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Weekly Gwinnett Atlas.
BY DENIS W. D. BOULLY ]
Vol. I.
J. W alkir, Proprietor. It. H. McDonald A Co., Druffgicta
A Gen. AgenU, Sau Francisco, Cal , and 34 Commerce St.,N.Y
NILMON9 Ht nr Testimony to Iheir
Wonderful Curative EllYel*.
Vinegar Bitters are not a vile Fancy
Drink, Made of Poor Ruin, Whiskey,
Proof Spirits and Refuse Liquors, doc
tored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste,
called “ Tonics, ’ “ Appetizers.” “ Restorers,” Ac.,
that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin,
but are a true Medicine, made from the Native
Roots and Herbs of California, free from nil
Alcoholic BliMiiiiiinls. They are the
GREAT BLOOD PI RIFIER and A
LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect
Renovator and Invig-orator of the System, carry
ing’ off all poisonous matter and restoring- tho blood
to a healthy condition. No person can take these
Jiitters according to directions and remain long
unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed
by mineral poison or other means, and the vital
organs wasted beyond the point of repair.
They are a Gentle*Purgative ns well
ns a Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit
of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Conges
tion or Inflammation of the Liver, and of all tho
Visceral Organs.
FOR FEMALE COM PLAINTS, whether
in young or old, married or single, at 4 he dawn of
womanhood or at the turn of life, these Tonic Bit
ters have no equal.
For Inflammatory nn l Chronic IMicn*
mat ism and Gout, Dyspepsia or lu
<li Brest ion, Bilions, Remittent and
Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the
Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder,
these Bitters huve been most successful. Such
Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood,
which is generally produced by derangement of
the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION,
Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tight
ness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of
the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious
Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammatb n of
the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the Kidneys, and
a hundred ofcln r painful symptoms are the off
springs of Dy*q»epßia.
They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the
torpid Liver and Bowels, which render them of
i\nequalled efficacy in cleansing the blood of all im
purities, and imparting new life and vigor to the
whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruption??,Totter
Salt Rheum, Blotches. Spots, Pimples. Pustules,
Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-Worms, Sv aM Head.-So e
Eves, Erysipelas. Itch, Scurfs, Bis oloratiooa of the
Skin, Hnniort? and lJis- a.-t sos the skin, of what
ever name or nature, are literally dug up him ear
rii d out of the system in a short time by tic use of
these Bitters. One bottle in such cures will con
vince the most, incredulous of their curative effect.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its
Impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples,
Eruptions or Sores; cleanse it ;when you find it
obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it
when it is foul,and your feelings will rell you when.
Keep the blood pure, and the health of the stem
will follow.
PIN* TAPE* and other WORJIS, inking
in the system of so many thousands, are elf act ual i y
distuned and r«.uo*vd.
SOLI) BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
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Eumelan Vineyard and Nursery,
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Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, July 86, 1871.
The Poor Fiddler’s Ode.
Torn,
W orn,
Oppressed, 1 mourn.
Bad,
Three-quarters mad,
Money gone.
Credit none,
Duns at door,
Half a score;
Wife inlain,
Twins again ;
Others ailing,
Nursea railing,
Billy hooping,
Betsy crouping,
Besides poor Joe,
With fester’d too.
Gome, then, my fiddle,
Come, my time-worn
I friend, With gay and bril
liant sounds, Some sweet
1 hough transient solace lend.
'f hy polished neck in close em
brace I clasp, while joy illumes
my face. When o’er thy strings I
draw my bow, My drooping spirit
pants to rise; A lively strain I
touch, and lo! I seem to mount
above the skies. There on Fan
cy’s wing I soar, Heedless of
the duns at door ; Obliv
ious all, I feel my woes no more,
But skip o’er the strings As
my old fiddle sings, “ Cheer
ily oh! merrily go ! Presto,
good master. You very
well know. I will find music
If you will find bow. From
K, up in alto, to G, down be
low.” Fatigued. I pause to
change the time For some Adagio,
solemn and sublime. With graceful
action moves the sinuous arm. My
heart, responsive to the soothing
charm, Throbs equably ; while every
health-corroding cure Lies prostrate,
vanquished by the soft, mellifluous air
M ore and more plaintive grown, my eyes
with tearso’oiflow, And resignation mild
soon soothes my wrinkled brow, lteedy
II aotboy may squeak, wailing Flauto may
squall, The serpent may grunt, and the
Trombone may bawl; But, by Poli.my
old Fiddle’s the prince of them all.
