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Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26
frr The pocahontas Advertiser makes tn

Allowing bow to retiring editor:
 "Col. H. O. Norman, esq. formerly of the Columbia >(Tenn.) Herald, Columbia Mirror, Jachsonport (Ark.) Union, White River Demo- crat Searey Eagle and Smithville Plaindealer. lately of the Paindealer and Democrat of this place, eventually to be-Something else left OF Tuesday morning for some other place of worsbip.' He will be long remembered by she citizens ot Columbia, Jacksonport. Searcv, Snithville. and more particularly Pocahontas. Especially, will memories of him be epgrsven ueep hearts Of those specimens of hum- bugged humanity, whose pockets have suffered bs his advent and departure. He is peithsr beast. bird, fish NORMAN
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

MRs RICHARDS YoUNG LADIES INSTITUTE Concert by the pupils this evening at 711s o'clock. Parents and guardians and the friend. of education are invited to attend without fur ther notice.
 The next session of this school will com mence on the 14th of February.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

HF The old Bowery theatre, where J. R. Scott has so often rolled himself up in the Ame- rican flas and died like gentleman, where circusses, bufflloe' and red Indians have so often delighted the red shirted peanut eating crowd, is about to be used by the first Baptist society of New York for Sunday evening preaching- ROefon pOst
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

ELECTION OF JUDGE OF THE FIFTH CIR- cU1r.-We are informed that bill has passed both houses of tke General Assembly, providing that the election of Judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit shall hereafter be holden on the first Monday of August, A. D. 1860, and e,ey lC UT years thereafter The bill orig snated iu the House and passed the Senate to-day, and only requires the approval of the Governor to become a law.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26
ARKANSAS.

CT Sarah Judson, a handsome girl, eighteen years of age, of Pontiac, Michigan eloped with a negro man who has been employed on her wealthy papa's farm, and they were married in Canada. Her family occupies good position in society, is wealthy, etc. Her father is a "red- hot abolitionst" and had taught his chil. dren to look favorably upon colered people, The young lady was not disobedient
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

0F MT. Washboume requests us to inform those wishing to employ his pencil, that they must call to arrange the time for sitting by the fifth of February, or they will have 10 other opportunity.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

Or We have it on the unquestioned autho- rity of country editor that as his youngest ap- prentice was going home with his sweetheart, a few evenings since, she said to him, "John, fear shall never get to heaven!'
 "Why so?" innocently inquired the knight of the ink keg.
 Because" said she, with melting look, "because love the devil so well"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

Or On next Monday night Mrs. \. Moro nev, who is getting to be general favorte takes benefit. A good bill will be presented and we expect to see crowded house.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

0r RudolpA Says that once upon a time a colored cook expected company, of her own kind, and was at loss to entertain her friends. Her mistress said: "Chloe, you must make an apology" "Good Lord! missus, how can I make it! got no eggs, no butter, no nothing to ,nake it with" s1
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

fET It is sad that q coutract naS been signed between the Marine Department and firm in the Marseilles, to supply Guadalonpe and Mar unique with twenty thousand free Africans, suitable to agricultural labor before 1863. Sl- mlar contracts have been made with other houses.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

Cer The Gazette wants to discuss facts con- cerning policy but pot principles. This is some evidence of returning reason, for the former he may know something about, while of principles it nevee had tic romctest idea.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

s-e3- MT. Alfonso Buhlaw, whsse card is pub llshed to-day, is said to be fine artist. He has done some elegant decoX,ting in the residence of Capt Jno. D. Adams.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26
ESTRAY NOTICES.

This paper has been selected for publishing tn estray notices for 1859 at one dollar fo: each astray notice advertised The fee must always be sent with the notice All money sent by mail is at our risk.
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Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

0T Happiness can be made quite as we'll of cheap material as of dear ones.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-26

Weanesaay Jan. I9th. Senate met and after the preliminary busi- ness, MT. President announced that the hour had arrived for which was set the bill to ex- clude from residing in the State of Arkansas, all free colored persons. mulattoes and negroes of the African race, and for other purposes. So the bill was taken up, and after being read the third and last time, MT. Floyd called for the yeas and nays on its passage, which was sustained and stood thus:
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

