The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 42, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 12, 1864 Page: 1 of 2

                                
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Wb announce the name of Mr-
Cloy d « , a candidate for Sheriff.
. He made a good run for the office
two years ago { waa defeated by
small majority, by •' wounded sol-
di^ If elected, be wiU make
competent and faithful officer.
8am Houbtox NlfHOW Í8 II
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didafe for County CJlerk. 8ain «ras
• 'orajaiid hasjbeen raised in 1' exaa,
went thro'the Arizona campaign and
Waf wounded at Val Verde,
elected, he will always be found at
l is peaf, and devotehimself to the
fiitbfulperformance of tbe datiea of
the office. '
No FaCI.T, so far as we have
hoard, baa been found with the pres
ant Sheriff since he baa .been in
aAc* He i  a candidato for re-
election. Hlfe announcement will
be fqmnd in thia pnpeiv The race is
a short one. -and- the election wil*
aoon be over.
Brd. OsTK.RHOirr of the Bellville
I acJibdidate for chief
,r-~-r "'of Au«mQJC!o. Sorry we
«ajíl rííe for ydn, John; your count,
.luUm. ninfH •-.•now. 1,a*t
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gjjt. ns
-HunUciUe ítem.
Ooi thanks are dtie Bro. Robinson
loe Um above notice of wbat he
would do,- jfhe BredM- *olr
We , Bro.^Geo., we
wiahea will be
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fall
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a into an
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op iw (he river at that place
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Sroíu a New Vvk i i'apar,
GRADATIONS IN MOURNING.
Th* "Round Table" of this week,
(a very gcrid number, by the way,)
has atiadmirable article on lite sub-
ject of mourning hahlimeiil#, «special-
ly those Ity which lady mourners ex-
prese the different degrees of their
sorrow,—and of which mean  of pro-
claiming; ours our VfiX are deprived.
The writer says, in a fine vein of
bitter irony :—
"We fnen have no such opportuni-
ty to express a sense of ou* bel'eav-
nient in an elaborate way. Our
tailor  uniform us in funereal black,
our r/tiijtrlieri encircle our hats' ^witV
crape, and there au end. A'widower
cannot advertise the freihnes* or
staleness of his sad condition by his
clothes. It is impossible to judge of
tbe state of bis feelinge from his hue
be sorrow stories for tbe stupider «ex ?
Is there auy jinit reason why lonely
j-.#"1 JjMiaua have been depredat-
ing in Ataseos county.
I'íThrbk Yankee prisoners recently
'•caped from Camp O roce* Ohe
fir*  treed "by pegro doga. The others
.jre&still at large. I-ook out loj-1 In fact the taste of mankind in this
country runs so generally to black
that it is only1 now and then that
nffiction finds on  of us in motley;
In nine casses out of t«jn, all we re-
quire to put us in full mourning is a
weed round .the heaver. Cannot this
be remedied I Why should there not
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man should not hy put through a
course'of French grays aud puces
and iavenders.as wall as women?
Do not our griefs become fine by
degrees and heqjitifully letys in the
same way as those of the queens of
creation? Certainly they do. Then
ff let jthe progress of the sequence be
made manifest in our coats and vests
and pantaloons. Let ns have the
gradations of fading melancholy de
noted by our hat cinctures, so that
the public, arid inore particularly the
angelic portion of it, may under-
stand how we are getting along with
onr tribulations. How can the fair
creatures know, under present cir
rdinstancef, whether an unfortunate
widower has just been plunged into
iuconsolohility, or is emerging f.otn
it in a lively and ápproachai. le frame
of mind ? Who can say how i nail j?
many male mourners of nearly a
year'B standing may have missed
eligible offers this blessed leap year,
on account of the forbidding chame-
t*r ofWheir «able swta and ' lnve-re-
pulsing bat-bands 1 We submit to
spciuty the propriety of a sliding-
scale of funereal hahliments ley men.
Nothing can succeed *in this world
without advertising, not even grief.
Who will take a s\ore on Broadway
aud opeu a dry-goods tribulation
shop for bereaved masculinity f"
Tun Dollars a( Day.—The
Coaaty Commissioners Court rtf this
couhty has for some time jaiat been
paying Its several members tan
dollars a day each, for their very
valuable services. < Some persons
would like to know where they find
law for it. The legal allowance is
thrcr. dollars per day.- Certainly,
Judges, members of the Legislature
aiid others, in the employ of the pitb-
Hc, have an equal rigkt to ask and
bv«D O fir«F*"'í receive an increase 4 wlary and
m 0,0re,l,f7 per diem pay. It ia all perffcétly
right if there is any kw (or H, h "
will be printed on-
Ibeir4 namea
will bring &4kjnames, and
the money, by Thursda^. We can
not wait longer. ^ #
AH wishing
Wb have been
*mk
to pot upon#the
for Connty Commia i
of Wm,' Oqyler of
<§. Knolle of
. JM. Colllna of
H.B.Lee and 3kt
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and
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I'KLLKD FllON TH
(IV BltOWKSVr
. Onr reailers arjg aware that Mayor
Dye when the Yankees first l;tnded<
at Brownsville, went out. atul met
them aud surrendered .the city into
their hands, and received tlieui with
open hands. The Mayor had pre-
viously been an open-mouthed se-
cessionist, but the presumption is,
that the hope of saving his prop-
erly, caused this sudden change fo
come over the spirit óf his, dreams.
