True Democrat., 1863-03-04

order in which, aier naming the negroes nc says: It is ordere that each of these " Amerl- can born citizen. of African descent shall receive seventy eigt lashes.
 - Thomas V. Knox, the correspondent of the New York Herald, in the army about Vicksburg, was arr.sted by Gen. Sherman as a spy.
 - The Canad. papers are tickled at the idea of union win New England left out. They propose to annex Maine to Canada, and would like to get asice of New York.
 - The federa' general Pope was in St. Louis about the miidle of February.
 - Port Hudon is fifteen miles above Baton Rouge, fort below the mouth of Red river, and two hundred and fifty below Vicks- burg.
 The Yanlee cotton crop at Hilton Head, turns out to je failure. Every pound of cotton raised on the coast has cost the Yam kees over eighty celts
 - A Liverpool house has bought the Sum- ter, formerly commanded by Captain Semmes, for $l9,5O0.
  N. Sanders, was made the bearer of despatches for our agents abroad He attempted to run the blockade, in small sailing vessel, out of Charleston, and vas captured. The despatches containing important secrets are published in the northern papers.
 The following surgeons taken at the Post appear to have been sent to St. Louis In the Republican of the 7th we find list of of discharges from the Gratot street prisons as follows:
 Transferrea to Memphis Tean-Charles H. Smith, Thomas T. Williamson and E. 5. Whe Ian; all surgeons. The following soldiers were also taken from the prison: Henry T. Mclaughlin, 18th Ark, and Leonard Walter of Dorsey's command, sent to the small pox hospital. Captain Jesse Mooney of Marion county Ark, was sent to the Burnett hospital.
 - Of the 100000 federal troops who got out of service in May thirty eight regiments are from New York
 - On White river there Is grave in which are buried white man, negro woman and two negro men. In one of the battles, last year, among the killed were the chaplain of the lst Wisconson regiment, who had shortly before married negio wench, the property of Mr. Thomas, and the negroes also. When our troops came to bury the dead, they put the par son and his wife Ill the hole, and to give him enough of nigger company, threw in the bodies of two negro men, vho had been killed i'll the action.
 | - The fate of Matthew r. Ward, has been passed over with bu. little comment. He was ripe scholar and one of the most fascinating writers of the day. His "letters from abroad" originally published in the Louisville Journal, were read by admirlng thousands. We all re> member the tragedy at Louisville, where Ward shot a schoolmaster for punshing Q younger brother, pupil, for some offence The trial that followed excited great interest, and result in Wards acquiftaf. He went to Texas, Mexi co and New Orleans, and finally settled down on his plantation in Arkansas some miles below Helena. He was said to have claimed to be neutral in the war, but last summer, was mur- dered by band of federals whose robberies in his plantation and in his house. he attempted to resist. "Whoso sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed'
 - The election in New Hampshire takes place next Tuesday. Ex-President Pearce manages the campaign on behalf of the demo- cracy upon the platform laid down in the speech of Vallandingham.
 - There are 1000 sick federals at Hele- - Stanley, Lincolns appointee as gover- nor of North Carons, has resigned in conse~ ouence of the issuing of the emancipation proc lamaton.
 - The federal soldiery have not been paid off for several months. May not the reason be rthat if they were paid they would desert? Be- ing creditors, they are afraid to desert because they will lose the pcy due them
 - Shawneetown, Mount Vernon and New bury, in Illinois, have been visited by Confed crate partisans who seized all the arms they could find
 - The Kenlucky legislature passed bill by vote of sixty-nine to fifteen, instructing her troops not to enforce Lincoln's proclama ton.
 - On the 9th of January, there were r.: sick Texas soldiers in the hospitals at Rich mond. None are reported from Arkansas.
 - Col. Wall, we believe the full name is Garrett D. Wall, was elected senator to tho Yankee Congress, from the State of New Jer- sey, on the l4th of January, by a vote of fifty three to twenty-five. He was one of the frs victims of Lincoln's tyranny, and was released from Fort Lafayette last winter. He is an abl' man and will give the Gorilla trouble.
 - Died, at Grenada, during the month o January: B. Lawson, lst Arkansas battalion; J Beard, Whitfeld's Texas legion; D. Harper E. F. Jordan, l.. B. Mars, w. T. Leroy, J. N Heffingto n,-Canterbury and A. J. Blackmore of Waul's legion.
 - A new federal paper has been started at Memphis, called the Enquirer.
 - The party strife of the North is giving rise to new names. War democrats, or thos, who pretend to excuse Lincoln are now called Mulatto democrats.'
 - Any given debt may be paid i'll 34 year by creating a sinking fund that will set asid' each year the interest on the whole debt anc one per cent over. At the end of the term
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