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* Business Buies.
An Eastern paper gives the following
seasonable ami excellent .rules fox youug
men commencing business : v
The world estimates meu by their sue*
cess iuvlifejaod by general consent success
is evidence of superiority.
Never, under any circumstances, assume
a responsibility you can avoid consistently
with youj* duty to yourself and others." *
Base all your actions upon a principle of
right, preserve your character,
aid in doing this never reckon, on the cost.
iiem '-obet thatsjbl uteris? L more like
ly to warp jucUsjnent than all other circum
stances conn u|(l; theretore look well to
your duty whetr your interest is concerned.
Never make money at the expense of
your reputation.
J3e neither lavish nor niggardly; of the
two, avoid the latter. A mean man is uni
versally despised, but public favor fs a
stepping stone to preferment; .therefore
generous feelings should be cultivated.
Say but little—think much, and do more.
Let your expenses be such as to leave a
balance in your pocket. Ready money is
a friend iu need.
Keep clear of the law; for, even if you
gain your ease, you are generally a loser.
Avoid borrowing and lending.
Wine drinking and smoking cigars are
bad habits; they impair the mind and
pocket, and tend to a waste of time.
Never relate your misfortune; and never
grieve over wlut you cannot prevent.
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Weights and Measures.
Persons are frequently puzzled fn tsbir
daily transactions to ascertain what such and
such an aitide ought to weigh per bushel.
Here is a table which all would do well to
cut out and preserve. It will prove valuable
for reference:
Bushels. Pounds.
Wheat bO
Sheiied corn 56
Porn in the car..... .. .70
Peas ....*. 60
Rye ..., \.56
Oats • • 32
Barley -17
Irish Potatoes.... 60
.Sweet Potatoes, .5.5
White Beans 60
Castor Beaus 46
(’lover weed 60
FiaxSeed 56
Hemp Seed 44
Blue Grass 5eed...... 44
Buckwheat 52
Dried Peaches 33
Dried Apples 24
Onion? 57
Salt ; 50
Stone Coal 80
.Malt 38
Bran 20
Turnips ....55
Plastering Hair ..8
Unslacked Lime 80
Corn Meal 48
Fine Salt 55
Ground Peas r. 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 44 deep, contains £
gallon.
A box 4 by 4 inches, 2J deep, contains 1
quart. ,
To the Citizens of South-Western Ga.
Catoosa Hospital, Griffin, Ga.. )
May 13,1864. }
Mr. William E. Stansel, a regular de
tailed Hospital attendant, is the Agent and
caterer for this Hospital, lie will be down
with you in a few days to purchase necessa
ries for the sick and wounded, such as but
ter, eggs, poultry, bacon, lard, dried fruit,
Ac., Ac.; also old linen, cotton rags, lint,
bandages, Ac. Any assistance rendered him
by the patriotic ladies and gentlemen will be
properly appreciated.
C. L. HERBERT,
r>l-2m Surgeon in Charge.
Taken Up,
fTMIREE stray Steers. The mark of the
JL first is crop and under bit in one ear,
and split and over bit in the other—no
brand. The mark ot the second is crop and
half crop in one ear and crop and two under
bits and 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 were mischievous.
Any person claiming the same, will call on
me and get their money, after proving pro- |
perty. JOHN FIVEASH. !
Cohjuitt, Tec. 23,1563. 11-6m*
BLAKELY, GEO., MAY .25, 1864.
(bavin Counts )lctos.
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year SIO,OO
For 6 Months „ ....$5,00
No suhuciptions received for less than six
months, and payment always required in ad
vance.
» Estes of Advertising-: '
1 Square,' (occupying the space of tea Bour
geois links, or iess,) each insertion...s2,o*)
Saving her Bacon.
We were told yesterday of a circum
stance by which an old lady saved her
bacon, which, wc think, should be re
pealed to counterbalance some of the
“cute tricks” of the Yankees which
we so often hear of.
