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EARLY COUNTY NEWS.
VOE. VI.
BY E. H. GROUBY,
C*Bnrh) Count!) Jlctos.
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•WEDNESDAY, DEO. 14, 1864.
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Chattanooga as it is. ~
A correspondent oF a Northern journal
thus s; teaks of Chattanooga:
Cptttanoaga grows, tt would be a hard
task for an enemy to rapture it, and is
co-ring more so every day. The JaT sup- ,
posed r of Ge.;
f%e dirt Hew its • nesu
days more than it is was wont. The fa
mous 14th colored infantry exercised them
selves iu drill two days out of every seven,
one day they rest from their labors, and on
the remaining four’they work on the forti
fications of Chattanooga-. They are 800
ihen and lusty, and there is-scarcely a cor
poral’s guard of them in the hospital.
Tractable and steady as they have by long
tutoring, they labor well.
Chattanooga is literally a walled city.
The huge parapets ol clay stretched around
two sides of it, from the Tennessee above
to the Tennessee below, and there is no
entrance iuto.it except across the river or
through the -gates in the wall. Through
these, the great trains laden with men and
meat, and bread and horses rumble opt,
and'through them swarm the mixed mul
titude of men who now congregate here,
waiting to go to the front.
•Chattanooga has become a city of enter
prise’, aod ; noted for its public spirit. Not
-only has It completed a system of extensive
water works, but, warned by the great des
truction by fire, last winter of Government,
property, now has ready ‘for use at a mo
ment's! warning asplendid tire en gibe. The
enormous accumulation of wooden ware- *
houses, filled with stores, has rendered this
tier.' highly proper. A billiard . alppii has,
also been lately established, wherein one
man is, by registering his name three hours in
advance", to be allowed to play a maximum
tof three games. But chief" among the men
, of,public liberality is Bishop. Bishop has
a theatre. .Since its establishment in
March, he has limited his ambition to a
tent, but the nipping and eager air of Oc
tober has begun to wear upon the. chaste"
sympathies of his minstrels, and he is now
building for their use a house one thousand
feet square.
Soldiers who have no duties to perform,
are eager to lend assistance iu the good
work, for a consideration, and a number
are employed on the- building. Bishop
wanted thirteen thou-aud feet el" lumber.
He got it at the Government saw mill.
Some of the soldiers, also, were moved to
change thqir mildewed aud tattered tents
for snug barracks of wood, against the days
of frost and sleet. But there was a scar
city of lumber ; they could get none- Sol
diers under these eases will make compar
isons aud observations, but then, of course
they arc interested parties, and their -tes
timony on these points cannot be taken as
impartial. Besides that, soldiers are per
sons of small consideration in sonic cases.
They draw lumber when they procure it at
all, and that spectes of operation leaves lit
tle margin for perquisites.
The industrious .and intelligent farmer
should generally at this season be sufficient
ly a,t leisure to be able to commence his
preparations for another year. The. corn,
peas, potatoes, &c., having been gathered,
the wheat and oats sowed and the hogs pen
ned for fattening, he should dilligently im
prove every moment by gathering manure
from every approachable source; lor this
in great quantity and variety must be for
the next year the groundwork of his hopes,
the foundation of his success. Poor as our
soil is, it will generally be largely to our
advantage to improve what we have, rath
er than to clear more ; “ too much land ”
is'the bane of Southern agriculture, and
the great effort should be to make as large
a crop as possible on a small space, rather
than the converse. To do this there is no
method so simple and' so certain as to ap
ply plenty of manure.
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Gen. J. E. Johnston arrived in Rich
cnmid on the morning, and George D. Pren
tice, editor of the Louisville Journal , on
the evening of the 29th uit. Prentice is •
ou a visit to his son by permission of tho
Confederate authorities.
JBSr DEATH ON SPECULATORS, JEWS, RASCALLY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, 4c.,
• BLAKELY, GkA. ? DECEMBER 14, 18G4.
Speaks Plain when Hurt Himself.
* There is a paper published iu Eatonton,
Ga. The editor of it has been in the hab
i,K it of berafcieg his cotempcfraries wherever
they thought it lor the puhllc'good to call
the administration to an account for its
misdeeds, ami mismanagement. One to
read the effusions of said editor would think
his patriotism came from an oversowing
soul, instead of from an eirqrty pocket which
lie wished filled. But ylas ! it now ap
pears that the latter was the ease. The
editor is a maker of hats. Sometime since,
liq furnished % lot of them to a Govern- •
merit
wfirttrhe ’ •
has not yet been paid, and for which he
ougfft to have been paid long ago. He lets
“ the cat out of tiie bag v in his last issue*
and talks more loudly about official incom
peteucy than those papers he has hereto
fore been taking to task. The newspaper
gentleman referred to aboye had bettor
haul iu a reef or two in his sail, or he will
not be able to sell the Administration buy
ers any more hats, or even get what is just*
. ly duet for those he has sold.
We did not speak of this subject, howev- '
er, for the purpose of advertising the Ea
tonton hat maker’s goods—but simply to
show the public that some of the newspa
per men who claim that the k ‘ King can do
no wrong,” are blowing not for patriotism,
but for some sinister object. “ Sound them
with gold,” and they will sing any tuns
agreeable to the man who holds tho purse
strings. — Exchange.
