J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES AltC, ARKANSAS:
FRIDAY.. .JUNE 14, 1861.
The State Convention.
This body adjourned temporarily on Mon
day, 3d inst., subject to be convened, as we
learn, by its President, if the Military Hoard
should consider its assembling necessary any
time before the first day of January, 1802.—
[ Little Rock True Democrat, 6th inst.
We have waited patiently to get an
inkling of what the State Convention has
done. A caption of ordinances passed ;
anything, as an index of what the people
hud a right to expect from them, would be
some liltle -consolation where we had a
right to expect a great deal. The Little
Rock papers seem to be fearful of express
ing an opinion even as to what has been
or ought to have been done by ibe Con
vention. Even those who visited Little
RnrL- nnd have succeeded in obtaining
offices and positions which the members
of the Convention did not divide among
themselves, have forgotten their old asso
ciates, and seem to have “ grown large
and unseemly.” The truth is, the majori
ty of the Convention were men who
thought more of self than they did of the
welfare of the State, and the best evidence
we can adduce as to the truth of this mat
ter is, that but very few of them resigned
their positions as members of the Conven
tion on the Gth insi., when that body broke
up for want of a quorum. Speaking of
this slow-going, reckless and sell-office
appointing body the Washington Courier
says :
f; After four weeks zealous labor, in doing
wliat might have been done, easily in four
days; and a judicious distribution of honors
among the members, the State Convention has
finally adjourned, to meet again whenever the
Governor or the President may deem it abso
lutely necessary, for the welfare and prosper
ity of the commonwealth. God grant they
may never meet again, is our prayer. As a
body, the members of that Convention have
only succeeded too well in winning the disap
probation and contempt, of every rational man
in the State.”
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Tennessee All Right.
Yes, Tennessee is all right. Her peo
ple have wiped from her escutcheon the
vile imputation trial they were with Lin
coln and his hordes. On Saturday last,
by an almost unanimous voice through the
ballot box, the adopted State of Jackson
has wheeled into line and taken her place
among the Confederate States. Tennes
see is now marshaled with the Southern
host in letter as she has long been inspirit.
The volunteer State has already arrayed
her thousands to defend her soil and drive
back the legions of the North who have
polluted the soil of Virginia with their
tread. There are three States yet that
should unite their destinies with the South
ern Confederacy: Missouri, Maryland
and Kentucky. We have strong hopes of
the two first, but as for the last, we are
fearful that the chains are rivetted loo
tight about her, and that the enemies of
the South and her institutions will triumph
in “ Old Kentuck !”
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Gen. Scott is reported to have re
marked the other day, “ This is my last
campaign, gentlemen, and it shall be my
best.” That remains to be seen. He has
never before had such a foe to meet as
now confronts hiin in every portion of the
fair land of the irouth.
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More of the Moucrill Tariie.—
Washington correspondence of the North
ern press say it is well settled that the
next United States Congress will levy a
duty upon tea and coffee.
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Can’t Stand a Long Wah.—The
New York Herald significantly remarks:
“ The business community demand that
the war shall be short; and the more vig
orously it is prosecuted the more speedily
■will it be closed. Business men can stand
a temporary reverse. They can easily
make arrangements for six months or a
year, but they cannot endure a long, un
curtain and tedious contest.
Approaching Election in the Confeder- j
ate States.
The Montgomery Advertiser calls at-1
tention to a recent enactment passed at the
extra session of the Southern Congress, in
relation to the approaching elections, which
is of the utmost importance to us in view
of our future stahis as a member ol the
Confedetate Slates. The act relates to the
election of members of Congress, includ
ing President and Vice President, and re
quires that in all those States it) which no
provision has been made for the election
of members of Congress under the new
Constitution, an election shall be held on
the first Wednesday in November next, at
which time the election of electors for
President and Vice-President shall also be
held. The electors are required to meet
in their respective States on the first Wed
nesday in December thereafter and pro
ceed to cast their vote for President and
Vice-President.
It further requires that the members
who may be elected, and the Senators to
be chosen by the States, shall assemble at
the seat of Government of the Confeder
ate States on the 18th day of February,
1S62, and proceed respectively to the elec
tion of Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives and President of the Senate.
On the 19th day of February the Presi
dent of the Senate shall open the certifi
cates, the votes shall then be counted, and
the President inaugurated on the 22d day
of February, 1S62.
