Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-08
PROM STAURY COUNTY.

CULLEoKA, MAURY COUNTY, Tenn, Nov.
3, 1866 -Messrs Editors Union and Ameri-
can: To-day being the first Monday in
the month, the citizens Of our county were
out at Columbia, in unusual numbers; re-
minding US, in some respects, Of the olden
times before the war; with this striking con-
trast-nearly all our people are clothed in
good, substantial homespun, in lieu of the
broadcloths and cassimeres of former times.
There are, however, sundry indications of
recuperation. First, among these, is the
laIdable desire and effort to settle up old
debts; next, decided improvement in the
character and condition of our saddle-stock
during the last twelve months. And then
almost all our farmers have something to
sell-produce from the farm-such as corn,
hay, fodder, apples, vegetables of all kinds,
tobacco, and above and beyond all in value,
cotton. Of this last staple there will be a
fair crop sent to market from this county.
A larger number of acres were planted than
ever known before, and the yield has been
from one-half to two-thirds of an average
crop. We have now reached period when
we may safely venture an estimate of the
amount produced. From conversations with
well informed farmers and citizens, who
ought 10 be good judges in the case, the
yield has been lessened from fifty to three
hundred pounds per acre by the recent
heavy fross, making an average deduction
of one hundred and fifty pounds per. acre,
or twenty per cent from the estimates
Of one month since; and this learn is the
case also in the surrounding counties and
should the damage be general in the cotton
producing region, the crop will certainly be
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bales.
OF politics we hardly hear anything.
There are but few voters compared with the
large number ofcitizens, and but little inter-
est is manifested as to the success or defeat
of any candidate who aspires to public hon
ors. But one Sentiment prevails among all
good citizens, and that is a desire for peace.
We have had enough of war, enough car
mage and bloo6hed, and now we hope and
long for peaci, believing that peace will
bring again prosperity.
An increased interest is felt among our
people for information in regard to manu-
featuring, and / should not be surprised if
some of thee days we do rot make an effort
for cotton fictOries with which to spin and
weave the law material in our midst. Con-
siderable Interest is shown in the articles in
your paper in reference to the cost and profit
of spindles and looms.
The freedmen are slow in making con-
tracts for the next year, and the larger part
of our best landswill be cultivated by white
labor, not from any unwillingnesS to employ
the colored peope, but from an unwilling
ness of the colond people themselves to en-
ter into arrangements before the close of the
year.
Our schools ae generally prosperous, and
our churches are filled with willing and at
tentive hearers, and in many places there
have been extensive revivals and large ac-
cessions to the pople of GoD. Altogether
our prospects void be encouraging if there
was any well-grolnded hope for peace and
stable and republican government.
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