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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-03

Married Persons, or Young Men comtempla
ting marriage, being aware of Physical Weak
ness, Organic Debility, Deformities speedily
cured.
Ho who places himself under the care OF DR.
j. may religiously confde in his honor as p
gentleman, and confidently rely upon ms ski
as physician.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-03
THE ONLY PLACE WHERE A CUKB
CAN BE OBTAINED.

Especially, who have become the victims oi
solitary vice, that dreadful and destrucilE,
habit which annually sweeps TO an ultimeiy
grave thousands of Young Men OF the mos
excellent talents and brilliant intellect, who
might otherwise have entranced listening Sena
tors with the thunders of eloquence, or waket
to estacy the living lyre may call with iui
confidence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-03
YOUNG MEN,

reflect That = sound mind and body are the rAo.t
necessary requisites to promote conDubisl hap
piness. Indeed, without those tho journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prospect hourly daTkons to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that tho happiness o.
another becomes blighted with your own.
,,r~.r,. e,T7,, Dr. T15DpTrDlNCE
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
s'Nigger Nigger Everywhere, and
 Marry one to EIire.''

The Sandusky (Ohio) Union publishes the following extract of a private letter, received by young lady of that city from lady friend visiting New Orleans ''Iou may thank your lucky stars that you live iu land where white servants can bepro- cured, and where s nigger is no better than his white ncighbor. Here it is different We have negro Lieutenant governor, who, of course, presides over a Senate two-thirds composed of negroes, negro politicians, negro officers, and, in fact; negroes everywhere. havo been kept, together with other white persons, for half an hour, standing on the street corners, waiting for negro base ball club to pass, dressed in their gaudy uniforms, and going out for their usual Sunday recreation Negro political processions, with their bands and banners, parade the streets unmolested. The free schools open, this coming term, to white and black alike. Heretofore, there have been sepa- rate free schools for the blacks, but the present blaek-and- tan Legislature passed a
 law doing away with that distinction. l am and have been Republican, but this
 is rather an overdose of negro. Ohio suits me better. Nothing like experience, to cure one of dogmatical ideas"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
Raa,ca,ism Alarmed.

The New York World of Tuesday comments on the significant admission of the Tribune that the Republicans can win in the approaching Presidential election only by the most strenuous exertions, and it's virtual admission that 1t is necessary for the party to re- treat from the reconstruction acts and fight the battle on 2 different issue. This, it says, is great lowering, nay, A complete abandonment. of the vaunt- ing and confident tone which has here toforc prevailed in the Republican press since the Democratic nomina- tions. It. has been trumpeted all over the land that the Democratic party has defeated itself; that it's National Con- yention destroyed whatever slender chances it had by it's platform and ticket. But. To a new light has dawned upon the Tribune; and as the rays of the sun first gid the highest mountain summits and afterwards the lesser elc- yations, so the rising Democratic strength which now strikes the Fri bune will soon be perceived by the minor organs of the same party. It is neither pleased nor sorry that the Re publican leaders have at last realizing sense of their weakness and insecurity, for activity will no more save them than supincness.--Nas Gazette.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25

and opposed to this party is the Dem-
 ocracy of to-day, composed of good
 and true men from every section of the country. men who love the constitu- ton and obey its laws, men magnani- nous enough to forget past differences and desire peace, men who value the prosperity of their country more than the fatness of office. These are the parties that must face each other Tn that great contest that must shake this continent in November next. With one or the other of these parties each and every man must act; there can be no neutral ground. And now we ap- peal to you people of Arkansas with which of these parties do you intend to act? is not the incentive strong enough to induce you to come out and act with the Democracy? Is your love for the constitution sufficiently strong for you to desire its preserva- ton? Are your personal rights, your privileges as a man, q citizen, an
 American worthy of defence? If SO
 let us all come, together, forget what we were in the past, forget what we were yesterday, and resolve to-day to be man, willing 10 do to our utmost for God and our country, right and the constitution, Seymour and Democ-
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
CoxGRBssioNAL DEMOCRATIC Ex. Cow. Washington City, May 26, 1868.


