DES ARC CITIZEN.
1. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS^
SATURDAY.DEC. 4. 1858.
Legislature.—We present our usual
synopsis of the proceedings of this body.
The Legislature did not accept the in
vitation of the citizens of St. Francis
county to attend the railroad jubilee at
Madison, on the 30ih ult.
Owing to the illness of Hon. O. H.
Oates, speaker of the House, Hon.
Samuel Mitchell was elected speaker
pro. tem., on the 22d ult.
A bill has passed the House increasing
the salary of the Supreme Judges,
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Death or the Host. J. H. Torbitt.
Judge Torbitt, Representative from Scott
county, departed this life on Monday eve
ning. 1 eslerday the legislature adjourned
to attend his funeral. We shall give the
full proceedings next week. We hnve
now only room to announce the sad intel
ligence of his death.—f Little Rock True
Democrat, 1st inst.
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869“ The Postoffice, heretofore known
as Big Creek, Phillips county, Ark., has
been changed in name. It is now called
Trenton. Wm. H. Smith is the postmaster.
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OvcnLAND Mail. —Mr. Walton,
■gent of the California Overland Mail
Company, informs the editors of the Mem
phis Enquirer that he has just returned
from a visit of inspection over the line,
with a view to ascertain the cause why
the route from Fort Smith to Memphis
was not as well filled as that to St. Louis.
He finds that owing to other contracts of
the sub-contractors, the mail is laid over
about 48 hours at Fort Smith, and about
2-1 at Des Arc. At present this cannot
be remedied; but arramrements am in
progress for putting stock on the line un
der the direct supervision of the contrac
tors, Messrs. Butterfield & Co. As soon
aa these arrangements are completed, the
same grade of work will be done between
Memphis and Fort Smith, as between the
latter place and St. Louis.
S&°“ Rev. A. R. Winfield, Presiding
Elder of the Pine Bluff District, has writ
ten several interesting and sprightly let
ters, which have been published in the
Memphis Christian Advocate. We find
the following compliment to him in the
Advocate over the signature of “ Domin
ion
“Winfield’s letters please my wife huge
ly, and she is a sensible woman. She
makes me read them to her alter she has
read them herself. His humor is genuine,
and his letters are full, smart, and seri
ous without being at all prosy. Win
field is read-read eagerly. Write on,
my brother. When a woman reads a
long article in a newspaper, it decides for
its being meritorious. I was partly raised
in Arkansas, and know, by sweet experi
ence, that it is a great country to make a
man keen. It has a world of whetstones
in it. Ouachita hones are of world-wide
fame. I arn one of them myself.”
The Championship.—The ucwspapers
have, recently, been filled with accounts
of the bully Morissey whipping the bully
Heenan, and the championship has been
accordingly awarded to the victor together
with the stakes, amounting to the snug
sum of $5,000. The following from the
Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer, i s an
excellent “ take ofT,” or offset, to the late
brutal exhibition on the part of these
“ prize fighters
bating Match for the Champion
ship.—We understand that preparations
■ re making for a grand eating match for
the championship of America, to take place
in Cleveland some time next month.
Two of our most voracious eaters, whose
names we are not now permitted to give,
will meet somewhere beyond the city lim
its and proceed to devour mush and milk
until one of them bursts The one who
doesn't burst will be declared the victor
and come into possession of the champion
ship and the stakes—whatever they may
be. The contestants are now training for
-the trial._Messrs. Taylor of the Aiwrinr
House and Philips of the American Hotel,
it is believed, will officiate as seconds.
To use a startingly novel phrase, “there’s
fun ahead."
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The French Slave Trade.— The
reliable Paris correspondent of the New
\ ork Journal of Commerce discredits the
statements of the Paris purveyors of the
London press that tne French government
have definitely resolved to put an end to
the experiment of free emigration to Af
rica. He says the contracts are for a long
period; they received the sanction and
warrant of the government; the Antilles
remain eager for perseverance in the
scheme, fhe Paris Pays (ministerial)
says that, as to the immigration, France
maintains its right to the utmost extent.
The Pays is also pleased with the human
ity of the scheme, declaring that the black
kings would put a considerable number of
their subjects to death if, since the aboli
tion of the slave trade, they did not find
means of emyloyiog them in itnmigra
tmu! In the meantime, the Portuguese
papers, embittered by the violence of the
French in the case of the Charles et Geor
get, and by the abandonment" of their
cause by the British government, call for
the withdrawal of their own squadron
from further attempts to put down the
slave trade.
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——Over live thousand gallons of molasses
have been made the present season from the
hnrghum, 01 sugar canc, in Boone township.
REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOV
ERNMENT FROM LITTLE ROCK
TO DES ARC.
Meeting of the Board of Mayor and
.Aldermen of the Town of Des Jlrc—
Special Election—The Board pledge
the faith of the Corporation to raise
$100,000 to aid in erecting a Capitol
Building, and donate the ground to
the State to build it on, &ic.
By reference to the proceedings below,
it will be perceived that our people have
redeemed their pledge to give the sum of
$100,000 to aid in the erection of a new
Capitol building, should the Legislature
designate Des Arc as the future and per
manent seat of government of the Slate.
