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The constitutional union., 1860-11-16
A Des Arc Enterprise.

While at the landing the other day, we noticed one of the finest models of steamer that 1t has been our fortune to see for many day. Upon inquiry, we were grati6ed to learn that it was "home institution" built to run as ferry be- tween Des Arc and the Surrounding Hill. She is christened the |" Tom Sugg," and is under the command of our enterprising tOwnsman, Capt. Harvey, with II. T. Harrison as clerk. She was built in Cincinnati, by Messrs. Johnson, Morton S Co.,, under the supervision of Capt. Harvey, at \ cost of s, 800. We understand it is as yet un- certain whether she will run ferry or packet, but in either case she has our good wishes for her success.
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THE NECESSITY OF LABOR.

The notion is false that genius can sustain it. | self without labor All the great minds who have | ielt their marks upon the history of the world s progress have paid for their success and notoriey oy the price of nnremittng toll and labor. Napo- leon Bonaparte worked hard and incessantlv and mas been known to exhaust the energies of several | secreiarles at one time. Charles XII. of Sweden frequently tired out all his officers The Duke of Wellington was the hardest working man in the Iehlnsula; hIs energies never Jagged Milton | from his youth, applied himself with such inde- iatlgabe application to the study of letters that occasioned weakness of sight and ultimate blindness. The labor of Sir Walter Scott is an
 parent in the number of his literary productions, and 1t is evident to every reader that the immense masses of general information which abound throughout his multitudinous works could only have been acquired by the dint of many years hard study. Byron was in the habit of reading even at his meals. Luther made it a rule to trans
 late verse of the bible every day This soon brought him to completion of his labors, and it was matter of astonishment to Europe that, in the multiplicity of his other labors besides trav- eling he could find the time to prepare such a surpasslng work. Newton and Locke pursued their studies with tireess efforts and Pope sought retirement so that he might pursue his literary operations without interruption and distraction
 Industry is essential to all. By forming the habit of doing something useful every day a man
 " '"i "ih'"h' oi hdPPlHesS, anu en- larges that of others about him. Many a one bv the Judicious use of odd moments, those little va cancies in every day life which occur to all have rendered themselves famous among their fellows Nature Is preserved in its proper working condi- ton by constant exertion and man. to keep in a healthful condition of mind and body must exert his mental and physical faculties the constant employment ot the first will give strength of char acter, so that 1t IS capable of thinking on any subject at any time, and by active bodily exerton he preserves his health, fortune and worldly po- sition. The Marquis of Spinola once asked Sir Horace We're '' of what his brother died?" He died, sir" replied Sir Horace of having noth- ing to do." = Alas sir" said Spinola, {. that is enough to kill any general of us." IGodey
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STATISTICS OF PERU.-A work on the geography and statistics of Peru by C. Davln, condemarin lately professor in the University of Lima, has just appeared at Turin. We gather from it the following particulars The area of the republic is 43,000 Spanish square miles. The population is 2,5O0,0OO, of which 900, ,000 are descendants of the Spanish emigration, .4O6, GOO are descendants of the original inhabitants, and 200, GOO are black and mixed. The army consists of GOO men, and the navy consists of eight war steamers The governmental income averages about l6,0O0, GOO piastcrs, and the expenditures l6,000, ,0O0 The national debt is 44,OoO,00 piasters Peru pos seses enough guano to allow of the exportation of 100000 tons for a period of 25O years.
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CoTToS CROP IN NoTHERN MIssIssIPpI-The Oxford Mercury of Thursday last says:
 gentleman just up from Bolivar county gives us a cheerful account of the cotton crop. To use his own language, ''an of ground is just as good for a bale of cotton this year as a sixpence is for ginger cake in Bolivar" No sort of land can be purchased for less that $25 per acre. while many plantations are actually selling for S75, while the holder is perfectly indifferent about selling. One gentleman, he says who works only sixteen hands, will make 250 bales this year SUD- pose these bales bring $60 each, the product of sixteen hands one year is S15,OOO Many plan tations work one hundred hands; at the above rates one hundred hand would earn $9O, 900; and this will give you some idea of planting cotton in the Mississippi bottom
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DIsAsTERous CoNrL.cR.r1ox AT Co,r,,nrs

