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The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

QUALIFICATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Fort Macon protects Beaufort, North Caro- lima, and is situated on a bluff on Bogue s bank, one and three-fOurth mile from the city. It commands the entrance to Beaufort harbor. having full sweep of fire on the main chan nel. The opposite entrance to the harbor is Shackleford bank, one and half mile across. The fertilization is of hexagonal form, has two tiers of guns, one in casemated bomb proofs, and the other CD barbette. Its arma- ment consists of twenty thirty-two pounders, thirty-two twenty-four pounders, two eighteen pounders, two twelve pounders, three field pieces for fanking defense, two flank how itzers, eight eight-inch howitzers (heavy, ] eight eight-inch howitzers (light,) one thir- teen inch mortar, three ten-inch mortars, two Cehorn mortars. Total, eighty-seven guns. The war garrison of the fort is three hun. dred men.
 This fort, however, is sadly in need of re- pairs; the masonry requires pointing in many places; nearly all the the iron works, such as doors and window fastenings, are routed away One of the wooden bridges across the ditch is useless, the storeroom needs revolution, and the roadway requires to have its embankments repaired, and new bridge to be built across the canal. The wharf having its piers under mined by the sea current and its wooden su- perstructure much decayed, requires to be re- built This fertilization cost the federal gov ernment S500,000 Fort Caswell IS a first class fortifcation, of hexagonal form, built of massive Northern granite masonry, having two tiers of guns en barbette. It is situated at the entrance of Cape Fear river, two miles from Smithyille.
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TEyHE SECOND SESSION OF THE ABOVE ! Academy will open Monday, the 4th day of February next The Principal fatters himself that, having an experience of many years in the profession of teaching he will be enabled to give satisfaction to the patrons of his school The Academy is located in a healthy region of coun- try remote from all those localities of dissipation and vice, so destructive to the morals of youth, and in the midst of a community, combining all those virtues that compose a good neighborhood No pains will be spared by the teachers to advance the pupils entrusted to their charge. Special attention will be directed to have them thoroughly to understand the elementary principles of all the branches of Science taught in the school. No pupil need apply for reception who is unwilling to be either governed or instructed. Pupils will be charged from the time of entrance No deduc- tion will be made except in case of protracted illness.
 TUITION PER SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS. Elementary Branches, SlO % Higher English Branches 15 OO Languages and Higher Mathematics, 20 %
 Board can be obtained at from Eight to Ten Dollars per month.
 Oakland Grove Prairie Co.,, Ark jy11 '61-4t
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THERE were thirteen men married the other day, in the same church and by the same clergyman, at Muscatine, whose average height was six feet five inches, the tallest be- ing six feet eight inches and the shortest six feet three inches.
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BILLIARDS PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED. The Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal thus speaks of the game of billiards:
 Yes, sir, we can tell you all about bill lizards. 1t is a game consisting of two men in their shirt sleeves, punching balls about on a table, and presenting the keeper with twen- ty cents, or as is most commonly the case in this country, telling him to just mark it down. This aforementioned custom has given them the title of bIlliard-markers If you have decided genius for the game, you will make superior player at an expense of about 5000. Blacksmiths, carpenters, &c., play it for exercise. It was invented by shrewd saloon-keeper who was not satisfied with the profits on whisky, was too much opposed to temperance to water it.
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ID IE S A R C MALE ACADEMY T. H. OSBORNE, Principal.

