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The Opelousas courier., 1857-07-18
TICKET DEMoCRATIoUE.

TICKET DEMoCRATIQUE.
Pour ANditeur,
E. w. ROBERTSON,
Poasr Iresorier,
ROBERT A. I'D INTER,
Pour Sttrintendant de rEdacation Pa6ligue,
W. j. HAMILTON.
Pour ie Quatriems District Congressional,
JOHN Nn. SANDXDGE.
Pour Stnateurs Ia legislature,
BENJAMIN r. CAN'T, de St. Landry
AMEDEE PUJO, de Calcasieu.
Pour Reprasentants,
OLIVIER d. GUIDRY. du Carancro.
JOHN J. MORGAN, de l'Atchafalaya.
WILLIAM REED, de la Vile Plate.
Pour Shsry;
LOUIS v. CHACHERE.
Pour Recorder,
ANDREW J. THOMPSON.
Pour Assesseur,
a JOSEPH B. RICHARD.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

thousand eight hundred and fifty six, and of
the independence of the United States the
eightieth.
w. L. MARCY.
And whereas the said convention has been
duly ratified on both parts, and the respective
ratfications of the same were exchanged in
the city of Washington on the 18th instant,
by VIM. L. Marcy, Secretary of State Of the.
United States, and the Chevalier Hulsemann
his Austrian Majesty's minister resident in the
United States, on the part of their respective
governments:
Now, therefore. be it known. that | FRA NIX
LIN PIERCE, President of the United States
of America, have caused the said convention
to be made public, to the end that the same,
and every clause and article thereof; may be
observed and fulfilled with good faith by the
United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington, this
fifteenth day of December, in the
r. year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six, and of the
independence of the United States
the eights-first
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY the President:
w. L. MARCY, Secretary of STATE.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Fine Prospect for Whisky Drinkers.-
Under the above caption the Chicago Demo
crat has the following.
1t has been so satisfactorily proved that
strychnine is used to large extent in the
manufacture of whisky, that the legislature of
Ohio, just adjourned, passed law which
makes it a State prison offence to use it for
such a purpose. BY the use of certain
quantity of this poison, with tobacco juice,
every bushel of grain is made to produce five
gallons Of whisky. while with an honest dis
tiIlation the product is only half that amount.
1t was the drainage from these strychnine
distilleries that killed their hogs, causing the
hitherto mysterious disease known as hog
cholera. Fish have also been killed in the
Sciota river at Chillicothe by the drainage
from distieries in which this delightful bev-
erage is prepared. A chemist says barrel
of it contains strychnine enough to kill thirty
men. If the mere drainage has produced
such fearful mortality among the hogs that
thousands of them have died, as of cholera,
we think the whisky drnkers-those who
have the full benefit of the strychnine and to-
bacco juice in their potations-must have a
delightful time ahead.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

ESWe learn that Prof. Woo5 wht, has
been connected with the WALL. institute
for the last two years, has received and ac-
eepted the principalship of the Hillsbororg gh
Academy, in the southern part of this State.
We are intimately acquainted with the Pro-
fessor, and know him not only to be .lri7
tian gentleman, but ripe and finished scnol-
ar. He leaves this field of his labor with the
kindly recommendations of all, that in his wider
and more lucrative position, he may be emf
nently useful and happy. We be.peak for
him kindly reception and wish him safe
Journey southwark.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Potato Digging T., Aachinery.-Every one
who has dug potatoes and felt the back break
ing, headaching trials which accompany the
tedious process, will feel a bound of pleasure
on learning that Yankee ingenuity promises
to supersede by machinery, the affective la
Dor Of gathering this important harvest. Mr.
Taggart, of Roxbury, Massachusetts,, has pa
tented simple contrivance for the purpose,
which an agricultural house in Utica is about
to carry into practical use. 1t is plough
shaped machine, with double set of revolv-
ing metal fingers, which take up the fayorite
root, winnow them from the earth, and de-
post them in baskets hung on each side or
in couple Of rows upon the earth. With a
pair OF horses, man, it is calculated, can dig
rom SIX to ten acres per acre. We shall
watch with curiosity the results of trial of
the invention. 1t will work very important
revolution in potato raising.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
JAMES YELL.


