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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1868-04-04

my observation, Let otue.. " N"s
many have and | feel confident that
the rich returns will bring them to q
like conviction.
Tie comparative merits of this, and
the ordinary mode Of culture, should
be tested by 40 experiment on cont,
guOuS portions Of the field, and a fail
statement Of the result be published
for the benefit of others.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1868-04-04

will re produced IL VIII thus be
seen that the mOde Of cultivation here
recommended is supported by analo~
Ey, whilst it is founded on reason and
sound philosophy
| take occasion just here, to i'm
press upon the mind Of the reader
the very great importance Of allowing
the lOose dirt to remain where it il
most needed, namely, equally difused
over the whole surface between the
rows Of corn, It is the custom with
many farmers to draw the dirt from
che middle Of the rows. aud pile it ia
large bills around the stalk. Nothing
can be more irrational and injurious
to the crop. The large roots coming
out above the surface to the earth af.
ford no nOuri'bpent to tho plant, but
serve only as braces TO preserve il
from falling. 1t Is the small 6brOus
thread like roots only which convey
che nOurishmenI to the corn, aud they
- every observing individual knows
ere found like network extending On.
tirely aeFsss the rows. II he sol
which FERNS their bed be renewed
F-"m it, proper position. they will b.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
Special Notice.

We wish to call the special attention of our friends to the advertisement headed HuR- LEy's AGuE ToNIo. This is the best remedy known for Chills, Fever and int ermittents in any form; now is the season for this dis tressing complaint. It has never been known to fail to effect cure, no matter of how long standing, if used by directions, where all other remedies have failed. It is purely veg etable. and no bad effects from over dosing need be feared-buy one bottleand get cured Also, Hurley's Worm Candy for children is the best and most pleasant known; any child will take it. Hurley's Bitters is the most pleasant as well as the purest and best now known or offered for sale; and for debility, loss of appetite, cannot be equaled. Also, for purifying the blood, nothing equals Dr. Hurley's Comp. Syrup of Sarsaparilla, this is the genuine extract of the root. Dr. Sea brooks Soothing Syrup for children is war ranted the best and safest remedy known, or the money refunded 25ets. per bottle. Also, his Elixir of Iron and Bark, especially for females it is one of the best Tonies known, and pleasant and easily taken; not like other remedies of the kind, it does not sicken or nauseate. If you need any of the above remedies try them, as we feel confident they will do all we claim for them they are gotten up by men of experience and good chemists, who know their business aud are reliable and honest.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
The Abolition of Slavery a Ei-
 natity.

Besides, slavery is dead and buried, and its grave has been filled up and it's epitaph written by the Southerners themselves. Every announcement they make on the subject is to that effect, the avowals in recent letter of Gov ernor Pickens, of South Carolina, be- ing precisely to the point. It is both absurd and silly for the Radicals to at tempt to infuse into the present cam paign the notion that the Democrats will restore slavery if they are success full An idea so preposterous should not no the entertained among intelh- gent people.--New York Herald.
 No such idea is entertained among intelligent people. It is only advanced to impose on the negro voters at the South, and the few white men at the North who can be imposed on ill the same way. If it were not physically impossible to find and collect the scat terered families of negroes, it would cost more than it would bring to reduce them again to orderly subjec- ton to their former masters after all the demoralizing influences of the past five years. As slaves they would be worse than worthless, and there could be no profitable re-establishment of slavery in this country except by re- opening the African slave trade and making fresh importation of the naked sort.
 But if all legal obstacles were remov- ed and the question of re-enslaving our black population were referred entirely to their former owners, we believe that majority of the latter would vote against it. A majority of them are hopclessly bankrupt, and restoration of their former slave property only in- ure to the benefit of their creditors. They all know that the cessation of the | African slave trade enabled this coun- try to outgrow the political power of slavery to such degree that no amount | of constitutional and legal protection, and no amount of courage and skill upon the part of it's defenders, could save it. They know that it's strength has been exhausted in the vain effort to sustain it, and they are not such thrice sodden fools as to think of restoring it to permanent life by galvanizing tue ! corpse. They have recognized and conceded in so many ways the freedom of their former slaves, that it is absurd to impute a different purpose to them. It is also true that large propor- ton of the Southern people who have always acted with the majority of theil
 section were never advocates of slavery
 per SC. They simply stood up for the constitutional rights of their neighbors and fellow citizens, and fought against
 the violent and revolutionary solution of tho slavery problem that was pro-
 posed and finally carried out by the Radicals. The desire to re-establish neoro slavery exists no more in the Sonth than it does in the North. 1t Is
 universally regarded in the South as a
 consummation neither more desirable
 nor more possible than to re-establish the sovereignty of George III. over this whole country. Slaveryis as dead as the first mastodon that was buried
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
RIVER NEWS, WEATHER, ETC