TTHHE FIRST SESSION OF THIS ACADEMY. \ located in Des Arc Prairie county, Arkansas, commenced January ', 1861,
 The terms of Tuition are SlO SI250, $l5 and c20 per session of five months
 The government of the Academy will be strict, yet mild, The mode of teaching will be strictly methodical. Parents will observe that it will be of great advantage to their sons to be entered at or near the beginning of the session Parents or guardians need not enter their sons or wards un- less subjecting them entirely to the mode of instruction and of government established in the school.
 Tuition payable from the time of entering till the end of the session. Deduction in eases of prolonged sickness. jy-lS-y
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TIE MOST OF CHARMING OF NoMEN.- Madame de Stael, one of the most elegant con- versationalists the world has ever known, was by no means handsome, so far as mere beau ty is concerned but Byron, the most fastidi- ous of beauty fanciers, declared she could talk down her face in fifteen minutes, at the end of which time she became positively beautiful. The art of conversation is rare gift, and to be cultivated as one would culti- vate any desirable art. With some it is a spontaneous faculty: with all 1t can be ac- quired in a greater or less degree of perfection. An old book upon etiquette, among an i'm mense deal of twaddle, contains some grains of sound sense, which would profit all to heed. On the subject of conversation we are told to
 interrogate without display, not to interrupt profitable speaker, nor desire ambit;ously to to put in a word of ones own, to be measured in speaking and hearing, not to be ashamed of receiving, or to be grudging of information, not to pass anothers knowledge for one $ own. And. again. that the middle tone of voice, neither so low as to be audible, nor ill-bred from its high pitch,' is the most desirable. And, also, that one should reflect first what he is going to say, and then give it uttcrance; be courteous when addressed. amiabc in so- cial intercourse, not aiming to be pleasant by facetiousness, but cuItiyating genleness in kind admonitions. IIarshness Is ever to be put aside even in censuring.
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THE Albany Journal, says, another eff fort is to be made in the New York Legisla- ture to have divorce made easy" The best way to effect this, would be to pass a general conjugal secession act, so that parties could withdraw from their united states at will.
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POETICAL.

THE followin' 'stanzus" we think pekurely appropreate tu the "okjeks of kommisurashun , in Des Arc. Nance a sole vii but tu deepee and simpathetikally respond to evere wurd of it:
 STANZUS, Deikated to on TadvidooaJ in the Persute of Licke
 under D9fkuIties, of c Sunday AOrning.
 Emanent Destrukshonist of Licker, Probablee your dri. Maybee there's vakum in your bowels, You feel slitely Kurious in the abdomenel regens, Want a stimulater eh? It can't be did,
 Emanent Destrukshonist!
 Imbibator of alkaholik likwid, The krlsls which was to have arriven have arroven The knew sitty ordenance are phicksed phact. That soletarie dime, resurected from The depths of thi trowsers can't awakun A simpathetik responz tod, from Yure kure hedded friend, the bar-keeper,
 Alkahoik Imbibatcr!
 Knockturnal jyraten naveegater, Last nlte yu wur 12-1lths drunk, and Wen you went home yu had Miscellaneous mixture of the legs; Felt tired, perhaps. Konsekwentlee, You fell heeted about the innards; La not the phlattering unkshun to your sole That you're aloan this morning There's numerus people of the saim Stripe with cimilar feelins,
 Kockturnal naveegater!
 Demonstrator of the power of suckshen! This is an epicode in yure karear, A full stop to your ambishus asperachunz, After spirits; You can't git your morning rashens- The bar is klozed-naree bottle is wisibul To the naked l. As you stand fornest the kounter You anxiously iuqure for drink, & 1t don't kun,
 Demonstrator of suckshen!
 Kocktale annyhylater! 1ure ingured person. victim Of legislatf stupiditee; You can do without werkin all the weak, And rest on Sundse; But you kant drink ticker days, And dry up on the 7th our hzikel cistem is not Kapable of appresheating The ordinanz. Your natur revolts at water,
 Kocktale annyhylaterl
 Enamee to water! You beleeve water useful for ablushun And navigable purposes only Not refreshin, benefshal, Or invigoratn, as bevurage. Strange idee, but not unkommon. However, your dun for. The ordenanz Is imperativ-a certantee- Passed by mojritee vote Not drop of Ticker, wholesail or Retale, can you git on Sundee,
 Enamee to water!
 Obiek of Kommisurashun Yours is a hard case, know, Rekwiring brandee & compashun. You may hOxe, persuade, beg, promise, &c., But it's of no yuse; The 'kanine kwadruped is defunkt' Why dident you get a botel on Saturde mite! I'm sorry for ou-reform-stop- Shut down, refekt, hesitake before You get korned on Saturde nite, Unless you prepare for emergences,
 Objeck of kommiserashun
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

JOHN MITCHELL has " turned up" again, and writes to the Charleston Mercury from Paris, that the attempt is making, both in China and Africa, to obtain supply of cot ton, so as to break up the American monopo- ly in the production of that article.
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

ON new years day, the ukase of the Rus sian Czar took effect. emancipating 40,000,- OoO serfs, and making personal liberty uni versal throughout his dominions
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kill immediately every hen that crows, as a preventative against the misfortune which the circumstance is supposed to indicate The same practice prevails throughout many DOT tions of the United States.
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

