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Kett > iERALD ; )■ . ■„..s-vak» i: ° 1 (.H. ■ rtei'u:'- t»" * ■ H.' 1,1 S 2 on BM . .si oo |B x . 50 ■ 7/;; ■ BB ■ V; -:r r>p mm , p..-i L o s land, bv administrators, Irdiana. are required by k or ,, n “ n t!ie first Tuesday in the k !l ' 1 the hours of ten in the *‘7 th rce in the afternoon, at in the county id which thii'tte must be given in gazette 40 days previous to the 7' j i.tors and creditors of an ’•£&»*>**»■ f„,heak»'P»*>“ 1 KP"- C given ill like manner, 10 days will be made •ourt of 'Ordinary for leaui to rast be published for four weeks. 71 letters of administration, t 1,. must be published 30 dlsin&iM from administration, lhrt ,. months; for di-mission Jilnsliip. 40 days. .Miie foreclosure of mortgages limed monthly, four months; , 1,;!,., tost papers, for the full j • ir ,'r months; lor compelling j executors or administrators, j 1 has been eiver. by the de qpace of three months. ..;dcs must he published for . oflccs, two weeks. lons will always be continued | , these. the wise nnleimd. • • j ;_-|j mV, ii njML-_irr— £3S!OMal CARDS. s . _ v:m. k sim.voxs. ‘ S' ,1- PIMMOXS, | Uhnkys at law, /' i xiI.LE '< EORCIA. ; in (iwiiuiett and the adjoin hip* j mar ffi-lv .. .;. JTC II ;iN S, ijItXEY AT LAW, | r I.EXCiiVtLLE, C.A, irii* in th i.i.ci f «>f tike Western it.ami, t Mj.it mui d Foray th ol the i I fit !j •. mar 15-ly r LivU M. PEEPJLKS, AXILS XL Y AT LAW, fuE.N'CEVILI.E, G\* hactieos in tlu> enmities of Gwiiiucit, i Jackson and Milton. pui'H claims promptly attended to V 15-8 m IB x. »■: nn , HH AT LAW, SB HB :■ alti-iii’ i ail basin.'.';' j ■SB" ■ !■•! nisi) In l.mnl, ' ■■Tims nr! r 1 o-Cin |B S ' T ' ! '- aQ. A. MIT CHELL, ■ axille, la., ■B" r n continuation oi ' to the citizens X|V • .iiitiy on hand a ! ■H;' >1 cl's ami chemicals. | IB ' : ,;;s 'ar.*fully prepared. ■■l-1 v ■ j. | >.. B"' i: 'AN AND SURGEON, ■ La ’ v :-:xckv!lle, c; a. A ift B : i; ’*’• ( L .! Act >JJS, B Sl!r trooii Dentist, B'" ::! A'KVILLE, Georgia, SI . in Lawrencevilie from ~l‘ ‘ "t October. Ueiapre-I class of work, with all ; ' un ‘ditß. A liberal share of I B l: ,ij s °licitul. All work B-l ( reasonable. I l! ' *’•" ROB ER f ~ I Ajt okxey at Law, ■ GEORGIA, X |' -'L.;.) '\l m a!! j*«smess entrusted to f^otutV^o 1 ! circuit { also, I’Al’es;,.,,, circuit 1U 1111(1 <JwiD .!‘ ett of i I^jW lol - 11 • i B 1 B a 'i.-*ti..»ii- . “|[ ,a t>tßand Claim cases! juU-'Cm 1 B IR "UNE HOUSE, ■ ‘'° rStreet ’ ne: "- the Cached,. J I, , at lamta, GA. •• liITTH ■ v “ ' Proprietor. I ..Zf' orL{jd, />n% 50 Cents. r A -x2o V ts wanted. ■ either air Ja** ° f , workin £ I n!, ”i ’v at n, y° wi 3 ar old, mak« ■ " ' :s ’ vr all u Us iu t ** c ' r B H sre I P„ ; 1 10 In “c, than ut a’tv- I' '«>x 4Co|. '! urs , l,w ' A’dSJ* (j. I ' 0 " 1 wtland, Maine. {XZ& T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR,] Vol. 11. For the Gwinnett Herald. PRIDE OF BIRTH. Of fill the notable things on earth The querest one is pride of birth, Among our prince democracie. A bridge across a hundred years, Without a prop to save it from sheer?; Not even a couple of rottcu peers, A thing of laughter fleers and jeers, Is American aristocracy. English and Irish, French and Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Danish, Crossing their veins until they vanish, In one';congloiueration. So subtle a tar.gle of blood indeed, No heraldry Ilarvey will ever succeed In finding the circulation. Depend upon it, my snobbish friend. Your family thread you can't ascend Without good reason to apprehend, You may find it waxed flt the other end, By some plebeian vocation; Or worse than that your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine That plagued some worthy relation. The School Fund. The following circular has just been sent to the various county treas urers by the State School Commis sioner : DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, [ Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 22, 1872, j To the County Treasurer of C'o: I >KAi; Sty,:.l take pleasure in an- t<?you that *e is .now rearfy for distribution 8100,90 dof th e fund raised from the tax authorized by “An Act to provide tor the pay ment of the debt due to touchers and school ofli.