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I I-:;. ^’",‘l", °f "'I VOLUME a.. DES ARC, ABKANSAB, DECEMBEH 7, 1867.NUMBER 38.j-t;;ra,^-r.’S'.1i,.,^.S
PROFESSIONAL LARDS.
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2m P. H. FARR,
ATTORN ST AT LAT,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
HOBT. s. ANDERSON, WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jackaunport, Ark. Auguata, Ark.
Anderson A Thompson.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jaoksonport and Augusta, Ark.
W,ll Attend (he Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to special
cases in any section of the State.* Address
cither office. , uiayl8-ly
A. C riCICr.TT. ' L. M. RAMSACR.
PICKKTT A IUM8AUR,
ATTORNEYS IT LAW,
AUGUSTA. AR KA XSA S.
• -
Wilt, practice in the counties of Woodruff.
B Jackson, White and Craighead. Special at
tention given to collections of all clouts en
trusted to their care apr6-Iy j
J. R. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Courts of
the seventh*JudiciaI District, ami give prompt [
attention to. all business entrugtejl to bia |
care. . janl2
DR. ALL3 IT
Oilers his services to the citizens of
Dos Are and vicinity in the practice ofi
medicine. Thankful for past favors, j
and by attention to business lio expects |
to share a liberal prtronuge.
Office—One door east of Burney’s
DrtfJP Store. sep2l'
R. S. GANTT. w. J. BRONAUGH. ,
GANTT Sr. BRONAUGH,
^ ATT0H51YS AT LAW.)
Will practice in the counties of Trairie,
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu-1
laski. Prompt ulttention given to the collec
tion of claims. Taxes will be paid and titles
investigated for non-residents. aprl4-3m
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. 8. THOMAS,
GATEWQ3D & THOMAS,
l>r.S (R€, \HK4\S4S.
* 1. %. HKmiBPBTII. T. B t.A K E KENT,
HEDGEPETH & KENT,
ATOiaMYS AT LAW.
DBS ARC, ARKANSAS.
WII.I. practice m all of the courts of
Prairie county, ami the circuit courts
of the surrounding counties. mnr24-tim
k JAMES II. F ATTERSOX, I.I OIAN C. G ARSE.
Anpusta, Ark. Jacktonport, Ark.
Patterson & Gause,
attorneys at law,
Jat'hsunporl and tugnsta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, end
sttend to special eases in any part of the
State. Address either office. mylS-ly
WM. R. L’OUDY. D. MC BAR.
COODY&MoRAE, •
8E4RCV, WHITE torsrri,
All liANNAN.
(Will practice in all the courts of Arkansas.
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SOL. 1'. CLARK. 8AM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOE W. MARTIN.
I CLARK. WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice ir. all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, colled debts, and
act as Real folate ami (irneral ^genU.
Office—Markham Street, near State House
april28-tf
\V. INCKS, Formerly of the firm of Cypert A
Hicks.
H, R. FIELDING, Formerly of Athena, Ala.
HICKS & FIELDING.
ATTORN SYS AT LAW,
Searcy, While Co., Arkansas.
WILL practice in this and the adjacent
counties, in the District Courts, and Su
preme Court of the State.
K. W. WILLIAMS. T. M. GIHSON.
WILLIAMS* GIBSON,
ATT Or. IT SYS AT LA.7T,
Des Arc and Devall’s Bluff, Ark.
WILL praotioe in Prairie and adjoining
Counties. All business confided to their care
will he promptly attended to. sept21 If.
J. C. JONSON, Office—West Point, Arkansas.
J.N’O. M. MOORE. Office—Scarry, Arkansas.
JOYNOY it MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IX CHAR CERT,
—AMD—
General Laud and Collecting Agents,
HEARCV, ARKANSAS.
WiLi, give prompt attent ion to any business
in the countios of Independence, Jackson.
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
end Van Byron mar?
PROFESSIONAL CARDS._
0*0. K. MORTON. H. T. VATOHAN.
M0S.T01T A VATTOSAIJ
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
j'. DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the Courts of the counties
of Prairie. White, Jackson, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
c.llection of claims any where in the State,
lep'tf.__
' DR. nonT. D. TREZETANT
Tenders his professional services tp
tin citizens of Des Arc and vicinity.
