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Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-04-13

'ozo From Augusta. by Colony. to WattsburS, 50
 nlies and back. once week.
 Leave Augusta Monday at 6 rh,
 ArriVe at W attsburg reXt day by 10 p m,
 Leave WattsousY Wednesday at am, . Arrve st Augusta next day by 10 p m. isz6 From Arkansas Post, by Pea1Son's Mills De
 Witt, and Moline del Key, to Crockett's Bluff,
 53 miles and back, once week.
 Leave Arkansas Post every Monday at m,
 Arrive at Crocketts Bluf same day by m.
 Leave Crocketts Bluff every Tuesday at 6
 m,
 Arrive at Arkansas Post same day by P m. 1s27 From Oakland Grove. by Brownsville to Ilhe
 Bluff, o7 miles and back, week.
 Leave Oakland Grove every Wednesday at
 am
 Arrive at Pine Bluff next day by 10 m,
 Leave Pine Bluff every Friday at m,
 Arrive at Oakland Grove next day by 10 p m. 1898 From Oakland Grove by La,nissa and Hickory
 Plain, to Des Are 29 miles and back once
 week.
 Leave Oakland Grove every saturday at b a
 Arrive at Des Are same day by pm,
 Leave Des Are every Sunday at 6 m.
 Arrive at Oakland Grove sarne day by P m. 1929 From Grand Glaze. by Veboit Ridge to Scar
 ey's. 34 miles and back once week.
 Leave Grand Glaze every Monday at [ a m,
 Arrive at Searcy's same day by pm,
 Leave Seary's every Tuesday at a m,
 Arrive at Grand Glaze same day by P m. 1880 From Des Are to Brownsville, 50 miles and
 pack, week.
 Leave Des Arc Friday at 6 m.
 Arrive ut Bronsvi le same day by p m,
 Leave Bronsville Saturday at a m,
 Arrive at Des Are same day by p m. 1881 From Des Are by Hickory Plains Stony Point
 Cadron. GreenbTier, Springfield, Glass ' IL
 lage, (local.) Galley Creek. Dardanelles Pekin, Charleston, and Bloomer. to Ft
 Smith, 200 miles and back, three times
 week.
 Leave Des Are Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
 Arrive at Fort Smith 4th day by pm,
 Leave Fort Smith Monday, Wednesday, and
 Friday at m,
 Arrive al Des Are 4th day by 10 p m. Bids to supply Oakland Grove emitting Stony Point will be considered. 1882 From Des Are, by Cotton Plant, to Oakland St. Francis O.. 80 miles and back once week.
 Leave Des Are Friday at 6 a m, Arrive at Oakland same day by m, Leave Oakland Saturday at a m, Arrive at Des Are same day by ? m. Bids to end at Cotton Plant emitting Oakland will be considered. 1888 From Des Are by West Point, to Searcys, 50 miles and back. once werk Leave Des Are every Monday at a m, Arrive at Searcys same day by III, Leave Searcys every Tuesday at ' m, Arrive at Des Are same day by pm 1884 From Searcy, by Quitman to Clinton, 50 miles and back. week. Leave Searcy Monday at m, Arrive at Clinton next day by ' pm, Leave Clinton Wednesday at m, Arrive at Searcy next day by ? m. 1885 From Searcy, by ,Judson and Valley Spring, to Kinderhook, 40 miles and back, once week. Leave Searcy's every Monday at m, Arrive at Kinderhook next day by ? m, Leave Kindehook every "Wednesday at m, Arrive at Searcy's next day by pm. 1886 From Stony Point to Quitman, 35 miles and back. once week. Leave stony Point Friday at . m, Arrive at Quuitman same day by pm, Leave Quitman Saturday at Arrive al Stony Point same day by m. 1887 From Duyalls Bluff to Surrounded Hill, l2
 miles and back week.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The returns of all the Conferences and mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
the United States, forty-seven. in number,
have been received by the authorities of that
numerous and influential religious denemi-
n alton, and the result furnishes the follow
ing statistics:
Number OF travelling or itinerant preach
era, 5,395; in 1855 there were 4,s9S; in
1854. 4ssl5; increase over the previous year
ACT.
Number of ~snpernumerary or retired
preachers, I'll: in 1855 there were $40; III
1854, cQ3; increase over the previous year
81. Total number Of preachers 6,l34.
Monies Of iocs! preachers .7lS; in 1855
there wtrs $3.50; in 1854, 6,l49i increase
oYer the previous year, l26.
Number Of members, 700 ,96S; number in
1858. SOP :265; number in 1854, 672,2S2;
increase over the previous year, 6,o63.
NunIn5er of probationers, $H0 1856, in
1858, lot, l76; in 1854. IO4,o74: decrease
within the past year, 5,l66.
Total membership, 800, 327; in 1855, $780,
43I; in 1854, 1856 1885,; increase over the
previous year, 20, 1919. Including benevolent
contributions, amount Contributed for gener-
al missionary purposes, $226,6 y7; Tor the
Sunday School Union, $l4,852: for the
Tract Society, S27,348.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

