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issortment of Printing Material, and are
ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on
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DRUGGIST, ^
ALSO. DEALER IN
Stationery, Perfumery,
FtffJJi ARTICLES, &C.,
ELane & WatL^old stand, Buena Vista street.
mhp iUSvSf) 4IB12o
ggT Fine? Wines. Brandies, &c., for Me
jgiicinal purposes, always on hand.
23?” Physicians prescriptions are accurately
I compounded of the best articles that can be
procured. janlS tf.
J. T. 1’A'MIAM,
ARCHITECT,
CARPENTER AND JOINER,
DESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of
It Des Arc and vicinity, that he is prepared
to execute all woik intrusted to his care, with
neatness and dispatch.
PLANS AND DESIGNS OF BUILDINGS
Furnished to order, free of charge where he
has th*» contract for the same.
From his experience, both as an archi
tect and contractor, he flatters himself that he
can render entire satisfaction. jnn29 tf
I'VAsTjioiriiK vs met
CAliPENPER AND JOINEIi,
HAVING permanently located at Des Arc,
Arkansas, is prepared to execute all
Work iu HIS Line of Business,
in a satisfactory manner. Fiom his expe
rience, he feels confident that those who favor
him with contracts will have no cause to re
gret it.
ORDERS FROM THE COUNTRY
Left at G. VV. Vaoen’s Store, will meet
with prompt attention. jun29-ly
J. 8. ANDERSON,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
-A N D
Harness .Itunufaeturev,
des Alio, ARKANSAS.
RESPECTFULLY informs
1 the citizens of Prairie and
counties, in** op iirs 00 u«i»u, -
BHpud is prepared to manufacture to order,
iiBaddles. Bridles. Martingales, Baggy.
Carriage and Hack Harness,
HiAs well as every other descrip’ion of work
Bfrsiiallv done in such establishments.
\f:~ (uSTShopon Lyon street, back of Frith &
^placksou’a store. ** jan21-ly*
WTlJcksm i r h Wg
\ Wagon and Buggy Making.
1 martin shetter,
I DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
Thankful to the
people for their past fa-ff 1]
vors,respectfully announces A U
_opened a shop at T. V. Lpe’s old
®K»nd, on Park street, where he is prepared to
P°all kinds of worn in the above line. *
!Q?*Biacksmithing. wagon and buggy huild
■*?. wheelbarrows, repairing. &c., doue on
'Jplior notice.
IE^ Horse-shoeing done promptly.
a fib 18-tf
fTleptie n.
I CLOCK. A\'D WATCHMAKER
AND
«TK vVU tiliEn,
Buena Vista Street,
Three doors East of G.
& J. McLaren & Co’s
DES JiRC. .ARK.,
RESPECTFULLY in
forms the citizens of
A c and the adjacent country, that he has
new and select stock of
CLOCKS AND JEWELRY.
is. as usual, prepared to execute all kinds
CLOCK and WATCH Work, in a work
tnimier, and to Repair and Clean
__PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR H. A RAfISTE A D having permanent
ly located at Des Arc. offers his p-o
fessional services to the citizens of the town
and adjacent country.
(tar Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office. [march21-6m
DR. WM. BETHELL will continue the
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc and
vicinity. From his long experience in his
profession, and having resided in Arkansas
during the past fifteen years, he hopes to
receive a share of the public patronage.
itsr Office at Balsly’s Drug Store. Resi
dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first house on the South side of
the road, entering the town. m»r2t-lv.
.1 J. LANK.. H. CHAMBERS.
DRS LANE & CHAMBERSh iving fum
ed a pirtnersbip in the practice of
their profession, tender their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
From their experience they hope to share
at least a portion of the patronage of the
public. •
lISP* Office on Buena Vista street, at Bals
ly’s Drug Store. feblitf
DR. N. L. RAGLAND, having located at
the residence of R.. B. Trezevant,
(formerly B B. Allens place ) 2^ miles from
Wattensaw Landing, offers his professional
services to the public.
Particular attention given to deseases
of women and children. jail l-ly,
• ■ -
T\R. W. F. WALSH, having located at
| / Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly*
TJ. WOODSON, Attorney at Law,
. Des Arc, Arkdusas, will practice’in the
Fifth Judicial Ci.cuit, and the counties of
White. Jack-on and Monroe.
