Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-29
ALABAMA.
The Crops Near HuntsYille-PrOspects
and Progress OF q German
Colony.
The Liberal Republican Movement
Greeley and Brown Clubs
Being Formed.

HUNTSVILLE, Alas May 25, ISL.
EDITORS APPEAL Having at last
come to a halt in this beautiful little
city, which is the pride and boast of the
South, your correspondent proposes to
relate to you some few items which may
prove interesting to some of your read
ers, especially to those in this section Of
country, where the APPEAL, as a wide
awake newspaper, is the most popular
journal.
Soon after leaving the suburbs of
Memphis, / noted that a certain
feeling of dependency and depression
was prevalent among the farming
population, owing to the continued
dry weather, which rendered the crop
prospects for the present season exceed
ingly gloomy, but which, I am happy
to say, has been entirely dispelled by
the recent copious rains, which, while
they infused fresh life into vegetation,
inspired the people with new hopes and
created a healthy feeling throughout the
country. In most portions the corn is
well up and presents a fine appearance.
Cotton also looks well, and the fruit crop
promises a more abundant yield of every
species than has been the case for many
years. In many parts of the country
there has been considerable wheat sown,
and in every instance of which l could
learn, with good promises of success, so
far Is can be judged from present indica-
tons. Altogether, the prospects of farm
ers in this region are sufficiently good to
warrant the belief for a prosperous year.
Merchants throughout the country
complain considerably of dull business,
which 1T the present season is by no
means an unusual thing, but they all
anticipate a prosperous fall trade.
A new enterprise has been started sue
eessfully at the pretty little city Of Tus-
cumbia, which promises TO be OF vast
importance to that town and the sur
rounding country. About a year ago
some gentlemen from Cincinnati con-
ceived the idea to start
ACOLoNY OF GERMAN FARMERS
near this place, and with that view ar
ranged for the purchase of a sur
fcient quantity of good land at a low
price to carry out this scheme. The
landowners, seeing their advantage, |
readily consented to dispose of such of
their tracts as they could spare, on GER
tain conditions, and the consequence
was that in a short time several sturdy
farmers from the Fatherland made their
appearance, who with their families,
went at once to work with Unnecessary
preparations for their future homes, put
in their crops of vegetables, wheat, bar
ley and other grain, and are now on the
high road of success. it is q pleasure to
look at their neat farms, all in good con-
dition, and to hear them express them
as completely satisfied with their
homes and the country generally. They
are unanimously of the opinion that,
with skillful management and proper
cultivation, they can raise wheat as sue
cessf1lly there as in most parts
Of the West. The people of TUscumbia
and in the neighbOThOOd seem also well
with their new neighbOrs, and
the enterprise is n which
certainly deserves commentator, and
should find many followers in all parts
Of the South. A fine new church just
built, and a new hotel, started by Mr..
Charles Lemke, of Cincinnati, who
knows chow to keep a hotel" are
among the first indications of the bene- :
its which Tuscumbia viii derive from
he liberal course pursued by immigra-
ion. i
THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT. II
1t is truly gratifying to every support
II of the reform movement, to notice
he political aspect of this section of I
through which your correspond I
mt has Travelled. The people are fOrt
Greeley and Brown almost to a man, S
md if any dissenters make themselves I
heard ut all, it is from the bandO of carpet {
and office-hOlders, whose very /
Existence depends on the reelection of :
1rant. 1t is true, there are some iso-
ated few, who do not like Greeley on
.ccount of some of his actions toward :
he South, long gone by, but the masses
re for indorsing the action lof the Gin
innati Convention to its fullest extent. i
3reeley and Brown clubs are springing a
Up in every portion of the country 5
lmost spontaneously. Ihad the pleas :
ire on last Saturday to be present at a
veil attended and enthusiastic meeting,
ompOsed of old Democrats and I
liberal Republicans, all of them :
Gentlemen Of high character and
.bility which was held with a y
Jew to organize one Of these clubs.
eloquent and pointed speeches Q
we're made, principally by Mich Davis, n
Mr.. ]. Kaufman and Judge Doug &
ass, pouring a whitening fire into the 4
anks of Grant and his Radical min -
The club was organized under the 7
anne of the Whitehall Greeley and
Club" with n. Davis, Esq, for :,
resident, a gentleman well and widely a
nown as one of the best and most pop \
lar orators in the State. His speech, h
n taking the chair was a specimen
rick, and his demeanor generally
bowed that there is something in him :
ct untold. We Will hear from Mr.. Da-
is in due time in Memphis. l
Why he is called "Capshaws Noun j
your correspondent knows not, E
ut he has certainly some tall talk in u
i'm. One of the resolutions passed was,
} send delegates to the State COnven- =
on, which meets at Montgomery on |
ne nineteenth of June, with a view to d.
irther the interests Of the Greedy and I
;rown movement. /
During my travels, L had the OPP tse
ortunity of eonversing with Ii
lumber Of prominent and dis
nguished gentlemen, some of them 4
high official position, all Of whom ex- 81
ressed the hope that the Baltimore "
convention would not place another Y
andidate into the field, as such a course 1
-ould be detrimental to the best inter- u
;ts of the country, and the same opin-
N prevails among the masses of the Z
eople. Even the colored people recog- =
lie the faet that it is to their interest r
support the Liberal movement, and y
i'll vote for Greeley, unless they are y
impered with too much by the vam- +
yres of the South. -
The aforementioned convention will W
2 held at Montgomery on the same :
~ with the called Democratic Conven- q
on, and the G~reeleyites are willing to I
,mpromise and make concessions, q
aving it to the Democrats to come to su
tacit understanding with the Liberal m
lovement. The Capshaw Mountain ia
an is one of the delegates. Look OUT L
r mountainous talk. TOURIST. \
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