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• P* I • .. . _ j Dfuflteii to Hems, politics, Igrinilfnrr, J>oml progress, fth it ttf tutoring, Cuimnerrinl intelligente, Imnseinent, &r. ni'P.I ISlll’,1) EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT l)ES ARP, PRAIRIE ('OtoNTY. ARKANSAS. BY J. C. MORRILL. TERMS-12 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE! I "VOLUME V. DES ARC. AliKANSAS, MAY 4. 1H.V.). NL'MIiER ‘26. the des arc citizen. TERMS — *3 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. fifty numbers making a volume. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertising.—One square (10 Jinn, of this size type) for one insertion, *1; ..;,ch additional insertion, 50 cents. _ --j m. | 2 m. | 3 m. | 0 m.Jjmar^ ■r”Sn7iare $2~50j$n 001*8 Ml$1000]*15 00 l squares 5 00 8 00 10 00 12 00 17 00 i] Squares’, 8 00 10 00 12 00' 15 00| 25 00 I 4 Column, 10 00I12 00 15 00 17 00 30 00 12 Column’ I 2 00 15 00117 00 20 001 40 00 1 Column’, 115 00*17 00*20 00! 25 001 50 00 1 Column, 18 00 20 00 25 00 30 00 00 00 "-(^^Advertisers by the year will be res 1 Dieted to their legitimate business. 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Wb have supplied ourselves with a good I assortment of Printing Material, and are I ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on I reasonable terms. We are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata [ Jogues, Posters, large or small, Cards* Ball [ Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of every descrip | lion, for Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices of the S Peace, Constables, &c. J. 8. ANDERSON, SADDLE, BRIDLE I IDES A IlC. ARKANSAS. ffcgk RESPECTFULLY informs | the citizens of Prairie and I adjacent counties, that he has on hand, LZJ | - d is prepared to manufacture to order, I Saddles. Bridles, Martingales, Buggy. Carriage and Hack Harness, I As well as every other description of work I usually done in such establishments. t'^gr Shop on Lyon street, back or Frith & I Jackson’s store. jan21-ly. k. r. mcpiierson, COUNTY SURVEYOR. j 4 LL persons wishing my services in I "*• this department of business, will please i address me at Brownsville, Prairie county, I Ark. Every call will be punctually filled. novl3-ly N E W 11 E S T A TJ11A N T ! Tiira j COSMOPOLITAN ! I Corner of Buena Vista 'and Lyon streets, RES ARC, ARKANSAS, F.S now open for the reception of visitors. The best of Liquors, Wines. Ale, Cigars, I etc., will be kept constantlyon hand. v Oysters, Game, &.C., will be furnished at I short, notice. IjT This Restaurant will be attended to by I Messrs. J. C. Tarkinton and J. E. Hoke. janH-tim. C. T. OLDHAM. HARVEYS CHANGE, | Comer of RuenaVistaand Foster Streets, j NEAR THE JACKSON HOUSE, DES ARC, ARKANSAS. 11 AV1NG completed our new building, and [ XL opened a first class establishment for the I accommodation of the public, and furnished it I wit It t h.» It o c L ttf V !« More Xipil IN. I Tobacco, etc., the undersigned flatter themselves that they will continue to receive I the patronage which has been heretofore be I stowed upon them. Adjoining their Exchange they keep a I general assortmentof FAMILY GROCERIES. | Also. Cove Oysters, Sardines, Fine Pickles, Catsups, Pepper Sauce, etc., etc. jy24-tf HARVEY & MATTHEWS. A. S. HARRIS, H* .1 T € PS - .11 .i K E PS AND JEW33IjER. OFFICE on Buena Vista rg? ^ street, opposite the Nucleus House, Des Arc, Arkansas. Clocks, Watches and Jewelry [ repaired with neatness and dispatch, and war 1 ranted to give satisfaction. nov20-tim JAMES JOHNSON. Gunsmith, IJES ARC, ARKANSAS. I Cjb Having permanently located myself, .. Jfl ' a,n prepared to manufacture GUNS, I PISTOLS, &c„ to order. All kinds of Fire-Arms Repaired, j rn reasonable terms. fr'S’* LOCKS repaired, and KEYS made. B'n fact, any kind of work in my line will be ■promptly attended to. theSf* Terms—Cask. apr3 ly boot and shoe making. IlV TO THE CITIZENS OF DES if _ n ARC AND VICINITY: ^ HAVING removed ray Shop to the corner °f Buer.a Vista and Woodruff streets, I am prepaid, with a GOOD STOCK OF i •'LATHER, suitable for Fall and Winter § " \v ’ *° acc°mmodate the public. I >1. 