Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-19
What the Arkansas Papers Saw,


 Texas Republican. He says: "The Little Rock True Democrat contains an article entitled What the Arkansas pa pers say The first notice is that of an es- capped convict" At
 Further inquiry established the fact that he was an estray Texas editor. From the Searcy Eagle we see that meet ing was held there in relation to the removal of the capital. We shall give the proceedings room in this or the next issue.
 The Sage of Monticello has again changed hands, Mr.. Mum retiring and Messrs Horatio Wallace and Virginius Hutchens entering as editors Both these gentlemen are able wri ters and MT. Hutchens has a wide reputation as hteratem. They run up the democratic flag to the stirring music of the following words:
 "In politics the Sage vii! be radically de- mocratic No perverted ambition, no personal affection, no gttering bribe of place or power. can lure us from fair, candid and jealous snp- port of those eternal principles written by Jef ferson, subscribed to by Madison, and revered by Jackson.
 Party organizations may huctuate and be destroyed, but principles are as unchanging and undying as the God of the Universe Demo- cratic principles are the only safeguard to Ame- | rican institutions. Under tEe fostering of those | time honored principles, Columbia has increas- | ed from thirteen dependent colonies to more than thirty Independent sovereign States | Under the rule ot the party protesting those | principles, the broad 9gis of anti monarchal law now covers magnificent land extending | from Maine to Texas, and from Virginia to that primeval wilderness where the red Indian roves and far-of Oregon hears but the sound of his own dashng.'
 Not an inch has been added to the nations territory not annexed by the democracy-not law remains on record in the national stat ute book not entered there by the democratic | hand.
 ln peace, democratic government has watch ed with vlgilant eyes the interests of the coun- try; and in war, it has waved the celestial sym bols of the States in triumph over the gory battlefield of New Orleans, and planted our gonfalons of victory on the sunlt domes of the Mexican capital.
 To the democratic party we have long been allied; and should we live until the furrows of age were traced npon our brows, we would still be found in heart linked fellowship with those who would vitalize and energize that no- ble sentiment which leads us to wish that equa ity Of rights may triumph over inequality of | condition or position
 The democratic party is not fated to decay. It's organization may at times be broken; but its principles, full of the immortal essence of truth and freedom, will ever redeem it from the shackles of defeat, and raise its banner from the dust of destruction and abuse
 When we call up in mental review the many elements of opposition that have been brought to bear against democracy, we can but compare 1t to the Corinth of the poet: Many a year and many an age < Of tempest shock and battles rage | Have passed OCT Corinth vet she stands A fortress formed to Freedoms hand" With such talent at its head and maintain- ing such principles the Sage cannot but be suc- cessful
 The Independent Southron has been bought by Mir. Thomas J. Key, and is now edited by that gentleman and Mr. Bronaugh We see that the State Rights Democrat has attacked that paper also IL can brook no rival near the throne"
 We welcome MT. Key into the ranks and as- sure him that the pretended sentinel there on the ramparts of democracy watches nothing but his own interests that democratic paper at Helena is much needed and hope the South ron will be liberally sustained.
 From that paper we clip the following item in relation to the mails:
 "The Little Rock mail which has hereto. fore departed at F M., has been changed to o'clock A. M., and arrives now at 9 o'clock r. M. The mail Is now carried by Clarendon instead of Aberdeen"
 The Van Buren Intelligencer has the follow ing remarks ii relation to free negroes:
 We have ever been of the opinion that free negroes and muattoes are great nuisance to any community, but more especially so to slave State. They are we'll calculated to in fuse a spirit of discontent and nsubordination in the slave population; but situated as we are near the line where great numbers of free ne groes collect in the towns and valleys, they are peculiarly great annoyance to the country, and harbor runaway slaves and get living by petty arcer les. We hope that our present le. Slslature will do something to rid the country of this worthless population, and call the atten- ton of our senators and representatives to this subject"
 We find in the Telegraph the following cx- tract from the Fort Smith Times and the con- ments of the Telegraph thereon. We are no advocates of mob-aw, but in such case as this we are decidedly in favor of the treatment proposed. There are several of those clerical gentry on the line or in the Indian nation: AN ABOLITION MISSIONARY IN THE CHEROKEE NATIoN--We are informed by reliable authori- ty, that the Rev. EUan Jones, Baptist Mis- sonary residing near the State line, Washing ton county, is very dangerous man, teaching abohtionsm to the Indians. He is not a native ot the United States, being by birth a Welsh man, and no doubt subject of Queen Victoria | Our Informant says he boasts of his course, and says he hopes by the time the Cherokees are prepared to come into the Union, that he will be able to affect them, by his teaching, so as to secure heir Ctdmittance into the Union as C free State We know this gentleman of old, that he has always been meddles ome man in the po- lItlcal affairs of the Cherokees. Our informant further states that this same Jones has made out free papers for several negroes iu the naton and that the righttu owners of them have been compelled to sue to recover their own property -F5at Smith Times"
 The reverned gentleman should be decked out in full suit of tar and feathers, and his de- P"'eui0 APeuitcu ny lIcc liuo Ou u ran. l uo garbof such gentry should be no protection to their receiving at the hands of the South, the cbastisement they so well merit" From the Helena Shield we learn that the vote for marshal of the city of Helena, stood: E. K. Harris 90; A. C. Robertson 61; R. l. Phillips 2. The Shield says that it was a con- test of strength between the Sebastian men and Hindman men, and intimates that, hereafter the whigs and Americans will administer the state government We were told that the American party was built on the ruins of the whig party. If that is rebuilt where is the American party moved to? These know noth- ings have strange fashion of killing off and resuscitatiDg parties-on paper.
 Wesee from correspondent of the Camden Herald that it is rumored about Monticello. that Professor A. M. Scott, the principal of the Female College, is about to move to Memphis.
 We hope this is not so His school is a credit q, Gtat ba ic h,, .l.