Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-05-01
AnEANsAs MATTERS.

0N b0AAD IEAAEE NhlAmA1hlAL I
April 50, 1865. }
Ed. appeal: Permit US to give you
an item or two, gathered around Indian
Bay, Ark, and a passing thought en-
route from thence to Memphis. The
planters are energeticaHy showing ahead
in agricultural matters. The great ma
iority Of farmers have planted their cot
ton, and in many instances good stands
have been obtained, while others have
sewn seed which were three and four
years old, and therefore have found their
seed too feeble to sustain life, and have
been compelled to replant. In Monroe
county the crop will be twO-thirds as
large as in former times, provided the
laborers continue 10 comply with their
contracts the renal nder of the year as
faithfully as they have generally done
so far. But the cotton crop for 1866
will not exceed that OF 1870, as
greatly as is generally supposed. At the
close of the war, almost every neighbor-
hood had more or less cotton concealed
in the swamps and canebrakes, and the
people were all last fall employed in
/ drawing it from its place of hiding, which
swelled the number Of bales to several
hundred thousand more than the esti-
| mate made from the number Of acres in
1 cultivation. The cotton factors Of New
Orleans estimate the humber for this
wear at about two million, which, in our
/ opinion is an over estimate aud there
are nc bales now lying ensconsed IN deep
valleys to be drawn forth this fall. Ev-
erv bale has been thrown upon the mar
ket, and all that viii go to market this
fall will be new cotton-no back "a
tiOns.n
The foods are sweeping the anticipa-
tons of the planters on the Arkansas as
the wind drives the mists, Many Of the
most valuable places are inundated, and
il Is now so late in the season that If the
waters continue high the ground will not
be tillabie this season and even if the
waters should recede, there Is such a
scarcity of cotton seed that there Will
not be enough to replant again Should
the Mississippi river continue to rise al
most the whole Of the Mississippi Valley
viii be destroyed, and thousands OF men
ruined or brought TO want.
The c~ome-to-time steamer Commercial
is the most literally patronized craft that
moves upon the snowy bosom Of White
D river. AdDf. W. D. EAHAAtNA& - "a "S1eA
steamboatman, always keeping his wore
and punctual in time OF arrivals and en-
d~eavoring to accommodate all who step
aboard of his bone on the wave, Messrs,
Sullivan and Smythers are the gentle
manly and affable clerks who take plea
sure in making passengers feel at home,
Mr.. Walters is the eommissary, or the
man who furnishes roasted beet, fat tuF-
keys, tender pigs and has the "chieken
fxens'' done up in "apDle pie order"
The Commercial has intelligent pilots,
sober engineers, and has not the tubular
boilers and therefore merits the liberal
patronage thar she IS Eeeelyiag,
New stores and more HOUSES are spring
up on every landing on the Mississippi,
showing that the people are using en-
ergy, and if not washed away for the
want Of leYees thRy viii soon he prosper
Gus again. Helena is growing rapidly,
and viii command q large trade If her
people will only do their duty to them
selves, and manifest that public enter
prise they should in railroads, schools and
other resources, such as develope the
latent treasures thatshe p0ssessesthrough
nature. Yours, I. J. X.