Hide Article Text (OCR)
Arkansas Scenes. An army pamaster, who has been through Arkansas, is publishing his diary in the St. Louis Democrat. We give some extracts: “Called at a farm house for forage; the men folks were with Price’s army; the wo man had been to the feneral of a neighbor. I asked her if any clergyman was present, she gave me an idiotic stare. I then asked they oe had alg micsionasies in that country. e repliedy but have backslid rnimarity oe a ~_ the emment is issuing to the starving women and chil dt is a sight to see them ftock around ioecey office. One woman with a fly of boys and dogs, made her up. The mother was mounted on a mule, and the oldest boy a promis e lad of eighteen, was trying to spit tobacco in the mule’s eyeless socket at a dis cf twenty feet. Captain Turner came and asked the boy where they got so me dogs. He replied, ‘We hain’t got many now, the blamed Feds killed them all but eleven.’ ”” : ‘‘ Historians will not have to go back of 1864 to find instances of savage cruelty and torture. The soldiers tell the most horrify ing stories of rebel barbarity. It is said there are hundreds of women in Arkansas, today, who have had their feet and hands burnt to a crisp by guerrillas, to make them confess where their gold and silver is buried. They even‘pull out their toe nails with a bul let moulds. Arkansas is overrun with guer rillas and kers, then legitimate off. _‘ My clerk is a ver b dieitive and modest young gentleman ; he was very nearly anni hilated today by a young woman who de manded of him ‘achaw of Lincoln tobacco,’ meaning the manufactured article. He did not kiss her once for her mother. Instead of Lincoln tobacco, some of them call it ‘ that or flat-track.’ In justice to Arkansas I do not believe these people are fair representa tives of the people before the war. I suppose the wealthy and educated people and niggers went South and joined their fortunes with the Confederacy, while the poor white trash was left behind. I am of the opinion that the negroes were the middling class in Arkansas. The negroes of the intelligent whites had greater facilities for gathering information than the aforesaid white trash. And whenever I have been in Dixie I have found the blacks looking down on the poor whites.”’ ‘The woods were filled with refugees, who looked like a demoralized camp-meeting. Here we saw new sights, heard new stories. My space will not allow me to mention many of them. I saw one old man who had all his family with him. [He was living with his third wife, and had twenty grown daughters and six sons. He was seventy-seven years old, and seemed very proud of his success in this respect. He intimated, with simplicity truly refreshing, that there might be other pledges of affection in store for him.” ** A soldier of Company C, 2d Arkansas, gave me two dollars and ten cents, in silver, for the Sanitary Fair. This I shall pass over to the ladies when LT arrive in St. Louis. Doubtless this money has been in some bush whacker’s pocket, and could it speak, what a tale it might tell. The bushwhackers are cleaning the country of gold and silver. Our soldiers report having killed one who had fifteen thousand dollars upon his person.” “’ My diet the past two weeks had made me about sick. All one finds to eat in this country is pork and corn bread, made from unsifted meat. I am inclined to think that slavery is not the only cause for making the people of Arkansas barbarous. Their diet is vicious. If pork, whisky and tobacco will not make a people develish, I do not know what will. Charles Laml’s essay on roast pig is very pretty on paper, but I think Charle had some nice cellery, besides other choice vegetables to go with it.”’ Brarney.—The Micawbers, at Chicago, promise to take firstrate care of of our gal lant soldiers, when they get possesion of the helm of the old ship of State. It will be ex cruciatingly funny to hear some of their talk ers swallow the “horde of abolition savages,” the ‘‘ assassins of our brothers,” the ‘‘ scum of northern brothels,”’ the ‘‘ Lincoln hire lings,” c., without washing or greasing.— Since when did it become Democratic to flatter and cajole the “ blood-thirsty wretches,’? who have “‘invaded’ the sacred soil of the Southern States,’’? Bah! The sol diers can take care of themselves, and if need be, of our Union loving Democrats, who but a short time since would not march under the Stars and Stripes. But now ‘ye dem ocrats’’need ‘‘your voices, sweet soldiers,’’ therefore it is best to throw a ‘‘tub to the whale,’’ and flatter ** Lincoln’s_ hirelings.’’ Quincy Union- Goon Lucx.—On the first of July,last two men named Sharp and Smith, being out of employment and out of money, took up a quartz ledge on Little Deer creek, about a mile from the Canada Hill mill, and went to work on it. On the 7th of July one of the men wished to abandon the ledge, which had then afforded no symptoms of paying. At the solicitation of his partner, however, he stuck to it a few days longer, and struck good prospects. To enable them to continue their work they admitted the proprietors of of the Butterfield mill as partners with them in the ownership of the ledge. Up to this time the company so formed have crushed 200 tons of rock, from which they have ob tained between $18,000, and $20,000. On Saturday they cleaned up $10,000 from 100 tons of rock. They have a ledge two feet thick, and 500 tons of rock“in sight equally as rich as that which they have crushed.