Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-10-03
Clippings and Comments.

poOPtS indebted for the measures made in their behalf by the late Congress- and 1 simply utter the eenti ments of all here in saying that k. w. Johnson or Arkansas, is one of the able, earnest and ln- fuentlal men in the South.
 Tomorrow I leave for Orange Court house, where expect to write you. J. l. M M. The following is extract from an article Tn the Washington (Ark Courier, in relation to the power of the legislature to elect Senator's
 "I In connection with the Senatorial election we have heard the names of Hon. k. W. Johnson and Hon. c. B. Mitchell, prominently mentioned The former is an old and tried public servant-the lat ter, although elected by the last legislature to the U. S. Senate for six years, scarcely served as many weeks. but during that brief period, the energy, abilit, and promptness with which he discharged the duties of the position, gave satisfactory assur- ances of his capability as is evidenced by the care and vigilance with which he guarded our western border from abolition intrigue, and secured the ap- | pointment of citizens of Arkansas to the various Indian agencies"
 Some great man somewhere said that war, though no luxury, is an expensive indulgence" From the following extract 1t would seem that if not an indulgence, 1t Is at least, expensive.
 "RATIoNs FOR THE FEDERAL ARMY.-Upward of 3,O000JO rations for the army of the Potomac are now stored ill the receiving depots at Washington Some idea of the bulk of these ratOns may be formed, when we state that there are Is ,OOO bbls of flour, 9, ,O0O bbbls of beef 5000 bbls of pork, 500 0O0 pounds o coffee, 5OO, ,OOO pounds Ol sugar, and 300 ,0O0 pounds of bread, with homlny, crack ers vinegar, candles, soap and salt in proportion. An army of 250000 men will consume all these rations in twelve days"
 A Washington correspondent of one of the northern papers, says this in praise of Lincoln ism:
 "So thorough is the work of government in deal ing with rebel agents here, that the very daughters of Mrs. Greenhow are ignorant of the disposition made of her. She is probably enjoying Col. Mar tin Burke's hospitality at Fort Lafayette. The day before her departure she threw letter out of the window to gentleman friend, who carefully perused and pocketed it. The sentry, not unob- servant. touched the man on his shoulder and put him under arrest. Tie letter contained treason able matter A prison is fitting up here for the reception of female traitors"
 l. asmuch as they arrested the little girls at Baltimore, one five and the other eight years of age, we presume they will have to fit up a prison for children.
 The Pocahontas Advertiser has the following paragraph
 "We understand that company is to be- or has been organized to work the lead mines situated near Batesville. These mines said to be un- commonly rich in lead ore. We hope that the re- port may prove true and that large force may be put to work them"
 The following is from the Fort Smith Times and Herald
 IoN. R. w. JoHNsoN.-It is the generally pressed wish of all persons we have heard speak on the subject that the Hon. w. Johnson, should | ,,@, ,L.( ,r.l. gres- Indeed We have not hearl dissenting voice.
 We co ucur with the views thus expressed and believe that Col. Johnson is emnently qualified for the position i'll question: and We entertain no doubt, from the very general wish expressed that he will be selected of the Senators in the first Con federate Congress- that he Is the choice of great majority of the people and will be elected. if he will consent Gas we doubt not in these times he will , to
 Go. Johnson occupies a distinguished rank among the statesmen who assembled at Richmond, ana occupied honorable and highly important DO sti ,ns in Congress. he is q member oftwo commit tees in which Arkansas is most interested, namely, Military and Indan and his influence is felt in sui port of his measures for the defence of State
 We have not heard from Col. Johnson, but be- lieve he will serve if elected, and we further be lieve that he is very proper man for the position ill question:"
 The New York Journal of Commerce. under its new Lincolnite controllers, has become very rampant. IL goes in with energy for draft among the black republicans. It says:
 C But the rural districts are not doing the ir duty, especially those rural districts which disbe lieved in, and, at first, m0cked at coming war; There is no adequate volunteering from the north ern and central pIrts of this State-and the draft upon ttem must be resOrted to, unless the govern ment intends to more brilliant expeditions, like that ateras, fall, in part because of the want of men to perfect the victory. Our theory is that iH every republican county in New York; for every thousand republican majority, there should be rais ed regiment, say, seven regiments from St. Law renee alone, with its 6, 800 republican maorty.- Information from the South leads co the belief that for every man we have i'll the army from the North, the South has scattered about two men in arms to meet us. The little State of Arkansas, about as large as the New Y ork lth ward is represented to have 2l ,000 men i'll arms To conceal, blink these facts, now winter IS coming, and now, that we must, if mean anything, occupy large DOT tons of the southern country, by sea, is to do a public injury. Where men will not volunteer, they must be drafted, and it is but patriotism to say so The only way to a peace-it IS now admitted by both democrats and republcans--is on the battle field; and hence, the quicker million of men ire on that battle field for the North, the quicker there will be peace"
 The editor is an excellent statician and geo. grapher, as may be seen by his calling the State of Arkansas little, "about as large as the lth ward of New York" It is larger than the whole State of that name.
 We have 2l 900 men in the field, soon will have 5000 more, and if necessity requires it can furnish 50,O00 fighting men out of 65,OOO voters.