Des Arc citizen., 1860-01-11

N correspondent or ln9 Alemphls Ap- peal thus. speaks-ol our State and is rc 2 sources:
 IL IS gratifying 10 the people ol Arlsan- sas lo know thai, notwithstanding the cal umnies that have been heaped upon the reputation of that State she is rising to q place of importarce among tie sisterhood of States. Her cliinate and soil are well adapted to tie raising of cotton, corn wheat, oats, barley, rye, hemp, tobacco, and almost every thing else lhat can be cultivated with success in the neighboring States.
 Of course, cottonsis raised most sueGess- fully in the Southern pertion of the State and along the Arkansas river. Wheat grows best in the Northern part. Corn grows finely where il IS planted and cnl- tivated
 Few countries have proved 10 be better for apples and peaches than Arkansas. .a Let any nun take the4mapof Arkansas and look at it's geographical features, and he will see at glance ihatnature has given t remarkable advantages. Il IS neither too cold nor too hot. The eastern boundary is washed by the great Father of Waters;" Redsriver passes through the southwest; the Arlsansas runs almost di- agonally through the State, afiording ria- vigation tos the best cotton region on the face of the earth. Half way between Red river and thea Mississippi. in the Southern part of the Stale, isthe Ouacbila, not inferior as itrespeeis nayigatlont to any other stream of is size. Haif. way be- tween the Arkansas river and. the Ms sissippi, is-found While river.~wilh per- petual navigation, tfaversing II. its sefpen- tine course most fertile and Interesting country Besides these there are other smaller streams in vasions parts of tile States, affording navigation and waier power in abundance
 The writer has spent many years in Ar kansas and travelled overalinost the-wfiole S.afe, and cIalins toknow of lis own per- sonaI knowledge all that he here aiiinns in this behalf. His Ioi4s cast elsewhere, and in all probability he will never againe re- \ side west of the Mississippi. Sull, his n- terest in Arkansas $ unabafed.
 In mingind recently with tie people of
 
 Middle, Tennessee, many inquiries were made dT me concerning Arkansas Hun-I dreds are selling out and aimiiIgto settle somewhere west. One gentleman. all ac, quainlanee of niue, sold his homestead of 500 or 800 aeres. lying iii Marshall county, al S57 par acre, and entertained.a notion of enigfating to Arkansas, but his wife was fearful iAat she would find so- eiely not very good, na preaching, no good schools, etc. and she prevailed upon him to purchase ii Mauiy county. m. q hiily. rocky region, where he had 10 pay S45 an acre. With the money hn obtained fer his land, he could have bought an immen- Sc quantity of land in Arkansas, as good as his ever was---land that will soon be valued as high as that he sold.
 Society is as good in Ani.ansis as It IS in Tennessee, or any where else. The people are as moral. hospiiable. and as in- telllgent. as any other peanle Schools, too, f not as numerous are generally bet. ter supported lhan tlay are iu Tennessee, and as much deserving support Yet there are scores oi people m the popuious parts of the old States, who are paYing from B 10 S4 per acre as rent. fearful toyo 10 Ar- kausas, lest they should falI Iiaasnong ean-. plbais, or heatheDs at least.