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e. R- McPherson,
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
A LL persons wishing my services in
-L*- thi3 department of business, will please
address me at Brownsville, Prairie county,
i Ark. Every call will be punctually ill led.
novl3-ly __
N B W REST A U RANT !
COSMOPOLITAN !
Corner of Buena Vista and Lyon streets,
BBS arc, Arkansas,
IS now open for the reception of visitors.
The best of Liquors, Wines. Ale, Cigars,
etc., will be kept constantly on hand.
*.* Oysters, Game, &.C., will be furnished at
short notice.
This Restaurant will be attended to by
Messrs. J. C. Tarkinton and J. E. II°ke. ,
in8-6m. C. T. OLDHAM.
HARVEY S XT CHANGE,
Collier of Buena Vista (and Foster
Streets,
NEAR THE JACKSON HOUSE,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
HAVING completed our new building, and
opened a first class establishment for the
accommodation of the public, and furnished it
with the Lest of Liquors, Cigars,
Tobacco. etc., the undersigned flatter
themselves that they will continue to receive
the patronage which has been heretofore be
stowed upon them.
prs» Adjoining their Exchange they keep a
general assortment of FA M iLY G ROC ELI LS.
Also, Cove Oysters, Sardines, Fine Pickles,
Catsups, Pepper Sauce, etc., etc.
jy24-tf HARVEY & MATTHEWS.
A « TT ARRIS”
Iw* .7 T C SI - .*7 .7 /a 73 f£
JEWEIjER.
/"'VFFICE on Buena Vista ^ dpfflfltlli
* * street, o p p o s i t e the^ft 'v-V -.1*.
Nucleus House, Des Arc,
Arkansas. Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
repaired with neatness and dispatch, %nd war
ranted to give satisfaction. nov20-om
LEP TIEN,
CLOCK AND WATCH
M a is n ns
JEWELLER,
Buena Vista street, opposite A. Stewart &.
Brothers,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
T3 FSPECTFULLY informs the citizens of
IA Des Arc and the adjacent country, that lie
is prepared to execute all kinds of CLOCK
and WATCH Work, in a workmanlike man
ner, and to Repair and Clean Jewelry, &c.
jan'30-tf _
JAMES JOHNS 0 N.
Gunsmith,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
cj Havwg permanently located myself, |
LjC I mn prepared to manufacture GUNS,
V' X PISTOLS, &c., to order.
ESJ“A11 kinds of Fire-Arms Repaired,
on reasonable terms.
LOCKS repaired, and KEYS made.
In fact, any kind of work in my line will be
piomptly attended to. • •
Terms—Cash. apr3 ly
"JORDAN BODEMErT
SHAVING, HAIR-CUTTING,
AND
hai R-D r e s s i n g saloon.
SHAMPOOING AND HAIR-DYING,
13 UENA VISTA Street, west cf Nucleus
I I House, Des Arc, Arkansas. octld-ly
BLAVKS! BLANKS!!
Just printed and for sale at the “ Citizen
Otfice —Deeds of Conyt yanr. : Quit Claim
Deeds; Justice’s Summons’, Executions, De
’ ivery Bonds, &c. See.
I
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
pHARLES P. BERTRAND. Attor
\J ney at Law, Little Rock, Ark. [jan2I»
P JORDAN, Attorney at Law,
. Little Rock, Arkansas. [decll-ly.
W~g7& B. D. TURNER, Attor
. keys at Law, and General Collect
tors, Searcy, White county, Arkansas. Prac
tice in t,he Circuit Courts of Randolph, Law
rence, Independence, Jackson, White, Prairie,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jefferson and- Pulaski
counties, and .-in the Supreme and Federal
Courts at Little Rock Ark. Prompt aTO
faithful attention given to the collection of all
claims sent to them. fjan8-tf.
DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis,
having settled in (he town of Des Arc,
tenders his professional services to the citi
zens of said town and vicinity; and, from a
long experience in thelicaling art in the West,
flatters that he will share their pat
ronage. £5?” Office on Buena Vista street.
