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MEMPHIS BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
CHOATE & CO.* Rare wart* Iron, Steel
fltoveB, Etc., 232 Second Street.
DAVIS & BAUGH, Cotton Factors, Gro
cers and General Commission Merchants
No. 176 Front Street.
I.1RANKLANU, A. E.* General Dry Goods
Commission Merchants, 231 Second St.
FISHER* AMIS, Marble and Stone Works,
corner Adams and Second Streets.
11L BE til', INTER * WALKER, Whole
' sale Importers of Dry Goods, Drugs,
Hardware, etc., 274 Second Street. _
ARDWlCK HOUSE, L.~C. IfardwTcY,
proprietor. Nos, 61, 63 * 65 Adams St.
ONKS7X"wTA. & CO., Cotton Factors, Gen
eral Commission Merchants. 263 Main St.
OON,~ROBERT A., Cotton Factor and
Commission Merchant, 276 Front Street.
ITfANSFlKLD * ill GB EE. Wholesale Drug
1V1 gists and Chemists, 301 * BOS Main St.
IV/TCORES, SMITff &. CO.. Dealers in Sad
dlery. Hardware Leather, 342 Main St.
ffCHELL, MADAME * CO., Milliner*
and Dressmakers, N. E. cor. Court Square
1TCHELL, HOFFMAN & CO., Dealers in
Furniture, 308 Main, * 36 Monroe St.
ENKEN BRO S, Dealers in Dry Goods,
Clothing, etc., 263 Main St. cor. Court.
M‘ ATTHEWS & ALEXANDER, Agents for
sale of Agricultural Implements, Seeds,
etc., 272 Second Street.
AYER, MARSHUETZ & CO., Dealers in
Segars, Tobacco, Pipes, etc., corner
Second and Jefferson Streets.
1\TEWMAN, MRS~ ATa, Dealer in Millinery
.1^1 Goods, 166 Main Street.
EWSOM, JOHN, Grocer. Ootton Factor
and Commission Merchant, 182 Front St.
ORGTlL BRO’S * CO., Hardware, Cutlery,
Nails, Castings, etc., 312 Front Street.
POBTrTrT* CO., Cotton Factors and Gen
eral Commission Merchants. 182 Front St
1>ERK1NS, LIVINGSTON”* POST, Dealers
in Railroad and General Machinery Sup
plies, 3f>0 Main Street.
OCCO, L. & CO., Wholesale Grocers and
Confectioners, Second Street.
1>OSSEL, M. .J . Grocer, Cotton Factor and
V Commission Merchant, 316 Front Street.
SHAW, J. S. * CO , Hardware^ Iron, Steef,
Stoves, etc., 233 Second Street. _
mAY LOR. GAY * RUTLAND, Cotten Fac
I. tor« and Commission Merchants, 304
Front Street. * _
OLF, MOKI/j. Dealer in Wines, Liquors,
Cigars and Tobacco. 178 Front Street.
WllEKLBR, PtCKKNS & UO, Dealers in
Wood and Willow ware, 380 Main 8t.
W~ ORMKLEY, JOY ft CO., Cotton Factors
and Produce Merchants, 810 Front St.
ORSHAM HOUSE, U. B. Galloway Pro
prietor, cor. Main and Jefferson Street.
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. 8. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD & THOMAS,
&£ SAW
DBS ARC, ARKANSAS.
1. N. IIKIMJEPKTII. T. Bt.AKE KENT.
HEDGEPETH & KENT,
ATYOHMYS AT LAW.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in all of the courts of
Prairie county, and the circuit courts
of the surrounding counties. mar‘24-6m
JAMES H. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. GAUSE,
Augusta, Ark. Jacktonport, Ark.
« Patterson & Gause,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
J nek son port and Augusta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, White. Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special eases in any part of the
State. Address either office. myl8-ly
WM. K. C'OOUY. *>• MC EAR.
000DY & McRAE,
AIDTOfcMSI'Si &V SAW
SEARCY, WHITE COUNTY,
AUKAN8A8.
Will practice in ail the courts of Arkansas.
mar24
«JOL. r. CLARK. SAM. tV. WILLIAMS
JOE. W. MARTIN.
CLARK. WILLIAMS A MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WrLL practice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
act as Ileal Estate and General Ayrats.
