Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-30
jsEMPEEIS APPEAL
FRIDAY. JULY 80. 1875.
rInnns- CRnPs AND PKOsPECTs.

FLOODS, CROPs and PROSPECTS.
The Mississippi valley has certainly
been "the sport Of fortunes varying
chance" this spring. As If TO make up
for hard times and frowns OF no slight
weight, the crops came like kings
rsnsom-princely in their plenty, noble
in unstinted bounty. How every heart
expanded; "the good time coming
so often sung Of, so ardently longed for
was come at last. Wales and hills smiled
with pleaty; the field, the garden, the
orchard, all were buOyant with the be-
uignant gifts Of kindly providence.
/, was too good. All this could never
be realized, and the azure Of heavens
concave hid itself; inky clouds blotted
cut the bright and benehcent sum- thun-
ders muttered vengeance from the far
of horizon, and midnight was Mortified
with the, fslguratioDs Of lurid and in
tense lightnings. Then came down the
rain-not the soft, sweet droppings Of
kindly mercy, but the down-pOurlng,
whose violence carries destruction.
Soon the mighty Mississippi took its
part in the harsh reproof Of the jsrring
elements. PitiabIe ii is TO gaze where
destruction has set her seRl. The
noble corn wits and sinks be-
meath the waters, and the fish swim
gleefully where acres OF promising cot
ton are perishiDg. But God is good,
and-although the vast msgnificence Of
the gil has been trenched upon-there
il still plenty. Plenty to rejoice the
heart Of the husbandman. Plenty to
send 10 foreign climes less favored than
our own. Plenty 10 bring us out OF the
slough Of despair, a1d start Us rejoicing
on the way to prosperity. But the flash,
the thunder and the crashing storm still
visit US, and thousands, who had begun to
think all danger past, are again asking
will not the flood Overwhelm US after
all, and our hopes be swept away, and
we be left the prey Of Disappointment,
grief, and perjury? We think not. We
are not prophets, and can only judge Of
what we now see before us. kilograms,
1t is true, tell Us Of the streams rising at
various places; but what has been our
salvation hitherto, and as far as present
information goes will be again, is that
high water is not continuous. Let the
Mississippi be high all the way up to
st. Paul; OF the Ohio bank full from
Cairo up to Pittsburg, and there is little
hope of escape. But let it fall at st.
Louis while it is rising at Cape Girar-
deaU, and decrease at Dubuque while 1t
is flooding at st. Paul, and similar
changes Of level exist in the Ohio. and
we have no reason to despair. The low
periods will reach us as well as the lofty
ones, during the low intervals water
enough will run away to prevent the
next high stage reaching the point
OF overflow, and so we are
saved from calamity. A con-
sutation Of the telegIams the AP-
PEAL publishes each morning will tell
the reader Just what amount Of alarm or |
confidence a sensible man is justified in |
expressing. AS long as there are spots |
here and there in the rivers where the |
hight Of the water is decreasing, there |
is 10 reason to abandon hope. When |
the high water becomes continuous in |
the upper main streams, it is time to |
adopt every precaution against flood. |
AS the rains now visiting us-hesvy |
rains, indeed, for the latter end Of July |
are partial, pouring down in one spot |
to-day and another miles away tO-mOr- |
row, there appears little probability of
the occurrence OF that continuance of |
high water that is necessary to consti-
tute a flood. We look forward with
much notwithstanding all
the alarms we hear eXpressed-tO pleR-
tiful hRrvests. Wheat is abundant in
thousands Of southern homesteads, where
it has long been stranger. Corn, also,
is in plenty, and many plantations have
oats, millet, and clover. Potatoes are
everywhere excellent and in sutticiency.
Apples were never in more Astounding
supply, and they are already a source Of
income that is bringing unexpected
comforts TO thousands Of rejoicing FAM
lies. The cotton return, we have ev-
cry reason to expect, will be 8 boun-
tiful one. True, the condition Of
things in Europe threaten to
cut down prices, Bankruptcies have de-
ranged trade, and although the English
are not the persons
caught, they take In sail, the more so as
wOrBmen are striking and
giving them just the chance for restricting
operations they wanted. All this will tell
against the price Of cotton, but If We
nave the consequences of bad trade in En-
-ope added to our own depression to con-
end with, how happy thing it is that
We have big crop, and plenty of wheat,
corn and oats to stand the siege with!
There are difficulties and troubles still,
enough to embarrass us and temper our
sRtisfsctiOn-but We have bountifu! har-
vests; our people will have sufficient Of
he necessaries Of life; the hope of bet
er times ia springing up in all our
breasts 80 let Us lay aside our lament
ngs and anticipstions Of evil, and re-
DICE in the many, many blessings He
las given Us from whom comes all good,
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