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A. C. MATHEWS, EDITOR.
D E 8 A J! C , ARKANSAS:
Tiraday Morning, Efb. 2S, I8W.
The CITl/I A l» WOT (he OB.
clal Organ o» »frr Hnslliai Party.
It Is not (lie lt«'( Iplent of FORCED
Patronage; but relies on Ita .m n
Merita and on a Olatrlinl^atlng
PIDI.K', (Ur Niter .-as.
toO^LITIOI.
*riie copartnership horclofore exist
ing between I’ou St Mathews in the
publication of tlie “Dcs Arc Citixen”
was this day dissolved by mutual con
sent. A. ('. Mai hews having purchased
the entire interest of K. li. Poe in said
paper, lie wiJJ hereafter continue tho
publication of the same. All accounts
due the paper for advertising, inserted
prior to Hie l*t day of January, 1869,
and all subscriptions dated before the
Istdav of January 1 >68. remaining un
paid, is iu hands of E. II. l’oc for
colleetio's. All other claims will be
paid to <h,- Pitixen oflirc.
I>es Air, Arkansas, Feb’v 19th 1869.
A. C. Matlicws.
E. 11. Poe.
ttf Tlio business consequent upon
a change in the proprietorship of our ;
paper has prevented us giving the j
usual amount of editorial matter this !
week. We will make amends by issu
ing a live uewspaper from this time
forward.
(freely usd Suffrage.
Some time since Ex-Gov. Neil S.
Brown, and several other leading
Conservative men of Tennessee, ad
dressed a letter to Horace Grcely, on
tho sudject of universal amnesty and
impartial sutlYsgc. Grcely replies as
follows:
“We print herewith a letter to the
editor of this journal from several
representative men of the Tennessee
Conservatives, including cx-Governor
Nicl 8. Brown and cx-Scnator Henry
8. Foote. The other signers, though
not so widely known, are equally res
pected and influential at home. We
ask for it the thoughtful regard of all
>vlio noaruty uuue in uencrai uraur s
aspiration—‘‘Lot us have Peace.”
The novel feature in this letter is its
full concurrence in the position wc
proclaimed long ago, that universal
amnesty and impartial suffrage are
each desirable and necessary of itself,
and not merely a counterpoise to the
other. When wo declared, in Novem
ber, 1866 that wo favored universal
amnesty at all events, we did not
lucftii, and did not imagine that we
could he supposed to mean, that we
would in any case abandon our advo
cacv ofimpartial suffrage. We meant
only that, if there had never been a
slave nor a negro in the land, we
should have stood for universal am
nesty as wise and beuetieent—that we
did not propose a dicker, nor support
universal amnesty merely because wo
desired impartial suffrage, but because
WC deem it wise :,nd right.
The oulv practical question is that of ,
lime. No man who even pretends to
•ditntesmim&liip can doubt that culrai'
ehiseuient is destined to be universal. |
It is virtually settled already thr.t the
Hacks are to vote, in spite of their,
oolor. Who believes that a largo class
af whites are to be left under the bail
t<jr ever? Those disfranchised for
uartiiiipntion in tlio rebellion are
inevi tablv superior iu intelligence, in
l jt, litii'.al expjricncr, and oven in geucr
ui ability, to their enfranchised neigh-]
lu rs. Cun the pyramid stand on its
ur x fo-r ever? Do wc not need w bat
on er capacity wc have? Have wc not a
rn ut to its freest use? And how can
be said that A or 1J. is the choice of
district for Congress or of ids State
lot -tiovxrnor, if a large portion of the
popple ouu neither vote nor be voted
fori And (in short) since every one
whe knows anything must know that
the-removal of the existing disabilities
is aa/Jestum of time only, why not set
tle it at once, and giro peace to the
country ?
—
sad .neairit or Carrying Deadly
WegoHH 1—Arkansas Kapldly
UecMiiliiK another “Dark and
Hlwdy Ijround.”
Oncof iho must painful and tragic
eveubt-*i-.at ever transpired in Arkan
sas occurred on i hursday last, at Muri
aua, a village in Phillips county, twen
ty live mites northwest of Helena. The
actors in this bloody tragedy were all
young men of good siauding and excel
lout character, men of the very best
stamp, brave, generous, and in the very
lirvdav of youthful mmhood, and their
sudden and terrible dissolution has not
•vu'y shrouded three homes in dismal
_ ! ...cl u .vl.kiiltl lIVl'l' fill*
whole COV'K'y
The part, culars • f ibis terrible event,
as hr as we have been able to gut be,
lhem from par ties living near Mariana,
are briefly tk*o: It rectus that on
Thursday of.last weak, while Air Tom
Freeman was drivi. 'g * wagon and team
in the direction of /la'janu, he was ac
costed by .Mr. Tom Slighter, of Mis
sissippi. who, together 'T*th his cousin
Air. Arthur Slaughter, \»«» riding on
lio/Miat'k in the kuuic .Uirection. 1 ho
K Mark B*ado Ijy lii* Jirst . ^AT* Slaughter
was .'omething to the elTt that •‘he
was d- 1 glaJ I liny could at least
. .... while driver in Aekans. 18• ‘,r
Freeman it is allcdjsed, beinfe ratJcr
•leaf iuterj'tv d this remark as a.
