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Year: 1866

tho work b competed ct the present rate Of
progress. What q contrast Is seen when the
rapidly Of construsting the new HssALD build
ing-an edidce equally as grand as the new
Court House-is compared wiki the delay in
finishing the latter But one is done by cor
rups city jobbing politicians and contractors
and the other by honest and competent private
contractors
Year: 1866

All advertisements handed in until half past n,ne
O'Clock in the evening will be classified uRdor appro-
pirate headings but proper classification cannot be
insured after that hour.
Year: 1866

President johnson, while the other is to consoli-
negro suffrage. One is TO unite the conserva-
tive elements of the country; the other to inau-
gurste a movement in which the extreme
negro worshippers can unite and make their
efforts for the elevation Of the blacks to civil
and political equality with the whites all the
more effective. Upon these platforms and that
basis the delegates will assemble, and, as usual
at such gatherings, they will be manipulated by
the politicians who have their own interests
to serve and their own selfish points to carry
out II is, therefore, a question Of some doubt
whether the proceedings Of the conventions
and the general results Of their action will
advance the cause laid down in the calls or
merely glorify certain party leaders and
cliques, and furnish them capital to be used in
the elections in their respective localities.
The latter is evidently the motive that con-
trolls many Of those who are preparing to
attend these conventions.


Among the Rrst in this locality to respond to
the call Of the proposed conservative or anti
radical convention 10 the peace and copper
head element under the auspices Of the Woods
and Mozart Hail. Those conversaut with the
history Of the managers Of that faction cannot
possibly doubt for moment that they hope
to iniuse new life into that local Organization
and obtain for II prestige that will assist
them in the coming contest in our city cleo
tons. IL is the effort Of . bankrupt 10 obtain
new capital to Get up In business again. The
success Of the restoration policy Of the Presi-
dent or the reconstruction Of the country has
nothing to do with IL, except 80 far - that can
be made subservient to and assist in the accom-
plishment Of other points We may expect 70
see the same class in other States trying 70
renew their political lie under the CLOAK Of this
Year: 1866

For the Des Arc Citizen

 The undersigned appointed at called meeting of soarcy Lodge No. 49Jconven7 ed at the Lodge Room of West Point, Lodge 24, at West Point, Ark, on Sund- day the, 10th of June, A. D., 1866, to draft Resolutions expressive of the sense of the Lodge, in regard to the death of Brother Robert Haryille, beg leave to re- port Whereas, it has pleased an All-wise Providence to call from our midst, and from field of usefulness, our beloved friend and Brother Robert Harville.-' Therefore in view of the chasm which this dispensation has produced in our midst.

 RESOLVED, That while we submissively bow to every dispensation of Divine Pro vidence, yet we cannot but deeply deplore the sad calamity which has deprived us of the society of our friend and BrotherLhis relations of a kind and devoted kinsman- our order of one of its briehtest and most jealous members.

 RESOLVED, That in the death of our beloved Brother, the widow and the orphan sustained an irreparable loss, for in him they always found friend to relieve their distress and supply their wants.

 RESOLVED, That through respect to the memory of our deceased Brother we will wear the usual badge of morning for thirty days.

 RESOLVED, That copy of these reso lutions be spread on the record of the Lodge, and that the Secretary of the Lodge furnish the family of the deceased Brother with copy of these resolutions, as an as surance of the deep sympathy and condo lence of the members of this Lodge, and also furnish a copy thereof to the Des Arc Citi9en for publication.

 A. STEPHENSON,

 Chairman of Committee.
Year: 1866

We feel under lasting obligations to our friends for the liberal support they have extended us since the commencement of our paper Our success has been beyond all expectation, and we now think if the same support be given us in the future that has been ours in the past, we can soon say we have the largcstcirculation in the State. We do not wish to boast of our own efforts, but if our success be q criterion by which to judge, we certainly may fatter ourselves that our endeavors for the public good have not been in vain. In the commence memt we declared our determination to make ours the peoples paper--how far We have succeeded, it is for the peopleto say but this we know, all that we have done, we shall continue to do, and ill proportion to our encouragement, shall be our endea- vors to satisfy the demands made upon us, asking in return but the support that has been so liberally bestowed upon us in the past.
Year: 1866