Okfiok—Markham Struct, near State House.
apriJ28-tf _
W. HICKS, Formerly of the firm of Cypert A
Hicks.
H, II, FIELDING, Formerly of Athens, Ala.
HICKS & FIELDING.
ATTGHNKYS AT LAW,
8enrc), White Co., Arkaoaa*
WILL practice in this and the adjacent
counties, in the District Courts, and Su
premo Court of the State.
N. W. WILLIAMS. T. M. GIBSON
WILLIAMS ft GIBSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAYT,
Dm Arc and Devall'. Bluff, Ark.
WILL practice in Prairie and adjoininj
Counties. All business confided to their car.
will be promptly attended to. sept21 tf.
J. C. JONSON. Offioe—West Point, Arkansas
JNO. M. MOOKE, Office—Searcy, Arkansas
JONSON A MOORE,
Attorney* at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY
—AMD—
General Land and Collecting Agents,
SEARCY, ARK ANSAH.
Will give prompt attention to any husincei
in the counties of Independence, Jackson
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
and Vun Buret). war'J
PROFESSIONAL CARDS'
GKO. K. MORTON. K. F. VAFGHAN.
MOE.TOXT fc VATOSAIT
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AKD
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the Court* of the eountiea
of Prairie, White, Jackson, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to th*
collection of claim* an; where in the State.
sepTtf.
DR. ROST. B. TREZETillT
Tenders his professional services to
the citizens of Des Aro and vicinity.
Office—At Johnson A Davis’ Drug
Store. sep21
DR. ALLS £T ~
Offers his services to the citizens of
Des Arc and vicinity in the practice of
medicine. Thankfhl for past favors,
and by attention to business he expects
to share a liberal prtronage.
Office—One door -east of Burney’s
Drug Store. sep21
H. *. GANTT. W. i. SKONACGH.
GANTT A BRON AUGH,
ATT0RNISX8 IT LAV.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie,
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu
laski. Prompt atttention given to the collec
tion of claims. Taxes will be paid and titles
investigated for non-residents. aprI4-8m
THOM AS J. M ARSH,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
A t Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
J^Tartcular attention given to the
collection of all kinds of claims against
the Government.
Office—On Buena Vista street next
door to J. M. Burney’s drug store.
may25
WM- T- JONES*
Anouri? At uw,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, Jackson and
White Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of claims. oprl4-1y
DR. J. W. BURNS?,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
Being permanently located at I>e«
Arc, will continue the practice of his
profession in all its branches. Special
j attention given to the treatment Of
! acute and chronic diseases. scp2I
I ~
F. EEPTIEX,
i Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I
I am now prepared to i>o AU
kinds of work in my line. Mend
; iug, Cleaning, kc.
I -Thankful for past favor*, I solicit a
! continuance of the patrouage heretofore be
| stowed on me. feb28-tf
JAM S J. GALLAGH R.
' Attorney at Law,
COTTOS VI, XT, WOODRUFF CO, RK.
i Will practice where called.
j Hep28-lf.
DR. J A. HOUSEIjAI’H.8 Office, is
now at Jtdiuson iV Davis’ Drug Store:
! can be be consulted at his room at the Harvey
! House. He will give his undivided attention
to C'lll’OKtC Dlaeatiefl of every descrip
! tion.
The best of references can be furnished, by
: applying to
i Dll. J. A. KOUSELAUX,
I junl-tf Dos Arc, Arkansas.
WATTENSAW
Nursery.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
FRUIT TREES,
ONE AND TWO YEARS OLD,
FOR SALE IN 18G7-8,
BY JOHN D. MORROW A SON,
I’KAIKIE COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
HAVING been engaged in thin business for
the lust seventeen years, in Mississippi
and Arkansas ; and haring studied it closely,
we claim to hare acquired a knowledge of the
Fruits adapted to our elimate. We refer the
public to specimens in our Orchards, and Or
chards sold by us, in this and adjoining
counties. Address
John D. Morrow A Son,
jun22-6m Des Arc, Arkansas.
TV. II. BARNETT,
I4MIN 14X11,
Aid General Repairer.
Will repair Old Harness, ur make new one..
Also, repair Saddles. Shop—opposite “nri
sen orrioa.”
