DES ADC:
TUESDAY..SEPT. 8, 18t>8.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION
OF ANY PAPER ON WHITE
RIVER.___
j^yBeard's celebrated button tics for
cotton, and the best article of hemp
bagging and rope offered at flic lowest
rates by Stewart, Gwynne & Co.
We would call tho attention of our
readers to the fact that they can exchange
corn for meal at any time, at the Des Arc
Mills.
*3*" Parties wishing to purchase
stoves, tinware, oils, lamps, and house
furnishing goods should send their or
ders to G. II. lilood & Co., 334 Main
street, Memphis. They are reliable
business gentlemen, and wo warrant
satisfaction to purchasers.
txir Persons going to Memphis
should rbmember the Commercial Ho
tel, corner Jefferson and Front streets.
This house is now uudar the proprie
torship of the Alien brothers, and
merits the public favor it enjoys. *2 50
per day.
S*rWe would call the attention of
our readers to the card'of Tom & Sam
Henderson, cotton factors and com
mission merchants, New Orleans.
They are being represented in this part
of the country by Mr. W. II. Gee, who
will be in town in a few days.
Central Hotel.—The present pro
prietors of tliis hotel have recently
furnished it with new carpets, furni
ture, etc., and made other changes nec
essary to give it rank as a first-class
house. Any of our renders Irom this
part of the country visiting Memphis
will find our old friend Lindsay C.
Lewis in the office.
8hS“Tlie stock of dry goods, boots,
shoes, and clothing, flour, bucou sides,
hams, sugar, codec, molasses, and fan
cy groceries, castings and stoves, hard
ware, furniture and sadlerv now of
ferred for sale by Stewart, Gwynne &
Co. is unequalled in the White river
valley. Persons wishing to purchase
such articles should not fail to visit
Dos Arc and examine their stock and
The Mississippi Diarrhea Cordial
—The verdict of the South has been
unanimously accorded in favor of this
great antagonist of cholera, cholera morbus,
diarrhea and dysentery. It is harmless
but efftetive for all this class of disease,
and has never been known to fail. Ye
who pine upon the brink of the grave,
hasten to try its marvelous power. Mans
field & Iligbec, sole proprietors.
Cotton Planters—Should prepare
for gathering the crop, and we offer a
little advice on that subject, which may
prove beneficial. The season for chills
and fever is now upon you a( a time
when you need all the assistance you
can get. If you will send and procure
a few bottles Dronagoolc & Co.'s King
of Chills, it will save you much time
and money. It arouses the torpid
liver, cleans the stomach, opens the
bowels, and never fails to immediately
break up all forms of chills ami fever,
without affecting (behead. It makes
permanent cures. Sec advertisement.
jiSP-We received the proceedings of
the Prairie county Democratic Con
vention, held at Devall's Bluff on the
nth inst., too late for publication.
The following are the delegates ap
pointed to the District Convention, to
he held at Augusta on the ICth inst.:
Maj. P. IV'. Crawford; alternate, J. II.
Fleming, .las. S. Thomas; alternate,
Dr. .1. S. Williams and X. B. Gair. <T.
T. Blackwell and P. II. Wheat; alter
nates, Dr. J. B. Bond and G. B. Hunt.
IVm. 'J'. Jones; alternates, B. C. Tot
ten and.1 no. W. Adams. Nathan Bird :
alternate, Hugh Uoss.
Go to the Southern Hotel, Mem
phis, Tunn.—This popular Hotel is
very centrally located, being two
squares from the steamboat landing.
The proprietors being old citizens
claim a large share of the travelling
public, particularly the planters ami
merchants of Arkansas and Mississip
pi. steamboat and railroad officers.
The charges have been reduced from
$3 00 to S2 00 per day. Families at
reduced rates. Free passage to guests
for the hotel from steamboats and
railroad depots by omnibus, street
railroad cars and hotel carriages. I fo
ld porters on arrival of boats and
trains will exchange checks for bag
gage. Don't forget tho Southern Hotel.
TnE Serenade.—On Friday night
of last week, Capt. Elliott, of the pop
ular steamer Dos Arc, honored us with
a serenade by bis excellent, string band.
Music hath charms for us on any occa
sion, but when in the “wee sma’ hours
of morn'' we are awakened from light
and refreshing slumbers by the gentle
strains of soft and melodious music, we
scorn to float in a sea of ecstacy, serene
ami calm, with a thousand poetical
thoughts flowing in upon the mind.
Then it is our imagination creates a
thousand pleasing images and forms a
scene as splendid and gorgeous as an
eastern vision. Tho youthful day
dreams of ambition recur again, and
from some elevated mount we behold
a plain covered with knights of pol
ished armor, awaiting our bugle sound
of command, or see in imaginative
clouds two embattled hosts moving
against each other. It is then we feel
what nobility there is in our natures;
our rugged asperities are smoothed,
and nothing but geucrous thoughts
and noble impulses stir our souls. We
feel grateful to the Author of all good
for these liner feelings that lie buried
in our bosoms, and which we some
times enjoy, and sincerely thank those
who have performed tho office of
bringing them to the surface. May
the officers and crew of the good
steamer Des Arc live loug to accom
modate and minister to the wants ol
others and receive an hundred fold ot
'he like blessings for theirgood works.
A
MEMPHIS AS A MARKET.
Her Adi untag*« Overall) South
western City.
We have often wondered why Mem
phis should not have made more papld
strides toward becoming the greatest j
commercial city in the southwest. Site '
is the natural scat of trade for n large
area of country that produces abun
dantly of the great staple export, cot-j
ton, and one, also, that may at the i
same time produce nearly every neces
sary of life for its own consumption.
