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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

FIGHTNG EDITORS IN MIssIssIPPI.-The
vicksburgh tMiss.) Republican, speaking of
the various editors, who conducted the Senti-
mel OF that city, before the war, says:
DIR. Hagan took charge in 1887, fought a
duel with the editor of the Whig, participated
In number of free fights, and was finally
killed in 1849. Dr. j. S. Hall, associated with
Mr.. Partridge, was q noted duelist. and had a
number Of affairs, in one of which he was Sc
verely wounded. The next unlucky editor
was James Ryan, who, in vindication of his
honor, was killed by II. Z. Hamit, of the
Wing. From the report OF the fight it would
seem that the Wing man got the best of it.
Next i'll the list came Walter Hickney, who
INDUCED in several street rows, and was re-
peatedly wounded. He killed DIR. Maekln,
was soon after killed himself in the Lone
Star State.
The next editor was John LAWNS, who, 1t
seems, declined glory on the field of horrors,
and consequently is not entitled to place in
the niche OF fame. He indulged, however, in
The usual amount of Southern indiscreet
abuse, and atoned for his folly by serving a
time in prison. Mr.. Jenkins, his successor,
in aspiring to Immortality, came to an un-
timely end in free fight with III. A Crabbe;
Mr. Crabbe was assassinated in the same
manner in Sonora. Mr.. F. G.. succeeded Jen-
kins, but not finding the editorial chair an
easy one, he did the most sensible thing an
editor could do, and drowned his sorrows and
body at the same time in the Father OF Wa
tiers: William Roy, Esq, subsequently assum-
ed the editorial charge of the Sentinel, and
soon alter he celebrated the event with a
street fight. This exercise was repeated at in
tervals until finally he was assassinated in a
street row by his book-keeper. The book
keeper died a natural death about two years
Sincn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26


= College boys, we mean, like those who at
Worcester the other day exhibited the results
OF their superior culture by jostling unoffend-
ing old men and dancing the College Hornpipe
publicly IN plr'is naturalibus. The New York
Times thinks it hard that the frolics of "a few
boys" should be made the subject of severe
comment. But it is time for the particular
class of boys who were the actors in that scene
to revise the code of manners ard of morals
which has hitherto been the standard authori-
ty among them. The Worcester orgies have
only served to call attention to what might be
called college manner--4pfantation manrerso
modified and adapted to the circumstances of
the case. Robbing hen-roosts has long been
considered an agreeable and legitimate relaxa-
tion from the study of ethics and political
economy midnight horn-blowing and howl
ing, as admirable methods Of expression for
classic conviviality- y-nocturnal inroads upon
neighboring premises, and doing the greatest
possible amount of mischief there, as very
proper manifestations ON the part of literally
educated young men. M.
! 1t will be admitted that all these pleasant
ries are serious misdemeanors when indulged
in by people living outside of college wills.
Boys may not indulge in such demonstrations
if they do not happen to be college boys Have
we a privileged class then? If so, what is the
ground upon which special prerogative to
appropriate other peoples property and dis
turb the public peace is founded? Upon what
principle is it lawful for youth who reads Lat
lin and Greek to commit offences which would
lconsign others to the penitentiary? The chill
adren OF wealthy pareuts usually enjoy epriv-
ileges afforded by collegiate institutions. In
Harvard and Yale, the homes of the Worcester
rioters, the young men belonging to the first
families receive their education Do they
claim exemption from punishment on the
English plea of @blood?" This can hardly
have little to boast of in that direction
These and other disgraceful practices are due
in great measure to old colleges tradition OF
freshmen "hazed' and tutors foiled, of secret
revels and drunken sprees, of sly tricks upon
the faculty and ingenious escapes from punish
ment, and all the sporting lore which is hand
ed downfrom class to class. They are due al
so to the lenity with which the vagar;es of
undergraduates are treated by outsiders. No
wonder they think them creditable, when they
are approvingly voted "jolly dogs" by all but
the immediate sufferers from their acts. A few
years more at Worcester may produce reac-
tionin the public mind, and bring it to pass that
a Sophomore who breaks furniture, gets drunk
or steals a turkey shall suffer appropriate pun
shment equally with an illterate rough who
commits the same offences. Stealing is steal
ing still even though the thief can sing in Ital-
ian and swear in half a dozen foreign tongues.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

With which definition Of his position we
take leave of Mr.. Helper. .4fll-q /
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

