Southern shield., 1854-09-30
H E L IN A, ARK A N s JAS. Saturday September 30, 1854.
. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: WILLARD FILLMORE, ofN. Y
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT: ALBERT PIKE, of Arkansas.
The Memphis Enquirer Again

And run an Indian muck at all be meets "
 Dryden
 The Gazette &. Democr0t has seen ggtsAereshis shise Jlfe supscrfaortt or the h. ternal Improvement Fund of Pulaski county was made without respect to the formulary of law. It further charges that this subscription of Pu- laski instead of being paid pro rata with the regular calls on the capital stock of the Company, has been paid, whether as loan to the road or not we are uniformed, within the last twelve months in toto. Mir. BEEBE, the President of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, is the alleged of- fender in both cases. The Gazette having made and urged these charges against Mr. BEEBE with its usual in genuity of thought and correctness of expression, the True Democrat taking a different view of the case has placed itself on the defence with all its wonted earnestness of purpose and energy of will. The argument has been carried on for some weeks; but the combat beng an equal one, our love of fair play forbade us to interfere. The question IS, however, submitted now to the de- cision of the courts of law; and so far as lts merits are concerned is, there fore, in our mind, placed outside the proprieties of public journalism.
 Indeed this matter would not at all have invited our remarks had it not, in 9 late issue of the Memphis Enquirer, been made a pretence for a gross per sessel outrage by thv EEor-1pl.ie E.,.r.y5' Company on the private character of the President of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. Apart from the yjruzence of this particular case, for 1t is really one of the most startling indecencies we have ever seen in public print, we should like to know the grounds on. which the Memphis Enquirer arrogates to itself the right to tamper with every question proper to only the people of this State. Not, however, content with mere tampering, that journal has ele- vated it's pretensions in the case to even tyranizing; and every citizen of Ar kansas who dares to express opinions at conflict with the selfish interests off the outside cliques for which that jour- nal electioneers is branded before the public asJazse, dishonest, or naaHg- n0nt. The executive of the State representing as he does the dignity of a sovereign people, is not exempted from this termagant abuse. The Vicks- burg Whig, the New Orleans Delta, and many other papers having larger circulation in this State have never pre- sumed to act the part of even genteel busy-bodies in our domestic concerns: and we have yet to learn the grounds on which the Memphis press dares to practice, and the Little Rock press con- descends to recognise, such outrageous breaches of respect and comity. Very true, the Memphis press has, ill it's love for vapid and silly speculation, been so long trumpeting into the ears of its readers the rich harvest of con- bill-shavings, &c., &c., which Memphis will yet reap off our people, 1 that, as Mahomet who began by cheat ing others is said to have ended by cheating himself, the press of Memphis, absurd as 1t may appear, has actually written itself into the belief that this State belongs, a fat province, to the town of Memphis But any such silly impudence as this is of course nothing toI us; and be 1t ever so satisfactory to the people of Memphis is merely an addi tional insultu upon the people of Arkan- sas. The Enquirer, the Whig, the Appeal, ,haye not, we firmly believe 8 lar ger circulation in this State than even the "Wittsburg Messengers" and that the circulation of any one of them should cause the papers of Little Rock to take any notice whatever of either its overbearing insolence or it's more insin- uating impertinence in matters purely Arkansian, is in our honest opinion