FAYETTEVILLE, ARK, Dec. 7, 1S47.
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Mr.. EduOr I'm your paper of the 4th inst.,
see Communication, signed Sleepy Bill which
induces ,ne to make a few observations the
same subject.


have read with pleasure the many articles, as
well as editorials. in your paper i'll favor Of a
Turnpike road from Van Buren, to this point
Your. friend Sleepy Bill is right in his proposi-
lion for public meeting in regard to the matter.
1t is nv firm conviction that if the ball is once
nut in motion, the good sense and enterprise of
our citizens will keep ii moving.


Manv causes conspirc to make Van Buren a
comma ndng noint, in commercial view and
from many natural causes Fayetteville Is the hrst
stopping place in the interior. Far enough sdls-
tai the one-from the other to allow each the un-
ipterruoted trade of the surrounding country
their interests are common. IL Van Buren fou-
rishes Fayetteville will thrive. and uice versa.
Washington county is little republic within
itself. surrounded by mountains and thus fenced
in from the rest of the world. Fayetteville IS Its
c,,taI. here much Of its business is done, and to
this point much of its trade must necessarily flow
But there must be an outlet for the trade OF this
county or lille republic, as have chosen to cal
it: by nature Van Buren, is the only outlet 1t car
have The better. therefore, the means OF com


muncation between the two places, the greatel


will be the prosperity of both.


1 Another consideration, which is hinted at II
8. Sleepy Bill's'' communication, renders this en-
terpTise important tha' is' liz ~. ''uc M T 70 q -
west counties of Missouri. There Is the hoursn


ing town of Springfield. one hundred ana ten mile


from here. suat ted in one of the fret agriculture
d;s,ric,s in the West: the road from there mere


na,nr,Jlv fine. and if there any thing like


road from this place to Van Buren,, the trade
The couutrv would all come this way. Van bure


wouId be the mart whist Fayetteville would


depot on the road E.,o,,oy;,le I
Van Buren,, and enterprisIng men wouIu P,dS :


transportation trains on the roao' wniIa wour ousr
vino every day, so that there would never IT,


""u d;5f;cn,y in sending produce to- market. LII


49,, nm md down. would be made in. little MOI
than two days and the round trip in flye, SO In'
e TRANSFORMATION would be cheapened at least o'
f half ,..,.... -
' ANOTHER observation Of Sleepy Bill" is worth