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■HHHF ESIKi - - ■■ - V THE CONFEDERATE VOLUME XXXIV.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M A Y 17, 1864. NUMBER 52. BOUGHTON, NISBET r BARNES& MOORE Publishers and Proprietors. s. * JO!* &i)C KOl'tilll'O.'V, £ Editor*. II. NI»BKT. S (Confchratc Union U published Weekly, in MilleAgeville, Ga., Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Ms., (opposite ( ourt- House.) At S10 a year in Advance. OUK NEW TEB.V1S. ,1 after March 2d, 1864. the T< r-.ris ot Suh- to the Confederate Union, are Its Dol • , . . All indebtedness tor On an •cription nm, inmribly iu advance .ttbscripthm to thi-e paper, prev . 1 c rpl, 1 All indebted: iriousto June 1st, 1863, at the rate of Three Dollars per year. advertising. cross his shoulders, and the lantern that was to give light when the moon departed, completed the group ; if we except a noble Newfoundland dog, some steps in advance of the party, watching lor the nod to command his march to a kind of pier where the fish erman and his boy were to embark. ‘Good luck, good luck!’ exclaimed the old man; ‘good luck, and safe home again, John : ye want no more but (rod’s blessing, and that ye may 1 have for asking ; hut ye may as well | lake mine too.’ The blessing was heartily echoed by his kind partner and his children, and whistling as he j went, with his boathook. on his shoul- | dt*.r, his dog, Neptune before, and his hoy following, he trudged along to Transient.—Two Dollars per square of ten . the beach. With the earliest dawn of benefit, ebarg. Leoal Advertising. Sheriff s sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $5 00 •< Mortgage fi fa sales, per square Tax Collector’s Sales, per square, Citations for Letters of Administration, ,< .t •• Guardianship, 10 00 5 00 5 00 f> 00 i 8 00 er was preparing the breakfast table, and the mother spreading before the ' fire the her bov »n the first Toe.' • NO in the finaoOD Court house in the county iituated clothes for her husband and An hour passed, and she grew somewhat uneasy that he had re mained aboard beyond the usual period of his return. Another hour had elapsed, when she said to her father, ‘Father, go out to the hillock and try if you can see his sail upon the water; he seldom stays so long when the sea is calm and the weather fair; my little boy too was not quite well last night, and this a- lone should have hastened him home.’ forth,.and oue by and three’in the'aft«rnoon,.at_the J one liis grandchildren followed him, until the mother was left alone, rock ing the cradle of her unconscious Taabe. Alter the lapse of another hour, her L.t..r. Of application for diam n. „„ Appl’n fur leave to sell land and negroes, Notice to Debtors and Creditors. Sale, ot land or negroes, per square. .. perishable property, 10 days, per scf, Estray Notices, 30jdays, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, legal advertisements. i T - he oldwent 8 00 6 00 8 00 2 00 5 00 2 00 iii which the property is Notice of these sales must be given in a public ga- .10 (lavs previous to the day of>»le. Voticei tor the sale of personal property must be Notices tor ^ )(J d revio08 to sale day debtors ar.d creditors of au estate ing the faee and hands of the child, as if he foresaw that for him his protec tion would be most needed. The fish- .erman perceived at once the desperate nature of his situation ; the tide he knew was coming in rapidly, and his hope of escape was at an end, when he perceived that his boy in an effort to use the oars, had let one of them fall overboard. ‘Father, Father,’ ex claimed the poor lad, ‘what shall J do?’ The boat was at this moment so distant that his distracted parent could scarcely hear the words, but he called out to him as loud as he could, to trust in God, the father of the father less. He then stood resigned to the fate which he felt awited him, and watch ed the driftiug boat that bore the child in peril from the fatal rocks. He had offered up a brief prayer to the throne of mercy, when in an instant, a light broke upon his mind. ‘Good God !’ he exclaimed, ‘I may yet be saved.’ With the energy of hope bat tling with despair, he collected all the stones around him, and heaped them rapidly upon the highest ledge of rock: it was indeed wonderful how he could have gathered so many in so short a' time ; but the Almighty gave strength to his arm, and he was laboring not for life merely, but for beings still dearer to him. The tide came on, ou, on, and soon obliged him to abandon his work, tie then mounted the pile he had heaped, planted his boat hook firmly in one of the crevices of the cliff, and prepared to struggle for existence; but his heart failed him when he considered how slight was the possibility that the given in like inannt Notices U> the A """t also be P» r ^ l ' ed .= 40 . iTbe ma.leto the Court. Notice that application avi Ordinary for leave to sell Land Negroes, Urtist be lette^-cf'Administrntion Guardiansliip. Administration. monthly six mom i Administration, monthly these, the legal requirement daughter entered with the news that j waters would not rise above his head, a neighbor had spoken to her -father j Still, he determined to do all he could in the iiiirht, and that he would cer- I to preserve life. The waves were not tuiuly be soon home. i rough, and the boat hook supported “God grant it!” said she, and she j him. The awful moment rapidly ap- spoke in a lone of deep anxiety.