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THE REGISTRATION LAW.
A bill to be entitled on act to provide
for a registration of the legal voters
in the state of Arkansas.
Be it enacted bt the Gbnbral As
sembly of thr State of Arkansas:
Sec. 1. That on or before the first
day of August, 1868, and every two
years thereafter, the governor shall,
with the advice and consent of the
senate, appoint three loyal, competent
and discreet citizens in each county,
who shall have resided at least six
months in the county next preceding
their appointment; said persons to be
styled and called “board of registra
tion,” one of whom shall be designated
by the governor as president of said
board ; Provided, That in case no such
persons can be found in each county
within the state'then, and in that case,
they shall be appointed from tho coun
ty most convenient thereto, each of
whom shall serve two years unless re
moved as provided hereinafter: And
provided further, That the governor,
in lieu of one of the citizens to be ap
pointed ns above provided for in this
section, may designate a justice of the
peace, notary public or constable as one
of the members of said board of regis
tration, who shall in every such case
be designated as president of said
board ; and every justice of the peace,
notary public or constable who may be
designated by the governor as a mem
ber of said board for any county in
this state, shall in addition to the duties
now imposed upon him by law dis
charge the duties of president of such
bell'd of registration according to the
provision* ?/ this act.
Sec. 2. The govet'Cor shall fill any
vacancy occurring in any of the- ap
pointments made by him, and may in
liis discretion remove any one so ap
pointed by him, for imcompetency or
other sufficient cause. The secretary
of state slinll cause notice by certificate
to be given to each of the persons, and
shall also transmit to the clerks of the
county court of each county the names
* of the persons so appointed as board of
registration.
Sko. 3. The nresident of the board I
shall caii9c printed notices to be given
in conformity with (lie provisions of
section seven, oftlie times and places ho
will begin to register, at least ten days
beloro registration, by three handbills
posted up at public places in each elec
toral precinct, district or ward.
Sec. 4. The president and each oftlie
registrars, before entering upon the
discharge of their duties, shall take and
subscribe the oath of franchise of sec
tion five, article eight, and oatli of of
fice prescribed in section 17, of article
15 oftlie constitution.
Sec. 5. The county court of each
county shall on or before the 15th day
of August, 1868, revise the formation
of election precincts in each county,
and any time thereafter, if it shall be
come necessary, and shall as far as the
public convenience will admit establish
the election districts by precincts, dis
tricts or wards of a city or town, or
other municipal subdivisions as the
court may think best; and the county
court clerk shall immediately after said
day certify to the president of the board
of registration all election precincts in
the county, who shall upon receipt of
the books'as hereinafter provided, pro
ceed to register the voters in all the
precincts, wards or districts of his
county.
Sec. 6. The governor shall cause to
be prepared the form of books aud cer
tificates for the registration of voters
on or before the first dtfy of September,
1868, aud shall cause copies of such
hooks to bo deposited with eaclt clerk
oftlie county court. The expenses of
preparing and transmitting such books
shall be paid out of the state treasury
upon the certificate of the governor.
The clerks of the county courts shall
deliver to the president of the hoard of
registration a suflicient number of
hooks and certificates for the registra
tion of all the voters in each precinct,
district or ward. •
Sec. 7. Tlio president of the board
of registration in each county shall at
tend in discharge of his duSies at the
usual places of voting, as declared by
tlio countv court, in each electoral pre
cinct, district or ward within the coun
ty, commencing not more than sixty
days before the day of election in each
year of a general election, and ending
on or before the teuth day next pre
ceding such election, aud continuing on
duty at each election precinct, district
or ward in sucli county not less than
one nor more than throe days, aud shall
on each day be in attendance for the
purpose of registration from nine
o’clock in the moruing till 5 o’clock in
tlio evening. If from any cause the
president of the hoard of registration
is unable to attend in any election pre
cinct or ward at the time appointed,
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shall be authorized to proceed with the
registration in the order as their names
so appear in their certificates of ap
pointments to bo numbered by the
governor. , , . . ,.
Sec. 8. In the books furnished to the
hoard of registration iu each county,
there shall he printed the oath pre
scribed in section five, under the head
of “franchise,” of the constitution, fol
lowed by spare sufficient for each voter
to subscribe his name thereto, which
shall be written iu full, and re-written
by the registrar so as the name shall
not be misunderstood, and no person s
name shall be registered as a qualified
voter unless he appear before the reg
istrar and take and subscribe said oath
provided for under the eighth article
and section five of the constitution.
Sec. 9. Each registrar shall have
power to examine, under oath, any
person applying for registration as to
his qualifications as a voter; and he
shall, before entering the name of any
person on the registry of qualified vo
ters, diligently inquire and ascertain
that he has not done any of the acts
specified iu the constitution as causes
of disqualification; and if from then
own knowledge or evidence brough
before them they shall be satisfied that
any person seeking registration i® dis
qualified under any provisions of the
constitution, they shall not enter hit
name on the list of qualified voters
though he may have taken and sub
scribed before them the oath aforesaid
Each or all of the registrars shall havt
power to administer opths to all poi
sons appearing before them for regis
tration. or as witnesses. The regis
trars shall issue a certificate to every
person who is found to be a qualifleil
elector, showing that said elector if
entitled to vote until his certificate if
revoked by the board of review.
