CWW G XVIII O « X
EDITED ami 1‘llil.is I D BY ALBEKT PIKE.
VOli. VII.
LITTLE HOCK, (AHI* .) DECE>lBEfi i)
umtKsx.
1836.
No. :i<$.
This Paper is published every Friday, at three dol
i,ars per annum, payable in advance—or four dollars
at the end of the year.
No subscriber will be considered as paying in advance
unless payment be made previous to the receipt of the se
cond number.
No paper will be discontinued, (except at the c.iscre
tion of tile Editor,) until all arrearages ha ve been paid.
0^*Letters addressed to the Editor must bepost-piid
or they will not be attended to.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.—Nine lines or un
der, first insertion, one dollar—each continuance fie
TT CENTS.
Advertisements which exceed one square uy two lines
will be charged as two squares.
Advertisements of personal altercation will viva
riahli/ be charged at douhle the loregoing rates.
When the advertisements of any person advertising
by the year exceed, in any one number, one fourth o:
a column, the excess will bo charged at the common
rates.
All advertisements sent to this office for publication,
without the number of insertions being specified, will be
continued until forbid, and charged accordingly.
Persons who commence advertising by the year, will
be expected to continue at least six months, or they will
be charged at the ordinary rates of advertising.
Ij a T E S T a 11 R IVAL G F
HEW @003)3.
WILLIAM II. WAIT has just received, direct from
Nevv-York, a large and general assortment ol
FALL AND WINTER GOODS, consisting in part
of the following articles viz :
Red, green and white Mackinaw and French blankets:
red, green, white, yellow, twilled, colored Canton and
figured Salisbury flannels ; satinets; blue and mixed
kerseys; 3-4, 4-4 and 5-4 brown and bleached sheet
ings ; red and mixed linseys ; indigo checks ; chambrays
fancy, twilled, mourning, blue prints ; blk and col’d Cir
cassians ; 13-4 Marseilles quilts ; birdseye and 8-4 di
aper ; Irish long lawns ; blk silk and fancy velvet vest
ings; silk and cotton umbrellas ; cambric, jaconet, stripe
plaid, figured and plain Swiss, mull and book muslins
furniture and cambric dimity; wide gros de Swiss; Italiai
lustring: col’d gros de Naps ; white, pink, col’d blue
black and rich figured Poult de Soie ; senshaw and col
ored Florence silks; thread edgings: fancy dress am
merino hdkfs ; printed Thibet wool, 4-4 and 5-4 merino
5-4 and 6-4 raw silk, and 8-4 scarlet silke shawls: ladies
kid, white lace, silk and white linen gloves ; gent’s buck
skin, castor, hoskin, white kid and white linen gloves
ladies’ emb’d silk, merino, lambswool, fancy and white
ribbed cotton hose ; children’s mixed and scarlet hose
India rubber aprons; ladies’ super damask and plain
merino cloaks ; sea otter, for, hair and seal caps, and lur
collars.
Ready-Made CletMng-, viz:
•Camblet cloaks ; blue and green blanket, Petersham and
Flushing' coats ; blk and blue cloth, cassimere, satinet,
kersey and Flushing round-jackets ; bid and white satin,
white Marseilles and painted velvet vests ; drab, black
beaver and silk hats ; men’s thick pegged, russet, kip
anJ calf brogans ; boy’s sewed and peggd brogans; call
boots ; calf navy ties ; shoes, pumps and slippers ; ladies’
white and black satin, kid and prunella slippers ; moroc
co and leather shoesrprunella, gaiter and leather boots.
Also, assortment of Hardware, Queens and Glassware.
(Jlitl£}'j , 2.12(1 Pistols.
Groceries.
Havana coffee ; New-Orleans, white Havana and loal
sugars; sugar-house molasses; mackerel, pickled salmon,
sperm oil, rice ; white and brown soap ; Brown’s No. 1
honey-dew, Bonn’s sweet-scented Roanoke loaf, and
Kentucky tobacco ; fine cut do.; bunch raisins; chocolate,
Madeira nuts, filberts and almonds ; lemon and raspber
ry syrups; gunpowder and young hyson teas ; champagne
and cognac brandy; champagne, Tencriife, Madeira,
Muscat, sweet Malaga and claret wines ; old Irish whis
key ; New-Orleans rum ; sweet oil; patent mould can
dles ; candies, assorted ; indigo ; copal varnish, camphor,
&c.
