Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-12
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lIEMS. The lead mines in this county can be worked and procured at a cost which would enable the miners to sell it at current prices and make handsome profit. There are other lead mlnes in the State, and we would take 1t as favor, II persons in their vicinities would write to us, glv- ing information concerning them. We would like to know their proximity to naVlgaOie stream, the depth of the required digging and richness of the mineral. Heretofore, the silver in the ore was an important consideration ana mining operations were carried on With vie" to its extraction, but now we only wantthe lead, and simpler and less costly furnaces will do.- The Gazette of this city threw out ssome good suggestions as to the lead mines in this vicln- ty. but we have not heard that they were acted upon We have plenty of lead supply the Con- 1 federacv. and if our own citizens will not take the matter in hand, persons from other States will
 The telegraph states that the British ship AL liance entered Beaufort harbor, despite Lln- coln's pretended blockade. There are two Beauforts" on the Atlantic coast; one III South Carolina, near Port Royal and one in North Carolina, on the neck of Cape Lookout. It was at the latter harbor that the Alliance landed.- The captain had arrived at Richmond and ot- fered to sell the cargo of his ship to the govern ment It is said to be very valuable. Besides an assortment of general articles, there were some cases of fire arms, percussion caps, large quantities of medicines, quicksilver, pig and sheet iron, tin plate, etc.
 The Confederate States will soon have navy. Three entirely new screw steamers have been or will be purchased from English proprietors, 1 and as soon as manned and otherwise fitted out will be brought into service.
 The shocks of an earthquake were senslbly felt in East Tennessee, Charlotte, N C.; Au- gusta, Ga; and Columbia and Charleston $. C., on the morning of the 30th ult. In some parts of East Tennessee the shocks were quite violent.
 Cotton, imported from Liverpool, sold in New | York at 22 cents. The Yankees have to send to England for cotton and pay l7! cents for 1t there. So much for the blockade.
 The war has given rise to some spicy cores | change prisoners with Magruder, it was found he had but one named Carter, who was out on picket guard. Butler called attention to the fact that Carter was made prisoner while asleep, and the others ran and left him. Magruder re- piled that when four were out picket guard it was customary to let one sleep for time, and that three men were justified in retreating be- fore 5000 but, added he, " if private Carter had been awake, probably there would have been no need of retreating." Rather spicy that
 Among the many dsgraceful attempts to re- cover the body of Col. Cameron, without sending flag of truce and asking for it, Secretary Cameron sent two persons, with sort of pass, directed To whom it may concern" and stat ing that the bearers were in search of Camerons body The Confederate officer to whom this paper was sent, returned it with an indorsement to the effect that it did not concern him or any body else in the Confederate States that he knew.
 Jeff Thompson of Missouri, being told that Hecker had offered a reward for his head, re- plied |" Sorry can't return the compliment, but would mt give d-n for his head.'
 The percussion cap factory at Nashville makes over a million of caps week, and can, if necessity requires it, turn out double or treble that number.
 The female Sese8hers' arrested at Washing ton by orders of Bomba Lincoln were at first confined to their houses, and all persons who 1 IL ad pJ oyap,ipa6 Lately, prison has been fitted up for them.
 A Canada paper having claimed Gen. Beau regard as Canadian, a northern French paper gives us some account of his ancestry. It ap- pears that there are in the State of Louisiana two families of Beauregard- of the Tou- tant- Beauregard and that of the Brose- -Beaure gard. Gen. B. belongs to the former, though the two families are closely connected. The father of Gen. B. was Louisanian, grandson of Baron Beauregard and named Jacques Tou- tant Beauregard. His mother was the daughter of Chevalier de Reggie, lneal descendant of the Italian ducal family of the Reggos.
 The transfer of Capt. Braxton Bragg from Pensacola to Virginia is evidence that artillery IS expected to play an important part Tn the ap- preaching great battle near Washington.
 Fort. Lafayette, in N. Y. harbor, is now full of prisoners. Among others they have the Bal timore police commissioners, Pierce Butler and the mayor of Washington City. Fort Schuyler, at the entrance of East River, is now fitted up as recepticle of suspected prisoners. King Bomba carries 1t with high hand
 An agent of the Confederate States recently purchased $l5O,OO0 worth of provisions at At lanta, Ga., and paid therefor in Confederate treasury notes.
 The South Western Baptist urges upon our farmers, the importance of saving peas as food for our soldiers.
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