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THE BANNER.
LITTLE ROCK:
TP—PAT MOPXIITP, JCLY 4 INI.
Far Camgreaa,
ROBERT W. JOHNSON.
CTWt am authorised to announce Jorrn C
Moaner, of Jefferson county, • candidate for th<
oflke of Circuit J udge of the Second J ndieial C«
cuit, composed of the counties of Hot Spring
Dallas, Calhoun, Bradley, Drew, Ashley, Chicot
Dasha, Arkansas and Jefferson, to ill oat the nn
aspired tana of Hon. Jeaiah Ck>uld, resigned.—
Election on the 1st Monday in August next.
.ill Alralicanu laleaded *» the Banner, rOouM b
kanded ka by 10 o'clock, on Monday aoraiai of each nook
la laoaro ibotr laaarUan.
CTWa M. Tan VaLsnnaonoB. Eeq., Warrei
Bradley county, la authorized to net aa Agent fo
the Arkansas Banner. *
PBINTIIIO BO A ROB, CUM, dkC.
We hare JeM received e new end defeat aaeortaMiil«
fkney cards and priatiof boards, ade paper Ac., mad ar
ready la da ap all aorta of fancy punting cheaper, mot
quickly end ie a bettor style, than il bee ever been done b<
ten. Call tad aea el We Banner OtBee.
Printing Press.
Per add, cheep tor CASH, one Boabie Med mm Printin
Pna in eonrylcU order—apply el the Arkaneae Bam
OtBee.
OO-W* wovM call the »tw«w>» at the frirmto of «4«ri
Hoa w ike annual ezaminait m at papOa at the Little Hoc
High Mcbaol, which rommcncca to-day atV oVIock A. M.
Acting Governor.
The Hon. John R. Hampton, President of th
Senate, arrived at this piace on Wednesday las
and in the absence of Governor Roane from th
State. fills the Gubernatorial chair. Judge Kiel
administered the oath of installation and His Ex
cellencv has entered upea duties with his cbarac
tenstic precision a ad good judgment.
THE CONTEST.
The eon test is going on baavely. The Demc
cratic candidate, Hon. Robert W. Johnson, stron
and popular with the people ia gaining new friend
whever he goes. The people like the genersu
bearing of the man, and they like his principle
and although it is a special election they mean t
turn out in masses and vote for him. They ar
not to be gulled by such barefaced and miserabl
falsehoods as that he ia a disunionist or secession
ist. The Whigs bane the charge to he false fthr
they make it. The idea is absurd and Whig inven
tioa should have produced something more plau
sible than that—even if Mr. Johnson had not m
dignantly denied it over hia own signature. In hi
letter recently published, he says, "I have been
1 maintain, the truest and best fnend of this Un
tart, and am yet; for I have soaght to preserve i
as we received it, from our fathers, and if elected
shall continue the struggle so far as my humbl
voice can manifest my will. lint the compromis
measures are now the law of the land. I do nn
propose disunion as the remedy. I do not propos
secession. 1 know the divisions among us through
out the whole South and the folly of snch propo
sitions. But I am called upon to endorse and ap
prove thooe measures. In my bean I can not d
it, and will not. What do I want, is asked ?
want the South to expect continued aggression
and expecing it I want her to unite and prepar
herself in a spirit of Union among ourselves to re
pel and forever to arrest it; that the constitute
and our rights guarantied by it may he preserved
Who ia there among ua that will advocate not on I
submission to the wrongs already done us, bu
that is prepared submissively to see the Constitu
tion set aside and to be treated by a Congress c
northern majorities, as the British Governmen
treated her Weft India subjects? Now if thos
who have been true to the South are to be destroy
ed for defending the rights of their constituent
heretofore involved and lost, those who may at
tempt it hereafter have little to expect and shoul
should be destroyed too.”
1 litre 4UC U*J U1BUBIUU1SUI in aimuu. u u
false issue. No body is in favor of dtssolvin
the Union—no body is in favor of secession, *
that the Whigs will not make much capitol b
their late invention. The issue is between De
moeracy, on one hand and Whiggery on the othei
Robeit W. Johnson is the Democratic and Job
Preston, Jr., the Whig candidate, and the Whi
papers call on their party to rally as one man o
the latter, and we invoke the Democracy as a par
ty to rally around Mr. Johnson.
The party lines are drawn and the imporlane
of the election may be appreciated when it i
known that if the nest presidential election sboul
go into the House of Representatives which is b
no means unprobable, the Representative eiecte
■ow will cast the vote of this State, and that rot
will count as much as the vote of New York
Pennsylvania or Ohio. Shall a ithig then cast the
totr ? What has Arkansas done that she ahoul
be punished with the calamity of haring a whi
Representative in Congreas ' Why should Arkan
sas at this late day in her history renounce ths
noble old democratic faith to which ahe adhere
from the fust, and turn the State over to the tende
mercies of the whig party—a party as unprinciplei
as any that exists on earth. Is not Mr. Johnson
true democrat, and has he not made an able an
faithful Representative of his State? What rea
con cau be urged why he should not be agim tri
umptiantly elected, as he lias been twice before
There is too much apathy m our party scspectin
elections. We call on the democracy to turn on
at thia election and sustain their candidate, be
cause in doiug that they sustain their cherish?
principles It is only.a day—a part of a da/spare
from upoa labors and in a good cause. Doiac
suppose because we are of the majority that a
exertion need be made. In that consuls the dad
get, Par minorities axe always more active lha
majorities. Let every democrat then exert himseli
remembering that “ eternal vigilance is the pric
of liberty." Let "every democrat feel a pride an
pleasure as well as regard it hu duty to be activ
and vigilant. Let the nominee of our convenlio!
receive in August next auck an overwhelming ma
jority as will be a rebuke on whiggery and it
false hoods and tricks and deceptions in nil time t
come.