Office—At Johnson ft l)avis’ Drug
Store. sep21
THOMAS J. MARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
.A. t Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
jW Partcular attention given to the
collection of all kinds of claims against
the (iovernment.
Ojfice—On Buena Vista street next
door to J. M. Burney’s drug store,
may 26
WM- T- JONES
4ma»»T 4i uw,
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, Jackson and
White Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of claims. aprl4-ly
DR. J. W. BURXTBT,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
Being permanently located at Des
Arc, will continue tfce practice of his
profession in all its branches- Special
attention given to the treatment, of
acute and chronic diseases. sep21
F. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kinds of work in my line. Mend
ing. Cleaning, Ac.
-Thankful for past favors, I solicit a
continuance of tho patronage heretofore be
stowed on me. feb28-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHER.
Attorney at Lnw,
corrn.v pi, at, woodruffco, rk
AVill practice where called.
scp28-tf.
DR. .1 h. ROl SKI-Al lLS office, is
now at Johnson & Davis’ Drug Store:
can be be consulted at bis room at the Harvey
House, lie will give ltis undivided attention
to ('hronlc l>i«ea*ea Of every descrip
tion.
The best of references can be furnished, by
applying to
DR. J. A. R0USELAUX,
junl-tf Des Arc, Arkansas.
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ARKANSAS GAZETTE,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
Terms—Id variably in Advance.
DAILY, $10 00 per annum; $1 00 per month
for any less period.
WEEKLY, $5 00 per annum; $2 50 (o elubs
of two or more.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAYING M
opened a House of Enter. -S' 1
talnment, Oil Buena Yiata Street, neat
tbc Steamboat Landing, for the accommoda
tion of
TRAVELERS AND BOARDERS,
By the day, week, or month, solleita the pat
ronage of those visiting Dcs Arc. The fare
will be as good as the market affords, and
terms moderate.
(live me a trial, and I will endeavor to givt
satisfaction.
BENJAMIN HAYLEV.
Des Arc, Ark., March 25, !»07—12ui
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STATE KEWS.
$S~ We clip the following from the
Little Bock Quetta of the 1st inst.:
The following special to the Memphis
Appeal, will be of interest to merchants
and planters:
Holly Springs, Miss., Nor. 26.
Landlords’ lien is not held preferable
over tbe claim of those famishing supr
plies. O. D. Qreene, A. A■ Q.
The attention of the merchants and
planters throughout the state is particu
larly invited to the advertisement of
Messrs. Hodges k Weeks, contractors of
the Penitentiary. They offer to fill all
orders for boots end shoes at priees even
more advantageous than eutern Manufac
turers. A home enterprise of this char
acter should command the patronage of
the people—especially as in so doing they
will save money.
Mcrder Cask.—The trial of Ben.
Wells for the murder of Lavina Pruett, on
the night of the 29th of June last, wu
ooncluded on Friday, in tbe circuit court
ot Puluki county, and the result wu a
verdict of" guilty u charged in the indict
ment.” Mr. Howard, counsel for the de
fendant, filed a motion in arrest of judg
ment on the ground that the verdiot did
not state the degree in which the defend
ant wu guilty. The motion wu sustain
ed by his honor, judge Bartlett, who or
dered a new trial:
Improvement in Navigation.—The
snag boat Northwwt steamed up yesterday
| morning for the purpose of going to work
! again, as the river hu risen some six or
' seven inches. We hope that under the
! superintendence of the veteran Capt- Hi
ner ^wuu, vy toe wij, is just uic ngui.
man in the right place,) she may be able
to remove some of the obstructions at Be
vers Dam some 30 miles above the city
Col. J. N. Macomb who has eharge
of this work, will no doubt reoieve the
thanks of the Little Rock and Fort Nmitli
packet company for the effort he is mak
ing to clear the river of the snags, as we
: understand they do not insure their boats
| on account of the exorbitant rates of pre
' miutn charged.
Mk-mtois and Little Rock, R. R.