The present positive value of the landed
property of the town, exceeds $350,000,
and the appeal of our Board of Mayor and
Aldermen to the people direct, for an ex
pression, pro or con, as to whether in their
municipal capacity they should pledge
the $100,000 to aid in the erection of the
Capitol building, has been decided with
but two dissenting votes, in favor of their
pledging the faith of the corporation for that
sum.
Town Hai.i., Des Arc, Ark., )
November 29, 1858. \
, At a meeting of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the town of Des Arc,
on this day, the following resolution was
adopted:
“Resolved, By the Mayor and Aldermen
of the Town of Des Arc: That an election be
held on Wednesday, the first day of December,
18.18, as to whether this Board shall pledge
the sum of One- Hundred Thousand Dollars,
to aid in the erection of a Capitol Building;
provided the Legislature of the State of Ar
kansas shall permanently locate the seat of
government of the State at Des Arc. Ail
those in favor of said subscription to vote
“Capitol,” those opposed to it, to vote “No
Capitol.”
In accordance with the foregoing reso
lution, an election was held. The follow
ing Droceedinca of the Board of Mavor
and Aldermen show the result:
Des Arc, Dec. 2, 1853.
At a meeting of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, present, Geo. W. Vaden,
Mayor, Jno. A. Frith, John H. Quisen
berry, Samuel Carr, and A. M. Erwin,
Aldermen; On motion the following
preamble and resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, At a meeting of this Board on
the 29th nit., a resolution was adopted order
ing a special election to be held “on the 1st
day of December, 1858, as to whether this
Board shall pledge the sum of $100,000 to aid
in the erection of a Capitol Building; provi
ded the Legislature of the State of Arkansas
shall permanently locate the seat of Govern
ment of the State at Des Are.” And
Whereas, Said election was legally held
by the Town Constable and other officers,
ond the whole vote of the town with but two
exceptions, was in favor of said subscription
being made by this Board; Therefore be it
Resolved, By the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town of Des Arc, that we
pledge the faith of said corporation to raise
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to
aid in the erection of a Capitol building, and
donate the grounds upon which to place said
building, provided the Capitol be permanently
located at the town of Dos Arc. Prairie coun
ty, Arkansas. And be it further
Resolved. That the Town Recorder is
hereby directed to prepare an authentic copy
of these proceedings, with the town seal at
tached, to be forwarded to the Legislature
now in session.
Resolved, That J. C. Morrill and V. B.
Dalrymple, present these resolutions to the
Legislature.
Resolved, That Col. John C. Davie, Geo.
Mclver, Joseph Evans, Rev. D. L. Gray, Col.
J. T. Haralson, and B. F. Ford, be requested
logo to Little Rock and act in conjunction
with Messrs. Morrill and Dalrymple, in pre
senting the foregoing resolutions, and that the
Uecorder address them on the subject.
J. E. GATEWOOD,
Recorder, pro. tern.
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The Next United States Senate.
—The United States Senate which con
venes in December, 1858, and ends on
the 4th of March, 1861—will be constitu
ted politically as [allows:
Northern democrats 9 I Southern opposition 2
Southern democrats 28 | Northern do 25
37 | 27
As Oregon will undoubtedly be admit
ted into the Union this winter, with her
two United States Senators, the democrats
will have twelve majority over the opposi
tion on all political quesiions. This esti
mate gives the opposition a Senator in
New Jersey and one in Minnesota, which
it is very doubtful whether they will ob
tain.
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Mi sister’s Salaries in New York.
—Henry Ward Beecher has a yearly sal
ary of §5,000 and a parsonage rent free,
and with his literary enrnmgs, his income
is §12,000. E. H. Chapin has §5,000,
per annum, and makes as much more by
lecturing. Dr. Bethune, has §2,500, but
is possessor of a fortune outside of his
professional earnings. Dr. Adams, says
our authority, has 85,000 and a rich wife.
Dr. Hawks has §6,000 a year and a house.
Dr Taylor, of Grace Church, has $10,
000 and the fine parsonage adjacent to the
church. Rev. Messrs Tyng, Bellows,
Osgood, Cheever, and other leading cler
gymen, receive from §3,000 to $6,000 per
annum. In many cases, the salary only
represents a small part of the pastor’s
earnings. If he is young and a bachelor,
the young ladies vie with each other in
furnishing him the thousand and one ct
celtrax which go to make up a gentleman’s
toilet—[N. Y. Herald.
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The Revenue Cutter, A. V.
Baoww.—The first United States reven-1
ue culler that has ever been on Lake
Michigan arrived at Milwaukie recently,
and is named the A. V, Brown, in com
pliment to the Postmaster General. This
vessel will be stationed at Milwaukie, her
jurisdiction being limited to Lake Michi
gan, and her business being to see that
the revenue laws are complied with, to
examine the manifests of vessels when
deemed necessary, to enforce the custom
house regulations, superintend the ship
ping of the lake, &c.
Arkansas Legislature.
[synopsis or proceedings.]
SENATE.
Monday. Nov. 22.—Mr. Hampton presented
Ihe credentials of John H. Askew, Senator
elect from the district composed of the coun
ties of Union and Columbia, who appeared,
was sworn and took his seat.
