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DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
Katnrday Morning, August 10, 18ft?.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Brownlow lias bccu rc-clcctcd Gov
ernor of Tennessee—there is nothing
strange in this, but when we consider
that Tennessee was once a Southern
State, and that a large majority of her
citizens are to-day opposed to radical
ism, and that Brownlow is the negro
Radical representative, tliere is signifi
cance in it, and it can be viewed as the
beginning of n policy that will bring
sorrow’ nml disgrace deeper and darker
than that which now rests upon the
nation. The government of Tennessee
is now in the hatids of the negro; that
is, his vote will make successful the
party to whom it is given. Such will
be the condition in every Southern
State, that may he admitted upon the
radical basis; tills Is made doubly sure
by the Improvement, (?^madc or about
to be made upon the reconstruction
bill. When we consider that the voting
negro population of the Southern
States is near seven hundred thousand,
and there is in sympathy with these,
near six hundred thousand in the
North, it. is easily concluded that this
vote will he a great national influence.
Then comes the trouble. The negroes
through their leaders are clamoring
for office. They say if they do the
•voting for the republiom party, that
party must share with them the offices.
They have an eye upon the vice-presi
dency, and sa\ it is but justice to them,
that the next vice-president shall be a
negro. A northern writer says upon
this subject: ‘‘In that view tHe negro
is right, and it is to be hoped lie will
put the party to that test. If that de
mand is refused, they will consider the
republican party dishonest in its pro
fessions. and vote against it in tlie next
Presidential election. There are seve
ral negroes fitted for the position of
■vice-president, and the negro need
nevei» be ashamed to insist upon the
Republican party placing their name
unon.thfi ticket as the ■condition of re
cehing their support. Such an net
would complete the triumph of right
and justice, so far as the equality of
race is concerned. It would also put
an end to the trimming intriguing con
,dnet of white seekers for that position.
Such a demand resolutely backed by
the negro will be sure to succeed, as
the Republican party could not do
without•thoir cote.'’ 'This is what rad
icalism promises to the States that
come within the pale of their influence.
'Iliis is why we say there is a signifi
cance in the negro radical triumph in
in opr sister State. Shall it ever be so
with us? If we say and mean no, then
let us set about to prevent it. The ne
gro is an important element in the na
tion ; we must learn to appreciate him
in bis place; to say, act with him as to
convince him that his true friend is uot
the man who promises and never ful
fils, but the man that he has always
known, and knows lie can trust. IVe
■•must adopt an active policy, if we
would escape the evil suspended above
us.—“O. Tempora"! O, Mores!”
^NORTHERN VIEWS.
IdssnfisfiK'tion at fhe lieadlong rule
or ruin policy of Stevens .& Co., is not
entirely confined.to the south; there
arc in the north, a large class of men
vlio have eyes and can see that the
great moral idea party Js leading the
country, not into the ways of peace
and plenty, but into ruin and bankrupt
cy. One who is not afraid to speak,
says of this country: X o people of
flic present time, and none with whose
soekf! condition we are made acquaint
ed in history, can present more unmis
takable proofs of real prosperity, and
rapid and substantial advancement in
wealth, civilization, intelligence, and
t'flf limbi 'miinptnno.. » . I. .
T‘ov -ages nature lias been husbanding
her resources, till now, by the accumu
lated wisfiom and experience of centu
ries, they can be turned to the very
best account. The land that we inhab
it is possessed of extreme fertility, and
to the virgin richness of the soil we
can add all (he generating powers
which science and experience have
placed within our reach. Kven 'hi the
•very forests, which impede The opera
tions of our agriculturists, we have an
-almost inexhaustible store of wealth;
and our mineral treasures, us vet almost
entirely undeveloped, are of incalcula
ble value. Our natural means of com
•nmnlcution arc unrivaled; and v here
’tilt’s are iifvmtplete, our own energies
'are daily supplying the deficiency.
But of whht avail arc all these ad
vantages and blessings which Provi
dence lias conferred upon us, when our
folly will not permit us to enjoy them
'In peace and contentment? We are
slow ly'but 'purely drifting into a state
nf (hiiigswriieu all the tradoaud indus
try of’fids country must be blighted
beneath the curse of bad and reckless
legislation. There can be no true .hap
piness in store for any people who are
entirely governed hv passion and preju
dice, and so blinded by them that they
persecute their ow n flesh and blood.
r>uriftg the past six years a party ha»
been in power which knows and recog
nizes no latv except such as is of its
. own making, and whose strange it con
sistencies have unsettled all our ideas
uf a constitutional republic. Tomaiii
tain iulai-t the union of the Stales we
took up arms against the Southern
CtwfeSrrwy, Hut trow that the object
has been gained, fhc two sections are
wider apart than ever, and the gttlf be
tween them increases every day. The
source of the evil lies in the enactment
of laws totally at variance with each
other, as in submitting to Legislatures
of States a proposition to ajlcr and
amend the organic, law of the nation—
om of the highest functions which a
' tatc can exercise -and in afterwards
declaring those very same Legislatures
incompetent to perform even ttic low
r. t ”
THE CROPS.
Now that the season is almost over,
we ran say that the crops throughout
the country, are far better than they
were last year. From our western and
southern exchanges, wc learn that the
wheat crop is excellent. In Georgia,
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee, the
corn crop is vcVy good. Cotton is
looking well, considering the season.
In our own section, tire corn is very
good, where it has been properly
worked. We heard one gentleman say
a few days since, that he would make
four thousand bushels, and that too ol
tire finest corn he ever saw. Altogeth
er, it promises to he a year of jilcnty.
j so tar us bread is concerned.
res'"There will be a Grand Tourna
liainent at Augusta, on the 3d of Sep
tember.
SOUTHERN* POLITICS.
'SPLENDID SERIES OF PATRI
OTIC PAPERS,
NOTES ON TIIF. SITUATION—No. 8.
