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VOL. V.
Aunt Nabby sent him a cockle with
the motto—
‘'To Samuel I resign my heart,
He only can relieve its smart.”
He gave her a cockle containing—
"' When Abigail’s persuasive voice I hear,
My heart beats quick, and I feel very queer.”
And w.hen she handed him another,
reading—
" Wilt thou name the happy day,
Oh, mv bosom's idol 1
- • I will erteay
For tile tender bridal,”
he returned the following, which clinch
ed the whole business—
“ Flank of sweetness, hear me speak:
Let us both hitch teams next week.” *
Aunt NM>by was as good as mar
ried, andEiaer Sparro wgrass rose from
the table with five thousand dollars
more than when he sat down,
Gen. Stafford.
This gallant Brigadier, who fell on
the first day of the great battle in Vir
ginia while leading his command with
conspicuous valor, was a native of
Louisiana. He was a member of one
of the honored families of the
State, and was a sugar planter on
Bayou Boeuf, in the* Parish of Rapi
des. Before the war he was a mem'
her of the Legislature, but upon the
commencement of hostilities he raised
a company and tendered it to the Con
federate Governftient. From Captain
he was promoted' Colonel, and then
Brigadier,
*He was one of the best officers in
the army of Gen. Lee. He. leaves
a mother, and a wife who is said to
be one of the loveliest of women.
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We have the very gratifying infor
mation, says the Richmond Whig, that
the Commissary Department has re
cently come in possession of three
millions of pounds of excellent bacon,
which will be none the worse, we pre
sume, from having been cured beyond
the limits of the Confederacy. The
reclaimed districts in .North Carolina
are also furishing large quantities of
nice bacopj Several days ago, we
stated, on official authority, that the
tithe of bacon in Georgia would ex
ceed five millions of pounds. All of
these facts tend to assure the army
and the country that the period of
abort rations is passing away, to be
followed, we hope, by a season of plen
ty if not of peace.
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Rags for the News.
We desire very much to procure a quan
tity of Clean Cotton <k Linen Rags, that
we may obtain a sufficiency of paper t©
continue the News through another volume,
which we will be unable to do without we
*>.an get Rags to exchange for paper. We
appeal, then, to the lady readers of the
News to forward us all the Rags they have
on hand, and save us still more. We will
certainly be under many obligations for
large or small quantities, and besides will
pay ten cents per lb. Then let us have
Rags, atid continue our paper. • •
Taken Up,
THREE stray Steers. .The mark of the
first is crop and under bit in one ear,
and split and over bit tn the other—no
brand. The mark (it the second is crop and
half crop in one ear and crop and two under
bits ana over bit in the other—no brand.
The mark of the third is crop and two splits
and under bit in one ear, and crop and un
der bit in the other—no brand.
The above steers have been sold to the
Government because they m-pre mischievous.
Any person claiming the same, will call on
me and get their money, after proving pro
perty. JOHN FIVEASII.
Colquitt. Dec. 23, 1863. 11-Om*
T. T. SWANN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blakely, Early Co., Ga„
War. give prompt, attention to all business '
■Confided to his care. vo-13-tf
BLAKELY, GEO., MAY 18, 1864.
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
A friend of mine was married to a scold.
To me he came and all his troubles told ;
Said he, She's like a woman raying mad !
Alas ! my friend, said I, that's very bad.
Not bo bad, said lie, for with her, true,
I had both houses and land, and money, too.
. That was well, said I:
No, not so well, said he -.
For I and her own brother
Wept to law with one another ;
I was cast, the suit-was losjt,
And every penny went to pay the cost.
That was bad, said I; .
. No, not so bad, said he;
For we agreed that he the house should keep,
And give me fourscore of Yorkshire sheep ;
And fat, and fair, and fine they were to be.
Well, then, said I, surethat was well for thee.
Not so well, said he.
For when the sheep I got.
They every one died with the rot.
That was bad, said I *
No, not so bad, said he ;
For I had thought to scrape the fat,
And keep in an open vat,
Then into tallow melt for winter store..
Why, then, said I, that’s better than before.
No, not so well, said he;
For, having got a clumsey fellow
To scrape the fat and make the tallow,
Into the inciting fat the fire catches,
And, like to brimstone matches,
Burned n;y house to ashes.
That was bad, said I;
Not so bad, said he;
For, what is best,
My scoldipg wife is gone among the rest.