It appears that just before Grierson
made his way to West Point, consid
erable alarm proceeded him through
out the country where he was expect
ed to travel, and every person.did #ll
he could to save his faluahles and
moveable property, to prevent their
being stolen. A certain old lady, who
resides only ashort distance from West
Point, learning that the advance guard
of a marauding party were advan
cing, and were within ashort distance
of her home, was in great distress as
to what disposition she should make
of her bacon, as she had a quantity in
her smoke house. Everybody about
the place was hiding away their valu
ables but the old lady, who stood
wringing her hands and crying put,
“ my conscience,” “ bless my soul,”
‘‘ where on the face of the yearth can
i I hide m v meat from these cursed l'an
kees.” • -
The Yanks hove in sight. On the
instant a brilliant idea struck the old
lady, and she sung out to her son,
“ You Jeernes. come here and help me
throw this meat into the yard.” And
at it they went, spreading the yard
with the bacon. In a few moments
the Yanks made their appearance, and
dashed into the yard. The first thing
they saw, of course, was the meat.
“Ah!” exclaimed one, “you have
got plenty of meat here; the very
thing we want.” The old lady be
ing close by and listening, replied :
“ Yes, we have got plenty of meat here,
such as it is ; yer can have it and wel
come, for I shan’t touch a mouthful
long as 1 live; for, this morning the
derned rebel sogers come here and took
every bit of my meat, and done some
thing with it, and flung it ip the yard,
and lhar it can lav till it rots before I
eat it.”
The Yankees tool: the hint—thought •
it was poisoned—and she “ saved her
bacon.”— Mobile Tribune.
One of the officers recently captur
ed by Forrest, made the following re-*
mark to Capt. Henderson, as the lat
ter reports to the Montgomery Adver
tiser : “ The most astonishing thing
that has arrested my attention since I
have been in captivity is the |
muring spirit of your soldiers, a hey
are living upon short rations of bread f
and meat, and yet I nevfer heard a
complaint escape their lips. They
neve.r mention their pay as a matter
of importance, and seem entirely de>
voted to a principle. On the other
our troops have every luxury
that men could desire, every comfort
which the nation can supply, and yet
are filled with discontent. They are
ever clamoring for their pay as though
it were the sole object. I candidly ac
knowledge that the contrast strikes
me with dismay.”
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If a man buys two apples and eats
both, how many will yet remain ? Os j
cores there will be two left. j
“ The best of friends must part,” as j
the rat said to his tail in the trap.
Miscegenation.
Tne New York Tribune thus states
the miscegenation question :
1. Will the admixture of white and
black blood necessarily produce a
physically weak progeny ? -This is a
question for the physiologist.
<2. Will such admixture necessitate*
a race to be of naturally inferior posi
tion in the farnilv of men ? This is a
■qw * mn for the historian.
Have such admixtures hertofore
been followed by the civil consequen
ces which a modern fecurrence to'
them would threaten ? This is a ques
tion for the historian.
4. Are such admixtures forbidden
by the law of God ? This is a question
for the theologian.
5. Will such admixtures lessen the
productive resources of the country ?
1 This is a question for the economist,
To these queries the Chicago Times
replies as follows :
1. The admixture of white and black
blood will produce an. abolitionist. •
The claims for exemption from the
draft in the abolition state of Massa-’
chusetts the past year prove that ab
olitionists are “ physically weak.”
2. The answer to the first interrog
atory compels an affirmative answer
to the second, as there is a singular
harmony between the, physical and
mental weakness of abolitionists.
8. The answer to the third question
can perhaps be more intelligently made
by waiting for |he development of the
progeny of the sixty one schoolmarms
at Port Royal.
4. Such admixtures, we infer, are -
not forbidden by the law of God, be
cause those ■“ engaged in the interest
of God and hmnarijjy ” are their prac
tical and zealous advocates.
5. Such admixtures will lessen the
j productive resources of the country,
unless the progeny are superior to
their black progenitors ; for did not
Mr. Lincoln aver to Patten and Demp
sey concerning the negroes in our ar
my, “ They eat and thqt is all ? ”
A correspondent at Dalton sends
us the following, for the truth of which
he vouches. The writer was a neigh
bor of Stacy’s:
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Henry Stacy, a citizen of Hancock
county. East Tenn., died on the 18th
April, 1864. He was about forty-six
years of age, six feet six inches high,
and weighed over six hundred pounds.
For many years previous to his death
he had not left his home. ITis health
was generally good, he was very talk
| ative and fond of company. A great
J many persons visited him from curi
osity.
In his young d*ys he excelled ail
his schoolmates in running, jumping
&c.
He left a wife and two children.
Rebel.
