CHAPTER XIII.
ARKANSAS, AND TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS.
Arkansas, which has recently formed a constitution, lies between 33° and 36° 30' N. latitude, and between 13° 30' and 17° 45' W. longitude. Length, 235; medium breadth, 222 miles;—containing about 50,000 square miles, and 32,000,000 acres.
Civil Divisions.—The following are the counties, with the population, from the census taken in 1835:
| Counties. | Population. | Counties. | Population. |
| Arkansas, | 2,080 | Lawrence, | 3,844 |
| Carroll, | 1,357 | Miller, | 1,373 |
| Chicot, | 2,471 | Mississippi, | 600 |
| Conway, | 1,214 | Monroe, | 556 |
| Clark, | 1,285 | Phillips, | 1,518 |
| Crawford, | 3,139 | Pike, | 449 |
| Crittenden, | 1,407 | Pope, | 1,318 |
| Greene, | 971 | Pulaski, | 3,513 |
| Hempstead, | 2,955 | Scott, | 100 |
| Hot-Spring, | 6,117 | Sevier, | 1,350 |
| Independence, | 2,653 | St. Francis, | 1,896 |
| Izard, | 1,879 | Union, | 878 |
| Jackson, | 891 | Van Buren, | 855 |
| Jefferson, | 1,474 | Washington, | 6,742 |
| Johnson, | 1,803 | Total, | 58,212 |
| La Fayette, | 1,446 |
Another table we have seen, makes out the population, as officially reported (with the exception of two counties, from which returns had not been made,) to be 51,809;—white males, 22,535; white females, 19,386;—total whites, 41,971: slaves, 9,629;—free persons of color, 209. The population, in 1830, 30,388;—in 1833, 40,660.
The following graphical description of Arkansas, from the pen of a clergyman in that State, is corroborated by testimony in our possession, from various correspondents. It was written in 1835.