Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-17
VIRGINIA.
The Progress Of the City, Its Trade with
South America It's Flour Mills
and Wheat Trade.

The Progress Of the City It's Trade with
South America It's Flour Mills
and Wheat Trade.
Radical kestlass-Purposes and Speeches.
From an occasional c~orrespondentj
RICHMOND, October 10, ls7I.-Since I
wrote you last / hsve been gathering up
odds and ends for this letter, Our munich
pal affairs are in q iourishing condition,
which is owing 10 the fact that the present
city council Is composed Of good citizens
with a few exceptions Business In our
city is quite brisk and seems to be improv-
ing every day; there Rre more buildings
in course of erection at this time than has
been known for years. Nearly, If not ell
OF the tobacco factories are at work and
give employment TO thousands OF hands,
white and black, male and female, and to
Judge from the large numbers of boxes Of
manufactured tobacco daily shipped north
and to foreign ports, the proprietors must
be prosperous. Our -four trade with the
| South American States is rapidly 1ncroas-
| ing, and scarcely s week passes that from
one 20 four vessels do not clear from
| docks, loaded with -four for South Ameri-
can ports, the scenes along docks are
very encouraging, as vessels are CONSTANT
IL arriving and discharging csrgoes, iuva-
riably finding return freight. The trade
between this city and New York is i'm
mense. The New York Steamship Com
pany have six large steamers on this line,
and as much freight as they can carry.
| Some of the merchants have organized g
/ company and placed upon the route two
steamers in opposition to the New York
line. They are building here an iron
/ screw steamer of one thousand tons which
l mill ha plaand nnOn tha rnuta in RnnlnmQ-
ton with the two now running. 1t neces-
szrily follows that merchants composing
this ompRn 8 money by
shipping in their own steamers.
The number of vessels plying and TO
from this port Will be largely increased as
soon as q sufficient depth Of water Is OBJ
tanned on the bar below the city admitting
the free passage Of large vessels without
having to wait for high water. The work
Of deepening and widening the channel is
progressing steadily under the direction
of Captain r. d. Minor. All of the
manufacturing establishments in ard
about the city are in full blast, and new
ones ~springing up every day. There are
hundreds of articles for which We were
dependent on the north before the war,
made here now, much better and as cheap
as they can be bought in New York. In
my last / mentioned the opening of a
sugar refinery; it is now in full operation,
dlu NuIuluk OuL hOIk hnACu 1h5 nO BuDo- |
rior, north or south. On nearly every
vacant lot on our principal business street,
large and handsome stores have been
erected, and so altered in appearance is
his part of the city that the visitor of two
years ago would fail to recognize it.
Among new inventions lately patented
here is q machine for horse shoes. It is
said to be capable of turning out about
six thousand shoes al hour. It Is in the
hands of the Tredegar company, and they
are making preparations to go Into the
horse shoe business oE q large scale
The annual fair of the State agri-
cultural society commences on the 3Ist
of October and will continue -four days.
Every ezertion is made to make it a sue
cess, the premium list amounting to up
ward Of seven thousand dollars. Tit
cattle show this year viii, it is said, ex-
coed any ever had here before. A new
feature will be added to the programme
by the introduction of hurdle racing, a
club having been formed for the
A riot occurred in the quiet little town
Of Danville last week, caused by the ar
rest of q drunken negro. The negroes at
tempted to rescue him from the authorities
but failed. It was thought, at one time,
the affair would become serious, but the
prompt action of the mayor and unfiinch-
ing conduct of the volunteer company,
called into service, put a stop to the mad
antics OF then nations wards. One of the
negro rioters, it is thought, will die from
the effects OF q bsYonet wound received
during the fight. One of the police was
also seriously hurt, but will recover.
