, 1872-10-26
and upwards. How wo are to get out Of our
difficulties, God only knows.'

rounded BY q family as numerous as Grants
brothers-in-law. Thomas s. Drew and John s.
Roane were the War and After-War Governors.
9ah to he ssnaso in s as hs ssanns dGns
76 Democrats to Is Wings. G. Z. N. Nolan,-
Wing editor, wit, and 1ghter,-got the 18 Wing
votes. johnson received Il, ,666 votes to New
toms 9,234 Governor Drew had recommended
Roane, got only 163 majority. The people were
tired Of the Ring. Borland was sent to the SEN
ate again, after he had served out the remnant
Of Sewers term, by the following vote: Borland,
native Of Virginia, rash, intelligent, and no
great improvement in temperament upon his
predecessors. He had supplanted Sewer, and
be WAS in turn supplanted by the johnson fa1ni,
ly,-those Pied Pipers who had but to fiddle and
votes followed them like children. Borland was
sent Minister to Central America rs Sewer had
been made Treaty Commissioner to Mexico. At
Greytown, Borland protected q man who stabbed
q negro; for this he WAS mobbed in the streets,
and be resented it, Arkansas fashion, BY order
ing Commander Hol1ins to shell out the town,
which was done, to the great amusement Of
mankind and the wrath Of the English. Borland
came home, but found, while Bob johnson
abonnded, no space in Arkansas for the soles OF
his feet, and he removed to Memphis and edited
the Inquirer there with Jerry Clemens.
THE LAST DAYS oF SLAVE ARKANSAS.
Between the Mexican Wnr and the Rebellion,
the State was generally Johnsonized, with
BpaBIn0Q1c 1HLTuSl0nB OF lQO1&S -. uluut3lall, u
Helena. In 1s49, there was small mining
fever towards Arkansas In 1852, the Govern
ment presented the State with 5000, 600 acres Of
swamp-lands. The same year, there WIS q Rail
road Convention at Little Rock, attended only
fcnnesaee It was resolved to make Mteom1phis
the emporium Of Arkansas shipments, and the
Memphis l. Little Rock Railroad was according
y built over q miserable route, SO that 1t con-
tinues to be sort. of man-traP. In Indian
%ro1 TrSf fronf al Ia
Little Rock to the rich Indian Territory gave Its
lawyers and politicians great advantage.
THE GREATER VIOLENCE COMING.
The breaking up Of Slavery drew near. Ar
man, and by the cowardly attack upon Horace
Greeley by one of her loafers in Congress,
named Matt. Rust, Dec. 20, 1860. David Hub.
bard, Commissioner from Alabama, herangued
the Arkansas Legislature for Secession. 4 big
meeting for the Union followed at Van Buren.
Brecdnridge got in the State. 2S,732 votes
Bell, O09l; Douglas, 5,227. There appeared
to be for Union,. in 1861, 23,o26 Corporation
votes, and 1897 for Secession, ,-co-operation
meaning onlyto 50 out i the nelghb@ors e ~ @ dla.
the 9th, Lncoln's message was received and de-
nounced at o. m., May G, the State seeded,
69 voting afdrmaliyely, and 1-Dr. Isaac Murphy,
Of Huntsvine-negatiyely. The hall YVES crowded,
there was shout Of appreciation. At the end,
there was tornado of shrieks and czclamattons
The politicians returning to their old game, at
once ordered 1000, 900 Of the State bonds to be
issued.
ARKANSAS UP. -
Prior to this Feb. S, 1861, Hindman's gang
from Helena took the United States Arsenal at
Little Rock, and Solon Borland went up, With
two steamers-the ''Talequah" and % Frederick
Notrebe"-and 500 troops, and captured Fort
Smith, April 26. To the Rebel Congress were
sent R. ". johnson, a. Rust, 4. " Garland,
II. II. Watkins, and ". F. Thomson. Thomas
c. Hindman was commissioned Major General
of the Confederacy, and Albert Rust, Ed y.
