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FRIDAY.7... MARCH 18 1839
Agricultural Meeting Postpone!
A nieetingof the Agricultural Society
having been called for the 14th io*t., and
the tax sale of Prairie county coming off
on that day at Brownsville, tfce Society
will not meet until SATURDAY THE
26TH MA RCH.
By order of the President,
SIMEON HORNE. Sec'y.
Death of A a bos V. Baows.—Hon
Aabos V. Brows, Postmaster General
of the Lnited States, died at Washington
City, on the 8th inst. Up to n quarter of
an hour, previous to his death, lie was per
fectly conscious of his condition and took
leave of his family. Gov. Brows was a
native of Virginia, hut had, for the most
part of his life, resided in Tennessee, hts
home being Nashville. His efficiency as
the head ol the Post Office Department
has been generally acknowledged.
Memphis St Little Rock Railroao
A correspondent of the Brownsville Echo,
writing from Little Rock, urges strenu
ously that Prairie county shall lake slock
and aid in building the section of this
road from Devall's Bluff to Little Rock, a
(lietanro «»f rt trfl .-c mil„u LT__.1
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nbout thirty miles of the road is in Prairie
and fifteen in Pulaski, therefore Prairie
»» doubly interested as compared to Pu
laski. Little Rock, it seems, has taken
stock to the amount of 8100,000, and Pu
laski county the same. It is therefore
urged that Prairie should take as much, if
not more than that amount in the road._
Prairie county is accused of not reciproca
ting. County pride, together with the
five millions of taxable property in Prai
rie, are spoken of in a taunting style.
To all the suggestions of this correspon
dent, the editor of the Echo chimes in
with, and acknowledges that Prairie has
not moved a “peg" or turned a ‘‘wheel,'*
that she stands mute.
Now, gentlemen, you are widely mis
taken. Prairie county has determined,
some 'ime since, that she will not be taxed
to aid in building the road. On the first
Monday of Octoher, 1857, the people of
Prairie refused, by an overwhelming ma
jority, to authorize a county subscription of
$50 000.
The mass of the people of Prairie coun
ty are opposed to taking stock or being
taxed to aid in building a railroad through
a comparatively unsettled portion of their
domain. About one-eighth of the popu
lation of the county are interested in tax
ing the other seven-eighths to aid in con
structing this road. The present aspect
of affairs is just the same as that of 1857
this one-eighth have been bitterly op
posed to a county road tax. Oh, no,
that did'nt suit their ideas of equality!
But talk of a railroad tax and they are
highly elated at the idea.
Me now tell those interested in the
selfish project of building a railroad from
Devali s Bluff to Little Rock that the peo
ple of Prairie county are opposed to the
road over the present projected route ; and
that every man who holds the smallest
county office, who has advocated a county
iv uiu in us uuiiumg win oe neiu re
sponsible to the people, and should he
offer for re-election will be beaten tnglo
riously, and his name cast out as unfit to
hold any office of profit or honor in the
gift of the sovereign people. As to the
positions of the editor of the Echo and
that of his correspondent, they are untena
ble and grossly un:ust to the great mass
of the people. The people of Prairie
county will not be taxed to aid in t ht build
ing of the Railroad from Devall's Bluff to
Little Rock.
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A Railroad with Fine Water
Phi vi ledges—The Miditon Journal of!
the 5th inst, says:
“Tbs cars from here to Memphis have not
been running for several days, owing to the
miserable condition of the road. The water
is represented as being from two to three feet
over the top of the track in many places. The
mail is now brought over on a hand-car.
The Madison Pioneer of the 1 Oth inst
says :
‘ High Water.—The railroad cars have
been stopped for several days by the water in
the bottom, but tb-* mail nas been brought
through on the hand-ear until Monday last,
since when we have bad no mails fr.’.m the
East. The St Francis is rising at the rate of
about two feet in twenty-four hours, but is still
within its banks, and will require several more
feet of water to go over them.”
Comment is unnecessary. Will the
Brownsville Echo publish the above para
graphs?
Judge or the Fifth Judicial Cir
cuit— Hon. George W. Benzley having
resigned bis seat as Judge of the above
district, Gov. Conway has ordered an
election to be held on the 6th of April
to fill the vacancy. Mark W. Alexander
ahd Samuel L. Austell are announced as j
candidates to fill the vacancy.
Parton. the biographer of
Aaron Burr, is preparing for the press a
life of Andrew Jackson. We see it stated
that his researches in Nashville for mate
rials have been very successful. In two t
or three days he discovered such a mass of!
matter that the mere copying involved on!
expenditure of?150.
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Expansion tho Policy of tho Sooth
With the exception of Senator Him
HMMvri. wo hetieeo that no southern state*
man haa doubted that southern expansion
ia an sheidu'e oece«*ity for the perpetua
tion of slavery and the preservation ol
southern auoery. Tins gentleman, l ow
■ ever, in ht« cehrleated Barnwrli speech—
! a speech that in other re*pecta r* the trtteet
embodiment of sound southern conserva
tism we knew of—espressos the opinion
that no more slave territories are te he had
and arows it aa the policy of the South
that she must remain quiescent within bet
present area of slave territory.
