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%xt Citijeir
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
SATURDAY..... .AUGUST 10. 1861,
%ar We arc authorised to announce B. F.
Ford, as a candidate for the State Conven
tion, from Prairie county. Election on Satur
day, 10th of August,
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We are authorised to announce W. J.
Rogers, as a candidate for the State Con
vention, from Prairie county. Election on
Saturday, 10th of August.
fpy We are authorised to withdraw the
name of J. E. Gatewood from the list of can
didates for the Convention.
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Qar We are indebted to our fellow towns
man, G. A. Hanson, Esq., who has just return
ed from the Rector Guards, for a late number
of the New York Daily News.
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(jy Gen. Hardee has rented tne at. unarms
Hotel, Pocahontas, and converted it into a
military hospital. Dr. 1. E. Nagle has been
appointed Surgeon, and Dr. P. H. Eckols As
sistant.
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Pillow’s Proclamation. — General Pil
low’s proclamation to the people of Missouri
will be found in our news columns. We com
mend it to our readers as a document breath
ing the right spirit.
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Cotton Loan.—Hon. E. H. English will
address the citizens of Prairie County, at
Brownsville on the 19th of August, on the sub
ject of the “cotton loan to the Confederate
States.’*' Let Prairie county show her patri
otism by subscribing freely. The plan is. to
get the contributions and give the bonds of
the Confederacy with 8 per cent, payable in
20 years. Every provision is made for sus
taining those that are in det>t to contribute to
this cause. Lend a willing hand, all of you.
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(jy During the past Week we have been
visited by several refreshing showers. We
mow have no fears of the corn crop, and there
will be enough breadstuff's raised in the coun
ty this year to last, with proper management,
two years. If we only have a good cotton
crop, we will then see who will be “starved
out” during the present war. From the sullen
mutterings which are occasionally wafted to
-our ears from the North, we think that hun
ger has already commenced gnawing at the
stomachs of some in that section.
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Help for Missouri.—We are glad that the
oppressed loyalists of Missouri are to have
aid in riveting the chains of abolition bondage
in which they are held. Gen. Pillow, with
8,000 confederates, is to march up to New
Madrid and proceed up the Mississippi; Gen.
_l_ _UL en aaa f«_a. .1_i_A • a.
HIVVUIIVI.U TT1VU IVjVWV VV1I1UUUI avut^v to vu
march from Forsythe on through the South
west, and Gen. Hardee will soon have a force
of 10,000 to take the Ironton route. Beside
these troops, (28,000) there will be 40,000
'gallant Mjfsourians in the van, who will rally
under our glorious southern standard, to the
music of “Dixie,” with the proud “stars and
bars” floating over their ranks. The day of
deliverance is near at hand, thank God, and
we hope soon to join iiytte Jtallelujahs that
will be sent up whan Ike glad news is receiv
ed that the sons otf&gmt sister State have
been delivered frrom the thraldom of Black
Republican rule, and that Missouri is free!—
Allah speed the good day I
Three Months VoLU<irTO«#i» The North
ern press is teeming with criminations which
it heaps uptui the three months volunteers
who have retuffted and refuse to be parties in
the intended subjugation of uur fair land.
Every device and species of abuse is cast upon
them and not unfrequently the broad-mouthed
cannon is turned upon their ranks, yet with no
effect—they have thrown down their arms ,
and are determined to go home.
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ffy We are afraid that “Old Abe” does ■
not read his Bible. He says in his message :
“So large an army as the Government has ,
sow on foot was never before known.
But If he will read the Books of Exodus (
and numbers, he will learn that the Israelites (
had an artny of 603,550, and all volunteers at f
that. ,
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gy'Strong resolutios in favor of peace ‘
have been introduced into the Connecticut I 1
legislature. T|ey are not without meaning.
The North is beginning to find out that some- j
body is abyut te be “hurt.”) j.
i^T At West Point, Miss,, at a small meet- tl
ing, $35,000 in cotton were contributed to a
the Confederate States. One man through u
hard labor, raised four bales, of which be gave A
three for the cause. P
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(jGST The Paris correspondent of the New
Toyk IJjpws says, Chat the French Govern- W
ment will loan the Confederate States one bun- G
dred millions of dollars. pc
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Agricultural Prosperity.
