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Z. P. H. FARR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,'
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
HOBT. S. ANDKKSON, WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jacksonport, Ark. Aug tula, Ark.
Anderson A Thompson,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
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ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to special !
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DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
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of Prairie. White, Jackson, Woodruff and
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Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
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all its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Burney’s Drug Store.
*R. ALLEN 1
Offers his services to the citizens o
Des Arc and vicinity in the practice o
medicine. Thankful for past favors
, , . , ,• ..1.1_;_i
.Mill .IIUIIUVII tv -v v-r
to «liaro a liberal prtrftnage.
Office—At bis residence—late tin
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the citizens of Des Are and vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drnjf Store
sep21
Dr. R. B. .SHELBY,
rilENDERS his professional services to tilt
1 Citizen* of Des Art: and surrounding
country, in the practice of Medicine and Ol>
a Le tv Lei. Ho hopes from an experience o
over fifteen years in Southern practice, tt
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney’s Pruj
Store. march28-1868- b
13. *P. Johnson*
T3 XI l J Gf Gr X S T.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
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Medicines, Paints, Oils, Perfumery
Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies, Whiskey
for metical purposes, which be will sell low
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Terms cash. fcb. 15, 1808.
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| ftunery. Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandiei
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Will pvactioe in all the courts of Avkausas.
mar24
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F. LEPTIEX,
j Walelunakcr and Jeweler
1)ES 411C, AUKANSAS.
1AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
. kinds of work in my line. Mend
j ing, Cleaning, &.C.
-Thankful for past favors, I solicit
continuance of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me. feb28-tf
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BENJAMIN 1IAYLEY.
i Des Arc, Ark.. March 28, 1867—12m
' From Petertvn'g Magazine.]
MR. MOI ITCRVILLE.
BY MAY CARLKTON.
“I’ve been thinking about inarriag
a good deal myself, lately,” pursuei
Mr. Mountorville, looking severely a
’ Sam, who, gazing back at us, hai
spilled the mackerel over the snow
“and I’ve about made up my mind b
try it. I haven’t had much time al
along, up to the present, to reflect 01
such light matters; but I’m prett;
comfortably off in the world now
Got a nice house, and everything flxei
up iu pretty good style, and all I wan
to top off with is a wife. I ain’t s
• young as I’ve been, and no more ar
you, Miss Thompson, and I think w
1 couldn’t do better. Now, wluit cl
you sky? I want a wife, and you wan
' a husband, so suppose we clinch a bar
gain? I don’t believe you can d
better.”
Gbod heaven! Did ever morta
1 maiden hear such a proposal I Th
coarse, nasty wretch I But I though
of the white mansion, and the hors
and carriage, and servants, and sw'al
lowed my wrath.
“Oh! Mr. Mounterville, this is so
so sudden t” I stammered, and then
dropped like a hollyhock on the stem
and was silent. m
“Sudden, ft ft ?’’ said Mr. Mounter
ville, taking a pinch ot snuff; why
c thought I’d been hinting at it thi
some time (iir groceries gratis,
thought.) But never mind the sud
denness, Miss Lucinda, it’s out now
and let us have your answer—Yes
or no.
This was an upright apd downrigli
way oi pulling tilings wun a vcu
i j gcancc ! With a low-lived longing ii
1 j iny ten finger-nails to scratch his odi
' ohs eyes out, I stammered and droopei
mv head.
‘‘I hardly know what to say, Mr
Mounterville; one feels—feels so
| and there I came to a dead lock.
"Good gracious I” cried M. Mounter
! vilie, wildly, “can't you say something
Yes, or no, that's easy enough, I‘n
I sure.”
“Y'cs, then,” I returned, goaded ti
1 desperation ; "if ma don't object.”
"Ob I she won’t object ; she know
which side of her bread's buttered
I'll go in and speak to her—nothin;
! like striking whilst the iron's hot
And here we are. Sum, I've kept ni;
! eye Oil you all along, and I'll trouuci
i you within an inch of your life wliei
1 get back. He off!”
