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OUR JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
Wf. have supplied ourselves with a good
assortment of Printing Material, and are
ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on
reasonable terms.
We are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata
logues, Posters, large or small, Cards, Ball
Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of every descrip
ion, for Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices of the
Peace, Constables, &c.
L, ®AIL©LYb~
irf DRUGGIST,
s and
APOTHECARY,
ALSO. DEALER IN
^Stationery, Perfumery,
FANCY ARTICLES, &C.,
Lane Jt Watts’ old stand, Buena Vista street,
3B1ES
Fine Wines, Brandies, &c., for Me
dicinal purposes, always on hand.
!jy Physicians prescriptions arc accurately
compounded of the best articles (hat can be
procured. janl8-tf.
C A JtJ DSON,
^ARPENTER AND JOINER, Also,
Dealer in Sash, Doors, Mantles, Window
and Door Frames, &c.
0F Shop corner of Erwin and Park streets.
DKS ARC, ARKANSAS.
V. B.—Coffins made to order, on short
notice. feb22:ly.
n. (9. joansrsow,
BOGGY AND CARRIAGE
iVtativifrtetxiror,
■ Hickory Plain, Ark.,
Will make and repair Buggies
—and Carriages. &c., to order. Or
ders respectfully solicited.
ar All orders will be readily attended to,
til new work warranted twelve months. I re
turn ray thanks to the public for past favors,
and hope to receive a liberal patronage in the
future. nov23-tf.
J. S. ANDERSON,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
-A N D
Harness , Manufacturer,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
IjA RESPECTFULLY informs
the citizens of Prairie and
adjacent counties, that he has on hand, •■r»
and is prepared to manufacture to order,
Saddles. Bridles, Martingales, Baggy,
Carriage and Hack Harness,
At Well as every other description of work
llaimll.. .1_ ! * . l.LI, V 1
7 »*v**e *11 oUl.il covauii.iliiuuiiio.
Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
Jackson's store. jan21-ly.
black s m it h in g
Wagon and Buggy Making.
MARTIN SHETTER,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
fTIHANKFUL to the
-jlr £ people for their past fa-lf 11
vors,respectfully announces \> U
‘“it he has opened a shop at T. V. Lee’s old
*tand, on Park street, where he is prepared to
“°ill kinds of wortc in the above line.
. &• llaeksmithing, wagon and buggy build
’JS. wheelbarrows, repairing, &c., done on
•bor notice. V
l^tlorse-shoeing done promptly.
JOHN McNAMEE,
T .1 I L o II,
Des Arc, Arkansas.
CHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET
S’ opposite the “Nucleus House”—where he
" Prepared to execute all kinds of work in
Mine of business, in a neat and fashionable
•yie. ’
July 27, 1859.—[tf] __
wM .“ o r E E NS”l AD E,
»Merchant Tailor,
~ Des Arc, Ark.,
vHOP on Buena Vista street, one door West
°f the Post office. All work executed in
U ITela"<l fashionable style.
feb29-iy.
Jo !I DA N B 0 D E M E iiT
8Haviy«, mm.cijTTiNO,
R-D It E SSI N G SALOON.
^AMPooiuq a n d hair-dying,
v VISTA Street, south-side, two
JrlaJ°r* east of G. J. McLaren’s, Des
-Vc> Arkansas. janll-tf. 1
rxtuoissiUNAL CARDS.
D1 J' W BURNEY, Physician and
,Jy Surgeon, West Point, Arkansas. Offers
bis professional services to the citizens of the
town and adjacent country. [auglS tf
TVRS. BIRDSONG & TUCKER, Resi
U dent Physicians, Surgeons and Ac
cottcheurs, having formed a co-partnership,
oner their professional services to the citi
zens of Des Arc and surrounding country.
From their long experience in their profes
sion they hope to share a liberal patronage.
Particular attention given to all chro
nic diseases of females.
