Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-03-30
The Next President.

claims of Mir. Guthrie with great deal of force. Mir. Hunter is the favorite in Vir- glnia. Senator Brown of Mississippi re- gently said to his constituents, that it was folly to expect that he or any man occupy ing his position could ever become the nominee. Toombs has injured himself lately. Davis and Hammond are not wide ly popular mores the pity. Douglas is no where. His negative legislation theory is more dangerous to the south than the de- clarations of Seward, because more practi- cal. It shows a simpler way to iniure us. We have expressed our choice, but we give an extract from the Southern Citizen wherein correspondent urges the claims of Mir. Breckinridge Some of the req sons given may answer on the score of availability, but the fourth reason assigned would be an objection with many:
 Let menow barely enunciata the positire reasons for inferring that John C. Breck- lnrldge will be the man:
 l. As Vice President, he is in the line of succession.
 2 He halls from the somh and also from the apest
 5. lis nomination would secure to the democracy a southern State not otherwise perfectly safe
 f lie supported the Lecompton pro- gramme of Mr. Buchanan, and vet it was only by his timely intervention that Judge Douglas was enabled to carry the State of Illinois
 3. His record is irreproachably national
 G. His career has been brief and bril- liant, giving proof of marked ability and offering little scope to criticism.
 {. He is young man of .chivalric bear ing, with the eye of an eagle, the voice of trumpet, and every advantage of person and manner.
 8. He has been soldier as well as a statesman.
 g. He has been identified with no cliques, and has incurred the enmity of none of the barons of the party.
 10. Although he has had to struggle with powerful antagonists, his public life so far has been unmarred by single de- feat
 For these, among o her reasons, I hail John C. Brecllinridge, of Kentucky, as next President of the United States, and hereby place on record the first appli- cation for " anything good" which he may be willing to dispose of on the 4th of March, lS6l J. A. P.
 Home Education.
 A RaNINIscENcE OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.
 The progress of the city of Richmond in Virginia, was always intimately con nected with the James river canal. This important work was first suggested by Gen. Washington, as also was the Dismal swamp canal. H. was elected the first President in l785, but declined to accept on the ground that he could not give it his personal attention. In that year, on the original formation of the company, the le. gislature orlerel subscription of one hun- lred shares (320, ,000) to be made by the treasurer, (" and presented to Gen. Wash ington as a token of respect for his servi- ces, not only in suggesting this work, but also for those to his whole country"
 Washington declined to receive it as a gift, saying that it was inconsistent with the principle he had adopted and never de- parted from, not to receive pecuniary con sideyation for any services he could render his country" but, he added, eff it should be the pleasure of the legislature, to per init him to appropriate the, shares to pub- lie uses, he would receive them on those terms with dne sensibility."
 The permission was accorded, and he bequeathed them to the Liberty Hall Aca- demy, which is now Washington College. at Lexington.
 He was also the suggestor of the open ing of the navigation of the Potomac. and q similar donation was made to him of S23, GOO in shares of the Potomac company. which he left towards the endowment of college in the District of Columbia. In making these bequests, he prefaced them with the patriotic regret ''that the youth of the United States should be sent to for eign countries for the purpose of education, before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the hap piness of their own.'
 Upon looking overthe list of acts passed by the General Assembly at it's late ses- sion, we are struck with the number of in- slitutions of learning that were incorpora ted. Surely these are worthy of encour- agcment, and the youth of our state should be educated at home instead of imbibing wrong ideas in northern institutions.