—We learn that the company has aban
doned the middle division for the present,
and have concentrated their forces between
Memphis and Madison, and also, between
I)cVail's Bluff and Little Rock. It is the
intention of the company to have the road
in running order to this point by the first
day of January next. 0 hoy are laying
track rapidly from Fifteen Mile bayou
west, and JUt. John Eppes, is sujierinten
ding the work.—Madison Piouocr.
Km mu ration.—Immense numbers oj
emigrants to Texas, continue to pass through
our town. Almost daily target rains can be
seen in ourstroos, moving westward We
arc also informed that only a small portion
of those who arc emmigrating to the west
pass through our town, but that a majority
of them cross Red River both above and
below here. There has been a tremend
ous influx of population inra Texas since
the war.—Those with whom we converse
arc mostly from Tennessee and A’entucky
Brownlow will soon depopulate bis State,
if he continues to rnle hi* subjects with
the iron rod of radicalism.—[Washing Tel
egraph .
Wc understand that a contract has been
made by the Little Rock and Fort Smith
R. R. Company with Northern capitalists
tu uuuu iuc iuau, piuTiuvu me umuo wiu
take a second mortgage on it, instead of
the first. The company proposes to take
the appropriation of the State, of 810,000
a mile, and build the road, and trkc the
first mortgage out, to seeuro them for buil
diug it, and then give the State thesecond
mortgage. We understand Gov. Murphy
favors the plan. We believe the people
in this region would vote the whole inter
est to any company that will build the
road. Give us the road, and let the com
pany take lands donations and all. The
road is what we want. Let the stockhol
ders make the contract for building the
road at once, and not fritter away another
ten years, by doing nothing.—Fort Smith
Herald.
The ffoods in this county have becu
on fire for the last week, filling the air
with a dense smoke which is almost suffo
cating; besides destroying fences and other
property. The mast in the woods is also
destroyed by the fire, which will have n
very unfavorable effect on the price of corn
and pork in this county.—Black River
(Pocahontas) Standard.
The land agent of the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad has left with the
; Commissioner General of the land ofice a
map showing the iiae of tha road.
The Fort Smith Herald says that the
tiverisso low above that point that a cow
came along oue day and drank it in two.
Mr. G. F. Bethel 6’heriff of Sebastian
county, came down a day or two ainoe with
another delegation for the State Peniten
tiary, as fallows: .
Jasper Heed, for manslaughter, sen
tenced for seven years.
! J ames .Smith, larceny, five years.
! Allen Roberta, larceny, five years.—L.
■ R. Conservative.
Radical Deviltry.
From the Montgomery (Ala.) Moil.]
It may not be generally known, but
il la nevertheless a fact, that onr State
Supreme Court has decided that the
negroes Were emancipated not by the
action Parsons’ Convention, but by the
proclamation of Lincoln and the Fed
eral army. If onr present court is of
this opinion, how much stronger in
thut direction will he the opinion of a
court elected by a rump negro Legis
tarel Acting npon this view of the
case, a black negro from Dallas, in the
Piebald Convention, day before yes
terday, offered the following resolu
tion :
Resolved, That the Committee on
Ordinances bo required <o inquire into
the expediency of passing an ordinance
giving the colored people of this State
a fair equivalent for their services from
those persons who held them in slavery
from the 1st of January, 1863, to the
20th of May. 1865.
Let us calculate the tax winch will
thus be laid upon the white people for
the benefit of the negroes by .the ac
tion of the Menagerie, if it should be
ratified by the people and adopted by
Congress. In round numbers, the
male negro adults amount to 00,000,
according to the table of registration.
The female adults will also amount to
90^000. The children of both soxes will
amount to three times the number of
male adults, 270,000. Half of the chil
dren will receive half wages* The
maleadnlts will average 510 per month.
The female adults will average §6 per
month. This gives us:
90,000 males $10 per mouth. $600,000
90.000 females $6 per month. .540,000
135.000 children 54 per mouth. .540,000
n_.t i.i i aonnnn
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Wo may say in round figures that
the ncgrocR will receive, under this
ordinance, ?2,000,000 for each month
thus served from January I, 1803, to
May 1, 1805. This gives us for the
twenty eight months the delightful
prospect of paying our negro masters
the sum of S56,000,000. This neat little
arrangement of the Radicals would
enable the sheriff to sell out the lands
of every white man of the Shite and
put the negroes in possession.
