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QQUIRE HILL, HAVING LOCATED IN tO th • Post Office building, respectfully so licits a portion of the public patronage. Ido only first-class work, and never fail to please my customers. ootf-tf THE STORY OK OSCEOLA. I am writing to you from the home of Osceola’s country. These lands were his; about this spot lie lived and t his tribe in peace half a century a and I often think how familiar scenes of my daily walks once were I him. The bright lakes, the feathei | pines, and the hammocks of oak, and mel | ancholy cypress, hung with funeral moss, ! were his familiar view. With such me morials before me of a great man, a hero gone, I can not pass over his mar velous, sad story; for if there is ever anything truly great in this world of shams and show, it is the spectacle of a] free people struggling for their own ; ! and this man, Osceola, organized and led I the most heroic struggle of that kind ev- I ( r witnessed on the American continent. ! The common idea of an Indian is a gentleman whose sorrel complexion is too ornamental for the obscurity of full dress: and hence he is idealized in the scantiest of frocks and hugest of feathers, smoking an inevitable peace-pipe or digging up an immemorial hatchet. This is very satisfactory in a small way, and easy to paint in red ocher and ver milion. But your Seminole is quite another fellow. When European peas ants live in squalid huts, serfs of the soil, the Seminole had his chief, his council chamber, his villages, and his well-tilled corn field and garden. If civilization consists in giving peace and security to the greatest number, then Florida was more civilized under the In dians that it has ever been under Span ish or American rule. About the year 1810 and 1820 the Spaniards sold what they had never possessed to the Americans who had no right to buy, and the Federal Govern ment undertook to hold, occupy, and possess the Seminole’s country. It was much like holding, occupying, and pos sessing a live coal in the naked hand. llow to get rid of the Indians? The usual plan is to find or make a chief or two who will sell, bribe them well with trinkets and whiskey and a promise of other lands, and then recognize them and none others as the representatives o{ the tribes. It looks liberal to Lo-the-* poor-Indian, and reads well in print. Unluckily corrupt chiefs were hard to find among the Seminoles; but at last one Maltha and some others were indu ced to sell out. Osceola refused, and protested against the refusal of his peo ple, and Governor Wiley Thompson, to his own fearful cost, arrested the chief and manacled him. But Osceola tem porized, bided his time, and so got free. The Indians in the meanwhile treated the act of their corrupt chiefs pretty much as the Federal Government treated the act of secession. They refused to remove, and arresting the traitorous chiefs, execu tcdjjtliem for treason, as the penaly of the offense under all govern ments, civilized or -avage. Gov. Wiley Thompson was the the agent of the Federal Government in this business, lie now resolved to cease negotiation and use force. He stationed himself at Camp King with a garrison, and sent to Fort Brooks for re-enforcements. In this act he seems to have exceeded the terms of the treaty, that proceeded upon the theory of a vol untary emigration of the Indians, and so broke the terms forced upon Osceola. But the Governor eared no more for chiefs ; the musket and bayonet were to do the work, let Osceola say or do as he would ; so Osceola was free to act. On the 23d day of December, 1835, merry Christmas just at hand, Major j Dade, in command of one hundred and | seventeen men, set out from Fort Brooks |to Camp King. The little battalion passed within a few miles of where this j was written. Clear, bright winter ! weather over them, very like Kentucky I Indian summer, a pleasant season for ! marching, they went by lakes, ham ; mocks, bays, through saw-palmetto, den i ser and fiercer than thistles, and over ; pine-ridges with straight, lofty columnar trunks of trees sixty, eighty, and a hun dred feet to the lowest branch, The turkey gobbled at the strange new sight, and the antlered deer flung up his proud crest and flitted away, and the bear slunk into the jungle. Five days, i with no hostile Indian in sight, the little s force drove a course, by trails of red i dened grass, through marshy meadow ; and thicket, and on the morning of the 2Sth the cheery, gallant