Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-01-16

of March next Delegates were appointed to Tie State
Cotton Planters Convention.
The Z, auklin TAI Banner has the following excellent
suggestions:
All articles Of food bring high prices. Hal drouths- or
an unfayOrable season cut OF the crops Of the Soufh a.
they We're the previous year. we would now be ma per
nous condition IN regard 70 food Tor our army ana our
citizens generally. IL g. provertial that one fruitful sea
son b seldom followed Immediately BY another. We
may this year expect but moderate crops We may have
severe drouths5 and a general failure in crops a much
larger amount Of provisions must DO made by planters
OF the Confederate STA es this year, 70 prevent staryu-
uon, than was RAISED last veal, because the great bulk of
western corl5 pors, -four, and other produce from the West
intended Tor the South, was shipped 20 the South before
the blockade was established This year those suppl s
are cut of.
southern planters have other duties 70 perform tbi.
year besides supplying the wants Of their own plants-I
tons They must fee ( the southern army ana tie sou+ht
eu cities. and an Of the southern poop WHO do not
cultivate the earth. II they merely make ENOUGH corn
and other articles of food for their own consumption
they viii leave therest Of the people 70 starve. They
will commit the blunder Of having no corn 70 sell when.
that article may command from three to five OF more
dollars, and have the msraet glutted with sugar, cotton
and tobacco, for which they can got little or nothing
We implore the sugar planters, and all other planters al
the South, 70 reflect upon these facts carefully before
planting their crops
The New Orleans PirsyunG Of Thursday, says:
The cotton relief bill has passed the House Of Repre-
s~entatiyes By a very large vots-46 TO "a This is not
quite the two-thirds necessary to carry iL, II 1t should fact
the Senate and come back with a veto rom the Cover
iva W. NAAAlNf AANA AAN NNAHNA ANY NAA-A4LN "a AAAA.
high huctionary, that his signature viii never be given.
to a measure 50 pernicous. But 46 10 "A, in a thin house
affords a very small margin for hope. 1t rs extremely
prob bic that the friends Of the measure have strength ia.
reserve. The hope must not be abandoned that through.
some portion Of the legislative power, either By the.
Senate or through the Governor, this State viii YET be.
saved from the threatened inUndatiOu OF incouyertbie.
paper promises TO pay. Fit be not, two results viii GER
taiuly follow. The government viii tuse the capacity to'
borrow any money on its own account for the most in
dispensabie objects OF public necessity, and must take 20.
n" and un limited issues Of paper and tie people cred
tors and ds0tors-c0ttOn planters not excepted-wM ind.
70 their ter ible cost that relief was but another name lor|
ruin This new circulation, resting on an ulstaos- AID
uncertain basis, and with 80 little warrant in the cQnstitu
tiOn, that everybody whom necessity conpes 90 take r
will make haste TO get rid Of 20 on any terms viii soon
drive everything out Of circulation which is better thar.
tsef-as the paper now current has driven of gold and
81 ver-and the whole mass viii break down, from its own
cumbrousness until a handful viii hard buy 3 sack OF
salt The ruling principle should be to check, WHEREVER
It il possible, the prevailing tendency 10 swell The mss
Of mconveruble paper, ald the ruling resolve % consent
70 nothing which has this effect, which is not previously
demonstrated TO be a necessity which no other measure.
within reach Of government or people, can avert