DES AKC CITIZEN.
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
des arc7arkansasT~
FRIDAY,^MARCH 25.1859
PUBLIC MEETINGTr
The citizens of White River Township arc
requested to meet at Des Arc, on Wednesday
next, at 10 o’clock, a. m.. and appoint dele
Rates to meet the delegations from Pigeon
Roost and Caroline townships, at Hickory
Plain, on Saturday the 2d of April—for the
purpose of uniting upon some feasible plan to
build a Railroad from Des Arc to Atlanta. A
full attendance is requested.
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CSaS“ Senators Johnson nml Sebas
tian have our thanks for public docu
ments. We highly appreciate their fa
vors, and shall endeavor to make good
use of the valuable information which
they have thus placed in our hands.
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Fire at Batesville.—On the night
of the 12th inst., some vile incendiary set
fire to and burned the residence of Thom
as Cox, Esq., at Batesville. The Senti
nel says the house was one of the finest
and best in the town. Loss $6.000—in
surance $3,000.
Oa the night of the 17th an attempt was
made to burn the residence of Rev. John
Cowle. The Sentinel says:
“In this instance, a pile of dry leaves
ivns i.iKfu up near me house ami set on
fire ; which was discovered before serious
damage was done. The weather-board
ing for four or five feet from the ground
was burned.”
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Small-Pox at Little Rock.—We
learn that several cases of this loathsome
disease have occurred at Little Rock. On
Monday last the inmates of the Swamp
Land Office were compelled to remove
their business, to another place, as not less
than two cases of the disease had occurred
in an adjoining room. The disease was
brought to Little Rock ou a steamboat,
from below.
Deaths is the Cabinet.—Deaths has
rarely invaded the precincts of the Presi
dential Cabinet. The only instances prior
to the death of Governor Brown were in
the death of Abel P. Upshur and
Jhomas W. Gilmer, by the bursting ol
a cannon on board the Princeton, and that
of H uou S. Legahe, at Boston, when
accompanying Mr. Tyler upon a Presi
dential tour.
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Death or Gen. Haskell.—Gen.
Win. T. Haskell died at Hopkinsville,
Ky., on Monday the 14th inst. Gen. II.
was a brilliant orator and gallant soldier.
Is ii a m G. Harris Re-Nominated
for Governor of Tenn essee.—The
Democracy of Tennessee, in Convention
assembled at Nashville, cn the 17th inst.,
lp-nominated Gov. Harris by acclamation.
The .ILinph is Avdlanche of the lSth
inst., says:
“ The strongest man in our party has
been nominated, and if the platform ap
proaches soundness, a glorious victory
will again perch upon the Democratic
standard. We are delighted with the
news already received from the Conven
tion, and hope further information will
contribute to the general joy which will
pervade the party.”
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IN EW l/ONFIRM ATIOX OPOWAMP L»A N DS
in the Little II tk District. — Up
wards of a quarter of a million of acres ol
swamp lands have been recently confirmed
to the State of Arkansas. These lands art
situated in the Little Rock district, in the
counties of Arkansas, Rrudley, Conway
Desha, Dallas, Drew, Jefferson,Hot Spring
Perry, Prairie, Pulaski, Monroe, Saliut
and White. Tiiev will be offered for salt
on the 23d day of May next.— [Littlt
Rock True Democrat.
l&jgr The contractors for carrying the
California Overland M til, have been com
pelled to abandon the route from White
river, thence to Memphis, via. Madison,
owing to the high water having washed
away some of the trustle work on tilt
railroad. Most of the road is said to be
under water, and the cars cannot get from
Memphis to Madison. The Overland
Mail is now carried to Helena, thence to
Memphis. The Helena Southron says
“This very act of these contractors
goes to conclusively establish the fact that
the Rail Road to Little Rock should have
been built from Helena, where it would
have bepn free from overflow, and where
nature intended to make li e connection
sure and safe. If Helena and the people
ou the line will yet build a road from this
city to intercept the Memphis and Little
Rock road, this will become the trunk,
and the road between the Mississippi and
St. Francis rivers will be a tributary.”
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Extra Session of the Senate.
Washington, March 10.—The Sen
ate completed the business for which it
was convened in special session. Having
met pursuant to adjournment, at twe
o’clock in the afternoon, the doots were
closed only for a short time, and when
they were re-opened Mr, Ilice, from the
Committee appointed to wait on the Presi
dent and inform him that, unless he bad
further communications to make the Sen
ate, having closed its business, was ready
to adjourn, reported that they had per
formed the duty assigned them, and that
the President had no further eomrminiea.
lion to make. The Senate then adjourned
tine die.
% ffiTMIenry S. Geyor, late U. S. Sen
ator from Missouri, died at St. Louis, on
the 5th inst.
THE DEMOCRACY NORTH AND
SOUTH.
