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' rrsr-JS: volume a. "pesarc, abkan sas, JUNE 8,1867._number 14.
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a. e. nocat*. L « hams aur
PICKETT * n vXIHAUR,
attoriets it law,
A ra VST A, A SKA -VSA s.
Wilt, practice in the counties of Woodruff.
Jackson. White and Craighead. Special at
tention given to collections of all claims en
trusted to their care aprfi-ly
.1 (' JONSON. Office—West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. XI. XIOORIi, Office—Searcy, Arkansas.
JONSON & MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
—ANl>—
General Land and Collecting Agents,
wK.tKfiY, All KANSAS.
Will, give prompt attention to any business
in the counties of Independence, Jackson.
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, "bite, tonway
and Van Huron.___I1,ttr
DB. ALLEN
HAVING concluded to remain in Pcs Arc,
tenders his services to the cituens gen
erally. Over thirty years experience added
to a thorough qualification for his profession,
assures him that he can give general satis
faction. Ministers of the Gospel, and all
who have been disabled in the service of their
country, treated gratis.
Des Arc, Ark., February 2, 18fi0—Cm _
J. R. P. AAORIOGEj
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Courts of
the seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to his
care. _ >n1-'_
Geo. W. Maberry
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
s O L I C I T () R IN CHANCERY
—AND—
GG^ERiL LiXD AGENT,
COTTON PLANT,
WOODRUFF COUNTY, ARK ANSAS.
-tTTil.I, attend the Circuit and Probate
\Y Courts for the counties of Monroe. St.
Francis and Woodruff. mat 24
J. K. GATEWOOD, \ J •> 8. THOMAS,
Des Arc, Ark. / l Brownsville, Ark.
Gvrewern * THCIMSS.
At SAW
Des Are and Brownsville,
r« IIRIE t OI VTY, ARKANSAS.
(lccl-tf ___
GANTT & BROS A UOII. Brownsville, Ark.
H. p. VAUGHAN, Dos Arc, Arkansas.
Gantt, Bronansli & Vauslian,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie,
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu
laski Prompt attlention given to the collec
tion of claims Taxes will be paid and titles
investigated for non-residents. Apr 14-.ini
1. X. 11 EDtJKPETlI. T> HI.AKF. KENT.
HEDGEPETH & KENT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
■\TTII.L practice in all of the courts of
\Y Prairie county, and the circuit courts
of the surrounding counties. mar’24-f>m
WM- T- JONES
AttQM** At SAW*
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Prairie. Monroe. Woodruff. Jackson and
White Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of claims. aprl4-ly
WM. B. GOODY. w* MnAK.
COODY & McRAE,
Attoassrsx* &? raw
SEARCY. WHITE COCNTY,
ah ka ns.vs.
Will practice in nil the courts of Arkansas.
mar24- ___
tfot, t. CLARK. BAM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOE IV. MARTIN.
CLARK WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE KOCH. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
w not as Real Estate ami General Ayo>t».
Offick—Markham Street, near State House.
april28-tf
W. HICKS, Formerly of the firm of Cypert &
Hicks.
If, R. FIELDING, Formerly of Athens, Ala.
HICKS & FIELDING.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Surrey, White Co., Arkansan.
WILL practice in this and the adjacent
counties, in the District Courts, and feu
preme Court of the State.
-Wc have in connection with our‘Law
OrriOK an ACTIVE OUT-DOOR COLLEt TING
'AGENCY Claims entrusted to us will t>c
promptly attended to, and if not immediately
collected.wilt be at ouoe secured if possib
Claim atrainst the Government for propert.v
taken by the U. S forcer (whether receipted
for or not)—Bouwtibb I’bnbionb, Abbaaeb ol
I'av Ac. promptly attended tn.
mai Ci- HICKS k FIELDING.
_
PROFESSIONAL CARDS._
Dll. J. AT ROI'SEEAIXS cffire, h
now »t Johnson k Davis' Drug Store
| ran he he consulted nt his room at the Harvey
! House. He will give his undivided attention
J to l lironlf DUrntten of every descrip
ti°n.
The best of references’can be furnished, by
aprb ing 10 DR J A HOUSELAUX,
junl-tf Dos Arc, Arkansna.
! J. W. BURNEY*. Rv B. TRKZEVANT.
Drs. Barney & Trezevant,
Having associated themselves in the
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,
offer I heir professional services to the citi
zens of
DES ARC AND VICINITY ;
And will devote a portion of their time, to
the treatment of Chronic Diseases, of every
description. Office—At Burney k Bro's
Drug Store. npr2
DR. Ji^t. KEEL,
FgYiXOXAXT, BUnOBOXT,
—AND—
O nSTETBI ClAN,
DES ARC, ARK A USAS.
