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The Van Buren press., 1867-03-22
THE ROSEBUD.

Down In casket tenderly cherish'd,
A tiney witherd rosebud lies,
BY the tears Of mem'ry silently nourish'd,
Sacred memory that never dies.
He gave 1t to her bright morn in May,
The fours with dew overflowng.
Deep down in that bud dew drop lay,
And it seem'd to whisper, going.
IT'S but moment now, and he Is gone
Oh, again will she see him ever;
The softly signing breezes Of the morn,
Now whisper sadly to her, never.
Four times has Siesta traveld,
Her annual circuit round;
Four times has Segesta appeard--
And has gathered all she found.
Tutelina has zealously watchd,
Thrice now. her lov'd golded store;
Yet keep that tiney, wither'd rosebud,
For the giver will come no more.
You can plant no flowers on his grave
To weep with you deep tears in Map,
For far on the distant battle plain,
Alas, bis bones now bleaching lay.
Keep that rosebud, keep it ever,
For he VIII never come again;
The midnight winds thunder, never,
From OF that distant battle plain.
LooXAHoMA, Miss. WILD RosE.
The Van Buren press., 1867-03-22

"INJUN" Or "NIGGER The follow
ing story will bear repetition:
Many years ago there lived young
man who took into his head that like
John Randolph, he was of Indian descent,
though, unlike John, he did not know
exactly the tribe to which his forefathcrs
belonged. The idea was perfect mon
omania with him, notwithstanding the
efforts made by his friends to convince
him Of the folly Of his preteDsions, to say
nothing Of the absurdity Of them. even II
they could be established. The favorite
notion, however, could not be eradicated
from his mind, and he promised his
friends that he would one day convince
them that he was right.
Having heard that deputation OF In.
dians were at Washington, on visit to
their Great Father, the President, hs
promptly repaired to that city and az
ranged with the gentleman having them
in charge His friends In the city wero
surprised to receive an invitation to &C.
company him on visit to the rednen.
before whom he proposed to verify his
pretensions. The party met, as requested.
and found the Indians sitting on the floor
smoking their pipes, and manifesting but
little appreciation of the honor Of the
visit
Having arranged his friends at . ro-
spcctful distance from the aged chief,
who still regarded the visitors with stolid
indifference, the young man stepped bold.
ly from the centre, and presuming that it
would require some show Of energy To
arouse the chieffro his apparent apathy,
he placed his hand on his breast and said
with great tearlessness, me Indian long
time ago!'
Without moving muscle OF his taco,
the old chief slowly rose from his sit.
ting posture, and turned his eagle eye on
the speaker His friend says the chief
evidently understood, or appeared to un.
derstand, the meaning Of the speech and
they gazed intently on the solemn pro-
ceedings. The young man bore the
searching glance of the Indian without
emotion All felt that the awful moment
had come.
Moving sufficiently close to thespeakcr,
the chief raised his hand and carefully
taking lock Of the young mans hair
between his finger and thumb, gently
rubbed it moment. All stood in silent
expectation. Quietly withdrawing his
hand the chief uttered the slight, peculiar
Indian grunt, and said, Niger"
The altogether unexpected dcnounce.
ment ended the interview, and the discom
fitted descendant of the Tomahawks retir.
ed with his friend, the latter roaring with
laughter and the fopmer with the most
sovereign contempt for his degenerate
relations.
The Van Buren press., 1867-03-22
Drugs and Medicines.

CODFRY'S Cordial Bateman's Drops; Louda
VI mum, Paregoric, McLane's and Fahnestocks'
Vurmifugc; McLane's, Lees, Ayers and Shalcn
burger. Pills; Pain Killer; Spaldings Glue: Muci
lage; Browns Ess Ginger Sedlits Powders, Cora
Varnish; Spt's Turpentine; Linseed Oil; Sp,
Salts; Lampblack Marking Brushes; Bottle Corks
Indigo: Madder, Copperas; Concentrated Lye;
Ext Logwcod; Yeast Powders. DC, &c. For sale
h CO, SCOTT , 20.
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POE T RY.
For he Van Barea Press.
THE DRUNKARD.
REV. SAMUEL M'cuRpY.

