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Groceries and Provisions.
AI.SO
Receiving ami forwardikr
merchants,
Dea Arc, Arkansas.
'pIIE highest market price paid for Wheat,
Hides, and all country produce.
feg=“ Agents for the sale of Monuments,
"ubslones and every description of Stone
WARNER & EDWARDS.
es Arc, February 28, 18ti0 —Otu
BLAKENEY X STALLWORTH,
"Vv7" holesale
AND
RETAIL GROCERS,
Commission Merchant?,
GENERAL AGENTS, &€.,
bins A VISTA STEUKT,
Des Ai'c, Arkansas.
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR STOCK
of GROCERIES, direct from New
Orleans and St. Louis, and will sell at the
lowest cash price, and buy country produce of
every kind. mar8
BE. SHELTER.
BLACKSMITH
AND
i WAGON MAKER,
TTAVING FITTED UP MY
IT. shop, I can now bo found at •]”
| (lie old stand, ready to do allZSS2&&
I kinds of work in my line. Those having
I REAOtSMITIIING OR WAGON
WORK TO BE BONE,
; Can he assured that I can, and will do it in
I the best possible manner. mar8
BBS. I,ANE & BURNEY,
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jfflsitknt fhpictutts
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P US 4M»4ft8&?r§&&
OFFER their services to the citizens and
vicinity, in the various branches of their
professions. Office at Burney & Bro's Drug
Store. mar8-ly
iiiGTG: l & ca,
Des Arc. Ark.,
DEALERS IH
STAPLE and FANCY
DRY GOODS,
Ready-Made Clothing, Hats,
CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES,
Ilaitlxvare, Hollow Waie,
Qiieenpwafe, Ac.
\ LSO, KEEP A FULL SUPPLY OF Fam~
A ily Groceries and PLANTATION
SUPPLIES constantly on hand.
Y. ill pay i.ho highest market price fur Cot
ton, Dry Hides and Produce of ail kinds.
" L. L. CROSS’
ROOMS,
f trail's fluff, gutotsas.
A Variety of PHOTOGRAPHIC
VIEWS acid AJL.BS' MS always
Isund• fuioQQ
nuw Q-tf __L- L- C110SS:„
"TOM'S SALOON,
DEVALL’S ELUEF, ARK.
WFO WANTS A GOOD DSJNK 01‘
FINE LIQUOR!! “
now behind the counter of tne
best saloon
In the place, ready to hand out to all desiring
it, the Finest Liquors that the market affor-s.
No humbug! Clive Tom a call, and if you
love good tilings, you will be sati^iet •
marl7-3m FRANK GALLAGHER.
HOME WITHOUT A MOTHER.
Chat ia home without a mother—
C hat are all the joys we meet,
Chen her loving smiles no longer
Greet the coming of our feet'!
The days seem long, the nights are dreary,
And time rolls slowly on;
And 0, how few are childhood’s pleasures
Chen her gentle cares ifre gone.
TL;ngg we prize are first to vanish—
Hearts wo love to pass away.
And how soon e'en in our childhood
C’e behold her turning grey ;
Her eyes grow dim, her stops are slower,
Her joys of dirth are passed,
And sometimes ere we learn to know her,
Fhe has breathed on earth her last.
Older hearts may have their sorrows—
Grief that quickly dies away,
Cut a mother lost in childhood
Grieves the heart from day to day,
We miss her kind, her willing hand,
Her fond and earliest care,
And 0 ! how dark is life around us—
| Wh&i Is home without her there ?
—— -♦«*>»
I For the Des Arc Citizen.]
CREDIT SYSTEM.
i Some one lias said ‘custom is second
nature,’ and we believe the saying is cor
rect, Few things are more difficult than
to quit off or abandon custom—or if you
prefer it, we we will call it use or habit—
something that insjdudcsly, but gradually
and imperceptibly steals upon us, and
fastens itself in the very ligaments of life.