 The undersigned requests the chair men of all state, county, city, township or ward democratic and conservative committees, associations, or clubs, 10 furnish the Congressional Democratic Executive Committee with the names of members of their associations, for reference during the pending presiden- ijal campaign. Documents will be fur nished by this committee, on orders accompanied by money, at the follow ing rates:
 For sixteenpage documents, in wrap pers, and fi'anked, SIP per thousand. For eight page documents, in wrap pers, and ranked, S7 per thousand, or at the same rate for n smaller number. In particular cases they will be furnished gratuitously.
 Communications may be addressed to Hon. Samuel J. Randall, NJ. C., Washington City:
 By order. J. R. DOOLITTLE, Chairman Congressional Dem. Ex. Committee.
 SAMUEL J. RANDALL, Secretary.
 Democratic and conservative jour nals will please insert the above notice aonspicuously.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
Cotton. Sc.

Returns from the cotton districts in- dicate everywhere reduction of the acreage in that crop with exception of Texas, which shows an increase Of 33 per cent. over last year, and Alabama, where there appears to be no material change in figures. The falling off in Mississippi appears to be IS per cent. 2f in Louisiana, I2 in Georgia, l3 in Arkansas, Is in South Carolina, 20 in Tennessee, and 32 in North Carolina. The average reduction in acreage is about 10 per cent. With this dimin- ished breadth there is a cleaner and better culture and more general use of fertilizers, so that the yield may be quite equal to last year, the season be- ing equally favorable, with like ex- periencc as to insects and other causes of injury. It is yet too early to pre- dict the result, but the present status of the crop is fairly shown in this statement.
 One county in Arkansas (Desha) re- ports less than third of the acreage of last year, while the area in corn is three times ss large. Such indications are hopeful. The correspondent, us might be expected, declares that the crops are all in splendid condition, and if not injured by a drouth the finest yield for many years will be the result. A want of rain has been apparent in the Gulf States and severe drouth has afflicted Western Tennessee, but few complaints of its effects upon cot ton are made. So far the plant enjoys a very general exemption from casual ties and injuries.
 Rye, oats and barley promise abun- dant crops; no serious drawbacks are reported, and few complaints of bad condition are received.
 Potatoes, so exceptionally unpro- ductive last year, are in unusually fine condition, and the average is increased in every State except Rhode Island the natural result of extremely high prices of last years crop.
 Fruit is variable; apples and peaches less promising than usual. Vermont, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- ginia, Arkansas. Missouri, Iowa, Illi- nois, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia make worse record than other States as to apples. Peaches will be less abundant than apples; New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware prom ising but half crop, and Illinois and Michigan showing considerable TO- dnction. A fair promise of grapes is indicated.
 Tobacco covers as large an area as usual in Virginia, Kentucky and Con necticut; somewhat less in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Its condition is good in Kentucky and Michigan; else where little below an average.
 Sorghum is generally doing well in the West; not so well as usual in the middle belt of Southern States.-Com. and Ind. Gazette.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25

geys We again, and for the last time, condescend to notice an indecent squib from the editor of what Brick Pome- roy would call dirty nigger nose-rag, published at Devall's Bluff, and aimed at the senior editor of this paper, a Christian gentleman, and one who, compared with such as he, is as Hype- rion to Satyr. Not being able to an- swer argument with argument, and filled with chagrin and hate, he resort cd to the following vulgar fling, ex- pecting that it's indeccncy would pre- vent reply, and relieve him from his awkward position:
 The pug-nosed editor of the pugna- cious Citizen, is the only thoroughbred cur we have ever met in Arkansas. Dog-like when tread upon he yelps, and cur-like he continues to howl whenever the one treading upon his tail appears upon his vision.
 As we have learned from the above production that he harbors no respect for others, we have been induced to ascertain what degree of it he enter tains for himself, and justly conclude he has not sufficient to warrant him in even soliciting a game of pce-wee with a nigger. We ask pardon of our read CTS for noticing such a THING, and now wash our hands from the handling of the unclean. JUNIOR.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
From tho Louisville Courier.l ~ a
 Executing the Will of the People.

