The Arkansas banner., 1848-02-15

of his speeeAes agony, at having excited the Ire o sneh cnamihat as yoarpelf
 [ The bey was gSsnx. eE uapaTdoaable sin know in the eyes of co matRgn6 a critic @ ycursen His drawn your well know magnaAimity, he might have bonoued ssgsysi years, which yoa, ia the generosity Of your heart, would never again have asked him for, am sure. h return he might have made you present mutually hen6eiai-sone of his caris-whieh afses roobng hia of some of his half. girlsh looks, would have served you in eOncealing
 certain inclination to baldRess. to say nothing oI she isass. not wrinkles, which time or Mopgkt (he latter of eeorse) have made on your spouId-bs Fly peFion brow.
 Another fault was. that when the unfortunately gentle youth" osgf to have been Awed and discon- cer;ed by ycuf commanding bearing aud somewhat pOrtly presence Ae was foolish to 'seatier hs hoReyed nonsense' and blow his thistle down. about where il might tickle into ire 90 unreenting a critic yourself. He was surely old enough to have known that sse is always unforgiving to the follies of youfh when t has ontveA them too long to remember that long time ago s had been gull ty of such itsef But the most serious crime of ail was the boys evident inclination 70 appear an ex- qpisite, by which this 'gIass of fashion and mould Of form" was affected, as a thoroughbred dunghill cock would be. by the appearance ot rival in his "waik'
 ! The attack upon Gen. Hemstead reminded me of the pursued by ignorant physician towards q patient when he did not know exactly what was the matter with him, he gave sal,-water and cold baths and treated him on general principles til he eoHId discover hts peculiar disease.
 i have for years known Mai. Thompson B. Flour Doy high toned gentleman, and the best of friends; and lately became acquainted with him in a new eharacter-ihai of an orator. In aIl he has borne himself nobiy, That find it difficult to de- terminc tho motive of the soge Doctor in attacking him unless from mere envy. For the Majors easy. graceful manners in private liie and the pow CTS of eioquence he lately manifested before the convention, have gained him small reputation with that sex whose smiles this speyaapafed adsnis
 imagined to be reserved for himself. "There is the rub" By the bye in making out list of the compartments of this sweet scented geatieman, I forgot 10 mention that he possessed no small know edge of magic for he causes fuligrown "assss'' to ] issue from the pcTss of "spungeAA with as much ease, as he stretched that tender yoang Ward, Col os'usIike, across unmeasurcd space in the form of q a'-rainbow-He talks of Major Fiournoy's "box. ing whig doctTines.-compares him to a "locomo- tive" and in his own imagination makes himself vastly facetions generally. Now to my certain knowledge the Major was adapting his style 10 the mudiled state of your hEains-which he knew bad been too long fumigated by drowsy drugs foo long confined to the narrow i;mi's of a mortar and too much thnmped by pesle, to comprehend any thing, with less force about it, than q runaway locomotive"-so don't mistake lis intended kind ness
 Your attack on Mir. Marlin, is too plainly the re- s"i or personal btferness to deserve notice So in conclusion my dear sir, let me advisc you friend who values your reputation highly than you seem 10 do, to pack your sarcasm away in pill box-put your s!cquence into a vial and cork it tight-do up your hugely magnificent similes into nee brown paper parcel and stow them all away in some dark corneror really the three might de you some bodily injury if allowed to unite.-- Hoping my dear sir that you will profit by the ad- vice of an admirer of yours.
 ] am most respectfully.
 ". r. - only saw your brilliant letter few days ago. and but for an accident would not have met with that splendid ta,tat.oa 'gcm" of literature.