To this political doetnue, with all out
resp-i t and veneration for the emineui
Carolinian, we are not willing to submit.
To the institution of slavery esporunoa u
as much a necessity as is the life-giving
sbotver to vegetation. Abolition ingenu
ity could have devised no more successful
means for its orerthrow, than the policy of
refusing the South to advance and ex
pand pari pa$*u with tbe North. It is
attacking it in its roost salient point.—
Confine the South to her present limits,
give her no outlet for her surplus slave
population, and with the rapid and enor
mous increase of that species of property,
the land to he cultivated in proportion to
the number of slaves will become so small
that slave labor will not pay. In fact it will
become a burden to the master, and like
the adder will sting itself to death. The
problem then to he solved will be how to
get rid of it. The very destiny of Afri
can slavery, and with it of southern civili
zation , is involved in this question of ex
pansion. If not permitted by a dominant
majority to expand in the Union, the law
of self preservation requires that we seek
an outlet even at the sacrifice of the
Union.
Nor do we believe with the eminent
Senator, that there are no more slave ter
ritories to be had. Independent of Cuba,
there are countries we may obtain legiti
mately, where southern men may go with
their property and continue their domestic
institutions. ** The right bank of the Rio
Graude, from Arizonia to the mouth of
that noble river," says an eminent writer,
“ stretches out before us, inviting occupa
tion, and almost begging a protectorate."
There southern men may go—may estab
lish their institutions and cause their prop
erty to be protected, by establishing n new
Stale on the most legitimate basis—Ms
consent of the governed. With Texas as
the boundary on the left bank of the Rio
Grande, and a new territory reaching to
Sierra Madre on the right, a new State
can be added to the South by the assent
of the rancheros and the voting popula
tion, nnd slavery which was planted there
by the Spaniards under the scheme of
Las Casas, and flourished for so many
years, may be again successfully revived.
The recent'pro-sla>-ery legislation in New
Mexico, augurs well for such a result.—
Thousands of rifles are now sleeping in
the Southern states, ready to awake at
the call of a leader and become an army
of occupation in that broad territory be
tween Monterey and the Rio Grande.—
It is eminently adapted to slave labor,
and would be an immense element of
strength to us, in the Union or out of it.
Then too, there is the inviting region of
Central America, l ight in the path of our
progress southward nnd westward. Its
acquisition in process of time will become
a necessity to us as an outlet for our sur
nlns slaves and will redeem from hai bar
ism to civilization one of the fairest re
gions of the globe. There is enough
slave territory within our grasp, and it>
acquisition is absolutely necessary for the
preservation of our cherished institution.
No, the South must not manacle herself
and be perpetually inactive. An echo
from the grave of the lamented Quitman
reminds us that “ Expansion South
ward and *Westward,” is emphatically
the policy of the South. If he were liv
ing he would tell us tbit non-expansion is
perfectly incompatible with the security
of the South and unsupported by the tra
ditional policy of our statesmen ns illus
trated in the acquisition of Louisiana and
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CS5P lion. W.m. T. Avert announces
himself as a candidate for* re-election to
Congress from the Memphis District, sub
ject to the decision of the Democratic
Convention, to assemble at Somerville,
Tennessee. David M. Curri
also announces himself as a c
and seeks the nomination of no
iion. nor with his consent shali h
be submitted to one.
England Annexing the Cannibals.
— Austrian pipers have an account of the
cession of the Feejee Islands to the British
Government. Thaiiowban retains his po
sition as chief of the entire tribes, but un
der English direction, and England agrees
to pay the American claim of $15,000 and
to accept therefore 200,000 acres of land
of her own selection. So the Feejeeans
are at last to be civilized and to become
tributary to England.
&5T’,Robt. Walsh, a special correspon
dent of the New York Journal of Com
merce, formerly United States Consul at
Paris, died in that city on the 10th of Feb
ruary last.
RH§“The Washington States publishes a
letter from a German, now 84 years old,
who, it says, is perhaps “the only individ
ual living in either hemisphere, who en
joyed the pleasure of the table, seated on
the right hand of Washington.”
Tn* New Postmaster General.—
The President has appointed Joseph
Holt, of Kentucky, late commissioner of
Patents, as Postmaster-General, and the
appointment Ims.betn confirmed by the
' na’-». The appttintinent is said to be a
2 ">i one, as Mr. II >lt is an able and
practical man. Speaking of Mr. Holt, [
he Viektbnrg Whig says:
He wru at one time a < t’tizen of Vicks
burg. and one of the brightest luminaries
of a liar which boasted ol such lawyers
as Preti'is*. Guion. Sharkey. Fooie, Yer
ger, .'wiiedea, Marshall and others. Mr.