The New York Tribune has been seized with a sudden regard for the welfare ofthe disfranchised white men of the South. The Tribune thinks they ought not to be forever disfranchised, unless their disfranchisement is neces- sary to Radical success. Itis unwilling to permit them to vote this year be- cause they might defeat Greedy, and Butler, and Grant. But if they will stay away from the polls, let the bayo- net and the negroes rule, and permit the quiet inauguration of military des- potism under Gen. Grant, the Tribune says, in effect, that the Radicals will then have the power to enfranchise the white men and, it may be they will do it! It argues that the Democrats, if Seymour is elected will have the will but not the power to do this, and there fore concludes that Grant ought to be elected. This confusion of a deliberate purpose to defraud the people of the right to express their sentiments in a legitimate way is weak, even for the Tribune. Its appeal to trust to Radical magnanimitv when that party has so long denied even justice is akin to trusting to the pieiy of Satan.
 When the devil was sick,
 The devil saint would be
 When the devil was well,
 The devil a saint was he
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
RuInOred Withdrawal.

The New York World has the fol- lowing special from Washington on the evening of the llth inst:
 Most extraordinary rumors are afloat in this city touching the unexpected return of General Grant from his Wes- tern tour, and it's relation to the polti- cal canvass. From all can gather among those best acquainted with the views of the members of the Rcpubli- can National Committee it appears that private letters have been received from members of Grants party, showing an anxiety on the part of the General 10 throw up the candidacy for the Presi- dency To this he has been moved by overwhelming evidence from every quarter of the utter want of spirit in the Republican canvass, and the tremen- dous popular tide running in favor of the Democratic ticket. All the letters received here. both by the Congress- .ional and National Republican Com mittees, arc sorely discouraging the Radical leaders, nor are the letters from the South less alarming. The blacks cannot be controlled, and all efforts on the part of carpef-baggers to prevent excesses have so far failed, and the Radicals see that continuance of these riots and incendiary acts on the part of the colored populations will add hundreds of thousands to the Democratic vote in the North. Hence the sudden stoppage of Grants Western trip, hence the rumors that he is about to throw up the candidacy, and the intimations thrown out in political circles that the Republican National Convention will be called together again, and rumors have it that the nomination will be tendered to Gen. sherman.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
The Way the Germans are
 Leaving.

The Chicago Times, of the Sd inst, has the following article showing how the German voters are abandoning Radcalism
 Indications of the disatfectiou among the Germans who have heretofore voted with the Radical party are becoming daily more numerous. X New York Radical newspaper, published in the English lan- guage, recently complained that that was not a respectable German newspaper in the State that advocated the election of Grant A dispatch from Springfield brings the information that the German Radical newspaper of that city has given up the ghost, because it could not find sufficient Radicals among tho German population to support it.
 The Germans do not like the Radical way of showing gratitude, by trying to deprive its party adhersnts of their iavorite customs; by the enactment of prohibitory and Sabbatarian laws by frequent tirades against the free exercise of religious be- lief; by Grants bull against the Jewish race and by . fanaticism which will, in time aud with encouragement, become more dangerous than would wsll-organ- ized monarchical government.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
Prom tue Louisville Courier.
 RegRinN on.
A recent number of the New York