officer at the j head of his troop praised their endu ] ranee, and spoke of the three days' rest i at Camp King—three days before they j marclied again to the havoc of Osceola’s ! village. And ’the sun was fair and the day was sweet to all those soldier’s lives, as ours is to us. Then the cloud burst. Dade was down ; of the one. liundrcd and seven- CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1874 teen men only thirty survived; and then, locked and hemmed in, there was a pause. The silly histories say the Indians were then repulsed, but the facts do not read that way. Osceola had struck sure and deadly, and now- he was away. Where ? Twenty miles away Gov. Thompson wined and dined in ‘estal mirth at a house under the guns of is garrison, and into the festal mirth - door and window burst blood-bol *tered Osceola and his followers. Thompson fell, cut down by fifteen bullets ; and the wretched soldier whose hands had put the indignity of chains on an Indian king was scalped and slain by the chief—a fearful expiation. Again, and before the sun was down, the Indians sprang upon the poor netted partridges, the remnant of Dade’s com mand, and annihilated them. But, one, Ransom Clarke, by feigning death, sur vived long enough to tell the tale, and then died his wounds. A scarlet and crimson picture that; the swift, steady work of method and skill; no loose jumble of slaughter, but work with a purpose in it. Horrible to think of the gay soldier-boys, and the gallant Dade cut down in the Florida woods; shocking even to think of the gay Governor with Death’s red wine un known in the cups. But turn the other way, to the happy little Indian homes, with their gardens, patches, vines and fruits, golden rinds of oranges in dark-green, glistening leaves, figs purple and luscious about the door, and fat-sided, lazy watermelons basking in the sunshine; Indian girls, radiant in bright colors, strolling and flashing among the leaves and bush ; saucy Indian children at games rn romps and hand, with quick brilliant black eye so unlike thcopuque lethargy of the African optics; idly industrious fishers on the lake ; eagerly industrious hunters in the woods—all busy in their way, feeding and brightening that heat of life we call home. There the wayfarer was ever fed, nor was the destitute turned away. A simple hospitable people, so they lived in American simplicity, and so they had lived in Arcadian simplicity, and so had lived for immemorial generations, till custom and use had confined every right to their homes. But yonder, winding through the woods in set array, strong, practiced and brave, marched Dade’s deadly column. Three days’ rest only ami then again the glittering column tunics to make havoc of the village scene, to drive from their desolated homes matron and maid and child and babe to alien homes, and for no offense done or cause given. Upon my word, and all decent respect for all who fell, I think Osceola’s the most righteous act done in America, not ex pecting our original row of a very like nature with the big English bully. After this General Clinch appears to chastise this fierce Indian patriot; and General Clinch finds himself with a star ving army living on dog’s flesh in the Indian’s country. This calls forth an other curious trait of generosity in the Indian chief. Osceola, who intended to fight them, sent food to feed the starving soldiers. Was not this savage (?) cast in heroic mold ? Can such an example of chivalrous charity he rivaled in classic song or story? Still, with one|hand the chief sought and besought peace, and the right of the Indians to their labor earned, inherited homes; sought it for Generals Gaines, of Clinch, of Jessup, as he had sought it of Thompson ; hut on the other hand, steadily removing the women and children to the everglades, lie pre pared for ivar. lie was not the man to do this work and leave that undone, but great alike as chief, warrior, and states man. He whipped Gaines on the Witlialahoochee river—who, foolish man, had marched on to find him, and found him—as he had whipped poor Dade, Thompson, Clinch, Call, and Fanning at various times. Every time he hit them they went down. Still he begged for peace, came to ask it into beaten camps with food for starving en emies. His terms were simply, “Let the Indians stay in their homes Avho Avish. and only those go who are willing. No constraint and force about it, for force Osceola will meet Avith force.” This ea ger desire and his noble