OFFERS his professional services to the
citizens of Dcs Arc and surrounding
country. Office—At Johnson k Davis’ Drug
Store. inayll-tf
T. J. MARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
.A. t Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
may25
GE07 K. MORTON.
At saw,
—AND—
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
DES ARC, A RJK A N 8 AS.
Wilt, practice in the Slate and Federal
courts OI ArKanSHB. IUHJ i I ■
JAMES H. TATTERSON, LUCIAN C. OAUSE,
Augusta, Ark. Jacksonport, Ark.
SIDNEY S. CAUSE.
Patterson, tiause & Br«.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff.
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence.
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special cases in any part of the
State. Address either office. niyl8-ly
ROUT. S- ANDERSON, WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jacksonport, Ark. Augusta, Ark.
Anderson A: Thompson,
ATTORNEY £ AT I-AAV,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Ark.
Wii.i. attend the Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff. and adjoining Counties, and to special
cases in any section of the State, Address
either office. mayl8-ly
I. N. HKDOrSTlI. S. X, JACKSON.
HEDGPETH & JACKSON,
SOMBSTBAD
LAND AGENTS,
Dos .A-i-c, Ai'linnssns*.
Win. enter Lands under the provisions of
the Act of Congress, May 21, 1802. entitled
“An act to secure Homesteads to actual set
tlers on the public domain.” ap27
SIT.UIBOATS.
Lcnves Memphis Every Saturday.
Kegiilar Memphis and Uliltc
River I*a«*ket,
DES ARC,
.1X0. 1). ELLIOT,.Master.
.1. Lee Einney,.Clerk.
SklP* 1 TIIE Pcs Arc lias lieer
—>horoiifflilv repaired and re
fined. expressly fur the 11)10ve trade, and will
leave Memphis every Saturday and lies Art
I every Wednesday. sep22
notice7
TI1F. steamer De* ArC^^ Wk»0-^
will receipt for frrijrlit JffrTr"tvfftkm
and ticket passengers through from Mem
phis to Little Hock, until further notice, ai
the following rates, viz:
Pound Freight at sixty cents por hundred
, pounds.
Passengers at seventeen dollars.
Tvro trains per week will be run frem De
rail's Bluff to Little Hock, (on Mondays and
Wednesdays) to connect with the steamei
Am*.
Passengers and shippers can rely on tbif
arrangement.
JXO. D. ELLIOTT, Captain
Steamboat Des Arc.
Walt & Co.. Agents, Pcs Arc.
Leaves Memphis Every Tuesday,
Regular 11 fin |ih In and White
Hi % er Racket,
COM MEUCIAI,,
JOHN. B. DAVIS, - - Captain
Geo. 0. Bush, - - Clerk.
THIS steamer having
JsSSasSfiKslaHlhheen thoroughly repaired am
refurnished, will run regularly throughou
, ilie season. Leaves Memphis every Tuesuflj
and Des Arc every Saturday morning. inar8
J. SIMS ALLEN, Agent.
NOTICE. ”
rnilE STEAMER COMMERCIAL will re
J. ccipt for Freight and ticket Passenger!
through from Memphis to Little Hock, unti
further notice, at the following rates, viz :
Pound Freight, at Sixty Cents per bundrec
I pounds.
Passengers, at Seventeen Dollars.
I V. O TKAIXH PER W r.i:u
i Will be run from Devall’s Bluff to Little Rod
l (on Wednesdays and Saturdays) to conuec
i with the Steamer Commercial.
| Passengers and Shippers can rely upon thi;
I arrangement.
JOHN B DAVIS,
Captain Steamboat Commercial
j J. Sims Ali en, Agent,
Des Arc. Ark., may 4. ISdT-tC
NOTICE!
1 * 8'"P a'l Fmeian:
■,-^jgPA-ai^ai.<’onwigm»d to me, for steauie
CiJOl M LIU I 4Ka, without commission o
I drujag*. J SIMS AU.ES, AKent
inavtl, SrriMKK CVmmi r<m\L.
TRUTH ANDFALSEHOOD.
List to a tale well worth the ear
Of all who wit and sense admire—
Invented—it is very clear—
Some ages prior to Mathew Trior.
Falsehood and Truth “upon a time,”
One day in June's delicious weather,
( Twas in a distant age and clime)
Like sisters, took a walk together.
On, on their merry way they took,
Through fragrant wood and verdant mea
dow.
To w here a bench beside a brook
Invited rest beneath its shadow.
