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Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
Gov Walker and the Southern Press.

As far as we have noticed the press of the have placed the seal of condemnation on Gov. Walkers course in Kansas. Several of the Southern States too have spoken in positive dis appreciation of his course by resolutions adop- ted in convention. What influence these ex- pressons of dissatisfaction will have on the ad- nnstration or upon the conduct of Gov. Wal ker, we know not but certainly the South has not lost anything by boldly cOntending for her pected the Know Nothing press, too, have in- dcated their position on the Kansas imbroslio. Of course they are glad to see that democrats are dspleased with Gov Walkers strange in- reference in the territory, and are not slow to attribute his conduct to the administration. In their opposition they are not alone. They have their usual company-the black republl- cans of the North. One charges the admins tration with endeavoring to force slavery into Kansas, the other, with seeking to mako it a free State But both of them meet on the common platform of opposition to Mr. Bu- chanan and the democratic party. It is not the policy of the administration as indicated by Mr. Buchanan himself that has excited the resent ment of the South, but the dictatorial man. her in which Gov. Walker proclaims subms- sion of the constitution to be indispensable to its validity, and his threats to make an implacable opposition to it if the convention shall fail to obey him.
 Had he remained perfectly neutral between the contending parties and let the will of the majority prevail, the south would have had no cause to murmur. The south does not dispute that the convention have right to submit the constitution, when formed, 10 tAe legal voters of the territory. But when this truism is dictated to the people of Kansas, under the circum- stances that exist there, by mere official of the federal government, we may be excused if we consider that he has transcended his du- ties and violated his obligation of non-interven- ton, which he owed to the administration and the country.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
Correction,

In the 4th of July address, published in our last weeks paper, several errors appeared, which in justice to the author, who was not here to read the proof, we cheerfully correct:
 The word Sartavy," read Imtory,-" The immaculate son of God, who sealed its charter with his bood-the order itself the church of the living God" is the correct reading:-The quotation is from Jeremiah, not Jos" and should read thus: Because ye have obeyed Jonadab, your father, and kept his precepts and done according to all that he hath com- manded you heretore, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, ,-J onadab, the son of Rachael, shall not want a man to stand before me for ever" The word "dream i" read dreamer
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
A Prophecy for the West

The folowingi is from the correspondence of a prominent citizen of the State of New York. who has been visiting the western States re- gently:
 STEAMER ITAscA, June 9, '57. Away out here, where the sun sets, people are talking of "the west" In Wisconsin, farmers who came from eastern States few years ago, are selling out to go vest Westward hop is the cry
 Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, surpasses in beauty all that the imagination can create. The capitol park has never been broken by plough or spade, and yet is more lovely than the park of Versailles, oH which ages of art and millions of treasure have been lavished.
 The west Is to be the seat of empires It will, in fifty years, depopulate Europe"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
DE WITT
Washburu's Circus.

Last week, upon the representations of MT. Washburn and the notices of the press, we re- commended his Circus establishment to the citizens of Little Rock and vicinity; since then we have received the following communication from several of our friends in Lafayette county, which we feel in duty bound to publish for the benefit of the public:
 LEwIsvILLE, LAFAYETTE Co.,, ARK, q
 July the l4th, 1857} EDITORS TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Deqy Sis: On last Friday, the 10h inst, Mr. WasAburu's Circus company exhibited at this place. Notwithstanding the intense hotweath- er, quite respectable number of people, from various parts of the county, wore in attendance. Now, sense of duty to the public, ani not to ourselves in particular induces us to communi- cate some facts in resaTI to this company. It exhibited nere twice, at and o'clock in the afternoon, had good opportunity of acquittiuG itself with credit and honor; but alas, like too many of the same profession, only proved to be humhug.
 How long are the people of this State going to suffer themselves imposed upon by this most detestabie class of mpostors? Dat of the whole number of actors named in their bills only five appeared in the rius accompanied by one of their teamsters which swclled their number to six.
 We expected to get a sight of Mr. ". J. Smith, the celebrated two, four and six horse rider, but were pained to learn that hc had re- turned to Paris. Mr. Novels fell from lis bridge a short distance below here, while per forming one of his astonishing feats, and has not since been with the company. Master Johnny and his globe were struck by the comet on the 18th of June, and have not been heard Of sipce Mons. Morgan, We Iearn thinking he would be of more service to Gen. Walker, left with lis cannon balls for \ icaragua last spring Julian Kent, the youthful Shakesperan clown, finding that he knew too much to travel in Ar kansaw, has returned to give his old instructor Dau Rice, d few lessons The female equest- Tiana have all married and are now living se- cuded lives. The India,s have returned to their homes in the wild forest. We would ad- wise them to change theIr occupation, and en- deavor to procure an honest livelihood, They would make excellent manufacturers of "chal- Iense blackrg" for instance, and we think it best for them to nea,norrhose their canvas into au establishment for this purpose as soon as possible, they might soon hail as the Mason of America, anl would acquire much more repu- tation in this way than hy any prepos;erous at tempt to establish themselves as circus riders Our advice is given in truly charitable spirit, and in this way we hope it will be received.
 MANY CITIZENS.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
From Arkansas County.
De IVitt. July 10th, 1857.

