DES AllC, ARKANSAS:
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SATURDAY.JUNE 22, 1861.
®s^f“ The Semi- Weekly Citizen will
hereafter be issued on Wednesday and
Saturday mornings. We make this change
in order to meet the recent change in the
Western mail.
JfS§F* Election for members of Congress
in thi late take place in October next.
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Judge Advocate.—Our townsman,
Col. J. E. Gatewood, has been appoint
ed Judge Advocate of the Court Martial
to be held at Hopefield on 20th inst., for
the trial of Col. Cleburne, Lt. Col. Pat
ton, Maj. Glenn, and others.
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Col. J. H. McMahon has with
drawn from tho Memphis Bulletin. The
Colonel is Assistant Quartermaster in the
army of Tennessee. The Bulletin will
continue to be published by Messrs. Bing
ham & Wills.
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Congressional.—Messrs. David M.
Currin, Win. T. Avery and P. T. Scruggs,
are candidates to represent the Memphis
District in the Congress of the Confeder
ate States, which assembles at Richmond
on the 20th of next month. The Gover
nor of Tennessee has not yet designated
the day upon which the election is to be
held.
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Arkansas State Convention.—By
degress, and through different channels,
we are beginning to learn something of
the Ordinances passed by our recent State
Convention:
All civil and military officers are re
quired to appear before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court and take the oath of allegi
ance to the Southern Confederacy. Those
who fail to do so before the 19th day of
July, will be reported, and their offices
held vacant.
The time for holding all general elec
tions in this State has been changed to the
first Monday in October.
The State has been divided into four
Congressional Districts. We have, thus
far, seen the counties of but one of the
districts mentioned, viz: Phillips, Mon
roe, St. Francis, Crittenden, Mississippi,
Craighead, Poinsett, Green, Izard, Law
rence, Randolph, Independence and White
An ordinance was also passed “ to pro
viae revenue tor tne otate, wnerein, among
other things, it is provided that two mil
lions of dollars in bonds, shall be issued,
in sums of five dollars and upwards. To
redeem these, the public lands of the Slate,
of which thero are at least seventeen mil
lions of acres, as well as the taxes of the
State, are pledged. This secures them
from any future repudiation or even con
trol by the legislature. These bonds will
be receivable in payment for lands (and
in part payment for taxes.) The coupons
will be wholly receivable for taxes, and a
sufficient amount of specie is and always
will be reserved to meet the interest and
redeem the coupons.”
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Tue Washington Artillery, of {
New Orleans.—This celebrated battal- t
ion, the crack artillery corps of the South, I
has arrived in Richmond. The battalion (
numbers four companies and 300 men, ‘
and is the pride of the Crescent City, its
members being both soldiers and gentle
men. It possesses eight splendid brass 1
field-pieces and a rifled cannon, and is *
otherwise well armed. To draw the guns,
&c., requires 120 horses. The Washing- ^
ion boys, in their march through the streets .
of Richmond to their quarters at Howard’s 1
Grove, were preceded by three beautiful V
vivandieres, dressed a la mode.
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Baltimore Election.—Henry Win
ter Davis, the unconditional candidate,
was defeated by Henry May, anti-coer- *
cion Democrat. The majority opposed to ;l
the unconditional Union party in the city
i» about three thousand. £
Effects ol the Elockr.de on the North
West.
The Jonesboro' (JuzeUe, published in
Southern Illinois, protests strongly against
the unjustifiable and insane policy o! the
Lincoln (iovernment. It thus describes
tlie « tied of the blockade Upon the inter
est of the Northwest. We have no doubt
tail the people of that section will feel it
more,acutely than those for whose injury
it has been instituted :
Rlqckade of tiie Mtssissirrf Riv
er.—The Mississippi river is now actually
blockaded at Cairo—not only munitions of
war, but provisions of all kind;, coal, tim
ber and manufactured articles, being pre
vented from going to any of the slave
States. Wheat, corn and other products
of the great West are thus deprived of n
market, which will be a death-blow to the
interests of that section. In addition,-no
less than sixteen hundred steamboats run
on the Mississippi river and its tributaries,
nearly all dependent, directly or indirectly,
upon the Southern trade; these, of course,
will be compelled to tie up. The value of
these boats is estimated at sixty millions
of dollars, and they give employment to
nearly two hundred thousand persons, who
will by this blockade be deprived of a
means of subsistence. We very much
fear that Mr. Lincoln, in his great desire
to “starve out” the Southern Slates, will
inflict a greater blow upon the people of
the North.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer, noticing
the circulation of a petition to Congress
to emancipate the slaves in Maryland,
Delaware, Missouri and Kentucky, at an
expense of three hundred dollars for each
slave, to be pan! by the federal uovern
ment, thus argues:
What would the petitioners do with the
the negroes after they were emancipated?
