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r T H E COUNTRYMAN. .195 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. It