J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
SATURDAY.JUNE 29, 1861.
Contraband of War.—The organs
of the Northern Government boasts that
the Lincoln forces in Virginia have al
ready seized about sixty thousand dollars
worth of negro property. The slaves ac
cording to the decision of the Secretary
of War, who are captured in the South,
are to be considered as property, contra
band of war, they are made to work for
their new taskmasters in throwing up in
trenchments. The Northern people have
denied that there could be such a thing as
property in slaves, but now they find that
doctrine practically advantageous to them,
and they renounce it.
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The machinery recently used by
the United States Government for the man
ufacture of arms, has been removed from
Harper’s Ferry by the Government of the
Confederate States. All the machinery
for the manufacture of the Minie Rifle,
bayonet, bullet-mould, etc., has been re
moved to Fayetteville, N. C., where it is
intended to permanently establish a gen
eral arsenal for the manufacture of small
arms. This machinery cost the U. S.
Government $1,000,000. The services of
one hundred and one of the macbanics
which were employed at Harper’s Ferry,
have been secured, and they are now en
gaged in Fayetteville—putting up the ma
chinery. In a few weeks the Government
of the Confederate States will have an es
tablishment capable of turning out 250
Minie Rifles per month. *
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Tue Confederate and State Gov
ernments.—A dispatch from a member
of President Davis’ Cabinet says that the
Government would accept of all volun
teers who offer their services direct to the
President, provided they are armed, even
with common shot-guns and rifles, but
they are not to leave the State with State
arms against the Governor’s orders. The
President recognizes the right of the
Governor to control the arms which be
long to the State—but^ie will receive sol
diers under Wright’s bil£ ifjTrmed with
out regard to being offered through the
Governor.
That Confederate Major.—It has
leaked out that the “Virginia Major,”
whom the Hessians boast of having cap
tured at Little Bethel, is a veritable Con
necticut Yankee tin pedlar. Major Titus
C. Rice, of the late Virginia militia, and
who was at large upon a parole of honor
granted by Picayune Butler.
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fiSF* Geu. Clark, Chief of the Quar
termaster’s Department for Gen. McCul
loch’s Division, has telegraphed to Little
Rock from New Orleaus, that he would
bring with him arms sufficient for all the
Confederate troops on this frontier. Gen.
Clark may be looked for daily.
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The Memphis banks have taken
$100,000 of the loan to the Confederate
States, loaned $70,000 to Memphis for
war purposes, and $25,000 to Mississippi
for the use of the camp at Corinth.
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ftefTniliatory steps have been taken to
establish a gun manufactory and powder
mill in Pulaski county, Tenn. The re
quisite amount of money has already been 1
subscribed.
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Pertinent.—If it takes Gen. Scott 3£
months to march his army 10 miles into 1
Virginia, how long will it take him to '
march to New Orleans through Virginia. ,
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Six members of the Garibaldi !
Guard have deserted from Washington, <
and arrived at Manassas Junction. t
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There is not a bridge now on the /
Potomac from Georgetown to Cumber- ,
land, all having boon destroyed by our
forces.
The English Government Organ
on American Affairs.—Those who
doubt that England will recognize the in
dependence of the Confederate States,
will find little consolation in this para
graph from Lord Palmerston’s official or
gan of May 22. saying:
The recognition of the thirteen North
American Colonies by France, and the
recognition of Mexico and the South
American provinces formerly held by
Spain, furnish a rule which the govern
ment of Mr. Lincoln cannot, with any
consistency, afford to disregard. Neither
in France nor in this country will any
hasty decision be pronounced ; but the
time is rapidly arriving when the question
must be considered ; for no one at the
present time can doubt or question the (le
facto independence of the Southern States.
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Western Floating Battery.—A
Boston paper stales that Matthew D.
Field, of Massachusetts, one of the noted
Stockbridge family, has been sent to Cairo
Illinois, by the government, to superintend
as civil engineer, the construction of five
floating batteries, each capable of carrying
five hundred men, and destined to accom
pany an expedition down the Mississippi
river. Mr. Field was formerly one ol
the engineers of the Atlantic Ocean cable.
