DE.S ARC CITIZEN:
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DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
WEDNESDAY,... .MARCH 28 1860.
Democratic Conventions.
The national convention meets at
Charleston on Monday the 23d of April.
The State convention meets at Little
Rock, on Monday the 2d of April.
The congressional convention for the
first district meets at Dover, Pope county,
2d Monday, 14th of May.
The congressional convention for the
second district meets at Arkadelphia,
Clark county, on the 2d Monday, 14th
May.
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B^F* At the “ Prairie County Demo
cratic Mass Convention,” held at Browns
ville on the 12th inst., the following
delegates were appointed to represent the
democracy of the County, in the Slate
and District Conventions :
STATE CONVENTION.
Sim. Horne, A. F. McCain,
J. E. Gatewood, W. T. Jones,
T. B. Kent, J. C. Bogard,
George Mclver, R. S. Gantt,
John C. Davie, H. Reynolds,
. ,W. L. Moore,. W. P. Preston,
D. Walker Davis, Dr. C. W. Womack,
R. E. Rives, James M. Blakeney,
J. L. Bogard, Josephus Tucker,
A. A. Pittman. J. C. Morrill.
Thomas Allison, Dr. J. S. Pearson.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
Lott Johnson, Hon. B. C. Totten,
J. C. Morrill, H. Reynolds,
W. A. W. Mann, Dr. James Robinson,
Dr. O. A. Rives, James M. Blakemay,
A. A. Pittman, Dr. J. S. Pearson.
R. S. Gantt,
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Democratic Meeting — White River
Townahin.
Mr. Morrill: We,the undersigned,
wish you to publish a call for a meeting
of the Democrats of White River Town
ship, on the first Saturday in April, that
being the 7th.,for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to the County Convention,
to meet at Brownsville on the 4th Mon
day in April, to select a suitable candi
date from the ranks of the Democratic
party to represent this County in the next
Legislature, etc.
James E. Gatewood, M. M. Erwin,
D. W. Munroe, G. W. Glenn,
Jos. C. Tarkinton, J E. Glenn,
J. A. Moon, W. W. Wair,
M. T. Cooper, R. C. McCarley,
W. H. Chambers, W. H. Brock,
- W. L. Owen,- Jno. S. Pearson*.
John C. Butler, R T. Simpson,
J. W. Martin, Francis Holt,
Sim. Horne, Henry Clees,
T. Blake Kent, J. W. Beal.
Democratic Meeting—Caroline Town
ship.
The Democracy of Caroline Township
are requested to meet at Atlanta on Sat
N* urday the 31st of March, to appoint dele
gates to the Democratic County Conven
tion to be held at Brownsville on the 4th
Monday of April.
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Democratic Meeting — Pigeon Roost
Township.
The Democracy of Pigeon Roost town
ship are requested to meet at Hickory
Plain on Saturday the 7th of April next,
to appoint delegates to the Democratic
County Convention, to be held on the 4th
Monday of the same month, at Browns
ville.
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Democratic Meeting-—Prairie Township
The Democracy of Prairie township are
requested to meet at the court-house, in
Brownsville, on M o « d a y the 9th or
April, to appoint delegates to the Demo
cratic County Convention, to be held on
the 4th Monday of April.
Democratic Meeting—Centre Township.
The Democracy of Centre township are
requested to meet at McEwen’s School
House, on Saturday the 31st. of
March, to appoint delegates to the Dem
ocratic County Convention, to be held at
Brownsville on the 4th Monday of Amil
next.
Newspaper at Augusta.—We learn
that M. Lewis, Esq., recently connected
with the Pocahontas Advertiser, will, in a
short time, commence the publication of a
weekly paper at Augusta, Jackson county.
Spain, Mexico and the United
States.—As intimated in the news from
Mexico, which we published on Wednes
day last, an American naval commander
has taken the responsibility of stopping
the interference, of Spain in Mexican
affairs, by capturing and sending to New
Orleans two war vessels, fitted out in Cu
ba, to aid Gen. Miramon in subjugating
Vera Cruz. Great and stirring events
will, doubtless, follow this act. It may
lead to the acquisition of Cuba by force
of arms, and involve us with both Spain
and France.
National Democratic Resident Com
mittee Rooms, JVo. 8 4$ street, Wash
ton. D. C., February 21, 1860.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
C. L. Vallandincham, of Ohio, Ch’n.
M iles Taylor, of Lousiana.
Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia.
W'illiam H. English, of Indiana.
W illiam Barksdale, of Mississippi.
William Bicleb, of Pennsylvania.
John A. Logan, of Illinois.
John Cochrane, of New York.
M. W. Cluskey. Secretary of Committee.
Rooms of the Committee, No. 8 4$ st,,
near the City Hull. All commuications
should be addressed to the
Hon. C. L. Vallandincham, m. c.,
Ch'n JV. D. R. C., Washington, D. C.
—Mrs. Crockett, widow of Col. David
Crockett, who fell at the Alamo, died recen
tly at her residence in Johnsoncounty, Texas,
in the 84th year of her age.
The Charleston Convention—Its Duty.
