The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1864 Page: 1 of 2
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or Tfc editor has wind!
V* •** daytQp fcleto giveOS
«W*r'if?rhnk bu bm and
what ha ku bm abent. Ha promis-
estbeprw fm. that he will jnaka - * back,
driivsniodi nextwaek.
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. B. I* Chbbk arrived borne
time oince from Co. F, haying
Mli, ÜiiiImiuA^m aaapuat oí dis-
' «WlfcrO. Campbell u# the
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jjoet . ol
Bsllville Lodge for the ensuing year
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W. McCarty
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'Wertwl ■ • i44***. hn
«y account oft recent heroic
1^1 wfr"^', . .
WsA ii— ■■ *Jf hup fl alirnaf nnlanw
d) om 01 out vh* mloduulif
of Ospt. C. L. McCarty,
to worthy to bo placed on
im perishable form
Young
iged to tyfc
ilk Division, and was in
hue raid which roulteb
iriv . to the tétmy, cam-
tbe W of laigu,.numbers
kilted, wounded ana prisoner ,
three million MImi worth of
^. In a close encounter withi
theenemy daring thi raid, when
wr troopo were overpowered by nu^a-
bers. the Yankees succeeded In oap-
turinng oar flag, having killed the;
* jearer. Gen. Hampton, bb-
bis, exclaimed t "Any one
Who wlH recover our color shall be
well rewarded." * Whereupon yonng
MeCsrty,. without. saying a word,
rushed forwad with pistol in lmud *to
recover the lost flag* The flag was
¡ Yankee standing by the
a Ysnkoe Colonel on hone-
and surrounded by Yankee
troops. HfedleSs of the almost cer^
tain death that threatened any one
attempting to recover that flag Mc-
Carty rufched forward and, before
the enemy could prepare to check
An enterprise so unexpected, he had
shot the man holding the colors,
sndinan'inetant mortvfhe Yankee
Colonel (Mr. Adatas thinks it
CM. Meigs) fell from his horse with
another shot from McCarty'* revolver,
luid instantly MeCsrty was on the
horse with the colors in his hand,
and waaon bis return to our lines.
Bot hy this time * shower of Yankee
bullets ufas poured upon bhn, from
which be" received four wounds, one
hand so that
lie will not
the use of it
ibly
r 7 to fedobtod for thfs ar-
„ ' '"" Snt-UoatJ,
Z. W. Matthews. Esq., who procur-
ad Mm wagoa> for the purpose.' We
«• glad of thia ubanoo to send a
fiatraCpasiUMoar ftyend Chesloy.
I • 4ka."ulttksn< ^iMBMHatrfv
Ibasbosn detained a few
PiO>~TW
have sufficiently recovered from bis
.wounds, which were doing well when
he left. MoCartv left Galveston aa
a member of the Lone Star Riflts
-¿hia plaoe to bow vacant, our P. M.|¡ August. 1861,and has not been
• jato iKrmilif ly rnrrirr "*** *iMC*' He has been in all the
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rlf ho wfllaonttone to
I í Mtilliilfliiil Va
Mr AlrMndflt Offil %Sf
«o aeasfA tho oflaa. Mr. G is otror
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the other wounds were
is clothes , were, how
0¥er, perforated fa many placee. He
AaiMweded in reaching Gen. Hampton,
to whom he presented the flog anc
the Yonkee Colony's' horse and
soddlei the latter having the Yankee
Colonel's noma engraved upon the
plating. ><
General Hampton haring expw
the higheat Odmimrion of this heroic
achievement to young MoCarty, as a
partial reward for bis valor, and soon
after presented McCarty to Gen. Lee;
with a Statement of the periloua ser-
vice he bad rendered to his eonntry
After bestowiug the highest commen-
on McCarty, Gen. Lee at once
cavo him the appointment of First
Lieutenant in the regular, anny, and
an unlimited furlough. Mjr. Adams
informs us that MsCwrty mav now be
' home as soon as he shall
From-t
'y
morn-broke .dark ^and
the clouds were heavy,
a|^rissUag aaflxHsmal rala waa /«ll-
" in every reapect it
and nudancholy day.j hat a
I it ons for the^rerelection of AbrSham
liueola. The physical elements
wfreinoOtirs harmony- with that
riatoeá the pubHc^morala and public
intelligence that'coald repeat, after
SH thejtenibe leaeou^ of tho past
the. horrid¿Q>istske ]pt 1800. . They
Were in 4a o y. wUfc the black and
cheerless prospect that this re-elec-
J|>n of ,,the prime cause of qur tnif-
iprtufles opens to' us. Nature, we'
V •ywpathiaing with the deed
to be committed, put on her
moot fetyer robe and darkest colorings.
