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THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1873. 3 III Tlilr A A Vc 1 tm Old KM at l f tl tle mat Ji fatal Ixvil Cro vtii wel (Mil ear Cr.i 1 it got ten faM tun sho bin' C Ha Ore Hot tM lsi do! hhc ( Ku ate ter lef to tb bo oh Ia I tb W he a ' OE cb fl tr. M W M tr w R y I, u WEflPIHS APPEAL .MONDAY MOK.MXt;, SEP. 1, 1R.S. oub mm The Hmvm and Countrj Tribu fmrj to atantfMi, ami That Trade With I s. Their History -Rip and Progress Population, Schools, Col lege Churches, and Hotels. Muru factories, and Value of Ar ticles Manufactured Me chanics and their Products. Rmbir of Bales of Cotton Bee-fired and Sold, and Amount of Farming Stuff Re ceived and Sold. Aniannt of Trade with Memphts Yalue of Property Value of Lands Yield Per Acre in Cotton and Corn. Etc. Be Et. No one can read the story told by the many correspondents of the Appeal from all the towns aud villages trading with Memphis, and refrain from givinc expression to Lis amazement. Nobody dreamed that such palpable and rapid prresMve!itJv ili-tir.einsbed the towns and country about this city. There is hardly a village that does not boast of incipient manufactories. Especially is this true of Western Tennest-e, aud of Ite larger towns in Mississippi. Water Vtffey is a remark I i!c instance of the prowiusr manufacturing activity of towns (ommerciaiiy tributary to Mem phi?. So successful have leen hol low ware manufacturers at Water V;.Jey that Holly Spriugs follows in the fata defined. Water Valley is also building a large cotton-mill, and a-rairi Holly Springs and Jackson will follow in the footsteps of Water Valley. K. E WhithVid. Mr. Youujr. and other enter ptMaaj citizens of Corinth have expeud cmI u iarge tiiu of money in brick and Htat aLd rearei an admirable build ing, and projose to manufacture cotton : Cotton abounds, is taken from the field? uuginned, aud therefore in its bettoo for manufacturers' purposes, and thus makes better goods at less cost here than in New or Old England. The manufacturers of iron hollow-wate are equally fortunate. There is not else where in the world such iron of such t'oftnw and such irrefragable tenacity M that found in counties oi" Middle and Went Teiincssee on lsth sides of the Tennessee river. If evidence of the superior value of Tennessee iron be re quired, there are old navigators of the Mississippi who aay uo rtMHbifll boiler ever exploded that wa- hammered out of Tennessee river ir m There is a commission even at th; moment sitting in New York under the auspices of congress to determine the causes of steam-boiler explosions. Eastern iron-mongers will never sufi'er this question of the relative tenacity of Humphreys and Dixon counties, and of I :iiiylvania iron to be fairly inquired into. In these counties, soon to be pen etrated hy the Kuoxville, Bolivar and Memphis narrow-gauge railway, are to b? found, in coming years, the richest t source of this city. Coal and iron and lime and limestone, and marl and cattle, hogs and poultry are the complimeats of cotton-bales, converting the latter into cloth. Here the in dispeneab'e elemeuts of commercial greatness meet en common ground, and hence a mighty river furnishes the cheaest possible means of distributing the products of cheap iron, cheap food, cheapcotton, cheap fuel, and thus of abundant labor, all collocated by cheap railways in a mild climate in a heaven favored land. Then, too, in all of thse sketches we read of the products of a country half cultivated, only scratched oa the turface, and never suhsoiled or manured or ditched. Is it strange that such unexampled riches, with such de fective agencies of production, bless these counties aud towns about Mem phis? The people often tell that they are ruined; but when they say that a faultless climate and exuberant soil Mai to Memphis from five hundred to live thousand outtou-bah s, from each of one hundred towns and villages, within one hundred miles of the G i ty , it i idle to talk of hopeless ruin and unutterable joverty. People prate about heavy taxation. Bad enough it is, we confess, and the fault in Tennessee, and soon will 1 in Arkan-;.- with the 1 ple themselves. Why Ml reduce the number of place-hold rs one-half, and abolish sinecures? The grauge should compel the collection of all federal taxes by State tax-gatherers. Another pleasing aspect of towns and villages painted by our correspondents, illustrates the progressive changes in modes of popular industry superinduced by change! social systems. People talk of ban; time-, of frightful public burdens, of bankruptcy staring them in the face aud yet when akrd the price of land tiny- contradict the half they have said and show an unwillingness to sell libsolutely startling to an ordinary purse. Even in Mississippi where bla k governments, local and State, are frightful in thir exactions, the tw-"i e talk of ruin, but are slow to confess it In subdividing land among either white or black agriculturalists. It my be proper to add that the con current testimony of our correspondents asserts that the great mass of Colore d iteopic are in t'fttu 710, in which tb y were found when ii Iterated, save that their numbers are lessened. Hardly ore in each hundred has bought a home or acquired other property. On the con trary, as a general rule, white farmer-, in upland districts, have gained wealth rapidly, and these are they whose mu: liplied but small contributions to tr e xrand aggregate, swell the proportions of the cotton-crop beyond the calcul.-t-tiousof merchants. Everywhere the peo ple are anxious to promote immigration and only in one district, at Gienada, has a practical sckeme been devised to briLg ab'iui desired results. This came of asm dialed eflorts in the granges. The members of one of tbeee MMBtattooi' MBpan to convey laud to a trustee, to f: eoiived to any woithy Carolinian. East Teunesseau or Georgian In fee, who will cultivate it for three years. Many planters have leu times as many acres as tin yean cultivate, aud by contrib uting: ;i yo rata number to the common stoek they wJM soon induce enougl while immigrants to become citixeua u give me wmtea political OoBttol of the country. This plan of action is uouwy advantageous since it multiplies tax-payers, cheapens the cost of the necessaries of life, and make land valuable. We only floubt the ca pacity cf the people for any great co-op erative purpose. Their life-long habits and modes of thinking and aiou are at war with all such schemes. Each of the towns along each of our railways com plains of rates of freight charges and discriminations against Memphis. For this there is only one eilective, practical remedy. Railway owners man live and make all the money porsible, just as do merchants and farmers. Prices of dry-goods and grocer ies, and of corn and cotton are only kept down by competition. The creat through-routes from Texas to New York, and four competing routes from Memphis to New York, keep down prices to such au extent that railways lose money, but the more they make on through-freights enabled them to lessen pro tanto charges on lo cal freight. Hence it is not always just to condemn a railway l-ecause it ships goods from Memphis to New York at a heavy loss to itself and at no greater charge than is made on the same freight going only two huudred miles be tween other pjiuts on the same line. Rest assured that rail road managers get all they can on "through freights,'' and alt this, much or little, lessens local freight-tarifls. The higher these local tariffs, the les be come local freights and travel, and the country becomes poorer aud the raiiway levoure itself. In fact, the interests of a railway's owners, and of the people along its route, are almost identical and inseparable. The true remedy for enor mous freight-charges consists 3 a the construction of cheap local roads. These would lessen local rates one half, aud making Memphis easily aud cheaply accessible, make population deuse and lands most valuable. All that is t?ken from freight-er.argcs, and all that goes intotbediminution of distances, is added to the value per acre of lands. The wealth of Fayette county, now having a broad gauge road on either side of it, would be doubled if a narrow-gauge-road, compet ing with thoseof broad-gauge, compelled these two to lessen by half the cost of living, and thus doubled or added at least rif:y per cent, to the value of the real property of the county. It is said that the broad-gauge roads would com bine io prevent this result and prevent any investment by Fayette couuty in this central narrow-gauge road. On the contrary, the wealth of the whole coun ty, aud of the city and density of popu lation and variety of products would lie s augmented that the business of the old railroads would be greatly and rapid ly increased. Little men, of narrow intellects, might oppose the construc tion of narrow-gauge railways, but such a purpose could never find a lodg ment in the capacious intellect of Tom Scott, of Ej: front of Newcomb, or Jaques or McCornb. The people of Mississippi are in a better condition than they believe, or, than they tay. 1 No population is ruined that demands full and fair prices for land which they have not the means of cultivating, and no people are reduced to any terri ble straits who are not driven to adopt agencies of co-ojK-ration pointing to the only sure means of relief. Arkansas is almost perfectly blest. Senseless antagonisms of all classes and of partisan organizations have boen greatly mollified by the moderation ami wisdom of Governor Baxter's adminis tration, and from almost every town, village and county of the eastern dis- tricts, the story comes of nroenv-ivt good fortune, of good order, and ?;ood government. Iu Western Teniu -ee, for the first time iu the oubtry's faJst ryT the farmers are more earnest and nal ous than towns r.nd cities in behalf of each scheme of public beneficence. There is a - tronger spirit of enterprise in Hardeman, Haywood and in Hendersou counties, than iu Memphis, or iu the capitals of those counties. Farmers an coming to the front, through granges, and seizing everyageucy calculated toeu. rich and enlighten. In fact, though a se ries of calamities have swept oer the city, and begotten an extraordinary scarcity of currency, the country lias hardly recognised the force 0 evils o! which merchants complain, and while there are planters who have borrowed largely, and are in debt, the great ma-s of the farmers in the hills and hollows are in better condition than ever before. We need cheap railways, and then fac tories aud workshops will spring up, and school-houses and churches, and the ds.y is not distaut when the country de scribed in thte pages, all traces and hideous memories of war obliterated, will be the most attractive and prosperous on the continent. In the fallowing descriptions of vil lages and towns in the vicinity of Mem phis the names of many persons are omitted which should apjtear. But this wa no fault if ours. We wrote to the best men in each place, and sent agents t iuouire, aud we give what was given im. When this task is again under taken, we will receive mueh assistance from those most deeply interested in its proper ier.ormance. But the people, almost everywhere, co-operated with us with wonderful eal, and from n:o-t places reports are full and accurate in every particular. There was never a publication made in this State, or in the south, so full of interest to our own peo ple and to people in other States and countries, who would jvossibly seek homes in States and in portions of States that trade with Memphis. TK.XNESSEK. ltulimr N Hi iuot prncr wive scUve. vhiorou- town ot aujtaiiiK like equu! wealth aioug the Jtl.s tlvuppl Vntral railroad. J l i the .'cat of jus- 1 ict 01 ii&rui-i t ;it county, auu uji-ie-ure man lawyer of fiixiiieut abilities are jrath 1.. re. Jn the laM u ounhouH' auil 11 :. it in the public wjtiarv were tloi of w ugh I county t v-ow utr the time, h refilling! beauty -unfit to tne arch C-UlHf lately ru. All iitiiie: ' he lun- '-Uaie Mipervituon ot the laws Hon. limn ti. iViiis, whu wu then chainm n of the count; mrt. Ju It architectural e-eetieiit-e it is Indicative of the tafte anil wi aKb and irenius for l'tiffatlonol this eople. It i u hUbsi:i:nlaJ htruelure, o! modern aich tec u.e. and bu:'.l aftt the Kane- s(yi- ofl the beiiit.' m buiio::r; re." re 1 : r the siim purpose in 11 oily uiiiigis. Tl:e populail n of Hie piuce proba bly e eeJh twenty- ;fthi hundred, and is to-owing rapid: . 