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S INDIAN CHIEF OF ROME.;
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W Bill Arp Writes Very Interesting About -J}
jjj Ridge and Ross and their Troubles. JJJ
“Bill Arp,” the genial writer of
home philosophy and of North Geor
gia life, was in Rome the past week
and was warmly greeted by his many
friends here to whom he is known as
Maj. Charles H. Smith. In his last let
ter he writes of the Indians around
Rome as follows:
This book has a charming biography
of Major Ridge, and makes him a very
strong-minded and noble man. His
likeness shows as much force and de
cision of character as does that of
Webster or Calhoun. Indeed, some of
the speeches made by the Indian
chiefs in their long protracted dis
cussions with the government are as
pathetic, eloquent and unswerable as
if they came from Patrick Henry or
any other great orator. It is touching
and tearful to read the pleading,
poetical eloquence of Black Hawk and
Keokuk and Tustenuggee and Major
Ridge and Big Warrior. Mr. McKen
ney was the government’s agent in all
these treaties, and declares their
oratory to be a natural gift, and no
race of people could excel them. They
speak without art or effort, and most
of them had a low, soft, sweet and
musical voice that gave fit expression
to their earnest pleadings.
The account given of Major Ridge’s
greatest embarrassment in contend
ing with John Ross is very amusing.
Ross was bitterly hostile to Ridge and
his policy, and in order to alarm the
Indians he got a half-breed named
Charles to pretend to come down from
some far-off mountain with a message
to them from the Great Spirit. Charles
said, “The Great Spirit is angry with
you. He tells me that you are fol
lowing the customs of the white peo
ple; that you have already gotten
mills and clothes and feather beds
and books and cats —yes, cats—and,
therefore, the buffalo and other game
are fast disappearing. The Great
Spirit is angry, and says you must
cut short your frocks and quit living
in houses, and then your game will
Come back.’’
This excited the Indians very much
and they cried out that the talk was
good. Ridge arose with anger in his
face and voice and said: ‘ ‘The talk is
not good. It is false. It did not
come from the Great Spirit.” The
Indians rushed upon him with fury
and a wild fight ensued, 'and some of
his friends were stabbed, but Ridge
was a very powerful man and defend
ed himself with great courage. The
tumult was quieted after a time, and
Jesse Vann and John Harris and some
old men brought about a reconcilia
tion.
There was much trouble along those
years. I have a long letter from Mr. R.
M. Edwards, a venerable lawyer of
Cleveland, Tenn. He says: “In my
youth I spent many happy days in fish
ing, hunting and playing with the
Indian boys of the Ooonee district in
East Tennessee and among the many
sad scenes of an uneventful life, one of
the saddest was to see my little play fel
lows start on their long and weary
journey to the west. They left the most
beautiful country I ever beheld. It re
sembled more a magnificent park than a
forest, owing to their tribal custom of
burning the woods to keep down the un
der growth. * * * It is singular
that so great a concourse of people
fourteen to sixteen thousand—could be
gathered up by force as it were and re
moved, going tbrough Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Indiana and Missouri. They
crossed the Tennessee at Blythe's ferry,
just below the mouth of the Hiwassee;
then crossed the Cumberland range at
Pikeville, then to Sparta, Lebanon and
Nashville; then crossed the Cumber
land river, and next the Ohio and Vin
cennes; then on to the Mississippi,
which they found frozen over, and had
to wait a month for the ice to break, and
finally reached Tallaquah in April,
1839.
* ‘ln the debates in congress great op
position was made to this treaty by John
Q. Adams and Henry A. Wise, and it
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MOTHER’S FRIEND.
The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
was stated on the floor by one of thesfe
men that John Ross was arrested by
the state of Georgia and carried to
Milledgeville and his house was robbed
of ten thousand dollars while he was
gone. The speakers very severely criti*
oised President Jackson for his ingrati
tude to Ross, who served him so faith
fully at the battle of the Horseshoe. * *
This old gentleman is full of memories
of those Indian times, and says that
there is yet living at Charleston, Tenn.,
Mr. H. B. Henniger, who accompanied
the great cavalcade all the way to their
home in the west.
And,here is a characteristic letter
from an old lady living in Myrtle,
Tex.
