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Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

A FoRAY TO BE MADE ON WESTERN ARKANsAs.-It is stated, that Gen. Scott has sent fifty thousand stand of arms to the marauder and thief, Montgomery, to make foray from Kansas on western Arkansas. Whether this be true or not, 1t behooves those "in authority" in Arkan- sas to bestir themselves. We have the men, arms and munitions of war, and no time should be lost in sending well mounted force to our Western frontier.- When 1t is remembered that four days travel would bring these marauders to the White river valley, the necessity of prompt and immediate action should impress itself upon all. It is said that Montgomery boasts he will penetrate to the cctton coun- ties of Arkansas, where he can demand tribute from the rich planters. The coun- ties intervening between Kansas and the cotton region will of course be first assai- bu II tic CUIlFCullOIl, lOW LII oCooiOLl dt Little Rock, is not two busly engaged in discussing the petty differences between men, it would be well, perhaps, that they should attend to the interests and welfare of the State.
 We append the following telegraphic despatce which "speaks for itself:
 NEW YORK, May S.-Gen. Lane was despatched some days ago to Kansas on important business connected with the Gov ernment. He will have command of large force, and will proceed, as soon as possible, through the Indian country to Fort Smith, for the purpose of taking that post and all others belonging to the Gov ernment in Missouri and Arkansas.
 General Lane stated before leaving Washington that, with 1000 men such as he could bring into the field, he could march successfully through that entire sec- ton of the country. Seven hundred men under his command will be composed of the same class that served under Mont gomery.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

we hope ilmay be with the same effect upon our foe--a foe more fanatcal, more lust ful for power and more hateful enemy than the bloodthirsty deceitfu greaser.
 We number now over six hundred men and will form the first regiment of Arkan- sas volunteers. The election for our field officers, Colonel, Major, Lieutenant Colo nel and Adjutant will take place shortly There are a good many aspirants for the offices, and much electoneering among the troops is the consequence, but hope they will elect such men as are experl- enced and competent so they will not fall
 in time of need.
 The hours which are kept here in camp differ materially from those generally n- dulged in by the people of this progressive age. We rise at revelle 5 o'clock in the morning, when we answer to roll call and then prepare our breakfast. We retire at taps 9A o'clock at night, when every candle must be extinguished.
 Nearly every night after supper is fin ished music is produced, and sets are form ed and as merry and lively dancing as you ever saw is done here. every one striving to excel in the real old Virginia break down step which is the favorite. The dancing is continued till taps, when all cheerfully retire to their tents.
 Good order and discipline is equally preserved here with any camp in the south- ern service. Every one takes a pleasure in obeying orders, confident by observing strict military rule of an easy victory when we meet our enemies. The idea so prev alent with some, that to obey superior off cers is menial service is fast passing away, and soon all soldiers will think, and right ly too, that obeying orders is an honorable duty.
 The ladies visit our camp III great num- bers every day. enlivening 1t with their presence and shedding sunny ray of light over our monotonous life. At any time of life, and at youth especially. we love to see maiden "fair as the summers morn adorned with all the graces of her sex, with purity and innocence beamlng from every lineament of her countenance but 10 have at this time one of those angelic beings drop in upon us suddenly t alHest transports us to some fairy land the bright creation of poets dream. It makes our heart bea, faster, and pulse leap like a flood in our veins to look upon a faxen haired, rosy. checked, blue eyed lass with dimpled chin and pouting lips, but more especially now when we are debarred from the privilege of pressing that dimpled hand or kissing those ruby lips-but PII change the subject.
 You may expect to hear from me again shortly. Yours, Cor.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17
The Steamboat Confagration at New
 Orleans.

