DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
Taesday Morning, Ffb. 9, 1889.
The CITIZEN In NOT the Offi
cial Organ of tlie Hadieal Party.
It In not the Recipient of FORCED
Patronage; but relies on Its own
Merits and on a Discriminating
1*1111.■('. for snccesN.
tiENEKAL Call ANT.
Tlie story of the New York Times
about Banks being ordered to super
sede Grant awhile before the fall ol
Vicksburg, published in this issue, is
stirriug things up a little in the Radi
cal camp. The New York Tribune at
tempts to cover tlie matter up by quo
ting Badeau’s History, and saying thnt
in case there had been a conjunction ol
the two armies, Banks being (he sen
ior, would have had the command.
There is no use in trying to give Grant
the reputation of a great captain, or
calling many of his noted movements
of the army strategy or generalship
when they were successful through
•numbers and chance vicissitudes. He
never won such a reputation, except
among the boastful Yankees, who, like
the ancient Egyptians, arc easily pleas
ed witli their divinities. This boasting
and braggadocio are unfavorable char
acteristics of Jonathan, and may so far
deceive him us to lead to a wrong esti
mate of his real abilities, and procure
him a sound thrashing some of these
days. We beg leave to say, that while
New England persists iu calling this
“the best government tlie world ever
saw,” there may be some error in the
presumption that it eau whip the whole
world. Grant, listening to tlie fulsome
voice of his Northern admirers and
partaking somewhat of their natures,
is trying to have the demands of the
United States so shaped iu the matter
of tho Alabama claims treaty, as to
provoke a war with Great Britain.
His present reputation will be worn
threadbare when impartial history
shows him up as lie was, hut, such as
it 1C lip hnrl linHdi* lot it hr» T*\»rf linf»
has attended him so far, but lie should
be careful of another turn of the wheel,
as she may piny him “pliskie” yet.
NEWSPAPERS.
Wo have received the lirst number
of the ‘-Press,” a new weekly paper,
published at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. It
takes eh,, right position in political
affairs, and will to nn eye-sure to the
present corrupt administration of State
affairs. It is conducted by Co!. Wyatt
C. Thomas, well known to a majority
of our readers from his having served
as chief of Gen. Fagan's staff during
the late war, and to whom we have
often made returns. As an officer in
the army he was affable and courteous
ill his treatment of those with ntiom
ho was brought in contact by the busi
ness of his office, while he was faithful
and efficient in the performance ot his
duties. Wc earnestly wish him all the
success that is attainable In his new
enterprize, and gladly weloomo him
among the brotherhood of the press as
a most worthey member.
Wo have before us the February num
ber of a new publication, styled -Every
Month, a Magazine of Universal Litera
ture,” published by C. II. Jones & Co.,
New York. It is neatly and plainly
-printed, and furnished subscribers fur
the moderate sum of SI 50. They offer
_o fine steel engraving, 18YlM inches, as
a premium to every new subscriber.
The Dixie Farmer, published at
Nashville, Tenn., has donned a new
dress entirely, and presents a most
beautiful appearence. Its print is very
neat and clean, and the arrangement ol
its matter under appropriate heads
makes it very convenient for reference.
The publication of the Dixie Farmer is
a uew enterprize, but if we judge from
its appearance it is certainly a success
ful one. We say success to all such
undertakings; we cannot have too
■much information of this kind.
Struck Speechless.
The Senate called upon President
Johnson, asking him upon what au
thority he issued his proclamation of
amnesty. 'IJiough a foolish question,
li was wisely answered i iy e novel'
saw a completer answer. Such w as the
pungency of its facts, that, although
perfectly respectful in term*, it seemed
like biting sarcasm. On reading it,
every Radical .Senator must have shriv
eled up like a punctured bladder. The
President oiled the Constitution, the
decision of the Supreme Court, the ex
ample of Washington, the example of
* John Adams, aud the example of Lin
coln.
And now why do the Radical Sena-'
to s, who demanded of the President
Ids authority, neglect to notice his an
swer? Why are they silent when they
were expected to lie loud-mouthed ? ;
Why mute when it was their intention I
to be like roaring and blustering hur
ricanes? Is the President's brief res
ponse, making hardly a quarter of a '
column in an ordiuary newspaper, a
stopple in the month, nil adhesive
plaster upon the lips of each and every
lately-raging Radical Seuator ?—Cou
rier-Journal.
The
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, of tlie 24th,
says:
The vote has boon taken on the con
tested case of Anderson—and, although
two committees made up of Kopulili-1
cans have reported adversely to An
derson, he is voted in—directly in the I
face of tlie evidence. Now', as a good
Republican, some would say 1 ought
to hold my peace, or, speaking, to ad
vocate the action of tlie House. 1 can
not do it; nor is it the part of a good
Republican to pursue such a course.
These things degrade our organization
to u lino below.contempt, and we lose
the support of rhe true aud earnest.
The belter way is to speak out, and let
- tlie consequences take care of them
selves.
My worthy fellow-citizen. Hen. Eg
gleston, cau lake heart. Here is a pre
cedent. Ho has only to give notice of
contest, aud prove his Republicanism,
to take his scat in tlie next Congress.
And I am expected to sustain such
things, or lose cayte as a Republican.
Well, perhaps 1 will, hut when 1 do. 1
want the affidavit* »ent on.
For I lie Dee Aro CitiiK n J
Tli«' illg I'lc o Prairie Count).
Mr. Editor:—I noticed a communi
cation. or extract, from the American
Stock Journal of a recent date in your
valuable paper, relative to the White
Chester hog. This induced ntc to
weigh a pig which I obtarml of Dr. E.
