The Arkansas banner., 1844-12-18
BUSINESS PROSPECTS.

The whigs affect to believe, that with the triumph of Democratic principles the county is ruined. The people have learned from experience, that with federal whggery ill power, their intersts have been prostrated their rights trampied upon, and their country dishonored. Whether t De matter of hon. or or rcproach, il is at least singular cir cumstancc, that whoever maintains the doc Urine of equal rght-of universal suffrage whoever raises his voice in defence of the Constitution, is immediately set down by the wings as an enemy to his country. Such language would lead us to think that the or der of things was inverted, and that conspira- cy had changed its nature. The democrats are charged with the design,-not of destroy ing, but of preserving the Constitution and country.
 We have not the least doubt that the coons, through iheir presses, will make use of every means to discourage enterprlse-to paralize business and create pancs. Indeed, before the contestis hardly decided, they have com meneed their eroaking giving gloomy pie ture of the prospect ot business and the com mereial affairs of the country. This mean- choly view things, taken by our opponents, IS perfectly natural, and to be expected from those who, through their nfdelity. have been thrust from every post of honor and place of trust. But we are perfectly satisfied that 1t is without foundation, and that in the course ofa few months, the industrial movements of the age, will advance more vigorously than ever.
 The recent elections have settled forever a National Bank-an institution from which the people had every thing to ear-it has settled the Distribution scheme, and various other financial questions of the wings, which have heretofore caused the sudden revulsions, dis asters and bankruptcies from which the coun- try has suffered so severely This leaves HIS untrammeled. Our prospects do not depend upon the successful or unsuccessful working of some new scheme. We are left to make the most of our position and we believe that trade and industry never had better pros poet before them than now.--Our banking institutons-thanks to democratic principles -never stood upon a firmer foundation. Our population and powers of production are increasing-our values are improving, and with the settlement of the great ques- tions which have been agitated in the contest, confidence will be restored, and healthful prosperity be the result Not only the dem ocrats, butthe business men among the whigs, will have every reason to be highly gratllied at the present termination of the contest.
 Our prospects, therefore, we gladly again assert, are good, and we desire all men of business to rely upon it, that during the next five, six, or seven years, they may make for tunes with ease and comfort, if they only know how to avail themselves of the elements around them. The despondency only exists among disappointed otlice-seekers and those who are too ignorant to understand their po- sition, and too lazy to go to work and earn an honest living.-S. .4ibaas Repuelicn.
 We see reported in the Mississippi papers that Ex-Gov. Tunnels, formerly of that State, has been assassinated in Texas by the Lynch Regulators, to arrest whose violence Gov R. had been sent by the civil authorities, at the head of a suitable force. It is said that sev- cral other persons of his company were killed TuScalaoSa 1fauiior