Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-31
THE VIcKSBURG DISTRICT
The CrOps-What a Model Farmer
Realizes for his Small Industries
The TiIden and Hendricks Clubs.
General Chalmers's Speech-ihe Col
Ored People FlOcking to Hear Him,
and Promise to Vote for Him

From an Occasional Correspondent of the
Appeal
BAMBOO, NEAR VICKsBURG, October
rs Crops are not hslt rs good as IL
Arkansas. On the line OF the railroad
from Memphis to COTinth, Columbus,
Meridian, Jackson and this place, the
cotton is nearly all gathered; the fields
lOoE as barren as bleak December. l
spent a week in Ok;ibbehs county,
with my friend James II. Askew, who
is e furnishing like "gTeeu bay tTe +" 2s
he is,nOW turning his cotton faTU into
a stock farm. Toe country is spl5Edid
for stock, as it costs nothing tC feed
them, The pastursge bsing good ali the
year. | think with his present pros
poets his income from cattle, butter auG
hogs will be four TO five thousand dol
lars year, within the next two Or three
years. Others in the county are turn.
ing their attention to stock, snj A. will
not De msny years before COLt9a will
come down from his throne in that
county, and quietly surrender to Cattle.
/ am glad to see this state of feeling, for
at the pres enE prce OF cotton nc strmer
can make enough to psy ror cu!tiVating
it, much less the gathering. c tLon
pickers get fifty cents per hundTei ana
board themselves. the political
feeling is all right foT Ti!den
and Hendricks. All whom l
have conversed with say the State will
go for Tilden and Hendricks By tR anty.
five to thirty thousand majority. A
large number of negroes have Joined the
different Democratic clubs, and ale en-.
thusiastic in the cause. l do MOI find
that bitterness of feeling existing be-
tween the races that | expected tC find
when 1 first came into the State. Gen
eral Chalmers, the Democratic candi'
date for congress in this district, Will
address the unteTrified at q barbecue
within mile Of this place to-day. ]
Will go down directly and lear him.
All the Dsnn.CCcGirtars mere wear as uni
iOTm cardinal red shirt and gray or
black pants; and while writing this red
shirts in large Lumbers are gath 5Ting
from all quarters. l have just returned
from the barbecue. Colonel r. V. Booth
opened the exercises OF the day tn q
very pretty address. He was foil owed
by Judge Warren COwHn in his usual
happy style. General J. R. Cha mers
made the concluding speech. It is use'
less to tell you his speech IVES good
one, for you know what fine orator he
is, His address TO the c9lOred people
was mastery sff0rt, and he madf sew
eral converts to Tilden and Hendricks.
His speech was not only sound and
logical, but wac full OF historical emf
niscences Of the carpetbag rule, or,
rather, misrule in this State. A p rsoD
not citizen Of this State cannot form
the least conception of how this p 1opie
have suffered under the rule of the CT rpet-
tag thieves for the last ten yearA; but,
thank G d, the clouds ar5 disappef ring,
the peCple, both white and cOlOred, nave
pu! their shoulders to the wheel, apj are
determined to have good, honest men IL
Office, and will therefore supper the
Democratic nominees, and elect them.
Chalmers is the right man in the right
place, and will be elected by hanG Iome
majority to the next congress. You can
put this State down for 1ilden and Hem
bricks by the majority mentioned above
After enjoying a fine repast, at y hich
four to five hundred participated the
young people adjourned 10 the Masonic
hall, and enjoyed quite happy 5ime
Vicksbur2 has improved since my last
visit. Business is very coed, aud the
merchants are all satisfied with the
future prospects, provided Tilden and
Hendricks are elected. A ssnd b. has
formed q little below the city, OF the
opposite side, but cannot tell yet how it
Will affect the present landing,