The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1867, Page 11

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. . to give It this character is no fault Alarm {Throughout °°, State~The Negrace pnd se _far w Riot oe Klection Brmed and Prepared. Negrocu—No Doubt of Brownlow’s Re-clectie. oN Since my last the alarm aud fowty the part of the blacks has obtainod toe, that I may safely announce to you that we ® believe oursetves on the ove of a crisis thut, to its extreme, will only ead in most disastrass CC quences to the negro race Under the lead of an barber by the name of Lewis, now a County (bremte~ sioner (and barbers ara the chief devils ia revulut vas, vide Paris and Hayti), the poor deluded colorad peoptty are making ready for the “manufacture of history.’ All the ingredients for this “double toil and trouble’’ are already arranged for, everything, wool incladed; and tt only lacks a brisker fro than yet provails to boil and fuse the beastly mess into an amalyamated party de- termined to rale the white inheritors of the sol. Lowis gays bo will have a St, Domingo affair of it, or, in detault, peaceable supremacy. To this heand his white colleagues are educating their dupes, who are nightly lectured aad drilled in tho part they aro to play, Humanity shudders as it refuses to believe that white men evea 80 degraded as thes named, could be guilty of even the contemplation of the horrors that must fuilow an emeate by the negroes, But it is even so. It may yet be given us to record that an ex-miniater of the Gospel, who finds polities and deviltry more profitable than echoing the words of peaco; together with an ox-barber, are the leaders of @ bloody riot, looking to extermination por- Tho police commissioners are possessed of the prevalent notion, and this morning bave calied for 300 epecial policemen to be sworn for duty during election day. This 300, with 140 of the regular Metropoliiens, and about 120 men (threo companies) of United States in- fantry, wil comprise the party of law and order in op- position to the ex-barber and his friends, who confident. ly assert themselves ig roand numbers fully 4,000 tight- ing men, Well armed, and as I have stated, well drilied. Of course there are about 6,000 well tried ex-union aud ex-confederate soldiers here, but they declare them- selves unwilling to have anything to do in the troable unless it assumes a shape, most,likely, when they will come in as allies of the law and order meg of the regular army and metropolitan police and being tn a majority, will proceed to admiaister , justice, mayhap accordiug to the code of Judge Lynch, copying closaly afler the example of the Vigilance Committee of San Franciseo. Tnis 18 really what is to be feared, and this is what we are fast tending to unless Uncle Sam in- terposes his right arm in our pebaif, To provo that my position is correctly taken I will give, alinost vertatim, conversations that transpired between two negroes and two well known gentiemon of this city, one of whom distinguished himself as a generat oillcer of cavalry dur- ing the late war, One of these gentlemen, niways a Unionist, speaking on Sunday last with an old negro man who oursed him and “toted” him whea an infant, Reports of the Special Correspondents of the Herald. 18, July 16, 1867, of an upriving on reat an extent * Tennesse nrovokod Grave. Apprehensions of Riot and Bloodshed in Tennessee The Celebrated Hot Springs of Arkansas, (GROWING TOLERATION OF UNION MEN, TENNESSEE, SPECIAL CONRESPONDENCE GF THE HERALD. Brownlow’s ion—A the Registration Works—-Definition of the Word “* The Positive kK Heads I Wi sult af the Election Farce— Taiis You Lose. Nasavnm, July 15, 1867, | Anadmiring world may gaze enraptured at what is to ‘be done in this Stave on the Ist day of Angust next. Isup- pose that Abraham {Lincoln will be stirred im his peace- fal slumber at such a drama of loyalty and liberty per- ‘fected. It will remind him of ‘something which hap- pened out Wost”” whie he dwelt in tho flesh. And, by tho way, Mr. Lincola, if not one of the persons repre- @ented in tis drama of American franchise, has not Deen forgotten in tae stage ornaments, Those elected to vote for those selected tu be voted for, will present to ) the receiver of votes a piece of paper having on one Cornera rough wood cut of Abraham Lincola, and on the other what is intended to represent an cagle, This | Paper certifies that man is @ registered voter, One acqualuted with ihe conditions of this election is @urprised that there should be any contest whatever; and the fact that many respectabio mea are engaged in | an attempt to make some other than W. G, Brownlow Governor, and to elect as members of Congress and of the State Legisiature some others than men of his party, only proves that huwan beings are determined there shall be no exception to the rule that “there are @wo sides to every question’ The “Franchise bill,” or ‘bul of white disfraavhisement and black enfranchiso- latent, under which the strange procecdiug of August 1, | [zene ” ‘MAH 8° You Bare Joined the Loyal 1807, will bo conducie4, is an act of seventeon sections, | “Veg, Mas’r, L-couldn’t soe peace out of it, so I jined, three sub-sections and more than one proviso; and yet 1 its force might bave been condensed into this, with jmo material injury io the sonse:— Bo it enacted, That every m: inhabitant of the NBtate of Tennessee, of the age of twenty-one years, citizen of the Unied States and a resident of the county wherein be may offer his vote six months mext preceding tie day of election, shall bo en- titied to the privilege of the elective frauchise, sub- “Well, what havo you learned ? “Nuthin good, Maa'r. The white folks drill us, and we learn dat Mas’r Brownlow, when de "lection is ober, is gwine to gib us de land ob do white folks. De tell us dey gwioe to make Mass'ra Brinkley, Overton, Tate and oder rich men divide der places wid us, so we kin hev a fair start.” “Well, but you are free, and may, as we white people do, work for your living and save enough in a few years ct to the following dtequullfications:—No oi! MI to buy lands.” Towed to a Loven th Or Cpemee eo he hg Yes, mas'r, Dat’sallso, But yo cee we black folks slection of Guve:nor W. G, Brownlow, or the choice of | Delp make dis country what itis; an’ we tink it notin’ but fair we should have a share ob do property das w made out ob our labor. Dat’s what de barver Let tells us, and 30 does Rev, Mr. Eatou.”’ + “Woll, but if you take our property away from us aod divide it among you, don’t you know that ina few years nearly all of it will be in the tands of this barber and tnis so-called minister? That as they roi me during the days of federal occupation, tuey Will ulti- penned stoal this land from you under one pretext or er. ‘Donna but you right, mas'r. But dats what de bar- ber Lewis and Eaton say. An’ dey js armin’ de colored folks an’ dritin’ 'em ebery night. Dey is gwine to hab war I tell ye. Decolored folks is olen vo de polls in a body, an’ ef de white folks interfere dar will be murder.’ “What are you going todo? Will you go to the polls wit the rest ?’” «No, sar.’ (With a broad grin.) ‘I knows better nor to bo whar de Irish is. I’se jus’ gwine to be at home, L know dar is gwine to be trouble, ’cuuse de black folks want to pay de white folks for last diay wasa year (in ailu-ion to the riot of 1860) an’ de barber Lewis says doy ought to do it.” fiero the colloquy ended with Mr. D. telling his quon- dam servant that his head was level, and that he should by ail means stay away from the polls if what he stated true, the negro avowing again, in tho most solema manner, that it was all true as gospel. In tho other cage, the Ge alluded to speaking to the chief porter of one gf the hoieis, a of some giftof gab anda great deal of aspiration, was told by him that he was a member of the Loyal ie Ral ‘says the Goneral, “ what do you propose to accomplish through this Loyal League ?”” ‘We propose through it to maintaia our rights.” “But your rights are not assailed, aod 1 do not hear that any of our white citizens bave any notion of assail- ing them,” “‘T have not either. Butour leaders think it best we should be prepared for any emergency, and go to the polls ina body and armed. And they advise us, if any Opposition, the least in the world, is offered, we must at once proceed to avenge the murders of May, 1866. We will not harm such as you. Bat we must have our rights, We have nothing to do with Confederate soldiers, bat we are determined to vote. That’s what the barber, Lewis, now Commissioner of the County, says.’” “] advise you,” said the General, “to put away your arms and not to think of any difficulty, Go to the polis one ata time, the same as white men do, deposit your ‘votes and tuen go about your ordinary business, The white people wiil not interfere with you. ‘ed “No, sit! We would like to do 60, but must obey the instructions of the league. We have arms, kaow how to use thém, and have determined on our course. The newspapers are against us. We consider the Appeal worse than the Avalanche, and if anythiog occurs will take care of it.”” Thus, you see, it is a foregone conclusion with these leaguers to have trouble, to make war, aad to indulge their brutal instincts in bloodshed aad riot, during which they may sceal and plundor at their ploasare. In apprehension of this trouble there bas been little said about the Mexican difficulty; but there can be no question that the public opinion of this section is de- cidedly in favor the immediate occupation of that unbappy country as a definite solution of all the troubles to which the Mexicans area prey. The announcement of your Washington corres) jont of Seward’s litte telegraph-express-railroad trade with Juarez, is regarded here as full explanation of the reasons inducing the position that astute statesman has taken in bolstering up the republic, it is hoped, however, that tho Prest- dent will, with the assievance of Congress, inaugurate measures to upset this nice little scheme lait for the jon of Mexico—a measure which, bosides that it would give the greasers peace and security, would afford “piace, power and pelf” for needy ex- jera and poli ticians. ‘Revenons a nos moutms. There ts no doubt now as to the success of Brownlow, who, rumor has it, is on his death bed. He and his kite flyers have so fixed things, that with or without a legal majority he can stil! hold the seat be has disgraced. For justance, he has already thrown out, under the pretence of illegality, the regis- trations of fourteen conservative counties; ané he is prepared, as he did last year and the year before with sbelby county, to eet aside the votes of the peopie of every county that gives a majority against him. case be holds the = fa bis own hands, and wil! play to suit btmself and his party. Brownlow will, if be lives, be our next Governor. There is no help for ft. With him there will be inaugurated such a system of taxation ‘as it is feared will down the trade of the State and severely cripple the energies of the people, ‘The healta of Memphis bas much Dg convey but basi- ness remains at a stand still—dull for these dull times, with @ abead of which | may speak in my Dest i ARKANSAS. ot, or who shall be known to be ppposed to the part vf said Brownlow who may be ndidates for Con .re- or the General Assembly of Ten- pessee, Or for Oiver olllcos Of honor or emolument< Provided, that a few Vain men of notorisy shal! be Ipermitied to vote, a the discretion or committees so- Hected by said Brownlow to determine snca questions, ithat there may be au appearance of opposition.” My epitome is not too strongly drawn, as a few refer- wnces to the letter of this unparalleled enactment will satisfy evory candid reader, The wide door, ‘every lrnaie inhabitant of tuts Siate,’’? lots in the negroes of ourse, Buta thorough system of organization was es blished among these, through the means of loyal Meagues, before the bill was passed. It was well under- pod in these Jeagues that the blacks would be en- franchised, and that in return they should vote for Brownlow. Thore will be little departure om this understanding. And Brownlow’s Commis- sioners of Registration uave so little misgiving on the subject, that when nine negroes and one white man ap- Iply at the same moment for registration, but one ques- tion is putto each of the negroes, “What 1s your name?” while the White man is fortunate if he gets throigh with answering twenty. The black skin is prima facie evi- dence of Brownlowism; the white face of an unknown, to tho commissioner, is prima facie that he is not for Brownlow, Mistakes enough will not occur under this ‘head to affect the result a pin’s eet ge So, then, when {t was enacted that negroes should vote, it waa only ‘enacted that ote class of Brownlow men—overwheim- ingly,the largex—should vote. making provision for white men’s votes, the law contains quite as strong guarautees tbat (hey shall be Browplowttes. There will be somo trifling exceptions; put thie will only give the appearance of a contest where here iz tone, Al) who voted in the Presidential elec- on of 1864, and ali who voted In Februery, 1865, for the tification or rejection of the bogus constitution, to which his law pretends to be a supplement, avd all who voted for Governor and members of the Legislature on the 4th of March which followed tho pretended ratification of the onatiuition, are granted the right to vote, But, of the few who voted ta those elections, only a propor- ion can produce proof of the fact, andthe most unan- werable proof is always demanded, unless the party pplying for a certificate is known to the commissioner ‘a pertisaa of the Governor, Furthermore, every bite man who served in the army or navy of the Tnited States subsequent to January, 1862, or was hono- bly discharged from the same since that period, is athorizod to vote if he can gets certificate; but he must roduce the papers, and many instances have occurred ia ich ‘hese have failed through ere quibble, be- cause the Commissioner suspected the applicant of sym- pathy with the conservative party. en there is nother small class of whites nominally permitted to ‘ote. They are described in the law as ‘those who have 5 en appointed to any civil or military office by Andrew ‘Miltary Governor, or William G. Brownlow, overnot of Tennesseo, prior to June 5, 1805,"" These chwily Brownlowites. Of all other white men ft is assamed by the law, that they bore “arms against the govern- the United States for the purpose of aiding the or that they yolunarily gave ‘aid, ifort, countanance, counsel or encouragement”? to ne rebellion; or that they “sought or voluntarily ac- opted offloa, civit or military, or attempted to exercise o functions of office, civil or military, under the or pretended authority, of the so-called Con- ‘oderaie States of America,’’ or of some ingurrectionary is party for bi nd to purge int ‘or Outederate ‘sin, each of thom rust come to the ‘ommissioner with the sworn statement of two wit- eagoe, “personally known to tho Commissioner to have at all times, unconditional Union men; y acquainted with the applicant, land that they verily believe that he has not been guilt; f any of the disqualifications hereinbefore mentioned,’’ ddition to ali these difliculties in the law th ‘ast oarry out ey pb county has an Sitional Union men’’—undoubted Brownlow mea—al within call, to whom the pames of ap- are referred. A man may bive pro- iasroner to ave. boet : ‘own to the Commissioner to have been Foren eral timoe, uncondiconal Unien men,” ‘and the Commissioner may bave prepared a cerlificate to ‘ve the applicant; yet the testimony of one true Erowuiow man befora the county committee, made Knownmto the Commissioner, may explode the entire proceeding. ‘And I have indispatabie evidenee that it yravening witness had been 4 faithful employé federare War (fice that fact would not juvali- ate his tenimony, if he were known to be @ staunch Brownlowne, In proof 1 submit that vis fact has ka Owledge:—An applicant for registration eo nen, “ary proof, having been recommended the Commissh '™ by BE. H. East—o centieman idely known to % country aa ef unquestionable Thion man and asthe Secretary of State of Teausssee uring Andrew Jobngon, * ™litary governorship—and by ome otuer Well known by om, men; but his applicarion fell to the ground, because, ‘*.