*„* All business entrusted to his care will
be promotly attended to. mayfly
AW. McNEILL, Attorney at Law. Des
• Arc Arkansas, practices in tbs courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. (-^“Office.
cornar of Erwin and Lyon streets. [apll.
Fjl W DOCGLASS, Attorney at Law,
!i • Brownsville. Arkansas, will promptly
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prai ie. Arkansas. Monroe, Si. Francis, Jack
son and White counties.
• * Prompt attention given to the collection
of all claim' entrusted to hn care. apr2S
J W MARTIN.R. T. SIMPSON.
MARTIN & SIMPSON. Attorney.,
at Law. Dps Arc, Aiknnsas. Will
practice in prairie, White. Aikansas, Mon
roe. Jackson ami the adjoining counties.
Office on Lyon street. feb29-tf.
B n TURNER..WM. T. JONES.
fPURNER & JONES, Attorneys at
*- Law. B ownsville, A1 kansas. Will at
tend promptly to all business entrusted to
them. jan4-tf.
rjl R. LAWRENCE, Attorney at
* * Law. Des Arc. Arkansas. Special at
tention given to collecting. jan4-tf.
O H. HEMPSTEAD. Attorney at Law.
ij • Little Rock, Ai kansas. Officeon Mark
ham street. janll-tf.
R. 8. GANTT. W. J. BRONAUGH
p A NTT & BRONAUGH. Attorneys
aT at Law. Brownsville. Arkansas Will
attend promptly to any business confided to
them. septl4 tf
TACOB T MORRILL. Attorney at
,J Law. Notary Public, and Justice of
the Peace, Clarington, (Sunfi-h j Monroe
County. Ohio. [jul27-tf.
J. E. GATEWOOD..J. A. MOON
p ATE WOOD & MOON, Land
IT Agents and Real Estate Brokers.
Des Arc, Arkansas. Will attend to payment
of taxes, locating Government. Swamp or Mil
itary lands. Blanks of every description al
ways on hand. aug3-tf.
Eft B KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc.
L • Arkansas, will practice in the courts of
Prairie, White, Monroe. Arkansas. St. Fran
cis. Jackson, arid Independence counties; All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. (jS?” Office on Lyon
street. [ junS-tf
T E. GATEWOOD. Attorney at
,J , Law. Des Arc. Prairie county. Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson. White,
Conwav, and Pope. Will investigate Land
Titles,' and act as General Land Agent.
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to him.
Office—First door up stairs, one door
East of John Jackson & Co.’s, Store.
feb13-tf. ___
AMUEL W. WILLIAMS, Attor
ney at Law. Little Rock, Arkansas.
Office on Markham street. [mar21
J. L. HOLLOWELL.. D. JACOWAY.
ROLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torney?! at Law. Dardanelle* Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry,
Saline. Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
| jp2fi-tf _______
CLOCK, WATCHMAKER
JEWELER,
(In rear of C. T. Petit’s Drti" Store,]
Augusta, Arkansas.
Respectfully informs the citizens oi
the town and adjacent count ry that he ha:
permanently located in augu ta, and i
piepared to execute all kinds of Clock ant.
Watch Wo k, repair nd Cleanse Jewelry, nr
well as every other description of work usual
ly done in such establishments.
Musical Instruments of every descrip
tion repaired and put in good order. Fiorn
his experience and me hanical knowledge, he
feels confident of rendering satisfaction to hi:
patrons. _t'ebl.5 tf
JOHN MeNAME E,
T .f t #y O IS ,
Det Arc, Arkansas.
SHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET
opposite the "Nucleus House”—where hi
is prepared to execute all kinds of work ii
his line of business, in a neat and fashionabli
style.
July 27, 1859 —[tf]_
A. S. II IRRS
W ATCH-MAKiR,
AND
JEWEIiBn.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
OFFICE on Buena Vista street, at G. L
Balsly’s Drug Store. Clocks, Watch#
and Jewelry repaired with neatness and di9
patch, and warranted to give satisfaction.
J janl8-tf.
EXTRACT FROM THE ADDRESS ,
OP
HON. ALBERT RUST,
t o
THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS.
It is known to some of you that I am a
candidate for the seat in the United States
Senate now occupied by the Hon. R. W. :
Johnson, who is not, and declares, with- !
out reservation, he will not be a candi
date for re-election.