Scarcity of Breadstufs and Prorisions.-
From many parts of the country we see and
hear accounts of the great scarcity of the ne
cessaries of life for man and beast. We learn
that in parts of Blount, Hancock, Walker
and Marion counties, Alabama, especially. are
many of the people, and their horses and cat
tie, verging on starvation. The citizens of
Lawrence county, about Moulton and Court
land, have subscribed some $500 and odd
for the relief of sufferers in Hancock and per-
baps Walker. When the circuit court was
about to sit in Hancock county, Hon A. b.
Moore presiding, the people frankly said, they
had not enough to feed the persons in attend
ance or their horses, and the court was forced
to adjourn. We understand many have left
their homes and gone to nei2 hborhoods where
food could be had, and camped, leaving their
fields untsndet, for want of ability of man and
beast to work without food. 1t is said many
cattle and hogs have died of starvation. The
consequence will be scarcity next fall. win
ter and spring; and hence, the people of more
favored regions ought to plant larger crops of
gram and less of cotton. We understand that
deshtntlon similar to that in Hancock, etc,
prevails IN Pike and other southern counties
ot alabama, and also, that in county in East
l?'7essee the court was compelled to adjourn
l c,'ise it could not be fed A letter to the
Augusta Constitutionalist from Chuenuggee,
Macon county, Ala, says the wheat crop looks
well, but cotton sickly, and the corn is much
injured. Most of our people have been com
PEELED, before getting stand, to plant cotton
twice and corn three times.-Ata. Democrat.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
TEteaRAPHic.

BALTIMORE, May 26.-A railroad accident
occurred to-day, near Harrisburg, Pa, by
which twelve passengers were injured
Among these were Col, Benton, who was
slightly bruised.
WAsmSGroS, May 26.-The Secretary Of
War and General Scott are engaged in max
ing sn entirely new disposition Of our militia.
ry force, in reference to the exigencies which
may arise out of the new state Of things in
Utah.
MEMPHIS, May 26.-Two accidents occur
red to-day to an excursion train on the Men,
phis and Charleston railroad. Mr.. Mendel.
of Memphis, and another person, name and
residence unknown, were killed and several
wounded
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Relics Of the United States Bank.-It is
stated that all the old books, papers, drafts,
notes of hand, &c, formerly the property of
the United States bank, to the amount of for
ty tons, have been purchased by Messrs. Bot
tom d. Co., of Trenton, and are to be ground
up and converted into paper. The True
American of that city says ten tons of this
vast amount is of correspondence, autograph
letters of the first statesmen, politicians. and
financial men of this and other countries.-
Drafts upon the Rothschilds for hundreds of
thousands of dollars, certificates of stock trans
ferred to leading bankers in Europe, checks
and drafts from Clay, Webster, Adams, Cal
houn, Crockett, Cass, Houston, DC, DC, all
lie scattered ready for the important transfer
nation into clean, unsulied, white paper
This huge mass Of books and papers strikes
the visitor with astonishment. A faint idea
may be formed of the colossal character of
the institution which at one time occupied SO
important part in the history of the coun.
try.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Hurley's SarspariIIa,

For the removal and permanent cure of
scrofula, dyspepsia, bronchitis, pumonary-af-
fections and all cutaneous eruptions arising
from an impure or vitiated condition of the
blood. it stands unapproached in the history
OF medicine. II may be used at all seasons
with very decided advantage, but especially
in the spring and summer seasons.-Iosca
Repubiioan.
Sold Wholesale by Schieffelin, Bro. & Co.,
N. Y; Russell, Scott & Co., Philadelphia, Pa;
Park, Gin. o; Wright Il Co., N. O.; Bacon,
Hyde d Co., St. Louis, Mo; and all extensive
drug merchants.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Instructions Reiatire to the Neso Tar;f.-
The Secretary Of the Treasury, in anticipation
of the operation of the late tariff act, has Just
issued to the officers of the customs addition
al general regulations under the revenue and
collection laws. AS the act of March disturbs
but to slight extent the classification of i'm
ports made by the act of ls44. the construc-
tioU heretofore given by the treasury depart
ment to that act is applicable, except where
that law has been modified. The provisions
of the goth section of the act of August, 1912,
furnish the rule of construction to be applied
to articles not specially designated in the sew
eral schedules of the act of 1857.
All other articles not so susceptible of cas-
siication will be liable to a duty of fifteen per
cent. Merchandise in public store on the lst
Of July next, or in bond under the warehous-
ing laws, whether deposited in any warehouse
authorized by law, or passing in transitu I'M
der bond from one part Of the United States
to another, will, irrespective of the date OF
their originalal importation or bonding, be
subject, on withdrawal for consumption, to
the rates of duty prescribed by the act OF
1851.
As so the admission of sleeps wool, un-
manufactured, of the value of twenty cents a
pound or less, at the port of expectation, the
Secretary decides that the value in the for
eign market does not include the expenses of
packing, commissions or charges incurred in
shipment.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

