Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-05-09
Vol. vII.---No. SO.


Inc Enemy In ArkanSaS--H1S Ratio
snakes-Big Mosquitoes.
The following from tho correspondence
Of the Chicago Post shows that the Fod-
eral troops have other enemies than men
in Arkansas. The writer is with the
naval aotilla:
THE ENEMY IN ARKANSAS.
THURSDAY. April 18.-A night among
the mosquitoes Of Arkansas. Surely, Ii
there is any torture more exquisite than
another--a torture fit for rebel malefac-
tors--it is existence on the Arkansas
shore Of tho Mississippi river. I arrived
there yesterday, two or three hours be-
fore pightfall. The banks were under
water but at The distance Of Few rods
a levee" runs along the shore, forming
dry path through the woods and waters.
excepting where divers 'crevasses" yawn
and permit the muddy food to flow upon
the region beyond. Between tho land
ing and the levee one must pick his way
over the " drift" which previous floods
have landed along the trees Taking all
risks, | essayed to reach the levee, stop
ping few feet from the boat, over the
disgusting body of hugo rattesnako
that the water had driven out of his den
Two or three bullets put an end to his
emblem of rebellion in Arkansas. His
length was somewhat over four feet, his
breadth of beam and depth Of hold sufi-
cient, with little distention, to take in
the boldly of rabbit
But such monsters are among the tri-
! fling annoyances of this happy region
when compared with the mosquitoes.
Large, vindictiye and ravepous, they
swarm the woods more numerous than
the plague Of locusts and more ravenous
in appetite Our Northern mosquitoes
are fellows of pigmy race compared
with these sanguinary and vonomous
blood suckers.
Our soldiers dread them worse than
they do the Confederates. The declara-
tons of a hard listed cannonier that no
would rather stand before battery Of
six Founders than endure the torment Of
these winged vampites was not altogeth-
er allegorical; really believe that with
out some protection from their assaults
they would in the end prove fatal
There was no refuge from the attacks
Of this fierce enemy no barriers could
shut them out no batteries force them
to retreat. Their attack was continued
during the night. aud in tho morning
our boat presented the appearance Of
Plug Ugly hospital after a Baltimore
election riot. | left Arkansas by tho
earliest conveyance, and do not expect
to return.
The correspondent Of the Chicago Til
bune says;
ARKANSAS NATIVES.
The first inhabitant of Arkansas that
rnado any serious demands upon my at
t tention was akin to the reptile which Grst
/ gave our universal mother an idea Of the
, quality ofapples an immense rattlesrako
coilcd up and acting on the defensive,
ready, like his humane co-natives, to die
in the last ditch Like General Lane. |
went around him. Subsequently | met
several Of the same tribe, but avoided
them all in similar manner a moro
persistent and savage foe, however, await
ed me, and, like Nimshi's son, they
drove furiously at me. They came fair
, ly 10 clouds, and charged with the dea-
peraton Of fashionable tailor. Their
bills wero equally as long The Ar
kansas musquito is an institution by IT.
SELF differing even from its neigbhor OPP
posite, the Tennessee musquito. / have
experienced the assaults Of each Of them,
and consider myself competent judge.
The Arkansas mosquito is about the size
Of a humble bee the Tennessee ono, Of a
house fly.
Tennessee hovers about you coquct-
tishly, dallying you to sleep with pla-
cid whirl Of its gauzy wings before IL
stings you; Arkansas, without warning,
drives at you ferociously as Thug
Tennessee is a siren, Arkansas u very
pirate Tennessee works insidiously at
The musquito bar, but always successfully,
Arkansas rushes headlong through the
mcshes. He is fit representative OF
the Arkansas homo who picks his teeth
with the bowie knife, slaughters his man
before breakfast, lashes niggers" all
tho forenoon, steals horses all the after
noon, and plays poker for whisky all
night. My stay upon the lsacrcd soil
Of Arkansas" was rendered excessively
brief by tho ravages Of these insects.
which soon had reduced my face to an
excellent representation Of severe type
Of measles. II was some consolation.
upon my return, 10 find two-thirds Of
the feet with swollen faces and half
closed eyes.
Eg- Where | see house well fur
nishod with books and papers there, SEQ
intelligent aud we'll informed children
but If there arc no hooks and papers, the
children are ignorcnt, ifnot proaigate --
Doniel Webster.
E1- Why was Adams wife called Etes
Because when she appeared. mans day
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