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Saturday, Elay 29, 1852.
E.W. Wiley, Southern Literary and Advertising .
Agent, No. 17 St. Charles street, New Orleans, is
authorized to receive Advertisements, and subscriptions f
for the Sootbebn Shield.
G. B. Lock, Esq., Auctioneer and Ileal Estate Broker,
Memphis, Tenn., is the authorized agent for this paper C
in that city. I
For State Senata.
JOHN M A It TIN.
For House of Representatives.
ALLEN J . POLK.
ALBERTIS WILKINS.
THE WHIG CANDIDATES.
In another column will be tound the pro
ceedings of the Whig meeting held in this
place on Monday last, to nominate candi
dates for the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives. It is with no ordinary feelings
of pride we point to the nominees of that
meeting. The selection of Martin, Folk
and Wilkins, is one, we feel sure, that will
give satisfaction to the Whigs of the Dis
trict and county. They are gentlemen in
whom their friends can satelv repose that
sort of confidence which is so necessary to
the success and advancement of those prin
ciples of the Whig party which have, on
more than one occasion, ministered to the
salvation and prosperity of the country.
Their locality in the county is such as to
give a fair representation to every section,
and their individual interests and leelings
are closely identified and interwoven with
the great mass of the people. As to the
abilities of these gentlemen, they are known
to be ot a high order. rl hey are practical,
business, matter-of-fact men—such as are
wanted in the Legislative Halls ol ourfetate,
—men who have the mind to grasp, the
industry to investigate, and the nerve to
execute—and, if elected, will, undoubtedly,
faithfully discharge the important and re
sponsible duties ot Legislators.
Candidate for Governor.
We present to-day to the Whigs of Ar
kansas, as a candidate for Governor, the
name of Col. George W. Underhill, ol
• Crittenden county, and at present a mem
ber of the State Senate from tire counties of
Crittenden and Mississippi. Col. Underhill
is now serving his second term in the Sen
ate of the State, and during the time that
he has been in that body, no one has made a
more favorable impression upon those with
whom he has been associated, for sound and
enlightened statesmanship, practical ability,
honesty of intention and purity of purpose,
than he has.
In surveying the broad limits of the State
we know of no man more worthy to fill the
Executive Chair than George W, Under
hill; and should his name meet with the
concurrence of the Whig party, and the
State of Arkansas be fortunate enough to
have him for her Chief Magistrate, she will
well deserve congratulation. The active
energy and business habits of Col. Under
hill will soon remove from the present
aspect of governmental affairs the odium
with which honest men of all parties are
disposed to clothe them. lie is “honest,
faithful, capable,” and to this we may add
that lie is efficient,and, if elected, he would
make the best Governor that the State o:
Arkansas has ever had. We connnenc
him to the consideration of our Whig
friends throughout the State, as eminentl)
worthy of their suffrages.
DCr3 The publisher takes pleasure in ad
ding to the exchange list of the Shield nvt
very valuable papers published in the cen
tral portion of Missouri — the Glasgow
Times, published at Glasgow, and the Mis
souri Sentinel, published at Columbia, Mo
These are two of the ablest advocates o
Whiggery in that section of the country
with men of energy at their head who have
long been effective workers in the Whig
cause. But we value them not only be
cause of their worth politically, but, also,
that much of their local matter is interest
ing to us, being weekly visitants from our
former homes. We return them our thanks
lor the kind notices they gave us.
The Democratic Nominees.—The Dem
ocratic Convention which assembled here
on Monday last, nominated, for the Senate,
Hon. Tuos. B. Hanly; for the House, Bailv
Ivendall, Esq., and Dr. George Jlit'hies.
Politically, we differ with those gentlemen,
personally, we are friendly—and as to their
nomination we have but one thing to say,
—we regret that Judge IIanly’s nomination
shall deprive the Circuit of his eminent ser
vices as a jurist, lor during the time lie has
been upon the bench he has most faithfully
and diligently discharged his judicial duties,
and we would have preferred his remaining
upon the bench.
[J^The river at this place is falling
slowly.
The Health of Mr. Clay.
