VOL- L_'_DES ARC, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1861. NUMBER 16.
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OFFICIAL DIKECTOHY.
OFFICERS OF l’Kl I 111E COIflTY.
COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE,
J a m e s I ^. IT xi nt,
CLERK,
WILLIAM GOO DRUM.
SHERIFF,
WILLIAM A. PLUNKETT.
T R F. A SURER,
WYLIE LANKFORD.
CORONER,
L E V I N II A R RI S O N.
SURVEYOR,
E . A . H O W E LL. '
COMMON SCHOOL COMMISSIONER,
W. P. PRESTON.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE,
B E N J A M 1 N F A W CET.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Prairie—B. F. Coulter. E. L. Beard, B. V. Smith,
James Glover.
Caroline—-G. M. Connor, W. K. Dobbins, James
Knight. Wm. Donnell, S.Cozart, W.C. Robinsoa.
Pigeon Roost—Aser I’ipkin, Y. I). Robinson.
White River—H. P. Vaughan, T. 15. Kent, L. C.
Remhert. 1>. P. Black.
Center—S. C. Paine, 15. Douglass.
Walternate—W. A. W. Mann. W. J. McCombs.
Hamilton—T. M. Gray. J. Tucker.
Rich Woods—T. F. Price, W. R. Brandy.
('tear Lake—Guinn Barber, James T. Morris.
La Grew—T. M. Belcher, Thomas llarville.
C O A STABLES.
Prairie—Q. T. Webster; Center—J. I). Steele:
Caroline—R. II. Freeling: Hamilton—E. Jarvis:
Pigeon Roost—W A. Harper: White River—O T.
Oldham: Rich Woods—W. A. Barker; Wattcnsaic—
John Gales.
Constables of Clear Lake and La Grew Town
ships failed to till their bonds.
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LEAVES MEMPHIS EVERY SATURDAY. j
Memphis. IVliile and Eittle lied
River Packet,
Jk. d met irai;
ELIAS THOMASSOX, - - - - Master.
rnillS FINE FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
JL steamer, having been thoroughly repaired,
will run regularly between Memphis and the vari
ous points on White river throughout the season,
arriving at Dcs Arc on Mondays on her up trip,
and down on Tuesdays. For freight or passage,
apply on board. fell 22, ’01-tf
Regular Sew Orleans. White and
Eittle Red River Packet,
HUU-Wlieel Steamer
I AT AN;
II. S. EATON,.Master.
This fine freight and passenger
packet having been furnished with cotton
guards, and otherwise repaired, will run between
New Orleans and the various points on White
river, during the season, as a semi-monthly
packet. _"or 23-t f
LEAVES MEMPHIS EVERY TUESDAY.
MempliiH and White River Packet,
GOLDEN STATE,
HICKS KING,.Master.
J. B. Rcsskll, • - - Clerk.
fTIHIS SPLENDID PASSENGER STEAMER
JL will make regular trips front Memphis to Des
Arc, Augusta and Jacksonport, on White river.
For freight or passage, apply on board.
C OERCION OR NOT COERCION !
This is to inform all those who are
owing me. cither by note or account, to come
forward by the 28th of February n-sxt and pay
up,or they will have to pay the same to an officer.
Money I must have to pay my debts. A word to
the wise is sufficient.
janl8-tf]_JNQ. A. FRITH.
MONEY ! MONEY !! MON EY !!!
All those indebted either to the
firm of Washer, Vaughan & Co., or R. C.
McCarley & Co., for 1860, will please come for
ward and pay up, as we are compelled to have
money to pay our debts.
jan 2-5, 61 -tf. R. C. MrCARLEV k Co.
LOOK SHARP!
All persons indebted to me, either
by note or account, will come up by the 1st
of January next and pay me, or they will be put
in the hands of an officer for collection.
dec7-tf GEO. W. VADEN. 1
_JtCHIXKKS CARDW.
J. M. GOCGIN. 1). C. TRADER. U. w. L. HOLT.
GOGGIX, TRADER A HOLT,
Cjtton and Tobacco Factors,
GROCERS,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Xo. Hi Front Row, MEMPHIS, TENN.
TVTEEKLY ACCESSIONS RECEIVED through
> T out the season to their already large and
desirable stock ot i obaeco, Ragging, Hope. Su
gar. Coffee, Molasses. Hacon, Salt, \Yhisky. Flour,
and Plantation Supplies generally. Will Store
t otton. Leaf Fobacco an* 1 other Produce in our
commodious Warehotts • on Union Street, in sight
ol' their business house No. 10 From How. We
Store and Sell Cotton at 7.‘>e per bale. no 3t'-3ni
l: XCE ESIOlt S'{ < > VE \V<» R rest:
GILES F FILLET,
manufacturer of
Charter Oak, Plymotli Rock, A Valley Forge
ookinnr Stoves!
