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E. 11. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
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BLAKELY:
WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 1864.
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Thanks to
lot of Ragß and Gotten to inpke paper for
the News.
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Who wants to exchange meat for a good
family horse ? If you do, call at this office,
where the horse cau„l/e seen and delivered,
and the incat received.
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The Bath Mill is said to bfe near-.
ly completed. It will /be the largest estab
li.thment of its kind in the South. Paper
is very much needed the press, and we
hope this addition to the supply will soon
bo made.
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Specaal attention is called to'HUe adver
tisement of Mcfests. l'owell & Go ’s new
Shoe SJjjfip; Wo are having them to put
up a pair gfishoes for -us, and When we get
them wewillbc better prepared fix speak"
ol the neatness and durability of their work.
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Pome parts.of our county 'has lately been
blessed, with'copious showcrstif rain, while
other portions arc suffering considerably
for the waut pf it. ’ Yhe,„ci'6ps geherally .
have boon more or I'ess injured by the
coptinuoys rains soiftc’.mmith or
more ago, -and the dry spell at present."
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• Remember that we want to ledvo for
Colfthibus next'week to procure a new'sup
jily of paper, ayd wo. kpM>, therefore, that
everybody will send us in. -all.their old Got
ten and Linen JRaga and, waste Cetton by
‘ or before to-onorrow week. We are now
paying fifteen, cents per lb.
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The Editor of the. Macon M> sscngn lias
liad his pocket-book ';stplen, containing ever
two hundred and fifty dollars! Good for
him l-j-he bad‘move moDpy than any one ■
Editor was.entitled to! • We have never *
before heard of afiy one Editor or Printer
having-such an timeout of money oil hand
at one time before.', > .
Meetings to be held in the city
of Now York,'and at other places in iho
north and ■west, instructing delegates to the
.Chicago Convention-to adypeate peace. It
is supposed that FrankHn Pierce wjUVetbe
nominee fur President and G- L. Valhin
dighaui for Vide-President on the Peace
Ticket. •’ . ' '
This is Jo notify all parties couecrncd
that the'ten thousauil dollars that the Edi
tor of the News is suSed for in a certaiu
0
slander suit, if gained by the whisky har
rell, will be paid iri Confederate money !
Wc would, therefore, eaufriou all parties 1
who do not wish such money, not to trade
for the perquisites of said s'uit!
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Jeremiad Clemens, of Huntsville, Ala., •
has removed to Philadelphia as his future
"home. When be arrived at 'Washington
he was met by a committee of citizens hud
escorted to a hotel with marked eclat. Ilia
change of -residence is no doubt owing to •
a conviction on his part that affairs are soou •
to have a turn which would make his pres
ence in Alabama rather -uncomfortable.
The Confederate States steamer Atlanta
was launched at. Montgomery op Saturday,
2d iust. The boat cost §125,001>, and
200,000 feet of limber were used in her
construction. Her length is 165 feet, her
extreme breadth 40 feet, and her carrying
capacity about 500 tons. . The Atlunbi is
the second largest gimboat’eVcr built at
Montgomery. Her machinery is ready,
and will be put od shortly. •
The a ’ rs in the rear, remarks the.
Ji\iidy * . ii; erhuuiaa sagacity enables
Ihoui to vuv- Ptal‘Oen Johnston is fall
iugfcatk • far, should nil go do the front,
and thus, by swMPiu, to number of his
force, place k in h’o power to assume the
Afeasiv* and drive tb-< on-. y.v •’• him;
but so long as they rematf} out-of the rea .
