K. B. G AIR, f
> SDTTOu.
A. C. MATHF.WS, j
D E 3 ARC, ARKANSAS:
T«f*d»y Morning, g»T. IT, 1893.
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The CITIZEN Is NOT the Offl
dal Organ of Hie Radical Parly.
It D nut the Recipient of FORCED
Patronage; hut rellea on Ita own
Merits and on a Discriminating
PI RI.IC. for success.
The electiuu passed and the excite
ment consequent thereupon having in
a great measure subsided, it is reason
able to conclude that the renting pub
lic will look with some interest for the
position and future couree of the Jour
nals of our country. It is s source of
lame gratification to know that most
of the leading papers of the Sonib are
in their tone eminently conservative,
and manifest a decided disposition to
submit quietly to the administration
of the government under Radical rule
snd vield full obediense to all laws
that may bo enacted by the ruling par
ty, so far as such laws are founded in
justice and compatible with the con
stitution of our government. A quiet
conservative policy is certainly at this
time commendable and will conduce
much to the prosperity of the South,
the quieting of all disturbance!, And
the development of her interests. As
for our position in the future, while
wc shall not abate one jot in the advo
cacy of the principles of Democracy,
we will endeavor to mark out a medi
um course, avoiding extremes in every
thing and honestly pursue it. We
have never been incendiary, have nev
er encouraged violence, have uever
counseled resistance to law, nor shall
we ever do it. While we are bitterly
opposed to Radicalism we arc not so
prejudiced as to be blind to any good
thing they may do, or so foolish as to
oppose it because of the source front
Which it catenates. While we opposed
the election of Grant to the Prcsiden
cy we shall not fail to suuport him in
the administration of government so
long as his policy accords with our
views of right; but in every instance
we shall rebuke extravagance and war
without cessation upon all measures of
the ruling party that to ns seem unfair
or nncoustitutional. Just at tiiis time,
however, we have more to do than en
gage in political disputes or party
wranglings. Our State, young and
new as she is, stands but upon the
threshold of the glory that will and
must be hers In the futura; and to the
press as well as to individuals belong
the work of developing her resources
and lifting her into that place which is
properly hers amongst the States of the
Union. In this work we trust we shall
not be a whit behiudany journal of the !
State. Every measure of a local or im
proving character, calculated to benefit
us as a people, shall meet with our
support, no mattpr who may be its au
thor. While we strive to <1o thu,
while we work for the goad of our
State and people we hope for the sup
port of those who have stood by us in
tb« past.
Rudlcat Merer,
Swift, in his “Travels of Gulliver,'1
gives us au uccouut of an intrigue
against his hero, and says that when
the punishment which was • to be in
flicted upon the criminal, Gulliver, was
discussed in the council of the I.ing of
Lillituit, some merciful Lilliputian
statesman proposed, instead of killing
him, to put his eyes out only, arid that
this sagacious Lilliputian enforced his
argument by the observation that the
destruction of so huge a creature as
Gulliver might cause a pestilence, and
thus decimate the people of the king
dom, while with his eyes put out his
power for mischief would be gone, aud
his strength be stiil available against
the rival kingdom of Biefuscu. 'ibis
advice, after mature consideration, was
adopted, and it was expected that the
hero would submit to the execution of
that merciful seuleuc# with becoming
grace.
This pretended mercy is a good deal
like the mercy the radicals desire to ex
tend to the South. Alt the radical
leaders want is a surrender on the part
of the people of the Southern States of
all claim to the admiuistraiion of the
atluirs of their Slates or the * Hairs of
the nation. That is all. We could
have hung you ull, they exclaim, but
we are merciful, and all we ask is that
way, auil everything will be “unani
mous.” Like the wise statesmen ol
Lilliput, the radicals desire to put out
the eyes of the South by depriving the
people of that section of u voice iu our
national affairs, hut, nevertheless, to
tax their resources to aid us iu carry
ing the burdens of the nation. Because
the people of the South will not agree
10 this, they are denominated “ungrate
ful rebels.*’ But let us for a moment
examine tlie mercy the radicals have
extended to the Southern people.—
Radicals speak of this subject they al
ways refer to the severe measure's of ;
the despots of Austria and ltussia iu i
Poland and Hungary, where gibbets j
lined every high way* and hundreds ol i
tlie noblest and proudest perished or j
were driven into exile or banished to I
the frozen fields of Siberia, and then
triumphantly ask. Where have we ex
ercised such severity ? The radicals,
however, forget that to properly under
stand the despotism which is exercised
over a people we must first understand
what liberty that people had. A des
potism becomes greater iu proportion
n« it deprives a people of rights and j
liberties once enjoyed. To deprive,:
for instance, a (ice people, that for
generations lias exercised the rights of
self-government, of that right, is an in
finitely severer exercise of despotism,
than to hang a hr:.. ,r?d or even a thou
sand of its prominent citizens, and lea v
Jii|Z the rights ol the masses unimpaired.;
Alter the revolutions in Iju'ngat y and
Poland, many lenders and pro.'xiinPnt;
citizens were hung and banished, hut
what rights did the great mass of peo-, (
pie lose? The radicals of this cuuntry j „
have exercised a more refined speoies 1 ,
of despotism. They have hung no one, j ,
but they have deprived millions of our |
former fellow-citizens of a voice in our ,
national affairs, and they now seek to , j
perpetuate this condition. They have! ,
gone farther. Mot satisfied with the i ,
exercise of this power, they have made ' ,
the former slave master of his former j
master. In the whole compass of his
tory uo parallel case of severer despot
ism can be found. And this is the .
boasted mercy of the radicals of our
day, claiming to monopolize all the in- I
telligence, patriotism and humanity of 1
UsJ.-—*l: fcwg’s RcjmWlUui. I
-.———
'Mie Uay After tbe Electloa.