The time for the election of Congress
men in the various States is, of course,
contingent on the tact as to whether or not
the Slates have made other regulations
contravening this act. It is desirable that
the time should be uniform throughout the
Confederacy.
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Division of the Presbyterian Church.
The General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church, recently in session a Phil
adelphia, has a report which rends that
sect in twain. The report which we give
below was adopted by a vote of 154 yeas
to 66 nays. Among the nays we notice
the Kentucky members. They were:
Synod of Kentucky—Hopkins, Mat
thews, Fraser, Cheek, Offut, Condit,
Hawthorne, Harbison, Warren, Trustal,
Hubbard.
The following is the report which divi
ded the Church:
THE MINORITY REPORT AS FINALLY
ADOPTED.
Gratefully acknowledging the distin
guished bounty and care of Almighty God
toward tins favored land, and also recog
nizing our obligation to submit to every
ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, this
General assembly adopt the following res
olutions ;
]. Resolved, That in view of the pres
ent agitated and unhappy condition of this
country, the first day of July next is set
apart as a day of prayer throughout our
bounds, and that on this day ministers and
people are called on humbly to confess
and bewail our national sins, to offer our
thanks to the Father of light for his abun
dant and undeserved goodness toward us
as a nation, to seek his guidance and bles
sings upon our rulers and their councils,
as well as on the Congress of the United
aknnl neenmVilo anH trt irYtUinrfi
him in the name of Jesus Christ, the High
Priest of the Christian profession, to turn
away his anger from us, and speedily
restore us the blessings of an honorable
peace.
2. Resolved, That this General Assem
bly, in the spirit of that Christian patriot
ism which the scriptures enjoin, and
which lias always characterized this
Church, do hereby declare and acknowl
edge our obligation to promote and per
petuate, so far as in us lies, the integrity
of these United States, and to strengthen
uphold and encourage the Federal Gov
ernment in the exercise of all of its func
tions under our noble Constitution, and to
rethis constitution in all its provisions,
quirements and principles, we profess
our unabated loyalty. And to avoid all
misconception, the Assembly declares that
by the terms “Federal Government,” as
here used, is not meant any particular
Administration, or the peculiar opinions
of any political party, but that central Ad
ministration which being at any time up
appointed, and inaugurated according to
the terms prescribed in the Constitution of
the United States, is the visible represent
atives of out national existence.
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B©"* Hon- Jacob Thompson, of Oxford,
Miss., has made a subscription of four
hundred bales of cotton to the new loan of
the Confederate States.
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BfgjT'The light house at Cape Henry has
been destroyed by the Confederate forces,
and nnother substituted in its p!a«e forty
miles further southward. On Monday
night, the ^d inst., four vessels, loaded
with railroad irou, deceived by the false
light, were captured and held by the
Southern troops.
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Cheering New3 from Missouri.
We are indebted to a reliable gentle
man for the following news : 200,000
kegs of powder are in possession
of the Slate authorities. The State j
has made provision for 85.000,000 for the (
use of the Missouri Stale Guards, as fol- '
lows: Suspension of the State Schoo *
moneys, about 8500.000 per year, for two j
years; Slate University funds, probably |
$50,000; Insane Asylum, $50,000; Semi
annual Slate bonds, due tlit North (Wall
street $500,000 per year; $1,000,000
State bonds to be issued, payable in three
instalments, 1862 3and-4; Also,suspend
ed 15 per cent, advalorem duty on all tax
able property. Making in all an amount
equal to $5,000,000 at the command of
the Governor of the State for military pur
poses. Private Banks of Missouri have
come forward and offered the Governor,
for purposes of defence $3,000,000. This
is in addition to the funds above named,
at a yearly interest of 6 per cent.
The previous attitude of Missouri must
be attributed to the action of the Union
Representatives, who voted with the
Black Republicans to stave off the passage
of the Militia Bill; the same men, to their
credit he it stated, have seen their error
and have cast their influence readily to
support the Governor. The military bill
was before the house at the time of the
excitement, growing out of the taking of
Gen. Frost by Capt. Lyon; (now General
Lyon) the consequence was that the bill
was passed in secret session at midnight
on the Sth of May. Some important a
mendments were made in the House and
agreed to by the senate. ine Dill was
carried by acclamation. Private opinions of
Senators were waived that the bill might
be carried through expeditiously and af
ford the public the requisite protection.
