The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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General news items.

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Arkansas intelligence.

The Legislature met at Little Rock on Monday last.

Col. Drew's regiment of Cherokees passed through the Creek agency, on the 24th inst., en route to Gen. McCulloch's camp.

The Fort Smith Times learns from Dr. Evans, Surgeon to Colonel Drew's Cherokee regiment, who arrived from Port Gibson, that the Indian regiments have all been ordered to Kansas. The Opothleyholo affair is all expired.

The same paper states that Gen. McCulloch has ordered that all troops south of Boston Mountain, en route for his command, encamp at some point on the Arkansas river, below Van Buren, where they can go into comfortable winter quarters. Under no circumstances will he receive more mounted men.--Maj. Clarke had been directed to carry out these orders.

The Times makes a note of the following:

‘ "In the company from Polk county, commanded by Capt. Jas. B. Williams, which was mustered in at this place on last Saturday, is a deaf and dumb man named James Kuykendar, who would not remain, but insisted upon going. He says he can, and is evidently determined to fight. He still hangs on to the company, refusing to return home."

The Little Rock State Journal, of Oct. 28, states that the Episcopal Convention had just adjourned in that city. A debate was had on a proposition to change the name to that of the ‘"Reformed Catholic Church,"’ which was voted down by two to one, and the name of the ‘"Episcopal Church of the Confederate States"’ adopted.

The troops at the Little Rock Arsenal had been ordered to march to Pocahontas.

Major-General James Yell, having recovered from his illness, had arrived at Little Rock.

’ The Pocahontas Herald, of the 25th, contains the following:

‘ Cutting Affray.--A difficulty occurred. between Mr. Thomas, of the Commissary Department here, and Dr. Nagle, surgeon of the Hospital, on yesterday morning, in which Mr. Thomas was stabbed in the arm by Nagle. Thomas being unarmed, other parties interfered and separated them. The affair grew out of a letter signed ‘"Backwoodsman, "’ in last week's paper, in which Thomas, who was the author, accursed Nagle of making misrepresentations in regard to our army, etc.

Maj. Shall has called out the militia of Randolph, Greene, Lawrence, Jackson, Independence, and Izzard counties.

’ The Camden Herald, of the 25th, says:

‘ The body of the late Col. Richard Lyon arrived in our city yesterday, and was escorted to his late residence by the committee appointed for that purpose, and a very large concourse of our citizens, headed by our military band, with muffled drums. The remains came in charge of Lieut. A. J. Griggs, and after a delay of a few moments proceeded on to El Dorado, the former residence of Col. Lyon, for interment in the family burying ground.

’ The Van Buren Press has the following interesting information respecting the steam cotton mill now in full operation in that place: ‘ The mill has two sets of wool cards, which can card 800 pounds per day; 1808 spindles, which can turn out 500 pounds of cotton yarn per day. They have no looms except for making seamless sacks. They are also grinding from 100 to 150 bushels of corn and wheat per day. ’

The Ouachita Journal, of the 31st ult, has the following:

‘ Latest News from Gen. McCulloch's Camp.--Mr. James Shaddock, who left Gen. McCulloch's camp on the 20th inst., says he has no doubt but that the battle has been fought. Gen. Price has been falling back from Lexington, and has formed a junction with McCulloch, and both were falling back to Bentonville, Ark. Fremont is said to have forty or fifty thousand men. McCulloch has seven or eight thousand, and Gen. Price twelve thousand effective warriors.

Mr. Shaddock thinks they fought on Saturday, last having heard news to this effect on Sunday evening last. Several of our young men immediately prepared themselves, and left this morning (29th inst.) for the scene of action, and others are preparing to leave to-morrow morning.

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An appeal in behalf of Missouri.