In regard 10 the political situation, the
Conservatives have held a nominating
convention and put forth their ticket for
the senate and house. The selections
made are good, with one or two excep-
tions. The people seem alive to the inn
portance of wiping the Radical party out
of existence in this State, and we will do
it. The Radicals have also held a grand
their usual mOdesiy the carpet I,
bsggers and. native sealswags have
filed their ticket with their !
names with one exception.
ACoLoRED SPEECH.
1t is really refreshing to see the impu- {
1ence of these ~scOundrels, with what case S
gull the poor deluded negroes. But {
at the last meeting held TO nominate men {
for the different offices, some dissstisfac- +
ion was manifested by some of the shin :
-ng lights in the party. Mr.. Lewis Lind =
Jay, n of the most worthless and drunk Il
IN negroes in the city, and leader of !
Lindssy's Dress band, fired a shell in the C
by saying: "Mr. cheerman, eber q
iDce de war closed de white men in dis 4
)arty has told us dat de time for de Gull n
cd man to hold Office had not come and =
le cullod men had waited and waited and Y
waited from dat time till tonight, and 2
low it is de same old cry, and no Mr.. u
herman, 1 feel strained, in behalf Of my s.
ullod race, to AK if de time for cullod U
nsn to hold Ofies will ever come so long u
s dare lie any white csrpet-bsggers in de X
II
This was q severe snd unexpected blow O
n the white portion of the meeting, and o
sused q great hutter among the carpet Il
aggers, of course. All the half drunken Il
egroes took sides with the Hon. Drunk n
q Lewis Lindsay, which caused great 4,
onfusion in the meeting, and it was -
necessary by the white carpet-bag- y
ers and scsllswagg to bring forward the 3
egroes' idol, one Of the most contempti- .
lie ~scoundrels with which any State was
YER cursed, Congressman Porter, to re.
,ore order. This skunk came forward
lther the words of dozen or more of r.
-hite brothers was pledged that Little Il
at Woods" Was not in the house, and in
a careful survey Of the faces to sat- he
fy himself that the great bug bear, pa
Pat was not in striking distance, te
Q spread himself,
These ignorant people are led and hum
1gged by the worst set of villains that n,
yer disgrsced Gods earth; wishing or en-
.ring for nothing but robbery. Nearly
i OF the leaders of the party are holding 81
bod, paying offices under the govern
tent, and it is q matter of surprise how Tc
lese locusts become 80 suddenly rich. -,
here is not a sale of real estate which 4
kes place here that is not largely at AS
by these human sharks, and who
ght times out of ten, become the pur-
lssers of the property. In fact, the ser To
ints are worthy representatives of their .
aSter, the king present-taker at Wash tn
gton. These leaders OF the Radical party L
Q bringing in negroes from the adjoining AZ
luntry 70 vote at the election on the 18th !
November.
J. @. Underwood lie now holding court To
and woe to the man who served in 4
% Confederate army who is brought be- ar
re his mighty highness even for the !
oftense. In my last 1 gave sis
brief account of one Joseph M. Hum !
/ am told he worked himself into ny
terrible passion, and said some yery ,
things; wanted to know who re-
,ur correspondent was. and, 1t is said, Of
Iered money for his name; but Just on hu
Q eye Of his obtaining the so much de- =
ed Information, he suddenly withdrew /
; oner. Some say he ascertained that a tn,
W rav-hide had been purchased for his ME
ecisl benefit. Your correspondent has vel
hand q rsw-hide which is for sale, the ne
Iner believing he will have no use for it. ssTfs
have now erected by the city four cit
-ge and handsome schoolhouses, capable exi
accommodating q large number of pu- SUI
IS. The free school system will prove to "a q
a great blessing here, If kept out of the =
nds OF the Radicals, 1t is rumored that
Pennsylvania Central railroad conn
ny have purchased a controlling inter-
in the Richmond, Fredericksbury and n.
tomac railroad. This will give the
nnsylvanie Central in unbroken lima n
m Philadelphia to New Orleans. "
LONG TOM" me