Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-07-06
Notes by the Way.
Payis. Tenn. June 25tb. IS5

Paris, Tenn, June 25th, 1859.
 Your readers, who may honor my "notes" with perusal, will probably con clude that am leading an Arab life-that is going from place to place, and never hailing from the same locality. If so, 1 can but plead guilty to the |" soft impeachment, and insist that my business as well as my instincts, leads me to travel. l am glad that the world is wide, and that countries are unlike, for it is well established fact, that :" variety is the spice of life"
 If I had the wings of Noah's dove, or those of the hawi, that Richard de Coner kept for hunting, I would soar away to every climate, visit every place oi note on terra frma, and then, pitch my camp in Arkansas, which, notwithstanding my sell expatriation. remains to me, the dearest ol all localities
 It Is we'll known to everybody and his wife, that Paris is in Henry county, West Tennessee, which county lies on the con fines of Kentucky, and extends eastward 10 the Tennessee river. It is the oldest town in the western district As nearly as I can ascertain, it was laid off into lots in 1921, at leaata year before Jackson was located Memphis, our renowned Bluff city," was then an Indian village called the Chickasaw Bluffs. Thirty years ago, was here, and this was then, by odds, the largest town in the western district It has not improved much since. The houses are old and dingy, and everything wears the aspect of age. Noimprovements are visible The lands in the vicinity are poor. The fields are washed into immense ravines, and are no longer fit for cultiva- tion.
 The Memphis and Ohio railroad will make this point it's terminus for the pre- sent. The cars now come to Humboldt, S2 miles from Memphis, and the track is graded to this place, and a considerable force is now placing the cross ties and laying down the iron. It is a matter of grave conjecture, whether the iron horse or Jack Frost will visit this region first the ensuing autumn.
 l have lately come up from Memphis, (the distance being 130 miles, and find the crops of corn and cotton very promi8- ing. Cotton is small, but looks we'll Wheat has been harvested, and is very good. Old corn sells at $3 per barrel alias five bushels New wheat commands eighty cents per sixty pounds. Farmers here find tobacco a more profitable staple than cotton, and hence they cultivate it extensively.
 There is a great demand here for labor. Every man that has a strong arm and q willing heart, can easily earn his bread by the sweat of his brow High wages and ready rhino are ready for his hard hands, whenever he concludes his daily task
 Old Erin's sons are scattered all along the railroad l dined the other day at a house, where an lrishman was employed as laborer His employer had stipulated with him especially, that he, the aforesaid Pat, was to bring nothing like the '' crit ter on the premises, during his stay Pat denied that he had any acquaintance with any thing in the shape of "whitt face" or '' bust head" For a few days all things moved on z as joyous as a mar. riage feast" Pat was industrious and very handy about the house, he ran on er- rands, carried water, churned the milk kept off the calf, salted the sheep, rocked the baby, swept the yard, curried the old mare, and was worth full grown mint tc tho landlady Hn fast becoming in dispensable. He was so industrious, ant withal so temperate. A certain boarding school Miss was staying day or two witt her aunt, (the lady of the house and by the merest accident, found jug in lhe gar den hidden among the flowers. It con tained whisky. yshe made her discovery known to her aunt, and they determined to play joke on Pat. The jug of whisky was removed, and one very similar, bu containing vinegar, was put in its place. It is needless to add, that when Pat came to dinner, he honored the garden with ; visit. surprized indeed was he on rais ing the jug to his thirsty lips, expecting to imbibe the choicest hector, to find hi, mouth full and oveIAowing with vinegar sharp and sour This was too much Pat could not stand it. He considered hii dearest rights invaded. He was triaec with, and he was Pat no more He bun died up and left. s.