Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-04

MEMPHIS.
Memphis is hardly more a city of Ten
nessee than Of Arkansas and Mississippi.
An imaginary line, twelve miles distant,
separates this State from Mississippi,
while the river constitutes the narrow
boundary between Tennessee and Arksn-
sss. The business men OF Memphis are
from every State, and especially are Ala
bama, Mississippi and Arkansas repre-
sented, even IS Ireland and Germany
have done most in promotion Of cOsmopol-
itanism of fact and opinion. Local self
ishness is recognized only among the
unIettered, and true cit'zsn OF Memphis
is a citizen of che world, and he is most
worthy and most esteemed who deserves
most at the hands of God and man. After
time the truth, despite partisan news
papers, will be accessible even to Euro
pean people. There are five Radical to
each single Democratic paper published
in the North, and the exterior world con-
templates our worth and social and politi-
cal condition only as seen through
this distorted medium. Plainly enough
a foreigner can see why a class OF
Northern journalists, whose devotion
to party over-rides all considerations
of patriotism, should endeavOr to
make mankind believe the South a
yeritable hell to the very extent
that it is devoted to veritsble De-
mocracy. Il is this partisan distortion
of facts, Of which the little Senator from
Mississippi was innocently guilty, that
turns away from these fair fields and from
this genial climate myriads Of homeless
European wanderers.
IN WHAT We HAVE FAILED.
It is also true that Northern cities and
railway corporations have invaded Europe
everywhere, through agents sent thither
to make known not only facts but false
hoods. Thousands Of ignorant people are
constantly enticed into regions in which
sterile plains must be irrigated, and where
snow and ice put embsrgues alike upon
plenty and comfort. CredUlity is as
measureless as it delights in being deluded
aud defrsuded. Europe, even now,
is overrun with agents of every North
western railway and mining company and
! byspeculators and adventurers, and money
snd inteIligence are lsvished upon
! schemes involving the transfer Of myri-
ads of industrious European people to
! inhospitable districts OF Northwestern
| territories and States. So palpable are
advantages with which nature and con-
! fessed facts crown the South, that it is on
| IL needful, in this contest for population,
to adopt those agencies to which our
Northern countrymen resort. A msgnih-
cent railway extends from Memphis TO
Chattanooga and NorfolB; lateral cOmPet-
ing lines render it almost proftless. The
reason is, the whole trsns-cOntinentsl
traffic and travel enters New York on the
one hand and San Francisco on the other,
and the exterior world is ignorant of the
fact that other and Norfolk and Memphis
railways exist. European populations
have not learned that the cheapest and
shortest routes across the continent lie
through the Southern States, that 1t costs
| less to go to st. Louis through Norfolk
and Memphis from Liverpool than
through New York or Loston. That this
Southern route is to be preferred Tor every
consideration of comfort defined by ma
ture's laws and those affecting the trans
pOrtstion of emigrsnts.
DERSlTY OF POPULATION.
The population OF this city is not less
than $4,000 The census was taken in
midsummer, when certainly 5000 persons
were absent and ward containing. $500 in
krr,aH-
cent % legislation to the county. The
whole population of the county is about
60, 900, giving to the country an average
ofOnly about ten persons to each square
mile. II ten acres be required to maintain
each individual the population of the
county, outside the city, should be nearly
six hundred thousand instead Of ten
thousand.
LOCAL PECULlARlTlES
There are two streams running on
nearly parallel lines for sixty miles from
east to west. Between them is an ele-
vated plateau from five TO fifteen miles
in width. Fort Pickering, q suburb of
Memphis, is nearly equi-distant from
Wolf river on the north and NOnoOnnah
on the south. Between these runs the
Memphis and Charleston road, which
will ultimately build eastward from
Memphis a continuous city for twenty or
thirty miles along its route. Highly beau
tifuI and most attractive are the pretty
cottages and farms steadily multiplied
since the restoration Of peace, along this
elevated plateau. There is no limit to
splendors which wealth and taste and
beauty will yet aggregate within limits
defined by the two streams of which we
have spoken. North of Wolf and south |
of Nonconnsh there are spread before |
the enraptured vision Of travellers |
aelds white with cotton or covered with |
golden crops of wheat. And yet, with /
these facts Of soil and produetiveness, and |
proximity to a market on an arm OF the |
sea, with perfect healthfulness, with |
spring and summer and autumn the only |
seasons we have-Europe, duPed by /
Northwestern spectators, stil empties |
wealth and population into arid plains
whore men and cattle devote half their
lives to thswinR, after starving through /
weary months of winter.
WANTS or MEMPHIS.
There is not one-tenth enough accumu-
lated capital to transfer to the East and to /
Europe the enormous cotton crop that /
hnds here lis market. Banks having q 1
real capital Of not more than one and s
half millions must transfer crops worth |
forty millions TO markets Of oonsump- |
ton. The task is done annually, but at /
terrible cost to the producer and enor-
nous profit to the banker. Next after
population, TO occupy fields wasted by |
war, Memphis needs most banking cap
ital- With this, manufactures would /
spring into existence and be maintained. /
ANOTHER PRIZE NECESSITY
consists in the want Of cheap highways
connecting the city with villages and with |
the richer snd more denaely populated dis !
tricts OF the interior. A narrow gauge /
road from Memphis to Jackson, Tennes-