limotramni'iits.
Elsitnn oa Mini ay. 6th August. 1830.
[Announcing candidates for State and
District office*, $7: County offices $5; Town
ship offices. $3. Calls on persons to become
candidates are charged at the usual rates, ex
c ;pt when persons making the calls arc sub
scribers to our paper. &r Political circu
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
R. H. JOHNSON.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AT LARGE,
w. w. r i. o i n,
T . F . SORREI,L«.
FOR THE DISTRICTS,
*3. W. TATLOR, 1st. Oist Ct.
T. *V. I.EAKG, 2d. Wrstrict.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
COL. JOHN C. DAVIE.
■.•y E. W. Douglass is a candidate for
County and Prolni- ■ Judge of Prairie county,
at the ensuing August election.
We arc authorised to announco
Charles D. Taylor, as a candidate for
Circuit Clerk of Prairie county, at the
ensuing election. *
jggt* We are authorised to announce J. M.
King, ns a candidate for re-election to the
office of Sheriff of Prairie County, at the
ensuing August election. *
We are authorised to announce W. E.
Raulston as a candidate for Sheriff at the
ensuing election. *
We are authorised to announce Wm.
fiooDRUM as a candidate for Circuit Clerk of
Prairie 'county, at the ensuing election.
„ Q3T We are authorised to announce I.F.V1
ftvraM as a candidate for County Treasurer,
I- I),A -i ~ A A)AA,iAA
Wn aic authorised to announce John
F. iTudson as a candidate for the office of
Clerk of Prairie county, at the ensuing Au
gust election.
gSJ* We are authorised to announce John
If. QuiseNbkrry Esq., as a candidate to
represent Prairie county. In our next Legisla
ture., at the ensuing August election. [feb8.
Brownsville, Feb. 10, ’60.
Mr. Editor.—You will please announce
.my name as a candidate for Probate Judge
for the comry of Prairie.
Respectfully, J. L. HUNT.
To the Vntersof Prairie €o.,Arli.
I am a calidfdate for Sherilf of said county,
at the election to be belli on the first Monday
in August, next. WM. A. PLUNKETT.
January 4. 1800.*
Dev all's Bluff. Ark.,
January 30th, ’00.
EDiTon Citizen—Please announce my name
as a'candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Prairie County, at the ensuing August
election. Very respectfully. &r..
feb 15 ' J. VV. BLANTON.
tzw Wo 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.
[From the Jefferson Independent.
To the Democracy of the State of
Arkansas.
In submitting what we are about to do
to the people of the Slate of Arkansas,
we are prompted by no other motive than
that the will of the people may be fairly
collecied and expressed, and the unity and
integrity of the great Democratic party
preserved intact.
From what we know ami can learn
from the published proceedings of the late
Democratic Snyte Convention, we feel sat
isfied tiiat its action in regard to its nomi
nee for Governor, does not express the
will of the people of the Slate ; and no
man, it seems to us, who is at all acquain
ted with the facts, can come to the con
clusion that the result was brought about
by fair means alone.
If said Convention has not expressed
the will of’ lire Democratic party, then we
ask should the party be bound thereby ?
Would it not be undemocratic for an un
faithful convention to hind by its action a
faithful party? We are not opposed to
conventions, and think the party should
be bound by them, in order to insure suc
cess and the preservation of our institu
tions. Hut should a convention fail to do
its duty, and faithfully reflect the will of
the people, by putting forward either prin- j
doles or candidates not acceptable to the
party, we IrnOw of no way by which the
people can gel clear of the action of such
convention, so just in itself and so free
from all objection, as for the people to re
unite in conventions, and speak forth what
they really feel and wish.
We will not undettake at present to j
point out the various means which were;
employed by certain parties in the late !
convention at Little Rock, and in many of!
the county conventions, to bring about the
nomination of Mr. Johnson. The people
of the different counties best know and
thorougidy understand what their means
were. So far as we know and have heard, :
justice to the party demands that we boldly
assert that a wide spread disaffection in :
the Democratic ranks exists, resulting i
from the nomination of Mr. Johnson—not c
so much because .Mr. Johnson is not a ;
good Democrat and a worthy man—but |
because the. people feel that he has been s
thrust upon them at this time against limit j
will. Thi< being the case, should not t
some steps be taken to remove this diffi- 1
culty previous to the August election ? If c
this be uin don**, theie can be tut little 1;;
doubt that a schism will be created in the i
Democratic party, which time can never I,
heal.
Then, for the love ot the party and its ,
time-honored principles, we submit to our j j
fellow Democrats, throughout the State, a j
proposition which we do not think can ,
work injustice to any one, and to which
no lair minded man and honest-intending
Democrat, can object. It is as fair for
Mr. Johnson as for any one else—it;
surely cannot work injustice to him. Ifj
it be U:e wish of the Democratic party ol!.
the State that Mr. Johnson be the nomi-j
nee oi said party, most assuredly they!
will endorse bun ; but should some other
be preferred, surely Mr. Johnson is too
good a Democrat to want to force himself
upon tiie party; and fuitherajore, should
Mr. Johnson decline to submit bis claims
to a second, fairly gotten up convention,
t uit tt appear obvious to the meat c ireiess
mat Mr Johnson himself is satisfied that
hi* nom nation does not meet with the
“Pptovai ol the partv which he seeks to
I ^
objected 10 eiltiei lor the waul ol tone or
i money, for as u respects the first, there is
time sufficient for the nomination, and
also a canvass; and ns it respects the
second, the convention will not cost the
State one dollar, Hut to our proposition.
