The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 22, 1863 Page: 2 of 2
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'Gentlemen,' said á Virginia poli-
tical orator laatyear, «I hare serrad
pay.couBtij anil dona my duty as á
patriot, ^o-dtptho bonea of my
«ath ulaini
boaa load
anjl adrare. At the last kossion of
Coñgreoa the popular branch yielded
tó lfr^raiw&d attempted to re-
peal the exemptions in certain pointa
but the Senate, older and naturally
mora conservative and far seeing,
resisted the attempt and left the law
very mnch as It was before.
Hen are so little willing to reason
on this subject, and bo much con-
trolled by their feelings in what tliey
say and do in times of public excite-
ment, and so.little by their judgment
that it aeemB impossible to convince
£4hem that there is any right or jus-
tice, or good policy in the exemption
law at all. It is to give voice to
theaa murmfirings that this article is
writtep. Let us see where the com-
plainta come from.
It is a little singular that the
great weight of them is from those
who are, in one way or anothei in-
cluded within the exemptions! For
inatance, the office holder regard it
ae an outrage that the shoemaker
and blacksmith, strong, able-bodied
men, should be exempt especially
since they could do the country so
much service in the army and more
especially when they aliarge from
five to to ten prices for their work.
The ahoemaker and the blacksmith
turn about, and vow it to be a griev-
ous wrong that the office holder, who
feeds from the public crib, sh uld be
excused from fighting for the pul
safety. The next man you meet is
loud in his abuse of the law that
keeps'Certain negro owners at home,
asserting that thiq is "the rich man's
war and the poor man's fight"'
phrase, by the way, which would be
portent ooa ol evil in any country
less governed by the sober second
thought than oms, but which here
can be but a temporary ebullition
that will loee itself in the next turn
of the political wheel. That the
negroes should be policed is admit-
ted ; that their owners are the best
police they could have is also admitt-
ed. Bat the distinction made is an
invidious one, and, for our own part
we regret if, and shall be glad to Bee
the next Congress make a police of
this kind from the discharged veterns
who are now so plenty in all the
rural oittnct*.
Bat again the employment ex-
eniptiona of all kinds are looked up-
on aa a great wrong by thoee who,
from Some slight phyaioal defect,
ined a surgeon's exemption,
inatance who are able to
«Mm'uy kind of hard work, but
1 < <ice a little deaf, or a little near
or "have a ropture," or
, ^ else of the thousand ills
flútiadi is heir, to, uro" loudest in
(thoh[ complaints against any man
ooonapted for anything bat
ibiHty. We have heard
|J -taunpta who can
a rifle in the top
one of theee
wéüOwaar that oAtoro ought to
We have heard so much Said of
tho "odious" exemption law, as it is
called, that we have «ad th
the causea of complaint againat it^' Roth employment and physical
— — * Wt —
mHuuiiy exempts iro iciuuiy oui-
raged that anj man should be.suft -
ed to pot a substitute into the
vice again ringing a charge about
"poor and the rich.
The man of 46 don't sea any use
of having any exemption law at all,
though he has not deemed it bis duty
to volunteer yet under the various
calls that have been made.
There is but one conclusion to be
made in this matter, and that is if
the country is to be satisfied, noth-
ing less will do than to sweep away
the entire exemption business, both
of employment, office, and physical
disability, and extend, the conscript
act up to 90,
But, we are to(d it will not do to
send cripples to the army. Why
not! Many of them can fight very
well. They certainly cannot run
away, and they may stop bullets
from men that can do better service.
Besides, if ihey have wooden legs,
minnie bullet in one ot them will
not hurt them as bad sb it would i
the leg was of flesh and bone I
But old men surely should be ex-
empt ! Why 1 They may be al-
most as usefhl on the battlefield as
cripples. Certaiqjy, let all the old
men be included.
How about Congressmen, judges,
preachers, etc. Our murtnurers, you
may be sure, will not be willing that
these gentlemen Bhould stay away
frotti the war, nor doctors either.
