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toratti Jto. H •' im ii TOL. V, fltm T»E EARLY WUN'TY NEWS. Fort Gaines, Ga., May 9, 1864. . Uu Thursday night last the old College in Fort Gaines was mads glad by the ex hibition of Tableax Vivants. 1 be-young \ ladies aud misses and masters of Mr. and Mrs. Ke a more’s School, assisted by sever* | al kdies'aud gentlemen cf the place, pro- j duced a programme remarkably adapted to the times and the occasion. The stage w£& beaux!fully decorated with flowers and skid fbe 'toaetmex oV selected. The Eishihidrea was well attecded/aad we are satisfied that the audience were very well pleased. The young ladies were well trained in their sev eral parts, their declamation being quite [ .distinct and well accented, in the scenes i which partook of the nature of dialogues, I .charades and rebussea. We will make no invidious distinction by attempting a criti cism upon this or that scene, or give our • preference of one of the Tableaux over an other, but simply ree&mraead the kind ac- • tors to repeat, their exhibitions, as the pros -seeds are appropriated to a very benevolent purpose, the benefit of the Way-side Sam's ivtid Hospitals. God bless those pretty young friendly efforts may soothe the sorrows of many a weary pil grim whose trembling footsteps are ever aud anoa nearing their .homes upon short furlough. They wiil implore a blessing upon the heads of ail the actors who strive to supply them with the uieaus of subsist ence. » Eaieih community has a surplus qj mon ey, and no one should hesitate to throw in bis or her mite to’assist in a cause so com mendable. These hard times will not last forever; the invalid Soldiers will not al ways present themselyes at our doors for sympathy.. Then lot ue sustain them, and bless the yoUug ladies for their beautiful Tableaux. _ . There - was something in each was wanting, and it grieved cur heart Sad -Vi ly. The bright smile of the young beaux and gallants mingled not with those of the maiden. Brave youths and patriots, they ore defending the homes of their lair ones, they are far away, but do they, not sigh • for their loved ones, do they not think of • the happy times they, have spent at home, “ In the days when we went gipsying, A long thus ago ? " Oh, .if we had an ocean of tears, and | each was a pearl, we would shed them when such griefs arise in our breast “ It is the hour when-happy faces Gleam around- the taper/s light—. .1 Who wiil till oiu vacant places, >• ; Who will sing our Bongg to-night?” We were pleased to notice ic the audi ence several ladies from Blakely. We will ever welcome them to Fort Gaines. We are certain that a nice widower friend of •ours (God bless him) entertained them, and it is a doubt in our mind whether the pretty scenes of the Tableaux received as much attdntion from him as the belles of Blakely did. Aoathos. * • The resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 4th, declar . ing by a vote of sixty-seven to eight that it is inexpedient to put the five dollar bills at par with the new issue . settles the point, and we are obliged to Congress for this prompt show of hands upon'the question. The point now is, whatoifght to be done in the premises? To attempt to maintain the fives at par value on the face of the tax of- one third which accrue in fifty days, is a crusade against common sense and fi nancial reason. It seems to us the public should, by common consent, put them m the same category with the remainder of the old issue, and thus equalize the currency at once. Macon Telegraph. T, T. SWANN, attorney at law, Blakely, Early Co., Ga., VP iLi. give prompt attention to all business confided to iua care. v5-13-tf N OTIC E. THE undersigned will soon be prepared to do all kinds of repairing in the Black smith line, and will «io new work if the iron furnished. NOYES k MURK ELL. Jau 15, 183*. 13-ts • BLAKELY,’ OEO., MAY 11, 1864. (Mjr €mvdn JjJcte. , Terms of. Subscription; For 1 Year...... i For 6 Months, * ,;..$5!00 No subsciptions received for less than six j months, and payment always required in ad vance. • • Rates of Advertising: 1 Square,.