Who Is ii, that all good men hate,
The fool, the wise, the small, the great;
In every Kingdom, Realm, and State'
The Drunkard!
Who Is It that's midnight pest,
Disturbing honest peoples rest:
More hateful than the bowling beast7
The Drunkardi
Who Is 1t, that delights in strife,
Embitters all the sweets of life,
And shamef,Illy neglects his wife?
The Drunkard!
Who Is it. swallows all his wealth.
lmpairs his mind, destroys his health.
Whose money creeps away by stealths
The Drankard!
And who, from vice to vice proceeds,
Increasing in his wicked deeds,
Until the wretch, the Hangman leads7
The Drunkard.
March 4th. 1867
The Van Buren press., 1867-03-22
Crawford County, State OF Arkansas.

NIIEREAS the County Court of Craw-
w ford County. at the adjourned term of
said Court, on the 9th day of February. 1861,
issued an order, appointing DAVID L. WILL
IAMs LEONARD {. SoUTHMAYD. and JOHN Aus
TIN. Commissioners. for and in the name of
said county. to effect Il loan not to exceed the
sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars, for the pur-
pose of liquidating the outstanding debts or
script Of said county--said loan, to bear an
interest of ten per cent per annum payable
annually and evidenced by bonds issued in
the name of the county by said Commission
ers. for the sum of One Hundred Dollars, or
of Fifty Dollars. each, (and fractional parts
when unayoidable.) attested by the Clerk of
said county. and falling due on the 1st day of
April, 1877, with reserved privilege to said
county of paying annually, .one-tenth of the
principal Of said bonds-and (uDOn giving
public notice at the county seat of paying
of the whole debt at any time before maturi-
ty.
The said Commissioners were also authoriz-
ed, to contract firmly, with proposers for said
loan, whenever the aggregate sum of Nine
Thousand Dollars should be subscribed there
to, and were also authorized 10 accept rs cash
for the loan, the outstanding script OF said
county, with the accumulated interest due
thereon, less the interest for the years 1862,
1868, 1864, years in which no county tax was
leyied.)
1t is further ordered by the Court. that the
Clerk of said county give public notice. by
advertisement in Il newspaper published in
the county, OF the appointment of said Com
misSionerS. and of their authority and duties
in eflecting said loan for the redemption of all
outstanding scrip OF said county, and that
unless the holders OF said indebtedness or
scrip avail themselves of the same, by bring
ing their demands against said county. on or
before the first day of July. a. d. 1867. that
whereas the statute of limitation has barred
said demands, it will be placed in bar OF the
payment of the same
Therefore. |. as clerk aforesaid. do hereby
notify the holders of the Indebtedness or scrip
of Crawford county. to present the same as
above required.
ED. a. SCOTT, Clerk.
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e8 We republish the following Lines, on
account Of the omission of the last verse, last
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CRUELTY TO THE RED MAN.-Much has
been written about the barbarism of the In.
dians, but il they are worse than the whites
in portions Of Montana Territory. We arc
very much mistaken. We observe by an
exchange from that Territory that in some
counties rewards have been offered for The
scalps Of Indians, without regard to ago or
sex. 1t seems to be common thing thsrs
for the whites to hunt Indians a. they
would hunt wild animals, and TO kill aud
scalp squaws and pspooscs. No wonder
that we occasionally hear Of massacrcs BY
the Indians in the far West. !. is only
strange that undcr tho provocatiou which
they often endure they do not commit
greater atrocities. It is q shame and die.
grace to the country that Indian women
and children should DO butchered - they
seem to DO in Montana. The Government
is under obligations to protect the lives Of
tho Indians. for il has taken their lands
from them. and we hope that some action
will at once be taken for that purposs.
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EyThe daily pay Of Prussian infants.
soldiers has been raiped 70 seven eents
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arN LODGE. Noe. a. y. MAsoNs are held on
second Monday in each month at o'clock j.
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the Fraternity in good standing are respect
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H. f. THOMSON, W. NJ
q CHAs. +. HARVEY, Secretary.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-23
THE NEGRO as A POLITICAL EI.E-
MENT

