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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
The Bullies at the South.

;. Advices from South Carolina are to the effect that General Sicklos intends to appoint colored men on the boards of registration in that State. Under the law, and sanctioned by the custom of these latter dimes, the colored men may certainly serve. The action, how ever, is but another evidence of the ANDiUs which prevails among the men who visit the South, whether clothed with authority or not, to do everything in their power to excite the animosity of the Southern people, instead of doing anything to gain their esteem and promote harmony among them. In the slightest particulars and on every available occasion, something is done which will be obnoxious to the people, whose good will 1t should now be the aim of the cOnquerors to secure.
 It was this same feeling which prompted Judge Kelly to hurl dcfi- ance at whole people because a few rowdics showed disposition to create a disturbance. The tyranny of mobs is not an unusual thing in this country. It does not require very old head nor q long residence in this city to rcmcm- Der when so just q man as stephen A. Douglas was prevented from speaking to the people at North Market half. The deductions from the reports that come 10 us concerning the trouble at Mobile lead to the belief that, at first, there was no serious apprehension of q general disturbance, that all the author- ! ities and the respectable portion of the people were pcaceably inclined, and sincerely deplorc the result. DutJudgc Kelley, instead of uttcring one word to conciliate an opposition that could not have been unexpected by him at such time and place, goaded the populace to an outbreak, by using an argument that must have been most obnoxious to them, the coercion by soldiers.
 Sicklcs and Kelly arc not the only ones who arc carrying this rhodomon- tade and braggadocia to disastrous ex- trcmes., Wilson, of Massachusetts, threatens confiscatiom, If any other than tho Radical candidates are elected to Congress from the Southern States Following the examples of their lead CTS, the military officers, the officials of the freedmen's bureau, the United States marshals, the minor stump ora tors, and all those who have been sent South, indulge in similar language, and are following the same inimical course. Is this way to affiliate the people of the two sections and reunitc them un- der one common government ?--( Chi fsss9 Hines.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
The South and West.

The prospect for crop of cotton in the South, for 1867, is miserably slim. Stands cannot be procured, and it IS probable that ofthc lands sown with cotton seed will be plowcd over and devoted to corn. Famine is'teach- ing the Southern people lesson they would receive from no other teacher. That lesson is: Provide bread enough, and to spare-make it the object, and cultivate cotton as sort of incident, sort ofirecciver fUr'any plethora of la Dor. Offhc latter, the prospect is not near, nor the danger imminent. And so, if the weather shall not defeat all the struggles of furnishing people to make bread, we may calculate upon a larger yield of corn, the largest, lt may be, ever known in the south. Oi the effect of a corn, wheat and stock policy 10 be adopted in the South, q Northern paper remarks: What docs the West flyink of that? Less cotton to be shipped to Europe this year. What does the commercial North think of fthat? If the South goes into the wheat -grewing and corn-raising busi- ness more extensively than she did years ago, what is the West to do with her surplus products? A nice ques- ton. Let Thad Stevens answer it. Slavery is gone. Yes, gone; and nig- gers no longer plant votton. They won't do it. They have been tried, and since Wilson and Kelly have gone down South they arc less !ikcly to work now than ever. Whats the re- suit? White men will raise only what they eat-thcy will abandon cotton and swgar and rice growing, and they will becoMe the rivals of the West ia, grain aad corn raising. They will feed their surplus 10 stock, to cattle, hogs etc., and become rivals-dangcrous compcsitors--tc ti1c Western produ. cers. This is what radicalism has nc. complisked. How does the Wsst like it? But the whole account is no, made uy. If cottoN is not raised ir the South, the tax Imposed upon il must come from sonse othcr V*after-- it must be levied upon something tho West either raises or consumes, adding to the burden.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