After the meeting of the Cincinnati
Convention in 1856, nnd the Adoption of
its incomparable platform of principles,
“it was the boast of Democrats every
where,” says the New Orleans Courier,
“that the tenets professed by them did not
vary with clime or latitude—that Demo-I
crats in Maine and Texas stoo l upon \he
same platform nnd pursued the same ends
—that the basis of the whole creed was
the Constitution, lobe interpreted accord
ing to justice and equality"—that all cher
ished the inherent sovereign rights of
each State and all the Slates—in short,
that our party knew no North and no
South—tlint it knew no legal right too in
significant to foster and protect—that it
knew no wrong too powerful to he reme
died. Compact, determined, and in per
fect concord. Democracy gave battle to all
North or South, who labored for section
alism or intolerance under the molly ban
ner of Ivr.ow-Nothingisin and Fieesoil.
Nearly thirteen hundred thousand
Northern voters planted themselves on
the Democratic platform, supporting the
independence of State governments,
guarding the common rights of the peo
ple of every Slate in the common terri
tories, acquiescing in and opposing the
repeal of the Missouri restriction—oppo
sing Abolitionism in every form, and
Federalism in all its guises. Nothing
then gave us more pleasure than to re
publish the speeches and writings of
Northern Democrats, setting forth the
wholesome constitutional and Catholic
uocinne 01 jL/emuuiuuy wnu auuu jiuwu
and eloquence as would have commanded
the applause of a Southern audience.
Our opponents alleged that Northern
Democrats were not trustworthy, and it
was a grateful task, a pleasing duty to
prove the allegation false.
When the law organizing the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska come to be in
terpreted by Congress in the bill for the
admission of the former as a State, some
Northern Democratic members of Con
gress, in both Houses, put a different con
struction on the principles of that bill, and
drew deductions from it different from
those of all Southern and many Northern
Democrats, The whole subject was
thoroughly, vehemently discussed. The
contest is too recent, however, to require
recapitulation and its result are matters
of familiar history.
There was no difference ns to the sound
ness of the principle originally involved in
the Kansas bill—that of Legislative non
intervention in the affairs of a territory
about becoming a Stale. All Democrats
then believed that Congress bad no right
to inhibit slavery in a territory on the one
hand, nor to make its inhibition of slave
ry a condition precedent to its admission
into the Union. Non-intervention by
Congress was the motto of the party to
which the creed of the Black-Republicans
was directly antagonistic. They claimed
that it was the right and duty of Congress
to abolish slavery in the territories and to
exclude all new Stntes, unless their con
stitutions prohibited slavery. All that
Democrats then asked was that slavery
should go freely to the territories, as it
does by right under the Constitution, and
that when the territories should be erected
into States—then, and not fill then—the
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JJCUl»IC OUUUIU pVIlVV/UlJl iUt/ IU
with it as they see fit.
Since the inauguration of Mr. Buchan
an’s administration, however, there seems
to us to have been a violent aberration and
departure from this just and constitutional
principle, upon 'I*' part of many of our
Northern brethren. And now it cannot
be denied that a largo and increasing ma
jority of them claim for the people of a
territory, while yet in a chrysalis, inchoate
state, the exclusive right to legislate upon
the subject of slavery. It is needless ta
say that such a construction of the princi
ples of tire Kansas-Nebraska bill would
divest the doctrine of non-intervention o(
whatever constitutional justice and equali
ty it is supposed to have. It would ren
der the right of fifteen States of the con
federacy to a participation in the common
benefits of the common domain, depen
dant upon the whim or caprice of the first
few hundred squatters. The legal effect
of such a doctrine would be more efficient
1 in depriving the South of her rights, than
i Congressional prohibition itself.
Thus it cannot be disguised that the
I great mass of the Northern and Soulht^fl
I Democrats stand antagonised to each oth
er upon a question vitally affecting the
I rights of the latter. Thus circumstanced
we believe that the Southern Democracy
have but one Course to pursue- They
should sacrifice nothing to party expedi
ency—nothing to policy—but planting
I themselves upon their rights should do
j tnand of the Charleston Convention an
unqualified repudiation of the odious here
by of squatter sovereignty, and make this
: a condition of their support of its notui
i nee. There must be no dodging—no eva
| sion. The Convention must either boldly
i assert the great doctrine of constitutional
j justice to the South, or disband. The
| Moloch of party, the glare of Federal
patronage, must no longer he permitted to
seduce our politicians from the path of
j political rectitude. In short the South
must make no more sacrifices of principle
for party policy. The ascendance of the
Democratic, and every other party, must
be held in obeyance to the rights of the
South.
I
Railroad Meeting at Hickory
Plain.—We give below the proceedings
of the meeting at Hickory Plain on Satur
last, and trust that White River and Caro
line townships will hold meetings at as
early a day as possible*, and each send
their delegations to Hickory Piain on
Saturday the 2d of April.
