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Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

no response from within fell upon his listening ear. Then he gavre a loude rap, and applying his lips to the key hole, whispered shrilly: .''Marier, open the door to your JosierD Still no re- ply. He turned the handle, and the door being unlocked, it opened readily.
 He advanced one foot inside,ga Q look of fbewilderment, and then rushing back into the cabin in a state of frenzy, he screamed: "Stop the boat! She's gone! overheard, amay be! Captain Mr. Clerk Where's my Matier? Has she drowned herself? Why didn't l get two rooms? Oh, dear, tell the pilot to stop her; give inc back my Marierp p' By this time Capt. Oakes, backed by his clerks, Regnicr and Ross, and rein forced by the. passengers generally, was on the spot. .e5s iglsI
 "What the deticc is the matter ?'' said the Captain. ii .3it v
 "Oh, Captin!' said the distracted bride groom, tearing up and down the cabin, :'she always was timid gal--' afraid of gettin' married--gone crazy and jumped oyerboard--why DIDN'T get two rooms? On dear!"
 He then pointed at the state-rooin in which he had expected to find his "Mar- fer"
 "Why, it's etiipty," said the captain. said jusier, tearing his hair ''and don't you sec the outdoors open? She went crazy, tell ye, and jumped overheard" Then falling upon the captains neck, he screeched. rH a6
 ''Oh, give me back my Marierl"
 At this moment q state-room door adjoining opened, and there was a glimpse of a snowy night-cap, while a low, sweet voice said: ,
 'Jusier, you're fool; what .aie you tcarin' round at that rate for? Have you been drinkin'?" .ai
 Josior gave yell of astonishment and delight, and put himself inside of that state-room door in twinkling. He had made mistake of the number of his state-room, that's all Marier hadn't gone crazy, and she hadn't jump ed overheard.
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

BThe New York Hearld says the question of the status of the Southern States lately in rebellion Is about to come before the United States Supreme Court for decision. A man named Jor- dan was recently brought before the Federal District court, sittin9'in Mont gomery, Alabama, on charge of felony, and having been found guilty, was sen- fenced by Judge Busteed to twenty-one ne years Imprisonment. His counsel have determined to apply to the Supreme Court for writ of HABEAs CORPUS, on the ground that Alabama is nota State, but territory, and as such Judge Bus teed s Districts court hadno legal status. The matter will thus be brought fairly and squarely before the learned judges of our highest judicial tribunal and if they will meet the question openly and render plain decision, we may expect a solution of what is now very com plicated political subject.
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
"Gop BLESS rot sIk."-Collectcd il

"(I0D BLESS YOU SIR. R.-Collectcu III one of the principle hotels of this city, a few nights since, were a dozen of more gentlemen. Among them were "U. s. officers in blue, and several late ''rebels' and Confederates, who had swapped theirsuits of gray for sohe- thing more mottled, which suggested the old North State. A female, whose features wan and pinched, and pale, comported we'll with her thin garments and nscahty shawl, entered the sitting room. Above the tobacco smoke wreathed a rainbow about her bowed and chastened head, and around her the voices of men arose in careless chorus, A close attendant at her side was small, pale boy of six or seven years, whose bearing and garments dis closed at once the struggle between pride and poverty.
 "Please, sir" said the woman, pre- senting aismall documentto gentle man, tread this.' The gentleman took the paper, pansing in the puff of his cigar, and carelessly with the air of a man who has something else to think about, replied, "I've nothing for you, madam" Alas for stifled charity, the man didn't read it.! It was the story of a husbands heroism; how, strug- gling up the heights.gof Malvern Hill, struck and fallen, afiao lost in the battle charge and smoke, he died and was buried in the common graves of thousands.
 Slowly, sorrowfully, and almost tear fully, the woman passed the round of that heartless coterie of guarrulous, noisy men, and was met with the same response, ''woman, l have nothing for you." i'aar
 Atlast, when hope dispairing, shut its outstreatched wings, the widow approached the seat of 8 gentleman, whose garments betrayed him as one who had fought and suffered for the great principle, now lost, lost and bur jed. Calmly his eye ran over the docu- ment slowly, and without ostentatious show or flourish, his hand descended into the depths of his pocket, and the kiud words came right up from his Southern heart. Here,, take that. It is all can spare" It was five dollar bill! The woman astounded, kept the
 
