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MISCALL ANY.
From the Tallahasse Intelligencer. __
Tallahassee. —This young capital
of Florida is already attracting the at
tention of capitalists. Many buildings
are erecting and others are in a state
of preparation even before the saie id
the lots, w 1 1 it!i will take place on the
fourth day of April next, it is situat
ed on a beautiful and commanding
eminence, about eighteen miles North
of St Marks in the bosom of a fertile
and picturesque country. Ihe south
sideof the town is watered by innumer
able springs of pure water, and a clear
and pleasant stream passes by the cast
and south sides at the distance* of a
few yards ; and after passing the town,
as if sensible the point of its usefulness
was past, falls over the rock, which
beds the stream, forming a pleasant
cascade, a.id passes oil by a subteira-
neuus passage.
7lie country aiound Tallahassee,
and extending from the Suwanee iu
near she Appalachicola m’ci, lias **e
servediy attracted the attention of
travellers, and those who have visited
it with a view of a permanent settle
ment. The fertile lands between the
above mentioned rivers extend from
east to west from eighty to one hun
dred miles, ami from north to south,
about fifteen miles, ‘ibis trait of
country, much of which is adapted to
the culture of sugar, is finely w atered
bv tributary streams of the Suwannee,
the St. Mai ks, Wakulla, Okelockoney,
Little River, and several other small
er rivers and streams, and is beauti
fully studded with iakes and ponds of
the purest waters. Ihe land is roll
ing, with here and there an eminence,
that rises considerably above the sur
rounding country, which will afford
delightful seats for the opulent or men
of leisure.
‘I his country, notwithstanding its
singular beauty and fertility, becomes
mott interesting from the indubitable
evidence of its having been once
densely populated by a civilized race
of nun. Almost every eminence is
capped with ancient fortifications,
uhiili appear regular. ud some of
them substantially lormcd. At t'oit
St. Louis, about two miles west of
Tallahassee, have been found rem
nants of iron cannon, spikes, hinges,
locks, &c. which are evidently of
Spanish manufacture, and which have
not been much injured by the rust.
With n the principal fort, for the
out* ei ks seem to have been numerous
aid xtensivr, are the mins of brick
edifices, one was about sixty feet by
forty, the other thirty by twen
ty. These are in total ruins, and no
thing but a mound appeals where the
walls sto and, composed of a coarse san
dy dav, and burned in the modern
fashion. Vet on the very walls of
tbuildings, are oiks, eighteen in
ches in diameter, t-n the same hill,
and iu fact w ithin the outworks of this
fort, arc to be seen grape aihours in
parcelled lines; which still maintain
their pristine regularity.
p.ci Us seem to have been in general
rise f: . they have been discovered in
several places bv digging a'little be
low the surface of the earth. W ithin
the town of Tallahassee some were
dug up, having a substance adhering
to them resembling lime morter. But
on the hill about a half a mile south
v r>t of and c capital, are to be seen the
• res test proof of a dense population.
On th'm hi it are to be seen streets or
roads, running nearly at right angles,
at h distances as demonstrate the
foritiei existence of a pretty large
tow n. The shade trees of the former
inhabitants still remain, and are gen
c ;•”! y of live eak, and near which
may be .seuvered grape aihours ol
mole oi e-s regularity, in several
instances we discovered a species of
the plumb tree.
. !;t e has been much speculation
and inquiry concerning th.c former in-
tauts of this country,who they
w re, and at v\h;t time they ftourisli-
Cii. No resold* are w ithin our reach,
and the Spanish inhabitants at the ex
t<emesof the Teirilory iad no knowt
c ! gc *. f i je countrv, muth less of th.c
pec pie, who once lived here, but have
h'itg since disappeared. Some hw
ever, say that records of the fact do
exist at liavanna, and that measures
have been taken to obtain them —that
Leon was the adventurer, who led a
( dony hither, hut the precious metals
of South America and Mexico, so oc
cupied the attention of the Spanish
Government, that this iniaht colony
was suffered to fall a p ey to the In
dians.