If the solemn truth of any one of Nature’s
nchangeable laws is more rigidly enforced
pon the human race than another, it cer
rinly is, that “ Death is no respector of
ersons. ” lie moves among men of all
onditions as the clouds of heaven are swept
idiscriminately over the bleakest and the
lirest portions of the earth. Neither the
ssociation of power and grandeur, of ex
ellence and worth, nor the charms of in
locence and of all that is lovely, can evade
lis ruthless grasp. This truth is forced
ipon us at present by the fact that, appa
rently, one of the tallest monuments of hu
nan greatness is about to be removed from
.he earth.
Our advices from Washington for several
weeks past touching the illness of Mr. Clay,
convinces us that all hopes of his being again
permanently restored to health, are utterly
hopeless. Disease has for weeks, it not
months, past been preying upon his system
and wasting his strength, until (as a late
despatch represents him) he is as feeble as
a child, with scarcely the strength to turn
himself in bed. It is sorrowing to see one
of the noblest of earth reduced to so help
less a condition. lie may yet, perhaps,
iinger on a few weeks or even months, but
it is evident that the days of his usefulness
are nearly passed and his earthly pilgrim
age near its close. Conscious of the purity
and uprightness of his motives through life,
he calmly awaits the hour of his dissolution
with the composure of the Christian. The
portals of the tomb seem open to receive
him, and many days cannot pass ere he will
sink into their quiet repose. Long years,
if not generations, must pass, before death
can again rob the human family of so price
less a member, or so signally vindicate his
sway overall things mortal.
Railroad from St. Louis to New Orleans.
We call attention to an article upon our
first page, taken from the February number
of the “Western Journal A: Civilian,” a
work published at St. Louis, Mo. It is well
worthy of the perusal of every friend of the
Siate of Arkansas, and particularly of ev
ery citizens of Phillips county.
We hail this, and the feeling said to exist
in St. Louis and South-Eastern Missouri
upon this subject, as the dawning of a new
era. A time is corning when among the
richest portions of our State shall be devel
oped, and the country, and the people
shall learn that there is another place on
tUc fuco of the earth besides Memphis.
This proposed road is the very foundation
of a system which will make a larger city
of Helena than Memphis can ever be. It h
a link in the chain which will bind in the
bonds of inseparable Union the North ant
the South. It opens to vievy> t0 the citi
zens of Arkansas, a time when tiie wilder
ness shall blossom as the rose—when nov
trackless wastes shall be settled up by tax
paying citizens—when populatien shall bi
increased and taxes reduced—when Slati
debt and loathsome corporations shall alik
be removed from the gaze of the world, li
a word, when the State of Arkansas shal
take her proud position among her siste
States—the Empire State of the South
arid when the brightness of her escutcheoi
shall be unsullied by even a passing breath
00^ The river at this point is now on i
stand, and is some two feet below the high
est water mark of this season. It is report
ed rising from here to St. Louis, and at tha
point fears are entertained of very high wa
ter. The St Louis Intelligencer of Wed
nesday, says: The water is in nearly all th
cellars along the levee from five toeighteei
inches deep. The bottom on the opposit
side is overflowed in all the low places am
a portion ot the plank road in the directioi
of Kaskaskia, and one or more bridges wash
ed away. The Osage river is putting ou
full, the Missouri rising from thence down
the upper Mississippi high, and from ever'
indication we are to have high water here
—Memphis Enquiier. 22 inst.
WEBSTER ASSOCIATION.
Boston, May 7.
An Association was formed here las
night, having for its object the election c
Daniel Webster to the Presidency. It em
braces many of the most influential citizens
J. T. Stevenson is the President.
Tremendous Whig Meeting.—An im
mense Whig meeting was held in the Chi
nese Saloon, in Philadelphia, on Saturday
night, 21th inst„ at which strong resolu
tions were passed recommending Mr. Fill
more as the candidate for the Presidency
The meeting was very enthusiastic.—Mem
phis Eagle and Enquirer.