_
BY HON. B. II. HILL, OS GEORGIA.
Even, then, if wc arc really a con
quered people, 1 have shown that by
the well-established rules of the laws
of war and of nations, wc are not
‘•subject to the will of ihc conqueror,”
except as that will yvus declared before
the surrender, and, therefore, agreed
to by the surrender. I have shown
that any terms prescribed after the war
is over, and after a surrender is ac
cepted, are not only not binding on the
conquered but are infamous in the
conqueror, and amount to a new dec
laration of war against those who
were entrapped into laying down their
arms, and who are, therefore, for the
time being, .helpless. And whether
the Congress or the Executive, or both,
as is variously claimed, or whether
the President and the Senate (as is the
truth), he the peace-making power of
the United States, I have shown from
the official records of each and all, that
the only conditions demanded of the
Southern people, in laying down their
arms, were the preservation of the
Union under the Constitution, with
the single change of the abolition of
slavery, which single change Yvas very
doubtfully and imperfectly demanded,
but was very promptly and cheerfully
yielded.
No principles, than those I have an
nounced, arc better settled, or more in
consonance wiui natural reason ana
public justice; no terms were ever
more distinctly declared as the purpose
of waging the war, or more sacredly
promised ns the conditions of the
peace ; and no surrendering people ever
did more promptly, more absolutely,
more submissively, or with one-tenth
the sacrifice of property and hope and
pride and feeling, oomply with all the
terms demanded on their part, than
did the Southern States and people.
They laid down their arms; they gave
up the great principle of government
which their fathers taught them never
to yield, and to maintain which they
| fought so long and endured so much;
I though already impoverished they
j gave up four billions more of property
i—tlic descended patrimony of centu
1 lies; they struck the fetters from their
slaves by their own consent, and, with
1 words of encouragement and hope,
i gave the freed slaves, by their own
i laws, absolute civil equality with their
| former owners; they abided, without
complaint or claim for damages, the
i burning of their cities ; the devastation
! of their homes : the destruction of the
j food for their women and children,
and a thousand otheraets of war which
no civilized code u ill justify, and no
| civilized precedent will mitigate: they
i changed their organic laws, and re-di
gested their municipal codes to eon
i form them to the new order of things,
j They repudiated the obligations am!
1 contracts; they had assumed to their
own people and to mankind to secure
help in what they had deemed a strug
gle for liberty and life. They hazarded
a social revolution and a paralysis ol
| every form Of labor, which might well
have awed the moat thrifty people, and
i the most firmly established society.
I All these things they did and suffered
to show good faith in fulfilling the ob
ligations of their surrender, to main
tain the Constitution and preserve the
: Union!
1 Yet two long years have elapsed,
i and they have not been permitted to
enjoy u single iwivilegc, nor suffered
to escape a single burden of that Un
ion ! Nay, while waiting lo receive
[what was so earnestly, so sacredly
promised—their recognition as contin
uing equals in the Union—they have
seen swarms of agents of the United
1 States permeating every neighborhood
Of their laud, find stealing, in the name
i «•> /I 1 v ilm MniunWe ill' i i Uit'Aiiiiii, i
ajd carrying away their cotton and
other remaining moans with which
I they had hoped to begin the recupera
tion of their condition; and they sec
1 continued among them a hybrid insti
tution. born in war and unknown to
I the (Constitution, with a crowd of otli
cers to execute its functions, many ot
whom make companions of their for
1 tner slaves to foment hatred to the
Southern whites, ami some of whom
1 find mistresses among their former
slaves and use their ollices to levy
black-mail on all classes for their sup
port. And all these things, and more,
our ueop.e bear, and speak about only
!r whispers, lest by resisting and re
senting the outrages of even robbers
and vagabonds, they furnish to those
robbers ami vagabonds the pretense
for the charge of a lingering spirit oi
rebellion against the Government 1
And now we are told by these mili
I tury bills, timt the very constitutions
and governments we so promptly and
so submissively framed and organized
in order to fulfill all the possible obli
gations of our surrender, must be ab
rogated and annulled ; that, new con
stitutions must be framed and new
I governments ninst be organized, in
which our former slaves are all to par
, licipate. and from which every intelli
gent and virtuous man whom our peo
ple have deemed worthy of trust and
; confidence at any 'time during his
i whole life shall be forever excluded,
i To lids new government the negro race
i is to consent for the white race, and bv
j it the emigrant robber and vagabond,
jwith’tlioir bribed Southern coadjutor,
are to rule boWi races. And, until this
oppression shall he fixed upon us. and
made part of the irremedial law ot the
laud, and shall receive the approval of
the authors of these' bills, who are
never to be subject to the government
they thus dictate, our people are to live
under military surveillance, subject to
charge without crime, to arrest with
out warrant, to warrant without oath,
to trial without jury, to imprisonment
without appeal for redress, and to death
without any process of taw 1
Tv on this hitter cup of hellish ingre
dients might he drank, but for tlienuu
sea which makes us vomit when we
see it commended to us—urged upon
us by some who were born among ua—
who have been often trusted and hon
ored bv n*-; nay. bv thosi who hurried
u- into secea-ion to got out t ight-, to
_ . J". . ' 1 r■
save our hoiior, and, “to avoid equality |
with the negro w ho assured us se
c-ssion would be pcnc eable, and who,
a'ter secession, did all they could to I
provoke a, war; who pledged us the |
"last man and the last dollar ’ If the j
war should come, and who employed '
their talents in discouraging the men, '
in quarreling with ourselves, and in i
making money when the war did j
come; who bravely promised us that
J no enemy should invade onr soil with
out "marching over their dead bodies,”
but who. when the enemy came, only
betrayed n* to subjugation ; who now
inform tm of their confidential recep
tions into the councils of our oppress
ors, and can bring from those councils
only the assurance that, unless we
drink this cup, one more hitter shall he
provided. And, as evidence offldeli
ty, wisdom, and kindness in ail this,
they arc willing to submit to their own
disfranchisement, and, therefore, have
no possible motive bnt or it good!