— Nevada Gazette. Is a recent lecture in Maine, Fowler, the Phrenologist, related the following reminis cence of *‘ Little Mac ’! The father of George L. McClellan on himself were ‘old cronies,’ as he expre is; he often came into his offce to listen to his examinations: and once on a time the Sad George was Home from West Point, the father brought his two eels to have their characters phrenologically descanted upon. Says Mr. Fowler: ‘* I remember all the cir cumstances as if it was but yesterday, and I t remember the train of reasoning that then passed through my mind. Never,’, with great emphasis, ‘‘ never in all my life, had I found such an inordinate developement of the organ of ‘caution,’ as in the head of George B. McClellan! I also found the propelling faculties, combattiveness and destructiveness small, and I thought to myself, what is the sense or reason of sending such a natural coward to West Point? But then I reasoned that there would probably never be any war to call for military genius, and West Point might as well educate the cowards as any other institution.”’ Ale said his life had only proved his early convictions, and referring to the great seven days’ battle, related that a personal family friend was then in Rich mond, and the of the battle was well known. Lee said: ‘‘I know McClellan for a natural coward, and if I draw every avail able man away from Richmond, and hurl our whole force upon his right wing; he will not dare to move his left!’ He did so and vowed that he truly did know his adversary; for, though McClellan could have swung his left wing right over Richmond, he only sent forward a corporal's guard to reconnoitre, and the golden opportunity was passed by. “@ap in Hanp.”—On the 28th of May, 186}, scarcely two months after the firing u the Richmond. Whig said of the Noperme: We must bring these enfranchised slaves back to their true condition. They have long very properly looked upon themselves as our social inferiors—as our serfs, their mean, niggardly lives, their low, vuiger and sordid occupations, have ground this conviction into’ them.” Then, after speaking of the Northern de termination to put down the rebellion, and saying that ‘‘ their uprising has all the char acteristics of a ferocious, servile insurrec tion,” the editor concludes that the war “will enable us to restore them to their nor mal condition of vasssalage, and teach them that ‘cap in hand’ is the proper attitude of the servant before his master.” And with “‘ cap in hand’’ the whole Cop perhead party now stand before their masters ready to do their bidding! The remarks of the Whig are perhaps entirely just, when ap plied to this class of our people, for they have ever been slaves to the party, and the party has been the vassal of the South.— Bee. Cartye’s Styre.—Come now, O my Thom as! thou doubtful doubter of doubots, thou flounderer on the flat, miry and bilgy sea of tideless Toryism. I have somewhat to show thee. Look! what seest with these staring eyes of thine ;those eyes so big and bullet like, globed in such spheric speculation! It shall be told thee what thou seest: A car, four wheeled, and many sized and springless. No two of the wheels are of the same size— in order prescript and irrevocable. It forth. It goes forth backwardly, hind quar terly, and stern-foremostly, and joineth in many directions at once, and therefore hath no locomotion! Time and half a times is half topsy-turvy, and otherwhiles the sconce less traveler therein ensconced, knoweth not whether he is sitting on his head, kneeling on his heels, or standing on his elbows. Loud-rumbleth and rough-tumbleth this mys tic and portentious car; and yet no man stay eth where it listeth, and where that is no man knoweth, not even its inventor. And what sort of a car is that? Ha! ha! Peter and Paul! Ha! ha! Mrs. Grandy and Dame Partington! Why, man, dost thou ignore this car? Dost thou not recognize this car? Why it is the Democratic Peace-War-Rebel- McClellan platform that is running for the Presidency—or some goblin devil d—d. Useless Young Lapres.—A contemporary speaks thus seriously of that very large class of useless young ladies who glory in being above useful employment : “The number of idle, useless girls in our large cities seem to be steadily increasing! They lounge or sleep through the mornings, parade the streets during the afternoon, and assemble in frivolous companies of their own and the other sex to pass away their evenings. What a store of unhappiness for themselves and others are they laying up form ing time, when real duties and high a sibilities thoughtlessly assumed! They are skilled in no domestic duties—many, they dis pise them; have no habits of industry nor taste for the useful. What Will they be as wives and mothers? Alas for their husbands and children, and alas for themselves who can wonder if domestic unhapiness and do mestic ruin follow ?”’ Tae Fractaar Gop Mapz.—As one of the brigades of the Reserve Corps which came up to the rescue of General Thomas at Chickamauga, was marched through Athens, Alabamays bright eyed little girl of four summers was looking at the sturdy fellows passing by. When she saw the sun glanc ing through the stripes of red, and on the golden stars of the flag, she exclaimed clap ping her hands, ** Oh, pa! pa! pa! God@made that flags—see the stars.’’ A shout deep and loud went up from that column, and many s bronzed veteran lifted his hat as he passed the sunny haired child, resolving, if his good right arm availed anything, God’s flag should conquer.
Newspaper Details
Shasta Courier
Shasta, California, US
Sat, Oct 15, 1864
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
IL, USA 24 Jul 2026
Other Publications Near Shasta, California
Shasta Courier
Shasta Weekly Shasta Courier
