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I assortment of Printing Material, and are
I ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on
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J. 8. ANDERSON,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
I
IDES A IlC. ARKANSAS.
ffcgk RESPECTFULLY informs
| the citizens of Prairie and
I adjacent counties, that he has on hand, LZJ
| - d is prepared to manufacture to order,
I Saddles. Bridles, Martingales, Buggy.
Carriage and Hack Harness,
I As well as every other description of work
I usually done in such establishments.
t'^gr Shop on Lyon street, back or Frith &
I Jackson’s store. jan21-ly.
k. r. mcpiierson,
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
j 4 LL persons wishing my services in
I "*• this department of business, will please
i address me at Brownsville, Prairie county,
I Ark. Every call will be punctually filled.
novl3-ly
N E W 11 E S T A TJ11A N T !
Tiira
j COSMOPOLITAN !
I Corner of Buena Vista 'and Lyon streets,
RES ARC, ARKANSAS,
F.S now open for the reception of visitors.
The best of Liquors, Wines. Ale, Cigars,
I etc., will be kept constantlyon hand.
v Oysters, Game, &.C., will be furnished at
I short, notice.
IjT This Restaurant will be attended to by
I Messrs. J. C. Tarkinton and J. E. Hoke.
janH-tim. C. T. OLDHAM.
HARVEYS CHANGE,
| Comer of RuenaVistaand Foster
Streets,
j NEAR THE JACKSON HOUSE,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
11 AV1NG completed our new building, and
[ XL opened a first class establishment for the
I accommodation of the public, and furnished it
I wit It t h.» It o c L ttf V !« More Xipil IN.
I Tobacco, etc., the undersigned flatter
themselves that they will continue to receive
I the patronage which has been heretofore be
I stowed upon them.
Adjoining their Exchange they keep a
I general assortmentof FAMILY GROCERIES.
| Also. Cove Oysters, Sardines, Fine Pickles,
Catsups, Pepper Sauce, etc., etc.
jy24-tf HARVEY & MATTHEWS.
A. S. HARRIS,
H* .1 T € PS - .11 .i K E PS
AND
JEW33IjER.
OFFICE on Buena Vista rg? ^
street, opposite the
Nucleus House, Des Arc,
Arkansas. Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
[ repaired with neatness and dispatch, and war
1 ranted to give satisfaction. nov20-tim
JAMES JOHNSON.
Gunsmith,
IJES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I Cjb Having permanently located myself,
.. Jfl ' a,n prepared to manufacture GUNS,
I PISTOLS, &c„ to order.
All kinds of Fire-Arms Repaired, j
rn reasonable terms.
fr'S’* LOCKS repaired, and KEYS made.
B'n fact, any kind of work in my line will be
■promptly attended to.
theSf* Terms—Cask. apr3 ly
boot and shoe making.
IlV TO THE CITIZENS OF DES if
_ n ARC AND VICINITY: ^
HAVING removed ray Shop to the corner
°f Buer.a Vista and Woodruff streets, I
am prepaid, with a GOOD STOCK OF
i •'LATHER, suitable for Fall and Winter
§ " \v ’ *° acc°mmodate the public.
I >1. 'Vork Done Cheaper than any tlace in
■ Town.
WORK WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.
REPAIRING DONE neatly, at all
I times.
As I am permanently located in this place,
[ my interest is identified with yours.
Tfrms, Cash.
jan2S-tf F. WETIIERINGTON. I
PROFESSIONAL CARDSL_
TkR. N. L. RAGLAND, having lo
cated on Wattensaw, at the residence
heretofore occupied by W. B. Means, deceas
ed, offers his professional services to the
public.
(]gi|r Calls promptly attended to. [apr 1-ly.
D~ rTtTJ. CUMMINGS, having per
manently located at Atlanta, Prairie
county, Ark., offers his professional services
to the public.
Having practiced in hospitals as well
as in families, he flatters himself that he can
render satisfaction to his patrons.
S3?" Office at Peebles’ Hotel [apr 1-tf.
DR. J. C GOODWIN, determined to
remain permanently in Des Arc, will
continue to treat diseases, both Acute and
Chronic in accordance with the most approv
ed principles of Scientific and Demonstrative
Medicine.
