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THE FORT
YOL. 15. BROWNSYILLE, TEXAS,::: CONFEDERATE STAjCES ;:: THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1862. NO. 1
MILITARY NOTICES.
Proclamation by the Governor,
TO TliE PEOPLE CF THE STATE OF TEXAS.
Whereas, on the 30th day of Dccemfcer last
joo were called npoo by general crder So. 1.
iMk'd from the Adjutant General's office, to hold
yourselves in rcadeuees t march at u moment s
warning in d- fense of your live , liberty aud pro-
perty, I trust yon hare beed' d th" order then given,
and tbat yua are now prepared to serve your couu-
t^f in this the hour of peril atnl need.
I am jwrt in receipt ol a requisition from the War
Department, by order of the Prisideut, for fifteen
regiment* of troops for the war. being the number
reuuiraHo supply the quota of the ¿sate of Texas.
,~TEé¿¡ troops will be mustered into service at
of iasLrucúon. (the localities of
which, will be immrdbte!; made known) ami win
there be cloth.d, supplieaaüd armed, at the expense
j of the Confederate ¿states.
Each soldier will receire a l*ounty of fifty dollars,
when the regiment or company is mustered into
•ervice. and will be allowed trans portion from /.is
hum* to the place of rendezvous. Those volunteer-
ing, will report to their rtsp*ctive Brigadier Gene-
rals, and when full companies are tendered, they
may, at their option, organize and elect their officers
at their homes, or at the rendezvous.
In the formation of regiments, tbe men composing
the respective regiments, will eluct their Colouel,
Lieutenant Colonel, and Major.
Volunteer companies. orgauiz. d under the Act
of 1858, will be received as a whole; if ihey fail to
volunteer, they will be diabaud. d, and enrolled
with the State troops.
Men of Texas! will not this cal! meet with a most
hearty response from you? Your Government,
the Government of your choice, needs your services
and makes this call upon you.
Tbe spirit* of those brave and departed heroes
who have shed their blood in your defense, cry
aloud that y u drive the hireling Hessians of a
debased anil corr>ipt government ¡rom tile soil that
they have polluted by their unhallowed touch.
Sht ¿oú §rou!« |lag.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
A Sketch of Beauregard.
A contributor to the Lyiichbargh Republican thus
ikttcbes Gen. Beauregard, who stopped a few hours
ia LyncLburg, on his way from Manassas to the
West:
• •«•*•• + * *
Col. G soon explained that Gen. Beauregard
had come—the restless multitude in-door* and out
wt re awaiting hi egress f;om No. 11).—The crowd
still pressing, we withdrew to our quarters through
a . private stair-way, and there awaited the oppor-
| (unity, if need it should occur at all. of comparing
... , . ,. , . , . "I" : <ur own ideal giith tbe lr athing picture of th!s Child
life or during good behavior. and in allowing Cubs-. of ^ Th# 0CCa8ÍOil^n ,)ff,n d. alid be
net¿,Ministers to hold scats ia Congress for purposes j was prmeu^cd' just before his - manifestation," on
of disensión alone. In this reform we have even | the balcony Routing the street He talked plcsaut-
i i-, . , , , - * .. i lv of the camDaigu in Virginia, and of his warm
improved on the English system, from which it was ; ;llucbnMmt t(, ^Autny of the j.üt0üiUC. T:,ey had
borrowed, in this, that (he Ministers are shorn of the j j-jown up together, he said—it was natural they
TOPICS Of INTEREST.
Cabinet Ministers.
In the formation of our new government, two
very conservative changes were adopted in making
all Confederate officers si cure in their positions for
powqj to corrupt tbe body pqiiiic by multitudinous i should like e¡ieb ether.