and bitter"y cut*, d the young man.
or oue of them, remarking that it ™
all right, said they would see bun <"
.Mariana IT pun the arrival ot the W. «g-,
on a! sl/uriaiia, T»>« Slaughter order, d
Freeman to dismount, drawing a p'sl’
the time, which, it is supped, accident
ly was discharged wounding Freeman lu
Hie right leg. Immediately upon thm
Freeman fired and instantly killed lorn
Slaughter, the hall passing through his
" * body in the region of the heart. - "T‘
rhur Slaughter being present, lovc.ca His
iiiatul and fired upon F'recman, shooting
through thfhoad, not, however before
F/tcmau had simultaneously fired, mol tal
ly wound Wig Arthur Slaugh ter, who dlod
instantly. Thus in a few minutes three
brave young felloWH were sent to their long
account, without warning and from a tri
tliugcause Mr. Arthur Slaughters fu
ihcr. (’apt. II I'- Slaughter, is a promi
nent citizen nl .he county, aud was a mem
ber el the 1 e”i. i .two iu 1806-7.—[Mem
i.ltis Aval.u t'>*'•
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_m-r ( I Ilona. Miss., News tells
Hut Mr Ha- "''‘hat place has Unock
,,1 veloo, *■ Wagons and loeomo
iU-M out .iff*. fehv the invent.on
a sofa F.-oteHer that inns UHcen
miles an hour a,*..- ordiua. y !<*«•■
"I Uv ubt' l.'iH' ’>*■*■« J’O'rnHM.
rouaty-OM Killed and Sev
eral Wounded.
From the Fayetteville Echo, 4lk.]
On last TlnvrsiMt toiCYuing J, C.
McKinney walked Washington’s
store to purchase 'omc jars—was mnk
ittg the purchase when John Fisher
snhf: ‘•Mcjf’mney, 1 suppose you went
to sce tP.y brother shot, and said you
‘had *■ lie pleasure of seeing it done.’”
-•icKinnsy asked who was his au
thor, w hereupon Fisher drew a rcvol
I ver and commenced firing, the first
| shot passing through McKinney’s
i heart ; after lie fell Fisher shot him
j again, the ball passing through his
jaws, arm and leg—then turning upon
George Washington, was just in the
act of firing upon him when G. W.
McCInrc and A. G. Lewis interceded
and prevented the murder of Washing
ton. Fisher then left the house, danc
ing and whooping, to Mrs. Albcrty's,
their place of abode, where lie rein
forced himself with Charles Hush and
Cal. Carter—mounted themselves, anil
armed witli guns and pistols, passed
several times up and down the streets
of Kvansville, ami strange to say,
were unmolested. Some half hour af
ter the murder ofl>r. McKinney they
rode out of town, passing into the na
tion. In a short time F. M. Shannon,
with five others, namely: John Fin
icy, W. M. Finley, J. W. Bell, M. K.
Shannon and John Brothcrton, arrived
in Kvansville and started immediately
in pursuit. After going some eight or
ten miles, F. M. Shannon and John
Finley separated from the remainder
of their party, taking a circuitous j
route back to Kvansville; the other;
boys acting likewise, though in another
direction, to ncccrtain if- possible j
Fisher's route or whereabouts. Bell,
Brutlicrtou, W. M. Finley and M. K. j
Shannon arrived back in Evansville j
first and dismounted at Washington's
store, when Fisher and party fired up- j
on them, wounding Sam. Alberty, an
old citizen, in the hip; also wounded
W. M. Finley’s horse, breaking his leg
short off. Fisher’s party were r,i;
Gillett’s grocery at this time. Bell and
Brothcrton left to notify F. M. Shannon
and John Finley of their whereabouts.
M. K. Shannon nnd W. M. Finley
retreated lo Mrs. Bean's orchard to
await reinforcements.
In tlie meantime F. M. Shannon and
Finley arrived at Washington’s dwell- j
ing unaware of what had just occurcd
whereupon M. K. Shannon nnd W. M.
Finley joined them. Fisher and party
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in fence corners and behind trees in ;
Frank Mbit’s yard, ami when Shannon
and party were entering the dwelling 1
they tired upon them, wounding John
Finley in the head, on the first lire.
Several shots were fired, but fortu- j
uatelv no one else hurt. Washington ;
and family wore all present.
