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DKS ARC, ARKANSAS:
SATURDAY MORNING MAY 26 1867
THINGS HARD TO UNDER
STAND.
There are some things that happen
every day aud arc -being continually
repeated, that arc hard to understand
to the man who closely watches the ac
tions and listens to -the expressions ol
men. The prevailing idea, expressed
in public and |«rif irtc, is, that the duty
of every man in these times is to en
courage home enterprise, nnd give aid,
so far as possible, to such schemes ns
arc calculated to promote our common
interest, ltut while this poliry is be
ing advocated, a very different system
is adopted and carried out. Various
efforts have been made to build a
school-house in l)cs Arc, lint slguul
failure has characterized every attempt,
for the money required was needed for
other purposes, applied to wliirh, no
benefit neermed to the individual or
country. Or, to illustrate more fully,
ws have in lies Arc two yewspaprrs,
which for respectability and worth,
compare favorably with any in the
State. These papers have labored, and
do labor, for the good of tlie country.
Their interest is the interest of every
citizen of the county; they are home
institutions, nnd yet, bv many, they are
cast aside for the worthless product tons
of the Northern Tress, whose politics
nnd principles sre fashioned 1<o twit the
pockets of their Southern patrons.—
Although we may not possess perfect
facilities for obtaining tlie latest news,
yet our paper Is sufficiently filled with
information based upon truth, to com
pare favorably with any of those north
ern productions which feed the South
ern mind but for their money.
n e began the publication ol the Cit
izen in dark and critical times—it lias
grown with the count tv, assisting and
being assisted. Those controlling It
arc “to tiie inauor born," and it is but
reasonable that they should cry out
against this opposite .preaching and
practice. It it is really the desire to
encourage home enterprise, we ask, is
it consistent to patronize the Metropol
itan Record, and be too poor to take
your county paper? If the object is to
get correct information regarding the
South and her condition, arc wc not
more apt to find the truth at home than
abroad ? is it reasonable to suppose
that news that must travel to Xew
York and then baek'Soutb, will be
news when it readies us? Another
idea connected with this matter is, ev
ery dollar sent north for a copy of this
paper, of which we speak, is forever
gone from our midst—there is no hope
of its returning, and is this the way to
encourage home enterprise?
IVe luivo -hurled out the Record, bc
inltse we believe it to he the most
worthless sheet circulated in the South.
Il> statements are rarely copied by re
spectable Sourthcrii journals, it being
looked upon by them as a mere catch
penny ; and in the city in which it is
published, it Is scarcely known to have
existence. Tills (taper is circulated ex
tensively in this section,patronized and
read by men, many of them who say
t^ioy cannot afford to take the Citizen,
times are so hal’d ; and yet these same
men would say, encourage home enter
prise—keep money in (lie country.—
This is why wc say strange tilings are
happening, and we have practically
spoken of it, believing that upon re
flection, our readers will think with us
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Kay* Letters from all parts of South
Cafoiina, received by Governor Orr.
exhibit a terrible state of suffering
from starvation.
The Bullies at the South.
. Advices from Smith Carolina are to
the efleet that General Nicklos intends
to appoint colored men on the hoards
of registration in that State. Under
the law, nml sanctioned by tiie custom
cf these lattcrdiines, the colored men
may certainly serve. The action, how
ever, is but another evidence of tiie
ax mi's which prevails among the men
who visit the Sogtli, whether clothed
with authority or not, to do everything
in their power to excite the animosity
of the Southern people, instead of
doing uuythiug to gain their esteem
ami promote harmony among them.
I tliA olSirliinot lui el ii'ii in os nml mi
P every available occasion, something is
done which will be obnoxious to the
people, whose good will it should now
be the aim of the conquerors to secure.
it was this same feeling which
prompted Judge Kelly to hurl defi
ance at a whole people because a few
rowdies showed a disposition to create
a disturbance. The tyranny of mobs
is notun unusual thing in this country.
It docs not require a very old head nor
u long residence in this city to remem
ber when so just a man ns Stephen A.
Douglas was prevented from speaking
to the people ut North Market hall.
The deductions from the reports that
come to us concerning the trouble at
Mobile lead to the belief that, at first,
there was no serious apprehension of a
general disturbance, that all the nuthor
ttics and the respectable portion of the
JW i people were peaceably inclined, and
/ sincerely deplore the result. Hut Judge
/ Kelley, instead of uttering one word to
J conciliate an opposition that could not
V -have been unexpected by him at such
/ a time ami place, goaded the populace
to an outbreak, by using an argument
tiiat must have been most obnoxious to
them, the coercion by soldiers.
{sickles and Kelly are not the only
ones who are carrying this rhodomoii
tade and braggudocia to disastrous ex
tremes. Wilson, of Massachusetts,
threatens confiscation, If any other than
the liadicnl candidates arc elected to
Congress from the {southern {states.—
Following the example* of their lead
ers, the military officers, the officials of
the freedtneti's bureau, the United
States marshals, the minor stump ora
tors, and ail tiiOBe who have been sent
South, indulge in similar language,and
* « are following the same inimical course.
■W Is this a way to affiliate the people of
»" the two sections aud reunite them uu
dcr one commou government?—{Chi
^SjJ^ttmes.
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-—The Vicksburg Times says ; Our
sister city of DeSoto, which lias been
so long submerged, is again emerging
from the Hood, the ground is covered
with verdant shrubs and grass haring
made it- appearance in many places.
