The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 17, 1863 Page: 1 of 2
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BELLVILLE, TEXAS, JANUARY 17, 1863.
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BE LLVILLE COUNTRYMAN
1. F. OITMHOPT, Miter
BELLVILLE—TEXAS.
SATUHDAY JAN. 17 1863
Special Notice
Afterthl.Mat. nil new advertí -meat* Iniertcd Int
CounirymnM. will Ik churged Twenty ceniijurliii
forth Brut lim-rtlon, and Te emit per line for
each ol «(|Bi-nt intertlon. Eitray, advert lued
by the County Olerk, will bo vhtricod Two Vol-
Ur for each uuftmal udvurtlaod Muy, 31, 1WW.
Third ▼•lame.
, Tkum or SuiMCIttPTION M per yenr, If
Said In advaoeo, or before the lath number; #:i (HI
paid after the liitli number and befori) tliu clone
of tli. year; (4 DO If puld after the. clone of the
year, Theiie terina will be Ktrietly adhered to.
iy Advertlwmieut* .nnmt b« handed In enrly
Wvdm-idar morning to unuro luw rtlod.
HP" We call attoution to the
Execntor's and Administrator's sales
advertised this weak.
QF The Travis, Forkston aud
San Felipe company of the Statu
troops at Brenhaui, have organized
by electing J. A. Campbell, Capt,,
and W. Guyler John Ward and
—Dixon, Lieutenants.—Catsprings,
Bellville and Buckhorn, by electing
E. L. Theuman, Capt., and Bach, C
Palm and A. Schenk, Lieutenants.
Mr. Wangeman of New Ulm was
elected Capt, of the Industiy, Shelby
and New Ulm company. We have
not heard the names of the Lieuts.
fST We are informed that all the
companies from this county West of,
the Brazos belonging to the State
Troops have assembled at Brenliam.
This so far as this county is con-
cerned,shows that the Germans and
Bohemians do not contemplate any
resistance to the Governor's draft, ns
we were led ¿o believe.
The Independent Battalion of this
county, east of the Brazos, wa? by
order of Gen. Sayles consolidated
into ono company. At au election
held there on Saturdny for company
officers, the following wore elected:
B. Loggins. Capt.; J. T. Jackson,
1st Lieut, j Win. Tillotson and Lewis
Cooper, 2d Lieutenants. Of the
organization of the companies bf the
2d Regt., we have not been informed.
Frederick Amsler, a citizen of
Cat springs this county we are inform-
ed, committed suicide at Brenlmm on
..Sunday night last, by shooting him
•elf. He was a member of Captain
Theuman's company and counnittod
the act while laboring undt r mental
aberration. He leaves a family to
mourn his loss.
" Thp News.—1The news seems t«
be that there has been a fight at
Baton Rouge in which the enemy
were whipped and 1300 prisoners
captured. Bragg has had a battle
with Rosencranse near Murfreesboro'
and whipped him, captured 4000
prisoners, 800 wagons and 30 pieces
of artillery. Three days fighting
had been going on at Vicksburg, the
enemy repulsed each day and two
transporta rank by oar batteries.
The reported capture of Memphis by
Van Dora seems to be doubtful. The
enemy does not appear to be making
any Anther demonstrations on the
Rappahannock. Intelligence from the
United States seems to be favorable,
more than nasal.
Armed resistance to Lincoln's draft
has been made in Ohio and Wisconsin.
The Legislature
Gov Lubbock has ordered the
Legislature to convene in Extra sess-
ion on the first Monday in February
next. A great many people wonder
lor what purpose tlio Governor lias
thought proper to call an extra sess-
ion ; and the various newspapers are
busily employed in cutting out busi-
ness for this sage body of the as-
sembled wisdom of the State,
We suppose the first business that
will engage the attention ot the wise
meu will be the currency. That body
Will have no authority to make Con-
federate or other notes a legal tender
in payment of debts, but possibly
they may have authority and perhaps
exercise it,-so as to influence credi-
tor to receive the money when offer
ed them. They may make the State
of Tuxas bear its proportion of the
debt contracted for carrying on the
war, as South Carolina and Alabama
have done. They may authorize
administrators, guardians, trustees
etc., to receive Confederate money
and on the failure of creditors to
receive it from them, to authorize
such administrators, guar.iians, or
trusteed to fund the same in Confede-
rate bonds. It is possible also thnt
they may enact- that individuals who
refuse to receive Confederate Treasury
notes in payment of debts, shall after
a certain date, be unable to collect
interest and cost: perhaps they may
have a right to say: "we cannot
make Confederate money a legal
tender in payment of debts, but we
have a right to say that if creditors
demand hard money, hard money
they shall have, at the end of the
law, but they shall have no interest
or cost for their delay ant1 It >uble in
goting it." Whether an act of this
kind would bo any more an act to
violate. I he obligation of coutracls,
than the preseut Stay Law is, We
must leave to wiser heads to deter-
mine.