{
 MR. EDIToR- Sir: As think this county has been overlooked by emgrants going out south and west in search of homes, 1 would like to say something, through the medium of your widely circulated journal to induce mo- vers and emigrants to give our county pass ing call at least. According to the census of 184O, Arkansas county contained but little over 1000 inhabitants. In 1850, the whole inhabi- tance amounted to over 30OO-nearly one half of which were slaves, and the present popua- ton is not less than 6,O00. In 1850, this county produced only 3,769 bales of cotton, and if the remainder of this year is at all seasonable, we will raise at least 10000 bales. All kinds of produce is being raised in the same proportion, and wheat in a much greater proportion, for in 1850 we only raised 40 bushels in the whole county, while this year at least 5000 bushels have been raised.
 We have rich bottom lands on the Arkansas river and in the Bayou Meto bottom, suitable for large planters who wish to cultivate cotton. We have rich bottom and second bottom on the eastern or Prairie side of Bayou Meto that will produce anything well, and we have large quan- titles of beautiful upland laying between Bayou Meto and White river, interspersed with Prairie, which is now covered with luxuriaut grass, with streams such as the Big aud Little Lagrew with their rich aIluvial bottoms
 This prairie land is rapidly coming into mo- tice now, fine crops of wheat and oats have been grown here this year on prairie land
 I have been a resident of Arkansas county ten years, and my experience and observation leads me to pronounce it AeaH4y county, and hereby recommend without hesitation or men, tai reservation, all persons in search of perma- nent home in the southwest to come and set tie in Arkansas county.
 DE WITT.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
Gen. Rusk on tha Slavery Question.


 We nave been permitted 10 publish (slys the Galveston News) the following letter from Gen. Rusk, to a distinguished citizen of Texas. and dated Nacogloches, April 28, 1857. The gentleman to whom the letter was addressed, permits the publication, because he believes it important that the opinion of such man as Gen. Rusk, on question of such vital mpor- tance, should bo known. While We are dad to give this brief extract we trust our distin- guished representative will take an early op- portunity to make his views more fully known to his constituents, and to the people of the South generally. Our readers are aware that it has long been our opinion that a great crisis in the country is rapidly approachins-a crisis that cannot be met by our ordinary party or ganizations but only by a union of all the peo. pie of the South, irrespective of party, for their common security, as against a common enemy But to the extract:
 MT. Buchanan's Cabinet gives pretty general satisfaction. They were very much pressed while l remained, and l could not very well judge, from what little l saw. how they will work. The abolition party are becoming more formidable every day, and unless they are bold- ly and promptly met, We have much mischief to apprehend. If Mclean lives, think they will run him for Presidoutin 1860 The rapid increase of non-savcholding States Is bringing in dangerous element, and think the slave holding States should lose no time nor exer- tons n strengthening themselves, to meet promptly any encroachments upon their con stitutlonal lights and equality.
 Very truly, yours.
 rEInS
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
B. GAR.

A MoTHER's CoUNsEL.-Forty years ago mother stood on the green hills of Vermont, holding by the right hand a son, sixteen years old, mad with love of the sea. And, as she stood by the garden gate sunny morning, she said: Edward, they tell me-for never saw the ocean-that the great temptation of the sea- mans life is drink Promise me, before you quit your mothers hand that you will never drink" gave the promise, and went the broad globe over-Calcutta, the Mediterranean, San Francisco, the Cape of Good Hope, the North Pole and the South-I saw them all in forty years, and l never saw glass filled with sparkling liquor that my mothers form by the garden gate on the green hillside of Vermont, did not rise before me, and to-day, at sixty, my lips are innocent of the taste of liquor
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
From the Columbia Carolinian.

