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Arkansas intelligencer., 1858-08-20

OF THE SUBSCRIPTION MONEY.
One copy for one year Sc 90, and gift.
One copy for two years. 90, and gifts-
: One copy for three years s co. and gifts.
One copy for five years. 90, and gifts.
AND CLUBS
Three copies one year. :. .s5 90, and gifts
Five copies one year. ..... 8 90, and gifts
Ten copies Que year. Is 90, and 10 gifts
Twenty y-one copies one year 80 90, and 81 gifts
The articles to Ue di~'ibuted are comprised in
the following list:
5 do. do '..... 200 90 each.
10 do. 10. ,.... 100 90 each.
10 pat lever htii tchcs 100 90 each.
90 Gold watehe rs 90 each.
30 do 90 90 each
rna do. so 90 each
. u 'E 90 each.
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arA-o rl.aE.. rracticyd upon
upy. .. .us oi such diseases d.
quaes- -f ..H- directed their Consult
ing @Hr-- ,a gla act worthy OF their
name g. :-r Che treutneut Of
l. cl5s ..-.s.. fie- iJ.Ins and togive
medical - Ri Who apply By letter,
with .is- / .ey condition, age, "ccupa-
t9r, hHul'. = and ~ cases OF extreme
poverty. ty-...,- .a,e.'- free OF charge. 1t is
needle @ .... tGe Isolation commands
hlghe-, -.u 1i inc age, and will furn-
h the most gfI.e, U-ater treatment
The director Die as,"eiation, in their annual
report upon the IretLueut f sexual diseaSes, for
the year ending January ist, 1853, express the
highest satsi,ictyu with the success which has at
tended the iaLurs or the coasuting surgeon IN the
cure of spermatorrhoaa seminal weakness, impo-
tence, gonorrh1a, gleet. syphilis, the vice of
ism or seli-aouse, &c and order a continuance Of
the sames plan .or the ensuing year.
The director, a review of lhe past, feel
sured that their laDors in this sphere Of benevoe
effort have been of great benefit to the afflicted
especially to the Young, and they have resolved 10
devote themselves, with enewed zeal to this very
important and much disposed cause.
An admirable repytt on spermatorhaea, or sem-
inal weakness, the vice of onanisrn. masturbation
self abuse, and other diseases of the sexual
gans by the consulting surgeon will be sent by
mail lin sealed envelope,) free Of charge,
ceipt Of two stamps for postage Other reports
and tracts the nature and trsatu,ent of sexual
diseases, diet DC, constantly being published
for gratuitous distribution, aud will be sent the
afflicted. Some of the remedies and methods
of treatment discovered during the last year. of
great value.
Address, for report of treatment, DIR. GEORGE
r. CALHOUN Consultu con- Howard As
sociation, No. 2 South Nh, ct, Philadelpha,
Pa.
b. order iroctors
EZRA ID. ELL. Prest.
Gro. FARcHLD, Sec'a.
july g. 5S-ly
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To Tanners.
Hoes and Rakcs.

- DOZ, garden hoes, two sizes; doz. garden
- rakes three sizes, with handles, just received
JE. ITERY WILLIAMS & Co.
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Multum in ParVO.
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Il Of Drugs, Medic,n,s, Paint, vaguishss ~ r.
stuffs Chemicals, isncy HriI-ios rcI .gs. ~ a.s-
metics, wines, brauaies. ETC. etc The. 5,u,,
OF country physician. paint rs, merchants ard The
public is specially solicited I caa sell cheare
and better articles than any Of the tfteen dug
gists in tbis city, l. c. WHITE, n. D e.
July I'd rs
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Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
sPUNKY AND RIGHT.

Since writing the article in another column
headed "the balance" we have received that
high spirited paper, the Atalanta, Georgia,
american, from which we copy the following:
"Messrs s. M PsttengiU Dc Co., NeD York
"The PeriIs of the Border.
"We have received from the above house an
extract from the "The Perils of the Border !"
tale, the balance of which, it is said, will be
published in New York paper.
"While we return our thanks for the in
tended favor, and, we trust duly appreciate
the compliment, we beg leave to decline the
publication of the extract.
"We cannot consent to aid in circulating q
paper which would not only not do such a
thing for us, but would probably ridicule us
for making the proposition. We cannot con-
sent to increase the power of that's ection, which
seems so much inclined to use that power to
weaken and destroy our own. We cannot con-
sent to palm off on our readers so papable an
imposition, as the publication Of mere scrap
from tale, even for the four cents line which
is offered, accompanied by the special injunc-
ton that the word advertisement must not
precede it. Our price is ten cents line for
special notices, and so is that of other papers in
which we see this, for which only four cents is
paid"
Wewish the other papers that have suffered
themselves to be used by Pettengill & Co., had
half the spirit of the ATLANTA american.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
COIL would some power the gifte gieus,
To see ourselYes "A nthers ace rs ~,

