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I MEMPHIS BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
I /"T HO ATE k CO., Rare warp. Iron, Jtesl,
i ‘-7 Stores, Etc,, 232 Second Street,
if TVAVlB A BAtlOH. Cotton Factors, dro
XJ cert and General Commission Merchants
No. 176 Front Street.
19 TTMIANKLAND, A. E., General Dry Goode |
f Commission Merchants, 231 Second St. |
T7118HKKS AM1S.~ arbleand Stone Works..
| J/ corner Adnms and Second Streets._j
f^lLBEKT, M1NTEK A WALKER, Whols-j
J? snle Importers of Dry Goods, Drugs, j
Hardware, ate.. 274 Second Street.
TTARDWICK HOUSE, IT C. Hardwick,
I M proprietor. Nos. 61, 63 A 66 Adams St. ,
TONES. J. W. A. A CO., Cotton Factors. Gen- j
fj eral Commission Merchants. 263 Main St.
■VTOONTROBERT A~” Cotton ~Fact or and
1V.I. Commission Merchant. 276 Front Street. ;
MANSFIbLD A HIGHER. Wholesale Drug-;
gists and Chemists. 801 A 808 Msin St.
HOOKES. SMITH A CO.. Dealers in Sad-!
dlery. Hardware Leather. 842 Main St. t
M"~ 1TCHELL, MADAME A CO., Milliners
and Dressmakers. N. K, cor. Court Square t
HTfCHELL, HOFFMAN A CO., Dealers in
Furniture, 308 Main. A SO Monroe St. j
MENKFN BUO'S, Dealers in Dry Goods.
Clothing, etc., 263 Msin St. our. Coun.
"jhyTATTHEWS A ALEXANDER, Agents for
1V1 sale ef Agricultural Implements, Steds,
etc., 272 Second Street.
Ik If AYER, MAKSHUETZ A CO., Dealers in
ivl Segars, Tobacco, Pipes, etc., corner
Second and Jefferson Street^._ |
■jCfiW M AN7MRS. a. t., Dealer in Millinery !
IN Goods. 156 Msin Street._ __
NEWSdiOoHN,"Grocer. Cotton Factor
and Commission Merchant, 182 Front St.
RGILL BRO S A CG , Hardware, Cutlery, |
Nails, Castings, etc., 312 Front Street.
POE. R. R. A CO., Cotton"Factors and Gen
eral ('ommissina Merchants. 182 Front St
ERETnS. LIV iNGSION A PUS T. Dealers j
in Railroad aad General Machinery Sup-.
plies. 350 Main Street, |
OCCO, L A CO , Wholesale Grocers aad ,
Confectioners. Second Street._I
ROS8EL, M. J , Uroder, Colton Factor anil |
Commission Merchsnt, 316 Front Street. |
SH AW, jTSTdTCO.. Hardwsrc. Iron, Steel, j
Stores, etc., 238 Second Street._;
mAYLOlTGAY "s luixLAND. Cotton Fac
I tore and Commission Merchants, 304 j
Front Street.___j
WOLF, 9IUHI6, Dealer 111 >’iueo, uijuun,
Cigars anil Tobacco, ITS Front Street. ;
HEELER. PICKENS S CO, Dealer, in j
Wood and Willow ware, 330 Main St. |
AITORMELEY, JOY ft CO., Cotton Factors j
I f and Produce Merchant#. 310 Front St. I
ORSUAM HOUSE, C. IL Galloway Pro
prietor, cor. Main and .1 effers.m Street
Geo. W. Maberry
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
SOLICITOR IN CttAXCERY
—AND—
GENERAL LAND AGENT,
COTTON PCNT,
WOODRUFF COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
WILL attend the Circuit and Probate
Court* for the countie* of Monroe. Ht.
Franeis and Woodruff._m»r-4
J. K. OATBWOOD, J 8. THOMAS.
UTEW03D t THOMS.
AROinn A* RAW
BED ARC, ARKANSAS.
T. ». BBBOEPETB. *• Bt-ABB BBBT.
HEDGEPETH I KFNT,
ATY0RHSY3 AT LAW.
D*S ARC, ARKANSAS.
WILL praotice in nil of the court! of
Prairie county, and the cireuit court!
of the surrounding oountiei. mar24-6m
JAMBS H. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. OAl'SE,
Auguttm. Ark. Jaekionport, Ark.
nnim c. a irsK.
Patterson. 6a«se A Brs.
attorneys at law,
JickMiptH m4 AUMI, Affci—M ■
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff. |
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence, j
Randolph, Qreen. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special cases in any part of the
State. Address either office mylB-ly
VI. E. COODT. D. MC SAB.
COODY&MjRAE,
Atmivn 4t uw
SEARCY, WHITE COl’HTY,
ARKANSAS.
