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No Civil War—Democrats Rely
oa Ballots, aot Ballets!
The Hon. C. L. Vallandigham con
cluded a very able speech at Dayton,
Ohio, the other day, with the following
manly and eloquent words:
I have now, my Democratic friends,
finished what I had to say on the po
litical issues and situation to-day. One
word further upon another subject, and
I have done.
You hear from every quarter, through
the Republican press, the alarm that it
is the purpose of the Democratic party
to rciuaugurato revolution and civil
war. Let no man bo in the least con
cerned. Unquestionably it is the fixed
purpose of three millions of Democrats,
with all the intensity which can fire the
hearts of mon born frocmen and scorn
ing to die slaves, if we shall fairly,
constitutionally and legally elect a
President, to see that he is inaugurated
at every hazard. It is our right, and
our duty, too ; as also it is the duty and
right of the Republican party, if they
shall legally, constitutionally and fairly
elect Gen. Grant. But no man medi
tates openly or covertly anything be
yond. No, gentlemen, it is the Repub
lican leaders who are the revolutionists.
It is they wire, resolved by all means
and at every sacrifice of the rights of
the States, the liberties of the people,
and the peace of the country, to per
petuate their power, would again
plunge us into both civil and social
war with all its horrors. But to the
ballot, and not to the bullet, we now
appeal. The people are wearied of the
Republican party, and of its wrongs
and its perfidies, of its debts and its
tariffs, and its taxations, of its negro
governments and military despotisms,
of a dishonored Constitution and a
broken Union, which four years of j
war and three years of peace under its
conduct and legislation have failed to
restore; and they demand and will
hftVfi jl rthn.nn'f* Anri iiiili'Rft fivnrv si mi
and omen by which the political future
may be discerned, shall fail, so signal
and disastrous will be the overthrow
of this party in November,' that they
themselves will make haste to recog
nize and hearken to the voice of the j
people as the voice of God; and as j
chastened children in silence will sub- j
mit to the judgment which in mercy to ■
themselves, as to us and the whole j
country, shall drive them from the I
seats of power. No, gentlemen, no; j
there will be no civil war in the land ; ]
but the sun, at high noon, shining ou j
the Eastern front of the Capitol on the I
4th of March, 1808, will look down j
peacefully upon Horatio Seymour, I
President of the United States.
Fort}' Miles of Snow Sheds.
I
The following, which we clip from,
an exchange, will givo our readers j
some idea of the difficulties in the
working of the great Union Pacific
Railroad :
It was reported last winter that the
sheds built by the Pacific Railroad '
Company to protect their track from
the deep snows of tlio Sierra Nevada
mountains were crushed by the weight
of snow that fell upon them, and that
some other method of protection
would have to be devised. It seems
however, by a letter in the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, that this plan of shield
ing the track has not been abandoned.
The Company arc now engaged in
erecting sheds over the cuttings and
other exposed points. They are of
heavy timber frame work, with pointed
gable vool'8, and look as if they could
withstand almost any pressure of snow.
Nearly forty miles of the track will
have to be thus covered, and tho quan
tity of timber required will bo enor
mous. Not less than 22 sawmills, most
of them worked by steam, are run night!
and day, employing nearly 2,000 men,1
and yet they do not work up to the .
neeus oi me company. mu icn iitcus \
twenty-eight mills will be running.
It is estimated that it will requro no j
less than 800,000 feet of lumber to con- i
struct a mile of sheds. So great is
this demand, that the country on both
sides of the track is being rapidly ;
denuded of its forests.
(ioveraer Curtin On Ciovernor
Beymour.
The following from the Bnft'alo
Courier, contains a high tribute" to
Horatio Seymour from the lips of ex
Govcrnor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, as ,
thorough a Badical as can be found
anyw here. The Courier says :
Governor Curtin was asked the other I
day, in the Union League Club House
of Philadelphia, what was his opinion
of Gov. Seymour. He replied : “Well, j
sir, if 1 were asked to meutiou a man
who, in my estimation, possessed the 1
attributes of a perfect gentleman, a'
cultivated scholar, a thorough states
man and a siuccre Christian, I would,
without hesitation, name Horatio Sey
mour, of New York.” “How about Sey
mour’s loyalty ?” After the dispatches
that I sent Gov. Seymour at tho time
of the rebel raid into Pennsylvania,”
replied the Governor, “it would hardly
become me to impugn his loyalty ; the
fact is, I havo never doubted it. I
understand that Belmout is having all
despatches sent by Stanton and myself
printed, and I havo no doubt they will
be in tlie hands of every Democratic
stump-speaker through the campaign.
