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THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH. "VOL. 5. Ths in Qml gin number* 134,000. So says the Christian index. Carteravilie are going to build anew chuck. In Monroe county, Tennsssoe, thir ty wild cat scalps pays the State tax. Her. Dr. Uicka, of Maoon, has giv en the Albany Georgia Methodis Church a handsome twelve hundred pound belt The lorty-five dwellings now in proeeai ctfCeeicUon at EhitfcM leads hecdo believe that she may yet be of some account. Misa Lou Dillon was the most popular lady at the Brunswick Fair, and received a handsome silver but ter dish as her reward. A young man in North Cnroliujj who had been sick so titi 5 drank at onetime three pints of "fnfl ter-milk and one pint of the juice of dried peaches. He banded in his checks. ’ T A Texas (taper prints a list of 109 persons murdered by Indians in elev en years in one county in that State. Among .the killed were many women and children. Anthony Jenkins and James Mat tox, are to Itc hung at Thomasville, on July 11, for murdering two other freed men. • The steamship Ashland, of the New York and Brunswick line, made her first trip last week, arriving at Bntn wick, Wednesday morning. The wheat crop of North Georgia is turning out badly. The Marietta Journal reports it medium ; the Rome Cornier below the average: and the Cartersvillc Standard says it is well nigh ruined. „ An old lady gave this as her idea of a great man: “One who is care ful of his clothes, don’t drink spirits, can read the Bible without spelling the words, and cat a cold dinner on a wash-day with out grumbling.” A party named T .cvel Best was re oently cowMded by his mother-in law at Jefferson Oregon. Which calls to mind the verse of genius, : " Whatever woman was sot- to do, She done tt withs sest; Ho matter what her contract was, She done h«r level best.” Bread Abundant. —The Gainesville (Fla.) New Era says: “In a month or six weeks from the present time many of our farmers will oommcnce gathering corn. Not withstanding this, corn can be pur chased just now for fifty cents per bushel. Corn has been very alnin rtunt, and the fine oat crop has as sisted msterily in keeping it at so low a figure.” In a certain town in New London county, Conn., «an be found a lot five graves, one in the con tions on the latter read respectively, after the name of the deceased, “ My I. Wile,” “My H. Wife,” “My 111. quent expression, “ Our Husbandry ■.tvln gstoue. j <!-▼ <*-*- * • 7 ot He Disoovkas the Tar* Some* of ths Nil*. If Dr. Livingstone returns from this his third trip of exploration by way of tbs north, as was bis purpose, be will have traversed both the length and breadth of Africa, and the world may expect an account of his- discov eries and adventures more interesting and exciting than any that InWe ever been printed. From the com mu. nications we had from him in 1868, it is evident that the chain of lakes Jm discovered are the source of (he Nwr JGr'tMs be «Rtt>to*»;rew*9 able confirmation of Ptolemy's theory given nearly seventeen centuries ago, respecting tbs rise of the Nile. The (Doctor says the country in the vicls- of these lskes is not s desert, as is bmopulariy supposed, but abounds Bi vegetation, and, in the language ■f tbs natives, is • land of “rivers wlpofi rivers, and plains of fertility.” IAHaffMV I HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1871. Letter From Term. ; W hit* Oak Crkek, \ ! Titus Coontt, Texas, , Msy 80th 1811. J | I promts and to give you a skeebt of my travel in northwestern Texas. Well, I left my home on the morning of May the 10th; we went on to Red River county, or rather the s -uth west corner of Red River county’, though I am not very much impressed with this county. Lamar county is a good county beyouud a doubt; the lauds are very rich indeed. Lamar county is nearly all prairie land, though a plenty of timber to supply the wants es the people. The character of the prairie land is black sticky, and black sandy. The black sticky land is considered the best, though the black sandy is the most agr eable to lire sn. Paris, the county town of Lamar, is a beautifui little village; has some 40 or 60 dry goods and groceries, and seems to