promise* of minor offices/for unless Uiey create ^ W*M struck n0 '"Si t'u: '"•>
fMKltmn* «. J .! .! «r ,,ad d°"? hw ^IBOnnil
positions or prove incumbents dishonest or immoral,
they will li^ve but little patronage to bestow. Li
this respect we have improved on the Anglican sys-
tem, which, under Charles Fox, was almost as cor-
tbe retiring mod' sty of his
in the country, in that feature of our Cabinet
Ministers which allows them to discuss without vo-
ting, and to be defeated without the prospcct of al-
teration. In thin essentia! it is proposed by sound
and practical statesmen that we shall adopt the
English plan, which allows Cabinet Ministers no1
only to vete, but to hold them responsible for the
defeat of any measure which they ni;<y propose.—
In England, all questions of national importance are
originated ia the Cabinet cr are opposed by the
Cabinet, and the success of the question dctermiius
j whether the Ministers shall resign. If an important
j bill comes under the patronage of a Conservative
Your brave men who now stand in presence of j Ministry, and it is defeated, the Ministry either re-
tba enemy, from the Potomac to Arizona, ready ! signs or appeals to a new election by the people and
and willing to da or die for your cbnutrv and their ¡ „ _..j -r ■ , r . ,
...... , ,.v u . Í a new vote by tne I arliament. aud if again defeat< d
¡,¡ 1.,-,1 „i. i..Í " ' 1
injustice that rumor
i atice, tiau with
manner. There was
something of surprise even in his countenance,
whi.n a member of bis stuff said: Ti e crowd are
clamorous to see you. General—yon mu t go and
priSv-nt yourself.-"' It was evident he would have
ruptaud selfish as the Yankee government under , av« id l all this eclat. ha<l it been his power. His
Cameron. But there is stiil room for reform iu our ! thoughts. I should judge. are far more engaged upon
system, in the opinion of some of the leading minds hliCe'>s itself than the appbus i accompanying it,
and lh*;re seemtd. indeed, a graceful unconscious
ness of the fact that he was at all the object and
centre of all this attraction. Fatigued and wearied
after a night's travel, hi! tastefully declined " in*k
ing a speech "—bowed to the multitud!', and retired
iti-doors to dinner. Accident made him my tu a-vi
at table. I. of course, cnuid not study his face
without being rude, yet I saw enough in the inter-
change of conversation to give oie a ir.ost agreeable
impression of the brave little Frenchman.
j 1 lis physique, though not imposing iu the common
acceptation of the term, exceeds the .expectations
fouudn] on new-paper account.", lie is a small
man. it is true : but for the crcwn of premature
grey, covering a finely developed intellectual head,
the thoughtful, almost serióos expression of the
countenance iu repose, and the quit t diguity of a
Shot Weapons.
[From theGfcorgia Countryman.]
Human youih Vjipiaining to his mot
How a Cukistuk Soi.oiür Can Dik.—The Cen-
tral Presbyterian contains a biographical sketch ol
A Roman youih Vjipiaining to his mother that j sh,! IJev" Dabn,'>' Harrison, Caotaiu of Com
his sword was toooCtrl, the stern matron nplitd, j I"l;;y K. 5Sth Virginia Regiment, who ftll while
•• Then, my son. tafyanoiher step forwaid!"
Southern peopwilfcHld not complain of a want
of arms to win the!independence, as long s anv
ccmuiou blacksmiMn the country ean make á
p'ke or a bowie-ku^The best flghting evrr dcae
in the world has béi dene with ehort weapons.
We quote from ia Autocrat of t!.e 2-cckfasf
gallantly ltadi::g his m-a iu th. terrible at
fort í)onelson. We coj.v a portion :
When the san ro e 0;i tbe m ■rnir.g of that'bioo.lv
Saturday. it saw him utrea'lv ju the thick of the
battle. 1 hrough seven hours of mortal p.rii lie
wresthd with the foe. i\ith dauntless h art lie
Table, who, altboDis Yankee—which, we think, i c < '^<1 on his men. They loved h m hs a fui.tr, ¡
not to blaméortieing, as he could not help . a.ild fageriy followed whrswir he ltd.
he is
it—is. neverthcli
time, a g) nth munj^d a man of et#ise,
from Dr. Holmes
'• We [the Am'
mod< rn n orld—
Conflicts and coi
accidents with
so we come to t
sword is the i
mans ; a:.<! thi
1 to meet the
this table an
cr the journals of
The race that
boundaries.