Otf scuttled Sum in 'mortal alarm
and enter Lucinda, followed by Mr
; Mounterville.
Ma was in the parlor, darning stock
iugs; and she got up and shook haud
with thy hoWpanion with 'mother!;
vim.
"So happy to see you, Mr. Mounter
, | vlllc, such a while since you've beei
here! Take the rocking-chair, do
And how well v'bn Ye looking; ileu
me! growing younger every dav
j isn't lie, Lucinda?”
"Thunky, mum,’’ responded Ml
Mounterville, dropping into the Bos
(ton rocker, ami making it creak ii
every pore : “so a ntau ought when he'
j going to be married.”
I "Going to be married!” with a litll
scream. "Just. h*",. that, Lucinda! ’
"She lias heard it, mum; I askc
her coming along—that's why I mad
Sam fetch the molasses—and stie’s sail
; yes; and all that’s wanting’s your eon
sent—and that won’t be wanting lonj
I reckon.”
My ardent wooer snorted and too!
another pinch of snuff. Ma put lie
handkerchief to her eyes and sniffled
anil I—I sat staring at tho fire, an
pulling the fringe frantically out c
my shawl.
“I'm stlt'e,” ma sobbed al last, "it’s
trial, and you’ll overlook a mother1
feelings, Mr. Mounterville, (bough nc
f being a mother yourself, you. can’t b
oxpeeted to understand. I don't sc
how I shall ever get on without her
1 aud you’ll have a treasure money can
buy, though I say it that hadn’t ougli
to, and—Lucinda, mv love,” with
sudden gush, “kiss me!”
I Kissed ma, ana men ma wens uu
and kissed Mr. Mowntervillo with
second gush. Mr. Mountervillc snort
ed again, and took some more snuff.
“That menus yes, don't It? The
| we’ve clinched the bargain, I suppost
Miss Lucinda ?”
••I suppose so,” rather sulkily.
Thereupon Mr. Mouhterville got u
and shook my hand as if it had bee
the village pump, and shook hand
with ma; and ma, in a gay an
| sprightly manner, tripped otit of th
i room and returned presently with
t1 bottle of blackberry wiue and som
,l slices of sponge-cake. This innocuou
collation being partaken of, and Mi
: Mounterville’s spirits rising with it, h
proposed the first of April for hi
wedding-day.
I “April Fool's-day, you know,” wit
’ a chuckle, “so kind of appropriate, vo
i know. Let’s be married April Fool’t
I day, Miss Lucinda?”
“ If I could have shied the plate c
.- sponge-cake at hil head, as he sat then
what an inexpressible relief it woul
have been to my overcharged heart
But I only “grinned horribly a ghastl
; smile,” and said it should be whenevt
j he wished.
So the wedding-day being fixed, an
» i all things settled. Mr. Monntervili
.got up to go. I accompanied him t
the gate, shook hands with him acrei
it, bade him good-night, and watched
him plodding along the moonlit road,
his hands in his pockets, whistling for
purest joy, like an asthmatic bull-frog.
As I stood there contemplating the
starry brilliancy of the sky, nnd the
spotless whiteness of the earth in a
i pensive reverie, there started out from
the corner of the house, and the shad
’ jaw of an old pear-tree, a young man,
* who stood still nnd confronted me.
1 I gave one little yelp of terror and
1 started back, staring With all my might.
And no wonder, for the young man
; was tall as a telegraph-pole, aud robed
‘ in sombre black: and his countenance
| * #
was livid, albeit handsome, with two
* blazing black eyes, and a shock of tar
! black hair.
: “Oh! let me not startle you, pretty
’ one,” said this remarkable phenoiue
1 non, in a deep and husky bass; “had I
a heart for falsehood formed, I never
J could injure thee! Do you take board
ers in your house ?”
The jerking suddenness with which
1 this question was put, and the peculiar
1 style of his two previous remarks, left
1 me gasping like a stranded flsli, and
utterly unable to reply.
