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COUNTRYMAN.
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Volunteer Troops for the War.
—“In tbe confederate house of re«
presentatives, on the 30th ultimo, Mr.
Henry, of Tennessee, introduced a
bill to receive volunteei troops for the
war. The bill provides :
That all persons not no vv in the
service, and those who are absent
from duty, without leave, shall be au
thorized, within three months, east of
Mississippi river, and within six
months, west of that river, to form
themselves into volunteer organiza
tions of campanies, elect their com
pany officers, and tender their servi
ces to the president of the Oonfeder.-
ate States, as volunteer troops during
the war ; such organizations shall
conform to existinfllaws, and, when
tendered to the president, shall be or
ganized into battalions, and regiments,
and shall be subject to all the regu
lations which govern the army ot the
Confederate States.
Mr. Hemv said he entertained no
feeling of opposition to the conscript
law, and this bill had been introduced
in no such spirit. But he was con
vinced, by information derived from
a number of trustnworthy source, that
a measure such as this would add
tens of thousands of soldiers to our
armies, who would never enter the
service as conscripts. He would
state that Gen. Howell Cobb coinci
ded in this opinion.
The resolution was referred to the
military committee.”
“Reconstructionists.—We have
some curiosity to know what move
will next be made, by those who have
always been so clamorous for the
opening of negotiations with our ene
mies, upon the subject of peffee. We
are certain they will not be satisfied
at the result of the late attempt to
close the war, by negotiation. They
will not admit that tbe futility of their
resources is bounded by one solitary
effort. They will be sure to invent
other plans of obtaining a hearing
from Mr. Lincoln, upon the subject of
compromising and settling our nation
al difficulties. They will want com
missioners appointed from all the
states, south and north ; and when
this is done, and Lincoln spits in all
their faces, and makes Seward rub it
in, they will then be for going to him
in person, that they may receive some
of his precious saliva in their faces—
that they many wipe it off with their
white, spotless handkeishiefs, and
bring them as charming souvenirs of
their mission. What delightful crea
tures reconstructionists, and conven-
tionists are !—Early County 2sew$.
Accursed.
BY JOEL C. HARRIS.
A man and a woman met in the wood,
Where the virgin blooms of spring begin
The woman was weak, but pure and good—
In the heart of the man was sin.
They met at the trysting-place, to woo,
And the moon hid her face behind a cloud—
The wind held its breath, and never blew,
And the moon waned away in her shroud ]
And they parted, there at the trysting-tree,
And the moon shone out with her blessed light,
And the grey owl shrieked with fiendish glee,
At the sight she saw that night!
A woman in tears paced up and down—
Paced up and down her narrow room ;
Her face was dark with a wicked frown,
Making wretched and darker the gloom.
Her (lowing hair, with its ebon dyes,
Had broken the bands of its golden clasp :
The tears fell fast from her great black eyes,
And she breathed with a heaving gasp.
She looked like the Lady does in the Play,
When she tells her husband to murder the
King-:
And she sobbed and wept in the twilight grey,
And scowled at her lover’s ring!
A man paced up and down in his room,
And Clasped his hands to his aching head;
He shrunk from a shade in the dusky gloom,
For the woman he wronged is dead 1
She died as all women die on earth,
Whom men have wronged with deceitful lies,
And she left a babe on her father’s hearth . .. .
She died as a floweret dies!
Whene’er men wrong a sinless soul,
You know they forever curse their own :
For fate on fate must ever roll —
Men reap what they have sown 1
* * * * * * *
A man paced up and down a stream—
A man ’neath the weight of a curse bowed
down :
His eye shone bright with a maniac gleam,
And despair was in his frown 1
A shivering glance at the rushing river—
A longing look at the bright, green world—
A leap, and the man was hid forever,
Where the eddies foamed and curled !
Turnwold, Ga.
A Good Arrangement.— We
learn, from the Rebel, that General
Forrest has characterized the com
mencement of his military adminis
tration, as commander of the district
of west Tennessee, Mississippi, and
east Louisiana, by an act of noble
humanity, which, if it does not eclipse,
is, at least, not surpassed by any of
his deeds of heroism in the field, in
which he has developed, and illustra
ted the very highest qualities of a
great commander. We refer to the
treaty which, it is now generally un
derstood, he has entered into with the
federal General Thomas, to supply
the suffering, and destitute families
within, and near the ya^kee line?,
with food from the r : lC |, p la iries of
Mississippi, and Alabama. Trains,
loaded with c'^n, are to be run to
such points, on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad as are most con
venient to the destitute districts, withr
out molestation from either party. In
large sections of fertile country, south
of the Tennessee river, and wholly-
desolated by the ravages of war, the
suffering and impoverishment of the
people are heartrending in the ex
treme, demanding prompt assistance,
to secure them from absolute starva
tion.
The spirit with which Major Gen.
Forrest has come to the relief of these
suffering people, developes, in his
character, a nobility of nature, and
an enlarged and feeling view of hu
manity, which constitute the crown of
his heroic achievements.
Nor should we withhold from an
enemy the meed of commendation due
for a good act. The promptitude
with which Major General Thomas
responded to the suggestion of the
noble Forrest, stands forth in pleas
ant relief to the vandalism of the fed
eral commanders, whose barbarism,
and cruelty have despoiled these very
sections, and others, now appealing
to humanity for relief. It is true that
his own soldiers have robbed the peo
ple whom ho now consents for Gen*
eral Forrest to feed. It is, notwith
standing, creditable to him that he
consents to mitigate the horrors of in
vasion, by an exceptional instance of
humanity.—Appeal.
The New Flag.—The new con
federate flag, adopted by the senate,
Saturday, is as follows : The width
two-thirds of its length, with the un
ion (now used as the battle-flag)*to be
in width three-fifths of the width of
the flag, and so proportioned as to
leave the length of the field, on the
side of the union, twice the width be
low it; to have the ground red, and
a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered
with white, and emblazoned with mul
lets, or five-pointeu stars, coriespond-
mg in number to that of the Confed
erate States ; the field to be white,
except the outer half, from the union,
which shall be a red bar, extending
the width#f the flag.”
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
G TICE. — On the first tuesday in May next,
t V will be sold, before the court-house door,
in the town of Eatonton, ten (10) shares of
railroad stock, on the Eatonton Branch Road,
belonging to the estate of Wm. R. Paschal,
deceased. M. A. PASCHAL, Admr’x.
Eatonton, March 28, 1865. ids
W ILL be sold, on the first tuesday in June
next, tbe following negroes, to wit:
Chaney, a woman, €0 years old ; Harriet, and
one child ; Matt, Celia, and one child : Monday,
Susan, and two children, Matthew and Phil:
Jane, a girl, about 14 years old ; Gus, a boy,
about 12 years old : Maxey Ann, a girl, about
9year8of age. Levied an to satisfy a morL •
gage fi. fa., in iavor of Lewis Lincb, and VVilk-
ins Linch, vs. James N. Lincb.
March 28, 1865. R, H, GRIFFIN, Sheriff.
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