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THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER: FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1885.
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Tnx Cleveland Fialndealei lets slip this
great truth: “Through all thespeeehes at
the Springfield convention ran one sad
wa’.lct distress that the Republicans had
loot the offices.”
The Whipping Post
Is growing in favor. This method of
punishment has been agitated in sev
eral Northern States, for wife-heaters.
It showed considerable strength even
In Massachusetts, and waa not without
advocates in Pennsylvania. At the
iate meeting of the convention on pris
ons and charities, in Washington City,
the report from Delaware, where the
whipping post is a fixed lustitution,
was favorable to it as a prevention of
small crimes.
Maryland has adopted this punish
ment for wife-heaters, and very recent
ly a wretch waa sentenced to this pun
ishment. Wife-beating is very com
mon among negroes,; as are petty
crimes, and the cost to the State is very
large and steadily, increases.
Georgia might adopt, then, the whip
ping post with advantage to the crimi
nal class and the public treasury.
As tite Legislature is about to meet,
it may keep out of the mischief that
hangs on idleness, by addressing itself
to this subject.
If the whipping-post is to be revived,
and it should be for a certain class of
offenders, the benefits of it should be
extended to “special correspondents,”
who slander and insult individuals and
communities.
The United States steamer Iroquois bt
sailed for Ecuador, under instructions to
help an American citizen out of jail io that
country. It will take the entire American
navy to get one citizen out of jaiL
Gas. Grant, though held up by his ad
mirers as o man of iron, does not face a
cancer as Ben Hill did. The latter, thoogh
fearfully punished by the surgeon’s knife,
never for a moment lost his fortitude.
Dr. McCosk, of Princeton, ssys "be
lias found out that good foot bill players
aro poor scholars, while good scholar! are
poor foot bail players.” And bow abont
the festive baaeballist and the fellows who
pull oarsT
Tax Boston Herald is congratulating it
self upon the fact that Sam Jones is head
ing that way. Boston is a good place for
Sam. He can stand on the commons and
speak to more slnnera at one time than at
any place in the world.
Tux Philadelphia Press had the follow-
ng the mornlog after the bell got home:
■“To oor Southern guests: The town is
yours, gentlemen, and if yon don’t see
what yon want, please ask for It. Mean
time, what is the color of your paint?”
A division ot the Salvation Army has
oome to grief in a singular way in Chicago.
A drnnken woman called Bridget Scotty
has knocked the Salvation army down
with a Bible. It is not stated whether the
volume was of the old or revised edition.
Has. EuziBSTD Cady Btahtor does not
think that the CbrltUan religion has done
much for woman. This is sfatlog it very
strong; still, when we come to consider
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it must be
admitted that the Christian religion baa
left a great daal nndone.
Justu s Field believes that tbs Supreme
Court should be so organized that its dock
et! will be cleared before the adjournment
of each term ot the coart. A delay in ren
dering justice, he thinks, is, in a sense, a
denial of jnstice, and ht believes his plan
would obviate the troubles now made mat
ter of complaint.
Ear. Thomas Hasbisox, tbs “boy
preacher,” who bu gone from LotdtvUla
to Denver, estimates that ha bu”eonvart-
ed" between forty thousand and fifty thou
sand son la sines tbs beginning of his evan
gelistic career. The boy Is now abont fifty
years of age, and Sam Jones la working
over considerable of bia dough.
Says the Cbarleiton News: ■ -The Mil
waukee Sunday Telegraph announces the
puk'icatlon of 'A Thrilling History ot Old
Abe, the War Eagle of tha Eighth Wiscon
sin-' Tits Interest of the genera) public In
that famous bird, howtTir, has ntvar re
covered from the shoek of the discovery,
made a few years ago, that Old Abe waa a
'hen, and the isle ol her blograpbyla Ukely
to sailer in consequence.”
Whzn Miss Liberty gels her standing
room it will be high. The pedestal, when
com pieted,will be>ig hly-ntne feet (it height,
the statue. Including the torch, which fig
ure of Liberty holds in her hand, 151 (set
and 1 inch, and the height of the founda
tion mass above mean low pater .W feel
and 11 inebts. According to these figures
the completed statne will be 21 feet higher
than the tplre ot Trinity Churth, New
York, and 23 feet higher than the towers
of Brooklyn bridge.
“rho Oleomnranrlne War."
New York is commonly supposed to
be the centre of the oleomargarine trade,
and much was expected from the State
law forbidding tite manufacture or sale
of it. It seems now as though the in
fluence which knocked the life out of
the canned goods bnsiness was strong
enough to whip the State on a poor
butter issue. Evidently the oleomar
garine tub is able to stand on its own
bottom. Says the World:
The Court of Appeals yesterday rendered a
decision declaring the law to prohibit toe
manufacture and sale of oleomargarine In
this State unconstitutional. The Judgment of
the general term ol the Supreme Court main
taining the constitutionality of the law was
reversed.
This decision does not Interfere with or In
validate laws to prevent the fraudulent isle of
oleomargarine as dairy butter. Neither doea
It street legislation to prohibit and punish the
manufacture and sale of n deleterious article
under the name ol oleomargarine. The cue
wu argued on the ground that oleomargarine
manufactured by the French process patented
by M. Mege. the French Inventor, hu been de
cided by competent authority to be a genuine
food product, not detrimental to health, and
that m sneh Its manufacture and sale can no
more be prohibited than the silo of dairy hot
ter. On this point the Judgment of tho Court
of Appeals la based.