The democrats hare the power sad can do it—
* • To your tenta, ah! Israel!!
Mortality in St. Louis.
For the week ending June 15th., the In
telligencer reports 206 interments at nine of thir
teen cemeteries—males 155, females 13. Of thee
two were sieves, and of five yean and under 86
Of Cholera US. The increase of cholera oases i
accounted for, by the number of emigrants per
nutted recently to go ieto the city, without quar
eittine. In the same ratio, had all the cemeterie
reported, the deaths would have amounted to up
wards of 300.
IT What a curious being n printer is. Hi
slugs when he este, sad acts when he etendh. am
when he wishes to sst with ease he alwayi sta»X
erect It is, however, the nature of the nasa whicl
causes him to sSsssd.
JJT Lines of electric telegraph are new openei
from Munich to Pans
OltM u4 DUiiira.
The present indieaUoni are that the wbigs have
determined to fight no bo* political battles un
der thrr ancient mm, tf they een decently cart
it off. The name of Whig waa eece respectable
as connected with thrilling events in our biatory,
but in such odium base the doctrines of that party
been hold, that the appropriation of that name „
consigned it to ooutompt and disgrace. The whip
are now endeavoring to amaroc the naom of Union -
iart! Every tree friend of tbu Union mindful of
the ireatneaa and glory we owe to it as a people
should deeply deplore that atep—thia new move
ment in whig legerdemain, because also, bring
that name into like contempt and disgrace must
he the inevitable result of the completeness of
the appropriation. It ia however cousoliag to re
flect that thia eleventh hour tnck will prove a
failure, and that it will be regarded in its proper
' light; that is, as ae attempt to hide decayed and
' odious principles, sad a bad and tottering cause.
The whigs are driven to the wall, and this i ew
I trick is rendered necessary by a consciousness on
r their part that to ask for power as whig* would be
fruitless; tbst to encounter the stern and unteni
| fled democracy as whig* would be attended with
II certain defeat, and would only be reproducing
• for themselves the mortifications of the past—
■ mortifications to which they have been subjected
' whenever they felt disposed to try their strength
The »err udm men—uncompromising federal -
l iet—bitter whig*—everlasting enemies of demo
r cracy—the same men with the same principles »nd
purposes now come forward not as whig* but in
‘ another name, one that will startle nobody; come
k forward with the hope of seducing unsuspecting
democrats from their allegiance and time-honored
faith. The object is to destroy the democratic and
build up the whig party—the object is to produce
divisions in our ranks and then obtain an easy
’ victory over us. The stratagem is too shallow to
i do damage; the object too manifest to deceive any
one, and we call on all democrats to be on their
guard.
This is no new thing. It has been a part of the
federal whig party from the begming and has been
developed year after year. Let us retrospect the
* past and remember that Oen. Taylor claimed to
I be and ran as a no-party candidate for the presi
dency, and thereby tecured tbe votes of enough
weak and foolish democrats to elevate him to a
station for which every one “and the rest of man
kind" acknowledged him to be utterly unfitted, or
to use the language of Mr. Webster, *• it was a
nomination not fit to be made." Was the admin
istration of Oen. Taylor of a no-party character?
On the contrary it was the most vindictive and
proscriptive in the history of this government.—
More removals from office were made under it, and
in violation of positive pledges than under all the
previous administrations put together. In fact no
. democrats were left in, nor were any appointed to
* office. To be a whig was sufficient to obtain re
1 ward—tbe more violent, the better; but to be a
* democrat in the eye of that administration a crime
- deserving proscription. The democrats who voted
s for Oen. Taylor, soon saw how miserably they
1 had been duped and repented in sack-cloth and
: ashes, and doubtless wisely determined to place
no reliance in whig professions, and now let them
* and let all guard against this new attempt at de
■ ception, for whoever confides in whig professions
> or promises will be deceived.
I The Whigs'the Union party, indeed! Why the
> pretension is not merely laughable but it isirapu
- dent in tbe extreme. The political history of our
■ country will demonstrate that it is the whig party
* that has brought the Union into peril—brought this
* confederacy to the yawning abyss.
' The democrats on retiring from power left the
t government to them, perceful, hsppy, prosperous
' extending in territorial limits from ocean to ocean
f —a country rich in agricultural, mineral and com
1 mercial resources—rapidly advancing in popula
: tion and improvement and the Union strong and
' promising duration.
1 Look at the picture now. In less than three
' years so wretched has been the policy of the par
1 ty in [power, so weak and imbecile its measures
when vigor and resolution were required; so vio
1 lent and illegal, when moderation was demanded,
l! and so ill adapted are its doctrines to the perpet
’! utation of a republic, that the Union has been sha
' ken to its centre, public confidence unpaired and
‘ ; the growth and advancement of the country retard
■ I ed. Is it possible then that the whig part;, whose
1, policy would eventually destroy this Union should
> be entrusted with its preservation ? Is a quack
1 who has prostrated a hale and vigorous patient
' by futile nostrums to be entrusted with the deli
cate duty of his restoration? Would you place
: the wolf to guard the dock! If these things are
* contrary to human experience on what principle
* is it that tbe wings can claim to be competent topre
f serve a Union they have nearly destroyed, and
* what solitary reason exists why they should be
; entrusted with that sacred duty. A thousand rea
> sons exist against it, none for it. Moreover the
* question must be asked and answered, if in Las
I > than three short years they coaid introduce so
I > much fatal mischief into our happy country and
' : push the most glorious inheritance of modern times
1 to the brink of ruin, how many years short of two
* Presidential terms would be required for them to
1 destroy it altogetlier, rendering a dissolution of the
* Union inevitable. Their doctrines lead to it—their
1 practice and policy lead to it, and it is time to un
1 derstand the matter and speak plainly.