So situated as to command the trade
of nearly all of Tennessee and Arkan
sas, and a large part of Alabama and
Mississippi, with the untold wealth
yet to be developed in this section, she
may reasonably anticipate a rapid and
permanent growth. Very few cities
have grown as fast ns Memphis for the
last few years, and had not the energy
and enterprise of her merchants been
so depressed by the last two years of
partizan misrule on the part of Con- !
gress, they would now be doing the
greater portion of the jobbing business '
for the country naturally dependent
upon iter, it lias cheeked railroad cn- j
terprizes and impeded the progress of j
many business plans that might have ;
been accomplished ere this. With the I
restoration of good government, and
just as fust as the country recovers
from its present oppressed condition,
so fast will Memphis grow toward the ‘
fulfillment of her natural destiny. Let'
iter look well to her railroad interests :
and await the development of Iter sec
tion and site lias nothing to fear.
One of the most favoruble signs for j
her future we have noticed of late, is I
I
the great preparation on the part of!
her merchants for the fall trade. They I
have anticipated a very heavy trade j
this fall and winter, and are now busy
perfecting arrangements to meet its j
demands. They are showing a great,
deal more of cutcrprizc this season !
* 1
than usual, ana we are connacnt tnat
country merchants and traders will
find it to their interest to stop at Mom
phis. In this week’s paper we present
our readers with the cards of some of
tiie most prominent, onterpmiiig, sub
stantial and best business houses in
the city, and ask that they remember
them in their different kinds of btisi- j
ness when they are having an order
sent or may be visiting the city them
selves. We will first call your atten
tion to tiie bouse of
A. Seesski. a Son.—This is tho old
est dry goods house in Memphis, and
docs a wholesale and retail business in
dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, etc.
A house so long and favorably known
us theirs needs no recommendation
from us, and we wilt just say that their
liUMibcr is Sot) Main street.
Williamson, Hill a Co.—This firm
lias been doing business in Memphis
for the last sixteen years, and have
made a reputation among their friends
and patrons for fair dealing and a
prompt attention to business. They j
now have in store a very large stock '
of all kinds of groceries, bagging, rope j
iron ties, etc. Head their advertise-1
meat.
Woodruff * Co—Deal in carriages,
rockawuys, buggies, wagons, and in
everything for the manufacture oftheso
articles, it is an old and reliable j
house, and we cheerfully recommend
it to our readers as worthy their pat
ronage. See their advertisement in j
double column.
11. 1.0WENSTEIN A BROS.— It should
be remembered that this house does
tho largest business in their line of
any in tho city. They have a perfect
system in nil their business, and may
be relied oil for fair dealing and a
prompt attention to the minutest de
tails. Call on them at 242 Main street,
corner Jefferson street.
I.i.oyd, Clark a Co—Are importers
and dealers in queen-, glass- and chi
naware, table cutlery, etc. Merchants
and all others buying house furnishing
goods could not do better than to call
on this reliable firm and price their
goods. No. 321 Main street.
Walker Bros, a Co.—This is a reli
able house, and is favorably known to
many of our renders. They aro pre
pared to offer great inducements to
buyers of dry goods, clothing, boots,
shoes, etc. iieineinber them when you
visit Memphis. 1 heir place ot business
is 22!) Main street.
Allison Brothers.—The advertise
ment of tliis large hardware house will
be found in the double column, and we
invite the attention of our readers to
it. They arc responsible dealers, and
give prompt attention to business.
Solo Agents for the improved Carver
cotton giu. They will be found at 270
Front street.
J. (» kiesh a her.—Dealer in wallpaper
and all kinds of upholstering goods, at
275 Main street. Parties in need of
goods in ids liue will find it to their!
interest to give him a call, or send an |
order. Head advertisement in another I
i column.
Brooks, Neely & Co.—This house
keeps on hands a large and varied stock
of groceries and plantation supplies,
and does a cotton factorage and com
mission business. They are business
men in every sense of the word and
will attend to the interests of their pat
rons. Place of business 27A Front
J street.
I
O. F. Prescott & Co.—This old and
reliable house needs no reeonnuenda
| tlon from us in tliis part of the coun
try. They have on hand a full stock of
soaps, oils, lamps, laiupflxtures etc. If
you want a bargain in their line, read
their advertisement in another column,
and send them an order. Place of bus
iness No. 40 .Jefferson street.
W. il. Anukews—lias been in busi
ness iu Memphis for the lust sixteen
years, which is a guarantee of his bus
iness qualifications and promptness.
Vou will And your business transac
tions with him of a pleasant nature.
Place of business 284 Front street.
t\r. B. & E. B Ckisman.—Those are
reliable gentlemen, and will give their
personal attention to the sale of cotton
and other kinds of produce. Their
I office is at 22C Front street up stairs.
1 See ad't.
C. W. Sturdivant a Co.—They have
on hand a good stock of groceries,
plantation supplies, etc., and will make
the most liberal advances on cotton
received—advancing four-fifths of its
value if asked. In this firm is our old
friend, Joe Ncvils, an excellent cotton
salesman, prompt and reliable in his
business transactions. Remember their
place of business is nt the old stand,
182 Front street.
Ldllman a Vienna.—Importers and
dealers in guns, pistols, ammunition,
fishing tackle, etc., 345 Main street.
Our merchants and sporting friends
wanting anything enumerated in their
card would do well to send them an
order. It will be attended to correctly
and promptly.
