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Dr. B. Douglass,
TENDERS his professional services to
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ties as a Mechanical Physician, in cases of
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Post-office, Des Arc, Ark. oct9-l>in
F. LEP TIEN,
CLOCK AND WATCH
sc & is m is
AND
JEWELLER,
Buena Vista street, opposite A. Stewart &.
Brothers,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of
Des Arc and the adjacent country, that he
is prepared to execute all kinds of CLOCK
and WATCH Work, in a workmanlike man
ner, and to Repair and Clean Jewelry, &c.
jan30-tf
JAMES JOHNSON,
Gunsmith,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Having permanently located myself,
I am prepared to manufacture GUNS,
PISTOLS. &c., to order.
All kinds of Fire-Arms Repaired,
on reasonable terms.
J,OCKS repaired, and KEYS made.
In fact, any kind of work in my line will be
promptly attended to.
Terms—Cash. apr3 ly
GEO. P. LOGUE,
House, Sign and Ornamental
I* .1 IJV TEH,
I)ES ARC, ARKANSAS.
Graining and paper hanging done
in the neatest style.
w All orders addressed to me will meet
with prompt attention. sepll-ly
■ ^ TO THE CITIZENS OF DES A
ARC AND VICINITY:
HAVING removed my Shop to the corner
of Huena Vista ami Woodruff streets, I
am prepared, with a GOOD STOCK OF
LEATHER, suitable for Fall and Winter
wear, to accommodate the public.
Wobk Done as Cheap as any place in
the State. Call and see.
WORK WARRANTED NOT TO RIP.
RaT* REPAIRING DONE neatly, at all
times. *
As I am permanently located in this place,
my interest is identified with yours.
Terms, Cash.
oct-tf F. WETHERINGTON.
CARRIAGE. AND WAGON
•Manufactory.
P E 8 ARC, ARKANSAS.
THOMa.8 V. t. ki »?i
IS prkpared
^ agons, Drays, &.c.t in the most substantial
manner and oil short notice. From his expe
rience in this line, he hopes to give entire sat
isfaction.
Repairing done with neatness and dispatch.
-Connected wth his establishment is an
excellent BJacksmith shop, where all kinds of
iron work will be done in a neat and substan
tial manner. ortlO-tf.
JORDAN BODEMER,
SHAVING, HAIR-CUTTING,
AND
HAIR-DRESSING SALOON.
-ALSO
SHAMPOOING AND HAIR-DYING,
BUENA VISTA Street, west of Nucleus
House, Des Arc, Arkansas. cetI6-ly
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
RALEX. MARTIN. Physician and
", Surgeon. Brownsville. Prairie county,
Arkansas. Will treat Chronic Diseases, gene
rally, and especially those of Females.
I janlfi-tf _
DR. B. F. DINWIDDIE, having per
manently located at Lake BluiF. Prairie
county, Arkansas, tenders his professional
services to the public, in ail the branches of
his profession. jan9, 1858-ly.
DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis.
having settled in the town of Des Arc,
tenders his professional services to the citi
zens of said town and vicinity; and, from a
long experience in the healing art in the West,
flatters himself that he will share their pat
ronage. 53P” Office on Buena Vista street.
Residence on Woodruff' street. dec5-t£
DR. W. F. WALSH, having located at
Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly *
DR. WM. BETHELL, will continue
the Practice of Medicine in Des Arc, and
vicinity. From his long experience in hi?
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fourteen years, he hopes to re
ceive a share of the public patronage.—
(J5?* Office at Bf.theli. & Watts’s Drug
Store. Residence in the building formerly
occupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf
T\R. J. J. LANE, will Practice Medi
cine in the different branches of the Pro
fession, and respectfully tenders his services to
the citizens of Des Arc and surrounding coun
try, hoping to share at least a portion of their
patronage. OFFICE—On Buena Vista street.
mayl5-tf
n ^ H I DS E Y, Residenttfgjggjk
L, Dentist, Clark’s Maiblefr^^^^Sk
Block. Memphis. Tennessee. Will -LLXJLr
visit Des Arc, of which notice will be given
through the “ Citizen.” octl3-0m
TAS. R. HARRINGTON,/fqgigfr
** Mechanical and S u r c i c ai.h
Dentist, Near Oakland Grove, ~ Ll i T_7
Prairie county, Arkansas. DR. HARRING
TON is prepared to perform any operation, or
execute any artificial work in the Dental pro
LCSSIUII. I»CU»J|IC3 IIIO uvvvnuviij
carefulness and experience to merit the pat
ronage and influence of the citizens of Prairie
and adjoining counties, which he respectfully
solicits. may30-ly
r.. FEATHERSTON..Z. P. 11. FARR.
FEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor
neys at' Law, and Beal Estate Agents,
Clarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the
counties of Monroe, Arkansas, Prairie, St.
Francis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular
attention given to collections. References:
Madison, Aik., Hon. W. G. Beaselcy, S. W.
Childress; Clarendon. Ark., H. M. Couch,
Panola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Coffeeville,
Miss., E. C. Walthall; Memphis, Tenn., D.
M. DtiBose. Esq., W.J. Webb; Holly Springs,
Miss., W. T. Featherston ; Washington, D.
C., Jacob Thompson. jyl7
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
*J . Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson, White,
Conway, and Pone. He will give prompt at
tention to all business entrusted to him.
(^"OFFICE—Over Town Hall. (Frith’s
New Building.) first door. febl3-tf
YB. DALRYMPLE, Attorney at
. Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkan
sas. YVill practice in the counties of Prairie,
Monroe. Arkansas, Jackson, White, and Con
way. He will give prompt attention to all
Land Claims, and will attend personally to the
locating of Swamp Land Scrip and YVarrants,
selling lands, and paying taxes. Office
on Lyon street. febl3-tf
WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS, Law
yf.r. Springfield, Conway county, Ar
kansas. YVill practice iri the various courts
of Middle Arkansas, Prompt attention
given to the collection of all claims entrusted
to him. n30*
JW. MARTIN, Attorney at Law,
, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas. Will
practice in the counties of Prairie, Arkansas,
Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and YVhite.
(jjg” Prompt attention given to the collection
or claims; also, the locating, selling and pay
ing taxes on land. Office on Lyon street.
sept26-tf
WILLIAM T. JOJNLS Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will
practice in the counties of Prairie, Jefferson,
Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and
White. Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of all claims in the middle and eastern
part of the State. sept26-tf
TJOBERT L. BETHELL, Attorney
at Law, Dcs Arc, Prairie county, Ar
kansas. feb20-tf
SAM’L W. WILLIAMS.W. L. D. WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At
** torneys at Law, Little Hock, Ar
kansas. Office on Markham street. One of
our firm will be almost always at Brownsville,
where he can be consulted on professional
business, and will give his personal attention
to all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted to
them. deed
JA. MOON, Attorney at Law,
. General Collecting and Land Agent,
For the Northern and Eastern Counties of
Arkansas, Des Arc, Arkansas. octlO
GEO. C. WATKINS.GEO. A. GALLAGHER.
WATKINS & GIIALL AGHER, At
torneys at Lav, , Little Bock, Arkan
sas. augd-ly
I> FL RNISS MARTLN, Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Prairie county,
Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of
Prairie, Pulaski, Conway, Pope, Yell. Perry,
Saline, White, Arkansas, Jefferson, Jackson
and Monroe. Prompt attention given to the
collection of claims. Also, the locating, sell
ing and paying taxes on land. jyl7-ly
J. L. HOLLOWELL..W. D. JACOWAY.
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardanelle. Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell. Perry.
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
je26-tf
TAMES F. BATTE, General Agent
,f and Collector, Searcy, White county
Arkansas. Particular attention given to the
i collection of claims, buying and selling lands
| locating swamp and overflown lands, entering
i land at rhe General Land-Offices, showing
| lands subject to graduation ; and to the paying
of taxes on land in any county in North Ar
kansas. ' jar9-tf
BE A WOMAN.
BY ALPHEUS.
Oft I’ve heard a gentle mother,
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with a son of duty,
Urging him to be a man.
