J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DE9 AIlC, ARKANSAS :
FRIDAY,.JUNE 7, 1861.
BSTD. Walker Davis, Esq., has
not been connected with the editorial de
partment of the Citizen since his appoint
ment as Secretary of the Military Board.
He has been an able contributor to the
columns of our paper, and we are pleased
to learn that he has been placed in a po
sition more profitable than that of select
ing and writing fora public journal, The
duties of Mr. Davis as Secretary of the
Military Board compel him to reside at
Little Rock.
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ESP Stephen A. Douglas is dead ! He
who at one time bid fair to occupy the
highest position in the gift of his country
men, has gone down to the grave *' un
honored and unsung.” He bartered off
principle for policy, and was soon forgot
ten as a lender by his countrymen. “Let
the dead burv the dead.”
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Important to Pre-Emptors.—We
learn that all lands which are not pre
empted by the 8th of July next, will be
offered at public sale on that day, but such
as are pre empted by that time will be al
lowed until October 1st, 1861.
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Telegraphic Headquarters. —We
learn from the Nashville Banner, that the
headquarters of the South-western Tele
graph line, extending from Louisville to
New Orleans, are to be removed from
Louisville to Nashville, where the Presi
dent and subordinate officers will soon es
tablish themselves. The instrument man
ufactory will also be removed to Nashville,
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gQS** Capt. Harrs of Clarendon, and
Lieu't. Blackburn of Helena, it is said,
have gone to Little Rock to present a pe
tition with a list of grievances against
Gen. Bradley. The petition is feigned by
every member of the regiment. That
regiment are entitled to a good General,
and we believe the Military Beard will
give them one.
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Postal Affairs.
As heretofore announced, the Southern
Confederacy assumed the entire control of
postal affairs on Saturday last. As con
siderable changes take place, it would be
well for the public to remember them, or
many letters will be delayed, or remain
in the offices where they are deposited.
Read the following:
1st. Ail letters of single rate must then
be paid five cents in money, or Confeder
ate stamps, and where the distance is over
five hundred miles, there must be paid
ten cents. Persons, therefore, should be
careful to count difiances.
2d. United States postage stamps can
not be used after the 1st of June, in this
Confederacy, and consequently will be of
no use. unless it be to send letters North,
with an additional five cents added,
3d. All newspapers and circulars must
be paid at the rates of two cents each, in
stead of one as now.
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Advices from Texas say that the
Te xians, in large numbers, are on the up
per frontier, taking the necessary steps
to defend the State against any incur
lions.
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The Fort Smith Times says that
on Saturday, 25th ult., the election for
colodel of the first regiment Arkansas vol
unteers, under Gen. Pierce’s division,
was held. De Rosey Carroll was elected
on the first ballot. No better selection
could have been made. He is a man of
fine sense, and & true and devoted friend
of the South.
Gen. Pearce leaves for Fort Wayne
to-day, and Col. Carroll takes command
of this post.
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The stock of corn in Richmond is
now so heavy that the papers advise the
withholding of further tupplies.
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PUBLIC MEETING.
At a meeting of the citizens of White
River township at Des Arc, on Tuesday,
| June 4th 1861;
On motion, Dr. William Beth ell J
was called to the chairand H. P. Vaughan j
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appointed secretary.
John C. Morrill, Esq., explained the
object of the meeting to be, to take in con
sideration the unwarranted retreat of Gen
T, H. Bradley from Bearfield, and tak
ing his men two miles below Randolph,
on the Tennessee side: Also, that the
conduct of said Bradley was disgraceful
to himself, and calculated to disgrace the
regiment under his command: Also, to
approve of the course of the regiment.
On motion, a aommittee of five was
appointed, consisting of O. S. Palmer,
Russ Evans, A. O. Edwards, A. S. Er
win and M. T. Cooper, to draft suitable
resolutions and report to an adjourned
meeting to-morrow morning, 9 o’clock.
On motion. John C. Morrill was added
to said committee.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to
meet to-morrow morning, 9 o’clock.
W. BETH ELL, Chairman.
H. P. V auchan, Secretary.
Wednesday, June 5, 1861.
Meeting met pursuant to adjournment.
Dr. Win. Bethel I in the chair. In the ab
sence of H. P. Vaughan, Esq., J. C.
