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Millstones fob the Nicus of Mb. Lincoln
Bin ms Cabinet—The indications in favor
of peace are becoming stronger and stronger
every day. That portion of the press which
sustains the war policy are now denouncing
Mr. Lincoln ;and his advisers. The New
York World, which no one can charge with
Peace proclivities, la absolutely threatening
Mr. Lincoln, —aye, predicting for him the
worst fate that could possibly befall a man. In
B brief article entitled “Lincoln’s follies,’’ it
handles that “patriot and statesman” without
gloves, and warns him to forego whatever as
pirations he may have in regard to serving the
country for the next Presidential term. This
is treason, actual, downright treason, if ever
there was treason in the Morld. It tells him
that it would te better —but here arc its own
words, and wo do not think we could improve
on them:
“But Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet had better
have millstones hanged about their necks and
be drowned in the bottom of tho sea, than
hold power for another four years. The finan
cial crash will come ere the expiration of that
term. The political revulsion will come before
then— tho waking up of the nation from its
awful delusion —and woe, then, to the author #
of our calamities.”
Ah! yes, the financial crash is the thing that
will settle the matter. We could get along
well enough Messieurs Editors, so long as our
pockets were not* touched—well enough so
long as things worked on smocthly at home;
but when we begin to feel in our pockets; when
our purse strings are cut, (what matter about
the heart strings!) then we will rouse up, mid
waken the echoes with our roaring. It is of
little consequence how many have been driven
into Mr. Lincoln’s slaughter pens, and how
many more have been reduced to poverty and
destitution : but the temple of Mammon must
not be undermined if he would save himself
from the “financial crash.” He might strike
at the very foundation of constitutional free -
dom, he wight pull down the pillars that sus
tain the temple of liberty, but let him beware
of the financial crash, for if that should c< me
and find him still in office, then, indeed it
would be better for him and bis cabinet “to
have millstones banged about their neeks, and
be drowned in the bottom of the sea.” It is
only the sound of this crash that will wake up
the 'nation from its awful delusion.’ It isonly
this that will bring ‘woe to the authors of our
calamities.’
We could stand the suspension of the A '..- ?•
corpus, we could stand the arbitrary arrest
and imprisonment of our fellow-citizens—we
could, in a word, stand the deprivation of
every right dear to freemen; but the Presi
dent who is eo unfortunate in his policy ns to
bring a ‘financial crash’ down upon us, had bet
ter look out for ‘millstones’ and the ‘bottom of
the sea?
As we have said, this denunciatory language
towards the President is peculiarly suggestive,
for some of our papers are like weathercock-',
* showing which way the wind blows. Our Re
publican Czar is evidently on the downward
tract, and the memories which will be conjured
up by those who have suffered at his band-, or
through his policy, will embitter and intensify
the feelings of dislike and hatred that will fol
low him into private life. He and his advisers
will have no smooth mad before them. Histo
ry is full of the examples of th se who have set
at defiance the principles of right and jutice
in their mad attempts to retain possession of
arbitrary and illgotten power.
(New York Metropolitan.
The Richmond Whig says: “Wo ven
ture the prediction that a rout more disgrace
ful than the Bull Run stampede, awaits the
Yankees in most of the conflicts likely to occur
during the next campaign. They will have to
enter upon it with all the disadvantage of raw
levies, who will present but a poor bulwark
against the gallant veterans of Lee and John
sten. As to the contingent of the thrie jrc»r«’
men likely to remain in the service, we take
the estimate of Yankee authorities, they will
not constitute a force sufficiently large to im
part an air of martial discipline to their new
organization. The Bull Run stampeders were
compared with the material which will com
pose the new army. Wo see no grounds to
presume that the Yankees will bring into the
field a larger force than we will. It they do,
it must, of necessity, be of such material as
cannot, if multiplied into the proportion of ten
to one, counterbalance the overpowering al
- which we shall possess in a well dis
ciplined veteran army. No result, however
palpable, achieved now by our arms, can be
received as an index of what is to be when we i
have green horns to encounter. Wo do nut
desire to underrate, in the least degree, the
fighting qualities of the Yankees. Recently
they have done well, much better indeed than
we ever thought them capable of doing Our
predictions as to what is to be the result from
a conflict between the two armies are justified
upon the plainest principles of military sci
ence. We therefore reiterate our expectation
that the Bull Run scene will be enacted with
the increased dramatic effect in more than
one conflict during the ensuing summer.