Dr. Joseph N. McDowell, Surgeon General of Missouri, publishes the following card in the New Orleans papers to the citizens of that place:

‘ For the first time in my life I have come to your noble city to beg. The State of Missouri is now battling for her very existence unaided, except by Ben McCulloch. Her soldiers are badly armed, and suffering for clothing to protect them from the weather. If you lose Missouri for the Confederacy, you have parted with the richest State in your new Union, and expose your own frontier. Mountains of iron are hers, and mines of lead and copper, the richest in the world, with a soil as arable as any on earth; and with her will

go the Indian tribes, and those vest plains extending to the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

Come, then, and help our brave but ragged boys in the camp of Jeff. Thompson, and God will bless you for the deed, and Missouri, as your independent ally, will be your most powerful and wealthy State. I shall remain in this city a few days, and shall deliver two or three lectures, the first on Wednesday evening next, at Odd Fellows' Hall, on the past history of Missouri, her present condition and that of her suffering soldiers, and her future destiny; and may I hope, citizens and friends of New Orleans, that my appeal to you will not be made in vain?

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List of Confederate prisoners taken in the Santa Rosa fight, and since sent to New York.

The Pensacola Observer, of the 24th, gives the following as a correct list of the prisoners taken by the enemy in the Santa Rosa fights and since sent to New York:

‘ First Lieutenant James Cooper, Louisiana Infantry; Second Lieutenant F. W. Farley, First Florida Volunteers; First Lieutenant C. L. Sayre, Confederate States Marine Corps, severely wounded, released on parole until recovered; Corporal W. H. Moore, Seventh Alabama Regiment. Privates Benjamin R. Holt, Fifth Georgia Regiment; Malcolm Mosely, Fifth Florida Regiment; L. G. Moore, F. M. Fry, Henry Ferguson, (dead,) Seventh Alabama Regiment; John Burgess, Fifth Alabama Regiment; Mobile Continentals, Captain Homer; J. R. Cox, H. C. Jones J. M. L. Jones, Georgia and Mississippi Regiments, Capt. Rhodes; John Mahony, Largin Nichols, Benjamin F. Parker, Captain H. H. Baker, S. Yerger Finley T. Bond R. L. Hale, C. F. Hollyman, John Jarvis, Joshua J. H. Patterson, First Florida Regiment, Capt. Cropp; Wm. Mauldin, H. Deshinger, McKeever, Tenth Mississippi Regiment, Capt. Peake; Daniel Jones, Frank Peasant, Louisiana Infantry; G. W. Clark, severely wounded. --Everett, (dead since,) Georgia and Mississippi Regiment; John Godley, Florida Regiment.

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Letter from a Yankee Colonel.

Reference has been made in this paper to a breach of the treaty between Col. McGuirk, of the Seventeenth Mississippi, and Col. Vaughn, of the Federal army, in respect to the burial of the dead, and the apology which was afterwards sent. The following is a copy of the letter. It will be observed that the document contains a recognition of the Confederate States army:

Motto.--our flag for the whole country.

--I regret that any occurrence should have transpired which should have cast a suspicion upon the sacredness with which I regard a parole of honor.

No movement of troops has taken place upon this Island since the flag of truce went to the Virginia shore, under charge of Capt. Vaughn, except a party bearing wounded to the Maryland shore, and a like party bringing rations to the Island.

I have given peremptory orders to cease all firing upon the Island, and had dispatched an officer to investigate a report of musketry upon the upper end of the Island before Capt. Vaughn's return.

With thanks for your kindness in the matter of burying the dead and removing prisoners,

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Concentration of Federal troops in Kentucky--a fearful storm brewing.

The Bowling Green (Ky.) correspondent of the Nashville Union and American, has the following paragraph in his letter of the 6th instant:

‘ Gen. Mitchell, in command of the Northern Division is receiving troops at Covington, who are being forwarded in the direction of East Tennessee, and rumor has it that General Rosencranz is to cross over from Western Virginia into the northern part of the State with all the forces under his command. Again, statements are being made that troops are being concentrated at Jeffersonville and Evansville, Indiana, whose evident destination is the interior of Kentucky. Taken in connexion with the foregoing, the action of the last Legislature, aided by a subsidized press to provoke divided sentiment, which exists to a lamentable extent, and the occupying of a portion of the State by the Confederates, leaves no room to doubt that a fearful storm is impending, and must soon burst forth attended with the horrors of fierce civil war. General Pillow was here last evening, and left again this morning. Look out for startling rumors.

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Invasion of East Tennessee.