Residence on Woodruff street. dec5-tf
TAR. VY. F. WALSH, having located at
1 ) Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly1*
DR. WM. BETHELL, will continue
the Practice of Medicine in Des Arc, and
vicinity- From his long experience in his
profession, and ha\*ing resided in Arkansas
during the past fourteen years, he hopes to re
ceive a share of the public patronage.—
IJSjp” Office at Bf.thf.ll & Watts’s Drug
store. Residence in the building formerly
occupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf
DR. J. J. LANE, will Practice Medi
cine in the different branches of the Pro
fession. and respectfully tenders bis services to
the citizens of Des Arc and surrounding coun
try, hoping to share at least a portion of their
patronage. OFFICE—On Buena Vista street.
mayl5-tf
11 CHIDSEY, ResidentSET'^:
V Dentist, Clark’s Marble/jV, .y..
Block, Memphis.Tennessee. Will
visit Des Arc, of which notice will bo given
through the “ Citizen.” octl3-tim
TAS. R. HARRINGTON,
” Mechanical and Si; rgica i/qi v v.
Dentist, Near Oakland Grove, ^*-uLXx-r
Prairie county, Arkansas. DR. HARRING
rON is prepared to perform any operation, or
ixecute anv artificial work In the Dental pro
'ession. Hehopes by his particular attention,
carefulness and experience to merit the pat
ronage and influence of the citizens of Prairie
ind adjoining counties, which he respectfully
solicits. ' _inay30-ly
L. FEATHERSTON..Z. P. H. FARR.
FEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor
neys at Law, and Real Estate Agents,
Clarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the
counties of Monroe, Arkansas, Prairie, St.
Francis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular
ittention given to collections. References:
Madison, Ark., Hon. W. G. Beaseley, S. W.
Childress; Clarendon, Ark.. H. M. Couch;
Panola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Coffeeville,
Miss., E. C. Walthall; Memphis, Tenn., D.
M. DuBose. Esq., W.J.Webb ; Holly Springs,
Miss., W. T. Featherston ; Washington. D.
C., Jacob Thompson. _jO7
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
,J . Law, Dos Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Wi’ll practice in the counties of Prairie, Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis. Jackson, White,
Conwav, and Pope. He will give prompt at
:ention to all business entrusted to him.
OFFICE—Over Town Hall, (Frith’s
New Building.) first door. feb 13—tf
VI5. DALRVMPLE, Attorney at
Law, Dcs Arc, Prairie county, Arkan
;as.* Will practice in the counties of Prairie,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jackson, White, and Con
way. He will give prompt attention to all
Land Claims, and will attend personally to the
ocating of Swamp Land Scrip and "Warrants,
selling lands, and paying taxes, flgp” Office
in Lyon street. fel>13—tf
AKEMAN W. EDWARDS, Law
yer, Springfield, Conway county, Ar
kansas. Will practice in the various courts
if Middle Arkansas, figg” Prompt attention
riven to the collection of all claims entrusted
lo him. “SO*
T W. MARTIN, Attorney at Law,
j ' Lies Arc. rraine county* airbiwus. »» »<
practice in the counties of Prairie, Arkansas,
Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and White.
Prompt attention given to the collection
ofclaims; also, the locating, selling and pay
ing taxes on land, fl®” Office on Lyon street.
sept26-tf
WILLIAM T. JONES Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will
practice in the counties of Prairie, Jefferson,
Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and
White. Prompt attention given to the collec
tion of all claims in the middle and eastern
part of the State. _sept26-tf
SAM’L W. WILLIAMS.W. L. D. WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At
” tornkys at Law, Little Rock, Ar
kansas. Office on Markham street. One of
our firm will bo almost always at Brownsville,
where he can be consulted on professional
business, and will give his personal attention
to all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted to
them,_ dec}
JA. MOON, Attorney at Law,
, General Collecting and Land Agent,
For tile Northern and Eastern Counties of
Arkansas, l)es Arc, /Arkansas. octiO
D ^FURNISS MARTIN, Attorney
at Law, Brownsville, Prairie county,
Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of
Prairie, Pulaski, Conway, Pope, Yell, Perry,
Saline. White, Arkansas, Jefferson, Jackson
and Monroe. Prompt attention given to the
collection of claims. Also, the locating, sell
ing and paying taxes on land. jyl7-ly
J. L. 1IOLLOWELL,.. D. JAC0VVAY.
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardauelle, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry,
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope. ’
je2fi-tf
J. S. ANDERSON,
SADDLE, BRIDLE
m&'MzmMnAZ&mii,
IDES Alto, ARKANSAS.
f&M. RESPECTFULLY informs
V'.a^c the citizens of Prairie and KJO
adjacent counties, that he has on hand, M. 23
and is prepareil to manufacture to order,
Saddles, Bridles, Martingales, Boggy
Carriage and Hack Harness,
As well as every other description of work
usually done in such establishments.
