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DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
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LIST OF ACTS,
Passed by the General Assembly at the
Session of 1858,-59.
1. An act to legalize the sale of sec
tion sixteen in Calhoun county.
2. An act to repeal an act entitled an
act declaring Petit Jean a navigable stream.
3. An act to change the name of Fran
cis Isabella Smith of Clark county, Arkansas,
to that of Francis Isabella Rose, and make her
lawful heir of Christopher C. Rose and Lau
retta Rose, his wife, of said county.
4. An act for the relief and benefit of
the township of Surrounded Hill, in Monroe
county.
5. An act to incorporate the town of
Greenwood in Sebastian county Arkansas.
C. An act to authorize the clerk of the
circuit and county courts of Desha county to
transcribe certain records, and for other pur
poses.
7. An act to amend the charter of the
city of Helena, and for other purposes
8. An act to change the time of hold
ing Ihe probate courts of the counties of
Bradley and Scott.
9. An act to pay the judge of the pro
bate and county courts of Drew county, Ar
kansas, a regular salary per annum.
10. An act to change a portion of the
military road leading from Little Rock to
Washington, Hempstead county.
11. An act to revive and put in force
“an act to incorporate the town of Dover, in
Pope county,” approved 31st December, A. D.
1852.
12. An act lo change the name of Ab
Vwr Ann PkonJU. 4- 4.Li.. _ C T\_I J
West of the comity of Pope, to Abby Ann
Chandler, and to constitute her a legal heir of
Elijah Chandler.
13. An act to grant an extension of
time to make a cut-olfon the Arkansas river,
in section 17 and 20, T. 9, S. R. 1 W.
14. An act to change the name of John
Wolf of Hempstead, Arkansas, to the name of
John Taylor.
15. An act to exempt Scott county from
the operation of a law approved loth Janua
ry. 1859, authorizing the comity courts of
Jefferson, Scott, Sebastian, Chicot, Hempstead
and Randolph, to levy a road tax.
16. An act to increase the compensa
tion of the county judges of Greene and Sear
cy counties.
17. An act for the relief of Emily So
phronia Quarles.
18. An act to amend an act to incorpo
rate the town of Pocahontas, in the county of
Randolph. State of Arkansas, approved Jan.
15th. 1857.
19. An act to grant relief to Elvira H.
Brown, as administratrix of the estate of Wm.
M. Brown, dec’d, late sheriffof Marion coun
ty. Arkansas.
20. An act to prevent persons from
hiring slaves to work and perform manual la
bor on the Sabbath day, without the consent
of the owner or overseer.
21. An act to incorporate the Fayette
ville female institute.
22. An act for the relief of Searcy
county, Arkansas.
23. An act to change the time of hold
ing the probate court of Saline county.
24. An act for the relief of James H.
Hearndon.
25. An act to authorize the assignment
of certificates of purchase of Saline lands.
26. An act to change the time of hold
ing the probate court in Washington county,
Arkansas.
27. An act to change the name of
Amelia Elizabeth Taylor, to that of Bettie
Watts, and to constitute her a lawful heir of
Presley Watts.
28. An act to abolish the Fayetteville
swamp Land district and annex the same to the
Clarksville district of swamp land.
29. An act concerning the Bank of the
State of Arkansas.
30. An act to add to the county of Co
lumbia a portion of the county of Union.
31. An act to amend the fourteenth
section, chapter 146 of Gould’s Digest of the
Statutes of Arkansas.
32. An act to increase the salaries of
the judges, and expedite the business of the
33. An act to incorporate the Van Bu
ren female academy.
34. An act in reference to harboring
and concealing runaway slaves.
35. An act to repeal an act to amend
an act entitled an act to authorize the county
courts of the counties of Jackson, Crawford,
Pope. Lafayette, Crittenden, Monroe, Colum
bia and Pulaski, to levy a road tax, and for
other purposes, and to revive and put in force
all road laws in force at the time of the pas
sage of said act.
36. An act to repeal section 2 of the
general appropriation act, approved 15th Jan
uary, 1857.
37. An act approving an act of the
General Assembly of the State of Louisiana
incorporating the Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas navigation company.
