The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 28, 1864 Page: 1 of 2
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In Houston at 33
rate to \ one of the
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Mr. J
nsiittir
quite a
■ '-i* *
louslon we obtained
paper*, - extracts from
tyjy t0 give next week
. .. We #r« obliged to*
and Mr. Richhrd|on for
'to get fheni%' They ' Hrk
it (o our citizens.
ncoment of H. Hay ford as
tefor Surveyor.,, aertsd
office prevjotris to the war and
of the Lent we bBVe ever
. • 1W He is no# laboring under
Ity contracted in the service.
shall commence printing tick
abput«ten days. Candidates
wish V>' be fleeted abouffl seo'
tj&it names are on the tickets,
requisite number of tickets will
V, ta every precinct in the
ty In ample time before the
' -
IM,
Rusk House in Houston
hands. Love, Ducoing
Smitharc now the Proprieties,
h we miss the' smiliqyj and
countenance of our old
n, it is gratifying to
customers tó know thnt
tioa long borne by the
remains unchanged. The
etorp, do all in their pow
supply t^e wants of their guests,
¿.malte them tomfortabli'
!e Y trip to Houston on
pr of last week, exj eet^ng
i «0 Friday, . so «as to be
Jftigatits t on Batuiv
rhen we arrived ip Hour
, the military gentleman we had
l <With had gone to Galveston
return until Jato the
: in timé for us to get)
trittsacted in other
í office*within business 7idurs.
i Friday morning tre ycre unable
tfeellaiWtt time, so
til fealurdaj. We
tne cause of
> from thé anái'M on Satur-
>1 vil le. * •
is
mpt?
I -Is -not vety plentiful at pres
The rumored death of Beaure-
confirmod. Grant has
; and commenced digging.
U victory in Nor
'oaptdring twenty
MOO 'éOm
•f them
"tk
iflSk 'a
W
lie cam* to
(*en. jones
I et raflt's corps.
June 6th
. to, five
tmÉkí
Dismissing such speculation*, wc
recommend to the reader "tho suínmá-
ry oft he', Northern journals which
i# laid before him this morning.
First, .We have tho journal* of the
10th;. They contain the news of the
WildejrifHs fight. The accounts of
ítyt frtmi.'the fields have enough
truth in them to! leave no doubt as
to tho defeat of the Yankee army
itnd the utter rout of an entire corps
Yet, believing it to have been the
decisive engagement, extravagantly
elfeted that Grant had not broken
entirely down, and supposing Lee to
have suffered as much as íírant, the
government at Washington committ-
ed the astounding blundef of uttering
oIIm;i«I declaration of a fomplet'e vie
lory, representing Lee as Hying in
Vout to Richmond and Grant pursu-
ing hotly, Nor did it tako this step
half-wa*. These stories are put
forth in a solum proclamation, signed
Abraham Lincoln, calling on the
people of the United States to join
iu a public thanksgiving for the
victory which concludes the war
Stanton, the Secretary, who has
hitherto been satisfied with the
editorials of his newspapers, and the
cooked dispatches of the Generals,
is now contont with no second hand
fibbers, and will have uo svl lying!
He lies for himself, and does it with
a vim unsurpassed in the annals of
the art. He sends out a telegram
over liis own namo that Lee has
fled, and at last, 'On to Richmond.'
Werethesp persons drunk, or were
they really deceived "? Surely notlj
ing could be imagined more injurious
to themselves than the reaction which
must follow when fresh troops had to
be sent on, aud new slaughter ad-
mitted within a few miles of the
first; when Grant was announced
at Chiinceiorville instead 'Of Rich-
mond^ We await with impatience
the next issfteB of these veracious
and refreshing sheets of the New
York press. True, wo have some
excerpts from these of the 12th ; but
they are incomplete, and they have
only the liews of tho first check at
Spottsylvania Court house—that of
Tueiday, Even that perliminary
appears to have a marked effect.