Also, every variety of
PARLOR, llOY & tAX YO.Y STOVES,
155 ami 157 Mala Street,
dec7-tf ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,
HOFFHEIMER BROTHERS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Brandies, Gins, Wines, Cigars, Ac.,
ALSO,
DISTILLERS & MANUFACTURERS OF
Domestic 'Wines and. Liquors,
32 S; 34 Second St., betw. Main & Sycamore,
nov 23-tf._CINCINN ATI. 0.
a.c. m’carley, sam'l. r. brown, tiios. m'cablet.
MCCARLEY, BROWN, A CO.,
(Succeuon to R. C. McCarley % Co.,)
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Dealers in staple and fancy* dry
Goods. Ready-Made Clothing, Hats, Caps.
Roots and Shoes, Hardware, Cutlery, Saddles.
Trunks and Valises. Also, Forwarding and Com
mission Merchants. feb 15, '(51-if.
r. LKBTIEN, F. KLEIN.
LEPTEIN Sc KLEIN.
DLAM1UI) I»:
CLOCKS, WATCHES and JEWELRY,
Buena Vista Street,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
H aving on hand a new and selected
. stock of <'locks. Watches ar.d Jewelry, we
respectfully solicit a continuance of the kind pat- |
foliage of the people of lies Are and surrounding i
country. We are also prepared to do all kinds of J
Watch, Clock and Jewelry work with care and 1
despatch. All work warranted dec 7-tf j
B. I*. PERRY, - - J. 51. BETTEY.
PERRY Sc PETTEY,
South Side of Ruciri YisRi Street,
Dii' ARC. ARKANSAS,
Dealers in staple, pancy. foreign
and Domestic Dry Goods. Ready Made Clo- j
thing. Hats ami Caps. Roots and Shoes. Hardware
and Cuttlery. Queenswarc, etc. Also, a complete
assortment of Fancy Silks. Ribbons, Trimmings
and fancy articles of every description.
All kinds of goods, by the piece, at wholesale
prices. dec 7-tf
GARVIN, BELL Sc CO.,
1MP0BTF.U8 A WHOLESALE DEALERS l\
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRY-GOODS,
AND
Manufacturers of cAollilns.
Nos. 412 and 444 Main Street, north side,
_tit c.„, TYUTTSVII.T.F. KY
E. O. NORTON, - - - F. A. rRAGl'E.
E. O. XORTOH & CO.,
Forwarding & Commission Merchants
and dealers in
FLOUR, GRAIN and PRODUCE,
>'o. !iO Front How,
dec 1-l-2m MF.MPHIS, TENN.
F. M. ROBINSON, ------ G. J. BRANCH.
ROBINSON Sc BRANCH,
(Successors to G. W. Vaden.)
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Groceries antlT^i’oclnce,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING 4 COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
nov3. PF.S ARC, ARKANSAS.
G. M'LAREN. ------- 9. N. JACKSON.
M LAREN Sc JACKSON,
Successors to G. & J. McLaren & Co.,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Dealers in staple and fancy dry
Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, Hats and
Caps, Bonnets, Boots and Shoes, Hardware and
Cuttlerj', Books, Stationery, etc. Also, Receiving,
Forwarding and Commission Merchants, nov 3.
A. STEWART, WM. STEWART, H. STEWART.
STEWART Sc BROS,
Receiving, Forwarding
AHD COMMISSIOH MERCHANTS,
nov 3. DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
PROFEeglONAL. CARDS.
T J. jobeT
Attorney at Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
ATT ILL PRACTICE TN PRAIRIE AND THE
TT adjoining counties. Particluar attention
given to Collections.
References.—T. J. & C. Powell, Knoxville,
Tenn.; Tlios. II. Callaway, President of Ocoee
Rank, Cleveland, Tenn.; Moore & Marsh. Chatta
nooga. Term.; Hon. John II. Lumpkin, Rome, Ga.;
Hon. \\ illiam Daugherty, Columbus, Ga.; Hon.
Joseph T. McConnell, Ringgold, Ga.; William II.
Inman, President Northwestern Bank, Ringgold,
Georgia._ Iu,v 3.
T. B. KENT,
A ttorncy at L-. a w 9
DES ARC. ARKANSAS,
ATTIRE PRACTICE IN TIIE COURTS OF
tV Prairie, White. Monroe, Arkansas, St.
