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Early County News.
VOL. V.
Blakely Male & Female
Academy.
Rev. T. If. Stout .....T....D. M. W ade,
’ Associate Frixjcipaln.
riMl F, above Institution will open again on
x Monday, the 12th of September next,
aiul continue for tho term of fifteen weeks.
Competent assistance will be procured it
necessary.
Rates'of tuition for the term will be as
follows: ....
First Class —Spelling, Reading, ritmg
and Mental Arithmeiie £‘2*2,00
Second Class-—English Ttraifnnai' Geog
raphy and Written Arithmetic $35,00
Third Class —Advanced English and Ran
guagea ; •_ SOO,OO
It parties desire it, tuition will be charged
at old rates, payable in provisions at the old
rates.
A Music Teacher will be employed m eon
neiftion with the school.
No deduction for a few weeks absence at
the beginning of the. term, or any time there
after. except in cases of protracted sickness.
For further information, address either of
the Principals.
Blakely', Aug. 17, 180 l. 43-lni
Flag of Truce Letters.
Con fed Lit \ ti: States ok America, 1 .
War Ph'artmi nt, Bureau of Esc o, i
Richmond, \ a-., July 1, 1804. j
A Lb letters to go North by flag of truce
/\ must be scut; to this office.
2. Each hitter must be enclosed in n sepa
rate envelope and addressed to me, Bureau
of Exchange, Richmond, \ a. *
J. No letter must exceed in length one
page of ordinary sized letter paper, and its
contents be confined stric-Hy to personal or
family matters. No letter alluding to the
movements or localities of troops will be al
lowed to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a l.'nitcd States
postage stamp, or its equivalent in silver or
i billed States currency. These regulations
v. jll be rigidly enforced, and no letter trans
mitted in which they are not strictly ob->
served. 'ROBERT DEED,
Agent of Exchange.
[Official: ]
\V. 11. Hatch, Capt. & A. A. G.
40-Gt
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. New Shoo Shop.
fIMIE undersigned have just opened a
JL -Shoe Shoi* in Blakely,-next to James
Buehannon's .Store, where they will .put up
all kinds of Boots and Shoes iu the best
style, and tit as low figures as the times will
admit. All kinds of plantation work put up
to order, in small or Kirge lots, where the
parties furnish the material. Harness and
Saddle work, will also receive attention.
Give us a trial. FOWELL & LO.
July 13,4804. 3S-tf ___
Tan Yard Notice.
HAVING purchased the interest of Mr.
Peter Howard, l am now solo proprie
tor of the Tan Yard heretofore owned by
Howard & Stewart. The Yard will be kept
up as heretofore. Hides will be tanned on
shares as usual.
Thankful for past favors, I invite all to try
me for the future, promising to do all 1 can
to please my customers.
JAS. M. STEWART.
Blakely, Aug. 5, 1803. 41-ly
. . TfiT) ,
to rule around, talk big about
and drink all the Buckeye they can lay
• hands on ! Not a few people spoor at the
commencement of this war) have grown so l
immensely rich, or so lazy, that they must
have a waiting boy (in the form of a Clerk
•>r Agent; to do everything for them—-ex
cept drink a good share of Government ,
whisky, and drive fast horses ! It is a
- fact, sir, iny old horse has not tast- {
Vd, touched, seen, nor handled corn for moro
than two weeks—-neither lias lie smelt a
blade of fodder for several days! AY hose
fault is it? Fortunately, wo have jx few
sprigs of marsh grass yet, which may keep
our “ old rips " alive until wo oan have
the desired nows of Captains & A. Q. M. s
detailed to buy up a little shattered corn
and a few blades of rotten fodder.
Don't you thick if some of out grand
Ticoons. were to keep about two months
rations ahead that it would, iu some de
gree, amdioate the’ sufferings of many of
our horses ? ft would doubtless be a good
idea to have a little on hand in ease of a
collision on the road, or the appearance of
ur'inuT officers) ii.ru hereby d-'ehin-d rxohang
ed. ROBERT OULD.
lit Agent of Exchange.