Reason sits quiescent, while fancy and
passion impel us on, in the broad and fre
quented road of custom. The credit sys
tem that has prevailed to such an alarming
extent throughout the country, is certainly
a very had custom, if we may judge of a
thing from its results: it is needless for us
to instance facts, or point to isolated cases,
in demonstration of tlie evils of the credit
system ; every man, at least every business
man, is a competent witness to the feet.
But like most other evils, it has its advo
cates and defenders. The drunkard has
his reasons for drinking. The card player
his private right of judgment. The to
bacco cliewer and smoker, have the privi
lege of their defence; their plea is, that
others do the same, and even more than
they. But the credit system is a two fold I
evil, it materially injures the creditor and
debtor, both parties are damaged by the
operation, and the farther it is indulged
the worse it becomes. vIt lays the founda
tion in many instances, for fraud and false
hood, for heavy fees to magistrates", con
stables and lawyers, and worse than all, it
destroys confidence. The term “broken
merchant” has become a by word, even a j
taunt, but how comes it in most instances?
Simply because the merchant is too indul
gent, too kindly disposed to refuse credit j
to his customers or patrons; he credits out
his goods to Tom, Dick and Harry, and
when pay day comes, these redoubtable
patrons don't dance to the merchants tune,
they fail to come to time, the merchant is
pressed, and his paper passes under protest,
his business is suspended, he seeks the last
alternative—the only remedy—in a legal
process, but finds the lands, chattels and
goods of his creditors covered with deeds
of trust, mortgages and other incumbran
ces ; and here iS a “broken merchant”
without means, friends or sympathy. Has
he a family that look to him for bread?
Has he children that need to be educated?
Are they in rags? while the children of
! his creditors, like tho rich man, are faring
I sumptuously every day; and do you tell
i me this is right? that it is moral honesty?
And yet we every day witness similar re
sults, the fruit of the credit system. And 1
does any man believe that such things
would happen, under a strict and rigid
cash system? Under it wo might move on '
more slowly, butccrtainly more safely and 1
surely. There certainly is a species of ’
dishonesty, in too many cases, lurking in 1
this thing called credit. It has a tendency 1
in, and of itself, to make men unreliable; 1
and therefore, it is a bad system among ^
business men. But some tell us there are 8
instances wherein it is justifiable, to-wit: 1
gome are honestly and earnestly striving 1
to resuscitate themselves in the way of *
means, by planting crops; and in order to ’
do this, they must have meat, bread, mules *
and implements, with which to operate; v
and not having money to pay these things, *
(till the crop is made, matured, and put ’
into market,) they must buy/ on a credit,
or they can’t proceed in their faming
operations. We grant that in such eases, f,
there is some necessity for the credit sys-U
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exist long It is simply an exception to
the general proposition, that the credit
system is practically a social evil, and c
should be dispensed with as soon as practi- a
cable. Suppose that the people of Arkan- c
Has should after the present year, adopt the n
sash system, and rigidly adhere to it for n
five years? Who cannot anticipate a state
jf things such as has never been witnessed t
in this country? We would then have c
prosperity upon a solid basis, such as g
would stand the fluctuations and crashes, e
?o common among a people accustomed to a
the credit system. One-of the heaviest [
burdens the South now bear ', is the old ii
lebts created before, and about the com- o
mencement of the w»r. How much better ! t
would it be for us now, bad we proceeded
ipon the cash system before the war. a
TO BE CONTINUED. i:
What it Costs to Govern England, f
The civil service, army and navy esti - ^
nates for the coming year, now before the
British Parliament, amount to £32,483,- j.
153, or $102,415,705, divided as follows: ^
Jivil service, £8,000,000; army, £14,095,- j
)00; navy, £10,388,153, Some of the j,
terns of these accounts are interesting. s
The palaces cost £ !9,000, and £99,000 ^
nore go for the adornment of the royal ^
carks. .£50,000 are set apart for the erec- t
ion of a building to contain the natural
listory collections of the British Museum,
>nd a similar amount for the purchase of a
site for the enlargement of the National
jallery. The “ Poor Law Commissions ’’
>f England, Irelund and Scotland entail
in expense of £2 i 2,000; and the “Secret j
Service” demands £32.000. Printing and
stationery cost £357,000, and the postage i.