The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, of November 7th, says:

‘ All the facts and rumors we are in possession of indicate that the tide of war rolls this way, and that if prompt movements are not at once made to check the progress of the invader, the boastful prediction of the Northern journals will be fulfilled — namely, that in a few weeks the theatre of the war would be transferred from Kentucky to East Tennessee. Cumberland Gap, we believe, is well fortified, and can be defended against any force that can be brought against it. The other gaps, however, seem to have been neglected, and yesterday we had rumors that a large Lincoln force was approaching Jamestown, Sentries county, and that McClellan's Cavalry Battalion had fallen back from that point. If they make their entrance there, it is probable their aim will be the bridge at Loudon, the destruction of which would be a most calamitous blow to us.

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Rockingham items.

The Rockingham Register, of the 8th, furnishes the following items:

‘ At the Shenandoah Iron Works, owned by Henry Forrer, they are engaged on a contract with the Government, and are turning out cannon shot of all kinds by the ton. The power of these valuable iron works is taxed to its utmost capacity in this contract, and the balls are of the very best kind. In addition to the manufacture of cannon shot, there is a powder mill already up, and ready for work in the same locality. The powder mill is on the land of Mr John Welfley, who also has a contract with the Confederate States Government to furnish a large amount of superior powder.

We learn that orders have been received, requiring the militia at once to repair to Winchester.

We had a terrible storm of wind and rain in all this region on Saturday last. It commenced raining on Friday night, and the storm reached its climax on Saturday afternoon. The water courses all around us were filled to overflowing by the descending rains. A good deal of damage was done in several localities, near water courses, by the overflow of the creeks and rivers. The Shenandoah river, this side of Mt. Jackson, was very high, overflowing the valuable bottoms of Messrs. Meem and others, and destroying large quantities of the corn that stood in shocks on the ground.

Peter H. Woodward, of Harrisonburg, has been appointed an Assistant Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain, in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.

The Rockingham militia are again called to the field.

Mrs. Sarah H. Braithwaite, wife of Wm. S. Braithwaite, of this place, broke one of her legs, below the knee, on Saturday morning last. Both bones of the leg were broken.

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Colonel Clingman's Regiment.

Colonel Clingman, with several companies of the regiment of volunteers which he has recently organized in the Old North State, arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, by special train on Wednesday last. Their destination is the South Carolina coast, for defence against the invaders. The remainder of Colonel Clingman's command, including two hundred and fifty Cherokee Indians, Captain Williams, arrived during that night.

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A privateer.

Captain S. H. Lebby, of Charleston, who lately went out on a privateering expedition, has lately returned after having been most successful indeed. Soon after leaving port, his vessel, a smart clipper craft, was chased by an armed steamer, but she was too swift for a large, unwieldy vessel. On returning to the port of Charleston, Saturday morning last, soon after daylight, she found herself nearly surrounded by four blockaders, which at once made after her. Captain L was determined to beach his vessel rather than be captured, so he pointed her toward the breakers, inside of which he knew there was a safe harbor. She made one tremendous thump on the breaker, a huge wave passed over her, and she passed into port under the protection of the Confederate guns.

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A noble example.

The Petersburg Express says:

‘ In the county of Dinwiddie there is a gentleman owning a tannery, who refuses to receive more for his sole leather than 40 cents per pound. Tradesmen have repeatedly offered him 60 cents for his whole stock, which he has as often declined, preferring to sell in small lots to his neighbors and countrymen at a fair profit. It is such men who obey the injunction to love their neighbors as themselves. How beautifully does such an example compare with men who ask almost ten times the prices they paid for their articles.

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A pretty incident.

The Mobile Tribune relates the following incident as having occurred during a recent exhibition at the theatre in that city:

‘ When the Confederate flag appeared on the stage a beautiful child of about four years old was seen to raise her little hands aloft and heard to ‘"hurrah"’--a baby salutation for Southern independence. Then raising her eyes to Heaven, she clasped her dimpled hands as if to invoke God's blessing on her country. She had been taught to do so at home by her mother, and in her unconscious beauty and grace has sanctified the spot where she breathed her childish prayer to Heaven for blessings on the Southern banner.

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