Upon this ordinance every white
man in the Convention, witli few ex
ceptions, voted in the negative, and
every Imported Yank and negro, with
few exceptions, voted in the ailirma
tivc.
Appletoddy, of Ohio, representing
the negroes of Madison, hoped the res
olution would pass, lie said-, “there
is no question but that the men should
get their pay during that period. The
law as it applies to these people, docs
not give them pay for that time. 1
think it is important that this Conven
tion should put itself on the record on
that very Important particular of doing
justice to the people who were held in
bondage without their consent and
agaiust their will.'’
Itae. Coon, of Davenport, Iowa, rep
resenting the negroes of Dallas, said :
“It is woll understood that the col
ored people of the State, and through
out the Southern States, are anxious to
know whether they can collect from
their former .masters payment tor ser
vices from the time of their emancipa
tion by President Lincoln up to the,
time of the adoption of ttie Constitu
tional Amendment by the Legislature
of the State. The matter ought to be
sent to a-eommittee, on which the best
legal talent iu the Convention should
be put, who might decide upon the
question. If it can be decided upon, it
will settle the minds of the colored
people 111 regard to the matter. If the
committee thought it a judicial matter,
outside the Convention, they could so
report it. I have often been asked the
question by the colored people of my
country, but have been unable to ans
wer it; but have promised to do the
best I could to have the matter settled,
so far as the'Convcntion was able to do
so. If we do not pass it, when we go
home wo would be asked what the
Convention did in the matter, and they
would say if tho Convention can legis
late in regard to Confederate debts,
why not give us relief for the honest
debts that are due us.’’
The resolution was adopted—yeas,
53; nays 31.
Wade Hampton's View of the
Question.—Gen Hampton, in a speech
at the recent South Carolina Conserva
tive Convention, illustrated his view ot
the diguity becoming the Southern
people, by relating this anecdote :
A company of British soldiers were
being transported to India, wheu the
veaaei sprung a leak. The captain an
nounced the fact that there was no
hope, and only the women aud chil
dren could be saved. The captain of
the compauy called upon his men to
protect the bouts while they were be
ing freighted with the women and
children to bo sent away. When the
task was accomplished, he stood in
front of his company, and as the vessel
was going down, with the waves lash
ing their feet, gave the order to his
men, “present arms.” It was an in
stance of the sublimest heroism, forti
tude and discipline. Bo. if our vessel
must go down, let u* at least stand true
to our principle, and do nothing to de
serve reproach. Let us sink, if not
with arms in our hands, true to the
past, and to all the instincts of our na
ture as Carolinians.
The Negro Conventions in the South.
Their Effects on the North.
in an article tinder the above cap
tiou, the Nctv York Herald conveys
the following warning to its candi
date for President, Gen. Grant:
Tlie Radicals, determined to give all
the strength possible to the negro card,
train every element in the North to its
support; anil while in the South they
tear down nil barriers which distin
guish races, while they abolish every
aristocratic privilege, while they in
augurate there a Utopian agrarianism,
they give us a singular contradiction
of principles in the North. Here they
strivo to build up great moneyed mon
opolies, a dictatorial banking system, a
centralization of party power, an en
riching of the rich and an impoverish
ing of the poor. Thus it becomes dif
ficult to discover that there is any great
underlying principle in Radicalism,
unless it. bo tho sole idea to retain at
all hazards the power into which the
revolutionary throes of the eouutry
forced them.
The North is beginning to'divc into
this problem and is rapidly discovering
its inconsistencies. There is a deep
and settled resolution taking posses
sion of the masses that they will no
longer support aristocratic privileges
in the North or negro elevation and
barbarism in the South. Bled to the
last drop of blood and treasure, the
| people begin to ask, “AVhat is this
I money used for?” and, look where they
| will, they sec the question answered—
To prop up a quarter section of Africa,
| until we see it, centuries hence, it will
j ho able to march onward unaided.
God never made one race to support
] another. For this we made war in
I favor of the black man. As matters
now progress nnocr natural ruic, we
fast advance to a war to relieve the
white from supporting the black.
The future aspirants for the Presi
ddlicy must learn the truths which we
' here enunciate. If General Grant ac
cepts the Radical nomination upon
.such a platform ns the Radicals now
I tread he will bo defeated, despite his
I national popularity and his masterly
| reticence.
