J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
TUESDAY.MAY 21, 1861.
The U. S. Government Threatened by
the Black Bepnblicans.
If the Republican press of New York,
says the Day Book, comes anywhere near
expressing the opinions and feelings of the
masses of that party, it is too fearfully
evident that we are entering upon a period
of blood and terror, compared with which
the French Revolution and the red events
of the Crusades were dispensations of gos
pel peace and mercy. Blood ! blood !
blood ! is the savage, maniac cry, morning,
noon and night. Even their own Presi
dent is threatened with being superceded
by some “ military leader,” unless he in
stantly sends out the savage war-whoop of
vengeance and extirmination against every
body in the East, in the West, in the
North and in the South, who do not bow
to the black idol of their idolatry. Every
man who does not say it is right to burn
and plunder the entire South, is denounced
as a “traitor,” and threatened with “hang
ing.” The Post assaults Mr. Seward for
pledging his word to Gov. Hicks that the
force now summoned to Washington “is
intended only for the defence of the Capi
tal.” The Post asks, “ But is it a fact
that the Government means to content it
self with defending Washington ?” The
Tribune declared that Virginia “has what
it pleased to call property in man, which
will probably lake care of itself in the
struggle, waiting hat in hand for any new
comer disposed to give a fair day’s wages
for a fair day’s work. But it has other
property—property in houses, in lands, in
mines, in forests, in country and in town,
which will need to be taken possession of.
The wornout race of emasculated First
Families must give place to a sturdier
people, whose pioneers are now on their
way to Washington in regiments. An al
lotment of land in Virginia will be a fit
ting award for the brave fellows who have
gone to fight their country’s battles.” But
if Mr. Seward spoke the truth to Gover
nor Hicks, the above programme of plun
dering and sacking the whole South can
. i *i i
nut uc tamcu uui. xa iijis iuc ruusuii wily
the Post abuses Mr. Seward for making
such pledges to Gov. Hicks? The Tribune
pilches at Seward, and tells him that, "he
makes a virtual pledge to an exposed trai
tor, which nothing can extenuate.” And
the same paper speaks of Mr. Seward’s
"pedantic twaddle about using the troops
for the protection of the capital only.”
The Tribune also recommends to a wealthy
individual, to fit out a fleet on his own
hook, and without the authority of the'
Government, to go down to Baltimore and
burn and butcher everybody. Not one of
the Republican papers of this city is less
fiery, less revolutionary, or less bent on
the destruction of the Government, unless
it plunges straightway into an ocean of
blood.
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The Louisville Journal with the
Lincolnites.—Prentice has ever been
the apologist of Cassius M. Clay and his
followers. When no other paper would
publish the twaddle of Cassius, the Jour
nal would make room in its columns and
accommodate him. Not a word would it
utter against his tirades, but by its silence
seemed to give assent to his positions.
Recently, not satisfied with his abuse of
Kentuckians who espouse the cause of the
South, Prentice accuses the seceders in
Tennessee of levying "black mail” to aid
in raising volunteer companies. That this
is a barefaced falsehood, he must have
known when he uttered it through his
columns. The Journal, throughout its
space, has become the apologist and
supporter of Lincoln. The " ge-lorious
Union” is still its theme in both its morn
ing and evening editions. The circula
tion of the Journal has been prohibited at
Nashville, Tennessee, and every Southern
town and city should do likewise. Wc
would as soon be guilty of circulating the
New York Tribune as the Louisville Jour
nal. Both are steeped in the pollution of
free-negrodmt. The Journal in disguise—
the Tribune openly.
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Troops Returning from Camp Rec
tor—Gen. Thomas H. Bradley, etc.—
The Border Rangers, from White county,
some 40 in number, were passengers on the
Memphis packet, Col. Morgan, Monday
evening. This company will be promptly
mounted and their services tendered for
our Western frontier. They were among
the first to rendezvous at Camp Rector,
and their Captain, ( McRae) was promoted
to the position of General of the First Ar
kansas Regiment. We observe a card
signed by the officers of the Regiment
highly complimentary of Gen. McRae,
on his resigning his temporary position.
