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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26
GENERAL BANKRUPTCY

Must ensue during the coming winter unless creditors should prove vastly more lenient than creditors usually y are. Nearly every plantation is more or less mortgaged, and should foreclosures be insisted upon, the best lands in the State will change hands at a ruinous sacrifice. The lawyers are preparing to reap rich harvest out of cases un- der the new Bankrupt law, for there will probably be no portion of the Union that will contain as large num- Der of insolvents, in propotion to the population, as South Carolina. This condition of affairs is due in great measure to the mania which prevailed here before the war among the land- holders for buying slaves upon long credits, giving a bond for the purchase money secured by mortgage of the slave. The validity of such bonds, in view of the cessation of slavery, has been an interesting question occupy ing much of the attention of the State and Federal Courts during the last twelve months: nor will the contest be. settled until the United States Su- preme Courts shall have pronounced final judgment in the matter. So far, the disposition of Judges seem to have been to affirm the validity of such debts. and fasten the entire loss upon the mortgagers of the slave. Should this ruling be sustained. the army of applicants who have already filed pe- .titions of bankruptcy here will be very largely reinforced.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26

We have in connection with our Law OFFICE an ACTIVE OUT DOOR COLLECTING AGENCY. Claims entrusted to us will be promptly attended to, and if not Immediately collected will be at once secured if possible Claim against the Government for rroperty taken by the U. S forces Whether receiptea for or not)-BouSrIss PENSIONS, ARREARS or PAY &c. promptly attended to.
 ma-2t HICKS & FIELDING.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26

your tobacco, your rice, your indigo. your sugar, your molasses, your castor oil, your broom, your hams, pork, 'ba- con and lard. You buy your vinegar, your pickles, and all your canned fruits, and you buy all your perfumery. All this and much more you should raise on your farms. Factories and machi- nery for every purpose should be in- troduced and operated with skilled la bor.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26
Cotton Trade aud Financial Embar--
 rassments in South Carolina.

The following correspondence, dated Charleston, s. C., 4th inst. b the N. Y. Times, represents deplorable state of affairs in the old Palmetto State:
 The cotton is moving in to market, the receipts at this port having already reached thousand bales in a single day. There are serious apprehensions, however, that the shipment of the great bulk of the crop will be retarded by circumstances less transitory in their character than the lateness of the sea- son. The difficulty experienced by the planters. almost without exception, in obtaining the ready money requisite to meet the expense of transportation and insurance and the onerous requirements of the revenue law, will undoubtedly delay and embarrass holders in turning the staple into cash. The bank rate of discount in Charleston is eighteen per cent per annum, more than four-fold the rate for which money can be ob- tained in New York, the financial cen- Ire of the Union. The prime cause of this great disparity is to be found in the prevailing lack of confidence in the stability of political affairs but it is attributable in some degree to the par tial manner in which the national cur rency has been apportioned among the Southern as compared with the Northern States. Before the war the city of Charleston possessed banking capital of fourteen millions of dollars in gold or its equivalent. This is now reduced to the insignificant sum of half million in currency, which con- stitutes the joint capital of the only two National Banks that have, so far. been established in the city. In former times the facilities of borrowing money for the purpose of moving the crops from the interior to the seaboard were considered by no means excessive. Now when the planting class are so much more straitened, the inability oi two small banks to afford accommada- tion to bot factor and shipper. is ob- vious. and even il ti.sy were ale to make the necessary advances it mign. well be doubted whether the planters could afford to pay the enormous inter est of one and half per cent a month It will, therefore, be seen that the trib- uations of those even, who have been moderately successful in raising cot ton, will by no means cease when theii crops are picked and safely in their gin houses. Of those whom the worm ol rains have ruined I need not speak Along the seaboard
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-10-26

TALENT AND TACT Talent is some thing but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave an respectable tact is all that and more too. It is not sew enth sense, but is the life of the five It is the open eye. the quick ear, the judging taste the keen small and lively touch 1t
 is the interpreter of all riddles-the sur mounter of all diiRcultes--.he remover of obstacles 1t is useful in all places and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows man his way through. the world. Talent is power--tact is skill; talent is weight -taet in momentum; talent knows what to do---tact knows how to do; talent makes him respectable---tact makes wealth I----tact carries it against talent-ten to one.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
Christmas Carol

