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EARLY COUNTY YEWS. Vol. VI. <£adg Cmtiitg Uctos. r. V.. I.ROHBY, - T. E. SPKTOHT. BY GROUfeY & SPEIGHT. T~E. SPEIGHT,"Editor. Terms of'Subscription? Ear 1 Year - SIO,OO For 6 Months $5,00 % No si.bsciptions received for less than six tnonth«, and payment always required in ad , vfent-e. Bates of Advertising:: 1 (occupying the space of ten flour geoia lines, or less.) each insertion...s3,oo Letters of Administration $1*3,00 Dismission 18,00 " Guardianship 1*2,00 Dismission 18,00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors . 18,00 it. sell Keal Estate, &c., pr sqr... 3,00 (advertisement.) To Col. D. S. Johuston and others in Early County who barter for Wool and Hides. There is a class of people in Early and Miller counties who are doiug me the groat injustice of not only stealing my wool, but of shearing my sheep at a season of the year that is certain to produce the* death of the sheep. I wish you to keep a list of th<* names of' persons who may bring you wool to barter; also the number of pounds of wool, together with a statement of the articles y T Ou may let them have in ■exchange. • There are personS engaged in this sheep shearing business who have heretofore been above suspiciou,.and unless they stop tlloir nefarious business, I shali be com pelled to expose their names through the Press Some of the women engaged in this business keep their dogs blocked in the yard to catch with others pen the sheep, and others catch them in the woods. I call them women , for certainly they are is 9* ea titled to t rie appellation of laches— nor can a man who engages in this busi ness be entitled to the name of gentleman. Some may think that necessity drives them te act in this way; others may attri bute it to laziness ; but I am compelled to think that it is only the development of a principle that had its existence before the war, and they arc now only acting hs they always would have done, had they had the same opportunity, I wish all who barter for hides to look welt to the brands —for the person who will shear the mother of the lamb for the sake of the wool, will kill the cow from the calf for the sake of the hide. Please keep a record of the names of these deal ers in hides, also of the brands of the , hides, for I am determined to bring the guilty parties to justice, if my stock is in terfered with in the future. Did necessity drive them to this course, I •could make due allowance for them, but I thick it but speculation; in fact, I ko>.w a young man, who is swift afoot, that has made quite a start in the sheep raising business by running down lambs in the woods. I will close by advising him and his partners in crime to desist from their present course, and adopt for their motto in future the old adage, “Honesty is the best policy.” John Davis. - M.iicr Co., Feb. 3, 1865. 16 4t POWELL & GROUBY, At the old Blackburn Hotel, Are prepared to do all kinds of SHOE, HARNESS & SADDLE WORK at the shortest notice, and on the most rea sonable terms. Patronage solicited. .fun. 18, 1864. 13-ts "T T. T. SWANN, - " ATTORNKY AT LAW, Blakely, Early Co., Ga,, IV i j l give prompt attention to all business coutiisd to Ins care. v5-13.*tf For Sale, A jLL kinds of Plantation Irom. Shovel, Sweep and Scooter Iron on hand. Call ana supply yourself. D. S. JOHNSTON. So fold, Ga., Oct. 12, 1864. 1-ts To Stock Raisers. "IfY fine-bk>oded Stallion, John Morgan, fIA stand at my house during the pres ent season. Terms—s2s for insurance. M. G. STAMPER. Jam 25,1365, H-2m* I®-DEATH ON SPECULATORS, JEWS, RASCALLY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, &c., - ■• - . . ' * ' ' BLAKELY, &A„ FEBRUARY 15, 1865. THE LONG AGO. Oh ! a wonderful river is the stream of Time, As it runs through the realms of tears, With a faultless rythm, and a musical rhyme, And a broader sweep, and a surge sublime, And blends with the ocean of years ! llow the winters are drifting like flakes of snow, And the summers like buds between, And the years in the sheaf—so they come and they go. On the river’s breast, with its ebb and flow, As it glides in the shadow and sheen ! There’s a magical Isle up the river Time, Where the softest of airs are playing; fere’s ttehtj’dlessi sVv and a clime, And a sdtig as sweet as a vesper chime, ' f And the Junes with the roses are staying. And the name of this Isle is the Long Ago, And we bury our treasures there — There are brows of beauty, and bosoms of, snow, There are heaps of dust—but we loved them so ! There are trinklets, and tresses of hair. Tfierc are fragments of song, that nobody sings, And a part of an intent’s prayfer; There’s a lute uhswept, and a harp without strings, . . There are broken vows and pieces of rings, And the garments she us§d to wear. There are hands that are waved when the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air, And we sometimes hear through the turbu lent roar, Sweet voices heard in the days gone before, •When the wind down the river is fair. Oh ! remembered for aye be.that blessed Isle, Ail the daytef life till night; When the evening comes with its beautiful smile, And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile, May that “greenwood of soul be in sigh.” The Result—The Issue, It seems that Lincoln and Seward could not dare to let our Commissioners