New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-21
4ErrER FROM ARKANSAS.

Correspondence of the Crescent.l
NAPOLEON, ARK, July l3, 1866
Dear Crescent-I must be permitted to aoknow-
ledge my reluctance to write you this time, which
is caused by pressure of previous engagements;
and doubtless ! should not do so if my poor
wearied spirit was not animated and kept buoyant
by the good spirits which your humble CORE
spondent has been the recipient of, since his last
from the Crescent City. A few days since your
humble and unostentatous 'sEuclid" received
letter from of your city firms, saying "Please
accept our compliments in the article we send you
ny the next steamer that touches at your landing
We have selected it with an eye to your good
taste and Judgment, and with glass of the same
have drank bumper to your long life, happiness
and prosperity" Well, this was glorious Sc
lected with an eye to my good taste.n Certainly
one Of that firm had drank with me somewhere, by
means whereof he was enabled to judge of my
good taste"
Wen he hit the nail upon the head; fer the
steamer touched at the designated place, and
handed oyer for Euclid = the article and
an article it was. Let me tell your learned read
ers that it was compound artice-deiuite in its
position indefinite in its feelings 1t surpasses
General Jetf,'s Poetry, Music and Love" Ii
make music without a musical instrument, and
cause you to imagine yourself closely confined in
the arms Of the arest Of the fair. JEFF IS wouldn't
do this. It only made yen feel glorious awhile,
and then, then, you wished for something else.
III your comp0sitor IS troubled to read this com.
municatiou he must not censure me-and know
he VIII nOt-tor certainly his liberal soul will
ALLOW q friend to be jovial and agreeable occa-
sionally-not John w. ForReys Occasional y
and if he should like to realize a true. genuine,
desirable feeling send him to &. NJ. & BIS on
Carondoet street. and he will find it.
Long may they wave.
And the home Of the tree 80 so called"
Since my last, the Arkansas river came out with
g twenty feet rise, dashmg its muddy waters on
every Blaea that water could possibly reach.
Many OF our planters have suffered terribly by
this unexpected rise in the Arkansas, and among
them am panied to notice Maj, Gen Gburchhn
Gutiyatng OF the plantations owned by the late
DR.. John A. Jordan and generally known as his
| island plaee.h Several other gentlemen unpTO
! tected by lsvees, or whose levees suddenly gave
/ way, have been seriously damaged but ! an
happy to know that the muiurity of them, if MOI
all, had cotton planted in ground above the reach
/ of the Arkansas or any of its minor tributaries
/ which will enable them to meet this fall all liab
| tiles incurred for the purpose of producing the
| present crop. This is some consolation amid the
/ desolation and havoc which has been recently
wrought by the turbulent and angry Arkansas.
Our last spring was very late one, and was at
1 tended with great deal of rain, which threw @
! gloomy proBpect over everything appertaining tt
the successful culture of cotton this year. How
ever the panters found enough time to get theil
crops planted at, or very near the right time
| Finally the rain ceased to fall, the clouds ban.
ished, and the pleasures of sunlit day were once
more experienced to the satisfaction of ell con
cerned, and certainly at this period of our history
ali the people, and especially the Southern people
are deeply interested in successful yield of tht
soil this year. Farif ever there was,a class o
people whose futaEe existence depends upon sue
cessfl tiing of the soil far year, stis we, th
people who reside south Of Memphis, tennessee
| and am pleased to be able to chronicle the fac
that, SO far, everything has been for the planter
and proves that his efforts have been attends
4 with success.
do not mean by this to say that the plante
| will realize handsome t9rtune from the yield o
| his Goil this year, but | nean tie say that unles;
some extraordinary Pr0vi5eDtisl misfortune ever
| takes him before his crop &aally natures, he vii
be able to realize suficifaGy fr2m his preHen
years. labor to pay off all RlliquiGated liabiitie
and place himself upon more independent foot
hing or at least this will be tie case with thi
planters in the Arkansas Valley. The season is 81
far advanced, and the cotton crop so faE advanced
towards a state of maturity, that ! entertain n
fears Of its being lost. If it is it will be beyon
4 tie power fHan to agTestits destruction II vii
surely be q matter for Phovideutial action.
/ Prom the lst of March 20 the 10th of May W
certainly bad more rain than has ever before fel
in this part of the country. It rained the best par
1 OF every week, while the high water incident t
the Mississippi river and its Tibutaries came upo
I ps without mercy. Since the 10th Of May We haK