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HELENA, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 187
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[WHOLE NUMBER 1357.
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a!..:,.i I'ireiot of Arkansas, consisting of the
! ten3«.SMUsSssipw’. Pibntsett aid Greene, and
leotion of claims. IeD‘°'
nr. L. AUGSPATH, Surgeon Dent
ist has returned to Helena, and "tiers his
professional services to the public.
1 Office in rear of C. M. Bumpass store.^
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at Law. Helena. Arkansas^ [aprlfi- itl.
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at Law. Helena, Arkansas._
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.. . 4 nnnsoii, Ofl'ers his
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DE SOTO.
Probably Discovery of His Body—An
Extraordinary Discovery.
From the Memphis Appeal.]
There is no. incident of the remote
past more interesting to the people ht
this citv than that which the mounds
at Fort Pickering suggest with vague
memories of De Soto and his armed
fellows. Here they are sanl to have
executed a treaty of peace with the
Indians, and traces of De Soto s march
are to be found north of the city, m
the vicinity of Fort Pillow. Very cer
tainly he was the first white man who
beheld the Mississippi, and, if we may
accept as true the story of a pnest who
accompanied him, De Soto’s body was
committed to the keeping of the great
river which has never ceased chanting a
sad requiem over his last resting place.
The recital that follows has direct ref
erence to these facts, and, therefore, is
well calculated to excite keen interest
among those who delight in recurring
to events of older times.
Sometime agowereaicum^nu, j
dent to the avocations of Capt. John
Cowdon, who devoted himself to the
task of dragging up wrecked vessels
from fathomless abysses among the
Mississippi. He has studied the pe
culiarities aud wonder of the mighty
river as none have done before. He
travels up aud down the island sea,
and ascends its tributaries aud studies
the shores and beds of streams, above
and beneath the water. His div ing
bell-boat is one of the curiosities ot
naval architecture, the like of which
was'never known before. It consists
of two flat boats, wholly unlike one
another, connected by heavy beams,
from which the diving bell is suspend
ed. With this rude machinery Captain
John Cowdon makes his endless voy
ages, and with this he dragged up not
loner ago from the bottom of the Ar
kansas, a locomotive and train of cars,
now running from Little Rock in the
direction of Fort Smith. We stated
tijat Capt, Cowdon was cognizant ol
facts which might lead to the recovery
of vast wealth resting beneath islands
everywhere along the course of the
mighty river. When a steamer sink*
anil is anchored at the bottom of the
river an island is formed by deposite.1
of samL»de bv_ the Jirol
Incomes the cu»>,
the grave of
_ i 4> +1
fheffe>at
constitutes
. • .v>ti\ it hft*
rivers sun*—-.
Then it is kissed by the sunbeam and
luxuriant vegetation, nch as hle-ng |
that nature lavishes «n this matdiles j
valley, crowns it with garlands of ver
dure Time rolls by, noiselessly, un
murmuring))', rt, <>"
terous billows of the mi0li J
Trees spring up and grow with a rap
idin known not elsewhere in the
world. There are countless forest
crow lied islands which owe existance
to simple facts here recited. Beneath
!>ne of these rests a steamer (we are not
permitted to give its name) on whmh
there are five hundred barrels of bran
dv and at least three hundred of whisky.
Within fifteen years, the chimneys of
this boat, wrecked in 1843, still Pro
truded above the island formed aboul
them. Capt. Cowdon often mark
ed this spot, aud non that he lia
ortmowhat, recovered from shocks give
his fortune by ^ar he proposes wm
vade the great ruiuhole of the dwelleis
at the 'bottom of the Mississippi. I
he enters this “ whisky chl^, "!j ^ ,^t
tv he will come up one ot the nehest
gentlemen in Memphis. Another
steamer in the Tennessee* was sunk
about thirty years ago, havmg $8°,W0
in gold in an iron safe on board, feu
rests beneath another island win
fowdou has often traveresed. Ior
several*1 weeks past Capt. Cowdon has
been making a survey of localities
which may contain uncounted wi?nlth
He has examined islands and the m e ,
shores about the mouth c> the M
sas, where he knows that valuable
wreck may be discovered.