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No Beet for the South.
From nil report#, there is to be no
rest for the unfortunate States lately
the theater of war. We hail hoped that
the worst was past, and that time nnd
quiet reflection, uidud by the fostering
ear* of the Government, would devel
op new cliannols of business, nnd new
ideas based upon flie altered circum
stances brougnt ab,,:it by tho war. We
thus reasoned beca.se every considera
tion of inter cei, ai'caulty nnd justice,
pointed te ."t e# the rue course'to pur
sue.
Stirh a policy sras Ine 'the 'South and
was implied in the terms of surrender
by which she disarmed herself, and her
gallant sons returned uncomplaining- >
ly to their homes to work out a prob
; lem of stupendous importance not on
ly to themselves but to flic whole pco
I pie.
Her system of labor was overthrown,
production had c-eased, and her -com
merce destroyed, ller moneyed men,
tier m«relumts and laemcrs, were all
bankrupted. War had ravaged the
■conntry- Stock, houses, fences, brend
atsifls, inid even the vine awil orcliard
tell bcireat+i its blighting touch.
Great niuowgst her otiser calamities
; was the loss •ofisor gallant sows. Near
• ly every Iwinsc was stricken. As in
j limns, tiseve was weeping and lamenta
1 lion, for her sons were net- Ihst with
out money or merchaitdisei, or books,
i or farming impUiucnts, or houses, or
• stork, with nothing but bare hands and
j miked lands, they went cheerfully to
; work to reconstruct their fortunes, the
I terms of parole being “Hint they were
i not to be molested, so long as they ob
, served the laws in force on the 1st day j
(of Jnovscy, ISt'd."
• Itut new condition* were imposed.—
• The constitutional amendment abolish
' ing slavery «uust lie adopted by tlie. sev
| ernl Sf:iit*-s, their war debt repudiated,
fhe negro protected by statute, and j
made equal before tire law with the I
white mail. This was all done, nnd
done promptly turd without murmur
ing.
They were then informed that they
might elect delegates t-o Congress,
which »ns also done. The public licnrt
: beat high with hope ns the time for the |
. assembling of Congress approached.— i
j All eyes were turned to it as the last
of the war, and tlie dawning of a new
era in tlie race of lilt1, witli ten millions
of people eager to resume their former
relations with tliu Government and |
demonstrate their earnest devotion to !
the Constitution and laws.
We need not speak of wlmt followed
upon the reassenibNiig of Congress.—
i iw < vm » wuvu m »» ' ns \ia> im
’ day the policy ol' Congress was untbkl
j cd.
I The Constitution, no longer the ehnr
, ter of liberty, liecame a cast ofl'gar
! incut, and in its stead was substituted j
! “the will of the nation" as illustrated
and expounded by Congress.
Two years have uow elapsed since
the bloody drama dosed. Two years j
since the struggle began to infuse’ now
j life into (lie dead avenues of trade, to
j perpetuate a noble civilization upon
new ideas,' to rebuild churches, and
! schools, to plant the vine and orchard,!
! and exalt a people, conquered it is true i
hut proud and self-reliant still. Would
to God we could curtain from view the [
I hideous present and still more hideous
future.
Despair lias done, and is doing, its j
work. Famine revels where plenty
overflowed, and the wolf is still at ev
ery man's door.
Whole districts lire depopulated and
the ticml of desolation holds high car
nival over onv-lmlf at least, of tell
States, and greedily demands an uttdis
,.ijt„.l uuioiru ; utol alas! too soon it
must he lus.
Without food to eat, or seed to plant,
or stock and implements to cultivate
the soil, and without money to buy, in
sulted and outraged and murdered by
those who were lately their slaves; the
i sword of Damocles suspended above
j their heads : the bayonet at their hearts ;
1 a Government that piles up wrong up
on wrong, and offers no word of con
ciliation or kindness, even amid the
j gloom of despair. Sad indeed is tile
, condition of the people of the South.
1 KuimUsaries traverse the country ap
j pealing to the colored masses to assert
| not only llioir equality with the white
| race hut their superiority to it, am\,
j none dare open his mouth in opposi
: lion to the monstrous assumption,
i Confiscation is promised, and the nc
I gro must play his part in the plot to
; rflert it. lfiots must take place, and
j no matter liy whom brought on. lie is
I never wrong hut always right. Or
I ganizatious have been ejected amongst
them pronouncing the penalty of death
against any colored man who may vote
for a Confederate or one of their own
color who was free before the war.—
The states in short are made territo
ries, that they may he converted into
; republican States, ruled by the negro,
] and all who do not wish to be ruled by
hint must ■ret out of the way.
And still they ask the South to re
construct under the Sherman bill.—
Never, never can she do it. She lias a
glorious past. Site will not mar Iter
future by such treachery, such baseness,
notwithstanding Brown of Georgia,
and Orr of South Curoliua. Better, far
I better submit.to confiscation or the
! gibbet, than to such abuse.—[Louisville
| Courier.
Mexico.
AmIII me statements, contradictions
of statements, nml eontrailietions of
contradictions, the attempt to discover
“the situation” tliero is as vain as any
thing Solomon ever denounced as van
ity.
The New York Advertiser lias cudg
eled its brains over (lie problem and ,
produced the following:
“Judging as best we ran, however, i
from tlie mass of conflicting testimony. !
