Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-03
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A Cheerful OGtIOOk Confidence In
the ABILITY OF ssemphis TO sur
mount all Difficulties.

Tuscumhia Albanian: 1--WE spent seVe-
raj days OF last week in Memphis, and IL we
had been a stranger there the hospitality and
attention we received would have made the
visit one of unalloycd pleasure. But miss
ing the familiar faces and cordial greetings
of many-some of whom were near and dear
to US, we felt sad and depressed by oftrecur-
ring reminders of them, and as each familiar
scene recalled the presence OF some dear
friend who had crossed to the other shore, we
"LoDged forthe touch of vanished hand,
and the sound of 4 voice that is stlli.''
And yet, in business point of view, the city
wears the appearance incident to the busiest
seasons Of It's history. The streets are
crowded, often blockaded. by vehicles of
and groceries and dry goods departing, out
numbering all others. But little of the trade
OF Memphis has gone elsewhere, and it is
thought that her cotton receipts will equal
those of last year. Six months business will
be crowded INTO three or four, and we are
hopeful that the pecuIiary loss occasioned by
the suspension Of business will be far less
ability of Memphis TO regain speedily
what she has lost remains mistaken
in her people, and with exemption from
yellow-fever, that can be had by rigid quar-
anime on the Gulf coast, her continued
growth 10 wealth, trade and population will
she can take IN the work OF rebuilding is to
secure the immense dry goods, notion, hard
ware and general trade that goes to other
and more distant markets, from all north
Alabama. A difference in her favor in the
matter Of freights will tell IT, as her mer-
chants claim, they can compete with other
cities in prices. All north Alabama ships
its cotton to her factors. Why not keep the
proceeds and return merchandise, and thus
save the handsome profits that others make?
We found our mercantile friends indisposed
to advertise generally, this season, but, as
will be seen from tbnr cards n this issue,
many of them renewed with the North 4 Ia
bdDiiGn on account of its well-esta b'ished
reputation as paying advertising med um''
G.enada (Miss.) Sentinel: That Memphis
suffered trrrIbly in many ways from the eff
fects OF the fever, nobody can doubt, and yet
to the occasional visitor, there is not discov-
cradle the slightest check in her material
progress. We knew Memphis when she was
a little village at the mouth of Wolf river,
Just sproutlpg into a respectable town.
When the grand old Chickasaw bluffs, with
their steep and rugged walls looked down in
silent grandeur, upon the deep, broad river
below Then it was that her merchant
princes dwelt in flatboats that lined the mar
gin of the Mississippi for mile or more
from which in a single day hundreds of coun-
try wagons were loaded with the produce of
the great west, the commodities and notions
of the popuIous east That Is now all
changed, and a splendid city now rises to
occupy the place of pnmeVal forests. Few
cities of the south have grown faster than
Memphis, and few have a m re glorious fu-
ture. Although but yesterday, as it were,
she was clad in sackcoth and ashes of sor-
row and humiliation, she has arisen like a
giant, fresh from depression and sleep, and
moves with power and vigor but little akin
to the silence and gloom that pervaded her
streets few weeks ago. The thousands of
cotton bales blocking up partially some of her
great thoroughfares, the hundreds of
wagons, drsys, carts and other vehi-
cles, which move rapidly and con-
stantly all through her streets, and
the thousands of active, busy pedestrians
which throng her sidewalks, brtoken little of
decay. Her geographical position IN spite of !
the Instructions which pestilence, war and |
famine may now and then throw IN her way,
will ever command the attention of public |
spirited, discerning men. When thorough, |
effective national quarantine is established !
across the Cult of Mexico to make yellow |
fever stay amidst its own native bowers and |
sultry suns of the tropics, we see nothing TO |
mar the outlook of Memphis. but the want of |
discrimination in directing the resources |
which she may command. OF these we may |
have much to say in future. There is one,
however, which we will mention now, and |
that is the power of the country press inter- !
say, among them the Seminal Is not dis |
posed to take back seat
Water Valley Miss Central: Last week |
We visited the Bluff city, and mingled freely /
with its business men, and are free to admit !