While inspecting the water line
along the eastern shore, a short time
back he discovered the bow of a small
copper fastened vessel protruding into
thenver. Having no tools, and trav
ersing the river in a narrow “ dugout,
he could do no more than make a crit
ical examination of the boat and th
nlace where it was discovered, lie
observed that trees from five to seven
feet in diameter grew immediately
above the boat, and that the: roots o.
these gigantic cypre»™ " — “
about the ancient vessel, w hen boats
sink in some localities the cun-ent
drives or lifts .them up an inclined
‘line and a violent flood sometimes
leaves them above the river’s surface
on an island or sandbar. It
ever, as above stated, generally true
that islands are created by sunken ves
sel heavily freighted, and having; iron
machinery. The semicircular shape
of tliis boat, found a few days ago v
('apt. Cowdan, its high prow, its di
irtfcsions, twice as Sreat as those of a
modern yawl; its copper fastening,^
length of time it has rested beneath
the soil and water, as shown!i. the
mighty trees that stand aboi e it, thes«
ire facts winch have excited Capt.
Cowdon’6 leader » ft.
Who had such vessels on the M^s
I sippi before those great trees spian..
into existence 1 Three hundred yeais
ago De Soto’s body, at midnight, was
placed in a vessel, a Spanish built ves
sel (?) and sunk in the midst of tne
river. His soldiers fearing that their
enemies would assail them ifitweie
known that the great eliifftain was no
more. De Soto, so the old Spanish
chronicler, whose story is reproduced
by Irving, tells us, died near the mouth
of the Arkansas, and here Cowdon
discovered the boat which excited all
these surmises. There is more than
verisimilitude in this recital. Captain
Cowdon is in the city, and proposes at
an early day to return to the spot
where the supposed Spanish vessel is
buried. He has agreed to bring it to
this city, and if lie finds within it the
skeleton of a Hidalgo will not the name
of John Cowdon and that of De Soto be
inseparably linked together through all
coming? De Soto discovered the Mis
j sissippi, and became immortal. John
I Cowdon achieves infinitely a greater
! wonder in the discovery of De Soto.
Who doubts? —
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Ivj'j rKiiH UUJ.
Singular iielfictiou of a Murdcrtr.
As illustrating quick perception anti
rare presence of mind, Chamber's
Journal vouches for the truth of the
following story, which was originally
published in the guise of fiction :
Caroline G-, a good-looking,
finely proportioned young lady, lived
as lady’s maid with a fashionable young
widow, rather passe. One evening,
after having assisted at her mistress
toilet tor a dinner party, she assumed
herself, before putting away the vari
ous articles scattered about the room, in
| trying on a pair of silk stockings and
| dress shoes belonging to her mistress,
and having done so, she viewed her
I well turned limbs with complacency,
saving aloud: “There’s a leg for a
1 stocking, and there’s a foot for a shoe,
i Having satisfied herself as to their
| symmetry, she divested herself of hei
borrowed plumes, put the room to
rights, and awaited the return of her
; mistress* whom she saw into bed. That
\ was the last time she saw her ali\e.
