[LITTLE ROCK]
DAILY STATE JOURNAL
October 31, 1861 - February 2, 1862
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, October 31, 1861, p. 1, c. 2
Prospectus
of the
Daily State
Journal.
Conducted by Thos.
C. Peek.
A Daily Newspaper, to be published regularly, in the city of Little Rock,
Ark., under the editorial management and control of Thos. C. Peek, is commenced
to-day, October 31st, 1861. It
is intended to make the JOURNAL a first-class news and political paper;
to fill its columns with good, substantial reading matter, and to pay especial
attention to the collection of NEWS from every available quarter—telegraphic,
local, commercial, river and foreign.
In politics the paper will be decidedly Southern in its tone—not
only defending the right of Secession, but justifying the causes
which led to it, and advocating the necessity of a total and perpetual
separation from the North as the only feasible means of securing the rights,
freedom and independence of the South. The
JOURNAL will be no subservient partisan sheet, but on the contrary a free and
independent paper—its object to secure the greatest good to the greatest
number, and to break down all corrupt political combinations which seek to
advance the interests of a few at the expense of the many.
Little Rock, October 31st, 1861.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, October 31, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Marketing.—Either country people think town denizens are chameleons and
"doth feed on air," and consequently regard it useless to bring their
surplus provender to market, or the retailers here demand exhorbitant [sic]
prices. If the first is the case,
we pathetically appeal to ye countrymen to have some mercy on lank stomachs and
empty larders; if the second, for the sake of humanity, relax your mercenary
nerves and "do unto others as ye would others should do unto you."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 1, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Raffle.—A beautiful picture, made of bird feathers, has been left at
our office to be raffled off—a part of the proceeds to be for the benefit of
the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society. Call
and take a chance.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 1, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Patriotic Ladies.—Adversity tests and brings forth the nobler
attributes of woman's nature, and these are the times that try their souls. But they have proven true and self-sacrificing in this
emergency with a zeal and energy akin to that of the Spartan matrons.
They have set their foot upon the ploughshare and will pass the
fiery ordeal! The good ladies of Little Rock deserve the highest encomiums
for their praiseworthy labors in behalf of our brave volunteers—making
uniforms, tents, flags, &c., and providing pecuniary assistance for the
families of absent soldiers. Ladies
of Little Rock, may God bless you for your noble endeavors in behalf of your
country and its brave defenders. The
mede [sic] of civic praise will be as hallowed to your memory as the chaplet of
fame will be glorious to the valiant soldier.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 3, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
The ladies of this city are making arrangements for a series of concerts,
tableaux, etc., for the benefit of the Soldiers' Aid Society.
Their first entertainment will be given some evening this week.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 3, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Lost.—A bag of wool sent in by a patriotic lady for the
benefit of the Soldiers' Aid Society, was lost on its way, supposed to be within
the limits of the city. The finder
will be kind enough to report to Mrs. Judge English, President of the Society.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 5, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
A banner recently presented to a volunteer infantry company in southern
Arkansas, has inscribed on it the new popular phrase, "Here's your
mule."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Waddings.
White and black WADDINGS for sale at the Millinery Store on the corner of
Main and Cherry streets.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 5, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Drunk.—Every night after 10, you can stumble over drunken men lying
around loose, leaning up against posts and houses, staggering along in the
middle of streets, or reposing softly in gravelled alleys.
It seems that a copious proportion of our population have a mania for
getting drunk. If the police were
to arrest every drunken man they would see in a night's ramble, it would require
a dozen Recorders to try them next morning.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 5, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Mr. Joshua F. James has removed his place of business to the store
recently occupied by A. J. Hutt. He
is fitting up the upper rooms which he proposes to offer for the use of the
Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society. Mr.
James has laid the Society under many obligations for former services, and
should be kindly remembered by the public.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 6, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Mayor Ashley has issued an order that no negroes shall be allowed to be
away from their homes after 10 o'clock at night, even with passes.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 6, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Lack of Houses.—The want of residences in our city is an incubus to our
growth, and if not remedied will prove injurious to future emigration.
Strangers are frequently to be met on our streets vainly attempting to
find some place for shelter, and many who have come here for the purpose of
remaining have been forced to seek a home in some other place, for the simple
reason that no dwelling houses can be procured here.
Besides, when you do accidentally find a house for rent, the price is so
exhorbitant [sic] that it makes a man's hair stand on end like quills upon the
fretful porcupine.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 6, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Good Joke.—While our carrier was distributing the JOURNAL at every door
on Main street yesterday morning, a genus homo from the swamps, who had risen
early to see the sights, and not being "up to snuff," followed after
the boy, picking up the papers as fast as they were dropped, and running up to
the news vender nearly out of breath, exclaimed:
"See here bub, you're jist a drappin' your papers all along the
street here."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 6, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
A very modest matron of this city sent her very modest daughter, a pretty
demoiselle, out the other day for some articles.
Among the many she informed a moustached clerk in one of our stores, that
her "mamma wanted to get three yards of stuff for primitive triangular
appendages for her infant."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 6, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Let Us Rejoice.—What say our patriotic citizens to having a jubilee
tomorrow night, in honor of the secession of our gallant sister State. Let the loud-mouthed cannon peal forth its thunder tones; let
the soul-stirring notes of martial music add enthusiasm to the joyous event; let
gladsome shouts go up from patriot throats till the welkin rings, and let
glittering lights from an hundred houses illumine the happy scene.
A people who have struggled so valiantly in the cause of God and the
Right, as have the Missourians, deserve all the gratulation and homage a
generous brotherhood can offer. They
adopted for their watchwords the cheering notes of Bozarris to his gallant
Greeks when battling against the servile Ottoman:
"Strike—till the last armed foe expires;
Strike—for your altars and your fires;
Strike—for the green graves of your sires;
God and your native land!
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 7, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The Charleston Courier says that many beautiful ladies of that city have
appeared on the street in "war homespun."
We hope the ladies of Little Rock will imitate their example.
If our fair damsels knew how much pleasure it afforded the soldiers and
all good citizens, it would be generally adopted.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 7, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Mrs. Commodore Stringham who has been busily engaged in conveying
information to the Confederates, is in the hands of the Federal officers at
Louisville, Ky.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 8, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Substitute for Coffee—Dr. Polterin, in the Mobile Tribune, recommends
the acorn of our native oak as a substitute for coffee.
It is pronounced an excellent remedial agent, as well as a source of
economy.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 8, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Good.—The ladies of Richmond, Charleston, Nashville and Mobile are
discarding hoops entirely. Bravo!—bravicomo!
Do hope all our ladies will follow suit.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 8, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Refugees from northern Kentucky are continually arriving at Bowling
Green, and many of them at once go into the army.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
At a ball given by the colored population of Jackson, Miss., last week,
the sum of $125 was raised and handed over to the proper authorities, for the
benefit of our soldiers. A similar
entertainment was given by the colored people of Mobile recently, which netted
$350 for the use of Southern soldiers.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Good Move.—The New Orleans Picayune says the ladies of that city have
organized an association, the purpose of which is to provide winter clothing for
the wives and children of the volunteers engaged in the defense of our homes and
our rights.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Two weeks ago, in Missouri, the Federals arrested Mrs. Judge Reese, a
sister to Hon. Jas. S. Green, (late U. S. Senator).
