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Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
From the Chicago Press and Tribune. An Antediluvian Well.
Stlrlino. July 23d. 1S5|


 ask short space in your columns for the purpose of noticing what is called in White side county an antediluvian well. Hearing that such one had been discovered. arrange. ments were made by Dr. L. S Pennington, the Rev. E. Erskne of this place, and your cores pondent, to Visit the locality and investigate the matter. Accordingly few days since MT. E and myself repaired to the residence of Dr. r. about four miles north of town and under hls guidance we saled forth on our expedition. Our route was west, but owing to the nature of the ground, we passed a little to the northward. 'traverslng one of the finest open prairies in the State of Illinois. After crossing Spring Creek. we came again upon cultivated prairies and pusLng on past Hickory Grove we came to the point ot interest in the western line of the town ot Hopkins, near the northwest corner of the town. The well is situated on the farm known as the Finch farm, and now owned by Mir. J A. Hart. The farm Is on an elevated prairie and commands fine view of the surronndny country.
 The facts concerning the well, as we gathered them from eye witnesses, at the time it was duo or rather discovered about two years since. seem to be these:
 MT. Finch had occasion to dig a we'll. and the workmen having dug down about twentv-seven feet from the surface in the usual prairie soil. came upon stratum of black vegetable soil containing remains of wood in tolerablv good state of preservation, branches of trees resem- bllng cedar, etc. Near the lower edge of this stratum the workmen came upon wall made of hat stones, which, upon examination, was soon found to be circular and ot about the size ot an ordinary well. Oneside of this wall was found to be about foot and half higher than the other. It was also found that the work men had not dug down exactly over the newly discovered wall, but few inches aside They pursued thelr investigations and found that the well was from eight to ten feet deep and built Tn substantial manner. IL was filled with the black vegetable soil, and remains of cedar found at the topot the well. Upon clearing out this soil and mud, there was abundance of good water.
 There was also found in the bottom of the well about enough stone to make the top of the wall of equal height. The soil exterior to the wall was entirely different from that in the interior, resembling somewhat the soil overly Ing the three feet of black vegetable soil Upon thS old wall the w0rkmen built their new wall We should have gone down in the well to see Tor ourselves, but the recent rains had filed the well with some ten feet of water
 The foregoing facts are vouched for by men who were in the well and examined it before the new wall was laid, and immediately after the rubbish was removed from the old well.
 Now, when and by whom was this we'll con- structed! This Is question for geoogists to answer. shall not attempt to speculate upon
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University of Mississippi !!
 FACILITY OF PTS

ENREDERICK 4. P. BARNARD, L. L. D.. Pre- T sdent and Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Civil Engineering
 WILLIAM F. STEARNS Professor of Goyern- mental Science and Law
 GEORGE W. GARTER, NJ. A., Professor of h. tellectual and Moral Philosophy
 EDWARD c. BOYNTON, NJ. A., Professoi of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy.
 WILSON c. RICHARDSON, NJ A.. Professor of Latin and Modern Languages.
 HENRY WHITEHORNE. NJ. A., Professor of Greek and Ancient Literature
 JORDAN Nj. PHIPPS, NJ. A., Professor of Ma thematics.
 WILLIAM D. MOORE. NJ. A., Professor of En- glish Language and Literature
 -, Assistant in Natural Philosophy.
 The Eleventh Annual Session of this Institution will commence on the FIRST MONDAY IN OCTO- BER, at which time it is desired that candidates for admission will promptly apply.
 The University has recently very largely increased its facilities for furnishing education of the most superior order, having provided costly apparatus and cabinets of minerals and shells for the illustration of subjects of science. and having materially enlarged its accommodations for the comfort as well as for the improvement of its students.
 The institution is located i'll one of the most bealth u regions in the entire south and is surrounded by a population noted for intelligence, morality and a religious spirit.
 Being on the line of the Mississippi Central Rail- road It Is accessible from the south and the north and by the connections of the roal with wide dis trict of country.
 TERMs-Tuitien $40; Fuel and Servant hire, s25 Students not lodging in the College, sl0 The fee heretofore charged for fuel and servants was made quate.
 Law Students, $50. Board at the hall and in pri- vate families about SIP per month. These charges are supposed to be lower than those of most Colleges offering similar advantages.
 Catalogues will be furnished by application to any member of the Faculty.
 JAMES Nj. HOWRY, Oxford, July l5, '5S Secretary of the Board. Sept. l. 1858. 6m
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01