Office—Bnena Vista street, first room up
stairs in Perry & Jackson’s new buildimr.
augl5 tf] 6
J NO. JAY WILKINS, Attorney at Law.
and Solicitor in Chancery; Oakland
Grove, Prairie Co., Arkansas. Will give
prompt attention to ail land matters, the
collection of claims which may be entrusted
to his care, and the practice of his profession
generally in the counties of Prairie, Pulaski,
Pope. Perry, White, Monroei, Conway, Jeffer
son, Yell and Jackson. augl5 tf.
J. BLANTON, M. D. JNO. B. BLANTON, M. D.
DR. J. BLANTON & SON., Physicians
and Surgeons. (gT Office and resi
dence, Centre Point, Prairie county, Arkan
sas. [aug8 ly
RT. SIMPSON, Attorney at Law, Des
• Arc, Arkansas. Will practice in Prai
rie, White, Arkansas, Monroe, Jackson, and
the adjoining counties. Office on Lyon street,
jy18, I860
S. W. WILLIAMS. j. w. martin.
WILLIAMS & MARTIN, Attorneys
at Law, Little Rock, Ark. Will
practice in the counties of Pulaski, Prairie,
Perry, Yell, Pope, Conway. White, Jackson,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jefferson, Hot Springs and
Saline, and in the Supreme and Federal Courts,
at Little Rock. jy 18, 1860.
S~W. SORRELLS, m7d7. Physician and
• Surgeon. Brownsville. Ark. Office—At
Lightfoot’s Drug Store, Main st. je2-tf
T. SANDERS. J. L. NEEL.
DRS. SANDERS & NEEL. Resident Phy
sicians, Des Arc, Ark., having formed a
partnership in the practice of their profession,
tender a continuation of their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
Office —up stairs, corner of Buena Vista and
Woodruff streets. my26-tf
DR. H. ARMISTEAD having permanent
ly located at Des Arc, offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of the town
and adjacent country.
(fggT Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office. [march21-6m
DR. WM. BETHELL will continue the
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc and
vicinity. From his long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas 1
during the past fifteen years, he hopes to 1
_.. —Ll:
gjy Office at Balsly’s Drug Store. Resi- j
deuce near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the Sonlh side of |
the road, entering the town. mar21-ly. ‘
J. J. LANE.W. H. CHAMBERS. ,
DRS. LANE & CH AMBERS having form- (
ed a partnership in the practice of
their profession, tender their services to the 1
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
From their experience they hope to share j
at least a portion of the patronage of the j
public.
Office on Buena Vista street, at Bals
ly’s Drug Store. febl:tf '
DR. N. L. RAGLAND, having located at !j
the residence of R. B. Trezevant,
(formerly B. B. Allens place.) 2| miles from
Wattensaw Landing, offers his professional ’
services to the public. l
Particular attention given to deseases >
of women and children. jan 1-ly.
TAR. W. F. WALSH, having located at 1
\) Des Arc, offers his Professional Sf.r- (
vicf.s to the public, (jy Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly* ,
m J. WOODSON, Attorney at Law, 5
| Des Arc, Arkdnsas, will practice in the
Fifth Judicial Ciicuit, and the counties of 1
White, Jackson and Monroe. (
*.* All business entrusted to his care will |
be promptly attended to. may?-ly. {
AW. McNEILL, Attorney at Law, Des i
• Arc. Arkansas, practices in the courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. gy Office,
corner of Erwin and Lyon streets. £apll. j
EW DOUGLASS, Attorney at Law, t
. Brownsville. Arkansas, will promptly (
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prairie, Arkansas, Monroe, Si. Francis, Jack
son and White counties.
*„• Prompt attention given to the collection t
of all claims entrusted to his care. apr28- ;
B n. TURNER... T. JONES. ^
rpURNER & JONES, Attorneys at <
Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will at- <
tend promptly to all business entrusted to ;
them. jan4-tf. |
TR. LAWRENCE, Attorney at *
* Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Will Prac
tice in the Counties of Prairie, Arkansas, \
Monroe, Jackson, White and St. Francis.— ,
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to his care. Office corner of Walton and ■
Woodruff Streets. jan4-tL^
ri H. HEMPSTEAD, Attorney at Law, ,
O • Little Rock, Arkansas. Office on Mark
ham street. janll-tf. j
R S. GANTT. W. BRONAUGH j
G ANTT& BRONAUGH, Attorneys f
' at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will (
attend promptly to any business confided to
them. __-cPt14 tf 1
T B. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc. ]
• Arkansas, will practice in the courts or .
