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Kvtinnett herald. K f«nEB E'-ERV Wednesday, by fcptfS i YABBRODGH. ■“j,, a. I’EEPLES, Ei.non. ■“ TK . OF SUBSCRIPTION. ».VTf.s u ~..52 00 fcns’K*-"—--"* s •ffijS «i»hmg tbcir Papers ■ „e post-office to another, ■ ? * h lev wish it changed, as well 1fc.,,. AI>VEKTISKIIBXTO. ■'"Tfi® s !*'' B '' 1 ”"’- ■ ■ - ji|! KSmtoWII--'.' | g ■ to sell land ®f land, per square - "" Krs of dismission.. . • Bcation for homestead 2 00 Ijflr notices Sales of land, by administrators, Sg : or guardians, are required by ■£ held on the first Tuesday m the ■ between the hours o ten m the ■',., and three in the afternoon, at ■ “.-house in the county in which is situated. ■,; .. 0 f these sales must be given in gazette 40 days previous to the Hiicet debtors and creditors of an ■ must aiso be published 40 days. SH{j ce for the sale of personal proper be given in like manner, 10 days to sale day. that application will be made (' ( , ur t of Ordinary for leave to must be published for four weeks, on letters of administration, 4c., must be published 30 |,,r dismission from administration, three months; for dismission f„ r the foreclosure of mortgages published monthly, four mouths : lislung lost papers, for the full of three months; for compelling ■ executors or administrators, ■ bond has been given by the de fijl.ihc full space of three months. ’s sales must be published for notices, two weeks. |H)licutions will always be continued '■hi,.' to these, the legal iequirements, otherwise ordered. IESSIONAL CARDS. S. WM. E. SIMMONS. N & SIMMONS. ORNEYS AT LAW, svn.LE, Georgia. in Gwinnett and the adjoining mar 10-ly ICTOIIINS, GARNETT M’MII.LAN, rille, Ga. Clarksville, Ga. f UNS I- McMILLAN, 'ORNEYS AT LAW. Lawrenceville and Clarksville, in the counties of the Western 1 in Milton and Forsyth of the i. mar 15-1 y x. GLKNN, JR.YEY AT LAW, ' ;VILI.Z, GA mptly attend to all business • his care, and also to Land, Pension claims mar 15-Gm R M. PEEPLES, ORNEY AT LAW, evillk, ga. iin the counties of Gwinnett, ion and Milton. claims promptly attended to Gm K.& G. A. MITCHELL, RENCEVILLE, GA., ully tender a continuation of sional services to the citizens Keep constantly on hand a uicnt of drugs and chemicals, -ious carefully prepared. ■J HAFFER, M.3X, AN AND SURGEON, 'RENCEVILLE, GA. i-Gnt T. G. JACOBS, geon dentist, '“.pared to practice his proses -18 branches, informs the citi rrenceville and vicinity that he office in Lawrenceville from he 18th of each month. By ration to business, and reason “°pcs to secure a liberal work warranted. mar22ly P - Ro B ERT s 7 tTTOItXEY AT Law, tARETTA, GEORGIA, business entrusted to ‘kaiuc Ridge circuit; also • of H a i| an( j Gwinnett of n circuit W wi J h CW- /f - H. Walker >n ’ Mh d Warrants and e * against the United States n ‘ june 14-Gun Ul -INE HOSUE, treet > “ear the Car Shed, ATLANTA, GA. ElTli, - . Proprietor, or Lodging! 50 Cents. Weekly Gwinnett Herald. T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ] Yol. 11. EASTER. I)o saints keep holy day in heavenly places ? Does the old joy shine new in angel faces? Are hymns still sung the night when Christ was born, And anthems on the Resurrection Morn? Because our little year of earth is run, Do they make record there beyoud the sun? And in their homes of light so far away Mark with us the sweet coming of this day"? What is their Raster? For they have no graves, No shadow holy sunrise craves— Deep in the heart of noontide marvellous Whose breaking glory reaches down to us. flow did the Lord beep Eastei? With His own! Back to meet Mary where she grieved alone, With face and mein all tenderly the same, Uulo the very sepulcher He came. Ah! the dear message that He gave her then Said for the sake of all bruised hearts of men! —“Go, tell those friends who Lave be lieved on me. I go before them into Galilee!” ‘ Into the life so poor and hard and plain. That for a while they must take up again. My presence passes! Where their feet toil slow. Mine, shining swift with love, still fore most go! “Say, Mary, I will meet them. By the way, To walk a little with them; where they stay, To bring my peace. Watch! For ye do not know The day, the hour, when I may find you so!” — And I do think, as He came back to her, 'l’he many mansions may be nil astir With tender steps that hasten in the wnv. Seeking their own upon this Easter Day. Farting the veil that hideth them about, I think they do come, softly, wistful out From homes of heaven that only seem so far, And walk in gardens where the new tombs are! For tbe Gwinnett Herald. PEN AND INK SKETCHES. Moses Liddell. Mosc3 Liddell was a