The Arkansas advocate., 1831-10-12

who nave or may hereafter settle on and improve the public lands, before it is entered by any other person, provi- ded they enter and pay the government price within a reasonable time.
 With regard to the expediency and necessity of opening channels of com munication between the interior of this country and the river Mississippi, and the States, can add but little to the views presented in my former commu- |nication to the General Assembly,. Of the parental care and liberaiity of the National Government, you have no req son 10 doubt(Our Delegate succeeded, at the last session. in procuring an ap- propriation of l5,O0O dollars, for very important road through this Territory. and the work is now in progress, and vi iiii :; few months. be cornpieted.-- Bills, providing liberal appropriations for other roads, and the improvement of our rivers, have been reported by the proper committee 10 the House Of Re- presentatives,s but for want of time. and press of other business, has net been acted on. There is every reason to believe, that these appropriations will he a made at the next sessioaof Congress.
 The committee of Internal Improve mehts, by unanimous vote, reported q bill, making an appropriation of 10000 dollars, for the improvementof the road from the Mississippi, near Memphis, to this place. which has never been reach cd in the regular course of bnsiness.----- Ofthe success of this bill, entertain no doubt. The road through the Ter sritory to the Mexican boundary. may well be deemed q measure of national utility and is necessary channel of communication between the upper part of this Territory, onthe Mississippi, and fie interior, and between that rrver and the counties of St. Francis, Jackson. Lawrence, and other northern conn ties. Asa leading mail route flosn- Memphis to the West, it is not only important 10 the people here, but to the National Government. All must he aware, that the settlement of this coun- try is much retarded for the want of q good practicable route from the Missis- sippi to the interior. From the best information ] have been able te obtain. good road, passable at all seasons of the year, can be made, at less expense, from Helena to this place, than from any other point on the river, and the distance does not exceed II0 miles, From 5000 to 5000 dollars will proba- ply be sufficient to make this road. and Imost earnestly recommend memorial to Congress for an appropriation for it.
 Emigrants descending the river, will ind itmores convenient and practicable to reach the interior of this country. from Helena, than from any other place. It IS believed, that the importance q. <, q,
 advantages of this route have not been well understood or duly appreciated.
 It affords me infinite satisfaction to be able to assure the President, and the people of the United States, that per feet harmony and friendship is main tained between the white population here, and our Indian neighbors, and l indulge the pleasing and confident hope. that the citizens of this Territory will observe to the emigrating Indians, who are settling oa our border, that justice, kindness and forbearance, which will ensure to them the happy condition of peace, happiness and independence, they have been led to anticipate.
 Under the instructions of the SecreA tary of the Treasury, Governor lizard appointed an agent to select the twen- ty-tWo sectionsof land reserved by Con- gress for Seminary ofLearning in this
 Territory. The work was not finished
 before his death; some selections were
 made, after his death, by different indi- viduals. under the authority of the then Acting Governor, and the business has
 been completed under my authority, since ] came into office. 1t IS believed that the selections have been malicious l y made, and that the business has been faithfully performed: but the persons employed have received no compcnsa- ton for expenses incurred, or the labor of executing the work. have in vain pressed the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for the services rendered in ma king theses selections, s,bntnoappropriation has been made by by Gong Fess to author ize payment at the Treasury. Your Delegate in Congress has exerted his