, 1873-03-18
WASHINGTON.
Social Conditions in the South
west.
A Narrative Of Life in Arkansas.
Decidedly Unpleasant Expcri-
CllCCS.
From Our 0trn Correspondent.
WABlt1N0ToH, nrarcl. u, 1879.

wAs,l1no7oS, srarch II, 1879.
1NrEncltAHaE or CouRTEstEs.
Tho following good-naturol elitorial para
graph 10 taAon from worry o1coltent ConserVa-
tiro journal, tho ST. Louin Republican:
Mr. Gath writes that Missouri Arln,Isas, and Knnsaa
nro practically uncvilizco rather, III condition
Of omI-clyilixaon. ThH remarkable announcement |
t IN e e y Ct as n Know cw 1n
solvcs hu speaking Tor Missouri, sc will say tint
peculiar eiy!lisaion It tAo great State Of Dclawsro, ia
not recogp!zed ns authority III this meridian.
Not having received any education in Delaware
to upoals Of, novor having failed to Bponk Of
Delaware rs OF any other part Of tho country,
anu to denounco my Of its barbarisin8. and
obligated to Missouri, Illinois, aud tho Woat,
nna that constituency Of friends reaiding tlere
whose silont confederation makes mo kin with
tlom moro than to MI the East, 1 will not stop
to badgor about localities. I ntn IN American.
But, aa to tho mattor in baud, 1t Ia notoriety
TINT, west OF tho Missiseippi River and south Of
Iowa, n social civilization prevails in many OF
tho rural aud rugged parts which doma1,ts tho
Son Of Man to 10 born again to romoaol it..
| Am told TINT o1-Goy. Fletcher, Of Missouri,
on recont visit to this city, Baid nbout Ms fol-
| lows:
| "Grat3 Brown docs not know how to govern
| these mountain countioB Of Missouri. When I
| was Governor Of tho State I sent to have cer-
thin follows put out Of tho way [assasainatod II,
because know that no order could provnil while
they woro alive. They wero outlaws, md tho
general pence demanded TINT they bo quietly
extirpatel."
Perhaps / am doing ox-Gov. Flotchor injuB-
tico but whom tAezo paragraphs wore ropoatod
In mn NJ having lcon raront,y ,ttorod. th,v
~ W. ,s n"s.'s uson 4usoas u.svo, s 10y
eoen'ea 70 po No natural 10 .no conoltlon lungs
tho Indian Territory, as had found tlom last
sep1em'0f' t that l maac on'y THIS mehta' COM
mont
rulers aboye the pooplo Is thoro not q social
work to do In this country by the press which
.at ..,,. s.aI,o r,o,;t;.a1 retan,,, >"
th ny hIc u";na n
load to any mere bickoring In print, I allall re-
cret that 1 began It for several yoars of ac..
on.ntanco will, tho oditors and nronrfotora NJ
tho Missouri Republican lavo lod to roupoot, at
1oast on my part. But q nan ia not armed With
pen to 10 a politician. !; tho newspapcr-pres
Of America would exert Gomo Of its energy, ma
tho Cincinnati Commercial Ia doing, to explore
pnrta Of the county (Koutncky and TonneBaco)
and educate old md hard oommunitios up to
coma apprehension Of tho criticism Of mankind
upon tlom, 1t would accomplish moro in
yoar than by discovering Livingstone,
finding tho Northwest Passage, or reaching tho
| North Pole. Tho material growth Of the United
States defca journalism. Wo have no literturo,
because thoro is no time for it,. What happens
oxcoeas invention. Rubi1lson Or,lsoe would DO
no alyonturer in this country. hIunohausen
would be no liar. sinbal could not 1lna pub
Usher The Count Of Monte Christie would DO
driyon out Of tho newspapers by Mr. Hildobrand,
Of Missouri.
Hildehrand waB tho daily, weekly, and seml-
weekly hcro Of the Republican,, lie was not 4
creator villain than Cullen Baker, 1.-THE Bowie
tho State ho lived in, murdered
for game, aud nobody knows clearly
whether 10 ia is doaa & nt tis moment moment or no. He
eannot provo i and. Il dead, nobody csn provo
TINT the ltepneltcan IL gfatlhed with the loss o1
. such valuable itom. .....
Congress- IS in ever, and 10 not propono to
help str up this very Question qs which the Afis.
souri, Repng!lcan Inns oroaehea. am ready to
begin u III neiaware aha 70 nnieh 1t IN Ai1ssourl
AS an instalnnoht. sena you eocla! nara
which put in my pigeon-hoe case fow wookd
u. . "yIotEScE AND THE i. SOUTHWEST"
Iho rolIowane le pats Of tso fd narrative ,;.. or
!. County, the chief town Of souilern 1rIeneas
for two or three years leforo the War, mud dur
Ing its continuance, until nearly 1st5. Ho is 81
! next door to the transuribor in Washington City
= aud at my request, rendered this testimony:
THE rEnaoxA1 NARRATIVE.
: ~ had fallen into the acquaintance of an oil
Q cercly attached to Texas, and believed that tIt
y world lad no such climate aud soil. resolved
4 to avail myself OF his experience and buy farm
u IN that State. When roaehed Austin, where
paradise had purchased. 1t was GO miles nortl
Of that city, aud 20 milos from poBt-oillce. Ii,
0 Beducer himself lived iu o log houBo without
glass window, and with floor Of eplit timbor full
, of cracks. Nothing seemed to mo to be- visiblt
: but drouth land and thirsty cattle. I could MOI
o bear to bring my wife to such a Bpot, so abhn
lonod my purchase, and rosolyod to 70 to
n "cAmpEH. AIR,
i where had relatives It took twenty daya tt
= 60 by tenn. We eaw only one Northern-lil1t
= town -Manstlold, Texas. at Shreveport ",
" crossed the Red liver, and advancing towart
hrkoruaa ,.,n. o,,;3nr,o. ~ o;41,..