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JOHN RANDoLPH's TEsTlNT0NF-Gl forts are making to smooth over the q bargain between Adams and Clay, then much recorded evidence to meet and , the charge. John Randolph leaves him the following, in reply to Mr' P in Congress:
 Gle Clay condescended to slfea 'l with me, and said, if you of the s0pl give us of the west any other man lnal Q. Adams for President, we will suPp, sa, Let any man deny this who dare; pa remember he then expected to be a caal q. before the House. It was at tune VI, and the present incumbent Adams ,a s'' licly pitted against each other, and as, ai.' had crowed defiance, and clappeu As against the cock of Kentucky! And he of the west gave us this Veq JolIn Q. Adams for President, ansgu' a s.s., flee held by him, Secretary of slala,, .a.,, sidering his support revisionarY l,.,,,I, 'is' the Presidency. It was indeed sl'lr, '1a,s their mouth,'' but we swallowed ma, ,s'' MT. R. then goes on to show 'na' 2 .., ~. Adams had persecuted the best ol p,,aiI y, try-made traitors of all, Sc. Du'a ,l given; and as notorious as the sun 2 /, day, 1t is established that there sal ,bst
 .~ann sion, corrupt coHusioa, between !. @a m, pals in this aflair-not written oi asl for men who meet to do dd''''iee e p'f 4 Rot bring even themselves to sp''' distinct terms, &c.o
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ELECTION NEWS.

Full returns have not yet reached us, from the re- cent elections in the several States. This is to be ascribed to two successive failures of the mail
 KENTUCKY. The latest and fullest intelligence from this State is to this effect: All the counties heard from except 15, and owsLEY (whig) 5000 ahead of BUTLER (Dem.) In the last 3 counties heard from, the democratic gain was 980. The 15 counties to be heard from are believed to be Demo- cratic; so that if the Democratic candidate be not elected, he will have reduced the whig majority to mere triae and thus have achieved glorious vic tory in Mir, Clay's own state
 MIssoURr. This Democratic State has proven true to her privciples. She has elected Demo- cratic Governor-all the Democratic candidates for congress-and Democratic majority to the Legis- lature of more than 20 on joint ballot.
 INDIANA. Fifty counties had been heard from. in which the Democrats had gained members of the Legislature. It will be remembered that in the last Legislature of this State, the vhigs had ma joIity of one.
 ALABAMA. In this ever glorious stronghold of Republican principles, the Democracy have swept "higgery from the land, as with bosom We have carried the State from one end to the other-even broken up the nest of coons which have so long hal bored in and about Mobile We are informed that the Democrats have succeeded by majority of about l5.0oo It will be remembered that, in ls40, we had majority of little over 5000. Upon this we have gained 10000 HurTah! for Polk, Dallas and Texas
 NoRTH CAROLINA. All the counties except t,co. had been heard from The whips retained roaiorif, of some 2,5a0 votes; and had probably elected their
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 Cor. AsHLEY's CIRcULAR.-The Circular Ad- dress of Col. AsIfsEY, to the People of Arkansas, is in our columns to-day. We invite to it the par ticular attention of readers, It is in reply to the several disreputabe charges which his personal enemies have, from time to time preferred against him. In terms, at once plain, direct, clear and iorebe-at the same time that they are ntrely re- specful, and devoid of all unllindncss-t is per- feet and conclusive relutation of the calumnies which have so long, and so ndustrioasly, been cir lated against its author; and under which, while a private citizen, "conscous recttude of purpose and conduct" has enabled him to bear so patiently, in silence.
 The papers, which he refers to, have been exam ined by us and fully sustain his statements. They are in the hands of DIr. Woodruff and may be seen by any one who desires to satisfy himself further.
 9e5.Those Editors who have published, and given eireulationto, these ealumnes against Col. ASHLEY, will be doing only an act of justice by publishing his defence. No honorable man can refuse to do ii, and that without delay. Let 1t be considered that this is political address; but defence of private reputation, against unjust inputations.
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For He Banner.
FROM CLARK CoUNTr

Antoine, August lS DR. BoRLAND-Dear Str :-0a dates for the Legislature, in old Ca now canvassing the county, discua only State, but National politics. Tn ocrats are gaining ground. Some tim we were certain of electing but one crat. We thought Maj. 0reens (WhgI be the other candidate elected, bun confidently believe that we shall elect ticket. DREw's prospects brighten stands firm.
 In passing through Hempstead cd few days since, discovered that the crats were rallying upon BASKafl SMITH, as the regular Democratic can! and that Murphy is considered a ! tempting to run under false colors
 Yours truly
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COMMENTARIES.