Will preetiet in nil the euuru of Arkansas.
mnr24- 4
»OL. r. CLARK. BAM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOB W. MARTIN.
CLARK WILLIAMS A MAKTIM,
Attorney* at Law,
LITTLE ROC R., ARKANSAS.
WILL prnotieo in all th* Court*, prosecute
Claim* of all kind*, collect debt*, and
act a* ileal Bitatt and Otntntl Ajtnu.
Orrica—Markham Street, near Slat* Hou*o.
april28-tf
W. HICKS, Formerly of th* firm ofCypcrt A
Hicka.
H. R. FIELDING, Formerly of Athene, Ain.
HICKS * FIELDING.
ATTORNEYS AT LAV,
RRrcy, White Ce., irkanuu.
WILL praotice in this and the adjaoont
counties, in th* District Court*, and 8u
pr*ma Court of (he Stata.
. We hare in connection with oar L«u
Orrica an ACTIVEOUT-UOOR COLLBCTING
AGENCT. Claim* entru*t«d to u* will b<
promptly nttondod to, and if not immedietel)
eellooted will be at ono* secured if possible
Claim against the Government for profertj
taken by th* 0. 8 force* (whether receipted
far or not)—Bo Dims* Pension*, Ai»na*a 01
Pat Aa. promptly at loaded to.
a*rJ«- ' HICKS A FIELDING.
PROFESSIONAL CAROS._
OtO. K. MORTON. ▼ACOHAN.
itosvroir & vAtrasAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AMD
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the Court* fff the countie'
of Prairie. White, Jackson. Woodruff an<!
Monroe. I’ertioular' attention given to th<
collection of claims any where in the State.
•ep7tf. _ *
DR. ROST. B. TRMETART
Tender* hi* professional service* to
the citizen* of De* Arc and vicinity.
Office—At Johnson k Davi* Drng
Store. *ep21
DR. AiLSlf
Offer* his service* to the citizen* 01
De* Arc and vicinity in the practico ot
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
md by attention to business he expects
:o share a liberal prtronnge.
. Office—One door east of Burney’s
Drug Store. »ep21
t. a. OASTT. w. J. aaOVACOH
OANTT k BRONATTGH,
1TT0RSSYS AT UAW.
Will practice in the oountiee of Prairie.
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu
aaki. Prompt atttention given to the collec
ion of claims. Taiee will be paid and titles
nveetigated for non-residents. apr!4-8m
~ THOMAS J. MARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
A.t Law,
DES ARC, A REARS A .V
ISgr Partcular attention given to the
collection of all kind* ofclaim* against
;he Government.
Oppics—On Buena Vista street next
ioor to J. M. Burney's drug store.
insv-.l
WM- T- JONES*
moam 49 uw,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
[ITILt practice in the counties of Pulaski,
yy Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, Jsckson and
White Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of claims. nprl4-ly
DP.. J. W. BYRITSY,
REUDE.1T physician.
Being permanently located at Dee
Arc, will continue the practice of hie
profession in all it* branches. Special
attention given to the treatment ot
acute and chronic diseases. sep21
F. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kinds of work ia my lina. Mend
ing, Cleaning. Ac. . _ .
_Thankful for past favors, I solicit a
continuance of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me. feb28-tf
JAMES J. 0 ALL AOHER.
Attorney at Lnw,
COTTON PLANT. WOODRUFF CO. ARK
Will practice where called.
sep28-tf. __
Dr. j a. rockelu'h »#»•• ■*
now at Johnson A Davis' Drug Store;
can be be consulted at bia room at tha Harvey
House. He will give his undivided attention
to Chromic Dlsetuei of every descrip
tien.
Tha best of references oan be furnished, by
spplyiug to
DR. J. A. ROUSELAOX,
junl-tf Dee Arc, Arkansas.
WATTENSAW
Nursery.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
FRUIT TREES,
ONE AND TWO YEARS OLD,
FOR BALK IK 1807-8,
BY JOHN D. MORROW & SON,
PRAIRIE COCMTT, ARKANSAS.
HAVING been engaged in ibis business for
tbe last seventeen years, in Mississippi
and Arkansas; and having studied it cloeely.
we claim to have acquired a knowledge of the
, Fruits adapted to our climate. We refer the
public to specimens iu our Orchards, and Or
chards sold by ns. in this and adjoining
counties. Address
Jobs D. Morrow A Son,
jun22-6m Des Arc, Arkansas.