Prairie, White, Monroe, Arkansas, St. Fran
cis, Jackson, and Independence counties. All I
business intrusted to his care shall meet with |
prompt attention. gy Office on Lyon j
street. Dull8-lt
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at >
J Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas. I
Wi*ll practice in the counties of Prairie, Ar- |
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson, White, ,
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Land
Titles,’ and act as General Land Agent.
Prompt attention given to all business entrust- i
ed to him. , . , 1
Office—First door up stairs, one door
East of John Jackson & Co.’s, Store,
feb 13—tf. _,
J. L. IIOLLOWELL.. D. JACOWAY.
Hollo well & jacoway, at.|.
torneys AT Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas. ,
Will practice in the counties of \ell. Perry,
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope,
je26-tf
THE TWILIGHT HOUR.
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations
That is known as the Children’s Hour.
I hear In the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence ;
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall !
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall !
They climb up into my turret
O’er the arms and back of my chair ;
If I try to escape, they surround me."
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen,
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine !
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustach as I am
Is not a match for you all?
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeons
In the round tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And molder in dust away !
From the Chicago Herald.]
Battle Summons for 1860.
The war note hassounded. The bugle
dost that has for three-quarters of a cen
ury summoned the faithful to do battle
or national faith and the rights of free
nen, once moie rings out its clarion peal
>’er all the broad land! Over the land,
he sea, the lakes, the mountains, the
nairies, the broad rivers and broader
ilains it swells onward, from the old shores
if the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence, to the
3ulf, and to the golden shores of the Pn
;ific! While from the rice fields of Geor
gia to Moosehead Lake, from the St.
lohns to the Wilamette, the veterans of
i hundred battles give back the answering
houi. The sons of the Puritan andCav
lier, the old States, the freemen of all
ountries and all religions join their voices
o swell the thunder toned response !
Democrats! hark to the million-voiced
;reeting of your compatriots, as it swells
nto an anthem of freedom !
Listen to it—Old veterans ! It is the
var cry that has so often summoned you
o victory—it is the old battle slogan of
Democracy!
Listen to it—Old soldiers of the war of
12! It is the voice that nerved your hearts
n the bloody fields of Lundy’s Lane,
rippecanoe, and New Orleans— when
our enemies plotted treason at the Hart
ord Convention, and burned “blue lights”
n the shores of New England!
Listen to it—Soldiers of the Mexican
var! It is the same voice that cheered
ou on to victory on the plains of Buena
fis.ta, in the gorges of Cerro urorao. ana
iefore the bristling ramparts of Cherubus
o—while your enemies at home would
lave refused you supplies, and encour
ged your country’s foes to “welcome you
vith “bloody hands to hospitable graves!
Listen to it—Friends of the “ common
leople !” It is the cry that struck terror
nto the heart of the aristocrat, and wrung
he rights of the masses and the sover
ignty of the States from the iron grasp
f Federalism!
Listen to it—Sons of labor and honest
oil! Through forty years of conflict this
ame battle cry nerved the hearts of the
)emacracy, through victory and defeat, to
o battle for your rights against the con
entraled power of wealth and capital,
nd brought your battle-grimed and
lowder-stained flag uutorn from the con
lict!
Listen to it—Men of capital! When
he tide shall turn; and the masses whom
mu would hurl against the ranks of the
.democracy shall have been pampered
leyond your control—when Fourierism,
Communism, Red Republicanism and mad
auaticism shall stare you ;n the face.upon !
American soil and at the American ballot
)0x—when more than mortal fear and J
rembling shall come upon you—then, and I
lot till then, will that battle-cry of the 1
•rights of Aim” count like music in your I
•a°, and breathe hope iuto—your pockets!