confidence iu the honor of his enemies led to his ruin. Gen. Jessup took command, and to him came Osceola witli the usual en treaties f>r peace, and under the sacred protection of a flag of truce was basely seized and vilely thrust into jail at Fort Moultrie. S. C., where, within a few Aveeks or months, he died of mingled : grief and mortification. I passed liur : riedly over the most dishonorable act that ever disgraced the American Gov ernment ; but in the roll of grand he roic names of those who had struggled i and suffered for a people, there is none more noble than of the Indian chief Osceola. THE RESULT OF THE AVAR. Poor, short-sighted Jessup and his master thought: the chief taken the tribes would submit; but Colonel, after ward President Taylor, then at the front, sent the pithy Avord to his commander that “ the Indians meant to fight it out;” and ho Avas right. Ou the 28th of December, 1838, the Indians fell upon his command at the mouth of the river Kissimmee on the Lake Okeechobee, killed and disabled one sixth of the force, including Colonels Thompson and Gentry. The little his tory books call this a victory for us ; and it is true Taylor Avas not annihilated, as avas rather the Indian habit ii Osceola’s time. But neither Avas Taylor strong enough to attack in time. The Avar lin gered after that Avith various successes till 1850, Avhen at last the United States Government accepted the terms first pro posed, I bclicA'e by Osceola. Billy Bow legs, in the chieftainship, agreed to take such of hia tribe as were willing to lands granted them on the Red river (south), provided that all Indians avlio Avislied to remain should be left unmolested on their reservation in Florida. There are about one thousand five hundred of them in their settlement iioav, I bc lieA'e, some forty miles beloAV this point; and they have their OAvn laAvs and in dependence, and farm Avith slave labor in spite of constitutional amendments. That is the Seminole Avar, a Avar in which the Americans were fairly beaten, a thing hard to do when avc remember that there Avere more lives lost in sev eral single battles of the “ rebellion” than it took to subjugate France. God always defends the right, even by so Aveak an in strument as the Indian. A Consoling Woman. [From the Danbury News.] The day Mr. Ruby, across the Avay, Avas to be buried, Mrs. Moriaty told her daughter that she guessed she would at tend, as she wasn’t feeling vervAvell, and a ride would do her good. She kneAV there would he several covered carriages, furnished at the expense of the family, and she Avas equally confident it could be so managed that she would occupy a portion of one of them. She was among the first at the house, and occupied a prominent posi tion. As the other friends arrived, slie took occasion to recall reminisccnses of the late Ruby that brought tears to their eyes, and when the services Avere over, as the first coach drove up for its load, the distress of Mrs. Moriaty at the death of Mr. Ruby Avas so marked as to excite the liveliest sympathy. Then the sec ond coach came up. Mrs. Moriaty had got down to the gate at this time, and as the door of the second coach was opened, and a call made for the occupants, it seemed extremely doubtful that she could hold up another instant. She leaned against the post, and stared into the coach, and over its rich uphol stering, and said the late Ruby seemed more like a son to her than a neighbor. Whereupon the usher looked appropri ately sad, and called up the third and last coach. This had yelloAV cushions and pink straps, and Mrs. Moriaty didn’t hesitate to prdpounce that in the death of Mr. Ruby the community had met a loss it Avas not possible to recover from, and that she would follow him to his last resting place, if she had to do it on her knees, and would feel grateful for the opportunity. Then the third and last coach filled and drove off to take its place in the line, and Mrs. Moriaty dried her tears, choked back the sorrow of her heart Avith one mighty gulp, and strode into her own house, shutting the door without the aid of the knob. She told Clarinda that it was the scaliest affair she eA'er went to, and had it not been for the body there would have been no fune ral at all. A child born recently in Chatauqua county, New York, and still living, a lo cal paper asserts, has its heart located on the outside of its chest, and in plain vie Av. The heart is perfect in form, Avell proportioned, and as firm in texture as