There, sitting in the pleasant shade,
Upon the margin’s grassy matting.
(A velvet cushion ready-made)
The young companions fell to chatting.
Now while in voluble discourse
On this and that their tongues were run
ning,
As habit bids each speaks, perforce,
The one is frank ; the other, cunning.
Falsehood, at. length, impatient grown
With scandals of her own creation,
Said, “Since we two are quite alone,
And nicely screened from observation.
Suppose in this delightful rill,
While all around is so propitious,
Wre take a bath ?”—Said Truth, “I will—
A bath, I’m sure, wilfbe delicious 1’’
At this, her robe she cast aside,
And in the stream that ran before her,
She plunged—like Ocean’s happy bride—
As naked as her mother bore her!
Falsehood at leisure now undressed,
Tut off her limbs the robes that hamper,
And having donned Truth's snowy vest,
Kan off as fast as she could scamper!
Since then the subtle maid, in sooth,
Expert in lies and shrewd evasions,
Has borne the honest name of Truth,
And wears her clothes on all occasions.
While Truth, disdaining to appear
In Falsehood's petticont and boddicc.
Still braves all eyes, from year to year,
As naked as a marble goddess!
—[John 0. J-'axe.
From the Sentinel.]
Home and Hearth.
Homo, home, sweet home! How
few fathers ever call to mind and dwell i
upon, in the busy and continuous
struggle with the cold, callous and un-:
sympathising world without, how in-1
estimable happy it is for them to have
a home—a shelter—a refuge from the
fierce conflict, between man and man in
tlie baffle of life ! How few properly
value nml appreciate me joys amt mess
ing.? which dwell in the happy little
world of home, so unlike the other
j world just, left at the gate, and over
which they reign, wise and provident
rulers! How few feel that the bless
ings surrounding them arc blessings,
or that the little joys, ever presented to
them, are joys, or that the little w orld
at home is different in all respects from
the greater one w ithout ! Does the
man of the world, returning to this
minute world of his ow n. around whose
portals none may intrude w ithout his
consent, ever ponder and dwell upon
j tho gracious blessings surrounding
him. and weigh the responsibility Cod
lias placed in his hands, of which ho
must sooner or later render account ?
Jlow few parents, alas! ever enter
j their own homes appreciating the
| blessings Cod has given them, and un
derstanding themselves and their rela
tionship to their own children! AY ho.
among the thousands w ho buttle daily
with a dishonest and over-exacting
world, go home and enter its loving
portals with that keen appreciation of,
and admiration for, all that is pure and
j innocent upon earth, which should till
I the heart of the Cod-fenriug and
thankful among Christians, brothers
Of all earth's blessings for man, God
luis given nothing so immeasurably
dear, and so deserving of bis every
good wish and provident desire, as
Home—that republic over Which he is
chosen monarch—that earthly heaven,
of which he is king, ruler, father, all!
The thousand alluring and disgust
ing vices of the outside world—alas!
too familiar too him it may be—are
unknown to the darlings who arc
growing up at home. The guilt and
i shame of a rotten world have not yet
| cast their baneful alluremcuts across
the hearth around which bis own blood
and flesh have multiplied to bless his
name and cull him father.
The little ones prattling around him
as he sits quietly by the hearth, peer
ing into the glowing coals whose lurid
, fervency, like the lulling w ings of a
seraph in a dream, have drawn his
overtaxed brain into an abstracted and
thoughtful revery, look up with tell
tale eyes and peep into pap's face, to
read the story of love or anger. Has
papa ever thought how inexpressibly
dear to these little pets is one kind
word from him or an approving smile ?
How few of us, alas! are competent
to appreciate the blessings ol the dear
little Haven at Home—the innocent
w orld of love, when the great world
without frowns upon and hunts down
the drooping spirit within with relent
less persecution 1 How few of us real
ly appreciate the little world we have
peopled with innocence, whose inquir
ing eyes look upon the passing menag
erie of the world without in a rosy at
. mospherc and brilliant colorings.
| How many of us can undcrstandingly
• and enjoyablv appreciate that blessed
' I little world at home, which, at close of
day, ill a loving circle greets papa at
the hearth, and whose loving little
hearts long for a kiss anil recognition ?
Who, among ns all, will daro say that
mamma—patient, forbearing, long-suf
fering, tired mamma—the good wife
and queen of hearts—is treated with
the respectful consideration, love anil
warmth of affection which her great,
loving soul nsks as her share in the
wealth of the home and hearth? Few
of the world’s cold and callous hearted,
but home and heaven-blest, dare say
they are husbands and fathers as well
as men in word and deed!
