The Cecil Whig

Correspondence of The Cecil Whig.

Letter from Tennessee.

Crossville, Cumberland Co., Tenn.,
Sept. 23, 1868.

Mr. Editor:-

I thought perhaps a few lines from our place would be interesting to you and your many readers, so I will try briefly to give you an outline of our whereabouts. Our county belongs to East Tennessee, on the table lands or plateau of the Cumberland Mountains, 115 miles east of Nashville, 75 miles west of Knoxville, 200 miles south of Cincinnati, 85 miles north of Chattanooga, and about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. Our county is mostly populated now by northern and eastern people. We have a very pleasant climate to live in, and undoubtedly one of the healthiest in the known world. The thermometer seldom raises above 85° in summer, and never below 16° above zero in winter. The county is filling up with intelligent and industrious people, all interchanging ideas, and the result is that we have good farmers, mechanics, &c.

We are strictly loyal, and hail the name of the nation's chief, for President, General Grant, and the great statesman, Colfax, for Vice President. This county will poll about seven votes for Seymour. I will give you the returns of the election when it comes off.

We have with us several from old Cecil, among whom are several of our most practical farmers. We have good crops this year, (oats only excepted,) and plenty of good fruit of most all kinds. We can raise here from 300 to 500 bushels of Irish potatoes per acre. Our land produces sorghum excellent in quality and great in quantity. We will have in October our first annual agricultural fair. Land sells from $2 to $12 per acre. It is one of the best countries for raising stock. Cattle, sheep and hogs go through the winter with little or no feed, and get fat enough for the drover by the first of August. We want more mechanics and good farmers among us. Forty families are on their way here from Pennsylvania and New York, to arrive by the last of this month.

A. L. S.