Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-08
MisIissippI and Arkansas.

NICEsBURG, May 2, 1861.
have Just arrived here from the State of Arkan
sas, via the Ouachita river and railroad from Mon
roe having FIRST assembled the Arkansas river, call
ing at Pine Bluff Little Rock, Fort Smith the way
up, and at Van Buren,, Fayetteville, Little Rock and
crossing over by stage to Camden. on my way down
So you will perceive l have visited the principal
places in Middle and Southern Arkansas, together
with the Empire county of Northwestern Arkansas!
Rest assured there are no Union men in Arkan-
sas now-not even in Fayetteville. The State is
virtually out of the Union, and viii be formally SO
on the seventh or eighth instant. Military compa
MES by scores are rendering active service to the
Confederate Government against the unwise, unjust
unnatural. unchristian, unrighteogs, uRholy. IN
! cody warfare of the LncoLN SEWARD government
on the South.
| Fort Smith, as you have heard, was evacuated in
nighttime by the United States forces, who took
with them all their small arms and horses. The
| number of men was small, about one hundred and
fifty, several of the officers had resigned and quite
a number of priVates, having no respect for the
| powers that ruled over them, had deserted The
Fort and appertenances thereunto belonging ere
now in the hands and keeping of the State of Ar
kansas
Persons who have not visited that State have but
poor conception Of the capacity of its soil in the
production of cotton and grain, and the cheapness
and facility with which horned-cattle horses mules
hogs and sheep are raised and made fit for market
Hogs become seal fat on the vast of pecans acorns
&c, without the aid of q kernel OF corn. Other
stock, except such as is apart for service find
excellent ranges and require very little feeding at
/ of no In I ittIo
Rock 10 Camden. l was most agreeably sur
! prised at seeing 20 many fine fields of growing
wheat promising a remarkably good yield Corn
is looking very we'll though tue weather has been
rather cold. Lower down on the Ouachita and
between that and the Mississippi river, the lands
are fairly burthened vita it, (if It be possible to
burthen such soil with any CROP and noticed the
plant was. in many fields from twelve to eighteen
inches high already. This is a single section but
the same may be said of the crops all over the
South Yet. the Infatuated, deranged North talk
about starving the SaUth-back into obedience at
least noticed one little piece of evidence touch
| ing their belief in the starving condition of the
poor Southern people on the Ouachita, two three
! days agO. 4 steamboat laden entirely with corn.
| had ascended the river as high as Camden, the
shipper DO doubt, expecting to find a ready sale
and high prices for his CARGO bit the people want
! ed no corn, and be turned the bow of his craft
down stream, and must now pursue his voyage of
mercy over some other waters in search of starry
ing people; and If not attended with better success
elsewhere, he will before he closes his adventures
witness the approaching maturity of a crop planted
on these grounds and find out from actual examina-
ton that the North is not the only country thst pro-
duces breadstufIS.
| l have been trying to get some news from Ten
nessee but do not find it. The last had was of
date the 2jth when your Legislature had gone into
secret session viii Tennessee longer DELAY taking
a step ia the right observation-disclosures. With
! Virginia out 81 me Northern Union and Arkansas
following, will she noe wheel into line setting an
example TO her mother State, sorth Carolina then
comes her sister State Kentucky, then follow Mis-
souri,. Maryland and Delaware, and the Southern
Union is perfect. OK THE WING.
SuPgExr or Provisions FROM C1rclNNATr TO NASH
VILE FoEcIBLY PREvENrED.-The Cincinnati Gazette
of the 9th says:
Considerable excitement was created at the wharf
Saturday, in consequence OF the discovery of large
aEsouut of provisions on the mail boat Superior
destined for Nashville via Louisville. Some in an.
thority thought that under tie late decision OF Gov
DenniSon the provisions should go, but number OF
the Home GusrG wonld not permit anything o. the
kind They did not approve the plan Of feeding the
citizens or sOdierv Of dslogal State. Hence Idey
removed the freight consisting Of eiglltysK casks
of bacon Five hundred barrels of four, for Louis
Vile were sent down on the same boat We ul-
derstand that the Mail Company do not intend here
after to carry provisions of any kind, unless ap>
proved by the Committee of Public Safety.
Other points not so patriotic as Cincinnati have
provisions to sell, and they are selling them to the
rebels" too.