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Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Partisan Warfare.

The possession of the Mississippi, Red, Arkan- saa. White. Ouachita, and other tributary rivers and bavous by the federals, will amount to very little if the people residing on these streams are trpe 10 themselves Their gunboats are not calculated to carry freight and they must use ordinary steamboats. These may go III fleets, with gupboat preceding them and the larger boats may carry cannon each loaded, With grape shot to repel attacks but even this will not save them, if few determined men will re- solve that Lincoln's boats shall not sail upon our waters The pilot houses of the steamboats may be cased with iron, but the pilots must have an open space through which to sec. If two or three men, will dig rifle pit on the shore, at bend of the river, where boat will be obliged to come within hundred yards and where the pilot will be facing them and exposed, they could pick of the pilot and perhaps the captain. If the gunboat send a shell, let tie partsans stoop in the'pit until it explodes. lfby chance it falls in the pit, they can jump out But the trees will protect them from shell. A discharge of grapeshot would not hurt them as they would be protected. II the DOaJ hHoutO tiPC " 4"hH before that could be done; the partisan, could be q mile of. to where his horse was tied, or in some canebreak. Five, ten, or fifteen men in each county bordering on the river, with well select ted rife pits, could render the navigation of the river by other than gunboats, so dangerous that pilots would not attempt to carry boats up or down the stream. There are places where the channel runs close under bluff, where rocks or trees could be thrown down on the boat.
 What is everybodys business is, proverbia- ly nobody's business. If we leave these things to be done by others they will not be done. Let some five or six, or more in each county bordering on the river meet and agree to do this. The localities of the various pits or rocks or positions behind the levees, may be kept a secret No boat could go fifty miles, if at every mile the pilot was shot at. No number of men could be found to act as pilots under such circumstances. It would be impossible for the enemy to keep both banks of the river lined and guarded with troops. If this course is pur sued our rivers may be kept free from the boats of the enemy by few men. To insure its being done, there must be consultation and agreement among the partisans-some sort O. organization We must fight the enemy in every conceivable way; worry and harrass him, and make the climate so hot that he will leave it.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
T E n s.

The St. Louis papers notice the arrival at the camp of Gen. Curtis, of Isaac Murphy and Doctor Johnston, from Madison county, in this S,ate When the feds came down to Hunts vile, jacklegged lawyer named Hamm, a wretcbed tory, piloted them about pointing out persons and places; Johnston is the brother-in- law of Hamm and upon the withdrawal of the federals he found public opinion too warm for him. Judge Murphy will be remembered as the only member of the State Convention who refused to vote for the ordinance of secession.- We believed that his opposition arose from a desire to appear singular and mistake of stub berness for frmness However, he is of nor theru birth and his pgocIivities may have run against the South or coarso these refugees have made up story of escape for fear of per sonal violence and of sacrificing their fortunes and estates. Five hundred dollars would cover the value of the worldly possessions of all three
 It is said that there are tons upon tons of Yankee newspapers at Nashville directed to persons at the South. It appears that the nor> JouIlelo ildfS oCiiI d ssOt'u pos- pers to their subscribers in the South, and in tend to make them pay their subscriptions du ring the war. as they say the non~reception of the papers was no fault of theirs. The number accumulated at Nashville is So great that the postmaster has been ordered to sell them as waste paper.
 At Castleman's ferry, on the Shenandoah river, forty or fifty men and number of officers. of Pennsylvania regiment, were in boat which was swamped and they all went under and staid there.
 A company of soldiers from Richmond re- turned from active service for 9 year, returned home with every member of the company in TO- bust health and without having lost a man from sickness The secret of their immunity from disease was personal cleanliness. They bathed regularly and washed their clothing frequently.
 Wages and provisions have declined at the North In the west, corn may be bought for ten cents and wheat for twenty-five cents bushel, eggs five cents dozen and butter ten cents pound.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

