The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-17
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Dedr Dtspdtch I'll reached here this rnorr;ro
| after ride of one hundred and fifteen mTea h.,
stage, from Tuscumbia to La Grange, and by rail.
road from La Grange here. That one hundred and
fifteen miles was an adventurea It only took two
days and half to make the distance, riding nigh,
| ana day, and the proprietor wanted to deIav noe
another day, after his agent promising to carry me
through in sixty hours from Chattanooea-twentv.
four hours farther back but my Virginia blood 90,
the better OF me, and compelled him to put us
through by threatening him to publish his line In
Memphis, in which the other passengers Including
ladies, sustained me. l have lost the couneet;o, bv
these delays, and must remain here till to.morro
| morning.
| In the meantime let me tell you what you kuo,v
already, that Memphis lies on the east bank of the
mississippi, In the south west corner of Tennessee
have not gone about it much since INV arrival as
the weather is intensely hot and the dust flies in
clouds on the streets but what have s.sn Of i,
mas disappointed me for the worse Ii has to me
but little the appearance of a city The PRINCIPAL
business portion Is long sided street strefching
along the bluff considerable distance about one
n9nnreo yards or more from the precipitous banks,
which distinguish this side of the river from the
Arkansas side, which is low running quite down to
the waters edge. This street is filed mn ON one
side with well built business looking houses and
.hougn tne carriage way is not paved the sidewalk
Is well tagged and the crossings good notice here
what have observ wed in no other ci.y in which 7
have been The whole side of the s,reet-that ia
the sidewalk is covered with series of bigh wood
en- awnings, running the whole length-substantiaI
ana neatly painted, thus protecting the footpassen.
gers from heat and rain. The dwelling houses are
quite neat, and those the suburbs-some in cot
tage ana some IN palatial style--are verv pretty
anu wen located. Memphis does, at certain sea-
sons neaVy ouslness-especaIlyi in cotton This
is the Gull season. Being the Fourth the urchire
are ietting on pop crackers and just now two mill
tary companies passed by-one with three negroes
tor a Dand, and you know what music they can
make, and the other with medley of men, whom it
would be as hard to describe nationally as their
music was impossible to recognize as aLy earthly
sounds. They would hardly pass muster into Col
AS first volunteer regiment of Virginia
eat to-day of the famous Mississippi catfish. for
the first time, and found it equal to our rock and
IN my judgment, only surpassed by the sleeps
head.
must say for Memphis that, barring the dusty
streets and the unavoidable consequences it has
neat appearance; the houses are well built, but
taken altogether it does not present striking or
imposing appearance
Shall confess it! ! was disappointed in the Mis-
slsslppl, upon which | looked to-day for the first
time; but it must be remembered this is above
where the Red River pours its tributary flood into
its bosom. 1t may look grander below that point
but 1t did not strike me so here,-perhaps one rea-
son was that, arriving here thirsty as Bedouin
OF the DESERT was compelled, in default of better
to swallows quantity of its muddy, smoky tasted
water, and the bare look of the river recalled the
quamy sensation. The only other kind of water
to be had here (as in Charleston is the rain water
dripped from the roof of the houses-a vier tasted
thing could not be presented to one accustomed to
our Richmond water. Ice is obtained in abundance
from st Louis The mode of clearing land here
as you know is to fell the trees in field and lei
them die and drop gradually away The new fields
here are full of such huge monarchs OF the wood
around whose roots corn, cotton, OATS &c. are
planted grew sentimental at looking at these no.
Bile old trees, standing like dumb giants stretching
out their bare and withered as if supplicating
the sympathy of the passer by at the vandal like
cruelty which had stripped them of their glorious
foliage they once enjoyed The difference in the
dendrology or arborology; or, to use English for
neither OF the others suit me- the ology is very
manifest in the Southwest The general size is
much greater, and now and then you see one of
prodigious circumference but INV letter ia getting
too long. Yours, G.