The Arkansas banner., 1845-09-10
Faem the .3rtaasas hteHigeacer.
TEXAS AND ARKANSAS.
C. ". D.

tila' It's rich planting district must, very soon, be occupied by wealthy planters and large slave holders. Thus it will he seen that the harrow minded and selfish, who opposed an -ncXatlon from considerations of interest. stood as such men always do, in the way of thelr own prosperity. Ii always has, and over will be thus. The purely selfish man, who monopolizes 2 few thousand acres of land, or invests a few thousand dollars in any other branch of business, immediately grows restve at any manifestation of com petition or opposition in his line of opera tons. Not so with the truly magnanimous or liberal mind. He secs, in every move meni, for the expansion oI business, as well the advantages which may aceure to himself as to the public The greatest curse under which Arkansas has hitherto labored land the evil will be doubIy felt in Texas has been the large investments in the choice lands fer purposes of speculation.
 The demand for lands, well adapted for stock growing, We thluk will very soon in- crease. And if our farmers will take adran- lage oi their nearer contigHily to Texas, and the better adaptation of our mildeI climate to the growing of domestic animals, returns from Texas to the north and west of Arkau- sas may soon be made, which will be felt Ill every branch of business. 4 permanent market will thus be developed and under stood, and men will settle down in our better neghbofhoods who will make their calcula- tons and commence their industrious opera- lions for lives.
 And here, a lttle out of place, we may remark that Arkaqsas and the contiguous States will reap another advantage from an- heXau0n, not heretofore mentioned. Before annexation hundreds and thousands looked forward 10 the consummation with certainty and hundreds of visionary calculations wAese made, as 10 this or that advantage to result from the measure. Many in the whole con- uguoHs country where thus kept in q restless slate-a kind of passage ta the %.promised land.2 They will now very soon come to the discovery, that State Is nothing but
 Siate' and that labor is as requisite in Texas as elsewhere.
 1exas wttt not open advantages to the stock growers oi Arkansas alone, ThenaHh ana west oi Arkansas contain many extensive
 tracts ot land, as well adapted to inc eultiva-
 ton of wheat, as any part ofthe United States.
 The same causes mentioned ill previous num-
 bers, have greatly retarded inc progress of
 this branch of industry. And when, three
 years ago, the sArkansas Inteligencero was
 established, the people of the whole valley I oi the Arkansas river had seldom eaten a
 biscuit, exception four urimporled from Ohio
 and other states. Within those three years
 great change has been felt and now the
 rlyer counties are generally pretty well SUD-
 pied from the northern counties of the State. and hundreds of wagon loads of flour have been proftably sent to Red river We every week see wagon loads purchased in Van Buren and sent off in this direction. And notwithstanding this certainty of market, very little has yet been done.-Last spring the ciIi1ehs oi Van Baren and Fort Smith were purchasing the Ohio flour al high prices, he. | cause ol the failure of the market in the nor thern counties. The writer during the samt months, travelled through the north westerr counties; and without intending 10 be per S9hal towards the farmers, who has his ever sympathy, (beeaase he was brought up [, the business he was surprised To see in, small eXerlons to take advantare of tht llmes. Many lelicitated themselves on thei line wheat crops, of Goe or len acres Al most all of these were without barnes i, which to preserve their harvest. And as f. the cheap coutrlvance of s.threshnq mach lneo propelled by horse power, in man, nelghborhoods they were not thought of
 The sudden rains, which converted in, avlnes into rivers, swept off the shocks o wheat of many, while the slong wet spells caused the same kinds of shocks of other, to sprout. Many seemed to regard this as no great misfortune, since mills were mol very convenient, and they knew of no certain market. Others, in no small numbers. were going 10 Texas anyhow, where if they made any thing they would be certain 10 have a market at homen And even now we hear a continual cry, that some one ought to es- tabllsh a pork house. at Van Buren, in or der to consume, we suppose, all the pork of the back country-a certain home market. While we are in favor of this and all other enterprises, even to the finishing of the Steam Mill, in Van Buren, which as another com menlary on our want of enterprise stands in dilapidated state, we must yet say that this eontiual cry for home market, is one of uie greatest dDsuFQltleS3 WHICH every cAalleu down ignorant and selfish minds. We want something to send abroad, which will bring back profitable returns. And what home mar ket will Texas have for her great staple She must, like other southern States, depend upon the European market for the consump- Gon of her immense surplus of cotton. And while this is her destiny, the northern part of Arkansas, and southern part of Hissiouri, should not only supply the nome market of Arkansas with flour, but should send their wagons loaded with the same article to the rich neighborhoods of Texas The inconve- nience of carriage may present an insurmoen- table obstacle to some To this we reply that within our short recollection, q great portion of Tennessee and Kentucky sent their wagons, with six horse teains' laden with bacon, flour, fruits and whskey, (and we regret to say the last named article was very saleable,) to Augusta and sayanah III Georgia, and to Charleston in South Carollna' and to all intermediate points in those states. They had to pay dollar per bushel for corn, and fifty cents dozen for fodder, and two dollars q head for shoeing horses on tl.n raad The discovery had not then been