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toll Cou nil mm. V.OL. V r . drntln (Ghmtrr petes.- Terms of Subscription: For 1 Year-. 5,00 For 6 Months..' • 2,50 No subsciptioas received lor less than six mouths, and payment always required in ad vance. SCALE OF PRICES To fee Charged by the “Karly County News.” 1 Square, (cfccupying the space of ten Bour geois lines, or less,} one insertion,.,.s 2,00 For every subsequent insertion ,.J l,oo Obituary notices charged as adver tifjementa. Awake to Danger and to Duty! The year upon which we have just entered is destined to be big with the late of the people of the Confederate States. No thoughtful man can sur vey the field from our present stand point without being conscious of an overwhelming sense of the momen tousness of this crisis. Our pathway through the year just begun is beset with dangers, which only the wisdom of true men can encounter and over come. Blunders in the Cabinet and blunders in the field will be fatal; and yet, thank Heaven! t there are, broad cast around us the elements*of salva tion which a master hand could gath er up and grasp and crowning chaplet of From the nettle, of danger the flower of victory can be plucked by the hand and the mind equal to the undertak ing. And what is our greatest peril ? Clearly the apathy of the people, them , weariness of the trials and privations of the tremendous struggle; and, un-« fortunately, this lagging of energy, this relaxation oflabor, supervenes at a moment when our circumstances de mand a last arid supreme effort. If now we could see around us the pa triotic spirit which burned so brightly two years ago—if now, as then, we saw the recruiting flag waving for volunteers —the drum beating to arms, thq old men buckling the sword upon their sons, the women enthusiastic in the war, and plying their needles and exerting their talents and accomplish ments in equipping companies for the field and presenting them with battle flags under which to march against the enem}' —if the universal aspiration as then, was now, to the field, to the camp, to arms, instead of what it is, we should have no misgiving of the is sue, and would proudly feel that we already had the right to exclaim, “ I arn a Confederate citizen.” The Congress of the States is moving with an energy equal to the crisis, but its acts are a dead letter, unless breath ed upon and inspired by the spirit of a patriotic people. If that spirit had ex isted there had been no necessity for this stringent legislation. If the conscrip tion age is extended beyond its orig inal limit, and if the man who has fur nished a substitute is now called to the field, as a measure of overruling pub lic necessity, it is because of the decay in the patriotism of the people. If our men and women had continued to glow with those sacred fires which marked the early period of the war, our armies had not dwindled to a point which made its recruiting by ex traordinary means necessary to the public safety. And this for the reason that, if the skulkers from camp, the feigned sick, the cowardly deserters, and without leave, were all at their posts, our Generals would be strong enough in the spring to drive Grant across the Ohio, and Meade into his fortifications around Washington. Just before Gen. Bragg yielded his late command, but forty-three per cent, of his enrolled strength was present for duty. Where were the rest —more than one half of his army ? Let public opinion at home answer the question —let the relatives of deserters who have helped to hide them from duty and the search of authority an swer. Let the Surgeons who give facile certificates of disability, and al low the hospitals to be encumbered with “ old soldiers ” feigning sickness —let the weak parents, whose natu- BLAKELY, GEO, JANUARY 37. 1804. ral affection for their sons overcome their sense of duty to theii country, and the wives who urge their husbands to come back from the field—let the young women whose smiles are ready for the recreant officer who spends his time in cities, while his brothers are enduring the hardships of camp life, or' bleeding in batttle—let all these answer the question. The truth must not be disguised-*-there is demor alization among the people—a gener al disposition to shrink the dangers and responsibilities which belong to . all alike, and to trust to “something to turn up ” to save their souls and bodies from the deep damnation of Fed eral subjugation. And this people had better consid er their position at once. Freedom is a plant that grows nqt without pain ful cultivation. It is hardened'by titfal, and must be watered with the blqod'of the brave and the tears of the inno cent. ll‘ your piles of Confederate notes, which you are massing with so much pains, are worth more than your personal liberalities, and the honor and independence of your country, then go on to amass them—the year 1&64 will find you a slave to a Yankee mas ter, and your