ffbt Dcs Sire Sitbtn.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
Tuesday Murulug, August 18, 1868.
TUp C1T1XKN In NOT I he Ofll
clal Organ or the Radical Party.
It In not Dip Recipient ol FORCED
Patronage; hut relic* on It* ow n
Merits and on a »l*crl nil nail ng
PI IILIT, lor snccesN.
National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT,
Horatio geymour,
or JEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JFVancisi I*. Blair, .If.,
or Missoula.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
roK T11K STATE AT LAKUK :
it. D. WALKER, of Washington Co.
JOHN II. FELLOW? of Ouachita.
KIKST DISTRICT :
ROBERT 6. LA NTT, of Prairie.
stXJoNO district:
A. B. WILLIAMS, of Hempstead.
rniKu district:
i. E. CRAVENS, of Johnson.
t’ONO*assro*AL Dfnociiatic Ex. Com. ^
Washington City, May 'JO, 1808. /
The undersigned requests flic chair
men of all state, county, city, township
or ward democratic aud conservative
committees, associations, or clubs, to
furnish the Congressional Democratic
Executive Committee with the names
of members of their associations, for
reference during the pending presiden
tial campaign. Documents will be fur
nished by tliis committee, on orders
accompanied by money, at the follow
ing rates:
For sixteen page documents, in wrap
pers, and franked, S12 per thousand.
For eight page documents, in wrap
pers, and franked, $7 per thousand,
or at the same rate for a smaller
number. In particular cases they will
be furnished gratuitously.
Communications may be addressed
to Hon. Samuel J. Randall, M. C.,
Washington City:
By order. J. R. DOOLITTLE,
Chairman Congressional Dcm. Ex.
Committee.
Sami ei. J. Randall, Secretary.
Democratic and conservative jour
nals will please insert the above notice
conspicuously.
WHAT SHALL WE DO!
In urging upon our people the im
portance of an earnest, active opposi
tion to Radicalism in Arkansas, we are
often met with questions like the one
heading this article. “How can wc
oppose them, we can't vote, etc.” In
answer to these wc can only say, there
is but one way by which we cau do
ourselves and our country justice: wc
must without hesitancy throw our
selves into the coming canvass with a
full determination to heat these scala
wag, carpct-sack importations, and
bring into the olliccs of the State men
of whom wc need not be ashamed. Of
course, to do this there must be a unan
imous disposition to register and qual
ify ourselves under the present consti
tution to vote. It is a well known
fact that to a large number of our citi
zens the oath required is objectiona
ble, but fhis objection is small com
pared to the greater objection enter
tained against the government forced
upon us if we remain still and decree
not to oppose. Again, if we live In
Arkansas and claim citizenship here,
we do so under the constitution of
which this required oath is a part, and
in order to perfect our citizenship, as
wc accept the government under this
constitution, let us accept the oath in
it. This is the only means that can
now be employed to give us a voice in
our State government, and as men de
siring the prosperity of the State we
ought to avail ourselves of it. We are
well aware that this oatli was inserted
in the carpet-bug constitution for
purely political purposes, the scalawags j
who framed it judging that it would
intimidate, as il lias done, a great
many men, Keep mem irom me pons, i
and thoreby throw the titate govern- j
incut and the fatness of otllce into the j
1 uijyds of tlie party tliey represented, j
It is their purpose yet to keep hack us ;
many men as possible by the cry of t
perjury, etc.; hut to our readers we
say, he not intimidated by these
threats; they hnvo no right to inter
pret tlie oatli for you nor to pass judg
ment upon your motive in taking it. i
This oath, we sav, is purely a political
feature iu the constitution and cannot |
otherwise ho considered. Thus view- !
iug the matter, and appreciating the
importance of active, united action in
(he coining campaign, we do urge up
on our readers the necessity of quali
fying to vote, of voting, and thus re
deeming our Statu from carpet-hag
legislation and negro supremacy.