When we lake into consideration how
short-lived is display, the consequence w<
attach to applause and ginger-bread is real
lv astonishing. Those who now flaunt it
Broadway, and rejoice in the consequenct
ot gilt-edged shirts and purple suspenders
will, in a lew years, have nothing to marl
their whereabouts but an uncared, and vet )
often unpaid-for, tombstone. Twenty year:
alter death, and ninety-nine men out of £
hundred are as unknown as the ‘north-wes1
passage,’ or a poor relative. “Every indf
cation that we ever lived, will have passec
away.” All the little memorials of our re
membrance will be either sold, broken up
or stowed away in the wood-shed.
WHIG CONVENTION.
On Monday, May 24th, A. D. 1S52, a
large and respectable number of the Whigs
;)f Phillips county met at the court house in
pursuance to a call, for the purpose of nom
inating a candidate for the Senate, lor Mon
roe and Phillips Counties, and candidates
for the Legislature; whereupon Col. Flisha
Burke was called to the Chair, and J. T.
Moore, on motion, was appointed Scc’y.
After the object of the meeting had been
explained by the President, it was moved
and adopted that a committee of eleven be
appointed by the President to recommend
to the meeting suitable candidates for the
Senate and House of Representatives.
Whereupon the Chair appointed the fol
lowing committee, to-vvit: M.ducket, Jas.
W. Smith, Richard Kindle, Mr. Groves,
Warren Sinizer, Dr. Alexander B. Thorn
ton, Juo. Pattison, Eli T. Diamond, Wil
liam Wilkins and Richard Cail.who retired
a few minutes for conference, and returned
with the following report;
We, the committee, unanimously recom
mend John Martin to the Convention as a
suitable candidate of the Whig party to
represent the counties of Phillips and Mon
roe in the State Senate at the next Legisla
ture.
And we further recommend Allen J.
Polk and Ai.bertis Wilkins, as suitable
candidates of the Whig party, to represent
the county of Phillips in the ower branch
of the next Legislature of the State of Ar
kansas.
Which said report was, on notion, unan
imously adopted.
On motion, a committee consisting of
Col. Wm. F. Moore, Maj. \Yrn. C. Myrtle,
and Col. W arren Smizer, was appointed to
wait upon the gentlemen reconmended and
apprise them of their nominatim; they were
duly apprised thereof, and pnsented them
selves to the meeting, and in a very hand
some manner accepted theirseveral nomb
nations.
On motion the meeting adourned.
ELISHA BUI KE, Pres’t.
J. 4'. Moore, Sec’y.
Democratic Convention.
A Convention of Democratic delegate:
from the counties of Phillips and Monroe
met at the court-house in Helena, on Mon
day, the 2-1th inst., for the purpose of nom
inatinga candidate to represent said conn
ties in the State Senate, and rlso to nomi
nate candidates to represent Philips countv
in the State Legislature.
The Convention was brougnt to order by
calling W.m. Keller, Esq., o be Chair
and appointing James Norton, Secretary
It was moved by II. A. Badlnm, that tin
Chair appoint a committee consisting o
one from each township, fA die purpose o
recommending to the convention a suitabk
oanJ;jo.10 iui* ilic State Senate ; whio.h mn.
tion was adopter]; w ho re upon the Chaii
appointed the following as su’d committee
L’Anguille Township—1>. Ewart.
L A. Badha*"
a to. C. Berry.
I)i .1. S. Sizer.
II.V. Goble.
W Burriss.
Wi. Cordell.
E. I. Gilbert.
Dr. Fraser.
Monroe county—Messrs. Crandenburg
i Harny and Eddings.
i The committee retired, ail in a shor
i time returned, and submittet through II
I A. Badham, the following reprt, viz:
We, the committee appoinfid to recom
1 tnend a suitable candidate fa Senator t<
' represent Phillips and Monro counties ii
l the next State Legislature, tae pleasure ir
, recommending to the conventm the name
of Thomas B. Hanly, of Phillipcounty, ant
i Benjamin F. Eddings, of Monoe county—
_ either of whom the committee ike pleasure
. in recommending as suitable endidates.
t Upon which a ballot took place, anr
. Thomas B. Hani.y having reeived a ma
. jority, was declared ejected a andidate foi
3 Senator.
i It was moved by S. A. Brandaburg, Esq.
; of Monroe county, that Thos.l. Hanlv be
1 declared the choice ot this Covetion, whicl
i motion was adopted unanimouy.