Des Arc, Ark., May 2fi, 180T—it
The undersigned having ^
opened a House of Hiller- JeS,
taluuaeut, on Buena Vista Street, near
the Steamboat Landing, for the accommoda
tion of
TRAVELERS AND BORDERS,
By the day, week, or month, solicits the pat
ronage of those Tleitlng Dos Are. The fare
will be as good as the market affords, and
terms moderate.
Oire me a trial, an4 I will eodearor to glee
satisfaction.
BENJAMIN HAYLEY.
Des Arc, Ark., March -3, 1SSJ—12m
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Z. P. H P▲ SR,
A770R2T37 A7 LAT,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
ROBT. S. ANDERSON, WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jackronport, Ark. Auyutla, Ark.
Anderson At Thompson,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
JaoksQnport and Augusta, Ark.
Will attend the Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to special
eases in any section of the State. Address
either office. maylS-ly
A. C. riOUTT. L. M. BAMSACB.
PICKETT At BAMHAUIl,
ATTORNEYS 4T LAW,
AUGUSTA, ARKAXSAS.
Will prActice In the counties of Woodruff,
Jaokson, White and Craighead, Special at
tention given to collections of all claims en
trusted to their oare aprG-ly
J. R. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff oonnty, and the Circuit Courts of
the seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to his
oare. janl2
DRUG4S!
A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
F&BBB DRUGS,
MEDICINES AND CHEMICAS,
«
scnoei noostn ua siuunnei j ,
Paints, Oils, Dye-8tofTs, Window-Glass, Per
fumery, Patent Medicines. Wines, Brandies,
Whiskey, for medicinal purposes.
Dromgoole’s celebrated Southern Remedies,
inrariably for cash, at small profits.
jul21 J. M. RI R\KV.
- --■ ."i‘ 1 - -
ARKANSAS GAZETTE,
LITTLE BOCK, ARK.
Ternm—Invariably in Adranco.
DAILY, $10 00 per annum; $1 00 per month
for any leu period.
WEEKLY, $3 00 per annum; $2 50 to clubs
of two or more.
Commercial lionsc,
FOOT OF MAIN STREET,
Next door to the Tost Office,
&ima mocs* &mi*
A. ADAMS, PboI'iuktor. nl6-3m
0141141 KOWi&t
J. W. WHITLEY, Proprietor,
Cor. Rook and Mulberry Streets,
LITTLB BOCK,-ARKANSAS
_nl#_
F. MITCHELL. <0. MITCH ELI. T. H. MITCHELL.
F. MITCHELL & BRO’S.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Commission Merchants,
AND DIALERS IN
U|Mn, Fruit, Fish, Produce..
t. E. Mr. Hunt Hit ( brslut Bis.,
jun9- (St. I.ouiM. Mo.
Jho, M. Fake*. Da. Oil). R. Fakes.
JNO. M. FAKES & CO.,
COMMISSION M BOH A NTS,
tnrondelrt Street,
NEW ORLEANS.
STATE NEWS.
-The Harrisburg Journal says corn
is offered on the Ridge at fifty cents por
bushel, and meat at five cents per pound.
-The Little Rock Republican hoists
the; name of Ulyses S. Grant, for Presi
dent, subject to the decision of the Na
tional Republican Convention.
-Information wanted of Jeremiah
Wesley Benton, who left bis home in Ben
ton county, in 1862, and joined the con
federate forces and has not been heard
trom since. Ilis age is 33. Address Mrs.
E. E. Benton, care of Woodruff & Blocher,
Little Rock, Arkansas.
-The election in this city passed of
quietly. We heard of no disturbance nor
riotous conduct. We have not heard the
result of the voting, but judging from ap
pearances on the scoond day of the farce,
suppose that “the colored troops fought
nobly.”—[Little Rock Conservative.
-- The election is this (Union) coun
ty, passed off quietly—no disorder from
any quarter. Uarlcton and McRae, white
men, were beaten by about 100 votes, so
we are informed. Wo don’t know the
names of the radical candidates elect,
nor do we care a “cuss”.—[Eldorado Sen
tinel.
-Col Robertson has arranged that
from and after Friday the 22d inst, all
the trains over the road shall make the
•
trip in 8$ hours, and that on the arrival
of boats at DcVail's Bluff the train will
leave immediately with passengers and
mail. Col. Robertson is a thorough rail
road man, and his efforts to accommodate
the public are being sincerely appreciated.
