, 1872-10-10
ate. Jhi1son johnson, Of Elizabeth, is Of

extent LIB udI03a III ult9eL u 'O1I 1oScIuuIo
under the Territory are pe1petuatod in the
Counties -
..Jaues Miller came ont here the first, in 1s19
to rule the new Territory He ia the came who
said. at the battle near Niagara Falls, when
asked il he could take 8 battery, II will try, -
State. He was man Of bold character. The
next Governor aas George Lizard, man Of
ordinary birth and education, but OF vehement
will He died in st. Francis County, and leaves
dssesnda2s dse4 one sn3s Of Poas tb
third Territorial Governor, and he gave
the name to Pope County, where the
disturbances now exist He was he ltucEan,
who stayed with Us six years, and then returned
to Kentucky. William Q. Fulton succeeded
He was an agreeable man, who died amongst us,
leaving 10 male descendant; but his daughter
married Morehead Wright, planter On the Red
River.
Sour first State Governor Was james s. Con-
way; his brother YVES Elias n. Conway, who was
Ja1isss Conway's descendants live in Lafayette
County, near the Red River The second State
Governor Was Richard Yell, a Tennessee lawyer,
who resided in Washington County, Ark, and
Was killed fighting gellantly at Buena Vista
His descendants live il Clinton audYell Counties:
His unexpired tenn Vas filed out By Samuel
Adams. tie tGovernor. who Was elected for TWO
terms expiring in 1852. He still lives in Law
Eence County. Then came Ert Conway Tor TWO
terms; and he was followed by Henry H. Rector,
the Rebellion Governor, who still resides at Aot 40
Springs After the Federals got in We hsd the
flanagan and Murphy Administrations Horace
Flanagan still lives ct Arkadelphia- and Wes
Confederate Colonel when elected Murphy Is a
staunch and straight old man, stu LIVING IN
Madison County, IN Northwest Arkansas.
Our legRlatoIn at the National Capital "e1e
fair representative men, embodylnG H. Sewer,
who vas our first Senator, sitting saccesslyely
for the State at Washington from 1873 TO !S46s
81 Delegate and Senator He IL buried unde1
in tle Little Rock Cemetery. Sewer brought
to the 6tatc Scion Borland, to be bis eoit-
toT Borland was q lnsinian, educated IN
North C.rolna, and Me1ican soldier when
Sewer resigned his scat, Bo1iand took the place.
He vas one Of the ablest men VIC had, but he
made the mistake OF resigning from the Senate
to take diplomatic mission Hc Was made
Brics<iier General in the Confederate army, but
he Seemed to hive little heart in it, and, being
tortured By q wound which he had received
some years before. he retired to Texas and died
He WAS man Of the cool courage required IN
our communities, and was of supaEor parts as
an editor Borland has brother N Norfolk,
Va, married daughter in Memphis, and son IN
Arkansas. Sebastian, who was Borlands esso-
ciate in the Senate, Was expelled from that body
ct the beginning OF the Rebellion The majority
OF our public men are either natives OF dersSatiEe
from Tennessee"
s.Mr Adams how does the present rsce Of
Clayton l. Co. compare with the old school ?"
':Powel CLAYTON is chiefly notable fog his
ramsness, He is called, out here, The Game
Ghicken.' Rice is q good lawyer and organizer,
aud be has given to their politics that strength
Of character which men OF Claytoa's proportions
could not have done Brooks Is, IN many re-
spects, the ablest man amongst taeIn,-their
bully and ecclesiastic- He may be called the
CarDet-Baccer Cardinal The Government they
have introdnced is yerv ouetpus upon tie State,
but It must be admitted that these men have the
e,,dacity of the devil. Several Of them have
;ne With the people of the State against Clay
fon,s men. has been peppered with buckshot,
while his companion, Kinds, who vas
riding beside, fell dead in the
road. Their Government is OF Spanish sort,
centre. and military suppression IN the iistricts-
Enth;n'e Ca can hold il up. It our oppoaition to it
nrnonnfed 1a t to nothing, snch Government must
come to an end by its own divisions and structur-
Il Teskpese. i i've in Memphis, partly to get
must hsye We noticed the difference IN feeling be-
tween the Tenueseeans and ArkanBans- In Ten
nessee. where disfranchisment has ceased, there
ia perfect good hu1nor. good order, and consid-
erable in1,nicration, and Tennessee is as unlikely
ever to do rebellious thing against the Union
again as New York or Ohio But, in Arkansas,
there is no natural relation between the people
and the Government, because the e1ndium which
attempts to establish that relation hes no respect
at Washingto and no sympathy in Arkansas"
EXPLANATION OF RARr OF TEE ABOVE
Perhaps have said in another place, TINT
the Democratic party of Arkansas is not con-
sidered to be wholly scrupulous 81 the present
period Tbs public printing and do enang R;ag are N
q: Little Reck and the Democratic paper, the
Gazene. Amongst certain influential Demo
Gratis, strong apprehensions exist that Bnndle-
Tail triumph will bring back to the State Bob
johnson, and plan. him in the Senate beside
Rice. johnson governed the State 1or nearly
thirty years, running ont Borland at last and
the new brood Of Dement'S ,ook m'to ap2asd Pre-
ali the patronage OF the State, and "as such
@ , in many respects IS Chandler rem
II the Democrats should be inTeigled, By
few Of their lesae5 ss5.ta INTO }or put;ns up
the SELECTION would probably be Mr.
Garland and Of a ths thsa ah h ID n 5as
character and ability, and others Say ne 1s per
fectly selfish and pecuniary, and willing to coa-
Eesce with either wing OF the carpeToagsers to
ride into Office. 1t l8 much to be don0<eQ N16lA-