The Paris correspondent of the London Times attributes, in great degree, the settlement of the Luxemburg difficult ty to Queen Victoria. She wrote to Ma. poleon, and the Journal de Paris says that "this letter, impressed with the reli. gious and almost mystic sentiments which predominatc in the Queens mind, par ticularly since the death of Prince Albert, seems to have made deep impression on the Sovereign, who amid the struggles of politics, has never completely repudiated the philanthropic theories of his youth, and who, on tie battlefield of Solferino, covered with the dead and wounded, was seized with an unspeakble horror of war. " Napoleon replied that if the honor of France was respected no attempt would be made by her for territoral aggrandisc- mcnt. The Queen then addressed the King of Prussia, who at the same time learned that Russia was not as tavorably disposed as he anticipated.
 -General Ord has been in our city since Monday evening, the guest of Gov. Humphreys. His visit is partly official, partely social. He was engaged yesterday in visiting the diffrent public institutions, in company with their trustees. He has been called upon by and conversed with many gentlemen who are here on legal business from difirent portions of the State. All express themselves well pleased with their interview. General Ord is soldier and will carry out his in structions to the letter, but is doing so in a manner that has enlisted the very gen. eral cooperation of the people. Thanks to the wisdom and discretion manifested by our public officers, to the good common sense displayed by the people, and to the firm, yet judicious and generous course of the department Commander, there will be no conflict in Mississippi: but the work of reconstruction will go steadily on until the provisions of the Military Bill are complied with, and until our State is fully represented in the National Coun- cils-whcn and where only her voice can be heard, and her influence felt.-[ Jack son Clarion.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

At the moment when the crisis occasioncd by the Luxemburg question seemed certain to end in war, an un- dcrstanding was come to between England, Denmark, Sweden and Hol- formed into treaty, and the object of which was to preserve the integrity of Holland against all danger from what ever quarter it should come; and the knowledge of this understanding was not without influence on the Paris and Berlin cabinets.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
u.,> Tho od;tor of ,,A v.l..

pA-Thc editor of the Natehitoehes Times had a conversation with planter of Rapides parish, who expressed him. solf delighted with the Chinese lahorors employed on his place The gentleman declares that he never saw men better fitted for the cultivation of lands in Louisiana, aud that he feels certain of making good crops henceforth.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

We are gratified to state, says the Mobile Advertiser, that Alabama has renewed and paid the interest on her foreign debt, partially suspended during the late war. Funds have been remitted, through the agency of the Bank of Mobile, to meet the State bonds coupons due abroad in June and July.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
Mild Confscation."

This sweet circumloeution of tlac great. est infamy ever designed by any political schemer is Thad Stevens own. He used it in letter, published in our telegraph colamas, wtscrcia he assails his colleague, Wilson, who on his Radical temperance and abolition spree in Virginia, promises admission of their representatives and general amnesty to the inhabitants of eve ry State who shall elect Radicals and tenn perancc fanatics as delegates to their Con- ycntion. "Who is authorized to travel over this country and peddle out amnesty? I would say the most guilty expect pun ishment and then quictude. But first a miH coufscation to pay those who have been robbed by disloyal men," says he immediately after his recovery from se- we're illness. It seems that he has con- tracted new lease with the devil, under the condition that for the balance of his life he shall out-deyil Lucifer To intro ducc con6scation into our politics is a monstrosity. Yet, horrible as it is, men before him have advocated it in other countries. But, ransack history, rum. mage all the records of medirval torture, one will not discover parallel to this American Radicals confiscation. It is a toad in cream saucer. It reminds us of the carpet on which tho Russian noblemen are laid when, for an injurious expression against the Cxnr, they treated to tho bastinado It is capital sentence, pro- nounced by smiling lips. Eight or ten years ago, somewhere in Illinois, a juve- nile murderer was to be hung A stupid editor of country paper, who was present at the execution, entertained his readers with i description. He spoke of the newly decorated little carriage in which the culprit was brought to the place of execution; of the nice dress, nice white little cap tho ladies had prepared for him.
 He could not find the end of all the nice ties of the execution. Sweet Stevens is a match for that nice editorial Hoosicr. The man who in the same breath can speak of mildness and con6scation, excels even the admirer of the nice white little cap. He should take out patent on the invention of mild confscation. It is worth millions, and eternal damnation bcsidc.-[St. Louis Republican.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

The Vicksburg Times says; Our sister city of DeSoto, which has been so long submerged, is again emerging from the food, the ground is covered with vcrdant shrubs and grass having made its appearance in many places.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
TO COySUMPTIvES.