It seeins, however, that the Mayor's
wife ami two daughters, who are
intelligent, accomplished ladies, were
'uol so easily converted to the Llu-
coln cans?.. As an evidence of their
rebel proclivities, when tbe Yankee
officers, visited their house, the ladies
were never at borne. That was too
bad. -Finally the ladies were called
on and officially informed tlfat they
must do one of two things—either
take tbe 'ironclad oath,' or leave the
Üuiíed States. The ladies promptly
replied that whatever might be the
consequences, they would niver take
the oath. Whereupon the Yankee
officer requested them to fix upon
some hour when'they should be set
across the river. This they refused.
He thfn told Üiem that ho would
appoint thj* time of their departure-at
4 o'clock that evening. The ladies
went to work to get ready to leave
theii home and country, and having
made the necessary preparations be-
fore the appointed hour had arrived,
and wishing to ¿et off without ex-
citing attention, they quietly proceed-
ed to the river; when they were mot
by a squad of Yankee soldiers, who
refused lo allow them to cross. They
were then marched back to the
Provost Marshal's office, when an
order was issued forever expelling
the'ni from the I'niied States, on
account of their inveterate rebel
proclivities and sympathies ? They
were then escorted by the guard,
wjth as much parade as il they had
in cbaige a thousand rebel prisoners,
to the river to be crossed over to
Matamoros.
It so happened that a Mexican
Colonel was at the boat and about to
cross- at Ux  «ame tmie. Mayor tiye,
who*by this time liaii .arrived, to bid
his floeing family farewell, spoke to
the Mexican officer in Spanish, re-
questing him t.> see. the ladies safely
conducted to a .friend's house in
Matamoros. To which the Mexican
officer replied aloud in English:
1 shall Mw-t certainly escort ,the
ladies to yhiir friend's house. The
Mexican flag has ever protected the
ladies, no matter from what country
they came!' ■£
When the boat reached ih« mid-
dle of the river, one of the Mayo/s
daughters turned to the Yankee
vandals and waving her handker-
chief, remarked in substance ns fol-
low^ : 'You have driven dm from ouf
home and country to talco refuge,
among foreigners and strangers, but
thank God ! .there are Confederate
soldiers eeougb in Tcxa  to drive
yon out of Brownsville,
Texas soil, and befoif
will be «done 1'
While we can but
feelings of pity end
jjAlishts
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the following
Sir—Knowing how aoéfptable fo
your readers Weny
whereabouts and 1
rebf l piratOv
publication soma ext
to that vessel, taken
of a corres pondent who is
merchant shin; of which bw 1
is captpin, nailing from NoB
She writ¿a thus : " «!,i
'It is Bow rtearly
since yri> arrived :■*%*
(almost long enough I 
privileges of a citizenship Jíaiíd
the present it would seem flle
est rashness to attempt t  leave
since the Alabama is crniilng around
these waters, committing great dep-
redations on tbe poor helpless Amer-
rican shipping. The Wyoming, a
federal man of-war, is in this poet
and Captain McDougall says It is
impossible for him to aeeotnplieb
anything towards ber capture, for
'tis like'looking for a needle in t
hay stack, or a drop of water in a
bucket/ and that he never expects ! 
be as near her again as he Was when
off Singapore. She was taking in
coal off tbe island of Crokfttoa
the Wyominj
other Bide-of t
her, and but twenty
Was it not aggravatingf
" «A letter received
band from a friend -in
tolls the . following : The
came steaming up here last 1'
night (Fubrtufiry 9), with her
flying saucily enough, and just
time to prevent dhme Aniterican ships
from going on to Calcutta. She came
into New Harbor artd coaled at the'
wharf. I went down alongside, but
would not go ort board. She is a
small pretty vpwsel, of about six hun-
dred tons, very long lower mast ,
and yards on*fore and main, with «
battery much too heavy for her lo
figbt in a seaway. Small and very
ki\V smoki'-staeks, she looks altogeth-
er, very like rfne of the British dis-
patch boats. 1 do,assure you that
the Wyoming could destroy her in
twjwtty mitrttefB, if she c6uttT ' bé got
under the rauge of her pivot, to say
nothing of her broadside guns. A-
bout t weuty of the Alabama's crew
deserted, and ijo doubt all would go
if they could but get away. Armed
officers guarded her—forward, alt
and amidships—to.prevent desertion,
whilst twenty-five of them • were
kept In itpns. J$he had one hun-
dred and eleven men all told *'hen
she caine here—so one of the crew
told me:—and they have not exeteis-
ed any small ariti* for ffvort  than a
month, fearing to pláce tbom lb the
hands of .the crew. gjR<..e4B.
eleven knots orfly  <M/ but With', her
screw triced up can sail mii<Ji faster,
say more than thirteen
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her; What a blessing it would be to
world at large. It thust be eOn-
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