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The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
For the True Democrat. KNOW NOTHING ALPHABET.
ANSWER TO SOFT RoR.

ANSWER TO sQUI BOB. Ais an Andre scarce ever the same,
 A democrat once, now humbugged by Sum. Bis Borand, at first physician,
 But ottentimes since has changed his position. C-is Campbell, who loves bright dollar
 A good County Judge, who won't wear collar Dis Danley, a recorder,
 But backed from lis office in seeming disorder. Els an E.ter, long columns will fill,
 With rather much gall on the tip of his quill; And thinking the Know Nothing craft will not do, Gives IIawey the c6ee1. to go down with the l7e1o F-iS Fowler sets many snare,
 But bags little game tho he seeks it with care. G-is q gIumbler, ns all understand,
 Will fit none better than Charlie Bertrand. lis Iuey for Know Nothing vote
 To gain his election, some say, turned his -. + is an Isaac, whose surname is Mills,
 By Know Nothing votes, q fat office fills J is for Jordan, q perfect law quibbler.
 With man. small tricks Jeremy Dddlcr. K is for Keith. clever good wight, tight. Is called d smart fellow, tho he sometimes gets L-i. Lyon, a Cunpbellite preacher,
 Of late has become a political teacher. M-is Prairie Morris, q Know Nothing good,
 With little more brains than turnip has blood. N-s Noland, who fat office lost, crossed. Because he was stubborn, and would not be O--is an owl, that hoots in the night, flight. Like Know Nothing councils that shun the day P--is Il Pike. a great eater and thinker,
 By many regarded very deep thinker;
 Becoming inflated, makes songs for the Gods, Which some of his minions most loudly applaud; And because he was too sAort t. 1eact the Vice Presidency, became disgusted with the ,ci}d Aomt after aticc. and necio quid mediums nagarum, thinks to become cannonized bard Q-is |, nought, if you cut of its tail,
 And then its just like the man you call Quail. R-s Rogan, an old fashioned whg,
 Whose principles never worth green fig. Sis Sgai5-oJ, who makes doggerel rhymes,
 And pays no respect 70 the length of his lines; Who SHIELDS himself under his miserable
 lyric.
 Which still is far better than taking his physic. r--is Jess Turner, in bad company, 'tis trne,
 But very good fellow, give him his due. U--is an Upas poisonous tree,
 Remember Know Nothings exact as q T. Wis Y Nance q Know Nothing editor
 But write nothing he can get credit for :; For all has been said, that any can say,
 The poor fellow started too late in the day Wis W**%*V%d, although he's preacher,
 Essays to become political teacher. X-is letter that stands for justten, (l0) led men, Counts all the Know Nothings that could be call Y--is for Yell, who oft scars so high,
 He scorches his wings with the heat of the sky Z--for q rhyme we've no name to otfer
 Unless we go out for old Zollicoffer. P1ufyie O.. March 20, lS56
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
Small Comfort for the FiiimOreaus

Tue noisy boastlngs of the know nothing journals, says the Richmond Enquirer, must receive cold chill from the following calcu- lation of the N. Y. Herald, made "as strongly as possible against the democratic porty." The Herald goes too far in giving Tennessee, or even Kentucky, to the know nothings-and in subtracting number of eastern and western States from tie democratic column. Take the table as 1t IS, however, it shows truly lamen- table prospect for the know nothings and the black republicans, and glorious result for the democracy, which will surely be realized, if our party carry out the saving principles of harmony, energy, union, and of measures not men,"
 THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE FOR 1856
 The following is an estimate of the Presi- dential electoral vote of 1856 based on the late elections, on the present organization of par ties, and on all the existing indications of the drift ot the popular vote, State by State, ma jorty or plurality. in November:
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
The Sentiments of the Pennsylvania
 Democracy.

