J. C. M( RRII L, 1 D! rOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS ;
VTURDAY.DEC. 11.1858.*
The Fort Smith Timet of the 1st
’at., contains the t>vo following interest
' articles, based upon infornmlion from \
Bakr, Esq., who came by the Over- i
d Mail recently. Mr. H. is an intel-j
nt gentleman and a racy and reliable!
iter:
'iold Mists ox Tim C*ilv River.—
• mines promise to be. not only rich,
i extensive. Considerable commotion
<• -s been created at Tucson and El Paso
relation (o the working of certain claims
>ng the Giln. The U. S. officers nt
<rt V uma, who have visited these mines,
■-ak in the most favorable terms of their
•ing rich and extensive. We have been
•own some of the gold l iken out of the
.ills along the river. It is of beautiful
dor and great density, and we should
j Jge, was of ns great value as that of
:.y gold taken from the California Pla
There are some one hundred and I
y i'y miners at work. The din lias to j
urried in coats and sacks to the river's
-k and there washed on the rocks.
«e who wotk, it is said, average some
lodirsper day. Tnese mines aro
itied on both sides of the Gil t river,
! are 18 miles from Fort Yuma, or the
■lion of the Colorado and Gila rivers.
*• last accounts, men were leaving Tuc
i and FI Paso for tin’ diggings, and >ve
in ir that several men have left lucrative
. liuess for the pursuit of gold.
1'he importance of their discovery to our
i State and the imin 'diate west gener
, cannot be too highly appreciated.
M-it nritli tlw> ii.mi n. ... ,..'l.
ies in the vicinity of Tubncand Tucson.
• Be vast number, of copper mines found
alung the Cilia and Colorado river, we
V expect an emigration from the east
1 Europe that will soon fill up our wes
ro praries and central plain, with hardy
! industrious class of citizens, who will
the soil with an arm of industry, and
v otect their homes from the savages, with
■m strong arm of civilization.
Silver Mines ne\r Tucson.—It is a
v.'ll kno.vn fact, that the Jesuits who held
he Indians in subjection during the last
irt of the 17th century, were succeeded
ny the San Franciscan Order of monks.
1'he Jesuits, before leaving, covered up
■ill the mines worked by them in the vi
cinity of Tucson. One of these mines
las lately been discovered. A gentleman,
iving seven miles from Tucson, opened
what lie thought was an old filled up well,
when, to his suprise, lie found it to be a
silver mine which had been covered up
by the Jesuits.
It was, while under the subjection of
lie Jesuits, that the Papagoe Indians built
:!;e celebrated Church of San Xavier, 9
•titles south of Tucson. The tribe ex- j
ress great respect for the memory of the i
Jesuits, and still linger around the scene
f their former master.
The above statement we got from Mr.
• ter, the correspondent of the San Frnn
ico Bulletin, who passed through here
st week from California.
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Election of Judoe of the Supreme
urt.—On Monday last, the General
A sembly proceeded to the election of a
Ige of the supreme court, vice Hon,
i os. B. Manly, resigned. Most of the
adulates, some six or seven in number,
is understood, were nominated by their
i-Mids without preconcert. On the 8th ,
. allot, Felix J. Bitson, of Johnson coun
present judge of the fourth judicia1
ecu it, was elected. Judge Batson has a
high reputation as a lawyer and judge. ,
[Little Rock True Democrat, 8th. j,
Death of Gen. B. H. Smithson.—
Last week we announced the melancholy! ,
act of the death of Hon. John II. Toibett, ,
■ epresentntive from Scott county. This
week it is our painful task to add the I |
eith of Hon. Bryan H. Smithson. Sena- ;
tor from the county of Washington. Gen.
iiihson was a native of Virginia; emi
tted to Alabama, and in 1828 or 1829 ,
n> to Arkansas ana settled in iVtisli-:,
no-on county. He was elected nni] ,
solved for 12 years as clerk and after- | ,
vards, for two terms, as sheriff of that j x
otiaty. He was apppoiuted Seminole jj
font, but, after eighteen months of ser
:e. resigned. In 18-51 he was elected i s
ie of the representatives, and in 1853;(
ected State Senator from his county. ,.
ro has the confidence not only of the 1 (
■ople of his county, but of all with whom j ,
■ associated and had connexion and en- 1 ,t
iged that deep rooted and hearty popu- !
. rity not often accorded to men. He was 1 j
warm kind-hearted man—charitable and (|
orgivitig. As husband and lather lie v
• as never surpassed—as a friend he was;
incere and faithful. Though engaged in ,,
many political contests where strife and s
bitterness is so often engendered, yet lie j
lore no malice and when approached with :
kindness even by an enemy, his better!0,
leelings gained the ascendency, every j
passionate feeling went from him and his: 0
reconciliation was full and sincere. Peace I l!
to his memory. To his family, in com- j 0
inon with all who knew him, we ofl'er our
sympathies. They mourn for a husband
and father. We have lost a friend.