The Legislature will also provide
probably for taxing at a heavy rate,
each and every bale of cotton raised
during the present jar_jiny~future
year while the war continues, This
is perhaps one of the most important
measures that will come up ut the
called session. The pressing necessi-
ty for all the bread and meat stuffs
that our planters can raise for the usé
of the army and the soldiers' families
will no doubt commend this course to
all Without argument.
The conscription of a certain pro-
portion of the negro men of the State,
to work on the fortifications and de-
fenses af the State whenever necesaa-
ry, will also claim a share of legisla-
tion at this time.
The Legislature will also be called
upon to provide some way more ef-
fectually to support the poor families
of soldiers who are now iu or have
died in the service Of their country.
Whether this shall be done by increas-
ed taxation by the several counties,
or by supplying the people with cot.
ton and woolen cards, and such
machinery as can be procured for
manufacturing purpose, must be left
to assembled wisdom to determine.
Under this head, however, might
properly be investigated the affairs
and couduct of the Texas Ponitentia-
The Legislature must also provide
that in the event of an invasion of
our territory, that the proper custo-
dians of public papers such as are in
the County and District Clerk's offices
shall be removed to a place of safety
by such custodians, and on their
failure to use due diligence to remove
such valuable papers, they shall be
responsible on their official bonds.
The Legislature must also provide
for the administration of justice for
cases arising in territory occupied by
the enemy.
There are a good many other
that will claim a share of
public attention, and which we may
take occasion to suggest in timo .for
the Executive to embody them in
his message
Queen Victoria speaks of ab-
dicating in favor of her son, Prince
Albert.
Br We have received a copy of
the Texas Almanac for 18G3, publish-
ed by D. Richardson, at Austin City,
It contains sixty four pages, is well
printed, and besides the usual inattcr
contains much statistical information
of great value. The forms for making
out election returns, furnished by the
Secretary of State, are not among
the least of these in importanco. The
price of the Almanac is fifty cents,
postage four cents which must be
forwarded at the same time. The
price is che'ap and almanacs are of
the first importance to everybody.
ry, and see what has become of ^11
the goods nude there daring the
past year.
The Richmond Dispatch declares
that the battlo of Fredericksburg, all
things considered, was the greatest
battle ever fought on this continent,
11 says:
It was fought by nearly 200,000
men and several hundred pieces of
artillery. It was contested for ten
hours. It resulted in a complete
victory to the Confederate forces.
We say complete, because although
the enemy's forco was not annihilated
killed,, captured, or dispersed—the
failure was eutirely owing tq the
neighborhood of their strongholds
to which they fled when they found
themselves unable to fa<;o our forces
any longer in the field. Had the
battle been fought twenty miles this
side of the Rappahannock river, there
would have been such a rout as the
world did not witness in the forty-six
years that elapsed between the battle
of Waterloo and the first battle of
Manassas. As it was, it has proved
to the Yankees that no superiority of
numbers or of preparation can avail
them in a pitched battle with the
forces of the Confederacy—a truth
so patent, and so often exemplified,
that we believe they are the only
people on earjth who venture to deny
it.
As an example of how Lincoln's
proclamation is frightening our peo-
ple, we publish the fact that at an
anction sale of confiscated property
in this city yesterday, the following
prices were paid for slaves.:
Boy John, 24 yeais old, $3,025,00
" Pick, 14 " " 12,860.00
Woman and child .$2,500,00
Woman and three children, from
1 to 5 years 4,850,00.
We understand negroes are cheap
in some parta of the Confederacy. If
people will send them here, they can
be sold at good prices.—Telegraph.
NSWS
We have conversed with Dr. Jo-)
D. Conway, who has visited the
army of the Northwest since the
battle of the 7th. lie ¡reports that
upon burying the dead, under a flag
of truce, and upon communication of
the Burgeons of the two antojes, it 'was
ascertained that the loss of ^ie enemy
far exceeds that reported by ''Gen,
llindman. He was credibly infori
that it amounted to 3,800 or 4000.
The Fort Smith Bulletin says: "The
Federals who conversed with our
men, acknowledge their loss was
much heavier than ours; some put it
down at three to one." Another
paragraph of the same paper says.
In the Prairie Grove battle, which
came off on Sunday (the 17th.) the
federal loss is set down at about 4000
or 50Ó0—killed wounded and missing.
