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Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
Signs of the Times.

Since. then, the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, we need not look for fearful sights and great signs in the heavens. They are but false prophets who cry "Lo, here Y or s'Lo, therew when the still, small voice is whispering all the while, '"The king dom of God is within you" Yes. within this framework of society, ill the midst of this busy, trivial, daily life, which sef1ns so full of small cares and selfish seeking, the Divine Spirit lives and works, and will yet raise it to the heights of heavenly fellowship. It breathes in the thousand methods devil sed by ingenuity to tighten the burdens of labor, by benevolence to soothe away the bitterness of sorrow, by taste to beautify the homes of poverty. The little photograph leaves that tlutter down into every household in the land are great cloud of witnesses showing us that science is but the handmaid of God, whose service is to bear to all the blessings once reserved for class. In the old time it was only the few who could fix for future years the beloved features of friend. Now every fond mother may transcribe from birthday to birthday the face of her darling, to note it's beautiful changes, and every lowliest bride preserve for her chil- dren's children the bloom of her build ing youth. The religious world has hardly learned to look for it's millennium in the horse-cars. Nevertheless, its signs are there, not to be mistaken. The poor sewing woman feels their presence, if she does not trace them to their source. The humble invalid knows them, the domestic drudge, the ailing, puny child, the swart and stall
 wart workman, who ride their one or ten miles as swiftly and smoothly as a millionaire, and are set down at shop or home, or among the freshness and fragrance and song of the beautiful country. The horse-car is the poor mans private carriage, as carefully fashioned for his convenience, as tidy and comfortable and comedy, as if it cost him hundreds of dollars, instead of the daily sixpence. With a lifted finger he commands his coachman, who waits promptly on his wish. Without care, he is cared for. Without capital, he controls capital, Free society does more for him than the highest despot does for the enslayed people whom the instinct of self-preseryation forces him to cajole and does it too, without any infringement upon his manhood. We call it energy, enterprise, modern con- venicnces. 1t is the millenium.-TG Gail Hamilton.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
Chinese Pirates.

Hong Kong papers give a full &C., count of Q recent capture and burning oftwenty-two pirate junks by couple of British gunboats which sailed from Hong Kong, July 12, for Hainan ls- land, and discovered the pirates in a small inlet. The place is described as a beautiful spot, covered witha luXurl- ant tropical vegetation, and usually affording a safe retreat. The junks each mounted ten large guns, and showed fight without hesitation. The gunboats advanced to within short range, and were occasionally struck, though most of the balls from the pl- rate junks passed over them.
 The cannonading went on for about two hours, when a new turn was given to the course of events by means of landing party from the gunboats. About forty-five. men were put on shore, and under cover of the jungle made their way round to the part of the creek where the pirate vessels were lying, without being observed until they came close to the junks. From those lying close along shore the pi- rates immediately fled, sculling in their sampans or swimming ashore to the opposite side of the creek, and gradu- ally, as the landing party took posses sion of the jjunks along shore, and by means of boats began to board those which were anchored out in the creek, the pirates gave up, and even from the vessels lying further out, the crews slipped over the sides and disappeared with or without the assistance of sam pans.
 A number of pirates were taken prisoners, but being mostly wounded and ill need of medical attention, were allowed to escape. The junks were all burnt, notwithstanding some of them contained valuable cargo. It is thought that the severe punishment thus intlict- ed, and the organization of q court at Hong Kong for the suppression of pi- racy, (the admiral of the station being chief justice) will have most salutary effect.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
Brick Pomeroy on Courting.

Those other girls of ours, as we are informed by letter, had done gone and got well locked unto tinkerest of the gospel, who attended prayer meetings, swops horses, acts champlain in the army, steals and gets drunk on the sly. Oh. dear This is much misery. How we used to do the courting for those girls. Candy, peanuts, worm lozenges, pcpcrmint drops, little balls of honey soap, night blooming for seriousness, and such evidences did we pour into them lap of hers, whcrcupon, vesper chimes, this heart of ours did swectly rest. Oh, dear, Oh K-lista!
 We used to blaclcn our boots. starch our hair, grease our shirts. and curl our eyebrows for them girls. And we drove horses for paternal deriyative to cultivate corn; and we mixed the brin- dlc heifcr as what no other boy could milk, and we split ven-wood-and who would not flor her ma.
 And at night, when bats come forth, and tumbe-bugs crawld over the lea, and young bullets sat in meditation free, holding their heads under one wing so as 10 hear their hearts beat, we would hasten unto Kalista's window, and she would, with her lilly white hand haul us up by the hair until we arrived at the bower of love, as she styled her garret. Twas thus our hair became less, and our confectionery for kalista increased.
 When the week had busted on the rock of Saturday night we used to wander by the brooklet, and let the hrooklet wander, too. And Kalista went forth with us. Hand in hand, like the Siamosc twinsisters, VIC roamed, we sat on the dewy bank to catch cold in our heads, and luXuriate on the bank ''wet with dew" And we used to re- cline against a fatherly and metherly elm tree, and squeeze each others hand as we rolled our eyes and peeped up- ward into the blue vault, our spirits longed to vault into its but didn't
 0, this sparkling is heaven in two volumes, with the price mark omitted Did you ever spark? If not advance your works on a female crinoline dear, and commence active hostilitics at once.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