Home, home, sweet home! In joy,
in suffering, in affliction!—in all the
trials and buffettings of life, within thy
blessed portals only in all this vast
world, may the spirit of man find wel
come, and loving, true, and sincere
greeting, and to thee and thine to-day
offer we a libation of love and a word
of recognition!
Work Moderately,
Do what you do, and take your time
to it—but see that you improve your
tjme—nud do not make any false blows
or unnecessary motion. Such men are
the workers. They enjoy tlicir labor ;
they do not fret and hurt their health
or their disposition. They have the
control of their work and themselves.
It is bad to fret—it is bad to get in a
stew, which generally moans a passion.
It is very line to have an even course
and to be placid in your work. Cheer
fulness in labor, singing while you
toil—this is making labor what it was
designed for, what it is, divine—a
shield always against sickness, against
want, against gloominess of spirt. It
makes a clean conscience toward God
and man. What more does it want
to make one happy ? But, remember,
this a cheerful, steady labor—taking
your time and improving it. Forced
labor is bad—that is a curse. And we
see enough of it to sicken us daily, the
world over. But the time is coming
when this will be different. Xot that
lei i mm »> i 11 it u.m-in ib i ^ iiii|Mi'.ium; ,
man must eat liis bread in the swert of
his fare; but it will he ameliorated—
machinery will do the rougher part,
and intelligence will direct it. Then
industry will be what we have so often
dreamed it to be. what the poets have
made it—a pastoral goddess, a giant
Hercules. It is even such now, here
and there, if we only make it moderate
and intelligent. It will do more than
the heat of excitement, which will
soon spend itself, and leave the work
and the worker the worse for the ef
tort. iMion is lUTCbsu n iu iieaiill • if
at at the same time it promotes other
ends, so much the better. It does this.
9 >
A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
A Man Falls 170 Feet, is Shot
Through a Flank Like a Bullet,
and Escapes Unhurt!
A Scotch paper, the Haddington
<'mirier, has an extraordinary story of
tlir escape of a miner who fell down
the shaft of a eoal pit, near Tranent.—
An old shaft was made use of to open
up a communication with a new pit
recently sunk. About half way down
the shaft, which was two hundred and
seventy-six feet deep, a wooden staging
composed of strong two inch planks
was built, completely intersecting the
down shaft, to afford a firm footing to
the miners entering the side shaft. At
the bottom of the down shaft was a
considerable accumulation of water, as
is usual in pits which have not been
worked for some time. On the occa
sion in question a young man named
Mvine, rather than wait for the com
paratively tedious process of being
lowered down by (lie windlass, said lie
would slide down the rope. Disre
garding the advice of his companions,
lie got upon the rope, and they were in
illl'UIiri III' Mill It t IIUII Hit'll IU I HU L
lie had lost hold ol'it.
The crash of his body against tbc
wooden staging was heard, and they
were making preparations to descend
for the mangled remains, when a cry
for assistance was heard coming up
from the very bottom of the pit. The
rapidity of bis descent of 170 feel had
propelled him through the two-inch
boards as neatly a.- if his body lmd been
a rifle bullet, and with about as little
injury, for not a bone was broken, and,
except a small scratch on bis chin, bis
person did not bear the slightest mark
of coming in contact with anything
during the descent. Falling into I he
water at the bottom, he had, on coming
to tlie surface, providentially thrown
his arms over some wooden framework
which happened to be there, and laid
lbus been saved. The man was found
here and was conveyed home quite
conscious, and under medical care was
soon able to be out of doors.
The story lias certainly the appear
ance of a fable, yet, if it is possible to
shoot a candle through an inch board,
why cannot a man be shot through a
two-inch plank? The narrative is at
I least sustaining, and anybody who
chooses can have the liborty of doubt
ing that it is well authenticated.
- *4^*
The Compositor on a "Bender."
Theyt ellnie Iamb Anti »om eye T,
A N tie LL T hela die sa «y :
l “Do lo Ok a tbim, the Dee Uoldman
G row* Y o u N ge Rev FRY Day !**
An I>w he nee Chfr I end A 8k*: A tyo urtvgc,
“llo in He youf Reef rotn ILLS V*
1 alwa Y sans wer: “I nmyy Ou Th I pa !
dmy pri N Ter* ’ B 11 la !*’
--
Pleasant husbandry—destroying the
weeds of a widow by marrying litr.
All is Well.