•^■“Mount Vernon is in wretched
condition.” What a world of meaning
is condonsed to these few words, trans
mitted to us by mail. Mount Vernon,
once the home ami now the grave of
the purest of patriots, within a few
miles of the capital of that nation
which ho founded, is allowed to run to
ruin. Too much occupied witli their
own schemes of scllish ambition to And
time to do honor to the memory of one
who iu Ins lifetime would have scorned
the petty motives which actuate them ;
too insatiate themselves for the public
money to vote any of it in taking titling
care of his last resting place, to whom
Uiey owe it that the seats they All were
ever created ; too busy in forging the
chains of a despotism to give any atten
tion to the remains of him whoso whole ]
life was a sacrifice to freedom, the seat 1
of sulllsh politicians who now control 1
the destinies of our republic, sit in
council in that city which now it seems
a solemn mockery to call Washington,
and never cast a thought more on the
grave of the Father of ids Country than
they do on those principles of devotion
to liberty and true religion which ac
tuated liis life. O temporal O mores!
—N. O. Crescent,
History of (he Democratic Plat
form.
. In a speech at Charleston, Wade
Hampton said:
As you are aware, the committee on
resolutions consisted of one member
from each Slat*1. Oq assembling it
was found that a very great difference
of opinion existed. Among other
resolutions offered were some declar
ing that the right of suffrage belonged
to the States, and this was announced
to lie good Democratic doctrine. I
agreed to the propositions, but at the
same time said, that it scented to me
they had omitted one very vital point,
which wns to declare to what States
the doctrine applied. I thought it was
necessary to guard and limit that
declaration, and to the end that wc
might know at what time we could go
back and say who were the citizens ot
the States. I asked that they would
declare that these questions belonged
to the States under their Constitutions
up to the year 1865. Gentlemen were
there from north south, east and west,
and by all we were met with extreme
cordiality. They said they were will
ing to give us everything we declared ;
but we" of the South must remember
that they had a great fight to make, and
it would not be policy to place upon
that platform that which would engen
der prejudice at the North. They,
however, pledged themselves to do all
in their power to relieve the Southern
States and restore to us the Constitu
tion ns it had existed. As wo were
met in such a kindly spirit, I could not
but reciprocate it. I know that I was
representing the feelings of my people
when I did so, and I told them that I
would withdraw #11 the resolutions I
lmd offered, and no doubt other South
ern delegates would do the same, and
would accept (he resolution offered by
the Hon. Mr. Ilayard, the senator from
Delaware, which declared the right of
suffraged belonged to the States. 1
said I would take the resolution ifthey
would allow me to add blit three
words, which you will find embodied
in the platform. I added this : “And
we declare that the reconstruction acts
arc revolutionary, unconstitutional and
void.” (Immcnso cheering.) When 1
proposed that every single member of
the committee—and the warmest men
in it were the men of the North—came
forward and said that they would carry
it out to the end. Having thus pledged
themselves, I feel assured that when
the Democratic party come to triumph,
tncy win snow us n remcuy iur um
misforttines in their own good time,
for which I nut perfectly willing to
wait.
Such is the history of our platform,
and such were the motives which
governed the committee in its forma
tion.
Tlie Funding Scheme.
The National Intelligencer says that
the funding bill was hurried into the
President's hands, along witli a mass
of others, at only a quarter of an hour
before adjournment, and that the Presi
dent very properly refused to under
take the examination of so important a
bill in so short a time, and to return it
either with or without his signature.
The same paper is satisfied that he
would have formally vetoed it had
Congress remained in session longer.
As it is, though the bill fails to be
come a law, its passage was important
as indicating the design of radical
legislation to exempt bondholders (Vom
taxation, while piling up taxes on all
the productive interests of the country,
to mortgage the industry of the people
to the interest of the bonds l'or forty
years, and to prevent the country from
relieving itself from any part of the
principal of the national debt by pay
ing “lawful money”—the only money
the people are allowed to use—within
the same period. For such would be
the effect of the funding bill. Under
this policy the lot of the laborer would
be pitiable in the last degree. Ground
between the upper ami nether mill
stones of crushing taxation and high
and constantly rising prices, bare exis
tence with the scautcst necessaries of
life would be the utmost that lie could
look for. As for the earnings of his
industry, one third would be devoted
to illustrating the “blessing" of the
national debt, aud lie would have to
wage a iife-and-death war witli the
cormorant minious of the radical
regime to keep any part of the other
two-thirds.—N. O. Crescent.
The DIITereace.
