The Arkansas advocate., 1835-09-11
From Halls Western Monthly Magazine.
WESTERN EMIGRANTs.

N ca lHdt ditlioupn every part OF the w ESTER
Country is good, and some OF il surprising
~ excellent, large portion of our people
are continually looking abroad for bette
land. A person Of sanguine Temperament
Is ever feasting in imagination upon some
anticipated pleasure which is superinr to al
the joys that we are 10 possession of; SC
we have still some Eden IN prospect, which
Is more desirable than The prolific fields
around us. The whole land is on the qul
vipe-wide awake, and Watching for intelli-
gence from some newly discovered Ell Do
RADIO, which would be a good place to move
to. Sometimes one place Is cried up,
sometimes another-a1d then rush to it.
One year it is AIabama-another, Jack
sons purchase-and then it is the Sanga-
mon country; and no sooner does rumor
thus invest a famed region with imaginary
charms; than hundreds of farmers mount
| their horses and ride off to explore it, and
hundreds of others, who are too impatient
to look before they leap, gear up their teams
and move away to the land of promise.
The delightful season at which we are wri-
ting, brings these scenes forcibly to our re-
collection. The weather is dry, the sky
serene, and the atmosphere mild; the roads
| are excellent, the corn is ripe. the cattle and
| hogs fat, and the land teeming with abun-
dance. 1t is the season in which the emf
grant may travel with the greatest facility
and cheapness. We have seen them at
this season of the year strung along the
roads Of Illinois In such numbers that there
| seemed to be no end to the long cavalcade.
Here is little train of wagons, loaded with
furniture and farming tools; the owner, a
stout, sun-bu:nt man, walks before-the
wife and children are slowed among the
baggage-the tall girls and the great mus
cular bows, each Of the latter with rifle on
bis shoulder, are strolling in the rear.
They are from Tennessee. At night they
| halt by spring or on The banks Of stream,
great FIRE is kinded, the beds and pallets
are spread upon the ground, and after a
hearty supper the whole party repose COM
fortably in the open air.
r There is another party; the men ride on
horseback, the females are in carriages or
on horses, and a train of negroes-theY are
going to Missouri. Here is a family from
Kentucky-they are very much like those
that have just passed, except that they are
better afixed''-they carry more household
goods, and are n grade farther advanced
in their notions of comfort. All these that
we have described, are reputable farmers,
who will enrich themselves and do credit to
the State. There is a band Of a different
tcharacter. Several families are together
not because misery loves company-for
wretched as they seem. they are as happy
as others. They are all On foots except a
decrepid matron, who is mounted on a lean
poney, with child in her lap, and half
naked wicked boy behind. Their opium
der' is carried in an ox-cart. They carry
axes, guns, and knives, and are a half-clad,
hungry, ferocous looking set, who, in Eu-
rope; if not taken up for robbers or gypsies,
would be taken up for the crime of poverty.
Yet, except their poverty, and the Incidence
which produced it, there is no harm in them.
Among them is a widow, with nine chill
dren. all barefooted and bareheaded--sh
lost "her man" lately, and finding it hard to
get along in the world, is going to try new
country. These are from North Carolina.
A little covered wagon is seen, creakingi
crazy affair, almost worn out, drawn by one
horse, whose last debt to nature seems to
be nearly due. Within are seated young
man and woman; they are man and wife,
and are as like as two peas they have had
the ague regularly every years and are as
salow as a dried corn-stalk. They have
no property along, nor any baggage-no-
thing but the horse, the wagon. and their
two selves; and they seem TO have reached
that part of the journey Of life which the JUS
tice of the peace who married them alluded
to when he said s'for better. for WORSE"
| They meet a gentlemen, who happened to
be lawyer in his cireuit--the man halls
him, and stops his lean poney, who straight
/ way pokes down his head, aud falls TO crop
ping the long grass. STRANGER, can you
J tell me of good place to settIe!"
ssOh yes, il is all good here, you can't &c
amiss.''
81 want to find good piece Of land that
belongs to Congress-
"'rhen you have come to the right place,
| for the Government owns nearly all the
/ land that you see numproved."
"Well, | reckon, stranger, IT would be ne
harm TO settle down Almost any where, and
build d cabin"
"None in the world-where did you
come FRONT"
"From North Carolina"
allow long have you been coming!"
"Three weeks.o
"Where did you intend to go when you
started"
mo where IN pertick'Iar. Me and my
| ,--,fa thonubt xxo,d h,,nf a Mace fa settle -