The New Orleans Bulletin of the 6t inst, has the following particulars of the burning of eight boats at AIgiers, oppo. site that city. The boats destroyed were of no great value, excepting the Repub. lie. She was Memphis packet. The Madison belongs to Cincinnati:
 Last night at quarter past ten o'clock a fire broke out among tue steamboats y- ing at Algiers, opposite the foot of Julla street. The wind was blowing very strong, and in few minutes eight steam boats were enveloped in flames, and quick ly burned to the waters edge. The burn. ing hulls of three of the boats broke loose and foated down the river, endangering the numerous vessels moored along the Algiers Levee, and were car red against the wharf, opposite the Third District. At one time there was the ap- pearance of another confagratlon in that vicinity, where were lying the Sumter and the Marquis de la Habana-the two steamers recently purchased by our Go- vernment, and the Star of the West, but was soon extingu'shed.
 The boats destroyed were the Gen. Pike, Con which the fire started) the Telegram, Editor, Madison, Republic. Texas, Grenada and Dolly Webb. The Telegram and the Republic were the most valuable boats. The Editor was an old hulk, having no machinery on board. Several ot the others were small stern wheelers. The loss cannot be less than 100000. Several of the boats were un- der seizure by the Sheriff. The immense Dry Dock of the Gulf Line Company, lying immediately below the burning boats was m imminent danger, but fortunately escaped destruction.
 Two of the burning boats Gas we learn since writing the above, drfted agains: the shipping in the Third District, severe ly scorching two ships, which would have been destroyed, with much cotton on the Levee, but for the activity of the firemen, who apprehended disaster in that direc- ton, and were there as soon as the burn- ing boats. The towboat Baltic was dam. aged, and the towboat Conqueror was de- stroyed. These are all the particulars ob-
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17
Can the South Feed Herself.

We have heretofore demonstrated thro' our columns that the South possessed the means to feed herself, and that the attempt of the fanatics of the North to delude their people with the idle tale that the South is not self-sustaining, and that by cutting of supplies they can starve her into subms- slon, is but drawing the wool over the eyes of that infatuated people. The fel- lowing, which we clip from the Memphis Appeal demonstrates the superiority of the South over the North, to say nslhing of king Cotton:''
 Not having before us the census returns of lS60 we take for illustration those of 1850, which will answer onr purpose quite as we'll We will contrast by facts and figures the resources of the two sections, so far as to ascertain which can maintain itself in the present conflict the longer
 The slaves States in that year raised 7,660,65l bushels of peas and beans, while the so-called free States only raised 5lS,033 bushels, leaving balance in ia vor of the former of z, ,l42 SIS bushels. In the same year the South raised 37,- l36,Sl2 bushels of sweet potatoes, while the north only raised l,l22, ,323 bushels, leaving balance in our favor of 36,0l4,. 4S9 bushels!
 The amout of indian corn raised by the South was about 345, 100000 bushels that by the North, 233, 100000. Bal ance in favor of the South. 2,00O, ,00O bushels.
 We further find that in the same year the slave States raised 215.3!2 ,2l0 lbs. of rice-the Northern States only raising 800 lbs.
 The same statistics show the aggregate value of live stock then in the Sonth to be S246, ,000.000-in the North S293 ,00O- 000-or only 47,000,000 in favor of the latter.
 In connection with these facts 1t is to be remembered that the South annually pro- duces more than 100000 bales of cotton, which can command at any time in the European market $200,000,000 in hard cash. At the same time she has but l3- 100000 of mouths to feed. while the ene- my.must find food for lS,000, 900, or a number nearly one third larger.
 Under such circumstances, the Confed- crate States need have no fear ofthe raw head and bloody bones cry of being starv- ed by want of resources into defeat. The crops are better in the South this year, and more abundant, we believe, than ever known before. Cotton fields have been given up to the culture of corn, wheat, and other provisions, necessary to the support of armies. We have learned selfrelance from our enemies, and had our latent en- ergies developed by their attempted op- pression of us. We can for the future raise enough cotton to supply the ussal amount shipped to foreign ports, and re- fusing to send one bale to yankeedom by legal interdiction of It's sale North of Ma son and Dixon's line, can invest in raising army supplies the labor and capital for merly employed in cultivating the l,000,- 900 of bales used by them. We will thus be enabled to keep in the field for the com ing year one million of men, without half the accompanying disaster that will befal the North in maintaining the same num- ber
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17
J. c. MORRILL,, EDITO R .
Arkansas State Convention.

