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Year: 1859

There are about four feet water in the channel and falling slowly. There is a re- port of rise in the upper streams which may not be realized. There is plenty wa ter for the class of boats engaged in the trade, as the bars "cut out'' by the reced- ing of the river

 The steamer Grape Shot, from Cincin- nati, bound for Fort Smith, was sunk last week between this point and the latter place. We are not advised whether the boat will be total loss or not. The freight is somewhat damaged.

 The weather is cloudy, promising rain, of which the crops stand much in need

 The Mississippi river is falling fast, but we fear 1t is too late to make any crop upon the overfowed land on that river.- Two successive overhows are discouraging to planters, and will doubtless cause many to turn their attention to higher localities
Year: 1859

On Friday, the 10th inst, at a few min utes after F o'clock, Charles Cosgrove suf fered death by hanging, for the murder of young Lester, of which crime he had been found guilty at late term of the Pulaski circuit court. Several thousand persons were present, and though his confession of the committnl of the crime was not made public until after the execution, there was not a soul present who doubted his guilt He confessed to the sheriff and iailer while in jail, and shortly afterward, while on his way to the gallows, to the persons in the murder for which he was about to die and that he had no accomplice. As to other confessions that he had been guilty of a se- res ot crimes in past years, we have failed to trace them to any reliable source. He appeared penitent and wept from the time he was taken from the jail to the place of execution. He was attended on the scaf- fold by Roman Catholic clergyman who gave him the last office of the church. Rev. D. L.G. Mckenzie of the Methodist church was also present. The convict was said to be mach prostrated but did not appear to be unable to walk and promptly obeyed the directions of the sheriff as to where he should stand on the platform.

 We give here likeness of Cosgrove which will be readily recognised by all persons who have seen the guilty unfortunate. Mir. Washbrn, the artist, drew the portrait of Cosgrove in the court room and the cut was executed by w. N. Tate, surgeon dentist, of this ely
Year: 1859

To THE LEGAL PRoFEssroN.-We com- mence this week, the publication of the points decided by the supreme court in the different cases adjudicated. Heretofore, the names of the parties, county where the suit originated, reversal or confirmation of tho decision of the court below, and the name of the supreme judge giving the opinion. were all that was published. This being quite unsatisfactory, we have been at some trouble to get the points decided in each case, and will publish an abstract with each case decided These abstracts are prepared expressly for this paper by F. M. Hoadley, esq, young and talented law yer of this city, and will be found to be correct. Our acknowledgements are due to the gentlemanly clerk of the supreme court, Luke E. Barber, esq, who has kind ly furnished us with the facilities for get ting these decisions. and who has hereto fore laid us under many obligations.
Year: 1859

in Me quiet tomb-that he is finally at rest, after many years of unceasing professional toil-will be heard with emotions of sad ness, not only by the bench and the bar, but by the whole people of the State, for no one of her citizens was more generally known; and surely there will be a common feeling of regret that he was not permitted to remain longer in order to reap, in the evening and decline of life, the reward of that arduous labor in which he wasted and wore out the vigor of his manhood

 : Springing from that class of people whose habits of life endow them with the best physical constitutions, who contribute most to the intellect of every age, and in our free and happy country furnish the lar ger number of our great men, Con- Fow- LER was endowed with the elements of char acter which he developed by his own ex- ertions, without the aid of affluence, and which enabled him to attain very consid erable eminence in, and beyond his adopted State, and won for him the credit of being ranked among the l" self nude men''

 Coming to this territory when young man, without means, without books, and finding, perhaps, but few acquaintances among the settlers who had immigrated hither in advance of him; having nothing to rely upon for success but strong and energetic mind, an unconquerable will, a laudable ambition, and an unfatering pur- pose, the success which crowned his efforts, the eminence which he attained, is an en- couraging example to the younger members of the profession, commencing their career under like disadvantages, to labor with full confidence of a like success in attaining an honorable rank at the bar

