Sir.iotm'iitrnfs.
r.'t;‘.ioa on Honi3y, 8th Angnst, BSO.
r \n- rancing candidates for State and
I*i«: ict offices. ffi County offices. $’>; Town
ship offie’s $3S: Calls on persons to become
candidates are charged at the usual rates, ex
cept when persons making *h* calls are sub
scribers to our paper. fJTg” Political circu
lar* ahargcd $3 advertisements 1
. '.i. -h-*--—
The Canvass for Congress.
The candidates for Congress, Col. Gantt,
andJJr, Ms Till ant., will a 1 Iress tk“ir fellow
citifcenfc at the following times and places :
flampton, ... June 14
Warren. - - - "15
Mon tide do, ... “ 10
Hamburg, - - - “18
Ln*e Village, - - - “19
N&poluon, * - - “21
De - - - “23
Clarendon, . . - “ 25
Uijonsisville, - - - “27
P;,mn,Bluff, - - - “ 29 i
Little Rock, . - - “ 30
V’ferr.fvi lie, . - - July 3
ITiinvH’l*, ... “4
Foil Smith, ... “6
Greenwood, --- “7
Waldron, ... “9
Delias, - - - “10
tVftj Ida. - - “11
fJentpu. - “ 13
Ilotkport, - - “ 1 -1
Princeton. ... “ 10
Arkaddpbia. - - - “17
Camden. ... “ 19
Eldorado, ... “ 21
Macnbija, - - - “23
Louts v (He, - - - “ 21
iVerhfrgtbrt, - - - “25
Parin'iff la, - - - “28
Murfreesboro’ - - • “30
PUBLIC SPB AlKI NTGr.
JpjUN C. Davie, J. II. QuiseNBr-Rav and
P, A. Thojuason, candidates for the Legisla
ture, for Prairie county, will address the peo
ple at the following tiroes and places:
Clear Like,,Clear Lake township, Monday,
June 2o.
Pettus Place, Ruhwoods township, Tuesday,
June 29.
Hamilton Church, Hamilton township, Wed
Belcher’s, La Grew township, Thursday,
Jqhe 28.
Dev all’s Bluff, Wnttensaw township, Fri
day, June 29.
AJlEwen’s, Centre township, Saturday,
June 30. i
Des Arci White River township, Thursday,
July 5.
- Hickory Plain, Pigeon Roost township. Fri
day July 6.
Atlanta, Caroline township, Saturday, July
7 th.
Nathan Trotter’s, Caroline township, Mon
day, July D.
Brownsville, Prairie township, Wednesday,
July 11.
Public Speak ng.
Messrs. Hollowfll and Harrell opposing
candidates for Attorney General, will address
their fellow citizens at Hickory Flain on Fri
day the 22d cftty of June. 1860.
Eoitor Des Arc Citizen —You will
please announce my name ns a candidate for
rereloetion to the office of Judge of the 5th
circuit of '.his State, composed of the counties
of Coil way. Pope, Yell, Perry, Saline. Pulaski
and Prairie, at the election to be held on the
first Monday of August nekt.
JNO. J._ CLENDENIN.
_W We are authorised to announce J. T-. ,
UotnnwKnr. as a candid ate for re-election to
the office of Attorney General. and Prosecu
ting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Districts,
composed of the counties of Yell, Perry, Sa
line. Pulaski. Prairie;7"Conway and Pope, at
the ensuing August, election. *
We are authorised to announce John
II. Quisfnberry. Esq., as a candidate to
represent Prairie county, in our next Legisla
ture, at the ensuing August, election. [feb8.
We are authorised to announce J. M. I
Kino, as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Sheriff of Prairie County, at the
ensuing August election. ' *
. or Wo aro authorised to announce W. E.
Haolston as a candidate for Sheriff at the
ensuing election. *
To the Toterg of Prairie Co., Ark.
lama candidate for Sheriff of said county,
at the election to be held on the first Monday
in August, next. WM. A. PLUNKETT.
January 4. I860.*
fSP’We are authorised to announce Wm.
Gocidrum as a candidate for Circuit Clerk of
Prairie county, at the ensuing flection. *
We are authorised to announce
Charles D. Taylor, as a candidate for
Circuit Clerk of Prairie county, at the
ensuing election. *
Devall’s Bluff, Ark.,
January 30th, ’00.
Editor Citizen—Pbiase announce my name
as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Pratria Countv. at the ensuing August
election. very irsdPCuuuv. «.r..
J. W. BLANTON.
■ (jar We are airtborlsed to announce John '
E. Hudson a- a candidate for the office of!
Clerk of Prairie county, at the ensuing Au
gust election.
IE5T We are authorised to announce W. W.
W a IK as a candidate for County and Probate
■Tu4ge of Prairie county, at the ensuing elec
tion.
E. W. Dougi ass is a candidate for!
County and Probate'Judge of Prairie county,
at the ensuing August election.