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Liberality.—We learn that L. Hon
over of Pocahontas, Randolph county, of
fers the Southern Confederacy a loan of
$200,000, without interest until the war
is over, and then will take the bonds of
the Confederacy at low interest.
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For the first time in a F.uropean
port, in Liverpool, on May 7th, the Con
federate flag was hoisted on a vessel. The
last English advices state that a large
number of vessels have been fitted out at
Liverpool as privateers, and are only
waiting the letters of marque from Ameri
ca to sail. The subject is greatly agita
ting the commercial circles in Liverpool.
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getST* Hon. Sam Medary, so long the
editor of the Ohio Statesman, is publish
ing a paper at Columbus, Ohio, called The
Crisis, in which he unequivocally and
boldly condemns the war policy of Lincoln,
and declares that it will not be sustained
by the North. We congratulate Col. Me
dary on such noble labors, and trust that
he will prosecute them to success.
In Illinois we find the jYational Demo
crat published at Alton taking the same
ground.
The signs everywhere confirm the opin
ion we have always expressed, that this
war cannot be a protracted one.
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One of the most extensive shoe
ueaiers in new wrieans nus given nonce
that lie is taking measures to manufacture
his own stock, so that articles can be sold
upon terms as favorable as those usually
obtained. This is a step in the right di
rection, and if the mechanical resources of
the South are generally developed, we
can soon demonstrate our independence in
every particular.
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The Duke of Wellington once
said:
“ My Lords, I am one of those who
have probably passed more of my time in
war than most men, and principally, I may
say, in civil war, too; and I must say this,
that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice what
ever, even one month civil war to the
country to which 1 am attached, I would
sacrifice my life in order to do it.”
Were the authors and instigators of such
wars compelled to fight in them them
selves, we should have peace pretty soon.
The Bridgeport Advertiser says:
“ Facts plainly show and clearly prove
that the present troubles were brought
upon the country by the aggressive policy
laid down in the Chicago platform, and
by those politicians who prefer carrying
out those principles to carrying out the
principles of the Constitution hained by
the Fathers of our country.”
The Eastern Argus, one of the leading
organs of the Democracy of Marne, Rasa
serious and able leader on the war, which
propose that the. people of the North would
mow pause long enough to rtfitcl upou the
final and inevitable results of a protracted
war. All see that nothing but dissolution
can come of it—an event which Demo
crat* deplore, but which the Republican
Abolitionists secretly rejoice at.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.
A National Song.
An appropriate national song for the South
ern Confederacy appears to he one of the moot
ed questions of the present exciting ciisis.
Plenty of patriotic poetry can he obtained,
but a puiely American inelodv, one that will
take with the masses, isliardtobe found. The
popular old hatful of -The Minstrel’s Return,”
composed by an American—and a Southerner,
too—seems to he highly appropriate to the
patriots of the South. Years ago it was quite
as popular as the ncgio tune of “Dixie” is at
the present day; and the composer, who is a
resident professor of music of Richmond, re
ceived many compliments for bis happy con
ception.
A correspondent has sent 11s the following
adaptation, and expresses a hope that it may
he taken up by the singers among our brave
volunteers, and also by lady vocalists. Should
the people adopt it, it will become our nation
al anthem.
Southern Song of Freedom.
Ain—“The Minstrel’s Return.”
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A nation has sprung into life,
Beneath the bright ciossof the South,
And now a loud call to the strife.
Rings out from the shrill bugle’s month.
They gather from morass and mountain,
They gather from prairie and mart,
To drink at young Liberty’s fountain
The nectar that kindles the heart.
Then, hail to tile land of the pine 1
The home of the noble and free ;
A palmetto wreath we’ll entwine
Round the alter of young Liberty !
ir.
Our (lag with its cluster of stars,
Firm fixed in a held of pure blue,
All shinning th ough red and white bars,
Now gallantly flutters in view.
The stalwart and brave round it rally.
They press to their lips every fold;
While the hymn swells from hill and from
valley—
“Be God with our volunteers bold.”
men, nan to me lanu 01 me pine,
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The invaders rush down from the North,
Our holders are black with their hordes,
Like wolves for their victims thy froth.
White whetting their knives and their swords
Their watchword is ‘"Booty and Beauty,”
Their aim is to steel as they go.
But, Southrons ! act up to your duty,
And lay the foul miscreant low.
