Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-01
AS OTHERS SEE US.
The Bluff City as it Appeared to the
Eyes of a Peripatetic Cor
respondent Of the
New York Banker and BrOker-NO Signs
of Encouragement Apparent-A
Very Flattering Report.
New YORK Banker and Broker.

Unlike most other considerable cities there
is very little TO note in the way of ornament
al suburbs in approaching Memphis, for the
farming country-the cotton plantations
extend right up almost to the city limits.
The great National Cemetery, with Its beau
tifully kept grounds, Is the most remarkable
feature on the line OF the railroad, sad re-
minder, indeed, of the fearful sacrifices war
demands, even in an enlightened age and
passing this W. find the houses soon getting
into close order as we roll into the Louisville
and Nashville depot, to find our journey for
the time being at an end.
When l came TO view Memphis closely
so important a commercial point on the Mis-
sissippi-it was done with a strange mixture
of curiosity and deep interest, as 10 whether,
and how far it could have overcome the
many terrible visitations and disabilities
suffered by it in comparative recent years;
the Losses and infections such as with a
people of less courage and energy would
have been all but fatal to anything like
progress Passing along Its streets and
closely observing it we may, We can see
no sign whatever of encouragement or of a
thought of calling halt in any direction
which means advancement. The rich and
fashionable world is out this pleasant day,
more like spring than mid-winter, and cheer
ful faces and costly, gay and elegant apparel
confront one on the great thoroughfares; the
Will lnelE SESdl lOduS Ol COtlOn Ddlcs,
charge along the streets in the business
quarters, and long array of steamers at
the levee are busy receiving or discharging
passengers and freight.
To an old resident here, there may be
much more apparent than all this; but be
that as it may, according to my closest OBJ
servation, there is no sign but of great and
hopeful and hourishing commercial center;
of people wide awake and deeply engrossed
with prosperous trade; with no particular
fear, or even uneasiness, as TO a probably
prosperous future; a conviction which, on
the part of the people here, seems we'll
based, since warned by the past, the most
stringent sanitary measures have been
adopted to insure hereafter, if possible,
health and safety.
Well, when one thinks of its dominant po-
sition, especially with regard to the immense
cotton trade on this part of the Mississippi,
and that none interested in the city's destiny
can afford TO let it collapse, or suffer from
any cause that can be controlled, there need
be no surprise felt. Last year its receipts
and shipments OF cotton amounted to nearly
10000 bales; and when we are made to re-
member, besides, that it was other enormous
Yscuniary interests at stake, repeat, 1t is
~ surprising that It's people have resolved
to stand by it, and thus adopting all needful
and stringent sanitary measures in accord
ance with this resolution, they have deter
mined to make it in all respects possible the
equal of any of its rivals or compeers in The
worlds esteem place of business and of
residence