p2yn The editor of the Charleston Courier has received letter from thel wife of the distinguished prisoner at, Fortress Monroe, from which he learns) that the health of the latter continued to decline, and that the pecuniary cir-' cumstances of the family are becoming| very embarrassing. There are in the South many who, notwithstanding the calamities of war, have more of fOrtune8 left than is necessary for the luxurious| support of themselves and families.l Will they not come forward and make up a sufficiency to place the family of our former leader beyond the necessity of want It is bad enough that hel should be in prison, under any cifcum-
 stances, but that he should pine away there, and, in addition to his prisonl troubles, have the sad reflection that his family is in need, is too much for the generosity of the good people of the South to permit him to endure.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

BE KIND TO YOUR SIsTERs.-Boys, bel kind to your sisters You may live to3 be old, and never find such tender, lov-l ing friends as these sisters. Think howl many things they do for you; how, they love you in spite of all your ill-l temper or rudeness; how thoughtful they are for your comfort, and be you thoughtful of theirs. Be ever ready to oblige them, to perform any little office for them that lies in your power. Think what you can do for them, and if they express a wish, be ready to gratify it itifpossible. You do not know. how much happiness you will find in so doing. l never yet knew happy and respected man who was not in youth kind to his sisters. There is al beautiful song which says: Be kind to your sisters--not many may know,
 The depth of true sisterly love;
 The wealth of tue ocean lies fathoms below The surface that sparkles above.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
OCTOBER.
BY THE LATE WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK.

Solemn yet beautiful to view,
 Month of my heart! thou dawnest here, With sad and faded leaves to strew
 Pale Summers melancholy bier, The moaning of thy winds l hear,
 As the red sunset dies afar, And bars of purple clouds appear,
 Obscuring every western star. Thou solemn month! I hear thy voice;
 It tells my soul of other days, When but to live was to rejoice,
 When Earth was lovely to my gaze Oh, visions bright-oh, blessed hours,
 Where are their living rapture now? ask my spirits wearied powers
 ask my pale and feyered brow look to Nature, and behold
 My life's dim emblems, rustling round, In hues of crimson and of gold .-..t
 The years dead honors on the ground And signing with the winds, feel,
 While their low pinions murmur by, How much their sweeping tones reveal
 Of life and human destiny. Wlen Springs delightsome moments shone,
 They came in zephyrs from the West; They bore the wood lark's melting tone,
 They stirred the blue lakes glassy breast ; Through Summer, faining in the heat,
 They fingered in the forest shade But changed and strengthened now they beat
 Ill storm OCT mountain, glen, and glade, How like those transports of the breast,
 When life is fresh and joy is new; Soft as the halcyon's downy nest,
 And transient all as they are true! They stir the leaves in that bright wreath
 Which Hope about her forehead twines, Till Grief's hot signs around it breathe
 Then Pleasures lip it's smile resigns. Alas for Time, and Death, and Care,
 What gloom about our way they fling! Like clouds in Autumn's gusty air,
 The burial pageant of the Spring. The dreams that each successive year
 Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride, At last, like withered leaves appear, 3 And sleep in darkness side by side.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
The Grasshopper Plague.

Apprehensions are expressed that next year the grasshopper plague will extend itself to the east of the Missouri river, and cover wide area of country. The grasshopper column that started up on the far western plains month since, has swept through strip of country about 60 miles wide--the Kansas-Nebraska dividing line being about the centre of their march--and have come to the Missouri river too late to cross. But they have laid their eggs, and left their mission to those that shall come after. The ground is thickly strewn with dead grasshoppers, and is perforated with holes wherin their faithful females have deposited their larva. The Atchison Free Press says: "Dig in at random with knife blade. lift up little of the surface of the soil. and very likely you will at the first attempt unearth little white col umn like the pith of @ rush, and open ing this, you find number of eggs like ants eggs, closely packed together. We dug up some of their deposits and counted in one of them 2S of the larv9, and in several others upwards of 20. The cavityis lined with an impcrvious coating of whitish gum, which inclosed the eggs or larv@, and the aperture above the eggs is filled also nearly to the surface with this white substance, which probably serves the double pur- pose of protection to the larv@ and food for the young. Next summer these will come out as minute grass hoppers, and in the fall, if some acci- dent don't destroy them, they will be such pests as have just now been among us,"
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