Free Omnibus Line !
friUK undersigned takes this method of in*
| forming the traveling public that all pas
sengers from the rail road depot, wishing to
step u,t “ Vheeler's Central Hotel," will ho
brought up iu his hack free of charge,
* G. IV. WHEELER.
Propriety!:,
BLAKELY. GEO, ' -A.TTC-J TJST r>4, 3 804.
(farld (Co unto Hefts.
Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year SIO.OO
For 6 Months... -. $5,00
No subsciptions received fur less than six
months, and payment always required iu ad
vance.
* ' >' '“ J P .
Rates of Advertising:
1 Squarrf, (occupying the space of ten Bour
geois lines, or less,) each insertion.. :82,U1)
Distress in Atlanta.
•A correspondent writing from Atlanta,
under recent date, says :
Few citizens who remain here made any
preparations for a seige ; and the little pro
duced by the truck patches within the city
is rapidly disappearing before the rapacity
of a great circle of nocturnal tlieiyps.
These rouges do not confine their operations
to dwellings which have been abandoned,
but wander with pertinacious effrontry in
to every aperture which promises pluuder.
Between them anti the bombardment, the
old burgh has. fared roughly, and wears as.
wap and vailed an aspect .as you’d see on a
wiliter’s day. Mangled shade trees* dis
traught flower beds, topsy-turvy summer
houses. Some of the handsomest residen
ces are so altered that their own masters
. would not know them. Great slices cut
out ol cornice work,; chimneys torn away ;
roofs gaping with ugly rents and broad
seams; trim porticos, where? vines and
honeysuckles hung iu rich festoons, broken
and blackened by powder and sooC; and *
gardens, which once glittered with “lily 4
pink and jessimine;" and were inclosed by
pretty fencing, are shorn and wicketless as
so many bits of waste common. The very
streets stare at you mournfully and spec
trally. Whitehall is as vacant as a house
to let. The breezes, that “ pass and die in
the Woodland’s," roam up and down the
broad, bare«avenues like unhappy ghosts.
The sunshine pours its lonely rays upon
deserted pavements. They vainly seek j
ihe giddy throng that whilom floated in I
fancififl mazes the promenades of Marietta
and Peachtree, and at night the poor stars
look lbebly down upon —
And bombs bursting in air,”
and seem to twinkle out a monody upon
the vanity of human wishes, the instabili
ty of human society, and the fickle chan
ges of fortune. Alas, the pomps and glo
ries of this sinful world ! Alas, the laded
splendor of this once voluptuous city !
The Chicago Convention.
The Democratic Presidential Conven
tion will meet as Chicago on the 29th inst.
A New York letter writer states tlmt, as
the time fqr the meeting of the Convention
approaches, there are other names than
those of Gen. McClellan beginning to bo
whispered about as candidates. One of
these is Ex-President Fillmore. This geu
tleman, to use a vulgar phrase, has been
laying low during the war, and hence
he is not obnoxious to the ultra peace fac
tion, while his recent efforts on behalf of
the Sanitary Commission are supposed to
have given him some claim to the kindly
consideration of the*War wing of the De
mocracy. Fernando Wood, it is said, will
support him, but the McClellarritos insist
that only their man —the young Napoleon
—shall be trotted out. Some think the
job might be compromised by putti ug Mil
lard up for President and Mac for Vice-
President-.”'
The National (Yankee) Almanac for
1803-’4, presents statistics showing by tho
reports of the several State functionaries
that only one million and a half of troops
had been furnished up to the first of Jan
uary, 1804, out of two millions and a half
called for as volunteers, drafted men and
conscripts. No state has ever furnished
her quota. It is a low estimate to calcu
late that two-thirds of this number have
gone out of service from disease, killed,
disabling wounds, prisoners and dpscition,
which will leave 500,000 as the highest
figure at which all the Yankee armies in
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mis
sissippi, Georgia, Virginia, the CaroliuaS
and Florida can be estimated. This would
give them between three and four hundred
men to every regiment, which is a very
high average.
Beauty, in nature as in woman, is oi'toncr
estimated by the effect produced than the
cause. In the one wo trace the sunset
hues, but forget the tun; in the other, the
. symmetrical feature, but ignore the soul.
