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Year: 1861

In another part of our paper will be found a number of extracts from the first and second reports of the geological reconnaissance of the State. relating to lead and lead mines. We have been induced to publish these because there is some anxiety expressed as to where lead can be procured for war purposes, and because we have been repeatedly written to on the bject.

 It is the opinion of gentlemen who have been connected with the lead mines of Missouri, that northwestern Arkansas is richer in this miner al. than even our sister State Some of these mines may be at some distance from naviga- ble river but others are within a few miles of White river and its tributaries The Kellogg mine, in Pulaski county, and the BeIlah mine, disposed to enter into the business of lead min ing The latter mine might, probably, be lea,- cd from the owners These are portant be cause they have been tested and near the Arkansas and Red rivers, respectively.

 In the north west, so little attention has been paid to this subject, that the most of the lands upon which lead ore has been found is yet va ant and subject to entry at from twelve and d half cents to one dollar and quarter an acre

 For the purpose for which the ore would now be wanted cheaper furnace would answer than when the silver is extracted, or the lead made pure. In some localities, the ore has been found, in larger quantities, at from ten to twenty feet beneath the surface.

 We refer our readers to the extracts from the geological reports as to the ascertained ana pro- ble values of these mines and the facilities or working them.
Year: 1861

ELECTION OF SENATORS AT AN EXTRA SEs- SION OF THE GENERAL AssEMBLY.-In another column will be found communication on this point. The opinion of c. P. is sustained by all the members of the legal fraternity with whom we have conversed on the subject. We call the attention of those interested to the argument, or statement of our correspondent, and respect fully present the point he makes to our cotem- porary of the Gazette. When the General As sembly meets in November, the question will be fully discussed and of course, that body will not proceed to the election of Senators unless satisfied that the power to do so, is constitution. ally placed in their hands.
Year: 1861

the election of Senators for the first Congress may be made at any special or extra session ot the reg islature of such State, prior to the said 18th fep ruary, lo62.

 And that such was the opinion of President Davis, is shown by his approving and signing the above act.

 Now, if this act is in accordance and based upon the seventh article of the permanent constitution it follows that Senators can be elected at called or extra session of the General Assembly, It IS true that one part of the constitution says that Senators must be elected at regular session, but' in the same instrument, this requirement IS wav- ed or discarded at the will of Congress, so far as relates to the first permanent Senate. The rule is, believe, in the construction of such an instru- ment, to so construe it, that all it's parts shall stand. If so, there is no difficulty in the matter What say you7 and would be glad to have the matured opinion of the editor of the Gazette on this point. Respectfully, C. r.
Year: 1861

gSg~ We undertand that the regiment now being organized at this place by Col. Terry is fast filling up. Five companies are on the way, and it is very important the regiment be com

 pleted at an early day, as troops are needed in the west to defend the State of Arkansas from the threatened raid of Lane and Montgomery.
Year: 1861

N Any information regarding the standard work upon the uniform and dress of the Army be had of Col DUN CAN who can be found in the office of Col Adjxta General, Court House Building Richmond Va sept, l9, 1Sb1 9w
Year: 1861




Resolved, by the Senate and House O.
Representatives Of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, two
thirds of both Houses eoncurring, Tha
the following articles be, and are hereby
proposed and submitted as amendment.
to the Constitution of the United States
which shall be valid to all intents anG
purposes as part of said Constitution
when ratified by three -fourths of the
several States:


ARTICLE 13. That in all the territory
now held by the United States, sit1ated
north of latitude 36 degrees 80 minutes
involuntary seryitude, except in the
punishment for crime, is prohibited
while such territory shall remain under
a Territorial Government. That in all
the territory now held south of said
line, neither Congress nor any Territorial
Legislature shall hinder or prevent the
emigration to said Territory Of persons
held to service from any State of this
Union, where that relation exists by Law
or usage of such State, while it shall re
main in a Territorial condition, and
when any Territory, north or south Of
said line, within such boundaries as
Congress may prescribe, shall contain
the population requisite, for a member
of Congress, according to the then Fed
eral ratio of representation of the peo.
pie of the United States, it may, if it:
form of government be republican, be
admitted into the Union on an equal
footing with the original States, with oil
without the relation of persons held tc
service and labor, as the Constitution Of
such new State may provide.