'i here are two ftrxt-rau lo- I -, i u w abnndance ( Kuc-is i M of the pens than inv we leara lUlldmg w n juiijqk tall. : ti'u male 1 lie lov, u dt.T M.e au. pico of parish, iir.vin; la cteeK. un.' ft uu;;:ber uut watei-;K-ver in town, the locality 0(9 to b-anttf'ictuma, ai fact that in f&rtner y n:ivis:C' ii bj lea: i inp capacity wt h h . witli a small outiay o lueut of sif?j.-:etC I-ai st. J aiue s j ' P- liatcine river, J 1014 1 oihc! htreums, alui. ( MM I'loximity to i,e Ts superior attract j d none the less iu the ars llaU'liie nvcr i of cousiderable eaxr put Bolivar, and now. pel the raiir-a;Scro. below to L-ulId drawJi of the Mreum ea;: be l alppi. The 3rM cio of the CODiedeiated here o-ioi;:- t'i ;uii, l-nuUneM position o couTt house a Lfaut;i appioprtals xnaxole i auspleea oi a ncclety f the tow and vlcta ral B.I.Neeie wa- p aud prcii.inent cltlze inediau Niciuae art e, occupying a nth Hide ol the uht and MOM Liei under the A of the ladles hjen Mra. Oen Many ol the old IvaraDd lisltn- Ml 'I Kncklei IVk. et.didther of the late Prest i'rnr, .tainfk. l'k. and here h!k. rest th !amainnf their distitinlMhe! ancestor in a beautiful RK.t set Hpartin the suburb of tie town, and known a the " Po'k cemetery.' Thpri nre -izht rhtfchen in Hdtvar. a fac smnitlcaut ot theaood moral of the people, :;nl me w-icn min-, nve uiiiCKsnuin an wagon-shop-, two foundries, two tan-yard.-.. nnd several s;w anti gn i-noii tell oi prourtss ive manuarturlng lndnatries. There an vlasnnie IcmIj.' ot muster, chanter and coun- ei, and a lodge of r'rlenda of Temperance. Iheiaio'- TtfHni-atioD iu a niot in-'nenm eondiison. aud numbers h toons lb members some 01 ine most woruiy citizen of th county. The chief public work of the people is the narrow-gauge rail- ay, design. . ultimately, to fcale the HMBtains, and find its terminus at Rnox vllle The road is bnltding a crows Hatchie swamp, ard twenty-five miles have been 1:1 adea aud prepared for the iron. The con struction of this load militate; against the commercial miprem.icy of Jackson in wide had rich districts ot country, and It is feared that Jackson's lnTiu- ncemaj' prevent the con cession of Md by Henderson and other coun ties along the Tennessee river. The fact is well nndef Moojd that if llolivar secure eon nH: !ou with t ne Tennessee river, Kayetteand Suelty coii a l lea will te forced to extend the road to Mctin- cheap fiod and farmers' sup pi: ; t 1 tm Mississippi at Memphis. Harde man, fart It 0 and .-helby counties will yet conies- (M-ueral Neely's worth, and rear a proper monument to his fame by building the nanow gai.ge road. If Memphis could finish the westenu cud of Neely's nar.ow-gaoge road the wealth of the town of Bolivar aud county of Hardeman 'would be almost in itaPtly dttgqoalod. The preaent railway dls iuce from Memphis to nolivar, by way of Grand Junction, ih etity-tine mile; by way of Humboldt and Jackson it is about onehun- dred and t irty miles; and in the latter route there are three transfers-In the fomer two. The air-line railway distance to Memphis is only hi tv-fl venules. It this short line were builtthe whole ttadecf Bolivar and conntry ntand about would come to Memphis, instead of Louisville and New urleaiu. Moreover, be yond Boila-, tin mediately on the narrow gauge road, the best iron In the wond is found, and tha county proJnces Inexhaustible sup plies of bceon, beef, fioar, chickens all of wmcn are rncaP'T man in cinnnnan. 1 ne faun aroend the village are ilch, level, and adapted to the production of cotton, com, wheat, and oats. The crops this year are ex- oelleni: the urain crops the best along the whole length ot the Mississippi Central raii Viiv. luuhin springs. In the olden tUne a popular su inner resort, are situated three ni: noni i'iivar, :inu it is intended lore- sir MM refit the grounds with a view of re-pt-ning thorn to Uio public the coming sum ier. UJiftiMMlf uncleared lard abtuit tlolivar worth ten to twentv dollars, and cleared land tweuty-llve to fitly dollars per acre; and this MK'cie of property in the town and 'j nil v U ;apidlv advancing in value. The principal eouuty offices are presided over by ae louowing geniiemea: ennirman 01 ine uunt y eoufClame li Harris, Esq.?sherlfl,Col nel J. J. Neclev : county court clerk. C'aDtain W.C. lKrion; county register, V. H. Anderson, r.n; clerk and master oi the circuit court. tptain .lanes ;i. Kicnamson; ciern ami mas- tir of the chancery court, captain M. il. ii 1 tli ; ecunty trustee, J. C. Savage, Est 1. One of tlie live institutions, inu rne to wblch Bolivar owes much ol Us prosperitv. is the Bolivar JSuiu itn, edited by Colonel M. R. NtlM. The Miner i 111 u 1 iKUl h oiu me. a no is a valua ble in diu -ii through which Memphis mer chants ventilate their business throughout one of the wealthiest commuiuties iu West i eunessec. Saalsbary, On the Memphis and Charleston railroad, whence is shipped the larger portion of the t un r:i in in s-Hiinern part 01 narue- man nunl, beside being an tlet to trie T o.thfrn rtiou 0! 1 lppin county, missi. ippi; umbo wnicn ine larmers o: ine icaliiies mentioned purchRe here all their Lirm and family buppde Saalbnry thus ti 'comes a place of n inconsiderable MMOM s importance. This viilae derived its name tiom an excellent id gentleman named mis m no way conneeted with him who stoned the prophets, and did other curlou and naughty things. The village was incor- porateo in is.. ano nas nor- grown very mucu icce it wM iirsi wrap pea in inose swaaaune-lotlie-. l;ea... ii.tivock. FerLi:-:it, W'u- li im". and (i. V. Dowily have been the a-c- asve chief-magistrates of the place, which rylody thought, until this history was written, c'erl ved its name fnni Salisbury plain, where druids and people of the stone ige puoras lamasiic iriCBS wu n gramu. 1 wo iiundred people dwell xnost quietly In our aulsbur. They have no school there, but ; rie tjiptists, Aiclhodlsts and Curuberland !'i -t H'rijn nave a preacner who conies around and straigntens up the place, eaca. mee a ne nth or 'Ci'-ntr. SplrltU illy Pauls- ban is well-cared for; inLellectnally it seems to he neglected. The preacher are Kvs. Meyers. Holdman and Lashlle, and Urs. ttray, I-ambeit. Moorman, aud savage. Town lotsare sold at Irorn twenty-five to five hun dred dollar. Land is worth nom twenty-five ro thirty colter, and makes one-half a cotton hu'.e. or seven barrels of corn. wells are thiriy five tf sixty feet deep, and the forests are of oak. jKiplar and oeecb. There are two h.ueKsmi; us 1 . A.'ueeu ana . cs.ery;one wagon shp, U". i:. I'ssery, and a saddlerrI. A. mL-4 . 1 ne 01.1 citizen are v . w . r.iitotte. Msjor I'.. Sauls (the founder's 1. A. Kergusfin. at'orney-.it-law and notary public; Irs. It. :. !' -;w m, an. 1 .i t. ana v.. 1 n- mTchauts are KHiotte A Sons. Wright A Pur- , J. H. Sarmoner, w. (. Moore A Co., aves Co., .1. J. Reaves A Co., Dowdy Cargile, U. F. Htnes, J. N. Middleton, K. M. it ggs nnc J. A. ringer. There is one good ho- :. T. C. spiglit, proprietor. Next in comnur- ci: d iinnonaiice is I'oeaEionlan, Also on Me Memphis and Charleston railroad. tit teen m ie east oi Saulsbury. " Pokey," as ne pUce is familiarly styl- d, aiso -(kiiini:uiC'- gre d amount of the trade of the soothe. n iLil ;utneat.-rn portion of the county as e!I ;is the itortlou of northern Mifsissippi contUuous, aud U a formidable rival of tfauls- oury. MMMM, Another -tatlon OB the Memphis and Char! s- ion railway, slciated abont midway bwwcea siaulsbury and local;"ntas. is not accessible I" so large n wope of county, yet rises to some imp:rt;irice in amount ot ira i In ottn nnd pianiaiKU supplies. Ilirrkory Vnllej. A railntsd Matlon twelve mile, aobtli of Itoh- ar, in tie- MM county ,has,nt rhaps, two hnn-'r.-l inhabitants. The land about the little village hi excel leu t.nd t he ia?ople industrious, 'j In meanest larms are wortfi twenty to ihniv dollars per acre. The soil Is light and easily culttva;!, and very productive, and corn and cotton c:ops are excellent. MmbMMHMj The first atatioc. six miles south of IJulivar, 011 the Mississippi Central railroad, is eontig-uou- to :k uuinber of the largest cotton farms i n th- county, bu: li onl' noted as a shlpp:Ug POlait for the cotion raised in the vicinity. Jn MMt J ars Middleburg was OM Of the most important trying ndnu in the county, nnd iiobably numbered utmv three or lour hun drel Inhabitants, but its commercial glory fad.-d ou the ad eut (f lallroads through t he cmnty, and during the war the few di api 1 al l bnlUtBfl left of its former greatness were burned, and scarcely anything mw re mains exceyt a dejstt-buildiug and church house. Ttton'o Station. Six railea north of llolivar, on the Mississippi C entral HltlWMd. doe- great anion;, t of busi ness 111 cotton and ilntatlop sunnlies. Jt grew upon the adveut of tin-raihoad, aLd is surrouuded by a large district of rich cotton and coru-produclug lands, which are all in m good sti.te of cultivation. ttnlievllle. One' an impoitMiit business point, situated in the uox'hwcst prt of the county, vet com mands 1 goMl trade. leing surrounded by the niitM .i,m im iiinti tauasin ine county, .siot having the ad vantage of railroad facilities, this pc:.nt was shoru of much of its tradi- by t le br aki ug up of navigation on Hatchie river aial the building ol the Mississippi Cen tral railroad through the central portion of ine eouniy on me eas;, ana ine Jiempnis unu Ohio railtoad through t lay wood couuty on the n rihwesl, leaving Wbiteville dependent vioue ou tue lmuieuiae vicinity. Important Village of Hardeman ton nty tend ? these mentioned there are villages of Ivver note Berlin. Newcastle, Matanmros, an Hi PML rauesville, etc. pdnts " left (ut in the cold in the location of the different rallroail lines ruuniLg through the county, nu wctiw importance nave oeen aoso rxsi t'V mote fortunate villages. Some of these, how- er, will tie reclaimed by the complttion of .eciy t nar-'w-gaugc. tla 01 -t Has alieady paid twice it cost by adding Mftv p-r cent, to the value of farms anil villages aJo:i i s route If perfected lo Memphis, run nlng minway beiween two broad gauge roads, it Will iiutdowu freight chrge 00 both aud turn backward towarn Memphis the fre ghta tuKen irom tins cii bv cheap throuuh rates. It M.-mplus do not Km round iUiell with nar- row-auge ltne, conve giug here like spckiii in a h-i w neei, uie eann ii each town and n'ighborhNd, even within MM miles of us, u hi b diverted to the east. 1 hen complete Neely's road to this city, landowners along its line, 11 they have the least intelligence. win couirinuie 01 luie, u-eiess iauis enough t the roadljed aud furnish cross-ties, -v moitg4ge will do the rest, aud Kajcttecounty, It riCle'Si in the ctate, without acitv within it. will contribute one hundred tbousuid dol lars to the scheme, lis most ardent supp ct eca, li they have an brains, will be people n he Me:np!i and loui-a H.e, and Mempuit and ChllMMI rtails The cost 01 living to iht sc ;vpie win be lesenetl one-naif, aud urnpiy tHjcau- the conuM'tittoii w.:h the nar row-gauge wiil force down price on the old roads at least oue-haif. Some schoolmaster should go abrtuul among the jKt'pte of this ana aujuccut counties. jMekon. Jaekson, tlie eounlv seat of Madison county 1 am neelsa be,; l t nul and rapidly -grtjwing littl eiy. Ibis is one .f the oldest settltid townul the st:Oe, hiiVlnK been incorporated and i I 'ff intc lots iii li!, thus ing use ly-im - years ot age. Kbe V . .n.ubled pulaiioniu tbe 1j ; f. 1.. uts anun ented increase for Tennessee now sring some nine thousand souls. .uudreil and sixty-three houses were In Jackson during ihe year built MZL i.nd many more are iu course et i Ion. A htrce pr eentage ot laest-jkre of brick, with Iron fiouts, and are deemed flreprtxif. Three years ago there Ml i.