‘Twelve o'clock at niglit, and all's
| well 1’
False prophet! Still and statue-like
1 at yonder window stands the wife.—
The clock has told the small hours, yet
her face is pressed against the window
pane, striving in rain, with straining
eye. to pierce the darkness. She sees
nothing, she hears nothing, hut the
beating of her own heart. Now she
takes her seat opens a Bible, and seeks
from it what comfort she may, while
tears blister the pages. Then she clasps
her hands, and her lips arc tremulous
with mute supplication. Hist! there is
an unsteady step in the hall; she knows
it, for many a time and oft it has trod
on her heart strings. She glides down
gently to meet the wanderer, lie falls
heavily against her, and in maudlin
tones, pronounces a name he has long
since forgotten ‘to honor.’ Oh, all-en
during power of woman's love!—no
reproach, no upbraiding—the light arm
passed around that reeling figure once
erect in God’s own image. With ten
der words of entreaty, which lie is
powerless to resist, if he would, she
leads him in. It is but the repetition
of a thousand such vigils! It is the
performance of a vow. with a heroism
and patient endurance too common and
every day to be chronicled on earth:
too holy and heavenly to pass unnoticed
by the registering angel above.
‘All's well!’
False prophet! In yonder luxurious
room sits one w hose course it was to be
as fair as a dream of Eden. Time was
when those clear eves looked lovingly
into a mother's face—when a kind lov
ing father laid a trembling hand with
a blessing on that sunny head—when
brother’ and sisters’ voices blended
with her own, made heart-music around
the happy hearth. Oh ! where are they
now ? Are there none to say to the re
pentant Magdalen—‘neither do I con
demn thee—go and sin no more.’ Must
iiif glided ieuer continue to Dina me
soul that loathes it, beenuse man is less
merciless than God?
‘All’s well!’
False prophet! There lies the dead
orphan. Ill all the length and breadth
of the green earth, there was found no
sheltering nest where the lonely dove
could fold its wings when die parent
bird had flown. The brooding wing
was gone that covered it from the cold
winds of neglect and unkindncss.—
Love was its life, and so it drooped.
•All's well !’
False prophet ! Sin walks (lie earth
ill purple and tine linen : honest pover
ty, with tcar-bede wed face, hungers
and shivers, and thirsts, ‘while the pub
lican stands afar off!’ The widow
pleads in vain to the erniined judge
for •justice :’ and unpunished of heaven,
tlic human tiger crouches in his lair,
and springs upon Ids helpless prey.
‘All's well 1’
All yes. all is well, for lie who ‘scctli
the etui from the beginning' holds
i evenly the scale of justice. ‘Dives
>hall yet beg of Lazarus.’ Every hu
man tear is counted. They will yet
sparkle as gems in the crown of the
patient and enduring disciple! When
i Hie clear, broad light of eternity shines
upon life’s crooked path, we shall sec
the snares and pitfalls from which our
hedge of thorns lias fenced us in ! and
in our full-grown faith, we shall exult
inglv say—‘Father, not as I will, lint as
Thou wilt.’ Fanny Fekn.
• » -
The Holy Land in 1867.
The Chicago Journul has n correspond
cut who is strolling through the Holy Laud
and Palestine- lie is not particularly im
! pressed with its present state, whatever
us pasi may nave ueuu. jiu says:
I have not seen a wagon road in Pales
tine. Even the stones and timber for
building the houses of Jerusalem must
be brought into the city upon the backs
of camels and doukeys; and the roads
over which Abraham, ]>avid, Christ and
the apostles once traveled, arc but paths
winding over rocks and around the base
of sterile mountains. In fact, this whole
land, said to have been once so beautiful,
is now but a rocky, barren waste. I
think I have seen more good land in one
square mile in Iowa or Illinois thau in all
Palestine.
M uch of the country is occupied by the
Bedouin Arabs, and for the privilege of
visiting the river Jordan and dead Sea
their Sheik requires 82 50 from each per
| son. For this amount he sends a guard
of Arabs with you. •
The population of Jerusalem is now
said to be but 14,000. The correspond
ent, upon this fact, moralizes thus:
While looking at the city as it now
stands, with its narrow streets filled with
dogs, Arabs and filth, it is hard to realize
; it was once the home of more than one
million human beings, and the proud
mctripolis of a mighty nation. While
i hiking out of the window at the Mosque
of Omar, where the Turk bears rule, 1 can
but ask myself the question, Is it possible
that on that spot stood the temple of Sol
' omon ? Is it there that Pavid held his
court? The pages of history answer,
Yes, that spot is Mount Moriah. Upon
that ground stood that temple whose glory
. filled the whole earth.
What is the difference between a mule
atid a postage stamp ? We lick one with
. a stick the other wc stick with a licit.
