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HAYMAN g. SONS.
M MACHINISTS.
Machine Agents,

CITY WHARF,
VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS.
For l. d +. Greenwald's Steam Engines,
Boilers and Mill Machinery of every descrip-
ton. Cincinnati. Ohio.
Also, for James Bradford & Co.'S Mill Stone
Mandatory, and Mill Furnishcrs, Cnn.,O
REFER TO
Col. j. ?. KING, Mulberry Mill, Franklin Co.
MOORE PYATT a. Son. FIGURING Mills, Boonsboro,
JAMES MALgcoAT, FIGURING Mills. Bilingsly,
W. II, RmE., Rheasvilie.
A. N. CALLAHAN Co., Cotton Factory and Mill,
Van Buren,.
Merchants, Van Buren-Wilams K Whitfield, J.
Neal Co., NJ. Eynch, George Austin, Z. c. Powell,
John Austin, White 4 Hanley.
Van Buren,, april "A, II. If
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EE Hon. ak. CARALorF OF Benton
county, gave us call as he was on his
way home from ClarksviIle.
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Notice,

WHEREAS my wife MARY WATT, having left
w my bed and abode without cause or Provoca-
tion this is 10 notify all persons that will pay no
bills Of her contraction after this date.
JOHN WATT.
Van Buren,, Ark, Mar. -, ISL, nav
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EE The Van Buren, Press. wants n al

road from this city to that; it does not
want us to have either Railroad or a
plank road to connect this city with Van
Buren. Well, neighbor Dunham, call on
Mr.. John Austin, and ask him to see il
"thosc trees. F" are planted yet, to help
make the bridge. If so, we may soon
have bridge, and may be satisfied with
your dirt road. s. Herald
And the Herald is in favor Of a Toll
GATE RoAp. where travellers will have to
pay from 2J cents to 81 to pass over it..
1t will not cut much figure to the detri.
mcnt Of Van Burcn, we are confident.
But the people Of Fort Smith will be the
principle sufferers, as they will do large
amount Of the travel 1t is pretty well
admitted that the Railroad from Little
Rock will reach this place and probably
be detained here six months or year,
before 1t crosses over on Bridge. In
the meantime, the travel from Ft. Smith
to the junction of the road here, wi be
ten times what it is now. A Tole Gstt
Road is nuisance and imposition upon
any country, and the Herald viii! find il
so, il it is permitted to be fostered upon
the County. Mark our word, it will no,
be a plank rond--but very dear road to
Fort Smith. We have lived in country
where they were in full blast and know
what We are talking about.
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Special Notice.

hereby Notify all persons who have un-
l. settled Book Accounts with me to come
in and settle, by note or otherwise, at once
and save costs, as will surely place them In
the hands of an Officer for collection if not
attended to.
As am now selling Goods exclusively for
CASH or PRODUCE, all old accounts MUST
be settled up.
april II, 1871. NJ. LYNCH.
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would respectfully call the attention Of
the citizens Of Crawford, Washington and
Benton counties and public generally, to our
large and well selected Stock of Staple and
Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, 1rtmmings,
Laces, Groceries, Hard,eare, Queeasudre, Glass
ware, Boots and Shoes, Hats dc. Also, Cam
ton Mattings and Oil Cloths, which
we are now receiving by every boat.
These Goods were all bought when goods
and cotton were at their lowest figures, and
we feel confident that we can and will sell
them at lower prices than ever before offered
in this market.
Our stock will be found full and complete
in all its branches. Our motto Is
"SmdN Profits and quick Sales"
and our terms,
POSITIVELY CASH.
Give us a call. and you will be satisfied
that WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
Very respectfully,
jog w. BossERT e. Co.
Cor. Howard-st. and Gar. Ave.
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w. c. BOSTICK 4 co.

Lave just received fresh supply OF
IL Goods, consisting In part of
WINES, LIQUORS., ALE & PORTER,
Of the very best brands.
IL Persons buying Goods Of us will have
them deiirercd at their residence, if not over
one mile. Respectfully.
". c. q. 4 GO.
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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC AppREss.-On
our outside page will be found the ad-
drcss of the Members OF both Houses OF
Congress, to the people of the States.
Without comment we commend it to the
careful pcrusal Of every Democrat IN the
State. Let the Democratic party be
formed in the South on the basis of this
address and all will be we'll in 70. Most
especially do we urge the people of the
State, to weigh we'll the following extrac,
from the address -
1--WE earnestly cntreat our fellow. citi.
xcns in all parts Of the Union, to spare
no effort to maintain peace and order to
carefully protect the rights Of every citi.
zen; to preserve kindly relations among
all men, and 10 discountenauce and dis.
courage any violations of the rights OF
any portion Of the people secured under
the Constitution or any Of its amend
mcnts
With careful maintenance ofpcace and
order, the ku-klux bill, will fall dead n
the hands Of its originators.
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FF Maj. FRANK ARMSTRONG, Supt. OF
Ell Psso Stage Company, has removed
from Fort Smith to St. Louis.
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CORN |!