We had better give up attacking Sey
mour's loyalty, for the opposition hold
the trump card in that matter.”
gajyThe best timber for sleigh run
pers—slippery elm
Tricks of Resist ration—W> Must
bo Watchful.
The game the radical party is playing
ia a deep and shrewd one. Fairness is
not sought; permanency for the future
is not considered; the future welfare
of the people or prosperity of the state
does not enter into their calculations.
The question is, “shall we make our
little game win, or shall we repack our
satchels and go.”
Lean, cadavorous men like Cassius,
who, by accident, have been permitted
to prowl about the national capital,
have invented the reconstruction laws,
and fixed upon a plan of registration
that will be likely to prove most con
dnsive to party success and to their
continuance in power. Their agonts
and tools at the state capital have their
instructions. It will undoubtedly be
sought to give to the registration as
much as possible, an air of plausibility
and candor. Iu many counties in the
state, and in many townships and pre
cincts in couutics, if will do to register
fairly. Iu such casos good and consci
entious men will perhaps be selected
for registrars, and an air of honesty
and good faith given to the conduct of
the registration and the election. Our
people thus lulled into quietude under
the false impression that all is goiug
well, may forget that ‘eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty,’ and wake up at
last to defeat and ruin. The state has
been thoroughly and carefully cau
vassed in the radical committee room ;
the exact number of votes wanted is
known ; the number that can be secured
fairly, by purchase, aud through the
agency of a thoroughly organized
league is footed up, and the margin to
be overcome is provided for. It is to
he done iu a great measure by disfran
chising rightful electors, for which full
and ample provisions have been made
by attempting to authorize the register
Tn BviifpT aw nvt' m? tviv ruiiiir vat
entitled to REOisTEtt.” Another re
course is the usual mode of ballot-box
stuffing aud voting inen over and over
agaiu, and if all these are likely to fail,
wc have reason to believe that in dem
ocratic strong holds, disturbances will
be sought, the polls will be closed up
aud a final result announced from the i
votes cast elsewhere throughout the
state. All these tricks aud schemes I
should be carefully guarded against by 1
committees composed of thorough-go- 1
ing vigilant men, who comprehend the
emergency, and whose duty it shall be
to watch the polls, the registration lists, 1
the ballot-box and the registrar. There
is nothing so efficient to prevent mis- 1
chief as a good pair of honest eyes
wide open. Evil-doers always quail *
under the eye of watchfulness. The 1
thief falters when made aware that lie
is seen. The tool of the league room 1
who attempts to duplicate his vote pur- I
suaut to instructions, when reminded
that lie has once casta ballot, will drop i
his colors and sneak away. Men iutent
on uothing but evil are always cowards I
and shrink from the light. It is hence *
that the reconstruction laws of con- 1
gress, aud the registration laws of the
state are so full of hidden meanings |
made simply to dupe and deceive. f
Now that registration has commenced,
precautions against fraud aud knavery ,
are of the most pressing importance.
This election must not be lost. Fail
ure is ruin and death. Success is eter
mil political life, and that prosperity
which tho honest people of Arkansas
so eminently.—Little Rock Gazette.
The Old-Line Whip.
Georgia D. Prentice says: If there be
a solitary human being within our
roach, who, by some whimsical hook ,
or crook of heart or brain, has got on .
the wrong side of the linc-of-bnttlc—
particularly if he has been a Whig or
Union man, aud considers it a sort of
duty to go against the Democrats, wc
entreat him to pause and reflect upon
what he is about to do. Why should
he go with the Radicals? aud what ,
unnonn con lw> nfl'dl' for IIAt. (TOlIltT Wltll
tho Democrats ? All tho issues over ,
which we used to light are dead. The
Democratic party itself is reorganized ,
after a division which completely de
stroyed and recreated it. Iu 1860 it ,
fought within itself as resolutely as we
over fought against it. Times have
changed; men have changed; issues
have changed. Clay, if he were living
now, would bo a Democrat. Webster
could bu nothing else. All tho reput
able old-liue Whigs that remain are
Democrats, from Fillmore to John Bell;
and God knows, if these men can afford
it, there is no one of their followers in
the by-gone times who has any excase
to hold back.
