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DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
WRURESDAyA. .... .APRIL 4. 1880
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Democratic Conventions.
The national convention meets at
Charleston on Monday the 23d of April.
The congressional convention for the
first district meets at Dover, Pope county.
2d Monday, 14th of May.
The congressional convention for the
second district meets at Arkadelphia,
Clark county, oa the 2d Monday, 14th
May.
Democratic Meeting — White River
Township.
Mb. Monarti.: We, the undersigned,
wish vou to publish a call for a meeting
of the Democrats of White River Town
ship, on the first Saturday in April, that
being the 7th., for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to the County Convention,
to meet at Brownsville on the 4th Mon
day in April, to select a suitable candi
date from the ranks of the Democratic
party to represent this County in the next
Legislature, etc.
James E. Gatewood,; M. M. Erwin,
D. W. Munroe, , G. W. Glenn,
Jos.’ C. Tarkinton, J E- Glenn,
J. A. Moon, i W. W. Watr.
M. T. Cooper, | R. C. MrCarley,
W. H. Chambers, j W. H. Brock,
W. L. Owen, Jno. S. Pearson,
John C. Butler, j R T. Simpson,
J. W. Martin, Francis Holt,
Sim. Horne, Henry Clee*,
T. Blake Kent, J. W. Beal.
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Democratic Meeting — Pigeon Boost
Township.
The Democracy of Pigeon Roosi town
ship are requested to meet at Hickory
Plain on Saturday the 7th of April next,
to appoint delegates to the Democratic
County Convention, to be held on the 4th
Monday of the same month, at Browns
ville.
Democratic Meeting -Prairie Township
The Democracy of Prairie township are
requested to meet at the court-house, in
Brownsville, odMoibu the 9th or
April, to appoint delegates to the Demo
cratic County Couveution, to be heid on
the 4th Monday of April.
C3P“ The Littie Rock Gazelit is in
favor of Sam. Hoostow as the Opposi
tion candidate for the Presidency.
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RS OPENING OF THE AFRICAN
SLAVE TRADE.
* Tne Jiffe.non Iadtptndeni of the 7th
ait., replies to our article upon this sub
ject as follows:
The reasoning of the Citizen is good, as far
as it concerns the imported negroes them
selves; they would certainly be vastly bene
fitted, but we cannot think the slave holding
States would be pecuniarily benefited by the
introduction of the immense amount of cheap
labor, that the opening of our ports to this trade
wouid in twdlve mouths flood the whole coun
try. The reaction would be too great, and
mast detrimentally affect the price of our
leading articles of export produced by this
class of labor. Cotton (the king) has for the
past two or three years maintained an almost
uniform price, and that a very remunerative
one. viz: about an average of ten cents per
pound. And it would be a ruinous policy
that would suddenly glut the market with
this product, thereby causing a sudden reduc
tion in price. The supply now only keeps
pace with the annually incresmg demand, but
were only a half million of biles of cotton
offered, more than was demanded by the manu
factories, the price would as soon as this fact
was ascertained, at once decline perhaps fifty
per cent ; caustiing an aggregate smaller
price to be paid for a heavy crop, than for
the preceding small one. And the planter
with perhaps a third more producing force,
receives for his whole cron a less amount
than the crop produced with expense, because
grown and gathered by fewer operators.
It is not sound reasoning to say: negroes
being reduced in price oxe-hali\ a planter
can nave Twitt as many # arm raising t»iu
as large a crop, he can afford to set) at half
price. Since a fourth of r crop above the
actual demand, will reduce the price one
balf. perhaps more ; and there is the increased
expense of the increased number of negroes.
At thi* particular time, when John Brown
insurrectionists are teaching their incendiary
policy to our slave population, we should be
particularly careful how we introduce a
swarm of savages, fit tools to work Abolition
vengeance. Among a number of large plan
tations, the strongest safe-guard the whites
can possibly have against insurrection, is the
love, respect and faithful obedience that ne
groes, long owned in % family, have for their
masters and his family. There could be no
such feeling to enforce submissive obedience
from a set of cannibals that acknowledge re
venge as the only duty they owe for tbei r forci
ble abduction. For these reasons we think it
unwise to re-open the Slave Trade ; not that
we think the move of doubtful morality, or
other than a charity to the African negro
himself, but we think there is no good to
ourselves to be derived from it, arid we do
not want the North to have even this excuse
for their unfraterual opposition.
The South needs more labor—call it
“cheap labor” or by whatever name you
please. The opening of our port* to the
a'ave trade could not flood the country, as I
no reasonable man would continue a bust- j
ness beyond a sufficiency to supply the |
demand. The argument that the price ofj
cotton would be reduced by additional j
slave labor, and the markets glutted with j
the great stable, is, to our mind easily an
swered. The increased demand for Eng
land’s manufactu'ed goods by the colonies,
and the great mass under her influence— j
China, India, and now the new opening j
in Japan—will be of such a great, in- i
creasing character, that in less than ten j
'years the cotton of the South will hardly
supply the demand of England. Under
the recent “free trade” movement of Na
poleon, manufactures wiH spring into ex
istence tike magic. No country on earth !
can compete with ours in the pTuciociioo ;
of cotton—and both reason uni instinct
teach os that without more slave labor we
cannot supply the demand. Where is
Am labor to come from, but from Africa !
admitting that the South should
for a single year produce a surplus of
mil a million bales of: cotton, she would
by the varied productiveness of her soil,
be enabled to sustain the price by her
farmers turning their auentioo. for a sin-1
gle season, to other products. But with I
the increased demand, throughout the
world, for co lon, we have no fears that
the market will ever be glutted, or the
price reduced. In truth, the best, writers, j
and ablest men agree, that unless the
quantity of cotton produced can be greatly I
augmented, it will in less than ten years
command twenty-five cents per pound.
