The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1863 Page: 1 of 2
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BELLVILLE, TEXAS, OCTOBER 31, l$63
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JUt'ttM COUNTY— TEXAS.
VOURTH VOLOME. r
or «üwcriitiok.—fleren
, fifty cent* per annum jpsya-
Me inrariably In aAtanee. $4 00 for
six month*. Aoverti.siko.—Thirty cent*
per lttae for the flrit tatertinn, and twenty
cent* per line for erénr rabieanent inser-
tion, parable invariably in advance. All
kind* or produce taken in payment rat the
market priee.
Special Notice.—The undermined
doea not eUim the authorship of the edi-
torial* in the Countryman, during tho
publication of thU notice.
• J. P. 08TERH0UT.
t Corn for Soi,dirr's Families,
Gratis! Delivkhbd at thb Sol-
Diss's Obib f—As many negro
owners And others, as may be patriot
ie enongh to deliver sufficient corn
to furnish bread for one or more sol-
diers' Families, wholly free of charge
can bare their names inserted under
the above heading, as long as may
Appear accessary to sectfre tbe object
aimed at. Names and residence of
families will be made known to those
who desire to contribute as above,
on application at (be Countryman
office. Be jutt gentlemen! Yon
«re not requested to be liberal.
. F. E. MILLER, Poast Oak Point
100 busbuls.
Exempts not in any organised
company, wn learn something to
their advantage by calling at tbe
Ooantryraan office.
Typographical errors in our
l«ft issue must be accounted for by
the absence of the pro-tem from the
office, and the indisposition of the
printer.
OFLieutenant W. R. Lilly of Go.
D. Philips' 3d Texas Cavalry, for-
merly b resident of Bellville, who
was reported left dead on the field
at DonaldsonviHo, and was taken by
¿i Yankees and carried to New
Orleans has we regret to learn, since
died at that place. The wound
which caused bis death, was receiv
ed while gallantly doing his duty on
that bloody field. His remains were
in tarad in Greenwood Cemetery, in
MMoata tomb, marked L. May his
tabea rest hi peace.
Thb is to certify that I have been
to B. WofTord, Sam Andrews and W.
H. in DeWitt county and
tried to bay corn for my family use,
and could not get it.
S.M. MURRAH.
Company D 8tji Regt T. I. 0. S. A
October 6, 1863.
Send up your names again geste-
asen fo the Telegraph, and have a
new coat of whitewashing. We
areftot eoaaidfred good whitewash-
ed W wt «ill follow with a black-
up apostates.
i J A if «i n fl</ ■
[ victoria jiavócate,
have been e-
,Who burned
Aristocracy, 7aetPrewnt and rutar
Our real aristocracy, (nobility, if
yon please) J* that of mind. It is
composed of those men who have
lllustrated'the>nnalB of the South,
and partieolarly of Virginia, the
nursery ot statesmen, orators, and
warriors. Their character is too
well known to require mention.
Proceed we to the would be's.
As a high order of talent general-
ly succeeds in acquiring not only
bigb political station, but more ot
less wealth; and as the siman pure
are rarely presented to the observa-
tion, of tho \ugar except when sur-
rounded by all the appliances of lux-
ury; commonminds accept wealth as
the (¡ondition, whereas it is hardly an
incident, of high rank.
Acting upon this conclusion, they
bend all their energies to tho acqui-
sition of the imaginary tine qua non
which is to elevate them to- the
position of magnates of the land,
and give them, as they fondly imag-
ine, that influence, and even control
of public-affairs, to which their cc.
quisitions of the "ready" are suppos
ed to entitle them; forgetting how
low an^rder of mind it may be which
is yet able, in a lifetime of exclusive
devotion to Mammon, to acquire and
hoard up a vast accumulation of gold.
No bet terjllust ration of the true diff-
erence existing between the mere
capitalist and the true statesman, is
tound, than the relative position in
which they are seen, in countries
where both exist, with all their char-
acteristics perfect and woll defined,
as is the case in nearly every country
of Europe. The Rothschilds are the
bag-bearers, the Judases of Christen-
dom. They, are said to be the kings
of kings and emperors, because, by
two or three generations of success,
ful stock gambling, for. it is little
else, they have transferred to their
own coffers so much of the accumu-
lated capital of Europe, as to enable
them to h >ld the puma strings of the
world. But, great as are the Roths
childs in the capacity of bankers,
how infinitely little do they become
when placed, not in comparison, for
that U impossible, but in opposition
to such minds as contiol the politics
of Europe, i. e. of the world; for
blink the fact aB we may, and cut
our national vanity as it may.Eufope
it the world, and hat been since
Achilles and tbe siege of Trpy.
