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*: fHe Mps?n 5.M10U . i* ?r ~ 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. • • 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. 4 ‘ [ 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 . v 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. - •- 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. 1* i ■w.u.jiimCTrtana •• .jregf THE PILOT JOB OFFICB | ’ : is specially complete in every particular. Everything. FROM A ■ya-iiTDM© (DAE© TO A !_ 31ammo th Iyosier,1 y osier , i;i 1 - ‘ . , , | will be neatly executed, in any style and color desired f V ‘ ALL ORDERS FOR J M; ‘ ,* j Bill-heads, Blanks, Circulars, Cards, Programmes, Posters, Pamphlets, &c., &c., 1 ijromptly attended to, at very moderate charges. i ALL JOE ‘ W OlVIi MUST BE PAID FOR . , bisr delivery. 1. I All orders, letters, &e., must be addressed to T. C. RHODES, Ttwmnsion Ho. 1 mew PROSPECTUS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, ! 15 Y ! ADAIR & SMITH, Atlanta (Georgia TEBLMS: DAILY— $5 per annum, or 50 cents per month for any. less period than one year. WEEKL V —s 2 per annum, $ 1.25 for six months. Clubs of ten or more, at one Post Office, $1.50 per annum. Postmasters or other agents who will canvass for subscribers, can retain twelve and a half per cent upon our regular (not club) rates, of all sub scriptions sent us. No name will be entered on our Mail Books, in any case, without the cash in advance; and all names will be promptly erased the day the sub scription expires, unless previously renewed. on: D.ur.v f contains all the latest* news by tele graph. Our corps of Army Corres pondents are unsurpassed for ability and truthfulness by any paper in the v *# Confederate States. ‘ •* • $ * • OUR WEEKLY * is published ever}’ Wednesday morn ing, and contains all the choice and interesting matter of the Daily for the week. The character of the Confederacy, > . as a high-toned and independent news journal, is well established. It is al ready second in circulation to no pa per in the State. We shall spare neither labor nor expense to make it the leading paper in Georgia. Our unprecedented suc cess, in these hard times, during the short existence of our paper, demon strates the practicability of a cheap, well conducted paper sustaining itself. As the new year soon sets in, we ask our patrons and readers, every where, to interest themselves in our behalf. 3BLAMKS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.