DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
TUESDAY,...MAY 14, 1861.
. Emerson Etheridge, &c.—A corres
pondent of the Memphis Avalanche writ
ing from Nashville, under date of the 4th
inst., says : “The notorious Emerson Eth
eridge was in the city when we arrived,
but found the people entertained such dif
ferent notions from himself in regard to
sustaining the Lincoln administration, that
he adopted FallstafTs idea of discretion
and valor, and kept the door of his room
between himself and the “ rest of man
kind.” I have been confidently told that
a party numbering some ten Of fifteen
called at the St. Cloud on Thursday morn
ing, and craved an audience with the dis
tinguished traitor to the interests of Ten
nessee and the South, but received the an
swer that Mr. Etheridge was not in. The
determination of these “friends” to the
Congressman of the 9th district, was to
tender him the freedom of the city in a
complimentary ride through the streets
upon a triangularly formed emblem of
Abraham’s early profession. I am not
certain whether Etheridge became appris
ed of ibeir hospitable intentions or not,
but it is a historical fact that he was really
not in the city on the next (Friday) morn
ing. In the respect of going, he was like
unto the wind which listeth—no man can
tell whither he “biowed oil ” to.”
The sumo correspondent adds : “The
steamer C- E. Hillman, of Cairo seizure
rememberance, reached the wharf here
last evening. Much excitement prevailed,
and shout after shout hailed her from the
large crowd of people which occupied the
suspension bridge, as she passed along.
She leaves again for St. Louis, this after
noon. The report which you have un
doubtedly seen, that the internal Illinois
scoundrels, at Cairo, had robbed her cabin
and pantry, besides breaking open the
packages of freight, which could not, by
their own law, be termed contraband, is
true.”
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Twenty Days Grace Expired.—in
Abe “Lincoln's war proclamation which
was did at the city of Washington, on
the 15th day of April,” the following very
important passage occurs:
“I deem it propfer to say that the first ser
vice assigned to the forces hereby called forth
will probably be to repossess the forts, places
and property which have been seized from
the Union; and in every event the utmost care
will be observed, consistently with the objects
aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any de
struction of or interference with property; or
any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any
part of the country ; and I hereby command
the persons composing the combinations a
f'oresaid to disperse and retire peaceably to
their respective abodes within twenty days
from this date.”
The “ combinations ” above referred to
are the hostile combinations and prepara
tions in the States that have .revolted
against the laws and authority of the
late United States. These “combinations”
are commanded to disperse within the lim
it of twenty days from the 15th of April,
a term of grace which expired on the 5th
of this blessed month of May. If Old
Abe and his advisers carry out their pro
ject, before this time Gen. Scott has adopt
ed the offensive system and sej in motion
some twenty or thirty thousand men for
the occupation of Richmond or Baltimore,
or the meaning of the twenty days notice
is rendered a ridiculous farce.
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©S'* We are in receipt of the proceed
ings before the Investigating committee,
which resulted in condemning of the
white man and negroes, but the detention
of the western mail prevented it coming
to hand in time to insert it in our present
issue. We will publish the proceedings
in our Friday’s paper.
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BST“The New Orleans packet, A. W.
Quarrier, Capt. Redmond, passed up this
afternoon, hound for Jacksonport. She (
.’•eiiirn? or. Tlnir^dav.
A White Man and Three Negroes
Hung near Hickory Plain. — Our
neighbors of Hickory Plain and vicinity,
fourteen miles west of Des Arc, after a
patient investigation before a Committee
of twenty-five, on Friday last, in accord
ance with the verdict of said Committee,
proceeded to a spot designated, and to a
tree having a long projecting limb, said
limb being stout and well proportioned—
whereon they hung until they were dead,
Tom. Williamson, a white man, and three
negroes, Big Dave, Lewis and Jeff. Wil
liamson was convicted as the leader of an
insurrection and the negroes as aiders and
abettors. The balance of the negroes im
plicated have been whipped severely, and
not less than three of them banished from
the county.
We have the most implicit confidence
in the Committee who have thus summa
rily disposed of the leaders in a plot to
render their homes desolate, and to destroy
the honor and virtue of their wives and
daughters. All praise to those who thus
defend themselves against “ irrepressible
conflict,” and make lasting examples of
both while &nd black who engage in insur
rectionary movements that would destroy
the last vestige of virtue and honor.