Break forth into singing, OH grand old earthl
All hail thou bOnored and blestl
For this is the day OF thy Sovereign's birth,
Who gfTeth BIS people rest.
CHoRUs-FOr unto our race Child is born,
Unto Us Son IS given
And His name shall be called most
Wonderful
And Lord over earth and heaven.
This is the day when in Bethlehem old,
Was Graded a mighty King
A Star Of the 1Iorning-bEigllteT than gold,
And purer than angels wing
CHORUs-Yes, unto our race. &c.
Break forth into singing, Ee sons Of men
Te souls whom He setteth free
And welcome the Star Of Bethlehem
He cOmeth for you and me.
CHoRUs-For unto, &c.
Break forth into singing, this merry morn,
Ye birds-ye fowls Of the air
For unto our world q Saviour is born,
And Saviour passing 1air.
CHORUs-Yes, unto our race &c.
Break forth into singing, both one and all,
For this Lord is kind and true;
For He noteth the little sparrOWs fail,
And He ''taketh thought for yOu.
CHoRUs-Yes, unto, &C.
Oh hearts heavy laden, that shrink from
mirth,
Whose sorrows ara great and sore,
Rejoice on the day Of the Saviour's birth;
Your sins your sorroWs he bore.
lsao4Us-For unto, &c
Break forth into singing. ye sons Of men,
And ye mountains, skip and sing,
And We heavenly hosts, respond Amen
To our Christmas carOlling.
IHoRUs-For unto our race Child is born,
Unto Us a Son is given
And His name shall be called most
And Lord over t57-s earth and heaven.
~, u. Posi-.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
DELAWARE OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1857.
60 u q Ngw YoTSe0TEaspondent,

Herald by its New York kcorrespondent.
Manhattan. /"
Mr.. E. H. Jenny, a well-kn0wn citi-
zen of New York City, met Mr.. ScoyiIl
in Cartons book store shortly after the
publication Of the letter containing this
charge. He said to him, ScovilI, how
came you to write that nonsense to the
london press about President Lincoln
at Antietam ?"
fsWhy,1 replied ScoYiII, st was in
tended only as q joke. I received, /" he
continued, stem pounds sterling for that
letter. I have to put just such stuff as
that in my letters to please such fel-
lows as they are over there. .
Mr.. Jenny fortunately put this state
ment in writing soon RfterWard, and
has thus on record the very words of
the conversation.
Subsequently EcovilI wrote a letter to
the London Herald purporting to give
an account of Generel Grants advance
toward Richmond, and so grossly mis-
represented the battle Of SDoEEsylVania
that when the latter came back to this
country as published both in the Lon
don Herald and London STANDARD, Gen
eraI Dix wrote ScOVlH to consider HIM
self under arrest. ahd report at his Of
Gee. ScOvill told General Dix that he
was very i'll, and thought he had not
three weeks to live, and begged not to
be sent to Fort Lafayette. General Dix
said the matter Would be referred to
u ashingtOn, and In the mean time he
must consider himself under arrest.
SGOViH subsequ exhibited his "or-
der Of arrest to MrgJenny, at the Con-
troller's Office Of the City of New York
and in answer to ing uiries as to the ma
turs Of ihe charges against him, replied
g Ny account Of Grants fighting on the
Rapidan and at SpOttsylYania. When
Mr.. j. suggested thai it might Be bis
sIander of President Lincoln at Autie-
tam, instead, he replied; t'Fhat was
Intended only as a joke nobody be-
lieYes it here; it was written to please I
those fellows over there,'' reiterating
bis assertion that the letter containing
-be fabrication produced him 80"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
A CaIumny on Mr. Lincoln Refutod
IF. B. Carpenter. in the N. Y. independently

