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PROFESSION II, CAROS.
Z. P. H. FARR,
ATTORN ST AT LAW,
LITTLE BOOK, ARKANSAS.
ROUT. s. ANDERSON, WM. J. THOMPSON
Jtcksoupart. Ark. Augusta, Ark
Anderson A Thompson,
attorneys at law,
jacksonport and Augusta, Ark.
WtM. attend the Courts of Jackson, Wood
ruff, and adjoining Counties, and to special
esses in any section of the State. Address
either office. mayl8-ly
I T. I?. Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
r>ES ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the Courts of the countie,
«f Prairie. White, Jackson, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where in the State.
sepTtf.
A. C. PICKttTT. L. M. HAMSAPn,
PICKETT & UVMMAUIt, •
4TTORNEVS IT IAW,
AVGUSTA, ARKANSAS.
Will practice in the counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, White and Craighead. Special at
tention given to collections of all claims en
trusted to their care apr(i-ly
j. R. P. ALDRIDCr,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ootton Plant, Arkansas.
Wn.u practice in the Circuit Courts ol
Woodruff comity, and the Circuit Courts ol
tin- seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
aiientiou to all business entrusted to liii
care, >nl2‘
, t*. 0 A NTT. V. J • BRONAUCH.
GANTT dr BF.OKAUGH,
X T T 0 R N l Y s X T J* A W.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie
White. Woodruff. Monroe. Arkansas and Pit
lu«ki Prompt atUention given to the euliec
lion of claims Taxes will be paid and title!
investigated for non-residents. aprlf-.iit
J K. GATKWOOD, J- 8. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD & THOMAS,
I»ES ARC, ARKANSAS.
j. v. iTEnnrrrTR. T brake kv.st
HEDGEPETH & KTHT.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
WIKL practice in all of the courts o
Prairie county, and the circuit court!
of the surrounding counties. mar'Jl-Om
James u. patteuson. ixcian c. oause
Anyuata. Ark'. Jacklonport, Ark
Patterson & (iau«e
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
J tick son port and Augusta, Arkansas.
Win practico in the Counties of Woodruff
Jackson. Independence, White, Lawrence
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, anc
attend to special cases in any part of tin
State. Address either office. my 18-It
W. HICKS. Formerly of the firm of Cypcvl $
Hicks.
H, R. FIELDING, Formerly of Atheue, Ala.
HICKS & FIELDING.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Searcy, While (o., Arkansas
WILT, practice in this and the adjacen
counties, in the District Courts, and Su
pretnc Court of the State.
J. C JON SON, Office—West Point, Arkansas
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searcy, Arkansas
JONSOIV & HOOKE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCER 1
—AMP —
General Land and Collecting Agents,
HEAItCV, ABKAN8AB.
Wm.l give prompt attention to «ny I,Heines
in tho counties of Independence, Jaoksor
Woodruff, Monro*, i’rairie, t\ liito, Cou»a
and Van Huron. marO
WM. T. JONES. B. O. TOTTEN.
JONES & TOTTEN.
A«w»wirrs4irR&w
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the counties of Pulask
Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, JacVeou an
Whits Prompt attention given to tho collet
tion of clsiwe. «F*1 *
PROFESSIONAL ( ARDS.
himox p. non nap. w*. w.smitb.
Hl'OIIES & SMITH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
-AND
HEAL ESTATE AGENTS
CLARENDON, ARK.
SOL. F. CLARK. PAM. W. WILLIAMS
JOE W. MARTIN.
CLARK. WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
WILL practice in all the Courts, proaecuh
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, anc
act as Real Setale and (leneral Agenlt.
Office—Markham Street, near State House
april28-tf
I
JAMES” J. GALLAGHER,
Attorney at Law,
; COTTON PLANT, WOODRUFFCO, ARK
Will practice where caHed.
Msp28-tf.
DR. J. '77. BURNEY,
Being: permanently located at Des Arc,
will continue the practice oi ms proicsBion in
i all its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Burney’s Drug Store.
DR. ALLBN
Offers his services to the citizens of
; Des Arc and vicinity in the practico of
medicine. Thankful for ;past favors,
and by attention to business lie expects
j to share a liberal prtronage.
Office—At his residence—late the
residence of AV. G. Frith. sep21
*
DR. ROB'T. B. TREZEVANT.
Tenders his professional services to
the citizens of Des Arc and vicinity.