 Col. FOWLER belonged to that class of lawyers who have done most to establish and build up an honorable fame for the bar of Arkansas; and it is a melancholy rehec tion that he has followed a large number of them to the tomb-BEN. JOHNSON, CRIT- TENDEN, ASHLEY RoANE, TRAPNALL and CocKE, WILLIAM and EBENEzER CUMMINs, LACY, CURRAN, SCoTT and others-memo- rable names in the legal profession of the State-and it would be but a commendable spirit of emulation in those who survive them, and in those who are entering, and yet to enter the profesSion to strive to pre- serve unimpaired that standard of profes- sonal eminence which they attained, and that honor and reputation which they con tributed so largely to establish for the bar and the bench of Arkansas-for the credit of the State, the hope may be indulged that the H0ing may be as Wustrious as tie dead!

 A true copy.

 ATTEST: LUKE E. BARBER,

 Clerk
Year: 1859

MEssas. EDITORS: The last legislature did not express what they meant, or else there will be great deal of trouble and litigation in our State on or about the first of January next, or else l have not seen a true copy of the act for the removal of the free negroes from the State. Masters and sheriffs will both have to disregard the let ter of that act, or there will be trouble, and l am not certain that some of our sheriffs will not aim to be governed in their action by a strict literal construction of the law. The act reads " free negroes and mulattoes," so that according to a literal construction of these words, mulattoes, whether bond or free, will be subject to the force of the law. Who is to be the judge of the spirit and letter of the law? Is the meaning obvi- ous? Abstractly it may be, literally it is not. OPPOSER.
Year: 1859

CRuELTY.-A woman, named Susan Davis, ninety years of age, was turned out of doors by her own son, in New York She was utterly destitute, and applied to an acquaintance who provided her with food and gave her the use of basement room. A day or two later, she was found dead in bed.
Year: 1859

To he President of kte Senate of Me Gen.

 eral Assembly the State cf Arkamsas

 I herewith return for reconsideration a bill entitled "An act to change the time of electing Representatives in Congress. If this bill could stand and operate as a law it would deprive the people of the State of Arkansas of all representation for about eight months at the beginning of eueyy term
Year: 1859

The rebel Democracy of Pennsylvania
under the leadership of Forncy & Co., held
their convention at Harrisburgh, on the 14tl
inst. We have not yet received the full pro.
ceedings Below are the resolutions. 1t will
be seen that the Administration is cut off,
and the right Of the Administration party to
be considered as the simon pure and regular
Democratic party is repudiated also, that the
doctrine is asserted that the right of the pco-
pie in the Territories to establish or abolish
slavery is paramount to the authority of the
Supreme Court


Resolvs1, That we are here to-day to resist
every attempt to weaken or overthrow the
creeds OF the Democratic party, and to unite
for the purpose Of restoring, in all their vigor
and purity, the great truths that have hereto
fore made the Democracy the conquering
organization who have contributed to the
enduring welfare of the Union.


Resokced, That this Convention most SOL
emnly declares its warm attachment to the
Union of States, to maintain which it pledges
all its powers, and that for this end it is our
duty to oppose every infraction Of those prin-
cples which constitute the only basis Of that
Union, because faithful observance of them
can only secure its existence and public hap
piness.


Resolced, That we are bound to regard the
Administration as having forfeited the conf
dence of the people, and to denounce it as
unworthy of the support of the Democratic
party.


Re ,olced, That the attempt of the Admins
tration to disregard the covenant of 1856, and
in its stead erect despotic test to compel
obedience to doctrines subversive of repub-
lican liberty, was the work, not of the Demo
cratic party, but of men who had resolved
upon ambitious purposes.


