American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-04

the rent out of their crop. AT this
time some Industrious and econOm-
zeal freedmen are living upon par
GELS of land which they have bought
and paid or are paying for the same.
Some are living upon rented land,
the crops in many cases not yielding
them sufficient to pay off the debts
they incur for living. Some ale
working for wages, for planter
here and there, who saved Il little
out of the general wreck. Now
many are talking of selling off their
stock and going back to the system
ditiOn things must come sooner or
later. The freedmen as whole
look comfortable and are lntelli
gent. But there appears an air of
IanguidnesS among them-a want
of energy-in consequence of which
were extraordinarily large this year,
have not been fnlly harvested, and
considerable cotton which cannot
now be gathered in time will be
lost. In consequence of this want
of energy of the laboring class, and
the great scarcity of money, much
of the rich, fertile lard, which hard
iy can be equaled anywhere, lies
idle and unprOductive Here then
is a want that must be supplied.
Industrious tailoring men must be
procured. A class of settlers sought
for, and inducements held out for
such to come, who have the energy,
! the ability, the industry and the
means to take hold of portions of
the land and skillfully cultivate it.
The planters. the merchants, every
person OF influence ask this-nay
they beg that it may be so. Such a
class of people would be welcomed
heartlly-they would be received
with open arms. That they would
prosper far beyond their most san
guine expectations, and as they can
not do in the north, time would full
ly and surely demonstrate.
The temperature of the air, inside
doors in summer, during the hot
test part of the day is about ninety
degrees; ordinarily it is about eigh-
ty. There is constantly slight
breeze. Dews cool the atmosphere.
They are so heavy as to mOisten the
roads, and a person walking through
the woods in the early morning, the
water running off the trees like rain
would wet him as much as much as
if out in shower. The nights be-
ing longer than at the north help to
cool the earth. No, case of sunstrOke
is said to have ever been known.
White people from the North work
in the fields and suffer no incon
veniance or harm in consequence.
A sheet or blanket is required as a
covering for comfort at night. No
sweating in hot nights as at the
north. The coolest weather in win
ter is about thirty degrees. Ice
does not attain a thickness of more
than an inch or an inch and half.
The first frost occurs in the latter
part of October or beginning of No
vember Winter months, December,
January and February. Rains most
in January and some in February.
The climate is SalubriOus. DIR.
Tucker, resident of Livingston,
and a practicing physician of much
Experience, stated that cases OF ty-
phOid fever and Pneumonia were
rare; that he necer met acith a case OF
consumption; that there was no yell
low fever, and the only prevailing
diseases were bilious fever, and
chills and fever, which were always
of mild type, and yielded readily
to medical treatment. The people
all looked robust and had a healthy
appearance, and did not have that
sallOw, emaclated look that so ma
ny of the western people have.
Having thus given some account
of the information gained of Madi-
son county, Mississippi, with retlec
tons arising out of the same, and
having Travelled through the states
of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, it may 6e
proper before closing to say that the
people met, without Il single known
exception, where extremely sociable,
polite, well educated-many highly
sO-and refined. That it is time
the people of the north should un-
derstand the character of the south
ern people better than they do.
Such ignorance of it as exists at the
present time among us is inexcusa-
BILE; and the almost universal belief,
and the many newspaper state
ments at the north that, life and the
rights of the property of the north
ern man are not respected, is one OF
the most untruthlul and mischevOus
decisions which cOnld be invented
or labcred under. Every southern
man met with a person from the
north, telling them how welcome
they were in their midst and how
aIdently they desired them to come
and settle among them and bring
with them good, Industrious people
that would work; reiterating this
time and again, as if their whole
soul was in it. There was not a
particle of political luminosity ex-
hibited. Radicals were met with,
southern people themselves, who
were more violent in their express
ions than is ever heard at the north,
and it even did not provoke re-
ply, but fell upon the ear unno-
ticed. Even President Grant,
whose name was upon every per-
sons lips, was kindly spoken of,
and if he and congress, instead of
unwisalv ,,aSSiuU laws nffanSivo to