Disgusted Patriots.—The Meridian
Gazette, chronicles the movements of
a large party of disgusted patriots. It
says: '
Fourteen patriotic and disinterested
individuals, passed through here yes
terday morning. They were afraid
that their votes would elect Grant and
Colfax, and they therefore decided to
go into wiuter quarters at the Peniten
tiary, and thus save the efeuirtry.—
Judge Foote, at the last term of the |
Circuit Court in Lowndes county, ap-j
predating their generous motives,!
kindly consigned them to tho walls of;
that institution, where they will be‘
‘•guarded iu their conduct,” like all
other lladinalt.
♦ 0 »-■—
E»c8* Madder colors red. This is the
reason why the madder you get the I
redder you grow
A Ueadlim.
LAUGHING.
“Laugh and grow fat” said somebody.
I aint very fat, but I’m a healthy babe—
on the laugh I”
“With mirth and laughter let old
Wrinkles come," said another chap.
Old Wrinkles didn’t come. He “died
laughter.”
A man as lores money too much to
laugh never ought to have a full “chlst”
Adam, (who Is dead now,) laughed
‘from early morn till late at Eve!”
(Patent applied for I)
Show me a man as don't laugh and
I’ll lock up my spoons.
Doctors don’t like laughing; it hurts
their business.
DEBBI8.
I likes folks as knows enough to
mind their own alllair; but I never
hurt my eyesight to look at ’em—it
ain’t epidemic.
Don’t be too Btnart; folks has gone
to the penitentiary for bein’ too smart.
Many a man as “gives away his
hand,” comes near sellin’ his heap.
;N. B. I aint married.)
Franklin said, “Time Is money.”
But I've seen folks try to pay their
hills on time, and time went back on
em. Time ain’t money only when it
passes.
“Honesty is the best policy.” This
s good as fur as it goes but it don’t go
k great ways now-adays.
“Every cloud has a silver lining.”
Let it cloud up.
“There's glory in the tented field.”
Well, let it stay there for all of me. '
“Contentment is riches.” Perhaps ;
hut you’ve got to live within your in
come.
Nobody but a gourmand ever et tu
jrute—at one settin,
To preserve the teeth— lock ’em up
is aaav oniu<
Money brings friends; want of it
Tens'.-)’.
“Lovo thy ucighbor as thyself.’’
i'es; but keep your eyos on him.
Never don’t “let the sun go down
lpon your wrath;” no, because some
sody’s son mny come down on you.
Don’t be a politician ; ’cause you may
vaut to give bail or reference for board
ome day.
Always catch a lady when she faiuts,
>ut don’t rumple her heart; it makes
ler “come to’’ boforo she is fairly
oady I
Lawyers’ ideas always look fccs-able.
Wealth is no sign of worth in a man ;
>ut it goes further uow-a-days.
Money is like dnrkuess, it covers up
i heap of devility.
When a man boasts loudly of his pa
riotism, I think that man has “got an
lye to business.”
“Virtue has its own reward ; but gen
irally a man has to wait a good while
'or his reward.
The girl who “loved not,” afterwards
narrled him.
Money may be the cause of a ltcap of
rouble; but its a might sight easier
o borrow trouble than it is to borrow
noney.—N. O. Crescent.
t^Thc Hon. George H. Pendleton
tas shown transcendent greatness since
he nomination of Seymour and Blair,
le has nobly lost sight of himself iu
ho great struggle for freedom. He
corns to be ubiquitous—here, there,
ivory where pleading for the right. He
icems to think that bis defeat, his
vrongs, are nothing in comparison
yith the great destiny of the country.
Pendleton has more of the aflectiouB of
he American people now than he had
jefore the National Democratic Con- '
reution. His conduct has been mag
tanimous, grand and lofty. He speaks
dmost every day. In all his powerful
uid eloquent addresses, he epitomizes
he Democratic creed thus: Fidelity to
he Constitution I Fidelity to the Union i
Fidelity to the rights of the States I
Fidelity to the liberties of the citizen!
Fidelity to the principles of free govern
uent! Fidelity to that policy in matters
>f finance and taxation, which, by pav
ug the five-twenty bonds in legal ten
ter notes, will lift from the shoulders
>f labor the burthens which oppress it;
tud by equality of taxation will make
t to reap the just rewards of patient
tnd che«Ail industry. That is a plat
brm which all honest men can and will
mpport, and they will support Sey
nour aud Blair as its representatives.
