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Election on Monday, 6th August, 1860.
[■Announcing candidate* for State and
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cept when persons making the calls are sub
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lars charged as idvertisements.]
The Canvass for Congress.
The candidates for Congress. Col. Gantt,
and Dr. Mitchell, will address their fcllow
citizens at the following times and places :
Clarendon. ... June 25
Brownsville, - - - “27
Pine Bluff. ... “29
Little Rock, - - - “30
Perryrille, ... July 3
Danville, ... “4
Fort Smith, - “ 6
Greenwood, - - * “7
Waldron, ... “9
Dallas, ... “10
Mt. Ida, - - - “11
Benton, - - - “13
Rockport, ... “14
Princeton. - - - “16
Arkadelphia, - - - “17
Camdeu, - “ 19
Eldorado, - “21
Magnolia, - - • “23
Louisville, - - - “24
Washington, - - - “25
Paraclirta, - - - “28
Murfreesboro’ - - - “30
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
John C. Davie, J. H. Quisenberry and
P. A. Thomason, candidates for the Legisla
ture, for Prairie county, will address the peo
ple at the following times and places :
Clear Lake, Clear Lake township, Monday,
June 25.
Pettus Place, Richwoods township, Tuesday,
June 26.
Hamilton Church. Hamilton township, Wed
nesday, June 27.
Belcher’s, La Grew township, Thursday,
June 28.
Devall’s Bluff, Wattensaw township, Fri
day, June 29.
McEwen’s, Centre township, Saturday,
June 30.
Des Arc, White River township, Thursday,
July 5.
Hickory Plain, Pigeon Roost township, Fri
day July 6.
Atlanta, Caroline township, Saturday, July
7th.
Nathan Trotter’s, Caroline township, Mon
day, July 9.
Brownsville, Prairie township, Wednesday,
T„l,r 11
Editor Des Arc Citizen. — You will
please announce my name as a candidate for
re-election to the office of Judge of the 5th
circuit of this State, composed of the counties
of Conway, Pope, Yell, Perry, Saline, Pulaski
and Prairie, at the election to be held on the
first Monday of August next.
JNO. J. CLENDENIN.
Mr. Editor:—Please announce me as a
candidate for election, in August next, to the
office of Attorney General and Prosecuting
Attorney of the 5th Judicial District.
JOHN M. HARRELL.
We are authorised to announce J. L.
Hollpwell as a candidate for re-election to
the office of Attorney General, and Prosecu
ting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial Districts,
composed of the counties of Yell, Perry, Sa
line, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope, at
the ensuing August election. *
. ny We are authorised to announce John
H. Quisenberry, Esq., as a candidate to
represent Prairie county, in our next Legisla
ture, at the ensuing August election. [feb8.
_ay We are authorised to announce J. M.
King, as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Sheriff of Prairie County, at the
ensuing August election. *
ay We are authorised to announce W. E.
Raulston as a candidate for Sheriff at the
ensuing election. *
To the Voters of Prairie Co.,Ark.
I am a candidate for Sheriff of said county,
at the election to be held on the first Monday
in August, next. WM. A. PLUNKETT.
January 4, I860.*
_<?ywe are authorised to announce Wm.
Goodrum as a candidate for Circuit Clerk of
Prairie county, at the ensuing election. •
jy We are authorised to announce
Charles D. Taylor, as a candidate for
Circuit Clerk of Prairie county, at the
ensuing election. *
Devall’s Bluff, Ark.,
January 30th, ’60.
Editor Citizen—Please announce my name
as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Prairie County, at the ensuing August
election. Very respectfully, &e.,
feb 15 • J. W. BLANTON.
We are authorised to announce John
E. Hudson as a candidate for the office of
Clerk of Prairie county, at the ensuing Au
gust election.
IJ^P We are authorised to announce W. W.
sir.... .. - -... .... ) D..nk-fn
Judge of Prairie county, at the ensuing elec
tion.
E. W. Douolass is a candidate for
County and Probate Judge of Prairie county,
•t the ensuing August election.
Brownsville, Feb. 10, ’60.
Mr. Editor.—You will please announce
my name as a candidate for Probate Judge
for the county of Prairie.
Respectfully, J. L. HUNT.
(HT We are authorised to announce Wm.
J. Darby as a candidate for Common School
Commissioner, for Prairie county, at the en
suing election.
We are aulhorised to announce Wm.
P. Preston, as a candidate for re-election
to the office of Common School Commission
for Frafrie county. *
g^” We are authorised to announce Levi
By ram as a candidate for County Treasurer,
at the ensiling August election. *
(BT We are authorized to announce Wil
liam D. Anthony as a candidate for County
Surveyor at the election to be held the first
Monday in August next. *
Our Country Disgraced in Sicily.
