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VOLUME 1. DES ARC, ARIi., SEPTEMBER 1, 1866. NUMBER 27.
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Which he will sell at the lowest market price.
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R. O. GILL, j, o. GILT.,
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DEALERS IN
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DRY GOODS,
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CLIPS, BOOTS, SHOES,
Hardware, Hollo'd* Ware,
Queensware, Ac.
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vicinity, in the various branches of their
professions. Office at Burney & lire's Drug
•Store. mar8-ly
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w FINE LIQUOR!! Tom is
now behind the counter ui the
BEST SALOON
In the place, ready to band out to all desiring
| it, the Finest Liqcors that the market affords.
No humbug ! Give Tom a call, and if you
love good things, you will be satisfied.
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SOL. F. CLARK* SAM. W. WILLIAMS.
JOE W. MARTIN.
CLARK. WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE KOCH, ARKANSAS.
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act 08 Heal Estate and General Agents.
Office—Markham Street, near State House.
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WM- T- JONES,
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BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.
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Prairie, Monroe, Woodruff, Jackson and
White Prompt attention given to,the collec
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KEGl'LlK ST. liOl’IS & WHITE
KIVEH PACKET.
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a -jTTSfh THIS swift and elegant
«fearner will ply regularly
during the season, between St. Louis and
•Jacksonport, stopping at all way landings.
Particular attention paid to orders sent tor
goods. ALLEN & GRAVES,
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MEMPHIS ANS> WHITE RIVER
PACKET,
PETROLIA.
M. A. KNOX, - - - Master.
R. JL Majors, - - - Clerk.
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tered the above trade, will
run regularly throughout the season. [juu23
Des Arc Hotel,
jjAirm & tmmm,
l>roprietor>s.
rpiUS establishment is now open, for the
.L reception of the
TRAVELING PC IILIC.
ill persons having regard for convenience
and comfort, would do well to-give us a call.
Our table will always lv suppRed wtiB^Jhe
be;t that the market affords.
THE SONG OF LIGHT.
BY WM. TETTIT PALMER.
The following exquisite poem has been pro
nounced by one of the most eminent European
critics to be the finest production in our lan
guage:
From the quickened womb of the primal gloom
The sun rolled black and bare,
Till I wove him a vest for bis Etliiop breast
Of the threads of my golden hair ;
And when the broad tent of the firmament
Arose on its airy spars,
I penciled the heaven's matchless blue,
And spangled it round with stars.
I painted the flowers of the Eden bowers,
And their leaves of living green,
And mine were tiie dyes in the sinless eyes
Of Eden’s virgin queen,
But when the fiend’s art in the trustful heart
Had fastened his mortal spell,
In the silvery sphere of the first born tear,
To the trembling earth I fell.
When the waves that burst o’er a world accurst
Their work of wrath had sped,
And the Ark’s lone few—tried and true—
Came forth among the dead;
With the wondrous gleams of my bridal dreams,
I bade their terror cease ;
And I rode on the roll of the storm’s dark scroll
God’s Covenant of l’eace.
Like a pall at rest on a senseless breast,
i Hight s funeral shadow slept—
Where shepherd swains on Bethlehem plains,
j Their lovely vigils kept ;
j When I flashed on their sight the herald bright
j Of Heaven’s redeeming plan,
As they chanted the morn of a savior hern—
; '‘Joy 1 jov '■ to the outcast !—man !”
’ Equal favor I show to the lofty and low,
I 111 flux inof niirl iminui dnonnml •
E'en (lie blind, whose vain spheres roll in
darkness and tears,
Feel my smile the blest smile of a friend ;
Nay, the flower of the waste by my smile is
embraced,
As the rose iu the garden of kings ;
j At the chrysalis bier of the warm 1 appear—
And lo! the butterfly wings.
i From thy sentinel steep by the night-brooded
deep,
j I gaze with unslumbcring eye,
While the cy nosure star of the mariner
Is blotted out from the sky,
: And guided by me through the merciless sea,
Though sped by the hurricane s wing,
; Ilis compnssless, lone, dark weltering bark,
: To the haven home safely bring.
I awaken the flowers in their star-spangled
bowers,
The birds in their chambers of green,
And mountain and plain grow with beauty
again
As they bask in their national sheen.
Oh! if such be the worth of my presence on
earth—
Though fitful and fleeting the while—
What glories must rest on the home oftheblest,
Ever bright with Deity’s smile !
