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toll) Cdttiitj) tos. VOL. v. dforlg fantg jta. Terms of Subscription: Por 1 Year $>9P For 6 Months 2,0 Q No subseiptions received for less than sis mouths, and payment always required iu ad* vance. SCALE OF PRICES la be Charged by the Early County News.” i Square, (occupying the space of ten geois lines, or less,] one insertion,2,oo For every subsequent insertion, .... 1,00 Obituary notices charged as advertisements. 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.