1.-TWO thousand bushels Of Corn for sale
by WILLIAMS Il WHITFIELD.
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1T Cotton quoted on the 26th in New
York at l54.
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to shoulder 1t all as would not have far to
20 across the mountains with their sins ana
leave the republican party free from all such
as the Hon. johnson Ford and G. Barber VINO
have opposed the Colored Convention. ana
whose brains are stained with the blood OF
treason and Is buried in Powell Clayton's Sc
pulcher. Yours. Truly.
GEO. I. RUTHERFORD, ESQ.
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was no particular harm for Mr.. Thomas to
write, but which it was particularly impudent
for him to publish. For sale by Porter &
Coates.
"A new cheap edition of "valentine Vox,
the Yentriloquist," by Henry Cockton, has
just been published by T. B. Peterson &
Brothers. This is very extravagant but
very funny story that has been laughed over
by thousands of readers.
Good Words for the Young, for April,
published by j. B. Lippincott & Co., contains
variety of entertaining stories, sketches,
and poems for young readers, and is finely
illustrated by eminent artists.
The April number of The Journal Of the
Franklin Institute is filled with valuable
practical and scientific papers.
From the Central News Company, No.
5O5 Chestnut street, we have received the
latest numbers of Punch and Fan.
-Messrs. James r. Osgood & Co. announce
that they have completed an arrangement
which has been for some time in contempla-
tion, for the prosecution of a subscription
book trade as a new department of their busi-
ness. A valuable religious work is in prepa-
ration for this trade, but while it is being
completed a commencement will be made
with two popular books, Parton's Life and
Times of Benjamin Franklin" and Carleton's
''New Way Round the World" Ladies and
gentlemen are invited to act as general or
local agents. They will receive liberal COM
pensation in commissions or salaries and part
commissions after trial. The management of
the subscription branch of the business will
be in the hands of FL. A. Brown & Co., No.
144 fremont street, Boston.
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THE SCOTT CENTENNIAL.

Sir Walter Scott was born at Edinburgh,
August 10, III, and the centennial anniver-
sary of his birth, therefore, is near at hand.
1t is proposed to celebrate it throughout the
civilized world, as the centennial birthdays
of Burns and of Schiller were celebrated,
more or less extensively, twelve years ago.
The occasion is certainly one fit to be COM
memorated. Scott was not only one of the
greatest, but one of the purest of authors.
There is no stain or blot upon his name or
fame. His poems and his novels are sources
of unmixed delight to millions, and contain
nothing to soil or to harm the most innocent
or most sensitive mind. AS a poet, though
he is just now underrated, or rather neg
lected, we are confident that the final verdict
of criticism will place him among the great
masters of song-with Homer, Dante, Shake
speare, and Milton. The fashion of the day
runs after the subtler and seemingly more
pOeticaI poets after those who affect to be
profound and philosophical-and leaves the
manly, vigorous, and picturesque verse of
Scott, with its fiery narrative, its dramatic
force, its graphic descriptions, and its
multitudinous touches of natural beauty,
to the hearty enjoyment of school
boys. But the time assuredly viii come when
the great merits of the mighty minstrel
will be recognized and enjoyed by those who
can fully appreciate them, and who have the
sense to see that poetry can be of the highest
order, even though it be not dull nor diff
cult to understand, and even though it pre-
sent itself to in the form of charming
story related with rapid huency and care
less grace which seem so easy and so natural
that we are almost inclined to despise what
apparently cost so little labor, though the
really critical eye can see everywhere abun-
dant evidences of the exertion of the highest
genius and most consummate literary skill.
Theneglectint which the poems of Scott have
fallen has been shared, to some extent, by his
novels, which, it is said, are pronounced rather
''slow" by the young ladies who have guanoed
their minds with the rottenness of "Ouida'
and the other 'fast" novelists of the
day. They are deficient, doubtless, in some of
the elements of interest of the sensational
school, which raBsacks earth and heaven for
its materials and they are also lacking in that
minute and morbid analysis of character
which distinguishes the psychological novels
now so popular but in the greater and
broader qualities of romance, in the portrait
ure of types of character, in depicting gen.
tlemen and ladies, soldiers and statesmen,
villains, vagabonds, and humorists, in scenes
of dramatic power and historic interest Scott
is yet without rival, notwithstanding the
vast amount of talent expended among all
civilized nations, during the last half century,
in the vain effort to initiate his novels.
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A N O DI n A N G e
"A Directing the Wharf Line upon the Della
ware and Schuylkill Rivers from the Point House
Wharf around League Island to be Established.
Section /. The Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Department of Surveys be and is hereby au-
thorized and directed to fix line beyond which
no wharf or pier shall be constructed into the
tide-way of the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill
from the Point House around League Island to
the end of Government avenue, and report the
same to these Councils.
HENRY HUM,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CArTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ffth day of April,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one "a. d. 1871).
DANIEL M. FOX,
4261t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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oITY ORDINANCES.