C. Bain, of this county, Iasi summer.
The pig is nine months old, and witli
| out extra altrntion having been given,
| weighs something over 300 pounds. It
| is a sow of the Essex and Berkshire
I cross, of small bone, thin hair and very
tine, beautiful color and most superior
j form. It surpasses any animal of its
j species, in every particular, {lint I cvet
| saw. It is admired by ail who sec it
and I believe it would bear oil' the
i prize in any sweep-stakes riug ill the
j United Stales. It is descended I'rom
, the stock of U. E. Douglass and V. S.
i Collier, of Sumner county, Tenti., whe
' have been noted breeders of hogs lot
| more than twenty-live years, and whe
have taken premiums at every fail
where their stock have ever been ex
I hibltcd. I have been induced to make
this communication from the fact that
! I believe there can be found lor tliis
■ climate no bclteis stock of hogs than
those among us and grown in oui
neighborhood, and at less cost to the
buyer than sending to a distance foi
them. Then it would tend greatly to
encourage stock raising in our own
county and State. Dr. Bain lias pigs
six weeks old which weigh more than
6U pounds—which 1 consider good
enough—and the stock have been bred
with care in the South for more than
twenty-live years.
ASEIUTPK1N.
A Democratic Correspondent on
President Johnson’s '’Future.”
Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquire.j
Few of our Presidents have ever re
tired from the White Mouse with less
of real regret than will accompany Mr.
Johnson's farewell on the 4tli of March.
And witli equal truth it may he said
that few, in retiring, have ever better
deserved the thanks and good wishes
of the American people for sincerity ol
purpose and an honest desire to ad
minister the office for the best interests
■of the country. Ill saying which I do
not mean to he understood as express
ing the bellif that the United States
If - H.H-fP ll'lfl SI llPilni' Vl'Puj f loti t_) k 11 f
that, judged by the purity of his mo
tives and his unselfish inlciuions to do
his whole duly, he lur surpasses any oi
our recent Executives. That lie has
committed great errors, ho himsell
will, I suppose, not be disposed to
deny. Iteould hardly have been other
wise with a man surrounded by the
adverse circumstances that have beset
hi 111 since the beginning of his adminis
tration. For some of these he is res
ponsible—as, for wiint may be called
i the lather of them all, which whs the
j failure to surround himself with a
Cabinet of strong, vigorous men in
j hearty accord w itli him, instead ol
! retaining the evil counselors of his
! predecessor. But it is easier to criti
cise now' than it would have been to
i act then. Judging his Administration
i as a whole, the conservative people ol
! the country must indorse it and thank
1 him for it.
In a former letter j intimated ii.u, - *
I whs the .Intention ol the Conservative
parly in Tennessee to nominate -Mr.
i Johnson next fall for Governor. This
I understand now to be fully detcr
j mined upon. Little doubt is enter
j i.a i ued of his election. At any rate, he
! has always been extremely popular in
j Tennessee, lie knows the people
there, and they know him, and believe
i him to be sincerely und honestly de
; voted to their interests. I do not
know who will be his competitor in
the race, but probably some carpet-bag
scrub from Massachusetts, or some
i Radical convert ot the Stokes pattern,
j who wanted him hung in 1S(>1 for be
ing a Union man. If elected Governor,
lie will undoubtedly be chosen to the
1 Senate in the place of Fowler, whose
1 term expires in 1871; and then we may
| look for lively times in that chamber
lofgiltedgcd imbecility and loyal gum
| moo. It will be worth while to go to
some trouble to elect A. J. to the Sen
ate. just to give him a chance to vindi
cate himself and his Administration,
which 1 understand to be-his sole ob
ject in remaining in public life after the
•Itli of March. Ills natural cofnbative
ness, not always in place when exhibi
ted from the Presidential Mansion,
will have full vent in the Senate de
bates, and I know enough of what it is
in his power to expose to promise rich
developments in his "bowls' with some
of the leading Radicals. He will ex
hibit some of the recent inner work
ings of the Radical party, to Hie intense
delight of all but the Radicals. So let
every Conservative man in Tennessee
and elsewhere put his shoulder to the
wheel and give A. J. all the help ho
can to get him into the Semite. If ho
do not pull tlie mask of patriotism
from some of the hypocrites in that
body "then am I a soused gurnet.”
DIALS.
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Arkansas Lejalt}'.
Special Dispatch to the Courier Journal.]
Little Rock, January 27.—Intelli
gence of a trightlul outrage, perpetra
ted near i’iue Knob, in J ohusou county,
has just reached this city.
Invitations lmve been out for several
days to a wedding which was to take
place on Friday night last. The parties
were highly respectable, the bride be
ing a young and beautiful girl, niece of
one of the former Judges of the (su
preme Court of Arkansas, Ju-t after
the company had assembled,and before
the marriage ceremony was perform
ed, a company of negro militia, com
manded by a white mail, surrounded
the place, and, putting out the lights,
laid violent hands on the Indies. The
gentlemen present were fortunately
not without arms, and, after a sharp
light, they drove the marauders oil'.
A sister oi the bride was seriously and
perhaps mortally wounded. Four of
the militia was shot in the melee. The
affair created great excitement, and the
people turned out in pursuit. The
Itadieals say the object of the negroes ]
was not rapine, hut llmt they went to
arrest a tuan.
Governor Clayton continues to de
clare that lie Mill tin nothing, saying
that the negroes may do as they please,
ilis object seems to be to provoke dis
turbance as an excuse for his acts of
executive violence.
-One thousand utiles of the Union
Pacific A’atlroad ate now finished and ini
operation The Central PtSafie A’ailroud j
having built five hundred miles, hut two'
hundred and sixty-seven miles reuiaiu to
be built There is now 110 doubt that the !
entire line to the Pacific will be open
early this season. The earnings of the
Union Pacific Railroad for the year 1868
are officially reported at (5,666,651 61.