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Morris Island.—The general appear
ance of this now well-known and famous
Island has been greatly changed since the
13th of April. The batteries bearing on
Sumter have been removed and many
other arrangements warranted by our pos
session of Fort Sumter, have been com
pleted.
The 17th Regiment, Col. John Cun
ingham, will return to the city, and the
remnant of Col. Gregg’s (1st Regiment
South Carolina Volunteers) command will
be hotlorably discharged, they having
served within a few weeks of their term.
We learn that some of the men will pro
ceed to Virginia. Fort Sumter is reported
to be in fighting order. For general in
formation, it may be as well to say that it
will not cost a half a million of dollars to
put it in perfect order, as was reported by
an officer of the late garrison.— [Charles
ton Mercury.
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Shall the Convention Pass a Stay
Law ?—This question is exciting a good
deal of discussion throughout the Stale.
That such a law should be passed to pro-,
tect those persons who have already or may
be called into military service,.we have not
the least doubt. They should be protected
against any execution or civil process of
any kind during their absence. Missis
sippi has passed such a lavv^nd her sol
diers are thus protected, and have no fears
that their property will be plundered by
either just or unjust claims and executions
during their absence. Let the Arkansas
Convention do likewise.
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Taking up of a Suspicious Charac
ter.—A man, giving his name as George
Thomas, says the Jacksonport Herald of
the 4th inst., and hailing from Brownsville,
Prairie county, was arrested and lodged
in jail on last Saturday morning. The
nicrht previous, he and an Irishman were
seen in Capt. G. B. Smith’s stable loft
with two negro boys, offering them whis
ky, and otherwise being sociable. Thomas
was lodged in jail to await an answer from
Brownsville, ancf the Irishman discharg
sd with a repremand. Thomas is reported
,o be a bad character—having a propensi
y for stealings hogs and cows whenever
in opportunity offers.
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The Supply of Powder in tffe East.
The Philadelphia Gazette says:
“There is but one powder mill in Vir
ginia and eight in Maryland, and none
n the rest of the South, while Delaware
las nine and Pennsylvania sixty-seven.
From these figures it will be seen that if
we could keep possession of Maryland
ind Delaware with their powder mills,
:he solitary powder mill in Virginia
would be the only one to supply the
South.”
The Dupont powder mills are in Dela
ware. Applications were recently made
jy the Confederates there for a large sup
ply of powder. They were refused and
hreatened to take it by force. The place
s well protected.—[Cin. Paper.
After copying the above the Jacksonport
Herald of Saturday last adds:
From the above we would infer that the
northern people suppose that the South is
o be placed at their mercy, from the lack
>f the necessary supply of powdetyo car
ry on the war. Let them be unroceived
; once ; Arkansas cau supply the whole
South in a few days. An establishment
will commence operations with the ability
:o make 2000 pounds of commercial salt
petre per diem. Another can be brought
nto operation in less than a month that
will produce over 1000 pounds. These ;
juaouties can be nearly doubled by work-,
ng night and day. Other vey rich cavesj
will be opened shortly, fully equal to those
alluded to above. Alder willow and oth
er suitable woods are plenty, with a suffi
ciency of water power for the manufacture
of powder. Here is a chance for practical
manufacturers of that article to secure a
hoid at once and supply us in the South
with the most important element of mod
ern warfare.
Steps have been taken to secure to the
State, and through it to individuals the
valuable deposits that exist on White river
! above this place. VY'e hope our contem
poraries will call attention to these facts.
Col. C. W. Foard, of this place will glad
ly advise with parties seeking info/mation
thereon.
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Virginia Ready for the Contest.
MUNITIONS OF WAS, ETC.
At one time there existed in the State a
feeling of want of munitions of war, but
investigation and examination have en
tirely dispelled the impression. Virginia
to-day is better provided with all the ne
cessaries of a great campaign than any
State North of Mason and Dixon’s line—
if she is not equally as well supplied as
the Federal Government itself. The Navy
Yard at Gosport, the Magazine at Norfolk,
the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, added
largely to the supply; but the action taken
by many of the counties, without the
knowledge of the authorities at Richmond,
in purchasing arms and munitions of war
for the companies within the county limits,
has supplied, to a very great extent, the
hundred thousand men which, within a
few days will be ready to defend the soil
of Virginia from Federal invasion.
