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From he Nep Orleans Daiiy Republican BRITISH CLAIMS ON TEXAS

We understand, (says the Houston Tele- graph that the British Charge d'Aflaires has been instructed by his Government to make formal demand in the name of H. B. M, Queen Victoria, for a grant of land amount ing to about 3,000,000 acres, the section of country designated on the old maps as Cam eron's and Beale's grant, and the same claim ed by Mir. John Woodward. It will be re- collected that this MT. Woodward presented a beautiful silver pitcher to General Houston, at Columbia, and was soon after appointed Consul General of Texas for the United States, which office he abused by compelling each emigrant who left New ork for Texas, to pay him five dollars for passport, which was as worthless as a piece of blank paper. For this he was dismissed from office, and Congress refused to acknowledge his claim, or that of his employers, for the immense tract of land claimed under this grant We understand that MT. Beale, and the others in- terested in this claim, paid at one time S40,000, and at another S20,000, and smaller sums, at different times, to secure this claim. They consider, therefore, that they have just right to demand the land in question, or to require Texas to repay them the money they expend- ed to colonize 1t. Several of the parties in- terested are British subjects, and they have pettloned their Government to enforce their claim. We had supposed that this claim was forever set at rest by Congress, who rejected 1t upon the ground that the contract was made with the Mexican Government, before the Revolution, and that Government was alone answerable for its infringement We cannot understand by what right this demand can with propriety be made through the Bri- tish Minister and in the name of his Govern ment. If this claim is admitted by Texas, 1t will open the door for many others, not less extensive. The Powers grant, Wood berry's, McMullen and McGlone's, and in- deed every other empresario grant may be enforced by similar means, under the direc- ton of the respective Governments to which these empresarios belonged; and hereafter, France, Great Britain, and Belgium, may in- terpose, and require Texas to fulfil the con- tract with Mir. Castro, Mir. Fisher, and Messrs Convers, Carol, and others.
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FORK N eIlSRN.

