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To the Women of Georgia.
State or Georgia, ")
Quartermaster General’s Office,
Atlanta, Feb. sth, 1864. 3
A report has beeiywt in circulation
in various portions of the State that
the socks, knit by the Ladies of Geor
gia for this Department, have been sold
bv me to the troops on the field.
Without entering further into the de ■
tails of this vile and malicious report,
1 hereby'pronounce the whole tale to
be a malicious Falsehood. 1 deny,
and challenge the world for proof to
the contrary, that there has ever been
a sock sold by this department to a
soldier of the Confederate army since
my first appeal to the women of Geor
gia to knit for their destitute defend'
ers. 1 hereby bind myself to pres
ent one thousand dollars to any per :
son, either citizen or soldier, who will
come forward and prove that he ever
bought a sock from this department,
that was either knit by the ladies or
purchase for issue to said troops.
This report has been invented on
the one hand by the enemies oi our
noble boys, who rejoice in their sufier
iners, and are delighted when they sus
pend the efforts of the noble women
in their behalf. On the other hand,
bv peryil opponents of this department,
who forget that in venting their un
provoked spite upon us, they are caus
ing the troops of their State to march
over frozen ground and the drifting
snow with uncovered and bleeding
feet.
Women of Georgia : Again 1 ap
peal to you. This time 1 call upon
you to frown down these vile -false
hoods. 1 demand of him who peddles
the tale the evidence 1 call for above.
Until that testimony is produced 1 im
plore you stay not your efforts. 1 as
sure in the name of all that is holy and
noble —on the honor of a man and an
officer —that neither myself nor as
sistants have sold a pair of Socks that
ure knit by you. Every pair has been
issued to the destitute troops, as about
17,000 gallant sons of the Empire
State will gladly bear testimony.]
Daughters of Georgia, 1 still need
•socks. Requisitions for them are dai
ly pouring in upon me. 1 still have
yarn to furnish you. 1 earnestly de
sire to secure a pair of socks for every
barefooted soldier from Georgia. You
are my only reliance. Past experi
ence teaches me 1 will not appeal to
you in vain.
Ira It. Foster,
Quartermaster General of Ga.
DR. R, C. KNOWLES,
Blakely, Early County, Geo.,
Intending to make a permanent residence
in Blakely, offers his medical services, in all
branches, to the citizens of the place and
surrounding country.
May be found, at all hours, at the Drug
Store, unless professionally engaged,
vl-32-tf
T. T. SWANN,
attorney at lay/,
Blakely, Early Co,, Ga.,
Wili. give prompt attention to all business
confided ty his care. vo-ltptf
In the field again!
JAMES BUCIIANNOX '& GO,
for sale
fine English Prints,
pine English Bleaching.*,
Augusta Sheet ings,
Spun Yarn,
Spool Thread,
Flax Thread,
• • Shoe Thread,
Iron, Nails, Tobacco, Snuff, and many other
j.rri<»l*»ia ton tedious to mention.
Feb. 10, ISC4. 17-ts
BLAKELY, GKO., FEBRUAEY 24, 1864.
TO “ EITTXE.”
Oh 1 beautiful Kittle,
Like winds o’er a lea,
Memory wings softly.
Her flight back to thee,
And paints thee iu colors,
Both lovely and rare,
With eyes bright and laughing,
And auburn thy hair.
Thou seemest an angel,
With spirit as pure.
And sueh I will call thee
W hile life shall endure.
Ou my heart’s frail tablet
I've penciled thy name—
I'll cherish it, Kiltie,
Through glory or shame.
Oh ! beautiful Kittle !
Oh beautiful girl!
I bring thee a jewel,
More priceless than pearl—
A gem of affection,
Not fashioned by art,
But love pure and holy
That springs from the heart.
* * *
Richmond, Feb. 36.—80th Houses
passed the Tax Currency and Military
bills, and they await the President’s
signature* The injunction of secrecy
removed. The currency bill provides
that holders of non interest bearing
notes over five dollars, be allowed till
the first of April, east of the Missis
sippi, and the first of July west, to
fund in 20 year bonds four per cent,
all notes not funded or paid to the Gov
ernment in taxes are orderd within
the time, taxed thirty-three and a third
per cent, and fundable tili first of Jan
uary next; after which taxed hundred
per cent. Hundred dollar notes not
presented within the time, to be no long
er receivable for public dues, and taxed
ten per cent per month in addition to
the thirty-three and a third.