In view of tiie widespread dissatisfac
tion from the action of the late convention
at Little Rod;, and in order to fully unite
the Deinociatic party of the Slate in the
coming election, we propose that the differ
ent coumies in the Suite, hold county con
ventions, and send delegates to a conven
tion to be holden at Pine Bluff, on the
first Monday in June, then and there to
make n nomination for the office of Go
vernor.
YVe request that this proposition be pub
lished in all the democratic papers ol the
State, so that a response may be made as
soon as practicable.
Tins course will quiet all dissensions in
our party, and make us what wo should
be, harmonious and united.
P. A. Fe-nnerty, M. L. Bass,
W. S. Roberson, H. H. Worsham,
A. M. McHenry, .1. S. Anderson,
J. T. Summers, J. I- Gray,
B Houston, F. M. Fasley,
; B F. Gilkev, F L. Flood,
! F. G. Monk,' J. M. Morgan,
Thos. Booth, J. S. Jenkins,
B. A. Barnes, J. \V. Williams.
Thomas Cunningham, W. M. Keykendoll,
M. F. Sanders. A. J. P*trick,
F. P. McBride, R. H. Sanders,
A. J. Freeman, F. P. Steck,
C. L. llill, |N. J. Simmons,
A. Hay, L). Roberson Dickie,
Wm. Thompson, Jno. Riggs, of H S. C.
W West, S. Rodgers of Dallas C.
11. J. Rodgers, J. R. Walker,
W. B. Willerford, jJ. B. Monk,
Jno. McCarty, |J. M. Sledge,
F. F. Vallier, jT. H. Harris,
G. W Harris, Amos Strong,
T. N Atkins, jW. B. Borden,
A. R Humes, U. Meares,
Jolih Macon, J. J. Roano, and
FIFTY OTHERS.
All good Democratic papers, in the
State are requested to publish this ad
dress.
JerrEnsoN County, Ark., April 18.
1 II E I UliLIU 1.uu imiu » *
Ago.—Of the members of the United
States Senate in 1S30, only five are now
living: I’eleg Sprague ot Maine;
Theodore Frelinohuysen, of New
Jersey ; Littleton W. Tazewell arid
John Tyler, of Virginia ; and Benja
min Ruggles,* of Ohio.
Of the members of the Federal House
of Representatives in 1830, but two are
living from Massachusetts—Edward Ev
erett and George (jrennell, Jr ; from
New Yoik, only three; from Ohio, Wil
liam Stanberry, of Newark, Samuel
F. Vinton, now ol Washington City
and Elisha Whittlesey, of Canfield.
Of the other States only here und there
one *' still lives.”
Mr. Thomas Corwin was elected in
1830, and there is no member of the
House with him now who was with him
at his first Congressional term. He is
alone. But he represents the same Dis
trict, and was elected in 1858 by the sons
and grandsons of the pioneers who elect
ed him in 1S30.
Of the members of the Federal Gov
ernment in 1830, Mr. Van Suren, who
was Secretary of State, und Mr. Samuel
D. Ingram, Secretary of the Treasury,
are the only ones now living.—[Nash
ville Union. •
•Mr. Rtiggles ilicd some eighteen months
since.
fiesT* The testimony of Lorenzo Dow
upon the subject of the Recovery of the
Law is as follows:
“The world appears to be indebted to
the Masons for the putiiy, and preserva
tion, and restoration of the Book of the
Law as a means, under God, for the ben
efit of mankind in after ages. The Book
of the Law (original copy) was burnt— .
only the transcript copy in existence, and -
only a few individuals knew where that |
was. Hence, how near the Book of the ‘
Law c nrie of being lost out of the world ! >
Then darkness would have remained on t
the subject of creation, with the origin r
and history of man. But to prevent a a
similar occurrence from happening, syna- J,
rrrwtnoki tvnru liiiilt n mi i n true fur- n
nishod with a copy, translated from the 1
one preserved by the Masons, and re- tl
stored to Ezra, the priest, which must
have been the transcript cony written by
David, for there is no evidence of there c,'
ever having been any other.”
Lorenzo Dow. j,
---«- »♦--c.
