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I>F,S ARC, ARKANSAS:
Tuesday Morning, Nor. 24, 1868,
The CITI/FA In WOT Use Offl
rlal Or^an oi'tlie Raillrat Pssrlj.
It Is not the Recipient of FORCED
I’ufronaffe; but reilea on Its own
Merita am) on a Oisrilmlniitlne
n RI.IC, Tor NurceHS,
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M iM FACTI RRS.
The neglect to appreciate tlie impor
tance of manufactures as a means of
improvement amt wealth has been the
greatest error of the South, and is one ,
of the prime causes of the prostration
from which she is struggling to recov
er. While in prosperity, with wealth
flowing in abundantly from tho agri
cultural productions of her former sys
tem of labor, tho necessity for this in
dustrial resource was not felt; but now,
under the new order of tilings brought
about by tlie war, our people are be
coming every day more impressed with
the importance of encouraging and fos
tering the industrial arts as the most
direct road to independence and pros
perity. It is useless to ponder and
mope any longer over “what might
have been,” amt to resist the result ot
providential dispensation. Let us
break away from the recollections and
ties of the‘silent and shadowy past and
concentrate our iiopes and energies on
the living issues of the present and the
future. We have left to us a country
more favored by nature than any on
the globe, and it becomes our duty to
seise hold immediately of every hand
maid that can contribute to our pros
perity. All that can encourage indus
try and enterprise and produce wealth
and commercial greatness are at our
finger ends, but how neglectful are we
of the gifts so lavishly bestowed by
Providence. History gives no instance
of a country waxing great whose only
dependence is agriculture. In agricul
ture there is a basis of trade, but it is
precarious after all, and when the labor
of the farmer comes to naught, all busi
ness depending on it must languish.
It becomes ns then to make the most
of the means at our disposal.
This lauguage we find in an editorial
of the Memphis Avaianclie of the 21st,
MS .._* A _ _ II _ A* A_A 1
• iiu urenuct vv v uwill it ov him vi n uiu
and so applicable (o every section of
this Southern country we give place to
it, hoping that it may find endorsers in
this our owu State. It is certainly
useless at this late day, for us as a peo
ple, to set down and weep over our
past misfortunes, and not try and de
vise some moans whereby onr condi
tion may be bettered and our individu
al interests enhanced. It matters but
little what our natural advantages are
unless we try to improve them ; it mat
ters not how much wo may idly and
foolishly wish for prosperity, it will
never come until energy and enterprise
bring it about. No time since the war
lias been so favorable to a change of
the policy which has so long ruled Ar
kansas as now. All false hopes for
political interference are dead; all ex
citement consequent upon contest have
abated, and the people in a far better
condition financially than they have ,
been for years, are allowed time to
think and given opportunity to look
calmly at their own interests and the
interests of the country of which they
are a part. Would it not be wise for
us then at this opportune time to turn
our attention to those things which
make for us our prosperity? Great
ness as a people, greatness as a State,
will never come to us unsought. If
wc would make Arkansas what she
deserves to be, if we would leave to
our children what our advantages de
maud we should leave them, wc must
do more than till the soil, do more than
measure tape. Wc must build rail
roads, encourage manufactures, and
inaugurate a system of general internal
improvement that will develop our re
sources and make of benefit our hidden
wealth. It is not our purpose in this
article, to suggest one plan or scheme,
by which this desirable end may be
attained ; but merely to excite, if pos
sible, the will to do these things; for
when as a people we will to do plans
will he abundant.
TO OIB CAMPAIGN tit HSI HI
KliHS,
This is Iho last number of the Citi
zen that will be sent to our campaign
subscribers, and before taking leave of
them we would like to present some
of the claims wc think it has upon
them and others of the community.
During the campaign we have labored
with what ability wc could command
for the advancement of the principles
of Democracy and all objects that
tended to subserve the best interests
of our country. In the great political
light the battle went against us, but
the defeat was not one to discourage,
but rattier to nerve ami prepare us for
a more steady and determined line of
action in the future. The base of the
Republican party in the North is prej
udice, which time will soou destroy
and leave it without any foundation.
>Ve have only to make uuited and per
sistent eliort uu<1 all will be well. Aid
in the execution of the law, and labor
to preserve peace and quiet and good
results will follow. We have a part
to perform In the work before us as a
people, and to perform that part well
we need the aid and support of those
who are interested in the great emh to
be attained. A newspaper lias influ
ence and is effective iu the advance
ment of the cause it is supporting just
in proportion to the amount of patron
age that is given it. If the Citizen re
ceives that encouragement and sup
port we have a right to expect it will J
enable us to give the people a much
better paper than heretofore; and we <
shall spare neither pains nol' labor to t
make it valuable and attraetire as a '
family newspaper. Aside from all J
other considerations in its favor we j
propose to publish without compensa- •
tion the legal advertisements of sur- 1
rounding counties, now taken from all (
Democratic papers bv force of party ,
power, thereby saving to a great many i
the expense of paying for papers to 1
laarn this kijid of intelligence. We
contemplate making a yreat many im- ,
prorements upon the Citizen the com
ing year, and in order to Induce n i
aider circulation and enlarge the field
if our labor* wo have placed the rate*
if subscription below that of any other
paper of it* size in the State. To clubs
of twenty, which can be made up at
ilmnst any postofflee, it will be fur
nished for SI 60—cheaper than most
of the Northern prints. There is no
family too poor to pay this small sum
for a newspaper; ten times this
amount is often spent during the year
for mere trifles. We hope our friends
who have been reading the Citizen
during the campaign, and were pleased
with Us course and condiict, will go to
work and make up clubs, keeping
their name* upon our book*. The
country is now in a better condition
than at any time since the war, and
the time of year is at hand when men
are making their arrangements for the
incoming year. Now is the best time
to try to form clubs, do to work at
once and make up the list, and we
promise to give you a paper worth all
of the money.