Governors Walkers addressed a long let
ter to the nti-Lecompton Convention, held
recently at Indianapolis, Ind, in which he
speaks with ultra bitterness against the Bu-
chnnan administration and the LecomPton
trick. He says:-
ais this the s5dyear of our independence
or is it the first year of American Monarchy,
that is now dawning upon US Let the peo-
ple-let the masses composing the true De-
mocracy, arouse from their slurnbers. Let
:hem break the. chains which would fetter
their free thought and free opinion. and as
sert their blood bought rights, and especially
the great indefeasible sovereign right of self
government. We nave fallen upon evil
times. The liberties of tie co untry are in
danger. Letithe people in every town coun-
ty and State rise in their majesty to the res
cue,"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

DISTRESSING CASE OF I1YDRorHo.
Miss Mahala Whitman, an ami
able young lady, daughter Of Mr..
Peter Whitman, who resides in Chcs-
ter county, Pa, died from The effects
of the distressing malady, hydrophe.
bia, on Wednesday morning last
The Reading Gazette says:
ABOUT nine weeks ago Miss Wit
man was bitten by a dog belonging
to her father. II was not Supposed.
at the time, that the dog was mad; but
the family being apprebensive that
such might be the case, tied him fast
in the stable, where, during the night,
he strangIed himself with the rope by
which he was secured. Two physi-
clans of the neighborhood examined
the dog and pronounced him not mad.
Notwithstanding this positive opin.
ion. however, on Monday, the 18th
Inst, the young lady was taken III.
and afterwards was seized with vio-
lent COMMISSIONS, having all The symp
toms OF hydrophobia, and on Wet
nesday, the 10th, she died, ia the,
greatest agony. Miss Whitman had
been living with Miss Margaret
Burcker as a mant1a-m1ker until with.
in the last eight or ten months. and
was well known and highly esteemed
ia this city.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

WHAT BUCHANAN CAN'T Do.-No Dem
ocrat in Ohio deals slich blows into the Ad-
ministrstiDn as D. o. Norton, ESQ.,, of To-
ledc, lately T. S. Attorney for the Northern
District of Oaio- He has thrown away the
scaboard and gives L-eompton the sword to
the hilt.
At a late meeting Of Democrats at Toledo
to form an Anti-Lecomp;on Club, Mr.. Nor
ton showed that the p%ortirn of the cousti-
tuition of the club which the Buchanan men
N 9st carped at was taken verbatim from one
of President Jackson's Messages; "but,"
said Norton, ''they would no doubt say old
Jackson was an old ftsy; anyhow, he's dead,
and has no office 10 dispose Of" In conclud-
ing his remarks, Mr.. Morton brought down
the house. He said-as we find in the
Blade:
We have ever heard il ir,imated that Mr.
buchanan has determined to "crush out
the doctrine OF Popular Sovereignty. | tell
you it isn't IN the breecacs Of tie old bachelor
TO do IL (tn.nense appiai=tl There ARE
too many Democratic mothers raising boys,
and teaching them to hate Jsspoiissn, and Toe
many boys growing up uader sucl irGoea-
ces, and it can't be done. (Renewet oheer-
ing.)
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

Hon. Il. B. PAYNE. late Democratic can
dldate FOR Governor, and q prominent speak
cr at the anti econpton meetings, is being
abu sed without stint through the columns of
that portion of the press of the party which
sustain the ''swindle" and it's author and ad-
vocates. Speaking Of his recent speech in
that city, the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
"Take cot ita ovcrflowing TRADE OF abuse
upor the Administrator, upon the South and
it's leading statesmen. whom he accused Of
almost everything that was dishonorable ana
ungentlemanly, and nothing remained. AS
we sat listening to his assaults upon the Adj
ministration and upon the siaveboIding
States, ns bitter and malignant as any that
were ever uttered by Chase. Giddings or
Garrison, it seemed impossible to believe
that only a few months ago. he was travel
ing Ohio as the National Democratic candi
date for Governor, and made speeches that
were then worthy of bis position and char
acter as q party man."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12


