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back three hundred yards in three months, so we were told; but the
caving banks had already caught up with them, and they were being
conveyed rearward once more.

Napoleon had but small opinion of Greenville, Mississippi, in the
old times; but behold, Napoleon is gone to the cat-fishes, and here is
Greenville full of life and activity, and making a considerable flourish
in the "Valley; having three thousand inhabitants, it is said, and
doing a gross trade of $2,500,000 annually. A growing town.

There was much talk on the boat about the CalhouiL Land Con*

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pany, an enterprise which is expected to work wholesome results.
Colonel Calhoun, a grandson of the statesman, went to Boston and
formed a syndicate which purchased a large tract of land on the river,
in Chicot County, Arkansas—some ten thousand acres—for cotton-
growing. The purpose is to work on a cash basis: buy at first hands,
and handle their own product; supply their negro labourers wifck
provisions and necessaries at a trifling profit, say 8 or 10 per cent.;
furnish them comfortable quarters, etc., and encourage them to save
money and remain on the place. If this proves a fimnflM success, as