—‘He j proached ; the water had reached his never was away so long but once, and j knees ; but he stood firmly, and pray- tlu.t Mas when he saved the crew ofjedthat he might be preserved. On, the ship Alary ; and then the whirl ol \ ou, on, it came, slowly and gently, but uulcssotberwiee ordered. When a subscriber finds a cross ninrk on hi< paper be will know that his subscript.on has expired, or is about to expire, and must be r* new - , ed if he wishes the paper continued. ry We do not send receipts to new snbseri- beis. If they receive the paper they may know , that we have received the money. ry Subscribers wishing il.eiryapers changed j- from one post-office to another must state the name of the post-office Jrom which ‘bey wish it changed. . To Tax Receiver*. The Comptroller General furnishes each Receiver •f Tax Returns with three Books. If any Receiver willies an Extra book, or sheets for a blotter,we "ill ^ furnish him at the rate of oO cents a sheet. One do!!;ir extra if the sheets artf bound. Interesting reading matter will be found on the 4tli page. The FFherman. the sinking vessel bad well nigh made bis grave.’ Again she stirred the fire, again she arranged the clothes before if, and poured some hot water into the tea-cups. Still the breakast remain ed untouched. The sun was now soar ing to his meridian height, when once more the family assembled in their bumble dwelling; the prop of the whole was yet wanting. They sat down to a cheerless meal. The old man was the only individual who ap peared hastily forth. The noon was rapidly passing, and tin* sun had a'ready given tokens of the glory of his departure, when the fisherman’s wife, having lulled her in fant alseep, went herself to the hill that commanded an extensive view of the wide spread ocean. All the little household assembled on the spot, but no boat was seen upon the water;— nothing* that could give hope except It was as calm an evening as ever came from heaven—the sky and the earth were tranquil, as il no storm the aspect of the waves which looked from the one had ever destroyed the too placid to be dangerous. The deep repose of the other ; and even the dread was no longer concealed ; and ocean—that great highway of the while the old man paced to and fro, world—lay as gentle as if its bosom looking earnestly at brief intervals had never betrayed—as it no traveler 1 over* the lonely sea, the mother and had ever sunk to death in its embrace, daughter were .sobbing audibly. The sun had gone down and the pcn-i ‘‘Fearless let him be whose trust is sive twilight would have reigned over j ri },j s (j 0( i |” exclaimed the father.— nature, but for the moon, which rose The sentence was uttered involuntari- more fearfully than if it had raged a- round its destined prey ; soon it reach ed his waist, and he prayed that it might go no higher. On, on, on, it came, and liis shoulders were covered;—hope died within him, and he thought of himself no longer, but of those who were so dear to him—his wife, his children, and bis father—it was for blessings on them that he then implored Heaven. Still on, on, it came, and lie was forced to raise his head to keep as long as possible from death, his reason was almost to anticipate no evil; but jie ! gone, his breath grew feeble, his limbs inished his breakfast and went j chill; ho panted, and liis piayers became I almost gurgling murmurs. The blood rushed to liis head, his eye-balls glared as if they would start from their sockets.— He closed them with an effort, and thought for-the last time on the home that-would be soon so wretched. Horrible images were before him—each swell.of the wave seemed as if the fiends were forcing him downward, and the cry of the sea-bird wasl'ke their yells over their victim. He was gasping, choking, for he had no strengt h to keep his head a- bove the waves, every moment it was plashing upon them, and each convulsive start that followed only aroused him to the consiousness, if consciousness it could be called, that the next plunge would be his last. Alerciful powers!—at the very moment when the strength and spirit of inen had left him, and the cold shudder of death had come on, he felt that the tide rose no higher. His eyes opened, closed, and a fearful laugh troubled the waters!. They eddied in his throat, and bubbles floated around his lips—but they rose no higher— ; that he knew— again and again his bosom heaved with a deep sob, as lie drew in his breath, and gave it forth anew in agony.— A minute had passed since the salt 6ea touched bislips;—(his was impossible if tlie tide still flowed. He could icason so much. He opened bis eyes, and faintly mur mured forth—“O God, be merciful.”— Tbe flow of the ocean bad indeed ceased; tbeie he still stood motionless; but praying and weeping—thinking of bis beloved home, and hoping that this place there might not be forever vacant. The waters in a short time subsided, ly, but it had no effect. ‘Ay,’ said the mother, ‘he always trusted in Gdd, and God will not forsake him.’ ‘Do you remember, Jane,’ continued the old man, ‘how often Providence was was with me, amid the storm and the in her fuli-orbed beauty, the queen of an illimitable world, to smile upon the goodly things of ours, and to give a radiance and a glory to all she shone upon. It was an hour and a scene that led the soul to the contempla tion of Him who never ceases to j wreck, when help from man was far off, watch over the works he has made, and would have been useless if near?’ and w hose protecting care displays and they cheered and encouraged one itself alike uj?on the solid land and the another to hope the best; but to sub trackless wastes of the deceitful sea. m it to the decree of Heaven, whether On the weastern coast of the coun-j it came as the gentle dew to nourish, ty of Devon, which has been termed, or a s the heavy rain to oppress. From and it may be added, justly, ‘the gar- thut hillock which overlooked the den of England,’ upon such an even- ocean, ascended their mingled payers _ ing, a group had assembled around ono that God would not leave them deso- j abided to stretch his chill limbs, and then to of the fisherman’s cottages. The hab- {late. j warm them by exercise. Soon the rock itation was built in the true style of The fisherman—the object of their i was left dry as before, and the fisherman the olden time, wlipn comfort was the hones and fears—had been very sue-; knelt down upon the desolate spot among principal object of tbe projector. At cessful during the night, when at day- ! (he billows—iiid bis face in his hands and - Weak. he was preparing to return ,prai se a and Messed in, l.re..or-h, 8 rre- home, he remembered his promise to bring with him some sea-weed to ma nure the potato plot behind his cot tage. He was then close to rocks which were only discernable at low water ; he pulled tor them, jumped on and he wasen- either side of the door were scattered the lines and nets and baskets that be- tokend the calling of the owner, and the fisherman was taking his farewell for the night, of his happy, loving family, who were bidding him ‘God speed’ on his voyage. A fine old man was leaning his arms shore, fastened the painterof his boatto on the railing and talking to an inter- a jetting part of a cliff, and took his boat esting girl whose hand lay upon the hook with him. He collected a suf- shoulder of a younger sister. The ‘ ficient quantity of the weed, but in stout fisherman, dressed in his rough his eagerness to obtain it he wandered jerkin, and large boots that reached from the landing place, when he heard above the knees, was in the act of ca- his hoy loudly hallowing and exclaim- ressing tv little cherub, who seemed ing that the painter was loose, half terrified at being elevated so high He rushed instantly towards the boat, as the father’s head; while the wife! which was then several yards off; the and mother, with her infant nursing boy was vainly endeavoring to use .. on her lap, was looking anxiously on , both the oars, and Neptune, the faith- husband as she breathed the part-| ful dog, was running backward and *ng blessing, and tbe prayer for bis forward, howling fearfully, as if con- sale return. A little boy, miniature scious of his master’s danger; at one f his father in countenance and in moment about to plunge into the ss, bearing a huge boat-cloak a- waves to join him, and the next lick- server. Oh! it was the well-known bark of his faithful dog that he heard above the waves; in another moment the creature was lick ing his pale cheek. He was saved—he was saved—for his own boat had touched the shore, and his own boy was in his arms! he had been drifted to the land, and had easily found those who rowed hard for the chance of saving his father’s life. Now • homeward, homeward! he exclaimed.— .Homeward, homeward! echoed the child, and Neptune jumped and barked at the welcome sound. The fisherman’s lamily were still supplicating Providence upon thehillockthat overlooked the deep, when the old man started from his knees and exclaimed—“We are heard! there is a speck upon the distant waters.” “Where, where?” was echoed by the group; and he pointed out what he hoped to bo. the absent boat. Tbey eagerly si rained tbeir eyes but could see nothing: in a few minutes, however, all percoived a sail: still it was impossible to tell tbe di rection in which its course lay. Then was the agony of suspense; it continned, bow «.*ver. but for a short time; a boat was evi dently advancing towards the shore; in a few minutes, they could clearly preceive a man at ’the bow, waving his hat above his head, and soon after the well-known bark of Neptune was borne to them by tbe bree’ze. The family rushed to the extre mity of the rude pier, and the loud huzza of the fisherman was answered by the “welcome, welcome” of his father, and the almost inarticulate thanksgivings of his wife. And now all was joy and happiness in the cottage, where there had been so much wretchedness; the fisherman, his boy and his dog, were safe from the perils of the great deep; but he would return no answer to the many questions, as to what had de tained him so lor.g beyond the usual hour ofhis return—“Wait, my wife,” said he, “until we have dressed and refreshed our selves. and you shall know all; bnt before we do either, let us bless God for his mer cy, for out of great danger hath he preserv ed me.” Never w'as there a more sincere or more earnest prayer offered up to the Giver of all goodness. And when the fisherman had told his tale, how fervently did they all repeat the w r ords that had giv en them so much-consolation in the morn, —“Fearless let him be whose trust is in his God!”