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Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
3 LAKELY:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 18G4.
President Davis has set apart Friday,
the Bth day of April next, as a day of
Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.
A child has been horn armless 'and leg
less of western parents. It lives, and is
in a thriving Condition. We don’t suppose
there will be,any danger of this chap ever
beiDg conscripted !
We are indebted to Mrs. Dr. King for
a bottle of line home-made Wine. . It was
a No. 1 article. This is the reason that
we havn’t, been able to write tmy more ed
itorial this week.!
We think the citizen# of Clay'county
would do the traveling public a great favor
if they would work on their part of the
road leading from Fort Caines to George
town. Part of this road is in a miserably
bad condition, and a few spots of it are im
passable.
• We are requested to state that A. 15.
Seals, C'apt. & A. Q. M., Fort Gaines, Ga.,
has a large lot of Sheeting to exchange for
Wool. This is a good chance for those
who have any spare wool to exchange the
same for an article that is needed in every
household. Go quick, or you lose a chance.
We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Capt. R. K. Hines,
to be found in another column. By the
way, where does Capt. Hines find the law
for such an order as this ? (Jfr does he
suppose an order emanating from such high
authority will be obeyed, however unrea
sonable ?
♦
Borne twenty or thirty Yankee prisoners,
white and black, who were captured in the
recent engagement in Florida, we under
stand arrived in Fort Gaines last Sunday,
on their way to Audersonville, Ga. They
are said to be a hard-favored set of Jews,
thieves, dogs and puppies. • We did nut re
main over to sec them.
The Atlanta Appeal complains at tho
butchers of that city because they have put
up the price of beef to six dollars a pound.
We tliiuk that is cheap, for we are certain
that one pound of such beef as we cat in
Atlanta some two months ago would last
one person a month ! It is so tough that
a fellow would wear out half a dozen good
set of teeth to clrcw up one pound of the
Btuff!
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We are truly sorry to see that our friend
“ Tobc Donkey ” only received two votes
for Lieutenant Colonel. Surely our peo
ple dou’t know what they are doing for
themselves! No doubt tho gentlemau
elected will make a very good officer, but
“ Tobe ” should at least have received a
resym table vote, if nothing more—but
such was not the case. But dou't be dis>i
couraged, Mr. “ Donkey,” but go ahead,
and run again, and after while you will
come in‘“ first best! ”
If the Editor should ever have to go to
jail in this county, helms no fears that the
present old wreck would hold him long !
All tho Grand Juries that have set in this
county for the past four years have called
the attention of the authorities to tho con
dition of our jail, yet it has not been put
in order. What is the use of having coun
ty officers if they do not do their duty ?
We do not know whose duty it is to attend
to this business, but we know that it is
somebody’s, and that “ somebody ” should
attend to it, and the sooner it is doue the
better,
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We are very sorry to inform tho Editor
of the Early County News that there is-no
possible method by which his “breath
could be made less offensive.”
Eatonton Countryman.
We consider the above a rather poor
way of getting out of a “ bad breath ,” Bro.
Countryman. You must have lately been
kicked by a Jack-ass! Wonder if that old
“ tooth-brush ” hasn’t takeu another change
■ to your lower extremities ! You had better
stuff oue of your old wool hats in your
mouth, iu order to perfume your breath !
We paid a visit to Eufaula, Ala., last
week, for the purpose of. funding a lot of ’
“ Confed ” for ourself and frieuds. We
are glad to say that we suoceeded in get
ting receipts for all we carried, and that we
did not fund beforo tho Bank was open, as
we learn somebody from Clay county did.
The chap We speak of funded about three
thousand dollars somewhere else than at
the Bank, and failed to receive a receipt
for the same. Wonder if he bet at the
“ Tiger ! ” —or some “ good old llye ' ”
Eufaula has hbout “gone up a-spout”
since the war, and is now nothing like the
place it was some six or seven years ago
when we were working for our friend John
Black, of the Eufaula Spirit. Mr. Black
is still going ahead with his Spirit, and is .
publishing as good a paper as ever. There
are still a few stores open in Eufaula, soma
of which have about a shirt-tail full of one
stuff or other, but if a fellow gets any of .
the rags the merchants have for sale, they
have to “pay for the whistle.” Prices in
Eufaula will compare with any place this
side of Atlanta. Tho way some of them
charge would almost make the Devil blush
for shame! If the “Old Boy” dou’t get
tho most of the inhabitants of this South
ern Confederacy, it won’t be because'he
isn’t entitled to them.
We stopped one of the I/og-tels in
this place, where they fed us on beef and
battcr-cakes, and batter-cakes and beef, for
which they charged us at the rates of 810
a mesl—that is, we paid 85 each time we
went to the table, and just got half enough,
which, of course, is 810 a meal. Horse
feed is only 84 a feed in this place.
Unless we can make a “ raise,” we don’t
intend to take another trip shortly, for our
“ surplus ” cash is now about out.