i She was frnmrl tti the morning murder
! ed in her bed, the jewel case and plate
i chest broken open and robbed, the
| robber and murderer he'd left no ti.uc
Kv ^ Jiieh he could be captured, and m
most diligen^jLJMiUHP^
^W^TTroline
__ capacity by a
\adyN>. her to Paris. She had
almost fovgo^n the murder, and if she
i thought was not with any hope
; „r discovering le criminal,
i It happened that she was walking
1 in one ot meBuniic promenades one
afternoon, wheuas she passed a group
of men she bean these words:
“ There’s a lj for a stocking, and
there’s a foot fothoe.” In a moment
the events of thi evening before her
mistress was nildered Hashed on her
memory. Aid |w for her marvelous
presence of «nj Pretending not to
have heard awtlng she glanced side
ways at the fo 9 of men. She saw
there were thje,iut she could not tell
which of theriiatspoken. She walk
ed slowly pasihii, and then she sto’p
j ped in an uudiiB manner, and final
. ly turned bat id, walking up to
t them, she a$d to be directed to a
. certain street.Atdie expected, all of
them nau a wi or ner, ana among
the voices slibapy recognized the
one that had X token. Their lan
guage anil loohvrc both very free,
but she only to ten they were very
impertinent, at tit she would get
the informatidhejnanted from the
lirst gendarf sb met. She thus
averted susptn, i tley watched her
speaking to politnan. The next
difficulty w»w toitfonn a gendar
me what shunted; she had been
ouly a fortit in Fence, and knew
scarcely a wof Fret-li. She, how
ever, carriejtocket lictionary with
her, to asstn makng purchases,
auil as a is of acjuiring a little
French. Oover to a bench, she
sat down, -searchiie through the
dictionary tmnd tie words she
wanted, amthen wnto them with
a pencil only-leaf oi the dictiona
ry, The s*e ran qus : “ Gen
darme, je ibesoin out; arrctc ;
un meurita'he granmar was not
correct, as mines t> not teach
syntax, but idanue mderstood it,
, and in anoluneut lidd the mur
, derer in ld»p. IS was after
wards convjnd hunt on the girl’s
. testimoneyi
The dish be cowed by the
proposed calan Franisco to Chi
na is as foil From Bn Francis
co to the tcli Islasls, 2,080;
thence to ly Island, 1,141;
thence to >ma, Jajiii, 2,200;
thence to St, 1,035 riles. To
this is to fed oue-sith of the
whole to Hitute inl-s (1,080)
j and also tlifcwenty p< cent, al
lowance foln payingout cable
(1,580,) nifte total mgth re
' quired to coau Franaco, Cali
fornia, witlandwhicl Islands,
Japan, and,),221 mill.
The wagfcnlisted i<n in the
navy liaveiereased 1.50 per
month. Tlite has beeiextend
ed to masliiis, apolrearies, <
’ yeomen, pa$ writers i|l other 1
p j appointed ot ’ j j
U. S. TAX12S.
We abridge from the Cincinnati
Commercial a statement of charges in J
the tariff and tax laws wlrieh'will he ,
interesting to our readers. We will i
publish the changes in instruments 1
which have to be stamped during the ^
week.
The changes of internal revenue ,
taxes do noftake effect until the lxt of
October next, while the new tariff
rates do not go into operation until the
Is# of January, 1871. Hie stamp
taxes, therefore, and the old high du
ties on tea, coffee, &c., wlnaii we have
been living under so long, arc still in
force. Hut, after January next, the
duty on tea will be fifteen cents a
pound, instead ot twenty-five; that #n
coffee three cents a pound, in place of
live, molass^j five cents per gallon, in
stead of eight; sugar will be reduced
an average of one cent, per pound; and
dried fruits from five cents to two and
a half cents per pound. Here, we are
sorry to say, the relief to consumers of
staple commodities by the modified
tariff will stop.
The internal taxes which we shall be
wholly relieved from in October next
are as follows:
PRESENT TAX.
On carriages of every description,
$G to $10 each.
On watches, $ 1 to $2 each.
On billiard tables, $10 each.
On silver plate of all kind, 5 cents
per pound.
On gold plate, 50 cents per pound.
On boats, barges and Huts, $5 to $10
each.
On gross receipts, including those ot
railroads, steamboats, canal boats and
all other vessels, and stages, 2 1-2 pci
cent, of receipts.
On gross receipts of telegraph com
panies, femes, bridges and turnpikes.
per cent, of receipts.
