The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-08-05
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COM INUNDATED.
For ihs Paaoia sisf.
Ma. Epnon WIN you allow me
1aeem youreohmus fora few facts
and Ggnros on Tie coatt-house qucs-
zion?
The county ste was established
rnd the public buildingr erected IN
Pamela IN 1886 OF 81. IN about IA.
years, OF, about 1860, the town had
attained ia maximum size. IA then
contained a population Of perhaps
1000. j have no means al baud Of
asccrtaining its maximum Of taxable.
property but | think am safe in
saying that il has steadily decreased
from that time to the present, aud
last year il amounted to the pitiful
sumes only about $4,000, ~ viii.
appear by reference 70 the Assessors.
books. Only think otit! The cap
itol Town of the proud and wealthy
county OF Pamela assessed at $50, 600,
and paying into the county treasury
no more taxes than are paid by any
one OF many respectable planters
and merchants in the county, that
might DO named! Can any stronger
argument be used to prove the UNI
Fitness Of the place for the county
site? Aud who are the tax payers
who have paid this enormous tax p
Why they are llc lawyers and coun-l
~ oiliclals whose business aud pro-
fessions required them to live near
the c%ourt-house. Fake tins class of
its population away, and what would
Pamela have been for the past ten
years? It may baaaid that the rail
road ruiied the town BY building
up B~atesvillc on its suburbs. This
may be true TO some extent; but
D~aicsvalc, alter having swallowed
Pamela, has not attained any hugo
dimensions. Her taxable property
last year, as lam Uniformed, amount-
cd to about $4,000. Put the two
towns together and their taxable
value amounts to less than 500, 900.
The same cause that dwarted the
growth Of the old town operates
against the new. Tits a cause that
lies beyond the pluck aud energy of
her business men. Ifencrgy shrewd-
ness, aud business tact could have
kept the old town alive, such mon
as Clarke, Fletcher, Armstrong and
others that could be named, would
not have permitted it 10 60 INTO de-
cay MS Il has.
This cause is its malarious, un-
wholesome atmosphere. No schools
can flourish there. No churches
raise their spires hcavenwud. No
attractions are presented and no i'm
ducements can be offered to draw
population from abroad. Ofthe ma
tive born population, alas! too many
have found early graves in the neg
lected cemetery, now well populated.
Batcsville can boast Of her live
business men. She has cause to be
proud Of them. But these obsta-
elcs 70 her growth N population lilo
beyond the reach Of human.agcncy
to remove.
Now permit mo ID soy Il few words
about Sardis: She has a population
Of nearly, or quite, two thousand,
with fiourishing schools and church,
es. Sic laid Her foundation broad
md deep, beforetherc was any talk
Of acourt- house" HertaSable prop.
crty, on the lstotJnly 1870, bcfort
! this question was sprung, amounted
! to about ssoo,uuo, ! about tlrcctims
JUS much as Datcsyille and panol'
combiaed and the assessment tli
!. year, lhaye no doubt, will show M
increase Of 3aa per cent, on this val
uation. This difference does nc
! exist In tie actual cost Of lots All
buildings aud improvements in I'll
two localitics but Sardis j. q pleaI
ant, desirable place to live, u
! healthfpl location, its churches, goo
schools, aad social advantages, al
|, attracting population and capit
from other counties and other State
TINS adding every year to the IA,
ablo basis of thc county, while
docs MT necessarily increase lilo q
penae q tae uoontys "a Il mreasoI
I able to suppose that wifh tho cour1
house attfaesiea added, Sarlis MI
N tiso years eontaaa 4, population /
D. 5000, ana taxable property of W
o. two millions * dollars .An
csaa any enelouat that thp baildin
/ sp'ofa largc town IN thacoantyw MI
/ bansfit every citizen and tax pays
iathe county, even to tho humble.
md ipost remote from tic. count
n scat H IL will largely incrcaac Ii