DESC UTION
IL To Authorize the Opening of Bicking and
Other Streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the
Chief Commissioner of Highways be and is
hereby authorized and directed to notify the
owners of property through and over which
Biclking street, from Washington street to Foun-
tain street; Thirty-third street. from Union
street to Lancaster avenue; Twenty-fifth street,
from Brown street to Glrard avenue; and
Twenty-lfth street, from Coates street to Hare
street, and Union street, from Haverford
street to Aspen street, will pass, that at the
expiration of three months from the date of
said notice the said streets will be required for
public use.
HENRY HUM,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ffth day of April
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one "a. d. 1S71).
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
426 Mayor of Philadelphia.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
k6F- UNION LEAGUE HOUS
BROAD STREET,

my. MON LEAG GUE HOU S E
BROAD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, April co. 1871.
The Third Art Reception of the Union League will
occur during the evenings OF WEDNESDAY,
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, April 26
27, 2s, and 49, froIA to IL o'clock Members can
enter upon their tickets OF membership. An equal
number OF tickets for guests are appropriated by
color and date to each evening of the Reception.
Every member is entitled to TWO "Ladies' Tickets"
and ONE ticket admitting the bearer and two
ladies'" These will admit upon one evening only,
to be selected comprehensively or dstinctivey) by
the applicant. They can be exchanged in advance
of their date only and will be delivered at the ONCE
OF the League, on personal or written application
on and after MONDAY, the Path inst.
GEORGE H. BOXER,
Chairman OF Art Reception Committee
A. G.. HEAToN, Secretary. 42lst
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d E o L U L ON
III OF Instruction to the Chief Commissioner
of Highways to Curb and Pave Footways on
Markle street, Twenty first ward.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia That the Chief
Commissioner of Highways be and he is hereby
directed to notify the owners of property on
Markle street, from Cresson street to Manayunk
avenue, to curb and pave their footwalks.
HENRY HUHN,
President Of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEwART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ffth day of April,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventyone ca. ID. 1879.
DANIEL M. FOX,
4261t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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roR SALE.
/ n. II. DOB BIN .,

O. R. II. DO B B N ..
I'LL BUILDER, OFFICE, NOS. and LEDGER
BUILDING, offers for sale the folio ing properties
at reduced prices:-
No. 1. Handsome four.story Brown Stone Resi-
dence, with side-yard, situated No. 1917 Chestnut
street, finished with all modern conveniences. Built
by the day without regard to cost. Lot AN by 17s
feet Deep to back street. Clear OF all ncumbrance;
will be sold bargain.
No. 2. Elegant three-story Brown Stone Resi-
dence, with Mansard Roof, situated west side OF
Broad above Master street. Very commodious;
finished with all modern conveniences. Built in a
very superior manner. Lot 80 by 20 feet deep 10 Car
Isle street.
No. 3. Neat three-story Brick Dwelling, with side
yard No. 1419 North Eighteenth street. above Mas
ter, containing ten rooms with all modern conven-
ences; will be sold below cost.
No. a. Lot west side Broad, sc feet above Vlne 70
feet 'front.' 19s feet deep to back street; will be sold
so as to pay well for investment
Also lot west side of Broad, above Thompson 95
feet front, 200 feet deep, to Carlisle street, with
brick stable for four horses,
No, s. A Cape May Cottage, located on the beach
is large and commodous; II not sold will be rented
No. g. A good Farm in Richand township, Bucks
county, containing SO acres, with good improve
ments. 47f
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R6y- PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD COMPANY, once No. 227 South
FOURTH Street.
PHILADELPHIA, April 16, 1871.
Aspecal meeting OF the Stockholders OF the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad Company will be held
att he ONCE OF the said company In the city OF Pha.
deiphia on the eighth day OF May 1871 at 12 O'Clock
M, when and where the Joint agreement entered
into by the Board I Managers OF the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company and the Board OF
Directors OF the Lebanon and fremont Railroad
Company, for the consolidation OF the said COM
panies, and the merger OF the Lebanon and fremont
Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Read
stockholders and vote, by ballot In person. or by
proxy taken for the adoption or rejection OF the
same. j. w. JONRS,
AIS Secretary
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261

d e o l. U T ION
40 To Authorize the Grading of Rockland and
Pepper streets
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the De-
partment of Highways be and is hereby autho-
rized and directed to grade Rockland street,
from Lancaster avenue to Thirty-third street,
at a cost not exceeding five hundred and forty
three dollars and twenty-five cents; Pepper
street. from Martha street to Cedar street, at a
cost not exceeding eight hundred and eighty
dollars the said streets to be graded to the
established grade of the city.
HENRY HUHN,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL.
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ffth day of April,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one ca. d. 1870.
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
26 1t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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26 1t

