Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-21
MEMPHIS AND VICINITY.
A Generally Favorable Picture and
Liberal Comments

A Generally Favorable Picture and
Liberal Comments
We COPY first the following from the
last number Of Every Saturday, a publ
cation that, Notwithstanding its evidently
Northern bias, has secured q large circule-
ton in Memphis. OF our State and city
his elegantly printed paper says:
Tennessee and Memphis
Tennessee il a good illustration of the
fact that prosperity is the best rec0nstruo-
ton for the South. The people are al
ready beginning TO feel that they have
q capital Of their own, gained by the in
dustry OF the last six years. The State
debt has been IS high az forty-one mil
! lions of dollars. The policy Of the present
government is to retire fifteen millions Of
this debt by compelling railroads to pay
4 their Indebtedness to the State. From
eight to ten millions have been retired in
this way. Rigid economy II now OBJ
served, and taxation hiss been lowered,
though the retes are still heavy, for al
most all the reads and bridges throughout
the State were destroyed during the war,
and had to be rebuilt. The acrimony left
by the contest 10 dying out very fast, and
there seems nothing now to keep the
State from going ahead.
Memphis increased eighty-six per cent.
/ IN DQDUAELlD4 MAGuAu inc EGA EC4Ls Da-
tween 1850 and 1870. It now contains
fOlty-one thousand people, twelve thou
sand Of whom are negroes The city debt
Is about four million three hundred
| thousand dollars, and the interest upon
it has been promptly paid. The railroads
have much to do with the prosperity of
| Memphis. Two lines connect IL with the
| East, one with the far South, and one
with Arkansas md Texas. Four addi-
| tionsl railroads are surveyed and con-
structing. Memphis cisims to be the
third cotton market in the United States.
Most OF the cotton now goes East by rail-
way; it reaches Liverpool less time sEd
for less money than 1t does bySWay Of
New Orleans. So at least say tne Mem
| phisna, and their assertion seems TO be
carried out by the fscs lat there are
three or four buyers from Liverpool
always IN the city. The New Eng
lsnd spinRers are represented by
at least a dozsn buyers. While We were
in the city there csma 81 order for cotton
from Richmond, Va; the first, 1 bslisve,
on record. Memphis this year handled
thirty milIisn dollars worth Of bales,
three ffthH of which came from Arkansas
BY the Arkansas and White river packets.
1t in expected that by the completion Of
the Little Rock railroad, fifty Thousand
bales next year will be added to the
amount of cotton received. Memphis, we
were told, viii sell sixty million dollars
worth Of goods this year. The whole
banking capital Of the city is ore million
six hundred and fifty Thousand ds4isrs.
Ar additional million and a half would
hRd profitable investment.
The river bank, for the distance Of two
thirds Of a mile right in front OF the north
ern limit ef the city, has within three
yssrs washed away 70 the extent OF two
hundred yards. This is part Of q scheme
which the Father Of Waters" has, it
would sssm, TO Ussh away the shores and
bluffs Of his eastern shore from Cairo to
the gulf. At least, most of the c2ving-in
is done on that shore. Tit Little Rock
railroad was at one time strengthened in
its by 8 mortgage on what was
known as the naVy-yard. The mortgage
subsists, but the property has gone down
stream out of the Jurisdiction Of chsncsry.
It is thought, however, that tie current
Of the river il getting back into its old
channel again. At any rate, there is room
for = hundred such cities IS Memphis in
its " tributary eOuRsry, and spirit
enough among the Memphizns 70 build
them, gives only the men and the means.
At Memphis one teeIs the free pulse Of
the West-ths air that grows the strong,
tall o Of Tennessee. This has got iato
the cotton here, and it pslpitates,
II Memphis is fairly representative of
Tennessee, nothing seems sursr than tbs
divorce of thst State from the old South.