-Mr. Edward Parsons, just re
turned from Montana, tells the editor
I of the Leavenworth Commercial a
j marvelous story. Last July himself
and four companions, while exploring
: the headwaters of tho Yello WStOJie,
| came upon an Indiau mound, sur
mounted by a huge stone. Dislodging
this stone and several others, they found
themselves in an Indian catacomb, con
taining the skeletons of thirty warriors.
Lying beside the bones were n umer
1 ous ornaments, among them main’
twisted circlets of gold. Some of these
were of unusual size, weighing one
and a half to two pounds. What chief
ly attracted their attention was a mas
sive basin or kettle that occupied the
1 center of the apartment. This massive
l article proved to be pure gold, and wo
' so heavy that the party had great difli
j culty in removing it from its resting
place and bringing it into the upper
air. The adventurers were enabled,
by means of their axes, to sever the
mass into portable pieces, ladened with
which the party turned theft- steps
homeward, having themselves to walk
the greater part of the way, to give re
lief to their burdened nnimals. The
whole amount of gold was brought to
Helena, and Mr. Edward Parsons cal
culated that his "share of the treasure
amounted to about S21,000, the whole
bulk being at least S100,000 in value.
Economical Darkies.—A Hartical
newspaper boasts that the negroes ol
the South have deposited considerable
| -inns in Savings Banks during the Iasi
year. That may be so; but. says the
| St. Louis Republican, poor laboring
| white men in the North might deposil
considerable sums in Savings Banks
t>o, iftho Federal Government would
furnish them houses to live iu, food tc
foi
their children, as it docs for the ne
groes. But, instead of such favors, the
' white men of the North are compelled
to furnish all these things for them
selves and then pay taxes to support
negroes and enable them to lay by
money in the Savings Banks besides.—
It used to be said that this was a white
man's government; bnt tlirongh Radi
cal Bureaus and such like agencies, il
is practically a government in whicl
white men have to labor aud pay taxef
for the benefit of negroes ; aud yet, in
the face ot these practical facts, the
Radical demagogues talk about “equal
ity before the law."
M?*A gentleman residing a short
distance north of Huntsville, Ohio, sold
from liis farm a fo»v days ago, a single
| curled biack walnut tree to a Boston
dealer for $300. The tree was not an
exceedingly large one at that. The
purchaser, after the tree had been
fallen and its true value ascertained, re
marked that he would not take $2,IKK
for it.
We have forests of walnut in Arkan
sas convenient to navigable streams,
but their value seoms to pe unappreia
ted.
—The Judge of the Uuited States
| Court in Nortli Carolina has issued an
' order declaring the competency of the
! Conrt to determine the qualifications
of its own jurors, independent of mili
tary authority.
TENNESSEE NEWS.
Wc take tho following items from
Memphis Avalanche of the 2i)tli nit:
‘■Moselv and Miles, both confined In
the jail at Dandridgc, Tennessee, on
charges of murder, effected their escape
on Tuesday evening last. Mosely has
broken jail before. He escaped three
| times from the jail at Greenville, twice
; at Jonesboro’, and this is the second
! time at Dandridgc. Iloth of the men
i are desperate characters, and have been
1 the terror of the communities in which
! they resided.”
-We learn that on Sunday night
last about ten p. m. a Mr. Itawles who j
| resided near Okalona was shot and in
stantly killed while on his way from
his residence to the town. He was
about to visit Memphis, and was just
leaving his gate on the wav to tho de
pot when fired upon. At the last ac
counts there was no clue to the mur
derers, though suspicion rested on
some negroes who had been discharged
by Mr. Itawles a few days previous.
-Brownlow says, in the last num
her of the Whig, that whenever a mob
of seditionists assemble at the capitol
for the purpose of holding a conven
tion, it will be dispersed at the point
of the bayonet. In addition to this,
some of the leaders of the movement
would be tried by court martial ofroi
litia officers, and, if found guilty of se
dition and rebellion, a coil of rope
would be called into requisition, and
the haugman assigned to his appropri
ate work.
