Western Reserve Chronicle, Warren, Ohio US
The Restoration of Arkansas.
Gen. Curtiss, in his march through Arkansas, concealed his intended movement so well that all conjecture was thrown upon the wrong scent. Marching at first in a southerly direction, along the valleys of the White river, he appeared to meditate a descent of that river to the Mississippi, a long way below Memphis; or, if he chose to take to direct course, he could have reached the Mississippi by a short march to a point just below Fort Wright. Either of these movements seemed much more probable and that he has adopted. When he arrived at Batesville, the county seat of Independence county, he struck off due south, and at the last advices from his army was beyond Searcy, the county seat of white county, on his way to Little Rock, the capital of the State.
As Little Rock is about fifty miles distant from Searcy, on a direct road, and General Curtiss was unlikely to meet armed opposition in any force, we may expect his next bulletin to announce that the National flag is flying over the Capital of Arkansas, thus restoring another State to the Union.
The Governor of Arkansas was making an effort to get the militia to oppose Gen. Curtiss, but with poor success, as large numbers of people had claimed the protection of the old flag. Of all the States carried away by the secession conspiracy, Texas alone is without a sheltering presence of the Stars and Stripes.