Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-07-08

other column, that enterprsng citizens General
Sanal Adams and Emzy Wilson. Esq. have put
and 6ne Troy coaches ON the Western route, and re-
duced the fare The citizens of this end Of the route
feel indebted to them Cor the enterprise ana ca pa ex
pended, to promote the commercial and social inter-
course between the centre and western extremity Of
the State The western portion i rapidly increasing
in wealth and population. and requires all the facilities
for speedy and direct intercourse. The Post Master
General, to whom we are already much indebted for
his just and liberal arrangements. would much pro-
mote the interests Of this portion Of the State if he
would give the present proprietors contract to
their line Of stages from Little Rock Van Bursn and
Fort Smith three times week. We hope Our citizens,
who much interested in tho matter. will petition
the Post Master General TO that effect in de-
tall the many good reasons which could be urged for
this arrangement. - f
We wish the proprietcrs success in their undertak
ing, and if good management. and accommodating dis
position will secure it, they will not fail Of
Tho Editor Of the New York Express has a
happy knack at sketching character. He has hit
off our bond-seiiing Senator. in so admirable a
style, and wahall so justly, that we cannot resist
our inclination to lay it before our readers. 1t all
SO shows the light in which his conduct as Bond
Commissioner is viewed by dsintereseed observ-
ers in other Statcs.-Littie Rock GG=eae.
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rougn and tumble geniuses which no country can
produce but ours; and in ours, only the extreme
western portion. He has talent of certain or
rather of a very uncertain kind, and be makes it
available by stumping for Arkansas in Congress.
lie never gets up and makos a regular sci speech
upon the merits Of a question, but watches his
time, when seething cauldron of party politics is
bublng its best, and then precpitates himself into
the charmed circle, and adds his potent spell to the
I1o 10 hat ft,: e. 4;
tolent as Legislator. and usually prefaces his de-
monstratons, upon the floor of the Senats, with
declaration that he is "about to treat the subject
IN his usual way;" and then follows, ever, bitter
personal and political TRADE, which matches any
thing in the yitpperatiye way that has emanated
from any ofihe backwocas legislatures Of the wild
west. tss
We soc, late western accounts, that This person.
age has got into some financial difficulty in Ar
kansas. As the Commissioners to negotiate GER
tain bonds for the Rsa Estate Bank. there, he re-
ceiyed large sum Of money, some Si4.30O of
which he is charged with having '.llsed up' on
private account. This ke virtually admits in his
published defence" in Mhich bye-the-bye, he is
SO personal ia his aiiusions to Others as 10 make
it almost certain that he must fight somebody, }
but apologies for it on tho ground that he was a
stoekholder, and ergo bad right to usc the cash!
Rabid as Mr.. Desier always was, as . political
partisan Of the most uitra-radical type, wo have
ever given him credit for honor, honesty, and up
rightness. But these are queer times We live in;
and things that not long ago wore considered theft
and robbery are now softened down to specula.
ton and financial embezzlement And even now,
we doubt that, though such fiscal peccadilloos as
these may get nun to Coagress fsom Arkansas,
ttey would get him into Sing Sing, If performed
in New York. But we don't know.
Though neutral in politics. have feelings Of State
pride, which will induce upon proper occasions to
rcpel the unprSscked aspersoas which arc continually
being sveied against tho character of our State by
those who are wholly ignorant Of tho community which
they delight 70 SANDER Il is true. that amongst u.s. as
in every new country, there are bad mon their num-
Der however, is nconsderabls hut generally speaking
in all tho requisites which consitute good citizens the
CT and sister States The above selected article
j. in keeping with many other slanders which find
place in the eastern papers, and which sinate from
the pen Of t,ose clartasIe psrsees. who thapk their
God tbatthey are nos arc. Our only surprise is
that sucha paragraph shosA have beon eopisd with ap
probation into Arkansas pa... proIessedv conduct
cd to elevate neral and ptics both II
home and abroad. We voald not hav. believed that
Mr.. Bordens antipstby Col sevisr woa,d h.ve led
him 50 far as to appro5at the ibellous assertion mon
pocca dloes that would geta int. the pvnssantla
~ in New York. woald send him 10 Congreis from Ar
kansas. "But these queer lines We live in.'' ~
But let ask the Express where is the evidences
Of that moral cxcelicaee q which you boast Where