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Year: 1866

STATE OF ARKANSAS

 COUNTY OF PRAIRIE.

 In the Prairie Circuit Court of Prairie County

 in vacation, June 18th 1866,

 John T. Fuller, Plaintiff. n...

 VS, John H. wray, Defendant. Attachment

 Now on this day comes the Plaintiff hy his Attorney, and on his motion it is ordered and ruled in vacation, that notice be given to the Defendant by publication of copy of this order for two weeks successively in the Des Arc Citizen, newspaper published at pes Arc, in Prairie county, the last insertion to be at least thirty days previous to the next term of this court of the pendency of this suit which is an action of deht by attachment for the sum of thirty-eight hundred dollars, the debt as sworn to; that an attachment has been issued against his Estate, and that unless he shall ap- pear on or before the third day of the next term of this court, to be holden at the court house in the town of Brownsville, on the third Monday in August next, and answer the Plain tiff in the premises, judgment will be rendered against him. and his Estate sold to satisfy the same. A true copy from the record.

 Attest, R T. D0DSON, Clerk.

 june 26-2t
Year: 1866

NEW York BALLs.-This winter has beer
the witness to some Of the most magnificent
and extravagant public festivities ever seen
we suppose in the world. We have never read
of such in ancient or modern times Every
thing that genius and art could devise to pro
mote scenic display and brilliancy was EN-
ployed with the most lavish expenditure. We
read the accounts Of them not without appre-
hension. Such excesses have too often marked
the eras Of great calamities for mankind.


One Of these balls was a masked affair. The
maskers danced till IL O'Clock, and then drop
ped their disgaises-when 10, and behold the
most embarrassing situations were developed
One paper says brother found himself max
ing love 70 his sister-a husband TO his wife
and others Of still more delicate relations in
yolyed in similar awkwardness. This is, to
our ideas, bordering on the horrible and yet
the maskers are said to have been respectable
people. Much better wonld II have been 70
have kept the masks ON till the reyels were
ended N'
Year: 1866




The Supreme Court Of the United States has
recently affirmed the correctness OF President
Johnson's position in regard to the status OF
the rebel States. The point was, whether the
courts, as before the war, would take up those Sc
cases from said States which had been laid
aside In consequence Of the rebellion and, the
rebellion being suppressed the Court decided ,dea
dissenting So far, therefore, as the Judiciai
department of the General Government is
concerned, from the collapse OF the rebellion
the States involved in IL resume their former
relations as members of the Union. Thus the
head OF the executive department, by the
highest legal authority in the land, the court
Of last resort, is borne out in his Judgment
that secession is q nullity, that the rebellion
did not carry the offending States out OF the
Union, sbnt that In attempting TO gel out by
force OF arms "they placed themselves In q
con pdition where their vitality was impaired,
not extinguished-their functions suspended,
but not destroyed


This is the position of President johnson
and OF the Supreme Court-of the executiys
and judicial branches OF the General Govern
ment Blu. what 10 the position OF Congress,
the legislative department
Year: 1866

II TO the eighteen votes which were cast in the
Senate to sustain the Presidents veto, we add
twenty-five for the eleven Southern States
unreasonably kept out Of that body, the total
would be forty for the President, against
thirty opposed to him. So that he starts out
IN this new contest with clear majority Of
the people in his favor.
Year: 1866

TODAY. "A stranger visiting this city would
scarcely believe that. he was to-day I'm the
State which gave birth to him, whose name is
household word throughout this country,
and whose fame reaches the farthest portions
of the world. He would wonder that Virgil
mans did not, on the birthday of gorge Wash
ington, put on holiday robes, and spend the day
mid parades and festivities. But with all this
seeming indifference to the occasion, Virgil
mans do not forget the day, nor do they cease to
cherish the memory Of one who was such an
honor to the Old Dominion. They think with
sadness upon former anniversaries of his birth
day-of those who were with us to celebrate
them and is 1t not enough to make them sad 7
We remember the forms of many noble fellows
rs they paraded this day five years ago
through our streets in their gay uniforms,
with their faces beaming with pride for the
occasion; and we remember how our hearts
swelled with pride for them.


