Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-11

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az We hope that it may be long before
u. water causes his MoOu 20 disappear
frsm our horizon again. She is a first
rate passenger packet, and her Office is in
charge Of q competent clerk.
The Geo. w. Cheek, Capt. Malone, leaves
to-day for EFiar's Point and all way land
ings. She is the regular packet. Frank
Gonterlnsn is chief clerk.
Tho United States mail packet ThOs.
III. Allen, Capt. Reese Pritchard, with
O.. 4. Walker and Dan Sullivan in the
office, leaves to-day for Little Rock and
all way points on the Arkansas. She con-
meets with steamers for Fort Smith.
The elegant U. ;. mail packet Liberty,
Capt. Pat. Wheat, is Inc regular White
river steamer to-day. She connects with
the Little Rock trains and with packets
for all points above JaeksOnpOrt. Jimmy
Thompson and Charley Sharpe are her
popular clerks.
The Virginia viii be due from below to-
morrow.
The wharfbOat Magnolia sunk at Selma,
Ala, a few days ago.
The Richmond, Swallow and MOllie
Able are coming from below. The latter
boat has 900 tons freight.
J. X. Graves, Esq, a prominent banker
and merchant of Dubuque, Iowa, and
largely interested in the bulk grain move
mem via New Orleans, is in our city, the
500 VI - A@H - @@s - 49,
on dis way to New Orleans
The Vicksburg Herald says: Capt. Tom
MetZler has chartered Of Capt. W. c.
Hardwick his light draught steamer Cobb
Webb, for two months, to ply in the
Yazoo and TaIlahatehie rivers. Terms,
S1IO0.
Capt. feathers New Natehez is due
from above.
Carroll, Grun & Co., o~f.vieksburg, have
bought the Atlantic wharf0Oat at Cairo
for $4,000.
The following letter viii be read with
interest. The writer is well known in
this city, and his many friends will be
glad to learn that be IS well and evidently
doing well;
"TENsAs RIVER, La. Dec. L.
"RiUer Editor appeal. Since my last we
have made a run up Little river, an a1iu-
ent of the Ouachita, which stream IL en-
tiers Just below Trinity and n hundred
and twenty-five miles above the mouth Of
Red. 1t is a handsome little river, just
big enough at the upper end for small
steamers 70 navigate, but not big enough
to turn around in. On u return voyage
we were Obliged TO back out several miles
before we could find a place wide enough
to rOUnd-tO. We went twenty-five miles
above the mouth with our steamer and
brought out a fair showing OF cotton and
seed. The south side Of the river is lined
" I'm GAlz4AAa A0AADA an &c RACfhAaNANN
and valuable as any in the world, making
every year from a bale to a bale and a half
to the acre. The crops this season are
splendid and remunerative enough to pay
all losses caused by the vicissitudes of the
past three years. Before h late war the
north side Of the river was As well cultL-
waited and as valuable as any In the land.
Now 1t is abandoned, tb$ lands lie idle.
and no fences or houses remain. II is in
undated by the overflow Of the Missi5-
sippi and for the present is utterly worth
less. Lands that Oucer readily commanded
SIS per acre can now be purchased for two
and three dollars, and until the levees Of
the Mississippi are reconstructed they
will be valueiess. Several thousand bales
of cotton viii be shipped from Little river
this season, raised chiefly among the hills
at the upper end, to which no steamer has
vet assembled owing to low water, amt
along the south side Of The lower portion
where there's always two or three feet Of
water and where small teamers can run
nearly all the year.
"The steamer Louisville, afterwards
the Vieksburg. and well known at Menu
phis, was captured from the Congederates
up this stream during i war. 81 at
tempted to ascend beyond the reach of
gunbOats but a few hours after she
started up, two heavy ironclads went
tearing along at a rapid rate, To the great
SlTlA4stF IItu dGAtA4lSun1tl4E Va AAL hANo 4A-A ]
residents along the banks, who previous
IL supposed their river only uavigabie for
small-sized steamers. The Louisville was
afterwards converted into a Federal gum
boat. Since the war she has lone good
service as a merchant vessel both on the
Mississippi and Washita rivers.
