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roast bafe,n if I'd raise the shillelagh for lip and Ty;h niver, at all, at all
 Here the evidence for the prosecution closed
 Several witnesses were introduced by the defendant, but their testimony was oyerruled by the court, as they were known 10 have been particcpS crimiaiS ill this transaction. The case was briefly summed up by the Siate's attorney, when John NJ. Bolts, Esq, made an elaborate argument for the defence He confessed that the crime had been perpe- gated, but contended that an alj5i could be easily proven; or, if this plea should not be received, that the more fashionable one of insanity might be urged. He closed with a pathetic appeal to the jury and court, in mi tigation of tic offence and punishment, inas- much as the Old Coon was in bad health, and might not long survive.
 When he had concluded, the jury, after short consultation, returned verdict of !" "GUHTY p
 The prisoner was deeply affected when the verdict was pgonounced--
 And scalding tears each other chased,
 Like pumpkins down a hill.
 With much emotion, and solemn dignity, the judge proceeded to pass the sentence of the law
 "OLD CooS: In the pursuit of my judicial functions, l have ever found it task most painfully severe to pronounce upon guilty culprit the rigorous sentence of a violated law. But though your unfortunate condition may powerfully appeal to my softer nature for eommiseration and mercy, yet the stern de- mands of inexorable justice must be executed, and the majesty of the law vindicated, by yi- sitting its whole chastisements upon the incor- rigible offender.
 ' You have been arraigned, tried, and con Vlctcd, for sundry unseemly, unlawful, and mischieyous demonstrations, at divers times, and in divers places, against the peace and dignity of the Slate, and for miscellaneous and incowigible roWdyism in general and it only remains for me to pronounce the sen tence of the court, and for you to expiate your many crimes in condign punishment.- Have you any reason why sentence should not be pronounced against you?''
 The prisoner remarked, almost inaudibly, that he was only "Plagiag poSsn@ ;" and he hoped the sentence would be d mild one.
 The judge continued: < I ou are com handed to be taken whence you were brought, to be kept at the rack, on short al- lowance, till the 4th of March, 1S45; when, if till then you survive under your suherngs and disgrace, you will be taken from your durance vile, and thrown headlong into the waters of the Lethe. And may you have a short and comfortable passage to the land of forgetfulness." Fredericksburg Recorder.
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RsaAHaRk sz aaRagE.