Mr. Redmond olFered the following:
Whereas, It is the opinion of the General
Assembly of the State of Arkansas, that the
re-openingof the African slave trade will be a
very great benefit to the slaveholding States
of the confederacy and will vindicate the great
principle of Southern rights; Therefore,
Be it Resolved, That our Senators in Con
gress be and are hereby instructed and our
Representatives requested to use their utmost
endeavors to re-open the African slave trade.
A motion was made to postpone indefinitely,
but after a lengthy discussion was withdrawn.
Mr. Rosson then moved to refer the resolution
to the committee on memorials. The motion
was lost by a vote of 11 to 11. On motion of
Mr. Clark the resolution was postponed until
Saturday next.
Tuesday, Nov. 23.—The committee on the
landed interests of the State made a long and
able report and presented Senate bills Nos. 54,
55and 50. The first is a bill to provide for
the correction of errors in the sale of State
lai ds and other purposes.
Tile sales of the swamp lands are full of er
rors and this hill is to provide for a general
correction of errors and to dispense witli the
numerous separate bills for relief.
On motion of Mr. Gaines, the Senate resolv
ed itself into a committee of the whole on
Senate bill No. 33, for the promotion of the
agricultural and mechanical interests of this
State, whicli was amended, in committee, re
ported to the Senate read a third time and
passed.
Thursday, Nov. 25.—The House 35lh par
allel resolutions were taken up, on motion of
Mr. Humphreys, debated and adopted by a
vote of 15 to 7.
Friday, Nov. 26.—The Cairo and Fulton
Railroad bill was again taken up; the amend
ment of Mr. Humphreys was amended, on mo
tion of Mr. Davies, so as to give the pre emp
t»r 166 acres, including his residence or farm,
and after several ineffectual motions to adjourn
calls of the Senate and the previous question,
the bill passed by the following vote.
Yeas—Messrs. Askew, Carrigan, Clark,
Davies, Douglas, Floyd, Hammond, Hampton,
Humphreys, Marshall, McColloch, Redmond,
Rosson, Stirman, Trimble, Watkins, and Mr.
President—17.
Nays—Messrs. Craighead, Gaines, Jones,
and McCreery.
After the disposition of a motion to re con
sider, Mr. Askew asked and obtained leave to
change his vote on the passage of the bill.
Saturday, Nov. 27. — Mr. Redmond, from
a majority of the committee on ways and
means, recommended the passage of Senate
hill No. 63, for the relief of sheriffs and tax
collectors. Bill read a third time and passed.
Mr. Hampton, from the committee on inter
nal improvements; reported adversely to the
bill making an appropriation for the benefit
of the Memphis and Little Hock railroad.
The resolution concerning the re-opening of
the African slave trade was taken up, read, de
bated, and Mr. Askew offered a substitute.
After some discussion, a motion to postpone
the further consideration of the resolutions
was carried by a vote of 15 to 8.
HOUSE.
Thursday, Nov. 18.—Mr. Garland offered
a prcamable and resolution in relation to the
landing interest of this state, and asking a
special committee to be raised by the House
for the purpose of examining into the differ
ent acts and laws that have been passed, from
time to time, relative to the several grants of
land including railroad, swamp, seminary, sa
line, school and government land, and also of
compiling, condensing and publishing the
same in some tangible form, and report the
same back as soon as possible, which was
read, and Mr. Duval offered to amend said res
olution by adding that the committee be fur
ther instructed to inquire into the expediency
of establishing a separate land department and
report by bill or otherwise, which was read
and adopted. The resolution was then as
amended adopted.
Mr. McRae introduced House bill No. 111.
to repeal in part an act to declare Little Red
river a navigable stream, approved 30th De
cember, 18-14 ; which was read twice, and re
ferred to committee on internal improvements.
Friday, Nov. 19 —Mr. Reynolds presented
the petition of Elizabeth Guilet, praying the
legislature to pass an act for her relief, in re
lation to a certificate for the purchase of
swamp lands, surrendered to the land agent
without Jher consent or authority; said
petition was referred to the committee on
swamp and overflowed lands.
Mr. Venable presented the petition of 185
citizens of Van Buren county, praying for the
establishment of a new county, which was. on
motion of Mr. Carlisle, referred to the com
mittee on cour1 and county lines.
Saturday. >v. 21).— Mr. Johnson of De
sha, offered the following joint resolution, viz:
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of
the State of Arkansas : That section 29 of ar
ticle 4 of the constitution of this State be so
amended, that 900 square miles shall not be
necessary to constitute a county ; which was
read the first time.
Tuesday, Nov. 23.—Mr. Duval moved that
joint resolution No. 4, in relation to locating
the Pacific railroad on the 35th parallel of
north latitude on or near the line surveyed by
Lieut. Whipple, which had been made the or
der of the day of yesterday, at 10 o’clock, A.
1\1 .. hut hhAn laid nvAr hir munAncmn
of the regular order of business, and had not
again been reached.
The motion prevailed and the resolution was
taken up, and read for information, having
been previously lead the third time.
Mr. Abbott ottered an amendment as a sub
stitute, which was ruled out of order.
On mo ion of Mr. Gordon, the substitute
was read.