Antidote ron Poison.—Dr. James Ed
munds, a prominent London Physician, writes
M follows to the London Times:
“I inclose a simple, safe and accessible pre
scription for the whole range of acid and cor
rosive poisons, and which if promptly used,
will almost invariably save life: Mix 2 oz. of
Sowdered chalk or Magnesia, or 1 oz of Wash
ig soda, with a pint* es milk, and swallow at
one draught; then tickle the back of the throat
with a feather or the finger, so as to produce
vomiting. Afterwards drink freely of hot
mik and water and repeat the vomiting so as
to thoroughly wash out the stomach. Any
quantity of chalk and magnesia may be taken
with safety but soda in largo quantities is in
jurious. 1 may add also that, the narcotics
being excepted, alone is an antidote for
almost all the poisons, and especially if follow
ed by vomiting.*
Tub Dckb of Augustineburu.—The Duke
of Augustenborg, about whose succession to
the government of Schleswig-Holstein Europe
is threatened with war, is a tall man, over six
feet high, with hazel hair, black eyes, light
eyebrows, “good” complexion, manner some
what alow but stately, and speech sedate, with
a| slight “peculiarity.’* He talks “affably”
and seems altogether a well intentioned but
somewhat slow and heavy person, who will
govern Holstein without many blunders, and
witheut being a very dangerous personage in
Europe.
Lincoln. —Speculating upon the declaration
of Seward, that Abe Lincoln is enli'led to four
years rule over a 'unitriT United States, and
other indications that the Abolition Adminis
tration means to perpetuate its existence by
force or fraud, or both, the New York Daily
News throws out the following warning:
“Now, let the Administration and their
supporters tread cautiously upon the ground
they have so artfully surveyed. There arc
pitfalls beyond their vision, and beneath is
volcanic fire, a flaming lava of popular fury
that already threatens ominously, an 1 that,
when once in action, will not bo allayed and
cannot be subdued. The radicals nre supreme
by virtue of tinir usurpations, and they own
the name of official authority, which is in
deed “a tower of strength?’ But beyond that
their power exists only by the apathy and sub
missiveness of the masses. If the attempt be
made to create a President by fraud or force,
or by any other means than the strictly legiti
mate exercise of the elective franchise in its
fullest freedom and purity, the attempt should
be resisted, even although there should be rev
olution in the North. The Administration
1 have already sufficiently violated their consti
, rational obligations to merit impeachment and
' punishment as purjurers and traitors. If they
! go so far as to bring bayonets to bear upon the
' Presidential election, there should be steel to
meet their steel, and the defenders of the sa
cred ballot box, wo trust, will count as many
i as their assailants.
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DAYS OF THE MONTH.
10* Find ‘.he Month, then 4 5 Ji I 7
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the Week, and then down to the () I
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IIEAD-QRS. TRANS-MISS. DEP T., I
Shreveport, La., Feb. 2U, 1864. f
[Artraet. ] ■
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 42.
XVIII. Tho provisions of Paragraph If.
General Orders No. 4, Current Series from De
partment Head Quarters, ore modified •» m ,0
permit persons in the Di-trict of Western
Louisiana, until the Ist of M \RCH. 1861. to
enter the Louisiana St itc Gu * rd, on first being
enrolled and then detailed for that service by
the Parish enrolling officer.
By command of
Lieut.-Gen. E. Ktm Smith
8. 8. ANDERSON.
6:3w • Ass’t A'lj't Gen.
Headquarters Tbans-Miss. Dept. I
Shreveport, La., Feb. IS, 1864. ) ■
GENERAL ORDERS No. 5.
NO IMPRESSMENT of property within the
Trans-Mississippi Department, will be
trade without written authority from the D>-
pariincnt Commander; the District Command
ers within their respective Districts, or the
Commanding Officer of an army in the field.
In all cases of impressment, the nuthori y
must be shown by the parties impressing.
By command of
Lieut.-Gcn. E. Kikby Smith.
S. S. ANDERSON,
6:4w Ass’t Adj’t General.
8250 REWARD.
RANAWAY from the undersigned, living nine
miles from Douglassville, Davis Co., Texin,
I on the night us tfiu lUlh inst., the following
■ Negroes:
EDMUND, 2d urs old, mulatto, six feet
high, weighs about 210 lbs—very likely.