C. C. Ward a IIro.—This is a first
class wholesale drug house, and any of
our readers in this kind of business
who have not been dealing with them
should give them a trial. They warrant
satisfaction. Their place of business
is at the corner of Main and Adams
streets, opposite Worsham House.
Pettit a Simpson.—These are relia
ble and energetic business men, and
(lie interest of shippers and planters
will not suffer in their hands. They
will make liberal advances on consign
ments and fill orders for supplies at the
lowest rates. See advertisement.
Jos. 8. Levf.tt & Co.—Our merchants
should make a note of their advertise
ment. They make a speciality of shoe
goods, and can successfully compete
with any market this sido of Boston.
Read their notice and call on them at
33G Main street.
Merriman. Byrd & Co.—Wo would
especially direct the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of this
liousc. Thoso of our readers wanting
Anything in the jewelry line, should
not fail to give them a call. They are
responsible dealers, and parties can re
ly upon their representations in reganj
lo their wares. Call at 275 Main street.
31. M. UEAUII th C.O.-All) OI Olll
readers who nro in want of a sewing
machine should address, or call on this
house and get full particulars. Head
idvertiseincnt of Star Shuttle Sewing
Machine in another column. Office
353 Main street.
Jno. L. KicnnF.no—wholesale and
retail dealer in stoves, cutlery, hard
ware, tinners stock etc. No. 191 Main
street. Head advertisement in another
column, and when you want any goods
of his kind, give him a call or send
an order. You will find everything
come up all right.
L. Hoescuer.—Manufacturer and
dealer in boots, shoes, cte. No. 326 and
326tj" Main street, lie will pay the
highest cash prices for hides.
Mrs. M. C. Hcnter.—Our lady
friends desiring anything in her line of
business, can have it promptly attend
ed to by sending an order. Head ad
vertisement in another part of the pa
per, and remember place of business.
Mrs. A. A. Newman.—Millinerand
dress maker, 156 Main street. Our la
dy friends can rely on her paying par
ticular attention to any order they may
please to send her. Soo her card in
mother column.
.Icdson & Co.— Wo take pleasure in
recommending this house to the favor
of our friedds. They are business men
in every sense of the word, and will
not allow the interests of their patrons
lo suffer in their hands. Cotton ship
ped to them will be covered by their
open policy of insurance, unless other
wise directed. Office 35 and 36 Lee
liloek, Union street.
ffarWe wish to call the attention of
readers to the advertisement of George
W. AVieks & Co. to be found in another
column. They deal in bagging and
rope, cotton yarn and manufactured
tobacco, and do a general commission
business. Cad Hanks, so well known
on AVhite river, is witli this house, and
will be in this place in a few days.
Everybody knows Cad, and those of
our friends who want anything in the
line of this house, should bo prepared
to give him their orders. Place of bus
iness 102 Alain street Louisville.
gg»“Thcre will bo a grand barbacuc
and mass meeting here on the 19th of
tins mouin. several prominent, spentc
ers havo promised to he present, and
address tho people, among whom arc
Gen. T. C. Hindman and Col. C. S.
Cantrott. Let everybody come, and
show the earnestness of the Democracy
in this district.
HfWi' regret that we havo not tho
space to publish (^proceedings of the
Democratic meeting at Cotton Plant.
AVe never received them until yester
day.
jsjs-Mr. It. T. Dotson will accept
our thanks for late paper.
Also Mrs. Geo. Walker, of white
county, for some of the linest sweet
potatoes we have seen this season.
ggyllead the advertisement of the
Singer Manufacturing Co., to be found
in another column. It will explain it
self.
RIVER NEWS, WE.4TIIER, ETC
The weather is clear and pleasannt, ami
quite favorable to cotton.
River falling slowly, with easy navigation
The Commercial passed up Thursday ami
down Friday night, Capt. Kdson command
ing aud Clay Rice in the office. Her clerl
has our thanks for favors. The Liberty wil
lake her place next week.
The Des Arc made her first trip of the sea
son. coming up on Thursday and going dowr
Friday night. She was under the oommaui
of the popular and well known Capt. Jno. 1)
Elliott, with Jos. Elliott and Matt (Hass it
oharge of the office. We return thanks foi
many favors.
The May Flower passed up this morning
and will he down this evening. The populai
Capt. Wnt. Ashford was on the roof, will
Charley Sniithers in the office. They wil
acoopt our thanks for papers.
Capt. J. II. Puffer writes that he will put t
new boat iu the New Orleans and White rivei
trade, in the latter part of this month.
The J. D. I’erry will leave for New Orlean:
about the 15th of this month.
-Thu Secretary of the Navy, it
accordance with tho will of Congress ha:
suoceeded In reducing the personal of thi
navy to 8,500, the force it contained befort
the war.
J For the Hr" Arc Citizen.]
Messrs. Editors or tiie Citizen—
I Sirs: permit me through the columns
1 of your paper to submit the following
i facts. The regular steam packets run
i nlng from Memphis to .lacksonport
pass up the river twice a week carrying
tlie U. S. mail, and the Express matter
for tiie Express Company. There are.
or ought to be some specific days, and 1
even hours, fixed upon and published. |
at which time said steamers would ar- j
rive at tlie different points, when (lie
IT. S. mail and Express matter is to lie f
delivered and received by said mail
boats. At Des Arc the postmaster and |
Express agent never know at what time
to prepare and have ready tlie mail and
express matter. It was understood at
Des Arc that the mall boats would ar
rive at Des Arc on Mondays and Thurs
days, going up the river, and for a
while this was practiced by each of i
the boats, arriving here on Mondays j
and Thursdays going up tiie river and j
leaving here at six o'clock on •Wednes
days and Saturdays going down. TSut ;
how is it now—somestimes one boat ar
rives at midnight ou Monday and some
times Tuesday morning and returning
sometimes Tuesday night at 8 or 10
o’clock, and sometimes not till Wednes
day morning, and the oilier getting
here at 5 o’clock or 11 o’clock p. m.