-We learn that cx-Governor
Ishain G. Harris arrived at Paris, Ten
nessee, on Sunday ovening last, direct,
from Liverpool. The town of Paris
literally turned out, and gave him an
' ovation of a character which, by its
overflow oi quiet ana genuine wel
come, must have touched the heart
strings of the patriot, who has been an
exile from his couutry for over two
years. •
-The Knoxville Free Press says :
In Decatur, Tennessee, on Saturday of
i last week, Ilcuben McKenzie, one of
the most prominent citizens of Meigs
j county, was killed by James Collins,
Shcrilfof the said county. The quarrel
grew out of a settlement about some
rent corn. The parties were on horse
back, and fought with pistols. Me
| Kcnzie drew his pistol first and Col
j lins caught hold of it, and it was fired
j off without doing any damage. Col
lins then drew his pistol and fired two
shots at McKenzie, both of which took
! effect near the heart, killing him almost
! instantly.
-Gen. Thomas has issued an or
der forbidding soldiers or officers in
, his department from receiving pres
! cuts for doing any act that is in the
! line of their duty.
-General Thomas Ewing, jr., in a
letter to a friend, says: “I hope to
• unite with my army friends in sup
porting General Grant for President,
! but I want first to know whether ho
approves of the reconstruction meas
ures : for if lie docs, I cannot support
him.”
--A Charleston dispatch says the
impression is almost universal that,
owing to the lack of the requisite ma
jority of registered voters, the Con
vention will be defeated in South Car
olina. Sixty-two thousand votes are
required to insure a Convention, and
only twenty-five thousand persons are
known to have voted in twenty Dis
tricts out of thirty in the State.
-The following incident occurred
not far from Atlanta, Georgia, a few
days ago: An old man, sixty years ot
age, came into market with a single
bale of cotton, the product of the labor
of himself and ills daughters, drawn on
a cart by a steer—all the stock the old
| man owned. The cotton was sold for
i less than sixty dollars, and out of this
1 lie had to pay nearly one-fourtli to
I cover the tax.
-The tender-hearted Governor of
Virginia lias granted a full pardon to
.Mrs. Ann E. .Kirbv, recently convict
ed of murder In the second degree and
sentenced to the penitentiary for seven
years, for shooting her husband in a tit
of well-founded jealousy. This wo
man was Irish by birth, and she stole
from ids lawful wife, while living in
her house as a servant, the affections of
the man she killed, ran away with him,
and after the deserted wife died of a
broken heart, married him.
-The impeachment fever seems to
be subsiding in Washington. No con
■ verts have been made among members
: by the testimony ; while some who for
merly supported the movement, it is
said, exhibit symptoms of backsliding.
Outside of the Capital, a vote of the
committee against the recent dry
weather would probably have pro
duced asviuch effect upon public opiii
I ion and the busiuoss of the country, as
has followed the publication of the
ponderous paragraphs of their report.
Gouto to Texas.—The flow of emi
gration to Texas is really astonishiug.
1 Daily our streets are lined with emi
grants, and on enquiry as to where they
; are bound for, the reply is invariably,
“Going to Texas.” Mississippi, Ala
, bania, Tennessee, Missouri and Nortli
Arksusas are all strongly represented
in the great rush for Texas ; and at the
rapid rate at which that State is being
settled, wc bespeak for it ^reat wealth
and prosperity at au early day.—Batcs
villc Republican.
Alabama Convention.
The following is the article on the
elective franchise as Anally adopted
by the Reconstruction Convention as a
part of the new Constitution :
“Section 1. Every male person born
in the United States, and every male
person who has been naturalized, or
who has legally declared his intention !
to become a citizen of the United States,
twentv-one yenrs old or upwards, who
shall have resided in this State six!
months next preceding the election, j
and three months in the country in |
which he offers to vote, except as i
hereafter provided, shall be declared
an elector: Provided, No soldier, or
marine, of the military or naval ser
vice of the United States shall hereaf
ter acquire a residence by reason of
being stationed on duty in this State.
“Section 2. It shall be the duty of
the General Assembly to provide from
time to time for the registration of all
electors; but the following classes of
persons shall not be permitted to reg
ister, vote, or hold offleo:
“1. Those who during the late re
bellion inflicted, or caused to be in
flicted, any cruel or unusual punish
ment upon any soldier, sailor, or ma
rine, employed by, or citizen of, the
United States: or who in any other
way violated the rules of civilized war
fare.