Holt came to Vicksburg in the latter part
i of the year 183fi, or the early part of
M97, and formed a partnership with J. O.
! Harrison, Esq.. now of Lexington Ky.
Mr. Holt resided in Vicksburg about ten
. Tears, when he removed to Louisville, Ky.,
where he has since resided. He was
first tii.irued in 1841, to a Miss Harrison,
of Herd-town, Ky. After his removal
j from Vicksburg, the declining health ol
Mrs. Holt and his own weak constitution,
induced him to travel abroad, and he spent
some years in Europe. During litis lour
his wife died. There are many persons
m this city who remember with pleasure
her sweet, retiring disposition, and who
deeply lamented her death. Mr. Holt
has jii.re married a daughter of Ex-Gnv
•rn >r ( has. VVtckliffe, ol Ky., and a sis
ter of the present Governor of Louisiana.
During Mr. Holt’s residence in Vicks
burg, he took but little part in politics,
though he was known as an ultra, un
compromising member of the Democratic
patty. Since his return to Kentucky,
however, he has entered into political life,
sntl was defeated for Congress in the
Ijotusville district, two years ago, by the
j Hon. Humphrey Marshall.
We regard Mr. Hull as decidedly the
strongest man m .vir. nucnanans UDin
et. and, with probably the exception of
General Cats, by far thp ablest of them
all. Ite is a firm, bold, laborious, practi
cal man of business—ju»t such a man as
ought to lie at the head of the Postoffice
Department. It is emphatically an ap
pointment*1 fit to be made,” and we trust
Mr. Holt will not disappoint the expecta
tions of his friends or the country.
The Larue Cottox Plasters.—A
few days since a paragraph was published,
giving some accounts of the cotton crop of
Colonel Bond, of Georgia, which amount
ed last year to 2,100 bales, and was the
largest sent to market by any planter of
'that S'a’.e. A Vtdalia correspondent of t
the Free Trader, (Natchez), contrasts the i
planters of Mississippi and Louisiana with
the Georgia celebrity as follows:
There are a half a dozen planters in i
Concordia parish and Louisiana, as also 1
many more in Mississippi, that inuko a
far higher mark than this. Not to make
a thing invidious, the names of A. V.
Lewis, Esq., of Concord a parish, who
makes all his cotton there, chalks up sev
eral hundred bales above the Georgia
planter; so dies L. K. Marshall, Esq.,
in the State of Louisiana, raising in that 1
Stale alone, more than three thousand five !
hundred bales ; so is John Routh, Esq., I
of Hard Times, full as much, if not mure; j
so did Frederick Stanton, Esq., but a lew
weeks deceased, raise twenty-eight hun
dred bale* the present year—all m Con
cordia parish—and even more than this
figure in 18-Vj—ail in Louisiana; and
there are numerous others that come up,
or nearly so, to the Georgia highest knot.
For instance, L. U. Marshall, residence I
Natchez, a planter in three States, Lou s- i
inna, Mississippi and Arkansas, is more j
than a four thousand bale producer ; so ;
is Dr. Stephen Duncan mote than a three
thousand hale grower, in the State ot
Mississippi, besides being an opuleut
planter of Louisiana—more than four
thousand bales in all.
The great estates of the two princely I
planters of this legion, the late Samuel ;
Davis and Francis Surget, Eaqt., always!
produced from three to five thousand laiies
each, until their deaths divided their es
tates among the heirs.
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The Execctiox or Mts*.— Last Fri
rlat. .ema a !/%«/# la k.. .....__»_ I 1_I
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the people of Holly Spring* anil surround
ing couutry. At au early hour of the day
the crowd began to congregate from all
parts of the couutry, and by ten o'clock
there tvere between four and the thousand
persons present Numerous reports hml
been set afloat by idle gcmiper* as to the
probable rescue, from the hands of the law, '
by relatives and friends, of the doomed
man, which increased the morbid curnwi
ty of the people to the highest point; all
of which reports proved entirely groundless,
ns there was uot the slightest dispositi on
ev need to interfere, in the most remote
degree, with the end* of justice. On the ;
night previous to the execution. Mask was
furnished with poison by his wife, who, it
is said, extracted fiom him a promise that
he would take it and thus avoid ilia stigma
which would be cast upon his family a*
the widow and orphan of a felou. The
poison was found upon his person on the ;
morning of the execution, and taken from
him by Mr. Furr, the jailor. He made
MfeefTort to retain it, but quietly gave it up
a A* the Cll!-d h .1
hd lor 111 to the place prepared lor 1
■^execution. His long confinement, to
gether with the awful *u«pense which must 1
have pervaded his mind throughout me
weary lapse of four long years of solitary ‘
bodily and mental suffering, had almost s
exhausted him. Pule and emaciated, !.•■
ascended the scaffold w ith a loitering step, '*
supported by the Sheriff JJe took his !
seat, and after taking some stimulant, the f
noose was adjusted round his neck- He '
bade farewell to the Sheriff, and request- r
ed the cap to be drawn over his face. *
The scaffold was cut from under him. and c
in ten minutes all that remained of a once
high-spirited and ambitious man huug a a
stiffened corpse, dangling at the end of a n
lelou's rope before a sea of curious up- 8
turned faces, upon whose features there 11
was no line of sorrow or regret.—[llolly "
Springs Democrat, 10th inst.