GEORGE, 20 years old, dark brown, ab ut
5 feet 8 inches, weighs about 145 lbs—very
likely.
•JIM ALBERTY. 27 years oil, black, abo-.it
5 feet 7 inches, weighs about 135 lbs; has
whiskers and moustache, which are very long
for 3 negro.
DAVE, 23 years old. black, about 5 feet 6
inches, weighs about 150 lbs; has whiskers
an<l moustache, hair and beard very kinkey,
stutters when excited.
BILL POLLY, 26 years old, mulatto, about
5 feet 7 inches, weighs about 140 lbs; has a
bone felon on tho index finger of right hand.
I will pay SSO each for them if caught and
put in jail, so I can get them, or if delivered at
my place will pay in addition all travelling ex
penses.
EDWARD C. MORTON.
February 20, 1864. f-2w
campsongs.
JUST PUBLISHED, in Pamphlet form a
selection of Ballads for the camp. Sixteen
pages, containing “Lorena,” “Do they Miss
me at Home,” “Twenty Years Ago,” and other
popular ballads—l 3in all. Price, $1 per copy;
$lO per dozen, $75 per hundred.
Also, printed on slips, “Tho Southern Star,”
“The Home-Spun Dress,” “Bingen,” and the
“War Fever.” Price, 50 cents each, or the
four for Si.
IS«4. ALMANACS IS6 4.
Moores trans-mississippi alma
nac. Only a few copies left. Price $1
per copy, $9 per dozen, SSO per hundred.
Apply at the printing office, or address
C. L. SUTTON,
March 8, 1864. Washington, Ark.
A Good Horse lor Sale.
APPLY at this office.
Jan. 27, 1864.
Hours. Post Washington, Ask.. I
February 15th, 1864. J
SPECIAL ORDER No. 16.
HEREAFTER all persons bringing letters
from the Federal lin?s to persons in the
country controlled by this Post, will bring
them to this office for examination, before de- |
livering them to the parties to whom they are
addressed. Any violation nf this order will be
severely and promptly punished.
By order of Jxo. C. Peay. Maj. Com'dg Post.
4-6 t JAS. P. ERWIN, Port Adj’t.
Wanted to Hire.
■ WISH to hire Twenty-Five Negro men for
Teamsters. for which I will pay $25 per
month, and furnish rations.
C. B. MOORE.
Maj. and Q. M. Churchill's Brigade.
Camp Sumter, near Spring Hill, Ark., 1
February 11th. 1’•*« 4 4-3 t )
Special Notice*
INDIVIDUALS having sold me Cotton for ac
count of the Government, are hereby noti
fied that they arc expected to take due care of
said Cotton whilst in their possession, as per
agreement, otherwise they trill be held account
able for any damage done the Cotton.
DAVID BLOCK.
Gen. Agent Produce Loan
for tho State of Ark.
Washington, Ark., Feb. 9, 1863. 3-ts
Confederate Money Wanted!
FOR SALE—My premises in Washington,
known recently as Burt's Hotel & Stuart’s
Store, also, my farm one mile and a half from
town. Two hundred acres. Eighty in cultiva
tion, the rest well timbered. For terms apply
to myself at Greenville, or H. A. Jones at
Washington. A. T. BELLER.
Jan. 6, 1864. n 3— Im.
875 Reward.
LOST between Camp Bragg and Cam den,
large black Morocco Pocket Book contain-
1 ing about four hundred dollars in Confederate
Notes and some valuable papers. The above
reward will he paid if delivered to me at camp
1 or deposited where I can get it.
T. J. CHUCHILL, Drig. Gen.
Dec. 30. 1863. 4%Bw>
Special .Volice.
Office Manufacturing Q. M . )
Washington, Ark. {
rpifE undersigned. M.intracturing Quarter
L Master fir the District cf Arkansas, haring
xetusive control of all Beef Hides belonging
to the Government, hereby notifies all pcr*on«,
tanner* 11 nd speculators in particular, not to
purchase government bides from any person
having charge thereof, except from hia self or
his agents authorized to wake contracts for
leather. Any hides purchased by any citizen
from any officer or soldier, in violation of this
notice, will be tak<n po««e«*Hr of for the use
• n l benefit of the Government.
All good citizens arc respectfu’ly requested
to take care of all hides left by detached c m- .
mands—notifying me of the quantity and their !
locality. Any labor or expense they may in- 1
cur in so doing wiil be paid t v me.
