Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-03-20

HopeGeld, Crittenden county; McHenry's, Pulaski | county; New Gascony, Jefferson county and Turin,
 Saline county.
 ' --~s+~Sx1--e+---- Clippings and Comments, l The following is from the Memphis Appeal: ] , LADIES TO TIE REscCE!-A lady of this city, ! well known for high talents, sends the following for publication: |" 4 number of the young ladies of f Memphis offer their services to tue merchants and
 bankers to stand behind t cir counters in the place l of the clerks, who now % much needed al Co., klamBus behind bayones."
 [. Storekecping is about played out in Little
 Rock, as the empty shelves of the merchants
 bear witness. But, if there are any, who have a large enough stock of goods to warrant the em- ! ployment of q clerk, we hope that clerk will be female. It Is no time now for an able bodied
 man to be standing behind counter meaaur- ing tape or weighing groceries. Even in whisky
 shops, if liquor must be sold, old men or boys
 could be found 10 pour t 4ut-, We favor the employment of females as clerks. 1t will ena-
 be them to make 9 living and afford the mea no excuse for staying Il home.
 Not content with the destruction of the tree- dom of the press, the fedorals have destroyed the freedom of the ballot box. h Maryland
 they arrested and imprisoned or killed outright,
 those who dared to vote against tories. Gen. 1!aleck, commanding iu Missouri, has issued
 the following general order:
 1t is hereby ordered that all future elections in this State--whether state, municipal, county or town elecsions-every voter will De required to
 take the oath of allegiance required U the State convention of October 5 Ie6i. Officers of polls will see to the execution Of this order. If they receive votes of persons not taking the oath, they will De arrested, tried for military oiensc, and the election declared null and void"
 In other words, unless q man votes certain
 way he shall not vote. And they call this an
 election, or giving man hs choice Sc much
 for liberty in Lacoludom.
 , The Richmond Examiner, in commenting ap0n affairs in Tennessee, says:
 :. No Qualifications had been erected at Nash vile, and q great panic seized the people, We hear of an immense meeting held to consider the cuestior whether the town sh0ad De defended, and that a vast majority decided not to fight The ar- cumcnt which decided the men oi Nashville was the noble question what shall 60 with the women and children 2 Whenever creature in male attire begins to talk of his women and child ran. and say how brave he would be, how careless of danger etc., if he did not have wife and children, we know what he is IL is a favorite gument of paltroonery, and uttered in general as F unaueNerable. Yet woman permits man t0 marry her and beget children by her, on the suppo sition that he is capable ot fighting for her and ! them. The very reason why man should be more fearless and determined than another, is thus se- ! t.l rl ,tff fan fpp p yittue'
 i Prisoners ol war and persons confined on suspicion of patriotism are immured in the jail of the District oi Cola'abi2. Tie following is
 NJ. Wilson, ot H.. .aaaset,a-, introlqceI '.
 resolution instructug the comrdttee on the District of Coluubil to enquire in10 rIt condition Of the district j,,il, and empowering the committee to
 send for persons and pIpcc..
 A letter WAS read from Mir Dlva', recently di5 charged from his position as one ot the jail guards charging upon the management there Of gross vio- iaton.ot the law, frequent whipping ol prisoners,
 one nt the modes ot punishment being to stretch
 tue victim upon barrel, and the jnHcton ot blows
 with u piece ot board Ju tlc bare flesh, in cer tain cases 10 the extent ot ihirty-thrce blows. He deemed 1t an insult to the President and an out rage upon humanity tO allow such proceedings. ' Tine resolution was adopted"
 The following is 9 sentence from the speech
 of Mr. Benjamin, delivered in the '. $. Senate ! before the separation of the South: ! '" Ton my wrap our cities in flames; you may dcsoi4te our fields; you may turn loose frou tiers the saydGe5, and arm our oWu slaves against us but there is thing you can not do; you will never subiugate us. An enslavcd and servilc race you can never make Of Us. Never! never. never" As 3 specimen of official lying the following is lard to excel even among thc Yankees.
 The following dispatch from St. Louis. was re- cefyei by Gen. Mcclellan in Washington, on the y1th ult
 lsen. Curtis las taken ptsseos.nn of Fayeite- vile, ArhaEsas, capturing number q prisoners, stores, baggage, etc. Iao enemy burnt part Of the town before leaving. They have crossed the Boston Monntlius in great confusion. We are nov in possession of all tLeir stronehold'. " Forty two officers and men of the 9th Missouri cavalry were poisoned at Mud Town ny eating ! poisoned food, which the rebels left behind them. . The gallant Capt. Doliert died, and Lieut-Coi. Deut.h and Capt. Ashman have suffered much, hnt are recovering The indignation of our Idlers is
 very great. but they have been restrained from re- la latDg upon the prisoners ot Var.
 '~gne Il. hALiEcK,
 Major General.
 A uothcr dispatch dated Gross IIolIo"s, Ark, Feb g, says:
 "O7r army is waiting for supplies, and VII not be lik hr to move for ten or twelve days fnce and M:Culoch are beyond the Boston Mountain Our troops took possession of Fayetteville at II o'cloc, yesterday morning. I'll" ruins of the town were smoking vhen oQr tt1.p. .nt.Fed. 1he re, bes are badly demo4li, ~Loui ana and a Texas regiment aic with, MoCuliocn.
 The rollowing, whicl 'has the ring of true metal, is among a seri5s of resolutions adopted at meeting of planters in Mississippi:
 "Resolocd, That should the patriotic chivary Of the South. contrary to our earnest expectations, prove tself recreant and the invading foe succeed in breaking through the lines of our deiehses, ana begin his march oi conquest through our country, we do hereby solemny declare 1t 10 be our fixed and unaterable purpose to present him deso.ate land, laying our fields waste w'th fire. And if there should frc foutrl any among possessing 1 an abject and craven spirit, who shall refuse or neglect to perform this act of necessary defense we pledge faith to each other, that will see it done every plantation throughout the county So that the enemy shall never obtain from us that cotton which is wealth. and becomes to him the sinews of And further, we do plight our sacred honor to each other, that in sueh m event. winch we do not anticipate, but for which we are bound to be prepared 90 soon as we get our families to -placts of safety, we will each and all who may not already be in the fed unite ourselves for the public defense. unless hndored by positive physical inability and at the first opportunity, re-