As to ibo.metms by which thispolit
cpl resnlt was effected, we have
spohen is anotW article. Tbey
will constitute tbo 'inost woeful chap*
tp* in our national., history.. After
msking all c)ue allowanfse for the
frands, forgeries and ra >calitii|s, it
fill ever.rtiP^in a wonder how so
many hundreds of thousands
electors could deliberately voto to
jerpetuate tha dynasty that is npw
n power. NotOnly does .it seem .to
be hisult to public intelligence,. V®1
it would sppejir to be opposed to all
principles which ordinarily govern
human nature and human cc
It can only be accounted for Upon
the theory that a strange apd
AaT.e«f>
rT?rrTr«:^rrn
gifal ha ^ .aowtf^^ fchwio
.mhjk mimm.. ._lu _ 1 5 ' *
delusion has seised. th
nee.
W"
Hi
les in Virginia and
Virgi
id and has.inall caaaaf^'. ~" " ; 7
proved himself one of the bravest >ngJo^lTe" repiark fi «nod Cspt^i
soMiecain the army. Douttlese many
a Ysnkee has fallen before his uner-
ring rifie.~~Afae* lt. .M
•VffV;. " " I
A Puzzlb—There to an old
public imnd, giving it ajl the aspect
of confirmed lunacy and madness,
—i— ' I
A statistician bsa^had the patience
to count the number of wordtf em-
ployed by the moat celebrated wri
ters. Sbakspeare, the most fertile
and varied of English authors, wrote
aU his tragedies and comedies with
15,000 words. Voltaire and Goethe
employ 20,000; "Paradise Lost,
only contains 8,000; and tb Old
Testament says all • that it- has to
say with 5,742.
— . > - . •
A Yankee paper says :
A letter from tbe Gulf squadron
on tbe coast of Texas, notices the
ravages of the black vomk among
the shipping, and says ?
- "The Gulf is the most sickly
all the squadrons. Eastern Africa
excepted there is not a more unheal-
thy district in the world than the
eoast of Louisisqa Texas and Flori
da. I feel, sometimes like subserib
porisneed «Aft iu vice and
mom he lo never found iu
th*.«onion of t ivuUy he
bmiT in the downfoll of his
ho pevor JMUpicss in the
of his fellow creaturta he
rMMMMtf when the poor ara
ha ht; always readyfo
tbe peace and
Thompson of the .Creole 1 "'Jfh^se
swamps aro not worth fighting for."
The.Yankeeo have lonod some-
thing more deadly than yelttlMbiw * c®"v'
in their previous attempts in Mbese
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Should the men, and woman of
roio fortitude which hss excited
hyi hopes of fase Snd rest 1 and trái
enemy, consent to reatara again aa;
ttf the north; hoping under their
' ' their families, to find is the
ama of bsving urged on bund
death for a pause which they themSel
be bitteriy disappointed. -Uod intkia
to go unpunished, for so base a relinau
pf all,their posterity. Their reward w<
ains with the evil o9e, whkhAnisfs
after their- souls are lost, Raving them to mockery
f There,would be a northern det)^ of io^r/tb
besides that of the south/' The mesns of pay!
