T. 5. EsKRIDGE.
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h July last, pending the election for Delegate to Congress, this individual made a violent and abusive publication in the Ar- kansas Gazette, over his own signature in which he assailed the memory and char acter of the late TH0fnas ". Jolnston.- LT. c. K. M. MIDLAND, the intimate friend of Mr. Johnston, Gas will be seen by the following Correspohdenee,) called upon Eslzridge, by letter, 10 kaoc aokette,, O, no', he intended to insiaadtt augfti osffiiist tse character of tlse sEeeeased, in the publication alluded to. Thes Judge says, in reply, that he designed no reflection upon the character of He Eate 1aomas U. Joi.,ston, tshos' T E. s.saA.ssl.roayes eonaidefed person of elspated and honorable principles" '- This is what the Judge says of the late Thomas N..J johnston, no,e that friend has stepped in, determined to defend the char acter of the dead. Let us see what he said of him in July iast, when no friend 10 protect his memory was to be seen. Ne quote from his publication

 When did BIr. Criftenden,s says Esk- ridge, < bring forth from obscurity the man of mefff, and point ont to him the road to honor and virtue Ifi'aeaass 54t4FF 4t4FF. JOHNSTON is an dlasirioas example of the blessings of h;s eountenanee and patronage"

 find now compare fhis with the letter be- lov, andsmark how this slanderer-this re- vile, of the character of the dead-eots his word'. The dread of the LASH, has alone induced this rsoos vuLrURG to do fhe char aeter sf the dead justice. He can hereafter be looSed upon ia no other light, than as a rii'oia, coleard and siae.Aefor. He is too worthless and eontenPdble to notice far- liner.