New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-24
THE SULPHUR SPRINGS.

THE STATE BEFORE AND SINCE THE WARTS FAIR
FUTURE-PROPERTIEs OF THE sPRINGs-rHEIR
REMEDIAL QUALruEs-GOUT AS A SPECIALITY
trpoN AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT THE TRmUYE.l
SrIPHUR SPRINGS, Garland Co., Ark, Sept.
G-Arlansas has long been regarded, particularly In
the North the BGotia OF the Republic The opinion,
whether lust or UNJUST has been largely instrumental in
retardng the growth and development OF the State The
territory west Of the Mississippi settled by bold but
somewhat savage pioneers, and succeeding generations
have inherited not few Of their traits Notorious ruff
fans desperadoes and outlaws have been sufficiently
abundant in this region TO give the whole community
had reputation which has been rendered worse by re-
mort and exaggeration. The i'll fame of Arkansas has
extended beyond seas until the English and French
press has this the specous field for the prac
tice of barbarities than usually startling Nearly
every traveller in the Southwest domestic as we'll
foreign has his OF and experiences in Ar
Kansas and is safe to say he does not allow his
tive 70 suffer for lack of establishment Are there mod
erp feroces which Little Rock, Helena, and Napoleon
are supposed not TO have witnessed
Who has not heard that the Legislators OF the State dis
cussed questions IN Capitol with loaded revolyers
tbeir side that when any member differed from their
noston they made him target for their bullets that
the nails OF debate periodically converted into POI
tical shooting galleries We all remember the stranger
who having asked the Helena tavern keeper what those
snserv things were on the floor, received
we
fun. gougn' last night, and haint swep up yt caus
Won have more of 'em aore long" Then there is that
bit of cotempOraneous history from tired wayfarer
WIN had often inquired without satisfaction respecting
divers distances. How far Is 1t, Cdpn, To H--lF
Can't tell 'xaetly But it's only two miles to Napoleon,
and HI must be mighty neah thah" Moreover,
hoe Knives have been christened Arkansas toothpcks;
stealing trunks styled Arkansas gambling and msce
Ianeous troatcuttng Arkansas peppering Under such
tlcitv of recital such focundty OF ncknames, ia it
strange the state has been harmed in public estimation
or that capital has been unfold its rich resources
HOPEFUL PROSPECTS, oF THE STATE
An This promises TO be early changed. Indeed. the
change has well begun. The completion OF the Cairo
and Fulton Memphis and Little Rock Missouri Kansas
and Texas and other railways building and projected,
,ru he of ineaculable advantage. The State rs ex
remeIv healthy permeated with navigable rivers, Is
finely wooded Astounding in fertility aud minerals and
h altogether so favored by nature that IT cannot escape
the largest prosperity. Once hardly anybody, unless
enamored of DEATH came here sign OF the revolution
IA patent in the that visitors now seek TO proona
instead OF curtang their lives, look for health in place OF
| hoIocanst With the destruction OF slavery the old
order ended The eyes OF the people are opened to their
true interests Prejudice Ignorance, and bowie knives
have been cast aside and the general disposition Is 10
Keen abreast OF the time. Even in this thiny settled
| region observe the alteration since the war. The
sprit OF progress here and evidently II has come to
gtov Arkansas is nearly IA large Epeland about
tlurd of her land still owned by tho Government
and can be taken up under the homestead law She GER
ainly offers inducements 20 Immigrants, who VIII have
room enough since the population not much beyond
500 600 though there for ten times the number
Ru, Il il Of Strings rather than Autumns the future
am the Amounted scribe. This watering place Is Out
eight miles from the Hot Springs and thirteen from
Malvern ON the Cairo and Fulton Railway. IL was
known 10 hunters and trappers seventy years ago. and
much later invalid planters came with their camp