QUACK NosTROMs.-The majority of hair washes, hair dyes, hair tonics, hair oils, and the numberless preparations which are now before the public under such extravagant, hyperbolical and fantastic titles as we see paraded in the show-window cards and newspaper headings, as hair preparations, are all humbugs of the first water; their real merit, when they possess any, IS, that they do no harm Hogs lard, whale oil lard oil, sweet oil, scented and colored, make up, when in beautiful wrappers, and white flint glass bottles, the costliest character of toncs. and when thus coustly are baptsed with some tr-Syilable term, and caught at by verdant young and old of both sexes. Such is not the character Of Professor Woods hair restorative. Ih's gentleman comes before the world without any "high talutin" Xilophloforium or any other astounding and startling catch penny term; he simply advertises hair restorative- what It expresses precisely-and as a restora. tive acts. Buy Professor Woods hair restora- tive, and as you value your scalp, ave- your very brains, apply nothing else; for it may be that you will get some worse substance than per- fumed lard oil on your cranium. Remember, Woods restorative for the hair is she best article
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01

POSTAGE STAMPS AND ENvELoPs.--A good many old-fashoued business men object to the use of envelops in their correspondence, be- cause the postmark is an important evidence in the Identification of letters. There is no way ot establishing the connection between the en- velop and the enclosure, and of proving that the postmark on the former gives the date when the letter was mailed
 It would be conveniencei if the government would furnish writing paper stamped in the same way that envelops now are, 50 that the same sheet might bear the communication, the supersenpIlon and the date of mailing, without the necessity of using the separate stamps
 It would be a convenience. too. if the oov ernment would furnish stamped envelops in a greater variety of size and of quality of the paper. The perforation in the sheets of stamps enabling them to be separated without the use oi scissors, Is valuable improvement.
 There should be some way by which the penny post could be prepaid on letters and pa. pers sent out of the city. A man writing on his own business does not wish his correspond ent to pay the penny post, nor does he wish to enclose the petty cost of it, either in money or in a stamp.
 There are many other ways in which bhe postoffice should be made to render greater ser vice to the United States, and to increase its own revenues. Our postoffice ought to be the most cons enient, prompt, certain aud rapid in the world. It Is far behind those of France and gland.-Prouidence Journal
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and transparent that we did not feel called upon to notice It. Its general publication, however, makes It the work of the republican press.- They have adopted it as their own, and made IL part of their system of universal detrac- ton. Every paper that has published it with out nalilng 1t to the table as counterfeit has adopted 1t. It has, therefore passed from the rascal that first started it to the multitude of rascals who are now using it as political cheat
 What should be said of party and party tools who can stoopto the use of such low devices ,o effect their purposes? Who can estimate ,be depths of moral degradation into which no
 ton would be plunged that would confer its oe
 hces Of trust and honor upon such men? Is ;t
 answered that it is merely transparent trick
 which the commonest sagacity could not fail to detect? So it was, but the very boldness of the forgery prevented it's exposure, and the re- publican press seized upon this omission as a license to circulate it for political effect We repeat 1t is now their forgery. They have made 1t their own. We pin it 10 their backs that it may advertise their designs and their utter demoralzation as party They may make the most of it and of every other fraud they are trying to impose upon the country- It Is evidently in their way; and we warn the democracy by this reference to it that they have to hght an enemy not only without political principles, but without the least moral restraint.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01

