Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-13
MISSISSIPPI.
Good n.PlantatiOns-The Crops :
Chances Of Ames ndAlcOrn-
The Negro.

From an Occasional Correspondent
WILLOW LAKE PLANTATION, Sep
tember 1l.-CoahOma county, the resi-.
denee Of Senator Alcorn, is reached by
the iower-coast packets that ply be-
tween Memphis, Helena, Napoleon,
etc. 1t Is one Of the finest cOttOn-pro-
ducing sections Of Mississippi, and
when the crop fails ia other places this
county can be relied on to ill its quota.
There are several landings from which
one can reach the interior, but POwell's
CITY is the most prominent, being the
terminus Of the
MOBILE AND NORTHWESTERN RAIL
ROAD,
which runs through the richest cotton
lands Of this State. The road is
graded twenty-five miles, and the cross
ties laid ten miles. Work has been sus-
pended, temporarily, on account of
financial difficulties, but the supposl-
ton is that it will be resumed as soon
as other parties, who are now contract
ing for the purchase Of the road, con-
clude their arrangements. Since the
road has been contemplate 4, a town has
been surveyed-and a numbeTOf build
ings erected-named
PowELL's CITY,
/ in honor Of Colonel John NJ. Powell, a
Chevalier Bsyard, a patron Of Lord
Chesterfield, and some say, but ssrcasti-
cally, a Sir John Falstaf, minus the
paunch. This latter assertion, how
ever, is nota true comparison, for Chest
erfield could not be likened unto Jack
Fslstaff The day before leaving this
village, called at the postOfiice and in
cidentally witnessed a musical enter
tainment rarely to be heard. The post
master, eU O5tciO, was seated on 8
counter; a couple Of deniZens occupied
seats on cracker-boxes. The CI obiciO
performed Captain JblkS. and time was
kept by the denizens, vino shook like
dry bones, with chills.
WILLOW LAEE PLANTATION,
situated two miles and a half from the
Mississippi river, is worked by a model
planter, Mr.. James X. Jeffries. The
great trouble in the south is the scarcity
, of labor, but truth leaks out that labor
ers are, in many instances, swindled Of
their pay, and hence the scarcity. Mr.
JeffTies pays his hands of regularly
every Saturday evening during the
picking-seasOn, and some Of the best
pickers average from eighteen dollars to
twenty dollars per week. He has more
applicants than he can find the work to
accommodate. This place will turn out
from two hundred TO two hundred and
fifty bales of cotton.
THE CROPS
throughout Coahoma are excellent; but
off from the river ten or twelve miles
rust has done some damage, and hardly
hn rrena1 ~ NpfI. Ia
produced in those sections.
POLITICS.
Every white man one cOnveTses with,
especially those who-e interests are
identified with the prosperity Of the
State, wishes for the election of AlcOrn.
The negroes, however, will not go as
strong for him here as in other counties.
In fact, there are hundreds who will not
vote at all. They are sick of it; they
say there Is no money in il, and prefer
one dollar per hundred for picking cot
ton 10 voting TO Oblige a few scurvy
politicians. Captain Brown, of the late
Confederate navy, a man Of intelll-
gence, and deep thinker, is of opinion
that the contest throughout the State
VIII be very close, and says now is the
time for the Democratic party TO make
nominations, ana abandon the passive
policy. The whites going en- HdSSe for
Senator AlcOrn will drive the negroes
from his support. With a split Repub-
lican vote the Democratic nominees
could easily be elected to the important
positions which their intelligence,
patriotism and interests justly en-
title them. This :, he says, the way
the planters in the river counties view
the political campaign now agitating
all classes. The negro element along
the Mississippi river largely predOmi-
nate, and it is the worst governed portion
of the State, and as a natural cOnse-
quence the whites regard this as life
and-death struggle between thieves and
honest men. 5.