IaH-avo u n flftvtrii'O in ♦ hr. .In
jartmente is .£138,000. Education costs ■
£1,800,000, and the number of scholars is j
jstimated at a million. The colonial rulers (
receive r-100<000, and nearly £50,000 go !
for the support and conveyance of captured \,
negroes and liberated Africans,. and the j
salaries of the Mixed Commission estab- j
lislied under treaties with foreign powers j
for suppressing the traffic in slaves, besides |
the expense incurred in maintaining ships
for this purpose.
The army consists of 138,118 men of
all ranks, divided as follows: Regiments,
128,212; depots in the United Kingdom
of regiments in India, 8,983; general j
staff, 93 ; establishments, 548; education-j
al establishments, 281. Of the total, 7,- j
158 are officers; 18,454 non-commissioned I
officers, and 117,513 rank and file. The !
military service in Canada costs £608,000; j
in Nova Scotia, £193,000.
The navy comprises 765 vessels of al! J
classes, of which only 193 arc in com mis-j
-ion, carrying 3,936 guns. Sixteen ships j
carry from 70 to 104 guns each; and the '
iron-clad fleet numbers eleven vessels, car- ,
rying 216 guns. Twenty-eight war ves- ;
sels are building, one of which is an iron- j ]
clad. Both the aggregate of naval vessels ‘
and of commissioned ships is less than j
those of last year.
The British navy costs more than the s
American, according to the respective epti- t
mates for the year 1866 7. The former is j u
kept up at a cost of $50,000,000; the lat-11
ter for §43,000,000. The cost of the!c
British navy is about double that of our j
present establishment, the figures being as { ^
follows: British, §70,000,000; American, I»,
?o9,UU0,UUU.-1 JNew i oric evening,«
Post. ' |n
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A Severe Ivetort.—The National j h
intelligencer thus replies to a recent d
•barge made by John V/”. Forney, of the a
kVashington Chronicle:
Had we a petition for the pardon of j k
lolm C. Breckinridge in our office, as inti-; js
nated in an article published in the w
Ihroniele yesterday, we should certainly ' •
ose no time in waiting upon the editor of 1
hat paper to solicit the weight of his J"
aighty name in his behalf We can
avdly be induced to believe—notwitb
Landing the past history of the editor of m
lie Chronicle proves his forte to be the **
etrayal of his friends—that he would in C(
iiis instance, be guilty of the blackest
igratitude in refusing to sign a petition j w
>r one whose aid be implored, and who :
as instrumental in elevating this “ fete- ot
in politician ” to the/1 bad eminence ” he j <■-,
as attained ft- Secretary of the Senate of to
le United States.
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-“Your purse, Tom,”, said an indulgent Ai
ther to Lis spendthrift son, “reminds me of j al
thunder cloud.” How so. father?” “Be- j F<:
, i=o it is always liglifniiie.”
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THE PULSE.
The action of the pulse will no doubt he
f much interest to our readers. It prob
bly is not known to many that the pulse
f a female exceeds in frequency that of a
lale from ten to fourteen heats per min
te.
Many circumstances influence its ae
on, such as muscular oxertiou, mental ;
seite.ment, the stato of the digestive or
ans, and the position of the body, wheth- 1
r lying, sitting or standing. Muscular
ation and mental excitement, as also the j
rocess of digestion, naturally increase it,
being much quicker during the process
f digestion than when digestion is not
iking place.
In healthy males, from 25 to 30 years of i
30, the average of the pulse per minute, t
I a standing position, it is from 79 to 81;
tting, from 79 to 91, and lying down, 1
:om 66 to 67-—making a difference of
•om nine to ten boats between standing .
nd sitting, from four to five between sit
ng and lying, and from thirteen to four
;cn beats between standing and lying.
II healthy females, of the same age, it will
e found to be from 82 to 91, standing,
1 to 82 sitting, and 80 to 81 lying. This
aviation in the different positions is pro
uccd by the muscular action induced by
lie change of position.
