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THE HAWKTNSVILLE DISPATCH.
VOL. 4.
Hawkinsville Dispatch.
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ANTONY T. TATE. LAWRENCE C. RYAN
PATE & RYAN,
ATTOKNIII’s AT LAW.
HA WKINBVILLE GEORGIA
WILL practice in the counties of Pu
laski, Houston-, Dooly, Wilcox, Ir
win and Telfair.
Office: In the rooms formerly occupied
by Judge Bcnrliorough. jan 6-ts
La/w Card.
CHAKLBB C, KIBBRR will practice in the conn
ties of Dooly find HonHou, ortho Mrcou C’lr
tol'; In |he countUt* of l’utarki, Wilcox, Telfair,
frwln and Coffee, or the Southern Circuit and will
mt ead to anv busitiene entrusted to him in other
of the State, upon special contrac*.
Othcc at ilawk nsvilie, Ua. Jan fi-tf.
Ei.t Warren. IV. L. Grice.
WARREN & GRICE,
A T TOR NET 8 AT LA TV,
Ferry, G-a,.,
Will practice in the counties of the Macon
Hnd foulhern Circuits, and in the District
and Circuit Courts at Savannah.
aug 13-6m*
LANIER HOUSE,
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COLLIER & BOYS
Ilaring na6umed tite management of tins
house, respectfully solicit a share of public
patronage.
Free omnibus to and from the house.
Attentive porters. dec 23-ts
Georgia, —Pclaskt countt.—b. b.
Dykes applies to me for letters of
administration on Die estate of David 8.
Dykes;
These arc, therefore, to cite and admon
ish ail persons concerned to be and appear
at my office within the time preacritied by
law, to show cause, if any they have, why
Mhl letters should not be granted.
J. J. SPARROW. Ordinary
jan 18-90d pr fee 3 50
I'Tcrtioe.
Thirty days J after date application will
Abe made to the Ordinary of Pulaski county
| Tbr leave to sell the land Ixdonging to the
estate of John U. Wallace, deceased, late
i of sal<t county.
ROBERT R WALLACE, Adm’r
jan 18-4 w nr fee 4 00
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1870.
From the Quitman Banner.
THE REBEL’S VOW.
! DEDICATED TO PROF. CEVOE, BY SENA.
j Though Italy may 1 toast iter sky,
And Grecce Iter ancient name,
< And Afric’s fragrant breezes fly
O’er isles of storied fame—
But give to me my sunny land,
Where zephyrs love to foam,
And blue-waved waters lave the strand
Os ttiv Southern sunny home!
! When spring awakes from winter’s sleep.
And all looks bright and gay,
And mocking-birds their vigiis keep
From eve till break of day;
And balmy breezes piny around
The mountain’s pine-clad dome—
Oil'. then T hear the magic sound
Os my Southern sunny home!
Though red-gloved war its groves have filled
With tears and sickening sighs,
And bright-eyed maidens' hopes arc chilled,
And suudered are life's ties;
Though foomen tread its sacred bowers,
And tyrant * freely roam,
Yet still a charm gilds bright the hours
Spent in nty sunny home!
It is my home! my native home!
Although oppression's there;
And black will ltc the torrent’s foam
Ehsl other words declare;
For deep within nty heart I hate
Tite menials that have come
And spread destruction’s fiery fate
Throughout my sunny home!
Long, weary years, lms raged the feud.
From mountain unto river.
And fate did write the word “subdued,"
But “conquered,” never! never!
For while the fiery orb of day
Around the eartli shall roam,
No spark of love my heart shall sway ,
For the spoilers of my home.
Tim coward knave slmkcs hands with
shame,
And begs, with piteous moan,
That she should spare his treacherous
name,
And all her mandates own;
But never! never while the wave
Bears high its created fount,
Shall h tie be .buried in the grave,
For the tyrants of my home!
May orphans’ cries and widows' tears
Disturb their midnight sleep,
Till anguish, with her dismal peers,
Their ceaseless vigils keep;
May life ne’er shed a pleasing strain.
Where'er they seek to roam,
Anti may despair attend their train.