Letters from Italy, received by the steam
er Arabia, report that Mr. Henry H. Bar
stow, the American Consul at Palermo,
has been guilty of an act of perfidy which
will forever brand him with infamy. This
misrepresentative of a land of liberty was
instrumental in betraying Father Ottavia
Lanza, one of the noblest and purest of
patriots, into the hands of the agents of
the vilest and most tyrannical despotism
on the globe. The accounts state that on
the 11th of April Palermo was startled
with the report of the arrest of Father
Lanza, by American intervention,on board
a merchant vessel bearing the “stripes
and stars,” and that the act was commit
ted by the agency of Mr. Barstow, the
American Consul. The diplomatic corps
at Palmero have refused to hold any furth
er communication with this traitor against
humanity—this aider and abettor of the
second Bomba, who thus prostitutes his
official position. If one-quarter part of
the stories reported about this Barstow are
true, he should be at once dismissed from
the service of a free republic, and suffer
the official, as well as the social, disgrace
awarded to renegades.—[Boston Trans.
DJES ARC CITIZEN.|
J. C. MORRItt, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
SATURDAY^.JUNE 23,1860.
Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor.
HENRY 1. RECTOR.
or PULASKI.
For Congress, First District,
THOS. C. HINDMAN,
OF PHILLIPS.
For Congress, Second District,
EDWARD W. GANTT,
OF HEMPSTEAD.
POR REPRESENTATIVE,
COL. JOHN C. DAVIE.
Canvass for Governor.
The Candidates for Governor, Henry M.
Rector and Richard H. Johnson, will ad
dress the people of the State upon Nationa
and State affairs, at the following times and
places:
TOWN. COUNTY. DATE.
Springfield, Conway, Monday, June 4
Dardanellc, Yell, Wedns., “ 6
Dover, Pope, Thursday, “ 7
Clarksville, Johnson, Saturday, “ 9
Ozark, Franklin, Monday, " 11
Booneville, Scott, Wedns., " 13
Fort Smith, Sebastian, Friday, “ 15
Van Buren, Crawford, Saturday “ Id
Fayettville, Washington, Tuesday, “ 19
Bentonville, Benton, Thursday," 21
Huntsville, Madison, Saturday, " 23
Carrollton, Carroll, Monday, “ 25
Jasper, Newton, Tuesday, " 2d
Burrowville, Searcy, Thursday," 28
Mount Olive, Izard, Saturday, “ 30
Batesville, Independ’ce, Monday, July 2
Jacksonport, Jackson, Tuesday, “ 3
Smithville, Lawrence, Thursday, “ 5
Pocahontas, Randolph, Friday, “ fi
Gainesville, Greene, Monday, “ 9
Bolivar, Poinsett, Wednes’y, “ 11
Madison, St. Francis, Friday, " 13
Helena, Phillips, Monday, " Id
uituuu, itiuiiiuu, ** uuucs yj xo
Brownsville, Prairie, Frhlay, “ 20
Little Rock, Pulaski, Saturday, “ 2t
Benton, Saline, Wednes’y, “ 25
Hot Springs, Hot Springs, Thursday, “ 26
Arkadelphia, Clark, Saturday, “ 28
Princeton, Dallas, Monday, “ 30
Warren, Bradley, Wedues., Aug. 1
Hampton, Calhoun, Thursday, “ 2
Camden, Ouachita, Saturday, “ 4
Eldorado, Union, Monday, “ 6
The people are respectfully invited to at
tend these appointments, and all papers in the
State aro requested to publish and direct pub
lic attention to them.
RICHARD H. JOHNSON,
HENRY M. RECTOR.
Baltimore Convention. — Pursuant
to the order of adjournment at Charleston,
this body met at Baltimore on Monday
last. No ballotings were had on the first
day. Hon. Fernando Wood has written
a letter from New York in favor of Doug
las’ nomination, and says that he can
carry that State.
The dispatch, which we publish, says
there is some talk that Caleb Coshino
will be nominated for President, and Jrrr.
Davis for Vice President.
Edmund Burke writes from Concord,
New Hampshire, that everybody expects
a smash-up at Baltimore. Others contend
that two candidates will be nominated.
MTThe candidates for Congress from
the Second District, Messrs. Gantt and
Mitchell, address their fellow citizens
at Brownsville, on Wednesday next. We
have no fears of a complete triumph on
the part of Col. Gantt. He is a bold
and intrepid speaker, and emphatically
the favorite of the voters of Prairie county.
We trust the people will turn out to hear
these gentlemen, in order that they may
learn more of the superiority of their
choice for Congress. Col. Gantt will
carry Prairie county by an overwhelming
majority.
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The Candidates tor Governor.—
The news from all portions of the State
are cheering to the friends of Col. Rec
tor. We have accounts of the discus
sions between him and Mr. Johnson in
Conway, Yell, Pope and Johnson coun
ties, in all of which Mr. Johnson has
been the most completely used up aspi
rant that ever mounted the stump in the
State.
In our recent trip to Memphis we con
versed with a large number of gentlemen
from various portions of our State, and
with but few exceptions they admitted that
Rector’s triumph would be complete.