Thursday, or Friday morning all, 0 or
8 o'clock and returning at 8,10 or 12 r.
m. Friday, or (i or 8 Saturday morning. J
So that passengers coming to Des Arc j
to get aboard have no regul ar time at j
which to calculate with any degree of I
certainty at what time they can get off.
and the express agent and postmaster
sometimes have had to sit up all night
in order to put the express and mail
matter at Des Arc. Tho writer deems
this at tho least a great inconvenience,
such ns might and could be remedied.
White river has not during tiie past
summer been so low as to hinder free
and easy navigation at all times. We
have been decidedly partial to the
steamers Commercial and Liberty X’o. 2
(J1U>V IIIU Jlili J iutvn;umi » u
ally like the officers of each of these
boats, and cherish no disposition to
anything like disparaging their claims
to public favor or patronage, but we
dont like the idea of all notices pub
lished in the Memphis papers by said j
boats of their days of leaving Memphis i
and arriving at Hie same place, and all
the way landings, at which said boats |
propose to stop, going up and return
ing, leaving out and apparently ignor- j
ing the town of Dcs Arc, while this
place during (lie shipping season, sends j
away more bales of cotton than any 1
othor'point on White river.
We are for those who are for us, we ;
are for “rendering unto Ctesar, things i
that are Ctusnr’s.” And if oilier boats I
come in thesiradc, and will tote fair,
we arc for free trade and sailors rights.
The writer of this has patronized both I
the U. S. mail steamers, and don't
wish to be understood as making any |
attack on said steamers, but, claims that j
the citizens of Dcs Are have some j
grounds for complaint and they ask for i
better arrangements as a matter of jus- j
tice.
Another item of some interest to
the merchants of Dcs Arc, is tlies rates j
of charge for freight from Memphis to
Des Arc. Merchants in this place have '
had freights brought from Louisville ;
and St. Louis for the same prices we
pay the Memphis and While river
packets. We arc not aiming to he pie
ayunish,hut are opposed to impositions
or monopolies, wo wish to patronize
and sustain good steamers in our river
and are entirely willing (as our record
attests,) to pay fair rates for freights.
A Des Akc Citizen.
Tlie Abolition of Slavery a Fi
nality.
Besides, slavery is dead and buried,
and its grave lias been tilled up and its j
cpitapli written by (lie Southerners !
themselves. Every announcement they !
make on the subject is to that etfeet, j
the avowals in a recent letter of Gov
ernor Pickens, of South Carolina, he- j
ing precisely to the point. It is both 1
absurd and silly for the Radicals to at
tempt to infuse iulo the present cam
paign the notion that the Democrats
will restore slavery if they are success
full. An idea so preposterous should
not no the entertained among intelli
gent people.—Now York Herald.
Vo such idea is entertained amonsr
intelligent people. It is only advanced
to impose on the negro voters at the
South, and the few white men at the
North who can be imposed on in the
same way. If it were not physically
impossible to find and collect the soat
terered families of negroes, it would
cost more than it would bring to
reduce them again to orderly subjec
tion to their former masters after all
the demoralizing influences of the past
live years. As slaves they would bo
worse than worthless, and there could
he no profitable re-establishment of
slavery in this country except by re
opening the African slave trade and
making a fresh importation of the
naked sort.
But if all legal obstacles were remov
ed and the question of re-enslaving our
black population were referred entirely
to their former owners, we believe that
a majority of the latter would voto
against it. A majority of them are
hopelessly bankrupt, and a restoration
of their former slave property only in
ure to the benefit of their creditors.
They all know that the cessation of the
African slave trade enabled this coun
try to outgrow the political power of
slavery to such a degree that no amount
of constitutional and legal protection,
and no amount of courage and skill
upon the part of its defenders, could
save it. They know that its strength
lias been exhausted in the vain effort to
sustain it, and they are not such thrice
sodden fools as to think of restoring it
to permanent life by galvanizing the
corpse. They have recognized and
conceded in so many ways the freedom
of thoir former slaves, that it is absurd
to impute a different purpose to them.
It is also true that a large propor
tion of the Southern people who have
always acted with the majority of their
section were never advocates of slavery
perse. They simply stood up for the
constitutional rights of their neighbors
and fellow-citizens, aud fought against
the violent and revolutionary solution
of the slavery problem that was pro
posed and Anally carried out by the
Radicals. The desire to re-establish
negro slavery exists no more in the
I South thau it docs in the North. It is
| universally regarded in the South as a
consummation neither more desirable
nor more possible thau to re-establish
the sovereignty of (ieorge 111. over
11 this whole country. Slavery is as dead
I as the first mastodon that was buried
in the mire of Big Bono Lir.k. The
Radical party knows this ns well its
anybody, but lias lived upon the slavery
question so long that it is as unw illing
to give it tip as the giant was to give
over his pursuit of .lack :
lie he live, or be be dcttil.
I'll jp-inil liis bones to moke my bread.
[Louisville Courier.
From the Fraufort Yocuian.]
Mountain High!
When we speak of the public debt
ns being “mountain high,” we but faint
ly present the reality.
Lotus illustrate: The highest moun
tain in the world is the peak of tho
Himalaya Mountains, in India, which
reaches the altitude of 28,178 feet, or a
little less than 51* miles.