“And still she gazed,” said this tall
' young man, rapidly, with a violent
sweep of one arm; “and still the won
’ der grew! Tell, ohl tell me, fairest
maiden, do you keep boarders ?”
1 founct my tongue at last.
^ “If-you'll step in, sir,” 1 said, un
* latching the gate, “I’ll see. We do
^ take boarders occasionally; but you
must speak to tiry mother.”
’ “Oh! thctn hast bee* the cause of this
tuiguisu, my mouier, ciuiiiieu me uni
young man, striding through. “Pro
1 cced, bright vision ! I follow whlther
' soever thou leadcst.”
1 Really this young gentleman's style
’ of conversation was remarkable, to say
I the least of it. I opened the door in
considerable trepidation, and ushered
;! him into the maternal presence.
“Madam, I salute thee, lo te salute!"
said the seeker after lodgings, laying
| ids hand on hih heaVt and hoVving low ;
1 ! “this fair creature, your daughter, I
1 perceive, informs me you take bon id
' ers. Madam, madam, may 1 hnvt^ that
'j honor?”
“Goodness me, Lucinda, my dear!"
| cried nia, .fifth pi ft g 1>ack, and dropping
her balls and needles in a paroxysm of
terror and dismay.
“Fear not. fear not, fairest being!”
said the gentleman, in a shrill, cliant
' tug' vofee, and ir tnstfcvtirg- nrc vvUti !i: •
j wild, black eves. “1 know not, I ask
] not if guilt’s in tbv heart; I know 1
■ j want lodgings whatever thou j»rt.
• Answer mo quickly !" getting excited.
: “and answer me truly, minion, wilt
' .thou, or wilt thou not?”
*. Then it all flashed upon me—the tall
I young gentleman was mad! lie look
; ed like Lara, or the Corsair, a good
‘ i deal; but 1 didn’t care for my ideal
1 I just then, and would have given a year
' i of my life to sco Mr. Mounterville's
florid complexion and sandy whiskers
" beaming on mo through the door. I
had heard Hint a lunatic, and a'uanger
• ous one, had escaped out of an asylum
' in itic next town, and was supposed to
1 bo hiding in the pine-woods. And
5 here lie was. glaring upon mo witli
flaming black eyes, and towering up, a
' | colossal giant, to the ceiling.
“Speak 1” cried our terrible visitor,
* ftlvaucing: a step toward me, “speak,
J or, by the stars above, I'll tear tliy per
l jurod soul from out thy craven carcase
’ and fling it to the four winds of lieav
> cn! Wretch! miscreant! base min
ion I” with a howl and a Imp nearer
1 me. “this night shalt thou pay the pen
r ally of thy crime; this night my
•’ wrongs shall lie avenged!”
1 lie made a grab at me, caught me by
1 I the shoulder, and waved the other arm
; aloft. I gave one shriek, one wild,
1 j wild shriek, and then my throat was
s grasped.
1 “Foul wizard, avaunt! 1 have mar
B shuled my clan I Down, slave—down!
B Cease thy cries, for these dungeon
’ walls are thick, and none shall hear, or
41 help! Die the death! Die! worm,
* i toad, siren, flend in female form ! Die!
" thv hour has come i
Not yet! The door was Hung open,
1 j and oh! thanks anil praise forever! in
1 rushed Mr. Mouutervillo, and laid hold
' i of my frantic opponent, lly face was
' black, my eyes and tongue protruding.
I . and 1 rolled over in a heap on the Hour.
’ i “Ah, vassal! dog of a Christian!
1 thou hast come to the rescue!” yelled
i the madman ; “thou Would’st shield
’ the wanton filing! Hut share her fate,
II curt Xet me hurl thee to inferno!'’
s | There was a clutch and a n resile,
* and they rolled over and over. Kicked
B | In each other's embrace; There is a
1 time in the life of every man, I sup
B ! pose, when he rises to sublimity—this
B was Mr. Mounterville’s time. The
' Corsair couldn’t have fought more
B manfully for Medora than my brave
* little man for me. And he was victo
rious ! The madman war 11 mere skel
1 eton, and his fictitious strength gave
J way. Mr. Mounterville pinned him to
the floor, and called to me.