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UualneMN.
The Presidential campaign of 1868 hav
ing passed into history, and the question
of party ascendancy being for the present
irrevocably filed, it is unquestionably
wise policy for business men to accept the
situation and make the best of it. We do
not mean bv tb s thst business men are to
indorse Radical views ot finance, or sub
scribe to the polioy by which order ha*
been dethroned and chaos substituted.
We do not advise the abatement of one
jut of vigilunee, which business men
should exercise in watching the drift of
national legislation, but what wa recom
mend is, that, instead of regrets and
repinings. business men and capitalists
should at once address tbemselvos earn
estly to the work of giving vitality to
every department of business and pros
perity to the country at large. Fortuna
tely, in this great work, a beneficent
Providence has with lavish munificence
afforded the means by which success is al
most guaranteed. Seldom, in the history
of this or any other country, has the earth
responded more bountifully to the labor of
the husbandman, so few and rare are the
exceptions, that it may be said the
granaries of the world are stored to reple
»;nn 'I’lio icii'ilili nf fnrAst HaM Anri f’nrm
is the tlieme of universal rejoicings.
From the ports of California it is reported
there is not sufficient tonnage to bear away
the products to the markets of the world
In Chicago and other Western grain
centers the elevators are overburdened.
From the South comes the glad tidings
hat “cotton has well nigh gained its for
mer importance as the great commercial
crop of the country,” and “the exportable
surplus of the staple is now estimated as
worth 8125,000,000 in gold, which is near
its average value between 1855 and I860.”
Tho Western tobacco crop, for the States
of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, In
diana and Illinois, it is estimated, will
reach 120,000 hosheads—say 144.000,000
pounds—and that the price will average
ten cents per pound, which from present
indications, we regard as fully warranted,
and we have for this one item in the West
about 815,000,000. Should the hog crop
this season prove as large as that of 1867-8,
it will set afloat between 855,000,000 and
860,000,000. We have not the necessary
data at hand nor have we the necessary
space to give an exhibit of the value of
the various sources of wealth now waiting
the employment of capital and enterprise
for their development. The South pre
sents a sublime spectacle of what may be
accomplished under circumstances the
most unfavorable, challenging the admira
tion of the world, arousing emulation
throughout the length and breadth of the
laud, and demonstrating that war with its
manifold calamities, including defeat and
poverty, tyrany and oppression, is not suf
ficient to crush the spirit or wrest from
the grasp of the Anglo-American his birth
right of independence, or de hrono his
God-constituted superiority
It is gratifying to know that on allsides.
in spite of the political situation, there is
a disposition to inaugurate an era of busi
ness activity. The nation will not arouse
at once from the apathy that has for
months made stagnation thedistinguishing
feature in all tho trade centres of the
country.
Buubts, fears and prejudices will have
to be overcome. Capital will have to be
withdrawn from stock and gold, gambling
schemes and invested in legitimate busi
uess enterprises. But, if we are not mis
taken in the signs of tho times, amove
auspicious era is about to dawn The
plow, the loom, and the anvil are to bo
reinstated iu tlieir ancient positions bo
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sands from honorable walks to turn camp
followers and government carpet bag-ers
The dignity of labor is again to be recog
nized, and its blessings ackuowleJgod
The harbinger notes of the new era being
hean) on every hand, and, if the nation
now is true to itself ami to the demands
of its boasted civilization, the day is not
distant when, iu defiance of Radicalism, it
will enjoy its noontide effulgence.—
Courier-Journal.
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Am AdveMturuue Life.
The Annapolis (Md.) Examiner, an
nouncing the return of Gilbert Mur
dock, of that city, after an absence of
twenty-one years, tells the story of his
adventures :
•‘In 18-R> he left Annapolis, under
Major Kmorv, United Mutts army, to
assist in establishing the United States
boundary line between ( ulil'oruia and
Mexico, boon alter their arrival the
appropriation became exhausted, and
Mr. Murdock received an appointment
in the custom-house at Monterey. Re
tiring from this position after a year’s
iervice, he spent one year as Mayor of
[he city, aud four years as public auc
tioneer. Marrying a Miss Flegg, he
shipped as a passenger to the Sandwich
islands, and soon after spent five years
n auctioneering in Melbourne, Aus-j
ralla as a member of the firm of Me-j
Pherion k Co. Purchasing the brig
Vlarion Helen, he started in company
with his wife and child on a trading
rovage. but was wrecked on a reef not
aid down on charts of navigation.