And make their path its home!
Dark lie the day that saw them place
Their feet u)>on our soil,
And Muck as midnight be the trace
Os ponce upon their s|mil!
May fate fling forth her blackest*bolt,
And luirl them to the tomb,
And let oblivion be their lot.
And hell their final home!
By lopes fond dreams, by love’s sweet
vows,
And sorrow’s sickening moan;
By wan-wont cheeks and careworn brows,
Yea, Heaven’s eternal throne;
By all that’s dear in human fate
From the cradle to the tomb,
I swear to hate, forever iiatf..
The demons of tuy home.
May 23, 1860.
COUNTRY CHILDREN.
Little fresh violets,
Born in the wildwood;
Sweetly illustrating
Innocent childhood;
Shy as the autelope;
Brown ns a berry j
Free as the mountain air;
Romping and merry.
Blue eyes and hazel eyes
Peep from the hedges,
Shaded by sun-bonnets
Frayed at the edges;
Up in the apple trees,
Heedless of danger,
Manhood in embryo
Stares at the stranger.
Out in the billy patch.
Seeking the berries;
tinder the orchard tree,
Feasting on cherries;
Trampling the clover blooms
Down ’rnoug the grasses;
No voice to hinder them —
Dear huls and lasses.
No grim propriety,
No interdiction;
Free as the birdlings
From city restriction.
Coining the purest blood,
Strcngth’ning each muscle.
Donning health armor
’Gainst life's coming bustle.
Dear little innocents.
Born in the wildwood;
Oh, that all little ones
Had such a childhood 1
God's blue spread over them,
God's green beneath them;
No sweeter heritage
Could we bequeath them.
itHstfdami.
From the Western World.
111)115 AOVIiMTVItB.
“Tell me that (log can’t think as
well as we can?” was the contemptu
ous remark of the old hunter Hasson,
as lie sat upon the porch of his son’s
house, towards the close of u summer
day, conversing with a friend. “Why,
I sometimes think lie can do it better
than j-ou or me.”
His neighbor smiled, for he knew
there was something behind all this,
and if tite old man were only indulged
a little, it would bo sure to come.
“ We cannot deny that they show
a remarkable intelligence, at times,
although, as to their possessing reas
oning powers, that is an open matter
for discussion.” *
“ It ain’t with mo,” was the dogged
reply of the old hunter. “ That !ore
dog knows more than half the people
hereabouts, and his grandfather was
twice as smart as him.”
“ Ah! what did he ever do to merit
such a high opinion ?”
“A hundred things! I eould sit
here for a week and tell you of his
performances, such as dogs in these
days never dream of.”
“ I have time to listen to one inci
dent. if you will favor me with it.”
“I’ll tell you, then,what took place
right in this neighborhood, twenty
odd years ago. This dog's grand
father was then in his prime, and so
was I. 1 settled on the creek yonder,
and put up the log-house which tncbbe
you remember seeing before my son
I pulled it down. We’ve got a few In
jins yet in the neighborhood, but in
| them days there wasn’t much of nny
j thing else. Fact of it is, there was so
’ many, that I concluded not to bring
my family out till they got scarce.
“ I thought I could manage to cut
, the trees for my cabin alone; and then
there was a party of a dozen families
■' coining from our home iu I’enusylva
; nia to settle here, and I expected
i three or four of them in a few weeks,
by which time 1 hoped to be ready
with the heavy work of building; so
it was agreed that they were to stay
behind until the next spriug, when
the whole company could emigrate
with more comfort and safety.
“ 1 felt a little lonely now and then
when I sat down by my camp-fire to
cook my venison, or broil the fish
which 1 hauled out of the creek. 1
had been a good deal of a hunter when
■ I was younger, but now that I was
| older, and Imd a family, 1 didn’t like
| the plan of wandering lor two or three
i weeks alone in the woods, or lying
! down at night with the feeling that
there wasn’t a white man within fifty
i miles of me; so 1 worked all the harder
to get the cabin up and go home and
see the dear ones.
