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BLA KKI.Y:
WEDNESDAY, •OCT. 1», 1864.'
At this writing the election for Judges
of the Inferior Court is more
ing,” by four, than it was last week. This
ib the way to come it. Remembel, though,
we’d like to have $25 cash as you come out.
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As the Editor haSn’t tnken a “spree”
for some time,'he will leave for Macon to
morrow. Now’s a good time to replenish
his pockets, as he expects to have a fine
time, and it will take a few “ Confeds ” to
carry him through.
We regret to learn of the death of Lieut.
McCullers, of Capt. Hall’s Company, 29th
Ga. Cav. Batt., which occurred some two
weeks ago. Lieut. M. wos a good and
kind officer, and his early death is much
to be rogtetted. He was from Baker conn
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Our friend, Dr. O’Connor, one of the
Surgeons of the Fort Gaines Hospitals, re
quests us to state that he is in need of ban
dages to dress the wounds of Soldiers who
have been fighting our battles. Cannot
the good and patriotic ladies of Early send
him a supply ?
The “daily mail ” has gone “ up a spout,”
and hereafter we will only have three mails
a week. Like everything pise about Blake
ly, it has soon “gone under.” In this mat
ter some few of our generous citizens have
tarnished th t jnypurious with a mail every
day until they have gotten tired of it.
The negro that ravished a white woman
in Miller county some time ago, and of
which we spoke in our.last, was taken out
of jail last week by some of the good citi
zens and hung. They would not wait for
the regular term of their Superior Court,
as the civil law is too “ slow a coach ” in
theijo times and in <=uch cases. Served him
right. , This is the way to do all such tri
fling scamps. These citizens deserve a
great deal of credit for their promptness in
this matter.
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We arc pained to announce the death,
in this place, on Sunday night last, at the
residence of Capt. A* li. Ransone, of W.
K. Colquitt, Esq., after a very brief illness,
though he had been feeble for some time.
He died of Jaundice. The announcement
of the death of this valuable and worthy
citizen will be received with the most
heartfelt regret by liis’numerous friends
and acquaintances. His death is a serious
loss to our county, as he was a very effici
ent man iu all his undertakings. He was
a true friend to the poor and needy.
We suggest tho propriety of our county
mthorities applying to the proper authori
-7 of the Confederate GoYernment to turn
he tithes of corn, wheat, meat, sorghum,
fca, &e., of this county over to the use of
he county. Even with the aid of these
ithes there will be much suffering, for
nost of those who could spftre of their
mbstance, if they woulfl, refuse to do so—
particularly tho “ bonded ” men who are
required to sell at Government price—as
a general thing they profess to have “ noth
ing to spare,” though they thought very
differently, and talked differently, when
pleading wilft~flnr®nfalling "Officer so let
them stay at home and make food for man
and beast!
The Yankees have succeeded in secur
ing the assistance of the biggest liar on
earth—he beats Secretary Stanton ! and
eclipscs i Sheridan or any of the command
ing Generals of the Yankee army that ever
preceded him in telegraphing a lie. We
allude to a lellow named Stevenson —“A.
D. Stevenson,” we believe, he signs him
self, with “General” attached, which, we
presume, means that ho is a “ General Li
ar” and excels them all in this department.
He follows Sheridan, who is evidently a
pupil considerably advanced, and whenever
Sberidau fights a battle, this Kintj Liar
proceeds to’tel(7tV)graph Stantou at Wash
ington. If one “rebel” falls in an actioD,
• tbis Liar-in-Chief swears that a thousand
fell—it half a dozcD are captured, he right
off swears that the number is so many buu- j
dreds or thousand Stevenson can beat ,
them all. *
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3u far as our information extends, Al
bany has always been a very /withy place
until recently, and we must acknowledge
that we were very much surprised to see,
in a late number of the Patriot, that Al
bany is one of the most unhealthy towns in
Georgia! But why is this? Why,-the
“‘Catoosa Hospital,” formerly located at
Griffin, was about being moved to Albany,
and the Editor of the Patriot, we have
• every i euson to believe, took this step, and
dubbed his town “ unhealthy,” in Order to
prevent this Hospital coming to Albany !
