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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
What they Mean.

The results of tie. recent elections have some very paIpable meanings.
 They mean that ten States, the fairest portion of the republic, shall not be handed over to the dominion of brutal ignorant, and degraded Africans. They mean that military despotism, wherever it has planted it's iron heel, must give way 10 the rule of civil li- ] berty that martial satrapy must yield to governments of the people.
 They mean that the project of the re- construction of the South in the inter- est of a political party to the detriment of the material interests not only of that section, but of the whole country, must be abandoned.
 They mean that the reconstruction O. the South, upon fair, and just, and con- stitutional principles, must be speedy, to the end that the public disquiet, which is so injurious to the business of the country, may be composed and to the further end that the industry and development of that section may bere- vived, which is so essential to the pros- perity of the whole land. They mean that the extravagant ap- propriations by Congress, which are swelling the public debt indefinitely, must cease.
 They mean that the Congress itselfis a rump, and it's usurpation intolerable.
 They mean that the military estab- lshment, costing hundreds of millions of dollars yearly, and useful only for purposes of oppression, must be cut down, and vast sums thereby saved to the public treasury.
 They mean that the frightful corrup- ton. and fraud and theft, and perjury which have seized upon every avenue of the public service, and which are impairing the revenue by hundreds of nilli ons of dollars annually, must cease also,
 They mean that taxation must be fair ly adjusted and distributed; that, in laying the public burdens, there shall be no favored classes.
 They mean that the honest adminis- tration must be restored, economy re- established, and taxation frightened. They mean that the industry Of the country at large must not be taxed to furnish bounties to corporate wealth in u section.
 They mean in short, that dishonest taemagogism must give place to honest statesmanship iu the conduct O. public ,flairs.-Chicago Times.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
Virtue in Washington.

The good people who live in the country have no idea of the corruption and prostitution that exists, or how ra- pidly our social system is being under mined. Virtue is held cheaply; and, while the conventionalities of society are respected openly, they are defied in secret. Men and women assume purity when brough face to face with religious forms, but they do not wear it when the doors close behind them, and shut out the light of the world. Society is fearfully corrupt, and morality is only thin shadow behind which the scenes of vice and licentiousness are boldly shifted. Prostitution is one of the com mon evils of the land. You need not seek for it only in out-of-the-way streets, behind -mysteriously-darkened windows, or in Broadway promenade after nightfall, but also in palace-like houses, and in high places of official trust. Washington is a very Sodom. Some of the departments are dens of corruption. A female clerkship, too often, is but narrow screen held up between the world and dishonor. Wo- man by scores are in Government en- ploy at Washington, who outrage yir- tue night after night, and Senators, ! Congressmen, and leading politicians h i've criminal knowledge of the fact. Young girls in the country, inspired with noble feeling of independence, and blinded by fattering offer, are tempted to accept clerkship at Wash inoton they leave home .or the city, and in a few months wild and disso- lute life tells how complete is their ruin They sacrifice virtue, and become the concubines of those who retain them in power. We warn the pure minded girls of America that Washington is no place for them it is an iniquitous city. made so by those whom the people have raised to positions of trust and honor. A gentleman, well acquainted behind the scenes, was recently requested by a l friend to lend his influence toward ob- taining clcrkship in one of the de- partinents for q virtuous young girl. ," Certainly, sir, he remarked, "but let me enlighten you in regard to the qualifications necessary to command success. The young lady must possess sensual charms. and, possessing them, must have no false notions about offer ! ing them for sale.' Shocking as this i declaration may appear, it is strictly true. A female clerkship at Washing, ] ton. in many instances, is but a respec. table kind of prostitution. Let any man of the world visit Washington and if he does not meet with face ii
 some one of the Departments that wal once known to him in the dark, myste
 rious walks of life, then we will ne, knowledge that we are laboring under an embarrassing mistake. .-Pittsbnrs Post.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
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The Illinois Democracy.

Last week the Democracy of Madis n copnty. Illinois, held meeting at Edwards vile, the county seat to nominate county officers.
 In nominating candidates for office, the Democracy took occasion to lay down 8 platform of principles. It is brief and comprehensive, and is comprised in the three following resolutions:
 Resolved, That the present Radical policy in relation to the Southern States, as embodied in the amended la oiet bill, IS subyerslve of every principle of free government; that il dJe, in effect, create an irresponsible military eespotism in that section, and lay the foundation of similar despotlsm throughout the whole country.
 Resolved, That there can be no lasting peace, harmony and pro parity in these States or in tue Un.ou, so long as tie white citizens who are willing t. take tie oath of allegiance to the Federal nsit tu tion are disfranchlsed and made the abso- ute political interlors of their former slaves
 Resolved, that in the words of S c hen A. Douglas, l" ee hod that thls 1 rr- ment Wa made on the white SIS, by white men, f'r the benefit of white men and their prosperity forever, and should be ad- mlnistered by white men, and none other, and therefore, we are unalterably opposed to negro suffrage in any way, shape or form.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

