Arkansas true Democrat. [volume], May 18, 1859, Image 3

About Arkansas true Democrat. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1857-1862

Image provided by: Arkansas State Archives

                
For the True Democrat.
Prairie County, May 9th, 1859.
Mf.sskb EniTons: We live in a fast age,
and even Arkansians are gettirfg to be a fast
people, and I for one would not be surpris
ed at any strange tiling that might come to
pass. I am just at that point where a spec
tator was on one occasion. A certain juggler
was exhibiting his slight of hand up stairs,
when a spark of tire accidentally came in
contact with a keg of powder which ex
ploded, and blew the aforesaid spectator
out ot the room into an adjoining garden:
"hen lie had recovered from his shock suf
ficentiv, and rubbing the dust and smokf duf
•id ids eyes lie exclaimed, “ well hang (in*
^£dli>w, I wonder what lie will show next!”
s*r> ever since the days of Sam”
strange sights appear! Men with the blind
staggers! Did you ever? I suppose that
a sort of virus must have emanated from
that personage, which has infused itself
into a portion of the would be leaders
of the democratic party. The inflicted
paity manifests it by tin* following symp
toms: Green eyes, a frothy and foul
tongue, feted breath, a sort of wolfish ex
pression of countenance, frequent delirium,
broken slumbers in which they dream of
climbing high places, accompanied with a
distressing, falling sensation; also a dimness
of vision and defective perception, together
with ground and lofty tumbling, and all
sorts of break-neck exercises. And when
ptlm disease attacks editors or congressmen,
they have in addition to the above symp
toms, an utter abhorrence of the people’s
paper, the True 1 Jemocrat. In short theirV
is what we country folks cal! “a clear case
oMdind staggers.” liut. the True Demo
crat lias nothing to fear from political luna
tic- Tiie “ people” know that it is their
a h'wate, that it is devoted to their interest,
and that it has done more to build up and
sustain tluMlcinoeratic party in Arkansas,
than any one paper in the State; and hence
their determination to sustain it. Know
nothings and disorganizing democrats know
ils power and influence, and hence their in
veterate opposition to it. But the southern
people will Hot tolerate much longer such:
unnatural and unpatriotic opposition in
their midst.
\\ e are now on tne eve of a Providential
election, in which the odds are against us
at the best, and therefore the south should
he a unit. We want no “ Arnolds” in our
camp just now; we want good and true men,
and if demagogues will persist in striving
to promote divisions and strife amongst us,
let them take the consequences.
Sir, the time that is to try mens’ souls
is just ahead of n ■. Abolitionists steal our
negroes now, and that too in the face of (he
decision of the supreme court; and in spite
of the compromises of Congress, and the
provisions and guarantees of the constitu
tion of the United States. And if the black
republicans, aided by the “ north Ameri
cans” elect the President, will it not he ta
tamount to a declaration of eariying out
their principles by ('ongress; which would
inevitably result in disunion! Sir, these
are no idle fears, “founded on the baseless
fabric of a vision,” for I apprehend, that
upon a Careful investigation of this subject,
it will be seen that there is no room for
doubt, as to the result of the next Presiden
tial election in the free States, and as com
ing events cast their shadows before them,
1 ask the reader if he connot perceive the
almost infallible indications of a black re
publican triumph in 1860. And now let
me ask in all seriousness, what would be
the result of their success? Echo answers
what! Designing demagogues and political
bankrupts, for the sake of power and place,
may like false prophets, cry peace, peace,
when there is no peace: but they shall have
cause to regret their temerity in trifling with j
an interest so dear and sacred, as the Ame
rican Union. Such men would saeriii c the
world to thei, avarice and ambition. 'I’hoy
sing the siren song of peace to the children
of liberty, and vdrive to quiet their fears,
• ’ . . . /
whilst the tree ol liberty itself is being cut
at its very root. The cradle of liberty is
indeed rocked, but not by the fostering
hands of patriot fathers as of old, but rather
by the rude blasts of fanaticism, which like
a smothered volcano, is shaking this migh
ty confederacy from the center to the cir
cumference, and is making her reel to and
fro like a drunken man.
Our country is the only hope of the world,
the only light of the world, the only asylum
for the oppressed, and the only cradle of
liberty. It is here that our fathers planted
the tree of liberty, and watered and nour
ished it with their tears and blood. And
now it lias grown and flourished, until
it has become to be the glory and admira
tion of the world, and is ready to extend its
branches far and wide for the “ healing of
the nations.” Shall the “unworthy sons of
noble sires,” so bruise anil mangie it, that
it shall cease to hear fruit and dually wither
and die? Sir, if the American eagle, the
* bird of liberty is forced to desert the “ stars
and stripes,” and shall take her final flight
from our shores, and as she flies, shall
scream the knell of departed liberty! let
it not he said that the south did it hv not
being true to herself.
Yours truly,
BOB SHORT. |
Smifhville, May 1st, 1 So!!.
Dear Hu k.—Having a few leisure mo
ments I imagine I could not spend niv time
more pleasantly any other way than to give
you notice of a few of the trick*, and traps
of old Lawrence. By the way the great
constructive t*er diem question which seems
to he the great topic, not only in political
circles, but among the hard fisted veomanrv,
is a one sided game iu old Lawrence, 11 ind
man it ( o., to the contrary, notwithstand
ing, though it is true our members ail par
took of the forbidden fruit, except Mar
shall, and lie voted for the adoption of the
report of the judiciary committee, which
report sustained the j/er diem during the re
cess, hut afterwards voted against the reso
lutions, requiring the president to certify to
these accounts for the same. There must
have been a panic among the grave sena
tors after they saw a fixed determination
in Judge Fletcher not to certify, even if
tlie resolution requiring him to do so had
passed. There is inconsistency here, and
the cause is only to be conjectured.
The course of Governor Conway, as well
as the position you have assumed in the
True Democrat upon that question, will be
fullv sustained by nine-tenths of the free
men of old Lawrence, and it is the ease
every where else that I can hear from, al
though the Hindman clique will endeavor
to sustain the per diem, but when the trial
test comes the per diem, and all the allied
forces, together with the Little Giant at
their head, will vanish like mist before the
sun.
f
Cpon the whole, this new fangled, con
structive per diem, Hindman, Helena, pro
scriptive, bullying democracy, is a new
thing for old Lawrence, and with the excep
tion of a few old fogies that are worn out
in the public service of the dear people,
and even at that, have never made their
mark, and have now enlisted, during the
war under the Hindman banner, and are
woiking so faithfully in tlie cause. I say
" itl* ^Lat exception, old Lawrence is just
as she always was in the good old cause of
democracy, and the general election of 1860
will again test the question. She will
then confirm the descision made in the
f ongress of 1858 between the two, and my
prediction is, by that time, the opposition
w ill be seeking some other place of refuge,
and the few tlut may be scattered around
about will scorn to hear the name of their
new leader mentioned.
1 w ill also take this occasion to refute
some gross charges made by some anony
lnous scribbler against the sheriff of our
county. Said scribbler appears*in your
paper of April lit, in an article headed how
Ike Ferguson paddled our Sheriff. The
whole production of which is intended for
some revengeful malicious design, and I
have great doubts of its containing one
word of truth, as to Thomas C. Steadman,
the sheriff of Lawrence county. All know
him, and it would he in me the heighth of
presumption to give the general character
of this gerftleman. I will only say that I
have been living in Lawrence county for ten
years, and have been personally acquainted
with him during that period, and ho lias
ever been full up to the mark of a gentle
man of the first order, in every respect, as
well as fully and faithfully discharging his
duties as sheriff at all times, irrespective of
parties, persons or friends, and if the writer
of the article referred to wishes to sustain
his assertions, as to the cowardice of Mr.
Steadman, his proper course will he to put
his theory into practice, and by doing so, I
wouldn’t be afraid to hazard a dog knife, by
the time he wrote the next article he would
be of a different opinion.
JUSTICE. •
Another Abolition Scheme.