Having no prison handy, and desiring to humiliate her, they compelled her
to wash the dirty clothes of the filthy, lousy abolition invaders.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Who are We Fighting?—The term "Yankee" ought no longer to be
applied to the enemy; such a term is not just to the fighting men on the other
side nor to ourselves. We are, in
point of fact, literally and truly invaded by a European army. That army is made up of Irish, Germans and English, with a
small proportion of Yankees. Whilst
the Lincoln despotism deprecates bitterly the sympathy of European governments
with the South, its main reliance is foreign soldiers.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The Mobile Tribune learns that a company of Choctaw Indians, numbering
150 mounted men, has been raised in Baldwin county.
They are called the "Yaller Jackets," and are all splendid
looking warriors.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The colored people of Van Buren, with their patriotic devotion to the
noble cause of the south, will give a ball tomorrow night, for the benefit of
the soldiers.—[Press, 1st.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 9, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Femininity.—The extensive proportions of fashionably dressed ladies is
really immense; positively there is no such thing as getting round them in one
effort. Skirts have swollen so
prodigiously that but few doors are wide enough for them to pass through without
considerable squeezing. The belles
of fashion now-a-days seem like moving bells, literally, that male pedestrians
have to steer well in the streets, else they will run against bag matting,
hoops, ropes, crinoline, and Venus knows what.
Yesterday morning we saw two of the dumpy kind of devotees of fashion,
sailing along Markham street, a la pointer style—hands close and skirts
out. At forty paces distant they
seemed like miniature pyramids of silk; at twenty paces, a strong smell of
cologne and other essences; at ten paces, a little lump like a bonnet was
discernable at the top of the pyramid; at three paces, the imbeded [sic] voice
of a female in the dress could be heard; at two paces, two ringlets of slim
appearance, resembling boiled onions, lips like unto thin sandwiches, with a bit
of discolored beefsteak sticking out, and sallow cheeks rouged with chalk.
This is all that could create in us the impression that the above things,
dry-goods, etc., formed a—woman!
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The Richmond Whig says a very imposing scene was presented at
Centreville last Wednesday, in the presentation by Gov. Letcher of regimental
colors to a number of the Virginia regiments.
The presentation was accompanied by appropriate remarks by the Governor
and responses by the officers commanding. Gens.
Johnston and Beauregard were present. These flags are destined to be historic.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Patriotism of Hebrew Ladies.—The Shreveport Southwestern says:
The Hebrew ladies of Shreveport, having collected money enough, have had
made up 160 pair of woolen drawers, 160 woolen shirts, and 80 pair of socks for
the Shreveport "Rebels."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Economy—The Gazette is gratified at the number of calico
dresses, old coats, hats and pantaloons that are daily met with on the streets
of Nashville.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 12, 1861, p. 3,
c. 2
Scarce.—Everything in the eating line is unusually scarce in this city,
and lamentably high. It is almost
impossible to procure sufficient provisions and groceries for the most ordinary
demand, and our dealers cannot get anything from other points on account of the
suspension of navigation.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 12, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
War Talk.—The war is the great topic of conversation in the streets, on
the highways, in the public places and the family circle.
All sorts of remarks are made; some patriotic, sorrowful and ludicrous.
A young lady in this city, the other day, much alarmed at the idea of her
male friends being called upon to go to war, exclaimed, with tears in her eyes:
"How dreadful it will be to live without men."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Needs Repairing.—Most of the sidewalks on Markham street, need
re-paving, as they are in a very dilapidated condition.
They look about like the sidewalks found in the ruins of Pompeii, after
they had been dug up and scattered around.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
A grayback at the "Anthony House," while at the supper table
last night, was asked by a servant whether he would have black or green tea; he
replied, "I dont care a d—n what color it is, so its got sweetnin' in
it."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 14, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
A Disaffected Indian Camp Broken
Up.—We learn from George Aid, direct from the Seminole agency, that
Opothleyoholo had collected together 5,000 Indians, and 1300 negroes, who had
gone to him with the hope of being freed. When
Gen. Cooper, at the head of the Creek, Choctaw and Chicasaw regiments, amounting
to near 5,000, advanced upon Opothleyohoho's camp, his followers fled, leaving
all behind. Opothleyholo left with
a few followers and has gone to Kansas. Most
of his followers are with Cooper, and he has a very large Indian force now with
him.—Ft. Smith Times, 9th.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 14, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Commendable.—The colored people of this city—emulating the example of
their brothers in other places—propose having a ball at Theater hall, in two
weeks, the proceeds to be donated for the benefit of our Southern soldiers.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 17, 1861, p. 2,
c. 3
Economical.—The Vicksburg Whig notices a favor sent to that
office by a lady, as follows:
A great curiosity was sent us by Mrs. Blanchard.
It is a model economical candle, six yards long, and will burn six hours
each night for a month, and all that light at a cost of fifty cents.
It is made by taking one pound of beeswax and three-fourths of a pound of
rosin, and melting them together; then take four threads of slack twisted cotton
for a wick, and draw it three times through the melted wax and rosin, and wind
it in a ball; pull the cord up above the ball and light it, and you have a very
good candle.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 17, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Patriotic Young Lady.—The Jackson Mississippian notices the
arrival in that city of the "Helen Johnston Guards," a splendid
company of volunteers from Madison, Leake and Attala counties.
The company was uniformed at the expense of Miss Helen Johnston, (whose
name they bear,) a wealthy young lady of Madison county, distinguished alike for
her generosity and her devotion to the cause of the Confederate States.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 20, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Spinning Wheels!
A few on hand yet. A
first rate article!
Call on A. J. Ward, Main street.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 20, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
Stockings for the Soldiers.—The following rules are laid down for the
direction of ladies wishing to knit socks for the soldiers:
Get large needles and coarse yarn. Cast
on seventy-eight stitches, and knit the leg ten inches before setting the heel,
which should be three and a half inches long, and knit of double yarn, one fine
and one coarse, for extra strength. The
foot should be eleven or twelve inches long.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 22, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The Van Buren cotton factory is in full operation, and will be able to
supply this year's demand in Arkansas for cotton yarn.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 22, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Concert.—The ladies of Pine Bluff will give a concert next Monday
evening, for the benefit of the soldiers. The
amateur performers are said to be quite proficient in musical genius, and the
entertainment will not only prove a pecuniary success but a rare treat to the
good denizens of Pine Bluff.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 22, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Turn Out.—It is generally remarked, and very truthfully too, that the
German citizens of Little Rock have been very backward in offering their
services to defend the Confederacy.—The German citizen has as much at stake as
the American, and it is his loyal duty to render aid.
If the Germans of Little Rock are really true to the South, there
is a chance now for them to show it.
Every gallant son of Erin is needed now to make up Capt. John Collins'
company of "Pikes." Rally
boys, and help "flax out" the thieving vandals!
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 24, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The German population is properly aroused to the country's defence, and
we learn are forming companies in our midst for the war.
This is as it should be, and as it will be; and it is proper and right
that they should have the priviledge [sic] of organizing companies or regiments
to themselves, as they would then possess facilities and advantages not
otherwise afforded.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 24, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Magruder Guards—Thanks.
Camp Beauregard, Arks. }
Nov. 21, 1861.
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J. W. Walker, Esq.—It again becomes my pleasing duty, as Captain of the
Magruder Guards, to acknowledge the receipt for the company under my command, of
another dozen heavy wool undershirts from your hands.
Such an act of kindness from one who can count no relative amidst the
ranks bespeaks a heart overflowing with generosity. With many thanks, I remain,
Very truly yours,
F. W. Hoadley,
Capt. Magruder Guards.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 27, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
A little boy became "a mourner" at a Methodist protracted
meeting, and when the preacher very lovingly asked him he didn't want to be born
again, amid broken sobs—replied "no I don't want to be born again."