-i--—.—
A FEW WORDS WITH ICING MEN.
“Brick Pomeroy” thus discourses to the
young men of our country :
“Where do you stand politically, and why
do you stand there?
A young friend of ours iu Indiana wants
us to tell him why we are a Democrat, and
we will try to tell him and others, in plain,
simple language.
\\ e believe the people are capable of gov
erning themselves.
We believe a confederation of States a union
of Kingdoms, where every man is a monarch,
to be the best plan of government ever yet de
vised or that ever will be, for in that confed
eration the people speak.
We believe in giving every' State of the Un
ion the absolute right to manage its own
attains—to say who shall vote and who shall
not—What rates of interest, taxation, &c., it
will adopt, and w ho shall be citizens, so long
as such States shall give aid to her sister States
and give her voice for the good of the Union !
And we believe it is not the business of one
State to meddle with the affairs of another
State, for each State is a government by and
of itself!
We believe in equal taxation !
We believe in economy it) public affairs I
We believe in electing statesmen—men of
broad and comprehensive views to high posi
tion, and in leaving in obscurity those who
are clowns, robbers or simply low wits !
We believe white men should govern white
men—that white men should not be compelled
to support negroes !
That the rich should pay taxes on their
millions of U. S Bonds now exempt from tax
ation at the same rate the poor man is taxed
for his cow, his horse, his farm and his earn
ings!
\t e do not believe in Puritanism.
We do not believe in the religion which stirs
up hate, strife and discord.
We do not believe in teaching States and
people of common brotherhood to hate and
war upon each other.
We do not believe in Congressional interfer
ence with the rights of States.
We do not believe it right, constitutional or
just to make U. S. Bonds exempt from taxa
tion aud make poor men who have taxes to
pay support the rich ones who do not.
This country was once Democratic.
It was ruled by wise men.
It was counciled by Statesmen and not by
' clowns and reckless adventurers.
It grew to prosperity under Democratic ad
| ministrations successively and successfully
i administered.
It became a great nation of freedmen—a
land where millions of people met on the level,
and where the poor came to escape taxation—
the oppressed to find a home—the ignorant to
j be educated—the man of thought to enjoy the
! constitutional right to think and speak as he
{ pleased.
And this was, and is, and always has been
• Democracy.
i In the days of Democracy we had peace,
i plenty and prosperity. The poor men came
here the laborers with his hands mail© him a
home and a competency. Tho foreigner
canto to our shores with his household goods
and was welcome; he had no such taxes to pay
as now—he came here the ecjual of white men
and not a whit below apt man in nobility.
The States were governments by themselves
the mosaic of boundry was the most beautiful
in the world—the wheat field nodded to (lie
rice—the corn to the cotton—the Northern
pine to the Southern palmetto—the snow bawl
to magnolia and we were all happy together,
and when the labours of the day were over,
the fisherman of New Knglaud and the farmer
of the West sat by their firesides and talked of
the greatness of our Union. And the new
comer from foreign shores gather at sundown
his little ones about him and told them legends
of the wonderful Faderlnnd—the dusky la
borer of the South blessed with muscle but
not with brains, sang and danced on the plan
tation lawns, and Dkmocuacy wus in the hap
piness of the people fully realized.
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Then came the fife and drum.
To arms!-—to arms !
15y the thousands, and thousands our men
went forth! A blue wave reaching from tiie
Atlantic to the Father of Waters! On foot
and on horse. Muskets and sabre—shot and
shell I The men from the pines are now
corpses under the palmcttoes The warriors
from the wheat fields, the corn fields ami prai
ries are sleeping in the rice and cotton fields.
The lovers from the rose bush are at rest neath
(lie sod their life blood reddened under pale
magnolia. Widows and orphans—debt, pov
erty, unjust taxation and bigoted intolerance
now fill the land. This is the work of Repub
licanism. We never saw these sights—we
never beard the whistling bullet—the shriek
ing shell—the whirring rifled cannon bail—
the groans of the dead and dying, while the
people were true to Democracy. Democracy
made, the country—Republicanism impover
ished it—made widows of our women, corpses
and cripples of our men:—orphans of our chil
dren—slaves of poor white men—aristocrats
of dishonest, selfish, ease loving Bond Hold
ers.
'The nation has tried Democracy and Ke
publicanism.
We have tried statesmanship and bufl'oon
ery.
We have tried wisdom and foolishness.
We have tried justico and tyranny.
