Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-27
IMMIGRATION.
What Arkansas Needs and Must Have,
and How she May Get it.
Governor Baxter's Duty-A Good Agent
and JudiciOuS Printing Wanted.

From an Occasional Correspondent.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, June 25.-Cor,
respondent "C,n in relation to Arkan-
sas immigration matters, seems to think
that all European immigration is des-
tined for the northwest at all hazards
As they arrive at Castle Garden that
their minds are already settled, like the
needle of the compass; that it would be
sheer folly TO attempt TO turn this cur
rent; that 90 it all would anyhow in
that direction. This is, to say the least,
very greatly exaggerated. Immigrants,
as they arrive at the point indicated, see
no one representing the interests of the
south and southwest; not even the four
page circular letter of "TOp." in the
hands OF James Y. Mason and the Amer,
lean zinc company, of New York, fol
gratuitOus distribution, detailing the his
tory of the Kellogg lead and silver dis
trict and the great Gravel Hill mine.
And much less does the German immi-
grant see any publication in his own
language of the many advantages
of the south and southwest for this
class of immigrants. Not so with the
northwest; these States are not only
represented with agents, but with
descriptive pamphlets in the German,
French, English, and not even Omitting
the Scandinavian languages, all giving
glowing descriptions of the advantages
Of their several States. Consequently
the current of emigration is set toward
the northwest. And until an agent is
quartered at Castle Garden, representing
the'southwest, and one, too, capable OF
" writing up" the country thoroughly,
we can whistle to the winds for speedy
immigration. Go build up our waste
places and open our mines. Three OF
four years ago this State, at great cost,
undertook to send an emigrant agent tO
Europe; in fact, did send, l believe, Mr..
Joseph Myers. What was accomplished E.
Nothing. This was not Mr.. Myers fault,
but the unfortunate selection that was
made by the executive of the place that
was adopted. IN the first place
the State requires no agent in Eu-
rope. II she did the last person in the
world that should be selected as an
agent for this important mission would
be one of the ostracised class OF citi-
zens Of our country. Plain vocation Is
and always will be trading. Engaged
in the commercial affairs of the country.
The antipathy of the mass of the citi-
zens OF the world everywhere is against
them. Always will be. And in this
connection, 1 hope Governor Baxter viii
avoid the breakers that fioundered the
emigration scheme of a former eXecu
tive. This immigration matter is o
paramount importance TO every citizeI
of the State. The right man should b'
selected for this important duty. A cit
lien rather of the State than one of sim
ply temporary location here. The ini.
tiated, as a matter of course, understand
the drift of the correspondents argu
ment However clever my practica
friend &C" is, and good citizen, anC
having filed important positions in th'
State government, and does yet, 1 be
lieve be is not the man for this position
This is unfortunate, as / would like L
see him appointed to the plac'
he so much coveted to procure a gratui
tous trip to Europe and back at th'
States expense. Besides, we don't wan
an agent there. But We do need an emf
grant agent at New York. And in thi
connection, as we have at last secured {
through rail route from the outer world
Uia the Cairo and Fulton railroad, if thu
executive would solicit Thomas Allen
the president of this road, to negotiate
for q through emigrant car from New
York city for Arkansas at very low rate
of fare-say at g special rate of ten dol
lars per head, through-fOr the months
of September, October and November
the time that we mostly need certain
class Of laborers, it is very possible tha
with every emigrant train that leavei
New York one car would be filled fO
Arkansas. By this means the curren
would be set in toward Arkansas. AnC
after the first of January next, the prob
able date of the completion of the st
Louis bridge, il is not at all impossible
that a through train daily would come
through as soon as emigration com
menced in the spring, for Arkansas
Texas and northern Louisiana. To ac
compiish anything, at first exraordi
nary inducements must be offered th'
immigrant, in cheap fare, and de-
scriptive history of the country place.
in his hands in his native language
whatever that may be, and of as brief |
character as this important subject viii
permit. A hundred-page pamphlet i
large enough to publish a succinct his
tory Of the country in all the essentia
languages, English, German, Scandlna
vian and French, with a descnptIvl
list Of names and firms of reliable small
agents Of their own nativity. This mat
ter, after six months or year, will TAX
care of itself as soon as the current !
! once turned in this direction. This let
/ ter is already too long, but this question
is Of such vital importance to all that
requires not only a thorough writing a.
at home but in the press abroad, in be
| half of down-trodden Arkansas.
The Florence (Ala.) Times and jour
mai says: Frank Young, formerly O
this county, killed a man, named Pat
! tersOn, at Cherokee, last Thursday. tn
circumstances, as reported TO US, are q
| follows: 'Young was teasing a nttl
boy in the presence Of Patterson. PatteI
son told him to stop. Young asked hin
If be took it Up. Patterson said, "Yes,
whereupon Young rushed upon hin
with knife, infiicting terrible wound
/ from which he died. The deputy-sher
ifr of Colbert county and his posse fol
/ lowed Young into this county, but, {
the time of this writing, he has not beel
captured. Il is to be hoped, however