It being derided that John Finley
required surgical aid, Washington |
started for medical aid. When he
emerged from the house he was fired
at twice, but fortunately was not 'jurt. ,
Fisher and party then, under co.ver of;
Mbit's house and fencing, hastily re- i
treated. What III the nau’.c of God is
to be done.
Dr. J. C. McKinney Wp.s nil old man
»nd a good and respectable citizen.
AJI they had again st him was that he
was a friend an<j father-in-law of F.
M. Sliaiinon who justifiably killed J.
M. Fisher on the 2(ith of December.
We arc happy to learn that a reward
of $1,000 *s 'jfTered for John Fisher.
ISfirTlie New York Evening- Post
(Radical) thus laments the condition of
its party: !
When a political party has a great
predominance, it is pretty sure to draw
to itselt'thc rogues, the unscrupulous,
and the self seekers in the community.
That is the danger of such ail ascendan
cy. A party may become the tool of
corrupt men, because its loaders are
careless and over confident oftheir
strength, ^iiul because the rogues and
self-seekers are attracted to it from
a desire to use it as their instrument,
Sviicn a party becomes corrupt,
the people, who endure for a while
with that patience which short sighted
politicans arc so stirc to misunderstand,
presently leavo it and take up ‘.he oth
er party, even if they run the risk of
faring but little better by the change.
It seems to many thoughtful friends
of the Republican party that it is run
ning just now a good deal of risk of
sueli a popular desertion. It has
amongst its leaders wise, prudent and
good men, but these are' in many cases
over-ridden by glib-tongued dema
gogues, by unscrupulous speculators,
and by men too ignorant fortliese times
which demand, at least, adecent knowl
edge of political science in the legisla
tor.
State nights.
For information at Washington, wc copy
the following paragraph from the inaug
ural address of Gov I’aiuicr, Radical uf
Illinois:
The Federal Government is one of enu
merated powers. It is essential to llie
usefulness of the State Governments that
their just authority should be respected by
that of tlie nation. Alreauy me auiuoruy
of tlie States is in a measure paralysed by
a growing conviction that all their powers
are in some sense derivative and subordi
nate, and not original and independent.
The State governments arc a part of the
American system of government. They
fill a well defined place, and their just au
thurity must he respected by the Federal
Government, if it is oxpciotod their laws
will he obeyed. “A frequent recurrence
to the fundamental principles of govern
ment is esseniial to civil liberty,” and in
this view I have thought it proper to in
vite your attention to these subjects.
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General Lee in Favor or the New
Movement in Virginia.—Tlie Rich
mond Whig quotes approvingly and
conspiciotisly the following: “The
editor of the'l*etersburg Index, writing
from Washington, savs: ‘I see that the
Express, Norfolk Virgiuian, Examiner
m\d Fredericksburg News are still ox
cre.'sing themselves about the honor of
the old State and its good people.’
The i vriter adds, by authority, that
‘General Lee not only heartily agreed
with th e new movement, but was
among th e first to suggest the ideas
which con.'rol it.’ The fact is, all sensi
ble people iu Virginia and elsewhere
in the South are prepared for peace,
and exoect if- under General Grants
admlrilsWion, and those old politi
cians who cast o-bstacles in the way of
a conTumnmtion so devoutly to.be
wished should be shelved forever.’
New York Herald. _
. _Tj,e -body of Henry Gormley,
who disappeared from Louisville three
months ago, &M been found in the
river near tho city- a
_A merchant of Bil«d* Misaiadp
pt, Mr. E. Lafaure, was found dead in
the rear of his stoma on the morning
of the 30th ult. His face was spotted
with the marks of powder, and his
! body had a bullet wound, showing that
j tie wits killed by so«u: one very nciir to
i h'mi. The killing fa supposed to have
1 been done l>.y an »>u i=»in.
A Private Letter from the ftceafc
ol'Hadlral Out rage.
To the Editor of the Courier Journal J
Guthrie City, Todd County, Kt.,
February 1, 18159.
1 send you for publication another
letter frotjt my daughter living in
Crittenden county, Ark. It is neither
sensational nor terrible, but a plain and
authentic statement; a home-drawn
j picture of the beauties of Kadieal rule.
It may give the people of Tennessee
an Ideaofwlmt is in store for them. X.
January 27, I8(!9.
Dear Father: As the militia are
still in our vicinity, 1 know you arc
anxious to bear how we are Taring,
t am sorry to say we have bad several
visits from them, and they do not im
prove on acquaintance.
'I'lic lirst time they came here they
behaved better than i anticipated—on
ly took fifteen bushels of corn, and de
manded the use of a wagon and team
to carry away some sugar and flour
they bud gottcu at J-’s. They only
succeeded in catching one mule, but
they look our buggy mare which was
in the yard. They promised to give a
receipt for the corn, and to send tlie
wagon bark next. You may imagine
we felt relieved when they left. A few
evenings after a squad oniiie down and
asked for chickens and eggs. I gave
them all the eggs 1 had; told Ihetn I
had no chickens to spare, and they
seemed satisfied and left. So consider
ing who and what they were, ,-Clay
ton's militia,” we thought their conduct
admirable. They have done so much
worse elsewhere (hat we thought our
selves a favored few. I hear that they
went to widow T.’s and took every
thing, even her children'll clothing.