We have tried law and order and mobs and
disorder.
n u uiuc u icu uiiuuiti^ uui unu wwojmvub
and interfering with that which concerned its
not.
We have tried peace and war.
We have tried low taxation and high.
We have tried equal taxation and Republi
can favoritism.
We have tried sense and infamy.
We huve scon Democracy mature and build
up the country.
We have seen Republicanism ruin it.
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The host way is', when we are on the wrong
road to gel on the right one. Retter not lie
in agony ou the brambles when there are
mossy banks at the same price. This state of
affairs cannfe last forever. Debts and taxa
tion are increasing. The country is worse off
than ever before. We must be at peace with
the South—the South must be at peace with
us. The past has gone. It went out in pow
der and smoke, it went out in sabre flashes—
it ran red into the corpse covered ground.
We want peace for our children. We want
peace for the-millions yet to come here to live
under the banner of liberty, We want to see
a feeling of common interest, of a common
pride of our country, of a common brother
hood of States and of people.
War is over. The sword is in the scabbard.
Let us forget the past, and be noble, high
ruiuded conquerors as we claim to be. VVe
have no right to father this country—to pile
up more misery and debt for our children to
meet. Let us have peace—concede what is
right—join with the people and again he
happy.
And if there bo those In power in this land
of freedom, of liberty a nd equality who would
strangle liberty in her cradle, let us rid the
earth of such tyrants before the beautiful fu
ture be blackened forever. And let us demand
our lawmakers that they legislate for the peo
ple—not for a portion thereof or a section.
And if they will not thus obey their masters,
let us arise and call them to account for tbc
people are monarchs ; the legislators are the
servants.
The Republican parly is a party of theft —
of tyranny—of treason—of fanaticism—of in
tolerance—of persecution—of oppression—of
taxation—of favoritism—of a Rond Holders
aristocracy—of base mobbers and murderers,
and adventurers—it is a'decayed, a dishonor
ed, an ignominious, time sewing party, devoid
of honesty, liberality, generosity, patriotism
or ingenuity. We ask you, young men of the
country, to look at the history of the two par
ties—to the country under the rule of Driuoc
rnpv (iml Knmiltl inn ilium iintl f«11 nu wliinli
party you are for.
There is the party of the people.
The party of those who hate the people.
Aud the party of the people will triumph,
for the day comes when they will arise in their
might and make short work of those who
would ruin, impoverish nnd enslave tnem for
such binding of free white men in this land
cannot and will not long he tolerated or en
M\Ar. f ■ jv ~
-The ex-Sheriff of Franklin county,
Miss., gave his servant-girl the following
pass, shortly after the surrender:
“Know all men by these presents, in the
name of the Almighty God, and this down
trodden country, I, Win. Wentworth, ex-Sher
iff of this county of Franklin, and State of
Mississippi, do hereby permit my once servant
girl, Joyce, to circumambulate the city of
Natchez, to travel the Mississippi river, ex
plore the State of Arkansas, drive all the beef
cattle out of Texas, sink the city of New Or
leans, jump into the Gulf of Mexico if she
thinks proper, and return home, if she thinks
practicable.
Echoes.—What must be done to conduct a
newspaper right?—Write.
What is necessary to a farmer to assist him.
—System.
What would give a blind man the greatest
delight?—Light.
What is the best piece of counsel given by a
justice of the peace?—Peace.
Who commit the greatest abominations?—
Nations.
What is the greatest terrificr?—Fire.
-Two young men were sauntering down
School street, Boston, when the attention of
one was arrested by the bronze statue of
Franklin. “What is that?” lie enquired of
his companion, who replied, “that it was the
! statue of Doctor Franklin.” “Doctor Frank
lin,” said the young man; was he much of a
physician?”
For Hie Dos Arc Citizen.]
TIIE SCHOOL IIOISE.
A constant drop wears away a stone, and
repeated blows breaks it. Perseverance
overcomes all things. It is this view of
tilings, that nerves our hand in again
bringing the subject of a school room be
fore the citizens of Des Arc, while we
frankly admit that we feel ashamed for the
readers of the Citizen at a distance, to know
that there is not the vestige of a school
house of any kind in Des Arc. We have
two schools in operation here, one, the
male school, is taught in the Methodist
church, the other, female school, is taught
in the Presbyterian church; but the Trus
tees of the Methodist church have decided,
and so published the fact, that the present
session is the last one that will be taught
in that church. Will you think of it, you
property holder,^of the city of I)cs Arc ?