Milan Correspondence London Herald

 Inmy letter from Como I gave you an account of the arrival. and reception of Garibaldi, and of my first impression of the volunteers having now seen them at drill in small bodies, and in regiments under the eye of Garibaldi himself, I am enabled to even more than confirm my formerfayor- able report of them

 They are simply, without exception, the finest material for soldiers ever saw. The great majority are between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five, but there area good many older men, and, perhaps, fifth or sixth of the whole number are lads from sixteen to nineteen. More than half, should say, belong to the middle and upper classes; perhaps one-quarter are artisans or mechanics, and the remainder belong to quite the lower order. They are, as a whole, tall, and are all exceedingly active, well-made fellows, capable of going any where, and doing anything that men could be asked to do All arein high spirits at the arrival of Garibaldi, and only burn to be brought into the presence of the enemy It must not be supposed that the volunteers are by any means all raw recruits, 1 should say that quite half of those at Como have one medal at least, many two or three, having served as volunteers with Garibaldi in the last war againrt Austria in his Nea- politan campaign, or in the regular amy.
Year: 1866

RETRENcHMENT.--We are glad to see that not few of the bills involving large expenditures of the public money, which were brought before Congress, and upon which preliminary action was taken, have been quietly laid to one side, with nopros- pect of being taken up. If Congress were to pass all the measures of that character which have been urged uponit, our national debt would be doubled before the close of the present session, One of these bills involved the expenditure of three hundred millions of dollars-a sum equal to onetenth of the entire amount of the debt of the Government; another appropriated thirty millions und there have been legion of schemes requiring from quarter of mil lion to several millions of dollars. Excel lent reasons were urged for the passage of almost every one of these measures and in each case it was proven how much the country would be benefited by favorable action. The reasoning in their favor would be perfect, if the Government had any other mode of raising money than by taxa tion upon the people; but as it has not, tbe argument is greatly weakened.-[N' Y. Times.
Year: 1866

hour Of merriment round the lamp aud
light OF home tlots out remembrance
many care and annoyance during
day, and the best safcguar,! they can I
with them into the word is tie nnseeI


auence Of a bright little domestic sahct
-Selected. e.
Year: 1866

is nothing makes me apprehensve when wake 10 the
North myself These apprehensions be removed in
tnis way Send your leaders this message: "Admit
state Tor the present. hold II under the sword till
is nRhways are safe TO Northern travellers and
~ marts OF business safe for Northern capital
and the ballot under the sanctty OF federal authority
SOIL" Applause


AFTER Mr. Phillips speech there an adjournment
o. nan an hour 10 enable the large assemblage enjoy
the good things that slowed away baskets and
wagons This occupied considerably over the al
lotted half hour, and many parties properly
thought they could do better rambling through


me shady groves and along the sheltered shores OF the
axe conversing upon other topics and arranging for
oher epochs than those be discussed from the anti
slavery platform The consequence that there was


considerable dminution OF hearers when the speaking
was resumed, and before long general disposition was
manifested TO break or altogether. This compelled an


cessation TO the speaking part OF the celebraon,
ana most OF those who had attended from Boston took
the earliest train to return The proceedings were con-
quoted and closed In very order " manner
Year: 1866

WASHINGTON July a. 1866
APPLICANT YE&iGbaI NAVAL OFFICE AT
Colonel Ludlow formerly OF General Dixs staff is In
tho city, trying 10 obtain tho New York Naval once
through the Recommendation OF six or seven New York
Congressman


THE JUDICIARY.
The balance OF the House Judiciary Committee aro pre-
pairing minority report against the judiciary bill ordered
70 be reported by a majority OF tho Committee.
Year: 1866

