The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-12-27

!, nIng oysters, crabs and shrim.. and
:, sailing and drying fish, has not yet bee
h introduced. 1t offers an inviting fiel
l. for enterprise and capital. The plantin
e OF oyster beds would pay we'll, and
< specially recommended to the enterpri
5 ing.
SHIP BUILDING.
From our list of timber, and the faeil
: ties furnished by our mills, and tn
: demands Of the coasting trade, Their
have sprungup here numerous ship yards
where very handsome, staunch ano
clipper vessels are turned out Gool
ship carpenters, calkers, painters, black
smiths aud riggers are always in demand
and the vessels they fit out command
good prices on sale or charter, to carry
lumber, hard wood, shingles, slaves,
hoop poles, tar, tUrpentine, rosin, shells,
sand, hides and peltries, live stock,
poultry, etc, to New Orleans.
NAVAL STORES.
Previous to the war, these were profit
ably produced in this quarter. Our
pines run as freely as they do in North
| Carolina, and handsome returns were
realized. There is no reason why the
business should not be resumed.
MARKET GARDENING AND POULTRY.
With the facilities offered by the New
Orleans and Mobile Railroad, we might,
lead in the early supply of vegetables aud
fruit for the New Orleans and up-country
markets. With proper attention, we
may be ten days or fortnight in advance
of riparian planters, and it is we'll known
that fruits and vegetables grown on dry,
sandy soils are of superior flavor. This
coast should supply St.Louis and Chicago,
and the West generally, with okra, egg
plants, tomatoes, peas, beans caulitlowers
and potatoes, pears, figs, peaches, apples,
Strawberries and melons, and can do so
ahead Of those who plant OH alluvial
soils
No country in the world where poultry
thrives better, and with very rough
treatment. It is a business which, if
pursued as q business with all that the
term implies, would yield very large
profits. | Do not hesitate to say that any
person investigating hundred or a
thousand dollars in poultry raising, and |
bringing to it the proper knowledge and |
care, would double his money every |
two years.
CATTLE AND SHEEP.
Both good investments. Our summer |
range in pine lands cannot be excelled. !
And in winter the cane and reed brakes |
on the rivers and creeks, and the marsh |
grasses, furnish sufficient food Cattle |
are rarely ever fed. During the summer
and fall, and when running on cane in
the winter they make excellent beef,
readily sold at handsome profit, for the
coast market, and to the New Orleans
butchers.
The whole district, embracing ten or
fifteen counties, IS admirably adapted
for sheep. 1t is full of the Shrubs and
and underground that sheep delight to
crop. The surface is gently undulatng,
the summer grass never fails the ravines
abound with reeds, rushes, and switch
cane, that furnish nutritious food and
warm shelter all winter. Why should
not wool growing be more profitable than
at the North? 1t has been often demon
strated that Southern heeces are as fine
and as heavy as the feeces of colder eli
mates, and sheep more healthy. Mr.. Cock
|
with the most famous wool growers OF |
Saxony, France and England. In New
Y ork or Vermont the breeder must own
Or rent every acre Of land his tlocks
tread upon, and sheep require a wider
range and are harder on pastures than
any other stock He must fence, hedge,
Or wall it in, and pay taxes upon it.
Folds and shelters are to be put up, and ..
grain and hay for the long winters pro
yided, and abundant salt. Neverthe-
ess, distempers and murrains often occa-
Won great mortality. Still the Northern ,,
perseveres, prospers and grows
'ich. Here one may Craze 200 sheep
without owning a foot of land, or paving (
my taxes From Pearl river to the Ala
,ama line there are vast natural pas
ures, of unsold and unoccupied land. =
No stacks or barns are wanted, and the
pidemics of colder climates are I'M
,nown. | attribute this to our benign
Innate; to the saline air and saturation =
# the heritage; more than all TO the
moke of the burning pine, and the va
,or of tar, which the live stock in the
line woods constantly inhale. | have :
cen larger and heavier mutton, grain
ed, in the North and West, but none
quail to ours when put upon the table. :
sOCIETY-PUBIC OPINION.
Our sea shore population is refined, s
0cial and intelligent. Clique dom and r
are unknown. Composed D
f people from every State, and from o
very nationality of Europe, there is no il
All well conducted per Z
ons, of every race, and color, are vel O
0med. No inquisition into political :,
Dinions, as these are regarded as ones b
rivate property. We are Democrats N
nd Republicans, devoted tie our country, n
nd breathing the sans prayer for its
eace, prosperity, progress and perpetu h
V. Political rows, rufianism and race NJ
xacerbations, are unknown in this sec i
on of Mississippi. cl
LANDS. A
Improved lands, with small, plain !.
uildings on them, may be had, through :,
ut the pine district, at from So 90 to :"
10 90 per acre. Unimproved at 81 %. IL
.arge quantities of public land may yet 4
e entered under the Homestead act, | -
xeelIent farming, pasture and timbered .
acts, so acres for about IS 90; the =
ntire cost-thus supplying the cheapest :
ONES in the world, and the healthiest, 6,
nd the easiest for poor man to get n
art on the road to independence. Many -
lrge land-holders will sell lands, at very :
w prices, on long credits, and take pay :
labor. An industrious man, with or :,
ithout money, can always secure here =
good and comfortable home. Through \
IT the district there are excellent farm -
q lands-Iands which in the Carolinas, :.
Virginia, Maryland or New Jersey i
Guild bring $40 to SIS per acre. may be =