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On MondayI, wsdns.day. aad Erla.y..

On Mondays, wednesdays and Fridays,
at o'clock pm, making direct connections
at Little Rock with the light draught boats Of
the Line for Fort Smith and all intcrmediato
points, and with the regular United States
mail coaches lor Hot Springs.
nB- The boats Of this Line were built ex-
pressly for the trade, and possess unsurpassed
facilities for Transporting passengers and
freight 70 all points on the Arkansas rive
without detention. At all stages Of water.
81 Ereights consigned % this CompanY
forTsrdsa promptly g destination wifhost
charge for transfer.
JOHN ID. ADAMS, Pres't.
W. q. PATTESON. Agent.
No. Madison st.. Stanton Bloek- us
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BOARDING..

nOARD- ONE LARGE, UNFURNISHEp
Is front room. and board for gentleman ano
wife, can be secured by early appheap99na az
No. 81 Madison street. 12s-l-'
nOARDNG.-W HOUSE. l0e
Is and III Adams street. Terms moderate.
ISL 2. II. WHITEM0RE. Prop-r.
NOR RENT-TWO PLEASANT ROOMS,
With board, furnished or unfurnished, al
OF NO. zoe WASHINGTON ~:
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j. 4. Hicks. master John Sullivan, clerk
Which will leave Memphis punctually on
Wednesday, February 18th,
At o clock M. and arrive in New Orleans
Monday, February 2Oth. Returning, will
leave New Orleans Thursday. February 23d,
thereby affording ample time to see New Or
leans during its most festive season.
Fare for the round trip. $40. with
the privilege Of remaining on board while in
pert.
LARRY HARMSTAD & CO., Agents,
l3T-l43 Mosby Block, S04 Front street
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BRowS & JOKES sell coal at 80 cents
Der barrel delivered to any part Of the
city. toal
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REWARD.

61oo REWARD-F0R THE BODY OF j..
SlUU Y. UHLEN, lost from the " X. Ar
thur. Description He is small, darkroom,
plected man. with heavy black whiskers AL
over his face his front upper teeth are badly
forty wears old. Address J. c. HOIST q CO.,
Undertakers, No. 800 Main street, Memphis,
Tennessee. lloa-tff--
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PuMPs at sl5 Second street. Il
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II you want COED old Megibben
whisky, so % sze second street.
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For Arkansas RiVer-Memphis & Ar
kansas River Packet Company.
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HO! FOR MARDI GRAS.
For New Orleans.

A LII THOSE DESTROYS OF WITNESSING
~ the Mardi Gras Celebration, February 81,
will have an excellent opportunity of doing so,
by taking the superior and unequaled passen-
ger packet
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One hundred and eighty-one bales Of
the cotton saved from the W. R. Arthur
we're sold at auction yesterday at S43 80
to $5l per bale.
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BoARD sos per month at Cochran
Hall, 1874 Main street. O.. 1861
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no! FOR MARDI GRAS.
For New Orleans--S35 for
Round Trip.
The elegant and swift passenger packet
For White River.

FOr w HItt NENtF.
Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Co.
Point, Devalls Bluff, Searcy. Augusta and
Jacksonport; connecting at Devall's Bluff
with train for Little Rock and Hot Springs
r. p. WALT, = Capt. w. j. Ashford.
THIS NEW AND ELEGANT ovss.
i passenger packet will leave as sllTiLtsl@
above on SATURDAY, 18th inst, a1saz=s=s sasszl
at 5 pm.
For freight or passage apply on board OF to
W.. q. PATTES0N, Agent,
142 No. Madison ST., Stanton Block.
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NOR RENT-A DESIRA BILE BRICK RESI-
dence on Shelby street, close to business.
Amply at No. 4s2 Main street = Mrs br S,s OF
10 wv. Edmonds, 800 Front II. llot-l
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FOR RENT.

TaoR RENT--44 ACRES OF LAND, EVE FL. II
miles north of the city, on the Big Greek
plank road 80 s.cres in cultivation mil1 bf1ii
duce one bale of cotton per acre: pe eiI gsil
Iery' portico. two good cisterns and oil neees-
sSry pythonses One acre in strawberries;
Apples, peaches. pears; ounces, PiumSS anu ge
eas /" IL, rasiden 90 or good cotton farm. Ap
I pIy Z 10 S''1 L'SNfER, McCALLUM 4 KING,
f9S-ig Real Estate Agents, 286 Second ST.
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The finest quality of gents spring
style silk dress hats at Wheaton Il Co. s,
sign Of the tiger. I4O
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
The Nety YorK DIsaster.

