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J. C. MORRlLL, editor.
t3ES ARC, ARKANSAS4.
SATURDAY.......... JULY 13, 1861.
TheTbird Quarterly Meeting for Des
Arc Station, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, commences this morning at li ohHock,
at Watkins Chape!. We were pleased to
meet with Rev. J. B. Annis, Presiding Elder,
last evening) who gave us a call. He is a wor
thy gentleman, and we were pleased to observe
that his health has improved.
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Aiding the Sooth.—Every citizen
of the South wlm has money, cotton or
grain, has a good opportunity to invest in
Southern Confederacy, bonds bearing
eight per cent, interest. We have a class
of men in Prairie County who have thus
fnr done nothing towards aiding the war
of defence in which the South is engaged.
Some of these men when asked to take
even County bonds to aid in arming men
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do so! Now we propose that the Home
Guard in each Township, in Prairie
County, furnish a list of those whc are
known to possess the wealth, and have
thus far refused to aid in defending
their own homes and firesides. These
stingy, close-fisted wretches, who expect
their poor, but patriotic neighbors to pro
tect them and their wealth, should be com
pelled to disgorge, either by taxation or a
healthy force ojpublic opinion. We have
no doubt, a few of this character are in Des
Arc and its vicinity. May a sudden
trembling seize them, until they come
forward and do their duty. Don’t dodge !
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Fight the Devil with Fire.
The crew of the Savannah are still in
irons, and the Lincoln organs are clamor
ing loudly for their execution as pirates.
The Della cites the fact, and says: “These
threats ought to enjoin great vigilance on
the part of the officers of the Confederate
States, in guarding the prisoners now held
*by our Government. We have enough to
offset two against one of Lincoln’s prison
ers. Van Dorn has several hundred in
Texas, and, hard as it may be on the
poor fellows, they will have to swing when
ever any of our privateers are punished
as -pirates. There has been great remiss
nesa and neglect on the part of the Mar
shals of the Confederate Courts, in dis
charging the prisoners taken by our pri
vateers. They ought to be held in close
confinement, at least until it is known that
Lincoln has abandoned his insane and
barbarian purpose of hanging our priva
teers as pirates. The lex lalionis is not
sufficiently appreciated in these States.
Desirous as we may be of conducting this
war under the rules of civilized warfare,
common prudence and seif-defence de
mand that we should fight the devil with
fire
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A Speculation.—A correspondent of
the Fredericksburg Herald suggests that
the Confederate States sell their interest
in the late United States Navy to Great
Britain, with the understanding that she
demand the same in ships of war. The
idea is not a bad one. We paid our full
proportion to the building of that navy,
nd have a good right of property in the
20 ®t»d may lawfully dispose of it. We
3 h,afford to sell to England or France a
50 B!rate barSaio* oc condition, that the
mhaser shall immediately reduce the
5 bSrtv to possession. Let those Powers
2 bbr of our readiness to sell.
£ Jiff* Answer.—Gen. Scott is reported
20 URve said “the South must answer for
~iie rebellion at the cannon’s mouth.”
l'2r“ll General, the cannon’s mouth has
3 ?u "*ed you from Sewall's Poiut, Pig
0 bbls. quia Creek, Bethel, Vienna, New
1 “ ^id at every other point where you
PersonsV°£aled »*•
give us a ca■ ■■ ■ —*-♦ ♦-——
March 13-Rtsr of DeBovr’s Review recoin
Paints4'1 Tenne#see» aa th* best lo
A LWAYSomaneUt capito! of ^ c
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Masked Batteries.—The northern
troops seem to be in a perfect terror of the
“rebels” masked batteries. It was a
“masked battery” at Bethel. It was a
“masked battery” at Vienna. General
Beauregard, they say, has filled the hills
ol Fairfax with “masked batteries.” Every
bush hides a “fftisked battery.” They
have become SO suspicions of “traps,” that,
like crows, the simple stretching of a line
across a field, is almost sufficient to make
them adopt the “double quick.” The N.
Y. Herald is greatly exercised at those
sanguinary expedients of thd southern sol
diers, in particular, and against all can
non in general. It sayst
When Norfolk was lost to the govern
ment two thousand five hundred pieces of
artillery were lost with it—a larger num
ber than the first Napoleon captured du
ring his entire campaigns. These are
for the most part guns of heavy calibre,
and many of them rifled cannon. The
confederates have distributed probably a
thousand of them all over the South, where
they are now planted in masked batteries
to harass the troops of the government
wherever they meet them. In addition to
these the confederates possess at the pres
ent time not less thai; two thousand can
non, if we include those stolen from the
forts which they seized, and the number
since manufactured at the Tredegar works
in Richmond, and in other foundries all
over the South, still leaving fifteen hun
dred guns in Norfolk.