There is an evident desire among certain
politicians to simply re-adopt the Cincinnati
platform at Charleston without any effort to
relieve it of its ambiguity; to go into the
great canvass that is just ahead of us upon
“the great principle of tbp Nebraska Bill”
; without, any limitation of the meaning of
that very indefinite term. So far as we are
concerned we endorse both the Cincinnati
platform and “the great principle of the
Nebraska Bill,” and it would be very easy to
show thut the common sense, literal meaning
of both these documents, indirectly, but none
the less emphatically condemn the popular or
squatter sovereignty doctrine. But the news
papers and popular orators of the North give
a construction to the documents in question
so uniform and precise, as to leave no doubt
that the entire northern mind, with the ex
ception of a few northern Democrats of the
Pierce and Buchanan school, is thoroughly
imbued with the notion that both the Kansas
Nebraskabill and the Cincinnati platform re
fer the whole question of slavery from the
beginning to the people of the Territories to
dispose of as they may think proper. This
is the popular and almost universal concep
tion of popular sovereignty as at the North.
Towards this construction it is needless to
sav that the whole South, with the isolated
exception of such men as Col. Bust and oth
ers who are engaged in a miserable intrigue
to draggoon the South into the support of Mr.
Douglas, occupies a position of irreconcilable
hostility. If the Democratic party intends
to deal fairly by every section of the confed
eracy, it is hut reasonable that the people
should require of them that they offer a limi
tation and definition to the very—indefinite
terms “Died Scott decisien,” “Cincinnati
platform ” and “ Popular Sovereignty.” The
only objection made by southern democrats to
making this explicit exaction of the Charles
ton Convention is on the score of party expe
diency. To this plea it would be sufficient to
reply that, at all times and under all circum
stances party policy and party expediency
must be subordinated to principle ; that the
woiiiutiaut party was organized not ror tne
purpose of winning victories and appropriat
ing to its members the spoils of office, but for
the purpose of perpetuating great principles
and that no considerations of policy or expe
diency can justify it in making the slightest
departure from principle for the purpose of
gaining a temporary party triumph.
But we propose to view this question in
another light. Leaving out of view the legal
absurity and contradiction of a doctrine that
assumes powers on the part of a handful of
adventurers in the Federal dependencies to do
what sovereign States and the General Gov
ernment may not; as, let us look at the sub
ject in the broad glare of party expediency,
and see what hope or prospect there is of
carrying northern States on this issue of popu
lar sovereignty. It is now about six years
since the Kansas-Nebraska bill containing the
great principle of popular sovereignty, was
passed. The politicians and party presses im
mediately called upon the North and South to
“go in and win” as those who obtained a
majority of votes would be able to admit or
exclude slavery, as they desired. The South
had an advantage in the proximity of territo
ry—the North in the ready and available con
tributions of capital, which, when emigra
tion was once organized by the genius of a
Thayer, more than counterbalanced the former.
The first settlers however were Missourians;
they believed that an anti-slavery State cn
their western frontier would be pregnant with
mischief and possible danger, and therefore
sought to make Kansas a pro-slavery State.
The Northern and Eastern men were equally
determined to make Kansas an abolition or
free-state. With these conflicting views
among the settlers, collision would naturally
follow and especially when vast multitudes in
the States were impelling them in opposite
directions. Hence, broils, civil war, murder
and death spread over Kansas, the first and
only instances of civil commotion in our his
tory ; and all these unhappy results were the
legitimate, and under the circumstances
the unavoidable consequences of popular sov
ereignty. The President and Congress were
finally compelled to interfere to save the peace
of the country, for the excitement in the
border States threatened to involve the whole
Union in the civil wars of Kansas. Then,
says a leading northern Journal, began a
movement such as had never before been wit
nessed in the history of parties. The Presi
dent was forced by the exigencies of the case
not only to abandon the northern theory of
popular sovereignty, but to propose its direct
violation, and with the exception of Judge
Douglas and about a half a score of members
of Congress, the whole Democratic party in
the northern States turned square about and
adopted the Presidential policy. The charges
of Judge Douglas that Mr. Buchanan was
faithless to the pledges of ’5f> are untenable,
for the truth is the President never endorsed
the Territorial policy of the Senator frotn Illi
nois, and he was no more responsible for the
construction put upon his acceptance of the
Cincinnati nomination than Mr. Polk was for
the construction that the friends of protec
tion put upon the celebrated Kane letter. In
the meanwhile the Kansas question has set
tled itself as all other questions in our rapidly
growing country tend to ; but the real issue
before the country, the actual Territorial
question is as far from being settled as in
1856. The South demands equal rights in the
Territories. She demands that the grand
fundamental principle lying at the base of
our institutions shall be applied to all elec
tions and all classes of American citizens.