DES OLU TION
III Directing an Adjustment of the Lines of
Seventeenth Street.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia, That the De-
partment of Highways be and is hereby au-
thorized and directed to so revise the lines of
Seventeenth street. from Susquehauna avenue
to York street, so that its width shall correspond
with the width (ffty fee) of said street south
ward of Susquehanna avenue, and be an extern
sion of the lines thereof as now established;
provided the city shall be at no expense for said
survey.
HENRY HUHN
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council
SAMUEL w. CATTELi,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-fifth day of April,
Annc Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one (A.D. 1S71).
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
26 1t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

nESgn PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL-
w. ROAD COMPANY, ONCE No. 227 s. FOURTH
Street.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1b, 1871.
A Special Meeting Of the Stockholders Of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company will be
held at the once OF said Company, In the city OF
Philadelphia, on the 6th day Of May, 1871 at 12H p.
M, when and where the Joint agreement entered
into by the Board OF Managers OF the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company and the Board OF
Directors OF the Northern Liberties and Penn Town
ship Railroad Company for the consolidation OF the
said companies and the merger Of the Northern
Liberties and Penn Township Railroad Company
into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
paDy will be submitted to the said stockholders and
vote by ballot in person or by proxy taken for the
adoption or rejection Of the same.
j. w. JONES,
ais Secretary.
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d E o L U TION
Az Directing the Construction of Culvert
Across Elmwood Avenue, Twenty seventh
Ward
Resolved, BY the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the
Department of Highways be and is hereby
authorized and directed to construct culvert
across Elmwood avenue, in the Twenty-seventh
ward, for the purpose of carrying the waters of
Botanic creek under said avenue. And that it
shall be constructed of such size and form as
may be directed in specifications prepared by
the Chief Engineer and Surveyor.
HENRY HUHN,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ffth day of April
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one ca. d. 1879.
DANIEL NJ. FOX,
4 26 1t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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4 26 1t

p ES o l. U ION
IL To Authorize the Grading of Tacony
and Yenango Streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the CITY of Philadelphia, That the
Department of Highways be and is hereby
authorized and directed to grade Venango
street, from Kensington avenue to Frankford
avenue, at cost not exceeding one thousand
two hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy
five cents; Tacony street, from Church street to
Paul street, at cost not exceeding six hundred
and fourteen dollars. Said streets to be graded
to the established grade of the city.
HENRY HUHN,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ifth day of April,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one CA. ID. 1S7O.
DANIEL M. FOX,
1926 1t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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426 1t

DES OLUT TION
liz Of Request to the State Legislature.
Whereas The State Legislature have under
consideration an act entitled IAN act for the
sale of the present Lazaretto, and for the erec-
tion of a new one, being House bill No. 1429
and
Whereas, The said act proposes to compel the
city of Philadelphia to dispose of the present
LaZaretto station, and to purchase Tinicum
Island, located in the Delaware river, below
Philadelphia, thus entailing great cost on the
city, without any actual necessity existing for
this proposed act; therefore
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the State
Legislature be and they are hereby earnestly re-
quested not to pass the said act.
Resolved, That the Clerks of Councils he
directed to forward to the Senate and House of
Representatives copy of the above preamble
and resolution.
HENRY HUM.
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty-ftth day of April, Auno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one ca. D. 1919.
DANIEL NJ. FOX.
4261t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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CITV ORDINANCES.

ID E s SOLUT TION
~ To Authorize the Opening of Emma and
other Streets.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun-
ellis of the City of Philadelphia, That the
Chief Commissioner of Highways be and he is
hereby authorized and directed to notify own
ere of property over and through which Emma
street from Abigail street TO Otis street. Thirty
ninth street from Bridge street to Lancaster
avenue, and Weccacoe avenue from MliIlin
street to the Pennsylvania Railroad, will pass,
that at the expiration of three months from
said notice that said streets will be taken for
public use.
HENRY HUM,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ABRAHAM STEWART,
Assistant Clerk of Common Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty fifth day of April, Ammo
Domini one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one CA. ID. 1871.
DANIEL NJ FOX,
426 1t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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