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Early County News.
v.
Blakely Male & Female
Academy.
lUv. T. H. Stout....' D. M. Wadi,
Associate Principals.
THE above Institut.ion’will open again on
Monday, the 12th of September next,
and continue for the term - of fifteen weeks.
Competent assistance vrill be procured if
necessary. <
Kates of tuition for the term will be as
fellows:
First Class—Spelling, Reading, Writing
and Mental Arithmetic........ j*,.?22,00
fhteosJD Class—Rnglish Grammar, Geoff* '
r&chy and Written Arithmetic.?...:*...s3s,oo
Third Class—Advanced English and Lan
guages $60,00
If parties desire it, tuition will be charged
at old rates, payable in provisions at the old
rates.
A Music Teacher will be employed in con
nection 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. J7/1864. 43-lm
Flag of Truce Letters.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 1
Win Dei’aktment, Bureau or Exc’c, >
Richmond, Va., July 1/1864. >
A LL letters jto go North by flag of truce
_f\. must be sent 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 sired letter paper, and its
contents be confined strictly to personal or
family matters. .No letter alluding to the
movements or localities of troops will be al
ictweci to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a United States
postage stamp, or its equivalent in silver or
United States currency. These regulations
will be rigidly enforced, and no letter trans
mitted in which they are not strictly ob-»
served. ‘ROBERT OULl), .
Agent of Exchange.
[Official :1
W. H. Hatch, Capt. & A. A. G.
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• NOTICE TO THE
Planters of Georgia.
Office Georoia Relief and [
Hospital Association. ]
Those of you who have subscribed Cotton
to the objects-of this Association, and who
Lave not yet put us in possession of the same,
will please forward the bales subscribed, or
their equivalent in money, as we propose to
invest Immediately the funds derived from
this source of supply in Clothing for the des
titute pnd suffering of the Array.
By order of the Executive Committee.
JOSEPH R. WILSON, Chairman.
Get. 15. 1562. 1-ts
WH EE I ER’S~'
CENTRA!. HOUSE,
FORT GAINES, GEORGIA.
The undersigned returns thanks for the
liberal patronage that has been extended to
Lira tor the past two years, would also in
form the traveling public that he is still on
Land with the best the market affords, to
eapply their wants.
As‘l have so blowers, who blow for
orub, attached to the Railroad to
blow for me, please give hie a call, and
j uiiee for yourselves. •
GEO. W. WHEELER,
v2-i2-tf Proprietor.
Troy Manufact’ing Company.
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’YTT OODEN Ware, Furniture, Mattresses,
T f Ac., tic., for sale bv
TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
Spinning Wheels,
A T wholesale and retail, by
JV TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
C&mp Stools,
I7KJR sale by ine
< TROY MANUFACTURING CO.
Columbus, Qa., Sapt. 24,1862. v2-19-tf
In the field again!
JAMES RUCHANNON & CO.
Have for sale
Fine English Prints,
Fine English Rteachings,
Augusta Sheetings,
Spun Yarn.
Spool Thread,
Flax Thread,
Shoe Thread,
Iron, Nails, Tobacco, Snuff, and many other
articles too tedious to mention.
reb. 10, 1864. 17>tf
NOTICE.
PERSONS having Cotton stored in oup
Ware House are requited to come for
ward and deposit funds to pay the taxes on
the same, else we shall be forced to sell a suf
ficient quantity to pay said taxes, in accord
ance with the provisions of the law. And
all Cotton lying in Store twelve months after
date of receipt, will be put in good order at
the expense of the owner.
1 SUTLIVE & HOLLAND.
Fvft Gaines, July 15, 1863. 38-ts
BLAKELY, GEO., SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.
(£adi) Cmuttg Hctos.
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Terms of Subscription:
Por 1 Year SIO,OO
For 6 Months .$5,00
No subscriptions received fowl ess than six
months, and payment always required in ad
vance.
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Rates of Advertising:
1 Square, (occupying the space of ten Bour
geois lines, or less.) each insertion...s2,oo
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A Proclamation.
By Joseph E. Brown,
Governor of Georgia.
The distracted condition of our country
and the calamities which have befallen us,
are evidence that our individual and na
tional trangressions have provoked the dis
pleasure of Almighty God, who rules the
destinies of nations and states as well as of
men. He is using for our chastisement
our wicked but powerful enemy who has
overrun a large portion of the territory of
our own state, as well as of the Confedera
cy, and has laid waste or greatly damaged
our cities, towns, villages and fields. God’s
word, however, is full of promise that if
we will turn from the error of our ways
and humble ourlelves before Him, and im
plore His pardon for our sins as a people,
and in our aggregate capacity as a State, as
well as in-our private character as individ
uals, will acknowledge Him as Lord of
Lords, and King of Kings, he will hear us
in Heaven, his lofty dwelling place, and
answer us in peace.