She wants no slave code, no special legisla
tion ; no legislation in advance of territorial
settlement, but she does demand as a consti
tutional right, as a natural right, as a right
inherent and part and parcel of our system,
the same protection for slave property that is
extended to any other species of property un
der the Federal Jurisdiction. The Republi
can reasons logically, if not correctly, on this
great question. He assumes that the negro is
a man with the same natural rights as him
self, and therefore the slavery of the negro is
wrong, and cannot, or should not exist in the '
Territories. But the Democrat who accepts
the general doctrine, as enunciated in the
Dred Scott Decission, that “the negro is not
a citizen ” and that “ all his political relations ]
and civil duties are with his white brethren j
of the South” cannot avoid the conclusion or j |
escape the duty of granting equal protection ;
to slave property in the Territories. Here
w-e are then, in direct and irreconcilable con- j
flict with the great sectional party of the,
ftorth, and the Charleston Convention is j
charged with the weightiest interests that!
ever engaged the attention of a similar body. ! ]
But their course is clear and their duty ! j
plain. They have only to respond to the true i i
Democratic sentiments of the nation, and to
walk in the path of honor to secure demo
cratic ascendency and national safety. Let
them meet the issue, boldly and honestly, ten
dered by the sectionalists. Let them lay
down the platform of equal rights for all
American citizens and appeal to the funda
mental idea of Democracy and the best in
stincts, intelligence and manliness of the
northern masses. Standing on this high
ground of principle, it is a matter of subor
dinate interest who the candidate may be,
whether the clear headed, the eloquent, the
intrepid and chivalrous Davis—the safe, able
and accomplished Hunter; the profound and
all-emli'acing Toombs, or the gallant Breck
inridge : Either is a complete embodiment of
the great issue before the country, and either
or any of them abundantly competent to per
form the duties of the Presidency. And
should the Democracy be defeated; should
the local politicians throughout the north
fail to stand up to the issue and consequent
disaster be brought upon itt it will go down
unconquered—its banner though torn, still
flying, its honored and untarnished princi
ples made more distinct, bright and glorious
than ever.
But it cannot be disguised that prodigious
efforts are being made to avoid the great issue
before the country, and to trust to the igno
rance and folly instead of the reason and
patriotism^’ the northern people. It is pro
posed to re-adopt the Cincinnati Platform—
to parade before the country again the well
puunuea carcass or uie ivansas-i\eDi asKa Dill,
in short to stultify the Democracy and insult
the common sense of the country by the dodge
of popular sovereignty. And there are men
even in this State, whose tender nerves will
not permit them to demand the full assertion
of their rights, but who are willing to main
tain the nationality of the Democratic party
upon the basis of squatter sovereignty. But
we warn them that such would be a fatal
error. If the nationality of the Democratic
party cannot be maintained upon the basis of
a platform securing to the South the full
measure of her lights it had better be aban
doned. If we manifest, as heretofore a wil
lingness to take the best we can get, we will be
most shamefully and overwhelmingly defeated,
and a platform meaningone thing at the North
and another at the South will be foisted up
on us, upon the pretext that if is necessary to
abandon our principles to defeat the Black
Republicans. She should demand of the
Charleston Convention a full and uncondition
al repudiation of squatter sovereignty—an
explicit endorsement of the Di ed Scott De
cision—an assertion of both the right and
duty of Congress to protect slavery in the
Territories. Let us for once have a clear
victory or a clear defeat. If the northern
Democrats are not loyal to the principles we
have just enunciated, they are no better than
the Black Republicans and the sooner we
know it the better. All other parties have
become aholitionized, and the events of the
next six weeks will demonstrate whether or
not the Democracy is still true to the Consti
tution. Then let our delegates go to Charles
ton asking only what is right, and, failing to
secure it—let them sternly refuse to accept
anything less, and shaking the dust from their
feet, return to their constituents as free as
they went. Then the same history that re
cords the unfaithfulness of the Democracy of
the Union, will also exhibit the rectitude of
that gallant States Right Democracy of the
South, which through all the vicissitudes of
politics, has borne aloft her standard, refused
to parley with her enemies, stood fast by her
rights, and in whose unselfish devotion to her
honor she finds the reflection of her manhood
and the best hope of her safety.
Slavery in 1715.—Tbe following
are some statistics of the “old colonial
days, when our sober, discreet and pious
ancestors of the Northern and Eastern
States were slaveholders, as well as those
of the South.” One hundred and forty
five years ago, in the reign of George
the First, the ascertained population of
the continental colonies was as follows:
White Men. Negro Slaves.
TVT««t Tfumnollivn Q r,nn 1 ^
Massachusetts 91,000 2,000
Rhode Island, 7,500 500
Connecticut, 46,000 1.500
New York, 27,000 4,000
New Jersey, 21.000 1,500
Pennsylvania, 43.300 2.500
Maryland, 40.700 9.500
Virginia, 72,000 23,000
North Carolina 7,500 _ 3,500
South Carolina 6.250 10,500
Total, 375,750 58,850
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Cuba.—A special dispatch to the Cin
cinnati Gazette says: “The New York
Courier and Enquirer of to-day says it is
advised that the French Government had
been informed that Spain had agreed to
sell Cuba to the United States. Every
thing was arranged but the price, con
cerning which there was a difference of
opinion—a difference quite probably in
surmountable in its character.”
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 20.—House.—
The military academy bill was taken up
to-day and referred to the committee on
military affairs by a vote of 111 against
22. It was so amended as to make an
ippropriation for amounted regiment of
volunteers in Texas. A bill was intro
duced by Miguel A. Otero, delegate
from the Territory of New Mexico, pro
viding for n regiment of volunteers to de
fend the lives and property of American
citizens in thnt Territory. The bill was
referred to the committee on military
affairs.