The traditionary accounts of the In
dians are very plausible ; and are cor
roborated by many existing and cir
cumstantial facts. They claimed this
country at their late treaty at St. Au
gustine as belonging to them by right
of conquest, achieved by their ances
tors. I hev represent, that it was
once densely populated by a race of
white men, who settled in this coun
try, and incorporated themselves
with the Yamassee Indians. That
| the Yamassees adopted their habits
and became Christians, butjeeased to
be fighting men. 1 hat this people
had fine houses, carriages, herds of
cattle &c. and made wide roads, and
bridges over rivers, and streams of wa
ter. That they also had niAny forts
and big guns. At this time the Creek
Indians made frequent attacks upon
them, but were generally unsuccessful,
as they had not yet learned the use ol
the rifle. At length after loosing ma
ny warriors they associated with them
selves all the tribes between Georgia
and the Mississippi, with many others
far in the north, anil came down un
expected! v into this country. Ihe
white inhabitants generally tied to
their foi ts, while most of the 1 amas
sees fell into their hands. The men
were put to death, but the women
and chi Wren were carried into cap
tivity.
‘i hey carried universal desolation
over the face of the country, as the su
rest method of reducing the fortified
places. They had made many at
tempts to stoi m these, and bound thick
pieces of wood before (heir persons as
a protection from the bullets, but the
big ituns broke their defences in pieces,
and destroyed their warrior*. At
length famine and war destroyed ail
save the gar rison in Fort St. Louis. —
i his, after resisting every diversity of
attack, was at last abandoned and des
troyed, and the garrison retired to a
considerable fort near the mouth of
the Okelockony, where was afterwards
fought a great and decisive battle
which made the Creeks masters of the
country.
Indians designed, when they under
took to possess therosoW*-s-*Xum cimn
(lV, to .-nite uutr res fife litre. Hut, *
thev expressed it, they were too fool
ish and had rendered it uninhabitable.
Thev had destroyed the houses, and ;
there was no wood W build others. ;
They had destroyed or consumed the
domestic animals, and there was no
game to subsist them. T Ley were,
therefore obliged to retire from the
scenes of the:r own desolation, a
small part west of the Apalachacola
river, and the others to their own
country.
Many of the leading statements in
the foregoing account are strongly cor
roborated by circumstances and facts
within the knowledge of many Ame
rican?. This is said to be the cuun
try of t!ie ancient Yamassees, and it is
a fact that the Creeks have held a slave
race, descended from the Yamassce
nation, which has but recently been
incorporated with their tribe. It is
also a fact, that forts were very numer
ous, and that Fort St. Louis, bears evi
dent marks of having been destroyed
by the whites from the mutilated ap
pearance of the cannon, which must
have* been broken by sledge hammers.
There is also said to be a very consid
erable fortification in the neighbour
hood of the Okelockony. From the
growth of the forest trees, it must have
been about two hundred years since
the country was laid waste. Be that
as it may,it is rapidly populating anew,
and the power of the natives is now
broken. \N e have nothing to fear
from’ them, and they cannot, if they
would, repeat the desolating scenes
which once swept over this beautiful
domain.
liemisrerse. —ln August, 1777, when
the early inhabitants -of the town of
i’ivmouih, (New* Hampshire) were en
gaged in baying, news came that an
attempt was about to be made to cap
ture a body of Hessians,that had stray
ed into Vermont from Burgoy tie’s ar
j my.— It reached the tugged yeomen
iin the afternoon. 1 hey did not delay
j a day or two for preparation, or hold
janv councils to determine what course
to take. They left their hay in the
cock, and their scythes “ in the half
1 cut swath’* —took their old muskets
fri.ni the hooks where they hung charg
ed with greeting for the wolf or the
moose, and took their course west
ward, from which point they heard the
summon!, and seemed to scent “ the
battle afrrr off.” Lieut, Brown, who
was as resolute aad brave a man as
AlACQtt* (GEORGW.,')
ever stepped after a drum and fife,
lived then on what is called the lower
intervale in Plymouth. He had been
a soldier in the old French war and
was a ranger under Major Rogers.—
He was an expert and enterprising
hunter in these then wilds. He kept
two guns. As soon as he lizard the
news, that men were wanted to go and
fight the Hessians, he seizQ.l his two
guns with the determination forth with
to march and pay his respects with
both of them to our polite German
“guests,” who had come over tike
Fayette, to visit us, but wi/Ji different
intentions. Finding the locks a little
out of order, he went to old Dea. Lu
cas, who was a blacksmith, and un
derstood, as all did t> those dys ol
peril, the workmanship of guns and
their apparatus, to get them repaired.!
