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E. H. GROUBY,
Editor, Proprietor & Publisher.
BT. AKELY:T^
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1864.
lit: ad the many new advertisements.
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In coosequptioe of Judge Clark being
tick, we had no Court this week.
Some of our Georgia journals sneer at
Wheeler, and eay that Lie? raid in Sher
man’s roar amounts to nothing. They want
the Tennessee Forrest to cuf Sherman’s
rear communications root and branch.
Hampton’s splendid raid in the rear of
Grant, during which be captured fifteen
hundred head of cattle, some fine horses,
whipped a Yankee cavalry force, and took
a lot of prisoners, is provoking much com
ment and some indignation at the North.
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Stoneman is reported to have passed
through Macon last’ week, on his way to
be exchanged for forty meu. We hope
to hear of this notorious Yhnkee raider
having his infernal neck broken by‘some
of our worn-out mil roads before he gets
exchanged.
The reason the Yankees refnue to ex
change prisoners is the time of service of
most of their men in our hands has ex
pired, and there is no hope that they would
rc-enlist. What unprincipled scoundrels!
The devil himself muet blush over Yankee
. rascality !
■ The Presidential campaign is fairly un
der way in the United States. Judging
from the toue of the McClellan and Lin
coln journals, it promises to be bitter. It
is said that the peace-on-any terms Demo
crats are being reconciled to McClellan.
Our own opinion is that Lincoln will beat
him “ horse, foot aud dragoon.”
, Little Bob. Walker is spoken of as the
probable successor of Mr. Fessenden in the
Lincolu Greenback Department. He has
been politically dead for some years; but
this war liafl galvanized him info lift,“just
as it has done a number of our hitherto
defunot politicians. Walker was, in his
honest days, a Senator iu the United States
* Congress from Mississippi, and a blatant
advocate of States Bights.
An investigating wag says that the op
ponents of an armistice, or any other plan
to secure in early peace may bo divided
into three classes : Newspaper men who
have fat Government contracts; civilians
outside of newspaperdom, also enjoying fat
contracts ; Quarter-Masters and Commissa
--i who are uot yet done fleecing the Gov
ernment. Their Voice In D*UVC»„>*,r, war>
war! while those unfortunates who ha*ve
no contracts are for peace.
A newspaper correspondent, in a late
letter, says : “ Mobile, Ala., it seems tome,
though I write it sorrowfully, iB one vast
bed of corruption—akin to Gomorrah of
old. I think itsm-passes Richmond iu the
vastaesa of its pollution, number of “ hells,”
and abodes of “ flashy vice.” All we have
to say is, that if Mobile can beat Rich
mond, it is the fastest city known to an
cient or modern times, if we can judge it
from the accounts given in its own papers,
tfo much for war, its purifying and chival-.
rous tendencies 1
The negro Wallace, who not long since
struck Mrs; Foster, in the lower part ot
this county, with a stick, was carried be
fore the Inferior Court yesterday for com
mittal. As soon as the committal trial was
over, and the Sheriff was carrying .him
back to jail, some of our citizeus, being
outraged to think that the scamp should
have to lay in jail at the expense of the
couDty until next Court, took him away*
from the officer by foree, carried him into
the woods, fixed up a gallows, put Wallace
on a mule, tied a rope around his neck and
fastened it to the pole above, and then
drove the mule fVom under, which soon
ended the existence of the scamp. He
was then hurried near where he was hung.
The citizens who did this deserve a great
deal of credit for their conduct in this
matter. This should a warning to eth
er negroes.
People are beginning to complain of the
scarcity.of money. It they complain now,
what will they do next January, when the
whole of the old issue will have been swept
scorn circulation ? Guess they’ll begin to
conclude that Confederate money is not
quite as worthless as they had supposed.
The sight of a Confederate dollar will be
“good for the eye” in the ides of January
next. > The Secretary of the Treasury is
taking the right step—he is reducing the
circulating medium, and iu January uext
one dollar ought to buy what it uow takes
five dollars tp purchase. But will those
who sell reduce preseut prices? Judging
the future by the past, instead of reducing
prices they will advance ! Ever since the
Government commenced reducing the a
mount ot money* prices have been going
up instead of coming down. This opera
tion-is death and destruction to the poor
rnaoj or one who has nothing to sell that
people are not obliged to buy. If A has
meat to sell, B, who sells leather, can af
ford to pay a tall price for It, because he
puts his leather at a corresponding price,
well knowing that A will beJbrced to pay
it. Here, then, is a set off. But D has
nothing to sell, and he is obliged to buy
both meat and leather. Do A and B, in
consideration of bis unfortunate sitmrtion,
let him have meat and leather any cheaper
than they sold to each other in barter ?
