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Early County News. VOXu. V. (Mir Ccmtlir Ittos. Terns of Subscription: For 1 Year... ‘..... 5.00 Far 6 Mouths >..... 2,50 No subsciptions received for less than six caonths, and payment always required in ad vance. SCALE OF ?BICES ?• bo CUrgea by the ‘ Early County Sews.’; L Square, (occupying the space of tea Bour geois lines, or less, i one insertion,,.. -f l-.'br ('v'erV'cabscoucnt Obituarv notices charged as advertisements. ** *■ . \ Tho Toady Tribe. Os ail the loathsome creatures which crawl the earth, in the shape of man, the mealy xriouthed Toady is the most detestable. Yet, iio society is without a brood of this slippe ry species of hurfcan reptile. It is an ear wig which hangs to the sleeve of every person < in position to confer favor—a ponderer pay ing fulsome court to all who reflect the firdles of power—-a wficedler who is ready do tick the dust for any one likely to render the least advantage. Cunning is their out .., deformity—usually a masked one —and the prop of their propensity. ! ike all infe rior minds, they are the apes of those above jkhem—tae fawners, the flunkeys and the flatterers of the man, or men, who are use ful for the moment. lon can trace their oily, slimy course, either in the camp, around the officers mess/' or in the city, around the quarters of those in “ good Joerths ” —either in an unctions familiarity with those “ vested in brief authority." or in the spaniel attention to those in still high er place. ■ There are, indeed, arts of address which Steal people into the good graces of others. But a “smoothed brass” is the composi tion jn the toady’s character which knocks so loudly for admission that it is not easy to deny them entrance or possible to refuse them courtesy when received—especially .when they do all the dirty work that has to bo done. ’ They are adepts in the philosophy of the lick spittle—export hangers on—each being Graeculus esusiths of the claquer tribe. They-are encouraged by the sact —not very •creditable to their “betters” —that those, jnost obseqious to persons in power (petty or great) seldom fail to get on well in the World around them. By playing the para site to perfection and never grumble at the pinches they get —never complaining of an occasional squeeze—never pretending to see any shortcoming; by abusing the well-abus ed "when it answers the taste of those they humor ; by scoffing at the unpopular, under a like restriction ;. by, truckling to every whim, they butter their bread at both sides , and glory in the gammon of a tend eater. Nature, of course, had already made them susceptible of the sycophant's skill, and a ilittle training in the wiles of the hypocrite, with a few lessons in the science of blarney did -all the rest. They are plan-able, fair spoken collogues, and carry their cajolery easy. Those who accept their blandish ments, however useful they be, are not, a3 a rule, much better than themselves. It is some consolation to all who instinct ively abhor the toady’s ways or may tempo rarily be stung by that vermin’s cog, that the destiny which shapes men’s ends has “ something to say in the long run.” Eve ry. man .who floats through life finds his true level some time before the all-levelling hand of death brings him to the universal equali ty and fraternity cf clay. The exceptions to this rule are few; but, it is one of the laws of nature that the weak dissolve into their weakness, and that of the toady must most inevitably, at some time of his soft, slavish career, return to its kindred dirt, ere his •body soeks its native dust. They are pests of power in all its grades, and we, as in duty bound, have an eye—a vigilant and unerring one—on many of the parasites who infest the prescincts of power through all its grades, in this Confederacy. Neither as to men nor acts will we brandish •the sharp sword of our censure, unless when •justice guides the blow ; but once assumed of this, we strike at the. evil where found full in the face, with fearless aim, and utterly re gardless of all else than the duty we owe the .public honor and the public service. Proclamation. Whereas, an immense number of Aboli tionists, by nature rogues and by practice negro-stealers, house-burners, murderers, • «jtc., etc., have for nearly three -years been in armed rebellion against Libert y In gener al and the Confederate States in particular; and whereas these Abolitionists, not having the fear of the devil before their eyes, but being moved and instigated by his* Satanic Majesty’s chiefs of staff, Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and other ill-starred members of said devilish staff, continue to perpetuate all manner ot outrages against the peace and dignity of that respectable and freedom-loving people domi ciled in the South. Now, therefore, I News', will, for and in consideration of the said Abolitionists laying down their arms, and returning every stolen negro to his lawful owner, and giving un doubted security to pay the war-debt of the Confederate States, grant a full and free par don to each and even one of them, provided BLAKELY, GEO., FEBRUARY 8, 18ft4. they subscribe to the following oath and give bond and security to observe it during their natural lives: “ I solemnly swear that I will return borne and remain there while I live, and pray three times a day that Heaven will forgive me for the enormous offences which I have committed against truth, honesty and that code of liberty which governs the people of the South.”