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(6arlu Cnuntg' Ildus.
E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
BLAKELY:
WEDNESDAY, JAN*. 13, 1864.
Notice the advertisement of Noyes &
Murrell iu this issue.
Mrs. T. Urquhart has the Editor’s
thanks for a lot of “Passengers” aad fresh
neat.
The Yankees talk of making McClel
lan President—a mail thafruever split a rail
or told a joke!
With tho prevailing advance of prices
everything has gone up but newspapers.
Jlecent “ suspensions,” however, indicate
that some of them have “ gone up too.”
Wc failed to notice last week the recep
tion of a fine lot of cakes -from Mrs. J. 11.
Hade. They were good, and went doWD
with a perfect “rip” by “all hands”
and the— 11 baby! ”
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The whole debt of Georgia does not
amount to 815,000,000. To meet it she
bus 89,000,000 of available public proper
ty, and her taxable property on the gold
basis is nearly 8800,000,000.
The Editor of this concern was “ salu
ted ” by the fire of a pistol in the air last
Saturday night, in Fort Gaines, by a Jew
woman! Probably wc may give full par
ticulars next week, together with a few
ideas about the Jew race in general.
One of the “ Captains ” of the Militia
in Clay county has refused to mend a “Cof
fee Pot ” for tho Editor, and says be don’t
want anything to do with us or our coffee
pots ! IFo merely mention this as an item
of news to our readers.
A printer named Winn, who died at
Rochester, England, recently, was heard
to mutter to himself a few moments before
his death : “lamon my last stickful: I
am coming to o paragraph, and I suppose
I’ll have to wait fur old death to put in a
period.”
Gen. Dec, iu passing through a Virgin
ia town, wus called on for aspeeoh. Briefly
be told them this was no time for words,
but blows. W e wish he could impress
that idea upon the •Confederate Congress
—barring the “blows.” The number of
“blowers” among “the assembled, wis
dom" attest their efficiency in thatdepart
ment already.
Gen. Pillow is alter the Extortioners,
Tanners, Shoemakers and other mechanics
who arc in the habit of charging more than
7o per cent profit on the goods they manu
facture. He is determined to put all such
into the army without delay upon sufficient
proof of their greed of gain and violation
of the law. We wish we had a Gen. Pil
low iu every district of the Confederacy.
In discussing the future campaigns of
their armies the enemy unconsciously ad
mit the strength of their forces in tho field.
They assert that next spring they will take
field with 500,000 men, but at least
“30,000 of these they incidentally main
tain will be raised by drafting and volun
teering this winter. We have our doubts
about that. We question if they have as
many men then as they have now. It is
indeed gratifying to know that for the .
first time since the war commenced we
havo nearly as many more iu service as
the Yankees.
Ho understand there is a Cavalry Com
pany organized at Hbodville, Henry coun
ty, Ala., for service for three years or tho
war iu the Conscript Bureau in Florida, in
which A. F. Perry, Esq., formerly of this
place, is first Lieutenant. To persons hav
ing substitutes in the army, and young men
roou to arrive at eighteen years of ago, this
is an invitiug and desirable opening to es
cape tho hardships of a Soldiers' life in the
tented field,” and any such in the county
would do well to go over immediately and
enlist, as no doubt the Company will soon
be lull.
rYc report of County Treasurer
The following is tho vote east for County
Officers in this county and by the “ Early
Hussars ” at Camp Lamar Cobb, on last
Wednesday. Wo have no hesitancy in
saying that a better set of County Officers
have never been elected in Early county —
with tho exception of Coroner, which we
consider quite u weak selection ! We have
yet to hear from the “ Early Guards,”
“ Early Volunteers,” and from some Sol
diers iu Capt. Cullens’ Company at Savan
nah. There is no doubt but that D. M.
Wade is elected Ordinary, J. M. Wade
Tax Receiver, G. F. Anderson Tax Collec
tor and J. U. Mock Sheriff. The only
doubt is as to who is elected Clerk of the
1 Superior and Inferior Courts. The re
turns received show a pretty “ tight race ”
between Messrs. Howard and Evans, there
being only three votes difference, which
are iu favor of Mr. Evans. Wo hope to
be able to give the balance of the returns
next week, by.which time we hope to hear
from our Soldiers in Virginia, Tennessee
and Savannah: WHSI
for snEKirr:
J. U. Mock 71
S. .). Collier ; ..M
•J. S. Allen 46
Thomas Williams 30
U. J. Bush 14
FOR CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR A INFERIOR COURTS.
J. S. Evans.. *.....101
• S. T. Howard 08
11. W. Wilkins 03
FOR OROINARY :
I). M. Wade 1... 204
FOR TAX RECEIVER :
J. M. Wade 179
.1. .1. Kirkland 28
S. A. Ilowell 2
FOR TAX COLLECTOR :
O. P. Anderson 156
Brinkly Chaney 69
FOR CORON Ell.