(gp” Thankful for the liberal patronage he
has heretofore enjoyed, respectfully solicits
its continuance.
Office at D. P. Black & Co’s., Drug
Store. Charges as low as any Physician in
town. apr i 1 l-lv.
T~kR. J. L. NF.F.L, having ipermanent
■*-^ly located in Des Arc. Arkansas, offers
his professional services to the citizens of
the town and vicinity. Office over Washer,
Vaughan &. Co’s Store. [mar ll-6rn.
DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis.
having settled in the town of Des Arc,
tenders his professional services to the citi
zens of said town and vicinity; and, from a
long experience in the healing art in the West,
flatters himself that he will share their pat
JUUct£C. v/rrivt. VII uuuiu » iok.i
Residence on Woodruff street. dec5-tf
DR. W . F. WALSH, having located at
Des Arc, offers Jiis Professional Ser
vices to the public. {Ijg° Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-lyk
Dr. wm. bet hell, will continue
the Practice of Medicine in Des Arc, and
vicinity- From his long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fourteen years, he hopes to re
ceive a share of the public patronage.—
OfJice at Lane & Watts’s Drug
Store. Residence in the building formerly
occupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf
JAR jT j lane, will Practice Medi
cine in the different branches of the Pro
fession, and respectfully tenders his services to
the citizens of Des Arc and surrounding coun
try, hoping to share at least a portion of their
patronage. OFFICE—On Buena Vista street.
mayl5-tf
tasTrT harrington^S'
*“ Mechanical and Surgical,
Dentist, Near Oakland Grove. J
Prairie county, Arkansas. DR. HARRING
TON is prepared to perform any operation, or
execute any artificial work in the Dental pro
fession. He hopes by his particular attention,
carefulness and experience to merit the pat
ronage and influence of the citizens of Prairie
and adjoining counties, which he respectfully
solicits. may30-ly
WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS, Law
yer, Springfield, Conway county, Ar
kansas. Will practice in the various courts
of Middle Arkansas, fig" Prompt attention
given to the collection of all claims entrusted
to him. _n30*
nHARLES P. BERTRAND.A TTOR
V I nf.y at Law, Little Rock, Ark. jjjan2l
P JORDAN, Attorney at Law,
. Little Rock, Arkansas. [decll-ly.
WG. & B. D. TURNER, Attor
, neys at Law, and General Collec
tors, Searcy, White county. Arkansas. Prac
tice in the Circuit Courts of Randolph, Law
rence, Independence, Jackson, White, Prairie,
Monroe, Arkansas. Jefferson and Pulaski
counties, and in the Supreme and Federal
Courts at Little Rock Ark. fig" Prompt and
faithful attention given to the collection of all
claims sent to them. [jan8-tf.
L. ... R. II- FARR.
TpEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor
| neys at Law, and Real Estate Agents,
Clarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the
counties of Monroe, Arkansas, Prairie, St.
Francis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular
attention given to collections. References:
Madison, Ark., Hon. W. G. Beaseley, S. W.
Childress; Clarendon, Ark.. H. M. Couch,
Panola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Cofleeville,
Miss.. F.. C. Walthall; Memphis. Tenn., D.
M DuBosc. Esq., W..1. Webb ; Holly Springs,
Miss., W. T. Featherjton ; Washington. D.
C., Jacob Thompson. _ jy17
I E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
,) . Law, Des Arc. Prairie county. Arkansas.
Wi’ll practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, jacKson, vvmiu,
Conway, and Pone. He will give prompt at
tention to all business entrusted to him.
rs» OFFICE—-Over Town Hall, (Frith’s
New Building,) first door. feb13-tf
J' VV. MARTIN, Attorney at Law,
Dos Arc, Prairie county. Arkansas. Will
pra'ctice in the comities of Prairie, Arkansas,
Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and White.
IIP®* Prompt attention given to the collection
declaims: also, the locating, selling and pay
ing taxes on land. (jJSp* Office on Lyon street.
sept2fi-tf___
WILLIAM T JONES Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will
practice in the counties of Prairie, Jefterson,
Arkansas, Monroe. St. Francis, Jackson and
White. Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of all claims in the middle and eastern
part of the State. sept2o-tr
SAM’L w. WILLIAMS.W. L. D. WILLIAMS.
