The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-01
For the .4rltansas Banner.
 THOMAS w. NEWTON. REAL ESTATE BANK CANDIDATE FOR STATE SEN. ATE, IN PULASKI COUNTY
ALBERT PIKE,

ATE, IN PULASKI COUNTY
 ALBERT PIKE,
 AND THE NEW YORK EXPRESS &c &c &c
 The gentleman whose name IS at the head of this article, is now candidate for our State Senate. To one instance of his partici- patton ill our political affairs, l alluded in my last communication. Should the same success attend him in aU his moves, which slgnalized that transaction, and has been, in- deed, hls constant companion since his re- entry into this State, he will, at an early day, reach an eminence, attained by no other older citizen, and acquire an amount of wealth, even far beyond the hopes of other men,
 He was a citizen of the Territory of Arkan- sas, as early as 1925, and perhaps even ear- Her. He was then, if l mistake not, Clerk of the Pulaski Circuit Court. At that early day, 1927, when the Crittenden and Conway -afterward Sevier-parties, divided the peo- pie of this State when the Grays, with Sampson at their head, and the Magnesses, with old John, of White county, in the lead,) ) and the Flanakins, and Le Fevres, and Mar tins, and Rectors, and many others, made the welkin ring, with their shouts of triumph for the DEMOCRATIC, SEVER PARTY; in that early day, Mir. Newton took hiS part in poli- tics, and challenged Col Seyier to fight duel. At that time, 1827,) Conway was the head of the party and had just been elected triumphantly, over the candidate of the Crit tenden party, Rob't Oden, if l am correctly informed Newton, with George w. Scott as his second, and Sevier, with Elias Rector as his, met and fought at Point Remove bot tom. They took one fire; they both missed ; and Mir. Newton withdrew his challenge, which closed the affair.
 sHere was the deadly enmity at the outset, which has preserved its place, through win ter and through summer, through repatriation and diversity, through standardization and prosperity, to exhibit itself in the late inves- tgation against Col. Sevier, and indemnify itself, for its silence of fifteen years. Mr. ton of Col. Sevier, and that too in the absence of Col. Sevier, is hard to digest This tes- timony, 1t is my intention, hereafter, to dis cuss; and will then point the public to what it Is deem so peculiarly objectionable in his deposition.
 Conway, the late Governor, shared with Sevier this hostility of Newton; and it seems to have been a source of gredt modification to Messrs. NEWTON, FOWLER, and PIKE, that he, (Newton,) should have been removed from office so eally, as to deprive him, as Marshal, of the supreme happiness of selling out the man so hated by aU three of them. Witness the assaults for this, which were made upon SEVER, and CONWAY, and the couert insi,uations against JUDGE JOHNSON, togetherw with the abuse and ungenerous attacks made upon HENRY M. RECTOR, and his ia ther-in-law, MAJ FIELD!
 But this was not all. So lilly did their disappointment deport itself, so indifferently did their stomachs bear with the dose admin istered, by Captain Tyler, to MT. Newton's unwilling lips, that in the summer of lS42, Messrs PIKE and NEWTON could not for one brief month forget their hated enemies in this State, or .forgiue, or defer their ren- geance They, Pike and Newton,) between them, undertook to immortalize, at the east Col. A. Fowler's 6 dignifed and manly resig nation, and rebuke to Capt. Tyler's admins tration D and to wreak their cherished ven geance upon Conway, Judge Johnson, Sevier Rector and Field, and 10 make htem feel that though separated by thousands of miles, o mountains, valleys and rivers, yet they acert not beyond the reach of malice--and, although that summer was spent, most gloriouSiy, Il the midst of the choicest pleasures of the grea cities of the east;--revelling daily in feasting and sumptuous banquets,-a by, and ac knowledging the lure of ruddy Bacchus a each successive eve, enjoying at each step tho distinguished attentions accorded to strangers and the high communion with English Lord and polished manners, sparkling witand nativ genius, and aU at the EXPENSE ot tue REAL ESTATE BANK; for it took both Pike aat .Neuton to do her business And, according ly, we find the H New Y ork Express" teemiat with an abusive Arkansas article, redolen of all their villainous suspicious, and un scrupulous insinuation; and we find this ar ticle republished here--m thetr Gazette.- Which of these gentlemen pepned the article or sat by and dictated it, ca mot say but can easily imagine their pride at its paternity as they slipped wine with their friends, ant directed attention to the mornings "Express, reuiling their opponents in Arkansas, and bray I ing their own importance.
 During the time mentioned, when Sevie and Newton were absent at Point Remove, challenge passed between Conway and Crit tenden. and Col Wharton Rector and Col Ben. Desha were their seconds they tough opposite the mouth of White River, if an correctly informed, and Conway was killed A new election was then ordered, and Go Sevier. for the first time, was elected delegate