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Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
CAMDEN SeDt. 14kh. 1857.
EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT

lhUE DEMOCRAT-
 Sn: l Was much surprised on my return from the judicial circuit, east of this, to find in circulation two reports, Involving my name in the late judicial contest iu this district. 1st That I had induced Len B. Green, esq.,, to become d candidate, in order to advance my own political interest, etc. That report is un- quolifedly false 1 was much opposed to Mr. Greens becoming candidate, for various req sons 1st He is my partner in the practice of law, and his election would necessarily have continued our business until the time of my entering upon the duties of Representative in Congress for this distrct-thereby deprvng me of giving my personal attention to sad business. 2d I we'll knew Mr. Greens prac- tce as a lawyer was much more profitable to him than the salary of judge. l should, how ever, after he became candidate Chad he not knew him to be eminently qualified, both as man and lawyer, and democrat of the first water, allied to no faction InOW say, once for aH, / hal notlljng to do aolM Mr. Greens 6ecoming 
 him to prevent his running. It is, understand, further said that was in favor of the election of Hon. J. T. Bearden, and used my influence to accomplish that end. Ihoow not hOo0 to er- press nay astonshn,ent Mat such an opinion could have preuailea in Mjs district Nis certainly true Mat ,ol.en tue democratic party has been assaulted either by its old enemy-the whig party-or its more recent and insdious foe-know Noth- ingism, m,-and money and time e0ere to be spent in ns detence end for tue good of the Union, / ,0as the m.aa caAed upon from aH parts of tue dist,ict- calls, to a0]slch / neUer tailei to resp0nd. Now, why, when 1 am about to leave the State, to enter upon the duties of representative for this congressional district, should reports, such as the above, calculated to injure my political standing with the democracy of my district, be put in circulation. It is true 1 respect Mr. Bearden as a gentleman, and entertain for him the highest personal regard. But personal con- alterations have never induced (raor never a0ilO me for single moment to forget my duty to my party country; and while thus respected Mir. Bear den, he uery a0eH hneao hat / aoouM not giUe him my Uote--he necer expected t.
 I would not have noticed these reports, but for the fact that 1 will soon be forced to leave the State, and cannot return before such mis- representations will have accomplished the end for which they were designed The next con- gressional nomination comes off in May next when will necessarily be absent. / heretore haue tahen his means of giving an unquaAyfed contradiction to said reports
 With respect, am
 your obedient servant,
 E. A. WARREN.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
FrUm InG aShngtOn UnlOl Important Correspondence.


 The public had become apprzed during the past week that correspondence of peculiar character had taken place between number of clergymen and others of the north and the President of the United States in relation to political affairs in Kansas. What purported to be copies or extracts from this correspondence having found their way into the newspapers, we deemed 1t proper that such publication of it should be made as would relieve all doubt in the public mind as to its genuneness. To this end we called upon the President yesterday, who has furnished us with copies, and kindly consented to their publication.
 This correspondence, we are we'll satisfied, will be read with the deepest interest by ali classes of men. It will show that that restless and meddlesome spirit which heretofore prompt ed the three thousand and fifty clergymen of the north to interfere in the legislation of Con- gress is still as rampant and pertinacious as ever, and that 1t IS perpetually seeking for op- portunties to interfere in those purely political and governmental matters, that are not propes- ly embraced within the sphere of their profess sional duties. And it will also show, with what dignity and crushing effect the President has replied to these reverend and impertinent intermediates and exposed their ignorance of facts, and the tlimsiness of their arguments.- All thinking men, of every shade of political opinion, who are not absolutely blinded by ia natical prejudice, will agree in the opinion that the letter of the President is, in its whole scope and spirit worthy of the just character of his whole life and worthy of the executive head of this great nation. If any, heretofore, doubt ed his true position on the Kansas question, they can doubt no longer. His language and his policy are clear and unmistakable. Let the country, north and south, rest assured that that policy, as he has announced it, will be carried out, and that the Constitution of the United States, and the established law in Kansas and elsewhere, will be fully and faithfully executed The pious men, therefore, who are the authors of the memorial and who seem so deeply in- terested in political affairs may continue to pray "that Almighty God will make your ad- ministration an example of justice and benet- cence, and with His terrible majesty protect ou, people and our Constitution'
 But we shall reserve to another time our opinion and comments on the character and spirit of this pompous memorial, and of the conduct and motives of those who thus persist in thrustng it, and themselves, on the public attention.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
To Ills ExcELLENCY JAMES BUCHANAN,

