Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-15
MI SIIV 'VVVVIoII T IVSo, AUg Miss Madeline Smith


 We were aware how strong an opinion had been formed by her Edinburgh agent, Mr. Tbos. Rankin, writer to the signet, of Miss Smiths innocence ot M. L'Angeler's murder. Mir. Rankln's almost chivalarous devotion to the cause oG hls unhappy client was shown in the eaSerneSs with which he grasped her hand when the verdict of the jury opened to her the way from the bar But this gentlemau's zeal dd not cease with the trial. So persuad- ed was he that Miss Smith was not a murderess. that he has set himself with pertinacity which, under the circumstances, and with his convic- ton, does him infinite credit, to discover if thls were possible, evidence to satisfy the pub- llc, that the grave suspicion of the verdict of mot proven" would continue to attach to the lady was not well founded, and ought to give way.
 He has, accordingly, caused a thorough in- VestSatlon to be made into the whole case, "nicn investigation Is not yet completed; but e'Ioehce has ln course transpired which, in his judgment, we believe, will satisfy the public, as It would have satisfied the Crown, that the case should be abandoned, or would have satisfied the jury that a verdict of not guilty would be more appropriate We content ourselves With this statement for the present; by and by the public will be placed in the jury box to try It over again, in the perusal of Mir. Rankin's
 caSe," the facts of the charge.
 L'ANGELIER's LETTERS AND MEMORANDUM BOOK.
 The Glasgow Herald in lengthy article al. ludes to the reports circulated concerning the letters and diary of the unfortunate I,Apge- Her. and says: Of the contents of the memo randum book, much has been said, and the re. putation of at least one highly respected lady connected with our own city was associated with It III such sinister manner as to occasion the most distressing feelings to large body of our best citizens.
 Her husband, to give the lie to such shame ful rumors, applied to the Crown for a CODY of the memorandum book, and received in reply an assurance that neither he nor his lady was either named or indicated in any one of its en. tries, and we have reason to believe that apart from LAngeliers peculiar relation to Madeline smith, neither that memorandum book nor any other part of his manuscript affords ground for the slightest mputation against the honor of any lady, either married or unma arried: and fur ther, that hlS correspouC ence generally so far rom supporting the "atrocious" character winch had been a,crlbed to it, would. if pa- tent to the public, convince them, if he was not Joseph Andrews he was at least not a Tom Jones.
 The virtues of L'Angeler from all we can learn, may still be satisfactorily traced in his exemplary, amiabe, and studious course of hfe unanimously testified to by his three landIadies during the four years of his residence in Glas- gow-by the good opinion and promotion he won from his employers, and the respectable position he occupied at his death in one of the first of our commercial establshments-by the universal testimony of his business associates to his invariably temperate and correct deport- ment-by the filial and fraternal affection and solicitude and aid which he appears to have manifested and rendered towards his widowed mother and fatheress sisters, and by his asso- citation here and elsewhere, with society of which no gentleman could be ashamed
 L'Angelier's "sad, eventful history" has re- gently pointed many moral, and may yet adorn tale; for we understand that his friends in this clty--and he, too, has his influential friends-are not content to let his memory lie under the odious aspersons which have been heaped upon it.