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T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. 11.
For the Gwinnett Herald.
THE QUEEN—BRIDE.
In conscious slumber beneath the tree cf
life,
Lay man, while God completed the
circle of his joys.
The sixth day’s snn had set—the moon
and stars were bright;
The beasts were couched in mountain
caves, or on the plains reposed;
The birds had ceased their warbling, and
nature was all still.
O’er the battlements of heaven the
angel-host reclined;
Or in silence thronged thc bowers of
Eden’s plains and hills
To witness this last miracle of God’s
creative mind.
The mysterious tread and whisper of
heaven's host were hoard,
As around the sleeping monarch
thronged the shining band;
And visions of beauty on the moon lit
plain appeared,
When the work was finished—a help*
meet made lor man.
Yes, in unison, a heart beat with his that
night—
A form more lovely, and warm with
life, lay by his side.
The Sabbath dawned—a day of rest
came with the light;
Creation was now complete, and earth’s
first queen a bride. Apkbcu,
Lawrcnccvillc, Ga., May 10th, 1872.
For the Gwinnett Herald.
PEN AND INK SKETCHES.
William Baugb.
I propose to give a somewhat
photographic likeness of Mr. Baugh
so far as 1 may be able to do so;
of his many good traits of charac
ter, some of his odd notions, and
some of his marked peculiarities.
He differed in many respects from
ordinary men, and was a character
not often seen, take him for all in
all.
Ilia neighbor, R., as has been
shown, had his singularities pecu
liar to him. Mr. Baugh had his,
too, but of a different type alto
gether. The former was erratic
and fidgety; the latter was stern,
solid and courageous, even in his
oddities. He was cool—not at all
excitable, but calm and determined
in all his purposes, and would re
sent an insult, coming from what
source it might.
To illustrate: Mr. Baugh had a
brother that was a bully, and had
whipped every one with whom he
fought. Some disagreement oc
curred between them, and they fell
out. The brother said to him, that
if it was not a disgrace fur broth
ers to fight, he would give him a
whipping! Mr. Baugh replied:
“You have got your name up by
whipping drunk men and boys!
Pull off your coat and try a man !”
It was no sooner said thtyi done.
At it they- went, and the “bully”
got a terrible “licking.” This oc
curred before he came to Gwinnett,
but after he had joined the church,
I think.
lie was a man of peace, and a
religious man in heart and soul,
and had but few personal difficul
ties after he came to this county.
I remember but one. There was a
controversy about the change of a
road, in which change Mr. Baugh
was interested ; and lie was on oue
side of the controversy and Hugh
Hutchins on the other. It eventu
ally culminated in a personal rup
ture, and a quarrel! Not a quar
rel—for Baugh would not quarrel
—but an altercation occurred be
tween them, and Mr. B. forgot his
Methodism and advanced upon
Hutchins, who considered that dis
cretion was the better part of
valor, and beat a hasty retreat',
and it was well, lor if Baugh had
got hold of him it would have beeu
a calamity to him he would not
have forgot to his dying day !
A somewhat long life has made
me acquainted with a good many
men of different types, and men of
various calibre. Mr. Baugh dif
fered from all I have ever known,
in many particulars.
lie was a man of cool courage
and determination, and was as
fearless and regardless of personal
danger as General Jackson or the
elder Bonaparte.
He was a soldier in the war of
1812, and, I believe, was wounded
in the right hand, which disabled
it to some extent ever after, lie
received a pension from the Gov
ernment therefor, in the latter
years of his life. A regiment of
such as he would have been un
conquerable and irrcsistable.
He was a solid man in all his
plans and ideas, llis dwelling,
out-houses, his farm, cow houses,
and everything about his farm and
homestead fully demonstrated this.
Everything about him was of the
most substantial character.
When he came to this county,
lie bought out the farm of Richard
I. Watts, who had lived upon the
Lawrenceville, G-a., Wednesday, May 22, 1872.
place until he thought it was worn
out. Mr. B. soon renovated it,
and the whole establishment, lie
repaired the dwelliug, cribs, barns,
stables and everything ; plauted a
new orchard, repaired aud fixed
up the fences, aud soon made
more corn and cotton, wheat and
oats than Mr. Watts ever did,
even when it was fresh. To show
how precise and systematic he was
in everything : In planting his or
chard, he employed a man to assist
him, who was a New Englander,
and who was particular iu these
things from early training. The
rows were marked off as straight
as a line, and the trees were to be
thus planted. One tree seemed to
get out of its proper place in the
row, and it must be changed. A
second trial was made, and still it
was not right. And then a third,
and then a fourth, and' it still
lacked a little. After these re
peated trials, and still another was
to be made, the man got out of all
patience and refused to take it up
any more, remarking: “I have
taken it up four times, and still it
don’t suit you ; if you wish, you
can try your own hand on the
d—d tiling.”
