The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 13, 1864 Page: 1 of 2
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ty, Texas.
13. 1864.
tinues exceedingly
' «alen
here
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e are informed that
delivered Rttd sold at
wtmty five cents peí1
have-not heard of any
re At any price. It
OOght take as cheap here as at
Thorn baa been an abun-
dbmeo raised. ; "-rI
Turn Kumbeu cloges the . -1th
volume, or 4tb y oar that wo httve
published the" Countryman. Our
ne*t number commences .the fifth
e. Those who wish to su^
be, better commence with the
beginning of the volume. We shall
publish the'paper at loast one year
longer.
BP" The Crocket paper says that
John II. Evans and Noah A. Moore
were hung at Crocket on the 20th
ult. by a mob. They were arrested
and put in jail as the murderers of
SB. Truly. When Court qpme on
tbay had their case coutinued.
Whereupon, a mob collected, broke
. opea thrt jail and bung the prisoners
on the Public Squ?je, in the face' of
tibe Court.
SsmSMfitóe&Si - ,..üül..
The Rev. John C. Clabangb
the Centretfllo Times that
lie held a revival at Retreflt in Grimes
county at which fifty six persons
were baptized. Also, at Xavasota
when? twenty seven were baptized ,
amone the mumber was Phison Lan-
caster of the Texas 'itnngor. Mr. C.
n meeting at Wash-
and" the house was so crqwd-
ed that a larger one bad in be ob-
tained. _
QP* We learn that a tejegram
arrived at Hempstead a day or two
since stating.'that Vnllandigiiam was
iwiMinBtetl for Pfjfeident by the
Chicago Convention. The name of
the candidate for Vice. President
trǤ not remenibered by our iufor-
.«OAnt, ; -4, .
/ f*P.;•$. Since the alw^v was sot up.
UrehAve setu a* Telegraph which
states tW Mc,Clellati was nominated
OB the firstflWlot and Geo. H. Ped-
\ ice President. So Val*
ni is not in race. It
UMtters Very little who 4a nominated.
. Thero doe* not appear any sfrong
sign of peace in the platform of the
«M«0Útion.
V•' '**.< h i n ■ *T—
áoAl ! \~Mr, ]VAitei %
lift want/yqp «to "publfsli, for the
r housekeepers, the
trjHf * C«V,*:.A15
lug
tin eahw of wood Oliera
í Jiving yielding m small
¿ir ;ÍJ. to
eOAd about
TpB Election.—'The election is
oy|r, And though the official vote
has not been estimated, enough is
known that Judge Catlin is elected,
and also Z. W. Matthews for County
Clerk and. J.C. McDade for County
Commissioner. Xbe two latter ofli
cers wero elected at the first, election
in August, but both being ip the
army At the time, they did not ar-
rive home in seasoft to qualify wiih-
in the ten days required by law.
The election for Chief Justice was
tie at the August election between
Judge Catlin and ourself-
Now.Jbat the matter is decided,
it may be well to state, that previ
Óiw to the August electiou, Judge
Catlin and ourselt entered into an
agreomant to swap votes, or, to vote
for each other. We were at New
Ulm on the day of the election and
in pursuance of the agreement gave
óur vote to Judge Catlin. He yoted
at Cat Springe, and by some accidcnt
he failed to give us his v,ote as was
agreed upon by us. Had ho voted
for us agreeably to promise, we would
have been elected by one majority.
We both rail the election over.
''Turn about is fair play," probably;
for, as we were, in equity, fair deal-
ing and good conscience, elected at
.the first election, so, perhaps it is
right hi morals that wo should be
defeated*this. time. It was right
evidently in the estimation of some
people, and soma very pious .people
too, that some advantage should be
gained over ah opponent, and that
the "end justified the means."
There are other*, however who
think we were wronged at that first
ejection, and they think that the
person who wronged us has reaped
au advantage by it. They may bo
very toolish people who think so,
but they Cftiuiot bu...persuaded ent
of the belief of its truth. We th^nk
it eminently proper that these things
should be placed upon record i'or
future reference.
As for us, we prefer our fcsition
as au humble citizen to the office in
which thp peopb' sought to place us,
father than to obtain it by the' viola-
tion biour plighted word. And as
we live this day, Aye firmly believe
that hnd we failed to render to oifr
opponent what we had so positively
agreed to do. we should have sought
without cavil,: to render it as oppor
tutiify air-red, oy eWry means iu
our power.
lint we do not complain of the
result. The will of the people has
now been expressed; so let it be,
If the people are benefited by the
result, we shall rejoice with them,
"and nt all times give due deference
to legal authority and to the "po\vers
that be." -
QT We are permitted to cflpy,
says the News, the following ex-
tract from a private letter, dated
Havana, August 18th, to > a friend in
this tity «
•A remarkable chango has come
Over the Yankeé nation. Lincoln's
friends Are denrting him by thous
ands, And theycry «Peace* 1 peace 11'
His late Strang support eré ere now
denouncing him as a demagogue And
An usurper of thefr constitutional
liberties. Despotism is rampant,
tivrn times ™ ^ P*1* k hitter iu their de-
ÜVer BUoro aunciations against him. Every pa
S2U. .i «red
him nimi his last issue ija which
These
ofAAi.es, With
ley
throughout the North for poAce, if
the lending articles of the m«st prom-
inent papers are any indication of
public sentiment. a gentleman f
New York, who lives in Vera Cvtiz,
tells me ho sees no chance for Lin-
coln's election, unless the army vote
for him at the point of the bayonet.