“Fetch me the clothes-liue, Lucinda,
and 111 fix this squirming vagabond.
” 1 Ah, yes ! you would, would yon ? you
, craiv scamp! That will do; hold his
' , heels, and keep him from kicking.
y Wasn’t it lucky I dropped my pocket
1 book, and oame back to look for it;
and I heard yon veil out here on the
road. Now he's safe; and there’s the
c mother in a fit in the corner. See to
o j her, Lucinda—this chap's all right!”
s I I shook nu, and sprinkled her, and
slapped her, and presently brought her
round. And all the while the lunatic
lay on the floor glaring at the ceiling.
“Ah! you're quiet now, you match
less deceiver!” said Mr. Mounterville*
giving him a little push with his toe;
‘•but just untie you, and sec the can
trips you’d cut up. Where would you
be now, Lucinda, only for me?”
Where, indeed ? Would you believe
it? I walked right over and kissed
Mr. Mounterville I
‘•False'! false !” moaned the young
man on the floor, “fnlsc as fair! Thou
hast learned to love another; thou hast
broken every vow 1 Ilut go it—go it!
Let fate do her worst, I'll not flinch!” j
It was of no use—he was tied too
fast. I went to the Village for help,
and qur lunatic was removed with his
eyes fixed on the stnrs, and dreamily
murmuring poetry. He had been an
actor, it appeared afterward, when his
keepers found him, and one of the
worst cases in the asylum. I was
grateful to Mr. Moonterville, of course,
and gratitude is akin to love. After
all, Mcdora and Gulnare, and the rest
of these poetic beings who had delight
fully romantic husbands, (by-the-by
were they their husbands,) were un
speakably unhappy young women ; and
It was much better to marry a rich,
stout, elderly grocer^ than a cut-throat
brigand, if one comes to look at it in a
proper light. And so I rather think
I’m resigned to my fate.
April is drawing near; my dresses
are being made'; 'the school is broken
up ; and the grocery store, flourishes
iiKc a green oav-iree. auu sitting
here, gazing at the moon rays with
folded hands and dreamy eyes, I sign
myseif. for the last time, yours, pen
sively, Lucinda Thompson.
-f*-'•*
I.etier irom Cen. Hawthorn
The following interesting letter is
from the pen of Gen. A. T. Hawthorn,
formerly of Alabama, and was first
published in the Greenville (Ala.) Ad
vocate. The letter was a private one,
written to a friend in Greenville:
City or Bami.\ .Tiimisry 22;
* * * Since 1 feft liio de .Tatierio
I have traveled over five thousnad
miles in search of a home. On the
Corrieutcs, one of the tributaries of
the San FranciStfo, I found a country
that is nn earthly Paradise , lrtft if Un
as well he in the centre of Africa as
where it is. it is a thousand miles
from the sea; with a great river like
thc-iii tssissippt, U is tine, miming past
it. but the% J^i it river has near its
nioutti a p«*iffl ?*<li(}t)iJ of Niagara
Fallifbver fl^ch^otUjiist^an pass and
live. The MgMMt'y^ptilcd me exactly,
hut its remoteness*Jroiii the tea, the
ditHctiltysaf getting thei*b. and the
impossibility of getting anything away
Irom llicre, determined me to look
farther. And i am glad I did, for 1
have’at last found a country where I
sincerely believe our people may pros
per and be happy. I have found a
home for myself and as many more as
may choose to come —ff von will take
the map of Brazil, and look in the
southern portion of the Province of
Iiahia, you will see two rivers—tbe Je
quitinhonba or Belmont, and the Pardo,
that empty into the Atlantic, at no
great distance from each other. 1 have
spent the last four weeks in examining
the lands upon those two riv»,.3j both
of which are lino navigabio streams,
f have selected lands upon the Bel
mofit river, about eighty miles from its
mouth, aud I am perfectly delighted
with my choice. 1 shall buy about
8000 acres for the benefit of myself and
my immediate friends who may see
proper to come.-—The Government
proposes to build a comfortable house
and clear six acres of land for every
family that will come an*) occupy it,
giving them five or six’years’ credit in
which to pay for the improvements;
and it proposes to commence Ibis work
immediately, provided some one will
become responsible to the Govern
ment that families will come and occu
py these places when prepared. This,
I propose to do, to the number of ten
or fifteen families, and the Govern
mont is very willing to trust me. The
great difficulty with our people com
ing to this country is, that unless they
have money to buy improved places,
they have to go iuto the woods and
withoua-'Trouses or farms, begin de
novo' and the consequence is that
great numbers are discouraged. Tiiis
difficulty 1 propose to obviate by
building houses, clearing and planting
some land, before the emigrant arrives,
so that When lie lands, he will find a
comfortable house to shelter him, and
a growing crop that will feed him.
