Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-09

Scrub Oak .... 73 Wild Cherry A White Hazel. ........ p Yellow Pine ...... "A Apple Tree. I0 Chestnut. 52 Red Oak. .......-... b3 ellow Poplar 52 White Beach ....... 65 Butternut. B Black Walnut. ...... 66 White Berch. 49 w h1te Plne.. AZ
 A good deal of the wood burnt in this city comes from the river bottoms. There is no doubt a difference in the heating quail ties of wood cut from the uplands and the lowlands The former is smaller, harder, grew more slowly and is tougher and more compact.
 The courts in s. c. make short work of persons convicted of crimes An ex- change says:
 ."At Columbia, sC., on Saturday last, John r. Crawford, for gaming, sentenced to three years imprisonment and Sl ,500 fine; John Brasseur was ordered fifty lashes for stealing a mule, and Henry Shaver, for petty larceny, had his back strped.''
 Henry Ward Beecher attempts to justify the invasion of the south by Brown and his gang. The New York Independent says:
 But what a system is that which provokes such horrors, and gives such occasion for bloody nsur- rection. Where now the Arcadian pictures of southern plantations? Where the attractions of this patriarchal State? ''Blood will have bood;'' and the crimes of southern shareholders will vet work out fearful reribution upon their own heads" "
 In this connection it Is worthy of notice that Allen Evans, one of Brow's party and who was killed at Harper's Ferry, was q member of Beecher's church in Brooklyn. He was somewhat notorious as the repre- sentative of Plymouth church in the Sharpe's rifle affair.
 We find the following in the Louisville Democrat:
 Albert Pike has regularly joined the Cherokee Nation Albert wants to be consistent. He has, at length, got into the only native American partv Hadn't our neighbor better follow the example; shave his head, wear a scap-ock, blanket, cout, and be Polywog. Fancy him so arrayed-''
 Capt. Pike is among us, having returned from his trip to the Indian country, with no trace of paint, and his locks as long as when he left At all events, if the Chero kees have made him chief, it shows their appreciation of ability. From knotty point of law to the dantieat conceit of a rhymester; from painting or statute to the merits of bottle of Otard, we will back his judgment against the world. With all his love of adventure and fondness of sport we question if few men alive are capable of more intellectual labor; who can do more of it in the same space of time and do 1t as well.
 Hg- The Ouachita Herald took offence or pretended to at remark made ill this paper, that the opposition in the south were acting with the black republicans and demanded the proofs. A few were given and more promised. For while the He raid tried to parry these, or dodge them- It now tries to laugh them off, holds up poor old Martin Van Buren and insists that his former freesoilism, of which 1t is hoped he has repented is a set-of to the sins of the present freesoilers The Herald very good humoredly insists that we are joking and very philosophically chooses to con- sder it as very funny. However, as the sport is rather '' froggy," it cries quits and appeals to us in the following affecting manner:
 '' Be that as it may, we hope the True Democrat | is joking when 1t threatens to overwhelm us with other prooS of the same kind in it's next issue. In the name of humanity, we protest. In the sacred name of the constitution, which the True Democrat professes to respect, and which declares that cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted, we protest, and finally ask, in the language of the poet, slightly altered,
 Insatiate archer, will not this sufficel'"
 We cannot resist such an appeal. When our humanity is appealed to, we yield at once. If an oppositionist declares he is sufficiently punished, plants himselfupon the constitution and invokes 1t as shield, we cease to punish. Let the Herald do better in future, for we assure 1t, our disposition leads rather to commend than to censure, if we can do so with justice.
 It is time the people of the south should adopt as their motto, In essentials, unity in non- essentials, iberty-in all things charity"
 PHILLIPS COUNTY TABLE LANDS. Last week we made statement concerning the extraordinary fertility of the Phillips county