Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-12-05

The New York Herald publishes the sta tistics of Beaufort district, and closes with the following:
 "Thus the reader will appreciate the i'm portance Of our armed occupation Of this Beaufort district, from the powerful union arguments which it will bring to bear upon the planters thereof They have from twenty to thirty millions of movable prop erty at stake, and the integrity of their in stitution of slavery. Will they sacrii e their cotton. corn, lice and negroes in behal of the popular cause of this suicidal rebel lion, or will they return to the union and be protected enriched and secured against the srinding despotism of Jeff. Davis? An interesting question, which we hope will be solved in a general southern reaction for the union, beginning at Beaufort"
 We commend to the Herald the follow ing extract of Q letter from friend in Charleston, which gives solemn facts for its consider eation:
 CHARLEsToN, November l9, 1861.
 Edisto Island is nearly laid in ruins. Nr. !. J. Mjkell Mrs. Hopkinson, and Mr. l. Legare, have all burned their entire erops-negro honses, barns, etc, and at a meeting oi the planters this has been uni versaly determined on. The same spirit actuates the owners of all the Sea Island plantations. 1 fully expect 10 hear that he entire Sea Island crop of this Slale will meet a similar fate. None will be saved, for all is in the fields or gin houses; thus twenty thousand bales, the product of this State, amounting 10 two millions, five hun- dred thousand dollars, will be destroyed by the hands of the proprietors themselves, rather than it shall fall into the possession of our vanda enemies, and have no reason to believe that Georgia will pursne any other course. Her people are as noble and as selt-Sacliticing as ours. The Sec Island crop of last year was estimated ct forty thousand bales, and this year the favorable seasons mato the planters calculate on for ty-ive thousand bales. Should the van Aals 0Ter-run Florida, and make any dem onstratIon on the rea island producing portions of that State, you may expect the planters there to follow our example, and thn% will the entire fine staple crop of this Cunfedpracy be totally destroyed, estina-
 rA in yaue at slG0 to rllQ baIe, from tour to five millions; but this is not all
 The cultivation ni this arti,le will not b.
 esUmed while inc war lasts, It is known ! to yen that the sea board Of Sonth Caro- 1 IiQa, Georgia and GIoriie are inc only re- gons Of the earth where fine and eL5ro fine cshon emed LoRg Stopfe, can be success hly produced. Now, the production of this article is indispensable to the manu. lectures of Bolton, Lancashire, and many other of the districts in EngIana, France, Germany and switzorland There is no substitute for it, and the lace and silk spin uers will feel this blow even more severely than we, who onlq sacrifice onr incomes and our luxniies; they have, besides their mills to keep in wot king order and occu- pied, large number of operatives to feed, and these people are not easily managed when thrown out of employment. There is much trouble for England, growing out of Earl Russell's idea that slavery is wrong and against the sentiments of Eng land, and therefore, acting on this prInc pie. ii were better t0 eXterminate the in- ,titution of slavery and the South, rather than acknowledge our just independence, which would insure the prosperity Of her people, even though the Yankee govern ment go 10 war for so doing. hope our people will remember the course Eng]and has as med against us, and when we can, let IS express our sentiments freely. l see now no hope for the raising of the blockade while Earl Russell occupies the government, but 1 do look in time for rhange in public sentiment so strong that Derby will take the reins, and the justice we seek be no longer denied us.
 The weather is cold and winterisb, yet the body of tie people are calm and deter mined. The sacrifices our foretathers made turing the first revolution, will cheerfully be endured again. We will fight and con quer the Yankee vandals on onr soil, even though we fight them without shoes or clothing. <