IV. H. BARNEIT,
V4MIN !*«»*,
Aid General Repairer.
Will repair Old Harness, or make new ones.
Also, repair Baddies. Shop—opposite “citi
BIN OF* ICS."
Des Are, Ark., May 26. 1867—tf
ENTERTAINMENT!!
TnE UNDERSIGNED HATINS M
opened a llouae of (Inter* ifr’l
lalanieRl, on Bneua Vista Street, near
the Steamboat Landing, for the accommoda
tion of
TRAVELERS AND BOARDERS.
By the day, week, or month, eolicite tbe pat
rnnage of tboae fieiting Dee Arc. The fare
will be ae good as tbe market afford,, and
terms moderate.
Sire me a trial, aid I will eadaaTor ta give
1 istiefactioa.
BENJAMIN HATLEY.
Pee Are, Ark,. March 24. 18*7—12m
PROFESSIONAL OAKOS.
HOST. ANDERSON, . WK. J. THOMPSON.
Jacktonp^rt. Ark. Auffurta. Ark
Anderson ft Thompson,
ATTOltNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Ark
Will attend the Courts of Jackson. Wood
ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to special
esses in any section of the 8tate. Address
either office. maylB-ly
*. C. P1CKKTT. L. M. It A MS ACS.
PICKRTT ft BAM8AUR,
ATTORNEYS IT LAW,
ACOUSTA, ARKANSAS.
Will practice in the counties of Woodruff.
Jackson. White and Craighead. Speoial at
tention given to oolleotiona of all claims en
trusted to their care apr6-ly
J. C. JONSON, Office—West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searcy, Arkansas.
JO.YSOH ft MOORE,
Attorneys it Law,
SOLICITORS in CHAnCERT,
—AKD—
General Land and Collecting Agent*,
SEARCY, ARKANSAS.
Will give prompt mention to any business
in the counties of Independence, Jackson.
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
and Van Buren. niar9*
J. H. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Court* of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Court, of
the seventh Judieia. District, and give prompt
attention to all busiuos* entrusted to bio
oare. Jan 12
X. W. WILLIAM*. T. M. OIB80X.
WILLIAMS * CinSOW,
ATT0F.2T3YS AT LA v7,
Dos Are and Detail's Bluff, Ark.
WILL practice in Prairie and adjoining
Counties All business confided to their care
will be promptly attended to. sept21 If.
cTXjudsois
wmura mjd aBima,
Manufacturer of
■ASH. DOOB8, BLINDS,
And dealer la
GLASS AND PUTTY.
THANKFUL for pact patronage end .elicits
a eontlnuaaee of tbo same.
jan26-ly
A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
FRESH DRUGS,
MEDICINES AND CHEMiCIlS.
School Books and Stationery,
Paints, Oils, Dyc-Stnffs, Window-Glass, Per
fumery, Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies,
Whiskey, for medicinal rurposes.
Dromgoole's celebrated Southern Remedies,
invariably for cash, at small profits.
jul‘21 J. yg. BURNEY.
i. 8, eiSCHESJEl^
WATCHMAKER
—AHD—
JEWELEE,
BCTLERITILLE, - ARKANSAS.
HAS on hand, a nios stock afWateh- JB
eo, Clocks, Jewelry and Fancy
Article!. Also, will repair Watches,RUR
Clocks, Jewelry, Musioal Instruments, etc.
In ccnnection with the above, I have a
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Where any kind of a Picture can be taken.
aprgO-OmJ B. F1SCHF.SSFR
r. r rot. xivili * goix.
R. R, POE & CO.,
-A*D
Commission jHrrrhauiji.
West Point/ Ark
Wr have on band n full supply of nil kinds
of Groceries, and would bs pleased to
bare our friends and the public generally to
call and see us. Our slock is large, aod we
shall keep all article* usually found ia a first
olasa Grocery Uouas. Ws bar* an hand, aad
for sals,
BACON,
FLOUR,
LARD,
SUGAR, ■
COFFEE,
RICE,
SALT,
MEAL,
MOLAS8ES,
CANDLES,
SOAP,
SALT,
CANDY,
FRUIT,
PICKLES,
And a eariety of other artislss too numerous
to mention.
The highest cash prices paid for all kinds
of country pr/duee, Hides, Peltry, etc., in
Goode at eaah price*.
E. R. POX A CO.,
R H. rOE, Ageat
West Po'.at, Ark , April *, INST.
Southern Elections.
The election return* from Virginia
indicate that Jlic once glorious old
commonwealth has fallen into the hands
of ignorant negroes and white incendi
aries. The result was brought about
by the perpetration of the vilest frauds,
perfectly in keeping with the spirit
which generated the reconstruction
acts.
