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THE COU N T RYMAN.
’ TLR>WOLD, GA., MARCH 7, 1SG5.
To Correspondents.
■ f. S. T., Tefe'auville, Ga.—Your
paper has been sent to your address,
as above, regularly, since receipt of
your first letter.
The Jasper Co. Meeting.
A meeting has been lately held in
Jasper county, in this state, instruct
ing Col. Nisbet, the senator front this
district, to vote for a convention of
the people of Georgia, to take sepa-
rate state action, on the subject of
peace. We trust in God that Col.
Nisbet will do no such thing. He
has fought, bled, and too nearly died,
on too many battle fields, to turn
round, and give aid and comfort to
the enemy, now. Benedict Arnold
won as many honorable scars in de
fence of bis country, as Col. Nisbet
bears upon bis person. It would be
a sore trial—a death-blow to Col. Nis-
bet’s true friends, and constituents,
for him now to imitate the last act of
Arnold’s career.
We do not believe a majority of
Col. Nisbet’s constituents are conven-
tionists—not even in Jasper. If nec
essary 7 , old Putnam will speak a voice
which we do not believe he will dis
regard. Nor do we believe he has
any disposition to go for a conven
tion. Nobody doubts either liis patri-
otisip. or g >od sense. Having both
these, he cannot go for a convention.
By the way, we see that J. S. Gal
loway, former enrolling officer of this
county, whom two of our volunteer
companies requested to resign, be
cause they did not believe him the
“light man in the right place”—who
once declared publicly, on the streets
of Eatonton, that the United States
never did any act justifying the se
cession of the south—(this was last
year)—and who said the south bad
no 6ucli cause of grievance, as the
British colonies had, and vilio was
told by one of our patriotic citizens,
then, that if these were his views, he
had better go north, where be belong
ed—of whieh we report substan
tially, and not the exact words)—we
sree that this naan was upon the com
mittee which reported the resolutions,
and these resolutions may be bis
work.
A fellow, calling himself Timothy
Tugmntton, advertising in the Edu
cational Journal for a wife, closes by
saying, “Make speedy applications,
fair ones, for ‘now’s the time to make
your Jack.’ ”
One word should have been added
by the advertiser, after the word
Jack, with a hyphen between the
two, and that is the word, ass.
“The Protestant and Catholic cler
gy of the confederacy, are calling at
tention to the duty of enforcing the
•sanctity of the marriage relation, a-
mong slaves.”
This would require a dozen eunuchs
to each “married relation,” with a
strong-walled harem besides : and v 7 e
doubt whether the “sanctity of the
marriage relation” would then be “en
forced,” though if preserved at all, it
would be. by force.
One of the worst things that can
Lefall a man who goes to the legisla
ture, is to have bis name begin with
an A : lor then he is called on to vote,
at the roll-call, upon a demand of the.
ayes and noes, before he knows which
way the majority is going. In proof
of tliis, see what befell Mons. Autrey
(pronounced O-Tray) a few days ago,
upon the proposition of Mons. Dumas
(pronounced Dumar.)
“ Mons. Dumas is coming to Amer
ica—What he proposes to do when
here.”
This is the heading to an article in
the newspapers.—We would take oc
casion to say that if we have no
Bourbon among us, we already have
a Dumas—a brilliant man—one just
as brilliant as the French Dumas;
and be made a motion in the Geor
gia bouse of representatives, the other
day, that got one vote besides liis
own—that of one Mons. O-Tray —
vulgarly called Autrey. These two
FVenchmen are out of their element
in Macon. What else does our Mons.
Dumas “propose to do,” while in
(south) America ?
No.l.— It is an old question—‘Have
we a Bourbon amongst US '?’ But it
is no question with our rebel breth
ren. They have no Bourbon among
tb em.—Louisville Journal.
The reason of that is that Prentice
has recently been on a visit, south.
The confederacy has not had time to
make an importation, since he left.
No. 2.—It is an old question—
‘Have we a Bourbon amongst us.’
But it is iro question with our rebel
brethren. They have no Bourbon
among their..—Louisville Journal.
This being the case with the ‘con
federates,’ why ought they to ‘beg the
question V
Because the question has Bourbon
in it.
No. 3.—It is an old question—
‘Have we a Bourbon amongst us.’
But, it is no question with our rebel
brethren. They have no Bourbon
among them.—Louisville Journal.
They lately had a good deal,
though, in a cask labeled Prentice,
which was on a visit to Richmond.
It is a maxim, in Logic, that the
major proposition includes the minor.
In the case before us, the minor pro
position./includes the major. It is
Prentice that includes the Bourbon,
and not the Bourbon that includes
Prentice.
Blairs, Jewetts, Singletons, Gree-
leys, and Jacqueses may flourish for
awbife, but the Herald holds to its
opinion, that our generals, and admir
als, soldiers, and sailors, are our only
practical peace-makers.—N. Y. Her
ald.
The Jacqueses (Jackasses) of the
Herald have certainly flourished be
yond all expectation.
Wanted—a inusquito net—Applj
at this office.— Macon Telegraph 4*
Confederate.
Wouldn’t a partridge net do better,
these hard times, brother Plash 1 Or
do you think you had better keep
what little blood you have, rather
than seek food foi more.
The newspapers of Macon were
lately complaining of a w»ut of gas.
They show that they have no lack
of it now. They contain the pro
ceedings of Gov. Brown, and the Geor
gia legislature.