¥ made known by Vm. ano that, in the presen * said Shane, the applicant d once used very Febsiiinn, | nguae.. Now, it is & attor of bistory-—is parc of tive, Tecords of tho county — iat this identical Shane, during i. '@ Prevalence of che Fate rebellion,’ atrodaced a resolats on in the City Coun- Appropriate a lar, of this provision, the Register in irresponsible committee of “‘uncon- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Hot Springs of Arkausae—Description of These Remarkable Springs—The Diverse Theortes ne to Their Origin and Their Al- leged Medicinal Effects in Curing Diseane= Hot Water Bathing and Hot Water Drink- ing=Stugular Propingnity of Hot and Cold Springe—Quarrics of Novaculite, Crystal Quartz and Magnetic Iron Ore=Distin- guished Visitors at the Springs, and Life Here as Compared with that at Saratoga and Other Northern Watering Places=The Prince Imperial of France to Visit Hot Springs. Hot Srrivos, Ark., Joly 1, 1867, Sixty miles from the State capital, in the heart of remote Arkansas, in a narrow but beautiful and pio- turesque valley, are situated Hot Springs, This valley, the rocky formations of its base, the swift running tiroam coursing through it, and the rugged, pino-coverod heights walling ft in om three sides, bear a etriking re- semblance to the lesser mountainous regions of Switzer. land, It is true that ia the middle hours of the day, in the hot summer months, the sun overhangs the valley like a brazen sbiold, bot, penetrative and suffocating; som of money —I mt, T have been thus partiouiar Ia giving a py “UCtLSP | put, antidowl to this, @ cooling and refresh. a ot ee I, Seah ee ing breeze almost incessantly sweeps through roaches them in the dlegune of aa” 2g {t, while the early disappearance of the sun behind the account I high cliffs overlooking it from the west gives.a glo- panty, if it shall appear that too man, nts have been reg bat the iudgen, wor ‘ Fotes, clerks and others wh control the ballot.bos | tho day of election are to be selected, the @ and wholesome recuperation tude engendered by the norvating heatof the day, August, 1967, be not & game of “heads | win, tails | lavish hea temperature, and where exists the same volume of car- Donic xcid gas, producing so beneficial aud exnilaratiog an e@ilect on the system. grees Fabrenve't, and, togetuer, dieeharsing 317 gaPoas 6: water per minute, With one éxception they are oa © apparent that a committee of Brownie yee! & t—such Sone oa ee pee ope men in 6 rhously long and delicious twiligh: & twilight as ter, And when I add (nat on the vary eve Gruokot, | makes up half ghe charm and romance of living among xy the Governior may snail the entire registration ate. | mountains—a Fwilight which, ae {t deepens into the brings with {t nealthfal cool- from the Ianguor and | 207s. Th eens wroauee wean ent sasaeeden Commie. | 1AM. —gnuine picturesque beauty, very rarcly if any more | Jarity “State guard” of Browalow mea has been or For ® ul valley can be found than this. Nature, from | Pollaney only, fe jard the polls in the Governor's tnt boautin +h #¢ her vast resources, has catered here with ived that if the Tennessee “electio the weet 4 her richest endowments, These mountain slopes and their magnificent pomp of woodland and shade, these gorses and dells, and this stream of apfail- ing waters, af clear as crystal and at intervals seaping in mniniature cascades over trasslucent racks—tho whole Valley, in (act, ta masterpiece of nature's handicraft And there aze the hot springs, those fowutaias of Eyeria, babdioe Up trom the molten bowels of the earth, like | gold wied in fire, purified of overy noxious substances and giving healing to the nations Nature bas done hor part, It remains “to apt and the hand of man, guided by proper enterprise and the ge- nius of exaited humanity, to complete the grand work, Let ihe tities to the land 80 long in dispute be settted, and capacious and permanent hotels will be erected for Yoarding houses, aud coitaggs Will multiply with amaz- in.X rapidity, and terraces, arbors and gravelled walks wit “Ovite tho visitors to healthful strols The facttt- tiea for” Setting here will bo improved. The rough, yooky vo “lS over sliapeiess hills and through tangled rovines, she ¥Zy wit bush and vrier, and over unbridged streams, whi. at times canuot be crossed, will at oneo give way to «,.'de, smooth and picasayily undulating turipiises and neal wnd substantial bridges—these sooner or later, io the rosist%es3 march of manifest destiny, to be succestod by the ewifter steam secomotive, As ff some orieutal magic of off, as if the genius of the Are bian Nights had brought #® requisition his creative powers, a now life and energy will be @iitased hers, & complete and thoroegh renovation will enue, the aum- her of visitors'wili be inereasetl @ hundred fold, and instead of being but little known, ag at preseat, beyond the confines of her State borders, .fese springs will become famed as par excillence the greatest curative watering place ou this gontinent, f sot in tbe knowa world, “This is near hell, sure!" according %@ legendary lore, exclaimed one of the rst party of governmont suryey- ors sent here jong ago, as he stooped dowa to quench his thirst from what he supposed 0 be a cold spring, but tho water of which proved to be scalding kot, It is eaid the rest came to the: samo conclusion, and that they were not long in beating a hasty retrent from what they considered a too clos proxomity to the infernal regions. ‘Traditionary narratives regarding these eprings extend back, however, toa much remoter period. The Indians calied them the ers of Life,” and on assount of their healiag properties regarded them as sacred, apd in all coniliets between contending tribes they were reapectod 4s neutval ground. It is said that De Soto was on his way bere to try these waters, of woicl such marvellous stories nad been cold him, for the restoration of his health, when he made his grand discovery of the Mis- sissippl. It isnot improbable that the enthusiastic De Soto expected to hft ihe veil frony that classic fable of the “Fountain of Youtu,’”” and hoped vere to roviverhis youthful vigor and take a frosh tease of life. Later yoars found the aboriginal popetation resnoved to other hunting grounds, and the axe of whie settlers awakenod new echoes ia tho valley. It is not necessary to zo into tho details of the ponding controversy regarding the proprietorship of these hands. ‘There aro three private claimants, on the one band, tight- ing agaiust ovch other, and the government fighting thom all, For twenty years the raatter bas been tion, tll, in the cenilict of opiuions and decisions, sunfusibg combinations of motions and counter mo- tions, and every kiad of writ -xeept Holy Writ, the case is about as complicated as an Euglish chancery suit of a century's standing, It is believed, however, the govern- mont fas the inside track, and, as is wel! known, an act was introdueed at the last session of Congress calling for che expulsion of (he present sell-propriewary claim- ants and restoration of the grounds to the governmoat. ‘This looks to a speedy settlement of the case, one way or the other, and that is what isso much wanted to render