VOLUME a. EES ARC, AEKAN HAS, S KPTEM BE 11 7, 1867. xS UM BE R 85.
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ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing,
on Treasonable terms.
y*o are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata
logues, Posters, large or email, Cards, Ball
Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of every descrip
tion, for Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices of the
Peace, Constables, &c.
PROFESSION \|j PAROS.
nor;T. S AN PERSON, * WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jacktonvort, Ark. Auputta, Ark.
Andoinon Ar. Thompson,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusts* Ark.
Will attend the Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff, and adjoining Count ion, and to nnecial
t cases in any section of the State. Address
either office. maylS-ly
A. O. PICK KTT. t. M. RAM9AVU.
PICKETr ItAM'r'AUn,
* ITTOBH EtS IT a A Vr ,
* ACGCSTA. ARKANSAS.
Wiil practice in the enmities of Woodruff.
Jackson, While anil Crsifh.ad- Special at
tention given to collections o! nil claims on
trusted to their care apfo-ly
J. C. JONSON, Office—Weel Point, Arkansas.
J to. M. MOURE, Office—Soarcy, Arkansas.
JOVSOX & WIOOKE,
itttoraor* at Law,
SOLICITORS IX CHANCERT, I
-AND —
Oeieral Land and Collecting Agents,
KKAIHW, ARKANSAS,
Wti.L give prom"t attention to any httaincjS
in the h.mnties of lml'l/inJetice, Jackson,
HfO.JruH, uOIlrf' , 1 •'-'a """" ' ' *
n.iJ \ an IN.ten _m<u *' I
J. (X. !*. i ILI>H S £Kr1«9
ATTORNEY AT LAW,;
Gotten Fir.nt) Aikansas.
' . ■ n a
Win praciiw •!< tin- Cj'.-wit Uuri oi.
1\ ,o(iniU .-,.111.1 V, lie I III' 1 'ill' t.„nrt<of
the » -emb Judieia M.-'.iict. g.vo p ' 'pt ;
hitcnilon to nil ba-ducea ti.irus r,l
. AJEio. NS . jVLiil-Wt’l’V*
.ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A -S'I>
F 1) I. I<t T O !t IX f lIAXt Eltl
— ,lSb»
6i;\r.H u. *.AI t) tC.IIXT,
COTTON I’l. vr;T,
WOODRUFF f CXTV, ARKANSAS.
■\\TiLT. attend •'. - l r-:.; ! I Prebu'e
\\ ■ , f. r th co .nil- of Monroe, bt. !
, a .-Man i W-odrud. "11,0-1
.1 K u ATEWtMl), > . i ilOM.lS.
IT- Arc. Ark > \ S oica vilie, Ark.
GaiEDsO o 2 TsaaiaN
j at saw
He? '.re T:i ! BroTasvllle,
FI* l JtUP COT "‘TV. iRK ISS.lS.
dueJ-lf __i
GANTT r PK V )- wnstrillo, Ark.
H. ?. VAUOUAN. P A- . Arkaunas.
Cnntl. R”*aRiiKTi & Vanghan.
ATTORN SYS AT LAW.
Will pr-c tie* in i ,e .-ounMea of Prairi.
V lit,-. W.K- lrntf. M.itiroe, Arkansas and Pi
la?ki. Pro-apt attlcotion civ it to the collec
tinn „f cia 'ii.,. Ta s a y >1 b, paid and title
in rest-!gated for non rotdden1, aprl4-8i
J S. HU!' - Ft " 1. r. BI.AKE KKNT
HrDGr.PtfH s k:nt.
ATTORNEY? AT LAW.
DE.3 ARC, Ai'.KAXSAS.
WJI.L practice in all of the courts of
Prairie county, and the circuit courts
of tho surrounding courier. inar24-6m
WU> T- JONES.
at
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
WIT.lia practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Prairie. Monroe, Woodruff. Jackson and
White ... attention gisen to the eollco
turn oi claims. «Frit-i.v
WM. K COOLY. l'* MCRAK.
COODY & MoHAE,
AIT RAW
BE.YHCY, WHITE COlSfl,
A. U It A XSAH.
Will practice io ail the court? . f Arkansas. '
mar2l- |
SOL. F. CLARK. SAM W WILLIAMS. I
JOE W. MARTIN.
CLARK WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
IJTTLE ROCK, ARKIWtS.
*\ YTil.L pr&cticoin all tlic Cottrtd« prosecute
t 1 Claims of a*l kinds, collect dehis. ar i
ae? as /i'ea/ K*tat* ami Gtntr»l Agrnt*.
# OrriCK—M*rkh*m Street, titnu >tutt House.
april28-tf
W. HICKS. Formerly of the firm of Cypert &
Hicks.