Our loss is estimated at about 100
killed, and 1500 wounded and miss-
ing." ■; ;
Gen. Hindman retired after the
battle, to the Arkansas river, in the
vicinity of Fort Smith.- No army
could subsist where he was. The
Federal forces under Blount and
Herrón, were,'when last heard of, in
the vicinity of Fayetteville.
Houston, January 8th, 1863.
Passengers by the Central Train
to-day report that the enemy has
landed at the mouth of the Yazoo
from 80 transports, about 00,000
troops,
to make their way to Vicksburg, bnt
wrre-eneh day; wptiteetK On the
third, being largely reinforced, they
again made an attempt to make their
way to Vicksburg, assisted by their
gunboats but our army having also
been reinforced, again forced them
back under cover of their gunboats,
two of which were sunk!
Previous to this the enemy had
been shelling Y.cksburg for ' several
days without doing any damage or
attracting any attention from our
batteries.
On this side of the Mississippi the
enemy have burned the railroad
bridges and depots, so that all com
munication in that direction is cut
off There are however, no Yankees
this side the river at present,
The third day's fight was a great
success for our arms, although in
many instances our losses were very
severe. One Louisana regiment lost
160 and another about sixty..
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston and Kirby
Smith were in command. President
Davis was there during the fight and
said he would stay and see it out
A gentleman who left Arkansas on
the 29th reports-that Gen. Hindman
has fallen back to Van Buren, where
he has been largely reinforced with
ammunition and men. Gen. Holmes
had been to Van Buren, but returned
to Little Rock on the 28th.
Passengers one day later, confirm
the report that Van Dorn has retaken
Memphis. The people in Shrevoport
were inclín^ to believe the report,
and were much elated in consequence.
If we can rely upon the statements
in all of our exchanges and npon the
testimony of travelers from every
section of the Confederacy, the pre-
sent condition of oar amy everywhere
s all that could be desired.
From every source, we learn thai
the array is well clothed, well fed,
well armed and well officered.
Never were our prospects. brighter, ,
never were our troops everywhere in
better spirits, and never were a peo*
ple more confident of success thai*
the people of this Confederacy. There-
in no longer any despondency, all
seem elated with our success, and in-
dulge in the brightest hopes regard- m
ng our future success.
the contrary, the enemy, eB"
peclaibr. since the late defeat at#
Frederick|burg, is daily becoming'
more'and more demoralized. He no
longer fights ifkh confidence, and
desertions have Efeome so common
and general, that the enemy is alarm-- ;
ed at a state of thingfc^he has not
power to control.— Tclegrefak
In Memphis, within
days, two dollars in gold wool
three dollars in green backs.
-sse money was ten per cent
over green backs,
McNeil, the murderer of the
men at Palmyra, is hated even
the North. In St. Louis, the other
day, he asked an officer to dritik
with him. The officer shrank buck
as if with-horror at the contact, and
ref used in any way to associate with
him,
The Paper Famine.—The '"Yan-
kee papers are beginning to lee! the
effect of the war, for we aie told by
Yankee correspondents that the paper
They attempted for ten da^s--famine promises to produce serifua
H1 embarrassments to such of the daily
journals of the North as are afflicted
with a large circulation. Should thu
present exorbitant price of the raw
material continue, an advance iiHjthe
price of the printed sheetB or a cur-
tailment of their dimensions seems
inevitable. The New York Evening
Post, in order to. show how,the matter
works at preseut, says :
"Such of tlio morning journals of
this city as have a circulation daily '
of fifty thousand copies lose by the .
recent rise not less thanone hundred
and fifty thousand dollars per year.
If a New York daily has a circulation
of*one hundred thousand Copies, its
loss, if paper continues at present.
prices, would be at the end of the
year not less than .three hundred
thousand dollars, Of course this
would be ruinous ti, any business
enterprise. No doubt the morning
journals dislike to raise their priced
but they must do so, unless som®
change takes place to" bring paper
back to its old price."
Galveston.—On Shturday last
Galveston was bombarded from the
Gulf shore by five Federhí steamerst
from 3 to 4 J P. M. The whole num-
ber of shell thrown was 107. • One
struck Mr. Sylvester's houBe, near
Tremont street, and another a house'
of Mrs. Dr. Hurlburt, and we hear a,
goat waa killed. This, we believe, it
all the damage. Some of the shells;
are said to have been 13 inehes in
diameter.
We hear that the Brooklyn is on
of the steamers and th^
another. The Brooklyn went;
westward on Satnrday ei
Gen. Magruder sent a:
to the Federals on
the object is not
We learn that the 1
par messenger
and the i
tip by the i___w_
and that two
made their j
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Osterhout, John P. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 17, 1863, newspaper, January 17, 1863; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177078/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.