Mr. B. laughed good hiimorcdly
at the man’s perplexity, took it in
hand himself, and eventually got
it right.
1 remember that orchard with a
lively satisfaction. The beautiful,
thrifty trees, straight as the line
of the compass; and I remember
it more especially from having
partaken of its delicious fruits
from its bending boughs, aud from
Mr. B.’s “peddler’s wagon” on the
streets of our old town, freighted
with its rich production, and
driven there by Mr. Baugh himself
to sell to our people.
lie was a deadly enemy to
whiskers and masculine long hair;
and lie always, as he used to say,
“was uneasy for his gimlets, au
gurs, pocket knife, and hen roost,
when the whiskered gentry came
about his house.”
llis old friend, Allen Turner,
who he had known and loved for
many long years, and to whose
plain and practical sermons he
had listened with interest for
nearly half a century was passing
from Oxfoid, where he lived, to
Lawrenceville to attend a “Quar
terly Meeting.” Accompanying
him was Mr. Richard Wittick, a
gentleman of culture, of fine sense,
good morals, a churchman and a
gentleman, and he wore long
beard. Mr Turner said, “We will
goto ‘brother’Baugh’s and stay
all night—aud it was a good place
to go;. for you would get a good
supper, a good breakfast next
morning, and hospitable entertain
ment for man and his beast, pro
vided you didn’t wear long beard.
Mr. Wittick was under the guid
ance of “Father” Turner, and had
no reason to dissent from the prop
osition, and did not. Upon their
arrival, after the introduction to
the strange brother, and the cor
dial greetings of the old friends,
Mr. Baugh brought out his razor,
with basin and towel, and invited
his “brother” Wittick to shave,
who declined, and said “he did not
wish to shave.” Mr. B. insisted,
and still Mr. W. declined. Finally,
after all arguments seemed una
vailing, Mr. B. said that “he could
not stay all night with him if he
did not shave.” Mr. Wittick, a
little huffy, with a “bee in his
bonnet,” left, went over to Mr.
Flowers’, who didn’t object to his
beard, and stayed all night.
Of the propriety of Mr. Baugh’s
course in this matter, I propose
not to speak. 1 relate it as one of
the peculiar trails in the charac
ter of the subject of my present
sketch. It occurs to me, how
ever, if my old friend, with his
prejudices against long beards,
could look tack uow upou the
sublunary things of this wicked
world, and see the “long and glos
sy beards,” worn by some ot his
immediate offspring, he would
turn restlessly iu his grave.
Mr. Baugh lost his first wife,
who was Elisabeth Lin6ey,wliom lie
married in 1815. He lived a wid
ower about a year and then con
cluded to marry again.
As soon as he had thus decided,
lie went to see a maiden lady with
whom he had long acquainted,
and who he thought would suit
him ; and at the first visit, inform
ed her that he had come to propose
to marry her! Ho made this a
matter of business, and, in his
characteristic way, approached
the subject abruptly and bluntly,
lie brought to bear none of the
' suae iter in modo, nor did he adopt
“ COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIK SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
the Byronic rule of winning a
woman, first “to pique then soothe
by turns.” lie “popped the ques
tion” at once, and required au an
swer at once.
Women have their ways, and
however fully they may have
made up their mind, “They want
time to consider .” This “time” he
would not grant. She must say
“3 , es”then or not at all. The result
was, he left to return uo more on
that business. His next step was
to go to Jackson county, where, I
believe, lie married his first wife.
He knew a lady there who lie
thought would suit him; for lie
had knowu her from the time of
his first marriage. Thither he
bent his way, the agreement was
made, and the marriage soon took
place. The writer remembers the
occasion well. Mr. li. started on
the day fixed, in his carriage. Be
fore getting far from home some
thing about it broke. No time to
mend it, no time to get another.
Returning back home, he got an
other horse, came by town, and I
sold him a side saddle, away he
went, riding one horse and leading
the other, arrived in time, was
married, and the next day, I think,
returned with his bride.
It proved to be a happy union
for both. She was just such a
woman as to be the wife of Wm.
Baugh. With him she agreed in
their religious views; was indus
trious —which was important to
him; was kind and affectionate to
him and his clildren, and one of
the best women I ever knew.
