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N Ti 'i '■*% t YOI, V. * 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. * . •# « 3 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.” + *». ♦ 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: * • 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.” ♦ —■ - 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 —~ ■ % 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 fg **.. f ko. as. -- ■