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Early County News.
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SING A BONG OB
A FEd/rM NUR6KRY RHYME.
* Bing r song of greenbacks*,
A pocket full of traah, a
Over head and ears in debt,
And out of ready cash;;*
Heaps of tax collectors,
t B usy as a bee;
Aint we in a pretty fix,
With gold at sixty three.
Abe in t*»<i White House
Proclamations printing;
ideado on the Rapidan
Afraid to do the fighting ;
Seward in the Cabinet
Surrounded by his spies >
Ilalleck with the telegraph ■
Busy forging lies;
Chase in the Treasury
Making worfhless notes ; ■
Curtin at Harrisburg
Making shoddy coats;
Gilmore at Charleston
Lost in a fog ;
Forney under Abe’s chair •
Barking like a dog;
* Sehenek down at Baltimore
Doing dirty work ; .
Butler at Norfolk
Savage as a Turk ;
‘ Sp rague in Rhode Island
Eating apple sase;
Kverett at Gettysburg
Talking like an ass ;
Banks cut in Texas
Trying to cut a figure ;
Beecher in Brooklyn
Howling tor the nigger ;
Lots of Abolitionists
Kicking up r. yell;
In comes Parson Brownlow
And sends all to hell;
Burnside at Knoxville
In a kind of fix ;
Dahlgren at Sumter .
Pounding at the bricks ;
Grant at Chattanooga
Trying Bragg to thrash ;
Is it any wonder
The’ Union’s gono to smash ?
• * New York Neics.
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Answers to Inquiries from Soldiers.
• “ ( lan persons between 37 and 13,
and 45 mid 50, volunteer-in'any com
pany now in service, iu accordance
with paragraph IV, General Orders
No. 22?”. .
We arc authorized to say they can;
those under 18 first obtaining the con
sent ol their parents.
“ Can you inform me whether the
* Knsign bill received the approval of
the President ?.”
It did; and it is a law of th*e land.
As it is very brief, we give an official
copy :
e The Congress of the Confederate
States of Americadoenact, That there
shall be appointed by the President to
each regiment of infantry in the army
of the Confederate States, an officer to
be known as ensign, with the rank,
pay and allowances of a First Lieutes
aht, whose duty it shall be to bear the
oolor3 of the regiment, but without .
right to command in the field.”
Richmond Sentinel.
In speaking of Confederate prison*,
ers, the N. Y. Herald says: “A3 a gen
eral rulo the prisoners seem happy and
contented. There are' few, if any,
that would subscribe the President’s
amnesty. Two only have done so,
and these have been sent away.
On the contrary they are exceedingly
.obstinate in their adherence to the bo
gus Confederacy, and no sentiment of
a contrary nature is permitted among
them. The two mentioned as sub*
scribing allegiance to the Federal Gov
ernment had a narrow escape from as
sassination at the hands of their fellow*
prisoners, rendering their removal nec
essary. Stories have been set afloat of
a large and growing Union sentiment
among th’em, which aro simply absurd
and groundless.” i
BLAKELY, GEO., MAIICII 30, 1864.
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Live Innocently, if you would Live
Happily.
When I was about teri years old,
and *my brother eight, we were com
ing from school, - the snow was melting
under a‘warm March sun, and I felt
an irrepressible desire, to enter the
list with some one for snow balling. .
We were away fron*our schoolmates ;
and making a very hard ball, I threw
it with all my might at my brother.
It struck him with great violence in
the side, and to this moment I seem
to see' him writhing from the pain it
gave him,.and hoar the bitter cry oc*
casioned by my cruel deed. In my
sport r had sadly hurt that dear broth
er whom I ought to have loved and
protected. A passing traveler frowned
upon me for qiy cruelty, and I knew
that tiie piercing eye of God was upon*
me. That dear brother made no coni*
plaint of me to our parents; and neith
er to them nor to ray heavenly Fath*
er would my proud heart allow me to
make confession. Why did I not do
it ? I knew I had done wrong; why
not confess inv fault to God, and re*
ceive the peace and joy of forgiven
sin ?
When another winter came, my lit
tle brother could not join me in our
accustomed sports, he had such a weak
ness in his back. As the flowers of
May appeared, grew more pallid ; •
he languished through the summer and
autumn ; and in the darkness of a De>
cember night, we were summoned to
see*him die. A. father’s ear caught
tfie last faint whisper from his lips,
“ Tell my brothers that they must
pray.”
Now I wear the silver hair of age ;
but as often as I visit the of
my little brother’s grave, this heart
•yearns with tenderest grief, my tears
unbidden flow, in sad remembrance
of that oee unkind, unfeeling act that
caused his cry of distress, and that
may have been the mefins of his early
death.
. A certain young man, whom we
siuill call Smith, was employed at an
office on the National Telegraph Line.