About ;# year ago the abolition leaders
of New England and New York, having
succeeded in destroying almost every other
good thing, made a fierce onslaught upon
the American Tract Society, and attempt
ed to crush it and destroy its usefulness by
using it as an engine for the propagation
of abolition doctrines, not in the north only,
hut in the si^tith. The managers of the so
ciety, under the discretion given them, had
declined to authorize the publication of
abolition tracts in the name of the society.
For this they were denounced, and a des
perate effort was made at the annual moot
ing of the society, in May, 1858, to have
them removed and to place more obsequies
tools of abolitionism in their places. Su
rampant had fanaticism become that it was
generally feared this effort of the seetion
alists would succeed. But good men ral
lied from all sections of the country, and
by a powerful effort succeeded for the time
b< ing in defeating flu*schemes of Garrison,
Fred. Douglas, Greeley, and their com
peers.
’1 he abolitionists, however, are not will
ing to abandon their dearly cherished plan
of fuming the American Tract Society into
a bureau for the distribution of their pecu
liar tenets, and lienee have appealed to the
black republican legislature of New York
to assist them in their difficulties, '['he
appeal was not in vain. A bill has passed
one branch of the legislature, and will most
probably pass the other, giving to the
members of benevolent societies the right
to vote by proxy as though they were them
selves present. The avowed object of this
is to reach the tract society ami oust its
present managers. This institution was
organized under a charter granted by the
legislature of New York, and the forcing
upon them of this amendment to their char
ter, not only when it is not asked for, hut
against their solemn protest, is as plain
and palpable a violation of the rights of
(he society, and those who take an active
interest in its welfare, as was ever perpe
trated by any legislative body.
Every one knows how ea-v it is for
scheming and 'esigning men to obtain
“proxies,” am,' what plans are restored to
get them. A rich old maid, who has the
honor to he a member of the American
Tract Society, is :.,’ced whether she is not
“opposed to slavery,” or whether she
wants to see tli^pVmcriean Tract Society
given up to the exclusive control of the
slaveholders. The answers, of course, are
such as are wanted, and itie proxy is ob
tained, and the vote placed at the disposal
ofCheever or Ivalloeh, who will not he
slow to use it for the purpose of destroy
ing the usefulness of the society by con
veiling it into an anomion propaganda.
Jt seems to be the determination of the
leaders ot the republican party to compass
the destruction of everything that has the
appearance of nationality, whether it be in
the church or State. They lay their pollu
ted hands upon and attempt to uproot and
destroy every institution supported alike
by people of all sections, and whose ob
ject is to do good whereverg ood can be
done, whether it be north or south.—
When they can succeed in no other way,
partisan legislatures are appealed to invade
the sacred chartered rights of a benevo
lent society, and introduce a system en
tirely different from that under which the
society was organized, under which those
who contributed to its funds paid their mo
ney, and under which it lias done so much
good in all portions of our country, and to
all classes, conditions, and colors of men.
For more than a quarter of a century it
pursued its course fit usefulness in peace
and prosperity, till this new sectional,
(Tnion hating party sprung up, to distract,
torment, and it possible destroy it.—Aew
Albany, (la.,) Ledger.
Lumbkk for th': Holy Land.—Com
merce makes curious changes, and places
the products of the earth in strange places.
We hav a schooner, the Forest Belle,
( apt. Pet's i' ll, now loading with lumber
in our port, and destined lor Beirout, one
of tlio seaports of Syria, in Asia. Who
would have supposed that in the course of
human events, the pine forests of Georgia
would contribute lumber to rebuild upon
the ruins ol Baalbek, to modernize the an
cient city of Damascus, both of which are
in the vicinity of Beirout; or to frame anew
the domes and palaces of the holy city!—
Yet time, ill its wonderful revolutions," lias
made, it a living reality, and in future days
the Georgian, who -hall make ins pilgrim
age to that distant land, can mingle the as
sociations of his own home with the sa
cred memories of a soil that was trod bv
the Saviour of mankind. The cargo of
the Forest Belle is the hist that has been
shipped in that trade, and we trust that
the success of the experiment may be such
as to encourage additional and more hea
vy exportations. —Savannah Republican,
T hursday.
Extract from a letter received from
Pope county:
Prospects are good for crops in our sec
tion of country, notwithstanding the re
peated frost so late in the season. Cotton
has come up finely; corn has recovered
from the nip given by the frost; wheat I
think is not materially injured, and the
prospect bids fair for a good crop. Far
mers are generally fully up with their work;
rains are moderate and just about enough.
Respectfully yours, D. F. W.
1
jgggggggglgBgjjWH"': i i.,ireraM«g"—.."s, ri-r: ,v -
^^roWSffFSSfSrrM^
— ....— ■■-■- = From tin MiniiOB JourTi!iI.
m.: 4«SS$8iS&t£S#™» «*J
j)iR. Jitwroji^^ feyr years sraec.: ,ome^»f
onr Arkaii*^(J|^.|guj|^p ‘ pas^njg
through Shelby comity on some, business, j
I suppose, not known to raywe’lf-. Being i
belated, he had put np .Xbf 'the fifghPat f
house were travelers alwary.sjfoqnd iiWai
hospitality. At the same time that “ Af
kansaw” stopped, there were some'fbiif or
five students returning home from a college
not more than fifteen or twenty miles frfcnii
the above mentioned house. They were,
one and all, genteel looking fellows: but
“Arkansaw” wore bis old hunting shirt,
leggitis, and ’coon-skin cap—the same he
had hunted bear and deer in, in his own
State. The landlord, being a portly, jolly
old fellow, nothing pleased him better than
good whiskv-toddv, a good joke, ami to lis
t’ll to some person relate adventures, bear
bunting, etc. ()l course t ic old man found
our hero out, and forthwith, before supper,
he insisted on a yarn, which “Arkansaw”
immediately spun, to the delight of the < ,'olo
nel. as he was called; but some how, did not
please the students, and the obi man’s
daughter, who, by the way, was very pre
possessing in personal appearance, but her
actions were seldom admired by the plain
common neighbors. But to the story.
1 he old lady had been absent on a visit
to some of her relatives for some few days,
and when supper came on, the Colonel re
quested bis daughter to preside at the table
in her mother’s place, w hi eh she did with
a great many airs. She “ dealt” out the
tea and coffee to all around except “ Ar
kansaw,” who did the best he could for
some time unnoticed by nli. Presently he
managed to sputter out that he would like
to have some coffee.
“Certainly, sir, you must excuse me for
neglecting, you.” replied the young lady;
“ But will you take your coffee dressed?”—
She meant with cream and sugar.
<)ur hero, afterswallowinga large month
lul with difficulty, answered with considera
ble gravity:
“ No, thank you: I’ll take mine started
naked, like they do in Arkansaw.”
1 he landlord leant back in his arm chair
and shouted:
“ Hurrah for Arkansaw.”
fl lie young lady indignantly left the room;
in fact, the table was soon cleared of all,
except our hero and the < 'olonel, who finish
ed their supper laughing and joking over a
bottle of “ Old Port.”
Harry Ci ayiiank.
Frauds ox the Ballot Box ix Massa
chusetts—WhA Committed Them.—Mr.
John 0. Tucker, a member of the legisla
ture from the city of Boston, in the course
of his able speech against the law recently
passed by the republican majority in that
body—requiring every naturalized citizen
to wait two years alter be got bis final pa
pers before lie voted—made some remark
able statements as to the manner in which
elections are conducted in Massachusetts.
Mr. Tucker says:
“ Why, sir, though 1 regret to say it. 1
have also beard, on good authority, what
will make this, bouse almost shudder—and
1 refer to the public press at Boston to bear
me out in the statement—that the very
judge on the bench did leave a court of jus
tice and go down—down even to < lash’s
saloon in North street, to make political
capital for his favorite candidate for Con
gress. [ '■ ■usation ]. If it had been a poor
adopted citizen who did that, what a line
and erv there would he! But 1 defy any
man on this lloor to show me where a for
-igner a hi: "d the voting privilege in the
last election. I was there and know all
about it. 1 could go further. 1 have said
that the lowest places were raked and scrap
ed for voters to elect a certain republican
leader to congress. More than that; those
very men w re bought and pant for, to e/o to
the polls and answer to names upon the cheek
list of some who were dead and others who
were serrimj oat their sentence in oar criminal
institutions, it happened to be my good or
bad luck to he present at one voting place;
and I had to send for eight additional po
licemen, because the design became appa
rent that these men were going to snatch
the ballot-boxes in the probable event of
the democratic candidate being elected.—
[Sensation, j The officers of that want can
certify to the truth of what i say. Now,
will the gentleman show me when and
where, in the history of Massachusetts,
frauds like these were perpetrated, or the
integiitvof the ballot-box threatened by
adopted citizens? It cannot Le done.”
