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THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
VOL. 4.
Hawkinsville Dispatch.
I'UUUSiIKU BY
DENIS W. D. BOULT Y,
KlftTOlt AND PROPRIETOR.
Kates Hißl Kills'*.
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A llbenl deduction will be made with
those who advertise by the year.
Thenw y tor t.-lvrrttwmeiils is tine on
tj. .. f}x r ’
'Tributes of K -.«ct. Resolutions by Soci
stleCoWUwrks 7te., exceeding six lines, ■
to be charged ns trails.ent advertising. |
Subscritiers wishing their impure changed .
tom one poet-office to another, must state
Re name of the post-office from which tliev
wlsit it changed, ns vrril as tliat to which
they wish it sent.
l.fil.Al. ADVKtmSIXO.
Ordinary’s—Citations for Letters
of Administration, by Adminiatra
tors, Executors, Guardians. Ac $-> jU
Application for Letters of Disuiis
lion from Administration.......... 4 ot),
Application for Letters of Drums- ,
sloe from Guardianship ° ;>
Application for leave to sell Land 4 Ist
Notice to Debtors and'Creditors 5 50
Sales of personal or perishable
property, per square lob
Sales ot Lands, per square 0 at)
Sheriff’s —Per levy • 3 oil
Mortgage sales, tea lines or less . 500
Tax Collector';; sales, per square, o
CLehk’s —Koto closure ot' Mortga
ges and other Monthly advertise
ments, $1 per square of one inch lor
each insertion.
Announcing County Candidates.. 8 tH)
Announcing District Candidates,, la 00
For a man ndrerti: ng his wife, in
advance... 20 00
Sales of Lund, by Administrators.
Executors or Guardians, ai required by
law to bo held on the first T in Mm
month, tiet ween the hours of ten r the f -<v
noon and three* in the nfterno n, at t..e
Court-house in the cour v L. which die
property is situated.
Notice of these .- .’es muse, be given in a
public gazette 40 days previous to the day
of sale.
Notice for tlic sale of personal property
must be given in itUe manner. 10 days pre
vious to sale day.
Notice to debtors and creditors or au es
tate must also be publish- 1 10 days.
Notice that op; ’.leaf - will be made to
tho Court of Ordinary t-• 1 nvc to sell land
must be publislied for fit" weeks.
Citations on letter' >' administration.
Guardianship, Ac., must l*e published 30
days- for dismission from administration,
monthly three months; for from
Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules lor the foreclosure of Mortgages
must be published monthly, four months :
for establishing lost papers, for the full
space of three months; forcomp- ling titles
from Executors or AdminUr: t ts, where
bond lms UeCn given bv the deceased, the
fttll space of three months.
Sheriff's sales must be publlsbial for four
W< l’ublieatloßß will always be continued
accotdiug to tlicsc, the legal requirements,
uuicss otherwise ordered.
Business Cards
titan <’• t’ATt:. LAWRENCE C. HVAN
PATE & RYAN,
ATTO«nms AT LAW.
HA WfxINSVILLE GEORGIA
WILL practice in the counties of Pu
la.-'ct, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Ir
win and IV'iir.
Office • In the rooms formerly occupied
by Judge bcarborough. JIU) 6 ■
Law Card.
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( •tt«of Doolr«ndH«..s. . -r U5e..,.;
‘ cni ,. j,. i .. n,nutlet ot F«..-i»tti. w; ox 1.-.n
fnrir, noil OoiT<-.- ot Hie > mt- o. fin '- • «>"' «
at rndio ai.r Imsioo-s ' nlrr.v u l<- lilm hi ntit .
Coil lit let Ilf Uw Suits, II |!»n 4|.cctal rout ‘I .
OSc* at nas-k iisriUe. Ua. tan 0-ir
Eta Waukkn W. Ldues.