g-W. s: Swymmer, General Newspaper
and Advertising Agent, St. Louis, No., has
sold out all his interest in said agency to Mr..
James E. Dudderidge. Mr.. Dudderidge will
act as our agent, who is authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions, advertising, &c,
for the Arkansas Intelligencer.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Abolition of the Franlring Privilege.

The time has come, row that postal reform
is being agitated, when vigorous effort
should be made to procure the abolition of
the franking privilege. 1t is this privilege,
in fact, which is the Old Man of the sea on
the shoulders of the post office department
If it could be abrogated, the post Office reve-
nue., as statistical tables have shown again and
again, would nearly, if not quite, equal the
post office expenditures. The documents frak
ed for electioneering purposes load down the
mails, delay transmission of more legitimate
matter, and involve the republic in enormous
expenses. The whole system is radically
wrong. 1t is the remnant Of an obsolete Gus
tom in England, where it existed as the pr
vilege of ruling caste, and having been imi
tated here before our colonial habits were
entirely sloughed off, has been suffered to
continue long after it was abolished in Great
Britain. Both principle and policy dictate its
removal.
We do not deny that Legislators are sub
jected, in their public capacity, to more ex-
tensive correspondence than they would carry
on as private individuals. We do not deny
that the republic ought to liquidate this extra
postage. But the proper way would be to
approximate towards the expense which each
Congressman would legitimately incur; to fix
his postage allowance accordingly; and to
compel him, hereafter, to pay with stamps,
like other citizens. So long as franking ex-
lists as privilege it will be continually abused.
The average Of human nature is unable to
withstand the temptations which beset those
honored with this unlimited power of charg-
ing the public treasury. In England franking
has been abolished for many years, as incon.
sistent with the equal rights of citizens and
the financial interests of the State: and the
world sees the strange spectacle of a republic
continuing an abuse which a monarchy has
repudiated.-Pha. Ledger.
Cousining.-Speaking Of the effect of inter
marriage among blood relations, the Freder.
icksburg News says:
In this county, in which we were raised,
for twenty generations back, certain families
Of wealth and responsibility have intermarrfed
until there cannot be found in three or four
Of them sound man or woman /One has
sore eyes, another scrofula, third & an IDIOT
fourth blind, ifth bandy-legred, sixth
with a head abou. the size Of tnrnip. with
not one out Of the number exempt from phy-
sical defects Of some kind or other.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Notwithstanding the blasted prospects
for crops this season, we are informed by the
best and most intelligent farmers in this sec
tion of country, that the crops at this season
of the year, never was more promising they
are now. They expect a full average crop.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Eg When the Univesalists first started
their preachngs at Newburyport, they found
as in many other places in New England
plenty of opposition from the bigoted ones
They, however, grew apace in spite Of their
enemies, and soon had IA meeting house erect
ed, with the figure IAN angel blowing a trum-
pet for vane. An old lady, a devout Pres
byterian, who had ever looked with holy hor-
ror on all the movements Of the new sect, As
soon as she espied the vane upon the spire
of their church, exclaimed, "Wal, if that ere
arn't jist ike 'em; they're dreadful set.-
Only look. They've got a man on the top o
their steeple drinking out of a bottle, Its
jist like en- Boston Post.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Gram and Whisky.-The Cincinnati Price
Current Of Wednesday week, says:

Grain and Whisky.-The Cincinnati Price
Current of Wednesday week, says:
During the last ten days our market for
whisky has been greatly excited, and prices
have advanced fully thirty per cent This
advance has not been produced by any ad-
vance in the article in the seaboard markets,
but on the contrary prices now nearly as
high in this market as they are in New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, or New Orleans, but
IS consequent upon present and prospective
scarcity OF grain, and upon the fact that the
first cost of whisky, based upon the present
current rates from the material from which it
is made, is far above what it was selling at
two weeks ago, consequently involving distil-
lers In serious losses, who had not stocks of
grain laid in at much lower rates than those
now current. Another cause which led to an
increase in the first cost Of whisky is the great
mortality among hogs which are fattened up
on the slop. Heretofore the hogs Weld
very comfortable portion of the profits, rising
from the distlling business, but the last year
or so the business of feeding them has been
positive loss.
Consequent upon the scarcity of grain and
the low price obtained for whisky, the greater
proportion of distillers were forced to curtail
their business, and some three or four of them
have suspended operations, or are about to do
SO Immediately.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

cE-S. NJ PErTINGrLL Co., General Newspa-
Per Agents, ll9 Nassau street, New York are our
authorized agents to receive and receipt for ad-
vertisements, subscri ptions, &c.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Decision Of General limit Office ia Cases
Of Claims by Pre-emPtioH 10 L0.ds Hith-
drawn for Railroad Parpoyes.-Ist. 1t is
held that claims BY presumption founded on
settlements made prior to the time when the
route Of railroad is definitely fixed, or prior
to the date of absolute withdrawal of the land
from market, are valid, provided the claimant
complied in all other respects with the law
I'd. Claims resting on settlements made
after the route OF a road is definitely fixed, or
after the date of absolute withdrawal of the
land from market, are inadmiSsible.
3D.. According to the opinion of Attorney
General Gushing, of the 10th of February
last, the route of a road, or any parts thereof,
is definitely fixed when they are surveyed,
marked, and fixed on the ground WASH
an yton Union
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

~We acknowledge the receipt of sew
eral numbers of the Wall Street Broker, a
new paper lately established in New York,
by John S. Dye, the most celebrated fnancier
and stock broker in this country. No busi-
ness man should be without it. Subscription
price only one dollar per annum.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

~The river since our last issue has ia.
ken slight rise. with sufficient water fol
small boats, and rising slowly.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Affectionately your nephew,

A. 7. YELL.
At tho time of writing this letter he drew
deed to me for all his lands in Arkansas, as
described in Gov Yell's will. He then drew
a draft for eight hundred dollars. He then
read the letter and deed and delivered over
the draft; and by such means he gets money
from respectable men wherever he goes. The
public is hereby notified that none of the drafts
drawn by Anthony w. Yell, alias Houser,
have been paid, nor will any of them meet
honor from me.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Important TO Bachelors-The editor Of
the New York Mirror ian expert in these
matters) gives the following sage counsel to
a gentleman who writes to inquire "what sort
of woman it is desirable to marry!"
In reply to the very respectfully written
note before us, we will venture TO suggest
that, if the writer thereof has come To the So
Der conclusion that he can improve his own
condition and that of the human race by COM
hitting matrimony, he should select for his
travelling companion through this ''sublunary
vale of tears" a woman with more heart than
brain, more soul than intellect, more emotion
than Imagination. Such one, with an
agreeable share of health and beauty, is the
"rose without the thorn"
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

eB-C. PIERCE, General Newspaper Agent, Phil
adelphia, is our authorized agent to receive and
receipt for advertisements subscriptions &c.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
Publication Day--Every Friday.

sS-JANEs E. DUDDERIpGE, General Newspaper
and Advertising Agent No. IA, Second street. oppo-
site the post office, St. Louis, Mo. is the regular
agent for this paper.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