The submitting of the constitution to be adopted by the Convention of Kansas to the people for ratification, has been a subject of much acrimonious discussion. It is very sur prioing that it should elicit any diScusson.-- The course of Gov. Walker in the dictation he has attempted, is, as we have said before, arro- gant and indefensble but the reference to the people of the Constitution by the Convention, is a matter. entirely within their supreme power. If the Topeka FreesOilers refuse to vote, and to be represented ill that Convention, and pro- slavery delegation be appointed, we of the South will have reason to be satisfied with what they decide, and should they refer it for ratifi- cation, it is not without abundant precedent It is for the Convention to decide the question, and they having at heart the interests of the ter ritorv, will no doubt do their duty in the premi- ses Ii the Topeka Freesoilers are determines. to continue agitation, and refuse to send dele gates to the Convention, and after 1t decides (shotld 1t do so) to refer the Constitution to the people, and still refuse to vote, as they will do, if they intend to keepup the excitement and the Freesoll investment in agitation stock, the pro-sayery Constitution will necessarily be adopted, and give the party adopting it the vantage ground. Revolution may be the result, but the government will take the part of law and order and who boubts the result
 Under such circumstances, why should we, in advance, take position against the admnstra- ton, which will undoubtedly defend the action of the Convention? We think policy, duty and patriotism all combine in inducing us to await quietly the action of the Convention, which we think should be left to its members. It will be time enough then for us to agitate when their action Is known.
 As precedents may be desirable on the ques- ton of submitting the Constitution to the pco- pie, we give the following to show that there is much to be said on both sides:
 States ao7ose Consultation haue not been SuJnittel
 for Rntfcnti0n 0 Me PeopLe
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
The Pacific Wagon Roads

The Washington Union, of the 27th ult., says:
 Intelligence has reached the Interior Depart meut, from the superntendents of the Pacific wagon roads and their several branches, of a character to justify the confident belief that these great works will be completed at an early day. The work has been started on all the roads, under the most favorable circumstances. and, should no serious obstacles intervene there Is possibility that the various parties will finish their abors before the close of the present year. At all events, we look for a completion of this truly national enterprise in ample sea- son to b. made available for the overland em : grafton of next spring.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

Col. Jefferson Davis, af;er some years service ln the executive department of the naton re. turned not long since to his home and neigh bors, and was received with great enthusiasm and rejoicngs. We are glad to find this emi- ncnt statesman still true to the good old cause. What he said at the dinner rendered him at Jackson, Mississippi, will sound like clarion notes calling upon the south, as of yore:
 file Col. Davis was no aarmist; he had contempt for panics and scorn of panic mak- CTS: but he would tell them that in 1860, the monster crisis was 10 be met Then shall American patriotism pass the ordeal of tire He hoped for the best; but sense of danger imposed upon him the duty of warning them to prepare for the worst The time had been when the pulling newspapers Of the opposition would have denounced him as a traitor for ut terlng this sentiment. It was time when patriotism was construed to be submission to degradation and wrong, for the sake of Union whose soul was pershlng away, and which was being periled only by such submission. He thanked Heaven that time was passed It was not the revolutionary time: 0, no, submission was an unuttered word in that day of bold re- solve and high achievement. IL was period intermediate between now and then--a dark agc' in our political history But he need not adjure them to preparation. They were pre- parlng."
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

FINE COTTON LANDS FOR SALE.-We direct the attention of land buyers to the advertise ment of Gen. R. NJ. Gaines, of Chicot county, in to-day's paper. He offers for sale some o the most valuable lands in the State, situated in the very heart of the cotton growing re- zion.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
JOHN MILTON, and others.
Pater Patria.

Thou hast name whose characters Of light shall ne'er depart; 'Tis stamped upon the dullest brain And warns the coTdest heart; A war cry fit for any land
 Where freedoms to be won. Land of the West! it stands alone It is thy Washington!-El,aa Cook.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
E on Washingtc II,

Washington, July .15.--Oficial dispatches from Montgomery, Commander of the Roanoke, say that the New Grenadian difficulties promise a speedy and amcable settlement.
 Adjustment of land to Arkansas and Mis- souri (act of l85O) concluded to aid in construc- ton of railroad from opposite Cairo via Little Rock to the Texas boundary.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