Thomas H. Bradley has been appointed
General of the Regiment, and if one half
is true that we hear, if he possesses one
grain of pride or self-respect he will re
sign. We are satisfied that he is already
personally unpopular with the men, and
that his previous positions, while a mem
ber of the Convention, and elsewhere,
will prevent him from evgx_£jijoying their
respect. How the Convention ever thought
of him as the man for that position we
cannot divine. We heard of conduct to
wards the soldiers, even in the few days
that he has had charge, that will not soon
be forgotten either by those in or outside
of his command. We learn that this Re
giment are oeing removeu 10 a point up
the Mississippi, nearly opposite Randolph.
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Those Kentucky Regiments.—A
private letter from Cincinnati to the Nash
ville Patriot gives some account of the
“two regiments” reported by the telegraph
as having been offered Lincoln from
Kentucky. The fellow, who is enlisting,
is an ex-editor of an abolition sheet for
merly published in Indiana. The privates
are reprented as a “set of wharf rats,
scoundrels, jail-birds .and loafers in Cin
cinnati, with a few German turners and
vagabonds in Newport.”
The correspondent adds: “I will ven
ture to assert that, in the whole two regi
ments, there are not fifty true Kentucki
ans. I mean Kentuckians bom of Ken
tucky parents, and who, from infancy,
have been taught to speak the English
language.”
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The Pine Bluff True Southron of
the 11th inst., says: “ The Arngo, from
St. Louis, was stopped on Wednesday last,
and was allowed to go on to Little Rock
with an escort of guards on board. We
are indebted to her officers for late St.
Louis papers. It is said she is owned in
abolitiondom.”
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A private letter Irom rensacoia
to the Mobile Register, slates that Presi
dent Davisand Gen.'Beauregard were ex
pected to reach that place on the 11th.—
The coast is reported to be almost a solid
battery, guns having been mounted at ev
ery available point, and the work still conj
linues bravely on. The men work cheer
fully, notwithstanding the exposure of
sand, wind, rain and the hot scorching
sun.
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Squeaming.
There are absolutely no importations to
New York—hitherto the great commer
cial mart of the country. In alluding to
the present state of affairs the Express
says:
The impolicy and untimeliness of the
Morrill tariff, which has now been in prac
tical operation for a period of nearly six
weeks, are now beginning to be conspicu
ous enoug, so far as the interests of our
mercantile mariue are involved. We had
occasion a few days since, to show the dis
astrous effect of the now almost total sus
pension of southern trade, upon shipping
property ; but that total suspension it could
probably endure, for a long while, without
material damage, but for loss of freight
consequent upon the curtailment of foreign
trade, by the almost prohibitory duties now
in vogue. As it is, there is no present
remedy. The ship owners must “grin
and bear it.”
It would be some recompense for the
loss of business at home, if employment
was as readily obtained as formerly—but
this unfortunately is not the case; the ap
prehension of privateering prejudicing the
American flag, especially in West India
and South American ports, and giving the
best freights to French, English, and north
of Europe bottoms.
8@“Hon. C. B. Mitchell, (U. S. Sen
ator,) has returned from Washington City
to his home in Washington, Arkansas.
ARKANSAS NEWS ITEMS.
The Toothpicks.—Such is the redoubt
able title says the Standard of a volunteer
company now being formed and drilling
daily in Clarendon, under the immediate
supervision of the Central War Club of
Monroe county. The company is being
formed with great care and attention.
None are admitted into ranks, only those
of proper height, commanding strength
and known courage. In addition to the
usual arms and accoutrements of a milita
ry company, each carry a large bowie
knife or Aikansas ‘‘Toothpick.”
Bloody Affray in St. Francis
County.—From S. W. Childress, Esq.,
of this city, says the Helena Shield of the
11th inst., who has just returned from St.
