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<§arig (STountir JltSs. E. H. GROUBY, Editor, Proprietor & Publisher. BLAKELY: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,1864. ; No news of importance by this morn ing's mail. . • , «»■■■» .8. J. Dickinson, Esq., Confederate Tax Assessor, has another set of appointments in this issue. Mr. Kinclicn has again put his Carding Machine in operation, and will receive and card wool as heretofore. * ♦ ♦ From and after this date the mail going north from the Blakely Post Office will bo closed at 5 o’clock, p. in. Positively no Inters mailed after this hour. Our thanks are tendered to Mrs. J. D. McCullough for a bottle of fine Wine, which we relished with a considerable gusto. As wc were in quite low spirits yesterday morning, this wine just come in time to li ven us up. +. ♦ Another bridge iu Blakely needs the assistance of the Inferior Court. Ihe one over the ditch on the Cuthbert road, few , ' yards off the public square, is in a very bad condition, and is much in need of re pairs. We hope the Court will give it their attention before it becomes impassa ble, which condition it is now nearly iu. How patriotic peoplo are becoming of late! It seems that everybody wants to go'to tbe war ! At least this is the con clusion we have come to of late, for we have as yet received but one or two appli cations for the purchase ot‘ an Exemption which has been advertised for sale in tbe j\eics for over a month ! Come up, gentle men, we’ve got the sellling of an Exemp tion that wilr“ do to tie to 1 ’’ We arc reliably informed that the Infe rior Court of- Miller county is now holding secret sessions l Can any one tell us what this meant) ? Are they fishing forjtopular ity, in order to got elected for another term ? If so, this very thing ought to damn them forover. This is the first time we have ever heard of anything of this sort. We have frequently heard of secret sessions of Congress, but never before of Inferior Courts. A protracted meeting has been going on in the Baptist Church iu this place for the last ten days. There has not beeu such an iutercst taken in the meeting as we think ' there should have been, though many have beeu up to the mourner’s bench? We arc sorry to see that some of the male members of this Church are taking so little interest in the good work. Many of them have attended the meetings very irregularly, while others have yet to be seen in attend ance for the first time since the meeting commenced. Certainly such men caro very little for the salvation of souls. But our " hopes are that much good may yet result from th* meeting. - ~ Some month or so ago we received a com' TOUnieation, from a member of Col. Hood’s Cavalry Battalion, then in Florida, in re-* gard to tho negligence, carelessness and drunkonuess of the Post Master at Fort , Caines, and the irregularity of letters be-, ' ing mailed at that office in consequence. Now we are asked why we did not publish said communication, and we wish to give our reasou for the “ negleot,” as some one sees tit to call it. It is well known to al most all of our readers that we have fre quently, in times past, called the attention of the people of Fort Gaines to the con duct of this drunken, careless, neglectful, polecat-eating government official, but can any one tell us what good it has done ? If our strictures on him has accomplished anything, we have been unable to see it, for he is the same polecat-eater now that he was when we first took him in hand. If hell was raked and scraped, and combed with a fine tooth-comb, and boiled down to the tickness of salt, a meaner man could not be found than the Post Master at Fort Haines! For these reasons we put said communication iu the stove instead of ip the Mm. Arc they satisfactory ? I Special attention is called td the adver tisement of the Blakely Mala & Female Academy, to be found in another column, which will open on the second Monday iu September next, under the management of Ilev'. T. 11, Stout and Prof. D. M. Wade. It is known that we havo for thellast year or two needed a good School, kut have been almost entirely without one until the first of this year, when these gentlemen took hold of this Academy. As to how they succeeded, every one, we suppose, is aware, as they had over one hundred schol ars, and,* so far as we have been able to learn, gave almost entire satisfaction to • their patrons.' Every one should, at this time, see the great importance of having a good school in our midst, in order to give our children a good English cducutiou at least. The higher branches will also be taught. But llev. Mr. Stout’s and Prof. Wade’s efficiency as teachers are too well known here to even require tbe scratch of* a pen from us, and we merely say what we do iu order to call the attention of our peoplo to the fact that the School will soon open again, and urge upon every one the great importance of their sending their children to School while they have the op portunity. All who fail now to' send may regret