38. An act to amend the charter of tire
Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company.
39. An act to exempt Jefferson and
Randolph counties from the operation of an
act entitled an act to authorize the county
courts of Jefferson, Scott, Sebastian, Chicot,
Hempstead and Randolph counties to levy a
road tax and for other purposes, approved 15,
January, 1857.
40. An act to authorize the clerk of the
circuit coart of Jackson county to transcribe
certain records of his office.
41. An act to exempt the citizens liv
ing west of Red river in Lafayette county from
serving on the grand and pettit juries.
42. An act for the relief of Rober C.
Newton.
43. An act to legalize the sale of 16th
section in Pulaski, Izard, Searcy, St. Francis
and Prairie counties. Arkansas.
41. An act to make the Saline river at
Long View the line between Ashley and
Bradley counties.
45. An act to repeal in part an act in
corporating the town of Carrollton, in the
county of Carroll, State of Arkansas.
46" An act to change the name of
Thomas Livingston Storms, tothat of Thomas
Livingston Starkes, and to constitute him a
lawful heir of Learner B. Starkes.
47. An act to change the name of
Emily H. Jenkins of Ouachita county,to that
of Emily H. Searles.
4S. An act for the relief of L. C. Mor
gan of Drew county, Arkansas.
49. An act to revive and amend an act
entitled an act to revive and amend an act, ap
proved 10th January, 1857, entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Smithville, Lawrence
county, approved 11th January, 1857.
50. An act to incorporate the Fayette
ville female seminary.
51 An act for the relief of the heirs of
Thomas St. W» lie re, -deceas'd:
52. An act in relation to insane pau
pers.
53. An act to incorporate the city of
Napoleon.
54. An act to enable Missouri F. Har
ris, wife of Ptolemy T. Harris, jr., to be;
come guardian of her HlinOr Children,
55. An act for the relief of Ralph Ar
nold, former sheriff of Marion county.
56. An act to authorize the Governor
to subscribe for stock in certain railroads.
57. An act to preserve certain records
belonging to the clerk’s office in Crittenden
county.
58. An act to repeal an act to change
the proceeds arising from fines in Pope and
Ouachita counties from the schorl fund to
county purposes, as to Ouachita county.
59. An act to authorize the Governor
of this Slate to select certain lands, and for
other purposes.
60. An act for the relief of Gray C.
Brown of Clark county.
61. An act to change the time of hold
ing the election of judge of the &th judicial
circuit of this State.
62. An act concerning the Cairo and
Fulton Railroad and its two branches.
63. An act to distribute the new Digest
of the statutes of Arkansas.
64. An act to incorporate the town of
Hampton, in the county of Calhoun.
65. An act supplementary to an act
passed at the present session of the General
Assembly entitled an act to incorporate the
town of Hamptoif, in the county of Calhoun.
66. An act in relation to minors who
have no guardian.
b7. An act to change the time or hold
ing the circuit courts in the county of Desha.
68. An act to prohihit the emancipa
tion of slaves.
69. An act to authorize the county and
probate judge of White county to cause to be
transcribed, the records of said county of
White and to legalize the same when so trans
cribed.
70. An act to change the time of hold
ing the county and probate court of Indepen
dence county and the probate court of Benton
county.
71. An act to amend an act entitled an
act to incorporate the town of Clinton, ap
proved January 9, 1851.
72. An act to amend an act entitled an
act to incorporate the city of Arkadelphia.
73. An act to authorize the clerks of
the county of Izard and Carroll to burn certain
election returns, and canceled county scrip in
their respective offices.
74. An act to repeal in part an act en
titled an act for the relief of the counties of
Franklin, Union and Calhoun, approved 24th
November, A. D., 1854.
75. An act to furnish the Arkansas
Reports to Searcy county, Ark.
76. An act for the relief of Pitman and
Oates, of the county of Arkansas.
77. An act lo change the name of
Mariah McKinney of Conway county, and
make her the lawful heir of James A. Nichols
of said county.
78. An act to incorporate Atlanta male
and female academy in Union county, and
prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquors within
one mile of the same.
