Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-26


ton.
The soil OF the Arkansas bottoms is inferior t,
none in the world and the facilities offered Il man
for making living and fortune there, are no.
where equaled. poor man comes here, MhoNt
necessities have driven linn from the States. II,
has not cent in the wnlll-notl,iug but his axe
and rifle. lie goes into the Arkansas bottom, cuts
a few logs, ana his ncghhorS help him raise hut.
with wooden chimney daabed with mud Ii il
is SUMMER, he leaves the erannies OPEN; II II i,
winter, he chunks them with bits of wood, and
daubs them with mud. He chops ont hole tor
"A door, and another tor window splits and news
ont some thick slabs, or, call them here, pm
chc0ns, for floor; hire, Inns II ont for a mont,
OF two, Till lac earns some corn and two three
hogs, and then turns in 10 work on his own farm.
He cuts his hogs cars in some mark or other,
turns them out to root for themselves and goes
rcsouely To work, chopping timber, grubhng up
cane, and performing the various operations nc
cesSary TO clearing up land. Then You may hear,
a mile oil, the continual musketry which the cane
keeps up III burning, is the air contained in the
Joints expands and cAplodcs. Having burned UP
the undclbu,h and the smaller trees, he eirRhs the
! larger ONES that j., cuts off girde of bark a.
round, for the purpose OF deadcniug them breaks
up his ground little, aud throws in his corn. In
four or five years that man will raise twenty
bales of cotton and thousand bushels of corn, aud
be steadily cnargng his crop and increasing his in
come.
The Arkansas i, a singnarlv winding river du-
ring the whole of It's course. The distance from
the mouth 10 ID itch Rock, while ii is by land only
one hundred and twcnt, five mlo> is, by water
about three hundred miles. On one side, the river
is continually forming new land, while ON the 9TH
or it is continually cncroaching upon Father Tel
luS ; and, frequently, when high overflow comes,
the river breaks over the neck OF a promontury,
around winch IT has madea bend, and forms a
new channel, while the old one becomes lake.
Thus, IN 1893, it broke across the point OF a bot
tom, about one hundred yards wide at the place,
through which the new channel steamboats, now
pass. The channel fifteen miles around The point
IS hllng up. And thus, also, ON the south side OF
the Arkansas, above the Tort, are a long chain Of
lakes IN the former bed OF the river
Below Fort Smith, the Arkansas receives the
waters OF n"f6cTy, Frog Boyo", Uorsr Hsdd,
Spadfd, PefH team, potm hcmort, Cad,on, and
|dfd'me cffehS. The Three latter are deep, III
thy and DISGUSTING bodies OF water, sluggish, and
resembling Inc river S'yN or the Dead Sea. The
former are very pretty clear running bodies OF
water belo" pnt'h i'ecN, the river becomes
more sinuous' 1t receives various creeks on MS
way down--among Others, / oarch" ana Bayou Me-
tire. Within twelve miles oi the Mississippi, II sep
hrdtcS INTO Two channclS- the northern called the
'ut-ot while the latter preserves the name OF
Arkansas l ne 'ut-"ll Is the COMMUNICATIONS
mel Inc bottoms on each are low and the green
hcS'cNcnds 10 me waters cage. immediately
alter entering the Int-oii, You set change III the
water Instead OF the red colour ct the Arkansas,
II assumes the chalkV color OF the MiSssNlppi-H
cooler and more pleasant Within mile or two
of the Mississippi, White River comes into tn"
ltlt-Ol, rom the UOrth. II Missouri,
ana IS called WIIiie River, from the extreme
clcarncss OF ITS waters, before Big Black runs into
II above us mouth. LIE Junction OF W hlte River
with the .n'-on IS a most singular SIGHT. iirr' /,
a mass ol red, or chalhy water, there a mass OF
water Whleh seems 10 be elacN--ho'In@ ana "h'r-
ing around, aud seems as distinct as though the
latter was not water but on. little i4rihor ON,
and the waters mIh"le and discharge themselves
INTO tho great MISSISSIPPI
Two years AGO, IN the month OF juno, the crops
were promising IN Arkansas. There came sue
ccsSon OF heavy rams, and the river rose to h'9h-
"ater mart. The riSc was red ana salt, and cv-
identity came from the desert prarIr lie rams
ceased, and tho people supposed the rise was o.
vcr. Suddenly the river benan to swell higher and
higher. The water came down colder and clear
En- The SHOWS had melted on the Rocky Noun
tains Higher and higher II rosc--fttecn feet, at
Fort Smith, above hlgh-watcr mark. The bot
toms from Fort Smith to the mouth we're over
flowed. he river was hled win fragments o'
houses, dead cattle hose 'rc'S' rushing on TO
the mississippi 'a''o' hogS' even deer ana
bear unable to escape from llc 'o''oms' were al
drowned Many people pun f'"S' ana p''c'nG