Sen ate.-Sena tor Sebastian' introduced
i resolution which was passed authorizing
i treaty to be made with the Indians in
the vicinity of Pikes’ Peak, with a view
of extinguishing fheir title to lands in
he Territory of Jefferson.
Senator Wilson introduced a bill pro- ■
viding for the establishment of steamships
idapted to the African coast for the sup
iression of the slave trade.
Gov. Foote.—Governor Foote designs !
tttending the Charleston Convention, to 1
ook after the interests of the Little Giant.
Jouglas may well exclaim, in view of
his, “Lord, deliver me from my friends!” i
f he can survive the active friendship of ;
t^oote, he need have no fears of injury
rom any other quarter!—[Vicksburg ,
sun. (
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— The cost of the new dome of the Capi- _
ol, at Washington City, as now estimated, t
mounts to $904,000, including the bronze t
uannnoth statue of the Genius of Liberty r
nth which it is to be surmounted. ” i
[From the Old-Line Democrat.
Pull Information about Swamp Lands.
The readers of the Old-Line Democrat
will find below a letter from Hon. Joseph
S. Wilson. Commissioner of the General
Land Office, giving very full and satis- J
factory information as to the great Swamp j
Land interests of Arkansas. The letter
is addressed to the Rep-esentative in Con-j
gress from the Northern District, who re- j
quests us to publish it for the benefit of bis
constituents and of tlie people of the
State at large. We comply with his re
quest cheerfully; in fact, we feel glad of
the opportunity, Mr. Wilson’s letter is a
valuable compend of facts and figures in
relation to Swamp lands ; it sheds more
light on the subject than any document we
have yet seen, and the thanks of our citi
zens are due to Col. Hindman for procu
ring it and causing it to be published. In
thus laboring for the public good, he ad
ministers another keen reproof to his ene
mies. They resort to all manner of abuse
and villificaiion for causing his downfall ;
while, on the other hand, he labors con
stantly to promote the interests of Arkan
sas. It is to be hoped that the “faithful
steward,” who renders so good an ac
count of the talents entrusted to him, will
be kept in his place by an intelligent and
appreciative people.
The Commissioner’s letter is as follows:
General Land Office, >
March 6th, 1860. S
Hon. T. C. Hindman.* House of Represen
tatives— Dear Sir:—I have the honor, in
reply to yours of the 26 instant, asking for
certain information relative to Swamp Lands
in the State of Arkansas, ami enclosing to
this office a joint resolution passed by the Leg
islature of that State upon that subject, to
state that there have beeii selected and report
ed from Arkansas under the grant of 1850,
8.652.112.93 acres. Of this amount, there
have been approved to the State—
In the Batesville District, 1 621.744 01 acres.
“ Champagnole “ 555,728 79 “
« Clarksville “ 254,742 51 “
“ Fayetteville « 21.202 82 “
“ Helena “ 2,266,552 27 “
“ Little Rock “ 1,455,868 71 «
“ Washington “ 456,971 03 “
Total approved, 6,632,810 14 “
Of the lands thus approved, there have
been patented to the State—
In the Batesville District, 1.600.426 50 acres.
“ Champagnole “ 507,073 76 “
“ Fayetteville “ 3.483 32 “
Helena “ 2.212.498 37 “
“ Little Rock « 1,098,637 31 “
“ Washington “ 457,071 03 “
Total patented, 5,879,190 29 “
In addition to the foregoing, it is proper to
state that an additional list lying North and
in wuc uiucsviuc l/isuici, aim cuuuaui
ing, by estimation, 440 440 acres, was. sub
mitted on the 3d instant to the Secretary of
the Interior for approval, of which, when the
sams shall have been returned, co-pies will be
made and certified to the State. We are also
now engaged in examining the selections ly
ing North and West in this District, with the
view to their approval, which will probably
amount to 100.000acres.but it is impossible to
state the amount definitely until said examina
tion shall have been completed.
I would also state that, in addition to the
lands patented as above, we have now ready
for transmission to the Governor, so soon as
the same shall have been placed upon our
records, two patents for lands in the Clarks
ville District, embracing 99.255 87 acres.
From the foregoing, it will be seen that, of
the lands which have been selected, there re
main unapproved 2,019,302 79 acres; and of
those approved there remain to be patented,
exclusive of the two patents in the Clarksville
District above named, 654,633 98 acres.
It is impossible, in view of the heavy pres
sure upon that branch of this olfice having
charge of this business, and the great labor it
must necessarily involve, to say when the ex
amination of the balance of the selections
can be completed, or the patents issued for
the remainder of those already approved; but
we are now engaged in doing both, and you
have the assurance that no unnecessary delay
will be permitted.
The foregoing, it is believed, contains the
answer also to your second letter of the same
date, on the same subject, but confined to the
Batesville and Helena Districts.
It may not be impropper to add that the ad
justment of the Swamp Grant, is in a much
greater state of forwardness in Arkansas than
in any other of the States entitled under it,
many of which are pressing their claims with
equal solicitude and urgency.
With great respect, your ob’t sev’t.