No calamity so swift aud terrible has
visited New York in many years as the
explosion of the ferry boat Westfeld on
Sunday afternoon, July 30th Though
this line of boats had always been man :
aged with seeming disregard for the
comfort of passengers, the very penurieus-
ness Of the company was looked upon as
a guarantee against any such expensive
explosion. What has been true so many
times, however, has again proved true
those who patch up eventually blow up,
and sixty six killed and one hundred and
and fifty wounded testify to some one S
crime. Various explanations are given
for the dire disaster One theory ascribes
it to "patch on the boiler another to a
flaw four feet SIC inches in length, a
third to the ''corrosin aud neglect of the
safety y-valye," fourth ''too great pres
sure of steam, ffth to the absence of
the engineer. a rigid scrutiny may be
required to FIX the responsibility where
it belongs; but when it is ascertained,
some person or persons should be board
ed for few years at Sing Sing at the
States expense
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
How the Radical Press is Sup
ported in the South.
Prom the 81. louis Republican.


Radical Journalism in the South is
confined almost exclusively to those
States where the Radical party is in
power, and has public printing to give
out at high price Their chief bust
ness is to print the State laws, do the
official county publishing, and beslab Der
the Governor of the State with praises
In Louisiana they bear at their head
the words 'Official Journal of the
State of Louisiana Although they
have few readers and little circulation,
they manage to thrive on the official
pluckings some Of them grow rich.
They are, all Of them, exotics, hostile to
the people iu whose midst they are pub
lished, and maintained in their artificial
existence by the patronage extorted from
the State and county treasures of the
ruling party for their special benefit
Two years ago Tennessee was alive with
these Radical journals, fed from the
official printing funds which the Brown
low government had set apart for their
support; but the moment a Democratic
Legislature was chosen, in 1869, it re-
pealed the act which designated the forty
or ffty official papers of the State, and
they we're all snuffed out in an instant,
leaving the Radical armament in that
section as dark as midnight There are
now not more than two or three Radical
papers in Tennessee-simply because
there is no official crib to feed at. There
are some in Texas ard Mississippi, few
in Arkansas, aud a good many IN Lou
isiana; but if the Tennessee repeal were
to be enacted in these States their rations
would be cut off, and the last one of
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
Horace Greeley Refuses TO be a
Female Candidate.

Horace Greeley has addressed letter
to the Golden Age defining his views on
the woman question, saying that while
he does not deny that persistent fagitious
adultery Of tire husband or wife affords
good ground for divorce, transient in
fidelity to marriage VOWS under the infu-
ence of passions infamed by wine or
other unnatural excitement should not,
if repented, be adequate reason fordiyorce.
The doctrine of remarriage Of those wild
owed by death should be goycrhed by
circumstances. Ia most cases where
couples are happily united it will be bet
ter in higher life if neither were married
a second time on this planet. The main
spring of his hostility to woman suffrage
is due to this conviction of the proper
indissoiubility of the marriage tie. His
conversion to the movement of woman
suffrage is morally impossible. On that
account he has written little Of what has
appeared in the Tribune editorialy upon
this subject for the last ten years, and
concludes by saying, Il believe our eoun-
trymen are indebted to you for having
discoEsred, perhaps l should say invent
ed, me as a possible though most i'm
probable candidate for the Presidency.
Allow me then to thank you, for your
early and frank demonstration. l can
in no contingency be counted on your
side, fer the women suffrage candidate.
As you forcibly and justly say, there is
not even remote possibility of my uiti-
mately adapting myself to this end, My
difference with your crowd are too vital,
too radical, TO permit the most sanguine
dreamer to hope for conversion. am
growing old, my opinions are tolerably
firm, and an advanced female Of the
Laura Fair type, who kills her paramour,
who she claims to be her rightfui affinity
and gives the liein open court to the wife
she has doubly widowed, is my pet aver
sion. But why should any man be the can
didate for President of the woman suffra-
gists? Logically and consistently l feel
the candidate should be woman. She
ought moreover be one thoroughly eman-
cipated from absurdity, folly, uarrowness
and baleful conservatism which am too
old to outgrow. Could you not tipd one
who illustrates in her own personal his
tory what you so felicitously term the
liberal thought Of this enlightened age.
Let her be one who has two husbands
after some sort, lives in the same house
with them both, sharing the couch with
one bat bearing the name of the other,
to indicate her impartiality perhaps, and
the cause aud the candidate uia be so
fitly mated that there will be no occasion,
even under the most liberal, progressive
and enlightened regime to sue for divorce
Could not one of this class be persuaded
to overbear her shrinking modesty and
nominate herself?
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
The Fail Eiect,o,.