This body met at Little Rock on the 9th inst We have, as yet, seen an account of but two days of their proceedings in de- tail. These embrace the passage of the ordinance of secession which we published on Tuesday last. Our telegrapbic des- patches have given an outline of the pro- cecdings, and we learn privately that al- though the Convention has been for sever- al days in secret session, yet, enough IS known to outsiders to satisfy them that the division that existed at the first meeting of the body, in March, still exists-in other words, that although the Union men have voted for the ordinance of secession, still they are throwing obstacles in the way of accomplishing the ''entire riddance of the State" from its connection with the old regime. Our opinion is, that there are certain influences brought to bear about the State Capitol, and upon this Conven- tion, that always have and always will at- tend the assembling of deliberative or Leg islative bodies al Little Rock The peo- pie of the State are tired of Little Rock dictaton. If there is a civil or military office to be filled, some hungry cormorant can be found, who either lives in Pulaski county, or Is the especial chum' of those living near the State House, no matter where he resides.
 But these late Union loving souls" and who have recently become rightly persuaded" through the force of the peo. ples' will, have, many of them, been placed in high places, (see the list of those elected to Montgomery, with but a single exception, and that is Hon. R. W. Johnson when had they acted with be- coming modesty, they would have refused the position and made room for those ''who have been weighed in the balance and not found wanting" But the election of mem- bers to the Southern Congress will in a short time be submitted to the people, and we have no fears but they will deal justly with a certain class of men, should they offer their 0aluablc Services to the dear people.
 The most important item that the great mass of the people of Arkansas are inter- ested in, are our mail facilities. Ifproper attention is not given 10 this matter at the first letting under the new order of things, Little Rock will again monopolize con- tracts, routes, &c., 10 the detrment of other portions of the State. In changing her po- sition as a State, Arkansas must look to her general interest, and see that design ing men do not obtain hearing under the new government that they are not entitled to-.
 Since writing the above we are grati- fled to learn that the Convention has ap. pointed Gov. H. M. RECTOR, Hon. B. c. ToTTEN and Capt c. c. DANLEY, as a Military Board for the State.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

WHITE MAN AND NEGRO HUNG AT sEARcY.--Charles Cavender, formerly of Oil Trough Bottom, Independence coun- ty, the leader of the proposed instruction in White county, and negro known as Bill Henry, belonging to Mrs. Sculler, were hung at Searcy on Saturday last Cavender. as we have before stated, was a Protestant Methodist preacher.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

PRESBYTERIAN CHURcH-corner of Rn.. Vista and Thornhill streets. Rev n | GRAY. Preaching every 2d and 4th Ssbb,s in each month.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

New Orleans & White River pao,. A. w. QUARRIER.. ..REDMoNp. M,a
 DEs ARC STATIoN-M METRO DIST Ep,sc,, CHURCH SoUrH-H. D. McKtNNoN, prs,s CT in charge. Divine service every Sund,, Il o'clock also, at night.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

BAI FIST CHURcH-corner of Erwin N Park streets-Elder NEEDHAM Hor, V, Divine Service every Lords Day at Il o,cb,g Also, at night.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

0T HOWARD M. GIsT, Esq, Austin, 4, kansas, is our authorized Agent. He has tl authority to receive subscriptions, collect q receipt for monies due the Citizen office |
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

~ Our townsman, J. E. GLENN, has bs elected Major of he Regiment stationsi Camp Rector. We congratulate our frie. on his promotion.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

0W On the 18th inst, Messrs. Bohs Wilson & Co.,, Memphis, received ice enour to last that city two years.
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

tainabIe at the late hour at which wo
 We learn the Republic was not b0. in the above conhagration. She w.. ing below the Point, and escaped Y being injured. v
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