If, R. FIELDING, Formerly of Athens, Ala.
HICKS a FIELDING,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Searcy, White C?;, ^rliaa«au.
WILL practice in til's and the adjacent
counties. in tli« Jt-mrict Court a, aud iju
preme Court of ihe Ptntc.
. _Wt have in connection wtih our I <w
Jfc, H. e»ii ACTIVE OCT-UOOR l oI.t.K.CTIMi
AGENCY. Claims entrusted to us will lm
promptly attended to, and if uot Immediately
collected will be ai once secured if pnatihle.
Claim against the finvernmeut for rronerty
taken by tha V. 8 for.-es i whether receipted
for or not) -CouMriKs PrNsioss, Auur.Age o(
P,T &o. prnnsrtlr attended to
marJt* IHCK8 * FIEIWNO.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Drs. Burney, Trezerant & Allen,
HAVING *ssoeinted themselves in the
PRACTICE OP MEDICINE,
will continue to wait upon the citizens of
DES ARC AND VICINITY.
As heretofore, a portion of their time, will
be devoted to treatment of Ouaostc Diseases
of everv description.
BsS-Oftico—One door cast of J. M. Burney's
Drugstore. jullS
.U. i A. KOI SEMINS office, is
now at Johnson & Davis’ Drug Store ;
can he be Consulted at his room at the Harvey
House. He will give his undivided attention
.to Chronic Diseases of ‘>T''r:- descrip
tion.
The best of references can be furnished, by
applying to
‘ 1)H. J. A. r.OVSEl.ABX,
junl lf Dcs Arc, Arkansas.
TIIOMAS M. GIBSON,
ATT or. 17 3 7 AT LA "77,
DEVALLS BLUFF, ARKANSAS.
Wll.t. give special attention to collection of
claims of every charset.r. jun 29-ly
THOMAS J. MARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COlNSELLOIt
A t La w ,
D K S A Ji c. A A’ A.- A A' S A S.
jfSf'Pnriciilar attention given to the
collection of all kinds of claims against
the Government.
Office—On Buena Vista street next
door to J. M. Burney s drug store,
nvivilo
GEO.K. MOETOH,
&&Wt‘
—and—
SOLICITOR IN CIIAXCERY,
J)KS ARC, A K K A N HAS.
Will practice in the Stftte anti Ft<i('r«l
Courts of Arkansas. mayll
IMr? 11- I'ATTEKSl'i, Ul..' :• V. K4Wt.,
Iujia.a, Ark. Jerksonport, Ark.
ilDSET S. OAl. K.
Patterson, Cause &■ Bre..
ATT OR It SYS AT LAW,
JacliBOspcrt and Augusts, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
J.ickron. Independence, White, Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead an i Cross, and
* ni to special eases in any part of the
Sr *a. Address either office. inyl8-ly
_!
i . ip.oortiu, a. n. Jackson.
• IIEDGPETH & JACKSON,
tfA. n
£m V *•* w. '■» ■» «**
LAND AGENTS,
Des Arc, ArliansQK.
Win, on tor Lands under the provisions of
the Act of Congress, May 21, 1862, entitled
•An act to secure IIoincBte&ds to actual f*{rt
thus on the public domain,” «p27
F. LEI*TIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
] AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
J. kinds of work iu my line. Mend
ing, Cleaning, &c.
-Thankful for past favor-. I solicit a
continuance of the patronage heretofore bc
siuwrcd on me. feb28-tf
WATTENSAW
M ursery.
ONE KUHQRED THOUSAND
FRUIT TREES,
ONE AND TWO YEARS OLD,
FOR SALE IN 1867-3,
BY JOHN I). XOBBOW & SOX,
riiAIRlE COUAiTT. ARKANSAS.
HAYING been engaged in (hil business for
the loft seventeen years, in Mississippi
atid Arkansas; and having studied it closely,
we claim to have acouircda kuowledce of the
FnriTS adapted to our climate. We refer the
public *o specimens iu our Orchards, aud Or
chards sold by us, in this aud a Ijoiaing
counties. Address
•f oltu D. Morrow A Son,
jun2'2*6m Dee Arc, Arkansas.
IV. II. IJAKNE l’T,
«***?&&* gfASP®;
And General Repairer.
Will repair Old Harness. or make new ones.
iUfii repair Saddles. Shop—opposite “cm*
zr.s art ick.”
Do» Arc, Ark.. May 25, I8t>7—tf
J.. B. piSCHESSFn,
W A T CIIM A K E It
—AND—
JEWELER,
IIITI.CRM ILM:, - ARKUS tS.