BaoV. s«vii.|.E, Feb. 10, !dQ.
Mb. Editor.—You will please announce
my name as a candidate for Probate Judge
for the coun*y of Prime.
Respectfully, J. L. HUNT.
We are authorised to announce Wm.
J. Dabby as a candidate for Common School
Commissioner, for Prairie county, at the en
suing election.
We are authorised to announce Wm. j
P. Pa max. as a candidate for re-election j
to the office of Common School Commission
for Prafrie county. *
We are authorised to announce Levi;
_Be Bam as a candidate for County Treasurer,
at the emiifhg August election. *
zsr We are authorized to announce Wn.-i
ham I). Anthony as a candidate for County
Surveyor at the election to be held the first
Monday in August next. *
-John Van liuien has been offered the
United States Commissionership to Paraguay. •
-The seventeen-year locusts have ap- j
peared in vast numbers in the vicinity of1
Washington, D. C.
——Hiei.sri is out in a card in which ho
proposes to fight Morrissey for any amount, i
from ten routs up to $20,Odd.
——A clergyman of Bangor was married in
hi* church, on Sunday, and immediately
prsscbed from the text: “ This thing was not
dope :n a corner.
--A new textile materia! has been
brought out in Russia, which is higjily
eulogised as a substitute fer cotton. A Rus
sian is*aid to ha«e discovered a new arp! suc
cessful method for dressing it, so as to render
it very valuable. The pilot is a species of
weed,
•——It is e?‘unified that in London there arc J
1.0.000 people who subsist wholly by th* j
f icf'w '»!' crime and itnmorifttv.
* 4
iJiiCi IZJtlY
PE3 ARCTaRK AN8A37~
i 1860
Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor,
HENRY M. RECTOR.
OF PULASKI.
For Congress, Fir«t PtutHct,
THOS. C. HINDMAN,
OF PHILLIPS.
For Cone'r**?, Second District,
EDWARD W. GANTT,
OF H KM PST E AD.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
COL. JOHN C. DA VI EJ
Canvass for Governor.
The Candidates for Governor. Hej^hy HI.
Rector and Richard H. Johnson, will ad
dress the people of the State upon Nationa
r.nfl State affairs, at the following times and
places.
TOWN. COUNTY. DATE.
Sorlrirfipld, Conway, Monday, June 4
Daidanelle, Yell, Wedris., ft
Dovei. Pope, Thursday, “ 7
Clarksville, Johnson. Saturday, “ 9
Ozark, Franklin, Monday, “ 11
Booneville, Scott. Wedns., “ 13
Fort Smith. Sebastian, Friday, “ la
Van Tlnren, Crawford, Saturday “ ID
Fayettville, Washington, Tuesday, “ 19
Hentonvllle, Benton, Thuisday,“ 21
Huntsville, Mudison, Saturdiy, “ 23
Carrollton, Carroll, Monday, “ 2n
Jasper. Newton, Tuesday. li 2ft
Biirrowville, Searcy, Thursday,“ 23
Mount Olive, Izard, Saturday, 30
R-ktncvi I la Tn il nnuti rl ?/»<» Tnlv 9.
J.ick«onport, Jackson, Tuesday. " 3
Smithville, «La wrence, Thursday," 5
Pocahontas, Randolph, Friday. •* 6
Gainesville, Greene, Monday, 9
Bolivar, Poin«ett, Wednes’y, “ 11
Madison, St. Francis. Friday, “ 13
Helena, Phillips, Monday. “ 16
Clarendon, Monroe, Wednes’y, * 18
Brownsville, Prairie, Friday. 20
Little Rock, Pulaski, Saturday, “ 21
Benton, Saline, Wednes’y, “ 26
Hot Springs, Hot Springs, Thuisday, “ 26
Aikadelphia, Clark, Saturday, “ 28
Princeton, Dallas. Monday, “ 30
Warren. Bradley, Wedncs., Aug. 1
Hampton, Calhoun, Thursday, “ 2
Cemden, Ouachita, Saturday, “ 4
Eldorado, Union, Monday, “ 6
The people are respectfully invited to at
tend these appointments, and all papers in the
Stale are requested to publish and direct pub
lic attention to them.
RICHARD H. JOHNSON,
HENRY M. RECTOR.
The editor of this paper left on
Sunday evening, for Memphis. He will
return before the next issue of tne Citizen.
Hon. J. P. Benjamin’s Expose of
Hon Stephen A. Douglas. —On the
22nd of May, I860, Hon. J. P. Benjamin
of Louisiana, delivered a speech in the
Senate of the United Slates, by way of
defending himself and his Southern Dem
ocratic brethren against the insinuations
and aspersions heaped upon them by Mr.