PRESIDENT OF THE J NITED STATES:
 The undersigned, citizens of the United States, and electors of the State of Connecticut, respectfully offer to your Excellency this their Memorial
 The fundamental principle of the Constitu- ton of the United States and of our political institutions is that the people shaH mahe Metr oon latos and elea Hseir otcn rule,s.
 Wesee with grief, if not with astonshmeut, that Gov. Walker, of Kansas, openly represents and procamS that the President of the United States is employing through him an army, one purpose of which is 10 force he people of haasas Co obey 7aws not Hteir o,0a, nor of he Jn,tni Sates, but laws which it is notorious, and estab- lshed upon evidence, they never made, and rulers they never elected
 We represent, therefore, that by the forego- ing your Excellency is openly held up and pro- claimed, to the great derogation of our national character, violating in its most essential par tcular the solemn oaM which the President has taken 10 support the Consultation of His Ulion.
 We call attention further to the fact that your Excellency is, in like manner, held up to this nation, to all mankind, and to all postertv, in the attitude of "2ecying aCar ogainst a DOT ton of the United States' by employing arms iu Kansas to uphold body of men, and code of enactmens purporting to be legislative, but which never had the election, nor sanction nor consent of the peo, le of the territory
 We earnestly represent to your Excellency that we also have taken the oath to obey the Consttution and your erceHency may be as- sured that we shall mt refrain from the prayer that ALMIGHTY Cop will make your adminiS- tration an examp ple of justice and benefcence, and with His terrible majesty protect our people and our Consultation
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

FAST WoMEN.--The ladies are becoming dangerously perfect. We really don't kno" why they shouldn't :" rise in rebellion" some day, and take away the reins of government from us poor masculines. There is now two ladies stopping at Barrett, on Cape Island, A' J., who are equal to the best of us on bowling and shooting One of them made twelve ten strikes in succession, and two hundred ana eighty-seven points on her next game lately The other one in the meanwhile, was shooting a pistol match with two gentlemen from thlS city. She hit the button six times in eight shots, at ten paces, and the other two snotS came within seven eighths of an inch. ohe then fired twenty six shots at a swinging bIook, two and half inches in diameter, and struch l' fourteen times. There would be no necessity for any gentleman's going into the held to S0'- tie this iady's quarres.-M. J. Mercury.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
Secretary of the Treasury
DUEL.-Two gentlemen from Madison coun

DUEL.-Two gentlemen from Madison coun- ty, Messrs. E. J. Bowers (chaIlenge) and S.. $. Calhoun, (chalenged) fought a duel in Louisiana, opposite this city, on Thursday even ing, Sd inst, with Mississippi rifles, at sixty paces. Mir. Bowers second won the position and word. Mir. Calhoun fired between the word, fire and one, his ball passing through his opponents pantaloons above the knee, but in- tiicting wound. Mr. Bowers fired between the words one and t0o, his ball passing through the left knee of Mir. c, who made an effort to sustain himself with his gun, but immediately tell. The wound looks ugly and painful, but Is not considered dangerous. Both gentlemen acted with the greatest coolness and gallantry, and in few seconds after Mr. Calhoun's fall. Mir. Bowers advanced to his late antagonist, ac- companed by his seconds and other friends, and extended his hand, which was at once received. expressed his qualification that his opponents life had not been taken, which was happily re- sponded to by Mir. c. Every courtesy was man. ifested before, during and after the duel by all parties interested Mir. Bowers himself tending personal assistance, and his friends remaining with Mr. c. until his return to this city. An amlcable adjustment of the difficulty was vain- ly attempted, not only in Canton. but in this city and on the ground, and it is a source of graduation among the friends of the parties that no fatal results have ensued from the hos tile meeting Vsctsburg Sentinel Sep. 5.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0FThe ARKANsAw TRAvELER, in its last issue, has lengthy and able article upon the subject of rotation. It is opposed to rotation, like ourself, as an invariab!e rule to govern any party, and thinks that the people have the right and should not be denied the uutrammeled use of it, to put any one in office they might deem proper, whether he was in office before or not The Traveller does not think the holding an office, or the being out of office, conlers any claims. The questions to be asked of all aspi- rants are, first, his political principles, and secondly, is he honest, is he capable, is he faith ful. In democratic government, under a con- stitution like ours, where every man is guar anted the right to aspire to office as often as he may desire, no other test will do
 We congratulate the editor of the Traveller upon the position he has assumed, and the highest compliment we can pay him is, we De- lieve him to be right, we knoV him to be honest
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