From the Se-ir -y Eugfe.
Crops and Minerals.
Our worthy townsman, John C. McCau
ley, esq., who has been out on a business
tour through White and Van Bitren coun
ties, reports the prospects for a fine wheat
crop unusually flattering. The amount
sown is much greater than in anv preceding
year, a proof that our farmers are finding
it profitable. ri he cotton iscomiugup well
but the corn lias been considerably checked
by the late cold weather. The fruit is not
all killed. Mr. M. states that, a post office
is greatly needed between Kinderhook and
Judson, there being none between those
places, a distance of 40 miles, lie was in
formed that, in the bed of Little Bed river,
in the southeastern portion of Van Burcn
county, there is a salt spring which vields
one pint of sal! to the gallon of water. It
can be used about eight months in the year.
The farmers in the vicinity frequently make
salt for their cattle from it. The banks of
the river seem to be strongly impregnated
with salt and are a favorite resort for cat
tle.
He visited a cave ten nsiles west of Sugar
Feiaf mountain which abounds with alum,
borax, and red lead, or minium (oxyide of
lead.) The alum has been tested and found
to be very pure, though of a dark color.—
Two miles north of Sugar Loaf mountain
Mr. M. visited a bluff from which be brought
a specimen of epsom salts, which he savs
is found there in great quantities. He also
brought home with him some spec imens of
different kinds of rock. Dr. f Sven, we be
lieve did not visit th<* points mentioned, as
bis tour of inspection was necessarily hasty.
\ an liuren county abounds in mineial wa
ters and minerals which will some day be
very valuable. ( nder a liberal policy our
whole State would soon become pecuniarily,
as it is mineially, one of the richest in the
l nion. Y\ e hope l)r. < Sven will be enabled
to prosecute his investigations thoroughly,
so we may know, approximately, at least
how rich wc rcailv are.
—-»«»*
Government Expenditures.
It is charged by the opposition, in cen
sure of the democratic party, that the ex
penditures of the federal government for
the current year amounted to one hundred
millions of dollars, and that (le v are annu
ally increasing at a fearful rate. The
charge is untrue in every specification, and
false in implication.
Instead of expenses being.$100,000,000
They were in 1858 . 72,000,000
A difference of. 28,000,000
The expenses of 1*58 were....". 72,000,000
The expenses of 1859-’60, an est i mate
at. 42,733,804
A retrenchment of..$29,266,196
Instead of the enormous increase with
which the opposition press would alarm the
country.
But there is an additional fact important
to be noted in this connection. The ex
penditures of 1859-’G0, exceeding the ap
propriations of the previous and subsequent
years, were ordered by an opposition Con
gress.J|When the public expenses reached
seventy-two millions, the opposition con
trolled the House of Representatives, where
in every appropriation originated. The
next Congress wae democratic, and the ex
penditures immediately fell to forty-two
millions, which was a retrenchment of near
thirty millions below the appropriations of
the opposition House.—Ky. Statesman.
*S3E?gg"w '
^ ' Poor Goggin. ' 1'5 L
Jrtst nmr all eye&areYuj&^^ttAirgihial
It is,conceded that the result of the cloo:
tioir there ivy'll have a vaet mlhidnoo in
other States, especially- in the south?—
Though Mg. Goggiu is a niaYi "of*ability, a
fluent speaker and good debater, he is nO
match for Letcber. ‘ And ‘ he labors under
the' disadvantage of littymg a tflrV bSef
'r " ■•' -P • ■". ;> Pi ■'"•I <J ..lU
vnca» lieteteriiaeoreSihiro. tattered; and it
is no woiidbr G'dggin is' tired of the odii
' ?■ ■ -1 ‘‘ - .■ • r . '
vrtss.1 ' V\ e subjoin a portion of one ol the
speeches;pf.iJiiv,Lctelior, to sjiais , bow: he
pours it inter0oirgi^f'
“But my competitor tfills yowl b*v? rer
eeived my salary ot tjHijOOO for my tei-m in
Congress—that when 1 Went; lack I said,'
like the old preacher who objected to re
ceiving money on Sunday, ‘just-put it
right here.’ Now, 1 suppose if i did,
pocket 86,000 of the public money,, lie'
played the same game with that 8*24 that
lie got for doing nothing. And what is the
difference between us in this respect? Why,
the difference is this: 1 was there in Con
gress executing work for the government,
and representing my constituency, while
he only represented himself. (Laughter.)
li 1 was entitled to it, I certainly was for
services, and because it was allowed me by
law; it lie was entitled to it, it was for ser
vices rendered to \\ m. L. Goggiu lor con
testing the seat of John W. Gilmer. So,
my friend, as far as that matter is concern
ed, as they say in whist, honors are easy.
(Great laughter and applause.)
lie tells you, in justification of his ap
peal to all parties to come up to his sup
port, that the democracy in the presidential
contest ot Ls56, addressed an appeal to the
old line whigs to come forward and sustain
.Mr. Buchanan in order to enable him to
defeat Fremont. Yes, they did so. They
saw that a sectional issue was upon us, and
that there was danger to the south, and
they appealed to all patriotic men to come
to the rescue. But that appeal never reach
ed his ears. When they called, in the
name of the south and the Union, he did not
come! Others did come, however, and
elected the democratic ticket; and let me
tell you and him, they are so pleased with
their new accommodations in the democra
tic house that they are going to stay there.
[Great applause.]
My competitor says, when’l die—politi
cally—let my epitaph he, “died of the
botts.” Let me tell him not to be uneasy
on that score. So far as 1 am concerned,
i»ous is very useiui, not only to me, but
to the democratic party. If we lack an
issue on which to base a contest, he will
furnish one. Take, for example, his Loui
sa speech; take his views in 1850 on the
slavery question, and take his latest speech
es; peruse them attentively, and judge them
honestly; and, if 1 am to be condemned
and executed lor my pretended opinions in
1*17, what will you do with him? [Ap
plause.] lie says, in his Louisa speech,
‘ the man who can release \ irginia from
slavery by means within the action of'her
own sons, and by her own sous, will be re
garded as one of the benefactors of the
country.” In his speech in New York, too,
lie openly invites black republican alliance
to overthrow the democracy.
I'o you prefer union with the black re
publicans? \\ mild you believe your rights
and interests safer in the hands oi the repub
licans ol the north and such opposition men
ol the south as they can get to combine
with them, than they would be in the
bands of southern men, whether they are
all democrats or not?
No! nothing oi the sort. And let me
tell my friend, that whenever they are (-di
ed upon to unite, according to tlie plan to
which lie is pledged, whenever the smaller
party of the south is to he absorbed by the
larger party of the north, that the people
of the south will resist, and heed the appeal
to he addresse i to them in lMiO in support
ol the democratic party and the candidate
of that day.”
X-c?’ The following, from the Washing
ton Constitution, is strictly true in its na
tional application, and contains a moral
that certain persons in Arkansas would do
well to ponder. If they persist in their
course we say like the Constitution, “there
let them go.”
Self-Deception of Disappointed Aspirants.
1 he hitter partisans who keep up such a
din about dissen-ions among democrats, and
make such desperate exertions to produce
and exasp-rat - them, greatly overrate their
own importance. Of all their exaggera
f ions, none is more abusrd than that which
swells their own individual consequence in
to such undue proportions! They magnify
themselves into “leaders,” and,’ notwith
standing the insignificant retinue which they
can show, they vainly imagine that their
paltry treachery will wear the aspect, of a
groat schism in the party which they have
abandoned.
