Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-04
FCTS ABOUT EAST TENNESSEE,
SINE Points of General Inte rest
No. LII.

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We have so many letters of inquiry re-
grding our climate, soil, &c, that it is
necessary for us to repeat some general
ftts oftener than we would if we were
giving information only to regular readers.
We have received during the past week
rany letters from the North, complaining
aout the extreme cold there, and asking
sout our climate. Some correspondents
sy they had colder weather last week
| han at any time for sixteen years. We
st writingin in our office without fire and
rad of the thermometer way down below
! 2ro. We ride ont and see eur farmers
| loughing and come back to see in some
nper from the North accounts of gather
| ilg ice twelve inches thick, for summer.
| We look over our files and see from our
~eather reports that our mean tempera-
ure last week was 440 above zero, and we
Wonder why people who want amilder
climate will aet come and make their
home with us.
We look over our exchanges again and
| rad of land selling in the frozen country
| nferred to, at from fifty to two hundred
| collars an acre of farmers keeping their
| sock shut up three aud four month in costly
| larns fed on grain and hay that cost them
| many a hard weeks work to raise and we
wonder they do not prefer to come to East
Tennessee and buy land at from four to
! fifty dollars an acre, where they can keep
their stock out in the fields about all the
winter, feed them on grass, and raise them
at about oue-third the expense.
| R,1t Lost O1lr roo 1arS Won arp pOlOrinp
your facts too highly, we will republish
right here letter we find in Moore's RT'dt
NetC Yorker, of December 3Oth, from L.
S. Hulin, formerly of Northern New York,
now living at Longmire, Washington
county, East Tennessee. Over his own.
| signature and writing of facts within his
own experience, he says
Gould my friends i'll Northern New
| York look down upon us from their snow
clad hills, they might see some of our
| farmers still sowing wheat and rye, our
cattle grazing in green fields, and cur
wives and daughters engaged at their
needle work in open pOrches. Still they
need not envy us, for they have often
| been invited to come and enjoy with US
our beautiful climate. We not only have
| health-giving climate, short winters and
| long summers, but as good a soil as | have
ever seen from one end of the State of New
York to the other. For grasses, it is equal
to any from the Atlantic to beyond the
Missouri, except it should be among the
| Green Mountains in Vermont. | nave
seen better clover here than | have ever
; SeCu elSeW here Wheat seldom fails; have
| seen good wheat raised that was sOWn as
| late us the 20th of December. | have q
| corn stalk that grew in my field last sum-
mer that measures twelve feet ten inches
| i'll length and two and one-quarter inches
| i'll circumference between the joints and
| three inches at the joint. That is enough
| for corn. Fruit we have even unto sa-
| tiety, and Il better Watered country | have
never seen. With the above allurements,
and farms at from So to $50 an acre, the
| odds between Eastern Tennessee and the
bleak plains of the West are wholly in our
| favor
In one letter before us correspondent
says: We like your climate, your re-
| sources, but have some fears about person.
| al safety. Wehave repeatedly said i'll re-
| ply to such statements that in East Ten
| nessee persons from the North will be sure
| to find a cordial welcome from our people
and perfect safety One correspondent
says: Your paper has many accounts of
| violence, &C. So it has, and if wewere de
sirOus of concealing the actual condition of
affairs from our readers North, we would
| exclude some of these accounts from our
columns, but as we do not want to deceive
| them, but want them to understand fully
all the facts we give them in the CHRONI-
Gle as faitaful u picture of our every day
| life as possibly can. But we want them to
understand one thing about our accounts of
violence. '.rr.. .ae.#
The CHRONICLE is published at Knox
vile, the commercial and political center
of East Tennessee. \ territory two hun
dred and forty miles long and over hun
dred miles wide is tributary to this
city All the business of this section is
transacted here. Within this belt of cOun-
try, the only daily papers published out
side of Chattanooga, (at the extreme west
ern end of it, are here at Knoxville. The
CHRONICLE works in all this field. Our
accounts of violence, &C., embrace, so far
as we can CLEAN them, all that are commit
ted in thirty-thTee counties. We work up
territory usually occupied in the North
by twenty papers.
Taking this into consideration our gem
eral condition as to peace and order will be
better understood. We have crime here
as they have elsewhere, but we have in
East Tennessee no organized lawlessness.
no kukluX, no desperadoes who defy the
law. We punish our criminals and we
offer to all who come protection to person
and property as secure as is extended in
the North. I'VE wish we had less crime
We wish there was less in the North. But
what we have here, is like what occurs
North, generally among the class that by
drinking or other bad habits expose them
selves to it. Orderly sober people are as
safe here as anywhere else. Wehope, there
fore, this will not Keep people from COM
ing here. We can promise them if they
do come, a pleasant home, q kindly recep-
tion, and peace and good order. f7T AZ
Imprisoned.
VIM. Fitzgerald was arrested near Lyons
mill last night, by Deputy Sherifs Hutfaker