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EARLY COUNTY NEWS.
VOL. VI.
BY E. H. GKOUBY,
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STATE OF GEORGIA, V
Adj’t. A Ins’p. Gun’s. Office, >
lillUiElMiEVltiLE, Sept. 27, 1804. )
General Orders, )
No. 28. j
Georgians ! your families and homes are
now open to the Ruthless raiders of-the en
emy, and your liberties hopelessly endan
gered, unless every man in the State capable
of rendering any kind of service, comes out
and does his duty. Some are required at
the front; others have' duties to perform
elsewhere. Rut.whether at the front or in
the rear, every man must now come forth
cheerfully and willingly, and do what lie
has to do with all energy and ability.
As one measure of safety, a Gommittce
of respectable citizens of Hancock ('ounty
have recommended to the Governor “to call
on every able bodied wliife male resident
in the State, between the ages of 50 and 00,
to organize themselves forthwith into Com
panies of -Mounted Infantry, or Infantry,
for the purpose of repelling raids in their
own or contiguous Counties, and that all
able bodied men who refuse or fail to join
such organizations, and drill regularly,
:shall be reported by the Officers, and sent
to the front; and that all others, exempts,
-(Civil Officers included) be requested to
unite with such organizations ; and also
boys under Hi years of age, with their Pa
rent's consent.”
Approving of this recommendation of the
patriotic citizens of Hancock, and believ
ing that if carried out earnestly, and in
goodfitith, the plundering expeditious of the
•enemy may be checked, if not altogether de
feated, the Governor directs the able bodied
gnen of the State to organize themselves as
•above, and requires tho officers to send to
the front every one wlnr or fails to
join the organization of bis County. The
Companies will be formed under the direc
tion of the Aids-dc-Camp of the-Military
Districts, who will see that proper rolls of
each Company are forwarded to this Office,
and that the purposes of the organization,
no far as relates to the exercises and discip
line necessary to make it effective, arc en
forced. The members of the Companies,
moreover, will not relax their duties as Po-
SJicemen, or in the arrest of deserters, lag
gards and skulkers, but. will use every ex
ertion to send them forward to the field for
active service..
Ry order of the Commandcr-in-Chief:
Henry C. Wayne,
Adj. & Ins. General.
llead-Quarters 9th Hist. G. M., )
Rlukely. Ga., Get.. sth, 1804. j
. In pursuance of Gen. Orders No. 28, as
published above, every able bodied white
male resident of the counties of Early, Cal
houn and Raker, between the ages of 50
and 00 years, and all exempts and civil of
ficers of said counties, and all hoys under
the age of 10 years that can obtain their
parent’s consent, are hereby ordered to
meet at the Court House of their respec
tive counties on Saturday, 15th inst., and
organize, themselves into Companies, and
elect one Captain and lour Lieutenants to
each Company on that day. The Clerks
of the Superior and Inferior Courts of said
•counties will return the results of such
•elections, accompanied with a full muster
roll of such Companies, to these Head-
Quarters immediately thereafter.
8. S. Stafford,
Col. A Aid-dc-Camp 9th Hist. G. M.
WHEELER’S
central house,
FORT GAINES, GEORGIA.
Tite undersigned returns thanks for the
Uheral patronage that lias been extended to
him tor the past two years, would also in
form the traveling public that lie is still on
Stand with the host the market affords, to
supply their wants.
As I have no blowers, wno blow for
their grit is, attached to the Railroad to
blow for he, please give -me a call, and
j udge for yourscl ves.
GEO. W. WHEELER,
v2-12-tf Proprietor.
All kinds of Job Work neatly executed at
the Early County News office.
VST DEATH ON SPECULATORS, JEWS, RASCALLY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, Ac.,
BLAKELY, GLAI., OCTOBER 13, 1864.
A SONG OF LIFE.
•A traveler through a dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea ;
And one took root, and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early vows,
And age was pleased, in hearts of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs.
. ■ The dormouse lov’d its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music bore,
It stood a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore !
A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern—
A passing stranger scoop’d a well
Where weary men might turn.
' He wall’d it in, and hung with earc
A ladle on tho brink ;
He thought not of the deed ho did,
But judg’d that toil might drink,
lie passed again—and lo ! the well,
By summers never dried,
llad cool’d ten thousand parching tongues
And saved a life beside !
A dreamer dropp’d a random thought—
’Twas old, and yet was new—
A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong in being true.
It shone upon a genial mind
And lo! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame. ’
The thought was small—*its issuo great;
A.watch fire on the hill.
It sheds its radiance far adown,
And cheers the valley still!
A nameless man, amid a crowd
That throng’d the daily mart,
Let fall a word of hope and love,
Unstudied from tho heart. »
A whisper on the tumult thrown,
A transitory breath,
It raised a brother from the dust,
it saved a soul from death.
P, germ J O, fount ! O, word of love
O thought at random east!
Ye were little at the first,
But mighty at the last!
Bounties to Soldiers and Sailors.