WARREN & GRICE,
A TTORNE rS AT LAW,
Ferry, G-a..,
Will practice in the counties or the Macon
and Pentium Circuits, and in the District
and Cirerfft Courts at Savannah.
augni2-tim*
LANIER HOUSE,
Ivlaoon, Gra,
COI, l-I E R & BOYS
Having assumed tlic management of this
house, respectfully solicit a share of publit
patronage.
Free omnibus to and front the house.
Attentive porters. dec 23-ts
Georgia,— pvi.aski commr.—b. b.
I>yhe* applies to me for letters of
administration on the estate of David S.
■«U arc, therefore, to cite and admon
ish all persons concern"d to in- and appear
at my office within the time prescribed by
law, to show cause, if any they have, why
said letters should not be granted.
J. J. SPARROW, Ordinary,
jan 13-30d pr fee 8 50
IST otioe.
V Thirty davs after date application will
be made to the Ordinary of Pulaski county
for leave to Hell the land lielonging to the
estate of John H. Wallace, deceased, late
ot R WaI.LACE. Adm'r.
ian tB-4w nr tee 4
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1870.
IPoftinil.
THE DEAD CONFEDERACY.
Pale, stark and cold she lies, in utter silence,
No more to rise up front that deathly swoon,
To weeping States, tliat whisper, iu great
anguish,
“ Dead, dead si< t oon.”
Ah! mourn for her v, itb tender love and
pity,
Yc men that strove to leugtlien out her
ye;, is!
A little child, grown old and gray with
sorrow.
Demands your tears —
A little child, with blood upon her riuglcts,
A faded lianner wrapping her tired arms,
Bruised feet, that faltered iu the sweet re
vealing
Os freedom’s chands.
Hushed into mute and ft. e rent emotion,
Tlic people pass beneath the heavy skies,
Knowing, to-day, nor yet upon to morrow,
Will she arise—
Arise, to spread her banner in rejoicing,
To beckon honor from the waiting years!
Who hints of fitv.iig, with every stain upon
her
Washed out in tears?
The faulty idol of a faulty people,
Who loved Iter better that her faults were
theirs,
Who see her deaf, blind, dead, to all per
fection
The future bears.
As dead as those who sought to be her
armor,
Who held their hearts as shields ’twix't her
and death,
And died to cliorLh into fuller being
The infant breath.
Strong hearts, that, in the rush anil roar of
battle,
Poured out their noble blood like holy
wine,
Wasting its wealth and rielineaaon a broken
And blasted shrine —
A blasted shrine, yet, even in its blighdng,
Cl oft nud* with the homage of a million
hearts.
Whose burning tears poured out the las'
libation
That love imparts.
A faded hope, yet fairer in it* fading
Thun victory’s temples reared above the
dead.
And sweeter Wasted, faded, broken, than
rich incense
For conquests sited.
Pale, pale she lies; the autumn cometh
gently,
And clasps its crimson lingers round her
!< et,
Ami throws s golden spell upon the ft rest,
As is most meet.
It is most meet, tliat one w ho died in child
hood,
Who smiled upon us from the purple West,
Should take amid the crimaon and the
golden
Her final rest.
All cold she lii-s; the spirit of the wiuter
Hushes the careless river at her side.
'Tis well, we think, that thus should sleep
in silence
A people’s pride.
She licth still: we dare not sing her requiem.
The Western star lms faded out of sight,
filke her who was the idol of our worship.
Leaving ns night.
Viol jet Lea.
Prinett'Oi, Ark., 1 *»>■>.
.»»■•
THE LITTLE ROBE OP WHITE.
In a maowood cradle a baby lay;
Its mother was stitching, stitching away,
On a little robe of white:
One foot on the rocker: she hoped to keep
Her frolicsome baby last asleep,
To finish her work tliat night.
In every stiteh of that garment she wrought,
That loving mother fastened a thought—
Hopes for that little one—
And smiled on her baby in happy pride,
As It slept in tlic cradle by her side,
Till the little rolte was done.
