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T H E O O II N T R YMAK .
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TPRXWOLI), (a., MAY 3. 1S64.
Our Exchanges.
Some of our exchanges come very
irregularly, and some of them, lately,
do not come at all. Ainor.g those
whose visits to our table have ceased,
are the Home Journal, Mobile, and
the Cornier, Charleston. Will our
brethren who intend to exchange with
tts, please seo that our name is upon
their list ?
Will not our Atlanta contempora- j legislature has acted and adjourned,
ries look out for the screw that is j. and neither party can claim the tri
loose?” umph of its views, for that body sits**
Atlanta Reveille.
This sprightly journal has been n j and two or three at a time.
. We unite our voice with that of the
Union, that the ■'Atlanta Publishers
should ‘‘look out for the screw that is
loose,” and let us, in Eatonton, too,
have their papers earlier and more
regularly. We get our Atlanta pa
pers via Madison, instead of Macon,
when we get them at all. We receive
but one daily from Atlanta, and that
j comes sometimes a week bekind-hand
Is the
welcome visitant
some days past.
fault in Madison ? It must be. Why
doesjhe P. M. in that village hold our
papers over so long ?
Wo hope the publishers in Atlanta
will send their papers directed to Ea
tonton by way of Macon instead of
Madison, and that the P. M. in Macon
will send them immediately through.
vannah papers on the same day
which
on
to our sanctum for
It is a new daily
just started in Atlanta, and published
by Camp, Niles, & Co., at 85 per
month, or $12 for three months. We.
take it that this paper is the organ of
the Typographical Union, and of oth
er working men. We wish it abun
dant success, generally.
The Atlanta Papers.
The last Confederate Union says:
“We are glad to see the Atlanta
papers ones more on our table. We
hope they may have no cause for sus
pension >n future.
By the by : will the proprietors, or
either of them, tell us why their pa
pers for MiKedgeville lie over in Ma
con 28 hours ?—The train gets to Ma
con about 1 o’clock, P.M. from Atlan
ta, bringing the Atlanta papers. The
train on the Central R. R. does not
leave Macon until 4, P. M.—Now
why is it, that in three hours, the
packages of Atlanta papers for Mill-
edgeville and Eatonton, cannot he sen!
on from Macon by the Central train,
so that we can get them on the day of
their publication ? 1 The fault must
lie in the Macon Post Office. The
Atlanta papers are received in Macon
at 1, P. M. on the day of their publi-
ca'ion, and ought to reach Mille.dge- Tijik to Stop It.—Several of the
ville the same day at 7, P. M. But newspapers of Georgia are still dis
tiiey do not get here until 7, P.M. cussing, with acrimony, the leading
the succeeding day. They lie over in questions that engaged the attention
Macon 28 bouts. This is shocking, of the legislature at its late called
Our citizens would like to subscihe to session. Not content with shatp crit-
tho Atlanta Dailies, in order to get icisms upon the legality and oxpedi-
late news from upper Georgia and the j ency of the action of congress, or of
West; but under the present arrange-i that proposed by Gov. Brown, they
incut, they caiinot do so. It is about are descending to personalities great-
170 miles from this place to Augusta, ]y unbecoming to the Sout hen. press,
and 190 to Savannah while it is only j and particularly unsuited to the occa-
137 to Atlanta by rail, yet the Augns- sion. Two or three have even gone
in and Savannah papers of weanes- | so far as to charge corrupt motives
day peach us ou Wednesday, and the ; upon their opponents !
tained some, and rejected others, of
the Governor's recommendations. No
appeal to the people has been, or
could be .taken, and we do not sup
pose that any party among us is reck
less enough of the consequences, or so
regardless of the harmony and con-*
cert that constitute our strength as a
people, as to desire any such appeal.
Why not. theiefore, stop crimination
and re-crimination, in reference to
these matters ? We see that they are
productive of ill feeling among our
selves, and our accounts from theyan-
kee states advise us that our enemies
are particularly pleased and encour
aged by this unfortunate episode. At
a tithe when our. gallant armies were
victoriously meeting them in all quar-i
ters, driving them bask and defeating
their Spring plans at all points—at a
time when, under the impulse of the
new measures adopted, our people
The Union says that it gets its Sa- j were recruiting and collecting their
energies for such a campaign as can
hardly fail to prove decisive of the
mse
ours in
thetrselvt abstracted and maddened
by party divisions that threaten to
, \ i- i i \\r .i riutc uccibiyo
they are published. We get j strUggl(> , ftnd victorious to our ca
Eatonton on the day alter they __„ t a time when our enemies
are published. Now if the Union
gets its Savannah exchange* on the
day of publication, why cannot we in
Eatonton do the same? Is the fault
at Gordon? Or where is it? Pub
lishers of daily papers, especially,
suffer a great deal at the hands of in
efficient post-masters and mail agents.
Our people all alot g the line of the
rail-roads are disposed to patronize
the daily press, if they could receive
their papets regulaity. But failing to
receive them regularly, they cease to
patronize. We leceivo the Macon
telegraph very irregularly in Ej>ton-
ton.
embroil them in a war amongst them
selves—at such a time springs up
among us this deplorable controver
sy*
like a crusader, a»nt
From some infernal clime.
To clip the win^* of sentiment
And dock the tail of rhyme—
To crack the voice ot melody,
And break the legs ol time.’’
Let. us indefinitely postpone its fur
ther discussion, or, if any one prefers
a set time for its resumption, let it bo
as tlie first Confederate promises to
pay, say, ‘six months nfter the rati
fication of a treaty of peace with the
United Status.’ We imagine that,
amid the general jubilation attending
such an event, the voice of the parti
san, seeking to interpose such an is-
she, woald be as discordant, and as
much execrated ah that of John Hook,
of revolutionary infamy, croaking
‘beef! beef!’ But, when the prop
er time comes for starting the wheels
of government on the peace track, for
ascertaining and defining its relative
powers, and those of the several states,
for determining the minor rights of
the citizen, now involved in perils
which threaten every right, and for
marking out with more distinctness
the limitations of power of the seve
ral governments and branches of gov-
All this is _
Atlanta papers of Wednesday teach us | certainly out of. place, and disreputa-eminent among us, we can discuss
at 7, V. M. thujsday. • i ble to those who er*g#g« in it. The 1 au< l settle these matters at more lei’s-