Observant men cannot fail to notice
tlic striking difference between the
conduct of Northern Democrats and
Northern lindicals who have of late
years settled in our midst. It is as
great as day from night—as light from
darkness. The Northern Democrat
who comes here to engage in legiti
mate business and t ho Northern itadi
cul who comes to search for cilice, are
as different and distinct Iroin each oili
er as if one had come from the tropic
and the btlier from tlie frigid zone.
Tlie one comes to aid in the inaugura
tion of peace and good will, to encour
age industry, enliven trade dcvelope
resources, and make “waste places
blossom as tlie rose." The other comes
to excite animosities, to breed contcu
finite fn iliecnril in fin,>i v
classes against each other, and to in
cite tiic ignorant and superstitious to
turbulence and revolt. The Democrat
seeks to pacify and rebuild, the liadi
cal to embitter and destroy. The
Democrat depends upon his own ener
gy mid industry for his support and
success in business, while the liadical
seeks to swindle a living out of the
ignorant masses upon whom lie impo
ses or whom lie pursuades to give him
an office. For sufficient exemplifica
tion of these truths the reader need not
go further than the limits of this city.
Here we find that many Northern
Democrats are located and following
industrial, business, and professional
pursuits, wholly disconnected from
politics. They are quiet, substantial
citizens, the very opposite in every
respect of the Northern Iiadicals, who
have como here iu the capacity of office
seekers, and who seem to think there is
uo such thing as living withoat place
or patronage. It is au easy matter to
note the difference botween the two
classes of persons, and our citizens will
not fail to do so. The information
tlius gaiued will be useful aud conven
ient as a subject of future reference
and recollection.—Nashville Gazette.
Death ot Mile* O’Reilly.
Of Col. Chas. S. Halpiue, who died
iu New York Sunday from an over
dose of chloroform, the Atlanta Con
stitution says:
Col. Halpino was a gallant soldier in
the Federal service during the war.
Sinco the surrender he has been as
[iiuguauimous toward his fallen foe as
lie was brave iu arms. Had the spirit
which animated his large Irish heart
prevailed in the councils of the nation,
lie country long ago would have been
•estored to euduring peace. Col. Ilal
»iue in his editorial connection with
ho Citizen since the close of the war
lisplayed a marked ability. Jlo was
ti 11 of promise as a journalist, aiul his
amo a» a poet has gone forth over the
mid. His geniug was of a high order,
md the fervor of his feeling and omo
Jou characteristic of his Father-laud.
Make up a club or tea for four
month*, at rilt) Oats, uaU re
ceive the ( ITl/AX free.
|
From the Nashville Gaictte ]
Patronize Home-Industry.
Time after time, yea with a frequen
cy we feared might become tiresome,
have wo urged upon our readers (lie
great importance of patronizing home
industry. With all the poor skill we
could command in argument and all
the resource* of reasoning and persua
sion at our disposal, have wc addressed
ourselves to the work of directing pub
lic attention to tin's subject. The fact
that it is the duty as well as tlie inter
est of every member of a community—
or resident of a city or town—to pat
ronize and encourage those who pat
ronize and encourage him, is so plainly
apparent and certainly true as to need
no explanation or reiteration. Words
are not needed to make this duty and
interest plainer to even the dullest
comprehension. Every member of n
community feels Hint it is bis duty, aud
ought to know that it is his interest to
contribute to the business success and
prosperity of those among whom lie
lives and upon whom he depends for
patronage. Yet every member of this
community, wc regret to know, does
not net as If he thought this to be bis
duty or interest. Wc personally know
and could name, if neccssajy, citizens
of Nashville, whose every dime of pat
ronage is received from the people of
this city and its vicinity, who prefer to
send abroad for everything they wnnt.
Aeting upon the ridiculously absurd
idea that nothing made here or bought
here is good enough for themselves and
their families, these persons send to
manufacturing or mercantile establish
ments in eastern or western cities for
articles that are made just ns well and
could be purchased just ns cheap at
home.
These inconsiderate parlies ought
never to complain about hard times or
wonder at the dullness of trade. They
have done and arc doing everything in
their power to cripple the industry and
paralyze the energies of the very me
chanics and other producers whose
patronage lias enabled them to pay
for articles they buy in other cities,
while the work of the home mechanic
remains without demand. Men who
habitunlly act in tills way cannot ccr
taintly be troubled with a" great deni of
“the milk of human kindness,” or an
noyed with a very high appreciation of
the golden rule in its scriptural sense.