[Little Rock True Democrat, Sth. ‘J
Postal Regulations.—Th“ law and j j!
the instructions <.f the Post Office De- ’ *"
partment imperatively require that the j'l
postage on all transient printed matter
shall be prepaid by postage stamps, and .
that such matter be distinctly postmarkce j
at the mailing office. A practice has also j
become common among a ceilain class ,
of postmasters, of buying a patronage to *
their respective offices, to the injury of
tli03e naturally entitled to it, by allowing
to the mailing party a portion of their own j
commissions on the legal postage. Here
after any neglect ou the part of the post- (
matter to obey Die above instructions, or
any suen unfair practice for obtaining pai
rinage, will be considered by the Depart
ment good cause for the removal of the j o
offender. — [Washington States. j th
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Arkansas Legislature.
[ v riTOPSIB OF EAOCERDI wot*]
SKNATK.
Monday, Nov. 29.— Mr. Davies, from the
select comm t?C'. to w hom had hern referred
Senate bill No. 6 * concerning tli - taxation of
patent medicines repot ted some amendments
thereto, but after some discussion the bill was
referred.
Mr. Hamilton introduced Senate bill No. 72.
to vest in the comity courts of the several
counties of this State, authority to regulate
the rates of toll which may be charged by the
owners or occupants of mills grinding grain;
which was read twice and referred to the ju
diciary committee.
Wkdnf.sdw. Dec. 1.— Mr. Clark intro
duced Senate bill No. 78, to aid in the con
struction ot the different railroads in the
State of Arkansas. Read twice, 100 copies
ordered to he printed, and referred to the
committee on internal Improvements.
IIOIJSK.
Saturday. Nov. 27.—On motion of Mr.
Stuart, House joint resolution No. 15, relative
to (Demoralizing Congress to confirm entries of
lands, and peimit U. S. lands in railroad re
serves. to he entered at graduated prices; was
read the third time and passed.
Mr. Reynolds, offered a petition from sun
dry citizens of Praiiie, Pulaski, Jefferson and
A'kansas counties, praying the legislature to
pass a law, authorizing the Governor to ap
pointn hoard of commissioners and an engin
eer to survey a loute hetween Big Bayou Me
tre and the Arkansas river, for the purpose of
constructing a canal, or cross ditches; which
was read and referred to the committee on pe
titions and memorials.
Mr. Anderson of Philips, from the commit
tee on education, reported favorably on House
bill No. (13, “to prevent the sale of common
school lands of this State in certain cases,”
and recommended the passage of the bill,
which was read and adopted.
Monday, Nov. 27.— Mr. McRae offered a
resolution that a committee of five bn appoin
ted by the House to wait upon the President
or Secretary of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad
Company, to find out the financial condition
of the Company, and report to the House the
result op their inquiry; which was read and
adopted.
Mr. Griffin, from select committee, to whom
was referred to the petition of sundry citizens
of Hempstead county, asking for an extension
of time for mechanics to establish their liens,
hive had I he same under consideration, and
have instructed me to report a bill for their
relief, and recommend its passage; which
was read and adopted, and on motion of Mr.
Garland, House bill No. 1 Iff, to amend sec
tions 1 and 2. of Gould’s Digest, in relation to
mechanic’s lirns; w is read the first time.
Mi. Weir introduced House bill No. 151.
'' to increase the salary of the Governor of
Arkansas,” which was read twice, and re
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
Thursday, November 30—The House re
solved itself into committee of the whole on
House bill No. 121. “to require the internal
improvement commissioners of certain coun
ties to loan the Internal improvement fund out
in sums not to exceed $100, to any one person,”
was taken up, read the third time and passed.
Thursday, Dec. 2— Mr. Reynolds intro
iuced House bill No. 187, “for the relief of
Win C. ibr/.en of Prairie county j” which was
end twice, and referred to the committee on
swamp and overflowed lands.
Friday, Dec. 3.— Mr. Hammond presented
-he petition of 090 citizens of Jackson coun
ty, praying for.the formation of a new coun
y
Mr. Hammond moved to refer the petition
without reading to a select committee of one
member from each judicial circuit.
Mr. Wilson moved its reference to ihe com
nittee on county and county lines, which mo
tion prevailed,
Air. Anderson of Phillips, presented the re
port of the internal improvement commission
■r of said county, which was referred to the
•ommittee on internal improvements.
Air. Ale Rae presented the petition ot a
large I umber of tho citizens of White county
living along the line of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad, protesting against any extension of
time for the completion of the road, unless
said company comply with the conditions of
heir charter, etc., which was read and refer
ed to tho committee on internal improve
ments.
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RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF
GEN. JOHN A QUITMAN.
In the Senate, Mr. Redmond, the able
State Senator from the counties of Phillips
tnd Monroe, introduced the subjoined re
solutions. They passed both houses unun
tnously :
Resolved by the General .Assembly of
he Slate of .Arkansas, That the people
>1 Arkansas have heard, with profound
egret, of the death of the hero and states
nan, John Anthony Quitman.
Though the State of Mississippi claim
'd him as her own, his name and fame
ire the common property of the nation
vhose interests he ably defended and
t hose fl ig he proudly bore on many a
veil contested field and carried in triumph
lirough the Belengnte inlo the city of
Mexico—while his memory is cherished {
>y all the people of the South whose gal
ant champion he was.
In every station he filled—as legislator,
Si)M !♦»!• n nil sin i n lu> niliiriuw{ 1
ml illustrated it by bis surpassing abili
ies and spotless character. In the field,
ii the forum, or on the bench bis bearing
/as that of a gallant gentleman, his aims
/ere always just and Ins wasan integrity 1
ir which the Universe held no bribe.
