Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-05
Little Rock correspondence.

Special correspondents PUBLIC LEDeER.I
LITTLE Rock, ARKANsAs, March 81, 1859.
We left Memphis last Saturday evening
on the good steamer 7. 81. Allan, COM
manded by the reliable Captain Pritch-
ard; found the Mississippi and Afkan-
sas rivers pretty high, with propitious
winds, and such genial weather that the
very nights were made Of zsphyrs, star
light and moonlight, with scarcely the
breath of a fog for annoyance, After
the usual monotony of such voyage, we
arrived in excellent time in this city,
which is not the city of rocks, and wears
not very stony face, though bearing
such hard name; and, as other notable
places have delighted in some cunningly
Devised cognomen, aud Little Rock hears
continually so much Of future railroads
and prospective greatness, may it not at
least be called "the city of promises T.
Or, if this be not sufficiently watter-of
fact, or prossic las the world delights
to say), it can safely be styled the
city Of Claytons, brilliant Legisls-
lures, aad gist ebout with disbanded
militia We fully rssliEe that we
have left your busy little mari, nll-
erous with pleasant concerts, and other
festivities, 10 fDd ourselves suddenly
where nothing hardly is heard OF but
oppression, its a9yersities, snJ cues
tfoushle future. This place is improving
-lowly. tkoEgh il is not withou. a lauda-
bic ambition. II is ssid course is per-
sued here-not unknown il yopr city
that of holding property at such rates as
to psrslize immigration, and thereby
retarding tie c:ty's more rapid growth.
Yeu will see by the pepers, doubtless
era this reaches you, that to-day the
House is in Clsyton's favor, eansed by a
change 10 the Brookg programme. The
bill funding the State dsbt passed 10 it's
third residing, and will 20 through. An
effort is made TO take the appointment
of Registrars ont Of ClaytoH's hands, but
with no great proSpect of success. A
resolution passed the Houss % adjourn
the sixth Of April, and meet on the siEth
Of January, 1870. A bill is under con.
sheraton for remunerating those who
suffered by militia ouirages, but it will
not amount 10 much, as 1t is optional
with Clayton, and cots Of any further
proceedings hereafter in courts pertain
| ing thereto,
There is much Discussion over the pros
pective railroads for the State, and, in-
deed, many knowing ones Of the financial
world are seeing visions and dreaming
dreams Of the time when Little Rock and
Fort Smith will aid nightly in making
81. Louis the glory Of the Western world.
When the road connecting this place 10
Memphis is completed the two cities will
clasp hands more cordially than ever
watching eheerily for the day-stsr Of
progress. Work on the Little Rock aud
Fort Smith railroad is going forward
the first twenty miles will &c CO, ont and
ready for grading in about tveaiy days.
DeDckla leaves Saturday for the East to
nsgotisis With capitalists for lie entire
slccess.
The oonGnEsi rains Of the past few
weeks have been cutie adverse 10 farm
ing interests, but the farmers ere com.
paratively cheerful, aud will SOW ia heYs
If not with joy.
This bit c: salmsgundi may reach you
Ct ths eleventh hour; however, We risk il
with the istsnsss or the hour, crying
siste rfafar. Max.