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 A HIT.-The wagish local of the Nash vile Patriot, in his review of the leading articles of the city Press thus amusingly refers to the danger of Democrats de- nouncing Douglas:
 The News has an article under the head of Democratic State Convention Artful dodging-Douglas triumphant. - The News is of the opinion that Douglas was triumphant in that Convention There IS more important convention to come of at Charleston in the spring, and if the Administration Democracy don't look sharp, he will be triumphant in that also. Hence, that type of Democracy -the Memphis Avalanche and Nash vile Union, e ad onac genus-ought to be careful how they go into him. When he is elected, and comes to hand around the plunder, they will repent in sack-cloth and ashes that they didn't take up for him from the start. Somebody has wisely said that you should never, in a stage-coach full of strangers. de- nounce as a scouEdrel a man with whom you are personally acquainted, as, for aught you know, he may be among the crowd. Democratic editors and speakers should ponder on this advice, for there is no telling who will turn up the nom- inee at Charleston, as their party neith- CT knows nor cares now who it nominates fifteen minutes before the nomination takes place.
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A POINTED TExT.-The Chicago Times, in alluding to the fact that there is less Restitution and suffering among the poor in Chicago this severe winter than in pre- vious seasons, says:
 One of the chief reasons for this is the fact that very large number of poor la- boring men have gone to the Southern States, and there obtained employment. We are told by one of our bankers, MT. Greenebaum, that drafts, in small amounts. are almost daily presented at his counter, by wives whose husbands have found profitable employment in the Southern States, and are thus enabled to send home the means supporting their families.- The number of persons so situated must be very great, and from tho different places whence the drafts are sent, it would ap- pear that Chicago laborers are scattered all over the Southern States, among wn0s0 siaVViI0idtfng iiiii;s1i isnTs they ;lFs able to earn that comfortable living for themselves and families which in Aboli- ton Chicago they could not get.
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[From the London Cor Manchester Guardian. ] LIFE IN LoNDoN--I see the scandal (which has been floating about London Ielubs and drawing rooms for the last few Ddays-of Mrs. J. Fl Gurney's elopement with her footnan-has now found its way into the TSmes. There can, therefore, be no further motive for keeping back few facts connected with the case The lady in question was the daughter of the late
 Richard Gurney, by whom she had for tune of nearly G25, ,000 a year absolutely secured to herself She was considered
 the richest married woman in England.
 All :his fortune she is now free to dis pose of as she Gkes-in enriching, if she chopses. the fortunate funkey whom she has chosen for the partner of her flight. Her injured husband has already taken the first steps for obtaining a divorce, but suehlis the pressure of divorce business before Mir. Justice Cresswell's court, that his solicitor has been informed I am told) that fourteen months are likely to elapse before the case can be brought to issue. Meanwhile, the affair is a great blow to the large and respectable Gurney connecion-so well and widely known for its philanthropic activity, as well as it's wealth.
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NELSON ON THE UNION. .--Mr. Nelson is making national reputation. His first speech in Congress placed him in the ffent rank of Congressional orators.- His tribute to the Union throbbed through the whole national heart In lecture a a few evenings since at Baltimore, he said of tho Union:
 can never think of the dissolution of this Union. Dissolve this Union! the thing is impossible. Enthusiastic ap- plause. How would we divide it-how separate our national airs, how divide our common glory? (Applause.) I have always thought that if ever the two sec tions of the Union were arrayed against each other and two opposing armies were to meet. marching to the tune of Hail Columbia, think that as they approach cd each other and heard the old familiar air, they would throw down their arms and rush into fraternal embrace. Dissolve this Union! never. No, sirs, its dissolu- aSaaal4l ton to such an extent that it would never recover from it. The dissolution could do no good, and would only result in some conqueror subduing all and placi-g crown upon his head.
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 THIs AND THAT.-The late Democratic Convention at Nashville adopted Mis re- solution:
 Be 1t Resolved, That we hereby reafirn the principles announced in the platform 1 of the democratic party adopted in Con- yention at Cincinnati, in June, 1856. and that we hold them to be true exposition of our doctrines and subjects embraced.
 The Illinois Democratic Convention, at their late meeting, adopted Mis reso- lution:
 Resolved, That the democracy of Illl- nois, in State Convention assembled. dc reassert and affirm the Cincinnati plat form, in the words, spirit, and meaning with which the same was adopted, under stood and ratified by the people in 1856, and do reject and utterly repudiate all such new issues and tests as the revival of the African slave trade or a congress sional slave code for the Territories. or the doctrine that slavery is a Federal in stitution, deriving its validity in the several States and Territories in which it exists from the Constitution ofthe United States, instead, of being a mere munich pal institution existing in such States and Territories under the laws thereof"
 Reader, is comment necessary? The question is, does the Tennessee Conven. ton construe the Cincinnati document after the manner of Illinois. not, why did they not tell us how they do con- strI1e 1t t2
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 HON. JOHN A. GILMER.

