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Cfluntn pißSi VOL. V. Forms for Drawing Soldier’s Pay. STATE OF GEORGIA, } County of j |>EFORE me an acting Justice of I > the Peace, (or Notary Public,) in and tor said county, personally came Mrs. , who being duly sworn, says she is the'inotb er of , deceased, late a —=- in company ,of the Georgia Volunteers. She fur thor declares that her said sou, , died on the day of , 18G-, and that he left neither wife, cldld, nor father surviving him. (Signed) Sworn and subscribed to before me this • day of- JBti J. P. Also,-personally came ——, of coun fj and State of Georgia, who, being duly I •worn, says that the statements in the above affidavit he she) personally knows to be true, (Signed) . • Sworn and subscribed to before mo this day of IS6-. 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 whose' affidavit is enti tled to full faith and credit. Given under my hand, and official signa ture, this day of , 186-. Know ai.l Men by these Presents, That I, Mrs. , of the county ot ——, and State of Georgia, being the mother of , deceased, who died in the seavice of the Confederate States on the day of , 186-, do make, constitute and appoint , of county, and State ofiGeorgia, 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 acts of my said attorney in the premises. (Signed) . IV it ness: 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 an acting .Justice, of the 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 under my lmuj and seal of office this day of = , one thousand eight hundred and sixty- Clerk Court. ■ County, Georgia. NOTE.—The affidavit may be made either be lore a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, and the certificate of its legality may he made either by a Clerk of the Supe rior, Inferior, or Court of Ordinary, with the seal attached. All claims made out according to the above instructions and forwarded to the IV nr Department will bo attended to. RAGS WANTED AT THE Early-County Sews Office. THE Proprietor of the Parly County News will pay TEN CENTS per lb. for all CLEA N COt'l ON & LINEN It A GS delivered at his office, in small or large quan tities. As it is now impossible for us to purchase paper unless we furnish rags, we •hope *our friends in Clay, Calhoun, Miller and Early Counties will each and all consti tute themselves agents lor us for this pur pose. .Save your rags, and save your tags, Save your good-for-nothing bags— Bring them to this office, soon, .Bring them morning, eve or noon. From the mountain, from the vale, "Where the lingering camp-fires pale, Where, the morning tints the rose, Where the parting sunset glows, From the East and from the West, Bring us. rags and do your best. Bring us scraps of cotton thread, Bring the night-caps from your, head, firing the shirt upon your back, Bring us pieces white or black, Bring us rags and bring us tags, Bring us your good-for-nothing bags— Anything, just so ’tis clean, White, 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-nothiDg bags, Bring them in, and bring them soon, Morning, evening, and at noon. Trices of Previsions in Early County. Corn, per bushel $2,50 pork, on foot, gross weight legs than 200 lbs., per 1b...' 75 Pork, on foot, gross weight over 200 lbs., per lb ’ 80 Pork, slaughtered, phr lb 1,00 “ salted, 1,25 “ pickled, “ 1,25 Bacon, per lb ~... 1,50 Beef, on foot, grogs, per lb 25 “ butchered, “ 30 “ pickled, “ 40 “ dried, " f>o Cubaßyrup, per gal. 6,00 BLAKELY, GrEO., MABCH 28, 18(>4. Count!) Uctos. Terms of Subscription: For 1 Year ..7,00 For 6 Months.... 3,50 No subsciptionß received for le&s than six months, and payment always required in ad vance. Rates of Advertising; 1 Square, (becupying the space of ten Bour geois lines,*or less,) each insertion...s2,oo CONSCRIPTED; Oh weep not, conscript, weep not, Old Jell'has called for theo, A soldier Congress,mak«a you, A soldier you must be. Make up your mind To stand in line, And quake not at the Yanks, To shoot your gun And call it fun. And for life return your thanks. CHORUS. Then weep not, conscript, weep not, Old Jeff has called for theo, A soldier Congress makes you, A soldier you must be. O weep not, conscript, weep not, If rations should be scarce, ’Tis said an empty stiimic Will make you doubly fierce. Then eat your crust. Your bav’net thrust Through every Yankee heart, And if unhurt, Y'our gal will sit At home and call you smart. CHORUS, O weep not, conscript, weep not, When marching through the mud, ’Tis better far, I tell vou, Than spilling your life’s blood. Then march along And sing this song, And cuss the Yanks now and then, And when vou camp Just take a tramp And steal