Office—At 15. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sep21
I Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
1 mHftbKUS Lift professional services to the
I Citizens of Dos Arc and surrounding
1 country, in the practice of Medicilieand Ob*
! Metrics. Ho hopes from an experience of
over fifteen years in Southern practice, to
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney's Drug
Store. marcli28*1888-Iy
13. F. JohnsoiL
I) 11 XT Gr Gr I S T,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
|
EBP on hand a large assortment of Drugs,
Medicines, Paints, Oils. Perfumery,
Patent Medicince. Wines, Brandies, Whiskey,
for medical purposes, >vhich he will sell low.
Prescriptions uud orders filled promptly.
Terms cash. fcb. 15, 18b8.
DHTJGS!
A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
FRESH DRUGS,
MEDICINES AND CHEMICAS,
School nooks and Stationery,
Paint*, Oils, Dye-Stuff*, Window-Olais, Per
futnery, Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies
Whiskey, for medicinal purposes.
Drorngoolc's celebrated Southern Remedies
invariably for cash, at small profits.
! juiai ' J. M. BI RNEl.
WM. R. COOPT. P MC RAT
COODY & McRAE,
ASTOM Ytt A*&AW
SEAKCV, WHITE COIMTV,
ATI KANSAS.
Will practice in all the courts of Arkansas.
iuar24>
F. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO AM.
kinds of work in my line. Mend
ing, Cleaning, Ac.
; -Thankful for past favors, I solicit a
coutinuance of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me. feb28-tf
ENTERTAINMENT!!
rilHE UNDERSIGNED HAVING M
1 opened a Honor of r.iilri-- SW
luilllll.'Ill, on Rueo* Vista Street, „eai
the Steamboat lading, for tbe accotnmuda
! lion of
TRAVELERS AND BOARDERS.
I By the day, week, or mooih, solicits the pat
I ronage of thoh«#visiting D«s Arc. The fan
will be as good as the market affords, anc
terms moderate.
. | Give me a trial, and 1 will endeavor to giv<
l ’ satisfaction.
BEN JA IN HAYLE\
De Arc. Ark , March J8, lP47~i:m
THE SECOND NARRUOE.
Mir rice 1 Maurice!”
She spoke the soft words twice be
fore he heard her, with wistful eye
timidly turned to his face.
“What is it?”
“May I hare the little gray ponie
and ride out on the Templeton Road?
“Ride out? No—yes—I wish yoi
wouldn’t tease me, Amy!’’
lie spoke harshly, shaking off he
little hand as if its touch were unplea
sant to him ; and Amabel Trcsley turn
cd away, trying to repress the tear
that sprang involuntarily to her eyes.
“He does not love me 1” she thought
“Oh, if I knew but some spell to brim
back the old fondness.”
She went slowly out into the brigh
ante-room where the winter sunshim
steamed through oleander boughs am
swinging trails of passion-vine leave
(for the scene of our tale is in tli
United States); and a great Newfound
land dog lay winking and blinking it
the golden flood.
“Nero, you love me I” she murmur
cd, throwing herself on the floor, will
ona arm around her canine favorite'
neck.
She was only a child, this brown
' cvcd Amabel Trcslcv, not vet sixteen
and she looked more childlike lhai
! ever in her unconsciously picturesqu
attitude on the old rug, with the curl
; hanging loosely about her face, and th
j irrepressible quiver on her lips. Hut
; all of a sudden, she glanced up with f
' scarlet blush as a shadow tell across th
I doorway.
A tall, fair-haired gentleman wa
j standing there, with liis hat in hi
| hand, and an amused expression on hi
countenance.
Pardon me for startling you. my dea
little girl,” he said, gently ; “but 1 havi
called to see Mr. Treslev. Is he a
homo ?”
Amabel stammered some incolioreiii
' sentence about the next room, and tin
| stranger bowed and passed on.
Mrs. Treslev took her embroider;
and sat down under the olcandei
houghs. As she threaded the hair-1 ik<
needle, a loud, derisive laugh from tin
other room rang in her ears.
“Your wife? Nonsense, Trcsley
That child ?”
I “I know I hare been a fool!" return
ed her husband's voice, in a tone o
annoyance and chargln. “I was infa
] tnated—mad—and now it is too lati
for repentance.’
“Where did you meet with her?'
i asked the languid, softly-modulatei
j voice.
! “In New Orleans—left an orphan a
| a great hotel by the death ot her father
alone and unprovided for. One couli
not but pity her-’’
“And pity is akin to love,” laugher
the stranger. 1 understand your cal'
! completely, Treslev. But surely she’
: pretty enongli to suit even your fastid
j ious taste.”
