Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-26
COLUMBIA.
Its People, Railways, Lawyers, NeWsPa-
BeFS.

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COLUMBIA, TENN, June2l.
EDITORS APPEAL-This, as you art
well aware, is one Of the most charming
towns in Tennessee. 1t has been the
home of some of the ablest and most
distinguished lawyers, divines and
statesmen that have eve lived in the
State. The bar here is still a very able
one, as may be inferred from the fact
that at the last election a Supreme Court
Judge, a Circuit Court Judge, a Chan
cellor, a member of Congress, and an
Attorney-G General were selected from the
Columbia bar. The educational advan-
tages of this place, especially for fe-
males, are inferior to none in the State.
Two of the handsomest buildings, sur
rounded by the most beautiful grounds,
are occupied as institutions Of learning
for girls and young ladies. Both OF
them have warm friends, and are highly
spoken of by all good judges. Nc place
in Tennessee is better suited, on account
of health, fine scenery, elegant and ac-
eomplished society, for the education of
girls than Columbia, as can be testified
by thousands of the most accomplished
women in the South, who have been ed
Heated here.
More persons have gone from this town
and county to Memphis, than from any
other in this or any other State, and 1
think I IAN safely say the people of Co.
lumbia feel a deep interest in Memphis,
and are DESTROYS Of a direct connection
with your city, which they will get by
means of the Columbia, jackson and
Memphis road. 1t is only one hundred
and ten miles from this place to Jackson,
and there is no railroad in any Of the
counties between the two places. This
road will give these people not only the
most direct route to Memphis, but also
to New Orleans. 1t is as near from CO.
lumbia to Memphis by this route, as
from Decatur to Memphis by the Mem
phis and Charleston railroad. AT pres
ent, Columbia and Maury county are de-
pendent alone on the Nashville and De-
catur road, and as there is no competi-
ton, freights are very high, as is always
the case where there is but one road.
Let a road be built to Jackson, Tennes-
see, and then freights and passenger fare
will be reduced fifty per cent, at least.
The building Of the Nashville and De-
catur road added over two millions of
dollars to the value of land in this coun-
ty, or more than five dollars to the acre
on an average. This Jackson road will
benefit the county even more by reduced
freights and increase Of competition,
than the road they now have. They
can manufacture successfully here
until the road from the Cumberland
mountains to the Tennessee river is
built, and without manufacturing estab-
Columbia can never be any,
thing moe than a pleasant, agreeable,
and fOurishing town, withsix !
or eight thousand inhabitants. As a
manufacturing place, it might easily
have a population Of twenty thousand,
but this can never be until the McMinn-
vile and Jackson road is built.
Agriculture is in a much more i'm
proved condition than in West Tennes-
see. Here all the land is made available.
That which they do not cultivate in
corn, cotton, tobacco or grain, they sow
IN clover, timothy, or some ether kind
Of grass. They do not buy their food
and wOrk-stock, but raise them. They
therefore find time and opportunity to
improve and f~ertilize their lands. West
could do likewise, and never
viii be a prosperous country until it
1oes. No people who buy what they eat
and wear, and all their work-stock and
farming utensils, can ever increase much
IN wealth. They have in this county
five or six different kinds of reapers and
mowers; among them the Buckeye, the
Champion, the Clipper, the Excelsior,
and others. All Of them have advocates
and friends. How many have we in
Hardeman, Shelby, Haywood
and Madison? And yet these counties
grow clover, timothy and herds
grass, especially in the bottoms, equal
% Marry and Williamson. This county
S now full Of fine cattle, sheep and hogs,
of riding and trotting horses equal
any in Kentucky. There is no reason
Why as good stock cannot be raised in
West as in Middle Tennessee, with
care. They are building, in this
part Of the State, a great many rock
around their farms. We have not
he limestone rock QUITO which to make
ences, but we can grow hedges, which
will do equally as well. The lands in
West Tennessee are owned in too large
'odies to be improved as they should.
l omitted to mention that the railroad
this place to jackson viii pass near
he celebrated Beaver Dam springs, in
Hickman county. OF
The opposition to conventions here
nay result in the defeat of the two DEM
cratic candidates for Criminal Judge.