 cry of gratitude shut up in her heart, but her lips quiyerings uttered the al- most incohernt " orGs-"God bless you, sir" and the hotel door closed harshly with clahg, upon the heels of the wid- ow and fathcrless boy. 7
 "God bless you, sir!" We woiild not give the worth of that expression for all the dross of gold that this world af- lords. God bless you, sir!" We would rather take that than a checl, for one thousand dollars on the Ex-Nation- al Bank, ,-"God bless you, sir!" We hear it sounding nows and like all un- seen hand. that, blessed, nnbeknown, the blessing invoked swiflrest upon the head of that un.n.nown man; even at that hour when death cones, ana eter- nity bursts npon the spirit view, Will be heard that yoiee-="God. bless you Norfolk Virginian. sA ai s 9t
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
Proverbs of Josh Billings.

'Humin natur is the saiife all over the world, 'cept ill New England, and thar it is according to circumstances
 Rum is good in it's place, and, hell is the placG for it.,,.@...ls4 3i1i' f7f 1fff~n had a boy who didn't lie quite gMcll enuff to sutc me, would set him to tending q retale dry goods stofe.' SWheh Q feller gets a goin downihill, itdtis seem as tho everything had been greased for tlle okashun.'
 a- He who kan ware q shtirt 8 hole week and keep it klean, ain't fit fer ennything else Eas4 13 ot Ta
 I never knu fool who hadn't a good voice.
 Thieves hunt in couples, but a.liar has no accomplice.' .u
 There iz multitudes of folks who mean well enuG, but how like the devil they act ors oi so 4 Give the devil his due, reads well enua@ in proverb, but mi friend, what Jill be cum uy me and you if this ar- rancement is; carried out? r
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

Under the title of'Our Platform,' the Nashville Gazette keeps the follow ing article, italicised and double leaded, at the head of its columns ;4o9 Ge
 "Let the Southern people be sure 10 produce, as they easily can, an abundant supply ofprovisions, manufacture their own timber and iron into all the impli- ments they need, spin and weave all the cotton they consume, and let only the surplus ofthe staple, if any pass over to Lowell and Manchester, to be paid for in hard cash.-Let them do whatever may be necessary to secure free repub- lican State government, and steadily refuse, by any debasing appliances, to purchase the privilege of enjoying their Constitutional rights in the Federal Uuion. So employed, let them man. fully meet whatever destiny may be in 4hn rcsscssscn Of their e thrsr cTu
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
Our Job Printing Department

We have supplied ourselves with good assortment of Printing Material and are ready to execute all kinds of Job Printing, on reasonable terms.
 We are prepared to print Pamphlets, Cata- logues, Posters, large or small, Cards, Ball Tickets, Bill Heads, Blanks of every descrip- tion, for Clerks, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constables, Sc.
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
Diabolical Attempt to Destroy Life
 and Property.

Special Dispatch to the Missouri Democrat
 ST. JOSEPH, January "A diabolical attempt, which would have resulted in a terrible destruction to life and prop crtv, was discovered and arrested last night. A brick building on Third and Edmond streets owned by J. Demond, and the corner store is occupied by him as a drug store. The next door is oc- cupied by Isaac Rosenthal & Co.,, as a clothing store. Demond occupies the rooms above both stores as residence. That night, at late hour, Mrs. Demona smelt something burning, and pre- vailed upon her husband to go and see whatit was. Soon convinced that there was fire in the clothing store, he broke down the door and entered. He found a pile of cotton burning, under one side of which lay fuse, which led into a keg of powder. Comprehending the danger, he seized the fuse and removed the burning cotton beyond reach. The fire had just reached the end of the fuse as he seized it. One moment later and the explosion would have occurred. Not only were the lives of his own family in peril, but also the lives of other families in the adjoining build- ings. On suspicion of being partners in the attempt, Isaac Rosenthal and Samuel Levi have been arrested and will have an examination tomorrow. Two others under suspicion ire yet a'
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

