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PROFESSIONAL CARPS.
SAM. J. WINN. W». *. SIMMONS.
WINN & SIMMONS.
attorneys at law,
LaWBESCEVILLE, 0 EdRGIA.
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counties. mar 15-1 y
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.. attorney at law,
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TYLEJR AT. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I.AWBENCEYILLE, GA
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Hall. Jackson and Milton.
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Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. 11.
What the Choir Sang: About
the New Bonnet.
A foolish little maiden bought a foolish
little bonnet,
With a ribbon and a feather and a little
lace upon it,
And that the other maidens of the town
might know it,
She thought she’d go to meeting the next
Sunday just to show it.
But though the little bonnet was scarcely
larger than a dime,
The getting of it settled pnjved to be a
work of time;
So when ’twas fairly tied, all the bells had
stopped their ringing,
And when she came to meeting, sure
enough the folks were singing.
So the foolish little maiden stood and
waited at the door ;
And she shook her ruffles out behind and
smoothed them down before.
“Hallelujah! hallelujah!” sang the choir
above her bead,
“Hardly knew you ! hardly knew you !”
were the words she thought they said.
This made the little maiden feel so very,
very cross
That she gave her little mouth a twitch,
her little head a toss;
For she thought the very hymn they sang
was all about her bonnet.
With the ribbon, and the feather, and the
bit of lace upon it.
And she would not wait to listen to the
sermon or the praayer,
But pattered down the silent street and
hurried up the stair,
Till she’d reached her little bureau, and
in a bandbox on it,
Ilad bidden, safe from critic’s eye, her
foolish little bonnet.
Which proves, my little maidens, that
each of you will find
In every Sabbath service but an echo of
your mind ;
And that the little head that’s filled with
silly airs,
Will never get a blessing from sermons or
from prayers.
The arrangements for the Interna
tional Prison Congress are now near
ly complete. Seventy representatives
haye been appointed by the United
States, including twenty commission
ers. Several of these are of consid
erable eminence, Chief-Justice Chase
doubtless occupying the highest po
sition. The Congress, which orgin
ated with the United States, will con
sist partly of officials, delegates ap
pointed by the Governments of their
respective countries, and partly of
representatives of national commit
tees. The Government of every
continental power in Europe—ex
cept Portugal—has appointed com
missioners to attend. The British
Government, too, do not propose ex
actly to appoint commissioners, but
they have prepared elaborate prison
statistics for the use of the Congress,
and have promised General Schenck,
who brought the matter before them,
that every facility would be afforded
the commissioners for visiting the
English prisons, and making them
selves acquainted with the English
penal system.
The Western and Atlantic
Railroad. —The tirst annual report
of the President and Superintendent
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
Company has just been issued. It
contains a full report of the opera*
tions of the Road from the 27th of
December, 1870—the date of the
lease—to the Ist of January, 1872
covering a period of four days more
than a year.
During this time the earnings from
all sources have aggregated $1,397,
742 60, and the expensive have been
$1,678,765.11; or $381,022.51 in
excess of the earnings.
The President, Gov. Joseph E.
Brown, in his report says, when the
lessees took charge of the Road it
was in the worst possible condition
it could be to be in operation at all.
The engines, cars, rails and tanks all
gave evidence of hard usage. The
track was in a wretched and unsafe
condition, and the rolling-stock to
tally inadequate to the business of the
Road.
During the year the company have
laid down about twenty-six miles of
new iron, and have purchased 7 new
engines, 215 new box cars and 12
new coal cars, and made extensive
repairs on the old ones. About 40
miles of new iron will have to belaid
during the present year. But this is
above the average of annual repairs
that will bo necessary to keep the
road up.
The President estimates that, in
addition to the regular outlay for
iron, the company will, each year,
have to pay for engines, and 125
cars of all descriptions. To this will
be added the expense of keeping up
26 bridges, aggregating a length of
5,550 feet—all more or less decayed.
— At. Sun.
