Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-28
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.
A Wonderful Cavern-Cave of the Winds
-MCKenzie-lts People and Progress
A Curious Character.
AMaryelOus Wiliage-The Influx Of Northern
Fsrmers-A Delightful Summer
Retreat, and How TO Get there.

AMaryeIOus Viliage-The Influx Of Northern
Fsrmers-A Delightful Summer
Retreat, and How TO Get there.
The progress Of the South, in improve
ments Of every character, is much more
rapid thsn we are apt 20 believe. Such is
the anxiety of the cities and country to
promote immigration, and such the noise
made by newspapers and conventions,
that we are apt Co believe that the whole
migratory wealth and energy ofthe Union
moves across the continent from New
York, and that the South gains nothing
of wealth or population from external
I sources of supply. On the contrary, there
is 3 constant influx of farmers and man
ufscturers from all the northern States.
Fortunately, it is true, that these accre-
tions 10 tho of the South are
made by the most intelligent aud indus
! trious classes from States north OF the
Ohio. Recent local political revolutions
in Tennessee and Alabama, by which the
control of local governments passed into
The hands Of the native born population,
hsve repealed more plundsrers and ad-
yenturers, and with steady fOrcs the tide
of industry is drawn southwark, crosses
the Ohio, and in every village along
southern railway lines the number OF
worthy, active, intelligent northern
farmers and mechanics is rapidly aug
mented, These come hither to gain wealth
by honest toll, as their predecessors, the
carpet-hsggers, did to control black
loyal leagues, monopOlizs offices and
plumber the country. Greeley's brief So
iourn in the South was Of infinite service.
he Learned q share of the truth, and ut
tered il. II he had remained a month
longer he would have learned more and
that the vice OF Ku-KluXism is only CO.
extensive with that necessity imposed
upon partiZsns which impels them to
m-isuepresent the South that they may re-
tain power and command the sYmpathies
of Northern Rsdicalism. Intelligent
Northern farmers and mechanics begin 70
understand these facts, and ii results that
the FIRST to seek homes in Tennessee and
Alabama, under the new order OF things,
are the most intelligent of the industrial
classes of the Western and Middle States.
An Ohio farmer occupied 8 seat with me
on the Nashville and Northwestern
railroad yesterday. He hsd sold his
farm, near C~hillicothe, at $lS5
per acre, and bought a more productive
place, not far from Humboldt, at IS per
acre. He says that he will make twO
crops annually here on every acre he Gull
tivstes, and that the profits on his sale
ana TEllNEELubl VIII Cuhbub nluA 70
make the Tennessee farm richer far and
double in srea tina that left n Ohio. He
is the best of school-masters. His neigh
bors, he tells me, are improving their
lands as he is doing; fences are rebuilt,
houses renovated, lands MANFRED,
and he believes that the productiveness
OF his n~eighborhood will be double next
year from the sheer force Of his example.
M'KKNzIE.
such is the name of the village at the
intersection of the Nashville and North
western and Memphis and Ohio roads.
The place derives its name from a lean,
lank, hungry-lOOking gentlemen, who has
red hair and white beard, who goes rush.
ing about the village supervising all its
interests SIS If his life depended upon its
prosperity. He is profoundly interested
in the two rival schools of the village, One
having l20, the other 50 pupils. He looks
on with delight while the walls Of two
new churches rise before him. He has
written TO the priests at Memphis, prOpOs-
ing 10 convey q lot to the Catholic Church
if a chapel be erected on it. Just now he
thinks most OF the plans OF railway build
ers. He has induced land owners along
the route from Jackson, fifty miles dis
tant, to convey to McCOmbs & Co. the
right of way for an extension of the Mis-
sissippi Central road TO Mckenzie. He is
engaged in building a brick hotel, three
stories in hight, ana one hundred feet
square, and you may well imagine that
Mr.. M'Kenzie's bones, hin snd hungry
looking as he is, rattle everywhere
about the streets of the prosper
Gus, progressive village. DR. Hen
bricks, q prominent Presbyterian preach
er, conducts Z of the schools, and Cap
tsins Irby and Carlton the other. There
are forty houses in course of construction,
and the place wears an appearance Of
freshness and Vigor which may CCzs out
Of he brain and nerves of the animated
steam engine called Col. Mckenzie. G..