SOMETHING FOR THE NATURALIsT.-We have on this frontier two natural curosities which we have never seen in the writings of naturalists. One is of the vegetable and the other Of the animal kingdom. The vegetable Is a small plant, not unlike the water eress, or common field parsley, ln appearance, and grows in the uplands in places remote from water, in quantities sufficient to supply that. necessary aliment to large herds of cattle. specimen of this singular plant was presented us by Mir. Adolphus Glaevecke who assures us that It has afforded his cattle the only water they have lad through the whole of the protrac;ed drought we have had upon US. His stock farm, he as sures us, has no standing or running water with III miles of 1t, yet his cattle have kept in bet ter order than some of his neighbors, while the only water they obtained was from this plant. We have not Knowledge of botany enough to classify It, but can fully credit the statement of our friend. Each of the leaves of the plant gwen us, at noon day, presents the appearance of having just received a shower of rain and when pressed between the fingers yield several drops of limpld water. The presence of this plant is invaluable on some of our lands. where the water is So scarce.
 The other curiosity to which we allude is honey making ant. We had before read oi many varieties of this industrious little animal. but never before of this class. In size ano color it resembles the ordinary large red ant so common in all the southern States but it singularty consists in globule of honey, abou the size of pea, which this ant has attache, to it, after the manner in which spider carrie her young. The curiosity hunter would find
 rich field for his researches on this frontier.- Bros0nsrille Te5as) Flag.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
John Morgan.
BILL FOR DIVORCE!

STATE OF ARKANSAS,
 COUNTY OF SEARCY.
 In the Circuit Court of Searcy in vacation chan eery side thereof, A. D. 1858.
 Thomas Hedrick Complaiaant.
 Nancy Hedrick, Detendaut.
 hN this day came the complainant, by J. C. NJ. V Hicks, his solicitor. and filed his bill, of com plant and affidavit of the residence in this State of the defendant the object and prayer of which bill Is to obtain decree of divorce from the said defend ant, upon the ground that the defendant hath with out any reasonable cause, abandoned and remained absent willfuly from the said complainant for more than one year last past is therefore ordered that the said defendant be notified of the institution and pendency of this suit, by publication of this order in the rue Democrat. newspaper printed and pub llshed at Little Rock. Arkansas, two Weeks succes- svely, the last insertion te be at least four weeks before the next term of this court and that unless she shall appear and demur, plead to or otherwise answer the said bill of complaint by the second day oi the next term of circuit court court to be begun and holden at the court house. in the county of Searcy aforesaid. on the second Monday of the fourth Monday in September next, A. D. 1858, the said bill will be taken S confessed and decree enter ed thereon accordingly. Witness my hand as such clerk, in vacation, this l4th day of August A. D. 1858. ALEX HILL Clerk
 per c. D. GuRLEY, D. c. A true copy from the record.
 Attest. ALEX HILL Clerk
 per .. D. GURLEY, D. c. Sept l. 1858. 2w Cost of adv S6 80
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
For the True Democrat. Rogal Coloag, White County, Ark.,
 AuOust 30th 1SSS


 August 30th, 1858. Mir. EDrToR-Since one John C. McCauly, behind fictitious has lSed through the Searcy Eagle against me and since the editor of that paper has seen proper to close it's columns againstrne I ssk place in your paper for the following:
 One thing that blackens the name of John C. McCauy is the fact-frst that whatever he has said of me is wholly unprovoked; and, secondly that he knew tt tse time that was not only iustifabe but deserved whatever credit is awarded to those who sacrace their interest guard the rights of the people.
 Notwithstanding this McCauly like hound puppy. sneaked behind fictitious name to vomit the putrid slime of islander and besnear with s the facts that have been admitted by Mir. Moore and asserted by Mir. Elam and myself.
 Ieba,ge .Lo1sn c. Nc Cauly scith being an unpro- roked, soiffat and malicious slanderer, and will show him to be liar from his own words Now listen M McCauly publishes an extract of letter he says he got of I. W. Adams scttcA ertract speaks ONLY Qf LATE coarersation 5eticeea 4danas naasef and aether gentleman, " Me Just time Icas at Adanss house" long qfter the argument of dspute and refers to ttqt drgunaeat. Thea Nc Cauly says, c. O. Da- uis oiU testify to fae same hat scrstten Hv Nr Adans." Ddris not present and has not 6een sa nay presence sance first drguneat and Of course cdaot testify to auy tg tut las pdssed at ana sub sequent conversation.
 Now ask the community, is not this he, o shal- low foolish lie
 Is not this contemptible ignoramus to be pitied Any fellow who is so weak intellectually as to make such blunder this is scarcely responsible for what he might say. Yes, he is to be pitied for he has evidently been put forward by interested men to say what they ashamed to say; he has certainly been made the cats 's.paw.
 John C. McCauly is probably the only man in all Searcy wholly depraved and lost to every sense of honor and truth and he therefore made the easy .ooS oi some petty tyrant to do his dirty work and tell or islanders to propagate. ''' " But do not hate McCauly, Aatvsd is yeserved to, MEN. ~ 1.cta <lx. el. mud, could hate the slimy warty toad that croaks in the stagnant pond! No. If they come in my way will crush them without single sensation of ha- tired. Such my feelings for McCauly and such will be my course of action towards him.
 If McCauly dislikes any thing that have said he can proceed to help himself.
 l shall usually be found at my place in Colony township. and never hesitate to meet either man or beast whether the beast come in human shape on four feet HAYWOOD c. ROBERTSON. 47--lt*
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
From the Washington Uni, Forgery as Party Weapon.