They are fighting for the spoils of office; for the
power and patronage of Government, and are
■ ready to uuite with any party or faction which
I will enable them to effect that purpose. Where
I the abolitionists hold the balance of power they
‘ affiliate with them. They court t\: freesoilers
* and have thus given importance to a treasonable
II and dangerous faction that has resolved ou the
1 extirpation of slavery at the sacrifice of the con
1 stitutiou and the Union if otherwise unattainable.
' The abolition influence baa very generally iden
1 tified itself with and formed an indispensable ele
’ ment of Whig success. It was to this influence
' that Gen. Harrison was indebted for his nomina
* lion at Harrisburg in 1840, and the same treason -
; able faction generally supported Gen. Taylor in
1 18-18. And although policy may induce him to
suppress his opinions yet it is notorious that ?re
| aident Fillmore is an abolitionist, who could not
’ And power enough in the constitution to asaert the
supremacy of the fugitive slave law against a free
negro and abolition mob in Boston, and could find
abundance of power-to crush a neighboring Slate
if necessary whose only crime was maintaining
her sovereignty orer her own soil. Were the
federal offiers at Boston who failed to discharge
, their duty and thus in effect leaving the fugitive
■lave law a dead letter on the statute book remov
, ed from office by President Filmore ? Not at all.
They were rewanted foe their negligence—their
criminal emission of duty, and their sympathy
( with the abolitionists, by being left in lucrative
offices, and having in all probability the private
approbation of the President—an accidental Pre
sident who is and has been for years past, court
i ing the abolition or free soil psrty in a secret man
1 aer.
1 In Ohio the Whip elected Wade a rank aboli
tionist to tbs Senate ; in New York, Fish an equal*
ly rank abolitionist and a fit colleague of Seward
whose political friend he is; in Pennsylvania Gov.
Johnston, whs defeated the Democratic mess^e
of allowing lb* jails to be and la raplahaf fagi
tire slaves by pocketing the bill, ia a ftw aaiki
aad the Whig eaadidate for re-election, with that
Conduct fully approved by tb« Whig* ia fall m
ventioa i in XaaaMbaaetta Sumner eoald not bass
been elected to the Senate, no Baetoel to the
House, without the aid and support of Whigs.—
Tbeee, out of aumberlen iastaaeee, prove that
the free soil and Whig party base amalgamated
and that the Democrats are now n they ever have
been the truest and stannebent Mends of the Un
ion. In fact in Ion that four yean the abolition
ists and whiga will be perfectly united, with e ca
pacity and inclination for mischief co-estensive
with their influence, which for the eehe of tbs
Union it is to be hoped may be limited and insigni
ficant.
Let the people ponder on these things. There
are honorable Individual exceptions among the
Whig*—men who would scorn aid from the aboli
tionist; but what we affirm and that too without
fear of successful contradiction ip that the aboli
tionists are generally Whigs, that there ia a sympa
thy between them ; that they act together and have
so acted for the last fifteen yearn, and that the
amalgamation is daily becoming more perfect.—
And that if the people desire peace, security and
the perpetuation of this Government; if the)
would have true, ancient and faithful friends tc
guard the Union; a conservative influence tc
preside over it, they must look to the Deinocree)
and to the Democracy alone, far these desirable
results. It ia utterly impossible to attain then
through the instrumentality of a Whig admims
tion, from which indeed the country can date iti
disasters.
There really is no such issue ss Union and Dis
union. The issue is between Whiggery in all iti
deformity, and democracy in all its attractiveness
Let the Democrats remember that the only effect
ual mode of perpetuating the Union aa our fore
fathers found it, is to maintain Democratic princi
ples snd indignsntly reject Whig doctrines. Elec'
no Whigs to political offices state or federal a nr
with the utmost possible haste hurl them fion
j power and shut the gates against them. These
i things will tend to the preservation of the Union,
| ffnd we have the high and sacred duty to perfo-m.
| Let us perform it like men. In all electiana
| whether general or special, let us rally around mu
| ancient standard in all our strength, and teach the
| Whigs at the ballot box the great truth that vent
and ever have been the firmest and truest fnendi
of this Union, while the Whigs have been its wonl
enemies.
Let every Democrat exercise the great right >1
suffrage on all occasions—attend every election
and sustain Democratic candidates—sustain on
cause for it is a good and glorioua one and deserve
it at our hands.
By pursuing this policy a short time the Whigs
will become almost extinct, and hardly have lik
j enough to ask for quarter—certainly not enougi
to be felt as a separate power io the republic.—
; They would then be left with the malicious dis
position to do mischief, without the power to exei
cise it. Let no Democrat say that “ we have ths
majority in Arkansas, and it is therefore not ne
oessary for me to vote or exert myself./ If aj
should say the same thing defeat would be inevi
table. Let every Democrat then attend the poll
—induce his neighbors to attend and vote the De
mocratic ticket on all occasions. Let each on
exert himself aa it the success of our cause de
pended on bis individual exertion, and all will t>
welt and our triumph be as glonous ss it will b<
signal. We have the strength, let us not care
lessly throw it away or impair it by dissensions, bu
husoand it and put it forward when occasion shal
require.
roi’HTH Il'LV CELEBRATION.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of AmaicxN l.vos
nouHMCK, will lie celebrated in this city by th<
pupils, teachers, and superintendents of the vari
ous Sa sixth Schools, and citizens.
The committee of arrangements have deterrain
ed on the following :
Order of Procession.
Governor, and other State Officers.
Mayor and Aldermen.
Orator, Reader of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and Clergy.
Children of the various Sabbath Schools.
LADIES.
Strangers and citizens generally.
The children will meet, attended by their teach
•n. at the Christian Church, at half pas-8 o’clocl
prtately; at 9 o’clock, the procession will for®
| on Scott St., in front of the church, the van resting
on Mulberry Street, and move along Scott to Mark
! ham, up Markham to the State House.
