New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-07
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
PAULpING, Jasper County, Miss,
August 81, 1868.


August 81, 1868.
Dear Crescent Having passed through several
counties Of Eastern Mississippi have finally made
temporary landing in this quiet and healthy little
village, where l shall remain day or two. As
word about crops is more interesting to your readers
than anything else, will drop you word or two.
The cotton crop in the counties through which have
passed, and closely observed, as well those from
which have heard is a fair average one Probably
more cotton will reach market this season from East
Mississippi than ever before. This will be partly
owing to the planting of additional number of acres,
as the piney woods are continually increasing in
her of solid and substantial cultiyaors Of the soil.
The lands are not as rich by any means, those of
our State, but the country is healthy, water good,
and sickness almost unknown, The corn crop is
poor-yery poor. Indeed, in all my perambnlations
through Mississippi in former years, l have never
heard such loud and long complaints about the
meagreHess of the corn yield.
The great feature of Paulding, and indeed of all
East Mississippi from Pearl river to the Alabama
line, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Tennessee
line, is the Padding Clarion, large weekly news
paper, edited and owned by your friend s. R. Adams
Esq, printed By steam pg1cer and circulating, each
ISSUE some seven or eight thousand copies. 1t finds
its way to thousands Of firesides in the extensive
scope Of country named which no ether paper ever
reaches, and yields an influence which is more po
tental in its character than that exercised by any
other Journal with which am acquainted--I mean
outside of New Orleans, of course 1t is edited with
great ability and industry, and although opposed to
its political teuets cannot bat accord it just need
of praise The Clarion would be most valuable
medium Of advertising to your merchants, a good
many of whom, as I see from its columns, have
already aYailed themselves of the extraordinary ad
vantages it presents The trader who wishes to secure
the business Of East Mississippi cannot do better
than advertise in the Clarion.
The cattle disease is prevailing here to a small
extent, and people have stopped eating fresh meat
and drinking milk. Ii seems to me a great deal of
causeess alarm exists but as there danger perhaps
too much caution cannot be used. | have only had
two glasses of milk since have been here and when
drank it, my fellow boarders looked as though an
extraordinary speetacle-a funeral was imminent
But, 1 concluded the performance should not come
of, aud SO, here am, fat and hearty and lazy.
The piney woods are prolific in beautiful girls, and
were | not married man, loaded with responsible
lities which am constantly struggling to support
and educate and provide for in future, should have
been dead goaer ere this, Oh, ifmy wife had only
seen me doing up the agony to d fascinating little
gypsy last evening OH! Don't tell on me.
We have horrible accounts from New Orleans,
which treat With the usual grains of allowance as
expect to See for myself in three Of four weeks.
Until then Heaven be with you
Faithfully, scoorABoUr,