Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-11-10
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l. article on the democratic party. clothes soma great truths In beautiful language The spiri, ln which the article is written is the one to cbee, N and nerve us in the strife We wish we had space for the entire article, but will quote the following passages:
 NO, the democratic party is not an epher- neral one. The mighty bulwark which we nave reared was not built in day. The pure and national principles which we promu gate ana teach, exist not in fancy, nor are they the Ideal conceptions of any man. They are fun damental truths wide as the wide domains of the nauon, bounded by no line or environed by any narrow firth or channel
 It is not the name-it is the truth and gen ulneness of its principles. It is not the eUanid and perishlng elements which constitute the platform of other parties that have died, and gone to thelr graves, 'unwept, unhonored and unsung.' We need no forid prose or honied lines of rhyme to perpetuate the party: we on- iy ask the alphabet of our language to be learn ed' and then care not if a Wise desert or Dou- gas proves traitor We care not how mighty ana h'aeous are reels and rocks of the opposi- tlon, we will steer our bark into the omen soa through the dismal breakers that surround usn
 The same paper has another article concern Ing the removal of the Red river raft. a work oi the utmost importance to south Arkansas The proVerb says: When there is will tbere IS way" and we hope the will exhibited will md way to accomplish this great work
 The Washington Telegraph, has also an arti. Gle on the same subject The Telegraph gives the la'e election returns, but unlike some of the opposition presses does not seem to exult over the success of the peoples party. Its editor, though warm partisan and decided in his op'nlons, does not find it necessary to ieer his opponents at the success of abolitionism. nor aces he stoop to the slang and abuse of some of the opposition papers. In politics we differ in 'o'o' put we hope we shall always doso frank ly and courteously.
 The Jefferson Independent is sngularlv for 'uiiate Tn Its contributors We find an article "hich we have cut out for publication in our oolumns entltlei Ia chat about phvsic," writ ten In plain sensible style. We intend to pro- cure from some physician paper on the dis casts incident to our climate, to rebut the asser- 'ioh that has gone abroad as to the unhealthiness oi Arkansas. In the absence of mortuary sta- tlstcs It IS very difficult to show to the people oi other States that our State except in few q. localities, Is healthy and that the diseases in. ''ueut to our climate are not of malignant : type. The Independents correspondent writes ~ich ease, directness and vigor. If the editor can induce him to write such paper, it would De widely copied. Again; our State is so large that It may be said to have more than one eli mate and diseases prevalent in one section are almost unknown in another As several of the papers In the State are edited by physicians, they might be induced to publish articles on this subject
 The Independent notices the death of An. toine Barraque, of Jefferson, and Col. James Smith of Arkansas county
 From the Smithvlle Plandealer. we cut inc following item:
 " cave has been discovered eight miles west oi thls place which is thought to be of great di mepsons It was found by company of bun. ters. Some 50 yards from it's mouth was found heap of human bones. It has doubtless in the past been the rendezvous of robbers and the burial place of crime"
 The Powhatan Weekly Advertiser, sometime ago published two letters from Booker Ben nett, postmaster at Jackson, Arkansas. written to the notorious Isbells, one of whom was re. gently killed. One of these letters was am bigu- ously worded but informed Isbell that he (Ben- netO had land warrant for 12O acres, wished him to come down, etc. The Advertiser says that land warrant was found among the naners lg hOl hot achn ls. I was at Bennett's, that the identical warrant is one transmitted to the warrantee, E. H. McCav. but never came to hand, that it had to mass through the office of which Bennett was post master, and the very plain inference is that Ben nett stole it. We have since learned that Ben nett has run away. The Advertiser deserves credit for its nerve in tracing up and exposing this rascalitv
 The following shows what slippery rogues they have in that section:
 "We understand that James Curry who was indicted in this county for arson sometime aoo and placed in jail in Fulton county safe keen, ing broke out again eight or ten days ago. A prisoner charged with murder also escaped with him.
 Jim Curry IS as slippery as an eel. He. last summer, with three other prisoners, sawed the bottom of the same jail out, and then grabbed apassage under the wall until they struck day. light on the outside, and then scampered He was only re-captured few weeks ago and plac ed in his old quarters, when out he comes arain. He and his fellow prisoner in their figbt on last Wednesday, came across two fine mares and colts in the northern part of Jackson conn., ty, the property Of an emg grant just from Illinois who was stopping for a few days, and they seized the horses, leaving for better range. They took a straigt line for Crawlevs ridge, but were trailed and hotly pursued by the owner of the horses and others, and on Friday evepino tbev came up with them a short distance beyond Gainesville, where they were politely waited uron Jewels and other suitable ornaments were placed upon them, and they were march, ed back in stately and Showy tranpings.
 The daring rascals took kind of free and easy jauut of t-swapped of their stock-oot several dollars in the way of boot-halted at Gainesville where each took a quart or so of red eye under his belt-remaned in Gains. vile two or three hours. and when apprehend ed each villain was the possessor of mule and ~ stout purse of money. This is what we call doing fast business on a slow line. What iught to be done with such hell hounds as these? iVhe law is too mercful for such vilainv. o. ss lat we had the old North Carolina code in tce here for whet and had all the horse ieves, and other criminals unwhipped of us- tice in this State, and Mose on the regular line in pen, wouldn't we have jolly piece of work! Something must be done. The law under the .la't detuery principle can't be enforced and we have to submit to murder robbery, theft and all other outrages, known to the devil and his terrestial agents"
 The three following interesting items are from the Fort Smith Times:
 The Longest Pole Knocks the Simmons. Speaking of the longest pole, reminds Us that we have how in our sanctum. Chinese sugar cane' stalk, raised on the upland part of the farm of Mr. Grandson c. Smith near this city, which is a leetle the taIIest thing of the knd we have ever seen-measuring F feet 215 inches-and Is wltha very heavy cane. It shows "h't can De done in Sebastian county,