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Early County News.
VOL. V.
Weights and Measures.
Persons are frequently puzzled in their
daily transactions to ascertain what such and
such an aiticle tught to weigh per bushel,
is a table which all would do well to
eat out ntfd preserve. It will prove valuable
for reference:
‘Bcshejs. Pounds.
Wheat 00
Shelled corn 56
Corn iu the ear : 70
9 Peas u£
Rye 50
Oats as
Barley... 47
Irish Potatoes 00
iSweet Potatoes , 55
* White Beans 00
Castor Beans 46
Olover Seed GO
Flax Seed 56
Hemp Seed 44
Blue Grass Seed 44
Buckwheat.,.., 52
Pried Peaches 33
Pried Apples 24
Onions 57
Sait 50
Stone Coal 80
Malt 38
Bran 20
Turnips.. ..55
Plastering Hair 8
TJnslacked Lime 80
Corn Meal 48
Fine Salt . ...55
Ground Peas .....25
A box 24 by 16 inches, 22 deep, contains
• 1 barrel.
A box 16 by 16| inches, 8 deep, contains 1
bushel.
A box 8 by 8* inches, 8 deep, contains 1
peck.
A box 7 by 4 inches 4$ deep, contains £
gallon.
A box 4 by 4 inches, 2$ deep, contains 1
quart.
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The amount of Confederate money
funded Hast of Mississippi, has been
all of 8250,000,000. The amount
which will be funded and retire from
circulation West of the river, will be
all of 850,000,000 —or a total of $300,-
<>oo,ooo. old issue paid to the
Government officers in taxes and in
other ways, will be so much taken from
tiie market. »So the old issue will con
stantly go out of circulation, until af
ter awhile there will be comparatively
little in hand at all.
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A Farmer’s Boy,” in Barren coun
ty, Ky., advertises lor a wife. He
says :
“ lie wants to know if she can milk.
And iqake Itis broad and butter,
And go to meeting without silk,
To make a “show and Gutter.’'
He’d like to know if it would hurt
Her hands to take up stitches;
Or sow the buttons o?i his shirt,
Or make a pair of breeches.”
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Fifty-eight life assurance offices are
winding up their business in England. .
Blakely Male & Female
Academy.
if|MIIS Institution will open on Tuesday,
1 the Bth inst., under the 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 from
the undersigned. P. M. WADE.
Blakely. Mar, 2, 1804. 20-ts
NOT ICE]
f IWIIS is to notify all persons concerned
JL 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
issory Notes, each one of which calls for live
hundred dollars. Said notea were given in
December, 1861, and 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 sanfb.
MARTHA W. POWELL, Adm'x.
ROB’T. A. J. POWELL, Adm’r.
' Mar 2, 1861. 20-8 m {’
BLAKELY. GEO,, MAY 4, 1864.
(Bavin Countir Mttos.
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year slo,oft
For 6 Months $5,90
No subsciptions received for less than six
months,and payment always required iu ad- j
vaucc. j
Rates of Advertising:
1 Square, (occupying the space often Bour
geois lines, or less,) each insertion...s2,oo
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, Military Necessity.
Tins Charleston Mercury talks very
plainly, and tartly too, to that portion
of the community who are now en
deavoring to shield the wrong acts of
those in high places under the deceiv
ing crv’of military necessity. The re
marks of the Mercury are well timed
and to the point. That paper lias han
dled the subject treated of without
gloves. It goes into the merits of the
case and shows up the fallacious sub
terfuge of the monarchists in our midst
in its true light. Here is the article re
ferred to :
Since the war, a new element has
been introduced into the free Govern
ments on both sides of the Potomac.
The Yankees, under the United States
Constitution, had enthroned, as the
grand absorbent and tvrant of their
system of government, “ the general
welfare ! ” This was in the days of
their immaturity, when the Southern
sun quickened into life various imped
iments to' their growth and progress.
This “general wejfare” was tjieir de
vice mainly for robbing tjie South.
