Year: 1871

Of three weeks we find ourselfagain at
home. and in the midst Of the duties
and labors devolving upon us. We
congratulate our readers upon their
having had the benefit Of the faithful
services ofan ADLER and much more in
teresting and entertaining editor than
ourself, in our absence and we take
pleasure at this time, in rendering to
our worthy pro tem, our sincere thanks
for the faithful and efficient perform
ance of the duties of the sanctum du~
ring our absence. For the benefit and
satisfaction of our readers, Gas well as
ourself we would like much to retain
his valuable services.


Our trip has, perhaps, in some re-
spects, been beneficial to us. The OBJ
iect of it was such as to preclude the
idea of soliciting patronage for our pa
per- but it was not wholly barren of
results in this particular. We think
our health, which was very bad, has
been very materially improved, and
we know our good opinion Of Arkansas
las been confirmed, and even augmen>
ted, by comparison with other portions
of the country through which we pass
ed. 1t is true that with regard to in.
ternal improvements we are very far
behind some portions of our sister states
of the south, but 80 far rs undeveloped
wealth and resources are concerned, IRE
are second 10 none. We speak in all
candor and sincerity, when We say that
when we shall be blessed with the nec~
essary facilities for travel and transpor-
tation, Arkansas will then be in a fair
way to become, in very many respects
the finest and most desirable portion oi
the continent.


We believe now, from what we have
seen, and from reports received from
all parts Of the south, that the croT
prospects of this state are far more
promising than those of any othel
state, Notwithstanding the fact that tn,
dreaded worm has already begun {,
make its appearance in some of on
cotton fields, and the long continued
drought has caused the shedding of g
great many bolls and forms. and has
materially injured the corn crop. Il
we are not mistaken in appearance,
many of the cotton farms east Of the
Mississippi river will not yield more
than a bale of cotton to every ten acres
of land-and this, too, upon land usu-
ally considered fair cotton land. The
prospect for yield of corn, in many
places, is little or nobetter.


We hayo seen aud heard of more
chills and fever during the fifteen days
we spent on the other side of the Miss
issippi, than we have known in any one
year of the twelve We have resided
here.


SO that, upon the whole, we come
back, with high hopes anu aspirations
for the future of our adopted state,
with more confidence in the fertility Of
her soil and the salubrity ofhorclimate.


We come back with renewed energy
and determination to struggle for the
redemption of Arkansas from the "rule
and ruin" of the plunderers, who have
ruled her people as with rod of iron,
who have well nigh ruined her credit,
at home and abroad, and who by their
wlfui mismanagement, and the Contin-
ual practice of the grossest frauds upon
the people, have retarded the develop
ment Of her vast resources, and untold
wealth, We come back fully deter,
mined to exert to the utmost, whatever
of ability we possess, TO the end that
honest and competent men shall GIL the
Offices of the state, from the highest to
the lowest, that the present alarming
expenditures on behalf of the state
government, and exhorbitant rate Of
taxation shall be reduced, that our
streams may be made navigable, rail-
roads and telcgraphs constructed. an
improved system of agriculture adopted