Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-31
LITTLE ROCK.
The CapifaI OF Arkansas as Tt Ts-Easet
Of Curi-etuaEEery-Ups and Downs
OF uId Citizens-Pers0naI

The CapifaI OF Arkansas as II Is-Easet
Of Cars.stuaEEery-Ups Rnd Downs
OF uId Cftizens-Pers0naI
From an Occasional CorrespOudentl
LITTLE Rock, December 2S Little
Rock. q few wears ago ci immense eX-
yactati1us, but what failure. The grass
areeuly grows IN its streets, where dur
5rr the flush times Of 1857 ard 1865 you
wauld fiud the country wagons strung
aIaug for S mile waiting their turn 10
find some one of the tuen prosperous
business-CO commercial trade, with little
idle time enough % buy OF bsrter for
his "hE 5kgOads truck Of cotton, bldse,
p-liries, furs, beesgaX, tallOw OF pey
naUs chickens, z Egs or butter not that
there Is as fully as much Of this product
handled here today, end perhaps more
than in the good old days OF dirt
rcaGs. Bur this product Is handled and
delivered 10 the trader by the modern
lied agency OF We railroad. Nc barteT
or bat liIlls meIchsndlse are sold IA eX-
change Tor the c0uutTymsn's truck. He
does bis trading nearer home al the
railway station, and the realization Of
IDS ttttr lu- 4re-l t--cNdtJ t.tlIS SAoett
pzoutuEes-, of sclipsing Memphis
O. aCgs ring tie one hundred thou
sand Bcuu alton by 1850, pre-
5i.5zI b. iha busy aspect 0feyery indus
trial ig5er-st q few years ago, grows
beautifully less from day to-day. The
great Cairo and Fulton, st. Louis and
tuon Mountain railway, that has 80
beautifully aud geo graphically split the
State ~ half has rendered Little Rock
simply a ssy-staliOn upon the line OF
the 7, zd ike any other point upon the
line Of this great railway. Convenience
and advantages are great; but this does
not compensate rloss OF trade, decreased
AID sBrIukage OF value Of corner busi-
ness property, idle stOrehOus5s and the
luudreds-yea, almost, tbOusaDds-Of
uuempl iyei people. Little Rock can,
however, boast anu point the hnger Of
uriae to the immense history she bSs
made OF good AMI evil report since the
w2h - The scene Of the BrOokE-Bsx-
ser conflict sud war for the possession Of
the executive office OF governor lst
spring, which not only beggared the
6un1ble and lOWly-dUped followers or
Brooks, but beggared, both in pocket
and repu atioH, the leaders Of the Brooks
can. Not Oue-yea, not a single one
except DR.. Weeks, who bad shared with
BROOKS. CLAYTON and Haiiey in pluu
i-ripg tbe state and robbing the people
aud taxDayeTs Of their honest earnings
for tne last six years, have a single dol
Jar left. not even enough 10
purchase tWO-bit breakfast
f1r one Of these old grsy-Besded negro
dupes Surely, retTibUdOn sure and
swift finished the evil-dOers as well in
the high places Of the synagogue as
their lowly followers And in the rob-
berry Of the people, I make bold TO say,
abe like Of which wss never perpetrated
lpsn auy other people Of any State IN
Lhe -uiOp, not even excepting South
Carolina or Louisiana. The days OF
their robbery are numbersd. IL the pre-
sent eTnment-Occupylng the places
of Clayton and bis tOols-if not an inn
movement in economy, they are more
honest. Many Of the people OF Little
RJcs, as well a. Of the safe, have seen
beir cups AID downs those outside Of
the Radical fold. Perhsps no one I1ore
uromiueut than s II. Tucker, Esq,
Proprietor Of the suspended bank OF 5.
IA. Tusker a year ago. Thirty years ago
be failed ia business in the then almost
ir.ipuideant trading point Pine Bluf
He came TO Little Rock with
an Of his worldly POSSESSIONS, |
saved from his creditors aud failure,
s5Out two hundred dollars all told; I
bought out q small establishment here, |
commenced business in real earnest and
az the commencement Of the War he
was princeiy-immensely wealthy, IN
money, stocks, meTchaBdise, negroes
aud pianta ions. The war cleaned BIN
out totally. except his Plantations Com
nleHced st the close OF the war tie bank
dug business ia . moderate way, and
rrolg li- small commencement amassed
80 q h~ years another snug fortune.
Being, aGW ever, a noted character, and
q mau OF S too kindly disposition, he
lgeued out. scattered his means among
bis suppose friends, who got the better
0F he fldgnlent and fsiied 10 make good
their iuai s, and wIen swept under ty
fge yauic Iucger had 70 succumbin COLI
tegusgca tg an irresistible fEte-failUre,
though hauug ample means, II coilec- /
tiaus could be made, 10 psy Out anu have
. 1.. nice sam OF two hundred and nity 4
-bou.ea6 rouaJs over aud Stove his LA
Jiif!eq. He j., however, yet EctiVe
enough. and possesses the confidence Of /
fhs entire people Of the southwest tOt
aulsss another fortune and es-
csra fhe breakers Of another 4
u diesI hsecing like the last. /
Auother one Of the most humble nota- /
5Ies o. this great wilderness region OF
the southwest had his origin in the
great keystone State, was killed, 50 re-
ported officially, IN the BaXter-Brooks
war last auriGg, ss his relatives have
siuce applied for pension an other 4
f1r his supposed dead hide /
sud tsIIow. Ia their terrible great loss
% their KIND "msu aud BROTHER" Is the
famed correspondent of the st. Louis /
.J0wnql, as. II. n, who a. the Wild
authUr OF ihe many Wild letters Of the 1
great res5urc 8 Of Arkansas In Rgflc1i- 4
IurAl and minerals Of few years ago /
that turned every mothers son OF Ar
Kansas crazy upou the noted question OF
ne vast resBurces Of this State 10 silver, I
cad aud iron ores and the gold and dia-
mand resources Of the Hot Springs 4
country. Old "Iron Gray" is stiii liv-
ing. better known among his most intl-
maie friends a. IS. = without the |
separating or dividing periods between
the siS A" aui "H.," !" and Is likely 10 ave /
Sor . good mGoy years to come, eTea u I
he is forty, sad Jimmy biDoalG
aud others, chums, informed ms lsmby /
rHIwEfNAE anu nl- LlEfAAlt- aAAA3 4AAAe-A
that he went down into the
Arkausas sea upon the steamer Halle,
iu the dgbt 81 Pdaraa bayou, and rose
no more. b b Is living and a success
ftl drummer er-ncommeTcisi tourist for
Az extensive cotton GDd commits siGp
house Of ST. Louis. Has Travelled al
over the south, - swinging round the
circle in soliciting cOBsignments Of
southern prodaee and drumming up
trade fsr the city Of the ''gIeat future
Re, Ike his great, great prototype, 5.
III ..e8mmenced his megosutile career
* a very esrly period cf has eventu
career. down at the Post OF ArsSCsss
s'terward engaged with George w:
both not over tWenty, 1854 and
1856. ia making the second preliminary
survey o. tie Cairo aud Fulton railroed.
Colonel Huehss has Stree been the lo-
osfiia engineer at tbs r0sd, anc now /
the ehiei engineer Of me Little Rock /
and Fofi Smith railway.
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