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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15
Lost.
Notice.

A sORRBL HORSE, moon-eysd. and Of medium height.
n The h0dsr will deliver him AZ The "SeWAnea Livery
Stable" Front street,
april tO--d2ta
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15
Lanier, Phillips & Co.

ON MONDAY, APRIL 18th, 1858,
WE viii sell for Cash in front Of ouFYarehOuss,a
w pete assortment Of GROCERi 81, consisting par
as follows viz:
40 hhds new Sugar, 100 b1s Star Candles,
300 bags coffee, TO- hlf qrs Star Candles
IS bbls Nolasses, IS bxs selected W. R. Cheese
20 bbls crs'd & poWd CARS, 100 bbls White Whisky
IS kits Mackerel, IS n. Y Brandy
5Op'o'kgs N Rasins, 10 bbls Holland Gin,
3 sacks Almonds, 800 kegs Nails,
- cases saTdHes, IS dog painted Buckets,
90 box Cove Oysters, 30 nests Tubs,
10 bags Pepper, As bxB Starch,
IS chests Teas, $50 bXs Soap,
50 bales Cotton TEins, IS bxs Boylss Candles,
80 coils Rope, leo dOz MasOn's Backing,
IS cases Matches, 100 boxes Flasks,
together with numerous other articles make up
plete sale. LANIBR, PHILLIPS & CO.,
RDrI3-d. No 90 Harket Street
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15
SCALE OF PRICES,
FOR BURKSVILLE,

TUHR regular fast line packet LOOKOUT, 49,. =,
l. SINNs, Master, leaves here this day, the Id t
18th inst, at 5 O'Clock, p. NJ as ABOVE and -
all Intermediate landings. For freight passage apply
board,
apII IT H. H. HAMILTON, Agent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15
Splendid Irish POtotoes !

pENJAMiN F. SHIELDS has in store lot Of very hne
ID Meshsnock Potatoes which will be sold MUCH less
GOOD. All I5U
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15

OUDANhCs
CINTO DE ORION,
SANCHO PANIC.
WASRINGTONS,
Ell SOILS;
With numerous other brands Of all sizes and
kinds, and at prices ranging from $40 to $3.50
thousand
ALSO,
$4,000 genuine Mexican Cigars, large and small,
Of excellent quality, which will be sold low to close
with superior Virginia chewing Virginia, Havana,
and Turkish Smoking Tobaecos, Delphi Snuhs,
Pipes, SC.
A. KERR CO., adjoining Post Office.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-15
FOR NEW ORLEANS.

FOR NEW ORLEANS.
'T'HB hue new passenge Steamer JOSEPHINE
SAVAGE, capt. sTROHa, will leave for eliaf-s-4
above and all intermediate landings THIS
DAY. The 18th inst O'Clock, P. D.. For ireight o.
passage, apply on board
apull3-H Il. H. HARRISON, Agent.
For Louisville a Cincinnati.
THE superior and fast running passenger anh
4 and freight Steamer TIE MPEsT, LIhIssSd
PARR, Master, will leave above and el44ff
all intermediate landings on WEDNESDAY, -
the 4h inst 10 o'clock, A NJ For freight passage
apply on board or to
HARRISON, agent.
IL Through receipts given for transportation 10 Bal
more, Philadelphia, New YORK and Boston. april lid
Potatoes.
JUST RBCEIVED-4O barrels Extra Early London Lady
q tat9es, for seed, genuine and no mistake.
For sale BY
april 10 EICHOL, GREBN & CO.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
Very resl ectEuIIy, e'c.,
 T. JOHNSON.
\ ISLANDER ExrosEp.-rhe following ex