—Memphis Avalanche.
Ploackstte.
The Freeman’s Journal of last week
'.ornes out hard upon the “deviltries”
>f planchette. It says:
It is evident that this planchette is but
k new phase of the table tipping rascal
ity—that is, fraud except where dia
bolic, and diabolic where not humbug,
it is most dangerous to meddle with
what are called the obscure powers of
nature. It is seldom any one does so
without duinage to body, or to mind, j
or to soul. Generally the damage ex
tends to all three.
We earnestly advise aud entreat all
our friends aud readers, whether Cath
olic or not, to let alone table-tipping,
spirit mediums, plauchette, aud all oth
er silly deviltries, by which the lost!
nngels seek to fool and perplex the hu
man race. These are “lying wonders,”
but yet there is devil-work in some of
them. They are part lie, part wonder!
The wonder part comes from the devil :
certainly; and as to the lies, the devil ;
is tho father of all of them.”
•0-The time we live ought not to be :
computed by the uuinbor of years, but
by the uso that has been made of that
jinio given ««.
StlhHieiah Drowned In the I
Flood.
We make the following extract from
an article contributed to the Louisville
Democrat:
All wo know of the origin of the
earth or our race we learn from Revela
tions. The chronology used by the
civilized world is founded on the dates
furnished us in the Bible. We reckon
th£ date of the flood from the dates
found in the 6th chapter of Genesis.
We learn from this chapter that Adam
lived before his son Seth was born 136
years; Seth lived before his son Enos
was born 105 years; Enos lived before
his son Cainan was born 90 years:
Cainan lived before his son Mahalalul
was born 70 years; Mahalalul lived be
fore his son Jared was born 65 years;
Jared lived before his son Enoch was
born 162 years; Enoch lived before his
son Methuselah (687) was born 65
years; Methuselah lived before his son
Lamech was born 187 years; Lantech
lived before his son was born 182
years. Noah, hence, was born Anno
Mundi 1057.
In Genesis, 7th chapter, 6th verse, we
ire Informed that Noah was 600 years
aid when the flood of water was upon
Lhe earth. A dd 600 years (his age) to
L056, the date of his birth, and we have
1656, the date of the flood. We learn
from the 27th verse, 5th chapter of
Bcnesis, that “all ther days of Methu
lelah were 969 years, and he died.’’
By reference to the foregoing table it
will be seen that Methuselah was born
Anno Mundi 687 ; add his age, 969 to
>87, the date of his birth, and we have
1656, the time “when the . flood of
araters was upon the earth.” The con
tusion is as certaiu as figures that the
JIllUBl Illttu HUB uiunuvu 1WI »«o
wickedness. [And is a remarkable
proof of the truth of the Bible figures.]
A Hard Joke on Grant,
The Boston Democrat, referring to
Sen. Grant’s celebrated order, driving
.ho Jews from Mississippi, oilers the
’ollowing explanation of that brutal
md unchristian order. The Democrat
lays:
At the time alluded to a prominent
Few cotton dealer of Cincinnati, made
i bargain with Grant for the getting
>ut of five hundred bales of cotton
'rom tho Big Black river country, as
listed by the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry—
Hit) JcW ullcrcrl) no wao tho ouotvm,
>no-fourth the profits. Grant wanted
uore, and at Inst the Jew offered an
ligbth which Grant accepted. Tho
;otton was got out and shipped to
Memphis, and sold. Tho Jew, faithful
o his promise, met Grant with tho pro
;ccds of the sale, and gave the General
>nc-eighth of profits and departed.
Grant's Adjutant General, surprised at
.he smallness of the profits, spoke to
.he General nbout it, who was so exas
icrated on learning that one eighth
was less than oue-fourth, that lie with
n that hour issued the order expelling
ill Jews from the lines, and to this day
ms never forgiven the entire raco for
lis own stupidity.
Aphorism.
The inexhaustablc reservoir of apho
■isms, the Talmud, supplies the fpilow
ug, which have only recentlfPbccu
.ranslatcd:
For a man that has been ruined by
woman there is no law and no judge.
When the ax already touches thy
leek, still hope in God’s saving grace.
Hang the sweetest grass around a
pig’s neck, it will still go and wallow
n the ralre.
When the jackal has his day, make
lim a bow.