The public debt of the United States
according to the oflicial statement of
ttic Secretary of the Treasury, amount
ed. on tlie first of tho month, to the
snm of S2,532,537,480. Now, let us, for
illustration, suppose this debt to he
one dollar bills, and piled up before
us. l)o you imagine it would roacli
“mountain high?” Let us see :
Allow one hundred notes to tho
inch, and we have its bight.
to be.25.236,344.inches I
or.2,102,945.feet! I
or. 700.981. yards!!
or. 398'* ..miles! I!
or if the notes were of the denomina
tion of $100 instead of SI, we should
have a pyramid of money reaching
about four miles high I whilst the high
est mountain peak in North America
(Mount St. Klfas, in Russian America),
is but 17,900 feet, or less than 3‘a miles.
Still further: let us suppose the debt
to be in silver instead of notes, and es
timating $16 to the pound, we have_a
weight of debt amounting to just 157,
720,905 pounds!! or 9,857 car loads (at
16,000 pounds to tlie ear), which would
make a train of ears tifty-six miles in
length, allowing but thirty feet to the
car!!!
VV*o* present those ilinstrasions be
cause we would, if possible, arouse the
people to au appreciation of the mag
nitude of tho monster mountain high
and mountain weight of debt which is
crushing tho life out of a struggling
Republic.
If tho picture .presented above isa
pleasant one, you will sustain the lUMp
leal party; for that organizatiwt
promises not only to preservo this
grand mountain of debt, but to add
mile upon milo to its column as the
months roll on. Last month tho addi
nun was ur iwu iiinus in
bight, or 812.500 pounds in weight, or
50 car loads, making a train of 500
yards in length, according to the fore
going estimates. The increased gran
duer of this little mountain, one year
hence—with Radicals still in power—
cat: he estimated by multiplying the
figures hint above by twelve. Thanks
to the good sense of the American peo
ple. however, they must turn over, on
the 1th of March next, to the Demo
cracy. Th|n we shall, by rigid econo
my and liotiesty, dig down the moun
tain, instead of piling it higher and
higher.
--
Tin* iiledlon «)' Seymour Con
reded at V usiiiiigtoH.
Washington, An^dHl't, C’orrespoilenco Neiv
The Politicae Campaign—RamcaiH
Prospects North ani> South—All the
advices received here recently from
the South represent earpet-bngism as
"ii its death bed. With the exception
of Florida and Soulli Carolina, ail the
Southern States arc conceded as certain
to go for Seymour and V! dr. The
Radical organizations in the reconstruc
ted regions are dwindling away rap
idly, and defection lias readied their
very stronghold with such alarming
results that the carpet-bag heroes sec
nothing but ruin ahead. They have
discovered their great weaknes ■ in the
very spot where they looked for an
impregnable tower of strength. The
negroes whom they relied upon as
their right arm power have become dis
gusted and proclaim that the white
Radieal is a greater enemy to them
than the white rebels who were lately
their masters. The most intelligent
blacks, therefore, have determined to
join hands with their old masters, and
thus drive away the carpet-bag adven
turers from ttic Soutli to their native
element. This repudiation of Radical
ism by the colored citizen is overwhel
ming the Republican leaders of the
South, and consequently they are bc
uining to realize that tiicv have been
caught in their own trap. Several
shrewd Republicans who have just re
turned from diti'erent parts of (lie South
admit that Sambo has turned the tables
upon them completely, and that now
their only hope of success is in the
North. This last hope seems not to
have a firm hold of them neither, judg
ing by the manner in which they write
to their friends in this city. The cor
respondence sent home from diti’erent
States in the Fast and West by Radical
stumpers and managers is of the most
desponding character. They admit
that Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio
1/iet ♦ n I ) i'n n I niifl ( 'aII'i v Itni'Aiiil
redemption, and one of them declares
that Illinois will go I he same way, un
less the strongest cll'orts are made to
save it. Logan’s defeat ns Congress
man at large from tho State is spoken
of as certain, but the electoral ticket, it
is urged, may be carried by clover en
gineering. The most sanguine Repub
lican 1 have seen here from Colfax’s
Stnto only figures up a Republican
majority of three thousand in Indiana.
Tins Republican is one of the most
shrewd and influential politicians in
the State of Indiana. In fact, tho im
pression is very general here now that
Seymour and Blair will be elected by
a very docisivo majority ; not on ac
count of any great popularity of their
own, but because tho people of tiie
country are determined to have a
change anyhow.
A Tremendous Peroration.—A
Western stump-speaker thus scatters him
self around in answer to au opponent:
“Build a worm fence around a winter’s
supply of summer weather; skim tho clouds
from the sky with a teaspoon; catch a
thunderbolt in a bladder; break a hurri
cane to harness; ground sluico an earth
quake ; bake hell in an ice house; lasso an
avalanche; pin a diaper on the crater of
an active volcano; hive all the stars in a
nail keg; hang the ocean on a grape vino
to dry; put the sky to soak in a gourd; un
buckle tiie belly-band of eternity and paste
■To lot’ on the sun and moon, hut never
sir—never for a moment, sir, delude your
self with tho idea that any ticket of your
party can beat ours.”
Peoples’ Hotel*
DEVALL’S BLUFF, ARK.
! S. A. LEVY, S. J. PEOPLES.
Clerk- Proprietor.
! Flue Billiard Saloon Attached.
junert
DhSOUTlOX.
| rilHE copartnership heretofore existing be
! I i wean Jackson k Owen, haw this day been
dissolved by mutual consent. The business
I will bo settled by S. N. Jackson, who has the
[ books and accounts of said firm.