It is not to be presumed that the States
named would allow a free negro popula
tion of four thousand to remain within
their borders. They would have to come
North, where we have already as large a
population of that character as is desirable.
We don’t see, either, how buying the ne
groes of the border States would help to
put down the rebellion; it would only be
another one hundred millions of dollars
expense. On the whole, we are well sat
isfied that the general government should
make no purchase of negroes, and have
nothing to do with the question,
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It would seem from the following
item, which we .clip from the Richmond
Enquirer of the 7th, that the Pawnee got
out of the Aquia Creek fight in a bad
condition. She will fare worse if she ven
tures to attack those batteries again—
We learn from a passenger who arrived
in Richmond on the Fredericksburg train
yesterday afternoon, that the Pawnee was
so much damaged by the battle on Satur
day last,' that she was unable to steam up,
and had to employ a steam tug to take her
to Washington, to which place she was
carried yesterday.
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A Short War.—The New Orleans
Bee dwells on the great anxiety of the
North for a short war—referring to the
dolorous plaints of The Herald over its
expensiveness and losses, and adds, truly
enough, that the only way to make it a
short war is for the Yankees to go back
to their onion patches, repent of their sins,
leave the Confederate States to manage
their own affairs, and resign themselves
to the conseouences of an existence senav
parate and apart from us.
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8®'*’ Henry Winter Davis, the poma
tum-scented Maryland opostate, who a few
days since was beaten in Baltimore for
Congress, has been rewarded by Lincoln
for his fidelity to abolitionism with the ap
pointment originally destined for Burlin
game, who has been transferred to China.
The people of Maryland can well spare
this traitor from their midst.
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lOr* The New York Post’s special
Washington dispatch says there is great
excitement in that city, over the news of
the conflict at Great Bethel. It is the
general opinion among military men that
there was gross mismanagement and bad
leadership of the federal forces. The se
cessionists are looking up, emboldened
'by the repulse of our troops.”
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The Washington correspondent of
he N. Y. Tribune says: “We have good
■eason to believe that the publication by
Cassius M. Clav of a letter on the subject
)f our foreign relations, not only fails to
)e approved by the administration, but is
n insubordination to the law of 1S56 ;
vhich expressly forbids any such public
:ommunication from a diplomatic or con
sular officer.”
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8£a5a> It is said that Mr. Preston, the
J. S. Minister in Spain, has been using
II his influence at the Spanish Court, in
tehalf of secession and the interests at the I
Southern Confederacy.
The Hessians.
Tiie Richmond Whic obs rves that tin
Lincoln Government, to keep a perfee'
i parallel with the tyranny of George tin
Third's Ministers, has, wherever it could
enlisted the tefuges and adventurers Iron
Europe f>r the invasion of the South. TIk
great city of St. Louis is at the mercy o
seven thousand or eight thousand I lessians
whose past time consists in butchering
women and children. The Baltimore pin
pers speak of a regiment composed of al
the nationalities of Europe, enlisted it
New York, and passing through Baltiinort
on its way to Washington. It is called the
“Garibaldi Guard,” and is composed maiie
ly of Germans, Swiss and Hungarians.—
They are desperate adventurers, whonr
the capitalists of New York were ver}
glad to remove from a dangerous proxiire
ity to their strong boxes. Not a mat
among them speaks a word of English
and they are the ruffians whom old Scott
especially designs for the invasion of Vir
ginia.
