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The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

ANOTHER WITHDRAwAL.-The last Fort Smith Herald contains letter from E. M DAN. iELs, of Sugar Loaf, Sebastian county, address Sed to the secretary of the know nothing coun- cll, Withdrawing his name from the list of know nothings. His objections to the order are: first that no mum as it to represent free people, ac1to has any priUate or secret objects or aims Hiat he does not openly avow; secondly, that the "obHqa- t'os a0I''ch 's imposed npon the ogphcon sohen he presents hinaseI tor admission that he aviU carry out 'ts decfees t0heter his Judgnent op,oves them. or not, as surrender cf e dearest ragts Of fee- men aud c crime against society," thirdly. that
 @ proposes to anvade the radgts of conscience and ca1 men an question ortbe free exercise Mereot; fourthly that the principles cf democrocy ere .jou''lea upon truth and justice, and ought to De the rule cf individual action as sceN as of tie pub hc conduct cf every citizen"
 Most excelently we'll done. Mir. Daniels four reasons are cogent ones for coming out of the secret conclave. His letter is dated the 4th of July inst He could not have celebrated the day by nobler deed than withdrawing from the know nothing order; in so doing. he paid high and just tribute to the institutions of our country, which guaranties to every man the freedom of thought and speech and the right of conscience
 Let all democrats who, like MT. Daniels. have been entrapped by the know nothings throw oil the shackles and act like freemen. They are doing so all over the Union let them do so in Arkansas
 We predict that in six months there will he scarcely democrat in the know nothii coun- cils of Arkansas
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
The Prescription of Teachers.

There is a deep feeling of indignation in the community against the action of the board o1 school trustees on Monday night, in prescribing all the Catholic teachers-some of them, too acknowledged to be the best and most deserv ing teachers in the whole city, This indigna- tion will not be allayed when it is known that such action, instead of being the consequence of an impromptu movement as many suppos- ed, was the result of deliberate caucus of a portion of the know nothing trustees! Such petty prescription is discreditable ard disgrace tul, and any party that permits it forfeits pub lie respect and confidence. .-Lou;sviNe Courier.
 The Louisville Courier, until very recently, was the leading know nothing organ in Ken lucky, put seems to have, in measure, its eye- sight, since the Journal led off in behalf of the order, swallowing abolitionism and all
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
Words of Tr,,th

The following from the Christian Advocate the Methodist organ of Louisiana, published at New Orleans, takes the correct view of the re- suit of the crusade waged by the Know Noth ings against~Catholics. Let every Protestant read It. Persecution is always advantageous to any sect. The persecution now endured by the Catholic church is daily strengtheninc it. There IS no doubt of this fact. Thousands of noble spirits who otherwise would hold it in re- hglous abhorrence," rally to that church when prescribed and persecuted. It the human nature to defend and protect the weak from oppression, and it is the sympathy of this hu. man nature that the Know Nothings are fool ishly arousing in favor of Catholicism Know Nottingham, by prescription and persecution, is daily strengthening and assisting Catholicism in this country. Read what the Methodist Chris. tan Advocate says:
 A misfortune has befalen the controversy as between Catholics and Protestants. Our op- ponents have suddenly been put at immense advantage.
 The sympathies of powerful party are un- avoidaby with them. Public speakers and journalists are become their apologists and eulo- glsts. Invlduous comparisons are drawn be- tween Catholics and Protestants, in disparage- ment of the latter, and by those who have hitherto thought and acted otherwise.
 A comparatively feeble sect has been eleyat ed into undue importance According to the representation of fthe census, in 1850. the Ro. man Catholic church has but LIP churches. which can accommodate only 62l,OOO hearers Not one eleventh of the number of churches belonging to the Methodsts, scarcely more than one-eighth of the number of the Baptists. not one-fourth the number of the Presbyterians It has not one thirty-thrd of the whole num- Der reported, while the Methodists have more than one-thrd, and the Baptists nearly one- fourth.
 And this handful, party aspiring to nationa- lty, proposes to resist!
 If the General of Jesuits himself had been in council, he could not more etfectually have devised to weaken the Protestant and aggrandize the Catholic cause.
 Should this platform succeed to the govern ment, we shall be put back where England was befor the act of Catholic emancipation. This is taking steps backwards of ourselves
 It gives Catholics the tremendous benefit of persecution. That cry will rally to the sect hosts of noble spirits who otherwise would hold It n religious adherence.
 Many who were hanging loosely by the skirts oi Catholicism, and being gradually but surely disintegrated from it's communion. are fired with new zeal and competed by the sense of oppres- sion.
 The weapons of this warfare are not carnal We acknowledge the kind intentions, but de- cline the alliance of politicians. It Is burden some. This controversy belongs to us-Protes- tant christians, Protestant churches, Protestant journals and societies, as such We want no direct aid from government in managing it, be- heving that if let alone, with truth on our side. we can bring it forth to victory.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

