Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-02-15

A Comraa.-Rather more than fifty years ago,
the sinking sun shone, bright one fine afternoon,
on the stately tenemcnts OF Dumiries, and threw
ais slant rule Of light athwart the principal street
Of The Town. The shadows of the houses on the
ives ern side were stretched halfway across the
pavement while on the side opposite the red beam
seemed as II sleeping on juiing irregular fronts
and tall gables. There was world Of well.dress-
cd company that evening in Dumfrics; for the ar
stocracy OF the adjacent country for twenty
miles around had poured in 10 attend county
-k. anu wer0 r'"r''' groups along the SUNNY
side, in the shade, soaFy ~
along the pavement. On the hundreds who hu..
tered pas! no one took notice of hiu-no one seem-
ed to recognise him. He was known to theUS"h
as the exciseman and poet, Ro5er, Burns; " be
had offended the stately Toryism Of hel%l5scg
BY the freedom Of his political creed; aA5 ~
tainted BY the plague OF LlberaIism-Fsi@y undsr
strict Quarantine. He was stunned & neg eoledi Tor
ii was with the man Burns tina, these HIS co!emPora-
ries had to deal. Let the reader contrast with this
truly melancholy scene, the scene OF his festival
a fortnight since. Here are the speeches OF the
Earl of Eginlon and Sir John MN, 4, and here
the toast Of the Lord Justice Gen;ral. Lot us
Just imagine these gentlemen, with . their nigh
aristocratic notions about them. carried 1ack half
a century into the past, and dropped dcwn, on tho
sad evening 10 which we refer, in the main street,
of Dumiries. Which side does the reader think
thev wodid have chosen 10 walk up0ni Would
they have addressed the one solitary 'dWdualln
the shade,or not rather joined theG,se TO the gay
groups in the sunshine who negiet cd and con-
temned him They find it an easy Liter to deal
With the phantom idea Of Burns nov now would
they have deal, with the man the How are
they dealing with his poorer relative pf how with
men of kindred genius, their coiemP '2rIes! Alasf
q moments glance at such natter q suihcient to
showl,how very unreal thing c..hnsernorative
feas. may be.-Edinburgh Wine
Col. AsMey.-Our new Sonat is acquiring
reputation abroad, as well as at hon ana warinlly
wearing the honors conferred upon my Arkan.
sas. Having been invited 10 tn q 'oraton OF
the S,h of January, by the Dem la's Of rmia-
delphia he WIS unable to attend. we copy from
the Daily Keys:one," the fol! "lng toasss;.-.-s
Arkdnsds Banner. -
"Sueator Ashley, Of Arkansas, snt .he follow
ing: r.,g
The Chief corner stone of Democracy, imbed.
ed mnovabiy in the fundamental law OF the
land:-The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited it tc
the States, are reserved 10 the States respectively
or to the People.'
by the Committee: Chester Ashley Of Ar
kansas--A distinguished jurist and able champion
of popular rights and equal justice His past histo
4 ~ is an earnest that his career in the Senate o
the U. s. will be useful to his State and bonorabls
to himself"
Chocia,cs.-Some threeor four hundred Of thes,
Indians are now encamped on the Big Black, aboy
( sigh, or ten miles from Canton, Miss. Tho pro-
waiting the arrival OF the res, Of ssssippi.-
ceed to their now nome hsxBfpp aud Anderson. Of
siessrs' Forester q Contract 70, their arrival
Tennessee, hav- - -.