of danger, it does utft bessoWo'tUeat tv vriti
<3tse movements which thsy haviw- not' tho
oapaoitj to understand, >md coucorning the
propriety and oljjecl of which they know. |
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An, investigation has been in progress
for the last two or three days, says the Ma
, con Journal of the Oth inst,, before Judge
E. A. Skates Commis
sioner, undcf the Habeas Corpus suSpen
.gion aet, of several individuals, charged
with trcasonablejpractices. They were ar
. rested at or below Columbus on the Chat-*
tahoochee river. Three of them were cap
tains ‘on steamboats on that river by the
name of Fry—two bjj tfie name of Brew,
who jrere owners of steam mills, &e -—two *
others by. the names of Markham aud John
son—two others were also arrested by Ahe
names of Hungerford and John Drew, but
were discharged for want of sufficient tes- ' ,
timony for commitmen t. The charges that
are brought against these parties are, as
far as wc can learn, for aiding and encour
aging desertion, giving forged passes and
transportation to deserters, furnishing va
rious maps of the country, &e., and holding
communication with the enemy. The proof
against them is very gtrong, being mainly
tliat obtained by Jjaving regularly put thro’
<to the enemy’s lincs-ui
detectives, who-obtained tlfe.sccrctS of the
entire operations of tlnjfee tory rascals,'which
.seems to extend to the lines aboye as well
as belo w.' rnen are generally of good
appearance, and hold considerable
property., The Drews have had large con
tracts with ■ the Goi’ernment for lumber.
An' Engineet pn the South-YYfsteiu Hail
Road, by thp name of Ilolbyook, has also
been arr6Stcdtlbr similar practices,, whose
case will be investigated after the above
is disposed of. On Mbnday night the pvis
pners above Darned, with some others, made
an attempt to break jail, and vtiy pearly
succeeded. A hose was picked in the wall
of the second story, and a rope of blankets
let down, when they were discovered and
secured. Johnson and llolbfock bad let
themselves down, hut were promptly ar
' rested.'
R. i>. .Since the above was put in type, * .
' we understand that three of the prisoners
above mentioned have been' discharged, and
seven re'iaandccl for trial. We have iroc
•been informed who the-threc are that halve
•been discharged, but-we’d almost bet our
hua.d -that ihc.Frys-afe £hp chaps. ’jßooey'
will gdfa follow out of almost any place or
scrape in this worfd 1-.
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from som'e cause or other we failed to .
notice, in our last issue, the killing of a
large Alligator by#‘ T.lncle Jack,” near
Col. IVrry.’s residence over tjo: braneh, a
few'days bbfoto, and wc beg pardon of our
voungJady friend who was kind enough to
ir/foryi •us of ft soon after the “ critter ”
Was sloraked ” for oqr neglect in notic
ing if sodner. Such rtversights we will try
to avoid in the future when our lady friends
are so kind'as to give dl any local or ctjier
,ripws- Thjs Alligator,- we are informed,
was.Pvor bight feet long, and caused con
siderable sport for many of tbe. young la
dies of « Brauehville ” for a time. But
“ Uqele Jack” sooncooled” him, which
•cndei.l their fun, and, by this time, we shjj- .
pose his “hide” is in “tun.” .Below wc
give a Sjhort sketch of
TiGEits and Alligators.
Colonel Hamilton, who has traveled in
Columbia, says-: “The jaguars and cay-,
rnau’-s arc mortal Enemies, and the'former
wage perpetual war against the latter.
'Whenever the tiger surprises the alligator
asleep op*tho hot sandbank, ho attacks him*
_ under the tail, which is soft and fat, apd
the most part, and such is his
alarm,.he will hardly move nr make resist- •
. ance;-but if the alligator gets his enemy
into water, bis more peculiar element, then
the tables are turned, and the tiger is gen
erally drowned*and devoured : being aware
of this inferiority, when he has to cross a
river he sets up a tremendous howl on its
bank previously to entering the -water,
with the hope of scaring the. alligator to a •
distance. In one .place the author was
told u that' an alligator had, a short time
since, carried off a woman who was wiish
ing on the bank
band caught tbe cayman with a long book,
baited with a piece of raw ifesh, the next •
day*, and ftiund part of the body of his wife
in the inside; Six dogs were also devour
ed by this monster.” At appther place he
saw one eighteen feet long; a monarch,
and a vijry tyrannical one, of the river, de
vouring all that camel n'his way.
A -V rich ” trial takes place in Blakely
to-morrow, in Justice dourt, between two
parties who have been “ horse-swapping.” . ’
One of the parties considering that he got
“bit” in the “swap,” concluded that he
f would “rue;” and accordingly went to the
stable of the sther party, and, without auy
j • veremony, “swapped” back on hisowu ac .