It sets up banks. It buijt Yankee
breakwaters. It cleaned out harbors
arid rivers. It gave them our Terri
tories. Jt annihilated States, and
ujnde them counties or districts. In
fact made them our masters. But
“ general welfare ” is how here since
the war. Its vocation is with our de
parture from their clutches, and- is
dead and buried. .But a new power
has arisen, braver and stronger, and
purer (since it comes not out of the
Constitution.) That power is military
necessity! No more refined sophis
tries about the Constitution. No
more reliance on Chief Justice Mar
shall or the great expounder of the
Constitution. “Miliary Necessity”
strides over and tramples down all
constitutions. At the very opening of
the war, it seized editors of newspa
pers and put them into prisons. Sew
ard rang his little bell, and forthwith
some luckless wretch was. seized iu
his bed, or taken out of his field, and
inarched off with bayonets behind him, ,
to some secure fortress. It made pa
per money a legal tender. It ariested
the members of the Legislature of Ma
ryland, and dispersed it. It put the
judicial authorities of the State and of
the United States at defiance* and when
Chief Justice Taney and Judge Dun
lap ventured to issue writs of habeas ,
corpus to liberate victims, it laughed
at them. It coolly abolished the whole ;
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Constitution of the United States, and
by a law of Congress, made Lincoln
a despot. \
Now, all moralists teach us that evil |
is catching. It was impossible to see
what “military necessity ” had accom- i
plished on the other side of the Poto
mac, without a longing being raised
on our side to taste of its sweets.
Presently there were heard whispers
in the wind that military necessity |
required that the Executive should ;
be, on this side of the Potomac, as
strong as he was on tfie other. The
military resources of the’Confederacy
should be concentrated Rnder one
head ; and how can this be done, with
a Congress to supervise and ques
tion ? Congress was a nuisance, and
should be treated accordingly, by hav
ing its laws contemptuously vetoed,
until it became conveniently subrnis- j
sive. It must know that it had a mas- j
ter. like Lincoln's Congress. And is
it not plain that “ military necessity ”
requires no limits to its getting men
or money ? Why should it not build
railroads ? The Constitution says no!
Does it? A fig for the Constitution.
And you vv.'.’it it to protect, those who
criticise and blame the Government!
| Habes corpus! Has not Lincoln
kicked it on the other side of the Poto
mae, and why should it exist on this?
*■ Military necessity ” requires that ev
ery man who cannot hold his tongue
should be put in jail. Are not the
greater part of‘the people in the army ?
And is not the army a despotism ?
Why should those not in the army fare
better, and not have a despotism also
over them ? Os course we must have
a despotism, and “military necessity ”
is just the thing to accomplish it.
Lincoln says, and so do we, that after
the war is over, and “military neces
sity ” no longer exists, the Constitu
tion may get up. That’s liberal!
That’s patriotic, and only one fit for
the discipline of Adjutant General
Cooper's lately organized Military
Courts would object to it.
A Dalton correspondent of the
Montgomery Advertiser writes :
The New York correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial says : “.As
an evidence of the-ultra insanity of
tlie New York Black Republicans on
the subject of “Miscegenation,” or
commingling of races, it. is stated that
Horace Greely, Esq., of the Tribune,
lias filed a bill of divorce, asking a
separation a vinculo matrimonii from
Ins wife, on life ground ghat she has
been discovered nagranre deliefu with
a sable brother of African descent,
who was well known in Mobile a few
years ago as the driver of a fancy and
fashionable hack !”
In a certain hotel in a village in Ah
abama, there is employed a bar tender,
who is in the habit of taking his “tod ”
pretty freely, but always makes it a
point never to drink in the presence
of his employer. A few days ago,
while lie was in the act of drawing
his “tod” prepartorv to taking a drink,
his employer came into the bar-room
rather unexpectedly. Finding him
self caught in the act, as he set the
tumbler and its contents on the coun
ter, he cast his eyes around with a look
of .surprise and exclaimed .- “ Where
in creation did that man that ordered
that drink go to ? ”
The Ijdobile Tribune, notices evi
dent signs of a rapid decline in prices
of groceries, provisions, ete. Butfer,
that commanded in the Mobile mar
ket, three weeks ago, from $lO to 812
per pound, is now dull at 85 to $6 per
pound. Bacon is ofiered at 83.50 per
pound. Fresh meats have declined
in the past ten days from 30 to 50
t per cent. Corn is selling at $3 to 85
per bushel, according to quality.