Not they ! They make him pay the same
price, in money—and hence you see at a
glance that high prie.es only hurt those
with nothing to sell that people are obliged
to buy—and you can see at a glance also
how high prices make the rich richer and
the poor poorer. It was an awful blow to
the Confederacy when the hu-ge meat sell
ing Commissioners of Georgia established
the Government price of meat at three dol
lars a pound. Farmers, before this, were
wondering if two dollars and a.half wasn’t
asking too much. And when these meat
selling Commissioners proclaimed three dol
lars a pound, most of farmers said it was
outrageous—scandalous. But they all; with
here and there an exception, caught at the
bait, and now most of farmers have screw
ed their courage up to the belief that three
dollars ain’t more than half enough ! This
being tho state of things at home, how can
wo expect the Soldiers ta reffiain in the
Heifl, rSiJfc ttidir families have to .pay such .
a price as this for a little meat to eat?
This is the secret to feo many recent deser
tions. Perhaps it is imprudent to make
this fact public, for fear it may cause more
to desert, but we may as well unmask it
and expose tho evil. The men who have
fought for sll a month complain still fur
ther—they complain that the extortioners,
speculators aud shylocks at home have de
preciated their money, by exorbitant prices.
We remark, in qpnuection, that if we fail
to achieve our independence, the South
alone will be to blame. Her .destiny lies
iq the smokehouse, &c.; and htswho would
be a freeman, and locks the door to the
of life, imd unlock* them only
when famine prices kick at the door, de
serves to live a slave and dio a detested
pauper.
What is to be the result of the fall of
Atlanta ? The North have said it will
end the war—it will crush the rebellion.
They have shouted, made speeches and
burnt much powder oa this supposition.
But they have done all this before, and
yet the rebellion was not crushed—the war
was not ended. At the South not much
has been said; though much haa been felt,
ou oceount of the state of affair? in tlifcs
State. Tho real sentiment we believe is
deep sorrow and mortiJcation and a stead
ier determination to sea the tiling out.
We will have harder work to do—more
patience to exercise, ami all that—but
never give up the cause. The result of the >
fall of Atlanta will be a change of com
manders—a chaDge of pians—a change of
place of antagonism, and a closer unity on
the part of the people to work out the grq&t
end—au acknowledged independence. It
will make no one love the Yankees better
—no patriot love the Confederacy less It
will make thousands .believe that Gen.
Johuson is the man, who if he had b*en let
alone, would have saved the arrqjr from
this defeat and the country from this dis
aster. It will hinder the action of the
friends of peace, and put back the hopes of
many as to an early day dawn after the
dark night, but while it is far from being
ruin—while it is disaster it is not death.
Ihe knell of Southern independence can
not be ruug, if the Yankees had all the
bells in Georgia. 1
editor News : I have been a reader
of your paper from the first number issued
until the last, and rnauy a time, within the
last three years, have I been pained at the
course yon have seen proper to pursue in
relation to one particular subject: You
seem disposed, if in your power, to pro
duce a strife, or to say the least, a feeling
of enmity between the rich and the pour.
This disposition seems to Lea growing 'evil
with you ; in fact, it seems to me that you
have become maniac on that subject, and
1 would advise you to put yourself under
treatment for jilonomctnm. Happily, you
have succeeded very poorly iu your un
dertaking'. Although you assume the ex
istence of a state of affairs which is en
tirely untrue, you have not as yet succeed
ed in producing any manifestations of the
feeling you seem so much to desire should
exist beween the rich and the poor of our
community. Just as our good people dicb
before the advent of the News amongst
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them, so they continue to do. The rich
aud the poor mingle freely and cordially
together in their daily avocations; they
sead to the same schools, set together iu
the same pew at the House of God, visit
each other, converse with each other on
all topics of the day, minister to each oth
er s wants, and, notwithstanding your asser
tions to the contrary, they stand side by
side on the battlefield as the defenders of
their country against a comrfion enemy.
Why, sir, I do not know a rich man in the
county who would pass even you without
recognizing you, if he were fortunate enough
to be one of your acquaintances, much as
you have abused this class of our citizens.
W hat motive can govern you in your per
severing efforts to array the poor against the
rich is more than I can comprehend ; lor,
deny it as you may, your course is calcula
ted to result in this, and nothing else.
There is no way better calculated to bring
about any given state of affairs than to as
sume that it already exists, although there
may be no foundation for the assertion. I
am of opinion the poor of this county
. would never know how unkindly they were
treated by the rich, were it not for your un
tiring efforts to convince them of the fact.
Many possibly have been astonished since
you have enlightened them on the subject,
-ri«rt-tircy tra-fre Wi! so long able to submit
uncomplainingly to the unkind treatment
of their rich neighbors. Yet I see no man
ifestations’ of discontent amongst them, not
being satisfied, probably, that you have been
telling the truth about their rieli friends,
or then' good sense restraining them from
falling* out with those who are able, and
who have heretofore shown themselves wil
ling to help them in.their times of need.
Now, Mr. Editor, I hope you will cease
your phillipics agaiust the rich; do let our
people live as peaceably ns possible. We
are in the midst of troublesome times,
when we ail need the sympathies aud good
offices of our friends, both rich and poor.
There arc sufficient causes at wors. to pro
duce ill feeling, evil speakings, contentions
and disputes, without any aid from the
Press. If you. wish to serve your country,
then change your tactics, and use your in
fluence to aday the differences' that exist
in society, and produce that unity of feel
ing and action so much to he desired in
our present conSitfou as a Nation. This
is the advice of your friend and fellow ‘
Citizen.
