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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. — 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. ■+. ♦ 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.” — : —♦ ♦ —' 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 - :j._ , 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 ; ► 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. ——. ■ • 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.” * «. -*-♦ 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.