But unto her blue-eyed daughter,
Tho’ with love’s words quite as ready,
Points she out this other duty,
“Strive, my dear, to be a lady.”
What’s a lady? Is it something
Made of hoops, and silks, and airs,
Used to decorate the parlor,
Like the fancy rugs and chairs?
Is it one wastes on novels
Every feeling that is human?
If ’tis this to be a lady,
’Tis not this to be a woman.
Mother, then,.unto your daughter,
Speak of something higher, far,
Than to be mere fashion’s lady—
“Woman” is the brighter star.
If ye, in your strong alFection,
Urge your son to be a true man,
Urge your daughter no less strongly
To arise and be a woman.
Yes, a woman—brightest model
Of that high and perfect beauty,
Where the mind, and soul, and body,
Blend to work out life’s great duty—
Be a woman—nought is higher
On the gilded list of fame;
On the catalogue of virtue
There’s no brighter, holier name.
Be a woman—on to duty,
Raise the world from all that’s low,
Place high in the social heaven
Virtue’s fair and radiant bow,
Lend thy influence to each eirort,
That shall raise our nature’s human;
Be not fashion’s gilded lady,
Be a brave, whole-souled, true woman.
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Burrs Under the Saddle
A SKETCH OF THE REVOLUTION.
During the month of March, 1778, the
British army being at Philadelphia, and
the American forces at Valley Forge the
/xmci iluu tuiuiiiauucruruiwi ucsi
rous of having some information concern
ing the stale of affairs in the city, and de
sired Capt. Allen McLane to pick Imn
out a few trusty men for the purpose.—
Me Lane selected five of his own men.
with Sergeant John Marks for leader, and
sent the latter to head quarters to receive
instructions.
Marks was a very young man to be
entrusted with important service, being
only twenty-one years of age; but Mc
Lane had frequently marked his conduct
in camp and field, and made himself well
acquainted with his character, and knew
that he could be thoroughly relied on.—
Marks was a lank, bony fellow, with high
cheek bones, square jaw, but rather large
mouth: but he had a fine, expressive eye,
his features were exceedingly noble, and
his countenance entirely under his control.
With this he possessed great power of
mimicry which he used to show off fre
quently for the amusement of his com
rades, and had a reputation for shrewd
ness. Ilis muscular system had not re
ceived its full development; but his hab
its had made him almost as active as a
panther. He was fully instructed by Gen.
Washington, as tothe information desired,
and left camp at dark, arriving in a short
time at Fort Kennedy, on the Schuylkill.
At that point he struck across the country,
and by means of by-ways, with which he
was well acquainted, having been raised
jn the neighborhood, evaded the scouting
parties of the enemy, and arrived at Man
tua, soouafter dark. Here he posted Ins
little troop, in a cedar hollow, overlooking
the river ; while he in the disguise of a
countryman, with a sack of vegetables,
which he had stolen from a garden in the
neighborhood, rode into the city, lie not
only escaped detection but managed to
sell his vegetables to a member of Howe’s
staff, was taken to the General's presence,
and in return for false information in re
gard to Washington’s movements, man
aged to learn some facts of importance.—
Promising to return in a few days, with
more vegetables, he was enabled to leave
the town leisurely, with some sugar, cof
fee+ and other articles of like nature in
his sack. He jo ned his men without sus
picion at about night-fall, and after dark
the little party set out on its return.
Now had Marks kept in the course by
which he came, it is probable he could
have reached the American lines in good
time and safely. But it happened that at
about a mile from the river, at a point
nearly opposite Spring Mill, there lived a
farmer named M’llvaine, who was well
disposed toward the American cause—
M'llvaine had a daughter, named Pris
cilla, a young and handsome girl, to whom
Marks was strongly attached, but who had
never betrayed any symptoms of affec
tion in return. The home was half a mile
or more out of the former route, but lover
like, the trooper took his men in that di
rection. It was late in the night when he
entered the place—the moon was down—
yet it was probably some satisfaction for
the young man to look upon the building
where he supposed his lady love to be bu
ried in repose.