Where are they Call over the rolls Of . old
T, the " Grays," and the Blues" and ask
why so few answer here''l Those who sur
vive will give the sad answer. Little wonder,
then, that we do not celebrate this anniversary
to-day, rs we were wont to do. Though we
have no outward rejoicing, though our hearts
are sad. we glory that George Washington
was a Virginian, and cherish his memory with
pride and grateful recollection.
Year: 1866

MAYORS CoURT.-The docket was rather
thnly attended yesterday morning, there
being but one criminal case brought before the
Mayor. Doctor Busk charged with being
drunk and lying in the street, was dismissed,
this being his first offence.


John Macpherson, charged with violation of
q city ordinance in selling liquor on Sunday
He was fined twenty dollars but refused TO
pay it unless under protest, and he said that
the authorities might levy upon his property
for the amount. The Mayor ordered writ of
execution to be issued against him to the ex-
tent of the fine.
Year: 1866

SUDDEN DEATH OF AN OLD CITIzES.-Mr.
Alexander Mott, an old and much respected
citizen of our city, came to his death very sud-
denly on Tuesday night at about y o'clock.
Mr. Mott had retired at q quarter past IL
in his usual health, and shortly afterwards
was taken with violent fit of coughing, from
which he never recovered, despite the great
efforts of his family to relieve him. Mr.. Mott
leaves large family and many friends to
grieve for his loss. Disease of the heart is sup
posed to have been the cause of his death.
Year: 1866

STREETS IN RockETTs.-We would respect
fully call the attention of the city authori-
ties to the bad, indeed dangerous, condi-
tion of the streets in Rockets. They are
really worse than country roads, and the
bridge over Gillie's creek is In such condi-
ton that unless improved shortly the city
will be at the expense Of constructing another
one. The earthwork has all been washed
of, and vehicles actually pass over the naked
stone of the arch. Bloody Run street at the


point of its intersection with the York River
railroad might be called the city morass


The bridges are all gone, and any one
attempting 10 cross, or rather ford, the street,
Is pretty sure to leave one shoe, or both, behind
In the mud. A six-horse wagon was stalled
there on Tuesday, and that alone Is sufficient 10
show that walking there must be unpleasant.
The miFing OF the teams, and the everlasting
haIlooing and cursing of the drivers, are sources
of loss to the owners of the teams, and OF
annoyance to the citizens of Rockets. Can
not something be done TO better the condition
OF these important thoroughfares We hope
not TO have to complain on this subject again,
Year: 1866

F1RE.-The alarm of fire yesterday after
noon at about 2 o'clock was caused by the
partial burning of the roof of the dwelling OF
Mr.. Henry Younger, on Clay street, near
Brook avenue. Damage very slight
Year: 1866

ST. PAUL's SEWING SoCIETY.-A society has
been organized in this city under the name of
The st. PauPs Church Sewing Society,"" for
the relief and employment of the poor The
active members of the Society are ladies who
have taken upon themselves the duty of cut
ting out and preparing the work to be given to
the poor and the regular meetings will be held
in the lecture-room attached to the church.
1t is understood that the main object of the
Society is to give work to the poor, which will
be paid for 1T n fair price, so that those who
really need relief will be able TO gain sub
sistence by their own labor, and not by posi=
tive aims. Gentlemen will be allowed to
become honorary members upon payment of
an annual subscription of ten dollars. If the
honorary members were allowed the exclusive
right of escorting the lady members to the
meetings, and of being present during the ses-
sion, there would be an immediate influx of
young and gallant ten dollar subscribers, suf
ficient in itself to place the Society upon a
permanent and effective footing.
Year: 1866

has the following:


A story is told Of a hypochondriac
gentleman of rank and fortune In Ire
land, who fancies one of his legs OF
one religion, and the other Of another.
He not unfrequently puts one Of bis
unfortunate legs outside the bedclothes
10 cold weather, to punish it for ist
religious errors. This may be the rea-
son why the walk of many reIigionistsin
other countries than Ireland is so IT.
regular-one leg gets the better of the
other, and carries them where it ought
not
Year: 1866

SPANISH MAxIMs.-Do not all you
can, spend not all you have; cay not
all you know.


