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€arin Cmtntn flctos. E. H. GROUBY, Editor, Proprietor & Publisher. BL A KELY: —. —■+ 4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 18G4. Rev. James Wallace, of Fort Gaines, will preach at Blakely on next Sabbath, the 29th inst., at 11 o’clock, a. m., and take up a collection to furnish Religious read' ing to our Soldiers in the artny and hospi tals. Hon. T. Butler King died at his resU dence in Waresboro’ week before last. Attention is called to the advertisement of Col. 0. P. Fannin. The Milledgeville Union and Recorder seem to be having a fine time of it in a dis cussion about Gov. Brown’s exemptions. + + John M. Wade, State Tax Assessor, has another advertisement in this issue of our paper. This, we believe, is his last round. See advertisement to the citizens of the 2Gth District. Can’t other Districts of our county call like meetings ? Wo have seen a list of the killed and wounded of the 13th Ga. Reg’t. in the late battles in Virginia. None of either re ported in Co. G., Early Guards. Neither the Jail or the Court House steps have yet been put in order. If both don’t need working on, we’ll give up that we are no “ judge of small matters.” Salt is now selling at from sls to S2O per bushel on the Way, though we under stand little is selling even at this price for money—the salt-makers want provisions. -♦ 4 ‘ '1 he Macon papers state that one of the Federal officers, a prisoner in the jail in that city, lately gave birth to a fine infant. They fail to state whether the child is white or black I, Wonder if extra rations are drawn for this young Yankee I Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire. If that is so, we think there are a good many “ kitchen fires * put out in this sec tion—altogether too many for these war times. The Militia Officers of this county left yesterday evening, in accordance with Gov. Brown’s proclamation, to report to Gen. Wayne in Hell! (Atlanta!) We hope the “ boys ” won’t get as badly “ sucked in ” when they arrive there as we did once! Twenty-seven car loads of Yankee offi cers, captured in the late battles, are now lodged iu Camp Oglethorpe near Macon, Ga. Thirty-two of the miscegenators es caped on the way down, aud the prisoners, officers and ineu, are said to be short a thousaud in number. * 4 •» Since the beginning of the present cam paign the Federals admit a loss of 50,000 men. This was previous to the Trans-Mis sissippi, Georgia and Virginia battles. The Felma Mississippian estimates their loss in the first at 44,000, in the two last at 11,- 000, making a total of 105,000 men. Attention is called to the “ Wool Card ing Machine ” advertisement in this issue. Mr. Ivineheu has just repaired his machine, and, if the sample sent us is a fair speci men, as we suppose it is, there is no doubt but that his carding will please the most fastidious. He will also sell lint wool for negro clothing at $2,00 per lb., or to the poor and needy at SI,OO. One thousand dollars is the price now asked iu Richmond for ladies’ spring bon nets ! The papers state that several have been sold at this price to some of the fash ionable ladies of that city, but fail to state whether they are “ sky-scrapers ” or not. Dog’d if we can fancy the things to save our life! It’s a good thing that people difler in their notion of thesp articles ! •■mmnmmmmmmrnmmmmmmwmmmm—smammmm—mmamm We are informed that Capt. R. K.^lines, P. Q. Albany, claims the credit (God * deliver us from such credit!) of being in strumental in getting Congress to pas* the ' five-fold Tax in 'Kind law ! This is un doubtedly one of the meanest laws that the old Congress ever passed, aud if it is so that Capt. Hines was instrumental in get ting it brought before Congress and having it passed, we don’t look upon him as any better than the law itself, which we con sider an imposition upon, the people. But how it is that such an important (!) per sonage as Capt. Hines could bjave had such a tremendous influence over the whole of the old Congress is astonishing to us. Wo will here dose our remarks for the present, but nmy refer to the matter again, and at length, when we get better “ posted.” If Capt. Hines wishes, he can have the use of our columns to defend himself until we see further into the matter. We believe the crops in this section are looking well, considering the late spring. There is no doubt but that the crops geu« erally will equal that of last year, many of the farmers to the contrary notwithstand ing. We believe the farmers generally make it a rule, about this time of year, to complain about poor prospects to make good crops, and say they can’t see how they are to live another year. Our opinion is that this unnecessary “howl” is generally brought about in order to keep up prices. From the best information that we can get, Early county farmers will kill more meat next winter than ever before—probably twice as much. All our planters who are exempted under the meat act will, there