great freak of nature
when ho was made. The world
lias seen but one Jesse Rarabo
and will never sec another.
W.
NATIONAL CONGRESS.
Spicy Debate on Amnesty.
Senate, Washington, Jan. 23.
THE AMNESTY BII.L.
The regular order, ilia amnesty
bill, was then taken up, and Mr.
Morton (Rep., 1m1.,) addressed the
Senate upon it. lie declared him
self opposed to universal suffrage,
and characterized the arguments in
favor of it as based upon sickly sen
timentalism and spuiious generosity.
Ho thought there was a good d.'al of
misapprehension throughout (he
country in regard to the disabilities
now resting upon those "ho engaged
in the rebellion. It was, perhaps,
not generally known that Jefferson
Davis and all of his followers had
as much right to vole as any man
who served in the Union army. He
reviewed the history of the Four
teenth Amendment, and argued (hat
the provision in it authorizing Con
gross to remove disabilities by a
two-third voto was not designed to
authorize tho removal of disabilities
from classes, but only from Individ
uals. It seemed therefore to he
straining the Fourteenth Amendment
to pass he Amnesty bill as it came
from the House. Ho was willing,
however, to vote for that bill, but be
liever would vote for it with the ex
ceplions stricken out. The disabili
ty imposed by that amendment upon
the Southern leaders was tho last
remaining legal mark of d:sapproba
tion of the rebellion, ami lie could
never con ,cut to its approval, because
to do so would bo to acknowledge
that
THE UEOELUON WAS NOT WRONG’,
that it was merely a difference of
opinion, and that the leaders of the
rebellion had tho same right as lojal
men to hold tho highest offices of the
Government. The question of am
nesty had generally been argued
heretofore on the grounds of expe
tliency and experience; blit he wished
to consider it upon a higher plan.—
lie thought there was a great join-,
ciple involved, a principle of eonsis
teney of duty to the Government,
and especially a principal of the
greatest importance to posterity. It
was argued that amnesty would con
ciliate the people of the South; but
lie believed that the leaders could no
more bo conciliated In that way than
ratthsnakes could be conciliated by
restoring their extracted fangs. Tin y
would die as they had !ive?P— rebels.
Whatever dignity history might give
to their characters must debend upon
their consistency in maintaining that
attitude-, it erefore,
THEY COI'LD NOT BE CONCILIATED
by this measure, and if it would con
ciliate the masses of the Southern
people it would be by their taking it
as au admission that thev wc-rc al-
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
wavs ill the light and that the North
wu’j in the wrong. It nniversa
amnesty were to l>o gtantsd now it
would lie impossible to convince the
next generation that there was any
tliingjwrong in the rolxdlion, and the
Republican party could not concede
the guiltlessness of tlio rebellion
without falsifying its whole record
and disgracing itself before the world.
The consequences of the rebellion
wero far greater than the conse
quence* of all ti e other crimes com
mitted in the United State* up to
this time. If a man took a sbg c
life or stole a ten dollar bill, lie
would be executed on the scaffold or
sent to the peni eniiary. Yet it was
proposed that hero men who had
brought.
UNTOLD CALAMITIES UPON TilK NATION
should bo relieved from the last
mark of disapprobation that remained
upon them. If any ono.believcd’hal
we should never have any troubles
in this country li area tier that opinion
was contradicted by tlui history of
all nations. Disagreements, heart
burnings, and morn serious Uiuihlis
weio sure to occur, and it was a dan.
gerous thing to teach coming genera
tions that rebellion was no crime,
and (hut the only risk incurred by a
rebel was the risk of losing his life
while actively engaged in waring upon
the "government. Again, if amnes
ty ought to he giauled in order to
conciliate the people of Ij’tlieJ South,
the argument was strong for pension
ing rebel poldieis, because that would
bo a far more conciliating measure.
It would be also a legitimate conse
quence of the argument for amnesty.