CONVENTION OF COUNTRY EDIToRs.-
At the suggestion of Col. Switzler, of the
Missouri Statesman, it has been decided
to hold Convention of the country edi-
tors and publishers of Missouri, at JefTer-
son City, on the Sth Of June. We want
to be thar when that convention is held.
We want to ask some of our cotempora-
ries, con6dentially, where they expect to
go to.when they die, and how long they
intend to live as the slaves of quack doc
tors, one-horse politicians and non-paying
subscribers. A good many of the coun-
try editors Of this State are practical
printers, who know they are doing wrong
in publishing long columns of quack nos
trums at starvation prices-too frequently
for no price at all-and we are curious to
learn their reasons for so doing Some of
them are lawyers, and yet they blow and
puff and make pack horses of themselves
to sustain the political fortunes of some
shallow pated orator, who, as soon as he
gets a seat in Congress, or on the bench,
will cut the poor devil of a country edi-
tor dead. We want to ask him if Black
stone and common sense don't teach him
better.
There are many subjects which should
be brought before the convention and if
We had the gift of CAB like Col. Switzler,
we would make a speech that would bring
tears the eyes and money to the pocket Of
every country editor in ear-shot. But,
being no orator, we will only give the
heads of the subjects we would discuss.
ow-countrymen, did you ever know,
l. a prompt-paying patent pill ped
dler
2. An honest Eastern advertising
agent
8. A truthful travelling agent?
4. A menagerie man without mGtilated
money?
5. Hin ofice-seeker that wouldn't lie T?
We might ask hundred other ques-
lions equally pertinent, which it would
trouble our brethren to answer in the af-
frmative.-LOUisidRa Herald.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

n New PHASE OF THE PIXIES PEAK
ExoDUs.-Recently we have understood
that, while many of these emigrants have
the gold fever well developed, there were
hundreds, perhaps thousands-these car
pet-saek and devil-may-care boys-who
have an entirely different object in view.
They start with the intention Of bringing
up at Pixies Peak, or thereabouts, but
they don't intend to stay there. 1t is now
said that, being once there, they can rea-
Oily drop down upon Sonora and Chi
huahua, not exactly as 6llibusters, but
with the intention of taking possession
or at least getting a foothold in-those
Mexican States. Certain it is, that meet
ings have been held by them at st. Jo-
seph, if not other places, with view to
consultation about the movement. If they
do not find the gold diggings to their
liking, then the thousands of idle and
disappointed persons about Pixies Peak
will be rife for anything, and nothing will
be easier than to engage in this predatory
incursion into the States of chihuahua
and Sonora. Even granting that their
inclinations, in many cases, might not
lead them to engage in such an enterprise,
yet starvation is provocation of many
wrong doings, and it will be so with
them.
That there are many men on the road
who seriously contemplate this expedition
against the Mexican States, we are all
well assured.-NO. Republican.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

per; and Bill, take the boss, and give
him plenty of corn no nubbins, Bill
then rub him down well and then, when
you come to the house. bring up a dried
hide and bar-skin, for the stranger to
sleep on: and then. Bill, I reckon he'll
play the turn OF the Rackensack Travel
ler' for u.s."
The pumpkin was brought the taters
we're skinned and eaten tho turn of the
'Rackensack Traveller was repeatedly
played, to abundant edifcation and the
gals finally announced that supper was
ready; and. although instead of store-tea,
they only had 'saxifax tea-doin's,' with
out milk, yet the repast was one to be
long and gratefully remembered. The
traveller remained all night, and was pi-
loted safely over the big creek. early next
morning. OF truth, Emusic has charms
to soothe the savage breast !''
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

Thursday night. after the adjournment
of the Democratic State Convention, one
of the delegates, from the County Of
Franklin, wandered to the Gayety Thea
tire, to witness the tragedy of Othello.
Mr.. Crisp personated the :" Moor" on
that occasion, and, we must say, looked
the character to great perfection. The
delegate from Franklin appeared highly
satisfied, until the scene in the Dukes
palace, where Othello is arraigned for
marrying the beautiful Desdemona. Here
he knit his brows, and looked daggcrs at
the sooty general; but when Desdemona
herself entered and Joined in defence Of
her husband, and he turned and threw
his arms gently about her waist, the del
egate went of in a towering passion,
swearing it was Odd Black Repub-
lican play" not to be tolerated by the
Southern people, and stalked out of the
house.-NaSAUiiie Patriot.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
Stlttt Galt.
ARKANSAS TRAVELLER.

