The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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.A. Weekly Journal Devoted to Christianity, l^diioation* Home Enterprise, and General Xntelligpnoe.
Ct. A. KELVX Proprietor.
V. J. PAI'ILLO, Editor and Publisher.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS, JULY 2, 1869.
VOLUME I.
NUMBER M.
MILITARY COURT.
Trial of Jefferson Prisoners.
Jesse T. Veal's testimony went to
discredit Isaac and Jennie Hawes,
whom he had formerly owned and
known to be notorious liars and
thieves. These were the freedmen
that testified against Pitcher and
Richardson.
Dr. J. 0. Hervey, John W. Lee
James P. Durr, W. N. Hodge, John
Stewart, all testify that the shooting
was at the jail first and then at the
Sulphur Springs, which discredits
the testimony of Anderson Wright
Cornelius 1 urner, Dick Walker, Or,
Frith, and II. C. Perkins.
The testimony of W. N. Hodge is
the most important in general and in
detail that has been introduced by
the defense; but in consequence of
the absence of our reporter we are
not able to give it. An important
point is that the entire attacking
party was so masked and otherwise
disguised that he could not recognize
any of them, though he was among
them at the jail during the whole
time they were there.
It is established by Miss Haywood
and others that Mr. Pitcher was at
Mr. Murphy's at the time of the
shooting.
John Hobdy, Mr. Towers, Mrs
Towers, and Mrs. Stewart, anu per-
haps others were examined on yes-
terday, and testify that the shooting
was at the jail before the Sulpha1"
Spring. They also prove an alibi in
favor of Mr. Geer.
Mr. Stealey and Dr. Marshall have
been released from prison under
bond.
We have been informed by a spec-
tator that on last Tuesday, a com-
munication was received by the Com-
mission from General Buell re-
questing that no further conversa-
tion be allowed in the court room be-
tween the prisoners and their rela-
tives and friends, during the recesses,
without his written permission. Af-
ter deliberation the court maintained
its dignity and self respect, by refu-
sing the request of Gen. Buell by a
vote of four to three.
District Codrt.—Two Freedmen
have been condemned to be hanged,
by the District Court now in session
in this city. Temer Phillies, for the
murder of a (J. S. soldier at a colored
ball; Hart, for the basest and
most revolting crimes known to mor-
ality and civilization.
S. L. Thomas, Proprietor of the
Lake City Refreshment Rooms, has
received ice enough to ice cream ev-
ery body through the entire sum-
mer.
ECCLESIASTICAL JOKE.
Once upon a time, (not very long
ago) in a city of some pretensions,
(not a hundred miles from the head
of navigation) an erring member
of one of our evangelical churches,
(no matter which) was called to ac-
count before the congregation upon
a charge of intoxication. After much
controversy, and many scathing re-
bukes from the pastor and some of
the more stable brethren, it was
agreed that he should bo forgiven
and borne with if he would promise
to go and drink no more, to which he
replied in substance:
" My brethren, I am sorry that I
have overtaken this fault; but, as 1
regard my word as very sacred, I do
not feel safe in making ths promise
demanded, while so many of my su-
perior and more spiritual brethren
keep so fine an article for sale, and
for the accommodation of their cus-
tomers and friends. I love to visit
them—for the sake of their agreeable
company; like the-taste of their fine
samples—anj, my bretheren, I have
sometimes taken a little too ranch.
If you promise to remove the temp-
tation, I think I can safely say I
will let it alone."
The scene which followed this lit-
tle speech can be more readily im-
agined than described. Suffice it to
say that there were a few who, like
Simple Simon, " were glad they
hadn't a said anything." But the
covenant we believe was mutuall}'
entered into for the good of the
church.
We have received " Additional Ad-
vanoe Sheets of the Life of Jefferson
Davis," &c., by Edward A. Pollard.
If we may Judge of the animus of
tho author by this and his other
works, he determined to wear away
the rctnaiuder of his life in devising
•n escapement for his pent up spleen
against the leader of " the lost
oause." We canaot read hiaa with
any patience,
A CONTENTED LIFE.
(At Thirty.)
Five hundred dollars I have saved—
A rather moderate store.
No matter; I shall be content
When I've a little more.
(At Forty.)
Well, I can count ten thousand now—
That's better than before;
And I may well be satisfied
When I've a little more.
(At Fifty)
Some fifty thousand—pretty well;
But I have earned it sore.
However, I shall not complain
When 1 ve a little more.