I wo infer that the situation is about as 1
! follows:
MuximiUiun is still defending Quer
i etnro witli near eleven thousund men, |
| having made two or threo ineffectual
attempts to break through the Liberal
lines and escape. Miratnon is alive
and with him, the Mexican consul's re
port of his death having been based uii
ou a camp rumor which followed the
engagement of the. 23d ultimo. Ksco
bedo is beseigiug Qucrctaro with about
35,000 men ; has obtained possession of
a portion of the citv, and will soon oc- j
enpy the whole of it.
ilia/., rc-enforced with the command
formerly stationed near Puebla, is be
sieging the capital with perhaps seven
teen thousand men. Marquez is de
fending it with say thirty-five hundred.
Vera Cruz is receiving supplies from
Havana and New Orleans, and will
hold out until Diaz's army proceeds
| thither from the capital, unless the lin
; perial defouders decide in the Hicau
time to evacuate and take to ship. Jua
rez is still with ids “Cabinet” at San
; l.uis Potosi, waiting for Kscobcdo and
■ Diaz to open the way to Mexico City.
Alvarez has neither deserted the Lin
; ernl cause, nor lias lie bail any idea of
j doing so. So much for to-day ; what1
i the morrow may bring forth remains
to bo seen.'’
-AVc are gratified to state, says |
the Mobile Advertiser, tlial Alabama;
; has renewed and paid the interest on
her foreign debt, partially suspended
during the late war. Funds have been
remitted, through the agency of the j
llunk of Mobile, to meet the State
bonds coupons due abroad In Jimoi
; and July. I
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Loyalty.
* In the davs of old vvc were all taught
that loyally was lore of Country, love
of Union, and obedience to the Union.
This is wlmt wc worc taught constitu
ted lorn Itv. lit was this that determ
ined whether a'mini was loynl cr not.
This was the definition of loyalty in
the davs'of Whigism and Democracy,
All tins Inis been changed. The Sham
Republican J’artv after it came into
power, in IStil, defined loyalty to be
submission to Abraham fLincoln,'Orthe
chosen head of the Government; and
now all this has been changed. The
test of loyalty, is now, that no mail can
be loyal who does not give bis willing
assent to tlie action of a majority of
Congress. In those good old days', we
were also taught that our Constitution
was a written form of Government, and
could not be stretched, pulled and
twisted as if it was nothing nut a piece
of ilulia-rWbtier, as tlicso Sham Repub
licans have been doing with it for the
last six years. With such a set of trai
tors at tlie head of Congress, our duty
is plain. If we love our written Con
stitution, tbs' people must briug them
down from high places, and replace
them with wen who will obey our
'Writtem Ooustitutkm. And yet anoth
er test of loyalty is sow advocated by
the Sham ItepubUcaa presses, and tlint
is, t he enforcement of tire Negro ilullot
lit every Northern State. AU who
oppose this negro ptauk being pvt into
our social uwd political system, are de
nounced as disloyal to theGoveranoent
—that is a majority of Congress. Eve
ry Sham Republican organ in tlie
State bus hoisted the banner of Negro
Equality w the Ilullot for the Negro,
which means the same thing. AVe do
not wish to sec any barking out: we
want these Sham Republicans to stand
square up to tlie murk. As they want
tlie Negro to have tlie ballot, they must
admit him as (Hie of them at their pri
mary meetings.; tiicv must let him
have a voice in forming their ticket;
and they must give him un opportuni
ty to get on the ticket. This then is
now the political issue, and wc aevept
it. AVe will fight it out on this lino,-—
[Warren Journal.
“Mild Confiscation.”
This sweet circumlocution of the great
est infamy ever designed by any political
schemer is Thad .Stevens' own. lie used
it in a letter, published in our telegraph
columns, wherein he assails his colleague,
Wilson, who on his Radical temperance
and abolition spree in A’irginia, promises
iiumimiuu vi luvii ixj'iwcmiumja aim
general amnesty to the inhabitants of We
ry State who shall cloet Radicals and tem
perance fanatics as delegates to their Con
vention. “Who is authorized to travel
over this country and peddle out amnesty?
I would say the most guilty expect pun
ishment and then quietude. Rut first a
mi/il coufitcatum to pay those wlm have
been robbed by disloyal men,” says he
immediately after his recovery from a se
vere illness It seeing that he has con
tracted a new lease with the devil, under
the condition that for the balance of his
life he shall out-devil Lucifer. To intro
duce confiscation into our politics is a
monstrosity. Yet, horrible as it is, men
before him have advocated it in other
countrie-1. Rut, ransack history, rum
mage all the records of mcdia'Val torture,
one will not discover a parallel to ibis
American Radical’s confiscation. It is a
toad in a cream saucer. It reminds us of
the carpet on which the Russian noblemen
are laid when, for an injurious expression
against the Caur, they are treated to the
bastinado. It is a capital sentence, pro
nounced by smiling lips. Eight or ten
years ago, somewhere in Illinois, a juve
nile murderer was to be hung. A stupid
editor of a country paper, who was present
at the execution, entertained his readers
with a description. He spoke of the
newly decorated little carriage in which
the eulprit was brought to the place of
execution ; of the nice dress, nice white
little tap the ladies had prepared for him.
lie could not find the end of all the nice
ties of the execution. Sweet Stevens is a
match fur that nice editorial Iloosier.