The annexed notice, from Georgia paper, of the Hon. John 4. Gilmer, tho respected member of Congress from North Carolina, has been handed to the Nation al Intelligencer by a friend from the Soutll, and we here insert it with pleasure, be- cause we know that the character which 1t draws of that able and patriotic gentle man is enlinently just and true:
 Hon. John A. Gilmer, the nominee of the Americans for Speaker of the House of Representative, isa native of Guilford county, North Carolina. His grandfath- CT was a soldier under Gen. Greene, and was wounded at the famous battle at Martinsburg, known in history as the battle of Guilford Court-house) where the celebrated English officer Lieufenant- Colonel Webster lost his life, and where Cornwallis and Tarleton drew off their shattered forces, dispirited, notsubstaan- tially defeated. MT. Benton has declared tbat the battle of Guilford Court-house was the pivot on which turned the inde- pendence of the colonies, for the surrender at Yorktown was not battle, but siege.
 Hon. John A. Gilmer has reached his present elevated position without any of the appliances of wealth or influential re- lations. He only bore the name ofa spot less father, and carried in his veins the bleod of a revolutionary patriot and all honest man. He has, in every condition of life and under all circumstances proven true to his lineage. We have known him rsi gr.alsttfaaliJ fef -aars as legislator law yer, and in the private and soeialrelations of life, and we can, in the fear of God and in the face of man declare that we have never known a purer man and patriot, or & more ecomplished gentleman one who would wear the honors of Speaker more meekly, and who would bring to bear upon the corruptions of degenerate Ad- ministration the powers of a better and purer heart.
 Mr. Gilmer is an old whig, and he has ever been firmly sustained by the descen- dants of old aehigs, on the very spot ren- dered illustrious by deeds (not words) of chivalry.
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AAg&rtlsellleMta.