Throughout the White river valley we
know that Johnson men are “few and far
between.” The people are becoming
.fully aroused, and the more the relative
position and merits of the two candidates
for Governor are discussed, the more
thoroughly are the masses becoming con
vinced that the “ long chain of Johnson
circumstances should be broken.' It is
full time that the “rule or ruin” policy of
these feeders at the public crib should be
checked, and that others who possess in
trinsic merit, and have the general wel
fare of the State at heart, should be placed
in power in their stead. The Guberna
torial canvass in Arkansas is emphati
cally between the people and the Slate
and Federal office-holders. Col. Rector
represents the people—the masses—while
Mr. Johnson is endeavoring to hold on
to the loaves and fishes, upon which him
self and co-laborers have fattened for long
years. Let them make room for the
choice of the people, for as certain as the
first Monday in August rolls round, just
so certain will Henrt M. Rector be
elected Governor of the State of Arkan
sas.
®ii“C/ol. J esse N. Cypert, of Searcy,
White cofinty, announces himself a can
didate for Congress from the First Dis
trict. The Colonel is an Old Line Whig,
and maintains that he is only exercising
the privilege of an independent American
citizen in presenting himself before the
people for Congressional honors. He
promises to canvass the district as far as
time will permit between now and the
August election. The editor of the Searcy
Eagle is “ decidedly" in for Col. Cypert.
Augusta Standard.—We learn that
the first number of a new paper, at Au
gusta, Jackson county, bearing the above
title, will be issued in a few days. M.
Lewis, Esq., is editor and proprietor.
The Standard is to be Democratic in poli
tics. We wish our new neighbor “ com
plete success” in his new enterprise.
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Judge Rector’s Canvass.—We have
received many letters enquiring why it is
that Judge Rector has made so few ap
pointments for the Southern District. The
arrangement by which the canvass has
been confined almost entirely to the North
ern District, where his main strength lies,
is certainly a very unfortunate one for
Judge Rector; but his friends must bear
in mind that it is none of his work. Mr.
Johnson being the candidate first in the
field, had the right to make his programme
of appointments, and Judge Rector was
compelled to submit—that is, if he wanted
to follow his competitor round, which was
a desideratum by no means to be thrown
away. Mr. Johnson, by his systematic
and long pursued course of abuse towards
the Democracy of the first district, while
he edited the True Democrat, made it
very apparent to him that his services
would be much more needed in that than
any other portion of the Slate, and hence
his appointments. He has not, in our
opinion, acted properly towards the Judge
in keeping him most of the time in the
Northern District; but these Johnsons
have a way of doing up things peculiar to
themselves.—[Old Line Dem.
—
"V'T" n n n A n n T>« O TIf O In fi A A 1 t 1 AM t fl i
those Democratic papers that we men
tioned last week, as having hoised the
name of Henry M. Rector as the can
didate for Governor, we have this week
the unalloyed satisfaction of recording, in
the same proud category, those of the
Des Arc Citizen, Jacksonport Herald, and
Fort Smith Herald, three of the ablest and
most spirited journals in the State. They
bring a weight of influence to the support
of Judge Rector, that will tell tremen
dously upon his prospects. We tender to
our brethren of Des Arc, Jacksonport and
Fort Smith the right hand of a joyous
welcome in the ranks of a noble and pa
triotic cause.— [Old Line Democrat.
The Oldest Ship.—The bark Maria
recently arrived at this port from a three
years' cruise in the Indian Ocean. She
was built at the town of Pembroke, now
called Hanson, for a privateer, during the
Revolutionary war. She was bought by
William Rotch, a merchant of Nantucket,
afterwards of this city, in the year 1783,
and in the same year she made a trip to
London with a cargo of oil. Her register
is dated A. D. 1782, and she is conse
quently in her seventy-seventh year.—
She claims to be the first ship that dis
played the United States flag in a British
port after the Revolutionary war, which
flag is now in existence, though in shreds.
The model is of the old French construc
tion, tumbling home, or rounding very
much in her top sides, and she is conse
quently very narrow on deck, in propor
tion to her size, 202 tons. It is said that
there stands to her credit over $200,000 ;
and from the earliest history of this ship
she has never been any expense by loss
to the underwriters except once, and then
to a very small amount.
The above, from the New Bedford
Standard, pretty good authority, by-the-by,
in sea-going matters, goes to show how
work was done in "ye olden timesbut
there was, last year, sailing the seas, a
Sardinian polacre brig—"La Inez”—
which is known to be between ninety and
one hundred years old. She has made
an annual vovaere from “up the Straits” to
Mobile for the past forty-seven years.—
Two of her masts were blown out in a
nor’western in the Gulf of Mexico some
twenty-five years since, with which excep
tion she has never sustained any damage.
She is Russian built, and was purchased
by the great uncle of the present owner.