lie doing a good I usiuess. Paris has two No. 1 hotels, and they seem to U: doing well. We then passed on to - lloney Grove, a small village in Fannin county, a very handsome little place, and it seemed to be a go-ahead place. I am told that this is t'.c particular spot were David Crocket saw honey growing out oil the limbs of the forest trees; and I am satisfied it to be true, as I saw some bees on the limbs ol a busb. We then passed on to Bon ham, the county town of Fannin, olr serving all on the road very fine farms, a large portion of which is planted in corn. But little cotton plauted; some nice fields of wheat and oats. We then passed on from Boidiatu to Sherman, the county town of Grayson There wc found a great many farms ; and Sherman is a place ofeon siderable trade, has some 40 or 50 stores, and all seem to lie doing well; also has two fine hotels, and 1 think about three newspapers, two Demo cratic and one Radical. 1 forgot to say that Paris has three papers and Bonham has two, all in full blast. Well, go hack to tflicrniati and Gray son county.' I do ii.it think that Grayson county has as good land as Lamar and Fannin, though Grayson is a nicer county to live in, and a pleasant one also. 1 liink the drink ing water of Grayson is some better than that of Lamar or Fannin, though the people that have cisterns have good water all the time.— Whitcsborio, in Grayson county, near he lower Cross Timbers. Wliitos borro is a newly built town, and has some 18 or 20 storehouses, and is driv ing two botch and one or two livery stables. Whitesborro is in one of the finest kinds of countries. .My old friend Tice Sullvon, lives in 2} miles north of Whitesborro, in the Cross Timbers, and seems to be doing well and has plenty around him; has good land and good water. 1 stop ped with him some four days and spent the time pleasantly. We then took np our line of march to Gaines ville, Cooke county ; there we made quite a short stay ; don’t like Cooke county. Cooke is above the lower Cress Timbers. Poor so far as wc saw. Cooke is a frontier county. Some three weeks ago, in Cooke county, the citizens had a fight wit the Indians some 20 miles northwest of Gainesville; killed one Indian and captured some 60 or 10 horses— From Gainesville we took the back track. We come back to Sherman, and Sherman by the way of Ken tucky town, in Grayson county, a nice little town and a good country around it The lands in and around Kentucky town is the black sticky Isnd ; and we came in s winding di rection to Bonlmm, in Fannin, and trom Fannin to Lcdonia, a beautiful little town in Faunin county sur rounded by magnificent farms; there seems to be fine schools at Ledonfa. From we came into anew county by the name of Delta county. I suppose Delta was made of Hop kins, Lamar and Fancy. Delta coun ty lies in the shape of the letter A., it is a very rich county, and lands Cheaper than in any of the others.. In Lamar county the price of lands vary from 1 to 40 dollars per acre; ;□ Fannin, about the same, in Gray son it ranges fium.3} to 50 dollars per acre. Taking all things in con sideration, the price of lands, the quality of land, stock rang, and all other things, I prefer Delta county to opy that I have seen as yet. 1 can buy good prairie tends in Delta coun ty for $2 60 per acre, just ae good as I want, and buy timber land for three dollars per acre. I am confident that there are peo ple in Georgia, if they could see these Texas lands, that they weuld come to Texas certain and sure. If a man was to use the same industry in Tex that some of them do in Georgia, they never could gather what they would make; 1 mean in these West ern counties, on the prairies; though it is my advise to every man if be wants to come to Texas to comeonhia own hook just as I did; I came on my own accord. Transportation is very difficult in Texas, or at least in this portion of it. I will let you hear from me again some day or other. Our entire par ty is well at this writting. Respectfully, yours, W. R. Holi.on. —Griffin Star. What needier minks or Cnln’s Wife. Th ere is no record of Cain’s court ship or wedding. However interest ing to the parties themselves it is of no interest to us, except upon the supposition that