Tne South thus speaks of their passage
through Baltimore:
It was a sorrowful and humiliating
spectacle, that of yesterday—the march o:
a foreign regiment through our streets with
foreign colors flying and the wild blasts ol
the bugle sounding the national airs of a
foreign country, to aid in the slaughtei
and subjugation of American citizens.—
As if resolved that the parallel between
the action of the present administration,
and that of the Britisli ministry who un
dertook the subjugation of our patriot fa
thers. should fail in no particular, it seems
that this revolution must have its Hessians
too. The Garibaldi Guards, who passed
through yesterday on their way to the cap
ital, comprise men of almost every nation
ality in Europe—the refugees and adven
turers of every country that has its repre
sentatives among the floating population
of New York city—speaking every lan
guage except the English—a perfect poly
glot of foreign tongues—French, Swiss,
i Spanish, Italian, Magyar, and German—
men who, for the most part, are not citi
zens and haye no intention of becoming
naturalized. The only colors which they
displayed on tiie march were a pair ol
guides, Swiss and French; those of the
regiment which were carefully covered
to protect them from the dust, were the
national flags of Italy and Hungary.
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ESSF' The New York Day Book gives
a list of twenty-six Northern Democratic
papers which oppose and denounce Mr.
Lincoln’s war policy, and declare that
Northern men should not enlist in the ar
my of subjugation. The Day Book thinks
that these journals and the public senti
ment which they represent, will be the
nucleus of a powerful peace party which
must ere long develop itself in the North.
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It is said that the South Carolina
regiment begged, ns a matter of personal
favor, to occupy the very outpost on the
line next the Lincoln forces at Alexandria.
Accordingly, they, together with other for
ces to the number of-thousand, arc
at Centreville, Fairfax county, 7 miles from
Manassas Junction.-[Fredericksburg
Herald.
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The London Times says that
whenever Lincoln’s blockading vessels
seize either English or French ships, even
though they carry arms and munitions of
war, the Lincoln Government will have
another fight on its hands.
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RSiF* Dies for the new coin of the Con
federate States have been received at
Dahlonega at the branch mint, and the
superintendent has received orders from
headquarters not to strike off any more
United Stales coin but to reserve the bul
lion.
The N. Y. Tribune boasts that
Northern soldiers “will fight like devils.”
The Charleston Courier replies that it has
no doubt of it, for “these fallen spirits,
according to the Bible, are all cowards;
for St. James says, Resist the devil, and
he will flee .from you.”
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ESr” Mr: A. W. Morrison, State treas
urer of Missouri, went to St. Louis the
other day to draw money from one of the
banks. The fact was communicated to
Gen. Lyon, who gave an order to pre
vent the payment of the draft, but not in
:ime to accomplish his object.
The Selma Issue states that Col.
L Dabney, of Dallas, Ala., in a few hours |
jot a subscription of twenty-five hundred
sales of cotton to the new confederate loan.
Generally the planters were willing to
iubscribe three-fourths of their crops to
his patriotic purpose.
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The army worm is said to be com
nittiug greut ravages m some portions of
(eptucky,
THE C-REAT REVOLUTION
E02E ABOUT BETHEL
.ldva«ce of tbe Aboil ionists —
i * oiiuaiei.cemeiit ol' the F'glit —
Highly Interesting IM'iicu
| i ill's
In addition to what we have already
given, we publish the following, dated the
3 1th. from the Yorktown correspondence
of the Richmond Dispatch. It will well
repay perusal:
At half-past nine o’clock we espied two
mounted men to our right, inspecting some
fifty cords of wood that lay upon the road,
and. we feared, with a design of erecting
a battery behind it. The Colonel dis
patched a member of the Life guard to
approach them, under cover of some brush
wood that skirled a branch, to examine
them more closely. After two inspections
with the glass, we feared the realization
of our first opinion. It appeared after
ward that they were our friends. In a
few moments the gleaming of hundreds
of bayonets were seen just 'n our front,
distant six or eight hundred yards above
the top of a fence, and presently the wild
cheering of the invaders was heard. In
five minutes thereafter, hang went the
howitzer battery fifty yards to our left, and
just in front of the main road, by which
the enemy were approaching. In an in
stant the fire was returned with great spir
it, and such a cannonading began ns I
never heard before. Shot and shell flew
thick and fast, shaking the very earth by
their reverberation. Thick and fast fell
the branches from the neighboring trees,
and as the shell burst in the air, our men
watched the curling smoke with pleasure
rather than fear. Our little detachment
of Howitzers alluded to, under command
of Captain Brown, of Richmond, fought
with great spirit.