He who does all be can, will often
do what he ought not, and be VINO
says all he thinks, will often hear more
than he wished.


We must not be content with knoaO-
ing virtue, We must love it but
even this will not suffce--ws must
practice It.
Year: 1866

The correction of this is more peculiarly the husiness of the smith i; vet the master should diligently concern himself with 1t. For it is oftener the consequence of irjudicious or bad usage, than of natural vice. It may be expect ed that there will be some difficulty in shoeinR horse for the first few times. It is an oper- ation that gives hiz, little uneasiness. The man to whom he is most accustomed should go with him to the forge and if another and steady horse is shod before him, he may be in. duced more readily to submit. It cannot be denied that after the habit of resisting this nec- essary operation is formed, force may some- times be necessary to reduce our rsbellious ser vant to obedience. But we unhesitatingly af. firm that the majority of horses vicious to shoe are rendered 80 by hard usage, and by the pain of correction being added to the upeasi- ness of shoeing. It should be rule in every forge, that no smith should be permitted to strike horse, much less to twitch or gag him. without the master-farrier's orders and that young horse should never be twitched or struck. There are few horses that may net be gradually rendered manageable for this pur- pose by mildness and 6rmness in the operator. They will soon understand that no harm is meant. and they viii not vary their ueual habit of obedience. But if the remembrance of se- were punishment or torture is connected with shoeing they will always be tidgety, and occa- sionally dangerous. .

 This is serious vice, for it not only expo ses the animal to occasional severe i, iuries from his own struggles, but also from the cor rection of the irritated smith, whose life being in jeopardy. may be forgiven if he is sometimes little hard-handed. Such horse is very li- able, and without any fault of the smith, to be picked and lamed in shoeing and if the hab- it should be confirmed, and should increase, and fiat length becomes necessary to cast him or put him in the trevis. the owner may be as- s1red that not many years will pass ere some formidable or fatal sccident will take place. = If, therefore, mild treatment will not correct this vice. the horse cannot be too soon got rid of. Horses have many unpleasant habits, in the stable, and on the road, which cannot be said to amount to vice, but which materially lessen their value.
Year: 1866

Flint the author of the Ledger oan.
ard, publishes a card, In which he says
at may by proper to and that /
sought an interview with the President
on Saturday morning, and frankly ex-
planned to him the extent of my con-
nection with the dispatch in question,
and the grounds which had for writ
ing what | did write, Withholding moth
ing from him except the names of
those of whom l derived the informa-
ton"
Year: 1866

AVIsIT TO THE GRAVE or GEN. Al
Lena correspondent of the New
Orleans Times, writing under recent
date from the City of Mexico, in one
of his interesting letters says:


We took occasion 10 pay a visit to
the American cemctry, for the express
purpose of viewing the last resting
place Of Louisiana's chivalrous, TALENT
ed and heroic, though fallen son. 1t
was with some difficulty that we found
the grave, es not even lettered plank
is erected TO mark the spot where the
patriot warrior sleeps in the bosom OF
his mother earth. On enquiring into
this seeming neglect we learn that
nothing had been done 10 mark the
grave, because it was understood here
that the living sons of Louisiana were
coming after their sacred dead. This
should he done without delay. so soon
as the season will permit Don't let Il
he said thst Louisianians permitted
Henry Watkins Allen. the patriot eN-
lie, to sleep in foreign grave
Year: 1866

The Mobile Tribune says that coal
can be mined in Alabama and freight
ed TO Mobile for about SO per ton
Yet coal costs from S18 to $40 in that
city. Cause, want of enterprise to
mine It at home. The coal consumed
at Mobile and along the Gulf coast Is
carried from the mines in the North
ern States, by Northern ships, and by
Northern men, to whom all the profits
go. Such is the dependence of the
South on the North.
Year: 1866

The friends Of a Southern conscript
who was killed in battle, have sued a
lie insurance company for the amount
due on the policy. As the entry was
involuntary, the heirs claim that the
Company is hOlden-the Company
think otherwise.
Year: 1866