ltEAIED pROPOS tliS will be received by ths - undersigned. at the Penitantiary, Little Rock, Arkansas, until SatardaB He 25M day ef NoremtV neal. for the delivery of
 32,5o0 pounds of PORK
 600 bushels of CORN, al said Penitentiary, for inc subsistence of the prs oners therein.
 The pork must consist of healthy and welt -fattened sows and barroNs weighing nei less than 200 pounds each 10 be delivered on foot in such enclosure a5 may b, designated hY the undersigned, and the weight to be use fianed aitorthey are buchcred or foot, may be agreed at the time of receiving The corn 10 be delivered in tlsa ear to the under< signed. either shncled or unsucked, and the quar- tity to be ascerained b} s!ieling out ot more tubs, and averaging the balance according to the quantity they may contain.
 one-half of the pork io be delivered from the Ist 10 the 9th day of December next; the residue be- tween the 23th ant 30tli of the same month. Bidders will predicate their proposals receiving payment ii notes of the B1nls of ls State at their nominal value.
 Bond and approved seeurii, will la required from contractors, for fine faithful performances of their contracts; anl the undersigned reserves 10 himself the right of rejecting all bids. if deemed too high. 'rhe proposals for the pork and corn must be se- patae, and endorsed Proposals for Pork, Cor cofn as the case may ba aud enclosed Vl separate crt veope, addressed to the undersigned, through the Little Rock post-oiice; and if sent bJ mail, the postage must 5e paid.
 JAMES MeVICAR, .4geat,
 4ftaasas PcadtnfiftV. Litlc Rock. 0ti II, lSi3. 5-6v Bj.Times SS Advocate and Gazette will copy, ant send their accounts to the Agent, for settlement.
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.9 Noble .Act-The Baltimore Republican notices an instance of commercial honesty, worthy of the highest public praise It ap- pears that some two years since, the eXten- sive commission warehouse of P. s. Shelton and Co, of Boston, failed in consequence of reverses in business-and their creditors compounded with them for fifty cents on the dollar, giving them complete discharge We learn that F. s. Shelton, senior member of the firm, who by his industry and good fortune has since accumulated some proper ty, on Tuesday last made new dividend of twenty-five per cent. upon the full amount of the cancelled demands against his former house. Keniackian.
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Remarkable Hcident.--The Baltimore Sun has the following article: s.An incident somewhat remarkable, occurred at the late meeting in Halifax county. The Rev. Mr. Roszel was delivering a discourse, in his ssee,al- an,mated- and eloquent manner, during which he described the sublimity and gran deur of the Christians triumph in the hour of nature's dissolution A sepulchral still ness pevaded the assembly. The intensity of feeling was best indicated by full and si- lent tears, which trickled down the cheeks of hundreds. Every eye seemed rivetted on the speaker. During this scene, Mir. R. re- marked, that one of the happiest periods of his life, was the hour in which he witnessed that triumphant exit of his venerable father, (the Rev. Stephen George Roszel, who died about two years ago.) A Mir N, sitting in the congregation, replied audibly, q don't believe thato Before he had closed his mouth, a yellow-jacket, ia species of bee, whose sting is known to be one oi the most pain full suddenly stung him on the tongue, caus- ing it to swell and inflame to such an ex- tent that he was in great agony, and could not swallow food during the succeeding night Medical aid was found indispensable. Such an impression did the wound make on the mind of the unfortunate man, that he has since acknowledged his belief that the nl- fiction was providential also that the minis ter was right, and he wrong"
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 4Re Ydakee i9 .1faia-Sffeet ---ssI calculate couldn't drive trade with you to-day said true specimen of the Yankee pedar, as he stood at tlie door of merchant in AIain-street.
 s' calculate you calculate about right. for you cannot," was the sneering reply.
 '' Wal, guess youneedn't get huiiy about it. Now here's dozen real genuine razor strops, worth two dollars and hali---you may have lem for two dollarsn
 ssl tell you don't want any of your tash so you had better be going."
 "Mal, now, l declare l'lI bet you five dollars, fl you make me an offer for them are sIrops, we'll have a trade yet.''
 !" "Donep replied thr merchant, placing the money iu the hands of a bysiander. The Yankee deposited lhe like sunl--when the merchant offered -him picayunc for the strops.
 s.They're yourn,'' said the Yankee, as he quietly lobbed the stakes. :. But, he added, with great apparent honesty, .' calculate Il jokes a joke; and if you don't want them strops, Pll trade back"
 The merchants eomteHance frightened < ' on are not so bad chap, after all, here are your strops; give me the money.n
 ''There t is,'' said the Yankee, us he re- ceived the shops and passed over the pica- ynne. ''A trades a trade-aud now you're wide awake in earnest, guess ihe next time you trade with that are pic, you'll do leeile better than 10 buy razor siropso
 And away walked the pedlar, with his stropS and WaTer. amid the shouts of the laughing crowd. St. Louis Ariel
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.4 singular Electrical Phenomenon. An English traveller through the Alps of Savoy, whose work is recently published, thus de- scribes certain remarkable sounds caused by electricity:
 "The atmosphere was very tnrbid, the ground was covered with hali-melted snow, and some hail began to fall We were, per haps, 1900 feet below the Col, still about 5000 above the sea, when noticed curious sound, which seemed to proceed from the Alpine pole with which l was walking l asked the guide next me whether he heard it, and what he thous Tt it was The members of that fraternity are very hard pushed, n- deed, when they have not an answer ready tor any emergency. He therefore replied, with great eoolness, that the rusilng of the stick no doubt proceeded from worm ealing the wood in the interior! This answer did not appear to me to be satisfactory, and therefore applied the apprehension crueiS, of reversing the stick, so that the point was now uppermosl The worm was already at the other end. next held my hand above my head, and my fingers yielded a iizzing sound There could be but ono explanation: we were so near thnder-cloud as to be highly electrified by-induction. l soon per- ceived that all the angular stones were hissing around us, like points near powerful elec tric machine. told my comfanions of our situation, and begged Damatter to lower his umbrella, which he had now resumed, and hoisted against the hail shower, and whose gray brass point was likely to become the paratonnere of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth, when clap Of thunder, accompanied by lighting, justified my precaution.n
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KssgaegH.AMRT,EQY.