-A uegro meeting at Albany, Geor
gia, Saturday night broke up in a row, in
which two negroes were killed aud another'
mortal!' wounded.
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A Corrt'Npondent til' n Leaning
Itntllc.tl Journal on the Situ
ation tu Arkansas.
t Special Cor,|<iincisn«ti Commercial ]
Marion, Ahk., Jauuurj-17.
* * * * *
Governor Clayton holds tlio Hie of
every inau, woman and child, in Ark
: ankas, in his power. It is only neccs
! sary for him to throw the entire Slate
[ under inariial law, and the property
and existence of any one becomes un
safe. Indeed, when sucli men as Cat
. lerson and lTphani are appointed to
I command such bands as I have previ
| ously described in the Commercial, an
innocent man stands but a poor chance
; to escape their vengeance for imagin
ary wrongs. This turbulent spirit lias
! been manifest for many years—long
! before the war murders were frequent,
1 and since they are of almost daily oc
! curreuce.
No political party can be made res
ponsible for tliein, as all parties suf
fered equally. The remedy selected
lias been worse than the disease, if tbc
militia were intended as a remedy, or
can now be considered as such. The
criminals whose acts called lot*punish
ment, were no sooner aware of the or
ganization of State troops than they
chose one of the two avenues of escape
from justice, to leave the country or to
join the ranks. Now, nny one who
gives a moment’s attention to the sub
ject cannot fail to perceive how ineffec
tive an army of troops must prove
against a lot of straggling desperadoes,
with all the advantage of position and
a perfect knowledge of dens and hiding
places. In the Southwestern District,
all that was necessary for Taker's men
was to cross the Med river into Texas,
and laugh in the faces of Cattcrson and
his force.
The punishment, which was legal
ized in one. State was murder in the
other, and even Cattcrson dared not
step over the line in pursuit of the vil
lains. In such a case how much more
effective would have been the United
States troops, whose proffered services
were declined by Governor Clayton.
They would not have been compelled
to respect the State line, and the coun
try would now be rid of the outlaws
who ouly wait for the inhabitants to
recuperate from the losses experienced
at tlie hands of the militia, to pounce
on them again. This is the way the
assassins are "run out of the State,” as
Colonel Toi ler observed in his report
to General Grant, llow trilling and
absurd for Colonel Porter to allow such
a reason as Clayton gives for the ui.s
Cinployment of the regular troops to
have any weight with him. He says
"the rebels are anxious to have them,
as it creates expenditure of money in
Ilicii'in Mist, I roni Which they reap great
benefits.” Therefore, in order that the
poor broken down rebels may not reap
"groat benefits” from the immense
sum of money which soldiers usually
have from their pay ($10 a mouth), anil
throw around with such reckless prod
igality as to cause a panic in tlie money
markets of the countries where they
are stationed, another course'is pur
sued, which does not pay the people
lor tiicir own property, but robs them
indiscriminately ol all they possess.
Kvcr since the war the people of Ark
ansas have regarded the presence ol
even a corporal s guard of regular sol
diers as a surety of protection. The
villains I here described dure not resist
the United States troops. This fact
: plainly shows that it was the policy ol
the State Government not to quell the
■ real disturbance, but to provoke resist
ance on the part of innocent men and
tints obtain isnnciiou for unv iWti..—
-- ,11.11 uiignt lie necessary to es
tablish nosition and power. 1 traveled
extensively through the State, and did
not meet a man who was not in favor
of the plan ol General Smith, to garri
son tlie lawless counties with United
States troops.
’lhe evil result of the militia meas
ure, as a precedent, is beginning to be
j seen in Tennessee, where the bill fur
I organizing State troops has met with
lavoruble consideration nt toe capital.
Were it not for the subdued and broken
spirit of the people of Arkansas, the
militia would have stood a poor chance
against superior numbers there, but in
Tennessee it is sale to predict that a
terrible retribution will follow the per
petration of similar outrage,
i What ran be more distressing than
’ a lair land dispoiled by legalized dcs
i potism, an industrious people obliged
i 111 passively view the results of their
labor consumed by lawless men. A
complete revolution in the government
of Arkansas w ill alone bring peace and
quiet within her borders.
It would be ungracious, indeed, to
leave the Slate without some tribute to
the good quality which even her people
possess. A more hospitable people
| never existed. They do not offer much,
I but the best they have is as welcome
to the stranger ns the air is free to the
bird. Facilities for traveling w ere ex
tended on every hand. No one wished
me to take their view of the matter,
but to sed'myself the uctual slate of
affairs.
About Franking.
The Washington correspondent of
the Ciueiuiiatti Commercial has llie
following in regard to the abuse of ttic
franking privilege:
l hub snow ii nil amusing Illustration
of these ctlorts, on the part of these
economical reforms. A lady received
a letter from a congressman that puz
zled her beyond explanation, mid she
handed it over to me for clearance. I
understood it at once. My fair friend
had the same name made famous by an
mil hoi ess here, and the letter had been
missent. It seems ttie fair quill-driver
bad been using.the M. C.’s frank to for
ward her manuscripts and proofs. I
ought not to publish, hut can't resist.