Ills clear and far-sighted mind early
aw the importance of the acquisition of 11
biba and the spread of democratic prin- '
iples over our neighboring territory. To :
ns end he labored and bad he lived this I 1
nportant step would have been sooner j1
nd honorably taken. An upholder and ,1
xponent of the doctrine of State rights,!'
e never wavered for a moment in their j*
efence and was their firm consistent ad- 1
ocate.
Ip his death, on the eve of a momen
tous struggle, the south lost a man whom 5
le could illy spare.
Resolved, That the General Assemby
the Stale of Arkansas in common with ^
ic people of the South, mourn the daaui ,
one whose brilliant mind and unblem- (
bed character won for hint the proud title
the Chevalier Bayard of the South; j
without fear and without reproach.”
Resolved, That these resolutions be en-1 (
red on the journals, as a testimony of re- j
>ect for u great man whom all loved and j
snored, and that copies of the same be |
ansmitted, by the Governor of this i j.
late, to the widow of General Quitman (
id to the Governor of Mississippi. |
Resohed further, Tliat the members of j
is General Assembly wear crape on the
ft arm for thirty days as a testimony of
iff for the loss to the nation of General
>hn A. Quitman. Adopted unanimous
by the Senate.
J. D. KIM BELL,
Secretary of the Senate. (|
Unanimously concurred in by the House ■
Representatives
S. M. SCOTT.
rierk of the House of Representatives.
Resigned.—F. M. Stpvens, Esq., late Su- !.
riiiternlent of the preparatory Department in !
i kb nd College, Mississippi, has resigned ,
at position. ' fi
THE BEAUTIES OF NEGRO
EQUALITY.
A gentleman who Las spent many years
in Jamaica, and had ample opportunity of
judging of the effects of the abolition of
slavery in that island, communicates the
following information on the subject.
Should Seward’s Black Republican pro
gramme be carried out, we should witness
the same state of things in the United
States. The Southern plantations would
of necessity be abandoned to ruin and des
olation, and the thrifty white population,
of both North and South, would have
thrown upon them millions of lazy, igno
rant and brutal negroes, claiming to be
the equals of the whites.
It appears that the colored people of
Jamaica, are not satisfied with the bare
equality of civil and political rights, but
aspire to their exclusive enjoyment. Not
content with acquiring lands by free sale
and purchase, and by squatting on tracts
which twenty years ago were valuable
plantations, though now abandoned to the
first comer, they wish to force the proprie
tors of the estates still under cultivation to
dispose of the remains of their properly
exclusively in favor of the colored “sons
of the soil,” menacing the colony, in the
event of continued recusancy, with the
fnte of Hayti.
For many years the negroes have en
joyed all those advantages over the whites
which are the unavoidable results of their
numerical superiority in a country govern
ed under a very liberal representative
Constitution. Negroes and mulattoes fill
a majority of the public offices; and if there
are still some of the more important places
held hy whiles, it is, in some cases, be
cause the incumbents date from a period
antecedent to the emancipation, and, in
others, because individuals of the fashion
able color, with anything like the indis
pensable qualifications of a mental charac
ter, are not readily to be found. When
ever they do posses some education and
ability, they obtain a preference. I do
not say that this is the deliberate policy of
the British Government and its repreaen
tatives here; it may well be the natural
consequence of the predominance of the
colored people at the hustings and in the
Legislature, the Colonial Government be
ing what is here called a parliamentary.”
The little influence and respectability
retained by the whites being derived from
their superior wealth and intelligence, the
leadingspirits among the “colored party”
have always endeavored to effect the over
throw of the former at the expense of the
agricultural and commercial interests of
the island; and, with that view, have eith
er legislated against property, or refused
to legislate when protection was required,
and, as magistrates, have used all their
authority m favor of vagrancy and crime,
all in the hope of driving away the re
maining whites. In the fulfillment of this
scheme their progress has been wonderful,
yet still too gradual to comport with their
impatience; its originators are growing
old, and some of them, like Moses, have
died before entering the promised land
A number of whites still cling to their
possessions heie as drowning wretches
catch at straws; hence the wrath of the
colored politicians, which occasionally
swells too high to he restrained by pruden
tial considerations.
Some idea may he formed of the extent
to which the colored people carry their pre
tentions, ns well as of the intensity of their
hatred for the whiles, when it is known
that the senior editor of the newspaper
which threatens the colony with the late
of Hayti is (although a mulatto) the Gov
ernor’s first minister, (or "chairman of
the Executive Committee,”) president of
the privy council, member of the legisla
tive council, custos-rotulorum of the coun
try, and mayor of the city of Kingston;
while his partner (also a colored man) is
a member of the privy and legislative
councils, justice of the peace in several
counties, alderman of Kingston, light
house commissioner, &c., &c. rl'he .-e
nior editor virtually governs the island in
his capacity of first minister, and, as presi
dent of the privy council, ho would, incase
of the death of ihe governor and lieutenant
Governor, or the absence of one and death
if the other, succeed without'dispute to the
chief executive power. As those editors
and other colored men are not satisfied i
with their present position, it is fair to pre- i
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}f the whites, or tiieir exteriniimtion, will
lo for them.