Rssolved, That we endorse the principles of
popular executive with the franchises of the
people of the States; that we repudiate the
Platform of the Convention of March, and
that, no matter what the decision of the
Supreme Court may be on that abstruse
question, still the right of the people to make
Slave Territory Or Free Territory is perfect
and complete under the Nebraska bill.
Year: 1859

BEEF TEA.-A most excellent food
for the convalescent, is made Of half a
pound Of lean beef, cut in small piec'
es, and soaked half an hour, or more,
in a quart Of cold water, and afterward
boiled few minutes, stirring it little
as it begins to boil. Then pour it in
to bowl upon a piece Of hot, we'll
Drowned toasted bread. Drink OFT the
liquid, or eat toast and all with a
spoon. The only seasoning allowed is
. triae Of salt, or very slight flavor
of red-pepper pod. If there is sense
Of chilliness in the patient, whole
pepper-pod may be used, making the
tea very fiery. It will then be a good
sudori6c.
Year: 1859

PURSUIT OF PLHAsURE.-We smile
at the ignorance of the savage who cuts
down the tree in order to reach the
fruit; but the fact is, that blunder
of this description is made BY every
person who is eager and impatient in
the pursuit Of pleasure. To such, the
present moment is everything, and the
future is nothing; he borrows, therefore,
from the future at most usurious and
ruinous interest +; and the consequence
is, that he finds the tone Of his best
feelings impaired, his self-respect di-
minished, his health Of mind and body
destroyed, and life reduced to its very
dregs, at time when, humanity speak
ing, the greater portion Of its comforts
should be still before him.
Year: 1859

WHAT NORTHERN DEMOCRACY MUST CONE TO.
Senator Brown, Of Mississippi, in recent
letter, thus declares, in behalf of the political
school he represents, the ultimatum for acting
with the Northern Democracy in the Presi-
Dental election of 1860:


''Not only is the territorial legislature not at
liberty to exclude slavery by u.triendly acts,
but it is bound to give such adequate and
sufficient protection as its nature requires !;
and, in default of its doing so, it is the duty
of Congress to interpose and compel its crea-
ton to discharge ITSELF 10 these positions
the Northern Democracy must come, or we
cannot stand with them in 1860. Anything
short Of this is lnockery and delusion."
Year: 1859

Under its new prospectus, the name
Of the Washington U,sson is to be changed to
the Constitution. This is after the fashion
of pirates, who hoist the flag of the nation
they mean to plumber. Under its former
title, the paper has done its best to distract
and divide the Union, and, under the latter,
we suppose it will pervcrt and assail the
Constitution.


With regard to the Charleston Con-
vention, the Mercury, Of that city, says in a
recent article:


We are not sure that any such convention
will meet, but, if it does, unless it is limited
exclusively to delegates from the South, it
will be no convention of the Democratic party.


According to this authority, modern DEM
ocracy is peculiar institution Of the South.
The Mercury is about right.
Year: 1859

as personal fling at the Treasurer Of
State" Had that section been adoped,
$4,000 of the States money appropriated
for the new Lunatic Asylum would not
have found its way into the Canal Bank Of
Cleveland, and an infinite amount scattered
over the State, and perhaps somS of it out
fit, making it necessary for the Sinking
Fund Commissioners to convert the U. S.
stocks into money, out Of abundant pru-
dence to provide against contingencies grow
ing out af "an embarrassment which has
oyertaken the Treasury" whereby there may
be doubts Of its ability to pay half million
Of interest when there ought to be at least
a million of money in it.


ROBERTJ. ATKINSON.


The report Of treasury commission pro-
foundly remarks:


"Wherover an Independent Treasury law
of this State is unsustained or denounced, it
may be Justly assumed that influences are
at work which, if left untrammeled, would
again lead to another defalcation."


Let this apply to those whom Mr.. Atkn-
son duplicates in defeating the sub-treasury
at time when so many of the party knew
the urgent need of it, and because they
knew Breslin could not pay the money in
his hands.