them as he has every one who trusted in him. They are growing restive and their cries of alarm are frequent. But they are sold, and now their only hope of salvation is in the success of the South. We give Q sample of one of their walls from the Republican. The writer says and asks:
 Yea the sweet scented Niger is to be our Equal, our Brother, Sister, so decrees our modern Athens, the Acropolis of refined NeD Engt7nd, and the cry re-echoes through the mountains and ham, lets of that whole territorium with it's adjacents. Well: de 0ustibus non est dispmaadttm. But, how comes it, that, whilst thousands of our acte breh ern, deuded, inhamed and sacrificed, to enforce with bloody hands this cherished object, and whilst the time of our Congress is usurped by grandllo- quent perorations in its behalf; how comes it, ask, that with feversh zeal the Legislatures of these niqqer looinq abolition States nervously engag- ed to close their doors against those Gin such an event would bel helpless blacks, forbidding their immigration to them under penalties? Suppose the task of these abolitionists accomplished by blood and carnage, what is to become of them?
 The following brag is from the St. Louis Democrat:
 Since the 1st of January the union forces have captured from the rebels five hundred and ninety siege guns and field pieces. This artillery would equip grand army, and when it IS remembered what pains the rebels have had to procure these guns, the severity of the loss will be fully appa- rent.
 The number may be overstated, but our losses have been very heavy. At least one-half of these might have been saved. This is the re- suit of making brigadiers of stump speakers and colonels of grog shop politicians.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

GJy- The Baltimore News Sheet of the 2i inst says: Yesterday morning, as policeman Brown was passing along Bond street, when in front of dwelling No. l22 he observed young lady, Miss Cecilia Robinson, waving a small secession flag from the window. This is q contraband arti- cle. and the policeman entered the house and took nossession of the flag As he left the premises the young lady assured him that she would proceed i'm mediately to make another,
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

Bitter, very bitter, is the cup the tories from Ky, Va., Md, and Delaware, are compelled to drink in Lincoln's Congress. They are snub- bed and sneered at. Lately when one of them got down on his knees and bragged of his ats tachment to the Union, John Hickman the traitor said in loud voice, "ye are unionists from cowardice." And they covered under his
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

SZ5@ The Nashville correspondent of the St. Louis Republican writes: One of our generals had a short interview the other day with Mrs. Polk, and although the meeting was pleasant as far as polite ness could make it, no doubt remained of the lady's faith in the southern cause. She took occasion to say that although the people of the United States made her husband President. the abolitionists did not do it.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
NOtice.

yNTAS committed to the jail of Fopa county. Artans,s ee the 22d of April 1882 negro who says hIs JIM, and that he belongs Charles RacliT Batey, of Ame county in the state of Mississippi Said is about Fl of et six inches hgh black color, small the che2a and chin.
 The of said negro is hereby notified to fT ward prove property pay charges and take him away e will be dealt with according to law.
 VI. L. POINTER,
 Sheriff of Pope County. May s, 1852 6m Cost Of ptiy. g Der week.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
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HoMIcIDE.-Hugh Tate, well known in Mem rhis and on White river, was shot dead yester, day by man named Harrington. We have not heard the cause of the afray or the parti culars.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

IF The communication of Dr. Luckett is bereft of it's force by the anger and bitterness displayed. We regret that the Doctor had not confined himself to a plain unimpassioned reoinder' for which he seems so well qualified.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Notice.

XKTAs committed to the ia of Saline county ArKansas " on the 10th day of March 1852, negro lnamal HENRY about A. or 50 years cl feet or 6 inches high dark color, and will weigh about 130 1iO pounds gray headed and teeth out in front and says he be oaes Go Wn Turner, of Louisiana
 The owner of sail negro is herg notified to come for wal prove property pay charges or he will be dealt with the law otherwise directs.
 TtI0S. PACK, Sheriff. May B. 1862. 6m Cost of ady,s S ger week,
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