Until there is a very material change in
this respect on the part of our citizens
tiro lYlflir ovnpt’f t linai* r% f lmv<1 iinioo
and dull trade. Money spent at home
is much more apt to get back into the
pockets of those who expend it than if
sent off hundreds of miles just to please
the promptings of a foolish fancy. The
home mechanic Is the patron'of the
merchants and farmers among whom
lie lives, and if his industry and energy
arc too poorly encouraged by his neigh
bors he is apt to seek some other place
of residence and work. Hundreds of
competent and industrious mechanics
iu this city are idle to-day because they
j have no work to do anu not sufficient
means to go elsewhere. What class of
persons have been mainly instrumental
iu producing this unfortunate state of
things ? Those who have gone abroad
for work that could have been better
done at home. These arc the persons
who have done most to make times
hard aud trade dull in this particular
locality. There will be no very derided
! change for tho better until all our peo
' pie learn and practice the important
: lesson of patronizing home industry
and home enterprise.
From the N. 0. Crescent.]
Tho Eras In Sew Orleans.
| A schoolmate of the writer, who, uf
! ter an absence of nineteen years in
! California and Oregon, has just return
i ed to his native city, declares that he
I is unable to recognize the Now Or
leans of 1868 as being the same ns the
I New Orleans of 184!). When lie dc
I parted on his adventurous and distant
i voyage, everything betokened Die most
' satisfactory condition of wealth, pros
j perity and happiness. The levee was
cumbered with merchandise, the
wharves lined with tiers of vessels, the
carriage ways thronged with licavy
! ladeueil drays to such a degree that a
person crossing from one sidewalk to
another was frequently delayed ten or
fifteen minutes in “making the trip.”
The New Orleans banks were flourish
ing, and their notes preferred to gold
and silver; the white population were
intent upon business, there was cm
ployinent for all; and happiness, ener
gy and hopefulness beamed upon eve
ry face.
The negroes in the markets, and
those that visited the city on Sundays
in their holiday costume, fairly glis
tened as the sunlight fell upon their
sleek and shiny countenances, full of
good humor and contentment. Peo
ple, then, were honest in their deal
ings, punctilious in their intercourse,
i liberal, trusting and trustworthy.
Turn wo to the present. The levee,
| throughout its extent, is as forlorn, di
. lapidated aud forsaken, u» if the
| mighty volumes of tho Mississippi had
i passed into another channel; a dozen i
1 ships, steamers, schooners and steam
j boats lie scattered at long intervals;
the streets fronting the river are as
silent aud deserted as tho aisles of a \
^nkvuviuu ui aim uni limneiisu
I warehouses dim uiu] closed like tlie
; tombs in it.
But, notwithstanding tho sqnalidilv
i and idleness that have taken posscs
| '.ion ot New Orleans, there is one eir
I cuuistauco which makes the eon trust !
j more incredible than anything else : It
! is the revolution which has occurred
• in the population—the sight ot' whites
of ability, education and experience
thrust aside from the control of their
own affairs, and their places filled by
au inferior and totally antagonistic
race.
Our friend is going back to Califor
nia. ,
The Eclipse.
The total eclipse of the gun, on Au
gust 18, 1808, will be of greater dura
tion than any oclipso for the next two
centuries. While the sun is almost at
the greatest distance from the earth,
the moon is nearest the earth, and the
moon’s shadow will pass near the
earth’s equator—all circumstances
which increase the eclipse either in
duration or iu extent of the earth’s
surface. The total eclipse will com
mence a little past sunrise at Aden,
(Bed Sea.) passes during the forenoon
through India, und ends in the evening
in New Guinea. Tho longest duration
of the total eclipse will be six minutes
and fifty seconds—a duration greater
than it has been lot* more than a thou
sand years back.
Most of tlie European governments
Jiavo resolved to send scientific expe
ditious to India, etc., for tlie observa
tion of this rare phenomenon. The
English expedition left England some
time ago ; tho French expedition will
be sent to Cochin China, and Malacca,
and will ho aided by several vessels of
the French navy; tho Austrian expe
hitiou will go to Aden. Tho Parlia
ment of Uie North German Union vot
ed 8111,000 for an expedition, and oven
the almost bankrupt papal government
will scud an expedition to India with
tho renowned Father Seechi. Whether
tho United States will be represented
is not known.—N. O. Crescent.
