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IT 7 HOLES ALE AND RETAIL DEAL- ;
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I Jlso — Manufacturer oj Tin and Sheet c
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Buena Vista St., (Opposite Nucleus House,) r
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
05^“ Having bought the slock on hand and ]
I material in this shop, from H. P. Vaughan, j
I Esq., tile undersigned will continue to carry ,
I on the above business, in all its branches. He
I lias on hand a good stock of ;
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IWJRE, cVc., 1,
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I ■Pg;X‘0'‘CM- K. H. BURK^ I
J T. PARHAM,
ARCHITECT,
1 CAR I* II V T II R A1VU JOIN E R ,
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| l)es Arc anil vicinity, that ho is prepared f
■ to execute all work intrusted to his care, with c
9 neatness and dispatch.
1 PLANS AND DESIGNS OF BUILDINGS i
Furnished to order, free of charge where he
has the contract for the same,
g^” From his experience, both as an arcjn- -
I tect and contractor, he flatters himself that lie ^
■ can render entire satisfaction. jun29-tf j
au iswiSmS3®iu;
CARPENTER & JOINER. J
HAVING permanently located at Des Ajc, j
Arkansas, is prepared to execute j
Ail Work in Iiisl.iue of Business, ,
I I in a satisfactory manner. From his expo- ^
rience, he feels confident that those who favor
him with contracts will havy no cause to re
eret it.
IS FROM THE COUNTRY, 1
G. W. Vaden’s Store, will meet 1
mpt attention. jun29-ly <
, E x7 L E u d e r s 7 (
SE, SKIS, AND FUESC'O
PAINTER,
\RC, Auk.—Also, Carriage Painting, '
•niture Varnishing, Graining, Paper- !
, &c. All work done in the best style,
irders left with Messrs. Leon & Co. (
jroinptly attended to. junl5-tf *
A S. HARRIS,
T € SI - .Iff .1 IS E If
JEWELER I
CE on Buena Vista iiSba.
el, opposite
House, Des Arc, ‘vr'SiSSihtsS? t
s. Clocks, Watches anp Jewelry j
with neatness and dispatch, and war
> give satisfaction. nov20-tf
J. S. ANDERSON,
ADDLES, BRIDLE
•ness .flunufactnrer,
ES ARC, ARKANSAS.
RESPECTFULLY informs Bk_
the citizens of Prairie and
counties, that he has on hand. ^LZj
repared to manufacture to order,
s, Bridles, Martingales, Buggy,
irriage and Hack Harness,
as every other description of W’ork
done in such establishments.
^hop on Lyon street, back of Frith &.
’s store. jan21-ly.
e. r. mcpherson,
>UNTY SURVEYOR.
persons wishing my services in
i department of business, will please
me at Brownsville, Prairie county,
Jvery eall will be puu*tuallv filled,
rfy
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
rfcR. N. L. RAGLAND, having lo
cated on Wattensaw, at the- residence
heretofore occupied by W. B. Means, deccas
ed, offers his professional services to the
public.
(Kg* Calls promptly attended to. [apt 1-ly.
r|R. T. J. CUMMINGS, having per
manently located at Atlanta, Prairie
county. Ark., offers his professional services
to the public.
(jjg* Having practiced in hospitals as well
as in families, he flatters himself that he can
render satisfaction to his patrons.
(Jg* Office at Peebles’ Hotel, [apr 1-tf.
T'kR. J. C. GOODWIN, determined to
remain permanently in Des Arc, will
continue to treat diseases, both Acute and
Chronic in accordance with the most approv
ed principles of Scientific and Demonstrative
Medicine.
(Jg* Thankful for the liberal patronage he
las heretofore enjoyed, respectfully solicits
ts continuance.
(Jg" Office at D. P. Black & Co’s., Drug
Store.__aprill-ly
|~|R. J. L. NEEL, having permanent
*-^ly located in Des Arc, Arkansas, offers ,
iis professional services to the citizens of
he towrn and vicinity. Office over Washer,
faughan & Co’s Store. [mar ll-6m.
DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis,
having settled in the town of Des Arc,
enders his professional services to the citi
ens of said town and vicinity; and, from a
ong experience in the healing art in the West,
latters himself that he will share their pat- ,
onage. gig” Office on Buena Vista street. '
tesidence on Woodruff street. dec5-tf J
DR. VV. F. WALSH, having located at
Des Arc, offers his Professional Sf.r
vr-rso a nnK1 ir» Prills nrnmnHv at.- *
ended to. may29,1858-ly’ t
PvR. WM. BETHELL, will continue ]
| / (he Practice of Medicine in Ties Arc, and
icinity. From his long experience in his
rofess'ion, and having resided in Arkansas C
uring the past fourteen years, he hopes to re- f
eive a share of the public patronage.— ^
(J^- Office at Lane & Watts’s Drug- ,
tore. Residence in the building formerly
ccupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf ^
r*R. J. J. LANE, will Practice Medi- .
U cine in the different branches of the Pro- s
>ssion, and respectfully tenders his services to .
ie citizens of Des Arc and surrounding conn
•y, hoping to share at least a portion of their *
atronage. OFFICE—On Buena Vista street, i
mayl5-tf c
B. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc, -
• Arkansas, will practice in the courts of 1
'rairie, White, Monroe. Arkansas, St. Fran- t
is, Jackson, and Independence counties. All t
usiness intrusted to his care shall meet with j
rompt attention. £3?” Office on Lyon
treet. [junS-tf *
ROBERT H. CROCKETT, Attorney at
X Lrw, Mount Adams, Arkansas county,
Lrkansas. Will practice in the Counties of i
Arkansas, Monroe, Desha and Prairie. i
apri!22-tf.___\
[TPAKEMAN VV. EDWARDS, Law- t
VV yer. Springfield, Conway county, Ar- s
ansas. Will practice in the various courts ,
f Middle Arkansas. Prompt attention
iven to the collection of all claims entrusted *
> him. _ 11
THARLES P. BERTRAND, Attor- j
J nf.y at Law, Little Rock, Ark. [jan21 ^
[) JORDAN, Attorney at Law, i
[ . Little Rock, Arkansas. [decll-ly. 1
[TT G. & B. D. TURNER, Attor- j
• neys at Law, and General Collec
ors, Searcy, White county, Arkansas. Prac- '
ice in the Circuit Courts of Randolph, Law- £
ence, Independence, Jackson, White, Prairie, ^
tonroe, Arkansas, Jefferson and Pulaski
ounties, and in the Supreme and Federal -
lourts at Little Rock Ark. fl^T Prompt and l
lithful attention given to the collection of all t
(aims sent to them. [jan8-tf. j
. ..Z. F. H. FARR. 1
MEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor- j
[J keys at Law, and Real Estate Agents, ’
Uarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the , t
a .. a_l-..a Qf
UUllliea Ui mumucj - -- t ' l
Yancis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular
Itentiou given to collections. References: 1
■ladIson, Ark., Hon. W. G. Beaseley, S. VV. S
Ihildress; Clarendon, Ark., H. M. Couch, i
’anola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Coffeeville, |
liss., E. C. Walthall; Memphis, Term., D.
1. I)iiBose, Esq.. W. J. Webb ; Holly Springs,
liss., W." T. Eeatherston; Washington. D. I
!., Jacob Thompson. _jy47 *
r E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at !
) . Law. Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Vi’ll practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar- |
ansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson, White, (
lonwav, and Pope. He will give prompt at- j
sntion' to all business entrusted to him.
3^” OFFICE—Over Town Hale. (Frith’s ,
few Building.) first door. febl3-tf
r W. MARTIN, Attorney at Law, ,
Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas. Will ,
ra*ctice in the counties of Prairie, Arkansas,
donroe, St. Francis, Jackson and White, j
rS* Prompt attention given to the collection
t claims; also, the locating, selling and pay
ng taxes on land. Office on Lyon street, i
sept26-t£ __
IT7TLLIAM T. JONES Attorney
YV at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. W ill
iractice in the counties of Prairie, Jefterson,
Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and
Vhite. Prompt attention given to the collec
ion of all claims in the middle and eastern
lart of the State. sept26-tf
lAM’L W. WILLIAMS.. L. D. WILLIAMS.
FI/TLLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At
»* torneys at Law, Little Rock, Ar
kansas. Office on Markham street. One of
mr firm will be almost always at Brownsville,
■vhere he can be consulted on professional
jusiness, and will give his personal attention
o all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted to
diem. _dec4
r. L. HOLLO WELL..I™/,®; J*P0W’AT
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY. At
torneys at Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry,
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
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J UST PRINTED, and for sale, at the
« Citizen Office,”—Deeds of Convey
ance, Quit-Claim Deeds. Justice’s Summons’,
Execi^ions, Delivery Bonds, &c. janl-tf
ACRES good up Land 2$ miles
from Des Arc, for sale on liberal
terms. WILLIAMS &. HORNE.
marchlS-tL
HEART-EASING THINGS.