'Vork Done Cheaper than any tlace in ■ Town. WORK WARRANTED NOT TO RIP. REPAIRING DONE neatly, at all I times. As I am permanently located in this place, [ my interest is identified with yours. Tfrms, Cash. jan2S-tf F. WETIIERINGTON. I PROFESSIONAL CARDSL_ TkR. N. L. RAGLAND, having lo cated on Wattensaw, at the residence heretofore occupied by W. B. Means, deceas ed, offers his professional services to the public. (]gi|r Calls promptly attended to. [apr 1-ly. D~ rTtTJ. CUMMINGS, having per manently located at Atlanta, Prairie county, Ark., offers his professional services to the public. Having practiced in hospitals as well as in families, he flatters himself that he can render satisfaction to his patrons. S3?" Office at Peebles’ Hotel [apr 1-tf. DR. J. C GOODWIN, determined to remain permanently in Des Arc, will continue to treat diseases, both Acute and Chronic in accordance with the most approv ed principles of Scientific and Demonstrative Medicine. (gp” Thankful for the liberal patronage he has heretofore enjoyed, respectfully solicits its continuance. Office at D. P. Black & Co’s., Drug Store. Charges as low as any Physician in town. apr i 1 l-lv. T~kR. J. L. NF.F.L, having ipermanent ■*-^ly located in Des Arc. Arkansas, offers his professional services to the citizens of the town and vicinity. Office over Washer, Vaughan &. Co’s Store. [mar ll-6rn. DR. T. SANDERS, late of Memphis. having settled in the town of Des Arc, tenders his professional services to the citi zens of said town and vicinity; and, from a long experience in the healing art in the West, flatters himself that he will share their pat JUUct£C. v/rrivt. VII uuuiu » iok.i Residence on Woodruff street. dec5-tf DR. W . F. WALSH, having located at Des Arc, offers Jiis Professional Ser vices to the public. {Ijg° Calls promptly at tended to. may29,1858-lyk Dr. wm. bet hell, will continue the Practice of Medicine in Des Arc, and vicinity- From his long experience in his profession, and having resided in Arkansas during the past fourteen years, he hopes to re ceive a share of the public patronage.— OfJice at Lane & Watts’s Drug Store. Residence in the building formerly occupied as the “ Erwin House.” may22-tf JAR jT j lane, will Practice Medi cine in the different branches of the Pro fession, and respectfully tenders his services to the citizens of Des Arc and surrounding coun try, hoping to share at least a portion of their patronage. OFFICE—On Buena Vista street. mayl5-tf tasTrT harrington^S' *“ Mechanical and Surgical, Dentist, Near Oakland Grove. J Prairie county, Arkansas. DR. HARRING TON is prepared to perform any operation, or execute any artificial work in the Dental pro fession. He hopes by his particular attention, carefulness and experience to merit the pat ronage and influence of the citizens of Prairie and adjoining counties, which he respectfully solicits. may30-ly WAKEMAN W. EDWARDS, Law yer, Springfield, Conway county, Ar kansas. Will practice in the various courts of Middle Arkansas, fig" Prompt attention given to the collection of all claims entrusted to him. _n30* nHARLES P. BERTRAND.A TTOR V I nf.y at Law, Little Rock, Ark. jjjan2l P JORDAN, Attorney at Law, . Little Rock, Arkansas. [decll-ly. WG. & B. D. TURNER, Attor , neys at Law, and General Collec tors, Searcy, White county. Arkansas. Prac tice in the Circuit Courts of Randolph, Law rence, Independence, Jackson, White, Prairie, Monroe, Arkansas. Jefferson and Pulaski counties, and in the Supreme and Federal Courts at Little Rock Ark. fig" Prompt and faithful attention given to the collection of all claims sent to them. [jan8-tf. L. ... R. II- FARR. TpEATHERSTON & FARR, Attor | neys at Law, and Real Estate Agents, Clarendon, Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of Monroe, Arkansas, Prairie, St. Francis, Jackson and Phillips. Particular attention given to collections. References: Madison, Ark., Hon. W. G. Beaseley, S. W. Childress; Clarendon, Ark.. H. M. Couch, Panola. Miss., Col. Calvin Miller; Cofleeville, Miss.. F.. C. Walthall; Memphis. Tenn., D. M DuBosc. Esq., W..1. Webb ; Holly Springs, Miss., W. T. Featherjton ; Washington. D. C., Jacob Thompson. _ jy17 I E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at ,) . Law, Des Arc. Prairie county. Arkansas. Wi’ll practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, jacKson, vvmiu, Conway, and Pone. He will give prompt at tention to all business entrusted to him. rs» OFFICE—-Over Town Hall, (Frith’s New Building,) first door. feb13-tf J' VV. MARTIN, Attorney at Law, Dos Arc, Prairie county. Arkansas. Will pra'ctice in the comities of Prairie, Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson and White. IIP®* Prompt attention given to the collection declaims: also, the locating, selling and pay ing taxes on land. (jJSp* Office on Lyon street. sept2fi-tf___ WILLIAM T JONES Attorney at Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of