We are afraid, Bro. Fears, that your own
self-interest #prompted you to wfite the
“ unhealthy” article referred to l
bly you were afraid that provisions would
take a rise by having a few hundred sick
and disabled Soldiers to feed, and conse
quently would be a little more scarce and
harder to get than usual. Or was it that
yo'u thought these Soldiers would drink a
. good portion of the whisky you wanted to
put down your own throat ? A man or
community that would refuse to assist in
feeding the defender# of ohs dMiwy»is
too trifling and mean to live in the South
ern Confederacy, and should be kicked
heels over head into the Atlantic ocean.
Shame on all such men aud communities !
Do you, Bro. Ilionau, (the proprietor of
the Patriot, and who was once a Soldier,)
approve of this unfeeliug and unpatriotic
course of “your mau Friday?” Ilowmeu
will work for.self-interest, if they siuk their
government.in doing it!
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A great many hogs in this county are
dying with the cholera, or some other dis
ease of a similar character. All the “doc
toring ” that has been done so far seems
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to have done no good. Several of ouf citi
zens have lost a very large number of both
stock and meat hogs. Our friend, Judge
Wade, has lost in the neighbprhood of a
hundred head, and is losing more and more
every day. It is very strange that such
misfortunes as this generally fall heaviest
on our best, cleverest, most charitable aud
Christian people, while the meaD, low-down
and no account fellows nearly always have
good luck, and scarcely ever lose auything.
If there .is a good, kind-hearted, charitable
and Christian gentleman in our county,
Judge Wade is one, and it strange
that such' a fate should befall him. But
so it is in this as it has been in many other
cases. A man who is too stingy to eat
enough, and so close-fisted that he won't
clean the dirt from under his finger-nails
when off from home, because he would lose
the manure himself, and for fear it would
benefit somebody else’s land, almost always
has the best luck, while those generous
souls whose hearts are not shut up in a
mustard seed, hardly ever make more than
a decent living, and many of them scarcely
do this. Such things seem very strange
to us—but we suppose that this world is the
hell for the true and good man, while it is
the heaven of the mean and .trifling. So
mote it be.
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Under Gov. Brown’s General Ordef No.
28, dated Sept. 27th, 1861, Col. S. Staf
ford, Aid-de-Camp of this District, organ
ized the old meu and exempts into a Home
Guard for this county on Saturday last.
The following were the officers elected, viz:
J. T. Henderson. Capt.;
James Buchannon, Ist Lieut.
R. 0. Dunlap, 2d «
R. W. Sheffield, 3d “
A. I). Smith, . 4th «
There are sonte ’sixty names on the foil,
not one-third of whom are fit for any dnty
whatever, but the Aid-de-Camp required
every man able to shoot a gun to go into
tho organization. The Company is well
officered, and all raiders may look out for
hot work when t*hey attempt to invade Early
county, for we are one of tho high privates,
and don’t intend to give up home without •
a fight. We hope the other two counties
composing Col: Stafford’s District, Bftker
and Calhoun, have gone forward under his
orders and completed their organizations al
so, and that the wffiole will be made effect
ual. We will publish the elections of their •
company officers when furnished us. By
the way, we notice that all men who do not
go into these organizations are to bo sent “to
the front; ” so look out, ye cripples, or* old
“Joe.” will get you, and then turn you
over to Smith or the devil!
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Two communications, one from “Miller,”
and another from “ Ores,” are crowded
• out. They will appear next week
It has been the general impression on
the minds of many that good crops of
corn, &<}., had been made the present year
in this and adjoioingwcountiee, but all such
are very badly deceived! There ain’t
more than three or four men in Early
county who have made more than corn
enough to do them, while the balance will
have to buy! But what is the cause 'of
this ? some may ask—it surely was a good
crop year. It’s a very easy question to
answer: The Comm ins toners tuive lately
put down the price of all kinds of produce.