Bg.8rcdibaM Ye, Gorernor of Me Sfate of 4,raasas. VATHEREAS, it has been made known to me, w that IVaH Foreman, who under sentence of death, for the murder of his wife, and Daniel C4ambers, charged with passing counterfeit money, did escape from the jail of Benton county, the night of the l7th Sept, and are now rnnnng at large: Now, therefore, l, Archibald Yell, Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the power ar,i authority in me vested by law, do hereby offer re- ward of'rWO HUNDRED DOLLARS to any per son who may apprehend the said Foreman and de- liver him to the Jaor of said county of Benton, and do, furthermore, offer reward of one hundred dollars for the apprehension of said Chambers and his delivery to the Jaior aforesaid
 In testimony whereof hereunio set my hand. and
 Cause the seal of said State to be af-
 IT.. S. fixed, at Little Rock, on the 29thday
 of September, A. D. 1913,
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The aboltionists of Vergennes, in Yer mont, have valiant champion in the vulgar editor of vile paper called the '' Vergennes Venmontero In number of that journal, printed in July last, which was shown us yesterday, we see an abusive article againsta citizen of New Orleans, who, on q recent visit to that part of the country, chanced to make certain true and appropriate remarks upon an abolition lecture delivered there by negro named Frederick Douglass The language of the editor is foul and disgusting to great degree, but we are informed that the remarks of the negro were much more so, being a fulsome string of most extfavagant epithets upon the people generally of the t.. States.
 Shame on such all editor! The man who in this land of civil and religious liberty is base enough to prostitute the press by sup porting the declarations of black rascal against the people of this Union, and hold hm up as model ot virtue and respeetabili- ty, deserves to be secuted from the pale of civilized society, and should be made to dwell as a companion with his brother Doug lass, s' kith and kin," whom, we doubt not, might be disgraced by his company l. is well for the cause of virtue and intelligence, that our land is cursed with but few such filings, controlling the columns of public journals. {Picayunc.
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Murders H Arkansas Oat-mHrdefed-A most horrid murder was committed al Mid- detown, Westfeld Society, Conn.,, upon the person of Mrs. Bacon, wife of Mr. Eben Bacon, respectable and wealthy farmer ol that place. Atr. Bacon went to church, on Sunday morning, with all his family except his wife, and did not return until after the evening service was over. When he returned, he found his wife weitering in her blood.- She lay upon her back, in the centre of the room, her skull crushed i'll, her face horribly mutlated, her throat cut. and seven slabs i'll her breast By her side lay butcher knife, some keys, and three chairs, which were broken and bloody. Two of them were covered with fragments of flesh and hair, showing that they had been used ill beating her over the head. Tine walls and floor were covered with blood, evidences of friehtlu, desperate ierocity-she in defending herself from the assaults of her savage murderers, and they in their diabolical eXertions to over power this heroic but ll-fated woman.
 It is supposed they found her alone, and in attempting 10 rob the house, she resisted them, and becoming exasperated, they com mltled the ulaDolcal ana most Dftllai murder. She was about 45 years of age.
 She is represented as an estimable but courageous woman, Of large frame, and just the person 10 resist an attempt at robbery. She has three children, and was universally esteemed, the whole family being members of the Presbyterian church. The house was robbed of 1875, and when our informant left, no further theft had been discovered
 .Ner Harca Courier.
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Nra,O FAI.NfERs .s. GARDENEaS.

IMPORTANra'O FARMERS x GARDENERS. IN Press, and wiil trc published by J. Winchester, \ 20 Ann street, W. Y., about the 20th of August, l5j3, i'll neat octa.o form of 64 pages, printed fine paper, and illustrated with numerous cngray- Ings,
 HE.AMFRIctN AGRIeUITuaIsT's ALMANAC roN lsdi Edited by A. B. ALLEN, Egg, assisted lsy as Association of eminent Agficultufists
 This important and valuable work has been ifsprc- paraton for four months past and vsiLI unauestiona- ply be the most complete in ssl is departments, of any Almanac ever got up for Farmers. + is calcu- lated alike for the nofshsFa, Ieitds, and southern States, and for the canadas and consists entirely of original aaatfer, by the best practical writers oi Ag rcdlture in this country.
 This Almanac will comprise,
 l. Astronomical obseHaliens aud tables calculated for the meridian of Montreal, Boston, New-Nork, Philadelphia Charleston, and NewOrleans. Also, valuable statistical tables
 ?. A complete Northern Calendar for every month in the year, embracing all necessary directions for the management of the farm, garden, aud orchard.
 3. A complete Southern Calendar for the planta- ton, ac. &c.
 A. Miscellaneous matter, such as is designed to advance the interest and improvement of the plant CT, farmer, stock breeder, and hortieulturist
 Notwithstanding the labor and expense bestowed upon tie Agricturiss Almanac in order to obtain for it the largest crcuaton and bs more acceptable to the community, 1t will be published at the low price Of I21 cents per copy.
 Agents, booksellers, and country mcrchonts will be supplied al the rate of S5 q hundred. Pedlars will be supplied on liberal terins J. WINCHESTER Publisher, SO Ann st., N. ".
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Administrators Xoaice.