In consenting to become n candidate for
the Senate, I was assured of the good j
will and support of an interest and politi- I
cal combination in Arkansas, of which 1
the "True Democrat" newspaper is the
represeuiative and exponent.
For many years this combination has
exercised a most despotic power in our
State, end has of late exhibited an arro
gant contempt of the popular sentiment of
the people unparalleled by any of its
former pretentions. If it owed the ex
traordinary influence wliich it wields to the
superior virtues, private or public, public
services or commanding taleuts of its
members, we would all, as were the Caro
linians of their Calhoun and the Ken
tuckians of their Clay, feel proud of pos- ,
sessing such eminent citizens in our
midst.
But every man in Arkansas at all con
versant with its- political history, knows
that, so far from its being won in rival
contests where the field was fair and equal, (
it was planted there by the hand of Fed
eral power and patronage, and has been
fostered and perpetuated by a persistent
and continuous besiowal of the same (
patronage, and that of the Slate Govern- ,
ment with reference solely to that object. |
This address is provoked by intelligence
from Arkansas, the authenticity of which
cannot he questioned, that a "combina
tion in Lillie Rock, whose ramifications ,
extend to all the counties in the Slate, in
tends to supplant me.” That “ a sub- 1
sidised interest in every county is bend
ing all its energies to carry all the strength
possible for Conway into the Legislature i
this fall.” That •* clandestinely an effort 1
was made to give things this direction”
ina certain county in my.district, &e.
Great as the odds are against me I accept i
the issue thus tendered.
There is not a federal officer in Arkan- |
sas who holds his place by any other ten- ,
ure than the will of one Senator from that :
State.
No man who has ever enjoyed power, ^
has used it with a more single and siudi- t
ous regard for the interest of himsell and t
one particular family in the State than tbe -
pre-ent Governor, and no one with his
capacity has ever exerted it more judi- j
. I .. . I . . I. . I_.1 . .
UII/WOI J nil'll II* lino •
There is not a press in the Slate in 1
which I own an interest to the amount of •
a dime ; there is perhaps not one it) which ,
I can procure the publication of this ad- t
dress. Yet! they declare war. and I uc- 1
cept it and defv them.
Many prudent men in Arkansas will [
regard my course us indiscreet and rash t
to the last degree. It may be so. I pre- j
fer an open active foe to a doubtful friend.
But, above all. if I am to fall, let ii be in (
a manly and honorable contest and not by i
the stealthy hand of the assassin.
If I am beaten I will certainly not owe |
it to that duplicity and treachery, to which ^
I am informed the deleat of the Hon i
Mr. Fletcher is attributed in the recent
contest for the gubernatorial nomination. *
Absolute rule in Arkansas has been the ,
cardinal object of this combination since 1
the admission of the State into the Union. ’
Every interest, every principle, feeling (
and passion has been made subordinate
to this one idea. Just resentments have i
been smothered, injuries have been for- (
gotten, the obligations imposed by impor- '
tant services rendered have been repudi- ,
ated whenever the political interests of i
this faction have demanded it. Tne only 1
test of orthodoxy with them has been sub- (
serviency to their interests and their will |
Disorganization has been the sin of every i
man who has dated to oppose ihein, and
for this they have issued their bull of ex- j
Communication against him. But, I must
admit, that immediate absolution and for- :
giveness have been the prompt rewards
of remrniiig servility. (
I will illustrate this view by adverting
,t .i. - _. :_- ,u
IU UIIC I IIIV III'IIJ |||UIU..VV. -.-.—
that might be cited". From 1846 to 1852
Gen. George VV. Clarke was the able,
fearless, and effective opponent of this
faction. With talent enough lobe feared,
and too much courage to be in iutidaied.
ii was thought expedient to conciliate him.
His offences against them had been grave
and manifold. He had repeatedly oppos
ed the Hon R VV. Johnson for a seat in
Congress. Elected to the State Senate
in 4848. m the memorable contest between
Dr. Borland and Col. Sevier, he was the
active pa lisau of the former, and con
tributed more than any oilier man in the
State to the defeat of the latter. Subse
quently to this, that i3 in 1851, he again
opposed Mr. Johnson for the Congres
sional nomination. He was unsuccessful.
