The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-05

wood, Wild plum, crab apple. sweet an
Misc, red bud, ginger, spikemrd, Wild
hop and grape vine.
MINES AND MINERALs.-IrOn ore is
abundant in tile Districts OF Washington
and Hamilton. Gold and silver mines
are said 10 be known TO the Indians,
but none have been discovered by the
white people.
TRADE.-This country furnishes all
the valuable articles OF the Southern
States. Fine wagon and saddle horses,
ginseng, deer skins and furs, cotton in
great quantities, hemp and lax, which
are transported by land; also iron,
lumber, pork and ilour eXportpd down
the Mississippi.
EDUCATION AND LTTERATURE.-T The
Inhabitants have paid great attention to
the interests of science; besides private
schools, there are colleges established
by law-Green in Green county, Blount
at Knoxville, and Washington. The
college in Green county is flourishing
under the direction of a President and
Vice President. Here is likewise a
"SOciety for Promoting Useful Knowl-
edge" a taste for literature is daily
Increasing.
CHIEF TowNs.-KnoXviile, beautiful
~ situated on the IIOlstUn, is the seat
Of government in this State. 1t has 51S
inhabitants. Nashville is the place
where courts are held for Nero district.
1t has two houses for public worship,
an academy and 345 inhabitants. Jones'
borough is the seat Of the courts held
in Washington district. There are few
other towns of any note in the State.
INDIANs.-The Cherokee tribe of In
dians inhabit partly in Tennessee and
partly in the Mississippi Territory.
They have been a numerous and war
like nation, but by continual wars, in
which IL has been their destiny to be
engaged with the northern tribes, they
are reduced to 600 fighting men. IN
der the instruction and wise manage
ment of the Rev Gideon Blackburn, a
missionary, this nation is already adj
Vanced in the arts of civilized life.
CURIOsiTIEs AND ANTIQUrTIEs.-The
Enchanted Mountain, so called, about
two miles south of Brasstown, is famed
for the curiOsities on its rocks. There
are on several rocks a number of inn
pressions resembling the tracks of tur-
keys, bears, horses aud human beings,
rs visible and perfect as they could be
made on snow or sand. The latter
were remarkable for having six toes
each, only one excepted. By this we
must suppose the originals to have
One of these tracks was very large; the
the length of the foot 10 inches and the
distance of the extremes of the outer
toes Is inches. One of the horse tracks
was likewise of an uncommon size, the
corrugated diameters were by 10
inches-perhaps the horse which the
Great Warrior rode. What appears the
most in favor of their being the real
tracks of the animal they represent is
the circumstance of a horses foot hav-
ing apparently slipped several inches
and recovered again, and the figures
all having the same direction, like the
trail of company on journey. If it
be but luSUS nature, she never spOrted
more seriously. If the operation of
chance, perhaps there was never more
apparent design. If it were done by
art, il might be to perpetuate the re-
membrance of some remarkable event
of war or engagement fought on the
ground. The vast heap of stones near
the place, supposed TO be tOmbs of war
riors slain in battle, seem TO favor the
suppOsition. The texture of the rock is
soft. The part on which the sun had
the most influence, and which was the
most endurated, could easily be cut
with knife, and appeared to be of the
nature of pipe stone. Some of the Cher
okees entertain an opinion that it al
ways rains when any person visits the
place, as if sympathetic Nature wept
at the recollection of the dreadful ca
tastrophe which those figures were in
tended TO commemorate.