iemi-llMltjCitijen.
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS :
TUESDAY.JUNE 11, 1861.
Bd^T" Capt. C. C. Danley resigned
his position as one of the members of the
Military Board of the Slate, on the 5ih
i nst.
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We learn that the Military Board
has ordered a Court martial to convene at
Mound City, (Camp Rector) Arkansas,
to try the late Gen. Bradley. Report says
that Bradley has preferred charges against
Col. Cleburne, Lieut. Col. Patton, and
Major Glenn. Misery it is said, loves
company. We'll bet a jug of buttermilk
that the charges preferred against the three
last named gentlemen are never sustained,
aud that Bradley is convicted.
The First Arkansas Regiment Removed
to Fulton.
We find the following in the Memphis
Avalanche of Saturday:
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rv learn unu uruers were received in
the city Inst night from the Askansas Mil
itary Board at Little Rock, instructing the
forces of that State, now stationed at Ran
dolph, to move to Fulton, fifteen miles
north of Fort Wright, and north of Hatch
ie river. That stream will be bridged,
and should a force descend the river, the
boys will give them a taste of their
quality, and if outnumbered, they can fall
back upon the main force. It is the post
of honor, and the Arkansas Volunteers
will reflect credit upon themselves in that
position.
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Making Preparations.
Our Memphis friends seem to have
"waked up,” and are preparing their city
for the reception of that SO,000 men which
"Old Abe” and Gen. Scott threaten to
send down the Mississippi Valiev. The
appeal of Saturday last says:
Fortifications.—Breastworks have
been built along the whole front of the
blufl; some of the streets have been al
ready barricaded ; the fort at the mouth of
Wolf river is rapidly progressing; a sec
ond fort will be raised below Titus’ cotton
shed. A redoubt opposite the Bradley
Block is far advanced towards completion.
Experiments with the Minnie Ball.
Experiments, says the Nashville Ban
ner, conducted for several days by direc
tion of the military and financial board,
demonstrate that the Minnie ball in the
Tennessee rifle, with the same charge of
powder used with the round ball, has a
range and force of three-fold that of the
round ball.
A rifle carrying 100 balls to the pound,
used with the ordinary sight, is, at 300
yards, a most deadly weapon, projecting
the ball with greater accuracy and force
than the rifle musket. The rifle of larger
calibre has greater range and force.
The ball should be of less diameter than
the round ball, so as to admit of greater
rapidity in loading. The cartridges should
be dipped ; or if a cartridge is not used,
the ball should be dipped in a compound
of beeswax and tallow, and a patch should
not be used. A rifle thus used may be
fired ono hundred times without cleaning.
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W hat We Have Escaped.—Lincoln’s
war debt, says the Valley Star, will be
hundreds of millions of dollars. Indeed,
some say that it will cost him one million
a day to carry on the war. If Virginia
. had remained in the old Union, she would
have been bound for her proportion of. this
expenditure, and that to fight her Southern
sisters for the benefit of a hellish crew of
abolition fanatics. The Morrill tariff cuts
off all revenue from customs, and the
money would have to be raised by direct
taxation. Think of that, people of Vir
ginia. How would yt>u like the fun of
shouldering from thirty to fifty millions of
Lincoln’s war expenses, and paying the
greater part of it right out of your own
pockets? If the mad policy of Seward
and Lincoln forces upon us the necessity
of fighting and paying, will we not elect
to fight agaimt them and for the South ?
Probably. -
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C&§“The New Tariff for the Confed
ernte Stales goes into effect on the .‘list ol
August next. Until that time the United
States tariff of 1857 remains in force.
The new tariff is one of the most import
ant laws enacted at the recent session ol
Congress. The highest rate of duty or
any important article is twenty-five per
centum. A large number of articles
which, even under the United States tariff
act of 1857—at present in force in the
Confederate States—ore compelled to pay
a duty of thirty per centum and upward,
are under the provisions of this law re
duced to twenty, and fifteen per centum
and even lower. The free list is alsc
largely increased. Under present circum
stances it is, probably, the best law thal
could have been adopted.
The Cherokee, Choctaw and Chicasa-w
Indians.
