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Or. A. MILLER,
EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING,
IN
Thomaston, Georgia,
BY
T. O. RHODES,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
Thomaston. Ha., January, 4, 1862.
• Reading Matter on every Pane.
A CARD
. During our absence on the Coast,
Thomas E. Sulivan. Esq., will take
charge of our Books, and is authorized
to receive money, and give receipts
for subscriptions, Job Work and Ad
vertisements due the office up to this
time, Oct. 21st, 1801.
On and after the above date, Mr.
T. C. Rhodes, our worthy Assistant,
is authorized to transact all business
connected with the office.
All letters on business, Communi
cations, &c.. must be addressed to him
” alone. G. A. Miller.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
By some unknown cause we liave not received
otir regular Editorial Correspondence. An ov
ersight of some swell-head postmaster, we sup
pose. As we stated in another article, “swell
head postmasters need a good licking sometimes/’
The error may he on the part of friend Joshua s
opponent, as our Correspondence passes through
the office of which he has charge. If so, we
hope Josh, will give him a good one.
Fighting at Pensacola.
We are’ informed by a reliable
|jus4f from Atlanta, that a dispatch had been re-’
eeived there, that a Confederate War Steamer
went out in gun shot ot Pickens, when the lat
ter opened fire, the steamer and Gei. Bragg’s
batteries returned the fire. They were still
Tiring when the news was dispatched.
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i Change.
We would call the attention of all interested,
• O) the change in the advertisement oi Samuel T.
Administrator on the Estate of Mrs.
Martha Mauldin, late of Upson county deceased.
The sale will he on A\ ednesday the 15th, in
• stead of the Ist Tuesday in January next.
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[ McClellan’* Policy Condemned.
We learn that pamphlets has been placed on
the desks of several Yankee Senators and mem
bers of Congress at Washington, a few days
since, written by Charles Ellett, Civil Engineer
in which the author discusses, at some length,
the management of the present war, and se\ere
ly condemns the policy ol (Ten. McClellan, in
conducting affairs so far. Its appearance has
caused much comment in political circles.
Good news ! —More Arms.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 2< th
says it is reported in our cit\ this moining, that
the steamship “Gladiator has arrived at a Con
federate port with 30,000 Enfield Rifles, and
other needed articles for the Southern Conled
eraev. We have reason to believe that the re
port is true.
State Troops mlist pay Postage.
The Postmaster General has decided that only
the letters of soldiers in the Confederate Army
can be transmitted without the postage being
prepaid. The privilege is not extended to
troops in the service of the State.
M iss Ellie L. Caraway.
This well known, amiable and worthy young
lakly, will open anew school in this Town, on
Monday morning next. Shool room one door
below Dr. T. O. Heard’s office. She is an
agreeable and an experienced teacher. Patron
ise her liberally.
See advertisement in another coluuin.
Attention. v
We would respectfully solicit the attention
of the citizens of Thoinaston and vicinity, to
the advertisement of Miss M. A aieria AA hi to, in
another column.
The Figlit between Josh, am! the Post
Master.
Wet mve read several articles in the
| Telegraphy from each of the parties; and we
are inclined to believe that Josh, is getting the
best of the fight. Though a little cncourage
ment on the part of our friend Joshua, the. nr
tive editor of the old and venerated MessengM
would he nothing amiss.
As to the Post Master, we can only add that
there are a great many “swell-head” postmasters
who devserves a good licking sometimes.
Why lias Gen. Scott returned ?
It has been anly three or four weeks since we
had Northern accounts of an affecting meeting
of “the Scott family,” to decide upon the future
movements of the retired old chieftain, and of
his departure for Europe, in accordance with
their advice, for the benefit of Ins health. ,A\ at
this the object of bis visit to Europe ? If so
why did he so suddenly return? AA"e think this
was not the object of his visit, that he went op
some secret political mission—to endeavor t<] 1
allay the quarrel between England and tht* j
United States, caused by the capture of Mason
and Slidell, and not the purpose above mention
ed. Finding it impossible for Seward, through
him, to blind Russell and convince him that
Mason and Slidell were as much contraband uj
soldiers, and being too cowardly to resist th*
demands of England, backed down, and hurriecj,
to AVashington to influence the Lincoln Cabinet
to surrender Mason and Slidell forthwith to the
British demand —who we understand arc en
route to England on the “Europo.”
The Ladies Soldiers’ Relief Society.
A meeting of this society will be held in the’
Court House on Thursday morning next, the
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9th inst., at 10 o’clock, for the purpose of elect
ing officers for the ensuing year, and to consid
er other business connected w r ith its welfare.