Sec. 10. The registrars shall enter ir
the register of qualified voters tht
name of every person who shall satisfy
them that, though not entitled to each
registration at the time he applies there
for, he will become so on or before the
date of the next ensuing election.
Skc. 11. That no person shall be reg
istered who daring the late rebellion
took the oath of allegiance to the
United States, or gave bond of loyalty
or for good behavior, unless he eball
show by satisfactory evidence that he
has ever kept this said oath or bond in
violate, or that he has openly advocated
or voted for the reconstruction meas
ures of congress, or voted for the con
stitution at the civil polls at the con
stitutional election of1868.
Sko. 12. During the six secular days
next preceding the tenth day before
each general eleotion, the president and
registrars of the board of registration,
shall meet at the court house of each
county, as a board of review, and each
officer of registration shall have a vote,
and a majority of said registrars may
decide any question, and shall consti
tute a quorum to do business. The
said board of review shall pass upon
the claims of all persons who have been
unable to appear before the registrars
of their respective precincts, districts
or wards, upon claims of persons who
consider that injustice has been done
them by the registrars refusing to re
cord them as qualified voters, and also
any objections made to persons regis
tered as voters on the list of the elec
tion precinct, district or ward, in which
he resides. If the board shall bo fully
satisfied, from testimony brought be
fore them, that any person has been re
jected by the registrars, wrongfully
and without sufficient cause, they shall
place the name of such person on the
list of voters of the election precinct,
district or ward in which lie resides
and issue biin a certificate of that fact;
or, if it.satisfactorily appears to the
board, from their own knowledge, or
testimony brought before them, that
any person has been placed oil the list
of any election precinct, district or
ward of said county, who has been
guilty of any of the acts named in the
."oiistitutiou as disqualifying a person
to b<3 a voter, they shall strike from the
list of voters the name of such person.
Any person feeling aggrieved upon the
UV/VIDIUII VI IIIC Will U) VUIlf lipvu rtJiJMl"
cation have the testimony applying to
the case and the decision thereon, cer
tified to the supreme court of the state
upon the same terms and conditions as
appeals from the circuit court.
Src. 13. Immediately after the clos
ing of said registration, the registrars
shall make out aud certify two fair
copies for each election precinct, dis
trict or ward in their respective coun
ties, alphabetically arranged, of the
uaincs of the qualified voters as ascer
tained and determined by said board
of review, one of which copies for each
election precinct they shall deposit
with the clerk of the county court on
Or before the Saturday next preceding
the election, aud the other they shall
delivei forthwith to some one of the
person! who shall have been appointed
to act as judge of the election in the
elcctioa precinct, district or ward, for
which the list wns made, and shall take
his reaeipt therefor. The person to
whom the said list shall have been de
livered shall produce the same at the
place of voting, and deliver it into the
possession of the judges of the election
at the tine of opening the polls on the
day of the ensuing general election,
and if in shall refuse or wilfully neg
lect or fail so to produce and deliver
the sains, he shall, upon conviction, be
fined in the sum of not less than one
hundred; nor more than live huudred
dollars, be recovered by indictment
and shall thereafter be disqualified
from boiling office under the laws of
this state;
Sec. 14 The said list so deposited
with the ^lerk shall be subjoetto exam
ination, at other records of said court,
but no sulh examination by any per
son not Jfficially connected with the
court sliaj be allowed, except in the
presence o( said clerk or his deputy.
The reeistvars shall, as soon as possi
ble, deposit with 6aid clerk the original
books of legistration, which shall be
kept and preserved among the records
of the court except when otherwise
disposed of as hereinafter directed.
Sec. 15. the registrar while regis
tering the voters in each precinct, dis
trict or wail in his county, shall ap
point three qualified voters as judges
of election, ^ue of whom shall act as
clerk for such election precinct, dis
trict or wardiand shall forthwith noti
fy such porsQis of their appoiutment
as judges, an| shall make aud certify a
list of the pq-sous so appointed, and
deposit the same with the clerk of the
county court, who shall shall make a
reuuru ui mo qiiuc , nuu 11 any ui mu
persons so appointed fail to'act, the
qualified voten, when assembled, shall
have power toappoint somo qualified
elector to act it the place of the person
or persons so filing to act as judges of
election, or sorte one of them. If the
board of roviey shall fail to deliver to
the persous apiointed to act as judges
of election, or some one of them, a
copy of the lisbof names, as hereinbe
fore required, tie said persons so ap
pointed as jud$s shall, or any one of
them, give nofee of the fact to the
clerk of the ctunty court, who shall
thereupon immediately furnish to them
a certified copyiof the list in his pos
session.
