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The following memorial was presented in the House of Representatives on the lst ut. i2ead and referred to the committee on the public lands.

 9he honorabis ths Senate and House of Re-

 personalities otf ths J. s. ip Congress as-

 Seaabled:

 Your petitioners, Benjamin Taylor, Wal- ter Dunn, Henry c. Payne, Robert j. Ward, Horace B. Hill, Wm. French, Hen- " Johnston, of the State of Kentucky :. John j. Bowie, Wm. Strong, Thomas J. Lacy, Joel Johnson, De La r. Roysdon, Frederick Notrebe, of Arkansas Territory, Wm. McD. Petit, of Arkansas, James Woods, of the State of Louisiana, Daniel ". Wright, H. c. Tunnels, Passmore Hoopes, Alfred c. Downs, and James 5. Robertson, of the State of Mississippi, beg leave 10 representa- your honorable bodies, that large body of country, lying south of the Arkansas, and west of the Mississippi rivers, IS subject to annual mundation; that from the best estimate that can be made by your petitioners, more than eight millions of acres of the hest cotton lands, are more or less affected by the overfows of these two rivers lying between the Pine Bluffs, on tbe Arkansas, the mouth of the Arkan- sas, the Mississippi, the mouth of Red ri yer, and the Ouachita rivers; that large quantity of land within the region mention- ed, has already been returned by the sur veyor of the general government, as drown ed larid, and as unit for survey. That in the opinion of your petitioners, much the larger portion of the country above men, toned, will not indeed, cannot, be sold or settled until the south bank of the Arkansas river, beginning at the first low lands below the Pine Bluffs, shall be leveed to the mouth: for although the banks of the Mississippi rlver may, and will, in few years be le- weed by the several individual owners of the lands on its margin, still much the lar i ger quantity of the lands before described, will be left in their present useless condition, on account of the overfows of the Arkan- sas river. Your petitioners would further represent to your honorable bodies, that a ievee of sufficient height, commencing al the termination of the hills on the South side of the Arkansas, below the Pine Bluffs and continuing to the mouth of said river, would, when the banks of the Mississlpp shall be leveed, reclaim all the lands men. tioned in the above region. Your petition. Feys would farther represent to your honora- Ibie bodies, that the South bank of the Ar'