The thorough and complete organiza
tion of the Quartermaster and Commissary
Departments, which Gen. Lee has per
fected, will enable the immediate concen
trnfinn nf tir*r>n llio nf
II
Slate wherever the movements of the ene
1 my may demand (he presence of our
troops. Should the folly which reigns at
Washington, induce an invasion of Vir
ginia, and a demonstration against Alex
andria, Gen. Cocke is prepared to meet
them, while Col. Jackson from Harper’s
Ferry, crossing the river with ten thousand
men, would immediately advance on
Washington, and, assisted by Maryland,
would soon end tbe invasion of Virginia
by the capture of Washington.
Gen. Lee can at any moment Jleave
Richmond at tbe head of twenty-thousand
men, now here and in the counties
between this and Alexandria. General
Gwynn, at Norfolk, General Buggies,
3t Fredericksburg, have each a very large
army under their command. The rail
roads of the State, under the Quartermas
ter's Department, are held in readiness for
the transportation of troops from point to
point. The telegraph will communicate
orders, while couriers are prepared to
convey commands wherever the telegraph
does not extend.
So great has been the enthusiasm of the
people, that Gov. Letcher has been com
pelled to forbid any more troops rendez
vousing at Richmond without special or
ders.
Virginia is prepared and ready for the
enemy whenever Mr. Lincoln shall have
the reckless fool-hardiness to attempt the
invasion of her soil. The authorities at
Richmond are advised of affairs at Wash
ington. We know their weakness, and
we despise the imbecility and folly which
has characterized the Administration.—
[Richmond Enquirer.
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From the Richmond Enquirer.
The Spirit in Massachusetts.
The following is a copy of a hand-bill
received by us yesterday from Boston,
Massachusetts. The writer (w|jo is per
sonally unknown to us) says that similar
hand-bills are posted up at every corner
in Boston, and that the sentiments which
they express are those of a majority of the
people of New England. We know not
whether our unknown correspondent is a
friend (as he professes to be) or a foe as
nearly every pretended friend in New En
gland turns out to be Nor is it impor
tant with us whether he is the one or the
other. We publish his enclosed slip as a
matter of curiosity to the readers of the
Enquirer assuring him and all mankind
that the threats of the undivided North car
ry no terrors to the hearts of a solitary
Southern man:
CONDITIONS OF PEACE REQUIRED OF THE ,
SO-CALLED SECEDED STATES.
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Article 1. Unconditional submission to |
the Government of the United States.
Articled. To deliver up ONE HUN- i
DRED of the ARCH TRAITORS to J
be hung. .
Article 3. To put^m record the names !
of all others who have been traitorous to
the Government, who shall be held in- j
famous and disfranchised forever.
Article 4. The properly of all traitors
to be confiscated, to pay the damage.
Article5. The seceded States to pay all
the balance of the expense, and restore j
all stolen property. (
Article 6. The payment of all debts due c
to northerners, and indemnity for all in- |
dignities to persons, loss of time, life and t
properly.
Article 7. The removal of the cause of
all our difficulties, which can only bedoue 1
by the immediate and unconditional aboli- t
lion of slavery. 1
Article 8. Until a full compliance with I
ill the above terms, the so-called seceded r
States to be held and governed as United
Slates Territory.
The above is the least that an indig
nant people will accept, outraged as they
have been by the foulest, most heinous
and gigantic instance of crime recorded in
history. 4
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ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
The branch mint in Charlotte, N.
C. was taken possession of on the 21st, by
Colonel Bryce and the military, by order
of Gov. Ellis. No resistance was made,
nor the slightest disturbance occurred.
The people of North Carolina are gal
lantly rallying to the defense of the South.
The New York Herald thus sums
up, in a few words, the financial condition
of the North and South:
The States in the Southern Confederacy
owe $18,000,000. The Confederacy it
self owes nothing. The States in the
Northern Federation owe $174,000,000,
besides the debt of the Federal Govern
ment, making in all $260,000,000. These
are points for the consideration of capi
talists.
g@“TheNew York Tribune insists
upon the federal government revoking the
patents of Colt, the pistol man, and others
who sell arms to Southern people.
gCg°* The Savannah News learns thro
a gentleman just from Washington that
Gov. Letcher is putting up a fortification
at a point called White House, below Fort
Washington, which will command the Po
tomac. If the Potomac’can be thorough
ly commanded by Virginia cannon, and
we see no reason why it may not, then in
deed will the Lnrcona hirelings have to
fight their way to Washington.
mi n • l 1 Tv . a _1 _
k>?*£? jl uc niumiuiiu i/ccpaitu oays
that the iron founders of that city, besides
the immense lot of war material they have
already fabricated, have engagements a
head which will keep them employed some
months to come, even admitting they re
ceive no more orders,
21j=* A correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury, writing from Pensacola on the
20th ult., says a siege of six months is
expected, before Fort Pickens is taken.