They have almost ruined Mr. J. taking
everything they want from his store.
Don't you think wo are through'.}' sub
jugated down here?
What else can we do, when a com
pany of negi-o "mcn^witb guns in their
bands, :.nd looks insolent and defying,
demand our property ? I confess’ we
<irc glad to get off with our lives. Ilut
I have not yet told you all. A few
days since Mr. 1*. went up to see the
Lieutenant about our wagon and team
and the receipt promised for the corn,
but when lie got there they talked very
differently; said they did not give
receipts; yet they seemed to like Mr.
I’.—told him, some negvoes bad been
trying to get them to make him pay
them some money for last year’s work,
but they did not bnlieve negroes’ news.
Last Friday morning they came
down to our bo'ise again. As nr. Pwas
as from lioir.e, and brother had gone to
to me neir,T ± immediately locked all
the <loe,rs, and, going to' a window,
asked ■w'.iftt they wanted. One of them
said, they wanted everything they
ctiuld get; but the officer rode up soon
and said lie had heard we had some ex
cellent tobacco, and lie wanted some.
Of course it was given as soon as pos
sible, lie then said some of the boys
were a little sick, and woud like some
milk and bread. I then had to open
the door and go into the dining-room
to get some. You may be sure! was
much frightened. They enjoyed the
milk and bread, and then quietly left.
January 31.—Yesterday we heard
they lmd left the neighborhood, and
were rejoicing, when the first thing
we 8aw, the yard was full of them.—
Before we could lock the doors two
officers came in. One of them told us
to lock all the doors and let none of
the soldiers in. Said they came for
corn, meat, and Hour; brother went to
the smoke-house with them ; they took
all our fresh meat but four pieces;
brother had to beg for that; took near
ly all our Hour and some corn. They
also wanted sugar and coffee; the for
mer J had hidden, and of coffee I had
hardly a pound in the house. They
said they were very hungry; 1 gave
them milk and bread. Some of them
wont over to Mr. Mr. m-’s to got
something to eat—and, really, they cat
like half fed dogs. The negroes in the
county are behaving insolently, and l
hardly think we will remain here.
O. I’.
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Execution of Whelan.
A dLpatch from Ottawa, Canada, gives j
the following particulars of the execution
of H hclan, the alleged assussin of D’Arcy
Met Ice:
‘ The morning opened dull, with a dr iz
xling snow The country people began .
to arrive at an early hour, and set about j
securing good positions to see the scaffold \
and hear the last words of Whelan. Up j
to nine o’clock there wore about nine bun
died people on the cast side of the jail, ;
and by 10: 30 the crowd had increased to i
7000 or 8000, but all wasquiet and orderly j
“At ten o’clock the prisbu physician ;
reported that Whelan was in good nerve,
and that no agitation or flurry was notice
able in him, and a short time after the
Sheriff anuouuccd every thing in readi
ness for the execution.
“At eleven o’clock H hclan was pinioned
and accompanied by the Sheriff and three
priests, was led from the prison, looking
very pale and excited, but moved along
with a firm step, and mounted the stair
way to the scaffold, responding, as he
walked, distinctly to to the prayer of the
priest'
“After the pater nostcr had been re
pcated, he said: “I beg pardon tor any
offence that 1 have ronuuitod; 1 forgive
all parties who have injured mo; I ask for
giveness from any otic 1 may have injured
v*ou save lreiunu. uousave niy boui.
“The executioner then pulled on the j
white cap and drew it over Ids face and
adjusted the rope, and in n few minutes
the drop fell, and Whelan hull" by the
neck for four minutes, suffering intensely,
anti then breathed no more.
“It is rumored that Whelan left a writ- ‘
ten papor iu the custody of the Sheriff,
the purport of which is not made public ■
as yet.”
Another Sickles.—Dr. Geo. B. Pe
ters, who killed Gen. Van Dorn, has
recently been united in the holy bonds
of matrimony with his former wife,
from whom he was divorced iu conse
quence of her intimacy, as claimed,
with Gen. Van Dorn. Miss Peters, his
daughter, has, in conscquenee, renoun
ced her desigu of becoming a nnn.
——A young man employed in a
carpenter shop, in Lynchburg, Va.,
has fallen heir to $4,000,000 by the
death of a relative in Englaud.
-The first advertiser was a Lou
don haberdasher named llarvcy, who
died iu 1672, abundantly rich from the
• profits of his new discovery.
