INDEpENpENT DEMOCRATS,
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 We the following paragraph from the National Intelligencer of May 18th.

 ''ARREsr FOR FRAUD AND PERJuRY.-The St. Louis Republican of the lst instant states thatsW. D. Chapman was arrested ill that city on acquisition from the Governor of Mississippi, upon the charge of perjury, and obtaining the property of deceased citizen oi that State under false pretences Chapman was engaged in editing and publishing paper i'll Mississippi, in company with man named Lester, and at the decease of Mr. L., who was the principal owner of the establishment, Chapman declared himself the heir of the deceased, swore out letters of administration upon the estate, and appropriated to his own usc somewhere between six and ten thousand dollars worth of properly A brother of the deceased resides in New ' ork, and the agent employed by him to pursue Chapman arrest cd him, after travelling in search of him q distance of nearly ten thousand miles.''

 This is the same w. D. Chapman who commenced the publication of the '.Independent Democrat in this city, last summer. It will be remembered by most of our readers that the said sIndepe ndent De- mocrat9 was printed in a tVhig office, was en- e0araged, cherished, and sustained with moneY by Gen. Riehard C. Byrd, and was designed to produce dissensions in the Democratic party, and thus, by mpairing it's strength 10 make it an easy prey to Whiggery, in the coming elections. This was the miserable tool used by Gen. Byrd, and some of the Wings of this city, in their neiarions scheme to dis organize and defeat the Democracy of Arkansas. fit organ for such political pirates! But their foul scheme proved abortive. Information of Chapman's Yillainy reached here, and to avoid the odium which was likely to attach to all who had any eonnexion with him, he was spirited away, and the .lndepen- dent Democrat ceased to exist. Thus Gen. Byrd, and his wg allies. lost, at once. their friend their organ, and their money. Doubtless, they deserved sympathy Since then they have been without an organ; until they have had the luck to purchase the 'eTimes and Advocate" and Cyrus ". Weller. They certainly deserve eongratulation upon their good fortune in procuring such worthy successors 10 the '.Independent Democrat. and W. D. Chapman. 1n- dependent Democrats! Bs, W. D. Chapman, Cyrus v. Heller, Richard c. Byra.zz4l A worthy Trio. The one is now looking through the grates of a Mississippi prison; while the other two await the justice q the people of Arkansas Our hope, in their behalf, is that justice may be tempered with mercy.