New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-01

chcvous boys whose unlawful propenstos are checked
by o copy of the town ordinances tackled on
| one Of tho posts, giving notice that pehaiy
OF $40 IL the sure consequence OF ringing
the bell without The town supports two weekly
newspapers of each party they are the only news
popers published North Carolina west Of the Blue
Ridge There is Methodist female college here called
the Hoston Conference Seminary, which has two large
red brick buildings in pleasant grove near the village
have formed good opinion Of the intelligence of the
village people from the fact that NcwYOrk daily and
weekly papers are kept ssle-a circumstance in
small towns in the Southland from the tasteful look Of
| many of the private dwellings.
The country about Asheyille ia charming. The valley
of the French Broad River is here ten miles wde
and is bounded the west by range OF bold rugged
| mountains with SUBMITS Of varied and picturesque
shapes The highest peak, Mount Pisgah. is perfect
pyramid in FORM and said 10 have altitude of over
GOOO feet Nobody In the village appears to know any
for the range but upon the maps the name given
is NewOund Mountains ITO the east the valley ia shut in
series of steep wooded hills that extend to the base
Of the Blue Ridge. The summit OF one of these hills IS
crowned 10y old Rebel earthwork, from the walls OF
which there is view of surprising beauty taking IN the
town, the valley, and the Grand Mountain barrier be-
yond. There is not loyeer valley In America ana
nowhere east of the Rocky Mountains one find moro
magnificent mountain scenery than In TINS OutOithc'
way corner OF North Carolina.
The valley lands are said to be of great fertility.
gentleman showed acre lot near tho village, from
which had raised 600 bushels of potatoes last year.
and told that legend prevailed In the town that an
Irishman years produced 1900 bushels upon the
same land HI said that upon his farm, five miles dis
tant he made tuns OF grass to the acre. ana
that from so to co bushels shoed and so bushels
of oats were an average yield merchant who TOOK
me up into room his store for view OF the neigh
boring country said that the land could not be surpassed
in fertility All crops did well, and fruits of all KINDS
Aourshed especially apples. The pasturage, he said,
| oph tba hpqf nd
quality The great drawback TO the prosperity OF the
people the want Of railroad communication Ihey
were shut in by the mountains from the rest OF the
world, and had market for their produce. There
were few articles they produced which they
could afford 20 transport in wagons across the
mountains to places where they in de-
mand They hauled apples to Greenvine' :. u
60 miles distant, in the Fall, and sometimes drove
cattle the place for shipment by rail to points
further South did not pay to haul or wheat to
market. My informant said that lands were cheap ana
chat good improved farms in the valley could be bought
from $40 to SIS per and farms with Duta small
area Of cleared land could be bought for 50 an acre. He
believed that part Of the South offered such induce
ments Northern emgrants for all the qualities that
were desirable in farming country here united
except accessibility markets, and the want In that
respect would he rcmedied in year or two. The soil
was remarkably productive and adapted alike 20 grains
grasses vegetables and fruits the water excellent
and the climate the most heathful and pleasant In the
United states. from my own uSIp''u
to think that this gentleman scarcely placed too high an
estimate on the attractions to farmers OF this valley and
drecOmmend preference to any part OF the south
Ihave seen, the settlement of colony Of Northern
farmers Two railroads are now approaching it-one
from Salisbury completed to point the eastern side
of the Blue Ridge miles from Ashevile and another
from Morrisown. the East Tennessee Railroad,
graded nearly the whole distance to this place and run
ming to point miles north Of here The latter road Is
expected eventually make part of through line from
Cincinnati via Cumberland Gap, to Charleston The
completion of either of these roads 10 Ashevie must
considerably the price of lands in the vicinity
and settlers who should buy land this year would reap
the benefits of the rise. The roads would have been
built before this time, but large share OF the pro-
ceeds OF the bonds given by the state to aid in their
construction stolen by two or three swinders VINO
| had the management of the finances OF the roads
had an interesting conversation to-day with Judge
OF the Superior Court upon North Carolina politics. He
said there Union votes lost in the state IN
1864 and estimated that the number OF white Repub-
leans present about the same the men who DeeYed
in going back into the Union when the war was in pro-
ress being the Republicans OF to-day. The poor whites
throughout the state would naturally act with the
Republican party and did now, he said to consider
able extent the mountain country but in many cases
| lacked sefreliance and could not emancipate them
selves from the influence of the large andhoders, whose
dctation in politics they had been in the habit of obey
ing all their lives The state of social and political
vassaage in which the poor whites have always been
held by the gentlemen planters easy for Northern
people to comprehend the Judge said because no such
relations exist between rich and poor In the North In
the Western part Of the State which is all noun
famous region there few men Of wealth, and the
Door freed from their influence more independent
The consequence is that many Them feeling that they
had no interest in the institution of Slavery, had no
sympathy with the Rebellion, aud remained faithful to
the Union throughout the and are now earnest Re
publcans The project Of the Democratic Legislature to
tha tate
tuition with the in force before the war; the Judge
regarded as part OF settled conspiracy to overthrow
all the accomplished results OF reconstruction He said
that the method of calling the Convention was beyond
question unconstitutional, and that several eminent
Conservative lawyers had Endorsed the opinion of the
Supreme Court that effect He confident that the
people would defeat the Convention at the election in
August the election should ibe fairly conducted The
only thing he apprehended was that the RuKux organi
cations would be revived first before the election,
for the purpose OF ntimidating the negroes in
the part the State and preventing them from
going to the polls Mischief enough of this kind could be
done in single night to change the result OF the cleo
on keeping thousands of negroes at home from fear
OF violence.
The Judge did not fear general revival Of the
KuKlux much as he did few weeks ago He said
that the prompt and energetic action of the Government
in the Rutherford affairs sending troops to the
Of the outrages and at arresting all persons
cerned in them. had terrified the KuKlux all the
state to such extent that it probable that they
would venture to commit any further acts of VIC
lence They had respect for the authority OF the
State Government but had wholesome fear of the
power of the United states. The Judge spoke of the
great ado the Democrats make about carpct-baggers
| in North Carolina absurd He said that there
were now but two Republicans holding
pOrtant Offices in the State who not
| natives. one the School superintendent, Mas
sachusetts man, and the other Circuit Judge who
from Ohio. Here, in the Vest, he said, there was little
Of that bitterness Of feeling manifested toward Rpub-