The present issue of notes contin
ue till the first of April, after which
the new issue is authorized to be kept
within reasonable limits. Fifty per
cent, bonds to the amount of five hun
dred millions iiui'v be issued and sold
to raise money to meet the expenses
of the Government. All duties on im
ports to be paid in specie, sterling ex
change, or coupons of these bonds.
All import and export duties are spes
ciaily pledged to pay the interest of
these bonds.
The tax bill levies five per cent, on
most of the real personal minored prop
erty, stocks, bank bills, and solvent
credits. Ten to twenty per cent, on
inconies, profits, etc.
The military bill declares all be
tween seventeen and fifty in service
during the war. All between 18 and
45/now in service, retained under ex
isting organization and officers; all
between seventeen and eighteen, and
forty-five and fifty to be enrolled for
State defences. Provost, Hospital,
Conscript and guard duty to be per
formed by men between eighteen and
forty-five unfit for the field. Exempts
all unfit for the field, members and of
ficers of Congress, State Legislature
and other Confederate and State offi
cers, preachers regularly employed, one
editor to each newspaper now publish
ed, and such employees as are indis
pensable ; ope apothecary to each drug
store doing business on the 10th Octo
ber 1862 ; physicians over thirty years
old that have been seven years in
practice; Presidents and teachers of
Colleges and schools in existence reg
ularly for two years, of twenty stu
dents ; one person on a farm of fifteen
field hands, to give bond and security to
deliver to the Government one hun
dred pounds of bacon and beef to eve
ry hand, and sell all surplus at sched
ule rates ; officers of railroads as here
tofore reported: and the President and
Secretary of War are authorized to
grant exemptions, as heretofore report
ed.
You must not play with that little
girl, mv dear,” said an injudicious pa
rent.
*• But, in a, I like her, and she is a
good little gill, and Pm sure she dress
es as prettily as I do j and she has lots
of toys.”
fl I can’t help that, my dear,” re
sponded the foolish anti-American, her
father is a shoemaker.”
But I don’t play with iicr father, I
piay with her; she ainta shoemaker.”
Sparta, Ga., Jan. 21st, 18G4.
Editors Recorder : 1 had from 8 to
10 Families living on my land, at the
time the war commenced, and all the
Families whose husbands and sons left
for the war, 1 place free of rent. 1
will give you an account of two ladies
whose husbands left for the war, both
of them had been raised to labor in the
field.
Mrs. Cobb lives on a place that cost
me three thousand five hundred dol
lars, at five dollars per acre, for the last
’two yeznfc Nile has done the whole
farm work, ploughing, burning logs,
carting, &c, She has six small chil
dren unable to work. Last fall 1 met
Mrs. Cobb at a Cotton Factory with
five hundred and forty-five dollars'
worth of bacon and lard at the Au- *
gusta price, to swap for thread to
clothe her family—all of her labor of
1862. From her labor of 1563, she
killed of pork at the market price,
two thousand seven hundred and sev
enty-two dollars and fifty cents worth,
Mrs. Meeks lives on a place, ve-.
ry poor, containing one hundred acres,
which cost me $4 per acre; last fall
she had Bacon to sell to soldiers’ wives
at SI per lb., when the price in Au
gusta was $3. This winter she will
kill more than two thousand dollars
worth of pork, and have plenty of corn
to do her this summer. She lias three
small children of her own, and takes
one small one to raise belonging to
some of her neighbors. She is hard
down on soldiers wives that are doing
nothing, and says that she is worth
three times as much property as Her
husband left her, and wishes Tom to
come home so she may feast him and
rule him the balance of his life, and
learn him to farm.
Since the war, to all the families on
my land, up to this fall, 1 sold corn at
■Bl per bushel; this year 1 sell bread
corn p' -r bushel and $2 for corn
to feed nogs with. These two ladies
will pay from five to seven hundred
dollars in Tithes to the Government,
all of their labor of 1863. That is if
soldiers wives pay tithes.
Very Respectfully,
David Dickson.
-+.■*+
For two centuries at least half of
English history is occupied by the
theme of habeas corpus. The conces
sion was wrung from the British crown
after a world of discussion and rivers
of blood. It is now regaredby that peo
ple as the most sacred right they pos
sess, and lie who would touch it would
be execrated as a traitor to the people.