George W. Kendall, of the New Or
leans Picayune, in an interesting lettei
from his Texas home, under dale of the
8th of May, says :
“ I have been told that the Cherokees,
Choctaws, Chickasaws and other tribes,
living upon our borders, and many of them
owning slaves, have not only manifested
their sympathy with the Southern cause,
but have offered to furnish some thousands
of warriors for service. Here is the right
force in the right place, if the report be
true, and President Davis is a man of
such quick perception that he has doubt
less accepted ibe offer. The Shawnees
and Delawares—and better light troops
the world never saw—could also be en
listed, and the entire Indian force could
be so stationed as to guard our North and
Northwestern frontier Irorri Camanche and
Kioway inroads, or to watch Montgome
ry's marauders, or any other gang which
the blood-thirsty and accursed spirit of ab
olitionism may send down upon us from
starving Kansas. I have already heard a
rumor that Montgomery, with his rascally
followers, was on his way down, breath
ing threats in particular ngamfl the citi
zens of Dallas county. If this be true,
the inhabitants up that way will have their
hands full; they have long lacked full pro
tection against the cruel Camanches. and
have now u more ruthless and savage
enemy to deal with.
A Cos^uejied People.—The St. Louis
Republican, a strong Union paper, in the
following paragraph shows how the people
of that city writhe under the odious tyran
ny that now oppresses them :
We are bound band and foot—chained
down by a merciless military tyranny—
subjugated, for no crime. Missouri, one
of the free and independent States of this
Union, loving the Union, is the prisoner
at war of a ruthless despotism, ready to
trample her under its feet. We protest
against this overwhelming dictation of the
sword, the bayonet and the bullet being
thrust in our teeth in the sacred name of
the Union. The Union has not harmed
us, and will not. We have done naught
against the Union, and will not. But the
advisers of the Washington Administra
tion, in this State, who have wound these
gyves about our limbs and then dared us
to do that which we never contemplated
doing have a fearful account to settle with
this fettered people and their own gnaw
ing consciences. We are disarmed and
helpless—jailed in our own homes—stig
matized before the world as traitors—
taunted with our utter weakness. As
American citizens we must submit to tins
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uijuuiuirti auu imug'iny u|J|MBasiuu.
But as American citizens, thank God, we
may yet think.
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[F ioin the New Orleans Bee.
What oar Privateers Have Done.
We have had many inquiries from our
readers for information concerning the
privateers that have been fitted out, or are
now fitting out, at this port, and the prizes
that have been taken; and although we do
not think it proper to publish all the par
ticulars that are in our possession, we see
no objection to giving a list of the prize
vessels. They are seven in number, three
captured by the armed steamship Calhoun,
and two each by the steamers Music and
V. il. Ivy, and represent a total value of
about S170,U00, a pretty good beginning
for three privateers. The prosecution for
their condemnation and sale is already
pending before the Confederate States
District Court of this city, and will un
doubtedly come to an issue favorable to
the captors in due time. Il will be seen
in our advertising columns this morning
that the Confederate States Marshal, Mr.
C. B. Beverly, has advertised his monition
in the cases of the Milan, Ocean Eagle,
Ella, John H. Jarvis and Marshall, noti
fying all interested in them or their car
goes to appear before the Confederate
States District Court on the third Monday
following this publication, to show cause,
if any they have, why these vessels should
not be condemned as lawful prizes, and
the proceeds of sale distributed agreeably
to the prayer of the libelants. There has
been some conjecture as to where prizes
' could be lawfully taken, and as to the le
gal boundary of the “high seas.” We
! can state positively that the high seas ex
! tend to low water tide mark, so that all ol
these vessels have been properly and le
gally captured.
The following is a correct list of the
prizes that have been brought into our
port up to tiiis lime: Prizes of the steam
ship Calhoun—the ship Milan, from Li
verpool, with 1500 sacks of salt, vessel
worth about $20,000; bark Ocean Eagle,
from Rockland, Maine, with a cargo of
lime, worth about $20,000: schooner Ella,
from Tampico lor Pensacola, with a cargo
of bananas, oranges, etc., vessel and car
go worth about $5000
Prizes of the armed steamer V. H.
Ivy—ship Marathon, from Marseilles, m
ballast, worth $35,000; ship Abatino,
Irom Boston, with a cargo of ice, vessel
worth about $20,000.
Prizes of the armed steamer Music—
The Marshall, a splendid new ship from
Havre, in ballast, worth at least $50,000;
ship John H. Jarvis, from Liverpool,, in
ballast, worth about $20,000.