As they silently and swiftly passed—
along the watch-dog of the farm began to
bark, the inmates of the house wasalarm
ed.and a light at one of the windows
; showed them to be stirring. At the same
moment a horseman rode unexpectedly
from the shadow of a small patch of woods
on the left, and challenged the new-com
j ers. The answer was a pistol shot from
i Marks, which tumbled the challenger from
his horse. A general alarm at the farm
; house succeeded, and was answered by a
' bugle cal! a short distance ahead, Marks
found that he had come upon a post of the
enemy, and dashed on with force. At the
turn of the roud, a hundred yards futlier,
they found a small detachment formed —
across their path. As the Americans
knew the road forked on the other side of
this force, and their chances of escape
were good, if they could reach the left
hand road, which was a mere path, to be
ridden by only one horseman at a time,
they charged sword in hand.
Three of the troop managed to break
through and escape, but Marks, and a
stout trooper by the name ol Galil, Irom
Bucks county, were intercepted, and —
obliged to cross sabres with the enemy.—
It proved useless to contend with superi
or numbers, by this time re-inforced by
others from the farm house; und alter a
short and severe contest, resulting in the
death of one of the British troops, the two
Americans were taken prisoners, and car
ried back to the house of M'llvaine.
Marks was filled with chagrin, partly at
his folly in taking the most dangerous path,
and partly at his inability to convey to the
commander in chief the valuable infor
mation he bad picked up in the city. He
veiled his mortification, however, in a cool
and careless demeanor and in reply to the
lieutenant commanding the British de
tachment, said that he had been out on a
foraging party, had lost his way and man
aged to get almost in sight ol the city be
fore be discovered bis blunder. Priscilla,
who with the rest of the family was now
awake and dressed, saw, but apparently
did not recognize Marks. After some
more questions were answered in what
seemed to be an open manner, the lieu
tenant directed the Americans to be placed,
securely bound and guarded, in an upper
room of the house, there to remain until
morning. By way ol comfort he gave
them the assurance that they would both
be bung as spies.
Marks with bis companion passed a
sleepless night; it was not alone the pros
pect of an ignominious death which troub
led him ; but be bad learned enough in
the city to know that a surprise movement
4th of Dec., against the American forces,
was set down for the following day, and
was aware that it was entirely unexpected.
He revolved various plans of escape in
his mind, none of which appeared to be
practicable, and finally concluded to dis
miss any premeditation on the matter, and
he merely prepared to take advantage of
unexpected circumstances. As for Gahl,
he took matters like a philosopher, and
snored away all night in happy uncon
sciousness of the past.
At day light the prisoners were brought
down and placed upon a porch, while
Lieutenant Draper and the men under
his command look breakfast in the house.
The horses of the troopers, with those of
Marks and Gahl also, were all saddled
and hitched to the fences* under charge
of a little Scotchman named McPherson.
Priscilla, accompanied by Lieutenant Dra
per came out, the former bearing some
food. After it was partaken of, Priscilla
laid the dishes, knives and forks upon a
bench on the porch, and listened with ap
parent interest to the questions put by the
Lieutenant. The latter by way of en
couragement, assured the two Americans
that if they gave true statements, their
lives would be spared—otherwise they
would certainly be hanged. He'then left
for a short lime, to digest the information
Priscilla remaining behind.
The Quaker girl, still appearing not to
recognize Marks, said to him, loud enough
to be heard by the soldiers who were—
passing to and fro.
‘I would advise thee, friend, to tell all
thee knows. Friend Draper will keep
his word with thee, I am sure.’ She then
added in a low voice, ‘keep still, John
and I will save thee. Answer what I say,
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* r—j mvv- -; - —
Marks caught her intent words in a
moment, and replied aloud :
11 won't turn scoundrel, Miss, for fear of
death, even if 1 had surety the captain
ihere would keep his word.’
Other conversation followed, and Pris
cilla, who had concealed a sharp case
knife in her sleeve, managed to cut the
prisoner’s bonds, without observation, cau
tioning them at the same time not to move
too soon. She told them that the Lieu
tenant’s horses one of which was ridden
by bis servant, and both standing near the
gate, were the swiftest of all, and then
went out and exchanged some light obser
vation with McPherson, patting and ad
miring the various horses, one by one.
