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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, ISGS.
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Whisky has again u riz ! ” It’s now Bel
ling here at 82,50 to 83*,00 a drink.
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Rags and damaged cotton waded at this
office, for whiah 15 cts. per lb. will be paid.
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Pierre Soule has arrived in the City of
Mexico on a miarfiou from the Confederate
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States.
Smith A Co., Publishers, ftalcigh, N. C.f
wiH do well to comply with the contract
made with us for advertising. Look out!
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George E. Kelley, for some tinle Editor
of the Fort Gaines Advertiser , died near
Fparta, Ga., on the 28th of January. He
was a member of the 14th Ga. Regiment.
Capt. A. B. Seals,the gentlemanly Quar
ter-Master at Fort Gaines, wants to pur
chase Corn for the Government. See his
advertisement.
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The Legislature has appropriated 88,-
000,000. for the benefit of' Soldiers' fami
lies, and 83,000,000 as a military fund for
this year. .
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. Remember, that if you want your Shoes,
gentlemen’s, ladies', misses' and brogaos,
put up neat, cheap and quick, to leave your
measures aud orders at the Nexct offioe.
Gen. Pillow has been assigned to duty
Commissary General of Prisoners. He
is ordered to report immediately, and suc
ceeds H. Winder, deceased.
According to the report of tlie commis
sioner of iuternal revenue, six hundred bar
rels of whisky are consumed in the city
of New York every day, on 1 au average, the
year round.
The Income Tax bill has been passed by
the Legislature. It levies a tax on all in
comes and profits over 810,000, where the
profit# realized were 10 per cent., realized
from let April, 1861, to Ist April, 1865.
A New York dispatch says Lincoln has
ordered the release of Roger A. Pryor, of
"Virginia, from Fort Wajrcni on
He is to report to John W. Forney *«nit
"Washington.
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In Alabama and Tenuessec deserters and
absentees are rapidly returning to their
commands under the amnesty proclamation
of Gen. Lee. Ain’t there a few in this
quarter that ought to return immediately
uader this amnesty?
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Wo would again‘remind those taking
mail matter at the Blakely Post Office that
they noed call at no other time on Sundays
except from 9 to 10 o'clock, a. nn, for they
■will positively not be waited on at any oth
er time. Wo mean exactly what wo say..
The Yankee Congress has passed a bill
providing for the freedom of slaves serv
ing in the military and naval ioreeS of the
United States. This bill passed through
Congress finally on the 23d of February.
President Davis suggested this ia his last
annual message.
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Meetings continue to take place in the
Army of Northern Virginia. The rc-solu- •
tions adopted at these meetings evince shat
u liberty or death ” ‘determination which
are prophetic of victory and independence.
From the armies is the right place for such
sentiments to come.
A great and enthusiastic- meeting was
v held at Montgomery, Ala., ou the 25th of
February, to take into consideration the
condition of tbc country. Judge Bibb pre
sided, and tbo meeting was addressed by
Gov. Watts, Judge Chilton, Gen. Clanton,
Col. Gaines and others. The following ii
one of the resolutions adopted:
Resolved , With humble dependence on
Almighty God, we will maintain the strug
gle until our independence is established;
and to this end we pledge our lives, our
tortune?, and our sacred honors.
. For the past week *>r ten days wc have
* bad Borne genuine spring weather, which
has been briskly improved. Gardens are
beginuing to make a good snow; peas and
other vegetables being well up, aud fruit
trees in full blossom. Our citizens should
endeavor to plant as much as possible in
their gardens. Cultivate every available
spot, and you will find it paying well be
fore the year is out.
P. S. When we penned the forgoing par.
agraph, we were in “_a tight ” for copy,
* and the weathev was beautiful, and hence
wrote as we did, hoping that a change in
it would uot take place until after publica
tion day, and Bee if we couldn’t be called
“ a weather cock.” But how sadly we have
been disappointed ! There has been more
rain aud bad weather during the past week
than we have seen before in several months.
Don’t think we’ll write about the weather
again soon in advance, for we are thorough
ly convinced that our judgment in weather
matters is worth nothing.
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It seems to be very difficult for Lincoln
tq get recruits for his slaughter pen, and
that the draft is a very troublesome thing
among the Yankees. The day for volun
teering is passed! Large bounties do not
stir the patriotism aod War-fire of the Yan
■ 4 kee, dearly as he loves the mighty doll^| —
he loves life more—-more than country or
bounty. , A draft must bo resorted to iu
order to fill up the ranks. But he who
would not go through patriotic motives, or
be moved by appeals for the dear Union,
and by the shining bounty, has
idea of being dragged away by arbitrary
power. A draft is a thing that nause
ates him, and his whole nature revolts a
gainst it. Rebellion will raise its head in
the heart of Lincoln’s body politic. A
speck of war may show itself even iu the ’
Black Republican rauks. We hope so;
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The Steamboats on the Chattahoochee
have again put up # their rates of passage
aud freight. The price of passage from
Chattahoochee to Columbus js now SIOO,
and from Columbus to Chattahoochee $75.