Then she folded hp the cambric and lace,
And kissed her little one’s chubby face,
That smiled in its infant glee.
She tossed it up and down in the air—
“ How pretty you’ll look, little babe, when
you wear
That little new robe,” said she.
In a rosewood coffin the baby lay:
Iu mother bad wept the night away.
Watching its dying breath.
With it pressed to her bosom, she prayed
to keep
Her darling baby from going to sleep
In tbe cold, cold arms of death.
They buried tbe babe in the garments just
wrought,
Wiiose every stitch held a hopeful thought,
Frofii the mother’s loving sight
On a marble stone she wrote with a tear,
'• How manv hopes are buried here
In that little rob- ol white I”
«%*•***•
In tbe Saviour’s arms a bsby lay.
From its -oaewood coffin far away,
In the realms of love and light:
The angels a garment hail folded about
Its little form, which will never wear out—
> iT _- : —t— of wtih.
Ittistcllann.
For the Dispatch.
Letter from I.ouMhiui.
Lake Bhiteneai;, )
Bienville Parish, La., ,
March 1, IS7O. )
To the citizens of Pulaski ami the ad
joining counties :
Gentlemen —As some of you very
well know, I left Hawkinsville on the
4lh of January last. I landed on the
borders of Lake Bisteneau the 13th—
lay over two and a half days and one
night, and traveled the last, fortv-fivc
miles by wagon, over tolerable bad
roads, from C'aushata Point, on Red
river, up the lake, within six miles of
thp town of MimUrn.
My expenses from Hawkinsville to
this place were $26” 60, for ten in
family.
Myself nnif family are all well, and
well satisfied with the move.
We are in a good country, very
well watered, and generally good. No
limestone water here, as I have seen
or heard of. As for the health of the
country, I judge from the citizens
that have been living here for years,
that it is equally ns healthy as it is
iu Pulaski. The old men, young
men, women and children, look as
healthy here ns there.
It is a very productive country for
children; the land, generally, is also
productive. It is what 1 call rich—
the soil tine and light, and easy to
cultivate. Rome of the soil is black ;
some the color of slacked ashes, and
some of a reddish or snuff color. I
am told by tho people, and 1 endorse
it from the looks of the old stalks,
that it produces from 1,200 to 1,800
pounds of seed cotton, aud from 20
to 30 bushels of corn per acre, with
out any manure. No guano .is used
here, and hut very little of the cotton
seed for manure. It is fed lavishly
away to the cuttle in winter.
The now range is very good here
it: summer, and it is a great deal bet
ter here in winter than in Georgia.
Tlic hog range is very good.
This is a good timbered country,
though there is no long-strr.wcd piue
here, but almost all other kinds of
timber—sliort-slrawed pine, all kinds
of oaks and hickory, black walnut,
ash, wild mulberry, dogwood, and
chinquepin. Now judge for your
selves as to the quality of the land.
Land tliat is improved sells for
lrom $6 to $lO per acre; unimproved,
from $3 to $5.
Good navigation from six to eight
months in each year.
All kinds of merchandise are as
cheap here as there, aud some articles
cheaper; such as sugar, syrup, rice,
flour, etc.
There have been, ever since I have
been here, and nrc at this time, from
two to three boats in the lake a week,
coining in and going out.
Minden is at the head of naviga
tion, aud is a very fast town—more
goods sold there in two days than
there are iuJlawkinsvillc in six.
There are landings up and down
the lake, on cither side, where a per
son can go and get any necessary
they may need.
This is as convenient a country as
Georgia, with the exception of rail
roads. The wagon roads are not gen
erally as pleasant to travel over as
they arc there, from the fact that they
are never worked.
Gentlemen, 1 state to you nothing
but what I believe and know to be
facts. I also lielieve that there are
none in your country, who have to
make a living by tbe assistance of
guano, that would stay there, if they
could see the Western country, or
could know the difference in the two,
if they could get away.