E. 11. Grouby 70
C. R. Taliaferro 49
John Chancy 42
Z. .1. Lewis 27
G. W. Stone 18
FOR COUNTF SCRVKVOR :
P. J. Westhrook 103
P. M. Wellborn - 34
W. A. Me Powell 12
What do our readers think was our fate
in the late electiou for county officers ?
Why we were “ re-honored ” by a “ re
election ”to the office of —Coroner t This
is the only office we have ever offered for,
and both times haveeome out “ first best, 1 '
and beaten, iu the two races, four competi
tors ! As wc have been so successful sp
far, we have concluded to be “ a candidate
for life” for Coroner.; so we now give no
tice that we are “ a standing candidate ”
for tho office of Coroner for “all time to
conic ! ” and hope that everybody will
“ govern themselves accordiqgly,” and not
offer themselves for the office, for we don’t
card about again beating anybody ! As
we are generally busy in our printing of
fice during the week days, we hope that
all will remember that it will bo impossi
ble for us to atteud to any business con
nected with the Coroner’s office except on
Sundays, aud hope that all who want us
to attend to their cases will make it con
venient to “peg out” on Saturday nights,
so that we can give them our attention on
Sunday ! Come, gentlemen, don’t inter
fere with the publication of the News, for
it is of more importance than all the Cor
oner’s offices in tho Confederacy!
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The following are the Officers elected
for Calhoun county at the election last
Wednesday:
Clerk of the Superior & Inferior Courts—
W. G. Pierce.
Ordinary—W. E. Griffin.
Sheriff—W. ltye-
Tax Receiver —B. Islcr.
Tax Collector—J. Strickland.
County Treasurer—l). Burts.
Coroner—G. W. Arnold.
The Chicago Timet! Washington corres
pondent, who is a sensible and truthful
man, says that the number of prisoners
held by each side is about equal—ls,ooo
each. lie denies tho foolish and absurd
stories of their men being badly treated in
our prisons. They are accommodated to
tho best wo can afford, and therefore have
no right to grumble. But some men
► would grumble if they were going to be
hanged.
A full attendance is requested at a meet
ing of the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society on
Thursday next.
M G Stanpifer,
Jan. 13,150-L Tres’t.
The war-worn Soldier in the Confederate
army heeds not the enemy in front—he
can stand the fire in his face. It is the .
enemy in the rear—the rear fire, if you
please, of the Extortioner, Speculator and
Croaker', that discourages him. Hence we
eay the people at home are doing more to
whip the South than the Yankees. And
our experience is that the home Yankee is
harder to whip than the New Englander.
We have fought him hard, and, with the
help of God, mean to fight him to the
death, regardless of who he is or what he
is. There is one thing pretty certain, if
the home Yankee is not vanquished, and
that pretty soon, our troops may as well
throw dowu their arms and come home.
In this event, what will become of the
home Yankee—his carcass—his big pile
of money—his wheat, potatoes, Ac.? We
guess they’ll feel sheepish. But who is a
fume Yankee? Bather let us aak, who is
not? All extortioners are homo Yankees,
and nearly everybody having articles of
necessity to spare is an extortioner—scuf
fling to make a big pile of money, and at
the same time cursing the money about
being no account. If these people were
half as much account as the money, the
war would have been ended long ago. But
what are they doing? What are niue
tenths of our home folks doing to save
themselves, their property and country ?
Like crazy folks they are applying the ra
zor to their own throats, and crammiug
arsenic down the throats of the Soldier.
Who are they that are doing these things ?
The farmer comes first in the scale of im
portance. How is he damning the Con
federacy and cutting his own throat ? By
exacting ten times as much for his pro
duce as an honest man and a patriot ought
to exact of the needy —by demanding all
that he can get of starving humanity, and
withholding his products from market iu
order to get a famine price. These are
the ways lie is eutting his own throat and
forging the chains of slavery for himself
and his children. To gather up a big pile
of money, however, he seems to be willing
to damn the Southern Confederacy, his
posterity, and to commit suicide. To-day
he is willing to take $2 a bushel for corn,
"but to-morrow if he finds he can force you
to pay a bushel, he. will exact every
cent, if ho does not hold back to get more.
Is this the way for Southern people to act ?
Is this the way to whip the enemy ? Is this
the way to encourage our troops? Is this
the way to eucourage poor people to fight
for you and your property ? Pause and
think! If you want ruin, slavery and
degr dation, go on Charge all that you
can get for your products—wring from the
poor man the last farthing and the last
drop of his heart's blood for a bushel of
corn or a pound of meat. This is the way
to subjugate the South, and it will do it.
Next iu the scale of importance comes the
Cotton manufacturer, the tanner and the
shoemaker, who set the farmer the exam
ple of extortion, and who aro doing fully
as much as the high-price farmers to sub
jugate the South. These classes seem to
have no conscience—the lord only knows
what price will satisfy them, and if there
is no law passed saying to them, “ So far
and no further,” we shall not be surprised
if “ conscience ” extorts one hundred dol
lars for a single bunch of cotton yarn, and
five hundred dollars for a pair of shoes !