-ii a building In Uie city with an iron front. The I mportance and extent of the business f .Jacgsreu may be appreciated when it Is known that iniui) bales of cotton are shljpeil annually from this point, aggregating il latt, OMl In addition to which Im ridlroads cen tering here have paid over to employees, 1 iXJ; the dry-gKxls, clothing, boots, stuies and hat business aggregated S7."i300ii; the gro , v, - ... : jf.;.n:.f:;cture, sJr'.tf); hotels and restaurants,$H"i,ut; the marketing buarwnsof Ucenaed dV.ales, Including pen ;,-,.'. r-. j :.'";' i.- drug business. S"3,.i i); hardware business, Wl,Kc; liquors, wholesale und retail, ?!75,t"U; confectione-rlea, fancy and aotloi stores,?:;;,-'; jewelers, f-'iO.OOU; llverj and -ale viables, $:5,0 it; coal trade of the city, $.".'0"; Mowing machine business, $Z-W0; ioe ira te of the city, lumber trade and buil'r' material, by dealers In the city, : ;;sHd 1 1 ld, ? MB; millinery' aud dress making, SfcVJWi: cotton compress, 92HU0; tar ber, f7'w; gun-Hboia, JWOOb; bakers, SlAjUUt; f improvements (n the city, including repa:n on old boucs. Jl.tw),') 0. Receipts for ; i ion::, ii; printing business, 7,Uie 1 mkiiiK business, gross, ft,(M00o; iucome of colleges, iODO, showUg ttt, 8,:i00 a; the grand total of tle buv:ness circulatiu mciliurn of JacJt son. A bird's-eye view of the business houses, offices, shop, seho.s. etc.. of the city. mav l ', clothin: il from the following 1 TV-gOtHi ota. stMWe and hats, Tml j gftrntry KUnjeael : ah Kiis, t;i; HVery and sale J tftblta,3; hard wan stores, -j; drug stores, 4; hotelb and rsaiaurauts. U; markets, 7; print ing olnces. 3; boo it store, 1; music dealers. 2; billiard .balls, -1; picture gallery, 1; mlllinerv I eioiet, 5; boot a d shoe sh p public house, halls for secret serlMUs, 4; Iskeries, 3; f rew cry, 1 ; cootie r shop, 1; soda manufactur ! er, l;,ewelers, 2; barber -hop, s; cotton ware I housn-N 3; furniture stores, 2; toy, fane v and ' eonfec ionary store, 1; cigar and tobacco ! storec. 4; china and qneensware stores, 'Z stove t .nware storey 3; dealers in builders mi crUl,2; dealers In lumber, 3; dealers In cosl. 2; dealer lu ice, 2; rn! ir, academies. :i; bank. 2; cotton rompreas, 1; saddlery and harness Ftnn-s, steam flouring mills; plan ing rail's. 2; roundly t: railroad macblne sbop, 1: railroad repair shop, 1; car nage, buggy and wagon manufac tories, 2 bmeksmilh shops, 5; sewing-machine dealers, i; resident life-insurance agents, 4; jesident flre-insumne' agents, 7; lawyers, 35; physicians, 5j dentists. 2; cMMM bayers.11; contraetorsand br:ckmnsons,ll-carpenters, 17; painters, U: plasterers. 7. Total niimberof mannfaetories. Ml total number of school nnd colleges, K; total number of halls, 7; total nnmla rof business houses, PW. In th" city, the bank of Madison, A. W. Campbelie. presidenr.and the Jickson savings bmk, James W. Anderstn, president, having a capital of two millions of doljaraeacn, afford ample facilities to the business men of Jack son. The-e inrstltutiousare considered solvent. The citizens of Jackson rongra'ulate them selves upon the establishment of extensive machine-shops, to be located there, belonging to the Mississippi Central railroad MMM . These imartnnt shops will give a new Impe tus to the mnnuf.'uduring interesbsof tbe city, and extend Its growth In a desirable direction. Within the present year Jackson was vi&ited by a destructive fire, which swept away one oi" its finest business blocks; since which lime active and successful etForta have been made ; establish the "Holly" system of water works. An unfailing supply of water for this purpose, can 1 bad from Forked Dm river, close by. In the important Item of newspa pers thl town is fortunate, there being four political and three agricultural journals pub lished in the place. The latter three, to-wit: the Parmrr Advocate, the Cfuo oom, and the Crop Reporter, ladng monthlies, published by Mesr. Ureeii A Meriwt ilur. The olitical papers are weeklies, namely : whim md Trih eac, the oldest and largest, by 1. M. Wisdom 4: Co.; Jackson IHtjHMtch, Worrell & Co.; Jaclc son Herald, Iian A C o. ; Jackson Couritr, Oiatcs A llnmoy. The climate of Madison county is salubrious, the lauds are fertile, and owned and cultivated by a people woo are famed for their fine social qualities, as well as for frugality, thrift, and love of indejendnce. Jackson )s nee from any local oaOM of dis ease, and has generally escaianl epidemics. Bart left. This town was incorporated in lJt. The first msvor was Alexander Mnnn. and each u-v-MVf mavor was ti. M. Bartlett, E. M. Caldwell, II. M. Ilartlett. and N. Blackwell. It has a population of two hundred nd fifty whites nnd two hundred and forty blacks, and one white school. 1 he leading citizens are Ke. Ileu. W. Johnson, H. 1 .. Priddy, Mrs. M. A. Illackweli, Dr. W. Ii. Wright, Dr. II. H. Ed- dins. I J. KinfO. M. Harriett, E. W.Caldweil and John If. BroosX The laayers are Col. C H ilai Eeau. C ol. B. J. Kimbrouah, and Col. B. T. Keaves. The physicians are lir. N. Hlack welland Dr. John F. Cochran. The merchants are Nick Crotten, William Wolf, A. J. Kirgay and Hen. W. Walker. There Is one hotel, and three manufacioi it s 01 wagons, plows and cotlius. There were nineteen hundred and fif ty-two hales of co:tou shipi-ii last year, and also large quant i ties of cot ton-seed, fiuit,wool. nil! ter au 1 cnicaeus :iie iai sinpnients made principally by lawyers after the court ad journs. There is a Method's! church of sixty niemners,io wncse spinnnu comrons ttevs. L. U. Hnldnsand 11. W. Johnston minister; a Baptist enurch of fifty menilM-rs, J. B. Canada, pastor: a . uiuberland I'o-.-bvtertan church. thirty mambera, Rev. M. .eiiner; an Old School fleshy terlan church, twenty MM bers, Iiev. Hootes. The merchants all buy in Memptii'. Town lots Mfl nt seven hundred doliais per acre, and farms attwenty-ttve dol lars per acre, which yield one thousand pounds of cotton aud fifteen to twenty bush els of corn, w ells are forty feet deep, and the Mississippi river is twelve miles away. Oak, gum, poplar aud hickory trees. Nhelby. One school and one hundred people, two 'saloons,' two mechanics, three merchants, d rug-store, aud fourlhousand bales and twelve thousand bushels cottou-seed make up lh village. There is one church, Cumberland Presbyterian, of eighty members Rev. J. F. McGaughey. Land worth twenty five dollars per acre makes half a cotton bale or four nar rels of corn per acre. Wells are thirty-five feet deep. Oak, hickory, poplar and gum trees. Wythe. One hundred and fifty inhabitants. The oldestcitiKensare Messrs. blades and Honey, the latter the sawbones ol the village. Kenneth Ota et t has been t here from t ime immemorial. They ship three thousand five hundred cot ton bates to Memphis Ihe eggs and poultry crop grows with the intelligence and induMiy of toe farmeis. They also send to Memphis eight ear-loads of cotton -seed. Kev. K. L. NCo Alree is the manager ol the Presbyterian church. Lund is worth fifty dollars per acre. W elm are ihut feet dep. Oak, hickory and poplar forests. haiiowaj s. A station on the Memphis and IiOuisville rall rond. A. W. Loving was the llrst, and C. S. Edwards the second mayor. One hundred and seventy -live people here, having one school. There is one hotel the Wall house a wagon and phnv-factory, by Benson A Moore. Two thousand bales cotton are snipped annually to Memphis, and eggs, but ter, chickens, and fruit by the car-load. The women about ( alio way are famous for their fresh, rosy cheeks, splendid healthfulness, sunny hair, vigor, and industry, it is the place to get a proper wile. .Many tons 01 coi t on -seed are sent to the oil-mills ol Memphis Brethren Hunt, Zelner. and Hull, Presby terian, l'-aptist, and Methodist, all keep alive the fires ot taith in every household in this model eoniiuunity. Tnfti village is assessed 11 fly thousand dollars. I .and is worth twenty, tnree dollars per acre. Wells are thirty feet deep, and tbe Mississippi is twenty miles away. Oak, hickory, ash, and MtpMf abound, leading ciiiaens c airia Wmmm lr. OL h. r-dwanls, F. S. Layieii, P. P. Benson, J. H. LayMflt, Heasley, Hopkins, Wall, ireer, Hamlett. Orittin, BmtoB. and Brother Bnmrn. North Oalloway is railroad agent. Brad en Was never incorporated, and only fifty people dwell there. The merchants are Brown A Evan?, W. s. Wilder, V. B. Johnson, Thomas L. Thompson. Fourhundre! bales of cotton are sent to Memphis. Land Is worth twenty -fle to fifty dollars per acre, each making half a bale of cotton, and &OM three to eight bar rels corn. Wells are tweotj five feet deep. 0:ik. iop!ar. and hickory forests on ev. ty h:;ud. Mmmm, Incorporated in IWiP. The successive mayors have been: W. A. MeCloy, isamuel Ciai borne, James Spitlei, and Joseph Waller. Three hun dred people and no schools. The leading citi zens are Broduax, Poindexter, Rives, Want, Jone, Crismau, Stevens, Wilkerson, Macklln, Boi d, Clements, O'Connor, Keid, Pettus, Par ish, Waller, and fcd. A. Herling, the rail I on i agent. Mis. Jones and J. A lrucgucss each oomluctagood hotel. '1 here is a in and saw mill. :utd the people want a shoemaker and a blacksniith. Ten thousand aud thirty-two cotton bales shipped last year to Memphis. Chickens, e-gs, buiter, fruit givelresh silken drcK-es and ruddy cheeks lo the pretty girls about Masons, c-ix hundred tons of cotton seed art sent annually to Jdemphis oil mills, f he are good people, too. about Masons. Lr. B.Ciillesple is pastor of the Presbyterian flock, and Dr. Collins of the Episcopal. "Immense" Is said to ie the trade with Memphis. Town loti ell at twenty dollars per loot aud land at thirty dollars per acre, producing three fourths of a cotton bale aud four to six barrels com. Welis are thirty feet deep. Oak, hick ory and walnut forests. Brow nvllle. Brownsville, the capital of Haywood county, fifty-six miles from M m phis, on the Louisville road. Is, perhaps, the mm! active and progres sive place in Weat Tennessee. Haywood county is very rich, lands are most produc tive, and the "people most Industrious. The nlace was incorporated in UBSh and only re cently has begun to prosper. W.H.Mann Is the mayor: Ci. W. Bennett, treasurer; W. Gangster, recorder; M. Taliaferro, maishal. Toial opulatiou, live thousand. There is a Method Wt and a Bapti-t female college; a male high school, Mrt eml private schools, and a system of free schools. Ihe Central female college is one of the foremost institutions in Tennessee. Twenty-two thousand two huu drud and forty bales of cotton are shipped to Memphis from this place, aud two thousand coops of chickens, ten thousand dozen eggs, tons ot hotter, Iruit, etc., and ten car-loads ot cotton-seed. Kev. George Kussell is pastor of ine 1 id -enool 1'resoy tenan, v . A. itajnes 01 theCumLs rland Iresbvterian, W. P. Bond 01 the Baptist, in. Moore of the Methodist. Pr Kidley of the Kpiscopal, and Padie Lemar of tne 1 at 1MB C church, central unim proved nOMnes4 lots are worth from three thousand to ten thousand dollars; farms a mile from town ate worth from twentv to flftv dollars per acre, and three miles out, from iwet-ty lo tliiriy dollars. Kesideuce lots in town are v, ortn (Md ue to three thousand doiars. One thousand pounds seed-cotton are pro duced per acre, or three and a halt barrels corn, or twenty MMM wheat. Wells are thirty-five feel deep and water excellent. Hat. hie river is five miles distant, closed by a ra'lroad bridge, and seven miles to Forked Leer river, which the Padacah road will render uunavigable by a bridge within the winter, ( aa ana poplar forests surrouud the town. A great agricultural fa r, a famous as mat at i:iny urooK. is neiu nereannuttiiy October Jl. ls-Ti. The lenmark, BrownsvilU aud Holly springs narrow-guage road ran !