The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-04-23


remarking that it would somewhat change Ais
plans for the summer Our visit to Dunbar.
ton will be pleasant remembrance.
THE CITY OF NATCHEz
affords many evidences Of reviving prosperity.
Nothing like delapidation is to be seen Sew
elegant stores have been erected OF late. and II
few iudicious fires could come along and H.
move some antiquated shanties on the priuci.
pal business streets there would be lively bus.
mess AT once for brick-layers and carpenter.
A big start has been made in the way gf
manufacturing. The NATCHEz CoTr0N Nm
has been in operation only year, and the DE-.
mand for its goods is SO great that the stock
holders will be compelled 10 increase their ia
eilities There are Us looms in the mill tHs
number at Wesson being 3S7). Upwards If
one hundred operatives are employed, and nearly
eight thousand yards Of sheeting- and drilling,
are baled daily for this market. The mill
has large trade in Texas Orders are uaw
on file for sixty days ahead r. f. Lsarnad
ESQ, is President OF the Company T5a
stock is owned by less than dozen citizcu- M
Natchez, and they are more than pleased with
their investment.
visited also the LEE On WoET~ of which
Carpenter, Dicks Il Co are proprietor The
works were established in 1876. They -iy.em-
ployment to about one hundred hands in winter,
and forty or more in the summer months. Ah.4t
twenty barrels OF oil is daily pressed .r.a
the cotton seed which finds a ready market.
The oil cake is shipped mostly to England.
and is sold there at about six pounds sterling
per ton. 1t is there ground into meal f.r
stock The only fuel used at the work. is Ollie
hull OF the cotton seed
Did time permit / would take a ride oa Nh.
NATCHEz Jackson AND CoLUNmus RAILROAD
to Martin, the present terminus, and aaua.
half way between Natchez and Jackson
great many lots have been purchased at Mar
tin, and quite number Of businv-- house.
will be erected there this year. The r1ld
paid running expenses last year. notwith-taul-
ing the interruption and loss by quarantine
for several months. A. soon Ms Gen Martin
can complete favorable negotiations for loan.
work on the road will be resumed Within
year or two Jackson and N1tchez will be
connected by rail, AMI We may then have
a grand ratification meeting at Martin
The Adams county bonds, ISSUED ON account
OF railroad subscription, are held AT the very
stiff price OF 50 cents, and it is Thought when
the treasurer advertises for the purchase off
another installment, the bonds will be q par
The Kansas fever has not become epidemic
as yet, in this section but the up-couutry
boats continue to get passengers from the river
plantations. 1t is becoming a serious que--
ton not only for the planter but for the poor.
deluded negro, who is thus enticed. 10y malice
and falsehood, to go to a country usuitcd 90
him in every respect. lie has shared here the
pecuniary misfortunes common to most of CUR
people since the war, but his condition will De
ten-fold worse in Bleeding Kansas" lie win
not find there land or bread without money or
labor, and he will heave many an unavaiiug
sigh to return to the old plantations. The
only consolation is, that should the present
class OF labor generally vacate the South a
tide OF white immigration will set in, and 10
what seems to be present evil, may prove to
be blessing in disguise.
Yours, LOGAN