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(£arli) Countu Jtctos.
E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
B LAK.KLY:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1304.
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See the order of A. C. West, our Eurol
ling Officer.
Attcotiou is called to the new advcrtise
meotß of I). S. Johnston.
In our telegraphic columns this week
will be found sonic good and encouraging
news.
An exchange says “a Yankee’s favorite
diet is his own word ” In such a case it
must lie very heavy ou his stomaflh.
The tax payers of Early connty will do
well to notice the advertisement of J. M.
Wade, Tax Receiver, to ho found under
the head of new advertisements.
The amount of Confederate taxes col
lected in Georgia, according to the state
ment of the Collector, up to Ist April, was
821,030,730 43. •
. Rev. Dr. liullock, of Baltimore, says an
cxoliange, who is u brother-in-law of Gen.
John C. Breckiuridge, has been arrested
ou the churge of harboring a Confederate
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Colonel.
Our new Congress is to meet at Rich
mond on Monday, 2d day of May next.
If they don’t think they can do any better
than our last Congress, we would advise
them not to meet ut all. The Confederacy
dou’t want any more 3uch legislation.
A Soldier writing to the Richmond Sen
tinel asks the Government to send his bri
gade a dentist, lie says that his surgeon
does not understand doctoring the molars,
awl consequently the Soldiers suffer from
defective and decaying teeth. As Soldiers
sometimes light even to the point, of “ tooth
and toe-nail,” a dentist therefore might he
mustered as a repairer of war implements.
I t just takes a “ V ” to get a drink for
' yourself and friend in Blakely at present!
So we loarn from a friend who lately took
a couple of “ smiles ! ”-—as we never ins
dulgc, (!j and don’t know anything about
whisky, Ac., wc are compelled to take our
friend's word in this case, though we call
it pretty ‘‘tall ’ drinking! Mighty glad
we don't indulge !
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As we’ve never speculated any ‘so far,
and lost a good deal in consequence, we’ve
concluded to try our hand to the amount
of SI,OUO in account Dogs, provided wc
can got them at ,61 a piece ! They must
come in droves of 100 and upwards, or we
will not receive them! No two-legged ones
wanted ! If we can got these dogs we'll
warrant they’ll eat no moremeat and bread
booh !
r lhe Macon papers state that Major
Charles J. Harris, Commandant of Con
scripts for this State, whose head-quarters
are in Macon, ha 3 been superceded by
Major Browo, who is expected to assume
command in a few days. No reason is as
signed for the change. Will somebody tell
us how many more Commandants of Con
scripts we are to have in Georgia within
the next year? As whisky “gives out” iu
MacoD,so the conscript officers “play out!”
There is au opposition advertising me
dium to theAetes iu this place! This an
nouncement may appear very straugc to
our readers, for all will at once say that
the News is the only paper published in
Blakely We admit it—but if you don’t
believe what we say, just go to the store of
Messrs. Buohannon & Co , and look on the
sides of their front door, and you will find
we have told the truth. Our charge for
advertising is 82 per square for each inser
tion Wonder what our friends B. & Co.
charge. Would like to kuow—we might
put dowu our rates *
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We are certainly the luckiest fellow in
all the land, for hardly a week passes over
our head hut what we receive a present of
some sort from some of our friends-—parti
cularly from the ladies. We have to ac
knowledge this week the receipt of a fioe
Pound Cake and a goblet of Wine from
Mrs. T. 11. Stout. Such as this is so rare
in these war times, that we hardly know
what to say about it. We know very well,
though, that the cake was good, and the ,
wine was good, and both was “ gooder ”
than anything we have had lately, and the
way we felt “ gooder ” still after we got
through, was a caution ! The fact is, we
hav’nt hardly got through feeling good yet,
and occasionally we imagine to ourself that
we are made entirely of pound cuke and
wine ! Our hopes are some of our other
lady friends will send us in “ a little more
of the sdhie sort ” before our present good
feeliugs leave us ! These cake and wine
“ doins ” suit us better thau anything we
have had iu some time, for they make us
get and feel right “mellow,” and the kind
donor, Mrs. Stout, may rest assured that
we highly appreciate her kindness to us,
and that such favors are not soon forgot
ten by a poor country editor, who is never
able to have any “extras” only when
they are scut in by some friend who takes
pity on us.
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb is about to be
come a mother, says tho Macon Confeder
ate. llow doeS the Confederate know that
Mrs. Thumb is going to have a baby ?
How dare he talk of such family matters ?