We had a full view of their firing. A
ball from one of their rifled cannon almost
made me tremble for its effects even upon
the enemy, as it rushed right down the
road at a capital range, and must have
torn some of the enemy limb from limb.
Now, while our men concealed themselves
in the trenches, keeping down their bayo
nets well from the sight of the enemy, I
saw him deploy on our right, and present
ly sharpshooters leaped the fence just in
front of us, about two hundred and fifty
yards distant, and we discovered them to
be (would be) famous Zouaves, in their
red pants. Our men became very anxious
to fire upon them, f and Col. Stuart, who
was above the breastwork fearlessly ob
serving their approach, found ii difficult to
restrain them. They had been thrown
out doubtless to pick off our howitzers, and
were entirely ignorant of our position.
‘•Ready—aim—fire,” commanded the col
onel, and the front rank of the first pla
toon of the Life guard was in a blaze, and
one man certainly fell mortally wounded,
and the rest threw themselves flat upon
their faces and returned our fire. We
continued to fire about five minutes by
files, when the Zouaves got out of the
open field much faster than they got into
it. Concealing themselves behind the
fence and some neighboring houses, they I
continued a very well directed fire for per
haps an hour. The Minie balls whizzed
after a fashion I never heard before. It
was by a merciful Providence that not a
man of us was hurt.
None of the officers occupied the ditch
except partially, and one brave colonel ex
posed his whole person to the enemy’s
fire. The balls often threw up the fresh
earth upon the tops of our embankments,
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Our commander kept his eye on the right
of our position, fearing the approach of
artillery, which we were not in a condition
to resist. All this while, I forgot to state,
the howitzer battery in its greatest strength
under the command of Muj. Randolph,
situated to our left and in the centre of our
lines, and commanding a ridge which lay
just in front of the church, kept up a
splendid fire, and no doubt with great
effect. An unsuccessful attempt was made
to burn the houses in our front, a thing
that should have, been done on Sunday,
and the neglect of this obvious precaution
caused one brave man to lose his life. As
the enemy were now seen about 1,500
strong on our right, supported by artillery,
and covering their position by some brush
wood, intending to storm our position, and
Col. Stuart finding that the three compa
nies under his command, numbering 190
tnen, would not be able, without artillery,
to maintain their ground, sent a dispatch
to Col. Magruder to that effect. Before
tny return from headquarters, orders had
been received to evacuate our trenches,
and on my way hack to our position I met
our three companies retiring by a private
road, made the day before for the purpose,
in the very best order. After this move
ment we took our position, by command of
Col. Magruder, in a trench to the rear of
church, and commanding the marsh which
we had just passed.
. f was some confusion at the,church
owing to this movement, together with the '
breaking away of horses and the falling 1
Junh.s from the trees; but order was soon <
restored, and we waited anxiously the tip- .
pronch of the enemy.
Meanwhile, deeds of valor were being
performed on the extreme left of our posi
tion by the brave North Carolina hoys '
commanded by the hero, Col. Hill. Their 1
entrenchments were unfortunately near a •
ihfk wood, skirted by a marsh, the wood t
so near that ii furnished a (inn C0Vei .
the enemy. Heie he made i( ,u
works, the only really spirited attack "r
llie fight. But ihe rifle hoya u>re ^
strong for them. At one nine I |ei,rfJ ( '
almost succeeded, and there was «<nnt. Coi
fusion; Ian soon order was resiored ■< [
the victory won. A gallant Yankee (j.*
t tin jumped upon the fence in liom ol cj|"
Hill s line, and cheered on his men- i
instantly fell dead, pierced at the health*1
.the steady-handed marksmen of t|ie Jjj
North -Suite. All honor and glory iu ,|)H
dear old North State ! How 1 wished i(J
cheer these troops as they passed oar ,^u.,,
ters yesterday afternoon ! but my
voice could not express the deep feelir,rrs
of gratitude and admiration for the nohj,,
fellows, and 1 said in my heart, God ble*s
you, my brave boys !