yWe give the 1ollOWlnS artlcle rom the Mem- phis Eagle and Enquirer, formerly whig pa- per, but now a leading know nothing paper: Arkansas Politics.
 "1t seems to be understood that the Conway and Johnson wing of the democratic ''family'' in Arkansas, is to be the anti-American faction ot that State, while the Borland and Danley wing will probably unite with the Americans. But It appears that not even all of the former adheronts of the Conway nd Johnson oligar- chy will go along with them in their opposition to American principles. For il stance, Albert Pike, Henry Neill and James Logan, were members of the Philadelphia convention and will hencciorth act with the great American republican party, already so powerful from the Arostook to the San Joaquin.'
 Better authority as 10 the position of "Bor- land and Danley' could not be found than the Eagle and Enquirer. The democrats of Arkan- sas will now no longer doubt the treachery ard desertion of the Gazette. It has already join- ed with the know nothing party in their war upon the democracy. The next step of the editors will be to become members Of coarse it will be done under the deepest veil of secresy
 The Eagle and Enquirer seems 10 think the Johnson and Conway wing Gas it calls the true democracy,) is in danger because of the deser- tion of Albert Pike, Henry Neill and James Logan. It will be news to the democracy to know that they are indebted to Pike and Neill for their strength in Arkansas, and to Conway and Johnson, that they owe so much to these gentlemen. In 1852, both Pike and .Nel bit tery opposed the election of Gov Conway, and have ever since kept up active hostilities against him. At the election of Johrsou to the Sc. nate, there was no opposition, and all parties, in view of his past services to the State, united in confeFring upon him Senatorial honors.
 But such is the policy of the know nothines The representation, that Pike and Neill's join ing the order is an evidence of the decay 0 the democratic party, is barefaced sander.- The democratic party owe to Capt. Pike an. even 10 MT. Neill, nothing but the bitterest an, most unrelenting opposition Capt Pike ha always been an implacable, uncompromisin; enemy of Gov Conway
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
Interesting to Ladies-BrEum's Show of
 Handsome Women.

The New York Evening Post tells us that Barnum's success with his baby show has prompted him to an enterprise of a still bolder nature, that of getting up ashow of handsome women. He proposes two hundred premiums amounting to five thousand dollars, to be pre- sented to the handsomest women in America or rather to the handsomest who may be will ing to enter into this competitor.
 The ladies, howveer are not to come to he gazed at; but their friends are to send to Mir Barnum, at the museum, their likenesses. taken either by the photographic or daguerreotymc process, before the 18th of October. These llkenesSes are to be laid before the public at the museum where the visitors may have an oppor- tunlty of inspecting them, and expressing, by depoSltlng ballot Tn box provided for the purpose, an opinion of their various pretenSions to beauty. The prizes are to be awarded ac- cordlng to the number of suffrages which each beauty receives 1T, m the public The highest pfIe Is athousand dollarS-there is one of three hundred, one of two hundred, one of bun urea ana nity, SIX ot one hundred, ninety of twenty dollars each, aud one hundrd of ten each. The likenesses of those who receive the ten highest prizes, are to be engraved and published. in the French "World's Book of Beauty" the successful competitors being first invited to sit, at Barum's expense, to the best artist in their neighborhood for their DOT traits.
 This time the snowman makes an appeal to feeling stronger perhaps than even maternal vanity. Slly..women will send their lkenesses; the sillier they are the more certain they will be to engage in the competition. After ali, however, the handsomest faces in reality do not always appear best in the dagueoneotype or photograph, and this will be the consolation of those who fail to secure premium. To prevent the intrusion of that class who would be most ready to engage in rivalry of this kind, "no likenesses will be received from disreputable persons" and it is added, thatifany such be discovered they will be rejected. This will hardly, however, prevent them from oin- ing In the competition, under some disguise or other.-S. Louis Democrat
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
For the True Democrat.
MEssRs. EDITORS:

MESSRS. fDITORS:
 The Fort Smith Herald of the 18th inst, relates freak of electricity which occurred in that place during the recent storm. It is not uncommon for a ball of electricity to divide and seek the earth through different channels. Electricity will always take the easiest rot the shortest route to the ground.
 The instance spoken of is accounted for from the fact that a locust tree is poor conductor and the horses good ones. The attraction to- wards each horse being nearly equal the bal. is divided and the fluid jumped from the tree to the horses, each horse receiving shock in pro- portion to the distance he was from the point of division The one that escaped, was pro- bably a greater distance from the point of di- vision, or not being as wet as the others, did not attract the same quantity of the fluid.
 GALVANIC.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

E Admiral Sir Charles Napier is after Sir James Graham with dogged resolution. He declares that he will not rest until all the mat ters connected with his command in the Baltic are laid before the public, and he insists that Sir James will be shown to have behaved very badly. In a late letter, he says he has refrain ed from publishing his whole correspondence with Sir James when the latter was in office under the Aberdeen administration, because he might be accused of giving the plans of attack to the enemy. But he adds, when it is de- cided not to attack the points he pointed out:
 1 shall go to Lord Palmerston and ask him Il he will give the papers to the House; and if he refuses, shall then publish them, whatever IS the consequence to myself. 1 have no heslta- ton in saying, had done what's James Ora ham wished me to do, plainly expressed in let ters, both public and private, should have ios' her Majesty'S fleet; and 1 think Sir James Ura- ham deserves impeachment for goading me 10 do in the winter what he was advising me n0t lo do in the summer.
 There will be some fine fun when "oiu Charley" as they call him, gets his blood uP and gets to talking.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
TRUE DEMOCRAT. RICHARD H. JOHNSON, EDroR.
 LITTLE ROCK, JULY 31, 1855.
To Our Patrons-The True
 Democrat.

It has long been our intention to enlarge the size of our paper. We arc now about perfect ing all of our arrangements to do so. We have ordered paper and chases and rules for the pur- pose. We have also ordered steam engine to drive our press.
 Our paper is now at Devall's Bluffs and will be here in a few days. The chases and rules are at Napoleon. We expect them all in the course of couple of weeks and when we get them, we shall immediately issue paper about third larger than the present size
 This we shall do without increasing our price of subscription. The price of subscription will be $2 in advance-$2 50 if paid in the course of the year, and $3 if paid at the end of the year We shall thus present our readers and subscribers the largest and cheapest paper ever published in Arkansas.
 The engine We have ordered, was shipped from New York on the 18th of June last. and will doubtless be here ill a very few weeks- We have now one of the finest and most i'm proved power presses in the United States, and when we receive our engine we shall have complete office, and be enabled to execute all kinds of work with cheapness and dispatch.
 We have been moved to make this increase ln the size of our paper and to procure steam power to work it of, by the great increase in our business. Our advertising patronage and our large subscription list, will enable us to do it, without any advance in our prices. We are determined to spare neither pains or expense to merit the great patronage we are receiving.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

KANSAS LEGISLATURE. "A despatch iron Independence, Mo-, to the St. Louis Evenin News, says:
 The Kansas Legislature met on the 2d inst Thomas Johnson, of the Methodist Mission was elected president of the council, and Rich ard K. Reese, president pro tenn. J. A. Holder son was elected secretary, MT. Grover assistan secretary, pr. J. s. Stringfellow speaker of tn, House, Mir. Lise clerk, and MT. Martin assis tant clerk. All the members were admittedt. their seats, with the certificate of the Governor The contested election will be tried this week The Legislature will adjourn to the Methods. Mission to-day.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
Cairo and Fulton Railroad Com
 panY.