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A Tax Question Settled.
Some of .the Confederate tax oolletors
have been requiring payment in the new
currency of all fractions due for taxes bc
' tween the hundred dollar certificates. For
instance, if a man’s taxes amounted to over
cue hunderd and sev6nty-five dollars, they
would not take a two hundred dollar cer
tificate, or two ope hundred dollar certifi
cates, in payment of the tax; but would re
quire seventy-five dollars in treasury notes.
The injustice of this course is manifest,
but we presume that collectors were acting
according to their instructions as they un
derstood them. • The Columbus Enquirer
learns, however, that the Commissioner or
taxes, iu answer to an appeal made to him
by a tax payer or two in Georgia, decided
that the collectors must receive certificates
. tendered when they amount to all or more
than the tax due. If- the tax payer is wil
ling to pay in the whole certificate of one
hudred dollars.or larger, when only a frac
tion of it is required to pay his taxes, the
collector raustN receive it. This decision *
meets the approval of Secretary Trenholm,
and doubtless instructions to act
ingly have "been or will be- sect to tax col
lectors.
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Lost.
Two Generals with their armies. These
Generals, respectively named Ilood and
Sherman, the first a Confederate, command
ing the “ Army of Tennessee,” and the
f second n Federal, commanding the “ Army
of the Cumberland,” were last seen some
where'in Northern Georgia. Gen. Hood
has lost a leg, and Gen. Sherman is with
out a heart. Gen. Hood was last seen in
company with a military locking man nam
ed Beauregard and sundry other white men
dressed iu grey. Sherman consorted with
one Thomas, a white man with dark princi
pleSj npd also with sundry “ Aniercan Cit
izens of African Descent,” vulgarly called
niggers, who may perhaps be traced by
“ descent.”
Their friends are very anxious about
these missing parties. Any information
in reference to their present whereaoouts
will no doubt be thankfully received by
11 enquiring friends,” among whom way be
classed army correspondents, telegraphic
reporters and newspaper edi tods, to say noth
ing of the public in general.
Greeley is making stump speeches in
New England ; and we perceive from some
of his remarks that lie is returning to his
old principles on the Union question.
He is in ifovor now, just as he was at the
beginning of the secession movement, of
letting the South go out and the Union
go to pieces. Iu his Hartford speech, the
other day, he declared that if the Southern
people decided by a fair vote to go out of
the Union, he was iu favor of letting them
do so. That is precisely what he said iu
1864.
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The Battle in Tennessee.
The whole country will rejoice at the
victory gained by Hood. The los3 of ten
thousand men by the enemy cannot but
seriously cripple his strength as yrell as de
moralize, to a great (extent, his remaining
force. The battle was fought in a State
, where the moral effect ol a victory to our
arras will bo great. Tennessee ha 3 been
for so long under the foot of the foe, that
the hope of release was daily growing faint
er, and the hearts of the people were grow
ing sick with hope deferred. Tins victory
jof 11-od will rouse them like th? blast of
' h'Aiffi'pet. end double tho number lost in
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. Tire loss ot the heroicUloburnje and the
other gallant officers and men who fell in
this fight, Tnulfi.es the shouts of joy which,
would otherwise be heard all over the
South at thi3 triumph of our arms." They
have gone to join the thousands of mar
*tyrs who have already fallen, and though
we mdurn their loss, jt is consoling to know
that they, have not died in vain.
More than half of Tennessee has been
redeemed, and it is more than probable that
the whole of the State, will, ere long, be in
our possession, The loss of Nashville will
compel the enemy to retreat into Kentucky,
and we have good reason for hoping that
that bity with shortly fall into the hands
of its rightful owners.
The sun of Victory is again gilding the
banners of the Army of Tennessee.
Telegraph , &th.
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Cures for Fits.
For a Fit of Passion—Walk out into
the open air ; you may speak your mind to
the winds without hurting any one or pro
claiming yourself a shape!ton.
For a Fit of Idleness—Count the tick
ing of the eloek ; do this for one hour, and
you will be glad, to pull off your coat the
next and work like a man.
For a Fit of Extravagance and Folly—
Go to the workhouse aud speak with tho
inmates of a jail and you Will be conviuc
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Who makes his bed of briar and thorn,
’Must be content to lie forlorn.
Fora Fit of Ambition—<4° i to church *
.yards and read the gravestones; they will
tcjl you the end of ambition. The grave •
will soon be your bedchamber, the earth
■ your pillow, corruption your father, and
the worm your mother and sister.
For a Fit of Despondency—Look on the
good things which God has given you in
this world, and to those which He has,
promised to His followers iu the next.
He who goos into his garden to look for
cobwebs and spiders, no doubt will find
themwhile he who looks for a flower may
return into his house with one blooming in
his bosoln.
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Lila without Love.
