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Early County News. VOL. V. tiMt Cmtnfu 3Ulus. Terms of Subscription: Far 1 Year 7,00 For 6 Months...-....' 3,50 No subsciptions received for less than Six months, and payment always required in ad vance. > • Bates of Advertising: 1 Square, (occupying the space often Bour geois lines, or loss,) each insertion...s2,oo • 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. jl. 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. . « 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. . .* ♦ 1 » —i....... , 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. f » 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. — ■ --<> ■ v —■ 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.” - ■» 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. ISTO. 24.