>><O><><N<>(N<N->N>N< M RS. NELSON respectfully announces to the M inhabitants of Helena that she purposes opening School, on the first of Feb, on Righ- ter street, opposite tho residence of Mr. Dixon, for the instruction of youth, in all the primary branches of English literature; comprising Or biography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Ge- ography, and English Grammar Terms per month s.
 Astronomy, Natural Philosophy, Ancient and Modern History, and Map Drawing, in addition to the above, charged S1 per month.
 Embroidery, per month $I 30.
 F. s. The juvenile classes will receive special attention, so that they shall be thoroughly edu- cated in the principles of pronunciation and spelling, which, in preference to all else, pre- pares the student for the higher walks of learn ing. Terms per month S2 50. jan2S
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THE LAST PERSONAL AFFAIR IN CoN- eREss.-The follwing from the Washing ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga- zette (Black Republican, gives the de tails of the peRonal affair in Congress, which occurredon the 12th inst:
 MT. Haskin, of New York, wanted to know if Mir. Clark, of New York, gave hls assent to their programme. MT. Clark told Ha&in it was none of his bu- siness, and immediately went over and apologized to Haskin. From this grew up scene, th like of which has never occurred on th floor of the House of Rep resentatives. MT. Haskin arose to call MT. Clark to account for the language he had used. The Democrats tried to choke Haskin of, hut he persisted, when cry of " Order,0 ( Order,' was raised on the Democratic idle, and Barr, of New York, took his standby Haskins, crying in his ear, " "OrdeI''" !" Sit down." etc. In the excitement. Haskin unbuttoned his coat "a single-b,easted one-and with sud den jerk of the collar, a revolver fell to the floor from his pocket. There was in stantly a grand rush towards him from all sides Of the House, and the scene which followed beggars description. In the midst stood the famous Keitt, of South Carolina, swinging his arms frantically about, shaking his shaggy locks, and breathing vengeance and destruction He, with several others, raved most fran tically. Most of the Republicans kept their seats, and Haskin maintained with much coolness his position.
 He IIaskin) attempted to speak again, when fresh storm arose, with cries of ]" put him out, tchoke him off,v &c.- The Sergeant-at-Arms appeared, and partial order was restored. Irritating words were spoken OFT beth sides. ----
 Messrs. Harris, of Maryland: Hill of Georgia; Etheridge, of Tennessee, and others, made conciliatory remarks. Mir. Haskin explained the accident of the fall ing of the pistol, which he placed in his pocket last evening, to protect himself late at night on his way home
 The House adjourned, but the feeling is most intense Keitt, of South Carolina, declared that, had he dropped his pistol, he should have said: Gentlemen, l carry arms when and where please, and shall continue to do so." When Mir. Haskin proposed that hereafter no persons should bring deadly weapons upon the floor of the House, not Republican re- sponded.
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SALE OF NEGRoEs.-The sale of ne- groes belonging to the estate of the late Joseph Bond, commenced in this city on Tuesday morning, 3d inst, and ended
 ednesday evening. We have not been able to see the correct list of the sale, but sufficient Is ascertained for us to state that 936 negroes, in families. sold at an average of about one thousand and twen- ty-iye dollars. There are thirty vet to be sold. One negro girl, which was offer ed as unsound, brought $l,S00; one ne- gro girl r, and negro boy 20 years old. brought S3,600: one field hand 30 wears old, brought S2,005; several boys brought over S2, ,000; boy Gilbert, wife and child. Purchased by Gen. Smith, S4,50O, one family Jack, wife and eleven children, from five to eighteen years old, ta9eraao negroes, drought Sl6,0O0 purchased
 $ Alougbon, Esa. Albaup-
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N 0 T r c E

IFS HEREBY GIVEN, That A,ktters Testa- l mentary upon the estate oflde late George Jefieries, deceased, were graged to the under signed on the 25th day of october A. D. 1859. Now therefore all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified aud re- quired to exhibit the same to the undersigned, as Exeeutor, properly authenticated, within one year after the date hereof, or they be prccluded from any benefit in the estate, and that if such claims be not so exhibited within tive years from aate hereof, they shall De forever bar
 r~nr, any hene6t from such
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PREPARATORY LAws.-It is proposed in some quarters to meet the non-intercourse compacts which the Southern people are endeavoring to form, by agreements among our Northern merchants and man. ufacturers to sell no goods to the South except for cash. None of the Southern non-intercourse party could object to this upon principle, while it would probably have the effect they profess to desire, of driving Southern traders to other markets where they could obtain credit A short experience of such mutual inclvilities might possibly open the eyes of the ul- traists of both sections to the advantage of toleration.-N Fork Times.
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HELENA HIGH SCHOOL.
 TENTH SESSfOE. G. T. MORGAN, Principal. TERM TIME---First Monday in Feb.

THE SPRING SESSION of the Helena High
 A School will commence on the first Monday in February, and will continue until the lst of July, 1860.
 Boys are Prepared either for the advanced elasses in college or for business Ample ar engagements are made fox the accommodation of bearders. Scholars are received only for the session, and no deduction is made for absence, other than for proiracted sickness. Those who enter within month after the opening of the session, are charged fall pSiee-after that time from the date of entrance.
 There are three classes in the School: the Se- nlor, which3embraces the classics, mathematics and applied sciences; the Junior, comprising the ordinary English branches, and the Prima- " class.
 The tuition fees are respectively, S25, $2O and Sl5. Each student is taxed Sl for incidental expenses. jan2I-tf
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ATTENTION, CAVALRY:

THE Phillips county Cavalry Company win I meet on Saturday, the 4th Feb'y next. at tho Courthouse in Helena, at 10 o'clock A. M.. for the transaction of important business. The members of the Company are requested to be punctual in their attendance.
 By order of VIM. H. ROBARDS,
 Jan2S Captatn
 &z9~ Democrat Note Book please copy, at request of Capt. R.
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DG@The people of Canada, as will be seen by the reyolting details of the out rages perpetrated by free negroes in that retreat of " freedem,0 which is given in another column, are reaping some of the fruits of their misplaced philanthropy in harboring runaway slaves.
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Notice to Bottom Planters.

THE members of the "Levee Association , L of river planters, Phillips county, Arkan- sas, that met at Helena in July, 1858, are re- quested to meet at the Court house, in this city, on Saturday, the 4th of February, to close up the unsettled business of said Association.
 ROB'T ". CASTEEL,
 Leree Inspector of the 4th Distysict. Janzs Philips county.
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Administrators Sale of Req
 Estate.

N pursuance of an order of the Probate Court l of Phillips county, Arkansas, granted at the January term thereof A. D. 1860, the under signed, as Administrator of the estate of JEF- PERSON BURTON, deceased, late of Phillips county aforesaid will, on
 =Sazalza4z.= =khe= =l8tA- .gf Eablwazy neal At the door of the Courthouse, in Helena sell to the highest and best bidder, upon the terms hereinafter mentioned the following de- scribed tract of land, lying and being situate in said county of Phillips, to wit:
 The southeast quarter of section thirty-two (S2), in township two (2) north of the base line and range four (4) east of the fifth principal meridian.
 Terms cf Sale--One- half the purchase money cash in hand ;--the balance in months with bond and security, the estate retaining tile un- til the whole of the purchase money is paid Sale will take place within the hours present. bed for judicial sales.
 A. B. CAVENS, Adur,
 of Ae Esiote cf Jeferson Barton, dge'd.
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' |
 HeA There car be no longer any ques- tion as to where should rest the respon- sibility for the failure to organize the House of Representatives Democratic organs may calculate in vain. They may rave and fret and denounce the Southern Opposition, but they cannot change, they cannot conceal the great fact proved by the records, proclaimed on the floor of the House, admitted throughout tlse country, that the election of either Democrat or Republican by majority of the House is an utter impossibility, end that ''if the house is to de organiaed 6y e majority, it must Dc upon some member of the American or i ggaaiSsation. 4.aS z.
 We repeat this decaa aIIdiirwsilssh pride, with gratitude. It is the fulflImens 5, all our predictions. It is the realization of the purpose for which this despised prescribed, calunnated American organ ization has been preserved in the country For this 1t has been saved from annihi- lation between the upper and neither mill-stones of sectonalisn-De Democracy and Republicanism-to be the guardian of the integrity of the Union and the maintainance of the Constitution from the threatened aggression of Northern sectional fanaticism and Southern Dis union.
 The debate, in the House on the 1lth inst, places the matter clearly and un- mistakably before the people. The re- marks of Mir. HARRIS, of Maryland, give succinct history of the position of the National Opposition party-the twenty four-with whom he acts. It repels the insinuations of the democratic leaders that these National Opposition men are in any wise responsible for the failure to organize the House, and proves incon- testibly that the democrats themselves are the disorganizers upon whom the whole responsibility rests. It is shown that never, at any time, on any ballot, have the democrats been able to procure votes enough for candidate of their own to elect him Speaker, even with the aid of the whole vote of the National Oppo- sition men. It is shown that upon two occasions the National Opposition men have been able to bring to their candidate more than enough votes to elect him with the aid of the democratic vote. It is shown that this was done upon the second occasion with notice to the democrats that 1t could and would be done, and that their failure to avail themselves of this opportunity to defes& she Renublicans at 4l.zs 4hs ILis,s f fi1sBr 5iecfio
 of a national, conservative man to tn
 speakership, leaves upon them tn
 whole responsibility of the continue
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 TIE 0rrosIrIos IN MIssIss1pPr.-Th Vicksburg Whig comes to us with a lengthy address of the Opposition State Central Committee of Mississippi to the people of the State. It makes four close y printed columns in the Whig, and is signed by Hon. Wm. L. Sharkey, Chair p~--.-.-l-.@- the Vicksburg Whig; G. M. Hillyer. of the Natchez Courier; Hon. J. L. Alcorn. Hon. Il. Walter, Col George l.. Potter II, II. Southworth, Wm. A. Shaw C. Cruse and Joseph Regan Esqrs. The address is written with great ability, and Is pervaded by a sound, firm and concil- iatory national spirit, It deprecates the further agitation of the slavery question, asks the Northern sectionalist to desist from further agitation, and patriotic na- tional men of all parties to meet the Op- position of Mississippi upon common platform of mutual good will and har- mony for the benefit of the whole country. Address winds up by calling State Convention, to convene at Jackson on the fonrth Monday in March, to consult upon 'seed is best to be done, with the sugges- loissyt bat t will probably be the duty of appoint 2 S---.4Aa tn
 '-s's ol5. :sd
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I \ E S HE | !.
 Q. K. UNDERWOOD, EDITOR.
HELENA, ARKANSAS: S1TURD4T J4NU1RY 2S, 1860.
gs7yAI'he letter from Mrs. ANN s. S1