At the different periods of the day the
ulse varies, as, for instance, in a healthy
erson it is most frequent in the morning,
nd gradually decreases toward evening,
ifter excitement, the diminution is grent
r and more regular in the evening than
a the morning. Food lias the same effect
n it as these periods, for, in many in
tances, the same food that will increase its
mount and duration in the morning, will,
_• .. 1. . —i..
luring the hours of sleep there is a great
:r diminution.
Tire following table will show its vr •>?.
.ions at different periods of life, being I
greater in childhood than in old age, and
gradually diminishing as we grow older:
Beats per minute,
flewly born infant, 380 to 140
During the Crst:ye:u', 310 to 180
During the second year, 300 to 315
During the third year, 00 to 100
At the seventh ycai, 85 to 00
Age of puberty, 80 to 86
Manhood, 70 to 80
Old age, 50 to 05
IIow Meat is Made Unwholesome.—A
statement lias been made to the New York
Board of Health in reference to a practice
which is not. only shocking, but also notorious
—that of bringing calves and sheep to market
with their feet tied and loaded upon carts
tnd wagons in such a manner that they become
fearfully swollen and shamefully mutilated,
iftcr which treatment they are slaughtered and
jffered for sale. He says that by this means
he flesh bocomes inflamed and unwholesome,
laid wo doubt not the community fully agree,
with him. The same writer complains, also,
if the habit .of “blowing meat.” He charges
mtchers with “inserting a tube into the fatty
iarts of slaughtered auiutals and blowing
iioinout full,” often with the fcctin breath of
len who are impregnated with whiskey and 1
obacco, so that the meat is contaminated and >
etidered unhealthy. He further says that i
ueh meat in warm weather is more readily
tinted, and offers that fact in evidence of its 1
nwholesomenjess Ho preys die Board, if it <
as the power, to remedy the evils of which he
imiplains.'i
i
Tnn Wife.—It needs no guilt to break a bus- ,
end's heart,; the absence of content, the j
ulterings of spleen, the untidy dress, cheer- j
homo, forbidding scowl, without a smile
,1. . 1. 1...1 i „ i __
.'art’s core of many a man, and planted there 1
;yond the reach of cure, the germ of dark *
:spair. Oh! may woman, before the sight 1
•rives, dwell on the recollections of her youth, '
ul cherish the dear idea ofthat tuneful time,
vaken and keep alive the promise she so \
ndly gave. And (hough she may be the in- c
red ono;the forgotten, not the forgetting v
ife; a happy allusion to the hour of peaceful f
ve, a kindly welcome to a comforiable homo, 1
smile of love to banish hostile words, a kiss a
peace to pardon the past; and the hardest s
:art that ever locked itself within the breast f
selfish man, will soften to her charms, and
d her live as she had lived, her years of
atchless bliss, love, loving and coment, the ,1
uree of comfort and the spring of joy.—
lliamber’s Journal.
-The New York Po3t’s special says the r
ayB and Means Committee will soon report f,
new tax hill in favor of five cents per pound r
cotton and five per cent, on all incomes, ^
tending the exemption clause in the latt’er
$1,000. ]
-We understand that there are 'now rogu- I
• mails carried to Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, r
kaaelpliia and Washington, Ark. We have 1
;o a mail quite frequently between this plac'
rt Smith a»o all way landings, cur"' J’ I
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-Transported for life—tho man who
unrries happily.
-The man who “took the floor” has been
ir res ted for stealing lumber.
-“Bid yon say that my brother Jim did’nt
tnow a • much as Smith’s yellow dog? “No;
said that Smith’s yellow dog know more than
rour brother Jim.”
—^“How late is it?” “Look at tho boss
ind see if lie’s drunk yet. if lie isn’t it can’t
io very much after eleven.” “Boes ho keep
mod time?” “SplendidI they regulate the
own clock by his nose.” . -
-An advert moment jo a Philidelpkin
taper read as follows:—
--“Stolen a watch worth a hondred dol
ors. If tho thief will return it, he shall bo
nformed, gratis, whore ho may steal one worth
wo of it, and no questions Asked.”