TINIIE advertiser, having been rcstoredj to II health in few weeks hy very simple remedy, after having suffered for several years with n severe lung affection, and that dread disease consumption-is anxious to make known to his fcllow-suifercrs the means of cure.
 To all who desire it, he will send q copy of the prescription used (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and using the same, which they will find SIRE CURE for CONSUMPTION, AsTHMA, BRONCHITIS, CoUGns, CoLps, and all Throat and Lung Affections.- The ouly object of tho advertiser ia sending tho Prescription is to benefit the afflicted, and spread information which he conceives to be invaluable, and he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing. and may prove blessing. Parties wishing the prescription, FREE, by return mail, will please address
 REV. EDWARD \. WILSON.
 Williamsburg, Kings Co.,, New York,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

reA. Columbus, Georgia, It ia said, will be the leading manufacturing city in the South next fall as the most of tho cotton factories burned by Wilson at tho close of the war will be rebuilt hy that time,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

bGr Letters from all parts of South Cafolina, received by Governor Orr, exhibit terrible state of suffering from starvation.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
Trustees Sale.

DY Virtue of certain deed of trust cxecu- ID ted to me by William E. Sanders, to sc cure eertain debts therein mentioned, which deed of trust has been duly acknowledged and recorded, in Record Book ,, Pages ls3 and lsi, will as Trustee, on Saturday, the lst --' of I.ia ,ss7 sAm ss.f eas..., to the hiohssi bidder, within the legal hours for sales, at tue residence of W. D. Sanders. in Center Town shlp. in Prairie County, thu property conveyed in said Trust. ta-wit; ! llQrse I Yoke QCO4en, | Stngle QN; aCQws md Calves; l Heller and 2s Head 0fst0ck Hogs. The title ia tho above property is helieyed ts Ae good, but l will eenvey as Trustee 9aly,
 WILLIE NICHOLS, Trustee.
 may'i. 1867 il.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

S-Hcnry $. Footc drew the fol- lowing sombrc sketch of himself in a late speech he delivered in St. Louis: "A poor unpardoncd rebel, humbled in spirit, and paral yzcd in all my cncr- gics, disffanoliscd, revilcd and disrc- garaed by tliuusantfs who once pro- fcssed to love and 10 respect me, for lorn Pariah in my native land"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
NOTICE

IFS hereby given that will apply at tue next | term of the Probate Court of Prairiecoun- ty. court to be begun and holden on the Sti day of July next, for an order to sell the fol lowing real estate, belonging to the cstute of Thomas B. Turner, deceased, for the purpose of paving the debts of said estate, to-wit :-- The SEE ofN and \ l of s W ! and NV of s E Sec. D N s West. The W l of N E-l snd N F of $ W I Sec. p < West, and the W l of s F Sec. 2i < West also. Lots 2 and in Block ID i'll the town of Brownsville,
 WI. T. JONES. my 2s, 1sG7-lt.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years A from Nervous Debility, Premature De- cay, and all the effects of youthful indiscretion, will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send free to all who need it, the recipe and direc- tions for making the simple remedy by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing ts profit by the advertisers experience, can do so by ad- dressing, in perfect confidence,
 JOHN E. OGDEN, F Cedar Street,
 mayll-ly New York.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
DISSOLUTION.

7NHE copartnership heretofore existing un- l. der the firm style of IsAAc WIcKgRsnAM X Co.,, was-this day dissolved by mutual con sent. Mir. Isaac Wickersham becomes sole proprietor, and assumes all liabilities of said firm. ISAAC WICKERSHAM
 JAMES T. BAILEY.
 JAMES WICKERSHAM. \ Cotton Plant, Ark, April l6. S67.-mayll-
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
NOTICE.

NOTECE. |NNRE partnership heretofore existing be- VI tween Dr. ,DJ. L,xE and Dr. J. ". BrR- NgY, was, on the i.l, day of April. 1SG7, dis solved, by the death of Dr. J. J. LANE. All persons indebted to said firm, will please come forward and settle; md all having clams against the firm, will present ,hcn for settlement to
 J. W. BURNEY. Surviving Partner,
 of the firm of LANE & BrRNgY. Des Arc, Ark. April 20 lS6T.-1m
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
DISSOLUTION.

