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E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
BLAKELY:
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15,18G4.
Our couuty has been blessed during the
past week with several rains, and vegeta
tion of every kind seems to be looking up.
A new way to let people know you have
got a baby at your house —advertising for
a “ I Vet Nurse ” in your town or city pa
per ! A very modest way. we think !
We are authorized to say that “ M. R.
iS who lately advertised for a Wife in
the News , is not yet married, and that com
munications will yet be received from any
«.f the “ fair sex." If the girls knew him
as well as we do, no doubt they would be
“ pitching in.”
Will somebody tell us why it is that the
young ladies about Blakely and in Early
county dou’t take the advantage of “ leap
year," and go*to courting? For the life
of us, we can’t understand it! We know
very well they want to get married, and
why it is that some of them don’t “ lock
horns ” with our good looking young men
and widowers, is something “ miraculous"
to us ! It’s very queer!—but wc suppose
there’s a cause for their modesty !
From a card issued by Col. J. D. Wad
dell, wc see that a “ Slave Claim Hoard ’’
has been established by the Government in
Richmond, where all parties who have lost
negroes while on Government work will
have the same settled. This thing we cou
nidor entirely wrong, for if a man of means
is to he paid for a negro that dies while
doing Government work, why should not a
poor man or woman be also paid for the
loss of a sou while fighting for the country?
If one is paid, we think the other should
be also. Though we think that if any dis
tinction at all is made in the matter, it, by
.. « **mim"wot ms or
•ill monn»
sou, instead of the rich man or woman who
has lost a confounded negro, for which the
poor people are now fighting. "But giving
poor people their rights in this country has
long since “ played out.” and so, we sup
pose, the poor will have to “ grin atod en
dure ” whatever the wealthy arc a mind
to require. So wags the world ! A pile
of money and a plantation of negroes will
make the lowest down vagabond be re
spected in the eyes of the world generally !
We ate glad to know that such is not the
way wc view every one who has property.
Those who act right wc respect, and those
who do notwc look upon as we do any oth
er dog.
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Our attention has been called to au ar
ticle in one of the Macon papers, sigued
“W. J. M.,’ who speaks of foreigners,
their privileges, &.c. Without arguing the
matter at all, or quoting froth the writer,
we will sgy that our opinion is that when
this cursed war is over, and peace ouce
more reigns in our land, that all foreigners
who have not done their duty in helping
us in our present struggle for independence,
’•ught not to be countenanced as geutlemen,
should not be allowed to bold real estate in
the South, or allowed to vote, or be grant
ed any other privileges than to work as
our negroes do, only to receive pay for their
labor, in order to let them live, We arc
willing to allow those who have been with
us in our struggle, and done their duty, to
have the same privileges as our own citi
zens, but all who come from “ over the wa
ter ’ hereafter should have but lew more
privileges than our negroes. As regards
Jews, we do not include them in what we
have said about foreigners, for we think
it would be wrong for them to be allowed
to come among us under any circumstances.
There should be a law forbidding them to
even put their feet on our soil lor a mo
ment, and then if any of them should un
dertake to come anyhow, let us swing them
as last as they arrive. "They are a perfect
curse to any country.
“ Joe. Brown ’’ —“ Camp Georgia
Atlanta —Macon, &c., &c.
Having succeeded in getting out of the
“ clutches ” of “ Joe. Brown,” we ooiisid
er ourself a free man once more , and from
now on will remain at home until we have
good reasons to believe that our services
are actually needed iu the field, and our
information to that effect will have to come
from a more reliable source than “ Cousin
Joe.-Brown!” Some people may think
that he “ knows it all,” but our opinion is,
that we have seen men before who had as
much sense as “Joe. Brown,” and a con
founded sight less demagogueism about
them, and, strange to.say, lived to be fifty
and sixty years old ! Ever since we have
lived in Georgia, which is now nearly five
years, we have been “ a Joe. Brown man,”
and heartily suppoitcd him iu the two last
elections, hut if our Maker will forgive us
for it, wc will never ask forgiveness for the
same offense again ! The reason why we
have heretofore supported “ Joe. Brown ’*
is that frpm hearsay we thought he was a
pure man, and a man who would be above
being a “ wire-worker,” a demagogue, and
a man who would not so be-little himself
as to mix up religion and politics in his
official duties. But in this wo have been
badly deceived, and that, too, just because
we have listened to hearsay, and not be
cause we knew anything personally about,
him. Such, wc promise, from now od, '
shall uever again cause us to support any
other man, if we know it, and hereafter
we will try and get better “ posted ” than
we have heretofore been, and go according
to Davy Crocket’s rule, “ Be sure you’re
right, and then go abcau.” From all that
we could learn, and sec with our oxen eyes,
while we were in Atlanta and at Camp
Georgia, we are satisfied that the militia
and civil officers were called out for no
other purpose than to help “Joe. Brown ’
out in his next election—the whole object
in catling out these men is no doubt for
political effect. Brown knows very well
that lie has rendered himself very unpop
ular of late by bis great opposition to the
general government, protecting militia offi
cers from conscription, &c.. &c.. and now
service he will reinstate himself into the
people s confidence, and thus secure his
election for another term as Governor.