a pig or hen. CHORUS, O weep not. conscript, weep not, You’re battling for the right, Now, conscript,’ let me tell you Don’t scratch them when they bite ; • • r But jerk your shirt Oft with a flirt And catch them as they run, Then with your nail The boys assail And mash them one Ly one. CHORUS. The following is a “ palpable hit” at pro ducers who. ’‘wouldn’t acknowledge the corn: ” Some patriotic farmers in some counties of this State, Resolv’d they’d sell their produce at the Gov ernment rate; But when the people wished to buy, ’twas found out, sad to tell, That these “ patriotic farmers” hadn't any thing to sell! A Mr. Shott and a Mr. Willing fought a duel, in which both were wounded. This circumstance gave rise to the following lines: Shott and Willing did engage, In duel fierce and hot; Shott shot Willing, willingly, And Willing he shot Shott. Tho shot Shott shot made Willing quite A spectacle to sco, While Willing’s willing shot went right Through Shott’s anatomy. " » ♦ The following is a late National Motto of the Southern Confederacy : Conscript all, and then we’ll go it, Whip the Yankees ’fore they know it ; Live on wind and fight barefooted, ’Till our rights are not disputed. A young lady who would “die if she v/alked a mile in the woods,” will trav el in a waltz or ecottische a dozen miles every night, without uttering a sigh, and without any other support than a coat sleeve. “ Little boys should be seen and not heard,” as young Precocity coolly re marked to his teacher when he could n’t say his lesson. A man may be ever so poor, he may be ever so unfortunate, but he need never be hard up for candles so long as he makes light ,of his sufferings. ♦ What vegetable medicine would you give your sick dog ? Dog would bark. ♦ ■■ Why is a scoundrel like meal ? Be cause when you sift him, you find him out. A visit to Talbotton, Ga. Iq the summer of 185—, I had occasion to visit the beautiful little town of Talbot ton, Georgia, which was at that time no ted far any profession a man might choose to embark in, and for tine schools, espe cially. On my way to the little village, I overtook a couple of young men, who, from appearance, seemed to be genth k men, and wheu I rode up by the side of them I . said': “ Good morning, gentlemen. Will you be go kind as to show me the Courthouse when we get to town ? ” “ v i ciu I ” says one, “ do you want us to teH you all we know ? ” “Well,’J» says I, “gentlemen, T don’t think it would take you long to do that.” Well,” says the other, we are on our way to Talbotton, to go to school, and we don’t want to be troubled with you or your nonsense; so you had better ride be hind or we we ll draw a across your breast.” “ Well,” says I, “ gentlemen, talking’s talking, and doing’s doing; and do you think yea can do it.” They found out they could not frigthen me off the track. Then they tried to out ride me, but they could not do that, for my old horse could go seventeen miles in eigh teen days, any time. We all got into town about tho same timo, only I was about half a mile behind ; and it happened that we stopped at the same hotel. After supper was over, and a few yarns and cigars cast aside, bedtime was close at band. The landlord put us in adjoining rooms, and I heard one of them say to the other : “ Look here, Sam, we can play a trick ou that fellow that overtook us to-day.” “ Agreed,” says the other. I then dropped to sleep, and slept as nat , ural a3 any fellow you ever saw ; and when 1 awoke next morniug, I went down to the fitable, and what do you think they had done to my poor horse ? I)ad 4rat ” my skin, if they hadn’t cut my poor horse’s jaws up about fourteen inches on each side, lie looked like lie was laughing all the *" time.” I *'! took a second ttrougm, jerked out my bowie-knife, walked up to their horses, and cut each one’s tail short off up to tho backbone; “ dad drat ” if I didn't. 1 wept back to the hotel, jumped up and cracked my heels together two or three times, and one of them says : “ Why, my friend, what puts you in such a good humor this morning ? ” “Well,” says I, “inert, I don’t know, but if you will just walk down to the stable and sec, you will find that my poor horso has hursted his mouth wide open laughing at your two horse’s tails being out off.” I had them good, for they had to ■whole sale them, because they couldn’t re-tail them. - : Rumor in the Pulpit. Old Bishop Aylmer, seeing his cortgre gation pretty generally asleep, took his He brew Bible from his pocket and read a chapter, which roused attention,' when tbc old minister sharply rebuked them for sleeping when they might have understood him, and listening when they knew not a word he