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It is well known that a Southern
lady who has figured considerable in
Washington society, especially the politi
cal part of it, has the reputation of having
entertained secession spies of late. Among
those of her rebel guests named, is ex
Senator Wigfall, who, it is said, stopped
at her home several days concealed. The
Government is paying , some attention to
this lady’s levees. They differ from those
she formerly gave in this city.
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An Ohio correspondent of the
New York Journal of Commerce writes:
“There is an undercurrent of feeling
among the masses opposed to the further
prosecution of this war. Although most
of the presses and leaders have been car
ried away by the furor of the hour, still
you will find that the masses of the people
have not gone with them, and there is a
great reaction going on daily.
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EJSf” The Boston Pilot ventures the
opinion that “the frauds that have been
cominited upon several regiments of vol
unteers in the clothing and victualling de
partment are quite as infamous as priva
teering under the rebel flag, and robbing
loyal merchants on the high seas.”
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The Baltimore Clipper declares
that a number of sealed cars passed
through' that city from Washington a few
days since, which were filled with the
Government archives, removed to Phili
delphia by order of the Administration.
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B^f*The Cincinnati Commercial, after
having carefully “reviewed the list of
military apptfin/ments ijiade fPom Ohio,”
trembles for the fate^of the abolition army
“if a similar lack of judgement anjji dis
crimination has t/een made in the whole
I ict
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Mrs. Jackson, of Tazewell, drove Andy
Johnson, ihe traitor, from her hotel, assu
ring him that money could not purchase
her provisions for such an ingrate. Hur
rah for the Jacksons!
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Capt. Mercer, United States Na
vy, who was reared in the Charleston Or
phan House, is said to be in command
of the steamer Wabash, now blockading
that port.
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The Rebel Flower.—A Northern
paper has the following:
“The emblem used in some of the
Rebel States is a curious flower which
they work on their banners, and called
the Rebel Flower. It is of such that the
wreaths for their heroes are made.’
We have seen no banner with such “cu
rious flower.” says the Charleston Mer
cury, but the Rebel Flower has been
known in our State since the Revolution.
Dr. Garden, in his “Anecdotes of the
Revolution,” relates the following incident
which shows that the “Camomile” re
vived the name of the Rebel Flower from
i patriotic lady of the Rebel State of
south Carolina:
“An officer, distinguished by his inhu
nanity and constant oppression of the
tnfortunate, meeting Mrs. Charles Elliott
n a garden adorned with a great variety
)f flowers, asked the name of the ‘Camo
nile,’ which appeared to flourish with a
reculiar luxuriance. ‘The Rebel Flower’
ihe replied. ‘Why was that name given
o it i said the officer. ‘Because,’ re
oined the lady, lil thrives most when most
ratnpled upon.'
V wreath of Rebel Flowers for every Rebel
hero,
Vii'l nought shall meet the eye but 'leeds of;
.honor
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England and the United States..
No one now in llie United Stales can
he supposed lo be as well informed as to
the intentions and policy of the British
Government toward the United Slates in
the present crisis as Geo. M. Dallas, late
American Minister to the Court' of St.
James, who has just returned, and who is
fresh from communication, by virtue of his
position, with the leading statesmen of
that nation. What he says of matters is
thus stated in the Philadelphia correspon
dence of the New York Tribune.
Mr. Dallas converses very unreservedly
about the feelings of die British Ministry
towards this Government. He believed
the Ministry to be hostile to us, and that
Lord John Russell’s early recoguition of
the rebels as beligerents was not a prema
ture declaration to be repented of hereaf
ter, but a deliberate policy to be adhered
to. as far as it goes. He is disposed to
believe that the great arbiter is Colton —
that as the stock on hand will keep the
English mills employed until November,
the Ministry will not openly countenance
the rebellion until it is ascertained wheth
er the new crop is to be exported or not.
If we crush the rebels and permit the new
crop to be exported, all will be satisfactory
to John Bull; if we fail to do so, and John
Bull has to do without cotton, then some
occasion will be found to gel up a difficul
ty and force the blockade. If the war
here continues until November. Bull will
keep tolerably quiet, making only an oc
casional roaring. Hence, as the time for
shipping the new crop approaches, the
question of how England means to act
will be more clearly answered. Mr. Dal
las thinks that if the Ministry were to be
too openly for the rebellion now, Exeter
Hall would turn them out forthwith, while
unless they made some show of favoring
the Cotton Lords, they would do the same
thing; so as it is for office, after all, that
they are contending, their future policy
Will be just such as they may think the
most likely to insure to them a continu
ance of power. He is of opinion that
France and England will pursue an iden
tical policy with respect to us, bo that what
it may.