The man who in the same breath can
speak of mildness and confiscation, excels
even the admirer of the nice white little
cap. lie should take out a patent on the
invention of mild confiscation. It is
worth millions, and eternal damnation
beside.—[St. Louis Republican.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times attributes, in a great degree, the
settlement of the Luxemburg difficul
ty to Queen Victoria. She wrote to N’u
poleou, and the Journal dc Paris says
that “this letter, impressed with the reli
gious and almost mystic sentiments which
predominate in the Queen's mind, par
ticularly since the death of Prince Albert,
seem* to have made a deep impression on
the Soverign, who amid the struggles of
politics, has never completely repudiated
the philanthropic theories of his youth,
and who, on tie battle-field of Solferino.
covered with the dead and wounded, was
seized with an unspeakble horror of war."
Napoleon replied that if the honor of
France was respected no attempt would
be made by her for tcrritoral aggrandise
ment. The Queen then addressed the
i\ui^ ui i i uRniMj nuu iuv nuiiiu unit*
learned that Russia was not as favorably
disposed as lie anticipated.
-General Ord lias been in our city
since Monday evening, thu guest of Gov
Humphreys. His visit is partly official,
partely social. He was engaged yesterday
in visiting the diffrent public institutions,
in company with tbuir trustees. Ho has
been called upon by and conversed with
many gentlemen who arc here on legal
business from diflreut portious of the
State. All express themselves well
pleased with their iutuview. General
Ord is a soldier and will carry out his in
structions to the letter, hut is doing so in
a manner that has enlisted the very gen
eral co-operation of the people. Thanks
to the wisdom and discretion manifested
by our public officers, to the good common
sense displayed by the people, and to the
firm, yet judicious and generous course
of the department Commander, there will
he no conflict in Mississippi: hut the
work of reconstruction will go steadily on
uutil the provisions of the Military liill
arc complied with, and until our State is
fully represented in the National Coun
cils—when and where only her voice can
he heard, and her influence felt.—[.lack
son Clarion.
-At the moment when the crisis
occasioned by the Luxemburg question
seemed ecrtnin to end In war, an un
derstanding was come to between
Kuglaud, Denmark, Sweden and Hol
land, of n nature to be easily trans
formed into a treaty, and the object of
which was to preserve the integrity of
Holland against ait danger from what
ever quarter it suoiild come: and the
knowledge of this understanding was
not without influence on (he l’uris and
Berlin cahiuet*.
K%»Colijmbits, Georgia, It iu said, will
be the leading mamtf.ioturiug city in the
South next tii)l; as the most of the cotton
factories burned by WILmi at the close
if the war will be rebuilt by that tiuie.
The South aud West.
Tim prospect for a crop of cotton in i
the South, for 1S67, is miserably slim.
Stands cannot be procured, aud it is
probable ilutnmioh oPtlin lands sown
with notion seed ■will ho plowed over
and devoted to corn. ‘Famine isMeach
ing the Southern people a lesson they j
would receive front no oiher teacher, j
That lesson is: Provide bread enough,
and to spare—make it the object, and
cultivate cotton as a sort of incident, a
sort Ofiroceivor for any plethora of la
bor. Offltc latter,itlie prospect is not
near, nor the danger imminent. And
so, if the weather shall not defeat all
the struggles of a lam I siting people
to mako bread, we may calculate upon
a larger yield of corn, the largest, it
may lie, ever known ill the South. CM
the"effect of a corn, wheat and stock
policy to he adopted in the South, a
Northern paper remarks: What does
the WeOt t'liink of that? I.ess cotton
to tie whipped to Europe this vear.
What dors the commercial Nertli think
-ofthat? I-f the South goes into the,
wheat-growing and corn-raising busi
ness more ■extensively than site did
vears ago, what is the West to do with
her surplus peed nets ? A nice ques
tion. Let Thad Stevens answer it.
Sin very is gone. Yes, gone; and nig
gers no longer ■p’laot 'ootTon. They
won't do it. They have been tried, and
since Wilson and Kelly have gone
down South they are less likely to
work now tliau ever. What's the re
sult ? Wldte men will raise owly what
.they cat—they will abandon cotton
and sugar and rice growing, and they
! will become the rivals of the West in
: grain and corn raising. They tviil feed
their surplus to stock, to rattle, hogs,
1 etc., and become rivals—dangerous
competitors—to tire Western produ
| oers. 'lids is what radicalism has ac
■ complisked- Mow does the Wsst like
it? Iiut the whole avcounf is not
j made up. !f cotton is not raised in
the South, the tnx imposed upon it
musteoTOV Aunt some other quarter—
j it must lie levied U[ion something flic
j West either raises or voMsumes* adding
to the burdeu.
tuf- Spain has fallen-tt|ioti anew sys
tem of internal government. A new
! decree embodying what is known as
, the “law of public order,” lias just been
j issued by Narvaer.. The following is a.
■ synopsis of its provisions*
“It distinguishes three states Of soci
the state of war. The local authority
of any town is authorized upon emer
gency to declare either of ttie last two
states. Until tlie normal state recurs,
tlie authority ran at pleasure arrest,
imprison, exile or put to death all per
sons whom it shall judge to he rebels.
“The State of alarm can lie declared
upon suspicion. In the slate of war
every person found in the street is to
be taken as a rebel. If the person be
ing pursued takes refuge in a house all
the inmates of the house arc to Ik* treat
ed ns rebels.”