And in order that this may be certain
ly done and well done, I shall remain
here myself and superintend the whole
matter. I am going to Rio de Janeiro
to-morrow, where I shall make final
and complete arrangements with the
Government. I shall ask the Govern
ment to set aside and reserve all the
public lands lying between the Bel
mont and the l’ardo, from the sea
shore to the boundary line of Minas
Geraes, for the exelu-ive benefit of our
people. Nearly every'acre of it now
belongs to the Government, and If this
i course is adopted, here i* a magnificent
tract of country, forty miles wide and
more than oue hundred in length, up
on which our people may settle with
out molestation from any oue, and
without being the victims of specula
tors and sharpers. In tome of the
American Colonies Of this country,
lands have already gone up to fifteen
dollars per acre. If the Government
will listen to me, nil this matter will
be remedied and prevented on the Bel
mont and the Pardo. I intend to ask
of the Government many other conces
sions and favors for our people, of
which 1 will inform ycu in due season.
I suppose you would like to know
what sort of a place I have selected for
our future home. I will try and tell
you : The lands I have selected front
upon the Belmont river six miles, and
run back from the river two miles.—
From the rover's edge the land grad
ually rises until il reaches an eleva
tion of at least two hundred feet, when
it stretches away for miles and miles,
one vast elevated plain covered with
the tallest, the straightest and the most
magnificent timber that I ever saw.
Some of this timber is the most valua
ble in the world. There was formerly
a large amount of rosewood on these
lands, but near the rivers most of it has
been cut off, and shipped away. Still
1 found one’tro'e 6h the land which I
have selected, that is large enough to
make all the furniture the families
would need, and would he worth to
day, in the city of New York, $2000 to
$3000, There are a great many other
kinds of timber on these lands that are
considered more valuable than the
rosewood. As to the quality and fer
tility of the lands, ask Pa what ho
knows about the rich hammock east of
East Florida.—Thcso are just such
lands, except that they are richer and
lie better than the Florida lants. I
have traveled over the whole of them
in company with Col. Leitner, who
has lived and been planting upon a
large scale in East Forida for the last
flfteenjyoars, and he says that the coun
try is far superior to the rich ham
mocks of Florida, and as a proof of his
sincerity lie has bought a magnificent
tract of lard on the Pardo, and is now
living upon it, haying written back to
hi* family and friends to make their
arrangements and join him as coon as
possible. The lands are rich, you may
rest assured of that—u3 rich as the
decaying foliage of forty centuries can
make them. And the enormous crops
that grow upon them! 1 can scarcely
restrain myself from shouting aloud,
when 1 think of this wonderful coun
try. which as 1 believe lias been merci
fully reserved by the kind Benefactor,
for the home and final resting place of
our oppressed people. l)o you want
good fruit? In no portion of Brazil, or
of the habitable globe, ran you find
better oranges, bananas, and pine-ap
ples than grow here in the province of
of Bahia; and there are twenty other
kinds of fruit more delicious even than
those 1 have named, whose names even
I never heard of until i caine to Bra
zil' that are growing and ripening all
the year. Do you want a country that
will produce all the great staples ot
the world, and produce, them to per
fection? Well, the province of Bahia
comes nearer filling the bill than any
country I have yet seen.—Sugar, coffee,
cotton, tobacco, rico and corn grow
here to perfection. Near the coast it
may be too wet for short staple cotton,
but, after leaving the coast a hundred
miles, it grows and bears magnificent
ly. Put none of these things would,
have moved me, or caused me to select
the section of country I bare, had 1
not been convinced, beyond all doubt,
that the country was healthy. If it is
not so, then 1 am the worst deceived
man upon earth. There is not a gallon
of stagnant water in ten miles of
where I shall build my house, nor has
there been, nor will there ever be.
