The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 2, 1863 Page: 1 of 2
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BELLVILLE, TEXAS, MAY
i. p. crnraaooT,
A UfTIIf COUNTY—TF.XA8.
Wttlct
ASarlfcU 4«M a4v¿rthumittitn InirrtM Itrtn
AaMrnwk «111 b* chirred Tmtniy etnu ptrl\n
ftr the flrit Inwrtlon, and Tt ttutt «r Un* for
mtlli «abttqaent Inwrtlon. Kttray, atoti IiH
by thaOouutjr Clerk, will b« chirgod Two Dot-
Untnr ¿ ek animal ndrertlwd Muy, 31,180 .
Third T«l (.
T«a*i or SuMCRtmoN ¡—w 60 iwr rmr. i'
paid la advance, or before the 13lliJ nnmlic r; 00
If DM4 after the 13th number and before the flow
of tho rear, St 00 .If paid after the oloae of the
y Mr. The e terini will be «trlctly adhered to. ,
jty Advertlciraenti .mnit be handed In early
Wednexlar morning to nutra In ken i on.
• We are authorised to announce Gen.
T. J. ('HAMMERS a a candidate fur the
oftqe of Governor of Texiw,
"Amenon Honorable."—"Bosb"
gone to Houstou with "two bits in
ahtnt** to huy niggers, will be a suffi-
cient npology for the dearth of edito
linl mailer thin week. We can safely
promise however, that on his return,
, lie will make amend* for bis present
absence.—"Pul
A Goon Oaikn.—We have recived
and marked for X, I lie first number
of a neat and well edited paper pub-
libhed at LaGrange, Texas, by W.
B. McClcUnti at #0 per year or
per quarter. The very fact of a new
paper making lis appearance in the
present condition of the country, is
cv¡deuce sufficient of the "spunk"
and euergy of the proprietor, whilst
the contents of the "Patriot" are a
guavcutco for its futihv worth.
A SpbcolxtioN.—If some persou
will slnvt a mill for grinding coi u
houn-wbere near the Public Square
ia I hit place, he can' without doubt
make a good living by it. A public
mill at Bellville i very much want-
ed.
py The Huntsville Item pitches
iuto the Alumnae lCxtra, vight and
left, ou the defeat oí the bill restrict
iug the plautiug of cotton. The
pKWpeet belore ns is uot very bright
for au abundant supply of brendstuffs.
We believe the col Ion bill, lad it
passed, would have beeu generally
acquiesced in. but wo hear now that
there are pel sous plowing up their
cora and planting cotton in its place.
Should we have pleuty of rain (a
thing wbich cannot be controlled by
legislation,) we shall probably have
a'i abundance of *0111} otherwise,
our condition will be bad enough.
We titisi the lenis of the Item may
not be realised. We should have
been glad had the cotton bill became
a law. We believe its defeat «(§s
owing, thro' the means of the Alma,
nac extra, and the Telegrnpli, to tbe
vote* of lawyers in the legislature,
and not to the fermeoa as has been
suggested by some.
We believe that when the raising
of too much cotton beoomea deleteri-
ous to the interesU of the country,
the legislatnre has as much constitu-
tional right to nistrict Its production,
as they have to restrict sny
TksJPstev
Wo wenl, we tuto and—came away
fiat broke-'who ever went to s fail
aud didn't t a great many persoas
attended and we learn that the pro-
ceeds amounted to # 10,000. This
is truly a nicH and substantial com
pliuent to. the brave boys in Waller's
Battallion, but would not thai money
be used to a belter. purpose—aye,
aud would not the recipients them-
selves be belter pleased had that
stun bceu divided among their fami-
lies at homo. Tbe sick soldiers do
uot need money, balf so much as they
ueed tbe knowledge that their wives
and children are not suffering and in
waut. Tbe compilation of a soldier
when sick tsS>l,00 per day. Now,
this is more tba.. is uttceasnry as an
average I o furnish all ilie comfort*
that can he obtained for the sick.
There are hundreds of families who,
unable to work, and having no means
of support, would aud could be made
comparatively comfortable l y a por-
tion Of tbe proceed« of these fairs.