His wife and child were drowned be
’ore his eyes ou this reef, coasting one
>f the Java Islands, lie was taken j
trisouer by the savages, but after eight j
weeks in company with another pris- j
uier, escaped, put to sea in canoe, was ,
aken up by a friendly vessel and taken ,
o Australia. Impoverished bv miifor-;
une, lie undertook the labors of a uii
er. After spending considerable time \
a tills dangerous aud undesirable
vocation, he rejoiced in receiving from i
lie American Consul letters forwarded
o him by Secretary Seward, from his
anther and surviving friends in this
itx, inclosing drafts to enable him to
elurn. He immediately shipped via
i’allao, Panama and Asplnwall for New
fork, aud after a voyage of eighty-live
lays was welcomed by his friends in
his city on the evening of the 14th ult,
Hr. Murdock confesses that home is j
he best place hr has seen.”
From the Ctiiesf’o Time*.]
THE DEMOCRATIC MINORITY.
VHmt In Our Dntv to tile Party
and Use I’eoplr.
No man i* io wi«e as to be above tlir
uses of good advice. The representa
tives of the Democratic parly that have i
been elerted to Congress and to the
several tState Legislatures are not sup
posed to be citizens in whom wisdom
and statesmanship have readied the no
more-beyond slate of perfectness.
In the next Congress, as in the pres
ent and iti the two preceding, the Dem
ocratic representatives will stand in
the minority. The same will be the
case in the Legislature of Illinois, and
in all of the Northern Legislatures but
one or two.
It is said, witli truth, that a party can
fight better in opposition to, than in
support of, an existing administration.
Hut it is not always observable that tiie
representative men of parties do fight
better so. The Democratic representa
tives have not always done so. They
have not done so at any time since they
fell into the minority in the Thirty
eighth Congress.
They have been impelled too gener
ally by one idea—the idea of opposing
everything which the dominant party
favored, nnd apparently for no better
reason than because the dominant party
favored it. “Can any good tiling coine
out of Nazareth?” they have asked;
and, without taking the trouble to ex
amine whether the thing be good or
bad, they have voted “No.” No party
in the world ever won popular sympa
thy on that unreasoning monosyllable.
None ever deserved to. Indiscriminate
hostility to, and denunciation of, any
thing and everything that somebody
else may propose, without candid and
honest examination of its merits, never
failed to gain for an individual the de
testation of the majority among his ac
quaintances. Such a person is always
without influence. It is the same with
parties and their representatives.
The exceeding meagerness of the
Democratic minority in the present
Congress may have afforded some ex
cuse for the wholly negative course of
Democratic Congressmen. They could
not gain recognition for any positive
inflnence, because no question was
likely to arise on which tliej’ might
nossess a “balance of power. ’ Two
thirds of Doth houses, thoroughly or
ganized and directed as a unit by the
behest of King Caucus, could do and
undo, in the pleasure of an arbitrary
will, regardless of reason, of law, and
of everything else. In this situation,
it seemed useless tor tlie minority to
say anything. It would have been bat
ter, sometimes, if they had not said
anything.
Itut, in the next Congress, the excuse
of extreme meagerness in the minority
will not exist. The Democratic Rep
resentatives will comprise more than
one-third of tlie lower House. The
number will not be sufficient to inau
gurate and carry out any positive meas
ure of legislation ; but it will be enough
to constitute a power that will com
mand the respect of the majority, and
wiu the confidence and approval of the
country against any very w^-ong act
that tlie majority may do, provided it
be made to deserve them.
To that end, it is suggested that Dem
ocratic representatives shall licncefor- j
ward abandon the policy which, while I
proposing nothing, opposes everything i
that any other body proposes, and gives
no honest reason for anything. Wliat
further use is there to fight in a direr- |
tion where further defeat must lie cer- i
tain and inevitable? Why, for exam
ple, seek to prevent the execution of
the Radical “reconstruction" act? Why
talk about State rights, or Federal in
tervention ? Why stand back and hurl
tho epithet “unconstitutional" at meas
ures aud doctrines which the people
have already passed upon and ap- i
proved ? Is this the business of states- '
men ? Is this the way to win popular
favor ?
The Democratic minority should go
forward not backward. It should not
stand still. It should examine all ques
tions that arise, not in the light of past
events, or of existing prejudices; but
witli thoughtful and earnest considera
tions of the future. It should labor
not so much io undo wrong, as to es
tablish right; not so much to pull down
falsehood, «s to raise up truth. It j
should prove its own houest purpose ,
to do right by approving of whatever
is right, though it be proposed by a foe,
as earnestly as if it had been proposed
by a friend. It should prove its faith
by its works. It should demonstrate
its possession of political wisdom by
earnest examination, by serious reason,
and by positive argument: and not
commit the folly of further indulgence
in mere negative denunciation. It
should establish its claim to popular
confidence hy deserving it.