For if Davis and Breekonridge should
bo adiniled in the Senate to make
laws for the nation there certainly
would remain no good reason wliv
tho rebel sodiers should he excluded
from the hondefit of the pension laws,
and lie predicted that if get oral am
nesty were granted, the next step
would be to
PENSION TIIE REBEL SOI.DIKRS;
the next to pay the lebels for their
property taken by the Union armies;
the next to pay them for their slaves,
and the next to consolidate tho rebel
debt with the national debt.
Mr. Thurman (Dem.,Ohio) inquir
ed how all these things could be done
in the face of the provisions ol the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Mr, Thurman—The Senator as.,
sumes, then, that the Democratic
party is to g<> into power and to dis
regard tho Fourteenth Amendment.
I wish he would stale how soon he
expects that event to happen 1
[ unughtor].
Mr Morton—l hope that the Dem
ocratic paGy’will not g>t into power
during this generation. I believe it
would he the greatest national calam
ity that could happen. I believe that
tho best interest oMiltis nation ami ol
civilization upon this continent are
involved in tho continue I supremacy
of tho Republican party for many
years. But great calamities have
happened. Great phtjfno* bare come
upon the world; earthquakes liavp
swallowed np cities; Chicago has been
burned, and it is among the possibili
ties that
THE DEMOCRATS MAV COME INTO POWER.*
[Laughter]. Ami 1 say the Democratic
party does not acknowledge the va
il Jity of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Mr. Vailandigham attempted last
summer to bring tiis party up to the
acknowledgement of it; but ho has
passed away, new dcpAtluio
which ho inaugurated- was buried
with him in the same grave. In
conclusion, Mr. Morton said he
would vote for Sumner’s amendment
—the Supplementary Civil Rights I
Bill. Me agreed with Mr. Sumner I
in putting justice before generosity,
or spurious magnanimity. What
might bo mercy to the individuals
amnesty would in h : s opinion be
CRI'Kt.TY TO Kl'Tl'Ult (jBnRIUTIOX,
and whiio he was willing to vote for a
general amnesty, lie believed univer
sal amnesty would te inhuman and
immoral, because it would be an
admission of the innocency of a rebel
lion whose consCquerfccs will linger
in the country centuries.
Mr. Thurman said lie was at a loss to
comprehend tho Senator from Indiana
(Mr. Morton). That Senator asserted
that universal amnesty would bo in
human ami immoral, and lie was pre
pared lo vote for his bill of universal
amnesty provided Mr. Sumner’s
amendments should be adopted.
Mr. Morton explained that what
ho had denounced was universal am
nesty. He would vote for this
House bill because it made exceptions
of persons who might bo regarded
as among the authors of the rebellion.
Mr. Thtirnien said that if this
House bill was so satisfactory to the
Senator, ho was at a loss to account
for his denunciation of universal
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six lines published Iree. For a man ad
vertising his wife, and all other personal
matter, double ratis v. ill tie charged.
No. 44.
amnesty on this occasion, as no ono
had prnpo-ed to amend this Mil so as
to make it apply universally. Ho
thought there was
ONLvJo\K J W.\Y TO ACCOUNT POP. IT. .
The Senator tYo 1 ! 1 Indiana had
seized this opportunity i<, make a
speech which would stiiku the key
note of the eomii g campaign -
Thai function had so often devolved
upon him or been assumed by him
that it had passed into the common
law of the Radical party that he
should do this at the beginning of
every campaign, and the only regret
he, (Mr. Thurman),-had on the sub
ject was that in all the years during
which the Irenatpr had been studying
that music lie had not discovered
a new tone or ovcn*x single new note
[laughter]. It was the ‘amc old st< rr
about the wickedness of the rebellion
and of the Democratic parlv, and the
same old a nay of terrible remits
would follow if the Democrats should
got iTito power, and which were t >
lie found nowhere alive but in tl a .
Senator’s imagination
Mr. Blair snggsUnl that it was
not the same no'e that Mr. Morton
struck in 1865 where he mado a
Speech in favor of l’resi lent Jhonson.