But while it Is unconstitutional to prohibit
the manufacture and sale ot genuine oleomar
garine u an Interference with legitimate
trade, It la within the province of the Legisla
ture to prohibit and punish Its sale as dairy
batter, to require Its branding nod under sani
tary regulations to prevent the manufacture
of any ipurlooa, Impure and unwholcsomo ar
tide.
Turns is no end of the lying of the sptce
writers, “special correspondents” and the
vermin that bare attached themselves to
the press. This, from the Baltimore Herald
i« the latest end woret Instance. Referring
to “Maryland, My Maryland,” itsaya:
“The latter song," Mr. Sntro continued,
“was written by James R. Randall, a native of
Baltimore, and now editor ot tho Augusta (Ox)
Chronicle, The music to which It was adapt
ed by a young music teacher, named KUen-
brook, In 1C6I, Is that of the old German Vo ks.
sorg, '0, Tanuerbeum, O, Tsnncrbsum’—
•0, Pine Tree, 0 Pine Tree, How
Green Are Thy Leaves!’ It wu taken
np at 'once end obtained t popularity
which seems uudlmlnlshed to this day.
Randall told me that he wrote It one night
while In camp In Georgia, I think. The weath
er wu close and the Insect life so active In his
bed that he could not sle >p. Ills brain became
correspondingly active, end the lines fiuhed
through his mind—
“The despot's heel Is on tbyshore I
Maryland, my Maryland I
His tonch Is at thy temple's door I
Maryland, my Maryland I
"He Immediately jumped up, he told me,
and dashed oir the entire song u though It
had some u an Inspiration. When he had
finished he lay down once more npon
his bed and went right off to sleep, despite the
attacks of the parasites that Infested his couch.
In the morning he read his lines to the ‘boys,’
who received them with enthusluttc approv
al. It wu not long before they were known
In every Confederate camp, and their rythm
ofttlmes cheered the tired frame and weary
heart of aome ‘boy In gray.' “
The poem wu written at a college in
Louisiana, where Mr. Randall wai a pro
fessor, in the early days of the war.
OLD TIMES IN GEORGIA.
Two Dlstliiiulshed Men of Our Early His
tory Who are Now Almost F. rgotten.
adhered to the royal cause, and In the
coarie of time found himself the promi
nent Britlih egent among theFouthern In-
(Pans, with bia eon Alexander as hla dep
uty."
Thx Tribune's argument that n wrong
perpetrated npon a negro is not an out
rage nnlesa committed became of color. Is
strikingly plctnretqne, but suppose we take
the negro’e testimony npon this point.
Maybe the colored brother regards the
Freedman's Bnrean as an outrage; acd
maybe the long list of unfulfilled promisee
m ade to him by the Republican party ap
pears to his benighted understanding as
outrages.
FROM ATLANTA.
W. B. Corley Blows Out His Brains In a
8 torn—The Atlanta Colored Un^irelty
Not Impartial.
Noticing the Tribune’s attack on tho
people ol Alabama because a negro
was ejected from a car on which ho
had no business, and the subsequent
assault by the conductor npon an offi
cious and meddlesome Yankee, the
World says:
But from the news columns of the seme es
teemed Tribune of lut Sunday's Issue, wo
clip the following interesting telegram;
Tnroer Graham and hi* wife, negroee, were
killed by a mob armed with shot-gune, after
SMSttLtfJBHS'Z: ° ra fcS‘»“ aba tt?r-
and he and hla wife were addicted to drink
and were quarrelsome, although harmless to
others. They had been away doting the early
And did this happen down In Alabama?
Not much. And Is It aooompaaled by a
bloody shirt blast over “Southern lawless-
neesf 8tui less. This "episode," which U
mildly heeded “A Quarrelsome Couple Killed
by a Mob," as If that were quite conventional
disposal of quarrelsome couples, happened
oat In Ohio, In Osgood, Duke oounty, where
of all places In the country n duky, oven If
quarrelsome, ought to get off with e little lose
than hla life, say for Instance n fine of KS,
This same Duke county gave Mr. Blalno 4,ISO
votes lut faU end Mr. Foraker 3,015 In the
gubernatorial oon teat In which be was so
badly beaten in last. Bat we have looked In
vein In the esteemsd Tribune for any bugle
cell or bloody shirt bowl summoning to jns
tice, even for a fine of 425, one of the lawless
Ohioans who so summarily disposed of the
colored couple because they were "quarrel
some," although tha dispatch says "harmless
to others."
Tax World says: Mr. J. D. Taylor, who
presided temporarily over the Ohio Re
publican convention, made a bold -<■!>» for
the cheerful idiot crown now worn by
Ksed Of Maine, “The State that gave 860,*
000 brave and true aoldlerf," said ha,
“must ever be a Republican 8tate.” Ohio
gave Mr. Lincoln (in 1800) 231,010 votes.
After enlisting 350,000 troops, It gave Mr.
Xlncoln (in lWt) 221,008. In other words,
the enlistment ot’ “360,000 brave and true
soldiers” cost the Republican party exact
ly 7,008 votes. In the fall of 1805, when
these 380,000 troops had been disbanded
and bad returned to their hornet, there
was an election in Ohio for Governor at
which 2:3,633 Republican votes were poll-
«d,or less by 365 then had been polled the
previous faU whe-. these 380,000 troops
were In the field. All the Republican
voters among those 380.000 was 365 less
than none, at least the statistics have that
appearance.
Joan Lotus does not ass correct itn
gasg- < 11 ell occasions, bat no objections
msy be found to this: “I hope every Ite-
pabllcsn who nets to be retained ty ibis
administration will be turned oat of offi-c.