CALL FOR VOLUNTEER CoMPANrIs SALINE CouNrY-The undersigned will nee the eiti- zens of Saline county, at Benton, cn Saturday next, 10th May,) to form 8 volunteer company to meet the invading enemy. All who desire to join such company are requested to meet him.
 GEO. w. BROWN.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

printed, You shall pray }or he President of the Jnited States or be hung. That ought to have been the policy before. You rebels ought alLto D. hung, and but for c en- Buell. should long since have been using hemp. It will come to that, and you had better take warning in time. We are handling you now with gloves. That is only an experiment.. If it doesn't succeed better than it seems 10 be doing, will try something else We will try the virtue of ropes. which, in my opinion, should have been done from the frst''
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Immediately upon the fall of Fort Pulaski, Gen. Hunter issued the following order:

Immediately upon the fall of Fort Pulaski, Gen. Hunter issued the following order:
 HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF THE SOUTH,
 -FoRT PULAszI, GEORGIA, April F. 'b2.
 All persons of color lately held to involuntary serv by the enemies of the United States i'll Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur Island, Ga, are hereby confscated and declared free, in conformity with law, and shall hereafter receive the fruits ot thelr own labor. Such of said persons of color as are able bodied, and may be required shall be employ ed in the quartermaster's department, at the rate heretofore established by Brigadier General W. T. sherman.
 By command of
 DAVID HUNTER, Major Gen'l. CHAs. c. HALPINE, Asst Adj. Gen.
 This is respecting private property with a vengeance. The Cincinnati Commercial com mentng upon this, adds:
 q Gen. Hunter has also addressed to Mir. Pierce, the treasury agent in charge of the Sea island plan tatons, letter asking for the names of the for mer owners, and the number cf persons formerly held to involuntary service, now in charge of the government agents. On receiving this iniorma- tGn, we understand it to be the intention of Gen. Hunter to afford said owners reasonable time to prove their tealty to the government, and then in of their failure to do so, and upon sufficient pr0o of their treason, he will restore these slaves to freedom.
 He has also requested to know of MT. Pierce ' the proportions in which food and cotton are be- ing planted'' on the lands in his charge. It is an article of commerce, and subject to great risks of damage and destruction.
 The general taking a common sense view of this matter-as, indeed, he seems to have done of all points connected with his command-thinks it bet ter that crops which be used for the direct sup port of our troops should be raised instead of cot ton, and that the gov vernment has erred its excu sive interest in cotton culture He has therefore determined to set the negroes 10 work to raise ve- getables and other ar .ces of food We believe Gen. Hunter to be D thoroughly practical man. and that the thus far not very profitable capture of Port Royal will be made under his hands productive of great benefit to the interests of the country"
 Further accounts state that they have set the negroes to work, under overseers, making corn and cotton.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

ExToRTIoN.--Between the shopkeepers, who skin all, including the country people; and the latter, who, to get even, their produce up to the highest price, the people of towns and cities are plundered without stint. Now, it is not what thing costs with fair profit on it, but what it will bring. The country marketman guages our neces sites and asks fifty cents pound for butter, five cents for an egg, or fifty cents for chicken, be- cause he thinks some will be forced to give those prices.
 Upon the news of the fall of New Orleans, certain of our patriotic dealers sugar up from five and six to ten and twelve cents pound, and molasses rose fifty or a hundred per cent. They pile on the price, and their plea is that they cannot replace their goods for less price. Poor men are ground to the very dust, and the necessares of life placed beyond their reach by the exactions of heartess speculators When greed so fills the heart of man as to lead him to such extortion, he is not fit to live among free people. He is Lincolnite in heart Such man would sell his country and his soul. if he had any, for " hard money" Dead to all the nobler impulses of humanity and the honest feelings of patriot he seeks to grow fat upon the lifeblood of the poor. They may do so with impun.ty. "Quien sabs?"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

FoR SALE-A good four horse wagon with bows and harness. Price in Lincoln money Sl5O; in Confederate money $l25. Enquire at this office.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
J. MOSES.
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.E3- Your candid friend has never anything pleasant to say to you. He reminds you of his pct virtue, by wounding you with it.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Sheriff B Advertisement.