Some of aur exchanges are complaining
because officers iu the army arc not now
allowed to purchase provisions, &c., from
Commissaries, for their servants, and think
it hard that .the said officers will hereafter
have to cook their own “ mush,” and feed
their own horses, in consequence of not be
ing able to purchase food for servants aud
extra horses. Wc think-this is perfectly
- right? for we can see no good reason why
officers cannot cook and feed horses as well
as the privates. Are officers any better
than privates? If they are we have never
yet been able to learn why it is. We know
many officers in the army who arc the in
feriors of many of the privates, and why it
is that such officers should be waited on,
we conjecture. Thousands of the
officers in the army get drunk nightly, and
nothing is said about itbut just let a pri- .
vatc take a “ little too much tea,” aijd the
devil is to. pay. Privates are more re
spected by us, Us a general thing, than offi
cers, because they do all the fighting and
work, while the officers arc cither at home
“ skulking,” or lying in their tents druuk.
The following is the vote cast for Mili
tia Officers in this county on last Saturday :
FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL:
C. M. Davis 44
J. 0. Bethea 43
Tqbo Donkey , U
for. major:
11. A. Hayes 53
U. I>. Murrell 31
Up to this writing we have uot receiv
ed the vote from Calhouu and Baker coun
ties, but from what we are able to learn
from rumor , we suppose that C- 31. Davis
and R. A. llayes are elected for Lieuten
ant Colonel and 3lajor.
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’ We are indebted to our friend Patterson,
Telegraphic Operator at Fort Gaines, for
the following dispatches:
Macon, 3lar. 19, —Eight millions, five
hundred and fifty thousand dollars have
boon funded here in four per cents up to
last night.'
Richmond, 3lar. 19.—New York pa
pers of the 14th contain nothing of impor
tance. Gov. Bramlctte, of'Ey., opposes
the enrollment of slaves in that State, and
has notified Lincoln- that he will execute
the laws of Kentucky against all who at
tempt to take slaves from their owners with
out their consent. Gen. Grant will return
to Washington in the course of two or
three weeks. Gold IGO.
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The Savannah Republican contains a
report of a battle at Jacksonville, Fla., on
the 13th, iu which our foraes were said to*
have captured 2,000 prisoners. The Neies
contradicts tho story and says it is sen
sational. No such report has reached the
office in this city, says the Confederate. ,
Are we on rising Ground?
Tlio vaticinations of our wise men in
the Camp, the Cabinet, the Council, the
Press, as to the duration of the War, and
the prospects of our final success, have
been so unpropitious, indeed, so fallacious,
that we venture very timidly on such un
stable, and hitherto unprofitable,
says the Milledgeville Union. But, be
cause a man is mistaken once, is no good
reason why he should err again in the self
same wjy. Indeed, the errors of the past
serve as beacons to guide us aright when
we come to repeat our journeyings over a
beaten path. We have watched as close
ly and hoped as fervently, as any of' our
unhappy-people, for the coming of the end .
—the end of this unuatural, unnecessary,
unprovoked aud inhuman War. We have
never, we trust and believe, betrayed our
readers into the fatal slough of overween
ing confidence. We* have endeavored to
put the case fairly and plainly before them,
aud, on this account, have rendered our
selves liable to the charge of fear and des
pondency. But we think the day is break
ing. We tliiuk we see streaks of light on
the Northern and Southern, aye, on the
Eastern and Western, horizon ! betokening
the coming of the long-delayed, but never
ceased-to-be-prayed-for, Sun of Peace.
. The long winter just over, afforded our
enemy a season for military preparations,
which was undisturbed by any conflicting
movement on our part. On the land and
on the Sea; in their large inland cities,
and in their spacious and quiet harbors,
the enemy have been busy all the Wiuter
preparing for the great aggressive move
ments of the coming spring. They are not
an idle people as wc all know, when the
acquisition of wealth is the propelling pow
er. They had many reasons to work hard
er than ever before, to put in order the
vast machinefy of War, because they well
knew that success in the spring of 1.86-1
was esseutial to their very existence as a
Nation. The Presidential election this
year, and the steady progress of their Gov
ernment to financial ruin, admonished them
that they could not afford to be unsuccess
ful, cost what it might. We all know
what they have been doing since the cam
paign of the Fall of 1863 closed. We have
been repeatedly told by their newspapers,
aud by numbers of our own people who
cmne into our lines from temporary confine
ment at the North, that the enemy’s Form
dries, workshops of all kinds, -Manufacto
ries, Enrolling offices, and Associations for
gathering up recruits, had never been so
busy or so successful as Juring the winter
just tefmimated. Tlify hurried their pre
parations to take us by surprise. Instead
of waiting for May, their armies were put
in motion, in Mississippi, in Georgia, in
Florida, in Virginia, at Charleston and
Mobile, as early as the first of February !
What did these unseasonable movements
' mean ? They ineaut, that time was pre
cious with them, aud not a day could be
lost. Abraham Lincoln’s tenure of the
Presidential chair was short and feeble ;
success in some portion of the field, must
be had, at all hazards or a new impulse
would be given to the peace party, at the
North, and to-the energies of the rivals of the
ruling despot.