SsEALED PROPOSALS will te received hy ttc - undersigned ai tlfe Penieutiary, Little Rock, Arkansas until Scturday, Me 25M day of Norcmber acxt, for inc delivery of
 32.500 pounds of PORK,
 500 bushels of CORN,
 al said Penitentary for the subsistence of be pris- eners therein.
 The pork must consist of healthy and well fittennd sows and harrows weighing not less than 200 pounds each, 10 be delivered on foot. in such cnclosur, may be designated by tue undersigned, and the weight to be ascerained atst they are butehered, or on foo as may be agreed al the time of receiving. The corn to be delivered in thc ear to the Under. sgned either shucked or unshucked, and the quan- tity to be ascertained by smelling out one more tubs, and averaging the balance according to the quantity they may contain
 One-haf of the pork to be delivered from the Ist to the 5h day of December next; the r,sIdTe Sc. tween the 2oth and 3oth of the same month. Bidders will predicate their proposals on receiving payment in notes of the Banks of this State. at their nominal value. 4Jsr Bond and approved security vii, be required from contractors for the faithful performance of their contracts and the undersigned reserves to bimsef the right of rejecting all bids. if deened too high The proposals for the pork and corn nust be ses parale and endorsed Proposals for Pork, tor eoft, as the case may ba) and enclosed in separate en- velope, addressed 10 tho undersigned, through the Little Rock Post-oliicc and if ssnt by mail, the postage must bc paid.
 JAMES McVICAR. .ireHf.
 ,frbaaSas Peaiteatifry. LHilc Rock, Oct. H. ISl3. 5-iw Ort.Times X Advocate and Gazaite will copy. and send their accounts 10 the Agent, for settlement.
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Tozuntary return 10 S1apcry.-The Sand wich Canada Vest Express chronicles an occurrence that took place in that neighbor- hood on the 2lst ultmo, which may be in- teresting to our anti-slavcry friends in this vicinity. Three slaves, who had escaped from bondage in the United States, had been working for some months past with farmers in the vicinity of that town. Their owner (for they are all the property of one man) having discovered their place of refuge, sent his nephew to persuade them to return, and to promise, if they would do so, they should not be sold or punished for their absence. The quondam slaves replied that if their master would himself come and give the as surance, they would return. The master came and gave the required pledge, and then left them. lest his presence might be consid- cred as coercion. The three men, true to heir pledge, packed up their clothing, and, unacceinpanied by yaifyewhte man, proceeded to Windsor, crossed the river, and volunta- rily went back to slavery one of them ob- serving as he went on the ferry-boat, that he never knew what hard work was until he came to Canada.
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inland water communication from Boston to St. Mary's, and to connect the waters of the Atlantic with those of the Gulf of Mexico.,- But it would take toe much space to even describe one quarter part of these splendid projects. The report itself shall speak -
 ''ln viewing the prospects before us for Improvements on large scale, the mind is lost in amazement at the extensiveness of the scenes which appear for the permanent bene- fit and grandeur of the country The in- habltants Of the old countries were for a long tme confined to the coasts but the improve ments in navigation gave an unlimited ex- panslon to commercial enterprise, and the discovery of canalling is an admirable exten- sion of the benefits of navigation, by which we can sail over the globe by land as well as by sea.n
 This report was accompanied by bill authorizing the President to borro,o TEN MIL LIONS of dollars, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to make sub scriptions, on the part of the United States. in such companies incorporated by the re- spectlve States as Congress may approve.- This report contained the following state ment =
 "Ihirty canals in England yield, on aa aperage, thirty per cemtum per amnun, aud he stock has increased in ualue, in some in- stances, sir Hundred per centum.n
 If official documents were thus extravagant n exciting hopes of sudden wealth, how much more so was the language of enthusi- astic defenders of this policy in the public journals, and in Congress speeches We might fill columns with it. Dazzling visions of riches and glory hoated across their ima- ginations, which were destined to fade away, Ill the sequel, before the woful realities of poverty and ruin. But was not all this cal- culated to vitiate public sentiment Was not the policy it commenced with,-THE BORROWING PoLIcY-one that carried death along with it ! Is it difficult no1c to ac- count for the lamentable confusion of the f. nances of those States that adopted this po- Hey ?-and can any one doubt, at this day, that if any administration produced the {. in- tense" endorsements of the past ten years, 1t was that in which HENRY CLAY was the chief adviser? Boston Post.
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.4notier use for Corsets.--The Saturday Courier says: After the unfortunate accident on the Susquehanna Rail Road, demand having been made for splints to bind up the wounds of the sufferers, to the honor of the ladies be it said, a supply came prompt as the demand, from the car they occupied, in the shape of the usual bone and wood SUD- porters of their corsets. Thus furnished, the medical gentlemen were enabled to ren- der such effectual aid to the wounded, as justified their removal to the car which hat been prepared for them.
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RESURRECTION AT MANILLA

The Boston Transcript publishes the fol- lowing extract from private letter received by gentleman in Boston, dated
 s ManiAa, April 5 ls43.
 s' During the last month there was an iil- surrection at this place, caused principally by one of the old Catholic Priests, who altered his belief, and began to preach in Manila city, but was soon banished from that place under penalty of death should he enter ii again. Thence he went to the native vil- lages, where there was quartered regiment of soldiers, and began to preach, and soon obtained many followers. The Governor of Manila forthwith sent regiment to destroy the town and people. (1his regiment was composed mostly of soldiers draughted from this city, The moment they arrived, they turned to and killed all their officers, and, with the assistance of the old Priests follow CTS, marched 10 Manila, and during the night scaled the walls of one of the largest forts, secured all tha. were in it, and then blew up one end of it. After that, they proceeded to the magazine, which had but one entrance. and that was secured by seven iron doors They succeeded in forcing three of them when, much to their surprise, the fort was retaken by the Governors troops, who marched into the fort, and, after little skir- mishing, took them all prisoners. A few days since, sixty-two of them were shot and tarty-cight strangled to death
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Baltimore, September IS. Is43.