The people should keep this thing in mind,
and whenever this political demagogue of
fers for Governor again give him such a
sound “ heating ” that he will never forget
the day that he turned political trickster.
We cannot help but believe that “ Joe.
Brown ” is one of the most infernal, low
down political tricksters and demagogues
that the world ever saw, and it would take
forty thousaud kicks a day for the next
ten years from a thousand jacks to make
us change our opiuion in regard to him 1
As we said before, we have do use for any
man who mixes up religion with politics,
and for this reason we have an utter con
tempt and hatred for “ Joe. Brown,” for
ho is guilty of this very thing, of which
every person can easily be convinced by
visiting any of the State departments in
Atlanta, where they will find two-thirds of
the men there employed to be either, min
isters or members of the Baptist Church,
and the other third men who wield a con
siderable influence in election times. We
do not wish to be understood, in thus
speaking, as throwing out any insinuations
upon the Baptist denomination, for we
have the highest respect for every Chris
tian member of that, as well as every oth
er Church, but we merely meution the fact
in order to prove what we have said to be
true. Now, we candidly ask every right
thinking man aud woman in the State of
Georgia, let them belong to what denom
ination they may, Baptist, Methodist, Pres
byterian, or any other denomination, if it
is right aud cliristian-like in a man hold
ing a political position to appoint every
man in his power to an office in his gift
merely because their religious belief is the
same.’ We believe that the chiistian mem
bers of every Church will hold us up in
the opinion that this kind of conduct is
entirely wrong and uocliristian-like. Re
ligion and politics are two separate and
distinct things, and whenever we see any
one mixing up one with the other it cou-
vinces us at once that tlie person who is
guilty of it has very little of the former,
and is a perfect wire-worker, trickster and
demagogue in the latter. Hence we give
up “Joe. Brown” as a “bad egg,” and
hope that he and his deinagogueism will be
remembered at the next clectiou.
As many are doubtless aware, we left
home on the morning of the 29th ult., and
arrived iu tho City of Fort Gaines in the
evening of the same day, where we remain
ed until the next morning, when we took
the cars, and continued on our way rejoic
ing until the evening of the 31st, about
4 o'clock, at which time we arrived “ safe
and sound” iu Atlanta. Here we expect
ed to find some of “Joe.’s” fine horses
and carriages, with a driver and footman
to each, to carry out his militia and civil
“pets” to “Camp Georgia,” but in this
we were very much mistaken, lor we were
informed that we would have to walk to
that desirable (!) spot, a distance of two
and a half miles! This part of the game
didn’t seem to suit every one —many were
of the opinion that “ Joe ” thought too
much of his “dear melish” to suffer them
to walk such a distance, and that they de
served a great deal better treatment than
this, hut they had it to do, nevertheless.
But wheu we arrived at “Camp Georgia ”
wo very soon became convinced that what
“ Joe. ” lacked in being kind and atten->
tive at the Bail Boad Depot he made up
at the Camps, where we found plenty of
good tents, meat, meal, flour, rice, candles,
soap, &c. But what is this to “ Joe !”
it makes no difference with him about the
cost of things, or how much he furnishes—
it doesn’t cost him anything—the State—
the people —will have it to pay. We do
not mean to say that the militia should not
have good tents, be well fed, &c., Ac., hut
we think it would have been a great deal
better to have let these /neu remained at
home to make provisions tor the army for j
next year, and let Gen. Johnston s men
have the provisions that the militia are
now eating up. The men who are now at
“Camp Georgia” are costing the State
over 820,000 a day, which we consider the
good'that will ever result by holding on
to those men as long as Gen. Johnston
says he does not need them, that he has
plenty of men to whip Sherman, aud as
long as there are two or three thousand
vagabonds and loafers in and about the
city of Atlanta. At the time we left the
camps, which was last Monday a week ago,
the organization had barely been perfected,
although a large portion of the meu had
been iu camps for nearly two weeks, laying
about doing nothing but eating and sleep
ing, and telling their “ long-winded yarns,”
although from the reading of the procla
mation of “ Joe. Brown,” ordering out his
officers, one would have thought that they
would have been organized in a day or two,
and then immediately been put in the fight.
The election of officers was by inversion—
that is, Division officers were first elected,
then for Brigades, and then for Companies,
aud, in fact, the whole thing was organized
and fixed up in “ Joe. Brown’s ” usual
“ trickey ” style of doing official business.
Although it was annouuocd iu camps aud
published in the Atlanta papers that Gus
tavus-W. Smith was elected Major-General
of the Militia at “ Camp Georgia,” we beg
leave to state that such is not the case, and
that he was apqminted by “ Joe. Brown,”
newspaper editors and correspondents to
the contrary notwithstrnding. We have
no doubt but that Smith will make a good
and efficient officer, but we kuow of two
or three men within tho command who
would have filled the position with equal
credit to themselves aud the troops. But
“Joe. Brown” was in this matter* like he
is in everything else iu his official duties—
determined to have his own way.
