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OEarijr Count]} JJttos.
E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
BJjA KELY:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1864.
Persons wishing to ftind their Ctmfeder
ate money, .can dt> so at Macon, Columbus
or Eufaula.
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Commissioned officers in the army are
now allowed to draw rations the same as
privates.
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Notice the Tax advertisement **f Dick
inson & Hearn, and govern yourselves ac
cordingly.
Tho weather, during the past twenty*
four hours, has taken a considerable change,
and it is now pretty cool.
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The Yankees are recruiting negro meD
in Tennessee for the army, without tho
consent of the negro or his owner.
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The Soldiers are now allowed to draw
rations of tobacco from Quarter-Masters.
Hope they may get a better article than we
have been forced to use of late!
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What has gone with the Cuthbert Times?
We don’t receive it. It may be that “ Bro.
Wellborn,I’’ 1 ’’ Post Master at Fort Gaines, is
having it “ scented ” with onions, &c., for
us, before sending it through !
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Some of the negroes in this county have
recently been found out in a plot to steal
leather and wool, and, from what we are
able to learn, they have made a pretty good
“ haul." .
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A youth fourteen years of age, and a
Miss of the same experience, were ''totaly
married iu Columbus. Wouder if it won’t
.be some time they will be able to
raise any infant ry !
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We hear it reported that the small pox
has again broken out in Henry county, Ala.,
in a neighborhood some four miles below
Abbeville. Report says that one death
has already occurred.
The scoundrel Livingston, who swindled
the Richmond Brokers out of $35,000 in
gold, has been arrested in Boston for ob
taining a large quantity of wool thero un
der false pretences. He once resided iu
Clinch county, Ga.
Judge Clarke, of this (Pataula) Circuit,
has discharged James E. Berry, under 18
years of age, who entered the service two
years ago as a substitute for his father—
the latter having been conscribed under
the late act of Cougress.
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An editor out West says he inserts mar
riage notices gratis because he thinks it is
wrong to make a man pay for his afflictions.
He’s a sensible editor, certain; but our no
tion is that if a fellow gets himself in trou
ble by marrying, he ought to pay his way
from the beginning!
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The Savannnh News, of the 10th, says
that within one week from this date will
be sent to Richmond from the presses of
Columbia ten millions of the new currency.
The number of signers has been largely in
creased. Many of these ladies. We learn
that the issue from the “ mills ” will be at
the rate of two millions a day.
We are again forced to put up our price
of subscription, iu consequence of the tre
mendous rise iu printing paper. Hereaf
ter our price of subscription will be $7,00
a year, or $3,50 for six months. To those
who will furnish us articles that we need
at the old figures, we will furnish our pa
per at the same price we did before the
war, $2,00 a year.
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We have stayed at home just as long as
we can stand it, and have concluded to take
another trip “up the country" in a few
days, and see if we can’t get a “ peep ” or
two at the il JTycva ! " Will report how
he looks when we return. If anybody has
any “ spare change ” they have no use
for, and willjseud it in by to-morrow even
ing, we will and spend all we can get
rid of! We will promise to do “justice"
to all that may be sent iu ! Bring it in !
Congress, at its last session, passed a bill
increasing the salaries of the Government
clerks, but the proviso excluding from its
benefits all able-bodied clerks and employ
ees liable to military duty will, we are afraid,
operate very seriously upon the general bod
ily health and soundness of limb of the
class the proviso is expressly intended to
affect. In this Congress has offered a pre
.mium for rheumatics, stiff joints, general
debility, kidney disease, affected lungs, liv
er, heart and brain, absent and broken
limbs, and there will be a host of competi
tors. The race for place will not be the
, swift of foot, for the cripple on crutches
will win it; nor the battle for the prize of
to the strong, for the weak will
prevail, even the patient in the advanced
stages of a galloping consumption.
Some of Gen. Toombs’ negroes in Stew
art county having been impressed to work
on the public defenses at Savannah, the
Superior Court at Lumpkin has declared
the impressment illegal. The General had
the impressing officer arrested, and the ne
groes brought back. We believe Toombs,
because he is rich, does pretty much as ho
pleases—gets drunk whenever it suits him,
and then uses language in regard to our.
Government and President, that, if he was
a poor man, he would be hanged for. But
as he is rich, we suppose he is licensed to
do or say just what he sees fit to, and all
is right. A poor man in this world has no
more showing than a blind dog in a meat
house, with a dozen starving Yankees after
him!
The Richmond Sentinel suggests that
the Quarter-Masters of the army, under
suitable regulations, be allowed to receive
money desired to be funded, and to issue
certificates therefor ; aud, in order to save
our Soldiers from present depreciation or
discount on their monthly pay, that until
the new currency takes the place of the
present, Soldiers be paid only in five dollar
notes and those of smaller denomination.