£3?” Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
Jackson’s store. jan21-ly.
WHITTIER ON BURNS.
At the Burns Festival in Boston, the fol
lowing poem, enclosed in a letter, was rc
oeived from John G. Whittier:
How sweetly comes the holy psalms
From saints and martyrs down,
The waving of triumphal palms
Above the thorny crown !
The choral praise, the chanted prayers,
From harps by angels strung,
The haunted Cameron’s airs,
The hymns that Luther saa»£ 1
"Tet, jarritfgnot the heavenly notes,
The sounds of earth are heard,
As through the open minster floats
The song of breeze and bird.
Not less the wonder of the sky
That daisies bloom below ;
The brook sings on, though loud and high
The cloudy organs blow.
And if the tender ear be jarred
That haply hears by turns
That saintly harp of OIney’s bard,
The pastoral pipe of Burns.
No discord mars his perfect plRn
Who gave them both a tongue,
For he who sings the love of man,
The love of God hath sung!
To-day be every fault forgiven
Of him in whom we joy;
W-e take, with thanks, the gold of heaven,
And leave the earth’s alloy.
Be ours his music as of spring,
His sweetness as of flowers,
The songs the bard himself might sing
In holier ears than ours.
Sweet airs of love and home, the hum
Of household melodies,
Come singing as the robins come
To sing in door-yard trees.
And, heart to heart, two nations lean
No rival wreaths to twine,
But blending, in eternal green,
The holly and the pine !
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[From the United States Economist.
CUBA.
The example of Spain and of France in
selling respectively Florida and Louisiana
to the United Stales, because they were
required by our exigencies, is a complete
answer to all those writers who so perse
veringly assert that Spain has been gross
ly insulted by the hypothesis of the. Pre
sident’s Message in regard to Cuba. If
it is such an insulting proposition now, as
many English and American journals
would have us believe, it was certainly no
less an insult to the Great Napoleon, who
was not in the habit of submitting to in
sult, although in the case of Louisiana he
pocketed it in the shape of 80,000,000
francs, that were just then very acceptable
to complete his armament against Eng
land. It was at the moment when the bad
faith of England in relation to the execu
tion of the Treaty of Amiens became ap
parent and war inevitable, that the First
Consul having been “insulted” by the
United States in the same manner that
Spain now is in respect to Cuba, remark
ed to M. de Marbois as follows (March
1803): “I will no longer keep a possession
-which, cannot be safe in our hands—
which may perhaps embroil me with the
Americans, or might place me in a bad
position with them. On the contrary, I
will make use of it to attach them to me,
perhaps embroil them with the English,
and create against England enemies that
WII.L REVENGE US IF WE CANNOT RE
VENGE ourselves. My decision is made
—I will give Louisiana to the United
States, but as they have no territory to
give us in exchange, I will demand a sum
of money to pav the cost of the extraordi
nary armament that Great Britain com
pels us to make against her.” He called
at once Mr. Livingston, the United States
minister, and Mr. Monroe, who had just
arrived to negotiate a right of transit down
the Mississippi for Western produce.
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A 11VCU gCUUVUU/U UUUVJ/IVVI Ml, vuvv. J HUM
made a treaty for the purchase of Louisi
ana for SO million francs. Of this, 20
millions were to be applied to the indem
nity of American commerce for illegal
captures, and 60,000,000 francs were paid
over to France. This was the mode in
which Napoleon received the “insult.”