Now, in point of fact, the masses of the
democracy care little or nothing for these
vvould-he chiefs. The latter, they perceive
very clearly, are governed by maxims to
tally different lrom those which inllu
ence themselves. True democrats are at
tached to their party because they are de
irtiuijitti jiiiiicijmcs—oecauso
under its ascendancy, the country has uni
formly enjoyed protection, honor, and hap
piness. Other enlightened and patriotic
men have co-operated with the democratic
party because they were convicted of the
purity and nobleness of its intentions, and
that more substantial benefit would be se
cured to the nation at large from its success
than from the triumph of any other body of
men. These are the principles which hold
together upright and sound-headed men in
a patriotic party. They are not to be
driven off from its support by personal dis
appointments, or even by the disapproval
of measures which, however distasteful or
objectionable in their opinion, do not affect
the honor or the vital interests ofthe coun
try, or imply any violation of justice, fideli
ty, or integrity on the part of those who
sanction and execute them.
The would-be leaders, to whom wo have
alluded, are controlled by considerations of
quite an opposite nature. The public good
is the hist thing in their thoughts. Their
main purpose in bringing men into power
is to benefit themselves; and, when disap
pointed in their selfish aims, they fl v off like
so many marauders who join an army only
for booty, and naturally range themselves,
as an ultimate resort, among the most re
lentless opponents of democracy. There
let them go!
The Coal Fields of the United States.
—Professor Rogers has furnished his long
expected work on the “ Geology of Penn
sylvania,” and it is issued in the United
States and in England. The English re
viewers appear a little astonished at the im
mense coal fields of the United States, be
side which their own are diminutive. The
coal fields of Great Britain are in extent
about 5,400 square miles. Those of the
United States are 196,850 square miles.—
hile the amount of workable coal in Great
Britain is put down at 190,000,#00,000
tons, that of North America is set down at
4,000,000,000,000, or twenty-two times
greater in amount than the mines of Great
Britain. An English paper, commenting
upon the fact, says:
When we reflect upon what has been
achieved by the produce of the coal fields
of Great Britain, and then endeavor to an
ticipate the mining of the vast fields of the
United States upon an extensive scale, we
are led to forecast a future of almost bound
less enterprise for that wonderful country.
&3P The Rock Island Argus has the fol
lowing in a late letter from Pike’s Peak
gold mines: “ In Arrapahoe county there
are from eight to twelve hundred poor
'devils, like myself, hunting gold, but not
finding any. At present we are preparing
to skin the spring emigration, .which is to
be done by disposing of town sites and bad
whisky.”
^mLL^frPux*}1' .. ■
The 'fttyson of the aflj»n>g} eS'pd*8d»Jthe
V'arfods'watferihg1 jjlitc^fhitfs{r\?hoVsbe|;
health or pleasure, or pursue 'the "itabit of
flielf liVes, :l}as even it oft' iiiitit, «Sf<RtiP{t
prdgressew towar/lfl the central goal of, tfre
swmnUer solstice our population wilL dimi
nish, and seacoast hudinferiopretreftts will
become.gay with multitudes who htive ex
changed .'th&.stern pursuits of.busiuessdife
lor .the ©m»patiojJlri?ttfiJyi(£fcut.o We have
a few words to say which may hot be tm
worthv the consideration d£ these1 sfiftiiher
Weds-, whose-lott^ fiphehi^-flidri efodMMI to
Hit aulr'f'tb ‘vtlielrha'iin)jKbf iiph^andgltje”1
is most enviable.
We do'iiof iiitend to mnftnVdhem 'tore-1
sort to souThbrh -watering places that they
way thus pM*ow«e home umtitufiuus, and
add to the wealth‘of -the count yy-hv keep
ing their-money in it; nor to adjure them
to shrin noltfoeni watering.: places', because
of the corrupting influenCes-of the asvoei
atioris in which they wiilrio ingle... .c Jkmt
we do not, because we be 11/■.■ h these good
lift’d strffii'iefit -/easons begin to he thorough
ly appreciated., as.is iu'lu-.ited: l>y the groat i
tailing Off ot..southern visitants to northern
watering jdaces during two or three-seasons:
past. \\ e do liot VoieieV to^rgue the '-ase |
ot southern vs. northern resorts, hut to
present certain of the positive claims of j
the southern, without contrast with or
rence to others, and to glance at theirme
rits of social and political importance. - ••
1 he south is a wide and thinlv populated
country, most ol its communities being dis
tant from each other, a ml the means of
communication expensive and not always
pleasant. But the mere fact of space is a
sufficient cause of the comparatively little
intercourse which different and distant sec
tions, States and parts ot States, have had
" ith each other. I hronghout this whole
region, from the Hot Springs of Arkansas
to the Sulphur Springs of Virginia, arc
scattered those delightful spots which pos
sess unrivalled natural advantages as sum
mer resorts tor health and pleasure. Every
year sees them more generally frequented
by citizens of every section. There meet
and mingle the men and women of the great
cities, and ot the distant interior of each
and all the States, and they become ac
quainted and intimate, not alone with each
other, bnt with the character, resources and
business features of their respective sections
ami tom inunlues—anil to be acquainted is
to be interested. Social ties are cemented
by this communion, and they arc the strong
est bonds of all which unite nations;stron
ger than those ot laws, statutes and consti
tutions, for these are only the results of
those—the instruments born of them.
We consider, then, that the places of ge
neral resort are the very nurseries of union
and of social progress, and great adjusters
of elevated but equitablo standards of de
mocratic society. \\ ithin tlieir precinct
States, counties and cities, meet and shake
hands by their representatives. The ga
thering to them are so manv social, com
mercial and political conventions. Their
; intercourse is a constant comparison ot !
| notes, an interchange of information, and j
! tlieir visitors leave them with a eircle ol
acquaintance extending over the whole
country, and enlarged views of their du
ties and privileges as its citizens—thev re
I alize citizenship as that of the entire conn
I try and not of one State or community
merely.
Aside I rum studi reasons as we have exhi
bited to the end that the southerner himself
should not go abroad to seek summer plea
sure, there are absolute reasons whv not onlv
j he, hut the resident ol any oolintrv—
“ I'.artli’.s universal tenant—lie
At ho live- wherever life m iv lie,
Social, fixM. or free to roam,
Always ami everywhere at home,”
should resort to the southern springs and
sea coast haunts. The mineral springs are
unequalled for the health conferring pro
perties ol' their waters and the beauty of
surrounding scenery, and the coast settle
ment- of the (Julf are unsurpassed for line
ness ol situation and climatic salubrity.—
At none can so refined and elegant society
he found; for the marked characteristic
which favorably distinguishes southern
watering places is, that they are not the
mere scenes to which are transferred the
show and dissipation, the routing and riot
ing ol the city life, the resorts id the roue
and ennuyec an 1 the devotees of high fa
j -liious, but are rather family residences,
i with just so much of genial festivity as to
render them attractive to those willing to
he guy without, being wearied withgaieivor
corrupted by its ex-'-ess. People go there
for months or the reason, an l become social
and familiar, with their families around
them—which circumstance- would, were it
neecs-arv, exercise all the restraints which
have force in their proper homes. They do
not run to them for a brief participation in
scenes of revelry, which constitutes the idea
and the fact of watering place life in all
other countries. They make them their
homes, and as the season closes, these so
eial circles scatter and disseminate over all
the country the kirtdly inHimnces generat
ed during their existence.—X. 0. Cre
scent.
jfif The following, from tho Ouachita
Herald, should 1 >c headed negroeide, as it
appears that the man and not the elephant
wa>killed by fright:
Elephanticide.
A negro man belonging to Dr. Sanders,
of Holl v Springs, Dallas county, we under
stand, was frightened to death by one of
Maibes’ elephants, week before last. The
circumstances as we learned them, were
these: Alter the performance of the com
pany at Holly Springs, the elephants were
removed a short distance from the pavil
I lion and confined in the hushes, to await
the time of starting to the next place of
exhibition; the negro, not knowing they
were there, was passing near by, when one
of them passed his trunk around the body
of the hov, drawing him gently towards
his elephautship, the negro seeing the colos
sal proportions of the animal, which the
darkness of the night no doubt greatly mag
nified, made a herculean effort, and suc
ceeded in escaping from the disagreeable
embrace; he ran a short distance anil fell to
the ground, arousing the whole neighbor
hood with his cries; being unable to rise lie
was taken up and carried to the house,
where he soon after died, the Doctors sav
from no other cause than fright.
