VOL. 9. THE VAH BUREN PRESS, PUBLISHED AT ▼AN BUREN, ARK., TUESDAY, BY J. S. DUNHAM. TERMS: |3 00 per annum, strictly in advance. 1 00 for six months Single copies 10 cents. BrtCS 1 w 2 w Im 2m 3ra 8 m 12 m '..inch SI 00 SI 75 *2 75 14 00 S 4 00 <8 50 Sl2 50 liDch 168 225 333 500 500 10 00 15 00 Winch 250 350 500 675 10 00 16 00 22 50 Jinch 350 500 660 10 0O 13 33 20 00 30 00 i inch 415 the citizens of V in llurea and vicinity. Residence at -Mr. Chaßl.ks .M. "TKWaxFs. when- he can be found at all times unless pro fessionally absent. dm DR J. A. DIBRELL, PI’YSICIAN. Surgeon and Obstetrician. will punctually attend to calls from the County during night or day. IVO.UcerU the old plaee adjoining his residence. fell 15.'69. ts Dlt. A. M. BOUHLAND WILL sUsndlo cells in oily or eoantry. st ell hours. OFFICE os Mais Stm«t east res Rives. April 2,’7(itf A. W. ALEXANDER, Itosident Dentist, Office over Dr. A. M. IJoitrlunds. wr Retorencen -Physicians of Van .Buren and Vi eiaity. jan.'l.lyl 4IUN. WILCOX, W. J. alkxandkb WILCOX 4 ALEXANDER, •A-ttornoys at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Van Bubisx, Abkansas, Prompt attention given to tho Collection ot Claims In North-Western Arkansas. Office on Main Street, opposite the Court Bouse. BENTON J BROWN, -A-ttorney at Law, Real Estate and General Collection Agent, VAN BUREN, ARK. WILL practice in all the Slat* end I'. S. Coartl in Westers Arkansas, and do a sanoral Collec i on and Agency business. WILLIAM GLAMS, _A.ttorn.ey at Law, FORT SMITH, ARK. WILLIAM WALKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AMD SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, WILL practice in the Federal and State Courts. FORT SMITH, ARK. il l. McConnell, Attorney at Law, WILL practice in the Federal, State and Justice Courts of the Count,. Ornes, West of the Court House, and South of B. C. Powell Co’,. Store. Great Excitement! QLATTON sone to the U. S. Sonata and the Eclipse Saloon, fsaflrmed as a vtanT-ct.sna s«tj nt.rsttstsT. Harins ®tUd up their untrinus Hall In Block, the I r<>- tristors of ths K-lin-e Saloon and Billiard lull, take pleasure in announnne to the public that they have •l»tned a first-class Saloon, where evebody ”i»n be ac- SQmaiodated with plain and faney drinks, wines, L Mud Cigars, and in fad# everything that is gen r *llvkept In a No. 1 Saloon. Pelite and attentive Barkeepers always ready to at tend the wants of customers. A. CU\ a»ar2l.'7| 11. PBUHO* A 00. JAMES M. BAXTER, Public Auctioneer AMS Deputy Sheriff, WILL attend to all Sale, in the Hir or enrintry. Balinese solicited. May be found at the Court •Uueo durins the day, when not enpneod. Am a rttularl, annointed Deputy Sheriff the County, end ’"I spend to all busiueisientrurud to ate, prompt- ®lw law gwss. John W. Cunningham Co., WIIOLtULI AND RETAIL DKALKXS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE. GARRISON AVENUE, Fort Smith, Arkansas. A Liberal Price Paid for Cottou and Beef Hides. nov 1,’69, ly Metropolitan Hotel. LITTLB ROCK, ARK. riTHIS new and commodioui eitebliihment ha, pail- _L ed into the hands of tbo undvrsignvd for a term oi years. Uu will spare no atteutiou ur expense to make it a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL in ev.ry respect. Aud as the House is new and cora plcto 1U all lU appoiutuieuts. he hopes to mm with a liberal palronago. W. H. FULTON, Proprietor. Capt. E. W. B. NOWLAND, Manager, To whom all letter, on business must be addressed, fob 71tf CHS. F. HARVEY, DEALER IN 111 COOK tIOCIK aNDj _ I General Merchandise, MAIN ST., VAN BUREN, ARK., I OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE. AGENT FOR Plio-nlx Fire insurance Co.. Hartford, Conn. National Life Ins. Co., Kentucky. HENRY GLASS, (Formerly Doughehfy A Glam) Manufacturer and Dealer in FURNITURE, May be found at the Old Stand, Baste Block, where ho will keep on hand aud at lew Stares. FraWOMKIW, Caweieties in part of Parlor, Bed Room, A Dining Room Sets. Bureaus, Chairs, Tables, Safes,' Wardrobes, and ar«ry ether kind of Household Furniture in the line. PATER HANGINGS, s a bad one. R.—So Logan says, anyway. I gather from ycur conversation that Mr. Greeley has disappointed you. In what respect, pray Mr. Wentworth then made the folllow ing statemeot. which We give verbatim, retrenching any vigorous redundancies bater suited for the columns of the Sun day Times than far our purer paper: “A few days ago Mr. Greeley came to this city, and was met at breakfast by myself and Grinnell. Wo paid for that hoary lunatie’e oil cake—milk toast, I mean. Ilia hack hire didn’t coat him a cent, and we thought ourselves reimburs ed bv his words of wisdom on the crisis and the crops. 