This will protect them from speculation ;
for the five dollar notes will maintain their
integrity until the new currency comes in,
when, of course, the Soldiers will be paid
in that. We shall be much pleased to be
able to announce to our Soldiers that these
or equivalent provisions will be made for
their accommodation and protection.
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The Examiner says that the Yankee
prisoners in Richmond have all been sup
plied with a comfortable outfit of clothing,
forwarded from the North. Notwithstand
ing their assertions to the contrary, every
article of food, or stitch of clothing, in
tended for the Yankees, and to Rich
mond, has been deliverod to them. Tho
action of our authorities contrasts strongly
with that of Beast Butler, by whose order
all boxes and supplies intended for the
Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout,
are broken open, and their contents appro
priated to the use of the Yankee hirelings.
Some day, perhaps, the necessity of retalia
tion wilV occur to our rulers.
Hon. C. D. Hammond has our thanks
for a copy of Gov. Brown’s Message to
the called session of the Legislature, now
assembled iu Milledgeville. We have not
had time to read this document, and if we
had, wc don’t know that we would, for it
is long enough for a dozen Messages. Gov.
Brown is, undoubtedly, the most “ long -
Minded ” Governor we have ever read or
heard of. •
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At a recent meeting of the Editors and
Publishers of weekly newspapers of this
State, held in Milledgeville, the price of
subscription was put at $lO per annum,
and advertising at $2 a square for each in
sertion. We will advertise at the same
rates, but will receive subscriptions at 87
per annum. We are compelled to do this
in consequence of the recent Advance in
paper.
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Rigid patrolling is now needed through
out our county, and we, hope that all who
are members of patrol squads will do their
duty in the matter. Negroes are almost
nightly running around where they have
no business, stealing, &c., and we think it
is the duty of all good citizens to see that
they are kept in their proper places ev
ery night. Let every one do his duty in
this matter, and all will be well.
Attention is called to tho advertisement
of A, C. West, our Eurolling Officer.
During the first fcfrty days Gov. Smith,
of Virginia, was in offiee, he pardoned out
of the penitentiary of the State sixty-five
convicts. What is the result of such cle
mency—or rather what is the result of such
lenient conduct? asks the Augusta Chron
icle. It is simply this —robbery, murder
and crime of all kinds has been rapidly on
the increase in that State. Who is to
blame for this ? Gov. Smith. No one
else. By pursuing the course he has, he
has made a bid, as it were, for crime to be
committed. Has offered a premium to
breakers of the law. Has told villains and
cut-throats that they may go ahead and
perpetrate deeds of violence and blood-shed
with impunity. Who cares for laws, where
law-breakers are not punished ? No body.
In such a community even the most upright
will step aside occasionally. We regret,
exceedingly regret, that a man has been
elected to the Gubernatorial chair of any
State who shows by his acts that he is com
pletely deprived of common sense and judg
ment. Laws are of no use whatever un
• less they are enforced. The more strictly
they are carried out, the less crime there
will be. A dead-letter law is a bid for
crime. And when a Governor of a State
by his acts nullifies a law the courts of the
State endeavor to put into effect, he pays
the highest premium for crime that can bo
paid. »v
The growing discontent in Lincolndom,
among the masses; the steady advance of
gold in the New York market; the dispo
sition shown by the troops not to re-enlist,
and by the people not to enlist; the dis
cord and family quarrels in the Republican
ranks ; all these are cheering signs to us,
and promise good to our cause. Another
cheering sign is the indication of an early
change in the British ministry, growing
out of the hostility of the popular to the
government party. Parliament has already
begun to discuss matters with zeal that
shows that the members are in earnest.
Everything tends to prove that if England
does not acknowledge us, that her policy
will at least be changed towards us. The
large mass of the people of England have
become disgusted with the truckling sub
serviency of Earl Russell to Seward’s hub
lyism, and a change in the ministry is
inevitable. England’s course in regard to
us cannot be made worse than it now is,
We may, therefore, hope for better things
in that section in future. We should also
take courage from the failure of all the
movements of the Federals this spring,
and the oomplete success of our arms thus
far in the campaign, Everything now
looks bright. Let us be united as a peo
ple, and do all we can to strengthen our
cause both at home as well as abroad.
It is obvious that an anti-administration
party, of a formidable character, exists in
the United States, and that, at the ensuiug
canvass, there is to be a fierce competition
for the Presidency. It is thought that in
the struggle Seward will resign his preten
tions and hang on the skirts of Lincoln,
content to be nominally the second man in
the government, provided he can, behind
the scenes, act as its mainspring and con
trol its operations. The subserviency of
the daring and aspiring Chase is, however,
not to be counted on. It is said that he
will certainly be a candidate for the high
est honors.
