The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-03-28
Fog' Ehe Bo7ivar Bullstias.
Letter from Arkansas
AgsrIN, a. .Mareh s. I868.

--4A your paper OF tne "a OF February,
1868, under the head of "sketcbes Of
Travel BY a gentleman who signs himself
j. e Miller ! find some superfuous things
which as a eitizen. of Arkansas feel con
strained to notice
}. z, M starts out by saying that neither
himself or the Baltimorean with him had
ever before seen the seleohaut' in this part
Of the country His Imagination was rife
with such scenes as he describes, when
weary with plodding along a muddy and
rooty road, in the dark, fatigued, hungry
and sleepy (poor fellow, he saw a light
glilnnering through interlvovepbo y
and on requesting permission to quarter
there for the night, was informed that he
eculd not do so g for love or money. Pro-
eeedlng several miles farther, another
house was found, into which he says they
were admitted after being interrogated
tka.sly Whose dar?" and Informed at
the same time by mine host of the wayside
inn that they could stop, proUidsa they had
the "greenbaek, and would put up with one
bed, as Sal and her old man arriv this eve
min and took tother"
just such stuff as the above has been
written by many traveller in the "wilds of
Arkansas before, and not noticed by any
Of her citizens, as the words OF the tradueer
are generally supposed to eminate from one
who is well paid for the part he performs.
But it is getting time for such nonsense to
be stopped as fer might think they were
truths, and be deferred thereby from seeking
homes among US, and Of course what is det-
rimental to the State Injuries more or less
each citizen in it.
I do not believe a man can be found
within the limits of Arkansas who would
turn a lot Of travellers in the night from bis
door, without assigning some plausible rea-
son for so doing, when he tells them that
90 they cannot stay for lover OF money" IF
J. T. M and his compagnons dls 0oyaqe
were dressed in blue, that accounts for the
milk in the cocoanut, as we have been rob
bed and insuIted by the wearers of chat color
until giving one Of them shelter would be
feeding and caressing the dog that bitus We
simply let them pass unnotieed by, receiving
them not into our houses for love or
money" It being dark, and objects hardly
distinguishable at such times, 1 fear J E.
NJ. stopped at the shanty Of one Of our freed
men, as the language Whose dar p sounds
very much ike that used by those happy
wards of the best government the world
ever saw" White men here use no such
languages, and although have been in nearly
every county in the State, have never yet
had a man to tell m? that I could stay all
night at his house provided had the green
back, or any other money, and furthermore
am confident that might travel the State
over until doomsday and never be asked such
an impertinent question when making my
request, and no gentleman who goes to a
house and makes his requestin an honorable
manner, viii receive such an answer, and
know J. e. NJ. is an honorable man. Again
he says "my roosting place that night was
the porch, for on examination of the dOrmi
tory / was not willing to be lowered to a
level with the vegetable creation" / do not
remember of having ever seen house
within this State which had no floor. as
lumber mills are plentiful among US; but,
admitting that you have told the truth J. E.
sL, did not our Confederate soldiers have to
lower themselves to " level with the vege-
tabls creation every night while getting
that rest and repose SO much needed after
each days march, fatigue, duty or battle
Are you better than them2 Does not thou
sands of our boys in gray now sleep beneath
level Of the vegetable creation?' Are
you better than them, J. E. NJ If you
think so, be wary, J.E. NJ, as the ghosts of
the murdered dead, the sons of your neigh
bors, and the friends and schoolmates of my
boyhood years, who went forth from Bolivar
to battle for your home, and fell Fasrced by
the enemy's bullets, will rise up and hiss
you from the place of their earthly abode.
+" Advancing several miles we left behind
us those lye colored streams, that seem to be
the habitations of innumerable chills and
fevers, and striking what is called Tulip
Ridge, our ears were greeted with the mer-
riment of waters that spOrted away over
paths of pebble" This is all very pretty,
indeed aud if J. E. Miller is a young man
and unmarried such courting talk whispered
into the ear of bis fair senoritta, while sit
ting in some flower garden on summer s
eve, with the moon s soft rays playing gently
upon the loving twain, he-rnaY just go to
the Clerk of the honorable County Court
and demand his license. Butwhat 1 am
after is his lye colored streams, by which
we suppose he means the Arkansas river
alone, as where can & more pelucid stream
be found than the st Francis, OF where &
more lovely one than the White, whose very
name shows it to be anything but lye col
ored, and whose waters are dis5inguishabl'
. fer miles after entering the Mississippi
locking as though, like the Confederates
pure and spotless, it were forced to submit
to brute force, but would never miugle it
clear. pure waters with those of its murk.
destroyer.
He tells you not Of dasbing mountain
stream Current river. Cal It lye colored