Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-26
Clippings and Comments.


 this order merchants were ordered to remove goods from their windows or show cases in which the colors of red white and blue were shown. Barbers poles were taken down, and other things of like contemptible nature done by these brave policemen The following extract from a Baltimore paper goes ahead of any thing we have read yet. Think of arresting children and taking them to the station. house It was bad enough to arrest and imprison women, but mak- ing prisoners of little girls is piece of tyranny yet unmatched:
 "Some excitement was caused on one of the streets of Baltimore on last Saturday, by police man attempting to remove a cravat of obnoxious colors from the person of young man named Jas Carey, who successfully resisted him. The same evening two little daughters of Charles H. Myers, esq.,, merchant, were arrested on the street near their fathers door, and carried to the station house. because some portion of their dress bore the com bination of the prohibited coors."
 The following is from the Van Buren Press:
 "We understand that there is large quantity of wool in the country, and the cotton spinning fac tory in this city, is engaged to its fullest ca pacty, in turning out superior article Of cotton yarn. In view of these facts then, there need be no want of good material for clothing, if the peo- pie will ohly Set about manufacturing 1t. Let It be done. 'Itwere we'll done, it were done quickly" What is the capacity of the factory, MT. Dun ham? Can it be altered so as to card wool? Are there any looms connected with it? There is, if we mistake not, another cotton factory in the north west. The Press, being near that point, we are sure would confer a favor on its readers by informing them what the other fac tory is doing. The development of our resour- ces is an important object just now, and we are anxious to show our sister states that Arkansas is not as far behind them as they may have been led to suppose. A word in our ear MT. Dun ham? The quotation in your paragraph above is not from Shakespeare. If Kennard, of the Batesvie Balance, sees it, he will illustrate the action that takes place when duck sees a June bug. We are so taken with the idea of the free mar ket in New Orleans that we give another ex- tract in relation to it, taken from the Crescent of that city. Just think of the salmon, smoked tongues and other delicacies
 "Yesterday the free market was again open, and l ,292 families received supplies. Everything was conducted with the usual order and good manage ment. The following is list of the leading arti cles given out; it will be seen that there was enough to stock several ordinary grocery stores; 36 brls. meal, brls rice, brls. sugar, sacks Irish potatoes, 9 brls. sweet potatoes, brs.
 ions, brls. green corn, brls. okra, 50 cabbages, 60 pumpkins, 41a brs. molasses, 6 brs. mess pork, beeves 10 boxes codfsh, 5 kits salmon, doz. smoked tongues, , kits tongues and sounds, lbrl. mackere, ,370 loaves bread together with large c,,an ial nf sol Q been requested to ask the benefactors of the mar ket continuance of their liberal favors. Tues day next will be market day again. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune under date of September 8, writes as folows
 "The entrenchments at Munson's Hill appear to be nearly completed, and the confederates were to day occupied in planting heavy guns in position. Their principal point of attack against our pickets is deserted barn on the left of Little river turn pike, which is constantly filled with their marks men, the best of whom has been discovered to be negro"
 That last line must be comforting to the ne grophilists of the North.
 To show the fendsh spirit animating Bomba Lincoln and his subordates, we notice that they are planting cannon around Baltimore, and swear if that city Is in danger of falling into the hands of the confederates, they will set it on fire, and with shot and shell, level every build ing to the ground. The St. Louis Democrat, the organ of Blair, says this
 "The Southern Confederacy has not the stake here that the federal government has. Missouri is both the key to the vallies of Missouri, Mssis- sippi Illinois and Ohio, and the highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific States Under no consid- eraton whatever will the people of the free States ever consent that Missouri shall abide under any common government than their own. Unnecessary her retenton they will desolate her utterly, and leave her without an inhabitant.'
 These things are published with the approval of the military chieftains now ruling Baltimore and St. Louis. They seem determined to inau- gurate bloody and savage warfare unparalleled in the history of civilized nations.
 We clip the following from the Memphis Ap- peal for the purpose of noticing an error therein:
 "When Arkansas seeded from the Union, she came in possession of property to the amount of S35 ,000, 900. Her indebtedness at that time was 100000. leaving balance of $32,000,0 900, ac- quired by secession in addition to her other resour- ces. The State has issued war bonds to the extent of 5000, GOO, and every dollar of her property is pledged for their redemption''
 The ordinance of the convention providing for the issuance of these bonds restricted the amount to be issued to t,co millions of dollars, and for their payment the state pledges sixteen or eighteen millions of acres of land and her revenue. The interest is paid semi-annually in specie.
 Europeans receive their information of the progress and events of the war through the dis torted media of the northern newspapers. Of course they have no adequate idea of the re- sources of the South, nor of the bravery of her sons. AS an instance of the errors foreigners are led into by trusting to the statements of the abolitionists, we give the following extract from an article in the London Times
 "While this has occurred in Virginia, almost within sight of Washington, column of 5000 federalists, advancing against foe thrice their number, has met with the same fate no doubt for much the reasons, at Springfield, four or five hundred miles to the west-as if in order to warn the northern States that what has happened is no accident, no result of peculiar circumstances or personal failure, but by inevitable rule''
 If the Times had known that the forces at Springfield were nearly equal and that the fede rals had the advantage of arms, ammutlon and regular troops its argument would have been still stro pger.
 There is no doubt of determination on the part of Bomba Lincoln, not only to attack the seacoast, but to descend the Mississippi. It is