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MELT COUNTY NEWS.
VOL. VI.
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BY E. H. GROUBY,
<&arlg Cmmtn
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Interesting Statistics.
Ic the report of Peterson Thweatt, Esq.,
the efficient Comptroller General, made to
the Governor on the 17th iust., we find
-some valuable tobies, containing interest
ing statistics. From table Ewe learn that
tthe number of polls in 1863, was t>G,lO ,
and number of voters, 42,797. r i hat there
were 152,170 children between the ages
of 6 and 18 returned for participation m
the'Educational Fund for 1863. '
Table F shows the average value of Land,
Slaves, Horses, Mules, Oxen per Yoke,
Milch Cows, Stock Cattle, Hogs, Sheep
and Goats, as returned to the Comptroller
General’s Office for 1864, in 108 counties.
The average .value of Land is 810 95 , of %
Slaves, 81,761 42; of Horses, 8723 ; of
Mules, 8635; Oxen per Yoke, 848 o; ot
.Stock Cattle, 874; of Hogs, 820; of Sheep,
21 ; of Goats, 970 ; Milch Cows 8142.
Table' G shows the number of persons
in the State owning property from 81,000
and' under, to over 8500,000. This is a
■veix interesting table, and wo regret we
have not space for the whole ot it. The
whole number of Tax payers, 91,500.
i- There are in the State, persons owning
™ property in value, 81,000 and under 22,-
311 ; over 81,000 and under 82,000, 13,-
■ 681 ; over 82,000 and under 83,000, 8,-
712 ; over 83,000 and under 85,000, 10,-
438 ; over 85,000 aud under 810,000,13,-
J 15; over 810,000 and under 820,000,
10,648 ; over 820,000 and under $30,000,
4 JSO ; over $30,000 and under $50,000,
4*047 ; over 850,000 and under 8100,000,
2,628 ; over 8100,000 and under $200,-
■'•00, 829; over $200,000, aud under
i'3oo 000,131 ; over $300,000, aud under
$500,000, 36 ; over 8500,000, 19. The
counties of Lee, Terrell, Dougherty aud
Thomas are the wealthiest in proportion
to the number of lax Payers.
Table 11 shows a consolidated schedule
<>f the Beneficiaries of the Indigent Sol
diers’ Family Fund. Amount apjwopriat
„! by the State, $6,000,000. Total num
ber of beneficiaries, 117,889 —total amount
expended, $5,968,859. The county of
Chatham received the largest amouut,
$154,817. Number of widows of soldiers,
6 642 ; Women dependent on disabled or
deceased soldiers, 28.582 ; Children de
pendent on soldiers in service, 62,255;
Orphans of deceased soldiers, under 12
years of age, 12,766. Table I is novel
aud interesting. The country is iudebted
to I£od. Win. Schley, of Augusta, and Hon.
Win. Kezard, of Fulton, for this Exhibit,
who labored so hard for a Dog Law, in the
Legislature, but failing, got in an amend
ment to the Tax Bill requiring each Tax
payer to return with the number of Sheep,
the number of his Sheep, killed by dogs in
the last 12 months, and the number of his
dorrs. In 108 counties we find returned,
44*7,965 Sheep; 31,046 were killed by
doss; number of dogs in the State, 81,423.
The county of Troup is entitled to the hon
or of having the most dogs —returning 1,-
860 ; but the Troup county dogs are well
behaved. They killed out of 5,960 sheep,
only 207, while in the county of Thomas,
1,063 dogs killed out of 5,197 sheep, 1,-
285 or more than a sheep to a dog. Eman
uel is the largest sheep raising county in
the State, having returned 191565. In
this county 731 dogS killed 2,270 sheep.
Here are facts which Legislators will do
well to ponder. A copy ot Comptroller
Thweatt’s Report ought to be in every
xu&u’s house.
Wanted — A mute teacher. Address
Maj. B. F. Hudspeth, Newton, Ga.
We clip this from the Macon Intelligen
cer, and give Mr. Hudspeth the benefit ot
our circulation, gratis. What does he want
with a mute teacher ? Doesn’t he wish his
teacher to indulge in the luxury of talking ?
