The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 18, 1861 Page: 1 of 4
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• feeble oosing stream, but * mighty first the <l*y gleamed in upon them, not con* i
pressure of water tbst hsd found it revealing a human face! . gua«e of< ^ ,
Outlet there. They would. be over-! •' Of the hundred who bad been im-. rily explained the meaning of the text
whelmed-—lost. prisoned over seventy survived, and when he said " Thou «halt do no
"One foot was yet in the bucket— witli them Hubert. Without him in- murder." Taking human life might
ajirkai the rope would save him. deed, probably no one would have be justified by circumstance , andjhe not <
•*s aiihmnd n/tk,¿«r.;ToÓ, Bnt though death stared him in the been spared to tell tbe story. left us tolerably well assured, if In- - ~
arri ro.it;,. Iiycar. face, he could noi sacrifice others to '• This noble aet, done in place deed there were any skeptics before*
¡iwK**. •■«cu/I/ ttjlü'.ZJ " 1 '"y ; save Himself. Quickly jumping out, mid at n moment when no preise oí that we could participate in the pres- institutional
^' U*rl,n!' |M, gpfofd blind Victor, and placed men could haAe been looked for, ech- entwarwith conscience void of óf- buildjng upl
OF'A'I Ic'R'Iw Of ,).► IMniihV wilt him in the bucket, saying quickly as oed thwugb Europe and obtained tli«i tenes. .
he jerked the rope: " Tell them thnt pmine and gratitude o ' tbe world.— Bnt I have not said all that I
the water has burst in and we an) Ten thousand miners of Liege hailed out foir* Speaking of the pleasures lUse the human 1
probably lost; but we shall'seek ref- their fellow-lahorer with delight and oi t'w camp leads me to say thai we ofits riM
Iff youn ? cousin had been reading uge at the further end of the right prniso, Napoleon heard and admired "avo ",^re sbare oi ing to advantage i
% Abbott's History of Nupoleon Bona- gallery. Say farewell to onr poor in l'i palace at Varis, and sen; a re- ™ e' wl*ich ®iag conP" cessary arm of
parte. friends." In a moment he was gone, ward to the peasant nobleman. He ed Wltl'a band instrument (the . fence ^ defence.
One evening as we sai together, he and with him Hubert's only'certainty sent his cross of Honor, the mark naine wlj,c" I can neither speilj
Wd down his book,and with glowing of escape from a terrible death. which all the high coveted, and hot- n°r '"e'nomber) serve very much to.ft .
<4nt'k Itnd sparkling eye, exclaimed : J «• The mines consisted of long nar- still, offered him a pension which w 1 H awaJ sometimes long and I ulate the establish*
Wa*'ul he the inost splendid man! row p asages, and on all sides deep «¡«id him above wani for the Vest of 00? ^ >ours trsm twilight until that I of those manuf
that ever did live ! 1M give .inytliiiiii'' c.ives liriiit which ¡he coal had been.'ds life. P**n w en 1 neée*í*sB¿^ * "*
to be hall a* great I" dug. Tbe men were all af the fur-- "Wlien God unfolds in heaven the -T;^ .g^,
Mr. Abbott's port rait so carefully {hinr end of the mine, hewirig out of the 8ecret charities of men, many ouch ta^es 0810*t8 «"^race and clos-, l
conceals the blemishes of bis hero, solid mountain, unconscious of dnn- heroes shall stand ivve/ded, whom the es j*1* av('nuef of 80111 to ®xlernfll
and I* set witlml In eodsxsliifga frame, |ger. Hulrtrt quickly nuide his way J L-nrth anil tbtt waVes have covered, au^ «a'-rounding objects. ^ ¡
that 1 could oat wander at the boy' ¡along tbe dark passage, .followed by "ending m t.?n ton} in he world; Songs andballade are of coursetuei J
enthusiasm iu contemplating it. Bnt j the swiftly spreading water; and soon Their 'Fii'ih«r wluvsw•)b.• secj
1 Mid i reached hi fellow-workmen with the «ward them openly.".
" Voiir chances of becoming half as, dreadful intelligence. It was a mv
great a* Bonaparte is very good, 1 menf of panic, when each would have LSTOT® F ^OM SAL
think, i hat i not always great rushed to sudden death iu hi effort (.'a.mi' Kkíüv, Dickinson's Bay
uMch conbUts in brilliant achievmentKio wire himself, jtu! looking firmly Dec 8th, 1861.
l'lie highest greatness is moral, and1 into fheir gluistly faces, the uiii.strr '¡¿ilitor Countryman:
seeks rb<« good of others ral her iban j ««poke a few encouraging sentences ;
it own glory. [ could tell
all
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Only pieces ibat the^nas^es of a har-¡
dv soldiery con tolerate, and of these j
áve quite a variety, among the J
^popular of which are f Gentle,
aie," " Dixie," with the words i «>me
tten by Albert Pike, "Troub -'^
hour," The Child's Wish," dbc., be- Und ?
sides negro melodies in abundauok
it is Sunday, and your corre - ¡ Running races is also one of the many, *«r,
"gloiy. I could te yon oí a I " tollow my words, lads and be- pond^uf il0w feeling n Iktle tired; expedients which the soldier seeks AmeftOa,
more noble hero than Napoleon who quick—our picksmay ave us !" d the flu„ monoioliy ot¡ c„inp lift., w,ftt ¡ nit ( w of the bn
l«<< M kb «ra thM." . «n-gflMra -iy quick condad^i iVbrwk In lipon it t, ...