But on the contrary, the whole tl'ttcWs
chequered here and there with the
most beautiful brooks and rivulets that
I ever saw in my life. They glide
over beds of beautiful white sand
gravel, and their waters are as pure
and delicious to the taste as those that
trickle and murmur at the foot of the
Blue Ttidge itself. In no land or coun
try have 1 ever seen or drank bettor
water. Thcso streams afford sufficient
water to turn any amount of machin
man may have him a null, if ho so de
sires.—Well, then, if under tins vast el
evated plain, with the blessed trade
winds forever fanning onr cheeks, and
these pure and delicious waters gliding
past our dwellings; if, with the forests
abounding in game, the river with tish,
and the earth groaning beneath its pre
cious load of staple products, vegeta
bles and delicious fruit—If, with all
these adt antages, we do not enjoy good
health«thcn I despair of ever finding a
i place where we can.
As to climate, the thermometer never
I rises above ninety and never goes be
low sixty degrees.
The nights are very cool; I always
cover myself with a blanket when 1
can get one. 1 have not suffered one
i tenth part as much with heat since 1
have boon in Brazil as I would have
suffered during the summer season in
any portion of the United States.
As to markets, we are only eighty
miles from the sea, upon a stream that
is navigable the entire year; and wheh
we get to the sea we are tweo hundred
miles froth Bahia, and four hUndred
from Hio de Janerio, and these are the
best markets in Brazil; we can choose
between them. I have not mentioned
the most important crop that is plan
ted in the immediate section of coun
try where I ltave selected my future
home. It Is called t'acao (pronounced
Cacow.) and is, without doubt, the
most valuable crop that has ever been
planted iu Brazil, or, perhaps, aiiv
other country upon the globe.—It is
the fruit from which chocolate is made,
and can only be grown successfully in
certain localities, one of which favor
ed localities is the section of rountrv
which 1 have chosen. 1 expect to turn
my attention principally to the cultiva
tion of this valuable fruit.
I see enough to satisfy me that I can
make twice as much money here as I
ever made in the United States, and
with one-lmlf the labor at that
But I Will not gay that there arc no
objections to the country. There are
mosquitoes hero; but I havo not seen
as many during the five or six months
that I have been in Brazil ns I have
many times seen upon the Mississippi
or its tributaries in the space of forty
eight hours. They have snakes here,
and some terrible, big, poisonous fel
lows ; but I have traveled in canoes, on
horse back, and on foot, by day and by
night; 1 have been live mouths upon
the trip, and it has beeii warm enough
all the time for snakes, and yet I will
take a solemn oath that during these
live months, nnd during this long and
tiresome journey, I have seen only six
snakes ; they were all small—one was a
little green fellow about twelve inches
long, two were garter snakes, two
were king snakes, and the other was
double-quicking fo the thicket so rap
idly that I failed to make a note of his
color, size or qualities. There arc
mighty anacondas and boa constrictors
here, that enn crush and munch nnd
swallow an ox, but I have yet to find
the living man who has ever seen one.