It was moved by Dr. Erase, that the
t committee appointed in behalfbf Phillip:
, county, to recommend a candidte for Sen
i ator, do now retire, and recomnend to this
. Convention suitable candidates a represent
said county in the next SuteLegislature
which was adopted.
1 lie committee retired, anejn 2 few min
utes submitted to the convenUnlhe name:
t ol Dr. George Jeffries and Baiy Kendall
f whereupon a ballot took plat, and they
. having received the unanimousrote of the
. convention, were declared dulylected.
It was moved and adopted tit the Secre
tary be requested to have theiroceedings
of this convention published inhe Helena
Bulletin and also in the DemoQtic papers
of Little Bock.
It was then moved that thronvention
adjourn, which motion was adoted.
VVM. KELLE, Ch’mn.
James Norton, Sec’y.
State vs. Peterson.—The lurt at Ral
' eigh were engaged on this ca all of yes
: terday and last night up to aite hour.—
■ What the result will be is noVet known;
i but it is supposed the jury will true in with
! their verdict this morning. L new fea
> tures were developed in the teimonv, dif
ferent from that given at the lamination
here last summer, nor was theiany rebut
: ting testimony of any weight 0:red by the
delendaill’s counsel. A more aring and
cold blooded murder never watomrriitted,
and there is great need ofanejnple being
j made by punishment to the eent of the
law, in this portion of the tate, that
will strike terror into the hearfof all such
evil doers.—-Memphis Enquirt'2% inst.
St. Francis, “
Walnut, “
Sen.:;;;;, “
Big Creek, “
Spring Creek, “
Independence, “
Richland, “
Planters’ “
From the Washington Republic.
Ihe States Rights Party and the Baltimore t
Convention. t
It is the boast ot the Democratic organs j
that the Secessionists ol the South have j
thrown down their arms, and now stand ,
prepared to support the action of the Na- ,
tional Convention. They do not surrendei .
the principle involved in the secession con
troversy, but acknowledge that this is not ,
the time to enforce it; and in order to hasten ,
the advent of a more favorable peiiod, the_\ ,
have enlisted under the banners of the De
mocracy, and mean to abide by the decis
ion of its delegates. The Mississippian,
which is known to speak aathoritatively in
their behalf says, “We stand prepared to
sustain the decision ol the Baltimore Con
venlion;” taking care, however, to insist
on the proviso that the said convention
shall avoid everything approaching to a
committal on the Compromise question.—
iSilence in regard to the Compromise is the
only condition insisted upon. It that be
complied with, the Mississippian and its
constituents will “sustain” the nomination
of the party, without reference to the pre
cedents or predilections of the nominees.—
The Natchez Courier thus comments on
the latitudinarianism exhibited in the an
nouncement of its State Rights neighbors:
“None can have forgotten that this same
Mississippian supported the action ot the
Nashville Convention. Its own emphatic
language was, that “it filled the hearts ot
its editors with rejoicing.” Prominent
among the recommendations of tiiat Con
vention was one ‘not to go into or counte
nance any National Convention to nomi
nate candidates for President and Vice
President, until our constitutional rights are
secured.’ The Mississippian will not ac
knowledge that such a consummation has
taken place, for it would then have to take
back every word that it lias said about the
iniquity of the Compromise of 1850, and no
paper has abused it and its authors more.
Even as late as last August it thus express
ed itself in reference to the coming Balli
more Convention:
“The time will soon roll round for the
assembling of another Baltimore Conven
tion, but we opine the Southern Democracy
have experienced enough of northern per
fidy to keep out of it. Hereafter let us take
counsel among ourselves.”
“In August, IS51, it was for sectional
organization of the Democracy; Northern
Democracy was perfidious; it would not go
into, much less countenance, a Baltimore
Convention. In April, IS52, it not merely
advocates its assembling, but it has also
managed to have State Rights Democracy
represented in it, and now pledges itself in
definitely to sustain its action! This strange
i abandonment of principle, this renunciation
• of sentimeant, this complete backing out,
is rendered the more memorable from the
fact that, to this day, the JJississippiaa is
opposed to that course which alone will
commit its Freesoil brethren in the nation
*-* 1 o rg anicutioMJ j to cl 11 0
convention of the finalitv
rnise as a t>ar'
able par
■at
ine Compro
,fc. . U1 lts platform. '{'ne repeaI.
oi me Compromise are those tliat
tavor the South, and therefore the South
will be the undoubted gainer by such an
addition; and yet the JMississippian is op
posed to the Baltimore Convention passing
upon the subject, or adopting it as a final
settlement of the questions embodied in it.
