The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 23, 1865 Page: 1 of 2
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BELLVILLE, TEXAS, MAY 23,1865
í NU 34,
¿BBSS
of tlM> Couolryw«D.)
BSf, A' 20th llegt. TV I. i
up Kyle near Harrisburg, >
!'■ « Editor :
Bpurouuded by forest grandeur
an¿ prairie lovoHne**, I again • re-
sume my pert* to address yon anotler
efe* communication, that you and
tM^lusf^of^our friends- inny know
t hit' w«aro;«tíU- oér the land of the
on Galveston
Island, which placo we left on the
?ra intt;r bringing
with wf- tlie sweet oonsionanesa of
having faithfully discharged onr
d«jfeff£lWw; as sentinels at the
threshhold of our State fpr upwards
<>f two years. We were pleased to
l«a#d llMM hut. could not avoid feel-
ing some regr«t at leaving a place
«•adwinKl to ns by many, very many
hí^y a&>fciatious, the «membrane©
of which will stnorth many of* the
asperities of our future path, let it
ltfU| to frfomph and glory in bottle,
or to shawo and humiliation in sub*
mtetañf&,tfce heartless Despot who
sVWMW'-tjA* politically. Socially
BSf-rt®' ...
on Sims' bayou
iu a
.ill*
.IVom rtM, w,
of water, winch is
fy and 1 fear
among ua
"r
coronuttidoantfaHM good<~Wv are
if wo are
table to the
efulí í^ímonotonous routine of garrí-
son duty. '•
TUwe are lour Regiment* station-
ed here, commanded by Brig. Gen
Harrison. The other regiments
\eemto delight in calling the 20th
the feather bed Regt. and we enjoy
the joke quite as much as they do.
The health and morals of Co. A.
remain good. There are onty a few
croaker* iu the company who ex-
press arty inclination to give up the
com-
pany at'ill regard; our Independence a#
attainable though the Cis-Mississippi
Department should all be forced into
measures. The sentiment of the
entire Regt,, la to carry the war to
the last ditch, and there achieve our
liberty, or our death. We think
death prt ferable to snbmission to
yttikeé dominion. In one We would
W from humiliation, disgrace
and Slavery, In tile other oppression,
disgrace and the most abject slavery"
than which, we wtrald wellcome
nlEUK
The South published by Baker
and Morris, at Columbus, says :
Our partner, Mr. Geo. W. Mog-
ata, is an old Texas soldier. He,
fought under Jack Hays in the
Texas revolution, and in the war
with Mexico. He was one of the
Santa Fe prisoners, and was a loug
time in chains in the Castle of
Perotó. He was severely wounded
in the battle of Tulausringo, near tlie
city of Mexico- It is.a coincidence
that we were also a prisoner iu the
celebrated Lopes expedition in Cuba.
That was one of the foolish things of
4ur life, ánd thoroughly cured us of
all tas'o for battles and bullets. How-
ever, we entered the service as a re-
cruit in Co. "B," Hood's brigade,
Virginia, and served sis months,
being in bad health the whole time.
We were at the battle of Seven
Pines with onr brigade, but it did not
get into close engagemeut, but was
only shelled by the enemy, several
of the brigade being wounded. We
havé at least shown onr faith by out-
works, and trust we are entitled to
the public patron nge.
The.town of CotumbuB wears quite
a .dilapidate aspect, compared to its
appearance before the war. Houses
and fences have disappeared, and.
'everything exhibits that want of
care and atteution which was be-
stowed before the war. Most of
the business houses are closed, or are
used for military purposes. Compared
to former times, it is dull and deso-
late. Such is the effect of war.
Pleasant, voices that once cheered us
inour fftiul hours, will l>« heard no
more. Thjy have been hushed in
death on some tar flistant battlefield.
These are the natural consequences
of war, which is always deplorable;
Yet an honorable people will be r
all the horrors of war rather than
Íield their rights and liberty. Thus
as done the South.
Wealth purchases an ftnmuuity
from much of the toil, sufferings and
troubles of life, and the rich are re-
lieved from the curse of getting their
bread by the sweat. of the brow, and
thus enjoy a kind of paradise in this
life, cotnpar<*i to the poor; but
jUBthM holdB thein responsible for
an equitable use of their riches, and
he .who spends them foolishly a;.d
wickedly, though he may have a
"good time" in this world, runs the
risk of "catching the Devil" iu the
next.
the object
noble blood 1
the truth
divided wo fell,'
Pictijreh Appreciated.—A Lon-
don paper says thai Prith's great
picture of "The Railway Station"
was sold a short time since, together
with the subscription list for the
engraving, for <418,000. The sub-
scription list itself UOW amounts to
over ¿£26,000. Melssonier's "Re-
treat from Moscow," a picture 9 by
18 inches, or thereabouts, was sold
recently for 90,000 francs, equiva-
lent tot18,000.