ARTICLE IA. That nothing in the
Constitution Of the United States, Of
any amendment thereto, shall be sc
construed as to authorize any depart
ment of the Government to in any man
ner interfere with the relation of per,
sons held to service in any State where
that relation exists, nor in any manner
establish or sustain that relation in any
State where it is prohibited by the laws
OF Constitution Of such State; and that
this article shall not be altered ol
amended without the consent of every
State in the Union.


ARTICLE Is. The third paragraph O.
the second section Of the fourteenth ar
ticle of the Constitution shall be taker
and construed to authorize and empower
Congress to pass laws necessary to se
cure the return of persons held to ser
vice or labor, under the laws of an,
State, who may have escaped therefrom
to the party to whom such service o.
labor may be due.


ARTICLE 16 The migration or impor
tation of persons held to service or in
voluntary servitude, into any State
Territory, or place within the Unite'
States, from any place or country beyon'
the limits of the United States or Ter
ritories thereof, is forever prohibited.
Year: 1861

Oh. the home Of my childhood is dear to me ys
Each lane and nook can see,
And the loved ones at home can never forget,
And know they oft think Of me.
The orchard that Stands at the forks of the road.
And the school-house just over the way,
The old bridge that spans the river SO broad
can see them in fancy to-day.
The old barn that stood at the foot Of the hill
Has long since fallen to the ground;
And the spring-house down by the gurgling rlil
Methinks can still hear the sound;
And the long shady lane with its carpet of green
Where at twilight Pve wandered alone;
And dsar to my heart Is that childhood's scene
Though in distant lands may roam.
The loved ones stin gather round the wide Oper


door,


OF calm summers twilight even,
And talk of the absent-and their voices grow


lower,


AS they speak of the loved ones in Heaven.
And the old home is dear--how dear tony heart,
With it's old rustic porch, where the roses


entwine;


And oft in the still hours of night do start,
And weep as think of the dear old times.
Year: 1861

On our first page will be found an &C
count of seizure of sCastle'' of the
8" knights of the Golden Circle" together
with the records, and IN exposition by a
member of the horrid oaths which bind
them together. This infamous order, the
sworn friend of Jefferson Davis, and the
rebellion, is largely on the increase in the
loyal States. No doubt large majority
of the " Compromise men" in the North
are connected with this diabolical and fend-
ish association. Even Kansas has not es
capped the curse, and we hear from quite
respectable authority that our own vicinity
is Infested with gang of these vile mon
sters. Let the loyal people keep sharp
look k-out, and mark those who appear dis
affected, and disposed to find fault with the
conduct of the war, and the Administra-
ton, for it is among such men that these
miscreant I" Knights" will be found. We
commend the article in question to our
readers, for information respecting the dev-
ilish designs Of the order.
Year: 1861

We this week give place to the State
ticket, nominated at Topeka BY the Repub
lican State Central Committee. We greatly
deprecate the emergency which makes it
necessary for body Of that kind to make
our nominations. The right of the people
to voice in the selection of candidates is
too sacred to be easily cast aside, and only
in the most extreme emergency would We
overlook it. The ticket is q good one,
composed of true and tried men, loyal to
the core, and all of them warmly enlisted
in the cause of our government. Our
esteemed citizen, Captain Mcclure, appears
as the candidate for Auditor, and We know
of no one better qualified to fill the posi-
tion.
Year: 1861

The following patriotic letter was re
ceived from Captain J. r. Mcclure by the
Union Mass Convention, assembled in this
city last Saturday:


JUNCTION, Kansas, Oct. II, 1861.
Messys. iHrickler, Pierce, and Kingsbu'y,


GENrLEMEN Your favor of Yesterday,
requesting me to address "a Union Mass
Convention to be holden at Junction City
on this, the 10Th inst, has been received.
In my present condition Of health it is
impossible to comply with your polite invi-
tation.