Prinoe Felix Salm-Salm, who begau
his military career us a cavalry officer
iu th# Austrian army, afterward served
In Algeria and Spain, then went thro’
the American civil war as a Union
officer, and became a Brigadier General
United States Volunteers, and who fi
nally offered his sword to the Emperor
' Maximilian, aud witnessed his lament
able end, has just entered the Prussian
army us Mnior of flic Fourth or
I “(juecn a IJcgimcnt of Grenadier
Guard . stationed at Berlin.
Engaging Field llnnda.
Iroin the Baton Rouge Advocate ]
Many persons engaged in planting
’2^P|,“re,lU-v f°rg°ttcn tiie lessons
of 18<d», when the demand for labor was
as great as it is now, nnd nre offering
prices lor field hands I lint will require
extraordinary cropping and high prices
for produce to enable them to pay and
not bankrupt themselves.
‘•Look before yon leap,’’ and if the
price demanded is more than can be
paid and leave a margin for profit, it
were better to contract the cultivated
area of vour places, and press on ener
getically with a small force engaged at
reasonable prices. Nearly all of tlio
good reliable hands have already been
engaged in this vicinity, nnd it were
suicidal policy to bid'high for labor
tlint is beyond reach.
The labor market Is exhausted here,
and there little use in offering the mis
cellaneous gangs of ide town negroes
high price. Humors of these offers
create discontent among the good and
reliable laborers who huve generally
gone to work at prices that are fair to
both employers and employes. The de
mand for fresh hands on sugar placet
that will be reopened on the coast be
low this city can better be supplied
from more distant sections of the South
than this, nnd it were well that no im
politic competition between ngents,
planters and farmers shouldpccur here,
for the limited supply o>. nvod field
hands who are willing to work nnd
who are not airready engaged.
Last season’s farming operations
have resulted satisfactorily, and hands
engaged this year can be easily paid
eveu if the crops should prove short.
But if extraordinary prices for labor are
promised, the result tuny be disastrous
to both planters add freedmen.
It were far better to procure labo
rers from tiie overcrowded coasts of
South Carolina nnd Georgia than to
inaugurate a system of bidding and in
triguing here among the laboring
freedmen which can only be nttenden
ded with one result—discontent nmong
them and pay rolls that will be be
yond the ability of their employers to
meet.
The Tiobodnux Sentinel of the ltith,
says that: “Many freedmen nre flock
ing into town ns usual at this season
of the year, nnd renting every room
that can be had. Until the wages of
tiie last year are all consumed, they will
not engage themselves to work for the
present year. Many planters are al
most destitute of labor, while some are
lucky enough to retain the most of their
employes of the year just finished.
From the Ctl'lo Gaictto ]
AVc hear complaints on the part of
some planters of the dificulty in hiring
laborers for the year. AVc presume
that the reason of this trouble is the
same as in previous years, and owes
its existence to to the scarcity of labor.
AVc hear also that many planters arc
offering one half the crops, and hgrec
to furnish everything—which is very
liberal to say the least of it. As a
rule the freedmen refuse monthly wa
ges, and prefer to work for a share of
the crop, whether one-half or less.—
In a few istanecs the laborers furnish
their own teams and supplies, giving
a part of the crop for the use of the
land.
The planters are struggling bravely
for success in 18l>9. They pay high
wages—twenty dollars for the best
hands, and from that down to twelve
and ten dollars; but they will expect
those hands to do good work. Reck
oning rations and othor considerations
at a fair price, the hands this year cost
the planters from $1 to §1 25'pcr day.
the year round.
Twenty Polyaks a Month.—Some
of our planters have requested us to
state that they arc paying twenty dol
lars a month and rations, cabins, wood,
etc., and can’t get a supply of field
hands even at that price, i’rics have
gone up since last year in this parish
just five dollars a month, and that with
out a bureau, and without meddlers
of any kind. AVc will begin to need a
Planter’* Bureau, before long to regu
latcprices, and to keep the cultivators
of the soil from overcropping them
selves. Ifthey make a good crop this
year they will want about ten thou
snad hands next year at any price thoy
choose to ask less than forty or fitly
dollars a mouth.
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-Messrs. Sickles and Sovrin, of
New York, have signed the contract to
complete in twelve months the Mem
phis and Little Rock railroad.
MiRUlED.
In Marshall, Texas, on the 2nd inst.,
by the Rev. Mr. AVilson, AVili.. (1.
Hazbn, of this city, to Miss Fannie
M. Stinson, of that place.
On the Evening of the 11th inst., at
the residence of Mr. Jesscc llammons,
by the Rev. .7. Loving, Mr. T. A.
Lackey, to Miss. M. J. Bkllbw. All
of Prairie County.
NEAV ADVERTISEMENTS.
PLOWS, PLOWS, PLOWS!
We have just received a large shipment of
AVERY’S CAST PLOWS,
Which we arc selling at the following re
duced prices:
No. 18, with extra point. b| **'•
Nos S and 11, wit it oxirn point, $1 •>(>.
