the mineral district. Fulton, Columbia, and
Fayette are the seats of justice for Callaway, Boone, and Howard
counties, and are pleasant and flourishing towns.

About the same provision for education has been made in this as in other
Western States, and a disposition to encourage schools, academies and
colleges is fast increasing.

CHAPTER XIII.

ARKANSAS, AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS.

Arkansas, which has recently formed a constitution, lies between 33 deg.
and 36 deg. 30' N. latitude, and between 13 deg. 30' and 17 deg. 45' W.
longitude. Length, 235; medium breadth, 222 miles;--containing about
50,000 square miles, and 32,000,000 acres.

_Civil Divisions._--The following are the counties, with the population,
from the census taken in 1835:

Counties. Population.

Arkansas, 2,080
Carroll, 1,357
Chicot, 2,471
Conway, 1,214
Clark, 1,285
Crawford, 3,139
Crittenden, 1,407
Greene, 971
Hempstead, 2,955
Hot-Spring, 6,117
Independence, 2,653
Izard, 1,879
Jackson, 891
Jefferson, 1,474
Johnson, 1,803
La Fayette, 1,446
Lawrence, 3,844
Miller, 1,373
Mississippi, 600
Monroe, 556
Phillips, 1,518
Pike, 449
Pope, 1,318
Pulaski, 3,513
Scott, 100
Sevier, 1,350
St. Francis, 1,896
Union, 878
Van Buren, 855
Washington, 6,742
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Total, 58,212

Another table we have seen, makes out the population, as officially
reported (with the exception of two counties, from which returns had not
been made,) to be 51,809;--white males, 22,535; white females,
19,386;--total whites, 41,971: slaves, 9,629;--free persons of color,
209. The population, in 1830, 30,388;--in 1833, 40,660.

The following graphical description of Arkansas, from the pen of a
clergyman in that State, is corroborated by testimony in our possession,
from various correspondents. It was written in 1835.

_Letter from Rev. Harvey Woods, to the Editor of the Cincinnati
Journal._

"Arkansas Territory is a part of that vast country ceded to the United
States by France, in 1803. From the time of the purchase, till lately,
the tide of emigration hardly reached thus far. In 1800, the popula