The Prairie Chieftain, Volume 1, Number 5, Monticello, White County, 22 October 1850 — Page 1

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Terin cf J 1 T . ; !" , T .u II. Mi " -': In x nwB' ' . ... til f o-.-t n of ' " yr Cen s ef AdvectiiitL'ST. r NT f- .-. 'or .3 ems.! for three 1 CO 25 .S to 13 VO VKft ll aoMlMoral iwntun. .e'f r'v.iiu,i, Uti Si r t.i uieit, I I. lt I i nth. PV'f-t .. . ... .. .. ............ sa.twrurs "Sv .!; 3.:- ,: ;:.,.-:' v. , east. M ft -w , . y the A look. - word in kindness spoken," Bis bound my heart to thine; And never earn that bond be broken, While ihrabs a pu!c of mine. - 11 hr-rt was very fail and loaely. riming for sympathy; Ami t turn-of all I Lid'st give it unto roe. A cap of water to the fainting , , Is a i;f-reraemliered thing; Bat sympathy unto : otfeTin3. And many an eye should bend II ore tenderly on earth" tired ringer Than thine, wy truest friend. --. IIt truest friend! thon litlle T! e M - t": y smile imparts, iTJini'iiTii?, Tits Imaven, where'e t. .; ca human hearts. For beartt wt Weed atid break, When oi-e khid su.i'e.m dark de?pirip,g Ba weary a tool rs light wake! From the N. Y. Sanday Times. COL. ARCHIBALD YELL, ' ' OF ARJIAX3AS. Tbe rncrnlnT sfler the first Monday "so NoTsnVber, 1035. broke ca the mil J meridtan of .Arkansas with a sun of almost ci'lental brilliancy. A sky clear as crystal bent its blue arch over &a atmosphere soft and warm a.3 the balmy breath of May. It was a godsend of golden weather to tha j:.! j Co a J 3 of human beings t'.-l f.. .i aa e?ily hour cuma pour ing ir.i street j and public square of Van Daren, a new but flourishing village, situated oa the great river from which the Cla.19 derirea its naraa.and ia the iraraediate lilcinity of &e Cherokee lie. Men, women and children, white masters, black slaves, and painted Indians, with tall flames nodding from their swarthy brows. continually swelled that living sea,' all bumir with impatience to witness their favorite ihow -to enjoy, one might say, tlisif.oiily p: polar amusement, the com KSa3tS"ars silk a of eye ry class for on that day th-3 District Court opened its reg ular sesslca tat the Xzst county of Craw fcrd. Fcri. s l-. rrir.t rf rccr- .iv c; c:.:.ll."; ii t ir.ir Lie i I .:'..wu-,co ..t even a i tior i -.l sir.- r-3-t m p .t cf !.' 4 i, t'.3 c.r.ccv h i.1 - a rra:... I J.r n, l". i ir rc; ir.ij tn J CuB--1' r v 'J rEu'.-.her 5 v.' ' ' i. t' i 3 I -J t C t r it i; r t J . tre, l f r:1 1 , t l.. s c J L j?r .a. : r , --1 I. ,- I 3 1

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i j.r.cietl strejg h to v'.ld. . Wo lo the 1--V.::3 witness th't fjiva I'm a cross &n'Yc . th i c;- ; h j counsel that did r:t cower I : Yre his thunder! -And a lpppra t t'..3 frcranptaous judge 0 d:rc Jtj chsrdi ! YJ. ro--beating inoY c: ).) a: -.. :--.l t' 3 rigbtta deter-ndnsr-.a pch-.t 6 gainst Lira! Vh n, tin re fort the bystanders heard t c .Y ,.h:g g3ti2rd u:tr his oracular laconism in reference to the new judge, everybody comprehended the implied threat, and burst into a hearty laugh. - What is'xhe name of his expected honor? inquured'Coi- Ilueb Ileynold,"Esq.j