Francis county, we learn that on the 4th
inst., J. B. Lips, of Taylor’s Creek neigh
borhood, was killed by an infuriated crowd
of citizens. The particulars, in brief, are
about as follows : This man Lips had been
organizing a company in St. Francis and
Poinsett counties with the avowed purpose
of sustaining law and order and putting
down vigilance committees, &c., but it had
become evident that other objects were in
view, and that Lips was secretly opposed
to the interests of the South, and was pro
bably in league with her enemies. This
he denied, and he had promised to join a
company to be gotten up for resistance to
Federal usurpation—but failing to appear
on the day proposed, a number of citizens
of the county went to his house, and he
assuming a defiant and reckless bearing,
an affray occurred in which ho was killed!
not, however, until he had made a desper
ate resistance.
Lips had resided in the county many
years, had married respectably and was
thereby respectably connected, but was by
many good citizeus regarded asa danger
ous and reckless man.
A letter, was found a few days
ago near Holly Springs, Dallas Co., Ark.,
believed to have been dropped by horse
thieves or incendiaries. It spoke of the
burning of several towns, enjoined secrecy,
was signed with initials only.
BSf* So far as we have beard, the Cir
cuit Courts in Arkansas, are trying crimi
nal cases only duiing their present ses
sions—leaving the civil docket untouched.
fflr* Hon. W. K. Sebastian. U. S. Sen
ator. is drilling a company in Helena,
Ark. He is Captain, W. F. Moore, 1st.
Lieut., and J. H. Hicks 2nd Lieut. A
nobler set of officers cuuld not be found in
any company.
g&slf* J. M. Bradley, stationed Metho
dist preacher in Pine BiufI, Ark , is Cap
tain of a company.
Brigadier General N. B. Burrow
is in command at Fort Smith — four com
panies, two from Crawford and two from
Sebastian garrison the Fort.
Important to footcmjldcers—How
to Clothe the Feet and Keep Them
Comfortable. — 1 Blistering, burning,
soreness ami tenderness of the soles of
the feet may almost invariably be preven
ted, even when marching for days togeth
er and over a healed road, by soaping ilm
sole of the stocking—that is, covering it
with a thin coating of the cheapest brown
soap. This, at the same time, keeps the
skin of the sole cool, hardens it, and pre
vents the inflamation. Coarse cotton socks
are the best for walking.
2. Don’t wear woolen socks when
marching, not even thin ones, no matter
in what climate.
3. The boot or shoe should have a thick
sole ; it is not sofficient that they should
be simply double-soled ; (he soles should
be at least half an inch thick ; if three
fourths of an inch thick all the better;
they are more expensive, but if well made
thep will last a long time, and even in the
warmest weather, will be found easy to
walk in, the feet easily becoming accus
tomed to their weight.
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Indiana is all alive, and the hour
is not far distant when her troops may be
called into active service on the Illinois
border at the junction of the Ohio and Mis
sissippi. We have no fear but they will
do good service. They bear no good will
to the President of the Southern Confeder
acy, and will make his quarters hot and
uncomfortable if the opportunity is offer
ed.— [Cincinnati Times.
No doubt of it. These same Indiana
heroes made Jeff. Davis’ quarters very,
hot and uncomfortable upon the bloody
field of Buena Vista, where they fled like
sheep and left the Mississippians to meet
and drive back the four thousand Mexicans
who threatened our destruction. — [Nash
ville Patriot.
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About a thousand Baltimoreans
are said to have joined the Confederate
army. I
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
£©“ A letter from St. Louis, dated the
11th instant, says: “The doings of yes
terday have driven this State out of the
Union. It is done in the heart of the peo
ple and it is not necessary to pass a seces
sion ordinance. We are further out now
than any ordinance can put us.”
Gov. Brown has declared that il
thirty thousand men were called for from
Georgia, there were so many tenders ol
services pressing upon him he would be
forced to draw the companies necessary tc
complete the requisition by lot.