Currottiry. It
laud at last with
o far as we know, up to ibis ' timoay is that he nt t< r said "go on,
"1^ all' ,r"n
1*1 tnlli*vi ii fir
over lb" broad land, wl
the inherent right of self-government,
you todo Imttle iu this
bi-lit ve in establishes a direct • responsibility in the
7
Eritisb
selt-sovcrni,ieni. call upon \i . , ,
war tbat great principle.; " ' "dcr our plan, the Cabinet officer
k nd and a"able uiaiiuet, in which, by the-wav.
there waa a bt coming alist nee of French excess, I
should Inive marked h'm in any crowd as a great
man-—a thorough stud"ut. Animated in conversa-
•■■■ ...r-i
tirtl dvtermination that you will be Ave. • ; is now discussing these alleged defects in our sys-
! i*?"r m !h ^ «l ^'shters. sinters, wives and little | tpnb with a view to perfect the reform which was
so well b 'gun at Montgomery, and we now have a
prospect os improving our government at the verv '
outset, in a manner to make it less changeable,
less radical, and consequently more respectable.—'
Congress proposes that Cabinet Miuisttra skill be
entitled to all the privileges of Congressmen, that
th< y sh-ili be allowed to discuss and defend their
measures, but that whcii Congress has dtliberattly
defeated a Cabinet measure, that thru the Cabin. !
must yield to Minister* more acceptable to the ca-
tion. There are ol j.ctions to this sysk-m, and there
.ire great difficulties in tbe way of its succes&ful es-
tablishment ; but it has ma.'iy excSlencies, and v.h n
a-paratcd. as it will 1^-jtnh m frérn ti
cuildr ni aU app. l to rou as you iov« them, your 1
c«nii try. their honor and y„ur honor to stand'as u
«>:eastfvr¡rk b- iw-.mi them, and "him who comes
with lust in h:« i-ye. pover'y in his pu'-se and bell
i:i I lis fi.-art. wh crmcs a robber and murderer."'
t" destroy or subjugate us that they may
fall heir to ;>i;r ls'auiif.il and (tinny Eolith and our
wen, wouieii and cliiidre.i be r.;duct'd to the most
afj'ct strfdom.
Texnns! ills tin has
liiat bt.-
duiy.
líe w!k> is una!.! to take tfco fi Id in pjrson
mu-t asaist those who are willing to
There ie L'O ti.iso for deljy: yonr sv'rvices are
^-qub-ed ti'^r: T rnnst bare report.-d to the Adjut-
~!.-oerai"i> oüee within thirty days the number
come when Texas demands
mtiie and ed-;pUd. must do their
. whenever
the till me rev. rted to the ajlnres tmtiomtc of tbe
Soufb. he show, d at onee that his whole heart wa«
etilirt- cl in In rtause. I was particularly pleased
with his bearing toward the young ntu'ehis of his
staff— several of whom tfere dispatched ou trrauds
of business requiring immediate attention.
The order was invariably given in a most polite
ton" and usually prefaced with, •• uill you hi.xe the
•j.'cdi.t s " to «lo thus and so. Alluding aft. rwaids to
the manly trait in his character, evinci d by these
little courtesies. I observed to Lieut. : •• Jj¡^
manner towards you junior3 strikes me as very
asreeable— are all superior officers thus considerate;''
H¿ replied evasively, but warmly: "We have
many noble officers, mad.>m—we have let one
Beauregard—he is the idol of nil hearts— ¡be
bunibiest Orderly about headquarters would die
for him.' It was noble testimony from the lips of
a modesty young Lieutenant, who baa had good op-
portunity to jitdsre of both the General and "~the man.
God preserve him to long life, success, and a
! prosperous and useful career, was, I doubt not. the
earnest ejaculation of . very heat tas the hack bore
him through our streets tó the waiting train
Would soon convey him beyi.
gratefu.
Tlit ir tvs-
but
Gen. Lee.—1 he appointment ufG'-n. Lee Com-
mander-in-Chief ia one which we bail with great
satisfaction. In the old army he was jit«l!y r< eard-
r.l as second only to Gen" Sc. tt. and we believ-
that was the opinion of the Lieutenant Central
; himself. As eiiciiieer offic. r. he has confessed;v
■ no superior, and ill every respect, we are itiflin, ii
j to think, is the b-.*t selection that could have liet;
i nmil \ The same objection that wns made to Csr
U nshington Las i>'rn alleged a^a'n^t Gen. Lee tc«
much caution; but it proved an advantage in the
first Revolution, and may Ik? tqually in tbe st^
ond. The mo t cautious Gem r l iu tfc. F"ders!
always I ral'líí 's Bue'l, and he has been the most successful.
