Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-24
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LETTER FROM NAPOLEON. ARK.
NApo1RoSs ARK, Nov. II, 1865.
Editors Appeal: Your old friend zoe
e~asionaru had come TO the conclusion
that YOU were dead, and had therefore
numbered you with the things Of the
mast. until this morning, when the
splendid steamer James Raymondianded
at the wharf, and to his utter astonish-
ment TIVE copies Of your issue Of the
eighteenth instant was handed over by
a friend. Imagine if you can, the agree
able surprise, and with what eagerness
and delight your old friend and
feyog t-aoeyer perused its mammoth
columns. and after reading all 1t n
tanned. excepting nothing, fell into a
pleasing reverie Of the social hours spent
in former laws with one Of its founders
which was too suddenly and irresitibly
| interrupted by the melancholy thought
| that he had passed from earth to the
realm OF eternity. Yes, the spirit OF
that generous and magnanimous man
| has taken It's flight to that bourne from
| whence no traveller ever returns. But
the name Of JOIN r. MCCLANAHAN
will fondly and forever live in the
memory of the admirers Of the APPEAL.
MANY anxious inquiries have recently
been made by former friends about the
probability of the temperance Of the
APPEAL, but none were able TO gave
SATISFACTORY answers. / am therefore
pleased To know that all doubt in regard
to its reappearance has been removed,
| and the time IS again when all Of the
Appeal family can dwell together in
| social communion.
I have no very interesting items TO
communicate to the balance Of the
n fanilv,r more than what we have all
long since realized. Poverty reigns in
| andisturbed supremacy, and the improba-
blirv Of the successful working OF the
| free labor system casts n doubt in the
| minds Of the peopleas it regards the pros
/ pect Of future crops. As You already
| know we have the best cotton lands IN
! The world, and we entertain no fears
about deriving a sufieiency by the
growth of cotton, TO meet all neces-
sarv expenditures in the future, and
| to relieve ourselves Of all the present pc
! cmiarv embarrassments, if this system
/ of hired labor will operate beneficial to
| The planters, or sufficiently SO to justify
| them in planting large crops next year.
| But whether the negro viii work for a
| salary that will enable the EN-
| pIoyer to pay, is q question oil
| considerable speculation and doubt
/ The present embarrassed condition
If the planters in the South viii
/ render them unable % pay e~xtravagant
nrices. when il is not a settled fact that
| cottan will even remain at its present
price. Should the planter employ nifty
! negroes al large prices, and cotton
| should 90 down to its old prices, counting
! the present embarrassment Of the most
of our Southern planters, il would IN
volve them in utter ruin. But If the ne
gro will become eontented and contract
| to work for a reasonable salary, large
crops vii certainly be planted next year.
But if he does not, but little cotton will
be raised next year, and the many splen-
did plantations heretofore seen
ON the banks Of the Mis-
sissipni and Arkansas rivers, win go to
ruin, or perehance will be cut up into
small patches, to suit small purchasers
hence the thousands OF bales Of cotton
that was annually shipped from them
in former times viii not be again.
But very little cotton will be raised in
Arkansas this year. I am confident that
all Of the country south Of the Arkansas
river viii not raise as much cotton this
wear as was raised in Chicot and Desha
counties in eighteen hundred and sixty.
have Travelled pretty well all over South
Arkansas this year, and know what say
10 be true.
Now let me tell your land hunting
readers tina we have the finest cotton
lands in the South, and viii sell them
cheaper than they can purchase else
where. The ~pecuniary crash the wan has
brought about, compels our large land
4DlAtIo 10 Nl>po'c VI q SlGdt Ntai ol AAth
valuable cotton lands at reduced prices.
No one planter now wants three or four
thousand acres Of tiIlable lands; hence, |
those Of your readers that wish to pur-
chase fine cotton plantations would do
well TO visit Desha county, Ark, where
they can find plenty Of sellers, and get
land al greatly reduced prices. We in
vite all men who wish TO purchase homes
to come, buy and settle among us. We
will be clever 70 them.
Our levees are being rebuilt, and We
VIII soon be free from overflow.
have already made this communics-
ton much longer than / intended, but, if
you viii excuseit, Twill promise that ven
shall not be likewise troubled in the fu-
Your. efe. OCCASIONAL