DISASTROUS CoNFLAGRATION AT COLUMBUS OHIo.-We learn from The Cincinnati Commer- clal' says The Memphis Appeal, that the city of Columbus, Ohio, was, on Tuesday night last, de- vastated by terrible conhagration, the full ex- tent of which was not known when the latest in tellgence was received. The entire block. upon which the Neil house stood, was destroyed, and destruction threatened the adjacent blocks The city authorities of Columbus telegraphed to the city authorities at Cincinnati to send up several steam engines, which were to have been immedi- dlately dispatched by special train over the Little Miami Railroad
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4 NEW VARIETy.- .I

NEW VARIETY.-r, tIo p, p uane'to otil'e 'ne s.e.torm which swept this i p0i '-on Ti sno '.'''e a' sopenng of the month, .ne "oou? nave oee'' III I'd win new variety C. .no .f 4u'soe ~ Iu.n 1' ent hat in places We w"i TL 'noy "i1 apooiu,eiy ling he cattle mad.
 H "'o :. -"ls D'aoN, age variety, giving io DuA1 :,, oi .ne pul Pcing ipon their vic they draw their scruples of Iod rheso ,aosnu;. toes are not confined 10 any h;c,,,. Ioo.I;., are generally distributed oveha c,,ntr,- ;o ,La u great annoyance of residents welbs travcIor. This is their second appmram Nor tha Iast Island storm they visited us in frst ,;roo They are mariners. no bubt bu, ,n no fnnr. the eastern lakes"
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SHOOTING FFRAY-i MAN DANGEROUSLY

SHOOTING rERAY-A MAN DANGEROUSLY WoUNDED.-Oraturday night an affray occurred in the barber sip of the Lafayette Hotel at OK ford Mississippi which caused intense excitement soon after andas been the subject of converse tion ever since. It seems that D. P. Borroum and painter by thname of White met at the above place and got ito quarrel about some trivial matter. The -n lie was pass ed, as it is alleged by three or fouwitnesses who were present, and immediately tireafter the parties got into scuf- fie The witnses state that Borroum drew a pis- tol and fired aWhite during the melee. White reeled off, and'as caught in the act of falling on the floor. Beoum went to his horse, hitched near the hotegot upon him and galloped of ln the direction home. He was arrested at home that night, al brought to town next day. On Monday he w taken before Magistrate and en- tered into bd of Sl.OOO for his appearance at the next ter of the Circuit Court, fined eight dollars by thMayor, and discharged. The ball struck Whitdn the left groin. passed into the body, and w;takcn out near the upper edge of the thigh bon The wound is terrible, but not con sidered fatally the physicians.
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ABoLfrioSlscRNDIaRIEs IN ALABAMa..-Ihe MontgomerSlail, of the 3Oth, says We yes tsrday bear,of two incendiaries who had been tampering vh slaves One of these was in Ma' rengo count and the inhabitants were after him; the other hl been caught after chase. and lodged in Rsel jail His name is Tom Cope land, and hbrags of what his friends had done with fire anpoison in Texas His days we trust, are numbeH, His efforts to incite instruction in Russell we hardly disgused, and are susccpti- ble of abuIant proof"
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IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-The New York Times Washington correspondent of the 9th inst. says at the special request of a number of prominent citizens of Georgia, the government has placed the arsenal at Augusta in possession of the fed eral troops, and also that the arsenal at Fayete- vile is to be occupied by company of cavalry.
 The Worlds Washington correspondent says that Gen. Harney has left to assume the com mand of the Department of the West.
 In consequence of anonymous letters threaten ing insurrection in Virginia, Gov. Letcher has ordered troops to be ready to move at moment S notice.
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ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER GoNE.-The noble little band of heroes and patriots who plant ed the tree of liberty on the western continent are slowly, but surely passing from among us, and ere long the last link that now connects the present with the past will have been sundered One ot these old heroes has recently deceased in Georgia of whom The Dalton Times says: "We learn thai Mir, Thomas Hames of Murray county, died or Tuesday morning last, at the advanced age o 130. He fought through the revolutionary war and could tell many thrilling incidents connected with the first settlers of this country, having beer resident of the above county for the last twenty or thirty years. Peace to the ashes of the old veteran.
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LIFE AND DEATH.-Life and death what awful words, yet how lightly they drop from the lips We utter them if we had not constantly before us the solemn warning that |" In the midst of life we are in death" We wander among the high ways of ouy mortal existence, either needless or unconscious that pursued by a shadow which will go wherever go Wrapt up in our selves, we adore the present. regardless of the fact that, however glittering it may appear, to our senses, it is wreathed in msts that spread disease, and pain, and death every side of us
 ' Floating down the current of time to the tomb,
 We hallow too much the flowers on it's side"
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PoTATo CROP OF lowA.-The potato crop of To. wa for the year 1860 is astonishing The yield in 300 bushels to acre. and the general average is not much less than 200. The quality of the potatoes is better than usual It is not uncommon to find fhem weighing pound each, and some three tour and even five pounds Not sign of rot or imperfcction has been discovered. So plenty and cheap have they been, that many loads were sold at ten cents per bushel, No danger of starving in Iowa at these figures!
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PREPARING FOR ACTIoN.-A letter from Charles ton, South Carolina, dated October 18th. says : ''The fire companies are drilling every night, and making other preparations for the coming dsso- lution. South Carolina will secede if Lincoln is elected. All accounts go to show that the most determined efforts are making to induce South Carolina to lead off in the effort to dissolve the Union and break up the Government.
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NEAR Grasshopper Falls, Kansas, q famous drove of wild horses is seen, but so fleet are they that all attempts to capture the full grown horses are failures. The patriarch of the tribe is a chesnut horse somewhat larger than the Morgan stock, and mark for all pursuers, but has never been overtaken, although reward of five hun dred dollars is offered for the capture of this "Chesnut King"
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DIES ARC COTTON MARKET