AMONG the recent converts to spiritualism are the venerable Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Ed ward Bulwer Lytton, and other gentlemen of whom better things night have been expected.
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

THE amounts of coal annually mined in Great Bri tain, and for the most part consum- ed in that kingdom, is 66,000,000 tuns.
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CONVINCING A NoTER.-In the town of Vermont, an elector was requested to go up and vote
 |" 1 am not fully convinced which way I ought to vote" replied this high-minded pa triOt
 " What will convince you?" asked the other.
 "About five dollars I think"
 Well" said the other, we are not buy ing votes this year, but seeing it is you, here $ a three and a two; put em into your pocket, vote and say nothing"
 He voted, and in the evening offered the money in payment of grocers bill It was refused, and the voter (his face considerably elongated) hastened to his friend with
 " Here's that money, and they say its coun- terfeit"
 "Of course it is," replied the other, < l hope you do not think l am devilish fool enough to pay for youyote with good money"'
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ID IE S A EG q ACADEMY Y MISS sALLIE A. DAVIS, Principal.

V7HIS INsTITUTION.WILL BE OPENED ON Il Monday next the 2Gth inst, for the recep- uon of pupils
 TERMS OF TUITION, PER SESSION OF TwENTY-oYE
 WEEKS.
 Orthography, Reading and Writing. S1O 0C English Grammar, Arithmetic Geography, F co Algebra and the higher English branches, 15 co French and the higher Mathematics, 20 co Students will be charged from the time of enter ing school until the close of the term, except in cases of proUacted sickness.
 RrFEnEHcEs-Rev. J. Douglass, A. M., Presi- dent of Franklin College. Holly Springs, Miss; Hon. J. J. Steger, North Mt. Pleasant Miss; Col NJ. D. Shelby, Carsons Landing, Miss. J. F. Gatewool Esq, T. J. Woodson, Des Are; J. AI Coyle, Hickory Plain, Arkansas nov 23-2m
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

THE receipts of the Grand Trunk railroad show an an average increase of ten per cent over those of last year, at corresponding dates
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25

As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.
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sE or LANDS ANp ToWNoTs FOR THE NOSrAYnENT OF TAXES
ConstabIe's Office, Des Are, January 1st. iS6i'
inc Town Council of Des Arc

M stof all residing npaidas the
 
  Icanl forthea
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CREATION lies before us like glorious rainbow; but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us.
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
GENERAL LAND AGENCY
 Des Arc, Arkansas.

FENHE UNDERSIGNED HAVING HAD AN FIX
 | perience of more than fifteen years in Arkan- sas land affairs, and large portion of the time an active Land Agent, has kept pace with the landed interest of the State of Arkansas, as well as the General Government, is prepared to give immedi- ate attention to all paying business in his line. Office for the present, in the store-house, next door to Messrs. Hayley & Erwin's Store, Des Arc, Arkansas.
 nov 30-tf JOHN II. QUISENBERRY.
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
NINE HUNDRED INDIANS REPORTED
 ON RED RIFER

By the steamship Gen. Rusk, from Calves ton, we have later intelligence from the fron- tier settlements. Great excitement existed there, owing to report that nine hundred Indians were within fifty miles of Denton.- We take the following from the Dallas Her aId, of the 18th ut:
 Just as we go to press on Tuesday evening, We received the following letter from Jos A. Carroll, Esq, well-known and reliable gen. tleman, of Denton county, accompanied by the letter from Captain W. L. Fletcher
 Immediately on receipt of the letter, pub lie meeting was held at the courthouse to take some measures for responding to the ap- peal. We are satisfied that a company will go to the frontier
The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
Just Received OH Consignment
UST BE SOLDy

LUST RECEIVED, A LOT OF GOODS TO SELL c AT COST, AND LESS THAN COST. Such Ladies' Talmas, Silk Dress Patterns, Trimmings and Fringes, Shoes Parasos, Cra- vats, Gloves, Mitts, figured and plain Muslins, Robes, Berage, Shalles, Cotton Cards, Segar Cases, Buttons, Hats, Bonnets Coats, etc, etc. Attention of Merchants is especially called, as l will sell in lots, at less than Eastern prices. Call and see the bills.
 J. H. QUISENBERRY
 Auction, Commission Merchant, nov 3O-tf and Land Agent.
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DENTON, TEXAS, Dec. II, 1860.