Lucas’ shop was neir where the old
court-house stood. He repaired the
gun-locks, and Licit. Brown, with
such heroes as joined him, set out be
fore sunset, to join ben. Stark, where
he might chance to find him. lie
came uji in season to bear a distin
guished part in the Bennington fight.
His experience as.a hunter had made
him wonderfully dexterous in the ue
of the gun. He went into battle w ith
the two, rJnch he carried from home,
and how skilfully he used them, the
fall of many a portly Hessian could
attest. Lieut. Brown was the first
man that mounted the captured breast
work of the enemy. After the victory
and after the Americans were ordered j
to desist from the pursuit, Brown was j
missing, anil it was supposed he was j
slain. ihe next morning he came in
to camp, with his brace of muskets,
and sa.d he had followed the Hessians
on then letiCi.t, and had laid three
mere of their number on the ground.
Some of his companions went w ith him |
to the places where they lay, ams dis-j
covered their tall and martial bodies
stretched in death by the unerring j
bullets of this Yankee huntsman. He j
returned home unfurl, end brought
v ith him the two guns, fie had borne
them constantly while on the lfthg
march and during the heat and toil o!
that desperate battle. ~ ‘
size, and had in hlsl^^aTAntfr Tfbil |
manners nothing if.at indicated the j
j.ps:ii that was within; nothing that*
could lead an-.* one to suspect that ic- 1
solution and courage which in days of ,
chivalry would have made him n cham
pion. Gref ion Jour.
Chinese Dinner at Sinca/tore. —
Sincapore is an island belonging to
Great Britain, situated near the
southern extremity of Malaca. In
June last, Mr. Habi, a Chinese
Merchant, entertained the whole
of the European merchants and
military officers of the city ot Sinca
pore with a splendid Chinese din
ner. In the bill of fare, according
to an account in a foreign journal,
were the following 4 delicious novel
ties :—soups of birds’ nests, frogs’
and ducks’ livers, a lasher of stewed
elephants’ tails, with a sauce of
lizards’ eggs; a stewed porcupine,
served up with the fat of turtle \
fishmavvs served up with sea-weed ;
a platter full of snipes’ eyes garnish
ed around the border with peacock’s
comb’s, (this dish cost g2OO ;) jel
lies made from the rhinoceros’ hide;
fruit from Mallaca and Rhio ; wines
from Europe, &c. What delicate
picking for a pair of chopsticks ?
Surgical Operation.— The extraor
dinary operation of tapping the head
for water on the brain, has been per
formed in Ireland on a child nine
months old. More than ten ounces
of water were diawn oft, which gave
the child great relief, but it was uncer
tain whether the child would recover.
Tickled Cockles. —A parrot, the pro
perty of a lady, was one day detected
by the enraged cook, for the fiftieth
tune, in the act of larceny, stealing
pickled cockles. The maner was up
on him, and she indicted a summary
punishment on the green delinquent.
• W hat, you've been at the pickled
cockles again have you ?” said she,
hurling a ladle of hot soup at him. —
The feathers of his head w ere scalded
off; from being excessively talkative,
lie suddenly became dumb; he was
mute, bakij and solemn for nearly a
year. At last the stubs began to peep
out on his pate, and the mistress’s
father came from the country to see
her ; the old man was bald ; the bird
had never seen him before, .and was
doubtless struck with the coincidence
of naked heads ; for the moment the
old gentleman entered the parlour, the
parrot broke his long sile ice, by voci
ferating with immense emphasis and
glee, “ What, you’ve been at the
pickled cockles again, have you !”