The agony is over. The day of election
has conic and gone, and we »re very uia.-h
afraid, as we have long anticipated would
be the case, the result is against us.
Under all the circumstances, the Demo
crats have made a noble fight. They hud
everything torontend against but enlight
ened patriotism Tbe prejudice of section
was against them. Nearly four years have
elapsed since the final reverberation of
tbe last gun of the war was heard, but
still, somehow, the musses of the Northern
people cannot get it out of their heads
that the status of tho war still remains.
The Radical leaders, with a cold and
calculating cunning worthy of Mephisto
phelcs, have constantly wrought upon
passion and prejudice to muintain their
^ascendency iu the nation, and secures
triumph at the Presiderttial election which
has just passed over. Unhappily, they
have found the Northern mind in too
favorable a condition for their devilish
sink
But this is not all. So holy and just is
the cause of the Democratic party that it
must have succeeded in spite of the unfor
tunate state of feeiing produced by the
war had not misrepresentation and false
hood been unscrupulously and constantly
resorted to for the deception of the people
by the Radical press and speakers. The
people of the North were told that the re
belliou still existed iu the hearts of the
nun of tbe South and stories without
number wore fabricated and retailed every
where as solemn truths to prove it was so
Gen. Graut had said, before he took it in
to his head to be President, that the eiti
lens of the States lately in rebellion were
with groat unanimity, disposed to accept
the situation in good faith, and to do
everything deemed necessary to the com
plete restoration of their several States,
not huuiiliatiug to them as men and free
men ; but even Gen Grant, when he be
came the Radical Presidential nominee,
conni”ed at and countenanced the theory
inculcated by bis party, that tbe Southern
people were utterly hostilu to the Union.
The South, according to the idea sedul
ously instilled in the ntiuds of Northern
people by Radical politicians, was little
else than a gnat Kuklux iflan—a nest of
bloody rebels und unmitigated traitors, in
full affiliation with the Democratic party.
The Northern people were educated to the
belief that if tbe Radical party were not
sustained in its policy and Grant and Col
c _ _i_»-.1 ..it .i._ ..... tv.*
which the war of the rebellion was fought,
would be attained. It is strange that
such a villainous scheme of falsehood and
deception should have proved successful;
but so it is.
Nor is this all The i adical party had
unlimited command of money and patron
age for electioneering purposes, and most
unsparingly were they used. After a
party has been in possession of the lovern
ment offices during two Presidential terms,
it is exceedingly Difficult to oust it. It
becomes as hard to shake off as Siubad
found the Old Man of the Sea Now, the
Radical party, in the election which has
just transpired, had not only the immense
patronage belonging to the public offices
to back it, but it was sustained by the
bonded aristocracy created by i'. The
public moneys were used to secure a /Radi
cal triumph ; the Government employes
were universally and heavily assessed for
that purpose, aud the bondholders bled
freely for the attainment of the same, and
because they knew very well that was the.r
only way of retaining their unjust and
ruiuoutf priviltiged.
\\ ell, from these causes, aud such as
these, we lear, as we have said, it must be
admitted that the election has gone against
uc. But let the Democracy be of good
heart. The world was not made in a day.
We have not obtained the redemption of
the country from the curse of A'adieal
nomination this time, but we have shown
that ours is a powerful, compact and de
terminated organization. If a minority,
the Democratic party is such a minority as
must command the respect of its adrersa
ries. It is such a minority as will be cn
aided in a measure to hold in present check
the revolutionary designs of our opponents;
and, organized us the Democratic party is
on priucipie aud patriotism, we have
•t ong teasons to hope for the achieve
mi nt iu ihc end of the perfect restoration
of constitutional government- It is rela
tod of a celebrated hero and patriot that
as lie reclined upon a wretched couch in
a miserable public house after the last ol
several defeats iu the effort to restore inde
pendenee to his country, his attention was
attracted to a spider that was endeavoring
to liistvu its web upon a beam above him
Eight times the attempt failed, and the
slender thread was broken, but on the
ninth success crowned the effort, and the
web was successfully fastened The
legend goes on to say that the discomfited
warrior was encouraged by this simple in
cident to enter upon yet another struggle
for his country’s rights, and that this time
complete and glorious victory crowned his
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the course proper for them to pursue from
this instt uctive lesson, were their cause
far more desperate than it is; hut they
need it not From the period of the
reorganization of the party it has constant
ly gained in power and strength, and it
takes neither a prophet nor the son of a
prophet to see that it will ultimately rule
in the land, —Louisville Courier,
Freaks of'a Whirl wind.