We do not so highly appreciate it jn
this country. Every little man who can
get an audience to hear him talks free,
ly about the exigencies of the limes de
manding its suspension. It will not
take them long to learn to say that it
should be abrogated. No exigency
could possibly arise which would eith
er demand the suspension or the abro
gation of that great fudamental law ol
human liberty. When a man is ar
rested and incarcerated in a dungeon,
as any man is liable to be, at any
moment of his life by civil and milita-*
ry officers of high and low degree, his
great’law of protection is the writ of
habeas corpus. Suspend and set aside
this law and any citizen can be placed
in jail and jie there indefinitely at the
bidding and whim of petty officers.
Let us rather make it treason to sus
pend this writ.
The New York Times accounts for
the reaction in the South and in the
Southern army upon philosophic prim
ciples. It treats it as a phenomenon
of periodical recurrence, like the tides.
Whenever the people are firmly fixed
in a belief, they are sure, after a ceis
tain time has elapsed, to veer round,
and to point in precisely the opposite
.direction. Therefore does a period of
despondency succeed to one of extrav
agant confidence as naturally as night
follows day.
Gnatt, the Arkansas traitor, was advertis
ed in the Herald to deliver aa address, on
the night of the Ist. inst., at Ooope.r’s In
stitute, Now York city. The imbecile
wretch can do our cause do harm.
Lincoln’s claims to be Re-elected.
The New York World says Lin-»
coin is a proper candidate for the Pres
idency on the part of Black ifepubli
cans, for the following reasons :
1. He proclaimed as a necessity of
party action an “irrepressible con
flict ” between the interests of one
section and the fanaticism of the oth
er.
2- lie has announced that there is
no law in.the United States but the
will of a majority.
o. lie writes worse English than
any President we ever had.
4. He is as great a strategist as lie
is a statesman, and has distinguished
himself equally in war and in jurispru
dence.
5. Since Archy, the kings jester, no.
man has used such an abundance of
stories, from the broad smutty to the
diluted Joe Miller.
“ Shall paTts so various aim at nothing new?
lie’ll shine a joker and a ruler too/’
6. He is used to all the violations
ot the Constitution that are possible to
any President, and by a frequent prac
tice does easily that which may come
awkwardly to any other man,
7. There never has Infen an official
so true to his party, and it will bo
proof of the ingratitude of shoddy and
abolitionism if they do npt renominate
him*
Where the Whisky comes from.
Many persons have been puzzled to
know where the whisky, which is to
be found in every little town.and vil
lage, comes from. The Richmond
Enquirer throws light upon the sub
ject. It says :
The Confederate Government has
given contracts for the production, on
its account, of proof whisk}-, to nu
merous parties, varying in extent to
from five to fifty thousand gallons per
coqtraet. lu some instances these
contracts are still unfilled, although
the parties have, the power to impress
grain for the purpose, and have been
steadily engaged in the production of
whisky from the date of their con
tracts.
And the secret is this .• The con
tract calls for “proof” whisky, and
if the whisky is not- “ proof” it is con
demned and thrown back upon the
distiller’s iiands—that is to say, right,
on the whisky market, precisely where
he wants it to be. The government
pays from two to three dollars per gal
lon for “ proof” by the contract; the
rqarket pays from twenty-five to eighty,
whether proof or not.
Death of Broyrulow—The Devil Super
ceded.
A dispatch from Longstreet’s army
announces the death ot Parson Brown
low. If that’s so it might be officially
said that the Devil has been turned out
of office, The Chattanooga Rebel
says :
“ We ire informed that a dispatch
was received here yesterday from a
gentleman in Longstreet’s army an
nouncing the death of Brownlow, at
Knoxville. It is to be hoped that the
old reprobate has at last gone to his
long home, and that the devil now has
him carting sulphur at three cents a
load.”
Says the Atlanta Confederacy :
The Reverend Brownlow is dead.
Peace to his ashes!—but what capital
lye they would make.
Again: '
Brownlow’, who has been throwing
dirf. upon everybody for forty years, is
now about to have a little thrown over
him—by the sexton.
Horace Maynard claims to be At
torney General of the State of Term.,
and Urges that the bienial elections for
county officers be held in March. Ho
lays down the law,,and declares that
no person who is not a true blue Un
ionist shall be allowed to vote ; he al
so cautions those who may be elected
to confine the exercise of their func
tions to cases arising among citizens,
and to interfere in no manner with mil
-1 itary authority. *
jSTO. 10.