Skc. 16. Eachregistrar and board of
review while dfecharging their duties,
shall have audiBxcrcTso the power of
! the circuit coui for the preservation
of order at ant around the place of
registration, aid may summon and
compel the atte|dance of witnesses for
the purpose of recertaluing the qualifi
cations of persois registered or apply
ing for registration, and to that end
may issue subpynas, attachments and
commitment to any sheriff or consta
ble, who shall setve such process as if
issued by such cohrt, and shall receive
the same fees threfor as are allowed
by law for such sirvices in state cases.
All papers issued by said registrars or
board, may be sigted by either mem
ber thereof.
Skc. 17. If any registrar, clerk, sher
iff, or other oificer„shall violate auy of
the provisions of tlis act, or refuse or
wilfully neglect to perform any duty
herein imposed upai him, or make any
I alterations in the lit of voters deposit
| ed with him, or suffer the same to be
made by any perso* except as herein
after provided, shah be flued not less
than one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars, 11 be recovered by
indictment, and thereafter shall be dis
qualified to hold an: office of honor,
trust or profit in the itate.
Sec. 18. Whoever tall destroy, mu
tilate, deface, or take by violence from
any board of registration, or any mem
ber thereof, or clerk of county court,
or from any of the judges of election,
or steal or take away any book of reg
istration, or list of voters required by
this act to made or kept, shall, upon
conviction, be punished by imprison
ment in the penitentiary not less than
two years nor more than five years.
8*0. 19. That any person offering or
threatening violence to any one en
gaged in the duty of registration, or
disturbing or resisting them in any
way in the performance of their duty,
or who shall wilfrilly keep away by
intimidation, bribery, imposition, de
ceit or fraud, or use or exert other im
proper or illegal influences to prevent
or hinder electors from going to the
place of registration, or from register
ing, shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and upon conviction thereof, be pun
ished by imprisonment in the jail or
penitentiary house of the state for the
term of not less than one nor more
than five years.
8*c. 20. The president of the board
of registration shall receive for his ser
vices six dollars per day for each day
while actually engaged in the discharge
of his duties, ana the other registrars
shall receive the sum of six dollars per
day while sitting as a board of review,
and the sum of six dollars per day
while discharging the duties of the
president during his inability to regis
ter, to be paid out of the state treasury
upon their own certificate, under oath,
aud countersigned by the governor,
upon which the auditor shall issue his
warrant for the same.
Sec. 21. The clerks of the county
courts are hereby required to make out
and forward to the secretary of state,
immediately after the completion of
the registration in their respective
counties, precincts, districts or wards,
a certified copy of the registration
thereof, which certified copy shall be
evidence of the facts therein stAted,
and may be used as such in any con
tested election or other legal pro
ceedings.
Sec. 22. If any qualified voter de
sires to remove out of the county, or
out of his precinct, district or ward
where lie has registered, the registrars,
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ty court, shall write ou his certificate,
Transferred to the county, precinct,
district or ward where he desires to
locate or vote, in red ink. and transfer
his name to the precinct where he de
sires to vote, with like entry on the
book of registration, opposite his
name, and the registrars, or board of
review, and clerks, shall take such cer
tificates as evidence of a qualified vo
ter, and enter his name on the list of
qualified voters in the countv, pre
cinct, district or ward where he de
sires to locate or vote, if they shall bo
satisfied, from evidence or in their
own minds, that he is a qualified voter
at auy time; such certificate, if to be
used out of the county, must be certi
fied under the baud and seal of the
county court clerk, free of charge.
Sec. 23. In any county of this state
where, for any reason, a proper regis
tration has not been made previous to
any general election, the governor,
when notified of the fact, shall cause a
new registration to bo made for the
purpose of any municipal, state or
county election to bo held in said
county; such registration to be gov
erned, in all respects, as other regular
registrations under the provisions of
this act.
Sec. 24. No circuit court shall have
power to issue any mandamus or other
process to compel any registrar or
board of review to put any person’s
name on tho list ot qualified voters, or
to strike auy off.
Sec. 25. On or before the 1st day of
August, 1868, there shall be printed in
pamphlet form, under the direction of
the secretary of state, five thousand
copies of this act, together with certifi
cates as contemplated by the provis
ions of this act, and the secretary of
state shall apportion to each county
as many copies as will supply the per
sons eutilled thereto with a copy aud
certificates, and shall transmit the
same to the clerk of the county court
of each county, and said clerk shall
distribute said copies and certificates,
giving [one] to each officer charged
with carrying into effect the provisions
of this act.
Sec. 26. That any person who wil
fully or corruptly swears or affirms
falsely for the purpose of having his
name put on the list of qualified voters,
or in regard to any material matter or
thing connected with the registration
law, or with the execution and enforce
IMOIH VI UID oaiuo, Bllltll UO UtSUtUUU
guilty of perjury, and shall, on convic
tion, be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for not less than two or more than five
years.