8 No-JooUE.AMr. Hinton Rowan Helper ap-
pears to have gone stark, staring mad. His
latest folly is the writing of letter to the ed
itor Of the New York World, protesting
against the Misrepresentation which, he says,
some of the papers are making in reference to
his book. Said book he declares, is not a
"Black Book" in any ser Sc, as is proved by
the fact that it contains two, chapters (among
others,) one of which is headed "Black, A
Thing of Ugliness, Disease and Death" and
the other "White, A Thing of Life, Health
and Beauty" and further, that it was a part
of bis contract with the publisher that no
COPY of the book should ever be bound In
black! Mr.. Helper puts forth these state
ments with apparently the most perfect Sc
riousness. He replies to those who haye ac-
cused him ofinconsistency that he is perfectly
consistent, that he was "neyer an advocate
or champion of any black thing" that he wa
quite as strenuously opposed to negro citizen
ship, negro suffrage, negro testimony, negro
Jurors, and negro generally, in 1857 when he
wrote "The Impending Crisis" as he is in
1867. He believes he was right then and he
believes he is right now, and he says:
Between the party now in power and my
| self there is this difference: While they have
deeenerated from their national and constltu
tional character as Republicans, and nave oe
| come Radicals, and are sectional, am stih
| Republican-a white Republcan-and am moi
sectional. ~, f.,r.... I
| With which definition of his position w
take leave of Mr.. Helper. .4.f1l-q
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

Charles Fl. Sweetser wants partner IN
the proprietorshiP OF that wide-awake paper
the New York Evening Gazette.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

Senator Ross, of Kansas, has written q
letter advocating impartial suffrage for both
sexes and colors,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26
Another Cruel Hoax Expl.d,a.

The story was published a few daVs sinoo
OF the capture by the Indians of TRAN, nea,
Fort LaTned. The Indians were said to have
killed all the males, including Bishop Lamey
and seven priests, and to have carried Off the
females. General Sherman contradicts the
whoie story in letter to the St. Louis Reput-
iiean. He says:
fort Larned is about ffty-fye miles soutb-
west OF foft Harker, and has a garrison he
S@es ,n Posts az lara and Plum Creek betw
lne vi seekiy stage to and from New Neyi-
GO passed regularly during nv stav of ton dava
te fort Harker prior to the dale wban tI;;S
cap"lre is reported to have occurao on,5 on'5
many trains loaded with private and oovsr, a.,u
ment Heio'it have passed cut during the sarno
time, and an trains were inspected by an OFF,
Ger, to see i they were properly equipped and
guarded. ! lived with the commanding OIL
Ger, Colonel Hart, and did not hear him refer
to any train going out with priests and nuns
Nor is Lowry the name Ut the bishop of Santa
. Fe. Besides, this telegram comes from New
York, and is quoted from Leavenworth pa
per, and have letters and telegrams from
Leavenworth up TO to-day, without mention
of any such occurrence.
The country has been shocked by SO many
terrible accounts fabricated for purpose
such as the Fort Buford affair, the steamer
Miner, and the killing of General Custer; al
OF which you now know to have been pure in
yentlons, that, l think, Journalists should en-
deavor to ascerta ain the truth before shocking
the public with such terrible announcements,
VI course, cannot absolutely deny tAis re-
port but it has no semblance OF truth when
tested by the facts have stated.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26

ava Persons Of intelligence and reliability
has no superior, will please apply as above.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

WONDERFUL FREAK OF BABY..-The Ottumwa Mercury tells the following "A few days ago, in keokuk county, q babe six months old, was crying lustily, and the usual appliances seemed to have no effect. Ii still cried, and the mother was perplexed to know what the troubles was. At last, after it seemed almost exhausted, it spoke with startl- ing distinctness these words: Give me drink of water' Of course the mother was frightened, but gave the water, aud it immediately went to sleep. The infant had never spoken before, nor has it since. We can vouch for the truth of the above, as we are personally acquainted with the parents of the child"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