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The Light of Returning Reason.
The war spirit in many parts of the
Notth seems to be on the wane. The
Hartford Courant, recognized as the chief
organ of Abolitionism in Connecticut, dis
courses as follows, in a recent number:
Public opinion in the North seems to be
gradually settling down in favor of the
recognition of the new Confederacy by the
federal government. The thought of a
bloody and protracted civil war, except as
a matter of absolute necessity, is abhor
ranl to all; and its issues may be as peril
ous to the victors as to the vanquished.
To subjugate the seceded States by force
of arms, and to compel them to remain in
the Union, if it be possible, must involve
great expenditures of treasure and life,
and can result only in changing the pres
ent alienation into deadly hostility and
incurable hale. If they remain in the
Union they must do so as peers of the
other States, and not as conquered prov
inces.
. Seven States have seceded from the
Union. The act is revolutionary, and
might be punished with all the severiiy
the crime of revolution demands. But
the movement was not checked, as it
might easily have been, at the beginning.
The Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, if not Mr.
Buchanan himself, helped on the treason.
The present Administration must deal
with the matter as it stands ; not simply
as a Question of practical politics. The
forcible subjugation of these States, under
existing circumstances, is not to be
thought of.
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Lord Brougham Down on Anti
Slavery Meetings in England.—A
noteworthy sign of the times is the uncere
monious manner in which Lord Brougham
snubs the abolitionists who have been
proposing meetings in London with a
view to give an anti-slavery cast to the
war. In the House of Commons, during
a debate growing out of a question to
ministers concerning the Spanish acquisi
tion of St. Domingo, Lord B. said ;
There were meetings being held in this
country which he entirely deprecated —
meetings which ought not to be held—
meetings at one of which six or seven
weeks ago he had himself promised to
preside, but when he found, after what
had taken place in the United Slates,
that it was called a meeting on American
slavery, he said on no account, and by no
means whatever, would have anything to
do with holding, presiding, or attending a
meeting of that description. He strongly
recommended all whom his voice might
reach to abstain from holding such meet
ings. At the present moment it could not
fail to do great mischief in our relations
to Ameaica, if anything like agitation
took place on a question whereupon the
Americans of the South, and almost all ,
Americans, were peculiarly sensitive and
jealous; it would be the worst possible
calamity, and might endanger the peace
of the country, without serving the slave,
jut rather postponing indefinitely his liber- :
ition. ' <
mww)IW»»*uhwi.. -u"JI inmi.w»«"WH»'»J.«g^Pl
Important News from Europe.
Probable Recognition of the Southern
Confederacy by the Powers of the Old
, World—82,000,000 to be Advanced on
Cotton Crop—The Blockade to be Raised
— The Victory of the Missourians Con
firmed.
We were shown last night a latter from
a bearer of dispatches from the Southern
Commissioners in Europe to a gentlemen j
high in authority hero, which contains the,
most cheering intelligence. The bearer
of the despatches is well known in this city
as a gentleman entirely reliable. He
landed iu Canada and making his way
through that province to Chicago, succeed
ed in eluding the vigillance of the Black
Republicans and reached Nashville yes
terday. He immediately dispatched a
special messenger to Gen. Pillow, with a
letter to the effect that his documents in
tended for President Davis convey the
cheering intelligence that the sum of $2,
000,000 has been*offered to bp advanced
upon our cotton crop alone, and that the
Southern Confederacy will'anon be ac
knowledged as one of the powers of the
Earth. The letter also says that England
and France have dispatched twenty addi
tional ships of the line to our shores, and
that the blockade will be raised by the 1st
of November. He says that England and
France are with us in sentiment, and that
our flag will soon be recognized by their
governments.
The foregoing, important and cheering
as it is to the patriotic cause, we believe
to be perfectly reliable, and every heart
can but rejoice at the speedy solution of
our difficulties.