S. N. JACKSON,
J. V. OWEN
\rc. ArV Vtigobt 8, 1808 augll-liu
■!ii and Passage Card Rite of the
Memphis ami White River
INDEPENDENT PACKET,
WSJ DES ARC.'
Leaving Memphis Kvery Thursday,!
Commencing September 3.
151ROM Memphis to Helena. Pella, Friar’s ;
_ Point and all way Landings and mouth }
Whito rirer, per 100 pounds, 25c; dry bar-j
rcls. 50c; salt barrels, GOc; pork, 75c; whis- i
ky, $1; molasses, $1; corn, oats and bran,
25 c.
From Memphis to Indian Bay and all Way )
Landings, to Dos Arc, Augusta, West Point ,
and Searcy, per 100 pounds, 40c; dry barrels, j
GOc: salt barrels, 75c; pork, $1: whisky, $1 |
25; molasses, $1 50; corn, oats and bran, 30c. i
From Memphis to Jacksonport, per 100 j
pounds, 60c; dry barrels, 75c; snlt barrels, $1:
pork, $1 25; whisky, $1 75; molasses, $1 75; j
corn, oats and bran, 40c.
Passage from Memphis to Prairie Landing. ,
Indian Bay, St. Charles, Crockett’s Blurt, ;
Mount Adams, Casco and Clarendon, $8:
Little Rock, $16, Des Arc. $12; West Point,
Searcy and Augusta, $13; Jacksonport, $15.
Cotton to Memphis, $1 50 per bale.
JOHN D. ELLIOTT, Master.
LARRY HARMSTAD & CO., Agents, Star
Wharfboat, foot of Jefferson street, Memphis.
scpl-___
Regiiiiit' Memphis, While and
Mllle Red River Racket,
DES
JOHN D. ELLIOTT,.Master.
Cad. J. Hanks and M at Glass, Clerks.
A -jZ3L —1 The steamer Des Arc
—i-Kv -Jj'SjAsfcL having been put in thorough
repair, will enter the Memphis anti White
river trade permanently on Thursday, the 8d
day of September, 1808, leaving Memphis
every Thursday for all points on Wliite and
Little lied rivers, connecting at Duvall's
Bluff with trains for Little Rock. Leave Des
Arc on Monday for Memphis. aug25
Rcgular Whito River and New Or
loans Packet,
ST. MARYS;
J. C. SWEENEY,.Master.
d -TST-IL -~t The St. Marys will run
.AfA. regularly in the White river
and New Orleans trade, during the season,
leaving New Orleans and Jacksonport on al
ternate Thursdays, commencing on 17th of
September, ]Kti8. AH orders and business
entrusted to boat will be attended to with
dispatch. augio
J. JOHNSTON. W. II. NKWMAN. T. JiANION.
JOHNSTON, NEWMAN & CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
Johnston* Ml toll oil Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
Commission Merchants,
No. 271 Main Street,
Bet. Seventh and Eighth,
Louis\Jlle, Ky.
Upper to—Thomas, C?ill & Co., Dos Arc.'
Arkansas. augl8
woodb:\ water pspe,
GAS PIPE,
AND EAVE TROUGH!
rpiIE CHEAPEST AND BEST ARTICLE
J ever made. Everybody, particularly
Farmers an l Miners, send fur a free descrip
tive list and circular to
J. A WOODWARD,
Williamsport, Pa.
£0. A. DKIT/, the GREAT SEED WHEAT
VT Grower, Chambersburg. Pa., sends free,
a descriptive List of the best Seed Wheat in
the world.
The Celebrated Chvorno
AMERICAN FRUIT,
SIZE 22 by 28.
J. Hoover, Publisher, 804 Market St., Phila.
THE AMERICAN
Button Hole Ovcrseaming
AND
SEWING MACHINE CO.
In directing attention to their CELEBRAT
ED COMBINATION BUTTON HOLE AND
SEWING MACHINE, beg leave to refer to
its wonderful popularity as conclusive proof
of its great merit
The increase in the demand for this valua
ble machine has been TEN FOLD during the
last seven months of its first year before the
public.
This grand and surprising success is unprece
dented in the history of sewing machines, and
we feel fully warranted in claiming that
IT HAS NO EQUAL
lltMnir nh'Otluf«dv thr» lip«t
FAMILY MACHINE
IN THE WORLD,
And Intrinsically tho Cheapest.
It is really two machines combined in one,
(by a simple and beautiful mechanical ar
rangement,) making both tho Shuttle or Lock
stitch, aud the Overseaming and llutton-hole
stitch, with equal facility aud perfection. It
executes, in t he very best manner every variety
of sewing, such as Hemming. Felling, Cord
ing, Tucking, Stitching, Braiding and Quilt
ing, Gathering and sewing on, (done at the
same time,) and in addition, Overseains, Em
broiders on the edge, and makes beautiful
Button and Eyelet-holes in all fabrics.
Every machiuc is warranted by tho Com
pany, or its Agents, to give entire satisfac
! tion.
Circulars, with full particulars and sam
i pics of work done on the Machine, can be
had on application at the salesrooms of the
[ Company,
S. W. Cor. Eleventh & Chestnut Streets.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Instructions given on tho Machine at the
(rooms of tho Company gratuitously to all
1 purchasers.
Agents Wanted.
FRED’K PAXON, President,
j W. B. Mendenhall, Treasurer.
Special Notice.
We wish to call the special attention of our
friends to the advertisement headed Hlr
! let s Anuk Tonic. This is the best remedy
known for Chills, Fever and intermitteuts iu
any form; now is the season for this dis
tressing complaint. It has never been known
‘ to fail to effect a cure, no matter of how long
standing, if used by directions, where all
other remedies have failed. It is purely veg
! otable. and no bad effects from over dosing
need be feared—buy one bottle and get cured.