THINcs WoRTH KNowINa.-The fol- lowing are the distances between various points that are of special interest at this
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17

Memphis & White River Packet, COL. MORGAN...... w. A. W1Lps Mss NEW MOON, ...... JOHN DEAaING Mss Ms
Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-17
WHINE RIVER U. s. MAIL Ins

MEMPHIS VIA. NAPOLEON KAMA W H A VALLEY, D. B. PRtcp n SAM. HALE, ......n c. w. CoLEs M iIass
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17

The most common way for harvest
ing beans is to let them stand in the
field until dead ripe, and then pull and
thresh them. 1t is believed, however,
that they are better if gathered and
stacked up loosely when the leaves
have dropped from the vines. One
thing certain-it is better to gather
beans even little green than to allow
them to be nipped by the frost. We
have seen the following plan recon-
mended for curing beans.
Take two stakes stick them in the
ground 8 or 10 inches apart, and put a
stone between them about a foot high.
Then handful of beans in each hand.
and cross the roots enough to keep them
between the stakes. Fill the stakes in
that way about FIVE feet. Then take a
handful of straw and bind the stakes
together. Then put handful over the
band, and they will stand the weather
without injury, and cure well.
Beans put up in this way, even If
rather green, will stand through a
heavy rain and cure well. Where
stones cannot be obtained handily,
brush or straw may be used instead,
between the stakes-in fact almost any.
thing that will keep the beans above
the moisture of the ground, will answer
me purpose. We should put the straw
for rapplng under the straw rope which
BINDS the stakes together. - Io,oa
Farmer.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17
Missing.

Not among the suffering wounded;
Not among the peaceful dead;
Not among the prisoners. "MIssrss.
That was all the message said
Yet his mother reads it over,
Until. through her painful tears,
Fades the dear name she has called him
For these two and twenty years.
Round her, all is peace and plenty;
Bright and clean the yellow floor;
While the morning glories CLUSTER
All around the kitchen door.
Soberly the sleek old house cat
Drowses in his patch of sun;
Neatly shines the oaken dresser;
All the mornings work is DONE
Sitting there within the sunshine
Leaning in her easy chair;
With soft lines upon her forehead.
And the luster in her hair
Blind to sunshine-dead to fragrance
On that royal harvest morn;
Thinking, while the heart is weeping,
of her noble-browned first born.
How he left her in the Spring time,
With his young heart full of flame,
With his clear and ringing footstep,
With his 1.-THE and supple frame.
How with tears his eyes were b trimming,
As he kissed last Goodbye,
Yet she heard him whistling gayly
As the tear dropt from his eye.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17

BEES AND GRAPEs.-I noticed last
year for the first time, that the bees
eagerly visited my grapes, when ripe,
and felt willingly to execute their pro-
posed depredations, because previous
spring and summer had been very un-
propitious to their honey gathering vo-
cation. But, on more closely scruti-
MIXING their proceedings. | found that
in no instance did they attack sound
fruit, even when perfectly ripe, but con-
tented themselves with gleanings in the
wake of more powerful marauders. /
saw that they only invariably alighted
on such fruit only as had been picked
by birds; or punctered by wasps and
hornets. l never preceived bee at
tempting to injure sound fruit. Those
kinds of grapes which were not at
tackled by birds, wasps, or other in
sects, remained unvisited by the bees.
H. H. K.-American Bee Journal
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17
Household Recipes.