From the St. Joseph Journal.
Important from Pike’s Peak—Cheeiing
Accounts—$18 Made Per Day.
W eunderstand that a Mr. Vories, cousin
to the Messrs. Vories, of this city, and whose
mother resides near Gentrvville, arrived in
this city a few days since, direct from the
Hike’s Peak and ' herry Greek gold mines.
Mr. Vories is an old miner, having emigrat
ed to California in the spring of ’51b and
followed mining in that auriferous region
lor a period of nearly ten years, until No
vember last, when he went to the Pike’s
Peak mines in company with a few other old
gold seekers from Stockton, Cal.
On arriving in the vicinity of Pike’s
Peak, they struck their stakes and went
immediate!} to work, calling their mining
district Stockton, after Stockton, California.
Mr. Vories states that he nrospected all
through New Stockton mines, and found
gold everywhere in abundance. He dug
down a distance of eighteen feet until he
came to a solid bed of rock, finding shot
gold the entire distance. Mr. V. states that
he took out as high as 818 in one day, and
the average amount in those diggings was
88, 810 and 812 to the man.
At the time of this leaving, the Mexicans
and Indians were the principal ones engaged
in mining, theAmeiicans being generally
engaged in prospecting and laying off town
sites. He will leave this city on Monday
next for the Pike’s Peak region, taking out
with him about fifty head of milch cows
and leaving this side of the Missouri river
forever.
We understand that Mr. Vories owns a
large ranche in California, is a pioneer of
great experience, and a gentleman in whoes
statements the utmost reliance can be
placed.
_ a
,, :aLi^r itf&fifi* 'ft4e"^rat~
r VfMqfflO.J I .i ^2uraf<a; ljiay 6tbt,1859. j
ArKssns. •mro** H^n^jqngsince. *s
Leonean* fully*Btnfcli«lie<ithe points ttSiich
I set out to prove, yisj.: The excellence of
pifr'pbiwWon version of the scriptures, and
shawAtlbe'seetarianisiH and utter inferiority
of the pruposednew pae;; and as.no. attempt
hak ibbett iiaiAn tb Ldhfirrid the questions,1
which I extractedTrom it, I ftmlno necessi
ty, at present, fo^further fejuafks.
A ery regretfully j yours,
l jj §J. W. MOORE.
Papfr from Wouo.—a French gentle
man, an amateur in eh-nuistrv, has drscov
ed a new mode of tanking” paper. It if
himplv by boiling slices of wood with a
certain quantity of mineral and vegetable
alkali. If we njiay rely on the statement,
of the inventor^ he intends to produce |
troni o4 kilogrammes or slices of tirwobd 1
and a kilogrammes of alkali, a ream of i
very large paper as white as snow and as \
(me as silk. A kilogramme is equal to two ■
;ind a quarter pounds.
it?"Letters frbm China mention some
Boston ships as doing a fine Chinese coolie
passenges busisnes. • One with a cargo of
nine hum!read celestials cleared from Fah
rlian lor Havana; another with eleve hnn
ilied. qureha.-e 1 at from %ii ;0 829 head;
mid New A oik clippers were anticipating a
line buisness. \ cj.
_ -1 hi an i—.— ■ ■ -
$■&’’ I'1 a gravtt'yggd in New Jersv, tliefe
is a tombstone ;on which ,is inscribed the
following simple yet touching epitaph: “He
was a good egg.'” '
MARRIED—On the 24:h of, April, A.
H. Is.ill, bv Josiah Corbell; a; ju-ticy pf
the peace, Mr. Lewis A. 'Hi'diii.fstox to
Miss .Iaxk Bc.ssll, all o! Like emiiltv, Ar- j
kansas.
■ i m
OBITUARY. |7LT—
i , I indexedI
Departed this life in the 42d vear oF-nis
age at bis residence in ('onway countv, Ark.,
on the 12th ultimo, after a lingering illness
of 24 days ot typhoid fever, J. D. Clif
ton, leaving belund him an affectionate,
bereaved and disconsolate wife and four
dear children to mourn his irreparable loss.
He was a kind, tender and affectionate
husband; and father he was a social, kind
and benevolent and worthy citizen and
neighbor, highly esteemed and beliked bv
all who knew Him, though lie did not he"
long to any Christian church, yet he died
with that cliristian tortitude and cheerful
and serene countenance that bespoke for
him a happy exit, from time to eternity.
Peace be to his ashes, and may his im
mortal spirit be waited by angels to that
bind ot eternal felicity, where sorrowing
shall be no more forever.
Blessed are the meek for they shall inhe
rit eternal life.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they
shall see (lod.
1 . S. ] he Alabama and Georgia papers
will please copy. AY. (j.
May 7th, A. 1). Ivfi9.
STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
[FURNISHED BV MERRICK £ HASSELL.]
Arrivals.
May 10—Irene Jordan, from Napoleon.
“ 10—(1 rape Shot, from Ft. Smith.
" II—Arkansaw, trom New Orleans.
“ Fi—Quapaw, from Ft. Smith.
“ F*—Hickman, from Ft. Smith.
“ FI—hed \\ nc, from Napolei n.
“ I ! H. Fitzhugh, from Ft. Smith.
“ If—Alary Cook, from Memphis.
“ 15—S. H. Tucker, from Napoleon.
“ If—Jennie \\ hippie, from Memphis.
“ HI—Arkansaw, from Ft. Smith.
Departures.
May 1 1—Ladv Walton, for Ft. Smith.
12—Ofape Shot, for Cincinnati.
“ 12—Irene Jordan, for Napoleon.
“ 12—Arkansaw, for Ft. Smith.
“ 1;!—Quapaw, for N. Orleans.
“ Ft—Little Rock, for N. “
“ 1 I—Hickman, for Cincinnati.
“ I I—Bed \\ ing, for Napoleon.
“ If—H. Fitzhugh, for Cincinnati.
15—Jennie Whipple, for Memphis.
“ H>—Arkansaw, tor N. Orleans.
“ 16—S. H. Tucker, for Napoleon.
N EW A I> V KllTIsHfiENTS.
NOTICE! 1
Mi>. v'. I". IFILI), of the firm of Feild
,v Do! ( , ha\ing just, returned from north
ern an ! e istern citie-. he_s le vc to call the ntten
ti.m of the public to h:- large stock of goods, gro
ceries, hoots, shoes, h its,Caps, clothing, hardware,
<lueou.-w.ire, sad Mery, and in fact even th ug that
is usu illy k ; t in mo liou.-e, ail of v, hicii thev re
spectfully invite their old friends and customers,
and as many new ones as will favor them with a
call, and remember we do not charge an - thing for
shiuviujr «xoo(l>-.
-May l.*'th, 1859.
Dry Goods.
| J’ALE.S 4, j an.! 4 4 Drown Sheet
" ' ’ iug ami Shitting;
2 “ 'u liitiwn Drilling;
J’ “ ' n a-i;l 4 -1 Heavy Oziieliurg;
2 “ -Ai nihoi; and Choctaw plaid and
.-tripes;
H"l is. •*j - . and 4-4 11. Domestic, assorted;
4 '>• “ t -die--, every style and quality, as
sorted;
20 “ i’oiin Brown and Fancy Linen for
Pants;
2f “ p'ain stripe and Plaid Cottenade;
2*» ** Bed Ticking i assorted;)
15 “ Bleached Irish Linen;
20 “ <lo Drilling;
5 doz. Laities 15.) (20,) (25) and (30) Spring
Hoop Skirts;
■1 “ C liild s and Misses, do;
500 “ Spools Cotton, assorted;
50 lbs. black and col’d Flax Thread;
4 “ “ “ “ Silk do;
40 gross Hone and China and Pearl Buttons
10 “ Black Lasting do;
1000 llx. Cotton Yarn, assorted
100 Patterns Ladies Lawn and Aluslin dress
goods;
2" “ “ Fine Organdies dress goods;
HI pieces Swiss Muslin, assorted qualities;
10 “ White Jaconet, “
Besides a thousand other tilings too numerous to
mention. Please give us a call and examine.