If the Democratic minority shall pur
sue such a course, it will be tiie party
in the majority within two years, as
surely as time shall continue. If it
shall not do so, nothing is surer than
that its leaders—every man of them—
will be thrown overboard by tlie peo
ple. There must be cither a new game
I'l a IIU'l uv»l. 1 III: I 't 111'H I it l R UI1I1UI -
ities ill Congress and in the State Leg
islatures can and will determine which
it slnll he.
GRANT.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald gives an account of an interview
of a number of representatives of the press
with Gen. Grant on Tuesday, from which
we make the following extract:
It having been mentioned that he en
joyed a reputation for cautiously avoiding
politics, the General replied that it was
true he did not like to talk about politics,
because that which may be regarded as
right and proper iu politics to day may be
ail wrong six months hence, and he
thought tliat politics is a subject about
which the least said the better.
in reply to the remark that no Presi
dent ever entered upon his executive du
ties with a fairer opportunity to adminis
ter the affairs of the country so as to se
cure tranquility aud prosperity, the Gen
eral said that it would be his oonatant
care to seek an early restoration of peace
aud harmony throughout the Union. The
successful manner in which the President
elect eluded the elaborate reception
preparations in this city having been
referred to, the General remarked that all
such public demonstrations found no favor
iu his sight. In traveling through the
couutry it frequently happened that such
displays were in full operation. In such
oases they cannot well be avoided. “But
this city/’ said he, “is my home, and to
have glorifications of that kind hers would
be repugnant to my feelings. Nothing of
that kind will be done with my appoba
tion. It had been published that he
would hold a publio reception at his resi
dence. This was not true. He had not
expressed any intention of doing so. He
would be happy to receive all who may
wish to favor him with a call, either at his
house or at his headquarters, but a public
reception at this time did not ap
[meaning the political organizations which
threatened him with an ovation) wish to
hold a jubilee—if the result of the election
pleases them—let them parade, fife and
drum away ; only I hope they will not dis
turb me, or require mo to take any part
■I) the proceedings/' •
From 'ho Now York Tribune.]
cirrmice.
n'lml llorncc GreeieT Propose*
to IIIn Party.
An effort, we bear, I* meditated to
prrfert and adopt a constitutional
amendment, defining and fixing the
conditions of the right of suffrage
throughout the Union. We hope It
may be made, and may prevail : bnt we
warn those who engineer it that they
will fail if they make it one-sided and
partisan. Wo ardently desire the com
plete enfranchisement of the blarke;
but a measure looking to this end
alone will encounter a resistance too
formidable to be overcome. It may
and probably will command in Con
gress the requisite .two-thirds of each
House, but it will not be ratified by the
legislatures of three fourths of the
States. The following, nt least, will be
found adverse: Nevr Jersey, Dela
ware, Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, Mis
souri, California. Oregon—8.
Wo include Missouri, because that
State has just voted, by a large major
ity that her own blacks shall not be
enfranchised—as Ohio and Khnsas vo
ted last. year.
The legislatures which must act on
this question are yet, to be chosen in
New Hampshire, Connecticut, and
many if not most of the Southern
States; and it is not probable that all
of them can be carried for enfranchise
ment. Wemustnot weigh our friends
too heavily in the elections at hand,
under the exhaustion and languor
winch naturally follow a momentous,
desperate struggle. Tlievcannot stand
it.
Hut make your proposition broad mid
comprehensive; enfranchise all who
are now disfranchised because of re
bellion as well as color; and we may
confidently hope that Virginia. Missis
sippi. Texas, with possibly Maryland
and Kentucky also, will vote to ratify.
Not merely to remove the ban from the
rebels of West Virginia, Tennessee,
etc., bnt to enable them to send to
Congress the men of their choice rather
than those whom Congress will accept,
they may be induced to give such a
measure a hearty support.
We propose no truck and dicker—no
compromise. We urge the enfranchise
ment of the blacks because it is just,
beneficent nnd wise; we urge -the
enfranchisement of the rebels for the
same reason. There are men among
them who deserve no favor, as there
are blacks (and whites too) incapable
~ — r.: „ tnlolliwiinil.f f
suffrage; but we cannot adapt general
provisions to individual eases. If it be
deemed essential to swear every per
son thus enfranchised not to use his
restored right to deprive others of the
same, just set your swearers at work :
hut we do not think it necessary.—
There arc free Stat<*s ttiat long held out
against black enfranchisement—as, in
deed. several still do; hut we cannot
recollect a single instance of a State en
franchising her colored men after an
earnest struggle. and afterwards dis
franchising them. Enfranchisement,
once fairly carried over organized re
sistance, is carried forever.
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Tint Negro Voti in Alabama.—The
election on Tuesday, so far as heard
from, satisfactorily establishes a fact as
creditable to the good sense of the ne
groes as it is ominous to the Radical
party of the North, who think they
have a claim upon the entire race—soui,
body, and breeches. It i» that a very
large proportion of the colored voters
sided with its section and their people.
