, 1872-10-10
ARKANSAS.
Some Talks with People There.
Past Statesmen Present Satraps---
How the carpet-Baggers Riot.

Glimpses on the Spot.
From Our Ozrn Correspondent.
LITTLE RocE, Ark, Sept 25-
The State ofArkansas has lost and gipsy-Gke
character among the States. Without railroads,
aw1itten history, or known man Of genius IN all
it's career ithas Jet been State longer than most
contemporary people have lived years. It was
made territory in 1919, and in that year 3 sin
gle traveller published 3 book of travels through
1.-THE solitary book Of the sort e1tant-.
TIE SEED THAT WERE soWS.
This traveller was Philadelphia naturalist, BY
the name Of Thomas Nuttall, and he says, Jan.
16, 1873:
"The establishment Of town il now con-
4emp1ated Ut tho Little Rock, by Colonel Hogan
and some others. They have not sufficient CAP
ita1, and expect to deriye some adyentitious
wealth from those speculato1s who are viewing
various paris Of the new1y-fo1med Territory"
At this time the settlements of Arkansas were
Arkansas Post, Cadron, Pecannerie, Piatt's
{probably the origin Of Don Piatt), Webber, and
Fort Smith .Pecannerie WAS called after Pecan
nuts, and contained so families; there is moth
ing on the spot now but tbs shells.
Ar. Nuttau says that the *sPost contained
between 80 and 40 houses, and IVES the site Of
the Chief merchants Of the country Everybody
owned Spanish grant, and the great Wade
Hampton was the chief planter in tho Territory.
Goods we're brought from Pittsburgh and New
OTlehns, and young man named Woodruff 3D.
0ended the river, that On the following year,
taking printing PRESS up in 1atboat- He he'd
come from Brooklyn, n. T., and he is still alive st
Little Rock, and the paper he founded remains.
Many Of the traders we're French, aud when a
uahn was go bad that he could not live even in
Arkansas, he went oyar to Spanish San Antonio,
in Texas, and played monte. Mr. Euttau gives
these glimpaes Of the early situation amongst
the Arkansas Pilgrim Fathe1a: " The Red River
people, as we'll Is the Arkanses people, bear the
worst character imaginable. Bands Of
robbers and coun.erfeiters haunted TIE
mouth Of the Arkansas. - Every res
sonahle and rational amusement at Cadrou was
swallowed Up in dram-drinking, jockeying, and
gambling: Renegades from Justice
abounded. Not banl-note between
Pittsburgh and Fort Smith commanded specie,
and Ill the wealthy part OF who1e communities
we're consplrlng in common system Of public
hzud."
AVRE kA0HLED4E On IEE aHBIEEI-
The first person with white blood born in the
Etate was one Of the half-hreeds raised between
ths aboriginal QuapawB and Barks, and the ten
Ftenchmen left hare by De Tonti, the explorer,
in the year 1856. Mr.. Nnttau SAYS that their
descendants existed near Little Rock in 1919. I
fancied sax q good many Of them when I WAS
there.
The first celebrated citizen of the State was
Bsndy Faulkner, better known as the Arkansas
Traveller. He still lives, and is b clerk at the
Metropolitan Hotel, Little Book. The following
Is his hast joke:
"Mr. Faulkner" said ], s;vha. lind Of State
Government have you got now7"
Well, sir," said ths Arkaneas Traveller, ST
reckon VIC are cursed With the damnedest passel
Ut thieves and trash ever sent out from Oblivion
EoAkanssw. They just govern here NTH high
hand, anu, il our Lives are our own, our money
Ain't."
The state had only 3s]S miles Of rail IN 1850;
mile to every S,906 inhnbitanta- In 1858, under
the carpet-bsgge1a' domination, an act was
submitted to the intelligent negroes and diggers,
snd r4tifed by them amidst that salnbrious fir
:of squn1el-guns which batokened Ill to other
-. o1e's lEnd and posterity, granting 615.0o0
/. nile to roads without d-g1ants, and S10.-
0ot ni1e to roads with and-Erants, to the e1-
tent, n II ot s5o miles q about s1o oo0 19 0 2oo
and hare received above ont-third Of it in 80
year State bonds, bearing per cent. The debt
Of the State is about G12, ,0o100o contracted, and
&8,000, 600 more authorized
EIERY1EW WITH MAIoR ADAMS.
An old citizen Of this State is Major Adams,
enc OF the p1op1ietora Of tbs Gazette, the Demo
critic organ, and Presidens Of the Memphis Il
Little Rock Packst Company. He wae an officer
mild, End cosmopolitan min, Who gave me some
e1cellent comparative ghmpses Of the State
under the old and ner regimes:
How many egiments did this State raise for
the Confederate army, M.. Adans?"
It raised sixty regiments, and they were as
aerviceable as any IN the confede1acy."
"Did you hare good eea1 OF gue1rilla-hght~
ing aud bushWhacking ?"
THAT was confined to Pope County, Of which
sou we're talking, and tha mountaln-countles,
where the Ozark and their broken ranges bear
OF from Missouri toward 1exas, and give oppor-
tunity for people to slip out Of the way; In
war always going On, and you may have noticed
that neaEly al the fighting Of consequences in
Arkansas Was up that waJ. That is where Gov
ernor Price returned after his leng raid; there
the Federa1s came in nearly every time, and
fought the battle Of Pes Ridge 1nd the subse-
quant battle Of Prairie Grove. Up there, IN the
corner towards Kansas, the most persistent
ieI % di1ided. ' That Is % The bone Of JOHNSON,
;ton is accused Of having bought of
!from his legitimate succession to the Governor
tship. johnson was good officer on that aide,
1but he is nov nothing more than hostage in
:4the hands OF Clayton and his importations. and
they pull him around pretty much as they Ike"
I '1Tho was the best soldier you producedd during
The war7"
: "Pat. Ueburn, By far. He was nat!ve Irish !
knan, who lived at Helena, and he was killed in ]
pne Of the Gulf State campaigns. have named |
: steamboat for him he was cool, discreet, and |
brnTe, and think better General than Hind |
man. Hindman was man Of splendid abilities
as 3 speaker and writer, but overbearing. He
grounds, and drew arms in the State Capitol. |
and at last he fell at his Own hearth |
Btone- James r. Pagan, of Little |
Book. Was q fine officer during the |
war, and he marched the first Arkansas regiment |
TO the Potomac He Was Major General when !
the war closed Tappan, OF Helena, who still !
lives, was good officer. Albert Rust was one
of orr Briradiera He died near Little Rock af- |