—[Little Rock Republican.
A Bold Tiiikf —A stranger, last
Thursday morning, at the Planters House
in this city, intimated his wish to pur
chase a horse. He was shown one, which
he desired to try and which was saddled
for him; lie mounted and rode off and at
last advices was still trying him, at least
he has not yet returned, and the horse no
doubt suits him; it was a valuable one and
estimated worth 8175, and belonged to a
gentleman from Sevier county, who is in
attendance here ou the U. S. Court.— j
[Van Buren Press.
-The Fort Smith Herald of tlft 9th,,
.
lust., says:
The Cherokee council convened this1
woek, and the new chief, Lewis Downing,
will be inaugurated. It is hinted that |
Win P. Ross and his friends intend con- 1
testing the election.
The GTicrokees have a very large claim
against the United States under the treaty
of 18H5. There never has been a settle-1
incut under that treaty, and a large amount !
of the 85,000,000 agroed to be paid for j
the lands east of the Mississippi by the
United States, were misapplied by the
government, and has never been account
ed for in any shape or form.
-Randolph Comity has voted, and
the vote cast is largely againrt Conven
tion, and for H. W. Ratcliffo, conserve
live delcgntc to the convention.
The Black River Standard says: On
the eve of opening the polls, at sonic of
the precincts, reports were put in ciicula
tion to the effect that all who voted against
a convention had to pay from fifty cents
to one dollar, to be allowed to vote; at
other precincts, that the deputy sheriff
was on the ground to arrest and iuiprisou
all who voted against convention. Such
were the means used to defeat ‘the will of
IUU .
-The DeWitt Elector, after com
raeniiig upon the weather, crops, etc.,
says:
“ He are looking for much emigration
to our county. Already several families
hare arrived, and more are expected
shortly. He were conversing a few days
ago with Col. Waddell of Aberdeen, who
iuformed us that ho is in receipt of a let
ter from one of the older States, inquiring
for a suitable locality for 6fty families, as
there was a company of that number com
ing out to this country, and he has re
commended our county to them.”
Thieves Arrested.—Deputy sheriff
Davie, succeeded on Sunday, in arresting
two thieveaby the namo of O'Dryant and
King. They had stolen one or two sad
dles from a mulatto man, Joe Smith, on
Saturday night. Mr. Davie had to cross
the river into the Cherokee Nation, to ar
rest one of the worthies by the name of
John ATng, with two or three aliases. We
understand he has a gunshot wound in his
body, which ho received near Camden, in
this state, sometime ago, about stealing a
mule. Those two thieves wore brought
on Monday beforo Esquire Spangler, who
oommitted them to prison —[Ft Smith
Herald
-From parties who have recently
visited Vicksburg, we learn, with re
gret, that the Editor of this paper lias
been quite unwell of into, it is a cu
rious commentary on military rule tliat
an accused party, however innocent he
limy be, must sutler the tortures ofhcll,
iu close confinement during a sickly
season in such a place as Vicksburg,
while awaiting the pleasure of a "Com
mission” that has adjourned to rusti
cate until the epidemic that has pre
vailed during the summer shall sub
side.—[Chicot Dress,
"Nearly all of them were Negroes.”
From the Louisville Courier, 22d. inst.]
Such i#thc burden of the dispatches
that reach us from the South in which
the announcement of the number of
votes cast at the “reconstruction” elec
tions is made. So many votes were
polled here to-day, says the telegram
from Richmond, or Savannah, or Talla
hassee, or Raleigh ; nncj “nearly all of
them were negroes I” is the inevitable
conclusion. Why is this? Are they,
then, no longer white men in the South ?
Where are the countrymen and kins
men of Washington and his compeers,
so many of whom poured out their
blood like water for the establishment
of republican government on this con
tinent? And where are the statesmen
wliosd talent shed a luster upon the re
spective State Legislatures, and upon
the National Congress, only a few years
ago? Have they-, and the noble and
intelligent Caucasian constituencies
they represented, become, by some
strange fatality suddenly extinct, leav
ing in their places only the members
of that inferior race who were their
slaves to exercise the rights of franchise
and control the destinies of their States ?
