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Vol. VI.
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I. li. GROUBY, T. E. SPEIGIIT.
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, Can it be that everybody, and even,-in
some instances, Soldiers’ wives, have turn
ed out to be rascals and thieves? It does
really seem so, for lately, in Early and Mil
ler counties, there are tome Soldiers' wives
and daughters who have turned out to reg
ular stealing, or, as they call it, “taking.”
I have, during the last few months, had
many cows and sheep stolen from me, and
have found oct, to a certainty, that a few
Soldiers wives and daughters are the guil
ty parties. Now I have never yet refused
to assist any Soldiers’ family who was in
need, when they made the tact known to
me, in - any aud every way in ray power,
and therefore- think it quite hard that L
should have my stock stolen from me in
the woods. ‘This is outrageous, and if it
is uot soon stopped, I intend to put the !
law to the guilty ones, aud aiso'exj • so their
names before the public in the Aeits. i
therefore give them this lonely warning to
stop their stealing, or lisk the consequen
ces. What would your kiwbands and
fathers think if tl.ev.siiould see our names
- •?
in a public print as stock stealers '? Would 1
it not be enough to make them discard you l
forever? Os course it would. *Tliod, for
the sake of 'yourselves, and the love you «
4>uylU to have tor yot.r relatives in the ar
my, stop your meanness, and i will say'bo
. more about the matter. I have s jotved
every ono of you, and could have \ou se
verely dealt with if I would, but prefer not
do so if you will only quit at what you
are at. I can't a.ford to give you a cow’,
two or throe sheep, and a dozen or more
pounds of wool, and then let you continue
to steal from me at your own pleasure, and
•don’t intend to stand it any longer. N E ve
ry one of you should bo ashamed of your
•conduct, aud stop in disgust. . No we who
would be guilty of stealing cows, sheep and
wool should I*3 entitled to the a’ppellution
of Soldiers’ wife or daughter, and should
not he entitled r.o draw either State or coun
. ty fund—trier * names should be immedi
ately dropped from the list. I ■ vsi 1 give
all families one week’s time to stop
their meanness before exnosiifg their names
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before the eye of the public. “ A hint to
the wise is sufiicieut.”
A Stock Raiser.
Miller Co., -Tan. 19, 1865. 14-4 t
a Iroclamatioh. • '
• TO THE OFFICERS A*D MEMBERS OF TUB
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
In conformity to the Resolution of the Gon
er*! Assembly, passed at the close of the last
Session, requesting the Governor v to convene
the Legislature at such time and place as ho
may think best, to complete the necessary
Legislation which was unfinished at the time
of adjournment on tho approach of the ene
my : 1 hereby require tho Officers and Mem
bers of tin General Assembly to convene at
the City Hall, in the city of Macon, at 10
o’clock, a. nr., on Wednesday, {he 15th day
of February next.
Given under mv hand, and the Great Seal
of the State, this tho 25th da / of Jan., 1805.
15-2 t JOSEPH it. BROWN.
Tan Yard’notice.
HAVING purchased the interest of Mr.
Peter Howard, 1 am now sole proprie
tor of the Tau Yard heretofore owned by
Howard & Stewart. Tho Yard will be kept
sun as heretofore. Hidc3 will be tanned on
shares as usual.
Thankful for past favor/, f invito all to try
me for the future, promising to do all I can
to pleas® my customers.
JAS. M. STEWART.
Blakely, Aug. 5, 1863. 41-iy
All kinds of Job Printing'
Neatly ixecutedftt the Early Co. News Mace.
B^*DEATH ON SPECULATORS, JEWS, RASCALLY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, &c, &c.
ULAKEI/Sr, GA',
“A Fatter sells The Pones of iiis dead
* 50?.,”
We notice going the lounds -of bur ex
changes, under the foregoing heading, the
following occurrence, taken from an Ohio
paper:
“ Cnpt. Thos. S. Bunker, of the 88th O.
,V. 1., last September, through the Rev. J.