Tennessee is Of she West. western. This
''high-tOne" ideas are perishing~ gradually
OF their own insnitiOn; they snnOt swim
against the current of the Mississippi, and
railroads are their worst enemies. To the
voTsger up the Great River, then, the
South may be said to end st Memphis;
snd from this thriving end, reading the
the South backward. as the Jews do their
Bible, We may learn, 1 think, one Of the
chief causes Of tbs turmoil and discomfort
e - IN
Southern States are not prosperous in the
Northern sense of the term, and the
American mind is not used TO ANYTHING Of
the sort, The history OF New York city
will attest that the free Citizsn can stand
misgOvsrnmeBt much better thGn the lack
Of prosperity. And no Ose, having felt
the hspsisaa excavation of their wet, warm g.,
air, viii have ths heart 80 blame South
srn people for want of energy. Indeed, I
lean more aRd mOrs to the impression
climate Is greater than congress, and
feel quite sure that prosperity is the best !
reconstruction fox the South.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer we copy I
The following from a letter tRat, ~siRgUlsrly
3nough, is dated On board = CunSrd steam ,
u, ''Of Queenstown, ireland" On the !
whole it is very fair, considering the /
Of the Inquirer: !
CAMDEN, ARKANSAS. !
During the three days in which our t
passengers had been together neither a
rambling, drunkenness O quarrsltag q
lad been sesn, nor heated discussion Of n
heard. The notice Of this fact a
nay seem s~uperfuOus 20 those familiar I
With the region described, but there are il
,ersons in the North who have read but !,
oW descriptions of Arkansas which did A
lot portray scenes and actions offensive
o good morals, II not in direct violation
Z law. From this place q large amount v
. a. -Lg--aI - - A. I a
Orleans. When the railroads now o
q process of construction are finished 81
nuch Of his produce will go direct to tbs d
EASTERN cities by rail. Tsxes in Arkansas,
S well - in other Southern States. under 81
resent management are extremely bur- p
snsome. A building was pointed cut "
rhich hsd Just bssn rented at the best "
rice which the ownsr could get, yet the
ntire rental would barely suffice to pay n
be- annual tax upon 1t. Ths assessor, I TT
Tas told, receives a per csntage upon the IN
slue be fixes on property Instead of q bj
alary, as with US. IN
leaving Camden In a vehicle on which AZ
10 words "FOurt Smith Stage" were M
2intsd. 1 crossed the Washits, the only h.
sEsengsr, and, after riding for miles nj
trough 2 lonely wood without %
,eisg & house or meeting any One, 81
,e driver stopped ct a log cabin, from
hich issued quickly q man of athletic w.
1pe8r2nce, apparently young, his face mi
ltirsly covered with a kind Of cloth,
prevented me from distinguishing m,
angle feature, though be could see dis ~,
nctly through its intsrstices. At once ! no
the descriptions Of Ku-KluX,
which / had read, and as be advanced
pidly toward me l watched him closely :
bile be took up the mail bag and car II
ed IL into the house, followed by the ab
liver. On the return of the latter, I OF
what was the matter with the an
Jung mans face that he kept IL so Curl ]
sly covered. f'There is nothing the on
after with his face" said the driver, she tht
hiving bees, and wears the mosquito dr'
r to prevent them from singing him." en-
10 lonely cabin was q pOstoffice, and the I'M
ung man an employee of our gov an
1ment. He was the only specimen rsi
Ku-KluX that I met with or had beS
.Owledge Of during my entire trip. I are
now passing over some Of the poor ore
land in Arkansas, and at the next mas
got a Inner equally poor. TOE
due time for supper, however, we IN
sur
-PRrNcEToN RnC
lere an abundance OF Well-cooked tive
,ats, excellent bread and butter, peaches tor
lieh had been carefully canned by the onf
ItrOn Of the house, rich cream, and, in per
I'd, everything which q reasonable man
I'D ask for was placed before the guests.
I sat st this table, in a town of a few
ndTed inhabitants in the interior Of Ar
1sas, thinking Of breakfast 1 had Ia Fir
o q few months previous at what was
d 70 be the best hotel in Fall River, z
IS, g city containing over twenty thou WI