Yesterday morning, about 9 o'clock,
a little brick church on the Hardin
pike, about eleven mile* from Hie city,
and situated on a point where the road
runs between two lofty hills, was liter
ally blown away, only about four feet
of the walls being left standing. The
wind had been pretty stormy all the
luorniug, and many trees had been
blown down on the"surrounding bills,
but at the hour above named a gust of
wind swept aloug the road, catching
up in its sweeping progress every tie-,
tadicd object in tile way, and whirling
them round as if they were a horizon
tal cylinder; lenee rails, branches of
trees, hunks of earth, and even stones
were whirled around by terial anger as
it came along with irresistible force
ii.d inconceivable rapidity. It struck
the church about four feet above the
ground, ripped off tlie bricks and mor
al', and swept the whole upper part
may quite clean. A few bricks were
iropped along the road for two or
hree hundred yards, hut the main por
iou was taken nearly half a mile, to
t here the road opened out on a wide
tretch of comparatively flat country. ]
no there dropped in a bed of a creek,
pith the rod/' still firmly attached to j
lie walls. Two cows tlint bad been to j
reward of the building while it was
et standing were knocked about tiven
y yards away inti; a hollow. They
ecmed considerably stupefied, but
therwise sustained no damage.—Nash
ille Press and Times, Nov. 2.
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Mr-It is asserted that the French
ilinister of war has roceutly issued orders
or the purchsse of tea million sheets of
taper, to be used in making cartridges,
he entire quantity to ba delivered within
i»S wgjk» “L»t r* h*T« j-ajeV*
Oar State Government.
SuBle ient returns, says the New Or
leans Crescent, have now been received
from the interior (<> demon-trate that
Radical Republicanism lias been killed
in Louisiana. What little vitality it
Inis, lies alone in (lie Stale administra
tion elected by the neglect of our peo
ple, and which will effectually expire
in two years more, if it do not earlier
yield to the pressure of publie opinion,
and reform or die out before its time.
Negro supremacy may now be con
sidered ns utterly at an end. The ne
gro has been deserted by his white
leader and most now see that if he lias
any friend, it is tlie white man who
would not admit him to social equality
or welcome him to officinl station, but
desired to do all he could for Ids ele
vation in intellectual and material con
dition, without declaring him to be a
brother ns well as a man.
Now as white Republicanism has al
ready deserted the negro n« mi office
holder ahd ruler, it can hardly be ex
pected that the negro can again set up
a claim to dictate laws for tlie govern
ment of the white population of this
State, especially since the President
elect is so well known to be steadily
opposed to any extension of negro suf
frage or any forcing it upon an unwill
ing people,’except as a mentis of put
ting down fancied “rebellion.” As
there is no danger of this, the negro
can hope for no favor ill his pretensions
from any source.
It will therefore he wise for these
colored men who have enjoyed, up to
this time, seats In the legislature of the
State, to accept the verdict rendered
on the lid inst.. ns a final judgment up
on tlie propriety of their undertaking
to make laws for the people of Louis
ana.
Those whose own parishes or dis
tricts have by unmistakable majorities
of all the registered voles declared
against them will, we trust regard tills
as an imperative call on them to re
sign, while those who were not elected
at the previous election in April, blit
were placed ill scats to which they
were not chosen, through the most
shameless disregard of all law and rea
son, will sec that the people cannot
possibly suffer them to retain them.
There arc some white men in this
condition ; not merely carpet-baggers
but usurpers of seats which' arc not
theirs, and these and others among the
Radicals are especially odious from
their unscrupulous legislation, which
is not merely partizan in the extreme,
lint wasteful beyond anything with
which this or any other State lias ever
been disgraced, and which must cease,
or one mill all ol us must be ruiiieil.
These, too, should take warning and
retire.
Now the election of Grant will give
these men a happy opportunity to leave
places where they arc neither welcome
nor useful, nor happy, and go into
others where they will please their em
ployers, ami where the injuries their
uiiscrupulousncss will accomplish, will
be diffused among the thirty-five mil
lions of these United States, and not
confined to impoverished Louisans.
As for his Excellency the Governor,
we trust he will prove his titie to the
title by approving only (tills to repeal
nets of tlie last session and veto any
thing which looks towards a gift of the
people’s money or rights, when the
people do not receive and acknowledge
value therefor. He could also recom
mend himself beyond measure to the
people of the Stale, by urging the call
of a convention that our constitution
could he shorn of its proscriptive tca
tures. and modeled after those very
lfcpublican ones of Massachusetts or
Ohio.
So generous a course ns this might
make him as popular as I lie like course,
more promptly taken, has made many
other Federal officers who have settled
among us. Will lie not lake the wishes
of the people into eonsiderlion ?
lion Fortifications and Great
Guns.
A letter from lirrlin says: “The suc
cess'wliich attended the experiments of
last summer lias induced the Prussian
government to employ large blocks of
hard cast metal for litc purposes of for
tification. A foundery Inis been estab
lished with this object on the artillery
experimental ground, by which ar
rangement it is not necessary to move
its ponderous productions any very
great distance, whenever it is thought
advisable to give Mr. Krupp an oppor
tunity of knocking them to pieces, or
endeavoring to do so. A colossal cast
ing, weighing ninety tons, was made
there last Friday, in the presence of
the Miuistsr of War am] numerous
military and naval officers, and is un
questionably by tar the greatest that
Inis ever been attempted on the conti
nent. What is considered si ill more
remarkable than the size of tlie casting,
was tbs short lime required for the
process. The metal was melted in
three large large furnaces in the short
space of three hours, hut the actual
casting was completed in l’orty-live
seconds.