(At Sixty.)
One hundred thousand—sick and old;
Ah! life is half a bore.
Yet I can be content to live
When I've a little more.
(At Seventy,)
lie dies—and to his greedy heirs
He leaves a counlless store.
His wealth has purchased him a tomb—
And very little more!
A country paper says there is a
man in that vicinity so mean that be
«its on the door step of the church
to Bave the wear of his pew cush-
ions
That dont explain the church-door-
settei 8 in this city, for we have seen
no pew cushions.
The merchants of Shreveport have
had a meeting for the organization
of a Home Insurance Company.
The Ga&'tte things it will succeed,
and pay handsomely.
For the Home Advocate.
IF RELIGION IS TRUE.
Mr. EnrroR: If religion is true, the
soul is of more value than the body.
That " precious jewel" consistency
would teach us to devote more pains
and labor to it, than the body. If
one or the other should be neglectcd,
the less valuable should go on the
shelf. Consistency teaches that
that man, whoever he is, should be
regarded as not only reckless but
mad downright, who neglects the
soul, while he has time to prepare the
body for a gay, or even a social ap-
pearance. The soul of man, not Je-
hovah's—breath, but the immortal
mail, originated by the breathing of
the Almighty, after the physical form-
was completed that thing sudden-
denly and divinely brought into exis
tence, is not only to witness gener
ations pass away, the mountains
grow gray, but even the distruction
of this mighty frame work, held to-
| gether b}* the same power that gave
it birth. And while it lives, and
witnesses all these mighty changes,
and displays of power and wrath, it
shall possess all of its original feeling
—sensibility. It is all this time (if
not prepared while on earth) suffer-
ing most intensely, without one
shadow of hope of escape. However
far that sbul can penetrate the fu-
ture of that eternity, it only beholds
the hidrohead Dispair rising up and
mocking at his pains. One dark
wave of woe after another rolls over
him, to be followed by others still
more terrible than any that has gone
before.
This man soul is shut up to this, in
prison walls that mocks at darkness,
by the blackness of dispair that
gathers about it. If suffering comes
upon the body here, it finds relief by
the suspension of life, or sensibilities,
until nature revives. But in this
eternal state, death is the constant
companion, but ever fails to give the
wanted relief In this world if we
are distret-scd out of measure, our
mind runs to the future and finds ai:
end, but not so there. As said above
'tis not possible to consider of a per-
iod even at an incalculable distance
when relief shall coine. The farther
you look, the more grievous the suf-
fering. Here if thrown in unpleas-
ant company, we can withdraw;
there 'tis impossible. " In that lone
land of dark dispair, the very worst
of all ages are gathered, and for
companions the soul must have them
forever. If our religion is true, this
is not an over colored picture of
the bouIs of men in an other world,
This eternal punishment can be
avoided by men if they try. Selfish-
ness calls upon men to escape it, and
strangest of all man's doings ho will
uot. You meet men on the street,
in your office, and wherever you go,
that have plenty of time to shape
their lives for ati eternity of good,
and yet weeks, months, years have
passed, and the subject has scarcoly
had asolemn thought. Gold is depos-
ited in the bank, life is insured for the
benefit of wife and children. Fine
houses are built for earthly comforts,
costly raiment is procured, and great
displays are made among our friends;
but no house is provided for tho soul.
It must go out into eternity house-
less, friendless, and clotheleaa, Will-
ingly it has neglected a timely
preparation for joy; now, ah awful
thought, it must be driven away.
We repeat, if religion is true, these
clever men who have neglected the
salvation of the most valuable part
of man, must be lost. Lostl lost!!
Reader of tho Homo Advocate, look
wnil at the meauing of this word
when applied to soul. " What shall
it profit a man if he gain the whole
world, and lose his own soul." Ask
your friends when you sreet them if
they are prepaied to die and go to
heaven.
By your poi'tniseion I will write
again.
TRUTH.
For the Home Advocate.
RED RIVER.
Under thy remorseless wave,
Where the pale moonbeams quiver,
Slumber the beautiful and brave,
Thou dark Red River!
When, with Indian paddles, teemed
Aboriginal ages,
Thou wertsome god, or demon deemed
By peers and sages.
Awe struck—they watcliod thy ruddy
surge
Engulph some form forever;
And shrieked, and cursed thy crumbling
verge,
Remorseless River I
Gods have been said to love the young—
Reaching out their fond embraces,
On the bowering banks, where hung
Divine young faces.