said. Os the witty Dr. South it is said that, preaching before King Oharles, he saw that potentate asleep : he stopped short, and in a loud and altered tone of voice, three times called out, “ Lord Lauder-* dale.” Ilis Lordship stood up and looked at the preacher, who addressed him with great composure: “My Lord, lam sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg of you not to snore so joud, lest you should wake the King.” Andrew Fuller, one Sunday afternoon, saw the people, duriqg the singing of the hymn before the sermon, composing them selves for a comfortable nap, and taking the Bible he hit it against the.side of the Eulpit, making a great noise. Attention eiog excited, he said, “ I anl often afraid that I preach you to sleep, but it can’t be my fault to-day, for you are asleep before 1 begun.” 1 l—4- A correspondent tells of a soldier wound ed by a shell from Fort Wagner. He was going to the rear with a mutilated arm. “Wounded by a shell?” he was asked. “ Yes,” he coolly answered, “ I was right under the darned thing when the bottom dropped out.” ♦ Why is the equestrian statue of Jackson like flour ? Because it was made by Mills. Why is Richmond like a hunter’s horn ? Because it has a Winder. Wit and Humor. The man who cpurted an investi gation, says, it isn’t halt' as good as courting an affectionate girl. There is a firm in Elgin, Illinois, known as “Gray hunt.'* Halt' their letters come directed “ Lay & Grunt.” A cool stretch of imagination: writ ing adiscriptiou of a snow-storm in the dog-days. ■ A slanderer,,of the softer sex, under takes to prove that. Satan was a wo> man, whose na&ie was Lucy Fir. Punch says women first resorted to, tight lacing to prove to men how wcli they could bear squeezing. “Mussa,” said Sambo, “one of your oxen is dead: ’toder too. ’Fraid to tell you hod’ at once, for fear von couldn’t bore it.” A woman offering to sign a deed* the Judge asked her if her husband had compelled her to sign it. “He compel!” said the lady: “No, not twenty like him ! ” , A dealer in ready-made linen, adver tises his shirts and chemises under the mellifluous appellation of “ Male and Female Envelopes ! ” A lady was lately arrested in Cifl-% cinnati for beating her husband with a bunch of candles. What a act. The best capital for a young man is a young wife- It is at least a sort of capital that is productive. Hans, who is a judge of morals as of currency, says that being tender to another man’s wife is not in any way a legal tender! That i\\ay be 4 point for the lawyers. Happinesses a perfuipe that one cannot shed on another without a few drops falling on one’s se^f. Why is a drunkard hesitating to sign the pledge like a skeptical Hin» doo ? Because he doubts whether to give up worship of Jug^or-not. The frost went to a flower to mar ry, and said (o the flower, “ Wilt thou,” and the flower wilted. “ The cat has got 4 cold,” said a friend to Jones, pointing to a domestic favorite. “ Yes,” Jones replied, “ the poor thing is subject to cat-errah.” A new member rose to make his speech, and in his embarrassment, be gan to scratch his head. “ Well, re*, ally,” exclaimed Sheridan, “he has got something in his head after all.” Thp fashion of affixing “ no cards ” to marriage notices, is followed by placing “ no carriages ” alter deaths. We would suggest the words, “no wonder ! ” after births. What county in Virginia is like most young people ? Greene. Why is the water in James river like a foolish person’s tongue ? Be cause it is always running. Why is Camp Lee like an air pump ? Because it has a Receiver, - - - ♦ ♦ ♦ • A Wager. Two young men from the “land of Pad dies,” one of whom possesed a tolerable ed-* ucation, were one day speaking abogt bad writing.* Teddy thought that he could read any writing that he ever saw. “ Faith, an’ I’ll bet you a horse that 1 can write so that you can’t read it,” said Pat. Teddy g;avc him pen and paper find tol\i him to write. “ An’ what shall I write ? ” asked Pat rick. “ Oh, anything you wish,” answered Teddy. “ Shure an’ I wish ye’d tell me what to write,” insisted Pat, scratching his head. “ Well,” says Teddy, seeing old Tiger walking before the door, “s’posin’ ye write, “ The dog is walking in the yard ; ” and I’ll give ye a horse if I can’t read it.” « Pone ! But I don’t know whether its meself that can spell it right at all, at all;” apd Teddy spelled word after word while Pat wrote. When done, Pat, with a triumphant flourish, handed him the paper, saying, « Now, if ye read that, the pony’s yours, for shure.”. Teddy took the paper and read it right • off, much to the surprise of Patrick, who then acknowledged that the bet was fairly won. ISTO. 28.