Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-07

sippi has no worthier son than Jefferson
Davis, and Puritan malice and Puritan
oppression meet but simple failure wher
they endeayor to consigu him to obliy
ion or contempt
Hon. j. W. Sykes, in recent speech
at Elyton, thus pointed out the advan
tages that would accrue TO the people a
Alabama by the completion ofthe Mem
phis, Aberdeen and Elyton railroad
/" Your market said he TO the citizens
of Elyton, must be the great and grow
ing West. How can you best reach that
market2 To Cincinnati It is 4sl miles,
by rail; to Louisville, 1886 miles; to
Nashville, 2l5 miles, while to Memphis,
by Aberdeen, Miss, it is 255 miles. AT
Memphis, you viii reach the Mississippi
river below all Instructions, both winter
and summer. You will then be con-
nected with system of railroads rum
ming to all points West and Northwest,
even as far as the Pacific. 1t is in the
center of the finest cotton re-
gion on this or any other continent.
The experience of the last two years
shows that it is one of the best, if not the
rery best, cotton markets in the snnth.
In ten years, more cotton will, Z believe,
be sold in Memphis than in any other
Southern city, since the cottons of the
finest quality viii come there. You are
much nearer Memphis than any other
cotton market, except Mobile, which is
about the same distance. 1t is in Mem
phis and Vicksburg that your manufac-
lures will find their best distributing
points. Coal can be transported over
the Elyton and Aberdeen and Memphis
and Selma roads to Memphis, and sold
at sixteen cents per bushel by the car
load. When you cross the Mississippi
line there are no minerals; but the road
to Aberdeen, thence to Memphis, also to
Grenada, will penetrate the finest cotton
region in the South, which so much
needs coal, iron and cotton goods. In
fact, the opening of these fields to Mis-
sissippi will enable them to manufacture
cotton fabrics to large extent, and
when they do SO Memphis will and must
be the great center of trade for all that
region"
The last garrison of blue jackets left |
yicksburg, the ''Saragossa of the South,
last week. The Times and Republican
lid not see the troops leave with regret,
for it adds, ut is high time that the
asst garrison should be removed from the
South, and the rule of force give way to
hat of the law and the popular will
Fare thee well and if forever.
Still forever fare thee well"
William, correspondent of the
Jackson Clarion, thus sweetly touches
he ability and craftsmanship of Alcorn,
he Radical Governor of Mississippi:
He knows the negro in all his peculiar
ties, and he knows that if some political
Hercules were to appear land appear he
vill) his first job would be to clean the
negroes and white riff-raff out of the
legislatures of the several Southern
,tates. Governor Alcorn has more than
rdinary ability, has great energy, has
ccumulated wealth, and has morbid
ppetite for position. Sprung from OBJ
cure origin. his early associations were
ot such as to develop that nice percep-
ion of moral obligation. which distin-
uishes the life Of George Washington
ence the painful distance between his
celebrations and his actions, and hence
he facility with which the Governor
eases to be an aristocrat y moving and
citing with Southern gentlemen, and
earns to declaim for the poor white man,
nd avoid his admiration for the negro.
craftsmanship is favorite word with ,
Governor Alcorn, in his addresses on the
uestions of the hour. | am not ac-
TAINTED with craftsmanship, but one of ,
~ neighbors has some books, and have
Fad little at odd times have con-
luded that either those men whom my ,
eighbor's books call statesmen were
ably out Of the way, or Governor Al
orn is not goingright." Alcorn is likely
, turn out chaff