as he gave his perfumed mustache an ex tra twirl. 'A. Yell, of Tennessee, replied Col. McK. Ball; and he has come to Arkan sas with the commission of a territorial judge in his pocket, for the purpose of making capital to be the first Governor of the new State when organized.' Col. McK. Ball was himself an aspirant for the high office of which hethenspoke. He did not obtain it, but he did secure the post of cashier of the Favetteville Bank, and five years afterwards robbed it, and ran away with one hundred thousand dollars. How do you call his name?' interroga ted Gen. Smoot, elevating his swordcane. A. Yell,' replied Ball.' ' I'll change his name to A. Ho n, replied Gen. Smoot, perpetrating a meta phorical pun, while the sword-cane de scended with a niGst belligerent flourish A boisterous shout from the group tes tified their general approval of the me nace. Is any one acquainted with this .Yell!' asked Col. Wallace, who was also a can didate for the future gubernatorial chair I is, answered a deep toned voice that startled the listeners like the roar of thunderbolt,. All turned to gaze on the speaker, who had joined the company unperceived. He was a stranger that no one recognized and none could ever have seen him be fore, for the glance that beheld him once might never forget his image. Habited all over in a fresh suit of leather, orna mented with fantastic figures, with a pan ther skin cap surmounting masses of ra ven hair rolled in wild tangles, his im mense waist was cinctured by a broad belt literally bristling with pistols, of al most gigantic stature, with a face of bronze and hands of iron, the latter grasping an enormous gun, double-barrelled, and both hammers at half-cock, the unknown seem ed for all the world the embodied ideal of muscular force and diabolical bravery. Every eye was riveted on this strange tower of human strength, but for several minutes' every, lip was dumb. ' In the meanwhile, the giant did not appear in the least discomposed by the common scru tiny and gaping wonder "elicited by his advent.- lie only opened tha cavern of his throat end gave way to an irresistibl convulsion of laughter. ' '' Encouraged - by this amphibious sign of idiocy or good humor, Gen. Smoot ventured to address tha organized phe nomenon. 'You say, fedow, that yea are Eeqiuiaed with Mr. A. Yell.' I 'reckon I isn't nuihia else,' replied t .3 ur...ctn, pr; -dly. Y' .o.-t. VV sort cf a tnui is he!' TYd nown. "il.Ys a t-;n ' r.. . 1 T.Viii 1 , r Uf.ki.oAn. 'Yen, he'd." ;t everjth!; end aruhiu -, hotn tY dev 1 1 u his I urn 1 . t .. r.e 1. p vo a . ty vY I . ; wYi 5 ' 1 ..- ." ., . '.'hate y a U If 1:. ( i.k,. , i.'Lo.-l! h . .1 l.. Yl 1 . I A : 1 ;i r., h I , .,.'.;. l ? h'r.i me

1 is only fan to keep his .1 1 wish you could have eld Hosy Allen! You :-y wur.both bully lawyers. -as al'ers the cutet, and 1 lloss Allr-.a tanial mad. ha'd scare the other c.Y :ght as well have tried to rg:ne! Archy dodged . LY.n' without - weapons eld Hoss by the throat j;cz3 away like a cottin Uknow as how ' but Arshy Yc so that mad; and he tho'. the tra;k; t .t scare a str - two bidets, hisself, c:-tch . and begua t-3 press. Tl "loss jerked out a big knife or. ! ' - dck!eArchys ribs; but be c .....r "t make him laugh, nor let go his holt on the windpipe nither He. cutout his tntreis, but Archy held them up with his left hand, and choked harder than ever with his right. At last old Hoss lost his breath; his eyes turned red as blood and his face blaek as a buck nigger's and he fainted till the knife dropped Vom hia fingers, Archy picked it up; but did he strike into the enemy's heart? No, by Ginersl Jackson! he wur too brave for sich a coward's trick as that! 1 He hollered 'Here, boys, throw some water in old Hoss-s face to bring him to, while I go to a doctor's shop and get my intrels sowed up!' j You are a capital story teller, said Col. Smoot, with a sneer. 'Will you be so good as to favor us with your tiatnel' I They call me good natured Bill Buffum,' said the giant, with an obstreperous roar, such as a red tiger might emit could he be provoked to the aniusementcf laughter. ... The bystanders, however, felt no dispo-j sition to unite in Bill's explosive cachination, for Col. Leeper, a Tennessean, and well acquainted with Judge Yell, and having come up in time to hear the narration of that singular combat, substantially confirmed the tale, baiting only the figurative flourishes of its ihetoric. -