Morrill was appointed secretary.
The committee appointed yesterday
made the following report, which was
adopted:
Whereas, It having appeared from
sources which we deem perfectly reliable,
that Gen. T. H. Bradley did ignominious
ly order a precipitate retreat from Bear
fiplrP« Pomt. on va?ue rumors of an in
tended attack by the enemy, without con
sultation with the officers; leave scouts
sent out the day before, without making
any provision lor their salety ; abandon
many valuable articles belonging to the
companies, and in various other ways be
have in an unsoldier like manner; and
desert a position, which from its command
ing military advantages was of the great
est importance to our State.
And whereas, The officers oi the
expedition of which be was in command
did meet and bring various charges
against him for forcing upon them such
a shameful retreat, and removing them
from the post of honor and danger, to the
soil of another State, thus compelling liiem
to forsake their own State which they
were sworn to defend.
And whereas. We learn that Gen.
T. II. Bradley is now at Little Roc!: for
the purpose of having the officers Court
martialed. for what he is pleased to term
mutiny, therefore be it
Resolved, By the citizens of Des Arc
and vicinity, that we heartily approve and
commend the actions of the said officers
in charging Gen. T. H. Bradley with his
disgraceful and ungallant conduct, and in
refusing longer to serve under an officer
who so signally proved himself to be to
tally unworthy of the high position which
he occupied.
Resolved farther, That we take this op
portunity to express our utter contempt and
loathing for a commanding officer, whoso
cowardly abandoned a position of strength
and safely, and fled to another State, be
hind another army, and thus left our State
unprotected and undefended by the brave
and gallant soldiers who volunteered logo
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. Resolved further, That we hereby ex
press our admiration of the noble courage
and manliness of feeling evinced by the
Rector Guards and a portion of the Har
ris Guards, in standing forth and refus.ng
to move until their scouts were cared for.
| Resolved further. That we hereby ex
( press the hope that the Military Board,
i after carefully reviewing all the circum
[ stances of this occurrence, will place the
i seal of condemnation upon the brow of an
impotent officer, and reward the soldiers
for their unwillingness to fly from our soil
and leave our State defenseless, by send
ing them some commander capable of
leading where duty calls, and who will
not hesitate to assume the position of hon
or, though it be one ol danger.
On motion, it was ordered that the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published in
the Des Arc Citizen and Clarendon Stand
ard.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
W. BETHELL, Chairman.
J. C. Morrill. Secretary.
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gCgr Not less than one thousand six
handred steamboats run up the Mississippi
river and its tributaries. The total value
of these is estimated at sixty million dol
lars.
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g£jgP The Nashville papers state that
two flatboats, laden with 1,892 barrels of
Kanawha Salt, intended for that city, had
| been seized at Evansville, Indiana, and
the crew taken prisoners. The salt and
; the boats that contained it were confisca
ited.
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War Terms.
The Columbiad or Paixhan (pronounced
pay-zan) is a large eun, designed princi
pally for firing shells—it being far more
accurate than the ordinary shot mortar.
A mortar is a very short cannon with a
large hore, some ol them thirteen inches
in diameter, for firing shells. Those in
use in our army are set at 4o degrees,
and the range of tiie she I! is varied by al
tering the charge of powder. The shell
is caused to explode at just about the time
that it strikes, by means of a fuse, the
length of which is adjusted to the time
of flight to be occupied by tiie ball, which
of course corresponds with tiie range. The
accuracy with which the time of the burn
ing of tiie fuse can be adjusted by varying
its length is surprising; good artillerists
generally succeed in having their shells
explode almost at the exact instant 01 stri
king. In loading a mortar, the shell is
carefully placed with the luse directly for
ward, and when the luse is discharged,
the shell is so completely enveloped with
flame, that the fuse is nearly always fired.
The fuse is made by filling a wooden cyl
inder with fuse powder, the cylinder be
ing of sufficient length for the longest
range, and to be cut down shorter for shor
ter ranges as required.