“ I never would have stood it if it
hadn’t been for my dog Hollo. I used
to sit and talk to him, at night, for
hours at a time, and I knew that he
understood every word I said.
“IV hen it was rainy, I used to
stretch out under the logs and talk to
him, while he’d wag his tail and nod
his bead, until wfAoth dropped asleep.
“My great fear was ltijius: I eould
hold my own against the wild animals,
but I knew if a lot of them came down
on me, it would make rather bad busi
ness; so, while I was chopping down
the trees, I kept Iloilo recouuoitrcing
in the woods, on thclookout for them.
He knew they were ugly customers,
and I was sure, if there were any in
the neighborhood, he would give me
notice.
“ One day I was hard at work, when
I heard the dog bark. That was a
sign that something was wrong, and;
throwing down my axe, I flung on my
coat; caught up my gun, and made
for the creek, where I kept a little
Injin canoe that I had found during
a freshet .By the time I could jump
into this and get the paddle in my
hand, Rollo was beside me.
“‘ What is it, pup?’ I asked. ‘ln-
Jins?’
“‘Yes,’ he answered, as plain as
you or I could do.
“ ‘ Then we had better make our
selves scarce,’ thought I; and, as he
was of the same opinion, I plied with
the paddle with all the skill I eould
command.
“It was Injins, sure; for I hadn’t
gone a quarter of a mile, when I heard
a shouting and whooping, and looking
back, seen about twenty running along
the edge of the creek, firing their guns
and calling, us though they expected
I would paddle back again and sur
render myself.
“ I didn’t think it worth while to
do that, and so I paddled as hard as
I could till I found they were coming
about twice as fast, when I run into
shore, jumped out, und tried what I
could do in the way of running. 1
waß always pretty active on my feet,
and if I ever had any good reason for
using my legs, I certainly had now.
“But when a man doesn’t do much
else but hunt and run from the time
ho is born, ho is -pretty apt to under
stand himself, a.id I soon found they
could outrun me. I did the best I
knew how, but, for all that, they kept
gaining, and I was not long in finding
out that I should be overhauled, un
less one of two things occurred.
“ The first thing that entered my
head, was to throw them off my track,
in some way or other; although, just
then, I couldn’t think of any plan by
which to do it: the other was to keep
out of their reach till night. It was
in the afternoon when the chase began;
and, as every nowand then 1 held my
own, and once or twice thought I was
really gaining, I had strong hopes
that I might get out of their reach
under cover of night.
“ What troubled ntc a good deal
was, that the wood was so sparse, and
there were so many open spaces here
and there, that I never could keep out
of their sight more than five minutes
at a time, so that 1 was afraid to try
any of the different tricks to throw
them, off the trail, which came into
my head as I skurried over the leaves.
“Alter the first half hour, the In
jins could have shot me any minute;
and had I not bceu losing the time, I
eould have wheeled about and knocked
over the foremost more than once;
but I suppose they wanted to catch
me. Them redskins had a way of
amusing themselves with their pris
oners, by tying them up to a stake
and heaping fire around them, while
the rest of them danced uud yelled
with delight. You’ve heard of such
things, and they came into my head,
while running, so strong, that I made
up my mind they should never take
me prisoner. If overtook, I meant
to turn and fight till they were com
pclled to tomahawk me to save them
selves.
“Mailers WeVe getting desperate;
and, as tite best thing 1 could do, I
made for the creek again, as the wood
in that direction looked a lit Lie more
dense. As I tore over the dead leaves,
a stratagem flashed upon my mind,
which 1 lost no time in acting on.
“As soon ns I reached the margin
of the stream, I dodged under the
bank, and then said to Hollo, who all
this time was close to my heels:
“‘Go ahead, dog, and kick up the
leaves all you can, so that they will
think it is my trail they arc following.’
“ He understood every word I said,
as well as you do this minute; and
away he went at a rate I knew couldn’t
be equaled by any of them. Well, sir,
the ruse succeeded to a charm. Iloilo
made such a scattering of the leaves,
that, when the redskins lost sight of
me, they couldn’t miss my traiL Never
once suspecting the trick that had
been played, they sped by me like a
it* of deer with the hunters after
them.