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.The new judge is a real hero, then?' was incomparably insinuating. . It wound inquired Reub Reynolds, Esq. around., tha soul, pierced through, the Col. Leeper ansfered 'He is the bra- heart and riveted every thoughtlike a fine vest among the brare. I must own that, thread of golden wire. It aroused r;o although we two are sworn and eternal sudden cheers, no boisterous bursta of enemies.' . feeling. Its effect was not admiration; it This avowal elongated to a most lugru- was conviction. Men did not exclaim brious stretch a dozen legal visages. . 'What an orator! but they murmured to and caused even the. duelist, General themselves, 'How true!' Smoot, to ground his sword-cane. Little 'The judge concluded ' by alluding to time, however, remained then to specu- the dangers incurred by himself in the late on the conseqaences of the astound- administration cf even justice; and lis ing fact, for at that instant 'Good natured last sentence uttered in a terrible vcY. Bill Buflutn' shouted with his inseparable thundered forth th e fearless avowed 'I chuckle, 'Yonder comes Archy, God will deal out to every one jurors, v itbless his brave soul! nesses, parties, and counsel the fJI With this exclamation" every eye was measure of legal right app Ttaini: g to turned towards the door, through which each, and no more; and I will maintain

a man of most striking appearance was seen entering, with a bow of dignified courtesy and a smile of irresistible sweetness. . Of tall, slender,- but sinewy frame, and a shape elegant and symmetrical as a" woman's; bis blue eyes beaming with the brilliant yet calm light cf a soul fall of passion's fire, hut thoroughly self-possessed;- his whole person wearing the indescribable air and -his face the countenance of a gentleman to whom popular manners had ..grown a sort of second nature; dressed in riqh but plain clothing the stranger looked the double personification of one born in power yet educated ,io rlease. and, therefore, sure of command, because he would excite ia c '.. rs Ye 1 111 t3 ch?y. Ills Hue eye v :.t like a fYsh rf J: fj summer Ight Y.: g r.rcu - 1 ths c:rY. ct fr til lour 1 ":?rj, his f.re h::.d ...h - t i.. ( -r. rr illy ! Yl- i - 1 i Y Sjde k rrcd to r.:Ya L.U ev -v sr; r 1 hra-t. lie 1 Id cLt h-.s !...: .1 o rYy a z. -L (if "i. ..".c, t.r 1 1. i . 1 c".? . ; ; y , i f. Y .,d; I ' ; 13 give th: t r ah 1 cdro,- f.Y.-,d- dY . iY, 1. ! w ! . I -.a in -3 yc . ! -fy is tt L .:h, t;..-, uT.l LYh" . t'ri - I " : ,0: t,-Y Y " ..it t t I u ' -.-'

lid black eye and fell on tiie judge's n- . Aye, that was a grateful tribute cf a r-j but faithful heart! ' ' That trivial incident caused aa immtmse sensation, and was fruitful of consequences. A ' loud murmur of "backwood's voices swelled up 'He's a gendaman! he atnt ashamed to shake hands with leather hunting shirts! .He bows to common folks! lie's the right sort of judge! We'll ght for him! Then the face cf General Smoot was

Uke'the convulsed face of a demon, and all his legal tnyrmidons turned p-sla with silent rage. Judge Yell immediately proceeded to his seat on the bench and ordered the sheriff to open court. The bland smile cn his handsome features was replaced by an expression of serene but determmed majesty. The light in his blue eyes grew stern End steady a something to be feared as well as loved. His charge to the grand jury was a masterpiece for that meridian. After a brief definition of different species cf crime,-he began a general lecture on the necessity, importance, and duties of courts. His. clear tones, at first low and persuasive, gradu ally rose and rang, vibrated and thrilled (through the air, fdling the ample iot'um and rolling far out over the public square, till crowds cams rushing from every groeery, thronging the doors and darkening the windows, all anxious to See and hear, They stood breathless, fascinated, wen-der-struck yet delighted; while, there stood the blue-eyed, magician, weaving the. spell of wordi which held them like a vice of steel. ' And yet, strange to say, his eloquence had no prcioundity of learning, no polish of rhetoric. He never used a trope, and had no power of logic, seeming incapable of copulating premises with a view to keen argument; but-still that eloquence the majesty cf the law and the dlg-Yty cf my own person or leave the best bh- Y c r my heart here oa this bench, my ca place!' - His face was illuminated by tha w. ing- fire of passion, his", eyes lij rally Uazed, and hi fYry teeth -eppeared to shine with a savage-gleaming radUr.c through half-parted Hps rigid es iroa h the energies of indomitable will. Etn the. insolent sneer which had p rr 1 ; 1 that final peal faded from the co n jince ol Gen. Smoct, es ho hh---.r-j d to his myrmidons 'By heaven! I think 1 p'il fM, tad 1 mean to try lani t sfora t - day U r.n t .r 'cr ::ct!; I d.r.'lt.h ie'8 tr. -. .1;' cr - '. 1 (Yl. yyy r : tr -1 c-. ii a c r Yl, is a ' ' ! Cel. r -1 ... ., , , ly o." c I V ' ' ' ! . r '.iv '1 t t tc- ' ' t v y y 0 c;rri; j Y 1 1 ' 1 h ; ' c d Y j II ; ' ' Y , : S t" left 1 Cl -.. I - .1 i t 1 It . d . - t .