We have not the slightest belief in the world the letter going the rounds of the opposition journals and copied exsltingy into the Phila- delpha Press, purporting to be by MT. Buch- anan to Mir. English, of Indiana, has yet de-. ceived a single man. It bears on its face unmis- takable evidence that it is gross forgery, we had almost said too gross to be malicious No man knew better than the editor of the Press that it was forgery. It has been circulated by the opposition, accompanied by many ex- pressions of confidence in its genuineness. They all knew that in doing so they became parties to a fraud, and yet aided to impress the coun- try with the idea that what they well under stood to be miserable Roorback was in reality the production of Mir. Buchanan's pen.
 The reader must not infer that, because we notice the circulation of this forgery, we do so to rescue the President from it's e6ee.s We saw it in the papers, but it was so gross ----ean
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
ARKANSAS CnIIECE

VuNlE Seventh Session of this Institution will com A mence on the first Monday in September, 1858 and continue till the 4th of July 1859. The course of study is extensive requiring in general four years for completion.
 Connected with the College is . Preparatory and English Department in which special attention is paid to the elements of good classical and English education.
 The facilities afforded the student in respect to com petent Instructors, connections recitation rooms good boarding etc. are not surpassed in the south or west
 FEES FOR TERM OF FIVE MONTHS. Tuition, in advance, English and Preparatory SIS co
 College. ................ % O0 Board including washing, etc., from sl T5 to s2 25 per week. No extra charges. Students received at any time during the session For further inforlna- uon address ROBT. GRAHAM. President. Sept. l, 1858. 3m Fayetteyille Art
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
Little Rock High School for
 Young Ladies.

RELIEVING that female school of high order A1 might be established, on q permanent basis in Little Rock, and So conducted to afford to parents and guardians the means of giving their daughters and wards complete and finished an education at home, that obtained by sending them to the schools of other States, many of our citizens have become assocated by stock subscription for the purpose of forming h Institution. for which they expect to obtain an Act of Incorporation.
 The stockholders having organized and elected Boards of Trustees and Visitors whose name. are hereto appendedthe attention of parents and guar dans is now called the inducements offered by this school.
 The Trustees are making arrangements to engage the servces of suitable and well qualified teachers male and female "a Principal and Assistant. for in struction in Latin, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences-a teacher of Modern Languages-a pro- lessor of Music teacher of the Primary Depart ment
 Rates of Tuition as adopted by the Board for sion of five months
 For Primary Department. ................$i2 % "'Junior.t ................. Is 00 For Latin, French, Italian and German, each BIO per session.
 Music-Piano. Harp and Gu;tar e.cb COX -or so. sion. OS'' s-o PS' ''' Fees for tniton to be paid invariably. one hal, i, advance and the residue at the middle of each session Adopted as rule for the school that the scholars be taught Vocal Music without extra charge and no additional charges for fuel lights use of musical i'm struments, or any other contingencies.
 UNIFORM FOR WINTER.
 Dark plain worsted dresses, with sleeves closed at the wrist, collars of plain linen, black aprons and bonnets: superuous article of dress to be al- lowed, and jewelry strictly prohibited.
 It is expected that the school will be opened on the first Monday in October; by which time it is believed that all arrangements will be completed. Any in formation in reference to the school may be obtained on application to the President Secretary.
 Trustees:
  ALBERT PIKE, VIM. K. VAUGHN, S. H. TUCKER. l.. E. BARBER, CHARLES RAPLEY, HENRY JACOBI, c. P. BERTRAND, JOHN WASSELL, JAMES B. MOORE, DAVID F. SHALL,
 THOMAS J. CHURCHILL. L. E. BARBER, 7,sas'r. GORDON N. PEGY, .Sfe'y.
 Board of Visitors. His Ex. E. N. CONWAY, Hon. E. H. ENGLISH, Hon. J.J. CLENDENIN, JAS. A. HENRY, Eso-,
 R. H. JOHNSON, Eso.
 Am
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H. Smith, August 20, 1858.
EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT

EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Sir: Enclosed send you an editorial taken from the Ft. Smith Herald of the 7th instant. twill be seen that these know nothing editors, not satisfied with carrying this county for the know nothing party, have resorted to falsehoods to cover up their own infamous course. So far as being supported by the gambling community is charged, I deny the foul insinuation; the 6Iaosieg and ganaJling and gamJlers was all on the opposite side, that few men who play at cards might have voted for me is very likely, but that the large vote received in this township is con- stltuted of that class of men, deny and chal lenge the editors of the Herald to the proof There Is no such community in Ft Smith unless broken merchants or hypon1tical reliqionists ,olo have slcindled tue community out Of Thousands of dollars can be classed as such. No man was throttled and made to support me because he was Tn my power, like some of Duvals suppor. ters. He had the gamblers in other peoples 0oosu in his power and every time he chose. he made them hollow for Duval and Mcconnell The best citizens o' Ft. Smith voted for me. the truth is that this Herald party felt the blow struck by the large vote cast for me, and they try to show that it was not the respectable DOT. ton of the voters who supported my election. This will do for circulation abroad, but not for this region. and in order to give true state. ment, ask the favor of you to publish the foul thing that my denial may go with it. As to the charge that the quatermaster's department was brought against Duval, it is simply ridicu- lous, there was not ten men under the control Of that department, and some of them voted for Duval As to the one hundred itinerant class who voted for Gen. Mayors a single pop" have only to say that most of those who thouoht proper to cast their vote in that way are men of wealth, of character and honesty, that might be we'll for many of Duval's friends to be able to boast of. One thing certain neither of these cen. tlemen have ever failed in bu siness nor have they administered upon dead mems estates to get their living like some of Duval's strono sup. porterS nave done. A. G. MAYERS.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
The Election.

The election in this county is now over co, s. |. Duval and Robert H. Mcconnell ara elected representatives, Duval by one hundred and fifty majority and Mcconnell by about one hundred. The glorious lion hearted old Ro- man' Sebastian, anti Camden convention can. d'date IS beaten. Tbe whole influence of the quartermaster's department was brought to bear against Col. Duval The gambling fraternity spent their llsotten money to no purpose. By the Influence of the quartermaster and his an,. ployees, this township went against Duyol bv about htty votes, and considering the effortC made, and the amount of money expended Inv, the friends of Sebastian, we think. even tb;s TO
 suit quite triumph Col. Dnyal received +wo huhdred and thlriy-two votes in this townsb;n
 mnlch Is large majority of the present ctizans
 There were about one hundred of an ;t;,or,,T. c,aSS wno voted for Gen. A. c. Mayors. "sin- gle pop as they they termed it. Thisis wha+ made hIs vote so larger here We are credihlv informed that many in the employ of the on. Vernment were desrous of voting for Col Duval
 put were prevented. If this be according to lne artlcies of war; we were not before avare "i t. We thnk the enemies of the interest of the m west have received beneficial lesson = helr efforts to follow the dictates of Mir. Sebas. man, and "np Col. DuvaI in the bud'' has prov. GU failure. They found what they deemed tender bud, to be sturdy tree-its branches spreading into the region of political truth and consistency, and its roots buried deep ap1 in,
 movable in the hearts of the citizens of sat"a
 tian county