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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02
RAILROADS.
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DICHMOND AND ,DANplLLEs KALI
hROA D-SUDINIER SCHEDULE.-On and
after TUESDAY. April 81, 1883 the passenger
trains on this road win run as follows:
GOING WEsT.-Through Mall Train. Leaves
Richmond daily at 7:l5 A. NJ; leaves Danyille
daily mt s:27 7. 81. connecting at Burkevife with
the Southslde road for Farmvllle, Lynchburg, and
all stations on the Virginia and Tennessee rail-
Louisville, Columbus, &C., KY; Huntsville, De-
catur, &C., hla Corinth, Grand Junction, yicks-
bor With North CaToina rsiirosd @ for Chsriote
Columbia, Charleston Augusta, Savannah, Macon,,
Columbus, Atlanta, &C., Ga. I; Montgomery, Mo-
bile, New Orleans, &c. SsE IS
GOING EAST.-Through Mail Train.-Leaves
Greensboro daily at $3.50 4. M. leaves Danyiile
daily at $3.50 A. NJ; connects ut Burkevle with tho
Southslde train from Lynchburg for Petersburg,
&c.
Through tickets can be procured at the ticket
offices In Richmond and Danylle to all important
points South and Southwest. and mt Greensboro
and Danyille to all points North East, and West.
THOMAS SDODAMEAD,
nm % Nl@3 SUPERINTENDENT.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02
NFOUNTAIN DEW COCKTAIL.
ROARDING AND LODGING

DOARD.-A few BOARDERS can pe
X oooommodoted on Franklin street second door
from the corner of Eighth, No. us; also, seyeral
!loii !I,MR nc SPDEPS 80 ap 1e-1m
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02

-,np RENT, A No. ] GROCERY GA
I"?,SD. corner Twcnty-fifth and Vcna- -
j lis. Terms moderate. Apply TO
he dU'H' l.. POWERS.
!. ls40 Main street,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02
WOOD AND COAL.
\ 7 II r AClTE CO A L.

4 nj RAClTE COAL.
| have now in my yard and am In constant
receipt Of the best RED ASH EGG and STOVE
CON ever before offered to the citizens of Rich
mono which will sell at the very totoeSt prices.
sold only by actual weight.
,MlDLOTliIAN LUMP, HAIL, and AVERAGE
tOAL. Wholesale and retail.
delivered
SEASONED PINE WOOD. delivered. Sc per
cord. WN HALL CREW.
once and Anthracite Yard corner Seventeenth
and Cary streets
hnuminous Coal and Wood Yard Fourteenth
Nf-i near Mayo's bridge. apa0
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02
RESTAURANTS. sc.


r N S E A S 0 N
LAMB and GREEN, PEAS daily at
an 90 LEItLLc ..
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02

11os RENT, THREE fLEAsANTNA
L NncoTD-FI. DOR ROOMS In good LEI lei
4 >ttnn,od with Kitchen aud coal-housc. Price,
aj" nwS Va. my 2-lts
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-02

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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
Losing Time.

What is willing away time? When Watt sat in the chimney corner, ob- serving the water force up the lid of the tea-kettle, he aroused the anger of his relations; but he was discovering the steam engine. The uncle of Pliny reproved him for walking, which he called losing time. How much truer was the confession of Warburton to his friend Hurd 1t would have been the greatest pleasure to have dropped up- on you at Newark. l could have led you through delicious walks, and pick ed off for your amusement in our ram bles thousand notions which 1 hung upon every thorn as l passed, thigy years ago." They whom the world calls idle often do the most. In vil- lages and by-lanes few eyes are ai- ways learning. A garden, -a wood, even pool of water, encloses library acknowledge, waiting only to be read precious types, which Naturc,. in her great printing press, never breaks up. And surely he is happy who is thus taught: for no man can afford to be really unemployed. The tree, it is said, may lose it's verdure-the sun need not count his rays; because the sap will strike out new foliage, and another night refills the treasury of day. But the thinking faculty does not waste. The most saving and thrifty use of it will only make it sufficient for our ab- solute necessities.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
Popular. FaIincies.