79. An act for the relief of the county
scrip holders of Lafayette county.
80. An act for the benefit of the Prince
ton male und female academy.
81. An act declaring all roads and
highways in Lafayette county lawful, and for
other purposes.
82. An act to grant a charter to
Jonathan Hardin, to build a toll bridge across
Cadron Creek, in Conway county.
83. An act to increase the pay of the
county and prebate judges of the county of
Benton.
84. An act to authorize Hopson O.
Gentry of Sevier county, Stale of Arkansas, to
convey dower in certain lands.
85. An act for the benefit of township
12; south of range 10 west, in the State of Ar
kansas, county of Bradley.
86. An act to authorize the clerks of
the circuit courts of the several counties of
this State to issue subpomas in vacation for
witnesses to appear before the grand jury.
87 An act to incorporate the Jactson
port and Carrollton turnpike company.
88. An act to incorporate the rescue fire
company at Batesville.
89. An act for the relief of W. G. Mur
phy, late sheriff of Randolph county.
90. An act for the relief of sheriff's and
tax collectors.
91. An act to change the name of Sa
rah Jane Ellet to that of Sarah Jane Duncan
and make her heir of Hiram Duncan and Phe
be Duncan of Carroll county.
92. An act to provide for the salary of
the probate judge of the county of Chicot, and
also to increase the fees of justices of the
peace of said county.
93. An act to repeal an act declaring
Ouachita'river a navigable stream in Polk
and Hot Spring counties.
94. An act to increase the salary of the
Governor of the State of Arkansas.
95. An act to incorporate the Crooked
Creek male academy, in the county of Marion.
96. An act to aid the cause of education in
Calhoun county, Arkansas.
97. An act to incorporate the Arkansas in
stitute for the blind.
98. Ai. act giving permission to county
courts to employ county attorneys to protect
the interest of their respective counties.
99. An act to incorporate the town of War
ren in Bradley county.
100. An act to charter the Central Pacific
Telegraph Company.
101. An act to incorporate the trustees
of the Magnolia female institute.
102. An act more fully to define the
duties of the several land agents in this State.
103. An act to incorporate the town
of Hopefield in Crittenden county.
104. An act to charter St. Charles
academy.
105. An act establishing a State!
road.
106. An act to incorporate the trustees
of the Hampton male and female academies.
107. An act for the amendment of the
charter of the city of Little Rock.
108. An act to aid in the construction ,
of railroads in Pulaski county, Ark.
109. An act to change the time of
holding the probate court of Union county.
110. An act to confirm and legalize the
sale of the 16th section in township 5 north,
in range six west, and also the 16tb section in
township five north, in range eight west, all
situate in the county of White.
111. An act to change the time of
holding the county court of Arkansas county.
112. An act to legalize the sale of the
sixteenth section in township nineteen north
of range seven east in Greene county.
113. Art act for I he relief nf the
citizens of township 18, north range one
west.
114. An act to authorize the several
County courts to examine and cause to be
burned all old scrip and ballots on the fi.ea in
the respective clerk's offices.
115. An act enabling the county courts
of the counties of Union and Calhoun to re
duce the per centum of county taxes.
110. An act to extend the corporate
limits of the city of Clarksville in the coun
ty of Johnson.
117. An act to authorize the clerks of
Greene and Poinsett counties to transcribe
certnin records.
118. An act for the relief of William
H. Letlcr.
119. An act lo change the line between
the counties of Polk and Montgomery.
120. An act to change, the name of
Josephine Kate Morrow to that of Josephine
Kale Hushing, and constitute her a lawful heir
of E. D. Rushingof Independence county.
121. An act to repeal an act to author
ize the county courts of Sebastian, Crawford
and Franklin counties to appoint county at
tomfev, approved 15th January, 1857, so far
as relates to Sebastian county.
122. An act explanatory of the twenty
third section of chapter sixty-second of the
Digest, under the head of elections.
123. An act to permit the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad company and the
Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad company,
to consolidate said companies into one com
tpany, to be known and called “the central Pa
cific railroad company.”
124. An act to constitute certain acts
of individuals, nign misdemeanors.
