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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 ■ ■ . 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? * -*• • Pastn’ngdown the streettheotherd.ry.Fud dculy we beeamo poetical—with a pvet on one side aud u poem on the other. TsT). 44.