The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 30, 1863 Page: 1 of 2
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VOL.
BELLVILLE, TEXAS, MAY
! NO.43
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wJ all nm •¿▼•rliarmonta Inmrlnt Into
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tu Iba Srat laaerMon, and Tit ttnu j r lint for
aaak Mbaaqunrt Inaorttoa. Stray* titwi§< 1
totbaOoantv Olnrk, wlllbe charged Two Pol-
Mrvfor Mckaalmal adrartlaad
Maj, 31, 1ATO.
Tklfl v.lnme.
or io««mirnoit ¡—09 50 p«r y*ar. If
taid la adviuiM, or bafora (be Utb n«mb r ; 93 01)
M paid altar tho 18th nftmbor and Worn fhn ring
•f Iba r*art 00 If paid after tbn do«« of the
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Cf 1
Thaw
'3kx;
l«rm« will be «trletly adbm-dto.
AdrerMeamenbi ,m« t be bawled io early
atorntaf to arare
iuxrtlon.
Wa ar« anthoriiad to annonnce Oen.
t j. chambers m a candidato fof tlio
i of Governor of Texm,
t3P*Diatriet Court meats at Bell-
villo on the second Monday in June,
being the 8th day.
XST Col. J, D. McAdoo decline*
being • candidate for Governor at the
ensuing election.
or We publish this week a synop
sis of the new Confederate Tax Law.
Persons who fcare clamored so lond
fbr heavy taxation hare nearly got
their demands satisfied by this law.
It will probably amount to an
average of five per cent or moro.
How it will work remains to be tried.
It will probably have some good
offset in regard to the currency.
Thongh we have no voiy late
papers np to. the time of going to
prsas, we learn that another fight has
taken placo at' Charleston, in which
thirteen Federal vessels have been
anttk or disabled and 7000 of the
«aemy won slain. No prisoners
were taken." We hear that this
ro£0rtwao bronght to HempstwtíTby
Hon. J. A. Wilcox who has just
returned from Richmond.
Qf The weather has been exceed-
ingly hot for a foew days past. The
«ropa never looked better in this
region, and the general sentiment is
that with on* more good rain, there
will bo more corn made than can be
gathered.
tmr Wo have aucceeded in find,
tag gltte enough in addition to what
wo had on hand, to make a new
roller. How it works, whethe* good
or had must bo judged by our paper
this week. We have the promise of
aome more glue from o friend, when
we hope to have enough to last
daring the war. We ere told that
glue la easily made, and it ia to be
hapod onr tanners will' improve the
occasion, ai^i make up a quantity
while it boa a good price.
" Stonewall "—Wo regret to
lean that Gait. T. J. Jackson, better
known as "Stonewall" Jackson has
died, from hia wound received at
tho lata battle in Virginia. This ia
a great baa to tho Confederate cause-
The fapott comae by rumor, and
tbeco k yet room fbr it to prove un
We are foarfkl, however, that
or The late papera give intima-
tions of war between England and
the United States. We hardly think
that old Abe will make war with
the British Lion, so long as he has
this ninety days' job on band with
the rebels. We await further news
on this point with some anxiety.
Coffee.—In Richmond, Va-, oof-
foe in selling as low. us $1 and $1 60
per pound.. Why it should, be so
high here is a mystery to us as it is
to most people. We hope to Bee the
time, and that before long, when
coffee will be sold here at a price
not highor than one dollar per pound.
If this eaunot be done, Congress
ought to pass a law, prohibiting the
the Rio Grande trade altogother.
EP* The reports that Little Rook,
Grand Ecore and Monroe, had all
tallen into tho bonds of tho ensmy,
seem to be witheut foundation. The
latest reports ore that Banks has
retreated across the Mississippi. It
was Grand Cane that was reachod
by the enemy's picketi.
Thb Fleet.—It isolated that a
fleet of twenty five vessels has been
launched in England for the Con-
federates and that they aro now
ailoatjon the great waters. We don't
like to believe anything so good for
our side, until it ia fuller confirmed.
ButifthiB bo true, we may soon
expect to hear of more Confederate
valor on the "high seas."
pyThe Galveston News assures
its readers that that portion of the
exemption law. which exempts the
owner, agent or overseer of twenty
■laves has been repealed or modified,
There are great complaints about
this feature of the exemption law.
py The Patriot says tho District
Court was in session last week in
LaGrange and engaged with tho
criminal docket.