. bis ívav-1 f*'n- '* ft nwn of í^" nt modesty of chantct<r.
'ord. At 1 nullity saw with i-ar and , ai ¡ l"lt «'strao'diuary energy, courage, and svlf-poss«.s-
is firm step fal! •i.d.rthaLliis trrct form wit; r-! ?a 'jje ' 8r'.v orgsti'ialion of our defenses ;(1
il was iinkingj ppranir forward and ^ j pare sl«ep to bis fvs: ?vt f0
' m frntn tli J: TV lliu.'-fi.ntat'i !.!_
We quote ! tL'Kltí oni" w hile ever before them fj.o d
ing sw<¡
the Romans of the ')ife
ssimilating people. p<^ a:i.'l ... _ _
course, necessary í ^"'n> from the field to d,«. '-Hi.* had warred
prototypes. Aud fc°"d warfare, ever holding farth and a gooi
pon. Our army ; ^c'f'"c(.'.'
d gladius of the iio-
(¡.satne fool, modil
stKjiety. I announce
be found iu Montesquieu
s J
vena its weapons lengthens its
ie lio- L ^ revf-rencNjI have taken in mv bai
alifbd ?haVhe wore in iV,.: I<,ttlu ; wiiii (va'rs ai
nee at'>'? Il€art 'u:>ve 1 kfflW 0u it. It N pi, rc¡
my band
lul
, , - - T — pierced
balls. Three whistled partly throu b and d
no harm. The fourth, partly spent, marred tbat
beautiful brow. But these were as nxithing. II'
Caluily fonpht cn. A inure fatal aim sent a bail
into b:s left breast, above his heart, quite throng!
his body. His men did not know it. He «T¡1
cheered them on. Another deadly nirn drove a Uj ¡1
through bis right iung : ju-t win re, cannot be told.
H.s (ace wai io the foe ai.d h s step onward < veil
"Mbe Polish lance that left Po-
•«ig of her owu to bound.
•• Dropped frotajtr nerveless grasp the sbatttrid
s|jtar."
the breasts of hi tiiemiis? If she had but clutch
en the Roman afjciing American wen pon and
come to close qiftfrs, ther • ■ -
chance for her; Hjtwould have spoiled the best ¡ ¡S ..ame he was to die or, the Sabtath, with A-
«o savs Dr Hwll i ! f t "f ,be Vernal Sabbntl.-. fiiling his brear He
v, s,m3ir to|reO,J, I todtou Ota Ovln, h,«
) couleaKt - ' - °
¡ Yet be did not die till the n.-xt day. Like his
j.u ... - ¡ brother, seven months before : like bis -i t r seven
qf frs, there might have been a , d^ys alter: like tbe little one ¿o whom we bad Kiven
" Buuie-1
the French
a. Xoril.ng to a rather doubtful j feebly wrote these words':
stoiy.it was fir -f. u by C«.l. Bowie, of Texas. " "
who, in a Con tes* ¡b the Mexicans
umtftentatiou^Iy were his dutif'S
no one knew, except l v tf.elr rts
Is-en Rccotnpiished. The public
en. Lee. but they saw tbe fact tha
round tbeir frontiers yb?
have cqiifirud tbe en<
li.Ajind K. wport News, have he|,J
his invading mn«s s. and made his sttrPOtvp«d crv
of- On to Richmond'' the laughing stock of tbe
World.
Subsequently ordered to Sonth Carolina, which
wa« then menaced by the enemy, under Sherman
and Funont. wlin, by a vigorous movement «por.
the capture or Port Royal, micht easily have cap
'un d Charleston, he has left that country in such
n state of d fense that Charleston is considered
almost impregnable, and even Savannah, wh'ch
hrd bfcr.me as defensel'w as Nashville, was put
i i a ro ition to make n stout, and in t.ll probabili-
ty a successful, resistance to the foe. ¿u addition
to thr fortifications, a larte army baa been orca-
n'zed and disciplined, and stationed at such points
as are necessnrj for the efficient defense oftha
State. The whol<* miliary career cf this oflicer.