He who rents one garden may cat
>irds ; who rents many, the birds will
sat him.
Eat below your means, dwell aecord
ng to your mcaus, but 6pcud on your
wife and children above your means.
First understand, then argue.
if___ _i„l a I_i_i. j__
jvcn the gnat has a more ancient
ineage.
lie who throws suspicions, should at
suce be suspected himsolf.
10-A former Tennessee friend, wri
ting from Athens, Alabama, for the
Daily, says;
“Our Alabama Legislature played a
Irick on itself. They passed the fran
chise bill to humor the people ; then to
lo away with the effect ot the franchise
hill, .hey passed, by a small majority,
the Electoral College bill, aud adjourn
ed : when, very much to their surprise,
the Governor vetoed the Electoral Col
legejbill, leaviugthe franchise bill a law.
You see tho Alabamianr'cau vote by
accident. Even if the Legislature
should bo convened, they cannot get
the two-third vote, requisite to pass
the Electoral College bill over the
Goveuor’s veto. The liadicals ore in
favor of holding no cloctiou in Ala
bama this time.
Important Discovery.—The Bolivar,
(Tcnu.) Bulletin, announces a very im
portant discovery, one that will be of
very great service to telegraph opera
tors. It says:
Two telegraphic operators in that
town have discovered that they may
wholly dispense with jars aud acids in
the generation of electro-magnetic fluid j
by burying plates, one zinc and the j
other copper, within two inches of each
other, two feet deep in the moist earth, |
and connecting the wires with them in
the usual way. It says that tho line at
Bolivar is now constantly worked with \
power thus draiyq from the earth.
Who Made The War Debt.
Taking a sentence from a recent letter
fVom Mr. Seymour to a personal friend, in
which ho says that the Republicans
(Radicals) are trying to dodge the finan
cial issues, and that it is the duty of
Democratic canvassers to push the debt
and taxation upon public attention, the
New York Tribune makes it a text upon
which to air afresh some of its stereo
typed preversionf of the origin of the pub
lic debt aud grievous taxation under which
the country suffers.
As a matter of course, its first assertion
is, that the Democratic' party caused the
civil war; and to sustain this, it beats for
the ten thousand time, the ohaff about the
tggressions of tho pro-slavery Democracy,
tnd the imbecility and ill-concealed
reaohery of the Buchanan administrations
is the remote and immediate provocation,
>f the conflict out of which grew the debt
Mr. Seymour himself comes in for attack
is an ally with the Democratic party in
tiling up the mountain of debt.
To refute the sophistry which seeks to
ihift the responsibility oTthe job fiq|t.the
ihoulders of the AbolitiPB eru*4&ms
igainst the South, is a task upon whw
t were profitless to enter. fUttory nl
tote prominently one fact, vis^Phat if a
political party in the North hjjjfl not or
ganized itself with the avowed intention of
ibolisliing slavery, and .11 doing so to
override tho rights of thf Southern States
tnd people, and the iperal Constitution
ivhich gave them jpBrantcc, there would
‘iavc been no wacnd no debt. Tbc pre
sent Radical parWuiude all >hc conditions
of the war. It Arited it. It encouraged
t. It provokw it. For twenty-five
rears it presistWtly labored to bring it
ibout. ArgumeW umtestation, appeal,
:hrcat, repeated ^P^Bromises, and the
inal offer of the GpSnden compromise,
:ould not change (Mr purpose or deter
them in the least from driving the South
:rn people to arms- This wo say is his
tory. It has passed above the range of
party discussion at the present time, and
lanuot be altered by the the bald asser
tions of the Tribune and its associates,
flic fact that resistance came from one
iidu after it was deliberately and calcu
atingly provoked by tho other, does not
ix the guilt of consequences upon the
irst party. So the world and posterity
vill judge.
The Tribune’t criticism upon Gov.
Seymour’s noble and patriotic oourse in
ho winter of 1860-61, in endeuvoring to
■cpress the rising tide which soon launch
id the country into war and debt) itself
lustaius the charge that the Republican
coders were deaf to the appeals for com
promise, and bayed with voices ‘still for
vor.” A quotation is given from Gov.