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RAILROAD FROM DES ARC TO AT
LANTA-THENCE TO FORT SMITH.
MEETING IT HICKORY PL.A1M.
Agreeable to previous notice, the citizens of
Pigeon Roost township met at Hickory Plain
on Saturday, 19th March, 1859, for the pur
pose of devising ways and means to build a
Railroad from Des Arc to Atlanta—thence to
Dardanelle and Fort Smith.
On motion, Dr. W. O. Gibson was called
to the chair and A. J. Thomas appointed
Secretary; after which J. C. Morrill ex
plained the object of the meeting, and enforced
the advantages of th* proposed Railroad. D.
W. Davis, Esq., next addressed the meeting,
and in a neat and well-timed speech, urged
those interested to press forward and consu
mate the great object they had in view.
On motion of Dr. W. L. .Moore, the chair
man w»‘ instructed to appoint a committee of
six, from Pigeon Roost township, to meet
similar committees from Caroline and White
River townships, at Hickory Plain, on Satur
day the 2d day of April next—for the pur
pose of uniting upon some feasible plan to
build the proposed Railroad from Des Arc to
Atlanta — thence to Dardanelle and Fori
Smith.
The chair appointed the followinggentlemen
on said committee : Dr. W. L. Moore, M. R.
Itriles, A. M. Reinhardt, A. Pipkin, D
Harshaw and J. C. Davie.
Oil motion, it was ordered that the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the
“ Des Arc Citizen,” and all other papers
friendly to the project,
On motion, the meeting adjourned
W. G. Gibson, Ch’n.
A. J. iiiomas. sec'y.
Meeting in Caroline Township.—
In accordance with the above proposition
the citizens of Caroline township hold a
meeting at Atlanta to-morrow, to appoin’
delegates to meet the delegations from
White River and Pigeon Roost townships
at Hickory Plain on, Saturday the 2d oi
April next.
From the Fort Smith Times—Extra, 10th inst,
Another Fight with the Comanches—
Mine Indians Killed.
After our paper had been worked off
we received the following news, through
the politeness of Lt. Stockton, of the 1st.
Cavalry, stationed near this place, and, as
it is news of importance, we hasten tc
lay it before our readers immediately.
By news just from Fort Arbuckle, \vt
learn that Lt. Stanley of the 1st, Caval
ry, with company Dof the same regiment
succeeded in overtaking a party of Coman
che Indians and killed nine, and was onh
prevented from taking the whole party bj
night coining on. No soldiers are report
ed killed or wounded. In Lt. Powell':
engagement with these Indians a few day:
previous, recent reports state that he killer
eight instead of five, as at first reported
It is believed that a portion of the Coman
ches are now between Forts Washita anr
Arbuckle, and a company of the 1st
Cavalry under Cnpt. Carr, has keen _oi
dered out from the former post to co-oper
ate with Maj. Emory’s command lion
Fort Arbuckle.
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Obsequies of the Late Postmas
teh-General.—The Washington paper;
have long accounts of the obsequies of iht
late Postmaster General, on the 10th inst
Lithe morning his remains, accornpaniec
by the members of the Cabinet, wert
borne from bis late residence to the Easi
Room of the Executive Mansion, where
they were laid out in state.
At noon, as the President of the United
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kniuvo) ikLV-um j'uu iv. u t / y vav.iv.iui n o vuo.'
Floyd, Toucey, Cobb, Black, and the new
Posimaster General, Holt, entered tin
room, in which were already assembler
(he clerks of the Post-office Department
officers of the Army and Navy, the diplo
matic corps, the heads of buteaus and oth
er Government officials, the clergy. Sen
ators, ex-Senutors, Representatives,Judge;
and many others. The solemn and im
pressive service of the Episcopal Churcl:
was read, and a fervent prayer was made
by the Rev. Dr. Hall, and the exercise;
closed at the Executive mansion.
Tlx* cortege was then formed in the or
der of procession, and moved down Fifth
teenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, ant
thence to the Congressional Cemetery,
The church bells were tolled as the pro
cession moved through the city, while the
streets were lined with crowds of people
When the procession arrived at the Con
gressional cemetery, the burial service;
were completed, and the remains were
placed in a vault until the time appointed
for their removal to Tennessee.
All the public buildings were draped it:
mourning, in respect to tiie memory of tlx
late Postmaster General; and at the Navy
Yard and the Arsenal the flags were dis
•Eyed at half-mast, as also on various flag
Mj^^lhroughout the city.
Mn. Sickles and his Dauchter.—
The Washington States, in noticing the
departure of Mr. Sickles for New York
says:
On Wednesday evening Miss Laura
was taken to the jail to see her father, and
the allies sprattle of the child in that gloomy
place was very touching indeed, but no
more so than when, as she was about to
depart with a little bouquet which her
father had given her, some dark, indefina
ble dread seemed to overcome her, and she
burst into uncontrolable tears, for which
she could give no reason. Those who
were present say that the emotions of Mr.