The floods have done serious dam
age to the roads, and have caused a
suspension of travel between Rich
mond and Washington for two or three
days. On the Richmond and Frede-
ricksburg road three culverts were
washed away, and on the Orange and
Alexandria road the bridge at Belton
was swept of, The James river is
much swollen by the recent heavy
rains.
Year: 1866

A call, signed by several of the leading
citizens of Oberlin, is published in the
Lorain County Ns'Os, for mass meeting
on the subject of reconstruction, to be held
in the College Chapel this evening. We
hope it will be fully attended, and that in
its speeches and resolutions, it will give
forth no uncertain sound. The present is
the most critical time in political history
since the formation of the grand Union
party, and such meetings and expressions
of public opinion are imperatively needed
everywhere throughout the free North,
Let tie peopLe sgstain their Coaqress!
Year: 1866

President johnson, on the oath Of Oc-
tober, when Provisional Governor of Ten
nessee, declared to a cOlored mass meeting,
Il will indeed be your Moses, and lead
you through the Red Sea of war and
bondage" ColOred men lstterly have
begun to th.Ik he does not intend to lead
them anywhere else.
Year: 1866

The Cleveland Herald is the only Union
paper published west Of the Alleghenies
which has the hardihood to speak in ap-
proving terms of the Presidents dis
graceful speech of the ed vH. Every
other paper which has spoken of it at all
has condemned it with deserved and
manly indignation-the Herald alone is
capable Of applauding it. The reason is
that the editor of that journal
holds fat office in the gift of President
johnson, which he might lose by being
frank and manly.
Year: 1866

Did the President Ever Approve 4 ne
Freednen's Bureau Bill:


We have already published the state
ment Of correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, to the effect that week before
the veto the Freedmen's Bureau Bill had
been submitted to the President and ap-
proved by him after careful revision. The
statement has received confirmation from
the Chicago correspondent Of the Boston
Advertiser, who says;


"Gen. -, who holds high position in
the Freedmen's Bureau under Gen. Howard,
told me but few hours since that he was
present when the bill was read to the Pres
dent, presented by Senator Trumbull and
Gen Howard. The President then declared
that that was lust what he wanted, and If
passed he would sign it without delay
There is no doubt of the truth of this state
ment."


We trust that the name Of this General
may be given to the public. The fact if
it be fact, that the President saw and
approved the Bureau Bill previous to its
passage, should be established beyond
cavil. It is of the very highest impor-
tance. If it be established, the question
then arises Why and when did the Pres
ident change his opinion?
Year: 1866

Probable tuOrt 0f HNdIcul~ %
Disturbance ON the Presidents Arrival in


CHICAGO, sept 3. 1906.
There strong indications of riot here upon the
Presidential reception. The Times ~ this morning, 10
Its leading article the action of the Board
OF Trade and the OF the radical press and says


What they may deem politics cannot saw, but II u
perhaps our duty 10 say that President will he pro
tected IN whatever he may say 10 the Board ot Trade
Hall and elsewhere, so long as he shall remain ~
Chicago We this spirit OF bray ado, hut simply
as a timely warning. The friends of the President viii
hold possession Of Chicago during bis larry here.


In reply 10 this the radical Ere,ng Ios says IN it,
leader


The New Orleans game OF riot and cannot b.
plenty here who give take blows, and that they
ready and prepared for any emergency which may
arise Not the presence OF Their chel v avail 70
bring aught but disaster upon the promoters oi riots


The feeling s intensely bitter and growing With each
hour and the great topic the reception OF the res
dent The candid and frank OF each party speak Of
RIO, as not only possibility but matter of probability
the meeting Of this part Of the grand army Of the
republic tonight In consequence OF The state oi AFFAIR."
and to arm and organize the members


Crosby has rendered the Of his magnificent Opera
House for the reception President and also for the
reception Of all civic bodies who are 10 arrive He has
slso extended an invitation to the President and party
visit the art gallery where Berstadts 'siorm In the
Rocky Mountains has to-day been placed on exhibition
along with the paintings Of "Yozmite Valley and
.Mount Hood two Of the prizes in the great a
alton srhemc
Year: 1866

