The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-01
The Little Rock True Democrat

The Little Rock True Democrat of a re-
cent date, contains the annexed interesting let
ter, dated Red Fork, June /, and signed Johr
Harrison:
.sPermit me to place in your columns a true
and correct statement of the new gold mine!
on the Red Fork of the Arkansas river.
ssThree others and myself started from the
county of Green, in Missouri, on the 18th day
of April, 1855. and reached the gold digging:
on the 4th Of May. Our first business was tc
find if the gold was there as had been repre-
sented On the first day after our arrival we
came to a branch, and found, on examining the
bed, that it contained a vast quantity of the
precious metal. We had brought nothing witt
Us but frying pans; but even with these, on
washing out the first painful, we obtained about
IS rs worth of gold dust We stopped here
several days, averaging from S75 to $3.50 pei
day. We could have made more than we did
but we had nothing to dig with. We then
proceeded TO- spring, which is the place where
the gold is said to have been first discovered
Here we found that the water, boiling up out
of the ground, contained some small Jumps OF
gold and a large quantity of the dust
went to California in 1849, at the time the
gold was found infthe greatest abundance, and
this beats California a long ways. have no
doubt that if a man had the right kind of cold
could count it. We have been here about a
month, and have made some $780, There
are about three thousand people in the differ
ent mines, and more coming in every day.
There are 50 many here that provisions are
high. Beef eight to ten cents per pound, and
flour $50 per barrel
Some have returned home for the purpose of
selling out and bringing their families here
The soil is good. The greatest difficulty is the
want OF water. If it was not for that, this
would be 4 good farming country. The val
leys are tolerably extensive, and good land
This, believe, is as correct statement as
can give about the mines, and I have been
an eyewitness tothe facts, and give them that
the people may get the Straight Of it,
The neglect Of grain crops by the planters
of the south, has been often and Justly ami
upon. The MAXIM produce, if
possible, all of your home supplies at home,'
cannot be too often or too deeply impressed I'D
on the agricultural community of the Missis-
sippi valley south.
But there is one corolary from the maxim,
which 50 far, we believe, has been but little
agitated or discussed With every natural
facility for growing fine horses and mules, all
the cotton States excepting small portion of
Tennessee) are tributary to Kentucky and the
western States for their supplies of those use
full and almost indispensable auxiliaries Of man,
whether engaged in agriculture or commerce.
There IS NO reason why Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tex
as, should not raise all of their own horses and
mules There is no earthly reason why these
states should not also raise all of their own
corn, hogs, cows, DC. There is, likewise, no
earthly reason why these States should not pay
attention to the improvement of the
breeds of all the different kinds of stock.
1t IS sometimes said that the southis not
good grazing country, and, therefore, not suit
'ble for growing fine stock A moments con
aderatlon will show that this is the purest
fudge.o The loWlands bordering upon every I
perennial stream In the south-from the lordiv /.
tennessee TO the smallest brook tssineing its
lulet tune are capable of being made, at lit
ie expense, the finest pastures in the world.
Look at the Tennessee river bottom: how
many millions Of acres are there, vet awaiting
be occupancy of the grazier, to whose purposes
hey are better suited than to those of any other l.
lass of agriculturists! So of Obion, Fofked {
'eer, Hatchie, Wolf, Talahatchie, the upper {
ombgbee, and all the streams, large and
nall, OF the south, including the mighty Mis- $
sslppl and Red River, large portions of whose
nmense bottoms arr, admirably adapted to all !,
le requirements Of the stock grower. t
When will the south be true to herself i
hen will southern men learn their true poll 9
:? When will they learn that every thing I
'odueed at home-corn and horses, peas and
'gs, potatoes and mules, shucks and sheep, 0
ogans and beef-ls saving of always double a
Id often quadruple, of what the same article :
ould cost, if they have it to buy. d
s memphis Eagle
ANTI AMERICAN PLATFoRM-H are the Q
lemn resolutions of the German social demo Il
attic association, of Richmond, Ya-an asso. II
'tlon existing in the centre of the old Do Y
mon IN the heart Of .'the home Of the pres-
nts:'' S.
We demand: /. Universal suffrage; 2. The !,
'ctlon Of all officers by the people; 8. The =
clifton of the presidency; 4. The abolition Y
senates. 5. The rightof the people to recall h:
III representatives cashier them) at their g
assure; g. The righto of the people to change al
constitution when they like; 7. All law to
IS TO be conducted without expense A de- N
Ftment of the government to be set up for ev
protection of immigration. A reduced en-
m tor acquiring citizenship. p
!. Abolition of allneutrality; 2. Intervention an
asor OF every people struggling for liberty. o or
Abolition of laws for the observance of the tn
bath, abolition of prayers in congress, abo- ed
on OF oaths upon the bible lot
The supporting of the slave emancipation ex- ST
IONS OF Cassius NJ. Clay by congressional BIZ
IS Abolition of the christian system of fiji
nshment and the introduction of the human tn
elloraton system. Abolition of capital pun lnf
ment. -
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It's SAID thatin consequence of the late mas an
re, the allied governments will issue the VIC
owing proclamation, if satisfaction is refu- -,
by Russia: Colonel =, of the Russian sci
~, having committed cold blooded, cow VII
ly and brutal murder on the persons Of sir
ae officers and sixteen seamen her Britain ha'
1ajesty's navy, who, under a fac of truce pa "a,