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VOL. V.
Forms for Drawing Soldier’s
Pay.
STATS OF GEORGIA, \
County or )
BEFORE me an acting Justice of
the Peace, (or Notary Public,) in and
far said county, personally came Mrs.
who being duly sworn, says she is the moth
. 0 f 1 deceased, late a in company
,of the Georgia Volunteers. iShe fur
ther declares that her said son, -—died
on the day of , 18G-, and that he •
left neither wife, child, nor father surviving
turn.
[jworn and subscribed to before me this
day of 186—. J. P.
AJUv, «v*rßonn!ly came --- ,IT —— coun
ty and litato of Georgia, who, being duly
sworn, says that the statements in the above
affidavit he (or she) personally knows to be
true.
(Signed) ...
Sworn and subscribed to before me (his
. day of 186-.'
• , J.’P.
I, , an acting .Justice .of the' Peace
(or Notary Public) in and for *§aid county
«f — : —, do certify tbjit the above-named
witness is personally knoun 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-.
. :— _, j. p.
Kkow all Mkn’bv these Presents, That
I, Mrs. —j —, of the county of , and
State of Georgia, being the mother of ——,
deceased, who died in the seaviee of the
Confederate States on the- day of ,
186-s do make, constitute and appoint - ,
county, and State of Georgia, my true
and lawful attorney, in tact to receive and re
««ipt for all monies, goods and chatties that
naav be duo 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 ray said
attorney in the premises. *
(Signed) • ' —•
W itness :• : J. 1 .
I, —:—, Clerk of cOurt of coun
ty, State of Georgia, do certify .that ,
wliosh genuine signature appears above and
before whopi the above affidavits and power
«f attorney were made and executed, is an
acting Justice of tho Peace, (or Notary
Public) in and for the county of' State
Georgia, duly commissioned at the time
of signing tho same, and all his attestations
as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of office
%hi« day of——, one thousand, eight ■
hundred and sixty-
Clerk Court, • County, Georgia.
NOTE.—The affidavit may be made either
before a Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public, and 'the certificate of its legality
way be 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
tboye instructions' ancl forwarded to the
'War Department will be attended to.
~ ’ RAGS WANTED T *
•AT-THE / •
Early County News Office.
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THE Proprietor of the Early County News
will pay TEN CENTS per lb. for a-11
CLEAN COTI ON & LINEN RAGS
■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.
nope our friends in Clay, Calhoun , Miller
and Early Counties will each and all fconsti- .
tote themselves agents for ua for this pur
pose.
Save your rags, and save your tags,
Savoyour good-for-nothing bags:— 1 •
Bring them to this office, ‘soon,
Bring them morning, eve or raxm.
From the mountain, from the vale,
Where the lingering camp-fires pale,
Where tho morning tints the rose*
Where tho parting sunset glows,
From the East and from the West,
Bring us rags and do your best.
Bring us scraps of cotton thread,
Bring tho night-caps from your head,
Bring the shirt »pon your back,
Bring us pieces trhitS or black,
Bring us rags and bring us tags,
Bring us your good-for nothing bags—-
Anything, just So 'tie clean,
White, or black, or blue or green,
Anything that paper makes, •
Every editor now takes,
And will pay you for your rags,
And vour good-for-nothing bags,
Bring them in, and bring thsm soon,
Morning, evening, and at-noon.
Prices of Provisions in Eftrly County.
•Corn, per bushel,. >...7.'....52,50
Pork, on foot, gross weight les3 than
*2OO lbs., per lb 75-
• Pork, on foot, gross weight over 200
lbs., per lb 80
Pork, slaughtered, per lb 1,00
*' salted, “ . «•••••••••• 1,25
“ pickled, “ 1,25
Bacon, per 1b....... 1,50
Beef, on foot, gross, per
“ butchered, “ 30
“ pickled, “ »•••/• 40
" dried, “ 50
€uba Syrsp. per gal..** «i ■ ••* 6,00
BLAKELY,' GEO., A.PRI3L 6, 1864.
(Biiik Cffiuilg JMm.
Terms cf Subscription:
For 1 Year 7,00
For 6 Months 3,50
No subsciptions received for less than six
months, and payment always Required in ad
vance.
Rates of Advertising:
1 Square, (occupying the space of ten Bour
geois lines, or less,) each insertion...s2,oo
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Ars Four pep cent. Certificate! and
Bonds Transferable.