-ers who did si nice under the I’ublL: School L'W in the war 1071, ’approved August 19, 1«72. i be distributive part of vom county ts , tor wbic.ii a warrant will be diawn in year invar bv the (Voverui-r, unless lit, re ex.sts one ol tne tliree follow mg legal bats to immediate disiiibu'ion : ■ 1. If there has been no return ot the enumeration of the school p puia -1 jpu of your county, there can be no distribution under live law. 2. If the amount of the school debt in the county lias not been re ported to this office, there can be no distiilnition till that report is made by the proper officer. 3 If the debt proposed is less than the, pro rata going to tlfe county, only the flebt.can be drawn. In the first two cases the whole pro rata, and in the last excess of it. over the debt will remain in the Treasury ofthe State to the credit of the county. In all other cases the whole amount may be drawn. For the distribution of the fund afterdt reaches the county, I give the two following rules as, in mv onin i ion, deducible from tbe provisions of the law : ■ 1. Each County Commissioner will be entitled to receive, from the conn tv’s pro rata, an amount which shall bear bear the same ratio to the en tire pro rata that bis claim bears to the entire school debt of the county. 2. The aemainder must be appor tioned among the sub districts in tbe proportion of tlm number of children in each between the ages of six and twenty-one years and must then be paid out to lawful claimants in pro portion to the amounts of the several claims. When any County Treasurer can hot attend in person to receive his warrant and draw the money thereon, the same may be done by executing to some one a power of attorney to represent him. Whether the warrant is applied for in person or by an attorney in fact, the County Treasurer must be identi fied, as such, l>£ a certificate over the signature and bearing the seal of the Ordinary of his county'. Gustaves J, Orr, State School Commissioner. A man who bought a thousand j Havana cigars yesterday, on being j asked what lie had, replied they were tickets to a course of lectures to be J given by bis wife. ... „ -m ♦«»« . j Columbus boys have been skating ; iu Broad street. L&wrenceville, &a., Wednesday, Jaiuary 8, 1878. Berthe Gwinnett Herald. Reply to ‘‘Milton.” Fayette County, Ga., ) Doc. 20th, IS7-. ’ [ Mr Editor • In your issue of the 11th instant, your correspondent, “Milton,” in urging* the benefits of small farms, used arguments which, were they adopted and enforced by the Legislature as he recommends, j would absolutely*entail poverty and | suffering upon a large class of those j who do most to support the govern | Tent would reduce the present taxable property of Georgia to less than one-filtli of its present value. 4 Small fanning” is commendable, if adopted for the purpose of making one acre produce as much as three or lour, under the common method, or, as it is sometimes expressed, “piling four acres upon one.” But, to secure tins plan’s being adopted, you must address yourself to the intelligence, prove its probability, win the judgment, and the convert to reason will follow it from interest. Passionate appeals or invocations for legislative compulsory enactments vviil do nothing but harm. For the 58,QU0 square miles in Georgia, there are 69,956 farms. Of these 32,17(1 are under fifty acres, and 37,786 over that amount. Ido not deny that, small farms would 'pay mo.-t if properly used, hut let us see which docs. The greatest*number and .smallest farms are .‘‘onrid in tlm conn!i s of Oanoll, Gilmer,'" Liberty, and \\ asliiiigton ; the fe-.vest number and largest bums in the counties of I taker, Coweta, Columbia, Douche ty, Houston, Hancock, Jvfleison, Jones, Laurens, Lee, Macmi, Ft wart, Sum ter am! Twie'-rs.. it is a well known fact that more money is made bom one acre in the latter named counties Limn in the first named. Thtg69,936 harms c(*ntn’.iij23.t> 17.- 941 .acres, Of tliis*2B 9 percent, is improve'! —say 6 831,856 acres—less than 100 acres to the farm, and this includes the amount covered with briers and btooin sedge. In Georgia there are 2i0,U00 voters. For each voter we have 31 improved acres. Over one-jburth of this amount is resting or thrown out\ leaving acres for cadi voter, there are tv, ice as many laiys aloe to '!<> me.» > work as voters. Now, allowing gme tldrd of ilvo..