2
 ssg~ "A boy once complained of hic brother for taking half the bed. "And why not?" said his mother; ''he is en- titled to half, is he not ?" .'Yes, ma," said boy, "but how should You like to have him take all the soft for his half. He will have his half out of the middle and have. to sleep on both sides of him." sita eea
 geg A person who was recently called into court for the purpose: of proving the correctness of doctor's bill, was asked by the lawyer whether "thc doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger
 No" replied the witness, q consid- cred hepatient ill danger as long as the doctor continued his visits"
 I1y- Of q truth, there can be no ,aeaner type of human selfshness than that afforded by him who, unmindful of the world of sin and suffering about him, occupies himself in the pitiable ulSlhcsS Oi sdFliiS iiis ON ooui III tiic very spirit of the miser, watching oyer his own private hoard while his neigh bors starvc for the lack of bread.
 B@ga A story is told of a Newbury- port voter, at the last municipal elec- ton, who received dollar to vote a certain ticket. Being slightly fuddled, he dropped the greenback into the bal lot-box, and crowding the ticket into his pocket, started off with the iInpres- sion that he would 'go and take some thing"
 SIZES of NAILs.-Why are nails des- ignated by the terms sixpenny, eight penny, &c. :? In Sheffield, England, they used to be sold ill small quantities by the hundred, aud the terms fourpcn- ny, sixpenny, &cs referred to such nails as were sold at fottrpeitce, six peace, &c., per hundred nails. The length of the nails of that day, that were so designated, was exactly the same with the nails that arc fl5w
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
Significance of Hair,

Hair parting naturally in the middle and falling over the temple, as 1t gene rally does in women, and sometimes in men, indicates the feminine element 1; in man symmetry and beauty of soul genius of certain kind which inn plies the feeling of the woman com-. bined with the thought of the man. It is a very common characteristic among poets and artists, as seen ill Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Dante, Raphael, Titan, Handel, Mozart, Tasso, Chaucer, Keats, Burns, Hoffman, Longfellow and. others. Inpictures of Christ, aud in other exalted, highly re- fined and beautiful characters, this characteristic is always introduced by the artist.
 Sometimes the hair, on rising from it's bulbs, turns in irregular rings on the forehead, giving an open air to the physiognomy. This indicates good na- ture, as well as exuberant vitality. Crinkled and wavy, and close curling hair indicates vivacity and exeitability, if not brilliancy. ... -....,..-..
 Regular curls symbolize ideality, and when only part of the hair is worn in curls the curls are instinctively disposed over the organ of that faculty. Straight hair may be said to indicate in culti- Vated persons, evenness of character and a straightforward honesty of pur- pose, as well as clear head and good natural talents.
 The darker the hair the more robust the body, as a general rule, and the coarser the skin and tissues ofthe body 1; but sometimes the hair and skin are at the same time dark and fine.
 The dark haired races are physically the strongest, but less endowed intel lectualy than the fair-haired. The first active exercise, and the last to mental exertion. The dark races are workers, the light races thinkers, poets, artists, etc.
 Black hair indicates strength and predominance of the bilious tempera ment, as in the Spaniard, the Malay, the Mexican, the Indian, and the negro. Red hair is sign of ardor, passion, in- density of feeling, aud purity of charac- ter, and goes with the sanguine tenn perament, as in the Scotch, the Irish, the Swede, the Dane, Sc. Auburn hair is found most frequently in con- nection with the lymphatic tempera- ment, and indicates delicacy and refine ment of taste, and if the mind be culti- vated, fine moral and intellectual pow CT. It is common among the Germans, the Danes, and Anglo-Saxons. Dark brown hair combines the strength of the black, with the exquisite suscepti- biIities of the light ha4r, and is, perhaps, all things considered, the most desira- ble. Y.sa.er. ....
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
Advertisers by the year will be restricted

Advertisers by the year will be restricted to their legitimate business. j 3 s baY Personal communications charged double the rates of regular advertisements.
 Legal advertisements will be charged, for one square or less, first insertion Sl, and 70 cents per square for each additional insertion
 Advertisements not ordered for specified time. will be inserted till forbidden, and charged for accordingly.
 All advertising due after second insertion.
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
An Extraordinary Elopement.

