n men shielded themselves by denouncing others,
giving information of the property of others, and being forward in
insulting and quartering lawless soldiers upon defenceless
families. So that, Dr. R. states, there are created between
neighbors, all through that section, feuds which will never cease
to exist. Many a man has suffered family wrongs from his neighbor
which he thirsts to go back to revenge, which he swears yet to
revenge, and which he feels nothing but the blood of the offender
can revenge! And should peace be declared to-morrow, a social war
would still exist in Missouri!

People dwelling in the free States, where the schoolhouse is not
abolished, where the laws still live and restrain, can have no
conception of the state of society where the whole community has
returned suddenly to savage life; a life wherein the reaction from
a former restraint renders the viciously disposed far more
intensely barbarous than his red brother of the plain.

LOWE'S men, and all similarly recruited by order of ex-Governor
JACKSON, remained in service six months, and were to be paid in
State scrip. But as that was worthless, they never received
anything in rations, clothing, or money, but what they plundered
from their fellow-citizens. Many of these state rights soldiers
have since enlisted in the Confederate army; but Confederate paper
being fifty per cent. below par, and not rising, the legitimate
pay of the Southern soldier is likely to be small.

In Northern Arkansas, all males between fifteen and forty-five
years of age have been ordered to be ready for the Confederate
service when called upon. This has caused a fear of failure in
next year's crops from scarcity of men in that section. There is
great suffering among them now. Salt rose to $25 a sack. The
authorities prohibited the holders from charging more than $12,
the present price. Pins are $1.50 per paper; jeans $5 per yard;
and everything else in proportion.

One word in comment. Every additional fact of the deplorable
condition of things in the slave States is an additional reason
why the North should firmly meet the cause of this misery. If the
North should have the manhood to strike a blow at slavery _now_,
still a generation must pass before harmony would ensue; but if
the North _evades and dallies_, scores of ge