Listen to it—Men of the Old World !
t was the cry by which the “ Old Domin- i
on” summoned the Democracy of the
and to trample down the “alien and sedi
ion laws,” and give you homes and equal-;
ty in the New World !
Listen to it—Children of the Fader
and ! It is the same war note that rallied
he invincible Democracy of the South to
jreast the storm of “Know Nolhiugism”
hat had swept over every Stale in the
I'forth—had trodden the rights of the Ger
nan in the dust, aud had stamped him as j
t serf in the land of bis adoption !
Listen to it—Children of the Rhine !
\nd let your arms be palsied and your
ougue blistered, ere you raise hand or ,
mice to strike that gallant South now,!
vhen the same blow from which she
shielded you is being aimed at her heart!
Listen to it—Revolutionists of ISIS!,
fo that very battle-cry of Democracy you ,
owe the very right you now enjoy to op
pose it. To that voice you owe n liberty
which you could not win at home, and
which your misguided zeal and closet the
ories would tumble into ruins here! Lis
ten ! and dare not, upon your honor as
men, pervert the freedom won by the blood
of our sires, and shared by us, with us,
with you, to the overthrow of the consti
stitutional faith pledged by our generous
fathers!
Listen to it—Exiles of Erin ! It is the
voice that welcomed you to a country and
a home, when tyranny drove you forth
from the loved land of your fathers ! It is
the voice that inspirited you, when you
have so often rushed through the red tide
of battle to repay, with your gallant bleod,
the debt of gratitude you owed the land of
Washington! It is the summons to that
same noble conflict which you have main
tained for three-quarters of a century, with
undying fidelity, upon the battle field and
at the polls.
Listen to it—Sons of the Gael! It is
the Pibroch that summons Highland and
Lowland to the path of patriotism and duty.
It is the appeal for justice to a race loo
proud to do a wrong, and too sternly brave
to suffer one. It is the same battle call of
the weak against the strong that has, fora
thousand years, summoned your loyal
clansmen to the ‘‘harvest of death !”
Listen to it—“Children of the Promise!”
It is the proclamation of the inviolability
of the National “Covenant!”
Listen to it—Men of all religions! it is
the voice that disenthralled you—dragged
you from an unholy alliance with the pow
ers of earth, planted you on “the faith of
mankind !
Listen to it—Humanity! It is the “life
march" of your vanguard, as they move
forward, with high spirits, upon the battle
field.
Listen to it—“Sons of the Sires of'76 !”
It is the reverberation of that ever deepen
ing music, which, for a thousand years,
has heralded the advance of Saxon liberty
and Constitutional rights, even to its cul
mination in the blood-stained triumphs of
our revolutionary fathers! It is the voice
of your people—the grand anthem of your
fatherland!
Listen to it—‘Spirit or the mighty dead !’
It is the exultant shout of your undegene
rate children, as they deploy on the last
great battle-field of the Constitution, equal
ity and the Union! It is the prolonged
echo of the vow of three generations o(
your children to maintain inviolate the na
tionality and brotherhood, won by your
toil and blood, and to transmit the banner
under which you conquered, to their own
children, without a stripe torn or a star lost.
It is the voice of the present re-echoing the
heroism of the past!
Listen to it—Ghosts of departed isms!
And answer that shout with the “wail of
the lost,” as you sink deeper into that ob
livion, to which the patriotism and good
sense of the American people have con
signed you !
Listen to it—Thou last and most hide
ous of isms! It is the death-song of thy
hopes! It is the wail of the “Banshee,”
that already moans through the rafters of
thy doomed wigwam.
Listen to it—Once again, Democrats !
It is the remembrance of past triumphs
and past glories ! The summons to new
strnoro-les. and ibe barhinoer of new bones!
It calls to arms in an “hour that tries men’s
souls”—an hour when the very safety of
the Republic quivers at every blow that is
struck! Woe to the recreant who an
swers not at the roll call of the “Grand
Army” of Saxon liberty.
