Des Arc citizen., 1859-10-12

RsS@ We clip the following articles from the "OL- Line Democraf' of the 29th ult. Mail facilities from Little Rock to Des Arc, are getting no better fast" The ;" Old Line Democrat of the above date was just SEVEN DAYS three hours and tyenty-ttco m'nuteS in coming to hand from Little Rock, a distance of .ffy nsiles. The route pia. Batesville seems to be preferred, but we don 'tknow why
 TIE BANK QuEsrIoNs.-We have not been prepared to give our readers such information in regard to the various ques- tions connected with the old Banks ot Ar kansas. as their importance demanded Nor have we been prepared to fully re- view the late articles of the True Democrat in relation thereto; but we are happy to say that we have succeeded in obtalning all the necessary documents that will enable us to become thoroughly acquainted with
 their intricate details, and promise that in due season, we will make such stale- ments as will present the Bank affairs of the State in plain and intelligable man. her to the people. Of all the public affairs of the State, those connected with the Banks are most important and least understood.
 Cor. H. L. BlscoE.-We are fully pre- pared to vindicate this gentleman as well as the other four Trustees of the Real Estate Bank, against the charges and in- situations of the True Democrat, and will do so--not because he happens to be the father-in-law of Col. HINpMAN, but be- cause he is citizen of Arkansas, and en- titled to the protection of the press when ever unustly assailed in his character of public officer, unless he thinks proper to vindicate himself though the columns of the papers published in his own city.
 POLITICAL ITEM.-Col. CARROLL, the True Democrats candidate for Congress, sprung the "save trade" question on Col. HINDMAN in the discussion al Clarksvile the other day. Col. CARROLL says he is opposed to repeating the laws that now affix the stigma of piracy on the foreign trade in negro slaves. Will the Col. or the True Democrat, his packer, give some intelligent reason for trade, which is all right morally, socially and politically in the Southern States, becoming piracy, the highest grade of highway robbery. when extended beyond the borders of the United States?
 The question is not, whether or not we shall adop, the policy of introducing more negroes among us, but, whether or not we will longer submit 10 have an act of Congress quietly slumber upon the statute book that ttfsaecessariy and uncoastitution- ally degrades the South by stigmalizing a trafiici in her recognized property as piracy. We are for brushing il out, and so we un derstand Col. HINDMAN to be, although he is opposed to making this question test of Democracy.
 AK INquIRY.-MR. EDIroR :-I have been a close reader of the True Democrat for several years, and of late have been graIiiied at their bold denunciation of the per diem taken by the members of the House during the recess. The Senate has been held up as an example for all future legislatures, for refusing to take this money.
 Il has leaked out lately that the grave and reverend scignors who composed that body appropriated three Hundred dollars 10 pay the doorkseper for the liquors and cigars purchased by him for them during the session. IL is said that this is an un- questionable fact. and If so, should receive a scathing rebuke if it be true it is as tonishing that tue True Democrat had not