Marks kept a close watch upon her, and
noticed that she passed something under
the saddle of each horse; but she did not
lay her hand on the two horses of the
Lieutenant. Priscilla returned presently,
and with a significant glance at the cap
tives, entered the house and engaged
Lieutenant Draper in conversation.
McPherson in the meanwhile, had no
ticed that some manoeuvring was being
made, and came on to the porch to inspect
the fastenings of the prisoners. As he
did so, Gahl, who was a powerful man,
struck him between the eyes with his full
force, and the Scotchman fell backward
from the raised floor to the ground, striking
his head against a stone so severely as to
take away his senses for the time. Be
fore the alarm could be given, Marks and
Gahl were mounted on their horses, and
galloping furiously up the road. Draper
rushed out, and, hurried pistol shots being
ineffectual, ordered a pursuit. But the
party had not proceeded a dozen yards,
before every horse grew restive, and at
last utterly unmanageable. All attempts
to control them were in vain, and the
horses, growing more furious, unseated
troopei after trooper. The single excep
tion was in Marks’ own horse, which Dra
per had mounted. He was quiet ^enough
but Draper happening to dismount, in or
der to examine into the cause of the trou
ble, the steed galloped off after his master,
whom he ultimately overlook.
After considerable time thus lost, it oc
curred to the Lieutenant that there was
some trick in the matter. The horses
were stripped, and it was found that the
sharp burs of burdock had been placed
under every saddle, nnd had fretted and
galled the animals almost to madness.—
By this tim>\ the fugitives had too much
sturt, and pursuit was abandoned.
About four miles further on, Marks and
Gahl fell in with three troopers of the en
emy. The Americans were without sa
bres, but there were pistols in the holsters,
and with these they settled two of their
opponents. The tnird put spurs to his
horse, and turning down a crossroad es
caped. Marks and his friend were in too
much of a hurry to pursue him, and rode
on towards the camp, where they arrived
that afternoon. The information that
Marks brought was of essential service.
The British arrived during the night, but
found such formidable preparations made
to receive the attacking columns that they
quietly retreated by the road they came.
Lieutenant Draper suspected Priscilla,
who denied having anything to do with
the matter, and wondered very much where
the burs came from that time of year.
The truth is the girl had procured them
from some uncombed wool, which lay in
an upper chamber, the sheep of the farm
having gathered them in their rambles.
Thus two kinds of non-coinhutnnts had
played important parts in the matter ; hut
the Lieutenant never found that out. He
never censed to lament the loss of his pis
tols, which were a handsome, silver moun
ted pair, nor his showy cloak, which had
been strapped behind his saddle, both
proving of great service toMnrks.
Murks and Guhl were promoted. The
latter was made a seaigeom, and was
killed afterwards in a skirmish at Van
Darn’s Mill. Mnrksserved through the
war. heeainp. ultimately a eantain. and
distinguished himself in several notions.
After the war lie returned to Chester coun
ty, and Priscilla became his wife. The
latter was formally “disowned” by her
sect, for * marrying out of meeting,’ and
having aggravated her offence by being
married by a “ hired priest.” The expul
sion did not seem to effect her spirits, for
she became a jolly, contented matron, and
lived to a good old age, surviving her bus
band two years. The descendants of the
couple still live in Chester and Delaware
counties with the exception of a grand
son, George Marks, who is. or was re
cently, a thriving farmer in Vinton Coun
ty, Ohio.
...♦ --
A College Joke.—One of the ear
liestPresidentsof Jederson College, Penn.,
was the venerable Dr. M’Millan, a man
of great gravity and dignity of manners.
In those times it was customary lor the
students, when meeting the President, to
remove the hat from the head, place it
under the left arm, make a profound bow,
and pass the compliments of the day.
Among the students was Tom Devoc,
an eccentric fellow. His lather was a rich
planter of Mississippi, and as Tom was
always “ flush of money," the height of
his ambition was to sport a gold-headed
curie and gallant the old Greek Professor’s
daughters.
