Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-17
IUKA SPRINGS.


IUKA STRINGS. July is. 1869.
EDITORS PUBLIC LEEGER: A large
number Of people from Memphis, Hunts
vile, Louisville, and several places in
Mississippi, Alabama and Middle Ten
nessee, have come hither, many of them
to remain during the season, and others
for shorter period.
Among the visitors from Memphis
note Col. Mat. Galloway, wife and child ;
Col. M. W. Cluskey, whose numerous
friends will be pleased to learn that be
has wonderfully improved within the past
few days; Col. Rogan is rusticating here
and enjoying the delightful weather I;
Capt Hendricks, Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. Fl.
Potter, and their daughter, Miss Kate I;
Mrs. DR.. Walker, Mr.. B. B. Barker, of the
Avalanche, Mrs. Brewers, Mrs. Steffey,
Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. and Miss Aydlett, and
several other Memphis people, are here,
and that they are delighted with the place
is evident from the pleasure which they
express.
We daily hear warm news from your
hot city, and heartily regret that you can
not escape the sitting air and discomforts
of the midsummer dog-days, and come
hither to enjoy the delicious GOODNESS of
this resort. We also have many enjoy.
ahla pIaaan in tho xav &c m -, ranx.n,..
to keep us alive; and what with music,
billiards, bowls and dancing, we cannot
desire to pass the time more pleasantly
than we do.
The fine effects of these waters are
daily made Visible in the vast improve
ment which invalid visitors exhibit |
am positive in the assertion that they are
the best chslybeate springs on this conti-
nent, and far surpass every other in their
beneficial influences in the treatment of
dyspepsia and all diseases that require
ferruginous toncs. These waters possess
e peculiarly strange property of stimula-
ton. This is something akin to the in
auence of mild liquors, or the gentle
stimulus of quinine. That it is very
pleasant, is testified to by every visitor
who comes hither.
We have 6ne band here, and every
night do service to the inspiration of
their music in the bewitching mszes of
the dance. As devotee of Terpsichore,
and chronicler of the deeds done 10 the
name of the nimble footed-goddess, /
hope you will come here and do devoir
with pen and pencil on some such occa-
sion as that which will make Friday
night grand festival, which will be long
and happily remembered.
We look very anxiously for the results
of the convention on labor which held a
session yesterday in Memphis. This
country is alive to the pressing necessity
which is upon it to provide for an increase
Of the plumber of laborers. Daily the
number becomes less, and people find
more difficulty in securing servants and
laborers to do the work of households and
the fields. The planters find themselves
insufficiently supplied with labor to work
the surface which is in cultivation, and
hence they will experience trouble in
harvesting their crops.
TIE promise of fine yield of corn
and cotton throughout this section is
very hattering, and hence the anxiety
people have to secure laborers to save
what they will make. Many of the bet.
ter class Of farmers have supplied them
selves with agricultural implements and
machinery, which largely takes the place
of Drawn and muscle; but the large pro-
portion depend only on the uncertainty
and caprices of the present sort of
laborers,
We need Chinese laborers, and must
have them to supply the place of the
blacks, who are becoming more worth
less daily, and whose rapidly decreasing
numbers suggest the total losG of this
element within very few years.
A supply of German and Irish servants
and laborers cannot be depended on, for
the excellent reason that comparatively
few can be secured. The greater num-
Der of the people of those nationalities
are so situated now that they require
servants for their own families and farms,
and 80 it occurs that having become pro-
prietors and landholders themselvea this
element has dropped out of the list of
supply. And thus it occurs that we must
look to the populous aud teewing land of
China for the laborers who are absolute.
ly necessary TO save our agricultural in