VALUE OF ACCURACY.--It is the re- suit of every days experience that steady attention to matters of detail lies at the root of human progress, and that diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. Accuracy is also of much importance, and an invariable mark of good training in a man-accu- racy in observation, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the transaction of affairs. What is done in business must be done i; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work than to do half or ten times as much. A wise man used to say, "stay little that we' may make an end the sooner" Too lit- tie attention, however, is paid to this highly important quality of accuracy. As man eminent in practical science lately observed, it is astonishing how few people have met in the course of my experience who can define a fact accurately" Yet, in business affairs, it is the manner even in which small matters are transacted that often decides men for or against you. With virtue, capacity and good conduct in other re- spects, the person who is habitually inaccurate i'll other respects cannot be trusted, his work has to be gone over again; and he thus causes endless an noyancc, ycxation and trouble.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

CHANGE OF NAME.-A correspondent of the Photograph proposes to change, by law, the name of the range ofmoun- tains in the western part of our State, from '.Boston Mountain" to "Cleburne Mountain"
 Let it be done, and while getting rid ofa name that recalls the hotbed of wrong, it will make those Southern hills stand as memorial to our great Arkansas General. We want to be as far from Boston or anything of that name "as the law will allow. - Madi- son Pioneer.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

A IRA vELLERss EXPERIENCE OF Wo- MEN.--l have observed among all na- tions, that tho women ornament them- selves more than the men :; that wherev- CT found, they are the same kind. civil, obliging, humane, tender beings ;--that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like men, to perform a hospitable action: not naughty nor supercilious, full of courtesy and fond of society; industrious, economical, ingenious; more liable in general 10 err than man, but in general, also more yirtuous and performing more good actions than he. l never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to woman, whether civiliz- ed or savage, without receiving decent and friendly answer With a man ii has often been otherwise. In wander ing over the inhospitable plains ot Denmark, the honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland unprinciplcd Russia, and the wide spread regions of the wandering Tar tar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick women have ever been friendly to me and uniformly so ;and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of beneyolence, these actions have been performed in SO kind manner. that il thirsty drank the sweetest draught aud if hungry, ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

All the printers in the Norfolk Day Book except three are on strike. The proprietor tried to reduce their wages from forty-five to thirty five cents per thousand, and he went about it in a rather novel manner. He pro- posed that they buy out a one-half in terest in his paper at a valuation of$50, 900 in gold he allowing them twelve months to pay the money, and they, in the meantime, to work at forty-five cents per thousand, but to allow him to deduct ten cents per thousand to pay interest on S50,000 ill gold. The prin- ters couldn't see where the S50,000 was to come from, and declined the liberal proposition but MT. Hathaway insist ing upon the acceptance of it, all left except three, and the Printers Union held a meeting and expelled those three and published the Day Book as FRAT ofIice.-[ Baltimore Commercial.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
Flow of Gold to the United States.

The London Review has the follow ing: ''The influx of gold to the United States has continued on a somewhat larger scale than had been looked for, although, in fact, amounting to no great sum. After the enormous re- ccipts from that country, month Or two back it is not much to have to re- turn some two hundred thousand or three hundred thousand pounds i'll two or three successive weeks. The most satisfactory feature in the movement is the confidence that it shows in the per manence of peace in America, and that as far as investors are concerned, the renewal of the civil war is considered in the highest degree remote. As we have already had occasion to observe. this belief is not only felt by English men and Germans. but has latterly been shared by Frcnchmcn. The five twenty bonds, which these shipments arc made to pay for, arc as eagerly. if not moro eagerly, bought in Paris, as in London and Frankfort Not very many years ago scarcely any foreign securities were quoted on the French bourse, and it is significant to notice how great an alteration has taken place in this respect. Except on our stock exchange it may be doubted whether in any other capital of Europe, not even in Frankfort or Amsterdam, for eign investments are now so largely held as in Paris. Formerly, native capitalists would take nothing but the rentes; now they are ready to invest in Italian, Spanish, Mexican (unfortu- nately), and many other similar secu- rites. Except, however, ill rare in stances, United States bonds have been in little favor, and hence the signif- canee of the present dcmand." :"
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

BFWe are journeying through this life in most hurried manner, jostled daily by numerous snares that tend to make our pathway difficult and rough.
 Bas~Truth is the only real lasting foundation for friendship; and in everything but truth there is princi- pie of decay and dissimulation.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
4&~