Children of Ike invincible Democracy,
To JlrmsJ
Breckinridge and Clay.—When
Mr. Breckinridge was a candidate for
Congress he made a speech at Lexington,
to which Mr. Clay, the great statesman
of Ashland, responded as follows:
“Major Breckinridge, I congratulate
you. You are worthy to represent the
people of this district, whose esteem and
favor have been the chief objects of my
ambition, and the most precious rewards
of my long and laborious life;” and then
dropping bis voice to the milder tone of
affection, he added, “My dear John, be
true to your name. Never froget you are
a Kentuckian, and a Breckinridge ; and
the highest honors of the Republic, or
what is more valuable, the ..consciousness
of having served well your country, will
be your glorious reward.”
This was the noble response of a polit
ical opponent, whose fame as an orator
and a statesman the world has not yet
seen eclipsed. And this gallant Major
Breckinridge is the man we now present
as a candidate “for the highest honors of
the Republic,” and to whose support we
invite the Union-loving and conservative
men to rally.
-—■« «. .—
The Cry of Disunion.—When you
hear a Southern man singing psalms to
the Union, and charging everybody who
differs, with him, with an intentiou to
dissolve it, you may set it down that that
man will never do to trust with any right
of the South. The issues now before the
country involve nothing but what the
South is entitled to under the Constitution,
and when you hear a man trying to pre
vent a fair trial of those issues by crying
disunion you may rely upon it, that that
man is no friend to those rights. He is
playing a game he thinks will win- He
counts off the cowardice of the people,
and hopes in the general surrender of
vital rights, that something will fall to his
share, by way of reward from the enemy
for treason to his section.—[A Southern
Exchange.
-Large subscriptions in aid of the eas
tern Christians are being taken up in France.
From the N. O. Picayune of Sunday.]
Letter from Walker’s Expedition.
The schooner Dewdrop, Capt. Terry
arrived at this port this morning, fron
Roman Island, the 16th inst.
Walker made his appearance before tin
town of Truxillo on the 6th of August, a
about 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. Hi
whole force numbered 110 men, all countei
They approached the town in two separ
ate parties. The first was landed sorm
three miles below the city on the beach
and proceeded towards the town by land
The second was debarked in small boat!
and proceeded paripasu along the shore
They were all well armed with Minii
muskets, had twenty rounds of cartridgi
apiece and were uell supplied with every
thing else necessary.
Our informant says they were a fine
looking set of men, nnd showed a confi
dent bearing as they marched up towards
the town.
The news of the landing was conveyed
to the town and fort by a Carib. The for
was garrisoned by seventy-five to one hun
dred soldiers, sustained by three or foui
hundred pvtriotes (citizens,) who were.ol
course, immediately called to arms to dis
pute the entrance of the Americans.
There were mounted two 24 pounders,
and some eighteen smaller pieces—the
first two brass, of old Spanish manufac
ture. As the party advanced, pari pasu,
along the beach and in boats near the
shore, the two larger guns were opened
upon them.
When within half a mile of the fort, the
land party also fell into an ambuscade of
the patriotes, and were fired upon from the
-’ © -j -r 1— J
returned by the Americans in a manner
that would have done credit to an old
guard.
They were soon scattered, and complete
ly routed The Americans then continued
their udvance in full defiance of the fort,
and the order was given to charge the
rampart, which was done in handsome
style, and the occupants driven in every
direction before them. The firing at this
time was sharp, and to give a true descrip
tion of it, says our informant, would re
quire a person more familiar vvitin the
inode of warfare of these people, and one
who had not quite so many musket balls
to dodge as himself. Notwithstanding the
burning of so much powder, we took the
fort and place with the loss of only four
wounded. Their loss, as near as can be
ascertained is twelve killed, and as many
more wounded.
The names of the Americans wounded
were: Win. Hale, shot in the right eye
—he returns on the schooner Dew Drop ;
Walter Stanley had an arm broken ; Jno.
Cooper was shot in the knee, and
Bush, a Polander, was slightly wounded
in the eye. They are all doing well, and
will soon be able to report for duty.
The people of the town seem to have
great confidence in Gen. Walker. Many
of the stores are open, and doing business
as usual.
