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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. -■» * 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.