The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-12


LITTLE Rock, Ark, April s, 1857.
wrote you last, Dear CARR, at Memphis,
Tennessee. The upper portion Of that city,
which is the lower portion, was under water |;
the city itself was under mud. Memphis 10
q handsome little borough, but We will enter
il in the lists, against all the world, ~ having
the meanest, stickiest, most untrsvsrsable
mud, and the most of il, of suy place 10 the
universe a thriving businAss place 80 ut
terly surrsnaessd to this naissace could no,
be found IN the United Sissss, ouiside Of
that Dixie, which drives in iontsss TANDEM
with TOW string, and who's great city, Rev
Orleans, ID saidfo be withoss o. single steam
Gre engine. Cur say vas SAsrt, - hasty
look ct the gardens with their Aassss Of green
shrubbery and royal dark-leaved masnohas,
and We ware again sbserd 6eat, going down
stream, and the greco blues bslev ths city
we're sinking ous Of ighs. hsassd Of these
We had the low heavily wooded shores and
that rssisslsss uaappsasahss ~as>s Of waters.
running out over The lands, snd making the
country for nilss % either sids, lifsassa, and
houssiess and tsnaasless. When ~ vsksd
the foIIosing morning oar boat tA1 In the
whiu River Cut on, and through, il ~
Sborsiy snersed into the Arkansas River.
Tha b channel connscsisg the White and
Arkanms rivers, which en- Be navigatsd
vAsa the rivers are high. and SAVES time and
diseAnes BY rendering il unssesssasy for
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Misissippi TO the moatA Of the Arkansas.
Ths Cut on 10 Dangerous sailing slasss
nanbsr of boats have run upon "snsgs T"
and bssn sunk in Il. Our crxh made il safe
~. Daring the FIRST day Of oar srsvsl up the
ArkansAs, and large part 81 IL speceeding
day, the scenery did not change The shores
are low, heavily wooded, With thick under
growth Of cane. The Stsss haa constructed
lsves along the shore of Ill the cultivated
aisssicts- There arc several 6ns plantaf;ens but
Tie chivAlry have no particular fancy for ar
chitscsars. In distance Of more tAas two
hundred miles Ne saw bat two rsspectable
frame buildings- All the rsst vsrs diagy
LOO house, Yet this ID district where, With
unpaid labor. each acre Of land titled would
yisld the owner from sixty to eighty dollars.
AsAraansss valley 10 the bsst COTTON growing
eesstry in the world. A complete failure of
The crop was never known. A bale or . hale
and one half Of cotton il grown pr acre.
EstimAAs thsss hslss q Eve hundred pounds
sach, tAsy fEsqusatly weigh more Mar that
1Isaoiply shas b the narksG sooeaaioss, md
goa - what ass he induesneuss % cotton
growers hsD& We cosvussd swith an ex-
RID slsyohold@ - ~ eans up the river
Hss sslaisasiae six hssdrsd aerss 10 cotton
Ghis saasea- Hs told ~ he had one negro
1nhaG9 hirsd spe svssy six Acres culsivssed
tbsss - go maay p,spsaA;sss opsa 10 cal-
olvslin, and ~ rents sss enormous. Thoss
uhe'tssssd paaatasioss-aast year did badly.
IL nogs sgssssivs operators saak money
hEgslys Nan who bad small plantations,
end AiFsab ~ ~ hborsrs, saved them.
sslvsA Thsvsy snalles portion Of this
dskeseaps powiag disazict i ID plana.kions.
An - - b covsrsa viii imnsabs Forests
md 81 tssn, dsss, ssRksys, md various
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