go to Washington, or anywhere beyond the mil itary lines of the Yankee army, They were afraid l’*r any one in their dominions to see or converse with men from the reb el States charged with & peace mission. They dare not allow anybody bet them- • selves to sec or .speak to Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell. The country North and South, if we can rightly judge, expected Lincoln to appoint Commissioners to meet ours and have a con ference-—a discussion On the pointseat is sue, and .see if some trail could not be 6truck which would lead out of our present troubles towards the paths of peace. Lin coln and Seward, however, it seeips, had no such idea in their minds; but hasten ed down to Fortress Monroe, and there told our Envoys that wh could have peace by submitting to be disgraced and ruined. They require of us not simply to go back iuto the Union, but to submit to an irres ponsible usurpation ; to the unchecked dic tum of the fanaticsof the North, who have no regard for law or individual rights or humanity. They have laid ruthless hands upon the Constitution, and ridden rough Ehod over it—have set it at naught; have utterly disregarded all law—all private rights and all personal freedom; and by their unauthorized usurpations, have gone through the forms —the mockery—of ing their wicked edicts the laws of the land; and after having done this, with impudence unparalleled,save in the doingsand conduct of Yankees, they gravely invite us to go and submit to their fanatical and ruinous dictates. We were born free. We were born to ‘ the right of choosing our own legislators, and obeying of own laws. These brazen imps of sin and* Satan now have the effrontery to bid us submit td tyranical, flagitious and destructive laws of theif own making, which they did not have the pow er or authority to make, even for the States i still adhering to the Union—which we had no voice in making, and’which are utterly repugnant toevery honest man in the whole South, and have the depravity and barbar ity to make war on us to compel us to sub mit ! Is even a coward willing to do it 1 Breathes there a soul so dead to every in stinct of manhood and honor as to accept ■ such an alternative ? We trust that not one such desecrates the soil of Georgia. It is baseness unutterable. If there be such an one, let him basely go ; and let ns see that he goes where he belongs. Let not his filthy carcass pollute our Southern air. There arc a few reconstructionists in the South—men who dream of restoring the. • j ; - —'■ Union as it 1 Was Under the old Constitution. We have always told them reconstruction could not be had; and we now ask them to look at the Union to which they are in vited. We ask them if their eyes are yet opened ? We ask them if they are still willing to £jveqW any sort of alliance with the unprincipled and lawless crew who con trol the Government of the North ? Is any one so craven-hearted, so desti tute of self respect and self iutercst, and the honor and interestu>f his posterity and country?# If there be such a man on the soil of the South, the depths of unfathom able infamy have been sounded in that ciaa. • acheanr* ow £. we can obtain peace, but not from Lincoln, and the hope of doing so might as well -be banished; for none but villains, poltroons and traitors will accept of any peace that * he will give.- Confederacy. The Gold Market, . Several causes, remarks the Richmond Dispatch, in speaking,of the rapid decline in gold, have combined to bring pbout this effect: the strenuous measures recommend ed by Mr. Trenholm, Secretary of the Treas ury, to Congress; the decision of that body in determining, by a vote of 43 yeas to 31 nays, to seize all the' cotton and tobacco in the Confederacy on Government account; and the closing of the port of Wilmington. The scheme of finance now determined upon, and likely to be carried into effect, may be comprehensively stated thus: The cotton and tobacco of the country having been made the property of the Govern ment, the Secretary of Treasury will pro ceed, under authority of Congress, to bor row specie, giving cotton and tobacco as security. This specie will be speedily ap plied to the redemption of a large portion of the Confederate notes now afloat at a . moderate discount. No more notes to be issued by the Department; but the incom ing currency to be used for Government expenditure or cancelled.' The cotton aod (tobacco seized will be paid for in Confed erate money at the tearket rates (gold be-*' ing the basis,) at the rate of discount fix ed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the redemption of the currency. An effort wilt be made to reduce the volume of the currency to a certain amount, and, if pos sible, to prevent its increase. This course of policy, although not formally entered upon, has, nevertheless, already been some what effective. The fall of Fort Fisher, and the subse quent closing of the port of Wilmington, though deemed attrocious in a military point of view, has necessarily diminished the value of gold'by lessening the demand. The public are not aware of the vast amount of influence exercised over the gold mar ket by the operations of the blockade-run- • ning at Wilmington. From twenty thou sand to one hundred thousand dollars in gold were required tojjneet the weokly de. mauds