The registration returns showed a
white majority of 13 400. The registry
books of the revenue commissioners
made one year previous, reveal the
fact that over 17,000 whites were dis
franchised and at the same time the
number of negroes over twenty-oilc
years of age was increased 24,352. Here
is evidence of most unblushing frauds
in registration. But as extensive as
were these fraud-, they were not suffi
cient to ensure negro supremacy; so
the work was completed in the appor
tionment of delegates. This wag so
made that the district having a white
majority of 37,392 was allotted only 47
delegates, while the other having a ne
gro majorlly of 25, 192 was apportion
ed 58 delegates. The military com
mander of district number one has
considered it his dusy to make recon
struction successful, and he has done
his work well. Occasionally the arbi
trary rulings of his partisan registrars
have been so flagrantly outrageous
that, to preserve a semblance of fair
ness, he hal overruled them. But with
the one object in view of accomplish
ing the purpose of the radical congress,
lie has perpetrated the most unblush
ing frauds and given over the state, in
spite of its white majority, to the hands
of its black canaille.
Lousiana, Alabama and Virginia are
the only states which havens yet voted
on the question of a convention ;and in
these the district commanders used
their power* to foist upon the states
conventions which would never have
been called if a fair registration appor
tionment and election had been had.
Of the remaining states to vote, in Tex
as, with a white population double
that of the black, the negroes are re
ported to have a majority of ten thou
sand. This was to have been expec
ted in Sheridan's satrapy. In North
Carolina the whites have a majority of
over tweuty-two thousand, and if gross
frauds are not perpetrated the conven
tion will be voted down.
In Florida the negroes have a large
majority by means of a registration
which ipifires the rights of a white
man, and her destiny is determined.
In Georgia the small white majority
will be done away with in the revision
of the registry lists, and Pope has ap
portioned the state so as to give the
radical negro party control of the con
vention. lu South Carolina and Mis
sissippi the negroes have majorities,
and those two states are doomed to
African rule.
Here in Arkansas the whites are two
to one to the negro, notwithstanding
an unfair registration iu some localities
concerning which the people are disap
pointed that Gen. Ord has not noticed
it; and if there is anything like a full
vote upon the part of conservatives and
honesty upon the part of registrars, the
state will be saved from negro rule for
at least a short while.—[Little Rock
Gazette.
How Neobobs Voted in Clank
CouNTT, Alabama.—We learn iho fol
lowing from a most reliable source,
and as it shows conclusively how high
ly the negroes appreciate the elective
franchise, and how much they under
stand its valne and importance, we
publish it. During the recent farce
called an election for convention in
this State, a number of negroes came
in irom me surrouuuing country to
Grove Hill, Clark county, for the pur
pose of voting. The Radical sharpers
had supplied them all with tickets,and
told them exactly how to vote. A
waggish individual was sitting a short
distance from the window at which
the votes were deposited, and see
ing a squad of some twenty negroes
passing, he called to them and asked
them if they were going to vote. They
replied yes. He then asked them to let
him see their tickets, when several han
ded out their ballots, on which were
priuted the names of the Radical can
didates, They had been told, it seems,
to vote this ticket, and they would se
cure a mule and forty acres of land.
The wag knowing this told them that
eaeh one of the ballots were good foi
the above, i. e, “a mule and forty acres,’
but inquired of them what good they
thought that would do them if they
were such fools as to give them to that
little man in the window, as he would
secure them himself. The negroei
thinking they smelt a rat, stuffed theii
ballots into their pockets and left, re
marking that no “sich looking whit<
man as dat ar fellow was a going t<
get deir certifikits,” started for home
fully satisfied that they were about tc
be swiudled. They told their friendi
about it, and the cousequence was thai
■umbers of them refused to go neai
. the polls for fear they would be swin
| died out of their “certificates.”
Negro suffrage is a great thing.—[Mo
: bile Tribune, S3b.
| —“Ma,”sald a little girl, “will rich ant
I poor folks live togeiher when they g<
to heaven ?” “Yes, my dear, they
will all be alike there.”
“ Then, ma, why don't rich and poo
j Christians associate together here f”
The mother did not answer
Presidential Candidates—General
Grant.
The curreut of Republican journal
ism at least, if not the drift of party
sentiment, is since the late elections,
setting in strongly in favor of General
' Grant, that the leading Radical organ
attempts to breast it in a double-lead
ed leader, which sets out by turning
pretensions like Grant’s into ridicule,
and winds np with predicting, that if
any man of his type of polities is elect
ed, it will be by the Democrats. The
Tribune thus advertises that in addi
tion to other causes of disintegration
and embarrassment, the Republican
party will be at loggerheads in the se
lection of its standard bearer.
