Arkansas Intelligencer

EAGLETOWN, Ch. N., Jan. 27, 1844.
Gentlemen:—This little hamlet is some thirty-five miles from Doaksville, is situated in the most dense settled, the most enlightened and moral part of the nation. It is unlike any other part, for here I witness the influence of religion and education among the people. It is the 'Vineyard' where the ministers of the Lord have worked to some effect in their 'labor of love.' The missionaries have done a great deal for the people of this neighborhood. The houses are uniformly more comfortable, their fields better cultivated, and the whole condition of things present anything but a savage state. Some, or all of the members of every family are educated; the women are more skilled in housewifery, they keep their houses neater, they understand the culinary science and live better. They knit, spin, and weave, and keep their husbands and children neatly and comfortably clad. Domestic cloth is manufactured in most every family.
The people in this neighborhood have devoted their attention to education and improvement, and have met in a proper spirit, the missionaries, who have been living among them for many years, and the result of whose labors are now to be seen in most every family. Not many miles distant from here, is located one of the National Female Seminaries, under the superintendence of the Rev. Alfred Wright, and lady, who have resided many years among the Choctaws, under the patronage of the American Board of Missions.—The Choctaws have shown considerable judgment and properly appreciated the past services of those worthy persons, in placing this institution under their charge. There are some forty or fifty girls, exclusive of some ten or fifteen day scholars at this school, who are taught all necessary branches of female education, ornamental as well as useful, such as fine needlework, sewing of every kind, knitting, spinning, weaving, and housewifery. Col. Peter Pitchlynn, a prominent citizen, who takes a lively interest in the improvement of his people, exhibited specimens to me of embroidery, knitting and sewing, and assured me that they were but fair specimens, which would do credit to the best conducted institutions in the States.
Last Sunday I was gratified at witnessing an assemblage of Sunday School Scholars at Doaksville, under the care of Rev. C. Kingsbury. Mr. Wm. T. Eustis, of Boston, who was on a visit to this country, delivered to them an address, which was happy and appropriate, and beneficial in its effect.
It is assuming no prophetic vocation that these people will be released from the bondage of ignorance and sin. Let them pursue the course they have begun, and they will burst the shackles of benighted darkness that have so long bound down their unhappy race. Yours, &c.