J. S. WILSON.
The Negro in the North. — The
New York Express thus pictures the so
cial condition of the negro in that city :
The Post is glorifying Mr. Seward's
speech. The argument is, that a mail is
a man North, but not South, if a negro
man. Church street, Mercer street, the
Hook, the five Points, all under the edi
tor’s own eyes, belie this. A negro is
not half a man in Nmv Vnrlr r.Hv ' Hu
don’t vote. He don’t serve on juries.—
He don’t “train.” He don’t work in the
workshops. He don’t drive the licensed
cart. He don't study in a white school.
He don’t “run the engines.” He don’t
lend behind the counter. He don’t print
among the priuters in the Post’s printing
office. Living, he don’t worship God in
;he Post’s church ; and dead, he is dumped
into Potter’s Field, or sold to the doctors
in Fourth Avenue, Thirteenth and Four
leenth streets, for a skeleton, or if not
ihus sold, kicked off into the “Black
Graveyard,” on top of a dozen black
bodies there before him. We. “dough
races” as we are—"pro-slavery,” "sold to
ihe South,” etc.—from the very bottom of
our hearts pity the poor, miserable, New
Fork social slave “nigger.”
To be Kept from the Influence of
rHE Priests.—An order has been issued,
it is staled in an English paper, by the
French Minister of War, forbidding sol
iiers in garrison at Paris, or any other
own in France, from attending worship
n parochial or conventual churches, and
ntimating that, for the future, provision
would everywhere be made within bar
■acks for the regular celebration of mass.
The origin of tiiis regulation is said to be
he efforts on the part of the priests to in
luence the minds of the soldiery in favor
ff the Pope.
-The Legislature of Louisiana has pass
'd an act allowing a greater rate of interest
ban eight per cent per annum, but accom
>anied by a proviso that written obligations
hall not bear more than that per centage after
heir maturity until paid.
A Christian Turned Jew.— In Russian
5oland a young Christian his lataly become a
ew. For a long lime, he has been endeavor
ng to prevail on the Rabbis to allow him to
o so, but they made strong objections, as the
falmud prohibits proselyting.
-The Adams (N. Y.) News hoists the
ame of Win. H. Seward for President, and :
’assius M. Clay for Vice President, subject to
be decision of the Chicago Convention.
t-Of Muscular Christianity, we think the
erm though cleverly intended, is wrongly
pplied. If religion hangs on a question of,
mscle, then the Mussulmen must be the lead-11
igand most powerful members of the Church. Ii
From the Washington Star, 17th ]
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTIONS
NOMINATION.
Wt* are at length able to express, upon i
carefully considered premises, something
like a definite opinion as to Hie probable
action of tbe Charleston Convention. We
do not mean to claim that we can fore- 1
shadow who it will nominate for the Presi- 1
dency—but rather, that we can explain
the suite of the game for the nomination,
as it stands at tiie present writing.
Thus, we have to say that, the intense
and extensive "blowing” of Senator Doug
las and his grand army of newspaper wri
ters to the contrary notwithstanding, his
vote on the first ballot will be somewhere
between sixty and seventy, and that his
highest vote will be on the first ballot;
and, further, that he will not receive the |
vote of a single Democrat representing a !
district of a certain Democratic State.—
Wre by no means regard Illinois as a cer
tain Democratic State ; if but because in
the late contest for the United States
Senatorslnp there his partizans, though
electing a majority of the Legislature,
were, in the aggregate vote of the whole
State, in a clear minority of some 4,000.
W'e have further to say, in explanation
of this opinion relative to the vote of Mr.
Douglas, that he will not receive a single
slaveholding Slate vote, except, possibly,
two from Maryland and the vote of Dela
ware. We believe, however, that on
reaching Charleston, every delegate from
those Slates will realize the propriety of
maintaining the unity ot the action of the
South in the Convention.
And still further: that New York,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey as repre
sented there, will on the first ballot vote
for any gentleman upon whom the South
may concentrate its vote with any thing
like unanimity, if he be a statesman who
may be regarded as a fair representative
of the ancient principles of the party,
and of that sort of national reputation as
may be likely to secure for him the lavor
of the conservative sentiment of the
North, now really more effectually aroused
than ever before on the eve of a Presiden
tial election.
To continue : we have to say that six
of the thirteen delegates from Indiana, a
majority of the Minnesota and Massa
chusetts delegations, more than a third of
the delegations from Maine and Connecti
cut, and the Rhode Island delegation, are
per se, anti-Douglas men ; and therefore
may not be expected to enter upon the
task of forcing his nomination upon the
South, chalked out for them by ins (Mr.
D.’s) newspaper writers.
—Louisiana wrtl urge the nomination of
her distinguished citizen, Mr. Slidell—
than whom no other would make either
an abler or better Democratic President—
with great earnestness. In the late Loui
siana Democratic State Convention, out
of more than 200 members, he had all
but some 30, who were divided in their
preferences among half a dozen other as
pirants for the nomination, including Mr
Douglas.
Mississippi will present Colonel Davis,
and Georgia will present Mr. Cobb ; Ken
tucky Mr. Guthrie ; and Tennessee Mr.
