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IS THE COUNTRYMAN.
T JRNWOLD, GA., JANUARY 10, 1S65.
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Mats for the Editors.
We return our thanks to our brethren
•of the Georgia press, for accepting our
Dropos ;f: on for publishing our advertise
ments. Their hats will be ready soon,
..r i bs sent them at as early a day as the
•ranged transportation will adroit—pro-
i •• w. e y-r kees don’t veto the proceed-*
:.ng.
Egg-nog.
We return our thanks to Miss Sallie
vVvnne, for -a glass of nice egg-nog, as we
were returning from Eatonton, home, the
other day, very much fatigued, after our
day’s labor, and in just the right trim for
e gg* no g- was truly delicious—the best
we have tasted, during the season. Old
man as we are—decrepid—and on the de
clivity of life, still the fair hand, that
made the nog, may have had something
to do with its delicate flavor.
Tiie Biographical Noxious of xnE Lon
don Press.—“ there is, attached to each
of the Loudon morning papers, a f'une-
tinnarv, called ' the biographer,’ whose
1 terary employment is to write, and have
in readiness, the memoirs of great, and
leading men, so that, on their demise, a
day may not pass, ere the public are put
in possession of the prominent incidents
of their lives, and career. With the in
exorable diligence if fate, the 1 Life Wri
ter ’ of the London paper, is always
posting up the records of public men,
whose increasing years, or failing strength
renders it probable that death, at no dis
tant day, may close his career. The ma
chinery, indeed, is said to be so perfect,
that memoranda of most living great per
sons, are put away in a series of small
compartments, under their respective ini
tial letters, ready for use, and corap i la-
. tion, at a moment’s notice. Thus we
learn, that, not only are the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Brougham, and other
veterans of the upper house, regularly
irerr-holed—waiting their inevitable
Hi’-: to -he ‘ 1 iographical departments’
' ,,.e • i London morning journals,
1 on so for years—but even the
■ oh. Lord Palmers 1 on, Lord
;u d others, are posted up every
session, in these grim fly-sheets, with me
thodical precision—so that, should any
casualty call (hem, suddenly, to their last
account; only a few hours would inter
vene, before their histories would be
thrown into shape, and served up in the
C dumns of the morning press.”
It. R. Cutler, Esq.—We learn that a
tehgrain has been received from Mr. Cuy-
ler, at Millet), announcing his release, by
the federate, and that he is on his way to
Macon.—Macon Telegraph 20th.
In romance, dtegu.se sometimes con
ceals gfaoiienr, but, in real life, it is gener
ally the shelter of disgrace.
Pickled Chickens Again.—Our
friend of the Charleston Courier no
tices, at some length, our paragraph
concerning the proposition of a North
Carolina poultry dealer, to furnish
Messrs. Silcox, Bro., & Co., a con
signment of pickled chickens. When
the original paragraph was prepared
for the Guardian, we were under the
impressio ‘the thing couldn’t be did;’
not because the flesh of fowls would
not pickle, but. because there were not
enough of them, in any one locality,
to make it worth the attempt. The
Courier is probably aware that, since
the commencement of this war, chick
ens, turkeys, ducks, &c., have been
regarded as enemies to the confeder
ate soldier, and he has even consider
ed it a religious duty to kill every
one he could find, to prevent his be
ing bitten. He was obliged to kill
them, in self-defence. So bitteiyand
relentless has been the war between
man, and poultry, that we supposed
the ferocious fowls were nearly all
wiped out. But Messrs. S., B., & Co.
tell us there are still some few left,
in tlie old Noi-th State, and a few
barrels will probably arrive this
week. If they do come, our Cofuier
friend shall have a taste, certain, if -
just to remind him of the college days
of ’39. — Columbia Guardian.
A Yankee View of Sherman’s Invasion.---
“ The Nevt r York Times announces that it is
not of those who expect vast advantages Irorn
Sherman’s advance through Georgia, ‘ viewed
merely as a raid,’ and it goes on to give what,
in its view, does constitute the advantages
which art to arise from it;
‘ Georgia is, undoubtedly, the granary of the
confederacy, and to destroy its harvests, will
cripple Lee’s army, this winter. The carrying
off of cattle, and horses will, besides, lame the
transportation powers of the rebel confederacy.
All these are benefits ot some importance, which
we shall derive from Sherman’s invasion.
