The Van Buren press., 1867-02-22
Pope County on ths River.
NoRgisrowS, Arks-

DEAR Pass: Mails are very iickle more
than Love, Fortune or other Goddess. There's
no use complaining OF them either, for they
are as unruiiled under cen,ure as praise. They
are q set of indiffegitiyc'. The most autocrat-
ic man | ever saw-or rar ofeither not even
excepting Ghengi, Kahn. Tippoo Saib, who
lived by bchcading people, nor Mahomond'
the Glorious who inlulgcd pastime in bow
strings. sacks and the Borphorous, nor any
Czar-was stage driver. Ny stars! but he
were pigmies beside him. lie rcigns over both
horses and passengers, and sometimes proves
him,clfa bad hand NJ the rcns. Well, I'll not
complain; only state that the Press comes to
me sometimes two at time. sometimes one at
time. and sometimes none at time. lts
fun to get mail in this way, You can thus
have 4 study Of its. starts, conyulSions, and
other confusing forces, Resides papers, am
satisfied letters are not les crratc; for, have
written you once lately ami sccingno mention
of il anyway. | concljde you never got it
Should you get this please make a note of it..
and credit the mails one punctuality and
charge to my account.
| see that your correspondents are tilting
lances n to who shall be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
or. Let Barncy's and Thomas merits decide.
like them both extremely and wish | could
vote for both of them. Churchill was good
and leading soldier; Hampstead did good SER
vice ut Oak Hills. Both are gentlemen, both
accomplished, both have accepted the situa-
ton" and both would make most excellent
Lieutcnant-Govornors. Let us elect one OF
them by just 4 majority of one, so as to pay a
compliment to the non-elected. | have my
private choice, you have yours, but most pco-
pie in the State
Whether Mossup beat Barney or Barney Mos
sup"
am glad YOU have got correspondent in
the thriving village OF Dover. Hope you will
get ten times as many subscribers there-you
ought to. But your correspondent would suit
ne better if he would write Arkansas lingo
aad not Johnsonian H. is right in his state,
meut as regards the peace and harmony o.
this county. They are profound and cement.
Ing. There was never time in the history OF
this county. since the ouc-armcd Governor
gave It's name, when law. order and good
ncighborhood were more respected and cher.
iShed. The crimes committed just after Ar
kansas Federal rule subsidized form the eXcep
ton and prove the rule. These outrages are n,
more char@cablc to Pope county, than the rio
Of Il mob in Chicago, or any other pious north
ern city, is chargeabie to its State. But even
these outragcs of bad and irresponsible mel
have ceased and before the occupation of Do
yer as a Post; and not so much from the in
tlucncc OFT. 5. troops, as from the good char
acter and law-abiiing lirmness of the citizen
OF Pope county. ! think Pope is perfect,
well able to maintqin its own integrity an,
observe law and justice, and that she will con
tinue to DO it (; espe tally ifRadicals, and Radi
cal liars and Radical sheets will Iet her alonC
and not ;temSeltes do3ge the la,e. !
Evidence is every where displayed in thi
county, as in others, of rceupcration. Enter
prise and industry 90 hand in hand in build
ing up the waste places Of this region. Til
known breadth ana fertility Of its river am
other bottom lands, the richness ofits upland
OF some of which this year with scant cul
tiyation have been picked fifteen hundre
pounds per acre Of cotton-and its other grca
resources both beneath and above the oroun(
its exceedingly valuable forests OF pine an'
other marketable timber. its typographical
fair gradients for railroads. make Pope coun
ty, what | unhcsitatingly pronounce it, til
third desirable county in the State for home,
Let immigrants come and see and they vii
/ find all have here said more than verified
| could go into an essay Of its Topographic
geographic, geologic and mineralogic proper
| ties, but it is not essential, nor have you tn
space. 1t will be done, some day, very ia
| better than can do it, But if the immgran
wants good home, let him try Pope. In Ben
ton, Washington and Crawford are fonnd -
good homes as any where west, or east of tn,
Mississippi; and Pope is like unto them.
| Wew want two hundred Immigrants in Pope
this year. And out of them, perchance, ant
| those who were already here, when the mailc
get fixed and DR.. lIarkcy, p. NJ. at Russell.
/ ville does not have TO act as postmaster fol
fifteen post offices, we may send YOU batch
! of - subscribers, or more. SO hurry on the
| Observation-Disclosures especially.
/ We are going to have an excellent Male and
/ al Ia -,
/ poets SO far are very encouraging. All these
things tend 10 rcfjtte the slanders gone abroad
as to this county
Yours, j. W. W.
Maj i. T. Hampstead.
The election of "A Lieutenant Governor has