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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! ” - ♦- : 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! - ■ --♦» ♦ 4 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