ROMANCE IN REAL L1FE-In one OF the
quiet and beautiful agricultural towns in
Massachusetts,, marriage took place a
few days since amidst the congratulations
of many friends, and the surprise and al
most wonder Of many of the good people,
who are familiar only with the staid and
regular ways of the world. 1t seems that
a sensible volunteer in the Union army,
when at the front facing the enemies Of
his country, learned the name Of lady
in Massachusetts and determined to write
to her a soldiers letter. By accident the
letter fell into the hands Of another lady
by the same name in another town. An
answer was returned stating that a mis-
take had been made, ETC., with certain al
luslons to the war; its cause, and patriot
hope of a final triumph of the good cause.
The letter so pleased the soldier that be
requested the privilege of continuing the
correspondence. and it was kept up regu-
larly for two years. The volunteer was
at length discharged. and instead Of 60
ing to his home in Ohio. he journeyed to
Massachusetts to see the person whose let
ters had so much interested him. He
was more than satisfied, proposed, was
accepted and shortly the parties we're
married, the first marriage in family
OF four sisters, every one Of them
worthy to be the wife Of a patriotic de-
fender of his country.--The newly mar
ried pair will make their future home in
the West-Re,se6ec { NE. J Journal.
Year: 1866

New YoRK, Feb. 16.-As man with
$4,000 in bag was leaving one Of the
banks this morning, he was attacked by
thief who undertook to snatch the
bag from his hands He was resisted,
whereupon the thief drew knife and
cut off one of the handles Of the bag and
was about to cut off the other handle,
when the man having charge of the
money gave his assailant kick which
staggered him, and the man with the
bag made his escape. No arrests were
made
Year: 1866

vidinc ior the exhibition Of ofmineral spec
linens OF the United States in tho Patent
Office building, the Secretary of the In
terror being authorized to procure suita-
BILE cases for the same, and referred it to
the committee on Mining


House adiourned
Year: 1866

rectly recreant to the Government or the
mass of the people. Men may talk about
it, and about usufpation, but when am
persuaded the American people are the
witnesses, I do not want it by inuendoes
and indirect remarks in high places to be
suggested to me Have assurance; the
knowledge is in their bosonfs."


Others have exclaimed that the present
obstacle must be got out of the way. What
is that obstacle? l make use of strong
word; bat it was to be removed no doubt
II say the intention was assassination,
that the obstacle which the people had
placed here should be got out of the way
Are the opponents of this Government
not yet satisfied? Are those who want
TO destroy our Institutions and change the
character Of the Government, not satisfied
with the quantity of blood which has been
shed9 Are they not satisfied with one
great martyr in this place If my blood
must be shed because / vindieate the
Union, remember that the blood of the
martyr is the seed of the church


This seed will grow and continue to in-
crease in strength and power, though it
may lie cemented and cleansed with blood
One word about the amendments to the
Constitution. In conversation with Pres
ident Lincoln last February, he Indicated
his desire for an amendment 70 the Con-
stitution compelling the rebelliuus States
to send Senators and Representatives to
Congress because it is part of the doctrine
of secession that States might withdraw
their Senators and Representatives or re-
fuse to elect them. Now We find Con-
gress persistently refusing admission to
the Representatives and daily imposing
new burdens of law and taxation on the
unrepresented South. / regard this as .
fundamental error I never insisted or
eneroachments on the Constitution, and ]
stand prepared to resist them to-day


Would TO God the whole American peo
pie could be assembled here to-day as YOU
are, and could witness the great struggle
going on to preserve the Constitution ol
their fathers. They would soon settle the
question if they could only see the kint
of spirit manifested in the effort to breal


up the principles of free Government.
Year: 1866

IMpREssIvE.-A writer in the Petersburg
Index saws We remember at the battle Of
the Wilderness gallant young Mississippian
had fallen, and at night, just before burying
best. One of the group around his body, a
clergyman whose tenderness was womanly,
broke the silent tearfniness with which we
saw the letter he took it, laid it upon the
breast of him whose heroic heart was stilled,
and said: q Bury him. Hewill see it when
he wakes ~ It was the sublimest sentence
of his funeral service.