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Cotmtn Jta.
VOL. V.
Forms for Drawing Soldier’s
Pay.
STATE OF GEORGIA, !
County or j
BEFORE me an acting Justice.; f
the Peace, (or Notary Public,) in and
in- said county, personally came Mrs. ,
who being duly sworn, says she is the moth
er of , deceased, late a in company
ther declares that her said son, , died
un t he. day of , 186—, and that h«
left neither wife, child, nor father surviving
him.
( Signed) . ; —* (
Sworn and subscribed to before me thin
day of , 18G-. J. P.
Also, personally came . of coun
ty and State of Georgia, who, being duly
sworn, says that the statements in the above
affidavit he (or she) personally knows to be
true.
(Signed) ——- _
Sworn and subscribed to before me tliia
—— day of 186-.
—«—, J. P.
I, , an acting Justice of the Peace
(or Notary Public) in and for said county
of , do certify that the above named
witness is personally known to me to be of
good standing, and whoso affidavit is enti
tled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand, and official signa
ture, this day of , 18G-.
„ t J. p.
Know all Men by these Presents, That
I, Mrs. , of the county ot , and
State of Georgia, being the mother of ,
deceased, who died in the aeavice of |the
Confederate States s>n the day of ,
186-, do make, constitute and appoint ,
of -county, and State of Georgia, my true
and lawful attorney, in fact to receive and re
ceipt for all monies, goods and chatties that
may be due me as heir of my son, ——, dec’d,
by virtue of his military or other service to
the Confederate States: hereby ratifying
and confirming all lawful actß of my eaiu
attorney in the premises.
(Signed) .
Witness: J. P.
I, ——, Clerk of court of coun
ty, State of Georgia, do certify that ,
whoso genuine signature appears above and
before whom the above affidavits and power
of attorney were made and executed, is aa
acting .) ustice of tho Peace, (or Notary
Public) in and for the county of State
of Georgia, duly commissioned at the time
of signing the same, and all his attestations
as such are entitled.to full faith and credit.
Given .voider my hand and seal of office
this day of , one thousand eight
hundred ami sixty-
OJerk Court, County, Georgia.
NOTE,—The affidavit may be made either
before a Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public, and the certificate of its legality
may be made either by a Clerk of the Supe
rior, Inferior, or Court of Ordinary, with
the seal attached.
All claims made out according to iho
above instructions and forwarded to tho
War Department will he attended to.
RAQg WANT£]) ‘
AT THE
Early County News Office.
f I'M IE Proprietor of the Early County News
1 will pay TEN CENTS per lb. for all
CLEAN COT'J ON d> LINEN BAGS
delivered at his office, in small or large quan
tities. As it is now impossible for us to
Inlrcll3.se paper unless we furnish rags, we
mpe our friends in Clay, Calhoun, Miller
aiijj, Early Counties will each and all consti
tute themselves agents for us for this pur
pose.
Sava your rags, and save your tags,
Save your good-for-nothing bags—
firing them to this office, soon,
firing them morning, eve or noon.
From the mountain, from the vale,
Where the lingering camp-fires pale, *
Where the morning tintft the rose,
Where the parting sunset glows,
From the East and from the West,
Bring us rags and do your best.
firing us scraps of cotton thread,
Bring the nighbeaps from your bead,
Bring the shirt upon your back,
• Bring us pioces white or black,
Bring us rags and bring us tags,
Bring us your good-for nothing bags—
Anything, just so ’tis clean,
W hite, or black, or blue or green,
Anything that paper makes,
Every editor now takes,
And will pay you for your rags,
And your good-for-nothing bags,
Bring them in, and bring them soon,
Morning, evening, and at noon.
Prices of Provisions in Early County.
Corn, per bushel $2,50
Pqrk, on foot, gross weight less than
200 lbs,, per lb 75
Pork, on foot, gross weight over 200
lbs., per lb 80
Poalf, slaughtered, per lb 1,00
“ salted, “ 1,25
“ pickled, 1,25
Ilacoq, per lb.. 1,50
Beef, on foot, gross, per lb. 25
“ butchered, “ 30
» “ pickled, " 40
dried, * ‘ 50
Cuba Syrup, per gal 0,00
BLAKELY, GEO., FEBETJAEY 10, 1864.
€nxli fantg Jtcius.,
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year 5,00
For 6 M0nth5.........'. 2,50
No subsciptions received for less than six
months, and payment always required in ad-,
vauee..
SCALE OF PRICES
To be Charged by the “Early County News.”
1 Square, (occupying the space of ten Bour
, gtiois lines, or less,) one insertion,...s 2,00
For every subsequent insertion, 1,00
Obituary notices charged as advertisements.
Feed the Pigs.
Now is the time to feed and attend
well to the pigs which came last fall.
