Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-04-18
From Mas. Christian Adv, April i.
Ten Bays in Foreign Parts.

We have spent ten days within the South ern Confederacy. Our readers might like to know something of what we saw and heard in foreign parts.
 " feel better;' says passenger on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, as about midnight we dip into the southern portion of Alabama " feel decidedly better What has come over me? Ah.-wc are out of the United States"
 "Thought something was the matter" responded a voice from the other end of the car. ''l've been feeling cramped and loose by turns these fifteen minutes. A night mare has been on me-horridl Now it's explained"
 But the train moved on, as though noth- ing had happened. Passports were not de- manded at Stevenson, nor at Chattanooga, neither were there any custom house off cials.
 The month of March has been unusually cold in Alabama and Georgia. Yet blow ing and planting are going on. The farm CTS are well up to their work. The main field force have not been withdrawn from their work, notwithstanding the musterings and mass meetings. All things go on with them as before They look contented and we'll cared for. The polished blow share makes its furrow, as of old, in the mellow earth. The trees are budding.- Corn is coming up. Cotton seed going in. Wheat and rye are beautiful. The flowers bloom. The singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
 About twenty per cent. more than com mon of corn and smaller grain is being sown this year within the limits of the Southern Confederacy. This agrees with our observation, and the most reliable rep resentations made to us. Those people mean to be independent. A few months will show that they can raise bread as well as cotton The cotton crop is now found 1 out to be about million of bales short oI the previous year. This fact has raised the price to higher figure than has been reached for many years. A few are holding back for higher prices still. But all this does not divert from the bread-producing pur- pose.
 Some things impressed us along our zig gag way and during our short stay in for eign parts. Of course the area of observa tions was not extensive. The reader vii know how to make allowances for that To our own, we added the observations O every iudcious friend and traveller we me up with, and with whom we could snatch ten-minutes' talk or take an hours set-to These impressions we give as facts, maybe new, without comment. " hereyer th' editor is, he bears the Advocate in mind and gleans for its columns.
 l. The quietness of men and things sur prises one. From the seriousness and vast ness of the revolution that has taken place there within the last three months, ant from the accounts of mobs, lynch-law, reigl of terror, etc., one can hardly help looking out for evidences of disturbance in the pub lie mind, and commotion in affairs. w never saw people calmer. In town, village country and crossroads they are sober Il conversation and quiet in demeanor. Evi dently it is not the calmness of suppression but of conviction and determination. Les Il buster and big talk than one sees and hear at county election. No whilstling to keel the courage up. No nursing of wrath t keep it warm. They are in uncommon bland hnmor. Even the phillippics, taunts and insulting paragraphs of the abolition press do not rufle their tempers as the used to do They regard them as ontsid things, pretty much as we m the uni'e