Masonic Secession.—At a convoca
tion of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons of the State of Georgia, which
closed its session in this city on Thursday
the following resolution was unanimous!)
adopted :
Resolved, That the connection hereto
fore existing between the Grand Chaptei
of Royal Arch Masons of the State o
Georgia and the General Grand Chaptei
of the late United States of America be
and the same is hereby dissolved.— [Au
gusta Chronicle.
Mr. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, has written to his brother in
Washington, expressing the opinion thai
Kentucky will go out of the Union. Pren
tice, however, asserts his determination tc
die in his tracks before he will surrender
his position as a Union man or desert his
business.
fiStsT" It is stated in a Cincinnati paper,
ou lh_e authority of a member of the Cabi
net, that a few days after the inauguration
an agent was sent to Europe, to purchase
500,000 stand of arms, and they are now
arriving by every steamer at New York.
This is considered pretty good evidence
of the duplicity, of the Cabinet in pretend
ing to favor a peace policy. War was
their object from the beginning.—[Rich
mond Whig.
IIev. Henry A. Wise.—A singular
scene took place last Sabbath, in West
Philadelphia, in the Ci.urch in charge of
Rev. Henry A. Wise, Jr., son of the Ex
Governor of Virginia. My informant
tells me that in the prayer of Mr. VYise,
who is an Episcopalian, lie left oul the
President, when Mr. Drexel, one of the
leading members, rose and demanded that
he should repeat the prayer correctly
which the clergyman refused to do. Hi
was then compelled to leave the pulpil
and the church. — [Washington Chronicle.
Kfif The Southern papers are pleased
with the tone of Mr. Russell’s first letter
to the London Tunes. The Northern
papers sire correspondingly dissatisfied.
The question is often asked, wlia
is a “stand of arms?” Properly speaking
it is a complete set of arms for a soldier
which would include the bayonet, musket,
and its appurtenances.
fa iciierirom nicimiona, Virginia
! pays : "The rumor that percussion caps 01
| ammunition of any kind is scarce here
| has no foundation in fact. We have any
quantity. Percussion caps never became
scarce. There are two establishments in
the South now manufacturing them at the
rate of 26,000 per day. This will furnish
within a fraction a million per month.
A large quantity of arms and am
munition has been moved from Fort Lea
venworth to the Southern line of Kansas—
the point where the brigands of Lane and
Montgomery are concentrating.
JS@r The Administration at Washing
ton complain that they can’t find out what
Jefferson Davis intends. Gentlemen,
don’t be impatient. Our kindness
and gratitude to you for your past
favors is so great that we regret to diso
blige you. You will soon enough find out
that, though “still as the breeze, he is
dreadful as the storm.”
George, the accomplice of Jose
phine, in the poisoning of the family of
Lafayette Jones, Esq., some four years
since, suffered the extreme penalty of the
law at twelve o’clock, m. on the 9th inst.
in Bolivar, Miss. This case has excited
a good deal of interest, and quite a large
number were present, expecting that he
would make a confession.
I he New York News says that
out of every one liuudred and eleven edi
tors and reporters connected with the New
Yord Tribune, World, Enquirer and Cou.
rier, Evening Post, Sun and Commercial,
all ol which are ferocious war journals,
the number who have enlisted for the war,
all added up together, counts precisely—
none.
Mr. Vallahdikgham, °p
This gentleman is the only public J'B
have yet heard of in the free Stat
remains true to his profession bef B
proclamation. He deserves immortaliji
or. He is the one righteous man jD j|
heaven forsaken cities of our \\ Iff
plains. He stands where he has
stood, and bids the mob defiance gj
mobs are always cowardly, they are "fg
to leave Mr. Vallandingham alone JB
The Huntsville (Ala.) 1||
sensibly advises the Southern peoplea^fi
lows: Whatever can be made at the S P
now, should be. The war may he ,
us for years, our people should be pr('fft
ed to endure its privations and prwjdjf
its necessities. The day for luxuries %
display, and foolish extravagance iB0.,
We should husband our resources so ls
be independent.
