Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-20
OFFICE-FIRsr NATIONAL BANK.

ence, and is always throwing of"
beads of epithets against the Yankees,
wears Lowell pants, coat and vest, Bos-
ton boots, New Haven shirts, Concord
necktie, and Salem hat? The only
thing / wonder gt is that our livery
stable keepers don't send their horses up
to Pittsburg to be shod, az they could do
so with as good propriety and as great
economy as the City Council, some years
ago, sent some six or eight thousand
miles away for fence for Court Square.
have said this much because Headers
among the people" may perform good
work by pouring blood into the body of
the Chamber of Commerce and chang
ing it into new and living institution
an Agricultural. Mechanical and Com
mercial Society. Such an organization,
composed of sensible farmers, intelli-
gent master mechanics and enterprising
merchants, would, if properly con-
Quoted, prove o great blessing to Mem
phis, and is the only combination of
men that can restore, revive, create, or
keep up prosperity. Their interests
depend ON each other, the success of the
farmer in raising large crops giving
stimulus to the export and import
trade of the merchant and opening
market for the sale of the manufacturer
goods, while the success Of the merchant
and manufacturer, thus brought about,
creates demand for labor, which being
supplied, adds to the population, thereby
increasing consumption and benefitting
the farmer. A Society of this character
can have for its objects:
|. County Agricultural Fairs and
County Manufacturing Fairs, with a view
of improving home produce aud encour-
aging home manufacture.
2. Lectures by practical men on Land
Culture, Fruit Culture, Vegetable Gull
ture, Grain and Grass Growing, Cotton
Raising. Cattle Raising, and general
Farm Work !; Lectures on Street Paving,
Water Works, House Building, Manufac-
lures and Mechanics; Lectures on Rail
roads, Steam boats, Navigation of the
Mississippi, Commerce and Trade, and
such kindred subjects as will be useful
and interesting to the interests combined
and help to restore harmony among all
classes of the community.
g. The establishment of System OF
Labor to cultivate the soil, without
which no country can thrive or prosper.
L. Encouragement to good Mechanics
who make Memphis their permanent
home, a thing now totally neglected.
S. Security to all settlers, and de-
crease of taxes by decreasing the mum.
ber of offioe-holders and parpers, and
making them work at some respectable
calling" ssi
All those objects can be attained, and
the prosperity of Memphis placed on a
sure foundation, if few enterprising,
practical men take the matter under |
and work with thorough
understanding of the task, not for the
benefit of few spectators, who thrust
their noses everywhere, but for the good
of the phole community. OF course |
nothing can be expected Of blockhesds
but this is time when blockhesds must
be kicked out of the way, and men OF |
intelligence and practical skill brought |
out.
The Chamber Of Cemmerce burlesque
with John Everitt was quite amusing; |
and SO was the late farce of "con-
to the " Atlantic and Gulf
company" situated Of course
out of Memphis | never read more
ludicrous scene than that of the Eng
lish capitalist standing in the midst OF
our shopkeepers, and asking them to put
their lands in the market at fair price,
and be would guarantee plenty Of immi-
grants to make this country in few
years TEEN with plenty. Everift was
earnest aud right; but where, oh where,
is the land Of the shopkeepers Of the
Chamber of Commerce, between here and
Norfolk, 10 sell 20 any oue3 To make
some show Of "action," they ap-
pointed a committee, who drew up
report showing the condition Of the
country seUen years Ggol Amt
that proeress7 Amt that beaut.
ful, straightforward, honest aud soforth
Is Il fair or manly " bamboozle immi-
grants 10 fhaf vay1 Nov, what would
have been the action Of an Agricultural, |
and Commercial Society on
he suhject2 II -sould have appointed q
committee OF practical fsrmsrs, who
would have found out what lands along
he rOute were for sale, valued them,
measured them. and wonld have had q
fcscripfirs and price list Of them by fhfs
lime IN London
And the "boat" busiuess-vasn't That
nice7 A meeting vas called for . gem
Ileman to make q speech, a. the end Of
which some one moved contribution
right ofi That was capital and clever.
Easn'tnf The mover" knows hov TO
support Memphis, doesn't he OF course
be does; and 50 does the Chamber, judE-
ing from its factions" Well, IL fev
practical master mechanics had been st