The mercantile mind of the Herald
calculates that If It costs Grant 27,
00 killed and wounded to get as far
as Spottsylvania, his trip to Rich-
mond will be a rather expensive
affair. Staaton does not treat tin
world with another telegram. As
for the 'Presidential Joker,' he has
lost bis piety, and has no turther
news from Gen. Grant, except that
be "wds like the man that climbed
the pole and pulled it np after him."
Monkeys climb the pole also. When
men or moakeys descend? poles they
slide.—Examiner.
Vo are informed that our authori-
ties have determined to sepd Dr.
for politii
ferais, and that the commander of
the blockading fleet off this part has
agreed to receive th
— " !' 1 1 J
' 4 w9mnTl Will cling to (be chosen
of her-heatf like « podara t to
tree, and yon can't sepaifte
her without snappfhg etijngs no ait
can mend, leavjpga portion of Jier
on the upper leather of your
will BonSetitnes aee
love winre
to admire;
it
"j. ■ few \ 1
-[It wiirhe seen by the following
review of militiiry operations, that as
iregafüs territorial acquisitidbs, ' the
Yankee Government is just about
where it was two years ago Kast of
the Mississippi, the past two years
leaving been spent without making
any progress whatever.]
[Prom the Richmond.Whig.J
AV Impossible Task.—If it
should fortunately happened that
Newborn fall into our possession, and
we believe we have every right to
anticipate its speedy capture, the
whole af North Carolina will return
to Confederate dominion, liy means
®f i¥< ir naval supremacy and tlieir
posts at Newborn, .Plym'outh, Wash-
ington and-other place's, the enemy
have been enabled for the last two
years to. dominate Pamlico and Al-
berlinarle Sounds and the circumja-
cent counties. Thus they have hold
a country not of great area, but. of
much importance from its exceeding
fertility and the abundance of food
supplies annually produced by it.
Its recovery will prove no less a
solid increase of our resources than a
brilliant triumph of our arms, and
will it is to be hoped, constitute the
opening of a series of successes' by
which tho tide of invasion is to bo
rolled back and a wide extent of
Confederate territory wrested from
the enemy's grip.
While looking forward to this re-
sult, ive caunot help being struck
with tb® fact which forcibly presents
itself, that by far the larger portion
of oiir country now in possession of
the enemy was occupied during the
first thirteen months of the "ivar.
Indeed it is extremely doubtful
whether, in tbís?respeét, wc Are not
now, at least East of the Mississippi
belter off then we were eighteen
months ago. We know that it is
the general impression that the Feder-
al armieH have been gradually en-
croaching upon us, occupying large
portions of our, territory and reducing
the area of our power : but after all,
when we look on the map, balance
our gains amf losses and estimate
accurately the extent of country held
by the respective parties to the eon-
test. wo cannot help being surprised
at the comparatively small advances
that have been made by tho Federal
forces during the last year and a
half. The capture of VicSsburg
find Port Hudson, und of Chattanooga
and Knpxville-, weio certainly great
miBlortunes; but not only Were they
not followed by the immense conse-
quences which the enemy anticipat-
ed, but tlrey did not lead to any very
extensive acquisitioris of torrirory.
Soon after the captare of Newy
Orleans, the fall of Memphis and the
retreat from Corinth, the waves of
invasion which had rolled through
the gates of the Confederacy af
Fort Donelson overflowed the whole
of Middle and West Tennessee and
North Alabama. McGlellan'f army
lay close to Richmond, and Northern
Virginia was entirely in the power]
of the enemy.# Since that time,
much has been gained by the Yi
kees. Driven frojn around
mond, they were forced to
mnch . of Virginia. They do
now hojd as tnnéh of this átate as
did then. Tfaey have lost ground in
North Carolina, te Alaháma, ft
North JUmfeslppi, and in t
On tho other band, to
compensate. or átate losses, thfjr
have gained a. portion
T ■ ■i. élfA naiá kl
ifMKWW) tii# «por, vi
between *|T
a
A '
Thus, it appears that East of the
river they have not gained more than
they have tost. Indeed, we believe
their losses exceed their gains, and
that as to mere acquisition ,of territo-
ry, they are not advanced towards
the subjugation of the Confederacy
so far as they were twenty-two
months ago. They held tpore in
Juno, 186?, than they held in April,
1564. West of the Mississippi, they
have been rather more fortunate,
having succeeded in oVerunning a
great part of the State of Arkansas.