It desires the point to be untouched. It
recommends silence upon it. It wants no
new plank placed in the party platform.—
And yet it must know that without such an
addition the Freesoil Democracy of the
North will be uncommitted to their south
ern party associates. With a most singular
generosity an overweening confidence, it is
disposed to trust entirely to the mercy of
those whom it lately believed perfidious.—
A more ignoble instance of surrendering at
discretion is not upon record! The poor
privilege ol marching out with the honors
of war is not even asked for !”
To show how this undisguised abandon
ment ot principle is viewed by the honest
members ot the State Rights organization,
we take the following lrom a Democratic
journal, the Columbus (Miss.) Standard.—
It is an out-spoken protest against the lla
graut dishonesty of the compact entered in
to by the two sections of the party.
“It is now proposed to disband the State
Rights party in Mississippi. It is proposed
to say to the people of Mississippi, and of
the Union, that we have been playing a
m Kf>r.'lll!f3 ■ I n !■ < I l* »mn . I 1> 4 nil
our denudation ol the North was mere cant,
base hypocrisy, and was done alone to de
ceive the people and secure success—-ollice!
ollice! It is proposed to meet on terms of
disadvantage those very men we have
charged again and again with having aided
in not only wronging and defrauding, but
actually degrading tbe South. It is propos
ed to go into a convention, and again em
broil our party, sacrifice our principles, and
lor what/ That we may aid those who
have shown a willing diposition to sacrifice
our institutions to their ambition, to obtain
the very means—power to destroy us. If
the State Rights party is prepared for this
sudden change, and is ready to strike hands
without conditions with the North, for a
chance at the Presidency and the patronage
ot the Government, we are sincerely glad
to know that it is now, and hope it may
ever continue, in the minority. If it is so
corrupt and so degraded that it will meet
those in whom it has again proclaimed it
had no confidence, and prepare platforms
as fallacious as they are deceptive, and then
attempt to cheat the people into their sup
port, we think it fortunate that a Union
paity does exist capable ol controlling the
action of the State.
“Was it in (act a mere trick of party,
when the resolutions of the last November
Nashville Gonvention were applauded and
adopted in this State by the State Rights
press/ Rut we were, perhaps, a little^oo
quick in forming our judgment; for had we
delayed only twelve months we should
have had proof that it was all gammon.
• •If IS I1UL cl HCttawi**
i • fnrnieh a lesson so instructive
lothinc can turnisn a ie»uu .
o those who follow after us as the misera
.le shifts and open abandonment by that
,arty which has pretended to assume the
ruardianship of the institutions of the South,
o inculcate the doctrine of State Kigbts,
md a strict construction of the Constitution.
L'hose who propose to go into a convention
without conditions, with men who deny the
’edits of the States and war upon the msli
utions of the South, clearly abandon all of
he principles they pretended bound them
ogether to the guardianship ot their avow
’d loes.
“It really seems as though the South was
aot only bound to he defrauded and degra
Jed, but the party pledged to its support is
the very first to propose a coalition in
which she is necessarily bound to be the
sacrifice.”
Business Picture—‘Cl Great Country.''
—A new penny paper, the Sun, just start
ed in Cincinnati, gives the following picture
of the business ot that city:
“Here, at the landing—lying side by side
—are steamboats which have come from
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, Iowa,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana! Old
States and new States—slave States and
free States—Northern States and Southern
States—are all here lying quietly together,
in the friendly embrace of commerce. But,
look again; from what countries came these
cargoes of merchandise and produce? Is
it not one and the same# country? Here
are the products of the Alleghanies—the
grain of Ohio—the salt of Virginia—the
tobacco of Kentucky—the lead ol Missouri
— the iron of Tennessee—the cotton ol
Mississippi and Arkansas—the sugar and
molasses of Louisiana—and the rice of the
Carolines! And, what arc there returned
for them? Bacon for the negroes—sugar
mills for the planter—bread for the manu
facturers—oii and lard for all countries.—
Can the most active imagination conceive
of more elements of consolidation in nation
al interests, and of fervent patriotism in a
people? *
A young and beautiful, but poor widow,
was about to marry an old rich widower.—
Her friends wished to know what she was
about to marry him for? She feeling repli
ed, “Pure love—I love the ground (meaning
farm probably) on which he walks, and the
very house in which he lives.” There is
platonic love for you. There is none of
your school-girl foolishness in that.