Therefore, we maintain that the in
creased demand for cotton, creates the
necessity for more labor to produce it.—
The fiat of Heaven has gave forth that j
none but the negro can successfully culti
vate the great fields ol th* South—he
seems to have been created for the posi-;
lion he occupies in our sunny clime, and
those who would confine him to the idle
ness and ignorance of Africa, certainly
forget that he has been and even will be
*• the servant ol servants.
The price of negroes would not he ne
cessarily reduced by re-opening the slave
trade. Thousands have been and are
yet brought into the country every year.
Yet, their value has steadily increased.
And why ? Because the demand was so
great that a reduction in price was out of
the question. From 1831 to 1833 ne
groes were bought at Norfolk and other
points in Virginia, from §250 to §400—
about the average price now of fresbly
hnported Africans.
The position assumed that freshly im
ported Africans are “ fit tools to work
Abolition vengeance” is by no means
tenable. We have an abiding confidence
in the fealty, “ respect and faithful obedi
ence that the negroes of the South have
for tbeir masters and their families.” We
are conversant with numbers of instances
of the faithfulness of freshly imported
Africans, which demonstrate the effect of
the law of kindness, but will advert to
but a solitary instance : A planter that
we wot of, about one year since, received
thirteen freshly imported Africans—seven
men and six women—they were located
i on a farm that had been worked two sea
"sons. Two native-born negroes were
placed with them to aid in instructing
them in cultivating the soil. In three
months tune they become used to the
routine of planting and scraping cotton,
&c., and at the close of the years labor
they averaged four bales of cotton to the
hand. If they Lad been tntersperced
among other Lands, the average would,
doubtless, have been much larger. The
use of the whip is unknown among Lhese
new recruits on the cotton farm— the only
punishment necessary is to deny them a
meal, when they are disobedient, and they
very rarely repeat the offence. The John
Brown insurrectionists are more to he
feared among the intelligent and South
ern born negroes, than those who have
been “ brough from afar off.”
But we have extended this article to a
sufficient length for the present, and will
conclude by asserting that we think it
wisdom to re-open the African Slave
Trade—the move possesses intrinsic mer
it—that not only our own •• but all the
nations of the earth will thereby be
blessed,”—the naked will be clothed and
the hungry fed. The African negro
himself will unquestionably be benefilted,
morally, religiously and socially, and the
South will assume the position vouchsafed
by Heaven, in all the relations of life.
The unfraternal opposition of the North
to the consummation of this great and
vita! nrinrmle is hut a leather in the bal
ance against the true interest of the
South—the Union, nml the nations of the
earth.
®QT The race *for* Congress in the
Northern District of this Sjtate, will be
evidently quite a one-sided affair. Hon.
T. C. Hindman, the present able mem
ber, who, though hunted down by the
*• Johnsonian junto," is recognized by all
sensible and unprejudiced men, an ac
knowledged champion ot Democracy, and
will sweep everything before him. He
will, doubtless, be met at Dover, by weak
and imbecile opposition, but like Know
Nothing ism in 1856, it will die, for the
want of something to gnaw. It is im
possible 10 defeat a man who stands where
T. C. Hindman does. Acknowledged by
the most influential Democratic papers in
the Union to be thoroughgoing, unflinch
ing and unwavering Democrat, and one,
too, fully able, and willing to protect the
interest of Arkansas and of the South,
how can the contemptible slurs of a boast
ing egotistical junto affect him. Arkan
sas Democracy will never so far forget ■
the path of honor and justice, as to repu-,
diate such a man as hmdrnan. Long .
may he serve the State in his present ca-!
pacity.—[Southern Star.
9 9 *
The Lost os the Hchgakiait.—The list!
brought bv the last steamer frcm England,
shows that there were forty-five cabin and j
eighty steerage passengers on board of the |
Hungarian, and that the crew consisted of i
eighty persons This makes a total of two
hundred and five souls, every one of whom has,
in all human probability, perished.
Hew Territories.—The Senate Territorial
Committee have agreed to report bills organ
izing the Territories of Nevada. Jefferson,
Arizona and Dakota!. The Kansas admission
bill, it is thought, will also soon be reported.
The debateable poiut is a change of bound
aries.
Core tor Warts akd Corks.—The bark
of a willow tree, burned to ashes, mixed with
strong vinegar and applied to the parts, will
remove all corns or excrescences on any part
of the body,
——Macaulay states, in his History of Eng
land, that iro targe society, of which the
language is not Teutonic, has ever turned
Protestant; and "that wherever a language
derived from ancfen Rome is spoken, the re
ligion of mo tern Rome p-evails to thi* day.