General Kirby Smith is sojourning
iu Macon.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, July. 24, 1872.
Speech of ex-Senator .J. It.
l>oolittlc, Permanent Chair
man of the Baltimore Con
tion.
Senator Bayard and Gov. llofF
man conducted liim to the chair.
He was received with great applause.
He aaid:
“Gentlemen of the Convention : I
thank you for this great honor; words
can baldly tell how much, but you
will allow me to pass at once from
what is personal to speak of the
great occasion, the duty and the pur
pose which brings us here. Two
years ago, nearly five years, after the
bloody period of the civil war had
closed the Liberal Republicans of
Missouri [applause] feeling keenly all
the evils of the proscriptive test oath,
the hates and the strifes and the pas
sions of the war had left upon them
long after the war itself had ceased,
and feeling keenly the Executive
Federal power in their local elections,
determined to organize a movement
to restore equal rights to all our citi
zens, [applause,] to restore local self
government, and to arrest the further
centralization of Fedeial power;
[applause] they then said this thing
has gone far enough, if not already
too tar. The time has come when
all honest and patriotic Republicans
i must sav halt,and re assert the vital
doctrine of Republican government ;
that under the Constitution the pow
ers of the Federal government are
defined and limited, [applause and
cries of good]; and that the people
of the States have the right to gov
ern themselves in their own domestic
affairs upon the basis of the equality
of all the States before the higher
law, before the Constitution and the
equality of ail men before the law.
[Applause.] Of universal loyalty,
amnesty, suffrage, and peace, taking
uo steps backward ; taking no rights
and franchise which had been secured
to the blacks; pledging themselves
to support them all, in their full
vigor; they, at the same time
demanded, in the name of peace*
in the name of liberty, in the name
of the Republican Government itself,
that freedom and equal rights should
be restored to the white people. —
[Great applause.]
“They organized nearly forty thou
sand strong and called upon li. Gratz
Brown [applause] to lead the move
ment. They placed him in nomina
tion for Governor. Then what fol
| lowed? Eighty thousand Democrats
| arid Republicans [cheers] looking
' upon the success ot that movement
as above any party triumphs [pro
longed cheers] resolved to sustain it
with their whole strength. Love of
country, love of republican liberty,
love of the equal rights of all men,
inspired that union and taught men
to act together who had been politi
cally opposed to each other all their
lives upon other questions and in
other times, and without violating
honor, logic, conscience or consisten
cy on either side. This patriotic
union was based on higher grounds
than ordinarily control political ac
tion. [Greatapplause.] Even those
who fought against each other in
battle clasped hands over the bloody
chasm [renewed applause] and side
by side, like brotheis, with heartß in
unison beating strong with the same
high purpose, they helped to bear its
flag to a glorious victory. That,
gentlemen, is Liberal Republicanism
[enthusiasm], and that is Democratic-
Republicanism. (Great enthusiasm.)
The victory which came from that
union was the end of proscription, test
oaths, of pain and strife, and of all
disloyalty, in a word the real end of
the civill war came with that victory,
and did not come until then in Mis
souri. (Intense applause.) It re-
I deemed the State—it gave the right
! of freemen to 10,000 men who had
been bound and fettered. Missouri
is now a free State in this Union with
all her rights and dighity and equal
ity under the Constitution, and not
one murmer of disloyalty is anywhere
heard. By that Union Federal die
tation in Missouri, iu their local elec
tions, was overthrown, and by that
union stiife and hate have given place
to peace aud good will. By that
union, liberty with equal rights for
all, have given to the State unbound
ed prosperity, and to her people a
joy almost unspeakable. So great
was their joy, and so complete their
success, the Liberal Republicans of
that Siato were not content without
making an effort to extend the same
union of Liberal and Democratic
Republicans, and with it the same
Messing of liberty, peace and frater
nity to all the other Stales. (Rounds
of applause.) Accordingly, in the
State convention on the 25th of
: March last they resolved to invite the
Liberal Republicans in all the States
to meet them iu National Convention
iu Cincinnati on the Ist of Wav. —
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!”