Here’s where the secret lies. It’s a pity
but what some of these men, who are thus
acting, and trying to starve the poor to
death, should ever have another ear of
corn or pound of meat. Our prayers are,
and we believe they will be heard, that the
last one of them may yet want, before this
war is over, for enough of the “ staff of
life,” &c., to keep soul and body together.
Such men deserve to starve to death, and
go to hell in a minute. These very same
chaps would have had plenty of everything
in the product line to sell if the Commis
sioners had put corn at from 55 to $lO per
bushel, and meat at from 53 to 55 per lb.,
but as they came down, instead of going
up, the poor farmers havn’t made enough
to do them ! Hell is as certain to be tho
• portion of men who refuse to sell to the
non-producer their surplus produce, and
"in consequence cause much suffering and
want, as there is a .man in Early county
who is willing to sell his corn for fifty cents
in specie , but who has not a bushel to spare
for “ Confederate trtish,” as he calls it I
Is this man, or any one who is guilty of
the same thing, a patriot or a friend to his
country ? No—for any man who will, in
this round about way, refuse to take the
currency of the country, by saying he has
“nothing to spare,” is an enemy to the
Southern Confederacy, and a sooundrel in
the bargain, for he is refusing to take the
same money from Soldiers’ families for
something to eat that the Government pays
their fathers, husbands and sous for doing
the fighting for them and their property. ".
We learn from a private letter that Gen.
Smith has sent to Milledgeville for a lot of
halls and chains for the “ benefit ” of tho
Militia who have not yet reported. This
is just Hke a swell-head official. Ain’t it
a pity but what some of these bulMog
Generals had a few balls and chains aronnd
their own legs and necks ! Our word for
it, just such a man.as this will dodge the
balls ten times quicker than the privates—
that is, if he should happen to be within
three or four njiles of the battle-field. But
this they hardly ever do—while a battle is
going on, such Generals as Smith are gen
erally off in sotnc corner drinking whisky
and playing cards, or doing some other
meanness. If Smith was half as much of
a gentleman as some of the men under him,
well might he thank his God. But he is
dressed in “ a little brief authority,” and
consequently makes an infernal fool of him
self in some of his “orders.” His last
one shows him to be a little, loud-braying
! jackass. No doubt he would send us to
j “ Joe. Brown’s front,” if in his power, for
Ipeuning this paragraph, but we defy him
or any other chicken-gut sleeve and collar
! General to make the effort. We don’t fear
any such chaps.
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There are many of the public roads in
this county that are in a verjr bad condi
tion, but none are more so than about two
hundred yards of thejoad jusLQQ the south
side of Judge Howard’s. The bridge on
the Cuthbert road, just off the public
square, near Judge Fryer’s, is also in a
most miserable condition, and is calculated
to injure somebody’s stock before Ion", if
it is not put in order. Can any one tell us
why the people of Early are so enormously
. taxed for county jmrposes ? The roads and
bridges are nearly all* out of order, and
hence we cannot see -what is done with the
tax raised for county purposes. Cannot
some of our Inferior Court enlighten us
on this subject ? Come, gentlemen, you’d
better have the roads and bridges put in
order, or else your chances for another
Judgeship will be quite slim, for, under
present circumstances, no one who ever
rides over the public roads and bridges of
this county will vote for you at the next
January election. The best way in the
world for you to electioneer, is to have
all our roads and bridges repaired.
Call at Judge Fryer’s Store aud get your
Wool.
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Gen. Price, according to last accounts,
is playing the wild with th»ugs-in Missouri.
