davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21
Tariff of Prices White River Freight
 and Passage.

Money, Jewelry and other valuables, per cent and Il ladng to be signed for
 GzD~- Price of Freight from Napoleon to Des Arc, 50 cents per 100 pounds. Passage
 llz5F Price of Freight from Des Arc to Memphis, 90 cents Der 100 pounds; cotton S1 per bale. Passage S8.
 Passage from Memphis to Indian Bay and Des Arc, $8; Nigger Hill and Augusta, S9 !; Grand Glaize and Jacksonport, S1O.
 iuly 3.-tf
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21

-- SHUQCALACK, Miss, Sept. IS. 1857. i DR. |. C. GLoveR $, Bao.-Gentlemen :
 WeWrote you. some time since August eo l5th) for a new supply ot your valuable
 Liver Medicine. which we have not re- ceived nor heard from. We now wish ~~ yoa Co send Us a half gross of your BAY n BERRY SYRUP, half of each size. As
 far as iJ has been tried, it has acted like 2-- Td ttv if-Se1ytTa SdtIsfacti0n and
 is acqHirlag quite reputation for its vir-
 tues. Therefore, send forward by express JQ the above supply, and hurry up the four
 ao2en Liver Medicine, for we need it every tz-s day. Respectfully yours -~ W. A. MCCLURE < CO.,, Druggists. erl This agency was constituted the slst July, lS5S.
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21

- GRENADA, Mss, Sept. 10, 1857. ., DR. l.. c. GLOVER & BRo.-Sirs It is -- our pleasure to report to you that vour ~4 Medicines are taking well with the peo- z pie, and we want another supply immedi
 atelY. As they are now introduced. we l1 think we can sell large quantity fthem. ,C We have not heard of any dissatisfaction in any case where they have been used and we know Of some very extraordinaro cures effected by them, after other Medi. cines had beenused. Very respeetfullv
 A. c. BOON < CO, Druggists.
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21
Mount Vernon Mills. DEs ARC, ARKANSAS, JOHN A. FRII'EE,
 PROPRIETOR.

TNHESE Mills are now in operation, cut
 5 ting lumber of every description to or
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21
GREENSBORO. ALA.. Nov m 1ss-

WI I--NoDONV' ALA., NOV. no, lS57
 DR L. C. CLOVER X BRo. Aberdesn Miss. Gentlemen We have been acents for your Medicines for several wears nasf and take pleasure Tn adding our testimony to their great value as remedial accents They have given general satisfaction. rare y ever failing Go give the desired relief
 Respectfully yours,
 OSBORN < HATCH, Druggists. For further information examine inc testimony wrapped round the hottie Then try the Medicines and verify the statement. spril22-6m. For sale by D. P. Black X Co.,, Des Are.
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21

Connecting at Napoleon with the splendid
 Memphis & Napoleon U s. Mail packets MAT'EG F8gESBEE, .... Capt. JAMES LEE. VICTORIA, ........ Capt. T. H. NEWELL. DAN'L. BOONE, ,... Capt. FRANK HlcKs
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21
DR. T. 8EcGOWN'S SARSAPARTLLA

And lrodide of Potash. | DREPARED FROM FRESH ROOT. THE Il only kind on which physicians or the public can rely, old root being inert. It's components are eXtoled by some of the most distinguished physicians in the world, as Fordycc, Brodie, Bell, &c, for the cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Syphilis, Scrofula, Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Head and Skin, Throat, Neck, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys, Spleen Stomach, Bladder, Womb, Female Complaints, Dropsy, Old Sores, McGown's Ointment to be applied,) Tumors, Pimples, Eruptions, &c. It makes the skin Clear and Smooth. and should be used in Spring and Summer to Pu- rify the Blood and prevent Sickness. Large bottle, $1 90. Small, S1 co.
 DP. T. FEcGOWm's Essence Of Tar-A certain cure for Bowel Complaints and Diseases of the Lungs.
 Df. F. McGoyVn's D0gVOOd and 7ron-A certain and permanent cure for Chlils and Fever, Ague Cake or Enlarged spleen, Night Sweats, Debility, D spepsia,
 Prepared and sold at No 143 Main street, Memphis, where Drugs and Medicines may be purchased CHEAP FOR CASH.
 Sold in Des Arc, Arkansas, by
 D. P. BLACK & CO, Druggists.
 Atlanta by Corn & Dobbins Grand Glaize oy Il. wheeler. april22-ly.
Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-21
WISHING.
nY aaXF.