The Folly of Oppression.
From tlie Alton Iiemocrst.]
The present radical policy in regard
! to the South is based on the idea as old
as original sin, which has been tested
by every nation that ever existed, and,
without a single exception, failed—no
matter when or by whom tried.
It is that a brave and intelligent
people who have for real or fancied
wrongs appealed to the decision of
the sword and been defeated, can lie
made to love their conquerors by de
liberate and systematic oppression.
The strong arm of power may crush
such a people, destroy their national
existence and convert them into a race
of outcasts without a country or a
home; but they will survive all tiiis
and live to linally triumph over those
who forget that, principles of right
and eternal justice arc as immutable
and immortal as the Throne of God.
Xo better exemplification of this
historical truth can be found than that
presented by the children of Abraham.
Here is a race which, as Christians be
lieve, committed the unpardonable sin
by rejecting and crucifying the Ke
deemer of mankind; and for tlii g were
stripped of nationality, driven from
tlie land where for thousands of years
they had lived and flourished, branded
with the mark of Cain and sent forth
hearing the weight of heaven’s ven
geance—given over, as it were, to the
scorn, the insult, the outrage of the
whole earth. The Hebrews have been
tlie l’ariahs of the human family, and
for centuries it was esteemed, not only
right, but a Christian privilege and
duty, to hunt them like savage beasts
from city to city, from country to
country, leaving them no protector but
death, uo refuge hut the grave. Cath
olics, Protestants, Mahominetans, hea
thens, if they could unite in nothing
else, joined hands and hearts in perse
'IMlIl- IUV UC1 TO. lilU IMMVl'l Ul 1111
this holy hatred and spiritual coercion
was their religious ‘‘reconstruction;’’
to force them to believe the same creed
and trust for salvation to the same
means which the majority of Christen
dom believed and trusted. As a sam
ple of the means used to accomplish
this end. we give the following pro
visions of a Ilayonnc bill passed and
enforced in England during the reign
of Edward I:
1. Xo Jew shall come to or depart
from England without license, on pain
of death.
2. Xo Jew shall walk or ride with
out a yellow badge upon his or her
outward or upper garments, on pain
of death.
3. Xo Jew shall condemn Jesus
Christ nor blaspheme 11 is Divinity,
on pain of being burned.
•1. Xo Jew shall stir out ot his house
or lodge on good Friday.
5. No Jew shnll strike a Christian,
on pain of having his right arm cut
oil'.
G. Xo Jew shall kill a Christian, on
pain that he be bagged alive on a gib
bet and be fed daily on bread and wa
ter until he dies.
7. If any Jew shall cheat a Christian
ami escape, all the rest of the Jews
shall make satisfaction to the Christian
! so cheated.
j 8. All the synagogues of the Jews
: shall be suppressed, and if any of their
Uahbis or Jewish Priests shall teach
or preach against the Christian religion
hereafter in England, all such teachers
and preachers shall be burnt.
1). Xo Jew, on pain of hanging, shall
transport any bulliou or coin beyond
the seas, nor deface or melt down any
Christian coin.
10. The King's Judges shall not
I hear the testimony of a Jew against a
; Christian.
11. No Jew shall be sworn upon the
Evangelists.
12. The Jews shall have four judges,
two thereof ehristians and the others
Jews, who shall try and determine all
; causes between Jews and ehristians.
18. All the children of the Jews, a<
\ soon as born, the rector or vicar of tin
parish shall take from them, put sucl
to nurses, and breed them up in tin
ehristian religion, for which the Jewi
must pay all the charges.
14. In the exchequer appointed foi
; the Jews, there shall be half Christian:
and half Jews; and both shall hav<
equal power and different locks unt
keys to prevent fraud.
15. The Jews shall account for al
the money they lay out and for tin
protits, and return before the judicia
rics over the Jews as soon as they shal
be required.
Hi. If any Jew shall be converted t<
the Christian faith, all his usurious ae
vulsitions arc to be converted to piom
and charitable uses, but all his goods
estate and moveables shall he his own
1 and not the king's as formerly acctis
j tomed.
17. The Jews shall go to hear chris
tian doctrines once a week, and a:
many English Jews as turn christiuni
shall be as free of England as If the)
were born of Christian parents.
IS. No Jew shall cohabit with t
j Christian woman.
It). No Jew shall be buried in conso
: crated ground.
20. No Jew shall correspond witl
any of the enemies of England.
21. No Jew's widow shall have an)
right to administration, but after th«
decease of her husband all the Jew":
effects and movables shall be vested ii
' the king, and the king shall he execti
i tor and administrator to all the Jew
in England.
