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GWINNETT ATLAS. * PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY -DENIS W. D. BOULLY, EDITOR AND PROPRI3TOR, RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy one year. ; §2 00 One Copy six months SI 00 One Copy three months 50 . Subscription rates ape cash—payable in money or provisions. Any one obtaining five subscribers, and the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing iheir papers changed from one post-office to another, > must state the name of the post-office from which they wish it changed, as well usfhat to which they wish it sent. ' legal advertisements. Sheriff sales, per levy $2 50 Mortgage fi fa sales, per square.. . 5 00 Tax Collector’s “ “ “ ... 500 letters of administration 3 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. .. 500 Leave to sell land 5 00 Sale of land, per square 5 00 Letters of dismission 4 50 Application for homestead 2 00 Estray notices 3 00 fits’* Sulcs of land, by administrators, executors or guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous ‘to the day of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate'must also be published 40 days. Notice for the sale of personal proper tv must be given in like manner, 10 days previous to sale day. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must be published for four weeks. Citations on letters of administration, &c., must be published 30 days; for dismission from administration, monthly, three months; for dismission from guardianship, 40 days. Rules for the foreclosure of mortgages must tic published monthly, four months ; for establishing' lost papers, for the full spare of three months ; for compelling titles from executors or administrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the fall space of three months. Sheriff’s sales must be published for four weeks. Estray notices, two weeks. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. NEWSPAPER LAWS. Wc would call the special attention of Post Masters and our subscriber to the following synopsis of the Newspaper laws: 1. A Postmaster is required to give no. tice by letter, (returning a paper does not i iisw.-r the law ) when a subscriber does not take fiis paper out of the office, and ! state the reasons lor its not being taken, t anil neglect f<> dp so makes the Postmas ter responsible to the j üblishers fur the! payment. 2. Any p'-son who takes a paper from ; the Post-Office, whether directed to his ' time or aa.jth t, or whether he hts sub scribed or n t, i< :(sponsible for the pay 3. TCn p ram ord-rs iis paper discon tinu'd he must pay all arrearages; or the publisher may continue to send it until paym nt is made, at.d collect the whole amount, whether it lie taken from the of' tice or not. There can be no legal <1 is continuance until the payment is made. ! 4. If subscriber-! order the paper to lie stopped at a certain time, end the pub- \ lisher continues to send it, the sub criber is bound to pay for it if he takes it out of the Post-Office. The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what lie uses. 5. The courts have 1 cided that, refu sing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post-office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is pritna lacia evidence of intentional fraud. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. SAM. J. WINS. WM. E. SIMMONS. WINN & SIMMONS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lawkknckville, O eokria. Practice in Gwinnett and the adjoining counties. mar 15-1 y NATHAN L HUTCHINS, GARNETT M MII.I.AN, Lawrenceville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga. hutchins j- McMillan, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Offices at Lawrenceville and Clarksville. Practice in the counties of the Western Circuit, and in Milton and Forsyth of the Blue Ridge. mar 15-ly J. N- GLENN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAWREN'CKVILLK, GA. j Will promptly attend to all business entrusted lo his care, and also to Land, Bounty and Pensiou claims mar 15-6 m TYLER AL PEEPLES, attorney at law, LAWRENCEVILLB, RA - j Practices in the counties of Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and Milton. Pension claims promptly attended to mar 15-6 m DR. TANDY K. MITCHELL, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA, Respectfully tenders a continuation of his professional services to the citizens generally. Keeps constantly on hand a good assortment of drugs und chemicals. Prescriptions carefully prepared, mar 15—ly A. J. SHAFFER, PHYSJCIAN AND SURGEON, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. mar 15-6 m 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. J. WALKER, Proprietor. It. H MCDONALD A CO., Dmggists hikl hen. Agents. San Francisco, Cab. r*«*4 and Jfrl Commerce Street. New York. NEW MAP OF GEORGIA. The undersigned, having just issued, now offers to the public, a New Map of the State of Georgia, exhibiting all the ip w (•'■unties, county towns, villages, post ;’i •< and the whole network of railroads, highways, rivers, creeks and water courses in the State. It is a correct transcript from the rec ords in the Surveyor General’s office,show ing the surveyed districts, with tho num bers of the lot of land in the corner of each, and a complete Check Map for all portions of the State, surveyed in lots cf 490 acres. It also exhibits that portion of Florida bounded on the South. Size of Map, sr>x67 inches. Mounted form §lO ; dissected form sl,l. Compiled by James It. Butts, 1859. Revised and' published by A. G. Butts, Macon, Ga., 1870. j Agents wanted in every county. Orders will bo filled by the editor of tho Gwinnett Ati.as (who has one of these maps at his office for inspect ion), or by A. G BUTTS, ap 5-ts Macon, Ga. EUMELAN GRAPE VINES, The Best Wine and Table Grape oj America ! The subscriber is prepared to furnish a limited supply of this n: w and very supe rior Grape at 81 60 each ; 816 per’ dozen, 8125 per 100. It is earlier and more I productive thau the Hartford ; hardier and i more vigorous than the Concord, equal in j quality to the Delaware Superior, as a j Red Wine Grape, to the Norton. Com- j peteut judges, in every section, have pro- j nounced it the best Black Grape and the best Red Wine Grape of America. Send stamp for a circular. THREE SUPERIOR SOUTHERN SEEDLING STRAW BERRIES, i Southern Excelsior, General Beauregard, and Stonewall Jackson. These varieties are vigorous and hardy, very large, immensely productive, firm, sweet and superior flavor. They are, be yond doubt, the best market and garden strawberries before the public. Sent by mail at 84 per dozen, or one dozen of each for 810. HENRY A. PRICE , Eumelan Vineyard and Nursery, Central Plains, Fluvanna Co., Va. mar 29-1 y 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 | BATES OF ADVERTISING. space 3 mo’s. G tno’s. 12 mo's. 1 square $ 4 no $ fi 00 S 10 00 2 sq’rs «00 ]0 00 15 00 I 3 sqr’a 8 00 14 00 20 00 i !-» col - 12 00 20 00 30 00 Si col. 20 00 35 00 GO 00 one col. 40 00 75 00 100 00 The money for 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 lines. Marriages and deaths, not exceeding six lines, published tree. For a man ad vertising his wife, and all other personal matter, double ra'os will be charged. No. 20. 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.