The Constitution is violated; ttic
laws of nations are defied; the pledged
faitli of the nation is mocked ; au unre
sisting people are warred on ; a dis
armed people tuc insulted; an impov
erished people arc oppressed ; a trust
ing people are betrayed ; the Union is
rout wider and wider and even wider
asunder, and all, all by those who load
the weary air with constant loud pro
claims that they alone arc loyal, or
wise, or true!
‘ Alas! our country sinks beneath iheyoke;
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added tu her wouuds.”
9.
The time has r.cft come to write Con
federate history. Passions control men.
Falsehood and slander arc more accept
able than truth to the spirit of revenge.
Truth would shame revenge, hut false
hood gratifies it. Besides the most
important Confederate archives, con
taining the reason, the phylosophy, the
explanations of Confederate actions
and history and motives, are not acces
sible. It may ho proper to add Ido
not know where they are. They have
not come to light, and it were well for
some who seem to he in high favor
with themselves and the deluded peo
ple if they never do come to light. J
am no tsadducee, and however the
wicked may flourish now, 1 have linn
faith in the resurrection of the just.
But many will write. Confederate
histories, biographies, memories, re
collections, &c, Ate, Are, are getting to
ho plenty as blackberries in dune, hut
not halt so valuable. I have tried
to keep up w ith t hese premature births,
hut find it difficult. 1 have seen enough
to know that nearly all of these books
are written either by or under the im
mediate supervision of those who were
chiefly intent during the struggle in
making war on the Confederate admin
(led. or excluded themselves from the
Confederate councils, and really know
less than most people; and the little
they do know, they received through a
very jaundiced medium, which gave it
horrid colors. Some of them seem, at
last, to he discovering, what unselfish
patriots always knew, that, in making
i war upon, and in breaking down the
j people s confidence in the Confederate
administration, so unjustly and so
j falsely ioo, they made war upon and
; broke down ihe Confederate cause.
They fear the world will find this out.
Conscience .being thus troubled and
reputation in danger, they become
restless and cannot wait. They rush
forward like most criminals to iustilV
before they are formally accused. Oth
ers write to get pay, and sav anything
to till a book. Hence these works are
i generally self-vindications, or 'sc.lf
eulogles, or miserable libels and per
1 ver-ions, and are not only unworthy
of credit, but should be held as insults
I to an unfortunate bnt gallant people.
Cell. Early’s book is auexception, lie
i writes pf what lie saw and did, and
writes like a patriot. His work will
i be valuable to the historian hereafter.
! i ll. re may he a feu other exceptions,
j but 1 do not now think of them. Some
I others of like character arn said to bo
preparing, which 1 hope will appear.
But the fiercest storms exhaust
themselves, and so will even this
storm of the American passions. Ite
I venge cannot always rule. The full
j truth will appear and impartial history
will be written. In that day, I ven
I litre now to s iy. no fact will he brought
j otit more clearly than this: The Con
fedu; a tes were not eonguered by ei
| tlier tlm Skill, or the power, or tin;
. lUiuibeFi of their armed enemies. The
i Confederacy was crushed by ideas, and
not by bayonets. And the ideas was
very few—indeed may all be embraced
in two; and neither had the slightest
foundation in truth. They were born
\ of treachery and disappointment, and
nurtured by those worse than Gorgon
I whelps—ambition, selfishness and re
1 venge.
Mere are the idea.',:
1 1. That the Confederate government
i had become or would become a perrna
j in nt military despotism.
2. That our people had but to lay
| down their anus, and they would be
; restored, at once, to all their rights iu
| the Union.
There were stvei'iil considerations
i which made our motile necullarlt lia
vie to be entrapped iuto believing
'these Ideas? Tit too first place, the
masses ol' (he Southern people really
I loved the Cuioii according to tlie Uoa
islitution. In truth, they were the
most faithful or devoted friends that
Union ever had, or, I fear, ever will
1 have again. It rttjuircg many years
of slander, and intermeddling'’ and
I threatened aggressions and bad faith
I on tli? part of Northern extremists,
: ami of importunity and fiery exhorta
tion by mo Southern extremists to
make tne masses of our people enter
’ tain the idea that their rights were not
i safe in the Union. And, when finally
they did consent to leave the Union,
j the great actuating motive in going
i was to save the guaranties and prinei
I pies of the Constitution, which they
j were persuaded could not be preserved
I by remaining in the Union. And they
i were assured by the extremists, North
j and South, they could go peaceably.
Again: 'While many of our int'eHi
| gent men and counselors were actuated
: with sincere convictions, and did lion
| estly believe a division must come
. sooner or later, and that the sooner it
j came the better for all sides ; yet there
I were others who had far other motives.
These last did not net from conviction,
: but from desire. Therefore, they were
i very noisy and clamorous. They abus
ed everything and denounced n«
: traitors and submissionists and cow
! ards those of our own people who did
i not believe the Union ought to be dis
solved for existing causes, or could be
dissolved at all peaceably. As light
things rise when the air is stirred, so
in the excitement of passions these
m«u became the favorites. Titov ex
pected to ho the founders of tt new
government, :uid go don u to posterity
as tlie Washingtons uud Jefferson* ol'u
republic.
But the war came and diat portion
! of tho masses who were most anxious
to secede, were disappointed. Ssoees*
j siou was to lie peaceable.