Sickles, when his child look her leave,
were more poignant than he has -ever be
fore exhibited. The second act is closed ;
let us draw the curtain over the drama.
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Ev§“A \ ienna journal says that the
entire military force of Austria numbers
at present four hundred thousand men, but
an efficient, well disciplined force of
double that number could be placed in the
field at two weeks’ notice.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 16.—The Union,
of this morning, in an authorilive article
on our Mexican and Central American re
lations, says there is not the least reason
to believe from anything yet transpired,
that cither the French or English Govern
ment meditates any interference in the po
litical concerns of Mexico, and it is known
thut Captain Turner, the American com
manding officer, has entered into an ar
rangment with the French and British com
manders that the naval officers of the na
tions shall act together, should such action
be necessary to afford protection to their
respective citizens. It appears further
that our Government does not take the
ground that the Monroe doctrine precludes
tiny European nation from going into a
war with Mexico, whatever cause might
exist. It maintains and means to take care
that the Spanish American States shall not
again be reduced to European dominion,
but does not maintain that those States may
commit just such wrongs as they please
against European powers, without being
responsible to those powers for their tortu
rous nets. Spain has declared that it has not
the remotest idea of attempting to resubju
gale Mexico. The United States has no
ohjection to one canal or twenty, in Central
America. There is one question under
the Monroe doctrine that they mean to
make good, which is, that the contracts al
ready made and existing with the citizens
shall not be violated, and that such canals,
•vhen made, sha.l be equally free and open
to all commercial nations, and shall not he
controlled by any one power, especially
any European power. Our Government
is officially assured that England is not
pursuing a torturous or dishonest course in
Nicaragua. The British Government pro
fe-ses fairness, and ours is not at liberty to
doubt their honor. Of the treaties they
meditate with the government of Nicaragua
one is for the regulation of the transit route
and another for the abandonment of the
Mosquito protectorate. The general prin
ciples have been submitted to the Govern
ment of the United States and approved by
it.
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The Treachery of Douglas Fully
Consummated.—During a debate in the
Senate a fetv days before the adjournment
of Congress, Douglas formally announced
bis separation from the Democratic party.
It is true, this declaration was qualified
' and predicated upon contingencies, but
since it is impossible for the Democratic
parly to accept the doctrine which Judge
Douglas has espoused, his absolute se
cession from the party may be regarded as
a fixed fact.
Tiie Democratic party has most shame
fully degenerated, but we cannot believe
that it can ever be forced to endorse the
monstrous absurdity of Squatter Sover
eignty, a doctrine which Mr. Calhoun
denounced as worse than the Wilmot Pro
viso. As we have before shown, “ a
territory of this Government is the prop
erty of the people of this Government,
and if the South has no right to carry her
negroes upon her own land; no interest
in planting iier institutions on the com
mon domain, and cannot demand that the
General Government, the guardian of this
1 public property, protect and defend her
there in the enjoyment of her rights and
privileges, then were it better for her to
decide at once that the General Govern
ment is a humbug and at an end. Who
would tolerate the invidious distinction,
or justify, or excuse the arrogance and
tyranny of territorial laws, framed by a
portion of the inhabitants, who might con
ceive a prejudice and hatred to the lame
the blind, the halt, to debar such in their
midst from the enjoyment of civil or re
ligious privileges ? And yet this is noth
ing more nor less than the monstrous
heresy Mr. Douglas propagates. J^et
him imbue the Northern mind with such
sentiments, if lie chooses, but we beg him
to desist his operations South of Mason’s
and Dixon’s Line.”—[Memphis Ava
lanche.
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Col. T. C. Hindman; of Arkansas,
—The States Rights Democrat, published
at Helena, .vik., contains me speecn neut
ered by the gentleman whose name cap
tions this article, in Little Rock on Feder
al and Arkansas politics. As an exposi
tion of the State Rights creed it is held
manly, eloquent and statesmanlike. Its
positions are all sound, and pre-eminently
worthy of the reputation of Col. Hindman.
For logic, force and nervous eloquence it
stands alone and unapproachable. It
should be in the hands of every Democrat
in Arkansas, and we are certain that its
perusal could not but conduce immensely
to the good of the cause which all true
State-Rights men hold in such high regard.
—Col. Hindman is an honor to the State
in which lie has cast his lot—and is a dis
tinguished ornament of the parly of which
he is such a gallant defender. The "Dis
organize rs" whom he so umercifully lashes
may spy to overthrow him— the timid
time servers may deride and slander him,
but securely seated in the hearts of the
honest masses, the hard-fisted yeomanry ol
the country who admire boldness and hate
duplicity, he can laugh to scorn the futile
endeavors of his enemies to effect his polit
ical ruin. We are glad to see that Col.
