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I% Inc May Term of the U. s. District
Court Tor the Western District of Arkansas
commences its session one week from ney,
Monday IN this city.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

cB"Corn is selling at $3.50 per sack or 1925
per bushel at Little Rock Here corn is sell
ing for 50 cents.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

t8 see the advertisement of White & Han
ley, Offering French Burrs " for sale.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
French Burrs,

LNOR SALE ono pair No. |, French Burrs.
Il B inches in diameter with Hoop Hopper,
Tr'nnal-hcad and lloistcrs-all complete.
Also, one pair CAST BEVIL WHEEL S.
large enough to drive two pair Mill Stones.
viii be sold low for cash. Enquire Of
WHITE d IIANIEY.
may lSGS If
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

t4- See the advertisement of the Memphis
ana ARKANSAS River l.. s. Mail Packet Co.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

-" Pride gocth before fall" and
many a waterfall.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

Pickles and Can Fruit.
4 TllOlCE assortment of Pickles, Fruits etc
. at l.. CRAFTS.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
DI q D.

In this city Of congestion of the heart on the
26th of April, Mr.. JoHN a. HARRISON.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
This line offers
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS

to passengers and shippers from the fact that in
the case of low water the light boats sent TO Tie
relief OF the larger ones, thus avoiding delay Ia
either freight passengers, all of which are trans.
ferred and delivered at their destination without
any additional charge.
The undersigned having run line Of boats sue.
ccssfully in this same trade for many years prcyi.
Gus to 1869, fctls confident Of his ability to meet
the wants Of the people and to do the business sat.
isfsctorily
JOHN ~. ADAMS,
Superintendent.
Otiice-kramcr, Miller Il Co.'S Building, little
Rock, Ark, ..... lymayl
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
EVERY THING

| \ the housekeeping line, can be found at
L l.. CRAFTS.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
Memphis and Arkansas River
U. S. 4 sss'.1.s NAIL.
EsssstzEtsa
Packet Company.

The CLEANER, CENTRALIA, CELEST, &
CALDWELL, will run between Memphis and
Little Rock-somctmes 60 through to Fort Smith.
One of them leaves Memphis promptly on Monday
and Thursday at o'clock p. m, arriving at Little
Rock, Sunday and Thursday mornings, making
direct connection with the OZARK, AMERICAN,
FORT SMITH, and VAN BUREN. for Fort
Smith, Fort Gibson and all intermediate point.
Returning, leave Fort Smith in time 10 connect
with the Memphis packets that leaves Little Rock
on Mondays and Thursdays, at 5oclock p. m.
This line connects regularly at Memphis with
the Memphis and st, Louis aud Memphis and Gin
clnnati packet companies, and at Napoleon with
the t. L; LEE and PARGOUD, regular New Or.
leans and Memphis packets.
The boats of this line are well suited to the trade.
and having enough of them for three trips
week will insure promptncss in
leaving on time.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

Soda Crackers s-ChOcOlatc,
CODA and other Crackers. An excellent
~ article of prepared Chocolate. at
L. CRAFTS
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ap3o-4t
THE STEWART COOKING STOVE

iTHhe undersigned offers this STOVE to the
l. public. the superior qualities of which have
been satisfactorily tested for 80 many years. with
the full assurance that its peculiar merits render
it the most complete and perfect cooking apparatus
now in use.
/ It's advantages which are all the requirements
of good Stove, are enumerated below:
IT'S DURABILITY.
It is so constructed that the parts liable to bt
burned out can be replaced, and the Stove thus
renovated Is rendered as perfect in its operation
as when first used, at but comparatively trihine
cost. tsi@'
IT'S ECONOMY IN FUEL.
The Stove is air-tight, and with other contri
vances appertaining to it, great degree of heat
is retained within the Stove; and thereby less
fuel is reqisteefo its various culinary purposes
THE DRAFT DAMPER
Is perfect regulator of the heat in the fire-boz
and oven, so that heat may be increased or model
ated, as the Occasion may require.
= IT'S yENTILATING PROPERTIES,
BY which different kinds of meat may be cook
ed in the oven simultaneously, without imparting
the peculiar flavor of one to the other; thus secu
ring the full benefits of the old; style OF cooking
by an open fireplace.
such as the HOT w AFTER RESERVOIR, fur
nishing hot water at all times, and the TIN
WARNING CLOSET, where articles ready fol
the table may be kept warm, bread set to rise
etc. etc. ''
EVERY STOVE FULLY GUARANTEED
Always on hand a large assortment of COOK
ING and HE ATING STOVES.
SAMUEL LOCKE,
Importer of Foreign and Domestic Hardware,
81, SO, Al and 43 Peters St, Qate Front Levee)
between Customhouse and Bienvile, New Orleans
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Agents Wanted for
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GROVER 4 BAKER