H AS oo hard, s nice stock of Witch- £2
os, Clock', Jewelry and Fancy
Articles. Aha. will repair Wiiicbea,idosik
Clocks, Jewelry, Mu-ical luatrottionU, etc.
Iu connection with the above, I have a
PIlOTOGKAril GALLEKY,
Where any kind of a Picture can be taken.
! Hpr20-3w J. F> FISCHKSSFK
.JIN B2 I*', 1m*it
Dry Docda in Abundance at Reduced
Prices I!
He mean exactly tbt*.
uazf.v .v McPherson
In the City of God,
BY ALICE CARY.
I Sometimes in white raiment I sec you
Treadling higher and higher,
| On the great sea of glass, ever shilling,
And mingled with fire.
i With the crown and the harp of the victor,
Exultant you stand,
And the melody drops as if jewels
Propped off from your hand.
You walk in the beautiful city,
Adorned as a bride ;
Whose twelve gates of pearl are forever
Opened freely aud wide.
W hose walls u^on jasper foundations
■Shall firmly endure ;
Set with a topaz, and beryl, and sapphire,
And amethyst pure. I
You arc where there is no djing,
Any pain, any cries;
And God’s hands ha* wiped sofily forover
The tears from your eyes.
For if spirits because of much loving
Come nearest tho throne.
You mi st be with the saints and ihechildront
Our I-ord calls bis own !
Sometimes you are led in green pasture*
The sweetest and best;
Sometimes as a lamb in the bosom
Of Jesus you rest.
Where you linger the spiciest odors
Of paradise blow,
And under your feet drifts of blossoms
f/ soft as tho snow.
if you follow 'he life giving river.
Or rest on its bank.
You are set round by troop.'* of white lilies.
In rank after raok.
And the loveliest things and the fairest,
•T.jat near you ary seen,
Seem a- beautiful handmaids, who wait cn
For always, wherever I see yon,
‘ In low or above,
I all llie good which surrounds you,
Is born of your iovt\
And tLc best place is that whore 1 fiad you,
The best thing that what you do ;
For you soem*d t-o have fashioned tbs heaven ;
That was fashioned for you.
Tho Matrimonial Market in Natal.
It is a growing grievance among our
Natal Cadres that tliey cannot pur
chase a wife owing to the rise in the
« •
price. It used to bo about ten cows or
so—perhaps less; a bouncing girl
couid be pot for fifteen. But now
twenty cowf, on the coast, at any rate,
is the minimum cost to a man of get
ting married. The old men and the
feeble or idle add wife to wife by
means of the cattle for which their
sons toil; but young and strong men
are unable to marry. Formerly tin
wars between different tribes gave the
younger men opportunities of acquir
ing both cattle and girls in the form of
booty, while the loss of life in war
among men at marrying age loft a
chronic preponderance of girls, and
made them in proportion more plenti
ful and more easily acquired than now.
But under the British Government
peace has reigned, the sexes are bal
anced, and a monopoly is fast being
created. We need scarcely point out
the effect upon morality. The natives
see no evil in polygamy per sk : to
them it is a custom sanctified by an
tiquity and prescription. Yet wo can
not but think that they could he
brought to sec that polygamy and wo- j
man barter, as carried on among them,
are incompatible with the existing or
der of tilings in the colony, and cannot
last long. The Indian Government i*
moving upon the subject, and the ar
rival of a new Governor of Natal af-!
fords an appropriate juncture for the
consideration 6f matters involving a
new policy. The young meu probably ;
need no convincing; and by securing,
the participation of the natives in any
scheme for checking polygamy a great
Abtn vi*milil lin nHninoA Dnininnc slit.
fer widely ns to the complexion of the
measures that should be taken. Some
favor registration ; some an increasing
tax on every fresh wife after the first;
some the declaration of a fixed legal
tender; some positive prohibition.
The inst docs not appear to ns practi
cable in our present position, and a
more tentative process will probably lie
best calculated to fit the case.
Sr an ton—Tim Author or the ve
to Message on iiie Temjue-of-oe
fioe Bin.—The National Intelligencer
says: We charge, without the least fear
of contradiction, that Mr. Stanton was op
posed, upon constitutional grounds, to the
same tenurc-of-offico law which he has
evoked as a shield to justify him in oues
tioning the right of the president to re
mote or suspend him from office. Mr
Stanton's views upon the subject were
marked by so much research, luminous
ness in point of law uud fact, and by so
much zeal and earnestness of argumenta
tion, that to him was assigned the duty,
amid the pressure of overwhelming rou
tine duty upon the president at the very
lust it itirs of the session, Qhe having at
the same time other measures to veto,)
i to reduce them to that form of writing
that in large patt constituted the substance
of tho veto of the lenure-of-nfice bill
We state the faet to expose tho duplicity
and hypocrisy of Mr. Stanton, and to rc
produce as able uu argument, perhaps, as
can well bo made against the tueature in
((action.