I will take this occasion to express to
you my earnest solicitude for the success OF
the great struggle in which the loyal people
of our country are now engaged. ltis only
by the preservation or our Union that We
can hope to enjoy the substantial blessings
conferred upon us by wise and free gov
ernment. To sustain our government In
the present crisis, and to put down the
wicked rebellion which threatens to destroy
our institutions, is the first duty of every
good and patriotic citizen. Former politi-
cal differences should not at this moment
distract our people--this no time to discuss
minor issues there is but one great ques-
ton which should engage our attention.
This war was forced upon US; we we're
slow to meet it. 1t was only after every
other alternative had been resorted to that
out Government at last was compelled In
self-defence to take up arms. In this war
there are but two parties-loyal patriots
and traitors. Every American citizen must
be on the one side or the other. We can
not stop to compare our political opinions !;
it is no time to inquire the cause which has
brought about the war. Nor is there any
neutral ground upon which we can take
refuge, but VIC are compelled to throw our
influence and our sympathies either in favor
of our country or against it. We can make
no compromise, or offer no terms of peace,
unless by the sacrifice of our Union, and at
the price of our national honor. hope we
may be spared the degrading spectacle of
laying down our arms, and asking mercy
at tie hands of rebels-better that We per-
ish with our country. If peace is restored
to our distracted nation, it can only be when
the traitors who have begun this unholy
war, and who are attempting to destroy the
Government which has protected and sus-
tanned them, return to their allegiance.
Until then there can be no peace-until the
"God Of Battles" decides in favor Of the
right.


I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,


= j. r. MCCLURE.
Year: 1861

From the last number Of the Topeks


Tribune We take. the following extract.
1t serves to show in what light our neigh


Dor is looked upon by the press of Kansas !:
No HALr-WAY HoME.-The onion aod


Frontier newspapers, at Junction City, are
having quite warm time, BY way Of va


riety, the trouble, it seems, growing out Of
a charge by the Union that the Frontier
editor was a traitor, and in the habit of
promulgating traitorous sentiments. We


trust that some good may come of the dis
cussion, notwithstanding it may have been
called up more with view Of influencing
the approaching election than anything else.


Both editors are candidates for Office, and
respectively run on opposition tickets. We
should be glad to see the Frontier change
its course somewhat. Its extreme sensi


tiveness on the slavery question argues
badly, and the solicitude 1t nsaaitests for
the "rights" freLels an arms against the
Government is rather ont Of place, consid-
ering circumstances. Let rebels take care
of themselves, neighbor. If an enemy
stood with drawn blade, ready to sever your
windpipe at single thrust, we hardly think
you would be over fastideous in the matter
of hurting him and shedding his blood.
No; the issue would be, fight or submit.


If be has rights, let him look after them
himself; it's quite clear they have no claims
upon you. Nor, zee would not be SO ua-
charitable as to call you a Traitor. BUT
IF WE HAD NO BETTER PATRIOTS
TO STAND BY THE FLAG, WE
MOULD HAVE LONG ERE THIS
BEEN THE CROUCHIN1 VASSALS
OF A PROSCRIPTIVE AND LORDLY
SOUTH. There can be no reserve; there
is no middle ground. Your influence, di-
rect,y or indirectly, must so to promote the
the interests of one side or the other, for or
against the Government. Are you sure
your position is not one to encourage the
rebels, and TO discourage men on our own
side! Do you not exert an influence which
rebels understand to be favorable to grant
ing their claims to independence-favorable
to their being allowed to 'depart in peace
-and while they have their bloody fingers
upon the throttle of our Government, favor


able to their sinking the knife to the vital
flow? Is not your position that Of the
soldier who goes out to battle for our flag


yet who stands back in the rear and clamors
for the "rights'' of the enemy? He regrets
that the war against the enemy cannot be
carried on with better feeling-mcre in q
spirit of loye-he loads and fires blank
cartridges, shouts that he is in favor of a
"vigorous prosecution Of the war" yet
creates anything but unity Of sentiment
and concert of action by his cornsels and
influence, and by his actions, which speak
louder than words, says to those in advance
of him, Boys, l think we had better lay
down our arms, and let them depart in
peace" which, if logically translated, means,
let them ride over US rough shod, let them
transfer their government to Washington,
and by aid of the spiritless, liliputian ele-
inent at the North, garrison their soldery
in every city and town. This is the legi,i.
matc tendency of the "depart in peace


doctrine, which many weak kneed brothers
advocate Indirectly, if aot in so many words
Year: 1861