fore, find no difficulty in meeting their ob ligations with the Government. • —♦ . As will be seen by an advertisement in another column, Gov. Brown has ordered his Militia Officers to report to Gen. H. C. Wayne, at Atlanta, immediately, for fur ther orders, “ to aid, during the present emergency, in driving back the enemy from the soil of this State.” He also requests many of the Civil Officers to report. The Militia Officers, he says, must report, or they will be dealt with; but the Civil Of ficers lie merely requests to report. How many will go from this county we are at this writing unable to say, though we think that every man who lias taken “ shelter ” under a Militia Commission, to keep out of the war, ought to report forthwith to Atlanta. Can anybody tell us who these j Officers are to command ? 1 | t ; We heard of an ordinary lot of land (250 acres) in this county selling, on or about the Ist inst., at fifty dollars an acre! How is it, under these circumstances, that the most of our citizens are giving iu their lands to the Tax Assessor at from fifteen to thirty dollars per acre, when they have to swear that the price put upon the same is as much as it wpuld have brought on the first day of April, iu the old issue, without the discount ? If such laud as this would have sold on the Ist day of April at fifty , we know of other lands that would have sold at from one to tibo hundred dollars an acre ! Look out, gentlemen, or some of you will get yourselves into a “ diffieilty! ” Water is the best drink. Exercise and pure air the best medicine. Water may suit some people, but so far as we are concerned, we believe we’d rather havoit mixed with a little “good old rye ! ” —and if we couldn’t get the rye, we believe we’d be satisfied with a little “ corn ! ” The fact is, most anything that tastes like “spirits” will suit us better than water! , We’ve always heard it said that “the way to keep spirits up, is to pour spirits down,” and we have got to believing that it is so ! Allow others to discover your merit; they will value it the more for being their own discovery. The alcove may do very well in some cases, but we think we know a certain chap who had rather think well of himself than for anybody else to do so! Ho has a no tion that ho ought to have everything his own way; the public to the. contrary not withstanding. In another column will be found an ad vertisement of John'F. Saunders, Esq., of Madison, Ga., headed, “ For 'Posterity.” He wants some person in each city, town and village to report to him every man who has been speculating since the commence ment of the war, giving the fellow's name, what he has speculated on, whether Jew or Gentile, so as- to enable him to publish a book in regard to this class. As our readers are aware, we are as much down on this class of vampires as anybody that ever lived, and we hope that every man who has speculated on the necessities of the poor may be reported to Mr. Saunders, and tb#fc his book may do sojne good, and cause those who have been speculating and swindling almost everybody, heretofore, to do better in the future, and from now on, act like white meg. Tfho will report the “Roll of Honor Early county to Mr. Saunders ? There is a good deal of material here to work on. Every specu lating man in the county should be imme diately reported. Wonder if a certain firm in Fort Gaines won’t come in for a “ benefit ” in this “ Roll of Honor! ” A certain large business house in Macon is also entitled to about §500,000 worth of this kind of “ honor.” We are glad to learn that the Hotel at our friend J. W. Lane’s Mill, two miles from Blakely, has been closed. The rea son assigned for this step, by the proprie tor, is that provisions are too scarce and high to any longer Jeed people for nothing ! How it is that Mr. Lane has stood up to feeding about half the county for several years free , gratis, for nothing , we cannot see, and we are glad to know that he. has closed his house, for the present at least. This will no doubt be rather bad news to his old customers, as they will hereafter either have to bring their “ snacks ” with them or stop at some other hotel and pay their bills. There is no fun now in a per son feeding a man, his whole family and two or three horses every few days for nothing. The “ funny” part of this game has long since “ played out.” Those who have heretofore been stopping at the “free hotel ” at Lane’s Mill are informed that Judge Brown is still keeping his hotel open in Blakely, where they can alwayg be accommodated, get the best the market affords, and at a little advance on the for mer charges of Mr. Lane. A hint to the wise ought to be sufficient. Militia Commissions have taken a con siderable “tumble” in this section during the past few days ! A week ago we sup pose, if they could have been transferred, . it would have taken ten thousand dollars in the new issue to have purchased one of the “ dear pocket pieces,” while now they can be had at one’s own figures! Coro