'Return to Alabama of Dissatisfied
Emigrants to Brazil.
! From the Montgomery Advertiser, IS.]
There arrived at^thc Central hotel
last night a party of ladies and gentle
men who left Brazil last month, thor
oughly, totally, heartily disgusted with
their new homes among the hybrid
masses in the overrated, well-flattered
country .of Brazil. The party is rout
posed entirely of Alabamians, among
whom arc Messrs. John M. Harris,
W J. DeBerry, G. E. Jones, Thomas
McCants, T. A. MeElroy, John Stan
field, D. W. Brazielland eighteen other
gentlemen and their wives 0M children.
They have affecting and pitiful accounts
'of the sufferings of many huudreds of
deluded southerners who were lured
• away from their friends by the tempt
ing offers of the Brazilian government,
and the tales of wild and impulsive
American adventurers. They repre
sent that there is no regularly organiz
ed government in Brazil—there is no
society—but little cultivation among
the inhabitants—no laudable ambition
—no ways of making money—tlie peo
ple scarcely know the meaning of the
word “kindness"—the American citi
zeus live about iu huts uiicareil for—
there is general dissatisfaction among
the emigrants, and the whole Brazil
representation is a humbug‘and a
farce. The American consul is in
receipt of numerous and constant appli
cations from helpless American citizens
to assist them in getting back to their
true, rightful country. Capf. Jack I’lie
lan, who is so w II known and admired
in Montgomery, has, we learn, left,
with a large number of other young
men, to make California their home.
The advice of the gentlemen with whom
we conversed, to dissipate the idea that
i V I .1Ur 1111 i I * UUl Mill «• -I' M UMimij-i
cease dreaming over the past—any noth
ing that will assist to keep up political
troubles, stay at hom<. bin u ork, work,
work, and Alabama will yet be what
she ought to be, and ran be, a great and
glorious country.
♦ - — .
Two Sundays Kvkuy W'i —The
United States of America always was ' the
greatest nation in creation,” every body
who has listv-nod to a Fourth of July ora
tion well knows, lint since our annexa
tion of the Russian possessions w. have
taken one m ;e step niiecl. Other, an t
less happy, great and powerful nations
have their peculiar points'of which to
boast, England brags that llio situ ne.cr
sels On lier flag; France that her Fugles*
have flown in every capital of Europe
But the United States can now boast of
the most wonderful fart of all—a foot that
no other nation can ever approach, and
may uot hope to r.vak We have now in
this happy Republic, two Sundays every
week. -Vs now may be seen ly the
following extract from Mr. Sumner's
pamphlet of dur new Russian purchase :—
“As the settlement of this coast came
eastward from Russia, bringing with the
Russia flag western tune, the day is ear
lier by twenty four hours with them than
with us. so that their Sunday is our Satur
day, anil the other days of the week are
in corresponding discord. This must be
rectified according to the national meri
dian. so that there shall be the same Sun
day for all, aud the other days of the week
shall be in corresponding harmony.
Church Etiquette-—The following
is said to bo the latest church etiquette:
Let the lady advance one paee beyoml
the door of the pew she wishes to enter,
half about face and salute. The pew
must then be vacated by such gentlemen
as are in it by flank movement. The
squad should risu simultaneous when the
lady presents herself and lace by the right
flank, then deploy into the aisle, the head
man facing the lady, and the rest walking
to his right and rear, the directions of his
halt being changed by u right counter
march, aud forming again into lineup aud
down the aisle, still faced by the right
liuiltv i iiU lituj , mini I HU wuuai ic ucui,
complete her salute and advances to her
position in the pew. The gentlemen
break oil' by files from the rear an 1 resume
their places Great eare should be taken,
of course by others parties not to enter the
aisle when this evolution is in progress
until it is completed
—-.— —
Necessity of Keoucation.—Men ty'.’
the firmed nerves and of the most cm
tablished principles have need of occa
sional repose in order to recruit their
forces, and to recover the due tone of
both body and mind. The stoutest
flame is impaired ami the hardiest vir
tues grow sickly and languid by uurc
mittod exertion: ami what Lord Huron
says of silence, tit U it is the rest of the
.-oul and refreshes invention is here
more generally applicable; and it is iu
the -Hence and calm of retreat that all
of our powers, natural or moral, are
refreshed and Invigorated and made
prompt for further service. Like our
mother earth, wo require respite at
certain intervals, lest by being over
wrought we become Impoverished and
unproductive.
-At the beginning of the war the
population of Texas was between six
and -even hundred thousand. Allan's
Monthly estimates it to he at least one
million now. Population is flowing
'into the state from Europe as well us
from the southern -tales ca-tof the
Mississippi.