W. Bushing, who, by the way, received
pay for the part be took in the transaction,
managed to have his son, who had died iit
j the service, credit lou the quota of Drake
j county, Ohio, as a substitute for a drafted
uiau mi-a: , Calvin Moore. ! t appears that
the son, CL- ties Bunker, had or.?, fed the
service as a substitute early in the war, and
by good;conduce had been prmeuted touug.
i?mk (a second lienienaht, wjdch •position
he hel l until his death, which took place ■
last J try. 1, is father, only two y*onth» la
ter, tiirough the ebaiu iu of the regiment
to which he belonged, rc-oulisted his dead
son as a nubstitut *, receiving the pay aud .
local bounty, part of which he gave hisac
! complice. Co gating a piece cf rascality,
and so extraordinary a transaction, wuuid
liefc of course remain a secret. r i he' facts •
have something about thern so uunatunil —
if .anything that occurs may be called by .
that name—that as soon as theknov n parties
were placed under arrest‘to await the result
; of an examination by ccupt martial, .flow
the case will terminate, or what penalty
■will he imposed upon the individuals im
plicated, we have no means of judging;
bat we suspect they will not retain their
places, aud if they ever had the esteem of
their iMlowcitizeas, that will be forever
withdrawn,”
This is shocking enough in all conscience,
and painfully illustrative of the depravity
of. human nature. But we conceive it to
j be no Worse than the case cf .him who,
having lost a son in tills bloody war, now
advocates recom trued.n with the Nortiieru
States; or of him who has iost a .lather,
doc 3 the same ; or of him who has lost a
brother, committing the same transgression
— kacriierje, we might say. Fathers, and ■
! brothers, ami sorts, thus circumstanced,
| wl. are- willing ;o Y .J: i: to the oideqr*
jrant Union, lVaternaly y embracing our'ha-’
ted cultures, would sett (he voncs of- the hon
ored dead with as little compunction 'as
the Yankee did who sold the bo ties of his
son fora consideration, Reconstruction, in
fact, would be s eUivj sh• Lone.; of our,g<f
■ hint dead! it would be sacrilege most
■ foul ! He who tumid thus dishonor the
memory of thy brave heroes who fell in
battling for Southern Independence, would
scared;-hesitate to sell their Bones. We •
mean what we write.— lntelligencer.
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Ho U-3175.
Just now the dearth cf news exceeds
anything wo have experienced for weeks.
At otto time we received few or no papers ;
L it now we receive.papers, but since the
fail of Savannah and Fort Fisiier, and the
i going into winter quarters of the two op
posing armies on the Tennessee, there is
.nothing new, fresh or exciting reaching
l!.-.
it er st be iI.Y lull which precedes the
storm, for both in war and diplomacy great
events are evidently on the eve of trans
piring. Sherman’s campaign was evident
ly not intended to stop short of the walla
oi liichmonfl, and an attack upon its de
fences by the combined hosts commanded
by him and Grant, and oar combinations
must be*undo to meet the tremendous ex
igency. A stillness almost of death pre
vails us to the movements.of the opposing
forces—ami the silence may be regarded
gs precursory of impending great events.
The Memphis Appeal, of the 23th Jan
uaay, says: “ The president has but acced
ed to the wishes of the whole country in
permitting negotiations to take place, no
matter nhat the result. And bis selec
tion el representatives of ibis Government,
in the conference that will fake place, will
will give genera! satisfaction. The gentle
. men. named, are among our ablest statesmen,
intimately acquainted with the leading
men of the North, and conservative in
the:i views. We confess wo entertain
strong L vies that nothing but good will re- #
suit fror.-j this step, and fe d that the an- ’
ncuneemeut we make this morning will be
hailed by tlio whole peonla with ioy. Day
is breaking!”
Gen. J rues H. Lane (Union) hag been
re-elected to the United States Senate,
| from Kansas, for fix years from March it L.
I
Peace liiegotiationE.
