Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-12-10
INTERESTING LETTER FROM
CARROLL COUNTY.
1T Is A MATTER OF PUBLIC
INTEREST.
Read, Learn and Digest Ii All.
CARROLL COUNTY, TFSx., Dec. 5. 1857.

q INTEREST.
Read, Learn and Digest IL All.
ARROL CUUNTY, tenn, Dec. 3, 1857.
Editors appeal: Doubtless you would
not object to hear something from this
county. There are five acres sown in
o wheat wheHA there was one last fall.
g This is the Universal testimony Of cIti-
e zens from all psrts of the county and |
g learn it is so in Henry, Weakley and
I Gibson. Several reasons combined have
Induced this change OF crops from cotton
to grain, tO-wit: the low price Of cotton,
/, the unreliable 1Sbour Of the negro and
! the determination TO produce an abun-
dance of food, which has been steadily
advancing IN price for the past twenty
years. l think the population Of the
whole Union has a tendency to seek CEN
ters-such as villages, towns aud cities,
and We are thus having, annually, more
consumers and felCer producers. This
enhances the price of food, for people
must have a e supply of that, daily,
though they can VEN old clothes and do
with little fuel G good while. Wheat,
wheat" is now the cry, and il the rail-
roads would lower their freights, Mem
phis would soon find it 2 prime business
TO erect Touring mills and supply her
surroundings with -four she now brings
from st. Louis and Louisville.
THE NEGRO Is OPENING HIS EYES.
At last the negro Is opening his eyes.
Fiye-sixths OF them in this. county will
not make food enough to Lass till corn is
planted. Their part Of the crop amounts
to & mere nothing, and want and beggary
l are even now al the doors of some.
Though they were very independent a
a wear ago, and assumed to dictate terms
Of hire they are now asking homes, and
making strong promises for hard work
next year. But, as not one half as much
land will be put in cotton as was thus
cultivated this year, very many negroes
will be turned OFF at Christmas, and
many of these will find the next year a
hard one. They have their Radical
friends to blame for all this; aud the
7 DAY is not distant when they VIII curse
these friends with osths loud and deep.
Gen. Howard insists that his pets are in.
! creasing, instead of decreasing. This
| story will not do. There is not a planter
in all this county who will not tell him ]
better; not one hut who knows that
fewer negro children are born than ever
before, and fewer still raised: for
there is no one TO care for them.
In his late letter OF explanation, Gen.
Howard says: "The decrease heretofore
alleged was based in part on my report of
December q, 1865, which was estimated
from very meager statistics. It was
more accurate in regard 90 tue rural dis |
tricts, and the lessened number Of col I
ored persons found IN those districts led q
to the inference that the whole number :
bad decreased, without properly estima- d
ting the constant changes of location, 4
large numbers having hocked to the cit 9
les, North and South" Here IS . frank \
confession that the class of pOpulatiOn I
which has baen the producers, in the {
South, now seeks cities instead Of farms. \
So many withdrawn from labor here and 9
50 many immigrants coming to the Coun- .
try, must necessarily keep the price of
food to a paying standard and wheat, g
wheat % is the cry. I
ANOTHER REAsO III II
wbv so much food will be raised, is the 3
unmistakable dislike of the people to y
meeting tax. gatherers. You will recOllect
that this was always one o! the leading ]
reasons for collecting a revenue for Gov v
eminent by duties on imported goods, n
than by direct taxation. Madison r
and the founders Of our Government did p
wish TO bring the people in constant :
and annoying contact with taX-cOllec- ,
tors but preferred collecting the amount ,
needed by an indirect process which the :,
payers would not so readily feel, and 3,
which would thus be greatly less annoy 2
ing to them. 81
SUGAR HAMILTON ON cotton TAX. 2
Sugar Hamilton surely has an extra 5
of vanity. In his late letter to a 9
little Radical concern of your city, he 2
saws "he does not wish to be misunder- 3
stood by the people Of this and the other .