-:. graiea uiteen nines, anu ine rta:eign road, from Memphis, will be extended to BroAusville. Pans and Cairo. Thirty fw. miles cl the Brownsville and Ca'ro road are gradej, and will be completed In July. nVL There are two Masonic lodges, a chapter. council, ei'c.'onpnieut, Knwnis templars two cdd-Fellows' lodges, a division of the. 0MM of temperance, aud a Uood Templars lodge. There are three livery stables, a couit house and town-hall, and two telecraph offices. Old and leading citizens are: Uncle Peter Bennett, P. McLeod, K. S.Thomas, J. H. Thomas. A.Alston, William Sirams, rol Berson; W. F. Johi stone, rail mad agent. Ex change hotel, byC. F. Head. There are manu factories, two planing-mills, four saw mills, two onilOII gin manufactories, a gas works, fourcaniag mauutaciorles a marble-yard, a a foundry aud machine shop. Lawyers ore: Folk, Ijee, Bead Sou, Porter, Boyd, N una. Physicians an: Irs. Cooptr, Sevier, Hay w ol, Ware. Wills. Sangster, Kstes, Barc'nv. Merchanu-acd ineelianicsare: August PtncUn Brad foid, Wthon A Co, Jonathan Kader. (osoliug & Ihxon, H. Baxter. Browns'. .;. s:ivings bank; capital, one huudred thousand dollars B.s. Thomas, president; A. W. Brook way, cashier. Newspapers: tee, bv W. i le WesihPKdt; State, Will O. llaywsxl. Browns ilh eottou lactory, J. A. Hogers, president; James A. Wilder, secretary and treasurer one thousand looms, eighteen thousand "-pin-dies, two stories high, two hundred aud twenty-five feet front, aad two hundred dw-p; fifty tiiousnud dollars surplus after paying for everything. Belleville, I neorporaf..'! iti Uft h.i.-j H. I.. Winbu n M its first, and U, M. Met lellan as ii second major; IoDulatlon one hundrtsi and ti 1 ty ; one school ; mechanics Smith A Johnson, J. P. Simmons, W. K. Williams; merchants of the place are r.8. Woel A o . J. K. tiregory, W. H. Jelks, John Hunter, A. M. McLemore; John Bell, und J. P. I -e using, the excellent railr"d aent. are the ancient citizens. There i- a g-jod wagon-maker's sbtp here, and five InooMJM bales cotton shipped annually to Memphis, with vast Uantities of chickens, fizas. ,4iid butler. Hev. W. H. Leigh manages the Methodist, and K. A. Cook the Christian church. The village trades with Memphis. Land in the vicinity is worth twenty-two tb twenty -five dollars per acre, which produces eight hundred pounds of cotton and four bar rels of corn. Hatchie river is hard by, but nnnavlgable because of the railroad bridge. Oak, iekory, and wain - ; trees constitute Lhe forests. MMMh The twn was ineorporati-d In lsfcs. i P. Peay was the first mayor, and N. 1. Hess. J. C. Payne, W. It. Bichaidsou. and K.. J. Williams were his niceeasora. Poiuilation, white and black, t'AO hnndred and sixty. There U nH white school in the village. Names of lead ing citizen- W. B. Hichardson, Newton Har ris, John W. Mathews, J. W.Wilhams.Thoniai" lludgiugs, G. W. Booker, C. B. Stewart, S. H. Wnlkibs; lawyers- A. w. Sims and P.M. Thompson; physicians sinims 4 Williams. N. I. Hess, and H. J. Williams; men-bants S. Han is. S. B. Boy km, ltchardson a Oov, W. Tinder. Pulalove t'o., J. s. Medlin, L. 11. llurris, C. B. Stewart, W. W. Richardson, J. P. Taylor ft Sons; BaecbanlcaR. H.GefC, W. w Herndon. W- J. Tbompaon: manufactories one wagon and carriage, and MM harness A good ihOt maker is wauted. sixteen hundred bales of cotton are shipped every year lo Memphis; fanning stuffs shlpp-.-d-si xt v acres M raw berries, y leld th ree thousaud yuarts per acre, worth eventy-fiw cents per quart; twenty acres of grapes yield live thousand iKutnds, worth fifteen cents tier iiund ; jreacnes Milpreu, rour thousand bushels, worih t vt dollars and ti fty cents per bush l, and there will be a lame nmoun! of trees set out this fall; pears quautity large no estimate. Kevs. s. Kassett anl . W. Allen are Baptist preachers, with excellent congre gations in this village; Kevs. J. B. and J. Kenshaw are Mesbodist divines, and V. A. Mc Lemore is the circuit Presbyterian elder. The Baptist are strong, and havea church edifice, and then there is another free to all. Alt trade with Memphis. Lot are worth live to ten dollars per foot, and one hundred dollars per acre for lauds about the town, aud An fruit-bearing lands. O'tton-Iand is worth thirty to thirty-five dollars; cultivated it yields nine hundred pound seed-cotton, or five barrels corn. Land that was bought by fruit-growers four years ago for eight dollars now commands one hundred dollars per acre. Wel.s are sixty-five feet deep. Oak, poplar, and walnut forests. This Is a splendid Men lion, says our correspondent, for a tannery. Bark abounds, and water is excellent. Hnmboltft. This famous town was laid off in lot, am! sold In I by Long John w Ukersou, a nunons Memphis auctioneer of hoar antiquity. One Osborne was the then proprietor, aud lot were sold from three to ten dollars p r front foot. Huuiholdt has prospered since those ancient days, and Osborne has become con tent though he reserved two-thirds of Hum boldt, witu a little town lot three by six feet iu the mightiest city the world ever saw Of the Dead. He Is ready to give that up on the shortest notice fourteen thousand eight hundred and eighty hales j-r-- transferred at Humboldt, and fourteen hundred and eighty-nine come to Memphis from that place, wnicn snips, on its own account, eight een hundred and sixty-one bales. Gibson "lution, hard by, receives and ships to Mem phis 1-ix.hunured anil ten cotton bales. Humboldt was incorporated in 17. Its first mavor was N. .Senter.suceeededby J. B. Lun nom. W. A. Allison. i. W. Pay. I. C. Oillesnfe. Tne whites are twenty-four hundred, and the blacks six hundred in number, lhe Odd pel lows have an excellent female college, and there is a male aca o my. and 1 wo pr in-gi There are two hotels, one named in honor o! the worthy founder of the city the Osborne bouse, the Kussell house, the Fstes noons, the LonMrlile hotel, and the Hill ho tel. Humboldt is a place of good morals. The people have induced the barkeepers to take down the word ".Saloon" from their front doors, and travelers on the railways are not led to believe that the whole population of the town lives by guzzling whisky. These sign boards no longer repel Immigration from the country alsnit Humboldt. The churches are the Cumberland Presbyterian, one hundred and thiity-live members, Joseph McCiusky, pastor: Methodist, one hundred and tiftj members, T. L. Beard, pastor; Baptist, one hundred memiers, r. . Johnston, pastor; Old-School Presbyterian, seventy memlers. K. v. McNatr, pastor; auione, n-nv mem bers. Father Bingo. The city is assessed at five hundred thousand dollar. Suburban lots are worth one hundred and fitly dollars per acre. Farming lands In the vicinity are worth thirty-five to sixty dollars per acre, which pro duce nine hundred pounds ol cotton and sev en barrels of corn. Wells arc thirty-five feet deep. Oak, ash, hickory, poplar and walnut torest overshadow the laud, mere are one hundred and fortv Masons, ninety Odd Fel lows, sixty-five Friends of temperance, each having lthall; a city hall, by the way, in the Aei'KAi. editorial rooms there is an orig inal portrait of Humboldt, painted in from the great original by Mr. Sanders, a fa mous portraP-painter in his day. There is not another of equal value in the United States. A copy of this picture should adorn the may or's office of Humboldt, a courtroom, and the Humboldt Journal, a vigorous, earnest week Iv, which is edited and published by HI vers & Klllott. The I'm ted states barracks are hard by the city. The old andjead'ng citizens are J. C. uillespie, J. N. Lannom, w. A. Allison, T. J. Williams, and M. H. Johnson. The law yers' are W. 1. McFarland, G. H. O. Penn, W. o. bonmn. .H.nn-on & snarp, J . 1-. i.aw.in-s. The physicians are W. A. Thompson, Pnu A iiethsuears, j . u. neon. 1 ne rnercnani-. ;irr K. Howard A Co., Lanr.otn A Camden, Joseph Rea.(i. L. hiuey. M. Itosenfield. E. Solomon. Seuter A Balrd, Watldill A Sfovaugh, G. W. Day, Hammonv ieilson, ' hunn & Shane. The manufactories of the city arc the woolen- mills company, capital twenty-two thousand doll.trs; two saw-mills, one planing-mill, two Hour mills, one foundry and one brewery. The repair hops of the Memphis and Louis ville railroad company, and the machine- shops of the company, now located at Mem phis, win oe removed to riurucoiuiduring the uext tw.lve months. Milan, Named b a fruit-vender in honor of the Italian city once famous for the luxuriou ness of its Inhabitants. Near it Hannibal founded Caprea. Our Milan was incorporat-d in 1HS7, and boasts, of its successive mavor. J. ti. Shepherd, L. C Smith, and A. JnaM ; population eitruieen nunorea ; two tree schools one for neeroes, theother for whit . The leading mechanics are B. D. James, J. it. Holt; merchants W. B. Dickinson, Bryant, Jackson A 10., K. J. Robertson. B one A Mill-, and K. A. Collins; the doctors r M. O.Jor dan and J. t. Boyd; tne lawyer of the place are w . M. Mcvaii, t. Kan kin. and Ju igi Foote; S. P. Tnrke is the oldest eftuen We know. The twn hotels are the Milan and Cen tral. Theie are thie carriaireand HMIl fan uries, and one dour-mill. They want MMM and marble-cutter, Chinese MMVMBMB, and day-laborers for farmsandcardeus. Ftur thousand bales of cotton are shinpid an nually to Memphis. Flour t-- ' n '.'ed. ii -v. Matt Hillsmnn and . W. Griffin p- .ielu to one hundred liaptists, Hev. M r. Lea to venty Methodt. lr. Bright to twenfy-pv-- OM school Presbyterians, and Dr. Met 111 1. J to twenty-five new schotd. The town is wortn three hundred thousand dollars. Lands In the vicinity thirty didlnrs; prtwlin-es one thousand IKunds" cotton, or five narrels corn per a-re. WeIN are sixty feet deep. Onk and walnut trees mtwt abound. The Masons have a chap ter and ftonMl, and so with the Sons of Teni- fs'rance and Odd Fellows, and the MMM a iveiy granire, and the city government Las a nice town-hall. The Tennessee Central rail road will cross the 'Memphis and Ixmisville at this point. Contract have been made for 1 is construction. The road runs from Nashvi lie to Fulton, sixty-five mile above Memphis. I relevant. Named in honor of John Timothy Trezevant, one of the earue-t. active sjeake s who nvi origin to the Memphis and Ohio road. The village ha IhnM churchesBaptist. Cumber land, and Methodist the pastors are s, p. Jones, Professor Hendricks, and B. M. Bur roughs godly. zealus men. The average value of land in the vicinity Is thirly dollars per acre, ami produces eight hundred lo MM tbousandpoundsofcotton.it' five barrels of corn per acre. Wells fifty feet deep. The Tennessee river i forty-five miles distant. The population of the village W only three hundred, and . M. Hurt and A. W. White are the leading citizens, and K. B. Moore A o.. Patton A Love, Barksdale fc Ilillman, Pnlnu r A Curd. Joun M. Plcicson a .o.. and rlilluum A Watson, are the merehants. U. M. Hurt cndueta good hotel. There i one plow aud carriage facto; y in the village, which ships two thousand one hundred and fifty cotton hales annually to Memphis, with six thousand dozn chickens, one hundred thousand em and seven l housand live hundred en rss- ties. Ome antl walnut forests environ the vii age. McKenzle, Incorporated In isw, has boatci of four mavors Hawkins, Abernathy, Fzcli, and Watts, and theu McKenzie himself is famous old Scot, iu whose honor the place was honored with his name, lie oyncd in country, and tiie town wjis born ot him. JMnw MMfL waacttnr MMk due naooMMn people dwell h re. Two magnificent schools attract children from wide districts aroufd Bethel college and McKenzie nnllngn The mechanic.