Prairie, Jefterson, Arkansas, Monroe. St. Francis, Jackson and White. Prompt attention given to the collec tion of all claims in the middle and eastern part of the State. sept2o-tr SAM’L w. WILLIAMS.W. L. D. WILLIAMS. Vj/ILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, At * * torneys at Law, Little Rock, Ar kansas. Office on Markham street. One of our firm will be almost always at Brownsville, where lie can be consulted on professional business, and will give his personal attention to all matters in Law and Equity, entrusted to them. ____deci JA. MOON, Attorney at Law, General Collecting and Land Agent, For the Northern and Eastern Counties of Arkansas, Des Arc, Arkansas. octiO J. L. HO ..W. D. J A CO WA Y. HOLLO WELL & J AGO WAY, At torneys at Law, Dardanelle, Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry, Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope. je2fi-tf _ RFURNISS MARTIN, Attorney * at Law, Brownsvi.lle, Prairie county. Arkansas. Will practice in the counties of Prairie, Pulaski, Conway, Pope, Yell, Perry, Saline. White, Arkansas. Jefferson, Jackson and Monroe. Prompt attention given to the collection of claims. Also, the locating, sell ing and paying taxes on land. jy!7-ly THE COUNTRY LASSIE. She blossomed in the country, Where sunny Summer flings Her rosy arms around the earth, And brightest blessings brings ; Health was her sole inheritance, And grace her only dower ; I never dreamed the wild wood Contained so sweet a flower. Far distant from the city, And inland from the sea, My lassie bloomed in goodness, As pure as pure could be ; She caught her dewy freshness From hill and mountain bower, I never dreamed the wild wood Contained so sweet a flower. The rainbow must have lent her Some of its airy grace ; The wild rose parted with a blush, That nestled on her face ; The sunbeams got entangled in The long waves of her hair, Or she had never grown to be So modest and so fair. The early birds have taught her Their joyous matin song, And some of their soft innocence— She’s been with them so long ; And for her now, if need be, I’d part with wealth and power, I never dreamed the Wild wood Contained so sweet a flower. Agriculture—Its Importance. BY C. N. BEMENT. Agriculture is the body, while the oth er piofessions are members, and, although the body and members are mutually de pendent and reciprocally useful to each other, the body can exist without the mem bers much better than the members can exist without the body. For the purpose of comparison agriculture may be con sidered as a trade, an art, and a science. The trade is mechanical, requiring muscu lar strength. It is imitative—it is to do a thing as one has been taught to do it be fore. The ox, in a measure, acquires it. He knows his master and his master’s crib. He treads the accustomed furrow, turns at the headlands, and obeys the dri ver's commands. The art implies co-operation of the mind with physical power. The mind contrives; it is a lever which greatly as sets and abridges the labor of the hands. The mind, like the soil, makes returns in proportion to the culture which is bestow ed upon it. Both are unproductive with out culture. The mind is improved by observation and reading, which makes it familiar with the best models of practice, and enables it to profit by the improve ment of others. The science teaches the laws and pro portions of inorganic matter—as of rocks, earths, manures, &c.; of organic matter as animals and vegetables ; of their struc ture, food, and uses; and the agency of heat, water, air, light, and electricity in their development and maturity; the em ployment and adaptation of these matters for the best uses of man. It contradicts the experience of ages and the labors of nations upon these interesting subjects, and makes them subservient to our wants and our comforts. The science is a col lection of facts and leading truths, illus trated in practice and confirmed by ex perience. Land and labor are the legitimate sour ces of public wealth. The first to be pro ductive must be cultivated, and the labor of doing this is abridged by the culture of the mind, which guides its operations. Without agriculture there is no wealth. Gold and silver are not wealth ; they are its convenient representatives. Goin merce produces no wealth—it simply ex changes it. Manufactures and the arts recombine it. Agriculture is the prolific mother of wealth. The rest simply han dle it when produced and delivered into their hands. The earth itself, originally, spontaneously produces wherewith to keep the race of man from starving—on