The party stands between the horns
of this sharp dilemma; with a Radical
candidate on a negro-suffrage platform
they are certain to bo whipped; while
if the party makes a pretense of mod
eration and runs Gen. Grant the Rad
icals Will bring out a separate candi
date.
It concerns General Grant more per
haps than it does anybody else to form
a correct judgment of the probabilities
of his success if he should be made the
candidate of tho Republican party.—
The reasonable pride ofcharacter which
befits a man in his position, would nat
urally withhold him from running the
gauntlet of any acrimonious political
canvass, unless he supposed there was
more than an even chance for his elec
tion. But whatever political svren
may sing in his ears, the chances if lie
allows himself to be made the candi
date of the Republicans, aro ten to one
against him. We do not say this from
an overwhelming confidence in the
fortunes of the Democratic party ; it is
an opinion founded upon irreconcilable
differences among the Republicans and
the strong vantage-ground possessed
by the Radicals for running a third
ticket. If they can get electoral votes
enough to preveut either of the other
candidates from receiving n majority,
they arc quite sure of electing the Pres
ident : since in that case, the House of
Representatives, voting by States, make
the choice, and the House on which this
duty would devolve is already elected
and intensely Radical. General Grant
as the candidate of the more modern
Republicans, would prevent desertions
to the Democrats, and thus, as the Rad
icals hope, carry the election into the
House, where their victory would be
assured in advauce.
Judging from present appearances,
there is little doubt that General Grant
can have the regular Republican nomi
nation if he will take it. It will be given
against a noisy, stimulated opposition
‘hieunt for no other purpose limn to lav
the foundation for a Radical bolt. We
have mistaken the character of General
Grant if he is not two shrewd and wary
to be drawn into such a trap, and to
allow himself to be made a stalking
horse to aid the election of a Radical
President. The ways of politicians are
crooked aud slippery, and it behooves
him to be well on hie guard.
A Tough Stoky.—A Western paper
tells the following tough story. If
true, it is the most remarkable on re
cord :
An accident of a remarkable nature
occurred in the woods of a neighbor
ing county last week, by which a man
was thrown eighty feet in the air. He
was standing on a balance tree lying
across a largo log, to see another tree
cut down, when the tree in its falling
course struck the other end of the tree
on which he was standing, and the tre
mendous weight of it coming oil the
snring lever, threw him like a hot shot
into the air
The remarkable part of the story re
mains to be told. When at the highest
elevation the mnn caught hold ot the
top of a tree about fifteen feet from the
trunk, and remaiucd suspended by the
arras until the person that felled the tree
traveled a distance of five miles and re
turned with help and ladder before lie
eould be released from his perilous po
sition. He was found in the same po
sition as when left, evidently in good
spirits, for he was whistling “Yankee
Doodle,” and making a strong light
with his feet against a delegation ot
wasps that were eudeavored to build a
neat in the seat of bis pants. He said,
upon reaching the ground, he had had
a “healthy time” with the “varmints”
and attributed bis powers of endur
ance wholly to the hotly contested can
vass he had with the “crittera” by their
persistent “fire in tho rear,” and the
tremendous excitemeut incident there
to.
If that man ever gets into office lie
will be provided for, for the rest of hit
natural life. He will know how to
“hang on to it.”
-1 j i
A Bov's Lawsuit.—Under «
great tree close to a village, two boyi
found a walnut.
“It belongs to me,” said Ignatius, “foi
I was the first to tee it.”
“ No, it belongs to me," cried Henarc
“ for I waa tho first to pick it up.”
And so thoy begau to quarrel iu ear
nest
“ I will settle the dispute." said ar
older boy, wbo had just then come up
Ho placed himself between the tw>
boys, broke the uut into , and said:
I “ The one piece of shell belongs tt
< him who first saw the nut: the otbei
piece to him who picked it up: buttbi
kernel I keep for judging the cate."
“ At.d this,” he said, as be sat dowr
and laughed, “ is the common end o
most lawsuit* *
The Artless Art of Conversation.
Superficial people, who are content
to take words very much as they find
them, think that conversation is the art
of talking. There could not be a great
er blunder. Its difficulty would be
much more truly expressed by defining
| it as theartofbeing silent. Any block
head is able to talk. To know when
and how to be silent is tlie gift of the
wise. The common phrase, a good
talker,is more usually than not applied
to a man who is profoundly ignorant
of what it is that conversation means,
or else who knows what it means, but
docs not much approve of it. Asa rule,
the persons with the most universal
reputaion for good talk are the sworn
foes of conversation. They have no
more right to be set up as patterns of
conversation than a popular preacher,
or a teetotal lecturer, or a public reci
ter. Preaching or lecturing is, in its
way, just as little conversation as the
utterances of the professed talker.—
Among other evils the talker is pretty
sure to be aware of bis reputation, and
thereforeAo be constantly ou the strain
in order to maintain it.