Sec. 27. That all acts or parts of acts
in conflict with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 28. That this act take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
A Few Facts for Democrats.
At the presidential election of 1864,
Mr. Lincoln, by suppressing the sol
diers' vote cast for Gen. McClellan, and
by throwing into the Western States
several thousaud New England soldiers,
who voted for him (most of- them
voting five or six times), managed to
obtain a majority on the popular rote
of 411,281.
At the last general elections in the
same States the Republicau majority
was only 36,910, including Illinois and
Indiana, which have not held a general
election since the fall of 1866, and cred
iting Ohio with a Republican majority
of 2083, which was obtained by the
Republican candidate for Governor,
though at the same election the Demo
crats defeated negro suffrage by over
50,000 majority and elected a majority
of the members of the Legislature.
In 1864 the change of 205,641 votes
would have elected Gen. McClellan
over Mr. Lincoln; In 1868 it requires
the change of 23,456 votes to give to
Hagktio Seymour the electoral votes of
the States which were carried by Mr.
Lincoln.
In the face of these figures is not the
! eiectiou of Seymour and Blair as cer
tain as is to-morrow’s sun to rise ?
Democrats will please bear these figures
in mind.—N. Y. World.
j EFAd Irishman a short time in this
| country was eating boiled green corn.
{ after eating off all the corn, he passed
the cob back to the lady who sat at tho
■ head of the table, saying—“Would you
Elaee be so kind as to put some more
•nes on this stick ?”
Why Don’t They Cheerf
From the great popularity of the
nominee of the Radical party, and par
ticularly on account of the principles
he is supposed to support, if elected,
we were led to infer that his receptions
on his Western tour would have been
a series of ovations. Yet he has trav
eled from Washington, stopping at
several points, ana has at length
reached the scene of his former re
markable exploits in the wood busi
ness, St. Louis, Mo., without the least
demonstration being made, or the
faintest cheer offered over his arrival
or departure. What is the reason for
this general apathy ? Was ever a can
didate for this high office treated so
shabbily? Could no one be found on
all the route willing and ready to open
his mouth in portraying the heroic
deeds in the past as well as those in
the future of the great candidate? It
f'rieves us greatly to say no to this
uquiry. What a treat it would be to
hear his views upon political economy,
upon the science of government, upon
the rules of international law, or even
the great and boasted principles of our
national Constitution. But no : if he
can be made to talk at all it is about
somebody’s spotted pups, Partagas ci
gars, a peculiar brand of bourbou
whisky, or the points of the last equine
winner at the Jerome Park. But it
seems that the people do not desire to
hear from him, even on these absorb
ing topics. They don't even mauifest
the ordinary curiosity, that called
them out to see Weston, Sergeant
Bates or the great American dog tam
er. The fact is, Grant has played out.
He is a bottle of soda water too long
uncorked. He is a wet blanket. Ho
is the tail of-the Radical kit?; “and
that kite won’t fly.”—Omaha Herald.
Radicals Who Cannot Support
Grant.
Tilton—ho has called Graut a drunk
ard.
Phillips—he hns called Grant a
drunkard and as “brainless as his sad
dle.”
Sumner—he says that Grant is not
an “irrepressible guarantee,” and
“made a white-washing report to for
uiv anarew oonnson.
Chase—'“Grant is a man of rile hab
its and no ideas.”
Anna Dickinson—“I am going to
England to get out of advocating this
bungler.”
Mrs. Stanton—““Grant says nothing,
and knows less than nothing.”
Wilson—“I will never, so help me
God, support any but temperance men
for office.”
Greeley—“The Presidency requires
a man of ideas and a statesman.”
Colfax—“I declare in advance no
doubtful man shall have my ballot for
President.”
Kelley—“I will die in my tracks be
fore I will subscribe to this white
washing report of this man (Grant)
who has joined his testimony, and will
join his fate, to that public cuemy, (A.
Johnson.)
Curtin—“Only a man in favor of ne
gro suffrage can command my vote.”
Grant declares “negro suffrage means
a war of races.”
Old Tliad—“Never ask me to sup
port a twaddler and a trimmer for of
fice.”
Geary—“Drunkards, like pirates, are
public enemies.”
Frelinghuysen—“The nation owes it
to its self-respect to tolerate imbecility
in politics no longer.”
Wade—“Grant knows nothing of pol
itics. * * lie can talk buthorso.”
Yates—“I own I have becu a drunk
ard : I will bo one no longer, nor will
I longer cast my lot with such men.”
The Cotton Or op In the South
ern States.
Easton & Co’s (New York) circular
report contains the following informa
tion concerning the growing crop of
cotton:
We have seen this week a large num
ber of letters from all parts of the cot
ton region, rethting to the growing
crop. In all of them we llnd that the
fVecdmeu are working much better
than last year. The opinions expressed
in these letters on the weather, the
stand and area of land planted, as com
pared with with 1867 is ns follows:
North Carolina.—Weather warm
and clear, stand good, plant small but
healthy; ten per cent, less laud to cot
ton as comnared with last. vear.