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The Agency IN New Orleans have fitted, up
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Economy and Home Industry.
SAVE YOUR RAGS.
Yhe ChickasabOgue
MA NUFA CTURING COMpANY

MAN OFACIUfCING COMPANY,
re now prepared to purchase Good Clean Cotton
aud Linen RAGS, in any quantity, and to pay
for them the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE, IN CASH
They have established . fine Depot at number
5l North Wfter street for the receipt and storage
OF Rags and Paper Stock of all sorts, under the
immediate charge of Capt. Thos. E. Baas, who is
authorized to pay liberal price for all Stock re-
quired tor the Company's Mills and brought to
him in suitable condition.
Rags may be either white, colored or mixed.
but they must be free from woolens, clean and
well handled
Dealers in paper stock in the city and interior
will find it to their advantage to communicate
with us before disposing OF their stock elsewhere
Newspapers will advance their own interests by
lending their influence to secure the saving and
collecting of all the Rags to be found in their re-
spective localities. We will credit them in ex-
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charitable Rags they may send
Rags sent by the Rivers and Great Northern
Railroad, should be addressed to the Company at
Mobile, Alabama.
All shipments by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
should be directed to Beaver Meadow Station, the
location of the Company's Works.
Ba~ For further information, apply at the Com
pany,s Depot, Number 81 North Water street, or
to the undersigned, in person. or by letter, at the
office of the Aduertiser y Register. t
w. G. CLAR K, President,
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General Schedule
OF ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS AT THE
NATCHIToCHRs PosT-oFFIcR.
ARRIVALS:
SUNpAYs-A1exandria and Shreveport, p. N.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Texas, P. NJ.
and Winfield, 6 p. u.
Observation-Disclosures and Shreveport, 4 p. NJ.
THURsD AYs--Nacogdoches PM; Winfield . P NJ.
FRIDAys-Alexandria and Shreveport, A P. M.
Minden and Shelbyville, P. NJ.
SATURDAYs-Naccgdoche 5p. NJ; Winfield, 6 p. NJ
DEPARTURES:
SUNpAYs--None.
Winfield, A. M; Alexandria and
Shreveport, p. NJ.
TUEsDAYs-Nacogdoches 6 p. NJ
WEBNEsDAYs-Wi nnfield and Minden, A. NJ
Alexandria and Shreveport, P. NJ
THURsDAYs-Sa pm.
FRIpAys-W innfeId, NJ; Alexandria and
Shreveport, p. NJ.
SArURDAYs-Minden and Shelbyville, A. NJ.
Nacogdoches, 6 p. NJ.
ES~Letters for any of the above Mails should
be in the Office one hour before their time of de
parture. Papers, half on hour.
h q. MONROE. Post-Mastel
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y It's said Butler is to be appointed min
isterto Alta Vela under Wade's admins
tratron, and take his pay in guano.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02


The staircase at Niagara Falls which
led under Table Rock fell a few days ago.
Is .Wen. my boy, do you know what
ssyntax' meansq'' sai,lea schooImaster to
the child of teetotaller! 'Yes sir, the
duty on spirits
he-Democratic StateEC Convention of
Tennessee, to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, will be held at Nash
Vile on the 9th of June.
+, "A new hoop skirt called the Zephyrina
has adeitsappearance. tits very light
and airy, and q Bostonian advertises
that sit makes the ladies feel as if they
had nothing on" This might for sum-
mer, but for winter it would scarcely be
comfortable.
Young men who spend good propo-
ton of their time in brushing their hair
and hats show which side of the skull
their talents lie.
SOD A French paper tells a story of sol
dier who, while serving under Peter the
/. reatdnearly hundred years ago, was
frozen in Siberia, and whose last ex
preston was, ait is ex-. In the
summer of 1860 some French savans
found the stiffiy frozen body, and gradu--
aIiy thawed it, out, actually restored
q nimation, when the soldier concluded
his sentence with s'ceedingly cold"
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

Every bushel of potatoes raised takes
from the soil quarter of a pound of pot
ash. This suggests application of ashes
to potato ground.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

Against 927 ,951 $40 copies of news
papers circulated in this country in 1860,
there are now estimated to be l 800, 000,-
600 circulated annually.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

A negro eat. twenty lone biscuits, and
then began to cry about stomach ache,
in Sandusky, Ohio. That is what you
IN Az call cake and whine.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