JgSS“ The following is the oath *!„, |
all volunteers and regulars mustered jj ^
the service of the United States are ,
quired to take before their final enrollmt;
into service : “I do solemnly swear iha:
will bear true allegiance to the l}njt8|§
States of America; that I will sene tUfl
honestly and faithfully against BHeneBiiJg
or opposers whatever; that I will obey Jg
orders of the President of tbe'UaJK
States and of the other officers appoqJpl
over me, according to the rules of the
mies of the United States, so help J k
(iod.”
The New York Tribune calktriH
slaughter of men, women and chiltlretpl
non-combattants, at St. Louis, ‘‘tiwfiiJSl
victory of the war, and apparently a nuill
important and encouraging one.” Tbf *,
standard of the triumphs the abohtiooisjfgi
expects to gain in the pending contest,me
be inferred from the estimnte the Tribum
places upon the butchery at St. Louis.
[Memphis Appeal.
t&gr The Montgomery ( Ala.) M J
says: “We learn that there are now tpijji
a number of privateers in tire serviu-i®
the Confederate Government, cruising/S
the Gull and Atlantic coast, well anm:S|
and manned Despatches have been
ceived in tins city showing that iiuiidrrtM
ol others are fitting out at various poinJgj
for ilie same purpose.
The Philadelphia Bulletin think 1
thai the Pennsylvania volunteers onghi iWk
have improved modern fiie-arms, in infill
to be prepared to meet the belief aiur.i l
Southern soldiers. It the Pennsylvanian ;
acquit themselves as they did at Cert |
Gordo, it makes but little difference wlinfl
kind of arms they have—they won't gtifl
in firing distance.
B@“In response to an inquiry pskinfp
whether a vessel could proceed to Norlulill
and lake in ti load of cotton. Seward is 1
spuuded that it could not. ami added tk-j
similar requests had been refused to fur 1
eign vessels.
BtiHT Gen. William O. Buiier, oneii||
the heroes of the Mexican war, and cat;
didute for Vice-President on the Cassiuk’Jj
et in 1848, in commander of the Svcr.-Vi
sion volunteers in Kentucky.
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Z^ET borne ol the New Jersey xolurjn
leers, at Washington, openly threaten!®
inanity unless better lood is provided tlit!®,j®
having but two meals a day, and that oil
the most indifferent kind.
C^T* The Virginia Slate Convention®
passed an ordinance last week, adopting®
the ad valorem system of taxation, to take
effect on the first day of July, the ordin- *
ance to be subjected however, to a direc.
vote of the people.
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The Character of the Com ing Campaign i
We have in the northern cities at least '
three hundred thousand of the most recln *
less, desperate men on the face of the
earth. The Goths and Vandals who dfl
scended upon Rome and ensanguined the |
Tiber with patrician blood, were angd*
compared to these fellows, who are knoWu
by the generic name of “roughs.” O’
course they are all in for war, and tb«
spoils thereof—more particularly the spoil-'
They have no stake in this world, no h<>Pe
for the future. They will fight like de*
rnons for present enjoyment, and wb*(e
one is killed twenty more will spring “P
in his place. It is of such rough mate’’3
that all invincible troops are made. Tk*J
we are to have a fight, that Virginia an®
Maryland will form the battle groutM
and that the northern roughs will swe^P
those Slates with fire and sword, is beyo***
peradventure. They have already beeB
excited to the boiling point by ther’®,
prospect of plunder held out by some
their leaders, and will not be satisfied i»‘
less they have a farm and a nigger ea™
There is no sort of exaggeration aboul
these statements, as the people of the boj'
j der Slates will shortly ascertain to *^e'r
cost.' The character of the coming c8®'
paign will be vindictive, fierce, blow!'
and merciless beyond parallel in ancif” 1
or modern history.— [N. Y. Herald- I