could he expected in a young child. When the child cries its heart expands to nearly twice its ordinary size. A Rhode Island man has invented a torpedo in the shape of a kernel of corn, which is designed for the beguilement of croAvs. As soon as that offensive bird takes hold of it, it explodes and blows the top of his head off. This affords a cheap and innocent amusement for the crow, and at the same time does away with a grievous evil. Macon, Miss., is Avilling to make an affidavit that a bride within its limits is nursing her first bom babe tire age of sixty. While there is life there*is hope. HASHED JOKES. "Something about dogs—Fleas. To remove dandruff-—Go out on the plains and insult an Indian. An enterprising Yankee proposes to boil doAvn the Beecher scandal, and bot tle it for bed-bug poison. A country hoy, having heard of sailor heaving up anchors, wanted to know if it Avas sea sickness that made them do it. Josh Billings says : “If i had a boy who didn t lie avcll enough to sute me i would set him tu tendin a retale dri goods store.” It Avas the opinion of a Western editor that Avood goes further when left out doors than Avhen housed. lie says some of his Avent half a mile. A lecturer aptly demonstrates the the ory that heat generates motion by poin‘- ing to a boy Avho accidentally sat do.vn upon a piece of lighted punk. When a man breaks his neck trying to outrun a lightning-hug, supposing it to be the head light of a locomotive, it is time for him to sign the pledge. M ho is the straightest man mentioned in the Bible? Joseph, because Pharaoh made a ruler of him. And that’s why he remained stationary in Egypt. A young man charged with being lazy was asked if he took it from his father. “ I think not,” Avas the reply, “ Father’s got all the laziness lie ever had.” King Gomba, of Africa, has made use of the ncAV cable to say to Boston : “ Last missionary just been put to hake; rather thin; send something corpulent.” A wag one evening pulled down a tur ner’s sign and put it up over a lawyer’s door. In the morning it read: “All sorts of turning and twisting done here.” Up to date 176 different kinds of ton ics and stomach hitters have been pat ented, hut most people prefer to buy their third class whiskey and flavor it to sui t. A iioav commandment for domestic service—“ Thou slialt not entice away thy neighbor’s cook, nor his man servant nor his maid servant, hv offer of higher wages.” Nothing appeals more to the sympa thies of a kind-hearted person than the spectacle of a starved dog, sitting on the ragged edge of anxiety, waiting for a hone. A negro insisted that lii:s race was mentioned in the Bible. He said he heard the preacher read about how “ Nigger Demus wanted to be born again.” If it takes an India rubber elephant six weeks to hatch four two-legged ducks from a half dozen east-iron Avater mel ons, how long av ill it take a bull frog to swallow the shadow of a flap jack ? An Athens music dealer not long since received the following order: “Please send mo the music to ‘Strike the Harp in the Praise of God ’ and ‘ Paddle Your Oayii Canoe.’ ” A religious paper, that has no ear for music, complains that a church choir is sacriligious Avhen the line, “We are gj|j ing home to die no more,” is rendered, “ we’re going home to Dinah Maputo Dinah More.” A boarding-house fiend tells the story that in a recent thunder-storm the war ring of the elements were so awe-inspir ing that the hair in a dish of butter in the P .Mltry turned completely Avhite dur ing the night. The Danbury man says : “ One Eng lish dinner in the inexperienced Ameri can stomach will produce that night, 12 cross-eyed I vons, 8 hears with calico tails, 11 giants Avith illuminated hekds, 1 awful dog Avitli 12 legs, and 14 bow-legged ruf fians chased by a host of piratical cauli flowers, mounted on saddles of beef, roasted. Any respectable chemist will corroborate this statement.” An gentleman just from Clark tells us that he as asked an old veteran of that county whether there were any candi dates for county offices traveling around in his section. “Well, stranger, to tell you the truth, I’ve got a bee-tree leaning over the public road, and I’ve been try ing to cut it for weeks, but I’m afraid of killing a candidate with it,” was the reply. A young lawyer in a country town asked some of his friends to a game of cards in his room, to by followed by a little supper. Frogs were anew species' of food in that latitude, and a dish of them cooked in the