And in what light others do see us, we may
know by the following article copied from the
Manchester Guardian, England. The scene in
our House of Representatives here travestied,
is treated in spiritof apparent forbcarance
and humor, but the humor has an edge TO il,
and cuts keen and deep. We may laugh, or
try to- but when we do so our face burns with
shame and modification.
A FANCY SKETcH.-Let us venture on the
venial fault Of rejoicing that we are not in all
repects like model republicans We have Just
had an exciting struggle in the English House
Of Commons, involving complete transfer Of
political power, and stimulating ancient grudges
and recent piqucs into extraordinary vitality.
Suppose that an episode Of the party contest
on the Conspiracy to Murder Bill had been de-
scribed in the following manner: About four
in the morning Mr.. Disraeli CT ssed the House
to speak with Lord John Russell, and some
thing occurred during his stay which induced
him to object TO the address of Ministerial
speaker on point of order Upon this Mr..
M. t. Baines called out. "Why don't you 90
over to your own SIDE hang you, if you want
to objectH What business have you on this
side anyhow" Mr. Disraeli retorted that the
floor was free, and was returning to his seat,
when the gentleman from Leeds" met him,
and asked, in rufiianly tone, what he meant
by that answer, adding, "Pll show you, you
id Conservative puppy" The representa-
tive Of Buckinghamshire answered, "You
may think what you like, but let me tell you
no beggarly lawyer shall come here to bully
me as he does his witnesses" EVEN see
about that" said Baincs, and seized him by
the throat A short and uneventful round was
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
IS THE BALANCE.o

We find in great number OF our exchange
papers n fragment of a story entitled "The
Perils of the Border" which breaks off abruptly
with saying:
$50 far we have followed the lovely heroine
and her friends in this adventure; but the FORE
gongis all that we can publish in our columns.
The balance Of the narrative can only be found
in the New York Ledger"
This fragment and conclusion is inserted in
the New York Tribune and other city papers
as an advertisement, by the proprietors Of the
Ledger; but country papers are SO very oblig-
ing as to insert it in their columns as mis-
celIaneous matter. M.
With that we have no concern; what we de-
sire to notice and call the attention of editors
to who have published this broken dose Of
story, is the language we have quoted, orrather
the misuse Of the word balance" 1t is here
used as il meant residue or remainder j; but the
word has no such meaning, and any other in
the language might with just as much pro-
priety be used to express that meaning.
We suppose the Ledger folks used it. as we
find the same expression in every paper con-
tanning the fragment; and we take it as evil
dence Of the fact that whatever skill they may
have in making paper to suit the morbid APP
petites of the million, they do not understand
the English language, and murder it most
villainously, at least in what we have quoted
1t is not pleasant task to rap our brother
editors over the knuckles, but we feel con-
strained to do it, for we look upon them as, in
no small degree, the custodians of the English
language, and therefore in duty bound to pre-
serve its purity; at least not to commit depre-
dations upon it themselves; and we have OBJ
served of late a growing disposition to take
very great liberties with It,
The word balance" has, by most unwar-
quently both in conversation and in writing, to
express meanings wholly foreign 10 the word,
and even the reverse of its true meaning. 1t
is derived from bis and lana-tuo dishes. That
is to say, two dishes hung upon the two ends
Of beam, thereby forming scales or balance.
wanting"l
Now, how can n word which is derived from
"ttoo dishes" be SO twist, d and perverted from
its original meaning as to signify the rest, res
idue or remainder? IL has no such meaning,
and cannot be made TO have by any violent
distortion Of IL in the hands of those who care
not what depredations they commit upon our
mother language.
We apply the term "baance" in one in
stance to a remainder, simply because that re-
mainder, or difference between two amounts,
added to the smaller one, will make the two
just equal to, or balance each other. This is
legitimate rs a figure Of speech. It is not un-
common to apply to the thing the Specification
Of what 1t will perform. But though by such
a figure Of speech we call that balance which,
by being added to one will make two sums
equal, IL by no means follows that any part of a
thingisa balance"
Take an example: have hundred bushels
of wheat, and sell twenty ; can with any pro-
pricty speak Of the eighty bushels left as the
balance" Of the whatp To do SO would be
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
TARIFF-.iioME VALUATION.