The little epistolary effort read:
‘*I)eab fbiknp—1 am sorry to refuse
you the use of my fae simile,ns hereto
fore. There lias been such a devil of
a row kicked up in the newspapers
about the abuse of the thing, tlmt 1 have
been forced to lock mine up. It is well
1 did. 1 found it bad been used to frank
over the country a ciicular setting
forth tlie excellence of a certain patent
ointment to cure scald beads tetter,
ringworm aud the "hicken-pox in chil
dren. I have the confounded thing
under double lock mid key, and bave
had iiiglit-sweuts ever since, lor tear
some internal paper would get hold of
the thing and force me to rise to a
question of privilige, on the subject of
franking scald-heads. If you will send
me your manuscripts and sheets 1 will
frank (hem, with pleusure, provided
none are to go to that screechy old
heathen, Horace Greeley. I am, mad
am, yours. Ac,”
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Mbs. Lincoln's Pension.—.tfrs. Lin
coin's health, we uudeistaud from her
petition for a pension, requires her atten
dance up,in the mineral springs of tier
many, aud the enjoyment of the climate of
Italy iii the winter; and she can not live
in the style becoming the widow of the
Chief J/ugistrate of a great nation on the
means that she possesses. Physicians do
not usually order ueruiau mineral water
and Italian air for persons uuuble to pay
for such luxuries, aud those who have or
dered her to Kurope should be held
responsible for an incorrect diagnosis of
her purse, which is the part.of her system
most likely to ! eatfeutod by foreign travlc. |
—1Cincinnati Commercial, 77th.
A KeiuliilNcence of tin Arkansas ;
.Senator So-called.
1'ru.:i tUj Icxivigtun Observer and Ucparter.]
Who is “Mountain Ren” llicc, and
« hat of him? Ordinarily we take little;
interest in sueli men, but as he bus lately
turned up as United .'Hates Senator from
Arkansas, and is busy just, now in the
effort to establish a new Federal District
in Kentucky, be deserves passing notice.
A number of years ago “Mountain Ben”
took his bat from its appointed peg, be
ueuth the ancestral shieling in the State
of Maine, and made bis way to A'entucky.
A fondness for pities, or it may be a “dis
tant dearness in the bills” of bis native
l State impelled him to seek the mountains
. of A'entucky, grid there lie made his home.
After a while he seems to have succeeded
in obtaining, io a considerable degree the,
Confidence ofthose aiming whom he had
cast his lot. At any rate, he found him
self, some time about the year lSoS, in
possession of several thousand dollars, the
; property of two or three widow women,
who had given him claims fur collection.
This was more money than “.Mountain
lien” ever had hold upon before, and be
; ing of a naturally weak moral constitution
be could not make up bis mind to pay it
i over to the rightful owners Having,
through some impertinence, given offense
to Theophihis Garrard, a difficulty ensued
and “Mountain Ben” was shot. This
accident gave him time to mature his
plans, and also furnished a pretext for a
flight, and shortly afterward Ben ran off
to the North-west, carrying with him the
money belonging to the aforementioned
confiding relicts.
Thus ended the first chapter of the pub
lic history of ‘‘Mountain Ben,” who
sought to shake tiff this title, with the
dust, from his sandals when he landed on
the safe side of the Ohio. During the
war he was a camp follower in the com
mand of General Curtis—being a loyal
man from the necessities of his organize
tiou—and at length he squatted with the
animus renianendi at Little Rock Horethe
fugaceoas Ben abode in safety, and in the
fullness of time, through the potent iriflu
c, ors of negro suffrage and tuil tary rule,
was foisted upon the unfortunate State of
Arkansas as United States Senator. Like
that prince of bummers, the Ktnir
Abdallah, he thinks that Faradise is to
he found only ttuJer the shadow of swords,
i and is a rceonstructionist of the strictest
sect. As such he not only proposes to
prolong the days of his congener in Arkan
sas, Imt he must pay his respects to his
‘‘old A'entucky homo.” He it was who
msruuucuu i nu u^ii lur mi* ji.u 'iuoii or our
, J?tate into two Federal Districts, and it is
only right and proper that our people
should know who their friend I'm in beyond
i the Mississippi is. It is ''Mountain lien’
done up in the Senatorial toga Of couiso
he ought to he a pillar of the A'cntiickv
penitentiary at this very hour, hut, ho
neath the fostering cure of ''the best
Oovcrnment in the world-” —for thieves
and robbers—lie is in the Senate, and will
vote to penalize the holding of office by
those who fall beneath the restrictions ot
the fourteenth amendment. Those in the
mountain regions of Aentucky who have
claims upon this United States Senator
had better look them up and send tlrcir on
to some attorney in Washington, lie
may not cure to contest them, or to plead
limitation Those who know him Lest,
however,,mav regard ibis >■* •* '--a .;otcuv
presumption Thus, leaf by leaf, chapter
by chapter, slowly hut inexorably, the
, true history of ihe reconstruction infamy
; is being evolved. X. Y. K.
.1 I’rt'tlj While <;irl and liuck
.Mgger on tla.tr ilrltlal Tour.
Prom tho Cleveland Plain Dealer; gi)tb.]
A strange couple arrived at Cleveland
from Kiio, on the Lake Shore road, on
Saturday evening, exciting tho disgust and
intense curiosisy of every passenger in the
! ear. It comprised, a sooty, greasy negro,
and a pretty white girl, whom he had
married the day before at Krie. The girl
1 evidently felt a great deal of shame at her
1 situation, for she kept herself doubly
veiled, and looked out of the ear all the
time, ller Othello, however, was all
passionate tenderness and attention We
have learned the antecedents of the pair,
which we lay before our readers: On
Thursday a tall, gaunt, very black negro,
about forty years of age. registered at I lie
Morton House, Krie, as “William Lindsay
and wife, Ohio.’’ He requested ihe land
lord to give hiui the best room in the
house, us his wife would arrive on the the
next train and join him His “wife”
not putting in an appeareuce by the next
morning lie went to Objilin after her.
It happened that tho girl—Carrie Brown
by uame—however, was on route for Krie,
to join her lover, and the train that lie
was on passed heis Arriving at Krie,
and learning the state of affairs, Carrie
remained at the depot till evening, when
Lindsey returned from Obcrlin.
