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THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
VOL. 4.
Hawkinsville Dispatch.
rUBLHHF.n EVKHi' TIIVBSDAY UY
DENIS W. D. BODLLY,
KUrrOH AND PBOPIttRTOIS.
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tin* first insertion, umi 75 cents for each
subsequent insertion. (A s*i"» re is tne
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g squsres Jj » j" ” „
is 28 35 32
Muff column 25 40 100
Otic column 40 *lO 100 I<s
TKIBUTF.S OF KKSFKCT, BTC.
Tributes of Respect, Reaol utldhs by Socie
iea. Obituaries, etc., exceeding six lines, to
be chnrged as transient advertising.
i.eoai, advertising.
Obdisaby’s—Citations for letters
of Administration, by Admtaistra
tors. Executors, Guardians, Ac .... f •>“
Application for la-ttcrs of Dismis
sion from Administration... •• • • • 4 w
Application for Letters of Disnus
sion from Guardianship • • ■ • •> •*{
Application for leave to sell Land 400
Notice to Debtors ami Creditors 550
Sales of perHonnl or perishable
property, per square of ton lines ... ! •>«
Sales of Lands, not exceeding fit
teen lines ... ‘
SiiKitiKF 9—l’cr levy • • ""j
Mortgage Sales, ten lines or less.. jj 00
Tux Collector's sale*, per square o till
CLebK's —Foreclosure of Mortga
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ments, i*l t« 1 r squnre of ten lines for
asch insertion. ' .
Announcement county ( and dates H «)
Announcement district candidates 12 00
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advaiu i P
sales of Land, by Administrators,
Executors or Guardians, arc required by
law to be held on the first Tuesday In the
month, between the hours of ten in the tore
noon and three in the afternoon,, at the
court hou*t* in tlu* county in winch the
property is situated.
Notices of these sales must !«• given in a
public gazette to days previous to thcihiy <>l
SJItC. .
Notices for the sale of personal properly
must In- given in like manner 10 days preci
ous to sale day.
Notices to debtor* and creditors ot an es
tate must also be published to days
Notices that application will !••• made m
the Court of Ordinary tor leave to sell lands
must lie published for four week's.
1 Citations on 1, ttt r f administration
Guardi inship A• . "»■!'' "ci .i -.u-d a
d.v . for i; ”' '•
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6 U--S:»’tor l, i»u‘ V.o. of Mortga es
mind be published mono tv for Iburmonihs .
for establishing »<>-t papers, b.r Hie ltd!
gpa -c of three month* -forcompeb;.vj titles
from Executors or Administrator- •. •re
bond has iK-en git%n by tbe deceased, the
Alliance of three month*.
Sbcrifl’s sales must lie publislied for four
weeks. ,
Publications will always lie continued, at
cording to these, thelogwHTqnircinetits mi
]es> otherwise onlered.
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A NTONT cT FATE. LAWRENCE. RYAN |
PATE && PiY.A. IST
. ATTORNEY* at law.
HAWKINSVILLE GEORGIA
WILL practice in the counties of Pu
laski, Houston, Dooly, \\ Hcox, Irwin ■
md relfair. j
Office: In tin* formurlv oumpiru
iy Judge Scarborough. dec <B-tf. j
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J WATSON,
A ttorney ’at Law,
H A IVKINS VIL LE, GA.
dec 33-tr
A. T. BURKE,
attorney at. Law,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
OFFICE on Commerce Street, where he
will be found except when absent on
professional business. dec 28-ts
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HAWKINSVILLE, GA„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1870
jpoetual.
S'riijtna I Ooil’t l.'.kt*.
1 do not like to hour him pray
Wiio loans nt twenty-five per ecu*.
For then I think the borrower may
Be pressed to pay for food and rent
And in that Book we all should heed,
Which says the lender shall lie blest,
As sure as I liavc eyes to read,
It does not say, take interest.
I do not like to hear him pray
On bended knees about an hour,
For grace to spend aright die day,
Who knows bis ncighlior lias no flour.
I’d rather see him go to mill
Ami buy the luckless brother bread,
And see his children eat their fill,
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
I do not like to hear him pray,
•* Let blessings on Uie widow be.’ -
Who nevet seeks her home to say,
“If want overtakes you; come to me."
I hate the prayer, so loud and long,
That’s offered for the orphan's weal.
By him who sees him crushtd to wrong,
And only with the lips doth feel.
I do not like to hear her pray.
With jeweled car and silken dress,
Whose washerwoman tolls all day,
And then is asked to work for less.
