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SATURDAY. ..-JUNE 20, 1861
WHITE RIVER U. S. MAIL LINE.
S£M(.WEEKLY from jacksonport to
METMPHI» via. napoleon.
. ^ aWIIA VALLEY, D. B. Price, Master,
"t 1 irc_Up Thursdays— down Saturdays.
JAj HALE,.C. W. Coi.es, Master.
peS‘ yrc_Up Tuesdays — down Thursdays.
- -» ■ .....—.
Memphis & White River Packets.
ri)I, MORGAN.W. A. Wilds, Master.
A|.-\V MOON,.John Bearing, Master.
_We return our thanks to the
Barkeeper of the Kanawha Valley for
gome splendid peaches—the first of this ex
cellent fruit we have seen this season. He
ill kPPp them constantly on hand, and be
ready t° supply customers whenever the boat
lands at this place. __
j^”Mr. Henry Jackson, on Monday last,
showed us a cotton boll in full bloom. He
siys the prospects for a fine cotton crop, in
this vicinity, were never better.
I
EXPRESSLY FOR THE “CITIZEN.”
BV THE ARKANSAS STATE TELEGRAPH I.fNK.
rs- M. W. Barr, of Louisville, Kv..is the
■ special and recognized agent of the New Or
I leans Associated Press at that point. - The
telegraph company has no agency whatever in
the preparation of such reports, nor is it re
| sponsible in any manner for the character oi
I truth of the news.
FROM MISSOURI.
Boonville, June 25.—Gen. Lyon engaging
■ wagons and horses indicates Southern inove
I meets.
St. Louis, June 2f>.—Two regiments mov
B . . i n:_I. I
> Illj; IMI vji ( • Ml - ■
I Watkins.
Republican’* news of Monday corroborated
% by one Jones of Neosho, that six Missourians
were killed and six wounded, while federalists
lost 6U killed and a number of wounded.
St. Louis, June 26.— Cherokee, John ltoss,
proclaims neutrality.
Syracuse, June 27—Jackson is reported at
Ponneu Deterre with 1200 men Overland
mail coaches are in Jackson’s possession.
FROM WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee. June 25. — City quiet.
1 I Milwukkk. June 27. — No additional out
break but much exritament.
The Governor is here.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Fortress Monroe, June 25. — Ordinance
Pepartment preferred charges against General
Jlutler for violating army regulations in
permitting Sawver to conduct experiments.
I Weather here w.i rin. TIipi inoinetor 101.
Alexandria. June 25.— Prof. Lowe’s bal
loon discovered scattering camp Fairfax C. II.
Lieutenant. Tompkins cavalry and several
■companies light infantry proceeded there—it
was rumored last night that cavalry had been
lent, to piece.—no otlicial information relative
to his opera! ion=.
It is stated Cad waladei received direct or
ders from Scott not to advance to Martinsburg.
Williamsport, June 27. — Forty confeder
ate cavaliy soldiers crossed Potomac destroy
ing Kpatibid’s I'eriy.
It is rumored battery at Sewali’s point been
tu ned on reconnoitering party, eight killed
many wounded.
Capt. Dubuiry. II. Maury, Assi-tant Adju
tant Gen. Carter, Stephenson of 5th Infantry,
and Lieut. Edward Dillon, Viiginians, have
been stricken from army rolls for treasonable
exjupssions.
RicIimond, Jdnk 26th.—Leonidas Polk,
bi.-hop of Louisiana, has been appointed a
j Brigadier General in the Confederate army
and will take command of the land and water
■defences on the Mississippi river below Cairo
in connection with Col. Hardee whose heud
|qnart.e s will be at Memphis.
Fortress Monroe, June 26*h. The gun
IlliMtit- Mm.fioAlLv t .... D....nohu»ninuL' ri VPI*
They sent a scouting party ashore which was
jsurpiiseil, ami caine off with nine killed and
Wound, d. The Montieello opened fire on the
•Southerners when they retired. Steamer Qua
ker City had a brush with some dragoons
•near Cape Henry, and one of their seamen
"'as killed. The shells of the steamer dis
persed the Southerners.
Ship Amelia from Liverpool to Charleston
"as captured by the blockading squadron.
A (lag of truce covering 50 refugees has ar
rived, and reports that Sewell’s pioneers re
gard Sawyers gun with contempt. Yorktowu
has been made a stronghold.
New York, June 20th.—The Chesapeake
■ arrived from Key West with dates of the 19th.