About three O'Clock this morning Are burst from the
New Hauen steamboat freight depot at Peck slip and in


short time the whole Of the buildings were in sheet
Of names When went press they were nearly all
consumed, and the shipping adjoining were in great
danger.
Year: 1866

upon me in the Spirtt Of Jefferson very nat
urally excited the Indignation of nv son. In
being made the bearer of letter from me to
the editor to ascertain the responsible author
of the attack, he chose when the author was
made known, to regard the attack made upon
my honor as equally an. attack upon his, aud
to make of it personal affair with him
His right and privilege to do so will be ones
toned by no man who recognizes the common
instincts of our nature, or acknowledges al
lesiance to the laws aud usages of society,"
Prepared myself at all times to repel outrage
aud to vindicate my own wrongs, nevertheless
L should be. reluctant to discourage that SEN
timent in son which teaches him that the
honor of his parents is his own honor. That
position he.has thought proper, to take. He
has SO far borne himself without reproaoh.
and so long as the personal affair stands as it
does at present, nothing remains for me but
simply to present such distinct statement of
my cOnnexion with the facts as NAV remove
al! error OF misccReeptiOn from. the public
mind.


GHAS. J.5FAULKNER.


April 13. 1866
Year: 1866

l heard the footsteps crossing the hall,
and then, as they came nearer, with the
feeling of desperation | sped noiselessly
across the room. laid down fiat behind the
hampers, and, as the door opened, threw an
empty sack over me. felt l must be dis
covered, for my head was totally uncovered
and l watched them fascinated breathless
from intense terror. They walked to the
window. saying, 1--WE shall see better
here, and looked out, presently all excaim
ed together. g He's coming now, that black
spot over there )" and without glancing in
my direction, they left the room again
was safe, but what could I do to save the
farmer :! Surely Charlie must be coming
with help now, but would he be in time p
must try and save him, was the convic-
tion that impressed itself upon me in a
lightning thought and as it crossed my brain
l sprang to the window. All thought of
sell vanished then with the urgency of what
l had to do. | was only eager-nervously,
frantIcally eager-to save the farmers life.


They say that mad people can do things
which seem impossible to sane ones, and |
must have been quite mad with terror and
fright for the next few minutes


Seven feet below me, stretching down the
slope OF the hill, was the garden, now lying
In long plowed ridges, with the frozen snow
on the top of each of them, and at the bot
tom OF the garden was a stone wall four
feet high. Beyond this, as far as the eve
could reach, extended the snow covered
helds. and coming along the cart road to the
left was Mr.. johnson in his gig


threw open the window, making noise
enough to alarm the men if they heard it,
and sprang on the window ledge, and then
tearing off my jacket, threw it on the ground,
ana shutting my eyes, jumped down. The
nigh jump hurt my wrists and uncovered
feet dreadfully, but dared not stop a mo-
ment. | rushed down the garden, tumbling
two or three times in my progress, and when
| came to the wall, scrambled over it head
foremost. The farmer was Just opening
the gate of the field | was in, and l made
straight toward him, trying to call out
But could not utter a word so few across
the snow dashed through the brook, careless,
that the bridge was a few feet further down,
and when | rushed up to Mr.. johnson S
side, | could only throw up my arms and
shrek out =" Murder !" Just as a loud report
rang out through the frosty air, and l fell
forward on my face.


And were ycu hurt?" 1 asked as she
paused.


. Yes, little. Look here is the scar -
and she raised the flowing fold of tarletane
from her soft white arm and pointed to a
white oval shaped scar.


And Mrs. johnson ?'' | asked.


The girls face became very grave.


:" She was quite dead The men had put
her under the dresser, which explains why
did not see her as passed through the kit
chen, and the poor husband went away di
rectly afterward. The whole house is un.
inhabited now. Nobody will live there, and
of course it is said to be haunted. l have
never been there since that day, and 1 think
L shall never dare to go there again"
Year: 1866

Our friends in the Fifth Ward-we beg
pardon, South Side-having vainly essaved
metropolitan airs, are now trying their hands
at sensations, and with much better success.
Not long since they gave the community n
first class case elopement, in whicn a young
man whose previous standing in the COM
munity had been most excellent a Junior
partner In one of the heaviest business
houses in Milwaukee, abandoned his wife
and two sweet children and eloped with
South Side German girl, taking with him,
Dame Rumor says, a large amount of mon
ey belonging to the firm. Hardly has this
ceased to be the subject of conversation,
when another play of strictly sensational
character is put upon the boards. Thus far
this play-style it as you WILL reader,
drama or tragedy-has developed most
mysterious plot, and has excited intense in
terest. The first and second acts are closed,
and the curtain has dropped for slight in.
PERMISSION. while a startled community
awaits the announcement in anxious sus
pense.