In the course of "business he ascertain
ed that the person having charge of a
station in a small town some seventy
miles distant \vas a young lady, and
that her name was Sarah. Forthwith*
in an interval of. leisure, flashed’over
the wires this message : *
.“My name is Smith. : How old are
r. |h J
you f
To which the answer was promptly
returned :
“My name is Sarah. None of your
business! ”
The next one runs thus :
“ I am not married. you
worth ?
To which the words came back : •
“ Worth a million.”
As a climax the. youth replied :
“ Will you marry me ?
The answer was “Yes”—and in
. four* months they we married.
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A Hibernian being recently on trial
for some offence, pleaded “Not guilty,”
and the jury being in the box, the State
Solicitor .proceeded to call Mr. Fui>
kisson as a witness. With the utmost
innocence, Patrick turner! his face to
the Court and said : •
“ Do I understand, yer Honor, that
. Mr. Furkisson is to be a witness fom
ent me again ? ”
The Judge said dryly, “ It se.ems
so.”
“Well/thin, yer Honor, I plade
“ guilty; ” sure an yer honor plase,
not because lam guilty, for I’m as in
nocent as yer Honor’s suckling babe,
but just on account of saving Misther
Furkisson’s sowl.”
An individual was arrested the oth
er day while, endeavoring to pick a
gentleman’s pocket. He said he was
not used to tha business, and was just
trying to “ get his hand in.”
Mrs. Partington says there must bo
a great rpany children killed on. our
battle-fields, as these are always so ma*
ny small arms fouqd after a fight. ]
Funding the Currency.
Annexed give asynopsis.of the Fuud
iug Bill:
• The one hundred dollar non-interest
bearing uotes are receivable for public dues
. before April 1, 1864, at par ; from and af
ter April 1, i 864, not receivable at all,
but • •
Fuudable in 4 per cent, bonds -before
April 1, 1864, at par:
Fundable iu 4 per cent..bonds from first
to last day of April, exclusive, at 663.
Fundable in 4 per ceut. bomb from first
to last day of May, exclusive, at 565.
Fundable iu 4 per cent, bonds from first •
" tv M-et day of Juoc, exclusive, at 46 J,
Fundable in 4 per cent, bonds from first
to last day of July, exclusive, at 86$. •
Fundable in 4 percent, bonds from first
to last ’day of August, inclusive, at 265.
Fundable in 4 per cent, bonds from first
to last day of September, inclasivi, at 10$.
Fundable in 4 per cent, bonds from first
to last day of October, inclusive) at 6s. • 1
All nod-interest bearing SIOO notes held
on the the Ist of January, 1865, are taxed
i - ,100 per cent, thus destroying eVfery vestige
of value*.
SSO, S2O and $lO notes receivable for
public dues before April 4, 1864, at par.
After that time at 665. Exchangeable
for new'Treasury notes from on and after
the Ist of April, 1864, at $3 old to $2
new, .
$5 notes receivable and fnndable at par
until* Ist July, 1864; from ivi and after
July 1, 1884, reduced in value at the rate
of $3 of old to $2 of new, and so receivable
for dues, fundable in 4 per cent, bonds;
exchangeable for new Treasury notes.
There is no reference to $2, $1 and 50
cent notes in the bill, aud it is presumed,
therefore, that they will continue to pas 3
at par.
If a 8100 note is held until the first of
January an additional tax of $lO (for De
cember) wilF attach to it and the holder,
by the imposition of a further tax of one
hundred per cent., will, besides losing the
amount promised on the face of the note,
owe the Government one hundred and four
teen and" onoAftird dollars!
The privilege of funding the five in 4
per cent, bonds commences on the first of
April, and ends the last day of June, on
this side of the Mississippi river.
The $2, sl, and half dollar notes are
not subbject to any tax under the “ Cur
rency Act,” and will, consequently, bo ex
changeable at .par, in trade, l’or tho new Is
sue of Treasury notes. For this reason
they are being hoarded, or laid by for^ fu
ture use.
The amount of Confederate small notes
in cireuJ®ion on Ist January, 1884, was
about 000,000.
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Groat Britain and Ireland..
•The census of Great Britain and
Ireland, for 1861, recently published,
shows the population of the cities and
towns, containing above 80.000,000 in
habitarrts, to be as follows :
London 2.803,989; Liverpool and
Birkenhead 395,587 ; Manchester and
Salford 360,482 ; Glasgow 394,864 ;
Birmingham 296,078; Dublin 258,328;
Leeds 207,165; Sheffield 286,172;
Findburg 163,121; Bristol 154,098;
Wolverhampton 147,670 ; Plymouth
and Davenport 147,382; Newcastle
109,108; Bradford 108,218; Cork 101,-
534; Stoke 101,207; Hull 97,661; .
