Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-11-23
The Beginning of the End.

ture 0f the c0nu1tlon or aHalrS III tne Southern Provinces. The facts which it details are but the symptoms of the malignant and canserous disease that has fastened upon the very vitals of the country. fhn sse Every mail and every days tclegraph- ic dispatches come to us now laden with accounts of disturbances of the public peace by armed negroes in the South, often requiring to be suppressed by military interference and filled with painful and soul-harrowing des- criptions of crimes and outrages perpe- trated by negroes upon the disarmed and defenceless white people of the Southern States. We read not only of the basest and most infamous frauds in registration, and in elections in the South under the direction or by the contrivance ofRadical emissaries,a agents of the Freedmcn's Bureau, and reckless subordinates of the military satraps !; but of riots and mobs in which armed negroes assail and hunt down white men for expressing sentiments adverse to negro supremacy, inoffensive ne- groes for daring to refuse to obey the mandates of the Radical Union Leagues; of revolting outrages by ne- gro fiends upon defenceless white women and children; of the appear ance at the polls of gangs of negroes, armed with United States muskets and provided with United States am- intuition for them, menacing with in- stant death all who oppose them in the elections; of secret midnight meetings of armed negroes, by which whole neighborhoods are subjected to martial law and terrorized into submission; of the forcible occupation by negro colo nies of lands adjudgcd even by the Freedmen's Bureau to belong to white men and the refusal of the tresspassers to submit to ejectment by any authori- ty whatever! of the organization ofne- gro vigilance committees even in cities of such magnitude as Richmond, and their proclamations of warning to re- spectable and responsible white citizens to leave the city within forty-eight hours for having expressed themselves in opposition to negro rule and Hunni- cutt depravity and inccndiarisn and hundreds of other items of insult, inju- ry, outrage, oppression, and open vio- tlence used towards white people in the South by negroes, protected, armed, aided, abetted, and stimulated by em- niissaries of Radicalism, employees of the Freedmen's Bureau, and subordi- nate of the military district comman- ders.
 The Richmond Enquirer gives the following account of the notices to quit" served on white citizens bya ne- gro vigilance committee:
 On Saturday morning Mir. A. Mon roe, who lives on Seventeenth street, found the following letter under his door: ss.a.gs g
 RICHMOND, VA, October %, 1867.
 We, the colored people of the city of Richmond, having formed avigilance committee, warn youto leave the city in forty eight hours after receiving this notice. We are aware of your hostile feelings towards Mir. Hunnicutt and his political party. Ifyour family choose to go with you, they can do so, or they can remain; we will not interfere with them. If you do not heed this warn ing you will have to abide by the con- sequences. After you have spoken of Mir. Hunnicutt as you have, we are fully determined that you shall leave the city at the time given you. 'i.a By order of the Committee.
 ns ..,..ob T. B. G., Secretary"
 Mir. Monroe is acitizen of Maine, but has been citizen fthis city for many years. We learn that Mir. Newdecker, a tobacconist, has received a similar let ter. His offence is having discharged some of his negro hands since the elec- ton.
 
 ADVERTISING AND CASH BusrNEss.- Merchants of every description who have. suffered from lossss which they incurred by too much credit in 1866, are now naturally anxious to do a cash business. In fact, ''pay down. is the dictate of safety and wisdom, because the financial and political affairs of the country are just in that shape where the thoughtful man feels the necessity of holding his resources in hand. Now it.is concession of all traders-even those who do not advertise, that the custom which they have heretofore ob- tained by advertising, has generally been from men with cash in hand, who bought freely at the lowest market rates. When merchants advertise ssgood bargains" it attracts the cash from the pockets of the community We are, therefore, correct in saying that nothing tends more to promote cash business than advertising.-[Wis- eonsin Mail. aai ai sstga es5
 - kirby Smith is teaching school in Tennessee" This highly important news item having appeared in nearly every secular paper in the United States within the last two months, it is time to start around the correction, which, of course will not make the circuit within the lives of the present gener- ation. Kirby Smith Is not teaching school in Tennessee that he knows of or in any other State. He lives near