Douglas. This speech of Mr. Benja
min is published in pamphlet form; and
owing to its length, we find it impos>ible
to publish it in our columns. We advise
every one, irrespective of party, to read
it, as it contains much valuable informa
tion. It opens by stating, that when Con
gress met the whole country was deeply
stirred relative to the slavery question,—
that a band of fanatics had just invaded
one of the States of our confederacy—that|
as soon as Congress convened not loss
than seven propositions in nil were order
ed by the Senate "to be printed together!
for discussion,”—all in relation, either di- j
rectly or indirectly, to the question of
slavery. During an attempt, since the
meeting of the Charleston Convention, to j
obtain concert of action among the Demo
cratic Senators and members oLlhe Demo
cratic parly, in relation to the propositions!
then pending, Mr. D nights in a speech
occupying twenty consecutive columns of
the Globe, contrary to all precedent in the
history of Senatorial deliberations, Imd
undertaken to vindicate his individual
claims lo the presidency,—also to prove
that he had never swerved nor backslid
den in his political course ; that he was
the embodiment of the Democratic party,
and that all dissenters to his fantastic
tricks were rebels and disunionists; and
after tendering repeutance to the seven
teen Democratic States and almost every
Democratic Senator, because, ns he sym
pathizingly remarked, "they knew not
what they did," he closed by stating that
all he had spoken was said in '‘self-de
fense." This attack called for a reply,
and Mr. Benjamin, not unequal to the
laslr, undertook the contest. His speech
throughout partakes strongly ol the Putl
lipic character; is argumentative and sar
castic. He charges Douglas ol bowing
down before false gods—"idols ol evasion
and circumvention,”—and closes by classi
fying him, whatever may have been his
grand elevation heretofore, as "a fallen
star.” Mr. B. shows mat Douglas never
has agreed with the main body of Demo
cratic Senators, and that in 1854, there
were three distinct sentiments in the Sen
ate in relation to the authority possessed
by Congress over territorial legislation—
that notwithstanding this difference they
had still maintained confidence in Doug
las because be, Mr. D., had agreed to
submit their dispute to the Courts and
abide by the decision. He goes on to
show that after the decision in the Dred
Scou case, Mr. Douglas hud openly avow
ed before the people of Illinois, as appears
in DoUrlas’ and Line fn’- printed debater.
-- --—....
iliut, notwithstanding the decisions of the
Courts, lie had so fixed the Kansas Ne
braska hill that every territory most neces
sarily become a free Slate,—that Douglas
is now using the very arguments of his
competitor Lincoln—that Lincoln is a
more conservative man than Douglas.
We simply call the attention of the peo
ple to Mr. Benjamin’s history of Judge
Douglas'political career. Let every one j
procure the speech and examine it for
himself, N ^
Editorial Correspondence.
NAi’ot.roN, Tuesday, Jane 12.
Left Des Arc on Sunday evening, on
the Memphis packet St. Francis, Capt.
Win. A. Wil ls, Arrived at Clarendon
at an early hour Monday morning, where!
we tarried until f> r. m.. when we took
passage on the Sam Hale for Napoleon.
Our Clarendon friends have done much
in the last year towards improving and
beautifying their town. Their new court
house will be erected in a short lime ; the
brick are being made, and a portion of the
lumber is on tiie ground. The building
is to be built in the middle of a square,
now the centre of the town, which has
been wisely reserved for that purpose
Had the pleasure of several hours' con
versation with Messrs. Featherton and
Farr, attorneys at law—the first of whom
ts a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney,
and the latter a candidate for the Legis
1 iture from Monroe. They are deserving
gentlemen, and it is to be hoped they will
succeed in being selected to serve the
people.
j ue rsnpoieuij tuiu uimu ivivci o.
Mail packet Sain Hale, arrived at Claren
don about one o'clock, where she remained
until five, awaiting the arrival of theU.S.
Mail coach from Liitl# Rock. The coach
having arrived with some sixteen passen
gers, (including those outside as well as
inside), most of whom took passage on
the Hale, we steamed away down our own
beautiful While River again.
Col. Wood, of Baton Rouge, La., was
much surprised to find a steamer at Clar
endon, ready to'convey himself and trav
eling companions down White River. He]
had been on a visit to Hot Springs, and
was informed at Little Rock that Wiiite
River, as well as the Arkansas, had “done
gone dry,” and that his “only chance”
was to lake stage and railroad for Mem
phis When will those connected with
the lines of travel from Little Rock cease
fibbing about While River, a stream that
always furnishes water sufficient for steam
ers to Jacksonport, a distance of near four
hundred miles from its mouth.
The steamer Sam Hale, ns is usual with
this line, furnishes the best of accommo
dations. Capt. C. W. Coles; W. F. Bris
coe, clerk ; in truth all her officers are
faithful in the discharge of their duties,
and know “just how” to make everybody
comfortable and “ perfectly nl home.”