The White Man’s Flv. — Judge c
Simpson, of Indiana, furnishes the Yin- tb
cennes Gazette with this scrap of history: Sl
In the year 167,7, Miaard Sturgess, ^
grandfather of Prof. Sturgess of Hanover „i
College, emigrated to this country, bring- ti
ing with him the first hive of bees ever
seen in the Wabash Valley. The Indians, ^
who had never seen any before, after c
ieing shown them a few times, called s
hem the while man’s fly, while the French
lettlers became very much alarmed for n
ear the bees would injure the fruit by
uckmg the blossoms. It is a fact that the b
onev bee is never to be found in advance
f^tfvilizniion. c
-—-_ ^ r
Sale of Cashmere Goats.—The Gal
ilin (Tenn.) Examiner, of the 21st tilt., p
ays: Wre noticed last week the sale ol d
lampion, the first Cashmere Goat ever 1
rougbt to Tennessee, »t §1000, to Mr. (
'ry, of Louisiana. Since that time this ^
oitipany have_sold- five _pur<A Jdoods at ^
HOOQ each—one pair of which were sent (
) Dr. Cornett, of Logan county, Ky., and
ne to Mr Davis of. Mecklenburg county; '
Iso a pair to Mr. William E. Douglass,
1 Texas, formerly of this county—amount*
ng in all to §6000. Although Sumner j
s the great stock county of Tennessee, it
my one stock raiser can beat this we
vant him to report.
Attention Battalion ! — We learn
hat our friend John B. Perkins, of Des
Arc, lias recently been elected Major of
Militia. When the Major mounts his 1
high horse, in his regimentals, he will be 1
a caution to his awkward squad. For- :
ward, march I Ilub-a-dub-dub !—[Bales- 1
vijlt Sentinel
-The members of the Unite,1 Presbyte- i
riau Church, in Warren county, Illinois, are ;
in great distress, owing to the fact that one of
their most prominent and seemingly pious,
and hitherto ablest preachers, has ienounced i
Christianity and declared his disbelief in the i
Bibie. This ha; been done in a letter to the j
Prc-hytery, in which he renouncos the Chris
tian ministry, and decluies iiis utter disbelief 1
In «1! the doctrines he has hitherto taught. '
DES ARC cram
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DBS ARC, ARKANSAS ;
SATURDAY,.MAY 12 1860
Democratic Meeting.—The democ
racy of White River township, and adja
cent country, are requested to meet at
Des Arc on Monday next, at 3 o’clock,
P M. A general attendance is requested.
The Charleston Convention.
We had hoped to be able to present our
readers with the entire proceedings of this
Convention, in a supplement, this week ;
but it will now be out of our power to do
so. until our next issue.
The failure of this Convention to nomi
nate a candidate for the Presidency has
created a sensation throughout tire coun
try unprecedented in a political ^oint of
view. The delegates of nine Stales
spurned the insulting proposition that the
South should ‘ sign, seal and deliver”
her equal rights in the Union, and take
Mr. Douglas with his Squatter Sovereign
ty. The States to which we allude, are
Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, and Arkansas. They demand
nothing but what is right, and will accept
of nothing that is wrong.
There is a faint hope that the two Con
ventions which are to assemble at Rich
mond and at Baltimore, in June, will do
something that will- restore harmony
But our object, at present, is to present
the position assumed by the Arkansas dele
gation in withdrawing from the Charles
ton Convention. Maj. T B Flournoy,
was the only man in that delegation who
dissented from the course pursued. The
Major is a Douglasite, 11 dyed in tiie
wool,” and since the adjournment of the
Convention has made a speech in Mem
phis, severely censuring his delegation
and upholding the heineous doctrine ol
Squatter Sovereignty.
Among the “ Protests of the Southern
States, on withdrawing from the Charles
ton Convention,” we find the following
from
ARKANSAS.
Mr. Burrow, of Arkansas, then read
[he following:
Hon. Caleb Cu.-inxo, President op
•Charleston Convention :
The undersigned, delegates accredited by the
State of Arkansas to represent said Democracy
in the Convention of ihe Democracy of til"
United States, assembled on the 23d of April,
1860, beg leave to submit the following pro
test again d certain actions of this Convention,
and a statement of the causes which, in their
opinion, require them to retire from this Con
vention
1st. The Convention of the Democracy of
the State of Arkansas, convened at Little
Rock, on the 2d day of April, 1860, passed,
among other things, the following resolutions,
viz :
1st. Resolved, We, the Democracy of Ar
ia ns as, through our representatives in Con
vention assembled, proclaim our confidence in
he virtue and intelligence of the people, and
inabated faith in the principles of the Demo
:raey.
2d. We re-affirm the political principles
inundated in the Cincinnati platform by the
democracy of the United States, in June, 1856,
.nil assert, as illustrative thereof, that neither
Congress nor a territorial legislature, whether
y direct legislation or by legislation of an
ndirect and unfriendly character, possesses
lie power to annul or impair the constitutional
ights of any citizen of the United States to
ike his slave property into the common ter
itories. and there hold ami enjoy the same,
nd that if experience should at any time
rove the judiciary and executive power do
at possess the means to insure protection to
institutional rights in a Territory, and if the
erritorial government should fail or refuse
■ provide the necessary remedies for that
inwien if *»*ill 1>.» i lv n nP Pnilffi'ACa tn
I • ■ • - --J - - <-»
ipply the deficiency.
3d. That the representatives of the Demo
acy of Arkansas in the Charleston Couven
in, bo instructed to insist upon the recogni
:*n by said Convention of the purpose here
before declared, prior to balloting for any
ndidate for the Presidency; and if said
[invention refuse to recognize the rights of
e South in tho Territories of the United
ates, the representatives of the Democracy
Arkansas be instructed to retire from said
invention, and refuse to aid in the selection
any candidate whomsoever by said Conven
>n.