The question then came up on the adoption
of House joint resolution No. 4.
Mr. Gridin moved to lay the resolution on
the tabic indefinitely.
Upon this motion a long and animated de
bate was had between several members.
Mr. Barker called for the yeas and nays, on
the motion to table the resolution, which were
ordered, and the vote stood, yeas 25 nays 40.
So the resolution was not laid on the table.
Mr. Hays moved Hie adoption of llio renin -
tion. Several motions were made to adjourn,
which did not prevail.
The question then recurred upon tile adop
tion of the resolution ; and Mr. Quarles called
for the yeas and nays, which were ordered,
and the roll being called, the vote stood, yeas
43. nays 24. So the resolution was adopted.
Friday, Nov. 2(5.—Mr. Stuart, reported un
favorably on the petition of sundry merchants
of Batesville, asking a modification in assess
ingand collectingtaxesfrom merchants, which
was read and received; and Mr. McKean,
from tiie same committee made a minority re
port, which was read. The majority report
was adopted and the prayer of the petitioners
rejected.
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Onicits or the Title or Peers.—
Duke is derived from the Latin word dux,
a leader. Marquis—this title was con
ferred upon those who held command of
the 7narches, us the boundaries between
England and Wales, and England and j
Scotland were called, when these coun- <
tries were hostile to England. Earl is de- i
rived from the Saxon word earl, noble. I
The Earl formerly had the government of i
a shire. After the conquest, Earls were i
called Counts, and from them shires have I
taken the names of counties. Viscount, c
or vice-comes, was the deputy of the Earl, c
Baron—the title of Baron is the oldest in l
point of antiquity, although the lowest in
point of rank of any order of nobility.
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-The Directors of the Atlantic Tele- r
freph Company refuse to have anything more j|
to do with Professor Whitehouse; and have
discharged the electricians at Valentia Bav, P
'I' of which indicates that they consider the 7
table a hopeless failure. a
SECRETARY COBB S REPORT.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes under date of Nov.
17th, as follows:
“It is said that the reports of the heads
of department and bureau are in progress,
if not completed. The report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury on the state of the
finances is made directly to Congress,
whilst those of the other Secretaries are
made to the President. Mr. Cobb’s re
port is looked for by the public with much
interest, as it is to indicate the mode in
which the public expenditures are to be
met, at least for a year or two to come.
It is believed that the treasury will pro
pose a general revision of the tariff, with
a view to increase the rate of duties on
articles now dutiable. A report is current
that he will propose duties on tea and cof
fee at a rate that will yield five millions.
This is a plan that will necessarily pre
sent itself to Congress as an alternative to
a loan. But it is hardly to be supposed
that another resort to a loan can be avoid
ed, nor is there any reason why Congress
should hesitate to borrow money, while
there is a well-founded belief in the future
ability of the government to pay it. It
would be far better to borrow money than
to oppress the public by onerous taxes up
on the necessaries of life; or, by an in
crease of the tariff, to cause a large sur
plus to be scrambled for in Congress.
The treasury estimates have, it is said,
been made ap, and will soon appear in
print. The estimates have, of course,
been made with an eye to the necessity of
keeping within reasonable limits the in
creasing expenditures of the general gov
ernment. These expenditures have ne
cessarily followed our expansion of terri
tory, and will perhaps be, ere long, in
creased to such an amount that they can
no longer be met by duties or imports.
To direct taxes and excises we must come
at last, or indulge less in a thirst for con
tinental dominion.
The same correspondent says:
The state of our relations with Mexico
is such that our Executive government
must necessarily very soon take a positive
attitude in regard to them. I have no
doubt the policy of the Executive on the
subject will be fully developed in the Pre
sident’s message to Congress at the open
ing of the ensuing session. The policy
of inactivity is, I am persuaded, to be
abandoned. It may be a question how
far the present cabinet may be a unit in
regard to measures now under considera
tion, in relation to Mexico, but it is to be
supposed, from the past transactions of the
Administration, that they will present a
firm and united front in regard to foreign
as well as domestic questions.
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[From the N. O. Courier.
ENGLISH INFLUENCE.
American abolitionism is of English
origin, first propagated by English papers,
sustained by English funds and supported
by English sympathy. English presses
scattered abolition pamphlets through New
England, and at a time when public opin
ion was averse to the new fanaticism Eng
lish gold upheld papers in support of the
then odious cause. When the Anti-sla
very faction became numerous and found
ed the beginning of that political party,
which now threatens to obtain the control
of the Federul Government, it was still
encouraged by British aid. It was pretty
well ascertained that large sums of Eng
lish money were employed in 1856 to pro
mote the election of Fremont.