To t!:o Public.
As shown by notices published in
another column of this paper, my
! interest in the Ouachita Herald has
been disposed of to Messrs. Clark &
■ Elliott, my former associates. Like
wise tlie editorial control passes from
•mo. .
An irreconcilable, yet honest, differ
; cnee of opinion as to the course and
policy of the Herald has led to this
I change in the ownership and editorial
management of that paper. Under any
'■ change of policy and sentiment mater
ially differing from that heretofore
adapted and expressed by the Herald,
my convictions and consequent obliga
tions were alike inconsistent with a
pecuniary interest in that paper, as well
as the exercise of editorial control,
j Therefore, a change was neceessitated
Another consideration that induced my
retirement was the late proceedings of
I the military of this post against the
office of the Constitutional Eagle,
together with subsequent developments
which virtually inform me that a prose
j cution of my views through tiiecol
| limns of a newspaper ns its editor,
would bring down upon its office and
* property the same lawless ruin through
' the agency of those who cannot now he
, successfully or prudently resisted, and
I held to that accountability warranted
l>v the laws of the country.—Had the
! authorities manifested a disapprobation
! of this fearful outrage h,v measures of
1 redress and punishment against tlie
; perpetratm \ or by giving proper as
surances of their intention to protect
private property and private rights, hy
faithfully carrying out the provisions
of even the present, obnoxious recon
struction measures, thexhango in the
Ouachita Herald might have resulted
in the withdrawal of others and not
m yself.
Expressing to tin subscribers and
patrons grateful acknowledgment* for
the very liberal manner in which they
have manifested their appreciation of
toy efforts tt» a journalist, ami to my
exchanges th'in!:fnl assurances for their i
i.tatty courtesies, and a reluctant adieu
to an association uninterruptedly plea
sant.
! am. very rt sport fully,
C. THROW Elk
Tnr.) Knew Him.—An Arkansas
editor visited a fortune teller recently.
He makes the following report of the
revelations concerning the past and
future: Thou hast served three years
in the penitentiary fora horse thou
didst not steak Thou wijt bo governor
of th>‘ fstate, ami afterward decline a
scat in Senate of the United States. A
wealthy young lady with blue hair,
auburn eves, ami very beautiful is now
about to graduate from the House of
Correction, whom thou wilt marry a
sooii ns thy present wife dies, w hich
will he at the fourth full of the next
moon. Thou wilt become possessed of j
this lady 's wealth, and elope with the
wife of a coal boat engineer. Thou
wilt go to New Orleans and start .a
kono bank, which will bring thee in
giaat riches.—After nn absence of
nineteen years lltou wilt return to thy
repining wife, lay thy princely fortune
at her feet, bo forgiven, and after raising
a family of nineteen children, die hap
py at the age of ninety-nine.
IQs*When Jackson was moving on to ;
strike McCleHan’s flank, on the Uhiek
ahomiiiy, he came to a stream w hich
had no bridge and could not be crossed ;
without one. The General had brought
with him from the Valley a rough, un
educated man, full of energy, who had
served him in emergencies, and in
whom lie lintl the utmost confidence.
Ho called this man, and told him that
the river must be bridged immediately:
the regular engineer were also advised
of the fact. In a short time, tiie rough
carpenter and the polished men of
science were at the stream ; the former
had Ids plan : the latter theirs ; lie wish
oil to go at tho work at once, without i
drawings, blit they objected until they
could perfect the plans on paper. The
engineers retired to their tent to per
fect n paper bridge; the carpenter look
ins men and w ent to w ork to uinke a
real one. In a very short time, he ap
peared at the ticner,■ d's tent”; and repor
ted, briefly, tlms: “General, that bridge
is done, but them pictures ain't come
vet.”
-
Sheridan is making the most of the
time lie has left. He removed on the
2Stli nit. S Crosby. Commissioner of
I,and Office; W. L Roberts, Comptroll
er; M. H. Royston, Treasurer; William
Walters, Attorney General, of Texas.
Tbe following Lave been appointed in
tlier plaee.it Joseph Spencer, M.
Hamilton. John T. Alexander.
Langston, the colored lawyer, had
an interview with General Grant on \\ ed
nesduy. in which he is represented as de
clining tho office of head of the Freed
moil’s Iluresu. were it tendered him, ami
that he believed the removal of General
Howard from that position would embar
rass the interests of Ms race.
jiajrA robbery of $12,000 worth of
bonds was adroitly perpetrated Wed
nesday, in New York, by a man repres
enting himself as a Texas trader,
SQr'ii mi-official news from I’uris
intimates that the recent conference
between Napoleon and Francis Joseph
at Salzburg hn« secured the peace of
Europe
Three Things a Woman Can't Do.
