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MEssRs. EDlToRs:-l see, from the last Banner, that you have prodered your columns to any communication upon the subject of the river mail; and as it Is subject of such absorbing interest to the people of the river counties, have thought proper 10 offer few remarks, (tho' unaecustomed to writing for the press) by way of attracting public aten- ton to the subject.

 was pleased with the remarks of 'I ,, and was in hopes that he would have con tlnued his contributions upon this important subject; for am sure his views embrace the true policy for the people of Arkansas. It Is a notorious fact that the river counties. below the Rock, have been shamelully neglected. both by the Post Office Department, and by the National Legislature. It will not be de- nied, presume, that there is as much wealth. and perhaps as great population, from the Rock to Napoleon, on the Arkansas river, as there Is in any other portion of the Slate.- And what has been her mail facilities com pared with other sections of like population: One pitifIl horse mail week, when the water is not up; but in time of high water a total failure takes place for months at time. For instance, in the spring of IA We had no regular mail for three months, in Jefferson county, How would Hot Spring, Hampstead, or any of the northern counties, have borne such total failure of the mail' And how will our Senator like to be three months with out newspaper, or letter from a distant triend' believe that Jefferson county has. now, the honor of claiming one of the Sena- tors to the Congress of the United States as her citizen.