Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-09-16
The river is too low for navigation.


The river is too low for navigation.
W Mr. Constantine Perkins is appointed our pener.,
Agent for the Indian country for the collection of
debts due and TO receive subsc pons to our
lie is authorized to receive and receipt for u.s.
We ure SO continually indebted 10 tho Arkansa. In.
tel!gencer for intelligence from the frontier that
we wish to make acknowledgements therefor in a
distinct paragraph We have found ts last number full
OF interest," and only regret the editor the best
terms with portion Of the officers of the army. He
rails against one or two of them every week.--N o.
Picayane.
The complimentary notice of the NJ o. Picayune,
elcits from thanks If We deserve the Pics nc.
acknowledgements, We know it not, for we shall always
feel ourselves indebted that spirited paper for the
test and most interesting that we get from the
East and South East s
Our quarrel with the military is not general Some
individuals in that honorable branch Of SERVICE
deserving cur censure, and it is duty, nde
pendent press, to give them this deserving notice.
private letter puts us in possession of the following
items Of intelligence "That there 10 be no cens
ed traders in the Cherokee Nation after the first of
1an'y le44 The military are to confne themselves to
the surveyed by Capt. Boon. The Cherokee
Agency to be kept in of the buildings of the Dra
goon barracks"
We have not heard any thing agreeable to Our
than the above To the item respecting
the trade will consequently down to Fort Smith
and Van Buren, and all the traders will have to come
and live among "It's i'll wind that blows no one
good"
The second item in reation to the military being
confined to "their reserve will give satisfaction to
large portion of our community both in the Nation and
this State 1t is in substance order Col Da ven-
port to counter the rapid strides that he
was making towards unlimited power citizens and
civil power in the Indian country. This must be hard
pill for the Colonel to take, but he should remember
that better patient than he had swallow nau
seous dose-one too that administered by himself
"a quack.
We are compelled to notice the ..Midnight Cry"
chrcgrGphieGi paper that made its appearance in our
town the night of the lth. Its favorable notice of
little sheet, is alike credable to its editors and
complimentary to and will 'steel hearts, nerve
our arms. and inspire pen.' If perpetrate any
thing good next week, our readers attribute it
the compliment Of Messrs. Qurk, Cannon, & Snapp.
This interesting sheet heralded its birth upon lamp.
post and recommended itself by the many good and
queer things it contains, such catfish bacon' &c.
We are sorry at the announcement of the foregoing
because yet brethren of other countries were not
aware that we were growing fat upon such luxury
Now that the secret is out. catfish bacon will be in de.
mand elsewhere it will be scarce and high here, and
we ewiIl have to lean az ain upon mutton.
The Midnight Cry will answer many good purposes,
and will afford much it does not tn Ike too
free license over the irresponsible Of the legal
advisers of Tittlebat Titmouse, Esq.
We hope the editors will exchange with the "Nortb
Arkansas" This paper the prototype of the Midnight
Cry reached last evening teeming with rich Sepier
wit, killing as it was cutting.
Our Friends and Brothers., after having s1aia the
President of the Mystic Club have returned TO Fort
Gibson " The best friends have to part"
my beat is the shore,
My bark is on the sea-
But before go, Tom Moore
Here's a health to thee"
The Penn. Enquirer says, Albert Pike, one of the
best Of native poets, well the most en-
terprisng of the numerous eastern emgrants to the
great west, and lawyer of great eminence in Arkan.
sas is visit to New York. Also, Smms, the novel
ist, is in New York.
We have just learned that A. G. Greenwood ESQ,
Attorney for the State Bank, at Fayetteville, has re-
signed, and Mr. II. P. Puam has been appointed to fill
tho vacancy