The eventful summer of 1861 is alrea
dy on the wane. A few more days will
usher in the mellow hazy days of South
ern Autumn—by many considered the
most genial period of the year. Then, we
trust, that the hopes and cares incidental
to the farmer’s peaceful pursuits will find
full fruition in teeming barns, and full gin
houses. With plenty thus secured, we
have nothing to fear, but will continue to
labor for the freedom and independence of
the South, trussing in a just God who has
thus far given every evidence that he is
hatching over us, and sustaining us, and
resolving never to sheath the sword until
our independence is fully established.
The farmer may not expect to find such
remuneration for his labor this season as
fn the Fall of 1860. Then the general
prosperity of the country rendered higher
prices than will this year be obtained, a
matter of course. Then there was no war,
and no blockade, and a market for Agri
cultural products, both at home and abroad;
besides, we were ourselves the customers
of the great North and West, of the Old
Confederacy, who have by aiding in the
election of Lincoln, cut themselves off
from all intercourse with us. Nor can they
again expect us, either in peace or war,
to become, to any great extent, customers
for their manufactured articles, or for such
articles of Northern produce, as hay, but
ter, fish, cheese, beef, pork, lumber, &c.,
It is only reasonable to suppose that be
inor rendered self-reliant, and moreindus
trious by the stern necessity which has
overtaken us, and possessing every facili
ty in the matter of climate, soil, and abun
dant labor, we will henceforth, depend
upon ourselves for many of the necessa
ries, as well as luxuries of life, which we
have been accustomed to depend for en
tirely upon the industry and production of
our enemies.
Let our people, and our farmers espe
cially, in view of the evil period which
may not be averted, practice economy, be
be patient, save everything that is worth
saving, and which will benefit man or
beast, for the war may be a long one, and
above all be not mislead by the blind guides
of the press, that the locust may not be
come a burdensome visitor, remember the
old adage, “after war comes famine.”
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(BTWe copy the following items from the
New York Journal of Commerce of the 29th
ult:
The Proposed Peace Meetings.—A co
respondent, writing on this subject, says : “1
desire simply to say that the proposal to hold
a peace meeting in New York is worth taking
into consideration. The people are ahead of
you, could they speak—they are always wiser
than the papers. It is not too late to send the
olive branch of peace founded uponjustice.
Blessed, thrice blessed are the peace makers.”
The hotel business in New York is exceed
ingly dull. Compared with last year at this
time, almost nothing is doing. The property
owners in some instances have been offered the
choice of closing up the premises or accept
ing a nominal rent—landlords and tenants
dividing the losses.
The French gun boat Jerome Napoleon,
Commander Buisson, arrived here on Satur
Hav from Tnnlnn via Hnlifay rrhn ic nrn.
peller, 250 horse power, carries two 12 poun
ders, and has a crew of 118, officers included.
The Boston Commercial Bulleten has receiv
ed positive information, through a gentleman
recently arrived from New Orleans, that our
Pacific coaet is in much greater danger from
privateers, than our Atlantic coast, and there
is located there a colony of Southern men who
are prepering to fit out privateers to attack
our commerce in those waters.
The Sixty-ninth regiment N. Y. S. M., ar
rived in this city at pier No. 1, about
o,clock on Saturday morning, and were greeted
with cheers by acres of our Hibernian popu
lation, men, women and children, who had
gathered on the battery and the adjacent streets
at an early hour and m any of whom had been up
all night awaiting the return of the brave sol
diers. Their appearance as they filed off the
boat and formed line in the street was a sad
one and presented the shady side of war.
Many carried their hands in slings, or lim
ped, or had their heads bound up; and nearly
all exhibited rags, and borrowed, ill-fitting
bats and coats in place of the tidy uniform
which they took with them, The whole regi
ment looked overworked and fatigued, though
iot discouraged or dispirited. All their hau
lers were dim with the smoke of battle, and
leveral of them were torn by the shot of the
memy.
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The Pious and Exemplary Zouave.—
rhe Wilmington Journal says:
One of Ellsworth’s Zouaves had beed asur
id that he should dine this wedk in Richmond
Before he had a chance to pull triger a ball
umMed him over, and he was taken to Rich
aond sure enough.. “Well,” said he, “here
am in Richmond!” But, added this pious
nd exemplary man, in his poetical style,
how the h—I am I to dine with a ball in my
elly ?”
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The Unwashed.—Poor old Prentice in try
ig to revive the spirits of his brother aboli
onists after the great route at Manassas, says I
lat the United States can furnish a greater 1
my than that of Xerxes. Yes, and a more \
ifortunate one. Manassas has proved their \
[arathon. The next great battle will be their f
latea. 0
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It is said that the French Minister in
’ashington has received despatches from his p
ivernment declaring that it will pay no res- w
ct to Lincoln’s blockade. h
From the Memphis Argus 6th.
