Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01
The Dickens Domestic Affair.

The following letters are ln circulation among the friends of Mir. and Mrs. Dickens:
 7avistoch House. Tauistock Square, }
 Lodnon, w. r., Tuesday, May 25, 1858. {
 My DEAR ARTHUR: You have not only my full permission to show this, but 1 beg you to show, to any one who wishes to do me right, or to any one who may have been msled into doing me wrong. Faithfully etc. CD.
 To ARTHUR SMITH, esq.
 Tauistock House, 7avistock Square, }
 London, W. E., Tuesday, May 25, 1858. {
 Mrs Dickens aud 1 have lived unhappily together Tor many years. Hardly any one who has known us intimately can fail to have known that we are, in all respects of character and temperament, wonderfully unsuted to each other. suppose that mo two people not vicious Tn themselves, ever were joined together, who had a greater difficulty in understanding one another, or who had less in common. An at tached woman servant (more friend to both of us than a servant,) who lived with us sixteen years, and is now married, and who was and stll Is m Mrs. Dickens confidence and in mine, who had the closest familiar experience of this unhapp!ness, n London, in the country in France in Italy, wherever we have been, year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day. will bear testimony to this.
 
 tween Us and a separation but Mrs. Dickens sister, Georglne Hogarth. From the age of fifteen, she has devoted herself to our house and our children. She has been their play nate nurse instructresS, friend. protectress, ad- vlser and companion. In the manly considera- ton toward Mrs. Dickens which 1 owe to my wife l will merely remark of her that the pecullantv ot her character has thrown all the children on some one else l do not knOw-I cannot by any stretch of fancy imagine-what would have become of them but for this aunt, who has grown up with them, to whom they are devoted, and who has sacrificed the best part of her youth and life to them.
 She has remobstrated, reasoned, suffered and toled, and came again to prevent a separation between Mrs. Dickens and me. Mrs. Dickens has often expressed to her, her sense of her af- fectionate care and devotion in the house. never more strongly than within the last twelve months.
 For some years past Mrs. Dickens has been Tn the habit of representing to me that it would be better for her to go away and live apart; that her always increasing arrangement made a mental disorder under which she sometimes labors--more, that she felt herself unfit for the lie she had to lead as my wife, and that she would be better far away. l have uni iormly replied that we must bear our misfor- tune and fight the fight out to the end; that the children were the first consideration, aud that l feared they must bind us together "in appearance"
 At length, within these three weeks, it was suggested to me by Foster that even for their sakes, 1t would surely be better to reconstruct and rearrange their unhappy home empow- cred him to treat with Mrs. Dickens as the friend ol both oi us for one and twenty years, Mrs. Dickens wished to add on her part, Mark Lem. on, and did so. On Saturday last Lemon wrote to Foster that Mrs. Dickens gratefully and thankfully accepted" the terms proposed to her.
 Of the pecuniary part of them, I will only say that believe they are as generous as if Mrs. Dickens were a lady of distinction and I. man ot fortune The remaining parts of them are easily described-my eldest boy to live with Mrs. Dickens and take care of her; my eldest girl to keep my house; both my girls, and all my children but the eldest son. to live with me, Tn the continued companionship of their aunt Georsne, for whom they have all the tenderest affection that l have ever seen among young people, and who has higher claim Gas 1 have often declared for many years) upon my affec- ton, respect and gratitude than any body in this world.
 hope that no one who may become acquant- ed with what write here, can possibly be so cruel and unjust, as to put any msconstuction on our separation, So far. My elder children all understand 1t perfectly, and all accept it as in- evtable There IS not shadow of doubt or concealment among us-my eldest son and are one, as to 1t all.
 Two wicked persons who should have spoken very differently of me- in consideration of earn ed respect and gratitude, have Gas am told, and indeed to my personal knowledge) coupled with thls separation the name of young lady for whom have great attachment and regard.- will not repeat her name-I honor it too much. Upon my soul and honor. there is not on this earth more virtuous and spotess creature than that young lady, 1 know her to be innocent anu pure, and as good as my own dear daugh- ters Further, l am quite sure that Mrs Dick ems having received this assurance from me- must now believe it, in the respect know her to have for me, and in the perfect confidence 1 Know her Tn her better oments to repose in my truthlulness
 oh thls head again, there is not a shadow of douot or copcealment between my children and me. All IS open and plain among us, as though we were brothers and sisters They are per. iectiy certain that would not deceive them and the confidence among us is without a fear. c. D. MAY 29, 1858. It having been stated to us that in reference to the differences which have resulted in the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dickens, cer- tain statements have been circulated that such differences sare occasioned by circumstances deeply affecting the moral character of MT. Dickens and compromising the reputation and good name of others, we solemnly declare that we now disbelieve such statements. We know that they are not believed by Mrs. Dickens, and we pledge ourselves on all occasions to contra dict them, as entirely destitute of foundation. | Here follow the signatures of Mrs. Hogarth and her youngest daughter. D.J.A. From the Washington Union. Forgery as Party Weapon.