HE aAAts Of all amusements for the mind From logic down to fishing. There isn't one that you can hnd So very cheap as 'wishngN' X very choice diversion, too
 If we bat rightly use it And not, as we are apt to do,
 Pervert i5, and abuse it. wish--a common wish, indecd--- My purse was something fatter, That 1 might cheer the child of need, And not my pride 10 fatter; That ] might make oppression reel, As only gold can make 1t, And break the tyran2s rod of steel, As only gold can break it. Iwish-- that sympathy and love, And every human passion That has it's origin above,
 Would come and Keep in fashion; That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate, And every base emotion, Were buried fifty fathoms deep
 Beneath the waves of Ocean. Twish-that friends were always true, And motives always pure, ~-.. l wish the good were not SO few, Iwish the bad were fewer; l wish that parson ne'er forgot, To heed their pioas teaching; wish that practicing was not So different from preaching! I wish-that modesyt might be Appraised with truth and candor 1 wish that innocence were free From treachery and slander; l wish that men theirvows would mind, That woman ne'er were rovers; ] wish that wives ware always kind, And husbands always lovers I wish----in fine--that joy and mirth, And every good ideal, : May come, erewhile, throughout the earth To be the glorious Rea ]; Tili God shall every creature bless With his supremest blessing, And hope be lost in happiness, And wishing ia possessingl
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20

timents into the minds of our youth, in
stilling the poison of despotism and the
curse of human slavery into our free insti-
tutions of New York, in order to bolster
up the corruptions of old Virginia, the
mother of slavery and the land of chains.
After these feats were performed, to the
entire satisfaction of these sons of the f.
F. VS., the party embarked ON board the
steamer Hendrick Hudson, and sailed to
West Point, to enact another farce, and re-
turned late at night under the command OF
Capt. Gray. #CEf
Tuesday made an end to this grand
pow-wow, with dinner at the Metropoli-
tan Hotel at the expense of the city.
About $4,000 of the peoples money was
appropriated to get up this drunken spree,
to entertain few Virginia shareholders,
while our streets are filled with filth and
dirt. and cannot be cleaned because there
is no money in the City Treasury. When
will the people of the North learn to treat
these Southern slave-breeders as they de-
serve. and cease to make fools of themselves
by running after such company as these
small-potato Virginians (
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
GRAND POW-WOW.

Our City Government, together with
some of our military, have been holding
grand pow-wow over the arrival in our
midst of portion of the City Govern
ment of Richmond, Va, and the Rich
mond Grays, crack military company
from the Old Dominion.
The military arrived late on Saturday
evening, and were received by the Ma
tional Guards, 9TH Regiment, of this city,
with great eclat, who escorted them to the
Brandreth House, where they were to be
quartered during their stay among us. On
Sunday they attended divine service at
St. Johns Church, where military SER
mon was preached. On Monday they Wis
tied RandalPs Island, and were received
by the children, one of whom addressed
them in behalf of the Ten Governors, in
neat speech got up expressly for the oc-
casion, in which the State of old Virginia
was alluded to in patriotic terms, and laud-
ed to the skies for her many virtues. Now
we object to such proceedings altogether,
for every sensible person knows that Vir-
ginia is one of the meanest States in the
Union, with no charitable institutions, no
common schools, where the great mass of
the people are left to grow up in igno-
rance, and three-fourths of the people are
unable to read and write, where the only
profitable business is breeding slaves for
the Southern market; and this is the State
that our youth is made to extol as one Of
the greatest in the confederation. Shame
on the men that would inculcate such SEN
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
For the Weekly Anglo-African
WHAT WE WANT.

"What do you colored people want I" is
a question that is very frequently asked by
the politicians of the present day. What
would you have us do for you? Do you
wish us to take you into our social circles,
and there introduce you to our wives and
daughters 2" Oh ! no, we want nothing of
the kind, and you well know it, too. Our
being introduced into your fine parlors, and
keeping the company of your beautiful
wives and daughters, will not remedy the
evils we complain of; no, not for moment
All that we ask of you is what Diogenes
asked of the monarch Alexander, styled
the Great; that was, to get out of his sun
shine. So say we to those who pretend
to be so much interested in our behalf
" get out of our sunshine"-that is all we
want of you. The laws that you enact
for yourselves are plenty good enough for
us; we ask for no better. The churches
that you build to worship God in are just
as fine as we need for such purposes. The
common schools and the colleges which
you build and so richly endow for the pur-
pose of educating your sons and daughters,
are plenty good enough for our children.
We are firmly of the belief that all the
trouble you put yourself to in order to get
up colored schools and churches for us, is
wholly yuseless-moneyt thrown away, which
might be expended in some other direction
to great advantage Likewise, we think
the foolish black laws that you enact, max
ing invidious distinctions among men on
account of their compilations, are very much
out of place, and quite unnecessary in
country like this. We are of the opinion
that we can get along with all the provis-
ions made for your government, and think
them Just what we want on that score, and
nothing more. We want our rights as men,
and shall never cease agitation until we
obtain them. When our political rights
are acquired, the social will take care of
themselves L.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20