#raen an 1 boys in the Stale,,to be employed in the variiyiis trades, we have 111- ac.rfs tor each farm band Tor ail this, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes; rice, cotton, Ai* Is not this small farming already j But Milton would exempt 100 acres for each man and tax what he may own over that exorbitantly Such a law would be in violation o* the Constitution of U. S., and* also'ot that of Georgia, Cons. Art. I > Sec. XXVI and XXVII.) Stlch a law, bad tbe Legislature the power, would be most pernicious in its eft’edls. Over one half of Middle, two-thirds of South, and one third of North Georgia, would be tor sale, from the fact the ownertcould not pay the taxes. There would Re more acres of land thrown upon thev mar ket than there are dollars in Georgia to-day. There are plenty of che:i|> lands in Georgia, and no one need go West p, find cheaper; for there are 13,4.2,- 872 acres of “wild land” iu Georgia, ! which upon ao avmago could be bought Jot less thsfr Vveffty fife ; cents per acre. I,ooo*ooo ' acres oi this amount belongs to the 'Hiatt*, which, with about oih?-third of the remainder for will be sold iu ’73, provided the Legislature do upt i-epeal the Wild Land hill ’passed iu Au». last, when it meets in January. This will make lamb cheap en ugh. ; If Milton lives in Milton county, l.e can buy 10,000 acre’s of “wild lauu’ in thiity miles of his house* it he will only .find the owners, who will take one dollar an ucte, and that gladly. Go ,to tbe wild land ufiL-e, capitol buildthg, Atlanta, rind the owners, bnyTlOO acres for,each ul “COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!” I your sons, and keep them at home- Miltons proposition to “exempt entirely from taxation the little farms* j eceupied by the owners, say of one I hundred acres” and tax *fl lie may ; uft <‘ abovo that, if it be “bundled.-,” and “tlfousands,” “let it be spasmodic upon the i erves of the pocket”— that is, first year empty the pocket, next lake his land for the tax and send the poor dog howling for bread, is the wickedest stab that ever the tights of man received. In Milton, Forsyth and other counties 6f Clioro j hee, Ga, the lots of land contain 40 acres, Echols, Clinch, Cofh-e, Ber | rein, Irwin, Ac., contain 190 acres. A lot in the former, upon an average, is worth more than one in the latter, 100 acres in the former would-be equal to 1 225 in the latter. The owner of the latter must spasmodically be taxed, while that of the former, to enable him to be buried in “Old j Georgia,” must not be taxed ! Many young men in the professions I invest their little savings in the cberp | “wild lands,” hoping some day to 1 dispose of them and settle themselves comfortably. But Milton would take it from them with “spasmodic” taxes and leave them destitute. Tart* dL Gwinnett. Pipe Stem* Mountain. In' the southwestern portion of V Lmesota, about eighty miles | from the imui'lt of To, re ' BU n ! River, wheic it empties into Ft. Fetor’s, or in tlio-pai lain q of the old traders uigl Indians, tluve | day h journey is Bipe Sftoue M.< un ! tain. This mountain, ..about one : mile in leim'lh, and varying from fifty to one hundred lost in height is composed ot layers i,t oii.ua it* soft stone of a brick-red color- Alujii freshly taken from its nn tivo bed it i.-, soft, and easily cit and moulded with a knife, but SoOtl hardens. This is the pipe clay or stone, the deposit Irom which all of the Indian tribes, for Inn,died of mile-. | around, procured their supplies f i j the mauulucture of their pipes As the pipe is the constant co u- I panioii of the Indian when assent ! bled in their huts, a part of the ecu taonial leasts, and always req I uisitc in their councils, this mom.