It is so now, and the proportion ,is
destined to increase with every election
under the universal suffrage system,
thereby proving beyond a doubt that
that portion of our population can
never be made subservient to the
schemes of a Northern sectional party.
We shall not be surprised to tind the
North the very next to make war on
negro suffrage, as an element of power
in the hands of the South.—Savannah
Republican.
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Sew Orlraae unit White River
HeniUJlontlil) I'at Let.
For Napoleon, Vicksburg, Natchez and
New Orleans.
STEAMER AGNES,
T. SCOTT, .... Master.
Will leave as aLovc on Friday 27th atlOa.m.
The Agnes lias entered
tho above trade as a perma
nent packet. Having the very best of pas
Bengt-r and freight accommodations. With
the determination to give general satisfaction
to both shippers aud travelers, the patronage
of the public in respectfully solicited.
For freight or passage apply an board, or
to Thomas, Gill A. Co., Agents. nov24
MATHEWS cV CO.,
JDes Arc, Ark.,
„ DEALERS IN
m)HY SM) BIBIKS
A»l) PLANTATION RipPLIEti;
(CONFECTIONS, CANDIES, PICKLES
J OYSTER8, and everything in the line of
FANCY GHOCFKIKst,
very cheap for the money,
ffcgr Call at Wilson & Cook's old stand.
Des Arc, Ark., November 3, 1808.—tf
NOTICE
18 HEREBY GIVEN, That in pursuance to
an order of the White County I’robafe
Court, I will proceed to sell, on the 21st day
of December, 1808, within the hours pre
•cribod by law, at public vendue, at the court
bouse door in the town of Searcy, the follow
ing tract of land belonging to the estate of
VI. C. Roysdale, dee d., to-wit: The south
west quarter of section 13, township 6 north,
rauge 8 west, containing 100 acres. Terms
>f sale—half cash balance in twelve months.
J. B. DEE NEK, Adui r I> B N.
of the estate of M. 0, Roysdale. deo’d.
NOTICE!
All persons indebted to the late firm off
Hazen & VlcPherson, must come forward and
settle—we can give no further indulgence
Hie business of that firm must be settled up.
rhe notes and accounts of Ha*eu \ McPher
son are in our hands.
GATEWOOD & THOMAS.
October 2U, 18*«. - ~oc?27 *r
oi.u ni:i.unLi:
Memphis and White Hiver
U. S. HAIL
PACKET COMPANY, j
THK Hri.RMHl) HII>E-WII rST, STIC AMIRS
Liberty No. 2
. AMD
Mayflower
j Will form a Semi-weekly Line between
Memphi. ami Whit. Hirer, leaving Memphis
every TUESDAY and SATURDAY at 6
o’clock p. m„ connecting at DeVall's Bluff
with train, of the Little Rock Railroad for
Little Rock and Hot Spring*. Returning,
| will leave Jacksonport every Tuesday and
Friday at 8 o'clock a. m., and Derail'. Bluff
ev.ry Wednesday and Saturday at 12 to.
CARD RATES.
From J/emphis to Dc» Arc and Way Land
ings. per 100 pounds 85c; dry barrels 50c;
i Salt 00c; Pork 76c; Whiskey $1 00; Molasses
1 25; Corn, Oats and Bran 35c.
From Memphis to Augusta, West Point,
Searcy and Way Landings, per 100 pounds
40c; Dry Barrels Otic; Salt 75; Pork $1 00;
Whiskey I 25; Molasses 1 60; Com, Oats
and Bran 35.
From Jfeiupliis to Orand Glaite, Jackson
port and Way-Landings, per 100 pounds 60c;
Dry Barrels 75c Salt $1 00; Pord 1 26; Whis
dey 1 60, Molasses 1 76; Corn, Oats and Bran
40c.
From Mi mphis to Powhattan, Pocahontas
and Way-Landing, per Ilk) pounds 75c; Dry
Barrels $1 25; Salt 1 25; Pork 1 50; Whisky
2 00; Molasses 2 75; Com, Oats and Bran
7Se.
REDUCED PASSAGE RATES,
From Memphis to all point* on White
River, including Aberdeen.S 8 00
Clarendon. 9 00
DeVall's llluff. 11 00
Little Rock . 15 00
De» Arc. 12 00
Augusta, West Point and Searcy 13 00
F. Gates & Bro.,
DEALERS 15
AND
DRY GOODS;
HATS,
CAPS,
OLOTHING >
SHOES,
BOOTS,
NOTION'S,
SHOT GUNS,
»
RIFLES,
PISTOLS,
SADDLES,
BRIDLES,
And many other thing* too numerous to
mention.
Al*o, we will purchase Cotton
aud other Country Produce, in order to
make our business a mutual benefit to all
onr customers.
Thanking our friends and the citizens
of tho country in general for past patron
| ujjc, uiiu Bundling a coimiiuuiiuii ui me
same, we wouid invite ill of them to
GIVE US A CALL
and satisfy themselves of the assertion
l that we will not ouly give good bargains,
i but also a good article of floods which
! will give satisfaction.