Effort may beget talk, but the charm
of conversation is spontaneity ami free
dom from self-consciousness. It is
here as it is in literary style. Style is
the unaffected aud unconscious outcome
and expression of the author s habitual
way of thinking and feeling about
things. The moment he begins to
study for style’s sake, lie evidently be
comes stilted, rhetorical, and to a
wholesome taste, intensely disagree
able. The professed stylist is a crea
ture as little to be endured in literature
as the clipping of box-wood into pea
cocks is to be endured in landscape
gardening. The only way to arrive at
a lucid or sympathetic stylo is to ac
quire lucid Imbita of thought, and to
cultivate human moods. If an author
thinks little of his style, and much of
his subject, and of what is due to his
own ill I in* null uuarnuicr, inn it
take care of itself. It is the same with
conversation. The same qualities
which make a man a right-living per
son will of themselves make him good
in conversing. To live well, one must
have a lively intelleetand right feeling.
To converse well you want no more.—
Special training for conversational pur
poses is a snpeafliiily—nay, Is worse
than a superfluity, just as washes nnd
cosmetics aro worse thau superfluous
for the skill or the hair.—[Saturday
Review.
Destroy the Cotton Seed—The Only
Sure Remedy for the Sonth.
Memphis. Teun., October 80, 1807.
Editors Memphis Appeal.
I wish through your paper to propose
to the men of the cottou growing States
a novel but a sure remedy for the ills
that threatens to overwhelm ns—it is
short and easily understood.
I propose to every planter to destroy
all his cotton seed except six
bushels, so that no man can plant over
two acres next year, Who then will
ngree (after what his stock will eat.jto
PESTBOT ALL HIS SEED EXCEPT SIX Bl'SH
ELS.
The present cropt lias absorbed, or
lost, one-half of the capital of plan
ters, and another crop at present rates
will reduce our whole planting interest
to beggary.
I Eastern capitalists, who control the
1 price of cotton, always raise the price
' on the eve of planting time, to stimu
late production, and depress the price
when cotton comes to market. Then
let the shout go from every Southern
hill, destroy your cotton 6eod ! Let it be
echoed back from every valluv, destroy
your cotton seed !
Respectfully, John Davis.
The Last “Leap Forward.' —N. Y.
| Times says : It is curious to note how
; steadily the things essential to the free
i dom of the blacks have increased.
I When they were first set ft ‘e by proc
! 1 iiiuation of the President, an amend
ment of the Constitution was required
—Justly and truly enough. When tlml
I had been secured, a guarantee of equal
; civil rights was demanded, and tbal
, also was conceded. Next came a de
mand for qualified suffrage, inasmuch
as the only security for the freedom ol
the negroes consisted in their posses
sion of the ballot. And before thii
; hud been secured the whole party, by
a very sudden “leap ahead,” enlarge*'
the demand into one of universal uegri
suffrage, accompanied by a large dis
i frnnchisenient of the Southern whitei
i and the establishment of mllitaiy law
over all the Southern States. In n<
other way, it was alleged, could the ne
, groes be secure in the enjoyment o
the freedom which had been bestowei
upon them. And now we have anoth
er “leap forward.’ Now they mus
hare forty acres of confiscated lam
apiece.
•0“ Germany has a rival for Brigan
I Young, in the desceudcnt point o
view; fora Uermau newspaper s.v
that two years ago a Mr. Christian St*g
i eroayer became father of his fifty-eigh
child. His first w ife gave birth t<
i twenty-three, of wliic.b six were twin
aud eleven single borue; his secom
wife nineteen, and the third and ye
living wife is mother to sixteen chil
dren. Of these fitty-eight children
i tw enty-eight are living, all beiiij
daughters, and the man has never bee
■ sick, and t njoys good health, as do hi
children.
Medical Signs ol Dreams.
In the Quarterly Journal Psychologic
al Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence
|nat published,there is quite a long and
able disquisition on “Dreaming.” from
which wc extract the following: “live
ly dreams are, Id genera!, a sign of the
excitement oi nervous action. Soil
dreams a sign of slight Irritation ol
the brain : often, in nervous fevers, an
nouncing the approach of a favorable
crisis. Frightful dreams are a sign of
determination of blood to the head.