Q^jrThe above articles, and many others not enumer
ated—making his assortment complete—will be sold low,
for cash.
Little Rock, Oct. 17, 1836.
DOCTOR DAVID HOLT,
HAVING permanently located himself, offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of Little Rock and
its vicinity. He hopes, by strict attention, to merit a
share of public patronage.
His shop is in the new white house in Major Peay’s
row of buildings, and adjoining the Times Office.
July 19, 18;36.—-16-tf
In tho Circuit Court in and for tlie County of Arkansas,
State of Arkansas, at the June term, A. J). 1836.
Makia Verdeel, by her next 1
friend, William Sexton, f In Chancery.
vs. ( Petition tor UivorcO:
Thomas W. Yerdell. }
A ND now on this day came the plaintiiTby her attor
-ljL ney Freeman, and the defendant, though solemnly
called, came not, and it appearing to the satisfaction oi
the Court that the said Thomas W. Yerdell is not a resi
dent of this Territory, it is ordered by the Court that an
alias summons be issued in this case, returnable to the
next term of this Court, and that the same, together with
this order, be published in some newspaper published in
this I erritory for six weeks previous to the next term ol
this Court, requiring the said defendant to be and appear
at the next term of the Circuit Court for the county ol
Arkansas, to be holden at the Post of Arkansas on the
first Monday of December next, and plead, answer or de
mUn k° hiH in this case filed, or the same
will be taken as confessed against him, and decreed ac
cordingly.
A true copy. Test,
I). Cl. W. LEAVITT, Clerk
of At K ansas Comity.
United States of America,')
State of Arkansas, . ss.
County of Arkansas. ^
To the Sheriff of Arkans is County, Greeting:
YOU are hereby commanded, as heretofore, to sum
mon Thomas W. Yerdell, if he be found in your
bailiwick, to appear before the Judge of our Circuit
Court, at the Court-house in the county aforesaid, on the
first day of our next tern:, it being the first Monday ot
December next, then and there to answer unto Maria
V erdell, by her next friend, William Sexton, in a petition
for a divorce, and that you make due return of this writ
to our said Circuit Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
rny hand as Clerk of said Circuit Court, and
affixed the seal of office, this 14th day ol
November, A. D. 1836, and of the Indepen
dence of the United States the sixty-first
year.
I>. «. W. LEAVITT, C>crk.
33-Cw-pr’s lee £17 50.
THE YOUNG WIDOW.
Yc bid me mingle in the dance,
And smile among the young and gav_
Ye say that grief will dun my glance,
And turn my raven tresses gray : I
I care not; yet I strive to bo\\°
in meekness to my lonely fate—
I dry my tears and smooth my brow,
The while my heart is desolate.
Y hen last I joined the festive throng,
I heard—it seemed my brain to scar—
A stranger breathe the very song
r That first he warbled in my ear. i
The words, the tune, but ah! that tone
What living lip could imitate!
Mid laughing crowds I stood alone,
Unutterably desolate.
I miss him by the evening hearth,
1 miss him at the silent meal,
But keenest in the bower of mirth
My joyless solitude 1 feel.
Hut late 1 saw a happy bride
Smile fondly on her wedded mate,
Yv bile 1—oli! would that I had died
With him who left me desolate.
\e speak of wealth—in Mammon’s mart
There's not a single boon I crave;
Gold cannot heal the broken heart,
Nor bribe the unret.uniiiig Brave:
It cannot fill the vacant seat
Where once my honored husband sate,
Nor still my heart’s convulsive beat,
Nor make my home less desolate.
Alas! the base on which we build
Hope’s fairest fabric is but air,
And laughs the heart when God has willed
To lay his chastening linger there.