Portsmouth 94,790; Oldham 93,344;
Dundee 90,417; Brighton 97,447; Sun
derland 85,797; Merthyr Tydvil 83,*
965; Preston 83,987. No country in
the world, out of Asia, contains so ma
ny large cities as the British Isles.
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Printers’ drtors are sometimes laugh
able. A young clergyman printed a
sermon, the subject of which was the
necessity of mocterate-and rational re
creation, in which occurred the pas
sage : “ Men should work and play
too.” The want of a stroke ruined it,
and the religious world was scandal
ized by reading, “Men should work
and play loo.”
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A pompous fellow made a very in
adequate offer for a valuable property,
and balling the next day for an an*
swer, inquired if the owner had enter
tained his proposition. “ No,” replied
thj other, “your proposition has en*
- tertained me.”
“ Whose son are you, rnv little
boy ?.” I ain’t nobody’s son; I’m
Mr. Thompson’s nephew, sir.”
Wit, Humor, &c.
Poverty runs strongly to fun. A man
is never so full of jokes as wheu he is .re
duced tooneshirtand twopotatoes. Wealth
is taoiturn and fretful. Stock brokers would
no sooner indulge iu a hearty laugh than
they Avould lend money on a secoud mort
gage. Nature is a great believer in compen
sations. Those to whom sho sends wealth
she saddles wish law suits and dyspepsia.
Tho poor seldom indulge in sauces, but
then they have a style of appetite that con
verts a number three mackerel into a sal
mon, anti that is quite as well.
An Ifish traveling merchant, <7 !>at aped
ler, asked an itineram poulterer the price of
a pair of fowls. '
“ Six shillings, sir.’'
“ Iu my dear country, my darling, you
mightbuy them for sixpence a piece.”
“ Why don.’t you remain in your own
dear country, theu '< ”
K ’Case we have uo six pcnces, my jewel,”
said Pat.
Iu reply to the assertion of one of the
radicals, “ That because the Rebel currency
is depreciated therefore the armed resis
tance of the Rebel must soon cease,” Mr.
Nesmith, Senator from Oregon, recently
said in tho United States SepatC:—“ With
'their present resources they have the ability
to continue the war indefinitely.”
It is said that there are only three ways
to get out of a quarrel—fight out, write out,
or back out ; but the safer mode is to keep
out. Ry the same four ways, also, a man
may get hut of the army. The soldiers fight
out, the editors write out, the substitute
buyers back out, and the members of Con
gress keep out.
A country cdilor received a remittance,
with the request to send the paper uh long
as.the money lasted. lie indulged in a bit
of a spree,-got broke, and respectfully an
nounced to his subscriber, that, according to
his own terms, iiis subscription was out.
We wonder if the countless dykes and
flood-gates in the Dutchman’s father
land ” ever suggested the idea that the peo
ple belong to the <fa?«-nation. It is an-idea,
nevertheieee, that irrigates our thoughts.
“ Parson, I beg you will not mention the
unhappy circumstance again,” as the hey--
peeked husband said when tho parson told
him that he would be joined to his wife iu
another world, never to be separated from
her.
In the examination of a witness in 511
Irish court, he asked his age: “ I’m
just twenty, your honor, but 1 would have
been twenty-one, only n|y mother miscar
ried the year before L was bora.”
Sales in Mobile and Augusta evince a
great decline ia drygoods. Pet them tum
ble, and then let extortioners fall into rank*,
remembering that the price of liberty is
eternal vigilance.”
Oowper says that “ the tear that is wiped
with address may be followed, perhaps, by
a smile.” if it was a woman’s tear, the per
haps is unnecessary ; you can always dry it
with a dress. /
Would that those whose faith in their
own virtue is lasting and firm, could metu
out to others a like portion of charity and
esteem.
• , There is a lawyer so excessively honest
that he puts all his flower pots out ovoi
night, .so determined is lie that everthing
shall have “ its dew.”
Ben. Franklin said that if ever per
petual motion was invented, it would bo by
a fool, for nobody but a fool would try it.
A very ugly friend of ours, who has a
beautiful wife, takes great consolation from
the fact that husband and wife are one.
Rings received from abox—on the
ara seldom given as pledges of lova or
friendship.
Old Abo desires to pardon Southern sol
diers, but they will never pardon him.
Precipitation ruins the best plans, pa
tience ripens the most difficult.
Hypocrites are beings of darkness, dis
guised iu garments of light.
Tt is less painful to learn in youth than
to be ignorant in age.
Practice flows from principle, for as a
man thinks so will ho act.
Those who jump at conclusions are apt to
fall upon uncertainties.
When you dispute with a f6ol he is
certain to be similarly employed.
Bustle is not industry any more than
impudence i 3 courage.
Never defend an error beciuse you once
thought it to bo the truth.
Flattery is a sort of pad money to which
our vanity gives currency. ,
You must tell some men a great deal to
learn thorn a little.
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