J. ". SwIEELLs, Esq.-Dear Sir: Below l give you a copy of a letter received here at eight o'clock this morning, from Montague, via Deca- tur, by express, The author of the letter, Capt. w. L. Fletcher, will be recognized by many oI the citizens of Dallas, q man altogether reliable. The lndians are within fifty miles of Denton, and if they are not driven back, we will soon be the frontier county. The settlers from the wes- tern counties are coming in every day. Our company will start from here tomorrow, and every man who can get arms will go. Cannot Dallas do something for us? In Gods name send us men, ammunition and arms. The express says that the Indians are about nine hundred strong. Do send us all the assistance you can. 1 remain yours, J. A. CARROLL.
 On receipt of the above news at Weather ford, Captain Bayler started with a company of men for the scene of danger. The white Man reports 800 warriors in the Indian camp.
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He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day

These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras, are really much older. They are to be found in book published in 1656 The same idea is, however, expressed in a couplet published in 1542, while one of the few fragments of Meander, the Greek writer, that have been preserved, embodies the same idea in single line The couplet in Hudibras is
 Hell is paved with good intentions" :" though found in Johnson and Herbert, was obviously in their day aproverbial expression. Walter Scott ascribes 1t to some stern old divine"
 "There's good time coming" is an ex- pression used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and has doubtless, for long time, been familiar saying in Scotland.
 EripuH coeIO fuLn1ea, sceptrumque tyrannis, was line upon Franklin written by Turgot, the minister of Louis XVI It is, however, merely modification of line by Cardinal PoGgnac, Eripuitque Jovi ftinaen, Phobogue sagitas, which in turn was taken from line of Marcus Manlius, who says of Epicurs, Eripuitque .Ioui fzotmen viresque Lonanti.
 Vor populj, zoe dei. The origin of this familiar phrase is not known, but it is quoted as proberb by William of Malmsbury, who lived in the early part of the twelfth century.
 Uhima r0tia regun,. This motto was en- graved on the French cannon by order of Louis XIV.
 Whistling girls and growing hens
 Always come to some bad end
 In one of the curious books recently trans lated and published in Paris, this proberb oc- CUTS in substantially the same words. It is also an injunction of the Chinese priesthood, and carefully ohserhed household custom. to
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How to make people acknowledge the corn. Tread on their toes
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THE followin' "stanzus" we think pekulrely appropreate tu the "okjeks of kommisurashun " in Des Arc. Nance sole vii but tu deeplee and simpathetikally respond to evere wurd of it:
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AuprroR's OFFICE. Iowa.

Dcs Moines, February 9th, 1851.
1t is hereby certified, that on the fifth day Of
February, 1881, sworn statement fled in
this Office, showing the condition OF the Humboldt
Fire Insurance Company. located at New York
City, in the State Of New York, on the first day Of
January, 1851, in accor lance with provisions of
an Act Of the General Assembly Of the Stare Of
Iowa, entitled An Act in relation TO Insurance
Companies, approved January 2sth, 1857, and an
Act ancndatory thereto, approved February 9Th.
1858 that said statement shows that said C0m-
pany is possessed Of the requisite amount Of CAPT
tai and invested as required by law.
Authority is therefore given to the above
named Company to transact bu 'iness Of Insurance
in this state in accordance with the laws tn hereof
until the 3,st day Of January, A. D., 1859.
1t is also certified, tbas John l.. Swits, ESQ.,, of
Davenport, has been duty appointed BY said Com
pany theil lawful agent ana attorney for the
county Of Scott, with full power to take risks Of
insurance therein, and to acknowledge servic. Of
process, as provided by law, upon his fling with
the Clerk Of the District Court in and for said
county certified copy Of the state nent on file in
this Office. It is further certified that tho at
tached is true and correct copy Of the said state
ment.
In testimony whereof. Ihave hereunto set my
hand and at xed my seal Of Office, this 9th day Of
February, 1861
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TTNHE co PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
L existing between the undersigne under the
6rm al name of RICHARDSON, WEST h Co, is this
day dissolv d by mutual consent, MIR. GIVEN rc-
firing. The business will be conducted by the
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d N. RICHARDSON,
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A Ii PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST
N tho late drm Of RICHARDSON, WEST h Co.
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Immediately. Persons having open accounts with
eur office, will sbige US by rendering them at once
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