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ffi. L, BAILStY,
g DRUGGIST, g
apotheoart ,
ALSO, DEALER IN
Stationery, Perfumery,
F*Hf€ir ARTICLES, &C.,
Lane Sc Watts’ old stand, Buena Vista street,
©US
gy Fine Wines, Brandies, &c., for Me
dicinal purposes, always on hand.
ijjr Physicians prescriptions are accurately
compounded of the best articles that can be
procured. jan!8-tf,
J.T. PARHAM,
ARCHITECT,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
V .
4 &. mBBSBtm
[RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of
IV, Des Arc and vicinity, that he is prepared
to execute all work intrhsted to his care, with
neatness and dispatch.
PLANS AND DESIGNS OF BUILDINGS
Furnished to order, free of charge where he
has the contract for the same.
3^ From his experience, both as an archi
tect and contractor, he flatters himself that he
can render entire satisfaction. jun29-tf
w7W>cat
CA PENTER AND JOINER,
IT WING permanently located at Des Arc,
IT Arkansas, is prepared to execute all
Work in HIS Eine of Business,
in a satisfactory manner. From his expe
rience, he feels confident that those who favor
him with contracts will have no cause to re
tret it.
ORDERS FROM THE COUNTRY.
Left at G. W. Vaden’s Store, will meet
with prompt attention. jun29-ly
J. S. ANDERSON,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
-A N D
^arneHH . ftannfactnrcr,
TWaix a i wx i m/ A XTt! AQ
-.j nibV| --
RESPECTFULLY informs
the citizens of Prairie and
adjacent counties, that he has on hand,
and is prepared to manufacture to order,
Saddles. Bridles. Martingales, Buggy,
Carriage and Hack Harness,
As well as every other description of work
usually done in such establishments.
Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
Jackson’s store. jan21-ly
~~BLjCKSJ\ffT HIJV G
Wagon and Buggy Making.
MARTfN SHETTER,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
i mHANKFUL to the
1 people for their past fa-f(
WBHBB vors.reepectfully announces \> U
that he has opened a shop at T. V. Lee’s old
stand, on Park street, where he is prepared to
do all kinds of worn in the above line.
Blacksmitbing, wagon and buggy build
ing, wheelbarrows, repairing. &c., done on
®hor notice.
2^“Horse-shoeing done promptly,
fob 18-tf
F. LEPTIEN.
CLOCK AND WATjUHMAKER
AND
JEWEIjIjEFI,
Buena ista Street,
Three doors East of G.
& J. hjlcLaren & Co’s
DBS ARC, 'ARK.,
RESPECTFULLY in
forms the citizens of
Des Arc and the adjacent country, that he has
® new and select stock of
CLOCKS AND JEWELRY.
He is. a3 usual, prepared to execute all kinds
<‘f CLOCK and WATCH Work, in a work
manlike manner, and to Repair and Clean
Kwelry, &c. ap2tMf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
.. . — . .— —
DR. H. ARM1STEAD having permanent
ly located at Des Arc, offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of the town
and adjacent country.
or Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office. [march21-6m
DR. WM. BETKELL will continue the
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc and
vicinity. From his long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fifteen years, he hopes to
receive a share of the public patronage.
(J*§T Office at Balsly’s Drug Store. Resi
dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the South side of
the road, entering the town. mar21-lv.
J. J. LANE.. H. CHAMBERS.
DRS. LANE & CHAMBERShaving form
ed a partnership in the practice of
their profession, tender their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
From their experience they hope to share
at least a portion of the patronage of the
public.
33^’ Office on Buena Vista street, at Bals
ly’s Drug Store. feblitf
DR. N. L. RAGLAND, having located at
the residence of R. B. Trezevant,
(formerly B. B. Allens place.) miles from
Wattensaw Landing, offers his professional
services to the public.
Particular attention given to deseases
of women and children. jan 1-ly.
TvR. W. F. WALSH, having located at
[J Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. (J^* Calls promptly at
tended to. may29, 1858-ly*
TJ. WOODSON, Attorney at Law,
. Des Arc, Arkdnsas, will practice in the
Fifth Judicial Ciicuit, and the counties of
White, Jackson and Monroe.