ly whilst he is making ready to till the soil. Without it he soon degenerates into a wild animal, living here and there in small squads, a little superior to other □easts oi prey, me earm ureeus ges. Agriculture breeds enlightened na tions. It breeds houses and ships, tem ples and seminaries ; it breeds the manu factory ; sculpture, painting, and music are its offspring. It would he folly to speak of the existence, or beauty, or pow er of any of these things, without agri culture. The pulpit, the professor’s chair, the scientific laboratory, the tripod, the libra ry, the ship, trip-hammer, the loom, and the anvil—all would go down in one gen eration. It is by the superabundant pro duce and stability of agriculture that al things exist. Nor gold, nor silver, noi diamonds could replace it. The state ol husbandry in any country is the test of it; enlightenment. The thermometer of civ ilization rises and falls as drives the plow. “ You must send the plow,” exclaimed a man who had traveled all over Christian missionary ground in heathen lands. A barbarian uation needs but to be plowed up—deep, subsoiled, continued, sowed planted, and the inevitable harvest will be an enlightened empire. A practical, working agricultural society will dig bat barism and mental and physical and spir itual poverty out of a nation as effectually as any powerful grubbing machine wil “ snake out” the stubborn slumps. A few centuries ago, a learned writei describes the times in these words 11 Rude were the manners then; the mat and wife ate out of the same trencher j a . few wooden handled knives, with blade: of rugged iron, were a luxury for tht crreatT candles were unknown. One or at most, two mugs of brown earthenware formed all the drinking apparatus in a house. Rich gentlemen wore clothes of unlined leather. Ordinary persons scarce ly ever touched flesh meat. In noble man sions a little corn seemed wealth.' This is history. Any one of our neigh bors, if compelled now to live as the highest and wealthiest of mankind lived in those days, such a neighbor would ex cite our sympathies. We would consider him as good as starving ; would carry in gifts to supply his wants, and start a sub scription among our friends to feed and clothe him. A few hundred years ago and all the wealth of a nation could not buy a loaf of bread, such as you will see on any farmer’s table at the present time. The fine flour could not be made. The table of our far mer is much more princely in its furnish ing than was the table of a monarch then. We have now in common use several spe cies of most delicious fruits then unknown. We raise several kinds of grain not then in use. The very word corn, then appli ed to wheat and barley, is now applied to a grain then undiscovered. Men then lived on a few vegetables with flesh on ex traordinary occasions ; and at their great est feasts their chief viands were flesh and wine. Their crops, as well as in the palmiest ancient limes, rarely yielded over ten or twenty fold. Now a hundred fold is considered a very small return. Then, as in the ancient world, they gathered the hnrvpst hv ntillinrr off the heads, nulling up ibe stalks, or by almost as slow a pro cess of reaping with the sickle. Compare these methods with the great reaper now in use, that sweeps over acres in an hour and leaves the glorious harvest on the fields of a farm in a day. Thus formerly the patient ox slowly tramped out the grain, week after week; and the winds of heav en and the fan in the hands of the laborer slowly an?l imperfectly separated the ker nel from the ciiafl and straw. Now, the mighty thresher, with tumultuous whirl, takes into its crushing teeth thousands of sheaves in a day, and scattering the emp tied heads and straw and chaff in rich streams, the separated golden grain runs out upon the ravished sight, all ready for the marts of trade—for food for man and fowl and beasts, and for the hopper and the stone, swiftly driven by the vast and ponderous wheel. From its mighty pouch comes out flour, white as the driven snow, which makes the kneaded bread better than the fabled ambrosia of the gods. In short. Agriculture clothes all—Agri culture feeds all.—[Valley Farmer. VIOLENT*POISONS. From time to time, there is a revival of the opposition to strychnine rum and mania a-polu brandy; and the opponents of poi son make a desperate rush, first in one newspaper, then in another, at the red and inflaming enemy. The mildest form of attack is certainly that in which fault is found with groggery-keepers for putting water in their liquors. One of the hard est anecdotes at present afloat of this rum, which is so weak that it freezes rather more easily than anything else known, is thus told by a Cincinnati journal: Out in Vermont, during the cold cycle, an invalid procured a junk bottle of “ new rum” from an “ agent,” carried it home, tied a string round the nozzle, and hung, it up near the stove, to keep it “ safe.’ In the morning he found the bottle on the floor, and on looking up, saw the frozen rum still hanging by the neck. If this were only the worst which could be said of low groggery rum, there would be little complaint. But the tact is noto rious, and capable of proof, by every old doctor and every chemist, that the effect of using intoxicating liquors now is much more fatal than it was thirty years ago. A pamphlet by E. C. Delavan, recently published, on this subject, contains many really lerrmie lauis. n umu a ycai ui two, the selling of recipes for making liquors has become a heavy business; five dollars teaching the art of making almost anything—brandy, gin, or wines—from common whisky. There is an extensive manufactory of cheap Madeira in New York, where it is made “ by extracting the oils from common whisky, and passing it through carbon.” Immense establishments are devoted to this business. Prof. C. H. Lee, of New York, says: “ The trade in empty wine-casks, in this city, with the custom-house mark and cer tificates, is immense; the same casks being replenished again and again, and always accompanied by-that infallible test of genuineness, the custom-house certifi cate. There is also in this neighborhood, it is stated, an extensive manufactory of wine-casks, which are made so closely to imitate the foreign, as to deceive expe rienced dealers.” Every year sees the business of adulte ration increase, and, according to a late number of Chambers's Magazine, it in creases also in France, in the very vine yards themselves. The following extract, from an article in the New York Journal oj Commerce, shows also that people can not be too careful in buying their liquor, and how utterly unreliable all cheap and second-rate wines are: “Hiram Cox, M- D., of Cincinnati, is quoted as having analyzed, in that city, sixteen lots of wine, of different varieties. ' which did not contain one drop of the juice 1 of the grape. The basis of the Port wine for example, was diluted sulphuric acid i colored with elder-berry juice, with alum sugar, and neutral spirits. The basis ol 1 the Sherry wine was a sort of pale malt sulphuric acid, from the bitter almond oil with a per ceuta ge of alcoholic spirita-froui brandy. The basis of the Madeira was a decoction of hops, with sulphuric acid, honey, spirits of Jamaica rum, Stc. Presi dent Nott, in his published lectures, in re lation to this subject, speaks of the exami nation, by bis assignee, of the papers ol a bouse which had suspended payment, re sulting in the discovery that many hundred barrels of cider had been purchased during the previous year, but none of wine ; yet nothing but wine had been sold. Many other similar facts are recounted, and ex tensive quotations made from foreign pe riodicals, and other authorities, showing that adulteiation is practised in both Eng land and France, to an extent not readily credited." A beautiful state of affairs, truly, and a nice state of health in prospect for imbi bers of cheap brandy ! Think a minute, ye who complain of nervousness, of neu ralgia—ye young men, who see visions and dream dreams; and when you next are merry around the sky-rocket and rifle brands, let one of your number sing, in full cups, the following, from the Autocrat: “Come! fill a fresh bumper, for why should we go, While the logwood still reddens our cups as they flow? Pour out the decoction still bl ight with the sun, Till o’er the brimm’d crystal the dye-stufl shall run. The half-ripen’d apples their life-dews have bled: How sweet is the taste of the sugar of lead ! For summer’s rank poison lies hid in the wines !! That were garner’d by stable-boys smoking ‘ Inner-nines !’ Then a scowl, ami a howl, and a scoff, and a sneer, For strychnine and whisky, and ratsbane and beer! In cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall— Down, down with the tyrant that masters us all 1” There is “more truth than poetry” in these verses. Every year makes them truer and truer. There have been sneers at those whose poverty, though not their will, consented to make them “drink beer and sing of wine but what shall wo say of those who sing of wine and drink— ratsbane?