Those who had contracted for freight and passage are desired to attend previous to that period.
Lawlessness.
There was of course a good deal of lawlessness and a strong tendency to settle assault and battery cases in particular out of court.

The officers of justice at times had to subdue criminals by open force.
Andrew Jackson, who was District Attorney for the Western District, early acquired fame by the energy and success with which he put down any criminal who resisted the law.

The worst offenders fled to the Mississippi Territory, there to live among Spaniards, Creoles, Indians, and lawless Americans.

Lawyers drove a thriving business; but they had their own difficulties, to judge by one advertisement, which appears in the issue of the _Gazette_ for March 23, 1793, where six of them give notice that thereafter they will give no legal advice unless it is legally paid for.
Endless Land Speculations.
All the settlers, or at least all the settlers who had any ambition to rise in the world, were absorbed in land speculations: Blount, Robertson, and the other leaders as much so as anybody.

They were continually in correspondence with one another about the purchase of land warrants, and about laying them out in the best localities.