I wish it were in my power, in a few
voids, without dwelling too long on a most j
inpleasant subject, to convey to you an
idequnte idea of the poverty, misery and
legradation which the emancipation of
he slaves has brought upon a country
vhich the anti-slavery papers in the Uni
ed States basely represented as an exam
>le for emulation. I can not think of these
homeless falsehoods without feeling an
ndignation which it would ill become me
o express in adequate language. I am
winced to bring the subject before you by
ibserving in the colonial newspapers ex
racts from some anti-slavery publications
especting Jamaica, which lias recently : i
ppeared in the United States. <
Nothing can be more untrue than the t
upposilion that the idle, dissolute and ;
riminal population of Kingston presents i
n unfavorable contrast to that of the coun- t
ry. In the interior, where the whites
re thinly scattered, the poiice insufficient, c
.'here example for good is wanting, where i
ie means of subsistence for man in a sav- t
ge state is abundantly provided by the t
beral hand of nature, the negroes give n
temselves up to African idleness, obsceni- t
and vice, without the shadow or re- .
traint which exists in towns; and disease, a
ie consequence of their crimes and care- £
•ssness, is gradually thinning their nuiti
ers. I have just returned from a visit in t
ie parish of Aletcalfe, one of the most r
-ride, and once one of the most flourish- r
)g agricultural districts of the island.
1 spent some days on what was once a
iffee plantation, producing from seventy h
p one hundred hogsheads of coffee. It is s
ow overgrown with wood and almost iin- p
cnetrable jungle, the exuberant produc- n
on of a fertile soil abandoned to the cul- t
ire of nature, and the whole district is so s
ifested with the silver-tick as to have be- e
line almost uninhabitable. P
From the property referred to may be s
en five coffee plantations, or rather ruin- l<
J mansions office abandoned coffee plan
tions, which once gave an income to
eir respective owners of from two to f(
ve thomaud pounds a year. Not a cof- ii
fee tree is now cultivated in the district; 1
the proprietors have gone; some of them j
are in great poverty in England, some
have died beggars, and others have left
the country or sunk into obscurity some
where; no one knows what has become of
them. Their successors—the negroes—
with abundance of the finest possible soil
around them which they can cultivate for
their own profit, live in squalid idleness,
preferring to sleep in the sun and satisfy
the cravings of hunger with wild fruits io
the easy labor required for lha cultivation
of garden vegetables—articles now in
great demand at high prices in the towns.
Such is the dearth there of t*very article
requiring the most trilling exertion of fore
thought and industry, that I was compell
ed to bring from Kingston a horse loaded
with American corn, intended for the food
of the animal on which I rode as well as
my own consumption.
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Congressional Gamblers.
Rev. Dr. Hawks, in his Thanksgiving
sermon recently, thus referred to a subject
which has awakened a fresh interest in
the public mind since the late reports of
the auction at Pendleton’s Congressional
gambling house in Washington:
'• Within the last few weeks only we
have had appalling evidence of the down
ward tendency of that course on which we
are traveling, and it requires but a child's
foresight to see the certain end. In the
high places of the land—aye, and even
among those who sit in the highest coun
cils, almost under lire eaves of the Capital,
and in a city bearing a name, which of
itself alone, one might think, was sufficient
to kindle the warmest glow of patriotism,
what what have we not seen ? The reve
lations of a gamb ing hell have told a
fearful story. There were found the obli
gations, unpaid, of some of our highest
legislators, for debts contracted at the
gaming table ; and tire intimation of some
of the public prints is no obscure one that
tional interest, votes have been controlled
by means of the power which a professed
gambler has wielded in the possession of
these moneyed obligations of so-called
honorables.”
We have no doubt of the accuracy of
the picture litre presented. The gamb
ling hells of Pennsylvania avenue arc the
standing attractions of the national capital.
The balls of Pendleton and others have
been for years constantly attended by
Senators and Representatives, whose suc
cess or ill-success in fighting the tiger, as
it is called, would account for not a few of
the. eccentricities of federal legislation.
About two years ago, when allegations
of corruption against members of Congress
were the subject of investigation, we re
member hearing it stated that the members
whose votes on land grants and other
schemes were most suspected, were the
most assiduous attendants at the faro table.
Some of them were heads of families, and
held respectable positions in society and
in the church ; but the temptations of the
gambler were loo strong for the virtue of
men living away from the restraining in
fluences of home.
Of course men who have been plucked
to the last penny by sharpers, and who
see ruin and degradation staring them in
the face, are in just the condition to be
tampered with. Their personal indepen
dence and self-respect tire gone, and their
official integrity necessarily follows. For
getting their accountability to their constit
uents, they become the retained attorneys
and lobby ageuts of speculators and jobbers
in public corruption, and sell their votes
to the highest bidder. It was recentlly
stated by a Washington correspondent that
the fate of the Kansas bill was settled over
the tables of Pendleton, and not without a
certain degree of probability, for a great
many measures of less moment have un
doubtedly been thus determined. We
have always questioned the efficacy of
laws against gambling, without, however,
questioning v&# right to legislate against
gambling houses as nuisances to the com
munity.
