The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-24
ICouesrcndesce Of the Disrstch.l
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July 18th, 1854. J
Dear Dsspo,ch--There is no regularity in the mail
service these pae and the people submit to desy
after the fashion of the Turkish Submission to Fate
hayebeen delayed hero some days In consequence,
sud the itching to write has visited me again. As
many Of your readers have not been perhaps ia this
part of Mississippi, viii simply say that the pop
ulation is chiefly from Virginia, North and South
csrolinai Tennessee and Georgia, supply their
quota also. II is only about twelve years since the
Chickasaws were removed from these lands. AL
most every thing therefore is new And yet the
whole aspect Of things is very much like one of our
best class of Virginia small country towns The
average OF intelligence and enterprise is greater
however. There is no lack Of social and literary
reiinement-to which the various literary iustitu
tons contribute doubtless good deal II is cir
cumstance worthy OF remark, that in this region
neither the pine, CEDAR cypress other evergreen
Is to be found, except some few which have been
transplanted The forests are clearer Of under
growth than with u.s. and therefore more easily re-
duced to tage. Land covered with oak and hickory
that would be priced in Virginia. are here often not
titled not being fertile enough. There does not
seem to be any attempt to improve or reclaim ex-
hausted land This had not supposed to be the
case In Northern Mississippi Merchandise here, |
am told, is comparatively cheap, owing to the easy
access to Memphis. and also New Orleans, Cincin-
NATL ST. Louis, &c, by the easy transit of the Misss-
| sippi River.
| We are always told in Richmond by our hard
| money men that gold and silver Is plenty in the
| Southern States, and have heard Mississippi and
| Alabama often cited as examples. Now, / say no.
| thing more, than to give you my experience Ia a
| email way in that line-as to gold have seen in
neither State none except the small quantity which
| solaced my portemonaie from Richmond here In
exchange for that they offered me, with refreshing
| coolness, $l's, S2s and S3's, of North Carolina
| Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia. Silver lie
| almost an impossbili!y.
In this State there is but Bank. and that (sio
| nifcant fact does nothing but an Exchange and
| Brokerage" business. All these notes are crcula
ted here against law, Now ifthere Is State in the
Union in which gold and silver should be abundant
(by hypothesis OF the subtreasury) tits Mississippi
| am assured by distinguished and polite demo.
crat here that specie abounds in the Southern part
of the State | do not doubt the fact is So but the
answer is, that experience shows that Just where
the influx and efuX of the sub treasury takes place
gold and silver is found and "no where else -
Wherever the government disburses her specie il
circulates until it is recalled to be again ds5ursed
but it never travels beyond the reach of that recall
Thus, wherever the government has a navy yard,
arsenal, military post, where she contracts for
supplies, specie will be found.
What has Richmond in this view of it No yard,
no arsenal, and but few contracts. Time will dem
onstrate in her case whether specie has got per-
manent hold there as a circulating medium / do
not write this political matter, but state the
facts above for the reflection of your readers
| have received much kindness in this place
especially from my own professional brethren, who
here, as elsewhere, are noble set of fellows
leave tomorrow, for Memphis, and home via
St Louis, Cincinnati, &c.
Yours, c.