Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-03
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 ==Mr David Taylor, of Rocky Comfort, Ark; sends us communication on the subject of buying aud paying for guns by the different l Provost Marshals. The practice IS now, We pc lieve, to give receipt for the gun and on pre- sentaton of this receipt to the chief ot ordnance OF other officer, he pays reasonable pTlce therefor. Mir. T. argues that the better plan would be to furnish the marshal CT agent wlth money to buy the guns aud close the matter at once. The certificates given are at q dlscount for it costs journey to Little Rock or Camden to get the money, and complaints is made that the journey is often made in vain; passes have to be procured and valuable time islost. More guns could be obtained if the purchase money WAS paid down and at lower prices. Mir. I. says | these certificates of purchase are traded of at heavy discount and the parties suffer loss. l We mention this at his urgent request and com mend 1t to the consideration of those who have the management of such matters.
 The Woodville Miss factory furnishes nil its goods to the Confederate government at the 1 following prices: Lowells, twenty-five cents, and ! linseys, seyentyfye cents yard.
 Cassius M Clay has arrived at Washington. 1 It is reported that he is to have a command iu the west, the new department of Ohio Indiana and Kentucky.
 1 Among the names of the exchanged prisoners who have arrived at Richmond, we find that of Lieut. Col. $. Keen of the 7th Arkansas. 1 Capt. Faulkner, and fifty or sixty rangers un- der his command, suffered themselves to be surprised by the fcderals near Dyensburg, in 1 West Tennessee, and were cutto pieces. Captain | Peck who commanded the federals, reports that his men fought well and gIre no quarters. Rhode Island has raised reg giment, the 9th, consisting entirely of " colored citizens The federal general McCook, who was killed 1 near Salem, Alabama, was a grog shop bully- ing braggart He had all the fiendishness of Butler without his cunning. He is the fellow who talked about making clean work of 1t by hanging every rebel. He used to abuse the prisoners in his power and on one occasion told them that if he could have his way he would hang them all and leave no male over sixteen years of age in the country. His soldiers, in revenge for his death hung seventeen of our prisoners in their hands and devastated the l country for miles around the place of his death
 l. is said that Morgan is again in Kentucky, with 1000 cavalry.
 The Grenada Appeal of the l4th ult., in aa article on the released privateersmen and their cruel treatment in Yankee prisons has the fol- lowing item:
 "The treatment of Colonel Zaryona (the French Lady,) 50 well known for his daring feat in accomplishing the capture the steamer St. Nicholas, and other vessels in the Potomac is described to have been most villainous and inhuman. He is still languishng in a cell, so marrow as to give him no opportunity to lie down, and into which the light Of heaven never penetrates, except through q small auger hole ! in one of the boards with which his cell window 1 has been planked up. And yet this gallant man is a regularly commissioned officer of the Con federate Statesr'
 The National Inteligencer, heretofore regard ed as the official organ of Lincoln and special representative of Seward, makes uncOmpromls- ing war on Lincon's emancipation scheme.
 The following is spec,ai despatch to the K. I. Evening Post.
 WASHINGTON, July 28. ] The copy of the written instructions to Gen eral Lane of Kansas, which is on file At the war | department. Sh0acs TO authoriiy to raise negro brigades, dut t $ reported Iah, that Lane re- ceiyed rerbai permission to employ the blacks l if he regarded 1t as necessary. 1 Large planters in southwestern Georgia have 1 con acted to deliver corn at the nearest railroad depot, al twenty-five cents bushcl The Yankee papers ave much exercised about the eopement o1 Mrs. SchoocraA with Dr.. Beattie, married man, to Earope. Mrs. $. is the neice of w. II. Seward.
 Butler is collecting cords of money in the shape of fines and amercements. As sample, two merchants were arrested, one for cnrsing Lincoln and the other for laughing tt him. They were each fined $l00 and sent to prison for three months.
 The correspondent Of the Petersburg Ex- press, ayers that the French Princes left Mc- Clellan's staff, because McCelan father>n-law had cleaned them out at " draw"
 The new constitution of Illinois, ratified by 10000 majority, provides that no negroes or muiattoes shall hereafter come in that State, or vote, or hold ofice and that the legislature shall pass the necessary laws to carry these provis' ions into effect.
 Thirty-two prisoners taken by Cartis, in Ar kansas, arrived at St. Louis during the last week in July.
 | The Alton tIll.,) Telegraph gives list ot Confederates who escaped from tbe penitentiary st that place on the 18th of July. Among then was Col. AIagofin, brother of the gover- nor of Kentucky, who was under sentence oi death for breaking his parole.
 It is mistake to suppose that the opposition l to tho ahoiition no1inv n Lincoln IS confined