Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-28
Necessary to a choice

In the democratic convention to be holden at Charleston, under the two- thirds rule it will re- quire 204 votes, or 04 votes in addition to the united southern vote, to make a nomination.
 The heat has been intense at the north. The thermometer was 1O2 degrees at noon, for sever- al successive days. In two days there were twenty deaths from strokes
 There appeared, in the Savannah Republican, letter from Florida, giving the particulars of tae lynchiug of four men who were hung by 4 the four men killed were know nothings, and that their funeral was attended by only two democrats, one of whom wns the sexton. The know nothing press bit at this, for it was per feet god>end to them, to be used as set-off to the many murders by plug uges and rowdies of their party. Unfortunately for them, it turns out to be one of those miserable hoaxes some- times perpetrated on editors, as no persons were hung, no violence or attempt at violence of any kind. no funeral any foundation ill fact for for the story. That coucoctor of the story would make capita! know nothing editor.
 The following, from the New York Dispatch, shows strange taste in the New England wo- men, or that they are greater fanatics than the men:
 "AMALGAMATIoS MARRIAGES IN BosToN- The Boston matrimonial register shows that during the last year these have been no less than sixty malgamaton marriages; and, singular to al of xy with or colored men; in no instance has white man been registered as having taken to wife colored woman. The hite ladies oi Boston and there abouts have singular tastes; certainly they seem to relish black kisses, from all accounts, with peculiar guslo, and black or colored husbands are becoming highly popular institution among them. Can anything prove more conclusively the growing degeneracy ip point of morality and decency, ot plouS, proper New England, as this horrible tanatclSm, which strikes at the root of every thing like purity and tends to un- dermlne the divine laws of nature? When wo- men, the safeguard of virtue and purity, stoops thus to degrade herself perverting the womau- hood within her. the degradation of man as a necessary consequence, must follow"
 We are determined to give the Paine Female Institute at Goliad, Texas, first rate notice, gratis. From the first annual catalogue. we find that the whole number of pupils Is 65 The usual branches are taught in the preparatory and advanced departments, but there is another science " taught in the Institute at once new and useful. Whether the young ladies would receive any benefit by having the science taught here IS doubtful, for they seem to have an in- tuitve knowledge of it--in fact, take to it early as naturally as a duck takes to water. or know nothing editor to lying. At all events, at the Paine Institute they teach "Me science cf shopping" The catalogue says:
 Frequent shoppngs are made in the school room, in which great variety of articles are purchased, and the amounts at a variety of prices, as bits and half bits, calculated, that the young lady may know how to point an arou- ment as ,oeH as punt fower"
 We are afraid that this rehearsal is not the the thing exactly, and that where there is young man behind the counter,
 All nods and becks and wrcathed smiles" with his white vest, we'll oiled hair, and p!a,,si- ble tongue, that the shopping would be alto- gether different affair. We note the fact. however, to show what an age of progress we live in.
 An interesting case has just been decided in Kentucky:
 merchant of this city ordered, by tele- graph. lot of whisky from Cincinnati. at l5 cents per gallon. The dispatch, by mistake. stated l6 cents as the price. and the whisky was sent. The Louisville merchant paid for the whisky according to the tenor of the dis patch, as delivered at Cincinnati, and sued the telegraph company for the loss occasioned by the mistake Tn transmitting the dispatch The company's defense was, mainly, that the head ing Of their dispatches notified the plaintiff that they would not be liable for mistakes unless dispatches were repeated at an advanced cost, and that plaintiff knew this to be the rule of the company, yet did not cause his dispatch to be repeated. ChalHelor Logan decided in favor of the company, and the Court of Ap- peals has affirmed his decision.''
 The vivacious correspondent of the Boston Post gives us the following important item from the French capital:
 With unmitigated regret desire to con- municate very important piece of news volumnions skirts are no longer the fashion! Crnoline, practically, is a defunct article, and borax powder will no more be put into starch to give petticoats the stiffness hitherto requisite It ls the high chic> now to wear few skirts, and in fact to collaiss the ballon!