The weather is clear and pleasant, and quite favorable to cotton.
 River falling slowly, with easy navigation.
 The Commercial passed up Thursday and down Friday night, Capt. Edson command ing and Clay Rice in the office. Her clerk has our thanks for favors. The Liberty will take her place next week.
 The Des Arc made her first trip of the sea- son. coming up on Thursday and going down Friday night She was under the command of the popular and well known Capt. Jno. D. Elliott, with Jos. Elliott and Matt Glass in charge of the office. We return thanks for many favors.
 The May Flower passed up this morning and will be down this evening. The popular Capt. wm. Ashford was on the roof, with Charley Smithers in the otice They will acoept our thanks for papers.
 Capt J H. Duffer writes that he will put a new boat in the New Orleans and White river trade, in the latter part of this month.
 The ]. D. Perry will leave for New Orleans about tho 18th of this month.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
run tuV HHIVIt fVVuIuHs
 Mountain High!

When we speak of the public debt as being mountain high, we but faint ly present the reality.
 Let us illustrate: The highest moun- tain in the world is the peak of the Himalaya Mountains, in India, which reaches the altitude of 2S,l7S feet, or a little less than 5ls miles.
 The public debt of the United States according to the official statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, amount ed, on the first of the month, to the sum of S2,532, ,537, ,4S0. Now, let us, for illustration, suppose this debt to be one dollar bills, and piled up before us. Do you imagine it would reach "mountain high ?" Let us see:
 Allow one hundred notes to the inch, and we have it's night.
 to be. 25,236 ,344. ..... inches or. .........2 2,I02,945 ... .feetl! or. .. 700.9Sl. yards !! or 39Sl5 .. miles !! or if the notes were of the denomina- ton of S100 instead of S1, we should have pyramid of money reaching about four miles high! whilst the high est mountain peak in North America (Mount St. Elias, in Russian America), IS Dub It,JU itCl. UT IGSS ltitH iililto
 Still further: let us suppose the debt to be in silver instead of notes, and es- timating Sl6 to the pound, we have q weight of debt amounting to just l0I,- 720,905 pounds! or 9,S57 car loads Cat 16,00O pounds to the car), which would make a train of cars fifty-six miles in length, allowing but thirty feet to the carl!l
 We present these illustrations be- cause we would, if possible, arouse the people to an appreciation of the mag nitude of the monster mountain high and mountain weight of debt which is crushing the life out of struggling Republic.
 If the picture presented above is . pleasant one, you will sustain the 1sa15< ical party; for that organization promises not only to preserve this grand mountain of debt, but to add mile upon mile to its column as the months roll on. Last month the addi- ton was Sl3,900,000, or two miles in night, or Sl2,500 pounds in weight, or 50 car loads, making a train of 800 yards in length, according to the fore going estimates. The increased gran duer of this little mountain, one year hence-with Radicals still in power caE be estimated by multiplying the figures last above by twelve. Thanks to the good sense of the American peo- pie, however, they must turn over, on the 4th of March next, to the Demo- cracy. Then we shall, by rigid econo- my and honesty, dig down the noun tain, instead of piling it higher and higher.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
Vhe Election GE Seymour Con- Ceded at atxsas.aingfOn. Washington, Aug 28d, Correspondence New
 York Herald

