Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07
People More CheerfaI at Ro.edale. Miss.

People more Cheerful at BOsedaie, Miss.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal.
RosEDALE, MISS, April 3.-The water at
this place is falling slowly, yet it has al
ready given US the pleasing prospect of again
observing land where, but few days ago,
nothing could be seen but one continued
sheet of water. Our town being located in a
very low place, is yet deeply submerged, and
1t must be some time before we can say
truthfully that the overflow has left US. The
fall that we have has put new life and energy
into the people. The farmers and land owners
appear 10 be alive to the situation; they are
boating their rails from the woods and
wherever they have drifted, and placing
them where they can be used with little
trouble when the water goes down. 1 am in
hopes that with the no-fence law and the
advantages that can, and | have no doubt
will, be taken where lanes have separated
adjoining places, the lanes done away with
for the present, and the rails used for
putting up the side and back fences, and
thereby giving protection to two or even
more places for the present year, or until
new fences can be made. Upon the whole,
things begin TO look more cheerful
as the water recedes. The American
people are great people, and give them but
half chance, and my word for it they will
succeed. / learn that our Board of Levee
Commissioners have met in Greenville for
ing the breaks at the earliest practicable pc
riod. Good and true men compose the Levee
Board, and all that can possibly be done to
enable us TO make a crop the present year
will certainly be done. There will be no
more levees that would have stood three feet
more of water when at its highest, and half
mile above and Zoe low it ran over the top.
All will be OF uniform base and hight, and
don't you forget it. that in future the correct
W. will oil he
proper notes with sufficient base and hight
will be furnished contractors, and they will
be required in every instance to fill the bill
OF specifications. The people, the Levee
Board and all that are interested mean BUSH
ness, and you will find that when the water
goes down a new and promising prospect
awaits US. oeannot recall what has passed.
watchful in the future, and in a few years
we will see one of the finest agricultural
countrios tho globe. Our lands are in
trinsically worth much to-day as they
were before the overflow. / own an interest
in plantation one mile above town, and
would not take dollar per acre
less for it than / would before the
overflow. 1t is only a matter of time
when this country must and will be pro-
tected, and when protected our cleared front
land will be worth 500 per acre, and land
that is now ten feet under water when
brought into proper state of cultivation
will be worth from $40 to $50. When the
iron horse shall be heard snorting through
our now lonely and deeply submerged couu-
try then will be but the beginning of our
prosperity. | would say TO those who own
land in the Mississippi river country, do not
sacrifice your property. He who does all
things, and does them we'll knows what He
requires, and will in due time make manifest
HIS doings. The croaking in regard to the
levees not standing when properly located
and put up with sufficient base and hight, to
say the least of it, is perfectly ridiculous.
The river country between Memphis and
is more susceptible OF being pro-
tected from oveIhJw than any other portioa !
If the valley. Commence the levee from |
he highland below Memphis and continue |
i to the mouth of the Yazoo river, closing |
Every outlet, and We will be safe from over |
low. These outlets will carry off all the |
'ipe water and our lowest lands will be Gus |
;eptible of being brought into cultivation. |
But, says Mr.. Crosker, the cost will be 80
,reat that We cannot possibly build the levee
Without the aid of the general government.
1 we can get assistance, which | think we |
ught to have from the government, it will
'e so much the better. If We cannot, let all
he counties between Memphis and Vicks-
urg that have suffered from the present
verfiow form a line distinct, and, with tax
hat will not be burdensome, build the levee
urselyes. Mr.. Croaker again comes to the
ront and says no such Levee Board can be
ormed, for the people will not submit TO the
axes. They have been forced by their neg
gence TO submit to a high-water tax, that
Iould build levee from Memphis to Vicks-
urg that would have protected the country
,r the next fifty years. This hIgh-water tax
ill be assessed from year to year until the
1untry is protected. Now let u.s. with one
ccord, dett rhine that we will not stand idle
nd see our homes again submerged. In
inclusion, would say TO my OVERLOOKED
lends that in 1855 planted corn in Madi-
IN parish, La, about 200 miles south of this
lace. | adapted one side of lake for a
nee. The hogs swan the lake and rooted
p the corn. plowed up the ground again :
I'd planted it in cotton. A drouth set in =.
Id the cotton did not come up until the 9Th
june. / made and gathered from that
nd three fourths of bale to the acre ,
hCr fore | beg them be not discouraged. / ,
ally believe that we will make good crops
leer up, press on and all will be well.
Cotton Belt Bulletin.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 5, 1852, pm.