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Macon, Ga., August 1, 1864. j
Special Order,)
No. —. }
As there is a misapprehension about the
powers of the Inferior Courts in making
details for police duty, the following orders
are published lor the information of all cou
cci tied :
One policemen is allowed for each 500
negroes in each county.
All men between 55 and 60, able to ride
ami carry a gun, arc to act as a police force
in their respective counties. The A ids de \
Camp are specially instructed to order them
upon this duty, aqd any man between these
ages, able for service, who refuses, will be
sent to the front. They are to ride all
through the county, confining themselves
to no particular district or plantation, and )
are to give their whole time to this business. j
As tbev can sleep in houses v at night, they j
■an do this duty, when they would not be j
lit for other military service. They will (
visit the plantations, correct insubordinate
negroes, and do all m their power to pro- j
tcet property and preserve order.
It is believed there are but few counties ;
in the Bfate in which there are not in the '
count// one man able for service for each
suo negroes. If there should not he that
number in any county, the Inferior Court
will recommend .for detail a number of then
subject to the late call sufficient to make |
\.p the deficiency. These should be select- j
' »>•! from such.ov tuners and others as havu •
most control over the negroes. Th (‘.recoin- j
viendation of the courts must be sent to ]
these headquarters, where they will he al-. j
lowed, if the evidence of deficiency in the
number of old men is satisfactory.
The court must accompany the applica
tion for the detail by a certificate, giving
the .following facts :
Ist. the number of slaves in the county.
2nd. The number and names of the old
men between 55 and 00 in the country
with the name of each who is too feeble
to ride through the county.
3rd. The names of the persons recom
mended by the courts to make up the de
ficiency, if any. Ail details granted by the
courts without an order from these head- !
quarters are invalid, and will be so treated
by all Aids-de-Catnp and other Btate offi
cers, who will send all such detailed men
to the front immediately.
As the late interruption in the railroad
transportation may have caused some of. 1
the militia who had started to Macon to
return home for want of transportation, all
such are required to press forward to Ma
con without delay, as the channels of com
munication will be open again in « day or
two. •
All officers at home will exercise great
energy in sending all men subject to the
cull forward promptly, under arrest when
necessary. Henry C. Wayne,
Adjt. & Insp. Gen’l.
The election in North Caroliona, says
the Richmond Examiner, is not more de
cisive of the sentiment in that State than
we were always satisfied it would be. A
great deal of nonsense has beep*,,ilked and
Written about tories in North f <Vina. A
great deal more importance than was nec
essary has been given to an utterly insig
nificant set of bad people. Gov. Vance
took a great deal of worse than useless
trouble to conciliate and compromise. He
did himself and his cause both harm by
dabbling ever so little iu 'the obsolete .trick
ery of past politics. He had better have
plauted himself higher than he did on the
Confederate mountain. He has been elect
ed,by the patriotism and devotion of the
p-mple, not by his correspondence with
Jeff Davis or trumpery talks about the
desirability of peace. The people of North
Carolina want aud will have no peace that
is not won for them by the courage of her
soldiers and the genius of her Generals.
North Carolina is not less true to the South
than Virginia or South Carolina. Let there
be an end to discussion and suspicion.
Gen. Anderson was wounded in tbc.late
fight with the Yankees near Ncwoan. '•
haps, for you own husbands, brothers and
sons, whose suffering condition.must plead
more powerfully to your generosity than
any eloquence of words. Would you have
them left on our streets with no shelter for
their suffering bodies, and no food to sup
ply their necessities ? Must they not on
ly bare their brave bosoms to our common
I 'enemy until they fall wounded by the
I deadly missiles, but when wounded, and it
! may he dying, they seek a distant home,
shall they then be allowed to suffer, or at
best, be dependent upon uncertain chari
' u? ; ■ . • j
Our generous citizens will not allow this,
and when we assure them that our treasu
, ry is being rapidly exhausted and our pro
visions consumed, they will nobly respond*
as in former times.
Were it only thfi soldiers of Clay county,
we would not solicit one dollar out of the
county; but we entertain but few of these,
aud a majority are from the lower counties of
Georgia, South-Eastern Alabama and Flor
ida. In a former appeal, Florida respond
ed nobly, especially Jackson county; now
our necessities are greater, and we make
more uvgent demand upon your charity.
Will notour patriotic and wealthy planters
give us supplies from their overflowing
granaries and smoke-houses? Only one
personal appeal have we made, aud here I
would record- the generosity of Col. John
! H. Starke, who was the liberal donor of five
hundred pounds of bacon, and a quantity
of eorn —the name of such men belong to
.the public.
Especially, we solicit donation? of pro
visions of all kinds, but those who have not
| the provisions to spare must aid us from
•their purses, and we sincerely hope to be
able so publish a long list of contributions
very early, or onr “ Home” must be aban
, doned, and our bravd defenders left to the
cold charities of the world.