How the negroes reason is shown in a speech made by Uncle Dick, in be- half of the squatters on the farms O ex-rebels near Norfolk, who ROW re- fuse to remove and threaten resistance to the officers of the Government ''Uncle Dick veteran negro leader said: "The Indians were the first ow- ners of this land. The whites took il from them by force; and we blacks took it from the whites by force. They have no right to it, and they shall not have it. We fought for il, and we are going to have it. We don care, for the President nor the freedmen's Bu- reau. We have suffered long enough let the whites suffer now. The time when the white man said, John, black my boots! and John had to do it. But the times have changed, and hope to see the day when I can say to white man, John, black my boots! and he will have to do it. l will never be sat isfied until the white man if forced to serve the black man, as we were forced to serve them. If they do not like that, let them go away. We do not intend to allow secesh or yankees to drive us off this land, because it is ours. We have fought for it. and we will fight now to defend it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
Affairs at Washington City,

A special correspondent of the Louis- vile Courier, dated at Washington the leth ult., says:
 The determination of the President [ to change the Cabinet has been re. peatedly alluded to. There is author Iity to repeat the same with full per- mission of the President. It was sug- gested to him that the great popular verdict, ipfo s.n2 his policy, would prevent the further agitation of i'm peachnent. The President replied that he thought not. but apprchcnded that the Radical leaders would become even more desperate and hesitate at nothing to accomplish their revolution ary purposes.
 In response to question of his ! course should the Radicals attempt to depose him before trial, he said: Re- sist, Sir! with all the power which the Constitution furnishes for its own pro- lection and preservatien.' This was said with great warmth and earnest ness. It would be criminal, he said. not to resist an effort on the part o, Congress to usurp or destroy the Ex- ecutive Department, and he thought it well for the country to know his opin- ions and his purposes. In relation to Cabinet changes, he said he would strengthen himself for any emergency that might arise. Circumstances, he said, necessitated a change, and this should be done before Congress met in session.
 The President declared he would not consult or be governed by party cliques, but act on his own judgment and for what he thought was the best interest of the country. It was his intention to draw around him men of nerve, abili- ", and patriotism.
 Thad- Stevens pronunciamento ia a political bombsheA which fill the public mind with apprehension. If impcach- ment is proposed. if Congress shall en- act laws to tasten negro suffrage on the people in defiance of their wishes, it will undoubtedly precipitate a conflict. The President cannot submit to the one nor the people to the other, and all tes- timony is concurrent that Mir. Johnson will resist by all proper means the at- tempt to depose and degrade him by an arbitrary and constitutional act
 several Republicans of conservative tendencies declare they cannot act with stevens in his extreme measures new ertheless they may be driven to sustain them by party dicipline and exigencies. It may become necessary therefore for the Executive to iinpeach the impeach- CTS, and if the latest programme re- mains unchanged, his Cabinet will have nerve as well as ability. l have high authority for stating that he contem- plates selecting some of these advisors from among those who fought for and won the great political victory last
 week.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

VoLE AGAINST A CoNvENTIoN.-- We call the attention of tax payers to the following extract from the act of March 2:
 Sec. s. And be it further enacted. Thatsthe Convention for each State shall prescribe fees, salary and compen- sation to be paid to all the delegates and others officers agents herein author ized or necessary to carry into effect the purpose of this act not otherwise provided for, and shall provide for the levy and collection of such taxes on the property in such States as may be nec- essary to pay the same.
 The people are already grooming un- der the burden of the most oppressive taxation, and are in no condition to add to the load, for the sole purpose of building up the Radical party in the State. If you do not desire to increase ta3ation. defeat this Convention scheme 1 If you endorse the Convention, the ex- pense of the mongrel assemblage must be met by further taxation, and do not desire to see negro suffrage forced upon the State, vote AGAINST A CON vENTIoS.-[ Little Rock Conservative.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

A TERRIBLE WARBNING.-The figures representing the majority against ne- gro suffrage in Ohio GROW, as the re- turn approaches completion. The ma jority is now set down at sixty to one hundred thousand The Radicals com ccde majorety of sixty-five thousand while the Democrats claim one hund- rcd thousand. Ohio has been deemed the center of Western Radicalism. It is the home of Chase, Santon, Brig AM, and Wade This result is appalling to Radicalism. 1t upsets the whole basis of their legislation to render the negroes supreme, and, at one blow. overturn all their hopes for the future,
 This result has been obtained in the face of the largest vote cast in Ohio for three years.
 The significance of this vote may be estimated when it is remembered that only few thousand---a mere handful of negroes would have been cnfran- chised if the people ofOhio had accept ed the amendment establishing negro suffrage. If this would have been an intolerablc evil in Ohio, what must be the effect of uegro suffrage in Tennessee and other Southern States where the negro voters are in the ascendant: the interrogatory carries irresistible logic with it. The people of Ohio do not in- tend to give over any portion of the United States to semibarbarism. Win the Radical leaders heed this warning voice in time ?-I Memphis Appeal
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
The Lords Prayer by Booth.