Our brave men in the service may not bo
aware that they, or such of them as were
•on duty continuously from Ist April to Ist
Oet., are now entitled, each, to a Confederate
six per cent, bond for one hundred dollars.
Ry act of the 7th June, the same pro
visions are extended to “ warrant officers,
pilots, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen
and boys of the Navy, and to thenoii-com
missioned officers, musicians and privates of
the Marine corps.”
We annex the sections of the Original act
providing for the bounty :
See. 3. That at the expiration of six
months from) the first day of April next,
a bounty of one hundred dollars, in a six
per cent. Government bond, which the
Secretary of,the Treasury is hereby author
ized to issue, shall ho paid to every non
commissioned officer, musician and private
who shall then be in the service, or, in the
event of his death previous to the pefiod
of such payment, then to the person or
• persons who.would he entitled by law to
receive the arreages of his pay ; but no one
shall be entitled to the bounty herein provi
ded who shall, at any time during the pe
riod of six months next after the said first
day of April, be absent from his command
without leave.
*♦♦ ♦ ‘
Major General Dana has arrested a mas
jority of the Treasury agents at Vicksburg
for smuggling and conniving at the con
traband trade with the rebellious districts.
In one transaction, the military order per
mitted a man named Rurbridge to take six
barrels of whisky up the Yazoo river. In
passing through the “Treasury regulations”
the “ six barrels ” was changed to '■ sixty
barrels,” which were bartered at twelve
dollars a gallon for cotton at forty cents a
pound—-the single operation yielJing tho
parties concerned a net profit of a hundred
thousand dollars. Some of this liquor, as
well as stationery, clothing, Ac., found its
way to Meridian, the transaction being ou
Government account.
♦ —♦ —♦ .
It is rumored that the Yankees arc mass
jug a large force in Eastern Kentucky for
the purpose of destroying the Stnythe coun
ty Salt Works, and attempting to overrun
Southwestern Virginia. They are said to
have 8,000 men at Mt. Sterling and 0,000
at Paintsville, all under the command *f
Gen. Rurbridge. Our authorites are doubt
less advised of this intended movement, and
will make the necessary disposition to check
mate it.
Punch says : The greatest organ in the
world is the organ of speech iu wonian j an
organ, too, without a stop.
A fiue blooded black maro was stolen
from Gen Rcauregard’s head quarters a few
nights since. She was valued at §6,000.
. Drunken Officials.
If there is any one evil more than anoth
er whose condemnation should be written
with a pen of fire,' it is that of drunkenness
in officials of the Government. In words
that burn and seutenccs that scorch like
flame it should be made to recoil upon the
hearts of those that practice such a terri
ble wrong. It is a monstrous vice that
feeds upon the soul till all the springs of
life are poisoned with its bane. It is a can
ker that subsists upou tho moral seuso un
til it saps the very fountains of the heart on
which private worth and public virtue arc
based. Our cause has suffered more re
verses from this one evil than ull others
combined. When circumstances have con
spired to give us victory, like a midnight
thief it has stepped in and robbed us of the
laurels we might so easily have won. Our
armies have been demoralized by its perni
cious inllucuce, and our generals the victims
of its prey, when the advantages were niain
. ly on our side.
Our remarks are not personal. With an
eye to the common weal we forget men, and
the motives that sometimes prompts others
to vent their spleen because they have a
pretext for doiDg so. Tt is high time that
the public iuind should be awakened to the
momentous issues at stake. Ry the force
of example we should implant seed in the
popular hearts which may spring up into
prolific branches, whose fruits shall be “ a
healing to the nation.”
”J'is intimated, and we can scarcely doubt
the imputation, - that our late disaster in
Virginia is mainly attributable to this
cause. Tt is painful to think that the sal
vation of our cause—the vital interest of a
great nation—should be hazarded in such a
way, that heads reeling with the delirium
of whisky should have control of armies in
the hour of battle. And why is this?
Have we not good men enough, of high
moral character, of temperate habits, com
bining the other qualities requisite to great
captains, to lead our men in battle?
Where was an army ever safe in other
hands? 'What people are secure with their
destinies confided to the keeping of men
whose brains are constantly darkened by
the orgies of Racchus? II igh moral worth
.should be the chief standard in the scale
of military preferment—.sobriety the first
requisite to promotion. A stern, a solemn,
a warning example, not only for the good
of the private in the ranks, and for tae
whole country, but for the benefit of those
who aspire to high places, should be made
of every officer whoso conduct does not *
strictly comport witli a high sense of
morality. It should be understood, that,
without this requisite, other high qualities
befitting one for command would have no
weight with' our authorities. The scale of
excellence should be graduated according
to those degrees that give tone, dignity and
character to a people. With a less high
standard no nation need ever aspire to tiue
greatness. 'The virtues of a people are the
standards by which they are adjudged. As
they lower that standard iu that proportion
they cease to command the respect of oth
er nations. *
Aside from moral advantages in other
respects the odds arc too great against us to
hazard an engagement at any time un
der the lead of drunken and imbecile offi
cers. We cannot afford to confront the
numerical strength against us, unless all
the moral power on our side is brought to
bear iu our behalf. Our hopes rest in
making up what we lack in physical by mor
al strength. If both be against us, then,
indeed, arc we in a deplorable condition.