SAD ACCIDENTS PROM BURMNG.-Mrs.
Smith, of Cincinnati, left her children alone
TOR a few moments on Fridsy,4and hearing
a scream returned to the room to find the
clothing Of one three years old in fumes
The child got hold of a newspaper, lighted
it in the fire, and was burned so that it sur
vived but an hour.
Miss Sarah L., Lewis, teacher in the
schools of New York City, was burned to
death on Thursday. She opened the door
of the store, and in turning round, the back
part of her dress touched the fire: She tried
to e~xtinguished the flames by pressing the
dress around her, bnt the hoops of her petit
coat prevented her doing 50. Miss l.. then
ran iranlicaliy up and down the room, the
children screamed with fright, other teach
ers rushed in, and subdued the flames as
soon as possible, but to late to save the un-
fortunate sufferer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12


The Kansas COMMITTEE OF lNvss-
TIGATIoN.-The Committee called for
by the resolutions of Col. Harris, Of
Illinois, has answered the base uses to
which it was perverted, by the I'M
parliamentary action of MI. Speaker
Orr, in placing it upon a majority Of
those who voted against its formation.
This committee was by the terms Of
the resolutions, instructed Il make an
investigation of the alleged frauds of
the Lecompton Constitution; and IL
has stifed investigation. On We'd
nesday night, the committee adjourn.
ed sine die. Mr. Stephens, who con
trolled its action, su Emitting a report.
setting forth the ~fdamnable foolery"
about the authority legally conferred
upon the delegates 10 the Lecompton
constitutional convention, and the inn
propriety of hearkening TO the com.
plants of those who declined to vote,'
as the lying phrase of the L~ecompton.
ites has it. This is as might have
been anticipated. Those who 60 for
the Lecompton constitution, Epowing
that it is the embodiment Of fraud.
and thatitis opposed by a vast MAORI.
ty Of the people from whom it falsely
purporls 10 come, are necessarily fit.
ted for whatever r~ascality they may
regard essential to the furtherance OF
their infamous purposes The for
nation Of the COMMITTEES of investi.
CATION, so that it might represent tho
views of those vino oppose its exis.
tence, giving the control Of its pro-
ceeding to its enemies, was character.
istic OF a Speaker representing tho
views Of the party whose iestofprinci-
pie is that the minority shall rule. and
whose creed is that dishonesty Is the
best policy.-Cin. Com.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

GEN. HoUsTos, of Texas, in the course
of a recent speech in the,U. S. Senate, spoke
of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as
one of the most unfortunate measures Cor the
whole country, and especially for the South,
that had ever passed Congress, and attribut-
ed the present excitement and the embittered
feeling that is springing up between the peo-
pie of the North and South, as solely attri =
butable to that cause. And referring to the
claim by Senator BELL, o! Tennessee, that
the people of that State have never ma nj
tested their disaPprobation of his vote against
that measure, the Baltimore Patriot re-
marks:
"Whatever may be the impression con-
veyed by the speeches and acts of Southern
ire-eatcrs, and however much they may
have driven others to coincide with their
course, under threats of a dissolution of the
Union, there can be but little controversy as
to there being at the South an immense con-
sentative influence, which, in view of the agi-
tation and confusion growing out of the pas
sage of the measure. deprecated its enact
ment.
We believe a majority of the voters of
Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, and a con.
siderable portion of those Of Virginia and
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

PUGH's DopGE.-When q Constitution of
a proposed new State is presented, Congress
may accept it, or may reject it, or may insist
upon an alteration, as the condition of &C
%ceptance. Congress itself cannot alter q
State Constitution, either in terms, or by de-
claring a particular construction of it. Mr..
Pugh's amendment to the Kansas bill, affect
ing 10 fix a construction upon the Constitu-
ton of Kansas, would be, if adopted, an
empty and useless declaration. If it could
have any effect. however, il would be still
further to limit the power Of the people Of
Kansas to change their Institutions, as ex-
pressed in the Lecompton bill of rights. by
the important restriction that such changes
shall only be made with "the assent of the
LEGISLATURE" Mr.. Pugh's proposition, if eff
fectuai at all, wouiI rivet another chain upon
already manacled victims.
Washington Republic.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