4th. That the unity of the Democratic party
id the safety of the South demands the adop
iii of the two-thirds rule by the Charleston
[invention of the Democracy of the United
ates. and that our delegates to said Gonven
on be required to insist upon and maintain
.e adoption thereof as an indispensable
icessity.
In accordance with the instructions con
ined in resolution third, one of the undei -
gned had the honor, on the second day of
\c session of this Convention, to oiler to the
msideration of this Convention the following
■solution, viz : *
“ Resolved, That the Convention will not
roeeed to nominate a candidate for the Presi
ency until the platform shall have been
lade.”
Which said resolution was passed by
le Convention with great uuanitmiy.
lubsequently the Committee on Resolu
iOfi5"and Platforms,'appointed by the Con
enlion, in accordance with the usages
nd customs of the Democratic party of
lie United States, agreed upon and re
lorted to this Convention a platform of
>ruicipies recognizing the principle con
ained in the resolutions of the Democracy
T Arkansas, above recited, and fuily as
erting the equal rights of the Southern
hates in the common Territories of the
United States, and the duty of the Fed
eral Government to protect those rights
vhen necsssary, according to the usuages
md customs of the Democracy of the Uui
ed Slates, as developed by the practice of
mid Democracy assembled in convention
in former occasions, and in strict accord
mce, as believed by the undersigned,
vith the compact and agreement made by
ind between the Democrats of the several
'tales, upon which the Conventions of the
Jemocracy of the United States were
igreed first- to be founded, and assented
o by the several Southern States The
eporl and determination of the Committee
>n Platforms became, and was hencefor
vard ihe platform of the Democracy of the 1
United Slates, and this Convention had
no duty to perform in relation thereto, but
to receive, confirm and publish the same,
and cause it to be carried into effect where
ever in the respective States the Demo
cracy were able to enforce their decrees
at the ballot-box.
The undersigned are confirmed in this
opinion by reference not only to the his
tory of the past, which shows that in all
instances the sovereignty of the States, ant,
not the electoral voles of the States, ha9
uniformity been represented in the Com
mittee on Platforms, and that the report
of the committee has invariably been reg
istered as the supreme law of the Demo
cratic party, by uuauimous consent ol the
entire Convention, without changing or in
nny manner altering any part or portion
thereof. It is asserted, 113 a part of our
traditional policy, and confidently believed
that the Democracy of the United States,
by a peculiar system of checks and bal
ances, formed after the fashion of the Fed
eral Government, were contracted and
hound themselves to fully recognize the
sovereignty of the Slates in making the
platform, and the masses of the Stales in
naming the candidate to be placed on the
platform. That many States have been uni
formly allowed to vote the full strength of
their electoral college in these conventions
when it was well known that said States
had nerer heretofore, and propably wouid
never hereafter give a single electoral
vote at the polls to the candidate which
they had so large a share in nominating,
cannot be accounted for on any other prin
ciple than that it was intended only as a
.recognition of the sovereignty and equali
ty of said States.
Would it be right at this time for the
numerical majority to deprive all the Black
Republican States represented on this
floor by their representatives, which by
custom they have so long enjoyed, simply
because it is now evident that Urey are or
will be unable to vote the Democratic
ticket in the next Presidential election?
By common consent we say that a reck
less numerical majority should not thus be
allowed to tread under foot the vested
rights of those States and the well estab
lished usuages and customs of the party.
If thus it he wrong lor the numerical
majority to deprive the Black Republican
States of this long vested right, tiovv much
more unjust is it lor the numerical majority
to deprive all the States of their vested
light to make and declare the platform in
the usual and customary manner ?—and
when we call to mind that the numerical
majority resides chiefly in the Black Re
publican Slates, to wham the South lias
nnifnrmlv accorded so high a privilege, ill
naming candidates who were alone to be
elected by Southern votes, we have much
reason to believe that he to whom you gave
nil inch seems emboldened thereby to de
mand an ell.
The undersigned beg leave to state that
many patriotic Slates’ Rights Democrats
m toe South have long contended that
mete Conventions- of the Democracy, re
presenting in fact the whole consolidated
strength of the Union acting through party
sympathy upon the individual members of
society would ultimate inn despotic,colos
sal centralism, possessed of power to over
ride and destroy, at its will* and pleasure,
the constitutions and reserved rights oi any
and all the States. The South, however,
has heretofore fell safe because 'of the
checks and balances imposed upon - the
machinery of the Conventions. The South
felt that where she retain d an equal
power to write the creed of faith, she could
trust her Northern sisters, with their im
mense populations, to name the candidate;
and all would alike support the creed and
.he candidate.