Dr,,oc, r0L me .drlfonSas Bonrc- DEMOCRATIC MEETING ISt'@er, Ig S,
 The following are the n,
 Democratic o', meeting nee which took fJS1ial 15a Gen. Byrd's appointment to Sg,ag ada53 a zens of this county. Our C,iDoa;' ruiea just closed it's session, and ro, ' ton of the Democracy from v.'l; Ss Ie's the county were in attendance s''1si e appeared, and addressed inc tbe . os speech of an hours length, sel Valle eluded, the Democrats present raa.! ,.''.! courthouse and organized moa,3' :. aa ing SAM'L McCLuRE, Esq, to 5aas tSa appointing G. E. HAYS secrct.... e, of ~ls ject of the meeting was eynlsin.l and forcible manner from t6e 9 cbs
 On motion, the following gen,Ia.. s,qa' appointed a committee to draft resoIr. ,5 pressiye of the views of the mao,;aa ,ssglll c. Gault, A. Montgomery. Na. Dr. J. N. Floyd, P. s. Caflfev. Fsa P Abram McCurley, Wm. Viii. Is.'. L,e T. P. Saddler, Dr. Hines, Loopey f T,5l Hugh Mcbride, Al Hayes, eri Beai. lI,I| N, and L, M, Grafton. The commifiss and after few moments deliberal;a,ss ,s E l' ted the following resolutions. 4 rGa unanimously adopted: s.'4
 Resoleed, That we hereby ao5,.., nominations by the late DemocrTsftis Tfag,s V Convention at Baltimore of JAMgs " and GEORGE M. DALLAS for tbe A 4 President and Vice President of tS < States; and that we will support s,l nations by all honorable means in m
 Rcsoioed, That in the opinionof55, ing, the Democracy of Yell county ,, r,! pared to give their jealous and p.f % support to Dr. Chapman for the .ss x Governor; and whilst we regret tbs,s that caused him to withdraw his nam, the canvass, we cordially approve of 2 acceptable'and popular substitute ss [ THos. s. DREw; and the unintinil.,. mocracy of Y ell county will rally m, port on the first Monday in OctobaS
 ReSolced, That we approve of ten ton of Ex-Gov. YELL for Conerea. result of the next October election VII him and the Democracy of the Sbpa county is properly called the couny q
 ReSolped, That the Democracv county will support cordially for |. Senate, our faithful public servant cdI WILLIAMSON, of Pope county ;hnlb b ing we will show our artful opponer their puny efforts to disunite US hsY unavailing.
 Resolred, That the Democracy county have an utter detestation ol diSorganiaerS, whether as the condud public press, or as apirants to offce;f such characters can never succeed in ing the confidence of the Democracy county, by slandering Democrats . tempting to divide the party, for the of giving aid to the hopeless cause Q gery.
 Rssozped, That in the opinion oll ing the Hon. W. s. FULTON and the II. SEVER, our Senators, and the l WARD CR0ss, our Representative gross, have proved themselves tuei terests of their coStituency, and at to the confidence of the Democrat and that the efforts of the Whigs unprincipled allies to injure them h lie estimation are hopeless.
 Resolred, That these proceeding ed by the chairman and secretary, warded to the Arkansas Banner fer ton. SAM'L MCCLURE, 0is
 G, s. HAYs, Secretary.
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pursuit and prosecution of these men, he gave con- stant attention and all the aid in bis power; and as- sented to the unusual arrangements which were made wRn it was apparent that they were Jnsliled by he necessity of the case. This yet believe was the case anu if they had not been made we never coulG have succeeded in finding out all the agents, or in running some of them out of the country, or in bringing others to punishment The result has cef- tainiy justified what was done for there has not been a robbery since, or, so far as know, an at tempt to pass counterfeit money. .
 Respectfully your friend:
 r. W. TRAPNALL. The third is the letter of Mr. Johnson to us on the sane subject We have furnished the editor of the Gazette a copy for publication.
