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EXTRACT FROM LETTER TO THE EDITOR
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 Potohataa, Dec. II, I343.

 "DEAR SIR-As great portion of the peo- pie of Arkansas feel much interest in the re- running of the dividing line between this State and Missouri, take pleasure in giving you the following information: Our commits sioners, Messrs. Thompson and Clark, pass ed this place to-day (in 'sdug-outs'') on their way home. They informed me that they had run and marked out, the line, from the Mississippi to the Big Black River They started half C mile north, on the bank of the Mississippi river, and continued about the same distance from the present line, till they struck the St. Francis river. They started from the St. Francis one chain somh of the present line, and struck the Big Black River about one Hundred yardS south of the present line,-running sometimes north, and some- times south of the present line. Their opin- ion is that there will be but little variation, throughout its whole extent, from the present line.

 By mutual consent of the commissioners of both States, further operations are postponed till the 10th of July next, when they are to meet where they have left of. They inform ed me, also, that in consequence of the up- setting of canoe, which conveyed the com pass, some doubts are entertained of its cor reetness; and that it may be necessary to cor rect back, as far as the St. Francis river.

 The commissioners were much tattered and torn by the brush and briars; but in good health. If they shall succeed in establish ing the line to the satisfaction of both parties, they will deserve the thanks of the people, and better pay than the present law allows"