P. S. Since writing the foregoing, an
other number of your puper has come out,
and I must say it is the clearest case of
blowing hot and cold with the same breath
that I have ever known. In one article
you say that “at least one half of them
(the rich) despise to see a poor man make
more than half a living.” But if we are
to believe what you say in another article,
you don’t mean more than half you say, for
I think that class who despise to see a poor
man make uiorei than half a living, and
“ those sordid men who have no souls,” is
very small iu this county —so small that
none but one who was in search of some
thing to complain of could ever see them,
and do not by any means constitute one
half ot those who are called rich in the
community. q
Don’t our friend «Citizen ” “snort!”
Two men had better bold him I—one can
hold us ! W onder if he is one of those
wealthy men who has done nothing for the
war, Soldiers families, &c., but remained
at home speculating on the necessities of
tho people at large ! lie is probably try
ing to clear up his owu mtauners and stin-
giness I We do not deem it necessary to
go into detail in this matter, as we think
our article on this subject last week ex
plained our position in regard to rich and
poor people thoroughly. The assertion of
“Citizen,” that wo wish to make a diatinc-.
tion between the rich and poor generally,
and that the poor are respected by all the
rich, we pronounce false, which he knew
when he penned the words. There are, to
our certain knowledge, thousands of men
throughout the country who make infernal
fools of themselves on aecount cf haring;a :
little property, while there are many men
of wealth who are perfect gentleman. Bqt
enough—for, as we said before, our article
in last week's paper sets us right on this
qnestion.
Fort Gaines, Sept. 28, 1864.
. Dear News : through the courtesy of.
Mr. Grist, who never aharged ax*ent, 1
put down at the Wayside Home, where f
left knapsack, &c., and went down to tba.
city to take a few notes for you and your
readers. Being a good hater of « hospital
birds,” skulkers, deserters, &c., of course
I found plenty of subjects on which to visit
my spleeu,. After obtaining transportation,
I went to the hospital steward and enquir
ed of him the prices he authorized his
agents—frequently sent into Early and
Miller counties—to pay for produce, chick
ens, &c. He kindly showed ine his books,
and I assure the people that they are not
making a’ “ spec ” off the Government.
To-day is “ board meeting day,” am?, of
course, the office in beseiged by a large
number of anxious fellows, with long faces
and palpitating hearts, desirous of au ex
tension. How long will it be era the peo
ple—the Soldiers—loaru the true extent
of the danger that threatens us ? To-day
the enemy has penetrated into the heart
of Georgia, Richmond is beseiged by au
armyajill receiving reinforcements, West
Florida is at the meroy of the invader, the
enenvy is penetrating every State; and yet
these men stand by earing nothing for the
consequences of defeat. Go into any vil-.
lage in the Confederacy and you will find
numbers of youDg men,, on furlough,-it is
true, but able to go to tho frout and aid in
the expulsion of our common foe. Herts
are maoifo-dtiy applying--w-Jv*
aro positively able for field service. If
these absentees don’t show more willing
ness to defend their hemes, tho country 5a
lost! It is useless for a mere handful of
men to attempt to meet the armies now op
posed *to us. Ims hospital is being cleared
of a lew, but not half as muon aa it ought
to be. The Government is doing nil in its
power to fill up the armies, according to
present indications, and whilst it is clearing
other places, I would like very much to see
a few laced individuals, occupying posi
tions in the Quarter-Master and Commis
sary Departments, removed. The present
energetic aud gentlemanly Quarter-Master,,
Capt. A. B. Seals,formerly attended to both
these departments here, but another indi
vidual has been assigned here as Commis
sary, and how mauy clerks with him-1 am
unable to say. This is downright sku Iking,
and the Government supports it, and ice—
the- Soldiers—must say nothing* about it,
or we may have to render up au account for
it: There is also a young gentleman going
about the streets that should be at the
front—generally carries a crutch.
Ores.
A correspondent -of » Yankee paper
claims that Coh Jim. Brownlow, son of
the notorious Parson, cfairps the honor of
killing Gen. Morgan. Gen. Morgan was
killed in Last Tennessee, about the time •
that one of W heeler’s men in. Middle Ten
nessee, over two hundred miles distant, put
a ball through both of Jim.’s thighs, which
is likely to be the finale of his soldiering.
If Jim. killed Morgan, his pistol must have
had an extraordinary loDg range. If any
one of our boys had that pistol, Jira/s dad
dy would be in some danger. We knew
Jim. very well in his youDger days, while
we lived in Knoxville, Tenn., and can as
sure our readers that he is “ a chip off the
old block,” and as mean and dirty mouthed
scamp as his daddy.
Tho following is the list of casualties in
Co. G, 13th Ga. Ileg’t., in the battle at
Winchester on tho 19th inst.: Wounded—
fearg t. Thomas Koonce, in bow.els; R. A.
Gilmore, in kDee ; W. H. Wilkin, in foot.
The two first wounded are in the hands of
the } ankees, aud the last naiaod has ar
rived at home