New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-26
Lsnd-seIIins -Tenne..ee-C haracteri stic-'

IiBs-Te nDessee-Cha racterIstie-'
Editorial CorrespOndence
sASDvsKY. Ohio Nay -, Isi3.
There 10 no other class whose position 80 strong
Iy appeals 70 the sympsthes Of the honest and
humane as the poor Immigrants who from En-
rope in Thousands are seeking homes % our
shores, or who are trying u escape the slavery
and constant anxiety Of the condition q hhehns'
10 our own older communities by removing |"
lands Of their own IN the new states Sr 10 the
more thinly settled portions Of the older II there
be one business which more than others requires
the constant Wstchfglness d the generous, It u
that Of Lsnd-Seiling-tbe exact'on Of money
from poor aad gnOraa. men Tor patches o.
distant wilderness which they have never seer.
and which they vii hardy have ability % escape
from. H. when they shall have reached them, they
prove utterly unssitea to their necessities and IN
like the representations which beguiled them into
purchasing In the light Of these raanifest truths.
! ask attention 70 the following expose
For some time back, systematic and not wholly
unsacos.sful eff Jrts have been made 10 Ns~-fork
10 fad purchasers fOr Wild lands IN Tennessee
most Of them IN or near the region which am
about b describe Meeting 40 Old and t'usty
friend yesterday ia the cars hi-herEsrd from On
oinnati, and learning that he wss on bis return
from visiting some Of these Tennessee Wild isnfs
1 sought inform alton Of hin respecting their vsiae
and character and ibis j. the substance 0i his ac-
count OF them
Ny frend went cat a. the agent Of a relative DO
Boston, who had been constrained u accept con-
veysnce Of - 900 acres Of these Tennessee Lands
10 satisfaction Of deb, Of 5000 dse him by a
bankrupt now deceased. The lands are sitasted
in fentress County On the north Inc Of the STATE
(next 70 Kentacky,l and were duly laid down on
Map as lying in the valley Of the Cumberland
River with the Cumberland Mountains IN the
distance, and the routes Of the two great Raj
roads which are expected 20 lead from Tennessee
70 the Atlantic, through Georges and South Caro-
liza respectively, crossing each other directly b.
the midst Of them. sach were a part Of tn
land selling representations. Now for the facts .
In the frst place, nearly the whole Of entrees
and Of several Counties cas-. and west Of H. lee.
not beside. bot upon the Cumberland RANCE Of
mountains, which Substantially divide the better
portions OF Tennessee from those Of Kentucky
The average elevation Of this County 10 some ,, o.
feet above the Cumberland River, which barely
skirts Il On the north. jamestown the County seat
10 directly on the sammit Of the mountains, which
10 broad and sufficiently level, bat some 1000 feet
above tide-vaier. The soil Is a thin, poor gray
ely sand. annually impoverished BY burning over
In order 10 destroy the leaves and underbrush as
10 afford range cor the situated hogs and sheer
which are the main subsistence Of the people
The timber is almost entirely Pitch Pine snd
Scrub Oak Of the worthless variety Known a,
Black Jack; and no man acquainted with timbe
need be told that such timber grows only on ,h'
poores, and most hopeless soils. There Is little
Chestnut, which tells the same story. The sub
stratum 10 entirely sandstone, rising from the lime
stone valleys running some twenty to h''y mile
on either side by very steep, often pFeeipitou
accents OF three hundred 10 a thousand feet each
which could only be overcome by a railroad at a
enormous cost, II they coald be At all; bat IL iao
there has been 10 serious intention OF running AL
railroad within many miles Of this County. Th
crossing Of the two great Railroads in FeniFess l
simply a lsndspecala,ors' swinde, designed {
entrap the oredul0Gs and anwary.
There IL Of course very little husbsndry or thrii
in such region. Hunting is the chief reliance
there being many deer In the scarcely broken for
eats Ta-ourning has been e considerable re
source, 10 spite Of the reEoieness OF markets an
the cost Of reaching them with a product 50 balk
IN proportion 10 its value. bat It Is now near
abandoned either from exhaustion OF tie mate
nal or a diminished price Of the product yer
little grain and q lev vegetables are Grown son
far also, from which and the wool Of their shee
the people are mainly clad In the ooArsess hom
spun. The aesh Of sheep, hogs and deer ioEm II
principal food The moGntainecr carry ins he 81
with him on every occasion, Just As the CT ma
carry his cane. Fighting snd huatlng-tradItio.
of Iadian conflicts and the mere recent giores
The Mexican War-the ability Of the South
whip the North-intermingisd with accounts
personal skill in deer slAag htering form the CHI
topics Of masculine conversation.
Very few slaves are held IN the Mountain n
zion. AZ they could not be made Prohtable-Indse'
the whole population. white sad back. Of Jsmsi
town, the County seat Of Fentress, numbers e.
se,iy City three. while the COUniy nay ha'
twelve hundred 70 two thoussnd--yet the sevosio
Of the leaders Of opinion % Slavery 10 as ians'c
as il they were able to own slsves-very hkst
more 90, Very rarely seeing ne~sPaPer, a.
those they see being entirely ofthe Southern Loo
Foco school 10 which they are politically attaches