stern man —as stern and inflexible in bis principles as Andrew Jackson, and as unyielding. Although he was thus stern, and apparently harsh, yet he was kind in his nature and devoted to his friends. In the days of his early man hood, it was said that he was no ted lor his bold wickedness, his turbulent disposition, and his readiness to engage in broils fights. But the grace of God upon his heart changed all these; from the harsh and wicked man, lie became, thereby, a pious, zealous disciple of his Heavenly Master ! ' In the year 1822 lie embraced religion, in Franklin county, Geor gia—where lie then lived —and joined a Presbyterian church in South Carolina, near the border of the State. He was born in old Pendleton, S. C., October 13, 178 G—moved to Franklin in 1814, and then to Gwinnett in the latter part of 1825. On the 11th of February, 1826, “He presented to the session of Fairview church a certificate ot the good standing of himself and his wile, Polly Liddell, expressing a desire to unite with this church, and they were accordingly re ceived.” Upon the same day, he was chosen a Ruling Elder of that church and set apart to the func tions of his office on the 22nd day of April thereafter, which office he continued to fill, I believe, until his removal from the county, in 1857. Mr. Liddell was noted for his zeal and strict notions of church duties ! “He remembered the Sab bath day, and kept it holy,” in form and spirit, and was faithful in his attentions and observance of all the ordinances of his church and delighted in them. I am permitted to make an ex i tract from a private letter to the writer, from Mr.Liddell’s old friend and brother, A. R. S., refering to hia great fortitude and chrisliau resignation under afflictions : “Mr. Liddell was, for a long time, afflicted with ‘white swelling’ on his knee, resulting from a kick of a horse; and amputation be -1 came necessary to save his life. Dr. Banks attended as surgeon. Mr. Liddell’s friends gathered iu to sympathize with him in this fearful and painful crisis, lie asked them oue and all to pray for Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, April 10, 1872. I him in hi* extremity, and seemed i prepared for the event, whatever j might he the issue. The operu- I tion was performed with great skill and success, and he lived ! many years after to enjoy his at tendance on the sanctuary!" It may he noted as, not only re markable, but perhaps unprece dented, that although he was a large man, and had heavy mus cles, such was his great fortitude and Christian resignation to his fate, and his great powers of cn durance, that during the exceed ingly painful operation he made no exclamations of pain, except when the surgeon's saw touched the marrow of the thigh-bone, and then only one “grunt,” although no chloroform or other opeates were used in the case, as 1 am in formed. One more extract from the same letter: “lie scrupulously performed all his religious duties and seemed intent that every Sabbath should be to him a ‘Sabbath day's journey toward heaven.’ One circum stance impresses me fmcibiy.— It was the practice of elders and members of Fair view church to meet on the Sabbath (when they had no preaching) for prayer and exhortation. As Mr. L.ddcll was some distance from the post-office, his letters sometimes remained on hand, and 1 thought it would do him a favor to take them to the church on Sabbath. I gave him the letters before service commenced. He would hardly look at the superscription, but put them in his pocket, remarking that he would read them to-morrow, and then, as if he wished to forget the subject as soon as possible, and not think Ills own thoughts, he would open his hymn book, and say to his bretheren, ‘Let us sing, Oh ! for a closer wa k with God.’ This was his favorite hymn. Of course 1 did not trouble him afterwards with letters on Sunday.” In 182 G he organized a Sabbath school at Fairview—the tirst one that was established in the county —with himself chosen as superin tendent, and George M. Gresham and wi e, Dr. Alexander and wife, Or. Sam. Means, Win. Montgome ry, David L. Ward law, John Mills and others as ieachcrs. Mr. Saye was appointed moderator on the outside, and he would go around amongst tlie “i utsiders” in his soft, quiet way, and keep them in order. So strict was the discipline of the school that when any of the class wanted water, the entile class, accompanied by its teach er, would repair to the spring to gether. One of the pupils at that school —a little boy then—an old man now —in repairing with his class to the spring, headed by David Ward Taw, their teacher, commenc ed to