- are B 1! A sparks, W.W.Alexan der. Bar ham A Haileons, Plcmiuer A White. and two doctors ii. U. o w inn and j . r MnUMWnoo. Prominent edizens are O. Sneed. U.S. Cole, A. Bowdcn, S. S. Pa to. audJ.M. McKenzie, a vigorous, most intelligent work ing man. The McKenzie hotel is managed by Messrs. Koberts. There is a successful foundry and a flour-mill. Fourteen hundred cotton bnles are shipiH-d to Memphis. Kev. W. M Ilendrlch' has chaige of tbe Presbyterian, and J. N. Witt of the Methodist church. Land is worth fifty dollars per acre; twn lot four hundred dollar:. Etnfit bundrel pouri'i of cotton, or six barr- Is of corn i Mod treed re r acre. Wells arc tnirty feet deep, and the Tennessee river thirty-five miles distant. Oak and hickory trees abound. There is a Masonic, a temperance, and an uua reiiows lodge, mm then a farmers' grange. Pari-. Memphis merchants mike not the slight st effort to Winre the valuable trade of Pntte, onlvoue hundred and th:rtv m.les distant No Memphis commercial traveler om:;i man ever appears in raris, nere at our wr doors, in a rich country, and inourown State Everv day there arc in the village drummer from St. Louis, Louisville, and Kvansvjlie.a.id Memphis is inactive, and the railroad .m pany of course discriminates against us in favor of the more distant cities. There is no a single Memphis card in one of eur hes . changes from the Interior the Paris fnteUi- aenccr. The con u try about Paris abounds wheat, now converted Into flour in St. Louis instead of in Memphis. A tobacco-factory and fiouring-mills would draw immense wealth to Memphis from the country about Pans. We now yet a few fat cattle and sheep. and that ends the chapter which only tells o the inefficiency of our merchants. Paris was incorporated in ls.l, and since the records of the town were desi.ioed dun mi tne war we cnunot give local history W. L. Pry or is mayor, L. s. .Moore reorder, and l K. ' tv marshal : population one thousand ; two academies and one female college. The .end ing citizens are J. H. tJonlap, 0. Pcden, B. C Brown, E. J. McFarland, H. Hicks, Je se A. Brown, J. D.C.Atkins, L. M. Tharpe; thtee hotels Thompson, the Paris, and the Car r house -merchants are McNeill Brot'., Ay cock a Co., n. a j. hicks, w. s. rxocsnnnser: pn sicians S. C. Edmonds, S. H. Caldwell, J. C LandU: lawyers A. McCampbeli. J. H. Pun- lap. Clint Atkins, and s. A. Champion. There are two carriage and one tobacco-factory ; two spinning and jour large flouring-milrs. There are two small cotton-mills, one woolen-mi six lulMUtwi 1 JnctM lue Of two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three cotton bales, two hundred and seventeen go to Memphis; of one thousand hogsheads tobacco and five thou sand bnshels wheat none are supped to Mem phis. Twenty-five car-loads stock come hither. Hev. P. T. Scruggs is the Methodist, J. M. Fulghan the Baptist, K. W. Hooper the umberland Presbyterian, and It. W. lmiiliip the Christian pastor. The average price of land is twenty dollars per acre, it will produce eiglit huudreil pund- cotton oc seven barrels corn, or fifteen bushel, w h-,d Ier acre, or one thousand pounds tobac l he heat -crop is short . Wells are thirty-ll feel deep, and the leunessee river is twenty mile distaut. unk, wa nut, and hiekoty tr es most aloand. There is a Masonic and an Odd Fellows' btiihkng, and a strong grange, and a city-hall. The Cairo and len nessee river narrow-guage railroad, running through the eouuty and Intersecting the Mem phis and Louisville railroad at this point, will be built. Paris occupies the highest point bo tween the Mississippi and Tennessee river-, is very healthy, and has the best water In the world. White M.-.'iH'. Ou Memphis and Charleston road, eight niiies east 01 .-leinpuis. mere are lour churches at the place of three hundred in habitants. J. B. Slarku is the Baptist . Mr, Hooks the Methodist, Mr. Boots the Presbv- tenan, and Bain o ilson the colored tUsh-d pastor. Land is worth fifty dollars per aero, and makes half a bale of cotton or twentv bushels of corn to the acre. Eight hundr- d hales -.hippeo. i ne iid and leading clt'.ze: are: Dr. A. Mooie, Dr. P. H. Thornton, D A. si. Scruggs, . ( . Perkins, A. Rllayn. .. i 'i. .utivi uiir., .j. iii kj. xr. nooin, tt. .l. Macon; merchants Truss Bros.,sj W. Truss i t,o., il nucneiie ooiorttn, a. j. Su i-t mechaniesr-J. (. Harvey. Joseph Mason. B. W McCoIloch; C. L. Brooks, magistrate; Wm. Brooks, consiame. Collier fll. There is no more pleasant or prospering tit- lage in or out of th State than this. At tie breaking out of the war there was a pnpnlnr tion of rive hundred; there is now fiom one thousiind to twelve hundred souls inside the Mjuaic mi e eompo-ing the corporation. The piace was burned tothe around by ihezedeial htQMMj hence the town is of pott-Uitum creation, and its growth since ISM. the d its incorporation, snows the stuff of widen its citisen are made. Situated on either side nt the Memphis aud 1 haileston railroad, and within twenty -three miles of Memphis.it is conveniently adjacent to the city without be lug m near as to injuriously affect its own local trade. The public onewe presents a bur-i-nt and choerfu I appearance. The stores are neatly pointed, and the people Fcem to he wide-awake. Four brick-buildings of a supe rior clss wcr being added to th mMi n Douses, and tliere is a busk demand for me chanicanf every sor. which, of Use I r, tells Its own tab) ol progr--. About one-Iiliu fifth populaiiori is negroes, who are well behaved. It may le worthy of remark that wheicver In our travels we found l he darkies in the Mtonrtty, and coonettoenUy oOerlng nogeat t.einp!atiou to vile politicians, they were in variably wen behaved and industrious. It may not also be unworthy of record that in. count hi H ko '1 l.-hon.iiigi. Mi--Issipp.. when- tiiere were nev fore tliu war, and are not many tneu work more stea lllj faim-houscs indicate g" and comfort. There nr. lu t olilervUle belonsrini Christinu,or 'amp' aJJiti have large coni(regati' aides over the former an Of lite latter. The Bu and Catholics are prepa inien now, the white , aud their fields and si! husbaudry, thrift, two church-buildings o the Methoilist and denominations. Both ns Dr. B swell pre i Dr. Scruggs is pastor ptists, Presbyterians, ing tobuild eburches. col'ege, Rev. Dr. T. The Beile:ew female Pluuinur. niinciial. is loeaiea uere. inert1 are one hundr-d students, and lhe clUaena speak highly of the Institution. The budding aa-s erecieu oy u sio:a-suufM-rtii urn. ana eosi ie tliou;Ltid dollars. 1 h re is a lusd for beiys, al.-o, with fifty indents, of w lilch Caip nun P. H. Strieklan is principal. This 1-. one of the heavlc t eottonwipplng points on She Memphl-. aed t 'i.arle-toii railnmd. It ftflld. tV elvtr lhoUlid b:,ie of cotton tO Ihfi Memphis market. 1 hi is seven thousand live hundred more Hum t rintli sends. The Couniiy in vicinity of Colliervllle is a flue $pland, des'.rablefor res.dence,and producing an average of half a bale, or about seven bun dled pounds of seed-cotton to the acre. Com, bM, i sticcesstuiiy ppniucea, uiaaing irom fifteen to thirty busliels to the acre. Vet corn worth, al present willing ugusi. lab our dolbir a bushel In Colliery iUe. Tle laad Is worth from twenty in fifty dnflara per acre, FruP.of all varieties can l;. grown in ;ibund- ance. ConsldemMe UanLlUe d fine peaches BnfUett pears, etc., are shippHi fiom hereto Memphis. The town, Mipisirfed by such a country, must thrive, hi-i.ee business lots fronticg the public square are worrii as much s tirty MMn r-ei iron loot, in oilier pans f the town building lots are worth five hun dred dollars per acre. The public square sur roiimLs in lnclosure of some two acres, planted in ornamental shrubs and shade-trees. which, in lime, win ue 10 nmerviue wnni Court suuare Is to Memphis, lhe merchant ef this little city are: In dry-goods, MMK Wadtly. Bevel to., J. 1. tsigg.4 v to., tirtoits BroanfonteoniefT. Johnson i 10.. Man gum t Bros., and T. J. Bleckley. In the grocery line: Waters & f"o.. T. J. Morrw, J. A. Hammer, Jenkins A Bro-s., Harris A Simmons, ii. It., ;cott, H. H. I'avis, J, ' . Anderson, and J. J. Bigg. Drug stores r s. Parrish A ( . ;nd KiHlman A Maf. thews. Mercliant-tailor S. s. Bono, There are only three lawyer-- In the town, to-wit: Albert Suggs, . J. Duvall, and W. J. Little, of the medical profession there are lirs.John liucnanan. v . comers, tr. i. Perkins, and w. H. Jamison. I he first mayor of Colliervllle was J. B. A vington, the next .i. H. Davis, who was followed bv the present In cumbent, T. J. Bleckley. Hie re is a pretty good hotel kept by Mr. Turner, a clever gen Itcman, There are a lawto trice. U legraph offic', two livery s'.ahles, one saddler's shop, a hiin.iru-fia!!, a-iU seven snioon-- mere is onlv one policeman iu Collierwlle. IXiv it not present a questiou for the moiuh-t that there are MfM saloons in this town of a thousand people and onlvoue policeman, and t tne people are orm-ny, proures.s:ve, anu rarely have street-fights? The old citizens are Mr. J. K. She ton, f . n. sscott. 1'- A. trattou. Dr. W. H. Jamison, Ii. Jrby, BU-J. K.Waddy, aud K. W. RnnMnZ. Tnis place offers induce ments to mechanics iney can maKe irom two dollars and a half to three dol.ars and a half per day. A good bootmaker would make t'.iiun; here. j. 11. -c::r.-ier is principal carpenter and builder; W. H. Lock wood Is engageil extensively In brick-making. Tueie are elialytx-ale snrmas two miles rrm town at tho citizens vi-it. Altogether toliier- ville is a thriving and plea-ant town. La Fay el se. This thriving little village MMI upon the Memphis and Charleston railroad, thirty-one n:U - 1 t-t lrini ;o-inpi. ;. It is -:tuaten in the midst of one of the most fertile and pro ductive districts lu West Tennessee. The sod of the surrounding country is adapted tothe production of cotton, corn, wheat and oa s. Clover and the grasses also do well here, while on the htckary uplands negroes produce most luxurious tobacco, for tiaeir own eon- u rout ion. lhe vllage has a population ot near oii hundred, mostly while, mere is hinr.-d from thl- nlao- between four thou- MMM five huudred aud rive thousand five hun dred baleaof eottou annually, MM of which is bought by enierpri-dng merchants of the village, they giving currency, dry goods, mm- eries, and, to ! he shame 01 tne country be it ild, corn aud bacon. There is a very exten lve trade at this point; one firm alone has taid the Memphis and Charleston railroad for freight on merehandi-eover thirteen hundred dollars, and for cotou over e thousand dol- trs in le-ws than twelve months, and t wo 01 her firms about ihesame.Thepriueipal businestof the place is done ,y M-ssrs. N. H. Isbeil a- Co.. V. 1 . MMt iair MciJoweii, uwyno .v Thompson, llere, Wiseman A to., with A.). Isbell, How ell A Green, and W. T. Wilson as retfiil grocer -1 and dealei-s. Joe Wiseman i doing a thnviug hnntonM iri IIM WMMliaiilin j 01 nuggets wagon.-, etc. jicc names 01 an Kind-are wanted here, and would find enough :n do at remunerative wages, the hotel aud iiverv boatneM is under t!i-management of Messrs. J. L. Clete A Bro. Ir. James A. Lips- L'ouitt. an experu nee.i ami ante niivs.cian. attends to the ills of the villagers and sur rounding country. Tne Masonic fraternity is weil represented at this place. They have a good and prosperous lodge The value of town property is iu thr- U'-iuhborhood oi one hundred thou-and dollars. The trade of this village tsdoiie principally with Memphis. Au ibundant supply ot the very best witter may ie had at from twenty -five to one hundred feet deep. Lands in the surrouudiug country may he bHighT at rrom ten 10 nity uonars per acre. Dak. au. hcacn, gi; in. ppiar. and wai nut are the chief timber of the country anmnd. Tins is one M the principal wood and water MnlnMnl on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, and the long and well known A. P. Grose, an excellent gentleman, is a fixture 111 the ofllce. Moscow. There was a fierce cavalry-fight here when the country was mad, but there was not much ot a town loburu in WON day-., and our Xos cow e. t a i-ed eonllazra: ion. lis ruin ora hnvc ta-u ti. 1. I N.r;uoi, J. ii. Al it li, r". Alien. j. s. mil, n. u. stovur. j. . Alien, t Method wit church here of fifty members '.cvs. T. L. Bwell and J. fl. Scruggs are tl preachers. Lauds ale worth fifteen dollnm and make oue tliou-and Kuuds cotton aud live barrels eoin per a-Tc. w e is are "-evenly five feet deep, and the Mi.