Hindman has resumed the editorship of
the States-Rights Democrat at Helena.—
[Vicksburg Sun.
The Washington Tkagedy.—A co
temporary truthfully remarks that the
New York papers are luxuriating in the
blissful surfeit of tragic scandal supplied
ilipm by Sicklet-Key affair, and of course
have got to fighting like dogs over the
feast. Some want Sickles hung in reali
ty and some Key in effigy, as no more
vengeance can be wreaked upon his body
feeling. Some pity Mrs. Sickles, extenu
ate Iter offense, and will probably soon
justify her conduct as their tone has a
strong tendency to that end.
We have been shown a specimen
of the Hebert silk cotton by some Austin
county friends. It is certainly the finest
of the kind we ever saw and wherever
known is rapidly taking the place of all
other kinds. The seed are not for sale,
but those who have them give enough to
start, to any person wanting them. This
is the original condition on which they re
ceived the seeds from Mr. Hebert of
Colorado county, who imported the variety
and after whom it takes its name. —[Hous
| ton (Texas) Telegraph.
Another Star.—Another republic has
been added to the confederacy ; another
star to the galaxy which studs the blue
field of freedom's banner.
Oregon, the youngest sister of the em
pire, sits proudly in the national council—
the equal of her oldest and proudest sis
ters.
A noble and beautiful land is Oregon.
The waters of the Pacific lave her feet,
and her head towers high amid the lof
tiest peaks of the great iange of moun
tains which rise in the centre of our conti
nent.
Her hills are covered with the noblest
forests, and her valleys are clothed with
perpetual verdure.
Her rivers are mighty. Her lakes,
crystal. Her soil, strewn with gold.
Her harvests, abundant. Her resources,
none can calculate. Her prospective
wealth, destined to overshadow that of
older communities. Her climate, salu
brious. Her sky, serene.
Glorious is Oregon, the youngest of
the sisterhood of States. That her fu
ture career will he brilliant no one who
knows aught of her history and resources
can doubt.
With everything that can contribute to
or adorn civilization is she abundantly
blessed. Her water-power is sufficient to
drive the machinery in the factories of the
world. Her mineral resources are inex
haustible— including the precious as well
as the useful metals. Her climate, as we
have said, issalubrious ; possessed of that
happy mean in which the rigors of winter
and the extreme heat of summer are un
known. Rarely does the stonn rage
along her extended coasts, and in her in
terior all is calm and peaceful as the haunt
of zephyrs—
Wooing winds from the balmy south.”
She has commenced the race for em
pire nobly. Her constitution is most liber
al, and her laws enlightened. When, as
undoubtedly will be the case in a decade
or two, her fertile valleys shall be filled
with an industrious, frugal population,
cultivating the arts of peace; when her
eastern borders are no longer subject to
the ravages of savage marauders; when
l, n i-rv vneert of o A m rva nrne
and her harbors are whitened with the
sails of many nations, Oregon will take a
proud position as the thirty-third State of
the Union—the mistress of the North
Pacific.
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The Great Eastern.—A Liverpool
exchange informs us that—
On Monday, February 14, the first step
towards preparing this vessel for sea was
made by hoisting in the main shaft of the
paddle engines—one of the largest and
finest specimens of forged iron work which
have ever been completed for steam ma
chinery in this country. The weight of
the whole mass is a few hundred weights
under forty tons. In order to move such
a ponderous weight, and raise it to the re
quired height, it was necessary to secure
the services of one of the new floating
derricks which have recently been employ
ed with such success in raising and trans
porting masses of the heaviet description
In one hour from the time that the great
machine went alongside Mr. Scott Rus
sell’s yard the whole operation was com
pleted, and the monstrous, awkward-look
ing piece of iron safe on the deck of the
great ship. Measures had been taken to
ascertain if depositing such a mass of dead
weight on the extreme edge of the deck
made the least difference in the vessel’s
trim, but not the slightest alteration was
perceptible. The Great Eastern was on
Monday registered at the custom house in
the name of the Great Ship Company as
owners, free from incumbrance.
American Monument in Cuba.—
The New Orleans Delta mentions in a
long article devoted to the incidents of the
terrible massacre of Crittenden and his
men, that two American gentlemen, a
M issourian and a Virginian, on a visit to
the Island of Cuba, erected a little monu
ment to their memory in the following
manner:
Our visitors, after surveying and in
specting all the peculiarities and objects
of interest of the locality, called into their
counsel the driver ol their volante, and
from him ascertained the exact spot upon
which Crittenden had fallen. The Mis
sourian removing his cloalc disclosed a
neat marble monument, which he had exe
cuted in Havana and inscribed, “ Sacred
to the memory of Crittenden and his gal
lant compatriots.” The two gentlemen
raised an umbrella, and under its cover
proceeded to place the monument on the
spot indicated. This was done in full
view of the sentinel on the walls of Fort
Atares.