Every one of her officers that ain't mar
ried ought to be. and it •can’t be possible
that they will remain “in a single state
of dolefulness” much longer. The wo
men, God bless them, appreciate such
noble souls, and are always preparing a
“ nei-woik of love” to catch them.
Freight for the different points on Ar
kansas river, above Pine Bluff’, is accu
mulating here in large quantities, and I
have just conversed wilii several gentle
men from Fort Smith, who will bring their
freight to Des Arc, and have it conveyed
from there to Fort Smith by wagons.
The people of Des Art! and adjacent
country should, without delay, hitch up
their teams and prepare for any amount
of hauling from Des Arc westward. Ar
kansas river has become an " obsolete
idea.” so far ns navigation is concerned,
and several steamers are lying here watt
ing for a rise, next fail or spring, to ena
ble them to deliver their freight “ high up
on the Arkansas river.”
I have spent a portion of the day with
my friend R. H. Tucker, editor of tiie
Planter, here. He is a good fellow in
every sense of tiie word, hut I can’t quite
get his consent to support Rector for Gov
ernor. But there is hope for him ; his
good sense and “ sober second thought”
will bring him out. He can’t adhere to
*• the family” much longer.
Yours, in haste,
J. C. M.
Queries.— Will tiie True Democrat
inform us and Uie people of Ark insas,
what process is contemplated by ** Gov.
Conway's Policy” whereby the State will
be enabled to foreclose tiie mortgages on
the Real Estate Bank lands, and icus
liquidate that debt ?
Will not tiie State first have, to obtain
possession of the bonds ol that bank belore
site can proceed to foreclose the mort
gages ?
How does Gov. Conway propose to gel
possession of those bonds ?
What policy does Gov. Conway or Mr.
Johnson, his heir apparent, propose lor
liquidating tiie State's liability on account
of the debt of the Stale Bank, which has
no assets I -
If these questions are directly, fully and
satisfactorily answered, then we will ad
mit that Gov. Conway has a policy —
whether it be good or bad will remain to
be seen.— [Old Line Democrat.
-—..
-The amount of lumber manufactured
and run down the Ohio this season will ex
coed 80,000,000 feet; and at an average of
$12 60 per M., makes the round sum of $10,
000,000.
—An old citizen of Sav&nuh, Ga., with
his sister, has fallen heir to a fortune of
T 009,000 francs tn Franca.
VY A L N U r 1 I. M M ■ / |
June 12. I860. ^ |
Editor Citizen : Although within
fifteen mile* of Des Arc, your paper is n
week oM before it reaches Wnlnui Springs.
On the 9ih I received your paper of the
2<l ins*.., anil imagine my surprise and
awful fright on reading the communica
tion of our distinguished Common School
Commissioner. What shall I do—keep
dark, or answer over my proper name,
and run the risk of being slapped in the
mouth ? Yes, I will out with it.
Little did I think, when I penned the
article at the suggestion of “ many citi
zens,” colling on John H. Bulls, Esq., to
become a candidate, that I should arouse
the ire and indignation of the distinguished
Commissioner, for permit rne to say that
when that article was penned it was not
my intention to reflect in any way upon
the private character and integrity of the
gentleman, for with that I have nothing
to do ; but, sir, a man’s official character
is public, and of that we have a right to
speak freely, and he the right to defend.
“ Is the servant above the master V—are
not office-holders the servants of the peo
people ? Do they not, for its honors, fees
and emoluments, agree faithfully to per
form the duties thereof; and if well done
have we not the right to say so—if other
wise, have we not the right to speak out?
I have always thought so until recently,
(being a new comer), becoming acquain
ted with the “family Democracy of Ar
kansas,” to which I presume the distin
guished Commissioner belongs. Now 1
understand it; I have no right, as a new
comer, to call in question the laws, or the
administration of the laws, by the powers
that be, particularly if they are old set
tlers. Pardon me for my ignorance, a» I
am a new coiner, in not knowing it was
an unpardonable sin in waiting or saying
anything against “True Democrat” or
Johnson office-holders—the immaculate
Democracy, the rule or ruin Democracy,
who have a right to use place and power
for self-interest and self-advancement, re
gardless of the public weal or woe.
I hope and believe the good, conserva
tive Democrats, and conservative men of
other parties, will shape differently the
destinies of Arkansas on the first Monday
in August next. I have always believed
that all power belongs to and is derived
from the people, and they have a perfect
right to canvass freely the official con
duct of their office-holders. The common
school system is an important one, and
one in which we all are or should be in
terested ; and I do know there is a wide
spread dissatisfaction amongst the people
at the imperfect system and administra
tion. 1 sincerely hope the distinguished
Commissioner wdl be able, before the
people, not only to show he lias done his
duty in Township 3 north, 7 west, but in
all the other townships in the county. If
so, all right, and all the reflections and in
sinuations against his official conduct are
wrong. If otherwise, then let him bear
the odium lie will justly merit. By his
own acknowledgement there is an undis
tributed fund in his hands. Why so ?