Next we find letter from Edgerton to
Morgan, Dec. 4th, just after it had been
officially reported that there were near six
hundred thousand dollars in the Treasury
and when the treasurer had power to draw
on the county treasurers for half million
more, as was the custom, announcing his
fears that the treasurer could not meet the
January interest; showing that draf
drawn by the auditor on him Nov. Goth
had not been paid, and that he was aware
of the illegal means the auditor had taker
to cover the deficit by selling the sinking
fund stocks. Could Edgerton know s.
much and not be aware of all the rest?-
We apply to him and to Morgan the logic c
their report:


"If Mr. Gibson was not cognizBnt of NJ
Breslin's illegal conduct while in Office an
connected with him in some form in hi
depreciation upon the treasury, he has show
himself by his neglect, to make even th
most ordinary prudential inquiries upon h
going into the treasury, and ascertanin


that the amount appearing to be due froI
Mr.. Brcsin, was not to be paid to him, {


be utterly devoid of common sense, and t,
tally unfit to occupy any position Of respol
sibility and trust"
Year: 1859

Here Is letter from Morgan to Edgerton,
written just before election, which informs
him so particularly that the funds taken
from the Sinking Fund were only loaned
temporarily and were to be returned, that
it excites suspicion thatif it was not for Nor
gan's forebodings of the result of the cleo
tion which just then was so inconvenient to
this gang, the re-transfer would not have
been thought Of
Year: 1859

C%- At about daylight, yesterday morn
ing, fire was direovered just back of Hop
ley d Co.'S Furniture Store on the corner
of D and First, and extinguished before an
alarm was given. 1t appeared that some
mischief.maker had stuffed some straw mat


trasses into the midst of pile of empty pine
boxes, and set them fire. There would soon
have been a large blaze, alarming the whole
city, and perhaps doing damage, had not the
incipent blaze been discovered when it was.
Year: 1859

| EXAMINATfoN CONTINUED. AT an early hour
| this forenoon, the Police Court was densey
crowded, says the Telegram Of Wednesday
TO listen to the details of the case wherein
Mrs Phillips accuses DR. Rowell of Improper
conduct in regard to her sister. Mrs. Philips
took the stand again this morning, and was
undergoing rigid cross examination. But
little has been elected from her differing from
the direct examination. She still persists in
the endeavor to fix criminalty upon the de-
fendant; states positively the substance of
various conversations which she has over
heard between her sister Susan and the DR. A.;
that the conversations took place in her own
house I; that she was SO concealed at the time
that neither of them were aware that she was
listening. She became an eavesdropper be
cause she felt that she had right so to do.
considering the circumstances and the rea
tionship to her of one of the parties She
overheard IL conversation a short time since,
Just prior to the crime complained OF, while
she was concealed in closet, between the
parlur where Susan and the Doctor were, and
the wash room. Their conversation was loud
enough to be distinctly heard she knew it
was the Doctor because she recognized his
voice, and afterwards saw him when he went
out. She stated that the Doctor made an
appeal to her sister not to expose him she
said she heard him distinctly say, "For Gods
sake, Susan, don't implicate me, whatever
you do" to which Susan replied that she
would not When her sister was taken i'll
she said that she wanted to send for Doctor
Rowell and magistrate and that if the DR..
did not marry Susan she would blow his
brains out" She said her object in making
the complaint was but sense of duty to
herself, her friends, the community. the law,
and her God. She stated that her sister had
made full and complete confession to her in
relation to all matters touching all that had
at any time passed between Susan and the
Doctor She knew nothing in regard to some
tran.actions other than her sisters disclosures
to her. She did not recollect calling the Dr.
-, but she did call him thief, black
guard, and libertine


G. F. Knox, Notary Public, was next call.
ed lie testified in relatiol to the affidavit
recently published by Susan Eastbrook, in


which she denies every allegation as set up
by the prosecution. The statement was made
to her and she responded to its correctness,
and swore to the same She did it willing
ly, without any restraint whatever Doctor


Rowell was present at the time the docu-
ment was signed. The Notary did not take
any pay-his gallantry usually forbid hi.