Vj/ILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At
* * torneys at Law, Little Rock, Ar
kansas. Office on Markham street. One of
our firm will be almost always at Brownsville,
where lie can be consulted on professional
business, and will give his personal attention
to all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted to
them. ____deci
JA. MOON, Attorney at Law,
General Collecting and Land Agent,
For the Northern and Eastern Counties of
Arkansas, Des Arc, Arkansas. octiO
J. L. HO ..W. D. J A CO WA Y.
HOLLO WELL & J AGO WAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry,
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
je2fi-tf _
RFURNISS MARTIN, Attorney
* at Law, Brownsvi.lle, Prairie county.
Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of
Prairie, Pulaski, Conway, Pope, Yell, Perry,
Saline. White, Arkansas. Jefferson, Jackson
and Monroe. Prompt attention given to the
collection of claims. Also, the locating, sell
ing and paying taxes on land. jy!7-ly
THE COUNTRY LASSIE.
She blossomed in the country,
Where sunny Summer flings
Her rosy arms around the earth,
And brightest blessings brings ;
Health was her sole inheritance,
And grace her only dower ;
I never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet a flower.
Far distant from the city,
And inland from the sea,
My lassie bloomed in goodness,
As pure as pure could be ;
She caught her dewy freshness
From hill and mountain bower,
I never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet a flower.
The rainbow must have lent her
Some of its airy grace ;
The wild rose parted with a blush,
That nestled on her face ;
The sunbeams got entangled in
The long waves of her hair,
Or she had never grown to be
So modest and so fair.
The early birds have taught her
Their joyous matin song,
And some of their soft innocence—
She’s been with them so long ;
And for her now, if need be,
I’d part with wealth and power,
I never dreamed the Wild wood
Contained so sweet a flower.
Agriculture—Its Importance.
BY C. N. BEMENT.
Agriculture is the body, while the oth
er piofessions are members, and, although
the body and members are mutually de
pendent and reciprocally useful to each
other, the body can exist without the mem
bers much better than the members can
exist without the body. For the purpose
of comparison agriculture may be con
sidered as a trade, an art, and a science.
The trade is mechanical, requiring muscu
lar strength. It is imitative—it is to do a
thing as one has been taught to do it be
fore. The ox, in a measure, acquires it.
He knows his master and his master’s
crib. He treads the accustomed furrow,
turns at the headlands, and obeys the dri
ver's commands.
The art implies co-operation of the
mind with physical power. The mind
contrives; it is a lever which greatly as
sets and abridges the labor of the hands.
The mind, like the soil, makes returns in
proportion to the culture which is bestow
ed upon it. Both are unproductive with
out culture. The mind is improved by
observation and reading, which makes it
familiar with the best models of practice,
and enables it to profit by the improve
ment of others.
The science teaches the laws and pro
portions of inorganic matter—as of rocks,
earths, manures, &c.; of organic matter
as animals and vegetables ; of their struc
ture, food, and uses; and the agency of
heat, water, air, light, and electricity in
their development and maturity; the em
ployment and adaptation of these matters
for the best uses of man. It contradicts
the experience of ages and the labors of
nations upon these interesting subjects,
and makes them subservient to our wants
and our comforts. The science is a col
lection of facts and leading truths, illus
trated in practice and confirmed by ex
perience.
Land and labor are the legitimate sour
ces of public wealth. The first to be pro
ductive must be cultivated, and the labor
of doing this is abridged by the culture of
the mind, which guides its operations.
Without agriculture there is no wealth.
Gold and silver are not wealth ; they are
its convenient representatives. Goin
merce produces no wealth—it simply ex
changes it. Manufactures and the arts
recombine it. Agriculture is the prolific
mother of wealth. The rest simply han
dle it when produced and delivered into
their hands. The earth itself, originally,
spontaneously produces wherewith to
keep the race of man from starving—on
ly whilst he is making ready to till the
soil. Without it he soon degenerates into
a wild animal, living here and there in
small squads, a little superior to other
□easts oi prey, me earm ureeus
ges. Agriculture breeds enlightened na
tions. It breeds houses and ships, tem
ples and seminaries ; it breeds the manu
factory ; sculpture, painting, and music
are its offspring. It would he folly to
speak of the existence, or beauty, or pow
er of any of these things, without agri
culture.
