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VOL. V.
Forma for Drawing Soldier’s
Fay.
STATE OF GEORGIA, !
County of— j
BEFORE me an acting Justine of
the Peace, (or Notary Public,) in and
for said county, personally came hi 13. ,
who being duly sworn, says she is the moth
er of , deceased, late a in company
ther declares that her said son, , died
on the —— day of , 186—, and that he
left neither wife, child, nor father surviving *
him. ■' /w
(Signed) ‘
Sworn, citkd subscribed to before' mo tb’xj
day of , 186-. J. P-
Also, personally came , of coun
ty and State of Georgia, who, being duly
■worn, says that the statements in the above
affidavit he (or she) personally knows to be
true.
(Signed) • _ 1
Sworn and subscribed to before me this
day of 186-.
- —rj , J. P.
I, , an acting Justice of the Peace
(or Notary Public) in and for said county
of , do certify that the above named
witness is personally known to mo to be of
Sood standing, and whose affidavit is enti
led to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand, and official signa
ture, this day of ——, 186-.
-A , J. P.
Know all Men bv these Presents, That
I, Mrs. , of the county ,of , aud
State of Georgia, being the mother of ,
deceased, who died in the seavice of the
Confederate States on the day of —,
188-, do make, constitute.and appoint ,
of county, and" State of Georgia., mv true
and lawful attorney, in fact to receive and re
ceipt for all monies, goods'and chatties that
may he due me at? heir of my son, .dee’d,
by virtue of his military or other service to
the Confederate States': hereby ratifying
»nd confirming all lawful acts of my said
attorney in the premises.
(Signed) —— .
Witness : J. P.
1, , Clerk of court of coun
ty, State of Georgia, do certify that ,
whose genuine signature appears above and
before whom the above affidavits and power
of attorney were made and executed, is au
Acting Justice of the Peace, (or Notary
Public) in and for the county of State
of Georgia, duly commissioned at the time
of signing the same, and all his attestations
ais such are entitled to full faith and credit.
. Given under my hand and seal of office
this day of , one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-
Clerk Court, County, Georgia.
NOTE.—The affidavit may be made either
before a Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public, and the certificate of its legality
may be made cither by a Clerk of the Supe
rior, Interior, or Court of Ordinary, with
the seal attached.
All claims made out according to the
above instructions and forwarded to the
War Department will be attended to.
Weights and Measures.
Persons are .frequently puzzled in their
daily transactions to ascertain what such and
■uch an aiticle ought to weigh per bushel.
Here is a table winch all would do well to
<?.ut out and preserve. It will prove valuable
dor reference: .
Bushels. Pound"
Wheat.. 60
Shelled corn 58 *
Corn in the car ...70
Peas 60
Bye..’ 56
Oats 32
Barley.. 47
Irish Potatoes. 60
Sweet Potatoes... 55
White Beans 60
- Castor Beans 46
Clover Seed , 60
Flax Seed 56
Hemp Seed... 44
Blue Grass Seed 44
Buckwheat '. 52
Dried Peaches 33
Dried Apples 24
Onions 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 25
A box 24 by 16 inches, 22 deep, contains
1 barrel.
A box 16 by 16J inches, 8 deep, containaT
bushel.
A box 8 by 8$ inches, 8 deep, contains 1
p.eck.
A box 7by 4 inches 41 deep, contains J I
gallon.
A box 4 by 4 inches, 2J deep, contains I
quart.
N O T J c E
ALL persons wishing to have their Clocks I
repaired, can do so by calling on S. A.
Howell, twelve miles from Blakely on the i
Woodville Road. All work warranted to j
jun and keep time for six months, or no pay. L
June 15, 1864. 35-ts ‘
BLAKELY, GEO, JUISTE 29, 1864.
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Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year SIO,OO
For 6 Months.... $5,00
No subsciptions received for less than six
months, and payment always required in ad
vance. |
Bates of Advertising:
I' Square, (occupying the space of ten Bour
geois lines, pr less,) each insertion...s2,oo
Proclamation to the People of Geor
gia.
Head-Quarters, )
Atlanta, June 24th, 1864. }
1 am informed by the old men in
different parts of the State that there
are occasional instances of militia and
civil officers who have failed to report
at Atlanta as directed by ortler con
tained in my Proclamation on that sub
ject. The 14th Section of the Act of
14th December, 1803, to re-organize
the Militia declares : That any mili
tiaman ordered into active service,
whether by order of the Governor or
upon requisition from the President of
the Confederate States, who shall fail
or refuse after due notice to enter said .
service, or being therein, shall leave
the service permission, shall
be liable to be -tried and punished as a
deserter, And subject to all the pains
and penalties imposed upon deserters
in the Rules and Articles of War lor
the Government of the Army of the
Confederate States.