In the early settlement Of Arkansas, a
traveller, after riding some eight or ten
miles without meeting a human being,
or seeing human habitation, came at
length, by a sudden turn of the wood
road, to miserable 'shanty,' the centre
oiasmall clearing, in what had originally
Oeen Blackjack thicket,' whence the
only sound that proceeds is the discordant
music of brOken-winded' fiddle, from
the troubled bowels of which the occu-
pant is laboriously extorting the monoto-
nous tune known as, THE arkansas, or
fsaksasack Traveller Our traveller
ndeS up within a few feet of the door,
winch was once the bed frame of a cart
OOdy' now covered with bear skins and
lunS upon two wooden hinges. After
S0Outlng, the inmate appears, fiddle in
aand' and evidently 'wrathy' at being
interrupted in the exercise of his art.
tas following colloquy ensues. the indie
ISTlSaole fiddler playing the first strain of
Inc Arkansas Traveller which, in fact,
u: continues at sudden intervals, until the
dialogue, as will be seen, is brought to an
Unexpected conclusion. If this be not
seeking lodgings under difficulties we
should hike to know what is legitimately
50 considered:
IRAvELLER.-" Friend, can I obtain
%eommodatiOns for the night with you7"
Arkansas 'ARTIsT.'-"No, sir-nary
eonmOdation."
E-"My dear sir. 1 have already trav-
aisa thirty miles to-day. and neither my
:. vi nor my horse has had mouthful to
-. why can't you accommodate me for
w a. A.-"Just 'kasc it can't be did.
at, %Tfe plum out of every thing to eat in
I,s. uO9Se: Bills gone to mill with the
N N t uuOoln OF corn on these premises. and
sr, . nigh onto the shank of tomorrow
An; sI'n atore he Gums home, unless some
n OncOmmOn happens"
-. gu surely have something that
wnr,l1 my uoTse: even lew potatoes
'OS'd be better than no food"
nm, - Stranger, our eatin' -roots gin
i a." uOa' week ago; so your chance
with But, my friend, 1 must remain
6sr you any way. 1 can't go any fur
not T Wer | obtain anything to eat or
Shall, l on certainly will allow me the
''S,'er Of your roof?"
Yo On =. At can't be did, old boss.
Oh tbs we've got only one dried hide
han nj premises, and me and the old wo.
Chance ~, occupies haty SO whar's your
hat allow me to hitch my horse to
f''Slmmon tree, and with my saddle
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

Mr.. PIKE, HIS PEAK.-A short time
since Capt. Yates cleared from Chicago
for Pixies Peak, via the canal and rivers.
The Captain has returned without his
craft, the Geneva. Here is his log, as
published in the Chicago Press and Fri
bune:
Eight miles from Chicago. broke a
wheel-repaired at Joliet-started again
shot wild hog-salted him--ducks and
wild fowl--ducks--more ducks-duck-
ing--the cook falling overboard--Alton
broke on our weatherbow--large river
Mississippi-more Of same sort, but mud
d:er-believed to be an open main of
Chicago Water Works--aSked wood
dealer, called Missouri in these parts
found an Observation-Disclosures it after
discoverer, 'Polegonia'-found owner of
the island-more ducks-'what will you
take?'-S--,-'bald face'-sold Ge-
neva to owner-cleared S---,-learn
that Mr.. Pike hasn't any Peak, after all
don't care whether he has or not"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

That DERRIxGER PIsToL.-A Balti-
more paper gives the history of the infa-
nous Derringer pistol with which Sick
les killed Key, and which Sickles' coun-
sci pleaded, (for effect to the jury. was
probably. the property of Key himself.
This pistol is stated to have been formerly
the property of Isaac v. Fowler, Esq,
P. N. of New York, who on one occasion,
when practicing in pistol gallery in Bal
timore, accidentally wounded his'friend,
S. F. Butterworth, in the posterior por-
ton of the person, by premature dis
charge. Butterworth was sometime sick
from this awkward wound, and, on his
recovery, Mr.. Fowler gave him the pistol
as present. This same pistol Butter
worth is believed to have lent to Sickles
on the fatal Sunday morning. If Barnum
were in the country. he would doubtless
secure it for exhibition.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
Msteuancorls,
MARY OF ARGYLE.