this place what it 1s unquestionably destined to become— the greatest place of resort for nearly every class of invalids in this country—a watering place, cotapared with which, as tue medium of restoriag health, ta hot springs of Baden Baden, Aix-la-Unapelle and Bath, and other watering places of the Old World, and of Salt Lake, Montana and Idano of this country, must hide their dimamished heads, The reason of this is obvious. Superior healing properties over ail other hot springs are possessed by these waters, because there are no other springs where the waters are so abundant, whore they reac the same ‘Phere are fifty-four hot springs, hating a mean tem- peraiure of 134 degreas, and ranging from 93 to 152 de- the slope aud base of the mountain, east of the creex , which, where the springs are located, bugs closely the base of the mountain. Tne remaining hot spring is 00 the westerly side ot the creek, near 1a marin. Open wooden trougis coiduct the water tothe bath hous: and convenient basins for drinking. A careful analy of the waters, made by Dr. Lawrenos, resident physician here for many years, gives the following result:— Silicates, with base. ‘Sulphate of wagnesia. Bicarbonate of lime. Chioride of magaesia. Bicardonate of magnesia, Oxade of mauguncse, Alumina, with oxide of iron, Sulphate of lime, 4 ave of soda, Todine, a trace, ‘donate of potash. Bromine. st ervalue of those walers, od, Gopend 9 value it is alles: 9 alone on their amnens maoeon, corrective and stimala- upg ut uy the bicarbonates and carbo- nates of the alkalis alkaline ears they possess— agents known to therapentists to possess activo elimi- native qualities, and consequently producing valuabie iterative effects in chronic disease, The catalogue of diseases which it is claimed these waters combat with remarkable success, and in most cases, it is insisted, cure them, are rheumatism, gout, still joiuts, contrac tion of the muscles and skin, old wounds and patutul cicatrixes, skin diseases of all kinds, scrofaious ulcera- tions and enlargement of the glands, ali forms of syphilis in their advanced stages and mercurial disea: prostration from long standing sickness or from debility followtag severe Courses of powerful medicines, spinal diseases, neuralgia, ail nervous aftections, part.al paraly- ais and general debility, Is will be sewn.tnat nearly ail the itis in the shape of disease to which flesh ts heir are hore chronicled. Sir Charles Coldsireata would cer- tainly have to confess there is somethiag in it it he should come here, Every day I see avd converse with those who came here on cratches and now walk a3 well as ev Oubers coming here worn to shadows now pos- soss aldermanic rotandity, The medical virtues of those waters for bathrog are attribated mainly to their high temperature, While some of the springs are hot enougy to bod eggs, by the time they reach the bath hous they are bot as the skin can bear, waste water, conducted under the adjoiving vapor bath houses, sends up through the tatticed floor steam of so hot a temperature that on the first trial vory few can endure it. The springs are scattered al! about, bubbiing up from the ground here, and in another piaco dripping from the solid rock, At intervals are the coid aprings. At one place you can dip wator with one hand trom « hot spring and with the other from a cold one. A singular fact is that atier two or three drinks of the hot water it will be preferred to the cold. It wil quench the thirst equally as well, amd on0 soon ex- perienves, as stated above, @ pleasing, exbilarating e@ecs ‘on the system from its use, making it greatly preferabie— the result of the large quantity of free carbonic acid gas it coutama Among the springs 18 ove calied the “greepic spring,” uuder (be supposition that it contains arsenic. ‘This popular notion is not, however, confirmed ‘by chemical analysis, although I bave neticed that the ladies affect this spring more than any other, doshtless tn tho expectation of beautifying their complexion from drinking its waters, ae women of the Urient are said impart brilliant transparoncy to their skin by osing the drug, There is also a “sulphur spring’ which com- map liberal patronage from the mecicival eifects of, sulphuretted hydrogen present in the water, Another popular spring, the waver of which is cold, is the “chalybeate spring,” the water of whicr is a saline chalybeat having medicinal properties mid to be 6 My tonic. Varioms speculations in voguo as to tho cause of tho bigh rature of these springs, seme attribating it to the water coming in contact with cvustic lime in the iuterior of the eartn, some aecribing it to imvent given of from the water in the act of deporting the tufa that coats the moantaia slopes. from which tho aprings issue and which was originally hold iu solguon, ‘aod others giving 0s the reason the internal heat of the earth. This last ee Ty oo commanding most general favor, The beil 1m this hypotuesis Dot think that the water comes in actual coutact with fire, Dut raiher that the waters are compleiriy permeaced with highly honed wi emanate from sources deeper water ‘wolf, The jogical structare of whieh those wa- ters issue certainly this assumption. Looked ab im any lignt, scsew hee has the #bole thing wa moat marvellous phenorasnoa. Underneath these boil- pth of mystery deeper thao the ken of human knowledge, and the very vapor eliminated from them is acioud of mystery equaliy impenetrapie. Striking the saperincambent novaculite rock from whose depths they epring, an resonant sound somes 38 forth as stastling a8 it is ous, Several atempts have been made to trace the eprings to their source, but before the intrusive snd pick and powder of man’s ly they pitarsly fy, lo ‘every caso whore this attemps has made tho «pring has dried up—the culminating of mysteries, What a beantifal t is hore evolved. All the fictions of mytuology, of fairy and najads aod mermaids and their rhymes of mortal appro h aad ‘ing baman inquisition sink into nothingness along: aide this one simple but wtterly incom) 16 fact, I havo referred to the novaculite rook covering the slope on whieh these springs aro located. It is ene of tho most beautiful of this variety to be found anywuere in the world, In whiteness, closeness of texture and subdued waxy lustre it is equal to the finest Carrara marble, though of course of am e tirely differen’ compo- gition, Zher: is po dowbt that this saowy white chateo- onic novacullte Was one @ sitapie ordinary sandstone, and that it has been changed or metamorphosed into this exquisitely fine material ‘through the action of these permeating hot waters. Dr, Lawrence has shown mo some splendid specimens of these novaculite, as aiso of calcareous and ferroginous tata, found near the ditfor- ent springs, Ho tras Rhy ee cathy a s — sulj ever pa airy, a me war the rebels used for the mauufacture of uri enperder. He propared the specimen bimeelf Bieulptraeate of iron found m large tities near here and in Montgomery county. In thi latter county are¥found the finest imaginable specimens of 4 crystal, Quantities of It are exposed for sale here on the doorsteps of the hotels and jn the shop win- ere the most tran aod limpid quart: crystal Lever saw, and from their glasxy facets, crys talized Into geometrical forms of most striking singu nd beaut, » gice forth a dazgline light, second tn ond, A quarry of magnetic jrou ore ® algo hear bi are likewise offered for found gota great datance away. a Altogesher, (oF rick eae eee D semen estes any ~acet-aremn ness of mineral weaith and fu varietios of 5 npral which I regret pot hearing, asI know ef must have ons, this s ction of the Stac@ cannot be equatie . ate cb with the gull detsiia cb Mgieallle rilosaiong | CUP ed dog Milleg’e bes. Tue Doctor was ri oetaining to thase spmMgs and woich 1 | Cidenosis as t9 the saakins, Our stage was 9 * rough