At twelve or fourteen months old, you
will have to kill them, and make your
meat, next winter. By proper care,
you can make them weigh from 100
to 200 pounds, at the age mentioned.
Don’t let them get poor, stunted and
mangy now, for if you do, it will be
almost impossible to get them started
again. There is no telling how much
meat can be raised by proper manage
ment, even when corn is scarce. The
slops and waste from the kitchen will
make many a pound of meat. Every
housekeeper, whether he or she has
much of this world’s goods, can go far
towards raising his or her own meat.
If you have no pigs, obtain one or
more, as soon hs you can, and go to
feeding them. You can accomplish
wonders with them in twelve months.
We do not consider any house well
adorned, these days, without a pig.
It is the interest of every planter to
raise a large crop of cereals. By so
doing he is thereby enabled to raise
more cattle, hogs and other stock.*
By having these to dispose of, he can
not only assist the Government and
purchasers generally, but can provide
himself with the wherewithal to bear
the heavy taxes which all will have to *
pay. Let every one who has land re
solve to plant as much corn as he can
plow. Let all plant largely of peas,
beans, small grain, ground nuts, &0.,
and so vary them that they can keep
all their force not engaged in plowing,
in cultivating these things, enriching
the soil, clearing out fertile spots of
land, ditching, <fec. There should be
two great classes in our country at
this time. The fighting class and the
producing class. The first have done
and are doing their duty, and*the lat
ter can do a noble work by doing their
duty.
The Memphis Bulletin of a late date
says “there are now in Cairo two hun
dred and fifty thousand refugees from
the Southern States, most of them are
in a state of utter destitution. The
great bulk are children—of one part)'
which lately arrived, consisting of two
hundred and thirteen persons, but for
ty-six were adults. They are crowd
ed into the old barracks, where, but
for the attention of the officers of the
sanitary commission, many wouldhave
perished during the present extreme
cold weather. These refugees are
generally of the poorest class of
whites, ignorant, and wholly lacking
the cleanliness, thrift and management
which characterize the working class
es of the North.” •
New Orleans papers, received at
Mobile, report that the cold spell at
the beginning of the year destroyed
the ratoons ot the sugar plant and per
haps much of the cane bedded for
planting. This will * seriously affect
the sugar crop of next year. It was
also thought that the extensive orange
groves of the State had been killed.
It was the coldest spell known for the
last thirty years.
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The white of an egg has proved of
late the most efficacious remedy for
burns. Seven or eight successive ap
plications of this substance soothes
the pain excludes the burnt parts
from the air. This simple remedy
seems to us far preferable to collodion,
or even cotton.
Tire Provision Question.
We are glad to notice that the plan
ters in several sections of Georgia
have at length aroused themselves to
the true condition of affairs. Have
commenced taking steps in the right
direction. Have resolved to prove
by their acts that they are ready to
do their share towards bringing the
present war to a successful close.
Have determined to do all that can
be or ought to be demanded of them.
In Micros* county, the planters have
met and consulted together. At the
meeting, they resolved to furnish pro
visions and other articles they raise
at the following rates: Corn, $2,50
per bushel; wheat, $5,00 per bushel >
bacon $ 1,00 per pound ; beef, 40 cents
per pound; lard, SI,OO per pound;
fodder 82,00 per hundred; oats $1,50
per bushel.
At a meeting of the planters of Sum
ter county, it was agreed that in that
section the price of corn should be
sl,oo%)er bushel, and bacon 25 cents
per pound. We learn that meetings
have also been called in other counties
in the State.
The action of the planters in the
above mentioned counties, shows the
right spirit. An example has been set,
worthy of being imitated throughout
the entire Confederacy. The great
question of the day is the food ques
tion. There is now no doubt on that
point. It remains entirely with the
producers whether or not our cause
shall be crippled for lack of sustenance
for the armies, and for the people at
home. Let every person who has
land raise all he can of the articles
necessai v to sustain life. Let them
resolve to sell the same at the lowest
possible.figure. Let them do all in
their power to put down the suicidal
spirit of speculation in food, now alto
gether too prevalent, and thus assist
customers to supply their wants at
reasonable rates. If our planters will
resolve to take steps of this kind, and
also to carry out what they resolve to
do, all will be well with us. If they
adopt a contrary course, we fear the
scenes of turmoil and strife that will
surely occur. It is of no use to shut
our eyes to the real condition of afiaiys
now existing. We, as a nation, are
this day wandering as it were along
the verge of a frightful precipice of
ruin. One false step may plunge us
over the brink. It is useless for us to
flatter ourselves into a sleep of false se
curity. Action, prompt and decisive
action, is now demanded of every true
lover of his country. We have had
enough of delay and time-serving pol -
icy. Wc must awake to our whole
duty—and do it also. Despotism and
anarchy threaten to sweep over our
country. And if the proper measures
are not adopted, rapine and murder
will stalk boldly through our fair land
and deluge it with blood.