Gentlemen, you have heard of the
great emigration to the W est, hut
you have no ides of it, unless you
had been with our little colony. At
almost every station, from Macon to
Mobile, there were more or less emi
grants coming aboard. They kept
making application for admission into
our crowd, on account of the differ
ence in the fare. W e had a chartered
car, at two cents a mile. It got so
disagreeable, wc hail to close about
Montgomery, Ala.
When wc started up the Missis
sippi, at almost every landing they
were coming on board the boat, and
they kept getting on board until we
struck Red river; and when wo reached
C'aushata Point, on Red river, the
crowd had increased to something
over 600, on that one boat. But, at
that point, there were five families
that called a halt—the two Popes,'
Jones, McDuffie and myself.
Gentlemen, write to me, and let me j
hear the news.
So I close by saying, you have my
best respects. J. W. Felt/..
P. S.—l probably may write you
all aguin, when I ace the corn and
cotton commence growing.
For the Dispatch.
N liat Constitutes a Town t
Mb. Editok—l see, by a notice in
your local column, that the editor of
tho Brunswick Appeal has becu iu
our midst, and, by the quotation you
make from him, he seems to think
Hawkinsville a “ thriving interior vil
lage.” Village! Why, Mr. Editor,
I verily thought we .were in a town.
We have a Town Council, citizens,
houses, long streets, lanes and enclo
sures. And, verily, what more has
Brunswick got? Has it as much?
I never have been there, but am told,
tlic houses are few and far between
few people, and little business. If
that he so, how comes Hawkinsville
to he au interior village and Bruns
wick a seaport city ? Aud, to listen
still further to Mr. Appeal, he saw
nothing we had here, hut was in “con
versation with her citizens, aud exam
ining the new factory.” Why, sir,
one would have thought that such an
editor, from such a city, would have
called upon yon, and said something
about there being a printing-office in
the “ interior village;" but not one
word on that. Neither docs he see
any commercial affairs, nor docs he
anyone word about any signs of thrift
iu anything. But there is one thing
ho did find out; that was, thnt tho
President and other officers of Uic
Company were qourtcous. Why, Mr.
I Editor, we all know that; so did ev
erybody know it, that knew those
gentlemen. But, you see, that tickled
his fancy, and he speaks of it.
Now, Mr. Editor, is it not wonder
ful how large some people sec them
selves to he, and Itow small others
arc in their sight? And neither is
this editor an exception to this rule,
when lie sees his own paper, his own
city by the sea, and all his greatness,
yet sees Hawkinsville so small a vil
lage, and so little in it, that his-notice
of the place occupies only one square
in your paper. But enough.
Verily, Verily.
Tlic Arltuu*as Traveler.
A lost and bewildered Arkansas
traveler approached the cabin of a
squatter, about forty years ago, in
search of lodgings, when the following
dialogue ensued:
Traveler. Hallo, stranger.
Squatter. Hello yursclf.
T. Can I get to stay all night with
you?
S. No, sir, you can’t git to—
T. Have you any spirits here?
S. Lots on ’em. Sal saw one last
nitc by that ar ole holler gum, and it
neerly sheered her to doth.
T. You mistake my meaning.—
Have you any liquor?
S. Had some yesterday, but ole
Bose he got in an' lapt all uvit outeu
the pot.
T. You don’t understand: I don’t
mean pot liquor. Pm wet and cold,
and want some whisky. Have you
got any ?
S. Oh, yes—l drank the last this
morning.
T. I’m hungry—haven’t had a
thing since morning—can’t you give
me something to eat?
S. llain't a durned thing in the
house. Not a mouthful of meat or a
dust of meal here.
T. Well, can’t you give my horse
something?
S. Got nothing to feed him on.
T. How far is it to the next house ?
S. Stranger 1 I dunno; I’ve never
bin tliar.
T. Well, do you know who lives
hereT *
S. I do.
T. As I’m so hold, then, what
might your name be?
S. It mout be Dick, and it mout
lie Tom; but it lacks rite smart of it.
