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BY TYLER M. PEEPLES ]
Vol. I.
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portions of the State, surveyed in lots of
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of Florida bounded on the South.
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A Girl’s a Girl for a’ That.
i Is tlitre a tody in the land
That boasts her rank and a’ that ?
| With scornful eye we pass her by,
And little care for a’that;
For Nature's charm shall bear the palm—
A girl’s a girl for a’ that.
What tho’ her neck with jems she deck,
With folly’s gear and a’ that,
And gaily rde in pomp and pride ;
We can dispense with a’ that.
! An honest heart acts no such pa^t—
A girl’s a girl for a’ that.
The nobly born may proudly scorn
1 A lowly lass and a’ that ;
i A pretty face has far more grace
Than haughty looks and a’ that ;
A bonnie maid nerds no such aid—
! A girl s a girl for a’ that.
Then let us trust that come it must.
And sure it will lor a’ that,
\\ hen faith and love, ail arts above.
Shall reign supreme and a’ that,
And every youth confess the truth—
A girl’s a girl for a’ that.
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Written for the Gwinnett Atlas.
Pen and Ink Sketches—Ho. 5.
Hon. N. L. Hutcuins.
“ i'is hard to venture where our betters
failed ;
Or lend fresh interest to a twice-told tale.”
So much has been said and
written of Judge Hutchins, and
so much better than I can say,
that I shrink from the task of at
tempting to give, even a sketch of
him. But to leave out his name
in mv “ sketches of the early set
tlers of this county," would he
leaving out a link that would
weaken, if not destroy, the whole
chain. I, therefore, console myself
hy saying, I only write for the eye
of his old friends and neighbors
those that knew him long, and
knew him well.
Nathan Louis Hutchins was
horn Utli April, 1799, in old Pen
dleton, now Anderson District, S.
C., near the confluence of Seneca
and Tugulo rivers—the head
waters of the Savannah.
His father was without means
to educate his children. He was
permitted to attend school when
the weather or condition of the
crops made it impracticable or
unnecessary to work. In this
way he finished his pupilage at the
cud of a three months’course, ut
an “ old field school.”
After learning to read, he would
pursue his studies and general
reading, late alter the family had
retired from their day’s labors, by
the light of a “ pine-knot fire.”
When quite young—thrown on
his own resources—he sought em
ployment as clerk in a country
store at Rnckersville, or Peters
burg, a trading point at the head
of the Savannah, and soon there
after went to Elberton. There he
was employed by a Mr. Bowen—
Clerk of the Superior Court—to
write for him.
Geu. John A. Heard, a distin
guishod lawyer, was much pleased j
with him, as a promising young j
man; and, being impressed with
his remarkable memory, (which be
tested by lending him books to j
read, and afterwards conversing :
with him about them,) advised
him to study law.
The pittance he earned in the
Clerk’s office, and the generous
Kindness extended him by Gen.
Wiley Thompson Government
agent for the Cherokee Indians,
and his estimable lady—encour
aged him to accept Gen. Heard’s
kind offer to use his library, and
to assist him.
He made rapid progress as a
! student, and, in due time, was ad
mitted to the bar at one of Judge
| Dooly’s courts.
Through the advice of Judge
: Dooly, Geu. Heard and others,
j he was induced to east his lot
with the men on the frontier, and
1 came to Gwinnett—then recently
1 organized—in 1822 or 1823.
His attention to business, his
i industry, etc., soon commended
him to the young and hardy com
munity, and his success at the
bar marked him as a man of abil
-1 h >-
in 1825 he was elected to the
(“ WIIAT IS IT BUT A MAP OF BUSY LIFE ? ”)
Legislature, and again, I think, in
I 1827. After this he never held a
| political office.
In 1829 he married. Ilis wife
died in 1851. He remained a
widower through life.
He, after this, devoted himself
to his profession, and ranked with
the remarkable men who made the
bar of the Western circuit So dis
tinguished.
He was not distinguished as an
orator. But the comprehensiveness
—the analytical power ol his mind
—his knowledge of human nature,
and his keen insight into the mo
tives of men, enabled him to lay
his causes clear before juries; so
that the most illiterate understood
him, and his success attests his
power as a practitioner.