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War Closed ix Furore.—The most
reliable information regarding the ques
tion of peace or war in Europe is that
found in the report of the debate in the
House of Commons on the night of the
’doth ult. Lord Palmerston asked the
Ministers if they could give any assu
rance that the peace would not he broken;
and Mr. D'lsraeli replied that he could
state that the Papal Territories would he
evacuated by both the French and Aus
trian forces. This is good peace news,
so far as it goes. But the controversy re
garding the Papal Territories is only one
of many points in dispute between France
and Austria.
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De Bow’s Review lias an article
entitled," African Slavery adapted to the
North and Northwest.” The following is
an abstract from it:
*• If the Union be desirable, (and with
a rigid regard of mutual rights by the
i North and South, no one will deny its
inestimable value,) it is earnestly con
sidered that the most effectual means of
giving it perpetuity will be realized in the
opening of the slave trade, and the intro
duction of our peculiar institution into the
Western Sstates and Territories. By this
we will construct a homogeneous system to
laborr and through this bond of sympathy
will be re-established that community of
sentiment, and the old entente cordiale,
without which the Constitution is a rope of
sand, and the Union a shallow mockery.”
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ffis?“The Jews of the United States
have in contemplation to establish a Gen
eral Assembly, or Board of Representa
tives, to take control of Jewish interests in
this country.
86g“Tiie Emperor Napoleon favors a
telegraphic alliance between France and
America. He has had an interview with
several English capitalists, and it is pro
posed to lay another ocenn cable to connect
the French and American nations—the
termination to be the city of Boston. I he
company is being formed, and the project
will be executed as rapidly as possible.
g@g“They have a German Morphy in
the University city of Bonn, it) Prussia.
His name is Berthold Stuhle, and Ins age
is twenty-one years. He recently played
eight games of chess at once, blindlolded,
without losing a single one.
Diamonds and Pearls!
OUR assortment of Jewelry never was bet
ter in the above line;
Finger Rings from $G to $300,
Breast Pins from $10 to $200,
Enr Rings to match,
Buttons, Sleeve Links, &c., &c.
All of the best styles, anil at as low prices
as can be afforded.
J. E. MERRIMAN A CO.,
mar 25-tf] 253 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
THOMAS, BROTHER & SON.,
HICKORY PLAIN, FRAIHIE COUNTY,
ARKANSAS,
ARE IN RECEIPT OF THEIR
New, Splendid and Fashionable Stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER
DRY GOO BBS a
\ ND respectfully announce to the citizens
jtl of Hickory Plain and vicinity, that they
are determined to offer rare inducements to
those wishing to buy goods cheap. Our stock
is well selected, and bought at the very low
est figures. Consisting of Cloths, Cassimers,
Vestings, Satinetts, Cassinetts, Tweeds, Cot
tonades, Linens, Linen Ducks, Hats, Caps,
Boots and Shoes, Queensware, Hardware,
Cutlery, Ac.
We especially invite the attention of Ladies
to our large stock of Dress-goods. Such as
Silks, black and fancy; Berages, Lawns, Ging
hams, Organdies, Painted Jaconets and Mus
lins; Chaliies, de Berages, Silk Tissues, Ho
siery, Gloves, Bonnets, Shawls, Mantles. Ac.
Also, a heavy stock of Ready-Made Clothing.
We are determined to sell goods at the very
lowest rates, as our motto is quick sales and
small profits. ThoJe wishing to purchase,
good bargains. Come and see us, as we take
pleasure in showing goods, whether we sell or
not. [mar 25-tf.
fpO THOSE persons who are very par
I ticular with regard to time, we can now
olfer Watches perfectly adjusted and regulated,
which will give entire
SATISFACTION
in time-keeping. We know this by trials of
the watches; we are aiming to supply TINIE
KEEPERS, and are giving attention espe
cially to the regulation of all our watches, so
that our customers shall not he troubled with
faulty, or irregular pieces of machinery, that
have only the appearance of being watches,
while in fact they are not so. We shall al
ways hold ourselves in readiness to make good
every thing we say in regard to all that we
sell. ,T. li. ME R RIM AN &. CO.,
mar 25-tf] 253 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
Notice to Builders !!
SEALED proposals will be received by
the undersigned Trustees, for the erection
and enclosing of a flame building 70 feet long
and 36 feet wide, to he erected at Hickory
Plain, Prairie county, Arkansas. Said build
ing is to be erected’ for a Male and Female
Academy. Proposals will be received until
the 1st Monday in May next, the bidders to
specify the finding of material by themselves,
or the finding of material by the Trustees.