Buell pious shavers I despise;
With folded hands and face demure,
They lift to heaven their “ angel eyes,”
Then steal the carniugs of the poor.
1 do not like stii li soulless prayers;
If wrong, I ho|>c to lx: forgiven;
No angel wing them upward liears —
They're lost a miliiou miles from heaven.
Tlie Kdllor's Song.
The editor sits at his table,
Writing, ns well as lie’s able,
Paragraphs, lender and puff;
His scissors beside him an: lying,
While he is in agony trying
Os copy to furnish enough.
“ Toll, toll, toll!
What « weary life is mine,
Wasting the precious midnight oil
On leader, and column, and line;
Working from morn till night.
Working from night till morn -
oil! why was that steam press i-vcr made?
Ob ! w Ity was the editor lairn ?
"Toil, toil,toil!
And whose is the gain when won r
Whose are the trophies we achieve ?
And tor whom are the laurels won *
To stand in the foremost rank
Os each hard-fought party fru\ ;
To toil and toil, and only get
Abuse and neglect for pay.
•• Toil, ir.il. toil!
Wlim a litai• •!..•• kLm ",
To break die brent umi press thecin-ese
That Senator .lone tlcvnu. s!
To sit on a tin 1 log _<xl stool.
While oilier.- have hair-puffed seals
To prepare the hash and cook the si. ',
iliit never to taste the meats!
• 'Toll, toil, toll!
As the constant drop on the stone.
So the ceaseless, endless work.
Wears away body and bone!
Though the poet splutter nnd write,
Though Uie orator bully and brawl,
If it were not for the editor's pen,
What were the use of it all ?"
W IIIBKY.
I of all the plagues that scourge mankind,
. There’s none that so impairs the mind,
■ Ami renders it to virtue blind.
As whisky.
j What is Hie cause of every ill
i That does with pain the body fill ?
; It is the oft-repeated gill
Os whisky.
What is it some do love so well,
; For which tin ir bodies they would sell,
j And send their souls to lowest hell V
' Tin whisky.
j What Is it poisons all their lives,
! Ami makes men heal and curse their wives,
I And thousands to destruction drives »
JTis whisky.
What makes chill penury prevail,
Makes widows mourn and orphan’s wail.
And fills the |KK>r-liouse and the jail ?
' Tis whisky.
| There's nothing causes so much woe,
. Or lays so many good men low,
[ And, therefore, 'should lie hated so,
As whisky.
Oh! whisky, thou’rt the grtn'mt curse,
To soul, to"lxxly, and to purse;
Pandora's box held nothing w orse
Than whisky.
OUR BABY.
One more Httlc life
Its duties to fulfil;
To conquer and sulidue,
One more human will.
One more little heart
To love through weal and woe;
Two more little hands
Kind blessings to bestow.
Two more little feet
To slum the paths of sin;
To choose the narrow road,
And learn to walk therein.
One more little tongue
To lisp the praise of God;
One more little form
To lie beneath the sod.
One more spirit bright
To swell the thtvmg above,
j And one more ehcruo voice
To sing Redeeming Love.
Grand Mamma
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
I.t-ller* fri in lltlnolM.
Danville, 111., Dec. 22,-1809.
Deni* 11'. IK Houlbj , Editor of
thr Pit/HUi'h, ll(twkii)*i'iUe, Gn.:
Dear Sib:— While in Georgia, I
hnti the pleasure of meeting you near
Brunswick; and after traveling with
you awhile, find exchanging thoughts,
you were kind enough to think that
my opinions'of Georgia and public
affairs were of some weight, and ob
tained a promise, that, on my return
home, I would give them to you—
hence this communication.
My friend and myself informed you
that we were passing around Georgia
with a view to hiiy timber land to be
cut up into lumber. We, of course,
; o a persous, and
made observations upon the cohntry
and the population, white and black.
We found that the negroes were get
ting better wages than white laborers
in Illinois, at most employments, but
more especially upon your railroads;
that your old planters were giving
them better chances to raise cotton
and other products, than arc given
here, to wit: finding teams, seed, farm
ing utensils, feed for the teams; Recit-
ing up the improvements; paying the
taxes; furnishing houses, and, in many
cases, advancing 1 provisions on credit, j
and exacting only half of the ertips.
The same pay is not obtained in the
North, for whites or blacks. Your
railroads are paying the M'-ek :?1,
*1 80, and bl 50, and limling tlicnij
while ours here are paying $1 30, and
$1 50, nnd the white laborers find
themselves, and work ten hours jicr
day; and hardly any man will con
tend that the lilaek can do more than
the white limn on railroads, or at any
other employment.