When, however, these establishments
are able to corrupt the source of public
law, and to interfere with momentous pub
lic interests, the nuisance attains a magni
tude demanding the gravest attention'
There is not virtue enough in a Consrress.
some of whose most influential members
are so deeply implicated, nor in their pli
ant and benighted servitors, the mob, of
the District of Columbia, to suppress the
disgrace, and perhaps the only resource is
in holding the more distinguished gamblers
up to reprehension by name—in other
words, to make a rogue’s gallery of Con
gressional portraits.—[New York Evening
Post.
The Pacific Railroad.—The latest
ntelligence from Marshall, Texas—at
present the head-quarters of this great
enterprise—is of an encouraging charac
er. It is to the effect that a compromise
ms been agreed to, by which all conflict
ng interests are merged, in accordance
vi'h the true principles of equity, and that
i united Directory will henceforth have
barge of the road. \Ye trust that the
mnounceinent will not prove premature,
nd that the momentous undertaking will
lot again be imperilled by dishou.’s agen
les and divided counsels.
Since the above was in type the award
>f the arbitrators has come to band. Ac
ording to the terms of the compromise
fleeted the late so-called new company is
.1 receive $327,000 within seven months
nd delivered over the road without fur
ler litigation to the old company.
The President, Dr. Fowlkes, has called
general meeting of stockholders for the
oth of November, at Louisville.
Tiie stock-books are to be purged and
ie claims of all bona fide stockholders
?cognized.—[New Orleans Weekly Mir
31'.
The recent storms have made sa 1
avoc with Plymouth Beach, (Mass.) the
2a having broken over in eight or ten
laces, carrying destruction in its course,
ot only to the breakwaters which the
rovernment has from time erected, but
3 far destroying the beach itself, that an
ntire exposure of the wharves and wharf
roperty before the approaching Winter '
mil have passed, may be safelv anticipa- '
d.
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-A Dictionary of Congress, containing ‘
ographical sketches of its members from th“
'inflation of the (•overnmeut, is to be pub
>ked at Washington next month. r
The British in Jeddo.
A correspondent of tiie London Press,
writing to that iourna!, under date of Sept.
3d, says:
A yacht having been sent by the Queen
to the Emperor of Japan, we lell Nagas
aki with her for that place, our squadron
consisting, beside her, only of the Retri
bution arid a gunboat. Alter five days,
three of which were spent in a very heavy
gale of wind, we arrived at Simoda. the
port opened by the Americans, and where
their Consul-General Iive3. It is to be
given up. as it is utterly useless as a har
bor, too small and open, with no trade.
Alter remaining there two days, and in
vesting in Japanese lacquer were, which
is the best in the world, we came on here
(Jeddo.) The port of Jeddo is at Kana
gawa, about fifteen miles down the Gulf.
Great objection lias always been made to
the men-of-war coming further up; in
deed, Kanagawa iiself lias only been open
a few months. The Japanese said great
obstacles existed to ships coming to Jeddo.
We, however, put it to the lest, and with
out the least difficulty, rail right up, and
are anchored within their own men-of
war, which we did not know were here,
and within a mile of the lorts of Jeddo.
The town stretches for miles round the
bay. I suppose it is the largest in the
world, for it covers move ground than
London, with two or three millions ol
people, which, if 1 recollect right, is more
than the London population.
Jeddo without exception, is one of the
finest cities in the world ; streets broad
and gq^d ; and the castle, which includes
nearly the whole centre of the town, built
on a slight eminence. There are three
walls, or enclosures, round this quarter.
Within the inner, the Tycoon Emperor
and heir apparent live.
The houses of the princes and nobles
are palaces, and you tnay imagine the
size when some contain 1U,000 followers.
They are built in regular order, forming
wide streets, some forty yards broad, kept
in perfect order; an immense court-yard,
with trees and gardens, forms the centre
n P n *-» n I rtC? 11 I'ti m tlvrt mil'll llf IV'It 1 f*ll
is the house of the owner; the houses
containing the followers, servants, stables,
&c, form this large enclosure. They are
built of one uniform shape. The gate
ways leading into the court-yard are ex
ceedingly handsome, of massive wood
work, ornamented with lacquer and other
devices.
From the road that leads by the moat
to the second wall, is one ol the finest
views I ever recollect seeing—on one
side the Gulf of Jeddo, with the high
hills rising beyond, while on the other is
a portion of the great city of Jeddo, with
its trees and gardens, picturesque temples,
and densely crowded streets, extending as
far as the eye can reach toward the inte
rior. Then there is a view of the trees
and green fields in the distance far away
beyond a thickly-built suburb. But the
most striking view of all is that close by
—the well-kept green banks of the sec
ond defence, rising some seventy feel from
the broad moat below, with grand old ce
dars, over a hundred years of age, grow
ing from its sides. The fine timber, the
lay of the ground, the water lilies in the
moat, the grandeur, good order, and com
pleteness of everything, equal, and in
some ways far surpass anything I have
ever seen in Europe, or any part of the
world.
VVc made an expedition into the coun
try. The cottages were surrounded with
neatly clipped hedges; the private resi
dences as well tiled and kept as any place
in England. The same completeness and
finish exists in everything.
The Botanical Gardens are very good
and well cared for; good nurseries ol
young pines, cedars, &x.