I have received letter after letter from Ur
publicans in office urging me to exert my-
atlf to have them retained. I shall not
humiliate myself in that way. I would
rather help to ett Republicans of that sort
out. fn fact it is strange to me that a
Republican would ask a Democratic ad-
udoiatrotion to keep him In office. No
Republican would aak Cleveland to ap
point him, If be was onto! office. A pen
4ion for retention stands on the same prin
ciple. Is U virtually aeking a Democrat
for an appointment If a Republican
St- . -I not ask for ait office bo should not
ask to b* retained in oo*. Uhei* bolding
an cflics ar d is asked to remain on ace-rant
of his faithful aervicai, It is another thing.
In that esse ha has a right to accept, but
be to dearly wiotg in asking tobe re-
Amerdment of the Civil Santo* Rules,
Mr. Clevoland has already amended
the civil lervice rulea, so that deputy
collectors and naval officers are not
subject to examination. They trill be
further amended in a very important
particular. When thccommluion
established it was found that many
States had far more than their quota
of employes in the public service. The
commission continued to fill requisi
tions from the various departments
without regard to tho discrepancy,
This acted to the disadvantage of the
Western and Southern States. The
President’s attention wu called to it
and ho will order a change, and here-
alter StAtes will be selected in rotation
as to their civil service candidates.
If this is carried ont properly in letter
and in spirit, many of the present in
cumbents in the various departments
will have to go. Ohio and the District
of Columbia, ami others, have a great
many more clerks than they are entitled
to. The Southern States, on the con
trary, have never hml their jnst quota,
even as represented by men and
women, who were never south of the
Potomac river.
The Southerners who have stood the
civil service examination will probably
have some show lor positions and em
ployment. (
Atlanta, June 18.—At halt-past 10
o’clock this morning three pistol shots were
fired in rapid succession in the store of
H eifiz & Berkele, 15 Whitehall, dealers in
gnns, pistols, etc. The commotion within
made it apparent that something eerions
had happened, and in an Incredibly short
time the street in front was blockaded
with an eager and cartons crowd. The
front and rear doors of the building were
closed to keep ont the crowd. Yonr cor
respondent was admitted a few minutes
after the firing. About half-way down the
store, lying on the floor in a pool of
blood was a dead man. He
was stretched and at fall length. He was
apparently 45 years of age, five feet eight
inches In height, with brown moustache
and chin beard, face fresh abaved, dressed
in a neat black suit, shoes polished and a
atraw bat lying near by. Around the head
of the dead man were streams of blood,
mixed with brains, and here and there
•mall pieces of sknll. Through the head
abort- ttie temple was a great wound from
which the blood waa aliil oozing. A few
feet off was a 38 calibre, seif-cocking
Bmllh A Wesson pistol. The dead man
was W. B. Corley, of Troy, Ala. At
twenty minutes after 10 he stepped npon
the doorway ot the store. Mr. John M.
Heinz, of the firm, asked if he conld
do anything for him. He
answered no, but that he was
looking for Heioz &, Berkele’a
store. On being told that he waa then In
their store, he expressed a desire to look
at aome platola Mr. Heinz waited on bltn.
Mr. Corley asked for a self-cocking pistol,
111J waa shown a .--caliber self-oocking
Bmilli A Wesson. He decided to buy it
with it a box of cartridges. At his re
quest Mr. Heinz loaded the pistol. Mr. Cor
ley gave him a 320 gold piece. The price
of tho pistol was 113, and Mr. Heins went
to the money drawer for the chaDge.
While he wee gene the etranger fired two
•hots very quickly et a packing box near
“7, as though to test the pistol. When Mr.
elnz turnid the stranger had the pistol
pointing agalnat his right temple. Heinz
cried to him, “8top I” bat in a second the
e ltd was discharged, and within five or
n minutes the man was a corpse. Doc
tors Parka and Roach were called in, but
it waa too late for their professional ser
vices. On the person of the deal man was
some 333, a large pocket knife and a piece
of paper on which was written:
“Troy, Ala., March 31,18fS.
“ W. B. Co SLIT, Esq.—Plata* send state
ment ot guano account. And oblige,
“J. M. Henderson & Co.
“W* pant to pay It.”
The I- -tiy was removed to the station
house, and at noon an Inquest was held at
which the above facts were developed.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was, that
the deceased came to hla death by a pistol
■hot fired by hla own hand with suicidal
intent
WHO IS COILXY ?
Inquiries made of parties acquainted In
The wedier Memorial,
Mach of our space in tills issue la de
voted to the Wadley memorial. Tite
report will be found to be fall,'accurate
aniliptereating,und ia accompanied Iby a
striking cut of the monument.. Not the
least interesting feature will be po
liced in the speeches of the occasion,
which were all appropriate and admira
ble.
The oration of Major Jo*. B. Com
ming is a model of taste in spirit and
language, doing honor both to the sub
ject and speaker, and rejecting credit
npon the selection of the committee.
From the Cape of Florida to the farthest
North—from the Atlantio to the Pacific—
wherever the British flag baa floated, the
management of the Indian tribes has been
given to Scotchmen, and areally to Scotch
Highlanders,
One Is naturally led to ask the reason of
this arrangement. Was the Seotchmsn
more enterprising than his English neigh-
oor for did the wilder life of the Highlander,
the fends and forays of the c'ans, give him
a better Insight into the working of the
savage mind? There may be something
n this, but I think I see a clearer reason
fri'thadttlerent conditions of the two conn-
rles.