whistle as they passed along. His teacher checked him, and very kindly reminded him, “that every thing must be quiet and orderly at this school.” I give this incident to show how strict and proper every thing was conducted in the first Sabbath school organized in our old county, with Mr. Liddell as superinten dent. A Miss Cooper, whose mother was an Abbott, was a member of the school and walked | six miles to attend it. She would often recite a hundred versos of the Bible she had committed to memory during the preceding week! Several who were members of that school, went out “with beau teous feet,” and were “watchmen on the wails of Zion” afterwards. Mr. Liddell removed to Decatur in 1857, and for a time before his death, became imbecile in mind, and died the 10th of May, 1858, and his ashes now slumber in the grave yard of his old church at Fairview ! He, and most ol those i who used to meet and worship with him at that old church, are gone to meet their reward in heav en. A few—o\ily a few of them — Wilson, Montgomery, Smith, Mills and Strickland, old, shriveled, and I grav, yet survive; halting with lee Li footsteps, and rapidly up j proaching the “dark river,” over i which they, too, must soon pass to | meet their old brethren ou\tlre other side ! God, bless these old i men in their old age, and may | their example be followed by tboso who come after them. Amongs the many good traits of character which Mr, Liddell i posscsed, noire were more beauti l ful and lovely than his teulerucss “COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!” and affection for the female mem bers of his household. Civilization has done a great deal for woman, and religion has done much more! In the dark ages, and even now with savage tribes and with barbarians, the women are made slaves to their lords and masters,and are regarded as no better than menials and beasts of burden ! That same disposition of hea thendom, that regards the female sex as serfs, still prevails to con siderable extent even in this day and time and in this enlightened age! Frail, weak woman, that should be regarded as the “tender jewels” of the household, are often de prived of all privileges and still made “beasts of burden" by their heartless and debased fathers and husbands ! This is seen almost every day ! A man that thus acts with the “wife of his bosom,” and the daughters which God has given him to love and cherish, is a bar barian, and a wretch that should be kicked out of the community, and spurned by all decent men ! Many a good woman has been driven to desperation and dishon or by the unkindness and brutality of him ►lie must call “father;” and many driven to form an alliance for life with one she knows is far beneath her, and thus become miserable for life to escape from the tyranny of that father ! If it was my province to pass sentence upon such a father , 1 would sentence him to the galling “chain and ball” for life, and then consign him to the deepest—dark est — hottest, and most dolorous regions in perdition, forever ! Such was not my old friend Mo ses Liddell; and lam rejoiced to record the fact. 1 have thus performed a melan choly duty in trying to chronicle and perpetuate, briefly, the virtues and good deeds of my eld friend, who was one of the most Godly men I ever knew'. Blessed be the memory of the “old fathers,” and may wo never forget their good examples and Christian teachings while life shall last. W. f GOOD-BY. liY MATTIE WINOFIELD TORRKY. Good-by! I take your hand in mine, Oh ! friend and comrade, tried and true; And in my being's inmost shrine, I make a sacred place for you. And what, though many a weary mile. May lie between our sundered ways? I keep the glory of thy smile Through all the intervening days. The memory of tliy love I keep, Nor can its sweetness fade or die ; Its blessedness shall o’er the deep . Attend me ever, far or nigh. Good-by ! Now lay your hand in mine ; I shall be faithful, never fear ; Love needs no token, word, or sign, Only a look, and all is clear. Good-by ! And, oh ! be true to me, And love me,sweet, with all thy heart; F’or though I go, I leave with tliec, Of all I am, the better part. Good-by ! The shores are fading fast! The sails are loose, the vessel free ; The old familiar scenes fly past — Friend, lover, home, adieu to thee ! - mm • What Became oe the Confede rate Gold. — An interesting letter from Col K. J. Moses, clearing up the mystery that has long hung around the disposition of the gold belonging to tlie Confederacy is published iu several of our ex changes. A small portion of it, it appears, was converted into ra tions for the returning soldiers, and no doubt faithfully, while tlie bulk of it was turned over to the Federal Quarter Master at Augus ta for a similar appropriation, but whether it was so appropriated may be an interesting subject of inquiry at the hands of the author ities at Washington.