To spend a calm bright summer day alone,
In one of Nature’s sanctuaries holy,
Where the uncounted hours glide on so slow
ly,
That the long day-dream seems a life by-gone ;
In leafy place, with water flowing nigh it,
Where faintly sounds the never-ceasing gush,
Low whispering its everlasting hush,
Itself the only breaker of the quiet:
On the cool shining grass so still Vo lie
That you can see the thrush’s gleaming eye,
Her soft, bright eye, and mark her speckled
breast,
As near she comes, in doubt a moment hov’ring,
Then darting through the curtaining boughs,
discov’ring
Low in the alder, her leaf-hidden nest.
Or, lying on a lonely hill-side, to
Look upward through the unfathomable blue,
Beyond the earth-born cloud across it driven,
Calm,changeless,everlasting, called Heaven,
Phe sapphire floor trodden by angel legions—
At leastthe way to reach their blissful regions;
To watch the floating cloudlets soft and fair,
And long to be a spirit thin as air,
fo sink half way into their downy pillows,
And roll to westward’mong the crimson bil
lows,
Stranded upon the sunset’s golden sand;
.Vhile clear and still is the mild air above—
imbracing all, like the Infinite love—
Unpillar’d dome, roofing earth’s temple grand.
--
;'rom the Vicksburg True Southron.]
IE OPENING THE AFRICAN SLAVE
TRADE.
The fierce assaults upon the advocates of
e-opening the African slave trade, from
heir opponents, the open coalition ot
i i -.i .i _ i . it. • • ..
'UUlUCill XXJCXX »*IUI UXO uuumiv/wioio mv
'forth in the advocacy of doctrines sub
ersive of our mo3t cherished institutions,
irectly in support of freesoilism, have
orced me from my seclusion to offer,
hrough your journal, some crude thoughts
pon the subject. I am persuaded to un
ertake this task, by the hope that should
fail to adduce arguments in support of my
dews sufficient to bring converts to your
tandard, now wavering from the conflict
n the opinions of political leaders, I shall
t least have the gatification of making
he effort, as well as to show a desire to
beer you on in the arduous task which
ou have assumed; as well as to remind
ou that innovators, through all time, have
>een martyrs, no matter how much good
hey may have designed to effect for their
ellow men. This subject has at last
pread from the Representative halls at
Vashington to our towns and villages and
ur homesteads, and has become the sta
lls of daily discussion, as much so, as the
aost common topic of conversation. There
vas a time when the enlightened philan
bropiat of a past generation gravely con
idered, and openly debated, this matter
vith the settled and acknowledged pur
iose to the ultimate extinction of slavery.
Jut we should recollect that we had then
10 cotton or sugar fields—no tropical
limes. In order then fairly and properly
o bring this subject before the public view,
t would be necessary to collect a faithful
listory of the times, the then existing per
onal relations of slave and master, to es
imate the value of their labor compared
vith white labor, to weigh the causes then
nd now secretly but steadily at work in
he sure and gradual concentration of
lavery in the cotton, sugar, tabacco and
ice fields. But political economists have
xhausted this theme, and I refer your
edders, for information, to the pamphlet,
y Prof. Dews, written sometime after the
iouth-IIamnton insurrection in Virginia.
vhen her Legislature, in a panic, gravely
ebated the question, in open doors, of im
mediate emancipation as the only correc
ive to the frightful horrors of servile in
urrections. This masterly production had
he happy effect of quieting their fears, by
idding up the folly and utter impossibility
if such an undertaking, and of giving to
he world arguments in the advocacy of
lavery, which have never been answered,
nd scattered to the winds all the sense
ess slang and hypocritical cant from that
lest-house, the North, which, from the
lay of the landing of the famed Pilgrims
o the hour which I now write, has been
he hot-bed of political and religious
leresies, pseudo-philantrophy, and all the
sms with which the licentiousness of lib
erty ever cursed humanity—a country in
vhich all the frightful views of Jacobin
sm are fast ripening to produce the same
rieght.
