Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-04-20
The Printing and Binding of Congress Senator Johnson not Connected with these Contracts-Eis Statement and Evi- dence-Who is P G. Smith?
tie Neic York Herald:

I5 the Etitor of tts Ne,o York HeraH:
 WAsHISGroN, Feb. 26, 1858.
 request that this note, with the accompany ing extracts and correspondence, may be pub lished in your paper.
 have sought ln vain 10 ascertain the author, and 1 regret that you should have deemed it proper to publish at once my letter to you of Feb l5 1858, demanding the authors name, and that you should have failed to make me any reply.
 The extract which islanders me was taken from your paper of Jan. 2l.
 IL s very gross slander, and cites no other name q authority in is support than that of Mai. Juo. F. uess.
 My letter ,o you of the 18th Feb. 1858, request, shall be again pub.l>hed in is proper order, and that the enclosed copies of cores pondeuce with M,.- heiss may then follow
 Having failed, as yet, to uncover the author. will tTcspasS upon you no further than to de- clare the charge 10 be false and slauderous, aud to ask the justice of publication Of these pa- pers in your columns where this siJrder tfs, ap- peared.
 l know of nothing more that it is at present in my power to do n the premises. four obe dent servant, R. W. JoHSsnS.
 r. B CnieSs you conclude b publish this eutre You will please return the same to me without publishing any plrJ of it. R. w. J.
 From rLe Herald of Jan. 4l. ls5s.
 The printing of the House and of the Senate lot the only fat iole about the capitol The binding k another, the profits of which are also considerable; and it was at one time the thought of the Ohio ard Virginia combination to % in for that also. The lucky recipient of the Senate biudlg, however as have already said, Is NIT. Botelar. 0f this cjtv. who is understood to nave also a sor, of conuectiou with Wendell though of what sort am unable to sav Ho te.er Is neither an administration man nor de- mocrat; but on the contrary, since the organiza- tiou of the Know Nothing order, has been vio- lent ed-mouthed leading member of that party III Washington; and the circumstance that such man has obtained from democratic Senate So large q slice of the patronage which is supposed to be the peculiar reward of the faithful is in itself sufficient to excite series of curious indui- ries Happily, l am able to explain circum- stance which, to the uuinitiated must inevita- DIV seem a5stru~e: but the explanation. as 1 have prev ous ly remarked involves another ex- citing expose of Congressional and lobby in- trgue.
 II appears that some time since, Mir Bo.eler and the Hon. from the State of were mixed up together in certain mysterious, but uo doubt perfectly honest bu>i- ness transactlon>, the result of which was, as il Is sad, 10 leave considerably iu Be- teiers debt. Mr. however. became a member of while Mr Boteler became, through what Mir. Weller would probably cail remarkable coinci- dence,'' q candidate for Senate binder. To0ver- balance the fact that he was d violent member ot the opposition, he had that little b.lP'
 
 tions are understood lo have been commenced on that basis. Bote'er offered to cancel his It. tie b'll, or the largest part of it. in considera- tion of receiving the very comfortable job he asked to7, and matters were thus partially ar ranged, when Mr. conceived higher notions of the profit he ought to derive from tle Joh n question: and advanced his estimates. Malor Hel>>. oi the Sta.es. was then called in ana told contide tally without Mr. Boteler's knowledge, that he might have it if he would consent to divide the profits. IL Is said that went himself 10 Major Heiss and mate the offer, and the only bright spot about the whole transaction appears to be that the la.- ter indignantly declined entering into a bargain. and threatened to expose the attempr to tam per with hls integrity l. seems almost i'm possible to conceive that virtue of such refresb lng greenueSs sheuld exist in the hothed of cor FnPtlon; put the cid stagerS here will certainly say that Major HeiSs must have had more eogent reason than >heir honesty for reiactin, such tempting offer. However, reject 1t he did, and Boteler came in ami took the prize.- He will, probably, frst learn from this letter how near he was losing it entirely, though the greatness of an honorable and chivaric south. ern Senator. To encourage all valorous (houes) hearts, and show them honorable ex- amples,' as old Froissart would say, feel bound to add, on authority derived from a source very near the White house, that Major Heiss dd in- form the President of the proposition which had been made 10 him, and that the conduct of the chivairic Senator received a severe rebuke from the lncorruptible and impartial chief mag lsrrate of the nation