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Early County News. VOX,. V. Forms for Drawing Soldier’s Pay. STATE OP GEORGIA, ) County or s — j ~|_)EFOHE m« au hating Justice Os .Lk tire Pesce, (or Notary Public,) iu and. tor said county, personally came Mrs. , who being duly sworn, says she is the moth er of , deceased, late a in company ,of the Georgia Volunteers. She fur ther declares that her said son, , died oh the day of , 18G-, and that he left neither wife, child, nor father surviving iiim. (Signed) Sworn and subscribed to before me this day of , 180-. J. P. Also, personally came —of coun ty and State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn, says that the statements in the-abore, affidavit he (or she) personally knows to be true. (Signed), _ . # Sworn and subscribed to before me this day of ■“— 18G-. I, , an acting Justice of the Peace (or Notary Public) in and for said county of , do certify that the above earned^ witness is personally known to me to be of good standing, and,whoso affidavit is enti tled to full faith and credit. Given under my hand, and official signa ture, this —— day of , 18G-. , J. P. Know ai,l Men by these Presents, That J, Mrs. of the county oi , and State of Georgia, being the mother of , deceased, who died in the, seavice of the Confederate States on the day of , 18G-, do make, constitute and appoint , <of county, and State of Georgia, my true and lawful attorney, in fact to receive and re ceipt for all monies, goods and chatties that may be due me as heir of my son, , deed, by virtue of his military or other service to the Confederate States; hereby ratifying and confirming all lawful acts of my said at torney in the premises. (Signed) . Witness: ——J, p. I Clerk of court of— coun ty, .State of Georgia, do certify that , whose genuine signature appears above and before whom the anove affidavit.- and power of attorney were made and ereeuted, is an acting Justice of the Peace, (br Notary Public) in and for the county of State of Georgia, duly commissioned at the time of signing the same, ami nil his attestations as such are entitled to full* faith and credit. Given under 1 my hand and - seal of office this day of , one thousand eight hundred and sixty -01 erk Court. County, Georgia., NOT^i'.—The affidavit m4y beonndo either before a Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, ami the certificate of its legality may be nut dp either by a Clerk of the Supe . rior. Inferior, or Court of Ordinary, voih the sea 1 attached. All claim*; made out according to the above instructions and forwarded to flic War Department will be attended to. RAGS WANTED AT TUB Early*County News Office. —. ; o : fTUIE Proprietor of the Early County Near.? 1 will pay TEE CENTS per lb. 'for all CLEAN COTI ON& LINEN JUGS delivered at liis office, in small or large quan tities. As it is now impossible for us to purchase paper unless we furnish rags, we hope our friends in Clay, Calhoun, Miller and Early ■ Countirs will each and all consti tute themselves agents fur us for this pgr .pose. Save your rags, and save your tags, Save your good-for-nothing bags— Bring them to this office, soon, Bring them morning, eve or noon. From the mountain, from the vale, Wh ore the lingering camp-fires pale, Whore the morning tints the rose, AY here the parting sunset glows, From the East and from the West, Bring us rags and do your best. Bring us scraps of cotton thread, Bring the night-caps from your head, Bring the shirt upon yov.r back, Bring us pieces white or black, Bring us rags and bring us tags, Bring us your gqod -for nothing bags—- Anything, just so 'tis clean, White, or black, or blue or green, Anything that paper makes, Every editor now takes, And will pay you for your rags. And your good-for-nothing bags, Bring them in, and bring them soon, Morning, evening, and at noon. T, T. SWANN, AT T ORN E Y A T LA W , Blakely, Early Co., Ga., V ii.i.give prompt attention to all business ■•• glided t" his cure. c.Y-l.'ltf J3LAKEXY, GEO., APBIL’ 20, 1864, felir Cwnto Hrfos. '-o NJ Terms of Subscription: For 1 Year u SIO,OO For 6 Months...., , ..$5,00 No subsciptions received for less than six months, and payment always required iu ad vance. Rates of Advertising: 1 Square, (occupying the space of tcu Bour geois lines, or less,) each insertion...s2,oo MY SOLDIER LOVER, Oh ! J have a gallant soldier, In the army under Eoe— And I think ire's all perfection. And he thinks the same of j^re. It is long since I saw him, And it will be longer still, For tlujy say he re-enlisted, 'Till the. Yanks should get their sis. Though lie’s nothing but a private, Yet 1 deally cm hint float — For I care not for the trappings, Or the Unsel on a coat. For lace may deck the coward. And stars may deck the knave, But I know that he is honest. And I know that he is brave. For he fought, with nqble Jackson, « All the