They went to the hotel and asked to he
shown to his room. The landlord asked
the negro if the lady with him was his
wife He answered him in the affirma
tive I ho landlord then interrogated the
ijt.lv will* U’ l-i It In' I II f t <’fl 1 Vi titi.r f f ell
gn l She said they were not yet married.
The two were then told that they must
produce u certificate of marriage before
they could occupy a room together, where
upon they called upon the Uev. Mr
Nutting, of Erie, and were married. The
girl said she came from lioston, Mussaohu
setts; that she had been living in the
1 uiiily of Prof. Allen, of Oberiiu, and
attending school; that she there met this
man her present husband. William
Dei.auoy, alias William l.indsey He
says he is a Wesleyan Methodist preacher
Prul Allen knew of her leaving to marry
the negro, and was in favor of her war- '
riage. They leit Eric on Saturday morn
ing, for Oberiiu. The bride is a very
pretty girl, and was well dressed She
says Iter parents live in lioston. She lias
bcoii in Oberiiu since October last. The
girl is about eighteen or nineteen years of1
age. Del.aneey wore a tall stovepipe hat,
and carried a cotton umbrella iu his hand.
Ciea. Grant uutl the Alabama I
Claim Treaty.
1 he \\ ashingtou correspondent of the
New York Tribune. 20th, says:
Gen. Grant is strongly opposed to the j
pending Alabama Claims Treaty. The
following is his position nearly in his own
words: T he treaty is unjust to the l ui i
ted States because it assumed to measure I
injury iutticted upon this country by moti
ey value of ships actually destroyed, where- \
as the chief damage to our commerce was
m our ships boing driven from the seas by
Anglo Rebel pilules In addition to this
the sympathy extended by the English
Government to the South prolonged the
war at least u year, and for all lives lost
and money expended, for this time, Eng
land is directly responsible. The treaty I
proposes to settle all those things by the
payment of the paltry value of a few ships
--Freeinasouary increased iu iuflu- !
cncc in Eugland last year more than in
any previous twelve month.
Tingle End ol' a Couple or!
lloraellileveM.
On Thursday night of last week two
horses were stolen from citizens living
in the North-western portion of this !
county. On the following morning i
pursuit was. made, and the thieves,!
with the hotses hi their possession. ;
were overtaken near Dyersburg ami
brought bark to the neighborhood
where the theft was perpetrated, on
Sunday night last, and delivered over
to Esquire Lawrence to await trial, i
A short time before davlight the next j
morning, u party of disguised men, !
rode up to the house where the prls-!
ouers w ere, took them from the guard,
and, it is supposed, killed them shortly j
afterwards, as their dead bodies, rid- j
died with bullets, were found Iving
across the road, a short distance from
the place, soon after daylight.
The names of tho two men thus
summarily dealt with are John Fox
and Sam Taylor.
Fox was recognized as the same per
! son who passed counterfeit money on
i Mnj. E, IJ. Mason and other citizens of
j this county about one year ago. lie
j then claimed Middle Tennessee lor his
! home. Shortly after his first visit to
I this county it was ascertained that
! Uuv. Urownlow had offered a reward
j for his arrest, on the charge of murder.
| lie is supposed to have belonged to the
; band of horsethieves and desperate
! characters that have been operating for
i some time past between Memphis and
; Juhnsouvlllc.
Taylor is a mere youth, not over IS;
and was. doubtless, led otl by box, who
! is over SO years of age.
I The history of almost every county
shows that horse stealing is looked up
! on by the people with the greatest
' aversion, and is deemed the highest
crime of which a person cun he guilty.
J lienee, in some of tho States capital
; punishment is, or was, meted out to
those convicted of this crime.
Whether the laws of Tennessee on
i this point meet the full demands ol
justice and public opinion, we w ill not
! stop to enquire. As law-abiding citi
zens, whether they do, or not, wo are
: bound to rest under their decision, and
not take the matter of punishment into
! our own hands. Such a cou' so would
do away with all law, and reduce us Ip
| a state of dreadful anarchy.
The affair on Sunday night should
not only be deprecated but colidemit
! ed, in word and act, by all good citi
zetif. And right hero wo will stale,
| for tho credit of our country, that the
j men who killed Fox and Taylor, were
not citizens of Madistfu. Ail tho
! circumstances connected w ith the
affair, together with the fact that dis
1 'ii:soil hor-emen have never bolorc
i been seen by any of our citizens, go to
| show that the lawless proceedings had
no start sympathy, or assistance among
our people.—IV. T. \\ big.
-— -
A tVcninn Burned Uite.
: from the Omaha llepubbcau, Jan. 23.]
We are called upon to record, in this
i morning's paper, one of the saddest ac
cidents that has happened in our city
lor a long time. We shall proceed to
give the facts in tiie case, just as they
were given to us, in as brief a maimer
as possible.
('apt. Howard, we believe a detective
in Hie employ of the Union Pacific
railroad, lias a residence on Kleveiith
j street. Wo heard it staled Unit the
captain is absent from his home just
, at tins time. Hut to the facts. There
, is a gasoline stove in use in the house
and if was while in tho act of Lirepar
n.s a m e in saut stove, yesterday utter
noon, that the wife of Captain Howard
was made the victim of the terrible
i accident wo have to relate. We con
fess to knowing but little about the
[ construction of these gasoline stoves,
but wc.know (bis nmrli, that there is
' an upright tube extending some feet
above the main body of the stove, on
i lop of which is placed a can of sulii
; cient size to accommodate several
gallons of oil at a time, and by means
i ot a regulating screw a small stream of
1 the oil Hitis contained may be lowered
i through tiie tube into a certain part of
; the stove, where some sort of process
is introduced by which the supply of
gas thus produced affords the only heat
derived from the use ol' these stoves,
'it is not definitely known whether
Mrs. Howard, at the time of tiie acci
. dent, was engaged in tilling lip tiie can
with new supply of oil or whether ho
; was only lowering a quantity into the
I receptacle below, nor docs it apper to
i be positively known the exact man
j uer in which the Hume communicated
: to the oil, but certain it is that an ex
plosion took place followed by an
instantaneous rush of flame throughout
the apartmi'ut, communicating with
| clothes of Mrs. Howard, whoso body
■ was in much less time than is requir'd
to tell it completely enveloped by the
devouring element. The mother of
Mrs. Howard, who was present in the
room, seeing the danger her daughter
was being subjected to rushed to her
assistance, hut w as soon rendered pow
erless by having her hand most shock
ingly burned. The flAtnes had by this
caught to some small articles of cloth
ing, and the room had become suffoca
tingly tilled with smoko.