by nortln-ra majoritiea. Southern induajhrY Vould be
aUd.the conditioa of> southern people would be little
léver dare afterward to complain of any iiijualiee. ji
the bitter and heartless taunts i «Xon have tried roU ""
yon must stftunit or ninet with a sic
masters.
ashed into .■HI
and we drag you '
intíapveragaiuí |||pHHHHHHI
leading to nothing, lim nti,t /,rr ^ ■!.„ >. "
J But we would not even have r^ei.pii>vilirgsf.
slaves to the.hurden of a debt hwurrad^y/ ouTd
; Mgatioiv Wsr with «11 fts desotti^and t«
«igain, and we would be ajnin^^ iraní our
foluntarily to defend All that,toif^l^.in ilriuoiii
byt.dragged '.forth by pitiless drafts to; be ? sde tpots in,.
rapaoous and funaticuf po> itan^ for tbei' prosecution of en
upen^riie bigh seat and upon distautfbores.
Human imagination cauiiot coBcaiye, the arrogance
northern mind, in fiuding itself in ft l|; possession * '
were inrfull posfBesaion of the tretnendous -war]
veloped on ench side, and which tin y would
would defy tííértmtions of Europe ; and
which would wtfvfe A^sis «P®« this 1
reign of blood and desolation, xhi«b< _
"eon. -Already tbs fiat bs* gone) fortbt ^
_ imine declared. It to a vision of the futura wW
mind, and over which its.sonl exults. . tb <
msn capable of bearidg arma ! Wo I toi "
his mother I Wo t toliiaheortMtono I
fighting capacities of the southron { they would jaeed
majority. Even now the *r«0t i* fighting tbe
lilst the latter fattens on spoil. Then the south vé
i imm
character. Hear the New York,|ieia)d:
"When therefore, (it says) we Urgn üpon tbe
tioe of six months, and call a eoavaanan of 0tat«4gjr# (
measure, and we regsrd it as tjbe lMÓt nmas^jr^r
the rebel h^der* accepted ^ aruÚAtk* and
convention of Spates. In that event, the Union would.b#
or the warnrv^ewed. Accept tbe totter hypothesis, <
we should renew the contest With aim*
The south on tbe contrary, woald bo 1
ed throughout the armistice, would*prevent
• • f St il| holding all our points of va
hostilities Willi larger'aiin¡ffc,<a more united _
and with surer gusmntees of succssd: ' * *
"With a restored Unio^. prosperlty woaW oacOi
any bad blood remaiucd on either side it would ,>40^n
purged by s foreign! war. With a combined vet
million of men. end a fleet more powerful vhau "
it, we could order France from Mexico,
from Cuba. uud enforce our orders, if they went
can continent would then belong to^ Auarfoas#'The
ington woulu govern the new world, and (boJtfarious
^E#r
vies of our iorefothers would at length be realised."
This is the voice of an editor, but listen also to
a candidate for the vice-presidency'-^a re|Knseutative 1
1?,
awampa*. ,|t ip some co^^rt.í( j
V to know thOt our -pet rsttl
/pilaw j^s„lja%i 9|i,j fi
y b¡ ,«tonU n exclusively to abo«u jfo^,
two montlic. and
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hull
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hsd thih^pto . ,
•ojfi at,*) ni' 1 ni. u ¡' k,
- - V^efcom Of panitontlany Jt^tn
tb. * " ' *"
biin well. He is a stern, determined devil, and never, utter I
We quote.frmn an exchange. In a speech at Nfs^y "
■ e said slavery in deed, be does uot mourn over It;
State he would le*ve out the disluijbijttg element. Marl
party machinery which moyes in harmony) to.seo oati
from ail parts, so that TeunesOfie may rauk wi
ÉMMitiou to restore tba.Sujt<to(
live thousand
I I Traitors must'be punished ;
divided into small form* and, sold to
the lands and^ negroes of the abtb'
to stand by
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1864, newspaper, December 13, 1864; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177167/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.