EtONMITTED to the jail of Crawford county, Arkansas S the 10th day of April ISd1 negro who says his STEPHEN, about 30 years oid feet ncgcs hgh weighs about ls0 pounds dark copper coorsoys he belongs John Lair who formerly resided Springfield, Mo, but recently at Van Buren, Arl 13tsts. Tine of said negro is hereby notified to for ward prove property and pay chargcs he will be dealt with the law directs. .;
 JAMES NJ. BROWN, Jr
 Sheriff of Crawford county Ark. May s. 1892 6m Cost of adv. s per week
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

The federaIs are tightening the screws at Nashville. Rev. Geo. c. Harris, rector of the church of the Holy Trinity at Nashville, hav-
 ing been outraged and insulted, endeavored to appeal to the commander. GIcCooI was iii com mand and used the language given below. Me Cooks denial of having abJlitionists in his army is monstrous. They are all set of negro thieves and punderers. McCook will learn that he is not @ king, but g slave of Lincoln, Sumner, Greedy and others. He is 3 poor mis. erable, petty tool of miserable tyrants. Here is the language McCook usad to the Rev. G. c. Harris, upon inc lattor's appeal for projections
 "These guard, arc mine-1ny representatives, and the permit with which you were to pass them emanated from me, officer of the United States. If your people suffer inconvenience you have no one to blame but yourselves. We have come here to enforce the laws--the laws of your own land We are not abolitionists, as your vile sheets have represented IS to be. On the slavery question, Wm. l.. ancy is baby to me. IT 1 had an aboltionist in all my aciny-and have 20, r 900 men-I would cut his ears of. No, sir, am here on legitimate errand, and will not De trifed with. We intend to crush out the rebellion and restore the lawg-cost what it may., Tine minds of the nOftHeFll lo HldtS up U Jldt II we can not accomplish this in one way, we will in another If we cannot subdue you, we will kill you. We will make it war of extermination We are the masters here, now and it is time you understood it. I am commander of this division, and have around me %, GOO men ready to do my bidding. I am king here, and am your king. You are my slave, sir.
 And now, sir there is another matter between us Your clergymen choose to take part in this rnhelIioD even in yOtlr Dra yerS-SupDosng 1 guess, that your cloth will protect youbut in this you are mistaken. 1 have plenty of guard houses and ials and it may shortly be necessary should cir cumscribe your limits l have reports from your church last Sunday. I was prepared to hear it. and now. once for all, I give you to understand, that clergymen of the Episcopal church will bere qured to use their prayer-bpoks just as they are
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
Notice.

HEADQUARTERS 1sT B1TALIcv ARK CAyALEr, ]
 Camp Madden, April 2, 1852 This command having dismounted and shipped Or Mem phs infantry, all sick url0ugh will when able for duty, join their companies via Rock ing their horses behind. They will be furnished ranspor taon upon application to the quartermaser Little Rock
 W. II. BROOKS. . May 8, 1862. 4w Maj. Con'dy Battalion Gazette please copy.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
We find the following description of the no

We find the following description of the new flag in one of the Memphis papers:
 "The design for lew flag, as already stated by telegraph, consists of a red fly and blue union In the center of the unoa is golden (yelow sun, with thirteen rays, corresponding to the num- Der of the States. Seven of the rays, alternately arranged, are somewhat longer than the other.- "The fly" or body of the flag, is ornamented with an argent (white) salt're or St. Andrews cross the feet resting within the sides og the flag and the lower line of the upper snstra bar striking the bar of the union. The design meets the wishes of those who favor the expressive symbol of the sun, us well as of those who prefer the cross"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