"Why" said the preacher somewhat astonished—"Because I
am afraid I'll be a gal."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 27, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
Pine Bluff, November 26.—A tableau was given here last evening for the
benefit of Major Gaines' artillery company, which was organized yesterday.
Everybody was out—men, women and children.
The amount received at the door was not far from three hundred dollars.
Capt. Gaines' company is complete, and now en route for Little Rock.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 28, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
A private letter from New Orleans, dated 22nd inst., says,
nothing doing or talked of but war. All
foundries and work shops have been converted into armory or military
establishments. The greatest
confidence prevails. The writer
says 100,000 men can be raised in 6 days in case of invasion, and that the stars
and bars will not be hoisted, but that they will fight under the black flag with
cross bones and raw head, which indicates:
"We give and take no quarters."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 29, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Twenty-seven prisoners, members of a secret Lincoln organization, from
Van Buren county, were brought to this city yesterday and lodged in jail for
safe keeping, until tried by the civil authorities.
Forty others are said to be on the way, and the names of the whole clan
known, also their secret signs and pass words, which were divulged by a young
man who was ignorantly initiated into the order.
The most judicious and available means should be adopted to rid the
country of such traitors. Our
Police and Home Guard should, in the meantime, be on the alert otherwise we may
suffer at the hands of the friends and sympathisers of those arrested.
Such was the case in Texas some years ago, under similar circumstances.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, November 30, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
The Conspiracy in the Northwest.
Since the arrival of the prisoners from Van Buren county, and for some
days previous to their arrival, the subject of that traitorous conspiracy has
enlisted the attention of our law abiding community.
We regret exceedingly to chronicle the fact that such a state of affairs
exists in the Northern portion of the State, but as they are realities which we
are compelled to meet, we should meet them like men, regardless of the
consequences. Davie Crocket's motto
"Know you are right and go ahead" should be our watchword.
It is true that prudence and forethought should characterize all our
actions relating to the administration of Government, but a firm and unyielding
policy should be pursued in regard to citizens guilty of the high crime of
treason against their government. If
the prisoners are charged with robery [sic], or offences against the civil
authorities, then the civil authorities where the crime was committed should
hold them responsible. If on the
other hand, they are charged with conspiracy against the government, (which we
learn is the case, then of course, they will be held to account by the
Confederate Court at Little Rock.)
Our authorities have the example of the East Tennesseans before them.
Clemency was exercised toward them. The strong arm of the law was
withheld by the executive and now we have our reward in the burning of bridges,
the interruption of travel along the most important railroad in the Confederacy,
and scattered camps of enemies in nearly every county in that section.
Perhaps our neighbors in Van Buren and Searcy counties have never
intended anything as formidable as the miscreants of East Tennessee. Their designs are however treasonable, their association
cherished no kind of feelings toward the constituted authorities, and they were
in communication with persons at the north.
Justice administered to those taken will have a most salutary effect upon
any, inclined hereafter to engage in such an enterprise.
It seems they have fallen in love with Lincoln's heresy that a county has
as much right to secede from a State as a State from the Union, and we think
their minds should soon be disburdened of any such crude ideas.
It appears that information of this organization was given to Gen.
Burgevin by a citizen of Van Buren county, and a volunteer in the Confederate
service. The names of the leaders
are well known, and if those who are in hot pursuit of them ever succeed in
overtaking them 'twould be well to acquaint them with some of the peculiar uses
of hemp.
We have been permitted to peruse the constitution of this organization.
It is called a "Peace and Constitutional Society."
They have 700 members in Searcy, Van Buren, Newton and Izard
counties—and 1700 in the whole State. They
have a regular system of signs and passwords and are furnished with supplies
of money from the Northern camps. The
constitution makes it obligatory upon every member to hazard his life in aid of
another in distress, and the penalty of expressing any of the secrets of the
organization is death. Gen.
Burgevin, who was mustering in a regiment at Carrollton, as soon as he heard of
the conspiracy, at once hurried down to the counties above named to take such
steps as might be necessary. At
Clinton, he saw Colonel Jerome B. Lewis, who assured him of the correctness of
the report. Col. Lewis had called
out a guard of 100 men and was at that time making arrests, and Gen. Bargevin
"being satisfied from his well-known energy of character and fearless
nature, that the matter was in good hands," left the control of the whole
affair with that officer. Col.
Lewis reports that those already taken were well supplied with arms and
ammunition and infers that those still at large are equally well equipped. General Burgevin reports further to the authorities in
reference to the disaffection of the people in that section, and gives the names
of certain individuals engaged in fomenting discontent among them.
Those who have been taken acknowledge their crime, plead nothing
extenuating, but only beg for their lives.
Our authorities, however, are fully informed upon the whole subject, and
we hope, if necessary, the extremest measures will be resorted to in order to
suppress all treason, and secure to the people immunities from civil war in
their midst.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 1, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Seigel's Regimental Flag.—We remember seeing in the St. Louis papers,
some time ago, a grand parade over the presentation of a magnificent flag to
Col. Seigel by Mrs. Frank Blair, and her lady friends.
As a matter of course the whole regiment swore they would die to a man in
its defense. We had the
gratification, however, of unfolding the identical flag last night, it being in
the possession of Maj. Staples, who captured it at Oak Hills, while pursuing
Seigel after defeating him in a strong effort to burn our baggage.
The Major is on his way to Richmond with his trophy which is a very
costly gotten up "regardless of expense"—at least $700.—Memphis
Appeal.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 4, 1861, p. 2,
c. 3
It is proposed that the young girls of Little Rock hold a fair for the
benefit of our "most needy soldiers;" and all who desire to
take part in the enterprise, are invited to meet at the residence of Major
Thomas C. Peek next Saturday afternoon to arrange the preliminaries for it.
The hour is 3 o'clock, and we hope this pleasant opportunity of aiding
our soldiers will not be neglected by any one of the young girls in town.
Come, girls, all of you, and let us see if you can't make more for the
cause than your elder sisters at their concert and tableaux.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 5, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Persons of color will give a Ball at the Theatre Hall on next Tuesday
evening for the benefit of the sick and disabled soldiers in Memphis, and the
managers respectfully solicit the attendance of Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet,
and hope that President Davis will grant them a passport.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Hard Times.
Why should we have hard times? The
war, it is true, has prevented an influx of gold and silver from abroad; but a
currency has been made to supply its place equally as good for present purposes;
if sustained by the people—and if properly sustained why should times be
unusually hard? There are home
supplies more abundant than usual, and sufficient to meet the necessities of
life, and if luxuries and superfluities are scarce, necessity and custom will
control the fashions, and homespun will be as good as Yankee satin.
The blockade has greatly increased our domestic productions, and what is
lost by foreign trade is gained by home industry.
The country being thus supplied, who is responsible for the high prices
demanded by tradesmen? Upon a
casual glance of the subject the blame is attached to the merchants, or
speculators. This, in most cases, is unjust.
The cause is the depreciation of paper currency—the paper currency is
depreciated by producers refusing to take it from the merchants for their
domestic produce. Men of trade had
as soon take war bonds for flour and other staple commodities as anything else
if they could buy them the same way. But
when they are compelled to pay specie for such things, and take the common
currency in return, they find it not only unprofitable but impossible to supply
the demands of their customers.