taking fee from lady.
Year: 1859

A MURDER REVEALED BY A DREAM.-A mi
raculous discovery OF a horrible murder is
related by Belgian journal of recent date,
Of which we make a summary. Two broth
ers, Jews, set out from Gyek with a view Of
placing their two daughters at a boarding
school in the town of Grosswardein Dur.
ing the night of their absence, the youngest
daughter, aged ten, who was left at home
woke up her mother suddenly during the
night, and, crying bitterly declared that she
saw her father and uncle, and all being mur-
dered The mother, for some time, took no
notice cf the childs declaration, but, as she
persisted and would not be pacfed, she be.
gan to be alarmed herself and the next morn.
ing took the child before the Mayor of the
town, to whom she declared her dream,
stating at the same time that the murderers
were two men living in the neighborhood,
whom she deliberately pointed out, and fur
ther added that the murder was committed
at the entrance of the forest. on the Dad to
Grosswardein The Mayor, after receiving
this revelation, thought it prudent to make
inquiry after the two neighbOrs indicated by
the child when, singular enough, they were
discovered to be absent from home. This
suspicious circumstance induced the Mayor
to dispatch some officers to the forest alluded
to by the child, who discovered the horrible
spectacle of five bodies extended on the
ground, which were those of the two brothers,
the two daughters, and the driver of the We
hicle in which they all took their departure.
The corpses appeared to have been all set on
fire, so as to destroy their identity, and the
vehicle was nowhere discovered. This hor-
rble tragedy led the officers TO examine the
whole neghborhood, when they fortunately
pouncsd upon the two neighbors at a fair not
far distant, as they were in the very act of
changing some notes on which some spots of
blood were visible On being seized they
Immediately confessed their crime, and on the
child's dream being revealed to them, ac-
knowledged the finger of Providence dis
played in their capture. This wonderful
dream on the part of the child, and its fulfil
ment, excited an immense sensation in the
neighborhood.
Year: 1859

The GARRISON LINE OF STEAMsHIPs.-It is
stated, says the Bulletin, that Messrs. Garri-
son d Co. have rented Mission street wharf
for one year for the use of their steamers.
1t is also stated that they have rented an
office on the southeast corner of Sacramento
and Leidesdorff streets, and dispatched an
agent to Acapulco. Are these marks of the
genuine character of the aledged opposition
line OF steamers by Garrison & Co., or are
they portion of a possible plan to hocus
both the public and the Pacific Mail Com
pany?
Year: 1859

STEAM WAGoS, AGAIN.-Y esterday at half past
2o'clock, precisely, Warren P. Miller's steam
wagon started, in the presence of large
concourse of people, from the corner of B
and Second. She made much noise, but
Travelled slowly. Frequently she came to a
dead halt, but this was owing to the bad
working of the engine. Finally she reached
point near the corner of A and Fourth
streets, when it was discovered, all on sud
den, that nertly all the water had leaked out
of her boiler, and she was stopped "quickern
possible" At this point we left her There
is no doubt but that the thing will work
The principle is there, and Mr.. Miller will


bring it to perfection in the course of time.
Year: 1859

She then took a south wardy course, and
was soon out of sight. going at the rate OF
fifty miles an hour. | understood after
wards thay they landed over one hundred
miles from Berlin, and were three ana .
hall hours in the air


This was the last saw Of Mr. Risley, for
at the place he landed he took the cars and
went on to Vienna. From tits time have
not seen him until the other evening, in
visiting the Theatre Royal to see the beau
tifnl panorama Of the Thames what was my
astonishment to find in the proprietor Of
that picture the same Mr. Risley that had
last seen sailing through the clouds in Ger.
many. am, sir, yours, A Traveller


January 20, 1854
Year: 1859

WARS IN A NAME ?-The term
gentleman Is very often misapplied. 1t is
very ungentlemanly, to say the least, in a
man holding high social position in
Society to cast an insult upon q person
whom he may cons der below him in the
social scale Posit on is not cloak for in
suit and abuse to lnfs iors We had intend
ed making this item personal one. but we
refrain this time. Perhaps certain party
may understar 1t as it is