In violation of every rule and principle
hitherto acknowledged by honorable men.
he supported Mr. Piestoil the Whig op
ponent of Mr. Johnson, and through th**
columns of a paper winch he ibeu edited,
oppo-ed Mr. Johnson with a Zealand bit
terness ol personal invective and denun
Nation rarely paralleled in partisan war
jfare. His efforts were so effective as to
| reduce the vote of Mr. Johnson in one of
the most populous and Democratic coun
ties in the Slate to less than thirty. In
this canvass bis disorganizing course was
attended hv every aggravating circmii
1 stance. His hostility to Col. Sevier,
whose memory was professed to be held
| in the most affectionate remembrance by j
liov. Conway, and every member of tins
clique was fresh in the memory of every
body. And yet, in 1S-53, without apolo
gy or atonement on his part or explnna
tion on theirs, he was adopted as ilieir
favorite a d protege. Unmindful of the
tlaims of those whose services and friend
ship had been life long, they have taken
birn into their confidence, and conferred
jpon him first one office and then another,
seeming themselves never to be satisfied
with the favours with which they have
oaded him.
When, for the first time, I was a mem
ber of tite Legislature in 1812. and the
personal and official character ol Col.
Sevier were assailed with a violence and
icrimony which many of you will remem
>er, actuated by a sincere respect for bis
diameter, admiration fo' bis talents, and
pelief in his innocence, I defended him
igainst these assaults, if not with ability,
tertainly with an earnestness and distil
erestedness which elicited his warmest
tcknowledgments.
If, in several of the contests which re
tulted in the nomination of Mr. Johnson
or Congress, he did not owe his success
o my efforts in his behalf, he and many
>f his friends have placed an undue esti
nate upou the services I huve rendered
lim.
Yet the interest to which I have refer
red, and of which until recently he has
)een the active head, has never imposed
lpon tne the slightest obligation. They
mve never in a single struggle in which
. have been engaged been my friends.
Of ibis I have for a long time been
lonvinced, and as an evidence of my cou
ictions long ago, I will now publish the
allowing card :
“ Rockyway, Nov. 27, 1859.
“ Editor of the Old Line Democrat : —
a your paper of the 17 h instant, in alluding
o the manner in which, and the persons by
vhorn you charge, the appointment of my
accessor already to h ive been made, voii say.
let gentlemen look into the tacts of history,’
unfask, • can they point to one Democrat
vho has ever filled one of these positions,
high and responsible offices.) in opposition
o the wishes of the dynasty.’ and answer,
No.’ By implication yon charge that I owe
he position whichJ now occiipy to the Little
took junto and dynasty. I will not be sodis
ngehuous as to attect to oe ignorant or tire
lersons whom you suppose to constitute the
junto ’ ami ‘ dynasty ; ’ and, if what you write
ie true, bv whose sufferance and good will I
vear the honors of Representative from the
Second Congressional District, amt to whom
am indebted for whatever of political pre
erinent I have hitherto enjoyed in the State,
f i believed that I owed my seat in Congress
o any power, can-e, or interest, olher than
he favor and confidence (it may be but little
e-erved) of the people who have the right to
estow it, I would resign it to-morrow. If
ceepted upon other te.«< than these ; or, if
did not owe all the obligations which such
distinction conferred imposes upon me to
he people of ttie district so far from re
al ding it as an honor of which I might just
y be proud, I would consider it as an iguo
l'ny and di-grace. By junto’ and • dynas
y’ you of course mean the present Governor
nd the Johnsons.
‘•I owed rny defeat by Mr.. Warren four
ears ago. in a great measure, to the active
lostility of gentlemen sustaining the most iu
iinate pe sonal and political relations to Gov.
ton wav, and who, before and since than, had
een the recipients of his oifi ial patronage j
iiU. who. wi'h singular inconsistency, oppos
d my reiiomination upon the ground that, be
rig iii Washington. I could not enter person
lly into the canvass, while they supported
iim for an office equally important, who had
ever m ule a speech in defence of thepiinci
des men, or measures of our common paity
n his life.
•• In the primary meetings, which appoint
d delegates to the U nnlen Convention, which
oininated me by acclamation, the same men—
mbracing among them the then employees of
lis Excellency—were for reasons, not so on
ious rKBHAPS. conspicuous for their opposi
iou to the appointment of delegates favora
de to my nomination.