She says: “Please excuse an old
woman for trying to write to you
about those Indians that you have
been telling us of in the Constitution,
and as I was born and raised in the
Cherokee nation, I will venture to
tell you some things that may inter
est you. My father, Wan Thompson,
settled at the mission station on the
Etowah (or Hightower river, as we
called it). My eldest brother, Perry
Thompson, was *he interpreter for
the nation a long time. My father’s
sister, Nancy, joined the mission when
she was only fifteen years old. She
followed them to the territory
and kept up her mission work there,
and spent a long and useful life and
died in her eighty-fourth year. When
Boudenot was killed she was standing
on the porch veiy early in the morn
ing and saw a man running as if for
his life, and two men pursuing him.
They soon caught him and killed
him. and ran away as fast as they
could go. She hurried the man
and found it was Boudenot.
“There were several families who
had Indian blood in their veins who
did not go west with the tribe. The
Lynch family was part Cherokee.
Barella Lynch married Lowry Wil
liams. I expect you knew him. They
had but one child and she was named
Cherokee. She niarried Robert Wylie,
a son of Clark Wylie.
I remember a good many Cherokee
chiefs and braves,but can’t spell their
names for you. John Ross was not an
Indian. His mother was a white wo
man, and he left her up north when
he came to the nation and married
an Indian wife. John Ridge was part
Indian. I expect your friend George
Adair was of Indian blood, for we had
two Adair families there, Black Wat
and Red Wat. They were cousins.
When John Howard Bayne was
staying in the nat ion we saw him of
ten. He named my little sister Ann
Payne. One of my sisters went to
school with an Indian girl named
Lizzie Shoeboot and she taught my
sister to swim. The Cherokees called
my father Connehana Thompson.
My husband wishes me toprove my
rights in the nation as one of them,
but 1 have never done so, His name
is R. D. Ivie, and he was born in
Lawrenceville, Ga. We often see
names in the Constitution that we
remember away back. Old Georgia
is our dear mother, and though we
have been separated for sixty years we
love her still.
“ ‘Out the fullness of the heart the
mouth speaketh, ” and this is my ex
cuse for writing to you.
Mrs. R. D. Ivih.”
Well, now, that is a good letter.
How the chickens would come home
if they could.
Next comes the advance sheets of
“The Young People’s History of Ar
kansas,” written by my friend E.
Porter Thompson, now at Frankfort,
Ky., but a long resident and editor in
Arkansas.
The chapter on Col. Elias C. Boud
enot is full of interest and makes him
a very remarkable man. His father’s
name was Kelle-kee-nah, but being
adopted by Elias Boudenot, of New
Jersey, took his name. Boudenot
sided with Ridge in regard to the
treaty and Ross became his bitter en
emy. Ross was a powerful vindictive
and unscrupulous man. He had Bou
denot and Major Ridge and John
Ridge all assassinated.
Col. Elias C. Boudenot was born
near Rome. Ga., August 1, 1835. He
was educated at Manchester. Vt.
In 1855 he came to Fayetteville, Ark.,
and studied law with Hon. A. M.
Wilson, was admitted to the bar in
1856, and soon rose to the front rank
as an able lawyer and gifted speaker.
In 1860 be became editor of The Dem
ocrat at Little Rock.
In 1861. after the state seceded, he
and his cousin, “Stand Watie,” raised
' a regiment and fought the battle of
Elkhorn. He was chosen as a member
of the confederate congress in 1863.
After the battle of Elkhorn Ross de
serted the confederacy and assailed
i the southern Cherokees for helping
| the south. Boudenot defended them
THE HOME TBIBUNE SUNDAY. OCTOBEB 24. 1897.
with signal ability and delivered such
a pbillipic against his treachery that
he was consigned to infamy.
Some years ago Boudenot, by invita
tion of aeiiators and representatives.
delivpr«d a lecture in Washington on
the Indian race that made a profound
impression. Judge Hallum says of
him. Some years ago he married a
beautiful and accomplished lady of
Washington. He is an able lawyer, a
polished and refined gentleman and
is possessed of the most fascinating
conversational powers. He has a most
wonderful musical talent and one of
the most charming voices ever given to
men. ”
Isn’t that splendid?! wouldn’t mind
being that sort of an Indian.