22. Xo Jew shall sue for his own
debts, but in the name of the king’s
license; and if any Jew defrauds flic
king of liis customs or other rights, lie
shall forfeit his all to the king.
Xo doubt the sturdy Christians oi
that day thought these tilings ortho
dox, and any one who questioned their
propriety or tlie liumnntiy of such “n
republican form of government” as
little better than a traitor and British
copperhead, sympathizing with the
Jewish faith and a hater of the son of
man.
The Jews did not resist; they bowed
! their necks, and the car of oppression
rolled over them, but they did not
yield their opinions or give up their
belief. They wont to the stake and
: the scaffold by thousands ; and in their
case—as well as in every other of which
history makes mention—the blood of
the martyrs proved the seed of the
church.
They have outlived the Plantagencts,
the Tudors, and the Stuarts; and to
day a Rothschild sits in the house of
| commons, and a D'lsracli controls the
1 destinies of that empire upon whose
| domain the sun never sets.
Remember, fellow citizens, that no
lasting good was ever yet accomplish
ed either in politics or religion, by per
secutions; that no error in one or the
other—to say nothing about truth—
was ever destroyed by the “stamping
out” process.
AA'e are trying the experiment in the
south, and no matter how flattering
present or future appearance may be,
we shall in the end fail and fail signally
and completely.
In the diary left by that noble wo
men, whose fervent patriotism and
| inspiration lent a grace and charm to
j the darkest days of the French revo
lulion—Madame Roland —were writ
ten these words;
UAVKa.1 InitAnAnAA r*nnB in 4Un aaaC
: fold at the command of error and per
versity, every step she takes is an ad
vance toward glory.”
Marat, Danton am! Robespierre are
: but bloody ghosts cursed by the scorn
1 and hatred of all time—Jane Mary
Phillippon Roland is an angel, over
whose fate the world weeps.
Ge.v. Rout. E. Lee, of Virgin a.—
Posterity will rank Gen. Lee above
I Wellington or Napoleon, before Saxe or
Turerine, above Marlborough or Frede
I rick, before Alexander or Caisar. Careful
| of the lives of his men fertile in resource
1 a profound tactician, gifted with the swift
I intuition which enables a commander tc
j deseern the purpose of his enemy, ami
the power of rapid combination which
enables him to oppose to it a prompt
resistance: modest, frugal, self-denying
void of arrograne or self-assertion, trus
| ling nothing to chance; among the noble,
as noblest, in the lofty digiuity of the
j Christian gentleman; among patriots less
self-seeking, and as pure as Washington,
1 and among soldiers combining the religi
| ous simplicity of Uave'oek, with the
genius of Napoleon, the heroism of Bay
ard and Sidney, and the untiring, nevci
I faltering duty of Wellington, in fact
| Kobt. E. Lee, of Virginia, is the greatesi
General of this age. Ho has made his
own name and the Confederacy he serve:!
I immortal.—Montreal (Canada) Tele
1 Jraro- _^_
A Submerged Bridge.—This is tin
| era of gigantic undertakings, and one o
them is now proposed by a Mr. Tar
gart of Roxbury, Mass., who lias a plai
for connecting East Boston with tin
aity proper. He proposes to lay a cas
iron tune lrom shore to shore, whicl
shall,allow the passage of locomotives am
horse cars, furnishing also a drive avva;
and a side walk lour to six feet wide
The tube is to be three thousand feet long
made in twenty feet sections ovcrlappinj
four inches at the joints, and of course
water-tight ; width at the base thirty leot
and the hight fifteen, forming an arch
I The iron is to be from one inch to thre
| inches thick, and the tube is to be lai<
twenty-nine aud a half feet below low tide
' so as to escape all obstructions; and bein;
I imbedded in earth, such a structure i
likely to last a bumlrcd years or more.
®syThere is much in the followin;
extract from Lord Macaulay s histor
; of Knglaud to encourage our people amii
their present troubles i
‘‘Iu every human being there is a wisl
j to ameliorate his own condition. Thi
1 principle has often sufficed, oven whei
; counteracted by great calamities and b;
bad institutions, to carry civiliiatioi
rapidly forward.—No ordinary misfortune
or misgovernment, will do so much ti
make a nation wretched, as the constan
progress of physical knowledge, and tin
| constant effort of every man to bettc
himself, will do to make a nation pros
perous. It has often boon found tha
! profuse expenditure, heavy taxation, ab
’ surd commercial restrictions, corrup
| tribunals, disastrous wars, seditious perse
cutions, conflagrations and inundations
have not been able to destroy capital s
fast as the exertions of private citiien
have been able to create it.”
ftSP-A friend visiting an intelligenc
• office for help, had Bridget pointed on
to him. “What can you do ?” he aske
of the damsel. “1 don’t want to tal
i ••with a gentleman who asks such
question," was the indignant reply.