masonic Celebration,
l iie Members of Hele
na Chapter, Xu. 5, and
Lafayette Lodge, No.
IG, Ancient York Mk
sons, will celebrate the
O ar.'.nversarv of St. John
the » .^f.0»;jUXE24TfI,
1 0,01-- C- l»
..» CSS o v ivCV.
p i
by a public procession. nmi
Bro. TUGS. n. VVELCIL
All transient brethren iri good standing
are cordially invited to participate with us.
JESSE A. JACKSON,
Helena, May 29—td Sc-c’v.
Notice for Sale of Negroes,
YUM IN1STR ATOR’S NOTiC1
Notice is hereby given to the
legal heirs of Alexander JM.
Blount, deceased, that the un
dersigned, as administrator of
the estate of said Alexander M. Blount,
will make application to the Judge of Pro
bate in and for the County of Phillips, at a
Court of Probate to be begun and held at
the Court-IIouse in and for the Countv of
Phillips, in the State of Arkansas, on* the
first Tue^lav after the third Monday in
July next, for an order of said Court au
thorizing him, as such administrator, to
sell the negroes belonging to said estate,
to-vvit: Lydia, \ iolet and Thornly, for the
purpose of paying debts allowed against
sa.id estate and for the purpose of making
distribution among the heirs thereof, when
and where you may appear and object if
you think proper.
RICHARD A. BLOUNT,
Administrator of Alex. M. Blount, dec’d.
Helena, Mav 22,1S52—l\v.
Oincial.
Department of State, )
Washington, April 2Gth, IS52. \
Information has been received from
Amos 13. Corwine, Esq., (J. S. Consul at
Panama, of the death in the hospital at
that place, of David Radaway, late of Do
ver, Polk County, Arkansas. Mr. Corwine
states that the deceased deposited the sum
ol one hundred dollars with him, out of
which his funeral expenses will have to be
paid.
May 15, 1S52. 3t
J® 111' P °hl Port \V ine, and French Brand v, in
Ironies; for Medical purposes, just received
and for sale, by HICKS & BUMPASS.
May 15.
T1IE FAST RUNNING STEAMER
mountaineer,
JJAVJNG changed hands and been thor
oughly repainted and repaired, stands a
iO' 1 m Memphis Insurance offices, and will
pl> between Memphis and Napoleon, touching
at Helena on her downward trips every Thurs”
day and Sunday evenings at G o’clock. Re
turning, leaves Helena every Saturday and
1 uesday morning at 5 o’clock for Memphis.
:/ F°r height or passage apply on board.
May 15, ’53—2m.
ACON SIDES A tine lot of Cincinnati
Bacon in store and for sale by
APr'l 24. F. F. HOWERTON.
BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER
Main street, opposite the Court-house, Helena.
august election.
For Clcilf.
RT We are authorized to announce R. H.
irEATES as a candidate for Clerk of the Cir
uit Court of Phillips county.
£3= We are authorized to announce EDW.
I. COWLEY as a candidate for Clerk of the
Jircuit Court of Phillips county at the next
Vugust election.
nr We are authorized to announce Mr. T.
[1. DAWSON as a candidate for the oilice of
Jlerk of the Circuit Court of Monroe county
it the next August election.
For Sheriff.
IT? - We are authorized to announce J.'.;
SHELL as a candidate for Sheriff of Phi...,>*
jounty at the next August election.
TO THE VOTERS OE PIIII.I.IPS COl'NTV.
I am a candidate for the otlice of Sheriff of
Phillips county, at the ensuing August election.
' ARTHUR THOMPSON.