In the paImy days of the elder Booth, before the sparkle of. his great black eye had been dimmed by the bane of genius, strong drink, Booth and several friends had been invited to dine with an old gentleman in Baltimore of dis tinguished urbanity and piety. The host. though disappearing of theatres and thcatre-going, had heard so much of Booth's remarkable powers, that cu- riosity to see the man had overcome all scruples and prejudices. After the en- tertainment was over, the lamps light ed, and the company reseated in the drawing room some one requested Booth, as a particular favor. and one which all present could appreciate, to read the Lord prayer. Booth express ed his willingness to afford them this qualification, and all eyes were turned expectantly upon him. Booth rose slowly and revently from his chair. It was wonderful to watch the play of emotions that convulsed his counten- ance. He e'becme deathly pale, and his eyes turned tremblingly upwards were wet with tears. AS yet he had not spo- ken. The silence could be felt. It had become absolutely painful, until at last the spell was broken as if by an cleo tric shock, as his richtoned voice, from white lips, syllabled forth Our Fath- CT who art in Heaven,' &c., with pa thos and fervid solemnity that thrilled all hearts. He finished. The silence continued. Not av i.c was heard nor muscle moved in his rapt audience, until from remote corner in the room a subdued sob was heard, and the old gentleman Qhe hosD stepped forward with streaming eyes and ,tottering frame, and seized Booth by the hand, Sir" said he in broken accents, you have afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life will feel grateful. l am an old man, and every day from boyhood to the present time l thought had repeated the Lords prayer, but never heard it before, never.'
 :. You are right replied Booth; to read that prayer as it should be read caused the seyerest study and labor for me thirty years, and l am far from being satisfied with my rendering Of that wonderful production. Hardly one person in ten thousand comprehendS how much beauty, tenderness and gran deur can be condensed in space SO small, aud ia other words SC simple. That prayer itseli sufficiently illustrates the truth 0. the Bible and stamps upon it the seal of divinity So great was the effect produced, says our informer, who was pres mt, thst conversation was sustain but short { me longer in in subdued monosyi,ables, ane almost entirely ceased aud soon alter an car e ly hour the company br ke u and re- tired to their several lomes with sad faces and full hearts.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
Result of Yankee Duplioity.

Many a poor, weak, silly Southern girl has cause to hold in endless re- membrance Yankee duplicity, in the descrtion of soldier husbands-some of them officers at that. A case of this kind came under our observation yes- terday.
 A certain Major, who shall be name less--and who came in with the army or occupation-so prevailed on one of those silly girls with his spccious pro- misses as to induce her to become his wife, though he never publicly ac- knowledged her as such to the brother officers. The girl, however, was satis- fled with her dubious position, and be- ing in the lower walks of life, and with no big brother to see her righted, was apparently happy in her new situation.
 But marriage brings responsibilities, and one of the gravest of ''responsibil- ities'' was added to this ill-assortcd household-a baby. The child grew apace, but so did not the bold soger boys love for it and it's mother. To him, on the contrary, the order muster ing him out was most joyous tidings ]; giving him relief at one and the same time from monotonous life and hated union.
 It was an easy matter to persuade the ''poor fool' that it was necessary for him to go ''up North first to prepare the "old folks at home" for the coming of his Southern rose and little blossom.
 The gallant cx-son of Mars departed. and after long, anxious months wait ing, watching and praying, hope de- parted froih the breast df the wretched deserted wife, and she became convin- ced that she was indeed abandoned.- To keep life in her frail body-that she might furnish sustenance to her babe :: she became a pensioner upon the boun- ty of the city, and thus eked out life poverty and neglect.
 But Heaven is more mcrciful than man and the all-loving Father, ere the biting blast of chill winter came again to freeze the life-blood in the famine pinched bodies of this suffering moth- CT and child, sent an Angel of Death to bear the little one 10 where want and misery have no place--where eternal summer reigns--in the eternal gardens of Paradise, and the wretched, grief stricken mother was left free from her burden 10 battle with cold and cheer less world for bread.
 Placed in q pauper's coiiin-its little limbs shroudcd in the faded rags it had worn in liie--its little pinched features bearing the poverty marks too plainly to be mstaken--the body of this child of 6 heartless man and a weak, desert ed, heart broken woman, was commit ted to pauper's grave, there to slum Der until it shall arise as an accusing angel to condemn to eternal tormments the heartless wretch who consigned it to living death in it's brief existence upon earth.-Selma (Ala.) Messenger.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