battles in the vaie, And he saw the Yankees flying, Before our leaden hail. And though he’s ne’er been wounded, (All praise to him pn high,) lie says he’s always ready, For his Sunny South to die. And I pray for him at morning. Oh ! I pray for him at night- And ask our heavenly father, To guard him in the fight. And I know my prayers are answer'd. By the calm within ray breast, And by my peaceful slpmbers. When my pillow I have pressed. Oh ! I long to see him coming, I long to hear his voice ; I would don my brightest And fix myself so-nice. For I think that very shortly, If his mind is still the same— He will ask me—(how delightful,) If I will not change my name. The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, of March 25th. gives the world to un derstand that it regards new spapers as purchasable. Richmond Sentbucl. Yes, we do. Some newspapers— not all. When we see journals sup port an administration—whether right or wrpng —whose editors hold Ist ad ministration offices, or whose columns are filled to overflowing with adminis tration advertising, it is very conelu- . sive evidence that such journals are subsidized. This is our opinion in the matter. And we are happy to say this is the opinion of qll indepen dent thinking men in this as well as in every other community. Furthermore. We are glad to per ceive that Die public are regarding the opinions of these journals as paid for. As opinions not to be trusted. As the opinions of the subsidizer—not of the subsidized. The subsidized in this case being merely used as supple willing tools —ready to do any work no matter how much of the subservient order it may savor. Byron, all will admit, was decidedly a free thinker. He would sell his tal ents to no one—although it must be confessed he did not always use them as he ought himself. He held in the utmost abhorence those who sold the gifts bestowed on them by the Almigh ty, to Kings and men in pqwer. We think he had in view a subsidized ad ministration editor in a country where the people claimed to be free when he penned the following: “Sound him with gold : ’Twill sink into bis venal soul like lead Into the deep—and bring up slime, and mud, And ooze too, from the bottom, as the lead doth With its greased understratum.” Never fear a map who threatens you with an injury ; the silent openly is the most dangerous. ♦ ♦ W<‘ want your old Bags Miscegenation—WluA it Means—Re markable Confession of a Republican Journal. The reader must bear in mind, when reading the article below, that it is the language not of a “Copperhead ” jour nal, but of a thorough, out and out fle publican journal-ran open, voluntary confession of a paper that has faltered in its support an 4 devotion to ’ pr-iscipb&of that party, and shat has done rft advocacy of the Lincoln administration and the en* eouragement of this war as any other paper in the whole North. Now that it sees ruin and degradation and a lev pi with the negro staring in its face, it is forced to confess (and a very hu miliating confession it is for a Repub lican paper) that the only quarter to which the country can now look to be saved is the Democratic party. But let no one fail to read this article —let it be circulated in evgry South ern paper far and wide-—let it be read, if necessary, to our aimy. If there is a man in the whole South that can read this'confession below without fir ing his heart and causing a feeling of shame that we should ever have liv ed with such a people, then he ipust be dead indeed to every sense of hqnor, pride and virtue : From the New York Times. What are we comitig to? A rage for marrying black people has lately taken possession of the Re publican party. The Radicals have carried everything before them, arid if . things’go on at their present rate it is feared that, in three months, every white man who is not connected by marriage with a colored family will bo “ read out ”of the party. The gusto with which the abolitionists go into, the insane moverqent is something at once disgusting and alarming. VYe shrink from putting on paper the sto ries which read) us as to the preval ence of this evil. VYe will only say that there will very soon be hardly a family in the city belonging to the Republican persuasion which will not be glorying in the possession of a lie*, gro son-in-law. It is said, we know not with what truth, that the Union League Club has fitted up a night bell at its door, and keeps a black mins jster on the premises who marries all couples of different colors at any hour of the day or night. Soon we may expect to hear of duels being fought about some black washerwoman, and crowds of white men thronging the basements ol those lumiiies who have colored servants in their houses for the purpose of soliciting the honor (?) of their iiands. * It is with great reluctance that wo speak out our minds in this matter. But we have no