Could there be no special law passed at
the last session of the Legislature, at the
urgent solicitation of the distinguished
Commissioner for Prairie county ? Why
so lute on the heel of the session? One
thing is certain, there is something wrong,
either in the law or ns administration.
The law never intended the “ Common
School Fund ” for the exclusive use of the
Commissioner.
In regard to the language used by the
distinguished Commissioner, of “ lie in
your teeth,” etc., it is too low to be no
ticed. I leave such language to be used
uy nme, sotuiu, corrupt auu aeouseu
minds.
In regard to the base insinuation that a
“ friend must have office even at the sac
rifice,” eic., it is false. Tliut friend knew
r,tuning of ;he penning of the article until
he read it in the "Citizen.” ile then
said tie was no aspirant for office and
could not be induced to become a candi
date.
Look out “Prairie and Centre” and
friend Darby, you will be denounced for
daring 10 call or announcing yourself a
candidate against the distinguished Com
missioner. I> he not a “Johnson Demo
crat," a “True Democrat mau,” and an
old settler ?
Finally, my only apology, “being a
new comer,” for troubling you, is that
“ new comers,” as well as “ old settlers,”
have very liberal taxes to pay to support
our State and county governments ; and
if there are any immunmes let the people
have them, or at least let them enjoy some
part of them, and not let the office-holders
have. ell. Better this than to he in the
hands of the Commissioner.
Mr. Editor, I am done; and I ask your
pardon for this trespass upon your lime
and space. I will not notice anything
mote upon this suhject, through the pa
pers, as the distinguished Commissioner
will have a fair and ample opportunity to
give an account of his siewardsliip to the
people, at the July gathering ; and I sup
pose the people, and may be “ new
comers,” may have some rights, and it is
quite possible an effort will be made to
exercise them.
Your obd't serv't,
ROBT. E RIVES.
♦ -
—-A movement is on foot, in New York,
among tbe Lallans, to send men and money to
GeribsHi
The 0ieat Tornado.
The Chicago Times publishes the fol
lowing teller from one who was on the
spot devastated by the great tornado:
Folto*. June 4.
I have just returned from Albany, the
scene of the tornado which s'vept over it
and Camnnche, on the opposite side of the
Mississippi, and although I have heard
large stories of the terrible works of a
tornado, I must say I have never heard ol
such a terrible one as this, and the great
wonder is, that in the universal demoli
tion of everything above the face of the
earth which came in its way, that there
were so few lives lost. In the town of
Albany, from the best information I could
gel, there was about 150 houses totally
demolished. Brick, stone, wood and gra
nite buildings, fared alike, and were either
leveled on the spot, or lifted up, carried
and whirled through the air till they were
torn to pieces, and them and their con
tents scattered among the four winds.
Warehouses, steam flouring-mills, stores,
churches, and all seemed to be upon an
equality. Up to the time I left Albany,
there were six dead. Our citizens sent
provisions down to Albany last night.
I saw a frame house which had been
carried bodily a distance of over forty
yards, with a family in it, and they pro
test that it struck nothing in its flight but
n hog, which it killed. The man in it
said he thought they were going into the
river, as that was the course the house
took. The family came out unharmed,
and the house bore ns few marks of bad
treatment ns any house I saw. The citi
zens of Fulton held a meeting, and prof
fered to the distressed the hospitalities of
their town. There is hardly a family but
is left totally destitute. What the winds
did not carry off" the falling houses have
demolished, so that I do not believe in the
entire town there is $500 worth of house
hold furniture.
1 did not get over to Camanche, as the
steam ferry boat was blown ashore, and
the top and upper rigging all torn off, and
l_. .... - _ __ •__ ; ~ „ r* I r i flT
IIJC llliuuu W* WlW««Hlg
winch was crammed full alt the while;
but I learned from those that did go that
Camanche suffered worse than Albany, as
all their town is blown down, and a large
number of lives lost. 1 heard this even
ing that 38 dead bodies had been found,
although 1 think that may be over the
number. I am told that there are bouses
with families totally missing, and the sup
position is that they were carried into the
river, as the storm bore directly that way.
A man in Camanche says his barn, with
his horses, was taken up and carried into
the river, end that one of his horsesswam
out of the barn, and the other horses he
has not since seen.
1 was shown a henry two-inch door in
Albany, which the citizens said came from
Camanche,as they had nothing of the kind
in Albany.
The shore of the river is literally strewn
with the wreck of houses, which to form
any adequate idea of you must see.
Tuesday morning—Have siuce heard
from Camanche. The number of dead
last night was thirty-eight.
THE TORNADO AT ALTON.
[From the Alton Courier, June 4.]
The most destructive storm in this sec
tion of country, that has occurred within
the memory of any one, broke upon our
city on Saturday evening', and in twenty
m.nates destroyed property to the amount
of scorce of thousands of dollars.
