Little Rock, Julg I4th, 1880,


 MR. BERTRAND:

 Sw-Permit me through the medium of your paper. to say to the public. that had no agency whatever in the preparation of the Yegata'' toasts, or of any other toasts, given on the 5th July, at public dinner at the house of Dr. Cooke, in which the off, cial character of Gov. PopE, was directly or indirectly at issue.

 ] had thought if my duty to an individual for whom aayseg entertained the kindesi feelings, to make this snccinct statement. will add, it was not without surprise, that saw myself announced as the Presiding Officer of that dinner. I attribute this honorary annunciatiop, to the partiality of my friend. I certainly did not so consid- CT myself. read some of the toasts, 1t is true, at the request of the gentleman whom considered the President, owing entirely to tie accidental circumstance of his tenn porary absence from the table.

 Yours, d1c. 4. H. SEWER.