gains not worth the pa per on which they are printed. You have it in your mower to save both your country and your property, btit you can only do it by giving your thoughts, your labors, your prayers and your arms to your country. Arouse, men and women of the South ! Arouse to breast the storm of danger which is rising to break upon you in the spring campaign! Show that the warlike spirit, the boasted chivalry of a sunny land, supposed to breed high-toned men, born and fitted for freedom, is not all an empty dreanv * —that your manhood and your woman hood have not been worn out and ex hausted in three years struggle, and that your eight milions of the descend ants of sires of 76 can maintain a struggle for priceless liberty at least half as long as these sires did against the first power of the earth. Think of your country, your dear country, your native or adopted land, where you were born and have lived, and been nurtured, and then contemplate it un der the iron hoof of the oppressor. Think that no man may call his roof, however humble, his own and his home —that no arm will be strong enough to shelter the woman he loves, or the daughter of his heart against the insults of the conquerer. Think of your dead —the precious blood that has been drunk up by your soil, that that soil might be consecrated to your freedom. Think of anything else but submission* Think at all, and if there is a drop of manly blood to warm your souls, it must bound towards efforts to be free, and must freeze in horror at the pos sible danger of being slaves. Mobile Advertiser & Register, s th. Negro Preaching down South. Many ludicrous chapters might be written on the scenes that are of eve ryday occurrence in churches where the congregations are all negroes, and the preachers are untaught and un sophisticated Ethiopes. ' In New Orleans, just before the war broke out, having heard that a revival was going on in the Fourth District African Church, I attended. In company with a friend-1 entered the church, and the seat nearest the door being vacant, we quietly occupi ed it. Preaching had already com menced, and we did not learn what portion of the scripture the reverend minister had selected as a text. The Holy Book was spread before him, tho’ it was evident that he did not know how to read, but depended altogether on his memory for his scriptural quo tations and references, most of which were so horribly mixed up and gar bled as to render it difficult to decide j what particular scripture he was try ing to recite. Whenever he mentioned the Sav- | ior, he. used the expression “ Massa ! Jesus; ” but when he referred to one j of the disciples he spoke of him as i “ Brudder Peter,” and “ Brudder Mat *■ thew,” &c. In the course of his sermon he re lated the following, which he said could be found “In de third book of Brudder Matthew, on de right hand side ob de page : ” “ Den, when de people all up dar on de top ob de mountain, Massa Jesus tell Brudder Peter to go down to de ribber an catch a fish. Now Brudder P,eter hab no bate; but.he hab faith m de Lord, dat What he hab. And now you see a part of de miracalus. He go down and frovv in, de ho6k-.. no sooner touch de water dan he hab a bite, and pull out his*knife a;nd cut de shad open an take out a piece •bb*p»pn ey; an he say to Brudder Peter,\yti,ose hed am dison dis peAney>?'* 'An Brffd der Peter answer an/ say Ajjjito'.hirri, dat am Caesar’s hed. Den he say # gib unto Laesar de things dat So, ob course, Peter go an gib* dejpen ny to Ceasar. But he take an feed de great multitude ; an' d£y leath er up de fragments, inore‘da&eiiuf £>£ • dar supper an breakfast >next learn ing. Dar, my brudders.ana sijsters, you see de hole ob de mfeacalus ! ” The sermon,.being ended.nfe,congre gation struck up the hfmn/<?ofnmenc ing , . \ • “O, for a mansion in the«by.” . . t % * They sung the hymn in different voi ; ces: for instance, jvhen those who . led off had sang thewords “O, for a* man —” other voices would keep off. The third line of the verse reads “ Send down salvation from on high," and a few moments after commenced, one-half of the congregation were cry ■ ,ing at the top of their voices “O, for a man,” wTiile the other half were chiming in equally loud, “ Send down sal!” Confusion was worse confounded, and your correspondent and his friend left, almost splitting our sides with laughter. ■ ♦ ♦ • i Speed of Bail Hoads. The Great Western Express to Ex eter, England, travels at the rate of forty-three miles an hour, including stoppages, or fifty-one miles an hour without including stoppages. To at tain this rate, a speed of sixty miles an hour is adopted midway between some of the stations, and, in certain experi mental trips, seventy miles an hour have been reached. A speed of sev entv miles an hour is about equivalent to thirty-five yards per second, or thir ty-five yards between two beats of a common clock. All objects near the eye of a passenger traveling at