There arc cannibals here, wild Indians,
who kill and cat •neonlc. and 1 have
; even passed though the very sections
; said to be infested by them, yet night
after night I have lain upon the banks
; of that mighty river, in the dense fehadc
i tn'd deep solitude of its forests, and 1
| have slept as sweetly and as quietly as
: I did when my good mother rocked
me to sleep in my infant cradle, upon
the banks of the old Sapulge. Nay
more, I have heard a terrible story that
there are plenty of them not more than
a hundred miles from where I am go
ing to settle, yet after the most diligent
and fajthfnl inquiry from those who
live nearest to the savages, I have never
been able to find a man who has ever
i heard of a savage being seen in the last
thirty years. I have tried long and
faithfully to find a man who ever saw
; one, hut thus far I have failed com
jpletely.
“Vet there are other disadvantages,"
* says some good Southern man, who has
I returned from Urar.il dissatisfied and
perfectly disgusted. ‘'Although they
I have slavery in Brazil, yet they have a
great many free negroes there who are
permitted to vote, and some of them to
hold office. Well, this is true. The
qualification for voters here is a pro
perty qualification, and when the free
negro possesses that qualification he is
allowed to vote, and when he possesses
certain requisites he is sometimes
appointed to office; but he is not like
the American negro, taught to believe
himself the superior of white man ; on
the contrary, although his father and
his grandfather before him were free,
yet true to nature and to nature's laws
he has set to his seal that (iod is true,
in that he lias' at all times and in all
ages, made and designed the white
man superior to tlie black one; and I
! do most solemnly aver that I have
never in the whole course ol my life;
even when slavery in the South was in
its palmiest and most uiiqucslion<g]l
power,) found the negro more ready
and more trilling to acknowledge my
| right to supremacy and command, than
| I have found the free negroes of Uracil
since l have been within the limits ot
the empire. They have made me the
trustiest ami most faithful servants I
have over had. But 1 honostlv and
sincerely believe that freedom is tlic
worst curse that can ho put upon the
I negro, whatever the clime or country
! iAwhich it is done. True to his native
■ instincts, lie shuns labor, and will not
j work, save only when driveutoit by
i stern necessity.
The true men of Brazil have already
! seen the horrors of emancipation and
amalgamation and they are hailing with
shouts of joy the arrival in their midst
of true men from the South. Fear uot
everything is going right. Let our
people emigrate to thU country, and all
will be well. We shall have no trouble
upon this question, in our little colouy
for there are very few persons living
in its limits, either white or black.
There arc more than tiro millions ol
slaves in Brazil, atid 1 soo no indica
tions of general emancipation, if the
tide of emigration that lias set in from
the South should continue, the day ot
emancipation in Brazil will be post
poned until God Almighty secs proper
to order it; and if we are true to our
race and lineage, to the religion of our
fathers, and to the God of the Bible, we
shall swell that lido until it assumes
proportions as grand and sublime as
the causes wliicli hare impelled us to
, this exile. But enough 1 Brazil is a
thousand times better than the United
States in every particular w hick ran
interest us. Let that suffice.
—,-1 m ■
JoUln bull-fight days, a blacksmith,
who was rearing a bull-pup, Induced
bis old father to go on all-fbui3 to im
itate the bull. The canine pupil pin
ned the old man by the nose. The son,
disregarding the parental rearing, cx
I claimed: “.Hold him, Growler, hold
him ! Bear it, father, bear it! It’ll be
the making of the pup."
SiLMiUilTlVDI.
is easy enough to raise the
! devil, but lie's a hard crop to reap.
»ar(Jaii a limn rise above bis troubles
by swallowing a box of yeast powder.
tts&'A chap says lie cured palpitation
[ of the heart by the application of nn
: oilier palpitating heart to the pnrt
affected.
tSyAn English paper advertises for
! sale “a perfect lady's horse.” we don't
rare about the horse, but a perfect lady
would be worth having.
J©“A gentleman stauding at his
door, was asked by a huckster whether
. lie was the man of the house ? in a
| subdued tone he replied, “Xb, mV
| wife is.”
i Mu An Irish magistrate, censuring
some boys for loitering in the streets,
asked, “if everybody were to stand in
the streets, how anybody couldget by ?’
g®*Wliv are ladies like watches?