/ have hearl the mavis singing
His love-soag TO the moon:
have seen the dew-drnp clinging
To the rose just newly blown:
Bot sweeier song has cheerel me,
At the evenings gentle close;
And I've seen'an eye still brighter
Than the dew-drop on the rose.
Twas thy voice, my gentle Mary,
And thine artless, winning smile,
That has made this world an Eden,
BOnny Mary of Argyle!
Though thy voice may lose its sweetness,
And thine eye its brightness, too;
Though thy step may lack its fleetness,
And thy hair its sunny hue:
Still TO me thou wilt be dearer
Than all the world shall own.
have loved thee for thy beauty,
But not for that alone:
have watcheh thy form, dear Mary,
And its goodness was the vile
That has made thee mine forever,
Bonny Mary of Argyle.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
STANZAS.
There was one to love me in the world,
Ny brother. thou art gone."-HKxASs

~ etotuef- Alou ar souG- - hhAAN1s
By thy banks, ,hou proad Ohio,
With mournfhl joy roam;
The sweet stars Of the Sammer shy
Are cleaning on Thy foam
hear thy surges murmurins by,
Iwateh thy glad waves roll;
They are familiar things to me,
Yet lonely is my soul
Where is the light and buoyant step,
The kindly heart of yOrei
A manly form was BY my side,
When last sought thy shore
The green sward Of a stranger Land
Nov swells above his head;
And am here, to mourn thy loss,
Thou loved one Of the dead.
The fair hills ofmy native land
No more are bright to me;
The very birds loved to hear,
Seem mute upon the tree
So vOiceless are my memories
Ofall could cheer this heart,
And how all cold thou art.
In all this wide world, q, tell me,
Is there one who e'er can be
So full of gentle truthfulness,
So faithful still to met
Oh, friendships smile seems mockery,
Since thine no more can beam;
Thou vert the star whose constant ray
ShOne brightest on life's stream.
HOn river may roll back its food,
Behind yon forest boar;
YOn mountain may its tOpmost erag
Bend down TO kiss the shore
With raVins Pang, this weary life
May from my heart-strings wress,
Ere shall cease to grieve for thee,
Oh, "truest heart and bestF'
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

SIcsIFTcAxr.-We are informed that
there are applications now in the hands Of
the Receiver. for all the bit { 124c) lands
in the Southern part Of this State. 1t
will DO remembered that no person can
enter more than thres hundred and twenty
acres. These lands are very rapidly be-
coming settled upon and improved By free
sckite nsen.-Mo. Democrat.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

The Washington States, not many
weeks SINCE assured the country, with all
due solemnity. that there wasfno Demo-
cratic party in existence. It is now en-
gagged in collecting the. fragments and
trying to solder them together for use at
Charleston next year. It viii be a mourn
full procession that follows the dear de-
parted (one hundred millions year, to
that convention, and the Charleston Mer-
curry prepares its fellow-citizens for the
sad sight by telling them that "the Dem
ocratic party of the North, like Tester
ing corpse, is falling to pieces by the de-
composing element Of sectonalism-" =
Douglas and Forney will be chief mourn
ers, assisted by Wise and Souls.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
The bieh price Of skunk skins has 81

The high price of skunk skins has 81
ven an unwonted activity q Down East
to the pelts of essence peddlers, !" as has
been shown hereabouts.-Cleve. Herald.
Sons may think it curious fact
Though we don't) that. since the extra
ordinary advance in the price OF skunk
skins, a good many Of the Locofoeo edi-
tors hereabouts have gone to work to nike
each others Louisville Journal.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
hat point. we do not ask or expect to do

that point, we do not ask or expect to dc
so.
=
What the Republican partf unitcdly
demand and insist on, is such achange in
the policy of the Federal. Goyernment as
win render it no longer patron and par
tisan, but an opponent of the future ex-
tension Of slavery. We insist that in
future It shall act with regard 70 slsvcfy
extension in the spirit which induced
Jefferson to devise. and Washington to
sanction its Introduction in the Federal
Territories and Gen. Taylor to favor its
exclusion from California. So much, in
essence, the Republicans must aad will
insist on. How many of the other wing
of the Opposition will object to it I? In
other words: How many of the conserv-
alive Wings desire that the Federal Gov
eminent shall continue to be employed,
as it has been through the several Demo-
cratic Administrations since Tyler's apos-
tasy, as an agency for the propagation and
diffusion of Human Slavery?
We do not believe that there are ten
thousand voters in the Union outside of
the National Democratic organization,
who desire the extension of slavery, or
that the Federal Government shall favor
such extension. In our intercourse with
Southern Whigs-and it has not been
very limited--we never met one who did
so who does not now call himself Dem
ocrat.
If, then. we are not essentially at vari-
ance on this point, we insist that no in
surmountable barrier exists to prevent the
'fusion" we desire. We believe that
Maryland. Delaware, and Missouri. with
possibly Kentucky, Tennessee, and North
Carolina. may be carried in 1860, for a
National ticket, which shall be frankly
but inoifensively hostile to the extension
of slavery.
As to our valiant Republican brethren,
who keep reiterating that they will never
support any but a distinctive. original
Republican. and that the platform of 1856
must be realfirmed verbatim in 1860, we
simply say, 1t is not wise to deal in rash
promises, rash threats, nor rash prophe-
cies. You will doubtless do what is best
in 1860, whatever you may think or say
now and it is not wise butter hot words
which may return to plague you hereafter.
If an original Republican shall be our
candidate in 1860, You will want our
Conservatives to forget that you ever
threatened to oppose one of their sort if
nominated while, if our nominee should
not be Republican of sc, you will want
to forget those threats yourselves.
We say, then, to the exclusives on ell
Their hand. Keep cool. Victory is clearly
within reach of the OPPOSITION victory
over hich both Republicans and Con-
will have ample reason to re-
ioice. Let it not be fooled away by a
childish strife about names. When speech
tends to irritate and distract, unspeakable
is the wisdom of Silence. HI
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