How long these guns are to be permit
ted to remain in Norfolk is a question
of time, and how much longer the confed
erates are to continue constructing mask
ed batteries is a mere question of time
also.
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Taxing Sugar, Tea and Coffee.—
The New York Tribune, Irrepressible or
gan, thus glibly talks of taxing the people,
a direct, outrageous tax upon the bone and
sinew of the land, to raise reverence to
carry on the war, for freedom to the ne
gro, to make the African the equal of the
white man, to reduce white labor to the
level of slave labor. Sugar is dear enough
now to poor people, who have to work
hard for money enough to buy it at its
present price, yet these abolitionists want
to levy an additional lax of two cents per
pound to carry on the war, to begin with,
and there’s no telling how high it will be
in the end:
A duty of two cents per pound on sugar
will add five millions per annum to the
revenue, and will hardly be felt by consu
mer?, if it should be, we shall be encour
aged to produce more and more sugar at
home. We must have additional revenue,
and sugar, tea and coffee will yield it
more readily than aught beside. Let us
secure ten to twenty millions by imposts
on these articles, and then look around for
other sources equally productive.
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“Who’s Who in Washington ?”--The
N. Y. Tribune is beginning to attack with
savage ferocity old Abe and his Cabinet.
Greeley complains that it is next to an
impossibility to discover who really wields
the power of the executive at Washington.
Triumvirates, composed of Weed, Seward
and Cameron, “Tycoon Scott," old Blair
and the “little woman” from Illinois, are
each in their turn supposed to exercise an
ascendency. As for Uncle Abe, he is
merely a passive instrument in their hands.
The result ia that “the pursuit of office or
anything else, news or contracts, at the
disposal of the government, appears to be
attended with greater difficulties now than
under any previous administration.”
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©iT* The Lynchburg Va. Republican
says: The most gallant feat performed by
the northern troops during the present war,
was that of the capture, a few days ago,
of Marshal Kane, of Baltimore. One
thousand men, well armed, were dispatch
ed to make the arrest of a single unarm
ed man, asleep in bed, and they absolutely
accomplished the daring feat with a gal
lantry eminently worthy of all yankeedom!
Marshal Kane was captured in bed. We
presume the leader of this wonderful ex
ploit will be promoted.
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gST* Abe says that the Union made
:he Constitution and the States, and hence
is superior to the Constitution and the
States; and hence the Union must be
maintained, even if the Constitution and
the States have to be destroyed. But if
be, King Abe, in his wondrous strength
ind kindness, sees proper, after the de
struction of the States, he wilt restore the
Constitution to his humbled subjects.
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Billy Wilson’s Zouaves have ar
rived at Fort Pickens. The Pensacola
Observer eaya as there are no Confeder- |
ite hen-roosts in the neighborhood, it i
would be well for their comrades on the <
Island to look out. I
A Daring Adventure and Sharp Work
Near Alexandria.
A few days ago we had a despatch from
Alexandria, stating that a citizen of Rich
mond was killed while attacking the fede
ral pickets. The Richmond Enquirer, of
the 3d inst., in the following account of a
daring adventure near Alexandria, shows
how the gallant citizen lost his life:
By a gentleman who came passenger
over the Central and Orange roads yester
day, we learn that on Sunday evening last
a simp skirmish look place between a
scouting party of our troops and a strong
picket of the enemy, posted near Hunting
Creek, and within a short distance of Al
exandria. The Confederate party were
composed of five men from the Govern
or’s Guard, five of the Goochland Cavalry
and twenty Alabamians, besides three
guides; thirty-three in all.
By some means they possessed them
selves of the countersign of the enemy,
and thus succeeded in passing two lines of
sentinels, intending to get as far down as
possible, and gather up all on their return.
They now came, however, upon a strong
picket of about fifty men, who had become
apprised of their approach, and fired upon
them as they advanced, killing one of
their number, Sergeant Henry Haynes, of
the Governor’s Guard, Capt. Cabell, of
Richmond city.
The fire was promptly returned, when
the enemy fled, leaving five dead upon
the ground. The fugitives rapidly gained
their camp, which was near by, and spread
the alarm; whereupon our party saw the
necessity of an immediate retreat, which
they effected without further loss or inci
dent.