 LITTLE RocK, August 25, l64i. DR. s. BoBLAND,
 Dear Sir: Mir TrapnaIl has this moment read to me a letter, addressed by him to the Editor o the Gazette, concerng the remission by Governor YELL, of portion of the sentence of Samuel c. Ifotc- bridge That letter will be published Ill the next Gazette, and aso as 1 understand, in the next Ban her In regard to the subject o that letter. desire to say that the whole arrangement for the remission of the several terms of Imprisonment ot IroWbndge and Wilson, was made without my knowledge or aid. But, also, that, acting Attorney General al that time, authorized Mir. Trapnall, who had com menced the prosecutions in my absence, and whose efforts had been sgnalized by extraordinary energy and success, to make any arrangement, WlIh the prisoners which his judgment mightdictate, having in view either the protection of our citizens wig had already suffered by their yllainy, the dscoye- " of new crimes. did this the more willingly, be- cause l then had, as have stiIl full confidence in Mir. Trapnall's skill and devotion in the pursuit and as he was, at that time the probable sufferer under loss of SI4G00, or SI5000, Of Arkansas money, which had been stolen by Trowbrdge and others. When Mir. Trapnall had made the arrange ment under general authority from Gov. Yell and myself, the terms off the arrangement for the first time announced 10 me. l approved of them then: and do so still. Gov Yell was as active as either MT. Trapnall, myself, any else, in detecting and prosecuting this band of robbers and consider that he is not only justly exempt from all censure but eminenty entitled to the gratitude of the com nunity, for his public spirited exertions. In his capacity of Chief Magistrate, he sought to detec other crimes, as well as to punish those already dis covered; and thus to protect the suffering citizens as well as to yindcate the laws of the land. If cen sure is to fall any ene in this matter, let 1t fa on Nr IfaPaGN aaa mySelfSand not itore on hia than on me; for what he did, faPproeed. And ask to see the who rendered to the country, througi the progress of those trials, more faithful beneficial and successful services than he did
 Let MT. Borden have copy of this, for publica ton, if he desires it.
 Very truly yours Sc.
 R. w. JOHNSON.
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WAR UPON THE DEAD.-The leaders of the Whig party having searched in vain, for any thing disrep- utable in his own conduct with which to assail the character of JAMES K POLK; and yet, like the wolf in the fable, determined to find fault; have violated the grave, and sought to islander the names of his ancestors. At first they asserted that his her was Tory in the Revolution; but when driven from this, by the proven fact that his father was small boy at the time, they then asserted that it was his grand tather. This is likewise proven to be false ; and that Ezekiel Polt was patriot soldier of the Revolution. For proof of this see the article in our paper to-day, from The Young Hickory Thus we see men, who profess to be honorable, violating the grave-slandering the dead, whom even savages respect-endeavoring to rob revolutionary soldier of his halIowed reputation. What will not such men do for political advantage! Truly, similarity of tastes shoud induce them to worship the JacbaH instead of the Coon
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candidate for Governor, by something over 2,o00. In l840 they carried the State by nearly lS'0oo We have gained more than 10000 of the popular vote; and will make q clean sweep in November
 Democracy is going on, conqueFing and to con
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Ds1sict saaI c. To1bridga utterly refuse to turn States evidence liso, what was his peealla claim io fAsculNe clemsncy? I.7rks. GaSette.
 lie Cd 'lot utterly refuss@ 7 but gave such iafor- .atic. as led to the recovery Of large amount of stolen money, and many eountereiting instruments abd ensured the breaking up the band Of robbers. Anilis as not 'slis peculiar claim to Executive sIsnsncy'; but the condition upon which his term ofirprisounent was reduced to five years All this
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CRIrTEDEN CoUNrY,-A friend in Crittonden county writes us, under date of 22d inst. We make the following short extract from his letter.:
 "Gen, DREw will run very well in this county. Ali the Democrats say they will vote for him. Net a man of my acquaintance will vote for Bya. I know of five or six changes, in this neighboghood. fer Polk and DALLAS. In Tennessee, the Democrats are fighting the battle manluly; and that We shall get that State there is no doubt
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We are requested to state that Col. ASHLEY W1ll address his fellow citizens al the several times and places herein mentioned:
 Ievisburg. Conway county, Saturday, Aug. 2t Dover, Pope county, Monday, Aug. 26.
 ClarksgiIle, Johnson county, Wednesday, Aug. 2S. Ozark Franklin coanty, Friday, Aug. 30. Van Burca, Crawford county Monday, Sept, 2d.
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ExponrArIoN OF HnMr.-ilai,p .1'i. roI to the articles of export from; l,a 'n's 1egl one hundred and fifty bales Prill,a P,rn,snt c having been purchased for snlIar ian II land at one hundred dollars a loll, s,,bt csl portation of this article will no dq"p,s rsa, to increase largcly-.N |. J0"'
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OREGON ExPEDITIoN.-l he v" positor contains a letter from Mal, aau written from Battle Creek, above h1hs hs dated June 9th, in which he s'a'ts .' .b,I m had had almost continued rams n .,ss; ter which had rendered thelr Pios gert The omigrants, male and ienale' V
 tented and cheerful.