Why they, any more than lawyers 1
But if the shoemakers go, what
are we to do for shoes ? Do without
But at least we must have cloth
ing ? Oh no we can do without
that.
But, after all, you aré exempting
the women and negroes! Well, lef
them all be brought into the ranks,
and all ground of dissatisfaction
will be remov,*d-
We commend these matters to the
Congress. If they wish to pleas**
everybody, they must pass an act
that shall be a practical commentary
upon the public talk. They mnBt do
what everybody else is now doing,
vote everybody else but themselves
into the army
For our own part, we believe that
every man can do his country ser
vice wherever he may be. If he can
make shoes, or mend gone, or print
newspapers, or carry the mail, or b«
governor or physic the people to
better advantage to the public than
The following rather severe thing
la aaid-ofGen. Hunter by thf, Nor
York Tim# *
The moat, remarkable ovqtfa of
, werethe, battle
which Was fought
againat hia orders—the recent attack
Oharleaton, in which ho took no
I Mtrt-o-and the siege of Fort Pulaski,
which was conducted by the officer
who Is now to be his suODesaor.
The Tyler Reporter saya that Gen.
Gano has been placed in command of
all cavalry in Texas and that to be
organised. Gen. Gano won his
wreath under Morgan in Tennessee,
and is a spirited officer. He intends
to perfect an efficient cavalry force of
10,000 men out of the militift now
organisi g.
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Mr Pilkiug ton, a small farmer in
Pennsylvania, was lately drafted for
service of his country. His wife,
though she^possessediXbut a small
stock of general information, is one
of the beat of conjugal partners, and
she is troubled much with the thought
of parting with her husband. The
other day as she was scrubbing off
her door steps, a rough looking
stranger came up and thus addressed
her:
"I hear, inarm, that your husband
has been dratted."
"Yes, he is," answered Mrs. P.
"The dear knowB, there's few men
that couldn't be spared better from
their families."
'Well, marm, I've come to offer
myBelf a substitute for him."
A what 1" aeked Mrs. 1*. with
some excitement.
"I am willing to take his place,"
said the strangnr.
'•You take the place of my hus-
band. you wretch ! I'll teach you
to'insult a distressed woman that
way, you vagabond,4' cri^d Mrs* P,
as she. discharged the dirty soap
Buds into the face of the discomfitted
and astonished substitute, who took
to bis heels just in time to escape
having his head broken by the
bucket.
his carrying a musket would be, be
ik in the line of patriotic duty in
doing theae things. Otberwiae be
is not.—Telegraph,
(yPoét Master General Reagen's
wife died Ot Richmond on the list
ot July.
Thb Doombd.—Geo. Winder has
allowed Hemy W. Sawyer, one of
the Yankee Captains selected for
execution, in retaliation for the ah not-
ing of Capta. Wm. F Oorbita and T
J. McGraw, at Sandesky. Ohio, by
BurnakleVl oide* to amid for hia wife
and child, and a latter for that pur
Ptaa wa * by a fag at trace yeater-
4*0. It V hardly pcobohlethat the
day of exaeotfcft wiQ ho fixed oatf
o
wm
iaeajd to hMfe-opftar a*
the following cooptast
"D« Load he hpfc** Ptar* waD.
The Election—Official*.—The
following is the official vote of Austin
County tor the General Election, held
August 3, 1863:
For Governor,
i' J Chambers 386
P Murrah, 274
For Lieut Governor,
F S Stockdale 116
S H Darden, 254
A M Gentry, 236
P W Kittrell, 26
Com'r Land Office,
S Crosby 283
For Att'y General,
Wm Stedman, .............. 379
N G Shelly, It
For Congrett, 2d Dist
C O Herbert,....; 517
E D Townes, 62
For Senator,
N Holland,349
C B Shepard,.125
G I?elder,.................... 46
For Representative,
N W Bnah, 264
G Maetxe,.♦.......••••••••« Ill
R 1 Paine,.................. 13
For Amendment—Constitution, 177
Against Amendment,. 139
For Oomnty Treasurer,
A Rothermel,
• • • * • a <
S Hayford, ...«. ^ . ..., .