The several unsuccessful insurrections in
favor of the Smarts, always followed by
fines, forfeitures and executions, had dis-
urbed the northern hire, and many ions
of broken houses hid swarmed over to
America. Bnt, when here, what were they
do? Their previous habits made the
narrow life of the towns distasteful to
them—they were indifferent agriculturists,
but they had bunted the red deer on tbelr
hills, and speared the otter in their streams;
they would strip the robe from the bnflslo,
their ikies from the bear and the beaver,
and the hide from the deer on which they
fed; and by the sale of thete peltries, they
would win a manly and lucrative living-
re they left the settlements behind them,
and plunged luto the forest. Their supe
riority to firearms gave them au advantage
over the Indians. By the gift of a few
trinkets they attracted adheranti and the
Indians hunted with them, and ander
them. Boon trading hoosts sprang np, and
ths British Government, finding thete ont-
postsof civilization forming themselves,
f ;ave them additional stability by intrnst-
ng them with the distribution of some
small presents. She dotted, here and tip-re,
among them a few young officers, and her
Indian system was established. These
officers soon gained tha affections of the
Indians (who called them long knivea be
cause of the swords at thetr sides) and
often led them to war with the French and
Spaniards.
A practice sprang up scarcely to be com
mended. Many of these wanderers from
th* paths of “qatotness sad peace” took
to themselves Indian wives—polygamy pre
vailed among all tha tribes, and the chiefs
gladly gave their daughters to men who
conld strengthen their arms Doth in the
chase and in battle, while the dusky bride
felt no shame, it she ever came to know
that, far away among the pale faces, there
was another wife and other children.
A nong their many customs different from
our own, was one that rank descended
through the female; not the heir male of
the chief, but the heir male of the eldest
daughter of th* chief wu considered hit
successor; a strange complication, but out
of It, in course of time, it came to pass, that
aome of the most distinguished chiefs
among the Southern tribes bore the names
of S.-n-i-’.iiiii n. t-.lher mi : nrv or civil, who
had resided at these frontier posts.
The colony of Georgia extended from tire
ocean to the Mississippi, and embraced
within il« liniiti many more lnl.es than
nnv other col my. Among these the Creeks
were much the strongest la numbers, and
had subdued, and then -wr- 1-.
had admitted as conlederates, several con
quered tribes, but always with some badge
to show to posterity that they had been
conquered. Thus by a standing law of tho
Creeva, the Uchee tribes who shared with
them in all their privileges and possessions,
were compelled always to encamp sepa
rately, and on the left. This great tribe
was itself divided into two bands, the upper
and Hie lower < r.cx- ami over them ruled
two of the most remarkable men who have
held relations with their white conquerors.
I am not writing a romance, but only
trying to gather together some extant
facts, still unburled under tho debris ol
UmejnoramI writing history, but ooly,
like Old Mortality, trying to renovate the
graves of aome neglected dead. Let us ad
vance enr footsteps to the period when
order had corns ont of chaos, when Wash
ington was tint President of the United
the attitude of an iodependent power. Ho
m r’ifm 8 Spanlal> officer, Captain Oliver*
permsnently at his court. This
®,*5* r remained for some years in the na
tion u the accredited agent of Spain
'!“« tha Oraakl. McGillivray wen? to
th,n the ae “t of toe United
fho t PrIdden‘} m . e nA , V l 8nd negotiated with
S? h£XrS5 , .t“ d hla cabinet In person.
J?• broke up the arrangements made with
£?_F nUe A 8 . tat< * antl Georgia commts-
At that time the older persons to whom
I have introduced my reader had gone to
another world. Alexander McGilUvray.
the .on of Lachlan, was actually ruler of
[heOrerk Confederacy, and waa vexing
the Georgia frontier. Cant. Wm. McIntosh,
?! ^ * Br , U1 i h ar “y .bad resigned from that
service; had entered into the possession of
n piece of property called Mallow, on Sapelo
rinr. McIntosh county, and had also en
tered into the bondi of metrimony with
hie cousin Barbara, sister of Col. John
McIntosh, of the Continental army. They
bad a numerous fsmlly of bright women
and strong men, but none of their descend
ants remain.
siontra at Coieraln without condescending
to show himself, but through his agents
demandod a freepost for the Creek nation
either on the Altamaha river or tiie Bt.
mitv 7 ’h, ! h .! ec ?? nlt . lon 01 Creek nution-
jHy*, Boyb* ble ot our restless antago-
nlst, for whom I cannot bnt feel a sort of
HnS&fuSk”* to a close. He
died at the house of Wm. Pantou, of the
house of Pantou, Forbes & Co., at Pensa
cola, where lie waa maturing fresh plana
of aggression, through tha 8smluolo In
diana, on the frontiers of Georgia.
Let me say in conclusion, that McQlllIv-
ray. alUtough a half-breed In blood* was
to the best of ray belief, a legitimate son of
Lachlan McGillivray, tor 1 Have seen, oh,
Will the reader pause here and grope
backward with me, say some one hundred
and ten years from this pretent year of
grace? Will he gowith me into ' Ha very
bowels of this forest land, and stopping at
McIntosh Blnil, on the Tombigby river,
look in upon its Inhabitants?
Here he will find Capt. John McIntosh,
a Scotch gentleman of high extraction, who,
we are told, bad fought for the fituan
claimant in the insurrection of 1716, and
having tost bis all In that cause, had emi
grated to America; had been generously
treated by tb*Hanuvrri»ii dynasty, a ml
bad been employed in military service
sometime on tlie Carolina frontier, and
afterward poshed still deeper into the wil
derness, uutil he rested at McIntosh Bluff,
on the Tombigby.