125. An act concerning the estate of
Thos. B. Walter, dec’d.
126. An act to amend section 15 of
chapter 101 of Gould’s Digest.
127. An act to fix the pay of jurors.
128. An act to prevent the people from
being defraude with batik paper.
129. An act to charter Warren male
and female seminary.
130. An act to incorporate the town
of Clarendon in the county of Monroe.
131. An act to incorporate the presi
dent and trustees of the Chambersville male
and female academy in Calhoun county, and
to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors with
in two miles of the town of Chambersville.
132. An act to incorporate the trustees
of the Arkansas Baptist State convention.
133. An act for the relief of Benjamin
Vaughan of Madison county.
134. An act to prevent the sale of
school lands in certain cases.
135. An act to authorize and require
the common school commissioners of Mon
roe county, Ark , to sell section 16, in town
ship one south of the base line, and range two
west oE the fifth principal meridian.
136. An act to incorporate the town of
Madison in St. Francis county.
137. An act to regulate the duties of
the assignees of property for the payment of
debt.
138. An act to provide for making and
repairing levees in Desha and Phillip? coun
ties. '
139. An act to cause all school funds j
to be paid directly to the commissioners of
common schools for the several counties.
140. An act to revive sawmp land scrip ,
and to extend the time for locating the same, j
141. An act to amend the common i
school system of Drew, Franklin, Yell and
Montgomery counties. J
142. An act for the relief of Mrs.
Phannel C. Lewis of Chicot county.
143. An act to authorize the county
court of Arkansas county to levy a road tax, j
and for other purposes.
j 144. An act to define a portion of the ,
line between the counties of Van Buren and ,
Pope. _ < I
145. An act regulating weights and (
measures in this State.
146. An act to limit the pay of wit- l
nesses in criminal cases.
147. An act to prevent fraud and op- 1
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148. An act to change the tune of
bolding the circuit co .rts of the sixth judicial i
circuit.
149. An act to compensate judges and ]
clerks of elections in the several counties of
this State. I
150. An act for the relief of Urban ’
E. Fort, late sheriff and collector of Indepen
dence county.
151. An act to remove the free negroes
and mulattoes from this State.
152. An act to enable the land agents
to issue certificates in certain cases, and for
other purposes.
153. An act to provide for the man
agement and control of the penitentiary.
154. An act to provide for the correc
tion of errors in the sale of State lands and
for other purposes.
155. An net to incorporate the Darda
nelle female institute.
156. An act to incorporate the Ewing
institute in the county of Johnson, State of \
Arkansas. * ,
157. An act to authorize John R.
Thornton and Edward A. Warren, jr., to I
practice law.
158. An act to legalize all public roads 1
and highways in the several counties.
159. An act to repeal in part an act
entitled “ an act to authorize the counties of :
Jackson, Crawford, Pope, Lafayette, Phillips,
Crittenden, Monroe. Columbia and Pulaski,
to levy a road tax.”
160 An act to incorporate the Searcy
Polytechnic school.
161. An act to authorize the clerk of
Pulaski county to transcribe the old index of
deeds in his office.
162. An act to legalize the official acts
of W. H Blackwell, clerk of Perry county.
163. An act to incorporate the trustees
of the female academy of St. Catherine,
Helena, Arkansas.
164. An act to change the line between
Hot Spring and Saline counties.
165. An act to arrange the senatoriol
districts, and to apportion representatives to
the General Assembly among the counties.
166. An act to regulate the fees of
witnesses.
167. An act to repeal in part the act I
entitled “ an act to declare Little Red river a i
navigable stream, approved 30th December,
1841.”
168. An act to increase the pay of
witnesses in the counties of Columbia, La
fayette, St. Francis, Hot Spring, Jackson,
Union, White, Ashley, Ouachita, Poinsett,
Yell. Desha, Prairie, Phillips and Sevier.
169. An act to define the line between
Johnson and Pope counties.
170. An act for the relief of Felix G.
Gardenhire, Robert S. Mitchell, George W.
Stokes, and Stephen L. Bush, of the emmtvof
T
171. An act to establish the cotluty of
Craighead.
