[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, 1862 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected]

University of Texas at Tyler Scholar Works at UT Tyler By Title Civil War Newspapers 2016 [Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, 1862 Vicki Betts University of Texas at Tyler, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/cw_newstitles Recommended Citation Betts, ickV i, "[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, 1862" (2016). By Title. Paper 73. http://hdl.handle.net/10950/713 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil War Newspapers at Scholar Works at UT Tyler. It has been accepted for inclusion in By Title by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at UT Tyler. For more information, please contact [email protected]. [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT 1862 [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 2 Manufactures in Arkansas. There is a tobacco factory at Bentonville in Benton county which is said to be a paying institution. The tobacco crop is getting to be an important one in the northwest. There is a large cotton factory in Washington county. The cotton factory at Van Buren is a large affair and in addition to spindles, has cards for wool. Mr. Tobey, of Norristown, Pope county, has, or will soon have, his cotton factory in operation. There is, also, a cotton factory in Pike county. In Newton county they have large saltpetre [sic] works and are turning out large quantities. In Independence, and perhaps other counties, there are fine saltpetre [sic] caves which are being worked. The rich lead mines in Newton county are rudely worked. The Bellah mines in Sevier county are also yielding lead. We are told there is copper in that region and sulphur [sic] and sulphuric [sic] acid can be made there. Salt is made on White river and down near the Louisiana line. The salt works on the Ouachita are in the hands of enterprising men. There is an unlimited supply of brine and we are told that Messrs. Harley & Co., have commenced boiling and making salt. They have a foundry at Camden which turns out cannon and sent a battery under command of Capt. Reed, to Oak Hills. We have two foundries in Little Rock, one of which furnished grape shot for the army. At Hopefield, opposite Memphis, the machine shop of the Memphis and Little Rock railroad has been turned into an armory and is altering and repairing guns etc. Several extensive tanneries have been started at various points in the State where at hides are tanned by the process lately discovered. The Messrs. Dyer of this city have a soap and candle factory in operation. At the arsenal there is an armory under the control of the Confederacy, but the necessary machinery has not yet arrived. The Arkansas penitentiary has turned out gun carriages, caissons, wagons, boots, shoes, clothing and many other things needed for the army. A manufactory of coal oil is in progress on the Ouachita river. These are all enterprises that occur to us while writing, but there are, doubtless, others. We would be glad to have a full list of those manufactures and enterprises in operation or under way. We know that several are in contemplation but the continual low stage of water in the Arkansas and other rivers has prevented the bringing machinery to desired points. Will our correspondents be kind enough to advise us of any new manufactures started or existing in their counties.—While on this subject, we may remark that there is good coal at several points on the upper Arkansas, in Perry, Johnson, Franklin and Sebastian counties. In some places it is immediately on the river bank and when the river rises we expect the coal trade will become an important one, provided the river rises before the cold weather ceases. We have omitted to mention that the railroad from Little Rock to White river is nearly completed and that two telegraph lines, one from Pine Bluff to Napoleon and another from Little Rock to Fort Smith, are rapidly approaching completion. In addition to all this we have some fine large flour mills, that make flour equal to any made elsewhere. There is, also a factory in the southern part of the State where they make cotton gins, wheat fans etc. [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 1 The Close of the Year.—The old year—time—decay—rapid changes—retrospect— solemn thoughts—departed friends—gallant dead—vain regrets—cherished memories. War— prospects last spring and now—contrasts—the old union—Ilium fuil—the future—independence, our own stout hearts and strong arms—liberty or death—freedom or annihilation—rich and powerful republic—career of unexampled prosperity and priceless heritage of liberty bequeathed to our descendants. We had intended to follow the immemorial custom of editors and write an article on the above theme, but the imp of the office called for copy and announced that the paper would go to press before we could do more than write down the skeleton of the article. As mothers, in Christmas times, to call forth the taste and sewing abilities of their daughters, give them an undressed doll, which they may dress to their tastes, so we present our readers with our skeleton article, to fill up to please themselves. [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 4 More About Flags. Mr. James A. Martin of this city has shown us a drawing of a flag designed by him, which keeps prominent the characteristics of "the sun flag" of the Richmond Dispatch and avoids the objectionable features of a bar sinister and lines that may be made horizontal in a change of the position of the flag by the wind. In Mr. Martin's flag a sun is in the center; this is surrounded by a circle of blue which reaches to the top and bottom of the flag. Outside of this there are two curves or crescents, part of a regular circle of white, and outside of the white, the flag is filled with red. This gives each end and corner a red, which is easily distinguished, and the whole affair is simple and tasteful. Our fellow citizen, P. L. Anthony also sends us a design, accompanied by a note, which we publish below. It is somewhat difficult to describe Mr. Anthony's flag. At a point midway between the upper and lower left hand corners lines are drawn nearly to the upper and lower right hand corners. This divides the flag in three unequal triangles. The upper one is colored blue; the lower one is green, and the middle triangle, with its point towards the flag staff remains white. On the base of this white triangle that is on the end of the flag farthest from the staff, is a narrow perpendicular stripe of red. On the white triangle the sun and thirteen stars are represented. Mr. Anthony's note will further explain the design: Editors True Democrat— Sir: I see in your issue of yesterday two articles in regard to the flag of the Confederacy, and numerous propositions to change it. Herewith please find a rude and hastily drawn and colored flag, which I have devised, almost without reflection, the ideas of which, however, are in part suggested by those articles. Above, a blue sky; beneath, the green earth; the centre designed to represent a pure and virtuous people;--The sun, emblematic of the Confederacy; the stars of the States; the red band, of a sea of blood from which they emerge. I pretend to but little knowledge of heraldry, and had no regard to it in grouping the emblems. Your friend etc. P. L. Anthony. [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 5-6 Here is an item worthy of the notice of those who make soap: It is said that cotton seed oil is equal if not superior to the ordinary refuse grease for soap. The process is so simple that any housewife may, with little trouble, make the experiment. Put as much cotton seed into a large strong iron pot or wooden mortar, as can be mashed with a pestel [sic], crush or mash them well, then boil in strong lye, and proceed as in the usual way. As grease may be scarce next year, it may be well to begin with experiments before the grease is exhausted.—Home Journal. [LITTLE ROCK] ARKANSAS TRUE DEMOCRAT, January 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 4 Our Correspondents.—We are in receipt of many letters from our friends in the different camps, which we do not publish for several reasons. The primary one is want of space. In many instances, the matter in the letters has already been anticipated by others and it would be useless to republish it. There is a great complaint of want of clothing, and the soldiers say that the State agreed to furnish them clothing, thus cutting them off from obtaining it from the Confederacy, or commutation in lieu of it. A soldier in writing to us from Island No. 10, on Christmas eve, says the 11th Arkansas regiment has been out nearly six months and has no guns yet. The pay-master, he says, came up but he had bills against the regiment for clothing and blankets exceeding the amount of pay due, and it is so arranged that the soldiers cannot get commutation for the clothing. He pertinently asks what Arkansas wants with men when she sends a regiment off without providing them arms. In the course of a long letter from Mr.

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