The undersigned, well knowing the
iiostiliiy of the Northern masses to the
■peculiar institutions’’of the South, and
tailing to mind the relative numbers of
die Northern and Southern States, n-ser;
with confidence that no Southern S'ate in
die Union would ever have assented to
surrender so abjectly and hopelessly, all
their fortuues to the numerical majority
who have just now voted to set aside the
platform, unless by the full assurance that
the Suites were entitled by agreement to
make and establish the creed of laith and
prescribe the rule of action. This viola
tion of plighted faith on the part of the
numerical majority—this violation oi the
well established usage and custom of the
party—drive us to the conclusion that-we
cannot longer safely trust the fortunes of
slaveholding Stales to the chances of the
numerical majority in a Convention,"where
all tiie Black Republicans of the Union,
the immense populations of Massachusetts,
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
other Northern States, are fully repre
sented, on the one side, against the small
populations from ihe slave Stales on Die
other. Had these populations adhered
strictly to the usages and customs of the
party, longer association might have been
practicable; hut annihilation is ^taring us
in tiie face, and we are admonished of
our duly to stand upon our reserved
rights
We declare, therefore, that we believe
our mission to ibis Convention at an end :
1st. Because the numerical majority have
usurped the prerogatives of the States in set
ting aside the platform made by the States and
have thus unsettled the basis of this Conven
tion, and thereby permanently disorganized its
convention. Its decrees, therefore, become
null and void.
2d. Because we were positively "nstructed
by the Democracy of Arkansas to insist on the
recognition of the equal lights of the South in
the common Territories, ami protection in
those rights by the Federal Government, prior
to any nomination of a candidate ; and as this
Convention has refused to recognize the prin
ciples required by tile State ol' Arkansas, in
her popular convention first, and twice subse
quently reasserted by Arkansas, together witli
all her Southern sisters, in the report of
platform to this Convention ; and as we can
not serve two masters, we are first determined
to serve the Lord our God. We cannot bal
lot for any candidate whatsoever.
3d. In retiring, we deny to any person, or
persons, any right whatever to cast hereafter,
in ttiis Convention, either our vote or vote of
Arkansas in any proposition which may, or
can possibly come up for consideration. The
delegates of Arkansas cannot take any part in
placing a sound candidate on an unsound plat
form. because it Would disgrace any s und
Southern man, w ho would consent to stand on
such a platform; and as a Squatter Sover
eignty Platform has been adopted, we believe
good faith and honor requires that the Chief
of Squatter Sovereignty should be placed on
it. We wish no part or lot in such misfor
tune, nor do we believe we can safely linger
under the shade of the upas tree, this day
planted certainly.
J. A. JORDAN,
N. B. BURROW.
VAN H. MANNING.
Mr. B. stated, after reading the paper,
that the gentlemen who had signed repre
sented both wings of the State all its
! public men, its hopes, its character, anr
its fortuned.
Mr Johnson of Arkansas, as Chairman
! of the Arkansas delegation, desned to sa^
1 a single word .to go along with the pap' r j
which had just been read. It was bis oe
sire that that porlion of the Arkansas dele
gation who had concluded to leave the
Convention should have paused until the
delegation could have had a consultation.
Why did he hesitate ? It was because he
conceived the stability of the Union itstn
was involved in the action taken here by
the Southern representatives..
He had been taught from boyhood to
believe that if the Union was to be pre
served at all, it was to be preserved by
the Democratic party as a unit. (Cheers.)
He wished to consult with other Southern
men as to the best course to be pursued —
(cheers)—reserving to himself the right
to decide the question, which he would do
in a few hours. His heart and all the
feelings of his nature were well those
Southern men who had seen proper to
leave the Convention; but at the same ,
time he hesited between itis personal feel- (
jugs and his duty to his own people. If
he could get a good sound Southern man
for President, he would be willing to take
him on this platform. (Cheers )
Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas. I do not (
desire to detain this Convention for a ,
moment. On yesterday evening I stated (
to the Convention that I should come here
this morning and tell them what was my
conclusion and what was the conclusion of
tiie portion of the delegation from Arkan- j
sas which then thought proper to remain
in the Convention. We are now ready t
to take that step which our judgment die- <
tales to be right. In accordance with our j
duty here we wanted time to pause and (
consider calmly with our sister Southern ,
Stales, in mauon lu uie jmuj'ci inuuc iu
be pursued. We have calmly and with 1
deliberation considered the matter, and we (
believe it to be an imperative duty which i
we owe to the South, and we are ready to
take our course.
Now, sir, I desire to appeal to Virginia,
the mother of States and the mother of'
Demoerary, and to ask them whether the
principle contained in the majority report
of tins Convention, signed by seventeen
States, is right or is wrong? Did you
endorse it, or did you not?
• Mr. Smith, of Wisconsin, raised the
question of order, tiiat the gentleman had
no right to make sectional appeals in litis
Convention.
Mr. Johnson. I desire to do no such
tiring 1 do not understand the princi
ples of the majority report to be sectional.
I understand them to be national. But,
Mr. President, I only desire, in behalf of
a portion of the delegates, to say that we
came here with a view to stand by the
principles of our people and of the Union,
and when we have found the Convention
acting in violation of those principles, we
feel ourselves compelled to retire from the
Hall 1 will only remark in conclusion,
that the Vice-President has beun charged
with presenting a protest on the part of a
portion of our delegation.