of the buyers, aod nearly all the gold drawn from the market flSw out through < that channel. On Monday morning last, one thousand dollars in gold were sold at sixty-two and a half in Confederate money for one in specie. Two hours afterward came the news of the fall of Fort Fisher. Immediately gold rose to seventysone, and for several days continued to advance, through the combined influence of the brokers, till it reached seventy-six; but here it stopped, and has since bad a steady downward tendency. So far, theD, as the monetary affairs of the Confederacy are concerned, our pros pects are brighter than for many days past; and should our currency continue to im prove under the wholesome treatment now advised and in contemplation, our pros- j pects in other points of view cannot grow j worse. “ A man who was praising porter, said • * it was so excellent a beverage, that it al ways made bin) fat/ ‘ I have seen the time,’ said another, * when it made you lean —against the wall/” -» ♦ ♦ A jockey who incautiously burned his fingers by taking up his toast from the fire, and broke the plate by le'tting it fall, ob seved that it was too bad to loose the plate after having the heat. ■■♦ • - u White hair is the chalk with which Time keeps it scores—two, or three four score, as the case may be-— on a man’s bead.” • Negroes for the Army. W e understand that withiu .the last day or two the Senate branch of the general Assembly of this State have declared, by a decided majority, that under no eircum stauces will they consent to the proposition to arm slaves and put them iu the army. We presumo our information on this sub ject is correct. If it be true, as reported and is frequent, ry repeated, that Gen. Leo wants the ue groes for soldiers, and that it is neoessary that he should have them, and that he can trust them and make soldiers of the®— , then the Senate of North Carolina may yet the step they arc reported to. taken. As a matter of choice we have heard no man advocate the policy of making soldiers of negroes. The question has ever been based upon its absolute necessity. To say it is nqt now necessary, ia to say that Gen. Lee does not know the necessities.of his own situation. To say that it will never be necessary is the height of presumption, supposing the necessity not now to exist. In considering the.policy of arming slaves as soldiers, and the necessity for their being so armed, we need not be . ashamed to let Gen. Lee think for us. If Gen. Lee cau trust to the fidelity of the Die. gro, we might safely do so. If he thinks there is a necessity which demands the ne groes as soldiers, with what grace can wo tell him there is not ? What do we know j about it, as compared with his knowledge ? To slaveowners and to others, most ar dent friends of the institution, we would just suggest: If Gen. Lee insists upon the negroes he will get them. If their owners will not give them up they will he ta ken by the Yankees if not by Gen. Lee. An appeal from Gen. Lee to Stutes for as many negroes as lie wants, would bring thorn. No one species of property can have immunity secured to it from the nec essary requirements of tho times. If we, say it is pot necessary to send out the ne groes, five thousand man will tell ssa it is, for Gen. Lee says so. . We should like to see more temperate discussion of the question. As persons, the negro have onjoyed a singular immu nity ; as property they have been by no means oppressively taxed. Have they borne their share of the burdens of the war, particularly considering tho relationship they bear to the war ? We again counsel moderation in the dis cussion of this question. And we warn slave owners and the friends of slavery against certain new born pro-slavery inert in our State and Confederate councils. We have spme in our mind’s eye who will resist the apppal of Gen. Lee for negro troops to the bitter end, and who would yet .sink to perditiou the last slave to get hack to the embraces of their Yankee friends. The man who is willing to give one-half to save the other—seeing all in danger—is the prudent man aod the friend of him who owns the whole, Goldsboro' (iY. C.) State Journal. • Richmond, Feb. s.—The New York World of the 31st occupied a page with • the proceedings and speeches of the Board of Supervisors, relative to a draft in that city, the quota having been increased from ten to tweuty thousand. Several Supervisors intimate that an other riot was inevitable if the draft wa3 enforced. The World says: “We counsel the peo ple of this city to restrain their indignant feelings, although we well know these are intensely excited." The draft takes plaoe on the 15th in • stant. * Another committee has been sent to Washington to urge & reduction of tho quota. Richmond, Feb. s.—The commission ers returued from Fortress Monroe last night. They had an interview with Lincoln and Seward, and were informed, substantially, > that peace could be obtained flnly by un- \ conditional submission to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and that the slavery question had been disposed of by the action of Congress, by the adoption of the proposed amendment of the Cocsti*. tutiou, abolishing slavery io the United States. It is understood that an official statement from the Commissioners will belaid before Congress to-morrow. No. 17.