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN-RADICAN PRosPEoTs NORTH AND SoUTH-All the advices received here recently from the South represent carpet-bagism as on it's death bed. With tho exception of Florida and South Carolina, all the Southern States are conceded as certain to go for Seymour and Blair. The Radical organizations in the reeonstruc- ted regions are dwindling away rap- idly, and deiection has reached their very stronghold with such alarming results that the carpet-bag heroes sec nothing but ruin ahead. They have discovered their great weakness in the very spot where they looked for an impregnable tower of strength. The negroes whom they relied upon as their right arm power have become dis gusted and proclaim that the white Radical is a greater enemy to them than the white rebels who were lately their masters. The most intelligent blacks, therefore, have determined to join hands with their old masters. and thus drive away the carpet-bag adyen- turers from the South to their native element. This rcpudiation of Radical ism by the colored citizen is overwhel- ming the Republican leaders of the South, and consequently they are be- gining to realize that they have been caught in their own trap. Several shrewd Republicans who have just re- turned from different parts of the South admit that Sambo has turned the tables upon them completely, aud that now their only hope of success is in the North. This last hope seems not to have firm hold of them neither, judg- ing by tho manner in which they write to their friends in this city. The cor respondence sent home from different States in the East and West by Radical stumpers and managers is of the most desponding character. They admit that Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio are lost to Grant and Colfax beyond redemption, and one of them declares that Illinois will go the same way, un- less the strongest efforts are made to save it. Logan's defeat as Congress- man at large from the State is spoken of as certain, but the electoral ticket, it is urged, may be carried by clever en- gineering. The most sanguine Repub- lican l have seen here from Colfax's State only figures up Republican majority of three thousand in Indiana. This Republican is one of the most shrewd and influential politicians in the State of Indiana. In fact, the im- prcssion is very general here now that Seymour and Blair will be elected by very decisive majority; not on ac- count of any great popularity of their own, but because the people of the country arc determined to have a change anyhow.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

A TREMENDOUS PERoRATIoN.--A Western stump-speaker thus scatters him. self around in answer to an opponent:
 :"Build worm fence around winters supply of summer weather; skim the clouds from the sky with teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt in bladder; break hurri- cane to harness; ground sluice an earth quake bake hell in an ice house; lasso an avalanche; pin diaper on the crater of an active volcano; hive all the stars in a nail keg; hang the ocean on grape vine to dry; put the sky to soak in gourd; un- buckle the belly-band of eternity and paste 'To let on the sun and moon, but never sir--never for a moment, sir, delude your self with the idea that any ticket of your party can beat ours"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

Having had indubitablc evidence of it's prompt and certain effects from the testimo- ny of multitude of respectable citizens, among whom are classed some of our best physicians, we do not hesitate to recommend this Preparation in all cases of Fever and Ague and Chills and Fever: indeed from the facts in our possession of it's intrinsic value, it would not be too much for us to state that when the directions arc strictly complied with, we warrant a cure in every case where it is tried It is pleasant to the taste, and
 the cheapest medicine in the world, There fore. in truth. it may be declared the day is not far distant when it must be appreciated
 and used in every household where Fever and
 Ague or Chlis and Fever is found to exist The wonderful operation of the Texas Ton ic Syrup in neutralizing the effects of mala- | rious poison in the human system, can only explain it's extraordinary agency in the
 speedy, thorough and permanent cure of Chills and Fever or Fever and Ague, and all their kindred diseases, in whatever form of
 Bilious Complaints they may make their ap- pearance.
 As it's name imports, it is Tonic of rare and medicinal virtues, composed of pure and harmless ingredients, and are so united as to form compound alike skillful in art beau tiful in appearance, and can be taken with safety to the most delicate. constitutions. It is the result of a lifetime of experience and practice in Southern climate, and was nev- CT known to fail, even where all othe reme- dies had been tried in vain.
 Those who are unacquainted with the ex traordinary properties of this home produc- Gon, manufactured from Roots and Plants indigenous to the soil of our ''sunny South, 1 land kenee adapted to the cure of Southern
 climatic diseases) are respectfully referred to the certificates of respectable citizens
 whose names are embraced in pamphlet
 which accompanies each bottle; also the en- 1 dorsements of the press in all the Southern ! States, indicating the many thousand cures
 already performed by our justly celebrated 1 Texas Tonic Syrup.
 The reports from hundreds of Druggists, Merchants and Dealers, from all parts of the country, are uniform in stating the medicine is safe, certain and reliable, as substitute for Quinine and the poisonous compounds
 heretofore generally sold, and is rapidly supplanting everything of this class. As home enterprise it especially com
 mends itself to the people of this section of the country, who are now struggling in an
 effort to do away with old prejudices in favor
 of foreign produce and may we not hope foreign 'Quack Nostrums," the proprietors
 of which. in most cases, are governed by mo- 1 thing but mercenary motives, know nothing
 of the properties of Medicinal Agents, and care nothing for our interests, except to en-
 tice our people into the use of their vile mixtures.
 The Texas Tonic Syrup is packed in cases of two dozen.
 Dealers supplied upon better terms than l any other remedy affords.
 MANSFIELD & HIGBEE, Druggists and Chemists, Sole Proprietors Memphis, Tenn.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
Freight and Passage Card Rate of the Memphis and White River
 INDEPENDENT PACKET,
Ig DIES ARC.
Leaving Memphis Every Thursday,
 Commencing September 3.