—S. C. Hall. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America: You are assembled under circumstances of deep interest to your country; and it is fortunate that, coining, as you do, newly elected by the people, and familiar wfitli the condition of the various localities, you will be the better able to devise measures adapted to meet tbe wants of the public service, w'itbout imposing unnecessary bur thens on the citizen. The brief period which has elapsed since the last adjourn ment of Congress has not afforded suffi cient opportunity to test the efficacy of the most important laws enacted, nor have the events occurring in the interval been such as materially to chauge the state of the country. The unjust Avar commenced against us, in violation of the rights of the States, right of asylutn was supposed to be secure: while one of these Governments has cod te i.ed itself with simply deprecating by deferential representations tlie conduct of the enemy in the constantly recurring in stances of his contemptuous disregard of neutral rights and flagrant violations of public law'. It may be that foreign Gov ernments, like our enemies, have mistaken our desire for peace, unreservedly expres sed, for evidence of exhaustion, and have thence inferred the probability cfsuccess in the effort to subjugate or exterminatetbe millions of human beings who, in these States prefer any fate to submission to their savage assailauts. I see no prospect of an early change in tbe course heretofore pur sued by these Governments; but when this delusion shall have been dispelled and when our independence by the valor and fortitude of our people, shall have been won against ail the hostile influences combining against us, and can no longer be ignored by open foes or professed neutrals, this war will have left with.its proud memories are- cord of many wrongs, which it may not misbecome us to forgive—some for which we may not proberly forbear from de manding redress. In the meantime it is enough for us to know that every avenue of negotiation is closed against us; that our enemy is making renewed and strenu ous efforts for our destruction, and that the sole resource for us, as a people secure in the justice of-our cause, and holding our liberties to be more precious than all oth er earthly possesions, is to combine and apply every available element of power for their defence and preservation. On theeubject of the exchange of pris oners I greatly regret to be UDable to give you satisfactory information. The Gov ernment of the United States, while per sisting in failure to execute the terms of the cartel make occasional deliveries of prisoners, and then suspend action with out apparent cause. I confess my inabili ty to comprehend their policy or purpose. The prisoners held by us, in sj}!te of hu man care, are perishing from the inevita ble effects of imprisonment, and the home sickness produced by the hopelessness of release from cfoafirnement, The specta cle ot their suffering augments our longing desire to relieve from similar trials our own bravo men, who have spent so many and in usurpation of the power not delega- j weary months in a cruel and useless im- ted to the Government of the United States, i.i still characterized by the barbarism with which it has heretofore been conducted by the enemy. Aged men, helpless-women and children, appeal in vain to the human ity which should be inspired by their con dition, fer immunity from arrest, incarcera tion or banishment from their homes.— Plunder and devastation of the property of non-combatants, destruction of private dVellings and even of edifices devoted to the worship of God, expeditions organized for the sole purpose of sacking cities, con signing them to the flames, killing the un armed inhabitants, and inflicting horrible outrages on women and children, are some of the constantly recurring atrocities of the invader. It cannot reasonably be pre tended that such acts conduce to any end which their authors dare avow before the civilized world, and sooner or later Chris tendom must mete out to them the con demnation which such brutality deserves. The suffering thus ruthlessly inflicted upon the people of the invaded districts has served but to illustrate their patriotism.— Entire unanimity and zeal for their coun try’s cause has been pro eminently conspi cuous among those whose sacrifices have been greatest. So the army which has born tbe trials and dangers of tbe war; which has been subjected to privations and disappointments, (tests of manly for titude for mere severe than the biief fa tigues and perils of actual combat,) has been the centre of cheerfulness and hope. F rorn the camp comes the voice of the sol dier patriots invoking each who is at home, in the sphere he best may fill, to devote his whole energies to tbe support of a cause in the success of which their confi dence has never faltered. They, there terans of many a hard fought field, tender to their country, without limit of time, a service of priceless value to us, one which posterity will hold in grateful remem brance. In considering the state of the country, the reflection is naturally suggested, that this is the third Congress of the Confede rate States of America The Provisional