give them certain me-monumental fame
fame that will last as long as there is a
fugitive to run away in the land.
We hope the fleeing fugitive (for under
Cufee's beautiful figure Of ode wood
chuck" nothing more or less is meant will
take this hint, and with gun, pistol, bowie
knife, or whatever else best pleases him,
bore hole sufficiently large to see the
light through each or any of these dogs
limited at in the latter clause of Cutfee's
fine figure, which mean devils in mans
image-we say, we hope, on all conven-
lent occasions, hereafter, the fugitives will
stop these pursuers, causing them to bite
the earth quicker than thought, and pile
their bones on every spot whereon they
have ventured near enough to meet such
a well-merited fate.
Men may talk as they please, the
slaves case will find but little beyond an
unmeaning sympathy, and no respect I'M
til he boldly resorts to such course. Let
him ever when fleeing fails him turn at
bay, and send howling to the dust the
whole pack of his pursuers. A few such
examples set by him will render this North
ern hunting ground less attractive, and
serve to abate considerably the ardor of
both dogs and masters, and make "de
wood-chucks" more harmless and better
for de dogs"
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

We are, it will be perceived, receiving
valuable information through our CORES
pondents, from various quarters of the
country. This is what we want. 1t is
our desire to make our paper complete
mirror, in which will be reflected the
thoughts, feelings, wishes, and wants, of
our whole people, free and enslaved, from
one end of the land to the other.
These efforts, then, on the part of our
correspondents, are good beginnings and in
the right direction, and we hope it will be
long before they end. We say, therefore,
to these gentlemen, and we hope, ere long,
to add, ladies too-for we hold our list
will not be perfect without their enlist
ment-we say, friends, continue to send us
information pertaining to our people. Be
as brief as you please-for brevity is one
of the highest attainable points in good
composition-but fail not to send forth
whatever of value you may have in your
possession, for the columns of the "Week-
lyAnglo-African, where it will always find
place
Inform us, among other things, in line
or so, of the movements and efforts OF
whatever noteworthy colored persons you
may chance to have in your several neigh
borhoods.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20

" 1t was not long before the following
bitter retort by Mr.. Mann was written on
the back of the same paper, which was
left on the table for the consideration of
the District-Attorney. The allusion to
" ten dollars bill7 regards the fee Mr.
Key received on each of the three hun
dred and forty-fve indictments which he
caused to be filed against the prisoners Of
the Pearl:
"' Fox-hunting abroad, and slave-hunting in doors,
beg leave to suggest do not run on all-fours;
Foxes do not eat foxes--brute natures have
bounds,
But Mr.. District-Attorney, out-hounding the
hounds,
Hunts men, women, and children, his pockets to
fill,
On three hundred indictments at ten dollars a
BILL"
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
OUR CLEVELAND LETTER.
CLEVELAND. O. August |

CLEVELAND, o., August Is, 1859
Mr.. EDITOR The colored Government
of Jamaica, have reason to believe, will
very soon appoint James Stanley, Esq, Of
this city, agent for the emigration of col
ored laborers to that island from Canada
and the United States. The arrangements
are to be made under the immigration act of
1858, which provides for the payment of
passages and stipulated sum per diem for
three years. The success of all such en-
terprises depends greatly upon the charac-
ter of the immigrants to be obtained, and as
every friend of humanity has more or less
sympathy for the fugitive slaves in Cana
da, brief sketch of their history in this
connection cannot fail to be of the highest
interest
Twenty years ago, the number of col
ored residents in Canada West was 3,400.
There is now more than 10000. In 1910
there were few settlers near Dawn and
around Maiden, some of them old slaves
manumitted by the war of 1912, and own
ing few acres of ground given them by
the crown for their services in that war un-
der Tecumseh. In 1847, at Dawn, their
first steam mill was built, and the still lin
gering educational institution at that place
had fourished and failed. But in four
months after the passage of the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850, 10000 emigrants pour
ed into the province. Crowds gathered
upon the frontier. The government bar
racks were thrown open for their use; but
many, unable to find shelter therein, illu-
minated the sacred shore with the fires Of
their camps. Each boat up the river
Thames carried as many as could stand up
on its decks, and hundreds hurried to leave
the frontier through the wood on foot
The few generous colored settlers receiv-
ed them as Best they could, and dozens
found resting place on the floor of SIN
gle room. Their former employments as
servants were sought for, but found not
Prejudice had, happily, closed her door
against them as such, and there was no
work for the needy but to chop cordwood
and clear the forests. Many were city
bred, but they were driven to it, and the
result was they found this employment 50
much more independent and healthy that
they became utterly disgusted with their
former pursuits, and declared they would
never more be menials for any manor peo-
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
AGITATION.