AMERICA vs. ENGLAND--CoME FoRTHi- The desire to have some English horses come here next year and return the compliment which was paid by Mir. Ten Broeck to the British Turf, is universally expressed; and we have no hesitation in saying that stakes to the amount of $1OO,OOO could easily be raised, to abide the demand of the victor. Will some of the enterprising gentlemen of the English Turf just turn this matter over in their minds, and let us hear from them. We have a horse or two here that we think something of; and if we are easily beat, we are very willing freely to pay.--Porter's Spirit.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

BAREFACED-The editor of the Gazette, in order to encourage the editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat, who is Catholic, in his disorgall;z ing course on the subject of rotation, perpetrates the following:
 "It has been charged and we have never heard it denied, that the State Land Office Was removed from Pine Bluff, because if 1t remained there, it would be filled by Mr. Carroll, Catho- lie; and it was known that Mir. C. would not leave Pine Bluff the office were removed from that place."
 No such thing was known at all. Mir Car roll desired the office after it's removal to Little Rock, consented to accept it, and was elected to 1t by unanimous vote of the democrats of the Legislature. The editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat can find DO excuse for his disorgan- lzlng course in any mlStreatment the demo- cratic party offered to Mir. Carroll. The editor of the Gazette must trump up something bet ter for his friend.
 A fer MT. Carroll was elected he resigned, because he found in some other business more lucrative employment. Try again, Captain.- Your friend Dent must be sustained
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

THE MORMON ALPHABET.-The new "De- seret Alphabet" is completed, and font of pica type has been cast in St. Louis. Speci- mens of the type are published in the St. Louis Democrat but are of course uninteligible to Gentiles. The type-founders, says the N. Y. Evening Pos:, have supplied the Mormons with mouIds and other apparatus for recasting their old metal, 50 that the Deseret News will pro- bably hereafter be a profound mystery, at least in part, to all but the initiated. The new characters are forty-one in number, and bear a striking resemblance to those of the Ethiopic alphabet.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

goodxAealers: Swords, Walton & Co.,, hardware lmerchdhts, and Wesley & Kewalzk. stock brokers, have failed. The latter firm, it is stated, have lost, in stock differences, within a few weeks, the enormous sum of S4OO, 1000.
 Baltimore, Sept 14.-The banking house of Pairo & Nourse, Washington City, failed to- day, with heavy liabilities.
 Louisville, Sept. 14.-The Citizens Bank, Cincinnati, has suspended paymet
 Ward & Nash, tobacco merchants, have sus- handed
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
BANKS FAILED The followinp soutbor,

BANRs FAILED The following southerl and western banks are reported by Whites De tecte~ extra as having failed:. Agricultural Bank, Tenn. '' Bank of Paris, Tenn.
 Bankof"West Tepnessee, Tenn. Shelbyville Bank, Tenn. Bank of Kanawha Va.
 Exchange Bank, Ind.-
 Southern Bank, Ga.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