The pulpit, the professor’s chair, the
scientific laboratory, the tripod, the libra
ry, the ship, trip-hammer, the loom, and
the anvil—all would go down in one gen
eration. It is by the superabundant pro
duce and stability of agriculture that al
things exist. Nor gold, nor silver, noi
diamonds could replace it. The state ol
husbandry in any country is the test of it;
enlightenment. The thermometer of civ
ilization rises and falls as drives the plow.
“ You must send the plow,” exclaimed a
man who had traveled all over Christian
missionary ground in heathen lands. A
barbarian uation needs but to be plowed
up—deep, subsoiled, continued, sowed
planted, and the inevitable harvest will be
an enlightened empire. A practical,
working agricultural society will dig bat
barism and mental and physical and spir
itual poverty out of a nation as effectually
as any powerful grubbing machine wil
“ snake out” the stubborn slumps.
A few centuries ago, a learned writei
describes the times in these words
11 Rude were the manners then; the mat
and wife ate out of the same trencher j a
. few wooden handled knives, with blade:
of rugged iron, were a luxury for tht
crreatT candles were unknown. One or
at most, two mugs of brown earthenware
formed all the drinking apparatus in a
house. Rich gentlemen wore clothes of
unlined leather. Ordinary persons scarce
ly ever touched flesh meat. In noble man
sions a little corn seemed wealth.'
This is history. Any one of our neigh
bors, if compelled now to live as the
highest and wealthiest of mankind lived
in those days, such a neighbor would ex
cite our sympathies. We would consider
him as good as starving ; would carry in
gifts to supply his wants, and start a sub
scription among our friends to feed and
clothe him.
A few hundred years ago and all the
wealth of a nation could not buy a loaf of
bread, such as you will see on any farmer’s
table at the present time. The fine flour
could not be made. The table of our far
mer is much more princely in its furnish
ing than was the table of a monarch then.
We have now in common use several spe
cies of most delicious fruits then unknown.
We raise several kinds of grain not then
in use. The very word corn, then appli
ed to wheat and barley, is now applied to
a grain then undiscovered. Men then
lived on a few vegetables with flesh on ex
traordinary occasions ; and at their great
est feasts their chief viands were flesh and
wine. Their crops, as well as in the
palmiest ancient limes, rarely yielded over
ten or twenty fold. Now a hundred fold
is considered a very small return. Then,
as in the ancient world, they gathered the
hnrvpst hv ntillinrr off the heads, nulling
up ibe stalks, or by almost as slow a pro
cess of reaping with the sickle. Compare
these methods with the great reaper now
in use, that sweeps over acres in an hour
and leaves the glorious harvest on the
fields of a farm in a day. Thus formerly
the patient ox slowly tramped out the grain,
week after week; and the winds of heav
en and the fan in the hands of the laborer
slowly an?l imperfectly separated the ker
nel from the ciiafl and straw. Now, the
mighty thresher, with tumultuous whirl,
takes into its crushing teeth thousands of
sheaves in a day, and scattering the emp
tied heads and straw and chaff in rich
streams, the separated golden grain runs
out upon the ravished sight, all ready for
the marts of trade—for food for man and
fowl and beasts, and for the hopper and
the stone, swiftly driven by the vast and
ponderous wheel. From its mighty pouch
comes out flour, white as the driven snow,
which makes the kneaded bread better
than the fabled ambrosia of the gods.
In short. Agriculture clothes all—Agri
culture feeds all.—[Valley Farmer.
VIOLENT*POISONS.