The bearer of dispatches, as before sta
ted, passed through Indiana and a portion
of Illinois. The following extracts from
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IJIS ItJtltfl, UlJJUlJillllig illiutljfl OUUlUCUi
yictory in Missouri, and confirming the
Southern account in regard to the victory
at Roonville, will be read with interest.
“The Western troops are concentrating
at Marietta, Ohio, and in Missouri. They
are withdrawing part of the force from Cai
ro for these points. Two hundred cavalry
passed through Indianapolis on the 20th,
for Western Virginia.
“Wallace and his regiment, composed
of 1,100 men from Indianapolis, have been
cut off at Cumberland, Md., and are sup
posed to have been killed or taken prison
ers. The news from Missouri you have
by telegram, but the i'tale troops were vic
torious—that is, they lost only four killed
and wounded, while the federalslost twen
ty killed. The State troops number 000 —
some say 600 the federals3,000
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Andy Johnson’s Lineage.— The
Knoxville Register of the 18th inst., says:
We have in possession a letter from a
gentleman in Alabama, who authorizes
his name to be used if necessary, who
was in South Carolina a short time since,
and had the curiosity to trace Johnson’s
lineage; and heavers beyond a doubt
that lie is of Tory descent. Absolom
Johnson, the grandfather of Andy, was a
lory of the blue light stripe all through the
Revolutionary War. and all the descend
ants and family connections in that State
are branded with toryism to this day.
For further information on this point, the
correspondent refers to old and respected
citizens about Spnrlausburg C. II., and
Union C. H. South Carolina. With these
antecedents and the pecuniary slake
Johnson has in the subjugation of Ten
nessee, his desperate efforts 10 foment civ
il war may be understood.
Queiiy.— If four dogs with sixteen
legs can catch forty-nine rabbits with
eighty-seven legs in forty-four minutes,
how many legs must the same rabbits
have to fret aavav from eitrht drum wild
thirty-two legs in seventeen minutes and
a half?
Solution.—Add together the rabbits
and the tails of the dogs, and divide the
amount by three big dogs; this leaves
four bushels of barks and thirteen pounds
of hair. Take the fraction of the rabbits,
add six inches of snow, multiply by a dog
fight. Then divide by a man with a
double-barrelled shotgun, and add a side
of fresh meat. Multiply by halfas many
legs as three times a less number of rab
bits would have had, and divide by one
third of the time it would take for the rab
bits to get away from the dogs, less seven
teen and a half minutes. The result
depends upon the size of the dogs.
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21r’Geu. Henningsen, of Nicaragua
fame, is a private in the Hillyer Rifles, a
company which passed through Augusta
on Monday last for Virginia.
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£sStT~With b malignity scarcely credi- ;
ble, the New York Times calls upon, and
solemnly and earnestly urges, the Lincoln
government to put its prisoners of war to ;
lealh as traitors. J
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“Ain’t it wicked to rob dis chick- 1
oost, Dick?”
“Dai’s a great moral question, Gumbo; j
ve hain’t time to argue it now; hand l
lown another pullet.”
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B&* When we get tired of all the j
deasures within our reach, we can have j
m unfailing resource in thinking of those ’
hat are out of it,
•m* wiMm w mjmummuM vam
From the Memphis Avalanche.]
Arkansas Boys.
Hurrah for (he Arkansas boys, hurrah,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah.
With rifle in hand and bayonet bright,
And bowie-knives gleaming, we’ll on to the
fight.
And woe to the men who old Lincoln obey
If ever we meet them in battle array.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah,
Hurrah for the Aikansas boy3. • >
Hurrah for the Arkansas boys, hurrah,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah.
We’ll follow bold Cleburne wherever he leads
’Mid the thickest of fights and bravest of
deeds,
And above the loud battle’s confusion and
noise
Shall be heard the wild shout of the Arkansas
boys.
Chorus, etc.
Hurrah for the Arkansas boys, hurrah,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah,
Our flag shall always be nearest the foe,
A banner of triumph where’er it may go.
’Twas the gift of dear woman, and while ia
our trust,
Shall never be taken, or trail in the dust.
Chorus, etc.
Hurrah for the Arkansas boys, hurrah,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah.