Eatonton Countryman.
“ Has a man a right to commit nuis
ance?" asked a prisoner of a magistrate.
a No, sir, not eveu the Mayor." “ Then,
s ir, I claim my liberty; I was arrested and
ordered to be locked up as a nuisance,
and ns no oue has a right to commit a uu
i-»uuee, I move for a non suit.
DEATH ON SPECULATORS, JEWS, RASCALLY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, Ac., &c.-«b
BLAKELY, GA., NOVEMBER 2, 1804.
The Meeting of the Governors.
At a meeting of the Governors ot the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississip
pi, held in Augusta, Ga., on Monday the
17th inst., Gov. Win. Smith presiding, af
ter a full, free and harmonious consultation
aud interchange of council, the following
among other views were expressed:.
" Resolved, That there-is nothiug in the
present aspect of public affairs ter cause any.
abatement of our zeal in the prosecution ot
the war hL,the accomplishment of a peace,
based on independence of the Confed
erate States. And to give encouragement
tx> our brave soldiers in the field, and
to strengthen the Confederate authorities
in the pursuit of this desirable end, we will
use our best exertions to increase the effect
ive force of our armies.
Resolved , That the interests of each of
our States are identical in the present strug
gle for self government, and wisdom and
true patriotism dictate that the military for
ces of each should aid the others against
'invasion and subjugation, and for this pur
pose we will recommend to our several leg
islatures to repeal all such laws as. prohibit
the Executives from sending their forces
beyond their respective limits, in order
that they may render temporary service
wherever most urgently required.
Resolved, That whilst it is our purpose
to use every exertion to increase the strength
and efficiency of our State and Couleders
ate forces; we respectfully and earnestly
request that the Confederate authorities j
will send to the field every able-bodied man j
without exception, in any of its various de
partments whose place can be filled by eith
er disabled officers and soldiers, senior re
serves or negroes, and dispense with the
use of all provost and post guards, except
iu important cities or localities where the
presence of large bodies ot troops make
them necessary, and with all passport
ageuts upon railroads not in the immediate
vicinity of the armies, as we consider these
agents an unnecessary annoyance to good
citizens, aud ot no possible benefit hr the
country.
Resolved , That we recommend our res
pective legislatures to pass stringent laws
for the arrest and return to their commands
of all deserters, stragglers from the Confed
erate armies or State troops, and that it be
made the special duty under appropriate
penalties of all civil aud military officers
to arrest and deliver to the proper authori
ties all such delinquents.
And whereas, the public enemy having
proclaimed the freedom of our slaves, are
forcing into their armies the able-bodied
portion thereof, the more effectually to
wage their cruel aud bloody war agaiust us,
therefore be it
Resolved, That it is the true policy and
obvious duty of all slave owners timely to
remove their slaves from the line of the
enemy’s approach, and especially those
able to bear arms; and when they shall fail
to do so that it should be made the duty
of the proper authorities to enforce the per
formance of this duty and to give to such
owners all necessary assistance as fast as
practicable.*
Resolved? That the course of the enemy
in appropriating our slaves who happen to
fall into their hands to purposes, of war
seems to justify a change of policy on o'ur
part; and whilst owners of slaves under
the circumstances should freely yield them
to their country, we recommend to our au
thorities under proper regulations to ap
propriate such part of them to the public
service as may be required.
Resolved , That the States have the right
to export such productions and to .import
such supplies as may be necessary for
State use, or for the comfort or suppprt of
their troops in service, upon any vessel or
vessels owned or chartered by them ; and
that we request Congress at its next ses
sion to pass laws removing all restrictions
which have been imposed by Confederate
authority upou such exports or imports by
the States.
Aud listly, we deem it not inappropriate
to declare our firm and unalterable purpose,
as we believe it to be that of our fellow cit
izens, to maintain our right of self govern
ment, to establish • our'independence, and *
to uphold the right and Sovereignty of the •
States, or to perish in the attempt.
Resolved, That the Chairman' be re
quested to send a copy of these resplutions
to his excellency President Davis, and also
one each to the President Os the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives to be laid before ,their respective
bodies.
