Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-04
NEW ORLEANS.
The queen City Of the SOuth-What
She is Politically and Socially
The Democratic Ticket.
The Oil and Rice MiIIs-Other Manu-.
featuring and Industrial INTEREST,"
The House OF the Wealthy
and the Poor.
From an Occasional Correspondent of the

From an Occasional Correspondent of the
Appeal zee
NEW ORLEANS, August 2.-You will
be surprise to receive a letter from me
from this city, but the changes in an old
mans life often F9t3nish himself ]
have been more or lCe1 familier with
New OrlC ans for half century, and
on every visit / learn more and
more of her vRst resource, and, like
the queen of Sh> ba, l begin II think
the half of her greatness hfs never been
told. From the a. onp4nyiug par u
you will see that this season she hr re
ceived more than one million six hun
dred thousand bales of cotton, come five
hundred thousand barrels Of rice, tWen-
ty-five thousand hogsheads of tobacco,
and have not SscertrinC1 as yet the
precise amount Of louisiana sugar, but
it has been large. Add to these the
large hog crop brought here from the
west; the corn, the flour, the wheat,
bran, hay, the live stock, and you may
begin to form some estimate OF her
trade. MilIioI are yearly realized
from the cultivation of IIish and sweet
potatoe1, onions, navy beans, COW per s,
cabbages, and early vegetables and mel
Ops shipped to every portion OF this
years growth he's been on the market
some six weeks, among them yams
weighing over six pounds. Peaches
pears, figs, grapes, apples, oranges, lem
ons, the product of this State, are sold
everywhere. Her trade in lumber
pine, cypress and hVe.Oak-is large, So
also that of rOsin, pitch, tar, tuTpentine
and moss. While New Orleans, like
every city in the Union, shows 8
marked shrinksge in her property VAL
ues, she is not discouraged q to her fu-
ture, as the following will show: A large
building is near completion, in which
Senator Jones, OF Nevada, and other far
seeing capitalists ere stockholders, for
the manufacture of ice, the fectories for
the manufacture OF that article hereto.
fore built being unable to supply the
demand. This building requir more
than quarter of a square of ground.
A new cotton press is Ceing built, with
the most powered presses ever before
made. A ierge sugar refinery, five
story building, occupies the lew iiont
of the sugar landing, aud will be finished
ia a Jew wCcks. The large It cotton
"a oil MIL on The continent-the
yearly copsumpiJl OF Ceed in 1T will b
G 2>-itlan t. of all the Memphis
m "s cobb II will / completed and
-5y Or work by the fit OF October.
tbs se5nc3 Ibid move, when they
h2Vy here P'rC .dy in OF jIation four
her Il sc MIL, The are new enter
pr, al VII cav nothing of their
merc .ctuTilg feciliie1 except that
they e'rer iy rave eight Ice mills in
OF )ratiOn. A VOID es to theso rice mills.
I he cultivatio o. =: } in this State is
growing rapidly. The process Of prepsr-
ing it for u-o is I Is 'ly, and hence it is
Brought here in the Hroughn and passed
the-e mills. By the kindness
Of Mr.. Allen, the owner of one OF
these mills, and b. miller, whose
r anne did not lesrn-and this regret,
for ne is a practicable, sensible, ccurte-
or gentleman--I YVES shown through
his mill, and had the entire proce-J
fully explained - me. This rice, when
placed on the ct is VOL n from five
- eight cents per pound, Ps to quality,
30 make your esrimat e. to its value.
have said nothing OF the old enter |
pr'T, Of this city, or Of the lesser public |
Dr. private once, and will only add that |
some of them of magnf- |
.udt-are growing up in every part Of it. |
so you will l. srn there "a ''life in the old |
place yet" What Ere our pc Jple doing |
or Memphis? Through the kindness Of
me who has extended every court ~
Jiuce have been here, 1 have enjoyed
many evening rid through various
portions of the city. A stranger here
will be delighted with the city. There
IRE many miserable shaniies, rickety
ences and tumble down waste places
where iudo ence hs7 leu things at loose
'nds generally, but there are also prince
y structures and lovely surroundings
hat challenge the admiration of even
he mCst fs3tidiOus. When one looks
lone at what nature has done for this
lace, and what man may do, he will
owe over it but to admire ard point to
ts glorious destiny, instead Of hunting
Or the footprints OF war and the fruits
( reconstruction. Who can place bounds
D her future when she shall have been
estOred to a government Of her own
hoice7 That day will sOon come.