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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. .: o : 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 —— J —■* ' 1 ■■ ■■— •7- t '-SU'.-" 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.” + 4 ; —*■*■*—— . 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. 4-4 —4 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. ■» «4 - • 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. ♦ ♦ , 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: *%»♦ * • 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. —i * ■+■ -■* 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. ». “ 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.