"A y.ung lady was nearly killed by hel waterfall, few days ago, near Spring field, Missouri. She was in tree for some purpose ar other, and in attempting to descend, the knob on the back of her head caught upon } limb, and falling she was eifectually suspended as with hang mans moose The situation was extremely unpleasant and delicate, but the eommen- dable presence of mind of her male atten- dant saved the feminine Absolom
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02
: The Democrats made he,

- The Democrats made heavier gains in Indiana at the recent election than has been supposed, from the quiet manner in which the election has passed off, The Vincennes Sun has returns from thirty five counties, which show that the Democrats Lave gained ll.6l0 on the vote Of 1866, when the Republican ticket was elected by H. 200 majority. The same average gains in the counties not reported would give the Demoerats the State by about l4,000.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

IMPORTANT TO BANKRUPrs.---Th Memphis Bulletin says that the news papers at other points in the South, learns that large numbers of citizens. rendered hopelessly bankrupt by the war. are availing themselves of the re- lief from debt afforded by the Bank rupt Act. Even if a man feels moral y bound to pay every dollar he owes, he will in most cases feel constrained to seek discharge from his debts un- der the Bal krupt Law, in order to be- come free handed and unembarrassed in resuming business, so as ultimately to be able to pay all he owes. In this view of the matter, the most honorable man is fully justified in taking the benefit of the Bankrupt Law. An ex- change says:
 It will be seen that the period is pass ing rapidly away within which insol- vent debtors of past years may avail themselves of the national Bankrupt Law, with snch advantages as they now possess.
 After the 2d of March, 1868, no deb- tor will be able to obtain discharge in bankruptcy unless his assets may pay 30 per cent. of his indebtedness, or by assent in writing of majority in number and value of his creditors.
 This fact is not generally known, and any one desiring to obtain the benefit of the act has no time to loose. Only four months remain, and discharge cannot in any case be obtainefin less than three months, and when there is opposition more time is required.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

India seems to be running the United Staes out of the catton market. A million bales are said to be at present on their way to Liverpool In spite of the very limited crop m this country last year, the prices are positively declining, in consequence of the Indian supply
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

The Freedmaus Bureau will expire next Juy by limitation It Is understood nat General Howard will not recommend its continuance beyond that time in case the reconstruction of the Mouth sl oula be accomplished k that event he will re- commend comprehensive system of edu- eaten fa he Co o ed h South, by the establishment ei an extensive normal school at Washington City, f T he cd iion of col ,red teachers and the organization of normal schools for the same object in the Southern States
 pG- To extingufsh burning oil, dash ! on sand instead Of water.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

b@- From the Selma .,iessenger we ake the following of the farce election in hat city: ,..
 The incidents of the late election farce n this city will afford for long time to come subjec of conversation and discus ,lon-they are at once amusing, ludicrous aud alarming aa.ss.
 One negro in the crowd around the ,ourt- house held mp an independent ticket printed on blue paper ) and cried out in
 loud voice; "No land. no mules. no .,,es. slavery again" Then holding up a ed t,cket. he shouted out: Forty acres i land. mule. freedom. votes, the equal
 the white man.' And apparently satis ed, he put the led ucket .n the ballot box.
 Numbers of negroes brought halters with them for the mules they confidently expected to get.
 4 crowd of negroes from the southern part of the couaty were met at the rlver by an agent of the Radicals here. who put their h nds the red tickets, and told tiem not to let any body take t.away from them, as each of the.n w,s : .oI inr piece of land. The poor devils concluded that it was the fact that they had better hold on to their tickets, and speedily returned home to learn where these lots were loca- ted and enter upon possession.
 One fellow, when hts ticket was gwen him, asked what he was to do with it - He was told to put 1t in the box. Is dat all! he querlcd. "Yes," "Nu,hin more, marster.' No" sIs dat votin!" Yes 2 Il thought votin was ge,tin sumlhin. ' And, disgusted, threw the paper on the ground, 'rampled it under foot and went home at least wiser man.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-02

B5-We learn from the Little Rock Gazette that Col. Hobson will in short time reissue the Camden Eagle. He has satisfactory and gratifying assur- ances from Gen. Ord of future protec- tion.