Francis, Jackson and Independence counties. All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. Office on Lyon street. no23-tf.
I>i*. JT. .J. LANE,
aosii<ler»t Pliyblelan,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
mENDERS 1IIS SERVICES TO TIIE CITIZENS
of Des Arc and adjacent country. From
his experience, he hopes to share at least a por
tion of the patronage of the public. Office on
Buena \ ista street, at Balsly's Drug Store, jy-y
E. T. SWEYER,
Dentist,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
WILL CONTINUE THE BUSINESS IN ALL
v t its branches, including continuous Gum
Work. Office on Ruena Vista street, up stairs,
Jackson's new building. nov lC-tf.
russ Evans!
REAL ESTATE & GENERAL LAND AGENT.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention will p.e given to
all business entrusted to liitn in his
line. nov 3.
J. T. PARHAM,
Architect and Builder,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
OOI.ICITS CONTRACTS FOR BUILDINGS OF
id every style. lie is also prepared to furnish
Designs, Estimates and Drawings of all the mod
ern orders of architecture: build, superintend
and furnish working plans for building at mode
rate prices. Orders left at the “Citizen Office,”
will receive prompt attention.' nov 3-y
DR. H. ARMISTEAD,
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
Ltr.ft a no, a mi a NBAS.
H aving permanently located at
DES ARC, offersj his professional services
to the citizens of the town and adjacent country.
Office on Lyon street. nov".
E. S. HAMMOND,
Attorney at Law,
OFFICE: TELEGRAPH BUILDING, NORTH
Side Court Square,
jay 18-tf. MEMPHIS, TENN.
T. J. WOODSON,
Attorney at Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
\l TILL PR At Tit LI IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL
T Circuit, and the counties oi W hite, Jack
son and Monroe. Ail business intrusted to his
care will be promptly attended to. nov 3
C. A. JUDSON,
Carpenter and -I oinei*,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
Dealer in sash, doors, mantles,
Window and Dior Frames, etc. Shop corner
Erwin and Park Streets. N. l’>.—Coffins made to
order, on short notice. nov 3-y
A. W. MCNEILL,
Attorney at La w ,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
I PRACTICES IN TIIE COURTS OF PRAIRIE
and adjacent counties. Office, corner Erwin
and Lyon streets. nov 3
DES ARC HOTEL,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
niHIS NEW BRICK HOTEL. ON THE CORNER
I of Buena Vista and Foster Streets, elegantly
furnished, is open for the accommodation of
guests.
The locatian is the best in town, being near the
boat landing; and every effort will be made to
please the patrons of the house. The proprietor
therefore respectfully solicits a liberal share of
public patronage.
Board and Lodging per month, - - $20 00
Board (without Lodging) per month, - 16 00
Board and Lodging per week, ' 00
Board (without Lodging) per week. - - 5 00
Board and Lodging per day, - 2 00
Dinner, ------ 00
Supper, f>0
Breakfast, ------ 60
Lodging, ------ 60
Children under twelve years of age, half price.
Persons without baggage must pay in advance.
Board bill by the year must be paid monthly—
board bill by the month must be paid weekly.
The proprietor will be responsible lor nil arti
cles left in his care, none other,
feb ‘22-tf. T. A. DODSON, Proprietor.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE!
THE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EXIST
ing between Drs. Sanders & Neel, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. feb22-2w
POETICAL.
TIIE MORNING LAND OF LIFE.
I dwelt in a bright land far away—
A beautiful morning land—
Where the winds and wild birds sung all day,
And the waves, repeating their roundelay,
Danced over the golden sand.
I know the paths over its low, green hills,
The banks where its violets grow.
The osier clumps by its laughing rills.
And the odor its every flower distills,
Though 1 left it long ago.
I know where the sybil Summer weaves
The charm of her sweetest spells;
Where the soft south wind and thelow-voic’d leaves
.Make a touching plaint, like sprite that grieves
In the heart of a rose-lipped shell.
I know the cliff where the litchen clings,
And the crimson berries grow;
Where the mists are woven in rainbow rings,
And ibe cascade leaps with its snowy wings
To the shadowy pool below.
1
But, alas! for me, its pleasant bowers,
And tlie radiant bloom they wore.
The birds that sung, and the sunny showers
Timl kissed ibe lijjn of tlic fair young floWCVS,
Are never, never more!
Ah, no! the heart that has learned for years
The love of sorrow and pain;
The eyes bedimmed by time and tears,
The lips grown pale with unspoken fears,
Can never return again.