Seymour's celebrated Tweddlc Hull speech,
n which, after urging that the Peace
Conference, then in session, should not
idjoum without presenting to the country
lome scheme of pacification, he said:
‘Tho question is simply this—Shall we
pave compromise alter a war, or com
promise without war.” The Republican
lection of the Peace Conference shouted
pack, “No compromise to avert war,” and
var came, and debt came, and taxation
itill comes. And they arc not satisfied
irith all this train of evils. They will not
rave compromise after war. The same
party, yet iu possession of tho government,
a more exacting, intolerant and oppressive
;han before- The South, by the foree of
lumbers, was coerced into peace, and yet
Eladiealism will abate nothing of its de
uands. Having oonquered, it seeks to
pumiliate and degrade. Its measures for
:his purpose continue to increase the debt
ind add to the taxes. The miscalled Re
publican party is primarily responsible for
the war and the debt, and its suooessor.
die Radical party, is following in its foot
steps.
Gov. Seymour was wise in his advise,
[t is the duty of the Democracy to arraign
the authors of the debt whioh lays a mort
gage of ten per cont, on the property and
producing resources of the people for an
indefinite period, and hold them responsi
ble before tax-oppressed people.—Union
and Amerioan.
The Fall Elections.
Elections will be held In several
States before the Presidential election.
The following is a list:
Nebraska.October 6.
Ohio. October 13.
Indiana.October 13.
Pennsylvania.October 13.
Iowa.October 13.
West Virginia.October 22.
The following States will hold their
elections the same day as the Presiden
tial election, the 3d of November:
New York, Wisconsin,
New jersey, Minnesota,
Delaware, Missouri,
Maryland, Kansas,
Illinois, Nevada,
Michigan, Massachusetts. |
Tehnesseo will hold her Congrcssion-1
al election on that day.—Nashville j
Union and American.
tar The Massachusetts Democratic
State Convention denounced the re
construction acts of Congress as pre
posterous, contemptible, dangerous,
unconstitutional and revolutionary.
tar A nosegay easily obtained.
Four brandy smashes a day for a cou
ple of mouths will put you iu the way
of one that will astonish all your
friend*.
Loyalty*
“In the name of the Prophet, Figs!”
As the Osmanlis disdain the sweetest fruit
of the Orient unless it is offered in the
name of the Prophet, so there is a class of
persons in this country who avoid every
thing as unclean and impious till it is in
spected and branded as "trooly loil.”
The jookey who rode the winning camel
in the great hegira race has quite a reputa
tion as a great prophet, but the profits of
loyalty in- this country could buy all the
treasures he ever won by faith or armies.
From the pulpit to the oockpit, loyalty is
now the only currency. It buys the right
to vote and the right to hold office* So
far as holding office i8 coneerned, loyalty
was worth more to Sam MoKee than the
overwhelming vote of the people was to
his opponent. It can buy out the stain
and the penalty of every crime, though
you have committed more than were charg
ed to Warern Hastings in India. You
may invade a city, slay your thousands,
confiscate all the money you can find,
drink up all the whisky and steal all the
fcjdy spoons, but if you are “trooly loily”
Jw have only done a patriotic duty. C n
the other hand, if you are disloyal, you
can neither vote, hold oflice nor keep a
station in Arkansas, and your wife has
grounds for divorce into the bargain.
As the “trooly loil” are to have every
thing their own way, it is very nice and
comfortable to be one of them, and so it
becomes highly important to know how.
Nothing is easier to learn, and nothing is
easier to practice provided you are not
troubled with a mind or conscience of
your own, and have no “splinters of our
shattered Constitution striking in your
kidneys.” You have only to take the
New York Tribune, or any other leading
Radical paper, and learn from it that the
Democrats in Main and Vermont, like
those in Texas and everywhere else, are
disloyal rebels and murderous Kuk luxes.
No man can vote with them and be “trooly
toil." All who do are enemies of the
country, convicted by that act of treasons,
stratagems and spoils, and therefore fit
subjects for proscription and disfranchise
ment, no matter though they fought from
Bull’s llun to Appomattox under the stars
aud stripes. But those who vote as the
Hadicals tell them to, are "trooly loil”
Any queer toasts they may have drunk or
any little shooting they may have done for
the rebellion, are all forgotten and for
given. They are the salt of the earth.
They are the Lord's people, and entitled
to monopolize all the privileges and to eat
up all the fat.