.♦— . r
When docs a newspaper exhibit three
colors ? When it is white, black and red
i- (read) all over.
\ / ,
“Watch and Wait.”
The daily papers, from which wc make
up our summary of news, tell their readers
that important movements are being made,
which must not be revealed to the enemy ;
hence the absence from their columns of
the usual telegraphic news from the front.
Os course we must do the same by our
own readers, aud advise them to wait pa
tiently a few days longer, and the tale will
be told. It is known to all men, by this
time, north and south, that Gen. Hood’s ar
my is far away from its late base, on the
West Point apd Lagrange R. R., and is
well up in the moutaios of north Georgia.
Where it wilt stop, or when it will meet
Guerman’s forces, noueeantell. It is gen
erally believed that the railroad in Sher
man’s, rear has been pretty effectually des
troyed. How long it will remain in this
condition, and haw long Sherman can sub
sist his army without the help of this road,
are questions which will be solved in a
few days. If Sherman can feed his army
until reinforcements can be sent to open
the communication, and drive Forrest,
Wheeler and Hood from the railroads, he
may yet escape the utter rout and destruc
tion which have been so hoastingly predict
ed were in store for the army of the Cum
berland. It is a question of subsistence.
If Forrest and Wheeler can keep the rail
road between Nashville and Chattanooga,
and IChattanooga and Marietta, broken,
Gherman must retreat from Atlanta, as a
matter of course. Otherwise he will still
J hold Atlanta. We can see nothing plain
) ly in the present fog, and therefore beseech
our readers to watch and wait.
Have our friends of the Confederate
Union unconsciously indulged in a little
i unpatriotic, as well as improper feeling, in
the above remarks, or not ? Is there a
covert fling at the President aud country,
or uot ?
“ Over the Border.”
As the Adjutant General of the Confed
eracy has unceremoniously hushed the reg
ular army correspondent’s efforts in mid
song by geueral orders, wc arc compelled
to enlighten our renders as to the situation
and what our army is doing, by any ave
nue that opens. Through private letters
to friends, and from information brought by j
parties from the front, we are enabled 4o j
give this much of what has happened.
Wc tore up the Georgia State road from j
Acworth to Altoona and captured the lat- j
ter place, and a large amount of supplies j
which we were compelled to leave without i
destroying, aud tbeu struck the road at j
Dalton and Calhoun, tearing it up effeetu- j
ally at Tunnell Hill, with the several miles
of the Cleveland road. The surrender of ■
Resaea was demanded, but the enemy re- j
fusiug, we passed it without a fight. Dal- j
ton surrendered without a‘fight, as we have i
before mentioned. We captured Tilton
and garrison, but have uot beeu able to
ascertain the exact uumber.
The Fort at Mill Creek Gap fired upon
two different flags of truce.
The enemy abandoned all forts up to
Chattanooga. Our iuforniaut states that
the army is now en route for Nashville,
via
Our boys are wild with enthusiasm, have
plenty to eat and live on Yankee rations,
and regard Gen. Hood a young Napoleon.
Montgomery Mail.
What the War has Revealed.
. Official documents from the war office at
Washington show, says the Richmond
Whig, that the Yankee Government has
called into the field, from first to last, over
three millions of men. They have, besides,
some six hundred vessels of war, equiva
lent we should think in what they have
done, and what they have prevented ns
from doing, tq a million more of men.
They have the advantage of a superabun
dant supply of arms and ammunition, the
finest and most effective in the world.
Their transportation is ten times superior
to purs. They have the athplest stock oi
horses for cavalry and artillery, arc able to
keep them tvell fed, and to replace them
as they become unserviceable. I hey are
able to clothe and feed their men better
than we, and to take better care of them when
sick or wounded, thereby adding greatly to
their efficiency. Werc.it possible to com
mute these advantages into men, they
would doubtless be equal to half a million
more. So that, it may be said, what we
have had to face, aud have been enabled
to resist successfully, down to the present
time, has been equal to four and a half mil
lions of men.— Savannah Republican.
Northern papers announce the death of j
the venerable Chief Jusfice Taney. i
EDITOR & PROP’R.