*.* All business entrusted to his care will
be promptly attended to. may?-ly
A W. McNEILL, Attorney at Law. Des
/A. Arc, Arkansas, practices in the courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. (^"Office,
cornet' of Erwin and Lyon streets. [apll.
EW DOUGLASS, Attorney at Law,
• Brow.nsville. Arkansas, will promptly
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prairie, Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jack
son anil White counties.
*#* Prompt attention given to the collection
of all claims entrusted to his care._apr28
J. W. MARTIN.-R. T. SIMPSON.
MARTIN & SIMPSON, Attorneys
at Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Will
practice in Prairie, White, Arkansas, Mon
roe. Jackson and the adjoining counties.
Office on Lyon street. feb29-tf.
B. I). TURNER..WM. T. JONES.
rpURNER & JONES, Attorn eys at
Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will at
tend promptly to all business entrusted to
them. jand-tif.
R. LAWRENCE, Attorney at
* Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Special at
tention given to collecting. jan4-tf.
Q H. HEMPSTEAD, Attorney at Law,
k?« Little Rock, Arkansas. Office on Mark
ham street. janll-tf.
R. S. GANTT. W. J. BRONAT7GH
P ANTT & BRONAUGH, Attorneys
\X at Law, Brownsville. Arkansas Will
attend promptly to any business confided to
them. septMtf
JACOB T MORRILL, Attorney at
Law, Notary Public, and Justice of
the Peace, Clarington, (Sunfish,) Monroe
County, Ohio. [ju!27-tf.
J. E. GATEWOOD.J. A. MOON.
GATEWOOD & MOON, Land
\X Agents and Real Estate Brokers,
Des Arc, Arkansas. Will attend to payment
of taxes, locating Government, Swamp or Mil
itary lands. Blanks of every description al
ways on hand. aug3-tf.
B. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc.
• Arkansas, will practice in the courts of
Prairie, White, Monroe. Arkansas, St. Fran
cis, Jackson, and Independence counties. All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. E5?” Office on Lyon
street. [jun8-tf
~E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
. Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie, Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson, White,
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Land
Titles,' and a'ct as General Land Agent.
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to him.
Office—First door up stairs, one door
East of John Tackson & Co.’s, Store.
feb!3-tf.__
pTaivtttel w. WiLliams, Attor
0 mey at Law, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Office on Markhain street. [mar21
J. L. ..w. H. JACOWAY.
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardanellc, Arkansas.
Wilt practice in the counties of Yell, Perry,
Saline. Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope,
j e2fi-tf_ .
wont;. ADAMS,
CLOCK, WATCHMAKER
J E W*E L E R,
(Id rear of C. T. Petit’s Drue Store.)
Augusta, Arkansas.
Respectfully informs the citizens of
the town and adjacent country that he has
permanently mcAnm-in avgu ta, -and-is
prepared to execute alt kinds ot Clock and
Watch Work, repair ; nd Cleanse Jewelry, as
well as every other description of work usual
ly done in such establishments.
' (100” Musical Instruments of every descrip
tion repaired and putin good order. Fiom
his experience and me hantcal knowledge, be
feels confident of rendering satisfaction to his
patrons. __ tebl5tf'
JOHN McN AM E E,
T *1 I JL O « ,
Des Arc, Arkansas.
SHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET—
opposite the “Nucleus House”—where ht
is prepared*to execute all kinds of work ir
his line of business, in a neat and fashionable
style.
July 27, 1859.—[tf]__
Just Received,
£\r(\r\ YARDS White Osnaburgs, 15tK
yards Brown Domestic, 25 piecet
Calico. „
-ALSO
A lot of Hardware, Locks, Hinges, Butts
Screws, Steel Hoes. Garden Rakes, Long
\ handle Shovels and Spades, Scythes and Cra
■ dies, alc., for salo by
S marl 1- G. &. J. McLAREN & CO.
Live Bravely.
The world is half darkened with croakers,
Whose burdens are weighing them down :
They croak of their stars and ill-usage,
And grope in the dark for a crown.
Why talk to the wind of liy fortune,
Or clutch at distinction and gold ?
If thou cans’t not reach high on the ladder
Thou cans’t steady its base by thv hold.