“Iii every convention, unit the last, in
vliich my name has been presented for Con
fess, the record shows th it I have been neilh
r the first, second, or thiid choice of the
lohusons : and in the last contest, thev did
lot endeavor or wi-h to conceal from me that
hey had committed themselves to the support
if another aspirant, when it was understood
would not be a candidate ; and. if they did
iol prefer that other to myself, 1, and all my
riends in the ilisti ict were, and still are, uu
le r a gross misapprehension. my relations
vith the gentlemen to whom I have referred,
ire cordial and fi ieudly. and are likely to con
inueso; but I have deemed this note, hastily
vritten, proper, in justice to my own seif-re
pect, and in vindication of my character for
udependence of thought, speech, and action
“I, sir, wear no mall’s livery, and when the
lontrary is meant to be charged or insinuated,
t is a gioss calumny.
“ Very respectfully,
“ A. RUST.”
As the date of the above indicates it
vas written upon the eve of my departure
ro n my residence to this cuy^ When
ibout to haud it to the publisher of the
taper to which it was addressed, I met
he Hon R. W. Johnson, and considered
l due lo the relations whicu for so long a
line had subsisted between us, to show it
o him. He thought my conclusions were
mstaken, and prevailed upon rue 10 nb
•la.m from publishing it. Subsequently to
his, the editor gf the “ Tiue Democrat"
tffecied a ilesirg to do all his power lo
idvance my pretensions to a seat m the
senate. The letter front which I have
quoted, and oilier evidences from the
state, have convinced me Inal he and the
nfluence^>{, which lie is the, head, are
ictively intriguing for my defeat.
The Federal officers of the State and
Vie dependents and retainers of the pres
-ui Governor who is a candidate for
Vie same place, are co-operanug for this
abject.
The Johnsons, in their private relations
lire honorable and amiable gentlemen. I
Jo not complain of the course they have
teemed it their interest lo pursue towards
me. Tlie love of power is one of the
most universal instincts implanted in the
nature of man. Th*-y have long field
undisputed sway in Arkansas, and it sur
prises no one that they should relinquish
it with reluctance.
The partisans of Gov. Conway predi
cate his claims to a seat in the Senate
upon the manner in which he has dis
charged ihe duties of his present office.
Can it be improper to examine his right
to the approbation and applause which he
challenges? He has administered the
government of Arkansas for the Inst eigat
years as though it were a private estate
oufcf which he had a right to manufac
ture political capital for himself and his
friends. Not content with subserving
their political interests, he has prostituted
his office to promote their pecuniary for
tunes. He plumes himself upon his Hank
Policy. He and his silly partisans insult
the public intelligence when they speak
of the “ State debt Gov. Conway has paid
off” as though he had contributed means
out of Ins own pocket for that purpose.
He has sacrificed great interests of the
Stale to mm ster to his own selfish ambi
tion. To make himself a reputation, he
has squandered the assets of the bank to
swell the amount of the public debt ex
tinguished under his administration.
While lands were advancing in value
with unprecedented rapidity, in opposition
to the judgment and advice of the late
Secretary of State, he has sold, or advised
and permitted those belonging to the real
estate bank to he sold, whenever a pur
chaser presented himself, lor whatever
price tvas offered, merely that his hired
eulogists might boast ol “ another instal
ment of the public debt that Gov. Con
way had paid off." I call upon the Leg
islature about to be elected to investigate
the administration by Gov Conway of the
assets of the real estate bank, out-of which
so much capital is sought to be made for
him. Let them compare the assets lie
turns over to his successor with those the
chancery court gave him control of during
the first term of Ins administration L-t
ilipin PXiimniM fhi» rpr.nrd* Htid Witnesses
vviili reference to the intrinsic .value of the
lands sold, and the prices for which they
were sold, and they will find that he has
sacrificed assels belonging to the bank for
nne-tenln part of the consideration they
would now lominaud. The real estate
belonging to the bank at the time of Gov,
nonway’s inauguration, together with the
assets of every other description, would
to-day buy every bond issued on account
af it; and yet his tools and parasites, in
contempt of the public intelligence, prate
about the Slate delu he has paid.
Every honest man in the State holds
ihat the debtors and stockholders of the
hank, and not the people, should pay the
lebl com i acted by the Slate on account
af it. But every just man will admit that
the stockholders had a right 'o demand of
he trustee a faithful and judicious appli
cation of the assels 10 the extinguishment
jf the debt for which they were hound,
ind not as an electioneering lund to ad
vance his political fortunes.
