The Confederate News. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1864 Page: 1 of 2
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THE
ERATE NEWS.
OLD SERIES, VOL. XII, NO. 82.
JEFFURSON", TEXAS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1864
NEW SERIES, VOL. I. NO. 2
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our lines. Confederate money reooived
at market value.
Houston Oot. 14th 1864.
JAMES BURKE,
no 1—It . Book Seller, Houston.
SCHOOL BOOKS BY MAIL.
I will send School Books (except Tex.
as ssries) by mail post-paid for fifty per
ssnt mors than before tho war.
JAMES BURKE,
Ho 1—It Book Seller, Houston.
Hiadqoartkrs Tbans-Miss. Dept. )
8hroveport, La. July 21, 1864. )
General Orders, )
No 56. )
I. All officers and men captured at
Vicksourg, who have reported at Enter-
)riie. Demopolis, Vienna, Natohitoches,
Ihreveport and Alexandria, at any time
prior to the first of April, 1864, have
been declared duly exchanged by the
•ommi'Monef of exchange.
All those in this Department, who are
•mbraoed in thi9 list, will immediately
tejoift their commands in tho field.
By oommand of
• Geo K. Kirbt Smith,
S. S ANDERSON,
Aps> Adi't Qon
An Exohanok or Compliments Bktwkk.m two No-
ted Yankee Editors.—The following is an exchange
of compliments that recently passed between two
noted Yankee editors—Bennett, of tho New York
Herald, and Prentiss of the Louisville Journal.—
They are so characteristic of the men, and ho ele-
gant and refined in their literature, that they deserve
to be perpetuated as specimens of tho tru® Yankee
taste and character.
bennett to prentiss.
The Louisville Journal, an impudent one-horse
Kentucky concern, conducted by a walking whidkey
bottle, says that one of our correspondents deprived
it of its maps and despatches from Sherman's army.
The Journal is unable to pay even board wages to
its correspondents, and relies upon ua.for the uews.
Our correspondent purchased the maps and inteli-
gence referred to, from one of the starving reporters
of the Journal, in order to aave him from putting an
end to his miserable existence, since he could live
no. longer on the bottle of Bourbon a week with
which the Journal supplies him. Tho Western edi-
tors are all whiskey bottles, their reporters are nil
whiskey, aud their papers all the fumes of that bev-
erage without any of its strength. So. much for tho
slanders of the Louisville Journal.—[New York
Herald.
rnKNTIBS to best.'ett. -
This paragraph is the ono to which, without hav-
ing seen it, was referred to yesterday in our notice
of W. T. P. Shanks, a war correspondent of the New
York Herald. That paper says that its correspon-
dent purchased from ours the map and intelligence
referred to—that ia, tho map and the rebel newspa-
pers, mentioned by ua yesterday. This is all a
base and unmitigated falsehood. The map was
given to the Herald's correspondent upon a condition
which he most scandalously violated, and he feloni-
ously broke the seals of the papers and stole the con-
tents for hia thieving employers. The employers
and employee, instead ot throwing a stone at us
ought to be pecking the article in the State prison.
It is not aupposable that any paper on earth could
have ought to gain from a dispute with the
New York Herald. The editor of that concern is so
low doWn-that fifty mill stones around his neck,
waist, arms aud legs could'nt sink him lower. No-
toriously, he has been oftener kicked and horse-
whipped than any other man in the United States.
Whoever has had the slightest fancy for horse-whip-
ping or kicking him has done it. The license to
operate on him in either way or both could not have
been more perfect if it had worn tho words "to let"
in chalk marks on his shoulders or coat tail. When
ho has waked up each morning iiis reflection has
been "now is it to be a horse-whipping or a kicking
to day,'* and occasionally it has been both, eked out
with a small nosepulling. In fact his nose has been
so frequently twisted that it is entirely a ono sided
affair, and wo think that, in common fairness, "the
tw ister should be sentenced by a court of justice to
"untwist tho twist." Tho editor of the Herald is
said to have a great deal of money, but bis kicky far
exceed his coppers. The only time he was ever
known to thank God was when sharp-toed boots
were changed to square toed. It is said that by a
long experience, he could always tell, when kicked,
whether the application was madu by boots, shoes,
brogans or slippers; at what particular store the ar-
ticle was bought, what was its cost, what its quality,
and whether it was made of the hide of Durhams,
Short-horns, Alderneys, Herefords or Devons.—
When cattle were killed, it was a frequent under-
standing that, while the fat was to be tried on tho
fire, the leather was to be tried on the editor of tho
Herald. Ho in regarded as being undoubtedly the
best judge of leather in Now York, not that he is a
leather dealer, but that leather dealers have had so
much to do with him. He has come so often in con*
tact with leather that the part of him chiefly con-
cerned has itself beoome leather. So he not only
walks upon leather when he walks, but sits upon
leather when he sits. The editor of the Herald has
lived a good deal longer than he ought to have done,
but it is to be hoped that he can't live always. And
if ho dies, his hide should be tanned to leather, that
is, the small portion of it that has not already been,
his hair used as shoemaker's bristles, and his bones
made into shoeing horns.—(Louisville Journal.