1 shall allude by-nnd by to his political ravings; just now 1 only refer to the farming phrase of his insan ity. I sat at that man’s fest like Paul at the feet of Gamaliel. I acted on his the orlee, and in one short week I was A HUtNZD MAN. You ask me how so Go and look at Summit Fann, it looks like the alkaline desert, a howling wilderness dotted with skele'one! ‘Greeley,’ said I, -what do you think of my Merino sheep?’ 1 have —that is 1 had about 200 of them, worth 8175 apiece.) ‘Merino h—l,’ said Gree ley mildly; ‘why the devil don’t you cul tivate silk-bearing elieep? Merino is played out. I have tired thousands of times to get my ebeep to produce Meri no Underclothing, I have tried Irriga ting Muleliing, Top Dressing, Sub soil Plowing, Wood Ashes, Muck, Loam, Guano—all was of no avail. They will lay nothing but Rhw Wool. Now, Raw Wool costs thirty cents a pound, and when to this you add Interest, Wages, Insurance, Manufacturing, Bad Debts, Ac you see that you cun complete in the breading of Merino underwear with the pauper nations of Europe. On the other hand, Silk is heavily protected, aud the Production this year io limited. In Assam the cnor has rnovnD a failure, owing to the frost, and the harvest will not yield more than Thirty Buohels to the Acre. Silk will therefore advance in Price In 1832 you could buy a Woolen dress for 83 50. In 1871 a Silk drees costs 8300 It stands to reason, there fore, that by making your Sheep spawn silk you will make 85 5 7 times more profit.’ I was thunderstruck with this, and could only stammer ‘How?’ The hoary headed fraud answered ‘By Graft ing, of course. Those Sheep can spin Cocoons like Silk worms if they only give their minds to it, and the man who denies it is a liar and a horsethief. Little speep that can spin and won’t spin must be ma le to spin. The fact is, Wentworth, you overfeed your sheep and they never feel the spur es necessity. Vary thsir diet, give them no vegetables tood, but give them, say a pock of Silk worms a day, mixed with coloring matter, as Co chineal, Madder, Indigo, or Lamp black, according to the line of silk which you wont to rear. Food makes Blood. Blood makes Lite, and how can a Meriso Sheep produce Wool without Life? how have Life without Focd WHAT ARK WORMS but food?’ Sir, I was convinced of the correctness of tbe view held by this slo venly scoundrel. I went to Summit, end to sum it up I looked those devoted sheep up in a barn, gave them two hundred pecks of silkworms wliieh cost me 86b a peck, and went away for a drive with Charley Farwell, my old friend, telling my farmer not to let theaheepout on any account. Political matters kept my mind so occupied tsr several days that 1 for got all about the sheep, uutil yesterday, when what I had done flashed across my mind. 1 mounted my horse and spprred him like the wind to my farm, but 1 was too late. When I got there tbe cupboard was bare. I’ll be d—d, sir, if the sheep hadn’t all died, and the worms had kept them company, and I was 837,000 out on the transaction. ll—l of a lot the ven crabl murderer knows about farming I Farm the devil’s grandmother I" Here Mr Wentworth paused, over come by his emotions, and it was some time ere lie could proceed, in a Broken voice, as follows: “Misfortunes, d—n it, never conies singly. lie had BLIGHTED MY MCTTON CROP, now he went for my unoffending root crops. 1 had a field of potatoes —Hog eyed Early Russets; there were nine hundred acres of them, producing 130 bushels to the acre, worth 8117,000. Said that pensive old horse thief to ine, ‘John, ws do notgive our Growing Crops enough Sunshine. Sunshine and Air will be mors effectual and less expensive than Manure. Take my advice, and dig up all your Potatoes and plant them with the tops down That’s what we call Top dreasing. Now, the Potrtoes being ex posed to the beneficial influence of Sun and Wind, will fatten earlier than by the old way. Besides, you can gather them more easily than if you had to dig them I out of the ground, always remembering to leave one potato in each hill as a nest egg.’ Well, sir, I followed his advice iinplicity. Os course, the crop is ruined; but never mind, nevermind.” “Those were, indeed, unpleasant expe- ricnces. Mr Wentworth, but—" “But the half ut it has not been told, j ray dear sir. Ido not wish to inflict my grievance upon you.” THE FIENDISH MISCREANT induced me, under fraudulent pretenses, to buy n stam plow, and the throttle valve got out of order, and although my plow man told it to whoa, to gee, and to haw, the d—d thing ran, end on. through the conservatory, went in the bay window, plowed a furrow two feet deep through Hie floor, and issued through the wall at the rear The driver was Killed and the house knocked down, and the iufertial thing ran into the school house at Sum not, and exploded there The sexton lias been at work night and day getting tip a stock of pony graves but never mind, never mind. The end of it all, to make a long story short, is, that I am a ruined man “But Mr Wentworth, the crant and good Greeley is a man of warm heart and chantible impulses. Knowing him self to be the innocent cause of your misfortunes, he will doubtless came to your assistance, and you may be happy yet." M.t. Wentworth smiled a bitter smile and handed our reporter an epened tele gram, which read as follows: “Oshkosh, Wis., Sept 14, 1871. “Long John Wentworth, Chicago “D—n you, tnks an eight cylinder press and go West You don’t plow deep enough. Gets few more wives. (Sig) “Hoback Gskklkt." 20 collect 190. Our reporter read and coppied the tele grnm then atnial ly punching Mr. Went worth IN THE KIM with his pencil, said “What do you think of Mr. Greeley’s chances for the Presidency?" Mr Wentworth burst into a torrent of profunity of such violence that in three minutes the room was flooded, aud the bell boys and reporter had to climbup on chairs and window scats to avoid being swept away “Greeley for the Presidency! The devil for the Presidency Greeley Pres ident; that tow headed, chuckle pated, morning, free loving, protectionist son of a pig lion foundry; that bland, muck minded, solvenly cross between a yam and a cylinder press! Never, hy the great jumping ten toed Jehosapbat, if I have to KILL HIM MYSKLf. I’ll bolt and run on the independent ticket if they do. Greeley—oh, by all the angel worms in a compost heap, this is too much. [Here he rung the bell vio lently. Gaeeley, mulching muddle head of Chappaquan, I’ll—[here the boll boy entered Pistols, pistols, at once, and hot; do you here The boy answered, “Pistols, sir? Yes, sir,” and withdrew. Our reporter, gathering from Mr Wentworth s casual hints that lie had nothing further to communicate, politely but firmly got out of the window, and went down an awning post. He wishes some one would br ng him out his hat, which he inadvertently left behind him. X#" A Newtown man of poor mcana lint loltv feelings having expressed a de sire to be buried with pomp, bis well meaning but misguided relatives planted him in ucolored graveyard. XV Women, wakeup." exclaims the RevoiAion ami in indo ent rural cm what the chopper had calculated. When it is desirable to fell a leaning tree in the opposite direction from the way it leans, hitch a long ro)»e to it twenty or thirty feet from the ground, then secure the other end to a long lever, with the short end of tlie le ver resting against a post or a tree, have ing aAeain hitched to tlie long end of th lever. A tree that leans much can rend ily lie pulled over by such an arrange ruent z\s the tree begins to fall, drive the team speeilily to the right or left. Dancing at Home —lknry War«i Beecher took oocaaion in a re'ent sermon to allude ts recreation and amiiacmenta in l he hunie,circle aa being healthful ami nat ural; and we append what he said about dancing Some pe;«on«, when tliav join a church think that they mu«t put all ths glee and mirth and music out of their lives. Don’t rio it Il' a love snug ripplea up to tha suifnee of your heart, sing it! sing it aing it! Don’t let it die I My second mother —for I remember no other— wsa my ides es womanly gentleness, propriety and ele gance. She was not, however, very de monstrative. She used, before marriage, to be quite a Leila, and was often known to tiip the light fantastic toe. One evening, as my father played a tune on the violin my inotlier arose, and in the most graceful manner poa-ible to conceive, commenced to dancu around the room. I didn't know what to make of it. I waa speechless with consternation and delight. My father look ed on in aurpriae Never in the whole course of my life had 1 seen ouch a thing attempted in my father's house. It was delicious, and 1 got a leaasnthrn which lias lasted me aver sinee. I think to thia dav if my mother had danced oftsner and said the catechism a little lets, it would have been belter for all of us. If you havn a tal ent for mu-ic. cultivate it; for dancing,cub livaie it; wliaiever gilts G'«l has given von, make the moot of them, whether of voice, fool, er eye. Xrfr A man named David R. Spencer, with liis family, consisting of a wife nnd three children, arrived in Putnam Ceun ty, Fa a few days ago, having moved all their earthly goed* and family from East Tennessee, a distance of five hundred