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Early County News.
VOL. V.
Notice to Planters—Second District of
Georgia.
. Oitice Post Quartermaster, )
Albany, Ga., March 15, 1564. \
THOSE planters who bona fidely sold their
tithe-wool of crop of 1863, may pay the
uu.me from clippings ot 1864. My agents will
receive a double tithing in full of assessment
oi' both years, and report.it accordingly.
2. Bacon should’be paid in hog>-round
ioles are receivable in proper proportion, but
being objectionable for camp use, other pie*
ces will be preferred.
3. If the tithings are not delivered after
reasonable notice, five-fold is ferleited by the
prodaosr. My agents are ordered to giva
these notices at once to all who have not de
livered their tithes in thoir section.
4. To- those persons who live over fifteen
miles from depots, an opportunity to pay their
tithe-corn in bacon will be given ; but the
'rate of this exchange has not been settled.
5 No receipts.giveu by parties disconnect
ed with m y office will be received. Millers,
distillers, cattle-drivgrs, ect., etc., have no
control over the tithes, except by authority
of some proper officer of the Tithe Depart
ment. .
6. All parties can pay the Assessors'val
uation and keep their tithe potatoes. Cotton
must be baled and bagging furnished. Par
ties who pay less than one bag, must put it up
in a proper package. Cotton and wool are not
to be transferred, except by special order.
R. K. HINF.S,
« Capt. & P. Q. M.
Mar’23, 1864. 23-5 t
k oTI c^eT
Kead-Quartkrs Early Co., Ga., 1
Blakely, April 13, 1864. j
ALL white male citizens of Early county,
•between the ages of 17 and 18, and 45
ana 50 years, are hereby ordered to appear
at this place for enrollment at once. Those
failing to comply with this notice within
thirty dayß from the date of this order, will
subject themselves to be called into the gen
eral service with the class of persons between
18 and 45 years.
And all persona that have been heretofore
discharged by any of the Examining Boards
must conform to the above order, by report
ing to me without delav. as all such persons
bare to bo re-examined.
Persons between the ages of 18 and 45
years, who have applications pending, are
also required to come forward and comply
with the law.
Those wishing to make application for de
tails will only report here on Tuesdays. Thurs
days and Saturdays of each week, as there
is a of gentlemen appointed for the
purpose of obtaining information, &c., con
cerning all applications for exemptions and
details, and they, will only meet here on the
days named.
'ln compliance with the above orders, it is
expected that all men between the ages of
17 and 50 years report, except those who are
detailed by the War Department, or who have
furloughs or receipts from District Head-
Quarters on account of applications made to
higher authorities for special exemptions.
A. C. WEST,
. 26-if l ocal En. Ofiicor Early Co., Ga.
Blakely Male & Female
Academy.
i —■ ■ * .■ —
rpniS Institution will open on Tuesday,
.1. the Bth inst., under tire superintendence
of the subscriber. Competent assistants will
• be employed if necessary.
The following rates of tuition will be charg
ed per session of five months:
* First Division —Spelling, Reading, Writ
ing and Mental Arithmetic $20,00
Second Division —English Grammar, Ge
ography and Arithmetic $30,00
• Third Division —Advanced English, Lat
in and Greek ~ $40,00
Tuition charged for not less than half a
session.
Further information can be obtained frorfi
the undersigned. TL M. WADE.
Blakely, Mar, 2, 1864. 20-ts
NOTICE^
THIS is to notify all persona concerned
that we have tendered to Thomas B. An
drews, on two different occasions, the amount
due him by J. It. Powell, late of Early coun
ty, Ga., deceased, being three certain proms
isaory Notes, each one of which calls for five
hundred dollars. Said notes were given in
December, 1861, ana made payable as fol
lows : One in one year, one in two years, and
the other in three years, from the making of
the same. This is, therefore, to notify all
persons not to trade for said notes, as we are
determined not to pay the same unless com
pelled by law, as the said Andrews has re
fused to receive Confederate money in pay
ment for the same.
MARTHA W. POWELL, Adm’x.
ROB'T. A. J. POWELL, Adm'r.
Mar. 2, 1864. 20-3 m
NOTI C E .
T~MjOUß,Osnaburgs. Bunch Thread, Nails,
&e., will be exchanged for Provisions
.or Wool D. S. JOHNSTON.
Saffold, Ga., April 20, 1864. 27-ts
BLAKELY. GEO..'APRIL 27, 1884.
(Mg Cottutg ‘HffoS.
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year SIO,OO
For 0 Mouths .$5,00
No subsciptions received for less than six
months, and payment always required in ad
vance.
