Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-19

| SlC. 1IULH IEt CUuJl. IFOili HUG oi PiN ptsi tion making in North Carolina, they will do well to hold those forts, let alone pushing further into the State.
 Henry Kayser, Josephus Dotson, and per haps others, are raising companies in Sebastian county to rendezvous at Clarksvie. Sue cess to them We sincerely hope this call will be promptly responded to. Our troops have been so banded about dillydal,ed, and tritled with that we fear the State could not induce any considerable number to place themselves under her control But this call is made under a.requisition from President Davis and the sol diers will go into the Confederate service
 Gen. Van Dorn has been called from Texas to Virginia. He is said to be superior caval- ry officer and goes to take command in that branch of the service.
 From statements made by responsible and reliable men in Virginia who had been arrested at Washington, we find that the police gave them to understand that for "a consideration they would swear so as to secure their release. In one case the committing magistrate author ized the ailer to tell his prisoner that if cer- tain sum of money would be paid, he would be released. The money was sent and the gentle man is now in Virginia.
 Under the confscation act the Yankees are committing wholesale robbery in the cities Ii they suspect stranger has any considerable amount of money they arrest him, steal his money and hurry him off to prison They have | oayarat in tbiS and If na lead them into trouble.
 Spirits of trupentine sell in New Iork at $l 75 gallon, and common rosin at $5 a bar rel
 That the blockade has been repeatedly broken of late by vessels from the West Indies, is evi- dent from the fact that there is more coffee in the Confederate States than there was SIX or eight weeks ago.
 The Richmond Dispatch says that 5000 pairs of shoes have been received there, the upper parts of which are made of superior canvas, so prepared as to be impervious to water. ;" Ne cessity is the monther of invention.'
 They have free market at New Orleans free for the families of those who have volun- teered in the war. Contrast 1t with the mlaera be soup-houses of the North, where the starv- ing wives and children of their soldiers draw an allowance of thin soupmade of deaa horses and a modcum of stale bread.
 "THE FREE MARKET The free market was opened yesterday, and 60 families ot volunteers derived from it their provisions for the three 1ol- lowing days The managers had not an easy task; !; 1 e l,l T: .tr;l, in n morning 30 barrels of meal, of rice, ID of sugar, of peas, 9 of beef, } beans, and otSnoa ses; 30 hams, 2l sacks of gweet potatoes, ID tOrcis of onions of dried apples and peaches, and 3 ot flour baked into bread, besides great variety of veSe tabies.''-N o. Pcoyaae.
 There may be great deal of wickedness n the Crescent city, but such things as these go far to redeem it. We doubt much if any city, in either conftderacy can show greater or nobler charities Their hospitals free markets, asy- lums and relief associations are all on large scale denotng big hearted, genGsous people.
 Ananecdote is going the rounds of the press, of an old lady who, in reply to questions as to whether she was seceh or union, replied that she was Baptist and always has been. This hardly holds good in Missouri, for the Baptist are, very generally, sccessioniats. Fremont has i've Baptist preachers imprisoned in the Arsenal at St. Louis. The newspapers are forbidden to publish accounts of the arrests made there, but it is certain that a large number, some say forty or fifty day, have been made. And what is more, executions are frequent.
 The phrase giving quarter is said to have originated in the wars between the Dutch and Spaniards, where it was agreed that on conside ration of sparing the life of the prisoner, his captor should receive a quarter ofhis pay. The phrase may have thus originated, but the prac- tice of taking prisoners IS as old as war itself By some nations they were taken as slaves, by others kept until the victorious general returned home and made a triumphal entry into the prin- cpal city, when they were murdered. Some times they were held as hostages, or for heavy ransoms Among civilized nations the prison CTS are exchanged-kept in duress until the close of the war, or discharged on promise not to bear arms against their captors during a certain specified time. Bomba Lincoln and the people over whom he rules, of whom the Lon don Times truly said nothing cioIizeS Mcm, still keep up the barbarities of the dark ages They threaten death to privateerS; they hang picket guards on the battle field; they assaulted and attempted to murder their prisoners in Washington City, and Fremont is daily murder ing in cold blood, persons taken with arms in their hands, whose only crime is a love of their country In the history of the world, thcge never was people who took such gigantic and swift strides backward our whilom brethren of the North. At the rate they are going on, his majesty the King of Dahomey, will be forced to refuse to recognize them as too barbarous a people for his acquaintance.
 E. Barksdale, for eleven years editor of the MissisSippan has retired from that position and is succeeded by r. T. Cooper and A. N. Kim ball.
 Some excitement was occasoned lately by a report that counterfeiS of Confederate treasury notes were in circulation. It seems that 8 bundle of blank notes became unbound on the cars while being transmitted to Richmond.- Certain persons stole few of these and had them filled up in bungling manner. | CAIJFoRYIA-Thcre is sa state of things ,toI