May 18th, ’59. FF.ILD .V DOi.LF.V.
Boot3 and Shoes!!
1 ( ^ ^ ^ Events fine calf boots, sewed
I ' " and pegged.
10 eases mens kip boots, sewed and pegged, as’d.
5 “ “ best waterproof boots, warranted.
5 “ boys call boots, sewed \ pegged, as’d.
■' “ children and youths boots, assorted.
10 “ mens (A. No. 1,) red russetts 4 riveted.
“ “ do black do do.
“ “ brogans—light and heavy soles.
2 “ “ calf pegged do '
1 “ “ “ sewed do
4 “ boys “ and kip do
4 “ wo’s lace init. goat boots.
4 “ “ “ kip brogans.
20 doz. child’s kip, patent kid and morocco
shoes with and without heels.
10 doz. ladies kill lace boots, with and without
heels.
4 doz. ladies’ kid slippers, with & without heels.
4 “ “ tine black cloth gaiters
10 “ gent s most superior calf, patent, and
glove kid, assorted besides a great variety not
mentioned. CheajrTor cash, hv
May 18th, 1859. FEILD <t DOLLEY.
CLOTHING!!
VyT’K are just in receipt of a large and
sP'endal assrtment of gents’ ready made
clothing of almost every style and Quality '
May 18th. 1859 FEILD & DOLLEY.
Hats and Caps!
T ^ ^ ^ iee ^ Per steamer H. Filzhugli, a
ft hue lot of mens, bovs and childrens hats, latest
8t^fs- lfi . , PEILD k DOLLEY.
■>lav 18th, 1859.
Iron, Nails and Castings!
| A A( W } tar iron assorted.
* ' V- *10 bundles horse shoe iron as’d.
nn . tO “ nail rods as'd.
100 kegs nails as’d No’s.
10 iloz. skillets as’d. sizes.
4 “ kettles 4 ]>ots as’d sizes, from 1 to 20 gal.
4 “ bake ovens.
2 Kegs sad irons.
200 lbs horse shoe nails.
May 18th, 1859. FEILD fo DOLLEY,
Penitentiary Work.
THE subscribers, having got the contract
for keeping the convicts in the Penitentiary
for the ensuing two years, are better than ever pre
pared to do all kinds of yvoik usually done in such
establishments. They furnish wagons and carriages
extremely low for cash.
GEORGE & ROBINS.
_May 18, 1859. ly.
Dry Goods.
A PULL assortment just received and
for sale low for cash
May 18, ’59. MERRICK k W ASS ELL.
Thi Honey Blade Otaris. >0
•Hja^ex^eriments in the cultivation of thfewsW
imported opec.jwj of PfodiKidWHOyakenyi nwZ
cUtwsfc inrmiutysection^,
ueyer.WmHaiuaJgdpn tfc>t tsmjr.e, hist,^- qf our
agnculwcabndustrv. Facts in regard to itsvaluajale I
properties, which auirst seem incredible, have now i
been established bev(fl4'ifie'f>«e5bifttv (>f%dioi>bf |
amf tt is believed,;hv those Writ dapabte of judgine i
of its merits^ that its general introduction will add
milliuna of dpUa^fo our ugrjcpltural wealth. I \
*1!ffltflft*'/',e'iipace here tp.eiit^r into details, but
Wdljiiresent priudj'ysmuedf it* iidvoi^igcs,.. - . . i
hirst, ft wllly r ■ ,ino double'the\vei -lit to the 1
aeve, in anj e'oil. of liny dfricr'kmdqf.grass. From ;
buir to six tons per acre is not an uncommon \ ie!d,
limi t am ih^tfKsesswa'iof'iwonftetatelMpaiMbv dis
interested andTelitiVie jersoi*. #• gTyiefft of ov«*!
eight .toiy. ofgpod .dry bay from a.single sort, in
joy w hen* it " as not posa ble to <*et mgrt* titan untv
hnH i he amount from any of the common
SecrnBt,- jlbBjsanie.weight po*$ek$&mom jfptri
menr, htiTT. ffesvquentTy, wHI self ToriIt WTbrprice
in the market, thus injuring the Ihrmer^iore than
double the re mm fro® his grounds that he e.m ob- '
to in trom-^y other, plant..*. The bar poises pm
tlnr j.iiitwmlfnraeirt titan (imothv. and fee sfiRfor
W* Prtcc »i*’.Ciiwthy was but
1 bird. < Brjtb ha v anil seed can bo produced from
the sumo crop, the hay being *|liaI|v valuable as
Ul.ee hby alter tju-seed Islaken tW.n. it, whHethe
seed is as valuable as the best of Ollier grain, als a
Iced lor horsos, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc., ami it
“f*0**®*’ •**&** to linseed for the w«mM
ture of m1, and must always find a ready sale, at a
tail- price,r^nfci# puegrae. «* ; T,.
fourth. It matures m afibutTwo Sionhts time,
and tail be w»w« on grounds wheire.otln* craps have
lailed. e,flier by drouth or oUlweavse#, and, at,-the
sitroe Uimbytull iberda bw::e reftirn. ''
Ihtlt. It. northern climates, where clover and
owW-eOt*** arinktHediiy hard wintma, this will
lie tl a large crop, anil tn tlic-eaei'Oon#oj';thtvstHtth.
v. here other graces will pot thrive ut aj), it will
grow very prob he.
..-bly111;.. If RjlLiLwu.aii. kinds of wisUluir, .and,
whether the season be wet or dry, tiie farmer may
always rely upon hts Honey Blade as a sure prop. '
bfiead ale. other - advantages are proved hv farts
" bicli are indorsed by riotrie of the first 'aWibuRifr
r.it* vt the. Union, *nd cannot fail to uirrv cmiidi
tout to ?v«ry .pteiitgcul reader. .
Having been engaged during the pn >t vetr in tbs
purchase .and ■ importation of the pare Honey
B.atie Seed. 1 ha\u determine!! to.otU'r it ft a*
sale on such terms as will make if kpi lor
eiery farmer ami planter n> uitmip., himavliTdwipg
tiro Cotmtig <ea?i5n,'1ii ilsVu'Rif athoif ft is imVup
lu uniform bags.ot hbbnt'siltfoeii pounds each- the
iHU'.'kluVI'i'k.I.^-dluflilii'pr.io iJdtl -aftktietQ «i«! £h*
pricy .as$3 !'L‘1: bag,.deli\ cited in Mew York omJt,
Louts.
h.a,ale bags or lots can hesentto any purl of the
country as freight or by express',stid will bepiit op,
delivered lortrungporiatitHivitnd'tUetWbtier
ments made, fre£ of (‘barge.
Kaeh bag is stamped with the Hungarian coat Of :
arms, and the lollowmg'. Ittlferijrg,' f‘HbnYv ifilide !
Hungarian Grass Seed.” It will be.suld |»* a. opts *
in various sections, but parties should be etuvful of
whom they purchase, and secure the genuine sisal.
Ihev are especially cautioned not to purchase the
common Hungarian Grass .Seed, as it is very far
inferior to the Honey Blade. s
An interesting pamphlet, containing ail of the
iHctTj*;<! lull particulars, will he furnished, free of
charges, by me or any of my agents, upon appliea
tion. I will state as an indication of* the intense
interest which the subject is exciting that nearly a
(limi ter of million of conies of this pamphlet have
already been applied for.
Part’0s desiring to secure sped should order at
once, as the indications are that the limited amount
obtained "ill be exhausted long before the season
ot sowing has passed. Those who secure seed this
}< tr can tealize a r:ch return,by producing seed to
supply the demand of farmers and planters fur sow
ing another vrar.
. . . lt> . 1)0 sent directly to me unless in
tin vicinity of New Vin k, wheie'lliet will be tilled
J- -'}• Kuieivon & Co., 4!<6, liroawav, New
\ ork, (leneral A gents.
