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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1878-11-19

The Little Rock Gazette says: " The
Rov. J. L. Denton, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, has entered upon the
duties of his Office, and already given
encouraging indications of the vigor and
zeal with which he will administer that
highly important departments of the gov.
ornment. He has fitted up a handsome
Office in the Dean Adams block, Just
west of the State House. on Markham
street, where he will be glad to sec all
who may have business of any kind in
connection with school matters.
Mr. Denton is arranging and meth
odising the department, and we are glad
to know that he will make his office q
valuable and efficient adjunct of our pub
lie school interests.
" Mr.. Denton requests us to say that
all letters on business connected witt
bis office, should be addressed to him a;
Superintendent, and not to Mr. Hill, late
Superintendent. Several annoying mis-
takes have lately occurred, in eonse
quence of private letters to Mr.. Hill, be
ing addressed to him as the Superintend
cnt of Public Instruction, which, being
apparently of an official character, wer,
opened by the present incumbent"
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The Republican Programme.

Speaking of the result of the South
Carolina election, the New York Tribune
says
"rhis is but one State out of sixteen.
1t offers sample of tn" least offensive
mode of defving the constitution In
some other states free government has
been destroyed by bloodshed and in
some others by fraud. With respect to
each and all of them the question will
be asked for two years, and will become
a very important question in the next
presidential election, whether sixteen
mob despotisms have any business to
control the government of the United
States"
This is a sample, and not the worst
by any means, OF the way in which the
leading republicans organs regard the
g solid South 1t fully confirms the
prediction made in these columns i'm
mediately after election The issue in
sue IN 1880 will be simple and sharp
Have the sixteen Southern states any
right to be democratic And should the
presidential election result in republi.
can victory, that issue will bring forth
practical fruits. In one way or another,
by fair means or foul, African and car
pet-bag supremacy will be re established
in the South, and maintained there per.
manently at all hazards and at any cost
This is the republican programme be
You'd doubt. Democrats, North anG
South, will take due notice thereof, anc
govern themselves accordingly.-[St
Louis Republican.
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all to its creditors, and then get more
money, and pay moro debts, until the
board is swept entirely clean. In con.
trast with this view, the greenback
scheme, like the national bank scheme,
assumes that we are to be eternally in
debit
There is still another thing to be
thought of. Perhaps you ask, What
shall the government do with tue trea-
sury notes that are paid Do WHY
what do you want to do with note that
you have paid I? You either cancel it,
or you jerk it into the fire, saying to
yourself, " There, I've got rid OF that
plagucy thing p Just so should the 90
vernment do with its paid notes The
grcenbaeks are part OF the national
debt, Just as much as the bonds. The
former are treasury notes, payable on
demand, and the latter are treasury notes
payable on time and when paid, the
greenbacks should be cancelled as well as
the bonds. But, you say, this will de-
feat the scheme of making the green
backs a permanent currency. SO 1t Will,
and possibly we are not as sorry for that
as we ought to be. Perhaps you say, al
so, that this might lead to an undue con
traction of the currency. This may be
true, and this we should heartily regret /;
and, therefore, we earnestly hope that
care will be taken, in time, TO fill the gap
with an honest currency from some 9th
err quarter.
The national bank bills are so closely
connected with the groeuback, that they
share all its traities and vices. III the
grcenbaeks are dishonest money. 80 are
national .hanL Sills, which do not COM
mand specie, but only dishonored green
backs. If fiat money should succeed the
greenbacks as "lawful money the ma
tional bunk bills would be redeemable in
that kind of trumpery, and would share
fully in the dishonesty which that scheme
involves. If the scheme of resumption
should fail, and the government should
cease to redeem its demand notes, the
national paper would be relegated to its
former equivocal position. The fact is,
both the greenDack scheme and the ma
tional bank scheme, are part and parcel
of the CHASTITY humbug that has eharac-
terized the administration for the last
seventeen years. True democratic states
manship dlscards both the greenbaeks
and the national banks. Greenback de-
mocracy is a contradiction of terms.
National bank democracy is ditto. But
gold and silver democracy is as natural
as life.
The people of this country have very
little honest money in their pockets
They will never have permanent pros.
perity until they have honest money.
They will need to look to tn e democrat
ic party for the glorious boon. That
party can give them honest money, aad
plenty Of it. The republican party has
neither the head nor the heart for the
grand achievement. The democratic
party has both. With that party at the
helm all be well. A. B. J.
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~ Memphis dispatch of the l4th
says that the Marlin Speed, which left
that port on last Saturday, the 9th inst,
with $50 tons Of freight, returned on
Wednesday night, having picked up a
snag at Waddell's Landing, forty miles
above the mouth of the Arkansas river.
Her freight, which sustained no damage,
was stored on a wharf boat at the mouth
of the river. Her repairs were to be
completed by Saturday, the 10th, when
she will depart for the purpose of COM
p.eting her trip.
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Quarantine.