Johnson; while Virginia will doubtless
present Mr. Hunter. At the recent Vir
ginia Slate Convention, though the Wise
leaders claimed that they had the repre
sentatives of a majority of the aggregate
nni'lt; imt«» in flio Sitnfo ll u/nc vart; pluar
I J J
that Mr. Hunter had a majority of the
several electoral districts. The latter
majority—not the former—controls the
vote of the State at Charleston, as each
electoral district will send delegates to
vote its own sentiments. VVe are further
satisfied that the effort the Wise leaders
to get a snap judgment (in the Conven
tion) against Mr. Hunter, will have the
effect of so arousing the advocates of his
nomination who are really in a large ma
jority in, we believe all but four districts
in the State, as that Virginia will send to
Charleston a delegation quite three-fourths
of which will be in his favor—the ma
jority it will be recollected, controlling the
vote ol the whole, according to Virginia’s
custom in Democratic National Conven
tions.
The certainty that New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, and considerable
portions of the delegations of other North
ern States, will promptly signify to the
South, at Charleston, that they will from
the start support the gentleman in whose
favor she (the South) may express herself
with any approach to unanimity, will
doubtless superinduce consultation and j
concert of action on the part of her dele
gations. resulting, we think, in the selec
tion of Mr. Hunter ; or Mr. Breckinridge,
(who is doubtless the favorite with a con- '
siderable portion of the Pennsylvania!
delegation); Mr. Guthrie, who, it is j
claimed, can carry Pennsylvania and
New Jersey because of his valuable ser- j
vices to the iron interest in the way of the
introduction of American iron in the con
struction of public edifices ; or Mr. Dick
inson, whose friends now claim that he
can surely carry New York ; or Mr. An
drew Johnson, whose steady and so able
advocacy of the homestead policy (of which
he is the father) has certainly secured for
him an almost unprecedented popularity
among the masses at the North. Or,
again, General Jo. Lane, upon whom it
is generally believed the Democracy may
easily get up a second edition of the
Hickory fever oflS32—a revival of which,
on consultation, may turn out to be an ab
solute necessity of the Democracy in the
approaching contest. As for ex-Governor
Wise, it is certain that outside of the
Virginia delegation there will be no ad- j
vocate of his domination in the Charleston
Convention. We, of course, entertain no
idea of the admission there of the "Don
elly-letter” delegation from New York.j
manufactured by Mr. Fernando Wood, '
which outside of the city is absolutely 1
without the pretence of a constituency. ,1
-♦-- ,
-The Brownsville Flap: of the 23d ult.
says that the charges against the Texas Ran- '
eers. of committing deeds of lawlessness and
plunder, batfe been fully proven. The Flag 1
also gives particulars showing the complicity i
of the authorities of the city of Matamora's
with Cortinas and his banditti camp.
-A Methodist missibnary, just returned
from a thirteen years’ residence in China,!
itates that the church of Rome has been es- |
lablished there for over two hundred years.
-The mining news from all parts of 1
California is very glowing; new discoveries of 1
juiclwlver, silver, gold, and cinnabar were al
nost an every day occurrence, besides other
ievelopments of mineral wealth peculiar to I
hat State. , r
—The different brick yards of Memphis,
twenty in number, have contracts for 44,500.
000 bricks to be delivered during the ensuing
season.
.- - #-»
MAHHiriD:
In Des Arc, on Thursday evening last, by
Rev. D. L Gray, T. Jf.ff. Woodson, Esq., to
Mrs. Caroline Conkey.
SPRING and SUMMER
GOODS,
g. & j. McLaren & co.,
Are now receiving a large and general as
sortment of
LADIES DDES* GOODS—
Bonnets, Bonnet Ribbons, Hosiery, &c.
ALSO—
Summer Cassimeres, Jeans, Cottonades. Os
nabiugs. Plain and Striped Domestics, Cali
coes, Linsies, &c.
BOOTS AND SHOES—
A general assortment.
Hats and Misses Flats—
A large assortment.
Books and Stationery.
Carpets and Window Shades.
Clocks and Notions.
Enamel Cloth and Carriage Trimmings.
Buggy Whips and Cow Hides.
Trunks and Carpet Bags.
Saddles, Bridles, Girths. Martingales, Sic.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Quecnsware and Glassware.
And a very nice lot of Ready-Made Cloth
ing, a general assortment, all of which we
will sell very cheap for cash or to responsi
ble parties on the usual credit.
Those visiting our town for the purpose of
buying Goods, will find it to their interest to
give us a call before purchasing elsewhere
inar28-tf.] G. & J. McLAREN & CO.
Dr. J. BORDLEY,
DENTIST,
Would respectfully inform hi? friends and
the public thathe continues to perform all
DENTAL OPERATIONS.
HI* ROOMS ARE AT THE
Dos A.rc Hotel.
ARTIFICIAL TEETH (whole
. or partial sets) inserted on At
_^ mospheric Pressure, thus doing
away wun an springs, v^iasps, ccc. Also,
persons who have partial sets of teeth, and
are suffering with sensitiveness, from the
Teeth to which the bands or clasps are at
tached, can be relieved, and the Teeth made
comfortable, &c. He would also call atten
tion to the Preservation of the Teeth, and
diseases of the Alveollar process.
Attention given to Diseased Gums,
commonly called Scurvv. Children Teeth
ing and suffering with summer complaints
treated. mar28-2t.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, to all persons concerned.
that John C. Ostenberg, about 33 years of
age, light complexion, dark hair and weigh
ing about 160 pounds, a native of Sweden,
died intestate and without any known heirs in
this country, on or about tile 1st day of De
cember, A. D. 1859. And letters of Adminis
tration on his estate have been granted to me
dated the 23d day of December, 1859. And
the appraised value of said estate, is six hun
dred and ninety-five dollars. -
JOHN VV. ROBINSON, Adm’r.