We like, says the Cincinnati Enquirer the bold and stanch manner in which the Pennsyl- vana democracy meet the political issues of the day. They march up to them without re- servation or hesitation. Gloriousy they en- blazon their principles upon their standard in letters of light. which can be read and under stood by all men, The democracy of no State have placed themselves more unequivocallv upon the record than those of Pennsylvania. No State has more unequivocally ndorsed the Nebraska Kansas bill than have our Pennsyl- vana friends. This however, was not unex- pected, for she has always been pre- eminently national commonwealth, having little or no sympathy with the abolition fanatics of the north in their warfare upon the federal consti- tuition. The following are the more important resolutions
 "Resoluea, That the equality of the States is the vital element of the constitution itself, and that all interference with the rights of the States by those who seek to disregard the sacred guarantees of the past, and by all others, should be rebuked with the same spirit that WOuiu uCHouhCo dHu iC CJuuldlo dil dttCulptS LO erect odious distinctions between those who are entitled to share the blessings and benefits of our free institutions.
 "ResolUd, That the effort to direct the power of the government by anti-slavery agitation. under the various names and phases of free- soilism, anti Nebraskaism, fusonsm and re- publicanism, and by interfering with the rights of conscience in establishing religious test as qualification for office by the secret, oath bound society of Know Notbings, is opposed both to the letter and the spirit of the consti- tuition, and to the earnest teachings and prac- tice of its earliest and most honored admins tratOrs.
 " ResalUed, That we are now, as ever unal- terably opposed to the doctrines and designs of all organizations which contemplate the oyer- throw of the civil and religious rights of the citizens; that the equality of the citizen, like the equality of the States, is sacred and in- alienable right, never to be interfered with by factious parties and reckless legislation without a subversion of the primary objects of our po- litical system, and repudiation of the guar antees of the past and the hopes of the future.
 " Resolved, That in the repeal of the act known as the Missouri compromise act, and the passage of the act organizing the territories of Kansas and N ebraska free from unconstitutional restrictions, the last Congress performed work of patriotic sacrifice in meeting the demands of sectional excitement by unshaken adherence to the fundamental law.
 "Reso1ved, That this legislation cannot be deemed unnecessary, but that it was expedient
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
Restoration of Fugitiyes.

The fugitive slaves who have been for some time past in custody and on trial in Cincinnati were delivered up to their claimants, in pursu. ance of decree of Judge Leavett, on the 27th Feb. last, and taken across the river or the way to their "old Kentucky home."- There was a considerable jollfcation in Co. vington at the result of the trial
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
Y cry respectfully,
 $. H. HAMPSTEAD.
From the Memphis Appeal. Sinking of the Henry Lewis.
Steamboat Hungarian, ,
 March 10, 1856. {

March 10, 1856.
 MEssRs. EDITORS: The steamboat Henry Lewis was sunk on Friday night last, about one hundred miles below Louisville The boat and nearly all the cargo are a total wreck. The Edward Howard came in collision with the Lewis and broke her to pieces very badly, and by some means the two boats came in collision again in few minutes and the Lewis was broken into fragments and went down almost immediately The accident occurred about 4 o'clock in the morning. while most of the pas sengers ere asleep, and many of them did not get out of their state rooms before the deck fell in upon them. The bow of the boat was crush ed to pieces, and the boat went down to the hurricane deck-most of the ladies' cabin re- malnlng out of the water It Is almost mirac- ulous that any one on the boat was saved.- There were number of passengers lost; va riously estimated at from four to forty I have but little idea how many, but many must have perished in their state rooms
 Many were cut out through the hurricane roof after the boat had settled down, but the boat careened to one side in sinking. and the berths on the lower side were all nearly sub- merged in water There was certainly culpa- ble negligence somewhere, or the collision would never have occurred. With plenty of water and calm starlight night, there can be no sufficient excuse for the awful catastrophe. After the Lewis had settled down, the Howard came up by the side of her and took those of who had by efforts almost superhuman reached the topof the wreck There was much indif- ference shown on the part of the officers of the Howard as to the comfort of the wretched pas ngers-nearly all of them getting off without anything but their night clothes.
 In the course of an hour or two, the Hunga. rian came along side the wreck, bound down stream, and most of the passengers went on board where they found little sympathy and little accommodation-the officers refusing to give many state-rooms until the passage money was paid. Although feel badly treated, have but little disposition to complain after getting off with my life. Respectfully,
 P. T. GLASS.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