Could e’en Drvden return, thy praise
to riLcarse, His “ Ode to Cecilia ”
would sc-tn rugged verse. Now
yn thy case, in flannel warm
f /to lie, Till called again to
W / pipe thy master's eye.
for the Gwinnett Atlas.
Pen and Ink Sketches—No. 4.
ISIIAM WILLIAMS.
This gentleman is emi .< ntly en
! tilled to a place in these sketches,
, as fine of the remarkable and very
j wot thy men of his day.
He was the early and long friend
of my father, the friend of his
country, and of “human kind”—
for which he is entitled to this
t ibTe at my hands.
One of tho most prominent and*’
distinguishing traits in his char-'
! acter was ‘benevolence and charity
'to the needy and destitute. Not
only his ear, but his, purse, corn
crib and smoke-house, were ever
open to the wants of the widow
and the needs of the orphan. Many
a poor woman's cruse has been
; supplied with oil and her barrel
| with meal from his garnered and
generous munificence.
One incident, of many that might
be related, will illustrate this prom
inent trait in his character-
A poor woman, lately bereft of
her husband, in needy circumstan
ces, belonging to tho same Church
with himself, met him in the store
of Mr. D. W. S., in Lawrenceville.
She saluted him as “ Father Wil
liams,” and ho responded by call
ing her “ niy daughter.” After the
usual enquiries of each other’s j
health, families, etc., she, in a
modest undertone (yet, heard by ;
Mr. S.), asked if he had any Corn
to spare, which was answered by j
bis emphatic “ Yes" She stated j
! to him that she had some difficulty
j in getting bread for her children,
i He asked her if she could send for :
\ it; ami being told that she could, I
i lie informed her that ho would have
j Charles and Stuard —two of his
i servants —to shell her ten bushels
in the course of two days. She
i asked w hat he would charge for
i it. lie replied : “ Not a cent ; not
, evin 1 thank ye !’ ”
This is only one of many similar
, cases that might be noted in his
history. Where, I ask, can such
generosity be found now ? Rclio
answers, Where ?
His generosity was always as
the Dutchman’s; When a poor,
distressed woman, with her cliil
-1 dreu, ragged and destitute, were
(“ WHAT IS IT BUT A MAP OF BUSY LIFE ? ”)
passing, this one was sorry for
them, and another was very sorry
lor them, and still another was ter
ribly sorry. The Dutchman said,
! “I ish sorry five dollar;” and, suit
ing the action to the word, gave
the poor woman the money. Such
w.as always Isham Williams’ sor
row ; it not merely touched his
, heart, but his pocket too.
He was a man of strong native
intellect, sound, discriminative
i judgment, and, with proper early
education, would have been a man
of mark.
He had many unique sayings,
full of good sense and sound prac
tical import, which grew into prov
erbs with him ; such as, “The least
said is soonest mended.” “If you
make a good trade, say nothing
about it; if a bad one, stick the
closer to it.”
i In speaking of boys, and their
j worthlessness, generally: “lie
| would not give a thrip a thousand ,
for boys, only' it took boys to \
I make men.” The soundness and j
| force of this homely saying I have I
| seen exemplified in a thousand iu
j stances.
I was present at the marriage
i of his youngest daughter, 38 years j
I ago. It was a trying time with 1
| the old man to give up his “ baby
I girl,” as it is with all fathers who j
I are endowed with proper affection ]
! for their offspring, especially their j
“ tender jewels.”
The morning after, when she !
i was about leaving tile home of
her father and mother—one of the ,
most trying and affecting incidents |
! in woman’s life—the old gentle- ]
! man was full lo overflowing. The '
1 “good-bye” was to he said —the
i leaving home was to be taken- — :
! the care and protection of the |
father and mother was to bo ex- ]
I changed for that of the husband, |
which is untried and uncertain, in {
most cases. With streaming eyes j
; and choked utterance, he says the '
i “good bye,” and “God bless you,
Imy daughter.” ‘‘Come to sec us j
whenever you can, but don’t come j
too often!”