J. D. THOMAS,
Maj. A Manf’g Q. M., Dis. of Ark.
Jan. 18. 1864. 1 ts
, . DR. VANN, I
I ,! on , L ? "
fully tntorm his
frtTßds and the
“K rublic ’ ,h: 1 u 11M
J ust received a 1
■v X ?! »npp’y of material I
*” r plugging'
* er filling teeth, j
and would be ple.i-e I to see any one requir
ing his services at his office in Washington.
Feb. 17, 1864. 4-3 m
CIRCULAR.
Hkauquabtebs Tbans-Miss Darr.)
Clothing Bureau, (
Shreveport, La., Feb. Bth, 1864. )
PHE liniite’d supply of clothing, camp nnd
1 garrison e ;u ; age on band at any one time,
requires that tales to c fficcrs bo confined to
articles fur their oten pereonal ute, and to gurad
against impositions upon officers of the Quar
termaster Departnv nt charged with such’saks
the so lowing certificate will b- requited:
I certify, on honor, that 1 L ive this day pur
chased of. Quarter Master," C. S
Army, the articles ab.\e specified; that they
are for my oten personal use, That 1 am desti
tute of the articles mentioned, and bate not
purchased them or any of them from the gov
ernment or any article that could be used in
I lieu thereof, equal to a soldier’s allowance, as
prescribed by General Order, No. luD, A. and
T. G. Command, of Department, dated, Rich
mond, Va., Decemlicr btli, 1862.
At the same time, the Quarter Master will
I furnish the officer to whom the articles are
I sold, 3 certificate naming the articles and
I amount of sales, which ceriiticnte eliaii be de
posited with the officer making the next sale,
who will, on such further sale, give the officer
3 like certificate.
[Signed.) W. H. lIAYNEB,
Maj. and Qr. Master, C.B. Army,
Clothing Bureau, Trans-Mi« s . Dept.
Approved:
By order of Lt. Gen. E. Kt buy Smith.
(Signed) W. R- BOGGS,
Brig. Gen., and Chief of Staff.
Office Chief of Quarter Matter Bureau, 1
Shreveport, La., Feb. Bth, 1861. ’ J
Approved. Sales to officers will be disallow
ed and tho officer making the sale will be re
quired to account for the property sold, unless
the sale is in accordance with the terms of
this circular.
(Signed.) L. W. O. BANNON,
4-4 w Lt. Col. Chief Qr. Mr. Bureau.
NOTICE.
FOR SALE—At the Government Wood Shop
Twelve Superior LOOMS.
They will bo exchanged for Cloth—cloth and
looms valued at old prices.
J. D. THOMAS,
Major & Manufg q. M. D. A;
Washington, Ark., Feb. 24, 1864. 5-ts
TO HIRE.
A NEGRO GIRL, 18 years old.
Apply to
5-2 w A. B. WILLIAMS.
HEAnQrABTERs Titcxs-Miva. DrrAKTMBxr >
Shreveport, La., Feb. 8, 1864.
General Orders No. 4.
I. The following order, Issued fr<m the Ad
jutant and Inspector General’s Office, is p o {,_
I lished for the information of all concerned:
I Adjutant and Inspector General's Ofhcx v
Richmond, Jan. 9th, 1864. ’ •
General Order 1
No. 2. I
I. The following Acts of Congress and
lotions nre published for the information ofall
concerned therein:
Acts.
AN ACT to prevent the enlistment or enroll
ment of Substitutes n the militarj service
of the Confederate States.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact. That no person liable to
military service shall hereafter be pormitted or
allowed to furnish a substitute for ench service
nor shall any substitute be received, enlisted
or enrolled in the military service of the Con
federate States.
[Approved Dec. 28th, lacr.
AN ACT to put an end to exemption from
military service of those who have heretofore
[ furnished substitutes.
Whereas, In the pre=ent circutnstar.ces it
requires the ai l of all who are able to bear
arms:
The Congress of the Confederate States do
enact, That no person shall h« exempt fre.n
military service by reason of his havin- fnr
nished a substitute; but this act shall not be
1 I so construed as to affect persons who, though
not liable to render military services, have
- nevertheless, furnished substitutes.
[Approved Jan. stb, 1864.
I 11. Persons rendered liable to military ser
! vice by operation of the preceding Acts are
! place-1 on the same footing with all others
I heretofore held liable by Acts of Congre?-.