LARGER PLOWS EQUALLY CHEAP.
Our stock of Cotton Scrapers, Sloel Hoes,
Trace Chains, Axes, Haines, Collars and
Harness. Oats, Seed Potatoes, Garden Seeds.
&o„ &c., is large and complete. We invite
those in need of anything in OUR LINK to
examine our stock and prices,
feblGtf STEWART, GWYNNE & CO.
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LIN E.
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ikfibi ARGOSY,
W.ASHFORD.Muster
MILT HARRY Clerk
Leaves Memphis every Thursday. Leaves
l>es Arc every Saturday for Jarknonport.
Leaves Des Arc every Monday for Memphis,
at 0 a. m.
Tom McCauley. A. A. Stallworth. I
McCarley & Stallworth,
(New Brick Building)
I)ew Arc, Arkniuta!*,
llnvc just received .1 well selected stock
of
DRV GOODS, GROCERIES,
NOTIONS, HATS.
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HARDWARE, yUEKNSWARE,
TINWARE, ETC., ETC.
A 1.80 keep a fresh stock of Drugs on
hand which we offer for sale low for cash
Highest market price paid for all kinds
of country produce. jan2G
VICK’S
FLORAL «r IDE FOR 1869.
The first edition of one iiundred thousand
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Guide in the Flower Garden is now published
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tifully illustrated, with about 150 Fine Wood
Engravings of Flowers and Vegetables, and
AN ELEGANT COLORED PLATE,
A Doquet of Flowers.
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instructive Floral Guide published, giving
plain and thorough directions for the
CULTURE OF FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES.
The Floral Guide is published for the ben
efit of my customers, to whom it is sent free
without application, but will bo forwarded to
all who apply by mail, for Ten Cents, which
is not half the cost. Address
JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y.
AUSTIN
MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY
Anatln. Prairie County, Ark.
The third semi-annual session, under the
control of Prof. W. A. Garner and Lady, as
sisted by accomplished teachers in the vari
ous departments of the school, will commence
Monday, February 1st, 1869, and continue
; (weuty-one weeks,
CHARGES PER SESSION.
1 Incidental fee 59 ccnts^ Tuition in the
! Literary Department from $18 to $-■"». Draw
i ing. Painting. Embroidery, etc., front $10 to
J..U, •!...■ *.1.-. 1,-1’/ ... ,.!.,ili.iiv I.n.liin.
aud lights) from $10 to $12 per month.
Pupils will be charged from date of en
trance till the close of the session. Deduc
tions made only in eases of protracted
illness.
Wm. SAUNDEltS,
Prep. Board of Trustees.
Wm. Donxri.l, Sec y. janlOm
I
i.owm:»>ni„i/s
i
Compound Fluid
for the runr: of
Pncuinonin, Xournljjiii unci Khcuniu
1 tism, KiHnrjfomcnt of the Spleen,
Kidney A flections, Cnm>i> or
Bilious Colic, Sorts Throat,
Headlinin', Knrachc. and
Tooth lehe. Also,
Painful Men*
Mruatio:i ;
f
To Prevent Abortion, Kisiug or Caked
Breast, Sic., Sic.
| _o—
In presrntiuz this Medicine to the public
we take pleasure in assuring it that it is no
i humbug—no quack nostrum; but that it will
most’assureUly do everything for which it is
: recommended; for the truth «»f which we re*
j for you to a number of gentlemen who have
j tried it in their own families with unparal
! Idled success. See them personally or ml
dress them by letter if you have any fears
as to the correctness of the certificates.
It is a great pleasure we take in saying to
the suffering world that a safe and sure rem
edy is here offered to ease their aching pains,
and you uezd suffer no longer, but try how
dermill’s Compound Fluid, for it will cure.
It is a home discovery and only needs a trial.
Great inducements to agents to travel.
A good chance to make money—give ua a
call. A liberal discount to all druggists.
Ministers of the Gospel one bottle free.
Prepared and sold by
tt. A. LWnUf.U.ULI.h
ami
JEROME HARALSON;
l)c» Arc, Arkau?ai*.
Special attention l«> chronic or ulccrcU
sore legs, cancers anJ cases of rheumatism.
Patroungt respectfully solicited.
Oflioc on Rucua Vista street. jano-Hni i
Hamburg, Ashley Co., Auk. 1
April A, l!io8. J
Wo 'he undersigned. Druggist of Ham
burg, do hereby certify thu we have sold
Hr. E. A. l.owdermili s Compound Fluid
with great succors, anJ in our stock of
Patent Medioiues, there are none that sell
so ready or command greater inquiries—
from ou.v hundreds of customers we have
nevev hoard a word of aught or eondeui
r.atior, of the justly popular Compound
Fluid. All Druggist would do well to
purchase a supply without delay, us there
can* be no doubt of finding sale for it as
soon as introduced.