Mr.. Simmons introduced bill some days
ago in the Senate to prevent the continuance
cf frauds on the revenue, and for home valua-
ton of foreign goods, which has been printed
and Mr.. E. j. Morris submitted, in the House,
on Monday last, the following preamble and
resolutions, which were rejected, by very nearly
party vote, showing that the Democratic
party and the Administration are opposed to
put,ing.a stop to frauds on the revenue, and to
so modifying the tariff as to give encourage
mcnt to American labor and American manu-
features:
"Whereas the existing tariff has been found
inadequate to supply the Government with
revenue, and has proved itself source of en-
barrassment to the trade and industry Of the
country therefore, bel
Resolued, That the Committee of Ways and
Means be instructed to inquire into the expe
diency of reporting bill revising the present
tariff, abolishing foreign valuation, and substi-
tuting specific duties and home valuation,
where necessary TO retain ad Ualorem duties;
and so augmenting the duties on articles coming
in competition with domestic manufactures
and products as to afford increased protection
to American industry and labor.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22


most absurd and ridiculous. And yet In this
sense the word is used by the Ledger-folks, and
by two thirds Of the American people in their
daily conversation, to the great amusement OF
the people Of England, who have reason to
laugh at US for such an absurd distortion Of the
word.
No man ever heard Mr. Webster, Mr.. Adams,
Mr. Calhoun, Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Everett, Mr.. Win
throp, Judge Marshall, Judge Story, or any
other eminent orator, jurist, or statesman Of
the old school, use the word in the sense Of
remainder They had too high regard for
the purity of the language to be guilty Of any
such offence against it; but we hear Senators
and members Of the House of Representatives
from the South and West, using the word in
that sense daily, wholly unconscious, as we pre-
sumo they are, of its improperly; and South
ern and Western editors, aye, and of late East
ern editors too, are guilty Of the same perver-
sion of the word, simply, we presume, because
its improperly never occurred to them.
Discoursing up /" the past and present of
the English language" DR.. Trench says
"And the love ofour own language, what is
it in fact but the love of our country express
ing itself in one particular directioni If the
great acts of that nation to which we belong
are precious to US, if we feel ourselves made
greater by their greatness, summoned TO a no.
bier life by the nobleness of Englishmen who
have already lived and died and bequeathed to
us a name which must not by us be made less
what exploits of theirs can well be nobler what
can more clearly point out their native land
and ours as having fulfilled glorious past, as
being destined for glorious future, than that
they should have acquired for themselves and
for those who come after them, clear, strong,
an harmonious, noble language? For all
this bears witness to corresponding merits in
those that speak it, to clearness Of mental Wis
ion, to strength, to harmony, to nobleness in
them that have gradually formed and shaped it
to be the utterance of their Utmost life and be-
ing
TO know this language, the stages which it
has gone through, the quarters from its
riches have been derived the gains from which
ii is now making, the perils which have threat
ened or are threatening it, the losses which it
has sustained, the latent capacities which may
yet be in it waiting to be evoked, the points in
! which it is superior to- in which it comes short
of, other tongues, all this may well be the OBJ
ject of worthy ambition to every one of u.s.
So may we hope to be ourselves guardians of
its purity, and not corrupters of it;
to bequeath it to those who come after US not
worse than we received it ourselves"
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
The Sentiment of Thousands.

Crttenden is a patriot and a statesman, and
would make another "model" Wing President
The support OF Seward and Douglas could not
affect his integrity, nor would it serve to drive
from him the support ofsouthern men. Though
a strong Union man, there is no firmer or more
ardent friend of the South in all the land-and
he can be safely trusted by all parties and all
sections. Richmond Wig
That is the honest sentiment of multiplied
thousands in this confederacy. The organs of
Democracy, fearful of an uprising of the peo-
pie that will sweep their own corrupt and cor
rupting organization from existence, are begin
ming to decry in advance, the "great Union
party" that is to be. terrible coalition, say
they, is being formed between Douglas, John
Bell, Seward, and Crittenden, one of these four
is to be the next Republican candidate for the
Presidency This is the horrible bug-bear
presented to brighten struggling Democrats back
into rank.
A correspondent Of the Charleston Mercury
says it is believed at Washington "that Mr..
Crittenden will undoubtedly be chosen by the
united Black Republicans and Americans as
their candidates for the next Presidency, under
the supposition that he WILL as southern man,
command large southern vote" For our
own part, we would rejoice should this prove
true. We would regard such a nomination
as evidence that all virtue had not yet departed
from the people. We would rejoice to see the
Republicans-aye Black Republicans-givin
up their extreme issues and returning once
more to a national conservative faith. The
masses of the Republican party are honest
They have been misled by artful demagogues,
and in this respect they are but little worse
than the people of the South. Should the light
of sober reason dawn upon them and guide
them back to the principles immortalized by
Clay and Webster, would not the Union men
of the South hail their return with rejoicing
and meeting them upon the Constitution, unite
with them in forming grand, national, Union
party2 For one, we can say that whenever
the Black Republicans become so much re-
formed as to nominate for the Presidency,
either Crittenden or Bell, we shall take both
pride and pleasure in supporting their candi-
date against any and all such tricksters as the
present incumbent of the chief Executive chair.
-Rnorvilte Register.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
ANIuPoRTANT INVENTION.