Order of exercises.
Rev. Wm. P. Ratcliff, Presiding,
Music, Hail Columbia, by the Band.
Prayer by the Rev. Joshua P. Green.
Fourth of July Hymn by the Children. 1
1 Declaration of Independence read by Col. Thai
W. Newton.
Sabbath School Hymn by the children.
Oration by Leon Trousdale, Esq.
Music, National air, Yankee Doodle by the Band
Benediction by Rev. Andrew Freeman.
Col. T. D. Merrick dt John C. Peay, Marshals.
Committee of Arrangements.
S. S. Sanger, Dr. Geo. D. Sizer, Rev. Andres
Frtvman, Win. F. Pope, Dr. R. L. Dodge, B. F
Owen, Gee. S. Morrison, Geo. A. Worthen, Hon
Wm. H. Sutton, Hon. Daniel Kingo, Wm. B
Wait, Wm. S. Davis, John Wassel, John H
Crease, Rev. Joshua F. Green and J. M. Newton
Washimgtos, Thursday, June 12.
The Court-Martial in the Coat of Gen. Toleolt —
The following general order was issued to-day, b;
order of the President;
War 1H.pa»T)»ext, Aoj. Gks’ia Ornoc, >
WAxttixcrrttM, June 11,1851. \
(imrral OrJ*r$, No. 29—A General Court-Mar
tial, to consist of thirteen members, will assembb
m the city of Washington, at eleven a. a. on Mon
day, the 23d inst., or as soon thereafter as possible
for the trial of Brevet Brigadier-Genera) Georg.
Talcott, Colonel of Ordinance.
Detail for Ike Court.—Brevet Major-General D
E.*Twiggs. J. E. Wool. P. F. South, B Riley, U
Gibson; Brevet Brig. Gt-n'ls J. B. Wallach, J
Churchill, J. G. Totton, N. 8. Clark. T. Childs
Colonels J. J. Abert, J. B. Crane; Brevet Col
J. Plympion; Brevet Major J. F. Lee, Judg.
Advocate. By order of the President.
R. Joxxa, Adjutant-General.
The arrest of Gen. Talcott has excited great in
terest here, ts well because of bit high social a
his official position It is said, among other things
the charges invotle a question of veracity with th.
1 Secretary.
another Democratic Candidate.
The Hon. Wtujaa H. 8»tto>i, ia spoken of b;
the Van Huren Intelligencer, aa a propable candi
date for Congress. The Intelligencer aaya:
** fudge Sutton is spoken of in various parta o
the State a* a auitable candidate tor Cengrea
during the present canvaas. We ate in recap, o
letters from several of the Western counties, aasur
ir* us that Judge Sutton is known aa a eonsisteu
and talented democrat, popular wherever he a
known, and would, if he will consent to becoaat
s democratic candidate for Congress receive n gen
eral support. He ia known to be a firm and uu
wavering democrat, is free of the charge of be
longing to cliques or factions, has never mod*
war upon the party. If the Judge will oon
sent to allow the use of his name, the party wil
rally around his standard, and elect him over all
opposition from every quarter "
▼•iea mt the fwi. *_
On exchange* contain flattering notices of tV
Ho*. ffamnrr W. Johnson, aw) they hail with plea
ram hi* nomination aa the Democratic eaadxUu
b Coapaaa, in Arfcaraaa. Thera aoticea— no
got up try him, show what ait men know to he tha
feet that ia a service of four ream ia Congress b>
has woe foe himself an honorable diaUnctira at
tending far beyond the limits of his owa State
They shew his steading sbroad awl moreover ns
dioetc the propriety of the choice made by tlx
Democratic Convention, ia selecting him as ttv
standard-bearer of our party in tbia contest, i
fierce contest in which lw is obliged to encouate
all the venom, melice and in j ratio* of the whii
party,and the malevoleoceof miss-called democrat
in oar own ranka. But the State of Arkansaa wil
•gain delight to honor him in despite of the effort
of these whi*s and disorganisem to defeat aw
destroy him. Whigs and mis-called democrats
acting together bare the will, but thank God lac)
the power to destroy the Democracy, to destroy on
who has been put forward as our leader by a full
fair Democratic Convention, the largest ever heh
in the State. Their malice and viadictivness wil
only recoil upon themselves for as sure ss thi
tun rises and acts, these wbigs will be disappoint
ed; these disorganisem will be crushed and thei
treason condemned, results that will be hailed will
general joy. If to be a true democrat and pun
patriot; if to be a steadfast friend to Southern right
and interests, and a firm friend of the Union as i
was originally intended by our forefathers to b<
and sbouid be—neither countenancing aggression
on our rights, nor secession or disunion; if for tin
full service in public life and strict attention to th<
business of hia constituents; if talents, energy
industry, snd fearless conduct, we say, if thesi
things can entitle a man to admiration confidenci
and support, then indeed will Col. Johnson N
sustained by a most triumphant vote at the poll
on the first Monday of August next—then indeei
will the voice of his constituents again call him t<
the public counsels, and the whigs be again re
buked and their aiders and comforters coverei
with shame; wh>!e the press abroad is congratulat
ing the democracy here on the good fortune in hav
ing such a man as him aa our democratic champion
disorganizera at home, actuated by private malio
and hostility are not ashamed to affiliate with thi
whigs in a vain and futile attempt to crush him
and turn over the State to the tender mercies o
whiggery. But the failure to carry ont this dia
bolical scheme will be signal, and acorn and con
tempt will be the reward.
But to the notices; only two of which we shal
now publish, taken from two papers published a
• Washington city; where Col. Johnson has eve
been highly appreciated.