C*<S“ At latest accounts Vera Cruz was tl
in a state of siege and excitement. Mira- tl
moo’s army's watch-word was, “Liberals f
or death!" The express from the capi- a
tal, which was intended for the Tennessee, it
was detained by Miramon to conceal his w
movements. j <»
For the Des Arc Citizen.]
ARKANSAS RAILROADS.
Previous to the adjournment of the late
Legislature, many of the papers through
out the State teemed with articles in re
gard to internal improvements, indeed the
idea seemed to he established that shortly
Arkansas would be second to no State in
the Union, in regard to facilities for trade
and travel.
But little was done by those assembled
to look after the interests of the State.
Petty jealouses and blind self-interest
prevented any real benefit accruing to any
work of importance. The unjust rejec
tion of a charter for the Des Arc, Darda
nelle and Fort Smith Railroad, but caused
an opposition to a liberal course being
pursued to other works, and the small
pitiful sum of $ 10,000 to the Memphis
and Little Rock road has acted as only an
injury instead of a benefit.
Previous to the action of the Legisla
ture upon the bill in aid of the Memphis
find Little Rock Railroad, a meeting was
held in Madison “ for the purpose of ta
king into consideration ihe propriety of St.
Francis county's taking stock in the Mem
pi is and Lillie Rock Railroad, to the
amount of one hundred thousand dollars;”
which meeting adopted the following res
olution :
Rf.solvf.d, 1st. That the Chairman of this
meeting appoint a committee of two from
‘ach township in the county to memorialize
:he County Court to hold an adjourned term
>f said Court to await the action of the
Legislature upon a bill, now pending before
). id body, to authorize Ihe County Court of
ihis county to take stock in the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad.
This resolution, with others was herald
ed abroad, with the following endorse
mriii nvui ixits truuui iiu uc^aiuuriu ui lilt*
Madison Pioneer:
We hope the amount will be subscribed.
Indeed, a fair consideration of the true in
terests of onr county would force us to do so.
We must have a bridge over the St. Francis
river, and this is the only sure way to get it
-hortly. The progress of our county requires
it. The money is to be expended for our own
good, and at home. Success to the enterprise.
The boasting of the counties along the
route, induced the Legislature to believe
no aid would be required from the Slate
and it granted hut the pitiful sum of -$d0,
000 to the road. Even our neighbor o
the Brownsville Echo culls upon the citi
zens of Prairie county to follow in the
footsteps of those of S:. Francis, and votf
away the aunt of one hundred thousand
dollar* to the same work, and speaks o
the certain completion of the road, bu
we are afraid we will hear the Echo
echoing back the words we now Lea
from the Journal.
“• Some short time since we were in favoi
(end so expressed ourselves) of taking, foi
n ir county, stock to the amount of at leas
$100,000, if not double that amount.
Since then, circumstances have altered ma
1.,-: tally, and plans of aid. of which we hat
r»as.i:iable hopes, have been disappointed foi
the present.
In consequence, the policy of our count)
-hould, end mu«t be different from what was
under the then existing circumstances, pro
p,j and. for a time, our hopes of the im
mediate construction of onr road have been
disappointed.”
We think, with the editor, that not only
himself, but a good many others have been
disappointed and will continue to be so,until
they are willing to stand upon that rule ol
•* Doing unto others, as they would have
others to do unto them.” A violent oppo
sition was exhibited against other works
proposed, even where no aid was asked o!
the State, but they would have interfered
with the pet of Little Rock and and her
sycophants. But alas, the days of the
darling are running out as the sands from
the hour glass, dripping awny like the
dew drops on the grass, and she with
• .T Will IV 1*111 UMH IUIC, tTUCU
loo late ot profit by it.
We must conclude by faying we agree
will) the Journal in its last paragraph that
•' At the next meeting of our legislature,
we hope to see a widely different course
of action aJopted by the members,” and
liberality shown to all, including
DES ARC.
♦
£ha¥“ It is now settled that the once ram
pant .Vttm is dead. It is announced that a
new party is to be made—an Opposition
parly. They declare themselves ready to
"iiixue down" to the people. They are
w illing to take in all that are willing to
lend them aid. The party, from dale, is
bran new; and, as it is to be Opposition,
it will of course be driven any way by the
l>emocracy. If the Democracy is right in
any rase, they must be wrong; if on alii
Tides of all questions, so this Opposition
must be. or »t would lose the character it
ias assumed. They are not now to be
iworn, as in former times, nor have they
0 learn signs and grips. They Imve a
oiwinttee on resolutions. That is an er
or. \\ hy should they pass resolutions ?