“The report adds, by way of compar
ison. that the casting of a steam ham
mer weighing one hundred tons re
quired in England forty-eight hours.
"A hydraulic crane is used for mov
ing these large masses and does its
work so easily that a shield weighing
lortv tons lias been moved scrcial hun
dred yards, and placed on tlie frame
work intended to receive it iu half an
hour. Tlie plates are not fastened to
gether by bolts or screws, but cast iu
such a shape as to dovetail into each
oilier. It is intended to employ a com
bination of iron, earthwork and ma
sonry in tlie new forts, and to adopt
tlie improved methods in the coast de
fenses first, as they are exposed to tlie
heaviest tire.
“The Woolwich gun, whielt has been
competing at Berlin with Mr. Krttpp’s,
lias shown a deep crack after the two
hundred and sixty-fourth round where?
ns Krupp’s gun lias remained unscathed
alter four hundred rounds, and iiis
friends are, of course jubillant. On
the oilier hand, an English seven-inch
plate, three inches of steel on four
iii'lies of iron, from the Cyclops works.
Sheffield, was too much tor Krupp's
ninety-six pounder, at least only (lie
point of the shot came through. It
Inis been stated since that only a re- ;
duced charge of powder was used on
this occasion. The same projectile,
however, and with a similar reduced
charge, had knocked an eight-inch plate
of Austrian manufacture all to pieces.
Both Krupp and Borsjg have offered
to establish works for rolling plates iu
Prussia.’’
At the University of Virginia
there are over 500students. At Wash
ington College, over which Gen. Lee
presides, there are nearly 400, and at
the Virginia Military Institute over
250. Emory and Henry, iu Washing-1
ton county, opened its fall session with ;
nearly 301). Hampden Sidney has near
ly or quite 100. liaudolph Macon at
lie latest accounts had about 75, and |
billy accessions were being made,
liicliuioud College lias largely over
100.
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MrA woman named A’ate Johnson
sag convicted of murder at Buffalo, M. Y., j
I'esterday and gentcuccd to be huug on
December 18th.
Somebody in search of bones for self I
aising fluur broke into the tomb ef Gen. i
'•Jjtrilior*. jt jjalsclijyj
Caught !■ Ula Owa Trap.
From the Quite/ Herald ]
Mr. Philip Thomas, proprietor ofthe
beer saloon on State anil Eighteenth
streets, some distance beyond Mr.
John Wood's residence, lias for some
| lime past hern missing money anil lit
tle articles of various kinds. The
goods and money have all disappeared
in rather a mysterious manner, tnttrli
to the dissatisfaction as well as won
der of Mr. Thomas, liecoming tired
ol sticli transactions, and wishing to
put a stop to further trespasses on him,
Mr. Thomas, on Wednesday evening,
loaded a shot-gun with a charge of
small bird-shot, and plarrd it in his
store In such a position as to cover the
entrance ol his door. A string was at
tached lo the trigger, and then to the
door, so that as soon as Hie door open
ed the gun would be tired and the
charge would catch the trespasser in
the slotiiaeh and legs. Mr. Thomas
awaited patiently the coming of the
purloiuer. Time sped rapidly away,
blit ihe man for whom the trap war set
failed to make li'is appearance, mid the
anxious Mr. Thomas becoming tired of
waiting, concluded to go around to the
door and take'a "bird’s-eye view” of
the tiap. He did so, ami while gazing
upon his "infernal machine” the
Ihnnght occurred to him that the trap
might fall, in which case the gun, as
well as life other property, would beat
the mercy of llie thieves; therefore, to
be sure of the matter, lie concluded to
try (lie door, and be perfectly certain.
He acted upon (lie suggestion. In
short order tlie door swung creaking
upon its hinges, and then tollowed the
report—slap, hang, boom, and Mr.
Thomas stood in his own doorway,
caught in Ills own trap, witli his stom
ach tilled witli bird shot. Dr. Zim
merman was called in anil ministered
to tin- wants of the wounded man. Mr.
'lhoisiie was not seriously hurt.
Oyster rucking.
On the recent return of the steamer
Gazelle by the inland route Horn Mew
York, she put into the Patuxent river
to nmkc a harbor during a stormy
night. As morning dawned, the cap
tain observed a beautiful island a tew
miles distant, which lie at hist took to
he a watering place. Cuiiosity led him
to hear down on the island, where lie
landed. He was received by a gentle
man on the shore, wiio inlormed him
that the name of the place was Solo
mon’s Island of which lie was himsell
tlie proprietor, and which lie had pur
chased two or three years since. The
thirty acres of alluvial soil,a large por
tion of which is occupied by orchards
of peach and fruit trees in a tine slate
of cultivation. The business, however,
of the island is the packing of uvslers
lor the California and Australia mar
kets; for which purpose the most ex
tensive arrangements have been con
structed. Some thirty or forty sail ol
vessels are always employed during
the season in bringing oysters mini
Tangier Sound to Solomon's island.
