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LITTLE RocT # CsH B EM Y.

.YEyHOMAS B. MALONE has establ;sb. -A ed a SEMINARY at Little Rock b, the instruction of youth of both sexes.
 In the Male Department, Spelling. Read. ing, Writing, and Arithmetic, will be taught at S per quarter.
 English Grammar, Geography, Rhetoric Execution, G Geometry, Natural and Moral Philosophy, and Theeretic Chemistry. at SC 9 per quarter. Latin and Greek, at S7 5G per quarter.
 In the Female Department, which is up. der the direction of Miss MALONE, Read- ing, Writing and Arithmetic will De taught at s per quarter.
 English Grammar, Geographs, History, Natural and Moral Philosophy. Drawing and Painting, at s6 g per quarter. The exercises of this institution wilI commence on the 1st Monday in January next.
 Having been assiduously engaged in teaching for twenty-one years, Mr. MA. LONE hopes that he is not entirely inade- quate to tlle task ofinstrueting youth, and he assures his patrons that no pains on bs part shall be wanting.
 Little Rock, Dec. 2sth, 1890. btv40
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tion, but it is the result of general ex- cellence. Itsbows itself by regular, orderly, undeviAing course; and never starts from its sober orbit into any sfien- did cccentricities; for it would be a. shamed of such praise as it might cxtort by any deviations from it's proper path. It renounces all conrnendation but what is characteristic; and I would make 1t the criterion of true taste, right princi- pie, and genuine feeling in a woman, whether she would be less touched with all the fattcry of exaggerated and TO- mantle panegyrics than with that beau- tiful picture of correct and elegant pro- priety which Milton draws of our first Mother, whom he dehneates-
 "Those thousand decencies which daily
 flow,
 From all her words and actions"
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Tanned by the charms of lovelness, the independent and virtuous spirit a. malgamates with whatisearthly. Thus it is that love deities the dust, and brings down upon earth that which is heaven ly.
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SETTLE UP.

4 ILL those indebted to the firm of TTflso,, 4 8 9 Stswaff, are respectfully requested to call and make immediate settlement, by note or otherwise. Settlement by CASH would be most acceptable, as 1t is their wish to close the business of the firm with out delay.
 WILSON & STEWART.
 Feb. 2, 1881. 45-tf
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 That labors hard in pleasing you, By telling all that's strange and newt
 The Printer. Who is it brings you from afar, Intelligence of bloody war, Or feats of some immortal tar!
 The Printer. Who tells you of the affairs ef State, When Legislators iegislate. 4 id are engaged ii Y slr;is debate!
 The Printer. Who is it, that with stick and rule, Chastises we'll the knaye and fool, And keeps in ave the party tool!
 The Printer. By whom is it that iearning's got, And genius to perfection brought O reader, say-say is it not
 The Printer. say, ye sshn always .@;sh. se knew How tho concerns of nations go- Who do you for that knowledge owe!
 The Printer. N c politicians, too, can tell Who makes you understand so well Tn affairs on which you love to dweli---
 The Printer. Then in no case should you delay, tl'hough many do from day to day) With punctuality to PAY,
 The Printer.
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The Steam-Boat Wayerley,
 CAPTAIN pENNYWIT.
Will ply regularly

