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E. H. GROUBY,
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WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 80, 1864. "
I will preach (D. V.) at Bush Arbcr on
Saturday, April Oth, at II o’clock, a. m.,
and again on Sabbitth, the 10th, at 3, p. m.
T. H. Stout.
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Early Superior Court convenes in this
place- next Monday.
Our Inferior Court mqt yesterday to
take into consideration the pay of Soldiers’
families. We do not know what they did.
Report says that there is one case of
Small Fox irx one of the Hospitals hi Fort
Gaines. Wc hope the report may prove
to be untrue.
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Them Court House steps have not yet
been put in order, if our Inferior Court
will only have these steps lixed, it’ll be our
“ treat! ”
During the past week we have had a
good deal of cold, rniuy and wet weather,
and having a “ sloshy ” time cj' it gener
ally.
A Richmond letter writer says that it is
rumored in that city that Gen. John 11.
Morgan has resigned ou account of a mis*
understanding with the authorities. The
General, with his family, was. in Richmond
last week.
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Attention is culled to the advertisement
of Capt. George Chase. It. would be well
enough for some of our eiiiaens to report
the names and many daring exploits of
some of the 13th and 51st Georgia Regi
ments to ('apt. Chase.
The fruit in this section is no doubt
“ laid in the shade ” by the recont frost*
and cold weather, and lienee wc will again
have a “ short crop ” of peaches, Ac., as
was the case last year. IV c loarn that the
fruit crop was in a very forward state when
the late rain, frost and freeze ciiuie upon it.
It is said that tho Yankees still insist
that Col. (Richmond raid) Dalilgren is
alive and jn their lines. Shouldn’t be sur
prised if the Devil was of a very different
opinion ! Wo hope he has gone to At
lanta. where the “ Devil’s Hcad-Quartcr3 ,;
ahe now located !
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The Macon Confederate hopes that hold
ers of Confederate money after the first of
April, above denominations of five
will not forget that all paper mills are pay
ing a good price for “ old rags,” and that
every editor is nmv a syrt of “ rag deposi
tory ” for the mills.
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Tho New York Herald announces that
arrangements have been made by.whiah
regular exchange of prisoners will be made
hereafter. The Lincoln Government has
receded front its determination to force.
Roast Butler on our Government as the
only agent of exchange, and has delegated
that authority to Major Mulford.
In consequence of tho recent very cold
“ snap,” the gardening prospects are con
siderably “ set back ” in this part of tho
country, and all will have to content them
selves yet nwhile by eating “meat aud
bread.” We arc truly ‘sorry that this is
the case, for we are very fond of something
“ green aud fresh ” occasionally..
W hat a blessing is a woman to a mer
chant. I\ ithout her there would be uo
use for calico.— Macon Confederate.
Site is also a blessing to printers, says
an exchange—without her there would bo
no use for the “ press” and publishers, for
without her there could be no “ secoud
editiou.”
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Me see it stated that tho Secretary of
the I reasury directs that all notes funded
shall bo “ cancelled by an ordinary' bank
er s cancelling hammer, but not too much
mutilated to prevent examination.” So all
the money that is now being funded into i
the Depositories are to be destroyed, and
that will be the “closing out”, of the old ,
currency,
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The next session of the Georgia Baptist i
Convention will be held in Atlanta, com
mencing ou Friday, April 22,1864. The
Committee of Arrangements are Rev. W.
T. Brantly, J. O. McDaniel, S. Root, Ed
ward White and S. P. Richards. These
gentlemen request all delegates and corres
pondents, who design beiog present, to give
them immediate notice of their intention
by mail. Places of entertainment will then
be provided for them, of which they will
receive due notice, and to which they can
repair immediately on their arrival m the
city.'
We learn, from Serg’t J. D. McCul
lough, of the “ Early Hussars,” who has
just returned from Andersonville, to which
place he, with other members of his com
pany, carried som#twcnty “Yankee birds,”
that there are now about 7,506 prisoners
at that place, and that thoy are dying up
(“ denen ,” we suppose,) at the rate of fif
teen a day. We hope the last one of the
trifling scoundrels will die before they get
back to Yuukeedom. We have about 400
' Soldiers at Andersouvillc to guard tfeese
l'ankec hirelings.
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The note bureau at Richmond • is' now
issuing do other notes than those of the
denomination of five doilars, and these to
an amount that will but little exceed half
a million per day. None of the smaller
notes, ones and twos, are now being signed,
but an immense amount of the fifty cent
change notes uro now in course es preps,
ratiou, and will soon bo issued, a timely
measure, whieft will have the effect of at
onqe supplying the public with change.
The Atlanta Appeal, of the 19th, says
gentlemen direct from the front report all
quiet in Nurth Georgia. Nothing of abe
ligorent character is presented by either
party. It is said to have been satisfacto
rily ascertained that reinforcements for the
Yankee army have arrived at twp or three
points on the /Tennessee. Grant is un
doubtedly making use of bis power to con
centrate what he thinks an overwhelming
force.
