Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-16
LATEST PROM EAST TENNESSEE.


nevertheless We have matters OBJ h'''.7'
nectei with il. which we take the emporium.
Of a vacant day to publish. We began 10 "'','
a daily article on Chang matters as an 'A
pertinent, but we have found more 70 write ABOUT
than we have always had space TO permit
though we have at times taken am unusual
amount Of that precious newspaper commodity.
We take this opportunity of performing what a
sailor calls " fetching up his lee-Wsy.' In The
6rst place we have to communicate the follow
ing unpleasant piece Of intelligence:
In consequence of the accident to Gen. Polk,
by the bursting of tbe gun some days ago in
Columbus, General Pillow is now in command
there. We learn from Capt Lodwick, Of the
steamboat Kentucky, which reached our landing
from Columbus yesterday, that while in Column
bus he had an interview with Gen Pillow, in the
course of which that officer gave him verbal OF
ders to bring no corn down to Memphis. He
said it was scarce in camp that the Cotton
Plant had been detained TO go i search Of some,
aud not a bushel Of corn would be allowed to be
taken away-uot q single bushel. Iii difficult
TO understand how il is that our merchants, at
this distance from the spot, can get the article IN
abundance, if they are allowed to do so, while
the army commissaries, in the neighborhoo3
where +, IS grown, are unable to keep the army
supplied. which they might do TO overlooking,
for al accounts concur in representing corn as
being extremely plenty up the river. The CON
sequence was that the Kentucky was compelled
to leave behind The corn she had Intended TO
bring down.
There is stated TO be some heart burning in the
surrounding country toward Memphis on ac-
count Of the high, we may permit ourselves to
say, the eytortionate prices which salt has
reached We beg to call attention to the fact
that it was in New Orleans, and notin Memphis,
that the rapid and extreme Use of salt took
place. Il is from New Orleans the salt comes to
Memphis, and arise there could not but effect
this market That salt as risen here in a need
less degree, from speculative action and not
from the legitimate operation of the lines Of
supply and demand, Is conceded by our best
merchants, some of whom are Esiug every
means 90 block the game" of Legitimate
speculation. Wei learn for instance that the com
mission house of Selden * Co. have a shipment
of Eanawba salt on the way which both con-
siguers and consignees have determined to
sell without any regard to the inflated rates
that have prevailed. Wewere assured one week
ago. by a party who is engaged in collecting
statistics, that there was then from $1,000 TO
%, boo sacks of salt in this city. The books Of
the Merchant Exchange shows that no sales Of
salt have been made fo- some days people viii
90 without the article until the price becomes
reasonable, that is, they are willing to pay what
the exigencias OF the times makes necessaq-n0
more. A temporary absence from purchases
viii send the specula;ors' house of cards tumb-
ling about their ears. We noticed an arrival of
O. sacks Of salt on the Mississippi and Tonnes
see railroad ON Tuesday, and we are informed
that other small shipments are making on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad, and
that IN some instances those who are sending It
say have more than is required for their neigh
borhood. This does not speak wei for the sus-
tanning of present prices. The rise In salt is to
bring out the resources Of the country in that
article as We see by many newspaper notices, Of
which the one below from the Now Orleans
Crescent is a specimen. The feeling Of the pso-
pie, the amount Of salt on hand, the determine
ton Of sordid merchants % have no share in
u-uwarantable speculation IN an article OF such
universal necessity, the dead state Of the salt
market, and the probable results of an ezplora
ton of our own mineral resources cannot
fail to bring salt down in the market.
The Cresosa. says, Intelligence has been
received that the sal. springs in lo"lT Arkansas
has been resuscitate5, and that sufficient salt is
being made for the supply o, a large district Of
country. These springs aud works have been
in operation since last summer and have fur
nisled Northwest Louisiana with an album
dance of this necessary article. The recent ex-
trsorliuary advance of nearly one hundred per
cent. between Monday morning. 9Th November,
and last Saturday night, had nothing to war
rautit Ia thirty days it's expected the Charles
ton salt works viii be 30 fall operation.
The salt springs in Arkansas were discovered
over thirty years ago, and were brought into use,
oa. IN ronsequenceof the scarcity Of labor IN that
then sparssly settled country, the Indian title of
which had not been oll-inei, the works were
abandoned"
The same paper has the following items:
Unfortunately, the abilities and resources Of
the Hessian government Of Lincoln has been
moderated. Il is now nearly six months since
a vessel entered the port Of New Orleans from a
distant country. The d remark VIII apply
to Mobile and other ports on the gulf. Where a
vessel with a cargo Of merchandise has passed
Ltncola's blockade. twenty have passed the
blockade in the wsr Of 1912 Flour,
from Spain, can be delivered, via Havana,
on our levec at s. to $40 per barrel, such as we
ourselves paid yesterday Sl4 for. VIII the
uoB-ezpectatiouists say that we should be in
hibite1 from encouraging shipments Of this
necessary article TO be paid for in cotton It
must not be overlooked, that during the present
century there has been a space Of tine ahen Eng
land did not receive a bale Of cotton from the
United States, say for three years, yp, she
weathered the inhibition. The superintendent
O. title JacksonraIroad gives notice thatno freigh;
for Virginia OF the Carolinas viii be received till
further notice bot that freight win be forwarded