Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-22

in our State: N A
 "A WORD FOR ARKANsA.-The tt- smith Heral copies an article dated at Ozark, Frank- lin county, in this State. from Philadelphia paper, in which the writer, under the aiove @ caption, purports to give some information Q, the advantages and resources of this State, anu from which.we extract the following paragraph SCHOOL TEACHING No branch of business is more neglected than this. Children are every where growing up ip ignorance, while a large majority of the grown people cannot even read, The need of good schools is generally felt and were they once established, numbers ot men aud women even, would gladly avail themselves
 of the opportunity to acquire all education" l. Now. whether this Is true of the immediate neiyhborhood of where the writer resides, we
 know not; but that it is applicable to the State
 at large we deny. There is 10 State in the Unon with as sparse population, where there 1 is more attention paid to education. Arkansas has within her limits as good institutions of | learning as there are in any State, and if the youth of the State fail to receive an education,
 it is to be attributed to other causes than to the want of schools
 Batesville Is said to contain some of the finest
 buildings in the State. The following descrip-
 ton of a new building in that city, we clip from
 the Independent Balance:
 | The Batesville Institute We have several times recently visited and
 examined this elegant building, now entirely
 completed, except little painting and finishing of the Masonic Hall, and feel proud to say that We de not think there Is another such building
 in the State. We have several times before re-
 ierred to but do not recolect to have spoken of the plan ot the building in detail. It Is q three
 story building, fronting sixty feet main street, | and running back 90 feet. On the first floor l are two very large and Commodlous store-roons' arranged upon plan at once original ana con ! yenieHt. the large and commodIous counting | rooms being separated from the man sales I rooms, bv partitions exterding hardly haii-way | acros, the rooms with wide arches Tn the cen | ire. Below these store-rooms are cellars, wIth eight feet ceilihgs. running the whole length ol | the building. admirably arraid for entrance ana egress and the storing of groceries or neayy a'- tlces. M ta8T l On inc second floor are the town hall, the public library room, and three smaller rooms h. tended for offices. The town hall, IS really a handsome room, elegantly finished, and capable of seating seven or eight hundred persons. l his room IS designed to be used on all occasion of public meetings, exhibitions, etc, and Is now occupied by the Baptist as place of worship. The public library room is also handsome and commodious rom, though no extra expense has been incurred in its adOrmeut. Shelves have
 been prepared for the books on hand or expect ed durlrg the ensuing year. And here we my state that, as soon as the books on hand can be
 labelled and properly sheved, it Is the intention of the propretors of the institute to put their scheme of establishing public circulating libra-
 ry into operation.
 On the third floor are the Masonic and Odd
 Fellows halls both handsome rooms, especially the Masonic hall upon which Messas Wycough and Montgomery, the workmen employed to finish 1t, have displayed excellent taste and skill.
 U on the whole, the institute'' is one of the haudsomest buildings of brick we ever saw. and would be creditabe to any of our cities - Our citizens may well he proud of it; and whilst 4he enterprslIg gentlemen who have coHtribut- ed the means to pulled t, must reap rich re- ward n the satisfaction they experience at see ing slt>h monGment of their hberaltv and taste reared in our midst, yet we trust they may receive, iu the rents and profits of the bnildng, a more substantial remuneration for their time, trouble, and money expended on it.
 As we said, the building IS almost entirely finished, and will be fully completed some days before the great celebration appointed for the 29 inst. On that occasion, our friends from negboring counties will have an opportunity of witnessing the lauAabe spirit of improvement which has been at work in our midst. aud we trust they may be disposed to go and do ike wise"
 The Pine Bluff Democrat, reajmuus under the management of John P. Boyd, has the fol- lowing item which we copy to correct some mistakes therein:
 'The Fort Smith Herald and the True De- mocrat are at loggerheads about their democra- cy. The Democrat tnts to read the Herald out of the party because, we suppose. it is not supporter of Mir. Sebastian. The Herald Is a stauuch democratic journal and maufully main- taius its position.'
 In the first place we are not at loggerheads with the Herald about our and its democracy, because nobody is fool enough 10 accuse the Herald of having any democracy to go to log gerheads about. In the next place we don't want to read it out of the party, as, if it ever was n, 1t has etfectuaIly read itSelfout In the next place, the supposition of the Democrat that we scored lhe Herald because it is not sup porter of Mr. Sebastian, is gratituous and un- founded. 4 number of our valued home ex- changes have taken ground against Mr. Sebas- tian, as they have a perfect right to do, and we have not been and are not now disposed to find fault with their so doing. h this respect we desire to remain reutral, and offer our columns to the friends of either of the democratic aspi- rants The truth is that the Herald, during the canvass, without cause, made an unwarrantable ungentlemauly and personal attack upon us and we felt it to be our duty to expose some of it's political rascality. Such papers the Wash ington Telegraph, the Helena Shield or Oua- chita Herald though politically opposed to Us, have gentlemen for their editors who would scon to descend to the filth of the herald They openly avow their opposition to the de- mocratic party, while the Herald secretly at- tacks everything and every principle that savors of democracy. It calls itself ademocratic jour- nal and so does the Democrat, but either the latter's idea of democracy differs from that of everybody else. or 1t has not watched the course of the Herald during the late canvass.
 Tine Democrat has also, the following article for the benefit of the Des Arcies:
 "The citizens of Des Arc have held meet ing the object of which was to bring about some means of securing the location of the capitol at that point. The reason why the capitol was proposed to be removed, was on account of the inconvenience of navigation at Little Rock Pine Bluff has good navigate on all the year for some class of boats; then why not move ere? This is much larger place than Des Arc, and the business done here is at least quintuple that done at that place. Des Arc has just sprung up in the last few years, and must certainly have a grea. deal of assurance to ask this over her much older sister towns. Pine Bluff is much nearer the Mississippi, and heuce much more conven- ient
 We are not overly anxious that the capitol should. be removed; but if 1t Is to be, We want tcin rrt tartt