The first books, or pamphlets, published in Eastern Tennessee were brought out about this time at the _Gazette_ office, and bore such titles as "A Sermon on Psalmody, by Rev.Hezekiah Balch"; "A Discourse by the Rev.Samuel Carrick"; and a legal essay called "Western Justice." [Footnote: _Knoxville Gazette_, Jan.

30 and May 8, 1794.] There was also a slight effort now and then at literature of a lighter kind.

The little Western papers, like those in the East, had their poets' corners, often with the heading of "Sacred to the Muses," the poems ranging from "Lines to Myra" and "An Epitaph on John Topham" to "The Pernicious Consequences of Smoking Cigars." In one of the issues of the _Knoxville Gazette_ there is advertised for sale a new song by "a gentleman of Col.

McPherson's Blues, on a late Expedition against the Pennsylvania Insurgents"; and also, in rather incongruous juxtaposition, "Toplady's Translation of Zanchi on Predestination." Settlers Throng into Tennessee.
Settlers were thronging into East Tennessee, and many penetrated even to the Indian-harassed western district.

In travelling to the western parts the immigrants generally banded together in large parties, led by some man of note.