Intermediate landings in the same prqpor
< * tion. Freight, to any point on the river,
$4 per huudred. Pretty good charges—
the Captains will never starve for the want
of money at these rates, if they get any^
’ thing to do. It’s every dog for himself,
and the deVil for the whole, these days. -
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The Macon- Telerjmfh says it learns from
a geiutleman just returned from a visit to
| * South-Western Georgia that, farmers in that
section arc very hopeful of a successful
wheat crop this year, and say that uuless
the present spell of wet leather continues
to a damaging extent, they expect an abun
dance to bo made, as a larger proportion of
land is devoted to its culture than usual.
According to the Comptroller General's
Report, there are 80,000 dogs in Georgia.
The food consumed in feeding them, says
Mr. Ezzard, of the Legislature, would fat
ten enough hogs to make 3,000,000 pounds
of pork. A large revenue would arise from
taxing dog* and Jews, and many sheep bo
saved. Let the Legislature put the taxes
heavily oh to Ijoth.
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An exchange says that Cobb, of Alaba
ma, Wright of Georgia, and Foote, of Ten
nessee, are the only members of Congress
that have turned traitors to their country
during this war. Each began his treason
by denouncing the Confederate authorities,
whiuing about peace, aud offering’ peace
resolutions, and ended by deserting to the
enemy. ■# ’ t
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The House of Representatives of tho
Georgia Legislature have adopted a reso
lution requesting Congress to repeal the
Conscript Act, and accept trdops organized
for the war from the States, by a vote of 1
G1 to 46. 1 his is where the Legislators
have again proven themselves to be fools.
The Conscript Act is the very thing that
has saved the country.
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The Grand Jury of the Superior Court
of Monroe county, in their presentments,
declaro most emphatically that they are
unanimously opposed to holding Union
meetings in this State. We are in favor
of swinging tho first man who dares even
to propose such a thing.
Last Friday, we believe, was alujost gen
erally observed in this place as a dsy of
prayer' and thanksgiving. We don’t know
abouMhe /anting —though we suppose the
usual amount of it was done. If there is
any sense in doing without breakfast, and
then eating twice a9 much more for dinner
than usual, on a fast day, we can’t see it.
When persons pretend to observe these
days of 11 fasting, humiliation and prayer,
with thanksgiving,” they should abstain
from eating entirely, aud be diligently em
ploye! in praying and asking the Lord for
His blessing on themselves and the coun
try. But instead of this ninety-nine out
of every hundred who pretend to keep fast
day only miss one meal, make it up a* the
next, probably think of the Lord once,
and then try to study up some plan or oth
er to swindle their neighbors. Upon the
whole, these fast days are turning out to
be a perfect humbug, and ought to be im
mediately abolished.
A considerable number of prisoners were
exchanged at Mobile lately. We learn, too,
that a large number of prisoners have also
been exchanged at several other points, and
that some of the “ Early boys” have reach
ed Richmond from Yankee prisons. Our 1
hopes are, now that exchanging has once
more commenced, that it may continue un
til all ore exchanged, and that our braves
may have the pleasure of visiting their
families and homes. All prisoners, when
exchanged, we believe, are granted a thirty
day’s’ furlough.
P. f?. Since the above was put in type,
we understand some three or four members
> of tke fc “Early Guards,” who have been
prisoners, have arrived at home—W. R.
Williams among the number. Who tha
others are, we have not learned.
Special attention is called to the adver
tisi ment of Ira R. Foster. Quartermaster ' •
General of Georgia. He wants ten thou- «
sand pairs of Socks for the bare-foot Geor
gia Soldiers now in Virginia, and calls upon
every patriotic lady ‘and little girl in the
State to send him a few pair for this noble
purpose. All who contribute may rest as
surtjd that every pair will be immftliaWy
sent to where the/ are most needed. Gen.
Foster has done a great deal to'relieve the
wauts of Georgia is willing to
do still more if he can get assistance from*
the ladiesf How many ladies in Early
cunuty will contribute one or* move pair of
Socks ? Is there a *ingle one who will
not? We will take pleasure in receiving
and forwarding aikSoijks l'eft at this office,
and acknowledge the receipt of the same
through the News.
The Government has put up in Lynch
burg nearly one million bushels of ice for
hospital purposes at that post the corning
summer. If our religious notions Would
allow us to bet, aud we were so disposed,
we’d wager our last red cent that more than
three-fourths of this ice will be melted in
Surgeons’ and Officers’ whisky. The poor
sick private Soldier will hardly ever get a
taste ol it, not even if a piece the size of a
thimble would save his life. Nine-teDths
the Surgeons in the Confederate army
steal all the nourishments sent the private
Soldiers, and what they and officers cannot
consume themselves, is sold at aa enormous
price to sbme outsider. This is one of the
7 many ways that wc are pursuing to whip
the Vankees and gain our independence.