recent number of the New York Tribune holds forth in this piteous strain :;
 We are confident that every Southern Leaislature-we mean every Radical Legislature, not those of Kentucky and Maryland--will gladly unite in making peace forever op the basts of UNIVERSAL AMNEsrY-IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE.
 So much for the elections in which the people have so unmistakably expressed their condemnation of negro supremacy But short time back "the life of the na- tion" depended on the disfranchisement of the Southern whites and the establish ment of negro oligarchy in all the Southern States. But the people have thuudered ''No" which quivers in every nerve of the Radical party. So it begins to beg off. It was only joking Radicals will be good boys if let of this time, and will permit white men to enjoy "ekal rights" with the negroes. They only want to secure the electoral vote of the Southern States for Grant this time, by a little wholesome violence, and promise to let the people choose the electors here after.
 How is the promise to be fulfilled Is there any movement on foot to carry out this promise? Look at Tenuessee---at Missouri Is there the slightest indication of willingness on the part of any Radical legislature in the South to remove disabilities from Democrats, when, by so doing, it would lose control? Equal rights in the mouth of Radical means what religious freedom meant in the mouth of a Puritan, and mere false and hypocritical cry than that was never heard on earth since Judas cried Hail Master!'
 The Tribune does well to exclude Ken lucky and Maryland from the list of States in whose behalf it promises peace on the ground of universal amnesty and impar- tial suffrage. Kentucky and Maryland have peace and universal amnesty already No man is disfranchised in either State on account of his politics. as is done in the reconstructed States, where there is nc peace or amnesty under Radical rule A for impartial suffrage, that means negroes allowed to vote without question and white | men CiSIrancnlseu py poiittcal tes's Kentucky and Maryland have none O that, and don't intend to have any of it We invite our opponents to an open anc fair contest, and, instead of gagging, Vt convert them by reason and kindness Our franchise laws survived the war, ant all in our ark are brethren No man i: deuied the right to vote, but such as wer' denied it by Washington, Jefferson Adams, Clay, Webster, and all the grea statesmen and fathers of the Republic If VIC are wrong, so were they, and we err n nlnrinns and reverend oompanY.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25

bs~A Radical organ says that "the Democratic party took the Southern States to preserve slavery, while the Republican party brought them back oonsecrated to human freedom We are to look then to Tennessee, South Carolina, and other States, which the Radicals have "conse- crated' for an illustration of the Radical idea of human freedom. It cannot be misunderstood It means one hundred thousand white men and property holders disfranchised to secure the domination of minority party in-thc State, composed of negroes lately slaves. It means plunder- ing taxation, imposed on mute and sub jugated people by armed hordes of carpet baggers and Africans. It means what "Libefty, Fraternity, and Equality" meant in the mouths of Danton, Marat, and Robespierre It means hideous form Of anarchy, to which no people will submit when they can choose in its stead mill tary monarchy Louisville Courier.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25


 RSy Last Saturday a conglomerated mass of negroes, Radicals and scala wags-scalawag of different dates old and ncw-by the power of atrac- tion, for somebody had to be chairman or sccrctary--and the aid of loyal league orders, about two hundred met together under their own vine and fig tree in Devall's Bluff to ratfy the nom ination of Roots. They ratified. Af- ter ratification came electritication by the redoubtable Roots, (you can use roots or all the meanings of the syno- nym, grub-vide Webstcr) and Gibson, aud Erwin, and Bancroft, etc. It was a congcnial crowd, no bickerings, no differences in tastes or opinions. The PEOPLE sat entranced-almoste embraced in the arms of Morphcus-with an oc- casional Jove like nod, as their power full orators told of stripes received in by gone days, and referred to them for the healing of the peace. These mu- sicians have taken their harps from tue willows, and they sing of old loves and new wars. They sing about like the locust, and probably as long, when they disappear. Yet n little while longer and you will hear them no more forever.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
 Tho n,Iv p,nu,jar rnmp,i

The oLly murder committed in New Orleans during the East two years for political reasons, was that Of 5. '. Sorenson, Dane by birth, and a Demo orat, who was murdered ip cold blood by Philip Witta, Radical. The latter was tried and convicted before the criminal court of the parish of Orleans, a Radical judge presiding. Governor Yarmouth, the man who has raised such hue and cry, and published such blood and thunder tales, has pardonsd Fhilip Witta,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
Two or three freedmen caught