How admirably would the words he then
used in relation to Louisiana apply to
Cuba in the mouth of an able Spanish
statesman of the present day. The Is
land is in the hands of a dissatisfied peo
ple, and cannot be held safely for any
length of lime. The weak power of Spain
wants a friend in the United States far
more than did the young giant France at
that day, and the wisdom that prompted
Napoleon to sell, what he knew the Eng
lish were only waiting a declaration of
war to steal, should have weight with
Spain, who must be aware of the strong
desire for independence among the Cu
bans. We may at the same moment ad
mire the fulfillment in this case of the
prophecy with which most of the remarks
of the Great Napoleon were in a singular
manner endowed. In 1803, he stated
that Louisiana might be the means ol
avenging France upon England. It:
1815, that prophocy was fulfilled to tht
letter. After a long series of outrages or
the part of the English, and submitted tc
with spaniel-like patience on the part o
the United States, until pushed to such £
point that English cruisers entered oui
harbors and seized our seaman to mar
her ships, war was declared, in spite o
the “3,000 parsons” of that day. To seize
Louisiana was, of course, one of the plan:
of the English. In the mean time, tin
I disaster of Moscow, and the rising of al
t Europe, compelled the Emperor to con
! eentrate his troops by withdrawing then
I from Spain, whence as they retired, the]
! were followed by the Spanish, Portuguest
| and English troops, until the complete
evacuation of Spain set at liberty a num
ber of the English regiments for the
American war. Among these the fvuh
Highlanders, composed of men—by a very
curious coincident regard being had to the
patroness of Uncle Tom’s Cabin—taken
from the lands of the since famous Duch
ess of Sutbeiland, add devoted to the ag
grandizement of aristocratic interests,was
sent to attack New Orleans, and although
stimulated by the device of the leader of
Frfrffbnham, “booty and beauty,” met with
a bloody defeat before the troops of Jack
son. The same men who had so often
defeated the French rearguards in Spain,
went, down in platoons before, the Ameri
can rifles in Louisiana, thus bitterly ful
filling the forecast of Napoleon. Spain
followed the example of France, and ce
ded Florida. The “march of Empire”
since moved the boundary irom the Sabine
to the Brazos, and run the line due west
to the Pacific. Mexico has been reft from
Spain, and is now as it wore knocking
at the door of the Union. Dangers in
ternal and external surround and over
shadow the last remains of her Indian
Empire, while every steamer from Eu
rope brings forebodings of a new European
war, which may require all the resources
of Spain to keep her afloat during the
storm, without the dead weight of Cuba
on her back. Happy will she be if among
her statesmen some spark of the sagacity
and decision of Napoleon may be found
before it is too late. The debate in Mad
rid upon that passage of the President's
Message which is in relation to Cuba, is
a rare example of Spanish bombast. To
hear those Dons one would suppose that
an offer to buy Cuba on the part of the
same customer to whom they had sold
^r. ,1 n ^ ivim-o WArlt'l
One of the papers, the Feni.v, goes into
rhapsody over what Spain was, very much
in the style of the spendthrift who moral
izes over the last pistole remaining from a
magnificent inheritance:
“ When the greedy hands of the North
American Union are ready to be stretched
out towards our precious Antilles, which
is nearly all that remains to us of the
Spanish Empire in the New World ; when
the United States are openly seeking to
add at our expense one more star to tho3e
with which their flag is studded, it will not
be inexpepient to look back upon the Spain
of our forefathers, when it occupied the
eighth part of the known world, when its
inhabitants were 70,000,000, and its di
mensions comprised a space of 800,000
square miles.” That “ inheritance” pass
ed away in the following manner:
1565—Malta surrendered to Knights of St.
John.
1620—Navarre and Bearne ceded to France.
1640—Portugal was lost.
1649—Roussel on lost.
1648—Netherlands became ind ‘pendent.
1626—Barbadoes seized by the English.
1665—Jamaica “ “ “
1704—Gibraltar “ “
1718—Lucas “ “ “
1759— V miriicia “ “
1797—Trinidad “ “ “
17th Century—New Grenada, Guadeloupe,
and half St. Domingo seized by the French
1800—Louisiana seized by the French.
I8th Ceutury—Sardinia ceded to Duke of Savoy
“ “ Oran and Mazaiquin ceded to
Morocco.
“ “ North of Italy coded to the
Bourbons.
1759—Naples and Sicily emancipated.
1319_Florida sold to United States.
1821—Half St. Domingo lost.
1825—Mexico finally lost. '■
The list of seizures by England and
France is rather full, and some portions
(like Malta) that England did not seize
direct, she stole afterwards. France and
Austria are now ready to fight over Italy.
