Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-24
ARKANSAS.
PROCLAMATION OFTHEG GOV,
ERNOR.
stolen Goods to be Returned.
News from Marion.

By arrivals from Little Rock yestel
dsy, we learn that the Governor has is
sued the following proclamation
Commanders of all troops, corps, o
detschmeHts Of State militia, passing
through any county not under MARTA
law, as o al practicable, will report t
the sheriff Of the counties, and lay befor'
him the orders under which they are
marching.
Any bodies Of men claiming to belong
to the State militia. who may enter OF
pass through any counties not under
martial law, without being able to show
orders from proper authority, will be
subject to arrest by authorities Of the
counties, and all sherifs are requested to
summon q posse for their arrest, report
ing accordingly, and holding the prison.
ers until information csn be received
from these headquarters.
In addition 10 this document, the
Qusrtermaster General has also Issued a
general order giving notice that all de-
linquent stock, heretofore declared for
feited, will be sold at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, for the risk
and benefit Of the owner, at the court
house door of Pulaski county, on Mon
day, the 18th day of February, 1869, be-
I'LL ~ AZ SAOCh u NAAG
amount due is sooner paid.
AS the Little Rock Gazette truly says /:
II the Quartermaster General had given
a little more time in which to appear
and establish the claims Of citizens
whose property has been taken, the mat
ter would be looked upon in a more is
vorsble light than il il. When it Is
known that the owners OF nearly all the
property seized, live from one hundred
to two hundred miles distant from the
capital, and that the mail facilities are
such that his circular cannot be properly
circulated in less time than fifteen days,
this order does not strike one as having
been intended to restore any more
of the property than circumstances
would compel.
By arrivals from Marion yesterday
evening We learn that the scouting party
from the Tyrongia had not returned.
Several psrties-Rsdlcals and pre-
tended Conservatives have affected
to doubt the accounts given by the AP-
PEAL OF the villainous dOings of the
militia in ATkans IS and as We have
slso been charged with giving {" undue
prominence" to these reports, we here
state that we are prepared to confront
these Radical or hypOcritical, pretended
Conservatives, with eye-witnesses to the
truth OF every word we have asserted.
These pimps and hirelings, advocates OF
the militia in Tennessee as they are in
Arkansas, had better not tax the pa
thence of the refugees too far, or they
may find giving the lie a dangerous
ope alton. Nine ladies arrived in
the city yesterday from Marion, and re-
present that Crump and LOvelRce are
IN tho soil h,f W. fFopA il Of fho haoA-
quarters in irons. His hands are said to
De a mass Of patrefactjOn from the use Of
thUm6screWs.
Col. Watson, the eommandant, after
reading the resolutions of the 90 pesee
meeting" published in the APPEAL on
Thursday morning, remarked that the
resOlutions were good enough as far as
they went; but they did not go far
enough. They ought to promise to fer
ret out and arrest those charged with
crimes, andsee theywere executed"-thst
the resolutions were, in fact, not worth
g. damn" To show whether we have
given undue prominence or moi, We will
close by the following quotation from a
Radical s0urce-the Cincinnati CONNER
cjol, OF Friday:
1.-THE evil result o the militia measure,
as a precedent, is beginning to be sfen
in Tennessee, where the bill for organ
izing State troops mas met with favorable
consideration st the capital. Were it
not for the subdued and broken spirit OF
the people OF Arkansas, themilitIa would
stools poor chance against supe-
rior numbers there, but in Tennessee it
is safe to predict that a terrible retribu-
ton viii follow the preparation Of sim
liar outrage,
"Whst can be more distressing than q
fair land despOiled by legslized despO-
tism, an industrious people obliged to
psssively view the results Of their labor
consumed By lawless men. A complete
revolution In the government OF Arksn-
will alone bring peaoe and quiet
within her borders.
at would be ungraciOus, indeed, to
leave the State without some tribute to
the good qualities which eve her people
possess. q Aors hospitsble people never
They do not offer much, but
the best they have is as welcome to the
stranger as the air Is free to the bird. IA
for travelling were extended on
every hand. No one wished me to take
their view OF the matter, but to see N.Y.
self the actual state Of affairs"