The term student, which he bore iu
common with the other members of the
college, was a sad misnomer. Torn’s
mind was more deeply engrossed with
backgammon, checkers, and “ old sledge,”
than with his mathematics, and he was
more deeply rend in the lore of Chester
field, than in that of Homer and Virgil.
T I .1 II I_ .1 I
aii uu-v, iic n uo u oiiaiiutv'wiuuicu, mj
handed fop, and. as may be supposed, a
great favorite with n certain class of ladies
who mistake impertinence for wit, and fine
clothes and affected manners for refine
ment and solid accomplishments.
Hut to our tale. Tom was one day
walking down street arm in arm with his
friend, John Smith, who had a spice of
the wag about him. Seeing the President
a few paces before them, Tom hastily in
quired.
“ Smith what is ‘ good morning, sir,’
in Latin ?”
“Ego sum stultus,” was the reply,
without a moments hesitation.
Meeting the President, Tom, after the
most approved style of donkeyism, at the
same time making a. profound salaam,
greeted him with.
“ Ego sum stultus /”
“I’m aware of it,” responded the Presi
dent making a slight bow.
This proving rather unsatisfactory, Tom
posted off to the room of his friend Byles,
whom he saluted with.
•• Deacon, what is the translation of
this seuteuce—“ Ego sum stultus ?”
“ lam a fool!" responded the unsophis
ticated " Deacon.”
This told the whole story. As novel
writers say, Tom’s phelins may be more
easily imagined than described.
Whether the students bored him about'
it or not, and whether the Professor’s
daughters ever heard of it or not, “ depo
nent sayeth not,” but history recorded)
j that the next fiat-bottomed boat that went
t down the Ohio bore Tom as a passenger.
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A MiTaniosHL Snarl.—The Bur
lington (Iowa) Iluwkeye tells of a lady
in that vicinity, who, by marriage, has
got herself into the following distressing
situation in regard to her own family. She
is sister-in-law to her father, aunt to her
brothers, sister to her uncle, duughter to
her grandfather, and great aunt to her
own children.
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[From the N’ew Orlt'iin* Weekly Mirror.
SAD DEATH OF AN OLD PRINTER.
On Sunday night, November 7, 1858,
Mr. James Anderson, one of the oldest
printers in this city, met n fearful and un
timely death in being run over by one of
the Lafayette horse-cars, on Baronne
street, near Perdido. His injuries were
of so severe a nature that the poor old
man expired almost immediately. “ Old
Jim,” as he was familiarly called by all
the printers, was generally regarded by
them as a sort of fixed up-town institution,
ns much so us (lie City Hull, or the Pica
yune office itself, where lie labored from
its start to the day of bis death. His pe
culiarities, not all of a winning or pre
possessing character, were therefore treat
ed by his juniors in the profession with nil
the kindly forbearance that genial man
hood or generous youth accords gray hairs
sanctified by a long life of industry and
integrity. It was therefore With a leeling
pf profound sorrow that the intelligence of
the old man’s harsh arid untimely fate
was received by his numerous friends and
acquaintances in and out of the profession.
Leaving the company of a friend on St.
Charles street, about 10 o’clock on Sunday
evening, the old man was on his home
ward way, when he stumbled and fell
upon the track, nearly opposite, the resi
dence of Dr. Hall,'on Baronne street.
The driver of the car, warned by persons
who perceived his position, made every
effort to pull up, but in vain. The wheels
passed over him “ diagonally, just above
the left groin, lacerating and crushing the
integuments and intestines, and then over
the lower paft of the right thigh, crushing
that in a like terrible manner.”
Poor Jim! A nntive of Tennessee, he
come to this city about the year 1836,
joined the typographical corps of the
Picayune, at thnt time n delicate bantling,
manfully battling for the public favor
which has since been so generously
showered upon it. Through twenty-two
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overflows, he stuck to his business with
the tenacity of purpose which was one of
his most marked characteristics. Twenty
two years! What a world of retnenis
cence* the words conjure up in the tnind
of every thoughtful observer of the changes
that time has wrought in this city since
then. He saw St. Charles street, when
it was almost a wilderness, hardly dis
tinguishable from the surrounding swamps;
he may have hunted ducks on Coose
Pond, close by the present site of Poydrns
Market; ho may have 1 stened to the
wrangling of legislators in the old Stale
House, where now capacious warehouses,
halls of education, and elegant private
residences meet the eye. The old St.