For the flower, though hid in the corner,
Will as faultlessly finish its bloom ;
Will reach for a sparkle of sunshine
That clouds have not chanced to consume.
And would thou be less than a flower—
With thought, and a brain, and a hand?
Will wait for the dribbles of fortune
When there’s something that these may com
mand?
There is food to be won from the furrow,
And forests that wait to be hewn—
There’s marble untouched by the chisel,
Days that break not on the forehead of June;
Will you let the plow rust in the furrow—
Unbuilded a house or a hall?
Nor bid the stones wake from their silence,
And fret as if fretting were all?
Go learn from the blossoms and ant-hill,
There’s something your labor must give.
Like the beacon that pierces the tempest,
Strike the clod from thy path and live.
Live—not trail with thy facein thedro$> heap.
In the track of the brainless and proud—
Lift the cerements away from tby manhood,
Thou’rt robbing the dead of a shroud.
There are words and pens to be wielded,
There are thoughts that would die if unsaid;
Would’st thou saunter away amid roses,
Or sepulchre dreams that are dead?
No ! drag the hope to the pyre,
Dreams dead from the ashes rise,
Look not down on the eaith for its shadow,
There is sunlight for thee in the skies.
A Miss.issippian's Speech in the Char
leston Convention.
The speech ol Col. D C Glenn, ol
Mississippi, when that delegation was
about to secede from the Charleston Con
vention, was delivered with the greatest
possible solemnity, and heard with bre.uh
less interest by the vast crowd, which
filled every inch of space in ihe hall—nine
men out of ten present thinking the desti
nies of the couutry were men and there
poised :
Mr. Glenn, of Mississippi.—Mr Presi
dent and gentlemen of tins Convention :
For the first tune, for the only tune, lor
tne last time, in me name of ihe Slate that
i have the honor in part to represent liere,
I desire to say but a few words to this
Convention, 1 bold in my baud me sol
emn aci of her delegation upon this floor,
and I say to you, gentlemen, that it is not
a nasty action ; that it is not one conceived
m passion, or carried out m caprice or
disappointment, it is the firm resolve ol
tne great body of the people wuotn wt re
present, which was expressed in the Con
vention that sent us here, and that resolve,
that people and we, their representatives
will maintain at all costs, at all hazards.
[Loud applause.]
We came here not to dictate to the re
presentatives of other sovereign Stales.
Since we have been here our intercourse
has been courteous, so far as personal mes
are concerned. We have all sought, uid
1 believe have all beeu able to conduct
ourselves as gentlemen. But we did not
come here to exercise the courtesies ol life
alone. We Came to settle the principles
upon which the party must rest and mum
stand. We came here, gentlemen ol th<_*
North, not to ask you to adopt a principle
which you could say was opposed to your
concieuces and your principles. We did
not believe it to be so. We came as equal
members of a common coulederaoy.
Sir, at Cincinnati we adopted a platform
on winch we alt agreed. Now answer
ine, ye men of the North, ol the East, ot
the South and of the West, what was me
construction placed upon that plattorm in
different sections of the Uniun ? You at
the West said it meant one thing, and we
at the South said it meant another. Either
we were right or you were rigm; we were
wrong or you were wrong We came
here to ask you winch was right and
which was wrong. You have maintained
your position You say that you cannot
give us an acknowledgment ol that right,
which 1 tell you now, in coming time will
be your only safety in your contests wim
the Black Republicans ol Omo and ol the
North. [Cheers ]
Why, sir. turn back to the history ol
your own leading men. There sits a dis
tinguished gtnileinan (Smart, of Michi
gan), once a representative ol one ol me
sovereign Slates ol the Union, in me >en
me, who then voted.mat Congxess iiaiLine
constitutional power to pass me Wiimot
Proviso, and to exclude slavery from me
Territories; and now, when the Supreme
Court has said that it has not mat power,
he comes forward and tells Mississippians
that that same Congress is impotent 10
protect that same property. There sits
my distinguished iriend, ibe Senator from
Ohio, (Mr. Pugh), who, bui a lew night:
since, told us from that stand that it a
Territorial governm nt totally misused
their powers, or abused them. Congress
would wipe out that Territorial govern
ment alwgether. And yet wheu we cotnt
here and ask him to give us protection, it
case that Territorial government robs u:
of our property, and strikes the star thu
answers 10 the name ot Mississipp
from the flag of the Union, so far as tin
Constitution gives her protection, he tell
us. with his hand upon his heart—as Gov
ernor Payne, of Ohio, had belore done
they will part with their lives before the;
will acknowledge the principle which wi
contend for.