While most o. the elections 10 take
place this fall are to very large extent
of local character, yet the issues in
volved in each of them assume almost, if
not entire, national Importance. and
will to greater or less extent influence
the Presidential election of next year.
The first elections to come off this fall
are those of California and Vermont, on
the first Tuesday in September. In these
States Governor and Legislature are to
be elected. In California, the Radical
nominee (Boothe) is unpopular with his
own party, and if there was any danger
before, this assures the re- election of
Gov. Haight. The Democrats are also
confident that they will carry the Legis-
lature. The Radicals will, of course,
carry Vermont.
On the second Monday in September
Maine holds her election for a Governor
and other State officers. The election
there will be warmly contested, and it is
strongly hoped the Radical majority
there viii be largely reduced.
Gov. Davis has ordered an election in
Texas for four Representatives in Con-
gress, commencing Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Next come the elections in the great
States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa,
all voting on the second Tuesday in Oc-
tober. a great deal of interest centres
upon Ohio, where, in addition to the
election of Governor and ssAer State
officers, a new Legislature is to be CHOSEN,
which will elect a successor to the Hon.
John Sherman in the UnitedStates Sen
ate. A vigorous canvass is being made
by the candidates of the two parties, and
the Democrats are sanguine carrying
the election. The Radical sitmtion there
is considerably mixed. John Sherman
and Columbus Delano, and possibly Min
lister Sehenck, Gov. Hayes and Ben.
Wade are candidates for The Senate.
This will create more or lessdlVlsiOn In
the local politics. which will rebound to
the advantage of the Democrats In
Pennsylvania the canvass is bdng gigOr
ously prosecuted, and everything at pres
ent indicates that the Democrats will
carry the State by handsome majority.
Elections will be held in Massaehu
setts, New Jersey and Wisconsin on
Tuesday, November Z, when State off
GERS and members of the Legislature
viii be chosen.
a Congressman for the State at large
is to be elected in Illinois, to ill the va
cancy caused by the election OF Gen.
Logan to the United States Senate, but
we believe the time has not yet been
Fixed.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
Fanine tn PersIa.

The Persian Minister at London has
sought 10 avert the storm of Indignation
that is rising against bis Government, by
stating that the reports of famine aud
pestilence are the fsbrications of com
,nereial agents Theevidences of famine
are iocoatroyertible. The drouth of last
year caused the crops in the ceotral and
southern provinces to be partly failure,
aud 3 second drouth in the spring Of
1871 reduced the people to condition
OF staryasioa. While famine was sweep
ing away thousands, the cruel, heartless
despot caused the burdensome taxes to
he collected as usual Humanity would
have dictated measures for the relief of
the starving, but the Shah remorselessly
took away the little which remained to
them, that he and his mobiles might be
supported IN their luxury. The eisolated
position of Persia prevents the timely
rendering of human aid by those who
would gladly afford il. How long the
present stats of affairs viii continue ii is
impossible to foretell.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
The Kentncks Election.

At present it is uncertain what is our
aggregate Democratic majority in this
State, but it is sufficient to stsgger those
sanguine Republicans who anticipated
such immense gains. The Republicans
have made gains in various counties
throughout the State, but we do not think
from the figures that they indicate any
real change. At this election fer the
first time, the negro vote was cast for
State officers, and it will be readily un-
derstoed. that a largely increased Repub-
licau vote was inevitable. The negro
vote in this State was estimated at from
40 to $4,000. 1t is also true that the
white Republicans turned out better than
they had in any previous election, while
the Democrats. over-conident of victo-
~, failed to vote by thousands. It is
clear that in the Presidential election
next year the Democracy can double or
treble its present majority.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

