The Van Buren press., 1870-02-08

There is DELL, he can write that the river
is falling, and rising too, for that matter
And there's BARD and them other fellows
over the mountain: even they have more
sense than Mcdonald, at least, if they
have not, they wouldn't make business
Of going throughout the country slander
ing the people OF their State, How much
more popular will Mcdonald, or Rice, or
Boles, or Roots be, for permitting the
appointment of man to Office in their
State who SANDERS their constituents in
this manner?
Commissioner Delano, cody informed
me the other day, that he had reversed
his opinion, that had right under the
treaties and the law, to manufacture TO
bacco in the Cherokee Nation, without
complying with the revenue laws; and
that as the st Louis manufacturers could
not compete with me in the Indian trade,
he had resolved to put stop to my bust
ness. THAT is the milk in the cocoanut
THATs the cat under the meal! Because
can make tobacco in the Indian Com-
try and sell it to indians for less than st.
Louis men can afford to do, must be
stopped.
COL. HARRISON
is here, prosecuting with great ability and
unremttng labor the interests of the
railroad he has lately surveyed, from the
Indian line to the Mississippi river. /
cannot but think that the temper of Con
gress and the administration is against
the grant of any more land to railroads
hope | may be mistaken and that Col.
II. will get his bill through, and the road
will be built; he has shown an energy
and enthusiasm in his enterprise. which
wins the respect and commentator Of
all true Arkansians. Can't you get some
such man to take hold of the Western
Border Railroad? That road will not re-
quire donations Of lands from Congress,
but can be constructed by the aid of Sc
bastian, Crawford, Washington and Ben
ton counties in Arkansas, and Newton
and Mcdonald counties in Mo. 1t will
connect two important lines of railroad,
at NeoshO, Mo, and Van Buren, Arls.,
develop the great natural resources Of
our glorious old countics---W ashington
and Benton, whose light Is now hidden
under bushel,
The railroad from Little Rock to Fort
Smith, and the one from St. Louis to
Neosho, are fixed facts. There is a good
chance presented for some new young
man to make capital for himself in lead
ing the way to unite those two great
lines. Who will take hold of the mat
ter2
THE INDIAN COUNTRY,
Is in bad way; | have no idea the
Cherokee treaty will be ratified; the
golden opportunity, was suffered to go
by, u year or more ago. There Is strong
probability that a Territorial ELL will
pass the immense power of the Western
Railroads is combined against the con
tnuance Of separate nationalitics among
the Indians. What would be the best
policy for them to pursue under the cir
cumstanccs, is hard to say. The Chero-
/ KEGS have a large delegation here, repre-
scntng them, who viii doubtless do all
they can. | was not considered of inn
rortance enough year ago, to be OF SER
vice to them, and Of course am relieved
of any responsibility on their account,
f. c. B.
EJ" 1t is rather amusing to witness the
contortions experienced by the "lesser
| light" of the Herald, in his foolish at
tempt to wriggle out Of the Endorsement
Of the Eeho's article, as q whole He
says he did, and he did'nt,--he couldn't
and he wouldn't. We asked him last
week to give us the "note as true rs Ho-
~ writ Of the unfmess of Van Buren, :"
for the holding the Federal Court, given
by the Echo. He shuns the question en-
tircly--as upon it hung all the controver-
sy--and wallows through a column OF
garbage, leaving the point at issue un,
touched. He knows, as well as we do,
that he cannot take up the article of the
Mountain Echo, and put his finger on
single "notc' touching the "miit-
ness of Van Buren for holding the L S
Court, but what is slanderously untrue
Tell us, pray, in your profound wisdom,
of the "RIGuT" You have for the re
moval Of the Court? Perhaps it may en-
tighten and assist st. Louis in present
ing its claims for the removal of the Ma
tional Capitol to that city
Tell US too, what progress is made in
building the new Court House? And, if
the anticipated aid from Congress has
not collapsed? BE communicative
The Hafald would have us believe, that
they have advanced some grounds and
cause for the removal of the Count, but
we venture the assertion, that not one of
its readers have ever discovered an iota
OF evidence or even suitable excuse in
any Of its long articles for the entertain
ment Of the subject seriously, by any dis
passionate mind, for one momcnt. And
all the flights Of the H3roli kaow
very well by this time, that there is no
more chance for them to set the removal
of the Federal Court 60 Fort Smith, than