Yet, Eden home of the Eden time,
When my lonely heart rebels,
Thy voices come through the rust and rime
Of the weary world, like the soothing chime
Of distant Sunday bells.
And when my path in the future seems
With clouds and darkness rife,
j I wander away, in my waking dreams,
To thy dewy bowers and sunny streams,
Sweet Morning Land of Life.
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TIIE JUNE ROSES.
This German-like lyric is from Adelaide Anna
Proctor’s new volume of poetry :
Just when the red June roses blow,
She gave me one—a year ago—
A rose whose crimson breath revealed
The secret that its heart concealed,
And whose half shy, half tender grace
Blushed back upon the giver’s face.
A year ago—a year ago—
To hope was not to know.
Just when the red June roses blow,
I plucked Iter one—a month ago;
Its half-blown crimson to eclipse,
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The balmy fragrance of the South
Drew sweetness from her sweeter mouth.
Swiftly do golden hours creep—
To hold is not to keep.
The red June roses now are past,
This very day I broke the last;
And now its perfumed breath is hid,
With her, beneath a coffin-lid ;
There will its petals fall apart,
And wither on her icy heart ;
At three red rose's cost
My world was gained and lost.
SPEECH OF a EX. HI LEV,
In t'ne IIousi of Representative* of Missouri, on the
8th day of February, 1801.
After a long and heated discussion on tlie
reference of a bill amending the charter of
the ekv ‘4-< wunndidct. to a standing committee
of the "House.
Mr. Riley obtained the floor, and addressed
the House:
Mr. Speaker : Everybody is a pitching into
this matter like toad frogs intoa willow swamp.
I on a lovely evening in the balmy month of
June, when the mellow light of the full moon
! tills with a delicious flood the thin, ethorial
; atmospheric air. [Applause.] .Sir. I want
, to put in a word, or perhaps u word and a
half.
There seems to be a disposition to fight. I
j say, if there is any fighting to de done, come
on with your corn-cobs and lightning-bugs!
I [Applause.] In the language of the ancient
Homan,
“Come one, come all. this rock shall fly
From its firm base, in a pig's eye.”
Now, there has been a great deal of bom
bast here to-day. I call it bombast from
from ••■Alpha” to “Omega.” (1 dou’t under
stand the meaning of the words though.) Sir,
the question to refer, is a great and magnifi
! cent question. It is the all-absorbing ques
tion—like a sponge, sir—a large unmeasurable
sponge, of globe shape, in a small tumbler of
water—it sucks up everything. Sir, I stand
here with the weapons 1. have designated, to
defend the rights of St. Louis county, the
rights of any other county—even the county
of Cedar itself. [Laughter and applause.]
Sir, the debate has assumed a latitudinosity.
We have had a little black-jack buncombe, a
little two-bit buncombe, bombast buncombe,
bung-bole buncombe, and the devil and his
grandmother knows what other kind of bun
combe. [Laughter.]
Why, sir. just give some of ’em a little
Southern soap and a little Northern water,
and quicker than a hound pup can lick a skil
let they will make enough buncombe-lather
to wash the golden flock that roams abroad
♦ ll A nitllVA 1.. i r/a. .—i
| laughter.] I allude to the starry firmament.
’1 he Speaker. The gentleman is out of
order, lie must confine himself to the ques
tion.
Mr. Ililey. Just retain your linen if you
please. I’ll stick to the text as close as a pitch
plaster to a pine plank, or a lean pig to a hot
jam rock. [Cries of “ go on “ you’ll do.”]
I want to say to these curboneriferous gen
tlemen, these igneous individuls. these deton
ating demonstrators, these pereginous volca
noes, come on with your combustibles! If I
don’t-well, I’ll suck the gulf of Mexico
through a goose quill. [Laughter and ap
plause.] Perhaps you think 1 am diminutive
tubers and sparse in the mundane elevation.
You may discover, gentlemen, you are labor
ing under as great a misapprehension as though
you had incinerated your inner vestment. In
the language of the noble bard,
“ 1 was not born in a thicket
To be scared by a cricket.” [Applause.]
Sir, wre have lost our proper position. Our
proper position is to the zenith and nadir—
our heads to the one, our heels to the other,
at right angle with the horizon, spanded by
that azure arc of the lustrous firmament,
bright with the curruscatious innumerable
constellations, and proud as a speckled stud
horse on county court day. [Cheers.]
“ But how have the mighty fallen,” in the
language of the poet Silversmite. We have
lost our proper position. We have assumed
a sloshindicular or a diaganological position.