the aceonnt in Gen esis of the creation of Adam was de signed to exclude the supposition that any (icople nad lieen created. If Adam and Eve were the sole prog enitors of the race, Cain nnd Abel, it is inferred, must have married their own sisters—a connection which is shocking to the sensibilities of the whole race, at a subsequent stage of development. Rut many of the fathers of the church denied that Adam and Eve ami their children were the only peo ple on the globe. They affirmed that the text in Genesis very plainly implies that there were other inhabi tants besides Adam's family. They allege that verse 14, chapter 4, of Genesis plainly implies that the world was already widely populated. For when God declared that Cain should In’ driven from his family, and made a vagal>ond in the earth, Cain depre cated the sentence and replied that “every one that findeth me shall slay me.” It was plainly not his family connections that he feared, for lie de sired not to l<e driven forth from them. It was the people that he should meet, when a wanderer in the earth. Who, then, were the people that Cain should fear to meet when lie should have gone forth into the eurtli ? It is also reasoned by scholars that the most natural mot lus 1 of sooth ing his fears would have been to tell him “ there are no other (icople on the earth except your father’s children.” Instead of that, the Lord is represented as falling in with Cain’s impression res(K‘cting the (Mipulation of the world, and that He set a mark on Cain lest any one find ing him should slay him (Gen. iv: 15,) Still further, it is said that Cain, separating himself from his kindred, went to the land of Nod, where “ lie built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.” The father’s very pertinent ly asked, Where did the people come from that lived in the city 1 That would lie an extraordinary state of things that would have enabled Cain to fill up a cltj’, however small, with his own children 1 And it is inferred therefore, there were other people in the land beside the immediate pos terity of Adam. If Adam was the only progenitor, Cain must have married his sister. If there were lines of people, other Adams, as it were, might have married into an other stock. We do knot express any judgment in the matter. Wc give our corres pondent opinions that have been held in the early days of the church, but with the statement that almost all modern Christian writers have rejected them. But as the origin of races has in our day assumed an important sci entific developement, and as a very many aide scientists held to a vari ety of orignal stocks, it is interesting to know that those views have been held before, and upon supposed Bib lical gronpds. But are there no more questions about Cain ? Does nobody wish to know what the mark was which the Lord affixed to Cain f Does no one wish to know how Cain died ? Ques tions must be scarce to leave such points untouched. If Cain is to be raised, be surely ought to be thor oughly dealt with. The Atlanta New Era says the or. gsnizstion of Good Templars have done much good, and continue to ad vance the good smse gs fewperano# rn that city. From the Paltaka (Fla.) Herald.] Attacked bjr alligator*. A STEAMER SURROUNDED BV TIIE MON STERS ON OCKLAWAHA RIVER. A gentleman who has been stop ping in our midst for some time, gives an account of one of the most terrible scenes ever recorded in the annals of this country. While steam ing up the placid waters of the Ock lawalia river he witnessed a conflict which made his hair stand on end*, never to be forgotten. After round ing Sackett's Point the stream wid iens and deepens, and the water at this bend always looked troubled and blacks Suddenly the steamer en countered a sea of alligators, flound ering and splashing water in every direction. Their bellowing shook the foundation of the waters. The cap tain says he never heard or witnessed such a scene before and never wished to a gain. Before the speed of the little steamer could be checked they found themselves in the midst of these terrible monsters. To go bauk or to go ahead was impossible. The passengers endeavored to drive them away by shooting, and the hands on board beat them with handspikes, yet