AYc think it uot at all improbable,that
uegotiatious-arc about to be opened bet.t- fen
the Confederate Stores and th.r Ivuited
States, though we have no hope whatever
thqt i.iucolti will consent to give us, any
peace-short of disgrace and ruin, am/ warn
our readers not to allow their hopes to run
too high. * [
Yfe are, however, glad that negolidtioos
are about to open, it is the first stop to-*
wards peace, ft may be a- long tinje before
■ the final work is done—before treaty,ss cou- •. *
eluded. It would not at alt be sen prising
to'"us if the successors of Mr. ligyis and
Mr. Liucola should conclude thjfefc nego*
-
TTeu let our people hrirut us well as
hopeful. . Peace may come son, but we
dopiot much expect it. If this first s f fq>
hud been taken years ago, we .might have
been uoiv at ponce ; and it couh'l have been
tax : it Uretidept Baris.had been willirm
to ailow auy-other moans to be employe®
to bring it about than those of his own
suggestion. The *irst step, we
suppose) is now taken, or soon, will be, which
is time much uigher the end. The first .
step in any great work is vq/ry often the
most dimcult oi all. It is hopeful and cn-
and good will come of it, though
no immediate results may bo obtained. Let
us be hopeful, but njt expoex too much at
oaco.— Vonfcderact/.
“And ycu Rrutusl”
Yfe copy the following from the Augus
ta Key isfer :
w hut a fail was there, mv country
men 1 ”
<}. B. LAMAR. •
Yfe are inform ?d that tl*c above men- i
turned 'gentleman, who -was at one time
President of the Banked’the Republic in
New York, arid subsequently Presldont.*!’
the Bank of Commerce iu Savannah, and
one of the largest coUuu holders and withal
one of the bit!erect rebels id the Confederal
cy, has tak su the oath cf allegiance to the
Yankee Govqrament. IVe supmsc lie did
it to .save his coftyn. \Ve are also informed 1
i!:V. he'im.-y'aiMrvssoS a letter to a gentle- * !
f li in in tlj.s city, iyianning him of Ids re- j
- turn to the old government, j
.' and advising him r.o do likewise as sous !
as am opportunity offers. Oh, Alan! Mau !
\fhal a humbug thou art'
Th<s true object, ol Blair’s visit, the Rich- j
raond Exi-iviitcr bc-liiv.;? ; was, beyonil ques
tion, to tail in u. pretended overture for
‘‘ peace and Union,” and thus to give a
Btimulqus to the* draft for three hundred
thousand new thieves at.uuiiurderers, to
be let loose upon ui next spring. Jle
could easily, iu, the confidence of private
discourse, get From the President a fresh
avowal that-thfi Soutn is really fighting for
independence and nothing else; a state-,
mint which, though it has been repeated
so often us to be almost raonotoaous, yet
filways seems fresh and surprising to tho
Northern mind. Every time they learn,
ou tan authority ot a Yankee ’who heard
the thing tcdually said, with liis ow-n t;,o
ears, It is a matter of new amauement and
indignation to them ; and they s.t about,
with more, zeal than ever, fitting out anna
das and fresh troops.
But this belief was expressed before the
second visit cf Blair, who, so far as we are
informed, is still, in Richmond, His pro
longed /day would seem to give strength to
the Geiieral hope that peace negotiations
are redly on* foot. Ou the other hand,
however, let us not forget that the prepa
rat on of ’the enemy for a vigorous prose
cution of the war go on unceasingly, and
must be met by corresponding vigor and
determination on our part.
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Tlhether goid is to-day held at fifty or
a hundred, or a hundred and. fifty for one, ,
does not alter the fact, says the Richmond
Dispatch, that .such a quotation is not. based
upon the depreciation in value of Confed
erate money. There are now before Con
gress bids for confiscating the property of
those who l ave left the Confederate States
to avoid military service. To avoid this
confiscation, this property is being sold by
the holders and the money converted in
to gold, to be sent abroad to these delin
. queat Confedmates. Besides this, the ne
groes, 7.h0 h-V'. been hoarding Confeder
ate currency, disposing of it pre
paratory to running o’T. These, and simi
lar causes, far more than the fall of Fort
Fisher, constitute the real reason for the
exorbitant price cf gold,
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— xfiURSM
Tolegraphio.
*)J. J 1 aa ■ —Sana tor Hunter,
Ci. \t iigiuia, \ ice Presiddnt Stephens, of
Georgia, and Hon. J utlgo Campbell, of Al
abama, have been appointed Commistficm-
Citi to proceed to Washington to confer
v-itii the authorities of the United States
Government on the question of peace.
They will leave t'o-morrow.