To the farmer, then, we are not only beholding for the bread of life, but
to him we must look to regulate the currency and commerce of the country.
The people of Little rock are compelled to take paper currency—for they
can get nothing else. They are compelled to pay paper currency for they can pay
nothing else. If the farmer would
do the same thing there would be no necessity for hard times and high prices.
We saw a merchant the other day refuse to buy one hundred sacks of flour
at four dollars per sack, because gold was demanded and he had no hope of
selling it for the same, without being sensured [sic] by the community for
demanding such payment, and yet he said he was not able to buy it at one dollar
per sack, unless he could sell it for the same kind of money.
The merchant was not to blame, but the man who owned the flour was—for
the people need such necessaries of life, and are forced by such circumstances
to do without or pay exorbitant prices.
It is true the money dealers in the commercial ports of the Confederacy
regulate the national or commercial value of all currency—but for local or
home purposes we make it good or bad ourselves, and as communities we must in a
great measure bear the responsibility as well as the pressure of the hard times.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 6, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The Concert and Tableaux for the benefit of the sick and wounded Arkansas
soldiers at Memphis, will be given at the Theatre this evening.—We hope every
body will attend; the object is a patriotic one—the songs selected are
beautiful, and the costumes very rich and attractive.
We ensure all who attend a pleasant evening, and the very gratifying
reflection upon leaving, that they have contributed something to a very worthy
cause.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 7, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The concert and tableaux at the theater hall last night was decidedly
entertaining and successful. We
have never witnessed a larger audience in that building.
Between five and six hundred persons were present.
Every tableaux, with perhaps one exception, was a decided success—the
music and singing most charming, and the young ladies, who are always handsome,
looked surpassingly well, reclined as sleeping beauties, or poised in motionless
silence. They deserve great credit
for so excellent an entertainment for so worthy an object.
A ward in the Overton hospital to which the proceeds are to be
appropriated, was most admirably represented in the opening scene.
The Spanish characters represented in Confederate States' uniform, was
all that we witnessed which was inappropriate—this was, we suppose, a
necessity.
Such entertainments will always be appreciated and patronized by the
citizens of Little Rock.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 8, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
We learn that the net proceeds of the concert and tableaux last Friday
night amounted to $260.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 8, 1861, p. 2,
c. 4
The Sequatchie (Tenn.) Herald says that a company of Jeff. Davis
men came into that town on the 19th [illegible], and after parading
through the streets, raised the Southern flag on the square. Some forty-two Union men came forth and took the oath to
support the Southern Confederacy.—The same night the flag pole was cut down
and the flag torn to pieces and scattered over the streets. The guilty parties who tore it down could not be found.
The next day the people raised another on a longer pole, and arrested
three or four Union men whom they took off to be properly dealt with.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Receipt for Making Tallow Candles.—We find the following in the Hinds
county, Mississippi Gazette:
Take twelve pounds of tallow, one pound of saltpetre, one pound of alum
and one gill of water. Dissolve the
saltpetre and alum in the water, and add it to the tallow while on the fire.
Boil the whole until the water disappears, and then go to moulding.
Candles made after this recipe are fully equal to the Cincinnati
"star."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Here's Your Mule.—The Memphis Appeal has the following under the
heading of
Signs of the Times.—A painting of a rampant bull, tail in air
and horns butting, with two or three terrified individuals making rapid time
with their legs, the whole indicating Bull Run, is just now a favorite sign
among the groggeries. Another is a
couple of animals, the new classification of which among any genus or species
would generally, as they are painted, be difficult, were it not for the
accompanying words: "Here's
your mule!"
On Monroe street is a sign which, for its truthfulness, may be commended
to groggeries generally; it is "Der Teufel's Hohle"—the devil's
hole.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 2, c. 3
Attention Ladies—Fashion for the Winter.
A fashion authority says:
Bonnets are worn higher in front and closer at the sides than they were
in summer, but in no other respects is there much variation.
They are very much ornamented both outside and inside, and there is a
talk of their being even more extravagantly trimmed.
The skirts of dresses are made quite long and full as ever, and rarely
without some trimming.—A very simple, and at the same time elegant, way of
trimming a dress for neglige, is with five, seven, or nine rows of thick braid
placed above the hem, the top row forming a Hungarian knot at each side.
This trimming is very pretty on thick materials in which case the braid
is superceded by graduated velvet. Narrow
flounces and pelisses are still much worn, as well as plain bands of well
contrasting colors, either in silk or plush.
The most elegant way of putting gauffered flounces is in scollops and not
more than three in number.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Firemen's Ball!
Monday,
December 23d,
1861,
Annual Ball of
Pulaski Fire Company,
At the Anthony
House.
The proceeds of the ball to be appropriated to the families of absent volunteers of this city.
Gentlemen's
Tickets $3.00.
Committee of
Arrangement:
R. C. Bragg,
H.
C. Ashley,
F. S. Williams,
R. W. Stevenson,
C. E. Button,
J. A. Henry,
I. Huyek,
J.
Marshall,
S. F. Dolley.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Ladies Soldier's Aid Society.—We have been requested to state that a
meeting of this Society will be held at the Theatre Hall, to-morrow, (Thursday)
morning, at 10 o'clock. All the
members are expected to attend, as business of importance will be transacted.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
The Firemen's Ball.—It will be seen by their advertisement in another
column, that the "Pulaski Fire Company," propose to give a ball at the
Anthony House, on Monday, the 23rd inst., the proceeds of which are
to be devoted to the families of absent volunteers. The praise-worthy object for which this ball is to be given
will commend its patronage, we are sure, to the liberal hearts of every man,
woman, and child, in our community. This
is a good cause, gentlemen, ladies, patriots and philanthropists.
The families of our brave volunteers, who are enduring all the
hardships, privations and perils of the camp, should not be allowed to suffer.
Look to the women and children, while their husbands and fathers are
guarding your country's rights and honor on the battle field.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Rolling Up Bandages.—This may be done in the most expeditious manner by
simply attaching a piece of strong wire to the driving shaft of a Wheeler &
Wilson's or other sewing machine, and rotating the shaft so as to wind the
bandages upon the wire. We have
seen excellent specimens of rolled bandages done in this way.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 11, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Save Your Red Pepper.—Red pepper is essentially necessary for our
troops in Virginia during the present winter.
It should be carefully preserved by all who wish to contribute to the
comfort and health of our forces in the field, ground up, and packed in boxes,
bags or kegs.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The Firemen's Ball has been changed to Thursday, 26th inst.,
instead of Monday, 23rd. This
change is very opportune, as the girls intend to hold their fair on the 23rd.
There will be abundant opportunities of aiding the soldiers during
Christmas week as we learn. The
ladies intend presenting some new and interesting tableaux.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The ball given last night by the colored population for the benefit of
our volunteer soldiers, was a very creditable affair, and realized quite a
handsome sum. We stepped in to take
a look about 9 o'clock, and were much pleased with the gaudy show of fine
dresses and happy faces that greeted us. We
though if old Lincoln and his fanatical crew could only have seen that
spectacle, their minds would have been greatly illuminated as to the condition
of our slave population.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 12, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society, meets this morning at the Theatre
Hall, at 10 o'clock, to transact important business.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 12, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Wool Carding
Machine,
For Sale!
We have in store a Wool Carding Machine, which might be made very useful
to this part of the country. It
will either be sold, or other arrangement might be made with some responsible
party to put it into service.