We sometimes meet with men who seem
to think that any indulgence in an affec
tionate feeiitig is a weakness. They will •
return from a journey, and greet their lam- *
ilies with a distant dignity, and move
among their children with the cold ar.d
lofty splendor'ci an iceburg, surrounded
by its broken fragments. There is hardly
a more unnatural sight on earth than one
of these families without a heart. A fa
ther had better extinguish a boy’s eyes
. than take away his heart. Who that has
experienced the joys of friendship, and val
ues sympathy and affection, would not
rather lose all that is beautiful in nature’s
scenery than be robbed of the hidden
treasures of bis heart? Cherish, then,
. your heart’s best affections. Indulge in
the warm and gushing emotion of filial,
parental and fraternal love.
“Gamma,” the Richmond correspondent
of the Mobile Register , in his letter dated
Nov. 14th, says:
I think you may assure your readers
i that the President’s scheme to control the
press will go into effect at no distant day,
and that at the same time the habeas cor
pus will be again suspended. My informa
tion comes directly from a prominent mem
ber, and one who is disposed to do justice
to the press. Should this state of things
come to pass, as I think it surely will, we
shall have reached a condition in which
civil liberty vyill no longer be the property
of the people of the Confederate States.
I am a little curious to ascertain what the
feeling of the army naay be in regard to
this project, and also to hear some expres
sion of opinion from the State Legislatures.
EDITOR & PROP’R.
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An old man who has shot sixty persons.
The Cairo*correspondent of’ tho St. Lotiis
Republican tells this story :
<l At one point on the Tennessee river
there fs a plaee that has become a terror to
Bteamboatfnen, and in passiug it they al
ways find some place to secure themselves
till the boat passes. At this point an Ad
man, sixty odd years of age, has made his
headquarters for a long time, and the pe
culiar “crack of his gun"’ isi‘amiliar*toriver
men, and sends a thrill 0f terror wherever *
it is heard. He has a long heavy barrelk d
gag, originally a squirrel ride, whish low
‘brffd Wcl oi>t three time*, uy;i?
nmy the largest thumb can easily be turueu
in the muzzle, and the aim of the old man
is one of deadly certainty. The sentinel
is always faithfully upon his watch, and his
retreat has balHod all efforts to catch him
from the fact thdt lie is sp surrounded with
degse swamp and ravines. Well informed
river men estimate that this old man has
killed in this-way not less than sixty per
! sons; and yet he performs his work with
as much earnestness and vigor as when he
first Sbmmcuced.”
A fact that should not be overlooked by*
our military authorities is the presence 'of
spies in our midst, through whom Sher
man is no doubt kept constantly advised of
everything important for him to know. A
gentleman who, a few weeks .since, was
within Shermau’s lines, and had a long in
terview with him,, informed us that Sheri
man was not only well posted in regard to
the condition, cf our railitrify affairs, but
that be knew even the status of individual
citizens of Savannah better than we did.
With such advantage a lesA skillful gener
al would be able to make a display of as
tonishing strategy. We need cxpoct noth
ing from the ignorance of our enemy un
less we can adopt means to interrupt bin
sources of information. It becomes us to
be watchful for sides and traitors."
A.
Savannah Ncivs.
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Secretary.Trenholm says : u If the peo
ple stand by the Government and encour
age Congress to dq their duty manfully,
thebe is not'the’slighfcest dauger about the
public debt. Our people are committing
an act of great folly lo be buying property
of all kinds at ton times what jt will.bring
when the war is ever, while foreigners aro
buying their 6,7 and 8 per cent, bonds.
' and carrying them abroad. These bonds
will bring more in specie when peace comes
than they are now bringing in currency,
and we will have to pay these strangers in
full whether we wish or not, whereas, if
we kept the bonds at home, wo would get
back all the taxes collected to pay the in
terest. lam trying to pay for all foreign
supplies out of the profits on cotton, and
we have nothing to buy with Bonds and
Treasury Notes but flour, corn, meat and
manufactured goods, and to pay transpor
tation to rail roads.”
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A quizzical Kentuckian suggests, to the
enterprising capitalists of the old scabord
Yankee States, the uhility of re-opening
the trade (so vigorously conducted by their
grandfathers) under the benevolent pre-'
text of a missionary scheme for tho evan
gelization of the race, lie reasons right-,
ly ; for, there are more negroes who listen
to Christian teaching, on any Sunday, in
any county in the Confederacy, than hoar
the gospel preached from Cape Colony to
the.. Desert of Sahara.
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The Augusta and Savannah railroad, so
called, extends from Augusta to Millen, a'
distance of 53 miles. At Millen it inter
sects the ffcorgia Central railroad extend
ing from Savannah to Macon. Milieu is
79 miles from Savannah, and 111 miles
from Macon. It was at Millen that the
Yankee newspapers say Sherman liberated
twenty to twenty-five thousand Union pris
oners a few weeks ago !
The number of letters posted in London
in 18<33 Wits one hundred and forty-ono
millions six hundred and nineteen thousand.
"In Liverpool in the same year fifteen mil
lion four hundred and fifty-four thousand.
The Macon and Western road was torn
or otherwise destroyed as far as Lovejoy’a,
Station, 28 miles below Atlanta, except a
.few miles, in small sectious, at different
points. It is being rapidly repaired.
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