The oysters are taken from the wliart
by a railway to the opening house. In
this building are long troughs tor open
ing them, which can be made air-tight.
The o> sters are dumped into them iroiu
the ears; they are then closed, steam is
turned on, the shells open by the beat,
and thus there is much labor saved in
the opening. By this method twenty
five hundred bushels are daily prepared
for packing. They are put up fresh in
sealed cans ready for shipping. The
shells are taken out and converted iutu
lime, lor which there is always a con
stant and remunerative demand. In
preparing them lor exportation are
employed about two bundled persons,
men, women urn! children. For their
accommodation excellent cottages have
been erected, which gave the island I lie
appearance of a watering place which
deceived the captain of the Gazelle.—
Norfolk Journal.
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The Itesult In Aleiv Jersey.
Commenting on the result ol' the late
election in New Jersey, the National
Intelligencer indulges in the following
congratulatory remarks:
There is not much among the inci
dents and results of the n cent election
to give us pleasure, but we cannot feel
other than unfeigned gratification that
the gallant Democracy of New Jersey
have seemed the entire political power
of their Stale—carrying their electoral
ticket, Governor, three, and possibly
four, members of Congress, and both
branches of the State Legislature. The
fruit ot ibis last triumph is the ability
to choose a United States Senator in
stead of the uuctious Fruliugliuvseu.
W e sincerely hope that this occasion
will be improved to redress the out
rage by which Mr. Stockton was de
frauded of his seat, and that this able,
Upright, and true-hearted gentleman
will be returned once more to the pub
lic councils. In no way could a more
emphatic rebuke be administered to
the practices by whieh the present
Congress have turned out their oppo
nents whenever they needed their
places to m.ike a two-thirds majority,
or gralily their own partisans. The
Senate needs such statesmen to redeem
in some degree the shocking discredit
llilo wlucli tlint body lias lallen, and
wo are very sure that there is no se
lection which the New Jersey Demo
crats could make that would be so ac
ceptable to their friends throughout
the country. It would he an election
that would have a moral.
An Item lor Kactaelun.
A ju lie ous wife is always chipping off
from her husband's moral nature little
twigs that are growing in wrong directions,
•"'he keeps him III shape by continual
pruning. If you say anything silly, she
will find means of presenting you doing
it And by tar the chief part of ail (lie
common sense there is in this world be
longs unquestionably to woman. The
wisest things a umo Ootutuotily does are
those which his wife counsels him to do
A wife is the grand wielder of the moral
pruning knife. If Johnson's wife had
lived, there would huve been no hoarding
up of orange peel—no touching all ths
posts in walking ulong the street—no eat j
mg und drinking with a disgusting
voracity If Oliver Goldsmith hud been
married lie would never have worn that
memorable and ridiculous coat, When
evei you find a man whom you know lit
tle about, oddly dressed, or tacking ubsur
illy, or exhibiting any eccentricity of man j
uer, you may be tolerably sure that lie is
not a married man ; for the corners are
rounded off'—the litile shoots are pruned
away—in married men Wives generally
tiavo much more sense than their hus
hands, especially when their husbands are |
clever men. The wile’s advices are like
'be ballast that keeps the ship steady
They are wholesome though painful
-hears, clipping off little growths of self
conceit
»*sf~The P mis magazine contains the j
following item: “Madame Lincoln,
widow of the late president of the
United States, is traveling through j
France, in order to take up her abode !
it Nice. We do not know if the hon
>rs to which she is infilled us the wid- i
iw of a great citizen have been paid to
ter in our country. Ah! if Madame
Lincoln only were a Japanese! But,
mfortiiiialulv, avorybotly ie uof a Jap
wei*!"
For tbo Srallawap.
We copy •• follow* from the Bran
don (Mia*.) Republican :
A friend relates • pood one on Judge
Hancock. He says Ruck wns very ac
tive in llie late canvass for the ratifica
tion o the constitution, and sought ev
ery opportunity to electioneer with the
negroes of Ills county. Hearing that a
colored i idividu.il, who lived with a
neighbor of hi*, was going to votp the
democratic ticket, lie invited him to
liis bouse for social chat. Sambo ac
cepted the invitation, and they botli
took scats on llie gallery'of the Judge’s
residence. After discussing the new
constitution for some length of time,
the Judge insisted tlint Sambo should
promise him to vote for its adoption.
Sambo refusing to do so, when Burk
became wratliy, and swore that any
negro who would vote against bis own
race and color, ought to tie hung.
Sambo hung Ids head for a moment, as
if in deep meditation, and then looking
| tlie Judge in the face said :
“You say any nigger who votes agin
Ids own race and color ought to be
bung ?"
“Yes, * the Jndge, “he ought to be
hung.”
"Well, Judge,” said Sambo, “what
you link ought to be done wid de white
man who vote agio bis own race and
color?”
The Judge Bid his sable friend good
night, and has uever invited him to his
house since.