Here is what the New Orleans Times
says on the subject
at is confidently believed that the re-
suits Of the inquiry into the subject OF
yellow fever now being made will he the
utter subvcrsion of popular ideas regar
ding quarantine Thorough travel will
be interdieted in the future only by such
towns as will so against all scietifc opin-
ion, and the mails will probably be uniu-
terdicted. 1t is probable that in the
coming session of congress this subject
will be discussed, and laws framed which
will prevent the occurrence of some OF
some OF the absurd and purposcless in
iurics inflicted upon this community du-
ring this year by embargoes laid down
by towns whose right was only exceed
ed by their stupidity.
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STATE OF ARKANSAS.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Proclamation Of Thanksgiving.

In accordance with honored custom, and
in humble gratitude to the Giver of all good,
/. WILLIAM K. MILLER, Governor of the
State of Arkansas. do hereby appoint Thurs
day, the 2Sth day of November, instant, to be
observed by the people of this State. as day
of Public Thanks giving and praise to Almigh-
all seasons, and whether in prosperity or in
ailliction. our whole thankfulness and rever-
ence are due to Him; but at this time. espec-
tally we. as people have great and peculiar
reason to acknowledge His goodness. Our har-
vests have been bounteous; internal dissen-
sion and bitterness of spirit, that once may
have existed. have passed away from among
us; peace and law reign supreme In our bor-
ders all our industries have been strength
ened; our wealth everywhere increased; and
in His plying kindness, God has been pleas
ed to spare us the awful visitation of the pes
thence that walked in the land.
do earnestly recommend that on the Day
of Thanksgiving the people Of tie State lay
aside their usual employments. and. In their
accustomed places OF worship assemble them
selves to give fitting testimony of their graf
tude for these signal merces of Divine Prov
idence.
In testimony whereof have here
unto set my hand and caused
L. o. the Great Seal of the State to
~ be affixed at Little Rock this
Thirteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy EIGHT. W. IL MILLER.
BY the Governor,
B b. BEAVERS, Secretary Of State.
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Eastern Democrats.

The Philadelphia Press thinks tha
there is strong under current in the
Democratic party, in favor of Gen. Geo
B. Mcclellan as the nominee for The
Presidency in 1850. 1t declares that he
is tavorite in Pennsylvania, and vii
be a favorite with the West before the
convention is called. We differ with oui
contemporary. The next President will
be Western man. We cannot afford to
waste any mere time on the East, or take
any more chances with eastern men,
memphis Appeal.
The above is all wrong. The everlas'
ting fact, the fact that we must keep be,
fore the people is that we did win in the
last campaign, with an Eastern man. We
can always afford ITO take chances with
eastern men" il with such men we can
defeat the Republican party. This is our
stoadfast belief, and II will be the Judge
ment of the party One thing is certain.
We might just rs well abandon all hopes
Of the Presidency, if we are to declare
our independence OF the Eastern Democ-
racy. Figures that cannot be made to
lie, tell us, with unerring certainty, that
there is not the ghost of chance for
success in that struggle without the aid of
these Eastern Democrats.- L. II. Ark
ansas Democrat
The Western and southern Democra-
racy cannot afford to ignore Eastern
Democrats. When they do, defeat and
disaster follows in their train. By all
the claims of justice to an outraged man,
Gov. Tllden is entitled to r enomina
ton, at the hands of the Democracy, for
President. There is not a more pro
found statesman in the country. tits no
fault Of his that the Democracy were
cheated out of the fruits of the well won
victory in 1876. But whether Gov. Til
den shall be re-nomnated or not, is left
for the foreshadowing wisdom Of the ma
tional Democracy to decide. One thing
is certain, the long tried democracy Of
New York and Connecticut should not
be secuted and hootcd at. Connecticut
with her Ingersolls, English, Eaton and
Gov. Hubbard who stand in the
front rank of acknowledgement not
be ignored, and sarcastcally told to
stand aside as useless apendages to the
national democracy of the country. Gov
James e. English was the first to lead
the old Commonwealth of Connecticut
out Of the wlderness--to take the State
out of the hands Of the radical party, at
ter the war, and place her in democratic
hands, at the same time extending awel-
come hand to the down.trodden, villfed
South Shall we now, on the eve OF
grand triumph, tell these men, these
States. that we have no more uso for
them? NEVER! No, NEVER
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Arkansas Democrat: The Radical Or
gans howl about intimidation, BULLDOG.
ing in the State, when tho truth is that
the Democrats did not have energy en-
ough to poll half their strength, to say
nothing of attempting to control the OPP
position. There was no bull-dozing and
the stalwart organs know it.
True as the Gospel. This county poll.
cd, at tho September election, Lila dem
ocratic votes, and, at the November cleo
ton 547 less Intimidation il all fudge.
Domocra did not have spunk enough
to vote. let alone preventing their oppo-
nants,
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EE The mother of Judge W. D. JAG
oway died at Dardanelle, last week.

