The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1846-01-17

mend, that they bs CHASED into first, second
third and fourth classes. and offered IT public
sale on due notice, 81 minimum Of two, four
SIX and eight dollars per scse, for cash Or slss
} that the whole be offered Al . minimum Of cighl
tdolIa's the acre. and the price gradusted 10 sew.
en- dollars the first year thereafter, TO six the
second, and 90 on, down 10 one dollar and TWEEN.
~ five cents per acre.
When il 10 recollecled that these lands have
been selected n email bodies and with grea.
care, and that they are now The best uncultiva.
ted cotton lands east OF The Mississippi river, ii
VIII appear, think, that the prices are not too
high. II 10 certain they will command such pri.
ces after few years. The sales beng over, an
office should DO opened, and the lands not dis.
posed OF At the general bidding should be offered
at private entry, and at the prices just stated -
At whatever time and at whatever price the
lands are sold. strenuously urge upon the LIE.
gislature to order the m sold for cash only and
that the first proceeds be used in reimbursing
to the Treasury the amount Of money expended
in locating them.
Selling on a credit will encourage combina.
tions to buy on speculation, and if the specula.
tions fail, az they most likely will, the State will
find herself harassed with multitudes Of perplex-
ing lawsuits, in most Of which she will be unsus-
cessful; and in the end the good debts will be
sunk in fruitIess efforts to collect those which
are bad. As familiar examples 1 may cite the
sinking fund, the seminary fund, and the Jackson
town lot fund.
LEvEE ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
The projected levee on the east bank OF the
Mlsslssppi river. commencing at the Tennessee
line and terminating at the mouth Of Yazoo, il
work 10 which invite your attention. The
question of it's practicabiliy is placed beyond
dispute by the report Of the Topographica al En-.
gineer, submitted TO the Legislature in 1884,
He estimated the cost at $8S,sS3 AZ. Thi'
will be found, apprehend, too small sum
but if the cost should be twice OF even thrice
that amount, the sum would then not be com
mensUrate with the value and Importance Of tn,
improvement. When two or more parties ar,
jointly interested in the completion Of work
It should be constructed by their joint efforts
The State of Mississippi has five hundred lhou
sand acres of land a small portion Of which il
now subject TO overflow, and would be protect
ed by the levee. She has much larger guam
tity which would be appreciated in value BY il;
construction, because it would render access "a
the Mississippi river easy, safe and expeditions.
The United States has about one million al
acres ia like condition, except that much lar
ger proportion is subject TO inUndaiio0 much
of It 70 . great depth, and always It that season
Of the year which, TO the planter, 10 indispensa
his Ehs lands as0, therefore, without value.
II Is scarcely 70 be doubted, il Congress was
accurately informed as to the present condition
OF these lands, and what would be their worth,
i rescued from overf,w, liberal and enligh..
ened policy would be pursued. II 10 therefore
advisable to lay the facts ia an authentic form
before Congress and ask her to selinquish for
hat special object alternate sections Of all un-
'old lands on the east side Of the Mississippi
river, as far back as the hills, and between the
Chickasaw line and the mouth of the Yazoo riv.
er. This may occasion some delay in common
cing the work. but il is vastly more import ant !
hat works like this should be properly done,
md by the proper parties, than that they should
,e done expedi.iously. The benefits which In
iividuals owning lands on the margin Of the
liver will derive from the completion OF the
work, will justify the State IN calling on them to
make contribution.
do not feel impelled by any pressing neces
ity. to urge you to commence this levee imme-
lately, and especially i: it is to be done At any
,reat sacrifices; but it should be leading and
object with the State, 10 have it {
completed at no distant day, and the legislation
II the country in regard to its public lands
Ihould be shaped towards that end. Should |
he Legislature deem It advisable to commence
his and other works Improvement within any
hort time, advise the purchase OF slaves for
hat purpose. am satisfied il planters can cul-
ivate their lands to greater profit with slave,
han with free labor, the State can, with equal
advantage prosecute her improvements with
he same class Of labor. She must, however,
o do this, employ overseers who are accustom.
ID to manage slaves, and introduce the same
economy which prevails on well regulated d
,lantalions. ID
These suggestions.may be considered as ap.
lying to the works TO be done in grading aud q
ting timber for the eastern rail road, and such /
ther works as are commenced by the State.-It
IN this subject / have the honor to transmit a i
st,er from the Hon. John p. King, President
( the Georgia rail road,which will tend,l think /.
o sustain the view that have taken. q
Before any contracts are made, or the work U
commenced, either on the levee, the road OF /
vay through the whole route; 9th. rwise che I
,ili be imposed upon BY the avarisious and sci. 4
sh through whose possessions the works sre U
o pass. Ia
II these views meet the legislative sanction, Il
further recommend that proposals. be issued Q
. hire laborers who shall be paid wages to be r
pecfed by law, in lands at . fixed valuation. b
have thought il reasonable to suppose, that
lanters and others owning lands on the margin I
{ near the Mississippi river, seeing thai the c
tate had the mesns, and was prosecuting the .
'ork with determined spirit, would glady aid 2
, its speedy completion, when thereby the '
lnds which they now own.are made more valu- q
BILE. and those which they take in payment for Q
heir work are increased in worth by the labor /
hey expend in buying them. v
EDUcATIOE. lii
The interesting subject Of education has en-.
rossed large interest In the pubic mind for c