*-' | tain to have an importance little | short of adoration. To them it i was holy grontul—a gift front the j great Spirit—and as it furnished the material which composod their etnbh tn. ol peace, no stilfo was ever cage tillered or permitted in stlie vicinity of this lfieuiilain Ilcie tribes between whom lends had existed lor a hundred years, met and stroked together the cal a met or pipe of peace. For litis time all dilleivnces were forgotten. I It was the Ai cognition of a divine right to enjoy one of nature’s free | gifts unmolested. JHis mountain was the only one j of its kind known, and n<» one tribe ventured to monopolize it. i The country of tlitf Sioux lay to the North of it, the Chippewa to | east; and the,Sties and the Foxes I south, all hostile to each other, but their journeys to Fipe Slope 1 Mountain were never molested j Nature seems to ha~e made some extraordinary -effort to produce I this in untaiu, and for a specific | purpose, as it vises iu the midst of a prairie country with no sister mountain or rocky ledge to 'bear it company. Fashioning the pipe bowls with a knife or sharp stone, they affixed Ito it a long Wooden stem. They ' smoked a kind of sweet scented • bark, known in their language as liuncte/cnic, mixed with a little j tobacco. -An Indian would deem it-extremely uncivil to sit down and sriipke a pipeful! by himself, but takes a few whiffs and then passes it to his neighbor, lie re , peats the same ’ cermony, and patJsds it to the next, and so on j turtH all have srnbked in the fireie. j At a dogToust. with the chiefs in i counsel, thfc'pipe is passed in this' I m naer after the meal, and the repeated until it is Biimked out. llow the pipe came to be a gym bol Of peace, or what ancient legend 'began the reverence for I'tpe Stone Mountain, is among the uystcries of the past, and will ■go down with much of the unwrit ten history of this peculiar people noiwmr'f m.aaranuan l General Wright. Ihe Now York World has the following obituary notice of the death of General A li. Wright: In the death of General A. R‘ Wright, who expired at Angi sta, Ga., on tl 10 morning of the 21st instant, the South sustains a very groat loss. There was no man in that country whose promise of use fulness was brighter, and fond anticipations were entertained, not alone in his native Georgia but in other of the ill treated com monwealths of the South, that when his voice was heard in the Forty third Congress, to which lie had just been c eded, the people of the United States would learn that all the traditional fire, energy, and eloquence of the South of hap pier days survived. Gem Wright had been a go at and valiant sol dier of the Confederacy; as a lawyer he was that rare but admi rable compound of the advocate and the judge, with all the dlWjfk is- j sinuate acumeu’and # fhe ornateJ and glowing oratory of the other ; as a politician! he was true as steel i to the principles of constitutional I liberty. In every ppint of view he i w.-s a truly representative South erner, and his utterances in Con gress, had he been spared to de liver them, w it'd have fai hfdliy | d lineated bis | e qde. The true, i long-slid-- I voice of the outraged [ and bidding South would have been at last heard. The fulfilment i of this high d stiny by one so well fit eel for its accomplishment has not, however, been vouchsafed The obi leaders of the South a fie sib iit: the new genetaiioii, who poured but me t ioou oi nren <-• lier manhood in the Confederate armies, and in their middle age were m during and ripening every day into vigor and excellence,have just lost in tins death a chieftain aao.'.g them, and it is not surpris ing that at such a 1 >ss, so sudden and so great, Georgia and her sis ter S ates are mournfully con ,-cious of still tdi >ther great be reavement, and trial. General Wright was born in 182(3 in Jefferson county, Georgia, and was consequently et tlie lime of his death in the lull prime of life. In person lu: was tall and stately, "f digt ilied demeanor and bearing, with a sense of power and nuftily vigor ever present in thu Hash of a steady and determined eye. Personally ho was a noble specimen of the Saxon type of manhood .and intellectuality, had the hardy good sense and the im posing self-equipoise which are the mental characteristics of the same blood Early in life lie came to the bar and had won a distinguish ed position before the war. When this broke out he instantly offered his services, and rose rapidly till i he obtained tbe rank of major- J | general, participating in all tiie . more sanguinary and desperate i ! coidlifcis of Lee’s army, and more ; than once pouring out his blood ; upon the field, fjince the war i , there has been perhaps no man in Gaorgia, unquestionably now the leading State South, who has been so often honored with important and delicate public trusts. Every thing the punitive legislation of Congress permitted was given him by liie people, and as soon as the Amnesty