Will ply regularly aG during the ensuing sea- spga..v.----ssAs AzRa a-zt son, between New-Or- rss sssssssz leans and the several landings on the Arkansas river, and when ever the water will admit, will proceed as far Up as Cantonment Gibson and the West ern Creek Agency.
 Little Rock, March ?, 1891. 40tf 0srThe Waverley left this place on the 1sf inst. for New Orleans, and is expected to return in about 9 days, when she will proceed to the Cantonment, and all inter- mediate landings upon the river.
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4 Blacksmih's Stamg.-What would the reader say 10 an invitation 10 visit the STUDY of a journeyntan blacksmith? Ladies and Gentlemen, walk in-don't be blaeksmiths were in fash ion before dancing masters, and steel was used for many purposes of utility previous to the invention of corsets. In one of our editorial peregrinatiohs, we took some pains to call on subscriber and correspondent, whose zeal in the cause had procured US a number of sub scrbers, ard whose pithy productions in our columns, had drawn the attention Of the conductors of some of the first liter ature periodicals.-On arriving at the village inn, VIC inquired for Mr. A. E. and was directed to "a blacksmith's shop, where we found our friend basily engag- ed at his useful occupation. Without useless apologies or ceremonies, he po- liteiy intgoducea us to his residence and into his study. It was comfortable and snug upper chamber, neatly plaistered, and provided with fire stove, bed, a writing desk, book case and shelves, with other corresponding conyeniences. His library consisted of upwards Of a hundred well selected volumes, eompri- sing some standard works on history, ei- vii government, science, law, theology, and general literature. It must have been in such retirements that the Ben- .;amin Erank!ins and Roger Sherman ns of former age conceived and planned the movements which resulted in the establishment of our free institutions. And it will be in such retirements that the plans of moral reform will be per fected whict, are 10 save our country. i! it be saved, from corruption and despo- tism.-Peop1e's .4dv.
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Ltfe.-HVHilat a fife thisis. how plen- teous in every variety of pain! how je- june of all the elements of happiness how full of objects and contacts, deeply disgustful and abhorrenti how destitute of all that is noble, genuine, lovely, or delectable! The most careless observ- CT, if he does not obstinately shut his eyes to the objects before him, cannot bat know that the most virtuousand per feet (so termed) who arc set up as pat terms to their fellows, as landmarks by which to shape their courses, are frail as cobweb, subject every moment to the windy storms of passion or pride. piiable to self-intcrest as the willow wand 10 the gale, dependent as the parched pasture upon the rain and sunshine. That man was born without brains, who has lived years among hatnaaa sspine, end yet conddes inhuman principle. human or human sincerity.o!!!
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LAW NOTICE.

TEHoMAs HUBBARD, Lawyer, and -a Prosecuting Attorney, for the First Judicial Circuit, Arkansas Territory, com posed of the counties of Clark, Hempstead, Union, Lafayette, Scyier and Miller, re- sides at Washington, Hampstead county, will attend all the Courts in said circuit, and the Superior Court at Little Rock.-- Il professional business of civil nature intrusted to his care, will be despatched with promptitude. Sums over two hup- dred dollars will be received for collection in any part of the Territory.
 (CP All rogues made known 10 hlm by indictment will receive marked attentiou
 September 6, 1880. 25tf.
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The Steam Boat Industry,
 CAPTAIN GAsxTg.I..

~ Will ply regularly du- ring the ensuing sea- ss.s!!sss.y.::s A9-n=s son, between New Or leans and the several landings on the Arkansas river, and when ever the water will admit, will proceed as far Jas Cantonment Gibson and the N est ern Creek Agency.
 0Er The Industry left this place on the iitil inst. for Cantomcnt Gibson. andis ex- pected to return in or 10 days, when shc will proceed to New-Orleans.
 Little Rock, March Is, 1881. 40-tf
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E.g gV NDTYCE.

KAslH BR JV VIEtKIs WT1LLIAM TRIMBLE, Attorney at ee Law, viii practice ;n sii; Superior Court, at Little Rock, and in the counties of Clark, Hampstead, and Lafayette, in the First Judicial Circuit, and Crittenden, Phillips, and Chicot, in the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He will also attene te the eel lecting business throughout the Territory. His residence, Washington, Hampstead county, GA. T..
 July q, 1880. 17-if
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Unifed Stotes of America, ) Territory qf .41,haasas, County of Chicot.
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| ~f ' ttos 7 " ~4t tt"tto"st County of Chicot.
 CnIcog CIRCUIT CoURT, NOVEMBER
 TERM, 1880.
 s@'s' sssssas assssh@sss far 'ssass' ssss s@a @d
 s { twenty-eight and three Thon1as James. quarter cents.
 $ ND now at this day came the plaintiff, "A by Clark his attorney, and the defend ant not having entered his appearance and filed special bail to the plaintiffs action Tn this case, according to tho form of the stat ute in such case made and provided, there fore on motion of the plaintiff, by his attor- ney, IF this behalf, 1t is ordered by the Court, that the said plaintiff cause to be published in some newspaper printed Tn this Territory, for four eeks excessively, the nature and amount ofthe said plaintiffs demand, and notify the said defendant that an attachment has been issued against his estate, and that unless he shall appear by himself or attorney, and file special bail to the aforesaid action, on or before the third day of the next term, judgment will be entered against him, and his estate sold to satisfy the same, and that this cause be continued to the next term of this Court.
 A true copy from the record-teste, JAMES BLAINE, Clerk Chicot Circuit Court.
 ,Harch 9, 1881. 50-4to
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THE CHURCH-YARD

You have sauntered, perhaps, of q moon light evening, out of the precincts of the living, moving world, to finger and contemplate among the grass grown memorials Of those who are gone from a. mongus, and whose earthly remains have been consigned tothis their last and cer- tain inheritance.
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A NATIVE or SCOTLAND.
From the SterTine. Journal.