•At Indianopolis, Hnnnignn,
the Auditor of the State and Hanna
member of the legislature, were smil-
ing at each other in a bar room, and
one said, "Hero's to Jeff Davis" and
the other said "Amen." They were
both arrested.
i,.,. in. tmmmrnmam O
It ia*amusing to see how they
keep up their courage at the Norut
by reports of evacuation of different
points. Fot weeks, they bad it
reported and bolieved that we were
evacuating Vicksburg. A week or
two hinco it was confidently asserted
that preparations were being made
to evacuate Richmond.
A federal or tonr colonel in Mis-
souri wrote a pamphlet entitled 'Voioe
from the camp.' It waa a plea
Sainst emancipation. It waa print-
, but before being distributed,
was seised by tho provost marshal
and that scamp Gen. Bon'. Loan
burned the whole edition. The day
la past In
return again.
it
i papara state
Loo took some 90.000
that Gon.
at
that
tho Fedprals will
0,000. It if beat
roporta with many jn regard
IUstobe hoped Kr '
all true; and if
i op the mill-
Hooker."
for uttering free opiniona Í
Misaouri, hut it will retui
May 27*.—Geo A Allen of
Ordnance Dep't, Houston, arrived
townlaat night, and has allowed
to look at a late paper, by which
learn that Gen Jackson's d
confirmed. There la nothing
to the reported h at
Charleston. Vallandigham
arrested to bo tried under I
death order,
lowed tho i
Iment fol-
•The federals have stolen thir-
teen thousand negroes from Arkansas.
Of these two or three thousand have
gone North, some being on farms in
Missouri working for their captors.
At least four thousand have died
miserablo deaths. Three regigients
aro being drilled at Memphis, Helena
and points in Mo.
The Detroit papers contain
accounts of the departure of drafted
men for the seat of war, with irons on
their wrists. Such troops will not
bo hard to whip.
Butler stole the fine statue
of Washington \yhich wag at Baton
Rouge.
It is proposed, in Massachu-
setts, to pass a law preventing the
marriages of army widows, as many
cases have qccured where it has been
found that the first husbaud is yet
alive in the army.
The wiiies of ex-President
Tyler, were sold at auction lately
Hero are some of the prices; Rhenish
$10 a bottle; old Sauforno, Nin
Duquonse, $11; Maderia, 812 ; Cey-
lon Maderia, $15; old Port, $19;
old Freneh brandy, $100 a gallon.
An exchange sayB : "Cleopatra's
little feat ol drinking pearls in wine
was noj; such an expensive luxury
after all—the man who drinks one
Jiundred dollar brandy ought to have
a line or two of history about him
It is a problem well worth
the study of the studqnt of human
nature to account for the development
of official puppyism. You may take
a deceit, well raised young-mañ and
put him as barkeeper in a hotel or
clerk to a quartermaster or commissa
ry, and it is a good two to one bet
that ho turns into an ill-natured pup-
py. There are exceptions we aro
glad to say, but tho rule will hold
good as a general one. •
Lincoln's first call, under
his conscript act, will be for 300,000
men. Inordor.to induce those tQ
stay in the army' whose terms soon
expire; he offers fifty dollars bounty
and their States, counties and cities
offer fiirther bounties, amounting in
some casos, to one hundred and fifty
dollars.
, The abolition governor of
Town, Kirkwood, said, rocently that
if Any man was convicted of assault-
ing or oyen killing a secessionist in
that Stato, he Kirkwood, would par-
don him.
A cannon foundry, under
tho immediate direction of Mqjor F,
Humphries, is nearly completed
at Columbus, Ga. •
At Helena, and within a mile
of it, four thousand federal soldiers
have died since the first of Angustí
>2. To this may be added a tbou-
negroes.
Lincoln's conscription act
does not exempt preachers. The
parsons are running around among
the faithful to get them to subscribe
three hundred.dollars to buy them
off.
: A part of Pogroms command
eaught four renegade Teunesseans
recruiting in Scott county, Kentucky.
A fight ensued, ¡¿which Mfy Ban-
can and Cap! Cross wore killed, and
tho other two wttO wounded.
U —
An bvil that can ob Remedied.