Reports the garrison well supplied with pro
visions snd ordnance.
It is thought that a change of programme
"ill result from yesterday’s conference at
Washington, and that a forward movement
will soon take place1
Sec’ty Chase recommends a moderate revis
lon of the Morrill Tariff.
N. Y. Post says that the leading Congress
men have determined to confine the legislation
the4th of July session to war exclusively.
A letter from the Colorado at sea says that
she broke some of her machinery, and upon
examination it was found that a piece had
been sawed out, and was carefully replaced by
soft iron. It is thought it was done by the
;Same engineer who tampered .with the Miss
msippi’s engines.
FOREIGN NEWS.
1 Halifax. June 25.—Europa arrived with
j. Liverpool dates to 15th.
Europa brings advices sixteen British gun
I vessels ordered to join squadron immediately
£oing to America.
Italy’s recognition by France is imminent,
mie Debats says if Austria crosses Mincio
France will inevitably fight.
FROM KENTUCKY.
Louisville, June 25.—Passengers travel
between north and south entirely free from
any delay or annoyance. Freight matters are
ll0t definitely decided.
There is strong movements here depreca
llng Rousseau enlisting men—the movements
Regarded by unionists unnecessary and useless
ly irritating,
Louisville, June 26-—Bridge on Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad at Seymour has been burnt
Mjvn preventing regular connections.
Louisville, June 27.—The war steamer A.
o. Tyler is on the rocks at the foot of theca
11(11 «
The following despatch received yesterday
by an officer of Navy who tells you of McClel
land s authority of reported arrangement be
tween Government and Kentucky:
Grafton, June 27,
Capt. W. Nelson, U. S. N.
i ly interview with Gen. Buckney was per
sonal, not official, was solicited by him more
man once. I made no stipulations on part of
General Government—regarded his promise
to drive out confederates as the only result of
the interview—his letter gives his own view
not mine. Signed Geo. McClelland.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, June 2(1.—Financial affairs
becoming alarming—direct taxation must be
resorted to—among suggestions are newspaper
income and Stale tax.
Washington, June 26th.—Hagerstown
intelligence renders it certain that Gov.
Wise has gone to attack the force which is
acvancing up the Kanawha.
Col.Johnson has five regiments opposite
Westport, anil eigtit thousand men at various
points between Hancock and Harper’s Ferry.
All reports about Hie president, the cabinet,
or Scott favoring compromise is totally un
founded, or “any other man.”
Washington, June 27.—Columbia College
lias conferred upon Lincoln Hie degree of L.
L. D. °
Pierpont, Governor New Va., is conferring
with Cabinet at Washington.
FROM TENNESSEE.
Memphis, June 27.—'['he majority for sep
aration in fennessee is 61.175. The vote was
the largest ever polled in this State.
Passengers just from Cano reports expedi
tion sent tty Prentiss into Missouri for the
purpose of breaking up secession camp near
Cape Guardian, cut off and five hundred pris
oners taken by the Missourians who were
timely warned of their approach, immense
excitement in Cairo.
FROM INDIANA.
Indianapolis, June26.—Governor calls for
11 additional regiments.
FROM MARYLAND.
Frederick, June 26.—Legislature adjourn
ed to the 13th of July.
Grafton, June 26.—Reinforcements arriv
ing.
Scouts report Sontherneis 6000 strong, and
that Wise momentarily expected with' three
more regiments. On arrival of which, the
whole force move to Phillippi.
Marshal Kane has been arrested by federal
Jno. It. Hanley appointed by Gen. J3rn|-.j 2.:o
vost marshal of Baltimore. The mayor anu
commissioners of police were asked for time
but Henley’s orders were immediate. He has
possession of the Marshal’s office.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, June 20.—The crew of the
Savannah is now before the Grand Jury.
Reporter of the Tribune says, it is not true
that a co-operation is between Adams Exnress
Go. and the Post-office Department to carry
letters. The subject belongs exclusively to
the War Department.
The 37th regiment met with a scowling and
scouting reception at Baltimore — no lings dis
played. A Wisconsin Quarte: master said that
a bullet whistled past his ears.
The Herald says that Scott’s advisers and
Cabinet., in council, developed their plan ot
cam pa ign. hut discuss nothing in public—noth
ing known bevond that blow soon to be struck.
FROM MASSACHUSETTS..
Boston. June 27.—Steamship Europa bro’t
Gol. Freeinont.