South Carolina.—Crop backward
but healthy, stand good and free from
grass ; weather good, twenty to twen
tv-fivo per cent, less in cotton, and
more In grain.
Georgia.—Weather warm and dry,
stand very good; all accounts agree in
saying that there is less area in cotton,
say from twenty per cent, to one-half
less; about twenty-five per cent, less
seems to be the general opinion.
Florida.—Crop accounts very en
couraging about the the same quantity
of land In cotton; seasons late, but
stands good.
Alabama.—Stand unusually good ;
weather clear, warm and seasonable;
15 to 20 per cent, less land in ootton.
Louisiana.—Crop accounts very fa
vorable ; more land plauted; stand ex
cellent and more forward than last
year.
Mississippi.—Stand unusually fine,
plant healthy and free from grass; as
much land in cottou as last year.
Arkansas.—Prospect much more
favorable than last year; more laud iu
cotton : weather fine.
Tennessee.—Crop looking finely and
two weeks ahead of last year; moro
land in cotton ; stand good.
Texas.—About the same area in cot
ton as last year. Coast counties, which
made nothing or little last year, on ac
count of the worm, again plauted in
cotton. In some of the upper counties
the wheat crop is a failure, and the
land has boen planted in' cotton. The
alarm felt at the appearance of the
army worm has subsided. The weather
has been hot and dry.
Hf*“Well, Jones, 1 suppose vou have
I been out to look at Texas? Did you
I see anvtbing of our friend Smith out
! tbore ?’’
“Yes, gone deranged.”
“Has he!”
“Yes, indeed; he doesn’t know hie
own hogs from those of his neighbors!’’
• •
tgr Matrimony is hot buckwheat
, cakes, warm beds, comfortable slip
; pers, smoking coffee, round arms, red
iips, kind words, shirts exulting in
1 buttons, redeemed stockings, boot,
i jacks, happiness, etc. Hurrah I
A Well gpeat Life.
If yon read the epitaphs in onr
graveyards, or the obituaries in onr
newspapers, you will be astonished at
the number of men whose friends claim
from them the merit of a well spent
lift.
If a man waB rich and gave of his
abundance to the public or private
charities his life Is at once pronounced
perfect. If poor and industrious, he
is considered as having justly filled the
measure of his alloted hours. If a
woman keeps a clean house and quiet
children, she is a “mother in Israel."
If she devotes herself to spasmodic
works of benevolence; let any one dare
question her motives. On tombstones
at least this measure is awarded, what
ever the censure the living might have
received or deserved. All these things
are well and ^ood, but to us the idea of
a well spent life couvoy^more.
It is a life which sets before it the
immutable principles of truth and jus
tice as rules of action. The man may
be a poor laborer, unskilled in the
learning of the schools, but with a de
termination to do right whatever may
come of it. In the drawing of a furrow,
or the measuring of a bushel of corn,
the principle will sustain him quite as
thoroughly as on the dividing line be
tween some questionable good and de
cided vice.
A well spent life is filled with deeds
of active, loving sympathy for its fel
low men. It is self-controlled, and
not at the mercy of caprice or passions,
for its mainspriugs are beyond their
reach. Its influence is genial, and
men are drawn to it, for the fruits of
peace and content it bears in their
sight. Whatever of self-sacrifice is re
quired is cheerfully paid as a debt in a
world where trouble is a universal law.
The most perfect lives are full of faults,
but the faults of the one Of Which we
have given vague outline are obscured
in the eyes of men by its strong help
fulness mingled with tender pity for
the weak and erring. Its noble results
arc iu the help it lends to feeble spirits
who steady themselves against its tal
ler stature. One such a life in a com
I munity is a public blessing. AH
hearts and pravers follow it, and we,
too, bid it “God speed,” wheuever and
wherever it is found.—New Orleans
Times.
Beecher on Fopa.
But what shall I say of those miser
able, despicable sprigs of humanity
that live to adorn their pocket-hand
kerchiefs and their collars ?—men that
walk through society with the thought
that the chief end of their life is to en
gage inthe frivolous amusements and
their mirror, thiuking of doing noth
ing, and wanting to do nothing ; men a
million of whom might live in the air
we breathe and be no more conscious
of their existence than the insects
around us; men a million of whom
might tie and all bo put in one grave
—if you only buried their souls; men
that put on airs of gentility and nice
ness, and look upon the rude clown,
(as they call the workingman) with su
preme coutempt, and pity him; men
that have no respect for those that are
obliged to get up early, and sweep ont
the store ; men that are just ns certain
to die kuaves, if they do not die fools,
as there is a law in nature I I cannot
express uiy abhorrence for these strip
lings of folly. And I declare that, in
our time of the world, with our illumi
nation, with duties pressing from eve
ry side, and with all the inculcations
and examples that have been handed
down to us, of disciples of Christianity,
a man who finds nothing to do and has
no disposition to do anything, is a
fractional man. He is not even a
bright shining fragment. And of all
men that are lawful prey of contempt
and tho curling of the lip, these whit
tliugs of geutility are the most eminent.