Then, hail to the laud of the pine, &.c.
sv.
The God of our fathers look down,
And blesses the cause of the just.;
His smiles will the patriot crown,
Who tramples h:s chains in (he dust.
Match, match, South)ons—shoulder to shoul
der,
One heart-throb—one shout for the cause;
Remember—the world’s a beholder,
Ann your bayonets are fix’d at your doors:
Then, hail to the land of the pine, &.e.
On Sunday last, in the city oi
Austin, many of tlit," people nl the Meth
odist church were somewhat surprised
just before the time of service to begin, tr
see coming into the church, hooted anti
spurred, a company ot Texas rangers; and
more so, to see one of the company, in hu
uniform, walk up to the pulpit, lay aside
his arms, and open the service. The com
pany was from San Augustine, Texas
and was commanded by Cap. Hardeman
a relative of Hon. Win. P. Hardeman, ol
ibis county. The minister, who was the
stationed preacher at San Augustine
preached a most excellent sermon, we art
told. The company behaved with the ut
most decorum during the service. Afiei
church was over, the company mounted
their steeds and proceeded on their way
that they might not be behindhand should
their services be needed by their country
The company numbered some hundred
and fitly men.— [Seguiu (Texas) Con
federacy.
We dip llie following items froir
the Harper’s Ferry correspondence of tin
Richmond Dispatch:
Mrs. Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland
arrived a day or two since with 500 Mis
sissippi rifles, $500 iu cash, 3,200 car
tridges and 10,000 caps for the Maryland
boys. She was serenaded at night by the
Marylanders, and Mr. Johnson made a
handsome speech, followed by others, al
from the same State.
A company of about one hundred Bal
timore troops went over into Maryland Iasi
night (some distance from here) and cap
tured a U. S. flag and other docixulents
and this morning they have the flag hoist
ed at their barracks witii the Union down
The Maryland soldiers seem to think they
have a superior right to go into MarylanC
to execute orders, and swear they will nev
er give up the Maryland heights to north
ern troops until the last man expires
Maryland and Kentucky claim the privi
lege of taking care of the Maryland heights
and I feel sure there i3 not enough back
bone in Lincoln’s men to take the heights
away fxom them.
We have plenty of provisions, comforta
ble quarters, and general health very
good. No small pox nor epidemic dis
ease to contend with. A U. S. soldier
was brought in yesterday by a member ol
Capt. T. L. Yancey’s cavalry, as a priso
ner of war. There was a small skirmish
in which two or three U. S. soldiers were
killed, and one prisoner taken. Three or
four Colts revolvers were taken at the
same time.
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fiST" We understand that the suppres
cion of the Louisville Journal and Brown
low’s Whig, by the Vigilance Committee
ot Memphis, has been the cause of the
discontinuance of the Memphis mails.—
[Memphis Avalanche.
AN ACT to amend chapter one. hundred
and twenty-six of Gould'* Digest.
Section 1. Be it Evaded by the Gen
eral. Assembly of the State oj .Arkansas
That from a rid after the first day of .June
A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty.on/
all and every person, or persons, who shall'
hawk or peddle, either on loot, m wagon*
on boats, or in any other way whatever’
any goods, wares or merchandize, other
than the growth, produce ur inamjfnctore
of this State, shall pay the - sum of fiVc
hundred dollars to the collector of the rev
enue of each county in which he or diey
may hawk or peddle, and he or they
shall therefrom receive a license to pod.
die or hawk for the term of six months in
said county; Provided, That no person
shall receive a license to peddle or hawk
without first making proof before the offi
cer granting the same, by oath or affirm
ation, that he is a citizen of the United
States, and has been a citizen of the State
cf Arkansas at least two years previous to
his application.
Sh: 2. Be it further enacted, That
every person who shall be found guilty of
dealing a? a peddler, contrary to the pro
visions of this act. shall lorft’it and pay
double the amount of the license he
would, by law, iiave been chargeable
with.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That any
person, or persons, hawking or peddling
under the provisions of this act, shall, up
on demand being made by any person,
exhibit to said person so making the de
mand, the license, under and by virtue of
which he, she, or they, may be hawking
and peddling, and that all laws in conflict
with this act, be, and the same are hereby
repealed.
Approved, January 19,1S61.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
COMPANY.