On retail dealers, (license tax,) $11
each. , ,
On wbolesole dei (ers, cr those wlmsi
*aies ex,-.ef 1 $25,00 ‘ ,, yen-, ■&>»! etudt.
and $1 additional every $1,000 o
sales exceeding $50,000.
These taxes on sales ate all repeal
ml
.
On hanks .in,; 1 ta’
of $]/- ;,u, o\2j i 5*2 addition
al on every
$50,000.
capital above
v/H MIOIU/IOJ \ t'PoVTUVDV.) fill'll.
Hotel keepers, (license,) #10 to
#300 each.
Auctioneers and peddlers, (license,)
#10 to #30 each.
Claim agents^ insurance agents,
real estate agents, tpaten right dealers
and conveyancers ; #10 each*
Manufaeurers, (license,) #10 each.
Proprietors of theatres, circus and
concert halls, #100 each.
Proprietors of gift enterprises, #150
each.
Lawyers, physicians, architects and
builders, $10 each.
Express carriers and agents, $10
each.
Miners, photographers, apothecaries,
butchers and eating house keepers, #10
each.
All others now char gable with
license tax of an;/ kind, except dealers
in spirits and tobacco, arc exempted.
On bills and receipts, to any amount,
and on promisory notes for a less sum
than $100, (now paid by stamp,) 2
cents and 5 cents each.
All other stamp taxes are continued
in force.
\/ii aim successions, i* i w
$0 on every $100 of property devised
or inherited, according to the degree
of relationship. All repealed.
TAXES REDUCED.
On incomes exceeding $2,000, for the
years commencing January 1, 1870,
and January 1, 1871, 2 1-2 per cent.
The exemptions are, in addition to
$2,000, all taxes and interests paid
during the year, losses and bad debts,
rent or repaires on dwelling houses,
and amount paid for labor to cultivate
land, or to conduct any other business
from which income is derived. Tiiis
is the personal income tax. It is a
toh rabiy easy one.
Uii dividends of all corporations, for
the year 1871, including banks, rail
road companies, insurance companies,
trust companies, 2 1-2 per cent.
This tax to be paid by the compa
nies, who may deduct it in disburs
ing their dividends to individual
holders.
Such is a complete view of the ex
emptions and reductions of taxer under
the internal revenue system. The
ivhole constitutes a long step in the
right direction, of throw ing off burdens
upon industry and enterprise, and as
;he treasury can now spare the revenue
they have been yielding, they will go '<
nto effect not an hour too sooil.
The towns of Amphirsa and Gala/a- \
li, Greece, and several villages, have j
»een destroyed by earthquake. Many
lersons were killed and wounded.
A FAMOUS MURDER CASE.
In murders perpetrated by the rela
tives of the victim in order to get his
money or destroy his will, the tacts
which point to the assassins have often
been very slow in coming out. Of
this class was the case of Joseph
White, an aged, wealthy, and respecta
ble citizen of Salem, Mass., who was
killed by his young kinsman, Richard
Crowninshield, forty years ago.
Orowuinsliield, who sprang from one
of the most distinguished families of
Massachusetts, entered into a couspira
cy with his brother Geerge and his
two cousins, Frank and Joseph
Knapp, to kill the old gentleman to
destroy a will which cut them off from
the inheritance. At the dead ot night
Richard scaled the rear of Mi.
White’s dwelling, in which there was
no one except his victim and an infirm
housekeeper, stole into his sleeping
apartment, and murdered him in his
bed- The w ill was in a bureau in the
room, but was not carried off.
The public mind was shocked when
the deed became known, large rewards
were offered for the discovery of the
assassins, and for two months all Mas
sachusetts was in a flame of excite
ment. The Crowninshields and the
Knapps were not suspected until two
letters, written in a disguised hand,
were received by the Committee ot
citizens in Salem who had the case in
charge, the evident object of which was
to put the Committee on a false, scent.