The army is becoming demoralized
and are bard to control. County
meetings are being lu-ld iu the differ-
ent States favoring peace on con-
ditions acceptable to the South. They'
say pence on any terms honorable to
the South, and. are clumorous for an
armistice.' I wish you could
the articles in the New
see
York News
and other leading newspapers: They
are in terrible tfardest, I should im-
agine, from the tone of their arti-
cles against file Lincoln administra-
tion and all who favor their polity."
Blockade running is not active at
Nassau, owing to the quarantine reg-
ulations of Wilmington. Extensive
preparations are being made for ^ie
fall trade.
The cousumptidli of raw cotton, in
England^ has increased in the last
eighty-eight years to the remarkable
extent of three hundred fold even
in the fifty years of the present cen-
tury it has increased more than
sixteen fold ; ond since the restora
tion of,peace in Europe, in the year
1815, more than eleven fold.
From tlie Galveston News.
We are. opposed to bitrtbening.Qur
colünms with extracts from the pa-
pers of our Quasi friónds the En-
glish, but tins article from the Lon-
don Standard, found in our issue of
tOrday, gives so correct n view of
Grant's operations that we cannot
resist the temptation to lay it before
oiti readers. It is our deliberate
Spotsylvania. The army Was de-
íéd—(«rant has not sensy enough
to know when be s whipped. Do
Our renders know that when Grnnl
left tlio i'uiíed States iii'niy he was
an ostracised vagabond—a ln-astiy
(It sotti d debniu^te, n .victii.i of
uiania-ft-petn. This b known to old
army oflicers. Onbivadeis will in-
«quire hóW or why lié luis become ho
grcA1. We eminit answer./ fjbirie
waiter ha:\ said that men •ittcquire
greatness in'three ways—seine are
great bv naturtf, iome make them-
selves great, and a third chíss have
greatness e.-fct bpon - th in. Gratii
belongs to the third class.!. What
distinguishes him is a blood-thirsty,
bull-dog bravery, which leads him
to burl his dnmken soldiery against
Lee's embattled host, so that by ' his
madness the means of widowhoo^
and wailings of orphanage go up
from seventy thoiuaud deJhlatod
hearth-stones.
Grlnt lias never accomplished any-
thing, except by * force of numbers.
Tho-capture of Vicksbnrg was owing
to overwhelming numbers, . coiipltd
with imbecility, and (if .Gen. John-
ston's official report is to bo^redlted)
the want of fidelity of Pemlxrton.
In Geu Lee's hands Grant is like a
moukee in a lion's paw. After a
loss of seventy thousaud men, he_h
left the line where he
fight all summer and placed
south of Richmond. His only hope
was th capture Petersburg, And wut
for ShermAu' to "crush" Johnston,
then uniting the two Armies south or
west of Richmond, march to its cap-
ture. With the .Appomattox, Swift
And James rivers between him aad
Richmond, Grant has u6 hope of its
capture. Nor cAn he remain long
where he is. The location is ex-
ceedingly unhealthy, especially du-
the mondw of August and
tofpkts the
H *>:
film to remain tfithi
his Armyi" 'In our ^
war to
will btf the moat
bvjbe
mm
Sep*
mm
war is fo ter-
irdy And gradn-
ble. lint the
on the
can
oir adver-
Approach-
he
not
mil
ally
ad vi
bide
afford to
saries cannot.
ing 1'residentÍAÍ
former on td desperate
battles j no impending financial crash
disturbs their equanimity. «With
steady and unqualing front, they
await the foe. We take it for grant-
ed that decision of character is not
wanting to the fnew -commander in
Georgia, and if that be so, we see no
rea«on%kr flank movements at At-
lanta mayTiot be brought tó grief as
easily as at Petersburg. Aut we
warn the sanguine reader against
high-wrought anticipations. %hAr-
mau Iias prepared behinif him base
after base, | strongly fortified. De-
featis not .annihilation iu his case
any more than in that of Banks, If,
indeed, so much, for he is a man of
inliuitejjy more ability, and has with
him sojíi^jftáfhe best minds in the
VaukceSHpee, The ' repulse of
Sb«nii¿iv«\Atlanta, will be followed
by a succession of séiges at the for-
tified points in his re&r.