Mr.. Thomas p. Akers, member Of the last
Congress from Missouri, has been doing bet
ter service to the cause of humanity, and we
hope also for himself, than making speeches in
the House Of Representatives though proved
to be very good at that. He has been trying
his inventive faculties, and produced what he
terms a "steam-boler alarm, and telephone
signal"
The object of the invention is, first to give
an alarm to the engineer, captain and passen-
gers on any boat, and to persons exposed to
danger anywhere from an explosion of steam
boiler, that the water is too low and needs re-
plenishing; and, second, to furnish the means
of giving signals to the engineer by the captain
or pilot His invention consists of a small
steam whistle, which is fastened into the top,
having tube going into theboiler. This tube
is closed by lever which is kept up by means
of hollow copper ball attached to the long
end, which floats on the water in the boiler.
But when this gets down to certain point,
the ball and lever going with it, the opening of
the tube is uncovered, the steam rushes in, and
the whistle sounds the alarm, and will continue
to sound it until the ball and lever are brought
up SO as to close the tube, by an additional
supply of water
The whistle is small one, and gives forth
a shrill sound that can be heard two miles
1t is used as signal by means of a stem
passing down through the whistle, by which
the valve covering the tube can be pushed
down at pleasure, SO as to let the steam in and
give the sound The signal sounds will be
short and successive, while the alarm will be
a continuous, uninterrupted whistle, prolonged
till the proper quantity Of water is supplied
We have examined the whistle, which is so
small as to be easily handled, and can see no
reason why it will not fulfil the desired pur-
pose of giving timely alarm, SO that an explo-
sion may be prevented by an immediate sup
ply of water and if it will do this, it is one of
the most important inventions of the present
day.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
Behold How Bre,hern Love one Another.

The country has not been little startled of
late by demonstration in New York by large
masses of people, mostly refugees from Euro
pean governments, in favor of assassination
as means of "reform" in politics Il, it
appears that these people are to ha, , cor
dial sympathies of those in this country whose
sensibilities have been SO awfully shocked at
the idea that the Constitution should provide
for the rendition of "persons held to labor"
and who have in consequence denounced it in
their very Pious and classic style as "cove-
nant with death and an agreement with hell"
To return fugitive to master who would
take care of and rescue him from starvation,
is dreadful; but to plunge dagger into the
heart of an obnoxious person, why, this is a
very cody proceedingr
One Of the principal abolition papers of New
York heartily supports the views of the bloody
Reds, and at a late demonstration in Boston.
similar in spirit to the one in New York,
long letter was read from W. L. Garrison,
expressing his hearty sympathy with the OBJ
jccts of the meeting, his sense of the honor
conferred in an invitation to be present, his
admiration Of the character of 0rsni, and con-
Guiding with an argument to prove that the
American press would not endorse their meet
ing, basng his prediction upon the fact that
the press foresaid has not endorsed himl"
We arc not a little gratifed at the turn
which this movement of assassin sympathizers
is taking in this country. 1t must show the
great mass Of the sober, honest, patriotic peo-
pie Of the Northern and Western States to
what monstrous lengths the Jacobin of aboli-
tionism is leading them, and it must therefore
tend greatly to open their eyes to the necessity
of strangling this unnatural and bloody demon
ere he cause the cities and fields even of tho
North to stream with the blood of those who
will not bow their necks to his despotic and
terrible rule, even as the streets of Paras once
ran with the blood of his victims there. -Ne,o
Orleans Bulletin.
Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-05-22
Mr.. Crittenden and his Coadiutors.

Mr.. Crttenden, of whom every Kentuckian
may well be proud, still continues to be the
recipient of the highest encomiums from the
press and people of every section-Whigs,
Democrats, Republicans and Americans vie
with each other in doing him honor We could
fill our paper for weeks to come with the fiat
tering testimonials pouring in upon him for the
valuable service he has rendered no particular
section-no North, no South-but the whole
country, in one Of its darkest hours, when the
gloom Of embittered party feeling and Sec
tional strife obscured the beaconlights Of pa
trioGsm, and peace and harmony had well nigh
passed away. Too much cannot be said in
praise Of that gallant little band Of inyincible
Americans, who, aided by Northern Demo-
CT ats, have so manfully stood up in defence Of
right and justice, and have pursued the only
true conservative course presented in the en-
tire phase Of the Kansas difficulty. And whilst
ultra Southern Democratic journals will shower
upon them their foulest invectives, we cannot
but think that the great mass of the intelligent
people Of the whole country will say, "Well
done thou good and faithful servant"
Georgetown (Rentucky) Journal