Charles Hotel then existed only in the
brain of its energetic projector, and he
saw the first gleam of its snowy columns
in the sunlight, its subsequent destruction
by fire, and reconstruction in more massive
style; he witnessed the conflagration of
the old St. Charles Theatre, and heard
the crash of the grand chandelier that
toiled its own knell to all the city in its
fall. He was doubtless present at the
laying of the corner-stone of the City
Hall, watched its slow and interrupted
progress to its present graceful and artis
tic proportions, and afterwards saw Odd
Fellows' Hall arise from masses of shape
less granite to vie with it in utility and
beauty; he hob-a-nohbed with heroes re
turning from the Mexican war, while the
glow of new-won glory still mantled on
their cheeks; and was paddled in a canoe
to dinner or to work when the Sauve
crevasse inundated our streets. How con
temptuously must the old man have re
garded the fussy enthusiasm of the young
people who fancied that they too had seen
a wiiiiuunu! signi in me uiminunve nreaK
on the plantation of Mr. John M. Bell,
that got itself published as a crevasse last
spring. How he loved to deal out John
sonian blows on the luckless young wight
who presumed in his hearing to know
anything of New Orleans, past or pres
ent. This had become so settled a habit
of his that young and thoughtless members
of the craft sometimes took advantage of
it to irritate the old war-horse and put him
on his mettle. The experiment was sel
dom repeated ; for *■ Old Jim,” was a mas
ter of irony and sarcasm.
Among the thousand notable events in
the progress of the city which we have
neither time nor space to record, and of
which he was un intelligent and interested
spectator, we must not pass in silence the
elevation to the chief magistracy of this
proud city of a brother printer, who had
worked beside him in the Picayune office
nnd followed his hearse toman’s last rest
ing-place on earth. Mayor Stilh, as a
member of the New Orleans Typographi
cal Union, No. 17, was foremost in the
funeral cortege of his former fellow-work
ntan.
We believe Mr. Anderson was never
married; by his death no ties of kindred
were severed ; but his blunt honest frank
ness and unswerving faithfulness to the
friendships he had formed, won him troops
of friends, who sincerely mourned the ac
cident that cut off the few brief years that
in the natural course of things would
seem to have been alloted him on earth.
He was between 50 and 60 years old.
He was buried in the vault of the Typo
graphical Union in Greenwood Cemetery,
and his funeral attended by a large num
ber of the members of that body.
Poor Jim!
“ How lov’d, how honor’d once avail thee not,
To whom related or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee—
’Tis all hou art and all the. proud shall be.”
g3?”Healtb is a toy that we play with much
as a child does—for the pleasure, seemingly,
of breaking it.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Men are frequently like tea—their real
strength and goodness not being property
drawn out. until they have been a dhort thnif *'
inhot walet. ' r\ j> \
(Ejf*A lie always arises from fear or from
interest and gonseqqently from meanness.
The lady who inade a dash, has since
brought her husband to a fall slop! 11 >*'
(jyTokill bedbugs, take corrosive subli
mate and daub it all over the bedstead; then
bum your bedstead and bed clothing, and move
Into another house.
(jyThere Ismore truth than poetry in the
assertion that there are two periods when
Congress does no business—one is before the
holidays and the other after.
StoNifiCANT.—The same voices that cried
“Hosanna l’> when the Son of David ehtered
Jerusalem, cried “Cruelty him l’» when the
popular current turned. There is a great deal
of meaning in this fact, and we may often see
it Illustrated in the lives of men of our own *i
time. i
Sensible to the Last.—Some musical
teacher once wrote “that the art of playing on
the violin required the nicest perception and
the most delicate sensibility of any art in the -j
known world.Some country editor in com
menting on the same, says: “Tlie aft of pub
lishing a newspaper and inaklhg it pity, beats
the art of Addling higher tbaoia kitov”
er The Buffalo Advertiser, speaking of
the liquor sold in that town, savst
“The brandy is poison—the whisky U that
variety known as ‘hardware,*— strychnine
would improve it—and the gin is kept In gM»* u
bottles simply because it would eat through
the staves of a barrel in fifteen ruinate* 1'*
g^TLalando, the French astronomer, when
the revolution broke out, only paid the more
attention to the revolution of the heavenly bo
dies; and when be found, at the end, that he
had escaped the fury of Robespierre and hie >1
fellow ruffians, he gratefully remarked,
inny thank my stars for it.” !