Of all that vast Empire divided up among
so many plunderers, the only portion
which the United States are possessed of
was bought and paid for in hard cash.
The time has now come when Spanish
abuse makes the govermentno longer tol
erable in Cuba. The United States ofler
a round sum of money in compensation
for the Island, and the Spaniards howl
over it as a most unbearable insult, and
me rooper wno noius sun iwu«iujius aa »ic
old patrimony, which they stole, join in
the chorus, and echo, “unbearable insult,”
It must be admitted that while England
holds Spanish property, which she seized
without compensation, she must feel in
sulted and debased to see the United
States refuse any domain that they do not
pay for. Curiously, the newspapers in the
United States which represent the "plun
der” party take the same view, justifying
those who stole Spanish domains, and de
nouncing those who offer to buy and pay
for it.
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The Medicine of Laughter.—It is
recorded of Dr. Griffin,(saysa writer in
the Atlantic,) that when President of the
Andover Theological Seminary, he con
vened the students at his room one even
ing, and told them he had observed that
they were all growing thin and dyspep
tical, from a neglect of the exercise of
Christian laughter, and he insisted upon it
that they should go into a company drill
in it then and there. The doctor was an
immense rnan—over six feet in height,
i with great amplitude of chest, and most
i magesterial manners. ‘ Here’ said he, to
the first, ‘you must practice; now heat
me!’ and bursting out into a sonorous
laugh, he fairly obliged his pupils, one bj
one, to join, till the whole were almos'
convulsed. ‘ That will do for once,’ saic
the doctor, ‘ and now, mind you, keep it
practice.’
_A lawyer, not young nor handsome
examini ng a young lady witness, determine!
to perplex her as he thought, and said,: « Misi
■ upon myrword, you are very pretty!” “1
would return the compliment If I was not oi
■ oath,” said the young lady.
_The worst feature on a man’s face is hii
| nose—-when stuck in other people’s business
But one way to Farm.
lion. J. R. Williams of Michigan, in
his agricultural address at the New \ ork
State Fair at Syracuse, related the follow
ing anecdote :
“ I met a man last year, who exultingly
declared that their was but one way to iioe,
but one way to plow, but one way to har
vest, and books and schools were there
fore futile. If there is but one way to
farm it, that is a very poor way, which af
fords an average crop of less than eleven
bushels of wheat per acre over such a
country as we possess This same friend
called my attention to a Pennsylvania
German, who could hardly read and
write, and had a great contempt for pa
pers and books on farming, but was the
best farmer in his neighborhood. I told
him that I thought this basket would not
hold water, and that this tnodei farmer
owed everything to the spirit or improve
ment abroad. His plow was a Troy plow,
instead of the old shaky implement, with
straight handles tipped with cow horns,
which he used when a boy. His imple
ments were mostly light, graceful, elastic
ones, of recent patterns. His fruits were
budded and grafted from such as his
neighbors had imported from the best
nurseries. Whatever superior cattle, or
sheep, or swine he had, were obtained
from heighbors at no extra cost. The
nails he shingled his house with cost but
one third as much as those which his fath
er used. When he got up in the morn
ing, he lighted his fire in a second with a
friction match, instead of tugging ten
minutes with flint and steel and tinder
box, and he complacently composed him
self to sleep at night under sheeting that
cost eight cents per yard, as good as that
which cost fifty cents when he was a chsiu.
The story is told of Plato, that having
described man to be n biped without
feathers, Diogenes, the cynic, laid a pluck
ed rooster before him and exclaimed,
“Behold Plato's man!" If our model
farmer was deprived of all the benefits he
had derived from that progress which he
depised.if he was stripped of all borrowed
|tlumes, he would be as innocent of leath
ers as Plato’s man."
A Perfect Shower of Aces.—1
see a mighty funny poker game once on
the Massasip, a goin’ up from New Or
leans.
Thar war four old coast Frenchmen, all
sugar planters, just sold their crap, and
got their pockets full of rocks. They went
it strong, I tell ye. They’d got their
backs and tails up. Captain Whisky had
got a powerful grip on ’em, and if they
war’nta bumpin’t it, 'hark from the tomb!’