Speakingofthe direction which thenegro
vote should take in the elections which are
TO recast the governments Of the Southern
States, the New York World in a well
considered article says The South as,
of course vitality interested in the matt
ter Both her social and her political
future are involved in the working of the
gigantic experiment The promptitude
and the energy with which her leading
minds have adapted themselves to the new
order Of Things, and grappled with the
difficulties and dangers so suddenly
thrust upon them, show that they appre
ciate the gravity Of the crisis, and give
hopeful earnest of the future They in,
dicate an elasticity of mind and a Arm-
ness Of courage, which rising superior to
the pressure OF hostile legislation and OF
financial and industrial Prostration, are
alike admirable in themselves and proof
of the existence of those civic virtues
which lie at the basis of all real self
government
For the common welfare Of all the
members of the Union 1t IL essential that
the important functions east upon the
blacks should be used in the mode least
detrimental to the purity Of our institu-
tons All considerations OF party gain
or loss sink into insignifcance compared
with the existence Of fundamental prin>
ciples The temporary ascendancy Of
one set of political dogmas will probably,
IN the changes Of a comparatively bret
period be followed by the triumph Of
their opposites, and the mischeyous re
suits of one system Of policy be corrected
by the adoption Of the remedies pre-
scribed by the contrary school Of political
doctors. A permanent debasement Of
political functions, or social war between
races, would admit no such cure, and
strike to the very heart Of our republican
system
Altogether, there's very good reason to
anticipate that the natural leaders Of the
southern whites win prove to be also the
natural leaders Of the blacks That the
Southern whites should, as & general
thing. direct and control the black vote,
is obviously for the advantage Of all
The failure to do SC, and the consequent
subordination Of the superior race, would
be so aagrant an inversion of natural
laws as must inevitably result in con
tipuAl di,cord and final anarchy. That
the interests Of the two races are identi-
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NEWS OF THE DAY.


census Of Virginia published in the Rich
mond papers, shows 900 more white than col
ored voters Ia the State.
The poor house of Ingham county, Michigan,
was burned on the 2)th inst, and six OF the in
mates persisted.
One dry goods house in Chicago last year did
a business Of So 10000, and fifty eight firms did
a business Of over sl,OOO,O0.
The season in the Northwest is very backward
and fruit and vegetation show the effects OF II.
Wheat however. looks well.
IL Is reported that the National League Of
America has a strsDg iOOthOd IN all the South
ern States except Mississippi and Texas, and Is
rapidly extending.
II is announced in the Washington Chronicle
that John r. Hayes, ESQ, editor and proprietor
Of fhe Savannah Republican, has been appoint
ed Commissioner Of the United States Court Of
Claims for Georgia.
A curious case under the test oath was decided
hy the Court of Claims at Washington on the
Gltb inst A Georgia lawyer was admitted to
practice in that court who could not take the
oath because he had held Judicial Office under
the Rebel government The cert held that as
be took the position TO escape service IN the
ranks, his loyalty was unquestiOnable.
Returns TO the first Of May show that the ag
pregate number Of freedmen schools at that
time was fourteen hundred and ninety six; of
teachers, seventeen hundred and thirty-seven /;
Of rupils. ninety FIVE thousand SIX hundred and
thiTty-seven. The demand for teachers and
school facilities this spring IS much greater than
ever before. and taNes the hclllues ol the Bu-
reau 90 the utmost.
The ST. Louis Democrdt wants Stanton for
President. II says; There IS a statesman who
has been the military superior Of all our Gem
erals and whose part in the war has been not
lees deserving Of honor than that of the brnvest
hero that ever slept on hard fought held.
There Is one such man, and but one-the Secre-
tary Of War Edwin NJ. Stanton"
The population Of the United States. accord
inc TO a census taken last November and Decem-
Der by the Internal Revenue Bureau, was "a, $685.
49, The number was not taken By actual count,
but wPs estimated from the number Of dwellings.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue says
that last year out of the whole population Of the
United States only four hundred and fifty thou
sand persons paid Ia < on incomes.
Santa Fe dates TO the 4th instant contain late
Arizona news, stating that the territory is over
run by hostile Indians. Several hundred al
tackled the Mowry silver mining works, but were
driven OF, leaving five dead. One white was
killed, and several wounded. The Pinal Apaches
at Fort Grant have left their reservation for the
war path. The Apaches have made two raids
on Tubae, killing a number Of people and
driving of all the stock. The town Is entirely
deserted.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-23
PRESBYTERIAN General assembly