NEWS ITEMS
Nashville, Oct. 17.—Hood capture?! Dalton and
800 prisoners. Portion of garrison escaped.—
Charleston Courier of the 11th says the occupation
of Rome wan effected without a fight, and dashed in
to Marietta bloodless. When Sherman learned Hood
had moved northward ho crossed the river with
two corps and formed Mne at ViningStation. Ilood's
line crossed railroad at Big Shanty on trie 4th.
The two armies held this position to each other with-
out firing a gun. On 5th Sherman withdrew to
Atlanta. Our army then destroyed railroad, from
Big Shanty to Oostanala, All bridges from Marietta
to Dalton destroyed. We have strongly fortified
Kenesaw mountain. Jackson holds Rome; Wheeler
Resaca.
Mobile, Oct. 11—On 10th eastern shore batter-
ies whipped gunboat* off, and on Sunday tfcfitroyev
s:d« "rhre! st«*TO9r ,
A Lkttek fkom Secretary Trenuolu.—
The annexed letter from Secretary Ttenholm
wac written to a gentleman in Savauuah :
Richmond, Aug 13,1864,
My Dear Sir:—1 have received your letter
of the 4th inat. aud read it with great inter-
est. Ourviuwa have beeu generally iu accor-
dance upon the subject ol' the finances; aud I
would willingly 1'oliow now the course you
recommeud it it were possible. But it is uot;
the recent measures of Congress are but par-
tially accomplished; and to arrest tnern half
way, and,attempt to substitute others, would
lead to a condition of things approaching finan-
cial anarchy. Until the regular session of
Congress, nothing cau bo done iu the way of
legislation for the redress of present ills. I
shall do all'iu my power, by a prudent admin-
istration of existing laws, to sustain the credit
of the Government, uutil Congress assembles.
Aud having given to their measures a patient,
fair, and deliberate trial, 1 shall perhaps be
listened to then with more attention, iu sug-
gesting .measures of reform. For what may
take placo iu tho meantime, I am iu no way
responsible. But our difficulties ought not to
be aggravated by this short delay; and they
can become so only in one way, via!; by the
people advancing the price of supplies upon
the Government.
The chief outlay now i for wheat, corn, fod-
der, aud meat, woolen and cotton goods, aud
railroad transportation. For theso the Gov-
ernment deals with tha planters, the manufac-
tures, and the railroad companies. .Nearly
all its foreign supplies are now imported
through its own agencies, and adds but little
either to the circulation or the funded debt.
For the home purchase enumerated, aud all
other domestic expenditures, it is estimated
that the outlay will not exceed three hundred
millions from the 1st ol Juiy to the .list
of December, provided that the prices are not
advanced beyond those of last year. Those
expenditures are thus under the almost abso-
lute control of those three interests. And of
these the planters are the chief in number, im-
portance', and influence. They hold the en-
tire supply of food for tile soldier in the field
and hi:> family at home. Will they advance
tho price of food, and with an abundant har-
vest J I hope and believe they will uot.
Be that as it may, it is a risk that has been
deliberately undertaken by Congress, in ar-
rangement of the two bills, and upon them
the responsibility rest#, The Virginia plan,
ters have nobly done their duty, in holding
public meetings and opposing any advance of
the schedule prices for their productions; ami
we must hope that their brethren in other
States will not display a smaller share of pa-
triotism «ud wisdom. # There is no class so
deeply concerned as themselves in keeping
down the expenses of the Government. They
are the great property-holders of the country,
aud upon them must at last rest the chief
burden of the public? debt. There can be no
escape from its ultimate payment; even now
the bonds of the Government, in immense
sums, are daily passing into the hands of for
eigners, and Coming more aud more under the
protection of international obligations. And
our people are thus bliudly allowing the only
description of security that will maintain its
present value on the return of peace to pass
into the h'uids of strangers, while they them-
selves are employing the large sums paid them
by the Government for domestic productions
to inflate more and more the prices of all de-
scription of property, only to find their sup-
posed gains swept away by tho ruinous decline
that will follow the return of peace.
If the planters saw their true interests they
would be the first to insist upon low price# and
prudent expenditures. And the proceeds of
every bushel of corn would be invested by
them in Government securities, that they miglit
themselves become the receivers of the future
taxes.
Youra mout respectfully,
G. A. TKFN1IOLM.
ASSURANCES OF HISTORY.