Because they have beautiful faces, deli
cate hands, arc more admired when ful 1
jeweled, ajways have their bauds in a
man's pocket, and need regulating very
often.
m
tS£An Irish servant girl was onru
requested by a lady to go to one of our
dry goods stores, and obtain a bed com -
forter for her. About an hour after
wards she returned with one of the
clerks.
tSf'A little girl was lately reproved
for playing out doors with the boys,
and informed that being seven years
old she was too big for that now.
! “Whv. ernndmn. (bn hhrerer we crow
the better we like them.”
8@“O, the pup, the beautiful pup!
drinking bis milk from a cliiua cup,
gamboling round so frisky and free,
j tlrst gnawing a bone, then biting a flea
j jumping, running after the pony : beau
tiful pup! you will soon bo bologna.
gQ^A Calvinistie old lady, oil being
asked about the Univcrsnlists, replied,
‘•Yes, they expect that everybody will
be saved, hut we look for much better
things.’’
g®-Down in Mississippi atacoiored
Sabbath school, a few weeks ago, th’
devout teacher asked the question,
“Who died for you?” After a spell
of silence and a spell of whispering,
a “little nig" about forty \ e irs old
replied, “Abrum Linkum.”
jde^'A boy was relating huVv bis
father had just come in from hunting,
and boasted of having killed nine hun.
dred and ninty-ninc pigeons at one
shot, “Why .didn't he cal! it a thou
sand ?” asked & byslander. “Good hea
vens !” said the boy, “do you,think my
father would tell a lie just for one pig
eon?”
jiaf Mrs. S. lost her husband, a very
good man, to wliome she was much at
tached. A few days after the funeral
sexton brought bis bill: For digging
grave, $2.’’. “My gracious!" said ttie
woman, “you don’t charge two dollars
for digging a grave in such a soft spot
as that ? I would willingly have dug
it myself for one dollar.”
g@~Onc very.cold night a jolly old
fellow, who hud beon drinking too
freely at a tavern, started for home in
a gig, and on the way was upset atul
thrown by the side of the road. Some
persons passing a short time after dis
covered him lidding his. feet up to the
moon and ejacu'ftting to some invisi
ble persons, “t’ile on the wood, it's a
miserable cold fire.”
Qi'ESTtox fob Lawtf.bs.—Suppose a
man owns a skill': he fastens the skiff
to the shore with a rope made of straw ,
along comes a cow ; cow gets into the
boat; turns round and eats the rope ;
the skiff thus let loose, witli the cow
on board, starts down stream, and on
its passage is upset; the cow is
drowned. NoW, lias the man tTiat
it . . .. > _ 1 . . .. . iv . a . ~u .
HO U1C ' V II IV J *V.
mini that owns the boat to pay for tho
cow ?
Ha^Old gentleman at railroad depot
buys n ticket, pitting Ids wallet be
tween his tooth while counts Ids change
then with a startled look turns around.
Hies about searching carefully every
where, stops frequently to make nerv
ous investigations of his pockets, sliaks
bis head and resumes bis tramp. Comes
finally to the ticket window again, and
says:—“Have you seen"—and tho wal
let falls from his mouth to the counter.
“There‘tis now 1 Had it in my month
' all the time!” He smiles beuignantly,
the crowd laugh boisterously, and the
curtain falls.
ISS-A Canadian relates the following:
I married a widow who had a grown
daughter. My father visited our house
very often; fell in love with my step
i daughter, and married her. So he be
came my son-in-law, and my step daugh
ter became my mother. Some time alter
my wife had a son ; he was my father's
brother-in-law ahd my uncle, because he
was the biother of my step mother. My
■ father’s wife—that is my step daughter—
had also a son; he was, of course, my
! brother, and the same time my grand
child, because he was the son of my
daughter. My wife was my grand mother,
becauses she was the mother of my father's
wife, and my step-daughter. I was my
wife’s husband, of course, and grand-child
at the same time; and us the husband of a
person’s grand mother is his gfand father,
l was fry own grand fnthoK