Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-11
CORINTH.
The Cotton Mill, the Crops, the Farms, the
Knayes and the Politicians, and Pub
lie Pluhderers.
Special Correspondence APPEAL.l

Special Correspondence APPEAL.l
CORINIH, Monday, July 10, 1871.
The weather is entirely too hot for
railway trains to make connections.
Those Of the Memphis and Charleston
and Mobile and Ohio roads always
had an aversion for one another. Col
lisiOns are terrible, and these two rail-
ways have avoided them with sedu-
lOus care. In fact, there has been
enough bloody work done at COrinth,
and il is well if no graves be dug by
railroad builders. Solar heat should
be utilized and fuel saved. Surely
there is no reason why one or two
good retiectOrs could not be 80 used in
the concentration of the suns burning
rays that faggOts would be needless in
heating locomotive boilers. With all
its galleries and broad windows, the
apartments of the Scruggs House are
very like furnaces tonight, and soft
winds from the gulf, like the kindred
Of the forgotten heroes, have ceased,
long ago, to sigh and bend the
deep green grass and kiss the wild
roses that blossom above the hum
dred thousand graves of Federal and
Confederate dead, sleeping 80 quietly,
after life's fitful fever, about this his
torical spot.
PROGRESS.
A year has passed since 1 visited
COrinth. The people seem uncOn-
5ciOus OF the fact, but the place -four
ishes. Many excellent buildings have
been erected within the twelVemOnth,
and hardly the hotel q massive
structure slowly rises, destined to in
fuse fresh vigOr into the business ac-
tivity of COrinth. Colonel F. E. Whit
field and his associates have finished
the first story of the COrinth cotton
mill, and yet while the people are
making more cotton than ever before
and absorbed in every task OF indus
try, Of progress, the dirty, lousy
managers Of negro mobs, the vile car
pet-baggers and knaves sent hither
by Grants miniOns to plander the
country, are busy day and night in
plotting disturbances, in arraying
blacks against whites and in perfect
ing organizations that their tenure of
offices may be perpetuated. One Of
their tasks is accomplished by using
negro testimony TO convict white men
Of felonies defined in the Ku-KluX
act. By this means the success OF
Radical candidates in Ohio is as
sursd, and then, il is believed. when
AlcOrn takes his place in the United
States Senate, in case the knaveS tTi-
umph in approaching elections in this
State, that Mississippi will be as ruth
lessly plundered as Louisiana. War
mouth incapacitated for service by
disease, a negro is de fdcsO et ds j5sge
Governor of Louisiana. In New Or
leans, therefore, property, taxed seven
and half per cent, becomes utterly
VslUeless, and to this pitiable cOndi-
ton, if one or two more negro and
carpet-bag Legislatures reign, will
Mississippi be reduced. II is the
anticipation Of such a possibility that
makes people hesitate to invest in
cotton mills and manufacturing estab-
lishments. 1t is this apprehension
and danger that prevents the utiliZa-
ton OF eXhaustless marsh beds at
Iuka. 1t is this that paralyzes the
arm of industry and represSeS popular
enterprise. People fear to invest in
property in q country or TO make per-
manent or costly improvements,
where saYage5 and thieves riot In all
offices, and where courts are the
basest engines Of partisan knavery,
corruption and selfshness. 1t is COM
ing TO this st last, that a decent gen.
tleman will accept no public position.
Ofice-hOlding is deemed disgraceful,
and the masses Of the people, unless
Office holders be personally well
known, regard them all as they do
penitentiary cOnvicts. Respectable,
honest folks will not seek places in
legislative bodies whose soul BUSINESS
It Is 10 steal; and such persons, antici-
pating the possible success Of brutality
and ignorance, fear to eXpend money
in remotely profitable and permanent
improvements of the country.
THE COAL OIL CASE.
1t seems that Mr.. Whistler, the
Deputy United States Marshal OF
whom teIegraphed, was arrested and |
tried before the Mayor of COrinth, but |
40 sufficient proof was adduced to es-
tablish the fact that he robbed the |
Louisville merchant 50 terribly |
burned by t1e coal oil lamp Whis.
tier and the tobacco man were drink
ing together, and sat near each other
at the supper table. The tObaccOnist /
4ASCoNDtNA AfAdl us ktufSc duu pCyU
were missing, and Whistler took the
lamp and looked about for il on the
door, finally replacing the lamp, bat
ia such manner that it fell from the
table upon the tObacconist. Whistler's
friends say he was drunk, but the mer-
chants money is gone, and Whistler,
having caused the calamity, was the
first 70 escape from the dining hall and
never returned to inquire about the
man whom he has subjected to the
tortures of the damned. Whistler, L
ana told, showed his purse here, say
ing he had money enough, but none
Of the tObaccOnists; and yet he tele-
yraphed from this place to Oxford for
more money. Why this dispatch?
Was it to mislead or, was the man only
drunk? Whistler should return TO
Corinth, and if innocent correct grie-
VOus injury done him. He was tried
before the Mayor here, but no sufi-
sIent proof was adduced TO cause his
detention, but the facts recited con-
stitute the theme Of constant
iiscussion among this excited popuia-
iOn.
crops.
beautiful farms, enee yielding gen