DISSOLUTION.
 TIyIIE copartnership heretofore existing be- Il tween D. E. JOHNSON and A. F. NELSON. is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and D. E. Johnson will settle up the business of the firm. D. E. JOHNSON. A. F. NELSON Hickory Pla.n, May 18th, ls67-mayls-4t
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-05-25

BAD CRop PRosrEcT--The Jackson Clarion of Thursday has the following ar
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
TotaI""-..................~... IS
Loss By Portland Fire. July 4ih.

FTHE total amount covered By the Nina Poll
cies on property destroyed or damaged is
S206, on which salvage viii be about five
per cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from S200, 900, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is five per cent. upon the Com
pany's assets. n figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year,
or proportion equal to a 5,O00 loss for COM
pany Of 100000 assets.
The necessity for insurance and the value Of
wealthy, strong corporations is forcibly IL
Illustrated by this fire. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population Of 25.0O0-Was handsomely built
mostly fine brick or stone neutrality-suspicious.
and screened with onward of 8, 900 shade trees
bounded on three sides by water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean--aRd
with q steam fire dopartment-yet 1t has &c.
OOO,OO0 Of property consumed in few hours
upon a holiday when its people are least oceu-
pied-from tho very insignificant cause Of q
contemplate 1recracksr.
Remember the trifing origin of fires that
sweep away in few hours the earnings OF
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Atna Agent a call IL you need proper insrr-
nnce security. Pay fair rate Of premium tof
2 good and genuine article, and with these
lights and experiences before you, procure
your insurance with shreWd judgment
Applications for insurance promptly Attended
10 BY II. A. LITTLETON q CO., Ag'b.
No p Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
Successors to DR.. s. N. WHEATON.

NTEARE PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS
w for every description Of Fruit, Flowers,
and Ornamental Trees, Grape and Strawberry
Vines and Hot House Plants, Roses, etc, etc.
Our stock Is made up Of the best selections
which can be gotten up. in Europe or America.
We solicit correspondence from al who pur-
chase trees in large or small quantities, or any
who wish 70 ado m their places with choice and
rare Flowers an d Shrubs
h5- Fist-class Landscape Gardener.
Flowers for bouquets andWreaths always on
hand.
As- Descriptive Catalogues, with prices and
all necessary information, will be furnished by
applying personally or by letter n
b7-l24 JOHN TRENT 4 co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
- The Illinois lState Reqister say

The negroes in the constitutional con
vention in Alabama have proposition
before them to exclude forever hereafter
frou, the privilege ofvoting all who do
not vote for the constitution they make,
The Radicals isdorse the proceeding.
So the negro business amounts to this
in Virginia the negroes are arming them
selves and organizing mobs to assassinate
all who voted the Conservative ticket at
the recent election, and in Alabama an
organized negro mob proposes to deprive
fl8 white men of the privilege Of voting
unless they will vote the Radical ticket
Verify, the Radical niggers and the
niger Radicals are having good time
Oh of it Before they get through with their
programme, it is not at all unlikely that
white fellows viii have something to say
about IL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
TICKETS s5 EACH.

May be had Of or ordered through any Of the
Company's agents, at the Central Agency,
Memphis, Tenn, or of Col. james Strain, Her
nando, Miss.
Stockholders. Directors and Officers of the
Company are prohibited from purchasing or
holding tickets in any Of the drawings. The
Company is simply the media for the purchase
and sale of real estate between property holders
and the general nuhlio
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27

Berthe Hon. Robert Lowe, in his re.
cent address at Edinburg, on education,
stated that the learning of Latin and
Greek was no joke, but that it is joke
compared with learning Greek and Latin
grammar. Language is one thing and
grammar another, and Mr.. Lowe agrees
with the German wit Heine, who said /:
How fortunate the Romans were that
they had not to learn Latin grammar,
because, if they had done so, they never
would have had time to conquer the
world"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
e@ Steel rails are growing ia pop

E3r Steel rails are growing 10 popu'
lariiy on our American railways. Seve-
raj roads now have them on their lines,
and it is now stated that the Boston and
Providence railway is laying them on
several parts of its line, and has adopted
the principle of laying steel rails as fast
as the iron ones wear out and have 10
be replaced. In one place, at Roxbury,
where steel rails have been in use up
wards of year, one hundred and twenty
trains or locomotives pass over them
daily, and as yet there is no perceptible
wearing away. Iron rails had to be re-
laid seventeen times year at the same
place.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
THE MErEoRs.