That you can receive one dollar a day, spend two, and get rich.
 That the man who can't pay for his breakfast can raise the money to go in to a circus.
 That to do man favor and then refuse another wont make him twice as mad as if you had refused him at first. That when friend presents you q hound pup the gift will cost nothing.
 That when you buy on credit know ing very well you cannot be able to pay, it is not stealing, The next year the taxes arc to be lighter.
 That every other man is boundto die except you.
 That if you have good cause in love, war, or law, pitch in, you are bound to win.
 That YOU can play draw poker and lose just so much and no more.
 That there is some way, known only to yourself, to break faro bank.
 That when you buy horse he will be certain to turnout as represented.
 That when you undertake to sell one you arc not going to lie about his quali- ties.
 That if you always say what you think you win the regard of the entire community.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
Printers.

Printers are unlike other classes of men. Their vocation iinparts to them
 an intelligence that does not result from
 any other business. Dealing with lan- guage exclusively, in its combination
 of letters, words, sentences and para graphs, they are constantly brought into communion with thoughts and their working, and thus insensibly be- come imbued with ideas of those minds whose creations they help to em- body into those forms that give them to the world. They literally get gram mar at their fingers ends while picking up the type that form sentences that arc grammatical. Spelling comes to them as natural as breathing, for they fall into correct orthography through force of habit. The characteristics of printers are not SO favorable to personal thrift as those of other professions They partake of the nature of artists in some degree, and are liberal to a fault, thoughtless of the future, and frequently improvident for the future flush when in good situation, and dead broke when on a tramp. They may be said to be tho working Bohe- mians of the world ofoperatives.--[Ex Ex.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
scientlnc Rascality.

It is no longer secret of the chem ist's laboratory that clear golden syr- ups can be made from starch and sul- phurie acid; that delicious eines and brandies can be made from beet root with cthers for flavor; that barrel of peanuts can be transformed into excel lent coffee; that lard can absorb an enormous quantity of water in certain conditions; that, in fact, there seems no limit to the adulterations that an intelligent and dishonest chemist can not practice upon his fellow-men. All these marvels of chemical science have in these latter days become degraded into mere tricks of trade, and their chief beauty is in their capacity to ena- blc interruptions dealers to tighten the pockets and destroy the stomachs of the confiding and consuming public. Concerning the article of champagne, a writer in the Portland Star tells us that it is made from a thousand differ cnt substances--even refined petro- leum. Yes, from the fiery benzoles q sparkling, bubling, foaming champagne can be produced, which will delight the eye, tickle the palate, gladden. the heart momentarily, but quicken our paces toward the graveyard. This is a new use for petroleum, which those who have been cxpc. alenting with it as an agent for generating steam have little dreamed of. Who can say that the Pennsylvania oil territory, now considered mostly worthless, may not be regenerated into the great cham pagne producing country of the world.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
 The Bards OH the south.

It is a noteworthy fact that Poetry has not flourished to any great extent in the Southern States of the Union. It cannot be attributed to our climate, for that is not unlike the climate of Greece and Italy, which produced "a Homer and Virgil; nor issit owing to a lack of genius, for in other de- partmcnts of intellectual effort, the South is equal to any other section of our common country nor is it tracea- ble to dearth of poetical themes, for these are far more abundant in Georgia and the Carolinas than in New England itself. And yet, from some cause not yet discovered or understood, we have not successfully rivallcd the Northern States ill this respect.
 We have been justly proud of Poe, and Simms, and Meek, and Wilde, and others who belong to the past genera ton; but yet candor constrains us to acknowledge our comparative inferi- ority. Our settled conviction is, that in thcnew era now dawning on the South. this state of things will not exist. We already have young poets ofthe highest promise What may not be expected of Paul H. Hayne, and Henry Timrod, and H. l.. Flash, and J. R. Randall, and J. k. Barrick, and A. R. Watson, and Mrs. Bryan, and score of kindred 1 spirits, when their splendid gifts shall be properly developed and exercised 1?
 We venture to predict that the next quarter of Il century will be the Au- gustan age of Southern literature. It will be emphatically the era of South ern song.
 The stern discipline of diversity will, we verify believe, elevate our poetry in the same ratio i'll which we have suffered from the '.slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." The Harp of the South will yet discourse as sweelly as the Harp of Erin, and we are not with out hope even that some coming South ern bard may give to American litera- ture its greatest epic.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
Rs1Isctlons Tor the Morning.