“A doll—a vapid, wearisome doll!
i returned Treslev Impatiently. “Ant
to think that I am tied to her for life!
“Then why the deuce did you marr;
I her!”
“I tell you, Raynor, I was infatuatei
with her brown eyes and golden hair
| and now, w hen it is too late, I buv
discovered my mistake.”
Amabel's dizzy souses comprchcndet
iiit; luiivrisaii'Mi iiu im un i . out’ him
sat, silent and motionless, every wort
burning its imprint on her heart as i
they had been live coals.
She sat there nearly an hour, will
her head drooping on her breast, am
her hands clasped idly on her knees
Finally she rose and went up-stairs
with slow, languid steps. She ha<
entered the room a child—slio left it
hard, determined woman.
It was almost dark when Maude
Trcsley came out ot his library, to lool
for the litlio wife who delighted b
trip on all his errands.
“Amabel! Amy !" Hut there was m
response.
“Stephenson,” he said to the tmar
maid who was replenishing the fir
with eoal, “go up to Mrs. Treslev’
room and tell her that Mr. Raynor wil
stay to dinner."
Haifa minute later Stephenson ram
hack.
“She is not there, sir."
“Not there ?’’
“No, sir; and Mary Anne says sir
saw Mrs. Trcsley go out. all wrappei
up, two hours ago.”
“Did she drive the gray ponies?'’
“No, sir, she went on foot. Am
please, sir, here’s a hit of paper I foum
on her dressing-case, with your nam
on the outside.”
Treslev opened the note with a con
tracted brow. But there was some
thing in the penciled lines that blanch
ed his cheek.
“I know that you are weary of me
had 1 known it before, you wouh
sooner have bee|j relieved of the bur
den of my presence. Forget me—am
try to return to the old time befor
you ever saw Amabel.”
That was all. Maurice Tresley smil
ed bitterly.
“A mere childish pet,” he murmured
"She will be back, half-frightened uu
of her senses, as soon as It grows dark
It is unfortunate, however, that sh
should have overhead that unluck;
conversation !”
**•*•••
"It is of no use, sir,” said the gray
haired emissary of the police, shnkhii
the snow fVom his great-coat. “W
; have Inquired everywhere, but the olu
fails ir at the boat landing. Put ci
cuse me, sir, was Mrs. Trcsley easy in
her mind when she left your house?”
. Maurice winced a little.
) “No I hardly think she was.”
“Did you ever think here might be a j
remote possibility of suicide I”
Maurice Trcsley started at the awful
possibility so coolly touched upon by j
the matter-of-fact detective ; aud when
the door had closed behind his horri
ble equanimity, Trcsley sank on a chair,
with his face buried in both hands.
“My wife—my little soft-eyed Amy!
I havo been cruel, harsh—I deserve no
better than that heaven should .deal
with me as I dealt with the lonely
orphan. Oh, my lost wife! art thou
safe in heaven, or wandering homeless
, on the face of the cruel earth ?
*******
When the child Amabel had left her
husband’s roof, she had directed her
footsteps to the high-road that led to
the steamboat landing, but she was
just too late; the boat had gone.
“Where shall I go to now?” she ask
ed herself, trying in vain to command
• her whirling thoughts. “Perhaps 1 can
walk to Burghtord, and#thcn tjike the
train to New York.”
“Poor Amabel! She soon realized the
wide difference there was between |
I <u i \ iii” uvci me i uiiii >\im m i j'<. i 1
■ gray ponies ami plodding its weary
i length on foot. It was growing dark
. —her head arlied violently, and finally
, slie paused abruptly.
“Bless your dear heart, Airs. Tresley,
. what are you doing here?”
An old woman, with a bundle of
i sticks on her arm, suddenly accosted
; her.
< “l think I have lost my way. Airs.
Jessup,” said the bewildered little
• creature. “Would you let me come in
. and rest for awbile?”
“And welcome pretty,” said the old j
woman, cordially ; for Airs. Tresley bad
done her many a kind deed. “That. is.
if you don’t mind a little up-sldc-down
ishness, for Luke's folks are packed up
to start for Australia to-morrow nioru
■ ing. and I was just getting together a
i little wood to boil tlie Inst tea-kettle.”
, Amabel sat down before tire lire.
mechanically warming her bauds.
“Am I nearBurgford, Airs. Jessup?"