act rendered him eligible be was chosen 10 Congress by a handsome majority over the Ad ministration candidate and an independent Democrat, the son-in law of ex Senator Toombs. In the moment of victory, however, ! so well won and so well deserved, he was taken away. The suit which had just lifted, as it were, the clouds from his future, only lighted the pathway to his tomb. A saucy editor gets off tho follow ing definition of a widow; “One who knows what’s what, atnj is de sirous of further information on the; same subject.” [s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Semes aisiof-.jf tlie Suffering in Nov. York, The inconvenience and roai sufler ing which even the woll'to do Has sox underwent yesterday must have brought homo to all cf them a faint realization of the misery to which the storm subject d the poor. Did it fail to do so, a walk with the writer through C lurry street and cootigu 1 ous localities last evenin'' would have not. In his wanderings ho fell in with an old man whose clothing *>( rags hardly covered Iris nakedness, his shoes had no soles, ho was with out a hat, and was evidently on'y pnevented from realizing .his condi tion by stupefaction produced l»y Ii*j -* nor. After some i nation ho was induced hr tell 'tee j writer that he vvas-yn,hi.s way to the ! “all night hoys# }, j of “The Black ! Hen.” R, was ii# street near Cherry, in j\ basement lower tlfan the wretched street, and leach ed by four stops, which were !:neo deep in snow. Tito house itself was *kc many of its class, two-story and j attic, built of brick, with a huge basement. The first and second slo -1 iea are “private,” ns it is called—that is, they are occupied by one family, each. The attic is kept as the poor est sort of “boarding bouse,” while the basement is arranged at the I Black Hen’s in this fashion: In fron of it hangs a tumble-down, three. cornered arrangement suspending a kerosene lamp, mid hearing upon it the inscription, in rude letters, “Oys ters.” 'I he basement, or what could be seen of it through the snow, was painted blue, and on it was painted in white letters the words, ‘‘Open all | night.” The place smell ahomina i ’dv of human filth and stale fish and ! oysters and oau ucpnn. un tmj ivrti hand of the (loot as you entered ex tended a small ‘"bar,” and scattered around were five or six tables Without a word the old man handed i u few cents to an old hag who came ’ | forward to collect them, and then, | shaking the snow from his head, throwing himself on an apology for a chair, lie drew near to one of the tables, laid his head on his arm—and that was all. According to a police officer some thirty or forty men “go to bed” iii this way every night, and last night many found lodging on the bare, hard boards of the floor, riot being lucky enough even to get. a chair. The only warmth is supplied in this “home” by a small sugar-loaf stove, which "could not hold at its best over a pailful of coal, and is never more tlfan half full—-gn fact the only warmth given by it is simply negative* Leaving the Black Den the writer visited several lodging houses jn (merry street, near James -lip, and in James street,neat Cherry. In one of'these places lie found four women, or rather four female ciea' lures who hal been women .once, occupying one wretched truckle bed, lying down on it with their diity ( lotlies on, and without any pretence at covering at all. This quartette of hags paid 20 cents among them for the “accommodation,” and evidently considered thunselves people ol con biddable fortune and consequence. One of them was soothing herself to slumber by occasional draughts at a big bottle which, from its peculiar odor, evidently contained gin* and gin th»t was very bad. One of the women bad her bonnet on, or what passed for a bonnet, and another was fast asleep in the oblivion of drunk enness. Four nastier brings or a nastier place for four beings to bo in cannot realiy be conceived of, for, , as if to show that in the lowest depths there could be a lower still, there were some fifteen or twenty men and women huddled together on the floor, some cuddled up in corners on straw, and others trying to roll as near as possible to the scanty file in the rickety stove, lu an old rockery in Oak street there were found some fi'teen or twenty men, women, and children sittiug on lha tlvor arouui a little stove 1 BATES OF ADVERT IS spack 3 mo’s. 6mo s. ] 2 1-", lire is 4 00 $ <; 1)0 i;.