An Infamous Outrage.—At a late
hour on Saturday night, two infamous
scamps from this city, proceeded to a farm
house a short distance from Newcastle,
Del., where a most estimable young lady
resided, and after arousing the inmates,
informed her tjiat her brother, who is em
ployed here, was lying at the point of
death, and that if she was desirous of
seeing him before he breathed bis last,
she must accompany them to Philadelphia,
111 a covereu wagon which uiey anpgeu
they had brought with them for that pur
pose. She at once assented lo this ar
rangement, and soon after departed in
company with them, as she supposed for
tliis city. The wagon was driven to a
thicket about two miles from her residence,
when they forcibly seized her by the arms,
dragged her out of the wagon, and viola
ted her person, when they drove off, leav
ing her to find her way back to her resi
dence in the dark. The affair naturally
created the greatest excitement in the
vicinity of Newcastle and Wilmington,
and if the scamps bad fallen into the
bands of the citizens, the “ Diamond
State" would undoubtedly have been saved
any expense in trying and punishing
them.
Search was made for the offenders in
every direction, but without success, not
withstanding the Governor of Delaware
had offered a reward of $-500, and the
citizens an additional 8100, for their ar
rest and conviction. Information was
lodged at the Mayor's office, and from a
description of the men, Special officers
Levy and Somers at once inferred that the
perpetrators of the act must Belong to the
gang of ruffians that nightly congregate
in Pine Alley. Yesterday morning, after
a long watch, they, succeeded in arresting
a fellow who gave his name as Alex. Rob
inson, alias “ Skinney,” on the charge of
being one of the party. The accused did
not deny liis participation in the affair,
and he was at once handed over to the
custody of High Constable Hawkins, of
Wilmington, (as he expressed a willing
ness to go without a requisition) and last
’veiling he was taken to that place to
twait his trial. This is one of the most
nfamous outrages that we have been
tailed upon to record for months past.—
[Philadelphia Enquirer.
Helena Swamp Lands—Another
• rant.—The Commissioner of the Gen
ual Land Office has transmitted to the
hateof Arkansas Patent No. 7 of Swamp
_,ands in Helena District, under the grant
if September 28, 1850. containing 1(38,
157 acres. — [States Rights Democrat.
--
-Don Jose Chavish. one of the richest
icn in Mexico, die ! on the 13th of October.
Con.victiok or a Seducer.—Francis
|C. Sexton, purser’s clerk on the U. S.
steam frigate Niagara at the time of lay
ing the cable, charged with rape on a
Miss Wood, of New York, has been tried
at Newark, N. J- and found guilty. The
punishment is from one to filteen years
imprisonment, or $1 to $1000 fine or both. j
The Newark Mercury, speaking of the
trial says:
The parties are all strangers, and yet
the tale unfolded by the evidence was of
the saddest character, and full of those
hitter realities which exhibit life in its
shadow and gloom. According to this]
sad episode, one of those worthless and ]
shiftless men who live on the edge of so- :
cietv, and who from one of the floating
and changing elements of our large cities,]
crossed, upon an unfortunate summer day, ]
the path of a young girl in the city of
New York, of most respectable parentage,
and wiled her from her parents and her
home. Scarcely seventeen, favored by
more than ordinary beauty, the choice
flower of a family circle, she went out one
afternoon, to return, after days absence,
a ruined outcast, with the mark of infamy
upon her.
-Mr. George Moore, the newly appoin
ted British Consul at Richmond, \ a., and
family, arrived in that city on the 19th.
-The Isrielites of New York and Phila
delphia have held meetings to express their
views in relation to the abduction of the Mor
tara boy ill Italy.
ftij—ii aw-j~i > mrs t ,".Rn,T7_~y c arxe-r* at '.v'ln
CITIZENS’ BANK
M O 1ST I ] Y
AT PAR!
OFFICE AVALANCHE, )
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.ear Notes of the Citizens’ Hank are at a I
discount of 0;) cts. on the dollar; but, in order
to extend the circulation of our paper, and to
accommodate our friends, we will, until the
first day of January, receive Citizen's Rank
money at PAR for NEW SUBSCRIBERS to j
the AVALANCHE.
For the Weekly Avalanche, $3,00
“ Tri-Weekly “ 0,00
“ Daily 10.00
A Club of 20; weekly, “ 40,00
GALLAW AY & C AMPBELL,
dec 11-lt. Editors and Proprietors.
P. J ORDAN,
A T T 0 li JV E Y A T L A W,
J,1 T T I, E 13 O C li ,
decll-ly] ARKANSAS.
ATLANTA HOTEL.
I3V 3. J. PEEBLES,
.Sifan/a, Prairie Co., .Brk.,
rTAVING leased this finely located Public
li House, and re-fitted it entire, I am pre
pared to accommodate the traveling public.
(J3?” The stage office of Messrs. Chidester,
Reeside & Go’s., U. S. Mail Line from Des
Arc to Fort Smith is kept at this house.
Also, passengers from Des Arc to Little Rock,
will be forwarded by Hanger’s Stage Line from
Batesville to Little Rock. [decll-rhn.
NLCLEUSnOliSE,
B3Y VI BBS. A. 3. ROOTS*,
X)os .sfY.ro, _A_x-s> /-< .