We found your landless whites were
now raising cotton, fruit, and other
productions, on rented land, to ad
vantage, and in nil other employments
could make money and support their
families, if disposed to.
We found land owners willing to!
sell land at reasonable juices to nil
new comers. In fact, we found Geor
gia (if let alone) on the road to pros
perity, anti would soon rise to great
wealth, and become an indejiendcnt
State within herself; for yon have,
in many parts, exiiaustloss minerals,
from gold down to the most common
ore; you have greet übnndance ofex
haustiess water power; a fine climate;
can raise m arly all the products and
fruits we can, and many wo cannot;
you have large rivers, iu the lower
part of the State, to rmi off the lum
ber and jiroduets, and receive neces
saries from abroad; you have two or
three excellent harbors for the largest
elass of sliijis; you have pineries, es
pecially in the lower part of your
State, which it will take years to con
sume, if ever, as it is understood that
jrines continually rejilaec themselves
by anew growth.
We found a disposition in your
jieople to forget tiie asjierities of war,
and welcome all who conic to the
State for investment and settlement.
We heard of “Ku Klux elans”
roaming over the country in quest of
victims to slay or drive from their
homes, ns is so often published and
expatiated ujion by certain Northern
and Eastern editors nnd politicians.
We heard of fewer murders than one
can in some portions of the North
and East, nnd fewer convicts in your
penitentiary than can be found in
most of the Northern States, from the
same number of population.
From talking with lawyers nnd
judges, we learned that justice was
administered impartially to whiles
and blacks, as well as in any State of
the Union.
In fact, Mr. Editor, wherever we
went—and wc traveled some 1,500
miles in Georgia—we witnessed noth
ing but peace, quietness, industry,
nnd a disposition to obey the laws,
anil recover from the wide-spread de
vastations of a suicidal war.
Os course, Mr. Editor, wc do not
Intend to say, or convey the idea, that
many Georgians are not now of the
opinion that secession is right—
that they were liadly treated by the
Abolitionists before and since the war
—that if left to enjoy the rights they
claimed in their negroes, the war
would never have taken place. But
the fight over, they intend in good
faith to carry out their plighted faith,
and live and die by the Constitution.
In a word, not a man did wc find in
Georgia ty>w, or in our former visits
to the State, disposed to rebel against
the laws, but ail struggling to efface
the bloody marks of war, and place
their families above want, and become
once more independent.
Wc found, by inquiry, in many
neighborhoods, that your schools were
open to all white children, and that
: the blacks had tiie same rights, and
besides, with much of government aid
since tiie war; also, your churches
were fully attended nnd supported;
that, also, the blacks had theirs, and
preferred a separate organization.
In a word, we found your State
(considering the mixed population—
the blacks recently set free) more
quiet, orderly, and law-abiding, than
could, nfter the calamities ot war, and
sudden emancipation of a different
race, lie reasonably exjrected. From
every view we can take, and after vis
iting your State now, and twice before
since the war, wc predict for Georgia
a grand future, if miserable and un-
I scrupulous politicians, North and
South, will but keep hands off, and
let you alone.
Hence, upon returning home, and
reading the slanderous report of a
certain cpanletted Gen. Terry, we wore
not only surjirised, but indignant, to
think, that a jKimjious creature, sent
there by the President, and jiaid out
of money wrung from the labor of a
toiling and scanty jieojile all over
this country, should sit down and
write att infamous libel upon a quiet,
industrious and struggling people,
that were putting forth their best ex
ertions to support their families, after
the bloody car of war, and two scanty
crops since, had reduced thousands
to Maut,—annnv to starvation and
death. This creature, calling himself
Gen. Terry, of the Federal army, sent
to Georgia no true American ean tell
for what, not only libels your State,
lnit, ignoramus as be shows himself
|to the true principles of our govern
ment, is calling for more power to he
exercised over an oppressed jieojile.
But wc will forbear in this letter,
and reserve further remarks on this
j popinjay, the jiolitical affairs of Geor
-1 gia, and Ute 15th Amendment, to an
other communication. Till then, and
alynys, you have our kindest wishes
, for the success of true American prin-
I eiples, which can only be sustained
hy truth and fearless iudejiendciicc.
1 am, rcsjiectfully, yours,
John Pearson.
