Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-01-16

Louisville Cotrier
 Gen. Pillow has resigned. What will the Memphis papers now do for sensation dis. patches.
 Gen. Mcclellan told the Yankees that they had made their last Bull run" He could not, Of course, iorcsee how soon John Bull would make them run.
 Some of our Southern tunes seem to be in vogue at the North. We infer so, from the way the Yankees have lately been practicing Mason and Slides Quickstcp."
 Seward can give the same report of his pass with Johh Bull that the Yankee Generals do of most of their battles as follows "Just when winning the day. it was deemed prudent in view of a superior force to retire, which was done in good order"
 The Richmond Dispatch copies the following article from the Washington Star of Dec. p:
 "Prominent members of Congress are consider ing new proposition for the solution of contra band questions, in order to avoid the,expense of supporting crowds of slaves in deness, and to fur nish the American mills in cotton. They take the ground that the Indian Territory west of Louisiana and Arkansas ceded to the United States hy treaty and on certain conditions. Without provo cation they have violated t!e treaties, and levied war llie United States, thus rendering the trea ties null and void.
 | 1t proposed to apply the principle of Benton's Florida armed occupation act, and send all contra bands to this territory and apprentice them to the settlers unon these cotton lands leaving the ques- al i: fn l,a al bv gross at the close of the war; all contrabands IS fast as they come into camp, to be promptly for warded thither.
 The country is approached from St. Louis through | Spriugfied q distance of 300 miles, I he remain der of the railroad from Rola through Springfield | to Fort Smith can lie completed ill twelve months. It is said that the plantations of the Choctaws and Chickasaws alone could fully supply the American 1 mills even tue first year of the experiment. 1 The countries tlus reycrting to the government embrace the valleys Of the Rel, Arkansas and other rivers and contain about 20 000, ,000 of acres of cotton land, of unsurpassed fertility, capable of producing about l5,0OO ,0JO bales of cotton per an num-"
 All this humbuggery about emancpating slaves is mere clap-trap. They intend to work the negroes and pocke, the proceeds of their la 1 Dor. Ni al cruel systems that of apprentices | is worst. Yankee masters are, proyerbially, tue hardest masters in the world, and 10 negro could stand it for ten CT fifteen years. They would work negro to death in five years. Of course, we can afford to smile at the proposition l to take possession of the Indian country dis possess our Indian allies and open Yankee cot ton farms with negro apprentices. They would [ have a merry time c. t with the Indians on one sde and Texas, Arkansas and Missouri on the o-her. But the Aan referred to, which has al- ready been preached in the federal Congress shows two or three things very clearly. First, that tbe negro who falls into their clutches will exchange a life Of comparative ease and ot posi- tive plenty for one of toll, suffering and want under task-inaster whose highest aspiration is ! greed. Second, that the Yankees must have cotton or their factory girls and men wiN siarve. 1 Third, tha. having taNen the negro5 from com~ ioytabe homes, they want u get lii of them.