Also, Hurley’s Worm Candy for chtldreu, is
the best and most pleasant known ; any child
will take it. Hurley’s Bitters is the most
pleasant as well ns the purest aud best now
known or offered for sale: and for debility,
loss of appetite, cannot be equaled. Also,
for purifying tho blood, nothing equals Dr.
Hurley’s Comp. Syrup of Sarsaparilla, this
is the genuine extract of the root. Dr. Sea
. brooks Soothing Syrup for children is war
j ranted the best and safest remedy known, or
; the money refunded—price 25cts. per bottle.
| Also, hU Elixir of Iron aud Hark, especially
j for females it is ouo of the best Touics known,
! and pleasant and easily taken ; not like other
remedies of the kind, it does not sicken or
nauseate. If you need any of the above
remedies try them, as we feel confident they
will do all we claim for them ; they arc gotten
up by men of experience and good chemists,
‘ who know i heir business audure reliable aud
: honest.
%
TO MERCHANTS, DRUG GISTS'
AND PLANTERS!
I
“SHAKING THE NATIONS.”
CIIILES tvo MORE
*• v I
Every Poison lias its Antidote ! Every .
Disease lias its Cure!
A Step in tlio Right Direction!
A Home Policy Already Established
A Vegetable Compound, for the Rapid and >
Permanent Cure of
.
• |
Cltill* and Fever, or Fever and
tene, Dumb Ague, Intermit
tent and Remittent Fever*,
Jaundice and Enlargement ,
of' the Spleen, or Azue
Cake.
Having had indubitable evidence of its
prompt and certain cfleets from the testimo
ny of a multitude of respectable citizens,
among whom are classed some, of our best
physicians, we do not hesitate To recommend
this Preparation in all cases of Fever and
Ague and ('hills and Fever: indeed, from the
IUCIS 111 OUI pusst'SBlUM ui no muiusui
it would not be too much for us to state that
when the directions are strictly complied
with, we warrant a cure in every case where
it is tried. It is pleasant to the taste, and
the cheapest medicine in the world. There
fore, in truth, it may be declared the day is
not far distant when it must be appreciated
and used in every household where Fever and
Ague or Chills and Fever is found to exist.
The wonderful operation of the Texas Ton
ic Syrup in neutralizing the effects of mala
rious poison in the human system, can only
explain its extraordinary agency in the
speedy, thorough and permanent cure of
Chills and Fever or Fever and Ague, and all
their kindred diseases, in whatever form of
Bilious Complaints they may make their ap
pear.! nee.
As its name imports, it is a Tonic of rare
and medicinal virtues, composed of pure and
harmless ingredients, and are so united as to
form a compound alike skillful in art, beau
tiful in appearance, and can be taken with j
safety to the most delicate constitutions. It j
is the result of a lifetime of experience and
'practice in a Southern climate, and was nev
er known to fail, even where all otlic reme
dies had been tried in vain.
Those who are unacquainted with the ex
traordinary properties of this home produc
tion, manufactured from Boots and Plants
indigenous to the soil of our “sunny South,”
(and hence adapted to the cure of Southern
climatic diseases) are respectfully referred ■
to the certificates of respectable citizous j
whose names arc embraced in a pamphlet j
which accompanies each bottle; also the en- :
dorsements of the press in all the Southern
States, indicating the many thousand cures
already performed by our justly celebrated
Texas Tonic Syrup.
The reports from hundreds of Druggists,
Merchants and Dealers, from all parts of the
country, arc uniform in stating tlio medicine
is safe, certain and reliable, as a substitute
for Quinine and the poisonous compounds
heretofore generally sold, and is rapidly
supplanting everything of this class.
As a home enterprise it especially com
mends itself to the people of this section of
tlie country, who are now struggling in nu
effort to do away with old prejudices in favor
of foreign produce, and may wc not hope
foreign “Quack Nostrums,” the proprietors
of which, in most cases, are governed by no
thing but mercenary motives, know nothing
of the properties of Medicinal Agents, and
care nothiug for our interests, except to en
tice our people into the use of their vile
mixtures.
The Texas Tonic Syrup is packed iu cases
of two dozen.
Dealevs supplied upon better terms than
any other remedy affords.
MANSFIELD & HIGBEE,
Druggists and Chemists, Sole
l’roprictors, Memphis, Teun.
MANSFIELD’S
Mississippi Diarrhoea Cordial!
A Rapid, Radical and Never-Failing Specific
for
Cholera. Cholora Morbus, Diarrhoea,
Dysentery, Colic, Flux, and
Looseness of the Bowols.
Purely Vegetable in its Composition, and
prepared at their Laboratory from Barks,
Roots, Berries, Guiurf, and Herbs.
By the Use or the Mississippi Diahrikea
Cordial, DiAURHlBA, one of the most fatal
diseases known iu the Valley of the Missis
sippi, is rapidly and radically cured—hence
its name. It will, also, when taken accord
ing to directions, most assuredly cure all
cases of Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Colic, dys
entery, and all diseases of the Bowels.
It is prescribed by the first Western and i
Southern physicians, and used in the hospi
tals of the country as a standard remedy.
THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS AND CITI
ZENS have bean cured by the use of this
Cordial; and it may properly be termed the
GREAT MEDICINE OF THE SOUTH AND:
WEST.
Prepared only by
MANSFIELD & HlGBEE
Wholesale Druggists k Chemists,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
ItiP Sold by respectable Druggists and
Merchants everywhere.