Iiiver-gods crouched among reeds,
Amber tressed, with eyes of beryl,
Snatching some lightsome lieait, that
heeds
No thought of peril.
Dreams, like these, thronged the dim
Past;
But diviner Faith hath taught us,
From all our griefs, to view at last,
Christ on the waters.
Rushing southward to the sea,
Where tropic stars are sleeping,
What precious treasures, proud stream!
be
In thy calm Keeping:
Crowned with palaces and steam,
Like some jeweled maiden,
Seeking mariage for her love-dream
Thou commerce-laden!
Harnessed to the yoke of man,
Thine occidental beauty
Teaches a countless caravan
Tho pat h of duty.
Yet we turn, sad stream, we turn
From all thy glowing splendor,
And drapo thee, like a burial urn,
With memories tender.
Surely, to us, tby ruby lapse
Leaps round a marble city,
Where grief infinite claims, perhaps.
Infinite Pity.
Yet must we weep—for none the less,
Do thy deep waves deliver
The sad shades of lost lovelinMS—
Thou dark Red River!
JULIA PLEASANTS.
The revolutionists of Cuba, with
Oespcdes as their leader, might very
appropriately be oaiied Cospedestri
xru.
HOME LIFE.
The other day I chanced tp c^ter
a friend's honae. He did not VjWow
I was in the parlor, and 1 overi|ear4
hi * conversation. H« was very
harsh in his dealing with hi* child
He was " out of aorw " that morning,
"The wind was east," and tjbe east
wind blew into bis lungs and, into
his soul, and soured his mind, and
soured his heart, and sd, like? a base
miscreant, as he was, he vented his
bad temper on his wife and children.
It is a bad habit some men have.'
This man was talking in a harft
unchristian manner-—talking as no
father should talk. He had lost his
temper. He was suying what h*
would be sorry for iu a few moments
And then the servant announced rpy
presence. Mind you, the man would
have said he could not help it: "ThO
boy teased me! He did what lean-
not endure, and on tho impulse of
tho momeut, I spoke my angpe. I
could not control myself.'"
Tliero wuh a frown on his face;
but when 1 was announced, being
more or less of a stranger, demand-
ing of him certain courtesies, he at
once smoothed his face as though
nothing had happened—as though
the sun was shining brightly in the
heavens, and the wind was south,
and not east. He came into the
room where 1 was, and, in the most
cordial and courteous way possible,
gave me his hand, and smilingly
bade me welcome.
He could not control himself, sim-
ply because he did not think enough
of his boy—because he did not suf-
ficiently appreciate his family; and
because ho thought that his hothc
was a don in which ho could roar
with impunity, and net the great
temple of God, where he should
walk as priest and king.
And yet I, almost a stranger, was
strong in my presence, to cause him
at once to cool down into courtesy,
into affability, into politeness!
I tell you, that many and many a
man, and many and many a woman
in this strange world of ours, in
which many things seem to go wrong,
will be gentle, and kind, and char-
itable, and full of smiles outside of
their houses, with strangers, for
whose opinion they do not care one
jot, or one tittle and in the house,
where all the happiness of years de-
pends upon their sweetness of soul,
and wh«-ro they are constantly shed-
ding influences that will ripen into
the good or bad life of a boy or girl,
will yield to a pettishnoss and peev-
ishness, unworthy of them as men
and women, and wholly unworthy of
them as christians.—Mejivoortk.
The Picayune says the Chattanoo-
ga Railroad will soon be running
Irom Mobile to New Orleans, and
will thence be pushed on to Houston
in Texas.
" Nor is this al! which this com-
pany, with a name singularly 'cho
sen, seemingly to confine it to Chat-
tanooga and Mobile, is doing. They
are going to build a road from new
Orleans to Houston, in Texas. We
say that they are going to build
it, for we fee! quite certain of it
They have selected tlreir ronte,
which leaves tho river somewhere
near Donaldsonville and pusties near-
ly an air line to Vermilioiiville, which
they say is a saving of twenty-eight
miles, by actual survey, over th<*
route by Brashoar, and that it will
pay for the making of it to save this
distance in running it ten years.
Of this they will soon put a burr*
dred miles under contract. But do
they do this simply to have s road
to Texas? By no means; they iro
building a road to the Pacific, and
strike for San Antonio with a view
to go tbenoe to the Pacific
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1869, newspaper, July 2, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235549/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.