This," then, added to a few towns on
the Texas coast; .constitutes the
tho whole of their conquest after
two years of hard fighting and the
expenditure of two or three thousand
million dollars. They certainly un-
dertook a •big ^job,' as Old Abe
called it; bigger ontükhan they will
ever get through wph. They will
probably find out that their expendi-
tures of blood and money will at least
offset all they are likely to gain in
the South, and they are attempting
á task as impossible as that of the
man who tried to
tub.
lift himself in at
RjfUMOND. *av! lg.^The
psMsed a bill amendatory of the Cur-
rency anttafiiing
th? Secretary
issue one of the ifty« tor
three of the old issw
1st of January, 1664 or as
thereafter as practicable. Ha «hall
reduce the circulation to t*r& millions.
Any State baying i
notes may receive new issue in ex
change for one-h«lff nt the amount
arid bonds for Jhe^h#. ##-
ers iff Tressnry notos «titled
exchanged in four per; cent- bonds-
not taxable principsJ or iniUjtt,
. Solders of fflnr per
may exchange then
above described.at the rate of three
for two. Tb|^ranM^,,V delivery
of the four per .¿ont.
enable the holders $..*1* , tut same
in the payment of
The Senate *
bill providing for
the old Treasfcif;
" Death of tub Pbesídknt's
Son.—We clip the following from
the Richmond Sentinel of the 2d
instant:
Saturday coining the Presidential
mansion iu this city was the acetio of
a most melancholy occurence. At-
5 o'clock tlmt evening on.e of the
servants discovered President Davis'
third child, a little, boy five years,
old, named ^Joseph, lying in an in-
sensible condition.on the ground, in
rear <rf the back porch, witli blood
oozing from his mouth and nose and
one of his.thighs broken. -The child
had evidently fallen over the railing
of the porch, a distance .of. perhaps,
twenty feet. None of the President's
faynily being iu the house at thMimf
tl*> ladies of the neighbored were
called in and medical' aid rent for.
Every effort was made tó revive the
little sufferer • but without succnes.
The diild continued to sink, and ex-:
pirod at a few moments before
o'clock, having lived about
hours after the discovery of the ac
cidcnt. How iong after the accident
it was discovered is not known.
two
t The returns, as far as received anc.
couq||d by the Secretary of State
8 how that Ool, S. H. Darden has
been elected to Congress in ibis, the
1st District, by about 200 majority.
We believe One or two counties,
which gave majorities for Darden,
failed to send up their ^turns.
- [CrMzálc Inquirer.
Wb direel the attention of all in-
terested to general order5 J®
bdqrs. 6th Brig, ©ist, JPhose
fail to Respond, Will only
•¿foe to thank for any
e are glad to know that
bent, at tho last
Gen. Barnes d.
. nto colonel of
by election. Hé was
at the 1'"*
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m
. M
mmm
"Gbr
beende^idjidj^
f Philade]
agreed to
pay a yearly grojfid rent. ,«# J6W,
lawful iily^r 9>oney of «(he Udtojl
States, eaci
teen penny,weights an^iiix
at least."
When the rent became due (he de-
feftdant ttndered the '• amonnf^n
United States Treasurj- warrants,
which plantiff refused lo rWi^Ve.
detnaiidjji^; silver doláis.
brou^hi, «lid the defendant pleaded ¿
legal ten<h r aa „í¿- --i ^
averring that I he déte
tender 1 sSlv/-r doííarv, etc.,
,.>• . ]'T' t 'J.'
])rofnii>'sory not** or paper
the United States, of nomiú
bf $285,"liiit 40 jier ceut.L
charijgeable yklue. ®-'*,s-"'
fenda'nt fib d a r
avénlng tfraf the
so tendereicl
the t'iiiféd
dor lii tliji jpá;
Saturday the
ment that
legal tend ?*, < ;
received In
that the special
no a>:ail.
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 28, 1864, newspaper, June 28, 1864; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177144/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.