Esg~ Accounts from the Atlantic sea board planters indicate damage to the crops from the continuance of rain.
 Has' A majority of Mexicans are rep. resented as being sa.ed with bloodshed and are now clamoring for general am nesty.
 S9S~ The recent wholesale executions in Quaretaro are denied officially by Con. sul Godey at San Francisco.
 sy- Hamilton, Ohio, with population of only fourteen thousand, makes more malt than any other place in the union, and has three hundred and twenty five drinking saloons.
 S1- Secretary McCullock has been in- formed by those in the presidents conf dcnce that his resignation will not be ac- cepted.
 rsa- Two more suicides are reported at St. Louis yesterday. At least thirty self murders have been committed there this summer.
 S5- A magnificent block of marble front stores are to be erected in St. Louis on the site of the Lindel hotel
 ssa-Thc oldest house now standing in Philadelphia is on Letitia street, and was built by William Penn in 1882.
 gzg~ Among the rumors afioat in Washington, is one that Secretary McCulloch has accepted an offer from Jay Cooke < Co, ta manage the new banking house they arc about 10 open In London.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07


 TLooD IN AUsTRAL1A.--A Sydney, Australia, dispatch, ofJuly F, relates "Tle most devastating calanlity has visited this colony. Five days of rains have flooded the country, and five days of gales have dashed helpless wrecks upcn the coast. The highest flood marks were sixty to seventy five inches above the ordinary level. Hundreds ofhouses were swept away, and thou sands of live stock killed. Crops are in ruins. Many lives are lost. A family of nine were drowned, and ill another case twelve persons. The families of two brothers lost their lives. Hundreds were rescued from the tops of trees, haystacks, and the roofs of houses. Numbers were almost starv- ing, and homeless and naked. Subscrip- tions for their relief were flowing in, and will do much to alleviate their dis tress. Four schooners were wrecked, and several seamen drowned.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
Water as Food.

Tell the first man you meet that wa ter is, on the whole, more nutritious than roast beef, and that common salt, or hone ash, is as much all edible as the white of an egg, and it is probable that he will throw anxious glanccs across the street 10 assure himself your keeper is at hand. Make the same statements to the first man of science you meet, and the chances are that he will think you very ignorant oforganic chemistry, or that you are playing with paradox. Nevertheless it is demonstrably true. and never would have worn the air of a paradox if men had steadily con ceived the nature of an alimentary sub stance. That is an aliment which nourishes whatever we find in the organism, as constant and integral meleent, either forming part of its structure or one of the conditions oi vital processes that, and that only, deserves the name of aliment. If "to nourish the body mean to sustain it's force and repair it's waste--if food enters into the living structure--and il all the integral constituents of that structure are derived from food-there can,be nothing improper in designating as nutritious substances which have an enormous preponderance among the integral constituents. People who think it paradoxical to call water food will cease their surprise on learning that water forms two-thirds of the liv- ing body.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07


 At the royal palace at Berlin forty thousand wax candlod are instan- taneously lighted by one match. The mode of proceeding is simple enough, the wicks being previously connected by thread spun out of gun cotton, on lighting the end of which all the candles are lighted simultaneously, and thus the whole ofthe seven hundred apartments are illuminated at once. the process is so easy that the wonder is that il is not more extensively known and generally practiccd. In Russia the same ingenious method is employed for lightning up the churches on grand occasions.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

By- An acquaintance of ours, a mother, too not long since, was lament ing the loss of n child, one of family of eight, because said she, ''there was just enough for 2 cotillon and they did dance so prettily.'
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

BIBLE RIDDLE, OR THE WONDERFUL PRoPHET.-He is not Noah, nor Noah s son, nor Leyitc, nor John the Baptist nor yet the wandering Jew, for he was with Noah in the ark the Scriptures make mention of him, particularly in St. John, St. Mark, and St. Luke, so that we may believe he is no imposter. He knows no parents, he never lay up- on his mothers breast; his beard is such as no man ever wore he goes barc-footed and bare-legged, like a grave old friar. He wears no hat in summer or winter, but often appears with crown upon his head. His coat is neither knit nor spun, nor hair. silk, linen or wooden, bark nor sheepskin, yet it ahounds with variety of colors and fits c ose to the skin. He is won- derfully temperate he never drinks anything but cold water, he would rather take his dinner in farmers barn than in Q kings palace. He is very watchful he sleeps not in bed, but sits in singular kind of chair with his clothes on. He was alive at the crucifxion. Nearly all the world hear him. He once preached a short ser mon, which convinced man ofhis sin. and caused him to weep biterly.--He never was married, yet he has fayorites whom he loves dearly, for if he has but one morsel, ofmeat he divides it among them. Though he never rides on horse- back, he in some respects equipped as hcrseman are. He is an advocate of early rising, though he never rctires to bed. His prophecies are so true that the moment you hear his voice you may know what is approaching.
 Now, who is the prophet, and what did he foratell?
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