this rate will pass by his eye in the thir ty-fifth part of a second ; and if thirty five stakes were erected at the side of the road, a yard assunder, they would not be distinguishable one from anoth er ; if painted red, they would appear collectively as a continuous flash of red color. If two trains with this speed passed each ether, the relative veloci ty would be seventy yards per second, and if one of the trains were seventy yards long, it would flash by it in a single second. Supposing the loco motive which draws such a train to have driving wheels seven feet in di ' ameter, these wheels will revolve five times in a second, the valve moves and the steam escapes ten times in a sec ond —but as there are two cylinders, which act alternately, there are really twenty puffs or escapes of steam in a second. The locomotives can be heard to “cough” when moving slow ly, the cough being occasioned by the abrupt emission of waste steam up the chimney, but twenty coughs per sec-, ond cannot be separated by the air, their individuality then becoming lost. Such a locomotive speed is equal to nearly one-fourth of a cannon ball, and the momendum of a whole train, mov ing at such a speed, would be nearly equivalent to the aggregate force of a number of cannon balls equal to one fourth the weight of the train. What is the best proof of a womans insanity ? To see her admire another woman more than herself. English Philanthropy. This is a hackneyed subject somes what, yet it is not void of interest'un der existing circumstances. Them are many lacts connected with tho slave trade which the “so called ” Earl Russell and his apologists might remember with interest: I. Slavery was introduced in thia country by Englishmen, acting under the sanction oi the English Farlia merit. ' *2. Iff 1708, thfe committee of tho House of Commons reported : “ Tho African slave trade is important, and ought to be free.” 3. The same committee reported, in-Hll, fhjat the “ American pi anta-* tions ought, to be supplied with ne groes at reasonable rates.” 4. hext year Queen Anne con** grhtuljtUid Parliament upon her “ suc cess,in Finding, in. Spanish America, a • new market for'staves. I’* 1 ’* 5. In 1729, IP-grants ed supples to. thV Afrfcan forts, for the projection of ships .engaged in tho slave jMiie*. ! •’ . f '6. The-petition of the Liverpool . Mierof/ants;,in-1748.'reads ; .“The Af rican slave‘trade Ls-th 4 great pillar and support of the plantations in America.” • 'W' l- 7. Between 1700 and 1750 the Brit ish ports werfe filled with slaves. And during this period of fifty years, over . 1,500.000 negroes were kidnapped in Africa—one-eighth of whom perished on the voyage to America. The bed of the ocean beneath the slaver’s track has been paved with the bones of the negro by Englishmen. o. Under the reign of William and Mary the House of Commons resolved to open the trade in negroes. “ for the better supply of the plantations in America.” 9. The following sentence is found in England’s Statute books : “ The slave trade is highly beneficial and advantageous to the kingdom and col onies.” 10. England’s Kings and Queen* derived pin money from the slavo trade for more than a century and a half, and royal decrees gave its sup port for many years later. A full cen tury of successive Ministers voted for it and gave it support. 11. In 1727, iSouth Carolina mada complaints against the vast importa tion of negroes by English traders. Governor Oglethrope notified the Brit ish Ministry that “if the slaves were brought into Georgia lie must leave the State.” 12. In 1749, England removed tho royal restrictions on the slave trade, and it was opened to public competi tion—“tor,” reads the statute, “ the slave trade is very advantageous to Great Britain.” 13. About the same period one of the , highest civil tribunals known in the English Code decided that “ negroe* wVre lawful merchandise.” It is prop> er to state that this decision Avas made in order tha t England could have the entire trade to herself, as stipulated in I the treaties. 14. According to the Abolition Ban croft, three millions of negroes were imported into this country by the En- I glish during the century previous to 1776; and two hundred and fifty thousand were thrown into the Atlans tic ocean while in-transitu. Only think of it. British ship owners, act ing under the authority of the British Government, have thrown into the sea more than half the population of Liv erpool, in African captives ! This is English “ philanthropy.” 15. President Madison once said, that the “ British Government con stantly checked Virginia’s endeavor to stop the slave trade.” Compare these facts with Earl Rus sell’s late speeches, as inspired by Ex eter Hall, and then admire British consistency! Columbia Sun. Barney Williams, the Irish comedian, was recently fined 81,000 in New York ci ty for striking a man named Watson, | account of worua disrepcotfully spoken the latter. isro. 15.