Let them read the platform laid down by
he Democracy; they are against it; and
hey had better not resolve anything else.
>r it may not be Opposition. The truth
s, the Democracy ta the only party in this
ountry; all the rest ts but opposition.
In old sinner, with not much music in his
out. said ha knew but two tunes ; one was
Uld Ling Syne, and the other wasn't.
io it is now in this State. There are but
ivo parties; one is Democratic, the other
•n’t; but what the other is beside, it is
ard to tell. It is quite possible the breth
en may resolve something positive; for it
rould be an inconsistency not at all un
umrnon.
But they come before this State with
n ill-grace. They have been a party,
nd they had a creed. They had an or
anizntion, loo, that was to save the conn
y. They were more zealous then than
•w. They have dropped it all, thus eon
‘ssing their error. How do they expect
le people to trust them now ? IIow can
le public know that they will be whai
iey are now a twelve-month hence?
low long before they will lie a new parly
jain ? They had as well quit, and retire
1 disgust from politics. Their efforts
ill not be appreciated.—[Louisville Dem
rat.
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS
THE BUAISE* DONE AND LEFT UNDONE
It is a relief to know that Congress has
adjourned, says the Bali more Sun. which
it necessarily did at noon, on 'Friday the
4th of March, by reason of the expirniion
of the limited term of the second regnlar
session of the Congress. Its acts of omis
sion are grtevous. In view of the long
delayed action on the financial question, ■
the President, at 9 o'clock on Thursday
night, transmitted to Congress a brief spe
cial message, reminding that body that a;
large amount of treasury notes will soon
be redeemable, and urging the importance •
of providing, within the few remaining
hours of the session, for the maintenance
of the public credit, and thereby avoid the
necessity of an extra session.
The result was, the House finally pass
ed the Senate's treasury note measure, for
a reissue of eighteen millions, by eleven
majority. The California mail amend
-metrt* were rejected by the House, and
the Senate was compelled to pass the mis- j
cellaneous bill without them. The appro-!
priations for complying with the existing!
contracts for carrying the mails via Pana
ma and Tehaunlepec to California were
finally, however, carried as amendments
to an Indian treaty hill. But the most
grievous act of omission is the failure of
the postofice appropriation bill. The two
houses were irreconcilable on the point of
advancing postages to five and ten cents,
as proposed by the Senate. Mr. Toombs
and others, when the bill was sent back to
the latter body, consumed the last moments
in debate on the rights of the Senate as
representativ s of the States, which it was
considered had been disregarded Ly the
Hou-'e in returning the hill for the alleged
reason that the Senate had exceeded its
powers, as the postage proposition was a
revenue measure which could only origin
ate in the House. Every measure for
abolishing or modifying the franking priv
ilege which had passed the Senate was
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"J.- - -w-ww. * *
session of the Senate was commenced im
mediately after the adjournment at noon of
the old Congress.
The Post Office appropriation bill which
failed to become a law, embraced appro
priations to the amount of an aggregate
of $19,000,000; three million to cover
deficiencies, the balance for the cost of
the service in the fiscal year. The en
actment of the hill in some shape was a
rnpasuru of as much vital necessity to the
opperations of the Government as that of
, any other to be conceived of. Its failure
to become a iaw may make an extra ses
sion necessary.
The navy bill, as passed, legalizes the
order of the Secretary of the Navy, in
giving rank to engineers and their assis
, tan's after the manner of surgeons and
pursers, commanders and executive officers
to have precedence.
The public building appropriations were !
generally cut down, and so were many
appropriations for tiie opening and im
provement of avenues and streets in the
federal metropolis. Among the impor
tant measures which were either rejected
•or not finally acted upon, were the Pa
cific railroad bill, the Soldier's Pension,
French Spoliation, the Cuba Acquisition,
and the Homestead bills. Every proposi
tion to alter the tariff also failed.
The following appropriations passed
both Houses :
rn:iian appropriation. $1,796,368
Military Academy. 179,588
For payment of invalid and other pensions
of the United States, for year ending June 30,
1860.
For naval service for vear ending June 30,
1860, amounting to ten millions and a half.
For support of the army for the year ending
June 30. 1860, amounting to fifteen millions
and a half.
For consular and diplomatic expenses of the
Government for the year ending June 30, I860,
amounting to $1,017,745.
For payment of expenses of investigating
committee and for other purposes.
To provide for the care and preservation of
the works constructed by the United States for
bringing the Potomac water into the cities of
Washington and Georgetown, for the supply
of said water for all governmental purposes,
and for the use and benefit of the inhabitants
of the said cities.
Among the acts of a general character
which were passed were the following:
Tile repeal of an act, entitled “ An act au
thorizing the Secretary arid the Treasurer to ,
change the names of vessels in certain cases/’
approved March 5, 1856.