The Frontier has at last got itself into
miserable predicamcnt, the natural result
Of its being controlled by so many county
clerks, land agents and pettifoggers. Last
week, one of its editors assailed the Union
party most bitterly, charging that it was
nothing more than the Republican party
under another name, to prove which he
cites the action of the Republican Central
Committee at Topeka, condemning it in the
strongest terms. 1


In separate column, another editor in
sists on an endorsement of the proceedings
of that Committee, and runs up to the mast
head the State ticket nominated by that
body.


Of course this is all right. It is, at
least, perfectly consistent with the past his
tory of the Frontier. Where so many are
employed there must be contrariety of
opinions, and we are not prepared to say
that one man has not as much right to his
opinions as "any other man." We imag-
inc diminutive Babylon existed in that vi
cinity about the time the ticket editor in
sisted on his right. Well wager that his
head is correctly located, whoever he may be.
Year: 1861

| WasnluRtou HtVhOtcdHi Tue OTBtl vi luc
Government, Of the 2o;b, h.s the following:


At the close of last week. the number of troops &C.
cepted by the Government amounted With tie old army,
TO about one hundred and eighty thousand Lin
coin has issued proclamaons calling for
yodd thousand three months levies and the other for
forty I'd tiouand for three years Several States


fused to furnish the quotas assigned them under the first
CALL and the work of raising three years recruits has
dragged woully. The coli army amounted less than
twenty Thousand. Let the reader put these figures n1
facts together and decide whether person
emphatic speech might not be excused for character
| izng this statement as lie.-Ed Whg.I


Major Gen. Butler has been assigned to the command
of military district to consist Of Eastern Virginia and
the two Caronas and has left this city for Fortress Mon
roe via Annapolis Considerable forces have been or.
dered The vicinity OF Norfolk and they will be enlarg
ed to Whatever number is necessary for the object to be
accomplished.


We do not understand that there has been any change
10 the programme announced in this paper some days
ago At the earliest moment consistent with the
cary preparations The national antho is to be ASSERT
I'd by in all those parts OF gina which With
in reach Of the present Of transportation This in
cludes the recaptnre OF Norfolk and HaTpeis Ferry.


At the West everything is proceeding most happily.


The secessioniss Of Missouri IouDced upon every
where. the instant they exhibit hostile manifestation,
and that admirable Of practice will be persevered
in, until compile qTiet is restored.


The course OF kentucky Is still undecided. Net that
il Is doubtful that majority of her people for the
Union but because it is possible for the minority plunge
her, at some moment OF excitement into the
in which mnorties have pur ged other States There is
TO hope than fear in respect to Kentucky
bu: if the worst happens the Government is prepared


question Of still interest, is that of the time
when the preparations and the may PEE nit an
adequate nations force to be sent 10 the relief OF those
noble men, the bravest Of the brave, who are strug
Cling for the Union in Tennessee. The warmest sympa-
thes OF the nation with them and for them
will not be delayed day by yhirg but obstacles which
cannot be Ii there any thing like reliable
loyalty in Kentucky, the road would be now open.
Year: 1861

IMPORTANT RUM0RS RESPECTING ENGLISH AND


FRENCH ACTION ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.


WAsuixGToS May II, lS6l.-lt is useless to disguise
the fact the leading members OF the diplomatic corps
ia Washington engaged in constant and ANXIOUS dis.


ssoa on the course may be necessary for them at
auy day TO adopt They have recently received urgent
instructions from their respective governments to inform
them With the utmost precision OF the chances OF the
two sections in their present deadly quarrel Il il leak
ing out that the governments in question declare that
their commercial interests 10 great degree With the
Souh and that if they are forced into taking sides with
either tbey will be compelled to look carefully after the
cotton aud free trade.