"The Buttle of God" is the text of a
sermon preached before Wilcox's brig-
ade, the last Fast Day, by Rev. Mr.
lifenfroe, chaplain of the 10th Alabama
regiment, and published at the instance
and by the contributions of those who
heard it. The author quotes tho re-
mark of Victor Cousin, that "History
proves, even when viewed from a hu-
man standing-point that wars always
terminate just aa they should, and that
their results are always full of bless-
ings for coming generations''—and the
following passage from Sir William
Temple's Essay on Heroic Virtue:—
"The second observation I shall make
on the subject of victory and conquest
is that they have in general been made
by the smaller numbers over the great-
er; against which I do not remember
any exception in all the famous battles
registered in story, excepting that of
Tamerlane and Bajazet."
In proof of the general correctness
of this observation, the speaker says
the Persian army under Cyrus was but
a handfull when compared with tho
\ ast multitude of Assyrians over which
they were completely victorious, and
afterwards these victorious Persians
with an army of six hundred thousand
were beaten by the Macedonians, who
tT!) r.'VT more than forty thoupand
strong. Tho little Athenian army of
ten thousand, fighting for their liberty
aud independence as we are drove back
and overcame one hundred and twenty
thousand Persians at Marathon. In all
the famous victories of the jLacedeuio-
nians, they had never over twelvo
thousaud soldiers at any time, though
their enemies had often twenty time*
that number. Almost every ono of
the celebrated victories of the Romans
was achieved over far greater number,
than themselves.
. '£'ie £rt.!lt Caezar's armies, whether
in Pharsalia, Gaul or Germany were
in no proportion to those conquered bv
him The army of Marius was ne ver
over forty thousand, while that of Cim*
bres which lie conquered, was three*
hundred thousand. The famous victo-
ries ol lUuis and Belisarias, over tho
barbarous northern nations, were won *
with numbers astonishingly small.—
I ho same is true ol the first great vie-
tones ot tho Turks over the Persian
kingdom, and ol the Tartars over the
Chineae; in all the immortal victories
of the renowned Scanderberg over tho
lurks, he never.brought together more
than sixteen thousand men, though hia
enemies often numbered over a hun-
dred thousand. To come down to later
tunes, the English victories at Cressy
and Agincourt, so famous in history,
were gained with inciedible disadvan-
tages of numbers. The same is true
otthe great .victories of Charles the
III, in Italy; ol Henry the IV, iu
* ranee; of Gustavus Adolphus in Ger-
many, and of Charles the XII, of Swe-
den, in Denmark, Poland aud Muscow.
a he knitf of Poland who had an army
ot twenty four thousand, was defeated
and driven from his throne by a force
ot less than twelve thousand- and tho
Russian army of eighty thousand was
beatau by him with .a little army «of
on \ eight thousand. No.i must wo
forget the fate of Napoleon in Russia,
lie invaded that country with an army
of six hundred thousand soldiers anil
was finally completely vanquished and
driven out of the country, although the
Kuss.ans had never over two hundred
and fifty thousand men in the field ;
any qne timr^ [Richmond Whig.
Ths Richmond Examiner save
Hie idea of repudiation is"a bur
aboo. No nation in this very com-
mercial age can repudiate the publie
debt without placing itself under the
ban of national infamy; and the haughty
high-toned South with ite almost Qui/-
otic regard for personal honor, could
never deliberately vote itself a com-
mmiity of Bwindleis. The interest on
the Oonfedei ate debt will be about od®
hundred millions a year, which can be
easily paid by an export duty of five
crnts on cotton. Investments in Con-
federate credit are therefore safe; and
an exchange of property into money,
on the present extraordinary term#,
will be profitable to the extent of tvr«n-
ty for one. Property, after the war,
will produce at best a rental or inter-
est of ten per cent; one hundred dol-
lars worth of property exchanged for
Two thousand dollars in Confederate
bonds, will bring one hundred and
twenty dollars interest, subject to no
taxation.
' 1 wo years after the war, the wis^#t
and wealthiest men will be thoNe who
bought up the credits of tho Govern-
ment when they were cheapest." ,i
It the war should not end in succe**
and the Confederacy should fall, even,
in that very improbable event Confed-
erate money will be worth as much in
the hands of the Confederate citizens,
as any property. He will loose everr
thing by confiscation. If he holds
lands he will have the mortification to
sec the hateful conquerer in possession
of homesteads which he has estima'^d
above the credit of his country in the
degree of twenty for on*-. After help-
ing to ruin his own cause by his sor-
did distrust, he will bo subject to the
infinite ehame and agony of seeing the
property which ho prizes above his
country enjoyed by the enemy, become
his master
Courting is an irregular, active
transitive verb, indicative mood, pre«-
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Carpenter, J. A. The Confederate News. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1864, newspaper, November 4, 1864; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235661/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.