Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-07-28

GEORGE w. CLARKE, Editor
VAN BUREN,, ARKANSAS.
SATURDAY. JULY %. I84s
TERMS REDUCED.
The terms of subscription to the .sIntelligencer''
has been reduced to TWO DOLLARS,
per unnum, Invariably in adrance.
GPosvely Job-Work done at this Office
without the cash being paid for the same upon de-
livery. We have to pay the cash for the mate
rials and labor used on the work, and of course
must have the money and nothing else.
OT WE are authorized to announce GREEN ].
CLARK, Esq. as candidate for Sheriff of Crawford
County, at the ensuing special election.
~ SHERlFF'S ELECTION.
GEO. GRoss, Esq, Sheriff pro tempore, has
given notice for an election of Shorif of Crawford
County, or Saturday the 4th August next.
ATTENTION-GOLD DIGGERS!
The Van Buren and Wichetaw Mining Compa-
ny have elected their officers, and will start from
Van Buren on the lst August next. All persons
desirous of joining, and going on the expedition
with us, must have the necessary outfit, as laid
down in our published regulations, and be at the
rendezvous at the time specified, they will be
excluded. J. Il. WILLIS, Sec'y.
The Rirer has risen IS feet since our last pub
lication and continues to rise.
The Duroc passed down on Saturday. The
Swallov arrived from below on Tuesday and left
next day for Fort Gibson. The Monedo left for
Fort Gibson on yesterday. aaa
OF The kind officers of the steamer S,calloac
are entitled to our thanks for late river papers.
GIVE learn by the Sacalloac that when she
left Fort Gibson on last Thursday, the cholera had
entirely disappeared, at that Post. Out of 76
cases, she reports l3 deaths. ra.- .e- -,..-
We also learn that the epidemic had disappeared
from among the Creeks.
GrWe are requested to say that DR.. A. Nc
CoRMIcK, late of Pulaski county, will shortly open
a School IN Van Buren. He comes under the
highest Recommendation, accomplished teach
er, in the various branches of education. His
prospectus will appear in our next issue.
National Fast Day.-We publish to-day the
official proclamation Of the President of the United
States, setting apart the first Friday in august,
national day of public Fasting, Humiliation,
and Prayer, for deliverance from the pestilence
with which we are scourged. While The czons
OF Arkansas pray iOr tnelr deliYerance from the
pestiIence which has spread almost every
other part of the republic, should offer up our
most grateful thanksgiving to Divine Providence
for having SO far selected as worthy objects of
his blessing, and having stayed the progress of the
fell destroyer through our land, which has been
beyond all past years, most remarkably he althy
and free of all kinds of disease
Chickasaw Agem.-We learn by newspaper re.
ports 1--WE have seen no official announcement that
Col. A. NJ. M. Upshaw has been removed from
the Chckasaw Agency, and Mr.. WILLIAM H. BELL
OF Columbus, Miss, has been appointed to the va
cancy. Mr.. Bell is said to be democrat, and
the whig papers are endeavoring to make great
capital out of this appointment. But we only call
1t throwing tub TO the whale" 1t won't do,
The ship will be stove, and Captain Taylor can,
save it,.
Graham's Maga=iae.-We inexcusably neglect
ed last week to notice the arrival of this very wei.