You men engaged in business, you profes
sional men, you that arc heralding forth
flaming articles and handbills through the
newspapers of our town, to all parts of the
country, inspiring in strangcis the belief
that.we are a mighty people, public spirit
ed and patriotic, living in a corporatcd
city with a mayor and councilmen, with
strict, rigid, corporate laws, and having
sojne five or six hundred inhabitants, with
children in abundance, and yet not a school
room or the appearance of one. Is there
a ^vn or city in the state of Arkansas or
any where else, of the size of Des Arc,
that has not a college or academy, or some
form of a building called a school house?
But are we the "ultima thule” of civiliza
tion and literature, and are wc content so
La rpmnin ft LnnnL nnrl Itv-word vpa n hnr
lcsque? But there are some in and around
Pes Arc that look to the future of the
place, and have proved tlicir faith by their
works, in subscribing to the movement
being made to build a respectable school
room. We had a musical entertainment
and supper, or rather the patriotic, public
spirited Indies of Des Arc, and the country
adjacent, had the supper and entertain
ment in the early summer, the proceeds of
which amounted to 8174. The masons
have by individual subscribtion, made up
some 8400, and the citizens of Dcs Arc
aud surrounding country have subscribed
8150, in all about 8800, a huge amount
indeed tor the city of Dcs Arc. But
there are some here that talk loudly and
gas flippantly, walk around consequentially,
look intellectually and dress fashionably,
aud are called heads of families, that have
never subscribed one red cent, nor given
as much as a three cent postage stamp to
help on the Lyceum. If this be patriot
ism then I have lost the definition of that
favorite term. But we are not discouraged
or disheartened, our motto is, “if at first
we don’t succeed, we’ll try, try again.”
The school house can and must be built,
we must go ahead irrespective of taunts or
flatteries—determined to succeed—and we
invite all to aid and assist us; it is a com
mon interest, a common cause, the object
and aim of which is the cood of all.
SOLO.
Watch lc the Kindling Fires!
Brothert of the Press!
Will yon who are halting between two opin
ions—between fighting the tyrants and cow
ards ol' the Abolition party, and conciliating
the aforesaid thieves and desecrators of pa
triotic graves, read the letters which come to
us from the people of every state, and learn
therefrom that the day has passed for tepid
water aud diluted milk arguments.
Hut, thunk God, the l’ress of America is
speaking out more boldly each day and the ed
ne»tum_of an insulted people is going on. The
little flames are being kindled, and ere many
months the prairie free will sweep the country
to blacken New Lnglaud aud whiten the rest
of our misgoverned country.
Stand Hack, Tuaitous!
Onwards to the rear or to the woods.
The people are speaking—Vox Popidi—Vox
Dei!
Will not the Democratic Press of the laud
speak out?
Will not there step to (he front yet more of
the brave warriors whose pens are mightier
than swords, to battle for the Right, for the
Union—for the people!
j The ranks are filling up. Day after day
brave men are rubbing the sleep from their
eyes, and it will not be long before the West
hand the South United will demand equal and
exact justice and will have it, or tint the walls
of the Capitol with the hot blood of traitors
and make bonfires of the bonds held in New
England by the bounty-jumping manipulators
of legislation.
Give us more brave men to the front!
Give us equality of States oranotber war!
Give us white men to govern white men!
Give us equal taxation or repudiation!
Give us the representation of every State in
a real Congress or give us the abolition trai
tors there assembled in a mock Congress, that
we may destroy them for Iheir guilt as they
destroyed Democrats for their innocence.—
[La Crosse [Wis.) Democrat.
-If you were obliged to swallow a man
who would yon prefer to 6wallow? A little
London porter.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-Wc know a groat many persons who aro
‘•kind to ft fault,” but that is the only thing
they are kind to.
-The definition of lord's—“A prodigal
desire on the part of a young man to pay for
Homo young womau's board.”
-Sam Slick tells thot if he were asked
what death he preferred, as being most inde
pendent, be would answer Freoning, as bo
would then ga off with a “stiff upper lip.”
-A pound of care will not pay a pound
of debt.
—-A blow from a lady is welcome if sho
strikes you agreeably.
-A dentist at work at his profession al
ways looks down in the mouth. ,
——When sorrow “has left its traces,” what
becomes of the rest of the harness?
-The person who made the welkin ring
had an abundance of brass.
-To wliat color does flogging change a
boy’s complexion? It makes hiui yell'OI
-A “brevet husband” is the tillo now
given to men who aro not married, but ought
to be.