! So the high offices in the new gov
j ernment were tilled, and alas how
many of the noisy and sell-siilUcicnt
| Were disappointed? lie publics were
ungrateful, and tlie people strangely
I thought it w as necessary to select cou
' siderate men to make Washingtons !
tlt<- war progressed, hardships in
• rC:.- d I h-.-e hud-hip; caused some
to grow unwilling, and the Confeder
ate government was driven, »s have
been all people who go to war, to em
ploy harsh measures to make the uu- i
willing do their duty. These hard) j
measures required agents, and agents,
as agents ofim do, became exacting
and oppressive. These harsh measures
were seized upon by the disappointed
politicians, and used as pretexts to
make the people believe their govern
ment intended to establish a military
despotism. In the meantime specula
tion became riotous; the example be
ing s«t by some in high places, others
also thought it no harm to use these
“God-given talents to make money.”
These evils multiplied the necessities
for harsh measures to support the army,
and the harsh measures increased the
noise of ttic politicians and the conse
quent demoralization of the people.
AY hiio this internal treachery was do
ing its work, ilio United States, in
every form, and by every department
of their government, were assuring our
people they had seceded under n mis
take ; that their rights were secure in
the Union: that they had no purpose
in prosecuting the war but to preserve
the Union unimpaired : find that, in
deed, our seats were vacant in both
Houses of Congress, and we had noth
ing to do hut to send members to till
them,. Emissaries caiuc from tin' North
under pretense of being driven here as
Southern sympathizers, and joined our
malcoutcnts to disseminate these two
ideas. Treachery became bold and de
sertion became respectable.
In this way the masses of the fiouth
cen people were conquered, ami the
remnant of patriots were overpowered.
The actual statistics show that during
the two last years of the war, for every
one of our soldiers whom the external
armed enemy killed, disabled or cap
tured, the internal unarmed enemy in
duced three to desert. And this work
went on, too, in the lace of the fact that
(leu. Grant s only policy for defeating
Gen. T.ee was in weaving out his army ;
anfl also in the face of the fact that Mr.
Lincoln, in his Inst annual message, de
clared the hope of suppressing the re
bellion consisted in the abandonment
by the Southern people of their presi
dent or chief.
Therefore, I affirm, the treachery
within was thrice as strong as the pow
er without in subduing the Confeder
ates.
Tims, some of those who were most
active in destroying the Union, wore
also most active in destroying tiie Con
federacy. And these are now the fa
vorites in the South with flic Radicals
of the North. They arc. received into
their councils at Washington, and they
are check by jowl with Wilson and
Sumner and Stevens in their efforts to
destroy (lie Constitution.
Mon. who I know made hitter seces
sion speeches, have been traveling
through the"North proclaiming their
sutlcriugs ns ••persecuted loyalists;
ami having roused their fragmentary
conclave of a Congress to see lire mea
sures to disfranchise those whom they
denounced as traitors,because they op
posed secession, in order that they may
get the offices oftliese States us rewards
for their “devotion to the Cnion!"
And the poor, deluded, helpiess South
ern people are thus bespattered with
their own tilth!
These facts suggest several points
which deserve the most serious consid
eration of the Northern people.
1. The lirst is that they are under the
most solemn obligation -possible to re
cognize these States as existing mem
bers of the Cnion, with no diminution
of their rights, except as to slavery.
This was the avowed purpose of the
war. This wasthe promise to the North
ern people by their government to en
courage them to light ; and this w as the
pledge to the Southern people to in
duce them to cease fighting.
2. That this purpose ha- been defeat
ed ; this promise has been violated ; this
pledge lias been broki u by their Radi
cal leaders, with the clear and unmis
takable intent of destroying the Con
stitution: and that in this work they
are now joined and aided by the most
vindictive, the most active and the
most unscrupulous of the original
Southern secessionists.
it. That the Southern people became
weak in prnseoutig the war only be
cnu.'C they listened to tills pledge, and
laid down their arms only because they
believed it. That though this genera
tion may lie helpless because they were
entrapped, the next will refuse to be
lieve, and will remain strung—invinci
ble. That these deceptions can breed
nothing but distrust : that these oppres
sion- can produce nothing but distrust
and hate, that oppressed and oppress
ors can never live together in peace,
and our children and our children's
ehildrhn will be the victims of this
Typhaau union of the Northen Radicals
and the Southern Secessionists, with
no gain ti/either section-, but “ havoc,
spoil and rtnu."
Cheating r-t the Doov.
Exactly two years before the rebellion,
and before bo bad become converted to
the gospel, Brownlow delivered a lerturo
at Memphis, in which bo uttered the fol
lowing Christian sentiments:
“My iriouds 1 have tried to do my du
l. in tliia u -vi-1.1 nn nit
as a man and as a Christian minister, unit
when I depart this life, 1 confidently ex
peet to go to the mansion of the blessed.
Yes, my friend, when T die T am pretly
sure I shall go straight to heaven. Hav
ing fought fiio good fight, and kept the
faith here on earth. 1 hope to he admitted
to the great reward. Hut, my friends,
when 1 have shuffled off' this mortal eoil
and entered into that happy place, and
shall look around among the myriads of
thy just made perfect iu that blissful abode,
should I, by any chance, any strange, un
accountable perndvonturc, beheld among
thost happy things a single, s—k—g ab
olitionist, of any nation, clime or color,
be ho Jew, tloutilo or llotteutut, I shall
at oueo swear that there has been cheatin’
at the door!'1
It is evident that the I’ursou does not
expect to go to heaven now, unless there
is some wholesale cheating at the door.
-The following facts relative to the
comparative untuunt of tailroad in differ
ent countries aro interesting: In the
United States there are eightv-one square
miles ot territory to each mile of railroad,
and one mile of road to otoh one thousand
of population. In Great Britain the pro
portion is nine miles area to one of road
and one mile of road to each 25*19 of pop
ulation. In France the ratio is twenty
four miles to one of railroad, and one
mile of road to 4192 inhabitants. Belgi
um with one ndle of railroad to every sev
en miles of territory, has a more thorough
network of railroad tiian any other oouu
try, while Russia, with a territory twelve
times the extent of the British Isles, has
ouly olio fifth of the length of road.