gy An honest son of Erin, green from hia
peregrinations, put his head into a lawyer’s
office, and asked the inmate—“An what do
you sell here?” “Blockheads,” reolied the
limb of the lew. “Och, thin to be sure,” said
Pat, “it must be a good trade, for i see there is
but one of them loft.”
Yankee am. Ovkh.—Bayard Taylor says
that a Yankee In walking In St. Petersburgh,
one muddy day, met the Grand Duke Constan
tine, The sidewalk was not wide enough fob
two to pass, and the street was very deep In
filth—whereupon the American took a silver
rouble from his pocket, shook it in his cloud
hand, and cried out:‘Crown or Tail?’‘Crown,’.
guessed the Grand Duke. “Your Highness
has won,” cried the American; looking at the
rouble and stepping into the mud. The next
day the Yankee was invited by the Grand
Duke to dinner.
C3T“i served,” said Jefferson, “with Gen.
Washington in the Legislature of Virginia, be
fore the devolution, and during it with Dr,
Franklin in Congress. I never heard either,
of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to
any but the main point, which was to decide
the question. They laid their shoulders to the
great points, knowing that the little ones
Would follow of themselves.
Useeui. Maxims.—Begin life with tjic least
show and the least expense possible; you may
at pleasure increase both; you cannot easily di
minish them. Do not think your estate your
own while any man can call upon you for
money and you cannot pay; therefore begin
with timorous parsimony. Let it be your first,
care not be in any man's debt. Resolve not to
be poor—whatever you have, spend less.
Poverty is a great enemy to human bappinese;
it certainly destroys liberty, and makes tens
virtues impiacticable and others extremely
(P7* II was done when it wu begun, it wai
done when it was half done, and yet wasn't
done when it was finished. Now what was it?
Timothy Johnson courted Susanna Dunu. It
was done when it was begun, it was done when
it was half done, and yet it wasn’t Dunu
when it was finished—for it was Johnson.
A good story is told of a Michigan
man who recently went down into Indiana to
buy a drove of horses. He was longer absent
than he intended, and failed to meet a busi
ness engagement. On being rather reproach
ed for not being home, he made due apology.
“I tell you how it is, squire,” said he, “at ev
ery iittle darned town they wanted me to atop
and be president of a bank.”
(Hr A bet was once made on a slow rail
road, that the engine could’nt pull a man's
boots off The trial come off and so did tbe
boots; but there were loud complaints of foul
play. It was said that they chained the en
gine to a stake and then set a big dog on tbe
man, causing him to jump backwards out <tf
his cowhides.
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The Fun or a Mule Race.—A-l
the County Fair, at New Albany .Indiana,
the people had a most hearty laugh over
a mule race, after the fashion of an Irish
donkey race, where each man rides his
neighbor’s beast, and the last one in wins.
It is not a bad way of closing up a qaule
show. It is decidedly better tbau “female
equestrianism.” At New Albany, seven
entries were made, and when the drum
tapped they nil started, but were in a few
monieuts strung along the track for half
a mile. Persons were statioued at proper
intervals, for the purpose of keeping the
mules in the track, which they did at con
siderable trouble. We never saw such
frenzied excitement as the crowd exhibited
when the last and winning mule, entered
by Andy Huncilby, came stumbling up
the stretch, followed by at least 2,000 peo
ple, shouting in the most deafening man
ner. The mule cuine slowly under the
line—was almost pushed to the mark, we
might say. One pi „the judges sung oul
to ihe crowd that the time of the slowest
mule was made in ten minutes and seven
ty-two seconds.