F. GATES & BRO
Ues Arc, ArLansa, Nov. 10, 1868
Trustse’s Sale.
VroTlCK IS HEREBY GIVEN, tbit by vir- |
i tue of tho provisions of a certain Deed j
of Trust, made and executed on the ot^i day {
of Feb'y, 1808, by Elijah P. Ilaiumon and J.
K Ilaiumon, his wife, unto T. M. Kent as i
Trustee, and Thomas F. Greer and Harvey A. ,
Greer, under the timi name ami style of T. F. ,
Greer it Pro.: whim Naid Deed uf Trust was
filed for record in the othee of the Clerk and
ex-officio Recorder of Prairie couufy in the i
State of Arkansan, on the 27th day of Febru- |
ary. 1808. and duly recorded in Record Uook j
R.. page ill.
I will on the 5(h «lay of December,
lh»G*», in front of Greer’s brick store, in the j
town of lies Arc, in the County of Prairie,
Arkansas, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.
in., aud 3 o’clock p, m. of paid day, sell at
public auction the following described tract
of land situate in Prairie county, Arkansas
via: The K £ of the N W | and the N W \ of
the N W J and the N E \ of 8 W J of section
80. township 4 N, II 6 W, containing 100 '
acres.
ALSO—One bay mare, aged about seven
years.
Terms of sale —Cash.
T W. KENT. Trustee.
Dim Arc. November 3, 1808. — 4t
I_I
HAS reopened his Gun Shop ^ ^ '
in Oe.' Vr« , and is prepared
for doing aity kind of work in
that line. He has, also, some
fine guns and pistols on hand of his own
manufacture. Stencil plates and steel stamps
cut to order.
Shop in rear of 8t» Saloon. oct20-6in
Oldest Dry Goods House in Memphis!
A. 8ELS8EL & HOIS',
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN’
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES,
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
Etc-, JCtc.,
NO. 2 5 9 MAIN STREET,
Menapliis, Tenn.
*• B. WILLIAM SOX. K. HILL. N. FOXTAIXB.
WILLIAMSON. HILL & GO
, WHOLEIULK
GROCERS, COTTON FACTORS l COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
a*® Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
Ilf view of the near approach of the Fall season, it afford, us much pleasure in again be
ing able to call the attention of our friends and the public at large to our reoentlr en
larged stock of goods, comprising In purl as follow, :
S,d«»- SOO pcs Kentucky Rugging,
SO" bl.UPork, IOO colls Machine Rope,
20 hhds B Shoulders. AO tons Iron Ties,
200 bbls assorted Refined Rngan, IOO sacks loflee,
IOO bhls Molasses.
And all such articles usual In our line or business.
fSF’As heretofore. Mr. HILL (of our firm) will give his undivided attention to the sale
of all Cotton consigned to us ami hope lo bo able to give such satisfaction as lias met hi,
efforts on previous occasions. sep8-3ra
▼ ▼ ^ ' av t j r r a; v_; ,
It® MAIH STREET, MEMPHIS, TENtf.,
W holesule and Retail Dealers in
CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYS,
Barouches, Park ri.mtons, Buggies and Wagons. Harness. Iron, ■ "dlVMllA
Springs, Axles, Butte. Hubs. Leather, Duck Cloths, Enamelled
Cloths, Damask. V. hire Lead. Paints, Oils and Turpentine. septi-Um
JB. iLoweiistein & Bros., *
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
01 K stock is the largest in the cil v. We well aj'onf a* any house this side of New York.
Our motto being. ’’Quick sales ami small profits."
B. LO® K.VSTL1N & BROS., 242 Main St., corner Jefferson St.,
sepS-3m MEMPHIS, TENS.
Importers and Dealers in
(flumtswnrr, China and <&la»irarr, (lable (Tiulfry,
Tea and Tull* Spann*, fooling Gln/tr*. Coal Oil Lamp”. Lamp Chimneyt
and Fixture*, Tea Tray*, Lanterns, and
ITOl'HE ITUMSIILVa GOODft,
MERCHANTS, l.<»twl and hrMtaekeeperv, and steamboat stewards, »re respectfully invited
to examine our slock of the above goods befo e purchasing, as our prices will compare
with any of the eastern houses. Very respectfully, r
LLOYD, CLARKE A CO.. 321 Main Street
,«Ps-*m__*____ MEMPHIS, TENN.
WALKER BRO’S <fe CCXT
229 )Iai:i Street. Memphis. Tcnn.f
OFFER SUrSUlOR INDUCEMENTS TO MERCHANTS AND RUTRR3 IN
DRY GOODS, READY-MADE CLOTHING. BOOTS. SHOES. IIATS, &ct.
Call and examine ourG< :»ds beforo purchasing elsewhere. Our motto is “Quick sale* ana
small profits."
aep8-3m WALKER BRO’S &, CO., 229 Main Street.
OKU. W. WICK*. rURBT.