Intelligence subsequently received rep
resents that the daring stroke above de
scribed filled the invaders in Alexandria
with alarm and expectations of a speedy
and general attack.
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The Confederate States and the
Supply of Cotton.—We have been in
the habit of regarding the United States
with great respect as the principal providers
of the cotton whereby four millions of per
sons in this country subsist. Let us not
forget that we must now transfer this feel
ing to the Southern section of the late
Union. Our merchants and manufactur
ers would do well to cultivate their private
means of communication with the South
ern Slates, which are solely the cotton
producers; for upon tue action that maybe
taken by the Confederate Government de
pends the question of the future cotton
supply, in default of the ability of the
North to maintain an efficient blockade,
which alone could claim to be recognized,
according to the law of nations. It is a
great drawback at the present moment
that nearly all the American intelligence
that reaches Europe through the North
ern States. Audi alteram partem is a
motto which can never be safely disre
garded where there is a desire to arrive
at correct conclusions upon any point in
which there are two parties—[London
Money Market Review.
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A Good Hit.—The New York Jour
nal of Commerce of the 25lh ult.. con
tains the following, in the course of an ar
ticle commenting upon the spirit exhibited
by the North in tins war.
The men who have plunged us into this
war, who have halloed on the people, are
men that have wisely staid at home. And
a part of the plan to cover up their own
want of courage, is to keep up the cry of
the war. The rebels in the South who
planned the dissolution of the Uniou, who
advocated it in Congress, and in newspa
pers, and on the stump, are the men who
have taken the helu; while the JNorlhern
editors and Congressmen and Senaiors,
who cpposed compromise, who let us drift
into this war, nay, who dragged us into it.
are at home making contracts to supply
army stores, and shouting “traitor” at ev
ery man who ventures to remind them of
the evil they have brought on the country,
or suggest a remedy for it.
Caved In.—The malcontents of East
Tennessee have caved. The State Leg
islature has ordered an election of mem
bers to the Confederate Congress, to take
place on the first Thursday in August.—
Brownlow, in the Whig, of the 4th inst.,
advises the Union men of East Tennessee
to go into the election, but tells them to
be sure to vole lor Maynard, Nelson, and
men of such like stamp, and not for Se
cessionists.
If Maynard and Nelson have consent
ed to go to the Confederate Congress, pro
vided they are elected, and if Brownlow
and the Union men of East Tennessee
have consented to vote for them, or any
body else, to go there, they have caved,
and we think the Union game has been
“played out in that section.”—[Southern
(Ga.) Confederacy.
©ST' The British ship George A. Holt
cleared from New Orleans, April 7, with
3,500 bales of cotton for Queenstown.—
She arrived at the latter port May 21;
aer cargo was sold by sample, at 15 cents,
o a Boston purchaser, and the ship is or
Jered to recross the Atlantic for the ben*
;fit of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills.
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The man who would not take a
taper because he could borrow one, lias
nvented a machine with which he can
•oak his dinner by the smoke of his neigh*
>ar’s chimney.
Letter from Col Cleburne’s Regiment
Steamer Ohio Belle, )
July 9th 1861. ]
Friendly Citizen: — For ever thus
has every man in our regiment regarded
“The Citizen.” When assailed by disap
pointed politicians who sought to command
us, your vigorous pen was ever ready
in our defence, uud woe be to the unlucky
wight who fell under its displeasure.
Right nobly and without fear has it been
wielded, and words fail to expiess the
deep gratitude we feel to you.
On Saturday evening the Ohio Belle
left her moorings at Memphis with the
Harris Guards, Monroe Blues, Rector
Guards and Napoleon Grays on board.
I will attempt to give you a short sketch
of our trip, for I am confident it will be
interesting to your readers. We arrived
at Helena on Sunday morning and found
the banks crowded with ladies who came
10 welcome husbands, brothers and sweet
hearts. We saw the warm embrace of
the mother as she folded her soldier boy
toiler bosom—the red blood mantle beau
ty’s cheek as her hand was clasped by her
lover and tears well-up in strong eyes that
were uuused to the “melting mood.” A
looker-on, we gazed on the scene before
us while our heart swelled and struggled
in our throat a* visions of home and loved
ones floated before us. The “Old Play
Ground,” “the master so kind aud true,”
“the old oaken bucket” “the prairie flow
er” like a panorama was before Us. Un-'
der the guidance of our frtend J. C. O.