This question has been asked a thou
sand times, alfd for the information of
the public we copy from the regula
tions of the Treasury Department as
follows:
“1. All trasfers cf stocks other than
coupon bonds must be made on the
books of the Treasury in the Registers
office, and none can be made within
thirty days before the first days of Jan
-1 uary and July,
“ The certificates to be transferred,
or of which any part is to be trans
fen od, must be produced at the office
of the Register of the Treasury, in or*
der that the sartne may be cancelled
and that such new certificates may be
' issued as the case may require.”
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A Suggestion for Reflection.
We would respectfully and rever>
enfly suggest to .our readeys and pa
trons, if they will exhibit half the ea
gernes and zeal to settle their accounts
with the Almighty to-day they have
' exhibited during the past week to set
tle up their worldly accounts, that the
sun of Sunday, March 27, 1864, will
withdraw his light from as devout and
(Christian a State as ever existed in
this world of wickedness and sin.
We do not take-it upon ourselves to ,
advise our readers concerning their
spiritual affairs—we offer the above
as a suggestion simply—nothing more.
For ii we should commence talking *
religion perhaps some one might ad
vise us to read that passage of scrip -
ture which refers to plucking the beam
from one’s own eye. So we will let
the matter drop. —Augusta Chronicle.
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Among “ the wants ” in the latest
number of the London Times, which
we have seen, this one appeared :
“ Wanted a Butler.—He will some
times be required to drive and some*
times to act as footman. Must come
well recommended from his last place.”
. If the advertiser has not been suit
ed, we think the people of Norfolk
could spare the man wanted. They
can recommend him Well as accustom
ed to drive and play the part of foot
man, too—according to our unders
standing of the phrases. As it may be
an additional inducement we can as*,
•sure the advertiser (who may want a
groom as well as driver) that the But
ler in question has considerable prac
tice in the management of a Beast.
The Columbus Sun says tfiat sen
ator H. V. Johnston delivered a speech
in Louisville, Georgia, last week, the
main points of which were, that the
financial bills passed by Congress were
necessary, and urgently called for by
the country; that the Military Bill
was also, a severe measure demanded
by the emergency of the times. Com
plaint concerning its provisions came
from those who desire the avoidance
of all duty.. Good men need not fear
the suspension of the writ of Habeas
Corpus. The design of the measure
was to arrest and deal with traitors.
He paid an elegant compliment to the
ladies of the South.
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One of our exchange papers re
marks, that in a late storm at Otsego, -
New York,a shower of hen’s eggs
fell as. large as hailstones.” The
clouds that produced them must have
been feathery jn the extreme,
A rascally bachelor says, “The
friendship of two women is always a
plot against a third.”
The Militia its. Officers.
It has heen supposed that the turn
ing over of the great body of the mil
itia to-the. Confederate service, by a
resolution of the last Legislature, would
have been followed by sonqe action of
the Governor remitting the vast num
ber of officers connected with that
skeleton organization tb the same des
tiny. The Confederate Union, of
Milledgeville, however, has the follow
ing :
ENROLLMENT OF THK MILITIA.
We publish to-day a joint resolution
; of the 6enerakAssen?bly of this StatS,
.transferring the Militia between 17 &
18 and 45 and 50 *to Confederate ser>
vice.
Gov. Brown denied the right of the
. Confederate Government to take them
without the consent of the State, but
admitted the power in the legislature ,
to transfer them if they thought it Yvise
policy, and while he stated that he con
sidered it unwise to do so, on account
of ruin it would'cause to the agricul
lpral and mechanical interests of the
State, without which the armies can
not be kept in the fieild, he agreed to
abide by the decision of the General
Assembly. They thought it best to
make the transfer and did so, directing
the Governor to correspond with the .
/ Secretary of War, and ask that the
Militia So transferred shall have the
privileges which the act of Congress
allowed them if they had volunteered
before the term expired.
The • Governor immediately sent a
copy of the resolution to the Secreta
ry of War and requested him to per*>
mit the militia, so transferred, to vol
unteer and elect their own officers.
So soon as the reply of the Secretary
of War is received, the decision will
be made public.
It is proper here to remark that the
transfer of those between 17 and 56
does not disbaqd the militia organiza
tion of the State. The newly elected
militia officers will still be exempt from
conscription and will retain command
of the reserve militia between 16 and
17, and 50 and 60, together with such
exempts from Confederate service as.
are not exempt from State militia du
ty. The reserved will remain a com
plete organization for police purposes
and for the suppression of servile in
surrection or internal troubles in the'
counties of their locality.
The Military Prison near Americas.
We learn from the Macon Tele
graph, that the new military prison
for the Yankees situated on the S. W.
■ Railroad near Americus is a parrellel
agram of eighteen acres through the
centre of which runs a beautiful stream,
with gentle sloping hills on either side.