What Grant will do or what will
be don^with him, is a matter of
conjectriw —He is sq completely in-
carcerated in fredounts, redans, tra-
verses^iud the like, that we very
much doubt whether he could extn-
?nte himself if left enfirely unmolest-
ed. - We think it not unlikely that
after one or" two more fights,. imper-
ceptibly "dreen" Away like a dilapi-
dated barrel of his favorito Monongn-
hela. He is under the necessity of
butting his brains eatiiely out, and
we tvust he will bo permitted to do
so. The #ar may tnnu linger, splut-
ter, flare, and finally die out at its"
loiwiiie. What matter, so wo win
our independence, as we surely shall?
\ Richmond. Whig July 21*/.
weights and
l\-isons are frequently puzzled in
their daily transactions, to ascertain
w hat s^elr and mtch tm Article onght
to weigh per bushel. Here is a
table which all would do well, to cut
out and preserve. It will prove val-
nnbi í'i>r referottco: " ••
Jiits/rds.
Wheat
tS.lwlled Corn ,
C«#u in em"
FeV I'tfB
..Kve
UiSts ,
líf.rley #
1 l ish PfttAtoeS
.Sweat I'b/ntot rf
White 1 leans
CaKtoc tíéaní
Clj^'er Seed '
Ti:tj(ithy fcseed
Fl-tx Seed
l(«n\p Seed
• Blue Grass Seed
liuckwheat ;, •
1 )riedpencUe«
- Dried Apple
(hA i
Stone CoaI
lira.ft
Turnips
Plasterii
Pom¿*.
CO
5G
:v UO
5Ü
1 :J2 v
- 47 •
n: CO
'óá.w.í
60 ij, ;
40
'J 45 Miii
J. I 44
v
'■¡M- :'
38 j-. -
67
50 .
80
sa
■'.j
■ A box 24 by 1
contains one barr
X box 16-hy 1
rend
b^inchee, deep,
>y 4 inches, 8*' deep, ^'C^a ma$ a
Comptroll
of the
million
provido for tl
Hés. and these
are now being fi
sevep c^hts io ti
icBuance at this
reduce thvir market valí
m
amendatory
authorise
notes, held
issue, ins<
fttsrequi
as tl
a half of
Treasu:
J! '
once
in this
ing more
mi.
Hk-'
UOW about
Pote
BIpp -
«t this sunj. st
avaUable to the
> of need, instead o||
p|e moneyv /viych j
lead to its further .depreciation,
iveiitually saddle uppon the State,
lebt she wilj not be able to get .«
of for years to come.
We have heard it intimated
the Governor is entertaining the id
o.t convening the Legislature, «%
the last seMdon, an act was pi
requiiing the Comptroller to f'ui
these SlOQjmtes now io the Tro#
and before they «an be exebaug*
will require some additional le{
tion.' Tjie subject is one « '3
importance to the interests and. pal-
iare of tko State, and we eon i
Other course-now left for the
and we can see no otlier course u«
left for tU Governor fo pursuq, .}
this, as our Srate credit I
literally*ruined by past h_
We admit that the history of
present Legislature preeludes.ev
hope of much good, at their $
but as fliey liAve liAd an opp
of seeins the resultH,; o| ,tb«
follies, they may po*s bjy be «V
to act more considerately '•
future. The measure* jwt-st-d
MEASURESíjíhist session have failed to aw
their object, the State goveitiini
without, adequate means of f M l
and State paper i^ now almost
p/iratativrfj- as worth!) ? as 'Cvu
erati! States Trensury n<#«
been, while the coiipqus due on
State Honds iu ^uly remai^ f
Such a condition of aii'airs
reqtiir*'* some remedy, and wu.. 1
of-no p< rióu in otir history, wh'
(here wns so great a necé *
aouHtf and ¡rin/tir l«-gislnti(
pre'sent>. The interest of ¡lli
now d^'pendbrg oil ^mii
aUiomits to soverlfi milli<¿"!
are. while tlw expeu^ s <>
si'ssioii■■'may hot exceed t^
dollars, Regarding it si#
financial point <.f"vieW, itj
tajnly bt- wwtli that much
avnilaWfvii ívillion aiid
te<lerafe money, lo Mtspen^j ;tk« . i«stl ,'^;:'
atice of fi'rehstjry' warn .i-t-v
Knv
H:
WW
■
W
n
t1
r%
present depFt^ia.mu, ^
means for i he, support
Goveríi>n¡tl t an<! to, n
be t ter calen luted f o sus
of the State, and avoid
nnnecessm/y accumui
debt, Tb s -;,we tliiif
garded by t h^ G'A'eiu
rettsons/or couveiling |
And shoidd he decide '
w||l have acquitted
wtant . respousibiH
we hold, that wl
eels, the still-.
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 13, 1864, newspaper, September 13, 1864; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177154/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.