Steal? boat. Disaster—Kanawha Vallej
Burned—Loss $10,000—No Live*
Lost.
The Memphis and White river inaii'packel
Kanawha Valley, Capt. D. B. Price, destinei
for Memphis, was discovered on fire about;
o’clock Monday morning the 5thinst.,at Shif
Island, on the Arkansas shore. The (lames
made rapid progress, and the boat was imme
diately run ashore, and the passengers taker
off. The Kanawha Valley was about live
years old, and has been in the White river
trade for two years past. She was owned by
Capt. Charley Coles, and valued at $8000. Slit
was insured at Cincinnati for $6000. Below
we append a statement made by passengers :
On Board Steamer H. D. Mf.ars, )
August 6, 1861. j
We, the undersigned passengers on board
the steamer Kanawha Valley, hereby certify
that, about 3 o’clock the morning of the
5th of August, 1861, & fire broke out in the
hull of the above named steamer, which
threatened to consume the boat in a few min
utes. The pilot immediately ran the boat in
shallow water, near a sand bank, some hun
dred and fifty yards from the shore.
This happened at an early hour, but few
passengers were up, but owing to the vigilance
of the officers on duty the alarm was properly
given, and upon examination it was found that
a passage in front was impossible, so the offi
cers and passengers determined to save the
ladies and children, threw them from the ca
bin overboard.
Then came scenes of horror and distress
perfectly indescribable, when fathers, hus
bands and friends were to force women and
children to seek their destiny an the waters of
the great Mississippi river. Never, never can
we forget the words of kindness and encour
agement of the brave and gallant officers and
crew, who stood in the river ready and willing
to rescue each one as they were consigned to
the water; and after the great battle was
fought, they did all in their power to make us
comfortable, by erecting shelters to protect us
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bar, arid at the same time administering to the
wants of all the rescued, until relief caiae
from the steamer Mears.
The loss sustained jby the passengers was
very small. We think one thousand dollars
will cover all. Some eight hundred dollars of
that amount was in money. While we give all
crdit to the gallant Captain Price and his offi
cers, we hereby tender our kindest regards and
heartfelt thanks for their kindness in this our
great distress. Having passed through our
troubles to come ouc victorious, we cannot for
get ithe noble and generous conduct of the well
known Captain Berry and his gallant crew,
who did all they could to cheer and revive the
spirits of the unfortunate passengers.
P. S—Our porter, a yellow boy, named
Charles Spratling, immortalized himself. May
his shadow never grow less. The greatest loss
was that of Dr. McClure, $490; also of Miss
Ada Moulton, $57, and a small loss by Air.
Oates. J. T. O.
W. E. Love, Airs. Love. L. F. A. Hollem,
Mrs. Henderson and child, J. M. C. Henderson,
J. L. Alorris, Airs. Knight and child, W. R.
Robins,Miss M. E. Wallace, J. P. H. Wal
lace, Mrs. Davidson and th:ee children, J. F.
Davidson, Alartin Slaughter, Mrs. 8. C. Rus
sell and child, J. T. Allen, Sam Radgusky, Mrs
A. D. Lowder and two children, W. H. Thom
as, M. D., Dr. M. McClure, Mrs. M. C. Hern,
John T. Oates, Mrs. M. A. Lane, H. H. Oates,
Mrs. M. E. Clifton, W. H. Bonner, Aliss Ada
Moulton, H. J. Trotter, Mrs, Amelia Gates,
H. H. Ferguson, Mrs. L. R. Kennett, T. H.
Garret, Airs. M. A. Bestwick, W. H. Rork, C.
H. Bestwkk, John Barbee, Miss M. A. Best
wick.
OUR GAINS AT MANASSAS.
Gov. Moore received yesterday a letter from
a prominent gentlemen in Virginia, who gives
a detailed account of the material resuPs of
the victory of the 21st. The writer expressly
guards his statements against exaggeration,
and yet his estimates of our gains, made aftei
cue deliberation, exceed in many particulars
those which were made immediately after the
victory. Upon a rough calculation, the pecu
niary value of our acuuisitions by the late bat
tle is considerably more than three millions
of dollars. The details we refer to will be
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& vr u t*v« »•« V14V I.V>1V ” LAVI ai/li i
Richmond, July 27. It is rumored here to
day that the number of small arms captured
at Manassas, including five thousand found in
boxes in the captured wagons, is between
twenty and thirty thousend. I fear, however,
that this is an exageration. Every day adds to
the conviction of the completeness of our vic
tory, and to the importance of its results.