There seems to be very strong dispo-
sition manifested by portion of the press
both North and South to ignore what they
term the negro question" in the next
Presidential contest ave are tired Of this
agitation, which engenders bad feelings be-
tween the two sections of the country.
This is the language of Hon. John ). Crit
tenden, w. G. Rives; Edward Bates, Rob-
ert G. Winthrop, Edward Everett, and 9th
er distinguished statesmen. Now, we ask,
who is not tired of demonstrating, pleading,
and begging the American people to act
Justly, and cease expressing us because OF
our complexion2 Cease agitation Yes,
when you repeal the Fugitive Slave Law,
reverse the Dred Scott Decision, and give
us the right of citizenship nthe free States,
abolish Slavery in the District of Column
bia, break up the internal slave trade be-
tween the slave States, and guarantee un-
to us the privileges which the federal Con-
stitution guarantees to all men. Then,
and not till then, may you expect us to be
silent. You may enact the most stringent
laws, suppress the right of speech, and
muzzle the press with all the harness of
the conservative schools; but you might
Just as well attempt to turn back the wa
ters of the ocean as to hush the voice of
Liberty. You may bind the manacles up
on our limbs, crush every noble aspiration
in the minds of our youth, and compel us
to grow up in ignorance iu the midst of
your liberal institutions; yet the natural
inherent principles of man you can never
obliterate.
When the people of our common coun-
try shall be willing to accord to us the po-
litical rights which are enjoyed by other
natives of the soil, we shall then be pre-
nared to cease warning against the Gov
ernment, and rebuking the church for its
hypocricy. But just SO long as the enc
mics of the colored mans rights is to be
found skullling behind the pillars of the
church, and seeking security in the strong
arm of the law, we can never remain ST.
lent.
We are firm in the belief that the day
will eventually dawn when truth shall tri-
umph over error in this country-when
right shall triumph over the powers of phys
ical might-when mental culture shall be
more effectual than the potent right arm,
and genius, glistening in the fabric of the
loom, shall glow and sparkle under the
steely hammer, making the poor mans
heart rich with content and by our own
exertions it will eventually crown our
dark, swarthy, sweaty brows with honor,
dignity, and peace.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
REM1N1sCENCE OF HORACE MANN

The Boston Bee" relates the following
reminiscence of the late Horace Mann:
"In the Drayton trial, which occurred at
Washington, December, 184S, Mr.. Mann,
who was counsel for the slaves, made the
point that the servitude of the negroes
ought to be proved by something else than
the claim of the master, and likened it to
the case of an Indictment for stealing fox
es, which, held by nature, must be shown
to have been caught and subjected While
he was exercising this illustration, Mr.. Dis
trict-Attorney Key, the same who was
shot last February by Daniel E. sickles,
wrote the following squib, and handed it
over to the opposite counsel:
TO illustrate the point he's making:
In larceny, there must be taking
A fox, he says, cannot be stolen,
Be he young, or be he an old 'un.
Pursuing hounds say he's mistaken,
At least so far as to the taking.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20