(occupying the syo&cq &*r- ’ * gfbislines, or eaefi in«emorr. ; .Y2 s OO Letter from Hie Fool-Killer. On the Wing, May 1, 1864. Mb. Editor : I am almost ready to lay down my club in despair. In spite of me the world grows worse, and man kind meaner. The deceit, hypocrisy, avarice, selfishness and cunning ras cality of ‘Adam’s race, have brought and are still bringing the direst curses | of upon us. The very elements are at war with us. Why ? The Christian has turned Shyiock, and for a few pieces of silver or a wagon j load of Confederate money is ready to deny his Savior. God sees the pul sations*of the human heart, and knows its Secret desires. The philanthropist has turned extortioner; the good man an unfeeling oppressor of the ppor; in. ; fact the devil seems to have been un chained and turned loose among us, and nine-tenths of those who professed to be against him are riding the Old ' Fellow booted and spur’d in search of high prices and the last dollar. Patri otism has played out, or all gc*ie to the army. The man who before the j war was going to throw open his gran . - pa.o^a.G4-' ri heui the Jtnd , spufhis last drop of blood for his coun try, cannot furn the key.unless you , give him all the' money yot: have ey-#» er made cr expect to make as an in-® F ducerhent, and instead of spilling his I blood, he Is at home sucking the blood | of the poor and censuring better men j for being out of the army. Himself an artful dodger of the battle field, it I makes' him mad to see others out of the army, and he rails and frets pret ty much like pot calling kettle black. The ways of dodging are numerous, and one class of dogers is no better than another. For example, the hale, hearty Enrolling officer, though in Gov ernment employment, gets a soft bomb proof place, and is a dodger equally as much so as the mail contractor for a cent a year, or the salt petre manufac turer, or the contraction for tanning a hanfull of bull’s hides, ©r the dispen ser of physic (that ought to be thrown to dogs) in some hospital remote from Yankee shot and shell. Every rnan, sir, able to be in the army, and who keeps his carcass out of harm’s way, is a dodger, I care net if he be in Gov efnment employment or at home em ploying himself in skinning and rob bing his destitute neighbors. This brings me to consider who are the ex tortioners and the provokers of the wrath of heaven ? I will say notning about the hiding of meat, wheat and corn, to keep the soldiers in the army from getting it, nor is it necessary to discuss the various grades of vice and iniemity. I take up a Richmond pa per* and from, it I perceive that the Government allows the people twen ty eight dollars a barrel for the best familv flour; the price was fixed by honest, competent and disinterested men, called on to say what a barrel of flour is honestly worth ; but where is ‘ the Christian, jew or gentile, who re fuses to exact more than the Govern ment pays ? One would suppose that no man had the conscience to charge over ten dollars more than the Govern ment price, and really the needy peo ple ought not to be required to pay as much as Government, for Government is dble, and always liberal. But look at it! they refuse to sell to the hun gry and needy man at double the price Government pays! So far from sel ling at Government price, they exact ten times as much as Government in witling to pay. They know the | pie will pay any price they can soon er than starve, and hence the enor mous, sinful exactions. This is with bolding bread, and why marvel if heav en sends a curse upon our farms ? Tit? Government pays 84 a bushel for - <iv a' icw demand* ffiur or five > much. tiuatie, simply because the suffering people can be made to pay it Do ydu expect heavdn to smile upon a land of God-lorsaken extortioners ? Ido not. Nor can they prosper, for by tfieir heavy exactions they depreci- I ate the currency and bring ruin upon . their pvvn ill gotten gains Attending the conscription at —— a few weeks ago, I met up with a num- , ber of subjects trying to fool the Board of Surgeons, and among those was a fellow who could throw his shoulders about as if out of place; he was ush ered into the room with a shoulder thrown back as if badly out of place, but a suspecting surgeon detected the cheat, and .1 mauled his shoulder back again in its place. The applications for exemption on the score of rheuma tism. misery in the breast, pain in the back. borte lt .&e., &c., were numerous. In the winding up I pitched into the County Enrolling Officer, for offering a*bid lor a bribe, and casheering the selt-irnportant chap 1 conscripted the conscriber and slapped him in the ar my with a musket on his shoulder. Not far from —-1 mauled a man who carries his pockets- lull of roots to chew for luck while playing short jtf- nrr r <r • TromvA: rur ~ W iniC , chewirig one kind of root he ejects it j from his mouth and tries another. I i t mauled the roots out of him. i In ——l took the E-ascal Whal er’s club to a fellow who ought to be j in the army, but gets exemption on a ! score not mete to tell, for refusing 810 a .hundred for oats. He has six fine , stacks of Oats, and hut three horses to feed, and refuses to sell any to his neighbors whose farm horses are suf- j feririg for Something to eat. This man is an extortioner of the deepest dye, and to get a pound of money for a pound of oats he runs down the cur i rency and says the new issue is as worthless .as the