17‘2. An act for the relief of certain
purchasers of land from the State.
173. An act to relieve certain purcha
sers of State land.
174. An net to authorize the county
courts of St. Francis county to levy a road
tax and for other purposes.
175. An act to provide for the further
prosecution of the geological, mirteralogical
and chemical survey of the State of Arkan
sas in connection with an agricultural and bo
tanical survey of said State.
176. An act to authorize the county
court of Clark county to establish a second
election precinct in the city of Arkadelphia.
177. An net further to amend the char
ter of Helena, and for other purposes.
178. An act to relieve Randolph coun
ty, Arkansas, from the operations of the
twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second sec
tions of chapter forty-four of Gould’s Digest
af the Statutes of Arkansas.
179. An act to provide for making and
repairing levees in Crittefidcfr county.
180. An act lo exempt Renton, Craw
ford and Madison counties from the operations
rf an act entitled an act to prevent the sale of
■pirituous liquors and wines to Indians, and to
nake the laws of this State conform in this
behalf as near as may be to the act of Con
gress entitled an act to regulate trade inter
course with the Indian tribes, and to preserve
oeace on the frontier* approved January lb,
1867.
181 An act to enable administrators
md executors lo make title.
182. An ael to repeal an act providing
'ai- I lx aalo aP Proof !»tiel ooof inn kj i v( aan in
;owri‘hip six, north of range nine east, in
Crittenden county, approved 80th November,
1854, and for other purposes.
183. An act to change the manner of
issessing the taxable properly belonging to
ion-residents, arid for other purposes in the
jounty of Mississippi.
184. An act for tlie relief John R. Tits*
■vorth and John Titsworth of Franklin coun
:y, and for other purposes.
185. An act to incorporate the president and
trustees of Mountain Home male and female
icademy.
186. An act to incorporate the town of
West Point, in White county.
187. An act to provide for tile election of a
ax assessor in Arkansas county.
188. An act to amend the laws of this State
:oncerning revenue, and for other purposes.
189. An act to grant James T. Harris a
diarter to make a turnpike or plank road
icross White river bottom, in Monroe county
190. An act to authorize the county courts
if Scott, Marion, Calhoun, Monroe, Fulton,
Conway, and Hot Spring counties to borrow
he internal improvement funds of these coun
;ies forthe purpos of building a court house.
191. An act to incorporate the Jefferson fe
jiale college.
192. An act for the incorporation of the
:owi of Wittsburg.
193. An act to incorporate the White Sul
ahur Springs female high school.
194. An act to incorporate the Phi Kappa I
ligma P. K. E. college. I
195. An act to prevent captains and owners i
if steamboats navigating any of the waters |
if this State from employing free negroes on
heir boats.
196. An act to authorize the common school |
ommi3sioner of Carroll county, to sell for i
vhat it will bring, the sixteenth section, In
ownship 17, north of range 19 west, in Car
oil county, Arkansas.
197. An act for the relief of Dogan, Duke i
i Co. I
198. An act for the relief of George T. (
fancum, and John Yancum of Greene county.
199. An act to increase the pay of associ- 1
te justices of the county courts of Jackson,
’ulaski, Poinsett and Lafayette counties.
200. An act to constitute Julia Ann Rea
nd Wm. Thomas Rea the legal heirs of Is
acl Burns and Rebacca Burns, and entitling
hem to inherit jointly with the other children
f the said Israel and Rebecca.
201. An act to legalize the sale of section
*1. in township 8, south of range 21 west.
202. An act to incorporate the Washington
ounty mechanical association.
203. An act for the incorporation of the
ity of Fayettesville.
204. An act to incorporate the town of ,
1a i rincvi 11 a in Hi u nnutifit n f (Ipnonn
205. An act for the relief of George Wil- i
iams ef Yell county.
206. An act to empower the probate judge (
n vacation to authorize administrators, exec
itors and guardians to lease real estate and 1
lire out slaves. |
207. An act for the relief of William C.
fazen of Prairie county.
208. An act to raise the fees of jailers.
209. An act for the relief of Jacob Ifengz.
210. An act for the lelief of the citizens of
'lapoleon.