I !—l.eac* tbe trial to-morrow.
tV-e have been perfectly disgusted, for
gome time, with the orders which our Coun
ty EnroHing Officer is almost daily receiv
ing from the Head-Quarters of Conscription
Os this District., We are uot personally
acquainted with, Lieut. Winn, of Albany,
who head of this department, but
have frequently heard him very highly
spoken of as a higlMoned gentleman, and
that he treob those who have any business
with him as an official with due respect and
Yet, while, he may be all this,
which we have no reason to doubt, from
the many orders, and conflicting ones, that
arc continually being sent to this county,
wo are fully convinced that lie does not
understand his business, or else things in
• his department would go on very di'fferent
ly. Weh#e known many mep in our life
who were gentlemanly, clever and ac
commodating in everything that came be- .
fore them, the same
knew nothing at ml of business matters of
any kind, and this we suppose to be the
case with Lieut. Wiun. It is impossible t
for our County Enrolling to carry
out all the orders lie. from
Albany, from the ucrw of •
them come in direct conflict with one an
other. One day orders will received
here by ou% County Enrolling .Officer to
send up to Albany ’for examination a cer
tain class-cf men, and by or before they *
get oft the order is countermanded. * The
next day orders will be received tc. send up
every. man, whether deaf, dumb or blind,
dead or alive, just so'he can .get there', be
tween 17 and 18 and 45 and 50, and then
when-many of them get there they are
told that such men as they are were not
included in the orders issued !, Now'what •
kipd of management is this ? ' Is*thiS-not
putting men to a great deal of unnecessary
troubE and expense for nothing? Does
the law intend toliave men who-are known
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-to boientirely unfit for military duty to be
. cfutiuuaily on the “ pad ” hunting up Dis
tricting’Enrolling Officers? Should not
ca’cli County Enrolling. Officer and the
“ Temporary Board” .he haa selected to
assist him in his duties- he thfc judges ia
many of the .most extreme eases ?. It is
4 . very reasonable to'&itppose that tliesc-blli
ciafis; ought to be-better judges of the con
dition of uiaDy men than even the Surgeons
at many of the 'District Head-Quarters.
We think something should be done in or
der to give those who are at honie a chanco
to attend to their duties as overseers, &c.,
instead of hafingthem continually-running
to Albany ana back for nothing. If a m.an
who is at home has to.be all the time fol
lowing up Enrolling Officers, *he had as
well be in the army, for he can certainly
Be of very little benefit to the country so
far as making provisions, &c., if he is to
be continually running after District and ,
County Enrolling Officers. ' •
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A Yatikee Colonel* apparently a. very
‘intelligent man, who was mortally wound
'cd, and taken prisoner, in the battle of the
Wilderness, was asked by a Confederate
Surgeon at thp hospital where he lay, and
• just before lie died, who he considered the
greatest man in this country. - The Colo
nel unhesitatingly replied, “ I regard your
General, Lee,’ as the greatest'man in all
the elements of greatness, in a n4Ph and an
officer, now on the continent of America.” .
And when asked why he so regarded him,
he said, “He has proved himself so dur
ing this war.” . “ If,” said Ire, u we had
such Generals as you have, war would
have been oyer, and we the .victors, long
ago; but wo have not. In that you are
very far ahead of us.” These were his .
last words. 1
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The following ay? the Augusta prices
for'some articles: Coffcon, middling to good
middling, 81 ta 81,20; £ shirting, 82 ; l
sheeting, 82,30; 4-4 sheeting,. 82,75 ; os
naburgs, 83; yarns 840 to 850 per bunch;
flour, to 8175 per bbl.; corn, 815 to
816; bacon, 83,50 to 84;- coffee; 812 per
lb.; rice 40 to 50 cents; salt, 60 cents per
■lb.; lard, 83 to 83,50; whisky, 850 to
per gal.; nails, 82,50; tallow, 84 per lb.;
dry hides, 86 to 87 per-lb.; beef, $2,50 to'
$3,50, pork, 83 to 83,50; chickens, 84
• to $lO each ; eggs, 83 per doz.; butter, $5 ;
sweet potatoes, 810 per bushel; Irish po
tatoes, 860 per barrel.