“2. Those who arc or may be dis
franchised by the proposed constitu
tional amendment known as the four
teenth article, and the act of Congress
passed March 2,1867, except such per
sons as have aided the plan of recon
struction and nccepted the political
equality of all men before the law:
Provided, That the General Assembly
shall have power to remove the disa
bilities incurred under this last clause.
“3. Those who shall have been con
victcd of treason, embezzling of pub
lic funds, malfensance in office, crime
punishable by law, or bribery.
“4. No idiot or insane person shall
be permitted to register or vote in this
State.
“SectON 3. All persons before regis
tering must take and subscribe the fol
lowing oath : ‘I do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I will support and main
tain the Constitution and laws of the
United States and the Constitution and
laws of the State of Alabama: that I
am not excluded from registering by
any of the clanscs in section 2 of the
article : that I will never countenance
nor aid in the secession of this ‘state
from the United States: that I accept
the civil and political equality of all
men, and agree not to attempt to de
prive any person or persons on account
of race, or color, or previous condition,
nf any political or civil rights, privile
ges or immunities, enjoyed by any
other class of men : and furthermore,
that I will not in any way injure, coun
tenance in other* any attempt to injure
any person or persons on account of
past or present support of the prinei
ciple of the civil and political equality
of all men, or of affiliation with any po
litical party.”
Labor and Luck.
Tig: mere fact that you are obliged
to labor is uotftinisfortune. The mere
fact that your labor produces slow re
sults is not a misfortune. The thing
that you desire as an alleviation,
would be the greutest curse to you.—
Do not be ashamed of the place where
<?od has shut np. God has put your
task upon you, and remember that your
enjoyment is to consist in the essential
manliness of your nature. It is to con
sist in the active use of those forces
which God lias endowed you with,
wherever his providence has put you.
And if he lias witheld from you any of
those enjoyments which he has granted
to others, be assured, If yon arc faith
ful, that in some way they will be made
up to you. Do not be ashamed of
hardness. Stand to it and fight out
your own battles. See to it that, what
j ever yon lose, whether it be nvmcy, or
place, or what not, do not lose manhood
or courage, or honesty, or simplicity or
| truthfulness. Stick to them. They
j are half your life.
1 think if you were to go from man
j lo man, iu all the ordinary channels of
I life, you would find very few men, if
I you took them at that hour when they
1 made their secret complaints, who did
not labor uuder the iropressiou that
though they should bo resigned to
their conditions, it was a condition of
misfortune that they were obliged to
exert themselves. The young man be
ginning in life, says to himself: “I am
obligod to rise early and sit up lute,
and labor incessantly ; but I hope for a
better time.” Ab, yes! that better
time is tlie fool’s paradise of laziness,
lie is obliged to work now; but he
looks forward to the time when he
will not bo under the necessity of work
ing. lie points to the favored sons, as
he colls them, of rich men who were
not born to work, and who are use
less, and worse than useless in society,
aud laments that instead of hnving
their good fprtuue, ho is doomed to a
life of severe toil. But 1 tell yon what
you call good fortune has been their
ruin, and the necessity of laboring has
been your salvation. It has been that
which has made you and what you are
still. It lias been a' token of God's mer
cy to yon. And instead of bemoaning
your condition, thank God for it.
■df* Gen. Honcoek has assumed
command of thr fifth Military District,
SALMAGUNDI.
J0“I am sitting on the style, Mary,”
said Jones, as he planted himself on
her new thirty dollar bonnet.
0An agricultural paper, telling how
to fatten geese, says that “not less than
two must be shot np together.”
#0Thcre is a want felt In the New
England States for able sensation
preachers. There is a saarcity of the
same sort in heaven.
J0Among th^avoritc crops raised
at the Sonth now^are gunboats. They
raise them from the riverbeds, where
the war planted them.
10 A smart boy, during a recent re
vival, was asked if he could say the
“Publican's prayer,” and he replied,
“No, sir; I'm a Democrat.”
