Washington telegraph. [volume] (Washington, Ark.) 1839-1871, 1863-04-29
Correspondence of the Telegraph.

LITTLE Rock, April, ~, 1868.
Mr.. Editor As you have no regular CORES
| pendent at the capital, let me occupy leisure
hour in jotting down a few items for the read
ers Of the Telegraph, which, by the way, comes
as regularly as the mails, and is the best paper
| l receive.
The notice in your last of theeagle converting
U. S. coin into green-backs, is very good, and
convinces me of what have long suspected,
| that the Yankee hard money is bogus; for if
| their gold was good the eagle would pass h.
Your readers remember the resolutions said
to have been passed by our "Pigrim Fathers"
long ago, to the effect: 1. That the earth and
its fullness belonged to the Lord; 2, That the
Lord held the earth for his saints; and 2, That
they were the saints. A kindred meeting of
kindred people was held in st. Louis few
days since, by Yankee refugees from Arkansas,
on the subject of the appointment Of a Yankee
Military Governor for the State. They re-
solved that Arkansas belonged to Lincoln-that
it was necessary for Lincoln to appoint mill
tary governor of Arkansas-and that such mil
itary governor should be appointed from among
the exiled citizens Of Arkansas. Being ortho
dox, believe, of course, that the Lord takes
care of his saints. Whether Lincoln will take
care of his, or leave them to take care Of them
selves, remains to be seen. Baxter OF Bates
! vile, and Tebbefs of Fayetteville, were prom
inent in the meeting. Baxter would like the
appointment. Tebbets would not take 1T with
its risks
Conflicting reports continue to reach US
from the Mississippi and east of that river
The seige of Charleston, if 1t ever has been
beseired, has been raised by the withdrawal OF
the Federal forces. No one can tell how soon
the attack may be commenced again.
On Sunday Federal troops we're represented
as ascending the Mississippi. as if to reinforce
Rosecranz. On Monday they were reported
descending, as if to reinforce Grant. The as
cending boats probably contained sick soldiers
going to the hospitals at Memphis and above.
Those descending probably contained fresh
troops to take the place of the sick sent
away. If the move was one of strategy, it
has a precedent of some antiquity, in SINH
lar movement once made by ''the King OF
France, with forty thousand men," &c.
Ditc hing, running bayous, and cutting levies
on the Mississippi, by the Federals, will end
in nothing but numbering and robbing expedi-
tons. They cannot tell against in the re-
suit, and must end in another and blacker
coat of paint On the character Of the Yankees.
The credit of the Confederacy abroad, is a
just rebuke to the Shylocks and extortioners
who do so much to depreeiate Confederate
money at home. Large loans for our govern
ment have been negotiated both in Paris and
London, IN the most favorable terms Thus
fhe means have been obtained to put our navy
afoat and as 1t Maury j. in Europe in charge
ot that interest, We may expect to be cheered
with the intelligence that we have one of the
best little navies in the world, and that at no
distant day. Our success in the European
money market is the more cheering in view of
The well known fact that from the commence
ment OF the war, the government Of the U. 5.
has beset the capitalists Of Europe; and their
agents, not able to borrow dollar, have been
sent empty away.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Adams, U. ). Minister
to the Court of 81. James, complained to Earl
Russell that British subjects were building
vessels for the Confederate navy. The Premier
cited MIR. A. to law authorizing il, and gave
him to understand that the work would pro-
gress Notwithstanding has protest. Some
Northern papers think this will precipitate
war between the North aud England.
QUEEN SABE.