Mr. Terry, of Arkansas, then read the
following paper to the Convention:
To the Hon. Caleb Cushing, Phesident:
The undersigned delegates from Arkansas,
ask permission to m ike the following state
ment: We have, thus far, abstained from
taking any active part in the measure wh cb
were consummated or yesterday, in this Con
vention by the withdrawal, in whole or in
part, of siveial Southern States. We have
conun-elied our Southern friends to patience
an 1 forebearance; and while we wore con
scious of causes sufficient to induce them to
this step, yet we still hoped sorn-1 mo1' auspi
cious event would transpire that would avert
its necessity. Nothing has occurred to palli
ate these causes. Hence vve cannot cannot
in our course, and therefore ask permis
sion to withdraw and surrender to our S ate
the high trust reposed in ns. To you, sir,
who have with so much ability presided over
our deliberations, and meted out justice with
an even hand, vve part with sorrow. Hoping
that the cloud which now hangs over our be
loved country may bo dispelled, and her coun
sels directed by some statesman like yourself
—able, honest, just and true.
FRANCIS A. TERRY, Vice President,
J. P. JOHNSON, Ch’n of Delegation.
F. W. HOADLEY. Secrotary.
Charleston. May 1. I860.
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KSiF* Mai. T. B. Flournoy, seems to
have been ihe only Douglas man in ihe
Arkansas delegation to the Charleston
Convention. The '* Big Major ” as the
Arkansas boys call him, it seems, has de
nounced the secession of the other dele
gates from the Convention, and we learn,
has threatened to appeal to the “ sover
eign people of their State against their
course” Col. F A. Tf.riiy (also a
delegate) m response to the threat of the
Major publishes the following in the
Charleston Courier.
A CARD.
Charleston Hotel, Ap;;l29 |«6»
Editors Cojjrier:— l notice in your paper
of yesterday, taken from the N Y. Herald,
that ‘- Arkansas ha- three ardent Douglas men
in her Delegation ”
You will pardon me for wishing to correct
this error, as our position may be miscon
strued at home, and we may appeal as having
betrayed our trust. Arkansas has one man,
Maj. Flournoy, who may be willing to see
Mr. Douglas nominated on the Minority Plat
form; but I think I am authorized to say, with
that Platform, our State will support him
neither in nor out of the Convention.
Respectfully, yours.
FRANCIS A TERRY of Arkansas.
Position of California —No one
need he surprised, if at no distant day. all
j that is alluded to in the following para
i graph should he verified, and that before
the “ Monument of Washington,” at that
city, is completed. That will stand, as it
should be, unfinished, when our great Re
public is, as it will be, rent into frag
ments.
According to the Washington corres
pondent oi the Charleston Courier, Sena
tor Latham declared in a speech in the
Senate, on Monday Inst, and his declura
•tion was confirmed by Senntor Gwin, that
i California, in case of a dissolution of the
; Union, or a civil war in the Union, A’ould
! maintain a strict neutrality, and would
1 make the Sierra Nevada her western
I boundary. He anticipated that wars of
a devastating character and long duration
! would occur between tba Northern and
j Southern States, and perhaps wipe out
some of them; and also heavy taxation to
j support annies and navies, &c., from
j which California would bo exempt.
Southern Democratic Convention.
, We give below the closing deliberations
pf this body.
The President (Hon. Mr. Bayard of
Delaware,) having called to the Chair
Mr. Scott, of Alabama, one of the Vice
Presidents, then addressed the Conven
ion for nearly two hours,giving his views
tt length upon the questions which had
ed to the withdrawal Irom the other Con
tention of the delegates now assembled
tere in Convention. He said if he were
t representative ol Alabama, South Caro
ina. Louisiana, Mississippi, or any State
vhose whole delegation had withdrawn,
ic would, with the little confidence he had
n the adjourned Convention, sanction the
•esolution which had been here proposed.
Being in a minority of his delegation, he
elt it due to them and to ins consliuents,
vhotn he did not wish to embarrass by
my notion be might take here, to resign
lis position as presiding officer of this
iody. He should go home, present Ins
easons to his constituents for the action
:e had taken here, he hud no doubt but
le would be sustained
On motion, the present incumbent of
he Chair (Mr. Scott, of Alabama.) was
tnanirnously elected as President.
The President stated the first business
n order to be the consideration of Judge
Ueek’s resolution for an address to the
leople of the whole Union, explanatory
if the reasons and in vindication of the
ction which had led to their separation
rom the other Convention.
After some little discuss'on, Judge
tleek withdrew his resolution.
Mr. Jackson, of Georgia, offered the
ollowing resolution:
Resolved, That the Democratic party of
he United States, who are opposed to the
loctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, and in favor
if the platform of principles recommended
iy a majority of the States in the Charleston
Convention, and unanimously adopteil by the
lelegates of eight withdrawing States, be in
'ited to send delegates to a Convention to be
ield in Richmond, Virginia, on the second
Monday in June j and in order to secure con
cert of action, that the basis of representa
ion be the same as that upon which the
States have been represented in the Charleston
Convention.