Negro Character.—Charles W,
Day, of Bnglaod, in his"Five Years
in the West Indies," na^s : "Negroes,
and the catered tribes generally, are
give* to Immoderate buiais of-laugh
ter Without any sufficiently exciting
•outer and by transient travellers
through the Antilles this chcbluna-
tory ■ropensity hasbeen most erro-
neously ascribed . to good temper.
In fact, their tempers are execrable;
ond West Indian towns would he
residences were it (or
ut the constant squab-
the colorad
arise
u„„
Military Supplies,—Presuming
that we lmve food enough on this
side of the river, we should like to
know something about the military
supplies. How about guns ¿nd
Sowder ? "Small arms, lead and pow-
er are the essentials. If we are
without light aitillery, no matter ;
we can take more batteries from the
enemy than Texiftns will eVer use to
advantage. Somehow we f«,ar that
the manufacture of powder and cart-
ridges is not attended to as it should
bo; and we have no doubt, from
what we see, that the soldiers are
abusing their guns. It would be a
•mall estimate to say that one-third
of the rifles and muskets in the
Trans-Mississippi Department would
not "go off," if we were confronted
Jby the Yankee* to-morrow. The
soldier who can be satisfied with a
deficient gun is neither a patriot nor
a man of sense, We should raise a
mutiny in the ranks on the ground
of poor guns ai>d ammunition, sooner
than upoti any other pretext what-
ever. The soldier who does not take
care fa his gun is an incipient traitor,
and the officers who do not look to
this matter rn detail, nr.' tin worthy
of their position. The Southern
people are immensely deficient in
the knowledge of details. A great
many of thorn think habitually of
Houston as if iv were a second Lon-
don, and of u few hundred soldiers
ns cupúblé of cijiing wfih the com-
bined 'armies oí the world. A little
mom sense, and , a great deal less
declamation, would do as much good
at the South as in any other portion
of t ile woi'hl, " Art is long." and
the thoughts of the Southern peo-
ple, generally, are extremely shori,
ianeiiul and inconsecutive,. VV'e must
■do a great deal better, br (lie Yan-
kees will whip and govern us—cer-
tain.— Texan Christian Advocate.
TKIM..: IN THE OtDEN TIME.—
"An article in i!••• Edindurgh Review,
professing to draw '..s facts from
Felt's history of Salem, gives the
following ludicrous description of the
way things Used to be done, among
the Puritans :
The boys were ranged on the
stairs of the meeting house, and a
man was appointed to' keep people
from sleeping by means of a short,
clubbed stick, having at own end a
knob, and at the other a fox tail,
with which ho would stroke the
women's faces that were asleep, and
with the other would knock unruly
dogs and men. In the same place,
Salem, two men were appointed to
mark down the non-a'ttendanfs, in
order to present them to the magis-
trate, while at the same time, three
constables were appointed to keep
watch at the three doors of the
meeting bouse to prevent any one
from going forth till the exercises
were finished.
Country Girls.—The local
editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Regis-
ter, who has been for some time
past rusticating in the agricultural
regions of Georgia, writes about
"couutry girls" as follows: "These
country girls, my 'devil,' aro a
different material from what your be-
witched eye meets on Broad street
eveiy day. They may not sport
as gaudy feathers, and their dress-
es may not drag through quite as
much mud ; but for cooking a din-
ner, climbing a fence, or acting
th" jockey, your city girls can't
touch them. And then, my dear
'Old Nick/ their dresses are Some-
thing to talk of. Look at ono we éee
here. Did you ever see a more
comely poplin than she wears? Now,
examine it more closely, and you
will find it home manufacture, spun
and wove by the hands of the fair
wearer. Yes, they are'the architects
of their own dresses, and my word
for it, they are fitted to help any
Worthy ina to become the architect
of his fortune."
While the prince of Wales was
at Helliron, by and his suite obtained
permission to visit the Cave of
Machpelah, Abraham's burial place.
They are the first Christians who
have been allowed to enter it since
the Crusades, nearly freVen hundred
years ago Dr. Sinnly savs everything
is kept in the must, beautiful order,
and nothing could be more satisfac-
tory than the state in which the torn-,
bs are preserved. Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Jo eph, Sarali, Rebecca and
Leah are buried there.
Oregon sends a fresh backwoods-
man to"" Con^res;-:. who had never
seen a railroad till he came, on this
season. He had heard much of the
tricks of sharpers, and was determind
to keep his eyes open. He kept, them
open so wide, that when the conduc-
tor came and tore off the coupon of
'his car. ticket, he seized that Worthy
by the throat and had nearly nlade
of. end of him before lie could he
persuaded that no wrong had been
done,
We feel neither extreme heat.
extreme cold. Execeesive qualities
are inimical to us, and not diMwrot-'
ble ; we no longer feel them, we
them. Too much - youth and ,to^
much age obstruct the mind; t«n >
much or top little instruction stupefie .
