Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-04
SUITS REACHED.

Mr.. McKechsn, from Pennsylvania
has sold his farm in Pennsylvania Il
come to this State and purchase.
Mr.. Oldfield, from Ohio, and six other
families, are preparing to remove tc
Tennessee. They bring with them about
$4,000.
J In Bradley county, a Mr.. Cook, from
Canada, is working a farm on shares.
He will report to some 400 families,
at whose request he has come to this
State.
Augustus c. E. Miller will start for
this State shortly, in order to purchase q
farm.
Thomas Walker, Of McNinnville, gives
an account of large number of fami-
lies who have immigrated to that part
OF the country, and states thst they are
! but the beginning Of very large i'm
migration that will come TO that county
this year.
Frank Donahue, OF Pennsylvania,
gives an account Of three small parties
coming to Tennessee, one Of them to
buy land for a colony. ;.he also states that
these are bat the skirmishers Of the
spring immigration from that quarter,
and thus confirms the statements OF Mr..
Walker.
John G. Vess, of Germany, asks in
bis name and the name OF others, for
region Of c5untry fit for the raising Of
grapes.
Nathan King, of Ohio, and two other
families, have sold their farms in O1iG,
and are about to come to this State.
John Wielsnd, who lately purchased
a valusble farm near Knoxville, writes
that one family will so Immediately
with him, and that il the half-fsre ar.
rsngement should be accomplished,
others will go.
MIR. Helm, from Pennsylvania, one Of
my correspondents, ard five others have
purchased farms In Dickson county, and
Mr.. &. Look, also from Pennsylvania,
whom have furnished with an account
Of the resources Of this State, ia now in
East Tennessee, looking for home for
/ himself and several families.
WHAT AGENTS md COUNTIES ARE Do
ING.
The agent for Cumberland county
I states that within the present year. PROB
+ ably oue-half Of all the land IN that
county for which valid title csn be
made will change hsnus, aud that the
money brought By immigrants 10 the
county during the past yecr has eOusld-
erably increased the revenue Of the C5Un-
ty. II similar efforts are made 10 other
/ counties, similar results VIII follow them.
In BlOunt county an immigration So
ciety has been organized. A nun Der OF
4 Northern families have settled there,
and many others are about to remove to
/ that county. In Knox county 3 series Of
measures have been set on foot which are
1 likely to bring there considerable i'm
migration.
EFFECT OF THE LABORs OF THE BOARD
AT THE NORTH.
The few letters TO which I have refer
red present but very impsffsctly the evil
/ denee I have received during the past
month that the lsbors Of the Board dur
. ing the wear 1858 have not been in vain.
The information circulated throughout
the North il s.ill working as 6 leaven,
and IL several localities, 70 my knOwl-
edge, 8 large number Of families are
making arrangements to remove TO this
State. Many Of those who have alrescy
invested capital in this State, and who
have gone back 10 the North in order 60
arrange their affairs, are acting SIS vol
untary agents of the Board By the IA
vOrabe statements which they are max
ing.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE IMMI-
GRANTS.
l have also endeavOred to remove mis-
appTeheusiOns with regard to the plans
which the Board proposes to carry out,
II is not INDECENT foreigners whom the
Board proposes to transport to the State
at the public expense, ard who may be.
come 3 bUrthen to the State after they
have come to it. The immigrants who
have reached Us through the instrument
tality OF the Board are men of means,
who have purchased farms and who have
int of
ture. They are skilled mechanics, manu-
fsc,urers and men of capital, which they
come to employ IN the developing OF our
resources and in aiding the cause OF in
ternsl Improvements. / have also en-
desvOred to make myself familiar with
the manufactures now in operation ia
the city OF Nashville, and with the Op-
pOrtuuities for manufacturing which it
holds out.
LABOR AMONG GERMANS.
AS far as Germans are concerned, am
Ia correspondence vita two journals
which sre especially devoted t) the CAUSE
of imm grafton. In these journals the
Interests OF many Of the States are dis
cusssd. By publishing in them accounts
Of the climate and the resources Of Ten
nessee, there is loom for Influencing i'm
migrants in favor CT Tennessee before
they leave Germany.
WHAT THE RAILROADS WILL DO.
At the Convention Of Presidents and
SUperintenden.s held at Atlanta on the
4th Of January, which I attended, 8 re-
port Was presented which dwells on the
fact thst we should profit by the exam
pie of the railways Of the Northern and
Western States, which have reduced
fare for immigCents, and who employ
agents to look after the foreign immi-
grant before and after he has landed on
our shores. A similar plan has been
1pted by that Convention; the details
Tor worfIp-- ii out are being arranged as
rapidly as possible, and WIEN the Ea'l-
ways and hotels agreeing TO cooperate
are all heard from advertisements viii
be inserted all over the country and full
explanations will be published at the
same time.
Through the Influence Of c. BeDnger,
OF ClarksviIle, Tenn, who is interested
Ia the settling Of Stewart county, the
Louisville aud Nashville aud Clsrksviile
and Memphis Railroads have agreed to
carry actual settlers at half rates. He
has obtained promise to the sane effect
from the Nashville and North western
Railroad.
STATES BY THE RAILROADS.
The report to the Railroad -COnven-
tion above alluded TO, closes by suggest
ing the Importance Cr the Legislatures
OF the Southern States establishing by
law board Of immigration with com
missioner in charge, and with ample ap-
prOpriatiOns 10 carry out their objects,
and refers to the State Board Of Tennes
see, and to the lSboTE Of their commits
sioner, rs an instance of what msy be
accomplished even With limited mea ?.
CoNcLUsIoN-cO OPERATION ASKED FOR.
u. conclusion, beg leave to state that
In the H. ue measure as l have the CO.
operation OF ieadiDg men in the differ
ent counties in the sl2te, an intercourse
msy be established betwee2 HortheTn
men and those counties, which Will re-
suit Ia the obtaining of q valuable I'M