Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-05-04
What the Arkansas Papers Say.


 difficulty in selecting a candidate for repre- sentative from White county, on account of a local division between the eastern and western portions Those iu the western portion are m favor of the creation of new county. We hope to see these differences speedily adjusted.
 The South Arkansas Democrat the second number of which is before us, sustains the repu- tation of Its editor as writer. The leading editorials upon the Kansas question and Mr. Crttenden's position, are logical and convinc- ing
 The editor tells a story capitally, as witness the following:
 A very remarkable specimen of Iheto- ric Our readers will, no doubt, agree with Us that it does not
 .-Fall below
 Demosthenes CT Cicero
 and that therefore 1t has nothing to fear from the critics eye The occasion which gave birth to it. was the trial of one of the sovereignS of Arkansas, in neighborin- county, before a committing court upon charge of Larce- nv The counsel for the defence concluded as follows:
 tcil OG, may u PiC''oC tV"t H'iAV', t'N ought not to commit my client to the county ial, There is no difference between spending July and August in that iail, and summers residence in h-l speak from my conscience, for have tried 1t. I was confined there last Friday for the crime-alas. that poverty should be crime in this land of lberty--for the crime of not having Y, with which to pay corpo- ration fine. The Devil himself would find it too hot to hold him But I claim the dis charge of my client on still higher ground--on the ground that he Is not guilty. Ay not guilty If were now stretched upon bed of sickness, with every particle of flesh--every nerve. bone lgameut and muscle, in my whole frame, racked with pain, more eXcruciating than the agonies of the d--d. and if while thus suf- fering the deepest pangs of mortal flesh, the Omnipotent God, attended by legions of angels, should appear before me and command me to write one sentence in regard to the guilt or ln- rocence of my client upon the truth or false hood of which should depend the happiness or misery of ruv deathless soul, for endless ages I would leap from my bed of atfliction, snatch a 1uil from an angels wing, dlp t n A toun- tain of liquid fire. aud write :" Not Guilty." npon the eraal aianaut of the everlasting hills ?
 The orator attempted to resume his seat, but missed it and fell into ',Pasm.' One of the prisoner's eyes wept profu~ely, while the other winked with mingled delight and fury at the attorney for the State The face of the court wore the deepest solemnity, but the 'loafers made the room resouud with their lofty cheers in which we had the sole stirring pleas ure of participating"
 The Fort Smith Times has letter from J. B. Luce, esq., now in Washington city, in which he says that the department has consented to change of the connection Of the overland mail route so as to connect at Fort Smith instead of Preston, and to permit them to carry the mails from Little Rock to Fort Smith all the year, in boats to be built for that purpose.
 The Times notices the return of the Albu- queraue expedition, and the overland mail ex- petition The latter pronounce the route en- tirely practicable.
 We clip the following items from the same paper:
 LATER FROM FoET ARBUCKLE.-Capt CA bell. Quarter Master, L. $. Army. arrived here on Thursday evening, five days from Arluckle. Reports all quiet there and no appreheasionS of an attack from wild Indians. The report of Delawares having possession of the fort and drawing rationS, is false. The public property is all safe in good order, and in charge of Ord- nance Sergeant Rounds Capt. C. heard noh- ing of the cou-regltiuy of wild Indians on the praire- and thinks no dar ger s to be appre- heuded from them, by emi1rart- if they are sufficiently strong, say 90 or 10 men in a train.
 PROTECTION OF EMIGRANTs ON THE 35TH D Tr my. arrived here from Washington City. on Thursday evening on the steamer Arkansas. He expects to take charge of company of C. s troops. for New Mexico, which is to act as an escort to emgrants for California on the Both parallel IL s is looking for orders daily. as he was afraid that the troops would be sent, ani h. exrcr's to be authorized to give notice of the time of starting, 50 emigrants may be here in time ready for the journey. few U. $. troops VIII scatter the wild Indians
 The Fort Smith Herald, n noticing the re- turn of the overland mail party, says:
 I've have not time to euumerate every par- trular, but t is sufficient to say the party are one and all, perfectly satisfied with the road over which they have travelled, having found an abundance of wood, water and grass, except ing the desert of 65 miles, which was covered with Gnmma grass, but no wood or water.
 The party are highly pleased with this city as converging point for the two routes from Memphis and St Louis.
 They passed Capt. Pope's camp, near the Pecos where he was engaged in sinking an arte- sian well-the distance attained was l047 feet, but he had not succeeded in getting water to the surface"
 Tn the Herald we see an announcement of Hon. Slmueld Edmondson, as a candidate for Governor. "Old Ginger Bue,'' as his friends call him, is determined to be in time. We are sorry to see that the editor has met with a loss, and that he is not philosopher enough to bear the ills of life quietly. He thus lugubriously aments his misfortune:
 We hope the individual that came with "maIice aforethought' to our office, and took therefrom a pot, which we used for boiling glue, may reap rich reward by swallowing a DOT ton of the strvchnine, placed there by us to destroy rats Not for the ua'ue do we speak, but the HHleness evnced by the thief in steal ing pnt-from an editor, too. It is awful to contemplate.
 The Arkansaw Traveller favors an appropria- ton of the internal improvement funds of Clark and Dallas counties for the improvement in the navigation of Ouachita river
 The Van Buren Intelligencer after noticing the return of the overland mail party, gives the following table of distances, which may be valuable to those who may hereafter travel on this route:
 Distances travslel by Orerland Mai7 from Sun
 Francisco to Fun Bven, Arkansas
 NAMES OF PLACES MILES San Francisco. l.. to San Jose. B San Jose. ...... San Joaquin ... l2O San Joaquin. Visllia 81 lisaiia ......... Fort Tejnn .... 119 Fort Tejon ...... San Burnidino, '. l23 San Burndno. Fort Yuma. POO Fort 1uma.... P.mos Villages... l82 Pimos Villages. S Tuscon 8 Tuscon .... Mesilia. lgO