Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-05-19

p 0TThe newspapers say .hat Col. Benton mas
avowed himselfa Free SoiIer, and intends TO de-
vote the summer in canvassing Missouri, with
view of proselytng his constituency to his new
tangled doctrines. 1t is more likely his object
in visiting Missouri this year, is 10 lay his plans
once more to impose himself upon that State, as
her representative; while in fact he is to ali inten!s
and purposes, citizen of Virginia or the District
of Columbia. ri III
0FMr. Bancroft 3 new volume, the fourth of
his /" History of the United States" will be pub.
lished in September, and the fifth, which is nearly
all written, will follow in the coming spring.
The sheets of the fourth have been read by a
friend of the editors of the Home Journal, who
thinks the Quebec campaign, and the character
Of Pitt, which it contains, will be received as the
most splendid specimens of historical writing yet
furnished by this country.
Cotton Rising.-SaIes up to the I'd inst, al
New Orleans. in ten days were 10000 bales at
news of the Europa.
Hoo the World ags!-A New York paper
says the Commercial council have voted $500 for
the purchase of IA fuII-ength picture of the Pre-
sident,'' to be placed in the Governors Gen.
Scott is to have his portrait painted too, after the
same fashon--prce $500. Vanderlyn, the artist,
will probably have the job
If the case was reversed and Scott was Presi-
dent, the sycophantic council would paint his por-
trait, and let Taylor get his painted at his own
expense-so it goes.
OF A speed Of 45 miles in 40 minutes, has
been obtained by a locomotive on the York and
Newcastle railway, England, and it is puted
that when rails laid on the road, which is
to be done soon, the engine be 80 miles
per hour.
Death of a Prince in Work House.-The
Liverpool papers announce that on the 18th of
March, in the work house of St. Georges, in the
East, died Louis Christophe, the soidisant Prince
of Hayt
o. A gold digger has arrived in Boston with
$4,000, which he dug himself in five months, be-
sides the expenses of living.
The Inundated Plantations.-Many Of the plan
tations in this neghborhood. upon the Arkansas
side of the river, have been overhown by the re-
cent heavy and unusual floods This has been
particularly and most disastrouslv the case with
those plantations lying along what is called the
DEVILS Elbow, thirty or thirtv-fve miles above
this point The subsidence of the waters has only
rendered their condition worse, leaving large pools
might more correctly say, small swamps, upon
many fine plantations, and by the exposure of de-
posted matter breeding the causes of grieyous dis
ease and death.
We have been made acquainted with one case
in which gentleman, who has large plantation
in Devils Elbow, lost eleven fine negroes. and was
finally compelled 10 resort 20 the most decisive
measures TO save his force of about 900 negroes,
most of whom were sick, chiefly with cholera
He placed them upon wood boat, and brought
them all down to this city, one of the negroes dy-
ing during the brief voyage. The water had been
two feet deep his plantation. and stood almost
on level with the door-ss of his cabins. Even
when he left, the physician in attendance could
not make his round of visits without using a ca
noe. Many persons in the neighborhood had fled
with their families and negroes 10 what are called
The Hills some sixty more miles in the inte-
rior of Arkansas. Others were preparing to fol
low.
We would strongly urge upon planters whose
grounds have been inundated, az once 10 desert
their plantations, and retire to some elevated and
healthy section. 1t will be not only matter of
health. but even a matter of economy with them.
10 do They raise little or nothing during
the present year, and they may, by remaining,
lose an entire force Of valuable negroes. To re-
main under such circumstances. with the rank
and offensive deposite of the Mississippi flood see
thing in the hot sun of the approaching summer,
would be the last extreme of obstinate and suicidal
foIly.-Memphis Eagle.
From the Trenton IN. " Gazette, April II.
The California EmigrantS at Panama, TO their COun
trymen.
The following address 10 their countrymen, by
the California emigrants at Panama warning them
against taking that route for the gold regions, has
been handed to US by DR.. McChesney. the secre-
tary of State, TO whom it was transmitted for pub.
licaton. by Capt. George w. Taylor, the captain
of the New Jersey Mining and Trading Company,
which sailed from New York for Chagres in the
Crescent City, on the 9Th Of February last. The
document was hastily drawn up, just before the
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