211. An act for the relief of Robert White,
ailer of Pope county, and Daniel Wells, sher
ff of Drew county, Arkansas.
212. An act to aid in the reclamation of the
watnp lauds.
213. An act to define the time of holding the
:ircuit courts in Drew, Chicot, Crawford and
Scott counties.
214. An act to constitute and make Louisia
\. Humphries of White county, in this State,
he legal heir of John B. Humphries of said
:onnty.
215. An act to amend the election laws of
his State.
216. An act to change the time of holding
he circuit courts in the counties of Poinsett
ind St. Francis in the first judicial district.
217. An act for the relief of A. L. Hug
fins. .
218. An act (o authorize the county cou^B
if Randolph, Greene, ami Crawford coujHH
,o levy a roail lax, and for other purposjB" _
219. An act to incorprate the town ol^B||||
:er Point, in the county of Sevier.
220. An act to hasten the sale of swaM^l
ind overdowed lauds and the construction o^^
evees for their reclamation.
221. An act for the relief of Elliott H.
Fletcher of Mississippi county.
222. An act amendatory of an act framed by
the General Assembly of the State of Arkan
ias, approved January 7, 1857, entitled an act
to provide for raising and repairing levees in
Chicot county.
223. An act for the relief of H. E. Clark.
224. An act fixing a regular salary for coun
ty and probate, judges in Crittenden and St. •
Francis counties, and for other purposes.
225. An act to abolish imprisonment of j
slaves for violating the criminal laws of this'
State, and for other purposes.
22o. An act extending the time for collect- !
ing the revenue of 1838 in Sebastian county,
and for other purposes.
227. An act to amend ‘-an act to incorpor
ate the town of Hamburg, in the county of
Ashley, and State of Arkansas,” approved 14
Dec. 1854.
228. An act incorporate the town of Eldora
do, in Union county.
229. An act to increase the compensation of
circuit judges.
280. An act to amend^m act to incorporate
the town of Pocahontas, in the county of
Randolph, State of Arkansas,” approved 15th
January, 1857.
231. An act to allow widow’s dower in eho
•o in -eclion.
232* An act to change the name of Saaly
Parrnclia Riddle, to that of Zarrow Virginia
Douthit.
T 233. An act declaring T.anguille river and
the Bayou Mason navigable streams.
234. An act to amend chapter 25 of the
Digest Of 1858 under the head of bills of ex
change.
235. An act to amend section seven, chapter
147, and section fiftv-onc, chapter 148 of the
Digest of 1858.
236. An act to repeal the road tax law in
Hempstead and Lafayette counties.
237. An act to amend chapter 50 of the Di
gest of 18K8, under the head of descents and
distributions.
2.38. An act supplemental to an act entitled
an act to repeal in part an act to authorize the
counties of Jackson, Crawford, Pope, Layfay
ette. Phillips, Crittendon, Monroe, Columbia
and Pulaski to levy a road tax and for other
purposes; passed at the present session of the
General Assembly.
2.39. An act making appropriations for the
year one thousand, eight hundred and fifty
nine and one thousand, eight hundred and six
ty; and for part of the year one thousand,
eight hundred and fifty-eight, and for balances
due from the State.
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A DEFENCE OF GAMBLERS.
The following ingenious defence of the
profession is made by Willis, the gambler,
3n whose premises, in the city of New
Fork, it is alleged that a dead body was
mind. It would not be easy to controvert
tome of Ills positions, or to show that bis
trade is worse than the operations on the
’tnrtlr ik*(slinr.rtn Wi-v/t tlsn mnrnlti ansniilrf
- ■ .—© ---- -J I
ire transactions in prodifee end other ar
idea where nothing is really delirered,
tnd only the difference paid. It need not
>e worse to be very bud.