ROCHESTER, May 22.-The General As
sembly of Preabyterians met to-day. The
standing committee on the erection OF
churches, reported one hundred church
societies without buildings of their own,
and recommended that 100000 be rasied
TO assist in providing buildings
Mr.. Clarke of Michigan, exhibited a
coin one hundred and one years old, which,
hesaid, poor man gave to the church build
ing fund. A subscription was at once taken
TO return it to the giver.
The evening meeting held TO consider
the question of erecting home mission
churches and the subject of Ministerial
Education The meeting was addressed
by somo Of the most eloquent men in the
meeting.
Communications were read from the
corresponding congregational bodies.
Delegates from New Hampshire and
Connecticut we're formally received and ad-
dressed the assembly.
Report from special committee was pre-
scented and adotped.
Report from joint committee of the two
assemblies was approved The matter Of con
stitutional changes to advpt the system 10 a
new order Of things. Referred back to
joint committee to report TO the assembly
Of 1865.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-23
THE sPrAKINp ON sATuRnAY.

IL is understood that Col W r. Stokes
viii be present and receive division Of
time from Mr. Etheridge on Saturday, at
this place. The discussion will, there
fore, be highly interesting and there
win nc doubt be an immense audience
The Nashville and Decatur railroad
will attach extra cars to the trains from
Columbia on that day, in order to give all
an opportunity to attend the discussion
who may desire to do so. Returning
South, the trains will leave Nashville at
four and at seven clock P. N. This is
an admirable arrangement The other
roads will probably likewise run their
trains so as to accommodate the public
on that occasion.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-23
New York Items-News from R,o Ia.

New YORK, May 22-The Board of
Health require physicians hereafter to re-
port all cases of inspection of contagious or
pestilentiaI disease.
To-day the organization of the Ameri-
can Industrial League was perfected. Peter
Cooper, President, with several Vice Presi-
DENTS Treasurer, and Executive Council of
gentlemen from all sections.
The determined action of the revenue
officers in Selling distilleries resulted in
general praise among manufacturers of
whisky. 1t isestimated that not more than
six distilleries are now in operation, and
they are under surveillance.
1t is reported to-day that an order has
received from Commissioners declaring the
seizure of all unbranded whisky wherever
found.
The Jerome Park races were postponed
until tomorrow on account of a storm. o
The large warehouses on the Atlantic
dock, Brooklyn, purchased by the govern
ment during the rebellion, was sold at
auction to-day for $23, 900.
The steamer Merrimac arrived from Rio
Janeiro, bring dates to the 2lst of April.
The Disrio official, of the 1lth of April,
in reply to the article of Diaro Dora, assert
ing that the bill respecting the emancipa-
ton of slaves would be organized by the
government the day before the meeting of
the coming Assembly, denies that this is
the case, although the government has the
subject of emancipation under cOnsidera-
ton.
Advices from Laplatte state that no
change has been made in the position of
the belligerents. All the allied batteries
and vessels continued every day to throw
shell in the Paraguayan works. The
enemy made slight response, and occa-
sionally came in collision. A careful
watch was kept over the Paraguayan
movements to prevent them advancing
BATTERIES in any direction. The large re-
doubts.at Corsa are finished, and this for
tilted post could be held by one thousand
men, with the assistance OF a squadron, in
case of an attack by the Paraguayans on
Curipiety.
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cal Is also manifest, and actual residents
are therefore, much safer guides for the
helpless black than unprincipled adven-
turers who seek to enrol them into bands
Of condottieri for their own selfish pur-
poses. The chances at present seem to
be that while Wilson, Hunnicutt, Kel-
ley, and their co-workers in the cause
may seduee a considerable body Of va
grant freedmen congregrated in the cities,
the Southern "peasantry Of the rural
districts will, as in other countries, lean
to Conservatism. So far from being
overwhelmed by the magnitude of the
change they have been required to meet,
the Southern leaders have maniully taken
q heart Of grace, . and are determined, il
possible, Sout Of the nettle danger to
pluck the flower safety
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The Presbxtersan General Assembly.