It is high time an example should be made
of some one —such an example as will erad
icate this evil, root and bra noli, from the
highest to the lowest. Who it shall be,
let those in authority determine. And if
there are hundreds deserving this retribu
tive justice, let it not be withheld iu a sin
gle instance. The country is sick of this
evil. The people are growing weary of it.
Public sentiment demands a remedy. Let
the transgressors be brought to judgment.
Somebody has to pay the forfeiture ; then
let it be the guilty ones. It were better
that they should suffer thau the whole
country brought to ruin.
Grant has issued an order that hereafter
“ rations shall not be sold to citizens resid- |
ing within ths lines of the aruies operating
against Richmond, unless such persons take
the oath of allegiance.”
A poet says,
“’Tis manliness to be heart broken hare.”
We don’t know where “here” is, but pre
sume he meant at the feet of a beautiful
maiden.
Common sense is only a modification of
talent; genius is an exaltation of it.
EDITOR & PROP’R.
, Th® President at Hood's Army.
J. T. G., the army correspondent of the
Columbus Enquirer, in his letter of 27th
September, says;
President Davis arrived at Gen. Hood's
headfjjuartos on Sunday, evening.’ Yester
day, in company with Gen. Ilood and his
Lieutenant Generals, he reviewed the ar
my. Ihe artillery gave him an enthusias
tic reception. Last evening at twilight an
immense coucourse of soldiers-assembled
around Gen Hood’s quarters, to listen to a
short speech from the President. For
about twenty minutes he hold the vast au
dience spell bound; not a foot stirred, or ’
even a whisper was heard during the tune
he was up, until near the end of his re
marks, when he said, i« turning to Cheat
haul’s division of Tennesseeans, « He of
good cheer, for within a short while your
faQes will be turned homeward, and your
feet pressing Tennessee soil.” At this the
crowd could control themselves no longer,
but gave vent to their joy iu the most ex
travagant uianuer. President Davis was
followed by Gen. Howell Cobb, who, iu a
few remarks, made many happy hits, and
convulsed the audience with laughter.
Gen. Ilood was enthusiastically called for.
Slowly rising from his chair, and dashing
his hat down like a blushing schoolboy,
the Gen. said: “Soldiers, it is not my
province to make speeches. I was not
born for such work ; that I leave to other
men than I. AVithin a few days more I
expect to give the command “ Forward ’ ”
and I believe that you are, like myself,
willing to go forward, even if we live on
parched corn and beef. I am ready to
give the command “forward” this very
night. Good night.” The speaking con
tinued until h late hour in the night—the
„ President, Howell Cobb, Gen. Ilood and
Gov. Harris made two speeches. Senator
Sparrow, from Louisiana, made, a telling
speech to Gibson’s Louisiana Brigade.
•:; ♦
An exchange declares that corn stalks, if
saved, arc fully equal to the same weight of
hay. Prepare them by cutting in pieces of
half an inch in length and place in a hogs
head. Throw in a gallon of boiling water,
containing one gill of salt, cover the hogs
head with a blanket—the steam swells
and softens the stalks; add a little meal
and feed to the cattle.
The Confederate prisoners at Camp Mor
gan, Ohio, have become nestive and taken
to tunnelling again. Fjvc tunnels have
been discoverd. One of them, over four
hundred feet in length, was nearly comple
ted when found out.
< ♦ ♦ * —
There is no stand point in the path of
good. To labor without ceasing, and press
onjs a decree of destiny—we are hut instru
ments in God’s right hand, and, toiling up
the steep ascent, at length beneath His
crown we reach a place of rest.
The Goldsboro’ Journal learns, from an
unquestionable source, that the yellow fever
is prevalent in Newborn, carrying off from
twenty to forty Yankees a day. The yellow
fever has not visited Newborn before siuea
1811.
AVc have heard of men “ saving their
bacon by getting out of the fight,” but Gov
ernor Brown has called his militia from the
front to save their Sorghum. This flank
movement of the Sorghum is certainly a
“ sweetner.”
Mind is a jewel brighter than the even
ing star; the body a leaden weight upon
the soul. Mind is a spiritual spark in the
universe of God; the body a weary weight
• that binds us to the earth.
—+ ♦ »
Say of a woman that she is wicked, ob
stinate, frivolous, but add that she is beau
tiful, and be assured that she will ever think
kindly of you. Say that hut very homely,
and she will never forget you in her life.
A country editor having received two
gold dollars in advance for his paper, says
that he still allows his childrou to play with
other children as usual.
The New York World says Gen. Fremont
will soon withdraw from the canvass, and
that hint letter will appear at an early day.
A Boston firm has gone into the manu
facture of artificial avms and legs. Why not
furnish hearts and heads to order also.
♦ :
* Colonel Gillem has been made a Briga
dier General as a reward for bis exploit in
’ killing General Morgan.
NO. 1.