Billiards in Jeeferson, Texas.—
We copy as follows from the Jimple
cute, of llie 30tli:
The heaviest run in billiards, tu this
eitv, wits made on the 29th, by Tom
Wallace, in the "Sample Saloon.” The
game was played on a new full size
carom Brunswick table. The game
was played by The. Thurmond and
Tom Wallace. Wallace closed the game
by making a run of ninety-eight points
around llietable. The gentlemen who
were spectators of the game, seeing the
two red luslls in bad position, insisted
that Wallace continue and sec bow
many lie could make. Seeing the bad
location of the halls. Wallace continu
ed, and by fine playing lie managed to
get tlie red and white balls in the
lower right hand corner of the table.
By fine and cautious playing, all the
time closely watched by geullrnieii
present, to see if there was not a
"freeze,” lie made the run of 1538
points. At this point in the game the
balls “froze,”and lie had to play for
the red in the centre of the table. This
jnny nMjuuni u very miunm sjjifnu.
Wallace failed to count, anil the game
ended. Alter the close of the game
with Thurmond by tlie run of 98
points, the time occupied in making
the 1538 points was one hour and
three-quarters. Tlie table was new
and tn splendid order, the day being
warm and dry, and tlie cushions very
lively—making the game more diffi
cult—and yet it was played honestly
and can be attested by all who saw it.
|®-Wc copy tlie following from the
Jaeksonport Herald, of the 7th inst.
"Tlie annual conference of tlie M. E.
Church, south, convened in this placo
last Wednesday, Bishop Pierce, pre
siding. We have been so closely em
ployed in our office, that we have been
unable to attend their meetings, and a*
no one lias deemed it of sufficient im
portance to furnish us with the pro
ceedings, as a matter of course they
are omitted. We believe, however,
that the business before them is being
quietly and harmoniously disposed of.
Confederate Docjments.—The Ma
con Journal and Messenger, ofthcllith
October, says:
We have seen a copy of Gen. Beau
regard's private correspondence from
the time he took command at Corinth
to his occupation of Chattanooga, just
before Bragg entered Kentucky. It
con a ns the secret history oft lint arinv
■ luring tlie period named. It is now
the private property of a gentleman in
ibis city. By tlie way. it is a fact not
generally known, that the United
States government never suceeoded in
capturing the records of the Confeder
ate war department. They were last
seen at a point in North Carolina, not
long before tlie surrender of General
Johnston. We suspect they were de
stroyed, hut they may be in existence
yet' ___
Grant’* Cabinet.
A Washington special to tlie Cincin
nati Commercial says:
The Washington politicians are al
ready busy on the future Cabinet.
They, of course, know nothing, as
coining from the President eject, but
they make Up their stories on the po
litical pressure which has been gradu
ally forming in that direction ever
since the October election.
Tlie New York crowd here, known
as original Grant men, and represent
ing A. T. Stewart, Pierrepont & Co.,
unite on John S. Cisco, of New York,
for Secretary of tlie Treasury, Motley
for Secretary of State, Sanford for
Secretary of War and Admiral Porter
for Secretary of tlie Navy. Tlie Pacif
mmid the Secretaryship of the In
terior.
The Illinois men say that the first
commission Grant issues will he to
Washhurnc, as Minister to Berlin, Hum
lollowimr up Lincoln's example in the
case ol Judd. Such are. at least, spec
imens of the surface-talk and gossip
among the Washington officials and
politicians.
*—■ — -
*»*Ja lues Stewart, a truly loyal negro
preacher in Georgia, was caught stealing
corn the other night and shot by member
of his own congregation.
•^‘Horses sell for ten cents apiece
in some purls of Australia.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. MSHDESTSALL
HAS reopened his Gun Shop ^ ^ |
in Des Arc, and it* prepared
lor doing any kind of work in.
I hat line. He ha*. also, some \
fine gnus and pistols on hand of his own
manufacture. Stencil plates and steel stamps
cut to order.
Shop in rear of Star Saloon. oct20-Gtn
MATHEWS & CO.,
Des Arc. Ark.,
DEALERS ill
wmn saoiims
A\U I* L AVIATION MFPUEA;
L<OSFECTION8. CANDIES. PICKLES
f OYSTEUS. and everything iu the line of
FANCY GUOCERIK-i,
very cheap for the money.
fjj^Call at Wilson & Cook s old stand.
Des Arc, Ark., November 3, 1868.—tf
notice:
All persons indebted to the late firm of
tiaxeu al Mcl'hiTaon. mint come forward and
settle—we can give no further indulgence.
l'he business of that hi m must be settled up. i
fue notes *i)d accounts of liaxcn & McV'ter I
*ou are it) our hands.
Gatewood & thomac* j
C****** pk lW#.—m. I
OLD RELIABLE
U. 8. MAIL
I PACKET COMPANY.
^^£^2 klj Llnf.
me »fi.sKOio *iDK-wnE*t »«.**»«
Liberty No. 2
..AID .
May flower
Will form a Semi-weekly Line between
Memphis and White River, leaving Memphis
every TUESDAY end SATURDAY at &
o'clock p. m., connecting at. DeVail's Bluff
with trains of the Little Rock Railroad for
Little Rock and Hot Springs. Returning,
will leave Jacksonport every Tuesday and
Friday at 8 o'clock a. nt.. and Devall s Bluff
every Wednesday and Salnrlay at 12 ui.
card rates.
From .tfemphie to Des Aic aud Way Land
ings, per 100 pounds 36c; dry barrels 60o:
Salt Ooc; Pork 76c; Whiskey $100; Molasses
1 25; Corn. Oats and Bran 35c.