CoII R. H. JOHNSON
 I wish to say something in 'favor'' of Little Rock, please insert the following in the columns of your paper:
 No seat of government in the southern States is more firmly claimed by the Know Nothings than that of the far famed Arkansas, the banner State"
 When the Trojans of old determined to pull the wooden horse within the walls of the ci- ty," Laocoon conjured them not to accept of that Greek present." For the benefit of the reader will render Laocoon's address in Eng lish, begging, at the same time, indulgence for my clumsy translation-2nd book of FirgiFs Eneid:
 ''Dardanians, are you mad!' cried he, with dread
 concern
 "The enemy, tell you, will return; 4 0reci4p present? and no cbeat L. shan? / ,No little kno,s gnu old Laerte's Son?"
 Know Nottingham is but present from the happy Canaan of wooden nutmegs, blue lights and Hartford conventionists, that have ever been opposed to the southern States and to democracy. The Little Rockians accepted that present oIndly, without giving any need to the warnings of their Laocoon--the democracy. We may be thankful that, in our days, the strength of the country is not concentrated or confined like in times of old to single city, The metropolis of Arkansas, for instance, is but small potatoe, when compared to the power-"the vote"--of the State.
 What a rebuke is it not to southern Know Nothings, when they read the bold resolutions and patriotic sentiments expressed by northern "Yankee democrats,'' surrounded, as they are, by foaming fanatics; yet still bearing gallantly aloft the banner of our uncompromising and fearless democratic minority, in favor of south ern rights and southern interests?
 FL RONCADOR.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

\ CAPT. ME AND THE STEAMSHIP PACIFIC- ! The New York correspondentof of the Charleston Courier, in his letter of Saturday last, says:
 Capt Wye, formerly of the Collins steamship Pacific, publishes card day, defending him. self from imputation founded upon rumors in circulation. There was a report that Capt. ! Wye had stated that the Pacific was unseawor- thy, and he therefore believed she had gone down. The statement made to-day by him, though somewhat qualified, is essentially the same as the rumor, that Capt. Nye has no hopes of ever again seeing the Pacific. It seems that he wished to res gn the command of the steam- CT more than year ago. But after the loss of the Arctic, he thought such conduct would be imputed to wrong motives and infict injury upon the Collins line.
 Some months ago when Capt. Nye finally determined to give up the sea, he made ar engagements with Capt. o. Eldridge to buy his stock and succeed him in the command. Mir. collins assented to the proposition, but Brown, pros. & Co., who are the controllers of the company preferred that his brother, Capt Asa Eldrldge, should take her, and, in opposition to the expressed desire of Capt. Nye Asa, in- stead of Ollver Eldrldge, took the Pacific. The engineer and other principal officers refused to remain in the steamer if Capt. Asa Eldridge was to have her. So new officers had to he secured and to this circumstance Can't. Nve seems to attribute the disaster of the Pacific.
 Capt. Wye sold out his interest in the line to Brown, Bros. & Co.,, and of course will have nothing to do with it hereafter He does not intend to go to sea any more, except it be to take the new steamer Vanderbilt on her first trip. He has made fortune, and will retire from all active business
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

or Our merchants, says the Dallas (Texas) Herald, are all abandoning Red river and Shreveport, and will, in future, ship their pur- chases via of the Gulf, to Galveston. Even if they should have to haul them from Hous- ton it will cost them less than by the Red river route. The last two years experience on Red river will add immensely to the trade of Gal weston and Houston.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
WashinqtOn March II.

An anti ebraska caucus was held at the capitol to night. Eighty-fve Congressmen were present. and all the free States were re- presented Senator Foot was chairman, and Mr. Cumback, of Ia, Secretary.
 Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, spoke earnest ly for a union of all the north in favor of free dom. He pledged Massachusetts to support an anti ebraska candidate for President
 Mir. ColfaX, of Indiana, advocated making the great question of freedom in the territories an issue in the Presidential campaign, in oppo- siton to slavery aggression.
 Mr. Banks expressed similar views, and said there was no doubt but that the people of Mas sachusetts would carry the question to a success ful issue
 Messrs. Bollamer and Seward made eloquent and earnest speeches, insisting that the para mount and overshadowing issue of the day is freedom or slavery, and on this an appeal to the country must be made Seward declared he did not care what name the party bore-he would support the candidate who represented the great principles of freedom. He was fre- quently interrupted by applause. This was the first speech he had made in the House of Representatives.
 Messrs. Cragin, of New Hampshire; Benson, of Maine; Howard, of Michigan; Ballinghurt, of Wisconsin,; Sabine, of Vermont; and Gran ger, of New York, severally spoke for their re- Spective States, expressing views similar to their predecessors.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
Withdrawal from Johnson County. Eubarah's MaUs, Johnson County, Ark,
 March 11th. 1856.