A number of our prominent citizens
own slock in these lucky privateers, and
they have never known before such a pro
fitable business. Their investments have
been more than doubled in a week, and
will probably go on in like ratio. This
great success, too, will give vast encour
agement to many capitalists who have not
yet embarked m privateering to do so. As
the distant squadrons of the United States
navy have been generally recalled, and
the Nortli has no war vessels to spare for
the protection of its ships, every sea of)
the globe is a fruitful field for captures, a'nd
at the end of the war the South will have
a splendid commercial marine of prizes
within her own ports.
Transportation and CiothiDg of SoL
diers.
An ad concerning the Transportation of
Soldiers and allowance for Clot king of
Volunteers, and anundutory of the ad
for the establishment and organization
of the Army of the Confederate Slates.
Section 1. T/re Compress nf t!k.e Cam
federate Stales of Jhnerica do enact, When
transportation cannot be furnished in kind,
the discharged soldiers shall be entiiled to
receive ten cents per mile, in lieu of all
travelling pay, substance, forage, and un
drawn clothing, from the place of dis
charge to the place of his enlistment or
enrollment, estimating the distance by the
shortest mail route, and if there is no
mail route, by the shortest practicable
route. The foregoing to apply 10 all offi
cers, non-commissioned officers, musi
cians, artificers, farriers, blacksmiths and
privates of volunteers, when disbanded,
discharged or mustered out of service of
the Confederate States, and it shall also
apply to all volunteer troops as above de
signated, when travelling from the place
of enrollment to the place of rendezvous,
or point where mustered into service ; Pro
vided, That nothing herein contained ;
shall be so construed as to deprive '.lie :
mounted volunteers of the allowance of'
forty cents a day for the use and risk of!
his horse, winch allowance is made from '
the date of his enrollment to the date ol |
Ins discharge, and also for every twenty j
miles travel Irom the place of his discharge '
to the place of his enrollment.
Sec. 2. That the fourih section of act
of March 6, 1S61, “To provide for the
public defense,” lie amended as fol’ows,
viz ; There shall be allowed to each vol
unteer, to be paid to him. on the first mus
ter and pay rolls after being received and
mustered into the service of the Confed
erates, the sum of twenty-one dollars in
lieu of clothing for six months; and ihere
after the same allowance in money at
every subsequent period of service for six
months in lieu of clothing; Provided,
rrior»l » nriPu r\ f i 1 nr i n 1 ► ■ , I »•.*
ceived by said volunteers from the Con
federate Government shall be deducted.
First, from the money thus allowed, and
if that sum be not sufficient the balance
shall be charged for stoppage on the mus
ter and pay rolls, and that all accounts
arising from contracts, agreements or ar
rangements for furnishing clothing to vol
unteers, to be duly certified by the com
pany commander, shall be paid out of the
said semi-annual allowance of money.
Sec. 3. That the twenty-first section of
the net for the organization of the army
of the Confederate States be so amended
as to allow to aid-de-camp and to adju- |
lants, forage for the same number of
horses as allowed to officers of the same
grade in the mounted service.
HOWELL COBB,
President of the Congress.
Approved May 21, 1861.
Jeffehson Davis.
Sympathy with the South in Maine.
Merely to show that the North is not a i
unit against us, and to prove that the Soum j
has warm hearted sympathizers even'
among “down East,” we give the follow
ing extract from a letter to a lady in Boli
var Tennessee, from a female friend in
Bangor, Maine.
“If I could fly to you in your little cabin
home, this bright, beautiful afternoon how
happy 1 should be. Wouldn’t we have a
nice time? As to the war, nothing is left
undone here that can add to the comfort of
the volunteers, and I shouldn’t be surpris
ed if each one were not furnished with a
large stuffed rocking chair and a fan!
poor souls! They will not only have hot
weather, but hot heads to deal with, and
many of them. I fear, will have to “bite
the dust.” The Republicans here say that |
all party feeling is now thrown aside, but ';
they lake good care 10 prevent the Demo
crats from gelling nny of the offices. Our
preacher said in his sermon last Sunday.
••We who stay at home must pray.” If he
and I pray, surely one of our prayers must
be unanswered—for we shall not pray a
hit alike.
Every man. woman and child here, is
bedecked tvitii the red, while and blue,
and I expect a week hence to eat red,
white and blue or starve.”
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Facts vs Fiction.
Eighty years ago the people of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, were fighting
side by side with the people of: Virginia, the
Carolina? and Georgia for the saered right of
self-government Their blood flowed freely
together in defence of the same holy cause,
and the bones of hundreds of the brave sons of
each State were left on many a battlefield
from Massachusetts to Florida. To-day, how
changed !