From Memphis to Augusta. West Point,
Searcy and Way Landings, per 1U0 pounds
40c; Dry Barrels 60c; Salt 75; Pork $1 (Ml;
Whiskey I 25; Molasses 1 50; Corn, Oats
and Bran 35.
From .tfemphis to Grand Glaise, Jackson
port and Way-Landings, per 100 pounds 60c;
Dry Barrels 75c Salt $1 00; Pord I 25; Wbis
dey 1 50, Molasses 1 75; Corn. Gate and Bran
40c.
From M mphio to Powliattan. Pocahontas
and Way Lauding, per 100 pounds 7oc: Dry
Barrels $1 25; Salt 1 25; Pork i 60; Whisky
2 00; Molasses 2 75; Corn, Oats and Bran
75c.
REDUCED PASSIVE RATES,
Front Memphis to all points on White
Hi vet-, including Abst deen.$ 8 00
Clarendon . 9 00
. DeVnll * Bluff. 11 00
Litile Hock. 15 00
Des Arc. 12 00
Augusta, West Point and Searcy 13 00
Jacksonport. 15 00
JOHN B. DAVIS. Supt.
Lett & Sharpe, Agents, 250 Front St.
I
Gates & Bro.,
DEALERS 15
GROCERIES
A5D
DRY GOODS;
HATS.
CAPS,
CLOTHING,
i#
SHOES,
BOOTS,
! NOTIONS,
SHOT GUNS,
RIFLES,
PISTOLS,
SADDLES,
BRIDLES,
And many other things too numerous to
mention.
Also, we will purchaso Cotton
and other Country Produce, in order to
make our buainess a mutual benefit to all
our customers,
Tl.nulling oar friends and the eitiiens
of the country iu general for past patron
age, and soliciting a continuation of the
same, we would invite all of them to
GIVE US A. CALL
and satisfy themselves of the asrertiou
'hat wo will not only give good bargains,
but also a good article of Goods which
will give satisfaction,
F. GATES & BRO.
Des Arc, Arkansa, Nov. 10, 1S6S
Trustee’s Sale.
N otice is hereby given, that by vir
tue of the provisions of a certain Deed
of Trust, iuadu aud executed on the oth day
of Fob’y, 1868, by Elijah P. Hamuion an I J.
R Haiumoti, It is wife, unto T, B Kent as
Trustee, aud Thomas F. Greer aud Harvey A.
Greer, under the firm name an-: style of T. F.
Greer & Bro.; which said Deed of Trust was
tiled for record in the otfiee of the Clerk and
ei-otticio Recorder of Prairie county in the
Stale of Arkansas, on the 27th day of Febru
ary 1808, aud duly recorded in Record Book
R . page 411.
1 will on the 5th day of December,
1*6*, in trout of Greer's brick store, in ihe
town of Des Arc, iu the County of Prairie,
\rkansiu, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.
in., and 8 o’olock p. m. of said day. sell at
public auction the following described tract
of land situate in Prairie county. Arkansas,
vit: The E J of the N W ^ and the N W ^ of
the N W J and the N K \ of 8 W J of section
36, township 4 N, U 6 W, containing 160
acres.
ALSO—One bay marc, aged about seven
years
Terms of sale—Cash
T D. KENT. Trustee.
Des Arc. November 3, 1868.—4t
WANTED.
A situation as Salesman; iu Dos Arc for j
three (3) mouths, by a gentleman well ex
perienced iu business; can influence a good
trade. Good references given. Address A.
R , Austin, AisWilN, (hr* G. W, C|tir. j
ubvivMt '
I -
Oldest Dry Goads House In Memphisl
_
A. SEESSEL Sc H< >I\,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IX
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES,
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
Etc*, Etc.,
WO. ISO MAIN BTBBKT,
Mempliis, Tenn, 1
B. WILLIAKSOB* V. BILL. V. PoMTAIXC.
WILLIAMSON. HILL fc CO,
WHOLESALE
GROCERS, COTTON FACTORS I COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
846 Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
IK view of the near approach of the Pall season, it affords us much pleasure in again lin
ing able to call the attention of our friende and the publio at large to our recent); en
larged atock of goods, oompriaing in part aa follows:
lOO hli cl a Bacon Sides. SOO pcs Kentucky Bagging,
300 bbls Pork. lOO colls Machine Hope,
40 hbda B Should urs, SO Ions Iron Ties,
300 bbls nssorled Reflned Sugars, lOO sacks Collee,
lOO bbls Molasses.
And all snrb articles usual In our line of business.
10*-Is heretofore, Mr. HILL iof our brut) will give hie undivided attention to the sale
of all Cotton consigned to us anti hope to bo able to give suco satisfaction as iias mot bis
efforts on previous occasions. eepS-Sni
W O O D R U F F & C O .,
IT* MAW STREET, MEMPHIS, TEH.,
Wholesale aud Retail Dealers in *
CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYS,
Barouches, Park Phwtons, Buggies and Wagons. Harness. Iron,
Springs. Axles, Bolts, Hubs, Leather, Duck Cloths. Enamelled
Cloths. Damask. White Lead. Paints. Oils and Turpentine. eupct.„ui
-B. Lowenstein & Bros.,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
STABLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS.