England disposed to move cautiously in this import.
ant matter, aud is playing her usual game ct urg
France to take the hesnuis out Of the fire. The county
NAV not generally be that there is at this moment
IN agent of the French Emperor travelling in the Sou
the name of Blrachc He is instructed to say that
is simply collecting information for the Commercial
Bureau for the Minister OF Public Works but this arti
fee is too transparent to deceive the most creduous
He is political more than he IS commercial agent, and
hi lspaches regularly forwarded Paris, necessarily
exercise great uence over the mind OF the Emperor
What may be the fnal conclusion Of France, whether
she will think her interest to play into the hands of the
revolutionary party in the South remains to be seen.
Our government are preparing for such emergency,
and il we're for the leading Powers in question TO
ref ct long and deeply before they take steps which
involve them in consequences they little dream OF per-
haps at this moment


It is beginning to transpre that Mr. Russell the cor
respondent Of the london Times, Is not merely writing
letters to that Journal but that his private comnunica-
tons for higher quarters contain good deal Of interest
ing matter be does not thin altogether discreet to put In
print.
Year: 1861

We spent the greater part Of the past weeks at the
Court House Of this county The people Of the and
vicinity to be perfectly sound on almost every i'm
porant question The Justices Of the county
moned to attend at the Court House. the oh instant,
for the purpose of making levy TO and equip the
volunteers and militia OF The county The
responded to by every JusCe and they appropriated,
,ciom dissenting go'e four thousand dollars and ap
pointed agents to carry ont the ORDER and place the
county in complete and effective state Of resistance
This speaks volumes for the loyalty and patriotism Of
Braxtcn. She is of the Northwestern counties and
II to take her exponent Of the sentiment OF
that region guarantee that the prediction Of the
Northern press with regard to the feeling in Northwest
ern Virginia ai prove be- the 2Sii inst false
and slanderoHs than their estimate CT Southern society.


The people OF Braxon doubtless, before this time,
have two volunteer companies reidy for service They
will ratfy the ordinance of secession ith such uuanm-
ty a. has before manesedite 1t the polls and
we trust that thare will not be dissenting voice.


young LADY in Norwich Connecticut writes to young
lady Of New York: Few of the wide Awakes OF this
plsce have gone TO the war. They 50 aff.conate
that they cannot leave their sisters and mothers"
Year: 1861

great many foolish things are SAID and
done 10 the world. among which an unknown
writer classes the following.


For young man to think he does himself
credit by hanging around stores and taverns,
smoking bad cigars and paying for whisky
aud oysters, in order to be called - liberal
by set of youths as soft in brain as him
self.


For lady to be annoyed because a gen.
tlenan did not give her the best side Of the
street and the incest seat in the public assem-
hly. She should not forget that these con.
vcntIonal courteses are not her right any
further than they choose to concede them.


For an unfedged clerk to think that he
must buy extravagant gloves and ciavats for
every festival occasion because Jones, whose
father is worth half million dollars, does
so. The best way of proving his manhood
would be to let such things entirely alone.


For gir to stay away from a party be
cause she has worn all her dresses aud cant
have new one. Isn't it something akin to
seltconceit for her to Imagine that people
have nothing to do but TO think about her
dresses!


For man 10 be ezra fastidous about col
ognes, diamond finger rings, and per'umed
pocket t.handkerchiefs, and teen set society at
defiance with his cigarcase aud tobacco box.


For girl to think that she is establishing
her character as a young lady Of fashion by
allowing her mother to toll through all the
drudgry of the house, aud then investing her
money in gaudy brooches and artificial How.
ers.


4
because he touches bis hat 10 party Of splen-
didly dressed young ladies, while her scorns
to lend helping hand TO the woman who is
struggling across the street.


For simple working girl to buy imita-
lioa jewelry, because her wealthy Deighbor
spen small fortune in the real.


For an elderly young lady to think she re-
news her bloom by dressing in the style, of
l6, with pink roses in her bonnet and car
IN ne roses on her cheeks.