TWe do not know that it has ever
been our privilege (Y) since we came to
the State, to witness a more extraordina-
rily quiet election than that through
which we have so recently passed. If
those Republicans who are willing to
cry out " bulldozing and intimidation
could have looked in on our election, we
imagine they would have been as asha-
med of their Misrepresentation, as we
are Of the deplorable apathy manifested
b our people on that occasion.
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rF The plan to be adopted by tt

fE The plan to be adopted by the
republican party, in the future. ia to i'm
press upon the minds of the people of
the North the belief that there is still,
in the South characterization, and disre-
spect for the personal rights of a certain
class OF the people. Democrats in the
North have this infamous SANDER to con-
tend. Monstrous in its influence will be
the effects of such a SANDER, for, it must
be remembered, there are thousands who
live in that section, that are prepared to
believe anything and everything detri
mental to the South. The republican
leaders are in need of party food and so
they resort to this men and unprincipled
sxpedient.
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tT A correspondent of the Atkins

tT A correspondent of the Atkins
News, writing up an account of his trip
up the Ihttle Rock and Fort Smith Rail
way, talks thusly Of our town:
AT II o'clock We were rounding the
bend at Van Buren,. At the depot, we,
for the first time, met the former agent
at that place, Mr.. Tom. II. Payne, who
we found to be genial, affable gentleman.
After partaking of a sumptuous repast,
we strolled out for walk over the gem
of our great Northwest" not forget
ting to closely watch the tairer sex, as
we CHANGED to meet them, (of whom we
had heard so much) and whose name we
found to be legion. Certainly no town
can boast of iairer daughters than Van
Buren,.
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Es- Gen Ben Butler sends forth to
the world his defiance 4" see some OF
the Republican papers say am dead,
politically dead. | am glad they think
so. If they do, they will 60 on in their
career of oppression of the people, both
in the state and in the nation; and II
they do, 1 will show them the hvellest
corpse at funeral they have ever heard
Personal SUCCESS or defeat to me Is moth
ing, never. Resurgam.'
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EF The Governor has, very wisely

EF The Governor has, very wisely
set apart, and appointed, the 2Sth day
of this month, for the people of the
State to assemble together in their respec-
tive places of worship, and give thanks
for the untold blessings that have been
showered upon them during the past
year. The Proclamation will be found
in our paper, to-day, and we hope the in
vitation will not be overlooked on the
18th of November.
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Extension of the Joplin Railroad.

The Fort Scott Monitor contains some
thing in regard to the proposed railroad
extension, which, we are inclined to be-
lieve, will be of interest to our readers
and to the generality of our people. 1t
says:
The managers of the Joplin railroad
which intersects the Mo. Il f. S. & G.
road, at Girard, Crawford county, have
determined upon extending their road
into the pineries of Arkansas, as speed
y as money can accomplish the work.
A surveying party, headed by Elijah
Lloyd, chief engineer has already been
placed upon the route, and are now en-
gagged in surveying out the most profta
bic route to intersect the Little Rock X
Fort Smith Railroad. The plan of route
as now contemplated, is to touch Ben
tonvile, Fayetteville, and thence on TO
the Arkansas river to point midway
between Little Rock and Fort Smith,
where connections will be made with the
above mentioned road
The completion Of this road through
so vast timbered region as it is intend
ed TO traverse, will be one of the grand
est achievements that this section of
country has been subjected to, inasmueh
as 1t taps the very heart of an ineXhaus-
tible forest, a connection with which this
ocCLfon nanesso seriously nccu
Not only is it an advantage to our coun-
try by reason of timber, but it gives to
them an outlet and complete railroad
connection with Memphis and all other
points on the Mississippi.
Captain f. II. Brown, an indefatiga
bic railroad man, and General Superin
tendent Of the Joplin road, has the mat
ter in charge, and when we say that his
indomitabIe pluck and energy will pre-.
val, we know whereof we speak.
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Arkansas Democrat "The Democrat