In the hope, therefore, in this time of
great public calamity, if our whole people
will unite in the name and through the
merits of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ, in ii ivloring pardon and hear
us, will give victory to our arms, and by
confounding the counsels of our enemies,
and causing terroi and dismay in their
ranks, will enable us to triumph over them,
and to drive them from the soil of our be
loved State, I issue this, my Proclamation,
settingapart Thursday, the lsth of the pres
ent month, as a day of fasting, humiliation
and prayer. Adu I request that all secular
employment be suspended on that day, aud
that all business houses and public offices
be closed, and that the entire people of this
State, both male and female, do assemble at
their respective place of public worship, and
with all their heartland all their souls,
that they invoke the favor and aid of Al
mighty God. Aud I especially request
the reverend clergy of all sects and denom
inations to attend and ledd in religious ex
ercises appropriate to the occasion. r I also
respectfully request that Gen. J. B. Hood,
and the army under his command and all
other Confederate and State officers and
soldiers upou the soil of Georgia, unite with
the people of this State in the appropriate
observance of the day, for the purpose
above mentioned. Whilst our enemies re
ly for success upon their superior numbers
and their great resources, if we will place
our trust in the God of Israel, and do our
whole duty towards him and tp each other,
the day of our deliverance will be near at
hand.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
of the State, at thcCapitol in Milledge
ville, this sth day of September, 1864.
Joseph E. Brown.
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The Language of the Banners.
The following are the mottoes which
were inscribed on banners at the late
“ Peace ” meeting in Syracuse, N. Y.:
“No more victims for the slaughter pen
—not a rnan nor a dollar.”
“ If Seward touches his bell again the
people will stretch his neck.”
“ Abe Lincoln slaughters white men un
der the pretence of freeing niggers.”
“The people are ready to take vengeance
on .the advocajtea of civil war.”
“Lincoln demands bload! Provost Mar
shals beware.”
“ Let the tyrant tremble when the peo
ple speak.”
“ Usurpation unrebuked is despotism ac
cepted.”
“ Crush the tyrant Lincoln before he
crushes you.”
“ Free ballots or free bullets.”
“ War is dissolution, speedy and final.”
“ This is & nigger war.”
“ We will not be conscripted in a war for
the emancipation of slavery.”
“ Humanity commands that this butche
ry shall cease.”
“ Lincoln has murdered three white men
to free one negro.”
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Why arc good resolutions like fainting
ladies ? Becauso they want carrying out.
Confederate Sugar.
Fort Valley, Ga., Sept. 25,1863.
Knowing that you are ever willing and
anxious to contribute to the welfare of the
country, you will please allow me space in
the cdlumns of your valuable paper to make
a few remarks, for the benefit of the igno
rant and incredulous, in regarfi to the Chi
nese Sugar Cane. Many, perhaps, have
not heard that it would make good sugar,
while,many others who have heard it stilt
doubt it, aud my object is simply to bear
witness to the fact that it will make au ex
cellent article of 'sugar, aud at thq same
tiJve tin abundant I have just fin
ished making aTHTdesire to make, atuf ne w
have a good article for home consumption—
Consequently I have the testimony of the
sugar itself.
The process is simple and easy, and as
plain as the “ hand-writing on the wall.”
In the first place the cane must not only
be ripe; and the best test of its ripeness,
is the hardness and bitterness of its seed,
never being governed by its general appear
ance. Would you attempt to make meal
or flour of your corn or wheat while in a
milky or doughy state? Then apply the
same test to the Chinese Cane. It is my
opinion that the prime cause of thin, dark,
sour syrup’ is owing to the greenness of
the caue from which it is made.
The cane being fully ripe, it is ground,
and the juice is boiled in the usual way.
After it is put on to boil, some alkali
should be added, either lye, or soda, or lime
water, yet I know no special quantity to be
added. It makes very well to add a half
pint of lime water occasionally, for three
or four times, for a kettle of 60 or 80 gal
lons, uutil the scum ceases to rise on the
top, which should be removed with a strain
er as fast as it rises. . .
All the alkali, of whatever kind, can be
added at once, if you choose to do so. The.
fire should never be too hot for the first
half hour, to enable you to skim it well.
After that it can be boiled rapidly, if you
choose, until it is ready to take off, which
should not be too soon, as thick syrup is
much to be preferred, provided you wish
to make syrup of it. When it has reach
ed the stage of thick syrup, very little more
boiling will convert it into sugar, which
will granulate as soon as it cools. By boil
ing a little once or twice, and experiment
ing for sugar, you will always know at what
stage to remove it from the kettle better
than I can tell you, though I didu’t make
a single failure. After removing it from
the kettle, place it income vessel a short
while until some of its heat has left, and
tWn pour it into your barrels, with the
hoops a little loose in order that the mo
lasses may drip fropi it, of which there will
not be as much as many might suppose.
Do not stir it after removing it frqrn the
ketttle, as is the common custom, or the
grains will be small and fine.
Copy: (Sigued) Jacob Hiley.
Please publish the foregoing in your pa
per for the benefit of the public. This i 3
the season for grinding cane, and I desire
it should be published in every paper in
the Confederate States, and oblige
Yours Respectfully,
Wm. Shivers, Jr.
Nunter’s War on Women.
