Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-07

from Georgia 10 Texas Iub CIOpS aA0 10
ported excellent. On the Gulf coast the
long dry spell is said to have retarded
cotton and corn, but the timely showers
of last week have brought them out beau
tifully. Iathis neighborhood squares are
forming on all early paintings of cotton,
and a sample of green stalks now lies on
our table, raised above here IN Island 40,
over eighteen inches high, and with ten
well formed squares on each stalk, while
the plant looks fresh and vigorous enough
to branch out and make fifty squares be-
fore the season wanes. This is a fair sam
pie of the whole field, and similar to sew
eraI exhibited to us during the past week,
When a square forms there viii be a boil,
and ten well matured bolls on stalks
three feet apart will produce half a bale
to the acre. From this it will be apparent
that beyond doubt va are to have a large
Weld this year even should the future
prove unpropitious, which at present is
not. Hkely. There is no cause for COM
pIaint anywhere that we have yet heard
from. LabOrs1R are all working s~atisfac.
torily-the old accIimatsd hands being
busy in cotton, while Western imports
are placed il the corn fields to get it clean
and laid by before the sickIy season com,
menoes. The acreage Of cotton is much
greater than last year in every neighbor-
hood, while as a general thing corn is less,
Considering the act that tae importation
of mules and stock has increased Ia = "a
ito with farm hands, and as we are com
PEELED to import corn and feed in heavy
amounts this year, the chances are that
we will have TO do thu same next. Corn
can now be sold in almost any aeighbor-
hood In the South, to be delivered next
fall, at 81 per bushel. At some points not
a hundred miles from here it is now
worth 81, and everywhere in the interior
81 so.
The cotton market has been dullN-ring
the week, and the sales are l~ighterthan
anv previous week this season. The de-
cline at other points has had little effect
our factors or holders, and they de-
Cline selling at lower rates, believing that
the continued bad news from India, the
demands of China, together with the in
creased consumptive demands Of Great
Britain and Europe will more than offset
the increase of the American crop. From
our statistical comparisons it may easily
be seen that the crop OF last year viii foot
up something over 5000, 600 bpes, fully
lie -..=FTE.. 800 #han anvr Dh. fD Hha
South had an idea could be saved and
considerable more than the figures of the
most visionary calculators.
The New Orleans Picayune says in rela-
ton to the crop prospects:
"Advices of the past few days are gen
erally more encouraging. The sections oil
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana
which have suffered from a prOtracted
drOuth rave in most localities beeT
tied bv rain, and the cotton is nov thriY-
ing. The dry spell has not been so severe
upon cotton which had a fine start as upon
that planted later. The fields are nearly
everywhere in splendid trim, ample time
having been afforded by b absence oil
rain for working them properly. 1t APP
pears that those parts of the country
where the d-Outh has prevailed are now
in as good condition as those that have
been visited by frequent showers, as in
The latter grass has checked the growth OF
The cotton. heTeXas crops are generally
represented as unsurpassed in every re-
spect. Yet, il must be considered, that
the crop is, on the whole, very backward
indeed, and therefore subject to all the
vicissitudes of the fall; and nOtwith-
standing that il now promises so well
with a prOtracted and favorable season
for picking, such as the one of lS69-70,
vet the probabilities are entirely against
a repetition of last fall, and frequent rains
in October and November may cut oil the
yield twenty-five or even fifty per cent
Freights from above have advanced
during the week, though the rivers have
been improved by a small rise, and the
cutting out Of the channels. There is
now fully ten feet to Cairo, and a fair
stage ia rivers above that point. The Ar
kansas has enjoyed a few inches Of bank
rise that aus temporary improvement,
but there is still less than three feet in
that stream, and a prospect of future
di ffcult navigation. White river is down
to four feet, and no prospects of being
better oil. The packets now go no higher
than Augusta, ninety miles below Jack
sonport, where they reship on lighter
craft. 1t is asserted that freight advances
from st. Louis is due TO the withdrawal Of
our large freighters, the Wicks and
Church, and that now during the low
water ~eason they should be in service.
gs the produce and provision market
there is little to report. Corn sold freely
and in large quantities during the week
at prices ranging between 81 and 81 Is per
buahel. A large portion Of the receipts
are damp and interior, and sell slow at in
side rates. Good sound corn, white, vel
low or mixed, sells readily at full prices.
Meats have ruled steady and inactive.
Early last week low freights caused libe-
raj shipments, and merchants provided
themselves with full supplies. Since
sales have been few, and business
confined TO country orders. Trade in
meal and corn has been immense
this season, as It has, indeed, throughout
the entire South. In other classes Of feed
but little has been done, and nothing
worthy of remark.
Groceries have ruled steady. Sugars
have advanced in Eastern markets %@Zc
on all grades. Here the stocks are ample
and prices firm and unchanged. In pro-
there is little worthy Of comment.
Eggs have advanced to 10 and 20 cents,
with a good demand for fresh. Early
vegetables find ready sale, especially po-
tatoes, onions and cabbages, and large
shipments are daily SEM to Chicago and
other Northern cities. Steamers from
New Orleans also carry large cOnsign-
ments OF potatoes, eabbages and other
vegetables, some Of which find a market
here.
The encrOachments Of the river upon
the batture or made land. mean the mouth
Of Wolf river at the old Navy Yard, and
below, is a subject Of deep moment to q
large number of our people. The changes
of the current and channel above the
city causes it to sweep down upon oul
levso front with such velocity that it il
gradually wearing away the alluviun
and the river threatens to seek the chan
mel It ran forty years ago, directly alons
the base OF the bluff. At the lower par
Of the city where the river has Away