MIXING THINGs.-Danley, in the last issue of the Gazette, undertakes defense and eulo- gum of the unhappy editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat, and, verify, makes him a martyr to religion. To some this looks strange. When hnoeo Nothjng editor takes up the cause of a Cattolic, there is reason to suspect rotteness in Denmark. Wonder where the Pope is? Where is Sam?
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
THE VANDERBILT AND THE PERSIA

We learn, through the London journal brought to us by the Atlantic, that the American mail steamship Vanderbilt, Captain Higgins, beat in her last trip out to England, the best time of the English steamer Persia by thirty minutes.- We are now ahead in all the trials, except that of the horse. For that we will wait
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0ETAt Sunday school examination, the teacher asked boy whether he could forgive those who wronged him.
 "Could you," said the teacher, forgive a boy, for example, who has insulted or struck you?'
 "Ye-e-s, sir" replied the lad very slowly, "I think-I-coud, if he was much bigger than am."
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
JAMES BU,


 TIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE.-An ex- traordnary article appeared in the New York Commercial Advertiser in relation to the break ing of the Atlantic submarine cable It is di. rectly intimated that the telegraph dispatches from Valencia, stating that the wire was broken m consequence of the application of the brakes by the engineer, were prepared by persons in the interest ot the company, and not te be re- lied upon
 We are then told that, on inquiry, it will be found that the cable was broken on purpose. it having become apparent that the rapidlrv with which the lateral current were running off with the wire would use up the line before the ves- SeIs were one-third the way across; and that this alternative was adopted under the convic- tlon that 1t was better to loose three hundred miles of the wire than to proceed in the face ot the certainty that the whole of 1t would be lost in md-Ocean
 It IS broadly asserted that the directors have not told the truth; and some very pertinent questions are put to them which 1t will be d ffi- cult to pass over without answering If all this be true, then-that is to say if the lateral GU, rents offer so serlouS an obSticle in the success of the plan-what becomes of those " "deep sea-soundlng' reports, which aver that no ob- Stacle would be met with on this score, and that the wire would sink to its bed in still wa ter, undsturbed by any influence whatever?
 The significance of this article consists not in the fact that 1t appears as newspaper edito. rial, but in the well-grounded suspicion that 1t is the product of some person on the other side. whose position qualified him to write under. standingly upon the subject
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

FT The Western Military Asylum, and the grounds and other property thereto pertaining, ate asyertised in another column, to be sold at 'pplW auction, the 18th day of November, by K JBreckinridge, agent of the Government. T his pfeperty was formerly known as the" Har- 'rodsbnrg Springs" property, and was for many years desefyedy, one of the most popular watering places in the United States.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

JUDGE CuRTIs REs1GNED.-Hon. Beni. Rob- bins Curtis, as Associate J ustice of the Supreme Court of the United States has sent his resig- nationto the President Judge Curtis was one of the minority of the supre ne bench protest ing against the decision of the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case.
 Mr. Curtis was whig. On the death of Judge Levi Woodbury in September, 1851, he was appointed by Mr. Fillmore to the dis tinguiShed position which he now resigns.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

-QT MT. Horatio King requests us to state, says tlssW shington States that he was con- petelyHgnorai sof the nature of the communi- cationHrt through him to the President. He received ist Through the mai accompanied by a note from "a person to him unknown, politely Hquesting him fo have it delivered to the Resident Mr.4Eing sent it to the private secretary of Mir. Buchanan, with a note stating that he was unaware of the contents of the packet
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

01y The professional card of Mir. JOHN b. KIMBELL will be found in our advertising columns this morning. In inviting the atten- ton of the public to it, we cannot withhold the expression of our high estimation Of the talents and requirements of Mr. Kimbell, and of our belief ln his permanent success at the bar. He is a gentleman with whom we have had much association and, therefore, have had frequent occasions to appreciate his many excellent qualities. We cordially commend him to our friends who may have business to entrust to a lawyer
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0T We are indebted to His Excellencv, Gov. CONWAY, for copy of "Moore's Rural New w-Yorker," an agricultural and family jour nal, from which we extract a very interesting article on the Statistics of Crops" from the pen of Lieut.. Maury, of Va. The subject is handled by Lieut.. NJ, in masterly and con- vincing manner, and is one of much interest to the majority of our readers.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

