Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-10-23

nishes all the valuable articles O
the Southern States. Fine wag
on and saddle horses, beef cattle
ginseng, deer skins and furs, cot
ton in great quantities, hemp anC
flax, which are transported BY
land also iron, lumber, pork anG
-four, exported down the Missis
sippi.
" Education and Literature.-
The inhabitants have paid great
attention to the interests OF science;
beside private schools, there are
three colleges established by law
Greenville, in Green county
Blount, at Knoxville and Wash.
ington, in the county of that
name. The college in Green
county is hourishing under the
direction of a President and Vice
President. Here is likewise a
Society for promoting Useful
knowledge" A taste for litera-
ture is daily increasing.
" Chief IoeCnS.-.Knoxville,
beautifully situated on the Hols-
ton, is the seat of government in
this State. 1t has 5l8 inhab-
itants.
Nashville is the place where
courts are held for Nero district.
It has two houses for public wor,
ship, an academy, and 345 inhab,
itants.
"Jonesborough is the seat of the
courts held in Washington district.
There are few other towns of any
uOte in the State.
CtTi0SitieS and antiquities.
The Enchanted MoLn,aIn, So
called, about two miles south of
Brasstown, is famed for the Gu.
riosities on its rocks. There are
on several rocks number of in
pressions resembling the tracks
OF turkeys, bears, horses, and hu.
man beings, as visible and perfect
as they could be made on snow
or sand. The latter were re-
markable for having six toes each, |
one only excepted. BY this we
must suppose the originals to have |
been the progeny of Titan or
Anak. One of these tracks was
very large, the length of the foot
l6 inches, and the distance OF the
extremes OF the outer toes l3
inches One of the horse tracks
was likewise of an uncommon
size, the transverse and cOnjugate
diameters were s 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 animals they
represent, is the circumstance of a
horses foot having apparently
slipped several inches. and recov-
cred again, and the figures have Il
all The same direction, like the
trail of a company on a journey.
If it be luSuS nature, she never
sported more seriously. If the
operation of chance, perhaps there
never was more apparent design.
If it were done by art, it might
be to perpetuate the remembrance
Of some remarkable event Of war,
or engagement fought on the
ground. The vast heaps of stones
near the place, supposed to be
tombs of warriors slain in battle,
seem to favor the suppOsition.
The texture of the rock is soft.
The part on which the sun had {
the greatest influence, and which
was the most indurated, could
easily be cut with II knife, and s
to be of the nature of
he pipe stone. Some Of the /
Cherokees entertain an opinion
that it always rains when any {
person visits the place, as if sym. {
pathetic nature wept at the recol- s
ection of the dreadful catastrophe {
which those figures were intended '
20 commemorate. '
"The country contains many cas- !
,ades and caverns. Some of the Q
caves are dry and abound with s
nitrous earth. In others are
ound vast variety of stalactites
Ind other petrifactions; and in r
ome, the adventurous visitant OF a
hese dark recesses is stopped in d
lis progress by a subterranean /
,rook or creek, which crosses the C
cavern. o
+" Mdians.-The Cherokee ma v
ion of Indians inhabit partly in a
and partly in the Ms. r
'issippi territory. They have been
/ numerous and warlike nation;
out by continual wars, in which t
t has been their destiny to be en- q
gagged with the northern tribes, t
hey are reduced TO about 1000 t
ighting men. I
"Under the instruction and
wise MANAGEMENT of the Rev. Gid. c