“I stayed where I was till I was
sure they were out of sight, when I
crawled out from my hiding-place,
and started back towards the spot
where I was building my cabin. It
was beginning to get dark by this
time, and I was glad enough to think
how neatly I had outwitted my ene
mies.
“But I rejoiced too soon. Among
the Injins who had given me such a
chase, was a single one who suspected
the trick that had been played upon
his companions. He was one who
was altogether unable to keep up with
them, as he was lame from some cause
or other; and as he limped along, I
s’pose he had time to think the mat
ter over.
“There was quite a bright moon
that night, and I walked rather slow
like, on my way back; for I can tell
you, with chopping wood half a day T
and running might and main the other
half, I was about used up.
“ 1 had pretty nearly reached home,
as 1 called it, and wasn’t thinking of
any such a thing as danger, when 1
heard the crackling of a stick behind
me, and wheeling about, saw a huge
lnjin, not a dozen feet distant, with
his gun to his shoulder. Without]
any thought, but quick as lightning, '
1 dropped upon mp face, and the bul-'
let went over my head, missing me
by the narrowest chance of my life.
“ But before 1 could get upon my
feet, the savage was upon me. He
had a knife, and 1 hadn’t; so you sec j
matters looked rather dark for me. I
As he raised it to strike, 1 caught his 1
wrist and held it, and by a sudden
wrench, managed so to loosen his
grasp that it fell to the ground.
“ 1 was pretty powerfhl, and under
stood wrestling better than he did;
so 1 turned him before he knew any
thing about it, and then caught after
the knife; but the wily dog was too
quick for me, and caught my wrist
exactly as 1 had done to him. He
held it with a grip like a vise, but 1
managed to free it, and we both began
a struggle.
“ Well, sir, iu spite of all that 1
could do, the du«ky scoundrel got it
in his hand again, just as 1 doubled
my fist and struck him iu the face, in
the hope of stunning him enough to
give me a better chance.
“He was the toughest customer 1
over grappled with; for my blow didn’t
seem to produce any more effect than
if 1 had struck a white-oak stump,
and the next moment he gave me a
thrust in the side with the knife, which
1 was sure was the finishing blow.
Feeling myself growing weak and
faint, 1 loosened my hold, nud he
threw me off, and began rising to his
feet, with the intention of killing and
scalping me in his most approved
style.
“A minute later,and it would have
been all over, when there was a rush
of some swift bod}-, and the lnjin was
hurled violently backward, with the
massive jaws of Iloilo furiously closed
in his throat. Os course 1 went to
the dog’s assistance, and between him
and 1 it took but a short time to put
the lnjin out of danger of doing ns
any harm.
“My hurt had been more imaginary
than real—the thickness of my coat
preventing much more than the point
entering iny side; but, such as it was,
1 carry its scar to this day, and can
never forget the service done me by
tite opportune arrival of the respected
grandfather of the dog dozing at my
feet.” S. C. T.
Intercut lug Facts.
The number of languages spoken
is 4,864.
The number of men is about equal
to the number of women.
The average of human life is 33
years.
One quarter die before the age of
seventeen.
To every 1,000 persons, one only
reaches 100 years, attd not more than
one in 500 will reach 80 years.
There are on earth 1,000,000,000
inhabitants.
Os these, 333,333,333 die every year,
91,824 every day, 7,789 every hour,
and 60 every minute, or one every
second.
These losses arc balanced by an
equal number of births.
The married are longer lived than
the single, and above all, those who
observe a sober and industrious con
duct.
Tall men live longer than short
ones.
Women have more chances of life,
previous to the age of 50 years, than
men, but fewer after.
The number of marriages are in the
proportion of 76 to 100.
Marriages ate more frequent after
the equinoxes; that is, during the
months of June and December.
Those bom in spring are more ro
bust than others.
Births and deaths are more frequent
by night thnn by day.
t3T Brovn came home with a black
eye. To bia wife’s inquiries, ho re
plied that, having asked himself a
question, he received snch a saucy
answer, that he had been obliged to
resent it. His wtf? did not believe
him, and got anew dress that week.