In fine, extreme things are for us aa
if they were not, and we are not iu
regard to them ; they escape us, or
we them.
All man's miseries, even, prove
is greatness, They are miseries of
a great lord, miseries of a deposed
king— Ex.
A battalion of the foreign legioh'
wbicli was in garrison at Aix,
France, arrived at Tonlon, February
22. It embarked next day on board
the Bteam transport which is to con-
vey it to Mexico, where it has vol-
unteered to serve ten years.
Demostl enes, the greatest of ora
tors, is the great master of iutense
and rapid movement. Ho -irever
repeats; never, says Brougham, comes
back upon the ground "which he has
once utterly wasted and withered up
by the tide of fire he bus rollad over
it.
Ai^ Artist Without Abms
There dwells in Antwerp an artist
named Filia, who, bom without armlh
educated his feet effectively to do
their work. His taste directed hit
choice of life. He became a painter,
and has sueeeednd lit ~t>«ing a verj
accou.pl shed c ne. Ha may ho seen
in the museum copying
fidelity soma fine work or
balances himself with eato and firm
nana Mt m a Anl kla
By the blessing of God, it has
remained for tlio Confederate States
to present, in Iter armies, a striking
contract to all the examples of mod-
ern times. True, there has been
much, for too much of profanity and
drunkenness, and licentiousness
among her soldiers; but comparative-
ly speaking, hers mjiy be called
christian armies. Hor most brilliant
victories have been achieved, by
earnest, godly, praying leaders at
the head of men, of whom A • large
proportion feared God and twisted
innijiname. The camp, instead pf
«proving a school of vice, has prov-
ed aaioestimáble blessing to multi-
tudes. Christians have been trained
for usefulnes as they could not have
trained elsewhere ; and may Who, 4o
fir as we can judge, would not, un-
der any cicumstances haye given
serious attention to eternal things,
haye been led to Jeflus by the
sanctifying^ influences of the
Holy Spirit, on the stern less-
oub of thebattle-field and the hos-
pital. Revivals, such as the World
has seldom witnessed, have perva-
ded our armies; and it has been
estimated that more thati 140,000
Confederate Eoldiera bave been cpn-
verted to God, slueo the war coin*
metoced. It is also estimated that
at least one third of ^ our midiere
are professing (Tristans, and members
a «ource of demoraisation to the
countrvatW, religion ele-
f ment which has prevailed there has
reacted on toé chArches at home and
cansare
the dough at woridliuetw^OrMiww
Many interesting specimens of
ancient art were recently exhumed
at Pompeii, four bronze vase* of
admirable form, and au elegant mar-
ble table, on which is statuette of
Victory, executed hi a most mafcjerly
style.
"How dó yon like the character of
St. Paul 1" asked a parson of his.
landlady one day during a • conversa-
tion about the old saints and apostles.
"Ah ! he was a clover old soul, T
know ; for hi* oiice said, you know ,
that we must.eat what is set - before>■
you, and ask no questions for. eoiiv
pcienco sake, I always th^úglit I
should like him for a boarder."
• If men would bo lis lenient to tin.
faults of others as tin y are to tlu ii-;
own. they would wot be so bifti r
towards others ; but , so f; r fi en
this being tho case, they are not
only oftentimes unforgiving of tb«
faults of others, but so bllntl to tlu*i;i-
selvea that tl^ey cannot s*-e tlieir ov u
faults at all. •
Oiling Leather.—The Scientilie
American says that oils thould not
be applied to dry leather, ns , tloy
would invariably injure it. If you
wish to oil a harnees, wet it over
night, cover it with a * blanket, and
in the morning it will be dry and
supple; then apply neat's foot oil in
small quantities, and with so much
elbow gTease as will' insure its dis-
seminating itself throughout the
leather. A soft, pliant harness is
easy to handle, and lasts longer than
a neglected one. , Never use vegeta-
ble oils en leather; and among
¡animal oils, neat's foot is the best,
A Warning.—A young lady sud-
denly fainted at a ball near Konigs-
berg, iu Germany, a short time since;
and it' was afterwards proved by
ihe doctor who waa called upon t?
render aid, that her indisposition
arose íTóm tho presence of , arsenic'
in some green ornaments in her htfetv
and in the trimming of her
which were of the same color.
"Have you anv p«#ijrr
Squig by of a ■
day. 'poetry?"
c" 6 ®*?: "y°a ™
the Book Stores." "
I hoard poetry waa i
A young lady £m i
reason|| fcy
^eo?,thf
or less I
hair off i
long mill
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 23, 1865, newspaper, May 23, 1865; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177188/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: 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.