Arkansas Democrat: "The Democrat.
ic party says the Brooklyn Eagle.e is
able to combat its ancient foe, the Re
publican party, but it cannot fight itself
A world of wisdom in that remark, and
those of our party who think we can get
along without the aid of Northern and
Eastern Democrats, in case they fail to
stand with us on the financial issue would
do well to heed the warning.
Well said, Bro. Mitchell, and particu-
larry so, when they are not far wrong on
the financial questions of the country
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fT The County Judge OF Logan has
appointed Hon. A. d. King. Daniel Hen
ry, and James Parker, as building COM
mttce, to draw up plans and specifica-
tions for the building Of The new court
house.
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St. Louis Republican The cabinet,
according TO Washington dispatches,
spent some time, yesterday, in grievlng
over the reports OF violations OF United
States election laws in the Southern
states. last Tuesday. II there is any
ding In the nature of frauds which tue
,,,.esent administration especially detests
:, I. e,oeiion crookedness.
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Russellvile Democrat Editor Hite,
Of the Clarksville Herald, was severely
caned by DR.. ]. Ii. Lenow, of Little
Rock, last Friday, in the latter city Dr.
Lenow's aggrieyance was an article that
Mr.. Hite published some weeks ago,
criticising very harshly the Dr's course
while a member OF the Little Rock
Board of Health.
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cT A New York dispatch says that
Dodd, Brown Il Co., of st. Louis, have
accepted the compromise recommended
by the committee of creditors, CT 52t
cents on the dollar.
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S~ Are you ready to die p asks
tract sent to this Office. No, not yet |
want to sea how Ben. Butler will mako
it when he goes to Congress, this fall.
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RI The democrats elect all of their
congressman in this State. Cravens by
375 majority Gunter by about 2,400 ;
Semons, 1000, and Dunn without oppo.
sition.
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~ For two weeks past the Atkins
News has come to us with the .frSt page
,ri.tcd on the last. Have a turnabout,
BRO. Bell.
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We can see no good reason why the
Congressional and State elections should
not be held on the same day. 1t would,
certainly y, have the effect to bring out Il
fuller vote than the present plan of hol-
ding elections ut different times and
whatever is calculated to bring out full
expression of the popular will, is GER
tainly in the interest OF free govern
ment. We hope to see the law changed
50 that the STAT -a,-~.:-.-- Ill ---.
they do in many states on the day Of
the Congressional elections.
We fully concur with the Little Rock
Democrat in the above The Congress
ional election just held, fully demon
strates the fact that we will never get a
full vote for Congressman so Tonga that
election follows our State election, so
closely. At our State elections there is
always interest enough awakened to sc
cure pretty good VOTE and there is nc
reason why the two elections should be
held at different times. Aside from all
other considerations, the matter of ex
pense is an item that should be taken in
to consideration, and if we can save
$4,000 by the change, and be benefit
ted, besides, why not make it ? Rus
sellvlle Democrat.
Let us have the change, by all means
and let it be the first act of the legisla
ture.
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re- f. Moody Boynton, Greenbacker,
Of Mass, gives notice that he will con
test the seat of George B. Loring in
Congress.
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Ha- An Indianapolis dispatch

nr An Indianapolis dispatch of the
18th says; Rev. DR.. De La Matyr, Ma
tional Congressman elect, who has just
returned from the eastern campaign, in
an interview published here to-day, he
gave it as his opinion that the Nationals
will hold the bslance of power in the
next Congress, and in that event they
should stand together, WELD their power
as unit, and demand an uncompromis
ing Greenback man for Speaker, and {
fair proportion of the appointments anC
patronage of the House for the Nationa
party. He also recommends similar
policy in the State Legislature of lndi
ana.
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a. Maginnis, the present delegate IN
Congress from Montana, is reelected by
a large majority.
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Pine Bluff Press Judge Pindall has
And does it include a new hat, too ?
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EF The United States Grand Jury
were in session five days, and ;he Petit
jury four.
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81 Tho Logan County Enterprise
comes to us very much improved in ap-
pearance.
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EB- We are pleased to see the Mem
phis Western Methodist on our table
again.
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EF The Butler Democracy of Bos-
ton have nominated Frederick Q. Prince
for Mayor.
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Notice.

In pursuance of an order made by the Hon.
orable Crawford County Court, | WILL on
Monday, the
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2d DAY OF DECEMBER, 1878,

at 10 O'clock, a m. at the Court House door.
purchase from the lowest public bidder,
Crawford County Bonds Of the issue OF 1867,
to the amount of funds on hand for that pur
pose. A. j. WARD,
Treasurer of Craw ford County.
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C.tLL AND SETTLE.
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Third Congressional District.
Superintendent of Public instruction.

Cravens' majority, 1871.