Orders from the Treasury Department.
The new .Secretary of tlfc; Treasury has
issued the following orders*:'
In order to promote, as/far as practica
ble, the early liquidation by tlHr Treasury
of the outstanding taxed the Treas
urer, Assistant Treasurers a{rtl Fay Deposi
tories in tho different States, are hereby
authorized to receive the said note*, except
the SIOO notes, at sixty-six and two-third
per centum ou deposit, same
certfieate ut ioan upon hypothecation of
tiou-tpTable bunds. The said certificates
to be n:*-vablo on demand, after the rkpifa-.
. tion brtmfffty days. * *
And all agents lor tne sale of the above
bonds are hereby authorized to receive the
tax notes,-with the exception of the above
named, in payment of bonds, when sold,
at the rate of sixty-six and.two-thirds pur
cen'aun.
Loans on the security-of the five hun
dred million six ]?er cunt, non taxable bonds
under the seventh suction of the currency
law.
Deposits on call will be received by* the
Treasurer in this city, the Assistant Treas
ures at Charleston and Mobile, and the
Depositories at Wilmington, Raleigh, Po
lumbia, Savannah, Augusta and M outgo in
cty; and certificates will be issued for the
same, bearing interest at the rate of four
per cent, per annum, and secured by the
hypothecation of an amount of the above
bonds equal to the suiu of these loams.
T lio bonds to be set apart by the Treasurer,
and the proceeds, when sold, applied ex- *
t-lusively to the payment of the said ccrti-
Cirtes.
The security and convenience afforded
to banks and other corporations, and to the
public generally, by this movie of tempora
ry investment: and the effect of the meas
ure, if generally adopted, in keeping the
currency within moderate bounds, ir is hop
ed will commend it to the favorable con
. sideration of the eorihmiuitv, and secure
their prompt 00-opcration in carrying it in
to effect.
We saw, says the Danville. Monitor,
some beautiful guns, taken from t lie Yan
kees in the battle at Staunton bridge, that
shot sixteen times. They are charged at
once with sixteen cartridges, and by a spi
ral spring pressed into place as each one is
wanted. The ball is about the size of a
buckshot. These guns are plain, but well
finished, and carry a bail accurately one
mile.
Guns of this pattern were scattered
through Diuwiddie iu the track of the late
flight of the Yankee raiders. In most
cases, the vandals endeavored to destroy
them, but the many we have seen cau be
easily repaired.
We would state for the information of
all persons sending letters North by flag
of truce that it is a waste of time to for
ward them to the Exchange Bureau with
the old United States postage stamps at
tached to the envelopes. All such letters
we are told are destroyed;
It should be generally known by this
time, that soon after the commencement
of the war, tho Yankee Government caus
ed postage stamps with now devices, to be
prepared, and it is only stamps of this des
cription that can be used in the prepay
ment of letters scut through the United .
States mail.— A nflu&ta Chronicle.
The election in North Carolina resulted
moro favorably than we anticipated. Hol
den, as lur as heard from, has not receiv
ed a tbpusand votes, although it is pre
sumed that lie got fully that number.
Most any mat) running for Governor of
any State would receive that many votes,
no matter what ho might advocate. Peo
ple will vote without thinking what for or
for whom. The election in tho old North
State has effectually cleared her of any-in
timation of disloyalty to the South. She
has as much patriotism as Goorgia or \ ir
ginia.—M n on Confederate.
Recently the line of tho Memphis and
Charleston railroad, ncai* Grand J unction,
Miss., five of (i- ncral Forrest s scouts full
into thy hands of the Yankees and were
brutally murdered. Ihe atrocious deed
i was witnessed by a number ol’citizens living
near the bloody scene, who attest the inet
ill a published letter to the military author
ities in Mississippi, *
— 4
When you say in a phrase which is now
Americanized, such and such n man is a
brick, do you think or do you know the
origin of it? It is this: An Eastern
I’rinee on being asked, “ W hero are the
fortifications of your city? “ Every man
you sue is a brick.” ■»
The Treasury Plan.