ISLANDER EXTosEb.--rhe following ex- tract Of lotter rom Maj. T. B. Foumoy, da- ted Lacoria, July l3,h 1858, will put to rest the assertion of Capt. c, C. Danley that Mai Fiournoy had denouuced Mir. Buchanan as d fgdera'ist. ln the last canvass, when Mr Buch- auan was candidate for the Presidency. no ma' batted for him more gallanty than did Maj. F!ounoy. This he never would have done, had he thought for one moment that MT. Buchauan was otherwise than d sterling demo- crat:
 That part of your letter which informs me that Capt. Dan!cy IS quoting me for authorCv. as having on former occasion denounced Presi dent Buchauan as iederaljst, struck me with a>tonlshmeut.
 assure the Captain in that he must do me injustice. But doubt not ulnienually. The occtsiun to which he alludeS was d State demo- cratic convention held at Little Rock, some six wears ago, and as the speech on the occasion to winch he aIIudes, was entirely extemporaneous and was never reported, it Is not to be presum ed that at his disance of time should be able to recollect the prectSe words or arguments en- poyed on that occasion. All recOllect about II Is, that Tn that convention the contest was for an expression of preference between Mir. Buchanan and Mr. Douglas for the nomination for the Presidency. 1 was for Douglas, and made speech vindicating his claims in which think it very likely l may have referred to the then published charges of the whig party, Tn which they had charged Mir. Buchanan with being fcderalls and were quoting from some 4th July school-boy oration. But my reference to the charge, was with no view to its confir- nation, for whatever Mir. Buchanan may have been in his school-hoy days before his eyes were opened, after that. and so soon as he had age enough to get his eyes opened, I never doubted his being good and true democrat.- Ny ouly object then in referring 10 it, could oNy have been to show the convention, that here was d charge against Mr. Buchanan, from which We should have to defend him, even if false, whilst in MT. Dpuglas, we had mrn of giant intellect, and uadonbted democracy, and against whose dem cracy there could not be even a breath oi suspicion, aud consequently that he ought to be most acceptable to the party, as we should have nothing against which to defend hlm. For at that time you will recollect, there was TO trucr or abler man than Stephen A. Douglas. oi Illinois
 This my dear friend, Is as far as I ever could have gone in he speech alluded to- For not believing Mr. Buchanan obnoxious to the charge of federalism at least after he became a politi- clan, 1 could not have ma,lc 1t !"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
"The Office Should Seek the Man

The way that different offices are hunting and prosecuting different men, in this State, is shame and a dis5rAce. And what makes the matter worse, is, tha5 they select for their game the weakest men in the community. They have hunted two editors iu our State, forced them to descend from the tripod and dr- ven one of them to take to tree ard the oth- CT to stump. We can assure our reader, that no fears need be entertained that the offices will ever catch them.
 The office of member of Congress got after James A. Jones, of Camden and scared the p"or man so lhat he wrote and published a fare well or dying declaration and lncontinentlv bii himself. The friends of the poor man will be glad to learn that he is out of all danger, for at the last accounts the wicked office had started up north on an intellectual hunt after Drew who is so far ahead that the naughty office cannot possibly overtake him.
 The office of State Senator started on wild hunt after the editor of the Gazette aad is sad ly prosecuting him; driving him all over this and nelghborn9 county Tn the hot sun, caus ing him to eat any amount of political dirt to foreswear all his old doctrines and is playing hob with him generally.
 In other places, other offices are hunting down and prosecuting weak and foolish men in a way that is perfectly ridiculous. They get after men whom nobody else wants elected. and who all aver that no portion of their fe- citizens have asked them to have the of flee or solicited the office to have them
 Now, when man is nominated for an office or solicited by number of his peers to run for it, or where he seeks the office, a certain degree of exertion is expected, aud reasonable share of labor is looked for but where the office seeks the mau all this is reversed. Hence we repeat that it is shame and disgrace for these wicked offices to be hunting and seeking these poor men. Let us all hope that these naughty of fees will never catch them, and do our best to hide them till this wild hunt after men Is over.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
The States Indebtedness on account of
 the Banks.