J W Manning,
86
101
228
13
B Fisher,....
County Surveyor,
H Millar...... 806
•The retorna from Ptne Grove are
not included in the above. In wash-
ington (Jo* the oflftjM vote
tori , Shepard, MB}-JJolU®^Ufc
On the lets
DWA
ComutUr at
the District aa*
Judicial
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¡T, lummta em*
■Will aHalii i i"
daaFefttel.i.
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Tosrw
ABOUT one month *ince, at my place
about eight asiles North East from
Bsllvilte. west of the Braces, a roan
horse, white spat is his forehand, both
fore jeet a little whits, sad left hind foot
white, saddle u arked, about seven year*
eld ahset lOiu haali high, aeetle to ride,
branded oa the left shoulder T R oooneot-
ed at the top, aad a bar across the lower
part of the£.. The «woet oí said horse «
to pruT«
n sway.
d5-4t-Wifea f 10,00."
requeate) to prore him, pay charges and
take him away. JAMBS W BRACE Y
e J
hereby so
1, All
Richmond, Va„ Hay. l|r 1803.
O km eral Oupjata, No. 68.
I. The following notice, relative to ex-
changed prisoners, is published for the
information of all eonoeraed
"XCHxNOE NOTICE, No. 5.—Ths
following Confederate ofBeers and
nea have been duly exchanged, and are
declared:
Ceafederato oAoers and mes
who have been delivered at City Point up
to May 6, 18mT
3- All oAoers csptured at any place
before the 1st of April, 1U63, who have
been released on parole.
X All metoaptured in North Carolina or
Virginia before the lat of March, 1003,
who have been released en parole
4. The oiRcera and men captured and
par ¿led by General 8. P. Carter in his ex-
ledition to East Tennessee, in December
ait.
5. The oAoers sud men osptnred snd
paroled by Lieutenant Colonel Stewsrt,
at Van Bureu: Arkansas, January 96,' 03 ¡
by Colonel Dickéry, in December 1863,
in hia march to the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
road, bnd by Capt Cameron, at Corinth,
UiMÍssippi, in December, 1869.
6 The officers and men parolled at Ox-
ford, Miaaiwippi, in December, 1808, at
Detark, Arkansas, on the 17th of January,
1863. and at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on
the 33d of February, 1863
7. All persons who have been captured
on the sea, or the wat-rs leading to the
same, or upon the sea coast of the Coa
federate or United States, at any time
previous to December 10th, 1803.
8. A' l civjjiai s who have been arrested
at any time before the 6th of May, 1863
and released on parole, are discharged
from any and every obligation contained In
said parole. If any such person hss tsken
any oath of állegianceto the United States
or flfen sny bond, or if his release was
accompanied with any ether condition, he
is discharged from the same.
9 If any petton orabraced in any of the
foregoing sections, or in Sny section of
any previous Exohange Notioe, wherein
they are declared exchanged, are in any
Federal priton, they are to be immediate-
ly releasi d and delivered to the Conf
rate authorities.
ROBERT OULD.
Agent of Exchange.
Richmond, May 9th, 1863.
II. All persons, whether citizens or
soldiers, are expressly prohibitsd from
using, or in sny manger interfering with
fuel, or wood cut snd delivered'for the use
of railroad* or railroad companies. It
of the first importance that this order
should be ob*erred, and it will be strictly
obeyed and enforced by the army
By order
(Signed) 8. COOPER,
Adjutant an 1 Inspector General.
EF" Confederate newspapers will insert
the foregoing notice six times snd forwsrd
account- to the War Department. d3-6t.
hoat, Ese.
BellvlUe.
Oct. If, 1868.
HAVING
April 11 th, M8. e96-Om.
RAGS! KAGS! RAGfM * "
undersigned in Austin, or to Dr- Theo.
Koeáter InNew Brauafels.