While liov. Conway has affected the
rioat vigilant watchfulness over me inter
ests of the State, and has interposed the
veto power upon trivial occasions, and
when of doubtful propriety, he has per
nitted the most prof! gate legislation, with
mt opposition or remonstrance, to be con
-ummated into law when it was to enure
o the benefit of one ol Ins favorites. 1
tin informed that a bill received Ins ap
proval under which a citizen ot Chicot re
ceived lorty or fifty thousand dollars lor
damages done Ins plantation by a Stale
improvement, when the plantation itself
was not worth half that amount.
There is ground for believing that an
other one of the favorites had assurances
from the Governor that, if he purchased a
tract ol land belonging to a widow and
her orphan children, it ivoufcl be improved
ill the.publij expense. Certain it is that
directly ajter its purchase, when no greater
public necessity existed for the work than
I . C . _
[jHicire, a cuiihuu was cuiricu unu
inching it, amounting to some ten or
twelve diousand dollars, to be paid ou' of
ii public fund, administered by the Gov
ernor. The value of the laud will be
greatly enhanced by this work. Will not
every magnanimous citizen admit that,
if the public interest required this work,
the incidental benefit resulting from it
should have been enjoyed by ihe widow
and her orphan children rather than iheir
iissignee, a young man with already a
princely estate.
The offering of improved lands by any
af them for sale has been the signal lor
the ditching and levying of others belong
ing to them by the present complacent
chief executive of the State.
There is. of course, no injustice, no fa
voritism, no partiality in all tins; and I
would suggest to the Governor that he
abandon all idea of longer serving the
State, and. like Cincinnatus, (if he will
not be pffended by the comparison.) retire
10 bis farm, which his successor, in ac
knowledgment of his numerous and im
portant services to himself and his friends,
can have enlarged, ditched, and cultivated
for him at the public expense.
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Wiiat a Judge Said—In giving a
charge lo a jury, a judge of considerable
experience recently said:
“ If the young men who are to be the
future men of our country were brought up
with a more decided home rule, (when
Compulsion was necessary) to devote
themselves to the acquisition of skill in
some useful and respectable vocation,
there would he less occupation for court*
and juries. Tlie engagements and habit
of Hie boy will elmg to tlie man, and upon
lii* education and training under the do
mestic roof will depend his standing and
character, and his usefulness, or the re
verse in life ”
Heathen Mythology.
For the benefit of our renders, we col
lect nnd publish the affinities of the Hen
then Ciod.*, so often referred to in the my
thology of the ancients: Juno was the
daughter of Saturn and Ops. Ceres pre
sided over peach orchards and other gar
den nass. Mars was the god of war.
Pan protected those rural citizens engaged
in tending sheep. Venus attended the
affairs of love, and regulated the motions
of amatory youths. Jupiter was god of
the Celestial regions. Apollo was a
prophet, n pretty man, and consequently
had the Nine Muses, who were females,
running alter him. He owned two servi
Itires humble, nam-d Triphod and Lyre;
t^ie latter is supposed to be the person
that invented lies, a community now ex
tensively used. Vulcan was a master ol
a blacksmith shop, and had a partiality
for fire Mercuiy was the itvant courrier
of the gods, and presiding genius of the
thieving fraternity. He used to go around
in company with Iris, the daughter of
Thomas, who was his better hall. Diana
had a great love for beasts and trees.
Neptune ruled the ocean, though it is not
intimated that he had the control of any
very large vessels; a tiny shallop was nil
that he could order to do his bidding.
Hercules was a real bruiser of the Tom
Hyer order; nothing delighted him more
than a forcible, effective and well-planted
blow. Cupid always maintained a great
interest in affairs of the heart, and was
supreme ruler 01 me numnn gizzaru.
Hebe was some pumpkins as a wui'er,
anti tended table for the divinities with
marked approval. Bacchus was the God
of rum. and frequently had the delirium
tremendous. Proteus was a fortune teller,
mid could see ns lar into a mill stone as
the man that picked it; he was n very
changeable fellow, hence the word pro
tean. Pluto was a native of a tropical
dime, and consequenily had a penchant
for warm tilings and hell fire. Hygera
was a protectoress of health, and n very
kind hearted female. Plutus used to
•< spend bis money free,” (see song of
Ethiopian serenades,) and was a “ broth
of a boy " on a midnight carnival, or a
"general bust." Olympus used to tend a
litrhi-house. nnd look alter the hours.
