Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-01-18
Clippings and Comments.

Ii It could be made to reach the slaves Even this poor wretch's fate was better than that of runaways who go to Canada to freeze or starve to death, or eke out mis- erable existence by toll or pilfering It shows too the effects of letting {" bad white men" tamper with negroes:
 {" A slave named Green was hung in St. Joseph, Mo-, on the 2d inst, for the mur- der of his master, Mir. F. M Wright. He was fellow prisoner with the notorious Doy, and the day before the execution he made confession of his crime. He sail his master treated him kindly, and never spoke a cross word to him, and the only reason he could give for shooting his master was, Mot he acas fold to do so by white people He also said" Y Ihad ne0er Hstened to Me aduice of bad white men Iacould not noac 6e confined in Mis joI. l would like to say word to my black friends, and it is this: I had a good home, but listening to the advice of bad men l am now in this jail and would advise all who have good masters and mis- tresses, and even those who may have bad ones, never to listen to any advice men may give them advising them to run off, or do any injury to the property of their masters or mistresses. Itook the advice of bad per sons, and l am now to suffer death for lis tenng to them"
 In connection with the above we notice that Mir. John Clarke, of Kentucky, and other gentlemen have gone to Canada fol negroes, who wrote to their masters that they were suffering and wished to return to their comfortable homes
 Here is another clipping of like tenor: "Mr. Giddngs, gentleman from Texas, who Is now stopping at the National Hotel Photographs the Washington, l7th, cores pondent of the N Y. Times, was surpris- ed yesterday at the return of his servant Jane, who was taken from him by force while he was making visit at Niagara Falls last July. The girl gives deplora- ble account of her treatment by the Cana dian free negroes. TIE MARKS UPON HER BODY SHOW THAT SHE HAS RECEIVED SEVERE wHTpPINGs. Eluding her captors, she reach ed the American side of the river, where she procured the means necessary to enable her to reach her master. She expressed great joy at her return home. The circum- stances of her seizure were extensively mo- ticed in the northern journals at the time when 1t occurred"
 There is know nothing named Hill in Congress. If we are not mistaken he is from Alabama. He is immense pumpkins in his own estimation. What he cannot do is not worth doing. If Archimedes could move the world with proper lever and fulcrum, Hill could do it without either There is no stretch of intellect, no erea of thought, no scope of mental action, that Hill cannot compass. On the 20th ult., in the House,
 "Mr Hill said he came here with view of breaking up both the republican and de- mocratic parties, and erecting on their ruins a better party"
 Further on, this Hill, who is a Himay- layan mountain, said:
 "He (Hill) came here against the oppo- siIion of the democratic party, and with sentiments rather peculiar, and rather more southern than those expressed by Mir. Bur nett, but he would never, so help him God, consent to destroy the structure under which we live, merely because man with objectionable political principles should be elected to the Presidency. He would wait till some overt act was committed before he would consent to strike fatal blow. He was a constitutional man and no other.-
 His remarks were enthusiastically ap- plauded. 2
 What a terrible Hill this is, to be sure After he destroys the two great parties of the day, and erect better one. on their ruins, will he rest there, or go on to greater deeds? We shall see. In the meantime it is we'll to watch this Hill.
 The following is clipped from the San Joaquin (Cal. Republican,:
 " EXTRAORDINARY LAY Our = The Evansville Democrat thanks Mir. William Black for laying a seven and half by six inch hens egg upon the editors table, On the same date, vegetable merchant laid fifteen pound sweet potato in the Sacramento Union ofiice."
 We take it that Mir William Black is a regular Shanghaie. They should make him comfortable nest of straw or hay, and not have him laying eggs on tables.- The vegetable merchant is new institu- tion and we suppose the potato he laid was one of his own tubers. Nothing is said o1 his corns
 The following table is interesting as showing the increase of cubes:
 A cubic inch of gold is worth Sl46 % {" foot, S252,2S0 Ol !" yard, $6,Sll,776 Ol
 At sixteen dollars to the ounce, the cubic inch would weigh 9 oz. The cubic foo l,S14 pounds. The cubic yard 35,47s pounds. In one of the stories, la Sylva- nus Cobb, that appeared in one of the eas tern papers, the plot hinged on robbery The story went on to tell of man wht l gained access to certain gold and carried off an arm full. He is represented as be ing millionaire and the treasure thus takel at one load was said to be enormous. Flo the purpose of calculation assume poun' of gold to be worth S25O. If he carried | o5O bounds. which is more than ordinar, men care to stagger under, 1t would amour l to S62, 300. Instead of a million, ther are very few men who can lift hundre' thousand dollars in gold.
 | Senator Seward was to have reception upon his arrival at New York. He ha boasted, heretofore, that he paid no atten tion to what was said of him. He care l nothing for public sentiment, so he woul