An old bachelor has no right to talk about
a gentleman’s family concerns in any such
away ! We’ve heard of men being sued
for slander for meddling themselves with
other people’s family affairs, and would ad
vise our friend of the Confederate to be
more cautious in the future how he talks
about such delicate things ! Thu fact is,
, we were once sued for slander merely be
cause wo published and exposed a Colum
bus corn whisky barrel, and the damages
laid at ten thousand dollars! Now if the
reputation of a barrel of rot-gut whisky is
worth ten thousand dollars, what is the
reputation of a gentleman’s wife worth ?
If you don’t look out, Bro. Flash, you’ll
get it poked to you for about a hundred
thousand ! If you had a certain Colum
bus lark to deal with, there’s no doubt but
what you'd soon have the spurs popped to
you. But, if you are sued at all, we hope
that you may bo more fortunate than wo
have been, and that you may have a gen
tleman to deal with, and not a dog, as has
been our lot.
Wc sec it stated that Gon. Evans was
lately thrown from a buggy in Charleston,
and severely injured. His skull was badly
fractured, and his physicians fear that he
will uot recovej-. It is a wonder to us that
more Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, Colo
nels and Generals have not not got their
heads bursted than have, for every time
that we have visited any of our cities -we
have invariably seen more or less of these
“ swell-headed gentry,” about three-thirds
druuk, driving horses at about a 2:40 gait.
• Such chaps get no sympathy from us, and *
all the harm that we wish them is that
a streak of lightning may strike them the
first time they get drunk, and thus end
their useless aud drunken career in this
world.
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Somebody asked us the other day why i
it was that scarcity of money brought high
prices—or if it was opin
ion that the new curflfcy is, or will be,
more worthless thdu the old. To all ap
pearances this would seem to be the opin
ion of these worthies. There can be -no
doubt of the fact that th*ere are many men,
aud women too, in our midst armed with
yard sticks , meat knives, scales, d'c., who
arc by far greater enemies to the South
and do more to injure her cause than teu
times their number of Yankees iu the field.
The Government don’t see this, however.
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John C. Rives, who has been for the
last thirty years publisher of the Congress
ional Globe, recently died at Bladensburg,
near Washington. He was an old baehe
clor, and had cleared a fortune of more
thau $1,000,000 by the public printing.
Well, we’ve seen some of ’em ! Some
of you may ask us what it is that we’re
seen. Why we've seen what everybody in
this country has been wanting to see for
some time past —a.specimen of the new
Confederate money. The bills we saw
were of the denominations of SSO and $lO.
According to our notion we think the en
graving is very poorly executed, and the
general appearance of the bills is less at
tractive than some of the old issue. But
we wouldn’t care a cent about the looks of
the things if we only had plenty of them.
We are by these bills like we are by a pret
ty girl, the more we see them the better
we like them, and the more we look at
them the dearer we love them ! Dog’d if
‘the srnjles of a pretty girl don’t nearly run
us crazy ! How wo do wish we were “ a
whole half dozen men,” and the whole of
the concern “out of the war” just about
now! Oh, golly! the thoughts of the
<l good times ” we’d have almost makes us
faint I—so as we’ve got off the subject we
started on, we’ll stop, for fear that the very
thoughts of the thing might cause us to do
something desperate!
Since writing the above, we have seen
two specimens of the S2O bills of the new
issue, but they read very differently. The
first came from Eufaula, and iu the shield
uu the left liand end of the bill reads,
‘‘Two years afrer a ratification of a treaty
of peace between ” —and on the right hand
end, “ Six months after a ratification of a
treaty of peace between,” and then leaves
the reader to guess between whom the rat
ification of a treaty of peace is to take
place, before the Confederate States prom
ise to pay, aud whether it is two years or
Bix months after that event. The other
came from Macon, and reads, on the left
hand end, “ Two years’ after a ratification
of a treaty of peace between ” —affd on the
right hand end, “ The Confederate States
and the United States.” The appearance
*of the bills are just alike. "Will some of
our brethren of the quill, who are wise iu
money matters, tell us what sense there is
in tho reading of the first named bill, or
whether it is a blunder of the engraver?
If the latter, why has Mr. Memminger let
such buugling work go out ? Oyr patrons
j will please take notice that we don’t waut
any of the first described “ twenties.”
We see it stated that Judge 0. A. Loch
rane, of our State, has decided that Aliens,
that is, Jews, <f -c., are notifiable to con
scription. The questiou is engaging at
tention at home and abroad. Consuls of
foreign Governments and their agents in
the Confederacy are now busily engaged
taking the names of persons claiming for
eign protection, and it is presumed that
these Governments intend to take issue
with the Confederacy on the point of the
military service exacted by the last con
scription act of all “ white male residents.”