Gamblers, like stock brokers and Wall
itreet speculators, generally, whose pur
mils ore identical in principle, from the
very nature of these pursuits, hold their
Missions and temper in greater check than
my other class of men. They are qui
ver, and habitually put up with more in
tuits than any other men, not because
hey hnve less pluck, but because they
tee no use in having a row, and they
enow that excitement from any cause in
variably gives their opponents on ndvan
uge over them in play. To show tem
per at the loss of money would make a
gambler’s friends lose confidence in him,
ind be less willing to “ stake” him when
‘ broke.” I simply wish to show that
ramblers are, necessarily the coolest men
n the community.
There are men here in New York
whose wives cannot tell by their husband’s
ippearance, conversation, or temper at
he breakfast table, whether they lost or
von $20,000 the night before, and it is
he aim of every sporting man to attain
he mastery over himself. Yes, indeed,
ramblers are the least likely men in the
vorld ever to lose their temper about mon
ly, much less to commit a murder for H.
Svery man of ibe world knows that there
s no difficulty in getting every cent of
noney a gambler has in the world, if you
an only win it of him. Bat there’s the
ub. Cards are very uncertain things.
I will not attempt in this connection to
lefend gambling, but I will hazard the
issertion that, outside of their profession,
t more honest and honorable set of men
lannot he found than gamblers. Nor do
*r»!olv to flitnr trnnsnrtion* with
•ach other, but with landlords, tailors,
thoemakers, hotel keepers—in short with
ill classes of the community with whom
hey have pecuniary transactions.
Professionally, they manage, of course,
ike other business men, to have a slight
idvantage over outsiders, but while, when
lealing with brokers, speculators, politi
nans, and all classes of traders, you ner
*r know how much you are cheated, the
jambler allows every man to see and
eckon for himself the precise per cent
ige against him in a game of chance.
♦ »» .
American Locomotives Thiumtii
int.—Two years ago, two splended loco
notives called the "Cairo” and "Suez”
.vere manufactured at the works of Mess.
William Mason & Co., in this town, for
he Alexandria and Suez Railroad, in
Egypt. The Pasha, who is President,
Director, Stockholder, and something else
of his road, also ordered two engines of
English construction, and Yankee and
English engineers went out to run their
respective machines. The rivalry has not
been trifling, but the result is another tri
umph for Jonathan. The English engi
neers, through their Consul, uudertook to
flatter their patrons, and to disparage Yan
Ior®ianship, tried every method to
^Ttheir competitors. At first they
ftcessful.
^Kmericans were told by the rail
Kpany that their engines were not
to be used, and that their services
would not be needed. The cause for
hauling them up was that they were not
strong enough to haul the heavy trains.
One of the American engineers, gelling
an opportunity to speak with the Pasha,
told him he could haul as many loaded
cars as would reach from one end of the
road to the other. Accordingly, seventy
five heavily ioaded cars, which was all
they could muster, wete nut in a train, the
Pasiia’s own (far attached, and the whole
taken through to Suez—a distance of two
hundred miles—in twelve hours, making
stoppages for fuel and water. The Pasha
exclaimed, in Egyptian—"God is great,
but a Yankee is very near perfection!”
On his return he discharged the English
engine drivers, and now uses Taunton
engines altogether.— [Taunton Gazette.
_—. Bad luck is simply a man with his
hands in his breeches pocket, and a pipe iu
his mouth, looking to see “how it will come
out.” Good luck is a man of pluck to meet
difficulties, his sleeves rolled up,, working
h-rd to m*kf i‘. come right.
Ar IsrtftcsTiNo DocuMtBT. — Wc
were, says the N. O. Picayune, favored
by an elderly gentleman, Cnpt. Prank
Kendall, of Arknnsns, with a sight of nn
old and highly interesting document, be*
ing no less than the otiginal certificate of
discharge from service in the revolutionary
war, of the Captain’s father, ‘ Serjeant
John Kendall,” of the third Connecticut
regiment. The certificate is fl large half
folio sheet printed blank form, filled up
in writing where required, and bearing in
one place the signature of “Geo. Wash*
ington.”
The worn and stained document, eare*
fully patched with bits of printed paper ba
old as 1804, was for a long time among
the records at Washington, and Was ob
tained for Capt. Kendall, through Albert
Pike, Esq.
Wc give a copy of this valuable relict
BY HIS EXCEM.FRCY,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ.,
General and Comntander-iii-Cbief of the"
Forces of the United States of America.