At last they went to the bar to stretch
thar legs and wood up; and while they
were gone, I see a mischievous lookin’
chap a changin’ thar papers.
“Keep shady,” sez he, a winkin’ to us
that war stand in’ round the table, “and
you’ll see the old boy me directly.”
Back comes the chaps, the keerds were
dealt round, and I see thar eyes a snap
pin’; but all a try in’ to look powerful
solemn.
A “blind” war bet, and up spoke the
next hand. 'n
“I see ze blind and bets bettair.”
“I see zatan’ go fife dollar.”
“Twenty bettair sah you—ha, ha!"
“Sacray toenails! von hundred bettair
zan you.”
Oh, gingerl sucli a shellin’ as thar war
to be shea! and when the dimes run dry,
they drawed draft on New Orleans, and
gave notes till they’d bet all they were
worth, and when the hand was called,
every man Jack slaps four white aces and
dove for the pile, and such a yeltin,’ and
cursin’, and sacrain’ as thar war when they
diskivered how they’d been sold!
rP I-W. /Innlr y-v.. «Ln In l.l /* Itrn *• 'til onne fl nrl
as it were half deck poker they were play
in', every man got five aces, and thinkin’
another ace had crawled into the pack
somehow, they all ketched one and kept
the others.
One run for his pistols, another pulls
out his knife, and if they’d only dislnvered
who served ’em out, thar’d been a mighty
slim chance for him; but they went on so
that the captain had to interfere, and shut
’em up.
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Deaf and Dumb Comfositors.—In
Germany, as the birthplace of printing, a
great intereset is stilt felt in all that per
tains to that art. An event has recently
taken place at Zablagen, in Wurtemburg,
which is attracting considerable notice.
M. Theodore Algerad, who lias long
shown much sympathy for the deaf and
dumb, had conceived that those who were
suffering under that calamity might be
usefuity and profitably employed in the
printing office. Following out this idea,
iiat gentleman has now in his employment
one hundred and sixty operatives who are
deaf and dumb, and of whom eleven are
females, all of who he has, at his own ex
pense, and personally, instructed to such
an extent that they are now expert com
positors. The government of Wurturn
burg has thought that this experiment, of
which the object was to give work and
sustenance ot many of this class of unfor
tunates, is well deserving of encourage
ment and acknowledgment, and the King
has, in the mean time, given orders that a
large gold medal should be presented to
the director of this new and silent printing
office, in testimony of the high sense
which his majesty entertains of M. Alger
ad’s benevolent undertaking.
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_Emily—“ Shall you dress much to
night, dear?” Lillian—“No; as little as
possible. I am going to a ball.”
-The farmer whose pigs got so lean that
they could crawl through the cracks fn their
j pens, stopped their fun by tying knots in their
, tails.
1AUTS AEUUT THE MISSISSIPPI
From Hewson’s now book on leveeing,
die Memphis Appeal condenses the fol
lowing interesting facts:
The average fall of the Mississippi riv
er, for the whole distance from tho Gulf
of Mexico to the confluence of the Ohio
at Cairo, during low water, is very nearly
three inches to the mile.
During a flood, the Mississippi rises at
Cairo fifty feet; at Friar’s Point, forty
two and a half feet; at New Orleans,
twelve feet. The average fall per mile is,
then, three and a half inches.
At Cairo the Mississippi is upwards of
a mile wide; at New Orleans its width
is but half a mile. Tin's narrowing of the
down stream is accompanied by a corres
ponding rapidity and deepening.
The observations of engineers has es
tablished the fact that inferior streams,
running into a main river, neither widen
nor raise it; they quicken the current and
deepen tho chutinel. The retention of
flood water within the ordinary channel
by levees, will have similar effects—the
depth of the river will be increased, the
velocity of the stream will be more rapid,
but there will not be, as a direct conse
quence, any elevation of tho level.
The Mississippi is shown, by the esti
mate of Sir C. Lysle.to carry earth be
low New Orleans to the amount, each
year, of a hundred and thirty-seven mil
lions of cubic yards.