RT We are authorized to announce W. E.
MOORE as a candidate for Sheriff of Phillips
county at the next August election.
We are authorized to announce W.\[,
BIYEN as a candidate for Sheriff of Phillips
county at the next August election.
For Constable.
53=We are authorized to announce .I AS. P.
W. TOLLESON as a candidate for Constable
of St. Francis Township. .
We are authorized to announce IL W*
ROBERTSON as a candidate for Constable
of St. Francis Township.
£3= We are authorized to announce JOHN
R. NIEL as a candidate for Constable of St.
Francis Township:
We are authorized to announce CHAS.
II. EDWARDS as a candidate for Constable
of St. Francis Township.
We are authorized to announce REU
BEN L. MORRIS as a candidate for Consta
ble of St. Francis Township.
First Arrival of Spring Goods.
WE are in receipt of of a small lot of elegant
dress goods, for the ladies—Capes, Collars, Lin
en-Cambric Hdks., Jewelry, Watches, &c.—.
Also fine black French cloths, Cassimers, Vest-.
ings. Kid gloves, &c.—Which we are offering
unusually low. HICKS&BUMPASS.
Helena, April 3, 1852.
PURE WATER.
A LL persons who have cisterns or design
having them, would do well to call on the
undersigned, who is prepared to make an iiu
provementthai will render the water much more
pleasant and wholesome, and at comparative
slight cost, when the advantages are consider
ed that will urine from this improvement.
AMOS OLIVER.
Helena, April 3, 1852, _^
NEW GOODS
n§1lIE undersigned have just received and arc
now opening a portion of their SPRING
and SUMMER GOODS, and expecting by the
next New Orleans Packet to receive the bal
ance ot their SPRING purchases, which will
make their assortment as full and complete as
lias ever before been offered in this market and
which they now propose to sell at reduced pri
ces. 1 hey respectfully invite Country Mer
chants, River Traders, and all other persons
wishing to huv (foods either at wholesale or
retail to call and examine their Stock before
purchasing elsewhere.
BAILEYS <fc HORNER.
Helena, March 27, 1852.
Desirahlo Town Property fer Sale.
f |§^HE undersigned being desirous to change
theirresiiler.ee tor one they are improving
near Helena, propose to sell the property situ
ate in New Helena, embracing three Town Lots
fronting on a continuation of Main street, Old
Helena, on which there is a line large dwelling
house, a large kitchen and servant’s room, a
store house, carriage house, stable, hen-house,
wood-house, &c., all in complete order, with a
loft over the latter for corn, fodder, <Vc.
On the premises is one ol the best cisterns ever
built in the Mississippi bottoms, good fences
and a variety of new and rare Shrubery. Not
contiguous to other buddings, which materially
enhances the value of Town property for a
residence. With a full view of the river, and just
far enough from the business part of Town for
a pleasant and heathful walk.
\\ e are anxious to sell, and offer a bargain;
title warranted; would prefer cash, or negro
property, but would give time to suit, if secured;
for further particulars apply to
WM. R. RIGHTOR,
for E. M. RIGHTOR.
March 13, 1852.
TINNING.
IIE undersigned have opened a SHOP in
Helena for the purpose of carrying on the
above business in all its various branches; and
" tlo all descriptions of work, and furnish
every sort ot 'I'IN-W Alii1] on as reasona
ble terms as any establishment of the kind in
Helena or Memphis. Roofing houses,guttering,
mending and every species of jobbing done in
our line upon the shortest notice and at reason
able rates.
^ Shop at the house formerly occupied by A
F. Odle, dec’d., as a residence.
J. & J. STALEY.
Helena, March 20, 1852.
JBAOON IIAMS—Sugar cured and plain
hams in store and for sale by
April 24._ F. F. HOWERTON.
A FRESH supply of Ohio FLOUR-,"also a
lot ol Dean’s WHISKEY, in barrels and
halt barrels, for sale by
Dec,20.3 BAILEYS & HORNER.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL Persons indebted to the old firm of
Deputy & Comfort, will please come for- ,
ivard and pay up, or their notes and accounts
nill be placed in the hands of an officer forcol
ection. DEPUTY & COMFORT.
Helena, May 8th, 1852.