Gentlemen, in such a situation of thing
in the Convention of nur great party, it is
right that we should part. Go your way
and we will go ours The South leaves
you—not like Hagar. driven into the wil
derness, friendless and alone—but I tell
Southern men here, and for them I tell
the North, that in less than sixty days you
i will find a united South standing side by
side with us [Prolonged and enthusias
tic cheering ]
We stand firm and immovable, and
; while we respect you we must respect
ourselves. And, gentlemen, let tne say
i to you of the North, now, it,at the time
may come when you will need us more
;than we need you. I speak to those who
represent the “green hills ol New Lng
i land j” I speak to the “imperial centre"
of the Union. There slumbers in your
midst a latent spark—not of political sec
I tionalism, but of social discord — which
may yet require the conservative princi
ples of the South to save your region of
country from anarchy and confusion. We
need not your protection. The power of
the Black Republicans is nothing to us.
We are safe in our own strength and
security, so long as we maintain our
rights.”
An Experiment of Southern Policy.
It was in organizing the Territory °i
New Mexico that Congress for the fitst
tune, applied tne principle of non-inter
veniion The Abolitionists resisted the
innovation upon the traditional anti-slave
ry policy of the government In fact the
controversy originated m an attempt to
exclude the South Irom ttie Territory by
the operation of tne Wilrnot proviso
The represt ntaiives ol ihe slaveholding
Stales were unanimous in opposition to
tiie measure and in support ol the duc
11 me of niiii-iutervention Nevertheless,
they would nave been beaten, but lor the
detection of Websier and other eminent
men in the Norih from then old Abolition
associations It is true, the 7th ol March
speech was delivered from an essentially
ami-slavery stand point, basing us policy
ol non-intervention oh the ground that
New Mexico was “consecrated to fiee
dom ” by the decree of the Almighty; ,
still the i ffurt availed to determine tiie
Contest against the- pr+nciple -of Congres
sional mierferem e and federal rtsiricnon.
The Territories of Utah and New Mexi
i>u writ* luiiuaiiy mvrsiru vmu u u> k«.m n >
io decide lor themselves in res peel of their
domestic institution
What is tile consequence of I ,e opera
tions of nou*iiitervention in this pamcu
lar instance? Toe New York Tribune
stiii 11 give l he answer:
Here is New Mexico—a country la gei ihan
Fmice with scarcely a huinati inhabitant to
the square mile—which has just, by the unani
mous act of its Legisl tin e pa, sed - an ->ct to
provide for the protection of propeity in
slaves,” which more tho oughly legalizes and
establishes slavery within hei vast bounds
than it was legally established in any pait of
our country during the fi st century of it- ex
istence here. it make- the act of aiding a
slave to escape fiom his master a felony, and
punishes it by a fine oi $500 to $2,000. and by
impi isonment of from four to ten years. It
make- buying of or selling to a slave, or in
citing him to disobey and resist the authority
of his master a ciime, to he punished by fine
and imp isonment ; authorizes any person to
appiehend any slave who may have escaped
from his master, and to use whatever force
may be necessary for that purpose, and to
claim of said ina-ter a reward of no1 less than
twenty dollars for such service; it punishes
any shei iff'who-hall refuse to receive, im
prison, and safely keep such runaway slave,
making him pay $500 and the value of the
slave or slaves thus allowed to escape ; directs
the sheriff' to advertise any runaway so lodged
with him for six months; nd if no owner,
shall theieupon. “at the door of his jail or of
the court house of said county, proceed to
SELL the SAID slave (for whom no master
can any how be found) to the hiohest bid
deb for cash.” and to give said buyer a bill
of sale which shall be “ a good and indefea
sible title” to the negro “against all persons
whatsoever”—the proceeds, after deducting
costs, to be paid into the territorial treasury.