Mr. Thurman--I leave that to he
settled between the Senator from
Missouri (Mr. Blair) and the Sen
ator from Indiana (Mr. Morton). —
The Senator from Indianr makes
HIE SAME OLD CUArOES
against the {Democratic putty —charges
which l e lielirvis of coarse, or he would
not make them —but which I venture to
say that no human being in his si-lists
and intelligent enough to form an opinion
does believe or cun believe for one single
instant. Payment of the rebel debt 1
How is it to be paid in the f ee ol the
Fourteenth amendment, which prohibits
even a Stale from making any payment
of it. Payment of pensions to rebel sol
diers is also positively prohibited by the
Fourteenth ana ndinent. The payment of
the national debt is guaranteed by the
Constitution. The reinstitution of she-- -l
is positively prohibited-by T'oiisl ihn
tion of the United Slates, and yet a ic. d«
ing Sciiutor. one who is looked upi n nor.
Imps us the leader of Lis party ambus the
particular month piece of the Administra
tion, lias the boldness to hold up those
preposterous statements to frighten the
American people out of ilieir propriety.
Sir, it may do very well on the slump in
the swamps of Indiana [laughter], but it
is not too much to say that to men who are
accustomed to reflect, the apprehensions
which the Senator expresses arc
rttKPO.STKKOt .l AND HIDK.I J.OCR.
Now 1 tin ! grout difficulty in understand
ing this A<lrniiiistintior). '(lie President,
in his normal message, recommends an
amhrsty, nml here is the Senator from
Indiana (Mr. Morton), one of Ids cliiif
snpportcis, denouncing it. The Presi
dent ri commends civil service reform, and
the Senator from Wisetusin (Mr. Car
penter) pours out upon it t!ie via la of Ids
wrath nu ridicule. 1 fan hardly un
derstand it. But if I were a suspicious
man I would say that, this is the old trick
of throwing a tub to the vrha'c. I would
-itspect. that when the President rays
• fa-t ns have civil service reform." there
is a mental reservation that it shall Ik.*
killtd in Congress; and that who it ho
soys ‘-Let us have amnesty,” there is u
mental reservation thr.t the Radicals in
the Senate shall kill amnesty, Jdo not
charge ary such hypoerney upon the
Provident, but it dues look wonderfully
strange that every important nrotymeml
otiim made by the President is ignored
by his trends in this chamber. Mr.
Thurman in conclusion argued the qttes
tton of rights of States under the Con
st it nr ion.
Mr. Morton in reply said that Mr.
Thurman laid just made uu old speech
übout
| TIIB DANOKHS OF OENTfUUZVTION,
which also had boon often heard in the
swamp* of Indiana. It was the same n'd
: Democratic Slate rights fjvoch. The
j Senator laid just said, lie could not under*
| stund this Administration. That tv.u*
true; the whole Democratic party were
unable' to understand this Administration
K |iuugliterl or (lie times in which they
lived, ,'f Ley were like a man riding in a
car backward, who never sees ftnyfiitn-t
until lie is clear post it. [Laughter. |
As to the dangers thfrf‘would rt sUilt from
their'coming into power, he would rsk
w hether the Democrats were not commit *
ted to pay lor tho rebel:,’ slaves? To
show that they were he sent Mr. Blair's
Bmadheud letter to the disk to be read,
and su'd it was Is cause'of the ‘sen intents’
expressed in that letter that .Mr. Blair
was given the second place on thy Jk-mo
cratic Presidential ticket.
11. G., the national I a ripe r,
was applied to fol a remedy for
“fed Riches” in horses. “Pant
their too nails close,” responded
the renowned npriculluript, “ami
they can't scratch any more.”
Judge Hopkins, J|idgs. of iHo Sn
peiipr Court of the Atlanta Circuit,
lias appointed \Y. D. Ellis, Esq., the
Commissioner of Kulton county to
take depositions under the late act
passed by the General Assembly.
: &T The first house ever built
j in Nebraska is still standing on
1 the banks of the Missouri.