But this Scotch gentleman had not fol
lowed the practice to which I have already
alluded. He had brought with him (ram
ids native land hid own winsome wife, and
her bonny brood, and those who, like my
self, have bad the pleasure ot knowing any
ot the descendants ot this high bred couple,
can well understand bow transmitted re
finement may cling to a family when all
tha adventitious gilts ot fortune have been
taken away.
Havlng'eaten the King’s salt,” Captain
P William Molntoih, however, left in the
Indian nation a red, bv an Indian marriage
with a daughter of one of the principal
chiefs, who made hla mark on tbs pages of
I American history, and gave bis life to the
State of Georgia This was Wm. Molntoah.
first war chief of the Creeks, and a worthy
colleague of Gen. Andrew Jackson in his
contest with the combined Indira tribes.
Mr. Troup and hla wife. Catherine Moln-
Itosb, had settled at Bellerille, on Bapelo
river, also. Pickett, In his history of Ala
bama. says that thla gentleman, father of
Col. Troup, was re officer tn the British
army. Major Wm. J. McIntosh, a near
neighbor and connection, saye ol him that
he nad been extensively engaged in com
mercial pursuits, and was a person of mneb
Polish and literary acquirement. Governor
Troup himself, in a letter to the Alabama
historian, ssys that he actually knows
nothing of his father’s early history, and
has no record of him except an Oxford
Bible which contaiDa tho usual family rec
ord. The children were born at Mobile, at
McIntosh Bloff, In London, in Charleston
and in Savannah, and the dates given
would warrant either conclusion.
Lst ns return to Alexander McGillivray.
Gen. Knox, secretary of war, charged with
Indian affairs, writes President Washing
ton, on July 0,1789: “Besides the cbiels
of the respective towns, the Creeks appesr
to be very much under tho direction of
Alexander 3IcUillivray. The father of this
person was an inhabitant of Grorvia, and
adhering to Great Britain daring the late
war, his property was confiscated by that
State. His mother was a principal woman
of the Upper Creeks. He had an English
education; hia abilities and ambition ap
pear to be great; his resentments are prob
ably unbounded against the Stateof Ueor
gia for coniiscxtlng hia father’s estate and
the estates of his other friends, refugees
from Georgia, several of whom reside witli
him among the Creeks.
“Ho is said to be a partner in a trading
honse which has a monopoly of the trade
ot the Creeks. Tho communications to
the Indian country are through the Flori-
das, under protection of the Spanish au
thorities. The profits of the commerce
centre io Great Britain, and one of the Ba
hama Islands is the Intermediate place of
deposit. The Stateof Georgia is engaged
In a serious war with the Creeks, and as
the seme msy bs so extended and combin
ed as to reqalra the Interference of the
United Stales, tt will be highly proper that
the censes thereof should he stated and ex
amined.”
Gen. Knox is a prolix writer, with a
strong bias against the claim of Georgia to
gorarn the Indians within her limits, bnt
his statements of (sets msy be implicitly
relied on, and I will not enenmber these
few pages with long transcripts from docu
ments which are accessible to ail.
At tho treaty of Augusta, November 19,
1783, the Creeks admitted themselves sub-
ject to the Stateof Georgia, and at tihotti-
derbone, November 3, 1780, the Creeks
Again acknowledged the enpremacy of
Ueorgia, made farther cessions of land, and
gave hostages for good behavior.
The McGilllvrays, crushed for a time,
red dispirited by the loss of the royal sup
port, were unable to offer any serfons op
position to the treaty ot Augusta; but by
the period of the treaty of Galphiuston,
matters wore a very diQeront aspect.
Alexsnder 5(cGilllvray had become the
chief ot theUpperaml Lower Creeks. He
bad persuaded the Creek Nation to declare
themselves a dependency of Spain; he had
acquire unlimited ascendancy over tho In
dians; he addressed the government of the
United States, as one independent poten
tate addresses another; but to the anthorl
ties of Georgia he breathed nothing but un
dying hatred.
At the risk of fatiguing you, I must take
the liberty of transcribing some paissges
from bia letters at this time. The lint let
ter which I find from him la to Gen. Pick
ens, commissioner on ths part of the Fed
eral Congress, which had interposed, with
a view to settle the difficulties between
Georgia and the Indians.
A shocking occurrence io ...
BSX wtd^
an eviction were passiog the P hm2 •’ I
A«oiu*Q sacuiiiivray, for I have seen, oh, ,® U J. the man redhhSfil
re many years ago, the record on the < ?i t .i to **! the forc * 0( POfioe. and 4 1
of toeof In- a °* »Uacked t C K I
antago-
Th« Callows In ciin** «
While In Clinton onlFrfdty the t
man wa. given by a genUemw l? 1 ' m
JjiSSWSSBSft-sli
mJ: OhreD^Sj’ JJES:
Hri, - '.B Col
1^5, Henr* «■“---**
The'book 1 JoMno'cr!ml23 , 5i > ' “nffier
117 is still o«i na 'ranlnal docket opeiij 6
I “ ik 1
ocguuir 01 ooarav ol the county of In- iitViA , e a attackedI
HESS: BortUnl, to Which Alexander honw and hJJra who . had teen left i?2l
MoUUlIvrey, of Georgia, one Indian chief, deJUf’»S. d . b * ,orB ** ,l * , aoc* could be,SI
I 2 aki . n ? &Te d r. Wght,al iDjarie * wSS
F. M. Drake, I
Gen. Pickens had invited him to attend
at Gainhlnaton; ne promised to do so, but
broke his promise. Alter much abuse ot
Georgia he sava: “They nerer once relied-
td that the colonies of a powerful monarch
were nearly surrounding ns, and to whom
In any extremity we might apply for succor
and protection, and who to answer aome
end of the r policy, might greot tt to us.