Mr. Gaillard, of South Carolina, pro
posed to amend by inserting “Territorial
Sovereignty.”
A delegate said that the masses knew
ivhat "Squatter Sovereignty” meant, but
hev wnnlii not know ivlial “ Territorial
Sovereignty” meant.
Alter various suggestions, Mr. Jackson
finally modified his proposition, so that it
would read:
‘•Resolved, That the Democratic party of
the United States, who are in favor of the
platform of principles recommended by the
majority of the States in the Charleston Con
vention be invired to send delegates to a Con
vention to be held in Richmond on the second
Monday in June next, and that the basis of
representation be the same as that upon which
the States have been represented in the
Charleston Convention.”
On motion of Mr. Carry, of Missis
sippi, the following resolution was adopt
ed :
“Resolved, That the delegates from
South Carolina be requested to publish the
proceedings of this Convention, and to incor
porate them in a pamphlet containing so much
of the proceedings of the Convention from
which this Convention withdrdevv, as ex
plains the causes of oar separation from it.”
On motion, it was resolved that lire
South Carolina delegation be appointed a
committee to make arrangements for tbe
Convention to be held at Richmond.
On motion, it was resolved, that the
thanks of this body be tendered to the
Presiding Officer; the Secretary, for the
discharge of their respective duties; and
to the citizens of Charleston, for the hos
pitalities which has been so kindly ex
tended to the members of the Convention.
A motion being made to adjourn, be
fore it was put,
The President (Mr Scott of Alabama,)
said that it was the easiest thing under
the sun to resolve. They had adopted
resolutions here for their action, and he
hoped they would follow them up by
deeds. (Applause.) He should go to
Ins home in South Alabarnt^and by night
and by day, in time and out of time, he
should labor with his people. He should
carry with him that noble platform con
tained in the speech ol Mr. Yancey by
which to shape his actions. He entreat
ed his countrymen to go to work and
victory would perch upon their banner.
(Applause.)
On motion, tbe Convention then ad
journed to meet at Richmond on the sec
ond Monday in June
Secret Society Among the ^hero
kees. — We learn from good authority,
that between 100 and 150 lull blood Cue
rokee Indians in Flint District, a few
days ago, held a meeting on a high moun
tain, where they could see any approach
from a distance, to initiate a number of
Indians into their secret society. The full
bloods appear to be banded together for
Mime purpose, and many of the half-breed*
are becoming uneasy. This new society
is somewhat on the plan of the Kansas
Aid Society, and perhaps came from that
country. The half-breeds say that John
Jones, son of Evan Jones, is at the head
if it. There is trouble brewing among
liese Indians, and there is no telling
when, and where the first blow will be
. _i. mi. a l _ i:»: _ • * _ . . . ,.i_
M'-Ri liwyi IHUUIOIO IUC Ut WUi H
miong the Clierokees. — [Fort Smith
Times, 26tii ult.
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The Northern Slave Trade.—The New
York Herald states that no less than six ves
-els have left, that port for the African coast,
within the past fortnight, all of which expect
to have negroes for their return cargoes.
Among them was a fine clipper ship and a
fast sailing orig.
-The coinage at the U. S. Branch Mint,
San Francisco, for the week ending 7tli April,
was $170,(100 in double eagles, and $9,000 in
lilvei half dollars There was deposited 18,
976 ounces of gold bullion, and 1,200 ounces
of silver hullion purchased.
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IVE-iA- nniElD:
In Des Aic. on Thursday evening last, at
the residence of G. S. Howell, Esq., by Rev.
Dr. Theo. Sanders. Mr. Rouert Branch to
Miss Mary E. ILazlewood. The cake and
wine, accompanying the above announcement,
was “duly received” and “amply cared for.”
Nails. Nails. Nails.
II'ST received, 32 kegs excellent Nails,
and a lot of Finishing Nails, direct from
the manufactory at Pittsburg, and for sale at
l lie lowest prices for cash, or on the usual
time. J. H. QUISENBERHY.
Also, a lot of Glass, Putty and White Lead
lor sale,
aprU 1- J. 11. QUISENBERRY.
Merchants of Arkansas
WHOLESALE
Wry Goods 1 Clashing
WE ARE NOW IN RECEIPT OF our
large stock of Goods this season, bou»u
by one of our firm 1 i person, in latter
April, at GREATLY REDUCED PUicP?
The Merchants of Arkansas will find u ,
their interest to examine these Goods jn „
ting uji replenishing bills. ’ “et’
We sell no Woods at Retail or t
* onsnniers, 10
But ofler inducements to the trade thst wn
compare with any other market. Partirai
attention paid to filling orders. u ,r
SOUTHWORTH, NANCE & CO
204 Main Street, Mf.mphi,
may 12-ly Hls'
w. C. WEST. „ - '
“• CROW,
W. C. WEST & CO,
DEALERS IN
FAN Y to. STAPLE
DRY GOODS
Clothing. Hardware ’
Qaeeasware,
Roots. Shoes,
Hats, Cap-, &c., &c.