New York Tribune’s Washington correspon
dent. savs Gen Patterson received orders to
advance, which seems like relieving his inac
tivity.
Correspondent of Post says Etheridge is
candidate for secretaryship of federal Senate.
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CI<1 Kvass and Cojiper Wanted
A LL persons having old brass or copper are
A requested to deposit it at the “Cit.zei
Otlice.” Des Arc needs a good brass cannon
and it can be easily obtained, if those havinii
old brass or copper will donate it for that pui
1 may lo.
nose. i 1 i *
DI33D :
In Des Arc on Wednesday June 26th, Mr.
Samuel A. Quay, aged about 47 years.
He has been engaged in our office, at differ
ent periods, for several years, and we ever
found in him all the noble and generous qual
ities which adorn man. He was a sociable
companion, and the craft, in his death, have
lost one of their brightest ornaments.
MARKETS, &c.
Citizen Office, Des Arc,?
Saturday June 29, 1861. S
DES ARC PRICES CURRENT.
Corrected Weekly In/ Stewart <V Bro's.
Bagging. (Kentucky).. 17© 18
“ (India). 16 @ 17
Bale Rope. 9 © 10
Beeswax, per lb.. 20 © 25
Bricks, per m. ©
Brooms per dozen. 2 r>0 © 0 00
Buckets, painted, per dozen •• • 2 50 © 0 00
Butter, per lb.. 12 @ 20
Bar iron. 5 © 6
Bar Soap, per, lb. 6J@ 7
Castings. 5© 6
Copperas, per lb. 5© 10
Coffee—Rio.. 20 @ 00
Chocolate. 10 © 12j
Candles—Tallow perlb. 15 © 17
Star.. 23 © 26*
Cotton. 9 © 10^
Cotton Yarns. 91© 12
Cordage—Manilla. 121© 20
Chickens, per doz. © 2 00
Corn Meal, per bush. 75 © 90
Corn,. 65 © 75
Drugs and Dye Stuffs
Alum, per lb. 8 © 10
Brimstone.. 6 © 10
Camphor.. 75 © 8C
Madder. 20 © 25
Indigo. 1 50 @ 2 00
Logwood.. 6 @ 10
Soda, (B. C.). 8© 15
Saleratus. 6J© 121
Eggs, per doz. 121© H>
Flour, perbbl. 5 50 @ 8 00
Flour, per 100 lbs, in sacks.•• 3 50 @ 3 75
Feathers per lb.. 55 © 60
Beef Hides “ “ . 5 © 0
Fruits—
Apples per bush, dried. 1 50 © 1 75
Peaches “ “ “. 1 50 @ 1 75
tiaisir.s, per .. O .nr icy ''V/
Gunpowder, only at retail, 50 @ 75
Lime, per bbl. 1 “0 Oft 1 75
Lead—Bar, per lb. 8 (a) 10
Ginger per lb. 11 0 15
German Steel. 18 @ 20
A. B “ 10 @ 00
Cast “ 25 @ 30
Hollow Ware, per gal. 12J@ 10
Meats—
Canv. Hems, per lb.. lf>‘| (3) 00
Plain do ££ ££ . 15 @ 00
Shoulders, “ ££ . 13 (a) 00
Middlings “ ££ . 17 (3) 18
Bulk Pork, . 00 @ 00
Pork, fresh . 0 @ 7
Beef per lb. .. 5| 7
Paints and Oils—
Linseed Oil, per gal. 1 00 @ 1 25
Sperm Oil ££ ££. 2 25 @ 0 00
Lard Oil, “ ££. 1 25 @ 1 50
White Lead, per keg. . 50 @ 3 002
Spanish Brown, per lb.. 10 @ 00
Venitian lied “ “. 15 @ 20
Red Lead per lb. 15 @ 20
Nails—lOd. 4 75 @ 5 00
8d,—6 d,—4d,—5d. . 5 Oft 5 50
Molasses, per gal. . 37,i@ 42^
Sugar—Brown, per lb.. 8 (a) 10 •
Loaf, per lb.. 15 @ 16^
Crushed ££ . 15
Pepper, per Ib.. 13',@ 15
Rice. 7 @ 8
Salt—
Liverpool fine, per suck ••• • 1 75 @ 0 00
££ coarse, ££ .... 1 50 @ 00
Starch—Pearl.. 9 @ 15 \
Spice,. 15 0$ 20
Tobacco—common. 10 @ 15
£> Honey Dew.. 30 @ 00
££ Nectar Leaf. 50 @ 00
“ Fine Virginia.•••• • 75 @ 1 00
Tea. per lb.. 85 @ 1 00
Tallow, per lb.. 8 @ 9
Whisky, per gal.. 25 @ 1 25
iiiia »iMgi^—r»jMiin»M»wang^rnTW'i immnwwi i ' ui
rpHE PARTNERSHIP HERETO
j foie existing between the undersigned, in
the practice of medicine, was dissolved by
mutual consent, on the 15th of May, 1801.