Two or three freedmen caught a dark -colored plunderer on their prem ises, near Marion, Alabama, not long since, stealing melons, and having ar rested him, carried him before Lewis Tarrant, another freedman, for trial. Lewis asked if the culprit had 'any means" but being answered in the negative, gravely informed the prose- cutors that, as Imprisonment would amount to nothing beyond an expense to the State, it would be better to give the lover of melons thirty mine lashes and turn him loose. But" said the colored Solomon, "don't strike him on the clothes, for that would give him the right to sue you for damages--put II to him on is.bare back" And ''put It to him on his bare back" they did dressing his hide with thirty-nine singing lashes
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25


 Bay We regret that we had no re- porter at Augusta to give us the pro ceedings of the grand Radical pow WOW, alias congressional nominating convention, as it would have been very rich. They met, but before getting or gauized had severe split for the Rad ical party, one white member rising and asserting that no nomination could be made without the votes of his color, and black member throwing the same back in his teeth of his color. Bodies of strong tenacious qualities adhere very closely and when, as in this instance, they are composed of both tenacious and viscous properties will easily coalesce. After slight jam together, and the pouring of the oil of corn upon their troubled waters, they became quiet and naturally form ed that unity which is so complete and close as to make it hard matter to distinguish the component parts as separate from the whole. One l.. H. Roots finally got the nomination. He had been admitted to seat in Congress just before the recess, and drew back pay for the whole session; consequent- ly he had little of the one thing needful on hand.
 send Fifty Cents aRd receive
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. s 4 LE OF l. O ITS IN DES ARC, ARKANSAS,

Hy Commissioner i'm Ckancery.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under aud in obedience to decree of the Chancery Court of Prairie county, in the State of Arkansas, rendered on the 18th day of February, 1868, the undersigned, as special commissioner of said court for that purpose, will proceed on Thursday the fourth day of the October Term, 1868, of said court, being the 18th day of Octo Der next hereafter, to offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at public outcry, in front of the courthouse door in Deyall's Bluff, in said county. between the legal hours for such sales the following de- scribed lots and parcels of land, to-wit : Forty feet off of the north end of lots (l0, II, and l2) ten, eleven and twelve, in block (26) twenty six, in the town of Des Arc, bounded as follows to wit: on the north side by the alley dividing said block 26, fronting forty feet ou Lyon street, and running back westwardly at right angles, continuing the samo width of forty feet across said lors lp II and l3. of tho size ana extent as ucslIhatei 'r"n me survey and plat of said town oi' Les Arc. The same will be sold to satisfy the vendors lien thereon, for balance of purchase money, in favor of George C. Watkins against George " Vaden, ct als. The title to said lots or parcel of land is clear and undisputcd.
 W. J. BRONAUGH,
 Special Commissioner in Chancery.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
sue. We reprint from the columns of

1H We reprint from the columns of the Gazette the speech of the Hon. F. H. English upon the test oath, and re- commend it's careful pcrusa by every Democrat. We think it an able paper, and that it will remove the groundlcss fear, of many about perjury. Read it yourself and then lend it to your neighbor and let him read it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-25
Read This.

Now, that the public crib has been thrown open for the support of the radical papers of the state, in order that they may be kept alive. it bchooves every man in the state to lend what aid he can to the Democratic papers, who are laboring for the country, it's free dom ane it's rights. It behooves every lover of white mans government, to be up and doing, and aid in the dis semination of facts, through the Demo- cratic press of the state, to enable the people to know who are laboring for their destruction, and who are for their good, and to help to overthrow and crush our enemies out, and restore the state to its former position.
 The above is from the Fort Smith Herald, and we endorse every word it says, and further recommend that our people not only patronize and sustain free and outspoken papers, that have not been bought with price, but that they strengthen and uphold them by refusing patronage to the advertisers and patrons of Radical sheets. This move has been made by the party in power for the purpose of crushing out the opposition papers, and is equiva- lent to suppression in many instances, as several of our best country papers receive the greater part of their sup port from legal work. Such injustice to the people can not always be toler- ated. They will hold the perpetrators to fearful account some day.