Notwithstanding the defect in
his early education, he loved na
ture, looked into the cause and
effect of everything that came
under his observation, and, with a
clear judgment and most tenacious
memory, he stored up a fund of
information and learning that, in
a great measure, overcame that
defect.
In 1857, Gov. Johnson appoint
ed him to a v. cancy in the Judge
ship, which he continued to fill
twice by appointment, and twice
by popular choice, until 1868;
when, upon the inauguration of
the present Government, lie was
removed at the behests of those
who, in “form of law,” had usurped
authority and the place given
another.
After this, his failing health
Warned him to retirement, and lie
declined to enter again upon tin;
practice of the profession in which
Ihe triumphs of his life had been
won.
Fanily afflictions, etc., taught
him to feel that “ it-was well that
he had been afflicted,” and that
“all is vanity and vexation of
spirit.”
He never professed religion, but
was always charitable and liberal
towards the Christian churches.
His life was guided by stern prin
ciples of morally, and bis pre
cepts always good.
A prominent citizen and law
ycr, it is not unnatural that he
made enemies. Generally, they
were soon reconciled, fur no one
was more prompt titan he to make
the amende honorable, and his long
services on the bench—where he
knew neither friend nor foe—
showed him devoid of malice, and
few who knew him laded to be
c<ffne his friend.
For two years or more, he had
been troubled with heart disease,
and had symptoms of paralysis.
He had apprehended sudden death,
and was reluctant to travel atone. j
But in January, 1870, when in j
unusual good health, lie left 1 one
ou business, and also to visit his i
only daughter at Rome. He had
been out about ten days, when, i
on his way to Madison —feeling !
unwell frem cold contracted on a
hand car from Kingston to Rome,
a few days before, he stopped to
• pass the Sabbu’h at Social Circle.
That day he took his bed; Wednes
day he seemed almost well, but,
during that night, the disease ran
rapidly into pleurisy or pneumo
| nia, and, on Friday night, 11th of;
j February, he died, conscious to
the last—directing matters as if
preparing*for an ordinary journey,
and, with a calmness and compC
sure that awed the two or three at
;his bedside into aileut wonder;;
then, without a struggle, quietly
| breathed his last, as if going into
a pleasant sleep!
My first recollection of Judge
Hutchins dates back 46 years ago;
only a few years from the Unae he
1 first came to Lawrencevilie.
i He then boarded with a friend
; of mine, who lived in a house on
the street Hast, and » abort dia-
taucc from the present residence
of Mrs. Culver. The old house
has long since been torn down
aud removed.
Our people then were a plain,
unpretending people. The sound
of the now fashionable dinner-bell,
“ these valiiosand rocks had never
heard.” The harsh and head
splitting gong was a tiling unheard
j of as much as the magnetic tele
j graph or the mountains in the
j moon ; and if one of these abouti
| nable gongs had then been let loose
I in the town, the staid men of that
day would have been excited as
at tl.e rush of the tornado or the
rockings of an earthquake, and
the women would have gone into
j hysterics and fainting fits.
| The calls to the hoarders then,
were hy the plain, o'd-fushioned
tin trumpet or ox-horn.
Judge Hutchins was then re
garded by our people as a remark
able nuiu indeed, for lie uas a laio- !
yer, and a lawyer in those days
was looked upon as a wonder!
I next remember him as Colonel—
I believe—of the county militia. 1
recollect him well upon the parade
ground before the regiment, which
was ‘‘ armed and equipped as the
law directs;” some with long sticks,
some with poke stalks, some with
umbrellas, and a few with old guns,
without locks in many eases; and,
with all these, they went through
the manual of arms !
The Colonel mounted upon his
beautiful sorrel horse—handsome
ly caparisoned—with long, flow
ing mane, tassels pendant from
the head-stall and brow-band of j
his bridle, fancy housings attach >
ed to his saddle, his gilt sabre
glistening in the sun-beams—he j
was the admiration of all; and, to
my young mind, the most ” mar
velously proper man ” 1 had ever
seen.
It aroused the aspirations of
my young ambition, and I hoped,
some day, that I, too, might be an
officer to command, and look like
him. After a time my young am
bition was somewhat gratified by
being chosen a “ Georgia Major,”
but 1 never could approach within
gun-shot of what I had conceived
hit elevation!