The Cookers, who assaulted and dangerously wounded Mir. Glass, Edi- tor of the Republican, in Lynchburg, not long since, have appealed to Gene ral Schofeld, either for change of venue, or for trial by 2 military court.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

asa- Gen Sco6eld has decided that the Virginia poor laws shall be enforced now that the bureau has ceased serving ra- tiens to the destitute blacks. This will return many of that class now infesting inc cities to the places from whence they came
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

There comcth glad tidings of joy to all. To young aud to old to great and to snall; The beauty which once was 20 precious and
 rare, Is free for all, and all may be fair.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
v ga Invitation to Dinner.

dctt -,E sA- lufltdblou " Otuiiois
 Itw-. observed that certain cove tous rich man never invited any one to dine with him.
 "Ill lay a wager" said wag, "i get an invitation from him."
 The wager being accepted, he goes the next day to the rich mans house about dinncr-time, and tells the servant he must speak with his master immedi- ately, for he can save him five thousand dollars.
 "Sir,' said the servant to his master. "here is man in great hurry to speak with you he says he can save you five thousand dollars"
 Out came the master.
 "What is that, sir; you can save me five thousand dollars?D
 'Yes, sir, can, but I see you are at dinner; I will go away and call again. '
 "Oh, pray, sir, come in and take din- ner with me-"
 T shall be troublesome"
 "Not at all"
 The invitation was accepted.
 As soon as dinner was over, and the family retired:
 "Well, sir" said the man ofthe house, ''now 10 your business. Pray let me know how I am to save five thousand dollars ?"
 "Well, sir, hear you have daugh- ter to dispose of in marriage?" ?"
 q have, sir"
 And you intend to portion her with fifty thousand dollars ?'
 q do, sir"
 "Why, then, sir, let me have her and I will take her with forty-fve thousand"
 TIE PEOPLE OF MExIco.-The New York Round Table, an independent Republican organ, draws the following portrait of the people of Mexico. It says:
 "As a matter of fact, no people on earth, reputed civilized, are so utterly and irredeemably dcspicable as the Mexican.---They are not cowardly, blood-thirsty, and indolent alone, but liars and thieves as well. Nor arc these qualities confined, as some would have it, to the lower classes. Maxi milian had a beautiful revolver of great value, mounted in gold and ivory ; it was stolen at a military council where none were present below the rank of General.-Jewels and other costly articles were notoriously and regurlarly filched from Carlotta wher- ever she moved. Santa Anna had his inkstand stolen at a council of minis ters. and the room was darkened to enable the thiefto return 1t undetected. The scoundrel Lopez who betrayed his master Is well known as all adroit thief. The truth is that stealing is so univer- sal in Mexico that it has almost come to be regarded as matter of course, and other vices on which we need not dwell are equally so, and are rather more rife among the upper classes, if any thing, than among the lower. The Mcxicans have no moral fiber. Physi- cally and Intellectually they are equal ly deficient. To talk obout patriotism and liberty and the senss of honor among such beings is simply nonsense.'
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
LANDINGS AND DISTANCES On White River and Tributaries.
WHITE RIVERA

From Memphis to mouth White Riv- CT, l75 miles.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

Mir. Gro. ". vAnnN and Mir. HECK B KEN DALI, always on hand to dispose, but not to be disposed of.
 Des Arc, Ark, March !6, 1866.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07

MATTRAssEs-coTToN, sHUCK HAIR.
 Together with large ot of useful Goods, which will sell low for CASH.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07
BLACK RIVER.

Jacksonport to
 Mouth Strawberry . 60 PoWhatan ..,-. ... 70 l Poeahohtas a...,...... 70 l
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-09-07


 sH'The Mongrel alias Republican party of New Jersey, have held plat form Convention, and swallowed the negro whole. Senator Frelinghuysen made speech, in which he not only set aside all history, but all science, and compared the Irish and Germans with the negroes, to the great Encouragement of the former. He said that all that savage Africa wanted, was an oppor- tunity and education. Well, five thou sand years ago, the people of Egypt were trying to educate and ciyilize them. Two thousand three hundred years ago, the Carthegenians were try ing to do the same thing. Then the Romans tried, and all Asia, and all Europe have been working at the same business, time without limit, but with no more effect than if the same atten- ton had been bestowed upon the chim- panzees of Africa.