Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-17


 with baskets, pitchers and peils giving the sol diefs coffee or fcod aE->--sev---ging-t -ther>. While the shells were hurling through the air and " the bravest held his breath for time" fair women moved about, bringing water to the | thirsty, food for the iamshing, and smiling good cheer. Were not such women worth fight ing for?
 We do not know that any regular body of Arkansas troops were in the late battle Tt Rich mond, but as there were a great many Arkan' sians attached to Virginia companies and to others, we shall look with some anxiety for the list of casualties.
 England consumes, in round numbers, 1000 million of pounds of cotton each year. Of this the Confederate States furnished over 700 mil lions India less than 200 and the rest of the world, say, 100 millions of pounds
 Capt. Semmes, and other officers of tLe Sum- ter, were at Nassau, \. F., on the 9th of June
 The federal papers of New Orleans do not publish anything of sickness in their army. In late report they admitted they had great many cases of ship fever. The Memphis (Gren ada) Appeal says it learns from other sources that they are dying of Ike sheep.
 Two steamboats brought, one from Cincin- natl and one from Louisville, to Memphis, in one day, two hundred merchants or shop keep CTS, with their "truck." 4 majority of them were Israeliles.
 Butler, the infamous, has issued another of his orders. Itprovides that all judges, justices, clerks, sherifa; indeed all professional men, all traders and persons claiming any passport, or who receive money, mus first take and sub scribe an oath of allegiance to the Lincoln government. No Lou'siauian holding office can hold t longer unicos-,i" .y.oo,..r5 l4:.1az lr Nothing can be bough; or sold, or money col~ lected unless the person claiming the privilege to buy and sell shall first truckle to the tyrant In truth, it presents the alternative of taking repuI8ive oath, or being cast off as leper, with whom no man can have any transactions.
 The federals, who pay ID attention to oaths or protesations themselves, swear everybody on every possible occasion. In the first place, they know that the people ot the South have an old fashioned respect for oaths, and if a person should be forced to take one administered by them and violate it, it will serve as an excuse forsthem to murder him. In Memphis they re- quire all persons in business; merchants, tra~ ders and others, to take an oath. late num- Der of the Appeal give' 2 list of those persons and firms who have subscribed to it. The list is two columns long, but the Appeal says ma iorty of the names are those of new corners.
 Whenever federal mil IVY authorities take possession of city or cou ltry they issue orders and proclamations, in ~ho1 they declare that persons and property will be respected and peaceable citizens will re uain 9sEse.e e.estad.-- They even go so far, n son caseFyR4# |, 10 as restore runaway negroes. Bit SO soon as they get firm hold they commerce arresung promi nent men, carrying off and ming negroes and stealing generally Not onl~ ito the men suffer- but women and children also. Gen. Wool is sued proclamation at Portsmouth depriving | the citizens of communication outside 0fthe city, ! thus starving even the women and children, with 1 the intention 10 force all the inhabitants to take the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln dynasty.
 At the battle of Shiloh, 1t is estimated, that | one million balls from small arms were fired | The federals admit a oss in killed and wounded | of l3,o00, but admixag it to be 20,d0C, it will | be seen 980,000 shots were thrown away. In | other words, out of hundred shots, two hit and | ninety-aight miss. The Army Argus and other papers say that the chief cause of this, is that puns overshoot, aid advise the soldiers to fire low and aim at the knee.
 The monster Butler, is making good thing of it in New Orleans. He has stolen more than million of dollars, and in addition to that has levied a tax of two millions. He has seized the property of secessiouists and is selling it at auction. Dry good, shoe, hardware, grocery and other stores, are taken possession of by his troops and their contents sold at tuction. The proceeds go in the rascal's pocket. Yet the Yankees talk of respecting private property.
 Alfred Stanley, the brother of Edward Stan> ley, whom Lincoln made provisional governor of North Carolina, was taken prisoner by the Y ankees He told them that he hoped North Carolina would gape aad swallow his brother, . f he came there under the authority of the {; United States. | Those who were members, or who attended c he sitings of the state convention, will remem- : er ". N. Fishback one of the. delegates from g . sebastian county. He is man of some ability ather of the pop gun order, and 3 fluent spea u CT. He was a strong Union man, but upon the 2 assage of the ordinance of secession, he signed and declared he was for separation. Though ,gared as fsby, still he repeatedly declared lat he was for the South. He went yet further. pon his return home he joined a volunteer ps