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AUDITOR : OFFICE, LITTLE ROCK, ARKs.
 Af,oo,s4 O- IStt

DR BoRLANn,
 Sif,--In answer to your enquiry, will state that al tic bonds given to the Real Estate Bank of the Staie of Arkansas, for money borrowed of that ia- stitatipn for the use of the State, were paid the 31st May, lSlS. under Section 20 of sAn act to settle and liquidate the affairs oi the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas approved 3lst Ja- nuary, iSi3; except sir bonds, each for oUSgp8 dolars These unpaid bonds bear interest at the rate of foe per ceat. per dnam, and none of them will be due GHtl tie year 1851.
 By Section a6 of the Charter of the Real Estate Bank, that institution, after it commenced its opera tions was required topay annually into the State Treasury for the term ot len geafs flee aoasaad dol iaFs. The Bank has only paid eeaty toasad doiiaYs under this requision o law and has granted certi cae, offset for interest due omthe State to the Bank, for four hundred and Seueaty-6ee dollars, in addition So that, on the first of December next, the Real Estate Bank will owe the State Sl4 ,525 !; being S,225 more than the States indebtedness to that institation.
 All the bonds given to the Bank of the State of Arkansas and the Branch of said Bank at Fayette- vile, haze been paid, cancelled, and filed in thiS office, under section % of 'sAa act to place the Bank of tie State of fA slxansas in liqudation ap- proved 3lst January, fS43.
 You will therefore, perceive that all the money borrowed from the Banks, to pay for the completion of tie Pe9iteniaiy and State House. and for other extraordinary expenditures, lias been paid; except the sc ousead doliars left unpaid to offset part of the amount due from the Real Estate Bank 10 the State.
 The means proyidea by "An act making appro- pTiaaoas for tic years Isl3 l34f, and part of the year iS42 and for the balances due from the State " approved 3d February, lSt3, are amply sufficient 10 meet and discharge all other demands which are dac from tile State, and payable through this office
 cry respectfully, your ob't servt,
 ELIAS N. CONWAY,
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MISTAKE or NAAIE.-In the proceedings of the Democratic meeting in Independence county, pub lshod by us a few weeks since, the name of Jackson Tucker was given, as member of the committee that reported the resolutions by nfstae, for that of Gideon Tucker. The following letter. from the real Democratic Mir Tucker, sets the matter right; and we are pleased to lay it before our readers. The credit of the .'Inertorous service" now inures to the rightGul author.
 INDEPENDENCE CouNrY, August II, 1844.
 DR. BoRLAND-Sir: sec, blythe publish- ed proceedings of the Democratic meeting, held in this county on the 22d July, that Jackson Tucker has the credit of being one of the committee who reported, what you are pleased to call, ''Weller's Epitaph.'' This is a mistake. 1 am the Tucker who was on that committee; and my name Is GIDEON, and not Jackson. Iwould not have troubled you about the matter, but have, uninlentionally, been deprived of the credit of assisting in the performance of, what is here considered, a meritorious service. Will you be so kind as to make the necessary eorrection2
 Respectfully,
 4 GIDEON TICKER
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APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR.
 GEoneE coSwAy, Esq of Hempstead county, to a Judge of fse 9th Judicial Circuit, of Arkansas. in place of Hon. Jolln Fiell resigned.
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GEN. DREW has left home for the purpose of meetng m person, as many of his fellow citizens as the few remaining weeks, previous to the election, will allow He hopes to overhaul Dr. Gibson before the election
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Coy. YEIL- IFhy lid yon remit le years of the tenn for which Samuel C. Ilosotridge was senten- cod b Imprisonment ii the Pelitentiary?
 afkeasas Ga.eiie. Ths question is abnndantly answered in our pa. PsI to-day; greafy to the modification of the editor os tle Gazette, we have no doubt.
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ARKANSAS STATE DEBT.