ONE THOUSAND SLAVES WANTED
BY HIRE OR PURCHASE.—We will
purchase or hire, for a term of five years,
Five Hundred or a thousand Slave Laborers,
to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad, in
Texas, immediately w-est of Shreveport, La.,
in a region secure and protected from invasion
or molestation during the conflict which shall
exist between the two sections of this coun
try. The country through which the road
passes is entirely healthy, and for the distance
of some 400 or 500 miles west of Shreveport,
it penetrates one of the finest agricultural
countries on the continent of America.
This company has a magnificent iand grant
from Texas, i. e., 10,240 acres for every mile
of road the company constructs, for the dis
tance of 800 mi lea from Sliievepoft on the
eastern, to El Paso on the western boundary
of Texas. In times like tile present, the com
pany cannot command cash to pay for labor
essential to the rapid development of the com
pany’s interest ; but for a term of years, by
hire or bv the actual purchase, this company
will make the ino-.t liberal and advantageous
arrangements with slave-owners m Kentucky,
Missouri. Virginia. Mary land, N™ th Caiolina,
or elsewhere, for tiieliiieoi purchase, wi ll
I payments in the most undoubted serin hie- of
1 500 or ;i 11(1)11 slaves. Families eiitiie will be
taken, either by biie or purchase. Tim com
pany is enabled to ^propose liberal tel m-. lo -
calise of the munificeirt. land giants by Texas,
and its ability to purchase the iron ai d roll
ing stock for the entire road across Texas,
with the construction bonds of the company,
at rates almost equal to cash. All the. lights of
this company me fixed and vested by the
laws of Texas. The -company has svcuied
the sympathy and the loute on (he 52d Regies
of parallel of latitude, has Uie sanction nt
several of the most poweiful European Gov
ernments—amongst them are France, Span.,
Portugal, Belgium and Swit/.ei land —as well
as of large capitalists, cominci rial men and
contractors of these countrie . The late Con
gress of the States passed uoill, ai it.- last ses
sion, donating to this company . thi ough Aii*
zona. New Mexico and California some Kb
OdO.OtiO acres of land, and a loan of thirty-six
inillionsof dollars, to be repaid in postal or
other public services. This bill passed (lift
House of Representatives, was amended in
. i . u.- i i i •• i i * i — r\ * r, n.
uiu ur u,nr, a >iu wiiiy iiiiimi m ‘-i.KJ lUv
for the want of time and the startling
events fauiiliar to the nation.
No company in the wot Id has a larger basi*
for its successful prosecution, and no company
has attracted and secured to itself the appro
bation of so many American States and Eu
ropean Governments — promising so much
benefit to its stockholders, and to the world
such stupendous results—bringing inevitably
with its completion across this continent, tbe
trade of China, Japan, Australia, and the
whole Pacific coast—distributing the trea
sures derivable from the trade, travel, etc, of
each to every city from the Gulf of Mexico
to the most Northern harbor on our Atlantic
coast—giving each its due and natural share
—a commerce which has never failed to en
rich every nation on earth that has ever con
trolled it in the past, and as it is annually I'1*
creasing, it will still more enrich those who
shall control it in the future.
We want the labor, to progress U’*tb
work, for most unquestionable securities ; and
for it, the fbost liberal arrangements will b«
made for slave-owners—giving them terms
which must, we think, be satisfactory—with
out endangering by position, employment or
terms of contract, the safety of the slaves
themselves, or admitting the slightest uncer
tainty of ultimate payment,
gjJAll applications will be made to Horn *•
K. Stevenson, President, Nashville, Term.;
Col. Samuel Tate, President Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company, Memphis;
Col. 3. R. McDaniel, Lynchburg, Va., or to
myself, Memphis.
JKPTHA FOWLKES,
General and Financial Agent of Southern
Pacific Railroad Company of Texas.
may31-lui
NOTICE.
A MAN calling himself Dr. CIIA?
/\_ BURG, bailing from Kansas, and
Vy from Pennsylvania, has been in our rains •
Said Burg is about 40 years of age, of a verv
prepossessing appearance and well calculate*
to deceive. lie professes to be a Mason. )\
warn all persons to beware of him, for ®
actions while here proved him, anything bu
gentleraan, and entiiely unbecoming a Ma*°,
Done by order of GaJley Rock Lodge, rf
ruary 28th, 1861.
T. A. FOWLKES,
April 10, 1861. Secretary..