C 4 » . EX 1 X Ii S
WITH
O 12 0. W - \\ i C K S A O O . ,
Cotton and Tobacco Factors, and General Commission Merchants ;
DEALERS IN BAGGING AND RODE, COTTON YARNS Af.O MANUFACTURED TOBACCO.
Agents fur Louisville Brought Iruti t.'otton Tie, and Peering’* Double Power Im
proved Cotton Press.
sep8-6m] No. 102 Main Street. Louisville, Kj.
Proprietors Louisville Cotton Warehouse, corner Second and Washington Streets.
£i OT HE SI 3 ,
. . . IMPivr'.TT.RS AND CSALE3S IN ... .
Hardware, Guns and Cutlery,
270 FRONT STREET, MEMFHIS, TENN.
WE would invito mernhiint* visianzr «mr maik«t to call and examine our mock, feeling
satisfied that vv onn nmko it n< their interest to give us a share of ti.oir patronage.
Our stock embrnivs every dcpcripihin of Hardware needed by the Merchant. Manufactu
rer, Mechanic or riauter; and in addition to our stock of GENERAL HARDWARE, we
keep constantly on hand n very large and well assorted .'-took of llest flVmjmsee
rimrroal Iron, also Kentucky or “If" Iron, which we can offer at prices which defy
competition, being We agents for the Manufacturers.
We have recently been appointed the sole agents in this market for the
“e. carver & co.’S” Improved cotton gins.
The tmequaled beauty of the staple of cotton ginned on those well known 0in Stands, the
lightness of their improved running gear, increased yield of lint, and manv other acknowl
edged advantages, make them more desirable than in former years, when, as now tlicv were
the favorite. aepS-Jm
f m ineib
Proprietors and Manufacturers or (lie World Renowned
SINGER SEWING MACHINES.
BRANi'Il omt’i:. 273 MAIN ST, OPPOSITE i’OUUT SmFARG,
usuisza* TasTNaooaa.
TIIF. above Office- having exclusive control of territory included in the state of Arkansas,
North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Western Tennessee -is now open for the sal.
of our
Celebrated Manufacturing and New Family Sewing Machines.
86S-All agents in the above territory, will please report to na at this office. Agent,
wanted in every city and town, to whom liberal commission will be given *
We shall keep at this office a full .took of MACHINES. ACCESSORIES NKl'1’1 Rs mi
TWIST, LINEN am. I'OTTON THREAD. Ac., ’ *■ ‘LES> OIL*
Send for Oiroutars and 1‘rice Lists, All information furnished gratuitously.
SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
.VO. 27o MA IX Srn/. KT.
^ .
Regular Wliiro Ri'-er and Now Oi
lcans Pucket,
8T. MARYS;
,T. SWEENEY, .Master.
The St. Marys will run
regularly in the White river
*nd New Orleans tra<Tlt, during the mason,
leaving New Orleans ami Jack -onj-ort <>u al
(ornate Thursdays, commencing uit 17th of
September, 18*'H. All orders and business
miniated to boat will lw jmemlod to with
Ibo-wtrh, truf-*
11 W- Fr-cs, ^ J. C, Tj rkt,
JSasipart, Mate Henderson,Terry
Mississippi. } & Co., New Otlesus.
A. .1. MONTGOMERY,
WITH
PRICE & TERRY,
Cotton Factors and Commission
M K H C II A NTS,
No. lo Vnioit Pc, MI'MPHIS, TKNN.
o.-t •> la,
CHILLS AMI FFiVKH.
Cun Hip Chill* hp cured in every in*t»np*
without »ffi < ling the head ? i* three no medi
cine that will Mtiaiyour people, that witl per
manently eradicate all form* of Chill* nn,|
Fever? VC*, itcan he done. What i* hs name
and where can it he had?
DKOMOOOLE * CO.’S
rcirs-a or chills
AT OM.Y ONK DOLLAR,
I* to day. the moat worthy and ‘ub*taniial
Chill medicine now before the Southern peo
ple. It never fall* to give the most p:.,fect
satisfaction in every•mepecl. Every planta
tion should buy one do*en bottles at a time
Which It so common on all our rivers, lakes,
bayous, swamps, etc. can be easily cured by
using our “King of Chills” which immedia
tely arouses the Liver, cleanses the Stomach,
opens the Bowels, and never fails to cure the
worst forms of Chills and Fever Chills are
so easily cured by its use, that it is folly to
suffer any longer,
FARMERS AND PLANTERS
Everywhere could save much time and money
among their hands by keeping a constant
supply of Kiugof Chills on hand, as it makes
quick and permanent cures without affecting
the head, and is a powerful tonic to prevent a
return.
We appeal to all who suffer with chills. '
DROMGOOLE 4 CO.’S
ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS,
A beautiful medical compound, prepared by
a class of regular and experienced physicians
who have been practising medicine in the
South for twenty years.