B5~ The letter from Mrs. ANN s. STE- TEENS, published on our first page, to VICTOR HUGo, in reply to his ungenerous intermeddling in the affairs of our coun- try, and gratuitous advice to our people in reference to JoHN BROWN and his mur- derous elan, will amply repay a pcrusal.
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THE TGMPoRALITIEs oFTHE PoPE.-The following is the substance of the French pamphlet on the temporalities of the Pope, of which there is now so much sslid in the European political world:
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>,.-The emigration of negroes tlanta from tho old to the new s the Coafederacy, especially ia. is tremendous.
 Tn, connected with the Geor- 3rmed us, few days since, ast three months, the ayar- ar week was at least SIX
 sides there is the Virginia e, and Wa1asboro, roads great number. What sss...Alu their places III
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TIE WINTER IN EASTERN TExAs.-The Marshall Harrison county Flag, of the 9th inst, says:
 With an experience of twenty-two win ters in Texas, we have never witnessed
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Hea%The Huntsville (Ala, Adcocate annoYnces the dea{h of Dr. A. R. Erwin, t3uv of Tennessee Conference, !, -,tao@' ltaa IFunAe-.si1s Esmala , College. He was m able and useful ma
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REFUSED HIS FREEDOM. A short time since, q very worthy colored man of la.. AnWl aa Tohn Chris -'sI g srr'T'is set free by his master, Wm. II :. tS0 sie, but becoming diss-tisiied msA
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INtJ taiy e.,a, SnF.

ly se'.,sn '1rs,p-~sszette of the l4th has -~ang:
 ffe have dates from the Rio Grande to tbe 2d January. On that evening Cortina was in the neighborhood of Camargo.- He had two wounded officers with him. Ii is supposed by some that man named Antonio Gantes or Jantes, is the real com nander of the Mexicans, and that he acts in obedience to the orders of the Mi ramon party. Ii is said that Cortina left his camp near Brownsville, because Gen. Caravajal interfered with the supplies he yFas receiving from Matamoras. The rolls ken by our men in the battle at Rio rande City, have upon them the names f men residing in Mexico. It is sup psed that Cortina will make bis way avn the country.
 While Cortina was at Rio Grande City called upon the lady of Captain H. 2. He informed her that he
 to kiiiRor husband on sight,
 S her of his intention not to 4l f or family.
 38A I with ali the heroism Of a
 a: " Ny husband has gone
 of volunteers to help the kAf asville. You may be able Sf Kill him, but if you do you s4 ae and tell your folks you had -
 it, T. is our home. and will f..HttI ,,;Io o,,o L,.,al- o-, 4.., ~fo o,,