—At least two hundred thousand
bushels of corn have been distilled
into whisky, in Arkansas, within the
post six months. Men who refused
to sell it for breadstuff} have sold it
to distillers. Notwithstanding the
civil and military laws, liquor is made
and sold. In our city it is no secret
that soldiers procure whisky when-
ever they want it. Our city authori-
ties take no notice of the violation of
the law and if the military attempt
to arrest the evil, forthwith a certain
set begin to bawl about martial law,
seizure of property, and tor represent
that we are tyrannized over. The
evil is growing every day and the
hard earned money of tho- soldiera
goes into the pocket# of a few law-
breaking, avaricious men, who wo Id
boo the Confederacy Bink, the oause
lost and everything destroyed, so
they made money. This evil can be
remedied and as the civil authorities
refuse to net, the military should rid
the city and country of these nuisan
cos. It is the duty of justices of
the peace where parties are brought
beforo them and proved to have
violated the license law, to commit
then) to jail, or bind them over tó
answer at court. If this was done
and the liquor seized, we would not
see so many drunken soldiers nor
such open violations of the law
There are men in this State whope
acknowledged profits on distilling
aro as high as seven hundred dollars
a day. And while these men are
making this money, they are consum
ing corn and breadstuff's that would
feed thousands ot families. Those
men laugh at the civil law, which, if
not dead, ib very soundly asleep, and
if the military authorities step in,
they begin to howl and screech about
martial law, and clamor for the re
moval of the general, in hopes to get
one who will wink at their crimes.
[ True Democrat.
Russia and tkb United States
—The rebellion in Poland has placod
Lincoln in an awkward position. It
will be remembered that the Emperor
of jtalsm wrote Lincoln a letter,
rather encouraging him in his war
upon the South and assuring him of
the sympathy of the Russian govern
ment in his efforts to Crush the rebel-
lion. Now that the Csar lias á little
rcbelliou of his own to subdue, it is
to be expected that the Baboon will
reciprocate the friendly letter. But
this ho dare not do. The northern
papers profess the warmest sympathy
for the Poles, though tho glaring in-
consistency of favoring one rebellion
and disfavoring another equally meri-
torious is evident. The Polish offi-
cers in Lincoln's service, many of
thorn ablo men, are placod In tho
strange attitude of Mdsavoring to
fasten the yoke of a ^Rtnt upon a
freo people, while thefar 1
homo aro struggling to throw
off. H the lina * ~
at alt revolt and
spirit develop* Hoelf more fully in
Europe, LlnoOln will bo of* to looe
many of hia beat officers, who will
go homo to fight fat bohalf of h bettor
causo.
Tb* Starvation P*ttlf
It has been known,. fbr weeks,
that tlie federals in this State, as
well as dithers, were destroying all
farming implements, seising all pro-
visions ana preventing tho planting
of crops, with the avowed determi'
nation to starve the people into sub-
mission. We supposed it might be
possible that this was the vindictive
cruelty "of some cowardly comman-
der, who vented bis spite on women
and children. But it lis now certain
that orders to that effect have Issued
from Lincoln's war department. In
Phillips. Chicot, and other counties,
where the federals have 0 foothold
they have and are burning all the
fences, plows and farming utensil
thfey find, Th y destroy the proper-
ty of widows as well as of male citi-
zens. They arb sending thousand
of women and children Within onr
fir es, .destioying all Che provision
they find and preventing the people
from plantipg. Out • of many cases
reported to iib, is one of a widowed
lady, at whose honse tC number of
officers and men called and demanded
their dinners. After having eaten,
tbey told her that they had order* to
seize all her -provisions, destroy all -
the farming implements and fences
and prevent her from having a crop
raised. They left her a week's sup-
ply of provisions only. In Phillip
county they killed every milch cow,
phot down every lwg and cut down
fruit trees, In Chicot county, fhey
have made a clean sweep.
This is not civilized,, warfare. It
is a war upon women and children.
It is a wholesale robbery and nation-
al morder. Yet so timid lias been
our policy that wo have let these
villians navigate our waters, because
they protested against the barbarity
of firing into boats. We have parol-
ed jayhawkers whose hands and
garments were incarnadined with
the blood of murdered'patriots We
have forborne until forbeurance has
ceasfd to be n virtue, until* it ha
ceased tobe manly, What will be the
action of the President and th* mili-
tary authorities, in this crisis, wo
cannot anticipate, but that an enemy
to violating all rules of civilized war-
fnre anil waging a barbarous and
tiendisn war, should be treated ac-
cording to the rules of civilized war,
is absuréd. Surely, these men
should be hung as soon as caught.
They have thrown away their stars
ripe and hoisted the
S. They are wiring upon
children, and when ca
flttd stripes and
fla|
án
captors would be justifiable
them as tbey would be in
wild "beast.
AS strenuously apd
have resisted all attempts
this s black flag war,
seem determined to drive
They are organizing insi
South Carolina; tin
negro army
orgamzi~
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a daughter, the Countess
do la lfar Maubourg, died at Turin
in the month of March.
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that
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 30, 1863, newspaper, May 30, 1863; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177097/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.