NEW YORK, May 22.-In the Presby-
terian General Assembly yesterday, the re-
port of the Committee of the Board OF
Foreign Missions was read and resolutions
adopted, urging the increased liberality in
its support, with view of liquidating its
Indebtedness of thirty five thousand dollars.
A proposition was madeto extend the home
missionary work into Russian America
A committee was appointed to report
measures for encouraging more devotional
style of music in church service.
The report of the committee on the
declaration and testimony difficulty re-
ported, proposing to receive back unruly
members and churches on their applica-
ton and declaration of willingness to sub
nit to the established authorities of the
church, but declining fellowship with all
who decline to return on or before the
meetings of the Presbyteries and Synods,
next spring. The report will be discussed
to day.
Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-23

BE Il enacted b. ihe General Assembly Of
he STATE OF Tennessee, That all freemen of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards,
being an inhabitant of the State, and all
persons who have been inhabitants of any
one county within the State six months
Immediately preceding the day Of election,
shall be entitled TO vote in this State
As a strong inducement for its adop-
ton, Mr.. Arnell, in offering it. said, ." it
was taken, except a change in few
words, from the State constitution Of
1876, which was framed in the Knoxville
convention, presided over BY William
Blount This was a skillful appeal
against the hostility of the Radicals of
the mountain districts to negro suffrage
For several weeks there was a desperate
struggle between the two wings of the
Radical party on Arnells bill Even the
Press and Times came out in favor Of it.
On the 22d March, 1850, that paper'es,
poused the doctrine Of universal suffrage
that is, Rebel suffrage and negro suf-
frage-in the following article, taking
Senator Stewards resolutions, offered in
the United States Senate, as text
" Mr. Stewart wisely thinks that uniyer-
sal amnesty should follow universal suf-
frage, and that II We are to have perfsct
restoration Of the Union and an era Of sin
cere good feeling, there must be no disfran-
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The Supreme Court Decision i'm Lou
isiRna-YeIIOw Fever i'm Vera Cruz
secret Negro Organization In Vir-
gInia-FaiIure of Frazier. aTrentoIn
a 90.
NEW YORK, May 22.-The Herald's
New Orleans correspondent says the recent
decision in the New Orleans courts that
debts incurred for the purchase of slaves
before the war are null, and involves nearly
one hundred million dollars in Louisiana.
Mayor Heath, of New Orleans, has decided
that theatres are not compelled 10 sell tick
cts to negroes.
During the debates in the Saxon Parlia-
ment on the adoption Of the new north
German constitution, prominent members
asserted that the instrument was accepted,
through fear of the Prussian military
power and that its enforcement in such a
manner would lead TO a revolution in
Germany.
The Herald says that by the arrival of a
gentleman who left Queretaro in the be-
ginning Of March, some facts are cleaned
relative to the inside situation there at that
time. They we're short of ammunition,
and there was not provisions enough to last
them until about the LIST of May. Maxi
milan had with him Marquiz, Miramon,
Mejia and other Generals, who seemed to
consider Queretaro as there last ditch
At Vera Cruz the mortality from yellow
fever alone was fifty per day.
The Heralds special says an arrest in
Fredericksburg, Va, recently developed
the fact that a secret negro organization,
hostile to the military, existed in that town.
| The arrested party was a man named Pot
ter, from New York, who was charged with
having threatened to kill the commanding
officer of the troops stationed there, the
! Mayor and several citizens, and TO burn
| Fredericksburg and Falmouth. lie was,
however, discharged by the Mayor, the
| proof being insufficient.
The Herald's Washington special says
the information of the failure of Frazier,
Trenholm & Co., Of Liverpool, agents of the
Rebel government in Europe, which
reached this city to-day; has caused some
excitement. The State Department had
instituted suits in the English courts against
the firm for the recovery of vessels, cotton
and munitions of war; and other property
of the Confederacy held by them-thesuits
covering several millions of dollars. 1t is
understood the United States government
is amply secured, and will incur no loss By
the failure.