gascopeae er 2 g0 into at some tongs od semaine allair, and the ride was over a rough road and mrs 1D & esorvption of their very singuiar and nieresting foa- ae conn urea, L will vow Lriedy dekeribe the kind of lifeand | sh country. Over 8 gucoession. of rocky MMe ue people and aumauseweats, and aif shag is to We found at this tar away watering piace, Rcattered about miscel- janeousty among dozen hotels aud boarding bowses Aco ab prosent some two hundred visitors, Lilign an aro these struc'ures as compared with the colossal / Seription hotels of Sara'oza, and cabined, coffined and confined t.ese boarding houses as contrasted with the boardl@s | work, the frst f ha houses of our Noctuera watering places. Rvery thingy indeod, 1a his respeos id on au exceedingly minor as weil 4s cont aad and te uporagy veale, and all owing to the fact stated in the outset of «my iettcr of want of scttloment of tue title to the land. Want of deGuite plan aud per- muueney, the rosuit oF this unfortuaaye state of facia, bi everywhere apperent. Tue one street of the town—aad thore is only one street—would take the premiun auy- where, if gue) premiums were given, for iis erratic aud bowildermg irregnian y, Evory hotel, amd dweiliag, and store, and shop, aad stall, aud shanty seoms to haves selected its own special iocality irrespective of that of Cox, who served in the others, As many styles of arclieecture prevail as there are sigas in bh ode, Moat of tue batiaing housesare through rocky deils, and along a region only py Wilt pines, lay our route—a route furnisuing lite @° ex, attention, and nothing W incite enlivening dv At Fairplay I found the registers of the eounty at vo had the pleasure of seeing 1% postive working harness, though, from the timo that has wlapsed sinco all the appointments wore made, it is about time now most had emterod om their assigned Jabors. Phe sanre programme of registration described ma provious letter | discovered prevailing her Tne omer of Jyno 10, issued oy Goneral Ord from Vicks- burg, is’ the guiding toxt in ail questionable cases of ontitiemont toregister, 1 board consists of Captain ond Missouri cavalry rogi- ment; Captain Nilles, who hay strayed all cae way from mdserabie (umbie-dows affairs aud mouldy wito loa: 88@ | Malue hero, from whict Stato he did servicn during the and dumpnesa The bmdges crossing the creck bare woartce y the streugih to make a shadow im the water undorneath. Tho onig order, in 1s in thee order of charges, and tue ouly patio to got, for the least possibler equivalent, the largest possivie amewnt of mosey. At about elev -n o'clock in Che morning Jv the usual bathing hour. fhe socnets very unhike that of sea bathing No motley colored costumes torgive piquancy to the pleture; no hilarious sporting in the sea suri’: ne combined en~ Joyment of the diver-0 crowd of visitors: Mrach acteindo- pendent of the othea, and hay a separaie bailing root, ped wita one er two woolea blankets, comb, brash, looking pia of rusty hooks om whi bathing room is some eight feet long by four test wide, pd 18 principally malcen up ith a woodea box er bathing aud, as i twenty mehos in width raits cold water, and'puiling a combmed ina mean: temperakire to suit the bather. Usually the water is tempered as hot and from five to ten munutes is the Gime spendin the bathtub. From both, a mere cont ovhors aad into w: or rondo, or coolo, or the horse-head, or rouleite, of taome, or kend, our choice is the universal tf oe: hiberat® prineipie of very few resa!t is thal the gamblers are ot presenti wying the game of Lhe Kilkenny cats on each ovner. seeking restors most amony tuesois Senator Morton, o° Indtana, came bere to iry the elticney of U! known be has beenmbroad and tried: neariy very thing there and here, bat with very little su foond-mothing to help him Ne these hot water tathe, apd feels very much encouraged, and bas detormn sd to give them a thorough triad, Ex-Govarnor Homma a, of Indiana, is on his second visit. Eo camo bers com- piote and almost helpless ertppie frora rheumativm, and now walks with the aid of a cane. Ex-Govorner Win- ston, of Alabama, is among the latorarri great eufferer (rom rheumaviem, end alruady begins to experience the mest benelicial results. ofr. Prau, of Prattaville, Aia., the great coton gum algo here, @ victim to the samo diseas®, aud improving finely. the Louisville and Princeton Railroad of Kentocky, has been here several weeks seekiag relief from matisia, of which be has been # victim for t He says he never lias experioficed sux benefit from any other treatment, Mr. 8. 4. Brick, of Brookiyn,.S. Y man of large wealth aod widely Known tu counreu06 with the gas companies: 0 red. Taylor, of arkansas; D. BR Smith, tho great rakroad man of Kansas; Genoral Pagan, of this State, and Mr. MeDonadd, the eminent.banker of Little Rock become known, the Ownersiup of the Iand setved, and the right kiad of detels pat up, with bathing roems under the same root, to secure all the visitors that can be Ae- cormmodated. ' Nesure seems to bavodesignod. this as a watering place. healthy in the eammer montis, it is always very heaithy here. mountains whive in the hottest weathor the aights as-ovol, com peiliag one to sleep under vinnkets. no small consideration, ere are no musegiioes, few flies—two most apecial and veratious aunoyances of the country. thus prolonged cad partivstar—anilit ts the caly apology T can offer—for tha benef of the thousands: who yeariy go to watering places for their health and dad it not would Gad it if they came hers, Shoddyites, pe millonaires, av Women Whv go to watering places to shove sueir aresses and diamonds and gay equpages and ‘ag Potrachio expresses it, and whose bighest ambtion is to dazzie common humanity wil play, L leave to shine and awo where feshion and false show ate the allied mistresses. while oenlih laste—in ‘other words, to go it while thay are young. heaith fails and youth is gone, my advice to thom is to trim ali sail, port ther helms and steer lsither their shat tered bark: watering places, it 8 never t be expected that Boston erudites will give up Najaat, or toa the exciusives who spend the summer solstice at Nowport will do otherwise than continue to revolve in the same narrow orbit of solf-conceit and sels-worship. not a word to say. its ax ing m to pour forth toeir exhanstless volumes of pure, fe giv have just learned of a report reaching here that the Km~- peror Napoleon accompany to this place the Prince imperial for the pur pose of undergoing treatm Stage Conch Riding In a Shaky Vehicle and each goer to hiv bath; room, the eutie- mon having ona tid eet of bathing rooms for Ulemsolves end the laches another some-distance apert, | Unele Samuel’s goveroment am immenso amount of although tho percentage of tie tntter is: very snail, There are three apartments: to each bathing root, the dregsing room, batorborand vapor room. ‘The tirst ade mits about room to tums roand and divest oneself of oue’s cloting, aad ts entirely inneeeat of every specios of usval dressing room sppolutments in the wa e and such ike, except a pair nto kang one’s garmenis. Tho parlance, geven feet long by ‘Curning a faucet overhend ad- rope howater, wih! alled tn pati 3 oge can stand it, herd the bavher coos into the-vapor cot apartoteat plane either of toe tie vapor ts iutroeaced thrdagh te lat 1 floor, Five minutes am considered a sutlicio long time to vevauin bere, and’ ia thie ins i as mech hot water previously procured in the tin bucttet is as rweh as the bather Con comfortably siwailow. mt rubbeag of with coarse crash towels tal then, wrapped in blankets, the viswer hu hotel, minutes in woilen blanketa, gives wmself a shoroagh» rubbing, dr through with and canstesuly that one comes out of it fecliug like &- now, if mot a better man. tinued repetitions would ve astonishing in memy forms of chromic diseases