This is very despicable for Spain, iiut
it is scarcely worse Ilian the system
which prevails ovef nearly a third of
the United States. Ten of our States
are under a "state of alarm," in which
any gentleman ornamented with a pair
of shoulder-straps can “at pleasure ar
rest, imprison, exile or put to death,all
persons whom he shall judge to he reb
els. "
If Spain feels at all lonely ill posses
sion of its superlative tyranny, it ran
tiiul friends, sympathy and co-opera
tion in the republic of the United
States.—[Chicago Times.
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Had C’liol* I’rosI'Kit.—The Jackson
Clarion of Thursday hits the following ar
ticle :
In the present suffering condition of
the Southern people, we regret that we
cannot speak encouragingly of their pros
pects for making crops the present year.
< Iwing to the late frosts the early plant
ings of corn were completely cut down as
to render another beginning necessary.
In some instances entire fieldsjwere plant
ed over; in others, missing places were
supplied by fresh seed, so that this crop
is invariably late or very irregular. We
also here complaints of an insect which is
destroying the young plant. The cotton
prospect is no less promising. It may
brighten, and we hope will, after awhile.
The late-frosts and heavy rains retarded
planting, and consequently this crop is
backward also.
These remarks have refrencc, it will be
understood, to the “uplands.” The river
districts it is known have l*cen submerged,
and their prospects for the most jsirt en
tirely blighted.
It will he an unsafe calculation to es
timate the cotton crop of the present year
at more than one million live hundred
tliousaud bales.
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The Chicago Times says that
one effeef of the strike, already visible,
is to bring to Chicago u great influx ol
mechanics from "other places. I’roba
bly there never were so many mechan
ics in Chicago, of all kinds, as there is
at this time, and the number is rapidly
increasing.
It the strikers bold out, it is more
than probable that every shop will soon
be tilled with new hands. The result
will lie—and sneli a result is nlreiulv
predicted by many well-informed em
ployers and master mechanic*—a gen
eral’ decline of wages, in all mechanical
brunches.
Tlie same result will he perceptible
in St. Louis, in a few days. There are
thousands of working men out of em
ployment at Pittsburg, Louisville,
Wheeling, and other places, where
there is no eight-hour law. They
would gladly accept work, at ten hours
a day at the old prices—in other words
tliev would gladly accept the places
which the eight hour men of our city
have abandoned; and if the move
ment continues a few days longer, they
will do it.
Kkomsii Hkkiikm.—The question of
extending the suffrage in Knglaitd, and
how far, is slill exciting tlie Kuglisli
people. The Xew York Herald's spe-1
rial dated London, 15th, says a numer
ously attended and very imposing
meeting of the reformers of Kngiand
was held in the St. James Hail, Lou
don, to-day. The assemblage was
railed with tlie view of supporting a
proper and well adjusted plan ofhom-e
liold and lodger franchise, and some of
those present were Inclined to accept
wluit ace know as the Cabinet conces
sions on these points. Mr. John liriglit
attended and delivered an address to
tlie assemblage. He argued very for
cibly against the Disraeli hill and Its
amendments, and showed that, In mere
justice to the will of the people, ns ex
pressed at this and other meetings, the ,
Liberal members of the House of Com
mons should reject (he measure alto
gether, by voting against it unanimous
ly at the third reading, and thus com
pel the cabinet to remit the question of
reform to the people at large.
tt-S-Thc editor of the N’atchitochcs
TWliad a conversation with a planter'
of Rapides parish, who expressed him
self dolightod with the Chinese laborers
employed on ]|U place The gentleman
declares that lie never saw men better
tilted fur the cultivation of lands in,
Louisiana, and that bo fbels certain of
mailing good cron.- henceforth.
?
>-Henry S. Foote drew the fol
lowing sombre sketch of himself in a
late speech he delivered In St. Louis:
“A poor unpardoned rebel, humbled
in-spirit, and paralyzed ill all my ener
gies, disfranchised, railed and disre
garded by thousands 'Who oucc pro-1
fessed to bfvc and to fCitpecVma, a for- i
lorn Pariah in toy native land.”
WSS8&8* H WlSHI
% -
: I J
liWiBIMKIMli.
Awarded the highest premium at flic Kxhibi
tion of the
St. Lout* Agricultural and Jtrdmnival
• Fair. 1S1»6,
r\Ws world s Pair, iaixdox,
AT TllK
FRi:\( ll EXPOSITION, PARIS.
Every ItaetiMe Warranted 3 Tears.
(Frort the hiHttioM Sftnteii.)
The Wheeler & WllSViYi Machine, which is
the one best calculated for household work,
uses no shuttles, and makes the Lock Stitch,
alike on both sides of the goods.
(From the Scientific American.)
We use the Wheeler & Wilson, and pro
nounce it without a rival.
Send for Vi re idar.
A SUMNER* CO.,
“(TFelferson St., Memphis, Tcnn., 413 North
•>lh St., St. Lout]', Mo.
my 25, 1 H**7-1 y.
Valuable Farms
TAA A<*■**** ol l<»nd, on Pigeon Roost
I 1/1/ Creek, 20 miles west of Des Arc. Sold
together, or iir tracts to suit purchaser. Gin
House and other improvements.
POI R III XDRED AC RES
IplVE miles north of K1 Paso, in White
county. Partially improved.
TIIRi:i: lll \»RED AC RES
QKVKN miles west of Des Arc—unimproved.
IJ Sold together, or in tracts to suit purcha
ser.