That those who have refused to en
ter the service when ordered, may be
compelled to do so immediately or suf
fer the penalties in said Act contain-*
ed, 1 hereby direct all Aids-de-Camp
who are ordered to the discharge of
their duty at home, or at home on
•leave of absence, and all persons be
longing to the Division of Militia who
are absent on furlough or detail, to see
that all such officers able to do duty
are arrested and sent without delay to
the Headcjuartes of Major General
Smith, Commmanding the Division.
For this purpose the Aids-de-Camp are
authorized to order any of the non-com
missioned officers or reserved ♦nililia
to make such arrests and ctuivey such
persons to the Division Headquarters.
As the Judges of the Supreme, Su
perior and Inferior Courts, Ordinaries, j
Solicitors General, Sheriffs, Clerks of
the Superior and Inferior Courts, Tax
Collectors add Receivers, Reporter
and Clerk of the Supreme Court, and
members and officers of the General
Assembly are by the Statute of the
State exempt from militia duty, 1 ear
nestly request them to aid in arrests
ing and sending to Gen. Smith all mili
tia officers who have not reported and
all civil officers under fifty years of
age who are subject to militia duty
and have failed to report. The fact j
that a civil or militia officer is exempt
from Confederate conscription by rea
son of his having given bond as owner
qf fifteen hands, as provided by Act
of Congress, or for other cause, does
not exempt him from State militia ser
vice.
When the officers subject have gen
erally obeyed the call and reported,
justice requires that others equally
subject shall not be permitted to diss
J regard it with impunity. The crisis j
' has not passed. The exigency requires |
every man at the front able to bear
arms who can possibly leave home,
and I again invite all such, including
the large class of able bodied men, who
have Confederate details in the various
departments, many of whom it is be
lieved can be spared for a short period
without detriment to the service, to
rally to the defence of the State till
the emergency is passed.
Joseph E. Brown.
All Rail Roads in the State will
transport prisoners “with guard—not
exceeding to persons—on their way
to Atlanta. J. E. B.
♦
He that knows useful things, and
not he that knows many things, is the
wise man.
A legal wag calls his marriage cer
tificate “a writ ol attain’d her ”
A Scarcity of Cotton Threatened.
Mr. McHenry, author of the “ Cot
ton Trade,” is stated by the London
fcnlex to have written a letter'to the
Standard, in which he says that the
total stock of cotton in Europe and
the Federal States on the Ist January,
1864, amounted to but 2.000,000 of
bales of 400 pounds weight each. Os
this stock, the Federal States possess
400,000 bales, leaving but 1,600,000
" for Europe. Os these 2.000,000 bales
six-“ Sevenths are of & quality “Sp inferi
or as-to be useless for all kinds of man
ufactures unless with tire admixture
of a large proportion of the bettter
sorts, which it is impossible to obtain.
Such is the supply. As to the de
mand, it is sufficient to observe that in
1860 the manufactures on both sides
of the Atlantic apparently used up
6,000,000 —really but 4,500,000 —that
is, only the latter quantity was taken
by people using and wearing cotton
goods. Supposing the wants of the
world to be what.they were four years
ago, and deducting 300,000 bales that
were sold every year in a manufactur
ed condition to supply the Confeder
ate States, the deficiency” will be 2,-
200,000 bales—that is, the consumers
who depend upon Europe and Yan
keedom for their cotton goods will fall
that far short of getting their supply.
In the meantime the distress of the
manufacturing districts already suffi
ciently appearing is increasing at por
tentous rates. In the- town of Preston
alone, 28 mills had closed in January,
and the number <sf persons entirely
without work in consequence was 14,-
299. The entire number of persons
receiving charitable assistance is 26,-
000, all because the mills have stop
ped for want of cotton. To such a
condition has the inhuman “neutrali
ty ” of Lord Palmerston reduced the
country.
Os the 2,000,000 bales alluded to, a
little more than half came from India—
that is to say 1,050,000 bales.
Mr. McHenry says there will not be
a bale in the warehouse at the end of
the year.