A little boy who is in the habit of
bringing wood to town to sell, and
i whose appearance would indicate him
to be a very dull child, happened to
| be in town the other day with a load
of wood, and passing the shop of Mr.
him the price of the wood.
“ Ten dollars, sir,” says the little
fellow'.
“ What! Ten dollars ? ” exclaimed
the shoemaker.
“ Why, where do you expect to go
when you die ? ” he continued.
“ I don’t know,” remarked the little
fellow, “ but suppose I may be some
where in the neighborhood of the shoe
makers.’’
Sumter Republican.
Our friend “the Major,” who is ;
Quartermaster of a crack Tennessee |
brigade, informs us that the military
hieroglyphics A. Q. M., C. S.-A., sig
nify that “ A Quarter Master Can
Steal Anything.” '
Artenius Ward on ROrganization.
Arternus Ward, in n. recent letter,
thus gives his ideas on reorganization :
I never attempted to reorganize my
wife but once. I shall never attempt
it again. I’d bin to a public dinner,
and had allowed myself to be betray**
ed into drinkinseveral people’s healths;
and wishing to make them as robust
as possible, I continued drinkin their
healths until my own became affected.
. Consckens was, I prcsrrrftd myself at
Betsy’s bedside late at rite, with con
siderable liclter concealed about my
person. I had somehow got perses
shun of a hosswhip, on hay way home,
and rememberin some cranky obser
vashun of Mrs. Ward’s in the mornin,
I snapt the whip putty lively and in
a very loud voice I said, “ Betsy, you
need reorganizin ! I have come, Bet
sy,” I continued, crackin the whip
over the board, “I have come to reor
ganize you!” I dreamed that nite.
that sumbudy had laid a hosswhip over
me sev’ril consekootive times, and
when I woke up I found she had. I
haint drunk much of anything since,
and if I have another reorganizin.job
on hand, 1 shall let it oiit.
When Wright’s Georgia regiment
was drawn up in line of battle to go
into its first fight in North Carolina,
Wright, in passing ip front of his regi
ment, observed a tall, gaunt fellow,
with a violin case strapped t<? hi* back.
Wright asked him what he was going
to do tfith his fiddle. The rude sol
dier had never heard of Mirabeau's
dying exclamation, but he. almost quot
ed it when he said he wanted to “die
to the sound of Betsy,” thisdieing the
term of endearment which he applied
to his VroHn.
Alter the fight was over, the fiddling
soidierdid not answer at roll call. He
was found with a broken leg at the foot
of a tree, to which he had crawled qui
etly sawing the strings of Betsy.
Mrs.
ing. Mrs. Partington makes a fare
well address. “Ike, my son, stand up,
while 1 address you; hold my bonnet
and specks. Fellow soldiers—-it is the
abandoned duty for all to be patriar
chal in these limes, and to hand down,
unimpaired, the glorious flag of suc
ceeding generations. (Here Ike com
menced counting off the new-fashion
ed cheer, swinging the old bonnet up
and down as he went in one, two,
three—tiger.) March hesitatingly in
to the contented field, and If a rebel
demands your quarters, tell him ydh
had hut three, and the last one is spent;
then, if he wont quit and leave, quit
yourself, like a man, and say you have
a glorious campaign of it.”
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In Nortfy Carolina it is frequent, among
her forrests of fat pine, for a lover in dis
tress to send the fair objects of his affec
tions a bit of its staple vegetable produc
tion, with an eye painted upon it. This
signifies “ I pine.” If favorable to him,
the young lady selects from the wood pile
the beat and smoothest specimens of a knot,
which signifies “pine not” But if, on
the other hand, she detests him, (there is
no niidffle ground between detestation and
adoration with young women,) she burns one
end of his message, and this generally
throws the young man in despair, for it
means, “ I make light of your pining.”
The country has been suffering
with a disease called “ Inflated Curs
rency.” When it recovers from that
by withdrawal of the “ old issue,” we
suppose it will take the I J neu-mom-a l
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Gold is mounting up again in New York
It is now quoted at §2,10. Chase's pile
has given oat, and he has retired from the
fight. Gold is now going up to stay.
T. T. SWANN,
A TTOR NE Y AT LAW,
Blakely, Early Co., Oa.,
Wn.L give prompt attention to ail business
confided to his care. vo-13-tf it
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