-A lYashtngtou special says : It it
understood from official sources th«t the
Ure-idcut has finally decided to appoint
General Hancock as General Sheridan'*
successor.' The lntMi'/tuccr of Friday
says there will he no unnecessary delay tu
issuing the ordgr relieving Sheridan.
ta/i" \ young girl died at Bath last week
from the effects of puncturing a boil on
NEW3ITEM3.
*6)5" The yellow fever is on the decrease
atlnJianola
■srsrThc stock of cotton Joes not exceed
700 bales in Nashville.
Bpe. The fire alarm telegraph is giving
general satisfaction in Mobile.
■©"Nathan Lawson was lynched and
hung at Oornishville, Ky., on Friday last.
»-^-The receipts from iutcrnal revenue
Friday, were f 1, SO'i.OOO.
BSQ.Koger A. Pryor is reported serious
ly ill at New York.
-In Louisiana, -12,66- whiles and
70,129 negroes have been registered.
William Cumbacli is spoken of as
the next Radical candidate for Governor
of Indiana.
W%.Prcsident Roberts, of the Fculau
Brotherhood, is expected in New York,
from Parris, in a week or ten days.
—Wr-Get»eral Breckinridge and lady
continue to live in Paris, as guests of the
family of Mrs Burbank, of Kentucky.
■©•Avonia Jones is coming from Eng
land with a hatch of plays written to or’
dcr.
-Ex-Governor, Hcrscliel V. John
son, of Georgia, is urging the nonacccp
tancc of rcconstrueuon under the Military
bills.
©^Subscriptions arc in circulation in
New York to raise money for the widow
of Stonewal Jackson; two thousand dollars
has been subscribed.
■©"Commissioner's have located the fu
ture capital of Nebraska at Lincoln, a
small town fif’y-onc miles from Omaha, in
the county of Lancaster.
-——'B. F. Perry, of South Carolina, is
out in another icticr advising the Southern
people against calling a convention under
the Reconstruction acts.
jguThe police are creating great com
motion among the gamblers of St Louis.
The fraternity are being ‘gobbled’ en
masse 'under the vagrant aet.
-The Postoffice Department oontin
ucs to receive complaints from Colorado,
Idaho, Utah and Nevada that transient
newspapers and other printed matter arc
not delivered by the overland mail unless
prepaid at postage sates.
-It has been announced at the Paris
Exposition that England has stood still as
regard mechanical excellence, whilst oth
er nations Europe —notably France, Prus
sia, Austria, Belgium, Switzlaud—have
made rapid progress.
BfSuEx-( iovernor Brown, of Georgia, is
»'• . ci_ir:tt if.L _ ....
iv nutvi * • in luivujfu « ov
l ies of letters published in the papers ol
the States, in which he favors reconstruc
tion under the military bill.
-A submarine volcano has broken
; out nine miles below the island ofTcrcoira
and up to t-he latest dates it had formed
an inlet extending three miles east and
west, and was still in action.
-The Secretary of the treasury ha
1 decided that the payment of the compound
' interests notes with interest thereon will
be made only at maturity at the Treasury
of the United States, and at offices of As
sistant Treasury in Boston, New Vork and
Philadelphia.
-A dangerous -counterfeit on the
$100 National Han's pinto has been din
! covered in I’hiladclphia, which is calcula
ted to deceived the unwary The face ol
Jefferson on the back of the counterfeit is
very poor, and some of tho engraving is
l out of line ; these are tho only weak points
observable at a fiance.
11 IRltllll).
i On the 1st of August, a: tbc residence ol
I iho bride - talker, by the Rev. 11. Jahiiaun,
; Mr. J. 1“. Weller to Miss Yiuuima NicKes
i duke, all of ibis county.
We welcumc our friends to the walks
| of matrimonial life, and to fhein give a
wish, that their sky may be free from
sorrows cloud. For each oilier may
they live, and blessed and blessing
walk through life so justly, as in the
i end to obtain eternal felicity.
IUK0
in ibis city, on the ,! uisuat. Uali.y, in
. fant sou of tllijah H., and Klim (1. l'uc.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Memphis and White River lulled
Stales Mail Line.
j Tbc steamers CoJEmcreial and Rowona
will form it fjemi-Weekly Line between
Memphis, ur. i White river.
The ftplcndli! PaSscnger Steamer
COMMERCIAL. UBti
>VM. J. ASHFORD, Master. .
j Leaves Memphis .every Tuesday at 5 o’clock p.m
** Augusta every Fi Idiiy at 10 o’clock .?.m.
“ Searov every Frida? at 1 o’clock p.m.
•< \Te*l roint every Friday u( b o’clock p.m
»• Pcs \io every Saturday at 6 o'clock a.m.
*• P. Bluff every Saturday af 1C o’clock ni.
The Elegant Passenger Steamer
A ROWENA, jA*
JOHN B. DAVIS, Master.
Leaves Memphis every Saturday at 6 o el k p.m
** West Point every Monday at 5 o'clock p.ui
“ 3adk**<mport every Tuesday at lOobdk a.m
“ Augusta every Tuesday at t> o'clock p.m.
• Pea Arc every Wednesday at t>o’clock a.m
P. Bluff every Wednesday at 12 o’clock m.
riHIESE boats have been thoroughly re
JL paired and retit ted expressly for the
trade, and having the mail coat rant for four
years, passengers and shippers can rely upon
i their remaining in the trade 'permanently, and
are the only boats having a connection with
the trains at Duvall's Bluff for Little Bock and
llot Springs.
These arc the only boats authorised to sell
; through tickets to Liulc Hook via. railroad
I from Derail'* Bluff. Time through forty
three hours.