From time to time, there is a revival of
the opposition to strychnine rum and mania
a-polu brandy; and the opponents of poi
son make a desperate rush, first in one
newspaper, then in another, at the red and
inflaming enemy. The mildest form of
attack is certainly that in which fault is
found with groggery-keepers for putting
water in their liquors. One of the hard
est anecdotes at present afloat of this rum,
which is so weak that it freezes rather
more easily than anything else known, is
thus told by a Cincinnati journal:
Out in Vermont, during the cold cycle,
an invalid procured a junk bottle of “ new
rum” from an “ agent,” carried it home,
tied a string round the nozzle, and hung,
it up near the stove, to keep it “ safe.’
In the morning he found the bottle on the
floor, and on looking up, saw the frozen
rum still hanging by the neck.
If this were only the worst which could
be said of low groggery rum, there would
be little complaint. But the tact is noto
rious, and capable of proof, by every old
doctor and every chemist, that the effect
of using intoxicating liquors now is much
more fatal than it was thirty years ago.
A pamphlet by E. C. Delavan, recently
published, on this subject, contains many
really lerrmie lauis. n umu a ycai ui
two, the selling of recipes for making
liquors has become a heavy business; five
dollars teaching the art of making almost
anything—brandy, gin, or wines—from
common whisky. There is an extensive
manufactory of cheap Madeira in New
York, where it is made “ by extracting the
oils from common whisky, and passing it
through carbon.” Immense establishments
are devoted to this business. Prof. C. H.
Lee, of New York, says:
“ The trade in empty wine-casks, in this
city, with the custom-house mark and cer
tificates, is immense; the same casks
being replenished again and again, and
always accompanied by-that infallible test
of genuineness, the custom-house certifi
cate. There is also in this neighborhood,
it is stated, an extensive manufactory of
wine-casks, which are made so closely to
imitate the foreign, as to deceive expe
rienced dealers.”
Every year sees the business of adulte
ration increase, and, according to a late
number of Chambers's Magazine, it in
creases also in France, in the very vine
yards themselves. The following extract,
from an article in the New York Journal
oj Commerce, shows also that people can
not be too careful in buying their liquor,
and how utterly unreliable all cheap and
second-rate wines are:
“Hiram Cox, M- D., of Cincinnati, is
quoted as having analyzed, in that city,
sixteen lots of wine, of different varieties.
' which did not contain one drop of the juice
1 of the grape. The basis of the Port wine
for example, was diluted sulphuric acid
i colored with elder-berry juice, with alum
sugar, and neutral spirits. The basis ol
1 the Sherry wine was a sort of pale malt
sulphuric acid, from the bitter almond oil
with a per ceuta ge of alcoholic spirita-froui
brandy. The basis of the Madeira was a
decoction of hops, with sulphuric acid,
honey, spirits of Jamaica rum, Stc. Presi
dent Nott, in his published lectures, in re
lation to this subject, speaks of the exami
nation, by bis assignee, of the papers ol a
bouse which had suspended payment, re
sulting in the discovery that many hundred
barrels of cider had been purchased during
the previous year, but none of wine ; yet
nothing but wine had been sold. Many
other similar facts are recounted, and ex
tensive quotations made from foreign pe
riodicals, and other authorities, showing
that adulteiation is practised in both Eng
land and France, to an extent not readily
credited."
A beautiful state of affairs, truly, and a
nice state of health in prospect for imbi
bers of cheap brandy ! Think a minute,
ye who complain of nervousness, of neu
ralgia—ye young men, who see visions
and dream dreams; and when you next
are merry around the sky-rocket and rifle
brands, let one of your number sing, in
full cups, the following, from the Autocrat:
“Come! fill a fresh bumper, for why should
we go,
While the logwood still reddens our cups as
they flow?
Pour out the decoction still bl ight with the
sun,
Till o’er the brimm’d crystal the dye-stufl
shall run.
The half-ripen’d apples their life-dews have
bled:
How sweet is the taste of the sugar of lead !
For summer’s rank poison lies hid in the
wines !!
That were garner’d by stable-boys smoking
‘ Inner-nines !’
Then a scowl, ami a howl, and a scoff, and a
sneer,
For strychnine and whisky, and ratsbane and
beer!
In cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall—
Down, down with the tyrant that masters us
all 1”
There is “more truth than poetry” in
these verses. Every year makes them
truer and truer. There have been sneers
at those whose poverty, though not their
will, consented to make them “drink beer
and sing of wine but what shall wo say
of those who sing of wine and drink—
ratsbane?—Philadelphia Bulletin.
A SERMON OF THE TIMES.
“in hard times retrench wisely.”
The subject may be treated negatively
and positively.
I. Negative/)/. Under the necessity of
doing something, men often do first that
which they should do last, or not do it at
all. It is well, then, to consider wherein
a family should not retrench.
1. They should not withhold the mus
ter's stipend. It is so small already as
hardly to make him comfortable. It will
not bear curtailment.
2. Do not diminish your benevolent con
tributions. These have always been too
low. Missionaries and students for the
ministry have been always kept so near
to the lowest point of a decent subsistence,
that a farther reduction should not be
thought of.
3. Do not withhold from the poor. In
their case the Lord is a borrower, and he
will repay.
4. Do not stop your home journal. It
costs but a trifle, and it repays many fold.
If you stop it, you stop a source of joy and
edification to all the household. You will
get behind the times. Knowledge will
decline. A stimulant to activity will be
removed. A means of mental growth
will be abstracted. Intellectual, social,
and spiritual edification will be sadly im
peded.
Then hold on to your paper, help the
poor, contribute to Christ’s cause, and sus
tain your minister to the last.
II. Positively. Retrenchment is to be
made. God calls for it in his providence.
He makes it a necessity.
1. Cease lo spread your luxurious table.
Your body and mind, as well as your
purse, will bo benefited by this curtail
ment.
2. Give up expensive dress, and repair
the old garments. This will be so much
clear saving, without diminishing one
comfort.
3. Cease from liquor and tobacco. This
will require great self-denial ; but it will
be an immense benefit—physically, mor
ally, spiritually—in your family, and to
your pocket. If you shall succeed effec
tually in this, you will live to bless the
“hard times” which induced the reforma
tion.
4. Buy no more trashy literature. Tc
the waste of money, it adds ® loss of time,
pollutes the imagination, defiles the moral
nature, wastes or chills the benevoleni
affections, disqualifies for life’s higher
joys, and incurs, in the end, fearful respon
sibilities.
Addendum. Be industrious — father
mother, sons, daughters—all industrious
in something that will pay, even though ii
be on a scale which is very small. This
will not only relieve from the pressure
j but it will tend to a good habit, leading tc
j competence and wealth.
The hard times may be so met, and re
trenchments so made, as that not one rea
joy shall be diminished; and so as that
i many most important benefits shall result,
Whoso is wise, let him consider these
, things.— Presbyterian Banner.
R@“Scientific men assert that there is
an intimate connection between the nervei
and muscles of the face and eyes, and al
lowing the beard to grow strengthens the
eye. It is said that surgeons have proved
by experiment in Africa, that soldier:
wearing their beard are much less liable ti
disease of the eye, and it is generally con
ceded that it is a protection from diseasr
; of the throat aud lungs.
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NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST.
The interests of the Mississippi valley,
as distinguished from the Atlantic States,
are among the prominent points which
ought to be considered in every assemblage
of western and south-western men. That
large and increasing region, which lies
between the Rocky Mountains and the
Alleghanies, is not only now entitled to a
majority of voices in ail our federal affairs,
but is so rapidly enlarging in numbers and
influence, that its vote will go far to con
trol that federal legislation which has been
hitherto exercised for the advantage of the
Atlantic States.
In particular, the now pressing matters
of Cuba and Central America demand
special attention. Those stales and gov
ernments are in the possession of a race
traditionally hostile to men of our blood,
and they occupy a geographical position
dangerous to us in any war. They might
any of them be a refuge for the tnen-of
wur sent by any nation against our com
merce, and might, with the greatest ease,
form a blockade of the Gulf of Mexico,
with the ships of European powers, or
any of them; or any European power
might do the same thing, if we were not
the owners of all the outlets to the Gulf ol
Mexico.
