Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-01-23
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 The legislature at Frankfort, Ky, adopted resolution demanding the removal of Simon Cameron from the post of Secretary of War; The Louisville Democrat says: " It is the senti. ment of the State that Cameron ought to retire; and the legislature only expressed the sober judgment of Kentucky in the resolution" F In the legislature of Texas, bill providing for pay of the aids-deoamp appointed by the Governor to organize the militia, and of their onarfermasters. was referred to the committee m military affairs. who reported against it, say ing that the honor of such an appointment was sufficient compensation. The report was adopted.
 Groundpea oil is manufactured on large scale a. Wilmington, N. c. This is said to be superior article for machinery. Sunfour seeds yield oil in large quantities, excellent for lubri- eating purposes. The latter would be one of the most profitable crops that could be planted.
 Notwithstanding the blockade, shad are run hing up the southern rivers. As the supply of ice is small at the South we need not expect to have any brought here this season.
 The Baltimore South is responsible for story of the political prisoners now in confinement at Fort Warren. Several preachers at Boston Of fered to visit and preach to them, and the pris-. oners deputed one of their number to write an answer accepting the offer. The deputy did so, thanking them for their kind offer aud request ing sermon on the ensuing Sabbath, from the text 10 be found in the 27th verse, of the 25th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The preachers did not come. James E. Calhoun, a son of John C. Calhoun, died at San Francisco, Cal, on the 18th of Nov, of consumption.
 The Yankees are taking cotton seed from Port Royal, around by way of New York, to H. noiS. to let the suckers try the experiment of raising cotton. Nobody is fool enough to sup pose that any considerable amount of cotton can be raised there, but the object is to afford an excuse to ntroduse the negro apprentice system in Illinois. This, as has been demonstrated, is the most oppressive form ofslaverY, and the H. lnoisans are bent on adoptingit. Planting cot ton is the excuse for it's introduction.
 Mrs. Greenhow has been sent to Fort Lafay. cite. Her eloquent letter would have procured her release from magnanimous government, but Seward sends her to dungeon like s pite ful coward as he is.
 A. F. Maxwell. one of the Confederate Sena. tors elect from Florida, is volunteer under Gen. Bragg.
 The names of three hundred wealthy seces- ,sionists of St. Louis have been selected to pay }Iallecks assessment ostensbly for the beneG. , If refugee tories. Sixty>four of the three hum fred have been required to pay BIO 1000, and the tmain;ng two hundred and thirty-four are re- sved for further black mail As to the SO
 cied refugees getting the money, that is another thg. Large sums are paid by others to keep
 thr names off the list, but t they do not pay , the are listed ani taxed.
 Lrres which have contained whisky or spir it's T not do to pack mea. in. The mea. be- { com sour.
 Al meeting of the citizens of Carroll coan. ty, As., it was resolved that in being assessed s tor tfpresent year, to give in and value for
 taxat, negro men at $l 900, and women at e S8oO.Personai property 4 held at twothirds Of It's lue eighteen months ago. Aulg the many singular events of the war
 is that Hiram Fuller, Belle Britain former @ ly editbf the New York Mirror. who made q secesShspeech in London, and talked good - sense.
 t Amothc new manufactories at the South, Q we note at sulPhate of copper, blue vitriol or , blue stonis now made. Type fouudries have been star, and now we need paper manufac- ' tories. l bleaching powder is the article : most need and while there is, in Arkansas.
 enough m'anesc to supply the world, yet we have no m'. of melting it as 1t requires cru n cbes or rets made of platina. Some snbsti- I ute may yee found
 During thgars of Napoleon, coffee sod in . France for allar and half pound. /" The edltorthe Mobile Register and Aiver- " tiser in his ps, of the llth inst, acknowledges the receipt ot" basket of beautiful and large blood-red straerries."
 o The Klo GTe, neutral stream and the 'e boundary betsl the Confederate States and d Mexico, has btblockaded by .incoln's navy. . We are lndel to Hon. A. H. Garland, for ,a copy ot the rrt of the Confederate Post master General.
 II A steamer, thdnderb;lt from Havana. has :" ', arrived at New C,ns with 9aO11 hounds of I I.d powder, 10000 Ield rifles and an assorted q cargo Other acnts give the name of the rs steamer as the K Joker.'
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 le The seven thous bags of sea-islsnd cotton or taken to the Mort the coast of South Caro-