W. White is the hotel proprietor, where
twenty OF US wer6 well entertained while
awaiting the movements OF a delayed
train. Fresh eggs, spring chickens and
rich milk and m~uttOn-chops were pro-
nOuncsd luxurious by people escaping
from solstitisl heat in New Orleans and
Memphis. Mckenzie, in its progressive
ness and in the farms about il, illustrates
the fact to which l have sdverted, that the
tide of immigration from Northern States,
rather han from Europe, is slowly turned
Oward the South, and IL may result that
the hardness with which this change hiss
been brought about will prove most for
tunste for the country, The Northern
farmer or aTtiZsn who 10Y makes the
South his home demonstrates in the act
his intelligence. He Is not the dupe OF
psrtissnship, and will grow rich before the
stupid dolts Of Radicslism have learned
that Ku-Kluxism IS a fable recited by
party leaders for party purposes.
DIXON
is another little village of less than half
tins extent of McKenZie-the latter con-
tanning hardly more than a thousand in
habitants. Not far from Dixon there is a
mill and machinery, used in preparing
sumach for market. The leaves and stems
are gathered everywhere on the hill sides,
dried, ground to powder, and sold here,
as ! was told, at So per ton. 1t is shipped
as dye-stuff TO the calico mills Of Europe.
In Picksns and Faystte, end other hilly
counties Of Alabama, farmers wives use
the berries alone of sumsch, TO give Grim
son tints to their homemade Sunday tOg-
gerry. Forests road will bring tons Of
sumsch berries and leaves, as well as coal
and iron, and prime lumber to Memphis.
The landlord st Dixon is named McCutch-
on, from Maryland. His wife spreads an
attractive table. The rooms Of the little
tavern ara neat, well aired, and a good
piano lends sttrsctiveness to the place.
Leaving Memphis at 4 O'Clock q. m, the
traveller reaches Dixon at 2 p. m, and the
word Al~RbamG-"hsre We rest"-should
be inscribed over the tavern doorway.
After breakfast, before the SUMS heat be-
came oppressive, in an ambulance, the
ride through an uubroken forest of oaks
70 Bon Aqua Is begun, The road is little
used, and its roughnBss only relieved by
the dense shadows Of the trees, by the
cool, refreshing WINDS that sweep down
the charming valleys, and by %changeful
scenery presented from the hill-tOps. 4
Journey OF eight or nine miles brought us
70 the spot curiOusly enough designated
on the country map "BOn Aqus"-s bar
bzrOusly compounded designation, unless
we imagine that the letter "a, f" by eiision,
and for euphOny, was dropped from the
termination of the word Bona" This
apology is hardly satisfactory, since the
adjective properly has reference 10 moral,
and not physical, facts. Atruthful story,
however, is told by the words
Bon AQUA.
There is no better water on the CONT
nent. One of ethei springs, all of crystal
clssrness, is remarkable for its richness
and the quantity of -four of sulphur
which ib deposits. Another holds arsenic
In solution. The story is told of q lean.
cadsverOus-lOoking consumptive from
Maine who came here and drank frightful
quantities Of this arsenic and sulphur
he was thinner than McKenzieOr, Ichabod
Crane, Of Irving's matchless story, when
came; but he went away, after q So
Of two months, a csckling carload
Of two tons OF spring chickens. / am
told that dogs from cities can't be in
TO "lsp" a. the arsenic spring
They have q latent suspicion that the
law" which the Memphis city judge
recsntlv pronounced unconstitutional, y
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