Bates of Advertising:
1 Square, (occupying the space of ten Hour- •
geois lines, or less.) each insertion...s2,oo
A Baby and a Basket—A Small Ca
• tastrophe.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian
has the following good story among its
police reports :
As Mrs. Esther Stansbury, residing
in a court running from Race, below
Sixth street, was about to bringa buck
et of water from the hydrant last night,
she found a basket suspended from the
knob of the front door. Putting her
hand into the basket, she felt someting
alive and kicking, so wrapped up in rags
that no further discovery could be
made without unwrapping the object.
A piece of paper folded like a letter
lay by the side of ihe animated bun*
die. Mrs. Stansbtiry immediately re
turned into the house, and by the light
of the lamp examined the billet. It
was dijected to her husband. She
tremulously broke the seal and read
as follows :
To Joe Stansbury— Sir: I send
you the baby, which you will please
take good care of and bring up right,
so that it may turn out to be a better
man than its daddy. Oh, Joseph! Oh,
• Joseph ! what a sly old ( rat you are !
Who w6uld think that such a sober
old snindlesbanks could be such a tear
ing down sinner ? The child is yours
—you may swear to that. You de*
ceived me shamefully, Joe—letting on
to be a widower! But do a father’sdu
ty by the young one, and I’ll forgive
you. Your heart-broken
• Nancy.
P. S.—Don’t let that sharp nosed
wife of yours see this letter. Gam%
mon her with some kind of story about
the baby.
Mr. Stansbury was in the basement
kitchen quietly eating his supper, and
little imagining what a> storm was
brewing over his head. The door of
the kitchen was violently thrown open,
and his wife’s voice yelled out:
“Stansbury, come up here, you vil*
lian ! Here’s a mess for you.”
The astonished Stansbury hastily
obeyed the summons.
“ Don’t you want to see Nancy ? ”
Cried Mrs, Stansbury when her guilty
husband hobbled into the room.
“ Nancy ! what Nancy’s that ? ”
said the sly old rogue, in well feigned
astonishment.
“ Why, Nancy, the mother of this •
baby that’s hung up at the door, Mr.
Stansbury! Oh, you look mighty inno
cent; just read this letter, and look in
to the basket! Don’t be afraid, it won’t
bite, its got no teeth; poor thing.
You’ll know it, for, as the hussey says,
it’s just like you all over. Please
goodness, I’ll expose you before every
body.
In less than five minutes Mrs. S.>
had collected a room lull of spectators
—half of the inhabitants of the court
to witness the process of Enwrapping
the baby. Anxious expectation sat on
every countenance as the jealous lady
tore away rag after rag from the body
of the foundling, the vigorous move*
ment of which astonished everybody.
“ Its full of the devil already,” said
Mrs. S. “ that shows it’s his. You'll
soon see that it is like him in every
thing.”
At last all the swaddling clothes be
ing removed, out jumped the baby and
made its escape through the opeq
door. It was a big tom cat l *
Every man seems satisfied with hia own
proportion of brains. j
One Beetle Slimall Shtories.
BY HANS VON DUNDERMUGGER.
Der vas von sun mit der east up in
der mornin sky. Dat vas long times
ago. Day vas proke. Dat vas nice.
Everything gets down and kums up
mid dernselves and vaters d*>r faces
mit both hands full mit wet wash and
says, “Is breakfast ready?” Mien
got! vat makes peeple dreadful hun
gry -before, dey eats anything ? Mit
poth hands in der knives and forks
dey pitches inter dernselves mit von
ting and anodder till dey is satisfied
mit making dernselves one pigs. Rv
eryting is swallowed up clatter mit
der mouths open. Den dey runs round
picking der teeth mit der shtummy
kake. Got in himmel, vot a bad tix
dey ish in ! I vot dere too. Veil I
gets pack de sun vas up, so much high
er ash ever, mid de east behind his
face, delling de grass to drys up. De
leetle pirds vas flying o?T der ledders
round ; der kows mit der long dails,
vas delling der flies to get off mid der
legs—every ting was somewhere it vas
ent pefore! Vats vas der matter now ?
Dunder ! Mine pig turnip watch, vat
I stops all der vay to winds pp, looks
pack mit poth fingers in mine eye,
and ticks “ten o’clock!” Time fly
away mit a big buzzin in mine head,
and I sees nothing put the leet’e shmall
tick noise vat crawls mitout legs in
my watch. I sees a young man vat
vares his head outdoors mitout any
hats on, stopstanding still.
“ Vat you dink ? ” says I.
“ Swi lager,” says’ he.
“ Yaw, dat is goot,” says I.
Den we went ourselves down' mit
shome stheps, apd trank two tumblers
inside out, and felt of ourselves so much
petter ash pefore fushtrate. Who was
mine friend ? Dat vas he. I shwares
to dat mit no more pibles as I can hold.
Dat vas him.
“ Swi lager ? ” says I.
“Yaw,” says he, mit his legs across
demselfes.