Who ever thinkssqf Rothschild
and Metternich, of the Barings and
Palmers ton, together I Ip like man-
ner, What is all the wealth of the
Íorth and the South, and all the
lUity it has required to create it, in
owtyMkiiioe with tho one intellect at
Richmond which controla and wields
tho one, and successfully defies the
other! Tha Ideas are totally incon-
gruous and as incommensurable *tti
each other, as «n odd fofinitesimsl
fraction b wHh infinity.
This tangos growth of would be
ed hy circamstaacw throughout the
Union, and *e Confed«^y. TV
frcUHke in both fleetiens, for
bition of .wealth—in the
csoil, sonny Am. and
hbsh-sbubbi
the cultivation of tbe great staple—in
the other, shrugged clime, a fertile
inventive genius, abundant mineral
mechanical and agricultural resour-
ces, combined with a redundant white
populatiou—conducted! the two sec-
tions of the old Union along the
broad road to wealth—and that, con-
centrated in the handsj of compara-
tively few individuals.
Every man who could control the
labor of from five to five hundred
hands inthe cotton or sugar planta-
tion, with management, could become
rich, and consequently in his owu
estimation, aristocratic in his feelings
andkhabits. Everyman who could
run from 1,000 to 100,000 spindles,
and divert from their proper channels
into his own pocket the results of
the labor of hundreds of white opera-
tives, could become equally rich, and
equally aristocratic. In either case
there is perhaps, one ( chance in
tltousand of the pretension being
founded upon anything but the al-
mighty dollar. Divest the candi-
date for aristocratic privileges, of
beaver, kid, broadcloth, patent leather
coach varnisband match horses, and
you at once divest^him of self respect
and of all other respect. His aristoc-
racy, goes off and on, probably very*
much like his^religion, one being a
periodical twinge_of conscience, and
the other only a periodical change of
fine garments.
Through all these high|pretension i
however—notwithstanding all the
disguising aBkill of hatters, tailors,
and mediste , the finny extremites,
like murder, "will out." No high
standing collar can conceal the gills,
no kids cover up the fins, no 'longtail
blue' disguise the 'flukes,' no crinoline
hide the 'dorsal,'of the veritable cod-
fish. No compound tincture ofEau de
Cologne and Guinea nigger in the
oryu case, nor Essenca Bergainot and
Assafoetida (the favorite perfume of
the Massachusetts Amalgation poli-
tician) in the other case, can over-
•potoer the real codfish and rum odor
that perUyns to the whole class, as
much as musk to the civet cat, or a
still stronger manifestation to tbe
pole. Such is tbe would be aristo-
cracy of the present. Fortunately
for this finny tribe, the olfactory
perceptions of the mass are rather
more obtuse than their intellectual,
otherwise their pretensidns had gained
t'.iem fewer followers and less credit.
There is a test however, before whiqh
all disguises mnst vanish, as mist
before the inn. That test is a great
national convulsion like that through
which we *re now passing *nd which
like tho refining furnace, separates
tbedroes from the true gold—the
aristocracy ot the Altate—of wl
in oar next, •
"T b Lbssbb evil, -rjt is prop-
mt for the Editor fw tm to state
with regard to the article under the
above caption, that for two or three
weeks past he baa been unavoidably
absent from the Countryman office,ex-
cept for a few minutes ocasionally, at
irregular intervals. He understands
that persons have taken exceptions
to the article "as ill timed and out of
Stich persons may rest
assurred that the article is not more
obnoxious in their'estimation than in
that of the Editor pro tem. It was
selected during bis absence from the
office, by another person, with the
object offilling up only, as copy was
not at baud, and was not observed
until too late to strike it out. It
was selected from the La-Grange
Patriot. It was a faux pas, which
will not be likely to occur again. Is
it original With the Patriot 7
The office of the Brownsville Flag
was struck by lightning on the 10th
ult,, stunning Mr. Swope, rattling
the tpye about, and losing itself no
one knows where. The editor says
he was pitching into Lincoln at the
time, and unamiably charges tbe
mischief to Belzebub, who is the
right hand man of the Yankee des-
pot. No one was injured, nor was
any material damage done.