EDITOR TRUE DEMoCRAT-Please announce my withdrawal from the Know Nothing party. was induced to join this midnight conclave of prescription by my whig brethren, in whom I put all confidence. But alas, I found them destitute of the principles they used to advo- cate; and to my great surprise 1 found myself in an organization made up at the north of hump-back and black republican abolitionists, who had sworn us of the south into fellow ship until our tongues lolled out fool. As the Queen said, when she saw King Solomon's temple, the half has not been told vet. I found them even ready to respond to their northern abolition brethren, and willing to yield up the rights of the south into northern fana- ties hands, for nothing else than to defeat the democratic party, and squal and below for Banks and Fuller to defeat Richardson. But sir, amid all the wild hunt after office, there has always been one party, since the declaration ofindependence, contending for equal rights to all men, whether foreigners or Catholics. and if that party is defeated farewell south foreigners. Catholics, Protestants and every thing that is near and dear to freeman I mean the de- mocratic party. You may put me down de- mocrat from this on, and send me your paper.
 JOHN J. BOWMAN.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

TEMPERANCE LEcTURE.-Rev JAS. YoUNG, of Mississippi, will deliver temperance lec- ture at the Methodist church tonight, at ' 119 o'clock. This gentleman is said to be fine speaker. We hope to see a general attend ance
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

0E Twenty-Five miles of the Houston and Red river railroad will be completed and in running order early in the spring, perhaps in March next. Thistwenty-6v miles will reach across the low marshy prairie this side of Hous. ton, the only bad road between that place and the up-country; and taking into con- sideration the bad road that 1t cuts of. will shorten our transportation by ox-wagons one hundred miles. The Houston merchants will have warehouses at the terminus of the first section of the road this side of the low prairie. for receiving produce and forwarding goods We learn from the most reliable sources that the affairs of the company are in the most heal thy condition, and that another section of the road will be energeticaly undertaken and built as soon as the first is completed. The cars are now running for short distance on the first section.-DaNas Herald.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

"12. The maintenance and enforcement of all laws until said laws shall be repealed, O, shoN Je declared null anu void by competent jtali- cial autho,fty"-K ". Platto,m
 The ghosts of their murdered victims in Louisville, New Orleans, Cincinnati and else where must have stared the Know Nothings in Philadelphia in the face, and extorted from them the above confession of their guilt, and the remorse of conscience forced them to pledge themselves to violate no more laws, and commit no further deeds of murder and arson. But will they keep their vows? While they profess friendship, won't they carry a conceal ed dagger? If the naturalized citizens will help them into office, it is well, but should they disapprove of their party won't brass knuckles, pistols and knives be used to keep them from the polls? The history of the Know Nothing party has been written in blood anG what reason have we to hope for better things at their hands.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
Wise on Fillmore.

During the canvass last spring in Virginia Mir. Wise, the present Governor of that State declared from the stump, before thousands of Virginia voters of all parties, that the admins. tration of Willard Fillmore was " Washington like" These were his words.--New Oylean, Bulletin.
 It is proper that Gov. WISE should answe, this extravagant charge himself. And here is the response. which we cut from the Washing. ton Union
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

CORN SHEILER.-We invite attention to the "Dickenson" corn-sheller, which is advertised in our paper to-day. This machine is said to
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
OUR AGENT.

MT. IsHAM W. WYATT, is now out on a tour for the True Democrat, for the purpose of collecting and SO Iciting subscribers through the following countles sevier. Pike. Polk. Montgomery and Clark. We hope our friends will extend to Mr. Wyatt such aid as they conveniently can.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

GLoRIFIcATIoN.-The victorious democrats of Chicago had glorifcation on "Wednesday last. A procession three miles in lenght pas sed through the streets a blizzard of one hun dred and twenty guns was fired, and triumphant speeches were made at the court house. May black republcanism throughout the land meet with as signal defeat as it has in Chicago.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
For Vice President,
ANnREw JACKSON Donel.on.
For President, WILLARD FILLMORE.