"This entire region shows but slight
evidence Of wars devastation, except in
abandoned plantations and absent farm
hands. The armies of either sic seldom
penetrated these parts, and the country
only suffered from raids Of ~Jayhawkers
and tories. Their GepredatiOns, however,
were considerable, but less damaging
than where armies were CHARTERED.
Living along the banks OF his river
are several war comrades Of this writer
members of the Catalonia Crews and the
famous Eleventh Louisiana regiment, that
first won reuOWu at Belmont by turning
the tide of victory in favor Of Southern
ers-aud afterwards did faithful work
from Shiloh 70 Nashville. These eX-soi-
diers are now more pleasantly engaged Z a
the peaceful occupation OF cotton raising,
and are doing work fully up to that per-
formed while soldering.
"The tide OF emigration towards Texas
is immense this year. At Trinity, and at
every ferry Of the small river, long wagon
trains are constantly crossing n NOV
ing westward. It looks as if the South
ern Atlantic States must be -depOpulaied
after awhile if the movement continues
undated. There is plenty of room in
Texas, the climate is elegant, and the
lands fresh. Let them go.
"Ihe freedmen of this entire region
have, during the past year, taken a
strange fancy to mustang ponies, large
numbers of which are driven from the
Texas prsiries through his country for
their especial benefit. You viii seldom
E-T n s4n.H-l- +EaH 50 MI Tho n v,---.,--
a saddle, shotgun and dog. On Sundays
they turn out fully equipped, and look
like squads of cavalry gallopping over
the country. These ponies are unit for
cny kind Of harness use. Riding il all
they are good for, and few regard them
any account for eve that. Their average
value here is about 500 each, and a dar-
highest ambition is to be the pos
of II
1.-THE mast of this country is immense
this year. In fact, il is seldom or never
an entire failure. It consists of pecans
and several species Of acOrus, Cattle,
sheep and hogs are as fat IS they can wal
and the warm, genial climate rem
ders it unnecessary to make shelters for
stock even in winter. The only trouble it
needs to raise stock ia this country is to
feed them a little now and then to keep
them tame.
"For two DAYS past we have been navi-
eating the Lower Tensas river, and to-
are lying by, directly opposite to,
within fourteen miles OF NatcheZ,
from whence, in extreme low water, sup
plies are hauled. Small steamers have
been able to ascend the stream most Of
he season to Lake Tensas, fifty miles
above the mouth Of he river and within
mile of the mouth of Bayou MACON.
These and trading bouts nave been nume-
Gus, and planters AMI farm hands were e
furnished with plenty Of supplies and no.
"The lower Tensas country was once
as among the finest, most valua-
Die and attractive of any in the South.
At present not half the cleared lands are
cultivation. Gin and o~uthOuses, once
he most complete, costly and comfOrta-
lie, now look dilapidated and are rapidly
alling to decay. LabOring hands have
and not more than one-third {
# their former number are now here. ,
Many ofthose remaining are shiftless and
azy, and not more than one-third of the +
cotton yield viii be produced this o
easOu. No surplus is raised except cot
on. Corn is scarce and less than half .
nOugh to do the people. Vegetables are
lot to be had, except here and there a
lushel or two of sweet potatoes or turnfps. e
eggs, chickens, etc, are not to be
Iad at any price. :
All kinds OF game sb0unds here in great
uantities. The river is full of teal and
1allard ducks, that can be killed al
10st any moment from the boiIer-decksl l
T steamers. Bear, deer, turkeys and Z
%quirrels are as thick as hops. in the s
FOODS. Every night some of our folks are
II on a coon or 'pOssum hunt. They sell =
return without game. Fish is pleu-
in all tee streams. II may well be
aid that for the sportsman no more at z
ractive field can be found anywhere than
he rivers and bayous of North Louisiana.
or some weeks past we have been trying
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