HAVING determined to retain this House,
the public will be accommodated on the
following terms :
Board and Lodging, per week.So 00
Board without Lodging, do. .S.'i 50
Board, per day.$1 50
Supper, Lodging, and Broakfast.$1 00
i .. , t Dinner. 50 I
■ ng e . < a , ^ Supper, or Breakfast-- 25'
*»"»* My utmost exertions will be used to
please all who may favor me with their pat
ronage. [decdtf.] A. J. BOOTH.
Strayed or Stolen.
4 SMALL sorrel horse with ^
white patch on his back, a small
white spot on his forehead, and had on when
he left a bell. For the delivery of said horse
to me. or confined in any place where
I can get him. a liberal reward will he given
JAMES OWEN.
dec1l-Im.] Des Arc, Ark.
E. S3. OTcl’HEItSON,
COUNTY SURVKYOK.
4 LL persons wishing my services in
this department of business, will please
address me at Brownsville, Prairie county,
Ark. Every call will be punctually filled.
novl3-ly
EltiEfalo City and Jacksonpoii
GRAND G L A I Z E :
WM. SHIP,.Master.
A -TO WILL commence her j
■JaB-gSSfefrii*.•■-.[■regular trips as above about
the first of January, 1809. [lm.
SEW ORLEANS AND WHITE
RIVER PACKET,
A U D U B O N :
D. B PRICE.Master.
\Y. D. Brown.Clerk, i
WHkn THIS fir;e frei-h.t and
•MCTgigawa£acasai.passeiiger steamer, having
entered the above trade, will run regularly
throughout the season. The Audubon, having
been bought expressly for the trade, her offi
cers being White river men. Hatter themselves
that they can give entire satisfaction to travel
ers and shippers.
SrW All business promptly attended to.
For freight or passage apply on board.
nov2l)-tf
Male and Female School.
MRS. M. V. HARRIS respect- - 1
fully informs the citizens of
lies Arc and adjacent country, that*
she will open a School, on Monday
the 22d inst., to continue for a
Session of Five Months. From her experi
ence she tlatters herself that she will lie en
abled to give satisfaction to all who may favor
her with their patronage.
List of Prices—Payable Monthly.
Orthography, Reading and Numeration.$ 8 00
Orthography, Reading, Writing. Prima
ry Arithmetic. Geography and Gram
mar. . 10 00
Etymology. Reading, Fancy Writing,
Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar
and History.... 12 00
(kj^” Payments to be made at the end of each
month. All pupils charged from the time of
entering, except in cases of protracted illness.
nov20 tf
JOHN A. FRITH. a. M. JACKSON.
CRS I'tl & JAC KSON,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
Staple aub -fanrti Dry (Boobs.
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Cats & Bonnets,
QUEENSWARE, HARDWARE, CUTLERY
Saddlery, Ready-made Clothing, Sec,
DBS AliC, ARK.
RODGERS St JONES,
COTTOX FACTORS AXD COM
MISSI OX MER CHAXTS:
\ L80—Wholesale Dealers in GROCE
YJlRJES and produce,
West Point, Arkansas.
jan9-1y .
Citizen Office i'or Sale.
OTHER business claiming our attention
makes it necessary that we should di>p0„
of the Citizen Office. The paper lias bnp,
published near four years, and lias a |.ayiit
patronage. The subscription list, advertising
job work, &c.. is inferior to no establishment
in the State, for the length of time the offic,
ha3 been established. Possession given on ib,
1st day of January 1859.
|jy Persons wishing to purchase are intj.
ted to call and examine the material, fcc.-.
Those at a distance will address Hie under,
signed. J. C. MORRILL,
l)es Are, Ark.
£y Also, a half interest in the building
and premises occupied as the Citizen Print,
ing Office,” will be sold on reasonable te ms.
sept.25. j. c. MORRILL.
SALE O E LOTS
IN
rpHE undersigned will commence tlie sal*
L of Lots in
B U F F A LO Cl T Y
ON THE SECOND MONDAY /j
J ANVAR Y, 1859,
TO TIIE II I (i II E S T mitUEu
TERMS—(^lie-fourth cash; balance on i
credit of twelve mon'hs. without security,ei.
cept such as the lots afford.
Buffalo City is situated on the South sided
White River, seventy miles by land and om
hundred and fifteen miles by water above BaW
ville, Arkansas, at I lie foot of the Buffalo
Shoals, eleven miles above the mouth of tin
North Fork, and one mile above the mouth off
tlio Buffalo Fork of White River, at the hud
of reliable navigation on White River, aboni
two hundred and fifty miles by land from St
Louis, one hundred and twenty from Little ;
Rock, two hundred miles frqrn Memphis.no>
hundred and fifty miles Lorn Fort Smith,
ninety-five miles from Jacksonport. and one
hundred and forty miles from lies Arc. Buf.
falo City is accessible for good size steam
boats most of the year, and small boats of
very light draught nearly or quite all tile year.