I remember to have seen her at
church often in her younger days,
and remember how sweetly she
used to sing the “Songs of Zion I"
She still lives a mother in Israel,
but will soon go to join her hus
band jo the “Happy Land of
Gaanan l”
/>Thirty-fivc years or more ago, lie
built a little log meeting house,
and organized a church there, with
himself, his wife, and a few of his
neighbors as members. They had,
about once a month,circuit preach
ing on week days, aud class meet
ings o:i Sunday, with Mr. Baugh
as Class Leader. A lady friend of
mine has often, years ago, spoken
to me with lively interest of the
meetings she used to attend at
that little church. On preaching
days, she would ply the batten of
the jpom vigorously, until near
the hour for preaching, then, glid
ing from the loom bench, she
would slip on a clean homespun
dress, re-comb her hair, put on her
little hood and trip along the path
way to the church.
Soon Mr. Baugh would com
mence singing—
“Children of the Heavenly King,
As we journey let us sing,”—
to one of the olden plaintive tunes
that used to be sung by our fa
thers and mothers of the olden
time with so much zest and devo
tion ; or he would select that other
old l.ymn—
“Approach/my soul, the mercy seat,
Where Jesus answers prayer.”
I never hear tlieee old songs
now hut the eye moistens and the
heart becomes mellowed and sad
at the memories they bring up.
They remind us of the days of our
childhood; for they were the good
songs our fathers and mothers
used to sing fifty years ago.
On Sunday, Mr. Baugh would
hold his Class Meetings here, and
the heart was made better and the
spirit made glad in the plain and
simple worship of the Heavenly
Master.
He afterwards built a new
church, now known as “Baugh’s
Chapel,” where he worshipped tin
til he was gathered to his fathers.
Mr. Baugh was born in Laurens
District, S. C., the Bth day of
March, 1792. llis father moved
from there to Franklin county,
Ga., in 1794, when he was two
years old.
lie was married to Elisabeth
Lindsey, October, 1815. She was
a gentle, pious, motherly woman;
of quiet turn and remarkable lor
her industry and domestic habits.
She was the mother of four sons
and lour daughters, and died in
May, 1837. lie then married Eliz
abeth Henderson, of Jackson coun
ty, in February, 1838, who still
survives him. She is the mother
of four sons, and, I believe, three
daughters. He moved to this
county in January, 1831, and set
tled the “Dicky” Watts old place
on Hugh’s creek, where he lived
until August, 1862, when he died,
aged seventy years, five months
and nineteen days.
It was a loss to our old county
wbcu he died. His cxaiup’e as a
farmer was worth much to our peo
ple; his example as a good man
and church member was worth
much ; his integrity and fair deal
ings in all his transactions taught
a good lesson to the rising genera
tion, and, although he was singular
in many of his notions, I remember
no one who was a more valuable
member of the commnity in his
day and sphere, than Win. Baugh.
The memory of him is embalmed
in the hearts of his aged partner,
his children and friends ; and may
his good examples be followed by
his offspring and those coming
after him. W.
HOOD AS GOLD.
Who shall judge him by Ins manners?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be fit for princess,
Princess fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jaeket
May become thc golden ore,
Or the deepest thoughts and feelings—
Satin vest can do uo more.
There arc streams of crystal nectar
Ever flowing out of stone;
There nTc purple beds and golden,
Hidden, crushed and overthrown,
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me
While he values luornes the highest,
But as pebbles in thc sea.
Man upraised above his fellows
Oft forgets his fellows then ;
Masters, rulers, lords remember
That our meanest hinds are men !
Men of labor, men of feeling.
Men of thought and men of fume,
Claiming rights to golden sunshiuc
In a man’s ennobling name.
There are foam-embroidered oceans,
There arc little wood-clad rills;
There are feeble, inch-high sapplings,
There are cedars on the hills,
God, who counts by souls, and nations,
Loves and prospers you and mo;
For to Him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone arc builders
Of a nation’s wealth and fame ;
Titled laziuess is pensioned*
Fed and fattered on the same,
By the sweat of other foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man’s outraged freedom
\ a inly lifts its feeble voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light ;
Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right.
God, whose world wide voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Heeds oppression with its titles,
But as pebbles in the sea.