-vsissppi is forty miles diKt.iut. Mtcow is on the P mphi und Charleston railroad. Oak, hickory ?heach. und popiar consulate the loresn. i.i adiug i itiZ' U-s are u. Alien. v . .-. .u laran : urm:- gist Ir. J. S. Hill A Co.; utiorney-at-iaw J. B. Alien: ph.v.dctaus J. o. Hi 1. K. B. Stover aud J. S. Allen ; merchaats La is, MeClarau A Co.. steger Bros., A Allen, B. P. VnoncttyJ. s. K. Cowan. McCiarau l Wheelnr, and a. C. Bnnds; T. S. K. Cow an keep-. hotel here. M eov ship-- thirty-five hnntlred cwltjn bales to .Memphis, and manufactures corn and cotton plaulers and cotton-presses. Good mechanics MMI Ma tirnmt Jacclion. At the creasing of the Memphis and Charles by the Mississippi Central railroad, being only three miles aisran: irc.m tue olu town ot LaGrauge, makes ne claims tu comn'cr einl importance. It numbers about, two bun drcd Inhabitant, mostlj employes of the r i 1 road express aud telegraph companles.an i Ike ';' i:i; e ic::ir. uitn:. in-- pi nnip:ii oui:ti lug here is tue "Stonewall house," at which railway travelers take meals, morning, noon and night. A large flouring mill is another of the features of this place. Lands in th-vicinity are worth from twenty-five to fifty dol lars per acre, and vet not half of the cleared land in the vicinity of the idle village is cultivated. One half a bale of eottou, or five barrels of corn is produced on an acre. The first mayor w as r . L. ltMges followed by M. l. ft-Tewitt, H. P. Miller, H. F. Cssery, and M. W. Prewitt, The blacks number two hundred, and the whites four hundred in the village, iherei? oue fouudrv. one blacksmith shop, and twe wheelrights in the place. Two thousand bales uf cotton are shipped to Memphis. There are three churches Baptist. MeTh'..dist and Catho lic with a total of one hundred and seventy five members, and the following ministers: Kevs. Mr. Millegau, T. P. Kolman, L). C. Wells, l. Ii. Brvant. N. A. I). Bryant, and Simon Hunt tcolortd1. The leading citizens are F. L. Pledge, H. H. Hurs', lr. B. V. Pegram, D. C. Well-, M.W. Preuitt, Dr. B. nsMtWlb liam Pledge, J. M. Mass. George H. Woodson, W. W. Hawkins. Albert Stins -r., lr. N. V. PnVWttt, Pal Mciilaughliu, J. C. Prewftt, J. 1. Ktrhy, W. J. Kvaus, B. F. PMUJ, F. M. Pledge, Andrew Jackson, John Bowuen, Jas. ScanTou, W. H. VfwiXU Smyth Tucker, J.T. Jennings, T. P. Irvi;:, W. P. Johnson, V. N. stinMfn, James Miwr-1, John Prewitt, Jesse Bryant, J. P. F. Prewitt, James Ham, G. VV . Mitchell, aud James Netherland. There are twelve merchants aud fourtten mechanics. C'newalla, A little village on lhe Memphis and Charles ton railroad, laid off in Ih.j.7; J- W. Barnhill was the first master ef ceremonies, and Justice of the peace of the nice little place. John H. Graham reigns there in these lat;erdays,luccn juLCtton w lib the lnimitablegentleman, John w. Walker. The population of the city la something less than one hundred thnusand sou'., being only one hundred. They have a good white school, a Baptist and a Methodist church; a Masonic temple with forty Masons, anil buy forty thousand dollars' wortn of goods in Memphis." Lands are worth from ten to fif teen dollar per acre; makes one thousand to fifteen hundred pounds seed cotton per acre, or six barrels corn. Wells are twenty feet deep, and Chewalla is twenty miles from Tennessee river. Poplar, white-oak, sweet-gum, walnut, sassafras, mulberry, ash, and hickory forests cover the liills and va'leys. s. W. hteCnilnfa A Co.and T. J. Hurley, B. C. Ijajr.s J. V. Led bet ter, and M. V. Walker are ihe merchants, and lr. W. K. Uaxner the phy -i -t iu :f the place. Old and leading eltiseua John W. Barnhill, T. L. Banditti, Messsrs. Ijams, T. J. Hurley, J. W. Walker, Dr. W. K. Bamer, J. U. Graham; manufactories are two wood-shops end two l-1 'lv-nii tit shops; th-number d bales of cot Ino "hipped for 183, font hundred iuid fiity baiee, which was about an average Mop nil to Memphis. Trenton. This ancient town w as incorporated in MMfrJ J. s. Coopr is maor, W. B. Torrance the lively recorder, and J I . Hill th peace-loving marshal; population two thousand five hun dred. Public institutions are Andrew college, Mtrot Institute, and a nourishing colored school. The old etttsene are J. W. K'der. L.M. Ca'dweM. J. W. Hay., A. S.Curry; Howard k Co. are the gre.it xnchamcs ot the antique town. An merchants ne Cildweii .v Hays, dppenheimer A sons, H. L. Klder A so s, Lhtvis A Moore. K. K-'irizi-ard t Co., William Patton, N. C. Patton a MM . M Bvbass. The doctors are shackleford k Hapoell, Mc Culioch, McGee A o and T. Love; and the .si, quiet lawyers are Jones A Carlhel, L. W. T dlaferro, K. P. K:iines, r3pl. Hill; hotels the Trenton and the Hicks house??. There ftre two foundries, two plow-fact ones, furniture-mill, one tlouraiid one plan:ng-u:!ll, and one eotton-giTi-lactory. Kigot thousand bales COttMi are shipped annually, two thousand six hundred and thirteen l Ai em phis. io for the rest. I Pleven hundred and twenty-flvd barrels fiour, one hnndreil and fifty thousand pounds in sacks, and five hundred bushels of wheal, and chickens, eggs, and butter, in great quantities, are shipped, but none to Memphis. Chnrence Hd nebool Presbyterian, M.M.Marshall, pastor; Cumberland Presby terian, McLeskv. pastor: Methodist, A. L. Prifchettwraptist,M. M. Hillsmnn; Kpiscopal, J.A- Harribon. The trade with Memphis is small, but Increasing. Ii might be increased greatly by proper effort, says our correspond ent. Town pro; erty Is naeaed at six uundred thousand dollars. Thirty-five dollars per acre is the price of land, which produces eight hundreo pourud of cotton, or six barreLs of corn per acre, or ten busbela wheat. Wells on farras are twentv-five feet deep. Poplar, cak, and Mh fill the forests. Public Institutions ar1 Six farmer-.' giauges in the county, a courthouae, jail, town-hall, a Masonic lodge, a Mionlc chapter, ao Odd Fellow s lodge, an 1 idd Fellow' en- am nm nnd an nur.cultujrJ society. The .-i hi fJn.2ftfe liv John H. Gtas A Sons, and the JYett by Briggs & Holbrook, Are excellent papers published here. Henry Hfntion, On the Memphis and Louisvilla railroad, 'has a population, white and black, of two hundred, and three churches Metluailst, thirty-five member-. P. J. McGill naafor; Cumberland Prr-byteTian, twenty-five MM ieis. Ii. HubbiLt.paitor, and Baptist, twenty Menahern. fMii iLPulghum, pastor. There are two extra p;eachers beside living hen J. IL Williams an -a s.U. Hearn ami thu- ih nry insured." The whole trade of the country go s to MemuhU. Land is worth thirty dol lars, and produes eight hundred pounds of coiion,or nve barrel torn, wens are lorty feet deep. The InnnnMM nVrrarti for; y miles distant. Oak und hickory mh ests. Xames ,,1 old and leading citizens-K. 1!. Kabbitl, W.W. Onvrfa, h. Alexander, J. R. f llTheft lawyer W. L Carter; physicians E. Arbuckle, J. B. Jones, C. W. Wright; mcrchaota Uorris, Kii-hing A Allen, IL BnhOlU, S. C. Kobblnp, L i Headle, W. P. Hosting-; mechanics T. J. Linion, .1. G. Klcuardsn. W. P. Hester. J W. Hoag, A. J.Tully, J. P. IlurT.-stetier. There is tne hotel and two manufactories The spring creek cotton mills and a wagon and carriage-factory, Rutherford, Incorporated in 1W: H. Wilson 1 rnavor, .1. ti. rtlsley recorder, ami li. W. King city mar shal: whites and black four hundred; one while school. Tin- founders -d the lownare .JMlliam Pettis .ai It. A. cbanan, T. Cox, J. o. Montgono ry. P. m. O'DonneO: nerenmnti nra J. h. Kay, rf. Wil sn, J. C. Holmes, w. . KlnI. T. J. anerhtd. IC. 15. Tinkle: .nil It. A. snmli is th onlv me chanic we could hear of. There isa floar-mill. wooien-ml!l, Klu-facion. . saw nnd 'fist -mill. and wagon-factory. Six hundred and ftftv bales or cotton are hipped annuallv, and forty to Memphis; two hundml and Arty bar rel, floor and tm hotheads tobsu-ro are shippt-d cxt. P.nthenonl is north of Hum- bottlt. ltev,Mr.H-ward engin-eiH the Baptist, Kichnrd: 'olcnn-u the .Methodist, and J,.h.k the Cumberland Presbyterian, eairh having gou ciiKietttiou, uuu preacDiliLr gOOU ser- I pj mnns. -town 101s sen at nve ooiiars per front loot, and land at about twenty-five dollars pr .ere. nrnmicinsieiirn inin-ireM iuu.is eotton. orsix barrels of corn, or ten busnels of wheat. No man up was ever n-ed. Tu eiity-elKht miles loPoiked Deer river. Wells are Ihlrv deep Oak, hickory, and roplar trees grow luxuriantly, and to enormous bights. They have a farmers7 grange, a Masonic lodge, an Jdd Fellows' and cions' of Temperance build- Kutherf rd is on the Mobile and tmio railnad. north of Humboldt. Drenffen. Incorporated in W2H J. a. Parker wa-the hrstand J.A. Prest wood present mavor: pop ulation, maiuiv white, mx linndred; one hiii-i 5-hool in a tlounshing cindition. The lead ing 01a citizens are Alf taruner, ney tsiaKe more, iteutwn fcdmondsou; lawyers are Cald well a Boyd, anu Kogers A lulwards; mer chaQtsare It. N. Irvine, J. W. Moran, Hogers A Jones, 1 .lass A Meadnws. J a Lnmnkins. k" W . t ottrell, m ine A W ilUani.. and Kranci- A Tunsteil. D. L. Shaw is the hotel-keep-r. There 1-. a wauon and earringe -hon. tlour-niiii. saw-mill, nnd wooI-curiing nuiehine. Ash-e- maKer is warning. rourLeen nunareo baie- ottoQ were rkipi"d two hnndreil to .Mem phis four hundred and -cventv-rte fieads tobacco and nine thou -and busheb of wheutgoeast. AMeinplus incrcviii'it's head would swim If he went that far from home, and therefore I Dresden eek remoter mark 1--. ihe Metnotlii- control church malie:. the Baptists and Presbyterians having no pastors. Kev. M. Walker Is tbe excellent Metboui.-t minister of the town. Farming lands are worth thirty dollars per acre, m-thin" from seven hundred to one thousand pounds er acre, or nve oarreis com, aui oat ana walnut !oresl. There is a Ma-011 s ".eiiiple antlld Fellows hall, a larmers' grange, a venerable, ungainly courthouse, and a horrid jail. Hnntinsdon. Thomas K. Jones is maj or of this ancient town; population, nine hundred; one school. W J. Crockett, prank Priest, aud A. C. Mc Neill are of the oldest citizens. The lawyers arc Alvin Hawkins, j. p. Wilson, J. R. Haw kins; physicians J. w. McCail.J. X. Smo?t, and Johu Bell- merchants McNeel A Co., A. K. Hall, and McCracken A Co; mechanic J. P. Puoua J: Co. The two hotels are the HiUiaid and the Johnson house. There is a foundry and flour-mill. Pour thousand one hundred and eighty-two bales of cotton re ceived and shlpptd, and only fifteen to Mem phis, it would scare a .Memphis merrhant ai of his wits to get so far from home, ami none of them are known in Huntingdon. Tobacco and dried iruit are snipped in great ouan ti tles, but not a pound of either to Mempr.is,the nearest city. Kev. G. W. Williams preaches to a large Methodist, aud E.der Evens to a Cumberland Presbyterian congregation. The Na,hvilie aud L hattano.iga.alid -N.tshvilieaud Northwestern roads, now cnnsoh : ; with tbe Mk Lfiuis and Iron Mountain railroad, dis criminate against Memphis, and the Mem phis cnarnber of commerce sseeits no remedy. tud all goods are needlessly delayed m trans far to the Memphis road at McKenzie. mj tha' the people about Huntingdon will never trade 'a uu 1 nis c li . 