HNtIls is to notify all persons interested, that II Letters of Administration, hearing date the 22d day oi September, ls53, have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of tFafiam Giichrisf dec'd All persons indebted to said estate will please come forward and settle the same immediate y and all persons having claims against said estate requested to exhibit tham to ths Administrator, properly authenticated, within one year from the date of said Letters of Administration, or they may be precluded from any bsnaht in said estate and if such claims not presented witsn two years, they will be ioraysr barred anI psecuded from any benefit in said estdte.
 SAML MITCHELL, .adgs'r,
 Laiie hoel, iStpf. 90, IStas s-Gw
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NO,FEetE.

\ SHALL offer for sale at the State House, in the \ City of Little Rock, on Saturday the ith day of November next, q claim belonging to the State of Arkansas, of 320 acres, which may be located in quarter sections. It is the last ofthc section claim Terms of payment will be a credit of one, tco and three years, with bond and security, ;;t the rate of per cent. per annum from date until paid.
 A. YELL. ExecUTIyf DEPARTMENT,
 L.Lle Rock. 25M SeptemLer. lsl3. { 3-6w
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II. HEMPSTEkn. H. ". Jo6NsoH HEEpSTEAD 6 JOHNScc.M7,
 sEfsOFMeWs tss LHsc. OFFICE ON MARKH MI STREET,
 LITTLE ROCK, AnKs. If
pYEHNG & SCOuRHNG.

NYRS. RULEMAN would respectfully inform WI her friends and the public generally, that she is now prepared to carry the above blisness, in a it's various branches; and as she has had near 20 years experience, in different States she latt-rs her self that she will be able 10 give general satisfaction to all who may favor her with their patronage.
 Ladies and GeHtIemes dress as, of either silk or Woollens, dyed and secured in manner that will make them look as well as when new
 slie will be found nj her residence, fine D. S. Arsenal
 LiHfe Rock, Sepi. 28 ISi3 3-3m
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,4nti-Duellng-The late eccentric math- ematician, Professor Vince, of Kings Col lege, Cambridge, being once engaged in a conversation with a gentleman who advocated duelling, is said to have thrown his adverse " completely hors de combat, by the follow- ing acute and characteristic reply to his question =. But what could you do, sir, if man told you to your very face, Y,ou liero "What cud do: Why, wudn't knock him down, but I'd tell him to pruv it pruv, sir, prlly it, Ed say. If he couldn'i he'd be the liar, and there shud have him but if lie did pfuy that I'd lied, must c'er pocket the ahiont, and thefe, expect, the matter wad end. ?
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\ Aasfa1EatEs.

A IL persons imebied 10 the Ilfe firm Of F. Y. "A BAKER Se CO., either E,y note or book acct, arc requested 10 lay immediately
 Notes ana accaanss nat paid within q reasonable time, will be put into he hands of aft attorney. for collection (,eo. Bcess is auhorized 10 receive money, and give receipis notes asl asestsas due F.. Y Baker Ss Ce.
 EHfie Roef Ori It lSl3 S-tf
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1He last Link ia He Chaia.-From this city Buffalo, east, there is continuous line of railroads, extending to various points in New England, LIDO miles in length. The traveller from Boston or New Y ork can go with the unrivalled speed of steam to San- dusky City, and some forty miles south of it, on his way to the great valley of the Missis- sippi. Persons at New Orleans in Louisiana. at Natchez in Mississippi, at Little Rock in Arkansas, at Nashville in Tennessee, at St
 Louis in Missouri, at Burlington in Iowa, at Louisville in Kentucky, at Madison in lndi- ana, and at Cincinnati i'll Ohio, can all travel by steam from those points, to meet their friends coming from the north and east, and can approach them almost within halling distance. The completion of the Sandusky and Cincinnati railroad will weld the last link i'll the vast iron chain. It will practically ex- tend the great western railroad from Boston, fifteen tbousdnd miles, into the rich and al most bonndless valley of the tsfather of wa ters." It will bring Cincinnati, the Queen of the West, with its 60,000 inhabitants, within sirty-one hours travel of New Y ork and Boston. Every intelligent man knows that the farther railroad or canal is extended in- to the heart of a populated region, whose inhabitants possess, as we Americans do, a marvellous propensity to travel everywhere, and see every thing, to say nothing of our wonderful business enterprise, the more lu- cratiye will be the stock of every mile of such improvements. From the first ten miles of steamboat and locomotive travel from the great emporia of this State and New England, every additional ten miles added thereto is tsii6uary to the business of the first Taking this just view of the completion of the great chain of steam communication between the Mississippi, the great Lakes, and the Atlantic, may we not urge the owners of railroad and steamboat stock, between Sandusky, New Y ork, and Boston, to ccine forward and com plete this last link in the chain, as a matter of private gain BuGalo Com. .adr.
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NOTICE 'E4s SEaEEeaEH1S.