A strange speech at such a j
; parting, 1 thought then, to which
I took tho liberty to refer, in a
subsequent conversation with him, ;
' some time after. He explained by
saying “he meant for them to
: come as often as they could, when
it did not interfere with their bus
uess and interest; and it was the
advice he gave all his children ”
In early life I removed near o
his residence, and for yearsenjoyed i
his friendship, favor and counsel.
Our intimacy was as great and as
cordial as is ever between men of
the disparity in our ages. lie
was kind and affectionate to me
as a fatiier could be to a son, and ]
I tried to be as dutiful as a son.
In an evil hour the Serpent entered
the Eden of our friendship, and
created a breach between us that
was never healed until he went j
down to bis grave. This, though,
never lessened my regard for the
man, nor my high appreciation oi
his noble qualities.
After years of intimate acquaint
-1 uiice and close observation of bis
■ character, I take pleasure in bear
| mg testimony that his only mate
-1 rial fault was his quick temper.
| All men, it is said, have their be
i Retting sin. With some, it is the
I love of money; with others, the
■ love of wine; and with others, the
love of women. None of these be
set the life of Mr. W. He bad a
quick, high, irascible temper, that
sometimes led him into difficulties
and unpleasantness : this was his
only fault.
One more incident will further
illustrate his character for beuev
oleuce:
After the battle of “ Shepherd’s
Plantation,” in 1836, in which the
Gwinnett Volunteers, under Capt.
Garinany, were engaged with the
Indians, and in which they sus
! tained great disaster—the monu
ment in your Court-house square
tells the melancholy tale—a vague
rumor of the battle had reached
the county, hut none of the par- i
ticulars had been learned. All the I
people were in painful suspense; j
I for all had friends', and many had
relatives, in that Company. Ev
erybody was in a state of feverish
anxiety and excitement; and many
■ had come to town, expecting to
j get the facts. A young man, the
i mail carrier from Madison (from
I whence we then received our
mails), arrived with a newspaper
I containing the account of the bat
; tie and the disasters to “our boys.”
The exclamation from many mouths
was, that it be read aloud, that
all might hear. The paper was
handed to Dr. Alexander, who,
mounting into the high piazza,
known now as the burnt corner,
read it to the anxious crowd as
no one like the Doctor could do.
Ah, me! Martin was killed!
Paden, Lacy, Tait, the Holland 1
brothers, Simms and Al’en! C.ipt. 1
Germany was wounded! Ramsey
Alexander, Hunt, and others!
Many, in the retreat, had run for
miles, pursued by the savages, |
losing their clothes and everything. |
Oh! what a time! Tears ran in j
streams from every eye. The sobs
of stern men and the wails of heart
broke women echoed through the
streets in wild discord, such as
was never heard iu the old town
before or since! The excitement
and distress were terrible.
After the first paroxysms of
grief had somewhat subsided, the
old mail Williams stood up. 1 see
him, in imagination, now, as then.
Like an old Roman of tjie elder
Cato’s time; Ids marked face all
bathed in tears; clad in brown i
jeans of home manufacture; “shad- 1
belly ” Methodist coat, such as he j
had always worn from the time I
first can recollect him to the day I
of his death; broad-brimmed hat,
that had seen long service, and
probably made by Ferrier, the old
French hatter, who bad lived in ■
his neighborhood, many years be- J
fore, and whose hats never wore !
out; and, after an effort to com ;
pose himself, he said : “ The boys '
were, no doubt, in great need, and j
must bo helped ;” and, taking off]
his hat, lie drew out his pocket
book and made an emjjhatic deposit
in the old hat. Then, passing it
round, such a rush of bank bills ;
and silver flowed in as I never saw
before! No grudging that day!
No miserly feelings then! No
holding back part of the price!
All mercenary selfishness had fled,
and the great and absorbing idea
with that crowd was, What can
we do for our brave boys V
To-day I stood by the grave of
my old-time friend, which is m an
eminence in front, and overlooking
: his old homestead, where he lived
so long, and loved so well.
Nearije twenty eventful years
have passed—with their changing
cycles; their sadness and sorrows;
the desolations of war and its ter
rible conflicts; the dissolutions of
governments; the fall of civil lib
erty in the country he loved so
much, and the perversion of the
good government under which he
was horn and reared—since his
remains were here deposited.