Although this company declined accepting the grant of lands under the terms and restrictions imposed by "An act to aid in the construction of the Cairo and Fulton railroad," approved 16th January, 1855, yet in order to have the survey and line or route for the road definitely fixed by authority of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, the company has fully complied with section four of said act, and the line or route of the road being now definitely fixed by law, the lands granted by Congress to aid in the construction of the road, will be se- lected without delay, at the expense of the company. and will then remain subject to be applied hereafter in accordance with law, to aid in the construction of the road. The mat ter will be left open for the action cf the Gene ral Assembly at the next session. In the mean time, it may be possible that the company will be able to do all the work prescribed by the third section of the act within the period re- quired. Had the company accepted the grant under the terms and restrictions of the act the lands would have been tied up and withheld from sale, to the great damage of the State, for at least twenty years. Under the present ar engagement, the General Assembly, at its next session. will have 1t in its power, to properly adiust the whole matter
 We know 1t will be gratifying news to our citizens along the line of the proposed road, to which we presume may be done now at an early day, the United States public lands, which have been so long withheld from sale will be reslor- ed to market. This will be a great benefit to many of our citizens and to the State generally.
 Nor So AND NEVER WAs.-.The Camden Herald, in copying the proclamation" of the know nothings, in the last Gazette, to their order to meet here on the 9th of August next, en maasse, and noticing the speakers of the occa- sion says:
 At least half of those who are on the com mittee and those who are appointed to speak, are democrats Dr. Huey was once a demo- cratic Senator from this district and Miller Quail was recently an assistant editor of the True Democrat"
 Dr. Huey may have once been democratic Senator, but Miller Quail was never an assist. ant editor of the True Democrat. We know the know nothings would gladly receive the indorsement of some one connected with this paper, but, if they will conine themselves to the truth, they cannot get such an indorsement. But what they cannot get truthfully, they at- tempt to claim by false representations.
 No, MT. Herald, Squire Quail never was an Your know nothing party has received no ac- cession by assertions from this paper. You are welcome to MT. Quail, but don't wrap him up in the True Democrat We can't stand that.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
0TA lunatic received severe injury OF th

VTA lunatic received severe injury OF the great toe by the fall of heavy piece of wood, so that the nail was torn away. The physician, on examining the patient remarked that he seemed scarcely to feel this injury, ordinarily so painful. On examining the case more minute ly, he found that the lunatic had completely lost cutaneous sensibilty. This led him to ex- anime all the lunatics in his establishment, and he found that out of 18O insane persons GOO males and 80 females Is (17 males and l fe- male) had complete anasthesia of the skin; and in six others, who were males, the sensibility to pain was very much decreased.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

N1cK-NAMEs.--The following is taken from a private letter from the seat of war:
 "Lord Raglan is nick-named in the Crmo, Jack Rag; Canrobert, Robert Can't, because ba can't take Sebastopol; Lord Cardigan, is OIS J Charge Again; Lord Lucan, Old Look On: Gen Scarlet, Blood and Guns, because of his naroa and from his being always in the thick of tbo fight. The Russians are usually called .Jobnnr Ruskies, but when they fight with unusual o5' stinacy, they are called Johnny Rustes D
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
THE KNOW NoTHINGs IN NEW YORK C1rY.-

THE KNOW NoTHINGs IN NEW YORK CITY.- The New York correspondent of the National Intellgencer, in his letter of July 12, says:
 On the authority of the leading know noth- ing oracle in this city, stated in my letter of yesterday that all the councils in this city had virtually given in their adhesion to the Philadel- phia platform. So far from this being the case, am assured that rebellion is rampant ill some of the lodges, and, although actual secession has not taken place, great numbers refuse to adopt the objectionable features of the national plat form.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