1- ai-iii'm iaua in xiie vicinity are sold at thirty-five dollars per acre. Wells are twenty feet deep, and the Tennessee river is thirty miles distant. The forestsare of oak. hickory und walnut. McLrmoresTllle A small village three miles east of Trezevant. on.e nan ix nunarei lonaonanrs, six stores, and excellent college buildings. TBfti piece i now almost aerteu.and tne college windings, unused, go to decay, and McKen.ie ajM irezevant have absorbed MLemore-vil!e. Dyersbarg. Dyersburg was planned in 183K, aud lots town lots were solo, there iu 1327. In fact the place ii nearly as old as torn Neal. But liyersbur never strutted forth into the sun light ot immortality aud put on the airs :ind legistaiie forms of a regular city iii; hltlflL Then Henderson Clark was made maor, and the afpfMiM hero began lo assume aider manic airs and proportions. White and Mfl k. Dyersliurg contains tue thou-and souls, but none bigger than Tom Neal's. And then Em hi a capital gentleman. Pinner, K the preeu mayor, and !'is i.tbin. t. W. C. 1j$ ie, and the marshal, John Marigold. Isaac Sampson was the first name we ever beard associated with thatol Dyersburtr. He mas a true aud lova! representative of the original people oi West leunf srvee, and has left descendants wortbyof bis tame. The leading citizens are: F. U. Sampson irirst boy borai. Henderson t nrk. Mrs. Luctnda Phillips. Mm. Hannah Nowien, Albert ii. Pierce, Iaac ainpsm, and Chas. p. i;iark; lawyers; s. B. Laito, Juo. -keflingtou, T. i-. Richardson ami H. L. W Tunwy ; physicians: K. R. Vernon. R. C. Parr, K. H. McUoIiahtly, J. H. Miller and U C. Hibbett; tux. rchants : W'-bb A Child. W. M. Watkimt, Parr, Molen A Co., Sugg A Col, Cnamblin. Simpson t Co.. N. ' '. White. Cotton A Hucb.au au, I'eBeny A Maker, Robert.s.ia Luskombc. sievons t Bracket ; mechanics: K. R. Watson .V Sons, tannery and h:u-nes; Steven- BnMj mill-r; hotels: "iugg bouse ;;nd Burke hoflMe. BaptisLs, Methodists, and Cum berland Pie-byterjauseach have churches; J. H. Boriou, R. Thomas, and J. 1. Bush are pus tors. There isa'soafree MMMLflflMl a ouoretl church. The inwn MMrtp3i taxed at three h una red 1 housand dollars, aud adjacent land at fifty dollars per acre, producing twelve hundred pounds cotton, or seven bflurels corn, or fifteen bushels wheat per acre. Welis are oriy-fie ieet deep. Forked Deer river is at this place, aud the Ml sissippl fifteen miles distant. Poplar trees most alound. There i-a Masonic lodge aud chapter, hldFellow' en eampment. Friend ot temperance, a MnMJMj thespian society, an agriculiural club, a court house and Jnii, and tne Prttgresu, one ol the best papers 01 the western district, is pub lished there, the worthy rival ot tue Gazette, of the same intelligent, active, progreshive community. Messrs. Thomas aad Glover are the editor and proprietors of the Proareu. There are the following successful manufac t ries; fiouringmill.earnage manufactory ,aw mill, planlng-mill, three cotton-gius, wool -carder, coopery. and a tannery. There are two l housand tive hundred cotton bales shipped from Lyersburg, aud if toe Paducab road be finished from Memphis to that point b De cember, there will be six thousand bales brought thence to this city. We merely sug gest this little fact in order to set Front row after Messrs. Norton A slaughter and the rent engaged in building this Paducab railroad. Fulton Was founded by the mound-builders, curious remains of whose toil everywhere in the vicinity of Pulton attest theircounlless num bernnnd Industry. There!, one of these -.till surviving the rack of matter and crash of v. orlds, who is engaged in building a railway, called, in Egyptian fable, as quoted by Hero dotus, the MMM Central. The population of Pulton, hard by Port Pillow, on the OMfl bank of the Mississippi, Istwo hundred white and black, and an occasional mound-bu.Ider as aforesaid. The leading nodern progressiv citizeus are Dr. L. L. Brodie and Ir. W. W. Lea; J.T. Leaton A Co. are saw-mill owners, and have a successful plan! ug-m 111, and man ufacture sash, doors, and blinds. A. Lea .t Co. are successful planters and merchants; T. J. Stratlon and John B. Qfny are excellent mechanics: Messrs. Stubbs, lenevk, and Bell each keep a hotel. Fif-een hundred bales of cotton are -en Meiutvu. and nve hundred beeves. There is only a Methodist and a Bap tist church. Laud is worth troin titteen fitly dollars, pro.lucing one-third of a b-ile, or filteen hundred pounds of cotton per acre, or forty bushels uf corn. Oak, cplar, hickory. cypress, red-gum, ash and cottonwood trees abound. Wells are thirty ieet deep. DnrbnmTllle. This town, Durham-viUe, Is pronounced "bully" by our corresuondent, and we are led to infer that there is something in a "name." Iu any event there are eiiterpri.-ing farmers In the vicinity who have imported Durham cat tie and Berkshire pigs, and these flourish as in the greenest pastures of Kentucky. Tne town oi which we write was Incorporated in RM, The present mayor is J. Chandler, and his predecessors were M. Hatcher, Wm. Fish er, Thomas Fisher, D. PhlBlps, Colonel Dur ham (that name accounts for the "milk" of course it does in that cocoanut of mysteries iu nomenclature which our correspondent was trying to crack f, aud A. Phillips. There arc two hundred and twenty-two whites ami seventy-five negroes iu the ancient village, which boasts of two hotels, two cotton-gin aud grist-mills, the gins sendlug to market twelve hundred eottou bales. The place It much enlivened by the granges and the com ing narrow -gauge railroad, which will double tbe value ol the products of Lauderdale coun ty, seven thousand cotton bales are produced within seven miles of Durhanivtlle, and this simple fact will make the durhams und bears on Front street sober when reflecting that Lauderdale county will soon be cleft In t wain bv .lie Memphis and Paducab broad-gauge and the Memphis. Raleigh, Paris and ..'aim narrowguge roads. In an area of five miles siuare, of which Durhamville bi the euter, five thousand cotton bales are annually pro duced, and seven huudred thousand dollars worth of farmers produets are annuauy ex torted. The riches of the country about Memphis are incalculable. Weareonly faith less lodOMtTM in not making such highways that all this wealth may find here its pre ferred point of accumulation. There is a Baptist, a Methodls-:, and u colored Baptist church. The people here trade mainly in Brownsville. The town is worth one hundred thousand dollars. Laud averages in value twentv-five dollars per aere, aud produces one-half a cotton bale and five barrels of corn under Ihe ear-; ess -y-dtm of cultivation of the country. Wells are thirty feet deep, and Hatchie river five miles distant. Oak, hick ory, ash and poplar lres do most flourish. The leading citizens art) Dr. Phillips, Joy Chandler, Bob Sheltou. Asa bate. Colonel Phillips, Dr. Chrisman. Dr. Meaning, Colonel Durham, Tom Durham, Colonel I cket, Joe Simons, and Mr. Pcttas. Co vi melon. The ancient capital of Tipton county, thir correspondent thinks it was founded by Romulus and Remus, two original members, with Colonel Dick Muuford. ot the Old Folks association of Covington, the present mayor isB. K. shelton ; the recorder is W. U. Payne, and L. I.. Warr wage, war on all sorts ol cul prits. There are eight hundred whites and blacks in the venerable village, which was shaken out of its boots, and out of a quiet snooze of centuries bv the ad vent, some weeks ago of John L Norton, in the shape of a loco motive. There are three MMMM in Coving ton, and, judging from the blissrul repose that seems to invest the place, it Is blessed with a good, quiet population, ot churches, there is a Baptist. Methodist. Old School, Presbyterian. Episcopal, Catholic, . hri- tian, and a colored Methodist. The pastors are Joseph Boium. U. B- Bask i vili, P. H. Cummins, Mathews; isitaul, Joslaii H. Lauderdale. Land art worth thirty-five dcllaia, and produce nine uuuureu pounus oi cotton, or mx oarreis ui corn per aeie, or twelve bushels wheat, w eijs a.e ibrly feet deep. It ls six miles to Hatchie and blxosen to the Mlissfppl river. Oak, walnut and popiar are the forest growth. There Is here a saw-mill, planing-mill. flour ing mill, gin, and a carriage and wagon-factory. Luht hundred balee of eolton are shlp- is d?pof To Memph1-. " Old and ens: B. S. Menifee, C . Ush. r, hfleld, C. B. Hall, M. Hall, . B. Y. Locke, J. w. Hhelton, J. 11 aud R. s. Barrett. Lawyers . i-rtea ;sra.thfleld, P.J. smith, rurnmlns, Williamm San- M. Steele. Physicinn: L. fciiTett, J. B. Payne. MerchanT: hoin-x Smith, Wm. HaU, W. B. L-mmon-j. Sanford A Co., Hami. n, Ww. Hamilton, A. Llppman.' W. U. Tlgnor, A. ti. Mosh. Wrn. b Sweenei, L. Tidale, John Don- H. M it H. It. 1, Hill. V Mechanics: I agan. Jwra , colonel v alkr will lw wi-rthilv he ln-orioratl iu K7. .irge T. Ka?l tui Wt. Ine Hps'. Uiiynr, aud VV . I. VVliliarilM.u now llciiHrKs the function, of thU honorn-lN-office. W. 'irwuw i n-enrrter. aud K. BMrl is th- Se.tt the Mel nilirht te in council. indepeii'.ieDT unier or iwid-t-ei lows lodge, aud r nends . .; romper ance, ana au onaiuai, weii-eaiieu ffctJV, conducred liy nn excellent sti J. 1j. hpark. an-l tiien- is an agiicc eiety. There are two saw-mill. r. the '- . tir- mill, one saddi-: and ti.rue-hoi i.l ama. and wagon-shop. The leadin? citi tens are: T. A. Tbonips.,u. p.T. ;i:wa,s. M. Cjsou. Hirani f rie,J. B.Canaon, H. a I arson. I). V. Sleel.. The lawyers are: J. C Hortay, Tli' tii'i- Steele, Wilkinson A Wilkerson. Lynn V ( ildli.ll. 1. Th.' pir. i.-.alis ur--: .1. A. Lackey. 1). P. Steele. A. 11. Voung. B. . Lackey. The merchants are: Wordlow d Jackson. WheeL-r k Co. Kd. Fe'.senthal. J. K. tiray, f. s. vlcKiamy tt'o.J. r". L. B. Carson. P.T i;las & Sou, B. A. 4 r. H. Sinclair. J. K Campbell, oreaves. TarTant Co.. Male A Brodie, John Felsenthal. The me-hanic i K. . Butt. MISSISSIPPI. the capital of Yallabusha c upon rugged hillsides that lo. thf MisiuaHippl Central rattwe below. Th old courihoae, t ungainly, a sjuari- rt-ldi pile of brick and mortar blown away, and.glasn bro sh-gray un , with th i ken from th ing uneultlvaul hiilMd-, co-uperat to give the antique hme of General I'offeea sadly di lapidated appearand. The population Ls about thlrtet-n hundred, and all the property, our correspondent waa told, in and out of the town, 1 for kale. The aotU i somewhat sandy, the water excellent, fie Id and gardens pro ducthre. Tbe Inevitable word Saloon," which horrific decency and startle stranMnn. and stamps towns in the eyes of travelers a abodes of murder ud savager v, and gall hu man woes, v written in glaring capitals over .the door-ways of dram-shop al every village along tne Mississippi Central road. It would be of Infinite service to a'l these towns It these sign-boards, snp(-d ro be significant of the morals and huh its of a people, were carted away, with the bottles, jugs and bar rels tehind thn. Farms were sold last year at from eight to twenty-flve dollars per acre. CofiVville, Oxtord and Holly resented in Congre by L. livery where, from Grenada to the people sar they are amlo homes, and yet very few adopt m; -aii - possible, bv tuaitiug rn The eountrv about Coffee vllle 1 . Lamar. Hy Springs, o sell their ns of mak- attractive. watered. healthful, somewhat broken, and toll sandy, and light, and rich. Coffeeville was incorpor-aie-d :ii .-''. Its successive mayors were am ueU'jrr, J. H. ilerrou. H. U.Gorin, A. L. Guu tharp. John Mmons A. T. Wimlierly and hla reigning majest J. L. Esk ridge. Thei white, and one colo ancient citizens are excellent friend i male and a female nixed school. The es Aston. 8. Bell, C. Bartam, W. h. M. D., W. M. Mnnn TlliMIM M. I).. L. Xewberger. The lawyers are 1'.. li oiiaday, i. i. iesier. i ne uociors sire H. Bell, A. A. Powtrli, J. A. Kennedy, A. H. Brown. W. ILThoma-. The merchantare L. Newoerger; A a Co.; Bondurant A Co.; Bryuut a Herruu: Brannou. Fly Garner; Biown A Bro.; Tabor A lKd-on; D. J. Azlin: M.-ader-s Jt Ui.c ; W. K. Thomas; J. W.tpeny ; C. U. Calhoun; G. V. Bosweli; Mrs. J. L. Hart ley; t. M. Mitchell. John L. i oUins A Cn mannfhel ure carriage-, plows and farming impleui'-uU, and -p. innt r A Marmadnke har-ne-s aud saddles. The town ship-J six ;houand live hundred cotton bales. lorn crib.- and -.moke h -uses are in the north-wc-i.. There are thxe retail groceries, two drug .