—Philadelphia Bulletin. A SERMON OF THE TIMES. “in hard times retrench wisely.” The subject may be treated negatively and positively. I. Negative/)/. Under the necessity of doing something, men often do first that which they should do last, or not do it at all. It is well, then, to consider wherein a family should not retrench. 1. They should not withhold the mus ter's stipend. It is so small already as hardly to make him comfortable. It will not bear curtailment. 2. Do not diminish your benevolent con tributions. These have always been too low. Missionaries and students for the ministry have been always kept so near to the lowest point of a decent subsistence, that a farther reduction should not be thought of. 3. Do not withhold from the poor. In their case the Lord is a borrower, and he will repay. 4. Do not stop your home journal. It costs but a trifle, and it repays many fold. If you stop it, you stop a source of joy and edification to all the household. You will get behind the times. Knowledge will decline. A stimulant to activity will be removed. A means of mental growth will be abstracted. Intellectual, social, and spiritual edification will be sadly im peded. Then hold on to your paper, help the poor, contribute to Christ’s cause, and sus tain your minister to the last. II. Positively. Retrenchment is to be made. God calls for it in his providence. He makes it a necessity. 1. Cease lo spread your luxurious table. Your body and mind, as well as your purse, will bo benefited by this curtail ment. 2. Give up expensive dress, and repair the old garments. This will be so much clear saving, without diminishing one comfort. 3. Cease from liquor and tobacco. This will require great self-denial ; but it will be an immense benefit—physically, mor ally, spiritually—in your family, and to your pocket. If you shall succeed effec tually in this, you will live to bless the “hard times” which induced the reforma tion. 4. Buy no more trashy literature. Tc the waste of money, it adds ® loss of time, pollutes the imagination, defiles the moral nature, wastes or chills the benevoleni affections, disqualifies for life’s higher joys, and incurs, in the end, fearful respon sibilities. Addendum. Be industrious — father mother, sons, daughters—all industrious in something that will pay, even though ii be on a scale which is very small. This will not only relieve from the pressure j but it will tend to a good habit, leading tc j competence and wealth. The hard times may be so met, and re trenchments so made, as that not one rea joy shall be diminished; and so as that i many most important benefits shall result, Whoso is wise, let him consider these , things.— Presbyterian Banner. R@“Scientific men assert that there is an intimate connection between the nervei and muscles of the face and eyes, and al lowing the beard to grow strengthens the eye. It is said that surgeons have proved by experiment in Africa, that soldier: wearing their beard are much less liable ti disease of the eye, and it is generally con ceded that it is a protection from diseasr ; of the throat aud lungs. 1 NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST. The interests of the Mississippi valley, as distinguished from the Atlantic States, are among the prominent points which ought to be considered in every assemblage of western and south-western men. That large and increasing region, which lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies, is not only now entitled to a majority of voices in ail our federal affairs, but is so rapidly enlarging in numbers and influence, that its vote will go far to con trol that federal legislation which has been hitherto exercised for the advantage of the Atlantic States. In particular, the now pressing matters of Cuba and Central America demand special attention. Those stales and gov ernments are in the possession of a race traditionally hostile to men of our blood, and they occupy a geographical position dangerous to us in any war. They might any of them be a refuge for the tnen-of wur sent by any nation against our com merce, and might, with the greatest ease, form a blockade of the Gulf of Mexico, with the ships of European powers, or any of them; or any European power might do the same thing, if we were not the owners of all the outlets to the Gulf ol Mexico. It is quite certain that the South-west and North-west are equally interested in a free outlet through those passages threat ened with danger by the existing diploma cy of Europe. The cotton of the South west, and the corn, wheat, and salt pro visions