IF. B. Carpenter, in the n. Y. independently
The charge that President Lincoln IN
dulged in uuseemly leYity on tho battle
field of Antietanl-callinE for ribald
songs and vulgar Jokes in the presence
Of the wounded, the dying ana he un-
buried dead-has been froW time to
time repeated and industriausIy-c y-circu-
lated by the enemies OF the Uuien par
ty throuhOut the country. Mr.. Horton,
late editor of the New York Day Book,
has embodied the story in his Youth S
History Of the Civil War" (writteu
from the Southern standpoint to offset
a similar work from the Northern point
of view, published ia Boston,; and the
Boston Post, of SO recent a date as Sep
tember q, 1867, referring t. a criticism
in the New York Tribune uppn Presi-
dent JOhnsOn's speech at the Antietam
Cemetery ceremonies, says: tPerhaps
it 1.-THE Tribunel would have preferred
that Geary, or some one else, had sung
the song which the late lameuted Pres
ident Lincoln sang when galloping at
the head of a party of visitors over that
field of battle."
Believing this charge to have been
malignant fabrication, 1 have long
sought for evidence to prove the fact.
Very lately there has prOvidentially
come into my hands the most complete
and inconteatible Vindication of Mr.
LincOln's character and 1 am now
prepared to prove the origin and Ru-
thorship of this calumny.
Its author was Mr.. Joseph ScovilI, the
New York correspondent during the
war, of the London Herald and London
Standard, whose letters, over the sigma
ture of Manhattan" !" will be long re-
membered by the American public for
their virulent disIoyaIty and perver-
sion of all facts which favored the
Northern cause.
Two or three weeks after the battle of
Antietam, in one of Mr.. Scovilus gos-
slipping London letters, he mentioned
the fact Of Mr.. Lincoln's visiting the bat
tle-feld and therein invented and wrote
the slander since republished so many
times by Mr.. LincOln's enemies. Re
ference to the newspapers of that date
will show that the first time the story
extract from q letter to the London
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
RadieaIism Contagious.


Mr., Do0iittIe's proposition TO amend
the Reconstruction act, by restricting
suffrage in the South to the whites and
such blacks as have served a year in
the army, or can read and write, or own
$3.50 worth Of property, is Of no feglsla7
i've FdTU5s ~ year ago s0ELe-sucu leg
isIation, If proposed by the Presidents
spokesman in the Senate. might have
been accepted as q compromise. Two
years ago it would have been Joyfully
agreed TO by nearly every Radical. To-
day it is valuable only as the surren-
der of a prejudice, and the abandon
ment of a political blunder. 1t is an
admission by the champion Of the Pres
idenb's policy that color should not de-
bar from the exercise and enjoyment Of
political rights, and that Reeonstruc-
ton On the basis fan extended suffrage
is an irrepealable and accomplished
fact. The n. Y. World and Chicago
Times long since surrendered to the
.Repu blicans on this question between
principle and prejudice. Senator Doc
little takes the earliest opportunity to
reverse his sword-holding it by the
blade and profering us the handle. We
accept it, We release these prisoners
Of war on parole.
8 But now they have conceded the prin-
cipEe, viz, that color is no just bar to
the exercise of political rights, it is
mere gueErillaism for them to contend
any higher or other publications should
be required Of blacks than Of whites.
The present Reconstruction law makes
no distinction fOUndedaOn- color. If any
blacks have served the Rebellion in an
official capacity, or violated their 0aths
IN an effort to destroy the Union, they
would be excluded by the same law
which excludes whites. What can be
gained by bushWhaeking after the
Richmond of Democratic prejudice is
fallen? Better follow the example of
Lee and Johnston, take a clean bill Of
heaIth, and start again.
n. y. Tribune.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
National Union Republican Conven-
ton,

The undersigned constituting the Ma
tional Committee designated by the Con
VentiOn held at Baltimore on the 7tb Of
June, 1864, do appoint that a National
Convention, Of the Union Republican
party be held at the City Of Chicago,
Ill, on wednesday, the Goth day of
May next, at Il o'clock m, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for the
Offices of President and Vice President
Of the United States. Each state in he
United States is authorized to be repre-
sented in said Convention by the num-
Der Of delegates equal to twice the NUM-
Der of Senators and Representatives to
" bich each State is entitled in the Ma
ti0nal Congress. We invite the coop
GRAFTON OF all citizens who rejoice that
our great civil war has happily tersnin-
ated IN the discontinue Of rebellion
who would hold fast the unity and i'm
tegrity of the Republic, and maintain
It's paramount right to defend to the ut
most its own existence, whether imper-
lied by secret conspiracy or armed
force; of all friends of an economical
administration of the public eXpendl-
ture, of the complete eZtirpation of the
principles and policy of slavery, and Of
che speedy reorganization of those
States whose Governments were de-
str0yed by the rebellion, and their per-
manent restoration to their proper
practical relations with the United
States in accordance with the true prn-
eiples of republican government. Mar
Gus L. Ward, of New Jersey, Chairman;
John d. Defrees, of Indiana, Secretary;
John r.. Clark, of New Hampshire
Samuel +. Hussey, of Maine; A. B.
Gardiner, of Vermont; William CIaflin,
of Massachusetts Samuel A. Pur-
Vance, of Pennsylvania; j. s. Fowler,
OF Tennessee b. @. Cook, IF Illinois
Marsh GiddinRs, of Michigan D. p.
Stubs, of Iowa; A. w. Campbell, of
West Virginia; Fl. ". Hoffman, of
Maryland; N. b. Smithers, Of Della
ware W. J. Corning, of Virginia; S.
H. Boyd, of Missouri; G. L. Robinson,
of Florida; $. Judd, OF Wisconsini
Horace Greeley, of New York ii. ii.
Starkweather, of Connecticut; r. b.
Cowen, Of Ohio; Thos. Simpson, Of
Minnesota; Newton Edmunds, of DR-
lzota D. S. Goodloe, of North CarOlina}
Thos. G. Turner, of Rhode Island
Samuel N. Crawford, of Kansas; S. ].
Bowen, of District of Columbia; J, p.
Chaffee, of Colorado.
Washington, Dec. Il, 1867.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20

