Des Arc citizen., 1859-04-22
NEW MFXTgo

The Black Republicans are raising a terrible shriek over the action of the New Mexico Legislature in passing laws pro tectng slave property. The legislature did nothing but their duty in this matter, and we are gratified to know that they had the irmness and boldness to disregard the howls and shrieks of the fanatics.
 The members of the New Mexico Legislature were more careful and con scientious of their paths and obligations than AboIitions, hence the great outcry against them. If they had passed law IIegaizing roguery and robbery as two thirds of the Northern legislatures have done, there would have been one univer- sal shout of applause from Aboitiondom. Greeley would have gone into extaoies and preached long philosophical dis course upon the beauties of free soil, free labor and free women.
 The action of this Territorial Legis- ature gives us hope that the day is not far distant when we shall have the pleas ure of welcoming another slave State into this great conlederacy. The people of New Mexico are warmly in favor of slav- cry, and unless she Is inundated with hordos of Abolitonists by emigrant aid societies from jals, penitentiaries and pauper houses, she will establish a con- stitution recognizing to the fullest extent tue rights of the South We have every reason to hope for the full consummation of this desirable result. The Territorial delegate to Congress, Senor Otero, IS staunch pro-slavery man, and great ma iorly of the Mexican population enter- tain similar views. The great mass of the American settlers are from Missouri, and no one would for a moment doubt their fealty and devotion to Southern in- stitutions. If 1t is necessary they will make as gallant fight for southern prin cipes and honor as they did upon the flow cry prairies of Kansas, and that too with far greater success.
 In the last ten years we have been cheated, sWindled and defrauded on all sides. We have been driven out of Cali fornia and Kansas, both of which ought to have been slave States, but the ungov- ernably cupidily of our Union-loving brethren of the North would not tolerate the presence of our institutions.
 Of all the Territories of the Union, New Mexico is the only one that presents the shadow of hope ; all the rest are hopelessly free.soil. She can be secured to the South if the proper course is pur- sued and her settlement is left to the natu- ral laws of emigration. The Abolition ists, having conquered Kansas, may now turn their batteries upon this new and in vitng field, but we rather think that they will find it losing business. - Helena (Ark. ) Democrat.
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 How PAPER IS MADE.-Has the read- CT ever felt any curiosity as to the manu- facture of the paper which he holds iA his hand If So, letus try and elucldate few points. Imagine, then, huge piles of rags, which have been collected togeth- CT from different sections of country, and which now repose on the floor of some mill, waiting to be thrown into the cut ting machine. From this they emerge in slips of about six inches inlength. These are passed through an apparatus which cleans them of dirt, and they are then thrown into stands or C vats, strong lye is placed upon them, and the whole then boiled by steam for about twelve hours,
 in order 10 soften the texture and loosen the coloring. From there they are put in- to the " washey." After having become thoroughly cleansed and fbrous, they are bleached un'i free of all coloring, and now present the appearance of pure white cotton, which has been thoroughly soaked in water and afterwards allowed to dry. The next process they undergo is that Of beating, from which they emerge in the form of fine pulp. The pulp is placed ina vat, through which large cylinder, covered with fine wire, revolyes. Upon this wire the pulp is gathered and taken off upon belt, thoroughly saturated with water. It Is then run through a number of " press rolls to q second press felt" ]" The paper, or rather wet pulp, spread up- on the felt, Is also run around two large copper dryers heated by steam. There the pulp first assumes the appearance of paper; which is finished by being run be- tween three pairs of cylinders, and after wards reeled. The paper is now about | five feet wide. A short distance from the | calenders' is the cutting machine. by which the paper is cut 10 any width or length, and afterwards counted into quires reams. and bundles, dressed and stored away for sale. Thus t is eyidentt that the very pocket handkerchief, now in your pocket, or the collar on your neck, may, in time, be incorporated into the newspa- per, on which your eye rests with so muel satisfaction.
 DISTINCTIONS OF CLASS. is all very well 10 talk about | free country anc insist that we have no distinctions of class Such distinctions there must always be 1T ] ll U :.