' says:
"The Southern Press’
"We have repeatedly taken occasion to commen
on the fact, that in spite of all the abuse to whici
the faithful champions of the South in Congresi
have been subjected fr*m servile presses at home
or venal ones abroad, their continents have sus
tamed them triumphantly wherever they have cho
sen to accept re-nomination. On the other hand,
the traitors and trimmers have either, generally, u
| encounter strong opposition, the chances of defeat
I or to sneak away from a trial in which mortifies
| non and shame only would await them. This is i
I most significant and striking indication of the rea
; sentiment of the Southern people, even in thosi
; States that have " acquiesced” in the spolialioi
| bills. The treason and the traitors both are dail;
! becoming more odious at the South; for the man
I closely thereat character of that " Compromise,'
and the conduct of its supporse, are scanned ant
investigated, the darker do they appear under thi
scurtiny.
Among the "few but faithful," who battled t<
the last agamst that iniquitous " settlement.”' Ho
t sut W. Johnson stood conspicuous; and it wil
i be found in the Arkansas Banner, that he has beei
triamphantly re-nominated."
And the ** Union” says:
* It will be seen that Col. R. W. Johnson—m
well known to ux for bat fidelity, seal, and talent
. m the cause of democracy, is again the aelectioi
of kit party to represent the State in the next Con
gress. The fourth resolution of the aeries adopt*
i by the body declares that no rn-w party organize
not or Union testa are requisite in that State. Thi
. is a position entirely becoming to a party who*
loyalty to the Constitution has never been doubted
and whose devotion to the Union has been attest*
by every prominent event in her history."
A Fugitive Sieve Cue ia Chicago.
The ability of the court*, and the disposition c
; the people, to execute the Fugitive Slave law, i
about to be tested in Chicago. The only accoun
we have of the affair is in the Chicago Tribune c
| the 2d instant—a paper with strong abolition ten
! deneies.
A Fugitive Case.—Yesterday afternoon, a bon
• | two o’clock. Deputy Marshal Baker arrested
; young colored man, calling himself Moses John
aqn, upon State street, upon a warrant issued o
Saturday, at the instance of a person professing t
[ \ act air the agent of the claimant, who resides i
■ i Missouri. He was taken at once to the Unite
i States Court-room, 8aloon Buildmds, but on ac
j count of the prisoner not being provided with coun
sel, the examination was postponed till 10 o’clnc
■ this morning, at the same place. We learn th*
W. Z. T. Pieshman, Esq., is engaged as counst
for the claimant, and that L. C. 1*. Freer, Crar
! Goodrich, and Calvin De Wolf, Esq., have volun
' leered for the defence. The prisoner baa reside
■ in the city a considerable time, and says he cam
from Canda.
During the afternoon quite a number of colore
and other persons collected around the corner c
the Salopir' Building and before the Court-roon
• and most of those who desired it were admittei
including several colored persons. The Deput
Marshal concluded to retain the prisoner in th
Court room during the night, several persons vol
unteenngto keep guard over him. Some of th
r friend* of the prisoner were also invited to stay 1
the room to guard against unlair play. The Dep
uty Marshal seems disposed to give the prisoni
' every legal opportunity to prove bis freedom, cor
• sislentent with the execution of his official dut]
lu the evening, several hundred persons asseu
bled in front of the Saloon Building, many of thei
colored, and a strong sympathy fur the prisoner wi
manifested.
Bathing ia the Dead Sea.
': Heated and fatigued, we prepared fer a genen
' bath—as a private party; for the ptUrims detei
| mined to reserve their energies for the sacred Jot
i dan, the lake of Sodom being held by them in hoi
ror and abomination. The bad odor in which th
| lake was held, did not, however, deter us, an
■ having called a halt, we plunged like young duel
into the liquid element, Paulo chuckling like a
’ old ben on the banks. We plunged? Disastroi
was the plunge—rapidly enough head after hea
popped up from the execrable waters—hair matte*
| eyes smarting, and tongues burning from the it
tense sulphurous bitter saltneas of the detestabl
liquid ia which we were immersed; walei it wi
: i not, nor bitumen, nor salt, nor sulphur, but a du
j glisting compound of all four.
! j A hogshead of it would serve as an emetic fi
' all Asia minor, and leave some gallons to spai
i against the next epidemic; you could neither sin
I nor swim ia it. Talk of a fly in molasses, or
1 wasp m a barrel of tar—I can find do parallel for
1 bath in the Ded Sea. But the suffering# of m
’ | companions were a trifle to what l felt; cut an
| maimed in consequence of my superior horse mat
ship, 1 jumped into the water as r*w as a bee
stake, and jumped out of it—as if 1 vere flsyt
i alive. However, det me he justlo th’# abominabi
mixture: if I smarted for it, my wou ids were effer
tually cauterized, completely skinned over—U
cure was perfect to a miracle. We dieased wit
’ the concortable sensation of men who had bee
i1 well coated with mutton suet, stiff, greasy an
' extremely out of sorts, with a tingling, creepm
! feeling over the skin; and remounting, tamed oi
! step# to the fords of the Jordan.—thM»» I'wmi
: stly Jhgviisi.
IT A young preacher, who had just started i
his travels as an itinerant, was one evening holt
mg forth on the Deliur, and after denceibiag th
manner in which Noah built the Ark, and filled
with animals of ever* kind, by pairs, closed in
solem tone, thus: 44 You must know, my det
hearers, that it was an arduous task for Noah an
his sens, to pet s -,mr tf wfo.'sr mu ttr A~i
[from Ww ffif iftrm ]
Tin HI* Oat.
