The Arkansas advocate., 1833-03-20

5 Ihe Season.- Winter has at last wit drawn it's inclemeneies-an Spring la opened upon us with its refreshing mild F ness. Ali mature seems to rejoice-th, animal creation from man downward, ap pears to display newness of life and te rejoice that the chilling blasts of winter have at last yielded the reins to the balm, zephyrs of spring.
 A few more days, and t4e veeetable world, arrayed in it's rich hveries, will greet the eye with heaoteous prospects. and fill the air with aromatic odors The mutations of the seasons, and tlie effects resulting therefrom, plainly teach that they are not the result of chance, but the fiat of an oyeraling Providence.
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 The steamer-N1fe returned on Thursa av evening from Cantonment Gibson. and on the following morning departed for the Mississippi.
 On Thaesday night the steamer .Aakan- scp arrived from Fort Gibson, and the next morning departed for New Orleans. On Thursday night the steamer Reindeer arrived, 10 days from New Orleans, and Ou Friday morning departed for Fort Smith.
 On Friday morning the Spy arrived from Cantenment Gibson, and is undergoing some repairs.
 On Friday night arrived the steamer IWfe Roch, ' days from New 0rieaps-on Sunday morning she departed for New Orleans.
 On Sunday night the steamer .yesseage,, arrived from Cincinnati, with Contractor's stores for the troops at Cautonment Gsib- son, for which place she departed on Mon day morning.
 TIE MAILs.--We urge the attention of our readers to the following letter iron, q gentleman H.77:;:g in Helena, ont the subject of Mails, and Mail Ronts.
 ltis no donbt true, that from Helena, tbe mail would travel with more certainly than from any other point or the AIississip- pi, eyenin the present state ofthe roads, and 1t equally true, that an expenditure of 20,000 dollars on the road between Helena and the month of Gaelic, would snake a better road from White River to the Mississippi, tlIap would loo. 600 dollars between the latter river and tie St. Francis
 1.-the state of the country from Helena to White River was we'll understood at Washington City. and the advantages pos sessed by Helena, as point Of debarlsa- ,! ton for emigrants-and if the claims of Helena .llta,s heee ssffeiris scented, % long time would not have passed without an appropriation for making a good and permanent road from that point to White 1 Riyer. The letter shews clearly the ad- yantages that would be derived from maS ing Helena the depository of tho mails passing up and downthe Mississippis
 HELENA, Marcll 10th, 1893 1e fhe Editor of fhe .1raaasns .1tleGcaie:
 In your paper of the 7! !th ut. noticed @n editorial paragraph on tho subject off post offices and post roads in Arkansas, in winch you expressed a confident hope, tlfat you will soon have established between yonr place and the Mississippi a bi week ] y or tri weekly mail, and mention Mem phis or the mouth of White river as the point to which it will be established. May not enquire, sir, if this place does not possess advantages over either of the two you have mentioned. 1t is an nnd denlable ] fact that this IS the only point west of the Mississippi at which the river ap- breaches tue hills, and from which road can be travelled at all stages of the waters to the interior of the country. In this then 1t has the advantage of the other otli- CT two, as the road from Memphis IS now impossible, and will be so during the spring freshest, which is frequently not oil until the middle of May, and sometimes the middle of June, and that from the mouth ofWhiLe river to Arkansas Postis also in'- passable during the high waterin any oth- or way than by water.
 Another advantage 1t has ls it's locality, From Memphis, all the mail for the ierri- tory must be conveyed to stle St. francls before any distribution, and from tiie mouth of White river it must go to your place (iIittle Rock J while from this place It will be sent immediate to St.i faheis Lawrence, Independance, Jackson, izaTo' Sfc. by the northern mail, and 10 Aohroei Pulaski, and all south and west oi the m oy our western mail. and the distance rom the mouth of White river to Little Rock IS as great or greater than from this place and from Memphis it is forty miles further ne : therefore St Fancis and all vest of tba will receive theirmalls whenthe poats ais going up Igor ? days sooner than iron ,, Memphis; (for while the boat would o' travelling from here to Memphis the mai would be also travelling to those omees and on the downyasds passage these once
 would get their mails al aoou. ,hc sa'''
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