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if We were presumptuous enough to offer advice to the iocofoco writers, who are illu- minating the people in our region, we should whisper in their ear that the less they say about debtors of Hte Real Estate Bank, the better There are individuals and families LARGELY indebted to that institution, who have never been suspected of whiggery. We might be provoked into rejoinder Do the Democrats understand '-[ [.ark's. Gazette.

 The foregoing paragraph is evidently in- tended as threat to expose the names of those Democrats acho are indebted 10 the Real Estate Ba,sk, in order to deter democratic writers from exposing the improper practices of the Bank We will not here, discuss the morality or delicacy of such proceeding as this threat involves-we will not insult the good sense and good feeling of this commu- nity, by inquiring whether apy one has the right to indulge personal ill-will, or party prejudice, by exposing, in the columns of public newspaper, the pecunary embarrass- ments of private individuals. But we will inquire if the editor of the Gazette have the ability to make the exposure while he threat ems And we call upon him to answer the question for as he has made the threat, he is bound to execute, or retract 1t. If he have not the ability to execute his threat, then he has been guilty of empty boosting flor which we leave him to the tender mercies of the public contempt. If he have the ability to execute his threat, he must have obtained it from the officers of the Bank for they alone could furnish him the names and liabilities of their debtors. Now we call upon the officers of the Real Estate Bank to say whe- ther they have done this-whether they have placed at the disposal of the editor of the Gazette the names of their debtors, and au- thorzed him to expose them, in the columns of his paper, for the purpose of deterring the citizens of Arkansas from inquiring into the acts and doings of the Bank? This inquiry acquires force from the confidential relations existing between the officers of the Real Es- tate Bank and the editor of the Gazette, and from the general belief that he always speaks ''by authority" when he speaks of the affairs of the Bank. Yet, we are unwilling, even in our own mind, to answer it in the aflirma- tive; and we will not, unless the ayowal, or silence of these officers, leave us no alterna- tive. If they have placed the editor of the Gazette in this unenvable attitude, they are bound to come forward and bear it's odium with him; but if they have not, then it is due to themselves, and to the public, to dis avow it, and stand acquitted of gross out rage upon the moral sense of society. We withhold further remarks, for the present. 1 Does the Gazette understand