McIntosh conld not abandon George III However we deferred any inch ntoceediog,
ill Ilia contest with thecolonlet, andhe and Hill expecting we could bring Arem to a
hla ion William both held commissions in
the British army during the Usvoiutlona-
ry war.
It is from this Capt. William McIntosh,
the son ol Capt. John, that the second no
tability ol toy story derived his being.
Troy, Alabama, disclosed th* foUowtoir:
Corley lived in Troy, whereJit bad a wUe
and two or thre* children. He was In th*
service of the Troy Guano Company. He
had a refutation for Industry and aobrtety.
It Is reported that be was sent ont collect
ing for ith* company when th* season
closed and has been ont
about four mouths. . It it also
reported that h* was short In hla accounts,
red that the company bad been unable to
bring him to a eettlrment This tronb'e
and ill health, of which he complained thla
morning, were th* probabl* causes of th*
•ufcld«.
Tslegraras were seat bia family this
morning notifying them of the sea occur
rence and asking (or ins tractions ns to the
disposition ot the remains.
Tha suicide was on* of th* most deliber
ate on record. Cority was cool, telf-poe-
•eeeei, without ■ trace of excitement, and
gave no evldenca whatever of bis Intention.
His selection 0! * gun and pistol store in-
dicated a cool determination to her* every
facility tor carrying bli purpose into
There was another not nnfreqnent vlslt-
orat McIntosh Biutl. (I quote at second
hand from Plcxett’a History of Alabama,
thron h Hardin a LlfeofUovernorTroup.)
Pickett says: “Atthe,clou of our lut
chapter it was stated that the firet Ameri
can court held in Alabema was at McIntosh
Bluff, which ia situated on the western
bank ol th* Tombigby, b*twun Us conflu
ence with the Alabama and the town of 8t.
Stevens. Connected with this bluff there
it to ns > pleasing reminiscence. Alabama
hu the honor of being th* birthplace of
noon from Hon. E.B. WilkVrson, mayor
of Troy, Ala., staling instructions had
been wind the expreei agent her* as to
th* transportation of th* remains of Cor
ley. The body will be forwarded to Troy
for interment*
Another dispatch from Mayor Wilkerton
stated:
“W. B. Cority loft her* Tuesday morn
ing leavlngno Information u to his des
tination. The crew of suicide is Inexpli
cable her*, and la a surpriu to nit who
knew him. He was a quiet, energetic bua-
ineuman, manager ot the Troy Fertilizer
Company’s works, and seemingly in moat
cheerful spirits when b* ltd here.”
Th* argument tn tha Ralston vs. Torpin
cue wu concluded to-day. Th* dutelon
will b* rendered next Thursday. Th* Ma
con partlu engaged In th* cau returned
horn* this afternoon.
Quite a large number of deaf mate* from
th* Cave Springs Asylum were her* to-day,
in chare* of UTtrel of Uw officers of the
Institution, 00 their way bom* to iptnd *
vacation. The young folks w*r*of both
uxet, and wore nut fitting gray uniforms.
Th* sixteenth annlvrriary (Urdus of
th* Atlanta Unimrity sun held this
mosvting *t 10 o'clock is Frtendsblp Bap
tist Church on MltcheU strut Th* txsr-
dau were opened with praysr by Preei-
dsnt War*. There wu an sddrau by
Mom Johnson, and essay' red singing
by pupil* of th* nnlTtnlty. OoL I. W.
HlUywaiii
Troup, wu the chief of tha McIntosh
Clan—which he most assuredly was not—
for McIntosh of Moy hu been (or many
centuries, and wu then, captain of Clan
Chatten. Bnt the gentleman of whom he
writes wuof th* family of Moy, audio the
line of an occasion.
1 find I am riding the Scotchman's bob
by, pedigree, perhaps beyond the reader's
natiecce, so w* will Mas *1 McIntosh
BlnS, red there we will find, if my memo-
ry serves me faithfully, John Troop and
Catherin* McIntosh, either lately married
or betrothed, young William Mctotedi, if
bel* not sway with a party of Indians
sgainat th* French Indiana, u they were
called, from the Ohio country, or the half-
bred Spanish Indiana lrom the swamps
of Florida.
Here too we will find the stately parents
o( thee* European offshoots, keeping alive
th* light of dvifixation la this howling
wilderness.
But there was another more important
person than any to whom we here all-id..1
who often found his way to McIntosh Blutl.
This wu Lachlan McGilUvray, Indian
agent of the British gorernment. U any-
oo* wishes to know wbo McGillivray wu,
ha hu only to consult th* travels of Wm.
Btrtram, a naturaliat who panad th* years
1773 and 1774 ia exploring the forests red
waters of Georgia red Florida In search of
Avery and Mayor Hillyer also mads short
w^tS^d^ 04 A °* n * U ’
city red looks v*iy much improved.
new spedmtns.ud who afterward, during
th* very agony of ths ttvolotionary strug
gle, passed freely between tbs contending
psrtlas, protected by th* shield of sdence.i
Bertram wu at many of tha stations occu
pied by McUlUlvrsy. At Mobile, his hud
quarters, on the Alabama, on tbs Tombig
by, and even tar away oo ths banka of th.