the signal moderation and self-balance of his ehar-
.^meiican weapon similar to reached us. Calling fur one <f his mamiscriot ,,,r,"r- *n,í thH P"r¡ty. disinter-stidtirRs and dignity
t chatte except that it has but ¡ books, he to«.k a pencil, aud. with a trembling band.! of ,I?S "honItl e«"«nre to Gen. Lee the entire
milling I
t .-. "Feb. 16, 1862. Sunday
1 die content and happy, trusting in the merits ot
by otli* r , and isf^ivorn by ail who have to fear
weapons, in the ifh Soulh and West of the Unit-
ed ^tat(s.,, j
Put what tL Joorat says ard what the Cyclo-
[ EC-flia says toget'Jf 7 he Autocrat says:
The race thafccrttiia its weapons lengthens
its boundaries.".
'* What bus¡ii>-^£-S¡irmat<a to be fighting for
nfoot pole b' tween h' r slid the
If she had but clutched
♦oting American weapon, (the
^uuld have been eome chance
was upon him . he gathered
¡ up his remaining strength for one more effcrt. Rest
confidence of the army and the people of the South.
That the commander in-chief of the whole army
ia now placed in the hands of a military leader, is
of itself a snbject of profound congratulation. The
Federal Government, from the beginning, has had
but one mi itary head, and he of course an educated
soldier. We rejoice that tbe South is about to adopt
the same common sense course, and to have at ths
liberty with a
biea-ts of her e;
the old Roman u|
bowie knife,) th
for us."
The CyclopaxI
all who have to
Let, then, the
complain no m
f bowie-knives Rre w. rn by
ruvapons in the whole South,
youth use these weapons, and
. . , of a scarcity of arm*. What
U!3iiiCNs has she me fighting sor liberty with rifle-
range between hrfpt he br. asts of her enemies ?
Her bowit-knff®d iith terrible effect upon her
tell with the same
and no future poet
of V.ei *ut she
" ®roPPfd frctq^rr ^•giless grasp the shattered
¡ head of all her military operations one man. and be
a man trained in camp and accustomed from hit
youth up to the science and practice of war.—Sick-
nond Dispatch.
ii.g in the arms of one of his men. and sp-akin as
if tbe company, for which he bad toihd, atd-suff red,
atid prayed so much, was before him, he exclaimed,
• Company K. you have no Cap'ain now : but never
give up ; never surrender."
1 bus was his hut breath '© - his country 5 for the
young Couf< deracy, whose liberty, honor, and
righteousness were inexpressibly dear to him : for
which he wept, and prayed, and made supplication
in secret; for which be was content to "endure
hardness as a good soldier," and then cheerfully
to die.
These dying words beautifully connect themselves
with those of bis brother Peyton on the field or Man-
nassas: and taken together, they have a special fit-
ness to our country's present need.
When the Second Virginia regiment, fighting on
our left at Manna.-sa¿, was broken by a suddeu and
destructive flank fire or the enemv, and by th* un-
fortunate command or its Colonel, P.yton and a
Tew officers of tike spirit, rallied a portion of tbe
men and hd them in a peril, us, but splendid and ! rammed it up the pipe of the
Victorious charge. Iu the ni.dstof it, however, he I the room. Ia the course of
fwW'..i.^<r';'rj'r1irliti!1t- TTI r 1' 1 V' "ul¡í]g ™V the Minor m
PtiAcrrcAL Jokes on the Exemt.— We find i i
our exchanges the following items chronicling the
comical doings of that facetious warrior. Mejor H
W. Fry, who seems to have been not at all afraid oí
getting himself into difficulties with his captors be
cause of k en. Parthain. arrow-like jokes:
Mir jar 11. Tl'. Fry's P. P. C. to the Yu tifies nt Ruo-
nefce.—From Saturday, tbe day of our surrender at
Roanoke, till tbe following Wednesday, Major Fry
was confined in a room in the house of Dr. Bittern
on the island. In this room tbe Major discovered a
portion of a keg of powder, the private property
of Dr. Ritters. On Wednesday morning, ui.deretaa-
ding that be was to be removed on shipboard, the
Major took about twenty pounds of the pov.der, and
rolling it in a sheet, made a aoi t of cartridge, and
stove that stood in
of an hour afur cum
waa removed, and bis
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