Danville, 111., Dec. 27, 1869. j
I promised to give you my opinion
of this new outrage which Grant und
this Radical Congress have committed
ujioii the rights of Georgia. It will
hardly he denied, that had Georgia
voted for Grant, and shown herself
to be entirely in the hands of Aboli
j tionism, that any such act would have
passed. But Georgia lias committed
tiie unpardonable sin—she has shown
herself Democratic, nnd intends to
preserve the designs of our fathers,
and do all in her power to keeji this
a white man’s government. Hence,
the decree has gone forth from this
unscrupulous Congress, that she is to
be destroyed. But if you will net
like the celebrated man, Mordecai,
mentioned in Holy AVrit—with firm
ness—refuse to yield an inch, or bow
down to this negro god and do him
reverence—you will see the day when
these Abolitionists will share the fate
of Hainan, and be hung on the gal
lows they have erected for a down
trodden and an unoffending pcojilc.
Have you not already done too much,
said too wuclr, yielded too much, to
the arbitrary and unconstitutional de
mands of these vindictive Radicals?
Your policy now is “masterly inac
tivity.” Be quiet; abide bjr your
State and United States Constitu
tions; violate no law, but stand firm
ujron the dignity of a free people,
feeling that litis loathsome dose now
offered is the work of unprincipled
villains, unfit to have a jdace in any
enlightened and Christian community.
It cannot be enforced. No matter if
your State is sold and betrayed by
an infamous creature calling himself
Governor, who ought, and would be,
in some States, driven out like a wild
beast for his treachery and baseness.
What and if he calls, as he has, the
Legislature elected in 1868, to carry
1 out the vile acts of this Rump Con-
gress? Are true men—white men—
arc independent Democrats, bound to
respond to this call? Can he unseat
the members already sworn in, who
have put the wheels of a State gov
ernment in motion, and by which this
creature, Bullock, has a legal exist
ence?—by which your Courts live,
move, and have a being?—by which*
almost ovory officer in your Stutc now
jicrforms his ftinctions and gets his
fees ?—by which laws have been made
that have decided the rights of your
citizens, civil and criminal? All of
these are asked to be set aside by
this new demand of Congress—to
effect what? To bring you under
Abolition domination for years to
come. For it ennnot lie denied, that
if this Lejrisltittrre of 1868 was Ille
gal—had no constitutional right, no
legal existence—then all done by it,
or through it, or of it, is roid. And
yet, has not this 6amc Bullock, and
the Supreme Court, and all Courts of
Georgia, acknowledged the legality
and constitutionality of thi6 Legisla
ture’s existence? Ts in my power to
decide the counsels of Georgia at this
; time, it would be to pay no attention
to this call of a Judas Governor; and
if assembled temporarily, no such ac
tion should take place as contemjihi
tetl by these Radicals.
The absurdity of this new move of
the Radicals is the mOrc apparent to
every true American, when he remem
bers that, during the unhappy war,
they said Georgia and till the rest
were not out 'of the Union, and could
not get out by any act of secession.
Since the peace, they have called on
1 you, as a State, to ratify an amend
' incut to the Constitution, abolishing
slavery in all the States Hence, they'
counted you as a State, to secure this
amendment. Since, in their lingo,
they have “ reconstructed ” you. You
: gave way—yielded to their tyranny—
made anew Constitution, and allowed
the negro to vote, as demanded. You
elected your officers under it. All
was then agreeable to the tyrants at
i Washington, for they supposed the
i negro would control all your elections,
through the infinetlec of Yankee car
|>et-l »aggers, and treacherous citizens,
I like Brown and Bullock. The sky
, was fair and bl ight to the eyes of
theSe destructives of free government,
j until your Legislature met; but in the
meantime they introduced a resolu
tion into Congress, admitting, as they
j called it, Georgia to all the rights of
j the other States. No resolution can
Ihe penned stronge’r. Your members
took their seats under that resolution,
j 7
and sjioke, und acted, and voted, and
made laws for the United States, as
other members. You went further,
by the gracious permission of these
bullying tyrants. Yon voted for I’res
ident and Vice President, and had
your vote counted in the Electoral
College—but not till the passage of a j
disgraceful and unheard of resolution
in this bloodthirsty Congress.
i But the white men of Georgia—the
freemen and Democrats—believing
that this is n white man's country,
and that your Constitution' did not
iuteml the election of negroes to make
laws for you, decided, as every white
man in Georgia with a white heart
would decide, that the negro had no
rights in a legislative body, or in
olllce. This was done, too, by and
with the advice of Judge Brown and
many others of the Radical party.
