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 FoRT SMITH, June z, 1915. a EDS. BANNER Gentlemen, Your friend. ly notice ofmy last letter is kindly received by sour citizens. Our town is quite lively from Sthe number of officers &c., composing the .. Court Martial, assembled here for the trial sof Col. HARVEY. The following is list of sthe officers of the Court: Gen. Arbuckle sCol. Loomas, Col. Garland, Col. Twiggs, s( (absent, being sick,) Col. Mason. Maior sStandifer, Major Hoffman, Major Andrews SMajor Sewell, and Capt. Prentiss, Judge Ad- svocate. Witnesses: Capt. Blake, Capt. Howe Leuts. Johnson, Merrill, Cain, Hill, Rogers sand Asst. Surgeons Sloane and Simmons The charges against Col. IIarney, have been zprelerred by Lieut.. Johnson, of the 2nd Ora sgoons. What those charges are have not soeen able to ascertain, or Iwould furnish you swith them.

 Z see, by the last Van Buren Tnteligencer sthat they have made the discovery that Van sBnen and Fort Smith are one and the same TWhy, then, have they not taken some notice soi us, Il we are part and parcel of them ?- he fact IS, 1t strikes me, they never thought sen9ugh about us to notice us at all, until my letter appeared in the Banner. My object 9 9was not, and IS not, to excite either jealousy For Ill feeling, as the editors of the Tntelli- Fgencer say there is none on the part of Van sBuren. l can assure them that we are the sbest friends in the world; and thought we sought to have received some notice and sattentlon from the Van Buren papers, inas amuch as they receive a large portion of their sPatronage from the merchants of Fort Smith. aAnd this the IntelIigencer has tortured into ameanlng that we were dependent upon Van $ SSBuren for our supplies of goods &c. Now sthls IS not so All our merchants buy from stirst hands, and sell goods as cheap as thev sare sold in Van Buren, or any other part of 5thc State. The idea intended to convey. sand think did clearly express, was that the newspapers of Van Buren were dependent supon the citizens of Fort Smith for much of 5 sthelr patronage; and not that the citizens off SStort Smith were dependent upon Van Buren, aior their supplies of goods.

 return you thanks for your kind notice aol my letter, both for myself, and for the acltlzens of our beautiful town.

 Yours, NJ