Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-12-14
Spirit of the Arkansas Press.

Spirit of the Arkansas Press.
 We clipped the following from one of the Arkansas papers, but have forgotten which:
 DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL CoNvEN- TIoN.-We notice that the democratic State central committee of Tennessee, has desig- mated the 18th of January, as the time for the assembling, at Nashville, of the democ- I racy of that State, in convention, to appoint delegates to the national convention to be held at Charleston, for the nomination of l a Presidential ticket; also to choose their electors for the State at large, and for the transaction of such other business as may | be deemed necessary. It is full time that similar move was ! made in Arkansas, and no time should be ! lost in making the necessary arrangements i for the assemblage of a convention at Little Rock. Let all parts and portions of the State be properly represented, and men l selected to represent the State in the na tional convention, who are we'll versed in | the desires and sentiments of the dem ocra- cy, in reference to the selection of suitable candidates for President and Vice Presi dent.
 The electors for the State at large should be men of the first order of talents-known to possess sound political knowledge, and willing to canvass the entire State. | We trust the democratic press throughout the State will properly urge this matter, in older that complete and thorough organi- zatlon may be effected"
 The Eldorado Times accounts for the sand in cotton, of which dealers make so much complaint, by the carelessneas of planters in gathering and preparing it. The Times advises that they gather less, observe more care in cleaning it and get a better price. One hand has been known to pick as much as twelve hundred pounds in day, and in the haste to gather so much trash and sand are gathered with it. We clip the following interesting items from the Times
 " A STRY OF A LOST CHILD.-Below we publish strange story of a lost child, sent to us by Mr. w. w. Graves, of Champac- nolle. He assures us that 1t is strictly true and may be relied on. It is a marked ex ample of the tenacity of life, proving that the " silver cord' which is so easily broken at one time, at another will bear 2 noun tain's weight. Says our informant
 'On Saturday the 22d day of October, a 1 negro child three years old wandered off from the plantation of E. F. Strong, Cal houn county, Arkansas, and remained lost till Wednesday the 2d day of November, when it was found by w. B. Farrell and Thomas Avera, six or seven miles from home. When found it was lying near the edge of the water and under bluff bank of the Ouachita river, three miles below Beech Hill. It was still alive, but very weak.- Farrell and Avera wrapped 1t in blankets, carried 1t home, and by proper medical treatment 1t soon revived and is now living and doing well, after having remained in the woods twelve days"
 A number of the Ouachta Herald, the first with which we have been blessed with for a month or more, asks us to republish some resolutions and parts of articles from othCi PdpcIo- " nave no OUIecJlOu to uO so, if we have room. So far as the Ohio resolutions are concerned they were not the voice of the democracy of that State. The Maine resolutions are simply the Douglas doctrine reduced to form on which they went into the contest and were beaten as they deserved to be. Whenever the de- mocratic leaders of Maine or Ohio, so far depart from true principles as to yield any thing to black rcpublicanism, the body of the party wilrepudiate them. The extract from the Day Book, which is democratic paper, proves nothing, or if anything, that the Cincinnati platform was not sufficient ly pro-slavery to suit the democratic mas seS.
 The Brownsville Echo has an excellent article on the capabilities and possible inn provementS of the |" Richwoods" lands of Prairie county. Our nfighboring county of Prairie is settling up rapidly and in few years will be one of the leading counties in the State.