Democratic Meeting in Caroline Town
ship
Parsunntto previous notice,the Democ
racy of Caroline Township assembled in
Convention, at Atlanta, on Saturday the
31st day of March, 1960. and on motion .
of Col. A. A. Pittman, Wm. Donnell,
Esq. was called to the chair, and Jno.!
Jay Wilkins, appointed Secretary.
The Chairman in a few brief reinaks,:
explained the object of the meeting. Af
ter which on the motion of James M.
Blakeney, Esq., the chair appointed Dr
W. C. Cross, Col. A. A. Pittman, Capt.
Thos. Alison, James M. Blakeney, Esq.,
and Sampson Moore a Committee to draft1
resolutions expressive of the sense of the j
meeting.
On motion of Col. Pittman the Secre
tary was added to the committee.
After an absence of a short time, the
Committee returned and reported the fol
lowing resolution^ :
The Committee to whom was refered
the duty of presenting resolutions ex- ,
pressive of the sense of the present meet
ing, beg lief to report as follows:
Whereas, at a meeting of the Demo
cratic party, in convention assembled at
Brownsville on Monday the 12th day of
March last, and requested the various
Townships to hold primary meetings, and
appoint delegates to the County Conven
tion. to be held at Brownsville on the 4th
Monday of April next Therefore be it:
Resolved, 1st: That Caroline Town
ship heartily responds to the call and we
adhere to the time-honored practice of
bolding conventions; that it is better to
be defeated in an open issue than to suc
ceed at a sacrifice of principles.
Resoved. 2d: That we recognize but
two parlies, the National Democratic par
ty and its Opponent, by whatever name
or device known, and every democratic
defeat is hailed as a victory over its prin
ciples.
; Resolved, 3d : That - is our
choice to represent us in trie lower house
of our next legislature, and that our dele
gates are hereby instructed to use all hon
orable means to secure his nomination.
Resolved. 4tli: That our delegation
in said Convention shall consist of five
members, to be suggested and ratified by
this meeting.
Resolved, 5th: That out said dele
gates be instructed to go for, and insist
upon a full democratic ticket.
On motion of Capt. Alison, the name
of Col. v. A. Pittman was suggested to
fill the blank in the 3J resolution, which
motion was carried unanimously,
Iu pursuance of the fourth resolution,
the following gentlemen were suggested
and unanimously appointed by the Con
vention delegates to the Brownsville con
vention :
Janies M. BUkeney, Esq.. Chas. E
Emerson. J. H Garrison, Capt. Thos.
Alison, Dr. B. W. Corn, and on motion
the Chairman was added to the delega
tion.
On motion the proceedings of the meet
ing were unanimously adopted.
On motion, it was resolved that the
proceedings of this meeting be published
in the Des Arc Citizen and Brownsville
Echo.
On motion, the Convention then ad
journed.
WILLIAM DONNELL. Cha’n.
Jjto. Jar Wilkixs, Secretary.
[From the True Democrat.
Lands Entered and Located in Arkansas
During the Year 1859
We subjoin a table showing the num
ber of acres of land, heretotore vacant,
which were entered or located during the
pail year, in the several couuties of the
State.. It will be seen by this that 1,645,
581 acres are to be added to the tax
books of 1860. which at the lowest rate
(three dollars an aqfe.) will augment the
amount of taxable property, nearly five
intlliousof dollars.
We learn from the land officers in the
different districts that the sales made by
both federal nnd Stale officers during the
current quarter exceed those made in any
three months heretofore:
,, .. U. S. *State Total
j Land'*.J Land*.) Jet's. ,
Arkansas. 16,659 45.966. 62.625!
Ashley. 41.2001 5,365 j 46.565
Benton. 8 726 880 9.606
Bradley. 67.349! 12,337 j 79,686
Calhoun. 8,0-'7| 5.355 13.412
Carroll. 6.634 6.634
Chicot. 594! 6.51.8 7.112'
Clark. 20.323 : 3,381 23.704:
Columbia . 32.572' 2.665, 35.237:
Conway. 9.0971 18.482 27.579
Craighead. 2,76" 19.193; 21.953
Cr#wford.| 2,492; 2.398! 4.89"
Crittenden.! 180 : 9.4331 9.913
Dallas. 13,56l[ 9.374 24.938
Desha.I 8.136. 27.180, 35.316
Drew. 4-.823 8,505 ! 37.528
Franklin. 13.364 819 14.183,
Fulton. 18,560 1,600 20,1601
Greene. 7.241 20.462 27, >931
Hempstead. 11,868| 6.961 18.832!