THE leaders OF the two fractions into
which the once powerful Democratic party
is now split, are busy in hunting for appro-
pirate names by which TO designate each 9TH
or. The Washington Union calls the anti
Lecomptonites the "weak-kneed and shaky
Democracy,"and the Star, published in the
same city, styles them the "Mulatto Democ-
racy." The Ohio Statesman, on the other
hand, calls the Lecomptonites the "Candle-
lent returns found secreted in a candle box
on the premises of the notorious Calhoun,
the especial pet and patron saint of the
President and all other good Lecomptonites.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

BREsLIN AND GIBsoN-PRoPosED Com
PRomIsE.-A letter from Columbus to the
Cincinnati Commercial states that the Leg
~islative Committees and the securities OF
Breslin and Gibson have been in conference,
aud that the. securities offered to guarantee
to the State $3.50, 900, on credit that they and
Breslin and Gibson should be released from
further liability. No conclusion was come to.
but another consultation was appointed
The writer expresses the opinion that the
proposition will not be accepted by the com
mittees.
Breslin's deposition noticed by us q few
weeks since, looked directly to some such
relief by his party friends. The Treasury
robbers would pocket with immunity over a
quarter of a million of the peoples money
by the operation. Breslin and Gibson's
persons in "stripes without the stare" would
give greater satisfaction to justice and the
commonwealth, than any such compromising
with wholesale rascality.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

New HAMPSHIRE ELEcr1oN.-The first
State election for 1855 came off in New
Hampshire on Tuesday last, and the result
clearly indicates that this ~nncient strong
hold of the Democracy is permanently lost
to the party and has become one of the most
firm and reliable of the Republican States.
The returns from 1853 towns give the Re-
publican candidate for Governor over 5000
majority-botb branches of The Legislature
(Which elects a U. S. Senator) are also
largely Republican--and the entire Repub-
hcan State ticket is els cited. d,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

PRoscRIPr:oS AND PURCHASE. - The
Washington Union, the fit organ o: Buchan-
an, openly advocates bribery and cor ruption
to carry thorrgh L~acompion. It says:
If there should be seen a single Demo
crat to WAIVER, suspicion Of infde!ity to the
party must necessarily arise. The battle
will be fierce, but it will not be lost. The
Democratic party must b. preserosd! Ifpat-
riotic services deserve reward at the hands OF
the people when displayed in the field Of bat
tie, they no less deserve il when displayed
in civil life.
The (Kansas) matter is now in the pre-
ence may be most available ard decisive
The shaky and hesitating Democrats are
marked, and may be brought into the ranks
A large erecutive patronage is get @ndisposad
of. Additional patronage is get to be afford
cd by the Army BiA, if it should pass, as it
will in some shupe.
This is the u%nblushing avowel OF the OFF,
ciai organ of the President, speaking for him
and by his authority Could there be a more
humiIiatIng exhibition of the corruption and
inscriptions baseness of the Administrative
which even boasts in advance of the success
of its policy of bribery? Can an Admins
tration hat makes such boasts, have any re-
spect left for itself, or any regard for the
dignity of its trusts or the rights Of the PEG.
pie
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12
The leader of the gang of counterfei,er

The leader of the gang of counterfeiters
which the Vigilance Committee of Noble Co.
Ia, has lately broken up, has been arrested
in Chicago. His name is J. B. Shears. On
his premises were found bogus coin, finished
and unfinished; chemicals and chemical tools;
all the materials for photographing and q Sc
cret alphabet based upon the same cipher US
ed by Aaron Burr 10 his treason plot against
the United States. She's was eating a
meal with his wife and tEo children when
the officers entered. He INSTANTLY sprang
for The window, but was CGagbt, when he
turned to bis wife and telling her that they
should be separated eight Years he was taken
to jai! by the officers.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

Mrs. CUsNINGuAM.-The world has for
some time lost track of Mrs. Cunningham
Of Bur6ell murder and bogus baby notoriety.
The New York correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger rakes her to the surface in
the following paragraph:
"On Friday last she hired a house in
Thir,y-frst street, near the Third Avenue,
and was moving into il. when the landlord,
for the first time, discovered who it was that
had become his tenant. Mrs. Cunningham
thereupon received notice to quit, but she
vigorously demonstrated and threatened to
appeal TO the law for protection. Neverthe-
less, next day she found other quarters, and
this morQing evacuated the premises in. This-
ty-irst street.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