./list at this moment several of ihe
neighbors, who had been attracted by
the issue of smoke from tiie room in
which tho accident occurred, made
uiwi iij'.n iiiiuivt uii mv ty j.f v/ t , unu u t
almost superhuman exertions soon suc
ceeded ill extiuguising the lire and
rescuing the mother aud daughter from
the tiery clutches of immediate death.
It is terrible to think of the manner
in which Mrs. Howard was made to
sutler in the brief space of time inter
vening the explosion and moment of
exciting rescue. The upper portion of
the body, from the waist to the crown
of her head—excepting a small spot be
tweuuiiud behind the shoulders—was!
literally burned, to crisp. The hair
was all burned her head, and the face
was swollen und distorted beyond re
cognition. The poor woman seems al
so to have inhaled a quantity of (lie
llamo, which tact of itself is probably
sufficient to render recovery impossi
ble. The kind neighbors, along with
the attending physicians, have been !
doing everything that skill and human- 1
ity could suggest, hut with all their
efforts to alienate her sufferings und
save her from -tivlt a horrible death,
the injuries inflicted are surely of so
severe a mum e ns to render her recove
ry lit terly hopi less.
The Story oftb« Slew York Time*
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Times.]
Boston, January 2(>.
Genera! Banks is in Boston, lie
says that the story that lie was ordered
to supersede Grant at Vicksburg is true
in every particular. Geu. llalleek 1
signed the orders, bv direction, proba
bly, ol Stanton. Banks kept it secret,
and never even told hi- wife, and the |
story was started in Grant s lieadquar-j
tors, when it was made public a few
day- ago. Grant sent two general offl
eers to Banks, and lie delivered to
them the orders lie had received while
at Hurt Hudson. The orders are now ,
in Grant's possession, aud will be given
to the public soon.
- -4-t ^
—-Louis Collins, for forty years editor ;
of the Muyavilte, A’y., Kagle, is a hope
less tua uiac
-A monument to cost $5,000 is to bo
erected over the lemaiua of 8am iloustou ,
at Hunter ill? Texas.
**
In the Senate, on the 23d ult., the
fo'lowing memorial woe presented by Sen
ator Evans:
State ok Arkansa-. ^
County or Mo.nrok. |
At a public meeting, assembled accoi i
ing to previoua notice, at the residence ol
E. H. Cottons, on the 18th day o
January, 1869, said day also being the one
appointed for a public sale, a large portion
of the citizens of Duucun. Jackson,
Montgomery aud Cypress towuships being
present, II II. Urcen. Esq , was called to
the chair, and in u few brief and well
timed remarks explained the object of the
meeting; whereupon C D. Dawson was
elected secretary; and upon motion the
chairman appointed a committee ot five,
eompywed of Win. M Mayo, B. F. Kerr,
L. S. Mayo, II. Mathews and E. Redmond,
to draft anti report resolutions expressive
of the sentiments of tho meeting on the
present state of the country. Said com
mittee after retiring and conferring repor
ted the following preamble and resolutions,
to-wit:
Whereas, Several wanton and outra
geous violations of law uud order have
occured in our midst within the last three
months, resulting, in one instance, in the
foul murder of the lion- Jumes Hinds,
and the wounding of the Hon Joseph
Brooks, and in another in firing upon
Wesley Crisp, Esq., a worthy aud esteem
ed citizen and officer of the law, and in
another instance in the shooting at and
wounding a colored man, (name uukuown.)
Resolved, 1st, That vre deprecate and
condemn such acts, not only as outrages
upou the individuals upon whom the
injuries were inflicted, but as outrages
upou the hitherto fair fame aud name of
our o -muruuity, as a peaceful aud law
abiding community, both before and since
tho war; and we regard tho perpetrators
of said deed* as inflicting the most deadly
injuries upon the whole people, not longer
to l o borne with ; and wo hereby pledge
our hearty and zealous support to tho offi
cers of tho law, in arresting and bringing
to justice said offenders whenever and
wherever we may ho called on, regarding
the majesty tftho'awas the very suro
rock upuit which can rest our hopes either
for liberty or tor pro' >»:..a -A’life aud
property.
IIeso.lvr o, 2. That .;o r.gar ! and will
*ol,wort the nicsettt stuic o imcnt as a
fixed tact ; an ! that thi--.i(b .ts several
detriments, limbed by the present
, constitution. aud tlie constitution of the
United Sta.04, we cuu ulono look for and
I hope for peace and happiness, und when
i lime aud experience shall have detuon
i stratc ! any necessity for a chauge, it can
] only he safely affected in the manner laid
; down in the constitution.