they seemed more determined to obstruct the passage of the boat. The situation every moment be came critical, and the crew and pas sengers more and more exhausted, and the destruction of the boat seem ed inevitable. Already three colored hands had been devoured by these terrible monsters, and several others wounded. Several planks were torn from the hull, and the steamer was with difficulty kept from sinking. Just at this jieriod n source of relief came. A huge scr|H:nt appeared, making his way from the lakes—the same, tt is supposed, that was seen at “Devil’s Elbow” last fall. The alli gators soon disa|i(>carod, following the sea devil, or what ever yon may call him, nnd such fighting nuver was witnessed. At a point where the riv er suddenly myrows, it soon became blocked with dead alligators and the water was red with blood. It is dif ficult to account for the mtmlier and sudden appearances of these animals, but the latest theory may throw some light upon the subject. It is believed by many that there Is n large subter raneous pnssnge of water between the headwaters of the Ocklswaha and the waters of the Okehoobec lake, mid that these monsters have found their way’ here in great numliers, nnd if not soon exterminated, will olistriict the navigation of the Ocklnwalm. A h ave lady, wire of <’ol. W. A. Moore, living near Iscadvale, Jeffer son county, Tennessee, lias added an other to the many instances of a mother's devotion. She was at home, alone Inst Friday, says the Press mid Herald, when a negro woman came running into the house, with the in formation Mrs. Moore’s little sou, three years old had fallen down the well. Mrs. Moore ran to the well and looked down into it just in time to sec her child disnp|)car under the water. Without a moment's hes itation the brave lady grasped the well-ro|N* and went down twenty-four feet, to the surface of the wa'cr, and grappled in its depths with her feet for the child. She found him and drew him with her feet to the top of the water, then holding on to the rope with one hand and, placing her feet in the crevices of the rook wall, she worked and labored over the babe until he revived and her hu.duind came to her rescue.— Walton Jour nal. Tke Big Wisconsin Pigeon Boost. The North-western papers are full of talks aliout the big pigeon roost up at Kilbourne City, Wisconsin The breeding ground extends over nine townships, and is from ten to twelve miles wide. In that area ev ery tree, and shrub is loaded with bi ds, eighty and one hundred being frequently seen on one pine tree. They have caused great destruction to the grain in the State. The woods are slivc with wolves, foxes, and other beasts who feed, night and day, on tbe young that are being hatched and thrust from the nests in countless numbers by the parent birds—hundreds of hunters shoot, net, and knock over tbe grown ones, and bands of Indians are busy in lay ing in next winter’s supply of food, bnt still there seems no sensible re duction in the number. Tbe seen.* in the night time is de scribed as most remarkable. Innu merable flocks get benighted while off feeding, and, as they return, the roar of their wings through the for est is overwhelming. They pile up on each other literally in heaps, breaking tbe overburdened brambles, and precipitating multitudes from their perches upon tbe ground. Tbe wild wings and tbe chattering that fill tbe air as late as midnight, is truly appalling, while the odor arising from the countless dead and drooping produoe • stench almost In tolerable. Gules Ajar. Gone beyond the darksome river, Only left us by the way. Gone beyond the night# forever, Only gone to endluts day. Gone to meet the ange’ faces, Where our lovely treasures art? Gone awhile from our embraces— Gone within tbe gntes ajar! There's a sister, there’s a brother, Where our lovely treasures are, There’s a Hither, there’s a mqlfceb, Gone witliiu the gates hJntl One by one they go liefore us, They arc filling mb’ the dew, But ive know Wtv'W winching o'er us, They the gttod, Inc fair, the true 1 Tlicv are waiting Tor ns, only, W here no pain can ever tuur, Little ones who left us lonely, Watch us through the gates ajar! Gone where every eye is tearless, Only gone from earthly