(If there were no slaves already in New Mex
ico and none should be brought in. they could
hardly fail to be manufactured under such in
fernal legislation as this; and Section 25 pro
vided that <■ the emancination of slaves with
iii this Territoiy is totally pi ohibiteii.”) If
slavery exists anywhere on earth, it exists
tb oughont New Mexico under and by virtue
of tue provisions of this act. piovided we ad
mit the right of the Territorial Legislature to
' pass itj and the fact that there areas yet very
few slaves there renders this act only the
moic wantonly, diabolically wicked.”
Could the most zealous propagandist of
slavery desire any other tesun ? And
not only do-s shivery ttius secure a film
foothold in the Tnnuory ol New Mexi
co-almost an empire in ltseli—but the
position affords the south every facility ol
expulsion m the very direction most in
viting to us institutions. Not only me
Arizona and Nevada destined to tall un
der the sway of the South but the cun
itguousisuu-asof Mexico- wall be subdued
to the uses of slavery, when in the full
ness of time they shall be released from
the impotent grasp ot the central govern
ment The possession ot New Mexico i»
indeed a splendid conquest lor the pro
slavery party. They lost Kansas by the
operation of the non-intervention princi
ple. but under the same policy they nave
secured ample indemnity in a quarter
wuere, instead ol being a sickly exotic,
slavery cvili take root in a congenial soil,
and flourish of its own inherent vigor.
Suppose the principle ol non-interven
tion nad not prevailed in the organization
of New Mexico; suppose the Represen
tatives of the South had accepted the doc
trine of Congressional supremacy ovei
tue Territories—what would havtt been
ihe consequence ? The power once con
I ceded an Abolition majority would have
secured tfs application in the shape ot a
Wilmot proviso, and so slavery would have
1 been forever excluded from a region m
i which it exhibits a singular vitality, and
promises to achieve the grandest re»uhs.
» Hus the South reason to deplore its adop
non of ihe n0o-'iiu*rvention puhoy?
The Tribune qualifies us admission o
a pro-slavery triumph m New Mexico b\
ihe significant reservation—'• provided wt
admit the right of the Territorial Legisla
lure" to enact a code in support of the
msuiution. When we recollect n is >
fundamental theory of the Black Repuh
lican party that the jurisdiction of Con
gress is omnipotent over the Territories
ihe point of this covert suggestion will bt
at once apparent. To repel the Souil
from ils vantage ground in New Mexico
the anti-slavery leaders intend to invoke
the interposition of ihe Federal govern
ment. If they fail to procure a renun
ciaiion of the principle of popul n sover
eignty, they may at least compel tht
South either to justify or to abandon the
policy of Congressional non-intervention
In the event Seward shall introduce a bilI
for the repeal of the slave code in New
Mexico, the Representatives of the South
will have no alternative but to admit the
supremacy of Congress over the Territo
ries. or else to make a stand upon the
principle of non-intervention.
If they adopt ihe first proposition they
will give the Black Republican party ac
issue which will insure its success in 1860
for then the iRsue will be purely and sim
ply slavery exiension or slavery restric
tion. And a Black Republican ascen
dency in ihe federal administration will
involve a return lo the policy of liie W11 -
mot proviso If, on ihe contrary, the
Representatives of the South determine
U> adhere to the principle of non-interven
tion, tiiey will present an issue upon which
hey will be sustained by the American
people, and will so be enabled to console
Jaie their conquest in New Mexico.
Winch is the wiser policy? — [The Slates
A Reminiscence.
Duimg the Administration ol President
Jackson there was a smgul .r young gen
nan employed in the public service ni
Washington. His name was G.; he was
iorti Tennessee, the son of a widow, ihe
leiglibor of the President, on which ao
'•ount the old hero had a kind feeling lor
jim. and always got him out of ins dif
j,mines with some of the high officials, ol
,vhom ins singular interferences were dis
ustelul.
Among other things, ii is said of him,
hat while he was employed in the Gen
-ral Post Office, on one occasion lie had
o copy a letter ol Major II., a high offi
cer, in answer to an application made by
in old gentleman of Virginia or Penn
sylvania, for ihe establishment ol a new
uimir liir wi in i ui uir icuri
often used classical language; in n.islet
er ne sud the application could not be
framed, in consequence ol the uppli*
Mill's “ proxnnitv " to another office
When the leiier came into G.'s hands to
>>py, being a great stickler for plainness,
lie altered •• proximity ” 10 “ nearness to."