This sort of loyalty wo have every day
for breakfast, dinner, and Bupper, fried,
stewed, baked, boiled, and raw, on the
half shell. Having so much of it, we
should thank God that the country is sufe
but for one fact. This sort of loyalty is
confined entirely to a party, and that party
in the minority in most of the States. It
is a melanoholy fact that a great majority
of the white race in this country arc desti
tute of this kind of loyulty. What will
become of our Government now, when it
must lean altogether upon one leg, its
weakest leg and that leg a black leg tf
In all this, just as history repeats itself,
the leading traits of the Puritan stock
reappear in their descendants. The latter
cant of loyalty just as their fathers canted
of piety. It is grasping arrogance assum
ing the garment of godliness. It is self
righteousness, claiming the authority of
heaven to promote paltry and personal
ends. The Puritans, when they canted
about religious liberty, were seeking the
power to persecute Quakers and Baptists.
When they canted about godliness they
were demonstrating their right to engage
in the slave trado and burn witches. So
their descendants, when they made war
(v.. A kAAl «A_A..K.A.t tkA K.A.U AKA.
saw,” were only seeking power to override
its Constitution and tinker it to death with
amendments and new principles of con
struction or reconstruction.—Louisville
Courier.
Sjnnebs First.—An exchange tells
the following good one at the expense
of the reverend clergy :
On board the steamer Waldcustein,
wrecked recently near the Capo of
Good Hope, were several clergymen
from Natal, going to a synod of the
Reformed Dutch Church, at Cape
Town, aud also an Euglish clergymau.
When the boats were gotten out, ono
of the clergymen rushed for the first
boat, but Captain Joss, the master of
the ship, lifted him out of the boat,
saying: “You are a miuistor, aud pre
pared to die; the sinners must bo saved
first,” and sure enough the clergy wero
compelled to stick to the ship uutil the
sinners had been landed.
19*The Radical party Impeached the
President for doing his sworu duty.
Only in the wrong would they support
him. Resides usurping authority, it
has been the busiuoss of Congress to
break oaths aud eucourago the same
thing in others, to trumple on the ha
beas corpus, tho civil law and all rights
and liberties of whito men, aud waste
aud steal the money of the people.
■I#* At a colored party, Sambo asked '
Dinah if ho Bhould help her to some of!
tho breast, “Now ain’t you ’shamed, '■
Sambo, to eav breast before tho ladies ?
11) take a piece ob turkov bosom.” I
Watebino Trees.—In very dry sea
sons it is very important to water
newly transplanted trees; but the com
mon mode is very objectionable.
When the water is poured on the sur
face) the soil is apt to crack and let the
moisture below escape through the
openings, so that its utility may often
be very doubtfnl. Latterly, I have ap
plied water differently. Dig a hole
near to the trees so as not to disturb
the roots, and pour in a pailful. Then
draw the loose dirt until the hole is
filled and cover up completely, so that
nothing wet is visible, and no cracks
will ever appear. A tree planted in
this manner will not need watering
igaln for a week, as very little of the
water will escape by evaporation.
“Curb for Love.”—Take of spirits
of resolution, 14 ounces; syrup of good
tdvicc, 12 ounces; oil of absence, 2
ounces; powder or disdain, jounces;
extract of don’t-care-a-tivcness, quan
ruM suf.
Put these ingredients into a snneepan
of sound reason, with a handful of
licart's-ease, stir it up with a quantity
of thymo, and sfain it through a box of
patience. A small portion of this mix
ture to be taken daily.
Second keubdt.—See your sweet
heart before breakfast three mornings
in succession.
I^The rumor that Gen. Grant Was
unbushed while on his recent tour,
caused a Western poet to strain up his
muse to the following pitch :
Ulysses Grant, who went out West.
To trade in furs and skins.
Was Thomas hawked and Scalp-i-ed
By bloody In-ji-ins.
S&'At a colored party, Sambo asked
Dinah if he should help her to some of
the breast. “Now ain’t you ’shamed.
Sambo, to say breast before the ladios ?
[’ll take a piece ob turkey bosom!’’
J©-Thc Mississippi river was dis
i awo ru rl \f n 1 1 Kw T'ln QaIa a
being tho first European to look on the
‘•Father of Waters.” He crossed it
near the present site of Memphis, at
what is now known as Chickasaw
Dlufls.
Saving Flower Seeds.—Tho seeds
of such flowers as are liable to be scat
tered and lost to the raiser, as the pansy,
for instance, may be kept for uso by
tying a bit of muslin around the seed
bud before it ripeus and opens.
|®“An exchange^ says: A girl in
Topsham, Maine, died from her blood
turning to sugar. Our devil, reading
tho paragraph, remarked that it must
be n mistake, for he knows a girl, who
if sweetness is fatal to vitality, couldn't
live a minute.”
