Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-03
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sour, ndS become lSgusJeu Witn the acts or tiIt hireling troops of Lincoln. In his message tc the convention, he says they are "a class o troops who came with feelings of hostility to oul people and our institutions, and who, under the guise of supporting the Union, perpetrated enor nous outrages upon our citizens"
 In one of the general orders issued at St Louis, s. R. Curtis is styled, commander and military governor of Arkansas" The federal congress has imposed a tax of one half cent pound on cotton. This was strongly resisted by the New England delega~ ton, and, in the course of the debate, Wilson, of Massachusetts, said:
 "Mr. Wilson earnestly opposed any tax on cotton as uni just to the great manufacturing in- terests of the country. The burden would chiefly fall on the industrial interests of New England, which the prescribed bill already bears bur den, paying at least four dollars to one as con- pared with the great agricultural districts of the west. Many of the cotton mills were closed al- ready, and heavy tax on cotton would tend to close them all, and throw the operatives out of employment"
 Mechanicsviie, place alluded to in the sele- graphic dispatches, is six miles from the city of Richmond, and mile beyond the Chickahom- inv It is 8 small place called vile from courtesy, there being some half dozen houses and as many shops and stores.
 The Edgefeld (S. C.f Advertiser, notices the cotton crop in that section, as follows: " The staple weed is charmingy diminutve and sore shinned.'
 Brownlow says that he intends to return to Knoxville on horseback, with epaulettse on his shoulders and sword by his side. He intends to point out the traitors and the limbs of trees whereon to hang them, They had Brownlow catch him again, the rope and the tree will be found without his pointing them out.
 All the printing offices in Nashville have been seized by the federals and declared to be "f for feitures for reasonable publications Butler is playing the same game in New Orleans.
 The Texas papers very generally state that the wheat crop of that state is good one and all the other crops bid fair to be large.
 Front Royal, Warren county, Virginia, where Jackson whipped Banks, is l39 miles north- west of Richmond, and is S5 miles from Wash. ington. It is distant forty miles, on an air line, from Harpers Ferry. The aforesaid Banks is the individual who was elected speaker of the House of Representatives after a protracted balloting, and who, on one occasion, when told that the abolition policy, if persisted in, would dissolve the Union, replied: Let the Union slide"
 The national debt of England is 742, ,937 ,000 pounds; or upwards of three thousand seven hundred millions of dollars. The rate of in terest they pay is about three per centum. The interest they paid year ago was one hundred and twenty millions of dollars. By the first day of January next, the debt of the United States will amount to two thousand millions of dollars. The rate of interest in this country is about six per centum, and the interest on the American debt will be $l20, ,000,s00, equal to that of the British. The value of taxable pro- perty in Arkansas is about $l5c, ,OOO,0Oo. Now it would take the whole State of Arkansas tc pay the interest on the debt of the United States for eighteen months.
 Gov Clark, of N. C., has probably been bought by the federals; and has refused to respond to call for troops. The Raleigh Standard has turned 10 abusing the Confederacy, much in the same fashion that a little newspaper we had in our city, called the Journal, and edited by one Peek, attempted to do. The mass of the people of North Carolina are patriotic, but such man as Clark may do a great deal of mischief
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