A wit .at Cambridge, in King Jameses
time Was ordered to at St. Marie's be
tore the vice-chancelloCT and the heads of the
nniversifte, who formerlie had observed the
drowsiness of the viee-chanceHour, and there
upon took this place of scripture for his text,
H kat ! cannot ye watch one hour? At everie
division, lie concluded with his.text, which hv
reason of the viee-cliancettour’s sitting so near
the pulpit, often awaked him. This was so
noted by the wits, that it was the talk of the
whole universitie, and withal, it did so nettle
the vice-chancellour, that he complained to
the archbishop of Canterburie, who, willing to
redress him, sent for this scholar up to Lon
don to defend himself against the crime laid to
his charge, where coming, be made so many
proofs of his extraordinary wit, that the arch
bishop enjoined him to preach before king
James p atter some excuses he at length con
descended, and coming into the pulpit, begins,
Jawcs the First and the Sixth, leaver not —
to* .tiling the first king of England, and the
sixth of Scotland—at first the king was some
what amazed at the text, but in the end wa*
so weli pleased with his sermon, that he made
him one of the chaplains in ordinary. After
this advancement, the archbishop sent him
do.wn to Cambridge to make his recantation
to llse vice-chancellour, and to fake leave of
the university ; which lie accordingly did, and
took the latter part of the verse of his former
text, Sleep on now , and take you? rest. Con
chiding his sermon, he made his apology to
tiie vice-chancellour, saying, t: whereas l said
hetore (which gave oft'rncej a hat, eamwt you
watch one hour? I say now, Slav on : and
ta/ie your rest ; and so left the university.
EXTRACTS FROM Mr. CLAY S ADDRESS
To the People of the Congressional District,
composed of the counties ol Fay cite,Wood
ford, and Clarke, in Kentucky .
(Concluded)
From cven a careless perusal of that
letter, it is apparent, that the only tuu
subjects of tle ncgo< iations at Ghent,
to which if refers, were the navigation
of the Mississippi nd certain fishing
liberties; that the errors, which 1 had
supposed were committed, applied to
both Mr. Russell and Mr. Adams,
though more pat KMilai ly to the appen
dix of the I aider ; that thov w*rc unin-
U’PtioPjiV: that fury niVcrtod n yscll ,
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! !; e then', (vr tu uresecui.t’ fd any oi
the ! i;;hl> id the ration, hut. only inu i-
CM!h>- to i* - st Hihloiv ; tout i doubt
(■;I du* i.e*. r^it v<j wv oth*i log to the
public CM* ftCCOL ill >i ti .-o-e transac
tions ; that the n-r.ai.ve whjivh t
promised, was “to be pre-.enicd at a
ol inoie calm, and when theie
could be no misinterpretation ttf mo
tive®. A llhoUgh Ml. Ad flips believes
otherwise, 1 v< t think there are some
unintentional errors, in the controver
sial papers between ldm and Mr. Rus
sell. But I have reserved to myself
an exclusive right of judging when l
execute the promise which I have
made, and I shall.be neither quicken
ed nor retarded in its performance, by
the friendly anxieties of any of my op
pon^nts.
If injury accrue to any one by the
delay in publishing the narrative, the
public will not suffer by it. It is al
ready known, by the publication of
the British and American projects,
the protocols, and the correspondence
between the respective plenipotentia
ries, that the British government
made at Ghent a demand of the navi
gation of the Mississippi, by an arti
cle in their project nearly in the same
words as those which were employed
in the treaty of ITB3 ; that a majoiity
of the American commissioners was in
favour of acceeding to that demand,
upon the condition that the British
government would concede to us bv
the same treaty ol h 83; and that
both demands were finally abandoned.
The fact of these mutual propositions
was communicated bv me to the Ame
rican public in a speech which I deliv
ered in the House of Repsentatives,
on the 29th day of January, 1816.
Mr. Hopkinson had arranged the
terms cf the treaty of peace, and
charged upon the W ar and the Admin
istration, the loss of the fishing liber
ties, within the British jurisdiction,
which we enjoyed prior to the war.