But, sir, why this unusual cry for more
ilaves? Is jt cupidity ? No. The masses
ire not more avaricious now than they were
ortnerly. Is it the scarcity of negroes ?
No. For they are more numerous now
ban ever before. What means this pub
ic expression of a great want—necessi
;y, sir—which is constantly heard, and the
_-all echoed back from one end of the South
:o the other? Is not this loud clumor for
more labor in obedience to a great law of
political economy ? The inadequate sup
ply of our great staples to meet the wants
of the consumer, the abnormal relative
value of white and black labor, the vast
territory now a wilderness and waste, only
suited for our great staples, the production
of slave labor alone. Sir, are we to be de
barred from the occupation of our rich do
main by the timid clamor of alarmists
about the prepetutity of the Union ? Why,
sir, the re-opening of the African slave
trade will bind us more firmly to the
North than all the railways, steamships,
rivers; yes, consanguinity, similarity of
races, of language, all dwindle into dwar
fish proportions, compared with the won
derful results growing out of the occupa
tion of our rich inheritance. The slave
trade, which will be chiefly carried on by
Northern men, as it now is elsewhere,
notwithstanding their clamor against it.
will make usihe richest, the most power
ful, the most happy, the most prosperous
nation the world ever saw. The present
high prices of slaves must either force the
South to re-open the slave trade, or grad
ually introduce white labor. The effect of
the latter is too apparent upon black labor
to require a recital to your readers. The
inevitable consequence would be the des
truction of slavery. What Seward, the
great exponent of Abolitionism, terms the
“irrepressible struggle”between white and
black labor, would soon terminate. By
enlarging the area of slavery we give it
power and wealth, which will enable it to
resist agression from freesoilism, and suc
cessfully drive back the white tide of popu
lation which is gradually creeping over so
much territory now occupied by slaves,
South of Mason and Dixon’s line. Our
fertile lands once occupied by slaves, we
shall monopolize the markets of the world
for our great staples ; England and France
will forever cease their bootless efforts to
rival us in these great productions. Their
dependence on us for the raw material
will bind them to us in fraternal bonds
never to be severed by jarring interests.
The same spirit will animate the North.
On the contrary, should we, by a blind
fatality, listen to the counsel of those in
the South who dissuade us from the
undertaking, by circumscribing the boun
daries of our institutions, we not only dimin
ish our power of resistance to domestic
and foreign aggression, but positively in
vite it from our own weakness. Sir, na
tions exhibit the same traits as individu
alj. The rich and powerful man has
hosts of friends, so with nations. Re
opening the slave trade will not only si
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IVliS-'W VU^ WUVOI J Vi »•* V 1
make them suppliants at our feet. Our
boundless wealth will convert their inso
lent interference with our domestic affairs
Into humiliating sycophancy. The man 1
who fawns upon tyrants is sure to be in- 1
solent to his supposed inferiors.
So with the North, even admitting the 1
worst should come of re-opening the slare I
rade, ourAmericanized negroes would go
;o our manufactories, the Native African to '
mr field. Our demand for labor supplied
"rom Africa at a mere nominal price would
se regulated by the prices of our great
staples and their consumption. With the '
aw material from our fields, towns and i
villages would spring up like enchantment I
:ry the wand of manufactories. Internal 1
mprovernents, which the South so much 1
seeds for developing her vast resources, 1
would receive a new impetus, we should 1
;ntcr upon a new career of progress from *
he life-infusing element into the body *
oolitic, now stagnant for want of labor. 1
Instead of deprecating as we now do, the 1
:onduct of our Northern allies (our worst I
snemies, for they defame us at home and *
ibroad) and talk about secession under 1
;erlain contingencies, the election of a <
)lack Republican for instance, let us re- I
>pen the slave trade, carry the war into '
Africa, we shall read their fulsome praises '
)f our prosperity, whilst they deplore !
heir insane folly which drove us from 1
hem. Let not the lessons of history be 1
ost upon us. Let us turn our eyes to !
England and contrast our present condi- i
ion with our colonial vassalage. Say not, !
iir, the parallel is unsuited. It is. We \
ire vassals, slaves of the North in every i
hing but the name, when that too is
astened upon us ’twill be too late todevive 1
means of safety. The South with her 1
iunny climes, her verdant fields and rich 1
savannas, have ever invited the cupidity
>f the North from the reign of barbarians
iown to the battle-field of Sebastopol.
fvre we, sir, quietly. wnn inai supineness
.vhich ever marks the South, to fold our
rrms and become a prey to the North?
