Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-03
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Editors Appeal IT'S Saturday eve
ning-coUrt has adjOurned-then bring
out a chair-take a seat, and let's have
a little talk about this great country.
For ! have just mailed along letter to
my wife and babies, and now through
your columns, l propose to answer
the many hundred interrogatories
prOpOunded to me before | left, and
which l proceed to answer.
Well, first and foremost, the ooun=
try is new and undeVeloped, and any
who come here expecting to find mon
ey growing on trees or to meet the ap-
planes and comforts of an old cOun-
try, or the people a set of fools, or the
town sWarming with Indians and
reveling in gold, will find himself
sadly mistaken. The people r gen
orally poor, out of debt, sober, honest
and industrious. The lands here, al
though still very cheap, have gone up
one hundred per cent. within the
last twelve months, and although
not more productive than West Ten
nessee, yet the soil is lighter, quicker
and more easily cultivated-While
the climate, health and scenery are
unsurpassed by any in the world
and fruits, flowers and grasses grow
spontaneously, as if 10 the manner
born." PassmOre, Douglass, Looney
or Barblere can amass a fortune with
out trouble in the auctioneer and real
estate business.
MI. Shelter, DIR. Wasson's former
partner, has a large drug store. Ben
Greenfield ought to come here. Mans
fields agents are ubiquitous and en-
ergetic, his name is as familiar from
the mouth of PuntO to the mountains
OF Scott county, as it is ON Main
street. We need men of energy and
capital. Why do not our citizens send
out cards, price currents and agents.
Baltimore has our tradeand st. Louis
is bidding high; but it belongs to
Memphis. A gentleman had forty
bales of cotton and did not know a
single merchant in Memphis. / re-
quested him to ship it to Thos. 81,
Allen, and he said he would. Tell our
Walkers, Our LOwensteins, our
Mitchells and other leading men, to
send cards etc, to Greenwood, Sebas-
tan county, and to Walldran, Scott
county. We need carpenters tell
Dave MOnroe-I wrote to him on the
l9th-tO come out next fall, he can
contract for as many houses as he can
build, and tell t. S. AyreS that | found
everything just as he stated, and that
If the Indian country is territorialiZed
l will go there and settle at the future
capital. / know whereat will be. and
it is the most beautiful country in the
world, except thisA county. Every
nfnn mon ont Of =
Tennessee, and socidl in its morals is
unsurpassed.
The Roman Catholic religion pre-
dominates in the town, Episcopaiian
second, and then MethOdists and Bap-
lists and Lutherans, all headed by
men of more than ordinary ability
and piety.
Politically the tomahawks is re-
nOunced, the events of the past
ignored, and plans and hopes offuture
prosperity laid and INDUCED in by'alI
mutually. Tell Bruce and
Burr to come and establish a carriage
and wagon manufactory-there is not
one in one hundred and fifty miles of
here.
When you hear people talk about
up here, remember they are
mostly half-breeds, perfectly civilized
and very poor, as a general thing. of
course such men As Ross, James and
Baudinot are ornaments to any race
or society.
The bar is represented by men of
fine intellect, sObriety and talent.
have good doctors and a plenty
Of them, although a good reliable
Catholic doctor could do well.
We need brick-yaFds and tan-yards,
and there is not one in twenty miles
Of this city, and next fall the whole
country will be building, as lumber,
heretofore very scarce, will be on
hand in abundance. One firm at
GreenwOOd-Neal& Keesy-imported
four engines and saws from Baltimore.
and Others are on the way. Why did
Memphis not furnish them? They
have a regular line Of packets, and all
men say that they prefer the Adams
line because their officers and pilots
know the river and are reliable.
Memphis is represented by a prom
young lawyer here-Mr. Edg-
ngtOnj also, by Cunningham & Bros,
DR.. Linde, b. Betto and John Seats
They are all doing well, and the last
drive and promenade the streets
very evening with the fairest of Ar
KANSAS girls. III. A, r.