AGENTS WANTED
To sell the superb New Engravings
Ideal Heads of American WOmenI
Drawn by
CHARLES A. BARRY.
Reproduced on Stone in Paris by
I.afosse g. Euhre,
The most Eminent photographers in the World.
NAMELY:
THE ANGEI.OF THE HOSPITAL
AT THE FRONT,
THE COLOR BEARER,
BEFORE THE BATTLE,
ARMY NEWS.
Price $3.50 each or the whole set for $40.
Great inducements can be offered to agents. Single
copes or the set viii be sent by mall postpaid, on
recent of price Read the following
fEsT NIALs:
Are admirable specimens of art" OLIVER
Wendell Holmes.
and printing are worthy OF the highest coinnlehua
ton" Benson J. Losing.
Never were there more speaking faces than
these revelations Of sublime womanhood-" lDr
@The conceptions have great purity and delicacy.
Mrs. Harriet Bsecher Stowe.
Must pronounce each, ~ its own style matcn-
lessD Mrs Harriet Prescott Spohard
aCreditable to his genius as an artist" Bos-
ton Commercial Bulletin.
ssTIhe pictures merit the commentator which
thew have received from the highest sources
TSDringfeld Republican.
iTbe Ideal Female Heads, typical Of the faces
of American Women, represent with hdeiily tnels
charities their sympathies, heroism, devotion and
otfacbments's philadelphia Press.
ss-T9e subjects are handled with the spirit and
patbos which mark Barry's drawings. IN. T.
Evening Post.
aParlor adornmeBts, they can net but De I'M
mensely popular" philadelphia Methodist honit
journal.
T. d. ROBINSON, Publisher,
rnav2s4t Springfield Mess.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

One of the negroes elected to repre-
sent Macon County, Georgia, in the
lower house of the legislature, is now in
Jail for stealing.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02
sHERIFF,s SALE.

IN ist-ict Court-Parish of Natchitoches- No.
~ 74l2-AMBRoIsnIE DESoTo, wife OF Is. Ere
dieu. u.s. BENJAMrN FREDIEU, her husband No
74OS-NEvILIE PERoT u.s. Benz. EREDIEU. ny
yirtne of the writs of feri faeiGs issued in the
above entitled and numbered suits, and to me di-
rected by the Honorable District Court in and for
the Parish of Natchitoches, have seized and Will
offer for sale to the last ard highest bidder on
Saturday. the 9th day of June, 1865.
within the usual hours Of sale at the reoenee ot
the defendant Benz Fredieu, in the parish OF
Natchitoches the following described property,
Seized AS the property of the defendant to'wit:
l mare mule, 2 horses, mares, yoke oxen, 10
head horned cattle, more or less, 40 head sheep
more or less Household and Kitchen furniture
sS5 syTicultrtal implements, such hoes, plows.
SC. g#te erle eEata
TERMS OF SALE
Cash, with the benefit of appraisement;
May q, 1868. Sheriff.
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pRINTING-OFFICE FOR SALE.

r will sell, cheap for Cash, only, the BossIER
i BANNER PRINTING OFFICE, entire, with all
the books, accounts, material, etc. thereto apper-
tanning. A good bargain can be had by making
WI. SCANLAND, Proprietor.
- Bellevue, La.
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FOR RENT

GTNhe basement story of building on Washing
IL ton street, suitable either for Store-RGom
or an Office. Inquire at this Office.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

Succession de j. w. Sausser.
ENLLA FOX ayant demande etre nominee
II Administrations de la Succession de -iohn w.
Sausser, decade avis est par ces presentes dome
toutes personnes nteressees davoir a dedulre dams
les dix Jour les rasons pour esquellesTla demande
du petitionnaire no seriat pas accorded
- sr1o A. w. HAMILTON,
June 2, 1868. Greffer
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Died:-In this place, on the s0th ult, j. w.
SAUssER, native of Xenia, Ohio.

- y Succession Of j. w. Sausser-
TILLA FOX, widow of John w. Sausser de
II ceased, having applied to be appointed
Administrator of the Succession OF said John W;
Sausser, deceased, notice is hereby given to all
persons to show cause within ten days why the
application of the petitioner should not be granted.
D A. w. HAMILTON,
June I'd. 1868. Clerk.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-02

OF WVM@W DIgG@IPTlOg on.
Prlntea at NeasOnabIe Rates,

81 Persons DESTROYS Of having job Printing
done neatly, expeditiOusly and cheap are invited
to call at the Office Of the sFE0ATOR.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
QuIusy, or liberated SOre-ThrOat.