But, indejiendent of this, does not
every legislative body possess the in
herent jiowcr and right of jiassing on
the qualification of its members?—of
jmrging itself of impisper mem lx?Vs,
where the character* an; bad? It
never was denied liefore, and cannot
now be altered by anybody on earth;
for, to admit the inability to purge it
self, or to allow another body to de
cide on it, would l>e self-destruction.
I waive the opinion if this, or the old
Constitution of Georgia, is in exist
ence ; or if this Legislature has ever
hod any right at all to meet and enact
laws. But, as things stand, this body
has the undoubted right to protect
itself, or it is not a Legislature.
The negro is not in the ascendant
in Georgia. That is the fault and sin
of her people.
Since all these things have been
done in your State, these Washington
traitors to our Constitution have got
up another scheme to perpetuate their
1 power—the 15th Amendment—which,
if saddled on all the States (if three-
NO. 2.
fourths of them can be obtained),
they confidently expect a lease of
jiower is secured to them for the next
25 or 30 year . And Georgia is nec
essary to secure this end, and they
intend that she shall take this nause
ous dose, or be again, os these scoun
drels call it, turned out of the Union,
or kept out, in common lingo Os Abo
litionists. Let them do their worst
now. If you are true Americans (and
it is adversity which tries a man or a
nation), you will never yield to this
now outrage—you will never get dowp
to the level of negroes, or suffer them
to rule over you.
But, says one, they have put into
this Georgia act terrible penalties if
any man dare oppose them, or this fel
low Bullock, in reconstructing Geor
gia again. This thunder is without
lightning. It is all to scare your
pcojilc to get down ou a par with ig
norant, inferior Africans. Let Grant
call on his army nnd navy to aid Bul
lock. What can they do against a
people that are quiet, unoffending ?
that make no resistance to State or
United States laws ?
I have no doubt you will find men.
even in Georgia, crying, “ Let us do
all this. Pass the 15th Amendment,
and all will be well. We can then
come in, and go on swimmingly with
these Abolitionists!”
They know thetn not There is no
faith to he kept with such men as
Butler, Schenck, Morton, Sumner,
Wilson & Cos. Mercy, justice, law,
constitutional oaths, they do not rec
ognize. ~
This 15th Amendment will unite
the negroes sis one man in the South,
and the North nnd West, to obtain
olllce, and, when obtained, they will
use authority as no white man ever
ventured to do in a free country,
And who is so ignorant as not to
know the consequences, whenever that
takes place ? A war of races is be
gun. Murder, arson and assassins
tion will be all over the South, if not
in the West and North; for what true
while American will Buffer negro ty
ranny and outrage, and submit?
Much, then, now depends upon the
action of Georgia; for the Radical*
triumjihantly say, that with Georgia’*
sanction of this odious amendment,
degrading whites to the level of the
ignorant and stupid Africans, thc\
will have a lease of power for the next
hnlf century. Should not, then, deni
sir. your State act with great caution,
in this, the most daugeroua crisi
since the termination of a suicidal
war?
In conclusion, let me saj- again,
your jicdplc should stand ujHin ait
their rights —never give an inch, oi
yield to the call of this or any Govcr
nor or President. No matter if the\
thundc'r around you with the arnn
and navy; for in no event can the\
; make you do this tiling, if you an
the descendants of our revolutionary
j sires, and not bastards, and unfit so
a free government.
Respectfully, yours,
John Pearson.
I*. S.—l promised lo say something
; about, the libelous report of a certain
upnulcttcd thing the world calls Gen
Terry, but as my letter is long, you
must excuse me. The whole popula
tion of Georgia, and all traveling ovei
it, know it to be a base fabrication,
gotten up for ati Abolition Congress
and their papers.
Since penning the above, I hax«,
received some Northern pajiers,which
I Send you, taking the same ground
1 do in this momentous crisis of Geor
gia’s history. V.
The Chicago Times and the Wa
bash Valley Times, the j)apers alluded
to; have reached us, but wc are una
bio, from lack of time and space, to
give their articles publication.—En.
Dispatch.
I3T some of the heirs of a dean
Baltimorean have astounded two ot
three business streets in Memphis, by
claifaihg to own $2,000,000 worth o'
real estate around there.
A miser latelV died at Jersey
City, worth over f6DO,ObO, and yet h*.
died in rags, hungry, and would have
no one with him, for ftear he would
have to pay for services.
The City Os Brussels matjt,
the trip from New York to IJverpoo";
in six days—the quickest tune upot
record.