To-morrow ends the game of funding I
Confederate money under the recent act of
Congress. . All those who huvo funded
more than enough to pay their taxes, will
find that they havo “laid on the shelf”
their money for twenty years, and perhaps
for ever. If the Yankees do not whip us,
our Congresses will, by just such fool acts .. ;
as this funding bill. If you don’t believe ' j
us, just wait and see. Time will tell the
woeful tale.
“Tp Mobile or Hell ” was the pious
motto which adorned the hats of Sherman’s
Soldiers lately. None of the Yankees got
to Mobile, but muuy safely ar£pd at the
latter place.
“Ah, Tam! Ah, Tam! thoul’tget thy farm.
In hell they'll roast thee like a herriug!”
Said Burns. Tam will feel con-tam-in
ated in such company as Sherman’s ruffi
ans.
The coupons overdue on Confederate
bonds will be paid in the old currency, and
thus be subject to the tax of 33£ percent.
We may add that this rule will apply to all
claims upon the Treasury due prior to the
Ist of April, and those who are holding
back Treasury drafts and other evidences
of Government indebtedness, in the expec
tation of getting the new currency for them,
will be disappointed.
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The following is the official vote cast for
Lieutenant Colonel and Major for this Mil
itary District, in Early, Calhoun and Ba-*
ker counties, on Saturday, 19th inst.:
FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL:
C. M. Davis. 82
J, C. Bethea ~..65
J. J. Davis 42
D. S. Johnston (no candidate)... 8
FOR MAJOR :
11. A. Hayes 102
It. J). Murrell 51
B, F. Hudspeth 42
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What has become of the Soldiers’ Aid
Society of Early county ? Wo havn’t
i heard anything of it lately. We hope our •
noble ladies have not concluded to cease
their efforts to assist our brave Soldiers.
The ladies of Early county have done no-’
bly since the commencement of the war,
and we hone thev will cuntinue to do as
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i thoy have done heretofore.
Wc have on hand n small lot of Laud
, Deeds, which we will sell at apicco.
Some things are very strange to us, mid
other things are stranger still. In the first
place it is strange to us that poor men arc
hardly ever respected, no matter how hott
est or upright they are, while rich men, no
matter how low or degraded, are almost
invariably respected, even if they are known
to be mean and trifling scamps'. We do
not mean, a3 a matter of course, that all
rich meu are rascals, —for such is not the
case, —but we mean that there are as many
or more honest poor men than there are
rich' ones, frourthe fact that in many cases
a rich man takes advantage of his property
to do little mean things merely because he
is worth a large estate, and therefore thinks
that anything he may do will never be no
ticed, while, at the same time, if a poor '
man should be guilty of a like offence, ho
would not be countenanced. In the next
place it is strange tft us that the Govern
ment allows its officers to conscript poor
men who have the appearance of dead men,
while they turn loose rich ones who aro
young, hale and hearty. We have seen
men taken by conscript who werg
totally unfit for duty, and were sent to en
cumber the hospitals, merely, we suppose?,
because they were poor. Wc have, too,
heard some men say that poor men ought
.to go to the army, and rich ones be allow
ed to stay at home to make provisions for
the army and Soldiers families. . Just such
chaps as these, together with the Surgeons
who receive a poor man who is unlit for
military duty, ought to be put in the front
ranks. ‘They would then probably seethe .
effect of conscribiug u living dead men/ 1
because they are poor, and excusing rich
fellows at the same time who can stand in
a half bushel and shoulder live bushels of
wheat on a dead levels
Some how or other we cannot help think
ing this is the last year of the war. At
least it can do no harm to hope so. Evi
dently, North and South; the most thorough
j preparation is making for the spring cam
paign. The recent raid on Richmond has
discovered plainly that in the plans of the
North there is no mingling of mercy, nor
the fyntest glimmer of manly honor or
chivalrous generosity. Deliberately to plan
to sack a city, which it is deliberately plan
ned to steal upon in the night—deliberate
ly to plan lor rape and murder, and mark
the victims dow.n by name, is hellish aud
inhuman, and it is against a people whose
leaders are degraded to this deep infamy,
j and whose journals teil of these things jn
j cold blood, and with words of approval §n
courago them. In this state of things we
find, wo think, reason to "hope for the speedy
close of the war. Our enemies cannot be
come more desperate thau they are; they
•cannot'make themselves more infamous;
not Butler, even, can do any cruel mean
ness that would more fully nerve our noble
soldiery to strike with courage and with
power for home and altar than the desola
tion and burning that have marked the
track of Sherman and the intended outrages
so happily frustrated at Richmond. The
old proverb says “ when thipgs get to the
worst they will mend.” That point must
be nearly reached. As somebody has said,
* ' “ We must fight it out, and fight it out
now.” Let us determine to brake it the
last year of the war —those in the field by
glorious dueds, and those who remain at'
home by any and every sacrifice required.