*
Dl^YRLM KKA.
mu IS dreadful summer complaint. is jiow
L upon lis, and oh! how many thousands it
carries to an untimely grave every yenr? Be
ware mother, how yon neglect that slight I)i.
arrhffia in your family: nip it in the bud
Sena immediately and procure one bottle of
DROMG0OLE & CO S
Red Diarrhoea Remedy
Far your family, so that you cai» give it when
necessary* For infants at the breast, nnd
the bowel complaint of children while teeth
ing, it nets like a charm. All forms of Diar
rhoea, Cholera Morbus, nausea and vomiting,
cramps, pains in the stomach and bowel'*,
are ini mod lately cured by its use.
USE RED DIARRIKEA REMEDY.
USE RED DIARRHlEA REMEDY.
USE RED DIARRHOEA REMEDY.
It is so pleasant, so cooling and so prompt,
that all praise it.
During the prevalence of Cholera in Mem*
phis last summer, it was extenrively used by
the masses, and prescribed by many Physi
cians, with the happiest results, for all the
first stages of Cholera. All cases of
BLOODY FLUX or DYSENTERY.
Mucus Diarrhoea, pains an 1 straining of the
bowels, should not fail to use a few doses of
Drotngocle A Co’s Dysratcr) Compound
And be cured.
All Physicians of experience agree that
Dysentery and Diarrhoea are treated differ
ently. and our compound is |piE medicine
that will effect a cure.
All Married Men
Whose wives are suffering with constant pain
and suffering each month, whose menstrua
tion is too much or two little, or painful, or
irregular, who is suffering with falling of the
womb, with Lcucorrhcea or Whites, should
not fail to carry home one bottle of
DROMGOOLE & CO S
ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS.
Which will euro all those complaints and re
store them to health nnd buoyancy again.
THAT YOUNG GIRL
Whose very countenance, acts, color and
walk, indicate disease, can be so easily re
stored to health by using the “English Fe
male Bitters."
It touches the pale cheek with the crimson
blush of nature, adds joy and brightness to
the dejected and melancholy, gives brilliancy
to the eye and intellect, imparts beauty and
charms to fair retiring girlhood, and compo
ses in old age.
USE ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS
USE ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS.
USE ENGLISH KV.M vi r i»it»pL’lf*-•
For old and young, married and single.
Whafs the Matter, Old Man?
Can't you get your kidneys to act free
enough? Are you troubled with gravel, or
any kind of deposits? I)o you pass bloody
urine occasionally? Are you annoyed with
too frequent inclination-to pass your water?
Is your urine thick or milky? Kartt you a
pain in the small of the back? Are you ner
vous, melancholy, or alarmed in your dreams
from the effects of habits of dissipation or
indiscretion? Do you require a diuretic, or a
medicine which will immediately arouse and
restore your kidneys and bladder to a heal -
thy action? If so, procure one bottle of
DROJ/GOGLE & CO'S
Fluid Extract Rearberry, Cubebs and Buchu,
And be restored to health and manhood
again. Large bottles will cost you only one
dollar.
Y O IT uT~L I V E I:
Should ho kept in good condition, before full,
thereby warding off and preventing Chill*
and Fever, Bilious Fever, Dumb Chills, &c ,
and nothing is so effectual as
DROMGOOI.E & GO’S
KING of ciiiels
Which never fails to cure all eases of Chills.
Bilious Fever, intermittent Fever, Neuralgia.
&c., for which it is usod. It never affects
the head or ears, acts upon the liver and
bowels, cleanses the stomach, can be given to
infants, and is a permanent cure. Go and
consult your druggist about it. It, is no se
cret, no patent, no illiterate mixture, but is
the result of much experience in the South
ern country.
SCROFULA AM) OLD SORES,
Blotches and Splotches on the face, humors
in the blood, Glandular Swellings, Tumors.
Pimples, Itch, Scaldhcad, Tetter, broken
•b>wn constitutions, Impure conditions of the
Blood, can be speedily cured by using
DllOMGOOLE & CO'S
CONSTITUTION AE MONARCH,
The ingredients of which are highly recom
mended by the Medical Profession every
where.
THE GREAT
SOUTHERN PREPARATIONS,
W’liat are they? They are a class of reliable
Family Medicines, prepared by a number of
Southern Physicians, expressly for diseases
incident to this climate, to be used by Fann
ers, Planters and Families, to supplant the
many compounds emauating from a Northern
source.
I sc Great Southern Preparations.
I se Great Southern Preparations.
For Your Families.
For Your Families.
J. P. DROMGOOLE & CO.,
Proprietors, Memphis Tenn.
Sold in Dcs Arc by B. F. JOHNSON, and
druggists everywhere.
* WA'A-ICV
Saloon,
Baeaa Yista Stroet,
D E S ARC, ARKANSAS
ALL kinds of Liquors, Wines, Brandies,
Segars, Tobacco, &c., constantly on hand.
M. HOLSHOUSFR.
Jones, McDowell & Co., Bussey & Co.,
Little Rock, Ark. St. Louis.
BTJSSJDY & CO.,
GENERAL
AND
COTTON FACTORS,
NO. 48 CAUONDELET STREET
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Wm. McQueen will be ou regular
New Orleans boats, and will make
liberal advances on consignments.
Refer to—State Savings Association. St
Louis, Mo.; Pike, Lopeyre & Brother, New
Orleaus, La.: Lockavd & Ireland. Cincinnati*
Ohio; J. Feter & Co., Louisville, Ky.; S. H.
Tucker, Banker, Little Rock, Ark. augl'