Hot Spring.; 6.637 5.422 12 059
Independence •••• j 31.217s 7,084 38.301
Izard.| 24.055; 4001 24,455
Jackson.j 4.430 15,230' 19,680
Jefferson.| .106,781; 19.595 126.376
Johnson .. 7.49"! 2.366 9,856
Lafayette.| 36.153; 35.128 71.281
Lawrence. 21.l!i.‘j 7.184 28.284
Madison.j 7.330! 7,33"
Marion. -..[ 4.905t 4.905
Monroe. 24,0001 36.438 60.438
Montgomery. 3.379; 3.379
Mississippi. 280} C,127> 6 407
New'ton. ■ • 1,687; 1 1.687
Ouachita. 63 393 11,624! 77,019
Perry. 6,900. 11.218 18.118
Phillips. 243 12.723 12 968
Pike. 16.1"" 1S8I 16,591
Poinsett. 4891 29,961, 30.453
Polk. 4.972! 4.972
Pope. 3.913| 1,<i24 7.937
Prairie. 2.979; 72,377 75 356
Pulaski.• • 92227! "5,415 34.612
Randolph. 16.172 4.569 20,741
Saline. 17.7731 10.484 2822.57
Scott. 16,762 9.8691 26.631
Searcy. 4 348 J 4 348
Sebastian. 34.162 19.489! 53.651
Sevier. 30,482 7.791; 38 273
St. Frtmcis ...... 1,060 36.269 37.269
Union. 45 4041 9.910 55.314
Van Boren. 372252 1,098 38 350
Washington •••■ 24.249; 24,249
White. 16.746 21.885 38,631
Veil. 14,160 21.84-4 40.0"4
Total. 992.999: 652.595* 1.615VS1
uESTUUCTIV *;
CONFLAGRATION.
JACKSON PORT BURNED!!!!
Loss $250,000.
We learn from the officers and passen- j
gers of the steamer Crescent, that at 5
o’clock on Wednesday evening a fire broke
out in the store of Hirsch, Adler St Co.,
Jack son port, and in a short time spread i
above and below on front street, finally des- j
troying every business house in the piace,
with the exception of the brick store occu-;
pied by James A. Paine. The hotel, two
iivery stables and several dwelling houses
were also consumed. We are indehted
to Capt. W. Gihbes, clerk of the Crescent,
for the following list of merchants and
others who were burnt out, as also the
various houses burnt:
Robinson Si Grider's store, nearly
empty; Pool, Pulliam & Co., store and
warehouse; Jones Si Watkins, drug store;
Hirsch, Adler St Co., store and ware
house; Perry Kay, coffee house; R. R
Kellogg, drug store; Sam. Slioup, sad
dlers shop; Owen Sc Bell, law office;
W. M. Mathe ws, coffee house; V R.
Mason, grocery store ; L. L. Moore Si
Co., store and post office ; Lathrop, watch
maker; Richter, barber shop; Wood
mansey, shoemaker shop; G Silvey,
dwelling; Mrs Woods, boarding house ;
Lawyers office; W itson Si Camp, store ;
Riley Kminan, store ; Adler Si Brother.
P H. Redman, store ; J J. Kinney, tin
and stove shop; Frazer, grocery ; Lynn
Sr Gill, Herald office ; Ice House and
stable; Two livery stables ; Patterson Si
Co., bakery; Three dwellings; Ellen
burgs, grocery and dry goods store ; Ho
tel; H. Fitzgerald Si Co.-,: grocery ; P.
S. Wisdom, coffee house ; Waddell houses
three in number; R. S. Anderson, law
office.
The merchants generally saved their
books and papers and some remnants of
geods.
A3 well as can be ascertained there is
probably insurance on about 8-50,000
| worth of merchandise and buildiugs, but
! several merchants, Sic., had no insurance
| whatever.
The insurance was principally taken in
• ik • branch of the JEtoa and Phoenix Io
j surarice Companies, in Jacitsonpoi t.
The fire first made its appearance
| around the chimney stack on the roof o!
i H, Adler fit Co., bursting lortn Ironi with
in the upper story, where there wm a
quantity of raattrasses, etc., just stored by
the steamer Interchange.
The total loss is estimated at ©250,
000.
When the fire broke out, the steamer
Crescent raised steam and dropped belo.v,
thus saving her from destruction.
On the 25th 'March, 1S57, it will be
remembered, Jaeksonport was visited
with a conflagration which destroyed
j property to the amount of ©150,000.
young lieutenant of cavalry,
writing from his camp in Texts to the
Washington National Intelligencer, gives
an account of his rencontre with a Ca
manche. With a party of men the officer
was pursuing some theiving Indians. He
came up to a band and engaged with a
lusty warrior, who dropped from his horse
and attempted to make his escape on foot,
but, says the lieutenant, *T dismounted
! and followed his moccasin track, and
finally came to a little precipice, down
which I saw his red blanket, which he
had dropped. Clambering down that I
picked up and examined his blanket. I
was then within six feet of him, aud did
not know it. Seeing where he had
jumped down another little descent by a
ledge of rocks, I jumped down also, and
in an lts'.ant he sprang upon me, leaping
in the air and alighting with his br« ast
upon my head. He had nn arrow in his
bow, the sharp point of which he placed
against my breast, but, just as he shot. I
sprang one side, and the arrow passed
through the sleeve of my coat. Grappling
with him, I wrenched his bow out of his
hands, and taking n»y pistol, belabored
him across his head and eyes. Finding,
however, that he pressed me so light that
I could not get a chance to cock my revol
ver. I dropped it, aud, seizing him with
both hands near the waist, raised him
high above the ground, tripped him, and
fell with my whole weight upon him; but
then I was in a quandary. Here was 1
on top holding down, breast upon breast,
a live Cainanche, and a very slippery one,
with nothing to kill him with ! Fortuately.
just then, one of my men caine up and
assisted in holding him until I could get
my pistol when 1 soon sent hint to his
•happy hunting ground' to rejoin his com
panions."