A good light draught steamer will he run
in connection with these packet* from Augus
ta iih Jack;sun port, tnakiug two trips per
week to'Pocahontas, on Bl««ffc river.
JOHN B. PAV1$. .Superintendent
Memphis and White river li. 8. Mail Line.
August 10, 1807.—
ADM i:\ismTUB’S sALE
—or—
L A. USHD.
IN obedieuc to a decree of the Probate
. Court ot Prairie County, Arkausas. ren
dered at the July Term tbercef, 1807, I, as
Administrator of the Estate of William M.
Brylea, deceased, will offer for sale to the
highest bidder, in the town of Des Arc, iu
said county, ou the Id stay off Septem
ber, IMff?, on a credit of four, fight, and
twelve months, all the Lands belu^giug to
said Estate.
Purchasers till be required to give bond
with approved security tor the purchase
y money, and lien} will W retained on the land,
.'‘tie will com nun. it 10 o'clock a, n.
.P KR PIPKIN \du»inixtrator
AuCu » B» D* — t'L.
ijmh _.jwwni—ni^nr-— — ~ •" •
BROWNSYIILK
MALE Sr FEMALE
ACADEM^.
rpilE Board of Truwtee* of the BROWNS
1 YILI.E MALE AND FEMALE ACADE
MY. arc happy to announce that they have
i completed arrangements for the permanent
continuance of the School, under the present
efficient corps of Teacher-*.
The government will be mild, but firm.
; conforming as nearly as possible, to that of a
; well regulated family.
The Fall term will commence Motltluy*
September ltitll, 1MFT, and continue
twenty weeks.
TJdUMS.
Primary Department — Orthography.
. Heading and Writing, $1- &{'
j Intermediate Department—Grammar,
Philosophy, Written Arithmetic.
Geography. Etc., $10 00
Higher I)c]>artuieut.—Higher Mathe
matics and the Languages, $20 00
t Incidnatal Expenses, $1 00—for Fall term
1 only.
Dills payable one-half in advance, the bal
I ance at close of the Term.
JOHN WRIGHT, President.
-, Secretary.
August 10, 1807,—- in
TVOTICK
IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I will apply at the
October Term of the Probate Court of
• Prairie County, Arkansas, for an order to sell
jshe following described Lands, belonging to
the Estate of Thomas Allison, deceased, to pay
the debts of said Estate, to-wit: All section
j 11, 4 north, 9 west, C40 acres: south half
j sec. 4, 4 north, 8 weal, and south half north
west quarter sec. 4, 4 north, 8 west, 400 acres.
X. J. ALLISON, Adm’r Estate
Thomas AliisoX, Dee d.
August 10. 1807.—It
GRAND
AT COTTON PLANT,
Woodrnff County, Arkansas,
September 6th, 1867.
PROCEEDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Destitute Widows and Orphans
OF SAID COL'NTV.
PROGRAMME
' ADDRESS—Bx IIon. J J GALLAGHER.
J EDGESI
i
! ...’ .
Col. P. II. Wheat. Devan’s Bluff.
Col. Win. Hick?, Soorcy.
! Maj. R. C. Lanford, Des Are.
Capt. Wm. Wilburn, Clarendon.
Capt. Wm. McDaniel. M adison.
| Capt. Wm, P. Campbell, Augusta.
Capt. J. M. Hay ley, West Point.
Capt. Bart. Turner, Trenton.
Benj. Nail, Esq., Jericho.
W. B. Lynch, Esq., Cotton Plant.
W. B. Swon, Esq., Cotton Plant.
B. R. Glover, Esq., Plain Township.
Capt. Wm. Cook, Des Arc.
J. H. Balding. Des Arc.
LIST or PRIOTISi
1st Prize—Fine Saddle and Bridle.
1 2nd Prize—Fine Silver Goblet.
3rd Prize—Fine Gold Locket,
4th Prize—Pair Silver Mounted Spurs.
6th Prize—Plain Gold King.
( onimiHee of Arrangement:
Capt. J. K. Shelton. Tuck Cappelina.
H W. Linthicum. Thus. C. Webb.
J. L. Howell. Atndison Biirkett.
A general invitation is extended to all
Knights from the sunouudiug-eoui.try.
W. J. TURNER, Sec. nud TreaS.
August o, 18d7---Im
m. w. wiiiii im
A %T2V A" A* A Tr*
mm m m W * md m mm m •mi mm ,, f
Will practice Law in Prairie ami adjoining
counties. Prompt attention given to alj
; business confided to his care. augS
OrtrcE—At II. P. Vaughan's Law office.
notice
IE HEREBY GIVEN, That all persons who
purchase any portion of the Public Square
in Des Arc, under u sale -»f suid Square, or
doted by the Town Council of Des Arc, will
purchase a LAW SUIT.
I hold that the Corporate Authorities of the
Town of Des Arc have uo authority to sell
; any portion of the Public Square, and that
they can convey uo title to the purchaser. 1
shall institute suit against the first man who
! attempts to build upon the Public Square, by
! virtue of a purchase cf any portion of it, from
| the Town Authorities of Dos Arc; and will
attempt to show that under our preseut State
'• organization, that the present Board of May*
i or and Aldermen has no legal life or vitali
• ly airl that none of their uetw arc valid.
J. E. GATEWOOD.
Dcp Arc, July 27th, 1867—2t
STATE OF ARKANSAS,V
COUNTY OF MONROE. }
1 In the Circuit Court of Monroe County, ou
the Law side thereof.