M^Yirgiuia Democrats believe they
have a sure tiling on tlie defeat of the <
Hepublkaus in that State.
• i
limfrul Blair'* War Record.
The New York Evening Fdst pub
lishes a long and disparaging sketch of
General Frank Blair, regarding whose
war record, however, the writer is
compelled to concede that “it is honor
able as far as it goes." And bow fur
dodr it go ? Why only from the begin
ning to the end of the war—from Vicks
burg to Chattanooga, from Chattanoo
ga to Atlanta, from Atlanta to the sea.
Wlten tho Confederate armies surren
dered. when there were no Blorc ene
mies for brave men to meet in the field,
when tho sword was no longer demand
ed to open the way to restoration of
the Union, General Blair closed hi*
war record, and from that time to this
moment lie has said, in acts and words,
“let us have union nnd peaceand lie
makes plain to everybody that he nnd
those who stand by him mean to have
union and peace by using, promptly
and decisively,*11 necessary expedients
to that end. For tiiis he is denounced
as preaching rebellion anS revolution,
by valiant warriors of the radical par
tv, whoso only war record dates from
tiie cessation of armed hostilities, and
whose only belligerent exploits con
sist in harassing and plundering a de
fenseless people. These irrepressible
braves arc for making the war eternal,
now that there is no danger and plenty
of loot on their side of it. Gen. Blair
docs not believe that this supplement
ary nnd unilateral belligerency was
honorable in its inception, or is tionor
tjble ns far as it goes, and lie is for put
ting an end to it. That is the differ
ence between him nnd the radical war
riors.—N. O. Crescent.
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From the Vicksburg Times ]
Another War.
£)ne of the “so-called” religious pa
pers of file North, is already clamoring
for another war. It says: “Our next
war will be between Liberty and Ro
manism.” Exactly! Having ruined
the eountry, drenched the land with
blood, covered the earth with graves,
and filled its homes with mourning,
pious, puritanic New England would
be delighted to have a religious war,
in order that they may indulge in the
pleasant pastime of burning .a few
thousands of our Catholic fellow-citi
zens, especially those of them who live
in the South. Radical Puritanism can
never forgive his Holiness, Pius IX,
for the manly, Christian, and gentle
manly letter no wrote to Jcllcrson
Davis.
It can never forgive the holy men
who followed the armies of the Con
federate States as Chaplains, and met
the storm of battle, or the horrors of
the hospital, shrived the dying and
comforted the sick and wounded, it
cannot and will not forgive or forget
the constant and heroic women, those
devoted sisters of charity and mercy,
who did so much to rob war of horror
and to strip death of its terrors.
The opportunity to sack a few con
vents, to hang a few priests, to drown
or burn a few hundred defenceless
Christian women, is, to moral, God
fearing New England, a most alluring
temptation, and for one, wo shall not
be astonished to sec a war against Ito
mntiism inaugurated any day.
The following closes an interesting
comparison by the Cincinnati Enquirer
of tlie present campaign with that ol
IS 44:
Mr. Clay, like General Grant, was
unanimously nominated. Mr. Seymour
was nominated as unexpectedly as Mr.
I’olk, with this difference, that lie was
a first-class statesman, which Mr. l’olk
was not. The Texas question then is
the greenback question now. The lat
ter is the same disintegrator of parties
that the former was in 1844. Mr. Clay
was beaten by the vote and influence
of New York. General Grant will go
under an avalanche from the same
State. Mr. Clay was the choice of an
arrogant Congressional majority that
threatened to impeach an acting [‘resi
dent. General Grant occupies precise
ly the same position to-day. Mr. Clay
was the choice of the National Bank
influence. So is General Grant. But
here the* parallel ceases. Mr. Clay was
intellectually one of the greatest men
the country lias produced, while Gene
ral Grant is unknown as a statesman,
and can make no pretentions toward it.
To conclude the parallel, the election
of 1841 was the restoration of the De
mocracy to power, after its defeat at a
previous election. This is what will
transpire when, after I he ides of No
vember, Mr. Seymour is placed in the
Presidential chair.