That invitation was accepted. There
was indeed a great response ; they
I came by thousands, in such vast
1 numbers that a delegated convention
of reptesentatives of all the Stales
was formed, both from principle and
from necessity, to give form to its
proceedings. Many of the ablest
inen of the country, lately leaders in
the Republican party, wore there and
took part in its deliberations. They
were assured that large numbers of
Liberal Republicans in every State
and from all portions of the country
stood ready to su-tain them and they
were morally certain that if the three
million whom we this day represent
(cheers) would only come to their
support, then the number of Liberal
Republicans would reach half a mill
ion more. (Great cheers) That
convention presented a platform, and
presented candidates to the country,
for President, Horace Greeley, (long
and continued cheering.) and for Vice
President, B. Gratz Brown, (more
cheers,) and the convention, for the
promotion and success of the princi
ples declared in that platform, there
enunciated and the support of the
candidates nominated by that Con
vention have invited and cordially
welcomed the co-operation of all pa
triotic citizens without regard to pre
vious political affiliation. These prin
ciples were so dearly and concisely
stated in the platform itself, and re
stated in tire letter of acceptance of
Mr.-Greeley, (more cheering.) and
tlrev are so well known to you all
that 1 will not restate them. For
weeks that platform and these candi
dates have been before the country.
Meanwhile the Convention called to
nominate Grant, (hisses) and to in
dorse and to continue the principles,
practices and policy pf his adminis
tration has done its work ; | hisses]
as between tire Libera! Republicans
and tire followers of the Grant ad
ministration the issue is clearly made
up; it is Grant or Greeley. [lm
mense enthusiasm, arid cries of Gree
ley ! Greeley!!] While these events
were passing the Democratic-Repub
licans whom we represent, held their
conventions in all the States. The
Liberal Republican movement, the
example of Missouri, the Cincinnati
Convention, its platform aud its can
didates, with their letters of accept
ance, were all before these conven
tious, which were very largely attend
ed by their ablest men, and the para
mount questions before these conven
tions were, shall we accept this invi
tation to co-operate with the Liberal
Republicans? (Great applause.)
Shall we adopt their platform. (Loud
cries of yes, yes, and some cries of
never;) shall we nominate ilie same
candidates? (Yes, yes.) And shall
wc elect them ? (Yes, yes, yes, and
loud cheering;) or shall we refuse to
co-opeiale? (No, no.) Nominate
other candidates (No, no, Greeley,
Greeley,) and strive to elect them
over both tickets already in the field.
Gentlemen, these are the questions
which you are to decide now and
here—that you will decide them
wisely 1 cannot doubt, uor can any
one doubt who looks over this body
of men, representing as they do three
millions' of citizer s, and who feel, as
every one must feel, the high and
patriotic purposes which inspire you.
Gentlemen, what means this great
and rising movement which we every
where see ! What means this pro
posed union of three millions of
Democratic Republicans with a mill
ion, it may be, of Liberal Republi
cans ? What means this union upon
a common platform, and this pro
posed union upon the same candi
dates, a union so sudden, so compact, j
so earnest as to surprise its friends I
and to confound its enemies (ap- j
plause) which comes as the winds i
come—to borrow a figure over
whelms the ordinary currents of pub
j lie opinion as the great storms always
I run counter to the surface currents,
i What means all this ? '1 here are
; some things, gentlemen, it does not
1 mean. It means no abandonment
of what is true, of what is just, of
what is good in human government.
(Applause.) It means no union of
the dead upon dead issues, but a
union of the living upon the l.ving
issues of the present. (Applause)
It means no union for the spoils of
ofiice. (liounds of applause.) But
it means a union of men with the
same feelings upon the great and
paramount issues of the present hour,
a frank, manly, honorable and equal
uuion of men who have the sagacity
to see, the moral courago to accept
the situation. (Good, good, loud j
cheers ) It means a union ot men
who have the sagacity to see what is j
past and to deal with the issue of the i
present, and for the future to do j
their duty to their country, their ;
| God and their fellow men. (Ap- j
plause.) '1 ho issue ot to day is
not the repeal of the Missouri com
promise nor the question of sla
very in the territories upon which
alone the Republican party was or
ganized in 1850. It is not upon that
which followed when the Lecompton
Constitution for Kansas divided the
Democratic party in twain and elect
ed Lincoln to the Presidency in 1800.