The affair at Petersburg has furnish
ed another topic of temporary excite
ment, and another pleasing illustra
tion of the courage and oflo
| cal troops under fire, ft is the dispo
sition of the ignorant to disparage the
stability of militia organizations, but
the past experience of Richmond, ad
ded to the more recent experience of
Petersburg, would be enough .to si
lence the perverseness of the most ma
licious revilers of such organizations,
did not the very circumstances under
which the war is maintained furnish
sufficient material to give them the lie
alone. All honor to our local troops
—the fathers and brothers of our gal
lant soldiers in the field, often the aged
and infirm, always of whatever age or
condition, when fighting for their
homes, firm and stern in the perform
ance of their kutv.
Richmond Enquirer.
The Charleston Mercury announ
ces the arrival in that city of the batch
of Yankee officers who left here on
Monday last by the Charleston train,
and adds:
These prisoners, we understand, will
be furnished with comfortable quar
ters in that portion of the city most
exposed to the enemy’s fire. The com
manding officer on Morris Island will
be duly notified of the fact of .their
presence in the shelled district, and if
batteriesstili continue their wanton and
barbarous work, it will be at the peril
of the captive officers.
The pious Yankees will be horrified
at the barbarity of our military author
ities in exposing our would be subju
gators to the perils of the bombshells
and Greek fire which they are hurling
night and day at the womeh and chil
dred of Charleston.
Savannah News.
■ ■■ ♦
Although ignorant and contracted
minds may regard the press as unim
portant, the true statesmam knows it
to be the palladium of liberty.
Singular Chain of Coincidences.
The Portland, Maine, Press mentions
a singular fact in connection with the
losses of ocean steamships belonging
to the Montreal line. It seems that
in every instance the vessel that has
taken back to Liverpool the effects of
a wrecked steamer of line has been
the next in succession to become a
victim. Thus : the first vessel of the
line lost was the Canadian. The In
dian took back effects, and was the
tr fr»u cr prdy'TtTTße‘wrath of the
Sea King. The Hungarian tpok back
the effects of the Indian and in turn
was the next victim, but she proved a
total loss, leaving no memorial to be
transmitted to the home port. The
next vessel lost was the New Cana
dian, whose effects went back by the
North Briton; the North Briton then
went under and her effects were car
ried home by the Anglo Saxon; the
Anglo Sagon in regular succession be
came the next victim, and the Nor*
wegian carried back her “ remains; ”
next came the loss of the Norwegian,
.whose material effects were transport
ed to Liverpool by the Bohemian, and
the Bohemian, next in regular suc
cession to go under, has recently made
her final record on Alden’s Rock. It
is even said that some of the employ
ees of the company, who had not over
looked the singular chain of facts, had
a superstitious fear of the Bohemian,
and sometime since predicted her fate,
because it was her turn to go next!
Wouldn’t take tip Oath.
The Greensboro’ (Miss.) Motive is
informed that sometime since'a mau
took two bales of cotton and went in
to Memphis to buy goods, etc. . He
got a p ss from the commander of the
post and went and bought such arti
cles as he desired. Upon coming out.,
while singing very merrily and cutting
and beating his team, he was halted.
The commander said, “ Hello, my
frien'd, there is one thing you failed to
do, and that is to take the oath of alle
giance.” “ The oath of allegiance,
welt hand it here.” Holding up a
book the commander said, “ Let me
read it to you.” He reads it in the
| real Yankee style, very fast.
“ Read it again,” said the old man.
He reads again as last as ever. The
old man gives a long breath,, put his
hands to his ears, and §aid, “ Hold on
stranger, read slow, I understand
that fast Yankee reading.” The com
mander reads agaip and emphasises on
every word. When he had finished,
the old man drew another lopg breath
and said, “ Well, sir, I’ll boil hell down
to a quart and drink it before I’ll take
that oath,” and commenced turning
his cart around to unload when the
Yankee told him he could pass.
♦ -»-■»
The author of “ Seacliff” says that
the American is the only person who
knows what to do with the small of
his back. He sits on it.
Ignorance and conceit are two of
the worst qualities to combat. It is
easier to dispute with a statesman than
a blockhead.
Censure is effectual when mixed with
praise., So, when a fault is discover
ed, it is well to look up a virtue to bear
it company.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm ; swarms of
insects will surround you in the sun
shine.
If laughter is the daylight of the
soul, a smile might be reckoned as its
twilight.
The first paper mill ever put in op
eration on this continent was erected
at Elizabethtown, N. J.
Refrain from bitter words ; there is
only the difference of a letter between
words and swords.
“ Oh, that my father was seized with
a remittent fever! ” sighed a young
spendthrift at college.
The celebrated equestrienne who
learned to ride upon a horse-radish is
now practising on a saddle of mutton!
“ Father, I know how to fire off the
guns and cannons of earth, but who is
tall enough to touch off thunder! ’[
3STO. 37.