FRIDAY, November The Cotton market is dull, and prices ba maintained-our merchants holding back firm of Stewart X Bros have bought since d last issue (thc 3d inst, 4S6 bales at prices ran ing from 9@l04c, according to quality; Messi Robinson & Branch, 70 bales, of which tn bought % at 93-4c@l04 w. B. Crocker X Co.,, l bales, P of which they bought at 9 3-4@10Ic.
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SENATOR TOos AND THE LADIEs.-Tbe C1 umbus (Ga.) Tir, of the Both ult, says: " Se- ator Toombs woin the streets oi Columbus o Saturday, the ,ue cockade " given him by tn, fair ladies of bntgomcry. God bless them We are for thtand a union with them. wber, love, harmony-l good feeling exists. but are op posed to any Ter sort of Union." The nigh, that the Senatspoke in Montgomery many la. dies wore thehe badge of secession.
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Discovery of Gold.

While we are going to press the report is prev alent about town of the discovery of GOLD by the workmen engaged at the Artesian Well. The ex- eitement occasioned by this rumor is easier imag- ;ned than described Several small pieces have been dug out which are pronouncedb by those posted in such matters the genuine stuf Should itprove to be so, the vein is rich one.
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GINS BURNED.-The Ia.

GINS BURNED.-The last Tensas Gazette men, tions the destruction of two gin houses in that parish-one belonging to Phil. Doherty, Esq, burned on the 18th ult., at which fire negro man lost his liein attempting to cotton the other belonging to Mrs. Elliott, on Lake Joseph includ- ing the loss of fifty bales of cotton. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary. The Gazette estimates the loss of cotton by the late general storm at eight thousand bales, and says there are very few places where the crop will be equal to last year.
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GRAIN RECEIPTS AT CHICAGo.-The total re- ceipts of corn at Chicago for the commercial year 1859 and '6O foot up l6,O00,OO0 bushels against receipts of 4,5OO 900 bushels for 1858 and '59 and S,250,0O bushels for 1857 and '58. It is thought probable that the receipts from the crop of the current year will exceed 10000 900 bushels.
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 WHY CHILDREN DIE.-The reason why children
 die says Halls Journal of Health, is because they
 are not taken of. From the day of their
 birth they are supplied with food, choked with physlc, sloshed with water, sufocated with hot rooms, steamed ill bed clothes So much for in door. When permitted 10 breathe of pure air. once week Tn summer, and once or twice during Q the colder months, only the noise is allowed to peer in daylight. A little later they are sent out with no clothes on at all the parts of the body which most need protection. Bare legs, bare
 ''ms, bare neck, girted middlcs, with an inverted
 nbrella 10 collect the air and chill the other !. Tt of the body. stout, strong man goes out r cold day with gloves and overcoat wooden ,o kings, and thick dOuble-solcd boots, with of 1etween and rubbers over. The same day nc of three years old. an infant of flesh and nj ', and bone and constitution, goes out with B. as thln as paper, cotton socks, legs uncov- ,f m , the knees, neck bare; an exposure which 2, disable the nurse, kill the mother out D. 6nd make the father an invalid for weeks
