Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-19

/ If this system were permitted TO 60 on, VIC
should receive the money which the Amer
leans pay us in silver And our own spec
ulators join in the business also. They
obtain discounts from our banks, taking
New York exchange or bank notes which
are equivalent to gold, exchange them for
American silver and use it for making
their purchases in the country. It must
be remarked that the paper currency of the
States has completely driven the silver on
of circulation, and that almost the whole
oft is available for speculation in Canada.
1t is half dollars, however, which are
chiefly expended in Canada"
Rebel Barbnrities in Arkansas and Mis-
souri,.
A correspondent of the New York World,
writing from Helena, Arkansas, under
date of the Sd, thus details the atrocities
Of the rebels throughout that region:
LEX TALIoNIs.
"All the world has heard of the impu-
dent and bullying demand of JEFF. Davis for
the surrender of Gen. Mcneil of Missouri,
as special pleader for humane warfare.
Were no other instances waiting, unhap-
PLY have Just come into possession of
the evidence, damning and revolving G
the transcendently infamous barbariGy
with which the war has been waged on the
soil Arkansss.-Gen. Holmes may be
spared the murder of the next ten Feder-
al officers which may fall into his hands,"
inasmuch as himself and his predecessor
have offset the execution Of the Missouri
guerrillas by a ten-fold sacrifice. Not less
than q hundred Of our soldiers and loyal
citizens have been murdered at Little
Rock within six months.
allow many nameless victims have dis
appeared throughout the State, may never
be reckoned up. The picture presented to
US by persons who have escaped into our
lines, although narrated by sober, hard
working farmers, is more like the horrid
phantasm of an opiate dream than the
painting Of actual life.
cLIMAcTERIc OF BARBARITY.
" Arkansas that home of the robber,
the horse theft, the land pirate, the conspir-
ator and assassin That nursery of the
savage and selfish in human naturel The
home Of the repeater and bowie knife, and
tooth-pickl The market for bad whisky
and bad women. Arkansas, thou haunt
of the panther and tiger in human shape;
to thee belongs the bold, freezing distinc-
tion of slaughtering old and young, male
and female, black and white, in cold blood,
for no better cause than private malice or
naked robbery
Honest men, dreaming no evil, breath
ing no malice, speaking no Wrong-no
crime but that Of loving the land of their
birth and the flag Of their worship, have
been shot on the highways; their houses
burned at the dead hour of night, their
tender families outraged and cast adrift
to the pitiless wilds of almost primeval for
ests. Young lads, craEed with drink and
maddened by the reproaches of their older
and wiser neighbors, heve been killed and
robbed for their superior wisdom and vir-
tue Along the road from Helena to Clar-
endon the graves of Union men and Union
soldiers are thicker than mile-stones.
All this has happened in Arkansas, in the
nineteenth century, and under the domin-
ion of that preceptor of humanity, Jeffer-
son Davis
Colonel Compton, who accompanied
16 other psroled prisoners from Little
Rock, yesterday, under flag of truce, re-
lates several instances of cruelty. e
never expected to return, but to be shot
He was a cotton-buyer, and was seized
while beyond our lines, some three months
ago. He was shown money, gold and
treasury notes in large quantities, taken
from our soldiers and civilians. He is
satisfied that the owners in most cases were
murdered. The Williams admitted as much,
saying that Dead men told no tales" No
report is ever made Of booty of this sort;
it is shared by the gang, and there is the
end.
"One case of abhorrent cruelty deserves
more particular mention. A reputable
grsy-haired old planter from the Northern
part of the State, had been sent to The filthy
prison at Little Rock for his Union senti-
ments. 0nhis incarceration he was charg-
cd to speak uU word to uny UHO. Iese
than once he refused to respond to the call
of the jailer, not knowing but he was
being tricked. For this offense, that poor
wretched man whom fiends might have pit
led and devils wept over, was taken out
aud whipped like common field hand, for
eontumacy. Can the annals of Sepoy at
rOcity or savage cruelty furnished any
parallel to this2 Is there q man whose
blood does not burn at the theught2
"Well may some of these dauntless and
outraged spirits, looking with frenzied
eyes upon our soothing policy and needless
oflaw and precedent, rush out to their re-
venge single-handed. A dozen Of these
men are now beyond our lines, resolved, if
die they must to live until they have dis
patched their prosecutors to their eternal
doom Fighting the devil with fire, hiding
behind fences, in chapparal and cane-brake,
lurking like the wild tiger, rife in hand,
ready to wreak q solemn and hallowed
vengeance upon the authors of their foul
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