These are facts often repealed in the
South, though indignantly denied by the
abolitionists. But the candid confessions
or rather the ingenuous boasting of the
British presses prove many of the forego
ing statements. For example the Lon
don Times in its issue of October 23d says
in the course of a leading article on the
slave trade and slavery in the colonies:
“The subject of slavery ought to be under
stood in our day. Different people may take
different views of the facts, and of the'conse
nnences to be deduced from them, but at least
the facts—that is to say the date of the sla
very discussions—should have been long since
ascertained and established. Upon some lead
ing points, indeed, we in England are agreed;
but this agreement of opinion is confined to
the limits of the four seas. In the United
States the hatlle as yet is one of first princi
ples. The French Government for a long time
past has been endeavoring to renew, under an
other name, the practice which has been long
Miice cummin imu uy tup puouc opinion ol tne
country. Spain, bound by endless treaty en
gagements to aid in the repression of the slave
trade, is, in point of fact, the great supporter
of the system. Now, in England we say that
the slave trade shall no longer be permitted
to exist in any quarter of the globe if by nego
tiation or by arms it can be repressed. Slave
ry shall not exist in our own dominions—that
Is a municipal matter, entirely within our
own control; but the slave trade shall not be
curried on anywhere if we can put it down.
In the case of the United States, indeed we
ire compelled to content ourselves with the
assurance that the American cruisers will do
the work. Will any one, however, say
rHAT IT IS NOT MAINLY TO THE CEASELESS
EXERTIONS—TO THE PHILANTHROPIC ENERGY
—TO THE ENTREATIES—TO THE PERSUA
SION OF THIS COUNTRY THAT THE ANTI-SLA
VERY PARTY TN TTTE STATES-OWES-ITT'
STRENGTH ! BlOT OUT ENGLAND AND ENG
LISH SYMPATHIES, AND ENGLISH POWER
'BOM THE MAP OF THE WORLD, AND THE
BATTLE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE
South would be fought on the other
side of the Atlantic on vef.y differ
ent TERMS.”
Surely few South of New England and
Pennsylvania will deny that the strength
>f the Anti-slavery parly is derived in a
jreat measure from England This is no i
nore than what we have asserted and
proved repeatedly, and we hazard little in
iredicting that the Northern abolition ma
nia will not begin to subside until the <
dritish trunk on which it has been engraf- |
ed begins to decay. The “American” t
\nti-slavery society whose members are f
mrrtbered bv millions, is u British institu- t
ion. Its aims and those of the British t
government are identical;.both aim at the i
ubjugation ol the Southern States and t
tone are so generous in applaud ng the i
sbors of the Abolition parly as the Brit- r
sh arislrocracy. No American authors c
re quoted and flattered by the English j 1
ut those of abolition proclivities. No ip
uests are so welcome at the lordly halls o
f England as prominent American aboli-1 it
onists. i
It is mainly upon division caused by the f<
inti-slavery agitators that the British ft
overnment relies for impunity while out- t
tging the rights ol our mariners, insult- it
ig our flag, intermeddling in cis-Atlantic j tl
alitics, poisoning the minds of the citi- j r<
■ns of the Spanish American States to
gainst us, thwarting our commercial in-1 L
terests, and impeding oar natural and nec
essary territorial progress. No aggres
sion will be too outrageous, no assump
tion will be loo great, no insults will be
too galling for that government to employ
against us so long as they can count upon
their obsequious abolition allies in the
Northern Slates. So far as thev are con
trolled by abolitionists the Slates of New
England are no less foreign, hostile and
rival to us and our interests^han Great
Britan herself.
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[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Fine Specimen of American Eloquence.
[It would be difficult to find in' the
whole annals of oratory, a finer specimen
of impromptu eloquence than the follow
ing extract from a late speech of Charles
W. Carrigan, of Philadelphia. Evident
ly extempore nnd off hand, it is far supe
rior, in our judgment, to the studied and
more ornate rhetorical flourishes which
embellish the closest prepared addresses
of the great majority of scholars and ora
tors. It is imbued with a warmth of feel
ing and coloring and contains a vividness
of expression and a poetical beauty of
illustration that is seldom fonnd, except in
the production of the greatest masters of
the art of eloquence. Its exalted national
and patriotic tone, nnd the truly American
sentiments which it inculcates, with such
felicity of dittion, will render it admira
ble even to those who dissent from the po
litical sentiments of the orator. The per
sonal appearance of Mr. Carrigan bears
strong analogy to that of John Brough,
Esq., of Cincinnati. Short and thick-set in
stature, with abundance of flesh, and an
easy rollicking manner and a good-hu
mored expression of countenance, that in
dicates a fondness for the good things of
this life, and for the substantial and prac
tical, he would be ths very last man one
would suspect of a poetical temperament,
and of a fancy for the bright ideal. Mr.
Carrigan says :]
“ But after all, my fellow-citizens, this
great noise about ‘protection and corrup
tion’ is only a rallying cry for 1860, for
another and more bitter sectional strife.
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movement who gave life to the hot blood
of 1856. They have stretched, almost to
breaking, the sinews of our national
brotherhood ; they have almost alienated
one section of our Confederacy, and they
now seek to finish their infamous work.
The cry has gone forth that ‘ this country
must be all free or all slaves,’ and they
are marshaling their forces to break down
State rights or disrupt the Confederacy.
All eyes are turned to Pennsylvania to
know what she will do or say. Planted
as she is on the imaginary line of deris
ion, what will she do in that crisis? The
answer that we send to the country, from
the thousands here assembled, is-rPenn
sylvania will be true to the Constitution
and the Union. [Great applause.] Her
confidence is firm as her mountains, and
her devotion lasting as the iron it; her ore
beds. [Vociferous applause.] She will
uphold or fall with the banner of nation
ality. But, if fall she must, if a sepa
ration of this Confederacy is brought
about by the infamous machinations of
this black • people’s party’—it will not be
the separaiion they contemplate. No
Mason and Dixon’s line will mark the
boundary. Washington’s ashes rest be
low that line, and Pennsylvania clings to
the memories that hallow his tombstone.