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Mormon Intelligence.—We under
stand that there are 1,500 Mormons in
the town of Florence, Nebraska Territory,
who originally started for Salt Lake, and
who it is asserted are waiting for an aug
mentation to their numbers before they
start Zionward. This is the ostensible
reason alleged, but we apprehend there is
another which is significant of their de
lay, and which is to be found in the recent
Joe Smith demonstration. It is well
known that the proprietors of the town of
Florence have given young Smith a con
siderable quantity of land in that place
and vicinity, and it is also alleged that he
has promised that be will bring 20,000
emigrants there within a year. This is
no small inducement, and it will form a
nucleus or colony around which the dis
affected at Great Salt Lake City can
rulty.
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The Storm in Mississippi County,
Ark.—Mr. A. S. Brackett, of Osceola,
Missippi county, Ark., in h letter dated
the 8th inst., whites us as follows: “We
were last night visited by one of the most
terrific and devastating storms of wind
and hail that was ever before witnessed
in this country. Houses were blown down
and turned round on their foundations,
and the largest trees were uprooted and
broken down like mere saplings. Great
loss is sustained by the corn and cotton
crops, and some plantations were com
pletely ruined.”
Among the amendments to the
Military Appropriation bill in the U. S.
Senate on the 3d instant, was oue provi
ding for the erection of an arsenal on the
Northern fork of Red River for the sup
port of a regiment of mounted volunteers
in Texas. The amount appropriated js
$78,000.
The Richmond Convention.
Richmond, June 12—The proceedings
of the convention were opened with prayer
by the Rev. Mr. Duncan.
Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, son of
John C. Calhoun, from the committee on
permanent organization, made the follow
ing report, which was adopted :
For President, John Erwin of Alabama
with one Vice President and Secretary
from each State, with the exception of
Ne \v York.
The temporary chairman then retired,
after making a brief but eloquent speech,
concluding with the hope that the result
of their deliberations might be such as to
preserve the Constitution inviolate.
Mr. Erwin was then conducted to the
chair, when he delivered an address to
the convention, explaining the position of
the South, whose duty, he said, is to pro
tect its own rights, to unfurl its flag to the
breeze, and to firmly and proudly march
on, demanding that the Constitution shall
be preserved in word and deed, and letter,
and the equal rights of the States guaran
teed.
He would say nothing in favor of or
against going to Baltimore, but whatever
is done we must strangle this serpent,
squatter sovereignty. He denied the im
putation that their purpose was disunion.
The Northern Democrats have gone in
pursuit of a false god, that the South can
not worship, and we must endeavor to
bring them back to the true faith. He
earnestly hoped that the result of their
deliberations here would result, not only
in securing our own rights, but the wel
fare of the whole country.
Mr. Middleton of South Carolina, chair
man of the credentials committee, desired
to be discharged from the further consid
eration of the certificates of the National
Hall delegates. These delegates, he said,
had informed the committee that they did
not come here as delegates, but as com
missioners from New York, to consult
with us in a fraternal feeling.
The committee were discharged, and the
New York commissioners invited to seats
on the floor, but not as delegates.
A motion was made to appoint a com
mittee on business.
Mr HaioVi of N’nrtVi fJnrnlinn. nffpTfid
as a substitute the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the delegates to this
convention, having been appointed on the
basis of the majority platform adopted at
Charleston, we deem it unnecessary to
take any further action in relation to a
platform at the present time.
Resolved, That when this convention
adjourns, it adjourn to meet at Richmond
on the 25th of June, unless the President
should deem it necessary to call the con
vention sooner.
Mr. Davidson of Alabama, moved that
after the word “ Charleston,” there be in
serted the words, “ which we heartily
approve.”
A motion was made to refer the resolu
tions and amendments to a select com
mittee.
Mr. Meek, of Alabama, hoped that a
direct vote would be taken on the resolu
tions.
After considerable debate, Mr. Yancey
suggested that a committee on resolutions
be raised, and that all the resolutions and
amendments be referred to it without de
bate.
Mr. Barry, of Mississippi, said that
these resolutions were prepared and infor
mally submitted to all the delegations,
and having been approved by a majority
of all the delegations, with the under
standing that they should be adopted with
out discussion, he thought that a vole
should be taken direct upon them.
Mr. Hunter, of Louisiana, moved the
previous question. He was surprised,
that after the full and formal understand
ing there should have been opposition to
a direct vote on the resolutions. It was
to avoid all discussion.
Mr. Jones, of Georgia, said it would
be highly improper to take any action, at
this time, on the platform.
We expect, should we not be able to
harmonize at Baltimore, to have Ken
tucky, Tenessee, Missouri, North Carolina
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia in con
vention with us, when we reassemble, and
it would be improper for us to lake action
now on a platform.
The vote was then taken on the resolu
tions and adopted unanimously, with the
exception of the vote of South Carolina,
Mr. Rhett announcing that the delegates
from that Slate were ready to proceed at
once to the business for which they were
delegated.
