Year: 1859



 MR. EDIToE-lt Is remarkably strange and yet it is fact that public opinion will some- times be founded on the very opposite basis of what Is reasonable, just and true. Now as an illustration of this position, we see that the pub hc sentiment of Arkansas is decidedly against the pleasant and quiet town of Lewisburg.- The very name of the place seems to excite and bring into action, feelings of horrid and repul- slve nature. And it is true beyond all dispute, that there is not more peaceable, civil and agreeable town in the State; yet public senti- ment IS strong and bitter against it.

 The citizens are clever, social and honest. and the community around are sober, temper ate and industrious. Besides it is the healtbi. est spot on the Arkansas river, from its source to It's mouth. The water that is furnished prip- clpalIy by wells, has peculiar mineral properties which tend to invigorate the system and restore to health any whose misfortune it is to be on the list of invalids. There are very many travellers who can testify to this fact-indeed any one who has stopped at Lewisburg for a Jew days only, cannot fail to have noticed an improvement from the use of the excellent wa. ter there. The citizens are ah0ays healthy-- you can seldom hear of a case of sickness there and the physicians can testify that if all the world had as little use for physicars as the healthy and agreeable town of Lewisburg. there would soon be hecatomb-yea a "tbou,ana and one" doctors turned loose, poverty stricken and pennlIess upon the world; and pill. bags'' without number would be placed away on shelves and packed up in corners to become the prey of moths and crckets.

 sincerely hope the time will come, (and I imagine 1t is already dawing) when the public sentiment of the State will undergo an entire Change and thorough revolution concerning Lewisburg.

 It is true, that Lewisburg was at one time the den and the rendezvous of darh-nainded, sus- p'caous and bloody clan. But that time has long since passed away, and now lives only in the memory of some of the old gray haired citi- zens Of the country. The bully no longer walks the streets with his high and naughty tread as II he was monarch of the world, to the annoy ance of good and quiet people, and the assassin no longer with his dark and stealthy step creeps along with his dagger drawn eager to wet it's glittering blade in human blood. These up- happy times are over. The curtain has dropped and bloody dramas will be played no more at Lewisburg.

 A reformation has been at work for several years, and it now has clever, hospitable, intel- hgent and enterprising population It is im- | proving rapidly and its extraordinary health l will carry the improvements on successfully- ~There Is an elegant masonic ! all in process of construction which will soon be completed.- There Is also a large and commodous frame building now going up for male academy, also another of a like nature for female seminary. and in less than twelve months from this time, they will all be completed.

 Then the town of Lewsburg will be inferior to none in the State in the way of educational advantages; and the great heathiness of the place will induce parents who have sons and daughters to be educated, to send them there. And l would seriously say to all who desire | good health, to visit the town of Lewisburg. and then make it their home.

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