TWO TOWN LOTS
JN Des Are, linen-t Vista street.
tries of Land, in Hell county,
Texas—-improved.
Apply to T. (». Hitler, at Hutlcrs
ville, 20 miles west of Des Are.
T. Gr. Butler.
Butlersville, Ark., May 25, 1807—Cm
BC. H. UAItiNETT,
W4RW8§9 SAI»%.
And General Repairer.
Will repair Old Harness, or make new ones.
Also, repair Saddles. Shop—opposite “riTl
/.K N OFMCR.”
Des Arc. Ark., May 25, 1807—tf
NOTICE.
I SHALL make application at the July term
of the Probate Court of Prairie Couhty.
State of Arkansas, for an order to sell the in
terest of IV. J. Robinson, deceased, in the
W A of N K J and E A of N W Sec. 21, T 2
X, K 5 Weal, to pay the debts of said estate.
A. C. ROBINSON,
my 25, 1807-lt. Adm’r.
NOTICE.
IS hereby given, that I shall apply to the
Probate Com t of Prairie County, in the;
Stale of Arkansas, at a term thereof to be held
at (bp court lions#, in tliptnurn nf llmivn «villu i
on the second Monday in July next, for a de
cree to sell the lands belonging to the estate
of Wm. M. llryles, deceased, for the purpose j
of payiug the debts of said estate.
ASKII PEPKINS,
my 23, lWi7*3l. Adni’r.
THOMAS, GILL & CO.,
HAS JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER
LOT OK
NEW GOODS!
llama. Shoulders and Clear
Bldea, at
THOMAS, GILL & CO’S.
Flour and Freah Corn Meal will
be kept constantly on hand by
THOMAS, GILL & CO.
IOOO lluahola Corn In the Ear,
for sale by
THOMAS, GILL k CO.
Freah (drocerlea of all kinds at
THOMAS, GILL k CO’S.
Allot lier new lot of Cadies Shoea, just
r«ceivcd, by
THOMAS, GILL A CO.
Ory Rooda, Clothing, and No
tion's, of evory description, at
THOMAS, GILL & CO'S.
Persons wishing HOOD Goods, at redneed i
prices, will do well by calling on
Thomattt, dill Ac Co.,
"eiy-l- Dea Arc. Arkansan.
T. J. M titsll.
ATTORN El AND TOVNSKUOR
A.t Law,
D K S A A* r, 4 A’ K A X & 4 S.
in »y 23* i
. 1
WILSON
DRY GOODS 1
Des Arc, J
AftE REC
•s p n i isr a
AXI) ARE JFPKIfTXH FOR SALE,
OF TflE UA’l'i'.S
LADIES’ DR1
Consisting of Bombazines, Moznmbi<jn
Grenadines, Cliamlirays, Ijiwns. I'renc
bfuaifn, Sflctmet, Nausook. ltobiuet, I
American 'Prints, (iloves, flosicry, Ham
Papes, Btid 'Kllilit'oiileYed Collars.
A Wlec'fttlC'Of Xlirtfiiithg Go»fts:; 'CIbt
A cJYl)ICE HE1
MENS’ AND BO
Of all sorts and sizes, and of the fery
Also, a fine assortment of Boots, Sli
Mens, Bovs and Childrens Hats; Brail
Cottimmles, Bed Ticking, etc, *
A very tine article of Pocket and Tti
Pins, and a great variety of all kinds
AM44—4 CiOOD Ij
Having bought out Hoods Wbtl"t tlipy wore
sole, at GREATLY REDUCE® RAT
Substantial* for the Men and Boys-; nice tl
little tricks for the babies.
Accept onr heartfelt thanks for the liberal p
a continuation of the same, and guarantee for
Call and <c*M*ine our Slock, that we may tin
lies Arc, Arkansas, May IB, —If
NOTICE
IS hereby given that 1 will apply at the next
term of the Probate Court of PrairltfCoun
ty a court to be began and holdrn on the 8th
llay of duly neat, for mi order to sell the fol
lowing real estate, belonging to the estate of
Thomas B. Turner, deceased, f..r the purpose
of paving the debts of said estate, to-wit
The S K 1 of N W ) and N K J of 8 V 1 and
y \y 1 of S K Sec. 2NS West. The N W
1 of X K*1 god X K J of 8 W 1 8ec. 2o 2 X 8
West, and the 8 W l of S K ) See. 24 2 X 8
West : nlso. Lots 1 2 ;1 and 4 in Block 10 in
the town of Brownsville.
WM. T. dOXES.
ply 'IS, 1S07-1I.
.1. j. ieiiMiDT,
BOOTMAKER AXD REPAIRER.
Des Are, Arkansas.
I am now prepared to do all kinds of work
in my line. My shop is on Buena Vista
Street, next door to Stalsworth’s Drug Store,
my 2o, 18t»7-ly;
Dissolution.
milK copartnership heretofore existing un
1. tier the name and style of WARNER A
EDWARDS, was dissolved by mutual consent,
on the 2<Hh inft. Wm. M. WARNER has
charge of the settlement of the business of the
firm. Parties indebted to the firm, will come
forward and settle without'delay.
Wm. M. WARNEIt
A. O. KDW \RDS.
Des A^c, Ark., May 22, 1807—iuy2o-lm
I.. l\ KAII.EY, WM M. WAHMIll.
must & wmn,
CASH DEALERS IX
GROCERIES. PROVISIONS,
4
33agging» Rope,
Wocden and Wilbw Ware,
Tableware, ’Tinware,
Hardware, Stoneware, Etc.,
Dos Arc, Arkansas.