.4ccident.--Whilstt the oration was being pronounced at the Odd Fellows celebration in Towards Park to-day, the platform on which the speaker stood suddenly gave way and fell to the ground, distance of four or five feet. A large number of persons, con- sisting of the principal officers, musicians, and several ladies, were on the scafolding at the time, all of whom were precipitated to the earth. The scene was very frighful one, and for a short time produced consider able sensation. We are glad to learn, how ever, that no one was very seriously injured, though several received bruises. A member of Mr. Roundtree's band, whose name we did not learn, was bruised severely, from a pressure of others falling on him. Pal.
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E.. E.. DICKINSON, Attorney Nf ENar,
STATE OF ARKANSAS,
LITTLE ROCK

STATE OF ARKANSAS, ss.,
 CouNTy or SALINE. In Saline Circuit Court, at Inc .4ugua Term fhcreqs
 T. D. Ist3 James Cox, Plaintiff,
 ys DErT BY ATTACHMENT. Truxton Lowell, Delend-t,
 YINiIIS day came the plaintiF by attorney, and on l. his motion, and it appearing to the court that this is action of assumpsit by attachments for the sum of one hundred and seventy-fve dollars and forty-eieht cents debt and two hundred dollars dam ages and it appearing that the defendant has wholly failed to appear plead, or otherwise answer to the plaintiff cause of actions and it also appearing that the attachment has been issued against the estate of the said Tnxton Lowell
 It is therefore ordered and adjuaged by the court that unless the said defendant appear, by himself attorney by before the third day of the next term of this Court, to wit, the fourth Monday in Feb ruary next, {lSit,) that judgment will be entered against him. and lis estate sold to satisfy the same and that this order be inserted for toar weeks cessvely, in some newspaper printed ia the city of Little Rock, by weekly insertions the las insertion to be at least thirty days before the first day of tho next term of this court, to which term s cause is continued.
 A true copy from the record.
 Attest; r. M. OWEN, Gerk.
 October ', lsfs. f{s9 25l 4-f,y
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From fhe Nesp Odeaas Morning Herald LORD BROUGHAM-JOHN TYLER-ROB'

. LORD BROuGHAM-JOHN TYLER-ROB'I
 TYLER-PRINCE ALBERT.
 By reference to our foreign news, it will be seen that Lord Brougham, the celebrated castlgator, is down upon President Tyler and his son Robert, in a manner well calcu- lated to please the coons. His LoreIslip speaks of :. his accidencyn as naturally as any, coon in the land, and the manner in which he applies the lash to the Junior, for lavoring the advocates of Repeal, is ctl- rlous. He objects to the course of Robert Tyler as the son of the President, because he addresses repeal meetings in this country.- It Is charged as an interference with the right, powers and privileges of her Majesty. But It IS all right that her Maiesty's consort. Prince Albert, shall preside al an abolition meeting called ss'The Worlds Conycntion,' 5 the main object of which Is to destroy the institutions of the Southern portion of the United States--institutions established and entailed upon the country by the ancestors oi those who now pension the husband. of Brltannia2s Queen. Before a British Minis ter shall attempt to call in question the indi- vldual acts Of an American citizen, because he Is member of the family of the Presi- dent of the United States, let him come into the Chancery of common honesty with clean hands. Let him show to the world that his Prince--not by the grace of God, but by the love of the Queen, and ecclesiastical forms and eeremonies-has not only given eneour- agement to class of people who would like to see the throat of every American planter cut from ear to ear.
 We have called Lord Brougham British minister. Every one knows his position now--all know full well the course that gifted man pursued when at the acme of power. The East India Company, which has expended thousands for the support of abolition societies in this country, was parti- cularly petted the object of the company was plain, they wished slavery abolished here, that their own despotism might be ren- dered profitable elsewhere. That IS readily understood; but it causes strange sensations when we find man of Brougham's tram scendant talent, seizing as he did upon one Queens misfortunes then, to obtain distinc- ton, and now ill the hope of power and place, to abuse an American citizen for free expression of opinion, while he pats Prince Albert on the back for interfering with our domestic institutions
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Shoe Business.-The shoe business must be pretty extensive one. The Haverhill Gazette, assuming that there are eighteen millions of inhabitants in the United States, and reckoning two pair of shoes to each, concludes that at least forty millions of pairs must be manufactured every year. The value ot these in the market must be sixty millions of dollars. Add to this the immense quan- tlty of thread, wax, flour, bristles, pegs, and the lumber and nails for export boxes, and we havea pretty account to charge to our feet What multitudes live merely by shoe ing other mullitudes T(in. He-aId
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Administrators NOtice.