. It is understood, however that this par don shall not extend to any person above tfie rank of a Colonel in the Yankee Army, nor to any person above the rank of Lieutennut in the Yankee Navy. Those persons hold ing positions übove these grades, must hang -until tile -eSpmt physioifes consider them dead as Julius'Caesar. And it is further announced, that this par don shall not extend to any'person holding •civil office above that of a United States (District Attorney. Those persons holding position above this grade must likewise hong until scientifically pronounced dead. Done at the headquarters of the News in Blakely the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the public career of the News the fifth year. Selak ! . ♦—» Kow to cure and to prevent Desertion. A correspondent of the Mobile Register <& Advertiser suggests a plan to cure and prevent desertion. We confess that to ou;f minds it is a muoh more feasible plan and promises far better results than the policy now adopted of detailing half or a third of the men in the army to look after desert ers. A few months back the whole State of Mississippi swarmed with detailed cav alry whose business was to pick up desert ers and conscripts, and we doubt very much whether the number of conscripts and de serters combined taken up by the details equalled a tenth part of the number of de tails themselves. The plan proposed, which we subjoin, would, in our opinion, prove much more effective in driving conscripts ai;d deserters into the ranks, without mak ing such a heavy draw upon the army. | It i 3: 1. Let Congress define desertion to in ; elude absence without leave for j days. i 2. Let Congress pass a law compelling ! all commanders of regiments, battalions and separate companies, to publish, for two weeks, (after each muster,) inthroe news papers of the State from which the mea came, the names of all officers aud men absent without leave for days. 3. Let Congress place deserters.on the same footing as men who, having furnished substitutes, attempt to leave the country —- that is, declare them alien enemies. They are really worse. • 4. Let every marriage with a deserter be illegal. This will stop the breed. Shooting doefb not cure desertion, except Id the man who is shot. The same correspondent very correctly remarks that the army cannot attend to* the enemy in front (the Lincolns) aud the enemy iu the fear (the deserters) at the same time. The people at home must do their part. Let the women and old men at home make homo so much more disa greeable than camp for the deserters that they will prefer camp. Editors Biaing. The editor of that spunky little paper, the Early County News, is getting consid erably up in the pictures ! He has beeu Postmaster at Blakely for some time—is a Captain of a Patrol squad, and recently has been elected Coroner for the county. Being publisher, proprietor, printer and editor of the News, he gives notice that all who need his services as Coroner, must contrive to “ peg out” or be knocked into conniption fits ” on Saturday night of each week, as he has bo time to hold a f‘ Crowner’s inquest” except on Sundays ! We hope his subjects will kindly take his request into consideration, and not inter fere with his other important avocations during the week days. This is ouly rea sonable, as be says, aside from the honors of the positions occupied, the emoluments . of all the offices filled by him would hard ly suffice to “ buy a fellow a good dinner ; at Fort Valley.” Here’s to your health, Coroner Grouby! May you wear your honors with becoming meekness, and not swell to such propor tions that you cannot see your old friends in the “ low vales of sorrow.” Surely, if 11 a cat may look at a king,” you will allow us to look up at a Coroner, without feeling that a blemish has thereby been cast upon the purity of the ermine with which your official person been invested. Macon Confederate. Kilpatrick’s name has been sent to the Senate for confirmation us Major* Genenft. Exemptions. The Kufaula Spirit of the South has the following sensible remarks on the pro posed substitution of Details l'or Exemp tions : “ It is scarcely creditable that Congress seriously contemplates abolishing tho en tire system oi‘ exemption, and substituting in its stead that of details. That a great many of our people, betwixt the ages of 18 and 45, and liable to do'military service, must necessarily be allowed to remain at home, to carry ou works and labors indis pensably U tho interest of the Goverment and’- of the eon&fafy, we thiu'c clear. But that a great many more than are necessary for these objects have been exempted from service, we think is with out doubt also. Still while this may bo true, we feel assured that no system of de tails cau be adopted that will result in less evil to the country than the present system, of discriminating in favor of certain class es and individuals as exempt from mili tary service. The proposed system of de tails will, if adopted, operate more injuri - ously, as we think, against our agricultu ral interests, than any other. There aro thousands' of plantations, stocked with ne groes,-all over the country, in many cas.es where the owners are iu the army, that would be stripped of the only white person ou the premises, and the negroes left to work out their own and that of their mas ter’s ruiu with greediness. Plantations everywhere in the South are now being put in order to receive another crop; aud it is certainly important in the highest de gree that this great business should be promptly and well attended to, to guard, as far as men cap, against a failure in the harvest for the present year. But suppose every man betwixt certain ages is conscripted, put into the service, and eve ry one whose presence the country demands at home has to undergo an intermindablo round of correspondence, applications and so on, before he cau be released, how much would the planting interest of a sin ale place, suffer iu the interim ! How long would it require the President, or whoever the duty might devolve upon, to hear aud decide upon the merits of the ten thousand applicants weekly ? To conscript men and allow them to remain out of service until their application for detail could be heard and determined, would be equivalent to not putting them in the service at all; for a hearing in a great majority of cases would scarcely be had in a twelve month. To place tho matter of details under control of military heads of departments wofld leave the system open to the same objections as the existing one ; for the same means, fair or foul, and the same tricks could be used with success to obtain a detail as an exemp tion. So we sec nothing to be gained by the change. If it is made it will certainly require a separate