Both are authorised to settle the business of
the firm. N. B. TUCKER,
M. J. BIRDSONG.
Des Arc, June 12, 1801—lrn.
NOTICE.
DR. N. B. TUCKER, continues the prac
tice of his profession, and offers his ser
vices to the citizens of Des Arc and adjacent
country.
EdT’ Particular attention given to the dis
eases of females. June 12, 1801—tf.
JYOTICMA*
MR. M. H. ADAMS and all others con
cerned, are hereby notified, that on Mon
day the 24th day of June, 1801, I will proceed
to take the depositions of witnesses at the
office of Horace P. Vaughan, J. P., in the
town of Des Arc, in Prairie county, in the
State of Arkansas, between the hours of 8
o’clock a. m. and 0 o’clock p. in. of said day,
to be read in evidence in my behalf before the
Land Agent at Jacksonport, on the 29th day
of June, 1801, for him to decide who has the
legal right of pre-emption to the w. J of the
s. w. ^ of sectioii nine, (9) in T. four, (4)
It. five (5) w. of the fifth (5) principal meri
dian, at which time and place you can attend
and cross examine my witnesses, and produce
your witnesses, allowing me to cross examine
them. Given under my hand, June 14th, 1861.
June 14—31 MARY TARKINTON.
REMOVAL!
rpHE undersigned has removed his Carpet
JL and Curtain business, to the Jackson
Block, 303 Main Street, where he is prepared
to show the best assortment of Carpet and
Curtain Goods in Memphis. Velvet, lapes
try, Brussels, Super and Common Carpets,
Rugs, Mats, Matting, Cocoa Matting, etc.
Silk, Damask, Lade and Common Curtains,
Tassels, Loops. Bands, Picture Cord, Corni
ces, etc.; Buff and White Holland of differ
ent widths; Gilt, Landscape and Plain Shades.
Floor Oil Cloths, from six to twenty-four feet
wide. . , .
Finkle & Lyons’ Family Sewing Machine,
the best machine made, for from $55 to $130.
The best of workmen on hand to cut, make
and lay carpels, hang curtains, shades. Ate.
a * ‘ It- M. GROSVENER,
Jackson Block, 363 Main St., Memphis.
je'30-tf
DOLBEAR
Commercial College,
OF
THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS,
IY THE STORt BUILDING,
Corner of Camp and Common Streets,
Founded in IS3‘I.
Chartered hy the Legislature of Louisiana,
with Agricultural and Mechanical De
partments, and subject to the Board of
Trustees, six appointed hy the
Legislature, and five to be
elected annually by
the subscribers.
CHARTER.PERPETUAL.
FACULTY.
RUFUS DOLBEAR.President.
J. B. LYM AN, member of the New Oi leans
bar, Lecturer on Commercial Law.
FREEMAN CORNISH, Professor of Mathe
matics.
RUFUS DOLBEAR, Lecturer on Book-keep
ing and Business Transactions.
J. \V'. BLACKMAN, Professor of Book
keeping.
RUFUS L. DOLBEAR. Adjusterof Accounts,
Commercial Correspondence, etc.
M. B. McCARTHY, Professor of English.
MARC ROUX, Professor of French.
J. B. GRIFFITH, Professor of Penmanship
and Commercial Correspondence.
RUFUS DOLBEAR, Lecturer on Penman
ship.
MANUEL MARINO, Professor of Spanish.
GEO. GESSNER, Professor of German.
Messrs. MARINO and GESSNER, Professors
of Latin and Greek.
MAJOR A. BLANCHARD, Superintendent
of the Military Instruction and Drill.—
Major B. is a graduate of West Point,
and was for 17 years an efficient officer of 1
the U. S. Army.
No Institution in the United States offers
greater facilities for the speedy acquisition of
a practical business education.