A NATIVE or SCOTLAND.
 Fson, the Sterling Journal
 Burns was one day at cattle market in a town in Cumberland, and in the bus tie that prevails on such an occasion he lost sight of some of his respected" Gro 1sies.n He pushed to q tavern, opened the door of every room and merely look ed in, till he came 10 one in which three jolly Cumberland blades were enjoying themselves. As he withdrew his head one of them shouted s.Come in Johnny Peep." Burns obeyed the call, seated himself at the table, and in a short time was the life and soul of the party. In the course of their merriment it was pro- posed that each should write a stanza of poetry and place it, with halfa crown, beneath the candlestick, with this stipu- iation, that the author of the best piece was to have his half crown returned. while the other three were to be expend- ed to treat the party. What the others wrote has sunk into oblivion, but the stanza of the pioughman Burns ran as follows:-
 "iIere am "Johnny Peep,"
 saw hree sheep.
 And these three sheep saw me:
 Half crown piece
 Will pay for their fleece,
 And so Johnny Peep gets free"
 A roar oflaughter followed, and while the palm of victory was unanimously voted 10 Burns, one of the Englishmen exclaimed, 'sIn Gods name! who are you" An explanation ensued, and the happy party did not separate the same day on which they ;net.
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Propnety.-Propriety is to woman what the great Roman critic says action is to the orator; its the first, the second and the third requisite. A woman may De knowing, active. and amusing; but without propriety she cannot be amia- hie. Propriety is the centre in which all the lines of duty and agreeablencss meet. It is to character, what propor- ton IS to figure. and grace 10 attitude. 1t docs not depend on any ono pcrfec-
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THE OLIO.
THE PRINTER.

Who is it--. gentle reader" who, That labors hard in pleasing you, By telling all that's strange and news
 The Printer.
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Ea.eaa Me- .A;aksanal R..a,..aa.

- N9-ofls Fse eNaf7afHI Rf=7iiia7'.. The editor will consult his own pleasure in the use of the following anecdote of the Ayrshire Ploughman."
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]" The body to it's place i,
And Inc so.,I 10 Icayon's grace And the rest Is Gods alone.,'

And the rest is Gods alone."
 An appalling chill shoots through the current of life. at the undisturbed and universal silence of the scene-the stars tranquilly shining on the white marble, and freely Illuminating the name which friendship had carved for the slumber- CT beneath; here the grass waving in rank iuxuriance, as if to hide the tri- anPhs and trophies Of death, and there q human bone unearthcd from it's time worn sepulchre, ghastly visitor to the realms of day; wooden tablet, marking the repose of the humble, a cross, the sign of the believer. and lofty and mag nificent memorials over the mortal relics of the wealthy and the great. An! who, in such an assemblage as this can be ac counted gseat9 What gold survives the crucible of death?
 We canlearn nothing from the living which the dead do not teach us. Would beauty be modest and unpretending, let hero the ball and the festival for moment, and carry her toilet to the tomb. Would the proud learn humanity; the penurious charity; the frivolous serious nes; tie bigotted philanthropy; would the scholar ascertain the true objects of knowledge; the man of the world, the true means of happiness here and hereafter; the ambitious, the true sources of greatness, let him retire for a while from the living and communi- cate with the dead. We must all come to the mournful and silent grave. Our bones must mingle in one common mass. Our affections should travel in the same path, forthey must terminate in one fear ful issue. Life is full of frailtics. of vir- tue and of happiness; and when you would abuse them, go purify your afIec- tons, and humble your pride, and leave your hopesat the tomb of a friend. when the stars are shining upon it like the g1o- rious beams of religion on the mansion of death.
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sayy, yyc whn always ..ss;;ssa! ..ss;;ss!. tse !snaw How tho concerns of nations go- Who do you for that knowledge owe!
 The Prin
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-----ssOb, beware my lord of jealousy; It Is the green eyed monster which dotl
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CIRCULAR.