THERE is an angry and revolutionary
conflict going on in England between the
people aud the aristocracy, which threat
ems serious and momentous results The
spirit of democracy has never before pro-
gressed in that country with such rapid
and startling pace. The Queen has been
stripped of nearly all of her power, her
hereditary property has been denied her
aud "a civil list" substituted in its stead
which yearly depends upon the whim
aud caprice of the Commons The
church has also been disendowed, weak
ened, crippled and divided into warning
faetious. The House of Lords, the
hereditary and aristocratic legislature of
the country, is disarmed, denied its
ancient prerogatives and threatened with
overthrow. The Commons alone flourish,
and in this body we are told, the right of
minority representation is viciously as
sailed. The journals re-echo the popu.
lar clamor, and it is said only one re
spectacle journal in all England, the
Pail MaH Gazette, has dared to breast
the advancing wave. The House of
Lords has long stood as a bulwark against
the democratic tendency of the age, and
if it be now deprived of power, we may
appreheni the revolutionary spirit of the
liberals will rush into many dangerous
excesses.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

The ELECTIONS IN FuLToE-The
elections in this county last Monday
were remarkably quiet and unexcitiug.
Not the least disturbance occurred at
any of the precincts that we hear of.
The vote polled was very slim, being
short of our real strength from 200 to
100 votes. The same short vote charac-
teiize all the counties of the Purchase,
aud probably throughout the State. In
ibis county the State ticket fell p votes
behind the Senatorial vote, which is
owing to some democrats refusing to vote
for Leslie on account of his declaration
IN favor of negro testimony. In Hiek-
man county the ticket, we hear, fell 100
shor: from the same cause. The official
vote in this county was, Leslie, TAI !;
Harlan, Il. A Republican gain of So
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

ORR REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION
The returns indicate the election Of Mr.
a. S. Arnold, as the representative Of
Hickman and Fulton counties by a ma
jority of about 152. Dir. A. is gentle
man Of high social qualities, of cOnsid-
erable experience as q public man, aud
will doubtless make an efIicientre represen-
tative- Mr.. Glaeson, his opponent, bears
his defeatSsith that becoming courtesy
characteristic of clever gentleman.
Each shoRld feel commendabIe pride
in having carried their respective coun-
ties bY good naiorities.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

THE Atlanta Neso Era is responsible
for the following: "An Alabama plan
ter, several years ago, satisfied that the
vitality of the cotton plant was destroyed
only by frost, tried an experiment with a
single plant. The second year he picked
eight hundred pounds from it. Last
year it yielded 1898 pounds of lint cot
ton. 1t is now twenty five feet high, and
promises as much as three bales of cot
ton. At this rate, man, with an acre
of ground, can become Independently
rich
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

@ A FEW months, and New Orleans"
says the Times of that city, 'will practi-
cally be the seaport for Texas, as we'll as
of the whole valley Of the Mississippi !;
few years, and she will be the Eastern
terminus Of the Southern Pacific rail
road, and the first exporting city of the
continent.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

TIE Democratic inaj ajority in Kentucky
viii, it IS estimated. reach about $4,000
The complexion Of the Legislature will
be somewhat different from the last ses-
sion, in that body viii contain perhaps a
dozen more Republieans-not enough,
however, to materially effect the vast
prepoudsrance which the Democrats will
have in both bodies.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

THEODORE TILToN having been re-
quested by Roman Catholic newspaper
TO publish certain article "on the con
dition OF the damned in HE'LL" for the
"benefit OF the Puritans," declines to do
so for the want of reason. He saws /:
"The Puritans know as much as there is
to be known about hell. They we're
among the original founders of it.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

MR. I. JEFF. JoNEs is the represen-
tative elect in Graves couty, he defeat
ing Mr. Jno. II. Neal by 259 votes.
Tom Corbett is elected in Ballard Jno.
". Ogilvie from McCracken. Jessie
Gilbert Senator from the Paducah Dis
trict
Col G A. C. Holt, Senator in the
Third District.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

Our friend n. p. Moss, of Clinton,
was elected County Attorney for the
county Of Hickman last Monday. The
vote stood, Moss Co., Gray 426. Gritty
222.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

THE 0kolOua (Mississippi) Ne,cs, 10
announcing marriage, say: "The very
leaves live but to love- 1t is reasona
BILE TO suppose, then, that in autumn the
leaves "fall In love-"
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

A FEW of the Texas papers, the San
Antonio Herald among the rest, very
earnestly urge the nomination of Gener-
al Hancock for the Presidency.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
The CrOpS.