Flou1noy, and Albert Pike were made Briga-
diers. Pike afterwards resigned, after quarrel
ling with JEFF. Davis; Flournoy, Rust, and Bor-
land died; CAN'T Joined the carpet-bagge1s;
washington VA City. Hindman was assassinated
at bis fireside Marmaduke, an alion General in
the State, kept up the traditions by killing, in
duel. at Bayou Metaire, Ark, Sept. 6, 1868, Cen
eral Marsh Walker, shooting Walker through
the bowels.
4 fight took place between the State Govern
ment and the t. military Board" Two depart
ments we're made of Arkansas, and Pearce, who
commanded one. proved insuoordinate, and d so deo
serted Ben McCuloch in the field. The q, 600
troops generally refused to leave the State.
Hininan wanted to keep great deal OF sugar he
had stolen, and pay off soldiery With It; and,
for taking 81, 900, 900 from the banks Of Mem
phis, etc, he was disgraced by the Rebel Gov,
Of the forces Of Arkansas. In 1869, Rector called
afterward ate va 10 ran sway himself. and LETT
Arkansas under the a military dom,aat!on lo1aa aaa
bale; factories of saltpetre, cotton goods salt,
shot, cannon, etc., were established in Arkansas.
The penitentiary convicts at Little Rock made
army wagons. A secret Union Society spread
over the mountain-part Of the State, and con-
sternation, born OF native Ignorance, prevailed.
TEE WAR IN ARKANSAS.
Pea Ridge laid low the pretenslons Of an easy
Trans Mississippi dominion. The Union army
iine. and, although called of by circumstances,
east Of the Mississippi and M part OF the gun
bost fleet repu1sed in the White River troughs,
the Indian allies Of Arkansas were cut OF IN the
west, and Hindman WAS shattered at Prairie
Grove. Bob johnson beat Garland for the
Rebel Congress, and Harris Flanagan succeeded
Rector as Governor. Arkansas Post surrender
ed. Marching up opposite sides Of the Arkan-
sas the armies Of the Union and the Usurpation
skirmished trifle, and, on the 10th OF septem1-
ber, 1868, tie army OF General steel entered LII
"We are now powerlesa," said the Mayor, G.
P. Bertrand; "we ask your morcy!"
It WAS tendered,-a new thing IN that clty. M
The Arsenal was recovered the levee OF Little
Rock WAS filed with burning steamers, cars, and
locomotives To Arkadelpllia went the powder
mill, where it blew up. To Marshall, Texas, re-
paired the Governor, Flannigan, and he signed
q prQcl1maL1OQ. Will Ioulc, 1ApuOCh7 d4u Ato3
| nolds, the other mississippi Magistrates,
| saying:
s:TRe immense extent OF our territory, the un-
certainty Of navigating our rivers, the unwhole-
| someness of the region through which our urn ~
terror is approached and the difficulty Of trans
| portation on our roads, present immense
| obstacles to the advance OF the enemy"
It had cost 5000 iyesto march On Little Rock,
the result Of the climate.
A new and hopeful Union Civil Government,
| headed by Isaac G. Murphy, OF Huntsville, arose
at Little Rock. Had the people co-operated
With carpet-bagging might have been avoided.
| THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLERS RETURN.
| a movement in grand strategy followed in the
spring Of 1864. Three Union columns moved
from the Arkansas, converging on Arkadelphia;
A gunboat-heet proceeded up the Red and
Washington Rivers, to clear the way for grand
advance from Vicksburg. The army Of General
Banks advanced up the Bayou Teche
and the River Red. The objective
points were Shreveport and Marshall
and thence fan-like sweep Of all Texas. Had
it been simultaneous and successful, it would
have rivalled the great march Of Sherman, Meade,
and Schofeld, at 4 later period It failed. The de-
feat Of Banks at Mansfield was known to Steele
| of fha Was1,itn country HA rAtrAat-