Burgevin & Field.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 13, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society.—The meeting of this Society which was
called for yesterday, we are requested by the President to say, was very poorly
attended. Another meeting of the
Society is called for next Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Hall
over James' confectionary store. The
President says all absentees will be fined like thunder.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
The girls interested in the fair to be held Christmas, are requested to
meet at Major Peek's residence next Saturday, (to-morrow) afternoon, at 3
o'clock.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 13, 1861, p. 3,
c. 1
Butter can be readily bought for 25cts per pound and eggs at 16 and 20cts
per dozen, and our citizens ought not to encourage farmers in demanding more for
these articles.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 15, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
More of the Conspirators.
Seventy-seven additional prisoners were brought in yesterday from the
county of Searcy, being a part of that gang of jayhawkers or conspirators whose
nest was first discovered and broken up in Van Buren county a few weeks ago.
This foul conspiracy which was the work of a fanatical old free-will
Baptist preacher, aided by a few hoary headed old sinners, who have been long
living in crime and wickedness among the barrens of our northern border
counties, has been thoroughly broken up by the vigilance and prompt action of
the loyal citizens of those counties.
One of the most lamentable features connected with its development and
discovery is the fact that a great many good, but simple minded young men, were
seduced and deceived by those wicked old sinners, into a crime which they now
sadly, but perhaps too late, lament. The
law will be rigidly enforced against them, and, in all probability, the neck of
the last one of them will swing by the halter, as a warning to all future
traitors and conspirators.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
The Conspirators.
The case of the seventy-eight prisoners who were brought down from Searcy
county, a few days ago, on the charge of being implicated in the Jayhawking
conspiracy which has recently come to light, in that county, was brought before
the Military Board on Saturday, and thoroughly investigated. while it was admitted that there was a secret bound
association in that region of country called the "Peace and Home
Protection" Association, it could not be made to appear that its objects
contemplated any more criminal intent than to ensure them against the
hostilities of an invading army. The
leaders of this movement, doubtless contemplated ulterior objects of a much more
criminal character, but the majority of their followers were doubtless ignorant
of those purposes, many of them, in fact, being under the impression that they
were doing creditable service to their country.
They manifested on the investigation of their case, much regret and
mortification for the position in which their acts had placed them. They protested their loyalty and devotion to their country,
and agreed, if they were released, to testify their devotion by volunteering in
the Confederate service for the war. Every
consideration of patriotism and humanity plead in their favor; they were
accordingly released, and forthwith formed themselves into a company, elected
their officers from those who had arrested and escorted them as a guard from
their native county, and were sworn into the service of the Confederate States
"for and during the war."
The scene which followed their release, the touching remarks of the
Governor and their solemn enlistment into the Confederate service was a very
affective and impressing one. We
hope as we doubt not, that they will prove true and faithful, as well as valiant
soldiers in the service of their country.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 17, 1861, p. 2, c. 2
Troubles in the Indian Territory.
We learn from late Fort Smith papers that affairs are becoming very
complicated, not to say alarming, in the Indian territory.
Opothleyholo, the Yankee abolition leader of the Creeks, Cherokees and
Seminoles, had gathered a force of three or four thousand around him, and was
threatening col. Cooper with his little force of three small regiments.
The Indians were flocking to the standard of Opothleyholo, and it was
thought that he had Cooper in rather a tight place—Should he overcome Cooper
and disperse his forces, the Indian territory will be, for a time at least,
effectually lost to us. It seems
strange indeed, while such great and momentous interests are thus menaced in the
Indian territory, that the forces of McCulloch which were raised with an
especial view to the protection of that country, should be slumbering in
inglorious ease in their winter quarters upon the Arkansas river.
We cannot comprehend the policy of such course.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 18, 1861, p. 2,
c. 1
The ladies who intend to assist the girls in preparing for their
approaching Festival and Fair, are requested to meet at the Theatre Hall this
afternoon, at 3 o'clock, punctually and without fail.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 18, 1861, p. 2, c. 4
Festival &
Fair.
The Girls of
Little Rock will hold a
Festival and Fair,
At the Theatre
Hall,
on next
Monday and Tuesday
Evening,
Where they will set a SUPPER, and offer for sale a large variety of
FANCY AND USEFUL ARTICLES.
The proceeds of the entertainments to be devoted to the benefit of
Arkansas Volunteers. The public are
invited to attend.
Dec. 18, '61-td
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 21, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The little girls who propose holding a Fair at the Theatre Hall on Monday
and Tuesday evenings, have requested us to call the particular attention of the
citizens of Little Rock to the fact that the proceeds of their entertainment are
to be devoted to the benefit of the absent volunteer soldiers of Arkansas, who
are fighting the battles of their country for Freedom and Independence.
The girls have been working very hard to get up the Fair, and expect the
ladies and gentlemen of Little Rock to patronize them liberally.
Besides a great variety of fancy, ornamental and useful articles which
they will exhibit for sale, they will also set a supper of all the delicacies of
the season. The admission will be one
dollar for adults and half price for children.
No extra charge for supper.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 22, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The Texas Legislature has a bill under consideration making it a
sufficient cause for a divorce for a woman if her husband is in the Federal army
or navy.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 25, 1861, p. 2, c. 1
Christmas Day.
What hallowed associations cluster around the memories of this sacred
day! Of all the bright sunny
recollections that gladden the retrospect of childhood's hours, those connected
with this joyous holiday are the brightest.
The bounteous favors of good old Santa Claus; the beautiful
presents—pledges of parental love and tokens of a yet more tender passion; gay
dresses and gorgeous toys, fire crackers, christmas trees, sumptuous dinners,
family re-unions—these are some of the things that always connect themselves
with the recollections of christmas. It
is a happy day to childhood, a joyous occasion to the young, and even old age is
cheered and rejuvenated by its lively scenes.
It is the day of all others that revives the sweet sad memories of the
past; the day of all others when we miss absent friends and yearn for the
comforts of "home, sweet home." Oh!
to the sad heart tossed upon the rough billows of tempestuous life, away
from home and loved friends, what associations of mingled joy, sadness and
regret does this day bring! How the
heart aches with the recollections with which it is burdened, and pines for the
old homestead, and the friends who gathered around the family hearth when last
the sacred circle was formed.
To how many such sad hearts did the light of this joyous day unfold its
morning glory? Think of the vast
numbers who are now encamped upon the cold tented field, yielding up the
pleasures and comforts of home and even offering up their bodies a willing
sacrifice upon the altar of their bleeding country.
Poor soldiers! how the
sympathies of our hearts should reach out to them ladened with our most earnest
prayers for their safety and protection.
Five hundred thousand brave, noble gallant sons of the South, that last
christmas were enjoying the festivities of this day, amid the sweet comforts of
home, are now far away from home, exposed to the cold winds of winter, the
rigors of camp, and the perils of a soldiers life.
Poor fellows, we owe them a debt of gratitude which the homage of years
could not redeem. They have
interposed their faithful breasts, a living rampart to shield us from the
destroyers advance, and to protect us in the enjoyment of our rights.
They are heroes and patriots, whose brows should be crowned with the
evergreen chaplets of our undying gratitude.
Brave hearts, may the pangs which you have suffered in dread suspense and
anxiety for your country's safety, never be increased by the still sharper pangs
of a people's ingratitude; may all the sufferings you have so patiently and
nobly borne, be more than compensated in the praise and gratitude that shall
ever welcome and congratulate you as conquering heroes—as saviors of your
native land.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 27, 1861, p. 2,
c. 3
Although, says a New York paper, Mrs. Jefferson Davis has not as yet been
able to hold her promised reception at the White House, Mrs. John C.