There are three things a woman can't
do.
First, she can't sharpen a lead pencil.
Give her one and see. Mark how jag
gedly she hacks away every particle of
wood around the ‘lead, having an
unsupported spike of the latter, which
breaks immediately when used. You
can almost forgive the male creature
his compassionate contempt as, chuck
ling iter under the chin, lie twitches it
from her awkward little paw, and
rounds and tapers it in the most ravish
ing manner fur durablehw. 1 wish to
hear no more on that point, because
when I once make up my mind, 'all the
king's men” cant change it.
'Well, theft, secondly: A woman can't
do up a bundle. She takes a whole
newspaper to do up a paper of pins,
and a coil of rope to tic it. and it will
come undone at that. When 1 go
shopping—which is sometimes my hard
lot to do—I look on with the fascinat
ing gaze of a bird in the neighborhood
of a magnetic serpent, lo watch clerks
do up bundles. How the paper falls
into the right cruise ; how deftly they
turn it over, and turn it under, and tie
it up and then throw it down upon the
counter as if they had done the most
common thing in the world, instead of
a deed which might, and in faith does,
task the ingenuity of “angels!” it is
perfectly astonishing.
Thirdly—I may allude to the fact that
women cannot carry an umbrella, or
rather to a very peculiar manner in
which they perform that duty: but J
won't. I scorn to turn traitor to a sex
w ho, whatever may be their faults, are
always loyal to each other. !>o l shall
not say,as i might otherwise have said,
that when they unfurl, the parachute
alluded to, they put it down over their
ndlbs—take the middle of the sidewalk,
raking of}'men’s hats and women’s bon
net;- as they go, ami walking right into
the breakfast of sonic wight, with that
disregard oft! a consequent gasp which
to he understood must he felt, as the
offender cocks up one corner of the
parachute and looks defiantly at the
victim who has the effrontery to come
into the world and hazard the whale
hone and handle of her “unibrill 1 ’ No‘
I won’t speak of anything of the kind;
besides, has not a celebrated writer
remarked that when ‘’dear women is
cross, it is only because she is siek."
Let us hope lie is right. We »!1 know
that it is not the cause of man's cross
ness. Give him his favorite dish and
you may dine oil him afterward if you
want to.
|fciJ~Tho following is a copy of the
ironclad oath which all officers hereaf
ter elected or appointed must take
before they will be commissioned.
I,-, of-. coun
ty of-, and State of-. 1
do solemnly-that 1 have j
never voluntarly borne arms against [
the United States since l have been a ;
citizen thereof: that 1 have voluntarly '
given no aid. countenance, counsel, or 1
encouragement to persons Engaged in
armed hostility thereto; that 1 have
neither sought, nor accepted, nor
attempted to exercise the functions of
ally office whatever, under any author- j
ity, or pretended authority, in opposi
tion to the United States; that 1 have
not yielded a voluntary support to any '
pretended government, authority, pow- j
er, or constitution, within the United I
States, hostile or inimical thereto.
And I do further-that, to the
best of my knowledge and ability, I
will support and defend the Constitu
tion of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic; that I j
will bear true faith and allegiance to
the same; that 1 take this obligation
freely. Without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion ; and that 1 will
wen ana launiuuy aiscnnrge me antics
of the office on which I am about to
enter; so help me God.
f&*l'ew things place the uuscrupu
lonsness and sagacity of the late Lord
Palmerston in a stronger light than the
facts lately elicited by the arrangement
made with the King of Egypt to join
the liritish in a campaign against the
Emperor of Abyssinia. Our readers
are doubtless aw ire tliflt tbc grievance
of which the English complain is the
imprisonment of Mu ir t uiisul and some
other Englishmen by order ot his gable
majesty, in revenge for Qnu i n Victoria
declining the honor o bis band and
heart as successor to Pjincc Albert.
Palmerston seriously proposed inveig
ling the royal wooer to Alexandria to
meet the Queen, and then kidnapping
him. or else palming oil'on him some
bogus Queen Victoria as the real gen
uine and original royal female Jacobs.
The Queen's Indignation was intense,
and of course Palmerston's plans were
abandoned. But the first idea of
inveigling the sable savage to Egypt
would certainly have saved many lives
and much treasure.
-When a steel pen has been used
until it appears to be spoiled, place it
over a flame (a gas light for iustaucc)
for, say. a quarter ot a minute, then dip
it into water, and it will be again tit
for use. A new pen which is found
too bard to write, will become softer
by being thus heated.—Ex.
Thu registration of voters in
about one half the counties of Virginia,
exhibits a white majority of 18,35s.