On motion, the day of the re-assembling
of the committee was changed to Thurs
day, the 21st.
The committee on credentials reported
that delegates were present from Arkan
sas, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, South Carolina, Georgia, the 2d
‘district of Tennessee, and the 7th district
of Virginia.
A letter from the New York commis
sioners was read, declaring that they are
here as the promoters of peace and har
mony, and that they are also here to give
the assurance that New York would be
found true to the South and true to the
North should a crisis arrive.
.Mr. Baldwin of Syracuse, said that New
York came here to throw oil upon the
troubled waters, to urge you to do as you
have done, to take no decisive action here
but to go to Baltimore.
The commissioners, he said, agreed
with this Convention in deploring the
nomination of an individual whose selec
tion would be as injurious to himself as it
would be destructive to the Democratic
party and dangerous to the Union.
Mr. Baldwin proceeded at some length
to deprecate the dissolution of the Union,
and to say that he was one of them who
could not see how the Union could be dis
solved.
Mr. Dawson, of Georgia called the
gentleman to order.
Mr. Baldwin resumed, and continued
for a few moments in the same strain,
when Mr. Barry, of Mississippi, rose and
said: While we of the South have avoided
all discussion of the question, we cannot
permit others to open the discussion. We
hnve allowed the gentleman from New
York to speak by courtesy, and he has
abused that courtesy.
Mr. Baldwin resumed and was speak
ing, wheu a motion to adjourn was made
and carried unanimously.
Cries were made for a speech from Mr.
Yancey, but he declined by saying that he
would take occasion to address the citizens
of Richmond on his return.
Later from the Indian Border
The telegraph has already advised us
of the attack upon Fort Defiance, by the
Indians. The following letter to the St.
Louis Republican gives full particulars:
Santa Ff., New Mexico, 1
\ May 20th, 1860. $
An express arrived here this morning
from Fort Defiance, with dispatches from
Major Shepherd to Col. Fontleroy, com
mander of the Department, giving official
information of an attack made by the Na
vajoe Indians on the fort. The attack was
made about four o'clock, a. m., just mter
the setting of the moon, from three differ
ent points. One party of the Indians at
tacked the picket guard, consisting of three
men, stationed at the corral or stable. The
guard retreated a short distance, until they
reach a favorable stand, where they cov
ered the entrance to the coral by an in
cessant fire, until the garrison was
aroused.
Another party of Indians attacked the
suttler’s store, and had made their way
into the clerk’s room, where they were
helping themselves to everything they
could lay their hands on. They were
driven out and followed up the mountain
until the troops in pursuit were compelled
to halt, owing to the random firing from
the garrison, from whence friend or foe
could not be distinguished, owing to the
intense darkness. So soon as it became
light enough the troops went in pursuit of
the Indians, but did not overtake them.
From a captive Indian woman, taken
some two or three days after, Maj. Shep
herd learned that twelve of the' Indians
had been killed, and four or five mortally
wounded. Although the Indians were
well armed with all descriptions of fire
arms, it appears that bows and arrows
only were used in the attack.
It is estimated that the Indians were
over one thousand strong, and had not the
troops been well drilled, and the utmost
caution and vigilance practiced, the fort
would have been taken and the garrison
__j
Four companies of Infantry are sta
tioned at Fort Defiance. Four ladies,
wives and relatives of the officers, were
in the garrison when the attack was
made.
The officers and men fought with the
bravery characteristic of the Old Third,
and had the night not been so intensely
dark, the Indians would have been routed
with severe loss.
This is the first time, for many years,
that a military post has been so daringly
attacked by Indians, and if the Govern
ment does not take immediate steps tc
chastise the Navajoe Indians severely
even to extermination, they will become
bolder and more daring every day; am
scenes similar to those of the earlier dayi
of the settlement of our country will be re
enacted in New Mexico.
Texas ItemB.
Railroads.—The Central Texan say
two hundred hands passed through Nava
soto last week. They are now operatinj
upon the upper portion of the third sectioi
of the Central Road. The cars will b
running in a few weeks to Millican’s.
The Beaumont Banner says that thi
connection of New Orleans with Houston
the centre of railroad system of Texas, i
now a fixed fact. The road from Beau
mont to the Trinity, 44 miles, has beei
completed.
Sad Termination of an Editor at Quar
red.—The Galveston Civilian of the 11th
aays: Yesterday we had news of the pro
bable fatal termination of the recent spar
ring between the editors of the Crocket
papers. We have no direct account o
the affair from Crockett, and cannot ven
ture to give particulars with any preten
lions to accuracy. The Huntsville Item
speaking also from report, says :
One of those offences, getting too com
mon in our State as well as others, oc
curred in Crockett on Wednesday, ii
which Oscar Dalton, of the Printer—thi
wit of the Texas press—received a bal
in the mouth, fired from a pistol in thi
hands ot J. U. tlepperia, one ot me con
ductors of the Argus, another sheet pub
lished in the same town, and which, ou
informant tells us, will prove fatal ere thii
paragraph meets the eye of the reader
Both parties fired, Dalton’s ball striking
the forehead of Hepperia, and glancing
off. The cause of the sad catastrophe i
to be found in their papers. Several at
tacks on the Printer appeared in the Ar
gus last week, and this week a notice ii
reply slates that the Printer man did no
read, and hence knows nothing and care:
less for what it says. A street encountri
we presume was the upshot, and the re
suit is—death.
