Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-10-20
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80 49,
CHocrAw CoUScIL-The National Coun-
ell OF the Cboctaw Nation convened on Mon
say last at Doggy depot. The new CoBstitu-
lion question, will, we presume, be settled.
We earnestly hope il nav be amicabiy settled
between an parties. The Council will per
haps be in session during the whole Of this
month.
The GAINESVILLE CoNvESrIoN.-We be-
Tsvs We have heretofore Inadvertently omitted
to mention that pursuant 10 previous notice a
| Convention met at Clsrksville on the l4th ult.,
for the purpose OF taking into consideration
the construction Of an overland mail route to
San Francisco, California;: The Convention
was called to order by the Hon. W. W. FLOYD,
rf-JohnsOu, upon whose motiUh Gen. A. G.
MAYERs, of Sebss,ian, was Eeqlested to pre-
side over the Convention.
The committee appointed for that purpose
re 7orted the shortest aud best route from the
Mississippi TO San Francisco to be that: start
ing at Memphis, Tenn and pursuing the 80 b
parallel, with the route surveyed BY Prof.
VA PPLE in 1853, to the MOhsvs river, and
thenee through the Tasre Valley to San
Franc iseo.
CHoPs AEB THE PASIc.-Tbe Little Rock
Demoerat Of the 10 b says Of the crops.
8 Up to THE time it is hot definitely Known
What the yield Of our cotton CROPS will be. At
ter a most unprOpitiOus season, usheTed in BY a
cold late spring and closed with a most unpre-
cedeuted vet fail, we conclude that our crops
viii tall far short Of any previous season. The
loss Of Aal ust and September in the picking
season cannot be recovered.
- n a. .s-Ewwa - nrt muNnrE f-r nth fha
shadows are blended lights. Our corn crops are
most sbundaut. We have ample for our own
use. and can supply al the immigration that
can possibly flow IN our STATE, at low figures.
Inc tide o. immigration is sill directed to-
wards our BstF and rising State. aud with even
an increased ratio, We have sufficient wild lands
to supply the demand for yeans to come.
% Ubon a moderate estimate, Arkansas con-
tains free millions lfaeres Of c0ff0a laEds. Our
lands seldom fad 70 produce under one bale TO
the acre, and wren We consider their remsrk-
able fertility. the conclusion to ne is irresist-
ABLE. hat bad We negroes to reduce these rich
lands T. Cultivation. that Arkansas alone could
produce an amount Of cotton eq1si to the pre-
sent annual crops Of the whole United States,
me estimstes have never rsnged higher than
three millions eight hundred Thousand bales,
and Arkansas alone, could supply the markets
OF the world with that amount, lad she the
force 10 cultivate her cotton soils"
o. the monetary department it says:
The sale of our crops abroad, and the de-
tention IN the country Of bHt one years supply
Of California gold would place things on a com
paratiVely speaking, solid basis. But there is
no Wsy Of obtaining the California gold in the
country, but BY creating an effective dsmaRd
for It: aud there is no way Of creating an efec-
tiv, dsnsnd far IA but ~ diminishing the chr
REM crpdltE II tn banks. Vtig h hanks uUl
now do, from necessity. and thus will brin
back part OF be god IN y have caused to b.
X gorred. But 10 sooner will their credit B.
restored by tbs OPERATION, Ihaa they will be-
IN 10 expand again, and c~ontinns to expsnd
tail they proa.~e emo Der reyulsiOn.
The only ffe tive r@meds for evils OF this
sind, - 10 b. 70 I'D 10 thu prohibition Of the
irsa~ Of all no.ss OF = less denomination than
twenty dollars, o. II nav be fifty dollars.