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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. ♦ » 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.