Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-04-25
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
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 We have juet been shown letter from Col. Wm. Martin, addressed to Dr. John Martin of this place. It is dated Middle River, Honduras, March sOth, 1868. He gives more practical description of that country than any we have yet seen says it is all non- sense to think one can set down and make living. A man must work as well therc as elsewhere, to live. We give his own words. "The truth is, 1t is q hard country, as yet, on women and children. The sand flies, called in the { a cs biaca gnits, are so very thick that 1t is impossible to sit still or sleep with ont very fine bar. The general i'm pression is that they will disappear as We clear up and burn of our lands. Let this Inconvenience be overcome, and it will be, think, the finest coun- try eyer saw certainly the most plea sant. If will be one or the other, very good or very bad, in every sense ofthe word. l will plant my crop in June. have three hands besides myself; will have three or four more soon they hire for S8 per mouth, and will clear one- eighth of an ac,e per day. It will be useless for one to come here now, for it is too late to cut the brush for this years crop. The best time to come is the last of December oE first of Janua- ", without man intends to do as most of the Americans do, run all over the country and see nothing, for you can see no further in this brush than you can in the Pigeon Roost. l am about the only one that has come here and settled at once. The more see of the country the better like it. One ought to commence cutting brush about the lst of January. expect to get in about six acres in rice, four in corn, one in potatoes, one in yams, one and half in sugar corn, and a little in yampas potatoes, Be. twill cut my first crop of rice the 1st of October, corn in Sep tcnber, yams in October, sweet pota- toes in December,&c. The other pro- 1ucts of this country it takes to reach maturity Pine Apples two years, plan- tains eleven months, bananas eleven months, oranges five to seven years, cocoanuts five years; besides there are a number of other things that are eata- ble. l went to Livingston, in Guata- mala, q few days since ; it is a beautiful IlAcc, and think a family could live ,here for almost not thing. lhave bought six hundred and forty acres of land on Middle river; il cost me one dollar per acre, with the cost of survey added ten per cent te be paid cash, the bal ance in two, three, four and five years, without in.eres. We get our land low on account of wishing to start what is called the Hatch Colony, and they,gave us land at the same price as the II. Col ony ; there isno more sold at that price. There are two gentlemen here from Arkansas, nice men, with irfamilics so we call our settlement Arkansas. We have this advantage over the II. Colony; we pay no money on our land Till il Is surveyed, and l think it will be fall before they get here. This is bad country to come to at the wrong season, unless man has money. It is too late now, and those wishing to come had best defer it till next winter.
 
 gsy- Our clever brother of the quill Sanders, O! the "Hclena Clarion" picks ps up on local advertisement for rags, which appears in our paper, and asks us if we wouldn't like to have old clothes too, to which we frankly an- swer yes. In these hard times with Radical Legislatures and Radical favor ties, absorbing the fatness of our pro- fession; when honesty is at so heavy g discount, rags are good, but old clothes would be God send, as some- thing tangible might be realized in the way of barter. But in this we are not so fortunately located as our brother of the Clarion, having not with us so many dear friends of those who ham, ker after the clothes. But that rope end business please Sanders don't go slow on that, Brooks might take hint, and you and l might go into that busi- ness on most too large scale.
 
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