And what is the cause ? Echo answersil bun
combe,” sir, ‘•buncombe.” The people have
been fed on buncombe, while a lot of spav
ined, ringboned, hamstrung, wind-galled swyn
eyed, splithoofed, distempered, pollevilled,
pot-bellied politicians have had their noses in
the public crib until there ain’t fodder enough
left to make gruel for a sick grasshopper.
[Cheers and laughter.]
Sir, these hungry brats keep tugging at the
public pap. They say, “ let down your milk,
Sucky, or you’ll have a spilt bag.” Do they
think they can stuff such buncombe down our
craw? Nd, sir; you might as well try to stuff
butter in a wild eat with a hot awl. [Contin
ued laughter.] The thing can’t be did.
The public grind-stone is a great institution,
sir—yes, sir, a great institution. One of the
greatest perhaps that ever rose, reigned or
fell. But, sir, there is too much private cut
lery ground. The thing won’t pay. Occa
sionally a big axe is brought in to he fixed up.
ostensibly for the purpose of hewing down the
gnarled trunks of error and cleaning out the
brush-wood of ignorance and folly that obstruct
the public highway of progress. The ma- !
chine whirls; the axe is applied. The look-j
ers-on are enchanted with the brilliant sparks i
elicited. The tool is polished; keenly edged; :
and, while the public stare in gaping expec
tancy of seeing the road cleared, the imple
ment is slyly taken of to improve the private
acres of some “ faithful friend of the people.”
What is the result ? The obstructions remain
unmoved. The people curse because the car
lags—or, if it does move, ’tis at the expense
of a broken wheel and jaded and sore-hacked
team. 1 tell you, the thing won’t pay. The ;
time will come when the nasal promonotories
of these disinterested grinders will be put to
the stone, instead of their hardware. [Ap
plause.] I am mighty afraid the machine is
a going to stop, 'i he grease is giving out
thundering fast. It is beginning to creak on
its axis. Gentlemen, it is my private opin
ion, confidentially expressed, that all the “grit”
-S pretty near worn off". [Applause.]
Mr. Speaker, you must excuse me for my
latitudinosity and circumlocutoriness. My
old blunderbus scatters amozingly. but if any
body gets peppered, it ain’t my fault if they
arc in the way.
Sir, these dandadical, supersquirtical, ma
hogany-faced gentry—what do they know
about the blessings of freedom? About as
much, sir. as a toad frog docs of high glory.
Do they think they can escape me? I’ll fol
low them through pandemonium and high
water! [Cheers and laughter.]
These are the ones that have got our lib
erty pole off its perpendicularity. ’Tis they
who would rend the stars and stripes—that
noble fiag, the blood of our revolutionary
fathers emblemed in its red. The purity of
the cause for which they died—denoted by
the white; the blue—the freedom they at
tained, like the azure air that wraps their na
tive hills and lingers on their lovely plains.
["Cheers. 1 The hi<>h bird of liberty sits
perched on the topmost branch, but there is
secession salt on his glorious tail. I fear he
will no more spread his noble pinions to soar
beyond the azure regions of the boreal pole.
But let not Missouri pull the last feather from
his sheltering wing to plume a shaft to pierce
his noble breast; or. what is the same, make
a pen to sign a secession ordinance. [Ap
plause.] Alas, poor bird, if they drive you
from the branchesof the hemlock of the North,
and the palmetto of the South, come over to
the gum-tree of the West, and we will protect
your noble birdship, while water grows and
grass runs. [Immense applause.] Mr. Speak
er, I subside for the present.
A Pcrfcct Wifk—F.dinnnd Burt-"
orator, was a man of parts, and his beau ideal
of a perfect wife is worthy of consideration by
our fair friends. Here it is:
A perfect wife is handsome, but it’s not a
beauty arising from the features, from com
plexion, or from shape. She has all three in
iiigh degree, but it is not by these that she
touches the heart—it is all that sweetness of
temper, benevolence, innocence, and sensi
bility which a face can express, that forms her
beauty. She has a face that just rouses your
attention at first sight; it grows upon you
every moment, and you wonder that it uid not
more than raise attention at first. Her eyes
have a mild light, but they awe when she
pleases, they command, like a good man out
of office, not by authority, but by virtue. Her
statue is not tall, she is not made to be the
admiration of every one. Shelias the firm
ness that does not exclude delicacy—all the
softness that does not imply weakness. Her
voice is soft, low music, not formed to rule in
public assemblies, but to charm those who can
distinguish a company from a crowd ; it has
its advantage, you must come close to hear it.