If it wasn’t for the ladies, we don’t know
well how we would get along. Just when
- ever we want anything, all wo have got to
do is to let them know it, and it is imme
diately forthcoming. Last week we stated
thatwe wanted someGardea Seed, and right
off our friend Mrs. C. A. Perryman scut
its a lot of some fifteep or twenty different
kinds, of the very best, free of charge.
May she live, always to bestow such valued
presents on the needy. Such favors am
not soon forgotten by us.
* Congress, after a session of over four
months, adjourned last week—never to
meet again, we hope. All our law-making
bodies have long since 6hown themselves to
be wanting in something to make laws for
the country. We believe, if we had neith
er Congress nor Legislatures, our cause
would prosper a great deal better,
* The Fourth of March, honored and wel
comed for nearly three fourths of a century
by the American people, and made illustri
ous in History by the inauguration of suc
cessive Presidents of the United States,
was to witness -the spectaole of Abraham
Lincoln’s elevation to supreme pnwrt over
the States remaining in the Union. In tha
mock pageant and heartless ceremonials us
the occasion, thank Heaven, the South had
neither lot nor part; for neither construc
tively nor in fact is he now President by
any. act whatever of the Southern people.
Four years ago, when Lincoln was declared
President because he had received a major
ity of ihe electoral votes, the South tsub
, mitM peaceably to his assumption cS au
thority, aud awaited farther developments,
lu but little more than thirty days’ time <
he forced our people to take up arms in
defense of their soil, and plunged the coun
try into civil war. For four years the nn
equal contest has been maintained between
the North and South, at a sacrifice of a
million of lives and a cost of thousands of
' millions of treasure, and to all appearance#
we are as far from the end as ever. All
overtures for peace have been contemptu
ously rejected by Lincoln, Sud four yeara
■snore of war are before us, if’the North
can raise liep and Aieanx to carry it on.
The South no longer deceives herself or
misapprehends her position and the duties
and sacrifices it involves. She is fighting
for existence, knowing full well that if she
yields, no mercy will' be shown her, and
that if there could be a hell upon earth,
she would realize it iu the emancipation of
tbo negroes, tho confiscation of all proper
ty, and with Yankee masters to role over «-
her. To this we must come, if conquered
aud subjugated, aud every man mirst stand
up now and nerve his heart to the contest.
Whether Lincoln can.raise another army
to take the place of the one now rapidly
dwindling away, and whether the finance#
of the North can stand the pressure of
more tbau another year's campaign, aro
contingencies on which the South cannot
now dwell. She must look only to the do
veibpment of all her stYength and resources,
to the last man and the last dollar, and to
the readiest mode of availing herself for
the purpose of resistance for four years or
ten years or twenty years more, in any and
every way in which war can be waged; und
when this is thoroughly and effectually
done, whether Lincoln reigns until the 4th
of March, 1869, or ten or twenty years
• longer, he will have no more authority, and
exercise no more jurisdiction, over the
States of the Confederacy than he has had
since the memorable 4tlv of March, 1861.
It is altogether probable that the attempt
of the Yankees to abolish slavery, by a
mendiDg the old Constitution, will prove
an ignomiuous failure. They very easily
got the amendment through Congress, hut
tho worst of the job is to come. They must
get the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
States to adopt the amendment, and it ap
pears now that the thing cannot be done.
According to Yankee* reckoning, there are
36 States in the old Union. The number
of States (loyal) to vote on the amendment
(by their Legislatures) is 28, and a three
fourths vote is 27. Tq get the amendment
adopted, they tnust obtain the votes of 27
States; but it so happens that Delaware,
Kentucky and New Jersey have democrat
ic Legislatures, and probably will refuse to>
adopt it. Delaware has already rejected it
by a two-thirds vote of her Legislature.
Kentucky'and New Jersey will probably
do the same, and thus this infamous Abo
lition scheme will be knocked in the head
forever probably, leaving Lincoln, Soward
& Co. in a nice predicament!
The Legislature adjourned on Saturday.
If they have done anything bat raise their
owu wages, a Convention, and
give Brown one hundred jyid thirty-two
men to electioneer for him at the next ulcc
tjon, (one in each county as an Agent for *
receiving and paying out Soldiers* fund,)
we don’t know it.
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Gen. Echols has succeeded Gen. Breck
inridge in the command of the East Ten
nessee Department. The enemy have gone
into winter quarters at Knoxville. Everj -
thing is quiet in this Department, and it
is thought no movements will be made in
that section until spring.