OFFICE OF AMERICAN AND FoRrrox
 FOR CLAIMS, 49 WALL-sr. Nru. vvkses JAN. 1881. ORR. rrvrr Tft AT
Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-12-01
From the Fall Rirer Monitor.

Malbone Briggs.-The following is the
address Of Malbone Briggs to the SUI
preme Court at the November Term in
New Bedford. Briggs had been tried on
several indictments for making and ls,s-
sing counterfeit money. The jury hav-
ing returned verdict of guilty, he was
called upon by the Court to state, if he
had any reasons to offer, why sentence
should not be passed upon him-tO which
he made the following reply -
May it please your Honor:
am prosecuted without cause and
condemned by false witnesses and preju-
dice. Judas (as he is called) is protect
ed Oh the stand to swear the crime that
he has committed on the innocent, that
they might answer for the transgressions
which he has committed. However,
time is running down with us all, and at
the longest will be but short time before
it will be out, more especially with me
and my old friend there pointing to the
Attorney General.] am almost seventy
and he is rising, When the glass is out,
the immortal must appear before another
Bar of Justice-not the Bar Of this coun-
try but at the Bar Of Justice where we
shall be attended by the righteous Judge
Of all the earth-where prejudice will not
be admitted-neither will false swearers
be admitted-neither will Government
be permitted to heave in all the dark
dismal clouds, combustibles of filth, to
obstruct the paths of truth and Justice
neither can he convict the innocent witt,
all his prejudices and swearcrs-neither
can he exclude the guilty from punish
ment for the sake of reward, for every
immortal must answer for himself ac-
cordng to the deeds done in the body.
My humble petition to that all wise Being
is to reveal my guilt to the breast ofyour
Honor ifany there be in the charges now
against me-and to direct your Honor in
justice in your decision, and cause you
to extend The arm Of humanity to the in
nocent, that when that immortal part
shall appear before the Throne of Justice
your decision may be acceptable to that
all wise Being. 1t is the guilty that de-
serve punshment--and not the innocent,
through prejudice and false swearers.
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consideration in regulating the exercise
of the elective franchise in respect to Of
fees of the Federal Government. ] can
make no such admission. / cannot be-
lieve that whether am hostile or friend
ly to Masonry or Anti-Masonry, is at all
material in the formation of any judgment
on the part ofmy iellow-citizens, concern
ing my fitness for any Office under the
Government ofthe United States. That
elevated office, to which you alludc,
should in my opinion, be filed by one
who is capable, unswayed by sectarian
feelings or passions, Of administering its
high duties impartially towards the whole
people ofthc United States, however divi-
dcd into religious, social, benevolent or lit
erary associations.
Entertaining these views, ! have con-
stantly refused to make myself party to
the unhappy contest raging distant from
me, in other parts of the Union, between
Masons and Anti-masons. Whilst these
views remain uncorrected / must adhere
to that determination.
IL, indeed, you, gentlemen, will point
to the provision in the Federal Con
stitution which can be legitimately made
to operate upon the subject in question,
! would not hesitate promptly to comply
with your request In the meantime, in
declining il, Il hope you will consider me as
not wanting in proper respect to you or to
those whom you repre- sent, but as acting
from a conviction of the improperly OF
blending an alien ingredient with ques-
tion, already sufficiently complex, and al
50 from sense ofpersonal independence.
am with great respect,
j your obedicnt servant,
/ II. CLAY.
Mcssrs. JAMES A. WATSON,
/ NOBLE BUTLEI,
II JAMES Ii. TuoMPsoS.
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nited States, wiz: large edition of the
Gospels of Matthew, Mark and john
which swells the amount fprinting, with
in that period, for the use Of the island
ers, to 10, ,632 800 pages.
The chiefs have erected many build
ings to serve the purposes Of churches.--
The religious assemblies in many places
are very large. The church at Lahaina
is Of stone, two stories high, 80 feet long
and 60 broad, and having galleries. 1t
will seat 5000 people alter the native
manner, and is the most substantial and
noble structure in Polynesia. The 9TH
ers are matched. That at Honolulu is
1876 feet long, GO broad, and admits 4 300
people. Thus, by the exertions, and the
donations of the people Of the u. States,
has "A nation of Pagans become u nation
of Christians. How much more true glo-
ry have this little band of unpretending
missionaries acquired, than belongs to
the vanqushers and exterminators of ma
tions, from the Alexander of Macedon, to
Napoleon!-[.N Y. Spectator. 2GM.
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EMBARKATION of MISSIONARIES.