-A drunkard, upon hearing that the
earth was round, said that accounted for his
rolling about so much.
--Why is a beard like common sense?—
Because no woman possesses it. Brute !
-The tobacco clicwor is said to be like a
gooso in a dutch oven—always on a spit.
-—What is the difference between a Cath
olic priest and a Baptist? One uses wax can
dles and the other dips.
-Beauties generally die old maids.—
They set such a value on themselves, that they
don’t find a purchaser until the market is
closed,
-Dean Swift says, “It is with little souled
people as it is with narrcfiv necked bottles—
‘he less they have in them the more noiso
they make in pouring it out.”
-A lady who Wished some Slutting from
a roast duck, which a gentleman was carving
at a public table, requested him to transfer
from the deceased fowl to her plate some of its
artificial intestines.
-An exchange gives the following toast:
“Woman—the morning star of infancy—the
day star of manhood—-the evening star of ago.
God bless our star!”
-tW'e hope when Ben. Butler dies he will
be buried all in one place. If cut up in
pound chunks and buried in different citicB,
thieves would grow from -his grave spontane
ously, as do muskroons from a compost heap.
-A widower who was accused of never
having shed a tear on the occasion of his wife’s
death and burial, defended bis conduct on the
ground that site had caused him to shed so
many before her death that the briny fountain
was utterly dry.
-Death comes to a good man to relieve
him; it comes to a bad one to relievo society.
-Truth is the only real lasting founds- ,
tion for friendship; and in everything but
truth there is a principle of decay and dissim
ulation.
-Bo faithful to your trust, and deceive
not the man who confides in you! In the
opinion of an old author, it is less sinful to
steal than to betray.
-Two men were conversing about the ill
humor of their wives. “Ah! said one, with a
sorrowful expression, “mine is a Tartar!”
“Well,” replied the other, “mine is worso—
she is Cream of Tartar.”
-Among tlio proceedings of the Ohio
Sunday School Convention we find the follow
ing:
Ketolved, That a committee of ladies and
gentlemen be appointed to raise children for
the Sabbath School.
-A lump of icc—say ten pounds—placed
in a well will render it delightfully cool and
far more pleasant, than water from a pitcher
of ice. The ice has to be renewed once in
about ten ciays.
-The wedding ring is put on the fourth
finger of the left hand, because it is said in
the original formula of marriage, it was placed
first on tho top of the thumb, with the words:
“In the name of |thefather,” then on the next
finger, with the words; “ntvd of the Sob,”
then on the middle finger with, “and of the
Holy Ghost,” and finally on the fourth, with
tho “Amen.”
A Ten Pouthait of H. S. Foote.—Gen. T.
C. Hindman has written a reply to the strict
ures upon liis military career Contained in the
book entitled “1 he war'of the Rebellion.” In
that reply ho paints the author of the book,
H. S. Foote, in tho following colors:
“As for the book before mentioned, it can
do no hurt where the author is known. Repu
diator, Bond Payer, Whig, Democrat, Know
Nothing, Unionist, Secessionist—everything
by turns and nothing long; apoiltioal mendi
cant in half the States, and a refugee from ev
ery party, betraying and despised by all; pla
carded as a “constitutional liar,” years age,
by the great captive whom he nowatoneroo
: merit slanders, and at the next insults with a
j spurious sympathy ; thrust forth from Missis
I sippi with the formal declaration of the House
i of Representatives impugning his veracity
branded on his forehead—with such anteecd
I ents up to 1861, and with the black record,
| painted by himself, of time-server, factionist,
i traitor and sycophant during and since the
j war; howling against the North when South
1 ern fortunes were at their flood; embarrass
! ing our counsels when the tide began to ebb ;
j ignoininiously deserting to the enemy when
our country’s subjugation had been wrought
—how is it possible for him to win credence
from the public, or to pass his base lies for
truths? Relish his acts, as they may, his
present masters must loathe him, and even our
former slaves must turn from him in disgust.
I hoard, a little while back, that he was
dead, and was surprised that a sentiment
charitable towards him sprang up in my
mind; it was at least that he might turn out
to have had at least as much grace as Iscariot,
and have hanged himself, in atonement for
three score years of continuously lying and
treachery. He must be aware that his career
can fitly have but this termination. His own
are the only hands vile enough to end his ex
istence, and tho maw of the carrion crow is
his natural place of sepulture.”