From the Trans-Mississippi.
Mr. Wa guer, Government Messenger,
has just arrived front Shreveport, with the
most important dispatches ever brought
irom the Trans-Mississippi.
Although we cau give no particulars of
what is passing on the Western bank of the
Mississippi, still we are at liherty to assert
that the uews is pf the most encouraging
and important nature.
•We are pleased to learn that the move
ments in the Trans-Mississippi are carried
on with strict secrecy, the dispatches all
being in cipher, and the “ power that be ”
as silent as the current of the mighty
stream that divides that dovoted portion of
the Conledcsjacy fioiu their Eastern breth
ren. • . V
Gen. Price is in Missouri with a very
strong force, receiving daily acquisition of
the Best fighting men in the world. .
Shelby is near the Arkansas lino, cap,>
turing forts and destroying Steele’s rein
forcements and supplies.
Magruder is in Arkansas, operating in
the most vigorous manner, and swears with
his usual vehemence, (and he is one of
those barking dogs that bite,) that Steele
and he cannot live long in the same State.
It is a pity this memorable movement
could not have begun sooner; but that is
owing to the difficulty of transportation,
&e., and we cannot complain.
Let no one be surprised if the Trans -
Mississippi, under tho splendid generalship
of Kirby Smith, should yet act the most
signal part in the liberation of*our glorious
country.— Advertiser & Register.
| From Oen. Hood’s, Army.
The following is an extract from a letter
j received in this city dated
Lafayette, Walker Co., Ga., )
October 15, 18G4. )
We left Palmetto on the 29th ult., apd
since that time have inarched one hundred
! and sixty miles, destroyed thirty-two miles
1 of the railroad most completely, captured
j two thousand prisoners, «fcc., with a loss ol
j one man killed and two slightly wounded
j We captured Du I ton yesterday, with seven,
j hundred find fifty prisoners and some stores.
During the week we liavp occupied Pal •
; houu, Big Shanty, Acworth, Altoona, Til
j ton and Dalton, We lelt Dalton yesterday
I morning, and arrived here to-day at one
o’clock. Our men were never iq better
| spirits, Qr marched as well. No straggling
; and no grumbling. Everybody is sangu
ine, and thus fur the success has been much
better than we anticipated. My impressing
is that we will go into Tennessee day after
tomorrow. We have little or no sickness
in the army. For three days we had to live
■ on parched corn and fresh beef. To-day
j wo drew half a pouud of moat to the uiau
f for a day. We all expect hard fare, and
! knew it could not be helped. We arc all
willing to undergo auythiug to accomplish
our end. .
Sorgho.
As there lias been much said in regard
to the Chinese or Sorgho Cane, 1 propose
to give you my experience with it. I ha.ve
ground a large quantity for my neighbors,
from which 1 made a goqd article of syrup,
but uo sugar. After two trials the skim -
mings make good beer for a day or two,
which may be readily made into good via
egar. The refuse skimming is excellent
for hogs. After grinding, the stalks may
be reduced to ashes by burning, from which
an excellent quality of soap may be uiirJu-
William Tucker,
Ptandolph County, Ga.
Oct. 21, 18G4.
The Nashville Union publishes a long
narrative from one Josephus Camp, said to
he a lato editor of the Atlanta Confedera
cy, but still morp lately of the Cftthbcrt
Times. He says he left the Confederacy
because he was about to be imprisoned
for writing an article favoring a reconstruc
tion of the Union. And so Mr. Camp has
decamped. We have no knowledge of the
article from which lie fled in fear, and on
which he bases his right to abolition favor ;
but we presume, 'ere this, he has been re
ceived into “ the bosom of Abraham.
Telegraph.
The Memphis (Yankee) Argus, of tho
7th iiist., says: “ Among the changes intro
duced in this immediate vicinity, not the
least change is that of white women hiring
to pick cotton on the plantations. Yester
day a number went up the Mississippi on
the steamer- McGill, who have been engage
ed for service on plantations on the Arkan
sas as well as the Tennessee side of the
river at wages so attractive as to put in the
shade any t.o he had in the city even under
the most favoiablc circumstances."
NO. 4.