WEST POINT, WHITE CO., ARK
Terms Cash, or to punctual dealers on Ihj 1
usual terms. may 12-tf
T achcr’s Wanted at Hickorv
Plain, J’Tairie County Ark/
WE wish to open a School at the Hick
ory Plain, (Male and Female Institute,'
by the first of August next, and desire to pro.
cure a competent male and female teacher for
that purpose. Teachers desiring situations
will please let us hear from them by letter or
personal interview. We also, wish a music
teacher.
We would say to teacher’s, who may not be
acquainted with the location of our school
that we have a large and well arranged house’
situated in a beautiful and pleasant country]
surrounded by as good society os can be found
in the State.
We have ample arrangments made and be
ing made, to accommodate teachers ami pupils.
Correspondents will please address either
the Secretary or President of the Board of
Trustees, at this place.
JOHN C. DAVIE, President.
A. J. Thomas, Secretary.
Hickory Plain, Ark., May 12, 1860, lm,
Leaves Memphis every Tuesday.
Regular Memphis, White &Llt.
tie Red River Packet
ST. FRANCIS :
W. A. Wilds, Mast--Mat. A. Glass, Clerk.
/l -TTTTh -—I THIS steamer having
SrahLentered tlic above trade, will
run regularly. Leaves Des Arc for Memphis
every Friday at 5 o’clock. For freight or
passage apply on board. may5-tf. '
Notice!
To All Whom it May Concern.
rpHIS is to give Notice that the business
I heretofore carried on in the name of
Wolfe & Scott, will be conducted solely by
the undersigned from this date.
UOBERT SCOTT, "
Dos Arc, Ark., May 1, 1800.—It.
LAND FOR BALE’
TN Conway county, 1000 acres of choice
Point Remove Land, in sections 2, 3. 4,10,
and 11, Township 0 North, Range 17 West,*
bargain ia offered in this tract,
mayo- J. A. MARTIN & BRO.
ROUEltTSCOTT,
HOUSE, SIGN
AND
etjE-.NJA VI3TA STREET,
Des Arc, - - Arkansas,
GLAZING & PAPES HANGING,
SHADE AND Fj V E It Y DESCRIPTION OF
Ornamental Jpamtunj,
DONE ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE AND MOST
REASONABLE TERMS.
npHE subscriber begs leave to inform the
I citizens of Des Arc, and surrounding
country, that he has located here with the
determination of carrying on the above busi
ness in all its various branches, lie hopes by
strict attention, combined with moderate
charges, to meet with a liberal share of their
patronage and support.
lQ^"Ordcrs by post will meet with prompt
attention. mar21-tf.
T. J V» «Oi»SO.\,
ATT ORNEY AT LAW,
lies •Ire,.irkanaas.
VILL practice in the Courts of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit, and the counties
of White, Jackson and Monroe.
“«* All business entrusted to his care will
be promptly attended to. mayv-ly.
iloiint Vernon Mills,
DES ARC, ARK.,
FRITH, BAUGH & CO.,
Proprietors.
rFlHESE Mills are nowin operation, cut*
1 ting lumber of ‘'very description o order.
ALL KINDS OF LUMBER
Will be kept constantly on hand, so that cus
tomers can be accommodated on short notice.
Prices will be found as low. as at any
otmu- mill for choice and clear lumber.
I&T Connected with the above mills is a
No. l, Lath machine. Customers wishing
Laths will be supplied promptly. These
Laths are far superior and cheaper than the
ordinary split Laths.
Attached to the above mills we have
a Gi ist Mill, and will grind com at all . *5;
when there is as much as ten bushels of cor
in the mill. Q ,.,h
ifjf’ Arrangements liafP been made w'
steamboats, to deliver lumber at any P0,a!“ .
White or the Mississippi rivers. apmVj
r>rtosr,ECTTTS
FOR THE
Tri-weekiy True Democrat.
The publishers of the True Democ*at
propose to issue a ‘-tri-weekly edition’’ O'm ,
I paper, in addition to the weekly, and cor^
mence its publication about the first U*l
Of June next,- orsooner, if 1,000subsc
tiers be obtained. u
The great battle of the age is to be
in November next, and it is necessary l
every man in the community should be r
Informed of the movement of the enemy- ,
very existence of the South is at stake,
it becomes every Southron to be up and®01 £
Intending to be firm and decided, Vy ® ..e
and prudent, it will be our aim to defea
rights of the South without bluster or bi.
The times demand increased activity on
part of democrats, and that full and *P .
information should be spread before the P .
lie. This is the first enterpriso of the
in the State—is demanded by the ,ke
of the times, and wo confidently look
j Democracv for its support. tll5
I Terms.— ive dollars a year- , ° j0I
! campaign, say until August 15th, °®ep,v.
! lar,” or till Nov. 15th, "two dollars,
meat expected on the "issue of the “rs
her.” TLe size of the tri-weekly will
by 38 inches, containing 28 columns.
Little Rock, March 30, I860.
Keep ii We fore the Pe0^}
fit HAT at Quisenberry’s new store i''' . (
JL Arc. is the place to find an immep uS,
and great assortment of Earthen, i . u
China and Glassware, at wholesale or ...
cheap, cheap, cheap. af '