Breckinridge is said to be at Baltimore receiving the homage of the fair yet
treasonable secessionists of that nearly humbled city.
Some of the few female traitors here went over a few days since to attend
a party given in honor of the wife of the recreant Kentuckian, which all the
ladies wore neck bows of red and white ribbon, and the cake was frosted with
those revolutionary colors.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, December 31, 1861, p. 2,
c. 2
The receipts of the Firemen's Ball for the volunteer fund, on last
Thursday was $275.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 1, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
A Trophy.—We had the opportunity yesterday of examining a regimental
stand of U. S. colors taken from the enemy at the battle of Oak Hills, Missouri.
It was the banner of the 3d Missouri (Hessian) regiment commanded by Col.
(now General) Seigel, and was presented to them by Mrs. Frank Blair, and other
Lincolnite ladies of St. Louis. It
is made of heavy silk, trimmed and lettered with gold and cost, as was
represented at the time of its presentation, (over which there was a grand
parade in St. Louis, and many vows to die sooner than surrender it,) $700.
The bullet holes through it bear testimony to the severity of the
conflict over which it waved. It
was captured by the gallant Captain (now Major) Staples, to whom it was
entrusted to be brought to this city, to be deposited among the trophies of the
war.—Richmond Whig, 11th.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
There are thirty factories in Georgia engaged in making cotton and woolen
goods, besides several smaller factories that spin yarn only.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 10, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Out of Tune.—Whoever attends to regulating the town clock, should pay
more attention to the correctness of its time.
The clock is fifteen or twenty minutes too slow.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 10, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
Very few consumers of gas in this city are aware that the brilliant light
which illumines their houses at night, is made from pine-knots instead of coal;
yet such is the fact.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
The pine knots out of which the Gas Company are manufacturing Gas, on
closer inspection, proves to be good coal, of which we are happy to learn
the company has a twelve months supply on hand.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
The Fort Smith Daily News has suspended, for want of sufficient
patronage to sustain it. "One
by one they fade away."
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 11, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
The ladies of Winston county, Mississippi, have spun, wove and made up
full suits for the Winston Guards, now in Virginia.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 11, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Little Rock Chemical
Soap and Candle
Manufactory.
The subscribers having established the above named factory in Little Rock, and
possessing every facility for manufacturing Soap and Candles on an extensive
scale, are prepared to supply the trade with those useful articles--wholesale
and retail.
Cash paid for
tallow and Soap-grease, if delivered at the factory, or at Mr. Navara's store.
Orders left
with Mr. Navara, on Main street, promptly attended to.
H. Linde.
A. Bresler.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 14, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
One of the fire engines was out on Saturday afternoon exercising, with
negroes at the breaks, and they performed their part admirably.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 16, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Napoleon Hospital.—It will be seen by the advertisement of the
Governor, in another column, that the Napoleon Hospital has been fitted up and
all proper arrangements made for the reception of sick and disabled Arkansas
volunteer soldiers. The building is
capable of affording quarters for about a hundred patients. We hope our Memphis contemporaries will call the attention of
the Confederate medical authorities to this fact.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 16, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Suggestion.—We observe that the patriotic, true women of a number of
Southern towns, are giving entertainments for the benefit of our glorious cause
in Missouri. Why not the good and
spirited ladies of Little Rock emulate this praiseworthy example?—What say
they to a series of exhibitions for the benefit of the Missouri Legion?
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 16, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Napoleon Hospital.
This institution, by an act of the General Assembly of Arkansas, having
been set aside for the benefit of the sick and disabled volunteer soldiers of
Arkansas; and a sufficient fund having been appropriated for the purpose of
putting it in a thorough state of preparation for the reception, maintenance and
proper care and attention of patients, is now ready for the purposes indicated.
The building is capable of comfortable quarters for from seventy-five
to one hundred patients. A
competent resident surgeon will supervise the medical care and treatment of the
patients, and a sufficient number of good nurses and attendants will be
provided.
It is to be hoped that the sick and disabled volunteers of Arkansas will
avail themselves of the comforts and conveniences of this asylum which has been
provided for them; and that the proper authorities of the Confederate Government
will aid the State in furthering the humane objects contemplated.
H. M. Rector,
Governor of Arkansas.
Little Rock, Jan. 16, 1862.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 16, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Notice.
The undersigned having sold out nearly all of his stock of Liquors on
credit to persons he took to be gentlemen and would pay but was sadly
mistaken, and therefore gives them notice that if they do not call and settle
their WHISKY BILLS, within one month from this date, I will publish in every
newspaper in the city a full list of all the names of said delinquents, with the
amount due by each. The undersigned
is now, through the ungentlemanly conduct of those whom he credited, compelled
to shove the Jack-plain, to support himself and family.
Jan. 16, '62-3t
Joe Gallia.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 17, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Shameful.
The True Democrat, of yesterday, says:
some few weeks since certain parties got up a fair, ostensibly
by the little girls of Little Rock, the proceeds of which were to be used
for nobody knew for exactly what, and THE LAST HEARD FROM THE FUNDS
RAISED were that they were on deposit, &c.
The above extract contains more concentrated essence of reckless calumny
and hyena malignity than we ever before saw compressed in the same space of that
revolting sheet.
The secret of the bitter feelings entertained by the conductors of the Democrat
towards every thing pertaining to the fair in question is, that the first
meeting of the girls who interested themselves in getting it up, was held at the
house of the Editor of the Journal.
To gratify a grovelling spirit of personal hatred and revenge, the Editor
of that paper does not scruple to insinuate charges of the most atrocious
character against a large number of the most respectable females of Little Rock.
"Certain parties," says he got up a fair, "ostensibly by
the little girls" for an object that "nobody knew exactly what,"
and that "the last heard from the funds raised were that they were on
deposit"!
Now many of the most estimable ladies of Little Rock are included in that
sneering expression, certain parties.
They used no fraud or deception, as insinuated in the charge that the
fair was held ostensibly only by the girls, but did, as mothers and
friends, aid the girls in their laudable and patriotic enterprize [sic].
But the most infamous part of the above charge is that insinuated in the inuendo,
that the last heard from the funds raised were they were on deposit.
Here is an indirect charge that the money has been improperly made
away with. Such a charge should
have blistered the vile tongue that made it.
The lady who had charge of the money and deposited it with Mr. Tucker, is
one against whom the evil breath of calumny was never before breathed. To slander her is a reproach and calumny against the decency
and respectability of the whole town.
To gratify the curiosity of the Democrat man in regard to the
money "last heard from," as being "on deposit," we subjoin
the following correspondence:
Journal Office, Jan. 16, 1862.
Messrs. S. Tucker & Co.
Gentlemen: Will you
be so good as to inform me, for the benefit of the public, what disposition was
made of the funds raised by the little girls' fair, held some two or three weeks
ago, which, when last heard from, were deposited with you.
Respectfully,
Tho.'s C. Peek.
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Tho.'s C. Peek, Esq.
Dear Sir: In answer
to your note of this morning, we state that the sum of five hundred and
seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five cents,--the proceeds of the little
girls' fair recently held in Little Rock, was deposited with us, and still
remains to their credit, no part of it having been withdrawn.
S. H. Tucker & Co.
Per R. L. Duff.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 17, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The young ladies of this city intend giving an entertainment at the
Theatre next week, and on the 22nd prox., for the benefit of the
Missouri Legion.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 17, 1862, p. 3, c. 1
Special Notice.