: Wear & Roberts, Tlainliffu j ]f ^ ^
■ Matthew D. John*, Defendant, j 1
XT appearing from the declaration filed in
this cause, that the defendant is indebted
( to the plaintiffs, by a writing obligatory, in
the suru of five hundred and seventy-one and
’ 16-100 dollars, ($571 15-100 dollar?; and it
also further appearing from said declaration,
which is sworn to, thr.t the. said ucfeud.int
Matthew D. Johns, ip a non-resident citizen
of the State of Arkansas, and that the writ of
attachment has been levied on the lands and
personal property of said defendant, in said
county, fur the purpose of subjecting the
same toaale'to Mttafy said debt and eosts of
said suit. At is therefore ordered by the
j plaintiffs, that the suid defendant Matthew
V. Johns, be notified of the pendency of this
1 suit, by publication of this order, pursuant ’o
I the Statute in such caaco made ami provided ;
and that unless said defendant thall appoar in
Mud Court on or before the third day of the
! nest term thereof, to be held on the second
j Monday of September neat, Lithe cout-house
• iu said Couuty, in the town of Clarendon, and
; make defense, judgment will be had by de
’ fault against him in said suit, and his proper
ty sold to satisfy the same.
ROBERT C. CARLTON; Sheriff
Monroe County, Arkansas.
July Hist, 1867.—aug3-2t
r N OTIC IS
Soiuethlug Krerj Fanner
SHOULD HAVE.
JT will add 100 pereeni, to tire value of
your farms. I nut an! Ornamental Trees,
Shrubs, Buses, Urceilhmiu Hoots, 4c., cultt
t steel ut'.d for sale at the Highland Home
Nursery, St. Louis, Mo
N. W. DAVIPSON, Proprietor.
■N. B. Nothing but first class Trees shipped.
To Whom H Mfiy ronreru,
HIS is *o certify that L I,. Cross is au
thonsed agt. to lake orders for the High
land Home Nursriv.M Lolita, Mo , lot phiut
mg in the lull of 1 .
N N fl-\ \ 11'.‘1X Proprietor,
per «». h*i'», Glu t Veu'
i'c. Are, .'ill,' l!“b 1' ‘V— )ul"7 It
Admioist.ator’s Sale.
ON Thursday ltftti
I will sell to the highest bidder, in front
of J. M. Barney's Drug Sf re in Uw town of
Den Arc, Arkansas, I-ot** No's. 1,2.*, 4. **.
in Block No. 86. E. 8 of said town of Dea Arc.
as the property belonging to the Estate of
Jennie Windsor, dee d to pay debt*.
Term*.—-On* a credit of six and twelve
months; ten percent, infer**-** from da**.
HORACE P. VAFGHAN. Aim r.
July 20, 1867—tda
N'OTICli
I HAVE & nice Carriage I>n.l Harness I will
sell for money, or trade for town proper tv
I have some Band seven or eight miles west
of Des Arc, I w ill dispose of same wav.
i have a Rockuway and Harness, and a ;wo
horse Wagon and Gear, I am anxious to nts
IIOBACE 1*. VALGHAN.
lies Arc, July 20, 1807—If
HICKORY PLAIN
MALE and FEMALE
INSTITUTE,
KI3S0P.Y PLAIN,
PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARKANSAS*
THE ir>th*j«emi-annual session of this
School, under
FROF. W. A. GARNER AND LADY,
.Assisted by an able corps of Teachers, will
commence .Holiday, the &tli of fu
gufit, 1867.
Terms, the same as heretofore. For par
ticulars, address the Principal.
W. L. MOORE, Pres. Board Trustees,
A. J Thomas, Secretary
July 13, 1807.—tf
DES ARC
FEMALE SCHOOL.
MltljS ELLEN PHINNEY will open
a School at her residence, known as tlie
Black house, on Monday, 5th August.
Terms of Tuition.
Elementary Eng. branches, Read
ing, Writing, Geography,
Grammar, etc., per session ot
live months $13 00
Higher Eng., Philosophy, Chem
istry, Rhetoric, Mental Science,
Physiology, Geology, Algebra,
etc'.::.'.-T SIS 00
French and Latin, (extra.) per
session . $15 00
Mn.de.$25 00
Vse of Instrument . $5 00
Drawing and Painting, in water
or- oils. $15 00
incidental Expenses . $1 00
/•i..i. /*_ . ... . r . i. _
and deduction made incaao of protract
ed illness.
References.—Bishop If. C. Lay, C.
G. !Scott. Ksq., Little Rock; Henry,
Williams & Co., V*n Buren, Arkansas ;
•L .T. Polk, New Castle, Tenn.; Gen.
Albert Pike. jul20-tf
Tv ai ley & AVarne r<
t iMi i»L.iLi:ns i\
Groceries and Provisions,
Dots Ait, At kansa.s,
Arc in receipt of a large and fresh supply
'•f Goods; and having purchased their stock
after the late decline of Goods East, they feel
confident of their ability to please their many
friends and customers, both in regard to
Trioe and Quality of Goods.
Terms, cash, and prices to correspond.
T>cs Are, Arkansas, June 2'*,
Dks Akc, Auk., June 28th, 18t?7.
mi. J. a. uousel\rx,
Honar^d Sir;—After having suffered for 8
or 10-ve*rs with a most excruciating disease,
and having had tre-atmentbf t!ic most eminent
phyaitfMtnd t>f Mkais-iippi and Arkansas, and
others, with but little cr no benofd, ami hav
ing taken gallons vf Patent Mediciues, I hud
lispaired of ever being cured ; but l urn now
happy to inform you that 1 honestly believe
your treatment bus entirely cured me, for
which you have the deep gratitude of jny
! heart.
j 1 have the honor to subscribe myself your
friend, CASS AN Til A IIOWAKD.
1ST OTIC IG.
■TF.A.TSD 0?, CT0L2IT
JJlKOAl the subscriber, about the loth June
r last. One HZai k Horse, about fif
teen hands high, eight or ten years old.
branded J\ S. aul «J. 13. on the loft shoulder,
and bus been foundered. Works and rides
well. Said horao was raised at Batcsville,
Arkwpsus* and was traced in that direction.