bureau, which might be entitled “ The’ Detail Bureau,” or “ The Bureau of Detail,” to carry it out.” A Despotism (Proposed. We have read with undisguised aston ishment, the proposition of Senator Brown, of Miss., to convert the Confederate States of America into a military despotism—the most unrelenting and most unreasoning of all despotisms of which the world holds re cord. He seems madly bent, uot only on making himself a slave, but doing the like service to his countrymen. lie proposes that every able-bodied man, irrespective of age or ocncupation, be coscripted. Mem bers of Congress, Senators, Governors of States, Judges, and the President himself not to be exempted. “ Everybody takes Hobensacks” and everybody is to go into the army. With an infantile caudor and simplicity, which is quite affecting, Sena tor Brown admits that armies have to be fed a-od clothed, and his proposition pro vides that after all the able-bodied men are in the army, if the lame, the halt and the blind are not sufficient to support the men in the field, as well as to carry on the thousand and one affairs of civil life, a suf ficient number are to be detailed for this purpose from the army. But who is to make thase details ? The President, being commander-in-chief, is the only one who can do so. What a beautiful system ? The President of a llepublic will detail from the army the cabinet, the senators, the members of Congress, the Governors of States, thp judges the farmers, tho manufacturers, the editors, the merchants ! If any of these gentry should do or say anything displeasing to His Excellency, his detail is revoked, and he is ordered back to his company for his presumption. But rhe cream of these propositions is yet to be served. These laws aro to be do dared war measures, and these vioiatibg them amenable to the military courts. Senator Brown is “ unwilling to submit lo»- «P<>n Which hangs the destiny of this Loti fed era ay, to tlie judgment of every litt.o State Judge,” who by his decision’s may turn loose the flood of Yankee das A potistn to overspread tlie whole land.” To avert the despotism of ihy Yankee, he pro poses a despotism a thousand-fold worse: since it is harder to bo kicked and trodden unner foot by a brother or a friend than by an alien and enemy. To prevent the possibility of their being devoured, by the tiger, Senator Brown &t --r riously proposes that the people giro them fiel ves.>.«p to thtHiou. Lest tfvffy be push cd down the mountain, proposes they jump int > the crater. For loar Lincoln should rob us ot our liberties, he proposes to make us Davis’s slaves. Is it not pitiable, and a sad commentary on political degener acy, that a Senator in a legislative assembly ot a Republic dare arise and propose the establishment of a despotism. Are we wil ling to be slaves, provided only that we do not belong to Mr. Lincoln ! Shame that such a monstrous proposition should even have been listened to in a Republican Sen • . ate. Singnlar Accident- A short time since a young man about nineteen years old was admitted into tho hospital at Wolverhampton, England, suf . faring from the effects of a threepenny piece, which ho had accidentally swallowed on the day previous. It appears the cause of the accident was as follows: While walking along the street, having the three penny piece in his hand, he for some rea son or other placed the coin in his mouth He then commenced running, and sudden ly felt the coin glide dqwn his throat, or as he termed it, “go down tho wrong way.” The next day he found great diffi culty in talking, owing, as he rightly con sidered, to the coin having effected a lodg ment in his windpipe. It continued to give him great pain, causing him to cough very much, and also almost entirely pre venting him from drawing in air for tho purpose of respiration. In this difficulty he made application at the hospital, and a* once received that prompt attention which the singular and dangerous state of his case required. In the first place an open ing was made through his throat into tho windpipe, and a small thin tube inserted in the orifice for the purpose of admitting air into the lungs, as it was found that the threepenny piece had got into such a po sition as to nearly stop up the windpipe altogether. He remained in this condi tion for nearly fifty hours, during the whole of which time the whole of the air ho in haled was that obtained through the before mentioned tube. At the expiration of that time he was made to hold his head downwards, and, after a hard shako, the threepenny piece loosened itself from its place of lodgment, and rolled out of his mouth on the floor, to the great relief of himself, and tho no small gratification of the surgeons under whose hand.s tho oper ation described had been brought to ao successful a termination, and -to whom great credit is duo for tho unremitting care and attention which the patient re-, ceived from them. A Million of Men. “ Bring on ycr bullies ! Fetch out yer John Bulla I Damn my evey, if I don't like 'cm, the thicker and faster they come [ A Row in a Restaurant. The proposed enlistment of a million of men to whip the rebels and wipe out the rebellion in thirty days, is of a pattern with most of the schemes which have is sued out of tho dull aud muddy heads- of the Yankee Congress; and lias, perhaps fewer terrors than all tho other biooay manifestations levelled against us. A million of men ! Why, it is precise ly what we want. Nothing could suit ns bettor. We are quite as able to eat them raw as to digest their present conked vet erans. We have no tort of objection to "the row that must ensue upon the passage of a measure of the kind. “ Bring or; yer John Bulls 1 " It is a- little curious to note the differ ent kinds of quarters built by the troop* from different localities. The Tennessoo au is not contynt until he has his “ shanty " constructed on.logs, with a huge chimney and fire place, i\\ile a Louisianian rests easy in his frail structure of boards, shivering, relying on the hop. that it will turn warm er soon. When does water appear intoxicating 7 When it is drunk. Bring us all your old to make paper. NO. 16.