enre, O, the waiting, sail and cheerless, 'Till we meet our loved ones there. Sweet the rest from all our roving, Land of light and hope afar; Up ! our Father's lmnd so loving, Sets the pearly gates ajar! Can tills Story be True r The following strange story appears in Theodore Tilton’s Golden Age, of New York, which journal vouches for it: A young lady of Philadelphia, ot marked talents, of many accomplish ments, and of high moral worth, and lacking only two or three months of her majority, Imd formed an engage ment of imiri'ingc with u young man to whom her mother did not wish to see her allied. The mol her had long Ik-cii upon her bed, confined with ill ness, through which tbe duughtcr Imd attended Iter with the most filial devotion. On learning the fact of the unshak’ ell resolution of this daughter, the mother sprang from her lied, and, clutching her child by the throat, told her she would not leave the fOotn alive; that she Wofild send her to heaven and her lover to hell. Tile |>oor li'ill-stranglcd girl, knowiii-' that her mother always kept within reach a six barreled revolver, passive ly resigned herself a victim. She was taken to an tip|>er room and made a close prisoner. At last midnight came, when, after hours of suffering, she had fallen in to a troubled sleep. Blic was waked by her mother entering the room, and ordered her to get up and dress herself. A carriage was at the door, and, with her father and another man, she was taken out, and soon found herself moving away to the sound of carriage wheels. Soon this was exchanged for the rapid motion of the Stettin car, and in the morning she found lu-rself a prisoner in a hotel in New York. It would seem that a phiu to put. her on Isiard of n steamer sailing to Europe did not succeed, and her next expe rience was to find herself in the cars, on her way bark to Phil:idclphin< Here again she whs locked tip lor a day or two. Again, at the midnight hour, was she taken ftom her lx*d, conducted to New York, nnd now pul on iHiard a st .‘tuner—with no ex planation whatever as to what was to lie her destination. She hud imagined she was to be taken to Boston, and it was not until she found lu-rself out upon the ocean that she could have learned the fact that she was on her way to Europe. It is left to conjecture as to what may bo the fate of this young Indy. Whether she is to be immured in a convent or a lunatic asylum is not known to others, and is probably os little know n to herself. Immigration from Sweden. Monticbi.eo, June 20, 1811. Editor* Telegraph and Meuenger: Mr. John Foss, the agent of the peo ple of Jas|>er county, as stabs I in a letter heretofore published in the TELEUHAriI, reached Monlieello on the 15th inst., bringing with him twenty-one emigrants from .Sweden, eleven males and ten females. A more intelligent and healthy looking lot of men and women it would In difficult to find anywhere. These emigrants have berm sent for by the (icople of the county, and are all now domiciled in their new homes. Mr. Foss, who is himself a mechan ic, i mined in tel) - went into the employ ment of Messrs. Tnlmnge k Kcharji mg, carriage makers, until the Ist of Septcmlier next, when he pro|smcs to return to Sweden with orders for a large number of laborers to Is* brought to this section of Georgia. Mr. Foss, who is a young Swede of intelligence and high character, feels that in aiding to bring laborers to the county, he is lienefiting his atbqr ted country and also aiding the poor of his own overerowrded land. No risk is incurred of loss of money by those ordering laborers through Mr. Foss. Mr. Foss says he can secure any numlicr of emigrants. The mon ey required to be advanced is v** r *' t •ta-y?-*- 11 ’ Tnfte, chant of high. Cnaracter, and • deposited in bank in ” •“J I 4 *™ be drawn when *' - view York, to there. Mr ' the emigrants arsrvo ticelle _ fr’oss will remain at Mou 11*' * *b<-re CW desiring to secw« I “OP through his nun or consult v*y tetter 7' NO. 26 HAWKINSVILLE DISPATC PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OT »ib*onption s2 00 a I sap, is adtamtt Mites and Buies. fff MVtrtisement# fl 00 per square far the first IwUrttm, and 75 rents for esc I subWquVht Insertion. (A square is th' - SjM’rt of one Inch In depth of flic column' Irrespective of the number of lines.) contract advertising. K 1 m (IF m] ¥ nT| 6m ’ iTf’ I square... *:i $ 5 $ 7 *lO $ ]i 8 “ ... 