The forts at Truxillo are said to be
large, commodious and well built, in the
best style of Spanish American fortifica
tions, and defended faithfully by what
means Walker has at present to command,
and cannot be taken by any force that can
be brought against him. Besides, the ex
isting Government of Guardiola is unpop
ular, while his rival, Cabanas, whose
cause Walker has espoused,is everywhere
r •. •. i . i i
ft lovui iic wiiii me premie.
As said before, Walker and Cabanas,
as the leaders of the Liberal party, per
fectly understand and sympathize with
each other. It is supposed that the plan
of operations is this:
As soon as lie shall have assumed his
position at Truxillo, Walker, leaving a
garrison for the fort, will set out with such
forces as he may have raised for the inte
rior. Cabanas in the meantime will march
this way to meet him, with such forces as
he may command. It is believed that the
place of meeting will be Coinayagua,
when a General Government will be es
tablished, representing both the Spanish
American and Central American forces.
We have nearly a full list of Walker's
men, which we shall publish so soon as
wo can perfect it. We take occasion to
say, however, that many of them are well
known in this city, and have before distin
guished themselves under Walker’s ban
ner in Nicaragua. Among those partic
ularly mentioned for their valuable servi
ces at the present time is Gen. Iludler of
Alabama, whose friends in that Stale will
be glad to learn of hi? success. Major
Hoff of Virginia, and Major Dolan, of
N Orleans,are also particularly mentioned.
Importation of Stinoless Bees from
Central America.—Mr. A. O. Moore,
of New York, who weut to Central Amer
ica last year, has just returned from Gua
temala, and has brought with him two
swarms of the stingiess bees common to
that country, which he has given in charge
of Mr. Parsons, of Flushing, who will pro
pagate them for the agricultural depart
ment of the Patent-office, which will in
due lime distribute them, if it is found that
they can be kept in any part of the Uni
ted States. These bees are of two varie
ties, one large and one small, and both
quite different in all their habits from the
honey bees common with us. For one
thing, there appears to be but two classes
—workers and queens. The largest class
are about the size of our common bees,
the queen being much larger; and while
laying eggs appears very clumsy, and un
able to fly. The honey is deposited ic
egg-shaped capsules, more than half the
size of ben's eggs, fastened to a plate ol
wax only upon one side, and sometimes
arranged quite horizontal in tiers on above
another.
Plantation Life in the South A Picturi
of Comfort.
* The Philadelphia Ledger says that m
1 Alabama planter, formerly a well-knowi
citizen of Philadelphia, writing from Mu
1 con, Marengo county, Miss., thus present
1 a contrast between the physical conditioi
1 of the slave people of the South with i
I considerable portion of white laborers ii
other sections of the country. The sketcl
1 is not overdrawn:
i 1 contradict all the lies they fabricate ii
the North against the South. Contrast tin
1 condition of the negro with that of the la
boring people in Europe. You will fint
him infinitely better off and more happy
If anything ails him, he is attended toiim
mediately; his master sees that he is no
abused. In many cases he has been hit
playmate when young, and they are at
tached to each other. His wife and chib
dren are under the care of their mistress
who sees that their wants are attended to
He has nothing to trouble his mind, anti
has no cares at all. It is true he is a
slave, but he does not know the difference.
. having been raised under a certain disci
pline, as we raise our children. I think
that we are all slaves to our wants, to our
families, and our habits. He is not over
worked ; the culture of cotton is very light,
and working in the fields is favorable to
health. He goes out when it is light
enough to work, at 8 o’clock takes his
breakfast, at 12 o’clock his dinner, at 2
o’clock goes to his work again and at dark
comes home: he cooks his supper and
smokes his pipe, and about 9 or 10 o’clock
goes to bed.
This is generally his every day life on
the plantation. He lias a house for him
selfand family. Some have bee-hives and
a small warden about their nremiscs. Now
how does ho live? He gets 7 pounds of
meat for himself and wife a week, and
every youth who works out has 3 pounds,
and us much meal as they want, and dur
ing the summer some molasses.