The members are earnestly requested to at
tend ; and the ladies in the country, as well as
in town, who feci any interest in the
Th 4 soMhn's now in servicer, aitliougfi not mem
bers of the society, are invited to be present and
unite in its counsels.
By request of
Mrs. Maria R. Cobb, Prcs’t.
Anything Cor Pay.
AYc will take in exchange for our paper, or
in payment of old accounts: Fire-wood, Pork,
Bacon, Beef, Mutton, AAJieat, Flour, Corn, Meal
Potatoes, Butter, Chickens, Eggs, Peas, Oats,
Fodder, Good Hay, AYheat Bran, Cotton Seed,
Coffee, Salt, or “ Goobers” No excuse now
for not subscibing, or paying up old accounts.
The Election.—County Officers, 1862.
AVe h ave only time and space to give the
names of those elected. The ticket elected is
as follows:
For Slieii AT.
A. B. MALLORY.
Clerk Superior Court.
CHARI.ES WILSON.
Clerk Inferior Court.
A. T. SHACKELFORD.
Tax Receiver and Collector.
HENRY HOWARD.
County Treasurer.
AMOS AVORRILL.
County Surveyor.
N. G. COLQUITT.
For Coroner.
J. 11. HAYS.
£3tr It is said that all the Federal
troops engaged in the skirmish at Green
River, Kentucky, were Dutch, who could
even speak the English language.
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A large lot of hogs passed through
Princeton, Ivy., a few days since, says the
Louisville Courier , en rout for the Pork
Houses at Clarksville, Tenn., and the
best of the joke is, they were driven from
Illinois.
zsr Gov. Brown has appointed Hon.
George D. Rice, of Cobb county, Judg of
the Blue Ridge Circuit.
Plant Som f
■j y
V We think the advice given in many of
, the papers-to “plant no cotton” is not good
i nnd wt* would recommend no such violent
: change in the agricultural pursuits of the
country. We would rather say plant some
cotton-plant a little—enough to keep
your hand in, and lay by as a surplus crop
just enough npt to interfere with the big
gt*st kind of a* grain crop and a sharp look
out for hogs and provisions generally. Corn
is now a dollar ami a quarter a bushel,
and what it may be worth before another!
crop is in market, we will not undertake ;
to say, but it will l>e high till the planters
got so much old corn on hand that the
weevils are carrying it off, before it will go
in the towns at anything like a reasonable
rate. While, therefore, it would .absurd
for planters to devote their main attention
i from corn and provisions, which they can
i sell at their own prices, to cotton for which
thev cannot certainly promise themselves,
any market at all, we are still far from
! advising the great cotton planting interest
generally to suspend entirely the produc
tions of that staple. Such advice is burn
ed on a theory which, it examined, will be
found erroneous, it is assumed that if
; another crop of cotton is produced, and
! the ports are not opened befoie the next
fall, their will then be two crops on hand
to seek market under the usual condition,
and the two crops will therefore bring no |
more money than one. Now, in the first j
place, their will be no two crops on band
in the ordinary meaning of the term. There :
will be two fractional crops —not much ex
ceeding one large crop ; and, in the second
place, they would, if the ports remained
closed to next fall, come into market 4m- ‘
der verv extraordinary conditions. Not j
only will the markets of the world be bare j
| of raw American cotton, but hare of cotton j
manufacture:--two facts which must great
ly stimulate demaud. . I
Furthermore, we doubt whether it will
j be conductive to the permanent intrest of j
I cottou growers that cotton should bear an
exorbitant price a moment after the re
moval of the blockade. It is far better
that the world should at once be furnished
whh an abundance of the great American
staple at resonahle rates. We do not tear
* competition, but it is better for us not to
Fhjkye it, and still better still that it should
roirinhnuUv’ It its wen’ tb'af aUthe/
; arrangements should not be pemfeted for
, covering up the East India cotton with a
portion of the American fibre. It is bidder 1
i also, for planters, that nothing should in
terfere to diminish the crwisumption of
American c >tton, but that it should prog
! ress from year to year and become more
and more essential to the comfort of the
j world. 11 would be better for our trade
| and finances, too, that there should be an j
i ample supply of cotton, and the temtation
io trade intercourse presented to foreign j
nations should be strong as possible: - • j
So much on the hypothesis that the j
blockade will remain till next tall —-a mat
ter which is very doubtful indeed, in our I
j opinion. —Macon Telegraph.
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