It is quite certain that the South-west
and North-west are equally interested in
a free outlet through those passages threat
ened with danger by the existing diploma
cy of Europe. The cotton of the South
west, and the corn, wheat, and salt pro
visions of the North-west, alike demand
an open outlet to Europe on one side, and
all the Pacific coasts on the other. Any
predominance of a European power in the
Gulf of Mexico would threaten Illinois as
well as Louisiana, Wisconsin and Iowa as
well as Mississippi. We, therefore, aslc
of these Stales of the Mississippi valley,
that they take into serious consideration
the future of their commerce, and see
whether or not they are entitled to a final
settlement of the long-vexed question of
their right to command the Gulf of Mexico.
While England is in possession of Gibral
tar, and France occupies Rome, it does
not sound well in the mouth of any Euro
pean power to complain of anything we
may choose to do here. Geographical
position is a large element in statesman
ship.
Whether there be peace or war in Eu
rope, we must maintain our rights. Cuba
must be ours, sooner or later: Central
America and the Isthmus must precede or
follow. The Gulf of Mexico must be an
American sea.—Louisiana Courier.
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Whistjan* Gians.—All ye gals w’at
w’istle, and all ye hens w’at crow, take
notice—
Whistling girls and crowing hens,
Always come to some bail end.
In one of the curious Chinese books re
cently translated and published in Paris,
this proverb occurs in substantially the
same words. It is also an injunction of
the Chinese priesthood, and a carefully
odserved household custom, to kill imme
diately every hen that crows, as a preven
titive against misfortune which the cir
cumstance is supposed to indicate. The
same practice prevails through many por
tions of the United States.
We do not see why’ if crowing hens
are disposed of for fear of misfortune,
whistling girls should not also be made
the subject of visitation. They are rath
er in high favor. Witness the popularity
of the song.
“Whistle and I’ll coine to you.” A
girl who can whistle, has music in her of
no common kind, that is evident; and the
“ bad end” she comes to is evidently to
whistle her way into some old bachelor’s
bosom. Pretty bad place, but a spot into
which a great many “ unprotected fe
males,” would be most glad to find an
asylum—particularly if it was accompa
nied by a fine suit of rooms, and servants
to match ! Pitch in you fellers, w’at are
in fnunr nf w’istlinlT fral’s. — fSnirit of
Democracy.
God’s Protection of Young Deer—
An old Canadian hunter declares that the
reason why the wild deer are not all killed
when young, (as they breed once a year,
and are always surrounded by other ani
mals which prey upon them, such as dogs,
wolves, bears, panthers, &c.,) is, that “ no
dog or other animal can smell the track of
a doe or fawn, while the latter is too young
to take care of i'self.” He stated that he
had often seen it demonstrated. He had
taken his dogs over the ground where he
had just before seen them pass, and they
would take no notice of* the track, and
could not be induced to follow when taken
to the spot, while they would instantly dis
cover the track of any deer not having
young ones. This is but one proof of the
adaptation of the naturul laws to preserve
life, when it most needs protection.
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Sensation Preaching.—A correspon
dent of the Baltimore Christian Advocate
I relates of a New York Minister, who de
! sired to make a sensation in preaching on
! the crucifixtion:
He instructed the sexton when he got
to that part of the discourse where he de
scribes the darkness overspreading the
heavens, to draw down the gas, giving
light only enough to make the darkness
. visible. The sexton, however, put the
gas out altogether, which so confounded
, the preacher that he was unable to pro
i ceed. Siime of the trustees of the church
! hurried to the sexton in the lobby, and in
, quired what was the matter. Greatly to
l his chagrin and mortification, as well as
. that of the preacher, he was obliged to
explain
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Baking him.—Most people boil hum. It
is much better baked, if baked right. Soak
for an hour in clean water anil wipe it dry ;
next spread it over with thin butter, and then
put it into a deep dish with sticks under it, to
keep it out of the gravy. When it is fully done,
take off the skin and matter crusted upon the
llesh side and set it away to cool. You will
find it very delicious, but too rich for dyspep
tics.
-When a person runs away with a wrong
idea, can he be compelled to bring it back
again ?
-Trinkets, when worn by a man, general
ly indicate vanity; and, when worn by a wo
man, they indicate self-esteem.
-Prosperity is often as great a foe to a
man as adversity. In life, as in meat at din
ner, a streak of fat ami a streak of iean are
best.