The Wheat Crop.—The Austin Gazetti
of the 9th says: We are able to say tha
the wheat crop of Texas is the largest o
any past year. We have many letter
from Northern Texas, in which the croj
is spoken of as far exceeding the yielc
of past harvests. In this section our far
mers have done well. We have heard o
cases where thirty bushels of wheat to tin
acre have been cut. It is one of our mos
reliable crops.
Sad Casualty.—From the State Right!
(La Grange) Democrat, of the 7th, we
take the following:
VVe regret to learn of the violent deatl
of Col. B. B. Walker, of Hallettsville
Chief Justice of Lavaca county. He wai
killed by a mere boy, named Pat Kelly
on the 28th of May. The circumstance:
connected with the case, so far as we can
learn, appear to be these : Kelly hac
taken offence at Col. Walker for somt
trifling matter, and swore he would kil
him. After the adjournment of court,
Kelly asked Col. Walker to step one side
with him, when Kelly pulled out his knife
and made a lick at Walker. Walker then
jerked out a pistol and snapped at Kelly
but the pistol missing fire he threw it a
Kelly. In the meantime Kelly had pullec
out his pistol, and he then fired at Wal
ker and shot him through the groin. Wal
ker then caught him and kept him fron
using his knife until the crowd came up
when letting him go he leisurely made hi:
escape. Walker died in a few hours aftei
he was shot. The excitement about ih<
condition of Walker appears to have beet
so great that no one thought of arresting
Kelly. He was at large at last accounts
A Sensible Doctor on Doses. Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who seems to
understand physic as well as he does
poetry, at a recent meeting of the Massa
chusetts Medical Society, uttered this
sarcasm on the American greed for medi
cine :
How could a people, who have a revo
lution once in four years, who have con
trived the Bowie knife and the revolver,
who have chewed the juice out of all the
superlatives in the language in Fourth of
July orations, and so used up its epithets
in the rhetoric of abuse, that it takes two
great quarto dictionaries to supply the de
mand ; which insists in sending out yachts
and horses, and boys, to outsail, outrun,
outfight and checkmate all the rest of cre
ation—how could such a people be content
with anything but heroic practice ? What
wonder that the stars and stripes wave
over doses of ninety grains of sulphate of
quinine, and that the American eagle
screnms with delight to see three drams
of calomel given at a mouthful ?
8@“ Kind-hearted men everywhere
are making the welkin ring with their ap
peals to the generosity of our people for a
moderate subscription for the purpose of a
decent reinterment of those two men of
sorrow—Bell and Everett. Verily, has
this ticket fallen like an iceffurg upon the
Oppositionists. They feel that the resus
citating efforts of a dozen humane socie
ties, could not galvanize two such dead
politicians. A cotemporary well remarks
that for political purposes, a pair of em
balmed subjects of Semaramis of old,
Cheops fresh from the inner vaults of the
Pyramids, would have answered just as
well as the spavined products of the Bal
timore Convention.—[Vicksburg Sun.
Still Another.—From Mr. Charles
Smith, who has just returned from Fort
Gibson, Cherokee Nation, we learn that
old man Jones (of abolition noteriety)
has ifeen killed in the nation. We did
not learn the particulars. Jones has been
instrumental in getting up an abolition ex
citement among the Cherokees, which, no
doubt, was the cause of his death.-[Thirty
Fifth Parallel.
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Sickness in Texas.—The Texas cor
respondent of the Mobile Mercury says,
never in the absence of an epidemic, has
so much fatal disease been known as now.
Different types of fever, pneumonia,
typhoid, congestive chills, and other dis
eases incident to our climate, are doing
their work of destruction in almost every
section of the State, and especially in the
Southern and south-east sections.
Sad Accident. — On last Tuesday,
Pleasant Carpenter, a boy some twelve or
fourteen years of age, living in this place,
while out hunting birds, accidentally dis
charged his gun, the load entering his
1 right arm above the elbow. His arm was
mangled and torn ip such a manner that
amputation was thought necessary to pre
serve his life. The operation was per
formed by Drs. Paschal!, Chrisman and
1 Trotman. Parents, from this take warn
ing.—[Searcy Eagle, 16th.
r + % +
1 ®sg>“ The Hon. Geo. Bancroft has con
s sented to deliver the oration when the
corner-stone of Perry’s Monument is laic
1 in Cleveland. This will take place on the
, tenth of September next.
j --»*♦
g@"Gen. Santa Anna, Ex-President 0
1 Mexico, with bis family and suite passed
through Lynchburg, Va., recently ei
route from New Orleans to New York1.