We cannot give too much credit to
the lad'es of Austin county who
were iuetruraeuinl in getting up the
Fair at Hempstead, and many
heart felt "God bless you" will «each
receive from the thankful recipients
of their good will—uot so much, for
the pecuniary aid as for the soul
cheering knowledge that they are not
forgotten at liome.
Moon Hoax—The Item refers to
the two full moouB coming so close
together as mentioned In the Texas
Almanac. We suppose t! ere must
be some truth in it and not to much
hoe x; for we see that Bro' Carpenter
gives llie same full moens in his
Almanac, or did Bio' Carpenter in
siting up the Moon's Phases, follow
copy (iho Texas Alumuac.) With
(wo full moons blasting upon us at
the same time, for which we have
the authority of two almauaes, we
suppose we shall have some light ou
the subject.
A Good Stsike.—All readers
will agree that in these days of vil-
lainously mean liquors and villainous-
ly high prices, and without reference
to the merits and demerits of good
pure liquor or wine as a bever ge,
when it can be got, the following
call whivh appears in a Columbia
paper, is worthy of attention a«d
imitation:
A Dhjnkinu Noticr—"Tee way
of the transgressor is hard "—Being
convinced, from practical experience,
that ihe use of spiritous liquors is
more destructive lo the Southern
Confederacy that Lincoln's minions,
we, therefore, as the driuking men of
Columbia, do hereby respectfully call
a meeting of our fraternity, on Mon-
day evening, the 9th inst., at tbe
City Hall ut 8 o'clock..
MANY VOTARIES.
wrong letter to
lovely brida got
for the -wife i "
the other I
"fuaa in the family ," if not
fcer.
Makriaob in the Abmy.—A
Gamitan—A letter from Raleigh (N.
C.) contains the following paragraph.
It needs no explanation t
Some of our aoldiers, who 4^ve
wives and. children at home, have
married again among the Virginia
girls. Tbe sweet, lovely dumsels of
the Valley aud Frwdericksbuig lit
tie think, sb they take these gay
yonug geutlemeu "for better or for
irse" that they have left'other de-
voted wives and prattling ohaps
MM, An !«««. of ,Lh
"leaked out" a short time ago, A
nice yonng lieutenant" of a Louisia-
na, regiment wrote a very long arid
endearing letter to hta wife and chil-
dren iu Louisiana, and about the
same t)me wrote a moat affectionate,
loving letter ta Ma newly married
fgHtarho was i
A Warm Rkckption kor the
Yankees.'—The Charleston corres
poudent of the Mobile Tribune
says:
Several interesting experiments
were made here yesterday with tor-
pedoes with gratifying results. In
one case a brtrrel was blown out of
the water to the height of ove-r 200
feet. The concussion in the city
was tremendous, more like a terrible
explosion than anything else. An-
other successful experiment has been
made with liquid fire. The lihuid
was thrown through a house and
lite applied at the nozsle. All the
•fforis of two of our beBt fire engines
to extinguish the flames Were utterly
futile. The more wate. thrown upon
it seemed only to make it burn more
fiercely. Much is expected from
this discovery in certain expeditious
uow contemplated.
I\oi)knt& or thh War-—a
touching romance iu real life is affor-
ded by lie? deaths of Captain Chal-
mers Glenn, of Rockingham county
N. C., and his fuilhful servant Mat.
Reared together from childhood, Mat
had shared in all the boyish prank
and frclicke of his master, and, in
later life, had been bis constant „at >
tendant and faithful servaut. Oh
the tur. iug of the battle of lioones-
borough. Capt. Glenn called Mat to
him and said: "Mat, 1 will be j^tyed
in this battle; see me burled; then
go home, and be to your mistress
aud mv children all you have been."
from behind the rock the faithful
Mow watched .-II day the fonu of
his liéknwd master, as the tide of
battle ebbed.,And flowed over that
eventful field. M Just he miffted
him, and, rushing f<
prediction too indy
already ex line I. Assisted
meirbers of hi company.
was dug with bayouels, aud
f
th
dearest in life to Hat,
sadly he turned hit
there delivered
ana valuables with
had entrusted him.
seemed As if Ida
was accompli
an« despite
and the "
Tjrom th« Atlaato btelll(enc«<.