How stern and inexorable is the law of
necessity. The tyrant pleads it, so does
nature. Peter the Great willed all
Europe to his successors. His passing
wisdom after his super-human efforts on
ihe Neva too plainly saw that without a
commerce he could have no navy, and
without a foot-hold upon the Mediteranean
Sea the resouvces of his vast Empire could
never be developed. Bonaparte the First
when England sided with Russia against
France, predicted what afterwards oc
curred more that a quarter of a century at
Sebastopol. A celebrated French Abbe
predicted nearly half a century ago what
Napoleon III is now doing in Italy. Sir,
the senseless twaddle about treason, des
truction of slavery and all that, cast from
our opponents will no more prevent the re
opening of the slave trade, than they who
oppose it can disturb the Capernican sys
tem. Misguided legislation, the power
ful influence of great minds upon the mas
ses may for a timo disturb and delay the
natural laws which control nations as we
have seen above cited, but inexorable ne
cessity (manifest deslipy) is at last but the
law of cause and effect and the puny ef
forts of the greatest of men to disturb it,
control or direct it, are as fruitless and
bootless as Canada to stay her tides.—
Only let the South present a united front
in favor of re-openiug the African slave
trade, ’twill stem forever the abolitionists
of the North and the world. You and I
and they too know full well that black
slavery is not the only serfdom in the civil
ized world.
Yet it is the black target for shooting
excursions, to practice their skill in fraud,
lying and hypocrisy, of all the parties of
the Christian world. How different from
the precepts of Christ, founder of the
Christian church. “ Oh toll it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Askelon.”
The happy condition of our slaves, com
pared with the peasantry, laboring popu
lation of Europe, shows conclusively the
vast superiority of our form of Govern
ment. Its favorable comparison with the
laborers of the North give it additional
claims ior ns jjruicuwvii, huu
perpetuity and extension to the philan
thropist and statesmen. Paupers and
mendicants are unknown among us. Cap
ital, instead of warring against labor, and
vice versa, is enhanced and multiplied,
and seeks to protect it for its own safety.
In Europe free labor is oppressed by pau
perism and the frightful accumulation of
its wants. The misery and crime en
gendered by this should warn us to be
ware of a similar condition, urge us by
every consideration of public policy, na
tional safety, to cultivate and preserve the
institution of slavery above all others as
our sacred birth-right, the inviolable cita
del of our liberties, for upon this institu
tion rests the ark of our liberty. Sir,
even were there no demand for slave la
bor, the present amount adequate to fill
all our wants, we should re-open the Afri
can slave trade for the two-fold purpose of
extending its area, and thereby multiply
ing its resources and wealth and per
petuating it forever. Is it not a self-evi
dent fact that should slavery ever be nar
rowed down to a circumscribed area, the
scenes of St. Domingo will be re-enacted
here, we shall at no distant day be con
verted into a continental Hayti. Are the
epponents of this measure so wilfully blind
is not to see the fatal consequences of the
oss of the balance of power ^vith the
South l How long will the North keep
'ailh with us and observe the guarantees
tfforded slavery by the Constitution, when
hey have the power to break it, and we
oo weak to protect it? Not one hour.
What was the conduct of the North in the
•endition act of Congress of fugitive slaves
—in me ureu ocou ueuiaiun oi mu ou
jreme Bench ? Penal acts of their legis
atures against all and every State nnd
Federal officer who aided and abetted in
he capture of fugitive slaves upon their
loil; and the arch Magician of the North,
he great exponent of freesoilism, the
nordern Moses of the black exodus, open
y avows it in the Senate of the United
hates, upon the hustings, the Supremo
3ench must be changed, make it elective,
n other words, Northernize it.
Yes, they have virtually done it now.
iVill they reverse the Dred Scott decision?
["here is always a way to do a thing,
vhen there is a will. But, sir, our oppo
lents say the abolition of slavery will ruin
he North. Their commerce, their mer
iantile navy, manufactories, regal palaces,
ianks, everything, depend upon slavery,
t is true. How much did England pay
0 this insatiate Moloch of fanaticism?
