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THE COUNTRYMAN.
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you agin, an I will go in opposisltun to the
administrashun—yore administrashun I
mean—not your kozzen Jeff’s.”—At this
lie lookt powerful skeerd, an the teers cum
in his ize agin. Then I thort 1 wood
soothe him, and I sez—
Sez I, “Josipli,” sez I, “you hesitate
about appintin me major-gineral, lust be-
kaws you think Henry R. Jackson mout
want the appintment, and sekond, because
I belong to the gender of the female seeks.
An in this I don’t know that Jackson are
got much the advantage of me. But even
ef I am a woman you know Joan of Arc—
“ No, I don’t no enny sich gal,” sez the
guvuer : “ I never beam of her.”
“Wellthen,sezI,you knowNaucy Hart—
“ Ah ! yes,” sez Josipli, “ you speak
accordin to my liistorikil nolij now. Nancy
Hart is the oman what Hart County is
named artev, aint it ? An she killed 500.000
Britishers, didn’t she?”
“ Edzacly,” sez 1 : “she killed 500,000
of the Britishers, an they named Hart
County alter bur.”
“Well, aunt Sally,” sez the guvner,
“ pleaze tell me who Joan of Arc war.
War she raised up in the Cherokee nashun?”
“ No,” sez I, “ Josipli,” sez I, “ she was
an Irish gal what killed jest as many Brit
ishers in Ireland, as Nancy Hart killed up
in Hart County.”
“ Edzacly,” sez the guvner.: “ I rekil-
leck bur now, an I will put hur in my nex
messij, as a liistorikil persouij.”
Then the guvner proseedid an sed : “ I
perseeve, aunt Sally, that God ar no res
pecter of seckses, so fur as military talent
ar konsarned. An ef ever enny oman war
kalkilated to be a major-giniral, that oman
ar you.”—So he got up an rote out my
kommisshun an sez—
“ Aunt Sally,” sez he, “jest make me
up an'anny, an you shall liav my everlas-
tin gratitude. Y.>u needn’t be pertikler
who you take. Take men, ■wimmin, cliil-
dun, niggers, an nigger childun : in a wurd,
call out the merlishy : that, single wurd
x-presses it all. An then I will have my
eppvletts after all”—an teers of gratitude
korsed down his classic feechers. I coodn’t
help cry in a little myself, even at fust, an
then as he cride louder, I crido louder, un-
tel we liad a little camp-meatin* *thar, all to
ourselves. By-an-by ole Billy Mosely an
Dr. Talmij kum along to git ther sheer,
thinkin maybe we had kouvarted sumbody,
jest as the other denorninashus always duz
•when we Methodis have a tiemenjus revi
val. We kills the game, and the balance
kums along and bags it all. An Billy an
Sam both jined us in prar. But the
coldness of a Prispeterian an a Hardshell
is enuff to dry up enny camp-meatin in
the worl: an so they dride our’n uptoreck-
ly. Jack Billups, he kum along towards
the windin up of the show, and sorter peep
ed in, in one of his perlite ways, an walkt
as strate on as Chesterfeel, with a mity
quizzical look on his feechers.
Presently we seed Linton Stephens kum-
min on, an we cawled him in, an desired
him to say in the legislatur that we.warnt
a gwine to resist the kornscrip Ac, but do
pray to git Georgy to keep hur reecord rite
She ort to protess agin the kornscrip Ac,
but go along an do it. Well, it are a grate
“ The three great apostles of practical
atheism, that make converts without per
secuting, and retain them without preach
ing, are wealth, health, and power.”
ADVERTISEMENTS.
T>0 THE PLANTERS OF GFORGIA.—
Headquarters Military District op Georgia,
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 3rd, 1862.—1 have received from
several counties ot the State of Georgia, and from
individual slaveholders, requests and demands that I
should return their negroes now working upon the
fortifications of Savannah. It is my sincere and
earnest desire to do so. 1 think it an injustice to
those who have sent their negroes at my 1st call,
that they should be compelled to bear the whole bur
den and heat of the day, while others, who are among
the wealthiest of the land, look calmly on the danger
ofthecity and the state without contributing a single
laborer from their hundreds or their thousands to
their defense.
Fellow citizens, with whom ought the blame to
thing to prot*,, in thorite plane, an it are
a grate thing to keep the reecord rite.
The fust kumpany I shall call out, un
der the authority given me by the guvner
are the Rockville Rousers. I want that
kumpany to go ahead of all the balance
an open the rodes, as I understan ther cap
ting ar an x-cellent hand at sich pvoseedins
An then he must have so many of ’em
ah ! tliar’s the good of bavin a fust-rate
engineer fur army rodes an other rodes.
