Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-06-30
From Chicot County.
Mason Hills, Chicot O.,
 Ark., June 13, '57.(

h'h., ouuo Io o'') MEssRs. EDITORS TRUE DEMOCRAT
 Dear Sr-Presuming it would give you some pleasure to hear how we are getting along in Chicot, and particularly in this little son Hills, have thought it not amiss to give you some account of how things progress here this season. But lest you may not be ready to admit that there is such place as the Ma son Hills in the State of Arkansas-not hav- ing previously received any communications from this quarter-I will merely say that in meandering the Mississippi just get of at the little town of Grand Lake, and take bee-like for Caney Bridge, you will reach the brow of the Hills in five miles from said town.
 The Hills average from six to eight miles in width, and reach about sixteen miles north ward from the Louisiana line. The lands lie slightly unduating with an elevation of from five to twenty feet above the old high-water marks of A and 5O The soil is what is called the mullatto soil but it seems better adapted to negroes than to the mongrel races, there being but one representative of that genus, To- cated at the cutt off-a stream connecting the Mason and Buef rivers and cutting off the Hills from the swamps on the north. The climate, if not the most salubrous, is at least lub,1cattng, particularly from the latter part of June until the first of September.
 This tract of country is we'll settled by small planters, working from two brawny fists to ff- ty negroes, all at this time as busily employed in the verdant felds as a lean herd of New York graiziers just at the breaking up of dry spell. The cold weather which disappointed Miss Spring until Madam Summer stepped in, disappointed somebody else, and the cotton planters in this little nch, are only done scrap ing the lousy plant; hoa0someuer we think the hot weather will soon comb them out and if we can only get shower of rain just after the heat has raised the lander, to wash them of, clothe ever-so-many abolitioDists and celes- tials if we can only get them sufficiently civil lzed to go well and decently clad
 But my chief object in employing the pen at this time, was to notify you of wedding which has just taken place in our hitch, and as 1 know there is nothing that attracts the at- tention of newspaper readers more readily than the column devoted to marriages, 1 shall branch of in my very best style, and endeavor to give you a graphic outline of the affair.
 Married on Thursday, the 11th inst, by F. G. Davis, esq, at the residence of her fa- ther, Jas. Y. Sanford, Mason Hills, MR. THADDEUs H. GOODWIN to Mss ELvA ANN SANFoRD-all of this county.
 Miss Sanford is granddaughter of the illus trious Col. John Bowie. And we can know. ingly say, combines the mental and moral euer- gy of character, with the domestic virtues of her illustrious ancestor. And of MT. Good wyn we need only say, it is fully admitted that he "deserves the fair.''
 The wedding was one of your good old country weddings where all the good things of home production were neatly, sweetly and palitably arranged to gratfy the taste, without intoxicating the brain, leaving the fancy full scope to prattle with the forty other fair Bayou Mason daughters, Gas old grammar Dick used to sing) that enlivened the assem- bly,, each anxious too, perhaps, like Elva Ann, to help her male bird build their fairy nest. The evening passed off pleasantly and as the squire left, we thought from the signs of the cooings and woongs that it would not be long before he would share the pleasure of performing a similar ceremony under the like suspicious circumstances An, these Mason Hills are not to be lightly spoken of by those who like fair girls and fine weddings.
 Yours, as you like it,
 DATMETTO