)ne hundred millions of dollars; and that,
oo, to ruin and lay waste her golden Hes
lerides, her splendid West India colonies,
iave they, or the people of the North,
irofited by this error? No. Her emis
aries, public and private, are banded with
he North to do the work; and Lord Ly
ins, by way of inaugurating a different
lolicy (rom that of his predecessor, (for
vhich he was recalled,) complains to the
state Department at Washington, that our
tipulations in relation to the slave-trade
re wholly unobserved—that Admiral Ba
>y, or somebody, had counted twenty-five
lavcrs which had passed our vessels un*
nolested, laden with Africans, or mon
teys, (for there is a bare shade of differ
;nce between the native African and the
ligher orders of monkeys, which all natu
alists admit.) Quickly an order goes to
he Navy Department, to equip, with all
lispatch, fast-sailing vessels, of light
1 raft, to do the bidding of the Court of
Saint James; fora Lord is there, mark
itou, to see it done; and our imbecile ad
ninistration obeys the order, notwithstand
ng it is fully advised, by the late trials of
he officers of the Echo and Wanderer,
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J1 HID OUUUICIU vi* uwmjvwvi
Sir, what would Gen. Jackson have said
»nd done, under similar circumstances?
L doubt if his Lordship had made such a
complaint to Old Hickory, but if he had,
,he answer would have been: Your pass
ports are ready. What did Gen. Wash
ington do, when the French Minister in
terfered with our affairs? Let history
answer.
But, sir, why should I turn my eyes
from home, when I see our public men, to
whom the people look in the hour of trial,
and have a right to expect the means of
deliverance, advocating the very measures
of our worst enemies of the North, (see
Virginia going with the abolitionists,)
whose ultimate results will surely extin
guish slavery if they are successful ? Mel
ancholy as these reflections are to my
mind. I yet cherish a hope that ere long
the blind fatuity which has so long brood
ed over the South, like a nightmare Upon
the bosom of a strong man, will be shaken
off—that when she is losing her fairest
provinces in this “ irrepressible struggle”
with the North, (a larger domain than she
now possesses,) upon which the advocates
of squatter sovereignty may revel in li
centious liberty, she will wake from her
lethargy of masterly inactivity, before her
enemies fall upon her and she is shorn of
her locks, and left blindly to perish among
her own ruins and those of her foes.
Sir, let us ponder well our condition.
Compare the present status of slavery now
and at the formation of the colonies into
Stp.te governments. Compare the numer
ical strength of the slave States in the Se
nate with the free-soil representation,
when the slave-trade was declared piracy
by a solemn act of Congress, with the re
vised numerical force now. Compare the
natural increase of slaves to that of whites
and the host of immigrants from the east
ern hemisphere. Is not our doom clearly
shadowed forth ? Is not the hand-writing
already traced upon the wall? The result,
to my mind, is only a question of lime.
The act of Congress making the foreign
slave-trade piracy sealed our fate, and the
only part of the act unfinished was to pre
tinciion. Let then, sir, the cry of “ Re
peal !” "repeal!” be raised, from valley
to hill, from hill to mountain, from Mason
and Dixon's line to the shores of the Gulf
of Mexico. Let the Southern shout, in
unmistakable tones, warn our oppressor
of our final, unalterable, immovable pur
pose to retrieve our error. Union or no
union, revolution or secession, " sink or
swim,” "live or die,” cost what it may,
tell them that our resolution to re-open the
African slave-trade is fixed, final, and im
movable.
Sir, since the death of John C. Calhoun,
the ship of state, freighted with our desti
ny, has been drifting down the stream of
time, without a helmsman, until at last we
are within sight of the ocean, and the roar
of its breakers, in thunder-tones, warn us
of our approaching fate. Unless some
strong man seizes the helm and rights her,
hope is lost—our sceptre has fallen—our
empire a prey to fanaticism. To this
complexion, without a speedy change,
things must come at last; and the fire
brand and sword of the remorseless fa
natic will make the heavens lurid with the
flames of our towns and homesteads—the
earth red with our iilood. Rapine, car
nage, and violated innocence, will be the
watch-words of our natural enemies of the
North; and thus will end black slavery,
to give place to white servitude.
When this dark drama shall have been
enacted, the agrarianism of the North
will subvert the rights of person and prop
erty by the elective franchise, and some
military chieftain will seize the reins of
government; and thus will end forever
I Ira lirtnne nf I lin nlnlo rtflirnmcl ■ n rul lira
dreams of statesman for a successful Re
publican Government will have proved
chimerical und utopian.