Girls—A Composition.
nr A VEBY SMALL BOY.
I don't like girls. Girls is different
from what boys is. Girls don’t play
marbles, nnd also girls dou’t play
hookey. I played hookey once and
got whipped for it. Girls sometimes
get whipped, but not so often as boys;
their clothes ain't so well suited for it;
that is the reason I suppose. I never
see girls play base ball; they say thev
do in Boston. There is a plenty of
girls in Boston, and big orgarns. Last
year when I was young, the teacher
made me set with the girls because I
urn a namrliK* T Rl'if linva lil’A
girls better than little boys. I went
on a sleigh ride one night with my
sister Nancy aud Tom Sykes. We
were going to New Hartford, and
when we got up by Pegg's tavern, Tom
asked me to look iu the bottom of the
sleigh for his whip. Girls don’t like to
have men kiss them. They always say
“don’t.” If they wasn't fools they
would turn their heads the tother way;
they never do that. I saw Tom kiss
Nancy once, and went and told my
mother. Then my mother put me to
bed, When a girl takes out her hand
kerchief in tho street and wipes her
nose, the young men who earn their
living by standing iu front of the Pine
block, always wipe tbeir noses at the
same time, if they see her. Girls get
married sometimes, but not always.
Those that don't want to. When they
?et married they have wedding cake.
like wedding cake, but I do not see
any fun iu getting married—especially
to a girl.
Oraat Caa’I Get to Washington.
—Horatio Seymour la There.
There is a good story being oiroulated,
which is worth writing :
When the butcher with his tons of
thousands was guarding our noble old
warrior at Richmond with his remnant of
an army, a Confederate prisoner was taken
into earnp, who was faoetious and was
affording some amusement. When the
fact reached Grant’s ears, the prisoner was
ordered into his presence, when numerous
questions were put to him. Wheu G.
seemed to have gotten through, the
) prisonor said : “Now, General, you have
i asked me a good many questions, which I
; have answered, will you answer me one ?”
I “Yes,” says Grant. “Well” General,
| where are you going?” Grant answers,
! “to Petersburg, Richmond or to Heaven.”
Prisoner —“You can’t get to Petersburg,
; Gen. Beauregard is there. You can’t get
| to Richmond, because Gen. Leo is there,
j You can't get to Heaven, for there is
■ God Jackson.”—[Charleston Mercary
THE LIFE OF A PERT BOY.
How UlyaiM Blmpaoa, aow
Graat, rode the Poor with a
Moaher oa hi* hock—la seve
ral Acts—Words hr his Fathor
—Haste hr Us—Arraagod hr a
Haad Orgaa.
CHAPTER OROT.
“Ulysses stepped forward, and
monnted the pony. The performances
began.”
CHAPTER TWO TIMES.
“Round and round and round the
ring went the pony, and faster Red
faster, making the greatest effort to
dismount the rider.”
CHAPTER THREE RTSS.
“But Ulysses sat as steady as If he
had grown to the pony’s back.”
CHAPTER “TO BE CONTINUED.”
“Presently out came a large monkey
and sprang up behind Ulysses.”
A RUNNING CHAPTER.
“The people set up a great shout of
laughter, and on the pony ran; but it
all produced no effqpt on the rider.”
CHAPTER ONCT MORE.
“Then the ring-master made the
monkey jump up on Ulysses’s shoul
ders, standing with his feet upon his
shoulders, and with his hands holding
on to his hair.”
A NERVOUS CHAP-TER.
“At this there was another and still
londer shout, but not a muscle of Ulys
ses’s face moved. There was not a
tremor of his nerves.”
CHAPTER ON A WONDERFUL CHAP.
“A few more rounds aud the ring
master gave it up; he bad come across
a boy that the pony and the monkey
both could not dismount.”
All of which is proof that Grant is a
statesman, and qualified to be President
of the United States!—Council Bluffs
Democrat.
A Dud.
The political aspect appears, from latest
advices to be E Pluribwa Unum, but not
Pro Bono Publioo. If the Republicans
succeed in electing the next president—
and they will do it, if they got votes
euough—then we shall see the glorious
2-legged bird called the “American eagle,”
flop his wings and fly to the uttermost
parts of the earth—aye, to those inhabited
wilds where, in the words of the immor
tal bard—“the lion roareth and the whang
doodle mourneth for her first born.”
