Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-05
What the Arkansas Papers sav.


 ing concerning the jail at Pine Bluff:
 "Our jail will be completed iu a few days, if we have no more bad weather The other counties of our state that need a secure recep- tacle for thelr evll-doers, should send an agent here to examine this one soon as 1t is finished, and we have no doubt but that they will follow the example set by our county in the erection of thls building. It unes convenience of con- structlon with perfect security It is the only place ot which we can think, where an editor would be entirely freed from Interruption; we have bespoken rooms."
 The following from the same paper is too true. We are free from the charge, and intend to keep so.
 "Among other things strange, that are hu initiating to southern pride. Is the fact that so many of our editors at the south, tax their braIu for weekly puttS of northern publications with no other return than the renumerarive comnI, meutarv one of an exchange
 Any solt-headed individual thai imagiues h.. feels he divine atfla Us Gl his litle soui vlll get out prospectus ot startling longitude, with letters oi rainbow color gotten up on circus style; It takes finely, (or we are still somewhat Indian III our tastes and he soon has multi tude of southern subscribers, that have been at tracted by the brilliant array of names of liter ary contributors, who for a consideration have allowed nm the Use of their names but who never write an article for his paper except he choose to publish some blood and thunder story at second hand of the klvanus Sohb" order. Then some of our littie eight by ten country sheets are eec'rhrd by receiving the magnaui nous offer 0i all excnlDge with the nurtlerl. OIymplal M 'nerva, Wljh the l"IItr request That Le will III each "hmO r O. ns uii.N eXtrd Il journal give short notice al tn M.fi r,a. valyIng It as he Che editor of inc NJ t,erva) will, from time to me ih,im te. | nr djur ut elght by ten thinks that he nn.lce N ai nli ln, so much space that would oi nefw ise b. touble some, and, the Minerva will bc ol me, ImaiIe advantage to hm Ill the Way of clippings. and it may he that he will get d large northern cir. culaton by his cunnection with paper of such great reputation, little thinking that his piymy sheet Is never opened in the northern office ex- cept to see that the notice is regularly inserted. A southern literary paper is scarcely ever ad- vertlsed without a quid pro quo, while too many of us are ever ready 10 follow over zealou,ly the bible pfecept in kissing the rod that smites us.' The fact is very plain that no southern paper scarce ever gets other than an abusive notice north of Mason and Dixon's line. Is it not strange that such should be the facts of the case, but it is no less strange than true.
 We will be happy to advertise northern mer. chandlse of all kinds at our regular rates. but can't consent to do so for the benefit of an ex. change. We will also feel fattered by an ex change with any southern paper or magazine literary, political or independent, and will give such notice as we think they deserve"
 The Independent thus suggests:
 I've should like to make au amendment to some one of the free negro bills now before our leglSlature; which Is, that clause be added for the expulsion of abotionists from our midst; to take effect lnStanter, on pain of being ship ped to Liberia to further their views of frater nzation with their wooly headed bre.hyen''
 The following is from the Washington Tele- graph:
 "FALsE PACKING.--The New Orleans Ores. cent notices rock or stone, weighing one hun dred and eighty-three pounds, which was for warded from Stock port, England where, it is said, it was taken from a bale of cotton pur- chased in the New Orleans market last spring. The Crescent judges the rock to be produc- ton of the State ot Arkansas, but refrains from further remarks as the matter is undergoing n- vestigatIon.
 As general rule, we believe the planters of Arkansas are as honest and honorable as the planters of any other state aud it is due to them that when the investigations shall have disclosed the name of the party guilty of so contempti- ble swindle, it should be made public and be branded with the odum such an act merits. Whether the rock proves to be "a production of the State of Arkansas or any other state, let the name of the packer be published"
 The Fort Smith Times still advocates the policy of erecting the Indian nations, west of us, into territories. It says:
 I've see it stated in telegraphic despatch that the Secretary of the Interior recommends U. s. Court to be organized in the Indian country. for the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Chero- kees and Creeks. It would have been better for him to have recommended the adoption of Mir Johnsou's bill, to form them into territories. It has to be done. and now is the fiine."
 For the follow hg sensible article we ar. in dehted 70 th Helena Inelc den S,uthro
 Wearing Concealed Weapons
 We beg to be allowed to throw hint in lhe way of our pre sent legislators. before they shall have dispersed, in regard to what we conceive