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' ®®“ We learn that on Saturday last s
Justice of the Peace was shot and killer
at Pine Bluff, by a man named Smart
; Our informant states that Smart and an
other man were quarreling, when the jus
tice, in attempting to quell the disturbance
was killed.—[True Democrat.
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_Colonel Delafield, Superintendent o!
West Point Academy, we see it stated, i:
' about to retire from that station, which hi
1 has filled so creditably to himself and so use
1 fully to the nation.
-The Tuscumbia Alabamian says corn i:
'■ so scarce there that they have seen wagom
' come to town for it and have to go beet
empty, there being none on hand.
A Philosopher.—A gentleman traveling 01
1 a railroad lost his hat, when, without a mo
ment’s hesitation, he pitched out his hat-box
’ on which were his name and address, wiselj
’ judging that the latter would lead to the re
1 turn of the former, which it did.
' Value of a Husband.—Morris Lane wa:
killed about three months ago, on the Coving
1 ton and Lexington Railroad, by being run ovei
■ by a freight train. His widow has broughl
1 suit, in the Circuit Court, for damages sus
1 tained in the loss of her husband. The amount
claimed is $5000.
TOWN ORDINANCES.
[Passed June 8Ih, I860.]
' Be it Ordained, by the Town Council ol
i Des Arc, That any person or persons crossing
the ditches on the streets, with wagons, drayi
or other vehicles, except at the places pre
. pared for crossing, they shall be liable to a
fine of from one to ten dollars, recoverable ol
: the owner or owners of such vehicle.
S. R. BROWN, Mayor.
D. P. Black, Recorder.
Be it Ordained by the Town Council ol
Des Arc, That all owners of lots, on whict
privies are built, who do not comply with th(
provisions of the ordinance passed April 12th
I860, within one month from this date, shal
be liable to a fine of five dollars for ever)
i twenty-four hours the privies shall remain
contrary to the provisions of said ordinance.
S. R. BROWN, Mayor.
D. P. Black, Recorder.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
ON Saturday, July 7th, will be let, in fron
of the Mayor’s Office, to the lowest bid
■ der, the grading of Lyons St. and the Wharf
For specifications call at the Recorder’s office
By order of the Committee,
D. P. BLACK, Recorder.
Des Arc, June 23, 1860. 2t
Cost ! Cost! Cost !
AT J. A. JENNINGS & CO.’S.
WB have this day marked our entire stocl
of Muslins, Berages, Silks and Bonnets
i with a variety of other goods, AT COST, ii
order to make room for a large Fall Stock.
' Now is the time to get your goods cheap
1 We solicit a call from all.
je23-tf J. A. JENNINGS A CO.
JEST RECEIVED
Ten Dozen Hats—assorted
may!9-tf G. A J. McLAREN A 80.
Fine Store House for Sal* i
T H E llndersigned wii|® ;
the fine large Store House in 5
Arc, situated between the grocery st0re "
W. B. Crocker &. Co. and the dry goods hn,"1
of Hayley & Erwin, 22 feet wide and nijl’ 1
feet long, two stories high, well finished abov'
and finely finished below, with g00d w. '
house in the rear covering the entire lot "
cept 10 feet. Terms easy. Would take';
part pay a vacant lot on Buena Vista str i
the location suitable for a grocery and prod
house. jelO-tf J. H. QUISENBERRy'*
LIGHT! LIGHT 1
CABBOlSr on
The cheapest and
brilliant light extant, is twenty-five per
cheaper than gas, candles, lard oil or fl„jr
and is warranted not to explode or endan«..
life in any way whatever—is no trouble’,
take care of—and above all, is the most“eco
nomical light” in the world.
Also a-good supply of LAMPS, chimney,
shades, wicks and every thing belonging to a
lamp.
Store 1 door'east of Levin Harrison’s, Buena
Vista St., Des Arc.
Country orders respectfully solicited jjj
promptly attended to. Give me a call,
junelfiitf W. B. LOCKE.
IOE FOR SALT"
KEEP COOL!
ALL PERSONS expecting to be supp|j,J
by us with Ice, will please report tbej,
names at the store, stating whether they
to get it from the Ice House or at the store.
Hours of delivery—from sunrise untiliit
o’clock at the Ice House—and from sunrise
until seven o’clock at the store.
Bills for Ice due at all times,
junelfiitf HOLT k CO.
BEST PRINTS AT~a
“BIT!”
IN order to keep up with others I will nj
PRINTS that cost 11 to llj’c. per yard j,
124 c., and other goods as cheap as the chejv
est—either for cash or on the usual time:o
solvent purchasers.
jel6-tf J. H. QUISENBERRY,
x n u it Txuixia.