T. Sir! will you tell me where this
road goes to?
g.* it’s never bin enywhar sencc
I’ve lived here; it’s alius thar when I
git up in the morning.
T. Well, how far is it.to where it
forks ?
S. It don't fork at all; hut it splits
up like the d—l.
T. As I’m not likely to get to any
other house to-night, can’t you let me
sleep in yours, and I’ll tie my horse
to a tree, and do without anything to
oat or drink ?
S. My house leaks. Thar’s only
one dry spot iu it, and me and Sal
sle;>es on it. Aud that ar tree is the
01-> ’omau’s jicrsimun: yu can’t tie to
it, kais she don’t waul um shuk off.
She ’lows to make beer outeu um.
T. Why don’t you finish covering
your house, and stop the leaks ?
S. It’s bin raining all day.
T. Well, why don’t you do it in
dry weather ?
S. It don’t leak then.
T. As there seems to be nothing
alive about your place hut children,
how do you do here, anyhow ?
S. l’urty well, T thank you; how
do you do yourself?
T. I mean, what do you do for a
living here ?
S. Kepe tavern aud sell whisky.
T. Well, I told.you 1 wanted some
whisky.
S. Stranger, I hort a barul moron
a weke ago. You see, me and Sal
went shars. Arter we got it here, we
only bad a hit hetweenst us, and Sal,
she didn’t want to use hern fust, nor
me mine. You see, 1 had a spiggiu
in one eond, and sho. in t’other. So
she talks n drink outeu my ccnd, and
pays mo tlic hit for it; then I’d taik
one outeu hern, aud give her the bit.
Well, we’s gittiug long fust rate, till
Dick, dum skulking skunk, lie bourn
a hole on the bottom to suck at, and
tlic next time I went to buy a drink,
thar warnt none tliar.
T. I'm sorry your whisky’s all
gone; hut, my friend, why don’t you
the balance of that tune?
S. It’s got no haluuce to it.
T. I mean, you don’t play the
whole of it.
S. Stranger, kin you play the fid
dull
T. Yes, a little, sometimes.
S. You don’t look like a fhldlur,
hut of you think you kin play any
more onto that ar tune, you kin jist
•tit down ami try.
(The traveler gets down, and plays
the whole of it.)
S. Stranger, take a half a dozen
cheers aud sot down. Sal, stir your
self round like a six-hoss teire in a
mud-hole. Go round in the holler,
whar I killd thnt buck this morning,
cut off some of the best peeees, and
foteli it and cook it for me and this
gentman dreely. Rase up the herd
under the bed of the bed, and it the
ole hluk jug I hid from Dick, and giv
us some whisky ; 1 no tha’s sum left
jit. Til, drive ole Bose outeu the
bred-tray, then clime up in the loft,
aud git the rag that’s got the sugar
tied in it. l>u k, carry the gentman’s
boss round under the shed; give him
sum foddur aud korn—much as he
kin etc.
Til. I)ad, they ain't knives enuff
for to sot the table.
S. Wbar’s big bitch, littcl buch,
ole case, cob-handle, granny's knife,
and the one I Uandulil yestnrday?
That’s enuff to sot any gentmau’s
tabel, without you’ve lost um. Dura
me, stranger, es you can’t stay as
long as you please, and I’ll give you
plenty to cat and drink. Will you
have coffee for supper ?
T. Yes, sir. .
S. I’ll he hangd es yu do, tho’; we
don’t hav nothing that way here, hut
Grub Hyson, and I reckon it’s mity
good with sweetning. Play away,
stranger; you kin slope on the dry
spot to-nite.
T. (After about two hours’ fid
dling). My friend, can’t you fell me
about the road Pm to travel to-mor
row ?
8. To-morcr! Stranger, you won t
git outen these diggins for six weke#.