"Well, the grand, triangular, secondary—
water-base, ten-thousand-voter, State or* •
ganizing movement was begun. AH* the
parts were carefully arranged. Failure
was not in the calculation : for how could
Lincoln afford to fail when life and kin"-
O
dom were at stake !
But, thanks be to God ! the great plan
for our ruin did fail—failed ignominious
ly. • Sherman’s “ bowers/’ Grierson and
Smith, got entangled in a Forrest out about
Okalona. The “ bowers ” right and left,
gave way* and Sherman turned his face
from the Bigbee to tbe Big Black. Gen.
Gillmore, sick at the sight of Sumter stand
ing sullenly, aud wearied with the inces
sant roar of cannon, only clouding Charles
ton, nothing more, turned his face to the
u laftd of Flowers.” In this expedition he
fancied he saw dark Orange groves and
bowers of evergreens, full of “ Beauty and
Booty,” opening to receive him; aud the
gentle breezes of the early spring leaping
to caress his Ethiopian comrades, whose
“ sufferings,” during the winter, from Frost
bite, chilblain, sniffels “ drufful,” and oth
& darkey diseases dire, had been intolera
ble. 110 came as proud and defiant as did
the uncircumcised giant of Gath when ho
met the shepherd boy of Israel in the valley
of Elah. ne was met by a small land
patriots, under the lead of the gallant Fin
negan and the chivalrous Colquitt, and af
ter a short but sharp conflict was drivea
back to bis entrenchments routed and de
moralised. Thus was dislocated the sec
ond joint of the great Anaconda. About
this time, Farragut, the man with no bow
els of compassion, began the attack on Mo
bile by water. He fired and failed; but
thinking the other part of the programme
would certainly come to time he kept on
firing, and may be firing yet to let Sher
man know that his “ flag was still there.”
General Thomas, who had command of the.
Federal army in Northern Georgia, about
the same time advanced on Gen. Johnston,
but encountering several bodies of troops
which he supposed had been sent to Ala
bama to relieve Gen Polk, went back the
same way he came, the gay feathers of his
towering plume torn and- draggled.
To cap the climax of failure, the Yankee
horse General, Kilpatrick advanced, by
the flank, on Richmond, modestly propos
ing to capture the obstinate city, release
the Yankee prisoners on Belle Isle, assas
sinate President Davis, and do other dark
and diabolical deeds. This grand raid al
so failed. Thus has the last coil of the
serpent unfolded, and the tail lies tremb
ling in its track.
If the reader can gather no morsels of
comfort and confidence from all these well
laid schemes, but barren enterprises, he is
rather fastidious, to say the least.
Correspondence of the News.
Camp Barrow, near Talla- )
IJASSF.E, Fla., Mar. 8, 1864. j
Dear News : Without expecting to in
terest you or your readers, I propose to
make a “ few remarks,” to let you know
something of our present whereabouts. By
way of introduction, allow me a word on
our flying passage through Blakely. Much
to our satisfaction and comfort, wc were
met there with open hearts and hands and
full baskets. We were unexpectedly there
ourselves, and of course much more so to
our friends; yefc we found them all on hand
with a table loaded, yea, heavily ladeD with
all the good things of earth, (we meau ea
tables,) of which the Colonel and his com
mand were invited to partake, and after,
having feasted to their satisfaction, to fill
their haversacks. Well, we ate, and wo
ate, and we just kept eating, knowing that
the day “draweth nigh” when such things
would be no more to us. And what cau
we say in praise of those good ladies who
manifested so much interest for us by their
presence and attention. We haveofr.cn bc
held-their faces, but never before did they
look so charming aud beautiful to us as on
that memorable day. And to hour
our minds go back to it, and try to live
over again the scenes enacted there. To
particularize might bo considered invidi
ous, when all were so generous and kind.
We must say, however, that wc got a peep
into a haversack, that we saw in the hauds
of a lady, and you may be sure that noth
ing but art and skill, aud bands moved by
the most unselfish hearts that ever beat,
could have so many good thiugs
info such little space. Being under march
ing orders, of course we could spend but
an hour or two, and like all earthly mat
ters, our pleasant meeting must end, and
the best of friends must part. By courier
our destinationwas changed to Quincy, and
on Saturday night thereafter we were en
camped near this place. And the next day
being the Sabbath, wc lay over and spent
the day in having the command- fully arm
ed and equipped, and made ready to meet
the enemy. From thence we moved, via
Tallahassee, to Camp Randolph, from which
point our company (‘‘Early Hussars”) was
ordered to this place for Provost duty in
this department. Some of the fruits of the
late victory near Lake City are to be seen
here in the way of Yankee prisoners, white
and black. If your correspondent “ Geor
gian ” will oniy come down here and view
these negro prisoners, who were engaged
with the vile Yankees in murdering hi*
fellow-countrymen, and laying waste hia
native land* he will find an answer to hia
argument, and the reasou why his services
have been demanded by the Government.
And why is it that some people are so loth
to render obedience to the powers that be ?
Certainly there should be at this time but
one idea among the whole people, and that
should be to whip the fight. Os one thing
lam very sure—it is impossible for Jeff.