A brighter, happier dream than mine
Did never love and hope create;
I bowed before an earthly shrine,
And Heaven has left me desolate.
And yot not so—my soul be calm—
The hand that smiteth will sustain:
Thou hast a helper on whose arm
The mourner never leaned in vain.
Oh! may that arm the pilgrim guide
By the straight path and narrow gate,
To where the loved in bliss abide,
And hearts no more are desolate.
Hyperborean Cold.—The New York Commer
cial extracts from Captain {Jack’s narrative of tin
Arctic expedition, some very carious illustrations ol
the severity of cold endured by himself and his com
panions. Sulphuric ether, in’u tightly stopped bottle,
became opaque in fifteen minutes, and deposited a thick
sediment, and the upper surface of the sides of the
bottle was coated with ice. Met cury 62 degrees be
low zero. Being removed to the house, and placed
within four and a half feet of a brisk lire, the ether was
42 minutes in recovering its transparency. Temper
ature of the room 32 degrees above*zero. ’ Nitric ether
lost its transparency in two hours. A drachm and u
halt of sulphuric ether being placed in a bottle and ex
posed to the cold, out of the house, until it became
thick, the stopper was withdrawn and a match applied,
when the ether ignited with a sharp explosion. .Pyro
ligneous acid trozo inr less than half an hour. Mer
cury 27 degrees below zero. .Rectified spirit, diluted
with an equal quantity of water, froze in the same time.
Rum became thick in a few minutes. Two parts of
pure spirit, diluted with one of water, froze solid in
three hours, mercury 65 degrees below zero. A sur
face of mercury, in u saucer, became solid in two
hours. In a small roam, a fire of eight large sticks of
dry wood could only raise the temperature to 12 de
grees below zero, and ink and paint froze in this room.
Cupt Back placed his table as near the lire as he could
bear the heat, yet his camel’s hair pencil was frozen
to a slid point, and lie had to give up his drawing.
Cases and boxes of seasoned fir, split so as to be use
less. The skin of the hands and face cracked into I
unsightly and painful gashes, which they were obliged ,
to till with grease. Uii one occasion Capt Back wash- j
ed his face and head, standing within three feet of the
fire, and his hair actually became stiff with ice before
he could dry it.—Boston Transcript.
The Russian Soldier.—The Russian when dis
ciplined become excellent soldiers. They are locomo- J
live machines, which may be moved in any direction !
at the will of the officers. The Russian soldier has
no opinion of his own—his passive obedience and abili- [
! Ill oj suffering under protracted physical mconvenien- j
ces, are almost unexampled. lie conceives it to be I
his duty to obey kis officers under any circumstances,!
regardless of peril, or even death. Many anecdotes I
might be related to illustrate the blind obedience of the I
Russian soldier. The following is from a work en
| tilled Resources of Russia :
“Peter the Great at an interview with the kings of
Denmark and Poland, hearing them boast of the su
periority of their soldiers, instead of disputing the point [
j with them, proposed an experiment which was irnme- ,
diately assented to, and which was, to order a grena- j
dier to jump out ofa third floor window. The king of.
Denmark tried the experiment on one of his bravest j
and most loyal soldiers, who on his knees refused coin- j
pliance. The King of Poland waved the trial alto- |
gether, conceiving it to be hopeless ; when Peter or-j
dered one of his soldiers, the least promising that could ;
be picked out, to descend the window. The soldier ;
merely crossed himself, touched his hat according to j
: form, boldly marched to the window and had already !
I one of his legs out, when the emperor stopped him, and !
! told him he was satisfied. The kings were astonish
i ed, and each made the soldier a present of 100 ducats i
j requesting Peter to promore him to the rank of officer, j
j The Czar answered that he would do so to oblige them, I
| but not to reward the soldier ;—for all his soldiers i
would do as much, and by rewarding them in the same
! way he would have no soldiers at all.”