Those who suffer from this distress
ing malady will be thankful to hear
eta simple and eficacious mode OF
DaIief-viz an onion poultice. Bake
or roast 8 or 4 large onions, or 4
dozen smaller ones,till soft. Peel them
quickly, and beat them fiat with a
rollinf-pin or glass bottle. Then put
thcm directly into a thin muslin bag
that will reach from car to ear, and
about 3 inches deep; apply it speedily,
and As warm as possible, to tho throat,
Keep il on day and night, changing ii
when tho strength Of the onions APP
pears 10 be exhAnstod,. and substitu.
ting fresh ones. Flannel must be
orn round the neck after the poul-
tice is removed.
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CUt This Ont.

For along time, hydrophobia was
thought to be insRrabIe, and persons
AdictOd with IL were either strangled
Or %smothered to Death. But a Ger
mar forester dying a few years ago,
made known a life sOcrct By which he
had savedmAny lives, and which may
serve = good'toFn 10 some Of our read
ers. Battle the wound constantly with
hartshorn and give three or four Losss
minteaduring the day. The harts.
horn decomposes chemically tho virus
inslnnated into The wound, and i'm.
mediately alters and destroys its
d~slirioAsness.
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How TO Treat BalkT Horses.

IF you have balky horses, it is your
own fault, and not the horses, for if
they do not pull true, there is some
cause for it, and if you will remove
the cause, the effect will cease. When
your horse balks he is excited, and
does not know what You want him to
do, When he igets a little excited,
stop him five or ten minutes; let him
become calm; go to the balk horse,
pat him, and speak gently to him; and
as soon as he is over his excitement,
he will, in nine cases ont of ten pull
mt the word. Whipping and slashing
and swearing only make the matter
worse. Afrer you have gentled him
n while, and his excitement cooled
down, take him by tho bits; turn him
each way, a few minutes, as far as
you can; pull out the tongue, gentle
aim a little; unrein him; then step
before the balky horse, and let the
other start first; then you can take
them anywhere you wish. A balky
horse is always high spirited and
starts quick; half the pull is out be-
fore the other starts; by standing be-
fore him the other starts first. BY
close application to this rule, you can
make any balky horse pull. If a
horse has been badly spoiled, you
should hitch him to the empty wagon,
and pull it around a while on level
ground; then put on a littlo load, and
increase itgradually, caressing rs be-
fore, and in a short time you can
have a good work Professionalism
Farmer.
The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-03-13
Peach Leaves Poisonous.

The Carolina Times mentions a
case where a friend threw a branch
of wilted peach tree to n COW the
leaves of which she ata with avidity.
This was in the evening. The fol-
lowing morning she was found dead
in the stable. Another COW also ate n
portion of tho leaves, and came near
dying too. Eaten in a fresh state
the leaves are not dangerous, neither
arc those of the sorghum plant; but
in a wilted state both are dangerous
food for stock.
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agricultural.
Irlinn OF Lime On Soils.

lftherr is one principle settled in
e~eIieul,ure, il Is that some CONVEX
tiLle salt Of lime is essential to the
fertility ofsoils, and that certain crops
cannot be grown on q soil destitute
If it. When we consider tho most
favored crop producing regions of the
earth, il cannot fail TO DO remarked,
that the coil contains a portion Of
limo. A soil entirely destitute oflime
may produce straw, but never good
crops Of grain.
Lime loosens heavy clay lands,
while it renders more compact light
and Cry soils. Mr.. Edmund Rntin
asks the question, why the forest
lands, destitute of lime, are poor /;
willie lime lands ere rich-each hav-
ing been equally fertilized by decay
ing leaves and trash, from time inn
memorial? This fact may be seen in;
Southwestern Georgia, Where lime
nbounds, the soil is rich-whore it is
absent, it is poor pine barren.
hime when applied to sand with
out vegetable matter, makes mortar
when TO clay without vegetable mat
ter, makes mari. In either case, there
Is no improvement to the soil. On
Door soils, deficient in vegetable mat,
ter, feeble results will be manifest; for
there will not be nutritious gases
enough, after vegetable decomposi
4ion, to produce luxuriant vegetation
Poor lands must be MANFRED as wei
ms lined, before they can be reclaim
ed. Land having a thin'coat of vege
Sable matter may be enriched in time
by lining without manure, if we art
careful to givono more lime than sucl
land will bear-a small quantity de
composing and fixing the vegetable
matter in the soil as it accumulates
But, if manure is applied to the Ian,
with lime, Cat different times,) the,
are speedily rendered fertils.-Souh
ern Cutipdtor.
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EVERY UNION NAN SHOULD HAVE III
A Magnificent LIihOgTaph 20 By 30
inches, entitled
COLUMBIA SHALL Be FREEp

This e one ofths most beautiful and splsu.
DID L~ishosraphs ever printed. u rspressnts
TIE Frsedem Of America. Prics ONLY ~ so.
Do not iaii 70 send foB . copy. AddrsSa
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