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TuE HELENA JoURNAL.-That this little print Is ill the employment and pay of Co.,

 4shle& for the express purpose oimisrepre- senting, slandering, and abusing every one who does exercise a freeman's right, and ex- presses d preference for an h0ReSt democrat in opposition to him, is not only true, but well understood That Col Ashley said, over and over again, before he left here for Wash ng- ton, that neither the ''IIeena Journal' nor the "Van Buren Intelligencer" were, or even professed to be, organs of the whole demo- cratic party, but were his speciaiir,aad pccn- liar organs, and that whatever was agreeable to him, and promotiye of his interest, filled their columns, and nothing else, is well known in this city.

 In the opinion of all who observed, in the January Convention, the supple tool-like subseryency which the notable trio-the three B's-who own, print and edit the Journal, yielded to the commands of "s2sh- ley's commi4se," the foregoing declarations ofCof Ashley, and the disgracelul facts they exhibit, were conclusiyeIy confirmed, and clearly demonstrated--in reference 10 that print at least. Moreover, we would ask, who it is. that reads the Journal, and knows any thing ofthc movements of"Ashley's com mittee'' in Little Rock,5ihat does not know in adconce what will be in the next number of their mouth-piece at Helena: The .sword of command" either originating here or having been received from Washing ton, next appears, with Chinese fidelity in the columns of the Journal. Such being the lacts--and they are welhlnown to be true the charge that the Banner acts under the influence. of others, is well undeTs,ood, when It comes from the Journal l. is but re- petition of the sale device of detected rogues in all ages, to cry '.stop thief" against their honest neghbors, in order to divert atien- ion from themselves, and thus avoid punish ment The character of the Journal and oi those who own and conduct it, is too well known to allow them 10 derive any advan- tage from this device. TheA"Ass is known by his voice. however skillulIy he may have hid his ears under the "Lion's hde''-and the wolf can no longer conceal his base na- tdre under the ..sheep's clolhingn

 With this indication oi our understanding of the character and motives of the Journal, and of those il serves, we decline, as m- necessary and undesirable, any reply to the labored, wilful, and malicious islanders sgainst us. which fill it's columns of the 26th ult.