The solemn stiffness of the morning, just before the break of day, is fit and friendly to the cool and undisturbed recollection of man just risen, re freshed and in perfect health. Let him compare his condition with half of the world, and let him feel an indis- position to adore and admire his Pro- tector, if he can How many great events have come to pass during the hours have reposedl feel my in significance. The heavenly bodies have moved on; vegetation is advan- ced the season issoone forward ]; fleets have continued sailing; councils have been held; and on the opposite side of the world, in broad noon-day, what revolutions have taken place, without my consent, concurrence or knowl- edgei Great God! what am l in the world? An insect--anothing! In the morning, o Lord, thou Great Being, unto thee will look up, How many of my fellow creatures have spent the last six hours in praying in vain for one hours sleep! How many in rack ing pain, crying, Would. to God it were morning l" How many in pris- on! How many in commission of great crime! How many have been wrecked at sea, or lost in untrodden ways on land! How many have been robbed and murdered! How many have died unprepared, and are now lifting up their eyes in torment! And here stand monument of mercy, ''to praise God. In the morning, o Lord, thou gracious and mcrciful be- ing, unto thee will look up. will bemoan the vices and sympathise with the distresses of.my fellow creatures. I will try this day to show my grati
 tudc to my Prescrver, by taking care not to ofcndhim.-[ Robinson.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
usesleg~d By Fnsnrshea Cats.


 having fought an island in the Ohio river, has stocked the same with black cats, intending to go into the fur trade, This reminds us of similar experi- ment, whichswss made many. years ago by agentleman 6 who resided in Mary land. The idea struk him that the fur trade was so lucrative it would be much better to raise animals nearer home than the regions of the North, and accordingly purchased an island in the Chesapeake Bay, stocked it with the blaokest ofblack cats. He paid extrav- agant prices for the felines, and all the boys in the adjacent country. went extensively into the business of entrap- ping unsuspecting Tommies and Tab bies, which were immediately disposed of and sent to the aforesaid island.
 The gentleman found the cats were prolific, and was soon compelled to employ two men to live on the island and fish with seine, in order to sup ply them with food. At first, .sthe fisherman had quite an easy time, and readily supplied fish in abundance for their charges but the number daily in creased, until whole legions of black cats trooped over the island home, ,devouring everything in the shape of food, and the men found it impossible to furnish the requisite amount of nourishment. Atlast-it was determin- ed that one of the men should take a boat. and, returning to the mainland, report the alarming state affairs. During the absence of the messenger, the cats became exceedingly bold, and the remaining party, fearing for his life locked himself up in his cabin and prepared for q siege.
 The enemy, embroidered by this dis play. of fear, and urged on by hunger, surrounded the house climbed up the sides, staring in at the affrighted man through the windows and apertures, keeping up the while the most hideous caterwauipg. He carefully stopped up every crevice save the chimney, but, hearing and seeing ominous falling oi soot, which disclosed determination on the part of the besieging force to effect surprise, he closed taat open ing also, and Micawber-like waited for something to turn up. For tw o days and nights he was kept in this singular prison with tie dreadful howls of fam ishing cats ever resounding in his ears, and with savage eyes glaring at him continually.
 At length . par.s arrived with guns and succeeded ill succoring the man rom his truly awful position, but so numerous were the cats, so fierce their aspect and threatening their demeanor, lhat both the reseuers and the rescued were only too glad to leave this pande monium of jet black cats, gaunt and ie- rocious as they were from starvation. The animals, we believe, all perished, and thus ended one of the most exten- sive cat-rearing ventures ever rrecorded. The individual who has started cat plantation on the island in the Ohio river may have the benefit of the ex- perieuce related above. free of cost.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