MiWiseippI, Bertram found wall dafandad
and provisioned poets, and gractftd eoorte-
% Hand aid. On* word from tba Amcrioan
■te papers, and wa shall nava dona with
TSehlan McGillivray. Ha took lha losing
•Ids and failed, end paired out oftbahls-
tory of oor young republic; bnt he left be
hind him a son, Alexander McGUttvray,
whose undying hatred te tba psopla of
Georgia wu inacrfbsd in letters of blood
and Sic Ou hot IrontierB m I
American Slate is; ttt
tty: “At this period Lx
Lud.og him tell compei.ei
of tbelr true interest; but still find
ing no alteration In their condnct toward
ns, wa sought tha protection of Spain, and
treaties of friendship and alliance were
mutually entered into: they to guarantee
our hunting grounds and territory, and to
grant *(n* trad* In lb* port* of Florida.”
Farther uu he says: "How the boundaries
between the Spaniards and the Statu will
ba dete-mined a little time will show, u 1
believe that matter ia now on foot; howerer,
w* know our own ltmlte and the extent ol
oor hunting grounds, and as a tree nation,
we have applied as we have a right, and
have obtained protection for them, so that
we shall pay no regard to any limits that
may prejudice our claims, that weredrawn
by an American and confirmed by a Brit-
iib negotiator.”
In a tetter to James White, appointed
•nperintendtnt of Indian affaire by Con-
gre.s, be exprsesua willingness to treat
with Congress, but utterly repudiates the
Georgia trutin, and declares that the
chiefs of 98 towns assembled and censured
those who had made the treaty of Augus
ta and refused to b« bound by It; he does
not aeem to b* very particular abont his
numbers, ior in a letter sometime after
ward to Gov. Pinckney on this very sub
ject, he says that on tne return of tna ne
gotiators the chiefs ol more than 40 towns
refo**i to be bound by the treaty of Au
gusta.
McGiUivray sums now to have settled
npon bis Una of policy; It was aimply thla:
To aflect friendly feelings toward Congr.es
and tbs people of all tbeStatea. except the
Georgians, to claim that the Creeks were
independent of American rale, and to ad
here to Spain nnlesa ha conld obtain foi
himself vary material advantages, at tha
price cf bia reoogoltion of American au-
ttiorltin. To this fed bs broke np several
proposed me tings between tha oommla-
slnnera from Congress and ths Creak chiefs.
After repeatedly breaking bis appoint
manta, McGilUvriv (lastly met the com
missioners of ths United States at tha Bock
landing on the Oconee, acompanied by
tba largest deputation that had aver at
tended any treaty. Soon after tha arrival
of the commlnloatra McGiUivray address
ed a note to them, concluding thus: “I beg
tpsuggaat to you that a private conversa
tion between ua will be necessary previous
to ths opauing of tha treaty, and this camp
I think tba moat convenient for tha par-
pons." The commissioners thought prop-
•vtixiMn^TWith this request, and waited
upon MeOUUvray red arranged with him
tba1 Items of a treaty which they thought
aatiafactory. Ha had gained 00a gnat
point by th* moral rapport which ha de
rived among the Indians, from th* defer
eqoeshown him by tha commissioners;
whether ha waa equally satisfied in other
raaptets la doubtful, but ba suddenly broke
no tb* oonfer nce, and wrote tbs commle-
atonars that tba Indiana wan notaUagatb-
•r satisfied with Uw terms, that thebant-
&~JKH?i 1 as’S3isi
eu * 1 mai cose, making ” •
the declaration “Clare Constat, 1 ’ Leit I reoover.
may bo suspected of writing in on unknown
tongue let me explain that tne“registrar ot
sasioa means the connty record, and
the declaration ot “dare conatat" means
that the superior or lord of tha manor,
admits the validity of the claimant's title!
Alexander McUilhrray had been edu
cated in Scotlaud and had mixed much in
good eodety, but he was a very Indian at
neart and held with antique intensity the
devouring passion oi revenge. McIntosh
who took largely the place ol McQUltvray
at a later period with the Creek*, waa not
sent to Scotland to be tamed, bnt he was
as I have been told, kindly noticed and
cared lor by his father, C'apttin McIntosh
who bad him sometimes at 31 allow to stav
with his whiter acd more legitimate breth
ren. And hero I might as well discharge
myaelt ol an anecdote which, unless given
by me now, wffi never be given at all, lot
I am perhaps the only person now living
who has heard It from the lips of persons
cognizant of the fact. When Captain 31c-
Iutoah died, (about 1795,) the young war
rior, not then a chief, came down with a
■rusty band of followers to the coast of
Georgia and possessed himself of a certain
number of negroes, which he considered
bia fair proportion, and took them with
him to tho Indian nation, and I have
understood that thla Highland or Indian
way of pleading his causa did not produce
any Berlous or continued breach between
the white and Indian halt brethren. Alter
3IcIntosh became head chief of theCoweta
towns be kept them friendly to the people
of Georgia and maintained all treaty stln-
illations. When a dangerous coalition
occurred of all tbo other tribes, McIntosh
held back, and when Geo. Anarcw Jack-
eon harried with a brigade of Tennessee
vulnnteers to meet this threatened danger,
McIntosh joined him. They found ihe
enemy at a place called tbe Horse Shoe,
or Horse Shoe Bsnd, on account of tbe
curve which the river made there. The
combined tribes paled themselves in this
bend, widi some idled trees in their front,
an. behind this abattis they held the
Americans in check.