Bennett has been publicly flog
ged only seven times, as the subjoined list
shows:
October 6, 1S35, Dr. 8. P. Townsend
flogged him on Wall street.
January 20, 1936. James Watson
Wetib flogged him in Wall street.
May 9, 1S36. James Watson Webb
fi*rged him a second tune iu Wall street.
November 17, 1936, Thomas S. Hamb
lin aud others flogged him in the Herald
office.
February 8, IS3S, J. W. Hale fl gged
him in Wall street.
January 29. 1946, A. W. Clason flog
ged him in Nassau street.
November 1), 1650, John Graham flog
ged him in Broadway.
Justice to the notorious editor of the
Herald demands that any statement of
the number of his scourgmgs should he
correct. Give the devil his due.— rKu tck
erbocker.
—They are talking seriously, at Wash
ington. of impeaching Postmaster-General
Holt, for allowing his Deputy-Poststisters to
Grahstciie the oi’ib
[From the True Democrat.
BIBLE REVISION.
*• Ottr common VERSION IS ALL THAT wt
NEED desire."—j. VF. MoOHE.
Mr. Kditor—lo the Democrat of th*1 u.'ta
alt., [ observe that Mr. J. W Moore has re
plied to my notice of him of Feb 2b. " As
preliminary to any thing further that may be
said or done on that pom".” 1 will *• propose
to him the following question*,”and a prompt
and simple yes. or no. numerically given, " is
required of him without any circumlocution."
1. Are you the author of the above affir
mation : “That our common version is alt
that we need desire?”
2. Will you prove it in a public discus
sion? 3. Does not the pubTlr r*pect you to
prove it or to retract it? 4. What was
your object in your attacks upon me and the
Revision Association in the years 1858, 1*59
and I860, if they were not intended to prove
the above affirmation? 5. Will you show
how vou converted your affirmation, ••into a
challenge” to you by me ? 6. Does Mr. J.
W. Moore profess to understand th„ Samari
tan and Syriac languages, and will he agree
to give translations of such portions of these
original scriptures as may he submitted to
him during his attempt to prove his affirma
tion? 7. Doe-'he truth of your affirma
tion and your aril.ty to maintain it depend
I upon your knowledge of these ancient lan
guages? 8. Will Mr. Moore agree to de
fend as correct translations and as superior to
the common one. the following specimens
of the Rhemish New Testament, azvmes,
I tcnike, holocaush, pasche, neophyte,
ipenance? >J. Will Mr M. specify the time
land place, when and where I agreed to de
; fend any version now in existence as correct,
either old or new—much iess the first re
vision of one hook of the New Testa
! ment, and still less, isolated passages of that
one book before it passes the Final Commit
tee ? 10. Is the issue now before the publia,
whether I understand Hebrew and Greek or
English or any language, or whether l will
def ed any version, old or new,or is it. wheth
er “our common version is all that we
need desire?” This is the true question,
and I have labored and am now laboring to
disprove your affirmation, that our common
version is all that we need desire, and 1 will
stand up to it, and sir. will you stand up to
i your affirmation? 11 During the tune you
! have been attacking the Revision from So:..
1357, till now was my knowledge of Hebrew
and Greek and translations and revisions, a
condition in your attacks or in your anima
tion of Feb. 3, I860, if not. what right have
you to make it now a condition, that you are
taken up? I know enough for YOU—the |fSi
I know of anything the better for you. Take
care to make your affirmation good—I will
TAKE CARE OF >IY SIDS OP THE CONTROVERSY.
Yours truly, J..CF.EA FH.
Russellville, Ark.. March bth, 1860.
The new Manuscript Bible from
Mount Sinai.—The new manuscript
Bible discovered by Prof. Tiscbendori in
the library of the monastery on Mount
Sinai is to be priuted in St. Petersburg
with great magnificence, under bis care
and at tne cost ot me imperial umeru
ment. Prof. Tischendorf fields strong
reasons for fixing its date in the first half
of the fourth century ; and. he says, that
as a means of determining the text of the
sacred writings, especially those of the
Apostles, it is far more important than
j even the MS. of the Vatican. The age
| of the new >IS. has already been the
j subject of lively controversy, a concerted
atiack having been made upon Prof. j
Tischendrof’s deductions by a number of j
St. Petersburg academicians. His'replies ;
were, however, so satisfactory that his;
opponents have become converts to his j
belief.
This MS. is the oldest MS. of the Bi- j
ble which has been preserved in the Chris
tian world. It is far older than any other
except the Vatican MS., to which it is j
superior in age and in completeness ; for
the MS. of the Vatican lacks five books
entirely and one in part. Its authority is
also confirmed by the quotations of the
early Fathers, which agree with it more
nearly than any other MS.
Prof. Tischendorf has already filled ten
folip volumes witii Bible documents, and
may be presumed to know as much about
the correct version of the Bible as any
body. His seventh edition of the New
Testament is the standard. He will illus
' irate this edition profu-ely with philoso
phic fac similes ; and while he is sure
that tlie original MS. will, as soon as it
becomes known, be esteemed throughout
Christendom as a great national treasure
for Russia, he hopes to make the editio
princepa of it a worthy monument of Im
perial munificence, and one which the
whole Christian world shall receive witii
gratelul lhauks. — [Tribune.