I have many more historic letters,
but this will suffice for this time. I
have great reverence for these mem
ories; they make up history that will
soon pass into oblivion unless some
body records it. There is a bouse on
the bank of the Oostanaula river two
miles above Rome that I have rever
ence for. It was built by Major Ridge
nearly seventy years ago and is still
a good old-fashioned two-story house.
It was built of hewn logs, but was
long afterwards celled inside and
weatherboarded. When I first knew
it Colonel A. N. Verdery lived there.
He was the father of Mrs. Warren
Akin, and she was married there to
that eminent lawyer. Mrs. Akin’s
youngest brother was born in that
bouse. This good lady is the mother
of Judge John W. Akin and she still
lives in our town and is full of many
sweet and many sad memories. My
observation is that women have bet
ter memories than men, especially
concerning marriages, deaths, births
and the social statistics of their youth
tul days. Bill Arp.
This Tells Where Health May Be Found
And that is more important than
making money. If your blood is im
pure, Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the medi
cine for you. It cures scrofula, salt
rheum, rheumatism, catarrh, and all
other diseases originating in or pro
moted by impure blood and low state
of the system.
Hood’s Piils are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cures indigestion, head
ache.
FLAWS OF BANKING LAWS.
Bankers Ask The Governor to Call Atten
tion to Them.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 22.—The commit
tee es the Georgia Bankers’ Associa
tion, appointed at the last annual
convention, called on Gov. Atkinson
at the executive mansion, and asked
him, in his message, to call the atten
tion of the legislature to the need for
a revision of the banking laws of the
state.
The committee is composed of G.
Gunby Jordan of Columbus, H. A.
Crane of Savannah, W. S. Whitman
of Atlanta, A. J. Cabaniss of Maoon
and J. K. Outley of Atlanta. They did
not specify in detail the reforms they
bad in view, but simply asked the
governor to urge the need of a revision
of the defective laws.
State Treasurer Spear has made a
strong recommendation on the same
line, and the governor will bring the
subject to the attention of the legis
lature.
Notice.
I want every man and woman in the
United States interested in the opium
und whisky habits to have one of my
books of these diseases. Address B. M.
Woolly, Atlanta, Ga., Box 362, and one
will be sent you free.
BIG AUCTION OF HORSE.
Bill Bros. Will Receives Car Load Monday
October 25,
Hill Bros., will receive a car load of
fine, well broke horses on next Mon
day, October 25th.
These horses will be placed on auc
tion sale at Douglas’ stable on Mon
day, October 25th, beginning at 11
o.clock in the morning and con
tinuing until all are sold. This is a
great opportunity for farmers and
others who desire good serviceable
stock, All will do well to attend this
sale.
Hill Bros., are well known in the
south and their trade in horses is the
largest in the south.
Don’t forget the day ana date,
Monday. October 25.
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Guard against yellow jack by keeping
the system thoroughly clean and free
from germ breeding matter. Cascarets
Candy Cathartic will cleanse the system
and and kill all contagious disease germs.
YOUR LAST OPPORTUNITY.
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Dial Exposition.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
will sell round trip tickets to Nash
ville and return at $3.50. This includes
transportation out to the grounds and
back; also admission into the exposi
tion. Ticket on sale Wednesday. Oc
tober 27th, limited Oct. 31. Elegant
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Letters of Administration.
GEOBGI A, Floyd n < nntv :
To all whom It may concern: J. P. Mc<’onnelf
having!' proper foim app'led to me for per
manent letters of sdnitnietratlon on the estate of
Mrs Nsncr Winn.late of said county, deceased.
This is to cite all and stncnlar the c>editors and
nextoik'n of Mrs. Nancy Winn, deosMrt, to
he and t»p( ear a t, m y office wit In the time al
lowed by ,aw and show cause, if any they can.
whv permanent administration should not be
grau ed to I P. McConnell or .onu other lit and
proper person on Mr. '‘alter Winn’s estate.
Witness my hand nnd official signature this 4tli
day of October, 1597.
JOHNP. DAVIB,
Ordinary Floyd County, j