Sir Robert Wilson in his ‘Campaigns in Poland,’ re- j
j lates that on one occasion a detachment being order- j
! ed by Prince Potemkin to take possession of a particu- !
lar post, was met on the way by another detachment j
j in full retreat, and bringing the information that the
post was already pre-occupied by a numerous enemy, {
j and that to advance was a certain death: ‘Prince j
| Potemkin must look out for that/ exclaimed the gallant j
; hand, and proceeded to destruction :—for not a single ;
i man escaped.
From the Salisbury Watchman.
THE ROUND ROBIN.
One of the very best legal stories we know of, is that
of the round Robin, as it is familiarly called, in the low
circuits of North Carolina, and owes its humor to the
fertile and cultivated mind of a lawyer who is still alive,
but in a distant Western State. All the lawyers at
tending court about the year 1810, boarded at the house
of Mr. B-, who at the beginning of Ins life, as a
publican, was assiduous and provident, but riches mul
tiplied, and Boniface became lazy, crusty, and parsi
monious. His accommodations, ns they are usually
called, from being the very best had by degrees degen
erated into the very worst in the whole country. This
was borne with muttering from time to time, until in a
fit of desperation, the whole fraternity of lawyers after
mature deliberation ‘in Congress assembled,’ resolved
to quit the house, and go to another in the same vil
lage. The duty of announcing the separation devolved
on the gentleman above specified ; who being some
what struck with the mock importance the affair had
assumed, wrote the following and sent it to the land
lord, signed with the names of all the secedents in a
round ring below :
“A DECLARATION.
“When in the course of human events it becomes
necessary for a hungry, half-fed, imposed-on set of
men, to dissolve the bonds of the landlord and board
er, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind, re
qn|vpg th**t thew should doclurc (he clinic > vvliich huVc
impelled to the seperation.
“We hold these truths to be self evident; that all
men are created with mouths and bellies ; and that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights, which are that no man shall be compelled to
starve out of mere complaisance to a landlord ; and
that every man has a right to fill bis stomach and wet
his whistle with the best that’s going.
The history of the preeentjandlord of the White Li
on is a history of repeated :nsults, exactions, and inju
ries, all having in direct object the establishment of ab
solute tyranny over our stomachs and throats. To
prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused to keep any thing to drink but bald
face whiskey.
lie has refused to set upon his table for dinner, any
!hing but turnip soup, with a little bull beef and sour
crout; which are not wholesome and necessary lor the
public good.
He has refused to let his only waiter, blink eye Joe,
put more than six grains of coffee to one gallon ol
water.
He has turned loose a multitude of fleas, and swarms
oi ut-uuugs 10 assail 113 111 me peacetui Hours ot night,
and to eat out our substance.
lie has kept in our beds and bedsteads standing ar
mies ol these merciless savages, with their scalping
knives and tomahawks, whose known rule of warfare
is undisguised destruction.
He has excited domestic insurrections among us by
tretting drunk before breakfast, and making his wife and
servants so before dinner, whereby there has been the
devil to pay.
He has waged cruel war against nature itself by
feeding our horses with broom straw and corn stalks,
and carrying them to drink at puddles where swine re
fused to wallow.
He has protected one eye Joe in all his villainy, in
the robbery of our jugs, by pretending to give him a
mock trial after sharing with him the spoils.
A landlord whose character is thus marked by every
act that may define a tyrant, is unfit to keep a board
ing house for Cherokee Indians.
Nor have we been wanting in our attention to Mrs.
B-, and Miss Sally; we have warned them from
time to time of the attempt of B-, to starve and
fleece us. We have reminded them of the circumstan
ces of our coming to board with them—we have appeal
ed to their justice and magnanimity—we have conjured
them to alter a state of things, which would inevitably
interrupt our connexion and correspondence. They
too, have been deaf to the voice of justice. We are,
therefore, constrained to hold all three of these parties
alike inimical to our well being, and regardless of our
comlort.
We, therefore, make this solemn declaration of our
final separation from our former landlord, and cast our
definance in his teeth.”
The subjoined, from the Baltimore Visitor, is strict
ly true to the letter,—the tried experience of 14 years
can attest to its accuracy. There is no practical print
er that read.-) it, but will leel its lorce arid graphical fi
delity, as well as ourself. For our own sake, we wish
the writer had riot omitted foremen on morning papers;
(those wearied watchers of ihe rising sun,) but also
enumerated the sumraurn bonum of their daily miseries.