— Watchman. I Will Not.— “l will not,” said a little hoy, stoutly, as I passed along. The tone of the voice struck me. “What won’t you do ?” I stopped and asked. “That boy wants me to 'make believe’ something to my mother, I won’t,” lie answered in the same st >ut toue. That is one of the right places to say “I won’t ” I hope he will stick to it. Will our young readers copy his exam ple ? A good listeuor is as needful to a witty talker as steel to flint. It is the sharp coutact of the two that makes the sparks fly! Cannibalism in Canada. Ottawa, March 21. The most astonishing stories of cannibalism at the headwaters of the Ottawa where related to me this afternoon, by a man whose respecta bility and veracity are undoubted. This winter Mr. Wiight, a lum berman, living near Ottawa, had a lumber shanty on one of the tributa ries of the Obittcebee Lake, within a day’s travel of Fort Timiscomanqtie, one of the Hudson Bay trailing posts, and while on a visit to his limits, from which ho has returned, lie as certained the following facts. A camp of Obitteebee Indians was established about ten miles from Mr. Wright’s shanty early in the winter, and the squaw, with her children—the oldest a boy about fourteen years of age— came occasionally to the shanty to tradeoff fur with the foreman for grease and tlour. Provisions were scarce at the shanty, as supplies had to be brought such a long distance, and lie hail to forbid the Indians from coming around the place. As the winter advanced the snow became deep, the game was so scarce that the Indian camp was sometimes without food for two days at a time. Hares, that had been plentiful other years, had been decimated by u disease that bail attacked them during the summer, and the Indians were reduced to a state of starvation. Parents Eating Their Children. The owner of the w igwam returned one evening in January, alter an un successful hunt of two days, and found that one of his children bail been killed by the squaw, and the family were then satisfying their hun ger with part of the flesh, which had been half cooked in a kettle. The old Indian, without asking any ques lions, joined with the rest in the horrid repast, and satisfied his appe tite also. The family lived for three days ou the body of the child, and, when it was totally consumed, the Indian again started out to hunt, hut was unsuccessful. On returning to camp lie drove his tomahawk through the skull of of another child himself, and, without ceremony the squaw proceeded to boil a sufficient quantity of the tleoli for a meal. The Wife Sacrificed to Hunger. 'Jlie weather grew colder, with more snow, and It was imposihle for the Indian to" go on nnolhor hunt, lie singed the hairoffsome dry beaver skins, and they managed to keep alive until this supply failed. Then, •no day, when savage with hunger without warning, he tomahawked the the squaw, and lie and the hoy fed off the carcass for several days. In the meantime the weather cleared up, and the Indian started in the direc tion of a moose park, several miles from camp, to try and secure some game; but the enow, though deep* was light, and he could hot get with in rifle-shot of the deer. A Terrible Alternative. After a three day’s hunt ho re turned to the camp, and the boy, who saw that his father had no pro visions with him, at once made up his mind that he or the old man had to die. Without waiting to discuss the question with his parent ho tent a title bullet through his heart, and and before the blood had timo to cool lie was assuaging his terrible hunger with pieces of his father’s flesh. He remained in the camp ns long as the provision lasted, and then made his way to tho shanty where he related, in a mixture of bioken French and ludian, the facts wnich we have given above. The men could not believe that horrible tale until the young Indian had con fessed it to the priost, who resided at a station seveial miles down the tiver. lie also confessed that on one other occasion his sister, a year youn ger than himself, had been killed and eaten two years previous when they had not any game for several days. The Only Survivor of a Family. A half-breed fur trader named Simpson, who resides at F’ort Tim iscomanqiie, often asserted that on one occasion, while buying fur at an Indian camp, he asked for something to eat, and was told to help himself from an iron pot that was