Atlanta is just about the same Hell that
it was when wc before visited it—it’s get
ting no better fast.. All kinds of crimes
and depredations are daily and nightly com
mitted here Some thieves and cut-throats
were arrested in this city during our stay
for selling dog meat for mutton in the city
market. Some other chaps were before
the Mayor for giving “ Sal.” a thick lip
and u black eye," getting drunk in the
Mmsmscnmamßtomeyc t w-v t-wb— ttmm
streets and “ playing the devil,” Ac., &
The fact is, there are more little swell-head
no-sense, fine-dressed, long-coat Governs
ment agents and contractors iu and about
Atlanta than there are in the balance of
the State of Georgia. One will have a
contract to make a pair of shoes a day, an
other to make a gallon of corn-juice, an
other to purchase chicken-entrails, buttons
and button-holes for officers’ coats, another
to pump the “gass” out of “ swell-head”
officers cranium-boxes to keep them from
bursting and setting tho city on fire, an
other one to carry whisky and cigars to
each of “ Joe. Brown’s ” clerks and door
minders, and about half a dozen more to
hand “ His Excellency ” his hat ami cane
and see him safe in his “ dug-out,” Ac.
’The Hotels here continue to Joed on bull
beef, dog-mutton, slap-jacks and tar coffee
at the rates of 85 a “ snatch,” and if a
fellow fails to get into the dining room at
the first table he will miss hi.- “snatch '
and have to content hriusdf «iih the leav
ings, which generally consist of ears, Ac-
In a rainy, wet time Atlanta is about as
“slick” as some of the inhabitants dre
mean and trifling, for the whole place is
nothing iu the world but a “ lob-lolly ” of
mud, aud when it rains it is almost impos
sible for one to keep his equilibrium —mVe
especially if he has a couple of the Atlanta
83 “ rot-gut ” whisky about a foot down
his throat! Such whisky as they sell on
Whitehall street would make a sober man
of a fellow who has been drinking ever sity?e
lie was first rocked in his mother's cradle!
The following are the prices of some arti
cles in Atlanta : Milc-h cows from 8800 to
to 81,000 ahead ; beef, 81 per lb.; light
bread from 50 cts. to 81 a loaf; corn beer
from 50 cts. to §1 a glass; “jinger cakes”
81 apiece; cigars from 50 cts. to 81 apiece;
tobacco from 84 to 80 per lb.; chicken
pies, (made out of rats,) 82 each ; ground
peas 81 a pint, Ac., Ac. The only cheap
things that we saw sold at all were horses
and newspapers—the former were selling
at from 8200 to 8300, while the latter
were offered at 25 cts. a copy.
In Macon, prices correspond about with
ji.^ a rvf .~, ana everyooay generally
is engaged in the “skinning ” business as
heretofore. On arriving here we were sor
ry to learn that our old friend Dense had
closed his Hotel, the “Granite Hall,” and
hence we “ camped ” at the “ Brown
House,” where we slept on bed clothes
that we would suppose were washed about
once a year, (though we think that in 'O3,
soap being very scarce and high, the pro
prietor concluded to let them “ lie over”
until '64,) and were fed on Indian rubber
bee!, “ lasses,” rye coflee, and biscuits
made out of “ shorts,” for which wc paid
the moderate (!) sum of five dollars each
time we slept or ate ! Though wc don’t
suppose we ought to grumble at the price,
for the proprietor furnished us with lice
and bed b'ngs enough to furnish a dozen
families with a supply of good breeders of
each, and refused to charge a cent for
them ! This, wc think, was very liberal !
Here it was that a “ civil ” friend of ours,
generally called « ’Squire Bill,” who wan
on his way to Atlanta to see “ Joe Brown,”
was “ sucked in ” by a certain Enrolling
Officer for S2O . But as “ 1 obe Donkey ”
speaks of this matter, and the. “’Squire”
has promised to “ keep his ryes skinned ”
iu the future, we will hold our tongue.
While in the city we called in at the Daily
Confederate office, where we found Cap).
I’lasb, the energetic Editor, at his post,
doing everything in his power to make his
paper one of the best in the State, and so
• far, we are glad to say, he has succeeded
admirably. Ho is now publishing the best
daily in 3lacon, and we take pleasure in
recommending it to those in this section
who wish to get the latest news. Terms,
810 for three months. Subscribe at once.
We did not learn who the principal Sur
geon of Brown’s troops was, but he is cer
tainly a temperance uuid, and also death on
chills, for before leafing Camps we under
stood he had made a requisition on “Joe.
Brown ” for three quarts of whisky and two
ounces of Quinine for the 4,000 troops at
“ Camp Georgia! ” Wonder if he intends
to cure all the chills in Georgia, and make 1
the whole of the militia drunk ! We can’t