As to the pressman, (another adjunct of the much lau
ded art,) he is a hale hearty fellow, when contrasted
with foremen or compositors on a daily periodical.
“Premature old age” is not his inheritance: his “sight
does not fail” nor is his “touch deadened.” His em
ployment, on the contrary, braces the nerves arid invi
gorates the whole system; but we had better stop,—
our thoughts begin to run in un envious channel! No,
no: the pressman’s is not the easy task we were about
to picture it, after all!
We recommend the attentive perusal of this article
to correspondents, authors and editors, some of whom
we have often inwardly wished, for our own Job like pa
tience and their benefit, had been subjected to half a
score months tuition in penmanship, at the seminary of
the Messrs. Dolbear.—Louisiana Advertiser.
MISERIES OF A COMPOSITOR—BY ONE.
Wp hear a good deal of the miseries of editors, but
never of these of their humble coadjutors, the compos
itors; nevertheless the latter have their grievances, and
the philosophy and temper with which they are borne,
are in striking contrast to the irritable petulance of their
superiors of the quill.
By your leave Messrs. Editors. I will enumerate a
few of the more manifold of Ihe compositor’s miseries.
The employment of a compositor is of a two-fold na
ture, mechanical and mental. He commits to memo
ry as much of his copy as can readily be retained by
once reading over, and then proceeds to pick up the in
dividual letters of which this portion is composed, at
tending at the same time, to the punctuation, spelling
and grammar. To do this successfully, requires un
divided attention, a quick eye, a ready hand and untir
ing patience. Under the most favorable circumstan
ces, this labor brings a compositor to a premature old
Ege—-h:s tight fails, his hand becomes tremulous, tbs
! sense of touch dulled, and the nerves lose their quick
ness and energy. This, with but lew exceptions, is
the necessary and invisible result of his employment.
Hut, in addition to this, he is subject to many miseries
from the ignorance, the caprice, or the carelessness of
authors.
j The composite* has a certain number of squares ex
acted from him as a day's work; (his is expected,
whether his copy be clear or obscure, legible or illegi
ble, punctuated or not. Lpon these circumstances his
earnings—his bread depends ; and common humanity
! vvo,)hl dictate to authors that their rnini.su rins servant
tf>e compositor, should be assisted us much ns possible
j in nis bumbo: labors lor their present fume and future
honor.
Illegible copy is, perhaps, the compositor's greatest
misery, as it is frequently found in combination with
every fault. Thi* is a universal failing, of which the
liteiale and illiteiate are alike guilty——iu the former it
; is inexcusable. Another grievous fault in authors is
the attempt to give force to a feeble style, and clear
ness to nn obscure one, by the frequent introduction of
; italic words. I his spoils the appearance of the print
| ing, is alike insulting to the taste and discrimination of
the reader, and is a sore evil to the purse of the poor
compositor, as the italic case is olUn in a distant part
o! t ic o!hee. I bis misery tries the temper more than
i the illegibility, though not so serious in its results—the
! former may nrise from incapability, the latter always
| from presumption and bad
Another fault ot third rate authors, and alas! for the
! compositor, they are by far the most numerous, is con
j buually insulting the capabilities of the King’s Knglish
with scraps of foreign language*. This is the trick
j of the shallow pedant, who mistakes the acquisition of
languages lor knowledge, and the display of them for
wisdom. Its chief effect upon the compositor is, that
■ it every letter, accent, and dipthonp, b* not legibly
marked, he makes mistakes; Ins besotted ignoTiiHCt is
such that the connection is here no aid to him. Ono
! more misery, and we have done with the dolorous oat
! alogue. Homo authors (and their name is Legion, for
j they are many) cannot tell how a sentence will read
(ill they see it in print—then, indeed, its errors are
palpable, and they alter and amend with great zeal and
pel severance, not retlccting that lliese alterations cost
the compositor trouble, time, health and temper. O
those numerous perpetrations, which are the result of
sheer ignorance, not rendered offensive by conceit or
! presumption, and which (alls to the compositor’s lotto
j shape into form and comeliness, w e take no notice;
i they are evils inseparable from its condition, and nro
=i«iu.-ii-inijr amusing id compensate in some
! measure, tor (lie loss they occasion,
i ^ author whom the printor delights to honor, is
| one who writes legibly, with but few erasures or inter*
: hriiations; whose punctuations is systematic, and may
always be depended upon; whose style is not inverted
and unnatural, but flowing and easy, and readily re
j boned in the memory; who uses italic sparingly; for*
oign languages never; and who makes no alterations
! from copy in the proof sheet; such a man is the glory
and pride of the printer; in him he sees no faults; the
i broad mantle of bn merits covers ail minor defects, and
though his principles may be abominable, and his pur
. poses detestible, he is at last sure of a good word from
the compositor. (i. p****^.