Resolved. 3. That we deprecate,and
i deplore that the Executive and legislative
should have been imt oiled by any neces
sity or cause to enthrone martial law on
the pedestal of civil law ; and we do earo
: estlv, hut respectfully, petition both the
Governor and Legislature to re-establish
the civil law at the earliest practical mo
ment wherever it has been abandoned;
and wo do implore our fellow citizens
: throughout the atutc to rally around the
civil law where it is restored as the price
less legacy that was handed down to us by
our ancestor, which has survived every
conflict of passion or prejudice, and has
caused every man to feol Becure, under
his own vine and fig tree, even when the
element of hutuau passion raged like bil
lows upon a storm-lashed sea; for when
- the civil law is lost, all is lost; and we beg
1 them to recollect one thing more which all
' time und history have demonstrated, to
wit : amidst the clash of arms the civil
, law always expires.
Thuiefop.e, Lot us Ic peaceable and
quiet, and never despair of the republio
And in duo time we may reasonably hope
i that the maji.-by of the e.vil law will be
j restored to every nieh of our state. And
theu wo cuu rejoice aud he glad.
Resolved, 1. That having full and
implicit confidence in our lepresentatives,
.) K. Whitson and senator A. 11. Evuns,
they be requested to present the foregoing
preamble aud resolutions to their respec
tive brunches of the Legislature, and to
the Governor as uu expression of the
sentiments of this community on the sub
jest referred to.
Resolved, 5. That the Republican and
Gazette newspapers of Little Rock and
such other newspapers as feel an interest
in the peace and welfare of our State, be
requested to | uhlish the same
Uu motion the preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted; and the meet
ing theu upon motion adjourned, sine die.
II. IX GREEN. Chairman.
0 O. Dawson, Secretary.
-An Iovyn editor takes pains to
tell Ills readers that he lias had an intro
duction to a voting lady from Ohio
whom lie monlions by mime, and says
site "is all sorts of a lovely gill, sharp
as a frosty morning, full of tricks as a
deer, and Immiv fls n whole flock of
snow birds. Welcome.”
-Joe Jefferson’e father and grand
father played comedy rotes with Gat
lieU, and his great grandmother died
from laughing too hardut a comedy.
lilitlED.
On the 8th inst., at the residence of
the bride’s mother, by Rev. J. C. Ken
nedy, Walter R. Brown to Miss Judith
E. Owen, all of this city.
* Take her, her earliest love is thine,
And all unchanged still clings to thee,
Twining around thee like the vino
Around its chosen forest tree ”
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
On Monday, tbe 1st day of March,
1869, I will sell for cash, In front of J.
M. Burney's drug store, in Des Are,
Arkansas, all the doubtful claims due
the estate of I!, llawkius, deceased,
MALTHA J. HAWKINS,
Admx.
Administrator's Sale.
On Monday, the 1st day of March, i
1869. 1 will offer for sale, on the prem
ise-, to the highest bidder, Lots No. 5,
(!, 7 and 8. in Block No. 54, in the Wat
kins survey of the town of Des Arc,
in tho county of Prairie, and State of
Arkansas, belonging to tlie estate of
William M. Bagby, dec’ll, bit the fol
lowing terms: one-third east), the bal
ance in twelve months; notes with
good secytrUy and a lien upon the pro
perty to secure deterred pameuts w ill
be required of purchasers.
SAMUEL !!. POINTER,
adiur. of the estate of W. M. llugby.
Des Are, January 27th, 1869.
NOTH 12
Lost, strayed or stolen on last Tuesday
three weeks, one Muck Mare from the neigh
borhood of Cotton Plant, Woodruff county,
about eight years old. wart on left side just
over the tlank. 1 will give tor the delivery
of said mare $25 A. J. COYLK.
January 2Htb. I860.
a frbuz'cii rozt alli
Every »cw subscriber flor the DES
ARC CITIZEN will pel the AMERI
CAN STOCK JOURNAL as a pre
mium for one year This makes
the CITIZEN by far the cheapest pa
per published in the State, its sub
scription price being only
$2 dAJPa
IT 18 A GOOD ISTESTMEXT
j
To subscribe for the DES ARC CIT
IZEN. as you will get two papers,
either of tho two being fully worth
the subscription price you pay out.
/
NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE,
As wo will mako usoof oar large list
of agricultural exchanges to glean
from them the most practical biqis
on farming, making the CITIZEN
almost as valurble to the farmer as
if it was devoted to agriculture en
tirely. while the STOCK JOURNAL,
that is given to each new subscriber
will teach all about the caro and
treatment of stock,
IF YOU WANT
Send Two Dollar* and Fifty Cents
ami we will send yon the DES A 11*5
CITIZEN' and "the AMERICAN
STOCK JOURNAL for one year: or,
if you chouse, yon can huvo them
sent to different names. The CITI
ZEN is weekly, containing thirty
two columns; the stock Journal
is monthly, containing thirty-two
pages, with two columns to t he page,
neatly covered and trimmed!
! SPEND YOTTR MONEY AT HOME,
And it will flow back to you in some
shape, as a large amouut of our earn
ings are spent in your midst for tho
necessaries of life, which is not tho
case wheu you send to a distance for
a paper
TO BUILD ir A DOME PAPER,
That will rank first-class, nothing is
necessary but for its own people to
encourage it with a generous support
and it will rise in worth just in pro
portion to the support given it.
- ' ■ V • • - . ‘ . | • .. jf* . , • I
iy li
The Sest Way Yo'i Can Spend $2 50
.
Is to subscribe for the DE3 ARC
CITIZEN for one year, and we will
semi you the AMERICAN STOCK
JOURNAL (acknowledged by those
who hare read it to be the best pa
per of its class in the United States)
for oue year as a premium. We
have made this arrangement in order
to have a great inducement to offer
our farming and stock raising friends
and to increase our subscription
lists and influence beyond that of
any other country paper, while at
the same lime wo wish to create a
desire to raise bettor stock here
than hitherto.