of the North-west, alike demand an open outlet to Europe on one side, and all the Pacific coasts on the other. Any predominance of a European power in the Gulf of Mexico would threaten Illinois as well as Louisiana, Wisconsin and Iowa as well as Mississippi. We, therefore, aslc of these Stales of the Mississippi valley, that they take into serious consideration the future of their commerce, and see whether or not they are entitled to a final settlement of the long-vexed question of their right to command the Gulf of Mexico. While England is in possession of Gibral tar, and France occupies Rome, it does not sound well in the mouth of any Euro pean power to complain of anything we may choose to do here. Geographical position is a large element in statesman ship. Whether there be peace or war in Eu rope, we must maintain our rights. Cuba must be ours, sooner or later: Central America and the Isthmus must precede or follow. The Gulf of Mexico must be an American sea.—Louisiana Courier. ---— Whistjan* Gians.—All ye gals w’at w’istle, and all ye hens w’at crow, take notice— Whistling girls and crowing hens, Always come to some bail end. In one of the curious Chinese books re cently translated and published in Paris, this proverb occurs in substantially the same words. It is also an injunction of the Chinese priesthood, and a carefully odserved household custom, to kill imme diately every hen that crows, as a preven titive against misfortune which the cir cumstance is supposed to indicate. The same practice prevails through many por tions of the United States. We do not see why’ if crowing hens are disposed of for fear of misfortune, whistling girls should not also be made the subject of visitation. They are rath er in high favor. Witness the popularity of the song. “Whistle and I’ll coine to you.” A girl who can whistle, has music in her of no common kind, that is evident; and the “ bad end” she comes to is evidently to whistle her way into some old bachelor’s bosom. Pretty bad place, but a spot into which a great many “ unprotected fe males,” would be most glad to find an asylum—particularly if it was accompa nied by a fine suit of rooms, and servants to match ! Pitch in you fellers, w’at are in fnunr nf w’istlinlT fral’s. — fSnirit of Democracy. God’s Protection of Young Deer— An old Canadian hunter declares that the reason why the wild deer are not all killed when young, (as they breed once a year, and are always surrounded by other ani mals which prey upon them, such as dogs, wolves, bears, panthers, &c.,) is, that “ no dog or other animal can smell the track of a doe or fawn, while the latter is too young to take care of i'self.” He stated that he had often seen it demonstrated. He had taken his dogs over the ground where he had just before seen them pass, and they would take no notice of* the track, and could not be induced to follow when taken to the spot, while they would instantly dis cover the track of any deer not having young ones. This is but one proof of the adaptation of the naturul laws to preserve life, when it most needs protection. —- ♦ • ♦-— Sensation Preaching.—A correspon dent of the Baltimore Christian Advocate I relates of a New York Minister, who de ! sired to make a sensation in preaching on ! the crucifixtion: He instructed the sexton when he got to that part of the discourse where he de scribes the darkness overspreading the heavens, to draw down the gas, giving light only enough to make the darkness . visible. The sexton, however, put the gas out altogether, which so confounded , the preacher that he was unable to pro i ceed. Siime of the trustees of the church ! hurried to the sexton in the lobby, and in , quired what was the matter. Greatly to l his chagrin and mortification, as well as . that of the preacher, he was obliged to explain MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Baking him.—Most people boil hum. It is much better baked, if baked right. Soak for an hour in clean water anil wipe it dry ; next spread it over with thin butter, and then put it into a deep dish with sticks under it, to keep it out of the gravy. When it is fully done, take off the skin and matter crusted upon the llesh side and set it away to cool. You will find it very delicious, but too rich for dyspep tics. -When a person runs away with a wrong idea, can he be compelled to bring it back again ? -Trinkets, when worn by a man, general ly indicate vanity; and, when worn by a wo man, they indicate self-esteem. -Prosperity is often as great a foe to a man as adversity. In life, as in meat at din ner, a streak of fat ami a streak of iean are best. -Youth cannot always last. It must give place, ere long to manhood. Streams do not return to their sources, but forever flow on. -Give a man brains and riches, and he is a king; give liiin brains without riches, and he is a slave; give him riches without brains and he is a fool. -The current coin of life is—plain, com mon sense. We drive more substantial and thriving trade with that than with anght else. ' -- ‘ I tell you a fellow that speculates is like a brute driven in a circle on a barren heath by an evil spirit, whilst fair green meadows lie everywhere around.”