TvROM Memphis to Helena Delta, Friar' s I Point and all way Landings and mouth White river, per 100 pounds, 25c; dry bar rels. 50c; salt barrels, G0c; pork, T5c; whis- ky, $l molasses, Sl; corn, oats and bran, 5c.
 From Memphis to Indian Bay and all Way Landings, to Des Arc, Augusta, West Point and searcy per 100 pounds, 40c; dry barrels, 60c; salt barrels, 75c; pork, $l; whisky, Sl p; molasses, $1 50; corn, oats and bran, 30c, From Memphis to Jacksonport, per 100 pounds, 50c; dry barrels, 75c; salt barrels. Sl; pork, Sl 25 whisky, Sl 75; molasses, $l 75; corn, oats and bran, 40c.
 Passage from Memphis to Prairie Landing, Indian Bay, St. Charles, Crocketts Bluff, Mount Adams. Casco and Clarendon, SS; Little Rock, S15, Des Arc, SIP; West Point, Searcy and Augusta, SIS; Jackson port, Sl5. Cotton to Memphis, Sl 50 per bale.
 JOHN D. ELLIOTT, Master. LARRY HARMSTAD & CO.,, Agents, Star Wbarfboat, foot of Jefferson street, Memphis.
 sepl-
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

Hsg"The stock of dry goods, boots, shoes, and clothing, flour, bacon sides, hams, sugar, coffee, molasses, and fam cy groceries, castings and stoves, hard ware, furniture and sadlery now of ferred for sale by Stewart, Gwynnc < Co. is unequalled in the White river valley. Persons wishing to purchase Des Arc and examine their stock and prices.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

BTWe wish to call the attention of readers to the advertisement of George w. Wicks X Co. to be found in another column. They deal in bagging and rope, cotton yarn and manufactured tobacco, and do general commission business. Cad Hanks, so well known on White river, is with this house, and will be in this place in q few days. Everybody knows Cad, and those of our friends who want anything in the line of this house, should be prepared to give him their orders. Place of bus mess 102 Main street Louisville.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

TIE MISSISSIPPI DIARRHEA CORDIAL The verdict of the South has been unanimously accorded in favor of this great antagonist of cholera, cholera morbus, diarrhea and dysentery. It is harmless but effective for all this class of disease, and has never been known to fail Ye who pine upon the brink of the grave, hasten to try it's marvellous power. Mans field < Higbec, sole proprietors.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

Bas~ Parties wishing to purchase stoves, tinware, oils, lamps, and house furnishing goods should send their or ders to G. II. Blood & Co.,, 334 Main street, Memphis. They are reliable business gentlemen, and we warrant satisfaction to purchasers.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

in the mire of Big Bone Lick. The Radical party knows this as well as anybody, but has lived upon the slavery question so long that it is as unwilling to give it up as the giant was to give over his pursuit of Jack:
 Be he live, or be he dead,
 I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
 Louisville Courier.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

aa7- Persons going to Memphis should remember the Commercial Ho- tel, corner Jefferson and Front streets. This house is now undar the proprie- torship of the Allen brothers, and merits the public favor it enjoys. S2 50 per day.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