1 h ill poy a liberal reward for his delivery,
or such information u« will lead to his recov
ery at TevulTs Bluff'.
iulIS-lm PAT. II WHEAT
JT7XTS 1ST, 1067.
liACO> SIDES.
I > KCEIVIJP, und In store, und for sale:
: IV 10.000 1‘onnttti llacen Sides.
llAZKN A Mi 1‘IIEKSOX.
Farticular Notice!
The Best Known
C H 0 L E R A
Medioine.
It cured hundreds of cases last year,
in Louisville and Xashviile. It gives
immediate relief.
lUit «() i-y Dr. J. A. Ht>uselu j\. and
for ale at Johnson A Davis’ Drug
ftture.
J>es Are, Arkansas, July 20, JeO>7.
DESARC
tmi *io Fii *M
ACADEMY.
rPHK fourth icFFion of this School will open
i X on Mott Jay, the «>ih of August. under the
charge nud direction of B. D. PERRY,
a related by a couipou-ut Female Teacher.
Terms, per Session of five Months.
«lithography. Heading und Matting, $11 00
The tame with Arithmetic, Geography
•Grammar, Philosophy. Algebra* Ge
ometry. Chemistry, Rhetoric, Rook
Kaeping, &c.. $1(1 00
L*iyi *ud Greek, $jo 00
No incisUpUl ©apt men.
N". 1». The tuition must be paid at fhc end
of each mouth, wryou will be notified to k«ep
! your children at home
l»ea Are, July 20, l&67.-v-ly
JU1TE 1ST, 1367.
Ml I’oiiads Shouldrrs.
1IAZEN \ M.-rilLl’-Oy.
i»h ti lii's:
Pictures 2 i l
AT
L... L. CROSS’
FIXE ART GALLERV,
Situated on Bueua Vista St.,
firs $vr, ^rliansns,
W here Pictures of all kinds are made
from small miniature lo life sire Pho
tographs, and colored with Indelible
ink, Oil, or Water Color*. All work
warranted perfect and durable.
The subscriber herein hns .pared no pain.,
or expense in making this GALLERY far sur
pass anjr iu this Territory, aud having had
nu experience of mnnp years in tile business
of Picture making, with the aid of a perfect
set of Apparatus, feels confident that he ca n J
defy competition iu PRICES or QUALITY. P
Having reduced my prices, it places rielurv
within tie reach of every man woman and
j child.
Just fifty cents is all the expense.
Of a Diet are made of your lace,
And for double that sum, if you quickly colue,
Will be made and put in a Case.
Don’t delay this opportunity, for you may
never have so good a chance again. It takes
but a little time and expense to get a
* *•*«»** «> w W » trf *vaa4
Of yourself or friends, and you never will re
gret it. ‘-Remember the old must uie, an J
the young may die,'' So
“Secure the shadow.
Hire the substance fade,
bet art copy that
Which nature made.''
Photographs of Capt. Rayburn, and views
| of the town for sale at the Gallery,
i I shall keep constantly Land a lar»e
StOCK Ol ^
4LBUM?,
FRAMES,
AND CASES,
And all articles usually kept in a first class
GALLERY.
I will also furnish Country Artists wPh
Arnbrotype and Photographic Goods, Appa
ratus, Chemicals, etc., at Memphis prices.
Pictures taken in all kinds of wea;h r.
Old Pictures copiedjind uui lc new and life
like.
Please give me a call.
I. L. CEOSS, Proprieto-.
Hos Arc, Ark.. April ft, 1
f
! •
;
i wiei»>g»e i has n. nr lu complete rnn
I, uiug order, hi. Nloam saw and
l.i'.Sl Mill, 11 II.il > li iVt'l [>,
Arc, (on B»y»u l>,,. Arc.) wl, c be U P.c.
pared'to fucun li Oak, l.'jrpie s and Until dim
mer, of any size or diuiea.'iur.
; aprla-diu M. SIHITTKU.
SPKING GOOES!
SPRING GOODS!!
? T
\T0W 0PEN"" A\P JVtT IS!:ckiy, »r
u large and splendid u.-m . t into ! i.f
DRY GOODS,
Motions, t. adie >’ ant! (•eats'
Hills, lienh and Shot's,
Qiiernswarc, Hard- J
yyure, Hollowwatf.
B»D«*B3Si *\M
OF LV1SKV LUistJlill'IlOX,
▲X
(OLD STAND 01 GILL & BROD
It io our iutculiou to ev- y
1 one, \\ e will sell our Goods , 1 vorv
mall advance upon cost ; but in ord,
j to be convinced, comeami caaminc for ' 4j
j yoarsclves. It is no trouble for us to
| show Goods.
TIIOHAS, (HU A t o.
Des Arc, Ark.. April lit, 1807.
ENTERTAINMENT!!
'riiitF rvptiKsmxyp havivh *»,
, 1 opened a House of (inter- ’’X
tatunietil « on i»ut nti \ idtn Jjtfctit, iicHF
1 th»* Steamboat Lauding, for the nccotntnodu*
uou of
TRAVELERS AND BOARDERS, I
I By the day, week, nr month, wlici'U the p.r
, ronnge of those visiting lies Are Th- far.
! Will be as good as the market stfoidx, and
! terms moderate.
(»ive me a trial, and 1 will endeavor to give
, natiafaetiou.
BRNJAHIS UAVUA
| Dug Arc- Arki., March 2& 18H7—lim
June 1st, ltsts;.
GOOD NUMBEfToNE MACKEREL
At retail or by the package.
____»*«**» A Media,,*,,,,. \
a. a. 8CiiMii>T, *
I MOOTHAKCR am* repairer,
Dos Arc, Arkansas. t
Ian, ,10V. prepared to do all Huda *f wo, <
. in my line. My shop is or, Il„> ,,n Vi-u 1
! Street, next door to Sul; ■ ■ r'h •• frug *,oti
ui.' 35, i«-'V |,
j