We feel grateful to our mnny friends for
the liberal patronage received since our com
mencement in Des Are, and want no better
reference to give new customers, thau those
who have trierl us.
We will make liberal c^b advances on cot
tou for sUipiuent, or store.
A fair barter of goods for any kind of
country produce. novl7-0m
KonT. S. ANDERSON, WM. J. THOMPSON,
Jiick'onport, Ark. AnyuMtot Ark.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Ark.
Wit!, attend the Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to specinl
eases in any section of the State, Address
either office. wayl8-ly
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
ON Sutni’duy, the Amt day of
June ns-xt, (18*T,) at the late resi
dence of Dr. J. J. Lane, dee d, in the town of
Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas, I shall
sell all the personal property belonging to the
Estate of the said J. J. Lane, dec’d, consisting
in part of one horse and saddle, one cow and
calf, one silver watch, one lot medical aud
other books, one pair medical saddlebags,
surgical instruments, Ac., Ac.
Tkiimh—All sums over five dollars, a credit
till 1st January, 18C.8, will be given ; under
that, amount, cash.
JAMES W. BURNEY, Adrnr.
Des Arc, May 18, 1807—tda
DISSOLUTION.
T1IE copartnership heretofore existing be
tween D. B. Johnson and A. K. Nruon.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and
D. 11. Johnson will settle up the business of
ihe firm. D. B. JOHNSON.
A. V. NELSON.
Hickory Plain, May Utk, 1807-may 18-4t
COTTON SCRAPERS.
JCST reecired, ft lot of Avery'* Im
proved M*«l Cotton Scrap? i-m.
Those in need of ihe article, should nee them
before purchasing elsewhere, for sale cheap
by
&p27- STEWART, 0.WYNNE ft CO.
Trustee’s Sale.
HY Virtue of u certain deed of trust execu
ted to me by William 11. Sanders, to sc- !
cure certain debts therein mentioned, which
deed of trust has been duly acknowledged and
recorded, in Record Hook l!, Pages 18«1 and *
184, 1 will, as Trustee, on Saturday, the 1st
I - -w rtf tn»J IWl!' call f-^. tatllR lliffltltat
bidder, within the legal hours for rales, at the
residence of W. 11. Sauders. iu Center Tuwn
.bin, In 1‘rulrle t'uuuiy, lltbiiruperiy oun*sy«d
in said Trust, lu w)l; | |Ivr«« I 1 Vok? ’
ufO\riii I SltipElv Q% ; S Cow* anil
ftlhrs; 1 llelfer ; and (l?ad
uf Stock lltuik.
1’he tiilo (a ills Itburo propurly is he\iov«d .
I* he guod. but l will (jftnrey as Trusteeftujy, I
VYlU.lt NICHOLS, Trustee. >
mny I, 18t<7 It, ♦
]_
THIS!!
2©©©k»- ]
IERCHANTS,
Lrli^nBaS*
gipt of their
KJ K,
iESIl SlCI^(-n I0X
n and dotted ? • i
Elite in Iremlj
y (ksferiptlon, TiliKftt.
»•! ttoHnoniK etc.
F
TS) ~\ING-,
f '-.^election ‘6f
b!e.. vr
jf XotiotlU v ^
»T TRl VliS.
it their lowest stage, *e now <£ &
BS. . v , / /
lugs for the Ladies add Mis# Jp* of [
itronnge hereto rxtetided Us, sftTwc hog for
every dollar inverted, to give vhlue received,
ike good our assertions.
'Wilson A; Ooolc.
GEO. K. MORTON
—AND—
SOLICITOR IX (TIAXCERY,
OKS Attf, AHKA^dA*.
Win, practice in the State and Federal
Court* of Arkansas. may11
DISSOLUTION.
THE copartnership heretofore existing un
der the firm style of Isaac Wickkksiiam
& Co., wn.s-this day dissolved by mutual con
sent. Mr. Isaac Wicker-ham becomes sole
wjm IV t V4 , <111 I iivrlllllv* 4111 1 iftllllll I* — SUIU
firm, ISAAC WICKKUSIIAM.
JAMES T. HAII.EV.
JAMES WICKKUSIIAM.
Crtflon I’IjuI, Ark., April 10, lS07.-mayl 1
DR. J. L. XEEL,
PST*I0!A1T, SUPG30IT,
OIISTCTUU'I AN,
II K S A R C, ARKANSAS.
OFFERS his professional services fo flic
citucns of Des Arc and surrounding
country. Omn:—At Johnson & Davis’ Drug
Store. mayll-tf
\(>Tin:.
fTIHF. partnership heretofore existing be
*!_ tween Dr. l. \\»: and Dr. J. \V. IJru
xkv, was, on the lIUi day of April, 18(17, dis- i
solved, bv the death of Dr. J. J. Lane. All
persons indebted to said firm, will please
come forward and settle: nnd all having
claims against the linn, will present them lor
settlement to
J. \Y. lU'KNKY. Surviving Partner,
of the firm of 1. \nk & Deuney.