Sir, you cannot fail to trace, in these
lines, the thoughts of a solitary man, who
desires no parade before the public gaze,
nor any personal advancement. I trust
they may be read in the spirit which dic
tated them.
C. R. NUTT, or DiTcntEY.
Great Memory.—Mithridates, King
of Pontus, knew each one of his eighty
thousand soldiers by his right name.
Seneca was able to rehearse two thousand
words, which were given to him in the
same order. Hortensius kept in his mem
ory all prices paid on a day of auction.
Hugo Grotins, on being present at a re
view of some regiments in France, recalled
ill the names of the single soldiers which
were there called up. Justus Lispius ven
ured to rehearse the words of Tacitus, from
the first to the last, forward and backward,
aven when somebody was standing before
him with a drawn dagger, to pierce him
it the very moment he should forget a
single word. A Venetian lady, well
kuown for her erudition, when asked for
the sermon she had heard at church, re
peated scrupulously every word. Racine
knew by memory all the tragedies of Eu
ripidies, Bayle the whole of Montaigne,
Hughes-Doneau the Cornus Juris, Metas
lasio the entire Horatius, and Carteret,
Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, all the New
Testament, from the first chapter of Mat
thew to the end of the Apocalypse. The
learned Scotchman, Thomas Detnoster,
affirmed he knew not what it was to forget;
and Scaliger is said to have apprehended
within twenty-one days the whole Home
rus, and within four months all the Greek
poets. The notorious and mysterious Count
rs. »i _ll A
vai'iiiiuiu oui paasco yuciu ait* tauj ,
newspaper he read once he knew by mem
ory, and was furnished with such a gi
gantic comprehensive power of numbering
that he retained a series of a thousand
numbers, which he could recite forward or
backward, and pushed out from the middle.
From the court of Henry III, in Cracow,
he demanded one hundred packs of piquet
cards, mixed them together in disorder,]
to tell all the cards in succession, he or
dered them to be noted down exactly, and
repeated them one after another, without
being wrong once. He played on almost
every kind of musical instrument in the
world, was an excellent painter, apd imi
tated any handwritng in the most illusive
manner. He had but one passion—play
ing all games with absolute mastery. In
chess no mortal had vanquished him, and
in faro he could break every bank by cal
culation.—[N. Y. Tribune.
A Solid Man.—The Urbana, Ohio,
Citizen, speaking of Robert McFarland,
Esq., of that city, now in his 75lh year,
says he has lived there 54 years. He
saw Washington in 1793. Was in
Urbana before any houses were built.
Made the first bridle ever was made in
Springfield (for Griffith Foos.) Never
gave a note or went security. Never
paid interest. Never sued any person or
wits sued. He never chewed tobacco or
smoked a cigar. He never drank a dram
of whisky in his life; and he was the first
class leader in Urbana. He preached
from appointments one year in advance,
sixteen times at Robinson’s, in Harrison
township, and had another appointment
there a year ahead.
-..»«*. - — ■ ■
Home.—How touchingly beautiful are
the relations of home! There each is
: bound by an electric chain that seems to
pass to all hearts in the family group; so
that one cannot enjoy pleasure unless all
partake in it. If one heart is oppressed,
all sympathize; if one is exalted, all must
share the happiness. It is in the home
wher6 the aching heart is soothed, where
the oppressed are relieved, the outcast re
claimed, the sick healed, or failing, the teai
of pure love drops from the mourner’s
eyes, when the dear ones are gathered to
their long heme.
—Don’t act so, Isaac, dear,” said Mrs.
Partington, as Iko was throwing everything
into confusion about the kitchAi, in a vain
attempt to find his bail. “People will say
you are non pompous mkant ns, as they did
about poor Mr. Smith. The doctor says you
are of the rebellious sanguinary temperature,
and Heaven knows what you would do if you
should have a tendency to the head—perhaps
you would die of a suggestion of the brain I”
.- Time wears slippers made of list, and
his tread is noiseless. The days come softly
dawning, one sfter another—they creep in at
the windows ; their fresh morning air is grate
ful to the lips that part for it; their music is
sweet to the oars that listen to it. Before w*
know it, a whole life of days has possession
of the citadel, and Time has taken us for hla
own.
