The Arkansas banner., 1847-12-27
rHe cOvvrNTION

The last demeersa h . vsi4 ri1sealeas enoagA c maks sveaa wAig smile. salks sfths diaasiers tAai ass te bsfali our party the eonssnsion should hap pea to div wiEA As~ - sp;aios ss to ths men Aess eaeaiated Co maintain oar strength in the sais; os h eles words lit should nominsts thnse democrAis eos office aPon whom he has been pouring out every specirs of abuse. that his maseyolenee and psOnal sHgagsmrnts required. then 1t will meet with the thsSdss and lightning Of his eeRsare and he ~i de- eiAse ,hs eoassaaioa. ..a nese iasarumest ia the hands Sf ths ciiqae-a pssked boAy. esllsd iOsesh- er, mef-ly 10 add .e@i-oseiai endorsement tO the poss of fsw petty politicians whose motto is ruie os r'iin-''
 This taken in connection MIh o'hsr poEtioas Of his article is an undsguised Areai open attempt to tuliy the members Cf the convention into ecmP- ance with his will and the condemnation oE gO"d de- nOesas whose Tusa Ae has alFs.ay asserted hs woad accomplish No means howeres base. wiil be spared Q achieve thisl 10 alliance however unprineiPled wia De rejected. and overtures of support wiii be extended even where they wi certainly be received oniy with the utmost seorn. Aud yet this is Pa- per protesting to aet for the Democratic party and its re-HniOn. We have oflen openly, and avowedly proclaimed ouF intention ol supporting warmly and srisutly. any good democrat who may be seiecird. and as yet 10 on. has been named. among those prominently before the party iOs the noniraiion. whnmwe do not consider entitled to that istinci0n or whom we believe can fail ,o rally our ranks, ia any section of the State. We have expressed pre- fereDee fos none. while we have sedalOusy avoided ,indietiye assaults against any who seek the nosni nation. Forwarned by neighbor against the rock upon which he has split and overwhelmed himself in gulf of inlany.
 The convention will meet on Monday next. sf,ef which we wiil be ready to battle for cause. under the experience leaders selected for US. Late from Nexieo-- -ifrtsi of Pillow and Worth.
 Various runsors, aud consequent surn,ises. have bccn aHOat recently, about the arrest of Generals M orth and Pillow, and Col. Duncan, by Gen Scott, in the city of Mexico. Our friend. Maj. Bcrland, has just handed ua copy of 71s NortA .imsricGa, published in the city of Mexico. Nov. l6th, con- tanlng order No. 34s] of Gen. Scott, which may e regarded the first step towards the unfortunate measure of arrest. Indignant, ss honorable men could not fail to be, st such unworthy impataiions, the officers alluded to expressed themselves, in various ways 10 incur still further the dispeasure of Gen. Scott and he placed them under sr.est- for eoaiempi. whe,h'r he designs having them tried by court martial have not been able to learn; but we understand that, believing themselves be very unjusty treated, some, if all, of these gentle men have appealed to the President-iu the way of appeal and daee.sation. The result of this appeal," &c may be looked for with much interest by those who desire to know who are the hus heroes of the valley of Mexico and the people may yet be en- abcd to with what peculiar grace and proprie,y the charge of seeking fame not carned' coming from Gen. Scot against such men as he has placed undcr arrest.
 We subioin the order No. 3l9) alluded to.
 The letter mentioned in the order, as 'in New Orleans poper." is the famous Leouidas letter. which Gen. Pillow has been accused of wrting-or procuring to bs written. Whether this accusation bc well founded or not, time and future develop ments alone can determine.
 The letter alluded to as ''through Tnmpico news paper," is one written from Tacubaya, on the 27th August the authorship of which is boldly avOwed by Col Duncan, In spirited and characteristic note of Nov 18th, in the North American. Col. Dun can makes this publication. to use his own words, '',hat none of his brother officers may. nnocentiy, suffer for publication so obnoxious" And what does this 'obnoxious" letter contain: Nothing more lees than nasty yet modest and truthful account of wha, he saw, and what he did in part, those bloody days and not for pubiicstion-b but for the eye of a fiieud in Pittsburg.
 Next week we will give this letter, with Col Duncans note in full. And probably other docu- ments on the same subject
 WAR DEPARTMENT, ApJUTsxT GESL's 0FFrcg,
 Washington. Jan. P, lsi7.
 General Orders-No. 2.
 The following Regulation has been rec iycd from the War Department:
 WAR DEPARTMENT.
 si Washington, January 2s, ls4..
 The President of the United States directs that paragraph $50 of the General Regulations for the Army, established on the lst of March, 1925, and not included among those published January 25 tsat. be now published, and that its observance as a part of the Geneaal Regulations be strictly en- joined upon the army.
 By order efthe PTssidsaf:
 tsigned) W. L. MARCY.
 Secretary of War.
 The following is the paragraph of the General Regulations far the Army established on the 4st of March. 1925, referred to above:
 "650 P,ivste letters reports. relative to milf tary marches and operations, are frequently mis- chieyous in design, and always disgracefui to the army They are, therefore strictly forbidden; and any officer found gut ty of making such report for publication, wi hout special permission. or of plac- fRSr the WYifin0 bevond hs eontroi that i, find.