HINTS TO ADvERTIsERs.-An adver- tisement is not always valuable in pro- portion to the space it occupies.
 A short advertisement four times is better than very long one once. ''Brag is good dog, but Hold-fast is a better
 A prominent advertisement once or twice will be effective, if followed up by a steady card giving your business and address. ,
 Don't take down your sign in dull times. People read newspapers all times of the year.
 If business admits oft, several small advertisements, with your name repea- ted every time, will avail more than the same collected, with your name in only once.
 Don't fear to have a small advertise ment by the side ofa larger competing one. The big one can't cat up.
 Small advertisements, ai.d plenty oi them, is a good rule. We were all ba- bies once, yet we made considerable noise.
 Don't advertise unless you have something worth advertising.
 The easiest way in the world 10 throw away money Is to advertise injn- diciously.
 The easiest way in the world to ac' cumuIate fortune is to advertise jul dieiously.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

The following beautiful tribute to this most allant chieftain of this or any other day, is rom the New York Citizen, and saidrto have cen written by an oficef of tho U. s. Navy: He sleeps all quietly and cold
 Beneath the soil that gave him birth; Then break his battle brand in twain
 And lay it with him in the earth. No more at midnight shall he urge
 His toilsome march among the pines, Nor hear upon the morning air
 The war shout of his charging lines. Cold is the eye whose meteor gleam 1. Flashed hope on all withinits light; And still the voice that. trumpet-toned, Rang through the serried ranks of flight No more for him shall cannons park, . Or tents glcam white upon the plain; And where his camp fires blazed of yore, Brown reapers laugh amid the grain! No more above his narrow bed
 Shall sound the tread of marching feet, The rifle volley and the crash '
 Of sabres when the foemen meet. And though the winds of autumn rave, And winter snows fall thick and deep Above his breast, they cannot move
 The quiet of his dreamlcss sleep. We may raise marble shaft
 Above the heart that now is dust; But nature, like mother fond,
 Will nc'er forget her sacred trust Young April OCT lis lowty mound
 Shall shake the violets from her hair; And glorious June, with fevered kiss,
 Shall bid the roses blossom there. And round ahout the droning bees,
 With drowsy hum shall come and go; While west winds, all the livclong day, Shall niurmur dirges soft and low. The warriors stormy fate is OCT,
 The midnight gloom has passed away, And, like the glory from the east,
 Breaks the first light of freedom's day. The whire-winged peace OCT all the land Broods like dove upon her nest While iron war with slaughter gorgcd,
 Al length hath Ibid him down to- rest And where we won our onward way
 With fire and steel thro' yonder wood, The blackbird whistles, and the quail Gives answer to her timid brood. Tot oft in dreams his fierce brigade
 Shall see the form they followed far, Still leading in the furtferest van--
 A land mark in the clouds of war! And oft when white halred grandsires tell Ofbloody struggles past and gone, The children at their knees shall hear How JACKSON led his columns on.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

PorE AND THE PliILIsTINEs.--A chap lain was one day reading to some sol diers of the United States army an ac- count otthe fight between Sampson and the philistines. A soldier stepped for ward and asked him for the book. The chaplain handed 1t to the soldier, who read the account very attentively and returned the book saying, as he did so, q only wanted to see if that dispatch was signed by JOHN PoPE."
 R%When was Noah in America ? When he was on the Arh-snd-saw
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

TIE CROOKED TREE.-A little child. when asked why n certain tree grew crooked, replied ;--"Somebody trod on it, l suppose, when it was little fel- low" How painfully suggestive is that answer? How muny with aching hearts, can remember the days oftheir childhood, when they were the victims of indiscreet repression, rather than the happy objects of some kind direction and culture The effects of such misgui- ded discipline have been apparent in their history and character. and by no process of human devising can the wrong be now rectitied. The grand error in their education consisted in a system of rigid restraints, without cor responding efforts to develope. culti- vats, and train in right direction.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

KEEP DARK.-General C--gave his black man Sawney funds and permission to get quarters worth of Zoology at a menagerie. Our sable friend soon found himself under the canvass, and brought to in front of sedate-looking baboon, and eyeing the quadruped closely, soliloquized thus:
 Folks, sure's yer born; feet, hands, proper bad looking countenance, just likc nigger; getten' old, I reckon
 Then, as if seized with bright idea. he extended his hand with genuine Southern "How doe do, Uncle? The ape clasped the negro's hand and shook it long and cordially. Sawney then piled his new acquaintance with interrogations as to his name age, nativity, and forme [ occupations, but elieiting no response be- yond knowing shake of the head. or merry twinkling of the eye. (thc ape was probably meditating the best way of tweaking our friends nose, he concluded the ape was bound to keep non-committal. and looking carefully around, chuckled out:
 "He, hs. ye too sharp for them, old fel- Ter. Keep dark, If yea just speak one word of English, white man would have 4 hoe in yer hand in less than ten minutes. '
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

9(r" Mother! Mother! here's Zeke fret ting the babyl-Maks him cry again, Zeke; then mother will gise him some su- gar. I'll take it away from him; then he'll sauall, and mother will give him soma moro, and you can take that, and then woll both hsvs soms
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
An Appeal to the People.