“Burgliford, pretty? No. that you
i ain't! Chelmburgh is nearer by a good
•; half mile.'’
“Yes I know. Does the train stop
, ;there?”
“Yes,honey. Here, now—drink this
eup o' tea, and eat a bit o' bread, jusi
j to put n color into your cheek.”
“Airs, Jessup,” said Amabel, looking
[ up with wild, wistful eyes, “what do
people do when they want to earn their
[ own living?”
Well, to be sure!'' ejaculated the old
woman. “Why, honey, they go out to
, service sometimes.”
, “And what else?"
“Well, they work in a factory some
times the book-learned ones teaeli
' school; ami sometimes they take in
sewing.”
"Do you know what time the train
stops at Chelmburgh, Air-. Jessup?”
“Some time after six, dear; but-'
“Thank you, Airs. Jessup; 1 must go
j! now.”
. j “Wait till I.uke conies back, honey,”
-1 ,1... „l.l .. ..I ...„ 1
I with yon.”
[ A umbel Tresley shook her head
I resolutely.
[■ "So, I must go alone. You have
been very kind tome, Mrs. Jessup ; 1
, have no money to give you. not even a
I ring, but this handkerchief is very
valuable ; please keep it for my sake !"
t And before Goody Jessup could
[ open iter mouth to remonstrate, Mrs.
i Tresley was gone, leaving the India
handkerchief lying like a snowy cob
> web on the old woman's horny palm.
> And so, months afterward, when
> news came that the stately Australian
ship was wrecked oil'a cruel coast, and
t not a passenger saved alive, the cob
web handkerchief, floating to the shore,
1 formed a ghastly link botweeu the dead
s and the living.
n Detective lSaruum brought it to
1 Maurice Tresley one night, silent and
self-possessed as ever.
> ■•From the wreck of tho Cytherca,
sir!”
Maurice stared at the delicate embroi
dery, with Amable Tresley’* name in
< the wrought shield as if lie had seen a
1 ghost.
“The Cytherca! Good heaven! and
there was not a soul saved ?’’
1 “No sir.”
1 From that night Maurice wore crape
; on his hat, and genuine mourning in
his heart, for the child-wife whom he
. had lost.
****** '-a
. Ten years have passed by ere we j
again take up the thread of our story.
The young moon was just beginning
I to glimmer through the purple-blue
. sky of the mid-summer twilight, as
1 Maurice Tresley and Sidney \VIlford
i paced up and down the marble-paved
terrace.
. “So you like Mrs. Cameron?" said
tho latter.
“She is tlie most beautiful woman l
ever looked upon I” returned Treslcv,
stopping short in his enthusiasm
> i “Wilford, you know the sad history of
• my first marriage; my second, I trust,
will bring tho happiness I so long
sighed after in vain.”
“And you arc determined to marry
f your aunt's nursery governess?"
» “If she will trust the precious jewel
3 ‘ of her life to my care."
“Why, Tresley, I think the brown
eyed widow lias (airly bewitched you.
Yon, (he passionless 9tatue of ice—you,
finally, to succumb to the pale face and
solemn eyes of a nursery governess!"
“I tell you. Wilford,” said Treslev, in
low, vehement accents, “that woman
has stolen my heart away—my whole
being!—and if she rejects my suit. life's
sunshine will be goue for ever, as far as
I am concerned.”
He turned away and went into the
house, leaving Sidney Wilford to mar
vel at his leisure.
Mrs. Cameron was sitting by the
shaded light of a softly burning lamp,
with a volume open on the table be
fore her, but she was not reading.
Very tall, but perfectly molded, with
superb dark eyes, and hair whose
natural wave caught ripples of light at
every motion of the beautiful head.
She looked up as Mr. Treslev enter
ed, and in spite of her resolute self-con
trol, a scarlet tide suffused her pale,
lovely face. The moment had come,
to which she had looked forward for
so many years! She read it in his face
as plainly as though he had spoken the
words, “I love von 1”
“WJell, it was over. Maurice Treslev
had asked her to be bis wife, and she
had said “Yes.” And still she shrank
away irom the fond clasp of his hand
—the deep words of tenderness that
welled spontaneously from his inmost
being.
“My love! the light has dawned at
last upon my heart. I auf happy now !"