[Enthusiastic applause.] Jackson’s re
mains lie in the Southern Hermitage.
Pennsylvania’s heart is even now in his
grave. [Long-continued applause.] No
Mason and Dixon’s line mark the boun
dary, from the noble Hudson to the ever
glades of Florida, a new Union of States,
loving and fraternizing, will rejoice in the
sunshine of constitutional liberty. [Great
cheering.] Nor would the movement be
new to our country. In our infancy we
adopted the articles of confederation for
our government, but soon found them in
adequate to our wants. We then met in
convention, and, for the purpose of form
ing a more verfect Union, adorned the
Constitution under which we live. For
years we were peaceful and happy, until
the treason of New England worked its
way through all the Northern States.
There it is ranking and festering, and un
less the knife of a sound, national conser
vatism is used for its eradication,consequen
ces must be the calling of a new conven
tion, to form a still more perfect Union,
leaving the New England States, with
their treason and incendiarism attached,
to the British provinces, where they nat
urally belong—her national Democracy
having previously fled from her as from
1 doomed city. [Rapturous applause.]
1 would not advocate this proceeding until
we had exhausted every means of concil -
tatioti, and had nothing left but the honor
hat originally sealed the compact.—
[Great applause.]
“ Let us, my fellow-citizens, by one ex
ertion, endeavor to keep that day far dis
ant. Let us rally enthusiastically to the
mpport of Democratic principles and a
Democratic Administration that is pledged
or the preservation of State rights, and,
jonsequenily, the Union.
“ James the Fifth gave to the people of
Edinburg a beautiful banner, in token of 1
heir loyal services. Around it the holi- ]
ist recollections clustered, and at its ap- ,
learance the Scots would instantly rally 1
o do battle for their country. In the wo- ‘
ul fight of Flodden that banner was to ]
he Scots what the plume of Murat was
3 the French. Where the fray was black- '
st, where the dead were thickest, up rose
lat banner, and its flashings inspired the
leanest soldier. So sacred was that ban- •
er, that when Randolph Murray; the *
iptam of the City Band, bore it into t
Idinburg, spearless and bloody, the peo- K
le forgot their unutterable woe. The gift e
f James was safe. The banner we bear j]
more sacred than that of Edinburg. It
as given to the breeze by Thomas Jef- o
tsoii, and has gathered new splendors 0
otn many Democratic Administrations,
iever let it trail; uphold it and cling to ^
; cling to it as the boy Holland clung to
e minute gun of ihe .Arctic, as the waves
lied over her ; cling to it as Mary clung
her laith in the resurrection of her ^
ord ; cling to it as the only banner un
der which we can establish the capacity
of man for self-government. [Long and
continued applause.]
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Mulattoes North and South.—In
the discussion between Parson Brownlow
and Parson Pryne, at Philadelphia, the
former asserted that there were more “mu
latioes at the North than at the South,’’
and hence that amalgamation was much
more prevalent there than South of Mason
and Dixon's Line. On this subject, the
New York Daily News says:
The organ of the abolitionists in this
city says this is a “ naked assertion un
supported by any figures, and will not be
credited by any person well informed on
the subject.” Now, we propose to give
the figures, and show that the Tribune is
not well informed, or else knowingly per
verts facts. From the United States cen
sus we derive the following figures. Take
“Slave” and Free States alternately : In
Alabama there are 7 inulattoes to 100
blacks; in Connecticut 30 to 100 blacks ;
in Arkansas. 16; in Illinois, 85; in Geor
gia, 5 ; in Indiana, 89; in Kentucky, 17 ;
in Maine, 51; in Maryland, 15; in Massn.
chusetts, 34 ; in Louisiana, 14 ; in Michi
gan, 76; in Mississippi, 7 ; in New Hamp
shire, 54; in North Carolina, 12 ; in Ohio,
89; in South Carolina, 4; in Pensylvania.
40; in New York, 19; in Virginia, 17,
etc. The “ slave” and " free” State*
throughout the Union show the proportion
named above of mulattoes to every 100
blacks ; and in all the “ slave” Stales ex
cepting the District of Columbia, the pro
portion of mulattoes to blacks is 50 per
cent, less than in Massachusetts. This
shows conclusively that amalgamation is
much more common in the North than at
the South, and it is very reasonable that
it should be so, for the tendency of Abo
litionists to equalize the races socially as
well as politically, while that of “slavery”
is to separate them and place impassable
barriers between them, or as nearly im
passable as is possible. It would be doing
common justice to their readers for the
Tribune to let them see the above facts.
But who expects it will.
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Important and Highly Interesting
Discovery in Surgery.—On the 8th of
October, Dr H. M. Estill, on accomplish
ed surgeon, of Lexington, Va., performed
a surgical operation, in which deep incis
sions were made through the skin and
flesh, without pain to the patient, by simply
causing a curient of electricity to pass
through the knife into the body of the pa
tient, at the moment of the incision.