Geo. W. Clarke, of the Van Bn ten !«•>!;« -a
, cet, (which paper. iwwretheohfastaWirhm. nl ww
| burned down, made it* appearance on the 3i»
t ulL) whoa*' MRT heirxro* mrh.net and glar,:,, ,n
conawu-aeic* we ha»(' alluded to in tunc*gone by
. ha*, by a lata mo**, rendered himaelf to .Him,,
to erery true democrat ia the country, that ib<
only reward be ran expect fro* their hands, h,
! baae and iftmaaiaiotia expulsion from the ranks -
i We allude to Oen. Clarke withholding hit xuppor
1 from the election of Col. Johnson,
j To folly express the dtagm* in which tuch <
I renegade and traitorous deed n held won Id In
< useless;‘for we liold it to be true, 'hat when ,
i broken down politician like Clarke begins to conn
' hit wrongs, advice or friendly renact) it but "east
ing pearl* hefote •wine." Hence we *a*. let bin
ah-ne. The roice of hla country will assign htn
the place where such a* he ha* gowSH-obwunt
and the contempt of erery hottest democrat.
But, perchance, that the course of Gen. Clarki
may hare an impression upon the romds of a few
who were his friends in the contest for the nouun
ation before the Contention, and opposed Colour
Johnson, not that they loved him less, but Clarki
more, it ia but right that his (Clarke** position ii
I the Convention be defined, last it be remember
ed that the member* of the Convention, who as
1 sembled at Little Rock on the Jhth of last April
obligated themselves to support the nominee a
that body whosoever he might be. Oen. Clarke
though not* member of that body, yet his aeqnie
sconce in the decision of the Convention wa
manifested and expressed by his friends. Clark
was a candidate before the Convention. So w.v
Conway, Byrd and o'hen. Each candidate sigm
tied hi* intentions by hi* fnenda to abide the d<
rutonof the Convention and give the” rapport l
the nominee. Hence Gen. Clarke is by all rule
of conscience and good faith obligated to give hi
support to the election of Col. Johnson. But b<
o 'T*k_... _I_. ..... k. ..
formed that we ere not entirely destitute of gene
rosily—thst we base for the take of party sn<
friends, offered our private interests, views, am
feelings upon the altar of a ooramon cause. W
ean do so yet, whenever pnncxplr is involved.”
i This self-immolation—this perfect ‘abandon' o
| every personal consideration for the welfare am
, success of prmeipit reminds us of the Pennsyl
vama Sheriff, who had been shaken rather roughl;
by one of the b'hors, *• Remember, John,” say
1 theShet'ff, “remember Idon'tcarea copperabou
it personally, but whoever shakes me, shakes It*
' Commonwealth.” Now Oen. Clarke cares not i
| farthing about hit defeat before the Convention
: this does not give him a moment’s thought, bu
i the Commonwealth of the good State of Arkansas
, in whose behalf he has so long battled, is jeopar
dised. Tbe family, as he facetiously terms Col
Johnson, “has ruled the State almost to its ruin'
f must be defeated, even though he, Oen. Clarke
is guilty of moral perjury, and the party defeate
and a whig elected.
The following from the Intelligencer shows th
sttitudeof Oen. Clarke. Kead for yourself, fricn
democrat, and let the valuable and instructive les
, son sink deep upon your heart, that a broken dow
. i politician is the most unenviable and odioua of al
j of Ood's creatures. Gen. Clarke says:
“ We here declare our determination to with
hold our support of Johnson, and shall in th
course of the canvass give the reasons for the fait
that is in us. We would prove truant to our pnn
i ciples, to ourself, our fnemls were we to give t
’ our adhesion to his support under the exislin
i circumstances. Letters from those who supports
us m the hour of trial; those who feel therawlve
aggrieved by tbe criminations of Johnson s organ
the Banner; men who have grown gray in battlin
for democracy; who have supported Sevier an
1 Johnson, tune and again—who have fought for th
, | democratic privilege of selecting their rulers; an
who have exerc.sed that right heretofore, wilhou
i J being denounced by those who are dependent upo
them for their suffrages, to throw open ou» column
; to them. They are determined to oppose his no
I mutation and appeal to us, whom they have ofte
befriended, who has slood with them tu many
' bard fought battle, to give up the columns of th
; Intelligencer as their organ.
I “ We may be alone in taking this step, othe
i > democratic papers may be coaxed and bullied into
nominal support of tbe nominee, but we feel the
I our strength does not consist in the number a
i I newspapers or interested politicians, who may sus
i tam us, but rather in the justness of our cause
i the numbers of the democracy who are determine
t not to allow arrogant dictation to be cramme
, down their throats. We do not depend upon thus
; slippery politicians, who “know the rigkt still th
wrong pursue,” but upon those who, knowing th
| right. Awe matntma it."
We now ask the democracy of the State, wi
, ' they any looger give approbation to the aapiratior
of a man who can thus, without one excuai
' i prove traitor to his party, and refute to lend h
[ ' support to the nominee of the Convention, whor
i decision he morally obligated himself to abide7
1 Has be any claims upon their sympathy T W
j say no—a thousand times no. Geu. Clarke d<
r ; serves the unmitigated condemns!.on of evei
< democrat. Let hnn be expelled from tbe rani
1 ! and go over to the adversary—we need no sue
t white-livered colleagues. A traitor ! a traitor
f j Turn him out 1
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The last Abingdon Virginian contains '.he folios
ing:—The children of Mr. George Hiekan, a cil
sen of Scott county, were playing together in
held, near the mouth of a fathomless sink-hole. 1
their gambols, one of them, a boy about eight
ten years of age, pushed his little brother, at>o
four years old headlong over the edge and don
into the deep dark pit below. It wts some tin
after the child was missed, before any certain ii
formation could be drawn from the other is to wh
bad become of him ; and it waa only by threats
severe punishment, that finally overcome iht
fear and extorted from the boy who did th ' deed
confeaaionof what bad happened. An effort w
made immediately to ascertain the situation of t!