The wedding was over, with its
glimmer of orange flowers and soil
rustle of sunny silk. Mr. 'Presley was
standing in the centre of a group of
congratulatory friends, while his wife
had gone up-stairsto change her bridal
dress for a more suitable traveling
costume, when his valet brought him a
folded note. Excusing himself in a
few brief words, he stepped into the
deserted library to read the missive
whose stipcrcription sent a stangc thrill
to his heart. It contained but a few
lines, in the |ieeuliar cramped chiro
graphs’ of tho child he had once called
“wife."
“Mai rice—I have come hack to von
l am waiting ill (lie little room by tin;
south gable, for you to welcome me
once more to your heart.
Am A DEI..”
As if a thunderbolt bad descended
on ids on. .iiisciou.- bead. Maurice
Tresley sank white and aghast on a so
la. with both hands clasped over his
eyes.
Then lie arose, and went, with tho
staggering, uncertain million of a blind
man. into the room indicated by the
note.
It was empty, as yet—and he leant
against the mantel, sick and dizzy.
Amabel alive—Amabel came hark to
part him from the idolized wife he had
just acquired the privilege to rail his
own? Oil, better death and oblivion—
better the blessed rest of the grave!
Maurice !"
lie started. Alice Cameron was
standing before him, with her pitying
eyes full upon his face.
“Maurice—uij husband !”
“Not your husband, Alice! Oh, my
beautiful, my beloved, must I give you
up now ?"
“Maurice!” She had nestled close to
him, with almost passionate earnest
ness. “Oh, Maurice, am 1 so changed?
Have you forgotten Amabel: Oh. par
don the stratagem by which 1 have at
last gained your love!”
•‘lint—Amabel is dead!"
••The Amabel of years ago is dead—
but the Amabel of the present stands
before you! Maurice, do you love me
now ?”
Yes, he loved her now—she saw it in
every glance of his eye, every motion
of his lip 1
Twice wooed—twice married—a wid
ow, yet a wife—a bride, yet no bride,
Amabel Trcsley knew that a new life
was opening before her whose sun
shiuo should never know cloud nor
shadow more!
Some poor practice,
To attempt to fatten three hogs into
1,200 pounds of pork on just us much feed
as would keep two nicely growing.
To estimate agricultural fairs as arrant
humbugs and spend three days every
month roving the country political meet
ings.
To depend upon borrowing your neigh
bor’s rakes, mowers, and all sorts of imple
ments, in haying and harvest time.
To house up a thousand bushels of
grain, waiting for arise, till one-tenth has
gone to feed rats aud mice, and the re
mainder swells like the esseuco of rat, aud
the price down forty per cent.
To plant one big orchard of fruit trees
with a first thought of making money, und
leave them to do or die.
To keep two fancy five hundred dollar
carriage horses, and pay six dollars a day
for a team to plow.
It is positively a poor practice to call
“book learning” all bosh, to ignore news
aud agricultural papers, and attempt to
keep au even yoke with your progressive
neighbors by main strength and stupid
ness-—“Cosmo.”
-It is reported that Colonel Donn
Piatt is about to take charge of the Cin
cinnati Times, lie is a lively writer.
-A newspaper has already made its
appearance itt Alaska. It is styled the
Alaska Herald, aud is priuted in Russian
and Kugli'h
Hamlet a* a Tankte.
Ghost.—I am thy father’s spirit.
llamlet.—Yeou don't say so! Old
man give us your fli^icr. How de do?
j I ain't seen you in boon’s age. When
did ye come down ?
Ghost.—Doomed for a certain term
to walk the night.
. Hamlet.—Why on airth don’t you
take a boss ear and ride? Or do they
quit too airly for you ? 1 say where
do yeou hang eout daytimes?
Ghost.—And for the day confined to
fast in fires—
Hamlet.—About heow fast are you
on a direct road ? Tew-forty ?
Ghost.—Till the foul crimes done in
Ihe days of my nature are burnt and
purged away.
llamlet.—Are you purged bad ? Try
a little of this cholera medicine.
Knock it higher’ll Gitderoy.
Ghost.—Hut that I’m forbid to tell
the secrets of my prison house, I could
a tale unfold—
Hamlet.—Don't unfold it here, old
man—don't.
Ghost.-Whoseslightest recital would
harrow up thy soul.
Hamlet.—Fetch on your harrow.
Ghost.—Freeze thy young blood—
Hamlet.—Git eout, you tarnal old re
frigerator.
cuiosi.—iUUKf uiy iwo eyes use stars
start from their sphere—
Hamlet.—Dew tell 1 You couldn’t
tell about what time they’d start?