0 8 11 15 8< 3 “ ... 7 11 15 20 4 “ ... 9 14 18 25 „■ t column.. 10 10 20 25 4 i ’’ .. 15 20 20 00 7 II " .. 80 80 40 75 18. A liberal deduction will Ik- mads will those who advertise by ibe year. The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. Tribute# of Respect, It.-solutions by Soci eties, Obituaries, etc., exceeding six lines, to lie charged as transient advertising tjuliscriliers wishing l heir paper# change. ’ from one post-office lo another, must state the name of the |KMt-ntfire from which the wish it changed, ns well as that lo whirl they wish it sent I.KUAI. ADVERTISING., Ordinary’s—Citations for Letters of Administration, by Adniinislra tors, Executor#, Guardians, Ac....$ S 6 Application for Letters of Dismis sion from Administration 4 Ou Application for Indtcrs of Dismis sion from Guardianship 5 fin Application for leave to sell Land 4 IK’ Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5 fill dales of pernonnl or |ivrislinlilc property, per sunn re 1 fiti Sales ol Lands, per square. ..V... B 50 Niieiukk's—Per levy 3 50 Mortgage sales, ten line# or less, . 6 o*' Tux Collector's sales, per square, 5 o*' CLeuk's—Foreclosure of Mortga ges and other Monthly advertise ments, *1 per square of one ineli for each insertion. Announcing County Cntiituiatrs.. 8 (H> Annoiineittg District Candidates,. 13 On For a man mhertising hi# wife, in advance 20 0" dales of Isttld, by Administrator . Executor# or Guardians, lire required In law to be held on the first Tuesday in tli. month, between lip- hour#of ten tu the for. noon nnd three ill the afternoon, at 111. Court-house In the eounty in wliirh the projH'rty is situaiial. Notice of these sales must lie given in a public gazette 40 days pretffnlS to the dny‘ of sale. Notice for the aide of personal property must lie given hi like luuiiiiCf, 10 a.tys pre vious to sale day. Notice to debtor* and creditor! nf an e* late must also la- published It) .lays. Notice that application will be made t>> tlio Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must lie published for lour weeks. Citation# on letters < f -nifmlul-trntlntt Gunrdhtnahip, 4te„ fitirl. lut published »> days; for dismission from ndmiid-lrutiun monthly three mouths; for dismissi.th frtini Guardianship, 40 days. Rules tor the foreclosure of Mortgages must lie published monthly, four months t for cstablishlffg lost paper*, for Ilia tub Jpa.-c of three months, for compelling tillc from Executors or Administrators, where bond liu# been given by the deceased, tilt frill space of three inonllis. KtieriH’t saliw must lie published for font weeks. Publications will always la- continue. 1 anoolding to these, flic legal requirements unless otherwise ordered. # L. A. HALL, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN, GEORGIA. WILL give prompt attention to aK business entrusted to tils care, murlfr ts A. C. PATE, ATTORNMY AT LAW, HAWKINSVILLE. OA. WILL practice in the counties ot Pii laski, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel fair, Irwin, Laurens and Dodge, »Dd, be ■|>crint contract, In any Court lu the Stab mayfifi-tf L. C. RYAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, IIAWKINHVILMC, OA. WILL practice In the counties of fit hc-ki, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel fair, Laurens and Dooge, and by special contract, in anv Court in the State. OFFICE—Over J u .lelka £ Brother's store, in old hotel building, jnnel-tf Road Notice- Ordinary's Office, Pulaski Cos., 1 May 2:1, 1871 { Tbe Road Comtnlsafoners appointed to ■nark out nnd report on anew lio.nl, lend ing from reflow ship so Friendship Churches on a direct line, and Inter, seel with the Ahlinillc nr.d Troupvilh- Road, have returned their reiHirt to this (Alice, and it will be passed on (lie first Monday in July next. Given tinder my band nnd official signs tore, Uiis May 22, Hf?l. J. J. SPARROW,. may 25-Sod Ordinary. ICE I !C£l ICE! LEM.OnSi LEMONS! During the season, 1 will keep on hand laemreivre * may lß-ftwv At the Old Bland Sheriff’s Executkrasjor sale at tills 0«*