little felloyr and afford him relief, if he was not b
yond its power. Ropes were tied together with
stone attached to one end, an attempt was made
fathom the depth beneath, but more than six
feet of rope were employed in vain ; no botto
could be reached. A lighted candle was th<
let down, but its light gave no hupeiul indicatio
except that the pit was free from choke damp
impure air, as far down as the candle descend*
Night came on and all further efforts had to I
for the time abandoned. On the next day furth
trials wery made of the depth of the pit, but wi
no better success. In despair, the frantic paten
a ero about to give up all hopes of recovery orr
lieving tbeir little innocent, and preparations we
made to close up the mouth of the pit, to preve
a like occurrence in the future, when it was su
gesled and and agreed upon that another and
fiinal effort should tie made by letting some iik
dividual by rope examine the nature of the abyi
A brother of the lost child undertook the fet
ful task. Cords were fastened around his wa
and limbs, and one to his wrist, by which be rnig
indicate [to those above bis wishes either to de
cead or to be drawn up. Ho was swung off ai
slowly lowered, until having gone to the depth
about fill fee:, he looked below turn, atul the
shone through the thick darkness two glnteui
eyes intently looking upward. In another m
roent he was standing on a shelf or angle in t
shaft with the child clasped to his bosom. I
fastened the little fellow securely to his own hod
and bidding him lake the ope firmly in his hand
the signal was given to draw up. The child he
convulsively to the rope, and in a few winut
they rose within view of the hundred aaxto
spectators, who had assembled to witues* the r
suit; snd when the first glimpse of the little ft
low alive caught their eager gase. aertains ai
shouts of joy from the excited multitude filled a
and big tears of sympathy started from the eyes
every beholiier. After the first paroxysms of d
light had subsided, the child was examined to t
r had sustained any injury, and extraordinary
tell, with the exception of a tittle bruise on l
back of its head, it was perfectly sound and u
hurt. The only complaint that it made was th
it was hungry, being nearly 37 hours under t|
ground. To imjnines made of it. it replied th
it saw • light, and heard it thunder. Fran li
nature of the pit. it appeared that the little felk
had falleB a perpendicular distance of 40 feet, up
a slope or bend in the shaft, and from that pla
had stided down 10 feet farther to the spot wbe
he waa found leaning against a sort of pillar
wail, and gazing upward. How he escaped i
staui destruction is beyond all account.
■‘Do you cast Uuogs heter inquired » T*
n i hee the other day, as be sauntered into n found
and addressed the proprietor.
• | “We do.”
it j 41 You ctit *11 of things ia iron# w wi
i ; the next qu%*ry. _
i } 44 Certainly—itotTt you tee tl*at it in our dim
i oeur*
Htf Til CA'it dit tod T+ftittd tO t PSJf9 foiill'
TVS CVMaWCHKI
of twwitty fwthe brorfit of the \fc »r 1 Vwirn
H» remark* r-mta.n a wilutton of tt,r ta,h)tr f
MMK.Ktm hi protect our front* t „„ .,
tide ol Me\ i<*o which w n**e intelttgihv ! jlk . .
jargon c.f tin* special organ. charging • hat ,M .« ^
* ■ 4e*oera!.p one. or rather a cnn,Aor‘
IW hot aeftna the eatim*:., of u „
fhepnrtmrni. V, hen w* were >HTV,** f!tw
it wan a aubjeet of renjrraiulati.«n ».ih *1^ . .
OBCW m that gallant .Star* that the, i,*,i J'
httta man. called MJt trt»c,mWw),^,f
nxnpun-.h ail the Indian #**,**>>« t •
frontier, and wh,we prowea* had iwtj..-*d »„ »
WW that the Indian* w,n> glad to make tteniic, , f
peace amt ccane their depredation*. There
*«ch awn anil in Tuna, amt ;n the Southwest
and w« would roggeal to the spriial organ whether
it would be well to rail again for then wgru-,,
rather than autaait tn tm* nertou* eomptamtu wr„
not oele out own inhabitant, are making. but lh.v*<*
of Mexico, alao, that our treat* stipulation* are
not eseentrd.
It would be amusing to contrast the cvpi naei t„
which Texas waa subject when the waaaa oid.
pendent Stole, and bad to guard her lioniirr
the inroads upon her acttlrtnenta bg the Bftv «»»,
aand Indian* that are wort of oUt Arkansas Ind.aa
settlements, and the c\penw» now nrnrre,, forth,,
same object, but without arc««npi,*h>tif the
j<*ct. Where Jack Hays wanted „aiv hundo-d*
•ummuifKion seem* to want thovaand
For the Inton
Mr. Koto*' w - have S^tt alirv-vt mesas* nti v
shocked for the last three years with accounts of
, | murders, abductions, and other outiafca perpet;»
. t- d by the Indians in Texas ami New Move,, -
; Thus far the measures taken to snppre** depo rt*
,;tions seem only to have emboldened tfcevr au
i thors. Regular troop* base been nnl then*, nd
,; teers called out. nnd a (treat deal of monev spent,
. without doutgany good. on the contrary, the In
dians seem to tie more daring than eser.
Why is this? - The Ton ns have openly charyt
that the government vs indifferent to their welfare
I and safety, and but that commanding officers m
I Texas have been guilty of ignorance and neglect
. of thevr duty ia certainly true.
In the first place, there an* not enough smuivd
!' ‘rtxips in Texas, The two regiments of mlsntr*
II whieh are there are no more protection against In
dians than if they were ,n Kauuat hslks. They
can only be employed to defend and police the dtf
,, ferent garrionat for scenting or pursuit they are (vet
:! feetly valuletta. An attempt has been made to
. mount a part of them, but it hat proved t total
, failure, for the following reasons; 1. The men
! were enlisted without any regard to th,*ir fitness
for dragoon service, and consequetly they knew
nothing cither about tiding nr attending t„ hunea.