-Mrs. Smith, hearing strange sounds,
tiquired of her new servant if she snored in
icr sleep.
“I don't know, inarm,” replied Beckoy, quite
nnocently,” 1 never lays awake long enough
o discover,
—%-They manage things funnily in Califor
lia—military funerals for instance' Aftor
jurying the deceased lmsfoaud, the band comes
jack and serenades tho widow.
-Little three year old Jennie was playing
rery roughly with tho kitten earring it by the
ail. Her mother told her that she would
lurt pussy. “Why, no I won’t,” said she;
‘I’m oarrying it by the handle?”
-If the Atlantic telegraph were success
ful, bow could intelligence through so salt a
ihannel be fresh ? '
•-“Pin attached to you, and yet I wish
uyself away,” as the overloaded donkey said
o the cart.
-It is right to take pains, but wrong to
jreak windows.
-Put a terrier into a room with rats and
re will make a dead set at them, and a dead
set of them.
-A now mode of dispersing a mob lias
I'Oen discovered—said to supercede the neces
sity of a military forco. It is to pass round a
contribution box.
-“May I leave r>. few tracts?” asked a
medioak missionary of a lady, wlio responded
to his knock. “Leave some tracks—certainly
you may,” said she, looking at him most benig
nly over her specs: “leave them with the liecl*
towards the house, if you please.”
-Twenty-two men have died during the
year over TOO years old, aud the same number
of females. A slave woman in Virginia attain
ed the age of 127 ; another in Louisiana 124,
aud one 120.
--An Irishman, in the time of revivals,
had joined the Church. Sometime afterwards,
a piously-inclined person was exhorting him
on the subject of religion, when Paddy indig
nately answered: ‘ Sure, an’ didn’t I jine the
Methodist? Faith, an’I did. I joined for six
months, an behaved so well they let me off
tvillx three.”
-Some papor says that we should only
dect'‘tried men’ to office; to which the Albany
Knickerbocker replies, ‘that is being done in
•his county. One of the candidates for the
Assembly has been tried’ four times—throe
Lute for swindling, and once for bigamy.’
-“Fred,” the pvince of wags, was getting
tome rather late, and a little happy; when
lassing by a dark alley, a large, two-fisted
allow stepped out, seized him by the collar,
.ml demanded his money, “Money! said
''red, “money, I have none; but if you will
told on a moment, I will give you my note at
bitty days.”
-A tailor while traveling on the lakes,
ras lately asked by a Yankee wliefe he lived,
nd what his bui-mess was &c.f to which he
eplicd, that he lived in Toledo, and that his
irofession was “sitting on tho right side of
loverly, ami jerking out tbocords ox affliction.”
——Two gentlemen were lately examining
he breast of a plough, on a stall in a market
lace. “I’ll bet you a crown,” said one, “you
on’t know what il is for,” “Done,” said the
(her, “it is for sale.” The bet was paid.
-A humorous fellow, subjoined as a
fitness on a trial for an assault, one of the
oynsel, who was notorious for brow-beating
fitnesses, ashed him what distance he was
•om the parties when the assault happened,
fe answered ; “Just four feet five inches and
half?” “How came you to bo so exact?”
lid tho counsel. “Because I expected some
>ol or other would ask me, and I measured it.”
A Noble Sentiment.—Some true heart has
iven expression to its generous nature, in
:e following beautiful, noble sentiment:
Never desert a friend, when enemies gather
round him—when sickness falls on the heart,
-when the wo'/.j j3 ,iark and cheerless—is
le time to *',.y a true friend. They who turm
•om th e gcene of distress bet ray, their hvpoc
, and prove that interest only moves them,
f you have a friend who loves you aiid studies,
our interest and happiness, be sure to sustain
ini in adversity. L et him feel that his former
induesa is appreciated, and that his love is
ot thrown awa-y. Baal fidelity may be rare;
ut, it exists in the heart. Who has not seen
Mid felt its power? They deny its worth and
power who have never loved a friend or labored
* v. fito a friend happy.