The Fifeshire (Seotland) Advertiser reports an elopement of the eldest son in one of the first families of Fifeshire with his fathers cook. The young gentleman had been reared with the greatest care, and had only returned from Eton last year with high academic honors. He was destined by his father as the husband of young and beauti- ful heiress, to whom he had even paid his addresses. The bride, who is a buxom brunette, is by some years older than the bridegroom, and has been in the family for a considerable period. It was disco~ered that they had departed for Montrosc, wh;ther the father of the hero followed, but only to find them slum berine in each others arms. So enraged was the old gentleman that, forgetting all delicacy, he was about to eject her from the bed d-room, when sne collared her quondam master, and hurled him headlong from the apart ment. The runaway, son endeavored to explain and paciiy his insulted pa rent, when the lady seized her husband, and conveying him almost VI EFT ARMS back to the bedroom, locked the door. The young gentlemen is entitled to considerable property in his own right, The pair are holding the honcymoo now at Cheltenham. m htg
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

OUToF SEAsoN.--A day or two since two ladies from the country on shop ping excursion to the city dropped into hardware store where agricultu- ral implements are sold. They had read John's advertisements, and there fore innocently inquired for CRADLES. The storekeeper said it was rather late in the season for the article, and he had sold all he had purchased. The ladies looked at each other wonderingly, and Whispered, laughingly, when one turn Ing to the blushing John remarked:
 Out of season 1 thought babies were always in season!"
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
An 0minous Prediction.

The late Lord Macaulay, in May, 1857 wrote letter to H. L. Randall, of New York, in which he expresses his earnest convictions in relation to- the future ot the United States. He said: a f5
 Itis quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain dis tressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the gov eminent, and has the rich, who are al- ways minority, absolutely at its mer- cy' sssg sI.... 7.-
 l seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season as have described, do things which will prevent prosperi- ty from returning; that you will act like a people who should, in year of scarcity, devour all the seed corn, and thus make the next year a year not of scarcity, but of absolute famine.
 There will be, I fear, spoliatioh. The spoliation will increase the distress. The distress will produce fresh spolia- tion. There is nothing to stop you. Your constitution is all sail and no an- chor. As said before when society has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty must per- ish. Either Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century, as the Roman empire was in the fifth, with this differences That the Huns and Vandals, who rayaged the Roman empire, came from without, and that your Euns and Vandals, will have been engendered within your owii country by your own institution.
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19

ssy~ Anna Dickinson is featuring on me subject of something to do.'-Ex- change.
 We suggest for her next subject, .Nothlng to say'-prncticelly ;llustrs-
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
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r, arEs OF ADVERTISING.

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Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
JOHNSON & IS, Wholesale $ Retail DRU GIG SITS,
 DIES ARC, ARKANSAS.

r EEP on hand a large assortment of Drugs,
 IN Medicines, Paints, Oils, Perfumery, Patent Medicines, Wines. Brsndies. whiskey, for medical purposes, which we will sell low for cash. Prescriptions and orders filled promptly. july2l-tf
Des Arc citizen., 1867-01-19
FREE TO EVERYBODY!

A LARGE 6 PIP. Catalogue, teaching how to
 A remove Tan, Freckles, Pimples, Blotchcs, Moth Patches. Sallowness, Eruptions and all impurities of the skin How to force Whis- kers, restore, curl and beautify the hair; re- new the age, cure Drunkenness, Nervous De- blity, and other useful and valuable informa- tion. Everybody sendfor it. Address, BER- GER SHETspS G. fNn Chemists 9SS Riv~-
Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-03
OUR OWN STATE.