For the enforcement of mechanics’ liens on
hlliMimru. In tho Tllcfrivf Hnlnmkia
For the admission of Oregon into the Union
Giving the assent of Congress to a law of
the Missouri Legislature, for the application ‘
of the reserve two per cent, land fund of said <
State. :
To provide for the lighting with gas certain f
streets across the Mall, in Washington.
To incorporate the Washington National
Monument Society. ■
Making appropriations for the curientand "
contingent expenses of the Indian Department,
and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with va- t
rions Indian tribes, for the year ending June
30, I860.
To fix and regulate the compensation of re- '
cejvers and registers of the land offices, under
the provisions of the act approved April 20, '
1818. ‘
To amend an act entitled “An act authoriz
ing re-payment for land erroneously sold bv
the United States.”
To authorize settlers on sixteenth and thir
ty-sixth sections, who settled before the sur- t
veys of the public lands, to pre-empt their
settlements. j
For the punishment of the crime of forgery, o
or counterfeiting military bounty land war- s
rants, military bounty land certificates,certif
icate of location, certificates of purchase and
receiver’s receipts.
Act making appropriations for the legisla- I
tive. executive anil judicial expenses of the ■
Government for the y'ear ending June 3'), 1860.
Extending the laws and the judicial system
of the United States to the State of Oregon,
and for other purposes.
An act to carry into effect the convention ’
’ip'ween the United States and China, con
cluded November 8,1858.
An act authorizing the re-issue of treasury
notes for two years. ^
About 60 private bills and 15 or 20 joint res
olutions were also passed.
Fire in Houston, Texas.—The Hous- c
ion Telegraph, of the 2d instant, gives an fi
iccount of a lire which look place in that *
Nourishing town on tho 28th uli.—Mon
lay last. Tiio loss is put down at about (
£100,000, of which 80)5.000 on goods,
Sic., and the balance on the buildings.
There was insurance only for about 820,- -
500; and of this very little, if any, for the *
shopkeepers, mechanics. &c.
“In Extremis.”—The Savannah Re
publican, wishing, doubtless, lo have some j
position on the approaching campaign, -
‘nominates” James II. Hammond, of
South Carolina, for President, Rufus c
Choate, of Massachusetts, for Vice Presi- ^
lent.
The South and the Presidency.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in noticing
an article of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,
Hanning that, by general consent, it has
been understood that the nominee of the
Charleston Convention should be taken
from a slave Slate, says:
Tiie comparison which the Telegraph
draws between northern and southern
Presidents is altogether uncalled for, and
its only tendency is a mischievous and
evil one. This point is worthy of espe
cial reprobation. The Telegraph is al
together too fast in supposing that it is a
matter of course that the nominee of the
Charleston Convention must_cpme—from.
the South. If any body has conceded
this, the concession came from those who
hud no right to speak for the people.
The nomination will be made upon con
siderations altogether superior to the one
of location. The main items will he fit
ness for the place and available popularity
before the ni isses. The candidate who
is adjudged to possess in a most eminent
decree these qualifications, will doubtless
be selected without regard to his location,
whether that location is at the North, the
South, the East, or the West. We don't
believe in the doctrine that any section of
the Union has a right to set up particular
claims fur the office. As an offset against
the charge that the two last Presidents
have been from the'North, and that, there
fore, a third must not be taken, we can
plead that the South has had the Presi
dency for forty-eight years to the North's
twenty-two years, although its population
only half as large as that of the North.
We find no fault with this, however, and
never intend to plead it against our south
ern friends unless they provoke it by set
ting up peculiar claims to the office. We
care not where the nominee comes from
provided he is fit for the station and can
be elected. In choosing such a man the
convention must not be restrained by any
considerations or shrieks of locality and
section, but must look over no narrower
field than the United States, from its At
lantic to its Pacific shore, from the lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico.
Gen. Joseph Lane.—General Lane
was born in North Carolina; and went to
Kentucky with his parents, spending the
greater part of his time until his emigra
tion to Indiana in the position of wood
chopper and boatmen on the Ohio, where
he was a great favorite, and was universal
ly known as "Honest Joe Lane.” He
soon realized enough to buy him a farm
at Evansville, Indiana, where he was soon
buried in politics, and was for a series of
years a representative in the State hails of
legislation. During the war with Mexico
he enlistened as a private, rose to the
rank of Colonel; and was finally chosen
Brigadier-General of the State of Indiana.
He won high honors during the war, and
General Taylor, in reporting him as
slighly wounded at the battle of Buena
Vista, gave the addition, "Behaved gal
lantly before the enemy.” He raised the
siege of Puebla and fought his way 10
Mexico city, and almost captured Santa
Anna at Orizaba, besides numerous other
engagements in which his valor always
told. He was styled by the army "the
Marion of Mexico.” He returned home
at the close of the war, and afterward
served a term as Governor of Oregon.
MAnniED:
By the Rev. J. W. Moore, on the Sth inst.,
at the residence of the bride’s fathej, in Prai
rie county. Mr. T. J. ALBSQN to Miss MA
RY C. HANCOCK. | IN'fatXED j
[Good luck to yon and your bride Jeff.