“ Nearly ail of thorn negroes I” The
thought is sickning that elections
should be held for that most serious
and important business, the formation
of State constitutions, and negroes—
inferior,uninstructcd,imbruted negroes
—elect the men deputed to the task.
Great God! What is the wretchedness
of that condition to which the Southern
States are brought w(ieu such interest
are committed to such hands. It can
not be hoped that such electors should
choose delegates at all worthy of the
UI^II IIU.M. It UMIIIUI Uv uuici moo
than that ignorance, and prejudice, and
rice should predominate in conventions
so constituted. Only negroes, and
white men still more ignoble and less
deserving of respect than negroes, can
be chosen by such constituencies.
“Nearly all of them negroes.” Not
quite all of them ! Who arc tho rest?
Are they whites who, mindful of the
glorious past, and animated by a just
consciousness of the superiority of their
race, are struggling desperately against
mighty odds to save themselves from
being overwhelmed by a sea of dark
ness?—or are they not, rather, chiefly
dastardly home renegades, and* the
fair-skinned wretches who have come
from the North to help along in the di
abolical work of establishing negro su
premacy over the fairest portion of the
American Union?
Surely never was greater outrage
perpetrated against freemen than Rad
icals have perpetrated against theSouth
ern people in their reconstruction poli
cy. That policy deliberately sets out to
give the negroes control of the South
ern States. Under it the enfranchised |
freedmeu are so certain of carrying all
before them that, as a general thing,
even those whites who would be suf
fered to vote do not choose to partici
pate iu the mockery, especially as they
know tho whole plan to be irregular
and unconsitutionnl.
Under our system of government
each of the ten Southern States where
the mockery of reconstruction is now
being performed is already possessed
of as regular constituted State govern
ment as iu New York or Ohio, and
every white citizen above the age of
twenty-one is a fully qualified voter.
Iu no one of the ten Southern States
is the negro a qualified voter, and in no
States of tho South have those who are
qualified voters taken auy steps for the
calling of a convention to ameud the
existing constitution, or form a new
one. All acts of Congress, or its agents
interfering with the rights of the citi-i
zens of the States in such matters are
absolute usurpations. It follows, as a j
matter of course, that these reconstruc
tion elections by which conventions to
form negro-supremacy constitutions
are to be culled, and at which “nearly
all tho voters are negroes,” are, consti
tutionally and rightfully considered,
wholly void.
How despicable is that Radical party
which lias deliberately adopted such a
method of perpetuating its power.
Not content with inaugurating a mili-i
tary despotism to prevent the citizens
of sovereign States from exercising
those privileges in the enjoyment of
which they are guaranteed alike by the
Federal Constitution and their Slate
Constitution, and not satisfied with re
fusing them representation in Congress
and destroying theirstate governments,
it deliberately resorts to the expedient
of making white men subject td ne
groes—of inaugurating negro domina
tion and negro supremacy.
History records instances where, for
purposes of power and personal ag
grandizement, unscrupulous and am
bitious men -have compelled the weaker
and in sonic respects inferior race to j
wear (lie yoke of the stronger and su
perior ; but never has instance yet been
recorded of those who, from similar
motives, enslaved those of their own
race and country to a race vastly in
ferior in all respects. Rome subduod
tho Volscians, and William and his
Normans made the Snxous subject to
their will; but it has yet to be written
that tlie Radicals, in the attempt to ;
perpetuate tho ascendency and power
of their party, attempted to place the
white citizens of ten Southern States
under the lasting domination of brutal
»nd half-barbarous negroes. We say
'attempted,' for they will never suc
ceed in their atrocious undertaking
For a tilne success may seem to
crown their efforts, but, in the end, the
right will prevail, the regular State,
governments of the South will be sus
tained, and white men will resnme the
rule which nature's God intended them
to excercisc. Already the hand-wri
ting is on the wall—an inscription that
causes the traitors to tremble in the
very act of treason. The freemen of
other States—the States upon which
the iron heel has not yet been planted
—do not intend to stand idly by and
see their brethren of ten States subjec
ted to the Radical-negro domination.—
They will not suffer a policy to be con
summated that not only threatens to
convert the South into a St. Domingo,
but to extend its paralyzing and fatal
influences, like some baneful upas, over
the Union in all its length and breadth.