A:i cultural Houses, General Merchants, and
au.' other parties properly situated, are invited to
become agents for the sale of the Honey B ade
rieeu. Authority, till! particulars and from sixty
to one hundred pamphlet- for distribution, will he
tarnished either by mo or the New Yoik Agency,
on receipt of d.i cents to pre-par the package!
I aut authorized to name the following well
known gentlemen as reference: Hon. J. It. Bar
ren, President of the Si. Louis Agricultural and
Mccbamca! Association, \ ice President of the Na
tional Agricultural Society, and Member of Con
gre-s elect from St. Louis; Gen. T. Tillman, Ox
tord. Mil., President of the National Agricultural
Society: John J. Anderson, Banker, St. Louis, Mo.,
John Rtggmi.jr., Breker, St. Louis; andex Mavor
W ashington King, St. Louis.
FELIX H. BENTON.
11, Market st., St Louis, Mo.
Wm. A. Counts, Agent, Littie Rock, Ark.
My second lot of Honey Blade Seed will bn here
hi a few days, persons wishing to obtain some of
tbi- seed will do well to leave their orders with me
at die post office, as I have orders for a great may
already. Farmers living near a stage line or river,
can be accommodated by inclosing me$3 50 atniv <
risk. I will also furnish persons with the pamphlet
containing the history and many interesting
l.tt ts in relation to this seed, hv enclosing me one
three cent stamp. As Mr. Benton is theonlvper
-un that imports thegenuineHimgaran Grass Seed,
persons are cautioned not to purchase any unless
stamped as above described.
May 18,1859. it. W. A. COUNTS.
Administrator’s Sale.
| HTHE undersigned a.im’r. of the estate of
I James Roy, dee., hereby gives notice, that
the said James Roy, dee., came to his death on the
1'rh das of December, lt-58. in tile counts of Ma
rion, St itc ot Ai l.aii-aDeceased was a man of
ahoai 41 years of ar c, fair complexion, of low stat
ute, rather an impediment in his speech, is of
Scotch descent. The appraised value of his estate
is about sixteen hunared dollars.
xr ,b -n r. HICKS, Adm’r.
Max I-. 1859. Cost ofadr. $4.
ICE: ICE! ICE!
| I TA ' ottiif an ice house ut Xapo
j H !eou in connection with our mammoutli
• louse at .i.emphis, we are prepared to furnish our
customers with a full -upplv ot ice. Hoping to re
Crive a continuance of the favors so liberally be
stowed upon us heretofore, wo will spare no effort
to render .*at:.~i;u-riun.
Order- from Arkansas and White rivers will be
promptly attended to.
, , , ,.n DUVAL, ALGEO & CO.
May 18, 1-59. 3m
New Goods.
j T*- receive.1 per steamer Quapaw,
V d<>z. Rowland's best cross cut saws;
i “ brier scythes;
l “ grain “
1 *' scythe snaths;
*-_> “ halter chain-;
r, h “ 'log
Ir.tce chains, log chains, stray hinges, bridle
, u,‘l" kmves, coffee mills,'knob locks,pad
s:,’,"k lt,uks> curry combs, horse brushes,
w.i-h nru-hes, looking glasses, etc., etc.—for sale
Vy 18, 1859. HUDS°N & IVES’
Grinding and Planing.
( R tmli is now in operation, we can
, - *",n'3‘l ;in\ quantity of corn meal that may
tie wanting, anil dress all lumber that may lie re- !
quired. ADAMSON A, BROWN.
_May 18, 1859,
Molasses! Molasses!!
. RLLS. choice molasses;
fMO >2 bbls“
tor sale low tor cash bv
May 18, 1859._HUDSON A IVES.
New Tailoring Establishment, by
WM. N. ROACH.
r I E undersigned respectfully
X forms the citizens of Little Rock, that Ipl
he has commenced the Tailoring Business if
in this city. Having hail several veare experience
in business, 1 pledge myself to give satisfaction to
all who may favor me with their patronage.
Cutting, cleaning and repairing done at the short
est notice, and in the most fashionable manner._
Being unable to procure anv other house at this
time, I will be found for the present at Mr. J. Cal
laghan s shop.on Markham street, w here all orders
wid lie thankfully received and faithfully executed
May 18; 1869._ WML. V ROACH.
Groceries,
rr Hhds. Sugar;
HI Barrels Molasses;
20 half “ do;
20 Bags Coffee;
20 Boxes Pickles;
10 “ Preserves;
“ Starch;
20 “ Soap;
2 Cases Sardines;
VV'tli a full assortment of fancv groceries for
sale low lor cash. MERRICK A WASSELL
Mm In Vi!!.
Iron Nails and Castings.
Vl'LLL stork, consisting of
Bar Iron, all sizi-s;
Slab Iron, i„ and 5 inches;
Plow Molds, 38'and L ••
May 18, ’59. MERRICK A WASSELL.
Glass and Glass Ware.
1 /X Boxes Tumblers, assorted;
XV* 5 “ Flasks, “
50 “ Window Glass;
6 do*. Glass Milk Pans;
May 18, ’59. MERRICK A W.yS8ELL.
Strayed,
FROM Little Rock, about the 10th of
April, a black horse, about 15 hands high; is
a little lame in the left hind foot—had on a bell
when he left. I will give five dollars to any person
returning said horse to me at Little Rock.
RICHARD BRAGG.
May 18th 1859. 3w.
rUST received a fine assortment of the
genuine Vienna Meerschaum Cigar and
tobacco Pipe3, all warranted of 1st quality
which I am prepared to sell at as low rates as ever
offered forsale. I also received an addition to my
stock of Jewelry, consisting in
Bracelets, Sets of Jewelry, Coral Earrings,
And a newly patented 18k. gold Ring, all of which
I offer cheap for cash. Please come to see me.
May 18th, 1859. ALBERT COHEN.
mhbttttxm, K .
.. i tm mure .....
ORSTITOTSS OF THERPOINTS ^UMBjfc
(,0i?sa®oR *
BODILY LNFIRMIT1ES. „ ,
1 Ht KaFIU AND COMPLETE EtPit'ACV Or ■< ;
RADWAY’S
rvr„_ R^ADY RELIEF
^ V^NTLY STOPPING THE MOST EX.
LRUC-Ypxr; Pains and ACHES,
xrrv,-vlJ*.NS> ?CALDrf, CUTS,
.WOU KDa, URL’ISfiS, ETC., ETC.,
rentiers it impocunt that every tiunilv keep a supply,
oi it house. * ri *
VUMED with this remedy, ahou.oehold isrriwnvw
protected against suddeii attacks of sickne-s.
1 housauilsat lives ot persons have been saved ba
its timely use, who were suddenly seized in the
night tune with Cramps, Spasms, Vomiting, Cholera,
J eitQw r ever,'and other violent disea >es. Let a
dose of this Remedy be taken internally,'as the cas*
may require, when suddenly seized 'with pain or
sickness, audit will instantly relieve the patient
rao.w pain, and arrest the disease.
RADWAY’8 READY RELIEF
H IS CTRED
RHEUMATISM... .In four hour*
NEURALGIA.In one hour
CR AMP.... In tun minutes
DIAIUidJlEA....t.....,. .In fifteen minutes
TOOTHACHE.In ono urinate
SPASMS.... In five minutes
SICK HtHAFtACHli....hi ten minutrs
CHILLS AND-FEVER......i .Tie-fifteen minutes
CHILBLAINS ;.In fifteen mimrtts
INFLUENZA.... In six hums
SORE THROAT. .1.In ten minutes
BURN*...;..'...In t.venfv minutes
FROST BITES../. :
AGUE CHEEK..
PARALYSIS.
LAMENESS....
AND ALL CASUS Op
BRUISES,
WOUNDS,
STRAINS and
SPRAINS,
the moment it is applied to the injured parts, all
paiti arid uneasiness-crave.
: M AI.ARlt >tls DISEASES.