ner’s Commissions have also declined very considerably ! Our’s could now be bought for a trifle l Who bids ! And all this “ tumbling ” is caused merely because the Governor wants the officers of the State, both Civil and “ Miiishus,” to report to his Adjutant General! • ♦ ♦ While the war news continues to be ex citing, as it has been for the past few weeks, we ought to have a daily mail. Now if you want it, you must help to pay for it. Call at the Post Office, then, and subscribe, and put down a white man’s fig ures you do subscribe. Some people like to get a daily mail, provided they can get it at other people’s expense. Soon ev erybody will bo crazy to get the news daily, but what is everybody doing to secure a daily mail? Almost everybody is inter ested in this thing, and we hope they will * come up and subscribe liberally. Those who are too stingy to pay anything ought net to send for their mail. From all that we can learn, wo think the new issuo is quite slow in making its ap pearance. So far we havo seen very little of it in circulation. Why don’t Mr. Mem - mingor put all his “ mills'” to work? If he don’t look sharp he won't get enough issued between now and the first of Janu ary to take up the old issue, and then some people will feel “ minuß ” a few ! . We learn from the Columbus Sun, Sunday,‘that Messrs. May, Huagwfard, Woodfield, the three Frys, Captain* of Chattahoochee river bouts, and F. Mark.- . ham, a pilot, all of Columbus, and Meaar*. Geoige Drew, Garraway and Johnson, of west Florida, have been arrested on the charges of giving information to the block ading fleet at Apalachicola of the propoeed attack upon it; that they had been run ning parties to the North via west Florida and Pensacola; that one of their number had taken fifteen men to join the deserter* - in Florida, who have caused bo much trou ble, and who captured the blockade rutmer on the Florida coast; that the clique had induced, and were still trying to do so, our machinists to go North, and that they were trading in “ greenbacks.” The evidence against the parties is said to be complete. ■> The Frys and Markham are all Northern born men, but have lived here for many years, and made large sums of money—the Frys, we believe, have made large fortune#'. All the parties have been sent to Savannah, there to be tried by the mjjj||ry authori ties. We hope the last deviWf them will be shot. Their “hash” should be settled at once, and they can then do our eauae more damage. Editor News: Give me, for the satbb faction of many of our citizens, your opin ion of a man who will one day pay out five dollar bills to Soldiers’ families at their face, and the next day take them back by shaving them 33 J per cent, from the earns families. I know a man in this county who has been doing this for some time. Justice. Miller Co., Ga., May 20,1864. If we are not very much mistaken, we have heard of this very same chap before, and we think just the same of him now as then, and that is that he is too in fernal mean to live, and is decidedly the* most trifling scoundrel we have ever heard of yet. It is the duty of every good citi zen of Miller county to look into this thing, and if they find a man among them who cheats and swindles Soldiers’ families as stated by our correspondent “ Justice,” let them see that he gets wbht is due him— thirty-nine lashes on his bare back. But iu case the male portion of the citizens fail to deal with this trifling fellow, we would suggest to the Soldiers’ wives whom he has swindled to treat him to a coat of tar an<? feathers, and drum him out of the county. This chap, be who be may, should be dealt with iu some way or other, and vr* call ou the good citizens of Miller to eee to the matter. * The telegraphic news for the past week is so conflicting that it is a matter of im possibility for us to give our readers any thing that is reliable in regard to army movements, &c. In another column will be fouud a synopsis of the news up to the 20th, copied from the Cuthbert Times, which wo suppose ia about as correct as unything that we could write. The vary latest dispatches, which have been received' for the last day or two, will be found in another column, which we publish for what they are worth. -4 -» One of the greatest blessings we can en joy is a tender, honest, enlightened con science. There are confounded few of these kind of conscieDcies left of late. The Devirff got the whole of them. A full attendance is requested at a meeting of the Soldiers’ Aid Society to morrow evening, Thursday, 26th inst. Important Order. Adj’t. and Insp. Genl’s. Office, ) Richmond, May 21, 1864 } Special Order, I No. 234. j Owing to the inestimable service render ed to tlie Confederate States by Major General N. P. Banks, U. S. A., all officers and men in the service of the Confederacy are horeby prohibited from harming a hair of his head, and are especially ordered ru der all'circumstances to allow him to es cape. By order (Signed) S Cooper. Adjutant and Inspector General,