Our cause it is just, and that cause we’ll main
tain,
Though our best life’s blood be poured out like
rain.
We’ll fight till each foe in the dust has gone
down,
And Cod will our efforts with Victory crown.
Chorus, etc.
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The Host. Tennessee Convention
The Convention of Union men at Green*
vilie adjourned last Thursday. They pass
ed resolutions providing for memorializing
the Legislature for the separation of East
Tennessee from the State ; make provis
ions for the election of members to a gen
eral convention to in-et at Kingston, at
some future time, at the cali of the Presi
dent; appoint Messrs. O, P. Temple,
John Netherlund, and J. P. McDowell
Commissioners to the Legislature; and
request the members of that body from
East Tennessee to take their seats imme
diately.
Tins action is regarded as a decided tri
umph ol the consei vative in that section of
the State, and as offering some prospect
of the ultimate acquiescence of the people
in the action of the majority.—rBulIeiiu
ot 2.5th.
NOTICE
JOHN C. JOHNSON and all others con
cerned. are hereby notified that, on Satur
day July 13th, 1H(H. at 10 o’clock of said day,
I shall proceed Intake deposition:, before P.
P. Crawfoi d, a justice of the peace of Rich
land Township, at my residence in said Town
ship, to be read in evidence before the State
land agent at Jacksenport, on the lNlJi day of
July, lSlil, to contest the legal right to my
pre-emption on the N. K \ of S. K. ] of See.
11, T. <>N R. 2 West, and the N. W j of
N. E. j of Sec. 23.T. li N. R. 2 West, at which
time and place they can appear and cross-ex
amine my witnesses, and also pioduce their
own. if they sec proper, allowing me Hie same
privilege. F. G. BARBEE,
Cotton Plant, Ark., June 21 IStil 3t.
G. W. ELLINGTON,
XJEKTTIWT,
a AS permanently located in
Des Arc. and is prepared to
operate in every branch of his
profession. Work done in Die best and most
approved style. All operations warranted.
He oilers his services to the citizens of
Brownsville, Austin, Hickory Plains and Cot
ton Plant and surrounding country. He will
go any where sent for.
(J33t"()ffiee in Catlin’s new building, next
door to J. E. Gatewood’s law office on Buena.
Vista Street. octl7-ly
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TO ACC INTERESTED.
During my absence, my books,
Notes, Accounts, ke., will be found at
W. B. Crocker k Co’s., wlio are fully au
thorised to settle any of my business.
LEViN HARRISON.
Des Ahc, June 18, 1861—tf.
VACUABCE RESIDENCE
F O R SAL E O 11 R E N T.
Nine rooms, large cistern,
WELL, SMOKE HOUSE, STA BLE, &c.,
in Buena Vista street, opposite the Public
Square, in JJes Arc, If not sold by tbe 15th of
August, may be rented by a respectable ten
xnt,, (who will board a gentleman and lady,)'
iither tor a residence, boarding house or tav
2rn. For particulars, address
JOHN H. QUISENBERRY.
■Tune 11, 1861—lm.
NOTICE TO PENSIONERsT
Auditoii’s Office, )
Lillie Rock, Jlrk,, June 8. 1801. $
r|TllE following is the third section of air
X ordinance adopted by the State Conven
ion, 28th May, 1861, vi/. :
‘•Section 8. Be it further ordained, That
t shall be the duty of the United States peu
iion agent for the State of Arkansas, or other
person having possession of the same, to deliv
er up to the Auditor, the pension roll, and all
looks and papers perta ling to such agency,
tnd the Auditor, upon the application of any
tensioner, and proof being filed as required by
lie laws of the United States, shall issue his
variant upon the Treasurer of., this State for ^
he amount due such pensioner to the 6lh of
Vlay 1,861.”
Having received the rolls I am prepared to
>ay claims properly authenticated and pres
ented. The proof must embrace the whole
ime up to the 6th of May, 1861, as but one
varrant will be drawn in favor of any one
laimant.
Should any pensioner have died between the
ime of the last payment and the 6th May, 1861»
he date of the death must be proven. The
u oof in all cases must be made as required by
he laws of the United States.
W, R, MILLER. Auditor.
Tune 18, 1801.