Decrease o t Negroes in West
Virginia —ln the whole State of
West Virginia the negro popular
tion amounts to, but eighteen thou
sand—about one-third of the num
ber of blacks before the war.—
While this class is diminishing in
all the Southern border States be
cause of the emigration to the
cotton region, so very great a de
crease in West Virginia must be
due to some special reason. Wo
presume that, as in Kentucky and
Virginia, many are drawn off by
the superior inducements offered
by the States further South, in
which negroes receive higher wa
ges for their labor, while their cli
mate is by far more congenial to
the negro constitution, and at the
same time dear woolen clothing
can be to a great extent dispensed
with, and fuel is hardly required
at all. We have no doubt, how
ever, that the principal cause of
decrease is to be found in the fact
that there are no large towns in
that State. The African race
throngs to the cities, and in all
West Virginia there is but one of
these, iiamely : Wheeling, and that
not a large one, and situated in
the northwestcin corner. It is
probable therefore that a very
large proportion of the blacks of
West Virginia arc to be found in
the cities of Virginia and Bnlti
timore. —Norfolk Virginian.
Old Hicks was an awful snorcr.
He could l»c heard farther than a
blacksmith’s forge, but his wife
become so accustomed to it that it
soothed her repose. They were a
very domestic couple—never slept
apart for many years. At length
the old man was required to attend
court at some distance. The first
night after his departure his wife
never slept a wink. The second
night passed away in the same
manner without sleep. She was
getting into a very bad way, and
probably would have died, hud it
not been for the ingenuity of a
servant-girl. She took the coffee
mill into her inisliess’ chamber,
and ground her to sleep at once !
The editor of an Eastern paper
says that many of his patrons would
make wheel horses, they hold back
so well.
[f 2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
From the Minenpolia Tribune, April 30.
A Savage Butchery.
On Sunday information reached
this city of one of the most heart
less, cruel and bloody butcheries
we have ever been called upon to
reeord. The particulars, as far as
we have be been able to procure
them, arc as follows :
Mr. John Cook, brother of Frank
lin Cook, the engineer in charge of
the government works upon the
Falls in this city, for the past two
years lias been residing on a claim
a little less than three miles from
Oak Lake station, on the Northern
Pacific railroad, forty miles west
from Brainerd, lie had a wife
and three children, the latter aged
respectively, nine, seven and two
years.
On Saturday Mr. Franklin Cook
received a dispatch from Oak
Lake stating that his brother and
his entire family had been mur
dered and his residence aud the
bodies burned to ashes. At the
same time detective Brackett, of
St. Paul, was telegraphed to the
same effect, and requested to come
to the scene of the horrible crime
as soon as possible.
Neither of the dispatches gave
any of the particulars, and all that
our reporter could learn was that
it was supposed to 1 e the tvoik of
Indians who were thought to have
some grudge against the victim.
Both Mr. Franklin Cook and ■
Major Brackett left yesterday
morning for Oak Lake, and as soon
as they arrive there we may ex
pect to get full particulars. Thc
following disphtch was received in
this city after the departure of
Mr. Cook yesterday :
“Brainkkd, April 29. — Mr. Frak
lin Cook: Bones have all been
found. There is no doubt it was a
murder, and probably committed
by Indians. Several arrests have
been made.”
We made on effort to get a
special from Oak Luke in refer
ence to the matter yesterday, and
were notified in the evening that a
coroner’s inquest was in session,
that a profound mystery surrounds
the affair, and the authorities
would not permit any news to be
sent until examination was made.
How to Get Immigration South.-
The New York South, which by
the way is a very excellent jour
nal, says upon the above subject:
The South wonders why the tide
of immigration westward cannot
be turned in that direction. It
can, if the South will take the
necessary stops to do it.
So far as we know, there is not a
single Southern State represented
in tliis city by an agent whose bu
siness it is to induce immigrants
to go South; there is not a single
railroad corporation in the South,
with perhaps one exception, that
has Bet apart any of its lands for
colonization purposes, ,or that
offers any inducements in trans
portation for settlors along its
line.
The truth is that every Southern
State should have its representa
tive here in New York , with means
enough to enable him to compete
with the West, actively engaged
in representing his State ; or, what
would be better, for all the South
ern States to unite in establishing
and sustaining an agency here to
carry out an active programme in
behalf of the South. We will in
dicate further at another time
what such an agency could accom
plish.
It is enough to say now that the
destinies of the South are in the
hands of its own people. They
are at fault if there is any delay
in developing the wonderful resour
ces with which their country is so
bountifully blessed.