Augusta A. Ward law,
Sec’y L. P. R. S.
Fort Gaines, Ga., Aug. 8, 1864.
'
We are gradually collecting all life par
ticulars of the recent invasion of Maryland
by onr forces. The following, which has
never been published here before, is both
piquant and amusing. A correspondent of .
the Washington Chronicle thus describes
his visit to the Yankee camp, after the
battle of Monocac^:
Rickett's camp I visited yesterday. His
men were badly worn by the fight near
Frederick, aud for a time were reported
unfit for duty. There they lay in Brown
faced gipsey parties, helterskclter, under
the brief shade of canvas stuck on bayonets,
and hardly protected from the broiling sud.
They were about getting themselves fresh
again. The world never saw soldiers more
severely tried than the veterans of the Po
tomac army ; and yet their iron hardihood
and cheerful spirits are surprising, while
they also appreciate their terrible experi
ence. Much fun was made in camp, over
the Maryland regiment and one hundred
days’ men, who broke and ruu at the Mo
nooacy. Four or five officers, bye the bye,,
were found in a barn, away from their
commands, and were, of course, disgraced.
I
Two part 3 Epsom Salts and one of Salt
is said to be an unfailing remedy for flux
—one doee frequently curing, if taken iu
'■ time.
WBH'.. A! It. ISO!.
Editor Sir : Mai»j Os my
friends are of opinion that it be
proper in rae to solicit your to
my present condition.
You must; kuow, sir, that up to this
time I. have joined no military organiza
tions. '
Some would seem to insinuate that this/on
my part, may be traced to cowardice or a
want of inclination to aid the South, now,
as some people thin’k, on her last legs.
' Were they to attribute to me such mo
tives it would fie doing great injustice.
From the very commencement of this
struggle, I have ever been known to be a
most rampant secessionist, and there aro
those now living among you who must re
member the zeal with which I espoused
the cause of the Southern Confederacy.
But it So happened that I have not, up
to this time, hazarded life or limb iu actu
al battle, but I have ever, in my conversa
tion aud language, aided and abetted the
cause of the South.
Y.ou, doubtless,- are aware, sir, that my
health has been failing for years, and ii
board of Surgeons have pronounced me un
fit for the service.
To be, sure, I eat and exercise ns usual,
in fact, these functions have neves been
interfered with, and ou that account my
enemies whisper about that I am abio to
take the field.
But you know, sir, appearances are
! fallacious, and that there is a vast difference
between real and apparent health.
My wife, God bless her, loves mo to dia
.j traction, she affirms and reiterates, that
a compaign would be the death of me.
And between ourselves, she knows more
than all the - doctors, and savs in an hour
she could convince my bitterest enemies
that lam unlit for the field. I must con
fess that I would have volunteered to de
fend Macon in the late raid, but with tears
in her eyes, she besought me to remain at
home, that if I went to the field I would
[ he the cause of her death, as well as of poor
little Tim, who is now' only six mouths •
old.
IJudcrf <• •cunritaqe.es my jscnrtipl
valor was forced to succumb.
Besides, sir, she said, you kuow, Tobias,
our lauds and negroes amount to a big
round sum, and should you fall iu action,
your loss will be quadruple that of a poor
desperate devil, who has scarcely a shirt to
his back.
Well, I opiped, there was much reason
in this, and affected to be griveously ill,
and while many of my neighbors rushed
to meet the foe, I took my bed, and kept
out of harm’s way.
But it is all over. I feel that I have
acted a cowards part, and iny wife with all
her apologies cannot entirely ease my con
science.
But the long and the short of my letter
amounts to this—that henceforth, I am re
solved and willing to take the field.
Upon this my mind is made up —nor
wife —nor child—nor fortune will hold mo
back from the thickest of the fight.
I know there are many, very many, who
have acted as T have done. ' -
We appeal to them todo aslam resolved in
future. Let them cast off all subterfuges.
Let them seek to shelter themselves be
hind no partial or friendly medical boards.
Let them not hearken to the syrene
* tongue- of wives, children or fortune, but
let them, like tru<?hearted Southern men,’
gird ou their armor, and at'all risks, haz
ards and dangers, rush to the front, and
there remain till Southern Independence
is in fact accomplished. Laggard.
u Harvey,” the correspondent of the
Appeal, gets off th£ following “ good un ”
on the contraction of our lines in Geor
gia: .
A facetious soldier explains the unex
pected and dove-like civility of the Yan
kees for the past few days. He says that
the limits of the Confederacy are so con
tracted by our retrogade across the river,
that they refrain firing, especially with
’•lampposts,”and “quartermaster dispatch
es,” for fear of injuring their friends at
Andersonville, and posts on the coasts.