The Gazette is growing desperate over Capt. Danley's unfortunate position on inc bank ques- ton. It charges Gov Conway with having rot ten up the old State Bank. The charge is ialse. Gov Conway opposed the establishment of both the State and Real Estate B.aks--he had nothing to do with them--he never took dol lar of stock in them, and he never borrowed one cent from either of them. The charge is false, and Capt. Dadley knew so when he made it.
 The Gazette says, that the liability of the State on acco1nt of the banks, is foe millions of dohars. This too, is false, The State is not liable on much more than a million of dollars. The debt she will have to pay on account of the State Bank will be a little over one million of dollars, and that is not due til in 1868 ard 1880. 1he States deJt on occouat oj tie Real Estate Bank iS not one cent The assets of the Real Estate Bank and the mortgaged lands thanks to the policy of Coy. Conway, are more--fa far more than sufficient to pay every dollar of debt that the bank owes.
 Gov. Conway's policy is far different from Capt. Danley's. Gov. Conway's policy has been, not to tax the people to pay the bank debts, but to collect the assets of the banks and Appropriate their proceeds to the payment of these debts. Capt Danley's policy was to " burn and destroy the assets" and tax the people to pay the bank debts There is the difference. It is a wide one. Capt. Dsuley'S policy would have eutaIed upon the people debt of five million of dollars to be paid by taxation.
 The debt of the State on account of the State Bank, and it is all the deb. the State owes, i, a little over a million of dollars. Now, who managed the concerns of this bank? Did Con way or any of his friends2 No, they were man. aged by A. E Thornton and JuhE Nj. RoSs, two fast friends of the Gazette and hey suffered tie assets of that bank to be wasted and squander- ed. They, however, did better than their friend Capt. DanIey would have done. Capt. Daney "as in favor of darning and destroying oH he assets;' hey did collect small portion of them.
 Had Conway been elected Governor of the State ten years earlier than he was, the State would never have had to pay one cent o0 ac- count of the banks He would have had them wound up speedily, their assets collected and all of the State bonds redeemed As it is. he has not saved the State less than three or four millions of dollars.
 To do this, it. is true he has had to pay ca pable and efficient officers large salaries. The bringing the banks to a settlement has cost the State, with all of the Governors economy, some twenty-two or three thousand dollars. but what is that compared to the magnificent result achieved? What is the expenditure of a few thousands, when, by that means, millions have been saved to the State? We leave it to the Gazette and Capt. Danley to answer
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
News Items.

One Of the most revoitng murders we read of is that of wife, by Preston S. Tuley, a minister of the gospel, at Kanawha, Va.
 It was in proof that he got her out one night. put rope round her neck, and what he lacked in choking her to death, he finished with a heavy club or stick. A rope was tied around her arms and body, and stone of 69 pounds confined to her and thrown into C;,al river. The stone had evidently been prepared by cut ting notch in it for the rope. The wife was missing in January last and relations and friends hunted day and night for several days and drag ged the river below and above his house. and about midnight. in very deep water the drag hung her clothing and brought the body and stone up. Al! were we'll convinced who was the guilty man beforehand and forthwith the husband was arrested--on the moment he made some, confessions, and since, admitted that he found her dead and put her in the river
 l On the l4th an attempt was made by the prisoners in jail to escape, and the populace came nearilynching Hurley on the spot The Kanawha Republican says that Turley whose execution is fixed for the 17th day of September next will be the first white man executed by a sentence of the law, since the formation of the county, in l787. f#
 The University of Virginia now numbers 633 students, three of whom are from Arkan. sas, We ere glad to find that our wealthy
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
Foreign.

There has been a severe earthquaS ples and in the vicinity.
 The French now admit that they "I on the coast of Africa. The Englsa a'I apprentice system and the French " piea Of procuring voluntary enlgra'S { tually buying negroes on the coass N -s ties to a treaty to suppress the slave V.i ',
 The following picture of attaIFs ' ' dreadful:
 While the rich are thus e'loy-
 selves at the metropolis, destitutloa fe; rural districts, especially in Ireland IL.
 cent examination iu Donegal county, pT Bride was examined. He stated 'n,
 cess collector for the parish oi Iuiis' he refused to collect the cess as the P'1, So poor ard he resigned his situation < sequence of that he was dlsmlssea Y situation which he held under boiD
 Hill, as bailiif. In the western poIN',, parish there were about $50 tamlies V h great poverty, and they were ID 7 lass year. They had to borrow uol'' 1:, the police and other rates lie thoS.
 tress was principally caused by 'Ss them the right of grazing cattle, " done two or three years ago. hs ! taxes Were raised on the land that v
 them. They were obliged to use Ss an addition to their two scauty meaS
 the sea-weed being mixed with pota'o'g,, ,, bedding consisted of straw placed o'g with a single sheet. They had ne { but used a sort of cotton wrapper known as many as nine persons lo's.' . bed at a time. Many of the women ~s,: x, in rags, ard their dress was not sp.' the purpose of decency. The peeP,' now one half of the number ot cal''I, <, which they had three years ago. Y, s obliged to part with them tosuppor' v. '. aud pay rent and taxes. In severn x, \ the food, clothing, and bedding ol ''I were very bad. In these townlands N the people using sea-weed "to pfolo..s tato," and the women, through medess'' from being seen by any strange pef'o' clothing was not sufficient to co'o'
 These townlands were on the es'Sss 7. George Hill. The average rate ol WE, summer Tod. day, and Sd in wln's''
 Gr If you'd learn to bow, walos .
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21