Htf. AAh MhAAbAos
WRITTEN NPRoNPTU BETWEEN AND A. n.
gtUtr SovHSaER "a, 1861
Yea the astronomers were right,
--rnI. t.t From three am. TN five,
f We saw thousand spheres Of light
Aihwart the concaVe drive.
trN They sprane from Leo. hight on hight
. As from astral hive.
Pais green and yellow. white and red,
The SHE ne racers hew
Cast ne w-iri shadows as they fed.
atr .r.. aud lighting all tne blue;
t. II But reader 70 what goal they sped
DO not knoW-do youy
Philosophers their comirg told.
Bat knew not whence they came,
No. ifther r.a, and green, and gold.
Wcrcrcdex light or fiame.
No natter since We were not sold.
To rs lis all the same.
Many had trains and some had not,
Just like our womankind
Sane Travelled az Dexter trot,
500 swifter than the wind,
Ard several burst like hollow shot,
Bat len no chips behind.
1t seemed grand game Of croquet
Il Heavens ccrulean halls;
Such as tho angel no & might play,
Witl blazing stars for balls.
Mhoe er struck them, must say,
rwEr With yigor piled the malls.
They've gone on their celestial beat
Again. for threescore years
When their pop Visi. they repeat
/, with close eyes and ears,
Shall slumber where al pathways meet
That q r this vale oftears.
ButWhile my mortal substance frail
ROis at the common glal.
Further than any eyes at Yale
Viii see sentient soul,
H.tt Here, on the DARK side Of the veil.
What's Wisdom but moleY
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27

H@r Turkey is going into the gunboat
business, and is getting some built in
England. She has had one recently
launched at Glasgow. The vessel is one
thousand tons burden, is very fast--goiug
twenty-one miles per hour on her trial
trip-and is armed with FIVE Armstrong
pung.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27

DsS- The Pope, it is said, would, in a
pecuniary point of view, make nice
financial operation by allowing the King
of Italy to appropriate his kingdom.
The Roman States owe debt of 1872, =
100000, and the ordinary revenue
scarcely pavs the interest on III debt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
TITUS 81 CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
No. 10 Jefferson st.. Memphis, Tenn.

WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT a
w share of the business Of the planters OF
the South. We thank our former customers
have them continue business with us. Our
charges are the same as heretofore. All cotton
CONSIGNED to US will be insured, unless other
visa in structad ~ W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27


7NHE FIRST DRAWING, WHICH TOOK
with unusual success. whom II Is remembered
that but few weeks elapsed from the incep-
ton OF the enterprise to that event, $l7,OOO
worth of tickets having been sold. like
amount of property was drawn for, under the
supervision of gentlemen selected by the ticket
holders present: The utmost harmony ana
will be seen from the subjoinod certificate Of
the Managers, the affair was conducted TO a
close In a most gratifying and satisfactory man
ner;
HERxANDo, MISS, June is, 1867.
We hereby certify that the above report Of
tho first drawing Of the Southern Asylum is
correct, and that the proceedings were charac-
terizcd by a spirit Of fairness and business un-
surpassed by any drawing Of which we have
any knowledge. The Managers of the Compa-
ny PLACED tho tickets and wheels under our
sole management and control.
ISiglsdI
j. d Morgan,
Robert Temple,
v. A. Merriwether. Committoe.
w. w. Campton,
NJ. Mageveney,
John Ainslie,
~ ]. M. HALL. Clerk.
The prizes drawn on this occasion numbered
forty-seven, and comprised lots in the vicinity
Of Memphis, Tenn, Corinth, Miss, and Her
nando, Miss. deeds TO which have been made
to the lucky ticket-holders. For this. the sec
ond drawing. however, we arc able TO offer our
patrons still more attractive inducements to
interest themselves in our scheme. From a
lengthy list of property, much Of which has
already been advertised, we select our
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-27
RETAIL PRICE ~ 90 EACH, AND INVARIABLY CASH
j. "A. CAMERON 81 co.,
1921 Main Street, Memphis Tenn agents for the United States
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