The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-09-10
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
NORTH AND WEST.
From the Farmers vindicator.


: our readers the address of Northern and
Western men, to to their friends in the
North and West This address answers
candidly and generously most of the ques-
tons asked by those contemplating a re-
moval to the South, either for health or
profit When it is known that most of
the signers to the address have been living
at the South, and in Mississippi, since the
surrender, the facts it contains must have
their weight.
ADDRESS
TO MOTHERS MEN CONTEMPLATING RENO
VAL TO NEW HOMES, FROM NORTHERN
MKN-MANY OF THEM OLD UNION SOL
DIERs-NoW RESIDING IN JACKSON, MIssIs-
| sIPPI
FELLOW CITIZENS: Believing that
Mississippi offers inducements to immi-
grants, and affords facilities for successful
enterprise rarely equalled, and certainly
not surpassed, in the South, and being
anxious that you should settle among us
and help US to develop the rich resources
of our own new homeland, We send you
this address, in which we viii briefly sum
up the facts on which our preference is
based.
CLIMATE.
The climate of Mississippi is mild,
genial and salubrious. Its territory ex-
| tends north from the sea-coast about five
degrees, and embraces variety of tenn
peratures. The summers are long and
heat so often felt in the North and West,
and the days and nights are generally
made comfortable by a lively breeze.
L i Il
extreme northern portion of the State ice
is scarcely ever seen more than an inch
thick, and in the extreme south killing
frosts are quite as rare.
HEALTH.
The salubrity of Mississippi is wonder
full; for, notwithstanding its numerous
water-courses and extended sea-coast, and
their consequent low-lands, it is as healthy
as any other area of the same size on the
continent Of America. Old physicians,
who have practiced both in the Northwest
and here, tell us that this region is much
more healthy than that, and that diseases
yield more rapidly to treatment here than
there.
The soil of Mississippi IS exceedingly |
fertile, and the subsoil is good and well |
adapted to sustain the surface and con-
tribute to It's immense prOductiveness; and |
in no country will lands yield more to |
their appearance, or pay better for thor
ough tillage and careful husbandry. The |
upland soils vary from the inexhaustible |
richness of our walnut hills, black prairies, |
mari slopes and limestone intervals, to the
blackjack ridges, post-oak flats, pine
plains, sand hills and white sands of the |
sea-coast; but all produce astonishingly, |
and every acre will yield richly remuner-
alive crops to wise and industrious tillage;
and the alluviums are equal to any
in the world, in their wealth of produc-
tons
SURFACE.
The northern portion of the State is
billy, oak and hickory uplands. The
middle portion is, on the east, undulating
prairie; on the west alluvial, or level
bottom lands, Apd between these rolling,
bilIowy uplands, equal in beauty, with
similar improvements, to the famous
bluegrass region of Kentucky; and the
southern portion is, on the west, magnolia
and walnut hills; in the middle and on
the east, gently rolling pine lands of
surprising beauty; while in the south
is found a level, sandy pine fat from
ten to fifteen miles wide-the healthiest
sea-coast of the same extent in the world.
And all this varied surface is chan
nelIed by numerous creeks and rivers COW
cred by vast forests of inestimables value. /,
PRODUCTIONS. {
These are as varied as the climate, soil
and surface of the State. All the cereals,
and fruits of the temperate
zone; all the semi-tropical and many of
the tropical esculents of the earth; all the
most textile productions, such as cotton,
fax, hemp, ramie, jute, wool, and even |
silk, can be raised here to great perfection. :
Wheat, corn, rice and tobacco grow well,
and with skilled management would soon
become staples of but little less impor !
lance than cotton itself Irish and sweet i
potatoes, and all kinds of garden vegeta-
bIes yield enormously. Fruits of every
kind are at home here, and not less than
fifty thousand dollars, net cash, were c
realized from peaches alone, by few {
farmers in Kinds county. Grasses do G
finely, and hay will soon be common
staple of the State. Sugar-cane grows
and already many of our
are producing their own molasses.
One agricultural warehouse in this city 6
has, this season, received orders for {
9ighty-two cane mills and thirty-five rice
mills, showing that the tendency is to di-
versify agricultural pursuits, and produce 9
1t home all that is needed for home con- o
sumption. Besides all this, no better b
country than Mississippi can be /
found any where for raising poultry,
logs, goats, sheep, cattle, horses and
mules. O
MANUFACTURING FACILITIES.
From our immense forests and the
numerous swiftly-fowiDg streams that
everywhere checker the State, it is plain
hat we can have steam and water power +
sufficient to manufacture all the raw
material of every kind, that we can posi-
oly produce, and that it will require only a
IN earnest effort to accomplish a great 8
work in this direction. lp
FACILITIES FOR MARKETING. t
By reference to your maps, you will
zee that our entire western border is =
washed by the Mississippi river, and that
he Tombigbee is easily accessible on a
part of the east, and that Pearl river runs
through the centre, and that the Yazoo {
md its tributaries, and several smaller Q
streams, afford facilities for marketing.
Also, that two railroads runs the
whole length of the State, that one
crosses it at right-angles, and that several
,thers are completed or in course of con-
truction. e
CHURCH AND SCHOOL PRIVILEGES.
The whole State il dotted over with =