Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-12-26

1 joined the Confederate army for the war. There were 800 in all.
 Florence Nigbtengale, in letter which has found its way into print, appears to entertain 1 but little hope of her own recovery.
 Cannon can be heard at great distance,- The guns at Pensacola were heard by negroes I3O miles distant, who called the attention of their masters to the sound. The firing of can non at Port Royal was heard at Jacksonville, Florida, distance of 200 miles on an air line.
 There is fellow at Washington by the name of Segar, claiming seat in the Yankee cons gress. We suppose he is Cuba G."
 Rio coffee is selling iu Baltimore at l64 cents wholesale Rye(o) coffee, superior quality, is selling in Little Rock at from to 4 cents per pound. Who cares for the blockade!
 The French government refuses to allow its officers to join the United States army.
 Fremont attended service at Henry Ward Beecher's church, recently, and the congregation rose cn Daa98e when he and Mrs. Fremont enter ed Beecher's discourse was on < Great ness" After the service the people made rush for the generals pew, and detained him half an hour with hand-s1aking; and when he was seat cd in his carriage, at the church door, they crowded the street and gave him three cheers.
 Lincoln speaking in his message ofseces8ioh- ists in Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, says: "They are Of doubtful whereabouts and doubt- fql existence" Now this is very nonsensical language and if 1t means anything at all is the most lying stuff we ever saw imprint.
 Chases proposition of national bank, or to make the government Q great banking insttu~ tion has set all the banks at the North in feTer .They have suspended specie payments and am nounced their determination to take no more loans. More trouble for the rump government.
 We repubIished from Cincinnati paper graphic account of the Yankee stampede from London to Wild Cat, Ky. The correspondent of the Cincinnati paper, whose name is Bicl- han, las been driven from the army, by Gen. Thomas. 4 Yankee who dare8 to tell the truth Is immediately punished.
 The foderaIs swear they got millions of dol lars worth of cotton on the coast. Meanwhile their post office department advertises. that t cannot ret enough cotton to make twine. IL adyer,isas for proposals for 5000 pounds of tgine of hemp or other material. They did not st5al cnouEh to make the post office tw;ae.
 Andy Johnson was at Washington on the 9th ia,t. lie urged Gen Mcclellan to send troops t9 Tennessee, and the B4boon publicly said he was ia favor of 3 speedy advance os the Nea~ -aeay army.
 We 6nlin the talegrapbic dispatches to the Cincinnati Commercial that delegation from the Indian tribes arrived st Washington on the 2th. Tle delegation was, probably, from the few that are iu arms in tho west. They were eg- corted around tho city and magnificent things promised them.
 Bills to abolish slavery in tha District Of Co., lumbia, to confscate slaves and make them work for the government, colonization schemes and other extreme measures are before the federal congress.
 NcC'el'an is consolidating the regulars of the old U. s. army surgis and Totten will proba, I.g la taken to Washington with their respec- tive commands.
 Cyrus ". Fia,i is at Washington oadeayor- ing to induce the federal government D lav j telegraph cable from Fortress Monroe, all the way around tho coast b Texas, touching at all points where the leJerals have possession.
 II a stated that tha Lincoln blockading feet o.T the bar at Charleston. fired salute Of thirty or more guns, in their feadish joy at the conaa, grafton of that city. IT this be So it seems eyi- dence of Lincoln emissaries having been en- gagged n the diabolicaI and cowardIy arson of the homes of women and children, wh'e their husbands and fathers aro absent in the defence or thclr aoil
 Garrett Davis having beaten old Guthrie for the U. S Senate and his slave property about to be taken from him, while in good time the coniederates viii seize his real estate, the hoary headed oll sinner begins to tremble and is said to favor the South. Let him stay where he is.
 Kentucky has l5,00o troops in the confede- rate army. They are the young chivalricfgbt- ing men of that State and when they go in bat, tie will make their marks.
 Letters of soldiers in tue confederate service may De mailed and transmitted without prepay ment of postage. Soldiers in tLe service of the State have not this privilege.
 c. J. Faulkner, of Virginia, has arrived at home Ely, the Yankee congressman, will be sent north in exchange.
 Alta State election in New York lately the Union" candidate beat the Democratic" can ddate 87,O0o to 10000. It does not make a bit of difference for they are all of one stripe now.
 Col. Kerrigan, of New York; has not been sentenced 10 De shot. He is accused of con, stant cores pondence with the enemy, etc. The fact is that Kerrigan was more decent than the balance of them, and his correspondence con sisted of sending physicians to wounded prison