Great ns was the loss of property, and
perilous as was the position of numbers of
people, no lives were lost and very few
persons were in the least injured. For
the Loving Care which saved us all, we,
writing these words in the beautiful Sab
bath afternoon, are deeply and reverently
thankful.
Tat: Japanese Treaty.—The regu
lations under which the American trade is
to be conducted with Japan, provide for
the regular entry and clearance of vessels,
and for the punishment of smugling. etc.,
as well as for the strict prohibition of the
importation of opium, the fees to be paid
to Japanese custom house officers, etc.
The Japanese tariff" is singulaily brief
and comprehensive, and is embraced in
the regulation as follow*:
Regulation Seventh. — Duties shall be
paid lo the Japanese Government on all
goods landed in the country, according to
the follow ing tariff:
Class One—All articles in this clas3
shall be free of duty.
Gold and silver, coined or uncoined,
i Wearing apparel in actual use.
Household lurniture and printed books
not intended for sale, but the property ol
persons who come to reside in Japan,
j Class Two—A duty of five per cent,
shall he paid on the following articles:
All articles used for the purpose of build
ing, rigging, repairing or filling out ol
ships; whaling gear of all kinds; salted
provisions of all kinds; bread and bread
stuffs ; living animals of all kinds ; coals ;
timber for buildiug bouses; rice; paddy;
j steam machinery; zinc, lead, tin; raw
■ silk.
j Class Three—A duty of thirty-five per
cent, shall be paid on all intoxicating
liquors, whether prepared by distillation,
let mentation, or in any other manner.
Class Four—All goods not included in
any of the preceding classes shall pay a
duty ol twenty per cent.
, All articles of Japanese production
which are exported as cargo, shall pay a
duty of five per cent., with the exception
; of gold and copper in bars. Five years
’ after the opening of Kanagawa the im
port and export duties shall be subject to
revision, if the Japanese Government
r desires it.
Large Libel Suits — $10,000 Dama
ges Claimed —We understand that Mes
srs. Snow be Ketclium, who are engaged
m ihe erection ol telegraph lines between
Memphis and Little Rock, and Memphis
anil Helena, have instituted sun against
the Memphis Jlppenl, for an alleged libel
contained in an article published in that
paper of June 7th, laying their damages
at $10,000.
The same parties have also instituted
suit against Mr. H. A. Montgomery, char
ging him with libel, laying the damages
at $10,000. B. F. Blackburn, Esq., is
attorney for plaintiffs.—[Memphis Ava
Isncbe.
HOW UOICORESS ALEUTS lii** ■* •»■*«»•
deut and Vice President—It may be
itseful, just about this lime, to re-produce
the statement that the approach of a Presi
dential election makes opportune every
four years. It is thus succienily given by
» writer in the New York Daily Times :
The House of Representatives has noth
ing whatever to do with the election of a
Vice President, nor the Senate with the
election of n President. The powers of
each body are distinct and entirely inde
pendent of the other.
If no President be chosen by the elec
tors, the House of Representatives may
choose the President, their choice being
restricted to the persons having the high
est numbers, not exceeding three of those
on the list voted for a President.
If the House fail* to elect a President
before the 4th of March next following,
then the Vice President—whether elected
by the electors or by the Senate—shall
act as President.
The rule or manner of voting under
which the Senute chooses a Vice Presi
dent, is exactly the reverse of that which
governs the House in choosing a Piesi
denl—each being the reverse of the gen
eral principle or basis upon which the
respective bodies are organized. The
House representing the people, and ordi
narily voting per capita, vote for Presi
dent by Slates, the representation from
each Slate having one vote, and a majority
of all the States being necessary to a
choice. Tho Senate representing the
States—in theory, at least, and in the
manner of electing Senators votes for
President per capita, each Senator being
entitled to a vote, and a majority of all
the Senators being necessary to a choice.
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Senator Davis on Non-Intervention.
No more timely and effectual service to
the National Democracy could have been
performed than was rendered by Senator
Davis in his speech in the Senate, in ex
ploding the idea that the doctrine of pro
tins luen Imt rvrpntlv brought
prominently forward, and 19 in conflict
with that of non-intervention. That idea
has prevailed to a considerable extent.
Well informed and patriotic Southerners
have entertained it, but only because the
distinctions which reconcile the two doc
trines have not been brought to their
notice. They nre broad enough, when
presented, to strike the dullest percep
tion.
In 1854-’5-’6, the questions presented
were not what they are now. The exis
tence of the right to take slave property
into the territories was in question. Weth
er that right did or did not exist, or should
or should not exist, and upon what basis
it did or should stand, were the great and
only questions in issue. These questions
huve been determined. The right is con
ceded, almost universally, to exist. In
the ardor of the former strife doctrines
were laid down and propositions enunci
ated, by some, in bro.td terms; and the
advocates of squatter sovereignty now
seek to hold the South to the letter of
those propositions, and show that they are
inconsistent with legislative protection.