z an intelligent people, and attempt to defend such an enemy to this country, and such miserable abortion of great man, as this Wm. Walker has shown himself to be.
 In good time Nicaragua,Mill be ours, as Cali fornia and a part of New Mexico now are, but we must get it fairly, or, in the noble language of Col. Rust: Failing in this, in the name of our great nation let us take it by force."
 " If the national honor demands that we should send our fleets into the Thames or before Constradt, or an army to invade France, though every vessel should be destroyed, and every man should perish, we will do it! Because. it has been well and truly said that there is one calamity greater than death, that can beiall a free people; and this IS dishonor But towards our feeble, our harm less and defenceless neghbors, let Us religiousy observe all of our treaty tipulations; let us be just yea, forbearing; because these are qualities which become great nation, and brave and magnanimous people. It is particularly the ln- terest and the duty of the southern States at this iuncture in our domestic affairs, to cultl- vate these sentiments They are the weaker portion of confederacy threatened with wrong and aggression by the stronger. Let them pre- serve clean hands and an unblotted record II the crisis should come which seems to be lmpend- ing over the slave States let every son of the South be able to say to our yet brethren ot the North, "W C have dealt justly by every people We have abstaued as studiously from lntilctng wrong and injury upon the weak and poweriess as upon the strong. And we are ready to re- sent and repel any aggression, any wrong or insult, or outrage, or injustice, any invasion of our constitutional rights at your hands, to the last extremity even until every southern State is an unpeopled desert"
 If it had not been for General Walker, we would, ere this, have obtained permanent footing in Nicaragua, and measures would have been taken to acquire it, or such part of it as was necessary peacefully and bonorably. His schemes have thrown that day far into the future. He has done irrepalable damage to his country, to human progress, and to the people of Central America He, this day, pre- sents one of those great paradoxes, a union of great crime and feebleness; a man at once potent for crime aud evil, and impotent for good
 Let Drew, Jones and others applaud this man;-he is fit company for them,--and it is another proof that they ready. at any time, to strike hands with the enemies of the South As to the election of either of them, it was hopeless enough before, but if they attempt to carry the carrion reputation of General Walker around with them, they will find that it will become wearisome burden and that they, like it, will stink in the nostrls of all good men.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
Capt. panley and the Banks.

The last Gazette is filled with denunclations of Gov. Conway's efforts to settle up the old banks, and arguments in favor of the establish ment of new ones. It is opposed to winding LID the old bsnks, and it is in favor of creating new ones It uses all the arguments in favor of the banking system that have been used by { bank men for the last twenty years It upholds Capt. Danley in his idea of free banks. It ad- vocates them with all the zeal imaginable. It says:
 Now if we had good bank here, our mer- chants and business men who borrow money in other States, would borrow 1t at home, and our cotton planters, in place of paying at the rate of tuenty .fUe per cent q year for money abroad, would get 1t for 6 to s per cent year at home and the immense sums of money which our people now pay, each year, as a tribute to for eign capitalists, would be saved at home, and added to the permanent wealth of the country"
 If our merchants and business men are silly enough to pay "ttoenty.fve per cent tor money aJyoad," let them do so. It is their own look out ald is DO reason why the people should be inflicted with swindling rag money concerns LOOK at lennessee-sne IS Hlleu Wltn Dalhs, and vet her merchants and business men are more oppressed and worse swindled than the merchants of any other State in the Union.
 How banks add to the "permanent wealth of the country we do not understand. They make nothng-they produce nothing-how then do they add to the wealth Of country They are simply shaving machines, that have the power to produce distress, and then the ln- clinatiop to grow rich off of the distress they pro- duce. No--we have had enough of banks, and we trust the next legislature will declare it a penal offence to pass or circulate, in this State, any bank bills of denomination less than fifty or a hundred dollars.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE LEGIsLA- TURE.--On Monday last the democracy of Prairie county, in convention assembled se- lected HoN. HAMILTON REYNOLDS. as their candidate for the Legislature at the election on the first Monday in August next Judge Rev holds is so well known to the people of this county that it is hardly necessary to urge his claims upon them for the position he aspires to. He has been identified with Prairie county since its organization, and to his prudence and dis cretion as Judge of the probate and county court, are we mainly indebted for our sound financial condition. The Judge is a farmer, and the agricultural interest needs just such men in our legislative halls to aid in a perfect State organization in support of that great in- terest He has ever been a consistent and un- flnchiDg democrat always standing up in SUD- port of those great principles which have been, and still are the pride of the true friends of the country and the south. With Judge Rev. holds, no reasonable man can find fault He is both honest and capable-and as nearly all other portions of the county have had from time to time, a selection made from amongst them, to represent us iA the Legislature, no reasonable opposition canTe urged against him. on account of his residing in the southern DOT ton of the county. We prophecy his election by larger majority than any of his predecet- sors.-Des Are Citizen.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
TaXatiou.