But the people will look through the gauge and investigate the substance. They will not suf- fer the reputation and glory of Andrew Jackson to place money changers in the temple, and foist iackas into high places. MT. Fillmore may be a good man, but MT. Donelson has written him down bad President. He may be great man, but Mir. Donelson has said he is weak man. He may be sound, but MT. Doneson is on record that he is an abolition ist.
 When the canvass opens, we may look for strange contortions and wrthings from the friends of Fillmore, as Donelson is placed on the witness-stand to testify against him. Rich developments may be looked for.
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25
LETTER OF GOV. WISE.
Richmond, Ea., March 2, 1855

Richmond Ea., March ?, 1856.
 DEAR SIR: received yours of the 29th ult this morning. The slip which you enclose from the Baltimore Republican of the 27th February which purports to report the remarks of the Hon. A. II. II. Stuart in the Know Nothing nominating convention at Philadelphia is the first and only printed report of those remarks l have seen. According to this report Mir. Stuart said:
 " Even MT. Wise at the time he stumped the State of Virginia, said that the administration of Fillmore was Washington-hke throughout" Now, 1 am constrained to believe that Mr. Stuart could not have made this remark. In the first place 1 never uttered nor thought such sentiment in my life; secondly, l don't think Mir. Stuart heard me at all on the stump dur ing my canvass; if he did, he never heard such a sentiment from me- and if such was reported to him, the report was incorrect; and thirdly, Mir. Stuart a member of Mir. Fillmore's cabi- net, could hardly have been 50 immodest as to boast that anybody had said that MT. Fill 1 more's administration was "Washington-like | THROUGHOUT" for
 ''The plaster was too thick For ALL THE PRAISE TO STICK"
 Again the report says:
 "Mr Wise claimed his election by the vote of F 900 outside whigs."
 must contradict this statement, too, wheth- CT made by Mr. Stuart or not. Certainly the cause of civil and religious freedom maintained by the democracy of Virginia, was nobly sup ported by many of the trul ly conservative, con- scientious, and constitution loving whigs of our State but I never was able to fix their number We gladly took them in exchange for the rene- gade democrats who sneaked away from their | former friends, and took test oath, in the se- crecy of the culvert by the light of dark an- tern. Whether these whigs can be reclaimed by the new nomination at Philadelphia, time will show I think they cannot be. Mir. Fill more is no longer awhig; he has been changed by the hocus- pocus of the necromacy of Sam" In the next presidential canvass there will be new issues presented by the three parties; the white mans party--the democratic; the black mans party-the black republican; the mulat. to party--the cross of northern and southern Know N Nothngs-the ticket of Messrs Fillmore and DonelsOn. All nature abhors vacums and mongrels; and so do conscientious, conservative, and constitution loving whigs of Virginia They can put up better with pure Africans wool, flat nose, odor, ebon-skin and gizzard, foot and al--better than they can bear that cross of the Caucasian and Cuffey which you call a--mulattoi
 ask you to publish this letter in the Union, in order to correct the report of the speech of Mir. Stuart. Yours truly and hastily,
 HENRY A. WISE
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

CoNTEMPTIBLE BUsNEss.-There are men in the world mean enough to be classed lower than the brute creation. Of fthis species may be classed a set of scamps who think it smart to forge their neighbors names, or furnish fictl- tious ones to an editor for publication. Fms game has succeeded once with us, in the case of the Hampstead county forgery, How much good has resulted to the Know Nothing cause, and pleasant reflections to the authors con- science, we leave him and his brethren to de- eide. But we assure these fellows that they will have their labor for their pans," as we will publish no withdrawals without they are vouched for by some responsible person with whom we are acquainted. In this con- nection, we publish the following letter from Pine Bluff:
The true Democrat., 1856-03-25

LEAP YEAR FREAKS OF THE LADrEs.-The young ladies of Aurora. H., have passed the following resolution: "Resolped, That if we, the young ladies of Aurora, don't get married ths year, somebody will be to blame." Such are the effects of Leap Year upon the female char actnr