Ghost.—Thy knotted and combined
locks to part—
Hamlet.—I’ve parted with about all
them locks now, specially on the top
of my head.
Ghost. —And each particular haiiv
Ilamlet.—I ain't particular to a hair.
.Ghost.—To stand on end like quills
upon the fretful porcupine.
Hamlet.—Xoow look a-liere, old pop
py. don't fret your porcupine over me.
Ghost.—lint this eternal blazon must
not he to ears of flesh and blood. List,
list, oh. list!
Hamlet—(Getting angry.) Ycou lie
j gol darned? Didn't 1 list in Sol Pea
body's hum guards when ycou fled in
to Canada, fakin' ycour draft with ye?
And u here ycou was killed by the Fin
negans. and it served you right. Hot
ter go and 'list yourself, you tarnal old
critter. Mead of prowlin' ’round nights
disturbin' your blood relations. Git
t out. [Kxlt Ha ulet in a rage ]
Si’RocTiNi; Potatoes.—Mr. .1. C.
fhompson lately read an essay before
the American Institute Farmers' Club,
which seemed to attract much atten
tion from Unit wise body, and as it may
be new to many of our readers, we
condense the practical part and publish
it.
He sprouts his potatoes in shallow
boxes, (two and a half or three inches
j deep,) filled with sandy loam. Cut the
potatoes into pieces of only one eye.
and lay them thickly over tin1 bottom
of your boxes, first having covered
the board half an Inch with soil,) and
then sprinkle flue dirt over them till
the box is full. Wet with warm wa
' ter occasionally, and in from two tc
three weeks they will lie ready to set
in the open ground. Only one plant
; should bo put in a hill.
This would he a good way to treat
varieties ofwhichyou have lint littli
seed, as every eye may be made into n
! good plant.
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Tlir CiiKuit of t ot ton.
The N. Y. Day Book, attributes tin
rise in the. price of cotton, to the expense
attendant upon manufacturing the shori
staple of India: that they have alterei
their machinery for the purpose of resum
ing the manufacture of the American. The
North Arkansas Times says, in reply:
We hope our cotemporary may be cor
rect in his surmises, but we attribute tin
reoeut rise in the price of cottou to anoth
er cause. The newspapers of the Soutl
have been unanimous in urging upon tin
planters the folly of raising cotton, at tin
prices which prevailed 4II last year, am
with the present unreliable system of la
I hour, and the oppressive tax imposed by
| Congress. This was having its effect, am
tho speculators put up the price just a
the planting season, in order, as we believe
; to iuduce the people of the .South to agitii
I plant largely of cotton. The planters am
farmers of the South are so poor that thei
necessities will reouire them to sell tin
[ new crop as soon as it can he got ready fo
market; and mark our word, the price wil
he as low as it was ail last summer and fall
If our people are as green as the Yankee
i take them to he, they will fall int-o tin
1 trap. Who, we enquire, are reaping tin
benefits of the present high price of cotton!
Not tho people of the South, lor two thirdi
of the entire crop was sold to the Northeri
speculators, or Northern manufacturers
before the price advanced. There is a traj
j laid for you. If you raise cottou, to the ueg
loot of breadstuff* and provisions, you wil
he obliged to sill at the speculator's price
which will be next to nothing, and will be
forced to buy your provisions at ruinously
high figures. Tho effect will be to lnakt
you still poorer. Each planter and l'armei
will judge for himself in this matter, wt
presume, but our opinion is still firm tbai
they should raise no more cottou than suf
ficient for domestio purposes.
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-An English traveller has discov
ered some fossil oysters in the vicinity o!
the pyramids of Egypt.
The ftubhislh.
“Welcome, sweet day of rest!” No
books to post, no orders to till, no pro
jects to think over, no polities to dis
cuss—none of the thousand wearying,
! temper-trying, heart-worrying cares of
' the every-day world, to-day. One dsy
I of quiet and tranquility—“emblem of
j eternal rest."
How sweetly comes the peace of the
Sabbath morning, ul'ter the toils ami
agitations of the week I Balmy as
odors of orient spicy groves ; gently as
the breath of sleeping infants, or the
dying winds of evening; pure as the
incense that rises before the throne of
God, comes the calm of the holy morn
ing, “day of all the week the beat." It
is the day of tlie home—home hushed
and quiet, home peaceful and full of
comfort. To day the father is at home,
and the mother free from week-dav
cares, sits beside him rand the memo
ries of Sabbaths in the by-gone time,
when sly love made the day of repose
a day of joy. come back in all their pies
ant ness.—Father is at home, and the
little ones bang at his knee, telling Iheii
joys and troubles ofthe past week, and
rejoicing that tor a whole day he will
be their company, and lavish upon them
uninterrupted, his loving words and
smiles.