Dos Arc, Ark.. April i!«>. 18K7,—dm
TO (O.tSUJIPTlVES.
rpifK advertiser, having been restored] to
L health in a tow weeks by a very simple
remedy, after having suffered for several
years with a severe lung alFcctiou, and that
dread disease Consumption—is anxious to
make known to his fellow-sufferers the means
of cure. *
To all who desire if, lie will send a copy of
the prescription used (free irt* charge), with
the ‘directions for preparing and n ing tlio
same, which they will find a sere cehk for
Consumption, Asthma, Ukoxcimtis, Coughs,
Conns, and all Throat and Lung Affections.—
The ouly object of the advertiser in sending
tlio Prescription is to benefit tlio afflicted, and
spread information which he conceives to be
invaluable, and he hopes every sufferor will
try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing,
and may prove a blessing. Parties wishing
tha prescription, tree, by return mail, will
please address
UKV. ElitfAItt) A. WILSON.
Williamsburg, Kings Co., New York.
ERRORS OF YOl Til.
AGKNTLKMAN who suffered for years
from Nervous Debility. Premature De
cay, and all the effects of youthful indiscretion,
will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it., the recipe and direc
tions for making the simple remedy by which
111* IT'IK StlllFl>rol>d U-l.llIMn I. I.ttnfit I...
«l»© advertiser’s experience, can do so by ad
dressing. in perfect confidence,
JOHN 15. OGDKN, 111 Cellar Street,
mayll-ly New York.
t. N. HKIXJ 1‘KTII, 8. X. JACKSON.
HEDGPETH & JACKSON,
HOMESTEAD
LAND AGENTS,
Des Arc, Arliansas.
Wiu, enter Lands under the provisions of
lie Act of Congress, May 21, 1802, entitled
•An act to secure ^Homesteads to actual sel
ler* on the public domain.” up27
MTTLHET *. HARRIS,
l DUSE, SIGN,
— \jrt»—
ORNAMENTAL
PAINTING.
Glazing and Paper Hanging,
JJevnli’ai niuff, Ark.
apr!3-2m
A. I.. Ilo«\jamin,
Scenic, £ip,
Cartage and Qrnaiuentui
PAINTER.
HAVING permanently located in Ucs Are. ;
would inform the citizens of lea Around
iciuity, that he is ready to do any kiud
rork in-his line on short notice. Orders
Signs, from a distance, promptly attended
Des Arc, Ark., April 0, lKb7.
AMKS h. iattekson, lvciax c. «Al .\
Iuyuita, Ark, Jttrktonjtort, At.»
SIliNKY S. GAt'btf.
Patterson, Guuso A Bra.,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jaektt»npor« and Augusta. Arkansan,
\Y I Mi in iho Couptica of Wandrufl,
ac^sup, |ndv|icpiiet\?e, White, L^Wfenee,
lundolpli, Grten- Vriophead and Cross, ami
fund to special cases in any part of the
date. Address ci*her office my 18-1 y
>.'vv''A\ ■
P \ m
*Htr ok
AT 9
(., L, CROSS’VKI
PINE ART GALLERY,
Situated on Buena Vista St.,
ft# §11, §ili»nsas.
Where Pictures of all kinds arc made,
from small niihiaftfrc tb fife size I’ho- #
itographs, and colored with Indelible
Ink, Oil, or Water Color*. All work
I warranted perfect and durable.
The subscriber herein lias spared no pains,
or expense in making this GAM.ERY fat sur
pass any in this Territory, and having bad
\n experience of many years in the business
Picture making, with the aid of a perfect
#- '• nparatus, feels confident that he eatt
set of A> iu PRICES or Ql'Al.lTYi
defy COmfietn.. 2. ‘ A
£mi§»§> V.
Haring reduced my prices, it places lStfurc*..
.within the reach of every man woman and
child.
Just fifty cents is nil the e.xp**jje,
Of a Picture made of your face
And for double that sum, ifyou quickly conic
Will he iuudo and put in a <_'ase. * ’
Don’t delay this opportunity, for you may
never have so good a chance again. It takes
but a little time and expense to get a
F3F.F33T FISTtRS
Of yourself or friends, ami you never wilt rs^
gret it. “Remember the old must die, atul
the young may die.” So
“Secure the shadow,
‘ .. 1 .
i.t'l art copy that
Which nature made." '
Photographs of ('apt. Rayburn, a»d views
of the t<wu for sale at the (iallery.
I shall UeFJ* constantly ou hand a largo
stuck of
a i. nr ms,
ERASES,
AM) CASES, »
A?j*1 atl articles usually %kopt iu a first
GALLKUY.
I will also furnish Country Artists with
Ambrotvpe «ud Photographic Goods, Appa
ratus, Chemicals, etc., at Memphis prices.
Pictures taken iu all kinl* of weather.
Old Pictures coptcd#»ind made new and life
like*
Please give me a call.
L. L. CROSS, Proprietor.
Des Arc, Ark., April #, 1807.
DUYGOOJD8 '
—AT—
M v,
• •
Jliwingr recently parih^cd MVI.tircu A
& Havley’s
«
ENTIRE STOCK
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Etc.
WK OFFER IT AT
"VVlioelsalo l*rices
Fur the »cxt
Thirty Days,
In Older to make room for the large
stork ol SlUilXG GOODS now on the
way. We say to the farming commu
nity, if .you want a bargain now is
your time. We solicit an examination
of our whole stork, consisting of
GROCERIES, DRV GOODS,
BOOTS AMD SHOES,
FARMIMG
STOV ES AMD
Give
we try
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