Y. DoonLE, Esq, IN ARKANsAs-A SKlRMIsH AT BATEsvILLE.-Our city, during the past week, has been filled with rumors and reports of the ad vance of the federas in Arkansas. Some put the the whole force at 20G00, others as low as 6 GOO. A number are coming or have come down White river and larger force down Black river The people in the section of country around Ratesyie, to the number of three or four hundred gathered and gave the federals ightnear Batesville The enemy were soon reinforced till they numbered several thousand, and the patriots were compelled to retire. The people are deficient in ammunition. If they mad this and few supplies they would meet the enemy and drive him back. During the first few days of the week, there were 1900 leder as, with six mounted howtzcrs at Jacksonport. They said that they expected supplies up White river, evidently looking at the possession of Mem. phis and the Mississippi river as a forcgone clusion. The majority of thepcople here seem to think that VIC are to be visited by these gentry. Others believe that such a visit is contingent upon the result of the battle at COrnth and if defeated there, the 1ederals in Arkansas will take the back track Except the boast of occupying the capital of the State, there is nothing to induce them to come here. All the stores ana army supplies nave long since, been removed. There is not enough meat or bread stuff here to feed the people, much less an army.
 We have not heard the particulars of the fight at Batesvlle, but presume it a sharp skirInsh, more to harass the foe and teach him that he was on freedoms soil than with q hope to conquer such an overpowerng force. It is possible that the federals will % down White river to Devall's Bluff, SO as to take possession of the end of the railroad leading to this city, It is possible that they may attempt to come here. It was reported on the authority of a telegram from Des Arc, that they were crossing White river at Jacksonport, and as low down as Grand Glaize. If they stay away till midsummer we may be able to meet them. Our State anthori- ties have called for 4,500 men, to be formed into ccmpanes, hold elections, send up descriptive liats to the Military Board and then be furnished with transportation, etc. All this routine will take weeks upon weeks, but it will be done according to system and rule. Then, if the feds not rein forced and will lay still, we will get them.
 Since the above written, We learn they have advanced to Searcy in White county, where they will probably wait until supplies come up White river or until they are reinforced. Searcy is dis tant fifty miles from Little Rock
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
HEADQUARTERS, 12r|f ARKANSAS REGIMENT,

HEADQUARTERS, 12rI ARKANSAS REGIMENT l
 Camp Johnson Memphs April 23d, 1S62o( Special Order No. All officers and soldiers of be 11th and 12th AskASa8 volunteers absent leaYe tuough otherwise except on certificate of disability heretofore obtained report themselves immediately they will be treated a5 deserters. By order of w. n. $. COOK, ht-Col. COmd'g W. F. RECTOR, Adit
 FoIT PILLOW, April 21d<1S52 All enlisted soldiers belonging to Company A, TnrnbuA Guards Terrys Battalion, required to themselves immediately to their commander. By order of '. F GURFF. CoIddg May s, lSd2. TurIbul Guards, 4th Battalion. ta ul sa
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
RICHMOND, April 2gth, 1862,

By order the Secretary of War; the ration reu ed half pound of Bacon, and quarter pounds of Beef and exceedus and half pounds of Flour ~ Corn Meal. L. B. N5RrU0RP May S. 1862 If Commissary Cien SubSisterce.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
BILL FOB DIVORCE.

In Pulaski Chancery Court in vacation, May 5th FHNHIS day the complainant by hor solicitor, aud a filed her bill of complainant herein aul app airing by affidavit of complainant that Coke Whitten i! non resident of Arkansas 1t x therefore ordered that said Whitten Dtiied by publication, of the pendenc S this suit the object whereof IS o obtain dissolution N tho bonds of matrmony and that he appear and answer bill according to law at the next term of this court holden at the cort house in the city of Little Rock Pulaski county the 3i Monlly of June, 1882 or that in saut thereof the bill will be taken for confess ant a decree entered accordingly,
 A true copy from the record.
 Test: GORDON N. pEAY Clerk
 May 5, looz zw By J. H. GREASE, Deputy Clerk.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

Wages and provisions have declined at the North. In the west, corn may be bought for ten cents and wheat for twenty-five cents bushel, eggs five cents dozen and butter ten cents pound.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08

At Castleman's ferry, on the Shenandoah river forty or fifty men and number of officers of Pennsylvania regiment, were in boat which was swamped and they all went under and staid there.
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