Government was formed, its Congress prisonment, endured with heroic constan cy* The delivery, after a suspension of some weeks, hasjust been resumed by the enemy, but as they give no assurance of intent to carry out the cartel, an inter ruption of the exchange may recur at any moment. Tbe reports of the Departments, here with submitted, are referred to for full- in formation in relation to the matters ap- pertaing to each. There are two of them ou which I deem it necessary to make special remark. The report of the Secretary of the Treas ury states facts justifying the conclusion that the law passed at the last session for the purpose of withdrawing from circula tion the large excess of Treasury notes heretofore issued, has had the desired ef fect ; and that by tbe first July the a- mount in circulation will have been re duced to a sum nof exceeding $230,000,- 000. It is believed to be of primary im portance that no further issue of notes should take place, and that the use of the credit of the Government should be re stricted to the two other modes provided by Congress, viz : the sale of bonds and the issue of certificates bearing interest, for the price of supplies purchased within our limits. The law, as it now stands, authorizes the issue by the Treasury of new notes to the extent of two-thirds of the amount recoived under its provisions. The estimated amount funded under the law, is shown to be $300,000,000, and if two-thirds of this sum be re-issued,we shall have an addition of $200,000,000 to our circulation, believed to be already ample for tbe business of the country. The ad dition of this large sum to the volume of the currency would be attended by dis astrous effect, and would produce the spee dy recurrence of the evils from which the funding law has rescued the country. If our arms are crowned with the success which we have so much teason to hope, we may well expect that this war can not be prolonged beyond the current year, and nothing would so much retard the beneficent influence of peace on all the interests of our country, as the existence of gress, and rt is hoped tbey will be valuable in affording local protection without re quiring details and detachments from ac tive force. Among the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary of War. your attention is specially invited to those in which legislation is suggested on the fol lowing subjects, viz : The tenure of office of tbe general offi cers in tbe provisional army ; and a proper discrimination in compensation of the dif ferent grades : The provision required in aid of invalid officers who have resigned in consequence of wounds or sickness contracted while in service : The amendment of tbe law which de prives officers in the field of the privilege of purchasing rations and thus adds to their embarrassment, instead ot conferring the benefit intended: Tbe organization of the general staff of the army, in relation to which a special message will shortly be addressed to von, containing the reasons which compelled me to withhold my approval of a bill passed by your predecessors at too late a period ot tbe session to allow time for returning it for their reconsideration : The necessity for an increase in the al lowance now made, for tbe transportation of officers traveling under orders : The mode of providing officers for the execution of the conscript law : The means of securing greater dispatch and more regular administration of justice in examining and disposing of tbe records of cases reported from the courts-martial and military courts in the army. The recent events of the war are highly creditable to our troops, exibiting energy and vigilance, combined with the habitual gallantry which they have taught us to expect on all occasions. We have been cheered by important and valuable success es in Florida,Northern Mississippi,Western I ennessee, and Kentucky, Western Louis iana and Eeastern North Carolina, reflect ing the highest honor on the skill and con duct of our commanders, and on the in comparable soldiers whom it is their privi lege to lead. A naval attack on Mobile was so successfully repulsed at the outer works that the attempt was abandoned, and the nine months’ siege of Charleston has been practically suspended, leaving that noble city and its fortresses imperish able monuments to the skill and fortitude of its defenders. The armies in Northern Georgia and in Northern Virginia still op pose, with unshaken front, and formidable barrier to the progress of the invader ; and our generals, armies, and people, are ani mated by cheerful confidence. Let us, then, while resolute in devoting all our energies to secure the realization of the bright auspices which encourage us, not forget that oar humble a*td mest grate ful thanks are due to Him, without whose guidance and protecting care, all human efforts are of no avail, and to whose inter position are due the manifold successes with which we have been cheered. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Richmond, May 2d, 18G4. held four sessions, lived its appointed term ' a great mass of currency not redeemable and passed away. The Permanent Gov- in coin. With our vast resources, the cir- eminent was then organized, its different Departments established, a Congress elec ted which also held four sessions, served culatioti, if restricted to its present volume, would be easily manageable, and by gradu al absorption in payment of public dues, its full constitutional term and expired.