The Dahlgreen gun is an ordinary can
non, except that it is made very thick at
the breech for some three or four feet,
when it tapers down to less than the usual
size. This form was adopted in conse
quence of the experiments of Capt. Dahl
gren, of the U. S. Navy, having shown
that when a gun is buist it usually gives
way at the breech. The Niagara is arm
ed with these guns, and at the Brooklyn
navy yard there are sixty, weighing about
9.000 pound each, and six of 12,000
pounds weight, the former of which are
capable of carrying a nine inch, and the (
latter a ten inch shell a distance oi two !
or three miles; and there is one gun of
this pattern which weighs 1.5,916 pounds,
and is warranted to send an eleven inch ;
shell four miles.
A casemate is a stone roof to a fort
made sufficiently thick to resist a force oi
cannon balls, and a casemate gun is one
which is placed under a casemate.
A barbette gun is one which is placed
on the top of the fortification.
An embrasure is the hole or opening
through which guns are fired from forti- .
fications.
Loop holes are openings in a wall to |
fire musketry through.
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What Sort of War ? —
We note, in some of the papers, that J
General Lee, of Virginia, is reported to
have said, that the war before us is to be
one of artillery. We do not believe that [
General Lee has committed hirn*elf to j
any such absurdity. Along the rivers,
which are penetrable by the Abolition
shipping, the war will be one. no doubt, ol
this sort—shore batteries against men of I
war. But, if we are to l ave any inva
sion, the strength of the South will consist 1
m its cavalry and riflemen, this is our
strength, and in its individuality of per
sonal character, which involves the vvnoie j
secret of guerilla or partisan warfare.—
We should be the maddest loots in the
world to forego the very attributes which
made of the Southern a military people,
par excellence. In a hand-to-hand strife,
whether of bowie knife or bayonet, we
nave no reason to apprehend from our
enemy. Inequality of numbers will be
more than reconciled by the superiority
of individual moral. If the myrmidons of
Scott are to penetrate Virginia, in three
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Jill- inv vuiuiuii'-, Iiv •1 - --
mate blunder, and exposes each of these
io be cut off in detail. And this will be
Jone by partisan warfare. Scott lias al
ways been a military blunderer, but a for
lunate one. But his fortune has lain in ^
his : Hitherto he has never fought against \
kis mother. She has been 10 him the
nourishing bosom, the clasp of which lias
been as the invigorating touch of mother
earth 10 Auteus. Now that he proposes
iijstab her 'o ilie heart, she will become
his late. Nemesis has him in her clutch
es, and the laurels of fifty years, whether ;
ill or well deserved—whether the fruit of !
luck or merit—are destined to wither in 1
his very first campaign against his own :
people! What pity! How shocking that
an old man of seventy should not be tem
perati—should not see that he, at least,
ought not to foul liis fingers or his fame
in this Abolition crusade against his°na>
live land ! And in such a cause ! Tire
tool of abolition against Virginia ! Tne |
tool of sueh an ape ns Lincoln—of such a
snake as Seward—of such a w olf as Chase'.
He, Scott, the hungering aspirant for the
Presidency, seduced in his old age by the j
vain dream of becoming military dictator !
of the count y ! Know ing the imbecility j
of Lincoln, be fancies that his military
successes will secure his military dictator- ,
ship. But his soup, like the spur of Per- ;
cy, has grown a little cold.—[Charleston
Mercury.
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Contractors are being indicted at
Philadelphia for swindling the Govern- j
ment in furnishing army suplies. One of!
a lot of blankets was exhibited in proof,!
weighing bm one pound one ounce, when '
the weight should have been about seven ;
pounds!
The New York News exposes another
system of fraud in the making up of reg
iments. “A” is raising a regiment, and
it is about to bo mustered into the service,
I but having only three or four hundred
imen, when the law required him to have
' seven or eight hundred, he borrows for tin
j muster day iroml other corps the comple
ment of the regiment. This Iraud will
| include pay, clothing, and rations. The
I Union Safety Committee was appealed to
. to put a stop to the system, but consider
led it inexpedient. They did not wani
I the world to know what expert cheats they
| had.
Unparalfled Brutality.-The Rich
j mond Enquirer states the following lacti
'upon reliable information:
“An officer in the Virginia army, wire
! resigned his commission in the Unitec
States Army some time since and whost
family is still in Washington, asked per
mission the other day to visit that city tc
attend the burial of a deceased child.—
General Scott promptly and indignantly
refused, declaring that if thousands of chil
Idren were to be buried, i o officer of the
Virginia army could visit Wa&bingtor
without arrest.”