Small Talk.—Out of every twenty
young men in a quadrille at an evening party,
who pretend to be making love to tbeir part
ners, ten are remarking that the room is very
warm, five are observing that the polka is the
grandest invention of the age. and five are
asking how the next figure commences.
Poetry a Capital Offence.—It is thus
related in Scottish Annal:“fn 1579, an act
was passed against beggars and such as make
themselves fools and bards.” Arid the Annals
goon to register: ‘’Two Poets hanged in
August, under act of Parliament against bards
and minstrels.”
Bevefitts of Adversitv.—No man is
more miserable than he that hath no advesity ;
that man is not tried whether he be good or
bad; and God never crowns those virtues which
are only faculties and indispositions; but every
act of virtue is an ingredient into reward —God
so dresses us for Heaven.—[Jeremy Taylor.
-The Mormons are circulating a coin as
$5, which the commanding officer has warned
the troops is worth only $4.50. A sweet lot,
those Mormons.
-The Italian correspondent of the Lon
don Times bas.been ordered out of Rome by
the police. He Is an Italian by birth, but a
naturalised British subject. He applied to the
English representative at Rome, Mr. Odo
Russell, whose energetic remonstrances with
the Roman authorities proved unavailing, and
the offending newspaper writer was not
allowed to remain.
North Elba, the home of John Brown’s
family, was earriei by the Democrats at the
town meeting, last week, by a considerable
majority. Some of John Brown’s relatives
were on the defeated ticket.
LOGS! LOGS!! LOG'!!!
Wheat! Wheat!! Wheat!!!
VA f \NTED immediately at the Lake Bluff
* V Steam Saw and Flouring Mills, any
| rpiantity Wheat and Saw Logs, for which the
j highest market price will be paid in cash.
E. G. ATKINS.
March 29.1860.—apr4-6m.
to »ll wiion ir vat on
• URN
^pHIS is to forewarn all persons from
catting any timber, bushes or removing’
| any logs off of any of my lots in the Town of
j Des Arc, as I will enforce the law against
i any person or persons for so doing.
JNO. a. frith.
March 28. I860—apr4-tf.
Notice to the Public.
; TU’E forewarn all persons from trespass
er ing »fon our property, in the Town of
I Des Arc. by cutting any timoer or bushes, or
| removing any logs or timber off of the same,
I as the law will be rigidly enforced against
any person or persons, who disregards this
notice. FRITH At CATLIN.
March 28, IfiSC.—»pr4 tf.
SPRING and SUMM -R
GOODS,
g. & J McLaren & co.,
Are now receiving a large and general as
nortment of
LtDIES PRES8 COOIW
Bonnets. Bonnet Ribbons, Hosiery. &c.
ALSO— -
Summer Casslmeres. Jeans, Cottonwie*. Os- i
nabiirgs. Plain and Striped Domestics, Cali- '•
coes. Linsies. itc.
BOOTS AND SHOES
A general assortment.
flats ansi Misses Flats—
A large assortment.
Books and Stationery.
Carpets and Window Shades.
Clock? and Notion-,.
Enamel Cloth and Carriage Trimmings.
Buggy Whips and Cow Hides.
Trunks and Carpet Bags.
Saddles, Bridles, Girths. Martingales, itc.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Queensware and Glassware.
And a very nice lot of Ready-Made Cloth
ing. a general assortment, all of which we
will sell very cheap for cash or to responsi
ble parties on the usual credit.
Those visiting our town for the purpose of
buying Goods, will find it to their interest to
give us a call before purchasing elsewhere
mariS-tf ] G. & J. McLAREN & CO.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to all persons concerned.
that John C. Ostenberg. about 33 year., of
age, light complexion, dark hair and weigh
ing about 160 pounds, a native of Sweden,
died intestate arid without any known heirs in
this country, on or about the 1st day of De
cember, A. D. 1859. And letters of Adminis
tration on his estate have been granted to me
dated the 23d day of December, 1S59. And
the appraised value of said estate, is six hun
dred and ninety-five dollars.
JOHN W. ROBINSON, Adtn’r.
Des A'-c, Ark., March 20. 1860.
mar28 6w.
n a w PU ITIT.TT . J. J. VIUGOI, . • W. 3. WIGGS.
Wfigsc* Brothers <•* Co.,
WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL
DRUGGISTS
APOTHECARIES,
No’s 3i7and3l9 Main St,
coa. MAIN AND UNION,
OPPOSITE SPEED, DONOHO&. STRANGE
Memphis, Tenn.
A T this stand we hope and expect to see all
our old friends and customers, assuring
them that our renewed efforts shall be aimed
to please, and to continue to furnish them
with Drugs of asuperior character, and other
goods, the quality of which we can and will
warrant.
ijy We keep a full supply of Grass and
Garden eeds.
Wiggs Brothers & Co.,
Cor. Main and Union St’s.,
mai2S-ly. Memphis, Tennessee.
HENRY G SMITH.J. CORREY, Jr.
CORREY & CO.;
(Successors to Duval, Algeo & Co .)
Wholesale and Retai
DEALERS IN
HAVE put up an amount of ICE of the
best quality, larger than ever before
brought to this market, which they are pre
pared to furnish in any quantities, on reason
able terms for Cash, or to punctual customers.
February 17, 1800.