It is not tho question of secession,
nor of a war to put down the rebel
lion, nor the abolition of slavery in
the States by military order or con
stitutional amendment, upon which
Mr. Lincoln was re elected in 1864.
Nor yet is it the question of recon
Htiuction, or of the 14th or of the
15th amendment, nor the question ot
negro suffrage, nor of the establish
meat by Federal power of universal
negro suffrage as a condition piece
dent to the States of the South hav
ing any rights or any existence, even
as States, in the Union. It is not of
these questions that is now in itsuc.
All these have been iussues in the
past, great issues, sufficient in them
selves to create and dissolve political
parties, because ideas are stronger
than men or parties. But they are
all past issues. They have been
fought out and fought to tho end in
the forum, or in the field, and they
are no more in issue to-day than the
Mexican war or the war of tho rebel
lion. (Applause) W@ could not
re-open them if we would, and they
falsely misrepresent our purposes
who say that we would re-open them
if we could. (Loud cheering.) This
great union, therefore, moans no
steps backward (cheers,) forward is
the word (loud cheers,) and first of
all it means to-day for all the other
States of the South what it lias al
ready done in Missouri. (Cheers)
Instead of proscription, test oaths)
suspension of the habeas corpus and
military despotism, it means personal
freedom for tho individual and Re
publican Government for all. (Loud
applause.) Instead of negro suffrage
upheld by proscription and the bayo
net, it means equal rights to all men,
white as well as black. (L<jud ap
plause.) Instead of a thieving Gov
ernment organized to plunder subju
gated States, it means the dominion
once more of intelligence and integ
rity ; it means justice, liberty, peace,
loyalty and good \\i 11• And, gentle*
mon, lor our whole country, East,
West, North and South, it means,
instead of a war l’resideut, trained
only in a military school, and whose
whole career lias been formed in the
ideas, arts, habits, and despotism of
military life, instead of this it means
the election of a peace IhesiJent,
(cheers,) trained in the ideas, arts,
blessings and Republican simplicity
of peace and universal freedom (loud
cheers,) of liberty, not under arrest
awaiting trial, sentence and execution
o ' t
by a drumhead court martial, but the
liberty and peace which the Consti
tution secures by placing the civil
law above the sword. (Loud ap
plause.) By preserving in full vigor
the writ of habeas corpus and by the
right of trial by jury. (Applause.)
It means another thing, and perhaps
the most important of them all, the
means to arrest the centralization of
power in the Federal Government.
(Loud cheers.) It means to assert
the vital principles of our Republi
can system, and in which it moves
and has its very being—t.'iat consli*
unions are made by the people in
their sovereign capacity for the ex
press purpose of defining and limiting
thepow e' of government —(aplause)
—p- mmmmai all governments, State
or - It means that we are
determined that Presidents and Gov
ernors, Congresses and State Legis
latures, and every department of the
government shall obey tbe Constitu
tion.” (Prolonged applause.)
Mr. Doolittle concluded :
“Gentlemen : I have thus briefly
stated the situation, duties and pur
poses which bring us here. A great
responsibility rests upon this conven
tion. If its action shall be such, 1
doubt not it will be such as to put an
end to this misrule, which for the past
few years has afflicted our beloved
country. This generaloin and gen*
eratious to come after us, will remem
ber with pride and gratification the
Convention at Baltimore of the 9th
of July, (Loud and long con
tinued applause.) Mr. Doolittle took
his seat.