Touching the crops in Europe we have
the following reports: In Prussia the
prospects are not at all favorable, espe-
cially for the early crops, and the late
ones have suffered severely for the want
of warm sun. As is the case in this
country, there has been little or no sum,
mer in Prussia, and this has had its effect
on the crops. In Saxony, however, mat
ters are different, and the prospect of a
good, healthy yield has gladdened the
hearts of the farmers. The wheat and
barley crops of France, especially in the
West and Southwest, have greatly i'm
proved, and promise a productive aud
bouDtiful yield. Russia will, according
to all accounts, be up TO the average of
last year. The promise of an abundant
harvest in Hungary is gratifying, and in
Bulgaria and Besarabia the
promises are Gattering.
TIE Kentucky African Methodist Con-
ference commences at Harrodsburg, KY,
August II, 1871, Bishop Payne presid-
Ing.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
THE RADICAL PoLIcY-The New

THE RADICAL PoLIcY-The New
York Evening Post thus exposes the ru-
nous financial policy of its party:
"The Government now collects by tax
alton s100,000,000 per annum more than
it needs for current expenses, including
the interest on public debt This vast
surplus of two millions of dollars every
week is perpetual temptation before the
Lobbyists and Congressmen, and is the
main incentive to every extravagant
scheme. So long as it continues to be
collected, all the resources of human in-
genuity viii be employed to bring about
the use of it for the promotion of private
schemes, by grants, subsidies, local i'm
ries and general wastefulness.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

THERE is every indication of a fair
crop of cotton aud sugar in Louisiana,
and busy and profitable season for plan
ters and merchants.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
Enlton County-omcial.

Leg 747 Harlan, ~ Leslie's ma
jority SIS.
CLARK, 64f Hale, 2O4. Clarks ma
jonty 437.
Gleeson. 69l Arnold, los. Gleesou' 5
majority 5S3.
z<sasvssss vvte F0r rSeIsre~enfarfve.
A. s ArnolG-Hickman 1918; Full
toa 103 total 1926.
T. E. Hickman 2s3 Full
ton SOL total 97f.
Aruold's psjority, 152.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12
BEECH WOOD SEMINARY
Hickman. XIV.

HNHE PRINCIPALS, J. II. ROULHAC AND
Jno. W. Cowgirl, would respectfully
announce to the public that the second ses-
sion of their School will commence on MON
DAY, September 4th. 1871. The School now
organized is designed to be permanent in
stitution at this place. The building already
erected is ample for the accommodation of
one hundred pupils, and it is the purpose Of
the Principals TO construct suitable addi-
tions, with all modern improvements, in
desks, fixtures, &C., sufficient for $50 scbol-
lars, with music room convenient for those
who desire musical instructions. This de-
partment will be under the charge of Mrs
Mary Duncan. With liberal encouragement
the Principals hope soon to be able to found
a regular and permanent College with ample
accommodation for all who desire the bene-
fits of a collegiate education in this section.
Tuition per session months or 20
weeks, spelling, first lessons in
reading, writing, &c................... SlZ.6O
Advanced reading, mental arithmetic
first lessons in geography and
written arithmetic. tic.....................$15 90
English Grammar, Advanced Geogra-
ply, Written Arithmetic, first les
sous in Philosophy and Compost
ton. %
Algebra and the higher Mathematics
and Natural Sciences.............. 20 90
Ancient and Modern Languages....... 26 90
Music including use of ofPiano............. 30 90
Contingent tax to each pupil. il............. / 90
Tuition due, one-half at the commence
ment and one-half at the middle of the ses-
sion. Pupils charged from time of entrance
for balance Of session, and no deduction
made, except for protracted sickness.
Patrons and teachers are alike interested
in building up good and permanent institu-
tions; and TO the generous assistance OF the
people of Hickman and vicinity we most es-
naciallv looE iginO
that our whole time and talents shall be de-
voted to our enterprise.
J. II. ROULHAC,
july22 JNO. W. COWGILL.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

OFFIcIA1 VoTE OF HICKMAN CoUN-
sTY-Leslie, 1889; Harlan 222. Dem
ocratic majority SGT.
OFFICIAL VoTE OF GRAVES CoUN-
Tr-LesIie, 1856; Harlan, 57s. Dem
oeratic majority 1888.
The Hickman courier., 1871-08-12

OmQfei Vote Est SEN. District.
H =. Hale-Gravcs l 1896 Hickman
81 Fulton 2O4 total, 2471.
VIM Clark-Graves l 1,096 Hickman
.452 Futi,n GAL, total, 2,189.
Hales majority 2S2.