These letters were finally traced home
to the Knapps, and led to their arrest
and that of the Crowninshields. Rich
ard Crowninshield was then indicted
as principal in the murder, and the
other three as accessories.
In the various trials which subse
quently took place, the proof showed
that Richard alone perpetrated the
dreadful act, while Frank Knapp was
at the same time skulking in an ob
scure street at the rear of the house,
and about 300 feet from it, in sight of
the windows through . which Richard
had entered, and of the chamber w here
the old man lay.
11 WiMS UK' I
tion to try Richard as the principal,
ami his brother and the two Knapps as
accessories. Rut Richard knew that,
, |-according to the law of honwitUv »c
fjcessories could not even be put on
their trial until there had been a con
- victiou of a principal. While in jail
- under the indictment as principal,
his was
i i' i i
hopeless,
thereby to save thetbnse confodemf^P
Ilis death frustrated the plan of the
prosecution, and made it necessary to
recast their programme. Frank Knapp
was then indicted as principal, and the
others as his accessories.
Frank was put to the bar, and the
great struggle commenced. Daniel
Webster led for the Commonwealth
and Franklin Dexter for the prisoner,
several other of the leading lawyers of
the State being engaged on both sides
of the case. The contest is memorable
in criminal jurisprudence. To convict
Knapp as principal, when the proof
showed that he was not present at the
murder, but was remote from the house
when it was committed, taxed the
highest powers of Webster. The
common law and statutes of Mas
sachusetts provided that to he a prin
cipal in a murder a party must he
present when the deed was done, and
commit the act himself, or aid and
abet him who did.
n,is meu twice, me jury dis
agreeing at the first trial. Mr. Web
ster contended that Knapp was in the
adjoining street for the purpose of em
boldening Crowninsbield to strike the
blows, to keep watch, and ready to aid
him, if need be, in case of extremity ;
and he was able to convince the jury
at the second trial that this was, within
the meaning of the law, being present
and assisting Crowninsbield in the
murder. Mr. Webster’s address to
the jury is published in the earlier
volumes of his speeches, and is a mod
el of its kind. Ilis comments upon
the term “ being present ” are subtle
and eloquent, but are believed to strain
the law to its utmost tension.
The suicide of Crowninsbield was
in vain. Knapp expiated his crime
upon the scaffold. Hut it has been
the opinion of many able jurists that
the law did not warrant his conviction,
and that lie fell a victim to the excited
state of the public mind and the over
powering eloquence of Daniel Web- ,
ster. ilis brother, Joseph Knapp, was
afterwards convicted as his accessory,
and executed. There has never been any
questisu, however, that it was the
foolish attempt to mislead the Salem
Committee by false information through
simulated letters which led to the de
tection of Frank Knapp and his fel
low-conspirators. Their hearts were
not sufficiently schooled in crime to en
ible them to keep their fatal secret.—
X. lr. Sun.
A Pennsylvania preacher has re- j
•eived the past year for preaching, a j
•urry-coinb, a keg of vamisli and a !
lozen clothes pins, and yet lie com
dains. Surely a man of moderate ap
letite ought to be able to keep soul
tnd body together with a dozen clothes
tins, let alone the curry-comb and j
arnisli, which are mighty handy to
lave in a house, the one to curry fa
or, the other to make his prospects
ook bright.
No truth is ever your enemy.
A great deal is saiu aooui, me
mtrailleurs or mitrailleuses which
he French people propose to employ in
he war. This apparatus is a sort of
coffee-mill gun. We had several of
he kind in the rebellion. A number of
large rifle barrels are either grouped
around a centre or arranged side by
aide upon a horizontal plain. These
barrels are loaded at the breech by a
mechanical arrangement which sup
plies the cartridges. The loadidg and
firing are done by turning a crank.—
Such is the general character of the
mitrailleur. As our military readers
will prcceive, it is similar to the Gat
ling gun and one or two others whose
names we do not remember. When
Col. Charles II. Van Wyck led to the
war the regiment from Sullivan county
and Green county, lie bad with him
one of these machines. Gen. B. F.