The undersigned, members of the firm of
Duval, Algeo Sc Co., Ice Firm, beg to com
mend to their friends and customers. Messrs.
Correy Sc Co., their successors in the ice
business, and solicit for them a continuance
of the generous patronage heretofore exter.dtd
to us. W. J. ALGEO.
mar21 la. GEO. A. SMITH.
DR. H- ARMH 5 AD
HAVING permanently located at Des Arc,
offers his professional services to the
citizens of the town and adjacent country.
(t3T Office on Ljon street, Martin Sc Simp
son’s Law Office.
DR WM. BETHELL.
TT7 ILL continue the Practice of Medicine
V\ in Des Arc. and vicinity. From his
I long experience in his professionAand having
! resided in ArKansas during rne pas: nrceen
i years, he hopes to receive a share of the pub
lic patronage.
ijy Office at Balsly’s Drug Store. Resi
] dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the South side of
the road, entering the town. mar21-ly.
JUST RECEIVED
g. & J. McLaren & co.,
lies .Ire, Arkansas.
8 DOZEN silk, cassimere and soft fur Hats
assorted. Also, l^gross Garrett’s snufi:
Turpentine in bottles ; Quinine and Smith’s
Tonic; Star Candles; Soda; Starch; Brirn
j stone: Bar Soap. ire.. &c. mar21
LASDS FOR SA* E.
IN Prairie county, in town 2 south, range f.
west, 80 acres. Town 2 south, 7 west, 520
I acres.
IN Arkansas county, in town 3 south, range
6 west, 840 acres; 4 south 4 west, 160
I acres; 5 south a west, 480 acres; 3 south 4
| west. 680 acres.
XN Jeilerson county, town 3 south, range 7
west, 670 acres.
IN Jackson county, town 5 north, range 4
west. 4200 acres. These lands will be
1 sold, part cash, balance on time.
For further information apply to
GATEWOOD &. MOON,
mar21-tf. Des Arc, Ark.
Pet of the Woods.
•Vfv II* SAW .MfsL
IN CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
rr,HE undersigned having erected a
"*■ Saw Mill in Centre Township, near the
: residence of S. Kennedy, on Bayou Wattensaw
! are prepared to fill all orders at the shortesl
i notice, for any required size, quantity, oi
! length of lumber, at lowest cash prices.
A constant supply kept always on hand
The kinds of ttmber sawed at this Mill, are
Oak, Gum, Hickory, Walnut. Sassafras anc
Ash. Any person wanting lumber, should
address us at Walnut Plains, Arkansas.
Orders for lumber respectfully solicited.
8. A. WESTBROOK.
mar21-tf. JOHN C. KENNEDY.
c a Ji nsos,
pARPENTEIl AND JOINER. Also
Dealer in Sash. Doors, Mantles, Window
and Door Frames, &c.
£y Shop corner of Erwin and Park streets
DF.9 ABC, ARKANSAS.
v H — ofllns made to order, on shor
notice. feb220y
"just received,
BOXES Shoes and Boots.
•J Also.
10O0 Apple Trees, from the nursery oi
Brady Price of Lauderdale county, Alabama
i being a selection of the best qualities ct fmi
j in the co.mtry.
j»sl3- G. fe J JltLAREN ft C''
Arrangements for tne Future
A FTER he 1st day of April next. I , ' I
x\. furnish any responsible and paying ,1" 1
ties that de-ire any kind of Good, jn myr'r- B
of business, on a credit until the 1st d,, , W
January next, at as low pricey as any M
in the We«£. Hive now on hand a full lt”V I
of all kinds of Goods usually found in -iipn ^
establisbroen s. and constantly receiving »r H
bouse in this country wiII have a larger jtp 16 -.a|
or gre*fer va-iety. My extensive n#w j
of all kinds of Spring ar.cf Summer Gbo');* ‘ M
will be entireiv complete by. oV about tb« jj^ M
or 20th of April. All Goods warranted p, j. I
as represented. I have adopted the pl> 1 I
figure system, everything is marked in pi,!' i*ll
figures, and have but one p-ice; deal ip J1 I
old Goods of any description. Any 0 11
found not to be new and fresh may be return#? I
I will be prepared at the very first 0f o' I
next Cotton sea-on. to pay cash for cotton,■ H
the highest New Orleans prices, les- exp«n.,. BK
of shipping. &.C.. or advance liberally oaji'
Cotton left with me for shipment, to’a j;0 . I
merchant in New Orleans
mar21 - JOHNH.QUfSENBEP.RY. I
Wyt ... .T L. Hiv - I
D'CEJ'ICH, RIVES Sc Co.
XVPORTERS ASH WHOLESALE DEALERS IV '* Ml
OIL*, P4IXT8
Dne-Stnffj anti ©tassroart,
No. 4 Second st eet. bet. Ma ke^and Walpj, 4
NEARLY OPPOSITE SIR 4UIVt'S HOT.L, : i
SAINT LOUIS, MO.
marli 6m.
S Iff AID EXCLUSIVE
WHOLESALE
DRY-GOODS HOUSE,
303 Main St.. Memphis, 303
o'itbrr,iv,i.r tv: mu>/ivci,
TAKE pleasure in announcing that a
they a-e now opening and prepared to et
hibit.'o Merchants buying for Cash orpri. j§£
pared to make prompt and reliable arrin™. J
ments, a very large ana entirely new stoek'ot
Staple and Fancy Goods,
Ctothtno. Embroideries,
Wbappings. Trimming,
and Varieties,
; Adapted to the season, and embr cing alio.