Smith, the two hours alloted to Us passed
quickly, and in the midst of our enjoyment
the signal bell called us aboard. With
sinking hearts we wended our way to
the river,and were soon gliding down the
the Mississippi.
’Twas a warm greeting we received at
i L.aconia, anu me generous ueeus win
long live in the memory of our regiment.
Lovely women and brave men with music
welcomed the tent-worn soldier and then
they furnished the troops with every des
cription of tood—such that is not usually
furnished by the commissariat department.
They supplied us with wagon-loads of
vegetables, barrels of milk, beel, mutton,
pork and chickens. Much is due to our
worthy Surgeon-Genera! for these timely
gifts, for it was at his suggestion that
his neighbors learned our wants and gene
rously supplied them.
At ten o’clock P. M. we arrived at Na
poleon and although ui.looked fur, yet as
soon as it was made known, in true Ark
ansas style, the latch-string was put out
from their hospitable homes and they en
tertained ns with good cheer till one o'clock
our time of departure.
On Monday night we reached Clarendon !
where wo again tarried to give the Harris
Guards an opportunity to visit their friends.
A dance was proposed, and soon the par
lor of the hotel was crowded, and twink
ling feet kept time to merry music until
the tolling announced the time lor leave-1
taking. The ladies accompanied us to the j
bank, and in the lamt twilight we could see I
the fluttering of handkerchiefs as they'
waved us a lung farewell. Those brief
visits will ever i etna in fresh and green as j
the few bright spots that dot the tile ol u|
soldier.
We are in sight of Des Arc. and I am
forced to close this hurried letier, but upon
reaching our destination 1 will occasionally
drop you a line. PEDRO.
2Jr= The A. O. Tyler, Lexington, and
Connestoga, the Lincoln gun boats, are
lying at Louisville unable lo go down the
river on account of the low starre of water.
At Portland bar they have employed three I
steam dredge bouts digging out a channel
for them, with, however, but little prospect
of success. These war steamers will not
probably get to Cairo until the river rises
in the fall, and it is not at all likely that
they will ever get to Memphis, their pro
posed place ofdesiination. The Tyler is
commanded by Collier, a one-eyed Pitts
burg boatman, and her pilot, Sebastian, is
also one eyed; it being difficult to hire
these officers, Uncle Sam has to take such
as nobody else will employ. Alex. Mc
Gee, formerly engineer on some of our
boats, is second engineer on the Connesto
ga.— [Nashville Gazette.
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The Despatches—State LiES.-The
associated press dispatches from Washing
ton and New York that we daily receive,
in addition to being false, are getting to be
stale, as well as unprofitable. We have
of late been in receipt of news by mail the
same day it was transmitted by telegraph,
and frequently received it the day before.
In the despatches received Saturday
noon was an account of a fight at. Buck
hannon, Va., stating that two Ohio regi
ments had captured 400 rebels, 200 hor
ses, &c. This was rather a stale lie, pa
raded through the New York Herald from
that bank robbing tory, Pierpont, Gover
nor of the “Pan Handle.” Now, the fact
is, the Ohio regiments did go to Buckhan
non several days ago, and surprised—no
body—hurt nobody—-and found no body of
rebels.—[Louisville Courier, 8 inst.
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It is reported that Beauregard is
“ivilhin two miles” of the enemy, and can
“bear the beating of their drums.” We
should like to bear that be bad given them
a “beating.”
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A Lincoln captain named Bacon
threw down bis sword and run like a ,
streak of lightning on the first fire at Be- i
:hel. He was for saving bis Master’s
bacon. t
Valuable Lead Mines.— A fine specif*
of lead ore has been sent us by E. fl. 1
Esq., which was taken from Spadra Blmf
Johnson Connty, Ark. Competent ’
pronounce the article sent to us to be a richr.
quality than any discovered in California
the Pacific Coast.—[Memphis Avalanche
£5^"The London Times considers the pi ivp
lege granted by Louis Napoleon to privateer
of the belligerents, to remain twenty f0Ur
hours in French ports, as favorable to th*
South, a smart skipper being able in that tim.
to dispose of much of his prize goods.
letter from San Antonio to the Gal.
veston News says: “Many of the old army
officers are here prisoners of war. Whim
they asked Van Dorn what he intended to do
with them, he replied, ‘keep you for retalia
tion, if Lincoln carries out his threats.”
