Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-10-10
LATE FROM THE SOUTH. :


following:
rHE FAMOUS ARKANSAS MILITARY BOARD.
The New Orleans Delta Of the 26th thus stirs
up the military board of the "toothpick'
State:
Gen. McCuIlooh, in his late proclamation
calling for 5000 troops from that State, asks
for men to be enlisted for three years or for
the war; and the board steps in and says the
enlistment shall be but for one year. The
Confederate service has already suffered be-
yond measure BY the imbecility, trickery, or
whsteyer IL may be, Of Arkansas politicians.
AoCulloeh and Hardee have been compelled
TO fall back from Missouri. The harvest that
should have come Of the victory at Oak Hill
was not gathered. Everything was abandoned
by Us, when the Vanquished enemy was him
self abandoning everything Troops that had
gone through that invaluable experience, "the
baptism of fire. had to be marched back and
mustered out of service; and now that their
places are to be filed by untried men, this
military board insists that we shall be Grip
pied in the same way year hence should the
war be protraeted.
LOOK OUT FOR BRUNSWICK.
Our dispatches this morning concerning the
movements of the Lincoln feet will arrest at
tention. We have little doubt of their inten-
ton to make descent upon our coast at an
early day, ifnot within the present week. The
account from Richmond is corroborsted by an
from Southern lady in New York, she hav-
ing selected form of expression TO puzzle the
Lincoln officials in case her letter should be
intercepted.
And now the simple question is, are we pre-
pared to receive them? Gov. Brown is said to
have stated that he had 10000 armed men
whom be could throw on the coast in a few
hours warning. If this be the fact, they have
no business another hour in the up-country;
indeed they should have been here long since,
well drilled and prepared for action. If the
authorities ever intend to move, they have no
time to spare. We await the result.
While the enemy are about laundering al
our gates, We confess we do not like the as
pect Of affairs at Richmond.-SapGnmahR Re.
publican.
TIE COTTON HUNT.
In reference TO the queries of the gunboat
commander Of Louisville as to how much cot
ton will be made, and their aim to take all the
cotton on the rivers and send it up the Ohio,
the Memphis Argus says:
The same design is unquestionsbly enter
tanned with respect to exposed positions on the
Atlantic coast. The campaign will be a regu.
lar cotton hunt. Orders should be given fol-
an immediate removal Of every bale Of cotton
from every accessible point in the South, or
if this Is impossible, ii ought to be burned
rather than permit pound Of il to fall into
the hands of the enemy.
ARKANSAS MAKES A SPEC.
With comPlacency the huge robbery is thus
announced
When Arkansas seeded from the Union she
came in possession Of property to the amount
Of S35. 900, 900. Her Indebtedness at that tim,
was 8, 900 900, leaving balance of S32, 900,
200 scquired By secession, in addition to hel
other resources. The State has issued wal
bonds to the extent Of IS, ,o0e, 900, and every
dollar Of her property is pledged for their re
dsmption-
sALTPBTER IN ARKANSAS.
The Argus publishes the following article
from the Nashville Banner
On yesterday We had the pleasure Of a con
versation with Mr.. VIM. E. Jones' q citizen o
Davidson county, from whom We derived some
interesting information Of the saltpeter mine
at the head Of n hits river, in Arkansas.
Mr.. Jones stated that ut that point there ar
two mines, capable, upon the introduction o
the proper amount of labor, of furnishing 5, ,OO
pounds Of saltpeter per day. At present, op
erations are conducted in one Of these mines
which supplies 900 pounds per day. Th
pounds Of saltpeter to the bushel
Mr.. Jones and Mr.. Robert @. Binkly, 9
Memphis, who have purchased these caves, ar
now engaged in the production Of this valua
bic mineral. They have q contract with th
Confederate Government for SOC, 900 pounds Q
salpeter.
Mr. Jones thinks that within thirty days b
will be able to run out from twenty to twenty
I've hundred pounds Of salpeter per day, prc
yided he can get the necessary number Of Ia
borers, to procure which is the object of b
mission 10 this city.