As a consequence of the above, new
lands is continually forming at the mouth
of the Mississippi. Mr. Rogers, in his
report on the geology of North America,
says that, as an example of the rate at
which this formation is proceeding, the
old Hulize, erected at the mouth of the
river about 1774, was, in 1834, two miles
above it. lliere was not at that time the
smallest appearance of tho island on
Which, forty-two years after, Ulloa caused
barracks to be raised for pilots, and now
known as the new Belize. The rate of
advance has been ninety-six feet a year.
Leveeing is known, especially by the ex
ample of the Po, to forward the rale of
this advance.
Every throe inches of elevation of the
water at Nevv Orleans, represent* an ele
vation at Cairo of twelve and a half inches.
The rate of fall, from New Orleans to
the sea, is about an inch and a half per
mile ; therefore, an advance of the mouth
at a quicker rate, in consequence of lev
eeing, would give, judging by the facts in
relation to tho river Po, an advance, in a
hundred years, of tho mouth into the Gulf
of Mexico, of four and a third miles.
This would cause an additional elevation
of six and a half inches to the flood level
n New Orleans, of twenty-three inches
at Friar’s Point, and of twenty-seven in
ches at Cairo.
The surface of the elevation of the bed
of the river from levelling has been made
a great bugbear, but when the few facta
known in the case are subject to examina
tion, only such planters us take a very
active interest in their great grand-chil
dren, will be troubled about the fact, that
the work of reclaiming the magnificent
wastes of the Mississippi will cause a
rise in the bed of the river of less than a
third of an inch a year.
The evil arising from the extension of
laud at the rnouh of tlte rivers can be neu
tralized by confining the flow of tho ter
minus of the stream to one outlet; by this
the bars at the rnouh would be scoured out,
and the deposit of earthly particles made
further out at sea than at present, so that
the Gulf stream would carry them com
pletely away.
A system of cut-ofls, by which the riv
er would be greatly strengthened, would
be highly dangerous, by causing a great
accelleration of the stream; the rapid
current would wash away the banks, anu
immense spaces of country would be re
duced, by the escape of the waters, to
swamps and lagoons.
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What London Dock Gin Did tor an
Editor.—The editor of the Logan (O.)
Gazette having been presented with a
bottle of old London Dock Gin, drank it,
and then attempted to write a paragraph
of thanks, with this melancholy result:
“ In conclusion, here’s to 1 Fire Foun
tain Company No. Some,’ the Brassfon
taine Belie Band, and the rest of our
home insutions and org’zations, including
the ladies, and other branches of business
[hicj in end around town—and especially
the Messidents Pressage, Mouingtou
Whashument, etc., all of which may be
had cheap at the Buck—Drook—Brook
and Dug Store of Binninger’s old Don
don Lock Gin, for $>2 a year, if payment
is de ayed until the end o! the Atlantic
Cable."
Passing Away.—The New Orleans
Picayune, alluding to the Eighth of Jan
uary proceeding in that city, says of the
“ Veterans:”
Like leaves of autumn the little band
of veterans of the illustrious battles of
i 1814-13 are fast dropping away. Each
year gathers some of the buds with the
generations of the dead. The remnant
are looked up-m with the greatest interest.
| as they an- now the remains of a past
generation come down to our day. A lit
tle over thirty whites and some twenty
blacks constituted the number belonging
to this city who formed part of the cor
tege yesterday. Some of the few that are
lelt are yet hale and walk with as erect a
carriage as when they trod the battle
field, forty-five years since; but the ma
jority show the weight of years. In a
few years more the Eighth will be cele
brated with no veterans to give interest tc
the occasion.
A SUBLIME 1 ERORATTOlf.-i 116 ClOSing
passage pf Professor Mitchell’s lecture, at
New York, recently, was delivered with
thrilling effect. After speaking of the un
fathomable distance which no telescope
can penetrate, lying far beyond the system
in which the earth revolves, and yet filled
with independent system of worlds of in
finite numbers, he said:
Light traverses space at the rate of a
million miles a minute, yet the light froiia
the nearest star requires ten years to reach
the earth, and Hcrschel’s telescope reveal
ed stars two thousand three hundred times
further distant. The great telescope of
Lord Ross pursued these creations of God
•still deeper into space, and having resolv
ed the ncbultcof the Milky Way into stars,
discovered other system of stars—beauti
ful diqmond points glittering through the
black darkness beyond. When he beheld
this amazing abyss—when he saw these
systems scattered profusely throughput
space—when lie reflected upon their im
mense distance, their enormous magnitude,
and the countless millions of worlds that
belonged to them, it seemed to him as
though the wild dream of the German poet
was more than realized.