dangerous competitor for future places cf profit and honor under the State govern

ment about to be organized. This painful consciousness was e-rra-vated to madness by the extraordinary impression which their supposed rival had already and so obviously produced in the minds of the people. Hence nothing remained but to test" his courage to the very last extremity en awful ordeal to which every pr-.Y-d. :1 r submit who carries his ambition to tha perilous 'm a -1 t cf t' . L . h. c : he first cjj c 1 the d cL.et , s ded, and the p'.iTli Tit.jod .vtdy. It v li an old case thct had been ia Utigahoa ;Yr five years. Gen. '.Smoot arose f;r the de fendant, and remarked, ia ta overhearing tone: Our witnesses are absent, and, therefore, I. demand that the cess be continued till the nest term in course. Let the proper afddavit be filled, for not till then can I entertain the motion for the continuance, was the mild reply cf the judge. Do you doubt my word as to the facts? Gen. Smoot exclaimed, sharply, acd involuntarily raising his sword-cane. 'Not at all,' replied the judge, with hia blandest smile, 'but the law requires that the facts justifying a continuance must appear on record, and the court has no power to annul the, law, nor any will ta see it annulled. The judge's calm end business-like tone and manner only served to irritat-3 the bully, and ha retorted, shaking hia sword-cane in the direction cf the bench Whatever may be the 1 aw, 1, for one, will not learn its principles from the lips of an upstart demagogue e"d coward! , Judge Yell's blue eyes shot lightning; but he crdy turned to the clerk and sail quietly Mr. Clerk yea will enter a fee of (ly dollars against Gen. Smoot, as I see Vim, named ca.jniy J ocketJor gross contempt of court; and L -3 sureyomssu an immediate execution. lie had scarcely enuneiatsd the order, when Gen. Smoot was seen rushing towards him, brandishing his sword-cane, all his features writhing with murderous wrath, snd pallid s-s a corpse. Every glance was fixed oa the 'countenance cf the judge, for all wished to h . I v 1 vc.d th : c . ' - 1 s'ockeft cY -;'s 8o;iuh. Y, : i.re, I : we-cr,c Y 1 da ct t" s. ..at c in 1 . i 8,.-,:; . ii.j c' - Y.s 't v r :h 3 red r - . t 1 to . .YY ; 1 the a a--hg f -tt. Ur.ri. c " s c , i .s 1 l iw'jt 1 J t 4 1 ''- ' is. a 0 . 3 - t' n t:r s rj til r 'ii . .. 1 s-t J hi , . t . . 1 1 : 1 . - - " ' i th I s r c : :a t Is. d. . I ' a '.- ; wor 1 1 Y d a d i J nwi 1,5 a L!v w v I Y - 1 k :.. 9 L.i at1 a L. d Y. hY L 0. . V.ow ,". 1 - j! Ir.l 1 u U Y d fore -. ad. z : - Y .. i : ...r. . Y i , e; j 'd !i i'i t' i .. ' " Y 1 c 1 I 1 . -. 1 ' . '- I : t : V 1 . L. s i 1 - r 1: u C . 1 2: t Vt .11,. r (ect t 1 . t cf - 'ft,i ;::. v . . j .... 1. It ' t ,