The local insensibility thus produced is as
complete and effectual as that caused by
the administration of chloroform or either,
while the dangerous consequences some
times resulting from their use are entirely
avoided.—[Raleigh Register.
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Mail Stage Attacked.—On Satur
day night, the 1st. inst.," the mail stage
running between Batesville and Smith
ville, Arkansas, was attacked by two men,
who evidently aimed at getting possession
of the mail. One of them caught hold of
the horses, hut the contractor, who was
on the seat with the driver, whipped them
up, and caused them to break loose from
the highwaymen. The end of the affair
was the running away of the horses and
the smashing of the stage to pieces.
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DIED :
Near Des Arc, on Tuesday mornitlg last,
Miss VIRGINIA L. GARRETT, in the 20th
year of her age.
At Aberdeen, Ark., on the 12th October,
Mr. J. HOOKER BAXTER, in the 25th year
of his age.
Buffalo City and Jacksonport
Packet,
GRAND GLAIZE:
WM. SHIP,...Master.
rf<rraL~i will commence her
^jSst-A^l^rs^Y^regular trips as above about
the first of January, 1859. [lm.
NO TICE.
TAKEN up by the subscriber,
living seven miles south-west of /x/A
Des Arc, on the 17th Nov. 1858—One bay
horse, blaze face, right hind foot white, about
fifteen years old.
oct. 4-lt.J CHARLES F. KING.
BV MRS. A. J. BOOTH,
HAVING determined to retain this House,
the public will be accommodated on the
following terms :
Board and Lodging, per week.$5 00
Board without Lodging, do. .$3 50
Board, per day.$1 50
Supper, Lodging, and Broakfast.$1 00
Single Meal, 5 £inner -‘p"' V o?
" ’( Supper, or Breakfast.. 25
*„*,* My utmost exertions will be used to
[>lease all who may favor me with their pat
ronage. [dec4tf.] A. J. BOOTH.
E. It. MCPHERSON^
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
\ LL persons wishing my services in
this department of business, will please
uldress me at Brownsville, Prairie county,
Ark. Every call will be punctually filled.
novl3-ly
NEW O It E E A IV 8 A IV I) WHITE
RIVER PACKET,
AUDUBON:
D. B. PRICE.Master.
IV. D. Brown.Clerk.
THIS fine freight and
■au£ili3=sy=tsipassenger steamer, having
intcred the above trade, will run regularly
hroughout the season. The Audubon, having
icen bought expressly for the trade, her offi
ers being White river men. flatter themselves
hat they can give entire satisfaction totravel
rs and shippers.
,23?” AH business promptly attended to.
h)r freight or passage apply on board.
nov20-tf
Male and Female School.
ITRS. M. V. HARRIS respect
IX fully informs the citizens of
>es Arc and adjacent country, that
le will open a School, on Monday
ie 22d inst., to continue for a
ession or Five Months. From her experi
lce she flatters herself that she will be en
ded to give satisfaction to all who may favor
sr with their patronage.
List oe Prices—Payable Monthly.
rthography, Reading and Numeration.$ 8 00
rthography, Reading, Writing. Prima
ry Arithmetic, Geography and Gram
mar.. 10 00 j
tymology, Reading, Fancy Writing,
Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar
and History. 12 00
w Payments to be made at the end of each !
onth. All pupils charged from the time of j
itering. except in cases of protracted illness. |
nov20 if I
Citizen Office S'or Sale.
OTHER business claiming nor Attention
makes it necessary that We sbcml d dispose
of the Citi/.cq Office. The paper has been
published near four years, and )»s a paying
patronage. Thesubscription list, advertising,
job work. See., is inferior to no establishment
in the State, for the length of time the
has been established. Possession given on the
1st day of January 1859.
ay Persons wishing to purchase are inri«
ted to call and examine the material, 4tc.—
Those at a distance will address the under
signed. J. C. MORRILL,
Des Arc, Ark.
ay Also, a half interest in the building
and premises occupied as the “ Citizen Print
ing Office,” will be sold on reasonable terms.
sept25. J. C. MORRILL.
SALE O F LOTS
IN
BUFFALO CITY.
THE undersigned will commence the aalr
of Lots in
BUFFALO CITY
OjY THE SECOND MONDAY IN
JANUARY, 1859,
TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
TERMS—One-fourth cash; balance on n
credit of twelve months, without security, ex
cept such as the lots afford.
Buffalo City is situated on the South side of
White River, seventy miles by land and one
hundred and fifteen miles by Water aboveBates
ville, Arkansas, at the foot of the Buffalo
Shoals, eleven miles above the mouth of th*
Aortb Fork, and one mile above the mouth of
the Biiflalo Fork of White River, at the head
of reliable navigation on White River, about
two hundred and fifty miles by land from St.
Louis, one hundred and twenty from Little
Rock, two hundred miles from Memphis, one
hundred and fifty miles from Fort Smith,
ninety-five miles from Jaeksonport, and one
hundred and forty miles from Des Arc. Buf
falo City is accessible for good size steam
boats most of the year, and small boats of
very light draught nearly or quite all the year.