Flora was the mistress of a flower gar
—bouquets used to sell very high in
her time. The Diynds and Nymphs
were generally utility folks, woo haunted
around shady places, and did little chores
for a consideration. Tney had plenty ol
imhators. Satyr was a rare old fellow,
objected to a man blowing not and cold
with the same breath, and left a numerous
progeny who can do the same thing; he
was always ready to go it, hut belonged
to a short horned breed The Fairies
were given to promiscuous dancing ; they
were always in a frolic on the lawn, and
had no objection to a “ cotton factory
ball"—tickets one dollar; and a figbt in
the prospective.— [Petersburg (Vu.) Ex
press.
Horses and Horsemanship.
The following illustration, in the April
number of the Quarterly Review, of the
principle which Mr. Rarey applied to
subduing horses are most happy, and their
truth will strike ♦very horseman at once :
Of all animals in creation, there is no
one we should all be so very sorry to lose
as the horse. In peace and in war, on
burning sands under the equator, or on
eternal snow ill the frigid Zone, lor pleas
ure or for business, well fed or starving,
he IS always not only ready, but eager, to
the utmost ol Ins strength, to serve a mas
ter ; but that m aster loo often inconsider
ate, ungrateful to him and unjust As
soon as h's courage is excit d, no fall,
bruise, blow or wound, that does not par
alyse the mechanism of his limbs, will
slob him. Indeed, with his upper and
lower jaws snot away, and with the skm
dangling in ribands, we have seen him
caniering, apparently careless and uncon
scious ol his stale, alongside of the horse
artillery gun, from winch lie had just been
cut adrift. But although in the hunting
field, on the race-course, or in harness, a
horse will generally, from sheer pluck, go
till he drops, yet whenever ho encounters
physical strength greater than his own,!
our hero all ol a suuuen acts line an a iram
coward. For instance, in the mail it ap
parently matters not to the spirit of the
horses whether there be one passenger or
six—light bags or heavy ones—on the
contrary, the greater the weight the more
eagerly do they strain to force it to follow
them. The faster they are allowed 10 go
the harder do they pull ; until, if the reins
were to break, they would enjoy the op
portunity by running away, not as in the
days ol JPhCBtnn, with the chariot of the
sun. but with say a ton and a half ol they
know not wnat at the*r heels. And yet,
if on the following day the same high
flying. high-spniied, high-metiled horses
weie 10 be hooked to a sturdy living oak
iree. alter two or three inefleciu ,1 snatches
to move it, no amount of punishment would
be sufficient to induce them to go to the
end of their traces ; in short, to use a well
known expression, they would all "jib
Again, if a horse in harness, however
resoluiely he may be proceeding, »li|'*
upon pavement and falls heavily on his
side, after vainly making three or four
violent struggles to rise, he becomes all
of a sudden so completely cowed, ihai not
only wi bout any resistance does he allow
his harness to he unbuckled, the carriage
detached, and pushed away lar behind
him, hut when lying thus perfectly un
lettered. it requires kicks, stripes, and a
in il-dioion or two to induce him to make
the li tie effort necessary to rise from nis
prostrate state.
Again, in the hunting-field, a noble,
high couraged horse, a rusher at any des
cription of fence, the very sight of which
seetns to inflame his ardor, in the most
gallant style charges a brook, which, when
he is in the air he sees is too broad to be
cleared ; on his chest striking against the
bank, and while his rider, delighted at
feeling he is not a bit hurt, is luxuriously
rolling over and over on the green grass,
like a rabbit that at full speed has been
shot dead, this gallant steed makes two,
three or four desperate efforts to gel to
him, and yet simply becau.-e the mud at
the bottom of the brook cstches hold on
his hind feet, and the sticky perpendicu
lar clay bank grasps his fore ones, hia
courage suddenly fails him, and as noth
ing will then induce him to make another
effort, it becomes necessary to send, often
several miles, for Cart horses to drag lha
high bred animal oat by his neck. But
although this strange mixture of courage
and cowardice appears to us at first to be
inexplicable, yet on refl-ction we must
perceive that it is in strict accordance with
the beneficent decree that “ man should
have dominion over every beast of the
field."