Radical reconstruction is surely doom
ed to defeat. Even if the process is
finished, and the States are declared
admitted under their negro constitu
tions, the work will not, cannot stand.
Constitutional government must pre
vail. and white men must contiune to
rule America.
Printing One. Thousand Years
Ago.—An extraordinary discovery hus
been of a press in Iuda. When War
ren Hastings was Govenor General of
India, he observed that in the district
of Henares, a little below the surface of
the earth, is to be found a stratum of a
kind of fibrous woolly substance of va
rious thicknesses, in horizontal layers.
Major Roebuck, informed of this, went
out to n spot where an excavation had
been made displaying this singular
phenomenon. In digging somewhat
UCll'CI) 1U1 UIU |UII[IU9C VI 1U11IIU IC
search, they laid open a vault which on
further examination, proved to be of
some size, and to their ustonishment,
they found a kind of priuting press set
up in a vault, and on it movable types
placed as if ready for printing. Every
inquiry was set on foot to ascertain
the probable period to which such an
instrument could have been placed
there, for it was evidently not of mod
ern origin, and from all that the Major
could collect, it appeared probable that
the press had remained there in the
state iti which it was found for at least
ono thousand years. AVe believe the
woBUt»„M.^ftif...<m-hi» avium to Eng
land presented one of the learned as
sociations with a memoir containing
many curious speculations on the sub
ject. I*apcr we know to have been
manufactured in tho Enst mauy cen
turies before we had nny knowledge
of it, and we have many reasons to
think that the Chinese had been ac
quainted with the mode of printing
they now enjoy many years before
Fausi and Gutteuburg invented it in
Europe. It certainly does no credit to
the inventive genius of the ltomnns to
know that, while they approach so near
as to engrave in a style not to be equaled
in the present age on gems, and stones,
and of course the taking of impressions
of them, they should have remained
ignorant of the art which has bestowed
so many blessings on mankind.
-The following item in regard to
the bankrupt law is published for gen
eral information:
All who desire the relief offered by
the Bankrupt law have only to file
their petitions in the Clerk's office and
the relief instantaneously comes. From
the hour of tiling his papers the debtor
may commence his new business life,
may enter into engagements, earn
money, iuvest it and enjoy it without
fear of having the fruits of his new en
terprise and labor sought after and
seized on account of the old debts that
have crushed him; for the Bankrupt
act only takes hold of such property
and assets as a man has at the time he
tiles his petition and offers to surren
der all for the benefit of his creditors.
If that surrender be full, honest and
complete, as it ought to be, and must
be if the applicant expects to obtain
certain relief, the creditors get no ■
more. The man's debts are then with
tho past, the future is all his own ;
whether thcro bo a Register there or not
until six months after.
A Ksufeo Advocates Mcrder.—An
incendiary negro named Lindsay, re
cently elected to the Virginia Conven
tion from Richmond, thus lavs down
his platform :
That before any of his children
should suffer for food, the streets of
Richmond should run knee-deep in
blood; and he thanked God that the
negroes had learned to nse guns, pis
tols, and ramrods.
This iusuttlug menace to the capital
ist—this threat to murder hint if he
dares to discharge men who have de
clared themselves his enemies—was re
cloved with the wildest enthusiasm by
his black auditors. This same negro
Imd already proclaimed his right to so
cial equality to tho extent of marriage
with tho superior mcc, and here we
find him threatening the race which ho
had declared war upon with wholesale
slaughter if they do not support his
family.
-A colored citizen of Indianapo
lis lately applied at the office of the
county clerk for a marriage license, at1
the same time inquiring the cost of the
document aud tho additional charge
for tying the nuptial knot. He was in
formed that the entire bill would be !
one dollar aud forty cents, at which ho
demurred, saying that he had promised
the "woman” to go a dollar on it, but
he'd have to pay the other forty ccuts.,
POLITICAL NEWS.
ISTTIic Judiciary Committee say1
the evidence they have gathered makes *
1200 pages of print. The New York
Times thinks they should offer a prize j
as an inducement for at least one per-\
son to read it.
-Jaurez is trying hard to get a
loan in the United States, on the in
dorsement of our Congress. Some of
the New York papers say there is dan
ger that the scheme may succeed.