Hunter, the openly proclaims
a war on the women of the South. Read
the following extract, from a lady to her
daughter, written from the Sweet Springs,
under date of the Ist of July, and publish
ed in the Enquirer. One of the first ladies
of the land went to Iluuter to ask him for
a guard to protect her house. He told
her to go home for he had determined to
burn the house; that he intended to burn
every house within five miles of any spot
at which any of his men had been bush
whacked. She said: “ Surely, General,
you cannot be in earnest in saying that you
intend that women aud children arc to suf
fer such a calamity in addition to all be
sides that is the natural consequence of
war.” He replied in these remarkable
words : “ I do intend that the worneu shall
suffer ! I organized this raid for that spe
cial purpose;; the women of the South are
the fiends that have kept up this war;
they thrust their fathers, sons and broth
ers into the rebel army, and have endured
everything that could incite the men to go
4 on with the war, and I intend to crush the
proud, rebellious spirit of you Virginians.
I am coming back to burn your grain fields,
to make a desert of the pride of the earth,
to desolate your country, and to starve wo
men and ohildren, but what they shall come
back to their lawful Government—the best
Government on the face ot the earth.”
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•What would be a good stump speech
against the war ? A wooden leg.
The Yankees in Atlanta.
Frohi a gentleman who left Atlanta aev
eral days after the city fell, we learn pome
interesting particulars of the doings of th-a
\ aukecs and the conduct of the'people of
the city. Two or threg daya after the en
§. emy entered, the officers gave a grand ball
at the House, and invited many of
the citizens to attend. Toxtheir shame be
it said, the invitation was accepted, in ma
ny .instances, and women, we cannot, call
them ladies,, who were loudest in their pro
testations of loyajty to the South, were
“ hancLin glove” with the Yankees-on the
night of the ball. It is represented to have
been quite a brilliant ufftip; pknty of
champsjiga *?ys drank in kmor of the suc
cess achieved by the Federal arms, and the
party ended at a late hour in the morning,
after great glorification.
One of the first orders issued by the
Yankees informed the negroes that they
were no lotigpr slaves, but “ free American
citizens of African descent.” There were
many negroes in the city, and we should
not be surprised if some of the “ colored
ladies ” attended the Yaukee celebration
ball. ' '
We regret to learn that atpong the first
citizens who took the oath of allegiance to
the Fcderals was Mr. ,T. E. Hitchsnan,
formerly “ business manager” of the Intel
ligencer. This gentleman remained in At
lanta with the Fire Battalion during the
investment of that city. We trust the
statement is incorrect,' as a personal ac
quaintance with Mr. Buchifnan made ns
expect better things of him.
There is-but little or no business carried
on in the city, except by a few traitors
who concealed tobacco for the express pur
pose of selling it to the enemy should they
enter the town. Those creatures, we learn,
are doing a brisk busiuess with the Yankee
sutlers.
There is a Provost Marshal and a guard
of one Brigade on duty in the city ; all the
other troops are encamped outside of th#
city.— Macon Telegraph.
Gen. Lee to Absentees and Deserter#.
Headq!s Army Northern Va., )
August 10th, 1864.}
General Orders, No. 54.
All persons connected with this army,
who are absent withputj proper authprity,
are enjoined to return to their respective
connnauds without delay.
This order is intended to embrace those
who have p remained absent beyond the time
limited for their return, or after the cause
of their absence has ceased. All suchjjer
sons are admonished that every day they
remain away from their posts adds to the
dangers and labors of their comrades, while
it increases their own responsibility to the
jaws they are violating.
The Commanding General deems it on»
ly-necessary to remind those who have er
red through thoughtlessness or negligence
of the shame and disgrace they wiil bring
qpon themselves and their families, if they
shrink from the manful discharge of duty
in the hour of their country's need, and
leave their homes to be defended and their
independence to be secured by the unaided
courage of others.
To those whose absence has beep prolong
ed until they have incurred the guilt of de
sertion, he can only say that a prompt and
voluntary, return tp duty alone can palliate
their offence and entitle them to expect any
clemency.
If arrested and brought back, justice to
the faithtul and true, as well a» the inter
est and safety of the country, requires that
they shall suffer the extreme penalty of tho
law.
(Signed) R. E. L*E> General.
Official—J. C. Mcßae, A. A. G.
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The house in which William Pehn and
his family resided while they lived in Phil
adelphia was recently purchased by a citi
zen of that place, apdjwill soon|be demolish
ed. The house was occupied by Penn in
1700, and in this house his son John Pent?
was born. It is now about one hundred
aod seventy-five years old, and is the last
relic of the Penn family.
As Louis Napoleon's health is said to be
failing, European journals are speculating
upon the probable consequences of his
death. His only son is nine years old.
There are two rival influences to endanger
a regency, Count de Chambord, grandson
of Charles X, dethroned in 1830, and
Count de Paris, grandson of Louis Pbillipe,
overthrown in 1849.
Why is getting tipsy a good preventative
against being drowned ? Because one will
neyer drown eo long as his head swims.
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