Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-03-20

house OF Representatives.
An Act to make the Arkansas navigable
| Whereas, the people of this State labor
under great disadvantages on account of the
| continued low stage of the Arkansas river
And whereas, it is believed 10y our cons,itu-
ents that We may and can as well make the
said river navigable, as many small
streams have been so made navigable by for
mer legislatures.
Therefore be al enacted By the General As
sem6fy Of the State of Arkansas, That the
sum OF ten thousand dollars be and the same
is hereby appropriated out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
oe expended under the direction Of the gov
ernor, to sink artesian wells at the city of Fort
Smith ON the western boundary of this State,
each ot which shall be of bore not less than
SIX inches IN diameter to supply the channel
of the Arkansas river with sufficient depth of
water to noat the largest class of steam boats
provided however, that whenever a sufficient
stage OF water to float the largest class of boats
Is afforded by such wells, the governor shall
In case all OF said money may not have been
expended, stop further expenditure.
| BE At further enacted, That this act take
effect and be in force from and after its pas
| sage.
Mr.. Editor:-This bill was introduced in
Tie early part of the last session of the gene
raj assembly. The bill it is true, did not pass.
The word artesian or artois, or in other words
the boring into the earth for water is pro-
Ject that is somewhat new, but just see the
navigation of the majestic Arkansas river, fine
|
! large and beautiful steamers have been assend
ing and descending up and down the same for
somo time. The wells might prove very sue
cessful, they no doubt will operate finely. but
we must keep our fingers on the cocks and
| hold back the water, so as not to inundate
our brethren in the swamps who are trying
to reclaim the swamp and overhowed lands.
The gaps on the Miss is.ippi ought to be f.
nIshed, but am fearful the late law will sus
| pend the operation; if so our revenue will also
| be reduced, time will tell the news. G.
| The Virginia Voicano-It is said that the
statement in reference to volcano having re
Gently made its appearance in Pendleton coun-
ty, Va, on the great Backbone mountain, is
true. The Cumberland Telegraph, says:
lit Is at point on the mountain directly
between the heads Of the dry fork of Cheat
and the south branch of the Potomac rivers.
at place known by the name of the Sinks
SO called from the depressed condition of the
mountain at that point. These sinks are
funnel shaped, and each one embraces as much
as an acre of ground. On the first day of
January the reports caused by the bursting
| forth OF the subterranean fire were heard for
distance of twenty or thirty miles. Vas.
columns of flame and smoke issued from the
orihces, and red hot stones were thrown up in
the r several hundred feet above the mouth
of the crater. Our informant adds that the
people in the vicinity are becoming alarmed
at the pertinacity with which the flames are
kept up and the red-hot masses of rocks
thrown out. heavy, rumbling noise, like
distant thunder, Is continually reverberating
through the deep cavern of the mountain,
which at times seem to treinble from sum
NIT to base III .-r....
Factory L.fe-The Boston Bee has the
following description of the factory life of
northcn Operatives"
There is sic kness, loss Of constitution ond
lingering disease, brought on by the neces
sary modes of factory life-by its confinement
and contact with unyhoesome dust-by the
illventlated sleeping apartments of the ope
rittives. The natural fleet of life in a factory
Is to take the color from the cheek, to give !.
pale, worn and sullen look, to produce dis
eases incident to the female sex, and hasten
into activity any Latent or constitutional pre-.
dlsdosition to disease. From careful inquiry
and examinations of the operatives themselves
we find the following result: OF twenty five
persons averaging twenty-one years, twenty
said their health was not so good in the fac
tory as before; in another case fourteen opera
tives OF fifteen examined declared they suffered
by working in the mill.
In still anoter case, nine ont Of thirteen
operatives answered their health was not so
good as it was before they went into the miII
I'D one weaving room Of twenty -four persons
ihere were fourteen whose health had been
injured.
The general rule deduced from careful ex.
animation is that of i'll health, ascribed to
causes connected with the mill and the board
ing house.