Des Arc, Ark., March 20, 1860.
mar28-6w.
DR.W. H. PH KETT ■ . J. 3. WIGGS. • • W. B. WIGGS.
SIPiggs Sir others A' Co.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
RUGOISTS
APOTHECARIES,
No’s 317 and 319 Main St.,
COR. MAIN AND UNION,
OPPOSITE SPEED. DONOHO & STRANGE
Memphis, Tenn.
AT this stand we hope and expect to see all
our old friends and customers, assuring
them that our renewed efforts shall be aimed
to please, and to continue to furnish them
with Drugs of a superior character, and other
goods, the quality of which we can and will
warrant.
(J?p* We keep a full supply of Grass and
Garden ^eeds.
Wiggs Brothers & Co.,
Cor. Main and Union St’s.,
mar28-ly. Memphis, Tennessee.
Dll. II. AIIMISTI'AD.
HAVING permanently located at Des Arc,
offers his professional services to the
citizens of the town and adjacent country.
Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office.
DR WM. BETHELL.
YY/ ILL continue the Practice of Medicine
» v iii i/ua ait. aiiu > i t-i in i y • riuiU 1J13
long experience in his profession, and having
resided in Arkansas during the past fifteen
years, he hopes to receive a share of the pub
lic patronage.
V£3T Office at Balsly’s Drug Store. Resi
dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the South side of
the road, entering the town. mar21-ly.
JUST RECEIVED
g. & j. McLaren & co.,
St vs •ire, •irKansas.
8 DOZEN silk, eassimere and soft fur Hats
assorted. Also, gross Garrett’s snuff ;
Turpentine in bottles; Quinine and Smith’s
Tonic ; Star Candles ; Soda ; Starch ; Brim
stone : Bar Soap, &c.. &c. mar21
LASiDS FOR SAFE.
IN Prairie county, in town 2 south, range fi
west, 80 acres. Town 2south, 7 west, 520
acres. <
IN Arkansas county, in town 3 south, range
6 west, 840 acres; 4 south 4 west, 100
acres ; 5 south 5 west, 480 acres ; 5 south 4
west, 680 acres.
£N Jefferson county, town 3 south, range 7
west, 670 acres.
IN Jackson county, town 5 north, range 4
west, 4200 acres. These lands will be
sold, part cash, balance on time.
For further information apply to
GATEWOOD & MOON,
mar21-tf. Des Arc, Ark.
Pet of tiie Woods.
.V/J If S,i If .MBsis
IN CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
'PHE undersigned having erected a
Saw Mill in Centre Township, near the
esidcnceof S. Kennedy, on Bayou Wattensavv,
ire prepared to fill all orders at the shortest
lotice, f*r any required size, quantity, or
ength of lumber, at lowest cash prices.
A constant supply kept always on hand,
rhe kinds of timber sawed at this Mill, arc.
lak, Gum, Hickory, Walnut, Sassafras and
Ash. Any person wanting lumber, should
•ddress us at Walnut Plains, Arkansas.
Orders for lumber respectfully sniVt-ited.
S. A WESTBROOK.
mar21-tf. JOHN C. KENNEDY.
C A JI DSON,
CARPENTER AND JOINER, Also,
J
lealer in Sash, Doors, Mantles, Window
nd Door Frames, &.c.
Shop corner of Erwin and Park streets.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
N. B.—Coffins made to order, on short
otice. feb22:l v
Arrangements for the Futm.,
A FTER the 1st day of April n. T; , '
li furnish any responsible and pay; Wi|l j
ties that desire any kind of Good, j,; ’
of business, on a credit until the 1st rf i,! S
January next, at as low prices as any K * j i
in the West. Have now on band a f,,i| *** : .i
of all kinds of Goods usually found in , 11
establishments, and constantly receiving®’* 1 •
house in this country will have a |ar„p;' ^ 'tji
or greater variety. My extensive new*!01* !
of all kinds of Spring and Summer q!!J
will be entirely complete by. or about
or 20th of April. All Goods warranted tv
as represented. I have adopted the
figure system, everything is marked in L.
figures, and have but one price; deal ,
old Goods of any description. Any JL11 4
found not to be new and fresh may h? r»h,
I will be prepared at the very first a/"?
next Cotton season, to pay cash for cotto"
the highest New Orleans prices, less ex*.”8 :''!
of shipping. &c., or advance liberally
Cotton left with me for shipment, to j
merchant in New Orleans.
mar21- JOHN H. QUISENRF.RRy
WM. D’tENCH.. L.7^ i
D’CENCH, RIVES & Co
IN PORTE as AND WHOLESALE DEALtu I*
!EE)D©DME« -■'':
OILS, PAINTS ’f1:
EUne-Stuffs anil ©lassmarc,
No. 4 Second Street, bet. Market and Wa|,r
NEARLY OPPOSITE BARNUNI’S HOTEL
SAINT LOUIS, MO. '
inarl4-6m.