Dreams about Arc are, in women, sign
of an impending hemorrhage. Dreams
about blood and red objects are signs
of inflammatory conditions. Dreams
about rain and water are often signs of
diseased mucuous membranes and
dropsy. Dreams of distorted forms
are frequently a sign of abdominal ob
struction and disorder of the liver.
Dreams in which the patient sees any
part of the body especially suffering in
dicates disease in that part. Dreams
about death often precede apoplexy,
which is connected with determination
of blood to the head. The nightmare
(incubus, cphialtes), with great scusi
i tivencss, is a sign of determination of
j blood to the chest. ; “ To these,'’ says
I iiaron von Feuchtersleben, “ we may
add that dreams of dogs, alter the bits
of a mad dog, often precede the appear
ance of hydrophobia, but may be only
the consequence ofan excited imagina
tion.” Dr. Forbes Winslow quotes
several cases in which dreams are said
to have been prognostics: *‘Arnaud
de Villencuvo dreamed one night that
a black cat bit him on the side. The
next day an anthrax appeared on the
! part bitten. A patient of Galen'i
! dreamed that one of his limbs wn
i changed to stone. Some days afier hi
eg was paralyzed. Roger d Oxteyn
Knight of the Company of Dougin
wont to sleep in good health : towards
i the middle of the night, he saw in his
! dream, a man infected with the plague
: quite naked, who attacked him with
1 lurv, threw him on the ground after a
i desperate struggle, and, holding him
between his open thighs, vomited the
| plague into his mouth. Three days af
ter he was seized with the plague, aiui
i died. Hippocrates remarks that dreams
i iu which one sees black spectres are i.
! bad omen.”
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' Arms ahd Threats.—We have no
! tired that at each one of the Radical
I meetings held in this town the negroes
! ind their leaders become more defiant,
! threatening and menacing in their msn
j nor and language towards^the whites ;
j uid we are told that on last Saturday
; nearly every negro from the country
; was armed, and that an armed conipanj
marched from one neighborhood undei
j regular officers to the village. Our
I citizens are ready for any turn which
: this sort of demonstration would in
I clieate. We are not at all afraid of the
I negroes; for in case of an emergency
; they would soon be disposed of. But
i we do not wish to see a collision, or
! anything akin to one. for the results
| might be horrible. The negroes and
j their dirty leaders have been granted
| every possible freedom in this place at
their meetings; they have been treated
with respect at every hand, and iu no
wise been interfered with, nor will
they be molested so long as they con
duct themselves properly. We sug
gest to their leaders, however, that the
whites are not prepared to submit
quietly to these armed political meet
ings. They look too menacing. The
attention of General Ord is respectful
ly invited to this matter. He is the
nroncr regulator.
Rltuhuto Specie.—The New York
Titncs, speaking of that longed for time
when a greenback dollar will freely
exchange for a gold dollar, says:
Secretary McCulloch makes it no se
cret that lie will assume the same ground
j regarding the resumption of specie
j payments in his forthcoming Treasury
1 report that he has maintained for the
j last two years, and which he first set
I forth in his celebrated Fort Wayne
I speech, and reiterated at length in his
lloston letter. That is to say, lie will
favor the resumption of a specie basis
just as soon as the state ot the national
finances makes it practicable. The re
turn to specie payments will give free
dom. force and assurance to the enter
prise of the country, and will be fol
lowed by an era of solid prosperity,
which will speedily extend its beneti
• cent influence to all classes of the peo
1 pie. When, in the period of a few
months, gold fell from 285 to 12(1, thf
business of the country was not shaker
nor its interests damaged. When ii
I goes down forty points more, and tin
I national currency is exchangeable foi
I j it, dollar with dollar, there will be n<
- more commotion, unless it be that o
! universal exhilaration.
1 ' _,m,_
A. Greek Haired Man.—.lame
Ferguson, of ltudalo, is a worker ii
1 metals, who lias wrought in copper on
1 I ly for five months, and bis hair, latel;
white, is now of so decided a green tha
the poor man cannot appear in thestree
1 without immediately becoming the ob
* ject of general curiosity. He is per
1 ftectly well, his htir alone being sffecte
* bv the copper, notwithstanding tli
1 precautions he takes to protect it frot
the metal. Chemical analysis hs
> | proved that hit hair contains a uotabl
! | quantity of aoetate of copper, and thn
‘ ills to this circumstance that it owe
* its beautiful green color, whioh it mo*
singular and remarkable.
Chief Justice Chase and the
Presidency.
Mr. Chase Hinl Ins trusted friends do
not concede that his claims as a Repub
lican candidate for the presidency are
extinguished hv the Ohio election.
