Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-26
MEMPHIS APPEAL
From the London Societyl
THE EPERGNE.

IkAE EfEltGNEs
Heatf there was heat in Ravenna
Ga the last of the days OF July
The streets were as streets In a furnace,
As binding to brain and to eye;
The light, how ii rained from the zenith!
To brave 1t was simply TO die.
The gables and porchss fantastic
Their shadows capriciousiy cat,
And, creeping along by the houses,
A priest or Two silently passed
Nothing more. TIL the noon bad departed,
And sunset and shade came at last.
Then to steal down the street TO a garden,
All black with the s~yeanOre's gloom,
Encircling a mansion OF granite
As solemn and square as the tomb,
| with windOus not wider than loop-holes,
And portals bentt1ng @ tomb.
Icould not resist it-that garden
so black in IT'S sycamore night,
Sc gloomy, and cool, and inviting,
With branches excluding the light,
With broad. waving sycamore branches
Deliciously cool 10 the sight.
And there, at a window, a curtain
or silkeH embroidery swung,
With striuings of amber and purple,
And bullion that heavily hung
And TO one OF the sycamore branches
a corner, by accident, chung.
BY accident only a corner
The branch OF the sycamore raised
And what II a moment beneath II
Fingered and f~urtiyely gazed?
I LubA5A Audhs NLlAdINS4 ~
Ihopelessly fingered and gazed.
All! never did man in Ravenna Z
More radiant vision behold
A woman with hair like q fountsiD,
Sun-lighted and cleaning WITH goldi
With features delieiousiy pensive,
And form of the Italian mould.
She heard not, she saw not my coming,
On the task Of the moment intent
On q golden epargne she was heapiDg
Rich fruits all confussdiy Dlent;
And alike to the gold and the 1ruitage
The charm OF her beauty sine lent.
The grapes she was posing reflected
The light Of her purple-black eyes,
And the flame of the CT eeks OF the peaches
Had part in EER cheeks burning dyes
But red TO the heart, the pomegranaDe,
with lips unsuec =ssfully Ylss-
A.moment, and only a moment,
fingered to gaze 1t the room;
But, far from the blazing Ravenna,
and Tar from the sycaInore's gloom
TP" MEMPHIS, February "A,
"ae Editors Memphis Appeal:
eSses Some year or more ago, s writer
good COMMERCIAL under the ~signatuI
I the Merchant said New York sen
negro s.. Louis for her -four, and carries i
I re- miles, all rail, for 81 % per barrel,
81 he same price the Memphis and Charl
- Railroad charges TO Tuscumbia, d
"" only I45 miles. The Yankees char!
ant cents per barrel from New York tC
men. ton; while the railroad charges 81
q ut Memphis to Corinth, a less dista
and He continues: "There are two p
'ound to the transportation of merchant
~ the carriers and the consumers-thl
- road on the one side and the planter
merchants on the other. But the
hAu roads fix the price, and u roads G
e re- war prices in peace times. 1t is q
them that planters bring their cotton to
sides, phis, with their teams, for hfty
GUnder our former system OF almost
Aexclusive cotton culture, we were con-
9tent TO emulate each other, alone, in the
| EXPANSION ofour fields of the staple king.
lin fact, slave labor has an adaptation
lilo no other kind of agricultural
ambition; hence, the present is but
y early dawn" of sday Of unrivaled
Bbeauty, ia which the latent glories OF
our sunny CLINE profuse,
IS In endless sweets, above all praise OF song
are to be developed making these lately
/ conquered Southern States the Eden Of
/ American.-Our OtCn Paper.
TAKE COURAGE.
Think not that the idea contained in
the above heading is to be made q HOBBY,
| because so often repeated. Our only OF
iect is the encouragement of recupera-
tive energy.
The wsr-blight has been upon US. The
| green heritage of our prosperity was
nipped as by the biting OF an early frost.
| The pride and prime Of the summsr Of
one period of our success ended with the
beginning Of hOstilities but let Us hope
for another. Can we not forego the chilly
| blasts which cause the "sluggard to piow
not. that we may no longer /" beg in
harvest and have nothing ?"
What has been said SO often is yet woT-
fbv of ~rPpetitiOn. We must leave behind
our Hlogt e~ause,U late troubles, present
impressions, and 90 to work in good ear
nest if we desire 10 enjoy prosperity
again remembering that there is moth
ing surer than the rewards OF honest
INDUSTRY.
ACAUSE or HARD TINES.
A Girard Illinois correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune, q Radical paper Of the
stFictest sect, il speaking OF the hard
times says:
~ will add another reason of the ez-
listing hard times, and that is the enor-
nous tax heaped upon us.
There must be a remedy found, and that
remedy must be speedily applied, or our
country will be completely ruined.
While men are following party dema-
o9ages- who are ttAe8-9Geah
with every conceivable extravaganza,
they are binding led TO ruin"
The remedy for oppressive taxation Is
to greatly reduce our standing army and
naVv-abolish the Freedmen's Bureau
let the Southern negroes earu their wi
living, instead of subsisting at the ma
toms expense-the payment Ct the five
twenty bonds in gTeenbaeks, thus say
ing to the people ali immense interest
which we are now paying upon them in
2oId-alI of which greatly ~impoverlsh the
people. This is the plan, and this only
plan, which will materially tighten the
burdens of the people IN respect to
taxes.
THE WHEAT CROP.
Next to the political Developments at
Washington and the price of cotton,
there is no intelligence more calculated
10 interest our business men than that
which relates to the wheat prospect in
Tennessee. Last year the yield Vas IN
usally large and the price obtained NJ
uerative but we much fear that the
coming season will not show such a sat
isfactory result.
The farmers in East Tennessee ON
plain generally that the hard winter has
Injured the growing crop, but in some
localities it presents good appearance.
The following accounts from Middle
Tennessee, reported by the Nashville
Banner, may interest our readers:
In Wilson county, the crop was badly
damaged during the recent cold weather.
Reports from a great many farmers, in
difereut portions of the county, shows
that fully one half the crop Is totally
ruined. Another trouble is, there is no
spring wheat on hand if there were the
Farmers could replant, and probably
make u goop crop yet. Az it is, they VIII
have to pillow up their wheat fields and
plant CORE.
The crop ia Hardeman. county has
also suffered considerable from the sever
ity of the winter.
In Sumner, Smith, Macon and Jack
son, the wheat has not, we learn, been
as seriously injured as in other sections.
From Maury, Williamson, Marshall,
Hickman and Franklin counties, we
that, although many farmers have
begn so unfortunate y TO lose almost
their eutire crop, the yield will be better
than al first anticipated.
There is ground for apprehension that
much of the wheat in Montgomery
county hiss been destroyed by the long
cantinued freeze and the drying of the
sur faee-the roots having been thrown
and perishing for want OF moisture
and a hold upon the soil Chattanooga
Union.