The above we take from the Montgom
ery Advertiser. We beg leave with all
respect, to correct the Advertiser in a mat
ter of history. Too long have false state
ments and fictitious history perverted the
I minds of men. We undertake to state,
and we challenge contradiction upon proof,
that the bones of a single Massachusetts
soldier from a single Massachusetts com
pany much less a regiment, lie buried in
either of the Carolines. The declaration
of Daniel Webster, in the Senate, that
“the bones of New England soldiery whi
tened the soil from Maine to Fiorid.i,” is
Inn utter fabrication. We challenge the
proof. It is an utter fiction, in the face of
all historical tact. Nut one company of
New England soldiery ever crossed the
borders of the Caroiums. V\ e are wea
ried of falsehoods, it is time to learn
lucis. Too long we have suffered these
yankee lies to pass current for history.—
We appeal to tiie record, and we challenge
the proof. If ihe blood of Massachusetts
men and Carolinians ever flowed together
on the battle field, and in the same cause,
mat Dioocl ‘•no,veil norm ol wiiat is now
known as Mason and Dixon’s line. It is
time for truth to he known. There is no
room for sentiment on this sul j< et. And
there never has been much sentiment lost
between the two people. Tiny have been
foreign to each oilier from the earliest set
tlement ol the Colonies to tins time. For
while the [ample of Massachusetts were
burning witches in Boston, tne High
Church of England alone was admitted
within the limns of Enarleston, and all
Dissenters, were prohibited the city m
their religious services. This is simple
history.
YVe are.quite fatigued with ail lii'esej
Northern fictions — so often repeated, and
so ent.n ly wit front a shadow ol luundaiion |
YY e beg our contemporary m iel< r to frets, '
before it makes suoli wild slaiemeius.— I
YVe of South Carolina titteily disci.»*m !
any fellowship inarms with me people ol
M assaciiusetls. The troops ol liie Caro
litias never even met those of Massai im
seils on the battle-field, except in Mexico. '
YY nli what credit to the New Englanders i
let history speak. Caleb Cushing had to j
heat die troops of Massachusetts mm ranks j
with Ins sword, and was burnt in e‘lmv in :
Boston alter the war tor trying to make
them fight. And n is w.*ii known mat Uie
Palmettos had to show the wavering New
Yorkers how to lace the cannon ball m
Mexico.
YVe are quite fatigued with fiction.—
[Charleston Mercury.
A United South. — Our grand revo
lution has been accomplished, with an en
ergy, an enthusiasm and a passionate zeal,
that has no rival in any other popular con
vuision. h is me earnest aou purioiic de
sire of every true southern man that u
should he carried on and finally triumph
with the same harmony. So far as we
know, in our city and county, every per
sonal cause of quarrel has been suspended
li not actually buried, in view of the dan
ger that threatens the liheities and the
rights ol all. It is worthy of our people
and of our cause. We are a hand of
brothers. Lei the sacred bonds be unbro
ken. Let us devote all of our love to
our country, and all of oW revenge to our
enemies! If we have affronted any one,
we beg pardon. Let the mighty heart of
the south be moved but by one purpose_
to vindicate our liberty and to drive back
the invader. We are exposed to the same
peril—we will share the same triumphs!
Let us be brothers !—[Vicksburg South
ern Sun.
Levee Breaks.—Within the last week
three breaks have occurred in the levee
below. One was at Tallulah, eight miles
below lake Providence in Mississippi; nine
plantations had ttie cotton ruiued but ex-!
pect to raise corn. At Ford’s twenty-five
miles below Columbia, Chicot county. Ark,
a break occurred by which an immense
amount of injury will he done. At Ber
nard’s, a mile above Grand Lake, also,
there was a break with small danume.—
Memphis Appeal. 7ih.
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War Courtesies —When Gen. San
ford took possession of Arlington House,
the residence of Gen. Lee, he sent to en
quire whether the family of Gen. Lee
was there, and to offer a guaid if so.
When assured that they left a fortnight
ago. he sent to Gen. Lee to say that he
was obliged to make Arlington House his
quarters, and would see that the premises
received no damage. Twelve or fifteen
servants were in the house, with a month’s
provisions. Most of the furniture was re
moved.