OUR stock is the largest in the city. We sell as low as an y house this side of New York.
Our motto being, "Quick Sales and small profits."
D. LOWEXS TEIN & BROS., 242 M aim St., corner Jefferson St.,
eepS-3in MEMPHIS, TKNN.
Importers uni Dealers in
China ami 6la5r.1r.trr, Cable Cuilery.
Tta and Tub!* Spoon*. Looking Classes. Coal Oil Lump , Lamp Chimney*
will Fi.rtitret. T a Tray*. Lanterns, and
HOXJHIE I'UBNWHING GOODS,
MERCHANTS, hnt.l an.l housekeepers, ami steamboat at.ward*, are rrspectfullv invited
to examine our stock of the above goods h„f<> e purchasing, as our prices wilt compare
with anj of the eastern house*. Vorj respectful!*.
LLOVD. CLARKE * CO . 321 Main Street.
■«p3 3m MEMPHIS. TKNN.
WALKER BRO S & CO.,
229 Main street Memphis, Tenn.,
OFFER 6CPKRI0R INDUCEMENTS TO MERCHANTS AND BCVER3 IN
DRY GOODS, HEADY-MADE CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES. nATS, Jto.
Call ami examine ourGoodi before purchasing elsewhere*} Our motto is "Quick sales and
small profits."
-CP3-31"_ WUKGR KltO’S .4. CO., 229 Main Street.
«*o. w. kicks. ~ ruaar"
CAD. HANKS
WITH
GEO. W . W I C Ii S A CO. ,
Cotton and Tobacco Factors, and General Commission Merchants ;
DEALERS Ifl B«GE!NG AND ROPE. COTTCN TARNS AND MANUFACTURED TfSACCO.
Agents fur Louisville H’rought Iron ’.’otton Tie, and Peering’* Duttble Power Im
proved (’otton Pres*.
••p8-6m] No. 102 Main Street. Louisville. Kj.
Proprietor* Louisville Cotton Warehou*e, corner Second and Washington Streets
ALLISON BROTHERS,
. . IMPORTERS AND DRAI.EDS IN .
Hardware, Guns and Cutlery,
270 FRONT STREET. MEMriIIS, TENN.
WE would invite merchants visiting our market lo call and examine our stock, feeling
satisfied that we can make ii to their Interest to give us n share „f t eir patronage
Our stock embraces every description of Hardware needed by ihn Merchant. Mauulac u
rer. Mechanic or 1‘lanter ; slid in addition lo our stock of GKM.lt VL Ii kit DU \K1 we
keep constantly on’hnnd a very large and nidi assorted slock of Heal Trnnessre
Charcoal Iron, also Kentucky or ••B" Iron, which we can otfoi at prices wbten defy
compel it ion, being agenti for the Manufacturer*.
»• h%T« recently been appointed the Hole agents in this market for the
“E. CARVER & CO.’S” IMPROVED COTTON GINS.
The unequaled beauty of ihe staple of cotton ginned on these well known Gin hiands the
lightness of their improved running gear, increased yield of lint, and many other ackn’owl
cuged advantages, make them more desirable than 111 former rears, when, as now ihei were
the tavortte. “ 0 /
__ ecpS-Im
TBS SSK61S ISANtJFACTUESMQ CO.
Proprietors and Manufacturers or the World Renowned
SINGER SEWING MACHINES.
BRANCn OFFICE. 276 MAIN ST., OPPOSITE COURT SQUARE,
LiaicrsiB, sasrsrsesaa.
T'lf, exclu.iTr control of territory include,I in tbe ,*».« of Ukanea.
uf our ”l*S‘PPl' Nonh AI»Uu”*' a,“1 W-8‘»"» Tcnntrttecc -i, now o;„ n for ,h. ..1.
Celebrated Manufacturing and New Family Sewing Machines.
•rv;r'^•»<r”^"shir.“e? uSo0- As#nt*
TWIsV.UNE.S rw^iwr'oVTHKKAU lMA,'cmXES- A,XKSS01UKS. NEEELES, OIL,
Scud for Oirtmlars and Price Lbu. All to formation furui.h.d ,,atuitou.ly,
SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
A'O. 276 Vl/.V STREET,
1^1_S832£?ES&68*
Regular Whire Ri' 0r and New Or
le&us Packet,
ST. MARYS,
J. C. SWEENEY. Master.
*W‘j£3Lih* Mary* will run
I aTiT^Kiauak regularly in tbo \\ bite river
KUU New 'I.ieaus trade, dur.i.g the
leaving New Orleatut aud Jaekaonport on *i
teinate IlmrsJaya, comnicncing on ITtUof
September, ISOS. Ail orders and t^aiien
eutrue.ed to bo* will b* Mteudwd to with
•r*8**
R- w I'b CL, ) J. c. Tlrut,
Eugfrart. V hue tieuue. eon,Terry
Mis.ii»ippi j £ Co.. Now Urfeam.
A. a. MON I OOMEKV,
WIT*
PRICE & TERRY,
Cotton Factors and Commission
M B II C II 4 X T 8 ,
No. 15 l'uion SC, JimpaiR. Tfxy.
wi)i id