To describe her body, describe her mind—
one is the transcript of the other. Her un
derstanding is not shown in the variety of
matter it exerts itself upon, but the goodness
of t he choice she makes. 1 ler politeness flows
rather from a natural disposition to oblige
than any rules on that object, and therefore
never fails to strike those who understand
... >d breeding, and those who do not.
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Arteaius Ward on Washington.—Ar
temus, in his great '• orashun” on Washing
O O
ton, says :
u. u asmngion was a cieas-ncaueci, warm
hearted, brave and stidy go-in’ man. He
never slopt over! The prevailing weakness
of most public men is to slop over! (Put
them wards in large letters. A. W.) They
git tilled up and slop. They rush things.
They travel too much on the high presher
principle. They git onto the lirst popular
hobby boss who trots along, not earin a scent
whether the beest is even goin, clear-sited and
sound, or spavined, blind and bawky. Of
course they git throwd enventooly if not sooner.
When they see the multitood goin it blind
they goit pel mel within instid of exertin
themselves to see it right. They cant see
that the crowd which is now bearin them tri
umphantly on its shnulders will soon diskiver
its error and cast them into the boss pond of
oblivyun without the slightest hesitashun.
Washington never Slopt Over. That wasn’t
George’s stile! He luved his country deerly.
11c wasn't after the spile—He was a human
angil in a 3 kornered hat and nice britchen,
and we shant see his like right away. My
friends, we can’t all be Washingtons, but we
can all be patriots in a Christian manner.
When we see a brother goin down hill to
ruin let us not giv him a push, but let us
seeze rile hold of his coat tails and drag him
back to morality.
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A gentleman lying on his death-bod,
called to his coachman, who had been an old
servant, and said, “Ah, Tom! I am going a
long and rugged journey, worse than ever
you drove me. “Oh, dear, Sir,” replied the
fellow (he having been an indifferent master)
“ never let that discourage you, for it’s all
down-hill.”
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A WITNESS on a recent trial in one of the
superior courts admitted that she had seen
the respondent “ tipsy,” but denied that she
had seen him “drunk.” Upon being asked
to define the difference between the two ex
pressions, she said that drunk meant “very
stupid,” but tipsy only meant “ not bright.”
Tn.ir$ ,j STORY.
Ouce on a time there was a k)n? who had
a daughter, and she was such a dreadful story
teller that the like of her was not to be found
far or near. So the king gave ont that if any
one could tell such a string of lies as would
get her to say, “That's a Story,” he should have
her to wife, and half the kingdom besides.
Well, many came, as you may fancy, to try
their luck, for every one would have been
very glad to hftvc the princess, to say nothing
of the kingdom. 15ut they all cut a sorry
figure, for the princess was so given to story
telling that all their lies went in rr. me car
and out of the other. Among the rest came
three others to try their luck, and the two el
der went first; but they fared no better than i
those who hud gone before them. Last of
all, the third, Boots, set off, and found the
princess in the farmyard.
“ Good morning,” he said, “and thunk you
for nothing.”
“ Good morning,” said she, “ and the same
to you.” Then she went on :
“ You havn’t such a line farmyard as ours,
I’ll be bound ; tor when two shepherds stand
one at each end of it, and Mow their ram’s
horns, the one can t hear the other!”
“ Haven’t we, though ?” answered Boots,
“ Ours is far bigger; for when a cot^begins
to go with calf at one end of it, she don't get
to the other before her time comes.”
“ I dare say,” said the princess. “ Well, ]
but you haven't such a big ox, after all, as i
ours yonder; for when two men sit one on ,
each horn, they can’t touch each other with a i
twenty-foot rule.”
“ Stull’!” said Boots, “is that all? Why, j
we have an ox who is so big that when two |
sit on each horn, and each blow his great
mountain-trumpet, they can’t hear oue
another.”
“ 1 dare say,” said the princess ; “butyou
haven’t so much milk as we, “ I’ll be bound ;
for we milk our kine into great pails, and car
ry them in doors, and empty them into great
tubs, and so we make great, great cheeses !”
“ 0 ! you do, do you ?” said Boots. “ \\ ell,
we milk ours into great tubs, and then we
put them into carts and drive them in-doors,
and then we turn them out into great brew
ing-vats, and so we make cheeses ;is big as
houses. We had, too, a dun mare to tread
the cheeses well together, when it was making;
but once she tumbled down into the cheese,
and we lost her; and after we had eaten at
this cheese seven years, we came upon a great
dun mare, alive and kicking. Well, once af
ter that, 1 was going to drive this mare to the
mill and tier backbone snapped in-two. But
1 Wasn t put on, not, tor 1 took a spruce sap
ling. and put it into her fur a backbone, and
she had no other backbone while wc had her.