But all these changes from good
to bad “he recks not.” They all 1
fall unheeded on the “dull, cold
ear of death.”
From his grave tablet, is I sit,
the eye surveys the former homos
! of his old friends, Win. Montgom
i ery, Thos. Morrow, and Benjamin
j Baker, with each of whom he was
| in accord and cordial fellowship
for many years in the long past.
With two ol these he has struck
hands, we trust, in the happy land
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
■j of spirits; tlie other yet briefly
I lingers on time’s crumbling shores,
so soon now to follow after.
Oh,the blessed re-union of friends
in the haven of Heaven’s bright,
i blest abode, after the cares, cou
■ flicts and sorrows of life’s weary
j pilgrimage are ended!
“There is a land where death easts not
its shade—
A land where gold eyed '(lowers ne’er
full asleep—
\\ here, o’er Life’s lyre, no more by Time’s
hand played,
God's living music, like u fawn, doth 1
leap.
There is a !and f where iFJJlrieiids meet,
Where, shoonless, the tired pilgrims
findeth rest ;
\V here they repose, lost in reveries sweet,
V ith heads pillowed on un angel's
breast.”
By Ins side lies the wife of his
youth—the loved one of’his early,
as well as of his declining years—
the partner of Ids hopes, the sharer
of his sorrows, and die joy of Ids
whole life.
She was one of the best women
I ever knew. To me, she was, for
many years, as a good mother and
true friend. 1 was often the recip
ient of her kind hospitalities
motherly attentions.
While tho pen endeavors to re
cord this brief, feeble tribute to
her memory, the eye fills with a
tear, as I stand by her grave and
remember her great kindness to
me and mine, in the' days of my
young years. W.
From the Hartford Times.
“ Firing Anvils at Us.”
In every battle tliero always occur
some incidents so very ludicrous as
to cause, in spite of the terrible dan
ger, shouts of laughter. One 1 re
member perfectly well, although it
happened m a time when death was
mowing man down by the hundreds.
During the second day's battle at
Autieiam creek, the Twenty-eighth
Massachusetts infantry occupied a
very exposed position. The men
were lying on the ground and even
then, although partially protected,
were being killed by the missiles
from a rebel batten’ immediately in
front of them. At the right of the
regiment was stationed Company 11,
commanded by Capt John A. Mc-
Donnell, and had in its ranks a very
tall coporal named Dotinellv. The
corporal did not like t.li« and
shell that came flying around the
company, and several times during
the tiring begged the captain to let
him go out of that dangerous place,
saying, “ Och, Captain dear, lake us
out of this, or we'll I! he kilt in
ti rely !” The Captain endeavored to
calm the man hy telling him that
there was tio danger if he only kept
dose to the ground, but rtiil the
ccrporal was very anxious to get out.
The battery, after tiling some half
an hour, failed for lack of ammuni
tion, and remained silent for a few
minute*, and then re-opened with
every species of piojectiles known
and unknown In modern watfare—
nails, bolls and old horse shoes being
used. Again the corpora! became
nervou», and begged to be taken
away ; but bis nervousness increased
when he saw at the next discharge
a sledge hammer, with a small por
tion of the handle still I'tmaining
in it. Raising himself from the
ground, poor Donnelly cried in a
piteous tone, ‘Och, howdy Mary!
Captain, take us out of this; they
are firing sledge hammers at us
now, and next tiyie, he-dad it will be
the anvil!” A hearty shout of
laughter greeted the corporal’s ears,
ami lie lay down with a muttered
oath against the rebels and their
cussed blacksmith’* tools.
In the ease of the State vs. Clark,
charged with the murder of a man
by the name of Zaebariae, in Albany, j
Ga., the jury returned a verdict of
| guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
Judge Strozier sentenced him to five
i years in the penitentiary. A motion
for a new trial has been made.
A couple out in Portland, (Or
egon, who found themselves divorced
lately, through tho machinations of
the wife’s mother, did the best thing
possible under the circumstances—
promptly got married again.
■ m, ■ w-
j Stair The phrase, “ A bad egg,” will
1 have to be disused now. Darby’s Fluid
j k killing off all such slang expressions.