#af*A surgical journal speaks of a
nan who lived five years with a ball in
jis head. A waggish friend of ours
iavs he has known ladies to live twice
is long with nothing but balls in their
beads.
tffi'-The young man who accidentally
;asthis eyes upon a young lady coming
)ut of church has had them replaced by
;oing to the altar with her, and now
tees as well as ever.
M9*“Sainbo, does you know why de
Radicals is like dcse things all tru de
woods, now ?” “No, Pete, I gib it up.”
‘Well, it is ’causo dey’s lo-cus-sos.V
‘Yah, yah, yah,—dat am a fax, Pete.”
A modest youug lady ,who was
i passenger on board a packet-ship, it
is said, sprang out of her berth and
lumped overboard on hearing the cap
tain, during a storm, order the mate to
haul down the sheets.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. J. W. BT7RXT3Y,
Being permanently located at Des Arc,
will continue the praotice of his profession in
til its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Harney’s Drug Store.
-,
DR. ROB T. B. TREZEVANT.
Tenders his professional services to
tho citizens of Dos Are and vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sep21
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. 8. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD A THOMAS.
AimvmMUf
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
33. TP. Johnson*
DRUGGIS T,
DES ABC, ABKANSAS.
t
KEEP on hand a large assortment of Drug*
Medicines, PainU, Oils, Perfumery,
Patent Medicines, Wines, Brandies, Whiskey,
for medical purposes, whieh he will sell low.
Prescriptions and orders tiled promptly.
Terms cash. fab. Id, 1808.
P. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kinds of work in my line. Mend
ing, Cleaning, Ac.
--Thankful for past favors, 1 solicit a
continuance of the patronage heretofort he
stowed on me. f*fc28-tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Z. P. H. FARR,
ATTOH1TBY AT LA TXT,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
H. 3?. Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.,
WILL practice in the Courts of theoountles
of Prairie, White, Jaokson, Woodruff aud
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where in the Stato.
eep7tf.
T. E. EMERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARK.
Special attention given to the colleotlou
and scouring claims, buying and selling lands,
paying taxes, examing titles, Ac. april 11
J. R. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff oounty, and tfie Cirouit Courts of
the seventh Judioial Distriot, and give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to his
oare. janI2
u. s. eanrr. w. r. bbosacou.
GANTT ®> BRONA1TOH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to collodion of
claims. »prll
W. J. ROGERS.
ATTORSKY AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to (he Collection
of Claims. Investigation of Land Titles, Pay
ment of Taxes. &c. mylG
JAMES H. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. CAUSE,
Augusta, Ark. Jacksonport, Ark.
Patterson ft danse,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW,
Jacksonport and Augusta, Arkansas.
tViLL practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jaokson, Independence, White, Lawrenoe,
Randolph, Croen. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special cases in an; part of the
State. Addross eithor office. m;18-l;
J. C. JONSON, Office—-West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searc;, Arkansas.
JONSON A MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
—AUD
oeneral Land and Collecting Agents,
SEARCY, ARKANSAS.
Will givepromptattention to an; business
in the counties of Independenoo, Jackson,
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conway
and Van Buren. marO
SOL. r. CLARK. BAM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOS. W. MARTIN.
CLARK. WILLIAMS ft MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WILL praetice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
act as Real Estate and General Agents.
Asanis*_Marlrkam vnal nnas fitafa ITnuaa
april28-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHER.
Attorney at Law,
COTTON PLANT, WOODRUFF CO. ARK.
Will practice where called.
sep28-tf.
«K. a. OOOD1. V. MC m
GOODY & MoRAE,
4« MW
SEARCY, WHITE COVHTY,
ABKANSAH.
Will practloe In all the oourts of Arkansan.
mar24
DR. A.LL3N
Offers his services to the citizens of
Des Arc and vicinity in the practice of
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
aud by attention to business he expects
to share a liberal prtronage.
Office—At his residence—late the
residence of W. G. Frith. sep21
Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
TENDERS bis professional services to the
Citiiens of Des Arc and surrounding
country, in the pructice of Medicine and Ob
stetrics. He hopes from an experience of
over fifteen years in Southern practioe, to
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney's Drag
Store. marchSY-lWSS-Iy