‘
IF YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE IN
Home ItiNtitutions,1
Make up a list of names and send
them, with the money, und we will
perform our part. We are wording
with all the energy aud capacity we j
possess to print a cheap paper aud
one that will meet the wants of our
people It takes mou>y to run a
newspaper, but if wo are properly
supplied with the one thing needful,
through the support of those who
are directly interested, we premise
to keep pace with the times and pre
seut new improvements and attrac
tions as we are justified in doing so.
Think well of the matter and we are
confident yuu will see the advantage
of patronizing home institutions.
Address
POE & MATHEWS,
D** Arne, Arkansas.
NOTICE.
On Monday, the lit tUy of March,
18f!9, I will sell for cash nit the rlnttht
ful claims due the estate of W. L. Dc
woodv. bale in front J. M. Burney's
drug store, In lies Arc. Arkansas. I
will also on that day sell some valua
ble real estate In the town of Des Arc.
HORACE P. VAUGIIAN.
_NOTICE.
On Monday, tbc 1st day of March,
I860, I will sell for cash, in IVont of J.
M. Uurucv's drug store, in Des Are,
Arkansas,'all the' doubt till claims due
the estate of J. C. Morrill, deceased.
A. V. MORRILL,
Adnix.
Tom MoCablbt. A. A. 8tai lwoktu.
McCarlev & Stallworth,
(New Brick Building)
Des Arc, Arkansas,
Have just received a well selected stock
of
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
NOTIONS. HATS.
ROOTS AND SHOES.
H A ROW A R E. y U EENSW ARE.
TINWARE, ETC., ETC.
Also keep a fresh stock of Purus on
hand which we offer for sale low for cask.
Highest market price paid for all kinds
of country produce. janEO
' VICK’S
florae vi mu FORim
The firsl edition of one hundred thousand
of Vick’s Illustrated Catalogue of Seeds mid
Guide in the Flower Garden is now published
It makes ft work of one hundred pages, beau
tifully illustrated, with about 160 Fine Wood
Engravings of Flowers aud Vegetables, and
AN ELEGANT COLORED PLATE,
A Roquet of Flowers.
It is the most beautiful, as well as the most
instructive Floral Guide pub!ii, e giving
plain titid thorough directions for the
CULTURE OF FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES.
The Floral Guide is published for the ben
efit of tuy customers, to whom it is sent Leo
without application, but will be forwarded to
all who apply by mail, for Tea Cents, which
is not hair die cost. Address
JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. V.
AUSTIN
JI1LE AADFENALE SEMINARY
Austin, l'ralrle County, li lt.
The third semi-annual session, under t!io
control of Prof. \Y. A. Gainer and Lady, a
; aisled by accomplished teachers in the vari
ous departments of the school, will commence
Monday, February 1st, lsd'j, and continue
twenty one weeks,
GII lRUES PER SESSION.
l Literary Department from $LJto Draw
| ixig, Paiutiug, Embroidery, etc., from $H> to
$20 Music $25. board (including washing
i and lights) from $10 to $*2 per nii*:ith.
j Pupils will he charged from date <0 en
; trance till the close of the sc-sion. Deduo
| tions made only in cades of protracted
i illness.
Wm. SAUN DELIS,
Pres, board of Trustees.
Wst. Dosxsu?, fc>ec‘y. janibm
I
ELOWDER>IIiyS
a
FOR THE CURE OF
Pneumonia, Xeuralgin and Rheums*
tism, Enlargement of the Spleen,
Kidney Affections, Cramp or
Bilious Colic, Sore Throat,
Headache, Earache, and
Toothache. Also,
Painful Men
struation ;
To Prevent Abortion, Rising or Caked
Breast, &c., &e.
In presenting this Medicine to the publih
we take pleasure in assurirg it that it is no
humbug—no quack uostrum; but that it will
most<assuredly do everything for which it is
recommended; for the truth of which we re
fer you to a number of gentlemen who have
tried it iu their own families with unparfd
telled success. See them personally or ad
dress them by letter if you have any fears
as to the correctness of the certificates.
It is a great pleasure we take iu saying to
the Buffering world ihat a safe and sure rem
edy is here offered to ease their aching pains,
and you need suffer no longer, hut try Low
dermiH's Compound Fluid, for it will cure.
It is a homo discovery and only needs a trial.
Great inducements to agents to travel.
A good ohaiico to make moucy—give us a
call. A liberal discount to all druggists.
Ministers of the Gospel uue bottle free.
Prepared and sold by
E. A. LOWDEUMILL
and
JEROME HARALSON;
Des Arc, Arkuu.-as.
Special attention to chronic or ulcered
sore logs, cancers and cases of rheumatism.
Patronage respectfully solicited.
Office oil Bueua V’ista street. jaao 3m
Hamburg, Ashley Co , Ark. )
April 4, lstjS. j
We 'lie umierisitinoil. Druggist of Ham
burg. du hereby certify that we have suld
Dr. E. A. Lowderuiiii t> ( uui pound Fluid
with grout success, and m eur stack of
I’atcut Medicines, there are none that sell
so ready or command greater inquiries—
from our huudreds of customers we have
never heard a word of aught or condem
nation of the justly popular Compound
Fluid. All Druggist would do wed to
purchase a supply without delay, as there
eau be no doubt of tiiiding sale tor it as
soou us introduced
K. -I/. Di CAEN'S & 6U
Low her.mill’s Compound Fluid—
We received early last year a bottle ul this
Huid, to test in the ease of a caked breast.
Due application entirely removed it, allay
ad great suffering, and doubtless prevent
'd a broken breast, wh'eh had three times
followed the same indication, in spite of
:he best physicians. We give it our un
jualifiod indorsement as an invaluable
medicine for that terrible complaint, and
idvise every mother to provide herself with
t —Tennessee Baptist.