I hope I shall be pardoned for
the above seemingly light and
trivial reminiscences. They come
up on tint memory, and cause me,
irresistibly, to incorporate them >
in this sketch, as incidents in the !
early history of the old county.
Judge Hutchins was * man of
chivalry and high personal cour
age. Not like the pugilist or holy;!
but his was a high, manly cour- |
age—to resist and punish insult
and impertinence. I have some
times witnessed his rencounters
with his adversaries —some of
.hem as fearless as himself. In
none of them did he ever disclose
any other hut Cool courage and
| indomitable pluck.
In the memorable rencounter
with Gordon —when they iougltl
, with knives—it was the most dan
gerous affray that had ever oc
curred in the town. With Hutch
' ins and Gordon it was “ Greek
meets Greek, then comes the tug
i u f war.” Two more fearless men j
i I have never seeu. Both carried
i the scars of that l;ght to their
* graves. They afterwards became
, friends, and remained cordial
I through life—each having great
' respect for and satitfaetory evi
| deitee of the other’s pluck.
Judge Hutchins was never pro
perly understood by some of his
1 follow-citizens. By some he was
i considered selfish, perverse and
unfeeling—-that he cared nothing
except for himself and his own
interests and aggrandizement. —
This grew out of the laot that in
the collection of debts placed in
' his hands, he prosecuted the claims
jof his client* with vigor, and, it
[t?2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
No. 21.
may have been, sometimes, with ap-
I parent rigO .
j In the Couitviouse, us an attor
! ney, he na lc enemies, some*
times, by the zeal and tact with
which he prosecuted his clients’
into recta, often with apparent
harshness to the adverse party.
Contra to this, I have been in
formed by iiis executor, that there
are claims, notes, flfus, etc.,
amounting to thousands of dol
lars, now belonging to his estate,
which might have been collected,
but tor his indulgence, winch, by
the delay, are a total 10-s
1 state, frankly, llmt I labored
under a misapprehension of the
man for forty years. 1 had con.
sidered him as caring for neither
“king nor country," and only for
himself and his.
My opinions, however, had been
undergoing a change for some
years past, and an incident, just
-after the war, changed the whole
current of my estimates of the
man.
At the first Court lie held iu the
county after the war, I was the
foreman of his grand jury. Sbci
e‘y was terribly demoralized.—
Crime and transgression of law
were rampant and unrestiained.
Society was unhinged, and the
lawlessness of the times was fear
ful.
At that term of the Court were
“found” a great many lulls of
indictment and special present
ments by the grand jury. When
the jury would enter into theCuUi t
room to return their bills, his
practice was to have the foreman j
to sit by his side; and, one eve- j
nitig, while the clerk was calling
the jury, he took front my hand
the bills and glanced over them ; i
then turning to me, said- his eyes I
full of tears:—"Oh! what a
wretched state the country is now
in—and what is to become of us,
God only knows! ” The deep
solicitude in his face at the condi
tion of the country, especially the 1
team in his eyes, changed the whole
current of my opinions of the
man. I could not mistake him
then; the face may deceive, but
“ there it truth in a tear.' 1
“ Too oft is a finile
Bat the hypocrite's wile,
To mask detestation or fear ;
Give nte the soft ligli,
Whilst the soul telling rye
Is ilinuud for a time with a tear."
But ho is gone to his grave,
and his old friends feel the loss.
I quote from tho forcible language
of Ids friend. If I‘. 11., in a letter
of condolence to his son, shortly
after his death:
“One hy one of our wisest and
best men are passing away, and
their places arc being filled by
desperate and reckless adventu
rers, whose counsels and conduct
are controlling the destinies of a
great, unfortunate and suffering
people! ”
Y’es! one by one tho old fatheis
of our county arc passing away. 1
Nearly all are gone. They were a
noble race of men. “We shall
look not upon their like again.”
Finally, we quote from a news
paper article of him, shortly after
his death :
“The highest praise that can be
awarded to any man, is to say of
him, after death, that his virtues
alone arc ten embered. If he had
faults, a grateful people, deeply
indebted to him, will never apeak
of them, but will cherish with
pride and affection the memory
of his u any virtues, and of his
greatness in private life, at the
! bar, and on tlie bench.”
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WIT AND HUMOIt.