We have been requested by several ladies who were connected with the
little girls' fair, recently held in Little Rock, to give notice that a meeting
will be held at the theater hall to-morrow (Saturday) morning, at 11 o'clock, to
make some disposition of the fund, when, it is hoped, that all will be present.
Take due notice, therefore, and govern yourselves accordingly.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 18, 1862, p. 3,
c. 4
The Federal Prisoners at Washington.—Three prisoners have been added to
the charge of Lieut. Sheldon, at the female prison, formerly Mrs. Greenhow's
house. Two of them are from
Washington, and the other is Mrs. Baxley, from Baltimore, arrested while trying
to make her way through our lines across the river, and not upon the Old Point
boat, as the papers state. She is
an unmitigated rebel, and cheered lustily for Jeff. Davis and the Southern
Confederacy. A perambulating
gentleman of the organic musical persuasion happening to be in the vicinity of
the prison, the highly excited female rebel, in a state of incarceration, threw
the said musical amateur the sum of two shillings, and requested him to
strike up "Dixie," but, under the application of a threatened bayonet
charge from the grim sentinel who keeps watch and ward over the involuntary
inmates, he retreated, not, however, without securing the price of his unearned
services, and amid the execrations of the tuneless female.
After a night's reflection her passion became mollified, and the next
morning she was found bathed in tears, and willing to accept the proffered food
which she had so persistently refused since her capture, two days before.
The other two ladies were taken before the provost marshal to-day to
obtain their statements, and it is stated that they will probably be released.
It is probable, also, that Miss Poole will be released and sent to
Richmond via Fortress Monroe and Norfolk, the government having nothing
particular against her, except being a dangerous woman at large.
She has conducted herself very quietly and properly since her arrest.
As to Mrs. Greenhow, the physicians in attendance pronounce her a
monomaniac, and, if confined much longer, will become hopelessly crazy. It is already stated, and with much show of probability, that
she will be removed further North—perhaps Fort Warren—in a few days.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
[Communicated.]
Mr. Editor: In your valuable
paper of Wednesday it is stated by an article, signed "Tenton," that
the raising of a company of Irishmen "be a good time for our German
citizens to exhibit their patriotism and rally to the cause of the
Confederacy."
This show of "Tenton's" patriotism might be very fair, did it
not at the same time prove his ignorance.
It is a well known fact, and given to me by reliable authority, that
Arkansas—considering the small number of foreign born citizens residing in
this State—furnished to the army comparatively more German than
American citizens.
The few Germans now in this place did not remain at home for want of
patriotism! They did not so,
because they have to support wife and children and send the surplus to their
relation soldiers, that need it in camp.
Mr. "Tenton" had better to look after "some"
nativebornes, of which he might raise a whole regiment, while there is not half
a company of Germans in town.
A German.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 22, 1862, p. 2,
c. 3
The following receipt for making tallow candles may be of service to our
readers:
Take of tallow, twelve pounds—alum and saltpetre, half pound
each—dissolve in one pint of boiling water.
Mix the tallow and solution, and apply mild heat until the water is
evaporated; then add half pint of new sweet milk—take off the impurities from
the surface, and mould in the usual way. Your
candles will be chalk white and of superior quality.
Twice the quantity of alum and saltpetre for hogs' lard, without the
milk.
The wicks should be steeped in a strong solution of alum and saltpetre,
and well dried.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 22, 1862, p. 2,
c. 4
The Belgian Gun.—The Yankees are still growling about their guns. The Chicago Tribune says:
Are we to have an end to the severe and dangerous swindle, the Belgian
muskets? An inquiry should be
instituted as to how many of these double-acting shooting irons we have in the
country—double-acting because about equally dangerous at either end.
A good story is told of one of our Illinois colonels, who was heard
praising the arm. Says he, "in
platoon firing with the Belgian musket I can tell what I cannot with any other
arm, and that is how many pieces have been fired."
"How can you tell that?
"Oh, I count the men on the ground.
It never deceives me. It is
fire and fall back flat."
One of these Belgian muskets will kick like a mule, and burst with the
greatest facility. Several soldiers
in our Illinois regiments have been killed in this way. The bayonet, too, is a novelty, a soft iron affair,
apparently designed to coil around the enemy as it is introduced, thus taking
him prisoner.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 23, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
The Ladies expected to have tableaux for to-night, but could not get
ready. They will be presented next
Monday night, and we are assured that they will surpass any which have
heretofore been given.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 26, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Col. Maxey's Regiment of Texas Infantry reached here yesterday morning en
route for Columbus. The regiment is
a fine looking body of men, well armed and clothed, and full of zeal and
enthusiasm. Woe be unto the Yankees
who may be so unfortunate as to meet with these brave and dashing fellows.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 26, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
We learn from the Gazette of yesterday that "The Ladies who
superintended the Little Girls' fair, disposed of the money as follows—the
vote being unanimous:--Two hundred dollars for the families of needy
volunteers at home, and three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and
seventy-five cents to the Bowling Green Hospital."
In addition to the above, we yesterday deposited with Messrs. S. H.
Tucker & Co. the further sum of seven dollars, collected since the
fair, which swells the amount donated to the "Bowling Green Hospital"
to the sum of $385 75.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 29, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The Tableaux and Concert by the Ladies of Little Rock, night before last,
for the benefit of the soldiers, proved a most eminent success.
The Tableaux were charming—the scenes being well selected and admirably
presented. The music was also very
good, and much better adapted in its character to popular appreciation than that
heretofore sung.
The proceeds of the evening amounted to somewhere about $250.
It is to be hoped that the ladies will repeat these delightful
entertainments as often as they conveniently can, for they are very popular and
will be well patronized, while the money they raise is of incalculable benefit
to the suffering defenders of our homes and firesides.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Free Gift Lottery.
The people of New Orleans recently got up a scheme for raising money for
the benefit of the soldiers, which proved a most astonishing success.
The plan was to solicit contributions in gifts of any and everything of
value that might be offered. In a
few weeks donations to the amount of $50,000, embracing almost every conceivable
article of use and beauty were made. These
are to be distributed by lottery—each article being assessed at a fair
valuation, and tickets issued to the extent of the value.
For instance, on an article worth one hundred dollars, one hundred one
dollar tickets would be issued, and the drawer of the ticket bearing the
number corresponding to the number of the article would receive it.
Why could not the Ladies' Aid Society of Little Rock get up a lottery
upon this plan? We think that if
they would take hold of it, and present it to the people of Arkansas, that they
could make a large sum of money to aid the noble cause in which they are
engaged.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, January 31, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Patriotic Ladies of Little Rock.
One of your own sex appeals to you this morning, in behalf of fifteen
sick soldiers, belonging to the Texas regiment that passed through our city
last Saturday.
These soldiers are now under the care of Capt. Rector, Quartermaster at
this post, who rented Mr. Cadle's house near the side gate of the Arsenal as a
temporary hospital, where they now are, and where they are as comfortable as
Capt. Rector can make them, unless we ladies will give him our assistance.
They are sadly in need of pillows, domestic pillow cases and sheets.
Besides these necessaries, they require food suitable to the appetite of
the sick, such as oup, jelly, blanc-mange, coddle, etc.
Now I know that the patriotic and self-sacrificing ladies of our rustic
city, who are noted far and near, since the commencement of this grand
struggle for Southern independence, for their earnest enthusiasm and
whole-souled devotion to the great cause, will nobly and generously respond to
this appeal in behalf of a few of the brave defenders of our Sunny South.