The present Congress must throttle extor
tioners, or the Southern Confederacy is
gone. A blind man can 3«e this, and we
would give the warning in time, if not now
too late. We appeal to Congress to pass
a law of prices and save the South. We
believe it will do it, and we say to our dis
cout aged troops, “ Courage, boys, cour
age • ”
Wo don’t hardly know what is to be
come of the Editor of this “d- d little
thumb paper,” if he keeps on getting po
sitions ! We are now an Editor, Printer,
Post Master, Captain of a Patrol Squad
and Coroner ! Did anybody ever hear of
one poor little “ critter ” like ourself get
ting into business half so fast as we are ?
Either one of these positions are enough
to ruu any one fellow crazy, and would re
quire “ a Philadelphia lawyer " with two
heads to do all four of them justice, while
the profits of the whole would hardly get
a fellow a good dinner in Fort Valley ! A
fellow’s friends will sometimes play the
devil with him, and if our’s dou’t let ua
alone, apd cease giving us such important
positions, wo don't kuow what is to become
of us 1 We hope to get no more such po
sitions, unless there is more payin them,
and not much “honor!”
Gen. Pillow has issued an order in his
department in regard to the exemption of
mechanics. He appears to be determined
to bring dowu the prises of some things.
Hereafter all those mechanics who are ex
empted on account of their callings, wiuj
charge over seventy-five per cent, profit on
the goods they manufacture—the profit
allowed by law—will be put. into the army
without delay upon sufficient proof of their
short comings—or overreaching*, more
properly—being furnished. As the Gen
eral is an officer who carries out his orders
to the letter, those exempts who disobey
them must not think it strange if they find
themselves members of the Confederate ar
my.
(com m u n rc atkd .)
To the Planters of Miller County, Ga.
The increasing difficulty iu procuring
supplies for our gallant Soldiers makes it
necessary to collect alLof the Tax in Kind,
and receive the money value in as few
counties as possible. Corn will be needed
as well in May, June and July next as dow,
and if euergy and devotion to the cause
cau accomplish it, every pound of grain
shall be sent forward to where it is so much
needed, as soon as crops are laid by, and I
can induce the planters to haul the Tithes
next summer. In the meantime my Agents,
Judge Allen, Mr. Fannin and Mr. Mont
gomery, will collect that nearest to their
respective depots.
The recent meeting in your county (at
which I suppose but few of the planters
were present) seemed to think injustice
had been done, because Miller waß not in
cluded with the three counties where tho
money value was to be received; but that
part of Miller not easy of access to my
three depots is in a compact body, and by
summer either- one of my active agents on
the Chattahoochee, who have, for the good
of the cause alone, taken a position of great
labor and coustaut annoyance, with pay en
tirely inadequate to their services, would,
iu person, or by sending some proper per
son there, soon relieve this small area of all
it coutains—the planters, of course, will
ingly, no doubt, furnishing transportation,
at fair prices, after the ploughing season.
No such fortunate facts exist as to Early,
Mitchell and Dooly Counties.
I think, therefore, a short reflection will
convince the people of Miller, whom I know
to be intelligent and patriotic, that it is my
duty, when corn is daily going up in value,
to collect the Tithes. No improper dis
crimination lias been made against them.
1 am your ob’t. serv’t.,
B. K. Hikes,
Capt. & P. Q. M.
Albany, Ga., .Tan. 2, 1864.
(COMMUNICATED.)
To THE EDDYTEH OF THE Nl SK : Deer
Sn r : I was as the election in your toun
last week to attend to the dewtics of my
offis, an I feel a sort of hankering to tell
you about a sue proinmynent folks I saw.
In the first place, I went to the cort hous
purty soon in the mornin to see if the elec
tion was open, an found a little man tliar
all by himself, lookiu purty wise. When
I told him I wanted to vote he said the
poles were not open. I told him they ort
to be if he went accordin to law. He said
he reckened he new his bizness, an. accor
din to Cob’s Annalicsis an Forms, the polefj
* could’nt bo opened till they all got togeth
er, and that he was the only pole that had
arriv. As I didnt want to raise no fuss,
with no ferriner, l ooncluded I’d go out in
town and look about a little. Well sir. I
saw all sorts of folks, and outen em all I
never found but one feller but what was
too big for his britches, an strange to say,
he was the biggest man I saw. Ho had
furnished a cavalry company for home de
fense with enuf cloth outen his britches to
make two saddle Bkearts an has go! enuf
spare cloth in em left to make a small man
another suit. He carried me thro all the
rammyfications of ther manufacture an the
modus operandy of gitten the wool Ac.
He was the man to git detales for folks to
stay outen the army, and tell you his
Kongregashun was legion, an the way ho
tuck in the Konfederate skrip was a eaujion.
Then I saw anuther big feller they Baid
was preasin meat for Jeff Davis—l did’nt
know edzaotly what the natur of his offis
was,—l did’nt 6ee no press nor I did’nt