Address, JNO. C. DAVIE. Pres., or,
A J. THOMAS, Sec’ry.,
Hickory Plain, Arkansas,
gjp” A plan of the building can be seen at
the "Citizen Office.” [mar25-td. •
$145 Lost
TOST by the undersigned on Wednes
J day evening, 18th inst., somewhere be
tween T. F. Greer’s Livery Stable, in Des
Arc, and the residence of Wm. C. Carr, live
miles west of Des Arc, cn the main road to
Hickory Plain, the above sum of money, iri
coin, to wit: 6 $20 gold pieces. 2 S10 gold
pieces, 1 $5 gold piece. The money was in a
pocket-book, and in riding it jolted through
the leather and was thereby lost—doubtless
a single piece at a time.
I will pay a reasonable reward for the re
covery of the whole, or a part of said money,
mar'25, ’59-lm. R. M. KING.
Silver Plated Ware !
IAINE Setts with Urns; Ice Pitchers, Gob
lets and Cups, Waiters of all Sizes;
Table Ware of all Kinds,
Beautiful Castors,
Uuht. XJ (islvcio,
Forks, Spoons, &c.
J. E. MERRIMAN & CO.,
mar 25-tfJ 253 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
BENJAMIN WASHER.. P. VAUGHAN.
WASHER & VllJdHAX.
Dry Goods ftuerchants,
COR BUENA VISTA & WOODRUFF STS,
DES ARC, PRAIRIE CO., ARKANSAS.
DESIRING to clo.e out their present stock
of Goods, will sell positively at C'osl
for Cash.
W We h avc many desirable Goods.
83?“ Those who do not come forward in tea
days and pay ns, we will sue immediately.
We mean this for all, no exceptions at all.
marlS-tf. WASHER & VAUGHAN.
FOR SALK"
A AA ACRES choice Land 3| miles south
TrU v" of Des Arc, 30 acres cleared and un
der a good fence, a comfortable dwelling and
all necessary out houses, a bargain will be
given if application is made soon.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
marlS-tf. Land Agents, Des Arc, Ark.
ACRES good up Land 2$ miles
** ' from Des Arc, for sale on liberal
terms. DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS.
marchI8-tf.
riTWO tracts fair upland nine miles from
I Des Arc. one containingSO and the other
160 acres, a bargain can be had as the owner
is anxious to sell.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS
marchl8-tf.
V OR SALE.
rFHE N. W. i of S. W. i sec. 9. T. 3
N. 5 W ; W. i N. W. > sec. 25; E. { N.
E. j sec. 26 T. 3 N. 6 W; S. W. S. E. V sec.
36 T. 1 N. 5 W ; and the S. W. \ N. W. >
sec 34 T. 4 N. 5 W. Good land and at low
figures. Dalrymple &. Williams.
inarch 18-tf.
SPERM, LARD & TRAIN OIL,
CONSTANTLY on hand, and for sale by
feblS] A. STEWART & BRO’S.
QIIXIXE.
OAA OUNCES, just received and for
OUU sale by A. STEWART &. BRO’S
mar 11.
CASTOR OIL.
A SUPERIOR article, just received and
for sale by A. STEWART & URO’S
AVEIIV’S PLOWS.
t LIGHT and heavy, Single and
Two Horse Plows; just received
riViroimY aud for sale by
feblS] A. STEWART & BRO’S.
RUSS EVANS,
REAL ESTATE AM) JGEXERAL
LAND AGENT, DES ARC,
ARKANSAS.
PROMPT attention will be paid to all busi
ness entrusted to him in his line,
mar 11-tf.
Dr. J. L. NEEL.
HAVING permanently located in Des Arc
Arkansas, oifers his professional servi
ces to the citizens of the town and vicinity.
Office over Washer, Vaughan &. Co’s Store!
mar 11-Gin.
Yf B. DALR TMRLeTattobwey 'at
V . Law, Des Arc, Prairie county. Arkan
sas. Will practice in the counties of Prairie
Monroe, Arkansas, Jackson, White, and Con
way. febl3-tf
V. n. DALRVSPLE. JOHN S. WILLIAMS.
DALRYMFLE & WILLIAMS,
LAND AGENTS,
DES ARC, PRAIRIE COIXTY,
ARKANSAS,
V\^ILL {rive prompt attention to all
LAND CLAIMS, and will attend
personally to the locating of swamp land scrip
and warrants, buying, selling lands and pay.
ing-taxes, &c. ' mar 4-tf.
1 A Onn ACRES of valuable land in
I_U , UU tracts to suit purchasers.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents, Des Arc, Ark.
Qf'D ACRES good up land near Des
/w U U Arc, for sale on five vears time.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents, Des Arc, Ark.
RICH WOODS LANDS !
WE HAVE several thousand acres ot
choice land in the Rich Woods for
sale, 23,60 acres of which we are authorized
to trade for drv good9 or negroes.
DALRYMPLE &. WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents, Des Arc. Ark.