We have captured—
1. Over 60 magnificent rifled cannon.
2. About 1,000 wagons, of which at least
500 were loaded.
3. About 1,500 horses.
4. Supplies for a full campaign for 50,000
men
o. Over 20,000 stand of arms.
6. Enormous quantities of knapsacks, hav
ersacks, pistols, blankets, belts, bayonets, ac
coutrements and clothing of all sorts.
In addition to all this, they have lost in
killed, wounded, missing and deserters not less
than from fifteen to twenty thousand men.
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Thr Retreat to Alexandria.—The
scenes I witnessed in Alexandria, the day after
the battle, will never pass from my mind. Foot
sore blood stained, weary and exhausted!, from
exposure and want of food, returned the frag
ments of Regiments. In many instances without
coats, and even shoes; they came back cursing
the day, and also the men who had led them
into such a trap. It was then that the chiv
alric spirit of the South shone forth in the
deeds of her children. As an invading foe,
shouting the war-cry of “On to Richmond,”
they had shrunk from them in disgust. At
their hands the wives and sisters of the South
ern soldiers had received the most gratuitous
insults; but when they returned, fallen, and
crushed going to and fro a bewildered herd,
seeking vainly for their officers and comrades’
:hese Southerners whom they had injured, pro
vided food for them, tenderly cared for their
wounded, and in deep pity for their wretched
itate, seemed to forget that they had been their
snemies. I should never have surmised such a
victory had been gained, or that the men thus
enderly cared for were the same who had in
■aded their soil,or taken up arms against them,
t is a noted fact thet the only house closed
gainst them were the homes of prominent
Jnion men, and the only bauds not stretched
orth to aid them were those which in their
nward march had wavd the “stars and
tripes.”
Dr. Rawlings^ *ho celebrated corres
Dinleiit of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated paper,
as killed at the battle of Manassas. One
auibug less.
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Address of Generals Beaor^ard and
Johnston to the Soldiers.
Tbr New Oi leans Picayune has received the
ollowing despalch from Virginia:
Cuipepper, August 3.—I have great pleas
ure jn transmitting, for the readers of the Pic
ayune, the following address of Generals John
ston and Beauregard, after the battle of Ma
nassas, to the soldiers:
Head quarter0 of the army of potomac. )
Manassas Junction, July 23,1761. $
Soldiers of the Confederate States:
One week ago, a countless host of men, or
ganized into an army, with all the appoint
ments wbicb modern art and practical skill
could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia
Their people sounded their approach with
triumphant displays of anticipated victory.—
Their ministers, senators and women came to
witness the immolation of this army and the
subjugation of our people, and to celebrate
these with wild revelry.
It is with the profoundest emotions of grat
itude to an overwhelming God, whose hand is
manifest, in protecting our homes and your
liberties that we, your generals commanding,
are enabled, in the name of our whole coun
try, to thank you for that patriotic courage,
that heroic gallantry, that devoted daring, ex
hibited by you in the actions of the 18th and
21st of this month, by which the host of the
enemy was scattered, and a signal and glori
ous victory was achieved.
The two affairs of the 18th and 21st were
but the sustained and continued efforts of your
patriotism against the constantly recurring
colors of £n enemy fully treble our numbers,
and this effort was crowned, on the evening
of the 21st, with a victory so complete that
the invaders were driven from the field and
made to fly in disorderly rout back to their
entrenchments, a distance of over thirty miles.
They left upon the field nearly every piece of
their artillery, a large portion of their arms,
equipments, baggage, stores, etc. etc., and al
most every one of their wounded and dead,
amounting, together with the prisoners, to
many thousands, and thus the northern hosts
were driven by you-from Virginia.
KnlHioret wp rnnfrrafnlaf-p vnn nn An AVPnf
which insures the liberty of our country.
We congratulate every man of you whose glo
rious privilege it was to participate in this
triumph of courage arid truth, to fight in the
battle of Manassas. You have created an
epoch in the history of liberty, and unborn
nations will rise up and call you blessed.
Continue this noble devotion, looking always
to the protection of the just God, and before
time grows much older, we will be hailed as
the deliverers of a nation of ten millions of
people!