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J&aF* In regard to the whereabouts of
Jim Lane, and the condition of affairs in
Kansas, we have the following, in a lettei
dated the *21st, to a Leavenworth paper
from Topeka, the capital of Kansas :
Gen. Lane mysteriously reappeared
this morning, after an absence of several
days, and is busily employed, with his usu
al assiduity in the varied arts of his pro
fession.
Capt. Montgomery and several other
gentlemen from the South represent that
a large body of Missourians, between four
and five bundled in number, are encamp
ed at the Mouth of Mulberry Creek, with
in four miles of the line of Linn county,
and are driving out and maltreating all
the Union men in the neighborhood.—
Great fears of an invasion are expressed,
and as the people are destitute of arms a
deputation lias waited upon Gov. Robin
son, requesting him to furnish iliem im
mediately with the means of defence.
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An Ordinance
In regard to Foreign Indebtedness in the.
State of Arkansas, and with regard to
other objects.
Stc. 1. Be it ordained by the people of
Arkansas in convention assembled, that all
the debts of whatever kind due or to be
come due hereafter, whether the same be
evinced by record, bond, note, bill of ex
change, or by other proof; and whether
such mriehu djifi^s Is /tisct»JWg-'«We or be
come dischargeable by money, property or
in o her choses of action where the duty
of payment is due or to become due upon
resident citizens of the State of Arkansas,
and is due or is to become due m a resi
dent or citizen of the Stale of Maine, the
State of Rhode Island, the Stale of Mas
sachusetts, the State of Vermont, the State
of New Hampshire, the State of Connec
ticut, the Stale of New York, the State of
New Jersey, the State of Pennsylvania,
the State of Ohio, the Stale of Indiana,
the State of Illinois, the State of Michi
gan, the State of Iowa, the State of Wis
consin, the State of Minnesota, the Siate
of California, the State of Oregon or the
State of Kansas, or to a resident or citi
zen of the Territory of Nebraska, the
Territory of Utah. Washington, Decotah,
Nevada or Colerado, be and the same is
hereby destrained and appropriated to, and
for the use and benefit of the State of Ark
ansas, and payments thereof are here ifier
to be made to the State of Arkansas in such
ol this convention, or bv the enactment of
the legislature of the State, and all other
payments are'hereby prohibited arid de
clared null and void, and the party mak
ing them shall be responsible to the Slate
for the full value of such payment of money
or of delivery of property or choses in ac
tion.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That
all money, property and choses in action
that are now in possession, or that may
hereafter come to the possession of any
attorney, marshal, sheriff, or agent, or
other person in this S'ate for the use or
benefi. of any citizen or resident in any
of the aforesaid Stales and Territories, be
and the same is hereby distrained and ap
propriated tu and for the use and benefit
of the Stale of Arkansas, and that all
payments or delivery thereof, otherwise
than such as may be hereafter provided
by ordinance of the Arkansas State Con
venli- n or enactment of the Legislature
shall be null and void, and the party mak
ing such payment, or delivering such pro
perty or chose in action, contrary to the
true intent hereof, shall be liable to the
State for the full value thereof.
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That
all land or real estate of whatever kind,
the title or ownership whereof is a citi
zen or citizens, resident or residents of
any of the aforesaid Slates or Territories,
be forfeited nnd revert to the State of Ar
kansas tor the use and benefit of said
Slate, and that the title to such lands shall
be disposed of as the convention or legis
lature may hereafter direct.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That
all sales of property under legal process
for collection of such debts as are describ
ed in the first section of this ordinance,
the use and benefit whereof is going to
citizens or residents of any of the Slates
or Territories aforementioned, be and the
same is hereby prohibited, until otherwise
ordered by the convention or enactment of
the legislature.
The Coroner’s jury al 1
in relation to the death of Jackson
was killed lor taking the life 0f y(j| ’ ^fj
worth, returned the following verdict. i
“That the deceased (Jackson) c i
his death at the Minds of the lro'ps> 1
United States while in defense of /, J
vale property, in his own house. ^ 'l
Invasion.—A dispatch from c 1
published in the Louisville Courier J !