Mr*. Mary Chase Barney, daughter
of the late Judge Samuel Chase', of
Maryland, one ot the signers of the
Declaration of American Independ
ence, died in Washington yesterday,
in her eighty-eigth yiar. She was
the widow of a son of Commodore
Barney. It was rocently ascertained
that Mrs. Barney and one other lady
wero the only surviving daughters of
any of the a'gners of the Declaration.
[s2 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
The Destruction of U. Sen
nacherib Grant.
The Collectors came down like the wolf
on the fold,
The Postmasters greedy for Government
gold,
The carpet-bag legions rushed up from the
South
To re nominate Grant aud—put bread in
each mouth.
But the breath of November is chill in
ouch blast,
Audit quenched 11. Ulysses’ cigar as it
passed;
And it stiffened poor Casey and Murphy
to stone.
While the Nation’s loud mandutc bade
Ulysses begone!
And there lay his horses—os useless as
he—
And his bull-pups that gamboled all sport
ive and free;
For the voice of Charles Suinner spread
death on the gale,
And the checks of the robbers grew livid
and pule.
There is weeping and wailing in regions
below ;
Consul Butler fills Egypt with accents of
woe; *
But Columbia’s true sons will rejoice at
the duy
When the curse of our country shall
vanish away 1 Qmvis.
New llaven, Ct., June 6.
From the Washington Capital.
An Extraordinary Story of
l.ove, Secret Marriage, Be
trayal, Desertion, Divorce
mill Revenge-- A Bombshell
for Washington Society.
Some six years since a young law
student in this city fell in love with
and courted a beautiful girl, who
raturned his passion and the two be
came engaged to be married. The
young gentleman was poor, however,
and uot yet admitted to his proses
sion, so that marying for the time
seemed out of the question, lie
madly iu loic, however, and fearing
that before lie could secure a sufli
cient competence to justify marrying
lie might lose the object of bis affec
tions, be pleaded with her to have a
secret marriage, and promised that
immediately after the ceremony she
should return to her home, and he
would, as usual, go to his bachelor
quarters. After much persuasion she
consented, and the two were united
in wedlock at the Church of St.
John, in Georgetown, by the Rev.
Mr. Tillinghast, upon the of
June, 1860.
The young man for a while was
true to his promise, but he soon be
came as importunate for the posses
sion of her person as ho had been for
the secret marriage. Of course she
yielded, but they both kept their se
cret, and as progress in the law was
very slow, she, at his suggestion,
brought an influence to bear upon
the Administration that resulted in
an appointment to a western Territo
ry. Her social position and connec
tions were sufficient to control the
appointment, and she had money
enough to provide him with an
outfit.
Tho young man departed, an 1
made quite a successful career for
himself in his new field of operations,
and, writing regularly and returning
at intervals, lie assured her of his
heartfelt affectiou and earnest endeav
ors to procure a home suited to her
This sort of tiling continued for four
years, when she was telegrapheJ to
meet him at Cincinnati. She hast
ened to obey, and arriving at the
last named place, found het husband
in a state of great excitement. He
told her that he had got involved in
some moneyed transactions, and the
choice was presented to him of either
marrying a very rich woman, who
loved him to distraction, or being
sentenced to the penitentiary, and
that he was married and was now in
her power. She could punish him
for his dastardly conduct, and if she
did that he could uot complain ; he
added, however, that he had parted
from the woman at the door of the
church, that he did not love her, and
could uot love any one but Iris lawful
wife.
Appealed to in this manner she
could only ask him what could be
done, saying that »he was ready and
willing to shield him to the last. He
then suggested a divorce, and said
that he could go to New York and
procure one without any difficulty.