(T Lawrence Davis, deck hand on the steamer E. l.. Davis was drowned on the 2Oth inst, Tn attempting to swim from the shore to the boat at Fourche bar, some four miles below this city.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

Total taxes in Pulaski county in '56, $36, GOO
 Next year there will be levied in this county taxes to the amount of $36,OOO, at least. Thus the taxes levied in the county will amount to more than one-tbird of the whole State tax!
 On reading the above estimate of the next years taxes, no one can doubt but we shall be heavily involved. Thirty-six thousand dollars for the present. will be our taxes, and when we begin to pay the principal of our debt, of course they will be much heavier.
 Our advice to the city and county authori- ties, therefore, is, before they issue the bonds, to make dilgent inquiry into the affairs of the company, and to claim the right of director in the board for both the city and county. An be highly proper, and would doutless lead to retrenchment in its cost. A strict compliance with the act of the Legislature granting the lands should also be enforced. And upon se- curing to us directors, they should be men who not only have the interest of the people entire ly at heart, but will keep the public well and faithfully informed of the affairs and progress of the work. They should also demand the immediate commencement of the work on this side of White river In this end of the road, we are more deeply concerned, and its success should not be in the least retarded or eoparded
 All now that the citizens of Pulaski county are worth in the world, is embarked in the Memphis railroad. Its immediate completion, therefore, is absolutely demanded If it suc- ceeds, it is well; but if 1t fails, or is even too long delayed, this county will be ruined It is impossible that we can long support the enor- nous taxes placed upon us without some great and early addition to our wealth.
 As for ourself, we have done our best to warn our people, both in the city and county, of the dangers into which they were careering. But they are now fairly in for 1t. Let them act like men, determined and capable of protect ing their rights and interests, and all may yet be we'll. We sincerely hope for the best.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

UT If Massachusetts is satisfied with Wn- SON as United States Senator there is no telling how far her submission to indignities will ex- tend. The Hiss affair was trump to the adop. tlon of the political charlatan, WILSON, in the place of WEBSTER
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

OT MT. Waldo, the Commissioner Of Fen sons, has decided to accept the appointment oi Judge of the Supreme Court of Connections to which he was recently elected by the ota.o legislature, and will retire from office at "asH- inston about the first of next month.
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
Red Fork, Arkansas River,

JUHV 70, 1oCO'
 DEAR WARREN: You have no doubt expect ed to hear from me for some time. have en- joyed good health since left Springfield, but have not found any gold yet nor do expect we will Our guide Mr. Poole, is lost, and we are
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

Or Many important new advertisements are published this week, among which may be found two celebrated medical schools of St. Louis, fresh merchandise received by our merchants,
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31

or So promising is the wheat crop in Ohio,
 and so largely have the farmers sown this year,
 that the Cleveland Plaindealer anticipates in sixty days, buying flour at six dollars a barrel
The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
No Gold found Yet.

The following from the Fort Smith Herald throws some light upon the subject of the (" gold diggings" on the Red Fork of the Arkansas ri- yer. We give it, with the endorsement of the Herald:
 We are permitted to copy the following from a slip, cut from the Springfield, Mo. Advertiser, and sent in letter, by MT. William Aird, ot that place, to Mrs. Aird of this place, whose hus- band, MT. Thomas Aird, is now on the plains in search of gold, in the Fort Smith company. This will place matters in their proper light be- fore the public.
 News from the Gold Hunters.
 Dr. E. T. Robberson and MT. Nathan Robin son, who went out with the company from this place on the gold hunting expedition, returned last Saturday. They report no gold. The company under the direction of MT. Poole are lost with little prospect of finding the place where he had formerly prospected. The let ters which have appeared in various papers pur- porting to have been written from the gold mines are ali humbugs, and may be instrument tai in deceiving some to their injury. The com pany from this place are south of the main Ca- nadian river, so says Dr. Robberson, but they think themselves on the North Fork We pub fish below letter from J. w. Graves, brought to us by Dr. Robberson, which will show how badly the company are lost and how hopeless the prospect of gold.