From the Cincinnati Enquire January 2s.l Almost tle only so-called argument which is urged by the bondholders against the payment of 5-20 bonds in greenbacks is the plea that it will make money too plenty. Now, if all the 5-20 bonds were at once paid by an issue of new greenbacks it would only increase the circulating medium to s2,000, 100000. There arc more than 5,0o0O00 voters in the United States. Tha issue of s2,0o0,000,000 of currency would only put it in the power of*e;ch voter to secure S400 for himself and family to spend in the course of his
 lifetime. Is there any voter who thinks that is too much--more than he will want? If every man should get his S400. dou't you think, reader, that they could manage to dispose oft? Would you not agree to use your share {? Farmer, merchant, mechanic and labor CT, are you afraid that money will be too plentyl Reader, how has it been with you? Has money been to plenty or too scarce, so far as you are concern ed Are not your fears that money will be rendered too hard to get, rather than too easy to obtain? Are you in fa- vor of that political policy of the bond holders which consists in making money scarce and times hard? Do you think, reader, that we could not get along with S2,oo0,000.00O of currency, especially when the people of the United States have to pay every year 00000,O00 dollars in taxes! How is this immense amount of taxes to be paid unless money is plenty? The Government can't expect the people to mako brick without straw! Great tax es require great amount of money to pay them. But the bondholders tell us that if we pay the bonds in greenbacks the latter. will be worth nothing. It is most singular that Uncle Sam is per- fectly good for his big notes in the shape of 1000, ,0o0, 900 of bonds, but is not good for the same amountWhen owed in small greenbacks, especially when the possessors draw Sl50,000,0o0 year interest, and the latter draws no interest. Reader, don't you think that S2,OOO 100000, when it is held by all the people in geenbacks, is quite as likely to be paid by the Government as that amount in bonds when they are held by only few thousand people Is it likely the latter will repudiate greenbacks when their pockets are full of greenbacks? Reader, if anybody is afraid that greenbacks will be too plenty after the bonds are paid of, all he has to do is to go to the United States Land Office and exchange them for land worth Sl-25 an acre. It should be remembered that in fifteen years we can call in the S2,o0O O00,0o0 of green baks simply with the S150000,000 a year that WIG now pay in interest on tho bonds. That Sl50,000,000 is sinking fund which in that short space of time would extinguish the whole debt and cancel every grecnback that we issue to pay the debt. If money is plenty we shall have easy times. If it is scarce we shall have hard times ! Which do you prefer.
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08


 A HoGGIsH- DuTcHMAN.-A herman tavern keeper in Cincinnati, who en- tertains porkmen, and caters to the taste both of his countrymen and pa irons, had roast pig for dinner on Sunday, The animal--a small one was served up whole, and as it was placed upon the table seiit forth an ap- petizing and sayory smell that pcrva- ded the dining room and made every occupant wish for slice, but to the astonishment Of every gucst, bnriey, hirsuted Teutonic pork dealer from the country sat down opposite the dish and incontinently appropriated the whole roast. The landlord hap pened to be absent, and good breeding prevented any of the guests from en- tering q protest, so Hans made such a havoc of the dish and wiped his lips with such evident relish, that bte of the walters, with keener sense of the fun, approached him, and inquired il he would have anything more. Hans beaming face frightened in moment and he asked in reply, Got any more ov dem leeitle hogs?"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08
: Jacksonport and Augusts. Arkansas.

WILL practice in the Counties of Woodruff, Jackson independence, White, Lawrence, Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross. and attend to special cases in any part of the State. .s Address either office my1S-1y
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-02-08

p3y~A chaplain at state prison was asked by friend how his parishioners were. "All under convictions" was the reply.