The Arkansas advocate., 1831-01-19

laz taa4E that the Steam boat fTauerk.i. Gapt.5 ,,v-ssu,vsq :, has ascenaed White River, as far as aatesve Alneil credits due to tie enterprlEe - rapt. r, in thus opening new resources, aad giv- svla fresh impetus 10 the enterprise and Industry - .Ie citizens of that part of our Territory. But ,c will not by any remarks of ours, anticipate the following
 BArfsvl1aE, <. T. ] yaa. 8, 1891.
 fyrSruEMGy.-ihe monotonyef our little town, v-as pleasantly interrupted on the evening of the sd inst. by the welcome and unexpected arrival of tbe Steam Boat Wapegfg, two and 2 half days from fhe Mouth of this river. laden with merchandise for tHo honses in this place, and some goods des- sined for the Big fsarth Fork, about one hundred ,a5es above this place, Whthcr she could have cone with the same facility that she ascended the river thns far
 edIya better stream for Steamboat navigation, 3ian the Arkansas. We feel justified n stating, fIat as hirh up as the aonhaence Of White and Hack Rivers about twenty miiesb Iand below 9bis place, it is navgabie for Steam-boats at ali seasons ot the year; and from about this period il the first of June, 1t IS equally susceptible of l5e inc safely and successfully piled, by boats ct like hnrthen with the lI@ee7'tg, even beyond the North York Black River too, for a great distance q keye DaYidsonQie, IS nayigabIe at all seasons of the year. We are faiiy pelsuaded that there is L. wanting stimulus of this kind, Steam aoat napigaton,) to increase tine energy of OFF 4lapers. in order fully to dcvclope and greatly
 
 try And now that the rabicon las been passed. 4ge rust that Delegate will make good his pro- 3ases t0 his constituents in this qaarter by with- holding no effort in his poBer to procure appro- priation for the Improvement of tie navigation of our River; by this means increasing the impulse which tie Steamboat navigation will giye, in ad- 5ancing the agricultural as well as commercial i'm portance Of the Northern Counties, that hitherto have received but little attention from Congress, tnr delegatc, from any other source.
 + is on tiis gronnd alone that We TO ena} led to account fer the fact, that the most fertile portion of our Territory, seems hitherto to have attracted neither the alteatlon of emigrshts nor Of but few settlers. That portion of Territory, recently separated from tiiis County, and now l1aewn as Jackson embraces an extensive, hcautfs and fe4,tiy laaFi. asisis country, al,ol,iing with fine springs, and soI lnielidf tonone in America, and Naterea by three og four of tIe finest naviTahie streams, at all seasors of the year. We think we might with confidence, invite large slavcoideTs to explore the country; believing that they would snc- eeed as well here ill the culture af Cotton, Corn, aelnpsand Tobacco, as II any section of the world To such desirous of raising silk would es= raeiaiy extend the invitation. as the Mulberry Is here indigenous, and n many places found ta py ansarea Of from five hundred to thousand acres. ;o tie almost entire exclusion Of other growt Il fact thst Of itself should convince the ineredaloJts of ztiie superfor fertility Of the soil.
 Nae deem 1t unnecessary to say any thing more shan what has already been publshcd n relation tothe land forming the margins of this most hlnpid afad fAHtlisl o5 rivers; H6tE . j, however, that from Iayior's Say, the coast abounds with numcr- 0as fine seites for lafms even as he up Ar Mis- sourifine, eSciuslTe of many other smaller ones sts i1f3sbcflcss tributaries It may not ae atass to add, thai during tte last year. these have been a- soG; fifty families added to the population of lizard County, principally from Missouri and Tennessee.
 Can't. Pennywit Jeff this place for NeW-Olleans, \ op tic evening of the 5tf, fFeiglting for mer- chants upwards of two hundred Bales of Cotton, petries 5Sc. constituting aboutoae half of the pro- iuct of this RiSer. (.
 fi-7- }Fo are ind ebted to the palitcness of our Delegate, tue Hon. \ II SEWER, for the documents accompanying the Presidents Message, which are too lengthy for insertion in to-days paper. We give from the .A. Q. Courier the following
 REPORT or THE SECRETARY OF WAR, hich IS one of the documents referred 50, and Thlch in point of importance, IS the first entitled to notice.
 The report from the war department states, that the army has been successfully engaged during the past year in preserving quiet along the western and southern frontier. Fears were entertained at one tune oi aserIous rupture with the north-wsstern tribes of lndians but the discretion of the persons 10 whom the business intrusted, and the pres ence of a military force, have prevented 1t. Pre- cautions have been taken to prevent some tbreat- ened acts of hostility from those also our west ern boundary.
 Desertiors continue to bo frequent, having a. mounted during the last year to more than thou sand. The abolition of the penalty of death seems 10 have had no saiutary influence. IL suggested " way of encouragement to good behaviour, to retain part of the soldiers pay, in order to make fund to be paid him on his faithfully completing the ferm of enlistment, and fo be forfeited otherwise. ne secretary states thatrno good effects have as yet resulted from taking away the ration of wlis- key.
 He recommends that the Wcst-point academy be retained on its present liberal footing The cduca- tion Of 't7vo hundred and fifty young gentlemen from different parts of the Union, must have the most beneficial effects; among others, the production oi some uniformity or discipline m the militia, in which they become officers. Some alteration is suggested in the existing plan of appointing the graduates of this academy, brevet heutenants, as shere already an excess of supernunerary brevet second lentenaats, which, will in a year or two a