K. M HI CA EN'S A CO.
Low der mill's Compound Fluid—
We received early last year a bottle of this
fluid, to test in the eaae of a caked breast
One application eutirely removed it, allay,
ed great suflering, and doubtless prevent
ed a broken breast, which had three times
followed the same indication, iu spite of
the best physicians. We give it our un
qualified indorsement as an invaluable
medicine for that terrible complaint, and
advise every mother to provide herself with
1 it —Temnw* Ilsptiet.
6U2.Y XVaiiXAELS P.OYTSj
III, TO, OCT OF, OR
THROUGH ARKANSAS.
iAtSTEAMBOAT,
RAILROAD
AKD
STAGE JACTSTE.
MEMPHIS AND WHITE RIVER
Packet Company's First Class Passen
ger United States Mail Steamers
COMMERCIAL & LIBERTY No. 2
Leaving Memphis every TUESDAYJnnd SAT
URDAY
COMING WEST,
Leaving DeYall’s Bluff every WEDNESDAY
and SATURDAY
GOING EAST,
Connecting at Memphis with all Trains
For Northern and Eastern Cities
Connecting at DeVall’s Bluff with the Trains
ofthc
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad,
Provided with comfortable Cars and
efficient officials,
CONNECTING AT LITTLE ROCK WITH
J. D. CHIDESTER & CO.’S
UNITED STATES MAIL STAGES
TO ALL
Points South and West in Arkansas.
Commodious Coaches, Fine Teams and
Sober Drivers.
THROUGH TICKET SYSTEM
Thoroughly inaugurated, saving pas
sengers money and trouble.
Persons Going East or Coming West
Will find this route perfectly reliable
at all seasons, being the
UNITED STATES MAIL LINE.
Tor sale at all Railroad Offices in Mem
phis and at offices of all connecting
lines East of Memphis, and all Stage
j Offices West of Little Rook.
General Western Ticket Office,
At the Anthony House, Liltlc Rock.
John R. Davis,
Sup’t Memphis and White River Pack
Go.. Memphis.
James W. Robertson,
.Sup’t cm phis and Little Bock Rail
road. Little Rock.
John T. Cihdi.ster,
Sup’t Stage Lines, Little Rock.
11. C. Robards,
General Ticket Agent, Little Rock.
Tickets can be Procured in Mcmphi
at the Offices of
Levy a Miller,
5 Jefferson Street.
Larky IIaiimstad a Go..
Corner Main and Madison Streets.
Overtoii Ticket Office,
Overton Hotel.
Memphis a Charleston Railroad,
Corner South Court and Main Streets.
Memphis a Ohio Railroad Office
237L Main Street.
ItBLUIlLE FREIGHT LINE!
TO AND FROM
LittleRock,Ark
VIA
AND
Memphis and Little Rook Railroad.
J^yjjyfThc staunch Steamers^^?^
COMMERCIAL & LIBERTY No. 2
Leave Memphis for DeValFs It!ufT
Every Tuesday and Saturday
Connecting with Trains of the Mem
phis and Little ltoek Railroad
East and West.
Shippers
Are assured that rates of freight by
this lino will be as low as by any other.
TIlROt'OII BILLS OF LADING.
Freights delivered at the door of the
Consignee in Little Rock.
Route Open at all Seasons of the Year
Thus saving Shippers Time, Trouble,
Drayagc and vexations of delay.
INSURANCE BYTHIS LINE
Less than by any other.
Every attention given to interests ol
Shippers. Freights for points above
Little Rock, on the Arkansas river, will
receive special attention. Apply to
.1. W. Robertson.
Sup't Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road, Little Rock.
II. I>. Barker,
General Freight Agent, Little Rock.
John B. Davis.
Sup’t Memphis and White River Back
et Co.. Memphis.
Larry Harmstad a Co.,
Steamboat Agents, Memphis.
Levy a Miller,
No. 5 Jefferson Street.
CHILLS AND FEVER
Can (be Chills be cored in every instance
without affecting the head ? >s there no medi
eine that frill satisfy •«* people, that will per
inanently eradicate all forms of t hills and
Fever? Yes, it can be done. What is its name
and whort can it be had?
DROMOOOLE & CO.’S
KING OF CHILLS
AT ONLY ONE DOLLAR,
Is to-day, the most worthy and substantial
Chill medicine now before the Southern peo
ple. It never fails to give the most perfect
satisfaction in every respect. Every planta
tion should buy one dosen bottles at a time.
91&S01* **T»*
W hich is so common on all our rivers, lakes*
bayous, swamps, etc, can be easily cured by
using our “King of Chills" which immedia
tely aronses the Liver, cleanses the Stomach,
opens the Bowels, and never fails to cure the
worst forms of Chills and Fever. Chills are
so easily cured by its use, that it is folly to
suffer any longer.