A YoUTHFgL PoETI-The Democratic
journals are publishing poetical cpl
gram against Thomas Jefferson, which
appeared in 1903. which they claim was
written by William Cullen Bryant, edi-
tor of the New York Evening Post. Mr..
Bryant was born in 1874, and eonse-
quently could have been but nine years
old when the epigram was written and
published.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

SIeKLEs.-Sickles is in New York
Sickles Is staying with a fast friend /;
Siekles sails for Europe, in June /; Sick
les goes abroad to temperate his broken
political and social fortunes at home
Sicklcs isn't going to spply for divorce.
This is all the very latest Sickles news.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09
Too TRUE.-The Louisville JOurna

Too TRUE.-The Louisville Journal
says:
The Administration sent out several
Governors to Kansas, to restrain the Free
State men. and they became Free State
men themselves. 1t sent out a Governor
to Utah, to control and restrain the Nor
mons, and he seems to be turning Nor
mon himself II is great at appointing
Governors. p. ..--
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-06-09

:, a, Kin, Edward /. wherever his wife's cor
~ :. a, vsy to iuterment at WestminIter.]
On. fairer tkSn vermillion,
eh,a uuou Western skies,
Ma, the blush Of that sweet Castillian
Girl, with the deep brown eyes,
Asher happy heart grew firmer,
In The strange, bright days Of yore,
Wbe, she heard young Edward mnrmur,
81 love thee, ElesnOre!"
s.eeter than musical cadence
Ofthe wind mid cedar and lime,
T, love to timorous maiden's
Hear, in the fresh spring time;
s0eeter than waves that mutter
And break on a sinuous shore,
Are the songs her fancies utter
To brOwu-eyed Eleanore.
They twain went forth together,
AWAY DER the Midland Main,
through the golden Summer weather,
To syria's mystic PLATA;
Together, toll and danger
And the death Of tlieir loved ones bore,
And perils from Paynim, stranger
Than death to Eleanore.
Where Lincoln's towers Of wonder
Soar high DER the vale of Trent,
Their lives were torn asundeT-
To her home the cool Queen went
Her eor,e to the tomb he earned,
With grief at his hearts stern core;
And where'er at night they tarried,
Rose Cross to Eisanore-
A,ystrace meteor's onset,
Re a lire Of silver rain
Asye trace regal sunset,
Bv areaks ola saffron stain
So to the Minister holy,
Al the west of l.ondon's roar,
Nav ys marx how, sadly, slowly,
Passed the corse of Eleanore.
Back to where lanees CULVER
Straight back, by tower and town,
By hill and void and river
For the love of Scolland's crown.
But, an there is woe within him,
For the face he shall see no moFei
And conquest cannot win him
From the iOve Of Eieanore.
Years after, sternly dying,
Ia his tent By the Solway Sea,
With the breeIes of Scotland flying
Der the wild sands, wide and free,
Ills din ,hOughts sadly wander
To the happy days OfyOrs,
And he sees, in the gray sky yonder,
The eyes of his EleSnore.
Time must destroy those Crosses
Raised by the Pset-Kins:
Bat as long as the blue sea losses,
As long as the sky-larks sing,
As long as London's river
Glides stately down to the More,
Men shall remember ever,
How he loved Queen Eleanore.