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 And this embraces the charge for printing blanks for the use of offices that will last for one or two years. The hundred thousand dol. lars dwindles down to four hundred dollars
 If lies are of magnitude, then this is ninety nine thousand and six hundred times a lie.- But it is of piece with the other charges made against the present system, which a refe- renee to the record will show to be equally un- true. I had intended to have furnished you with other facts connected with the subject and to contrast the expenses of the present system with that of the former one, but as 1 have a- ready taken up more space than, fear, l am entitled to, will defer it till next week, when I promise to give your readers some facts and figures that will astonish those who have never examined the subject.
 Truly yours,
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
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WASHINGTON, July 7.-Iute,l .erce been received from St. Petersburg ,t tue ! resting fact that Russia had agreed ,9 co-ors. with Ei gland, in peaceful measures. for .-z iug the imperial government of China to . don Its exclusive Io'icv so far as to ope. Chinese ports to the commerce of the wu and receive diplomatic repraseutatyesatP. the seat of the imperial government. Rt does not propose to unite with England M ercIye measures, though 1t i~ easy to s.e such might be tGe result of the failure of cable representations
 Russia has now important and growing e merclal Interests In regard to China through only an inland but a cvastwfse trafa. She haJ an ecclesiastical mission at Petia since tune of Peter the Great, but tl.s i, uo. diplomatic character She has sc.l aa au Stdor to Pekln, who had arrived on t...trr of China and awaited orders for his ra.e. to Pokin. The Russian government ha, $ objects in this mission which relate orIv to own aiia.rS-that k, to questions relative to extensive Russian frontier borlerue ou c but will make common carl,e with the !. err powers aid the United States iu obtn rom Russia commercial and diplomatic ad, tages.
 It looks now as if John CA;aamgn T abandon the exclusive policy of two .hoI, years and consent tu-opeu the Aowery A-. toreiGn diplomacy and commerce.
 The British ambassador will propose D. t'at.on as soon as he arrives, aud af,rl.,.g Tor Gov. Ioh to communicates with tine En TOT, will employ the land aud naval force take Canton. If negotiations be refl.eI will at once, which can be done, though immense loss of life on the part of tine ( nese population crowded within it's walls After this, 1t is said, that negotiation w.lg. be proposed, and a refusal will. be followed the capture of Shanslae and ultimately Pekiu.
 A rumor of the intended resignation of Commissioner of Pensions having lately Peared in some papers, it has been posit,, denied by his friends here He teudersi resignation when Mr. Buchanan entered b the Presidency, and its acceptance WAS clined. ION
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

TIE THREATENED WAR BETWEEN SPAIN AND MEXIco.-lt was stated yesterday that the Spanish fleet, consisting of five sailing vessels and two steamers, having on board some tN O thousand soldiers intended for operations against Mexico, arrived at Havana on the 25th ult. letter from Madrid, speaking of the condition of affairs between the two countries, says:
 If a favorable turn does not soon take place hostiltieS are inevitable. The Mericaa qoU- e1nnent, jt IS to Je feared, calcuate too much on tue attitude he United States are likely 10 as- san'e, or at least on the danger Co Ct5a from the attachs of the .flibusters. But the Spanish gov ernment has no apprehensons from either quarter, as, in the event of war; it will in all probability confne it's operations to blockade of the coast, and like the French in 1886, ta the destruction of the fort of San Juan, at Vera Cruz.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

NEW MERCANTILE FIBM-Attentien is directed to the advertisement of Messrs. Mor- row, Boone & Co. in to-day's paper. These gentlemen may be found at the former stand of Tate & Moore on the corner of Main and Markham streets, where customers may be as sured of receiving good bargains aud polite at- tention.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

MoRMoNIsM TO BE ExposED.-The New York correspondent of the Washington Union states that
 Fetridge & Go. have in press book that will make some stir. Elder Hyde, the great apostle of the Mormons, has written an expose of the abominations as he calls them, of his old faith. He has been great missionary; he was sent to England and France, to the Sand wich Islands, and to distant lands; he is we'll educated; he writes well; he talks plain; and he gives advice to the government of the Unit ed States how to put down the turbulence of Utah.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

RARE FEcUNDITY.-The productiveness of Arkansas soil is equaled only by her stock, as proven in two instances of which we have just been informed. Col. Allen Martin and Hon. Jared c. Martin of this county have, each, a COW which recently nr0duced twins
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
TRUE DEMOCRAT. RICHARD H. JOHNSON, EDroR.
 J. D. KIMBELL, ASSOCIATE EDIToR. LITTLE ROCK, JULY q, 1857.
To our Friends.

We have heavy liabilities to meet soon, and our friends who are indebted to us for subscrip- tions, advertising and job work will confer a favor by remitting to us by mail, at our risk, at their earliest convenience.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

0TThe "Regulators" of San Antonio, Texas, are stli persevering in their work of purging that community of the desperadoes who have for some time infested it. On the 21st ult., two men, named Craig and Fish, were found hung to tree in that neghborhood.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

CEF Human affections the leaves, the foliage of our being-they catch every breath, and in the burden and heat of the day they make music and motion in sultry world Stripped of that foliage, how unsghtly is hu- man nature.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

0E7- Dr. B. Shields passed through here yesterday on his way to Mississippi. He de- signs settling near Natchez. Wherever he may go he has our kindest wishes for his professional and social success. He has been recently locat- ed near Benton in this State, and was esteem cd good physician and clever gentleman.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

0EF Mr. Dotter has just returned from New York with an elegant stock, of watches and jewelry. See his advertisement.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21

or The professional card of J. A. William son, esq, of Washington, appears in to-day's paper. MT. w. is gentleman of fine educa- tion, very trustworthy, and possessing abilities highly promising of success