In the plantation garden thousands of
cabbages, greens, okre, tomatoes, sweet
potato, s, onions, squashes, pumpkins, peas,
Sic., are cultivated for their use. Every
hand or youth who works in the field lias
the privilege of raising chickens—they
sell them and eggs, or eat them as they
please. They also raise corn and sell the
same.
The negro has nothing to trouble him ;
he chews all day and smokes his pipe at
night. The planter is the only one who
has all the head- work to do ; and if he is
not successful he is very unhappy, being
afraid of seeing his family reduced to want.
—.-.• ♦
An Important Lawsuit.—A lawsuit
involving a large amount and presenting
a curious question is pending in Casey
(Ky.) circuit court. It seems that Owen
Sutherland, living in green run, in Casey
county, some four or five miles above
Liberty who is a man now about eighty
years of age—by his own energy and in
dustry, and economy, assisted by his in
dustrious and frugal housewife, acquired
a very large estate, a part of which is
some fifty-five or fifty-seven slaves. A
month or two ago it became noised about
about in the country that he was about to
set his slaves free by deed of manumission.
Some of his grand-children, and his son
in-law McWhorter, becoming satisfied
that such was his purpose, and that he
would soon execute it,instituted legal pro
ceedings, charging that he was in his do
tage. and rather imbecile, and especially,
that his negroes had an undue influence
over him, and that on this account he was
incompetent to control his property, and
prayed an inquiry into the matter, with a
view of having a committee appointed for
him, to take care of his property. He
executed a deed freeing all his slaves,
and was preparing to remove them from
the State, when the -plaintiffs had an
attachment issued against them, and they
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>IVIV ULtUillVUf • UV V»uu VUI1IU IUI
trial week before last, at the Casey circtrt
court, but was continued until next No
vember term.—[Lexmgton(Ky.) States
man, May 3.
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Balloon Voyage Aross the Atlan
tic —Proposition to Start from Bos
ton.—The Boston Traveler has received
a letter from Mr. Samuel Wilson, the aero
naut, who lately made an ascension from
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in which he pro
poses to make Boston the starting point for
his experiment of attempting to cross the
Atlantic in a balloon. In this letter, which
is dated Philadelphia, August 17th, he
says:
I have constructed the balloon “ Great
Western,** and also the “American Ea
gle,” for the express purpose of making a
voyage with them to Europe. They can
not furnish gas to inflate them at Pittsburg
or Alleghany City. I have thought of
coming to Boston, and making my first
trip across the Atlantic with Boston gas
if the Gas Company can furnish me with
one or two hundred thousand cubic feet.
I would like to start for Europe by the
first of October, if not before, and would
give several lectures on the subject of
A>ial Navigation and the Currents of the
Atmosphere, and endeavor to show that a
balloon ride across the ocean would be as
safe as taking passage on board the Great
Eastern.
I would keep the balloon inflated at Na
hant or on the Fair Grounds a few days
before leaving for Europe, and hundreds
of your citizens miffhi have the pleasure
of riding a few hundred leet in bight
with a strong rope attached to each air ship.
If any of your scientific citizens, or
! those connected with the press, desire to
go with me on my trans-Atlantic trip, I
would bo glad of their company, and land
them sate and sound in less than three
days in some part of Europe.
! Letter from Hon Daniel S Dickinson of
Hew York.
, Binohampton, July 6- 1860.
, My Dtar Sir: I am duly honored by
your favor of the 3d, inviting me to attend
j and address a Democratic meeting at
i Washington on the 10th. called to ratify
the nomination of Breckinridge and Lane
, by <he National Democratic Convention
at Baltimore. I thank you for your cour
teous invitation, and regret that circum
tances prevent its acceptance, for I have
, some things to say to the people of this
Union, and I would prefer to say them at
the national capital But I am engaged,
if I cnn leave home, to speak in New
York city on the 10th, and cannot consis
tently visit both places now.
I shall support the nomination of
Breckinridge and Lane, not only because
I regard them as personaly and politically
worthy, but because their nomination
emanates from States which can give
Democratic votes in the electoral college,
and because they are, therefore, represen
tatives of Democracy and its principles.