CENTRAL HoTEL.-The present pro- prietors of this hotel have recently furnished it with new carpets, furni- ture, etc., and made other changes nec- essarv to give it rank as first-class house. Any of our readers from this part of the country visiting Memphis will find our old friend Lindsay c. Lewis in the office.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

ESyAWe would call the attention of our readers to the card of Tom & Sam Henderson, cotton factors and com mission merchants, New Orleans. They are being represented in this part of the country by MT. w. II. Gee, who will be in town in few days.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

CorToN PLANTERs-Should prepare for gathering the crop, and we offer a little advice on that subject, which may prove beneficial. The season for chills and fever is now upon you at time when you need all the assistance you can get. If you will send and procure a few bottles Dromgoole < Co.'S King of Chills, it will save you much time and money. It arouses the torpid liver, cleans the stomach, opens the break up all forms of chills and fever, without affecting the head. It makes permanent cures. See advertisement.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
BLOODY FLUX or DYSENTERY,

Mucus Diarrhea, pains anl straining of the bowels, should not fail to use few doses of
 DromgocIe Co.'S Dysentery Compound And be cured.
 All Physicians of experience agree that Dysentery and Diarrh@a are treated differ ently, and our compound is SIE MEDICINE that will effect cure
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
Red Diarrhna Remedy

Far your family, so that you can give it when necessary. For infants at the breast, md the bowel complaint of children while teeth ing, it acts like a charm. All forms of Diar- rh1a, Cholera Morbus, nausea and vomiting cramps, pains in the stomach and bowels are immediately cured by it's use. USE RED DIARRHGA REMEDY.
 USE RED DIARRHGA REMEDY.
 USE RED DIARRHGA REMEDY. It is so pleasant, so cooling and so prompt, that all praise it.
 During the prevalence of Cholera in Mem phis last summer, it was extenrively used by the masses, and prescribed by many Physi- cians, with the happest results, for all the
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

BY THE USE OF THE MISSISSIPPI DIARRHGA CORDIAL, DIARRHGA, one of the most fatal diseases known in the Valley of the Missis- sippi, is rapidly and radically curea-henee it's name. It will, also, when taken accord ing to directions, most assuredly cure all cases of Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Collie, dys- cntery and all diseases of the Bowels.
 It is prescribed by the first Western and Southern physicians, and used in the hospi- tals of the country as a standard remedy
 THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS AND CITI- ZENS have been cured by the use of this Cordial; and it may properly be termed the GREAT MEDICINE OF THE SOUTH AND WEST.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

BspWe received the proceedings of the Prairie county Democratic Con vention, held at Devall's Bluff on the 5th inst, too late for publication.
 The following are the delegates ap- pointed to the District Convention, to be held at Augusta on the 16th inst. :: Maj. P. W. Crawford; alternate, J. H.. Fleming. Jas. $. Thomas; alternate, Dr. J. s. Williams and N. B. Gair. J. T. Blackwell and r. II. Wheat; alter mates, Dr. J. B. Bond and G. E. Hunt. Wm. T. Jones; alternates, B. c. Tot ten and Jno. w. Adams. Nathan Bird ; alternate, Hugh Ross.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

We would call the attention of our readers to the fact that they can exchange corn for meal at any time, at the Des Arc Mills.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER ON WHITE RIVER.

RSs~Beard's celebrated button ties for cotton, and the best article of hemp bsgging and rope offered at the lowest rates by Stewart, Gwynne < Co.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

RSy-Mr. R. T. Dotson will accept our thanks for late paper.
 Also Mrs. Geo. Walker, of white county, for some of the finest sweet potatoes we have seen this season.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

-The Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the will of Congress has succeeded in reducing the personal of the navy to s,500, the force it contained before the war
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

bkgWe regret that we have not the space to publish tloproccedings of the Democratic meeting at Cotton Plant. We never received them until yester- day.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-09-08

RegRead the advertisement of the Singer Manufacturing Co.,, to be found in another column. It will explain it. self.