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larltt €oitM| fern 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. (&mb Cflimtii fta. 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.