Tlie Richmond Enquire thiDks the
registration in the entire State will
exhibit about the same proportion of
the two races.
Is Sensibility Ketained after Decapi
• tation.
For some time past a good deal lias
been said on the question of the contin
uance of sensibility after beheading.
The French newspapers gave an affirm
ative statement in the case of the
guillotining of the brutal murderer
Lenaire. M. Bonuafont has in conse
quence brought out the results of ex
periments performed many years since
by him in Algeria, which are in direct
refutation of the popular belief. On
the occasion of the decapitation of two
Arabs, he adopted means to prevent
any further loss ot blood immediately
after the heads were cut off, and then,
in one case (lie name of the defunct
was shouted into the car, through a
small speaking trumpet, and in the
other a sharp probe was introduced in
to the ear. In neither instance was
there the slightest movement of the
eyes or of any muscle of the face or
change of color of the skin. This
writer regards as labulous the numer
ous statements to the contrary, includ
ing that of the blush on Charlotte Gor
dey's cheek, after the head had been
separated from the body by the guillo
tine. He points out, also, the want ot
analogy between the retention of the
sensibility by the decapitated head, and
ffiet that many domestic fowls are
able to walk abbot some time after
their heads are cut off. as shown in the
experiments of Aldini ayd Eugene Sue.
Abus9 cf Salves and Plasters.
Experience has proved that the less
we interfere with cuts and bruises, the
quicker they heal. Sore hands and
feet are often kept so for a long time
by what arc called healinjfsalvcs. Very
frequently w hen the salve is given up
the sore gets better. Incase of a cut,
the only thing required is to bring the
cl res together as nealiv as nossihlc.
either by means of one or more very
narrow strips of sticking-plaster, laid
across the wound, but not entirely
covering it tip, or by means of a few
stitches. A piece of clean linen should
then he placed over it to keep dust out,
and it should be left alone. The cut
will usually herd in a few days w ithout
leaving a scar, and if, during the heal
ing, it is much inflamed and pains, an
application of oo'd or warm water,
whichever feels the most soothing, will
overcome this. Stives and plasters
generally retard the cure, if they pre
vent the access of air. It is a common
error that for the healing of skin
wounds the contact of the air should he
prevented. On the contrary, the skin
is by nature intended to be in contact
with air, and when we exclude the air
front any part of the healthy skin for a
single week, it will become very sore.
If the blood is impure, or the healthy
not vigorous, so that the wound does
not heal readily, an occasional bread
and milk poultice is beneficial.
Jsg-The Poughkeepsie Eagle tells a
story about a clergyman in that city,
who was recently aroused from his
slumbers, a few moments before mid
night, by a vigorous tapping at the
front window of his residence. Rais
ing the window saslt, lie inquired who
was there? A gruff voice replied in the
broken dialect of a Yorkshiremnn,
that ho wanted the dominie to come
down to his house and marry a couple.
The dominie wondered that lie should
be called on such business, at surh a late
hour of the night, and asked for an
explanation. The Yorkshiremnn repli
ed that a young couple had just arrived
at his boarding-house, and wished to
stay all night, saying they were going
to be married in the morning. That
was all well enough, but the Yorkshire
tttsn didn’t have only one spare bed,
and ns he didn't wish to turn the stran
gers out door, and didn't wish to lose
ded that they had better be married
that night, rattier than take any risk?.
Tho good nalured dominie proceeded
to the house, and in the presence of the
household made the lovers one. At
the conclusion of the ceremony, the
Yorkshireman stepped up to the
reverend gentleman and placing a live
dollar greenback in his hand, said :
‘■There dominie, if she mnkes a good
wife for her husband, at the cud of tho
year, I'll give yon five dollars more.''
The dominie then returned to his par
sonage and tho newly married couple
were allowed the “spare room."
teg-Tbe cholera is still prevailing on
the Mississippi and tributary streams.
Its ravages on many plantations have
been dreadful. The disease is chiefly
confined to froedtnen who act with
little prudence, being unable to restrain
an appetite natural!v all-powerful.
We learn from a gentleman just fVom
Yazoo City that hut one ease has hap
pen. tl there and that it was brought up
on tiie boat from Vicksburg. Seven
teen eases died in Vicksburg last week.
The disease is spreading in Canton.—
[Lexington (Miss.) Advertiser.
-Mr. Demmotul, of Georgia, has
taken tho contract to build tho Little
Lock and Membhis railroad from Little
Ilockto Devall’s It luff, and from Madi
sou to itopeflcld. General Forrest is
pushing on tho work on the middle
division. Mr. Dcuimoud furnishes all
the means for doing his portion of the
work, and is to lie repaid from the
earnings of the road. The road is to
he finished hr.January 1*t.