To All Persons
IX AXY WISE I XT E R E STED DV
THE ESTATE OF
W. B. MEANS. DECEASED:
Application will be made at the April
term of Probate Court, for Prairie coun
tv, Arkansas, for an order for the sale of all
the interest, l ight and title of W. H. Means,
dec'd, in and to the following lands, to-wit:
S. E. qr of 9, S. W. of S. W. of 10, N. E. of
S. W. of 9, S. E. of N. W. 4, N. E. of S. W.
of 4, and llO.acres, West part, N. E. of 16,
; township three, north, five west. Also, the
reversionary interest of land and negroes, in
cluding two slaves, Susan and Emeline.
JNO. S. PEARSON,
mar 4-lm Administrator.
STRAY KD;
CqV-.-vx FROM the subscriber, liv
*nn 'n Jackson county, four
miles east of Des Arc—One bay mare .StlRSU
from 9 to 11 years old—near 15 hands high—
mealy nose. Also, a bay mare mule—2 years
old this spring—also has a mealy nose. Said
mare may have a young colt. This stock has
been strayed some eighteen months—but have
been seen near the river, below Des Arc. A
liberal reu ard will be paid for the above stock,
as also for any reliable information as regards
them. S. F. BURGESS,
march 4. —41.
LAST IT'RLIO SALH OF LOTS
BUFFALO CITY,
On Monday and Tuesday}
11 tli and 12th April, 1859:
Terms—One fourth Cash—balance in
twelve months.
A LSO, several Stores and small dwellings;
f\. a large Warehouse at the Steamboat
Landing and Ferry will be reiffed to the high
est bidder, until the 25th December next.
White river is now in fine boating order
steambots running to Buffalo City, and will
continue, according to past history, at least
until the middle of July.
It is unnecessary for the proprietor to sav
anything in praise of Buffalo City. The fact
of its meeting with such continued bitter op
position from other points and places, is some
proof, at least, that it is the place, the
point for a city, in fact. Go see the site, and
the extensive country and iapid improvements;
view the Buffalo Shoals, examine the maps of
the country, enquire of old citizens. Pay no
attention to those who arc actuated by self
interest, or a dislike to see others prosper, and
you will surely be convinced that Buffalo City,
at the foot of the Buffalo Shoals, on Upper
White river, in Arkansas, is des.ined to be, in
reality, what it is by name.
P.rsons desiring to purchase Lots, at pri
vaie sale, can «o so oy applying iu c, 1 u*
stall, Agent at Buffalo City, nr the under
signed at bes Arc, Arkansas; either of whom
'lave magnificent maps of the city.
JOHN H. QUlSluNBERRY.
feb2o ts.
*,* Bateaville papers and Memphis Ava
lanche and Appeal copy 3 times.
A. Stewart & Bro’s.,
HGROCERSSa
commissiotTmeiiciiants,
l)e.s Arc, Arkansas.
GROCERIES, &c.
OUR stock is large and our assortment gen- |
oral. Those who wish to purchase will
doubtless find it to their interest to call and
buy from [febtH] A. STE WART & BRO’S.
SEED OATS.
IFLi\ SACKS, just received and for saleby
_eJU feb 18. A. STEWART & BROS. *
SEE® POTATOES.
/tr/\ BBLS.. just received and for sale by
OU feb 18. A. STEWART &BRosy
MAILS AN® CASTINGS!
QAA KEGS assorted Nails;
/C\ /' / 25,(100 lbs assorted Castings, in store,
feb lb] A. STEWART & BRQ’S
Paiuls, Oil and Turpentine,
ALWAYS on hand and for sale, by
. feb 18] A. STEWART & BRO’S.
ATTENTION BLACKSMITHS.
rpr THOUSAND lbs. assorted Iron for sale i
j fjA) Also—German, Cast, English and A
merican Steel; Anvils, A’ices, Bellows, Screw
Plates, and a general assortment of Tools, by
feblS] A. STEWART & BRO’S-^ \
Window Glass and Sasli.
OBYIO; iOby 12 ; 10byl4 ; lOhylfi; 10byl8i
O 10by >0; l2byl8 and 12by20. A large sup
ply, for sale by
feb 18] * A. STEWART & BRO’S. a
House Keepers Attention
WE have now in Store a large assortment .
of “Cooking and Heating Stoves,
completely trimmed,for sale low. Call W>
examine.
feblS] A. STEAVART & BRO’S^
FURNITURE! FURNITURE!!
OUR stock of this ar-a
v -*•" . tide, is now very com
iilete, consisting in part *
of High and Low C»rd
_ .- nnd Slat Bedsteads, W»l»ut
and Cherry Cribs, and Trundle Bedsteay
Marble and Common Top Bureaus,
stands, Tin ai d Wire Safes assorted 81Z "’ j
Secretaries Tables. Lounges, Work Status
Plain and Fancy Wardrobes. Single and D .
! ble Shuck Mattrases, Cane, Split Bottom a.
Children’s Chairs, a great variety.
feblS A. STEWART & BRO *>•