hesitation in saying that if we had at the outset conceived it possible that hostility to slavery would have ever led to wholesale in*, terrnarriage with negroes the Kepub> lican party should neyer have receive ed any countenance or support from this journal. We owe it to ourselves and to posterity to say that the thing has taken us by surprise. It never entered our head. We now see and confess our error and deplore it. The question which now naturally suggests to every right minded white and woman is where is this thing to end? Whither are \ye tending? What is to be done to stop this unnatu ral and detestable movement ? For it is as plain as a pjke staff that if it con tinues there will be soon no whites left in this once great and prosperous coun try. We shall all he mulattoes, and be afflicted with all the peculiarities both mental and physical of that um happy race. The signs of this great and terrible change already begin to make them- j selves manifest in our streets, for the most careless, observer who walks down Broadway canliardlv fail to ob- 1 serve (he appearance On a vast imin> her of laces o| the well known brown ish tinge. Let that tinge once become general, and then farewell, a long fare well, to ail cur whiteness. 1 here is but one quarter—and we aie not ashamed to own it—in which, in qur opinion, we can look for either help or comfort at this cyisis, and that is to the great, old, truly national Dem ocratic party. It has its fatbits; no been forced to call attention to them oftefrer flmff we; bqt ft never yet proved false tq its race, apd we arp that whatever can be done now vyill be done by it to preserve the purity of our blood. ' . * pepsous are under misapprehen sions or in uncertainty as to several points connected with the ourrcncy, taxes, claims upon the government, &c., and the follow ing answers to question? which have been addressed to us may prove generally accept able. •Ajl hixea due to the Government, whether they are the taxes of 1803, but not yet paid, or the taxes assessed under the law of 1804, may be paid in four per cent, bonds, o/j in the certificates on which the, four per cent, bonds are to issue. Where a certificate ia greater in amount than the tax proposed to be paid with it, the collector will issuo a new certificate for the excess—the tax payer making up ail fractional parts of a hundred dollars in money. Five dollar notes will be received in pay ment of taxes of all kinds, qr may he lan ded at par on four per cent bonds, until the first of July uext; at which time they also will he taxed one-?hird. frothing can be done with notes for a hundred dollars but to fund them in four per cent bonds at two-thirds of their face, and subject also to a tax of ten dollars per mouth on each, front the Ist of April. Notes under five dollars arc subject to no tax or limitation, but remain current as heretofore at their full amount. Notes of ten dollars, twenty dollars and fifty dollars, may he paid in taxes or fun ded in four per cents., or exchanged for pew notes —at two thirds of their value— until the Ist of January next, at which tjme all then outstanding wj|i be worthless. The idea has gained considerable circula tion that claiujs against the Treasury, ex isting prior to the first of April, would be paid in the reduced currency, unless pre sented and competed before the Ist of April. This is an error. It is only true of sueli claims as had been adjusted and a warrant or draft issued for the payment. The set tlement had tljen become a part of the pub lic records, and the holder of such draft was of the nature of a depositor in the Treasury, and if he failed to draw his mos ey, it became liable to the tax on the first of April. Hut claims unsettled, or for which payment had not been tendered, will follow usual rule of being paid in cur rency at par at tbe time of payment. Richmond Sentinel. - ♦ ■» ♦ ft is a wonderful illustration of the ,value ol Government interposition in .repressing the extortions of monopoly that salt, once the. dearest article of our domestic consumption, is now the cheapest. It is manufactured, says the Richqnond Sentinel, away off in the mountains, and furnished to con sumers hepe at ten cents per pound ; while for corn-meal one dollar per pound is exacted, and a dollar and a half per pound for flour. Our Legis lature thought it wise to interfere in the one case, and behold the happy re sult. They thought it unwise in the other case, and the peopje mourn in consequence. ' ♦ ----- Thackeray related the following in cident, which occurred during his visit to St. Louis a few years since. Ho was (Jining at the hotel, when he heard one Irish waiter say to another : “ I)o, you know who that is? ” “ No/' was the answer. “ That ” said the other, “ is the cel ebrated Thackeray! ” What has he done ? " D-—-d if I know.” ♦ AVc want all your old clean 11. NO. 27.