-Youth cannot always last. It must
give place, ere long to manhood. Streams do
not return to their sources, but forever flow on.
-Give a man brains and riches, and he is
a king; give liiin brains without riches, and he
is a slave; give him riches without brains and
he is a fool.
-The current coin of life is—plain, com
mon sense. We drive more substantial and
thriving trade with that than with anght else.
' -- ‘ I tell you a fellow that speculates is
like a brute driven in a circle on a barren heath
by an evil spirit, whilst fair green meadows
lie everywhere around.”—Gcethe.
-if you cannot avoid a quarrel with a
blackguard, let your lawyer manage it rather
than yourself. _
_The proverbial fault finder little thinks
mat, censuring so inauciuusiy aim muiotiiu.*
nately he is only painting his own portrait
It is a secret consciousness of his own demerit,
a gnawing rage at. the superiority of others,
which is the real cause of his want of charity
-Happiness is much better to distribute
than money. It is one of those valuable pro
ductions which money can’t buy.
--Let children be children. Let them
have their plays in their own way, and chooBe
them for themselves. We only spoil it by in
terfering.
_Do not think you are fated to be miser
able because you are disappointed in your ex
pectations, and batiled in your pursuits.
_An untruth will not always screen us
in the present and never in the end.
_Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
-No man can avoid his own company—
so he had better make it as good as possible.
-Washington visiting a lady in his neigh
borhood, on leaving the house a little girl was
directed to open the door. Ho turned to the
child and said, “ I am sorry, my little dear, to
give you so much trouble.” ££ I wish, sir,” she
replied, “ it was to let you in.”
_In one of the departments of Switzer
land there is said to be over 2,000 girls con
stantly engaged in making matches. All our
girls are thus employed during all their single
lives.
_« The ugliest trades,” said Jerrold,
have their moments of pleasure.MNow, if I
were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there
are some people I could work for with a great
deal of enjoyment 1 ”
_A rich man one day asked a man of wit
what sort of a thing opulence was? “ It is a
thing,” replied the philosopher, £- which can
give a rascal the advantage over an honest
man 1 ”
-The deacon of a church over which a
new pastor had settled, was praising his many
good qualities to the deacon of a neighboring
church. He declared that the new minister
had -£ but one fault in the world, and that was
a propensity to become a little quarrelsome
when he gets drunk ! ”
-Mr. Pullup coming home late, pretty
full, finds the walk slippery, and exclaims.
££V-ver-very sing’lar, why whenever water
freezes, it alius fr-freezes with the slippery
side up ; very sin’glar.”
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Usury Laws.—At the monthly meet -
1 ^ ... r Mum Vrtrlf UnnrH nf Clir
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rency, held recently, the following resolu
tions relating to the Usury Laws were
uuainimously adopted:
Whereas, The experience of the whole
commercial world has proved the impor
tance and utility of Usury laws, and as the
principal commercial centres with which
New York is now in daily correspondence
have abolished such laws, and thereby ex
posed this city to a disastrous drain of cap
ital, whenever from war or the exigencies
of commerce there may be a demand for
capital in Europe or elsewhere, and as the
present unsettled state of Europe, with
war impending, requires large loans by
its governments, thereby tnhancing the
rate of interest, will cause the withdrawal
of capital from this country, as was the
case during the late war in the Crimea;
we, therefore, respectfully urge upon the
Legislature of this State, now in session,
the necessity of their immediate action,
for the protection of the interests of the
United States;and we do, therefore,
Resovled, That the Legislature of this
State be respectfully and earnestly reques
ted to abolish the Usury Laws, by releas
ing commercial transactions from the re
straints of these laws, by granting the
right to the public to regulate their mon
! etary affairs upon priuciplesof entire free
Join as regards the rate of interest tor the
use of capital. ’
Resoeed, That the Legislature ot the
; State of New York be, and they are here
I by earnestly requested to repeal the Usury
Laws, or a't least so far as they may ap
1 ply to this city, and thus place our com*
i mercial emporium upon an equality with
those of nearly all the civilized world as
regards the uniform aud uninterrupted
supply of capital.