Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-06-08
For the True Democrat. Notes by the Way.
HugaboZf. Tenn May 02 1e5o


 Humboh, Tenn, May 23, 1859.
 MEssRs. EDITORS: Humbolt is doubtless strange locality to many of your readers. Il, however, they will attend closely. I will enlighten them as to its whereabouts. It is new town, quite recently projected, di vided and sold off into lots. It is situated at the point where the Memphis and Ohio railroad crosses the Mississippi Central rail- road. 1t Is II miles from Trenton. IT from Jackson, 26 from Brownsville and S2 from Memphis
 The country around is thickly settled, fertile, and reported as healthy The in- 1 habitants are generally in easy circumstan- 'ces, intelligent and enterprizing, and hence, Humbolt is building up with great rapidi ty- One may leave this point at 6 o'clock in the morning, go to Memphis, stay four hours, and return to supper. During the day he will have travelled 164 miles. At twelve o'clock M., the trains from Memphis Columbus and Holly Springs, Miss. all meet, and for few moments there is crowd of strangers, sometimes number;no several hundred, and as they are changing cars, looking after their baggage. purcbas. Ing the morning papers and making inquiry after their route, there are no little bpstla and hurry Soon, however, the sbriu wb;s- x1.
 tie from the locomotive is heard, followed by the conductors outcry of s.all aboard and the crowd disperses and disapnears
 called at Brownsville, in Haywood county, and passed a night. This town was my home P years ago, and I had not been here since- Once I knew it's every lnhabitant, but now l find that the place that once knew me, knows me no more.- Old friends have died or removed-stran- gers are living in their houses--boys and girls have grown up to men and women. and new order of things exists.
 find in passing through this (Gibson) county that some people are greatly alarmed. The locusts are as thick as ever tbevwere in Pharoah's time-they are clinginp to every bush, and limb and leaf, and their sone through all the summer day is as ceaseless and monotonous as the cataract's roar Some close observer has found a w on thelr wings, and another has analyzed their song, and found that each individual singer
 
 Pharoah-p-h-ar-o-a-hn' This they in-i terpret to mean, that war with Pharoab and his hosts IS upon us.
 It has rained almost necessarily in this locality for many months. The streams have been continually overfowing, the ground has been completely saturated, andt the farmers have nearly lost all hope of: making the usual quantity of the staff of: life.
 Strange as 1t may appear, there are ma ny persons here who are opposed to rail- roads. They attribute all the evils that befall the country, such as floods and fires, troSts and failures, all to the multiplication of railroads. The only remedy in their case as we'll as that of some old fogies in Arkansas, is, for them to die off, leave theit places to be filled by another and wiser generation. The election for ovemor, is beginning to excite good deal of feeling. The two can dldates are now on the stump, and almost every day addressing great multitudes.-- They are both strong men, and have many ardent friends Tennessee for many years has been little tickle in her political phases. and their is no knowing where she will be Tn August next.
 1 have been every day comparing the people here with the population of Arkan- sas, and my conclusion deliberately formed, is, that there are as much intelligence, en- terprlze and morality in Arkansas, as in Tennessee, or any other part of the country l have visited Give Arkansas the neces- sary railroads-let her have connection with the rest of mankind-easy ingress and egreSs. and her progress, in all that consti- tutes a country great, will equal that of any other portion of the Union
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