Memphis Daily Appeal
Memphis, Tennessee,
May 18, 1861
We yesterday received a very satisfactory specimen of gunpowder which was made by Mr. W. White in the town of Panola, Miss. We learn from Mr. White that it is his intention to make a hundred pounds a day, if the necessary supply of saltpetre can be had. We see it stated that in East Tennessee this material is being worked, and that in Alabama vigorous efforts are making to work the immense deposit that exists in one portion of the State. Gunpowder will soon be an article of plentiful production and ready use in the South.