vJ,HlS is to notify all persons interested, that -A Letters of Administration, bearing dae the 22d day of september 1913, have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of ItiAam Giiehrisf. dech. All persons indebted to said estate will please come forward and settle the samc immediate ly, and all persons having claims against said estate are requested to exhibit them to the Administrator, properly authenticated, within year from tn, date of said Letters of Administration, or they may be precluded from any benefit in said estate and if such claims are not presented within two years. they will be forever blurred and precludcd from any benefit in said estate.
 SAML MITCHELL, .admr
 Lifile Rocl, Sppt. 3O 1S43 3-6w
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Late aud Important from Hayti.-We learn from Capt. Barnard, of the Sydney, from Aux Caves, that Solomon and his two sons, leaders of the black rebels in St. Do- mingo, had given themselves up to General Luznard, and were to be taken to Port au Prince. All foreign vessels had to pay dou- ble port charges. Duties on exports had been reduced one half. Coffee from 1923 per thousand to Sl3; logwood from $s7 to S4. No alteration on imports .N Y. Herald
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.Neac .4tlanic Steamer.-The propretors of the N orth Atlantic Mail Line have dec Jed on building another magnificent steamer, in connection with their present fleet. We have more than pleasure in being able to make this satisfactory announcement, proving, as 1t does, the truth of what we have constant ly urged regarding the energy and public spirit manifested in every thing connected with this North American Mail service.
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WHILvAyI CONWAY R.

HAS resigned the office of Circuit Judge, and en- H tered into partnership ia the practice of law. with GEORGE CONWAY. They will practise in the counties of Lafayette, Hampstead, union Wash ita, Clark, Pike, and Sevier; and in the Circuit Su preme, and Federal Courts, at Little Rock; and a- tend to collections in any part of the State.
 Communications on business, postpaid, addressed to CONWAY & CONWAY, N ashington, Arkan. sas, or to the care of General E. N Conway Little Rock will receive prompt attention.
 September b, I343. l-tf
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yO'NEesFl.

A I.l persons inhabited to the late firm of r.. Y. N BAKER < co. either hv note or book acc'ts are requested to pay immediately
 Votes and accounts not paid within reasonable time, will be put into the hands of an attorney, for collection. GEO. BoGGs is authorized to rcceisc money, and give receipts on notes and accounts due F.. Y. Baker & Co.
 Litle Rock Off it. fsi3. 5-te
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s'Last Saturday there was tremendous fire at this place, which consumed aboat two thousand buildings, and came near destroying the whole city. Itis painful to go on shore and see the people-some have lost their children and some their parents by the flames. 1ou cannot go ten paces amongst the ruins, without coming in contact witlra corpse"
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The steeple of Trinity Church, (Episco- palian,) New York, IS to be two hundred and eighty feet high, being fifty feet higher than any other steeplc in the United States, nearly Q hundred feet higher than any one i'll Boston, and sixty feet higher than the Bun ker Hill Monument.
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Cona..snarsr,ip Nofice.