Comrades! Our brothers who have faiLr.
have earned undying renown, and their blood,
shed in our holy cause, is precious and accep
table sacrifices to the father of truth and rigii;
their graves are beside thejtomb of Wahington,
on their spirits have joined his in eternal
communion. We shall hold the soil in which
the dust of Washington i3 mingled with the
dust of our brothers. We drop one tear on
their laurels, and move forward to avenge them.
Soldiers! We congratulate you on a glori
ous triumph and complete victory. We thank
you for doing your whole duty in the service of
your country. Joseph E Johnston.
G. T. Beauregard.
How a Brave Man Died.— The Hon. T
R. Cobb delivered in the Confederate congress,
on the 24th inst., a beautiful and eloquent eu
|Ogy on Gen. Francis S Bartow, of Georgia,
who was killed in the battle of the 21st., from
which we take the following extract:
Of the manner of his death. Mr. President,
I can only speak from rumor, but 1 have taken
pains to inquire from those who were nearest
to him on that memorable occasion,and there
fore I may speak with accuracy. During the
day his own command had suffered much.
Towards noon it be <pnne necessary, as 1 un
derstand for the left wing of our army, to keep
from being flanked by the enemy, to fall back
further and further towards its origiiial posi
tion, occupied in the morning. About this
time, the exact hour 1 cannot tell, my friend
approached Beauregard, the General com
manding, and said:
“What shall now be done? Tell me. and if
I human effort can avail, 1 will do it j” The
rjply was “that battery should be silenced.”
seizing the standard of his own regiment,
and calling the remnants of his command to
rally and follow him, he led the van in the
charge of battle. A ball wounded him sligb
tlv and killed his horse under him. Still
grasping the standard and rising again, he
mounted another horse, and waving his cap
around his head, he cheered his boys to come
on. They followed. The next wound was
from a ball that entered his heart. He spoke
afterwards to the few of his brave boys who
gathered around him. His words will ever be
memorable. He said, “they Have killed me,
but hever give up the fields.” That last com
mand was gallantly obeyed and his boys silen
ced the batteiy of which he died in the charge
Davis and Lincoln—A correspondent of
the N. 0. Crescent, gives that paper the
following etymological analysis:
“Davis in the Gallic orthography for David
which signifies well-beloved; and bis repu
tation m»intains its original signification as a
great leader of an oppressed people, who are
freeing themselves of the tyrant’s yoke.
Lincoln, authentically traced to its origin,
is found to be a compound word in the Celtic
tongue, lin and coln. “Lin” means a pool,
mire, mud. “Coin” is a contraction of colon,
which in this connection signifies an inhabi
tant of a colony. Therefore, Lincoln origi
nally signifies the inhabitant of a mud colony,
which modernized, inay be the same as a
mud sucker. This probably accounts for his
not being very clear.
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Mr. Crittfnden.—The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Evening Post says
that no one seemed to feel the depression of
the defeat more intensely than Mr. Critten
den, of Kentucky. When he rose on Monday
morning, he asked,“Well, what further news?”
He had gone to bed under the delusion that
the Federal army had triumphed. “We are
routed—utterly routed,” was the response to
his question. The old roan started back in
astonishment, and when the facts were brought
before him he went back sat down, and putting
his head down upon his hands, burst into tears.
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The Northern Rebellion.—Under this
caption the Harrisburg (Pa.,) Union, hitherto
a strong war journal, thus touches upon a new
danger which is beginning to threaten the
North :
•‘Are our readers aware that a rebellion
against the authority of the Government is
organizing at the North—that treason is rear
ing its ugly head in the midst of the very par
ty that.piofesses the most determination in
putting down the rebellion at the South ? It
is even so. Daily attempts are now being
made to array the army against the Govern
ment, and to set up the military above civil
luthorities.”
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PROCLAMATION OF GEN. PILLOW
On the 30th ult., Gen. Pillow issued the fol
lowing proclamation to the people of ftjg'
souri:
TO THU PEOPLE OF MISSOURI.
New Madbid, Mo.,Ju|y30
The forces under my command are v
neighbors, and we come at the instance5!
request of the Governor of your State ,
lies to protect you against tyranny an,j * *
pression. As Tennesseans, we have dee°f*
sympathized with jou. When you were ca/lM
to arms, and manifested a determination to
sist the usurper who has trampled under h*
feet the constitution of the government a„I
destroyed all the guards so carefully prenJ.,
for the protection of the liberties of theneo
pie by our fathers, and when you call for heu
Tennessee sends her a my composed of he
cherished sons to your aid. er
We will help you expel from your borders
the population hostile to your rights and insti
tutions—treating all such as enemies if f0Unj
under arms. We will protect your peonle
from wrongs of our army, and while we have
every reason to believe that no violence will
be done to your true hearted and loyal people
the general commanding begs to be informed*
if any case of wrong should occur.