Lincoln’s Foreign Ministers.—A writer
in one of the New York journals, after review
ing the antecedents of Mr. Lincoln’s Minis,
ters to the princi pal courts of Europe—Adams
Dayton, Judd, Clay, Schurz, Burlingame ai,d
Harvey—remarks that the statesmen and di
plomats of Europe will conclude ‘-thatour
present batch of diplomats represent the lwt
run of the shad.”
f^T At the last advices from San Francisco,
over $3,000,000 in treasure had accumulated
there over the usual deposits, its shipment
being delayed in consequence of fear of privj.
tee is.
fi^-The number of troops now in the field
from Louisiana, and those armed and waiting
order, is fifteen thousand four hundred, liter*
are ten thousand and thirty in the field.
g2gTThe Yankee officers are all at I^ger
heads in regard to the management oi affairs
at the battle of Great Bethel. The only thing
they appear to agree in is that the Lincoln
forces were most soundly beaten on that occa
sion.
(J^TThere are three candidates for Governor
of Alabama—Hon. Thomas H. Watts, Hon.
John E. Moore, and Judge Shorter.
jyA Washington correspondent of the
I\ew XOrK limes minus it uas oeen resolved
to blockade the harbors of Charleston “most
effectually,” by sinking vessels loaded with
stone across the entrance of the port, so as to
pi event the passage of vessels in or out.
A Good Name.—The Yankee papers rail
the Confederate States Secessia. Not a bail
appellation. What name would be fit for the
Yankees V Servia. or the land of seifs, would
not be far wide of the mark; but it would b(
doing injustice to the Turkish province of tin
name, which, though enslaved, did not perpe
trate the folly of enslaving itsnlf. That glorj
belongs to the Yankees aluue. — [Rithtuom
Whig
gaprt Is said of Col. Ethan Allen, tbatht
once attended a church, when the miniilfr
made an* estimate, the result of which wa>
that out (if tile whole human lace, not one ir
a thousand would he saved. On the ahtn uiice
ment of thus result, Allen took hi.I hat and
walked out saying ns be went: *• Gentlemen
if any of you want my chance, you are wel
come to it. Ir is not worth staying for ”
Crocs in North Louisiana —The Mourn
Lebanon Louisiana Baptist repoits the corf
and cotton crops in that section of the Stall
in a very tloui i-hiog condition.
A large nimber of the planters of Bra
zoria county, TexSns, have signed an agreement
to loan half of therr coining crop of cottou to
the Confederate States government.
(BTThe Selma Reporter says a merchant of
that city ieceived a Treasury note for $>0last
week, for which lie was oH’ereihthree per cent,
premium in a few hours after lie received it.
(J=5s?“T'he Secretary of war of the Northern
Government, said in a recent speech, that the
war would not end, with the consent of the
President, until there was no cause left for
war.
(gr The Athens Banner says that the Hon.
Howell Cobb has received the appointment of
Colonel, and will proceed to raise a regiment
in the Sixth District.
0?*The Confederacy possesses a far more
abundant supply of cannon and ordnance mu
nitions than the United States. The enemy
constantly lament the loss of Norfolk Navy
Yard, that rich mine of war materials.
fcj?"A watch factory is soon to be estab
lished in or near Charleston by a Germai
citizen, who is fully acquaintad with the pro
cess required.
j3^”01e-Dabe says that there is scarcely >
regiment in his army from which there couK
not be selected a President, a Cabinet, and '•
Congress fully competent to administer bn
Government. We think a regiment bad bette
be called up, and the Selection made by lot, ai
the present incumbents afS wofully incoinp®
tent. As evidence, the late message.
(J3?”One of the grandest sights we ever wit
nessed was the march of Gen. Johnston’s Har
pel’s Ferry forces. Thesdldiers were mostly
large, fine looking men, well armed and equip
ped—in excellent health and spirits, with bu'
few sick, and all eager fof a fight—declaring
that they can whip a Yankee army of tbre<
times their number, and from the physique ol
the men, and the iron dogs that followed ><■
the train, we believe it. Some idea of
magnitude of the column may be formed frou
.he fact that it requifed seven hours and *
lalf to pass a given point.—[Loudon Mirror
(jg^"The Washington Star says tba|>B *!
jfficially reported that the Federal l«¥s 81
Vienna was upwards of two hundred kill®*
md wounded. This is Idncolnite authority
rhe Northern papers are fierce upen Schenck
vho got bis men into a trap*
(J^"The New York Hay Book says a t*1**
:kant who holds a'large amoiint of War lo*n
dock has been seized with a panic, and off®*8
t for fifty cents on the dollar—-be is afrai
he whole war debt will be repudiated.