81 EWIs ROBERTs, 5I Hancock County, Illinois,
A and Mary Am osuftriget and Aason Court
right, Of Jasper Comfy, Illinois, viii take no
tioa thai on ne 25sh- day Of November, 1867, ]
eiad q psfif5pu aaaiast fhem and ofherG fn the
7robate Cont of Delaware county, Ohl1, przYing
or an order authaFiziaR ne TO sen, 10 pay debts
sud iaEaees of Eaid decaasad tbe foiloWinE real
state, situaie IA BslaH ware. county Ohio, and "a
ange 10, Tp., {, and See ], ans the east haif 81
Lot 10. -, less len aeres from tha fouth end
thereof, containing forty acres more or less. Al
so Eight aorFs OF Of tha west eud Of Lot IL, in
same Hection. Tp., and Range, being the premises
nn which eBsfd John Roberts, lived 81 the time
or his dsatha said petition viii be for hearing on
he 2sth day OF Deeember next, at 10 O'Clock,
A. b. J. q. VAN DEblA1J, Administrator
da bonis son vita allo will annexed af
dohn Roberts. deceased.
CARPnR & Vas DEslAE, AttyH.
Nov. %. 81 4w-pf5s IS.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20

The Hamilton Telegraph says that
Vallandigham received for his martyr
dom, from what is known as the "dimo
contributions" )" the full snm of Eighty
fge tAousdnd dollars i9t gold. The Gin
cinuati Enquirer denies this statement
and says that Val. actually received on
ly about thirty thousand dollars The
Telegraph responds that it has Demo-
cratic authority for its statement, and
that If those who managed this fund
did not fork over but thirty thousand,
they are defauIters to the enormous
amount Of ffty-fiVe thousand dollars
in goIdl An explanation Of the affair
iB demanded.--D DgbaNd Citiza7z.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
From
To bIr.
'The baby is dead

[ have been Is years telegraph op-
orator. In this short Lifetime of ex-
perience I have come to be as mechan-
ical .in the receiving and sending Of
messages as it is possible for the fin
gers to be, backed as they are BY a
thinking arrangement The saddest
and gravest, the most frivolous, and
the terribly impoDtant-all pass in at
the ear and run off my pencil point
and leave no impression on the mind.
But I was alone with those four words
in the silence of the night. They fell,
as Dickens says, ike a stone into the
well Of my heart, and splashed the
tears up into my eyes. I instinctiyely
closed my eyes to keep the suddenly
awakened emotions within bounds,
and my mind, charged with a sympa-
thetio current, followed the wire back
To-. and stood hushed in the
presence of a grief which was silent
in its intensity.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
How the Rebels do things in Ten
uessees aaaefge