on the tire, lie stirred up the mess which it contained, and nearly fainted with horror when lie fished up a human hand from the bottom. An Indian, with an unpronounce able name, who camps by himself near the head of the Obitteebee Lake, is known and spoken ot as the only surviving member of a family ot cannibals, and he is shunned and; feared by other members of the tribe. \ How the Cannibals Live. The Übitteebee Indians arc do -' [s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. scribed as being tall and stoutly built with a very forbidding cast of eouatc nnee, the squaws being positively, repulsive in their appearance. They are lazy r.nil filthy in their habits, make no attempt at tilling the soil, and live entirely by hunting and trapping. They sometimes engage as axemen in the shanties, but sel doni remain long, as they will not work constantly, and it is as hard to feed one of them as it is to keep six white men. The squaws and children are clothed with a sort of blanket which they make from hare skins, cut into strips, plaited and stitched together in tiio required slihjkj. Their dwellings in winter are coiim posed of poles, which are stacked in the form of a tent, and covered with birch hark and moss, a fire being built inside in the centre, from which the smoke finds its escape through a hole in the top of the wigwam. As long as game is plentiful, the Indians remain in the same camp, hut if a moose is killed at any considerable distance, the camp is moved to that vicinity, and the owners remain there as long ns they can find enough to sat. The above is the substance of what Mr. NVrigbt has heard from his men and from Hudson’s Bay fur traders wl.o have been dealing with this extraordinary tribe of Indians, and as inereditahle as the statement appears to ho, lie s qs there aro doz ens of shantvmen at the head waters of the Ottawa • who nro willing to testify to the truth of it. The evploiatory survey of the route of the proposed Canada Facific railroad will pass through the section of country occupied by the Ohitteebeo’s, and in another year or probably in a few months some thing more will bo known of the « . manner and customs ol these extra ordinary Indians.— Sun. Front the Menuslm (Wis) Press, Mar. 9. A Horrible Story. An occurrence which makes the very blood freeze within the veins of the reader, came to light last Monday, over in Clifton, Calumet comity, Wis. Thomas Downing, who for some time has lived in a small shanty hack from any road over in that locality, and quarried stone for a livelihood, was taken violently sick at his home, on the 22ud of last January, with bilious lover, and was confined to his lied from that time until Monday, Mar. 4. During the long weary days of his illness no one called ; no one to lend a helping hand in adminis tering to the wants of the sufferer, and all because the location of his resilience was so secluded that he was not missed front his daily >round of toil. Last Monday, how ever, came the good Samaritan. A gentleman who had sold Mr. Downing a quantity of butter last fall called at his residence on Monday to make a collection on the same. Upon approaching the house there were no visible sounds of life, hut from the interior cina- I nated pitiful wails that were most harrowing to the soul. Au on trance was forced, and the suffer ing - man found on his bod with his boots and clothes all on, in which condition lie had passed the length of time above stated, without fire, and for the last fifteen days with out food or water. In this dying condition he was lifted from his cot, and conveyed to a house of a ! near neighbor, medical aid at once | summoned, and, at this writing, lie is pronounced in a fair way to re cover. This certainly is a most singular case, which can better be imag ined than described, and if Thomas is permitted by the gods to rally from his affliction he will be justi- I tied »i*advocating, to the best of | his ability, the blessedness of the I credit system. —■ At a rnarraigo lately in Maine, the bride’s voice faltered, and she paused in the midst of the impressive cere inony. Her little niece, a bright little three years’ old, thinking the naughty minister was compelling poor aunty to say something, stamped her little foot aud exclaimed in a lone of authority, “Aunty, dou l do tliay it.” An old minister, the other day, asked a woman what could be done to induce her husband to attend cliuich. “I don’t konw,” she replied, “unless you were to put a pipe and h jug of whiskey in the pew.” j .