copious ‘diaphoresis which the hot bath establishes opens in itself a mein channet for the expulsion of prin: ciplos injumous to health, os is made manife peculiar ode: ished degree, is algo effe ted by dimiarshing tke hot water, itis drank at all bours of the day an® evenings fopers filod {t aa excellent sabetivute for the mormug cocktail, and! it 18 more generally drantoat dinner shan cold water. two batns a éay, but aot margean stand i, and thea comes dinner, and then perteps a brief siesta; and then, if the wsather permits, a stroll or ri or talks on politics, occasional drinks, not o. away tne time ploasantly, the hotela ther? is generally a hop, where ube bewiseh- aDery : frpbeltes aud beaux of Iesckenwack dance to esy mimi | Cares, Gules Inraey Maer and talk small soasease ip the mest approved styto of the art. Vtom hero’ 2 secon pluuge ef & is taken iy the hot bath, whea # parcial placa, and nes to piss or twenty: 0 OF 3 and toere, after sweating’ afteen ® himevif, aad the dav’s betuing is I have triew this bathing programme, \ That its effi frer con- is not! to bo wemdered at. The st in M3 andasimilar offect, thomgh tn cdinin- ‘Thore is no limit to Ctking the bot water, and Od ‘The forenoon batover, thongh a few "take te, or billiards, to at draw poker, and hot weter—anything to pass To the evening at some of or sot or those who are eportively inciined there: 18 ery inducement to get vid of their sucplus ens at foro, You pays your money and: you talces jons, ‘Thus far thic-season the knights of i bave not netted vory heavy profits, Dat vera inclived to comba¥ wiih ‘them, and tre Quite a number of promment vistors ars now here temo Health from ikese spriagk Foro. wno @ waters lo care the As its woll ial paralysis from woielt he is 8 sens, Hy has He 18 a manulecoore r, 18 inful and Gietraaing r. Hobbs, President of ty rbeu- iy yours. Now York and Brook ¢n, ia also visit herve, Ho; too, bas traverled every- tried nearly everything. and found. nothing like theso gorings. I might mention hosts These springs I feel saustied to in w latitude not generaily considered The conformation ef the vailey and tec an ximest consieat breeze Uorough it, ‘Again, sed th But I must draw my letter to a close. T) heve been but that large class of fast men aod fi Their «ikon coats and by amd golden stings, ‘And ruffs and culls and farthingoies avwt things, tho glitwer of their dis. Bat whea Bat come what revolutions there muy to To that | have Meantirge the earth will revolve on ond for the beneiit and healing of all aise requir- jaal wid the Arkansas Lot springs wilt continue waters from the thermal fountains of patare. 1 has appolated a ccramission of savans to t for scrovuta, Over Rongh Roads Made Easy and Agreeable by a Lite Saving Apparatns—Progress of Rogistration—A Terrible Thunder Storm and a Hotel Terribly Affticted with Mate—A Landlord on Reeonstruction—Floating Down the Washita, aad a Right Flank Movement 2 Close-H ister the Fourth of July was Celebrated, and How it was nt of Freedmen in Cam ” Princeton aud Camden=Farewell to Ar- a Campes, Ark., July 8, 1967. Bringing away ploasant memories of my pleasant Fo- journ at Hot springs, and health recuperated from bathing in ite hot waters—I insist there is nothing like bathing In those hot waters, and drinking from those hot fountains, and breathing tho pure air of those cool mountaia heights, to restore health and vigor to the aystem—I took the parting hands of the friends whose sequaintance I had formed, @ farewell drink of hot water aud the stage for Fairplay, & poiat of latersection on the Little Rock and Washingten stage route, thirty miles distant, “To be well shaken after taken," remarked Dr. Law- rence to me after I bad taken my soat, and it needed no other explanation than the smile lighting up bis face to interpret his meaning. “I have @ painful comprehension of the fact,” I re- joined, “Oue look at the vebicle is conclusive om this port.” “But you aro going to have the shakes fearfally,”’ he added; “have brought you some medicine, an antidote ‘that will save your life,” and thereupon he thrast Into my band a vottle of good old Bonrbon, for such Tknew it to be, as I had sampled somo of the came kind before, _ “Not the last of the Bourbons, I trast,’’ I said smil- fng—a faint, inoxpressive and unmeaning smile though, as compired with the robast, enlivening and gorgeous smiles indulged in aftocwards by myself aad fellow pas- songers, in respansive appreciation of the Doctor's be neflownt gif, Tue ringing crack of the driver's whip, the farewell shouts of the ass*imbied crowd, and the dipoiug noise of the moving Pohiclo as we went whirling wharply round @ corns, Urownays the Dovtor's roply, I: pine, war as a0 officer of the Yhirieeuth Maino rogimou', and Dr. Frost, Oifot Springs county, This is the first town- ship in whi they have rozisterod, and from indica. tions thurfar it is beligvod all who are entitied to vote will register, As 0% registration generally throughout the State he sama results are confidently looked for, Many who have not yet decided whether to vote or noe Will register 40 a3 not to be cut off from thelr former 2 tin pail, swathed) tm Uick undergarments, | privilege if they showmd happen to think itedesirabie to nse it when (ie time for voting comes, There aro some, of course, of that obstimate natare, and who think to do apite by keeping entirety aloof; and, although the pre- sumption is that the workl will wag on tne same, and the suu ©Mne,just av brightly, whether (hey are ia it or not, itis heedly wort while te seek to-enange them in their courses, but let Cem enjoy their little petty satisfustion to the limited extent of sheir potty capacity. From Captain Cox I learned, by the way, that some who had boon appointed’ registers and had taken the orth and got thoir papors were enablo to get away from Little Rock, from, inability to got the funds necosssary for an outmt and pay expenses to thetr places of destination, Those Orst appolmted were supplied with some preliminary faods from she general vegistering appropriation, which, from its meagreness, bowever, eon bosame oxhausted. It Is expected that Congress, iw its prevent session, will remedy this difficulty and increase the appropriation fre-a tho hatf rolilion already sppropriated to five mit- lions, which, it ig nove estimated, will be require Specking of eatills, some rely on public conveyouces for ther means of transit; soma have bought horses, and intend to do their journey on horseback; some have addod a doubia team and driver, for the more conveniont taking:of themselves and luggage; aud som», in addition to thes, have provided themselves with a tent, blankets, cook, cooking apparatus and provisions—the last tho most theroughly independent—and which, unquestion- ably, will prove the most comfortable way of gelling along. Meanwhile, to exercise a supervisory controt over the registers, to remove those who may sbow aw audue partiality or prove themselves incompetent. and to proveut any asurpation of pewer or abuses of any kind, the State has been divided into seven districts, of several counties cach, and aa officer appointed over eath dis- trict, Thonames of these supervisory officors, who ara eppotnted over distetcts numerically desigaated in the onder of their names). ate a3 follows :—-Brevet Colonel De L. Floyd Jones; Lieutenant Colonel Nimeteenth Pinkney Linzenbod, Nipoteenth United States infantry; Brevet Major Gen- ora Richard Arnold, Captain Fifth United States artil- lory; Brevot Lieutearnt Colouc! James B. Mulligan, Captain Nineleanti United States infaatry; Brovet Mejor AlfremH. Androwa, Captain Tweuty-cignth United Stoses infantry; Brevet Major Lewis Ty Morris, Capyain Twenty-eighth United States infantry, and J. S. Thorpe, Freedimen’s Bnreat agent, Thus much by way of diver- genes on tho-subdject of. revistration. ‘And uow