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If the Yankees have any definite plan
it is the destruction of provisions and crops,
the curtailment of our productive area, and
the crowding of population within and on
the reduced area. The system of reckless
impressment, and of harsh interference with
labor, which has prevailed with some Con
federate agents, will only benefit the Yan
kees. Every producer and grower of pro
visions should be encouraged and protected
by military and civil authorities, and nest
eggs and brood cattle should not be dis
turbed. All Confederate officers should
deem it a privilege as well as a duty to
show otherwise than by uniform that they
are not Yankees.
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We see it stated that the widow of Wm.
B. Mumford has lately visited many of our
principal cities, and is now in Richmond.
Substantial sympathy was manifested for
her everywhere she has been. It will be
remembered that Mr. Mumford was hung
in New Orleans, by Beast Butler, for tear
ing down the United States flag from the
Custom House before tho city had surren
dered.
Never before was there a time when
men, nursed in wealth , were so anxious to
work, and serve the country and cause, as
now. But, strange to say, all have a dis
like for one particular implement, now iu
general use. With that tool in their hands,
. they are confident they would be perfect
novices; with any other, accomplished la
borers, and au fait in the science of aiding
the South to achieve her independence.
The tool tabooed is the musket. They don’t
like it; never had a penchant for the man
ual of arms, and are sure they would mak®
very bad apprentices at the Soldiers’ trade.
They are all willing to help push the causa
along, (if they can do it by getting heavy
• fees themselves, and never letting any of •
their cash out for charitable purposes,) but
would rather be of the numerous army
of pushers in the rear, than the pushers in
the front, and the pushed. They are anx
ious to make a show of doing something,
but are sure they could do almost anything
better than fighting at the front, and lend
ing a figure to the u picture in the van,
near the flashing of the guns." They like
to get details to make nitre at the nitre
beds; count cannon fuses at the Labora
tories; add up columns of figures; or run
errands for the Government. They like
to take out contracts for making shoe pegs
and army buttons, scraping lint, or prepar
ing bandages; yea, they would even go
forth into the forest and slay and maul tim
ber for gunboats, or dig ore iron to plate
them. Behold the exceeding patriotism
of these men, who, having torn down their
baras and storehouses, and builded greater,
were resting their souls in ease when they
heard the voice of the conscript-gatherer
saying : “ This day thy service shall bo re
quired of thee ! ” To them the musket at
a “ right shoulder shift” is what the ghost
of Banquo was to poor Macbeth. “ Take
any shape but that,’’ they exclaim, “ and
my firm nerves shall never tremble." Any
thing, anywhere, out of the army.
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To THE KPDYTF.R OF THE NtSF,- Deer
Sur : I rite you this letter now, to let you
no that I am a candydate for Lewtenant
Kurnel. I’ve hearu that thar ar sevral
runnin, an that they ar men of verassity
sagassity and lokwassity but I tell you mis
ter eddytur it ain’t no use talkin sense or
truth to the muleishy.. They ar jest like
ther auntyseedents an ther other relashuns
—the Donkeys. You cant give em no or
ders but what they’d do em rung eetfd for
most, in spite of the devil.
We had a company eleeshuu tother day
and you ort have seen the conscript bovs
runnin for offis. They had turned out all
the beerd they had to make em look old
an I never saw the like of frizzled faces au
fuzzy faces iu all my born days an mister
eddytur sum of cm even wer so young that
tljere faces wer like a rite yung gal, they
didn’t hav needier friz nor fuz. I tell you
they beet tho Jews (I ort have said cliris*,
tians,) shakin hands. I shuck hands with
every man I saw an every one of era was
runnin for somethin. Every man I met
wanted to shake till I got so I begin shake
all over as soon as I see a feller eommin.
But my mane objeck in riten this letter
was to let you no that I was a
an that none of the others that wasruonin
dout no nothin about managin mulciaby. t
I tell you now haw I git em into a site. ”
draw up my lino facing the yankecs—then 1
turn them eend forcend—(about face as th®
Konfederato say) then I give the order tc»
charge ! an the muleishy will back rite in
to any kind cf a fit© and the more you
spur em the more they back.
Now if other men ar elected and dec!
with em contrarywise from what I say I
call Gov. Brown ruined an his army de
moralised. Yours till deth,
Tobe Donkey,
Parties recently from Norfolk give the
following specimen of Butler’s tyranny over
decent white people:
An order has been issued taking posses
sion of all the churches in both cities, and
directing that the pews are all to bo free
to the negro soldiers, who aro to occupy
seats with the whites, and any person whq
shall show disapprobation to this announce
ment, “ either by word, look or gesture,"
shall be arrested and imprisoned. Furth
er, the pastors of the churches have becu
informed if they refuse to officiate, that
preachers from the Yankee army would tako
their places, and the members ofthechurch
will be taxed for their support. Only those
resident Ministers are allowed to preach at
all, who have taken the oath to support the
Liucolu and Fierpont Government.