choicest way Avas the feature of the occasion. Supper time ap proached, and during a temporary full in the conversation the door suddenly open ed, and a Milesian Avaiter, in a loud j voice, announced supper thus; “Mr. E., ! tttem tiif/* is done, and supper is ready!” VOL. I--NO. 2. DOSING THE EABY. . RY M. QUAD. We have a baby; his name is lUca Gothic. Other families have babiec named this or that, but there is no ike' our baby. He is generally in the best of spirits, but the other day, in look 2 ing over him, my Avife discovered th: t his tongue was coated and he had a bil'* ious look. I Avas down town, and when I came home the doctor had been there, counted the baby’s pulse, looked at his tongue, and prescribed castor oih My wife had the bottle and spoon ready against my coming, and I took off my coat, tied a towel around my neck, and took the child up. He hadn’t the least suspicion of Avliat was coming till I had him on his hack. Then he smelt caster oil, and I couldn’t keep him down. As fast as I pushed‘one end down, the otlur end bobbed up, and his legsfshot out like steam pistons. Long Primer and Small Pica began to cry, and I had to let the baby up and give him a bottle and a flat iron to play with until he recovered his composure. Then we began to practice strategy. We gave him sugar in the spoon, then milk, then held it out full of castor oil. He opened his mouth to take it, got a faint bite, and then he drcAv back, utter ed a veil, and spit it in Long Primer’s left ear. Then wc tried to bribe him. I offered him ten cents at first, but I kept on until the offer included three gold watches, six horses, a house and lot, a million dollars and a number of steamboats ; hut his blood was up, and lie Avouldn’t listen. I sent out for candy, peanuts, pop-corn, balls, and gum-drops, hut when he found that his getting them depended on his first taking castor oil, he turned away, knit his broAVS, and calmly contemplated a grease spot on the Avail paper. Then I threAV him on his back and tickled him, and Avhile he Avas off his guard I slipped mv hand alongside his head and held his mouth open until fit resembled a three-cornered in a garden fence. All thi3 time I was trotting him, and whistling and singing, and telling him about the boy who stood on the burning deck, and he thought it Avas all a good joke. My wife poured the oil out, crept up behind me, and Avhile the baby Avas straining his eyes to get a glimpse at Small Pica, over by the AvindoAV, the spoon went into his mouth. It Avas art awful moment. He got the taste, rolled his eyes, grew red as paint, and then he bobbed his head, Avorked his legs, and sent the mouthful down behind my necktie. At that moment I got a cuff on my ear, the baby Avas snatched from my lap, and Mrs. Quad went danc ing around the room, crying: “Yes, his father is an old brute, and he needn’t take it —not a bit.” Strange.—A Whitehall (N. Y.) pa per tells a story of a little boy of that toAvn Avho felt something craAvling on life, hand, .after that hand, and a part of the; arm, had been amputated. The lim|> was dug up from the ground in whiiffi it had been buried, and a large worm was discovered in the palm of the hand. The arm was put in a jar of al cohol, and it being necessary to croAA’d it in, tfic youth absolutely shrieked Avith pain. He aftenvard complained of a cramped feeling, and said that the little finger and one next to ft were groAving together. On looking at the jar again, the fingers Avere found to he in a posi tion which Avould have produced sensation described, had the amputate ! part of the arm been still adhering to the upper portion. Such sensations are by no means unprecedented, thoigh it is rare, to find them so strongly market. - Ax Irishman's Letter. —Here is an Irish gentleman’s letter to his son in J college: “My dear son —I write to“sert' r ' you two pair of my old breeches, thf you might have anew e' - zr '-q)ade out them. Also some new I mother has—just—kit u some of mine. Your ns ten dollars without my?* know for fear that you majrnot use' have kept back naif and or n five. Your mother aud cent that your sister has J o 111 which we think would other girls if Tom had and he is the only one LAU, Avill do honor to my tea . i ad vou are an ass, and vour l self your affectionate par ’ — . 'A An agricultural journal 1 alum Avater is quite as des sects as Paris green, an'**“ ter, is not at all da’'- ie in a house. A Massachr a cessful busirt ei never adve# a g C ed chiefly