Ave. mire, sweet and hole is tin' dm
| of rest in the family ; but ail is too brief
; transient as tiie outline of tiie silvery
I vapor that floats on tiie summer sky—
■ for the rush and turmoil of the troub
I ling world will come back to-morrow
Let not that thought mar the geutlejoy
of this sweet day; remember, rather
I there is a “home” whose peace is uevei
! interrupted, whose joy is never broken,
| whose repose dreads no to-morrow
and that part of the privileges and hap
| piness of to-day is to secure a place in
■ the family whose circle is united for
ever more, in our Father's homo on
! high.
—-i m *-—
Farmers.—Adam was a farmer while
yet in Paradise, and after bis fall in
i was commanded to eat his bread by
the sweat of his brow. Job, the hon
est, upright and obedient, was a far
mer, and his stern endurance has pas
sed into proverb. St. Luke was a far
mer, and divides with Prometheus tin
| honor of subjecting the ox to the us<
man. Socrates was a farmer, and ye
wedded to his calling the glory of his
immortal philosophy. CincinnatusWas
a farmer, and the noblest Homan o
them all. Iturns was a farmer, and the
muses found him at the plough and til
led him with poetry. Washington was
| a fanner, and retired from the highcsl
i earthly station to enjoy the quiet of ru
ral life, and present to the world a spec
tacle of human greatness. To those
names may he added a host of others
who sought peace and repose in the
cultivation of mother earth ; the enthu
siastic Lafavette, the steadfast Picker
ing, the scholastic Jefferson, the fiery
Huudolph, all found an Kl Dorado ol
' consolation from life’s cares and troub
les in the green and verdant lawns that
surround their homesteads.
How to Make Tattlers.—“Take s
handful of Runabout, the sanie quanti
ty of Mimblctounge, \ sprig of the hert
back-bite, a tea-spoonful of Don t you
tell-it, six drams of -Malice, and a few
drops of Envy. Stir well together, am
j simmer half an hour. Add a little dis
, content and Jealousy, then strait
; nil UUpU it l/itj^ UI aUliIVVIl-'W UV. liUlly (till
' cork it up in a bottle ot' Malevolence
aud hang it up on a skein of at reel yarn
| Shake it occasionally for a few days, am
I it will be lit for use. Let a few drop
be taken, before walking out, and tin
desired result will follow.”
——In North Caroliaua $100 per acr
j arc made by the peanut crop this yeai
while the cotton planters have uot fund
to prucuru mules or supplies.
! -An exchange says : “Chicago i
pretty free of thieves now. They areal
hunting the lake shore for bodies of per
sons lost by the Fea Bird disaster, in orde
to rob them.”
-The new Metropolitan Police o
Louisville is proposing to make a raid 01
the keno aud faro hanks. It is supposes
they will need guides.
-Now York is threatened with i
daily religious paper. Its politics^’ill hi
• Congregational, aud its motto : Go ye in
. to all the South and preach Thud Steven;
■1 to every living creature.
-There is a Federal law imposing i
fine of five hundred dollars and six months
i imprisonment for the selling of burnin;
oil which will uot stand 110 degrees o
j heat. Why is it not euforced ?
-Butler hates General Thomas, say
the New York Herald's Washington let
ter, because Thomas told him to his fae<
; during the war that he was a liar, am
repeated the phrase when Butler drew uj
io strike him. Butler then backed out
-The late door keeper of the Geor
gia gorillas has been appointed route aeon
on the Borne and Selma railroad, and trui
to his instincts, has already broken opei
six registered letters. The military threat
ened almost to arrest him.
-Dr. Beebe, of ('hioago, was callet
to testily in a case before the llnitet State
Circuit Court at Chicago, one day last week
as a medical expert. He refused to testi
fy unless he received fees as an expert, t
" the amount of $25. The judge decide
that h« wa» light. Mid the fees were paid
1 1 ■ .. ■ ga
SII XM.I Mil.
MM<o»d words and good deeds aru
j the rent we owe for the air we breathe.
Mrlisfbroom—a room where gentlo
men of the bar are wont to aasemble.
MT‘Time never sits heavily upon ns
i but when It Is badly employed.
