Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-02-20


 Dunnville, anithe surrounding country, desirous of joining Her Majesty's Royal Volunteer Militia, can do so by calling at my ofiice wherethe sefVice roll is now lying for signatures. W hen completed the company will be officered.
 s. AMSDEN,
 Capt. Comd'g Vol. R. C.
 Dunnville, Dec. sS, lo6l."
 The New York Tribune copies the above and moralizes in this style: ~
 Wouldn't it be curious to see these fugitives from the blessings of slavery employed by England, the great abolitionist power in for the estab- ment of JeG. Davis negro despotsin' Iris queer Worid.''
 Don't all answer at once!
 Is deaths door opened with skeleton key sv |
 Is there any truth in the report that the AHbe, who-liye in the desert, have sandy hair2
 In selling a Newfoundland dog, do you know whether it is valued according to what it will fetch or what it will bring?
 We sincerely beg Vallandingham's pardon for supposing him to be Yankee, or at best, of German decent. The following clipped from the Charleston Courier, explains why he opposes tyranny aud Liucolnism:
 MT. Vallandingham was born in Maryland at any rate his ancestors, for some generations, resd ed in that State and are of the noblest stock which that land of liberty loving patriots ever produced. Though now residing in Ohio, he has not in his veins drop of Yankee or Puritan blood.i
 "It is announced that the Yankees at Hatteras have opened school for the instruction of adult negroes
 The above is Yankee paragraph intended for home consumption. The truth is that they work the negroes from daylight till dark and imprison them at night to keep them from run> ming away. Of course, something must be sent home to keep up appearances with the sniveling and canting abolitionists. But if 1t was true. wouldn't it be funny? Think of a big black negro with spelling book in hand rolling up the whites of his eyes to his teachers face and say ing: food Lord, Massa Tank, am that AZ"
 An exchange says:
 The proprietors of the Richmond Coffee Mills cooy advertise that from and after lst of February next, and during the blockade, q first class and beneficial substitute for coffee will be provided for the trade and public, in one and two pound packets, ground and ready for use. These will be packed in cases of 20 lbs each and upwards, to suit purchasers. The retail price will be q cts. per pound.' No infor2lation is youchsafed to as to what may be the components of the mysterious, though first class and beneficial substitute T We'll bet 1t is made of acorns. The following, from the Memphis Appeal, shows the devilish disposition of our enemies. 1 The foe who would poison medicines for the pur- pose of murdering women and children, black and white, who may be sick, might teach the 1 very fends lesson in depravity. Read it: POISONED QUININE.-It is well known that aui. nine, being very scarce, has risen to very high price, and the price has tempted enterprisng per- sons to smuggle it into the Confectionery. Suspi- cions have risen more than once that deadly ingre- dients had been put into qunne It was suspected, by enemies, for the baSest purposes We have pol sitive evidence at this moment that such is the A few days ago party, whose character is aboy C suspicion, called upon one of our principal drug gists and offered him a large quantity of quinine and morphine for sale, frankly explaining how he got it and where it came from. A slight examina- tiOn convinced the druggist that there grave reasons for susplcOn and he advised the holder of the drugs to have them analysed. They were taken to q professor of chemistry in the cty-0ne of the most competent men in the Southland package by package was submitted to the process There suit was that portion of the packages turned out to be quinne of excellent quality, another portion  was morphine, also of excellent quality; others were quinine mixed with morphine in such degree IS to render the whole poisonous if given in qui- nine doses: other packages had quinine with slight admixturc of morphine, not sufficient to be poison ous, and there were others that had 9uinine, nor phine and strychnine together with various impu- rities these latter of course deadly poisons. We give these facts not on hearsay, but from our own inquiries of parties concerned. The question drisess this the single and only lot of these fatal mixtures brought South? It any other than a com reteut and skillfu druggist had seen these packa- ges, we might be having mysterious cases of dis. ease happening among us this moment. w there fore all medical puryeyors and apothecaries to examine strictly whether quinine offered then for sale is put upin the usual manner, and beaDs the or dinarv trade mark, and in of the least doubt to have recourse to analysis. We also warn persons buying quinine, and we may properly include other important medicines, to go for their drugs to regu lar and sklful apothecaries, to huy of peddlers, groceries, or apothecaries, unless skilled in their profession.
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