It has stood more
THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY
on its own merits alone, and is now more
prosperous than ever notwithstanding the
hostility of itinerant and local Abolition
ists, whose trade is to malign what they
cannot control, me is ujieii me u«- i
tire year. All who take the Commcrcia1
Course are able to keep any set cf books in a
bank, business house or steamboat, in the
most approved manner. Persons from 12 to
(30 years of age attend to any branch they
may desire. They can board with the Pro
fessor or other good families, speaking Eng
lish, French, Spanish, or German. Country
Merchants can learn in a few days to keep
their own books correctly or acquire a hand
some style of penmanship. The lessons are
special to each student. Books of all kinds
Opened, closed or corrected. Persons who
write for Book-keeprs, Clerks or Teachrs
should give full particulars.
Catalogues with terms, opinions of the
Southern press and leading men of the nation,
sent to all who desire them. All who are
willing to subscribe, so as to open the Agri
cultural and Mechanical Departments, can
obtain all needful information at any time.
The amount can be taken out in tuition. The
money expended by Southern families at
Northern watering-places in a single year
would build up in every Southern State Com
mercial, Agricultural and Mechanical Col
leges. We pay an annual tribute of $20,000,
000 to Abolitionism, and then wonder that it
flourishes and now threatens to destroy our
property and our lives!
N. B. This is the only chartered Commer
cial College in the South-west authorized
to confer Degrees, Dipiomas, Literary and
Scientific Honors. At this Institution the
Students graduating in one part, or all of the
studies in its curriculum, receives his Diplo
ma accordingly.
Address :
RUFUS DOLBEAR, President,
or This Office, for Catalogues. jc22:y
NOTICE.
mo ALL persons in any manner inter
} ested in the estate of Martha T. Shuford,
deceased, take notice: that the undersigned as
administrator of the estate of Martha T. Shu
ford, deceased, will apply to the Honorable
Probate Court of Prairie Comity, Arkansas,
at the July Term thereof, which will be be
gun and held at the Court House in said coun
ty, on the second Monday in July, A. D. ’(ill
for an order to sell the following described
lands, belonging to said estate, viz: S. J N.
W. 1 of Sec. 29, T. 4, N. R., 6 W.
GEORGE TRAVIS, Adm’r.
T\JI mr Qft 1 *n
JONES & BROWN,
DEALERS IN
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES!!
Provisions, Etc., Etc.
I) EG LEAVE TO INFORM THE CITI
) zcns of Des Arc, and surrounding country,
that we have and will keep constantly on
hand
A LARGE SUPPLY
Of Choice Family Groceries !!!
Which we will sell low for cash.
jan 9 ’61[ly JONES & BROWN.
~NOTICE
IS hereby given, that letters Testamentary,
were on the 22nd day of April granted to
the undersigned, upon the estate of Win. B,
Williams dec’d.
Now, therefore, all persons having claims
against said estate, are required to exhibit the
same to the Executor, properly authenticated,
within one year after the date of such letters,
or they may be precltided from any benefit in
the estate; and that if such clahns'be not ex
hibited within two years from the date of such
letters, they shall be forever barred and pre
cluded from any benefit from such estate.
ROBERT E. RIVES, Ex’r.
June 7,1801. w-2m
S Tie A YE O
IT* ROM the subscriber, in Des Arc, about
_U the 4th of May last, a sorrel horse pony,
with a large white blaze in the face, one white
hind foot, saddle spots on each side of his
back bone, back of his weathers, his tail re
sembles that of a flax mane and tail, marked
with an upper bit in the right ear not far
from the point. Any person finding said pony
will be rewarded by writing to or returning
him to Beni. Blakeuey, near Des Arc.
June 12—tf. N. W. WANSLEE.
NOTICE.
THE interest of Thomas McCarley in the
firms of R. C, McCarley &. Co., and of Mc
Carley, Brown ic Co. has ceased, and the under
signed is the only authorized agent to settle
tliat part of the business of the two firms.
apil7 tt _ R. C. McCARLEY.
rhe Fine Fast Freight and
Passenger Steamer,
A, W.QUARRIER,
fS OFFERED FOR SALE ON
LQlBEB^iL HW,
—t THE A. W. Qcarrier'
stands A No. 1 in the In
mrance offices, lias been newly furnished and
itted up, and has two Marino Pumps to he
worked by steam or hand.
