Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-21
FROM TEXAS.
Trip up the Trinity RiVer-CrOp Pros
pects- ts-RaiIrOads and Politics.

Trip up the Trinity RIVer-CrOp Pros
pects-RaiirOads and Politics.
CROCKETT, TEXAS, June y, 1S7T
Editors Appedl:-I have Just ar
rived here after a tiresOme trip Of ten
days duration, from Galveston, up
the Trinity, to a landing called Hall s
Bluff. a distance Of five hundred
miles, on the steamer MOllie Hamil-
ton, which, you may remember, piled
in the Memphis and White river
trade year or two ago. [ was the
only passenger, and yOu can easily
imagine what a dOleful time 1 would
have passed but for the agreeable
company Of the owner Of the boat,
the beautiful and accomplished Ma
dame Morgan, and the captain, A. L..
Golly-both originally of Memphis
As a general thing the crops are re-
markably hne throughout Eastern
Texas. In this immediate vicinity
the corn crops are splendid, and more
Of it planted than in former years;
the cotton crops are quite backward,
and much less planted than usual. 1t
is thought that the freedmen are
working better this year than they
have done since the war, and the
people begin to think that the good
old times are coming back again.
There is such an eager demand for
labor that every applicant is accepted,
without enquiry az to his honesty or
worth. When planters, in an undue
anxiety to swell their crops, accept
an Indifferent or worthless hand, they
should estimate their loss not upon
that labOrer alone, but also by the
evil influence of his example on all
the others.
There is a proposition, submitted
by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad to the Houston and Great
Northern and International, for the
Kansas and Great Northern to unite
st Crockett, and build Joint
track to Palestine, there to intersect
the international, and then for the In
ternatiOnal and Great Northern to
build a jOint-track from there to Tyler
and Smith counties, and thus unite
the interests OF the three roads and
save over half a million of money in
constructing roads, and cover the
same territory.
BY a recent dispatch, / see it is
stated that the Missouri and Kansas
road is completed twenty-five miles
into the Indian Territory, and would
progress at the rate Of forty miles per
month for the next few months. At
that rate it will reach Texas almost
by the end Of August next. An Aus
tin dispatch says it will be completed
south of the Arkansas river by the
first Of July. The prospect is certain
ly encouraging 10 stOck-raisers, es-
pecialIy that they will be able early
in the fall to put their beeVes on the
cas-, without driving them out Of the
state, and will thereby be saved
months OF driving overland and
heavy expenses. The net proceeds
Of their sales will thereby be increased
by large per centage.
At the above rate Of progress the
road viii reach Bolivar Point, which
Is said to be Its terminus on the Gulf,
before the end of another year. The
Great Northern railroad is making
still more rapid strides to the same
bOundry, but a hundred miles further
to the east. Surely no people ever
had stronger Inducements presented
to them than the Texans to cooperate
harmOniously for the development OF
their great State.
/ have not much TO say on the SUBJ
ject OF politics, but God knows the
political prospects Of the State are
gloomy enough, but no worse, l be.
lieve, than Tennessee,and Mississippi.
The RAIDS seem determined to hold
on and rob, and plumber and destroy
until "Gabriel blows his horn"
BEPpO