Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-30
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 litionists sent lot of male and female missiona- res to Hilton Head, to teach the negroes and improve their morals Some of the sisters were young and pretty and the result IS that the negroes are neglected and the she missiona- res have taken to desperate Irritation with the army officers. The northern papers are filed with grave charges against these women; such as taking long walks with officers, riding out with them, being seen with officer arms around their waists, and the like. As for the pale missionaries, the Rev. Mawworms, Stigginess and Cantwells, they loll abont, drink fine wines, fish, but occupy their time principally in !" being rowed about by a gang of stalwart negroes" A nice set aint they?
 The Hilton Head correspondent of the Hart ford Times is very lugruious about the State of affairs on the Island. lie says: 4 In conse. quence of the impressment of negroes for sol i diers, no food will be raised this year. The negroes were hard to catch, begging piteouslY to be released, and were good for nothing after they were caught
 hC 13luO iOCo SOlA pOSiiiS lLO bi ii- t*AS are described as :" 8 motley, ja6bering, stupid, undisciplinabIe set-of no use whatever, except to consume United States ratons, which they do at fearful rate.'
 Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, noted New York politician and one of the founders of the know nothing order, has been nominated for bri- gader general by Lincoln.
 The federal spy seen at Richmond by Mrs. Greenhow's little daughter turns ont to have been Q fellow named Dennison. Mrs. Greenhow had instructed her little girl to make herself fami- liar with the faces of such characters, and IS | Dennison was the chief detective of Seward, | and prominent scoundrel about Washington, he was promptly recognized. He succeeded in escaping.
 | The papers in the northwestern States are bragging loudly that the general officers of the federal army are mostly from the west. Gen. ! Pope has been assigned to the command of the armies of Fremont Banks and Mcdowell. EtN dltCui pltO U tl r at S lt%tA1 V AiAOlI Nt ing in Memphis on the 24th ut. It proved a fzzle. The northern papers say 200 persons were present. Speeches were made by two citizens of Memphis, names not given.
 The federal general Grant, is in command of the military district in which Memphis is situa- ted The commander of the post of Memphis i5 Col W. s. Hllyer and Lieut'Col. D. c. An thony is provost marshal
 The Yankees are ingenious in finding new terms for defeat They won't admit that Me Clellan was whipped, but that he changed his 1 front" or [" found q new line of attack" | So certain were the people of the North that Mcclellan would take Richmond, that one of the New York illustrated papers got up pictures of McCleans triumphal march into the city with himself and officers filing around the sta' tue Of Washington. The fall of Richmond was teegraphed all ov.C the North; bells were rung, cannon fired and bonfres lighted. So confident were they that three New York mer- chants arrived at Richmond ready to collect bills and sell goods. They were sent to the to- baccO warehouse
 The Nashville, now called the Thomas l.. Wragg, has arrived at southern port heavily laden with arms and ammunition. She had on board thirteen batteries Of light artillery pre- sent from the merchants and citizens of Liver pool to the Confederate States There are 78 guns in the batteries, all raed, with carriages, harness, etc. She was chased seventeen hours by federal gunboats.
 The Confederate treasury department is now issuing very neatly engraved treasury notes of the denominations of one dollar and half two, two and half, and three dollars
 Up to the 5th inst, there were 5,O09 Yankee prisoners brought into Richmond. Others were in camp and were being forwarded. Among the officers were Major General 4. Mccall, and Brigadier Generals Reynolds, Banks, Sumner and Meade.
 The canal opposite Vicksburg is completed at last. The Yankees "calculate" that the river will cut it out and deepen it.
 Butler was in trouble with the commanders of English vessels at New Orleans On the 4th of July. boat load of English tars coming up to the levee, sang "Dixie" and {" the Bonnie Blue Flag" Butler sent word to the captain that he did not permit such demonstrations. The captain replied that he did. That night ball was given on board the vessel, and among the decorations were Confederate flags. When the boat from the British ship Racer, visited the city, it came with the British flag at the stern and the Confederate flag at the bow.- Butler objected, but was told that the captain decorated his boat as he pleased A crowd on the levee cheered the boat and this so enraged Butler that he had them arrested and sent to prison. Among them was a boy ten years of age.
 Texas rangers and guerillas are in the swamps opposite New Orleans. They have killed or driven in the pickets at Carrollton several times.
 We read good story in an exchange, of conversation between two of Stonewall Jack sons men: Says one, "I wish all the Yankees were in he'll" Says the other, :" l don't-be- cause if they were, old Stonewall would take