This Female Regulator is a powerful
Uterine Tonic, arousing the Womb to a heal
thy. action, thereby curing painful, suppress
ed or irregular menstruation, falling of the
Womb, Leucorrhiea or Whites. Ulceration
and Irritability of the Womb, Swimming and
Giddiness of the Head, Palpitation of the
Heart, Melancholy. Sick Headache, Ovarian
Disease, Derangement of the Kidneys and
Bladder, and all those preculiar complaints
affecting.
WIFE, MOTHER and .SISTER,
Read a few extracts from letters.
“English Female Bitters cured me of far
ing of the Womb.” “My wife carried six bot
tles to Pine Bluff, two bottles cured her of
Leucorrhoea and she sold the remainder-”
“Send one bottle English Female Bitters for
Palpitation and Sick Headache '’ “Three
bottles of English Female Bitters cured my
wife of Painful Menstruation.” “O, I feel so
much better after using English Female
Bitters, it strengthens me.” “Four bottles
of English Female Bitters curied my wife of
Ulceration of the Womb,”
Blood n n <1 Bonos
Are composed of certain materials which be
come greatly changed from the effects of
many constitutional diseases, such a* Skin
Diseases, Eruptionson the Face, broken down
Constitutions. Shattered Nerve, Effects of
Mercury, Scrofula, Glandular Tumors and
Swellings, old Ulcers, and Sores of long stan
ding and all that class of diseases where the
blood has become impure, and this condition
of your blood must be changed, altered, be
fore you can expect to get well, and for this
purpose nothing is better than
DROMGOOLE & CO.'S
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH
Which immediately purifies the blood and re
stores health.
The Blood Purifier is composed of Stillin
gia. Vellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Burdock an 1
iodide Potash, and all persons know them to
be good, as all physicians say so, us well as
those who speak from experience.
K1IIXEY AID BLADDER
Affections which are so otynmon among all
classes in the Southern climate, are immedi
ately cured by the use of Dromgoole & Co's.
Fluid Extract
Bearberry, Cubobs and Buchu
It will cure Retention or Non-Retention of
Urine, (travel. Thick or Milky Urine, Diffi
culty of Urinating, Pain in the Back. Bloody
Urine, Melancholy and Evil Forebodings,
Extreme Nervousness, Effects of Hab<ts of
Dissipation or Early Abuses. Loss of Power
and Memory, affecting old or young, male or
female.
I se Great Southern Preparations.
I sc Great Southern Preparations.
I se Great Southern 1 'reparations
Why :
Because they arc a class of tnediciucs pre
pared by tae regular Medical profession in
the South, are genuine remedies, specially
adapted to Southern diseases and are giving
universal satisfaction.
J. P. DROMGOOLE k CO .
Proprietors, Memphis Teun.
Sold in De« Arc by B. F. JOHNSON, and
druggists everywhere.
Freight Passage Card Rate of the
Memphis and White River
INDEPENDENT PACKET,
iaSai DES ARC.
Leaving Memphis Every Monday.
171 ROM Memphis to Helena. Delta. Friar's
. Point ami all way Landings and mouth
White river, per 100 pounds, 25c; dry bar
rels. 50e; salt barrels, 60c; pork, 75c; whis
ky, $1; molasses, $1; corn, oats and bran,
25 c.
From Memphis to Indian Ray and all Way
Landings, to Des Arc, Augusta, West Point
and Searcy, per 100 pounds. 40c; dry barrels,
(U)e: salt barrels, 75c; pork, $1; whisky, Si
25; molasses, $1 60; corn, oats and bran, J>0c.
From Memphis to Jaeksonport, per 100
pounds, 60c; dry barrels, 75c; salt barrels, $1;
pork. $1 25; whisky, $ 1 75; molasses, $1 75;
corn, oats and bran, 40c.
Passage from Memphis to Prairie Lauding,
Indian Bay. St. Charles, Crockett's Bluff.
Mount Adams. Casco and Clarendon,
Little Rock, $15, Des Arc, $10; West Point,
Searcy and Vugu-oa. $16; Jaeksonport. $15.
Cotton to Memphis, $1 50 per bale.
JOHN D. ELLIOTT, Master.
Elliott & Miller. Agents, No. 5 Jefferson
street, Memphis. sepl
Kcgnlar Mciuphlti, While* and
Little Red River Packet,
DES A.11C:
JOHN D. ELLIOTT, Muster.
Jos. Elliott and Mat Glass, Clerks.
dj.r The steamer I Vs Are
kwi, haring been put in thorough
repair, has entered the Memphis and White
river trade permanently, leaving Memphis
every Monday for all points on White and
Little Red rivers, connecting at DevalPa
Bluff with train** for Little Hock Leave Des
Arc on Friday for Memphis. aug25
\>w OrlraBN and While Rlicr
Packet,
STEAMER JNO. D. PERSY;
1*AT. II. WHEAT, - - Master.
Wat. Giures, ... Clerk.
'V H ^,e sttJamer Juo. ]L
,-sLPerry having Lien thorough
ly repaired, has entered the above trade and
will make regular two week trips between
Jaeksonport and New Orleans, during the
entire season. Orders for goods or pro '.uca
promptly attended to !»v
<«r*- * PAT 11. wheat.