“The times are hard, wife, and I
find u difficult to keep my nose above wa
ter.” “You could easily keep your nose
above water, husband, if you didn’t keep
it so often above brandy.”
Five Northern vessels were seiz
ed in Mobile harbor a few days ago by
the authorities of that city, on learning of
the seizure of Southern property in North
ern ports.
Armed vessels now guard the har
bor of New York, between sundown and
sunrise. The Vixen watches the narrows,
and a cutter is in the sound to prevent
the departure of suspicious cargoes—clear
ed regularly for Cuba, perhaps, and land
ed in Southern ports.
gST* It is rainored that President Lin
coln has sent a private secretary to Chica
go for the purpose of ascertaining if suita
ble arrangements can be made for the as
sembling oi his Congress on the 4tb of Ju
ly next.
The Cincinnati Gazette says :
“There are few or no strangers now in
Washington, excepting the military from
a distance. Willard's has scarcely seven
ty five guest3, and the other hotels are
nearly empty.”
ESsF’ The notorious Cassius M. Clay is
the commander of a “Swiss” corps of Re
publican office-holders, office-hunters, and
federal hirelings in Washington city, who
are exasperated at the prospect of being
driven away from the prey which they im
agined themselves to he in undisturbed
possession of.
The ladies of the military Aid
Society of Pensacola, compleied on the
15th, 1500 sand bags for the use of the
troops in erecting fortifications, at the re
quest of Gen. Bragg. The number de
sired by him—9000—were soon comple
ted.
The States and Union, Washing
ton, announces that two negroes have been
appointed to office in the Post Office De
partment, at Washington. Why not? He
ind his party have made the negro a hob
)y on which to ride into power, and they
ire as much entitled to recognition at the
lands of Lincoln as any of the Black Re
lublicans.
The Carroll Tennessee Patriot,
leretofore a strong Union paper, has come
>ut in favor of Tennessee’s withdrawing
it once, and forever, from the old Union,
md has hauled down the names of Em.'
Etheridge, for Governor, and Alvin Haw^
tins for Congress.
The people of Washington were asking i
ecently, where Gov. Curtin’s hundred 1
housand men were. He promised 1
i hundred thousand to defend Washington.
f he had performed to the extent of five
housand it would have been better. No
loubt Pennsylvania is good for an im
nense army, but her Governor is a slow
earn-—[Cincinnati Commercial (Black
lepublican.)
A citizen of Rhode Island writes
rom Prussia that he has just visited a
. manufactory of arms, where there are
ieing manufactured 50,000 rifles and 50,
100 swords for the South. The order was
cceived through a leading Paris banker.
Destructive Fire 1
Ten Stores and Houses Burj,Ib I
On Wednesday evening last a destruc,^ 1
fire broke out in Memphis, burning 1
whole mass of stores from Centre aii'
on Court, to the alley leading out f ^ '
Front Row to opposite Odd-Fellow’s Hal)*
From the Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat
Secession Song—Dixie Land,
Away down South, in the Carolina
They have guns and the ready rhino •
Look away! look away! look
Dixie Land! 3 * aw*|! 1
They’ve the men to do the fightin’—
There’s no use in scratchin’ and bitin’
Hooray! hooray! hooray! Dixie Land i!
CHORUS.
Oh, I’m glad I am in Dixie! hooray, hni».
In Dixie land 1 take my stand, or*I>
To live and die in Dixie !
Away ! away! away down South in Dixiei
Away ! away! away down South in Dixie!
The sovereign State of Alabama
Will try her hand before they lam her •
Look away! look away l look’aw,..
Dixie Land! “•
So will our Mississippi brother,
And Georgia, too, our mortal mother
Hooray! hooray! hooray ! Dixie Lands
And Louisiana, then will come,
Amt Texas, too, will help us some;
Look away ! look away! look away* TSi^
Land ! 7' 0e
And Arkans/.w, with her tooth picker
Will help us out a little quicker;
Get away! get away! get away! Dixie 1
Land.