But when it gits so you kin stai i—
yu sec that big slu over tliar? Well,
yu hav to git crost tliat, then yu taik
the road up the bauk, and in about a
mile you’ll kum to a two acre and a
half corn-patch. The corn’s mitely
in the wedes, but you needn't mine
that; jist ride on. About a mile and
a haff, or two miles from thar, you’ll
kum to the darndeat swamp yu ever
struck in all yure travels. It’s boggy
NO. 12.
enuff to mire a saddel-blankit. Thar’i
a fust rait rude about six feet under
thar.
T. How am Ito get at it?
S. You can’t git at it nary time,
till the wether stiffens down sum.—
Well, aboqj, a mile heyant, yu kum to
a plais whar thar's two roads. You
kin taik the rite hand, es yu want to;
you’ll fuller it a mile or so, and you’ll
find it’s run oat; you’ll then have to
kum back aud try the left; when yoa
git about two miles on that, yu may
no you air rong, fur they ain’t any
rode thar. You’ll then thiuk yu air
mity lucky es you kin fine the way
hack to my house, whar you kin kunt
and play on that tunc as ion ; as yoti
please.
IHarvels of memory.
Some examples of the marvels of
memory would seem incredible, had
they not lieen given to us on the high
est authority.
Cyrus knew the name of each sol'
dier in his army.
It is also related of Themistoclos,
that he could call by name every citi
zen of Athens, although the number
amounted to 20,000.
Mithridatcs, King of Pontus, knew
all his 80,000 soldiers by their right
names.
Scipio knew all the inhabitants of
Rome.
Seneca complained, in his old age,
because ho could not, ns formerly, re
peat 2,000 names in the order in which
they were rend to him; aud ho stated
that, on one occasion, when at his
studies, 200 unconnected verses hav;
I ing been recited by the different pn-
I pils of hit* preceptor, he repeated them
I in reversed order, proceeding from
1 the last to the first.
Lord Granville could repeat, from
| beginning to end, the New Testament
j in the original Greek.
Cooke, the tragedian, is said to have
| committed to memory all the content*
i of a large daily newspaper
Racine could recite nil the tragedies
of Uripitles.
It is said tliat George 111. never
forgot a face lie had once seen, nor a
name he had ever heard.
Mirandola would commit to mem-'
ory the contents of a liook by reading
it three times, and could frequently
repeat tlic words backward as well as
forward.
Thomas Crnnmer committed to
memory, in three months, an entire
translation of the Bible.
Euler, the mathematician; could re
peal the .Encid.
Liebnitz, when an old man, could
recite the whole of Virgil, word for
word.
It is said that Bossuet could repeat
not only the whole Bible, hut all of
Homer, Virgil, and Horace, besides
many other works.
Mozart had a wonderfttl memory
of musical sounds. When only four
teen years of age, he went to Rome
to assist in the solemnities of the Holy
Week. Immediately after his
he went to the Bistine Chapel to hear
the famous “Miserere” of Allegri.
Being aware tliat it was forbidden td
take or give a copy of this renowned
piece of music, Mozart placed himself
in a corner, and gave the strictest at
tention to the music, and, on leaving
the church, noted down the entire
piece. A few days afterwords, he
heard it a second time, anil following
the music with his own copy in his
hand, satisfied himself of the fidelity
of his memory. The next day he sang
the “ Miserere ” at a concert, accom
panying himself on a harpsichord ,'
and the performance produced such a
sensation in Home, that Pope Clem
ent XIV. requested that this musical
prodigy slionld be presented to him <
at once.
A druggist has invented a
rat paint, made of a preparation of
phosphorus. You first catch a rat,
aud then you paint him. After dark,
he looks like a ball of fire, and going
among his fellow rats, they get scared
to death at the “light of his counten
ance,” aud vacate the premises, the
“bright particular” rat following and
hurrying up the rear.
Tho New Orleans Timea says
that although the milkmaid has passed
away, made-milk hasn’t.
IJgr Two acres of land in Satan
nab lately sold for $2,500. \