The Telegraph states that Northern papers
say that, on the 4th. Price was threatening
Kolb. Large detachments of Confederate
troops were committing depredations in the
portion of the State north of the Missouri
river. The devotion of the people of Nor
thern Missouri to the Confederate cause is
truly astonishing, considering the fact that
they are cut off from the South by the
. Mississippi and Missouri river. The draft
ed militia desert and fly to the Southern
army. A short time since two*regiments
of militia were organized aud armed by the
Federals at an inland post. Gen. Shelby
was reported to be marching on the place.
The Missourians turned upon the Yankees,
whipped out the force at the post, and when
Shelby arrived, they turned themselves,
their arms, and everything belonging to the
post, over to the Confederate General. In
the engagement at Pilot Knob our forces
captured three guns aud Ewing’s wagon
train and escort. They burnt the iroa
works and all the Government buildings,
and made a complete smash of the records
and arrangements for Lincoln’s draft. Yan
kee accounts say that the valleys and moun
tains are literally covered with rebels. A
raiding party has appeared within four
miles of St. Louis. Northern dates of the
7th say that on-the 4th Gen. Price, with a
force of about twenty thousand, wa's six
miles west of Union, marching westward
towards Jefferson City, designing to take
the place, install a secession Governor, and
hold the Stfi|e for Jeff. Davis.. Union ia
about fifty miles from Jefferson City, and
some twenty miles sooth of Missouri
river, and forty miles west of St. Louis.
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The Augusta Constitutionalist pays Col.
Alexander B. Montgomery, commanding
the Post at Marianna, Fla., and who was
captured by the Yankees in their late raid
upon that place, quite a complimentary no
tice, and says “ he is one of our most chiv
alric and valuable citizens.” If we are
correctly informed, and we think we j»re,
this Col. Montgomery is a map who never
treated a poor private Soldier otherwise
than a dog, and that, while Commandant
of the Post at Marianna, he was over two
, thirds of ljis. time beastly drunk, . aud thep
was the cause of the Yankees capturing
him—he was so drunk when the Yankee*
got iuto the place that he fell off his horse,
aud consequently was taken prisoner. It’s
a pity but what the Yankees had all such
trifling Confederate officials, and cut their
whisky wind-pipes. The Confederacy hat
entirely too many such puppies in office,
and the sooner we get rid of them, tho
better for us. It'is impossible for ub to
gain our independence so long as we have
so many thieving and drunken scamps iiv
military positions.
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Tallassee, says an exchange, is a thriv
ing little village in Tallapoosa county, Ala.,
situated thirty miles from Montgomery,
and on a site remarkably supplied, with
water power, which has been applied and
improved. There is a large factory, em
ploying three hundred hands, which finds
supplies, like all purchasers there, at the
following rates : Bacon, 52 per lb.; meal,
53,15 per bushel; flour, 50 cents per lb ;
chickens, 51 apiece ; eggs, 51 per dozen ;
butter, 51 per lb.: lard, 50 to 75 cents per
lb.; molasses, 51,50 to 52 per galloD; fin©
fat beef, 18 to 25 cents per lb.; oorn, SI,BO
to $2 per bushel. These people have es
tablished and enoouraged a home market
and home supplies,-and have gone to work
to help themselves.
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K. F. J. Grist, Esq , mail contractor on
the route from Fort Gaines to this plaoe,
now has on the line a good hack and team,
and will accommodate all who may wish to
“ take a ride.” lie leavdls here every Jlon
day, Wednesday and Friday mornings at
daylight, and returns same nights by 13
o’clock. As our friend Grist has lately
taken to himself another “ rib,” and that
it is left at this end of the route, all who
may wish to come from Fort Gaines to this
“ burg ” may rest assured they will get
through by schedule time, if not before!
It’s natural, under such circumstances, for
a man to come it in “ double-quick ! ”
.Attention is called to the advertisement
of Lieut. Daniel Shehee. lie wants all
members of Co. C, 10th Reg’t. G. M. to
meet him in Blakely on next Tuesday, pre
pared to go to “ the front.”