3d inst., says: "The Government” b|
i chartered the big wharf steamer that |jM
here. It is capable of carrying #M
thousand troops arid stores. It „ /*' 1
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stood also that the government hu*c|)(| |
tered twenty.five river steamers 1
Louis.” l\
The Mobile papers state th„
gentleman acting as agent of t|ie
government is now in that city.
iness is to report to the emperor suchfac,
as will enlighten him respecting the cuti
ditiou of the South.
gST’ Major J. A. VVagcner, of Charles,
ton. S. C., has invented an improved rifl, f
cannon, which has been tested and f0Unj
to throw a shell seven miles. prt.para.
lions are on foot to compliment the Niagj.
i ra with a few.
£45“ The New York Tribune Say5
there are at least three hundred officers!;
the Lincoln army and navy, who willb*.
tray the cause at the first opportunity, ],
urges a speedy and thorough expulsion.
£41" As the "Augusta (Ga.) Greyf*
were marching past the Big Spring,i0
i Rockingham countv. Va „ r_.
" ■‘••liny
of Lincolns resides, Miss Fannie Lincoln,
a relative of “Old Abe,” the President!
presented the company with a secession
banner.
ftaT* The Union feeling’ is so strong in
; Maryland that it takes 30,000 bayonets to
j hold it ! , . |
S&°“ Gen. Geo. W. Clark, late purser
I of the U. S. Navy, , has beeu appoint
quartermaster to Gen. McCullough’s brig,
nde.
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The fifteen hundred troops finis I
i St. Louis, who have taken possessionnfI
Bird’s Point, Missouri, apposite Cuiro.ve
said to be a portion of the Dutch troop
who fired upon the women arid children|
at the Camp Jackson massacre. It mol
be hoped that these assassins may court!-1
tute a portion of the 80.000 Vandals with
which the Mississippi Valley is threatened. '■
1 [Memphis Avalanche.
ES&T* Some of the bast citizens of
Vasluntjion county were yesterday arre
ted without law, Slate or Federal, iiumii)
or divine, and have been incarcerated in
the St. Louis arsenal. Private houses
were entered and searched, and private
property was seized, and all the r.gnls
which the citizens of this meat country
supposed themselves to pos'pss, have been
disregarded and violated by these band. j
of marauders. We have no heart torn
ter further into details. These are pr<'
served for future history.— [St. Louit
Journal.
fhST* President Davis held Ins reception
at Richmond, Virginia, on the 30tb; of
course lie was welcomed by crowds ol en*
ger visitor*.
The Richmond Examiner believe! 1
it would be best to let Washington go, sod |
direct attention to Cincinnati, which, HI
declares, is the most vulnerable point on
the border. By occupying the Kentucky
lulls, opposite Cincinnati, it says, the city
could be laid in ashes.
fiSP Dr. J. C. Nott. of Mobile, say*
be daily sees ladies wearing out their
fingers and eyes in picking lint for tin
brave soldiers, and that clean cotton *n* |
swers just as well as liiii for dressing
wounds, and that some of the best Europe1
an surgeons use cotton in preference >#
lint. He lias for years been in the habit
of using good sample cotton and lint.,n*
discriminate!}', in dressing wounds of»»
j kinds, and has not been able to see any
jdifference.
ARKANSAS INSTITUTE *
FOR THE BLIND.
Mr. OTIS PATTON, Principal.
THIS Institution (at Arkadelpbia, Clark
county.) has proem ed the valuable set'1
; ces of Mr. Otis Patton, as Principal. ®r'
1 Patton has taught eleven years in the Kent"1
ky Institute for the Blind, and hiings to'
Institute the infoimation, experience »ndc,‘
pacity, necessuiy to the most complete suC’
cess- . j
| Pupils are solicited and will be received
anytime until the Institution be full, of W"1*
! fact (should it occur) due notice will be
Those between the age of six and fi*le (
| years are chiefly desired; although those®0
advanced will be at present received.
The terms are one bundled and sixty doit*
1 per annum for Board and Tuition, includ'
| everything except clothing. Those unasl*
pay will be leceived free of charge.
By order of the Hoard.
Attest:
t Thos. -A- Hearr, Secretary,
i May 8, ISfil.