JST A lady informa the Talbotton
Standard that cedar leaves nibbed on
the face of a rough fiat-iron will make
it smooth.
NO. 11.
J Billings Papers.
THE DISTRIKT BKOOI.MASTEB.
There iz a man iu this basement
world that 1 alwus looked upon with
pheelings ov pity and respect.
Pity and respect, as a general mix
ture, don’t mix well.
You will find them both traveling
around amungst folks, but not often
in the saint bush.
When they do hug each other, they
mean sumthing.
Pity, without respect, hain’t got
much more oats in it than disgust
haz.
1 had rather /man would hit mo
ou the side of the bed than tew pity
me.
But thare iz one man in this world
to whom 1 alwus take oph mi hat.
and remain uncovered until he gets
safely by, and that iz the distrikt
skoolmaster.
When 1 meet him, 1 look on him
as a martyr just returning from the
stake, or on the way there tew be
cooked.
He leads a more loncsum and single
life than an old bachelor, and a more
anxious one than an old maid.
He is remembered just about as
long and as affectionately os a guide
board is by a traveling pack-pedlar.
If he undertakes tew make his skol
nrs luv him, the chauses are he will
neglect their laming; and if ho'don’t
lick them now and then pretty often,
they will soon lick him.
The district skoolmaster hain’t go*
a frond on the fiat side of earth. The
boys snowball him during recess; the
girls put water in his hair-die, and
skool committees make him work for
half the money a bar-tender gets, and
board him around the naborhood.
where they giv him rye coffee sweet
ened with molassis, tew drink, and
codfish bawls 3 times a day for vit
tics.
And with all this abuse, 1 never
herd of a district scoolmaster swaring
louder than—condein it.
Don’t talk tew me about the pa
shuncc of ansbunt Job. Job had
pretty plenty of biles all over him, no
doubt, but they were all of one breed.
Every yung un in a district scool
is a bile of a diffrent breed, and each
one needs a diffrent kind of poultiss
tew git a good head on them.
A district scoolmaster who does a
squair job, and takes his codfish bawl*
reverently, is a better man to-day tew
hav lying around loose than Solomen
would be arraid in all of his glory.
Soloman was better in writin’ pror
erbs, and manigin a large Tandy, than
he would be tew navigate a district
scoolhousc.
Eny man who lias kept a district
scool ten years, and boarded around
the naberliood, ought tew be made a
mager general, and hav a penshun for
the rest of his nntral days, and a hoss
and waggin to do his goin around in.
But, as a general consequence, a
district scoolmaster hain’t got cny
more warm friends than an old blind’
fox hound has.
He is respected a good deal as a
man is whom we owe a debt of 50
dollars to and don’t mean tew pay.
He goes through life on a back road,'
as poor as a wood-sled, and finally is
missed, but whatever bekums of hie
remains 1 can’t tell.
Fortunately, he is not often a sen-'
sitivc man; if he was ho couldn’t any
more keep a district scool than file a'
cross-cut saw.
Why is it that these men and wim
men, who pashuntly and with crazed
brain teach our remorseless hrats the
tejus meaning of the alphabet; who’
take the welding heat on their desti
nies; who lay the stepping-stones,
and encorrage them tew mount up
wards; who hav dun more hard and
mean work than any class on the foot
stool ; who hev praid over the repro
bait, strengthened the timid, restraind
the outragus,and flatten! the imbecil;’
who have lived on codfish and vile
coffee, and hain’t bin herd to sware—
whi is it that they are treated like a
vagrant fidoler, danced to for a nitc,
paid oph in the morning, and eagerly
forgotten ?
1 had ruther burn a cole pit, or
kepe the flys out of a butcher’s shop
in the month of August, than meddle
with the district scool bisness.
£3r An ex-devil of a conn tty print
ing-office was questioned as to the
duties of a “printer’s devil.” He re
plied: “To bring clean water, carry
out dirty water, steal wood, lye, and’
numerous other article*!"