Mf~If yon have not sense enough to
speak, have wit enough to hold your
tongue.
Mr Without content we shall find it
1 almost as difficult to please others as
on rs.'Ives.
I WwP.stecm is the mother of love, bnt
the daughter la often older than the
mother.
MT-Xouc so little enjoy life, and ant
such burdens to themselves, as those
tvho have nothing to do.
MTResolvo on that course of life
which is most excellent, and habit will
render it the most delightful.
psB~ A clergymen told an Indian he
should love his enemies. T do." said
the hitter, “for I love Hum and Cider ”
MrM.any a man’s longue is a two
edged sword, one of the edges cutting
his friends, anil the other himself.
MW" In maliciously pointing out tho
faults of another person you only excite
him to the discovery of your own.
ri*rr»Tlic best nnalitv nt mind that anv
out) can come in possession of is tho
strength to hour up against disappoint
ments and misfortunes.
(^•Beware how you become per
sonal ; an insult offered to Occident or
deformity is rarely forgiven, anil never
forgotten.
An injury is not a) way s a ri asot:
for retaliation ; nor is the folly of others
with regard to us a sufficient reason for
imitating it witli regard to them.
! yjgrlf every man's breast could ho
looked into, there would lie found tho
j image of some woman.
ytg-Slander not others because they
have slandered you ; bite not a reptile
i because you have felt Ids bite.
Stay-The active only have the trite
[ relish of life, lie who knows not
; what it is to labor, knows not what it
j is to enjoy. Recreation is only valua
j hie as it unbends us ; the idle know
i nothing of it.
gaiy- An Irishman was summoned for
refusing l*» pay a doctor's Idtl ( luiw un
• usual.—Ed. )whetl lie was I1-.hod why
be refused to pay.—••What for should
I pay ?" said Mike; "shore lie did n’t
give me anything hut emetics, and the
nlver a one could I keep on my stom
ach at all at
gsg-A Greek maid being asked what
fortune she would bring her husband,
replied," f will bring him what gold
ennnot purchase; a heart unspotted,
andffiirtue without a stain, which is all
that descended to me from my parents.’
jQt“Thcfc is Only one thing w orse
than ignorance, and that is conceit. Of
all intractable fools, an overwise man
is the worst. You may cause idiots to
philosophize—you may coax donkeys
to forego thistles—but do n’t ever think
of driving common sense into the head
of a conceited person.
gisg“A Dutchman describing an aoci
j dent: Vouec, a long time ago, 1 vent
! into mine alible orchard to climb a
hoar tree to yet some beaches to make
inline frau u blnm budding mit; and
i ven I gets on the toppermost limb
j branch, I I'alf down from the lower
1 most limb ; one leg on both sides ol' the
! feuse, and like o stave my outsides in
Snd" Hums was standing one day
' | upon the quay at Greenock, when a
| wealthy nierehaut, belonging to the
town, had the misfortune to fall into
the harbor. Ho was no swimmer; and
> his death would have been inevitable,
> had not a sailor, w ho happened to be
passing at the time, immediately piling
, ed in, and, at the risk of bis ow n !ii<
I rescued him from his dangerous sit do
tiou. The Greenock merchant, upon re
covering a little from Ids fright, pul
his hand into his pocket, and generous
lv presented the sailor w ith a shilling 1
f The crowd, who had by this time col*
i lected, loudly protested ugaiusl the
contemptible insignificance of the sum ;
but Hums, with a smile of ineffable
scorn, entreated them to restrain their
clamor, “For,” said he, “the gentleman
is of course the best judge of the value
of his own life.”
-Krigham Young has scut an order
to a firm in Philadelphia for sixteen com
plete sets of harness, to he gorgeously
. ornamented.
-Old things become new, Rlue
coats and brass buttons are once again the
i j fashion in England.
-A Radical meeting on Lafayette
Square, New Orleans, was dispersed the
; other night by a thunderstorm Some of
the Radicals also heard thunder in Ohio
the other day.
-The five thousand miners in
Pennsylvania who have been on a strike
1 for three mouths have acceded to the
terms of the pit owners and gone to work.
-Jackson Solomon, the young man
in the employ of tlia Sheriff of Phelps
I county, .Missouri, who assisted the seven
i prisoners to escape from the Roll* jail, on
, the 19th ultimo, has been sentenced tj
seven years in the penitentiary, for hi*
) share in the business. The prisoner* prom
1 ised him #100 for hi* services, but g»v*
him enlv forty-five eents