YF1HE Firm heretofore existing between F. r
 Il BAKER & co, has been dissolved, by the death of the senior partner The surviving partner fIOHN c. PRATT, has associated wi.a himself GEO. BOGGS, and the business will now be carried on by them under the name of PRATT & BOGGS.
 Litile Loci Oct ff l5i5 Sly
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Y. NOEL, WMsch .Nnker,

HAS returned to and permanently located in IN Little Rock, and will personally attend to re- pairing of every description of WATCHES and CLOCKS, and oh-r business in his line, oa the Northwest corner of Main and Markham streets, the house formerly occupied by Pitcher & Walters.
 LiHe Rock, Sept. I5, 1Si3. l-3m
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NsSFHCE.

| on application, can have SEALS, elegantly engraved, for the of Slo, par funds, which is not one-half the usual cost of Notary Seals The work will be executed at the Peniteptiary, by sll- perior Engraver. Those who desire them, win make immediate application. A. YELL. Lille Roek, l3th Oci., 1913. 5-iw
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 Crotcs IS. .4lcohoL-Wc extract the fol- lowing very excellent article from the Pco- ria GID Register:
 Col. B. has one of the best f,rms on the Illinois river. About one hundred acres oi 1t are now covered with waving corn. When il first came up in the spring, the crows seem- ed determined on it's entire destructiou- When one was killed, Ii seemed as though q dozen came to it's funeral. And, though the sharp crack of the rifle often drove them away, they always returned with its echo.
 The colonel at length became weary of throwing grass, and resolved on trying the virtue of stones. He sept to the druggist for q gallon of alcohol, in which he soaked n few quarts of corn and scattered 1t over his field. The biaek-legs came and parteok with their usual relish; and, as usual, they were pretty well eorned and such cooine and cackling-such strutting and staggering ,- The scene was lke-but l will make no in- vidious comnarison--it was rery much Hhc--
 When the boys attempted to catch them, they were not little amused al their stag gering gait, and their zigzag course through the air. At length they gained the edge of the woods, and there being joined by new recruit, which happened to be sober, they united. at the top of their voices, in haw-haw having, and shouting either the praises or the curses of alcohol. e IL was dlaicultt to tell which, as they rattlcd away without rhyme or reason, so very much like
 But the colonel saved his corn. As soon as they became sober, they set their faces sfeadfastly against alcohol. Not another Kernel would they touch ill his field, lest it Should contain the accursed thing, while they went and pulled up the corn of his neighbors. To return like dog to his vomit--likc a washed SOW to the mre--lke-not they.- They have too much respect for their char acter, black as they are, again to be found drunk
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 .GARNyE,E MAKING.

GARHNEE MAEAHNG. rIsHE subscriber woaa respectfully inform the N citizens of Little Rock and vicinity; that ho still continues to cacry on the Cabinet Business in all it's branches in the frame building a. the West end of Assey's Brick Row, Markham street. 9.s-Oil Furritn,e neatly repaired and varnished> ;s5-C -Ccflin malSing attended to at all hours
 Country produce and lumber will be taken in ex- change for Furniture, at the highest cash prices.
 '4 VIM. ANNEAE, (lctobsr 1fh, lSiS. 4-tf
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HsEgATvE & ssGss(sS.

MILL keep on hand, at all fines, a general as w sortment of Goods, which they are determined to sell very low They will be constantly supplied with fresh goods which will he bought in he market for cast; aud as they will scil entirely for cas they will be cnabled ;o sell for small profits.
 Little Rocl, Ocf h. ls43 5-fy
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DIED,

At Rosewood, near this city, on Monday, the 18th ut., Juiia, dangbter of the Hon. ". S. Fulton, aged i years and 9 months
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Yeiloe Feoer.-The epidemic has now assumed malignant character. The admis- sions into the Charity Hospital yesterday were larger than on any previous day. Stgan- gers who come among Us now do so al the risk of their lives Let them by all means keep away till they hear of frost 'Tis now so late in the season that there is litle chance of the fever abating, till Finite Jack kills of Keiloac Jack. [.N O. Pic.