The carelessness with which generali
ties are used in oral debates has certainly
enabled the advocates of squatter sover
eignty to accumulate a mass of admissions
apparently unfavorable to the present at
titude of the South. Such has been their
industry that, as above observed, the im
pression lias prevailed lo some extent that
not only some prominent men, but that the
South as a mass was committed to their
heresy, and that the oblig'iion of Con
gress, notwithstanding all that has passed
to protect slave property in the Territories,
is an idea entertained by hot a small ma
jority. It would be a sufficient answer
to say that such admissions are always
limited by implication to the subject mat
ter; but that the able Senator whose re
marks we refer lo has prefered the more
satisfactory course of showing that the
doctrine now contended for has been pul
lorward prominently and unmistakably by
the highest authority in the South, when
ever the occasion demanded an expression
of opinion on the point. — [Constitution.
The Charge of Disorgamization.—
The effort will doubiless be made by the
Johnsouian-Miichellites, in the southern
oisirict, 10 aeieat t,ui. uann oy charging
that some of the p ipers that support him
repudiate the nomination of the late State
convention. This may have some influ
ence upon the minds of those Democrats
who are disposed to submit to any kind of
wrongs rather than countenance any move
that in the most remote degree looks like
disorganization. But to meet and defent
this eflorl we have, fortuuately, a full,
complete and satisfactory answer at hand,
and it is this: That nearly every paper in
the first district that favored the nomina
tion of Mr. Johuson for governor, and
after the State convention placed his name
at the bend of their columns, have all re
fused and declined to put the name of Col.
Hindman, the regular nominee of the Do
ver Convention, at their mast head. Al
though Col. Hindman was the unanimous
nominee of the Dover Convention, and the
two-third nominee on the first ballot, still
these precious Johnsonian organs refuse
to put Ins name at their mast head, and
some of them even go so fur ns to boldly
declare their purpose to oppose his elec
tion with all the power they possess.
Among these are the Fayetteville Arkan
sian. (whose late editor lias been invited
to take charge of the True Democrat);
the Helena Note Book, the Madison
Journal, the Smithville “ Democratic Or
gan," and the Benton County Democrat.
All ol these papers have the name of
R. H. Johnson floating at their mast iiead
and are backed up and sustained, in then
disorganizing course by the True Demo
crat. And yet all these little papers, as
well as their big metropolitan foster-father,
pretend to be veiy much shocked because
the Old Line- Democrat declines to sup
poit the nomination of R. H Johnson,
i made by a packed and fraudulent conven
tion.
Inasmuch as the True Democrat has
placed Hindman's name at ns mast head
and rebuked us for having taken Mr
Johnson’s down, we ask what apology n
has to offer for quietly and sdenily wit
nessing the disorganizing course of thosi
papers supporting Mr. Johnson’s nomina
tion who have refused to sustaiu Hind
nun's nomination?—[Old Line Dem.
Fine Store House for Sale !
T H E «>"<le”igned will (en
the fine !a>ge Store House in DtJ
Arc, situated between the grocery store of
W. B. Crocker & Co. and the dry goods hom,
af Hayley A Erwin, 22 feet wide and ninety
feet long, two stories high, well finished abov,
ind finely finished below, with good war*,
house in the rear covering the entire lot ex.
*ept 10 feet. Terms easy. Would take ft,
part pay a vacant lot on Buena Vista street
the location suitable for a grocery and produce
house. jelG-tf 3. H. QUISENBERRY.
LIGHT! LIGHT!
CARBON OIL.
The cheapbst and most
brilliant light extant, ii twenty-five per cent
cheaper than gas, candles, lard oil or
and is warranted not to explode or endanger
life in any way whatever—is no trouble to
take care of—and above all, is the most‘‘iCo.
nomlcal light” in the world.
Also a good supply of LAMPS, chimneys,
shades, wicks and every thing belonging to.
lamp.
Store 1 door cast of Levin Harrison’s, Buecs
Vista St.. Des Arc.
Country ofders respectfully solicited and
promptly attended to. Give me a call.
jnnel6:tf W. B. LOCKE.
IOE FOR "SALE.
KEEP COOL!
ALL PERSONS expecting to be supplied
by us with lee, will please report their
names at the store, stating whether they want
to get it from the Ice House or at the store.
Hours of delivery—from sunrise until sit
o’clock at the ice House—and from sunrise
until seven o’clock at the store.
(gr Bills for Ice due at all times.
junelG:tf HOLT A CO.
LADIES’ FANCY DBY GOODS
-AND
GENTLEMENS’ CLOTHING
AND FURNISHING GOODS
AT AUCTION.
