Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-01-09

The Augusta Georgia, Fire Insurance Com- pany lost S70,O00 by the great fire in Charleston, which they are prepared to pay. We have received letter from a friend stating that he had tried acorns as substitute for coffee. He complains of an unripe taste which will be got rid of by cutting the acorns aud letting them dry. In other respects he thinks the substitute is admirable, and says that if coffee could be had for ten cents a pound and acorns for fifteen cents, he would prefer to buy the acorns. He adds that he has been an habitual coffee thinker of coffee in the morning, had headache all day. But one cup of good acorn coffee has the happy effect of freeing him from headache and he thinks the acorn equal to that of Mocha.-- Let our readers gather few acorns, cut them up, dry them, parch like coffee and try them. White oak mast is preferred by some. The dit ferent oaks yield acorns that make coffee differ ent in its astringent properties and favors. If anybody has dull, stupid, lazy, of no ac> count negro, whom they wish to see transformed into eontraband |" of remarkable intelligence" and of fine powers of observation let the Yankees steal him and the negro tell them some lies This transform aton Is akin to that of some shifless Yankee, who is ordered from the South as suspicious character. Upon his arrival in Lincolndom he becomes "the reliable gentle man, "an exile" and though he may never have had hundred dollars in the world, has abandoned vast possessions in the South and all that sort of thing.
 On the 10th ult., the pirate Wilkes was sere- naded at Washington. The mayor introduced Wilkes to the mob, and the great international law writing kidnapper said:
 "I attribute this demonstration to my having recently performed act of public duty. will refer specially to my course on that occa- sion, but will only say that should another similar emergency arise, should do exactly the same thing again.
 His masters having repudiated and denied his act, this fellow Wilkes mast feel small. As to the supposition that he will resign it is an absur dity. He is too dirty a dog to give up his pay on account of any indignities or degradation.
 Did it ever occur to you, reader, what Q precious amount of humbuggery old Scott made of his illness. At New I ork, when aboutto leave the scenes of his disgrace, he told them that he was going to France to fud some doctor gifted in the speciality of curing his diseases. He had gout, lambago, dizziness and dropsy. Indeed, he told them that he had resigned because he was too infrm and unable to move. He went to France and seeing his Baboon master was in terrible scrape, wrote letters trying to get him out and hurried home again, as lively as man of forty, showing that his plea of sickness, dig ziness gout and weak back, was a lie to cover the disgrace of Manassas.
 The salt works in Bienville parish, La., turns out 200 bushels of salt day.
 The treasury notes of Arkansas, of small de- nominations, are in general use. They have been printed on common letter paper, the best, and, in fact, the only kind that could be got un- til recently. Lately, some fine paper has been procured, and arrangements made to get fine engravings.
 Fancy map making is one of the innocent amusements of Lncoln's cabinet. In making ! 3 new map of the States, Virginia has been divided into three parts; slice being given to Maryland, another to Delaware and the remain der to the suppositious government at haeling. In dividing the western States, Missouri is to get all north Arkansas, the river being the dividss ing Iine Of course, Lincoln intends to keep Missouri and make 1t a white slave State. In that case Little Rock would be on the border. While the Lincoln cabinet is thus partitioning independent States and making new maps it seems to forget the old proyerb of Man pros poses, but God disposes.'
 It is gratifying fact that war bonds are in such demand that tax payers here find ditl' | cuty in procuring enough wherewith to pay their taxes. Holders will not exchange them for any but Louisiana paper and are not very eager to make that trade. Two large land sales, one in the Washington district and another in ! the Batesyille, will absorb large amount l Collectors of revenue are daily receiving them, and the demand is general It may be neces- sary to issue the two millions authorized to be issued, but if it is, based as they are upon six teen millions of acres of land, the revenue of the State, and receivable for all indebtedness, they are amply secured and will be redeemed in few years at furthest.
 The Capt. Merriwether who was killed at the cavalry fight on Green river, was Ed Merri' wether, of Christian county, Ky, and not Il. 1 Clay Merriwether, as first reported. The Col Bonham who died lately, was of the 22d Mis- sissippi regiment, and not Gen. Mhledge L. l Bonham, of South Carolina.
 The army of the Potomac celebrated christ mas day quite jovially and egg-nog was plentiful.
 Some of the Yankee correspondents oc- casionally indulge in sarcastic descriptions ot their own troops, which are highly seasoned with hu,nor. The correspondent of the New York Mercury thus described a body ofytroops which l he denominates the q. .Mackerel Brigade:
 The review of seventy thousand troops near | Munson's Hill, on Thursday, was one of those ovaatr hnyy yrhiph wa hav heen urop