—Gcethe. -if you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it rather than yourself. _ _The proverbial fault finder little thinks mat, censuring so inauciuusiy aim muiotiiu.* nately he is only painting his own portrait It is a secret consciousness of his own demerit, a gnawing rage at. the superiority of others, which is the real cause of his want of charity -Happiness is much better to distribute than money. It is one of those valuable pro ductions which money can’t buy. --Let children be children. Let them have their plays in their own way, and chooBe them for themselves. We only spoil it by in terfering. _Do not think you are fated to be miser able because you are disappointed in your ex pectations, and batiled in your pursuits. _An untruth will not always screen us in the present and never in the end. _Creditors have better memories than debtors. -No man can avoid his own company— so he had better make it as good as possible. -Washington visiting a lady in his neigh borhood, on leaving the house a little girl was directed to open the door. Ho turned to the child and said, “ I am sorry, my little dear, to give you so much trouble.” ££ I wish, sir,” she replied, “ it was to let you in.” _In one of the departments of Switzer land there is said to be over 2,000 girls con stantly engaged in making matches. All our girls are thus employed during all their single lives. _« The ugliest trades,” said Jerrold, have their moments of pleasure.MNow, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment 1 ” _A rich man one day asked a man of wit what sort of a thing opulence was? “ It is a thing,” replied the philosopher, £- which can give a rascal the advantage over an honest man 1 ” -The deacon of a church over which a new pastor had settled, was praising his many good qualities to the deacon of a neighboring church. He declared that the new minister had -£ but one fault in the world, and that was a propensity to become a little quarrelsome when he gets drunk ! ” -Mr. Pullup coming home late, pretty full, finds the walk slippery, and exclaims. ££V-ver-very sing’lar, why whenever water freezes, it alius fr-freezes with the slippery side up ; very sin’glar.” -- Usury Laws.—At the monthly meet - 1 ^ ... r Mum Vrtrlf UnnrH nf Clir - - rency, held recently, the following resolu tions relating to the Usury Laws were uuainimously adopted: Whereas, The experience of the whole commercial world has proved the impor tance and utility of Usury laws, and as the principal commercial centres with which New York is now in daily correspondence have abolished such laws, and thereby ex posed this city to a disastrous drain of cap ital, whenever from war or the exigencies of commerce there may be a demand for capital in Europe or elsewhere, and as the present unsettled state of Europe, with war impending, requires large loans by its governments, thereby tnhancing the rate of interest, will cause the withdrawal of capital from this country, as was the case during the late war in the Crimea; we, therefore, respectfully urge upon the Legislature of this State, now in session, the necessity of their immediate action, for the protection of the interests of the United States;and we do, therefore, Resovled, That the Legislature of this State be respectfully and earnestly reques ted to abolish the Usury Laws, by releas ing commercial transactions from the re straints of these laws, by granting the right to the public to regulate their mon ! etary affairs upon priuciplesof entire free Join as regards the rate of interest tor the use of capital. ’ Resoeed, That the Legislature ot the ; State of New York be, and they are here I by earnestly requested to repeal the Usury Laws, or a't least so far as they may ap 1 ply to this city, and thus place our com* i mercial emporium upon an equality with those of nearly all the civilized world as regards the uniform aud uninterrupted supply of capital.