A paragraph which we copied and com. mented upon week or two since, to the effect that lands sold by the United States are not subject to taxation until after the issuance of the patent, has been copied and circulated far and wide, and we are told that many foolish persons are preparing to resist the payment of taxes on their lands, on the ground of the al- legged decision of the Supreme Court on that point
 We published, last week, letter from the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, stating that no such decision had been made but that the court, in case mentioned. had decided that the lands were taxable as soon as they were sold by the United States.
 As soon as We get space, we will publish the decision of the court in regard to this question. which decision is very plain and conclusive.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
The Approaching Election

The opposition to democracy, from ism in the east to Mormonism in the | cIudnlg the personal hatred or md from disappointed hopes, that iufz leaders here, Is, wheu summed up, ala| tenths oft, aboiitionism, and a victor other and pretended issues, will be hal opposition or free-soll triumph. Vim before 1t. the democratic party slouli l self to prevent an opponent from suc4 any one instance.
 We are satisfied that the people of 2 have only to understand the i'm orFs issue before them, to rise iu their mgE ] down demegogues and traitors, who Ia2| themselves independent democratS A| traitors succeed now and they will 5li alliance with northern fanatics. IhA should, and we are confident tha, d  check this movement at the cOmmeGas To do so, they must be active. Thep7 only call your attention to the dS! schemes of your enemies; can ouly V1 point out the danger.
 Our opponents are cun'ipg, and Hss'i Their only hope of success hes in 8 or crednlity of a portion of the dano' ty, by which they will endeayOr p its organization, aud by dividing, coai1 detail.
 We have no fears as to the generalTss we should roll up such majoriries $ Fi to show these traitors that the true dsn of Arkansas is not to be hoodwinked rA into an alliance with black republican," want not only success but an emphe'' sion of theNpopular will.
 We call upon democrats to unite 7 the cohorts of old, to advance w'i shields to complete and glorious vc@.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-21
New Political Definitions

The lnferenceS we are left to draw from the pretended arguments of the anti -convelitionists anti-caucusites, may be reduced to the follow ing absurdities:
 When number of citizens of either party meet together, in open day Eight, having given notice of their intended meeting and inviting all to join them, and select a candidate: or where they meet and appoint delegates to a convention to select d suitable man to represent them, that is all wrong and the nominee should not be supported, because all the people were not present. But, where two or three wire workers get together in the dark, or in blind alley or closed room and select man to run, it is eminently proper to vote for that man.
 When the people, or members of party call upon man to become candidate and he con- sents, that is dictation and the candidate should be beaten. But where man without solcita tion offers himself, (and if not single individual has solicited him to run, So much the better he should be voted for In this latter case it is the office seeking the man.
 It is very wrong ip meniin public meeting to agree to support their choice, but very pro- per for others to meet in secret and with up- lifted hands to swear to support the person who may be selected for them.
 Conventions are horrid affairs; midnight coun- cils are quite the thing.
 To these propositions the anti -conventionists
 
 have reduced their .jargon about conventions. Do they behevestheir own absurdities? i@