Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-09-11

piohioiVcu ae tnoy WtIe, Dy spain, from
navigating the Mississippi below the
3lst degree Of latitude, the Assent v
neither knew, nor inquired. But as
the inspection cost no money to be paid
out Of the public treasury, they were
willing, as well in that as in other cost.
less experiments, to crafty the wishes
of the Cumberland settlers. The mem
bers Of Davidson, on account of the
good offices they could do for those
who wished to become the owners of
land on Cumberland, and to have the
military warrants they had purch ased
well located and attended to, were re-
gard and treated with great attention.
Hardly any request they made was re-
jected, II 1t only abstained from inter-
ference with the public offices. In all
legislatures there is class of members
who idolize the contents of the public
chest; having nothing to allege in sup
port of their claim to popular favor,
but a disposition to save money on oil
occasions, whilst to all other subjects
they have the most consummate in.
difference. pexterously using the ad-
vantage which these circumstances
put into their possession, U0l. Robert
son, member of the legislature, did
not fail to improve them to the benefit
of his suffering constituents. They
passed an act establishing the David
son Academy; appointed trustees and
made them q corporation; exempted
the lands of the Academy from tax
alton for ninety nine years; and vested
in them, for the use Of the seminary,
two hundred and forty acres of the
land reserved for the use of the State,
being that part of the French Lick
tract which 10 most remote from the
Salt Springs, near Nashville. They
passed q law also, to establish Su.
perior Court of law and equity in the
County Of Davidson, the first session of
which was to commence on the first
Monday in May, 1885. They appointed
young man OF the age of twenty four
years, to be the Judge of the Court, W no
upon more mature reflection, becoming
fearful that his small experience and
stock Of legal requirements were in.
adequate to the performance of those
great duties which the office devolved
upon him. chose rather to resign than
risk the injustice to suitors, which
Others of better qualifications might
certainly avoid. The act provided that
no person in the County of Davidson
should be subject to any action in any
of the courts on the east side of the
Appalachian Mountains, and that no
person on that side of the mountain
should be subjected to any action in
the County of Davidson. According
to the established usage of that day,
the Assembly did notnegleot to provide,
that the salary of the Judge should be
paid by the county treasurer of David.
son. They also passed law to prevent
the distillation of spirituous liquors In
the County of Davidson for limited
time. Crops were short aud grain
scarce, owing to the obstruction of
agriculture by the withdrawal of plant
ers, to oppose the infesting savages;
and sound discretion required that the
grain should be preserved for the sub.
sistence of the settlers, and of the new
emigrants, upon their arrival.
An event now took place, which af-
forded the hope that Indian hostility
would considerably abate for the fu-
ture. On tn, 28th of November, 1885,
the United States on the one hand, and
the Cherokees on the other, concluded
a treaty at Hopewell, in the Keowee,
In which 1t was stated that the United
States gave peace to the Cherokees, and
received them into favor and protec.
ton under certain conditions. The
Cherokees acknowledged themselve es
to be under the protection of the United
States and OF no other sovereign. They
promised to restore all the prisoners
and negroes they had taken; and any
of their people made prisoners were to
be restored. Their boundaries were
fixed, as in the first chapter of this
book is stated, by which great part of
the lands entered in the offices opened
in 1888, for receiving entries of vacant
lands, were made to be within the In.
dian territory. 1t was engaged that
the lands secured to them BY this
treaty, shall not be settled on by the
white people, who for obstinate intru.
sion should be liable to be punished by
the Indians, as they might think proper,
with an exception in favor of the occu'
pants on che South Of French Broad
and Holston, who as well as the In,
dams, were to abide by the decision OF
Congress on their case.
Continued next week