The crisis demands txtraoidinary ener
gy in all those who are charged with public
trusts, and are determined to do their duty
well. The old routine fogyism of “ office
hours ” is now very much out of place,
aud ought to be out of fashion. Our poor
disabled Soldiers are frequently delayed
for want of transportation, passports, &e.,
because it does not suit the convenience of
.some whose business it is to provide them.
Others, however, are always at their posts,
and ready and gratified to help the Soldier
on his way. Rut we have now entirely too
many little jackass up-starts filling posi
tions in our government. We know some
chaps in transportation and passport offices
who will not give a Soldier a civil answer
to any question that may be asked them.
Such larks should be turned out of their
“ easy places,” put in tho ranks, and their
births given to some worthy disabled Sol
dier. If it was understood that this would
be done in every instance where a htt’e
i up-start of a fellow' showed too much au
thority, aud refused to treat Soldiers gen
tlemanly, many of this transportation class
I would soon if simmer down.” 1
Time and again, for the past two or three
years, have wc called the attention of the
people of Fort Gaines and Clay county to
the carelessness, drunkenness, &c., of the .
Dost Master at their county site, but, so
far, it seems to have done no good. Why
it is that the citizens of* Fort Gaines keep
such a drunken, no account puppy in office,
is. something very strange to us, when all
know very well that he does not half do
his duty. Three packages of our papers,
(dyected respectively to Columbia, Abbe
ville and Open Pond, Ala.,) of week before
last, which were dated Wednesday, 10th
of March, and which were sent from our
office to Fort Gaines.on Friday, the 18th,
eame back to the Blakely Post Offiqe on
Thursday, the 24th. Now where had these
packages been all this time ? We ask the
question, hoping that the trifling puppy
who holds forth in the Fort Gaines Prgfc
Office will answer it. This is not theTirst,
seqond, or even fiftieth time that we have
been thus treated by this Onion, Chitlin
and Pole-Cat staffer. Is not such conduct
as this ridichlous ? Is it not tbe duty of
the citizens of Clay rouuty to havo this
chap turned out of office, and a gentleman
put in his place ? Besides the blunders
above mentioned, the Fort Gaines Post
Master, Jackass High-low Won't-do-right,
scarcely ever sends-a mail to the Post Office
at this place without sending some pack
ages belonging to Fort Gaines, &c. Net
very long ago this skunk,of creation sent
three large packages of letters, plainly di
rected to Fort Gaines, down to the office
herq in Blakely. Will the citizens of Clay
county allow themselves to be imposed on
by such a lying puppy any longer? Wo
sincerely hope not.
‘The recent raid on Richmond is said to
have had for its purpose the cutting off of
communication with Gen. Lee, the libera
tion of the Yankee'prisoners on Belle Tel-’,
aud in the Libby Prison and Castle Thun
der, the capture of the Confederate author
ities, and the burning and sacking of a city
crowded with women and children. Ilsd
the devils succeeded, tho fiends in perdi
tion would have blushed at tho excessive
cruelty aud crime which would have follow
ed. It is usual to drum up volunteers from
the ranks of an army for such daring ex
peditions, and it is fair to say that men who
.would volunteer under such orders deserve
the punishment of felons whenever caught.
This’ raid seems to have been carefully
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plotted, and generally understood at tho
North. The men were all picked, we are
told, and we infer from it that thete were
along no Dutchmen strapped in the saddle
■ to keep them from tumbling off their liurses.
But what uid they gainl They evidently
got badly worsted, and if they come outfit'
all their raids as they did this, they better
not try it again. They lost about six hun
dred of their men, aud got one of their
boldest leaders killed.
The late (and we hope the last that will
ever meet in Georgia until after the war)
Legislature took some action in reference?
to the providing of facilities for the pay
ment of the State Taxes. No currency is
to be received in payment of such taxes
except Confederate Treasury Notes of th«
. new issue, or State Trea: ury Notes. The
State Treasury is authorized to isßue notes,
redeemable in December next in Confed
erate notes of the new issue, which are re
ceivable in payment of taxes, and which
arc required to be presented for redemp
tion within three months after the time
when they fall due. The old issue of Con
federate notes will Dot he received, even at
a reduction of 33 1 cents. Provision of
some kind was made for tho funding of the
Confederate Treasury Notes now held by
the State.
The Milledgeville Union says that both
Houses of the Legislature passed resolu
tions on the subject of tbc Militia of the
State called for by the late act of Congress.
They are in substance as follows : Declines
to express an opinion as to the wisdom of
the act of Congress. Requests the Gover
nor to interpose no obstacle to the carrying
out of the act of Congress. Requests the
Governor to correspond with tho Secretary
of W ar, requesting that officer not to en
force the penalties against those who have
failed to comply with that portion of- the
act that requires tho Militia to report, for
enrollment, supposing they had been eu-»
rolled under the State law.
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Remember, that we still waut Rags.