@With this issue closes the publication
of the laws Of Congress, passed during the
third session of the thirty fourth Congress.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Panic in a Church at Lancaster, (Pa.)-
A scene of St. James episcopal church, in
Lancaster, Pa, which for time threated to
be very serious in its consequences. An i'm.
mense crowd of men, women, and children
had assembled in the church to witness a
double wedding. The pews, aisles, galleries,
and stairways were packed to suffocation and
many even scrambled on the backs Of the pews
and other available places, The ceremony
being cveI, the bridal party had scarcely re-
tired from the church when an old bench,
which had been carried into the organ gale
ry. gave way under the weight Of those stand
ing upon it, The crash started frightful
panic. Some persons in the gallery cried
out that the gallery falling, and general
stampede commenced in all parts of the church
The lower windows were thrown up and used
by many as means of exit. One young
gentleman was SO terribly frightened that he
quite forgot the lady he had escorted to church
and made a break through the nearest win
dow, carrying with him the entire lower Sec
ton of the sash. He was quickly followed
by couple of ladies, and others were pre-
vented from leaping out by those on the in
side who had presence of mind sufficient to
see that there was no real danger except that
which arose from the panic. Several other
ladies got out of the gallery windows, descend
ing on the vestry roof, and from thence into
the church-yard. A number of ladies tainted,
which, with the screaming and praying, the
rattling of blinds and broken glass, presented
frightful spectacle. Those under the gale
ry supposed to be falling made rush in the
direction of the pulpit, overturning and slight
ly damaging the baptismal front and carrying
away the banister in front of the chanccl 1t
was finally ascertained that there was no real
DANGER
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

EE-The weather during the week has
been quite warm, with occasional showers of
rain, which has given new life to all kinds of
vegetation.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Monster to Engiand.-It is thought, in
consequence of the rejection of the Dallas
Clarendon treaty, our minister, Mr.. Dallas,
will return home, and that ex-Secretary Mar
cy viii be sent out as his successor.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12
A Ladies Man in Limbo.

Samuel ID. Kenney, whose especial delight
for many years has been to promenade Wash
ington and other prominent streets of the city,
during the fashionable hours of the day, often
with female upon his arm, and otherwise
strolling slowly along to catch good view of
all the opposite sex that4Pass, was arrested
yesterday, at the instigatiok of a young lady
of Charestown, who complained TO Justice
Russell, of the Police Court, that Mr.. Kinney
was in the habit of following her and anoth-
young lady of the same city, in the street,
against her will, and in so persevering man
ner as to constitute technical assault, causing
her, in consequence of his opportunities and
conduct, to take refuge in stores to free her
self from his presence. 1t appears that this
young lady for short time was acquainted
with Kinney, but upon obtaining more in
innate knowledge OF his peculiar characters
tics declined further intimacy. 1t is fact,
we believe. that personal chastisement follow
ed his perseverance in this system Of annoy-
ance, but it seems without avail, and at last
the law has been appealed to. Justice Rus
sell issued his warrant for the arrest Of Ken
ney. and yesterday afternoon he was brought
up for examination. There were four counts
in the complaint, of assault, insult, &c, on two
of which he was fined $lo and costs, and %
the others S. and costs, with bonds in $500
to keep the peace for one year. From this
sentence he appealed and gave bonds in $1,000
to prosecute his appeal in the municipal court
Kenney, several years ago, it will be rernem-
bered, was arrested on a carge of being a vag-
abond, and he appears to have at times the
command of considerable money, with infiu-
entail friends. He has, it is said, number
Of staunch defenders among the female sex,
who will not hear word to his disadvant-
age-Bosfoa Traveller.
Invited to Resign.-The New York corre-
spondent of the Baltimore American, in his
letter of the 10th, says:
Sixteen members of "Rev." DR.. Cheever's
church, last week, invited him to resign his
pastoral charge over the church Of the Puri-
tans, disliking his course on the matter of the
Supreme Court Dred Scott decision. Last
night there was meeting of his church and
congregation. which resulted in an unanimous
vote sustaining the @Rev." worthy. The par
ties who signed the letter. asking the Doctor
to resign, were among the audience, and arc
supposed to have kept silence.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

See card of VIM. G. Lane & Co., l94
Broadway, New York.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

Corn has again advanced in st. Louis
selling on the 5th, sound yellow and white
the last delivered free, at 20 to 75c per bush.
ai
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

TThe s. III. Tucker arrived from Napo
leon yesterday.
Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-12

EFLcok out for the comet next Tuesda,
the 10th inst