From a private letter, -sap the (Charles
ton Courier, v; e obtain &oiuc general out
lines of the plan of financial aduuiuiatr&tiou
which will be pursued anil adopted by (he
Treasury with the full co-operation of oth
er departments as far as they can aid.
Much can be done towards strengthening
the 'treasury in reforming the currency by
a proper end adjustment of
the puchasing agencies of the war aud na
vy aud other departments that are compell
ed to enter the market with large orders.
There has been much evil incurred and iu
fi.cted ou-Lhe aurroaoiefi through high psi 4
ces aud consequent depreciation nv cxecS
sive and impolitic competition nii'l bj ig
uorant purchases who sought only to re
port speedily large purchasers. \\ e hope
the needed reform in this matter will bo
promptly announced aud enforced in aid
of the special new measures which ml! be
exhibited by the Treasury department.
These may be briefly stated as follows, look
ing primarily towards a maintenance of
Government without further issues of note*
to swell the volume of currency.
1. All foreign supplies to be paid lor
in billi-rdrawn against our own cotton.
II- ('(it ion purchases to be paid by sell*
ing sterling exchange to replace cost.
i IT. X>omi\stic purchases of all kin Is, as
far as possible, to be paid in ** eorlificat'-s
ol indebtedness and of “loan ou hypothe
cation.’’
A large debt due to one of the States
has already been arranged iu this way tv
mutual satisfaction.
I\. Treasury notes now legally extant
and recalled under operations of the loan or
otherwise*, to be reissued when necessary
, to meet payments not otherwise provided
for in this plan.
• The old notes to* be recalled lor cer
tificates bearing four per cent, interest and
payable on demand after ninety days.
\ I. The receipt by mancipation of cou
pons lor certain purposes of Government
duos.
'lbis expedient has been officially an
nounced and promises to work well. It
deserves and demands the constuerati-n
ol ail who have doomed themselves hith
erto compelled to pay ruinous rates for
gold.
All is Well.
W hen the hum of business has ceased iu
a populous city ; when fainter and still
more faint grows the laugh and revelry,
and the heavy tread of the straggler upon
the stoue pavement has a solitary, and uu»
earthly sound; when hushed is every mur
mur, and midnight broods over the palace
and flic hut, who in that still lpament,
when from the tower peals the passing
hour, has not been startled by the cry of
*• all is well ’’ from the guardian watchman
of the night, and been soothed and calmed
by the magic of the sound? All is not
well—with the young mother as she leans
over the fevered couch, aud wipes the
death damp from the*marble brow of her
only child, nor with the votary of pleasure
as he prays lor the dawning of light, hop
ing to assuage the pain caused by the intox :
ie.iting cup, aud perhaps a monitor with
in the walls tells him of damning and ac
cursed deeds of days gone by—nor with
the oppressor of the widow and orphan, as
he remembers the agonizing supplications
of his victims—uor with the statestuau as ho
beholds the sceptre of power and the dia
dem of glory passing away forever—uor
the gambler in the gorgeous Saloon, as deep
ly chaffing spiced wines, he scir.es with
gaunt and jewelled band the dice-box* and
dashing aside the pleasures of a home once
rendered dear, but for his own turpitude.
Aud oh ! the heart of Ids wile, broken,
and which clung to. him, atu] will fondly
cling to him to the last To all these, that
cry sounds like a funeral knoll—and brings
neither hope nor consolation when the last
hour of man has been numbered, his life
flickers in the socket. Happy the person
who can look calmly back to the past, and
putting that question to his soul, hear the
gladdouiug, the heart cheering response
from the unerring monitor within, nil t*
trek.
—— ♦ ♦
There are two objects wo seldom forget
—our debtors and ourselves The one is
pleasing to retnomber lor the material ai I
it contributes to the other
♦ ♦
If the stars are inhabited, asastron uirrs
would have us believe, rs it scientific ur not
to stare a lady in the face lest sire should
make astronomical observations?
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Pastn’ngdown the streettheotherd.ry.Fud
dculy we beeamo poetical—with a pvet on
one side aud u poem on the other.
TsT). 44.