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From the Grenada Southern Motive.] I
Cotton and Revenue. I
The following views are based upontl 1
supposed scheme of the Government • I
Money is the sinews of war, with \v|iif|, §
the Government must he well supp|^ I
it cannot maintain efficient armies in t[. *
field- This money must he raised by bor I
rowing or by taxation, direct or indirect' I
Under existing circumstances we I
look to our resources at home. 1
The Government cannot raise tnonpv I
I by tax on either imports or exports, b/ 1
cause our enemies prevent it I
We cannot raise money by direct tnxi\. I
I lion, without producing distress and rum I
on our people, because they cannot gn 1
the money without selling their cotton; and 1
the em-rny commanding the seas, prevents 1
our cotton from going lothe markets of t|ie I
world. I
Cotton, if placed under the contract of I
Government, can be made the basis of I
Gm eminent credit, by which it can ob- I
lain money from Europe to liie full value 1
of the n.iole crop. The cotton is indis- !
pensible to the wants of Europe; and if |
our Government should have the control I
of the entire crop, it can be pledged for I
the tedemption of the paper of the Gov
ernment. Readily it can command any
amount of money it may need.
The cotton being under the control of
our Government, the enemy can be effect
ually rut off from supplies. The coiion
will not be forced into market to disadvan
tage by necessitous farmers, and the Gov
eminent, acting upon this gieat basis of
credit, can procure and furnish from time
to time to the people the amount of money
they may need.
The plan to succeed, will require the
patriotic, and voluntary consent of the fann
ers. And why not consent ? Unless Gov
ernment is sustained, perhaps only for a
few months, or one or two years, the peo
ple are ruined forever. Land, cotton, ne
groes will be valueless; independence.
Ireedom and honor will be gone, ify su
mming the Government freely and nobly
tiiey will be fully remunerated, its udl as
protected.
Let Government issue Treasury note*
payable to every farmer to m ar tne pro
bable value of bis cotton, giving him the
advantage of the rise. Let these noies
le made a legal lender in payment of
debts and of all dues to Goveininen'; and
it might be well for them to bear from six
to eight per cent, interest from tm* dale of
'ales of the cotton of life several (darnels.
This will answer all the purposes of do
mestic currency, and will hugely avail nr
foreign trade as they will he receivable to
Government dims. Government, beside.*
borrowing upon the basis of the coiion,
will have money and will sculler it out by
i s operations.
Government will not need in unpo-e any
taxes, nun! peace he made amt business
assume ils accustomed channels.
The cotton having only one holder, thill
one can control the maiket lor all n \ son
able and fair purposes as veganls IvAipe.
There will he. no Coiiipetnion btiween
huhhrs and no necessitous /whins luicing
tlieir cotton to market at n sacufi e.
As the Government will ron'iol ihe crop,
it can make it the condition by which Lu
rope may obtain supplies, that me bloik
ade he opened iully to the export of cotum
from our own ports, and to ttie importa
Hon of needed supplies.
1 he notes of Government will acevnao
!at • in the hands of foreign capitalists,
"ho will readily receive them on lair
terms, as they will be equivalent to gold
in tlm purchase o! lire cotton wanted above
a 11 In inrr>:
It is a fact beyond cavil or dispute, that
if Lngland and France cannot get supplies
of the raw material for their manufacto
ries without raising the blockade, they
will certainly blow it sky high.
Such is a rough outline ol the proposi
tion, with the reasons, which we under
stand will soon be proposed to the farmers
of the South. Perhaps it might be well
to include tobacco, rice and cotton.
Suggestions.—Our people should pre
pare themselves (says the Macon Tele
graph,) lor suffering and endurance. AVe
cannot tell the duration of the war.
A\ e should turn out attention at once to
everything .that will support man and
beast. AVe must be fed at home, as we
mav bo cut off from all other supplies.
Not only must we be fed at home, but
il the war lasts for some years, we may
have to be clothed at home. Let mothers,
wives and sisters prepare to clothe the
men and children.
Such necessary articles as negro shoes
and clothes, agricultural implements, ne
gro hats, and a considerable list of such
things will have to be made at home. The
sooner people turn their attention to them
the better.
A'A e ought to be indulgent to those who
owe us, and we ought to pay one another
as far as possible.
AVe must protect and succor the fami
lies of those who go to fight our battles.
Splendid Attraction.—A new at
traction, it is said, has been introduced in
to the New York fairs. A parcel of hand
some girls allow the gentlemen to kiss
them for twelve and a half cents a kiss.,
One girl made sixty-two dollars in one
evening. One man took eleven dollais*
worth.