G GHERIFFS are reminded that, by law, if any - collector of the shall fail neglect to pay into the State Treasury the amount of State tax with which he may be cbargeahle, by the tenth day of December in each year. such delinquent collector will forfeit his commission allowed him by law, be charged by the Auditor of Public Accounts with the sum of twenty-five per centum on the amount then due from him, and moreover be liable to pay the of five per eentam per month thereon, until the same shall be paid
 To avoid these heavy penaldes imposed by law, the revenue due the State for the year lsi3, will have to be paid into the State Treasury before the tenth day of December nexf
 ELIAS N. CONWAY, Auditor
 of arisansas. AUDITons OFFICE,
 Little Rock, .4rh's, i7M Ocl.5 1913. 6-3w
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ARRIVAL 6 DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
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1.-THE KOGk.
 Eastern ldaH (ria Memphis.) Arrives SnAdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, al ' 0 clock, P. fl. Departs Tues1ays Thursdays and Saturdays.
 ltestcfa Mail, fria Fun BarenJ Arrives Wednesdays and Saturdays, al s, ?. M Departs Tuesdays and Fridays, at I, A. M.
 Southern taa. fpia fastiagioa) Arrives Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, al 10 r. NJ. Departs fueedays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 3, \. M.
 Nofbe,7. feia RalesrMe) Arrives Fridays and Mondays, al 1, P. NJ Departs snndays and Wednesdays, at B, P. M
 Columbia, feia Pine Btg.) Arrives Sundays and Thursdays, ai }, PM Departs Sundays and Thursdays, at l. \. NJ.
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E,ERAMvN' f EFspaaaaS.

WE'LL keep ea hand, ai all tiines. general as w sortment oi Goods which they are a.terniped to sell very low. They will be constantly sapI,icd with fresh goods. whieh will be bought in inc market fer cosh and as tev will sell entirely fof cash, they win be enabled 10 sell for small profits.
 Ldiic flaesf Oct it Is43 Sly
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Fishing Ertraordinary.-A few days ago, the Isle of Tree was visited by a shoal of whales, which were no sooner observed, then several boats put out to sea to surround .inem The 'sleaderso were shaving creek, when a native, Mir. D. Mclean, who chanced to be riding by, jumped off his horse, taking with him the bridle and his trusty dirk. Itis well known, that if one whale bleeds, and IS stranded, the rest of the shoal, by some ia tality, follow, and are easily secured Mr. Mclean, seeing the leader quite close, jumped upon its back, and stabbed it in the belly, The moment the monster took into the saline element, it turned belly up. Donald put his bridle about it's tail, and swan with it to an adjacent boat! In this manner the unequal fight was carried on for about an hour, when Mr. Mclean, after having secured eleven
 whales, felt exhausted, and had to give up tine contest. DamfrteS Courier.
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Ry Inc C,cyernor.

DAVID B. GREER, Secretary of Staie. Said Foreman is native of the Cherokee nation; about half-breed, tolerably dark, speaks English very well, is about 30 years of age weight about l60. has black hair and eyes.
 Daniet Chambers is between 25 and 30 years of age, has fair hair and skin aud blue eyes, says he is d blacksmith perhaps he may make his way to Missouri or Illinois, as he is from those States. SeDtember 30th, lSf3; 3-iw