 h n:y? To harden them 10 a mode of dress .e ey are never expected 10 practice. To d IN them to exposure which dozen years d a: .a:e. Id be considered downright foolery. To ii ai'' Iren thus for the slaughter pen and lay ,o a U .lprd, is too bad. We don't think the IF . d hand in it. And to draw comfort '. assumption that he had any agency in .e fana,;on the child, IS q presumption and pro-
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psRRIKGEHsp JAvA.-Here is a paragraph from The St. is Bulletin of Wednesday morn ing-double led, and as full of meaning as a double-shottcannon: We hereby take occa- sion to say t should The Republican again think it proto impute the lie to this journal. we shall reg the controversy as removed be- yond the spI of newspaper discnssieu.,'
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Gov. LETCHER oSECEssion.-A corres,rao,. of the Philadelphi,.edger says: q have,een . ie''ei rom uo. rsoner' stating substantially 'a"' Il, VIC" ~ in, n.I uahSer ol seccessn at .ne eAtrehlv oou'.'nich result ne deplore he is putting Virginin State of preparatid to prevent anythingle force being brought to ear against secedinetates, by marching Gown ment troops throh Virginia, etc.,
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IN RECENT letter Gov. Brown, of Georgia. says that State claims, as her southern boundary. straight line from the mouth of Flint river to hlh'otts Mound. No property south of that will De considered as belonging 10 Georgia, or having just claim upon her protection.
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SouTH CAROLINA MONEY-From one to two and a half per cen is the rate at which South Carolina funds can DC disposed of in the money market, AS weare to1hy gentlemen well-informed on the subject. Ths is decline in the last few days of half to tp per cent. only and we hope for the sake of all tat it may become no greater. The South Carolin; banks have always been in high repute amongousiness men, and, from good authority, we learIthat they are up to this mo- ment regarded as ne most safe and solvent insti- tutOns of the couIry. It would indeed be a bad beginning if the sme mail that borne the invita- ton from South GrOlina to the other Southern States to enter wh her into the delights of Q separate ConfedeIcy, should also bear the news that they must thrw away twenty dollars of every hundred of her orrency they might happen to have about them. The public need no such re-
 straints on their smpathy with secession as a bad fall in the fund of the leading secession State. disruption of te Government is odious enough
 without any suchdditional irritant, and it will of course be thepocy of every who places | proper estimat upon the value of commercial confidence, to doyhat he toward preserving it. Good judge pronounce the Carolina money
 safe, both now ad respectively; and we record the fact as oneof the items tending toward a restoration of tb somewhat impaired commercial confidence. Memphis Enquirer.
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THE oldest tree in the world the history of which is known, is the sacred fig tree of Anaraia- poura, in Ceylon. It was planted by King Devin- ipiatissa, in the year 2SS B. C., and its history from that date is preserved by mass of docn- mentary and traditional evidence, It was de- scribed by the Chinese traveller, Fla Hian, in the year 4l4, and by the earliest Europeans who visit cd It, in about the same terms. It still fourshes and is an object of worship to the Buddhists oi the island
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ARRIyALAND DEPARTURE OF THE MAILS