Then shall we have plenty of taxes to pay
and plenty of soft water to wash. Then
will be marrying and giving in marriages,
—if the internal revenue on the samo is
paid in advance—and everybody created
free and equal with regard to race, oolor
condition, sex or religious scruples, or
drachms. But if on the other hand, those
miscreants called “ Democrats” should
suoceed, then we shall have our land—our
once prosperous fair and happy land—de
luged with milk and honey and we shall
have those beautiful and picturesque
greenbacks changed to that vile dross
commonly called gold and silvor 1 We ask,
shall such things be and overoome us like
a summer's dream? Shall the record of
our late 4 and 5 years’s unpleasantness, in
which only 1 or 2 million of men were
killed, be blotted out, and the people of
the North and South live together in
Conoord (or any other town?) Shall a
free and enlightened people have their
taxes taken away from them, and chickens
be allowed to roost so high that the free
and enlightened eitisens of African de
scent cannot reach ’em at night? By
Hevings, it must not be so. It will never
do, under a reymydioan form of govern
ment, to permit the majority to rule.
Therefore, we bang our hangers on the
outer wall, as Bill Shakspeare tho Eng
lishmen, says, and stick to the following
resolutions :
Resolved, That none but the trooly
toil shall hold offices.
Resolved, That the Republicans only
are the trooly loil.
Resolved, That we live for the oountry
and the country lives for us.
Resolved, That we, “tho eleot,” com
monly called Republicans, do as we please,
without regard to expense, cost, postage,
damage or infernal reveuue.
Resolved. That we are ritrht and avafv.
body who differs from us is wrong, so help
us Benjamin F. Butler.
Adjourned. Selah.
A RenarkabU Spring In Florida.
There is near Oeola a remarkable
spring, one of the largest of the great
number known in Florida. It is oallod
Silver Spring. I found it in the midst of
a lone hammock, overflowing its banks.
It bubbled up in a basin thirty seven feet
deep and about an aore in extent, filling
and overflowing it, and sending from it a
deep stream fifty or sixty feet wide, and
extending eight or nine miles to Okaln
waha river, into whioh it empties. In the
spring itself fifty steamboats may lie at
anohor, and the stream admits boats of
considerable draught. The spring thus
farms a natural inland port to whieh three
steamers run regularly from St. Johns.
The dearness of the water is truly wonder
ful. It seems even more transparent than
the air. You see on the bottom, thirty
feet below the bottom of your boat, the
exact form of the smallest pepple, the out
line, color and shades of oolor of the leaf
whioh has sunk. Large fish swim in it,
every scale visible and every movement
distinctly observable. The water is im
pregnate with lime and magnesia, but
has an appreciable taste, and is excellent
drinking water. If you go over the basin
in a boat you will see the fissures in the
rocks, from whioh the river flows upwards
like an inverted cataraot. There are
more of these springs in the channel of
the stream, further down. Such steams
are almost common in Florida. Clay
Springs, near the mouth of Lake Apapka,
pours forth a navigable stream into the
St. Johns. Bug Spring, on the west side
of Lake Harris, is nearly as large as Silver
Spring. 1 have laughed at a story of a
spring iu Iowa whioh was large enough to
turn a mill, but I can swallow all such
tales now, after having seen one that
would float a fleet.
A Boaatlftal Allegory.
Mr. Crittenden was engaged in defend
ing a man who had been indicted for a
capital offence. After an elaborate and
powerful defence he closed his effort by
tbe following striking and beautiful alle
gory
When God in his eternal oounsel con
ceived the thought of man’s creation, he
called to him three ministers who constan
tly wait upon the throne—Justice, Truth
and Mercy and addressed themj
Shall ws make man 7 Then said Justice,
Oh, God I make him not, for he will tram
ple upon thy laws. Truth made an
answer also: Oh, God ! make him not,
for he will pollute thy saneturaries. But
Mercy, dropping upon her knees and look
ing through her tears, exolaimed i “Oh,
God I make him, I will watch over him
with eare through all the dark paths he
m« ' re to tread.
God made man, and said to him,
Oh, man, thou art the child of Mercy; go
and deal with thy brother. j
The jury, when he finished, were in!
tears, and against what must have been
their own convictions, brought in a ver
dict of not guilty.
WaahlagtoB.
A bill will be reported from tlio Re
construction Committee placing Vir
ginia, Texas and Mississippi under a
provisional government, giving them
power to control Federal troops. It is
surmised this means to manipulate
these States so as to cast their votes
for Grant, but this is erroneous.
One reason is the Radicals fear that
the whites will hold an election for
President, and dem^rf that their votes
be received in thmHcctoral college.
These States are conceded to be Dem
ocratic, and this measure is to put
down such action by force of arms.
The revolutionists fear Johnson will
snpport the whites in the movement
named, therefore they will meet in
September to checkmate him if he at
ki/iuj^to j*. k?vuvilv& uwemv HYV>t9 nicy
wish tn L-*-n 9C9Sjon to defeat anything
that the Ku-Klux, as he terms them,
may try to do.
Efforts are making to dissuade Rev
erdy Johnson from allowing Mrs. Lin
coln to accompany him to England,
where she proposes to visit the Quoen.
It is thought her freaks of insanity
should be confined to her own coun
try.—Louisville Courier Special.
Signs.—It is a good sign to see a
man do acts of charity—a bad sign to
hear him boast of it.
It’s a good sign to see an honest man
wearing his old clothes—bad to Bee
them filling holes in the window.