The Montreal Witness says that
a French Canadian land owner died
suddenly to all appearances a few days
ago, and was taken to the church lor
interment. As the service was pro
ceeding, noises were heard, coming
from the coffin ; the lid was taken off,
and the man was found to be alive.
On the following day he was able to
be out.
A soldier of the sixth Georgia Regi
ment, in a recent letter expresses the
opinion that “if the administration
would keep all in the army who be
longed in the ranks, there would be no
need of taking away more men from
their occupations at home.” The sol
* dier contends, that as matters now
stand there is no more men at home
than is needed to carry on the vari
ous branches of business necessary to
keep things in order and moving.
.Disturbing the Peace.
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, Mr. Ste
phens and others, thinking that, cer
tain measures of the Confederate gov
ernment militate against the sovereign
ty of the States and endanger the lib
erties of the people, have had the in~
dependence to say so. For this, re
marks the Richmond Whig, they are
reprehended in ceftain quarters as
the disturbers of the public tranquility,
and breeders of discontent and dis
trust. Perhaps they will accept the
impeachment. They may be old fash
ioned enough in their devotion to the?
.rights of the States and citizens to
feel that it is patriotic duty to excite
discontent, and distrust when these arc
threatened. They may feel as Burke
felt, when he aaid: “I am not of the
opinion of those gentlemen who are
opposed todisturbing the public repos?.
J like a clamor when there is an abuse.
The fire-bell at midnight disturbs your
sleep, but it. keeps you from being
burnt in your bed. The hue and cry
alarms the country, but preserves all
the property in the province.”
It will be a sad <h«y for us when the
country lacks men to raise an alarm,
when they think the public liberties:
are at stake.
From the Itefuge Works in this
place there has just been turned out
one of the most elegant and substan
tial jobs that has been gotten up in
the South during the war, in the shape
of an ambulance for two horses, 'flic
carriage is for Lieutenant General
Hood, of the Arniy of Tennessee, and
is a present from fM men of I,'is plAdi
vision. The work is executed in the
substantial si vie so characteristic of
•j
the Refuge Works, and the, painting
and ornamentation would (Frpredit to
any establishment, even in peace time.
Martetfu Rebel.
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A young man recently presented
himself for examination as assistant
engineer in the navy. Among other
questions, the following was asked of
him : “ Suppose you had built an en
•gine yoursejf, performed every part of
the work without resistance, and knew
that it was incomplete order, hpt. when
put into a vessel the pump would not.
draw water, what, would you do?”
The young man promptly replied : “ T
should go to the side of the vessel and
ascertain if there was*any water in the
river.” *
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Says a cotempornry : “ Wife and I
j were looking at some pictures in which
little naked angels were quite conspic
nous, when she called the attention of
our little daughter to them qnd remark
ed:
“ Lizzy, dear, if von are a good girl
and go to heaven, you will he like those
allgels.”
Lizzie looked up with a lip that told
at once she didn’t appreciate the pro
mise, and said :
“ I want to be better dressed than
that when I go to heaven ! ”
The affection of a woman is deep
ly planted in her bosom, and though
it may not be conspicuous amid the
sunshine of life, yet when the dark
clouds lower, and danger or difficulty'
menances the object of her attach
ment, this nobie feeling stands forth
revealed, and gives a tone to every
action. It is this deep, enduring feel
ing that urges her to attempt deeds'
from which the soul of man shrink.
It has been well said that man may in
deed write on constancy, but how tru
ly can woman act it !
, Muggins says that it is impossible
for him to say whether all of the wel
dressed fellows he sees at every turn
are of the right stripe or not, but pr**
sumes that many of them are hones'
as lie meets them daily “on th
■ Square.” *
TsTO, 29.