I dinks dey vas tired mit runnin too
much round. Dat vas so. Den we
trow ourself outside swi more lager,
and pegins to feel ash goot ash wq
dont care sorter dervil. Den mine
frient’s feet put dernselves in mine lap.
Dey was more tired ash pefore.
“ Swi lager ? ” says mine frient.
“ Yaw,” says I.
“ Den you dreats,” say 6 he, mid von
tarn horse laughs.
Blixens ! Shpose vas I to sat town
and stand dat! Mine fist flew out of
mine'hand and hit him on der nose.
He lay his pack on der floor, and says
noting pretty quick. He was very
much tired. His nose runs all over his
t face mit blood. Pimeby, he stands
himself upon his honor :
•' Mine got, vat ish de matter ? ”
says he looking at der chair where
he falls out from; “ ish I gone ? ”
“ Swi lager,” says I.
Den he sthands himself up on his
feet, and falls mit poth hands full, mit
von hard blow on der eyes of mine
face. Mein got! den it vas night.
I sees nothing of something for yon
week put sthaA Dat vas me. 1
shwaies to dat nfla more pibles ash in
mine pockets. 'I dont sees mineself •
for so long that I forgets who I vas.
Who was I ? Nopody knows. Dun
dher ant. blixen! Dats me. I says
nothing, but rups off mit mineself in
ter evervare. Sthop!
Brigham Young is in no hurry to
have the mines in Utah worked. He
says : “ When it is necessary that wo
should possess gold in great abundance,
the Lord will show it to us in a vis*
• _ »
ion.
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Os all triumphs that ;of truth over error
is the most glorious.
i We want all yCur old clean Bags.
Tlie Successes of Gen- Forrest.
- Gen. Forrest has proven himself the
Murat of this war. He has done more
work—more successful work—than
any other cavalry officer in the ser
vice. lie is successiul everywhere,
and in every engagement. He always
goes in to win and comes out in tri
umph. Since the day he was chosen
a company of Cavalry rais
ed in Memphis, early in the strife, Gen.
Forrest has remained in the saddle.
He Was kept busy in Kentucky by
Sidney Johnston, while wo occupied
Bowling Green ; he was sent to the
aid of the garrison at Fort Donalson
just as that placs was passing out of
our hands, and made his escape by
hutting through the enemy s ranks;
he figured very prominently at the bat
tle of Shiloh; he captured Murfrees
boro’ with all its entire garrison, con
sisting of several regiments ; he fol
lowed a brigade of Yankee cavalry for
six days and finally captured every
one ot them at Rome, Ga., saving tho
Georgia State lload, the destruction
of which would have broken up com
munication between our armies, He
next goes up to Jackson, Tepn., gath
ers a tew thousand recruits and returns
. to Mississippi, whipping the enemy on
the route and charging them success
fully with unarmed men. He destroy
• ed Sherman’s programme in the south
west by whipping and putting to route
the iorce under Grierson and Smith
moving through North Mississippi.
He next captures Union City •with its
g irrrison ot renegade Tennesseeans,
moves on Columbus and Hickman, and
finally pounces upon the Yankees at
Paducah, Ky., capturing a number of
prisoners and destroying much proper
ty. The Yankees supposing him in
Kentucky, started a force from Mem
phis to interfere with his return, but
ere they proceeded far, Forrest con
fronted them again, and fifteen hundred
are said to have surrendered up their
arms tq him. This occurred at White’s
Station on the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, and only ten miles dis
tant from Memphis. So much for en
ergy, determination and bravery. If
success is the test of merit, Gen. For
rest certainly deserves much from our
government.
Meridian Clarion .
Pleasure seekers and business men,
outside the army, are to have a sea
son of rest, a while at least. The Pro
vost Marshal in Petersburg, Virginia,
has received an order forbidding him
to grant passports on any of the rail
roads between Richmond and Augus
ta, Georgia, except to persons travel
ing on business for the Government,
Officers and soldiers on furlough. This
order comes from General Cooper, Ad
jutant and Inspector General, and is
imperative. What is to be inferred
from this ?
Confederate, a correspondent as the
Columbus Sun, writing from Dalton
says :
One of our military officials of high
rank in this army, has involved him
self in a difficulty similar to that which
caused the death of the unfortunate
Van Dorn. It is said that the victim
in this case is a young lady of one of
the first families in Georgia, and that
the man who has brought ruin upon
her, was at the house of her father by
invitation, and the recipient of his hos
pitality, when their guilty intimacy
was discovered.
T7T. SWANN,”
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
' Blakely, Early Co., Ga.,
Will give prompt attention to all basiaes#
confided to his care. v5-13-tf
THE undersigned will soon bo prepared to
do all kinas of repairing in the Black
smith line, and will do new work if the iron
is furnished. NOYES & MURRELL
* Jan. 13, 1854. 13 ts
ISTO. 28.