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Pay as You Go.—John Randolph, of
Roanoke, said that the whole economic
wisdom of life lay in four words: Pay
ns you go. It is ns true as truth itself.
No one can tell hoA he is living it bills
come floating loosely in like snow flakes.
He will be deeply involved before he
knows it. Besides, nobody receives the
worth of his money who buys goods on
credit. He always pays about fifteen or
twenty per cent, more than the cash pur
chaser. Then what a comfort it is to sit
uuwu iu a uit;nitiu5v cvci jf iiriu ui wuiuii
is paid for; to live in a house which ia
your own, or on which the rent is punctu
ally paid ; to have your coat paid for when
you first put it on; to sit by a fire when
me coal bill is receipted! What a com
fort, never to be startled at the ringing of
the door-bell, but to be able to go placid
ly down and meet the gentleman who
wishes to see you, without fear of any
“ lutle-bill,” and to be absolutely and un
qualifiedly able to wulk any street in town
without the faintest disposition to turn a
curner, let'wbo may luoui in the distance.
No man fully understands the Declare
'ion uf Independence, who is not out of
debt; for the wisest of men said, nearly
three thousand years ago: “The bor
rower is Servant to the lender.’’ To use
another Orientalism, the borrower never
can be certain that the lender will uot
make him “eat dirt.” Toe man who
keeps Ins conscience clear, and keeps
oui of debt, may defy the world and the
loul fiend
Hints fob Farmer*.—1. Invest all
vour capital id land and run in debt for
more.
2. Hire money to slock your farm.
3 Hare no faitli in your business, and
be always ready to sell uut.
4. Buy menu cows, spavined horses,
poor oxen aud cneap tools.
5. Feed hog hay and mouldy com
stover exclusively, in order to keep your
stock lame. Fiery cattle are terrible hard
on old rickety wagons and plows.
6 Use me oil of hickory freely when
ever your oxen need strength ; it is cheap
er than hay or meal, keeps the hair live
ly, and pounds out all the grubs.
7. Select such calves for slock as the
huicher shun*; beauties of runts, thin in
the hi ms and pot-bellied; but be sure and
keep their bloud thin by scanty herbage.
Animals are safest to breed from that
haven't strength to herd.
8. Be cautious in ihe manufacture of
manures. It makes the fields look black
aud mournful ab<un planting time, besides,
it ieu great deal of work to haul it.
9 N'-ver waste time in setting out fruit
arid shade trees. Fruit aud leaves rot
ting around a place makes it unhealthy,
rp, J. __I' _:_' -1_L I_
A flv lunu pwwi ihiiiiiii^i tuuugii mijv
ly traveled, is nut well understood, aud
these landmarks are thrown up for the
common benefit.— [Springfield Repub*
lican.
Corn Bread.—At the St. Charles Ho*
tel, New Orleans, it is prepared by heal*
ing two eggs very light, mixing with a
pint of sour milk, and a teaspoonful of
soda, stirring in one pint of corn mea!«
and a teaspoouful of melted butler.
These are stirred well together, aud baked
in a cake-pan, in a quick oven. Butter
and sweet milk will do instead of sour
mdk. This bread is also very good with
out the eggs.
That called Virginia Corn Bread, is
made by dissolving one tablespoonful of
butter in three and a half pints of boil
ing milk, in this scald one quart of corn
tn.nl; alter cooling, add hall a pint of
wheat flour, a spoonful of sugar, a lea
spoonful of salt, and two well beaten eggs.
Mix well and bake in two cakes.
£SSF“ A popular divine tells a good
story as a hit at those kinds of Christian*
who are too indolent to pursue the du
ties required of them by faith. He say*
that one pious geutleinan composed a
fervent prayer to the tlmigliiy wrote it
out legibly, and affixed the manuscript to
the la d’ post. Tnen, on cold nights, he
merely poin'ed to the document, and with
i he words, “On! Lord! those are my sen
timents !” blew out the light and nestled
among the blankets.
John, can you tell me the differ
ence betwe- u the attraction of gravitation
aud the attraction of cohesion?” “V. 8,
sir, 1 think I ran. Why. sir, you see,
attractiou of gravitaiion pulls a drunken
man to the ground, and the attraction of
, cohesion prevents ms gelling op agaiu.”