A boy ag«d ten year* was sent to
school for the liist lime. The timeli
er, to t.-Rt iiis insinuation, asked hint
who made him. The bov could not
answer. The teacher told hint the
proper answer, and desired the hoy
to leinend* it. Some hours after/
the teacher repeated the question.
The boy rubbed ids heal in great
agony, and at last answered, 1 swow 1
I've forget the gentleman's name 1”
'* llow do you feel with sueli a
shocking looking coat on f” said a
young clerk of inoPy pretensions Lit an
brains, one morning. “ I feel,” said
< I i Roger, looking at. him steadily,
' i h one e . e half closed, as if taking
atm at liis victim—“ l feel, young
man, as if I had a .-.oat on which has
been paid for—a luxury of feeling
which 1 think you will never expe
rience.”
“ And so you have taken the teeto
tal pledge, have ye?” asked one
Irishman of another. “ Indade I
have, and am not ashamed of it
either ” “ And did not Paul tell
Timothy to take a little wine for his
Itomach ?' “So lie did, but mv
name is not Timothy, and there’*
nothing the matter with my stom
ach.”
A wealthy gentleman stuck up a
board in a field on his estate, upou
which was painted tiie following : “ 1
will give this field to any man who
is contented.” He soon had an ap
plicant. “ Well, sir, are you a con
tented man ?" “ Yes, sir, very."
“Then what do yon want with my
field ?” The applicant did not stop
to reply.
Leavenworth, Kansas, is said to
boast of a man who is so tail that
his likeness cannot be got into on#
picture. A local artist lias jmin-ted
his head and shoulders, and annonn
c-s that he will be “continued next
week.”
If a milkmaid, four feet ton inches
in bsight, while sitting on a three
i legged s’ool, took four pints of milk
[ fiom every fifteen cmvs, wlmt was
tie size of the field in which the
animals grazed, and what was the
g'rl’s age ?
“ You’d better look out fov yoor
boss’s ftn t above hero, mister,’’ said
a ragged hoy to a trave'er.—
Why ?” said the gentleman, ner
vous y pulling tip. “Cos there’s a
fork in the road there,” was the
candid replv.
“ A cost cleaned, scoured, and press
ed tor one dollar,” is an announce
ment often to lie seen, A linmorons
drunkard says that lie has n>vr been
cle"nsdand scoured, but is frequently
pressed for a dollar.
“ Why do you set your cup of
coffee upon the chair, Mr. Junes!”
said a worthy landladr one morning
at breakfast. “It is so wry weak,
ma’am,” replied Mr. Jones demurely,
“ I thought I would let it take a
rest."
An English writer save, in It is ad
vice to young married women, that
their mother Eve married a gardener.
It uvght be added that the gardener,
in consequence of tho match, lost his
situation.
An exchange teMs of a negro who
insisted that hi* race wa» mentioned
in the Bible. He said he had heard
the preacher read about how “ Nig
ger Demus wanted to be homed
again.”
“ This world's a fleeting show,”
said a priest to a culprit on tho gal
lows." “Yes,” was the prompt re
plv, “ hut, if you haie no objection,
I’d like to see the show a little
longer.”
Married, at Flinlstono, by the Rev.
Mr. Wiii'lstone, Mr. Nidieniiali Sand
stone, and Miss Wilhelmina Whet
stone, Imtli of Lim»»ton«. L>>nk out
for brimstone and little sandstones
next.
A bill posted on the vval s of an
English country village announces
that a lecture wall he dclhered in
the open sir and a collection takeiv
at the door to defray expenses.
“ I’at, my boy, that must be a fine
stream for trout.” “ Faith and sure
it is that same ; for I iiave been stand
ing here this three hour*, am) not
one of’em will come out of it.”
Alou’ is sure a way tu git rich as
enny I no of is to git inter debt I>r
a hundred thousand dollais, and then
jgo to work and pay nph the debt.
A letter opm ed at the d ad letter
office real as follows ; “ S von years
is rather long to knrt a gal ; blit ile
have u yit, Kate.”
An old bachelor stepped into a
dry goods store, the other day, and
called for n half dozen button holes.
“Sally, what time does your folks
dine to day I" “Soon as vou go
sway them’s rnistnts’ orders.””