“God called man in dreams int© the ves
tibule of heaven, saying, 'come up hither
and I will show thee the glory of my
house.’ And to his angels who stood a
bout his throne lie said, ‘take him, strip
him of his robes of flesh; cleanse his af
fections ; put a new breath into his nostrils;
but touch not his human heart—the heart
that fears and hopes and trembles.’ A.
moment, and it was done, and the mhii
stood ready (or his unknown voyage.' Un
der the guidance of a mighty angel, With
souuds of flying pinions, they spend their
way from the battlement of heaven.
oomc lime on inn uiigiuy uxigci » wiug
they fled through Saiiaras of darkness
wildernesses of death. At length, from a
distance not counted save in the arithme
tic of heaven, light beamed upon them—ft
sleepy flame ns seen through a hazy cloud.
They sped on in their terrible speed to
meet the light; the light with lesser speed
came to meet thorn. In a moment the
blazing of suns around them—a moment
the wheeling of planets; then came long
eternities of twilight; then again on the
right hand and the left appeared more con
stellations. At last the man sank down,
crying, “And, I can go no further; let me
lie down in the grave, and hide myself
from the infinitude of the universe, for end
there is none. ‘End is there none?’ de
manded the angel. And from the glitter
ing stars that shone around there came ft
choral shout, ‘End there is none!’ ‘End
there is none?’demanded the angel again,
‘and is it this that awes the soul ? I answer,
end there is none to the universe of God!
Lo, also, there is no beginning!” m
Old Times.—Gen. James Gadsden,
formerly Minister to Mexico, who lately
died at Charleston, was a graduate of
Yale College. The following details of
his troubles in getting to New Haven
from New York, fifty-five years ago, are
of some interest:
“In 1803, the intercourse with New
York (where now centers the trade of
United States) was uncertain and irregu
lar. To reach New Haven, young Gads
den had to take passage to Newport, the
captain stipulating to forward him to the
place of his destination. From Newport
iie was shipped on board of a sloop navi
gating the sound (passing almost in sight
of New Haven) for New York. . On his
arrival at the latter place, he was trans
ferred to one of the daily packets, a small
cruft of about sixty tons, which left Peck
Slip every evening (by way of economy,)
the passengers paying for the transpor
tation of their persons only; taking tea
beforehand in New York, and expecting
to breakfast in New Haven. It was the
practice of these packets to receive all
passengers who offered, without regard to
accommodations, and when the multitude
assembled (after leaving the dock) they
had to cast lots for the few berths the ves
sel afforded. It was young Gadsden’s
misfortune to encounter a plank, or, in
other words, to have to seek a sleeping
place “ on the softest plank.” For the
first time, from the apron-strings of an
indulgem mother, he felt no little concern
at the situation in which he found himself,
when he was accosted by an elder youth,
inquiring with some solicitude where he
was from. When informed, the welcome
response was heard, “ come, share my
berth, I too am a Carolinian.” This
gentleman proved to be Dr. James Mc
i Bride, who was ta route to join the same
institution, and between whom and James
Gadsden there originated an intimacy and
friendship which endured until the pre
mature death of one of the most gifted
sons of Carolina.
-Burins a recent trial, there was a large
number of ladies present, who caused a gentle
murmuring all the time. The mber called
out repeatedly “ silence 1” when the Judge
mildly said.—Mr. Usher, don’t you know
better chan to call silence when ladies are in
court'/” ' *•’•*»• •
Listing.—Conversing one d3V with a fash
ionable and prelfy belle, the facetious Mr.
Spriggs observed that, “Ladie3 that lisped
wi lled to be kissed.” The young lady be
fore had spoken unaffectedly, but now replied,
« The I’ve heard til ay.”
_Crock says you may talk all night
about the beauties and virtue of your coun
try cider, but just give him his regular “city
Bourbon,” and he won’t figure the matter with
you.
_Kissing a pretty girl “down South,” a.
voting gudleiinn asked her ‘ what made her
so sweet ?’ Uh,” she replied, in utter
uoceuce, “ my father is a sugar planter.”