Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21

men, or some of them, are educating their sons at southern institution. W fI
 Gen. Lane has been tried for the murder of Jenkins and acquitted. 4 r Mir. Sloper editor of a Missouri paper, was killed few days since, on board of Missis- sippi steamer by gambler, of whom he had won some money and with whom he refused to play any more
 The Texas papers, one and all, declare that all the crops so far gathered are, and that the growing crops promise to be the finest ever raised in the State.
 A strong effort is being made by the new party to make John J. Crttenden the nominee for 1860 This seems to bc confined to the western States. The black republicans being the largest stockholders in the new concern will object to this. They will require more rabid free -soiler. Perhaps they may compro- mise on Fred. Douglass for President and Crit tenden for Vice President.
 Judge Green, of the Lebanon law school admitted that he wrote the paragraph quoted against him, but contends that his whole letter should be read and taken together. His ex plenation is deemed satisfactory by his friends.
 DAMAGE BY THE FlooDs.-The following is rough estimate of the damage to property caused by the late floods in the south and west: Cotton 4oo,o ,oo0 bales sl60o0,o ,oo0 Grain crop. ................ 1Ou00,uQ0 Sugar crop, 5o O0Q hossheads .......'. 5000 OO0 Towns, buildings, bridges, mills, levees
 and farming stock ............ 30OOoo0 Railroads anu canals. ........... l0u0,0OO
 Total ................. $33 O00. .00U
 Rev.J. II. Headley, the author, was recently convicted, at Buffalo, N. r., of passing counter felt money.
 The deuce is getting in the children. Re- gently, at southern town where there were two schools, one for boys and one for girls, a half dozen couples, in ages varying from l2 to 15 eloped and succeeded in getting married.
 At Brooklyn, the other day, a girl fourteen years of age, attempted to commit suicide, first by drowning, then with poison, because of un- requited affection.
 The National Latelhgencer learns that the President has designated Mir. los. c. G. Ken nedy, the able superintendent of the seventh census, to superintend the digest of the returns of manufactures of that census for which digest provision was made by act of the late session of Congress.
 Moses S. Beach, of the New York Sun, has patented the invention of new printing press, which prints both sides of the sheet at the same tme
 l All the United States coins are receivable in | payment of debts as follows: $50, S20, S1O S5, | g 50, aud $l pieces at their value, for debts, i of any amount 30 25, 10 and cent pieces at their respective values, for debts of five dollars an under. 3 cent pieces for debts under thirty cents; cent pieces for debts under ten cents
 The Stockton Argus has an accouut derived | from one John WiSgin, of the massacre of all l but three of an emgrant train of eighteen per 1 sons, ircluing Col. Doniphan, so well known | m the Mexican war, which left St. Joseph, Mo-. the l5-h of last J unr, wiutered at Salt Lake i City and left there March 15.h Ibe story I needs continuation.
 The remains of President Monroe were re- moved from New York to Richmond, with much ceremony. From letter addressed to \ Governor Wise, by Samuel L. Governeuer. son-m-law of Mr. Monroe We gather some i'm. poTtart facts, calculated t. increase our respect and veneflfion for the deceased patriot.
 The Ex- President died very poor, Mr Gov erneur says:
 1 !" The public life of James Monroe is known | in the his orv of his country. The events of his private lite-few years ndeed-are known | only to a few surviving friends On fhe 4Gh of I March lSD1 hp ,laftI D., 1 dentiAl term. He soon commenced to reap the bitter fruits of life devoted to the best in terets of hs country regardless of h.s own., As pr. vate citizen he emerged from all his successive ! pubic trusts With poverty as the emblem of his i purity and the badge of all his public houors A loan rom a near relative reluctantly accept ed realized after his death, discharIed the i'm mediate demands ln Washington, and bore him aud his tamv to that residence in which he | had fondly hoped 10 eni his days Pressei to melancholy degree by debts, almost imper- cepiDy accumulated by tlmr with the ocoa s,oua relief winch two young relatives could afford hmYhe ruggled mautullv with advrrsltv for ahoat five yelrs In the unexpected death of hiS devuted wife in September. 1880 he re azed tine fact that his cup of earthly sorrows was full to tne hrm. Sae ha |, with enviable grace> oi person and mud adorned every pub- hc position he ever hell. She had nnGly par tlcipatei Iii all hi> troubles, and, with her su l. den loss, all the hopes of his decHnur years tadel rapidly before hm A constitution ol great ori-ina! ylg,r exhbltel symptom, of de- clded decay and d mlud uoniv end ,qed in Ac tive sympathy of adua decline. Ills removal to New York was She result of stern necessity. Tot ot choice. At the soci ation of his family n tue residence of hs youngest daughter, and n tha ..grt. ,,fI Iti- native oi ihaI city, he found all the baAutiful Sympathies whict earth affords His presence cnmmatd 5d universal respect. Public meetings gave new impulse to promps action in Con SreSs on those claims which, in drep conviction oi their justice, he hat made upon his country. In daily anxious suS pensc he awatei their de- cislon. The partial allowance it made came too late for him. PosJpouements and angry de- bates, marked by that bitterness of parry poli- hcS winch ever SeeNS ashinils mark, had broken down his noble spirit. -Fhe exhausted energies of nature could rse no more. On the 4h of July 1851, amidst al, the eXalling evidences of national pylde winch m irk that day, associated now with the deaths of Adams, J Jefferson, and Monroe, Tn humble resignation to vine will. without a groan or Sgh he ceased to live on earth.''
 t6T " hat we need to unite Us, Is an open foe. The enemy is in ambush or in our midst as spies and traitors Democrats who are true to themselves and to their country will vote for the nominees of their party, despite the whining or coaxjns of disorganizers AL though we have no apparent opposition in many places it is because our oppoaents are sailing under false coIors. They count upon the apathy, the supineness of the dem icracy upon thoir skill to blind the people to tue true issues, and like burglars who hold chloroform to the sleepar's nose and then rob him. sn thnu