Fruit trees for sale by j. d. t
W. C. MORROW—We arc permuntlj
located seven miles South of Des Arc, »
Wattensaw Bayou, where we Intend goingintj
the Nursery business extensively. We hm
been engaged in this business for several yen,
East in Tishomingo co., Miss. We hare oi
and some fifty thousand apple and some put
grafts at our old Nursery, which we will ship
to any point on Arkansas, White or LitileBti
rivers. For further information address
J. D. or W. C. MORROW,
jel9-tf Wattensaw, Prairie co., Ad.
STRAYED.
FROMW. E. SMITH, West Point, Ark.,
one LIGHT BAY MARE, star in fort
head, some white on her nose, one white hind
foot, knot on one of her hind legs cut hy i
plough. She was very heavy with foal wb»
she left, supposed to have a colt by this tilt
unless she has lost it. Also a mule colt, villi
her when she left, very large one-year old.
jel9-tf W. E. SMITH.
$100 Reward. |
STOLEN from the undersigned, on the
night of the third of June, I860, in RichM
township, St. Francis county. Arkansee. or.e
NEGRO BOY named Nelson. Said bur
is about five feet six or eight inchs
high, weighs one hundred and thirty-five or
forty pounds and is a medium color. He war
i stolen by a Dutchman, who formerly wentbr
tfife name of Simon Gill, but had his nun
register ed on the steamboat Sam Hale, as P.
Holt. The said Dutchman is about five fee:
eight or ten inches high, and weighs aboutonr
' hundred and sixty-five or seventy pounds
is dark and swarthy, and has a verylargem:
. dh his back which was made by a circuit
sato.
The above reward will be given for the de
li Very of the thief and boy, with proof thsr
the said Dutchman claimed the boy—or am
p sonable reward for the delivery of the bet
alone, either at my place or at Des Arc.
June 16, 1860.tf STANFIELD REEVE.
STRAYED OH STOLEN
A MUSTANG PONY, of dark color, rep
near a roan—with white face andvkis
feet. He is a range horse about six yearsoil
, A liberal reward will be given forhisdeliw
to me at Des Arc, or at the livery stable I
T. F. Greer & Bro.
junefttf J. E. GATEWOOE
Prairie County Agricultural and It
chanical Society.
Persons wishing to become members of th.
Society are requested to call at the store i
Washer, Vaughan & C'o., in Des Are, win
H. C. McCarley, Esq., will receive tin
names and dues. W. W. WAIB, Set’r
May 19, tf.
WANTED
A NEGRO BOY OR GIRL, large en«?
to nurse a child ten months old. App”
at this office. IN
ATTENTION BLACKSMITHS'
r r THOUSAND lbs. assorted kon fo's»!
Also—German, Cast, English MJ*
merican Steelj Anvils, Vices, Bellows,*1
Plates, and a general assortment of Tools, ,
feblS] STEWART* BRVS
B. WASHER--H. P. VAU&HAS* • B* C. m’cASIP'
Washer, Vaughan & Co.'
DEALERS IN
Staple and Fancj
loat'x ®'&©»3*
READY-MADE CLOTHING, HATS,
Cups, Boots, Shoes, HardwW i
Queensware, &c., &c->
Des .Ire, Arkan***'
KEEP on hand a heavy lot ot P'an_ '
Goods: every variety of Goods I j
tlemen’s anil ladies’ wear. We have a
and well assorted stock of White Goo >
broideries, Handkercheifs, Gloves, H
Black and Fancy Silks, &c. . 8rti.
A good assortment of Cloths, < as' ' jji
Vestings, &c. A heavy lot of 10-4 Bj. ^
Bleached Sheetings and Brown and o .
Sheetings and Drills, all grades and w
A good lot of Tobacco and Cigars- ,,
Jewelry in sets from $10 to $150 i ^
pins, Ear and Finger Rings, Sleeve
Studs, Watches, Lockets, &c. Pn.rnil’1
A large lot of Trunks, Carpet and hj' ia,.
Bags. A good 9tock of Ready-made ,
Boots and Shoes. We have a gills
Ladies’ Dress Goods, such as an -m je.
and Berages, Organdies, &c.,thatw
for cost to cash Buyers. , » of*
Wc have a lot of Negro Brogans, jj)
from last fall, which we will sell * < of
$1 35. We will sell the remainder
stock of Hats at cost. judo!^
UWe have a two-horse Carryall to r ^
eap. In fact, we will give you l
Cains in ail we sell—come and see. „q
• je9-tf WASHER, VAUGHANJ1 ^ ^
IMPBOI ED PROPEBT«°J?Lf
■ NA VISTA STREET FOB ’*,,.,
THE East half of LOT No . "ffiared^l
Buena Vista street, in Des Arc, is
sale on reasonable terms. The bui _ ,,,
formerly occupied by J. W. ,0{d'
Family Grocery. The location is ^
best in town. For terms, *c., iKdoiLb
jan 18—tf j J- C. »0B»