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What Lee lias Accomplished.
Enough is known, at least to satis
fy us that if Gen. Lee has not utterly
defeated the “ man on horse back,” he
has punished his army so as to prevent
a successful advance. Even it it were
possible for Grant, by means of over
whelming numbers, to persevere until
our gallant army should be worn out
with fatigue, there is many a mile to
be fought over before Richmond could
be reached, and if even captured, the
Federal force would be too much weak
ened and demoralised to ho,ld it for
any length of time after. Thus, one
more “On to Richmond,” and per
haps the last, has added another to the
briliknt list of failures on the part of
“ the Grand Army.”
If we should have been, or if we vet
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may be forced back even to this side
of Richmond, but little is gained to
the Federals.- The Southern veterans
of the Virginia army are uriconquered
still, and unconquerable. On the oth
er hand, if the enemy is- repulsed, or
even held in check, no defeat eould be
more disastrous, in moral effect, to J
them. Every account which has reach J
ed from that glorious field, tells*of vie- #
tory, and confirms the first glad reports )
of Federal defeat. Grant has been j
badly whipped, but he has not yet
been driven across the Rapidan. YYe
should be better satisfied if that should ■
be announced over the wires, but if it <
is not, our slumbers shall not in the
least he disturbed for the safety of the
republic. We have at least checked
the “man on horse back/’ and Rich- '
mond is as safe as it was before.
Atlanta Confederacy .
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A German statistical writer remarks
that the invention of the sewing ma
chine has enabled one woman to sew
as much as a hundred could sew by
hand, a century ago ; but, he contin
ues, one woman now demands as much
clothing as a hundred did a century
ago—so that the situation is not so j
much changed alter all.
These two lines, that look so solemn,
Art just put here to fill out this column.
mummM* ~ymrmn i-i im i ih. uiuli.uuilhii m oiitwwuJM•
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Debt of the United States Government.
The Northern journals begin to
soundsr the alarm, and we may soon
look,fop a financial crisis among the
Yankees, which cannot he much long
er delayed, even should there be no
Southern victories in the present cam
paign to hasten it. It is believed that
.the debt created by Mr. Lincoln, and
whip:! he will entail on his constitu
ents m the 4th of March, 1865, will
mi’: css than $4,000,000,000, equal
sos each of the SOtOO OXO9
of persons in the non-slave holding
►States. The interest on this sum at
six per cent, will be $210,000,C00 per
. annum, giving a rate of sl2 to each
person. Who.believes that this debt
will ever be paid ? Ths thing is im
possible. The utmost that can be done
to prevent repudiation of the whole at
once, will be to reduce the interest to
' three per cent., and issue stock accord
ingly, which will resemble the consols
of England (consolidated public debt)
and have a market value, more or less,
' as the means of paying the interest
punctually are mor.e or less apparent,
from the different sources of reve
nue. This we think, is the most fa
vorable view that can be taken of
the Yankee war debt.
The New Haven Register has made
a calculation on the figures of Mr.
Chase, showing that the debt of the
United States estimated to June-30,
1865, will be 82,692,086,941, thfe re
sult of four years rule bv an Abolition
President, and almost double the whole
expenditures of the government for
72 years, from March 4, *1789, to j
March 4, 1861. The parallel is thus
drawn :
Expended in 72 years $1,458,790,786 !
Expended in 4years, ’0 ito '65. 1. !
Excess in 4 years, $1,233,296,115
The foundation of the national debt !
of England was laid by Charles 3, more
than two hundred years ago, and has
since included the war with the Amer
ican colonies, the war with the United
States in 1812 and the wars with con
tinental Europe of not than thirty
years of actual hostilities in the field
and upon the high seas, and yet the
debt of England is to-duy less than a
third over that of the United States,
created by Mr. Lincoln in his vain
attempt to coerce the South back in
to the Union. The British debt draws
three per cent, interest, which author
izes this comparison :
Deiit. Interest.
United States, $3,000,000,009 $180,000,000
England, 3,912,600,772 137,072,903
Excess of burden to U. S ...$ 42,927,097
The Register, to which we have re
ferred, sensibly remarks :
“ Yet with all her wealth, the accus
mulation of centuries, England is un
able to pay her debt, and the payment
of the interest even at a low rate, is a
burden which has driven one-eight of
her population to pauperism. The
expectation that our public debt will
ever be paid is, therefore, out of the
question. , We can only provide for
the interest.”
