Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-14
Decidedly Nervous, |,

l member of his family"
 He says: "Bm / see in Mis letter from Col. Johnson, what / ane bound to reqard os q aceH laid scheme to take an aduantage under the code of Aonor''
 But after seeing "what he is bound to regard as we'll laid scheme, etc." in the next sentence he says, "u is to De Hoped Mat ais belief is erroneous"
 He makes most diabolcal charge against the honor of man, and then says cit Is to be hoped 1t is erroneous" Why did he not wait for developments then to sustain him in his ' strong array of circum. stantial evidence" He is an old man. The impetuosity and impulsiveness of youth have long since left him, and why should he so hastily make charges which he is so certain he can prove, but hopes he never may be able to do so!
 He says he does not " wish to be regarded as destrous of nairimg AimseLfin Me political afairs of this State" Why then does he "mix !" himself in this controversy? If he conceives that his son-in. law has the ability to defend himself his "miring" in this matter is without sense or object-as his communication is i'll. timed and point less. He complains that Senator Johnson did not " caH OF Mr. Hindman tor satisfac- ttom," if he felt himself aggrieved. Yet he knows that Hindman chose the medium of his assault on the Johnsons, and now com plains that they have responded through that medium So long as Mr. Hindman was permitted to assail the Johnsons with impunity or without retort, Mir. Biscoe had no approximations to make. When he sees that he has gone too far and that affairs are assuming more serious cast than 1t is pleasant for him to contemplate he whines out the recreant vail of persecution.
 He grows nervous and the spectres which his own conduct has conjured up before his guilty imagination haunt him. Hear him:
 "He, Johnson, Meretore arants Hndmam Killed of. To accomplish Mis end he Mor- oughly practices himsef in Me use of par ticufor ~eopon, and Men ta5ricotes basis for insuling him. 7He onus of attack or challenge Mus falls on Hndman, Me choice ot weapons on Johnson, and illus he thinks Co otto@n the end aciM hot aceopon, 70 Me use ot uiich he is skilled"
 This charge Col. Biscoe knew to be false when he penned it. That Senator Johnson :" has practced with particular weapon'' for the purpose of killing off Hindman or any one is false.
 The idea that any advantages can be taken of the Helena bully by choice of weapons is absurd on its face Weekly he IS Tn some street recontre, marching around Helena with shot-guns or his pockets filled with pistols. Surely man who is in an everlasting feud with his fellow man should be supposed to be skilled in the use of every weapon of death. Bowie-knives and Dis tols are his constant companions and his frequent reliance upon them to disgrace foe or gain point, certainly bespeaks him a man fully in practice and confident of his ability to use them
 Col. Biscoe does not wish to mix in the politics of this State. The State will be no loser. Had he never mixed in her politics, the hundreds of thousands of dol lars of the assets of the Real Estate Bank squandered while he was trustee. might have been saved. He "mixed" up his "corn and cotton" transaction with the Bank Tn such a manner that even his friend of the Old Line Democrat has failed to de- fend him, after promising to do so.
 From the day his transactions as trus- tee were exposed he has been m enemy of Gov. Conway, and the Johnsons When Hindman became his son-in-law he too involved his feelings in his rancour to. wards Conway and the Johnsons. The expose of the mismanagement of the bank
 
 affairs by the trustees, is the cause of the bitter feud now existing.
 Col. Biscoe feeling that his son-in- law had disgraced himself when ne skulked out of his appointment to visit Little Rock, as he promised, and then and there denounce the Johnsons to their faces, attempts a plea in his defence-the misfortune to his aged mother. He gives a letter from the physician aoithom due. The facts are known to every one around Helena, that Hindman, If he visited his mother at all, returned on the 10th and made speeches in various To- calities up to the 18th Nov, when he took steamboat to Washington city. Col. Biscoe knew when he was writing his article, that Hindman had ample time to visit Little Rock-that it required but two days travel, or three days at farthest, and that from the 10th to the 24th Nov, the day for him to speak in this city, was spent by Hindman, not with his afflicted family in Mississippi, but in making speeches in Arkansas, denouncing the Johnsons. Had he been attending the bed side of a parent in distress ours would have been the last pen raised to censure him for his failure But when he falsely, or his father-n n-law for him, attempts to deceive the public by his shallow artifce, we witness him at the theatre in Memphis, in the very whirlpool of fashion and gaiety, and thence to the stump in Arkansas, traducing and abusing the old public servants of this State, we can no longer remain silent. Re did not remain wiA his .fam,ily tsoenty.fow hours. Such tricks may do in Mississippi, but they cannot sueoeed in Arkansas.
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 The/State of Arkansas is entitled to aboW seventeen thousand dollars worth of apfns from the general government. These have not been applied for before, because