Some of the Whig orators, and wouId-bc states men, of Pulaski comfy have recently uadertakento enlighten the people, upon the subject the domestic debtofthis sate-decaring that the State owed more money than t could pay--was bankrupt, indeed,- and all in consequence of the misnanagement of Democsate Administration of its affairs. For the purpose of satisfying oursef as to the truth or lasity of these statements, addressed an inquiry to the Auditor of public accounts. To his kind courtesy, we are indebted for the following very clear and sat isfactory letter, in reply. We take pleasure in lay ing it before our readers, in order that they may judge of the confidence to be placed in the state. nents ol some Of the whg candidates in this county
 AUpIroR's OFFICE,
 LITTLE ROCK, ARKs
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,, Col sEYIkR will address the people at the fol
 ln.Yinm fines anA nLaeea. viz:

-- lowing times and places, vi&
 Camp Ground, near Maj. Spears on
 Wolf Creek, Clark county, Thursday, 2o do. Washington, Hampstead CO.,, Saturday, 3l do. Spring Hill, do. do. Monday, Sept. Lewisyle, Lafayette CO.,, Tuesday, do. Caiaden Quachta co., Friday, do. Chalnpagnole, Union CO, Saturday, ' do. Warren, Bradley CO., Monday, do. Pine Bluff, Jefferson eo.. Thursday, i2 do
 Col. SevieT' appointments in Monrne, Phillips Desha. and Chicot, will be announced inthis paper after his return from Jefferson county.
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." "I7OVtI uIIYf
 GIDEON TUCKER

Gov. YELL left home on the 10th to complete his tour of the State. He then had four counties visit Montgomery, Scott, Perry, and Yell, to end the campaign. He was in Yell county when last heard from, few days since. He was in fine health and spirits, and confident of triumphant majority.
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\ PLAIN QUESTION:
TO THE VOTERS OF PULASKI couN

TO THE VOTERS OF PULASKI COUNTY.
 SdallHe SENATOR. from He county of PuIasli, ia te aert session ofe Legisatere of .2rtaasas, De He Representative of Ae REAL ESTATE BANK, or fHc PEOPLE?
 We keep this before the people, and urge it upon their serious consideration. \ continuation of our remarks upon it has been suspended, on account of what we have understood to be, the illness of GIr NEWTON, in the country. We cannot follow the bad example of some of our whig contemporaries, in violating the sancty either of the grave, or of the sjc5 caGm6er; though we might gain political ad- vantage by doing so. We war only with the living and the strong. It is hoped that Mr. Newton will have so far recovered as to be able to bear what we have to say about him, in our next.
 INDEPENDENcE, FULTON, HARD, VAN BvREN, LAWRENCE AND JACKSON GoUNTlEs-We make the following extracts of letter. dated 18th instant from friend in Idepeadence:
 ssGen. DREw's prospects are of the most cheering kind. l saw, the other day, Mir. Cuip, Gas good a Democrat as the district allords-and a candidate for the Senate from the district composed of the counties of Fulton, Izard and Van Buren,) and he says that after canvassng the district thoroughly he is satisfied that there arc not 75 Byrd men in it Whie and Democrat
 In LAWRENCE COUNTY, the Whigs themselves, who as you know, Bpct's great 6raggers, do not give him more than 10 votes; while the Democrats do not give him single one.
 In JACKSON COUNTY, Col. Robinson, says that Bgrd has no friends; nor does he know a man who will support him.
 In this county, (INDEpENDENcE, after diligent enquiry have found t,eo Byrd men, andtsyo oaly- one Whig and one Democrat. **
 In all the counties have mentioned Gen. DREW will receive the full Democratic vote and in this county, there arc bets made on his getting ma- iority
 Gen. DREW is in fine health, and high spirits; and the health of his family having improved he intends leaving next week on tour. He will visit GREEN county first You may rest assured that he will. as yon have pledged him, give good account of Dr. Gibson when they meet"
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HARD CouNrY-A friend, in Izara county. con clpdes letter, to Us, Of recent date, as follows:
 The name of Gen. THomAs S. DRrw is kindly received in this quarter, as the Democratic candi- date for Governor. The Democracy of this county will present one unbroken front, on the first Monday n October next at the polls, for Gen. DREW, and Gov YELL; noriwill they do less for Po1K and DALLAS, in November. Doctor Gibson will get the Fhig vote this county--say forth votes the whole vote et the county being about Jour hundred Gen. Byrd will be left clear out of sight. don't know any one who will vote for him.
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THAT BET Is TAKEN.-The bet of S1 900 that iCi.AE will beat POLK D electoral votes, which the Gazette has paradedin is columns, has been taken ] by gentleman of Jefferson county.
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do hereby certify to his ExcelleneY, A. YELL, that the foregoing statement is correct, so far the facts come within my own llnowledge and l con- cur with MT. Trapnall, in his recommendation to pardon them, as specified.
 R. w. JOHNSON. To His Excclency \. YELL.
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Cor. sryIER left this city on Sunday last on a tour through the southern countless with the view of addressing his fellow citizens at the several places mentioned in his list of ppontments-vhich see in another column. He expects to return here, about the middle of septenher.