The Adrunre In Gold.
A writer in the Louisville Journal
argues:
This great barometer, which is the
only reliable index to the. state of the
popular mind, reached 150 yesterday
in spite of the bears on Wall street. It
is regarded as a very significant ver
dict of the people on the bond nnd
greenback question. The idea advan
ced by sonic that tho payment for
(Alaska of the 87,000.000 in gold is the
cause of the recent rise in the price of
gold is all bosh. 11‘it proves anything
it proves that the people are in favor
Of’ till* intpl’Odt' tut tlin ilnhf ftnimr n-tlil
in greenbacks.
The monthly report of tho Secretary
of tho Treasury of the condition of the
public debt has, for some unaccounta
ble reason, been delayed. 'The rise in
gold lias stunned him so that lie has
not had the heart to report oil any
thing. _^ ^ _
WSfDospite all assertions to the con
trary, it is demonstrable, it is being
demonstrated yearly, that the negro
race in the soutli is rushing with ap
palling rapidity towards total extinc
tion. Kentucky included, it is esti
mated tiiat there are eight millions of
whites and three millions of negroes in
the southern states. There wore four
millions of negroes before the war.
Of these it is safe to soy that one mil
lion and a hull* have perished since the
beginning of the war to the present
timo, fifteen hundred being ofilcinlly
given as the number that actually full
Fn battle. By no course of reasoning
can conclusions be arrived at which
justify the belief that tho mortality
will be mitigated. On tho contrary,
every view thaj. is taken of the matter
furnishes additional evidence that the
causes leading to it—moral and physi
cal degeneration—aro daily on the in
crease.—Richmond Enquirer.
Photograph! in Politics.—Wo learn
that tho Democratic National Com
mittee have determined to test tho vir
tue of photography as a means of elec
tioneering. They have ordered 250,(XX)
photographic medals of Seymour and
Blair for the poor white and negro
voters of the South. As these two can
didates are both very good-looking fel
lows, we should say that this was a
pretty shrewd dodge. But the Repub
licans will probably hasten to imitate
it, and every darkey in tho Southern
States will soon have a free breastpin,
tnd can vote for the one set of men or
the other, according to his ideas of
heir physical and moral beauty.—New
Vork Sun.
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Srad Fifty t ents and recelie
III# flTIZUI for tour months.
(tfyTho steamer Daniel Drew ran
'rout Hudson to CuUkill, on the lluil
.on, a distance of nearly six miles, In ;
duveu and a hall minutes.
From the S. O. Crescent.]
1 The 1’opnlnr v oice In Woeemher.
The violent aud revolutionary measures
which the radical leaders have adopted for
the obvious and sole purpose of keeping
power, aro inspired, not by hope, but by
despair. The congressional caucus, who
constitute the central oligarchy into which
the radical party ha* been resolved, well
know that, having for three years con
travened the wishes, they have now at
length forever forfeited the confidence of
the American people. They are well
aware that only in a course of persistent
and aggravated usurpation is there the
forlornest chance of retaining the oppro
brious supremacy which they have obtain
ed by usurpation. This is the thought
which colors all their legislative enact
ments that bear in any way or in any de
gree upon the political conditions of the
oountry. With perfect truth it may he
asserted, and the heart of every radical
leader will indorse the assertion, that the
purpose of such enactments is to organize
defiance and resistance to the constitu
tional voice of the people and to force the
continuance of radical ascendency by the
permanent suppression of the popular will
This is the tneaningof those foul and hide
ous births of usurping legislation and
bayonet coercion which, with horrid irony,
are dignified with the name of reconstruc
ted State governments The African lep
rosy with which radicalism has infected
the South, is not intended to terminate in
the South, but is designed to spread politi
cal infection throughout the nation and tc
subject the whole country to a despotisn:
i resting on those two indispensable props
I the unreasoning bayonet on tho one hand
| and the ignorunt negro dupe of radica
i knavery on the other hand. The authors
j of this atrocious scheme have audaciously
j attempted to delude the people of th<
j North with the idea that the perpetuatior
of radical power, with its extravagant anc
! corrupt expenditures constantly increasing
1 and with its vexatious and obstructive
| legislation, ruinous to the repose and the
prosperity of the country, is necessary t(
secure the results which it was the objec
of the late war to obtain, liut this pre
tense is exploded. The popular mind a
the North is at length awake to the foe
that under radical rule, not only aro the
Northern masses cheated ot the great cue
at which they have aimed, to secure i
Union founded in Fraternity of feeling ani
in conscious community of interest, bu
that even an outward and visible unity
designed simply for tho maintenance o
internal pcauu and national safety, become:
constantly more remote nnd problematical
Tho radical leaders, conscious that the peo
pie have detected the utter fallacy am
failure of their policy, and forewarned o
the impending popular reprobation at tin
ballot-box, nre • desperately bent on fore
arming the existing regime against th<
sovereign verdict of the country. Hut al
their di vices only reveal 'their increasing
despair nnd forebode their inevitable con
fusiou nnd defeat. Let them do wha
they may, by fraudulent technicalities o:
downright violence, to stifle the voice o
the people, their contrivances could no
stand against a clearly ascertained numcri
cal majority, rising in its might and in it
wrath to condemn them, any more than :
congressional edict, assisted by bayonets
could turn back tho Mississippi river o
arrest tho flow of the gulf stream. Thi
| physical preponderance expressed by sucl
• a majority would eventually translate itscl
I into political preponderance—at all haz
1 ards.