it hereafter. Considering the times, the charges of this School are very low in deed—in fact, we are assured by one of the Principals that the last term lacked con siderable 6f paying actual expenses, when their rates were a little lower than now. Os course it cannot be'expected that they should throw aWay time and money for * the benefit of others. Ilev. Mr. Stout and Prof. Wade are gentlemen of superior en dowments, aud as teachers have proven a skill equalled by’few. With the utmost confidence they can bo intrusted the res ponsible and delicate talk of “ teaching the young idea how to shoot.” * We have received a note from Capt. C. B. Graybill, Commissary at Fort Gaines, in which he says that the statements made by our correspondent “ Beef Eater,” some two or three weeks ago, in our paper, were slanderous to him, and that the charges were incorrect. If such be the case, Capt. Graybill can have the use of our columns to set himself right in the matter, which, if he qan do, will clear up all the charges of “ Beef Eater.” We know the writer of this communication to be a gentleman of veracity, and know that he would not have charged Capt. Graybill with neglect ing his duty unless he had gotten his in formation from what lie must have consid ered reliable authority. It is not now, nor never has been our intention to publish anything that will injure a gentleman un less lie is guilty of the act he is charged with—but when we get a communication, or information any other way, from a gen tleman whom we believe to be as reliable as the writer of u Beef Eater,” we give place and credit to the same until we havo proof to the contrary. If “ Beef Eater ” has misstated the facts in this ease, wo are satisfied that he will, when so convinced, take great pleasure in correcting the same. We are .requested to call a meeting of the Soldiers’ Aid Society of Early county, to meet in the Court House in this place on next Saturday, at 2 o’clock. All others who feel an interest in the comfort and .welfare of our sick and* wounded Soldiers are also .requested to attend. It is the de sire of the Society to make up one or more boxes of provisions, &c., on Saturday next, to be forwarded immediately ter the Battle field Association, and it is hoped that eve ry one who feels any interest in this-matter will come out, and bring aloDg everything that can possibly bo spared that will assist in making our brave and noble Soldiers comfortable. If every one will do as much in this good cause as the l’rcsidedt of this Society, Mrs. Dr. Standifer, has, and will do, we feel satisfied that our citizens will send up such a supply of good things as will make our Soldiers overwhelmed with joy, and give “ Three cheers for the ladies of Early county ! ” Then come up, every body, next Saturday, and bring along with you everything that will relieve the wants of the suffering defenders of your wives, daughters, homes, property, your all. —• — Col. Jack Browh, of the 59th G a. lleg’t., was again wounded in the fight of New Market Heights on the 14th inst'. lie is a brave jnd gallant officer, and wo hopo he may soon recover, and be able to meet I the foe agaiu. For the following dispatches we are in debted to Lieut. E. 11. Winn, the Enroll ing Officer of this District. This plainly shows that “Joe. Brown” has no right to call out detailed men : Head-Quarters 2d &3d Con. Dis., ) Columbus, Ga., July 25,1864. ) Col W, M. B. roivne, Avgusta, Ga.: Arc men detailed & exempted under Gen eral Orders No. 2G, Adjutant and Inspec tor General, subject to the call of Governor Brown ? Wm. S. Davis, Capt. & En. Officer. • . Augusta, Ga., July 25, 1864. The Bureau*of Conscription has decided that exempts are liable to the Governor’s call, but details are not; and directs that whenever the latter are takeD, a report of the facts be made. By order Cor,. W. M. Browne, Comd't Conscripts of Ga. P. Loany, Lt. & Adj’t. —» * ■* The Editor of the Albany Patriot is continually “puffing” the hotels in his town ! In one issue he advises everybody • to go to the “Albany House,” and in the next he wants them to stop at the “ Ivey House ! ” This is queer to us ! But wo suppose there is policy in it! As whisky is high, and the Patriot man don’t have any “ more money than the law allows,” and it takes all be can get to buy whisky. . we guess the hotels feed him by turns for nothing, in order that he can keep up his “ spiritual ” ways S lienee he « puffs ” * one or the other every week !