]Victoria Advocate.
As may be seen by reference tó
an extract from the Jc^rson News,
iu the Countryman of the S4tb inst.;
the News man seems to have been
taken captive by his fears of the
negro immigration, and the calling
out of the "Militia to lay in camps
at government expense to sicken and
die, doing no immediate or remote
good".&c., 6ic.
As to the negro immigration, tbpt
ought of course to be either regulat-
ed or prohihi!ed Iprobably tbe former
would be the better policy. When
•white females' are insulted by. 'ne-
gro men' who «still go unliujg,' all
which the News says -is done hero'
(at Jefferson) «and in other counties,'
what are the editor of the News apd
the other white men of that region
doing, that such things are permitted i
Whatever we thiqk, we could not
say much for the coqunpnity in^hich
such proceedings are tolerated. -
We opine thqfc the Newsis laboring
under a grievous mistake in sup-
posing that the State Troops aré cal-
led out in vain. It is as evident p
sunlight at uooudy. jtyat an invasion
The Corpai
8 y that ijhe Moflean on
thoBip Oraadf hana-fov yea pn*
decid^ every election in TeXas and
havn practiailly given us our ruléis.
Bat the editor believes that our
people have borne with this evil
orffl'Mk
monsral
rnrfmr
tBRLL VILltB^jOct) 'S44h' IMtr
At a meetitag-WicMaenfrof Aaslfa
County heldjin^thejcourt -^houso^fthfe
day, Hon; J. H. CaUin, Chief Justice
of the eotmty woe called to thofhair,
and B. F ElliotVppointedJSooretary.
The object of ^ meeting was
explained by tbo chairman, after
which the extract "of a
ered by Gen. J.
Camp Lubbock <re|^¿dr by the
Houston Tplegraph was r^ad to'fbe
meeting followed by short and ap
propriate^^eecfies hy se' k :i*:i ''
After which Geo. D.
Sheriff of kthe County¿£*>ffered Jk
following resolutions,! whi¿^| w^ro
-¡rssaa
endorse and highly approve^ ^e fac-
tion of onr|comm|ndibg G^nei^l in
the premises. Hb prompt and ^
cisive action in thbm^r give^ad-
ditional assurance to^us that he b
equal to the emergency of tfcnes
and determined to act accordiodv
!°IdíIyL"7md""«n St
neld, he is the right man in :«J
place.
2d.
the right man in the right
That the Provost Marshal'*
office embracing duties of a delicato
and difficult character has he« con-
ducted with discretion and ability
in this cpunty by the present iTum
bent Capt, J. W. McDade of Hemp-
stead, We recommend him an «
faithful and vigilant officer for the
Government aud highly «¡ceptable-
to the people.
3rd. We moat earnestly recom-
mend all exempts from militaiy duty
uuder existing law, to come forwaid
and, discard ipg all conditions Bad
reservations, organise into Minóte
companies without delay and .nysrt
at once for duty under the command-
ing Genl's proclamation of. the Wfl .
inst.
4th. We pledge ourselves to give
everjr aid and information in our
power to the civil aajS milftny aó-
thoritieeiii arresting disloyal i
5th. Resolved tfaát the ] s,
Countryman, Houston Tel
Galveston New% be
publish the foregpinig imMy
and Resolutions.
J. H. CATLnr, ChdiiMn;
t3T Is it possible, as wehavs been
informed. that cé*tóa sobaorifced for
the p^urpose ef procuring, wántaraioth-
bg and tents lar: FIoumso/W IRect.,
return by
Should % ijiV|dtajtaF<9 come tp
a halt, or tajkej^e hj^ tr^it VilJ
be due in great part to the prompt
action of Gen. Magruder an«i Gpv.
Lubbock to ,
in the field, to mist their I
movement. Without striking a blow
the SUte Trtops may win £
victory ¿n flaot, pone the lees
for being, perhaps, bloodbea.
That some, perhape many.
die of disoefein consequet
exposure of the exposures
life, b too trac. Bat"
for wa#4rAheir
* other nnspsB
dal invasion
700 orSOOmMe ,
tancflfrom Am
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1863, newspaper, October 31, 1863; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177119/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.