Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-05-21
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ngy@ A letter from St. Louis, dated the llth instant says: ''The doings of yes terday have driven this State out of the Union. It is done in the heart of the peo- pie and 1t is not necessary to pass seces- sion ordinance. We are further out now than any ordinance can put us."
 sWF Gov. Brown has declared that if thirty thousand men were called for from Georgia, there were so many tenders of services pressing upon him he would be forced to draw the companies necessary to complete the requisitiOn by lot. MASONIC SECESSION. a convoca. ton of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of Georgia, which closed its session in this city on Thursday, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 Resolved, That the connection hereto fore existing between the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the State of Georgla and the General Grand Chapter of the late United States of America be, and the same is hereby dissolved Au- gusta Chronicle. A a&g MT. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, has written 10 his brother in Washington, expressing the opinion that Kentucky will go out of the Union. Prem tice, however, asserts his determination to die in his tracks before he will surrender his position as Union man or desert his business.
 9sF It is stated in Cincinnati paper, ou the authority of a member of the Cabi- net, that d few days after the inauguration an agent was sen, to Europe, to purchase 500,000 stand of arms, and they are now arriving by every steamer at New York. This is considered pretty good evidence of the duplici.y of the Cabinet n pretend ing to favor a peace policy. War was their object from the beginning Rich mond Whig.
 REV. HENRY A. WIsE.-A singular scene took place last Sabbath, in West Philadelphia, in the Church in charge of Rev. Henry A. Wise, .Jr., son of the Ex- Governor of Virginia. My informant tells me mat in the prayer of MT. Wise, who Is an Eplscopalian, he left out the President, when Mr. Drexel, one of he leading members, rose and demanded that he should repeat lhe prayer correctly. which ihe clergyman refused 10 do. He was then compelled 10 leave he pulpit and the church. - Washington Chronicle.
 gs5- The Southern papers are pleased with he tone of Mr. Rnsspl's first letter 10 the London Times. The Northern papers are correspondingly dissatisfied.
 
 isa stand ofarms ?" Properly speaking Il is complete sel of arms for soldier which would include the bayonet, musker, and its appurtenances.
 sgF A letter from Richmond. Virginia, says "The rumor that percussion ca ps or ammunition of any kind IS scarce here, has no foundation in fact. We have any quantity. Percussion caps never became scarce. There are two establishments in the South now manufacturing them a, the rate of 26, 900 per day. This will furnish within fraction million per month.
 gsJ- A large quantity of arms and am- munition has been moved from Fort Lea venworth to the Southern line of Kansas the point where the brigands of Lane and Montgomery are concentrating.
 gs2@ The Administration al Washing ton complain that they can't find out what Jefferson Davis intends. Gentlemen, don't be impatient. Our kindness and gratitude to you for your pas, favors IS so great that we regret to diso- blige you. You will soon enough find out that, though still as the breeze, he IS dreadful as the storm"
 Hsa5 George, the accomplce of Jose