-The New York Times, a conser
vative Republican paper, approves of
the arrest of McCardlc, of the Vicks
burg Times, while the Tribune, a Rad
ical journal, condemns it in the strong
est terms. Greely thinks that General
Ord has made a grave mistake, and
adds he don't believe the violent lan
guage of the most violent rebel editors
make }t either proper or politic in a
Union General to lock them up. These
men, says Greely, are never dangerous
until they become popular martyrs.
-Southern Journals announce that
Senator Wilson and Speaker Colfax
have written letters expressing their
opinions in favor of the repeal of the
tax on cotton, and making the repealing
act retroactive in its operations, going
back to the 1st of September. Some of
the Southern papers express the opin
ion that it would be better to raise the
tax so that the cultivation of cotton
would be impossible, and the people of
the South be forced to what they never
done before—raise enough food to
keep them from starvation.
Arf. NsGRoes Eligible for Con
gress?—Under the famous Dred Scott
decision the Supreme Court of the Uni
icu ciwuca ucuuuu mm rues wuv
not citizens within the meaning of the
Constitution. Whatever the popular
sentiment may be in regard to that de
cision, it was never reversed, and re
mained the law of the hind, at least un
til the proclamation of emancipation
issued by President Lincoln in Septem
ber, 1802. If that proclamation made
negroes citizens they attained their
citizenship at that time. The Consti
tution of the United States provides
that no oue shall be eligible to the
United States House of Representatives
until bo lms boon seven years a citiaen,
or to the United States Senate until he
shall have been a citizen nine years.
These facts may dash the hopes of some
of the ambitious Sambos and Quashccs
who have anticipated the honor of rep
resenting some of the Southern districts
in the next Congress.—[New York
Herald.
A Compromise Proposed.—The Min
ncapolis (Minnesota) Tribune says that
the result of the elections is ‘‘a popular
verdict against inanyof the extreme
measures of Congress.” It then adds I
in tones of exquisite color:
Will the verdict of the elections in
fluence the action of Congress ? is the
question which all men are anxiously
asking. Undoubtedly it will—it must.
However foolishly the people may have
spo.keii, they havo spoken, and their
voice must be in a measure heeded. It
is evident that they do not care to have
Johnson impeached, or they would
have taken the trouble to vote the other
way. And so they would had they
been inclined to see carried out to the
full extent, the policy of the military
bills and the ruinous financial policy
whieh a two-thirds Republican major
ity in Congress have permitted Mr.
Johnson's Secretary of the Treasury to
establish. Impeachment will, undoubt
edly, be abandoned.
n couciuues mai me "immemaic au- i
mission of the seceded States on the j
basis of universal amnestyfor suffrage,
as once proposed by Lincoln, would be
a compromise satisfactory to the coun
try, and expedient in view of the pop
ular verdict just pronounced.”
—- m ♦ m -
l©*Thc Louisville Democrat thus
advises the Southern white people in
reference to the Congressional military
reconstruction acts:
AA’e would let the business entirely
alone. Congress, evidently, iutemls to j
do as it pleases with them, and their
voting and legislating in accordance (
with Congressional diction, can only
lumber up the way of Democrats In
making the reformation. For exam
ple, if the negroes are made voters by
the reconstruction bill, Congress can
repeal that bill, and negro voting is at
an end. If, however, any State under
it has adopted negro suffrage, the Con
gressional repeal will not effect it. It
will remain on the State, a curse and
legacy to be got rid of, if possible, by
the State.
Cultivate the cotton and the corn,
raise sugar and white children, and :
leave politics to the Democracy of the
North, where there is an even tight and
a better cbancA As it is, we fear they
will form ten solid Itadical States
against us, and the only preventive we
can see is to adopt the Wot alone” poli- 1
bv. Otherwise, wo fear, they arc only
helping to rivet the chains upon them
selves, nnd not only that, but. upon j
their friends in the North. They are 1
only obstructing restoration and in-,
luring themselves, to the great and un- j
qualified satisfaction of their greatest j
enemies, the Uadical party.
-The rise and fall of cotton affects
nearly equally all parts of the civilised
world. In Normandy one manufactu-1
rer has lost three million fnfocs by the !
tail iu this staple.
SALMAGUNDI.
•©“Man is a mister, and woman a
mystery.
•©“Woman is a delusion; but men
will hug delusions.
•©-“Doctor, what will cure the fever
of love ?” “The chill of wedlock, mad
emoiselle.”