VI aj or H. observed it and asked G why
oe altered Ins letter ? Wny, replied G.
because I don’t tlliuk the man would un
derstand what you meant by pruximey
Well, said Major H., trv him: put in the
‘ proximity " again. In a few days a lei
ier was received Irom the applicant, in
which he indigo in !y said : "That his
father had fought for liberty in the first,
md he himself in the second war of in
dependence, and he would like to have
.he name of the scoundrel who broughi
the charge of proximity or anything else
wrong, against him! ’ ‘There,” said
G , “did I not say so?” G. carried his
improvement so far, that at last Mr Bar
ry, the Postmaster General, said to him:
“I do not want you here any longer;
you know too much.” Poor G. went out.
hut his old friend, the General, again gol
I ... __ I _ rPL.. ~ _/ « .
ideas underwent a change. He was out1
day very busy writing, when a sirangei
calling in, asked him where the Patent
Office was. “ l don’t know,” said G.
“ Can you tell me where the Treasure
Department is?” said the siauger “No ”
said G. "Nor the President’s House?”
“No” The stranger finally asked him
if Re knew where the Capitol was
“ No,” replied G “ Do you live in
Washington, sir?” said the stranger
“ Yes sir,” said G “ Good Lord ! und
don’t know where the Patent Office
Treasury. President’s House and Capito
are?” “Stranger.” said G.. “I was
tamed out of office lor knowing too much
I don't mean to offend in that way again
I am paid for keeping this hook. 1 be
lieve 1 do know that much ; but if yoi
find me kgpwtng anything more you cat
lake my head.” “Good tnoruiug.” salt
the stranger. -
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Ought Married People to Sleei
Together. — Hall’s Journal of Health
which claims to be high authority in medt
cal science, has taken a stand agaius
married people sleeping together, bu
mink* they had better sleep in adjoinint
rooms. It says that kmjrs and queens d
not sleep together, and why should otlie
people ? Think of the idea of sep iratin)
a newly married couple, on a cold win
ter’s night, became Mr. Hall’s Journal c
Health says so! You go to grass. Mi
HaH
A Rock Unknown to a Geologist.
An old bachelor geologist was boaslin
that every rock was farmlir to him as th
alphabet. A lady who wus pieseut dt
clared that she knew a rock of which h
was wholly ignorant.
“ Name it madaiue !” cried Ccelebs i
a rage.
“It is rock the cradle, sir,” replied th
lady.
Calebs evaporated.
The K> y Stone State.
We take pleasure in transferring lo our
colums ah exiract from a recent editorial
of the Philadelphia Argus. While the
Stale which proudly wears the title of the
Key Slone of the Federal Arch, furnishes
men that entertain and dare express such
sentiments, we will continue to cherish
high hopes of the safety of our country.
The best interests of society are being
immolated upon the altar of fanaticism
The 'valanche of Abolitionism lias already
acquired a fearful momentum, and-threa
tens, in its downward course, to crush out
all that is near and dear to us as a people.
A few years since, a handful of insane
enthusiasts in New England started this
doctrine ; and ignoring the peace, 'he
happiness, and the prosperity of twenty
five millions of the white race, and lor the
sake of an impracticable abstraction, de
voted themselves, through a mistaken
philanthropy, to the amelioration of the
condition of those of our four millions of
the African 'ace; and for the sake of tins
comparatively small number of negroes,
they are willing to crush out and des
troy, at all hazards, five times the num
ber of that race to which the world is in
debted for Christianity and all the improve*
ntenis valuable to /nan. For this fnnaucal
idea they would break up and destroy a
nation which stauds among the first pow
ers of the earth, and presents the model
government of the world—a government
based upon the best interests of the gov
erned, and calculated, in the administru
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happiness and prosperity of us people.
In their march of fanatical instruction
they have already broken up churches, and
with the pulpit in their trains, they have
impeded the cause of Christianity, wound
ing Christ in the house of Ins friends.