IIL Persons herein rendered liable to mili
tary service are required to report as volnn
-1 teers or conscripts, without delay, to the en
j rolling officer: and all who delay beyond the
first day of February, 1861, will be c’nsidered
as having renounce 1 the privilege cf volunieer
j ing and held for as-ignment according to law.
LV. Enrolling officers will proceed as rapidly
as practic ble rn the enrollment of persons
herein mnde liable to military service. Previ
ous to enrollment, as conscripts, all such per
sons will be allowed to volunteer in companies
in service on the IGth of April. 1862, provide*!
the company chosen does not, at the time of
• volunteering, reach tho maximum number al.
1< ue 1, and upon su.-h company being selected.
| the volunteer will recc.ve from the enrolling
| officer a certificate to the effect that he has »•>
volnn'eered, an 1 no volunteer will *.e receieel
' into any company except oa such certificate
. Persons who fail to m.-.ke tl-eir selection* at
the time of enrollment will be as-igncl accord
ing to existing regulations.
V. Persons who report to the enrolling offi
cer will be enrolled, and may be allowed a fur
lough of ten days Wore rep rting to the Camo
lof nstruction.
VI. A.l pertoß*, whether volunteer* or con
scripts, under this order, will pass through the
Camp of Instruction of the State to which they
' be. l ng. and be forwardeA thence to the compa
nies which are selected, or to which they may
! boa s:gtxed.
, VIL The Bureau of Cor«cr>i>tion is charged
| with adopting pr per r- g Hatton* t r the eu
1 fcreement of this <-r ler.
V ill. A’l exemptiuns heretoforegr-tntetf are
subject to tevision, under instruction; fr-.uthe
( Bureau ot Conscription, and if found to be im
proper or unauthorized by law, will be revoked.
I By <rder
I (Signe ) S. C<X>PER,
Anjntant an I Ta«pectcr Genera!.
, 11. Prirsgrapli 111 of the above order is so
modified as to read as follow-:—“Persons
hereiu rendered liable to military service, are
required to report as volunteers or eousenpts,
a ith< ut delay, to the enr d ing officer: an I all
who delay beyond the first Lay < ; .M ire .
1 ISfU, will be considered a» i-aving tenoanecd
; the privilege of volunteering, and held lor as
signment, according to law.''
111. 1 aragrapb IV of the above order is s»
modifie 1 as :o allow persons herein rendered
1 liable to military service, to volunteer in organ,
izatic-ns must-re 1 and accepted previous to tfi;
first day us July, 1863; an 1 no volunteer will
be receive 1 in any urbanization nut serving in
, this department.
IV. Enrolling Officers in this department
w:ll proceed at once to enforce a rigid exeus-
1 lion of the foregoing order*.
By comm.li: 1 of
Lieut.-Gea. E. Kirby Smith,
S. 8. ANDERSuN.
Assistant Adjutant General.
Shreveport, February 17. 1864. 5 4t
WASHINGTON
ACADEMY.
THE Spring Session of the Washington Fe-
? ca le ‘"-' w,n co,n, “enee on Monday,
ic’ I'l un ’ ,vr ,he superintendence of Mr«-
hield and Miss Brown. Rates of Tuition
ami »->O. Payment at the end of each Ulf
session. No deduction except in case of pro
tracted illness.
January 20, 1861. ggftf
For Sale,
1 \ HANDSOME Residence about one mils
11. from the Court House. There is a Dwel
. ling House. (6 rooms.) Kitchen. Negro Cabin#.
Smoke and Well House, and other necessity
out buildings. Splendid well of water. A
1 young Orchanl of excellent selections of fruit
Cribs, Stables and Lots. In short, almost every
convenience that could be < esired. Forty Acre*
of Land will be included in the sale of the
Dwelling.
Title indisputable. Confederate money
wanted in payment. Apply to
A. B. WILLIAMS.
Washington, Feb. 27, 1864.
NOTICE.
IEARNE&TLY request those having Cotton
in the counties of Hempstead, Lafayette and
Sevier, to come forward and sell it to mo for
the Government.
Cotton ia now cur chief resource. I there
fore hope for the success of our cause that this
call will be responded to with alacrity.
DAVID BLOCK,
Gen. Agent Produce Loan
for the State of Ark.
Washington, Feb. 18, 1864. Hl