— Not many miles from Boston, two sis
ters, by the name of Pepper, are employed in
the same establishment. One of them has red
hair, and is called 1 Red Pepper,’ white her
dark-haired sister is known as ‘Black Pepper.*
A male relativo is also employed in the same
place, who is called ‘ Pepper and Saltbit
hair fairly repsesenting that mixture.
—— A French editor has given the follow
ing amusing description of the effect of an ad
vertisement: “The first time a man sees an
advertisement, he takes no notice of it; the
second time, he looks at the name; the third
time, he looks at the price ; the fourth time,
he reads it; the sixth time, be speaks of it to
his wife ; the seventh time, he buys.”
— “ The wife of Dryden, the poet, com
plained that he passed most of his time in
reading, and never devoted a thought to her.
“ I wish I were a book,” she cried, “ and then,
at least, you would look at me occasionally.”
“ A book I” exclaimed the poet, “ I wish you
were ; that is, I would have you an almanac,
which changes every year.”
— A young man once requested of Car
touche, the French robber, to be engaged in
his band. “Where have you served?” asked
Cartouche. “ Two years with an attorney,
and eix months with an inspector of police,’*
was the reply. “ Well,” answered the chief,
“the whole time shall be reckoned as if you
had served in my troop.”
—— When Dr. Parr was at college, at Har
row, he had, by intense study, acquired so old
a looking face, for a young man, that one day
Sir William Jones said to him, jokingly t
“ Parr, if you should have the good luck to
live forty years, you may stand a chance of
overtaking your face.”
-At a Fourth of July celebration in Con
necticut, the following was one of the toasts t
“ Woman—The lover of union and the friend
of annexation : Like our country, her mani
fest destiny is to spread her skirts.” This
was responded to with “ nine cheers ” and a
“ W-HOOP.”
—— If there is a man who can eat his bread
in peace with God and all mankind, it is he
whose own toil has brought that bread out of
the earth. It is cankered by no fraud j It ia
wet by no tears; it is stained by no blood.”
— The rigid Sabbatarians, in Massachu
setts, have gone so far as to recommend that
funerals do not take place on the Sabbath.
Their next movement probably will be to
prohibit persons from dying on Sunday.
——In 1820, there were only twenty-fix
volumes of novels on the shelves of the British
Museum { but now there are about seven thou
sand, and all these have been produced elnee
“ Waverley” was written.
—— M. Belly gels along slowly with hla
Nicaragua Canal. The poet Lowell aaya that
Jonah was the only man the world has ever
produced who successfully made the “ Belly **
transit route.
-A teetotaler, the other day, asked a
_ . : —l. i_: c u .. _ ...4 I_t:_1 Al. . —
perance Society, and he replied: “Yes, for
when he saw liquor his mouth watered.”
-Let no one overload you with favors,
you will find it an insufferable burden.
-What is the difference between a blun
der and a wedding ? One is a mis-take and
the other a take-miss.
“ Nothino Like a Good Titlk.”—Some
very pious young women have established an
association which they style " The Young
Woman’s Anti - Young- Man - waiting-at-the
Church-door-with Ulterior objects Society.”
——A young carpcntor having been told
that the “ course of true love never did run
smooth,” took bis plane under his arm when
he went courting.
—“ Wherever I go,” said a gentleman re
markable for his State pride, “ I sm sure to
find sensible men from my own State.” “ No
wonder,” said the person he was addressing,
“ for every man of that State who has any
sense, leaves it as fast as he can.”
——“ Old ago is coming on rapidly,” as the
urchin said when stealing apples from an old
man’s garden, he saw the owner coming cow
hide in hand.
-The following two lines are extracted
from the great epic poem upon Gen. Jackson,
written by an aspiring bard of the West:
When von see their eyes glisten,then,my men,
fire 1
Were the- last dying words of A. Jackson, Es
quire.
-The latest method of killing mice is to
put crumbs of cheese on your tongue, on going
to bed, lay with your mouth open, and when a
mouse’s whiskers tickle your throat, spring
the trap and catch him with your teeth.
_A loving husband sent the following
telegraphic message to his wife: “ What bavo
you for breakfast, and how is the baby ?”
This answer came back : “Buckwheat cakee,
and the measles.’
_At a camp-meeting near Boston, the
choices of position for tents were soid at auc
tion, and yielded four hundred dollars.
_Prentice remarks that, by the rulM oj
war, it ii death to slop a cannon-ball.