FARMERS AND PLANTERS
Everywhere coold save much time and money
among their hands by keeping a constant
supply of King of Chills on hand, as it inakeif
quick and permanent cares without affecting
the head, and is a powerful tonic to prevent a
return.
Wc appeal to all who suffer with chills.
DROMGOOLE & GO.’S
ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERS,
A beautiful medical compound, prepared by
a class of regular ai^d experienced physicians
who have been prt^tising medicine in the
South for twenty year*.
This Female Regulator is a powerful
Uterine Tonic, arousing the Wt/wtfe to a heal
thy action, thereby curing painful, suppress
ed or irregular menstruation, falling of the
Womb, Leucorrhoca or Whites, Ulceration
and Irritability of the Womb, Swimming and
Giddiness of the Head, Palpitation of the
Heart, Melancholy, Sick .Headache, Ovarian
Disease, Derangement of the Kidneys and
Bladder, and all those preculiar complaints
affecting.
WIFE, MOTHER and SISTER,
Read a few extracts from letters.
“English Female Bitters cured me of fall
ing of the Womb." “My wife carried six bot
tles to Pine Bluff, two bottles cured her of
Leucorrheoa and she sold the remainder-"
“Send one bottle English Female Bitters for
Palpitation and Sick Headache.” ‘ Three
bottles of English Female Bitters cured my
wife of Painful Menstruation.” “O, I feci so
i much better after using English Female
Bitters, it strengthens me." “Four bottles
! of English Female Bitters curied my wife of
I Ulceration of the Womb,”
Blood and Bones
Are composed of certain materials which be
come greatly changed from the effects of
many constitutional diseases, such as Skin
Diseases, Rruptionson the Face, broken down
Consul ffltousi -Shattered Nerve, Effects of
Mercury, Scrofultv* Glandular Tumors and
Swellings, old Ulcers, and "Saw* Gf long stan -_
ding and all that class of diseases wiietW'fTTe
blood has become impure, and this condition
of your blood must be changed, altered, be
fore you can expect to get well, and for this
purpose nothing is better than
DROMGOOLE & CO/S
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH
Which immediately purifies the blood and re
stores health.
•The Blood Purifier is composed of Stillin
gia. Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla, Burdock mil
| Iodide Potash, and all persons know them to
j be good, as all physicians say so, ns well as
I those who speak from experience.
KIDNEY AND BLADDER
Affections which arc so common among all
classes in the Southern climate, are immedi
ately cured by the use of Dromgoole & Co s.
Fluid Extract
Bearberry, Cubebs and Buchu
It will cure Retention or Non-Retention AT
Urine, Gravel, Thick or Milky Urine, Ditli
cultv of Urinating. Pain in the Rack. Bloody
Urine. Melancholy and Evil Forebodings,
Extreme Nervousness, Effects of ITab ts of
Dissipation or Early Abuses, Loss of Power
and Memory, affecting old or young, male or
fctnalo.
Use Great Southern Preparations.
Use Great 'S' nflairn Preparations.,
Use Great Southern Preparations
Why!
Because they are a class of medicines pre
pared by tac regular Medical profession in
1 the South, are. genuine remedies, specially
adapted to Southern diseases and are giving
universal satisfaction.
J. P. DROMGOOLE & CO.,
Proprietors, Memphis Tenn.
Sold in Des Avc by B. F. JOHNSON, and
druggists everywhere.
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Freight and Passage ('.ai d Rate of the
Memphis and White River
1NDEPENDENT PACKET,
wm-i E S ARC.
Leaving Memphis Every Monday.
I1ROM Memphis to Helena, Delia. Friar s
Point anti all way Landing* and mouth
White river, per DM) pounds. 2->c; dry bar
rels. 50c; salt barrels, 60c; pork, 75c; whis
ky, $1; molasses, $1; corn, oats and bran,
25 e.
From Memphis to Indian Hay anti all Way
Landings, to Des Arc, Augusta, West Point
anti Searcy, per 100 pounds, 40©; dry barrels,
60c; salt barrels, 75c; pork, $1; whisky,
25; molasses, $1 50; corn, oats and brau, Jdc.
From Memphis to Jackson port, per 100
pounds. 50c: dry barrels, 7->c; salt barrW*, Si;
pork, $1 25; whisky. $1 75; mol as*©* $1 75;
corn, oats and4irnn, 40c.
Passage fruiu Memphis to Prairie Latiding,^_^
Indian Pay. Sr. Charles, CnXkctt s \Z\np/z
Mount Adams. Ca*e0 and Clarot)d‘t>%'^$8;
Little Rock, $15, Des Arc, $10; West Point,
Searcy and Augusta, $D>; Jaeksonport, $15.
Cotton to Memphis, $« 50 per bale.
JOHN D. ELLIOTT, Master.
Elliott & Miller, Agents, No. 5 Jefferson
street, Memphis. sepl