#y a glance at a map of Arkansas, per
sons can see at once the destiny of Buffalo
City, situated as it is, at the foot of the Buffa
lo Shoals, the head of reliable navigation oh
White river, surrounded by a very large ex
tent of fertile settled country, commanding an
immense wagon trade west and nortfl-west,
from one hundred and twenty-frfe to one hun
dred and seventy-five miles, and on the north
one hundred miles, and on the 9911th and south
west, from fifty to seventy-five miles. This
vast extent of high, healthy country is unsur
passed in fertility in the west. Uninterrupted
hv Sfipnilntors. Id rul'd arp vprv rtipan. nr/nhi
cing wheat, corn, oats, tobacco, etc., equal to>
any part of the United States; and for the
raising of hogs, cattle, horses, moles, sheep;
etc., is scarcely to be equalled anywhere, the
truth of which is fully demonstrated from tljvr
fact that emigration, of the most substantial
and desirable character, has been pouring
into this region of country for the last few
years by thousands, from erery part of the
Union, and from information received, the
emigration will continue unprecedented lie
almost any part of the globe The wants of
this vast country, so rapidly settling up, makes
it absolutely necessary that a trading point be
established at the most accessible point nearest
and most convenient to the masses on the
beautiful and eve' navigable White river.
Buffalo City being situated at the foot cf the
Buffalo Shoals, the head of reliable naviga
tion on White river, is the place selected by
nature itself for a trading point for that im
mense country. Nature has said to naviga
tors, here is the great Buffalo Shoals : thus far
you shall go up thi> beautiful stream and no
farther; hence Buffalo City took its name.
Had this natural site for a city been judiciously
laid off in lots and sold some years ago, as Ihe
present proprietor will do immediately, it
would unquestionably have been a place bv
this time of no small note. The undersigned,
having become sole proprietor of the grounds
and buildings by purchase, in part from Wm.
flyers, of Batesville, and in part of the estate
of Wm. Tunstall, of Jacksonport, Arkansas,
and further, in part by entry in the United
States Government Land-Office, at a heavy
outlay of money, is determined to lay it oif
immediately in real city style, fronting the
river in convenient size fots and blocks, with
wide front row, as well as wide streets and
alleys; also, squares for public buildings
and promenades, etc., etc. The river being
straight, the banks having a gradual descent,
not subject to cave, with deep water close up
to the shore, with the beautiful level rich
grounds ail above overflow,combined with the
beautiful scenery partly surrounding the town,
and pure spring water gushing out near at
hand, and never-failing cold pore healthy well
water to be had in any part it the town, with
fine woods convenient, combined with many
advantages and conveniences, with the bealth
fulness of the place, Brakes, beyond a doubt,
the prospects at this point for a city, in fact,
far superior to any other point in all this re
gion of country, and inferior to no point on
White river, or any other in the State of Ar
kansas.
Mail facilities must and will no doubt soon
be extended by steamboat tip White river from
Jacksonport to Buffalo City, (it already having
been extended from Jacksonport up Black
river to Pocahontas.) When • this is done it
furnishes transportation for freight and pas
sengers out to the Mississippi liver the year
ii/umi, (it t'licc e?uafm!>JUFuieni oi
various stage lines from Buffalo City to the
interior, north and north-west, west, south amf
south-west. These things are no fiction, but
the conclusions of those best acquainted wit)/
the country ; men of sound mind and judgment.
Two boats are now preparing to run from
Jacksonport to Buffalo City, connecting with
the regular New Orleans, Memphis and Na
poleon packtts.
To persons desiring to settle in Buffalo
City, we say don’t pay any attention to those
who would try to discourage you, who stand,
out os “ living monuments” of a “ masterly in
activity,” to denounce everything os “ yisiona
ry” that seems new to their sleepy intellects,.—
and who war upon the moving spirit of the
day, and would, if they could, strangle every
enterprise, lock the wheels of advancement to
ft “stand still,” and block up all avenues of
trade and commerce. They but thereby prove
their utter ignorance of the facts and devel
opments of the present age, “ and their own
unfitness for the times.”
A good site, also $300 worth of lots will 1>«
given for the. immediate establishment of a
good Saw-Mill, and a good site and $500 worth
of lots will be given for the establishment of &
first class Flouring Mill, at Buffalo City. A
better location for such business cannot b»
found anywhere.
The sale of Lots is to be made in good faith
and without resorve. Lots can be had at pri
vate sale.
For further particuli^s, address, for the
present, “Agent Buffalo City Lots, Buffa
lo Citv.” or the undersigned.
JOHN H. <llTISENBERRV,
oct30-ts Des Arc, Arkansas.
A. linde7
DEALER IN
Jewelry, Silver-Ware,
GUNS, RIFLES, A N D EQUIPMENTS.
-ALSO—
J1CCORDEOJVS, CUTLERY,
FISHING TACKLE AND GUNSMITHS’ MATERIAL*
Shelbv Street—below Union.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
(ET n ew Work made to order—Repairing
lone at short notice. nort3-ly
Take Notice!
ALL persons are hereby notified, not.to fut
any timber, on our Lots, in the town of
Des Arc. as we shall surely enforce the
LAW, if they do.
febfl-tf.J FRITH k JACKSON