The Monticello Express SAYS tia, travel OIL
the D. L S. W. R. R. has increased to suel
an extent tha, another passenger coach ha
been added to each train.-Non.ieello il
going TO incorporate.-A Protestant Epis
copal Church was organized at Monticello
on the 23d inst.
The drawing Of tie McGregor gift enter
prise has been postp ned until the 18th Of
JULY. The real estate offered as prizes has
been placed in the hands Of disiaterested
parties. SO that ticket holders may feel as
sured of fir play. So say French / Gil
thorn in the McGregor Neics.
A new Methodist Church will be eomplet
ed at Waver.y this year. So says the
PaGnir.
The survey for the proposed railroad be
tween Cedar Rapids and Burlington has been
completed as we learn from the Harkeye,
and pronounced favorable.
The wife of Mr.. C. A. Durham. the archi-
ect of the Agricultural College Building,
attempted TO commit suicide. a few days
since, by taking strychnine, in temporary
ct Of insanity. Medical attendance was Sc
cured in time to save her life. So says the
HaWke,e.
The Lyons 4drocate complains that their
detective force are in leagre with horse
thieves, robbers, &c.
The foriieth anniversary Of the Odd Fell
lows Of TIE U. S. was celebrated by the fra
ternity in Dubuque with imposing ceremo>
MES. The Grafton Of the occasion was de-
liyered by Rev. J. $. Dennis. Grand Master
Rupert conducted the ceremonies.
The yiuton Eagle urges the nomination
Of Hon. Charles Ii. Conklin, Of Ninion, for
Judge Of the Supreme Court.
SAYS State exchange, can it be possible
that the "a fierce democracie" Of Iowa pro-
pose to let the question of negro suffrage in
our State go by default Is the sick man
so far gone tina, the ancient war cry =" De
You want niger to voter will not galyaD-
ize him into spasmodic kick ? II would
seem so by the following from the Davenport
Democrat, one Of the ablest Democratic
journals in the State. Speaking Of the
question of negro suffrage, j, says:
Be this doctrine Of whatever political
stripe it may--it is the doctrine Of the masses
lit is being adopted in the South BY those
who were the most determined In their apes
tacy as rebels--it will be ere long the indis-
putable doctrine Of the country.
So believing, we certainly do rot believe
that the negro suffrage question in Iowa can
possibly ever amount 10 an issue-csrtainly
such an issue viii not lie accepted in Scott
county-unless We are greatly mistaken in
the tone and disposition Of the whole people
thereof
Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The commission for revising the laws OF
the United States find, as they proceed, that
fully three-fourths Of the laws as nov pub
lished are either absolutely repealed by sub
segment enactment or conflicting in their
terms.
Secretary Browning is reported quite ii.
though not seriously 50.
notwithstanding the announcement 10
court Of apparently fixing an early DAY for
the trial Of Surraif, there is considerable
doubt whether the case ~il come TO trial 1t
the time named.
Leaders in the new conservative party 10
Louisiana are making strong attempt to in
duce the President TO remove General Sheri-
place, and johnson is seriously contempls-
ting the policy Of the change.
Volts News Agency reports tha, King
Leopold, of Belgium, takes TO the Emperor
Napoleon new plan Of peace which has
been proposed by Russia, and which provides
for the naturalization Of Luxemburg.
For the month ending on Tuesday, May
II, BAL patents will be isued from the pat
ent Office. During the past week about
565 applications and Is caveats have been
filed.
Ii Massachusetts, liquor cases in the su-
preme court of the United States on appeal
one oflthe main questions at issue was Does
the payment Of tax to the United States
by person upon The liquors kept and soil
BY him authorize him 70 keep these for sale,
or sell them, contrary 10 the laws Of Masss-
chustts? The opinion Of the court, which
was read by Chief Justice Chase, affirmed
the decision Of the lower court and declared
that government license afforded no such
protection to dealers that it could not au-
thorize him 10 sell liquor in violation Of q
state or municipal law.
An effort will lie made in court which
meets at Richmond next Monday, to get the
trial of JEFF. Davis begun or have him bailed
out. 1t ia believed that both motions will be
opposed and overruled.
Advices from Mexico state that Maxi.
MILAN has sent commissioners to President
Juarez, to arrange terms Of capitalization.
Head Centre Stephens il really in Paris,
and il is charged that he is in occult connec-
ton with the English Embassy.
The losses occasioned BY the great over.
aow Of the Missouri river bottom estimated
1t over 12O,O0O,O00. The food u last ac>
counts still continued.