i __9 9 ^
The Peute of Europe.
It is now pretty generally known tha
the only reason Franco did not go to wa
with Prussia last year was because sin
was not prepared to do so. The Prussian:
caught the French napping. There wa
no lack of mou, but they were not prop
orly armed and equipped, the uiaguzine:
; were empty, and no time was allowed fo:
preparation, llad France in that condi
tion taken issue on the battle field witl
Prussia another Waterloo would vory like
; ly have been the result. Napoleon am
• Marshal Niei learned a lesson then whicl
they have not forgotten, and they havi
since put their experience into practice
They have reconstructed tho army on t
basis equal, if not superior to thntof Prus
sin; and to-day 800,000 Frenchmen
armed with the deadly Cbpssepot repeat
ing rifle, thoroughly equipped in even
respect, well drilled, and only too cage:
for the fray, are ready to take the fieh
against any European power that inter
feres with the ambition of Napoleon. N(
wonder then that (tic pacific declaration:
of the Emperor nnd his responsible Min
istcr are not implicitly relied upon, am
that the pcaco of Europe is regarded a:
being at loast very precarious.—N. Y
Sun
f or Tllc New York Herald says: Jeff
Davis has gone to Europe, and. it is
to be hoped, may be permitted indefi
nitely to stay there. We enunot afford
iu ru 11111 iu ii, oiiii iiiuiu iu VACtiui, im
man who was tho incarnation of Hit
Southern spirit, with the country now
ready to divide between parties as tc
the final result of the war. Congress
has voted the money to pay his cap
tors, and now let him go.
DIED.
On the 14th inst., at her residence
nine miles southwest of Des Arc, Mrs,
FanNist Kennedy, aged 58 years.
Tallaliatchiun please copy.
On tho 12th inst., at his residence fif
teen miles southwest of Des Arc, Mr.
Daniel Sparks.
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JOHNSTON, NEWMAN k CO.,
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Commission Merchants,
No. 274 Main Street,
llet. Seventh and Eighth,
Louisville, Ky.
Rkfer to—Thomas, Gill & Go., !>e» Arc,
Arkansas. augl8
IHSSOLITIO\.
milF. copartnership heretofore dieting bo
JL i ween Jackson h Owen, has thin day been
dissolved by mutual consent. The business
will be settled by 8. X. Jackson, who has the
books and accounts of said firm
8. XV JACKSON,
J IV OWKN.
D#-t Arc, Ark , August 8, 18t>8 — augll lm
JoNK8, McD«>wkli. A Co., liras it ALo.,
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BXTSSEY & CO.,
gene ha L
AND
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NO. 4H CARONOEI.BT STREET,
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Wm. McQckKji will be on regular
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Offer to—Stale Savings Association, St.
Louis, Mo.; I’ike, Lepejrca & Brother, New
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’ Under the auspices of the Helena District,
Arkansas Conference, of the M. E.
Church South.
» fTIHE Second Session of this School, under
1 the care of I’rof. ThOJi. It. Sllfl
ton, with an efficient corps of Assistants,
will commence the
First Monday in September, 1868,
and continue twenty weeks.