Solemn religious services have been
held within the last week, at Boston, and
New-Bedlord, preparatory to the depart
ure of reinlorcements Of Missionaries to
foreign stations. Eight Missionaries with
their wives, physician and his wife, and
a printer, making nineteen persons in all,
we're to embark at New-Bedford, on
Tuesday or Wednesday of the present
week. The following are the names of
the Missionares:--Rev. Messrs. Will
liam p. Alexander, Richard Armstrong,
Cochran Forbes, Harvey r. Hitchcock,
Lorenzo Lyons, John S. Emerson, f.
phraim Spaulding, and David B. Lyman,
Dr. Alonzo Chapin, and MIR. Edmund
II. Rogers. The following Is list Of
the states from which they have GOMEZ
One from Kentucky; three from Pennsyl-
vania; four from Newly ork; one from
New.Jersey; one from Connecticut; five
from Massachusetts; two from n. Hamp-
shire, and two from Vermont. OF the
Missionaries, three are from the Theolog
ical Seminary at Princeton, N. j.; three
from Andover, and two from Auburn
This is the largest number that has ever
sailed from this country at one time; they
are all young men.
A meeting was held at the church Of
DR.. Holmes, on Friday night of last
week, at which their final instructions
were given. They are to take passage
in the Arerick, Capt. Swain, now a! an
chor in the harbor, and the superior ex-
cellence of the vessel and urbanity Of her
commander, no less than the distng uish-
ed liberality of her owners, give promise
Of the happiest fulflment Of the wishes
of thousands for their safety and comfort
1t is twelve years since the first Mission
aries took their departure for the Sand
wich Islands. Reinforcements have
been sent three times, viz: in 1922, 1897,
and 1880. What mighty moral revo-
luton has been affected in that interest
ing group of Islands! When the pres
ent company shall have arrived, there
will be % Missionaries, and their wives;
two ply ysicians; two printers, and other
lay persons, making in all 81 persons
connected with the Foreign Missionary
Society. When Mr.. Bingham, the first
Missionary, went forth, the natives had
no written language. OF course there
was not native who could read. Now
there are $4,000 learners at the 900
schools which have been established,
s. which arc taught by 900 native teach
ers. Probably 10000 or 900 have at
various times attended the schools
Several thousand have learned to write,
and some have made considerable pro-
gress in the knowledge of arithmetic
Sabbath schools exist at the several sta
tions. A select school for females, for
instruction in reading, writing, needle
work and Scripture lessons, has been es-
tablished. Within the last ten years,
TWENTY-FIVE distinct books have been
printed in the native language, averaging
81 small pages, and amounting to 301, :
600 copies and 10, 287 900 pages. Be-
sides this 3,345, 900 pages in the Hawai-
ian language have been printed in the L
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A town meeting was held at the Court
House in this town, yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock; Geo. Engs, Esq Modera-
tor. A vote passed authorizing the Town
Council to set a night watch. to be con-
tinued four months from this day. The
committee heretofore appointed to ascer-
tain the cost of a new engine to take the
place of No 4, were authorized to pur-
chase either a new or second Rand en-
CINE, at their discretion, and to draw on
the Treasury for the amount.
VIM. w. Freeborn was appointed in
addition to Thos. Bush, a committee to
assist the Town Treasurer, relative to
letting the Town lands, Market Stalls,
&c. and to give him such advice and di-
rections with respect to the recovering
back rents, as they may Judge expedient,
and the Treasurer was required to &C. in
conformity to the advice of said commit
tee.
The street commissioners with the ad-
dtion Of Thos. c. Pitman, were appoint
ed committee to make enquiry relative
to encroachments on the Town Common,
at the head of Broad street, with instruc-
tons to make report at the next Town
meeting.
A vote passed respecting persons TAX
ing sand and gravel from Easton's beach.
See advertisement.
f.. Trevstt, f. w. Lawton, and ]. T.
Almy, were appointed committee to as
certain the expense of laying leaden or
iron pipes from the fountain in Spring
street to the foot of Washington square
and authorized to make such tempora-
ry repairs relative to the water works con-
nected with said fountain as they may
deem expedient.