She is a stern wheel boat, 160 feet long and
18 feet wide, 3 high pressure boilers 30 inches
ong and 30 inches in diameter, 2 high pres
sure engines, with lfijinches in diameter, with
1 feet stroke. She also has all necessary
BUCKETS, JlXES, be,
:oinformablc to law Her cabin Is beautifully
lurnished, having
27 STATE ROOMS,
rwo Pcrths in each, and accommodations for
L 0 0 CABIN PASSENGERS,
—and—
300 OJV DECK.
The A. W. Quarrier can carry about
FIVE HUNDRED TONS FREIGHT,
iml draws Eighteen Inches Water light, anil
b’ive and a half feet when loaded.
Also a new Life Boat and Yawl, and every
hing else necessary to a boat to be in good
•(inning order. For further particulars al
Iress the undersigned at Clarendon, Arkansas.
F. P. IiEDMDND.
May 31, 1861—tf.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
COMPANY.
ONE THOUSAND SLAVES WANTED
BY HIKE OR PURCHASE.—We will
purchaso or hire, for a term of five years,
Five Hundred or a thousand Slave Laborers,
to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad, iir
Texas, immediately west of Shreveport, La.,
in a region secure and protected from Invasion
or molestation during the conflict which shall
exist between the two sections of this coun
try. The country through which the road
passes is entirely healthy, and for the distance
of some 400 or 500 miles west of Shreveport,
It penetrates one of the finest agricuItjAl
countries on the continent of America.
This company has a magnificent land grant
from Texas, i. e., 10,240 aclcs for every mile
of road the company constructs, fdr the dis
tance of 800 miles from Shreveport on the
eastern, to El Paso on the western boundary
of Texas. In times like the present, the com
pany cannot c6mmand*cash to pay for labor
essential to the rapid development of the com
pany’s interest) but for a term of years, by
hire or by the actual purchase, this company
will make the most liberal and advantageous
arrangements with slave-owners in Kentucky,
Missouri, Virginia, Mary land,North Carolina,
or elsewhere, for the hire or purchase', wlta
payments in the most undoubted securities, of
500or a 1000 slaves. Families entire will 1)0
taken, either by hire or purchase. The com
pany is enabled to propose liberal term, be
cause of the munificent land grants by Texas,
audits ability to purchase tire iron and roll
ing stock for the entire road across Texas,
•il A 1 _u._L! ... 1. Mm A/.imnnni)
wnu tuu cvugvi “VIIV.W v —I'-’V '
at rates almost equal to cash. All the rights o£
this company arc fixed and vested by the
laws of Texas. The compaay ha* secured
the sympathy and the route *u the 32d dcgiee
of parallel of latitude, has the sanction of
several of the most powerful European Gov
ernments—amongst them are France, Spain*
Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland—as well
as of large capitalists, commercial mcir and>
contractors of these countries. The late Con
gress of the States passed a bill, at its last ses
sion, donating to this company, through Ari
zona, New Mexico and California some 13,
OtXhOOU acres of land, and a loan of thirty-six
millions of dollars, to be repaid in postal or
other public services. This bill passed the
House of Representatives, was amended in
the Senate, and only failed to become a law,
for the want of time and the startling political
events familiar to the nation.
No company in the world has a largeT basis
for its successful prosecution, and no company
has attracted and secured to itself the appro
bation of so many American States ana Eu
ropean Governments— promising so much
benefit to its stockholders, and to the world
such stupendous results—bringing inevitably
with its completion across this continent, the
trade of China, Japan, Australia, and the
whole Pacific coast—distributing the trea
sures derivable from the trade, travel; etc, of
each to every city from the Gulf of Mexico
to the most Northern harbor on our Atlantic
coast—giving each its due and natural share
—a commerce which has never tailed to en
rich every nation on earth that has ever con
trolled it in tire past, and as it is annually In
creasing, it will still more enrich those who
shall control it in the future.
VVc want the labor, to progress with tho
work, for most unquestionable securities; and
for it, the most liberal arrangements will bo
made for slave-owners—giving them terms
which must, we think, be satisfactory—with
out endangering by position, employment or
terms of contract, the safety of the slave*
themselves, or admitting the slightest uncer
tainty of ultimate paymeut.
All applications will be made to Hon. V.
K. Stevenson, President, Nashville, Tcnn ;
Col. Samuel Tate, President Memphis anil
Charleston Railroad Company, Memphis;
Col. J. R- McDaniel, Lynchburg, Va., or to
myself, Memphis.
JEPTHA FOWLKES,
General and Financial Agent of Southern
Pacific Railroad Company <>f Texas.
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