-tores, two produ--tores, six dry gooI aitd"groceries, one tin, and stove, and one cou f. ciijuary. ii.v. J. L. Mclwell preaches to fnrty-flve Cumberland Presbyterians; B. B. drown and J. M.Mitchell to twenty Metho diflta; J. B. Join-. ;coloedi to two hundred and ii.: colored MvthutlUts; and there are about as man v colored Baptists. Memphis supplies lhe place witn dry goods, boob hoe. ht ami notions. The cotton iroes :o N w ' r lean. The town Is worth one bundled thous and dollars. Tbe lands are naturally most productive, but have is-en ruln-d by ignorant farming. Land is worth ten to twenty t oLars peracre. The laud produces about two bale U each five acres, or yield - eighteen bushels ef corn to the nete. nttl are thirty feet deep. Poplar, sum and hickory do most abound; raniiiiraoi- aie niainl Georgian and Caro Ifulans. There is fine water-power hard hy and two saw-mills and oue grist-mill. ford. Um s-at nnod the The count of the State university, is built loftiest hills of I-aeayette eounty y was organized in 1. and Oxford Led in MR skei t ha . Kotdr her. '.Wilson and Jor dan Phipne. Whites, eleven hundred ; negroes, h.ur hundred; total, tlften hundred!. Be side the great university, there is a female college, two female schools, one common school. The iawvers are L. C Lamar, A H. Barr, Jordan Pnipps, Charles Hiwry, Fi. Magees. Hamp riulliA'an, John H. McKie. The doctors are Mesars. isorn. Chandler i;eston and Thompson. MercnaDts t am tsamuger. silli.im ihompson, l. An-ni"aw.' umien Robt-rts, K.E. UvletNew. F. iora, William J. 4 ' u, U. it. Chctson, Thomas K. B. Pegues, '. !'.. Penile-, W . G. uVatiland. Peter Wilkins, William Turner (bnllder), and William snithcr. The chief hgl 1- the Thompson ho us?. Boarding-house are numerous. There are no manufacturers in tne plae. A grist mill ts give food, aud cotton-mill employment to idlers, is greatly needed. People say that rates of treight charges are s high that It is impossible to ship fruits and vegetables, with which the country abounds. Therefore, the anxiety to build a cheap rail way sixty-five miles to Memphis that cheap freights may be secured over water-routes. Iweive thousand bales of cotton go to New Orleans frcm Oxford, which Memphis roam secure by investing fifty thousand dollars In the cneap railway, r. M.Jurey preaene lor the Episcopalians ;B. F. Smith for the Cumber land Presbyterians; s. M. Neal for the uld School Presbyterians; J. B. wartrell for the Bap lists; j. j. v neat, jieinouiii. .w uu then groceries are ordered from Memphis, and boots, and shoes, and hats, but the whole trade of the coun ty and towns gDM to Loui ville. Cincinnati and New Orleans; all tor want of a rilroad that won Id not cost this city more than fifty thousand dollars. The f)il .on, a wcll-condueted sod suc.-e-sful wtekly newspaper, is published at oxford. Is mainly known, and jwople estimate its pro gress aud intelligence and the woilh of its peo plebv IU representative newspaper.the Panola anar.wbich glitters brilliantly above this Beth Nhefu. The town was chartered in l P. D. Ellis. Dr.s. P. Dunlap, Dr. D. B. McHenry t.ave ben mayors. Tue whole populsliou is two thousand- fifteen hundred whites. There N ii. ie nale college, three t- ...; private schools, one male academy and two negro reboots. The physicians are Drs. Ellis, Kinche loe, Wright and Dun lab. Attorneys arc Metwrs. 'rump. Cooper. Tavlor. Polk and fctandolph Merchants G. W. Balienttne, W. D. Hettfin. J. F. Hobgooil, J. F. Lavender, T. J. Hunter, S.V.Guufer. MtM'hanu-s an G.Clarke, P.Jobn son, W. IL Suiter. The hotel of the place is well managed by C. W. Richards. All railway rains atop there for meal, and it Is one of the bes eating-houses on thu road. There Is a i . hundred to eight t nousand. About seven thousand will bts sent to Memphis this year. Products of orchaids and gardens are con sumed at home. There are five Sabbath schools with five hundred pupils, and five church buildings Episcopal, catholic, Pre byterlan. Old Senool and Cumberlanu, Metho dist Baptist and Campbellite. The churches are iargely attended. The whole traile of the place is monopolized by Memphis. Proper of the town estimated at five hundred tnou and dollars. Lands vary in price, bavins, reference to distance from the railroad and to improvements, lroin ten to thirty-five dollars per acre. We' Is are twenty feet in valleys, and one nnndred and fifty feet deep on bills. Tue Tallahatchie is four miles lrom tiardls. Oak, hickorv. walnut, gun:, dorwood -nd tronwood abound; aud cypres-, and beast-. in the creek-boiroins. sardi- is the capital ot Panola, a magnificent c , growing ran idiy m wealth and k not in the state a more people, ihe finest co a in orocese of const , and there i nt, industrious in the soutb .t sariLs. Tht county wilt ship to Memphis i his year twenty five thousand cotton bales. Ilndaonville. was settled in IML It wa for year a rival! of Holly Springs; is seven miles north of it; it has only two residences in it now, and no stores. Two miles east of I!, oa lhe Missis sippi Central railway. Is a station which bears its name. It has absorbed the old town en tirely. Co mo, Como was thus named la re Terence to a charming laie, supposed to bd iu the vicinity, and not because of any rum, ; : . ' . ; the active, progressive village, it was en tirely destioyed by tire last spring, but has been, rebuilt, and is growing rapidly In waUh aud populatiou. 1 his town is not corporated. and. we believe, that our fri. !sac N. Davis Ls in some sort mayor of town though there is oocuarlertor it.evei old Ike Hawk lings used to be. fifty yean ; mayor and justice of the peace of Memp by common consent. There is no ala;y, : no four and a half per cent, taxation to la Old citi.ens M. Folnier, Sledge, Phil. Pointer, T. k. ii. : Ba Thomai West, lia r.- wa- never : lheaplace, and the propose to ft keep them out; but there are tv A. a. Young and F. EL Jones. Th itre M. Pointer Co., J.Grenwa:d lap .V: t;o., T. C. Bass A Co . B Bk and then to make the .lace bl hflVM the Breckenridgrt bo el. and thousand bales of cotton to Mom do not deal in trifles, and there nothing beside cotton. t'otil Water, so called, in reference to tbe sob peopl' in nn They do not believe lu hi Ing the word Saloon,'' in ing characters, staring migratory i tb far, io create the aupres 1 m ti hart Is a wot deals i and oue hundred negroe in the bleeaed temperance village, and ene flour L academv. Oar correspondent d'd not , but he is a terop oco itwvt-r tu the pathy, are D. '- 1 i.Talbot Mec Wright, Thos. I F.dgerly. acapit gntter. The m t tbe tCo , B. B. and anil tby bave two capital loirJ:nhouM!H In -atead. A silver&mitD, carriase-raaifrr and tailor would do well In Coldwater. though 'he ninth part of a man commonly needs haptiam m a more invigjrallnn beverage. jj WaterValley .tbeforeinort man li Ml the only indatry Some 01 au- th.- ode of around I not so jneroua lighlful Water B.ven reul : i bo Valle oitlon in Mi ' new. It v here and d brick nt x2 of well A lire will dingy, rep ings that 1 along ituV. longer than any in ti can hardly nupply tl of thu factory has ci other like It in Hoilv Valley, the sncceaal chauical industries I has be g it ten wagoi erection ot a eotton i will go into operatic add perbape 1000 tc place. There are no worthy of tne peace, won pre-eminence i rfljMiy md the gun. li be year of the Valley dow has " of the i an an the many tvr s practicing the r Jdesr. mtt dis.u.Hing forms of the art, at tbe cost of people s lives. everyhe e aloiig American railway lines. There are two lively weekly newspapers published at Water Vallev. Kt valry is advantageoue. here as at ' Holly -pangs, to the South and to the Reporter; to the Courier and the Central, lhe circulation of the two pablicatl- ns, as I am adviMHl, a about sTaIO. One, the CcntrfiU Isaa illustrated publication. So profuse art the pictures that a steady advance in the price of ofl white pine lumber and ol oly be anticipated. jack-kr: tach l tion oi i nrisuanfl has i one of theae a very tastef ure. Th more credit N eause all these have been the past six years, while the most potent town i vears ago. There are coi ii r-cbool-otuldinzs. and ch houses in Hoily sprin will be burned down and of Its manufacturing i -readily and rapidly i ewiifl, ev as the wi.l be const was incorpor Lawshe, . C Davidson an the mayor, one-elzrith a euey , W. H . . J. V. opulation fortv black. Three crdored school. Th? M. er. -.naw. P. D. WMMMj B. ft. Kohinst.n, J. u. Moj W. H. Briston. (i. B. rgiund, H. Hill. A. J. MeCounico, T. N. V endef, E. I. Frost, the -kilt'ul railroad manager. J. Adtfiogton, W. J. Hughes, I. K. Wagner, W. A. Herring, J. H. I W ilon, M. I). L. Stephens, .building me et Ltoa mill . L. H. Kirkwood, V. P. Regan. K. Prophii. (.the stove manufacturer and vender . I Lawyers: W. B Turner, Hush L. Martin, H. I La. Uuncau. B. II. Tab r. Puysk-ians: John Voung, T. A. Lewis, T.J. Rgers, J. L. Back--.Uom. J. P. Davidson. C. Mo (MMTj D. K. Hake, J. M. McParlane, W.Licksou. Mechan ics: J. E. Becton, Jam- Pratt, T. W. Whitsey. Manufactories : etc.. wagou ar son. iron fouc ware, stoves ai uandles. wur mjt, asn. Shaw ' hoi low er of ax nat wide are sadly W M.T-1.-- d impov- burcnes: iree bas in. E. Ci W. Du ld forty ; oembers; ., negro .-. Trade Viet hod is dred and Davidson rny, me apiseopa atholic. i p one n untir Green, pastor. I r Bennett; eil Douglass Green. pastor, doc with Memphis con-ists sol ries. to some extent In dr: In boots and shoes. If to ouil: m Oxfoid at least I'm eottou would go hence to , to the amount of hail' am The we kith of Water Va eight huudred and fifty land., average twenty-five acre, eliht hundred pounc els; wells sixty feet deej navigable stream; oak. ol. I hicko the war annum has in till IS71 Tillatobi o be mu he non ries and and B. rt. Brown was maile : seventy-live souls in the pia or must have a hard tim- Leigh. John H. Dame, W . J. turn. Captain I sines Sim mo j ?r, and only one dtictor, ht Dame are successful mere uai fifteen hundred bales o" col Ten per cent of the negro nnd taking care ot what the; buy little farms. Lands s fifteen dollars per acre ; well eighteen ml-es to the Tallafc and poplar forests. Inka. law- m hips )his. well ome r to eep; pine Long years ajo, ere yet woodman's ax was heard : Tishomingo country long Daniel Boone, and befoe the great river that she tbe -oend of the forests of the re the ays ot to discovered low bear his came, there that part en wamba coui known as th ed in North Mississippi, in si in tbe territory of Ita l trioe of stalwart Indiana as. The chief of this war- like tribe, whose name was Ink s held in nckJLsaw d. while eir brave tow sped from tho in all the l nor aim s club, to I a death . : - of the h brave. . In peace thecoun the highest esteem by tde wt nation, lo which his tribe t his own people fairly worship and noble leader. Inth-chas so surety to its mark as that bow of lt.ka; nor were there I country feet more nimble in tl but kind no wiser i cil fires tlons.digulflH courteous to h der he was le lated that max of his tribe. And it is re ark -eyed Minnehaha . . And in green ana yellow melanchoily sat like Patience on a monument Smiling at gnef." for hopeless love ot the handsome warrior, who was a respectable MMM man and pater ffimiitaM. But the iiis to which flesh is heir spaie not even a good-lo king Indian chief, and Iuka was stricken down in the very me ridian of his glorious manhood by a disease which baffled the pathological wisdom of the medicine men of the tribe. In vain was the inttteria media of the Chickasaw doctor searched' iu vain tbe medicine men cudgeled taeirbrainsjustasourscitendo now. to rind out what was the matter with the big ind an. No light was hed uion the -abject; no reme dy eoald be found, and the poor chief grew worse day by day untU, at last, he was given over by his sorrowing people as ne bound for th-3 happy hunting-grounds of hla fathe s. The whole nation was plunged in the deepest grief. Hut Iuka murmured n At this cri sis in his earthly affairs, when the tribe was bewnilinn their chief as one already dead. ther -ny was n'le :ngs ha? nk- eth of those stp of death. re;ui prhMaa. Com. nd iog icir ays SVi the igo. lag Ai- ing ilia co I to nnd I IBM "o er true KKAL.be can 9 ret ttet one CT- lew on ! road. In- i and rb-T: ine ru ol . P. I fs the name of thi trance m .n. 1 villaa;. There cnance of gettr :;r. I he -!y fel.I