we are on. our jonrney again, Tho stage coach into which We ae transferred is @ great improve- mens on our previous cheky and uatique vehicle, Ibere i myrovement in the road, tt being on tho old Unived Staves ntilitary road laid oat long years ago from Littie Rock to convey supplies to troops garrisoned at government posts ia the southwestern part of the State and in Texas, and th ‘are cultivated farms at intervals, showing an fadustrious thoagh nob qreatiy pregreasi and onverprising populeaioa, [ was riding on the driver's goas as it wae-gooler ancmore comfortabie, for, as the san had voached {ts meridian height, it had become oppres- awely hot and saltry, When heavy masaos of dark roliing clouds, overshadowing the trees and seeming to spread ther sombre mantle almost over their topmost boughs, the matiermg of thundor and a risiag breeze indicated an approaching storm. Lraised my umbrella against the coming rain, which goon began to fallin a minia- ture flood. A flash of most vivid lightning suddoniy gloamed before mo and all about me; an instantaneous ‘burst of Chunder so quick and appalling thug it seemed a9 though the heavens nad been rent in twain followed ; . there was a secoud crashing, crackliug sound, and fifty yards before us jay the splintered fragments of giunt almost quivering yet, so to speak, in ite terrible death throes, Ishall nover forget che sight. 1 might ! travel a decade of years on a stage coach and not sce auch anotner. The horses, as micbt be supposed, were ‘ greadly starved, and im their quick attempt at turning like to have upset the stage, but the driver managed to | Keep them ip subjection Tho shatiored tree buppily } did net obstruct the road. In passing the stage lingered evoral tainutes to let the passengers, each of wom bad most sensibly felt the shock, witness this xrand exhibi- ttion of nadro’s powers, Wriing of thunder storm thia is a great country for “thunder, lightning an: rein,” jast the country im this regard for the descend- ants of Macdetb’s witches to get up meautations un short jdowand For nearly iwo weeks we have nad (bunder storms every day, and they are uo infantile alairs, but the liveliest land ef lightmng, the loudest tumult of } thander, and at times the showers following each other in quick succession, nearly as “thick as loaves in Val- ambrosa.”” An hour before sundown the stage reaches Rockport, where driver, horses, coach and passencers } tarry for the might. Thus is a very seragy looki of fess than a dozen houses, a seraggy brick Court House, its central ornament, and the scrag ciost of seraggy oto, its standing disgrace. His said that General Stoelo'slopt here on his famous march to Camden, If had been told that the ancestors of Noah siops here be- foro the flood I might believe it, but aa for believing that apy one haa slept here from & time going no fur- ther back than the last war I cannot credit it, “Tired uttare’s sweet restorer” never can come to a traveller stopping in ahonse oo infested with rag. They have taken possession of the houw, aad rua it, They take possesion of a traveller, apd’ run over bim, and tt ia only a wonder that they do not run of with him. Thore {4 no intimidation 1m boos, or a wash pitcber, or a wash bowl, or chaim, or a prayer book, or Hilliard’s novel ef Southern life, or oatus, for I hurled all at thom. Nothing bat one of tho quaint melodies of Rovers Browning's Piper of Hamelin could drive them away, Tho room in which I slept had not a window ic it, and between the rats aod a wild midnight storm, avd the slanting of the door, which had no fasteaiog, sieop was out of ihe question. An artivt should sketou this hotel, ‘Ther is nothiag tn the halis of the Vaiican or the Coliseum oan compare with it The porch on the west side, in the wavy outlines of the root, in the fai severance of the shingles aud in tne wolully diss. pated shadow mapped om the undulating floor, would furnish fine studies to an enthusiastic devotes to art, ‘As one cannot visit the runs of the Old World, how- rer, without *. plenteoas purse from which to fee the cloeroneés, 80 Owe cannot enjoy the luxury of this grand Tun at iesa thou four dollars aday. Bat there is this diference to be borne tn mind: while the travetlor fees tne guide for taking im Froesye! the lendiord bere feeds the traveller after taking bim 19. “Why dou’t you repair your hotel?” 1 asked the diminutive bon\face, with a pair of inexpressibly dimim- tive eyes, and legs of that excoed.ng slimness tha: a of clay. pipestems would pays creditably for their : i Sonntag 4 he ejacuiated, somewhat “Reper be dasne rongetys “with ane certainty of coofiecation ahead. I'm no such damaed fool ' “What makes you feel so sare of confiscation ?”’ I ine aired, batt teil you Lknow it, T know it os sure as there's # heli, ead that Thad Stevens is going there, and all the damned red) with him, © kaow their tricks. They are hound to confiecate everything.” 4 the worst come to the worst, your hotel is LR i it ot Doing ablo to reviat y 1 believed presenting itself ty, and for & joke. ‘owhat makes you th’ that?’ he asked eager! hie little eyes snapping tn anticipated aeiigot of 4 gatle- factory feophole on which to hang his preseat douvia. “Pd repair at once if I thoaght #0." “Tl t@il you why your hotel is safe from confieea- wo vory joking My intention was tohave poshed on to Wael by toe route I had starvod, and thence by stage Ko vo Camden ? bat [ learned at ckport there was no stage running Detwoon these towns, sod #0 concluded to step over at the Inter lotality, and thence come direct to this place, Fimding out afterwards that 1 had two Gays instead of one to remaia over, | determined i nto account, and vitit Arkadelphia, aod niton #& jagout,’’ ‘as staal! cow boats here are calied, asa means of trans- ortation a onte novel, picturesque and raliebie, The next thing was to get a dugout. wae directed to & famed Mites, who wae iho propriet of a floating institation of this desription, aod w would doabuiess with it for a reasonable pecunia consideration. like Cineronatus, was ploughing near the river, haifa mile below the town, by whicd statement I do not mean to ay that Roman states. man ever carried on agricultural pursuits on the banks ‘of the Washita, aitnough from the naraber of old fosst le to be found here the fact is not outside the pale of pos. ibility, “Dir, Miles, T understand you own & goat,” 1 re. od intertogatively to b marked ii “Yer, sab. “Gan ¥ see it?" ‘Yea, sal; it's sast round that cove thar," What do you ask for it?’ L inqusred, after hav! exanvined it aatishod myrolf thee it pomensed suttl- Hes TReritorious pounts to warrant & purchase, “Worth @ mighty beap, sal," was his response, ul ro hat "ar, and dear here, sau." . “Takes heap of humber to make boat | tum der inigity eearce and “Wet!, state vour pri “his worth $12. [ reckon. "* “Mr. biiles,” TL responded, and I begs my response slowly, aod if ever | assuined.e look of Bol anal pros dignity Tditat then, “f am astonished us the [as ir noo of your pocunwry demand. You does know ne “Neo, San." he spoke out, polling the lower extromity of his loft car with hus ieft hand. “fbouch you have alwoys beea miles away from no” —andt he always certainty bad been upto this Ume— ont ‘| know what | bave don: tor you ey", Babs.” om, Me Milos, DH tell you what I have done for you) 1 TAB a Condition of hopeless servitude have made yn @ coequal of the proudest muguato of the iand.” (Afr, Milos moved from one leg t another in @ state of’ pa’Dicwing bewilderment.) ‘ib# star of per- petual 1iverty’ snes over your head,” (Ie. Silos here gs taht upvard glance to get a glimpse at the “AL) the glor,.98 privileges and immunities of the (Mr. Mites looked at star, free Ameri ¥B citizen are yours"? v he thou wit I was going to give him some- me ax tho! thing.) Tin’ great boo of perpetual liberty is yours fore’ nd ist now the sining inheritance of your-tittle children,” (M4, Miles Laere looked bebind him, evi- dently expeetin,” to see giwuped there severa: in‘ants dearing bie patronymic.) And yet for all this you obarge me $L2 for's boat thatwidn’t cost $3" “Well, eam, you may have wt Jor $3. I ought not to bawe chargo® you aomuen."