And because foreign Governments are go
ing to interfere Judge Lochrane decides
that nobody from across the “ frog pond *’
is liable to do military duty, eh ! A nice
come off, isn’t it! Just because a fellow
is boru on the other side of the big waters,
he can come here, eDjoy all the privileges
of our own citizens, make money, &c., and
when we are called on to protect our rights
and property, and our all, our own people
must do the fighting, and allow these in
fernal, skinflint, foreign sharpers to remain
at home to gouge and cheat our own peo
ple, eh ! Why shouldn’t all who are resi
dents of the Confederacy fight for our
rights ? All have more or less property
here to protect, aud hence foreigners should
as well help to fight for it as our own citi
zens. We hope the conscript act, in this
particular, wiJJ be carried out to the letter.
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The Southern people have always had a
peculiar penchant for patronizing every
thing except home industry. There is not
now a “ blockade ” article of any sort,
however inferior in quality it may be, that
does not meet with a more ready sale, and
bring a better.price, than a. superior one
manufactured among us. Should we ever
gain our independence, we fear fit will be
useless for any of our own people to set up
manufactures. We must have, it would
really seem, reformed men from Yankee
land or “ foreign parts ” to push enter
prise and industry for us. “ Surely the
pleasure is as great iu being cheated as to
ch.pjyfJ 9
Spring.
Tew are so insensible to the charms of
nature as not to hail, with delight, the ap
proach ol‘ gentle Spring, aud rejoice in
her “ etherial mildness.” Leaping from
the lap of Winter, the young season walks
over the warm earth, aud verdure riseß up
in the paths made by her footsteps. “ The
flowers appear ou the earth ; the of
the singing of birds is come; and the voice
of the turtle is heard in the land.” To the
inspired poet the whole creation i 3 jubilant
over the advent of this delightful season,
and the sentiment has been expressed by
| a modern poet:
Welcome, welcome, sunny Spring !
Thrice tea thousand voices sing ;
Welcome, genial April shower 3.
Bursting bud* and early flowers.
Welcome, songsters of the grove,
Warbling forth youV notes of love;
Welcome every living thing,
Warmed to life by balmy Spring!
What cause for gratitude that Winter's
gloomy reign is not perpetual—that the
changing seasons come to us freighted with
blessings, and replete with lessoDs to school
the heart to love and filial trust. • To the
f
poor, especially, how gladsome is the voice
of the returning Spriug. The genial rays
of the sun once more light up their cheer
less tenements; and, in their present com
fort, they forget the long, dreary days of
shivering over scant fires and smouldering
embers. The last has been a hard Win
ter—the hardest known for many years—
and upon the indigent that dreary season
presses with peculiar severity.
The SpriDg is a time for reflection.
Have we performed our duty to the poor
and needy ? Has a timely charify sent
warmth and sustenance to their abodes;
or have we been contented to enjoy our
own warm fireside, without a thought or a
care for the woes of others. Have we pro
vided for our brethren in tho field, anl
their families at home, all that we had to
give.
Spring has a voice for youth. Brief sa
beautiful, it glides impercemptibly away
So. is it with the Spring time of life.
What momentous interests hang upon tho
improvement of this transient seasou.
Youth is the Spring of life. O, tell
The young, the fair, the gay, io use it well.
Spring comes with a voiae of sadness,
vet of comfort, to the bereaved. Its ear
best blossoms fall on consecrated graves—
spots dear to memory, the Meccas of strick
en hearts—where precious dust awaits the
final awakeniug. The departed, their joy
ous notes seem yet h> blend with the songs '
of Spring, their eyes beam, as in other
days, when they were lit up by the festivi
ties of this happy season. For a moment
they are with us, but the illusion vanishes,
and we think of them only as tenants of
the tomb; yet from that tomb issues a voice
which assures us
They are not dead—they could not die.
A great deliverer once rested within its
dark precincts, that he might break the
fatal spell which bound his fellow-sleepers,
and “ become tho first fruits of them that
slept;” and all around that place of re
pose flowers spriug up to.tell of a resur
rection from death —an eternal Spring t<s
banish the long Winter of Time.
All sink to reaseend, all to flourish fades.
Emblem ot man, who passes, uot expires.
Spriug utters*a call to work. Industry
must upturn the soil and deposit the seed..
Thus is it with our higher life. The spir
itual harvest will wave only for hitu who
toils on under the burden and heat of the
day, “ Work while it is called tho day :
the night cometh, wherein no man can
work.” *
The Supreme Court of Alabama has
recently rendered a very interesting decis
ion, whioh is with immediate reference to
military substitution, but reaches to a con
clusion that has not yet been fully an
nounced. It is decided by this court that
“ the war power ” of the Government au\
thorizes it to exhaust, if necessary, the
entire military force of the country in men,
money, aud every other available material
of war. From this broad proposition the
I court readily advances to the conclusion
I • that it is not in the power of arty Congress
! to grant permanent and irrepealablu ex
emotions from military service, upon any