miles in a wheelbarrow He was just twenty five days on tlie wav. Ono of the children, tbe youngest, he wheeled the whole distance. whil« tbe wife and tlie other two children walked every -tepofi". Tlie wheelbarrow was built according tn bin own notion, the wheels being four feet high, nnd the body of the concern standing thirty-four inches from the ground Ho says he left Tennessee be cause he could only earn fifty eents per day there, aud having relatives living in Putnam C"iinb hejust thought he would strike out for there, which he did m the above novel m uiner, XdF Pay for your puph NO. 19 begin to bdieve tbn Indian all, and that bn may yet proleTo be a “man and broth er." Tht Naw York Journal of Cons merce, in alluding to “the savage" Howl ish Wampo and bls roeent complaint to tbe Government, reingrks: Tbe burden otehc speeches st a recent Indian ceuncil on tbe Umatilla reserva tion, Oregon,— strange as tbe first half of Ihe specification may seem—was the love of homo and the unfulfilled prem ises of the whitejjjyie Government, wished tlie their reserva tion nnd usual mads them tempting it ts even possi ble, under tlffwSHolicy in favor of WssllibgUin, wunßwvr* <-lau~4 But tbe Indians wore distrustful, and moreover hud another peason for hesita lion. Wensp Snogt," chief of the Ca yusee, said to ths Commissioners—' You wish to see my heart; I want yon to sen it.” "I am very fun*i of this land "Tewalcatemy said. “My frirade, I tell you 1 love my country; I wish to raise toy children no it.” “Pierre" said, “While 1 live 1 will no| part with tiiia land, nor will ray children alter me; thgy will die on it” And “Howlieh Wampo" summed up the whole case, for himself and his br. thern, in the following really touching words; “My Giber and mother, mv brother and sis ters. are buried iu this land; then graves are here, aud lam to guard them Thia reservation is note large piece of land it is to us a mother; we were *aiseil up on it When you ask me to leave it, you ask mo to go away and bn. and a men to teach us retigioa. 1 want you white chieiil to know that of all these things that were promised us we cannot see any.” The sound of tbe heathen ted man'* voice calling for a teacher of religion ie one which dsmnnde attention even from the secular journals. Will ths Chris ag churches here it R An extract from a private letter received in Elizabeth, N J on Wednee day, and dated "Hotel Byron, Pres ViF leneuva, Se pt. 4, 1871, Lae de Geneve,” is printed in the Elizabeth Journal as fol lows Coming tip the lake the other dav, I inct Gen Anderson aud bis family. Tlie gentcral is on hie last legs, or rathei he is not on liis legs at all, since he has te be carried, and I, as an American, am ashamed to say, he is so poor that he cannot nitord a servant to take rare of him. His wife, whois perfectly devoted to him, is obliged to do every tiling. She has n family of four cbildcn, aud they all live on his half pay. It strikes ms l|iat a inan who stood by his government as he. did under peculiar t ircuinstances, deserv es inure from his government tliao hs gets. The i*lea that ho should be so poor as te bo forced to live here, whee the dvsrcst wish of his heart Is that he might, as lie expressed it, ‘cloßo his eyes in bis own land,' seems hard. He was peculiarly tirsd. Willi a Southern wife, the daughter of one of the weaUhi<‘S| men of the South, Southern affiliations, and probably bis family of Southern sen timent, he had, indeed, s hard task to perform when he did his duly as be did; nnd then to think that Uis government and the people should allow bis lasi days to be those of poverty and absolute want! Well, it verifies the saying, 'Republics ars ungrateful.’ X4F Mullaxy, a Pittsfield artist oe aepulehral monuments, has gained a wide reputation for fearful delineations of rail road accidents, rlrownings and the like on the tombstones of those whom suck disasters have made the snhject of his art But Muliau.v is a genius in other thing* than sculpturing. Some time sinee <»ne of his countrymen and fellow Cstliolia* died, and on bis grave stone was insertb ed, by order of his son. the pi one la gend, Pray for the soul gAHugb IMhatiM. But soon after a mt/acle or sonietldng like it happened t< nahtie file Be* was converted to at.(! with a troubled conscience he hastened to the sculptor with, “I ear, Nullnny, Ire become a Protestant.” Mullans grunting "I know it,” hb cOiitinued and I must have the Pitptstry taken ih:i of that stone Mullaity, the dead nr., past praying for.” The artiai scratchert Ills head a minute, anb then with n chuck le and a twinkle of the eye sm-h as iiu Irishman only can achieve, he ex