CHARGES PER SESSION :
* Tuition from $12 to $25. Music, Painting
and Drawing Extra.
Pupils will be charged from date of en
trance till the close of the session.
1 Deductions made only in cases of protract
ed illness.
Board, including Washing Eights, &c.,
. from $10 to $12$ per month, half in advaneo.
From the location and productiveness of
1 the country surrounding the School, it bids
1 fair to be second to none in the State,
r H. M. COUCH, President
Board of Trustees.
T. R. S#rltox, Secretary.
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HICKORY PLAIN
: MALE and FEMALE
INSTITUTE,
SXOSOF.T ?LAXXT,
PRAIRIE COUNTY. ARKANSAS.
THE exerci*!** of Oil* Institute will be re
sumed the fn <t Molid.iv in August, under
the supervision of
B. H. CROZIEB, A. M.,
assisted by a corps of competent teachers.
Rates of tuition—$13, $18 and $25 per
term of five months.
Surveying taught practically, with the
Compass.
Music on the Piano Forte, $25. Use of
Instrument, $5.
Boarding, $10 or $12 per month.
For further particulars, address Principal
or any member of the Board of Trustees.
D. F. REINHARDT, President
Board of Trustees.
C. M. Gkee*, Secretary.
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NOTICE
IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in pursuance of a
decree of the Circuit Court of Prairie
county, ou the Chancery side thereof, at the
February Term, 1808, of said Court, I will as
i'_:_:__:.. nv.._ _ n.. i r..i. i_
of August, 18(58, prooeeil to sell at public out
cry, to the highest bidder, for cash, in the
town of Des Arc. in front of the office of
James tS. Gatewood, in said town, to-wit:
Lots one (1) and three (8) in block twenty
nine (20) in the town of Des Arc, in Prairie
county, in the Stat e of Arkansas, according to
tho plat of said town. Said sale being had
to enforce vendor’s lien on above described
Lots, in a certain suit in Chancery in Prairie
Circuit Court, wherein A. Stewart & Bro's are
complainants and Geo. W. Vadcn et als. are
defendants.
J. E. GATEWOOD,
jul21- Commissioner.
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MALE & FEMALE
SEMINARY.
Tnc Trustees having employed Mr
B. D. Perry to take charge of the School
the first Session will commence at the
Methodist Church, on the 10th day uf
August, 1868.
Rates of Ti itiox, rsit Sessios or Five
Months.
Primary Department .$13 00
Higher English Department. 15 qi,
Ancient Languages. 20 no
Incidental Fee. j (jy
Board can be had at $12 per mouth
One-half of the tuition must he paid
at the middle f>f the Session, and the
balauco at the close.
All scholars considered regular from
time of entrance, and no deduction c*.
cept in case of protracted sickness.
For further information, apply (0
the Principal. jul2$’-tf
AUSTIN
MALE and FEMALE
SEMINARY,
Aostln, Prairie County, Arkansas.
THE Second Session of this School, under
the control of
Prof. W. A. Garner and Lady,
will commence the first Monday in August,
1808, and continue twenty weeks.
CIMItor.S, PER SFRSION.
Tuition, from $13 to $25.
Incidental Fee, 50 ceuts.
Hoard, (including washing and lights,)
from $10 to $12 per month.
Pupils will l*e charged from date of en
trance till the close of the Session.
Deductions made only in cases of protract
ed illness.
ww. PAUAVEitii!t, rres.
Hoard of Trustees.
Wm. Donxkll, Sect'y. jull4-lm
A HOME COMPANY.
Capital #‘350*000.
ARKANSAS
FIRE, MARINE,
AND
General Insurance Coy
unit MIL ML
C. (i. SCOTT, President.
CIIAS. A. Cl,A It K, Treasurer.
W. II. FUI,TON, Secretary.
DTltECTOItS.—A. McDonald, C. G.
Scott, John liobins, G. 1!. tVeeks, Fred
Kramer.
CONST'LTING DiliECTOKS.—S.
T. Griffith. tV. W. Adams, Dr. P. O.
Hooper, II. E. McKet.
The patronage of the public throaghout llio
State is respectfully solicited for this
HOME INSTITUTION.
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Office in tho Hunk Building,
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