Year: 1862

z The Rolla correspondent of the St. Louis ie- publican writes to that paper under date of Dec. 15, as follows:

 Several citizens from Arkansas have reached here during the present week, and enlisted in the Arkansas company under Capt Ware, late rDem- Der of the legislature from that State. These men say a union society ill lzard, Fulton, Independence and Searcy counties, numbering 2,2OO men, could have made an organized stand in Weeek s time, but it was betrayed by recent member, bro ken up and scattered. Many of them have been arrested and taken to Little Rock. Some have been hung, and large number are now III the woods, trying to effect their escape from the State This man Ware was member of the General Assembly, and as such voluntarily took an oath to support the Confederscy. We have some cause to remember him, as he honored us with his abuse while he was here. He left Little Rock hurriedly, hastened home, gathered some valuables and fled to Lincolndom, just in time to escape arrest. This fellow has some proper ty in Fulton county and we suggest to the com missioner that 1t may come under the provisions of the sequestration act A friend writes to us that before his flight he conveyed this property to his wife, but of course such conveyance IS worthless. He is a man of very little mind, with some low cumming and no great loss to the country. If fcaught, we hope he win be sent here.

 The following item Is from the Jaeksonport Herald

 SALrrETER.-We learn from our friend Jo. Carlton that he ships about a ton and half of Ia rla into powder He soon expects to be able to ship two and three tons per week.

 Brother Jonathan is at great discount among his cousins in Canada. 4 Canada pa per the Toronto Leader, tells the following story.

 An officer of the federal army has been paradng the streets of Toronto in full dress these two or three days. He is in bran new, bright and shining Yankee uniform, and some indignation has been excited by the impertinent display. IL is remem- bered that British officer of duty in his town wears plain undress garb. and that in another country he would appear as an ordinary civilian. Northern officers, it Is said should behave with equal propriety. Perhaps, however, the suggestion presupposes too much Our visitor may not have another coat. While parading King street yestel day, several young urchns, as we'll as one or two

 

 "Bull Run," but instead of blushing for his coun- try, he seemed to acquire more magnificent strut by the notice he attracted, uncomplimentary as it was.

 On Friday evening last scene occurred in one of our fayorite saloous, which shows the current of popular opinion in this city, A valiant warrior clothed in the blue and brass of the United States service, entered and seated himself at one of the tables. A southerner in the rooul--a gentleman from Louisiana unable to get home--betrayed con siderable excitement, and presently called for "Dixie's Land' The musicians struck up the air. which, in this neighborhood is understood to be particularly offensive to the North and the voices of all in the crowded saloon joined in loud and stirring chorus. The Yankee soldier looked abash ed, and something being said about Bull Run. he soon beat nasty retreat, amid the laughter Of all present.

 In the U S.sCongregs. when there was a United States, the proportion of orators was always with the South. In the early days of the republic the North had some eloquent men but, with few exceptions, these died out and left a set of superficial buncombe speakers who, by dint of cramming, and preparation managed to get off speech. Webster, whose speeches were always studied and whose dietion was so much admired, IS said to have had a poor delivery. Everett, who was cracked up as an orator, was simply the reader of a studied and carefully prepared essay; a stringer of fine phrases and rounded periods, having but little pith or substance. Their crack orator now is Sumner, but if his speeches are examined they will be found to be very well and laborous pleas and ingenious statements, but lacking in many of the essential of oratory. In all the debates for years preceding the dissolution of the Uuion, the victory was with the South, not only in the matter of debate but in the manner of presenting the argument Neither Mason, Hunter, Nigfall, Stephens, Toombs, Hammond, Davis, and score of other southern statesmen had rival among the northern members.

 In reading the proceedings of our provision al Congress and contrasting them with the doings of the Lincoln Congress, the reader is struck with the difference in the tone of the dis cussion and the manner of treating subjects.

 Among the reported proceedings in the Con federate Congress on the death of Ex>President Tyler, we find an euogy pronounced by Hon. k. NJ. T. Hunter We make an extract from it and its beauty will be better appreciated when we remember that the coat of arms of Virginia is the figure of an armed virgin, leaning on a spear, with her foot upon the neck of pros trate tyrant The allusion to this is beautiful.

 Tomorrow we shall lay him beneath his mother earth on the beautiful bank of the James, where his slumbers shall be soothed by the sound of it's falling waters. Day after day for years yet to come the lights of morning and the evening shadows shall lend their varied and silent charms to the quiet scene of his deep repose. After the hour of trial is over and the great work of our deliverance is completed, Virginia, as she leans her bloody spear to contemplate the past and behold the rest ing place of her dead, will rase her gauntletted hand to brush away the tear when she sees the grave of that brave old man who left his retire ment to stake his fortune his life, and his reputa ton on the result which was to bring her safety, honor, and freedom, She will embalm his memo ry in her affections and hold out his example for the imitation of generations yet unborn. And his children and their chldrens children will preserve his name as an inheritance of priceless value, an heirloom which has already run with their blood through more than one ger eration of men distin- guished for patriotism and virtue.

 We copy the following from the Washington Ark. Telegraph.

 Our state land office has been crowded with pre- emptors for the last two months to such an extent as to occupy the agent day and night. It has been impossible to transact all the business be