To the gallant army under his command
who hold in their keeping the honor of Ten
nessee (though composed of Tennesseans, Mis
aissippians and Kentuckians,) he appeals as a
father of his children—to violate the right of
no peaceable citizens, but to guard the honor
of Tennessee as you would that of an affec
tionate mother, cheering you as her sons.
The field for active service is before you^
our stay here will be short—our mission is to
place our down-trodden sister on her feet, and
to enable her to breath after the heavy tread
of the tyrant’s foot.
Then by her own brave sons, she will main
tain her rights and protect her own fair wo
men from the foe whose forces march under
banners inscribed with “booty and beautyw
as the reward for victory.
In the victory the brave are always merciful
but no quarter will be shown to troops march
ing under such a banner.
In An/I In* iKaaa ___
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call upon the people of Missouri to come io
our standard, join in our forces and aid in their
own liberation. If you would be freemen you
must fight for you rights.
Bring such arms as you have—we will fur
nish you with ammunition aud lead you on to
I victory. That the just ruler of nations it
with us, is manifested in the glorious victory
with which our arms were crowned at the
bloody field of Manassas.
GIDEON J. PILLOW, Gen. Com.
More Vandalism.—We met ih a young
gentleman yesterday from Pi ience William
county, says the Fredericksburg Recorder,
who said that bis uncle was the overseer of
John Washington at Mount Vernon, and that
the Hessians came thereon Wednesday ami
took and carried away all the servants, the
stores and the rolling stock of the faun.
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A Nf.w Rumor.— A correspondent of the
New York Times writes form Washington
that he has learned ‘‘from sources entitledto
unquestionable credit that the British Go*
erninent, acting in concert with that of France,
is about to request of the United Staten
Government the exemption of one Southern
cotton port from the blockade, so that they
may get needful supplies of the staple.”
{3?* Lloyd Moore, a member of the Meth
odist Virginia Conference, and present min
ister on the Nelson Ciicuit, has made a ten
der of his horse to the ‘-Nelson Rangers.”and
expresssd his cheerful willingness to walk the
circuit and continue to labor in his ministry
as heretofore.
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The factory at Nashville, Tennessee,
under the superintendence of Col. Samuel
Morgan, is turning out daily 120,000 musket
caps.
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In one of the Massachusetts regiments
which participated in the battle of Manassw,
was one containing 330 boot and shoe makers.
That probably accounts for their pegging out
so fast for Washington.
jjjyOne of the New York Post’s corres
pondents, writing on the 11th inst.,say:
The moment Beauregard can plant a battery
on Arlington Heights, Washington is (loomed,
for he can utterly destroy it from that point.
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fl^-If you want to frighten a Yankee, just
say masked battery! He will start as it struck
with a 64-pounder. He regards it with utter
abhorence, as a contrivance of Southern
barbarism.
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(J5?" Washington letters state that Abe Lin
coln has the itch, caught from Gen. Lanes
Kansas ruffians, while they were quartered m
the east room of the presidential mansion.
Camp Meeting.—There will be a Camp
Meeting at New Prospect, near the residence
of Benj. Blakeney, Prairie County, Ark.,
commencing on Thursday before tbs second
Sabbath in September next. A number ot
persons have agreed to tent, and all others who
can are invited to tent. Provisions will be
made for those who come frem a distance.^
Every body is invited toattend. — — I
August 5th, 1861. J. B. AWWH^
Take notice
HM. GROSVENOR, M. H. Adams, am
• all others concerned that on M°n<11
the 19th day of August, 1861, at the office
H. P. Vaughan, J. P., in the town of Des A«.
in the county of Prairie, in the State of Ar*
sas_, between the hours of 9 o’clock a- **., ®n
6 o’clock p. m., of said day, I will procee
take depositions of witnesses to be read m
idence before the State Land Agent
sonport on the 24th day of August,.1861,
pecting conflicting pre-emption claims to
E 4 of S W 4, and the N { of S E J of "
T4NR5 W, at which time and place J
can appear if you think proper. Y
Des Arc, August 9 3t. JAMES M- CO-&.
F. M. ROBINSON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
SEALER IN f
Groceries and Produce•
—also —
Receiving, Fonvarding & CoJ*
mission Merchant,
DES ARC..
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