The scene is located in the family of a
worthy German doing business on Reed
street, and the heroine is this mans better
half, a lady of some forty five summers. 1t
appears that on Tuesday last this woman,





was attacked with what appeared to be
headache, which increased in severity to
such an extent that the aid of a physician
was invoked, who prescribed for her and
left with the assurance that all would soon
be right. No benefit was impaired by the
medicine, however, and bef re evening the
good lady to all outward appearance sudden.
ly departed this life. Obituary notices were
forthwith published in our German dailics.
and arrangements made for the funeral.
which was fixed for Thursday While this
was being done, several startling singular
pecullarltles became manifest to the afflicted
family. The body of the dead woman re-
fused to assume the stiffness and rigdity
usual with cofpses, and the deathly palor
OF the features gave way for a short time to
an appearance more fresh and lfe.like.-
Experienced medical men were at once sum
! moned and a consultation held, but without
success in unraveling the mystery. By their
advice the funeral was at once postponed
and the body carried into au unoccupicd
room to await results-and there the matter
rests for the present. Up to Sunday morn.
ing no pereeptible change had taken place.
The body still retains its elasticity, and can
be doubled up or placed in a sitting posture
with ease. The change Of color in the fea.
lures has also been observed for second
time


Owing to our limited knowledge of ma
terra medice we refrain from entering into
disquisition on the subject. We will ven.
ture the opinion, however, that it is not a
case of catalepsy, if we assume the de6n.
ton of the word, as given in the various
. books of knowledge" to be strictly correct. .
The case is one of the most singular that has
ever come to our knowledge" and we shall
endeavor to acquant our readers of its
hnal result. -Mil,caukee Sentinel.
Year: 1866

DISTANCE TO THE SUN.-Imagine a rail-
road from here to the sun. How many miles
is the sun from US? Why, if we were to send
a baby in an express train, going incessantly
a hundred miles an hour, without making any
stoppages, the baby would grow to be boy,
the boy woald grow to be man, the man
would grow old and die without seeing the
sun for it is more than hundred years
from US. But what is this compared to Nep-
tunes distance? Had Adam and Eve started
By our railway to 90 from Neptune to the
sun, at the rate of fifty miles an hour, they
would not have got there yet; for Neptune
is more than six thousand years from tho
centre Of our system.
Year: 1866

Mccormick, of Chicago, . very rich and
very venomous copperhead during the war,
has undertaken the job of reconstructing th e
Old School Presbyterian Church on the rebel
platform, and to that end is publishing a
lengthy correspondence carried on by him
with his southern brethren During the war
the Old School General Assembly put itself
on loyal platform and declared that treason
was not only crime against the State, but q
sin against the church, and required that
those guilty of it should be received into
fellowship again only upon confession and
repentance. And that position of the loyal
General Assembly, properly authenticated
and duly recorded, stands as the the law Of
the church.


Mr. Mccormick and his followers contend
that the action of the loyal General Assem-
bly,, which was and is, a mere trump in the
absence of the southern delegation, was un.
constitutional and void. And he insists
further that the action of the Confederate
General Assembly was more Christian in its
spirit and in stricter accordance with the
principles and previous position and history
of the church. This, of course, is taking
the extreme copperhead rebel position in the
matter as regards the church. and is little
in advance of the present political position,
but as soon as the rebel States are admitted
the position will be taken that Congress was
a ''rump' through the war, and that its action
in civil and political matters, like the action
of the General Assembly in church affairs,
was unconstitutional and void


The General Assembly which is to meet in
st. Louis next month will have, no doubt an
exciting session in view of the extreme
measures, which will be. pressed upon it by
Mccormick and the delegates both north and
south, who will maintain their views with great
desperation.
Year: 1866

The ATTORNEY GENERALsHIp-The Mus.
cstine Journal has an article on the mex,
State Convention and its candidates. On the
subject Of the Attorney Generalship it says:


Mr.. Bissell, now Attorney General by
appointment of the Governor, is candidate
for nomination. He.is one of the best law
yers in the West, and a splendid man person
ally His very able opinion on the railroad
question will, however, be the cause of his
defeat. Thinking as much of him as the
most earnest of his friends-and all the more
on account of the independent, manly spirit
Of that opinion-we must be permitted to
doubt the proprietv OF his candidacy.
GEORGE ". McCRARY, of Lee, is mentioned
as another candidate. We do not know that
he has authorized the use of his name. He
is an able lawyer, a pleasing speaker-the
most substantial young man in Iowa. With
out any fuss or parade he has grown year by
year in the public estimation. and is probably
better known in Iowa to-day than any man
of mis- age in the State. If a candidate be
taken from the southeastern part of the State,
it ought to be McCRARY, of Lee"
Year: 1866

w oma an and Three Children Murdered


"A man named julius Hall, who resides
near Warsaw, the county seat of Richmond,
on Tuesday last procured an axe and went to
the cabin of q negro woman in the neighbor
hood and murdered her and her three small
children. After perpetrating the deed, he
FIRST told his wife what he had done, and then
walked to his fathers, four miles distant, and
related to him ali the circumstances of the
affair He said he had no malice against the
woman, but something told him he must kill
her and her children. and he could not help
it. He was arrested and examined in the
presence Of the officers Of the Freedmen
Bureau, stationed at Warsaw, who, like
everybody who saw him, pronounced him in
sane. He has been acting strangely for some
time, but had hitherto appeared to be per-
fectly harmless He is now confined in the
county jail The circumstance Of this most
melancholy tragedy have been forwarded to
the aathorities at Washington. Richmond
Wing.


No doubt the man is crazy; the mania is
niger killing prevalent in the South, hasstruck
in on the brain of the man, and impressed
him with the idea that he had "cail' to
strike bloody blow in revenge for the de-
struction of that Divine Institution" en-
shrined in the affections of the faithful in
that section. One BooTH was affected in q
similar manner in Washington city q year
ago, and the assassination Of President
LINCOLN was the result
Year: 1866

II the festivities Of the day many and entered
into with splr, by loyal citizens those Of tho oven
ing were the less numerous they the lcs
spiriledly participated in The most rational way our
pleasure loving public have Of enjoying themselves since
the decaenec OF the drama In this city, that OF attend
ing balls and the various military and civic organizations
last evening afforded them ample opportunity Of in
dulyng their propenstlcs In that line There not
ballroom IN the chy unoccupcd and everywhere 60
nality and warmth porvaded the participants which
made each affair a perfect EucccEa
Year: 1866

We are no alarmlSt, says the
Houston Star, but we must confess
we feel some apprehension when we
road daily accounts Of the approach
of the cholera. We have seen an
official statement that this terrible
scourge has, at last, breathed its pes
tilential breath upon our own fair
land. The pestilence has been
steathily approaching like a "thief
in the night" and after crossing the
Atlantic, raises its hydrahead at
the Queen City of the Florida Kevs.
How long it will take it to reach
the borders of our own State-if it
should visit us at all-few, if any of
us, can tell. But it is reasonable to
presume that its march will be much
more rapid as the heat of the vernal
sun wakes stronger. We should, at
all events, hold ourselves in readi-
ness,


Halls Journal Of Health gives the
following suggestions, which deserve
immediate attention.


/. Every householder owes it to
himself, to his family, to his neigh
bors, to the community in which he
resides, to have his house, from eel
lar to garret, from the street curb to
the rear line Of his lot, most scru-
pulously cleansed, by sweeping and
whitewashing.


2. Every man who has any au-
thority in city or town government
should consider himself bound by
the oath Of office, and by every con-
sideration ofhumanity, to give him
self no rest until every street, alley,
close and gutter is placed in a state
Of as perfect cleanliness as possible,
and kept SO until the frosts Of next
season.


3. These cleansings should be done
now, because, if put off until warm
weather, the very effnrt necessary
for the removal of filth will only
tend, in the essential nature OF
things, to hasten the appearance OF
the edisease, to increase its malignity,
and to extend the time Of its devas-
tations; because the suns of spring
and summer the sooner warm into
life and intensity the viperic and
malignant influence, which in its
remorseless tread, wrecks so much
ofhuman happiness and desolates so
many hearthstoncs,