^ jfSily
, Some time ago so srtiole appeared
in your pai>er, copied from one
your exchangee purporting to give
the pedigree and early history o*
Abraham Lincoln the President of
tho United States. As t^e article
in question abounded in errors, which
the writer of this article, by personal
acquaintance with the subject, is eiw
abled to correct; and as the snbject
itself is orie of geueral interest, he
feels it to be V iluty to lay before
the public a true statement of the
tacts
Tbe man know ) as Abraham Lin-
coln, who now sits in tho seat one*
occup ed respectively by Washing-
ton, Madison, Jefferson aud Jackson
was born in t^ coiuity. ol Hardin,
now the county of Lame, in the
State of Kentucky, ami about forly
'guiles from where the writer of tlijs
anicle lives wh^n at home. The,
mother was s single woman of very
low social position, by the name of
Hannah Hanks. She was generi
reputed to have from on^-eighth to
one-sixleenth of negro blood in hi
veins, and always associated will
negroes ou .terms of equally At-
cording to t|ui siatement «t Iiaoual
Hanks, her illigitimate ehild was
the son of Abraham Ink>w (who f0"
still /iljve and in Kentucky, inSep-
tember, 1861.) I have myself, hepnl
her make this statement. Moreover
inlow alwtys claiined tin child as
Ihis owu. Here, thep, is the tesli
mouy of the two witnesses most con
versant \> fth the facts, bojb establish-
ed beyond cavil that lp)fp|r is Lin-
coln's father.
1 will hgre give you a few facta in
regard to Inlqw. He W^B originally
fi-oiii North Carolina, but emigrated
to Kentucky tybeii veryayoung. He
is quite tall, being about six feet
three ¡lichett in height, He goes
barefooted in th« summer and I have
never seen bin with'a .coat on but
once. His pants are held up by.
oue suspender only, worn over the
left slipuWer. t^is noj^ is disfigured
by havlug a piece About tint idas of f
«lime bit out OÍ it in a
When lit lie Abe was
and six months old, hi* mother inr
termaried wi)b a man named
« d the boy was afterwards
by hi* step father's na**. One
night, old Li^oolu coming home
finding Inlow at hia |t^ fifr
gs which once diatmbefl.
Othello, and
He
of t he
Inlow, aud t!
TOa'lac^i
this time wife
aft erwards moved to ]
eaaee, aud who was
the 10th February, 1862,
time the writer, of thli
her aid conversed with
can apbstantiate the statements here
made. Daring Abe's reaidence. at
Mrs. McBryde's, be waa sent to an
ordiunry uld field bchooU for three
years, aud there obtajgJT the rudi-
ments of a rough education.
After his retitru home, be went no
lhore to school. Neither old Lincoln
nor his wife (Abe's mother,) could
reád, 'and could apt see the use of
au educaiio.i. Abe waa now put to
hahl work, and Was even eonijielled
to work on Sundays. This lie could
not stmid; so he ran away from Lin-
cob and Went a* a luwd on an _Ghio
Qafboat. From (his position be was
promoted to the station of deckhand
on a steamboat. Afterwards he
quit tbe river, wetttintu Illinois, near
ttprhigfieid, aud became' clerk of a
saw mill. He soon' aftei-wanls éfudi-
ed law, And fomménctíd practising
before MagiBlrate's Courts With
bis tmbsequteft IhtOiy, tbe public
are iioquaiitietl.'VntT I do not propose
tosjwak of ft, my object being to
(?np] Iy information concerning that
poi tiou of hia life which seemed to
be least understood.
The.ie are two proipinent !>cts ia
tilia brief* recital t o vh'ch I would
oali attention. One of these is
African bl« o4 avd lo^ a?)W)i%ipiis of
Abe Lincoln's mother. Here it waa
that be must liaye obtained h!a no-
lions of uegro eqplity. ||«yiug
i mlii bed it in h^ nioihtir'b mitk, ciin
we expect him ever tp i^se bujauior
to it J. -Con t^e E>hippian cb^iga
hia skin, or tba leopaid ¿hi* "pots !"
The other eircumaivice to
I have alluded,
had a potent i
tlou of Abe'a
cruel ti-eatment
Btepfather.
hardening a
and rendering
incpat,thf
V " '¿hit,
gMMMit ■■■■
mm
n sick.
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 2, 1863, newspaper, May 2, 1863; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177093/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.