All contributions should be sent to Capt. Thomas Rector, C. S. Arsenal.
Sallie F. B______
Little Rock, Jan. 31, 1862.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 1, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
Dr. Kirkwood who has the medical treatment of the sick Texan soldiers,
whose case was alluded to in yesterday's paper, desires us to say that they are
in great destitution and want, and that any contributions that may be made to
him for the amelioration of their condition, will be faithfully applied.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Lines
Addressed to the 6th
Arkansas Regiment.
God bless the Sixth Arkansas boys,
O bless that noble band,
Who've sacrificed their homes and joys,
To fight for Dixie's land.
In their distant homes they've left,
Perhaps, kind parents dear,
Or sweet young sisters now bereft,
Of brothers loved and near.
And to cheer each noble heart,
Which fear or faltering never knew,
Kentucky's daughters will act their part,
Of sisters fond and true.
Be brave, be firm be bold,
Wave your glorious flag on high,
And beneath each graceful fold,
Swear to conquer or to die.
Go meet the invader of our land,
With a firm and fearless heart,
And let each member of this band—
Act like a warrior his part.
Swear upon the South's own altar,
You'll never to the tyrant's band,
Never, never, never, falter
But bravely fight on to the end.
And when the strife of war is o'er,
And from our soil the foe is driven,
I pray that then we meet once more,
If not on Earth, O, then in Heaven!
And should one of this noble band,
Fall, pierced by a deadly shot,
By the daughters of our own dear land,
He'll never be forgot!
And should death claim one as his prize,
We'll vigil 'round his sick bed keep,
We'll watch beside him till he dies,
And then for him—we will weep!
Sinley Namrreh Yvel.
Head Quarters, 6th Ark. Reg.,
}
Near Bowling Green, Jan. 13, 1862. }
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
[Communication.
Mr. Editor:--Permit me through the columns of your paper, the State
Journal, to inform the good patriotic citizens of Little Rock, that we have
in our midst some twenty five or thirty sick and truly needy soldiers, those
broken down with severe illness induced by hardships and exposures incident to a
long march, at this most inclement season of the year, as they were on the way
to our frontier to do battle for our rights, our homes and firesides.
I heartily thank that noble, that patriotic lady for calling your
attention to this in Friday's issue; may God bless her, and her country honor
her.
I desire to ask if the funds, or a portion of them now on deposit, or in
the hands of the Treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society, cannot be
appropriated to the relief of those now among us, suffering from disease and
otherwise needy, instead of being sent abroad, as we candidly think that charity
should begin at home.
If these funds should be appropriated, allow me to suggest, most
respectfully, that our generous, warm-hearted and patriotic ladies and gentleman
[sic] get up a Tableau as they know so well how to do, or some other
entertainment expressly for the benefit of the sick and needy in our hospital.
Verbum sat supiente.
I would here state that the sufferings of these soldiers are greatly
ameliorated through the gentlemanly bearing and kind attention of Capt. Rector;
they are cared for in the very best possible manner, his means and ability will
permit, but they need much, which is beyond his prerogative as a government
officer; he does all within his power.
Let us come to the rescue and lend a helping hand to save these men and
others equally unfortunate. Our
country needs now every man; she has none to lose by death or waste by disease;
and let us remember for us as a people that old Latin precept:--Vetigia mulla
retrorsum—and let us exhibit our faith by our works—Vincit ama
patria.
John Kirkwood.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 1
The Ladies, members of the soldier's Aid Society, are respectfully
requested to meet at the Hall to-morrow, Monday morning, at 10 o'clock.
A full attendance is expected.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2|
"Stitch, Stitch, Stitch."—The following note was found in the
pocket of a pair of pantaloons among some new Yankee uniforms received the other
day at Paducah, Ky.:
"I make these pants for the pitiful sum of thirty cents. If they last the wearer no longer than this sum of money
lasts the maker, he will be naked before cold weather."
Mrs. R. M. Randall, Indianapolis.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 4, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The ladies of Benton, we learn, recently gave a Concert by which they
netted the sum of thirty-one dollars and fifty cents, and which they donated to
the sick of Col. Borland's regiment. We
are pleased to chronicle this fact, and hope that we may soon have the pleasure
of hearing of similar patriotic deeds all over the State.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
Coffee is retailing at Helena at one dollar per pound.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 4, 1862, p. 3,
c. 1
Pine Bluff Cotton Seed Oil Mill.—Cotton Seed Oil, is now two dollars
per gallon, wholesale price; the oil cake twenty-five dollars per tun [sic]; the
hull from the seed makes the fuel to run a steam engine, and the ashes are worth
twenty-seven dollars per tun [sic] for garden manure; the oil is superior to
linseed for painting, by adding a little turpentine, and retails at three dols.
and fifty cents per gallon. No
portion of the seed is lost. Jefferson
county has an annual surplus of over 1,000,000 bushels of seed. Snow & Ketchum have a liberal charter for a Cotton Seed
Oil Company, the capital free from taxation for five years, to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars. We hope
soon to hear of the organization of the institution.—Pine Bluff Aegis.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Relief for the Soldiers.
We noticed in our last that at a Concert given by the Ladies of Benton
$39 00 was realized for the benefit of the soldiers.
We would by no means discourage the efforts of the ladies in their good
work, but whether the sum be $39 00 or $675 00 as was realized here by a single
enterprise of this sort by the ladies, it is questioned by some whether these
fairs, concerts &c., as a means of raising money, ought not to give place to
direct and personal applications for money, in such sums as will be adequate to
the exigencies of the day; and further, since these fairs, &c., afford some
the means of making a show of liberality at a small expense, while they ignore
the pressing demands of the times.
Money must be had, not in hundreds, and occasionally, but by
thousands upon thousands! There is
no use in blinking it, the money must come.
Here, at this city, we must have a Hospital for the soldiers, and it must
have its proper fitting up and attendants, no matter what it costs.—It will
come to this sooner or later, and it is the part of wisdom to take time by the
forelock and provide for the future. Our
city is the central point for the State, and men going out to meet the enemy
naturally look to this point for supplies.
They will want clothing, blankets, &c., &c., and these in no
small amount, and to provide which there must be had large sums of money. In short, the great want, we desire the people to
understand, is money—money in great amount for the well soldiers going out, as
also for the sick, the lame and the destitute coming in here from the battle
field, or that have fallen by the way. He
that hath ears to hear let him hear, that money, money, money! or that which can
be used by the soldiers, or can be turned into money for their use, is wanted
here, and the times indicate that it must be had.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 5, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
Charity.—We have been requested to say that the sick soldiers in
hospital at this place are in needy circumstances, and that their case demands
the prompt attention of our citizens. They
are in want. Citizens of Little
Rock, is it necessary to say any more to command your services and your
contributions? Even the cast off
clothing of gentlemen would be acceptable to these poor soldiers, who have been
stricken down in their noble efforts to march to the defense of our homes and
firesides. We earnestly appeal to
our kind-hearted citizens to do something for these poor soldiers.
They are entitled to the homage of the proudest citizen, let them
not be beggars of charity.
[LITTLE ROCK] DAILY STATE JOURNAL, February 2, 1862, p. 2,
c. 2
The Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society will meet at Theatre Hall this
afternoon, at 3 o'clock. A full
attendance is earnestly requested, as an object of urgent charity demands
immediate attention.