These ragi' are wanted to make paper
with, and as this is a aew eatarorite in
Texas it is to ha hoped .every family wiU
provide the..scire* with a rag bag- Agents
to collect rags Will be appointed in each
oounty, of which dee notice will be given.
Texas psp.irs generally are reqneated to
cofiy. ano those who mass a charge, Will
puKl-t th".
Austin Marel^$l 1863, c364f,
Rusk Hoou)
MRS. C. HULBUD, PROPRIETRESS,
M, F- TaoMraov, Manager,
Corner of Fropklyn and Tram Ste
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Nothing shall be 'Wanting to maintain
the reputation this house has always borne.
icrepu
46 fy
NOTICa
LETTERS of sdministration having
been granted to th<l undersigned, at the
Febi nary Term, 1803, of the Count! court
irLouiie
of Austin county, upon the estate of
Mueller, deceased, all persons_nsving
claims sgainst sold estate sre required to
present them Within the time prescribed
bylaw. J. F.MUELLER,Adm'r.
da 6t.
£xecntorvi Notice.
Letters Testsmentary were granted to
meat the Jaly term A. D. lflOOofthe
County court of Austin oounty upon the
Estste of John O. Whitfield, deceased; all
persons having elalms against said Es tato
are required to present them within the
time prescribed by law,
dS.Ot T.B.WHITE, Executor
$300 Reward.
RANAWAY from mr plantation, eight
miles east of BelMlle, about The
10th of March last, Faaaa, a slave. 45 or
50 vears old, black complexion, 6 feet
high, spare made, prominent forehead,
«peaks tolerably quick and distinct; has
tne msrk of s sore on one side óf his
forehead. ALSOt Jo Dowxino, a slave,
black, 6 feet 10 or II inohes high, 30 yr
36 rear* old, one ear scarred, speaks slow
anddistinet with a strmg voiee. He Was
bought of a man on LUtle River and has
been seen the since he ran away.
ALSO i Jo Bun, tt pears old, 6 fret
10 or 11 inches high, dark brown complex-
ion, tne, open countenance, speahs qaick
and persuasively; rana way ia Jane last.
I will par FIFTY Dollars for each if
toben ia-Aastia coanty, or one hundred
dollars each, If taken eat ef the coanty
shd returned to ase. Howard t¡o bb paid
in COnMerate money at par. •
BellviU#, August 4, 180 ¿941
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QUA£TERlSA8Tr.n'8 Ornea,)
Satt Antonio, Texas July 6th '63. \
lb compliance with general Orders
No. 73, naneé ia hereby given to all
concerned, that the rates and wages
paid to teamsters and for freight iu
the service under my charge* are as
follows:
Teamsters, owning the teooiR they
drive, are paid freight at the rate of
three cents per pound per hundred
miles. Teamsters not owning their
teams, are paid wagea at ihe rate of
forty dollars per month, and a ration.
Teamsters who freight through to
Brownsville, will be furnished there
by my agents with facilities for ob-
taining their neeeeaary supplies.
The above rates are payable al-
together in Confederate notes.
General Order, No. 73, above re-
ferred to is aa follows :
Headquarters, District oí Texas, )
New Mexico and Arizona, S
Houston May 30tb, '63. )
General Ordera, No 73.
All persons entitled to employ
conscript teamsters in the transpor-
tion of cotton, are hereby prohibited
to pay them larger wag. * than are
allowed these teamsters by Major
Hart. MftjoF-Hait will cauae the
ratea at whijph theaa men era employ-
ed to be pubBahed In all the newa-
papers for the information of all
concerned. After having arranged
the ratea wiih tb« Chief Diabursing
Officers of this Diairict, these officers
will notify thair conttactoi s that any
violation of this Order will cause
Maj. Geo. J. B. MAGBODER.
Goo. A, Magnida^ ,JLA. A. G.
violations of (htr^BE
aaay* eoino fo their
hwwlfdfa. g. HART.
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 22, 1863, newspaper, August 22, 1863; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177109/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.