Just after we abandoned our tranche*
company A, Capt. Atkinson, of our recm
meni, which had been stationed two |t|j|ea
off to guard a road, came up, and the ent*.
my having retired in part, on our ri<Tf„
Col. Stuart, with Capt. A.’s command, par[
of the Wythe rifles and a detachment of
company G, of North Carolina rifles, re
sumed nor former position on the flank nod
front. The howitzer battery, one piece of
which leaving by accident, before we |e|t
our position, been rendered useless, was
now reinforced by Capt. Bridges’company
of riflemen, and being annoyed by the fire
of ilie enemy's musketry from the white
house in front, four men were sent to burn
it, and in the attempt a noble North Caro
linian was shot in the head and died last
night. The effort failed and the bouse
was finally fired by a shell.
At 2 o’clock the enemy’s fire had near
ly ceased, and, after a fight of four hours
and a half, lie began to retire. He was
pursued bv the cavalry to the bridge Ih0,i.
nig 10 Hampton, which, in his fright, he
burnt after passing.
Still Another Account.
The New York Times of the 14th U
full of letters from its correspondents,and
from officers and soldiers in the Northern
army, of the battle at Great Bethel. The
strength, position, means of defence of the
Virginians are thus statedly one of the
letter writers:
After crossing a narrow but apparently
deep stream, the road deflects somewhat
to the left, along its side. Just beyond the
bridge the rebels have planted their bat
tery, consisting at least of one 12-pouml
rifled cannon and two field pieces. A line
of entrenchments then followed the right
side of the road, a ditch only being be
tween them. Their position was excel
lently well chosen.
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In the meantime Lieutenant Colonel
Washburn, with two hundred 'and fifty
men, had, by a wide circuit, reached the
rear of r?ie battery, and it is quite evident
that the Confederate troops, who, it is now
determined, did not number six hundred
men, were on the point oi leaving the
field.
So it seems, by their own confession,
that the Confederate troops numbered but
six bombed men, and hud but three can
non.
The attacking force numbered about five
thousand men.
Of the loss of the Northerners, one of
the letter writers says:
We occupied a wood by their right
Hank, and laid down to avoid the fearful
tire they kept up for two and. a half hours.
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-V u«o >< liumiMt’ MUUgDIfl j liny emtil| 5wl>
diers were sick at the sigli).
And another one, a volunteer, writing j
to his father in New York, complains ul
their guns, and adds:
It is perfect butchery to send us so arm
ed against rifles that carry four hundred
yards with perfect accuracy, We shall be
shot down like sheep, and the hope I bad
of getting home again is narrowed down
to a decimal since the experience of yes
terday. I saw six killed and wounded
badly, close by me.
I'rom all of which we gather, that about
five thousand men were embraced in the
attacking party; that they attacked about
six hundred rebels with three or at most
four guns posted in baileries; and that they
were repulsed with a loss of about five
hundred men killed, wounded uird aims
mg.
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The Gband Result in Tennessee.—
I he aggregate of the returns received id
the recent election fs as follows:
Sep. No Sep
East Tennessee_12,280 25.457
M id’le Tennessee. .. 56.652 6,291
West Tennessee... .25,164 4,500
94,097 36,248
36,248
Majority....... 57,849
The counties yet to be heard from «m|!,
ve think, increase the majority to 7O,00U
ft&Y” John C. Free mom, the J’atlifiud
■r, has been appointed by Abe Lincoln10
he post of Major General. He has eu
ountered'may hardships, hut the w°ri1
ire now before him.
The total destruction of Naa^1’’
^hina, is reported by the last for®1?",
unis ; as is also Chmgkiang, ike ftf’111
ie open ports in that dominion—both a,e
muss of ruins.