May the choicest blessings of life attend you.
Your kindly recollection of the " Citizen
office” was duly appreciated, and your request
attended to.J
West Tennessee Whig please copy.
BENJAMIN WASHER..H. P. VAUGHAN.
WASHER Si. YAIffiHAY,
Dry Goods Merchants,
COR. BUENA VIST A Sc WOODRUFF STS,
DES ARC, PRAIRIE CO., ARKANSAS.
DESIRING to clo_.e out their present stock
of Goods, will sell positively at Cost
'or Cash.
We have many desirable Goods.
\k& muse mio no no* comeiorwaru in ten
leys and pay ns, we will sue immediately.
iVe mean this for all, no exceptions at all.
marl8-tf. WASHER & VAUGH AN.
FOT l S ALE.
j AA ACRES choice Land 3j miles south
lUU of Des Arc, 30 acres cleared and un
ler a good fence, a comfortable dwelling and
II necessary out houses, a bargain will be
iven if application is made soon.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
marl8-tf. Land Agents, Des Arc, Aik.
>()() ACRES good up Land 24 mile*
—from Des Arc, for sale on liberal
erms. DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS.
marchl8-tf.
[1WO tracts fair upland nine miles from
Des Arc. one containing80 and the other
00 acres, a bargain can be had as the owner
i anxious to sell.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS
marchl8-tf.
FOR SALK.
[THE N. W. 4 of S. W. 4 sec. 9. T. 3
L N. 5 W; W. 4 N. W. ' sec. 25; E. 4 N.
\ sec. 26 T. 3 N. 6 W ; S. E. 1 S. I sec.
i T. 1 N. 5 W ; and the S. W. 4 N. W. 4
tc 31 T. 1 N. 5 W. Good land and at low
cures. Dalrymfle &. Williams.
inarchl8-tf.
e Y i n h a r RTs O n .
4
X3es Arc, Arltmioias,
rresjwt HAS just received
pj^jjkj£4|lafresh and wellselec
SPRING AND SUMMER
STAPLE & FANCY GOODS,
tea till-.Hade Clot hi » «•,
Hats. Boots and Shoes of all kinds,
nd would respectfully solicit a call from pur
aasers before buying elsewhere.
His stock of Spring and Summer Goods is
ill and complete. ap!7-tf
SPERM, LARD & TRAIN OIL
CONSTANTLY on hand, and for sale by
J febl8] A. STEWART & BRO’S.
QUININE.
(AA OUNCES, just received and for
>UU sale by A. STEWART & BRO’S
mar 11.
CASTOR OIL.
V SUPERIOR article, just received and
A. for sale by A. STEWART & BRO’S
AVERY’S PLOWS.
_._ LIGHT and heavy, Single and
'SSfiSjT ’V Two Horse Plows; just received
and for sale by
feblS] A. STEWART & BRO’S.
RUSS EVANS ""
REAL ESTATE AND ReVeRi.
LAND AGENT. DES ARC
ARKANSAS.
PROMPT attention w ill b,’ |>ai«» to all tM,
ness entrusted to him in hi? line. ’I
mar 11-tf.
Dr. J. L. NEEL.
HAVING permanently locate,) j„ f)Pj ,
Arkansas, offers his professional
ces to the citizens of the town and vicinhe
Office ov»r Washer, Vaughan & Co’s Sto'
mar ll-liin. ' rt'
IT B. D A L R VM PL eTa ttoh* t v ~
y . Law, Des Arc. Prairie county, Arka
sas. Will practice in the counties of Prair 1
Monroe, Arkansas, Jackson, White, and Co£
-w*T-- febU-tf"
V. n. DALRYMPLE. JO H M S. W 1 L LI \
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS
LAND AGENTS, I
DES ARC, PRAIRIE COr.vry
ARKANSAS,
VV^ILL give prompt attention to ||| I
* ' LAND CLAIMS, and will attP; §
personally to the locating of swamp land sen, -
and warrants, buying, selling lands and p4j. p
ing taxes, &c. mar 4-tf,' :
1 0 (Kin ACRES of valuable laiid^lj
, Vj\J ' J tracts to suit purchasers.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents, Des Arc, Ark.
n/ *|\ ACRES good up land near Drj
Arc, for sale on five vears time.
DALRYMPLE ft WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents, Des Arc, Art.
RICH WOODS L.4XDS1 ;
V'17'E HAVE several thousand acres
VV choice land in the Rich Woods f0. ij
sale, 23.150 acres of which we are an thorite w
to trade for diy goods or negroes.
DALRYMPLE & WILLIAMS,
mar 4-tf Land Agents. Des Arc, Ark.