>V can. 2e.—A fhg occur--
rad at one'o’clock to-day in n lot of 4d6
bales of cotton, in front of the Custom
House, nearly all- of which Was consumed,
Without damage t) tiro adjacent buildings.
Two cur loads of cotton were consumed
this morning oh the Wilmington & V.'el
dou nt!irbfid, four miles ft-dn th'c city.
• \ It it ON A, Jau. 2».—Mrj.CreU. Forrest’*
■scouts from Orizaba report that great ex
citement prevails in Memphis oa account
of recognition Tumors.
It is reported that the English Premier
i hss notified Lincoln tlijit he would recog
i h\zb him th j 4th of March ts P,e.-:-
deut only of'the States which had voted
ibr him.
The English Government, it T reported
here, has ordered the; seizure ofaJl the A
moricaa vessels at .Nassau.
iticii r>iOND,.dan. Sl.—Gon. Lee’s com
i nation to the new grade of Gone ral-in-Chicf
Vr; 3 proposed last week at the War Depart -
went, by order of the President. The de
lay in sending it to the Senate arises from
the Presidents inability to sign his name,
in consequence of a severe attack of neu
rrdgia in tho right firm and hand. The
• President is stiU confined :o bis room this
moruii:and may no: bo able for some ds r ,a
to recover the use of his band.
It is stated that the Peace Com mission sro,
in passing through our. line?, wore greeted
with voeiUrov.s cheers by the troops, and
that aimi)*r demonstrations were made by
the enemy on their arrival within the Yan
kee lines.
Breckinridge will eater upon the dutica
cf Ms tew position as Secretary of War
•next Monday.
Richmond, Jon Sl.—Tb® Hew, York .
»* PX~'>**S& Tv «ss»] Crap,
j reports that too UonTctTeMa
Nf ahicr ShenandoahdestroycJ sevcrafA'-
j merieun merchantmen alutig the coast if
Brazil, in eousetfuesca of. which vessel*
bound for the United States were obtain
ing British registers.
The Harriet jLane, fit Havana, was found
•ta he on tire, cfn the 18th. She was towed
ashore and scuttled. *
A residence costing thirty thousand dol
lars has been to *Geu. Gvaa-t by
citizens of Philadelphia;
The American Hotel at Buffalo, end oth
er buildings, was destroyed by lire on Yfed
nesch.v. Jxhs yl,tdO,OJd.
• Gold 20;3.
PETUtsBUP-G, Jan. Cl.—Gen. Grant
scut in a hag of truce to-day announcin '
that our commissioners would be received
at 5, p. m. Accordingly' at that hour
Messrs. Stephens, Hunter dyd Campbell
proceeded out to the Baxter road, and uns
der a flag of truce entered the cnbmy'a
lines in trot:t of N'.'ise’s Brigade of Gen. '
Bus!.rod Johnson's Division. - They were
received by Col. i ..uncock cl Gen. Grants
staff and coadueted to a special train of
cars awaiting in the rear. The ■ coromie
sionera will be entertained at Gen. Gram's
headquarters to-night imd start for Wash
! ington to-morrow. Mr. Stephens’ servant
was permitted to accompany him. Mr.
Hatch,Tcuimissioner of. exchange, accom
panied tha commissioners ns See re tar v.
The breastworks of the enemy ns well ns
our own .were crqjvded with soldiers wit
nessing the nov*l event.
CFi a ii LBBTON, dan. 31.—A1l movements
ofthccnemy indicate Augusfaand Braneh
villeas the points of destination. The 20th
army corps occupies Robe vis vi lie. Heavy
firing of infantry, artillery and cavalry re
ported-near the junction of the Saltketeh
ie ant] old Union Iloads. The-foree be
lieved to be the 15th and 17th army corps.
Yesterday morping the enemy advanced
in considerable force, infantry and artille
ry, from White Point, an*d drove in oil
skirmish line three miles to King’s creek.
Our ’nfhr.try nfteewards advanced and
drove the enemy hack to Whim Point, re
establishing pur picket line. then
all has been quiet oa the Combabaeat that
point.
The enemy made a demonstration on our
petition efc the pontoon bridge over Salt
kefehit* t'vjs afternoon, but without result. •
It is reported that the enemy burnt 51c
rkcrsoTivilledast night.
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