And next, old rfoATH Carolina State—
And, after that, what’s good and great;
Hooray I Hooray ! Hooray ! Dixie Land
When Lincoln get# ort a Southern brake*
We’ll give him a touch of the rattlesnake
Get away ! Get away ! Get away ! Dixie §
Land.
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Arkansas Ordinance of Secession.
AN ORDINANCE
To dissolve the union now existing between
the State of Arkansas and the other
States united with her under the compact
entitled, “ The Constitution of the United f
States of America.”
Whereas, In addition to the well founded
causes of complaint set forth by this conven
tion in resolutions adopted on the 10th March,
A. D. 1861, against the sectional party now
in power at Washington City, headed by Abra
ham Lincoln, he has in the face of resolutions
I passed by this convention, pledging tbe Stab
of Arkansas to resist to the last extremity
any attempt or. the part of such power toco
erce any State that had seceded from the old
Union, proclaimed to the world that war |
should be waged against sueh States, until i
they should be compelled to submit to their
rule, andjarge forces to accomplish this bare \
by this same power been called ant, and are!
now being marshalled to carry out this Inhu
man design, and to longer submit to such tpie
or remain in the old Union of the United
States would be disgraceful and ruinous to the $
State of Arkansas.
1 Therefore, we the people of the State of I
Arkansas in convention assembled, do hereby |
declare and ordain, and It is hereby declared I
and ordained that tbe “ordinance and accept
anceof compact,” passed arid arppoved by the f
General Assembly of the State of Arkansas,
on the 18th day of October, A. D. 1836, where
by it was by said General Assembly ordained
that, by virtue of the authority vested in said
General Assembly, by the provisions of the
ordinance adopted by the convention of dele
gates assembled at Little Rock, for the pur
pose of forming a constitotion and system of
government for said state, the propositions
set forth in “an act supplerrtary to an act enti
tled an act for the admission oi the state of -
Arkansas into the Union, and to-provide for ,
the doe execution of the la-ws ef the United
States within the same, and for other purposes
were freely accepted, ratified and irrevocably
confirmed articles of compact and union be
tween the State of Aikansas and the United I
States.” ami ft llri all ntllar 1 o til nrwl Arrlin'ini't I;
whereby the State of Arkansas became a mem- :
ber of the Federal- Union be and the same is 1
hereby in all respects and for every purpose
herewith consistent repealed, abrogated, am? j
fully set aside^ ami the union newswisietir# 1
between the State of Arkansas and the other
States unde’’the name of the United States of .
America is hereby forever dissolved.
And we do further hereby declare and or
dain, that the State of Arkansas hereby re
sumes to herself all rights and powers hereto
fore delegated to the government of the United
States of Vmerica—that her citizens are ab
solved from all allegiance to said government
of the United States, and that sue is in full
possession and exercise of all the rights and
sovereignty which appertain to a free and in- !
dependent State.
We do further ordaine and declare, that ah f
rights acquired and vested under the constitu
tion of the United States of America, or of
any act or acts of Congress, or treaty, or un
act or acts of Congress, or treaty, or under
any law of this State, and not incompatible
with this ordinance, shall remain in full force
and effect, in no wise altered or impaired, amf
have the same effect as if this ordinance bad
not been passed.
[Here follow the signatures of all the mem
bers, which we omit.]
Adopted and passed in open convention, on
:he sixth day of May, A. D., 1861.
Attest: Elias C. Boudinot,
Sec’y Arkansas State Convention
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OSy Among other freight on the Admiral;
ve noticed a large box, consigned to “Father
Abraham Lincoln, Washington City, care of
IV. H. Seward,” containing a man who hails
'rom the State of Maine. He is shipped hf
he citizens of Grand Glaize, with instruc
ions, “glass—handle with care.” He is the
•arae man that was severely whipped about
ifteen miles above this place. Served hi®
ight—he was in the wrong latitude.—[Au
gusta Standard, 10th inst.
S&HF* During the sessions of the circuit
;ourt of the eighth judicial circuit of Ah'
bama, Judge Shorter held the plea of1'8' I
lien enemy” was sufficient to sustain a ,n0‘ I
•ion for dismissal of all civil actions bro*
-n the names of citizens of non-seceded >
Mates. In consequence a great inau)’
-ases brought by plaintiffs residing in these
■state were summarily disposed of.—[^°* •
utnbus (Ga.) Sun.