To AH Persons
IN ANY WISE INTERESTED l.\
TIIE ESTATE OF
W Ti MP4 VS nenid A QPn
Application win be made at the April
term of Probate Court, for Prairie conn
tv, Arkansas, for an order for (he sale of all
the interest, right and title of W. B. Metis
dec’d, in and to the following lands, to wit
S. E.'qr of 9, S. VV. of S. VV. of 10, N. £ j I
S. VV. of y, S. E. of N. VV. I, N. E. of s. w.
of 4, and 110 acres, West part, N. E. of If.
township three, north, five west. Also, the
reversionary interest of land and negroes, it. fi
eluding two slaves. Susan and Emeline.
JNO. S. PEARSON,
mar 4-1 m Administrator. \
ST KAVEl);
’TtV-.r-X FROM the subscriber, ltv- jfc,
/Xf}\ tog it* Jackson county, four TIB 5$
miles east of Des Arc—One bay mar • -«■».*
from 9 to 11 years old—near 15 hands high—
mealy nose. Also, a bay mare tnule—8 year*
old tills spring—also has a mealy nose. Sail
mare may have a young colt. This stock kai
been strayed some eighteen months—but have - :
been seen near the river, below Des Arc. A
liberal reward will be paid for the above stock, m
as also for any reliable information as regards 11
them. S. F. BURGESS,
march 4.—It.
LAST P UBLIC SALhT0F LOTS
BUFFALO CITY,
On Monday and Tuesday
11th and 12th April, 1859:
Terms—One fourth Cush—balance m l|
twelve mouths.
A LSO, several Stores and small dwelling.-;
/a. a large Warehouse at the Steamboat 1
Landing and Ferry will be rented to the high L
est bidder, until the 25th December next.
White river is now in fine boating ortie
steambots running to Buffalo City, and will
continue, according to past history, at least ’j
until the middle of July.
It is unnecessary for the proprietor to sa; 4
anything in praise of Buffalo City. The lac!
of its meeting with such continued bitter op
position from other points and places, is some
proof, at least, that it is the place, the
point for a city, in fact. Go see the site.and
the extensive country and i apid improvement!; I
view the Buffalo Shoals, examine the mnpscUM
the country, enquire of old citizens. Pay m
attention to tho-e who are actuated by sell- Jf
interest, or a dislike to see others prosper, and f
you will surely be convinced that Buffalo City, •;
at the foot of the Buffalo Shoals, on Upper
White river, in Arkansas, is des ined to be. in
reality, what it is by name.
P.rsons desiring to purchase Lots, at pri
vate sale, can do so by applying to E B. Ton*
stall. Agent at Buffalo City, or the under
signed at Des Arc, Arkansas; either of whom
have magnificent maps of the citv.
JOHN H. OUISENCERRY.
feb25 ts.
*,* Bat etrille papers ami Memphis An
lanche ami Appeal copy 3 times.
A. Stewart & Bio’s,,
HgrocersjS
COMMISSION "MERCHANTS,
Des jirc, Jfakansos.
GROCERIES, kn
OUR stock is large anti our assortment pc- |
eral. Those who wish to purchase w'1' 1
doubtless find it to their interest to rail »»l i
buy from [feblS] A. STEWART k |
BF.KD OATH.
S ACKS, just received ami for saleDr
» feb 18. A. STEWART ,N BROS
•EES m ITM -
CA BBLS.. just received a I f r -ah bv
■JU feb 18. A. STFU ART 4- BR<?5
\IILR AXD < IsTIV 'i
■)A/1 KEGS
t\J -.*5,01 W !».s assort 1C
feblsj A STEW VR I x B
Paint-, Oil and Turpct»l»«*
A LWA\ S on hand and for sale, by
/V feblsj A. STEWART A. BK(,S
ATTEXTIOS It I, AC K8 WITH*
CC THOUSAND »•». assorted i ■ ■ I ■
•Jv Also—German, C l.
rnerlcan Steel; A nails, Vices. Belie**.
Plates, and a general assortment of T«o Jl
feblS] A. STEWART A ! lit*’* ^
Wiiitlun C«las» and '*<•'*•
i^TBYlOr Itibvli; 1 iv’.l; «••--. 'Ml*
0 tObyaO; I'dby 18 and WbyS 1 '•*
ply, for sate by
feb l s ] A. STEWART A .
House Keeper* Allrnli***1
WE have now in Store a larr-e |
of “ Cooking and BsdN
completely trimmed,for sale low. Ca- *”
x amine.
feblS] A. tnCWAET A —,
FURNITURE! FURNITURE
0 * N ITU,„ .. OUR stock of this
tide, is now very c< m
’■ plete, consisting tn par
»,• cm ~v t of High and L»>* *■01
'Wntb'iV*
ind Cherry Cribs, and Trundle Bedstr
Marble and Common Top Bureaus,
itands, Tin aid Wire Safes assorted **
Secretaries Tables, Lounges. Work
Plain and Fancy Wardrobes, Single and L
jle Shuck Mattraves, Cane, Split Bottom
Children’s Chairs, a great variety. .
febl** A. STEWART A '