Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-11-21

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 Clippings and Comments.
 Aremas Ward is decided humorist He is not equal 10 |" Slut Lovcngood" but makes some good hits. Besides Artcmas is on the wrong side of the line. He appeared lately in newscharacter:
 ARTEMAs WARD IN THE AEMY-As 1 pre- vionsly informed you am captain of the 5aldInsville company. rig grado"ly but ma esticaly from drummer's secretary to my present position. But found the ranks wasn't tull by 10 means. and kommenccd to rekroot Having notist gineral desire on the part of young men who are in the krisis to wear ep- plets, l determined to have my company ex- kloosively of offissers, every body to rank as hrigdicr general The follern was among the varis questions put to rekroots: Do you know a masked battery from chunk of gingerbread?
 Do you know eppet from piece of chalk? ? II l trust you with a real gun, how many men Of your own company do you spec you can mange to kill during the war? fIev you ever heerl of Gineral Price of Mis- souri, and can you avoid similar aks.dentS Ill iu case of battle?
 liey you ever had the measles and if SO, how macy?
 How are you now?
 Show me your tung. etc. etc. Sum of the Qucstyurs was sarkaSVkal
 We are progressing purty well with our drill. As all are com mandn- ollisSerS, there ant no iealou~lv and as we air all eXcedn smart, 1t ant worth while to try to outstrip each other. | The idce of a company compo>ed eXkoosive'v of commanders i'll chief orig 9rnateA, l spoSe skurcely need say, in these Branes. Consider cd a dec, fatter myself it iS rurty heftv. We've got all the tacticks at our lungs ends, hut what we particularly ckse in is restin mus kits. We can rest muskts with any body.
 Our corpse will do its dooty. We go to the aid of Columby-we fight for the stars
 We'll be chopped into sassige meat before we'll exhibit onr coght tales to the foe! Wr'l fight till there's nothing left of us but our little toes, and even they shall dciantly wigsle. Ever of thee" A. WARD.
 Picayune Butler has been speech making again. He lets out some secrets and shows that the North is in 3 desperate situation. It is 8 life and death struggle with them as with US:
 :" A large meeting was held at the Institute Hall Roxuury. Mass, on Thr~.tiav evening, tc hear an address from Major General Butler, in aid of a company being recmt--. for his New England regiment. Butler made patroti, oppeal to the people generally tor the defence of ,he country. He said:
 In my judgment, unless this rebellion can he queled, and that within short period, We shall become involved in war such as this world never yet has seen, not only with the South, but with those powers who, by lust O1 gain, will be induced to take part with it. Therefore, 1t becomes every man here at the North with care to examine, with cand0r and determination 10 judge and act upon the state of facts this crisis presents and 1 trust we may soon fight not only on the banks of the P0to, mac or on the shores of North Carolina. but even on the shores of and in Sonth Caroliua lighted by the smoking and rebelIious cities A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing from St Louis, says that city is, at least half "secesh.'' He lets out another secret which adds another to the items against Ere mont Mark the sentence in italics:
 :" "A well known southerner expressed himsell on the streets this morning, that in less than ten days this city would De in possession of he rel bel army. What an immense supply of stores. cannon, etc, would then fall into the hands ot the enemy. Y is amhorHativeIy stated, Ao'c erer, that General Fremont has ordered Mt totai dest,uction of the city rather than iet 4 IpU into he possession or the .Souders Con federacy. The close proximity of the rebel forces, the boldness of secessionists in the city in claiming that "every thing in their favor will he right in few days creates unusual appre- hensons of danger ahead.
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 LETTERS FOR THE CAPITAL GUARDs-Mr A. Cohen will leave for the above company the last of this week. Letters for members of the company left with Mir. J. A. Henry, will be cheerfully delivered by him.
 The war in Kentucky and East Tennessee Is rapidly assuming 8 ferocious character. Col Anderson, prominent secessionist, was assas- snated lately, at Chattanooga. Other murders of like character are frequently committed. II Kentucky the Union men go to the houses O those known to favor the southern cause, take them from their beds at night, tie them to trees and whip them until they take the oath, or unti they die. Old men of sixty years of age have been thus treated, and their backs cut to piece. with rawhides What a lot of ready made fends the Devil has in store in Kentucky. 1---<ED>--. =
 They have thrty factories in the State 0 Georgia, engaged in making cotton and wooller goods, besides several smaller factories that only spin yarn. The following is statement of tht works of the factories for one week. POI, 2,00( yards of shirtings; 27l 300 yards of osnaburgs stripes, drills and denims 54,000 yards of ker seys and lnseys and 22,900 yards of jeans ant cassimeres.
 Tbe sum thus far raised for the benefit of the widow and orphans of the lamented Jackson, amounts to $3o,O0Q,