| A Sunday occurrence. —We delight in religious wor
j ship, when we can tied it observed in its original sim
! plicity, unconlamimtted with the gorgeous trappings,
and ostentatious ceremonials with which more modern
I innovations have trammeled the simple devotion of tho
heart. This unfashionable notion of ours frequently
leads us to tarry at those primitive assemblages which
are to be found, every pleasant sabbath, congregated in
j the open air on the decks of some of the thousand ships
\ lying at the wharves; and at which we have, on more
than one occasion, heard more plain, practical exposi
tions of the religious and moral duties of man towards
his fellows and his maker, than at any of the luxurious
| and splendid places ostensibly devoted to religion, but
more really to pride and worldly display, with which our
city abounds.
At a conventicle of this character, assembled on Sun
' day afternoon last, on board a vessel lying at Coenties
Slip, we formed one of a congregation of perhaps two
‘1 *VJIU iiMUUIIJg lU (lie UI8UUUI9U U1 a [>(<1111
i spoken and zealous expounder of the fourth command
rnenf. A fellow sat on the stern of the next vessel,
with a line in his hand, making double use of his time
by listening with his ears to the preacher’s expound
ings of the law, and vvitli his hands doing constant vio
lence to the same, by plying his vocation of angling;
albeit, though be was constantly hauling up and bait
ing his hook, he caueht no fishes. The fact was ob
served by the preacher, and he sought to improve it as
an illustration of his assertion that no man was ever the
better off tor laboring cn the sabbath. “My friends,
(said he,) Providence in his wisdom has placed before
your eyes a living evidence of his indignation against
the violation of this most righteous commandment.—
i here, observe that sabbath breaker. I Ie has been sit
ting there more than an hour, constantly bobbing and
baiting, but it has done him no good. The Lord wont
let him catch any fish 1” “ Not as you know on, Mis
j ter,” replied the fisherman, as at the moment, unfor
tunately for the [fructical illustration of the preacher, he
hauled up an enormous eel, that hung dangling from
his hook. “Never halloo till you’re out of the woods,
Mr. Minister. A hungry eel, like a hungry man, will
bite when he’s hungry, bun day or no (Sunday, Mr.
Minister; and the big book tells us of belter men than
i you or me either, Mr. Minister, who caught fish and
and made free with cornfields too, when they had a
a sharp appetite, without stopping to enrpiire whether it
was Sunday or Saturday.” Having delivered himself
of this rejoinder to the honest preacher’s unlucky illus
tration, the fisherman rebaited his hook and casting it
into the water, continued his angling. In the mean
time, a loud and general laugh at the oddity of the oc
currence arose among the assenblage; but as we felt
in no mood to join in it, we left the preacher to get along
with his unlucky “ living evidence” as best he might.
Singular Thought.—The Philadelphia Saturday
News says, that the architect of one of the prisons in
that city, was lately told by a prisoner that he did not
know his business, or be would not have built the cells
: for solitary confinement square, for said he, there is
■ something to break the monotony—there is a corner
upon which I can fix my eye, it is an object. Had
you made them round I should have gone craiy in
' a w eek.