-. Neither the officer* nor men receive stn add,
tionsl pay for the extra duty thus imposed upon
them. 3. In many of the infantry regiments—
particularly Ulnae that have served with dragoons
—there is such an aversion for cavalry service that
an observer would suppose every horse, like tie
famous Trojanquadruped, concealed a deadly ene
my. Thesix companies of id dragoons have been
stationed »t intervals between tbr Rio Grande and
Red river. Several of these companies have hut
one officer with them: therefore many important
duties are necessarily intrusted to vergeanls. alc
aides. they have been expected to do *1 much that
it has bees impossible foi them to do anything well.
A single company r«i required to reconnoitre or
scout over a territory, or rather a desert, of three
hundred asd fifty miles in length—from Fort Brown
to Eagle Pass—and etghtv miics wide—from the
|: Rio Grande to the Nueces,
i Officers have been platted ia command of posts
who have no experience or even information as re
j girdsJugjjnrii or Indian warfare; and they never
: will acquire either until they are compelled to do
*n. One of these sent nut a young lieutenant m»
I pursuit of party which had killed some Men, ana
t j and driven off their huraea, with instrucuous r»
, j encamp at designated pomlt. A commanding offi
i cer, who has an immense reputation in a small evr
. ; cle, ordered out a battery of light artillery, eneurn
, t bered with a considerable train, to pursue and cap
, tore all parties of Indians they might find, Una .u i
. wilderness without roads or water, and pin of ,t
I coverec with such a dense growth of rhspparal aw!
r! cactus hat nothing but a rattlesnake or an Indian
v could penetrate it.
t | The government has neglected, and in fact re
f fused, to furnish the pursuing parties with g lides
. ' or " trailers.” Now, neither s scientific education
t > nor personal bravery eaa make aa officer a woods
j man, or teach him the difference between su " lu
j dian” and a “mustang’' trail. Such knowledge
6 | is the result of a life time application, and ran
only be acquired by men who have spent their lives
in the woods chasing mustangs sod eluding Indians
Nevertheless, a command was sent in pursuit uf
a party which had killed several Mexicans and ear
ned off the wires of two Americans ; and aKhmnh
were ordered to follow the Indians m long as there
was any prospect of overtaking them, and did ac
tually chitae them wore than two hundred milts,
they were refused a trailer. The officer m cob
mand of the party was compelled .to hue one »r
abandon the pursuit. He took the former course,
and Iks amount mas suspended at Waakmgtaa
But the principal reason why the the operations
against the Indians have been unsuccessful is.
that there w neither honor nor distinc tion to t»
gained. During the Me mean war officers w to
were not within the range of the enemy’s gun
were breveted. Rome of these declined bonori
which they had not earned; others who have n
tamed them acknowledge they did nothing worthy
of notice; and it is hinted that if another portion
“ i had received their deserts, instead of having
’ increased rsnk conferred, they would lose that
lt which they are already holding. Since these
„ i Indian difficulties commenced oue officer has been
ie i killed, ttree wounded, amt many have exhibited
; the most daring bravery. Their services have ne
lt j ver been mentioned, although there'is no compare
son between the courage of the Mexicans and tin
Indiana Twoof the latter will whip fifty of the
former; in fact, the simple word *■ Indian” usns
ports a Mexican with fear.
If the government is really anxious to exterm,
nale these savages, they must make use uf mount
ed troops—wither regular cavalry or Texan rangers.
Both arc somewhat objectionable, (lur drag-xne
lack knowledge of the woods and seif-reliance
i the Texans want discipline, which they never will
acquire so long as they sre commanded by officer*
! of their own selection. Every separate command
: must also be lurtusbed with a good trailer. The
1 best are Mexicans who have been captured and
_ raised by the Indians, and have then made their es
^ | cape.
, An officer following Indians must eipirt to is»
,j, aside everything like.cornfort. He most be w .. uf
to live upon wild beef, mustang*, or pecans- to
drink water two thirds mud, or even to do without
it for twenty-four or thirty six boun—to sleep u>
the open air, with a saddle for a pillow, and a rat
tlesake for a bedfellow, and, what is more, be m i*
run the continual, risk of taring ambuscaded. Ac
there such officers in our army1 Provided then
services sre recognised and rewarded, there are
plenty such; but they cannot be found amou*
those who receive brevets for pe-r!orming ” dwtm
guished vertices'' while at home withibtit Is®'
lies, nor m the crowds of young gentlemen * ft
JJj with polished bau, dyed wustoches, and atifl *u r.
re collars, swarm around the different iieadq uar'< re
in the army? Wt-OBA.
WHE1EVKR YUl l OIK.
Never too soon and never too late.
Though day afler day for your comm# l *«‘!
And you fail tne, and fail ine, come stand by ®’
side
Here ate imilca for your welccww. and pie**"1''
and pride.
Ob! darling, to near me, ao cfo*e to uie no*.
You/ voice in ray heart with ita muftaurno' '0*,,
'Tim many a long day I would weep all aloti
To gaae on you thus lot one WHlirirt, ®» **“
Never too late and never too soon
Land all the same in the night or the rmoi.
Come when you're weary, to lent from your
Come when your joyluf, that ijamj be »o.
Oh! there * hope it your footstep* and p * '* **
your eye*— :
There'* love ia your heart which ne'er ebang’'*
diet
There a strength in yrrn ipuit to kind!) and t
And there’* comfort and sunshine, *no *U t!n“#’
in you.
Neva* too late for my love to thine o’er you—
Never to toon but ’us burning before you;
My vows are your right, and my heart is your !*«*•
And my bloating your -eUmmt mkeaetet vo
MARKIED,
On the 24th June, by tbe R-tht
Byrne, id St. Andreo. Little Bock
Kiioh McKanans* of Sort Smith, to Mu*
Mat '1*1 of this place