old. This is a hale, I hearty looking customer and looks like he could shouler a cannon and wade Mississippi, and yet he is left at home to extort and decry the currency. He ought to be pul into the front ranks of the army, or thrown into Castle Thunder The gentleman wild killed 3000 pounds of pork and gave in but 1300 pounds to the tax assessor, got the hog bristles mauled out of him. You have no idea, Editor, of the amount of false • swearing, cheating, stealing conceal- . ing and "hiding from the Government .carried on by some people, and by men you would little suspect. But, Editor, you may refuse mo-the courtesy of a hearing through your paper, and it. may be “love’s labor lost ” to give a detailed synopsis of my maulings. So lam yours foolishly, The Food Killer. The Federal papers were by last ac counts condoJmg over the loss of Ply mouth. They say the garrison con sisted of only thirteen hundred and the assaulting force of over twelve thou sand. Their men ** fought like tigers,” and killed fifteen hundred rebels, but there was no use contending against such odds. The rebels led every col ored soldier out of the works and shot him. The Savannah Republican re ports 2327 prisoners as having so far arrived in that city from Plymouth. “The Colored North Carolina Regi ment, made up of runaways from that State, we presume will he soundly whipped and put to work.” Money,not Plentiful. ' A friend who is employed at one ot the Railroads; informed us yester" day that he was out collecting, and tnat it was with the greatest difficulty that he procure a rjpnt ThVt * reply which met him at some of our iaigest manulacturing establishments was ' we have no money ” What i:; the m: :ter ? Two months ago they would. lave handed out the “ Bon fed. “v th*kv '-Wmisd* : with greatest avidity With militafv sucoesSes. on every hand, cheering prospects for spleiidid crops, the prices; ot provisions lessening, and our cur" rency in demand, what a brilliant pros pect for ireedotn and independence there is presented—what bright hopes o! ultimate success may we not enter tain ?—Columbus Sun. These remarks are applicable to the business of Macon. We have heard ot several first class establishments complaining of having barely enough ready money to meet their obligations, and of government establishments ask - ing time on their bills. The truth is the new issue is rarely ever tendered, five dollar bills are “ gouged ” by the speculators so deeply that people keep them in Iheir pockets until the most dire necessity .calls them out, prices are going down, and, in a word, the market is chaotic. Macon Confederate. Shifts of Abolitionism. The editor of the Selma Mississtp pian has been presented with a metal ic charm used Jby the Yankees to hang". around the necks ot the poor negroes j Tanks. 'Vhe cnarru is about the siz* v | of an Amerioan half dollar. One side J is stamped with the bust ol old John Brown, with the words, “ Slavery the sum of allvillanies,” and “John Brown marching along.”' The other side presents John Brown swinging be tween heaven and earth from a gab lows according to the manner of bis execution in Virginia Here, too, the name.“ John Brown” is stamped in small letters ; Vlso the words, “ resist - ance to tyranny is obedience to God, and “Give me liberty or death 1 ” W c presume the Yankees have succeeded in making their ignorant black dupes believe that John Brown died on the . gallows that they might be free. The amulet which each dar::ey carries around his neck is doubtless regarded by him/as a talisman capable of shield ( ing its possessor against all harm. * .... .*.*.♦ The pld Five*. The hasty action of Congress, re> ported this morning, will, we'suppose, depreejate the old fives at joncc. The vote of the House is so decisive that, we presume no different action may be anticipated. —-Memphis Appoai We think that our people should be governed by the dictates of humanity 1 and patriotism in this matter, apd still endeavor to sustain the fives as* long ; as it is possible, inasmuch as tfie pour of the country have scarcely anything else with which to purchase tfie neces - sities of life According to a Jaw ot Congress they are receivable at par • until’the Ist of July, and are therefore on the same footing with the new is-» sue, and ought not to be refused by any individual 01 corporation. Macon Confederate. Bring us your old Cotton & Linen Rags. - j Wife Wanted! By a you£g man of good habits, plenty of money, good looking, and legally ex empt from Confederate service. Lady pre far rod to be between 17 and 20 years of age. handsome, and to wear a No, 4 shoe. M<jney no object. Those appiyin* will please send their i>a euerreotvpes witn their address to * M RS... f are “Nows” Office, Xfay 4. 1864. 29-31* JBiakoly^Ga. 3STO. *3O.