numbers and in some other no,.;
hr' !" ood' one Of our pedagogues. tbonoI.
ne would take the little ones ONT
did So They had general bannm anu a.: he
OF 1t. Mr. Geo. A. Hacket, who rro ao.a.l1 auis
y receives the sOubriquet of q Col ,a, Ga~ ,
supernfended the Odd Fellows with m,,o1
credit to himself and satisfact;o, 'u nlueh
friends n The propriety of these p;c,D;as % ;ls
IS questionable to me. a. Tho 1,nles ,,
expended on these occasions, and ",~ney to,'s
unec'ly from the pockets of poor men an1
women, and placed in the pockets of aI r;aI
'u'u corporations, could, in nv onir
lon' be expended otherwise and - opi'i-
advantage. Let us see: No one was ~ls o.. /.
rieo for less than sixty cents ,
one thousand persons carried at +I,. and
would be 5000; and not less than tooe l~,e
have attended these gatherings: and .. 4VV0
same rate you readily see that tha ~ . 'nc
little sum of $24OO has absolute,. 'lus
from our poor peoples pockets into ,L
Golfers of those who care nothing for Nv
This does not include the little iton, .
bread and butter, and meat, time lost and
other ills which follow o. I am of on;n
ion that morality is not promoted and th
spiritual man edited; because MANY no.
sons who attend these places are not m..
the persons to extend virtue, which Won
recollect, the original import of the wo,1
means strength; therefore goodness Is no4
strengthened.
August 4th the anniversary of "Tbo
Moral and Mental Improvement Societvp
of Bethel Church came off. The exercise,
were interesting. The rain and heat kont
many away. Rev. Jno. M. Brown. Presi
dent, made the opening address Mr. VIM
L. Dixon, Secretary, made his annual re.
port. He gave clear account of tbs
state of the Society, the amount of fund,
received during the last year, and stated
that the Society has now one young man
at Oberlin, Ohio, being educated for the
ministry in the African M. E. Church
Mr.. John Wesley Oyphus read an excel.
lent essay upon ancient history. Mrs.
Annetta Jordon read an essay upon 'AGod.
ern Literature" The madam handled her
subject well. Especially was she interest.
ing while painting the influence of " fe.
male writers" in staying the current of evil
which is flooding the community, by per.
nicious writer's. Ishould be happy to give
many extracts from her excellent essay.
but my letter is already much longer than
| had intended. Owing to the lateness Of
the hour the Society had to adjourn befor,
they heard Rev. III. III. Webbs annual ad
dress, and before the premiums were award
ed for the prize essay, the subject of whicl
is, Health and the best means of pro
noting it," The Society meets again Oct
1st. The first Sabbath evening of eacl
month is fixed to hear a missionary dis
course in Bethel Church The Rev. San
uel Wilmore delivered tie discourse 70
August. The discourse was excellent a
the close of which the church made he
usual monthly contribution for missionary
purposes. The Rev. VIM. Russell, 0
Cumberland, preached quite acceptably t.
several of our congregations on the Sab
bath. He is divine of great promise
Respectfully, MIFFLIN,
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
Mr.. T. HAMILTON:
LIMA, July 81, 1859.

LIMA, JulI OI, 1coJ'
Mr.. T. HAMILTON:
Respected Sir-Since the reception of
one of the early numbers of the "Anglo-Af-
rican Magazine" l have intended that the
first dollar l could call my own should be
sent to you. / bless God for mother who
had none of that hateful, God-dishonoring
prejudice against color that is so common
at the North; consequently, l am not
cursed with it. I regard all, of all color
and shades of color, as of one family, and
all needing a Redeemer; and when brought
back by Him to their true and rightful al
legiance, how deeply do such fraternize,
whatever disparities, in other and outward
circumstances, there may be.
rejoice in the appearance of the Anglo
African Magazine" I glory, if may be
allowed the expression, in its articles of
sterling worth and deep research. | ad-
mire the purity of the language and the
evidences of deep thought that very many
i may say most-of the articles evince !:
in my view, of higher literary merits than
most articles in the Atlantic Monthly"
There are no trashy, silly articles in your
paper-at least, in the number you sent
me.
When citizens of the Empire State, we
took for some years the Colored Ameri-
can" 1t was paper loved to read:
We have daughter living in New York,
to whom I would like your Magazine sent.
The enclosed is for that purpose. She will
send it to me after she has perused it.
No one who uses the unpaid labor of the
slave, and in that way not only keeps the
STAKEHOLDER in countenance but makes it
profitable for him, should say word
against the system. That all Christians
would so Remember those in bonds as
bound with them," as not to partake Of the
fruits Of this abominable iniquity, is the
earnest desire of
Yours, DC, ii. ,. D.
The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
SPEECH OF JACOB C. WHITE, JR.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Is, 1859

Mr.. EDlroR-De0r Sar -
A slightmistake occurs in the synopsis, in
last weeks paper, of Jacob G. Whites
speech. 1t there says, Mr.. White spoke
of the anti-slavery character of the Consti-
tution,0 &c. BY referring to the manu-
script you will see that he had reference
to the Declaration of Independence. Mr..
White believes the Constitution to be pro-
slavery.
REPORTER.