Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-08-28
Lucky TENNESSEE.
A Large Number of Immigrants 60
be Settled i'm the Cumberland
Plateau.

A Large Number of Immigrants 60
be Settled i'm the Cumberland
Plateau.
New York Special to the Chicago Tribune.l
Thomas Hughes, author of "Tom
Browns School days." arrived in
New York city tonight on the
steamship Germanic. Among his
companions are the Earl of Airlie,
Lord Ogilvie and Lady Maud Ogil-
vie. Mr.. Hughes, after spending
a few days at the watering places,
will proceed to inaugurate the enter
prise which brought him here, a
scheme of colonization in Tennessee.
An English company, which he
represents, owns some 1000 acres
Of land on the Cumberland plateau,
a section passed through by the Gin
cinnati Southern railroad. Since
March last the company, whose
capital is nearly half q million, has
built hotel laid out a town, built
seven miles of railroad, planted
nursery and experimental garden,
put up a saw-mill, and made other
steps for providing a home for col
Onists. Mr.. Hughes purpose isa Wis
it to the place to learn the resources
of the section, and assist in the intro
ductiOn of colony to its new home.
He said to your correspondent that
the army and learned professions in
England were OvercroWded, and he
hoped by this plan to open a new
field of enterprise to class of young
Englishmen who could never hope
for equal opportunities of advance
ment in their own land. He thought
there was flattering prospect of
ultimate success for the scheme. He
has q son and nephew in Texas al
ready, but considered that a bad
state to go to, as young men were
likely to be led into wild and reck-
less habits there. The plan of the
Tennessee company, he says, pre-
vents temptation to drink and to
engage in other vices prevalent in
Texas. The effort would be in all
respects to maintain a high Chris
tian character for the community
and make it fair specimen of the
town of the future. He intimated
that the colony would be governed
with pretty tight hand.
The above is, we believe, only the |
of a process which will |
soon relieve us of all the embarrass-
ments which have been affecting
the state. Once augment our popu-
lation with an immigration fraught |
with industry, intelligence and cap
ital, and the resources of the state /
will be developed, its productive
ness increased and the character of
its voting population elevated. 1t
is the power which interested dem
lgogues possess of utilizing for their
purposes an ignorant population
that has kept us politically degraded.
Intelligent industry will both ele-
vate our moral standard in politics
and furnish the means of carrying
t out.
While we felicitate ourselves upon
his happy influx, however, let us
Five honor where honor is due.
There is one man in Tennessee
whose efforts in making known the
esOurces of the state and in guiding
he stream of immigration to her
ertile DIdteGlGC, have been of inesti-
nable value, and yet have met
With most niggardly appreciation.
t was with shame and mortifica-
ion that we saw the last legislature
ut down his salary and even with
lOld his travelling expenses. 1t is
rue that this measure of false econ
my was introduced as a rider to
mother appropriation, and nine
9nths of those who voted for 1t did
ot know that it was there, but as
)ng as it remains unrepealed it is a
Ligma on the character of the legis-
lture, and one of the first acts of
nat now to be elected should be to
everse the disgraceful act of 1873.