The shock must come, and even the
military subjugation of the South could
not ward it off. When the debt of a
nation excaeds the value of its real
and personal property, as in the case
of the Yankees, it is evidence of bank
ruptcy. Mr. Chase may continue to
pay out. his greenbacks by the cart
load, and to patch up the gold mar
ket so as to keep down for a while the
rise from 170 to 200; yet when the
latter figure is attained by the Opera
tions of trade, away goes the whole
North into spasms, political, financial
and destructive. Then will be the i
beginning of the end fur which the j
Abolitionists have toiled for the last j
thirty years, and then we shall see how ■
Yankee enterprize will profit by the
convulsion. At all events, the Yan-
no. pi.*
kees will have a full opportunity to
Earn the! negro question, and how it
Jms contributed <6 their happiness;
Tnere is nothing like experience, and
and they were resolved to possess this
precious commodity at all hazards.
Now they have acquired it. “What
will they do with it?” A few years
will return the answer.
Official Report of the Battle of Main
* * §treet. «
To Jimmy Se.dJ’n, Esq., Sea'etary of Thor;
Mv Dz.Ui Javco : The battle of
Main street fire-plug occurred between
the undersigned and the “ Magnolia
Barroom,” about the settlement of a
sn?all “julep” bill. The proprietor
aforesaid rejoiceth in the appellation
of “ Suggs.” 1 came to the premises
of Suggs to. make (in military par
lance) a requisition for a short horn
of “ Beach ” —then I come to words—
then I come to blows—then both the
enemy and myself “clinched ” and we
came out in the street. 1 Crowd of
spectators soon collected and made a
circle so that the Provost Guard was
unable to get a sight, or prevent the
manoeuvers. Observing that the en
emy (Suggs) largely outnumbered me
in the force of bis muscles, 1 fell back
in a,sort of rapid hog wallow to the
curb stone, where I fortified with a
resolute determination to die in the
last ditch. Enemy advanced in a ser
pentine crawl and took firm hold on
my hair. I immediately advanced a
thumb and took possession of the ad*
versary’s left eye. He skirmished
vigorously with his right fist, apd made
! a desperate charge qn the back of
my neck with his teeth.. He held his
position until I drove his nose back in
utter confusion with my left piauler.
j l then ordered my right arm to ad
j vance arid take possession of the base
of his neck beiovv his ears, with in
i struction to garote. This order was
promptly obeyed. The enemy then
brought up his#ieels (until that time
held in feserve) and proceeded to kick
a hole in my bread basket in order to
cut off my supplies of wind. With
the same design I advanced my left
hand into his mouth—but in this the
enemy anticipated me, by taking five
of my fingers prisoners in his teeth,
evincing a determination, emphatical
ly to' make war to his tee.th. My
mouth then went forward at a double
quick and captured bis nose. He
then kicked me in both flanks with
his toes with a toe-tal disregard of the
rules of civilized warfare. Discover
ing myself flanked in this manner, I
bit him severely in the rear and rais
ed the black flag, when he drew off’
his forces, and left the field. I then
deemed it prudent to fall back, which
I did as soon as an opening in the
crowd could be effected, and thereby
saved myself and an unnecessary effu
sion of blood. It was one of the most
skillful retreats on record. One of the
best evidences of military genius is to
retreat well. It is a matter of no con
sequence to know how to fight. Any
body can fight, and fighting is com
mon. But to know how to retreat
when you arc whipped is the highest
perfection in the school of high tac-'
tics.
By the blessings of the God of war
I have achieved a complete and deci
sive defeat over the left.
J. Happy,
Gen. Coind’g Dep t Main St.
Kwort Kk«, A. A G.
State Tax Notice.
ftO R the benefit of Tax payers of Early
1 county, J will be at Blakely on Tuesday,
17th: at Esqr. Urqulmrt’s on, Wednesday,
18th :at A. I>. Smith’s on Thursday. Tilth;
at R. W. Sheffield’s on I ridav, 20th, and nr
Damascus on Tuesday, 21 sh May, to rccoiro
their Tax returns. J. M. WADE,
May 11. ISH 4. 30-2 t T_
Osnaburgs for Lard.
I WILL exchange a lor of eight ounce
Osnaburgs for Lard, at my store in
lv, for the next thirty dnv«.
' May 11, 18**1. S<i-2t ' R. >l. l UVER.