commands^Hrafollop:^ new chamber '"J'' T ' "
above whertffbe. watrt would proba-, fl Vmaii. 1 !L t ,„:ii -i 1
bly reach. 'JT e iften obeyed
M J should like to Imar^of one," ait-
«wered Harry, with au air I hat said
I* was not to bo convinced. But he
loved a story, so I told him the follow-j lence. though each knew not but what 1
ingt 1 he might be digging bis own grave. 1
" Years ago in the deep heart ol'A hundred pair soon finished the
a mountain in Belgluui, a hundred. work, and into the cave a hundred
men were working a cool-mine. ¡men crowded io wait for death or an
" Grim-visaged and dusky, moving n|,nAat impossible chance of relief—
about by the dull red light of I heir 1 The water gradually tilled all the old
r king u] jien and inditing for the Conn, j you will care to print ojr y^urpatrtms
water woidd proba-, nyman. ' f0 iw,d j will cj08<J and ^ you ^ ¡ of *
o eye 111 si-1 \yell, a month or more has passed only as an experiment upon your and
hiuce some sevenly-five or a hundred j their good nature. '
of us solemnly swore that we would • Sincerely yours,
faithfully surve against any and nil ; f' , -AMICUS.
foes of 1 he O. S. for the term of six Countryman:
monibs unless sooner discharged,atid Sin:—I was a
j longer it needed. Then we were J f^e-trader from economical principles
Ti
dnstr
land,
ém into swords 1
safety lamps, they might have been
mistaken for the demons of the moun-
tain, onoo supposed by the peasants
to dwell In its eaves.
avenues and chambers, and tlyn seem-1 frj
ed stayed. Never was a situation
more dreadful. Not moré, than a
Their work j day's provisions lird been saved, and
wan hard*and surrounded by danger } already two or three of their number
bul their wives and children were in
liad been killed by the falling roeks,
wt;
the hamlet above, and longhabit made ¡ while hastily building tbe new cham
tlwin forget their perils. So they j ber. The long diamnl hours, with no
might Jrnve been contented and even ¡change to make them, brought only
creaking windlos raised and
lowered «huge bucket tbrongh the
deep narrow shaft, from morning till
nigfct, carrying men and tools to and
fro. This was their only door-way
II waa noonday aud the sun shoue
down one side of the shaft, and hro't
a glimmer of daylight to a part of the
mine, w|ion Hubert Gofin^the master
■ahMv took his place in tho great klb-
hle, and wa let down to the mine
foot below. When lie reached
the ~taton. be commenced handing
«OMé tóela and store to Victor, a
miner, who was waiting there.
child in one of the
l it was to inquire after
waiting at tbe bot-
ptied,
oit.
that
J h wm
the advance of certain death.
^pourage, brave Hubert I God
10 aaw thy noble sacrifice will help
thee.
" The terrified friends and towns-
men, on heariug Victor's dreadfol
news, ran wildty about in hopeless
panic. But Boon guided by the mes-
age Hubert had aent, they commenc-
ed working a new shaft as near aa
possible to tbe spot where the help-
less men migh< bo. Five days and
nighta they toiled, digging deeperand
deeper into the solid side of the moun-
tain.
" 'It is a vain tash,' said the men.
But the women cried 1 " Do uot cease!
God will help ea.'
" At length on the morning of the
sixth doy the muffled blows from
within mot the ears of the workmen
In the shaft. A signal rsn akmg the
rope, which told the wwe to the wait
m1|L jMVAM ftlhAlfttft flonn . JuiBmiHI
They were sav-
ed at least embe were saved. ^
the fo^lings of
buried for five
withMt fMd* when
nearly all launching out upon an an
sea of camp lite, almost entirely
ignorant of its duties, its hardships*
its pleasures or its novelties, and our
experience thus far leads t>S to say
this, that its novelties will all
away in a fortnight, its pleasures will
become so stereotyped in a less time
thai uobody will appreciate them;
leaving the duties, tbe stern duties of
complyiug with tbe inexhorable rou-
tine of the soldier's daily, life (Sun-
days excepted) the tap of the drum
at daylight, the calling.of the roll at
six, the breakfast at Seven, tbe drill
at nine, with another at three, these
dispensed with only by sickness, or
fatigue or guard duty, make the life
of tbe soldier not so lasy and inactive
as some who know nothing about i|
migbt perchance imagine: Yet for
ail this, 1 fancy we hnve no mal-con-
tents among us—roll seem to be more
than satisfied with the reflection and"
consolation that tl)ey are but doing
their duty as citiaens of an earnest
and chivalrous natiop, Struggling to
disenthrall itself from the fatten of
■besides seeing in free-trade a means
of promoting peace among the nations
of the earth, but as this expectation
has not been realised in our case and
9ther nations seem desirous of making
themselves independent of us onr
Wl'cy as well as duty compels us to 1
make ourselves equally independent-1
of them,"and perhaps it is the surest
way to arrive at peace, instead of a j
system which invites foreign aggres-
sion we can only baye a real inde-
pendence when swe manufacture aU;
nece saiy articles ourselves.
The
.n
PSSSMi
maintain
those 1
ductions Of I
times that
dt*tio
clothe
side within their I
And
of their soil. 1
snd 1
«6 U, aid
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To-day we hare Wen favored with
reiigioua exercise >y Dr. Allen, of
Ht'inpstead, who cowjroced tho ex-
entase by reading thoTea C
ments, and to our horror a
todkthe sixth forkii text.
fhlte novel for'f'Wd^r tp
in his ears, ««'ifhoiD
kIB," yet Mr. AHenvery
lyaKUrodusAatwe as
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Kimbrough, J. T. The Bellville Countryman (Bellville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 18, 1861, newspaper, December 18, 1861; Bellville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177026/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.