From what we have been able to
learn by conversation with intelligent
gentlemen who have recently return
ed from Europe, says the Wiimington
Journal, the impression among Con
federate officers, agents, officials and
citizens now in Europe, seems to be,
that about the only plan to sustain
Confederate credit abroad and restore
it at home, is for the government to
become the sole holder and exporter
of the cotton, tobacco, naval stores,
etc. That some such idea has been
pressed upon the attention of Con
gress, or will be pressed, we regard as
likely. _
A writer in the Detroit Advertiser
says that George D. Prentice, the re
nowned wit and reputed editor of the
Louisville Journal , is sinking deeper
and deeper. The paper has long since
passed from his control, both finan
cially and editorially. Ilis unfortu
nate propensity for strong drink entire
ly unfitting him for the control of his -
pecuniary matters, his personal friends
have purchased him a homestead, and
persuaded him to transfer his interest
ip the paper to his wife, thus taking it
out of his power to squander it, and
securing a respectable support to his
family
Society in Richmond.
Society in Richmond is getting demor
alized as well .as elsewhere. Sights which
are highly proper to remain undisclosed,
are seen frequently even in fashionable so
ciety. Richmond, it is very evident, is
fast becoming a second Washington. Hero*
is what one correspondent writes about the
matter:
You have heard of the fashionable tab
leaux vivants here, but you have not heard
that the living statutes of young ladies had
their feet ~naked aud chalked, to imitato
marble more" closely. 6r that other res
pectable young ladies wore Swiss dresses,
coming a litttie below the knee, not only
on the stage but in the parlor, after the tab
leaux were over. Nor that one of the mo
del artists represented Correggio’s Magda
lene, who, as your readers know, is depict
ed as laying on her stomach, with her face
resting on her hand, reading a book which
is supported by a skull. In the picturo
the arms and breasts of Magdalene are ful
ly exposed ; in the living artist only tho
arms were naked, but the posture is about
as indelicate as a lady could assume iu
public. You have not heard of liicse won
derful things iu tho Confederate Capitol.
Yet they are facts, as I am assured on ex
cellent authority. The same informant
tells me that at the masked balls which
have succcoded the model artist exhibitions
young ladies in skirts are quite common,
and ono of them went so far as to array
herself in full costume; and not content
with this, took such liberties with other
young ladies, that to keep from being
knocked down by a gentleman, she had to
remove her mask and let fall her curls.
It grieves me to say it, but we are in dan
ger of re-enacting the license of the French
Revolution.
I)r. Adam Clarke was preaching to
a large congregation in Ireland, and
after dwelling in glowing tei'ins upon
the freeness of the gospel, and telling
t hem that the water of life conld be had
without money and without price, at
the conclusion of the sermon a person
announced that a collection would be
made to support the gospel in foreign
parts. This announcement disconcer
ted the doctor, who afterwards relat
ed the circumstance to the lady of the
house where ho was staying. “ Very
true, doctor,” replied the hostess, “ the
water of life is free, “ without money
arm price,” but they must pay for th e
pitchers they cany it in.”
The interest on the foreign debt of
Alabama, due in London, has been
paid up to and including the dividend
due on the Ist instant. ‘ The interest
annually accruing in London, with 8
per cent, exchange added, amounts
to $80,370 13. To meet the foreign,
interest for another year, the State
Treasury holds about $70,000 in coin,
and the Commissioner recommends a
loan of coin from one or more of the
banks to cover the deficiency. Ala
bama is determined to maintain un
tarnished credit, abroad as well as at
home.
The Montgomery Mail says with
much truth : We speak advisedly and
knowingly when we say that the im
providence and wanton abuse of ani
mals belonging to the Confederate
Mates, is the reason and the sole rea
son, for that drain on the horses in
the country, which h’as been going on
now for three years, to the seripus de
triment of production and constant
outrage of private rights. It is an
abuse that calls loudly for reformation.
Some wags took a drunken fellow, placed
him in a coffin with the lid so he could ea
sily raiso it, placed them in a grave yard
and waited to sec the effect. After a short
. time the fumes of the liquor left, and his
position being rather confined, he burst off
the lid, sat bold upright, aud, after looking
around, exclaimed, “ Well, I’m the first
that’s riz! or else I’m much belated ! ”
The Scientific American has res
ceived from California a piece of wood
from a tree thirty feet in diameter, the
annual rings upon vyhich indicate the
age of the tree to he 6,300 years.
True friendship is like sound health
—the value of it is seldom known un
til it be lost.
no. 17.