To this she consented, and the two
wended their way to the great com
mercial centre, where he found a di
vorce lawyer, and in three days a
divorce was procured upon testimony
manufactured between the husband
and the shyster, of the most extraor
dinary character. One man, for ex
ample, by the name of , swore
that he had known the plaintiff and
her husband for years in Dowings
ville, Pa , a place the poor woman
had uevor been. Another witnezs,
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No. 19.
calling himself , swore that the
parties were bona fide residents of
New York, and that he had frequently
accompanied the defendant in nightly
visits to houses of ill fame; that on
one occasion he had waited at such a
place for the defendant until tired,
and then went to the room, knocked
at the door, and being told to come
in, found the defendant putting on
bis clothes, with a prostitute undress
ed in (he room. Upon this showing
tho divorce was granted, and the de
cree winds up as follows :
That the marriage between the
said plaintiff, , and the said de
fendant, , be dissolved, ami their
said marriage is hereby dissolved ac
cotdingly. And the said parties are
and each of them is free from the oh
ligations thereof. And further that
it shall he I .wful for the said plaintiff'
to marry again in the same manner
as though the said defendant was ac
tually dead But it shall not be
lawful for the said defendant to mar
ry again until (lie said plaintiff be
actually dead.
E: ter, S. Jones. Judge.
'lhe poor wile returned to her
home fee ing that she had done a
heroic net in shielding the man she
loved, and sustaining herself with
this thought rolled on, until one
morning she awakened to the fact
that she had been cruelly sacrificed.
She learned that the man to whom
she had clung was about to man v a
fadiioiiahle lady of the first connec
tion in the land. She made inquiry,
and found, to her sickening disgust,
that the day was actually set upon
which this infamous outrage was to
bo perpetrated. She hastened to
Now York and procured a ceitificate
copy of the decree, intending to ap
pear at the church on the day of the
mock marriage and forbid the banns
by presenting a copy of the legal
documents that showed that,although
separated front her, he was not au
thorized to marry another.
Unfortunately,through circumstan
ces over which she had no control,
she anired too late. The cruel act
had been accomplished. A grand
wedding, graced by the presence of
members of the Cabinet and our
most aristocratic people, had occur
red, and the papers were full of glow
ing accounts of the magnificent cere
mony. Our readers will recollect
the event, and they will have occa
sion to recur to it again, as legal
steps are being taken by the betrayed
wife’s friends to* bring this doer to
punishment. The wile is now satis
fied that the whole story of the sec
ond marriage was fabricated to de
ceive her, and she is, of (.ot.ro* , very
indignant.
In addition to all this we learn
that this gay Lothario paid his court
last winter (o one of our most beau
tiful and accomplished belles, whose
appearance in society always created
a flutter among the gentlemen who
flocked to her side to bask in the
sunshine of tier smiles and to enjoy
tho brilliancy other conversation. It
was supposed that the gentleman, as
he then appeared to be, and this fas
cinating lady, whose family is one of
the oldest and most exclusive in the
country, were engaged ; but it seems
that while she enjoyed his conversa
tional powers, she discouiaged any
tender emotions, and thus saved her
self from occuping the unpleasant
position which the last mentioned
bride now holds.
In a few days the fashionable cir
cles of Washington and a certain
lady of the Cabinet will be at sea iu
a high slate of astonishment and ex
citement, and a ceitsin territorial
official, now candidate for Governor,
will be brought up with a round
turn.
How is this for I’ooii ?—An
exchange is responsible for the fol
lowing: "There is a place in Gran
ville, North Carolina, said to be so
rocky that when a certain farmer
goes to plant corn he looks for crev
ices iu the rocks, and shoots the
grains iu with amu-ket; he can’t
raise ducks there nohow, for tho
stones are so thick that tlio ducks
can't get their bills between them to
pick up the grasshoppers, aud the
ouly way that sheep can get at the
sprigs of grass is by grinding their
nose on a grindstone. The most in
dustrious man iu the country works
this farm. But that isn’t a circum
stance to a farm above Oxford, which
is so poor that on a clear day you
can see the grasshoppers climb up a
inallen stalk, and the bumble bees
have to gl» down on thoir knees to
get at the grass; all the mosquitoes
died of starvation, and the turkey
buzzards had to emigrate. This tract
of land is familllarly known, in the
police! world, bv the D ime of ‘Kildee’
land." ’