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SALMAGUNDI.
I
tOr The woodman who spared that
! tree came near freezing to death the
1 past winter, on account of the scarcity
of wood.
tar A young man advertises ids de
sire for a wife—'‘pretty, mid entirely
ignorant of the fact!” Evidently, he
wauls a fool. Any woman that has
common sonco can distinguish tlie dif
ference between pretty and ugly.
tOr Why is a rnau asccuding Vesu
vius like an Irishman trying to kiss a
pretty girl? Because he is trying to
get at the crater's mouth.
t&' A married monster says lie onen
had n most delightful dream, in which
ho im agined he had an angel by his
side, and on waking tip found it was
only his wife.
tOr A correspondent wants to know
why an old maid is like a sucked or
ange, and then lias the assurance to
answer by saving, “Because neither of
them is worth squeezing.”
tar The most remarkable ease of
indecision we have ever heard of, was
that of a man who sat up all night, be
cause lie could not decide which to
take o(T first, his coat or Ids boots.
ftfiiV* “What did von used to do.
mamma, before you were married?”
asked a cherubic four years old.
“Well, my dear, I had a very good
time." “A good time I” lie exclaimed
indignantly—“What, without me?”
frjy* A young African in Richmond
wanted to get on the ‘ladies car' re
cently. The conductor told him itwsA
for white people. ‘I ,'i care if II,
am.' relumed he. T ain't at all proud,
and ud jest as leeve ride wid white
folks as some mean niggers I knows.’
He did not ride though. The conduc
tor would not permit him to he so
condescending.
-If all the hay and track scales
that the Messrs. Fairbanks have built
were placed in a continuous line, it •
would form a plank road from Har
risburg to Phtladelbhia. The fart car
ries considerable weight with it,
IQfPunch knows a gentleman so
guarded in ids remarks, lest lie should
wound any body's feelings, that he
will not even use a personal pronoun.
J4jj“On a recent trip of one of the
Illinois river packets—a light draught
one, a- there were only two feet of
water in the channel—the passengers
were startled by the cry of •man over
board !’ The steamer was stopped, and
preparations made to save him, when
the sound of his voice was heard, ex
claiming :
•Go ahead with your d-d old
steamboat! I’ll walk along behind you !'
Missourian informed a trav
eler who had inquired about corn, that
‘each stalk had nine ears on it. and was
tiftecu feet high,’ That’s nothing to
our corn, replied the traveler. Up
where I came from, we always had nine
ears to each stalk, and a peck of shell
ed corn hanging to each tassel; but wo
never could raise any field beans with
it. ‘Whv!’ asked the other. ‘Becauso
the corn grew so fast as to pull the
beans up.’ /
-_—iai——
Sag~Fannie Fern thinks it ought to
be considered a disgrace to be sick,
confidentially adding: “1 am fifty-five,
and I feel half the time as if I was just
made. To be sure, I was born in
Maine, where the timber and human
race last; but 1 don't cat pastry, nor
candy, nor ice-cream. I don't drink
tea—hah! I walk, not ride. I own
stout boots—pretty ones too. I have a
water-proof cloak, and no diamonds.
I like a nice bit of beefsteak and a glass
of ale. and any body else who wants it
may eat pap. I go to bed at 10 and got
up at (5. 1 dash out in the rain, because
it feels goods on my face. I don't care
Axis mi- olAtlmc tint I w i 11 lin «• o 11 • attt)
alter 1 am buried, I tvarn you, don’t
let any fresh air or sunlight down on
my coffin, if you don't want me to get
up.”
Judge Stars wood on Legal Tenders—
Extract from his Opinion in tho
Case of Borie vs. Trott.
-On the whole, then. I am of the
opinion that the provision of the act of
Congress of February 96th, 1862 declar
ing the notes issued in pursuance of
that act to be lawful money, and a le
gal TENDER, IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
‘•This renders it necessary that I
should consider the other question
which has been made, as to tho cfleet
of the special agreement to pay in law
fill silver money of the United States.
I am in lavor of entering judgment for
the plaintifl, but as a majority of the
court are of a diflercut opinion, judg
ment for t lie defendant,”—[Copied
from tlie Philadelphia Age of Feb. 1861,
where the opinion is published in full.
It may also he found in tho Legal
Intelligencer of March Is, 1S64. page
92.
In the same copy of the Age is a care
frilly prepared eulogy of the Judge and
his opinion, in which is the following.
‘•Judge Sharswood reasons upon and
decides the case as if he were some
lofty spirit sitting far above ami out of
the contention and strife of the world.”
Will not the holders of greenbacks
and Government bonds consider the
Judge as quite too elevated and ethereal
for such earthly honors as a seat on the
Supreme Bench ?