? Thus We negotiatice ended T pati about twice what the boat wus worth; yo the darky was satisfied, hd so waa t. Half am tour jater I wae foatiog Gown the Waehita, ‘The Bingtish Sermster who, in his litte gan the Rob Roy, floated down the leading river of the rid, and wrotea book abont it, bad his enjoymente and dtscomfitares “long dynwp ow Hine were more concentrated, The diatanceris Gurty totes and the ons. rent was about three miles an hour at ttm present silage of water. Two iniies below fae town, at what is called Rock Shoals, my craft came very near fennderiny. had to get out and prt her over the rocks, acd in a day it war w obie pulling. Several times t had to ccrresabla intertude, At vee Himes, A clothes wet, D indoiged in langange not to the poots, noveven im Dante's “Inferno. It is not tobe Woudered at, Such “moving acovdents hy flopd’? moved me Av other times, as my boat rolled sioug on the swift whirl of the now eddying stroum end now glided over waters as wnruftlod ne an incantedream, as now £ hoged the shadows of the ehore aud’ booked upon the unbroken solitudret the ports disturbed only by tho einging of birds and ocoxsional whirriemof @ rising pheasant as the abades of eveuiag crept on—sor ib e'when I started on my journey, and the rising moon took their places ia the clear evening sky—2 could not heljebat feel— If thore be an elysium on ear Tt is this; i is this, No pen portraiture will do justice to the scene. The only thing was te driak deeply of the pootry, and by @ providenval admixture of ahe rea! with the ideal keep & shawp eye at ihe same ume on some good stopping piace for the nicht. Soom s found Buch a place—a Mr. Tuffts!— ewenty miles down the river, whese IT mot @ most agree. ably jaratiy and was hospitably entertained, and a rather unasnal ciretmstance ia thia country, withont money and without price. Mr ‘faite I found to be a good Union man, andéthsugn having fought on the rebel side daring gost thoroughly reconstracted at present, betimes in th) maraing, and shortly after sam- rise might bave been sean, ‘My bark o'er the water move glorioualy ov’? towards Arkadelphia. Ab Arkadelphia & gave my craft to a right senate vlelooking old darky, who said bo could carn a living febing with it, and den, first stopping to break~ tast at the Speneer Hoase,; took a took through town, 16 is wolland regularly laid out, with four churches, abou’ a dozen stores, some very tasteful dwellings, and streets weil shaded, ‘There is one newspaper published here— the Arkadelphia Cirier—a-very emphatic conservative sheot, there is w prevailing apathy on politics, though most, it is Gelieved, will recister and vote, At Washing- ton | learned the aspect of political affairs is about the same. : ‘theee days? ride in a mail coach bronght me from Arkadetphia here, via Rockport and Princeton, There were no other passengers, uod it rained most of the ti and the ride was gloomy and wearisome enough. All the way the scenery was abent alike, alternations of pine forests and ork openings, and very little of the jand under cuttivation. Revercuttal men, who take off their hats when they pass a church, would not be bothered bere with removing their chapoaus, bat those of the Hazlitt school of exquisite poetic sentiment, given to remowins their hats at sight of @ primeval oak, would kaop tho flexors and extensors of their right arm ip ta. ervasing motion, Finer aud larger oaks are rarely to be found. Most of the roads ara execrable, owing mainly to their not having been worked any since before. cho war and a good deal to the stil! remaining remuants of the corduroy inid down by General Stesle’s army. ‘Though the Fourth of July, I'saw no indication of observance as & holidey, except the single firing of w boy's cannon at night at Princeton, in front of the hotel, or bowrding house rather, whteh it ovly is, although charging maximum, hotel prices, where I sto’ over night; aod’ this f imagined to be more in m ry from any genuine outburst’ of pure patriotism. bern. Camden the country shows Latah improvement, saw a single field of cotton containing three hundred an@ nifty acres and looking in most promising condition, ‘The corn, of which there are large ape sgh Sit wl jooka weil and gives assurance of an ni crop. Sometimes when fam writing the “cacoethes scribendi” gota such firm hold of me that I know not when to stop, and hero | am, as not infrequently, compelled to com. dense the most important points of my letter in acl paragraph. Of Camden I will remark this much, that am agreeably dianppointed in its app°arance—more se Se ee ea. to be with fade Iti pretty much made up of one street, one of waich ia devoted to stores and business and the other to reside! In the business part iv is very duit resent; but im tho residence i be- found the chief beaut; are of the cottage style thoir handsome porticos and lawne prosept a most tasieful as well as and ing look, The court house, a two story brick buildiog, stands tna lot without a fence or tree, and alt — surroundings ag uninviting aa the pyramids of Mey pt. Tho Fourth was duly celebrated bere by the negre population, They had an outdoor meoting, Tho pal feature was an address by Bishop Cam} the colored divine, of Philadelphia. It ts said that he gave them avery sensible and practical address, The two ‘wbional and Conati: the //erald--who prophesied trouble and all that, are wholly without the material for aa exciting whote affair off very quietly. ago. All the leading mon are about the same. A reat- dent got very indignant recently because his daughter was introduced to a Union officer, The reason of this feoling ia obvious The Union army bas never beem victorious here, When Goneral steele made his advance on the town, as is well known, he was repulsed, aad went away inuch more burriediy than he came. With thts letter Lolose my letter writing in Arkansas, It is now nearly four months since I came to the SI In this time | have travelled over nearly every section tho State and seen every clase and phase of its people, My aim has been to gtve facts—“notbing extenuate oF aught set dowa in malice.” Loam, as every one d some of whi to set with preconceived notions an@ prejudi were right aud some wrong, Thave bat they are inctdental to travelling in any country. ® summer landscape, full of lights and shadows, ite places of toil and green resting places out ie clear and palpable outlia all belore me the story of my noticings and wanderings. It will be @ jong, long time before they fade from my memory. And now for Texat THE INDIANS. ‘ Serength of the Varieas Tribes. In view of the ponding diMcuities with the Inflane out West, the following estimate of tho numerical strength of the various tribes possesses some interest. 1c is made by an intelligent and careful correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat, who bas been covers wmonthe on the pinioe. He en ee says: ‘The present n: eal strength of the Indians is eth mated et 390,000; ons of this number 70,000 are civilized, According to statisties furnished us by an intercourse according to fil i Bat ? ; 3 See. 0; Ns frase eerie ° i i ee Ai Kaaeas del eavrien pee boxes, There alxo the copes Ovawan and ie rep, asbington, the Twialips, Skokam! Texas Skiatians, 1,600; Makabs, 1, scattered, 1,260; 6,000; Cocopas, Yume, and Chemitneris, 95605 7, the mort warlike tribes on the pny maoches, Apaches ‘In Nevada, Utes and the try Rocky Mountains aro found the Sohewing east of ft —Pah-Utes Shoshon bie appoint and six in New ra Geni ty sarang el re a eS oy aca bora no —— a