Soft soap should never be used for
calicos, excepting for the various
shades of yellow, which look the best
washed in soft soap, and not rinsed in
fair water. Other robes shonld be
rinsed in fair water, and dried in the
shade.
When calicos incline to fade, the
colors can be set by washing them in
luke warm water, with beefs gall, in
the proportion of tea-cupful to four
or FIVE gallons of water. Rinse them
in fair water; no soap is necessary,
without the clothes are very dirty. If
so, wash them in luke warm suds, after
they have been first rubbed out in becf's
gall water. :
The beef's gall water can be kept for
several months, by squeezing out of the
skin in which it is enclosed, adding salt
to it, and bottled and corked tight. A
little vinegar in the rinsing water of
pink, red and green calicos, is good to
brighten the colors, and keep them
from mixing.
If you do not wish to have white
woolens shrink when washed, make a
good suds of hard soap, and wash the
flannels IN it, without rubbing any soap
on them; rub them out in another suds,
then wiring them out of it, and put
them in clean tub, and turn on suffi-
oient boiling water to cover them, and
let them remain till the water is cold
A little indigo, in boiling water,
makes the flannel look nicer. If you
wish to have your white flannels shrink
SO as to have them thick, wash them in
soft soap suds, and rinse them in cold
water.
Colored Woolens that are inclined to
fade should be washed with beef's gall
and warm water, before they are put
into soap suds.
Washing white cotton clothes, soak
the clothes in lukewarm soap suds; if
they are quite dirty, soak them over
night. To every three pals of water,
put a pint of soft soap, and table,
spoonful of salts of soda. Heat it I'M
til mildly warm, then put in the clothes
without any rubbing, and boil them an
hour. Drain the suds out of them as
much as possible, as it is bad for the
hands; then add water till cool enough
for the hands. The dirt will be loose,
so that they will require but little rub
bing. Rinse them thoroughly in clear
water, then in indigo water. The soda
can be procured cheap, by purchasing
it in large quantities. Soda is an ex-
cellent thing to soften hard water. The
soda suds will not do to wash calicoes
in.
Silk garments should have the spots
extracted before being washed. Use
hard soap for all colors but yellow, for
which soft soap is the best. Put the
soap into hot water beat it until it is
perfectly dissolved, then add sufficient
of cold water to make it luke warm.
Put in the silks, and rub them till clean :
take them out without wringing, and
rinse them i'm fair luke-warm water.
Rinse them in another water, and for
bright yellow, crimsons and maroons
add sulphuric acid enough to the water
to give it an acid taste, before rinsine
the garment in it.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17
Ayers Cherry PeCt0ral,

FOR THE RAPID CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness,
Group, Bronchitis, Incipient Com
sumption, and for the Relief
of COnsumptive Patients
i'm advanced Stages
of the Disease.
This Is a remedy universally known to surpass any
other for the of throat and lung complaints that
is useless here to publish the evidence of its virtues Its
unrvaed excellence for coughs and colds and its truly
wonderful cures of pulmonary disease have made it
known throughout the civilized nations of the earth.
Few are the communities, families, among them
some living trophy in their midst of its victory the
subtle and dangerous disorders of the throat and lungs
As all know the dreadful fatality of these disorders and
they know too the effects of this remedy, need not
do than to them that it has all the vr
tues that it did have when making the which have
won 30 strongly upon the confidence of mankind.
Prepared by Dr.. J. c. AVER g. CO., Lowell, Mass.
Sold in Dowagiac by n. b. Hollister and Ara
Huntington. and Druggists generally. augl-15y1
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17

/" Madam, good many per-
sons were very much disturbed at the
concert, last night, by the crying of
your baby" swell, / do wonder such
people will go to concerts"
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17
LUMBER! LUMBER!

TTHE subscriber would respectfully inform the
i citizens of Dowagiac and vicinity, that he is
LUMBER of all kinds, and stands
ready to fill bills for Houses, Barns &C., at short
notice. Having a supply of Studding, -Joist,
Boards, &C.. on hand, also. a quantity of good
Logs the Yard, be feels confident that all those
wanting Lumber at short n office and good article
will receive entire satisfaction by giving him CALL
~ Mill situated onemile west of Dowagiac on
the Creek. JOHN H.. OAKLEY, Jr.
Dowagiac, October 18th, 1860. octo5-21tf
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-10-17

From the Kanasoha Valley Star, Kanawha, "a
We are sure that persons suffering with the head
ache, who try them, will stick to them.