SALMAGUNDI,
A fashionable party is now called a
“daughter-cultural show.”
What kind of ship has two mates and
■ no captain ? A courtship.
A golden no is often better receivod
than a brutal yes.
The heart, like a watchman, should
confine itself to its regular beat.
‘Conte here Tommy.’ said a school
master : ‘do you know yoUr A. B. C’s,’
■Yes zur, I know a bee sees.’
A Knowing Bot.—“You want n
flogging, that’s what you do,” said a pa
rent to his unruly son. “I know it, dad;
but I'll try and got along without it,” re
turned the boy.
A ‘bull’ somewhere : A country paper
says : A cow was struck by lightning and
instantly killed, belonging to the village
physician, who had a beautiful calf four
days old.’
Why arc young ladies kissing each
other like an emblem of Christianity?
Because they are doing unto each other
as they would that men should do unto
them!
A man in a neighboring city who had
been fined several weeks in succession for
•getting drunk, cooly proposed to the
magistrate that he should take him by
the year at a reduced rate.
“I think.” said a fellow the other day,
“I should make a good member of Con
gress , for I use their language. I re
ceived two bills a short time since, with
requests for immediate payment; the one
I ordered to be laid on the table—the
other to be read that day six months "
A ._4-U1. ~ __
pane of glass—
•‘Man was at first made upright, but
he—”
To which an impertinent gentleman
added—
“Most surely had Continued so, hut
she—”
A young lady reprim Hided her shoe
maker for not following her directions
respecting a pair of shoes she had or
dered, and angrily insisted the&Vtoy were
not fellows. Crispin replied he
purposely made them to order to oblige,
well knowing the modesty of her disposi
tion, and that she was not fond of fellows
In a jovial conijiany each one asked a
question. If it Was answered he paid a
I forfeit; or if he could not answer it him
self lie paid a forfeit. An Irshman's
question was : “How does the ground
hog make his hole without showing any
dirt about the entrance ?” When they
all gave it up Pat said; Store, don’t you
' see, he begins at the other end of the
hole.” One oftlie rest exclaimed : “But
how does he get there ?” Ah!” said
Pat, “that's your question—can you an
swer it yourself ?”
Strong Writing.—The Cincinnati
l Commercial quotes the annexed sentence
\ from Albert Pike, as exhibiting an unu
! sual command of language : "Bankrupt
cy, foreign war, internal hatreds, a lioll
of fire thinly crusted over, new dissen
sions, separations, strifes, new rivers of
' blood, repeated decimations, new light
nings of the red deserved wrath of God,
t the corroding stains of inocent blood upon
i the soul, the insensible horrid lapse into
j the most' hidious of despotism, all the
j Dantcsquc horrors of the infernal regions
i flint nf nntinns
inhabit—all tht.se stare upon them out of
! the grim silent darkness of the future
| days.”
j A good story is told of an eccentric old
| gentleman, who, although occasional}'
addicted to the habit of swearing, was
| still punetillious in regard to saying grace
’ at his table, and this he never omitted on
any occasiou. The story runs, that on
[ a certain occasion the old gentleman in
. vited a sea captain, a jolly old weather
; beatean tar of his acquaintance, to dino
< with him. They sat down to dinner, and
the old gentleman, according to custom,
commenced saying grace ; but the captain,
’ whose attention had been diverted for the
^ j moment, hearing the old gentleman speak,
J thought he was addressing him, and turn
ed to him with—
“What did you say, ’Squire ?”
“Why, d—n it, man, I'm saying
grace 1”
Tub Trro and tub Kmtor.—The
lawyer editor of a country paper, who
, wrote a very “blind hand," was frequent
ly annoyed by compositors’ inquiries eon
. ceruing words which they could not dis
. cipher. One day a compositor as little
. acquainted with the handwriting, entered
the sanctum, and holding a copy before
his eyes, inquired what a certain crooked
mark stood for. The editor did not wish
. at that time to be interrupted, an ex
claimed, “Go to the devil.”
, j The compositor retired, not to his Sa
i ! tanic Majesty, fmt to the composing room.
When the editor read his proofs he had
the pleasure to see a line in his leading
! editorial read :
“He, (Mr. Webster,) will, in all prola
* bility go to the devil-”
J i The copy was looked for, and the crook ■
ed mark was marked “be nomituted.”
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