The New York herald., 1863-10-02

may require ior aret ftH5ii11 IRON slave 10
free ator . 500 wi. ALLOW 900 % e@ress ths o'ais..y
thi- Is Ito ald -iiu1> course .hat can be pc
sued, the reason tina, tir rai, which now 1oycF
labor viii be m dstarbea by lhis systc thar By
ay other. un inlury tue most intelligent citizens
Of the town am SATISFIED that tfry consider tho cause
Of secession hopeessy gone, and hence The
the part the people Tor the purIOse abeye stated
Tho PLANTATION OF General illiow is lhre miles below
Helena. His loss by this is esinlted six to
seven hundred thousand dollars AL the buildings upon
the plantation htvo beon destroyed by troops The
residence Of General Pillow Columb ia Tennessee
and is said to hsye boen psatia In this vicinity
also the residence o. the Hon Bishop General Leonidas
Folk, OF the rebel army.
nacsaSe Of this high and mighty Southerner. named
Samuel Polk Of rhips county Arkansas, three miles in
tho rear OF leona, owned large plantation, aud
very eccentric man. lie is perhaps the only man living
who by ecccutciy year made fortune OF seven
ty nyo thousand dollars,
In the year srcccedng the great famine in Ireland Mr.
Polk sold seventy Thousand bushels Of for
tyhve thousand dollars when corn WAS high he planted
cotton aud when cotton high Lo planted corn. not
single acre being used for any ohor purpose with the
exception Of hrs garden
Friers Point Union post, passed some twelve or
hf.een miles below Holena
ARKANSAS RIVER.
ln river is navigeble stream. II omptiea into the
Mississippi river tho west side. few hundred yards
below Napoleon, Arkansas Arkansas Post, about soy
enty miles from its mouth small place Of one hundred
inhabitants. was settled about tho time that William
Penn made the treaty with the Indians hard fought
battle took place here under Gen horernand Cen Bur-
bridges div sion In front. We lost nearly thousand
men before the fort surrendered,
NAPOLEON
is town OF six seven hundred nhab l.ans Tne build.
ings scattered and pour with the exception OF the
United States Mariao Hospital which 10 large Gud re.
spectacle looking structure. Not bgndng was do
stroyed hore tha, could On tbs opposite bank OF
the the OF the town OF Proutss burned By
our gunboa.s about year ago cor guerilla fixing Near
hero the rcs1sucs end plantation Of Judge MCGUIRE
the fathorin law Of Gon,-a Clark o. tho re5el army aud
jest below is very largo planta.IoD, owned by the
Hon Christopher Fields who has bson persistent Union
man during the whole OF troubles lie represented
Bolivar county in tbe Legislature for nurber OF years
AT Nspoeoa had the pleasure o. ssoing end passing
through cutoff which dill not exisl sx weeks ego The
washDgs Of the river carried away about hundred
and forty yards OF earth thus reaching tho Mssspp on
the opposite side, and shortening the chornel twelve
miles The town or Napoleon IS now unfortunately, cn
bend and must lnaly 30 carried away md become tho
bed or:he river.
Below Napoleon Ia the plantation Of the celebrated horse
producer Ten Brock. Tho residence upon It Is very
pain low building but the plantation and uegro quarters
are among the handsomest on the r!Tor.
GAMES LANDING
Th. landing which Is situated on the wesl bank Of the
river was the celebrated ono sor debarklng the Texas
emigrants before war From here they crossed the
mainland to Camden, the Wachts, aud from there
branched OF TO Alexandria Shreveport and oher points
Northern Texas. The emigration principally from
the States Of Northern Alabama Tennessee and Georgia.
Two stores are all tho buildings here.
Carters Landing s short distance below. Here the
gucrias fred at every steamer that passed up or down
the river for three four months up to within the last
tvo or three weeks. The place destroyed by our
gunboats scarcely even vestge Of the ruins oong vs
Bile, so thorough was the destruction
Not far from hsre Catfish Pond the day previous to
our passing, rebel psymas,er, with one million two
hundred thousand IL rebel bonds four CAPTAINS and
twenty OF their body guard captured. whiie At.
tempting 10 cross the river.
CyPgvs BIND
is situated short distance below Napoleon. skirmish
took place here last spring The gueras had been firing
every transport that passed up down the river,
when expedition, undcr General Burbridge, was sen!
from Young's One piece OF artillery aud number
OF prisoners were taken.
CoLrMmA
before the war was a village Of some tsa three han
dred inhabitants II is situated the west bank, below
james Landing short distance. The buildings remain
apparently unnjured. Three stores With signs IN front
show thai drug store, paint store aud grocery did
business here te but now the shops are closed,
the shutters OF the houses and blinds the windows
and not soul can be seen. AZ Napoleon and many
other OF the smaller towns which we passed noticed the
8 me deser,ou aud dosolaton Ruin was everywhere.
cRKESvILIt
Ia few miles below the opposite side from Columbia
This place which before the war had some seventy
or hundred houses and buildings, is now runs tho
church and two white byudines standing forth amid
,hem like pale spectres, Al here 10 silent, too
-Four months ago Gresnville was destroyed BY our
forces Some transports at the time we're on the way TO
Memphis. when the ohemy opened upon them with srt
ery about pA mile above the town. KILN. AMI wound
ing thirteen mon Several infanry aud two three hun
dred cavalry were fortunately board. These were
| landed at once, Glop lbe wc!x Of destruction com
mepcea The eucns wsrts chssod several ki'e7, wound
! cd or captured When tho force marched az TO pee'
creek setting Gre TO the building Thea they started fol
Creenye and destroyed every building 800 the town o
the church and two houses.
short time AFTER at the saline place, alcui h'e hun
dred gceiss fred upon the steamer Nruesotr with az
tllcry aud muske,ry one sldo Ct the whS2.agySe va
shot away, the iel rope gs ~! In two and The vesse
becoming unma1aseabc, her struck the west shore
bounded Of towards the east shore aud nt0 the bank
After taking what taey could carry the guerla tool
every person prisoner AMI then Aeel the vessel sh
was loaded with $50 900 worth cf suffers stores The un
| fortunate sutel- are yet iu Libby prison.
rel,een this piaco and Coanlbs was shown oar by
the pilot hundred yards 10 right, which hi
vessel passed six weeks aso. short distance below
Green, lie are two plantations OeonsIue to Judge Grnn
lie owns ave OF six very large nartsors. fho two men
! toned above c5s 100000
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the next poiut VI aterest has been place VI eoidera
| bic importance daring ths wnr An expedition unde
General sherman landed here last December Cor the
purpose Of destroying the yc.burg and Shreveport Rail
road, prior to the yicksburg which sue
cessu From this point Gerersl Grant moved with th'
4 whole OF his coumpn across the peninsula. NIilikop1
Bend Is the place where tho negroes are said 90 Law
/ iough, 50 desperately
The place IL SlmOst entirely destroyed. Before Ia
war broke out 1t lsndu: place OF considerable I'M
I portance.
Pawlaw issnd. at the tool o. Miikens Bend IS SOM
ttt.l.ar tt.a ixr.e