•©-If a man has nothing to say, he is
sure to take much time and aud use
many words in saying it.
■©-If truth really lies at the bottom
of a well, then the bottom of that well
must have fallen out.
f •©‘A young lady in Texas, who ad
vertises for a husband, says she can
talk philosophy as woll as rock the cra
dle.
•©-A lover has been pithily des
cribed as a man who in his anxiety to
gain posscssson of another, lias lost
possession of himself.
*©“ Why—oh, why docs a duck
put her head under water, aud why
does she bring it npagain ? For divers
reasons, and for sun-dry causes.
•©‘Cuffey said that he'd rather die
In a railroad smash-up than a steam
boat burst-up, for this reason :
“If you gits off and smashed up, dar
you is; but if you gits biowed up on
the boat, whar is you ?”
•©-“Can you do all sorts of castings
here ?” said a solemn-looking chap at
the iron-works the other day.
“Yes,” said Frank, preparing to take
an order; “all sorts.”
“Well, then,” returned the solemn
inquirer, “I would like to have you
cast a shadow.”
lie was immediately cast out.
>> u»i wora is mat in tne marri
age service which if one letter of it
were changed thousands of single per
sons would rush into matrimony, and
thousands of married people become
single? The word Livb into Like, so
that instead of agreeing to “love, hon
or and obey” each other as long as they
both do Live, it should be as long as
they both do Like.
t&~A friend once visiting an un
worldly philosopher, whose mind was
his kingdom, expressed surprise at the
smallness of the apartment.
“Why, you have not room to swing a
cat 1”
“My friend,” I do not want to swing
a cat,”
*55" A lady called at a shop recently,
and inquired ofa young clerk for “crew
el.” Not willing to appear ignorant,
nor exactly coinprehendiug her, he
handed down a regular twisted cow
skin.
“Why,” said the lady, “that is not
what I want.”
“Well,” replied the boy, “that is the
cruelist thing I know of.”
I&'A preacher in the neighborhood
of Hartford, Connecticut, not undeser
vedly popular, had just finished an ex
hortation strongly recommending the
support of a certain very meritorious
institution. The congregation was nu
merous, aud the chapel was crowded
to excess. The discourse being fin
ished, the plate was about being hand
ed round to the respective pews, when
the preacher made this short address to
the congregation:
“From the sympathy I have witness
ed in your countenances, and the strict
attention you have honored me with,
there is one thing thatl am afraid of—
J V u tun^ l/V IUVI1UVU AV
give too much. Now, it is ray duty to
inform you that justice, though not so
pleasant, should always be a prior vir
tue to generosity; therefore, at you
will all be immdiatelv waited upon in
your respective pews, I wish to have it
thoroughly understood that no person
shall think of putting anything into
the plate who cannot pay his debts.”
We need not add that this produced
a most overflowing collection.
A Plantation’ Preacher.—The fol
lowing Is a story told by the bishop of
Tennessee, at tho recent Church Con
gress, as showing the education of a
plantation preacher. He said:
I was visiting a plantation, and the
bell was rung, and the negroes, num
bering some five hundred, gathered in
the parlor and piazzas of the house, be
longing. unfortunately for himself, to a
bachelor. After reading a chapter to
them I preached, and said that I would
bold a service the next day to baptize
inch as should be presented. I baptized
between seventy and eighty, and, after
i service, I fell Into conversation with
Uncle Tony,’ a plantation preacher. I
isked him about various Christian doc
vines, and finally said I
‘And what about the bbsiirrectioh ?’
With a very solemn Ritic he replied :
‘You see, master, 'liitnieiit Is ’iut
nent.’
‘Yes.’
•Well you seedere Is asperltualbodv,
ind dis body made of dlls’.
‘Yes.’
‘Well, you see, when the Angel Ga
iriel comes down from heaben, and
foin’ up and down de Itiber Jordan, a
blowing tip his trumpet, and de birds
>b Heaben singin’, and the hells of
deabn ringin’, and de milk and honey
•ainin' down on de hills of Heaben, he
ivill bring de speritual body wid him
town from Heaben, and take dis here
jody up out of de dus’, and take do
intment and rub it on, den stick deni
ogedder—and dar dey is.’—Pall Mall
jiazette.