But the sapling took root, and grew up in to such
a tall tree that I climbed right up to heaven
by it; and when 1 got there L saw the Virgin
Mary sitting and spinning the foam of the
sea into pig’s bristle ropes; but just then the
spruce fir broke short off. and 1 couldn’t get
down again; and so the Virgin Mary let me
down by oneof the ropes ; and down I slipped
straight into a fox’s hole; and who should sit
there hut my mother and your father cobbling
shoes; and just as L stepped in, my mother
gave your father such a box on the ear that
if make his whiskers enrl ”
“ That's a Story !" said the princess; i!my
father never did any such thing in all his
born days l”
So Boots got the princess to wife, and half
the kingdom besides.
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Tiie Test.—When the wise king proposed
to divide the child between the claimants,the
true mother cried out. '* Oh. my Lord, give
her the living child ; in no ways slay it.” It
was the false mother that said. " Let it be
neither mine nor thine, but divide it.”
The Beechers and G recloys who re . e to
yield anything tor the sake of the country—
who see the impending sword, and are will
ing to let it fall—who mock at division, and
would see the country annihilated and dead,
rather than in the arms of another, are the
false and unnatural claimants Those, on the
other hand, who say, “ Let us yield up our
rights, that this life may he preserved and
kindred blood be spared,” speak the voice of
natural a flection.
The people and the world recognize the
accents, and see in the surrender of rights
the highest title to authority and confidence.
They hear the pleadings of nature, and they
judge their truth by the voice of their own
sympathetic hearts.
In this contest the scriptural idea is fulfill
ed, that by giving up wc gain, and what we
yield will be returned manifold in the bless
ings of peace, and unity,and true liberty.
[Albany Atlas.
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Cheap Patriotism.—The New Hamp
shire Patriot, referring to the resolutions
passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, ten
dering the President men and money to main
tain the Government in the present crisis, ob
serves that this is very cheap patriotism, of
the thinnest kind. rlhe authorities of that
State are prompt to promote and prosecute a
war against a portion of our own people; but
when the country has been engaged in War
with foreign nations, their conduct Was just
the reverse. They refuse! to allow their
troops to aid in defense of the country in the
War of 1812—14 ; and in the Mexican war
private charity had to be solicited for means
to clothe and feed her citizens who volunteered
to fight the battles of the country. True pa
triotism would prompt that State to lend her
aid to avert civil war, by repealing her per
sonal-liberty laws, and aiding in the peaceful
settlement of existing difficulties.
[Richmond (Ya ) Dispatch.
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Trade oe Arizona and Mesii.la Val
ley.—The Arizona papers are filled with re
joicings over the grant of the free transit of
merchandize through the State of Sonora,
Mexico. The Mesilla Valley Times says :
“ It will open up communications with Cal
ifornia, through Guaymas in Sonora, and of
fers to us a cheap transportation for copper,
and brings us some two or three hundred miles
nearer navigation. To the mining companies
of the western port of the Territory, it is of
immense value, as the freight on their goods
and machinery from Port Lavaca, Texas, has
been fifteen cents per pound, while from
Guaymas it will never be over from three to
five cents. We learn that a stage line is to
be immediately put in operation between
Guaymas and Tuecon.
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The London Telegraph thinks that the
English people have heretofore given too lit
tle attention to the politics and policy of the
great American nation, and in view of the
universal ignorance of its readers, it com
mences an explanatory essay, with the remark
that the trouble now pending in America is
occasioned by the desire of Virginia to extend
slavery into the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illi
' nois, and Michigan.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Five printers occupy the pulpits of five
churches in Portsmouth, \ irginia.
Low fc Son, of Pomlon, are soon to pub
lish a memoir of Abraham Lincoln.
The Cleveland. Ohio, National Democrat,
a late Breckinridge journal, has expired.
Steps are being taken in Chicago for the
reorganization of the Utiitcd States ZoiiaVC
cadets.
IIerr. Paver is far advanced in the musi
cal drama, which is to be produced at Manne
heim.
Fourteen men arc now confined in the
Toombs, in New York city, awaiting trial for
capital offenses.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, on the 5th ult.,
while in England, presented Mr.Goldschmidt
with another son.
Of thirty-six graves at Virginia City, L tali
Territory, thirty-five arc occupied by persons
killed by violence.