Thoughtful, isn’t it? Surely it is “an ill
wind that blows no good.”
» —»-
The New York Times estimates Grant’s
losses, in killed and wounded, north of
James river, at 70,000 men, Sherman’s
losses at 45,000, and the total Federal loss
es, since Ist of April, at fully 185,000
men.
♦ +
It is spoken as a bolemn fact that, not
withstanding the Yankees have five hun
dred vessels of all classes in commission,
in their navy, they are incessantly begging
Great Britain not to allow the Confederates j
' to fit qut one \>r two lucu-of-war. ‘
Animal Intelligence
That animals have souis ■which are im
mortal, has beon maintained by many wri
ters long before Mr. Wood had entered ou
his present existence. Some of the follow
ing anecdotes, respecting what some ara
pleased to call “ brute beast/’ have been
related to me by friends, the remainder ara
derived from my own observations.
The first I shall relate was told me a
few days ago by a friend and a man of
probity, aud proves that a dog may be
trained to pertorm acts which have very
much tho appearance of being the result
of reasoning, and comprehension of tho
meaning'of what is said to him. The
friend in question was staying with a cler
gyman, and after the cloth whs laid, tho
latter said to a sharp little terrier, who
was stretched out comfovtably on the rug %
before the fire, and watchiug with deep in
terest the preparations for dinner : u Billv,
get your table-cloth ! ” The dog,ran un
der the sideboard, brought out a copy of
the Saturday Review aud spread it on tho
rug. What, Billy, can a dog of your
sensibility eat a dinner off a paper which,
advooates prize fights ? and, perhaps, will
encourage next a return of canine encoun
ters!'” If ever a dog secured against an im -.
pet ition, that dog was. Bill}'. He barked
furiously, aud seizing the paper in his teeth,
he worried it as though he held an unusu
ally strong rat in his mouth. When bo
had satisfied himself with the amusement.,
he shot under the sideboard again ond
brought out a copy of the Times, which
he held up to his master with au enquir
ing look, that seemed to ask : “ Is thers
auy objection to this ? ” His master shook
his head, and said : “ I am afraid its opin
ion ou the subject of church-rates is not
quite what it should be.” The dog seem
ed troubled by some misgiving ub to wheth
er it was, under these cirdbmstances, a
suitable table-cloth for a clergyman's dog ;
but Sliding his master made no further re
mark, he proceeded to open it with great
care and deliberation. As 'soon as tho
mutton was placed on the tablo, a couple
of slices were cutoff and put on a plat®
and laid on the tabte cioth he had spread
out. With an eager appetite, Billy wm
about to hegiu his dinner, when his mas
ter said, “ Ah, Billy, Billy, isn’t it a sad
thing to find that the woman who cooked
this diuuer is a Roman Catholic ? ” With
out a growl or a whioe the dog turned away
from tho food, and retired to the furthest
corner of tho room, where he lay down
with au air of resignation which a human .
being might have copied with advantage.
After a minute or two, his master said,
“ Billy, I find I was mistaken about the
cook. She is asgood a Protestant as ever
attended a May meeting.” The joy of .
the dog at this intimation was expressed
in the most emphatic manner, and the ea
gerness with which he attacked the mut
ton, was the strongest possible proof of the
greatness of his previous self restraint.
Chamber* Journal.
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Flag of Truce Letters.
CONFEDERATE STATES OT AMERICA, )
War Department, Bureau or Kxc’o,
Richmond. Ya., July 1, 1864. )
ALL letters to go North by flag of true*
must be sont to this office.
2. Each letter must be enclosed in a sepa
rate envelope and addressed to me, Bureau
of Exchange, Richmond, Va.
3. No letter must exceed in length one
page of ordinary sized letter paper, and its
contents be confined strictly to personal or
family matters. No letter alluding to th»
movements or localities of troops will be al
lowed to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a United Staten
? .outage stamp, or its equivalent in silver or
Ini ted States currency. These regulations
will bo rigidly enforced, and no letter trans
mitted in which they are not strictly ob%
served. ROBERT OULD,
Agent of Exchange.
[Official:]
W, If. Hatch, Capt. <fc A. A. Q.
40-6 t
Exemption for Sale!
ANY one wishing to purchase an Extmp
lion for the War, can do so by bringing
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The position which is offered for sale is a
lucrative and pleasant one, und would not
be disposed of but for the fact that the hold
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For further particulars address
EDITOR NEWS,
June 20, 1864. 37-lm Blakely, Ga.
Free Omnibus Line!
TIIE undersigned takes this method of in
forming the traveling public that all pas
j aengers from the rail road depot, wishing to
stop at “ Wheeler’s Central Hotel,” will be
1 brought up in his hack free of charge.
ft. \Y WHEELER,
‘ Proprietor.
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