PUBLIC MEETING.
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Agreeably to public notice previously gi- yen, largemeeting of the citizens of h. dependence assembled at the court house in -she town of Batesvile, on Monday, the 9th day of July, 1885, to consider the propriety and expediency of forming State Govern ment for the Territory of Arkansas, and for taking the most speedy measures to insure her admission into the Union.

 On motion, and with the unanimous as- sent of the meeting, Col. T. DICKINSON was called to the Chair, and JAMES PopE, Esq. appointed Secretary; whereupon, af- ter the object of the meeting had been ex- plained by the Chairman, THOMAS JOHN SON, Esq. offered for adoption, the follow ing resolutions, viz:

 Resolred, That we highly admire the spi- rit and cordially approve of the measures and principles adopted by our fellow citi- zens oi Jackson, Hot Spring and Pulaski counties, urging the people of this Territory