— would give place to the precious metals You, the second Congress, under tbe per-1 the only basis of a currency adapted to ’ ' ' commerce with foreign countries. In our present circumstances I know of no mode of providing for the public wants which events have passed into history, not with-fwould entail sacrifices so great as a fresh standing the threat of our prompt subjuga- issue of Treasury note3, and I trust that manent Government, are now assembled at the time and place appointed by law for commencing your session. All these standing the threat of our prompt subjuga tfon made three years ago. by a people that presume to assert a title to govern States whose seperate and independent sovereignty was recognized by treaty with France and Great Eritain in the last cen tury, and remained unquestioned for near ly three generations. Yet these very governments, in disregard of duty and treaty obligations which hind them to re cognize as independent, Virginia and other Confederate States, persist in countenanc ing by moral influence, if not in aiding by unfair and partial action, tbe claim set up by the Executive of a foreign Govern ment, to exercise depostic sway over the States thus recognized, find treat the inva sion of them by their former limited and special agent as though it were the attempt of a sovereign to suppress a^ebellicn a- gainst lawful authority. Ungeuerous ad vantage has been taken of our present conr dition, aud our lights have been violated, our vessels of war detained in ports to which they had been invited by procla mation of neutrality, and in one instance our flag also insulted where the sacred you will concur in the propriety of abso lutely forbidding any increase of those now in circulation. Officers have been appointed and dis patched to the Trans-Mississippi States, and the necessary measures taken for the execution of the laws enacted to obviate delays in administering the Treasury and other Executive Departments in those States; but sufficient time has not elapsed to ascertain the results. In relation to the most important of all subjects at the present time, the efficiency of oar armies in the field, it is gratifying to assure yon that the discipline and in struction of the troops have kept pace with the improvement in material and equip ment.. We have reason to congratulate ourselves on the results of the legislation on this sabject and on the increased ad ministrative energy in the different bureaux of the War Department, and may not unreasonably indulge anticipations of com mensurate success in the ensuing cam paign Bacon by the Wholesale.—We have the very gratifying information that the Com missary Department has recently come in possession of two millions of pounds of ex cellent bacon,which will be none the worse we presume, from having been cured be yond the limits of the Confederacy. The reclaimed districts in North Carolina are also furnishing large quantities of nice ba con. Several days ago, ws stated, on of ficial authority, that the tithe of bacon in Georgia would exceed five millions of pounds. All of these facts tend to assure the array and the country that the period of short rations is passing away, to be fol lowed, we hope, by a season of plenty if not of peace. There are considerable quanti ties of bacon in many sections of this State and North Carolina, which should not be sent to market whilst high prices are yet prevailing. Bacon is now over fifty times the rates current before the war. Three ponndsof bacon will sell for $20 in Treas ury notes, and theser twenty dollars will buy one gold dollar—so that ba con is actually selling at 33 1-3 cents per pound in specie, or its equiva lent.—Richmond Whig. The Schoolmaster's Difficulty.—At the, annual meeting of the friends of a school in the South, one of the teachers, illustra ting the difficulties and discouragement thrown in the way of the schoolmaster by parents who weaken his authority, and hinder his snccess by their folly and neg lect, related an anecdote of a country dominie who had a hundred boys and no assistant. “I wonder how you manage them,” said a friend, “without help ?” “Ah !” was the answer, “I could man age the hundred boys well enough : it’s the two hundred parents that troubles me —there’s no managing them.” A Dangerous Counterfeit.—We have had onr attention called to a note purporting to have been issed by the State of Geor gia at Milledgeville, January 1st, 1864, and of the denomination of four dollars, redeemable in Confederate States Treas ury notes. The note has been pronounced spurious. Quite a number of them have been pat in circulation, and it is believed several “shovers” of them have visited the city very recently. The signatures are written, not engraved, and the general face.appearance of the note is calcnlated to deceive. On the right hand end of the note is represented a harvest scene, and on the left a cotton field with negroes picking cotton. The base note is very similar to a genuine issue* of the State of Georgia, and people should be careful to discrimi nate between the two before accepting or The organization of reserves is in pro-'| refusing either.—Richmond Examiner,