Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-10

For the District of South Carona-Abram D. smith, Wm F. " ording, Wm. Henry Brisbane
 We copy the above from the list of appointments published in the Missouri Republican.
 These appointments, so far us Arkansas isconcern- ed, are humbug, and intended to create theimpres- sion that Lincoln has friends here who will accept office from him. As to Mir. Tbbitts, his friends say that he is true and his enemies that he is against us Mr. Hampstead is dead, but was loyal to the South and this loyalty sealed before his death not only by patriotic acts, but by the blood of his son. who died on the bloody field of Shiloh. Judge Walker too, exhibited his patriotism Oak Hills where he fought with his double barrelled gun, and by his efforts since He has been robbed and nearly ruined by the federals, arrested and is now under bond We see in the Texas papers, a card from Geo. w. Pas chal saying he knew nothing of and refuses the ap- pointment and declaring that though he was Union man and has taken ground against some laws of the Confectionery that he is now for the South.
 The following is the federal inventory of the arms and munitions of war seized on the Fair Play | at MillilSen's Bend:
 1900 Enfield rifles, English manufacture | 4250 nIuskets, English manufacture. 2l boxes English accoutrements. 138 boxes English musket accourements 3l 900 round English cartridges | 34000 round musket cartridges. 2500 round HOwitzer ammunition | The federal papers in Memphis and elsewhere, publish accounts of the acts of their troops in Ar kansas, that are sufficient of themselves, to place them below the level of savages. They tell of the perpetration of enormous crimes as cooly and utingly as pirate or thief ever boasted of like exploit. In late article in a Memphis paper, the writer, ,chuckles over series of robberies and out rages committed by federal troops in Arkansas, and among them, tells of woman or girl who was | holding horse at door, who expressed some con- tempt for,or avoidance ofthem, and who the wretch says, was "treated aceording to ike recommendation of Gen. Butler" The following extract from the same source is admission that they have set the negroes to stealing, and are the receivers of the l stolen goods:
 | GA gentleman just returned from Helena and vicinity brings gloomy tidngs of the assertion of the country n that section. The negroes manu- facture all sorts of lies about having worked at Fort Pillow, and thus obtain passes to go north. | Many of them, however, prefer not to go north. | These remain upon their masters farms as long l they get anything to eat, and instead of work ing, they set themselves to stealing horses, mules, 1 cows-n fact all sorts Of stock taken--and dis 1 posed of by them at astonishing low prices The overseers the plantations have gone off, and the negroes masters of the situation. Such is the | logical sequences of secession civil war. The federals claimed to have an excess of pris- oners ever since the fall of Fort Donaldson, but one of their papers, better posted than the rest makes the following admission:
 ''Gen. Lee says the Rebels have an excess of IltIc at fast brag, but upon careful computation it is found to be true, says Washington letter in the New York Post. Large were the number of rebel prisoners taken in the spring, they have since been over borne by the defeats, retreats and captures on the Chickahominy, at Winchester and ill Tennessee"
 Yankee generals grow rich. Besides assessments, the proceeds of which seldom go into the army
 treasury, they get themselves in the shape of brbes and fees for pcrnts. The following is a sample of how federal officers raise the wind. It is perfect highway robbery, only substituting the words ''your money or your liberty" for ''your money or your lifc'
 l "Col. Metcalf, in command at Paris, Kentucky, has a large sum on deposit in the bank at Paris, which he has drawn from the secession syInpathz- CTS in that part of Kentucky. He quietly selects his men, makes the assessment, and gives the sc cesSiOnlSCS tne cn0lce or paying up or making a | visit to Camp Chase. He drew from this fund sl,S00 to reimburse the city of Cincinnati for the steam fire engine horses stolen by Morgan in his raid Cynthiana.
 We caution fair readers against reading the following clip, unless they have some hartshorn, camphor, or cologne near at hand. Persons with weak stomachs had better not read it at alI
 NEGRO FEsTIvALIN BRooKLIN.-The Williams burg Times has interesting, highly colored, and somewhat highly farored description of a recent negro festival in Brooklin, from which we clip the l following extract
 Women decked in jewels, who had come to | the Park in carriages attended by white servants in livery; gay young lotharios, dressed in the most | toppish and extravagant manner, or with scrupu- lous neatness; fancy young bucks, who couldn't keep their heels down or their mouths shut, while the fiddle sounded. Lovely young females, with not drop of colored blood in their veins, white men, old and young; beautiful quadroons whose handsome forms were displayed to the best advan- tage by every appliance and non appearance of | fashiOn Whistling Jack, with his ebon face and white shirt-all mingled together in the dance and | made one of the most animating and interesting pictures when viewed from the orchestra that it has | been our luck to witness. In the midst of rapid waltz one of the fair white women fainted. She was borne in the arms of her lover, or husband, who was as black as the ace of spades, to bench, where her swarthy sisters and brothers gathered around her and from their attention she soon re- covered. Leaning lovingly upon the arm of her escort with her head upon his shoulder, she was | led to a cool retreat in the woods.''