New YoRx, March Io.-The Times
Washington correspondent says that the
contemplated movement TO get the House TO
instruct the select committee on Kansas to
make specific Investigations, was abandoned
to-day, from a conviction that if attempted
it would give Mr.. Stephens an opportunity to
make his Lecompton report and get it before
the country.
The minority reports will embody the
statements officially made in Kansas before
the Legislative Commission, appointed to en-
quire into the alleged frauds at the elections
OF December 2Ist and January 4th.
The House Committee on Territories will
probably report in favor of sending three
commissioners to Utah with the army, in the
hope that the Mormons will embrace the
opportunity to disayow their rebellion, and
agree to submit to the laws of the Union.
The HeraId's correspondent, says that the
vote on the confirmation of Cook, postmaster
at Chicago, was 25 to IS.
Gen. Seth Clover, of Pa, has been ap-
pointed Indian Agent in Kansas, vice Nc
Caslin, removed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

A NEW FtLL1BUsrER LEADER.-Wm.
Walkers laurels are withered. Its useless
fer him to. look to them. Were it otherwise
he might well be on the alert, to preserve
The freshness of his ~coronal donors. A RI
val is said to be around, and no mean rival
either. He is a maj possessing peculiar ad-
vantages for undertaking the expedition our
Administratio has so much at heart, against
the sunny fands across cur Southwest bor-
der. We allude TO the patriotic ex-Presi-
dent of Mexico, Gen. lgnocio Comonfort.
When last heard from Comonfort was ut
Baltimore. 1t may be the merest suspicion
that attributes to him hllibuste.ing intentions
but he is actually believed TO harbor such de-
signs. Whether he has already continued
his journey to Washington, we are not ap-
prised. Such is of course his ultimate des-
tination.
Comoneort is undoubtedly mindful Of the
proposals which Walker asserts to have
been made to him, for leading a Mexican
EXPEDITION. The exile knows how this bust
ness can be effec,ually done. He is evident
ly more in sympathy with our people than
any former ruler in that country ever has
been, He has his revenge 10 compass. He
has still his ambition to crafty. II favored
with a private interview 10y "a member of
the Cabinet and egged On to undertake a
tlIibustering raid into the territory OF which
he has still some claim TO be regarded as the
rfghtful sovereign, we are confident he will
promptly act on the suggestion rather run
TO the public with the story of his tempta-
ton and ~virtunus resistance.
With the we'll known views of the Prcsi-
dent in favor of stealing Cuba, and with the
significant limitations of IN impending war
with Spain, which have been repeatedly CIV
en- out, it is by no means incredible that some
sort of a coalition, involving the annexation
of more Mexican territory aud the seizure oil
Cuba, may be Matched between the exiled
sovereign and our covetous rulers. The
probable interference Of Spain in the pres
ent Mexican ii~nbroglio seems to afford the
desired opportunity, and stranger things
have happened than such Il grand 6liibuster-
ing plot on the part of our government I'M
the aid and leadership of Comonfort. Tint
der some startling movement is contemplated
by the Administration, for the acquisition oil
more territory, is highly probable, and we
caa not imagine a Eore hopeful scheme than
this.-G Cincinnati Gazette
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12
Washington Republic.


JoHN CALHcuN's LAsr.-The Washing
ton correspondent Of the N. Y. Tribune
says:
In Gen. Cnlhoun's statement, submitted
to the Select Committee of the House last
night, referring to the January election for
members of the Legislature, he says that T.
059 Free State votes were cast, of which 63l
were illegal, while the legal Democratic vote
was 1851, thus giving a nominal Pro-Slav-
cry majority. according to this test, of 1853.
There is a conceded significance in this
statement, conflicting, asi, does, with the
I'M ression created by his recent publication.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

EBONY AND TOPAZ Kansas and
Minnesota are to be linked together by
the Solons of the Senate, so thatSthe
Tree State a drag in the slave State.
Better that both stay out till dooms-
dhy than be brough, in under such
conditions. No matter when a free
Satte gets ready for admission. she
must wait till n slave State is hunted
up, ora free State manufactured Into
4 slave State to accompany her into
the Union. We want no more slave
States, OF free States either. on any
such terms. Let the people of the
Territories organize State Govern
ments and remain outside, until they
can be received without such degra-
ding condi'ions.-LClevelan Plain
Dealer. 2nd.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12

TIE PACIFIC HOTEL MArrER.--The tes-
tjnony ELECTED in.ihe course of the examin-
alton into the charges of murder and arson,
preferred by Capt. J. E. D. Couzins against
Cbss. L. Taylor, otherwise known as San
ders, has according to the Missouri Republi-
can, brought out no satisfactory explanation
of the late catastrophe at the Pacific Hotel.
II is the public conviction that Taylor is not.
guilty. The circums, ahces which made the
case look so black for him, have been ex-
planned during the investigation.