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 MR. EDgoR :-I am surprised, in coming into your State, to find that you have no good road from Little Rocl, to Memphis It seems 10 me that there is no public Improvement in which you could engage that would be of so much permanent use and profit to you In a few months regular and constant emigra- lion will set in from Tennessee, Virginia. North Carolina, Georgia, &c., for Texas. Thousands will come. They will come in wagons, on horse back, and on foot By re- ference to map you will readily see that the great thoroughlare for this multitude, who are coming to constitute and people an empire, ought to be through Memphis and Little Rock, This route will not be of tem- porary utility only; but, fl once opened, will be travelled and greatly travelled as long as the Union shall last Knowing this before I came here, you may guess my surprise when found thata man on horse back could hard~ ly pass between these points.

 Should this State of things continue. vop will force the emigrant, if he is able to bear the expense, to move by water, or else to cross the Mississippi, as high as New Mad rid, and find his way through the hill country north of you, as he best can-or else to % down through the State of Mississippi. and cross that river about Games ferry,

 The result of all this, so fur as you are concerned, will be as fatal to your prosperi- ty, as though the river that runs at vour door had changed is course, and ceased to run bv your beautiful town.

 Il is the interest of this place, and Mem phis especially, 10 have this road made. And the citizens of these two points should co about it by the shortest and most practicable route. It is a well settled fact that good road can be- made through this country by throwing uh the soil, and permitting t to drain The United States government have sei the example by making part of the road -it will perhaps not answer 10 wall tiII she completes 1t. The distance is about one han dfed and forty-two miles, viz:

 From Memphis to Blackfsh, 9 miles good-levy thrown np. ....l~

 Blaekiish to St. Francis, l3 miles-bad- all swamp-needs a levy.

 k Francis ridge, 10 miles-good.

 Thence to White river, 30 miles-bad- needs some bridges also.

 White river swamp, miles-bad-needs