The New Jersey and Delaware
fishermen are in trouble. A tog
with armed men arrested eleven
Jerscymen on Thursday near the
Jersey shore, at Penn’s Grove,
took them to Wilmington, Dela
ware, opposite, and fined them $25
each, for fishing and invading the
rights of Delaware. The Jersey
men thereupon telegraphed to
Governor Parker for protection.—
Further trouble is likely to occur,
unless the authorities of the States
settle the matter promptly.
While guns were being fired a
few days since from tbe revenue
cutter Seward, at Wilmington, in
order to raise the body of young
Price, who was drowned, the gun
was suddenly discharged,throwing
the gunner, Mr. K. R. Warrcuton,
into the river, blowing his right
baud off near the wrist and other
wise injuring him.
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No. 10.
The New York Express tells n new
story about General Butler. While
he was in command at New Orleans
he rather forced the oath of allegi
ance on a Confederate officer who
was ill. After taking the oath, th< 7
Confederate asked Butler: “Ain’t I
as a good a Union man as you now,
Generali” les, if you live up to
that oath,” rejoined Ben. “And I
can abuse the South as loud as the
worst of you?” inquired the officer.
“To your heart’s content,’’ roplied
the beauty. “Well, then, General,”
added the sick inan, rising in lied,
and “fixing” Butler’s one eye with his
two, “if you and I had that d—d old
rebel, Lee, in our bands, wouldn't we
steal Us watclt /” The oatli taker
got four days in tbo guard lmuso, but
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lie paid for it. #
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser lias one of the had spelling
correspondents, who writes from
Africa in this style:
Hear we aro, on Afriky’s btirniu’
shore, or sr the poit would say—
On A Frick’s C best shore I stand.
We are fur away from sivihza
tion from Kongresr, and from your
tail s tty. llcre is all pens. Tbo prime
evil forest is beautebiful to B hold.
It is a sweet place. I like the no—
grows. They are a kontented people.
r lhoy don’t want nothin, and the
kuntry iz full of them. There is no
Court House, no Amcrikus Khib, no
Taminy Hull, and i.o Groily statoot
in this place.
Good. —We learn that an Irish
man who had been employed at the
cemetery, some tin e since went to
Washington to draw bis pay. After
receiving the amount, tire paymaster,
discovering a sabre cut on bis face,
remarked: “You were in tbo army
during tbo wall” “Yes,” said bo.—
“What command were you in ?” ‘ln
Gen. Fitzhngh Lee’s command,”
said Ire. “Did you have the audacity
to apply at a Federal cemetery for
work when you were in the Rebel
army?” Yen,” replied (lie Irishman,
“I helped to kill them, and t thought
I had a light to help bury them. —
Culpepper Observer.
An exchange quotes from a rival
country paper, “A two year old
son of William Jones swallowed a
shall pin two inches long,” and
then continues with pardonable
local pride, “Why, we have a boy
in our town who swallowed a
whole paper of darning needles
and the family Revving machine.
The sewing machine b« ing a very
handsome one, les parents did not
like to lose it, so they ipecaced
him—very successfully.”
During the last twenty-five years,
four and three-quarter millions of
emigrants have arrived at the port
of New York, most of whom have
gone to cultivate the fertile farms
and build up the flourishing cities
of the We-1. During the year,
the number of steerage pnsseu
gers who landed at Castle Garden
was 228,062. The increase over
the previous year was 17,-169.
A South Carolina Presbyterian
thinks that Grant's “Let us hare
peace” must have referred to that
“peace which passeth all understand
ing.” Nibbles says that it only re
ferred to that piece of anything
which anvbodv chose to offer him.—
N. Y. World.
Wife, (anxiously)—“What did
that young lady observe I list pawed
ur just now?” Husband, with a
smile of calm delight—“ Why, my
love, she observed rather a good
looking man walking with quite an
elderly femaio— tlini’s all. Ahem!
A chap, stopping at ono of tlie
New Yeik hotels, being asked l>y
the waiter as to whether lie would
have green tea or black tea, said ho
didn’t care what color it was if it,
had plenty of sweclnin’ in it.
Speaking of theoretical farming,
Josh Billings says ho once knew a
man who wouldn’t even set a gate
p<At without h.i.ing the ground an
alyzed tp see if it possessed the pro
jier ingredients for post holes.
“John,” said a master to his ap
prentice, as he was about starling on
a journey, “you must occupy iny
placo while l »i» absent.” ‘‘Thank
von, sir,’* replied John, “I’d rather
sleep with the boys.”
Jerrold once went to a party at
which Mr. Pepper had assembled
his friends, and st; J to his host on
entering the room— ,l My dear Mr.
Pepper, how glad you must Ixa to
see your frieuds mustered!"