: Bad odors can’t stand before it.
i
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The “ Basest Fraud of Earth.”
A writer in the Cincinnati Tin>s,
1 having perused Horace Greeley's
j hook about farming, with the imme
| (bate effect of becoming muddled,
I indites the following, which be is
careful to explain is *" not by H. G.:”
The basest fraud of earth is agri-
culture. The deadliest iynit falnuc
that ever glittered to beguile, and
dazzled to betray, is agriculture. 1
speak with faeliog on the subject,
| for I’ve been glittered and beguiled,
and dazzled and (lesttoyed hv this
same arch deceiver. '
She has made me a thousand
promises, and broken every one of
them.
She has promised me early pota
toes, and the rain has drowned them ;
late potatoes, and the drought has
withered them.
She has promised me summer
squashes, and the worms have eaten
them ; winter squashes, and the bugs
have devoured them.
She has promised cherries, and the
cttrculio has stunt; them, and they
: contain live things, uncomely to the
eye and unsavory to the taste.
She lias promised strawberries,
an 1 the young chickens have envel
oped them.
She has promised tomatoes, and
I the old hens have encompassed them,
ami the hand cannot reach them.
t No wonder Cain killed his brother,
lie was a tiller of the ground. The
wonder is that he didn’t kill hiR
: father, and then weep because lie
hadn’t a giandfather to kill. No
doubt his early rose potatoes, for
which he paid Adam $7 a barrel,
'had been cut down by hugs from tho
head-waters of the Euphrates. His
I’annsylvania wheat liad been winter
killed, and wasn’t worth cutting.
His Norway oats had gone to
straw, and would not yield five peeks
per acre, and his black Spanish water
melons had beeu stolen by boys who
had pulled up the vines, broken
down his patent picket fence, and'
written scurrilous, d ggerel all over
! the back gate. No wonder lie lelt
mad when he saw Abel whistling
along with his line French meritioos,
worth #8 a head, and wool going up
every day. No wonder lie wanted
to kill somebody, and thought he’d
practice on Abel,
And Noah’s getting drunk was
not nt all surprising. He had be
come a husbandman. He had
thrown away magnificent opportuni
ties. He might have had a mononolv
at any profession or business. Had',
lie studied medicine, there would not
have been another doctor within a
thousand miles to call him “quack;”
and every family would have bought
a outue oi “ :-n/nti » U2J Ex
tract of Gopher Wood• and Anli
deltige Syrup.” As n politician, he
might have carried his own ward
solid, anil controlled two-thirds of
the delegates in every convention.
As a lawyer, he would have
retained in every case tried at the
Ararat quarter session, or the old
Ark high court of admiralty. But
lie threw away all these advantages
and took to agriculture. For a long
lime the ground was so wet that he
could ri iso nothing but sweet flag
and hull rushes, and these al last
became adiug in the mat k> t. What
wonder that when al last he did get
halt' a peck of grapes that were not
stung to death by Japhet’s honey
bees, he should have made wine and
diowued his sorrows in a “flowing
bowl.”
The fact is, agriculture would de
moralize a saint. 1 was almost a
saint when 1 went into it; I’m a de
mon uow. I’m at wir with every
thing 1 fight myself out of bed at
4 o’clock, when all iu, better nature
tells me to lie still (ill 7. I fight
myself into the garden to work like
a brute, when reason and instinct
tell mo to stay iu the house and en
joy n.yself like a man. 1 fight the’
pigs, the chickens, the iimb-a, the
birds, i lie bugs, the worms—every -
thing in which is the breath of
life. 1 tight the docks, the bur
docks, the mullens, the duties, the
I grapes, the weeds, the roots—the
whole vegetable kingdom. 1 fight
! the beet, the frost, the lain, the hail
i —in short I tight the universe, and
j get whipped iu every bi.tile. I have
j no more admiration to waste on the
father of George Washington for for
giving the destruction of his cherry
j tree. A cherry tree is only a- curcnlio’
! nursery, and the grandfather of his
country kucw it. 1 have half a dozen
| cherry trees, and the day my young
George Washington is six years old
: I’ll give him a hatchet and tell him
to down with every cherry tree on
; tiie place.-'
There were 215 marriages in Floyd
i county the past year.