Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-25
For the True Democrat. Letter From Memphis.

ii'oi haS gwen us ms parting KICK for the season, aud gone away to the polar regions to recuperate. May has come, and the weather is already oppressively warm.
 Memphis has been very lively for a week or ten days. A series of May parties, fairs, . picnics, turnouts, shakedowns, and few '' knockdowns," have given variety to the~ scene. To-day, the seven fre-companies of the city, are to have a turnout and grand display. These fire companies are all inn portant associations, in city where fires occur almost daily.
 A man named James, was drowned at the wharf last evening. He attempted to pass from one boat to another by jumping. -the distance being too great, he fell ints/ the water and was seen no more. He Was fl years of age, a widower and leaves six children without father or mother.
 l have heard many temperance lectures, but last evening saC one, and vastly i'm pressive 1t was too. A woman. one of krin's daughters, was lying drunk in the street, and her little daughter, about ten years of age, stood over her weeping in bitter agony, that her mother was drunR and would have to go to the calaboose- Ii were vender of liquid poison, with my present impulses, 1 would certainly adopt another calling.
 Prof. 0. $. Fowler, the great phrenoo-- gist, is now in the city. He is to lecture on tomorrow night. We almost always have some celebrities here; Alexander Campbell was here few days ago. Bi- shops kavanaugh and Early have both preached in Memphis within few days.- Hon. Thos. F. Marshall is now at the Gay oso, and the town is full of big men, or those who think themselves so.
 The jail has ll9 inmates. It is better patronized than any of the city schools, in fact, it is in fourishing condition. For petty offences, misdemeanors, etc., often ders are brought before the city recorder, who deals out justice on his nicely poised scales. When he imposes fine. and the culprit has not the wherewith "to fork over," the city magnanimously takes 1t out in work on the streets. One fellow the other night, took it into his head to scare the wife and family of man he did not like. He, knowing that the man was not at home, entered his house with revolver and discharged it's contents, by firing sev- eral times into the wall, in divers places within the house. The poor woman fled greatly alarmed, and called the watch Recorder East fined him $50, and the cost amounted to $3 %. This entities him to lO6 days membership with the chain-gang on the streets, the city meanwhile boarding him at the Bald Eagle.
 Real estate in and about Memphis is vastly high Property on Main street, is as high as in New York For four or six miles out of the city, up or down the river; or back from it, lots range at from $l ,000 to 1000 per acre. even without improve ment. Large and costly brick buildings are going up on every hand, and improve ments of various kinds are progressing rap idly.
 Tbe Memphis and Little Rock railroad is said to be aogiga5le at this date, forabout 40 miles. The general impression here, is, that the track will have to be raised through. out the bottom, before it can be of much use.
 The True Democrat reaches me regular ly, and welcome visitor it is. l greet it as an old friend, and literally devour its contents. Long may 1t live! More anon!
 Memphis, 7enn., May 13t, 1859.