Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-16
Letter from Grenada.

The appearance Of the Pldce-Busi'
mess = YGita6uShG RiUer - It's
Changes Tournaments aud FrOhcS
The Crops and Stock The Worms
and Charlton.
Correspondence Public Ledger.l
GBENADA. Miss, Sept. Is.
Grenada contains a population OF
about two thousand inhabitants, and
since the close of the war the town has
had tough time of it. Fire has been
its chief evil, and one last spring de-
stroyed the principal hotel, together with
an entire square of business houses.
Several are now being rebuilt, and will
be ready for business in time for the
fall trade. 1t is also said that the hotel
will be put up again before long.
Business is very dull at this time.
There is no money in the country, and
what goods are disposed of are gener-
ally on credit to be paid for out of the
growing cotton crop. Only few bales
of the new crop have yet been received,
and merchants are to be seen sitting
about their front doors, whiting and
looking for the good time they hope is
not far distant.
The Yallobusha river is now very low
and to one who in days past witnessed
its navigation by boats carrying two
thousand bales of cotton, it seems hard
ly possible to realize that it can be
forded at almost any point. But it is so,
for where the largest steamers once
moved, l rode over on pony and found
it less than knee deep. 1t is also so
that the streams former glory hath for
ever departed. The great loads of cot
ton once transported down it and on to
the Crescent City, no longer go that
way, but have found other modes OF
transit. Important towns and landings
where thousands of bales were shipped
each year, have been converted into cot
ton fields or turned out to grass. Troy,
some ten miles below this, was a few
years ago prosperous and fourishing,
Several fortunes were made and lost
here by several merchants, and where
streets and avenues once were, cotton is
hourishing.
The Weekly Sentinel is the only paper
published in Grenada. 1t is sprightly
sheet, very popular with the citizens and
people Of the surrounding country Our
good-natured friend and former associate,
j. A. Signaigo, long connected with the
Memphis press, has recently purchased
an interest in the Sentinel and is now
the editor. / found him busily at work
on the poetical corner for next weeks
issue--a talent he is peculiarly gifted
with, and by which he is so favorably
known throughout the South. Several
of his productions will live TO be admired
in generations yet unborn, and long
after their author has passed from earth.
And Gilmore Simms has placed several,
but by no means his best efforts, in his
recent collection of " War Poetry Of the
South" Mr.. Bowen, the former editor,
now conducts the business department OF
the Sentinel He is hospitable, clever
and industrious, and all about the office
are of the same cast Frank Lee, who
writes for the New Orleans Times, occa-
sionally contributes piece for the
Sentinel. he is u resident of this town,
and is quite young man. If he con-
tinues as he has begun a brilliant future
is before him--that ia if letters Of talent
are ever considered worth anything
A legion of young people of all ages
and eolors went with Us to the tourna'
ment at Cod'sevile yesterday, a special
train coming down at ten in the morning
for them. Crowds Of pretty girls that
each evening promenade the streets,
we're absent from their usual haunts.
l therefore missed the pleasure of seeing
the principal and most attractive fea-
ture of Grenada. Augustus says female
beauty is more abundant hereabouts
than any place he has found for many
day. Something of the sort must have
had an enticing effect upon our poetical
friend, as also upon several others of
fanciful and poetical records, for sew
eral were pointed out to me who
at intervals mount Pegasus and
soar on the wings of fancy. The
farmers, all over this part Of the
country, are much alarmed about a dis.
ease which has recently appeared among
the stock. Some have given it the name
Of charbon." No remedy, so far, has
been discovered for il, and it seems to be
every direction, particularly
in the sWamps and bottom lands. No
one seems 10 understand what causes it.
and It has, so far, baffled all efforts to
stop its spread. Il generally proves "a
tai in two or three hours after attacking
the ami NAL, and in some neighborhoods