These are to certify that the Bearer
hereof, John Kemlnll, a Seijeant 1 In the
3rd Connecticut—-Regiment, having faith
fully served the United States from March
'l.777—to the date hereof—and being inflated
for the War only, is hereby Discharged front
the American Ardiy.
GIVEN at Head-Quarters, the Tenth day of
June, 1763. GO. WASHINGTON.
By His EXdeif-KKfcv’s
Command
,f. Trumbull Jun’r Sect*?*
ft FOIST EH El) In the Books
ui nit} rvrgiuinii. juscjmi lyiarn
Adjutant.,
THE above Serj’l Jolin Kindal lies beeH
honored with the Badge of Merit for Six
Years faithful sei vice, ...
Sam’I B. Wehb, Cbt
Across the face is written in red ink,
“Warrant for One Thousand Acres Land
Issued 23 August 1789.”
On the back is printed:
Head Quarters. June Tenth 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not
avail the Bearer as e Discharge, until the
Ratification of the definitive Treaty I'eacej
previous to which Time, and until Proclama
tion thereof shall be made,' He is to be con
sidered as being on Furlough. . v-*
OEOROE WASHINGTON. §|
-4V-*-«s—‘
Don’t die tide you telE who did
it.—An eccentric old fellow named King
ston, in Tennessee, laid his room-mate*
named Chyrack, that he was going to kilt
himself one wight.
Kingston hud, as the last eccentricity,
of bis Fife, taken a chisel and mallet tebed
with him. and with a desperate resolve,
he seized the extraordinary tools of death,
and in an instant drove the blade of the
chisel into his breast.
The hair rose upon Chyrack’s head, and
fright spread like a sheet of snow over hie
face.
“Kingston ! Kingston! iny dear fellow f
You rascal, Kingston! do yon want to have
me hung i Hold on! don’t die till I call
somebody
Chyrack ran to the door, and called
like a madman to some people across the
street:
“Hallo! here! ministe*! all you stupid
people! Make haste over here, or there
will be a murder t'
The people crowded into Kignston’a
nouse.
"Dbn! die, Kingston ! don’t chisel this
way! Don’t die till you tell who did it!”
Kingston, with difficulty, articulated the
words, “ I did it myself.”
"There, that’ll do; now my dear fellow,
you may die, rfpfred Chyrack. taking «
long breath, and wiping the perspiration
from his forehead f
And Kingston did die in that extraor*
dinary manner, leaving his fate to be re*
corded as a suicide that was almost a mur
der.
—...• ♦
A Mixed Currency.
[From Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine.
•• A mixed currency will, from its na
ture, alternately expand and contract.
" When expanding, it does mischief,
by raising prices, causing speculations,
increasing credits, restricting manufac*
tures, and deranging commerce.
“ When expanded, it does no coon
because, having raised ihe prices of ait
commodities, it takes a greater amount of
money to transfer them ; having increas
ed credits, it takes a larger amount of
money to discharge them; and, cotrse*
quently the demand for money is greater
than the supply, and the rate of interest is
enchanced.
" When contracting, it does great
harm, because it occasions a rapid and
unnalurel fall of prices, a pressure in the
money market, and a general derange*
ment of trade.
" When contracted, when brought to the
nadir, its lowest point, business is complete
ly prostrate, bankruptcy spreads over the
laud, and all is paralysis and stagna
tion.
"When exploding, it scatters ruin and
dismay on all within its influence, and
shakes the very foundations of the social
fabric.
| •• When exploded, when all around lies
! in the silence and torpor of death, it coolly
! and carefully gathers its scattered frag
ments, and commences another cycle of
expansion, contraction and collaspe.
"There is no safety in such a currency,
because it costs more than it comes to.
| There is no convenience or utility, that
’ cannot be secured more profitably by a pa*
1 per circulation resting on full specie basis,
and therefore all enlightened statesmen
and business men all sensible bankers and
intelligent tnanafacturers—all, in short,
who have any interest in the common wel
fare, should join h,jart attd hand for it* ex
tinction.” .