Secretary Chase, Lincoln’s Secretary of
the Treasury, has resigned, and David
1 Todd, of; Ohio, nominated to fill his place.
According to previous notice, Maj. R. J.
Moses, Chief Commissary of Longstreet’s
Command, addressed the citizens of this
* county, in the Baptist Church iu this place,
last Thursday, on the condition of the Ar
my of Virginia. After giving the true
condition of “this army, (which is a great
deal we have no doubt, than the peo
ple generally had any idea,) he urged the
farmers to do every ttyiug in their power to
• furnish it with corn and meat—m'orfe es
pecially corn —and stated that if the
ers would do duty -in the present crisis
our brave Soldiers would be able to hold
Richmond, otherwise they would have to
give it up, and then went on to state the
consequences in such an event.. He went .
on to state the difference between the Sou
thern and Northern people in the present
unholy war' waged against the South, that
we depend upon an all-wise provideppe for
success, while tlreYankees depend almost
entirely upon theii own arms—that our
people who are fortunate enough to have
remained at home have not-done half their
duty, have made l*ut few, if any-, sacrifices
towards the .support of our • Soldier's and
cautfe—that many who are at home, and
were “ heels over* dread in debt ” before
and at the commencement of the war, have.
. paid entirely out, added largely to their
former, small estates, and are now living,
> like.“ fighting cocks I —that we have trait
ors in our midst, but. that ;o for they had .
not been able to'injure us much—that as
a general thing we were united in our
cause, while the Yankees are divided iu
everything —that there is not now-enough
corn in Virginia to last the army twenty
days, and that f<# some time the cavalry
horses'there have been drawing but five
pounds of corn a day. to the horse, and that
in‘consequence tfte horses have been led
partly on the bark of gum and-oak trees —
that if we are compelled to evacuate Rich
mend for the wajit of provisions the war.
will undoubtedly be prolonged two or three
years—that if specie was offered-for pvov '-
eions there is no doubt hut that thousands
. who have uot now a-single grain to spare,
because they know they would have to re
ceive Confederate money in payment, would
have Hundreds and thousands of bushels of
Qora -and pounds of' meat to sell—that each
county in Georgia ought to appoint twt>
meu to examine the corn cribs and smoke
house of every man and woman, and then
report to the purchasing agent, &c.,
We were glad to -see such a large attend-,
ance of both ladjes anl gentlemen at the
meeting, and that suefi a good feeling ex
isted among all, and hope that the people
generally have been'So aroused to a sense
oP their duty that every one will' immedi
ately send forward -ever}' bushel, of coru
and pound of meat that ,c’an possibly «le
spared to the Army of Virginia. Every
Que kpowsthat there are plenty of spare pro
visions in Early couuty, and it is the duty
of every.one wh'oji.as a surplus,'no matter
how little,'to send it forward immediately
to our suffering Soldidrs. There are some
meu in this'eounty who havn large planta
tions, and made a great deal of money out
of the war, who have never yet given a
cent towards the support of Soldiers nud
their families—their patriotism has all been
done and shown by big talking. If these
men ever expect to anything, now is the
time for them to do it. Everything de
pends upon our armies, being well fed just'
at this time. Men cannot endure the hard-'
ships of catnp life, and hard marching and
fighting unless ebfey have something to eat.
It is your duty—you who have spare pro
visions—to see that our armies do not suf
fer for actual necessaries, while you have
a surplus. If you allow them to want for
something to eat, you tfill be held accoun
table for it hereafter. All -you who are
now giving your negroes from three and
a half .to four pounds of meat a week should
put them' on half or quarter rations in or
der to let the Soldiers have some of it, if
it be ever so little.' Negroes in this coun
ty, all of whom can get more or less vege
tables, can very easily live on a pound and
# a half of meat a week. But the Soldiers
have got to be fed if every negro in the
State of Georgia starves to death, and it
is just as well for you who have it to let it
go willingly.' The corn aard meat has got
to come, and you had as wfell do your duty
at once. Every man who how fails to as
sist the GovernmObt at this critical hour
should forever hereafter be looked upon
and treated as an enemy to our noble cause.
! Now or never. If you ever eipect to do
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