NEW AND EXO L ISiVe
WHOLESALE
DRY-GOODS HOUSE,
303 Main StMemphis, 303
3HEPERrT& MOORE,
TAKE pleasure in announcing tha
they are now opening and prepared ton.
hibit, to Merchants buying for Cash orpa.
pared to make prompt and reliable arraL
inents, a very large and entirely new stotkil
Staple and Fancy Goods,
Ciothing, Embroideries,
Wrappings, Trimming,
and Varieties,
Adapted to the season, and embracing iltt.
gether one of the ihost complete and attuc.
tive stocks ever offered in any market.
ruey respecimiiy touch rrom me IrjdflSJS
careful examination, with confidence that tin llj
stock and prices will be found satisfactorv.
marl4-ly.
A CALL. 11
ALL persons indebted to the undersigned, j
must come forward and pay to J. M.Pet
tyall money due me cither on Note or Accent, j
as he is fully authorized to receive and is |
ceipt for the same. J. GRIFFITH.
marl4-lm.
MONEY TO I.ET. ' I
ALL persons indebted to Lane &. W,fo |
either by Note or Account, are requests! §
to come forward and pay up. as we must bait ,®
money. J. M. Pettv is fully authorized iS
receive and receipt for the same.
marl4-lm. LANE & WATTS, if
J. W. MARTIN.. T. SIMM)*. “J
MARTIN & HIMRKON,
^T¥@IrEKH¥lS AT y&wJ
Des Arc, Ark.
WILL...4>.raetjee i» Prairie, White, Ar
kansas. Monroe. Jackson and the ad
joining counties. Office on Lyon street.
feb29-tf.
WM GREjGNSLADE
•Merchant Tailor,
Des Arc, Ark.,
SHOP on Buena Vista street, one door Wee
of the Post office. All work executedia |
a neat and fashionable style.
feb29-ly.
LIVERY STABLE 3
BY T. F. GREBR & BRO,
Des Arc, Ark.
C-TOTHf proprietors of
(•iyLjTsr' ’bis -Stable, which is jB0|
-^— the oldest establismerit Td
of the kind in Des Arc. situated on Bueii, '
Vista street, near the Public Square, are p:*- • \
pared as heretofore, to accommodate tHipB
customers with Horses, Buggies. Carrusb.
&c.. on short notice. jn
$3T We arc prepared to accommodate will
number of horses, by the single feed, da) i i
week, or month. We attend to the stable our
selves, and can assuree all that their stoti
will be well attended to.
(£5?” To the citizens of Prairie, White, St I?
Francis, Jackson, Monroe and Pulaski coos
ties, we are under peculiar obligations fa
their liberal patronage; and can asiuree lil
“even those who come from afar off,” that no fb
effort shall be spared on our part to please^
them, as in by gone days.
feb29-tf. _ _ __
FEMALE SCHOOL
Atlanta, Prairie County, Ark.
HAVING succeeded in establishing
the above School, and havingsee#
red the invaluable services of M®
E. D. Safford,as principal,win*
educational advantages, in connec
tion with her untiring energy and persewi
ance has won for her a reputation as a teacher
attained by few. And having all the advan
tages nature could bestow on a locality,**
rounded by a moral, energetic and deeply k
terested community.
All the Trustees feel proud in offering<®
young, but flattering institution to the patm
age of the public.
First Session commenced on Monday tb»
13tli February, 1860.
terms per session of five month’
Primary Department. $10 Oil
1st Acadamic Class. WOO
2nd Academic Class, embracing
Algebra,Geometry & Astronomy- 16
French and Latin. 10 DO
Music. 20 00 .
w Good board at reasonable rates.
REFERENCES.
Col. Jno. M. Bell, Mai. I. C. A. Skill*’"
Maj. Peter St. Clair, Rev. I. V. Corbitt,Oat
land Grove, Ark.
By order of the Trustees.
feh29-tf. T. Tt Mitchell. Se’cY
SOUTHWORTH, NANCE & C0.|
Wholesale Dry Goods
AND
CLOTHING STORE
MEMPHIS, ThK*'
w. S. SOUTHWORTH, ) W. H. NANCE, ,
geo. e. yeatman. $ Late of Huntsville A1'
Of Douglas & Co., (j job. c. Bradley, of
Nashville. $ Bradley, WilsonW
New Orleans.
WE have opened early for spring sa'e3'
at No. 163 Main street, Memphis. TenJ-j
a large and varied stock of foreig'
domestic dry goods, clothing, tor*.'
HOSIERY. UMBRELLAS, &C., &C., eXClllSI*.
for wholesale trade The merchants of ,
kansas. will find it to their inteiestto e**®
this stock before going to other inar
Goods and prices will be found to comp,
favorably with any to be bad in the • £
States,—and all we ask, is an opportunity y,
prove our words true. Barter of all dis*r r *,
tions, taken at highest market value.
Southworth, Nance, & y°
feb29-3m. Above Worsham Housf^ 8
JUST RECEIVED,
1£T BOXES Shoes and Boots.
. J Also, j
1000 Apple Trees, from the nurf9G' ,
Brady Price of Lauderdale county. Ala?a ^
being a selection of the best qualities ot r
in the country.
janl5- G. &. J. MCLAREN & c°
i