Butler was also very much tickled
with them, he used to keep one or two
at his headquarters at Bermuda Hun
dreds to lire towards the enemy as a
sort of professional diversion. As an
offensive weapon these machines are
of no practical value; but experts are
of opinion that they might be very use
ful for the defence of a fortified place
against a strong party, where they
could be tired at close range upon a
mass of men. It will, however, be as
tonishing if they prove to hoof any ae
! count iii ordinary battles.
Growth of Population.—In
view of the census just ordered by
Congress, the following figures will be
of interest to our readers:
At the taking of the last census in
1800, the population of the United
States was 31,443,321. And it was
then estimated by the census bureau
that in 1870 the country would contain
42 328 432, in 1880 a population of
47’ ir,0,241, in 1890 a population of
54 450,241, and in 1900 the vast aggre
gate of 100,355,812, when the United
States would embrace but 28 inhabi
tants to the square mile, whereas the
State of New York has already 94,
and Massachusetts 173. Were the
whole country peopled as Massachu
setts is it would have within its bor
ders no less than 019,000,000, souls,
constituting a nation incomparably
transcendeng the greatest empire of
ansiaW. -01 modern times. Elkanah
Watson, Benjamin Stanklin’s friend,
made out a table of estimated
lion for every decade up to the ye
1900, and his estimates have thus fa:
held £<x>d. He predicted that jin 1900 our
population would be a round hundred
Urns
I 'troK ta^^^^TSTover y.—The
cancer lias long been a disease beyond
the power of the physician. Its treat
ment has been empirical and unrelia
ble. The remedies employed have
been painful, dangerous, and almost
always unsuccessful. Under the cir
cumstances, a discovery of a new
method of treating cancer will be hail
ed with general satisfaction by patients
and phsicians. At the recent annual
meeting of the new Medical universi
ty, Professor Scott read a paper in
which he stated that repeated experi
ments had demonistrated the marvel
ous efficacy of the application of chlor
ide of chromium—a new salt of this
rare metal incorporated into stramoni
um ointment. This preparation in a
few hours converts the tumor into per
fect carbon, and it crumbles away.—
The remedy causes no pain, and is not
poisonous. It promises to alleviate
much human misery, and we call the
attention of the entire profession to the
fact of its discover}'.
How to be Nobody.—Young
man it is easy to be nobody. Go to the
drinking saloon to spend your leisure.
You need not drink much now—just a
little beer, or some other drink. In
the meantime play checkers, dominoes
or something else to consume time;
then you will be sure not to read any
useful book; or if you do read let it be
the “ dime novels ” of the day. Thus
go on keeping your stomach full, head
empty and yourself playing timekilling
games and in a few years you will be
nobody, unless you should turn out to
be a drunkard ora professional gambler,
either of which is worse than to be
nobody.
Cone in Man or Horses.—I
will give you the simplest and best
remedy for colic in man or horses, I
ever tried. For a horse, give a tea
cup full of flour (wheat flour) in a black
bottle, filled with water, dissolve the
flour by shaking the bottle, and drench
the horse. It will generally cure in
five to ten minutes. For a man, give a
table-spoonful of flour in a glass (tum
bler) of cold water. My word for it he
will never take any other remedy.
New Use For Cats.—A corves
pendent of the Maine Farmer lias a
new use for cats. He says: “My
way to cure a sulky steer that lies down
when you first yoke him, is to take a
cat and let her put her paws on the end
of the steer’s nose, aud, if necessary,
hold her rather hard. My word for it,
he will be on his legs quick.”
Misbehavior in the house of worship
shows a want of common respect and
decency ; hardens the heart, sears the
conscience, meets the frowns of the
Almighty. It is a disgrace to parents,
and shows how greatly and wickedly
they have neglected parental discip
line.