B&g~Hon. Wm. Byers, member of Congress from the Batesyille district of has been appointed Superin tendent of Indian affairs for the South ern Superintendancy, vice Elijah Selles, resigned. This is good appointment, and will give general satisfaction to all persons having business with the Indian Department South,
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
bay-ChiefJustioe Chase has submitted

B%ChiefJusticeC Chase has submitted to the other Justices the question, to be decided by majority, whether the Circuit Courts will be held this fall, in the altered circuits, by the Chief Asso- ciate Justices and District Judges, or by District Judges alone.
 Hg-The Newburyport Herald says General Butler will bc elected to Con- gress from the 5th District, and that he will be the Radical candidate for Presi- dent in 1868 against Gen. Grant, con- servatiye.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
Thomas Jeferson's Ten Rules of
 life,

l. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do to-day.
 2 Never trouble others for what you can do yourself.
 3. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
 4. Never spend your money because you have it.
 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
 6. We never repent eating too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
 8. How much pain have these evils cost us that never happened.
 9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, hundred. A MODEL WoMAN.-"Did you not say, Ellen, that Mir. B. is poor?" ''Y es, he has only his profession"
 "Will your uncle favor his suit ?"
 SNo: and l can expect nothing from him."
 "Thcn, Ellen, you will have to resign fashionable society,""
 "No matter-I shall see more of Fred"
 "You must give up expensive dresses"
 "Oh, Fred admres simplicity"
 "You cant keep carriage"
 But we can have delightful walks" "You must take a small house and furnish it very plain"
 ''Y es, for elegant furniture would be out of place in a cottage"
 ou will have to cover your floors with thin, cheap carpets"
 'Then l shall hear his stops the sooner"
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

Advertisers by the year will be restricted to their legitimate business.
 Personal communications charged double the rates of regular advertisements.
 Legal advertisements will be charged, for one square or less, first insertion $1, and 75 cents per square for each additional insertion. Advertisements not ordered for a specified time, will be inserted till forbidden, and charged for accordingly.
 All advertising due after second insertion. Our Job Printing Department.
 We have supplied ourselves with good assortment of Printing Material and are ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on reasonable terms.
 We are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata- logues, Posters, large or small, Cards, Ball Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of every descrip- ton, for Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constabes, &c.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
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Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20
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We have on hand, and for sale, a general assortment of Blanks, such as DEEDS OF CONVEYANCE.
 QUIT CLAIM DEEDS. TITLE BONDS.
 DELIVERY BONDS. JUSTICES SUMMONS.
 JUSTICES EXECUTION. ATTACHMENTS,
 DEEDS OF TRUST, &c.
Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

pounds, accordin as sufrages may range at that joyous perid."
 Let Us now return, jentle reader, to the lan'lord of the Greenlion, who we left in the bar in state of anxiety and perspire. Rubin his hot face with a red handkerchief, he said, 'Is the strange bein' American? ?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-30

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New YORK, May 20.
The steamship Persia Aon Liverpool, via
Queenstown 10th, arrived here at 7:3O this
evening. s@As - e
A Trieste Dispatch says the naval authorities
refused to grant cleanbill Of health to yes.
sells intended to carry, troops to Mexico.
Without it no vessel is allowed to leave the
harbor.
The panic in the English money market
bed sensibly snbsided, cad securities had gen.
er1iiy improved. Heavy SUSPENSIONS contin.
tinued, and it was feared many more were to
follow.
The weekly return of the Bank of Eng.
land was the most extraordinary ever pub
lished. Although the bank had not availed
itself of the privilege ssnaeanteed. Nv the
suspension of the Bank Charter act
The decrease in bullion was 48,323 IS, and
in notes unemployed, 342l, 1876. The Daily
Mars, in its city article says IN analysis of
bank returns show an incressein one, week of
3l0,O00,0 600 in the advance on private se-
curities. This unprecedented amount proves
how enormous has been the pressure for &C.
cummulation. The reserve is reduced to
Gao, ,OW, 600, so that it is quite within the
power of the great joint stock banks, by
Withdrawing their current bdfauce, to force the
Bank of England to availitself OF the author
ization contained in the recent Treasury let
ters. There seems to be fair prospect that
the bank will be able to ride over the crisis
without violating the law. The E732, 600 gold
Withdrawn, must have been taken away by
the Provincial Scotch and irish banks a. q
measure Of precantion. Some additional
suspensions are reported, including the Or.
entail Commercial Bank, the New Zealand
Banking Association and Messrs. Frazier,
Indian Cotton Merchants. &c.