• The stockade,, which is not yet com
pleted, owing to imposssibility of pro.
cqring negro labor, of hewn pine logs,
21 feet long with six feet in the ground.
They are very closely set together, as
well as strongly set in the trenches. A
' sentinel walk is to be placed on the
top of this stockade. A large bakery,
capable of making near 2000 pounds
of bread at ono time, has been erected
outside. The encampment for officers
is on a hill within the inclo.sure.
Capt. Winder of Richmond planned
and carried the work into execution.
The grounds will accommodate J 2,000
prisoners, and two regiments will be
’ stationed there as a guard. Col. A.
W. Parsons at present is in command.
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One of the Hoosier story tellers, of
0 Old Abe’s ” ilk, gravely assures all
y/ho care to listen that “ a Missouri
wind strips the feathers off poultry so
that they are all ready for the spit or
fridiron.” Per contra , “ Old Abe ”
imself regards the storm which he
raised aslikely to leave “nobody hurt”
though it was destined to split the
backbone of a hemisphere. These
Hoosier story tellers are guided by the
law of cross purposes, and to them a
dock is as like a daisy as anything
.else.
If you cannot inspire a-woman with
love of you, fill her above the brim
with love of herself—all that runs over
will be yours.
Th,e Currency.
The Charleston M ercury, in speak
ing of the currency, makes the annex
ed remarks:
The idea prevails extensively among
the people that after the first of April,
, Secretary Memmiiirer will again flood,
the country with piper money, and!
that,* coiftequently, Treasury note*
yrill again depreciate, and prices rise
as soon as the money “mill” is put
into active operation,. F.verybody
should understand that the “ Curren
cy Act ” of Congress expressly re
vokes all authority heretofore given
to the Secretary of the Treasury to
make and issue notes. He has no
longer the authority to, issue one
dollar, except in change fpr the pres
ent currency, at the rate of two of
' the new for three of the latter which,
may remain unfunded op the first
of April. The revenue of the Gov
eriijnent is to he derived from taxes,
and from the sale of six per cent,
bonds exempt from taxation.
• The new currency will be kept in
constant circulation between the Trea
sury and the people, until $500,000,-
‘ 000 of the bonds are sold. The sale
of the bonds from time to time will
withdraw irom. circulation a portion
of the currency, and the disbursements
fromi the Treasury will put it all into. .
circulation again, It is important that
these facts should be generally com
prehended in order that move confi
dence in the new currency should pre
vail. The days of the Confederate
“shucks” are passed:
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The usual verdict, “No blame,” has
been .published for the Court of Inqui
ry ordered to consider the destruction
of the steam ram Mississippi, below
New Orleans. We have no doubt the
finding is correct, so far as the evi
dence went, and is but justice to those
who demanded the Court. If a Court
qf Inquiry under similar restraints and
limitations was ordered on the late
raid against Richmond, the result might
be the same. Yet it is almost math
ematically proven that the raid was
planned on information conveyed by
Streight, who, for that information and
. for his escape with it, must have been
* indebted to traitors in Richmond.
Very prqbable these traitors wear the
Confederate uniform, and show good
credentials of blood and family influ
ence, like that copl, calculated traitor,
Benedict Arnold Harris, who sold Jlei4
Harris to the Yankees near this city.
It was openly and confidently state 4
by citizens here that Harris wa3 a
traitor, and that his deportment and
acts justified the charge. He had the
papers and he carried his point. How
ioug shall we persist in trusting men
merely because they want commis
sions, or because their uncles grand
fathers wrote “Hon.” before their
narhes ?
Charleston Courier.
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Lincoln’s Reception.
How sadly changed is Washington,
tfye once great and behutilul Capitol
Qjf the United States, may be best told
by the following paragraphs from the
Hartford, Conn., Times, describing one
of Lincoln’s receptions:
At the late Presidential reception
at the White House, Mrs. Lincoln was
tastefully attired in a white si dress,
heavily festooned with rich black lace
and wore a necklace of pearls, as if
nothing had happened and “nobody
hurt.” , •
During the evening, Dr. Augusta, the
colored Surgeon for the District color
ed regiment, dressed in his major’s uni
form, and Act. Surgeon Abbott, color
ed of the same regiment, paid their re
spects to the President, and were re
ceived by Mr. Lincoln with marked
attention.
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“ Don’t put your watch under your
pilj ow —a man should never “sleep up
on his watch.” f
If you want- to be suited, go to a
tailor; if you want to be pan-suited,
go to law.
Never take a nap in a railroad car
riage-. . Why ? Because the train al
ways runs over sleepers. .
NO. 25.