. it A l) W a Y ’> i; i; A D V »; is l. i K F
is a preventive as well as a cure. -tOruH diseases in
ducs.-cb.b)'.exposure, to .the laixioosnephtisol nihil aril
-wsueh.as J'.'ever auU. Ague, Chill's and Fever, Tv
piloid Foveiy Congestive-Fever, Marsh Fever. Yel
ite* B'evei j'C'PtPrp; Ptieurivonia', IikWrgPWet; (ilroleia
and its kindred complaints.
Edfdio'sfc who are ■(•if i'iseri'thttfafa‘r''-nis diseases,
aud par' icpanly pej solir Living in. srctiens w htirc Ue
ver-liy.d Ague prevails, take Railway! Ready Re.
lie f us a ili'Uik, Dia)L‘ oi twine per day, in -ome wa
ter, aud they w ill never lie troubled withthisor ;iii$
ojtbfj: dievn-e. Hauway’s Ro uly Rtdivi ii auknOwr
ledger! by the heat'chemists in the. woiru! to he rite
most effectual dikiHl’eetant amt neutralizing agent
In use. As a bevprtige, a tyastjdonliiVo’f it taken
in a gtv.-s 0!Avaft r w iit act .ysn ilSllYfiiVe stinWJant,
ilvotisittg the 1 if i-iLt oncrgii s of .the AomftdL ticrfi s'J
anil iitlyer system's and ocg.iitis of tiny body boi
jjipalThy auJ i i-hivun tufioJi. It iti fiU- sifptrior 4;?
iiuriiiK to alcoholic mixtures.
l.Ht’M.K 1 f H) LAUlb-H.
RftdwayV. Ready Relief lias been highly sucth*-),
fill as a Styptic, incases of excwArve'liooiiihg. olief
iniscariiugesi Let physicians take a note u! bis-—
its timely use mar saTe'nianv live* la-feveri
family read RADWAY’S TABULAR ALMA
NAC for 1-53, and R ADW A Y’S Ml AINU
WORLD. These jiublicotions may la- hijd fits' 01
charge by calling upon the Druggists and store
keepers in every village and town hi the cpujifry1.
The householder who neglects to keepa.Supply of
Railway’s Ready Relief in tiis luiuse* commits a
breach of duty; its application, either intcrnal-iy op
externally, will instantly arrest disease and stop
the unis* excruciating pains. Radway’s Read*- Ktw
lief is sold lor 25 cents, 5 ) cents and $1 a iiutthj,
by Druggists and Store keepers, everywhere.
RAD WAY' & CO.,
April t>, 1859. No. 1. ly New York City.
Office of the C. A F. R. R.Company,?
Little Rock, Ark., May 4, lc59. s'
VT a meeting of tlie board of directors
of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company,
this day held at their office, in tlie city of Littie
Rock, the billowing resolutions were adopted:
W hereas, At a meeting of tlie stockholders of
the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, held on
the first Monday in May, 1P59, a resolution was
unanimously adopted, requesting the hoard of di
rectors to make ,sueh calls oil the stockholders as
will he sufficient to pay off the debts due bv this
Company, for grading and other expenses. There
fore,
Resolved, That a call of ten per cent, be made
upon the stockholders of this Company, to be paid
at the office of this Company, in the city of Little
Rock, by the 10th day of July, 1859.
In Compliance with the above resolution, the
stockholders!) I the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Com
pany are herebj notified to pay the said call of ten per
cent, as above specified, or to the authorized agent
of the company.
Bv order of the hoard of directors.
F. A. STARING, Sec'y..
May 11, 1859. 6w C. 4 F. R. R. Co.
Office of the C. & F. R. Company,?
Little Rock, Ark-, May 5, 1859. (j
VT a regular meeting of the board of di
rectorsol the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Com
pany, held at their office in the city of Little Rock,
this day, the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted, viz:
Resolved, That tills Company accept the provi
sions contained in the first section ol an act of the
General Assembly entitled “anact concerning the
Cairo and Fulton railroad and its two branches,”
approved 1st February, 1859.
Resolved further, That this Company do not a?
[ eept the provisions contained in the third section of
said act. but regarding it as invalid and a depart
ure from the terms anu intention of the' grant by
Congress, and tlie transfer of the lands by the State
to the Company requiring it to use and applv
them, or the proceeds aris ngtherelrom to Richest
advantage in the construction of the road, as well
as injurious to the true policy ol the Company, do
reject the same.
Resolved further. That a copy of this resolution
be published for three mouths, in each of tlie news
pa] ers ; ublished in j^ttle Rock.
Bv order of tlie board of directors.
F. A. STARING, Sec'y.. .
May 11, 1859. Sm C. 4 F. R. R. Co.
STATE OF ARKANSAS,)
County of Johnson.
In the Johnson probate court, on the 26th day of
April, 1859, when presiding the Hon. Alfred I).
King, Judge, were the following proceedings had
among others, viz:
Lucy E. Brashears, Complainant,
rs.
Isaac E. Brashears Mary J. Armstrong
and her husband Wiliam Arm- p .... .
strong, Timothv Cade and Amanda 1 ,n '"r
his wife, Willis D. Hays and Ra
chael hi- wife, George McKee and
M.r. net hi. wile, Robert C. Luster
.and Nancy Ins wile, Defendants. j
4 XI) now, on this day comes the said
1 \ complainant, by Floyd \ May, her solicitors,
and files her petition herein, and u|>on their motion
it is ordered that a writ of summons issue herein
against each of said defendants, returnable to the
next term of this court, and it appearing from the
affidavit of W. W. Floyd that the dsfendent Wil
liam Armstrong is a non-resident of the State of
Arkansas.
Whereupon, it is ordered that the said non-resi
dent defendant, he notified of the pendency of this
suit against him, the object and prayer of which is
to obtain dower out of the lands mid slaves of which
Jesse Brashears,the latehusband of the said Lucy
E. Brashears, died seized and possessed, by ]ub icn -
tionofthis order in some newspaper printed ai d
published in this State bv the number of insertions
and within the time prescribed by law.
A true copy from tfie record.
Attest, ’ AUGUSTUS M. WARD Clerk.
May 11, 1859. 3t Cost of adv. $6 50.
TILKINS
HAS just received a good assortment of
ladies’ and gents’ water proof and Brussels
carpet bags; also.
Children’s Hoop Skirts;
Mosquito Bars;
Gents’Soft Hats;
French Cottonade;
Children’s Hosiery;
Extra Curtain Prints;
Brown Linen;
Fancy Hair Pins.
And a few of those tine rugs left, which will be
sold cheap to close the lot. Call on
May 11, 1859. FILKINS.
Ladies Shoe Store.
I A DIES every where in
j want of Shoe* or Boots are re
spectfully invited to call at the “ La- 15_„
dies Boot and Shoe Manufactory,” on Main street,
nearly opposite the Theatre building; where Ladies
and Childrens’ boots and shoes are made to order
of almost every style and quality. All shoes sold
at our factory are warranted to fit well and to be of
best of workmanship and material.
We are in receipt of a large stock of fine leathers
and will endeavor to keep a full supply of ready
made boots and shoes to suit our customers.
JOHN RIGLEK & BROS.
April 27, 1859. ly_
Servants for Sale.
TAANNY, mulatto woman, aged about *
_F 38 vears, fine cook, washer, ironer aud*5^
seamstress; in every resjiect a most valuable
servant.
MARY, negro woman, aged about 40years,ice
washer and ironer, pretty good cook, and very
handy house servant.
These servants w ill not be sold to remain in Little
Rock.
For terms, apply to Luke fc.. Barber, Little Rock,
who is empowered”to make title.
May 11th, 1859. 6w. _
MEMPHIS ADVERTISEMENT.
J. M. M"COMBS. W. HUTCHINSON, W. W. FUROUSON.
McCOMBS & CO., 349 Main Street, sign of
tiie Broad Axe, Memphis, Temi., Importers ..nd
dealers in Foreign and Domestic Hardware,Cutie
ry, Iron, Nails,Castings, Agricultural Impicmen.s,
Tin Plate, Copper, Cordage, etc. And Agents for
Fuirbank's Scales, and Hall k Co.’s Safes
May 11,1859. ly