T WILL sell nt auction a large and com.
|_ plete assortment or Ladies’ fancy Dry
Goods and Gent’s Clothing and Furmshicy
Goods, commencing Tuesday 19th inst., amito
be continued from day to day until the 24th
Sale positive and without reserve, commencing
at 9 o’clock, a. m. N. FREEDMAN,
Buena Vista street, next Des Arc Hotel.
jelO-lt
BEST PRINTS AT A
“BIT!”
IN order to keep up with others I will wll
PRINTS that cost 11 to 11$ c. per yard at
12$ c., and other goods as cheap as the cheap
est—either for cash or on the usual time to
solvent purchasers.
jel6-tf J. H. QUISENBERRY.
FRUIT TREES.
Fruit trees for sale byj. d. a
W. C. MORROW. — We are permanently
located seven miles South of Des Arc, on
Wattensaw Bayou, where we intend going into
the Nursery business extensively. We hare
been engaged in this business for several year*
past in Tishomingo co., Miss. We have on
hand some fifty thousand apple and some pear
grafts at our old Nursery , which we will ship
to any point on Arkansas. White or Litile Red
rivers. For further information address
J. D. or W. C. MORROW,
jel9-tf Wattensaw, Piairic co., Ark,,
~ 8 1 RATED.
FROM W. E. SMITH. West Point, Ark.,
one LIGHT BAY MARE, star in fore
head, some white on her nose, one white hind
foot, knot on one of her hind legs cut by a
plough. She was very heavy with foal when
he left, supposed to have a colt by thistim*
unless she has lost it. Also a mule colt, with
her when she left, very large one-year old.
je!9-tf W E. SMITH.
^ $100 Reward \
S'Ol-EIV from the undersigned, on the
night of the third of June, 1860. in Richland
township, St. Francis county. Arkansas, one
NEGRO BOY named Nelson. Said boy
is about five feet six or eight inch”
high, weighs one hundred and thirty-five or
forty pounds and is a medium color. He wii
stolen by a Dutchman, who formerly went by
the name of Simon Gill, but had his name
registered on the steamboat Sam Hale. a« r.
Holt. The said Dutchman is about five bet
eight or ten inches high, and weighs about one
hundred and sixty-five or seventy pounds"
is daik and swarthy, and ha? a veiy laige *rir
on his back which was made by a circular
saw.
The above reward will be given for ’h®
livery of the thief and boy, with proof
, the said Dutchman claimed the boy—or a rei
| sonable reward for the delivery of the boy
alone, either at my place or at Des Arc.
June 16, I860.tf STANFIELD REEVE^ gs
STRAYED OR STOLEN
A MUSTANG PONY, of dark color, wf fl
near a roan—with white face and w&j* yy
feet. He 19 a range horse about six yearjol • g
A liberal reward will be given for his deli”'
to me at Des Arc, or at the livery stable 0
T. F. Greer & Bro. _
june9:tf J. E. GATEWOOD^
ATTENTION BLACKSMITH8’
fr THOUSAND Tbs. assorted Iron for"1’
yej Also—German, Cast, English
merican Steel; Anvils, Vices, Bellow*, be
Plates, and a general assortment of Tools.
fob 18] STEWART & BIU)’I>.
B. WASHER * • H. P. V ABOH AN * • R. C. M’CA*lsr’
Washer, Vaughan & Co.,
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fane!
©auar »®®»a* -
READY-MADE CLOTHING. HAlh.
C .ps Biol- S1i«m?h
Qceenswarf, tec., &c.,
D e ft JS r c , •! r k a « * n*
KEEP on hand a heavy lot of
Goods ; every variety of Goods for
tlemen’s and ladies’ wear. We have a
and well assorted stock of White Good*.
broideries, Handkercheifs, Gloved, I*
Black and Fancy Silks, tc.
A good assortment of Cloths. Cos*. 1
Vesting3, &c. A heavy lot of ld-J
Bleached Sheetings and Brown aim o'
Sheetings and Drills, all gra.ies and wi
A good lot of Tobacco and Cigar*. j(_
Jewelry in sets from $10 to $150 iRuLjiiSt
pins. Ear and Finger Rings, Sleeve
Studs, Watches, Lockets, &c. yj
A large lot of Trunks, Carpet and En“■
Bags. Agood stock of Ready-made O ^
Boots and Shoes. We have a *'>''?■•* gills
. Ladies’ Dies* Goods, such as Pi,nC-',.;|isell
(and Berages, Organdies, &c., that »«
■ for cost to cash buyers. 0„t
i We have a lot of Negro Brogan*. I*
‘.from last fail, which we will sell at * j otf
$1 35. We will sell the remainder «
stock of Hats at cost.
We have a two-horse Carryall to 'h’l ^r.
cheap In fact, we will give yo» £°°
gains in all we sell—come and see. pp.
je9-tf WASHER. V A UGH ANJ^
jest received
Ten Dozen Hats-a**ort*
may I? tf G. A J. McTtARr?I *"