- Co., - V-,, HIgr - -r.a@F,-, 1 ~
Does the ex-C Confederate sugar and mo- in
confscaror really think that he re
and his opinions are known or needed in "
u this or the other cotton States?p de
SOUTHERN GRAIN AND NORTHERN oPIN- be
ION.
The evident determination of the ,
South to raise all the food she needs, aud IL
more too, is beginning to have its influ. 90
on Eorthsrn opinion. Hear what ~
. Dead DucEn FOrney says of it, in a 10
ate number OF his paper; 1.-THE tire pa
nenGOus revolution effected by this ="
reaches into every home in the Gu
North. Wheat has been cur staple ex- 60
lort Of the West aud Of many other Ki
states. The South was Our great buyer. 20
Now she not only purchases no longer, :.
enters the LGrket herself to sell, and ol
With advantages against which We can ~
VI NNALl DEAEa W IN " AA1AELbA A4EAOu ]
rail with her crops in -four and Sr
t New YORK before the sickles glitter co
the Northern fields; the South nc
Commands the position and drives from 81
he ground every competitor. We must L.
the contest and take to manu- Se
or other crops" All, ha! Is this
0? Are weNkely to touch the Yankee
n his interest pocket? Oh! for the day 81,
Fhen the South will raise just enough ex
for her own domestic wants m.
manufacture all that at home; and thus ha
every loom ant spindle in New for
Such q lesson would cure that ba.
ind of intolerance and fanaticism sW
than anything else; and the GU
espsrate condition Of our people is grad me
ally driving them to this measure. tor
HE TAXABLE wEALTH OF TENNESSEE pei
Comptroller Blackburn has made an Ing
lteresting report TO the Legislature
mong other items giving the taxable ]
in this State from 1886 to 1867, 2lS
verage value Of and each year, and the Of
late tax. Here are some figures taken cry
it: hrs
ear. Value ofproperty. Tax on 500. sell
80 S5tO0gO lcents. ant
G.8 10000 q pul
This year our property is worth SI59.- To-
q, eco Tess than it was in 1880; yet We nae
e taxed nesrly four times as much for nro
az purpose; Nauai PTOSressI truly anC
The same tables show that East Ten fbe
essee lost oH6-ffh as much as West
annessee ard ORe-SiJth as much as
iddie Tennessee, in the Liberation of herl
rmer slaves. MagnaDimOus, radical
asst Tennesstsl How terribly has she -
FIom the same report, we
arm that Shelby county alone pays into q "
e State Treasury, nearly ne fourth oflJT'
G whole Sidte tar! Is il a wonder that GA
e Radicals look, with gloating eyes, on a n "
is Juicy bone of contention? Ista q Y
that Beecher, and Fitch and o.
Jaw and Gen. Smith, alIlove the niger N n
the stepping stone to spoils and plum va
r? sam
SINGULAR RADICAL IDEA. 10
The Radicals are ell hsrping on the sam
lportance Of Introducing nOrs labor NJ
10 this State. They have q sort Of n ~
ate Immigration Aid Society, l be- WI
and invite Germans, Irish, French. ;
d sll other tOhte people to come here "
d settle. But " nary niger" is ever P
vited to make Tennessee his home RFl
/ admit labor is our great want. an We
.ow that the "nigger" is the G W
pet-his political salvation, s r.
It no one hiss ever heard of any move JP \
srt on the part of Brownlow or his All
10 lneTsR9e the black population of " =
r State by iinmigrauon. They secretly Ma
aud feel that there ID a7ljttle TOO FAl
~ tbaf here NOW and tbafS ~ in
ECU % 49, ttste IN Aid euaI the r d
es-hAuloal anu AllEHfN soon have Miss
provide, By further taSatios, for thou lea
ids of negro psupers who were but re- IN
ltly thrifty aud cOntented producers. I'd
Jas
ToE LOCKE, Avalanche Boilding, % pm
street, has just received South MAJ
] Home Journsl-second, third and AW
nth numbefs-0pe OF ths best papers IL
lDpeu. fSsuei Ayohi CHas' n. ShllLHg MEs
i'll Arm and q great maUVO Of the ablesti FIJI