FoDr sx,ra. Arrives here Mondays and Thurs d.vsot2P. M. Leaves Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10 P. NJ.
 R.sryRx MAIL.--Arrives by river Tuesdays and Vridsvs st 6 4. N. Leaves Mondays and Thurs days at 6 A. Nj.
 sx.rcY.-Arrives Tuesdays at 6 P. N. Leaves Mondays at A. M'
 pUowssvILLE-Arrives Saturdays at P. NJ Leaves Fridays at A. M
 Corrox PLASr.~-Arrives Saturdays at II A. M Iooyes same days at P. M
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Gov. LETcHER, of Virginia, reported on the 24th ut. that four batteries would be at Richmond during that week He says that nineteen com panic. of cavalry arc reported to him as being organized
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CAN BEECHER KEEP A HoTEL2-A new hotel is being erected near the depot at Ad- ans, Jefferson county, in which, it is said Henry Ward Beecher owns SSOOO interest
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TnEy have mountain in Oregon, which the settlers believe to be mass of silver, and worth at a low calculation $066, ,6OOOO Claims are 100 feet front, and run to the top of the noun tain.
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MAIL BOATS ON WHITE RIVER.
IRON NAPOLEON TO JACksoSPoRr.

SAM. HALE-Capt. C. W. Coles-arrives at Des Arc on Fridays, from Napoleon, and touches here for her downward mails Mondays, from Jack sonport.
 KANAwHA VALLEY-Capt. W. B. Prce-arrives al Des Arc from apoleon on Tuesdays, and touches here again on Thursday. for her downward mails from Jacksonport.
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IT IS STATED that large contracts have been made in Missouri for corn at twenty cents a bushel We doubt it.
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In the year 1859, England had no fewer than ,5OO, 900 depositors in savings banks, and France upwards of 100000.
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The Syrian relief fund, in New York, amounts to SIS, ,544 S9
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THE entire cost of receiving the Prince of Wales in Albany was but S5l3.
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GEN. CLARK who died in San Francisco on the l7th ult, had been in the army forty-eight years.
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RIVER COLUMN.
MEMPHIS AND WHITE RIVER PaCKETs

ACACIA COTTAGE, Capt. Dismukes H.zEL DELL, Capt. k. Rees TAmLEQUAH, Capt. Jno. Woodburn FRONTIER CIrI, Capt. Houston
 NEW ORLEANS AND WHITE RIVER PACKETS.
 CARRIER, Capt. Sam. Taylor lATAS, Capt. II. $. Eaton
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AN EXPRESS AGENT ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLE- MEST.-Eenry Clay Dyer is the name of young man who has been emploed for some time as agent of the St. Louis and Belevle Express. He was formerly in the employ O the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, but discharged for dishonesty. Yes terday he was brought into the city in custody of some detectives e1ploycl in Tunnecliffe's Detec- tive Agency, on the chsgc of robbing or embez- zling 5000 from the Belevile Express-of which Mir. John P. Majors is the owner. The facts are these: About one mont ago Mir. Majors intrusted to his chargea packagecontaining 5000, marked " R. Hnckey. Belevilh,' and he told him to put it in the bottom of capet bag and then put the carpet sack in the bottom of trunk-uscd for conveying packages-nd send it to Mir. IInck
 ley, after delivering he key up to the baggage
 master. Dyer sent the trunk directed, but when it arrived in Belevillc, the money was not there, and the concluson arrived at was that Dyer had never sent 1t. lldwas not arrested, however, but continued in the employ of Mr. Majors, the latter saying but httleabout it, hoping that Dyer would explain the matter satisfactorily. He failed to do so, and moreover left the city for A week or two, saying some of his friends that he did not wish to stay where everybody was sus- picioning him. 0urinformant says that no one had then troubled hm, and his own conscience must have been theonly accuser. His leaving him in this manner aused Mr Majors to order him to be arrested, Ihch was done day or two since at some point Cast. He will be examined tomorrow on the chrge. [St. Louis Bulletin.
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The inside column represents the cash 10 b,, ] the pachaee' lhe ou'sioe ooiuhih represet ime ] prices in small lots