In vindicating, in my reply to him,
the course of the government and the
conditions of the peace, I stated :
“ //’hen the British commissioners
demanded, in their project, a renewal
to Great Britain of the right to the
navigation of the Mississippi, secured
by the treaty’ -of ITB3, a bare majority
of the American Commissioners offer
ed to renew it, upon the condition
that the liberties in question were re
newed to us. He would not tiouble
the committee with his reasons for be-
ing opposed to the offer. A majority’
1 of his colleagues, actuated, he believed,
i by the best motives, made, however, the
* offer, and it was refused by the British
- Commissioners."—[*S>e Daily A'a
tioral Intelligencer, of the 21sf March
i 1816.]
The Spring after the termination of
tiie negotiations at Ghent, I went to
London, and there entered upon a.new
and highly important negotiation with
two of them, (Me ssrs. Adams and Gal
latin,) which resulted, on the 3d July,
1815, in the commercial Convention,
which has been since made the basis
of our commercial arrangements with
foreign powers. Now, if 1 had discov
ered at Ghent, as has been asserted,
that either of them was false and faith
less to his country, would 1 have vol
untarily commenced with them anoth
er negociationr Further: there never
hasoeen a period, during our whole
acquaintance, that Mr. Adams and I
have not exchanged, when we have
met, friendly salutations, and the
courtesies at.d hospitalities of social
intercourse.
‘i he address proceeds to character
ize the support which l gave to Mr.
Adams as unnatural. The authors
of the address have not stated wh\ it
is unnatural, and we are therefore left
to conjecture their meaning. Is it
because Mr. Adams is from New Eng
land, and I am a citizen of the West?
If it be unnatural in the Western
States to support a citizen of New
must be equally unnatural
in ihe New England States to support
a citizen of the West. And, on the
same- principle, the New England
States ought to be restrained from con
curring in the election of a citizen in
tne Southern States or the Southern
States from co-operating in the elec
tion of a citizen of New England.-
And, consequently, the support which
the \ ice President recently received,
has been most unnaturally given.—
The tendency of such reasoning would
be to denationalize us, and to contract
every part of the Union within the
narrow selfish limits of its own scc
i.on. Si. would be still worse; it
\7mim T fhc destruction of the
due serfhn to su*.’. a !.
other, the union itself must be unnatu
ral ; alt -our ties ; all our glories; all
that is animating in the past'; all that
ti I right and cheering in the future,
mu>t be an natural.
1 a speaking of Gen. Jackson’s letter
to Mr.Swartout, he says —
1 never *rave General Jackson nor
tils friends any reason to believe that
l would in any contingency, support
him. He had, as 1 thought, no public
claim, and I will now add, no person
al claims, if these ought to be ever con
sidered, to my support. No one,
therefore, ought to have been disap
pointed or chargrined that I did not
vote for him. No more than I was
neither supprised nor disappointed,
that he did not, on a more recent oc
casion, feel it to be his duty to vole
for me. After commenting upon a
jparticulay phrase used in my letter to
Judge Brooke, a calm reconsideration
of which will, I think, satisfy any per
son that it was not employed in an of
fensive sense, the General, in his let
ter to Mr. Swartwout, proceeds to re-
mark, “No one beheld me seeking,
through art or management, to entice
anv representative in Congress from a
conscientious responsibility to bis own,
or the wishes of his constituents. No
midnight taper burnt by me ; no secret
conclaves were held, nor cabals enter
ed into to persuade any one to a viola
tion of pledges given, or of instructions
received. By me no plans were con
certed to impair the pure principles
of our republican institutions. I am
not aware that this defence of himself
was rendered necessary by any charges
brought forward against the General.
Certainly I never made any such char
ges against him. If he designs any in
sinuations against me, I must believe
that he made them •pon the informa
tion of others, of whom I can only say,
that they have deceiver) his credulity,
and are entirely unworthy of all cred
it. I entered into no cabals ; I held
no secret conclaves ; I enticed no man
to v iolate pledges given, or instructions
received. And how I prostrated the
maxi i) which maintains the suprema
cy of the people's will, l am entirely
at a loss to comprehend, ihe illu
sions of the General’s imagination de
ceive him. The people of the United
States had never decided the election
in his favor. If the people had willed
his election, he would have been elect
ed. It was because they had not will’
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