—— - ---rwr' If you have a sick friend just in sist upon the physicians using Dar by’s Prophylactic Fluid in lus room. You know not bow much it will add to the comfort and safely of ail who attend upou the patient. Rates of advertising. sr ace 3 mo’s. J C mo’s. 12 mo's. isquare C 4 00 $ o 00 8 I'lUrt 2 sq'rs COO 10 00 1 0 0 3 sqr'a 8 00 M 00 ’.’O 00 >4 col. 12 00 20 00 I 30 0o kjcol. 20 00 35 00 t 00 00 one col. 40 00 7'* On ! lop on The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. A square is the space of one inch iu depth of (lie column, irrespective of the number of lines. Marriages anil deaths, not exceeding six lines published free. For u man ad vertising iiis wife, and nil other personal matter. doiiMe rates will bo charged. No. 4. The Year of Wonderr. A Category of Ancient Predictions to be Fulfilled in 1872. A correspoudenl of the Now York World writes as follows; V. Lon, two months ago, M. Ville nossant, editor of the Paris Figaro called on the Comte de Cham bold at tho Schweitzer Hos, Lucerne, with the view of inducing that personage, to make a fusion with the Orlean s's, he was answered by a magnifi cent wave of the hand and a rovaHy omphalic denial. “Mine is the while (lag forever, and tho lilies wi I bloom immortal on my escutcheon,” proudly exclaimed tho last of the Bourbon*. Really M. Yillenessanl ought to have known better than to expose him self to such a rebuff. For once the Parisian harbor was not so shrewd as his namesake of Seville. He must have forgotten that Henri, Comte de Ghamliord, is the nntn of destiny; that to him all the prophe cies of the hist 500 years point as the great king, and toat lie cannot c.ompromi-e his cause by allying it iu any way with the revolution. It must have escaped him, more especial ly. that this year is the holy year of fulfil intent, and that, at length, after forty yc's of weary waiting, the grat dson of Charles X is to l-e re wauled for his fidelily to principle by entering ou the enjoyment of his crow n Yes, tho year 1872 is to he the glorious year of the modern world. Tlie vaticinations to which the writer refers at some length, point to tlie speedy occurrence of tlie follow ing apparently INCKKDIBI.K MARVELS t I. A frightful civil war will bo waged hot ween the tluee great parties of France—Legitimists, Republicans and Botiaparlists. The war will cer tainly take place within the Year 1872. 11. Paris will he distroyed after terrible struggles, wherein blood will flow in sueams. 111. Tho Comte de Ohainhord will he declaied King of France under j the title of Henry V. IV. There will he civil war in Eu i gland,ltaly and olkerSlates of Europe V. The civil war in Europe will be quelled by Henry V. VI. Tho Pope will he restored to his dominion by Henry V. VII. Alsace and Lorraine will bo restored to F'ranco. VIII. Tho French under the com mand of Henry V, will march through Europe as conquerors, aud even penetrate into a portion of Asia. IX. Ireland and Poland will lie freed, England and Germany will return to orthodoxy, and Isiamism will he destroyed. X. A gieat lau lo called “the bat tle of the Bitch Tree,’ wdi be fought, in which Henry V will annihilate the armies of Russia aud Prussia. It is not ascertained at what pre cise date some of the latter events will take place, but it cannot bo very long after the a cession of Henry V, because that prince is im»w 52 years of age, and, although the prophets give him multitudinous victory, they do not seem to have accorded him unusual longevity. The editor of the Chicago Post tells thin : “What would yon do if mamma should die?” asked a lady with whom we have the honor of an in timate acquaintance, of a little tin ce year-old girl that we wouldn’t take SH'O for. “Well, mamma,’* was the melancholy response, "I g'pose I should have to spank my self.” “I am afraid you will conic to want,” said an old lady to a young gentleman. “I ha.e tome to that already,” was t'm reply; “I want your daughter.” The old ludy opened her eyes. A Wisconsin editor was called out of hed one night to receive a new subscription. After that lie set up uights for over a week, hut the of fence wasn’t repeated. A beautiful little maiden in Nash ville discouraged her lover until he lost both his legs by an accident, when she marrried him without a murmur. Wasn’t tiiat like a woman. Hen. Golladay, member of Con gress from Kentucky, once gave the following toast • “ Champagne for true friends, and true pain for sham friends.” Punch’s Mental Philosophy: What is mind 1 No matter. Vv hat is matter? Never mind. What is the nature of the soul ? It is immaterial. “Ovli, Biddy, did yees hare the news, 'Phot's from beyaut ihe sazt: ? Fur hurrying jist u pare of shoos, Pat’s up for noiuty days.” [Moore’s Irish Melody.