—the one feeding last always getting the next blow ! There’s a considerable amount qf policy in this “ puffing ! ” —for he.gets whisky for his money, and “ grub ” for his continual “ blowing! ” « ♦ » . From Mobile. We learn from Mobile direct, that on last Mouday we had as many as nine thou sand men in the trenchc| around the city, and that this force was receiving large ac cessions upon boat and train. By this time the army there must be at least twenty or twenty-five thousand strong, or quite suffi cient to successfully defend the city against every man and gunboat the enemy has along the Gulf of Mexico. There is not the slightest apprehension felt in the city for its safety. The works around it are considered as strong as those about Charles ton. The Yaukees will no doubt make a great blow over the feat performed by Par agut, but it will eventually avail them nothing, just like the other victories they have won. The Mobile papers fail to throw any light upon the singular circumstances at tending the surrender of Fort Gaines. They seem to wish for an excuse for Col. Anderson, but have not yet found one. We hope they will succeed in rescuing him from that everlasting infamy to which he is in danger of being consigned. Macon Confederate. Correspondence of the News? Camp at the Big Spring, near ) Leesburg, Va„ July 16, ’&4. } E. H. Grouby— Sir: As we have got back into Virginia, and I have an, oppor tunity at this time of writing a few lines, I thought I would avail myself of it, ami let you know a little of our travels Bince , we "Richmond. You have no doubt seen Irom the public prints an account of Gen. Early’s leaving Richmond for Lynch burg, and chasing Mr. Hunter with his Yankee mercenaries into the mountains. After he had driven them below Selam, on the Lynchburg & Tennessee Rail Road, he turned his course. We crossed through the country by Buchanan, and on to Lex ington, and from there to Staunton. When wc got to Buchanan tho track of the Yan kees on their way from Staunton to Lynch, burg was very perceptible in tho destruc tion of mills and bridges, and some private property, such as dwelling houses and torn down fences, and also fields of grain des troyed ; but what I thought was the most wanton destruction was the Military Insti tute—a fine building built after the order of the old 1< udal Castles of old times—at present nothing is left of it but the black ened and charred walls. From Staunton we took the pike road to Winchester, and from there Gen. Early sent part of his forces to Martiasburg, and the other part to Harper’s Ferry. At each place we cap tured a great quantity of stores. We took the Yankees by surprise at each place. They had made great preparations for a fourth of July jollification. But how fu tile are thi# plans , and calculations of poor erring mortals! for when “Brother Johna than ” was calculating on a big blow out here, the cussed rebels come and swept ail away from there. Well, after moving all that was valuable from each of the places, we crossed the Potomac; and at Sharps burg both parts of the army came together and moved on to Boonsboro’, at which place it became apparent was our destination. At Boonsboro’, by turning to the left, the road would take us in the direction of Har risburg, Pa„ while turning to the right leads in the direction of Washington. We took the latter, and went on to Frederick City, at which place wo found some Yan kees, who made a demonstration as if they intended to dispute our further oriward movement. The Yankees left the City»and took possession of some heights at the junction of the rail road on the Washing ton pike, On-Monday afternoou of the I Oth inst., our men were formed in line of battle, and for awhile the light went on pretty hot, but towards night the Yankees made tracks towards Washington, and. did not stop until they got there, except some five hundred, who were Gor don’s Division had a good share of tho fighting as usual, and Evan’s Brigade (for merly Gordou’s) came in for a good share of killed and wounded. I have not learn- ed what the exrtct number was, but 1 will give you the casualties of the old, true and brave “Early Guards:” One killed and . seveq, wounded, as follows : Killed—Capt. Potter, shot through the heart. Wound , cd—Lieut. Poster, in tho leg, the ball running round the bone below the knee, without breaking it—l was told that w hen the ball was extracted it had mashed up and bent around the bone; James Bush, iu leg, since amputated; William Lewis, in three places, mortally ; Richard Lewis, in arm and side, but up with his command ; John RansoDe, in the knee, bone not broke; William Howard, in the hand, lost two fin gers; and a young man named Reynolds, who joined the Compauy at Griflin, Ga., in Lieut. Poster, Bush, William Lewis, Kamfone and William Howard were taken to the l’aukce hospital at Frederick City. The Yankee cavalry came in there as soon as we left, and of course captured them. On Tuesday evening, 12th inst., we ar rived before the breastworks arouud Wash ington, some three or four miles from the city. We did not go by the way of G eorge town, which was the nearest way, but'at Rockville wo turned t» the right and took a road that led ihto the city at Seventh street—our reason for that-was the defences at that part of the city were not so string as at the other. I have no doubt but wc could have gone into the city that evening, only that the men were broke down with marching, for we had inarched over twenty • miles that day, and I believe it \yas one of the hottest dayg 1 ever experienced; dura.*