I gether one of the most complete and ittrit. Si
tive stocks ever offered in any market.
They respectfully solicit from the trades
i careful examination, with confidence that
! stock and prices will be found satisfactory.
| mar!4-ly.
A CALL.
\ LL persons indebted to the undersigned,
; . jL must come forward and pay to J. M. Ptt- !i
I ty all money due me either on .N'oteor Account,
as he is fully authorized to receive and re
ceipt for the same. J. GRIFFITH.
marl-l-Im.
n< \EY TO LET. I
\LL persons indebted to Lane 4 Watte ’
either by Note or Account, areR-equerted I
to come forward and pay up. as we must have !
money. J. M. Petty is fully authorized to
receive and receipt for the same.
marl4-lm. LANE 4 WATTS.
WM. GREENSLADE
•.Uerckant Tailor. 1
Dus Arc, Ark., i
SHOP in Buena Vista street.oue doc Weit ;
of the Post office. All work executed is \
| a neat and fashionable style.
feb‘29-ly.
LIVERY STABLE. I
BY T. F. GREER & BRO„ I
J % Des Arc, Ark.
i jjL' T H F. proprietors of
this Stable, which is
~“ *— the oldest --tabiisment VjjT
of the kind in Des Arc. situated on Buena I
V •‘■a s t re'‘ , i ear tbi- Public t?q :nre, ere pre- ii
pared a- heretofore, to accommodate their I
customers with Horses, Bunciiis. Carriages* I
&e . on short notice.
‘SP* We a » prepared to accommodate any |
number of herses. by the single feed. eiay. |
week, or month. VV e attend to’the stable our- 1
selves, and can assuree all that their stock 1
j will be weil attended to. a
■‘^T’ To the citizens of Paine White. St. \
Francis, Jackson. Monroe and Pi.laski copiK |
ties, we are under peculiar obHgatioiis fa- |
their libc-al patronage; and can assn ee »1 1
‘■even those who cotne from afar off.” lhat im |
effort shall be spared on our part to pleast
them, as in by gone days.
feb29-tf, _ I
FEMALE SCHOOL.
Atlanta, Prairie County. Akk. (
HAVING siicceede-yhi establisblaj II
f he above School, and having seca- If
red the invaluable service^ of Mil* |fl
j£3jf E D. SAEFORD.as pinci pal, when* Bj
educational advantages, in connec- II
tion with her untiring energy and per«evtr- H
ance has won for her a reputation as a teacher "jj
attained by few. And having all the advaa- fc
tages nature could bestow on a locality, sur- H
rounded by a moral, energetic and deeply in- f
terested community.
All the Trus'ees feel proud in offering csr 9
young, biit flattering institution to the patron- ?
age of the public.
First Session commenced on Monday the ||
13th February. 1X60.
TERMS PER SESSION Or JIVE MONTHS 3
Primary Department. Sid 00 I
1st Acadamic Class. 12 00
2nd Acadamic Class, embracing
.-\igeora,ueomeiry At Astronomy- m <**
French and Latin'. 10 UO
Music. 20 00
iisr Good board at reasonable rates.
REFERENCES.
Col. Jno. M. Bell, Maj. I. C. A. Skill*"
Maj Peter St. Clair, Rev. I. Y. Corbitt, Oak
land Grove, Ark.
By order of the Trustees.
feb29-tf. L. B. Mitchell, Se’cy.
SOUTHWORTH, NANCE & CO.
Wholesale Dry Goods
AND
CLOTHING STORE,
Memphis, Tenn
W. S. SOUTHWORTH, ) W. H. NANCE.
geo. E. ykatmaN. $ Late of Huntsville Al*.
Of Douglas A Co., I joa. c. bradlf.y. of
Nashville. Bradley, Wilson & Co.
New Orleans.
VUE have opened early for spring sales.
\V at No. 163 Main street, Memphis,'IeB*-*
a large and varied stock of foreign as3
DOMESTIC DRV GOODS, CLOTHING. NOTION,
HOSIERY. UMBRELLAS. &C..&C.. exclusive”
for wholesale trade The merchants of A1'
kansas. will find it to ibeir interest to ex»*>® I
this stock before going to other mark** B
Goods and prices will be found to cou>P*r I
favorably with any to be had in the l"* gg
S'ates,—and all we ask. is an opportunity ' B
prove our word* true. Barter of all discilp I
tions. taken athighe-t market value.
Southworth, Nance, A Co.
feb29-3m. Above Worsham Hou**_ |
Just Received.
I ml [Zf\f\ YARDS White Osnaburgs.
yards Brown Domestic, 25 pi*04
i Calico.
-ALSO
; A lot of Hardware, Locks, Hinges,
Screws. Steel Hoes. Garden Rakes, L0,_*
handle Shovels and Spades, Scythes aud
dies. &c., for sale by n
ma-14- G A J. McLAREN A CU^
. Of|.A OUNCES jos! rec- ved a-J‘8‘
j yUU -ale by A STEWAl'-T “
1 ma: 10