NEW ORLEANS AND MEMPHIS PACKET LINE. Read the advertisement. The Memphis and New Orleans Packet Company have the best boats upon the Mississippi river and the most obliging and accommodating officers. It is treat to travel upon one of their steamers Let those who doubt, try it.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0rThe lachrymose editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat, after much pouting and whining, has at length found friend in Capt. Christo- Pter Columbus Dan2ey to commiserate him. The same horrid spectres of family dynasty,' family dictation,'' "Napoeonic rule," "poor enslaved people of Arkansas" etc., etc., which haunted Danley and his predecessors, for so many years, have of late commenced disturb ing the repose of the editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat We must be permitted to congratu- late the editor now that Danley consents to take him by the hand and act his friend.
 On observing the fact that the editor of the Gazette had taken the editor of the Pine Bluff Democrat under his wing, we felt a good deal like the "Old Farmer of Shropshire" when the Devil called upon him for his wife, The old farmer replied-
 Take her, Mir. Devil, with all of my heart,
 God bless you DOth may yOu never more mart
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
or. Mir. John Harrod is agent for the True Deinocfat at RoyalColony. White county.

VALLEY FRMER.-We have received the September number of this valuable periodical. It contains large amount of reading matter of great interest to farmers, fruit growers and stock-raisers Any of our friends in this State wishing to subscribe for agood agricultural jour- nal cannot do better than Send for the "Valley Farmer."~~It is published monthly at St. Louis Mo, by Norman J. Coleman. The subscrip. tlon price is only one dollar year.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0JThe SEARCY EAGLE announces change in it's ownership, and will be in future entirely neutral in politics. The new proprietors and editors are Messrs. Boone & Hicks. Their first issue is neat and well edited, and gives promise of future usefulness. We wish them suocpsS
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS IN WISCONSIN.
 For Governor, James B. Cross, of Milwau- kie; Lieutenant Governor, E. D. Campbell, of La Crosse; Secretary of State, David w. Jones, of Lafayette; Treasurer, Carl Habech, of Dane Attorney General, Gabriel Bouck, of Winne- bago; Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. c. Draper, of Dane; Bank Comptroller, Joel c. Squires, of Iowa; State Prison Com missioner Edward MGarry, of Dodge.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

CT Samuel II. Batchelder, black repub- ican member of a late Massachusetts Legisla- ture, has been convicted of forgery and sent to the State Prison.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

ARREST OF MIR BARNUM.-Just as the steamer Arabia was abont to sail Mr P. T. Barnum, who had taken passage for Liverpool, was arrested on a" Jerome clock note," held, as he says, by broker, who shaved it at about half its face. Mir. B. told the officer that if the broker wanted his body" he was well come to it, for he had not known what to do with it these two years. Barnum says that his prosecutors are men who obtained the clock notes at unlawful interest, and he looks to the courts to liberate him from their grasp.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
Democratic papers in the district, please copy.
Important Inquiry about Iron

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued to the iron manufacturers of the country the following important circular, from which body of Information is likely to be derived of great value tO the COuIltrY:
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

.0~r The river is still in good boating order forsmall boats from here to the mouth. Wea- there and pleasant
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22
TRUE DEMOCRAT. RICHARD H JOHNSON, EDHk.
 hNTLE ROCK, SEPT. 22. 1887.
,-MNfs GRAND LEoTURha-We are re-

-~ANd GRAND LEcTURbRwWe are re- quested Tc publish the following appointments .rby the Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of the State Dr. E. H. Whitfield: 3Dardanelle P, 23 September
 Eorristown. 24 25 do
 Dover, 26, 28 do
 Scottvlle, 29, 30 do .s Clarksvile l, 2 October. Y Roseville, 3,5 do s< aOzark, 6, do
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

0~T The Hon. E. M. Yerger has accepted the American party nomination for Governor of Mississippi
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-22

Take her, Mr. Devil, with all of my heart,
 God bless you both, may you never more part. 5