Sincerely yours,
D S'. DICKINSON.
Hon Isaac I. Stevens, Chairman
Committee, Sic.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-Tell us not that the nast, examined
by cold philosophy, was no better and no
loftier than the present) it Is not thus seen
by pure and generous eyes. Let the past
perish, when it ceases to reflect on the magic
mirror the beautiful romance which is it*
noblest reality, though perchance but the
shadow of delusion.
-If we all had our deserts, what should
be done to him who not only lets the sun go
down on his wrath, but strives with uncharita
ble breath to fan the dying embers of another’s.
-A few years ago, an intelligent gentle
man had a contract to set out a hundred shade
trees. He took the precaution to mark the
north side of each tree, and to plant the
same side north when it was transplanted. By
this carefulness he saved the life of almost all
that he moved. In this hemisphere the sun shi
ning upon the southern half of a tree constant
ly stimulatosjthe growth of the fibres on that
considerably above the other, so that, in many
cases, the annual l ings are much larger on this
than on the other.
“ Mr. A., I understand you said I sold you
a barrel of cider that had water in it ?” “No,
no,” was the reply, “I only said you sold me
a barrel of water with a little cider in it.”
-Kossuth, who is now in Paris, felt •
keenly the death of his sister, and when he
read the account of the attention and respect
manifested by the gentlemen of Brooklyn, N.
Y., at her funeral, he wept, and exclaimed
“Oh, that their people were my people, and
their God my God.” From some mysterious
sources Kossuth receives quarterly $1000, the
accompanying note indicating simply that it
is from a friend in America, and that it is in
tended for his personal expenditures.
-Never get offended at another for not
noticing you. He probably has something of
more importance, at least, on his mind.
-On a very rainy day. a man entering
his house, was accosted by his wife in the
following manner : “Now my dear while you
are wet, go and fetch me a bucket of water.”
He obeyed, brought the water and threw it all
over her, saying at the same time, “Now my
dear, while you are wet, go and fetch another,
—Between MSy 29 and June 30 the Druses
murdered in cold blood upwards of four thou
sand Christiana, Including more than a Hun
dred Catholic and Greek priests and monks.
They have burnt down upwards of 150 Chris
tian villages, including more than one hundred
churches and sixteen convents.
—"It is stated that Garibaldi had left
Sicily, for Calabria, on the main land of Italy.
No doubt is entertained that he will drive the
King of Naples from the throne. The Pope’s
turn will come next.
-Diligence, the hand-maid of Providence,
is the parentof intelligence and the noble dis
penser of excellence; all arte and sciences are
at her command; she crowns all her sons and
lovers with riches and honor.
-Old Maids—A elass of sensible women,
who refuse to accept a husband until they
find some one they can love and esteem—which
of course, they rarely do.
-A quiet exposition of truth has a better
effect than a violent attack on error. Truth
extirpates error as grass extirpates weeds, by
working its way into their place, and leaving
them no room to grow.
-The habitual and spontaneous recogni
tion of a principle in our actions, is a mark of
a healthy conscience; but all paltering with
our likings, or compromising principle with
expediency, marks an unhealthy state cf the
conscience.
-An Irishman having a cold, ascribed it
to his sleeping all night in a lot with the gate
open.
-You will find most people very willing
to be your friends, so long as you do not re
quire tbeir assistance. ^
-Vanity Fair says, the three ages of a
Senator are Mile-age, Post-age and Patron
age.
The Oldest Man in the Unlted States.
The editor of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Times re
cently visited Solomon Pangborn, of Bising
Sun, Indiana, who says he was born in the
city of New York, a small town of five or six
hundred housas, in 1725. He is consequently,
135 years old.
——Meet every one kindly and treat him
courteously. It is better to have the good than
the ill will of even a dog.
_At a down-east revival an old lady
prayed fervently for the ‘young, lambs of the
lleck,” uiothe'- lady asked,
« Wouldn’t it be as well to include the old
ewes?” A titter pervaded the meeting.
_The-‘golden mean” of which people
talk so much about is now discovered to bt
| money.