One day last week 100,000 pounds of fi>‘n
were brought into Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, by nine vessels.
The more married men you have, says Vol
taire. the more crimes there will be, as the
history of the world shows.
Matilda Bedenaugh, a semi-pauper of
weak intellect, was killed by a panther, at
Stephentown, New York, a few days ago.
Edward Berry and wife received one
thousand dollars in Maine a few days since
for injuries from defect of a highway.
Deaths of women by abortion are very
frequent now-a-days; our exchanges contain
accounts of such catastrophes almost daily.
Recently a woman obtained a divorce in
Defiance county, Ohio, and married a second
husband on the afternoon of the same day.
In the Emperor’s palace at Pekin. China,
the slippers of the females were found to he
invariably for those who had not cramped feet.
A Western editor thinks sewing girls can
not be expected to compete with sewing ma
chines, for they havn’t such iron constitutions.
Why are the people of this confederacy,
like a married couple being divorsed'{ Be
cause their united states are being dissolved.
Prion, the French satirist, once said that
>b »• ao miI'vooi wib it vixwtij « “^‘
you had become intimately acquainted with
her.
The man who would shine in conversation
must possess original ideas and strong sympa
thies. and be able both to communicate and
lister*.
MargarettA Quinn, aged ninety-three
year*, was burned to death the other night, in
Philadelphia, while warming her feet at a
furnaue.
La Grange has recently met with a tri
umphant success at the Victoria theater. Ber
lin, in Lueretia Borgia, with M. Carrion as
the tenor.
In Floyd county, Virginia, recently. Flem
ming Alley undertook to whip an apprentice
boy, who drew a knife and stabbed him to the
licai to.
The Charleston Mercury proposes, as all
the Northern papers seem disposed to make a
saint of Major Anderson, to first canon-im
him here.
The Turks have this significant proverb:
■■ Men who have been married enjoy them
selves in hell.”
A shrewd little child being asked by bis
hen-pecked father where cotton grew, replied,
with the greatest simplicity, in foolish hus
band's ears.
Tin. citizens of Seneca, Wisconsin, have
formed themselves into an association for the
purpose of ferreting out and arresting horse
thieves.
A PIECE of land was recently sold in Lon
don at the rate of 81,000,000 per acre, suffi
cient to cover it with silverequal to the depth
of half a dollar in thickness.
Many men die martyrs, and then have an
impartial judgment passed upon their lives,
just as the poor whales arc killed first and
tried afterward.
Bai.zac ascribes the fill of many womcit
to the beauty of their figures ; their vanity
preventing them from enjoying such knowl
edge alone.
In Rowan county, North Carolina, last
week, two little boys, four and five years old,
were butted to death by a vicious goat which
they bad been annoying.
A bill has been presented to the Legisla
ture of New Jersey, providing for the drain
age of t lie meadows between Newark and
Elizabeth by making Etches.
In Bath, England, a woman beat her hus
band to death on the 12th tilt., because he
had found fault with a beefsteak she had
cooked for breakfast.
Tiie report that the British consul at Pen
sacola had officially indorsed a state of clear
ance for a cotton laden ship, at that port, is
positively denied.
The astronomical lecturer, Professor M. T
Hutchinson, has been arrested for polygamy,
at Carlinvillc, Illinois. The professor will be
likely to see stars.”
No smoking allowed here,” said the cap
tain of a steamboat to a cigar-puffing passen
ger, an Irishman “ And surely,” said Pat,
“ I am not smoking aloud.”
Heroic toil and silence, and endurance,
says Carlyle, lead to the high places of this
universe, and the golden mountain tops where
dwell the spirits of the dawn.
Two firemen having quarreled at the recent
fire in Detroit, Michigan, one of them went
to sleep in the enginc-houfee, and was kicked
to death by the other.
The sheriff of Lucas county, Ohio, lias
challenged Seere iter, the great billiard player,
to play a game of three hundred points, ca
rom for the sum of §300.
One day last week a man named James
Wilson stopped a boy driving a sleigh, near
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, took off the cut
ter and horse and boy’s watch, and sold them.
If a speculator misses his aim, everybody
cries out, “ He’s a fool,” and sometimes, “ He’s
a rogue.” If ho succeeds, they besiege his
door, and demand his daughter in marriag*.
Lightning-rod Spooner Was. the meanest
man out. He begged his last winter’s wood
of Ase Gregory, and then tried to knock Ase
down because be wouldn’t haul it to him.
The Southern manufacturing company at
Milford, New Hampshire, is running at full
time, and has orders ahead for nearly all the
cloth that can fee made till the 1st of May