The Van Buren press., 1869-08-10

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Indian in the country has plug in his
pocket, and the old war-cry Of "Chaw-
lah" 10 hushed. Messrs. HsSDERsoN u
DrpMAS, manufacturers have IN the pas,
few months paid out in Missouri thou
sands Of dollars for the purchase OF ieai
All Of which thousands might have beer
kept in the county had the leaf been
raised here and all Of which thousands
annually may hereafter be kept here II
planters will raise the weed.
Game is plentisaI; ssh ditto: In shors
craps /, promising, like Bill VS. young
lady. The freshets did some damage or
all the large streams and tributaries o
the upper Arkansas, where ths waters
were higher than known for twenty year.
or more.
There is corn enough 10 do the Chcro
kses. There's corn enough in Madison
Washington and Benton to feed the i'm
migration which is coming in TO aid in
voting CLArrox Ct sl out of power, and
feed all the erAilroadlsborcrs, Coolies aud
all.
But wo are geipgto have sure enough
railroad near lis baweon this and Janu-
airy 1870 The Fort Scott and Cult
Railroad will tar the northern Cherokee
boundary by tht time--and then; why,
i. will keep erto Red River, that's all,
and cross yo,r road somewhere on the
the Arkansasor Canadian, maybe Web
ber's Falls. mybe the 9th meridian OIL
Canadian, mayoe between, but Somewhere,
that's n fixed fas Then the country will
grow and thrir and aourish like "green
bay horse" as Van Buren used to do in
one Of oflQUEsENmRRYs odes. And your
road is alive, aid vigorously so, pushing
up the valley il reaches Of iron, and ere
long will be heard the snort Of the "Iron
Horse in ancent Van Buren,. Most
heartily do congratulate you, the peo-
pie of the Arkansas Valley, the whole
Southwest. A letter, richer, more i'm
portant road is Iot to he found in North
America, and the wealth it will unlock
will surprise the world. You'll see.
said so years, yes years ago.
What echoes tlRrc then will be in the
hills back of Van Buren, how tho sound
will roll along tn. bluffs above you, up
the river, twisting along Lees Creek, and
curl over to Flat Rock til it becomes o
great roar, waking up even JAcKsos
WHITE
"Wherc rolls continuous Oregon"
The ancient town won't know herself, ant
like one of the old time Judges will take
the thing "undcr advlsement." 1t will
wake up the spirits Of the loved, depart
ed and wandering, whe once were wont
to make Van Bursn SO pleasant, and, gath
cred in groups before SCorT, WHITE y
Co.'s door, or in the shady piazza Of the
old Columbus--that best Of hotels and
homes, now no more cracked tbeil
jokes, told their tales and laughed theil
laugh, unmindful OF such monsters as
Iron Horses What contrast it will be
/ shall then come down and with THRUs'
TON, Ed. ScoTr, STUART, WARD, AUSTIN
and tho few Of the old yet left, SO out to
see it.
Wei, good bye, old times. Your like
We ne or shall see again. And the love
peace, fun, quiet, mirth, friendship, wortl
and gold of the old Van Bursn must give
way to new sorts Of ways and paper
greenbacks Adios'
They have had silver mine in BentVf
and Washington. Right amid the noun
tain limestone, chest, shale and carbonate
of iron they found it, and it skeered' /
several persons. 1t was wrong in silver
to get among such rocks and not stay
there. From those myriad minute gilt
tering stars Of sulphate Of iron, in fri
able, glistening shale, they run, or Cal
run, hard white metal Is it silver?-
Ask the notaliferous rocks, OF whicl
there are aone there. There is miner
al found among basalt and lava an'
apygdaloid rocks, of half clear. brown
ish chrystalizationt called stilbite. !
must have been still bite they found.
have amused myself muchly readinI
the sparks you and the "old man Of th
Herald' strike out at one another. Bu
Judging from the "old mans" last pa
per, and get it on the wing like bah.
does an angel, he thinks great deal o
;ou, at least rs much ~ he docs @
his delinquent subscribers, for he love
to dun 'sm. They ought to pay him, ant
yOu, too, up; for they &c: more than til
worth CT their money by A. sight.
Pardon this long foolish scrbble.
have been very sick long, long time
Therefore have not written, to the grca
delight doubtless your readers
J. w. ".
White Water. c. N, Aug /, so.
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