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THE OOTTINI'TIIYIVTA.3NT. By J. A. TURNER. “independent in everything—neutrad in nothing” §5 for Three Months* YOL. XX. TURNWOLD (NEAR EATONTON) GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1865. NO. 6. Stand Firm. Why will our people despond, and why will they think of giving up 1 Why it every soldier in the land were disarmed, even then we should not think of yielding. The yankees can’t enslave us, without enslaving them selves. There can’t exist a govern* ment with some states allowed to be represented in congress, and some not. The yankees can’t garrison all this whole country. That is impossible. They can’t foice us to vote, nor can they force us to be represented in their congress. Then why yield 1 Why assume the yoke voluntarily ? If we can’t whip the yankees, we can hold ourselves aloof from them. We can refuse to have anything to do with their government, and we can thwart their purposes in a thousand ways, even grant that our armies are scattered, and our people disarmed. They can never make us love them, but we shall always hate them. What folly for the yankees, and our own people, too, to think that in vasion conquers a people ! Why Sherman has marched through Geor gia—his army has been in Putnam county—and his minions in the veiy house where we write this. And yet our people, today, are free as the wind. And if any of us are subjuga ted, we certainly ought to be very much ashamed of ourselves. How can we be subdued, if we never yield ? How can we be con quered, if we are true to our homes, and our firesides, our wives, and our children ? How can we be enslaved, if we are true to ourselves ? If we ever have the yankee yoke fixed upon us, it will be when we have become degenerate sons of sires dis graced by oui want of manliness. It will be when we all turn tories, and traitors. If we will all stand firm, we can never be conquered. Let us think *of nothing but Jour indepen dence, in peace, as well as in war. If 6ur people^will but stand firm, and never think of yielding, time and the extent of our territoiy will give us independence, if nothing else will. Provost Marshals and Citizens. —Treason.—The trial of two men— Munday and McPherson—arrested for treason, by the provost marshal of Atlanta—Munday being charged, and correctly so, with, since the federals occupied Atlanta, superintending the shop for making, and trimming, and preserving their (federal) ambulances, and receiving rations from them, and that Mcfherson was engaged as a clerk in the quartermaster’s depart ment, came, recently, before Judge Lochrane, of Macon, on a writ of ha beas corpus. It was proved, by high ly honorable men, among them an honorable officer, that both were true southern men ; that they had mani fested their loyalty by acts; and that their families were sick, when the con federates left Atlanta, and they thus compelled to stay there, and there must, support their families, and it could be done in no other way than the one adopted. The Judge, in the first place, de cided, most emphatically, that provost marshals, by the law of our land, have no right to arrest persons outside of the army, and navy. If they take such authority, it is an arbitrary as sumption of power. Citizens can only be arrested upon warrants, issued up on oath, and can only be arrested by the civil officers, and tried before civil courts. These rights are guaranteed in the constitution, and it can only be altered by the people. He decided further, that these men were not guilty, and ordered them released from custody. In cases where men are compelled to labor, to get something to live on, under cir cumstances where their own govern ment. could give them no protection, and in other cases of this kind, the law recognizes the right of the party, “ to enter into an agreement of neutrality with the enemy.’’ The law goes fur ther, and when the enemy occupies the town in wliich a man lives, he may work to live. It is a law of na ture, and the law of nations recognizes it. It is nothing more, nor less, than the conquered submitting to the con queror, and, for the time, yielding to the change. A man liable-to military service, and who, without just, or imperative rea* sons for remaining, volunteers his services, or, by joining the enemy in acts of hostility, or by giving informa tion to the enemy, against, his own gov* eminent, commits treason, and would be justly held responsible for the crime. Any act of aid, or comfort, proceeding from motives of disloyal* ty, would be treason. Any act of aid, voluntarily done, would be ad judged treason. For it is the solemn duty of every citizen, even when he differs with the public policy of the government, to maintain his fealty, and allegiance to it. It would be im possible to state what act may, or may not be done legitimately. The whole case, with all its reasons, And motives, must be presented, and weighed with the attending circumstances.—Colum bus Sun. An Eccentric Hen.—In a stable, on the farm of Mr. Gerald, of Fay ette county, Pa., are three little pigs, probably six weeks old. One, which is called ‘titman,’ generally takes the middle berth, when turned in for a snooze. As soon as the mother was removed from the pigs, an old white hen took up her quarters with them, and seemed determined to make them comfortable, manifesting, in all res pects, the same care, and attachment that a hen does to her brood, clocking and calling them when finding a good morsel : and, to carry out fully her motherly care, she broods them, as she would over chickens. She does this by getting astride of the little one, which lies in the middle, and ex tending her wings so far as to cover those on either side. No amount of force, or moral suasion will induce her, for one moment, to leave her adopted family, but if the pigs are interfered with, in any way, she. is ready to fight their battles, as though they be longed to the feathered tribe.—Amer ican Agriculturist. The Countryman.—We call at tention to the advertisement of Mr. J. A. Turner. Last week we pied the form containing it, and were forced to omit it. The Countryman is tbe best, the ablest, and the most interesting, as well as instructive weekly published between the St. Lawrence, and the Rio Grande. Every family in Geor gia should have it. That it is a fa* vorite we know, from the many who borrow our copy.—Georgia Weekly.