They have already broken up the great
Whig party, which work was performed
in the defeat of Henry Clay, by Abolition
voles, in 1844 They afterwards split imo
fragments the American party. And now,
the last national party in the country—the
hope of the patriot and the conservative
citizens—the great Naiional Democratic
party—is endangered, and likely to be
destroyed by the introduction into its
councils of this Abolition, free soil ele
meut.
The “enemy have come in like a flood.”
The spirit of the great conservative masses
of the country must arouse themselves,
and set up a barrier against it, no matter
what the material.. The destructive course
of the Abolition hordes, who, like the
locusts ol Egypt, now suarrn through the
laud, carrying pestilence in their flight
and poison in their repose, must be
crushed out. This eternal nigger ques
tion must he ignored, or if not, the result
will be the dissolution of cur government
Let tins Gordian knot be cut. The
question is one between a crazy sentiment
and a great controlling lact. Our South
ern brethren cannot permit any iuierfer-!
ference with iheir slave institutions, and
consequently the struggle is between Black
Republicanism and the perpetuity of our
country. Either Abolitionism or the na
tion must go to wreck and ruin
Tile lover ol his country, the good citi
zen, will not, in an issue of this kind,
hesitate a moment. Tins is the time ol
the nation’s peril; and every other consid
eration should be laid aside in order to
pieserve the country.
Men of other parties have looked to the
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last sheet anchor ol the nation That pariy
is now drilling from its moorings, and dis
may sits upon every countenance. We
call upon every Democrat for the support
of umou and harrnouy, for concession and
calm councils, that the nation muy he
saved ; that when *“ the enemy shall come
tn like a flood," we may be able to “*raise
up a standard against him ”
God Save the Republic!
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Original Letter from Davy Crockett.
The Rochester Union says it has seen
a letter written by the eccentric Davy
Crockett, in 1S34, and deems it of suffi
cient Interest to lay before the public.
Tile letter was addressed to Hon. H. R
Storrs, member of Congress, and father o(
W. C. Storrs, of that city, who has the
papers, autograph fetters, &c., which be
longed to bis father. The letter (by
Crockett) is wriuen in a plain, bold hand,
and Irom its perusal one is led to infer
mat his authentic life was never pub
11 shed :
WAbkttKGTO* City, Jan. 9, 1834
Dear Friend: Your favor of me 2d
inst. has been duly received ; aud if 1 was
10 thank you a thousand times over for
' your kindness, and the interest you take
in my affairs, 1 would still be greatly your
! debtor. My narrative will be ready for
' the press in about a month, and will be
' just like rnyself, a plain and singular pro
’ ducnon, * It will afford, 1 have no doubt.
’ much amusement everywhere, as my tile
1 has been lull of strange aud laughable
‘ incidents. It will afford matter for at
least one hundred and fifty pages. I
know ihe demand for the work will be
great, but as 1 am in quite bumble cir
. cumsiances, if I can sell the copyrignt for
l a respectable sum i shall thereby accom
e pltsh two objects—first, 1 shall vindicate
- myself from the spurious work sent abroad,
e aud secondly, shall get the means of going
ahead, just now. Please ascertain the
u best price winch can be had for the copy<
right in your city, as many proposition!
e are reaching me, aud then l can make «
choice among them all. If I was not a
a poor man I shouldn't want anything foi
Hie work at all; but t am poor, with a
large family, ami as the world seems anx
ious for the work, I know they would
want me to have the profits of it.
1 am well, and hanging on to the true
faith like a puppy to a root. Answer me
as soon as possible, and get your book
sellers and book-printers to send me their
propositions.
I am, without hypocrisy.
your real friend.
D. CROCKETT.
Hon. H. R. Storrs, New York.
From the Southern Cultivator.]
Fruits—Their Looal Adaption, Ac.