By a glance at a map of Arkansas, per
sons can see at once the destiny of Buffalo *
City, situated as it is. at th" foot of the Buffi,
lo Shoals, the head of reliable navigationo» ;
White riv ;r. surrounded by a very large oi
tent of fertile settled country, commanding it
immense wagon trade west and north-west,
from one hundred and iwenty-five to one him- S
drcd and seventy-live miles, and on the north I
one hundred miles, and on the south and south, I
west, from fifty to seventy-five miles. Tim |
vast extent of high, healthy country is unsur- 8
passed in fertility in the west. Uninterruptei! I
liy speculators, lands are very cheap, piodu- •
cing wheat, corn, oats, tobacco, etc., equal to 1
any part of the United States; and for tie I
raising of hogs, cattle, horses, mules,* sheep,
etc., is scarcely to be equalled anywhere, tie
truth of which is fully demonstrated from tie 1
fact that emigration, of the most substantiil
and desirable character, has been pondig |
into this region of country for the last fen
years by thousands, from every part of Ihe
Union, and from information received, lie
emigration will continue unprecedented in s
almost any part of tin- globe The wants of
this vast country, so rapidly sett!ingup,inakii ■
it absolutely necessary that a trading point he
established at the most.accessible point nears#
and most convenient to the masses on lie
beautiful and eve*' navigable White river.
Buffalo City being situated at the foot cf tin
Buffalo Shoals, the head of reliable naviji
tion on \Vhite river, is the place selected in
nature itself fora trading point foe f fiat im
mense country. Nature has said to naviga
tors. here is the great Buffalo Shoals: thus far
you shall go up thi* beautiful stream and m
farther; hence Buffalo City took its name.
Had th s natural site for a city been judiciotoH
laid off in lots and sold some years ago. as the
present proprietor will do immediately, it
would unquesti nably have bean a placet;
this time of no small nnle. The lindersignoi
having become sole proprietor of the ground*
arid building, by pm chase, in'part from Win.
Byers, of Batesville, and in part of tile estate
of Win. Tiinstall. of .lacksonport, Arkrioa*.
and further, in pait by entry in the United
States Government Land-Office, at a heavy
outlay of money, is determined to lay it oil 1
immediately in real city style, fronting the
river in convenient size iols and blocks, with
wide front row, as well as wide streets anil
alleys; also, squares for public building)
and promenades, etc., etc. The river being
straight, the batiks hiving a gradual descent,
not subject to cave, with deep water close up
to the shore, with the beautiful level ricli
grounds all above ovei flow, combined with till
beautiful scenery partly surrounding the town,
and pure spring water gushing out near jt
hand, and never-failing cold pure healthy well
water to be had in any part of the town, vvitii
fine woods convenient, combined with many
advantages and conveniences, with, the health
fulness of the place, makes, beyond a doiiht,
the prospect- at this point for a city, in fact,
far superior to any oilier point in ail this re
gion of country, and inferior to no point on
White river, or any other in the State of Ar
kansas.
Mail facilities must and will no doubt soon
tin k 1 „ I-- , , . i . „ . t com
Jaeksonport to Buffalo City, (it already bavin;
been extended from Jaeksonport no Black
river to Pocahontas.) When this is done it
furnishes transportation for freight and p«i
sengers out to tnn Mississippi river the yea;
round, justifying at once the establishment of
various stage lines from Buffalo City to.lt'
interior, north and north-west, west, south and
south-west. These things are no fiction, to'
the conclusions of those best acquainted with
the country ; men of sound mind and judgment
Two boats are now preparing to run from
Jaeksonport to Buffalo City, connecting vilb
the regular New Orleans, Memphis anil N»
poleon packets.
To persons desiring to settle in Buffalo
City, we say don’t pay any attention to thou
who would try to discourage you, who stand
out as “ living monuments” of a “ masterly in
activity,” to denounce everything as “ visiona
ry” that seems new to their sleepy intellects,
and who war upon the moving spirit of lh*
day, and would, if they could, strangle every
enterprise, lock the wheels of advancement U>
a “stand still,” and block up all avenues o'
trade and commerce. They but thereby nrr*'f
Iheir utter ignorance of the facts and tleieb
opments of the present age, “ and their own
unfitness for the times.”
A good site, also $300 worth of lots will J*
;iven for the immediate establishment of »
;ood Saw-Mill.and a good site and $D00worth
if lots will lie given for I he establishment of*
irst class Flouring Mill, at Buffalo City- "
tetter location for such business cannot he
found anywhere.
The sale of Lots is to be made in good raitn
ind without reserve. Lots can be had atpri"
rate sale.
For further particulars, address, for jj1*
ireseiit, “Agent Buffalo Ci-ty Lots, Jiun»
o City,” or the undersigned.
JOHN II. <HTSl.NKF.ItnV.
oct3d-ts JDes Arc, Arkai 5fls
A. I.IN I ) Id.
DEALER IS
©L©€3C§P
Jewelry, Silver-Ware,
jUNS, RIFLES, AND EQUIPMENTS
—also—
.1CCORDEOXS, CUTLERY, ^
i-ISHINO TACKLE AND GUNSMITHS’ MATER1* >
Shelby Street—below Union.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
New Work made to order—Eep“’r^
lone at short notice. novlS- 7^
Take Notico! .
A LI. persons are hereby notified, not *°
A. any timber, on our Lots, in the
Jes Arc, as wt shall surely enforce
.aw. if they do.
feb’l-tf. j FRITH It JACKSON