The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-13
ARKANSAS.--OURS RSELVES As
 OTHERS SEE US.

was visiting here, and delivered a number of very eloquent and inter esting discourses before the congre- gation of the Christian Church. pub fishes letter in the Carrollton, Mo-, Democrat highly complimentary to this State, her resources and her people. We cull few sentences here and there from his communica ton, and remember he is speaking of Arkansas:
 s'In all my travels over half this continent, I have never met such splendid opportunities for capital and labor as this State now presents. 1 saw the finest cotton, corn, tobacco. grass, fruits and flowers, besides melons of every class and kind, draping the fields, yards and gardens with their imperial beauty and wealth. This is no country for a lazy man, yet there are thousands of such here who live almost without work; mean to say the soil and climate will crown with a magnifi- cent success the energy and honest toll of the laborer. Bring your young manhood and honest enter. prise to this southern Eldorado, and work, as you must do Tn your pres ent home, and my word for it, during your manly grapple, your heart will be often cheered with the gathering pearls of wealth that will adorn your new made home. Wherever 1 have gone the most cordial welcome, met by genuine southern spirits, greeted my coming, and more hearty greet ing 1 have met in no lands than these of Dixie '"--State Grange. And here is another from the Boylestown, (Ohio) Journal:
 Prof. J. J. Rockwell returned from Arkansas last Friday, and began his labors in the school l-room Monday. The folks here are glad to welcome him back again, as we are assured of successful school under his admin istration. The Prof. speaks in glow - ing terms of the people of Arkansas, as we'll as the country and climate, and declares he intends returning again in two or three years. We never thought there was any state that amounted to much but Ohio. but from his description Arkansas comes next. We examined him carefully but failed to discover any marks or scars of bowie-knife or re volver, and his general appearance surely denotes good sound health, Sd we conclude that when any person says a man from the North can't live in that state year without being shot, or stabbed or shook to pleces with the ague, we will set it down as a political lie got up to defeat Hayes Southern policy. Well, we are glad he IS back, and we hope he will stay till we tell him to go again, and if he tell us many more good qualities of the famous South West, we will be tempted to go back with him.
 The Journal is correct, and may Wcll SCb lb QOWu do b ROiitiSoi AiN when it hears any person say a noi thern man is not safe here. We profess to know something about both the north and the south. We have lived in Ohio, and have many uncles and relatives there, and we shall be glad to have few thousand Buckeye" immigrants take up . bee-line march for Pope county. We know they can do well here. We know they will be pleased, and we know they will be welcomed.
 Southern Standard: But to show our friends that we are not afraid to meet the issue in either case, we will state that the Standard was the first paper in the State to take bold and decided ground in favor of re- pudiating the fraudulent debts of the State and insisted that it should be made a prominent feature in the