A subscriber in Arkansas (W. C. D.)
submits the following propositions
‘‘I think there will be quite n demand
here for good Iruil in a short time. We
have already one nursery in the neighbor
hood which does u good trade. Our nur
seryman holds out the thing we need here,
and that trees obtained from abroad, say
Mississippi or Georgia, will nokdo. Do
you believe this i"
No, we do not believe this’, but we will
trt to explain what we do believe. We
believe, us a general rule, that fruits which
have originated in a certain locality suc
ceed best in that locality, and that trees
or plants grow and thrive best in n soil
and climate identical with oral least simi
lar to that in winch they naturally grow
most freely. For instance, some trees
ninl plants delight in low, moist situations,
and are almost always found in the great
est abundance and perfection in wet places
and along the margins of streams. Oth
ers prefer high dry, open exposures, and
are found on the lops of hills. Some
thrive best in sandy soil ( some in day,
some in peat, and others in gravel; some
grow best iri the extreme North, others in
the extreme South, and others, again, mid
way between these extremes. To try to
change all this and upset the order of na
ture is unwise, ^ind can only end in dis
appointment ( though the skill of.man
has wonderfully modified the habits of
pianis ana extenaea ttieir range, buii,
as there are plain anti obvious limits to
the adaptation of plonts and trees, we
should study to select those the nature and
origin of which holdout the highest prom
ise of success. Therefore, if we were
planting in Arkansas or Texas, we would
not send to New York or Massachusetts
lor fruit trees if we could gel them in
Tennessee or Georgia; nor would we
send to the latter States, if we could gel
ns good fruit that had originated nearer
home. Thus far, however, the necessi
ties and privations of pioneer life have
prevented the settlers of the newer Slates
from paying much attention to fruit cul
ture, so that the number of native fruits
of real merit in these Stales (at least, so
far as know'll and classified) is quite in
considerable, In Geogia and other of
the older Southern States, however, where
Pomology has received great attention for
many years past, and where amateurs
and professional Nurserymen have spent
much time and money in making and
testing extensive collections of native and
foreign fruits, the case is very different;
and it is upon these collections and ex
periments that the people of the new
Slates will have to rely for their supplies
of fine fruits for somA years to come. In
tlie meantime, let till who feel an interest
in Fruit Culture, plant every season, the
seeds of the best fruits they can obtain
and bring them into bearing, Let them,
also, gather up from remote " nooks and
corners,” and bring into notice the many
undoubtedly fine native varieties that yet
“blush unseen;” but, at the same tune,
let them not forget that we have now, by
far, two many “ varieties,” and that no
other than first-rate and “ best ” fruits are
worthy either of a “.local habitation” or
a “ name.” In the mania for “ varieties."
ol late years, we have all taken into cul
tivation scores of new fruits that are not
fit to cumber the ground. Let us, ns fast
as possible, purge these from our collec
tions. and fall back on the very best only.
In planting fruit trees in the South,
we should, first, always, if possible, select
fruits of the best native Southern, varie
ties, the trees raised and grown in the
South; and secondly, those foreign kinds
wtiich have long been tested here and are
known to succeed. We will give our
readers u seltcl list, before planting time
| in the fall, and we are rejoiced to see our
people beginning to devote so much at
I tendon to the delightful and profitable oc
cupation of Fruit Raising.
-Truth is naturally so acceptable to man
—so charming in itself—that to make false
hood well received,,we are compelled to dress
it up in the snowy garb of truth, as. in pass
ing base coin, it bu st iiave the impress ot
genuine ere it will p.»ss current.
Folly.—Sir Joshua Reynolds, the celebra
ted painter, being asked liow be would per
sonate Folly in painting, remarked that he
would repre-ent a man climbing over a wall at
the risk of his neck, with an open gate close
by through which he might walk with ease
aud safety?
-A lady who had read of the extensive
manufacture of odometers, to tell how far a
carriage bad been run, said she wished some
Connecticut genius would invent a« instru
ment to tell how fur husbands had been in the
evening, when they "just stepped cowh to the
postoffice,or •• went to attend a caucus.’
Why hk wosids’t stay—James, the
novelist, has atmndoned his Consulate at
Venice, ami is coming back to Richmond,
Virgiuia. He went there to gather materials
for a novel of Venetian history, but finding
that the streets were all canals, and that lie
could not Introduce "his solitary horseman,’
be abandoned the place in disgust.
Wqwes to Adopt. — We naturally tire of
words as much used a$ “boys ’ and “ girls,
and it may “ 'ary the sauce ” a little to Use
the Japanese designations of the same com
modities. .A boy is culled a muscok, a girl a
moskmay, a man an otoko and a uouiati an
ONAGO. Every handsome woman, or belle, 1*
called at: i flyoka.