10*Lucy Stone said : “There Is cot
ton in the cars of man, and hope in tbe
bosom of woman.” Lucy made a mis
take and got the cotton in the wrong
place.
10 Why are people of short memo
ries necessarily covetous? Because
they’re always for-getting something.
What is the difference between a man
of leisure and an aged oak ? One
“kills time,” snd the other time kills.
10 We see some one advertising
“My Wife's Sauce.” It is to be regret
ted that ha docs not keep his little do
mestic discomforts to himself.
10 A sentimental old bachelor saya
a woman's heart is the “sweetest” thing
in the world, in fact a perfect honey
comb—foil of cells. Beware I
|0A little girl walking one day
! with her mother in a churchyard, read
; ing one after another the praises of
j those who slept beneath, said:'
“t wonder where thrv bnrv tlie sin
! ner6 V9
•^There's our grandmother, says a
contemporary, a striking instance why
i woman should vote. She's paid taxes
on a dog for the last ten years, and now
! declares she won't stand It any longer
i —she’ll either vote or kill the dog.
jpg-A gentleman ordered a rocking
j chair, which was received by his wife,
! a lady precise in her speech. Upon mi
i king a trial of the eliatr the gentleman
expressed his great satisfaction with it,
! when his wife remarked: “The man
said its equilibrium was accurately ad
justed.” “Did he really say that—those
very words?-’ inquired her husband.
“Why no, not exactly,” replied the la
dy; “but he said It Joggled just right 1”
An Irishman, driven to despera
tion by the stringency of the money
market and the high price of provi
sions, procured a pistol and took to the
road. Meeting a traveller he stopped
him with “Your money or your life.”
[ Seeing I’at was “green,” he said, “I’ll
| toll you what I’ll do—I’ll give you all
; my money for that pistol.” “Agreed.”
; Pat received the money and handed
I over the pistol. “Now,” siad thetrav
' ellcr, “hand back that money, or I'll
j blow your brains out.” “Blaze away,
my hearty,” said Pat; “never a dhrop
j of powder there's in it."’
I®*An old Methodist, very great at
responses, which were not always ap
propriate, but always well meant, went
one day to hear a popular preacher.—
The preacher, usually lucid, was rather
perplexed and felt it himself. He la
bored through the first part, and- said :
“Brethren, I have reached the conclu
sion of my first point.” “Thank God.”
ejaculated the old man, who sat before
him, deeply interested, in a voice that
was heard in every part of the church.
Tit* In it nart. nf tils'* worm on wild l»aPil»»r
I
to prtgich than the first.
Ciiehish the Living.—I saw a pale
I mourner stand bending over the tomb,
! and tears fell fast and often. As lie
! raised his humid eyes to Heaven he
1 said:
“ My brother! O, my brother I”
A sage passed that way and said:
“ For whom dost thou mourn ?”
“ One,” replied he, “ whom I did not
sufficiently love while living, but whose
estimable worth I now feel.’’
“ What wouldst thou do if he were
| restored to the ?”
The mourner replied, “ that he would
never ollend him by an unkind word,
but would take every occasion to show
bis friendship,if lie could but come back
to his fond embrace.-’
“ Then waste not.thy time in useless
grief," said the sago; but if thon hath
: friends, go and dherish the living, re
, member that they will be dead also."
Wendell Phillips is put in atiodh
' er letter, urging the Radicals to pro
! need to the impeaehment of President
' Johnson, and to make void all those
! acts of his which Congress may declare
to have been illegal. Wendell Phillips
demands that active prominent Rebels
i shall not be allowed to escape punish
ment—that the confiscated lauds re
| turned to them under the Presidents
pardon, shall be taken from them agaiu
and parcelled out among the negroes,
and that the new war cry of the Radi
cals shall be “Impeachment, Revoca
tion of Pardons and Pre-einptiou of
Surrendered Laud’s.”
I^u An Iowa editor wrote a leading
article on the “ lair sex,” in the course of
which he said i “ Girls of seventeen or
eighteen are fond of Beam.” When the
the paper was issued he was rather shock
ed to discover that an unfortunate error
had made him say: “ Girls of seventeen or
eighteen are fond of Beans.”
•^Stephen Gill, sheritfof Washing
ton county X. C. was recently shot
down by negro.