As Rockville is closte by yore house
you will pleaze post up the follerin notis
for me :
“To the Rockville Rousers:—You ar
hereby komrnanded, men, wimmen an cbil-
dun, to appeer for drill on the 28th day of
Nov., at Krooked Kreek Meetin-hcuse,
armed and equipped the best you ken. Ef
you haven’t got guns enuff, the wimmin
must bring ther broom-sticks, an you must
all bring an axe or hatchit to cut down
trees. Lige Aeons is ordered to bring
his drum, an Hording his fife. Yore aunt
Sally will be tliar to revue you all on boss-
back.—By order of Sally Poke, Ma-
jer Gineral kommandin. .—Nov. the 20th,
1862.”
It mout be proper for me to state that I
have appinted a lady in yore county Ad-
jutint Gineral. 1 have no more to rite now,
but I subscribe myself Yore fren—Sally
Poke.—Mille-dgeville, Nov. the 20th, 1862.
Poscrip.—What guvner Brown means in
his speshal messij by the outside preshure
that was brot to bar on the Soup Reme
Corte, is the preshure that Joe Henrv Lum
pkin an I had the mornin they tuck me
away frum the guvner as we was a gwine to
the x-ecutive offis, what I rit about in my
fust lettur.
me, for I am simply doing that which is absolutely
necessary to the protection of the state from invasion,
and from the designs of the abolitionists.
Let the blame fall where it is justly due—on those
who have refused to send labor to the defenses of
Savannah, and who still refuse to take their turn in
the work, who, aiter enjoying immunity for so long
a time, still refuse to relieve those who have been la
boring for them. Let those citizens whose vital in
terests are at stake, and who have done their share
towards the common weal, rise up and compel these
backsliders, and especially the rich among them, to
, o their part.
From the thousands of slaves who have thus been
withheld from the defense of the country, enough,
and more than enough, might easily be contributed
to enable me to send back to their masters all
those who have already worked here for 3 months,
and at the same time would give me a sufficient
force to complete the defense of our chief city and
coast.
Patriots! will you allow the selfish and the unpa
triotic to reap all the benefits of our war of inde
pendence, without sharing with you its burdens, its
sacrifices, and privations?
As soon as those who have not hitherto contributed
send me a sufficient number to fill their places, I
pledge myself to ssnd back to their masters the ne
groes who ar. now at work. Until this is done, ne
cessity compels me to retain them.
H. W. MERCER, Brig. Gen. Commanding.
All papers in the state insert for 1 week, and send
bill to the Republican office. It
Nov. 24, 1862.
HAT SHOP.—All persons are particularly re
quested not to bring or send wool or fur to my
hat shop with the expectation of having hats manu
factured to order. I cannot obtain material for lin
ing, binding, and dyeing them as I would desire,and
hence I will take no order. I will have hats made,
and offer them for sale. Then those who wish them
can buy them, and those who don’t can let it alone.
Nov. 24, 1862. tf J. A. TURNER.
“ Accidents sometimes happen from which
a man cannot well extiicate himself with
out a spice of madness.”
jH T R WANTED.—I will pay 10c a piece for
every good rabbjt skin delivered at my hat sh >p :
30c for every good coon skia : .$3 for every good ot
ter skin : $5 tor every good beaver skin: and for
mink, fox, and musk-rat fur, in proportion. For
extra large, fine skins, I will pay more than the
above.—In order for the skins to be good, they must
be in full fur, and be stretched and well cured as soon
as taken from the animal. Unless ihe skins are well
stretched and dried, they will be worthless.
Nov. 24, 1862 tf J. A. TURNER.
J ( H. PEARSON’S SALE—Will be sold at
the late residence of John H. Pearson, dec’d., in
the county of Putnam, on Wednesday, the 17th day
of December next, all the perishable property belong
ing to the estate of said dec’d., consisting of corn,
fodder, cattle, hogs, household and kitchen furniture,
&c. Terms cash. SARAH E. PEARSON, Adm’x.
Nov. 24, 1862 w.b.c. tds
T. ROGERS’S SALE.—The sale of B. T,
* Rogers’s perishable property will take place at
the house of Henry Rogers in Putnam Co., on friday
5:h Dec. next. Sold under order of the court of or
dinary of Putnam Co.—Terms on the day.
P. E. PRICHARD, . .
Nov. 24, 1862. HENRY ROGERS, Aar
imr’s.