But, on the other hand, the confederacy is es
sentially an agricultural state. Vast breadths
of land in South Carolina, eastern Georgia, and
North Carolina, formerly planted with cotton,
have been, during the past year, sown with
wheat, and corn. It will !>o exceedingly diffi
cult to starve out such a community*
Again, a destructive invasion, of this kind,
creates a vast number of new enemies. Every
man, robbed and stripped by the tempest of de
struction, now sweeping through Georgia, is,
henceforth, a hundred fold more bitter hater
of the north, and the union, than ever before.
All doubtful, and lukewarm southerners, in that
state, have, undoubtedly, become now intense
secessionists. It is just as it would be here, if
Lee should sweep the banks of the Hudson, in
a broad track of desolation, from Albany to
New York, leaving nothing but blackened
homesteads, and wasted farms. There would
be but one effect. Every copperhead wouhi
become, at once, a violent unionist, even, per
haps, a ‘ black abolitionist.’
Patriotism, hatred of the invader, would be
tenfold more strong, tor there is a certain limit,
beyond which, if you injure a man, nothing is
left, but hate, and despair. Every raid iuto the
soutn, or north, has a tendency, without ques
tion, to ‘ encourage enlistments ’ on the other
aide. Still, these are the necessary evils of the
war. Ii solidifies each side. A people, like 1
the Anglo Americans, can never be reduced to
submission by burning their barns, or plunder,
ing their houses.
The sole, and I ha grand importance of the
invasion of Sherman, we hold to be its military
aims. The oitiep, on his line of march, are of
no consequence to him, unless he can destroy
their depots of supplies, and ihetr arsenals.
Savannah, itself', is of little importance, in a
military point ot view. The great ends gained
by Ins bold movement, will he the dissection of
the great‘southern railroad system, the large
force of able-bodied negroes he may acquire,
both lor future military, and pioneer purposes,
and, above all, the inlluence he will, at once,
exert on the Virginia campaign. General
Sherman, we may be sure, with his long head,
is aiming at something more than burning
towns, grain, corn cribs, or capturing useless
cities. He is, besides, only a lieutenant of
Gen. Grant; his movement is merely part of
the great strategic plan which covers the whole
country.
Having gained a new base, on the Georgia
coast, reprovisioned his trains, renewed his
ammunition, and rested bis men, we may con
fidently expect that his nex 1 movement will be
northward. He may even pass by Savannah,
and Charleston, make a new base at Bull’s Bay,
and a secondary Base at Branch ville, and, then,
easily hold both lines of the rebel railroad sys
tem-—the upper, and lower. From this point,
he could easily operate toward North Carolina,
sweeping the country before him, until he had
formed a new base on the North Carolina coast,
and begun his grand final inarch into Virginia,
and the rear of Lee.
This would be the closing act of the rebellion,
and Lee would be placed in even a worse po
sition than was Cornwallis, at Yorktown.
One contretemps, however, might occur,
wh ch these supposed movements could not
prevent. Il Hood should break through into
east Tennessee, there would be a new link of
communication found between the eastern and
western sections of the confederacy. Lee could
be reinforced from the west, or he could retreat
to the mountains, and transfer the war to Ten
nessee, and Kentucky. We must hope that
Gen. Thomas will put a stop to any such con
centration, and that that important mountain
region will still be held by our forces.’ ”
Sherman’s Programme.--“The Richmond Dis
patch, commenting upon the programme map
ped out for Sherman, by the New York Times,
which we published in the Bulletin, a few days
since, says : This is the sort of stuff that Ray
mond regales his readers with, and they newer
seem tired of being fooled. By similar plans,
he has crushed the rebellion, on paper, at least
five times, this year, and yet the rebellion has
rot only survived the crushing, but is stronger
now than it ever was before. Everybody re
membered the grand plans for Grant, last
spring, and everybody has seen what has be
come of them. Yet he is not at all discomtitted,
by the failure’of bis plans, but as soon as one
explodes, be begins to concert another. The
present plan, of which he talks so gingerly,
would cost the lives of at least one hundred
ihousand yankees Wedoubt whether it could
be carried into effect, indeed, at any cost. Yet
he speaks of it as the easiest thing in the world
of accomplishment.”
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The Hatless.—Mr. J. A. Turner offers
‘liberal inducements to our country friends,
for skins of all kinds. He runs a hat fac
tory, and a printing office at his planta
tion, near Eatonton, Ga. If his hats are
as good, of their kind, as hts “ Country*
man” is a family journal, we promise our
readers that they are worth double what
he asks for them. The Countryman has
returned to Turnwold, where the editor,
and hat factor may be addressed by those
who wish to subscribe, or barter. Brother
Turner, we wear a No. hat; send it
along, as a New Year’s present, and we
will most thankfully accept it. Read ad-
| vertisement in today’s paper.—Albany
Patriot.
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