It’s a good sign to see a man wiping
the perspiration from his brow—bad to
see him wipe his lips as he comes out
of a cellar.
It’s a good sign to see a woman
dressed with taste and neatness—bad
to se^ her husband sued for finery.
It’s a good sigh to see a man adver
tise in the papers—bad to see the sher
iff advertise for him.
It’s a good sign to soe a man sending
his children to school—bad to see them
educated at the night school in the
street.
•9* A good story is told concerning
the writing of Mr. J. W. Brooks, the
railroad manager. He had written a
letter to a man on the Central route,
notifying him that, under the penalty
of prosecution, he musk remove a barn
which in some manner incommoded
the road. The threatened individual
was unable to read any part of the let
ter but the signature, but took it to be
a free pass over the road, and used it
for a couple years as such, none of the
conductors being able to disputo his
interpretation of the document.
Blessings of the Best Government.
—In Savannah, Georgia, the other dav,
Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Martin, of
the United States army, lost a consid
erable amount of money at faro, and
had a gambler arrested by the military
and confined in the barracks. The
prisoner’s counsel being denied admit
tance to him, took out a warrant for
the arrest of the colonel on a charge of
betting at faro. The military authori
ties refused the right of the civil au
thorities to make the arrest.
PROFESSIONAL CAROS.
W. J. ROGERS.
ATTORN8Y AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to the Collection
of Claims, Investigation of Land Titles, Pay
ment of Taxes. &o. my 18
aiHox r. Hirouas. wit. w. shits.
HUGHES ft SMITH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
-AMD
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
CLARENDON, ARK.
DU. J. W. BYIUTSY,
Being permanently located at Des Arc,
will continue the praotioe of his profession in
all ita branohes.
Offioe at Col. J. M. Burney’s Drug 8tore.
DR. ROB T. B. TREZEVMT,
Tenders his professional services to
the citizens of Des Arc and vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sep21
F. LEPTIEN,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kinds of work tn my line. Mend
ing, Cleaning, Ac.
——Thankful for paet favors, l solicit t
coniinuanca of the patronage heretofore be
stowed on me feb2R-tf
PROFESSIONAL CARD8.
Z. P. H. FARR,
ATT0SUT1Y AT LAVTy
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
H. !P. Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in the Court) of theoountiee
of Prairie, White, Jaokson, Woodruff and
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of olaims any where in the State.
■epTtt
T. E. EMERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARK.
Special attention given to the collection
and securing claims, buying and selling lands,
paying taxes, examing titles, Ac. april 11
J. R. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ootton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Cirouit Courts of
the seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all businosa entrusted to his
oare.
a- a. OAKTT. w. 3. BRONAOOK
GANTT A BBONAUGH,
ATTORKIRYS AT LAW.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie.
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas and Pu
laski. Prompt atttention given to the collec
tion of claims. Taxes will be paid and titles
investigated for non-residonts. aprll-8m
J. E. GATEWOOD, J S. THOMAS,
GATEWOOD & THOMAS,
AtfO&V8YtA*&AW
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
JAMBS H. PATTERSON, LUCIAN C. GAUSR,
Augusta, Ark. Jacksonportx Ark.
Patterson ft Clause,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jackson port and Augusta, Arhusas.
Will practioe in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, White, Lawrence,
Randolph, Qreen. Craighead and CroBS, and
attend to special cases in an; part of the
State. Address either office. m;18-l;
J. C. JONSON, Office—West Point, Arkansas.
JNO. M. MOORE, Office—Searo;, Arkansas.
JONSON A MOORE,
Attorneys at Law,
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
—ASD
General Land and Collecting Agents,
SEARCY, ARKANSAS.
Will givepromptattontlon to an; business
in the oounties of Independence, Jackson,
Woodruff, Monroe, Prairie, White, Conwa;
and Van Buren. marO
801.. F. CLARR. 8AM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOB. W. MARTIN.
CLARK, WILLIAMS ft MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS,
WILL practice In all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of ail kinds, collect debts, and
act as Real Relate and General Agent?.
Ornes—Markham Street, near State Hones.
april28-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHIEB.
Attorney at Law,
COTTON PLANT, WOODRUFF CO. ARK
Will practice where called.
•ep2S-tf.
WM. B. OOODT. D. MO BAB.
GOODY & McRAE,
AHOtiriTI At UW
SEARCY, WHITE COCNTY,
ARAAN8AH.
Willpraetiee la all the so arts at Arkansas,
mar 24
DP.. ALLBIT
Offers his services to the citizens of
D«« Arc and vicinity in the practice of
medicine. Thankful for past favors,
and by attention to business he expects
to share a liberal prtron&ge.
Office—At his residence—late the
residence of W. G. Frith. eep21
Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
TENDERS his professional services to the
Citizens of Des Arc and surrounding *
country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob
stetrics. lie hopes from an experience of
ove.- fifteen years in Southern practice, to
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney'• Drug
Ww. march** 1W8-!y