| r B, i <><> Jo 00 1, ■"V 1 8 ‘ I <>o 20 Ms * I 4 CO J- I I - t'O 2(1 00 1 30 S O col 20 0(1 35 bo go 00 on:* col. I 40 00 <,o | y, , Ihe money fur advertisements is due on the first insertion. A Square is the space of one inch in depth of the column. irrespective of the number of linos. Marriages and deaths, not exceediiV six lines published free. For a man ad vertising his wife, and all other persona! limiter, double rn’es will tie charged. No. 42, j that had hardly the slightest symp. (torn of heat about it; but there they ( were, shivciing round it in tLeir filth j H, "l lil .d 8 < K'jme smoking tiie worst 1 possible tobacco in the cheapest possible clay pipes; ethers drinking mm, gin, Ac, from bottles which iiad originally contained sarsaparilla;) one hungry old woman 1, nneing a bone and vainly trying to, eviaet *°me nutriment therefreifi; and all ulk : ng, some Irish the original, others Berman, aiJl other* a lan guage of low f slang which -was ,-u •foreign” Jrjtfhe rest. The scene w u?yitTuini iinted by a few tallow e-ui (fit;* which were put in old bottles, and which were never studied. # In the Twenty asevemh Precinct— Mong Washington street, between Battery place and Morris street, and Morris and Hector sireets, tlioi** are a numtner of low “groceries,” where tliey sell candles, can lies, kindling wood, and every thing save soap, atid where, to the rear of the store, there is a little “bar,” to the rear of which agsin tliero are “accouunodaiious' on the floor or on the straw for twenty or thirty people. These places last night were ail filled to re 1 .letion. SBino paid 15 cents for their lodging, and thereby secured places nearest the “store,” and the 'love and tlm light, while those poor devils who only paid 5 cents were shoved into the rear d uk corners. J apscott s emigrant lodging house in Washington sheet, near Rector, where the hods are arranged like hunks or births, one above ihu other, for 25 cents pet night, was likewise* overthrowing with wretched human, itv. Iho dens in the Fourteenth Ward were ‘crowded, and the sia tion-houses in the Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth wards were tilled beyond were treated but litile better than the beasts that perish. Mu Oiucuu’v'a Epitaph.— A'gieat journal, among the greatest in the world, in some features it will live to l>o Mr. Greeley's best monument, whoever may he its future conduc tor. In the vigor of his intellectual life, Mr. Greeley once wrote this beautiful passage, employ ing an*cp itaph, to be found in bis aulobiog iapby, than which nothing mite fitting could be placed upon his t?mb; “Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; rh lies take wings; 11.*» only earthly certainty is oblivion.-- No man can foresee what a day niav bring forth, and those who cheered to day will ofien curse to-morrows and yet I cherish the hope that the journal l projected and established will live and flourish long after I shall have mouldered into forgotten dust, being guided by a larger wi*. dour, a more unerring sagacity to discern the right, though out by a more unfaltering readiness to em brace and defend it at whatever per sonal cost, and that the stone which covered my ashes may bear to future eves the siill intelligible inscription, ‘Founder of the N«-vv Yoi k Tribuuo.’ ? A "correspondent of the GrillEi Cultivator has a.cjy met with a philosopher, by name, Joe M :to», living in Meriwether county, vyhosc manner of life fully 1 nliiles him. in our judgment, to the name. The COi respondent says : lie saws his own lumber, builds his houses, makes all his furniture from a chair to a bureau. lU makes bis wagons, and irous them with It s owu hands, catches bea vers and makes lbs hat—ten of these fury gents ho lias caught within the past year. lie raises corn, meat and wl.e.tt for sale.— lie has the largest apiary in tho count!y, from which lie lias taken over one thousand pounds of bogey tlte present season. Joe, by hav ing several encounter* with Prince Alcohol, in all of which the Prince got the better of him, has loug since abandoned hiru. Joe, when his day’s labor is finished, « iter tains bis family with music front the violin, on which instrument uone can excel him.