Time enough has elapBed for pretty
mature reflection, and the sails that
were reefed during the late storm are
again spread, but trimmed in accom
modation to the new direction of the
wind. We are now solcmn'y assured
that Chief Justice Cltase is one of the
most conservative in public life! lie
lias beeu pleased then, to make a great
socretofit. We suppose we shall be
still further astonished some bright
morning by being told that the Trib
une and the Independent, his forward
eulogists, are the most conservative of
our public journals. The Chief Jus
tice has been so coy and maidenly, and
the confession is now made with such
blushing grace, that there is no telling
how many more of these disclaiming
beauties may be smitten witli a secret
passion for naughty conservatism.
" 8 f never told her love,
Bui let c, uoe» ment. like a wnrm i' the hud
Feed on 1 er nms-k cheek "
[Yew York World.
Singular Yeoro Superstition.—
A Mississippi planter gave employ
ment, during the past season, to thir
ty or forty negroes. The cholera broke
out among them, and a physician was
called, whose treatment promised
quick success. An old negro among
them, however, was not satisfied with
the progress of affairs, and with a great
show of religions zeal and reverential
re, made it known to his fellows that
God had appeared to him and revealed
the strange fact that, if the cholern
smitten negroes would procure one
handful of salt and the other full of figs
ind sit behind a sycamore tree and
swallow the contents of both hands,
faking first a mouthful of salt and then
1 i KUa rtf tlio flrre IIia otn’A flint TtrrmlA
ensue would be sufficiently miraculous
ro show a direct Providential interfer
ence in their behalf. Accordingly
1 twelve negroes threw away‘.heir “doc
tor stuff. ’ and. supplying themselves
with the figs and sa’r, and 'eating them
selves under the cluirnied sycamore,pro
ceeded to dose themselves accordingly.
Hie result was rather miraculous, for
j eleven of them never left the spot t The
! dose killed them.
8®“Thc I .aurensville (South Caro
ina) Herald says: “A new grass,
which is generally called in, this sec
tion by the name of wild clover, is
springing up luxuriantly all over this
district, and we see from our exchanges,
all over the Southern States. It grows
almost everywhere, and seems to take
hold even on the washed and galled
parts of land, as if it would redeem
both the looks and fertility of the
country. It appears to be a dwdrf
clover, is very thick set, and covers the
earth witli a beautiful carpet of green.
We have heard that a single root sends
out as many as six hundred branches,
1 and that pulled out at random and
: counted. It is much relished by cattle,
and is said to be exterminating the
j Bermuda, joint, sedge and all other
grasses. We see that it is attracting
much attention in Middle Georgia.”
j®~The north of Scotland has been
j visited by symptoms of a severe and
; premature winter. The Northern En
' sign says the greater part of the oat
crop is still unripe, and, on many farms,
is quite green. Although there is a
heavy crop on the ground, unless the
weather improve, there is every reason
j to fear that much of it will never fall
before the sickle. On many farms the
grain crop has been so shaken by tem
pests of unusual severity that little is
to he seen on the fields ready for the
sickle but bare and blasted stalks.—
T'nc farmers are in a state of great,
alarm. The potatoo disease is spread
! ing In every direction, so that the wiu
1 ter prospects are very gloomy. «
i ggp-Therc are two kinds of girls.
One is the kind that appears bc6t.
J thread—the girls that.are good for par
ties. rides, visits, balls, etc., and whose
chief delight is in such things. The
other Is the kind that appears best at
home—the girls that are cheerful
' md useful in the dining room, sick
room and ail the precincts of home.—
I'hev differ widely in character. One
is a tot incut at home—the other a bless
ing. One is a moth consttmiog every
| thing about her; the oth$r Is a sun
beam, inspiring light and gladness all
i around her pathway. The right edn
: cation will modify both a little, and
' thus unite the good qualities Of both
in one.
KS'- Augusta J. Evans,author of I5cn
lah, will st on publish a volume with
the title of Iuex. It was Mi«s Evans'
tirst book, and was printed ten years
1 ago; but, to use Hume's celebrated
phrase, “fell still-born from the press.-’
Her recent hits have Inspired the pub«
1 1 sh *r w ih the hope that h -r firstling
1 will now command a more flattering
‘ reception.
1 tST At the late sessiou of the grand
o ige of masons, c t Js'evad ;, a petition
i of the Mount Moriah Lodge, at Salt,
s j Lake, for a charter, was refused. After
f a patient hearing of all the facts, and
1 an argument of-the rase, the session
s resolved to grant no charter in any way
, recognizing the peculiar institution of
' the Saints.