low 6ne hepe4s 90 BLElng6 II len
ezsa nessee' aa ige
In October, 1858, one Newton CLARK,
Of Fayette county Tennessee, a soldier
in the service of Jefferson Davis, home
on f1rI0ugh, went to the house Of David
D. Jones, of the same county, a Union
which he had been informed Jones had
Purchased a short time before. He
found a parcel Of cloths and took them.
Jones asked him if he intended to take
the cloths without paying for them
ffNO - replied Clark, rendering him a
handful of Confederate scrip. Jones
replied that that kind of money would
do him no good, whereupon Clark, as is
the custom of the chiYialry, drew his
revolver and shot him in the presence
of his wife and children.
A few weeks ago, Clark was arrested
for the perpetatiOn Ofmurder, and tried
before he Circuit Court ofFavette coun-
ty. The proof was positive, Mrs. Jones
the widow Of the murdered man, sWOre
positively to the commission Of the
murder, and other good and credible
witnesses, bore testimony not only to
the killing but to Clark7s boasts of the
deed after the commission. Never was
a brutal crime more clearly brought
to the perpetratOr. So clear indeed was
the case, that the counsel for the accus-
ed did not think it worth while to make
an effort. The jury retired, and in a
few minutes returned with the follow
ing verdict: eve find the defendent
not guilty, and honorabIy acquit him.
Had Mrs. Jones been the wife Of rebel
and Clark a Union soldier, the verdict
would doubtless have been different
Toledo Blade.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
7 - I86 sI.... - . 8. 5 - S. s sLEEgrroY
% lIattaE q ChaFIes 2. Gamer, BankTupl.
- uuErc.z - - -c.o.-c-E--,- i.
E.stafa nfllrilIa Tona.

mW0TiEG iE hereby given that the undorsleBed
AW has Been duiT Appolnted and quaiided az tie
Adt1laiHtTaiar o. The Estate Of Drills Tune, deed.
iste Of Delaware ooaalgs Ohio. An persons IN
terasted Hlll govern fhemselva1 accordingly,
drc8id1-ai r. P TONE, Admini8tFatoF.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
oHTLDREN's CORNER.
Prince Of Peace.

Through the Wtutry sky,
Christmas strains by children sung,
Swell the song on high
For one is born, the Prince Of Peace,
Whose reign shall never never cease
CHORUS.
Our hearts they ara light, our hopes they are
bright
at thy coming, oh, Prince Of PeaceI
And we of Thy fold, like children OF old
Sing HoSanna- oh, Prince of Peace
Hosanua, Hosanna, HosQnna, Oh, Prince OF
Peacel
Christmas green's our altarS Wreathe,
Box and Fir and Bay
Christmas berries, mountain pine,
Makes our temples gay
To welcome Him, the Prince Of Peace
Whose reign shall never, never cease.
hearts they are ILyht, etc.
Christmas joy isaII around,
Softening pain and loss
Christmas peace is everywhere,
Blessing every cross:
They spring from Him, the Prince OF Peace.
Whose reign shall never, never ceaSe.
hearts they are Light, etc.
Christmas praise from children 's lips
C5od delights TO hear;
Carols from our grateful hearts
Please BIS waiting ears
Then hail Him, hail Him Prince on Ealte8,
Whose reign shall never, never cease
hearts they are Light, etc.
-t1igerefds Magnglae
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20

A NEwsPAPER.-It was Bishop
HOrne's opinion that there was no bet
ter moralist than the newspaper. BE
says; "The foIlies, vices, and cOnse-
quent miseries Of multitudes, displayed
in a newspaper, are so many beacOns
continually burning to others from the
rock on which they have been ship
wrecked. What more powerful dissua-
sive from suspicion, jealousy, and an
ger, than the story of one friend muir
dered by another in duel What
caution more likely to be effective
against gambling and prodigacy, than
the mournful relation of an execution,
or the fate of despairing suicide
What finer lecture on the necessity of
economy thHu the auction of estates,
houses, and furniture? Only take a
newspaper, and consider it well, pay for
it, and il will instruct thee"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
THE RIVERsTDE MAGAZINE.

In order to afford still greater variety Of read
ing matter at the same prOpOrtiOnatelF low rate
We have arranged with the publishers Of tue
Riverside Magazine, hnely Illustrated mo nth
ly for young people, to club with the Evening Posi-
on the terms mentioned at the head Of this adTer-
tisameHt.
Any reader Of this paper having friends who
may not be familiar with the character or merits
Of the EvEsISG PosT, viii be supplied with specimen
copies without charge, BY sending the request 70
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
Notice

nELlNQUENT STOCKHOLDERS Of the Troy
- Turnpike Company are notified that the Road
Is now completed to I. /. Inskeeps, (thus forming
a continuous gravel road 70 Ashley,) and that for
the purpose OF bquidating the Indebtedness Of SAID
Company, IL Is absolutely necessary that all AZ
roarages should be paid or before the 1st Of
January, proximo. All unpaid due al that time
will be placed for collection.
By order Of the President
deco. '6T-At. c. HILLS, Treasurer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20
SEND At ONCE.

As there Is usually great crowd pressing 80
have their subscriptions recorded about the first
Of January, some ars necessarily delayed but
this might be avoided by sending on the subaerip-
tinn in tIma.