At tills juncture McIntosh detached
himself from onr forces and crossing the
river, made a wide circuit with bis Indians
and tell unexpectedly upon tbe ream! the
hostlies. The enemy were completely de
feated and aned for peace. For this well
executed maneuver, McIntosh received
the honorary rank of brigadier general in
the army ol the United States.
In one of the (reqnent treaties for tbe
ccr.-non ol more land to Georgia, McIntosh
reserved to himsell a place within tae
ceded limits at what Is now known as the
Indian Spring in Batts county. There he
spent much of bis time, and while there
he lived more like a Georgia planter than
an Indian chief. He sent his son CblUy
to Georgetown College, and locally believe
thonght he could bring hla people within
the pale of civilization.
Tbe government of the United States,
growiog rich and popnloos, conceived a
scheme for tho removal ol all the aborigi-
nes to the territory which she had lately
acquired west of tae Mississippi. She
IteM oat a promise of perpetual possession,
without disturbance, of large annuities to
all tbo tribes, and of missionaries to guide,
cchool masters to instruct, and Dlack-
smiths to keep their implements in order
at government expense. McIntosh (ell
Into the snare. He signed a treaty contain
ing nil these conditions, bnt be signed his
death warrant.
The Indians were furious and a large
number swore that they would never leave
tbe graves of thetr fathers. McIntosh was
then on one of his visitations to ills tribe,
and it la said he was advised to leave the
Indian nation by the then United States
afant, with whom he was not on good
terms, bat ha thought that this auvlce
was given to put him to shame before his
pejpie, and be would not go. A council
ol those opposed to him was called, and
hia death waa decreed, and, with secrecy
and dispatch, they surrounded him in hia
sleep and killed him. Onr people in Geor
gia called this a murder; the Indians call-
• 'll i' H 1,1* f . . - 1 * ’ -»■ I.
But McIntosh had still a very strong
,’urlv. I'll- y il-w In arm -. an-1 u civil Wur
broke out which was only suppressed by
tbe army of the United State'.
The feathers of the Black Eagle formed
the standard of tho Creeks, (tee Bertram's
travels in Georgia and Florida Id 1773 and
after,) and in conclndmg this brief sketch
of two remarkable men, I venture to use
the figurative language of their tribe,
when I aay these two wur eagles came out
of the tame neat, for they were kfoamen,
and a vary near relativn of thla Georgia
McGillivray commanded the clan Mc
Intosh at Callouen, and fall ia that Uut
fight between Celt and Baxon.
I have heard it said that there is no
romance io American history. I confront
tblsatatement with the unvarnished tale I
have been telling. Hera we have three
yonng men nearly allied in blood, end not
iar separated In the period ot their birth,
who played very Impjrunt parti In the
national drama. McGilUvray exercised
an imptrium in Imptrlo within the juris
diction ot the United titate* and made war
openly or covertly for many years sgainat
the titate of Georgia.
Molntoah succeeded to the influence of
tbe former chief but changed tha policy
of the Creek Nation, nod brought them
into cordial and affectionate relations with
tha people of Georgia, and George M.
Troop, their cuusln, then Governor of
Cteoriu, sheltered McIntosh's adherents,
called oat the Georgia militia lot their
K rotec'.lon and finally succeeded in extend-
ig th* Jurisdiction of the titate over all
the disputed territory.
CnAXLIS SrALDINO.
ar^sMd .. Xn F i K grocer that hip, I but
ESSfiSE*a©2B|!
tt wrought to inikt things stsb tn I
I mu “ li l,. 11 I. if,.! I . 'I
D °u t Fornet the “soiodont,"
. "uiuaoni,”
put use it regularly after every nieaL u
flavor to th™moDti[
fn h vT“, 0,r T iv<! secretions into healthfr'
otZ E3t a Ltire'S?E^, k;
eczema
And Every Species of Itching and
Burning Dheases Cu#d
by Cuticura.
K CZEM A . or fait iiheum, with itsavor -'-y
Itch to« and burning. Instantly iolievcdTy
a warm bath with Cuticura soai-, aKu .H
gle applicafion of Cuticura, tno Brett Au
Klo applicafion of Cuticura, the greAtiku
Jfcta repeated With tWooctSw
doses °f Cuticura Rssolvkxt, the New l!’ Si
Purifier, to keep tho blood cool, the
:oo r uro end unlrrllating. tho bowels ope!
the liver ami kidneys active, will *
cure Eczema, Tetter, Ringworm, I’gorluli ■ t
Lichen, Pruritus, fleald Head, Dandruffind ®
V' 1 ,,f It<-hing. H.'Riy H :
Humors of tue scalp and skin, when theoeit
physic ans aud all known remcdloi fail.
will MoDinnid, 1>\2 Dearborn street Chi*
‘go, gracefully acknowledges a cure of
Eczema or dale Rheum on hoid, neck, fscc
arms And li i?« for ■s>Y<>ntu<«n r!
f° r eight year^; tried
doctors pronounced
It c
a«o hopeless; permanently curd by Ccrx.
ctf®* RwoLVkNT (blood purifier) internally
ana Cuncuna and Cuticura Soap (the great
akin cures) externally. *
Chaa. Houghton, Eaq., lawyer, 3fi Elate
reel. Boston, reports a cbso of Eestxna nadir
ms observation for ton years, which covered
the patlaoTs body aud limbs, and to which
i*li known methods of treatment had been an*
plied without benefit, which was completely
cured solely by the Cuticura Rkmedif.*, leav
ing a clc >n and healthy skin.
„ - - Detroit, Mich., suffered
untold tortures from Eczema, which appeared
on nls hAiids, head and face, and nearly ds*
stroyed his eyes. After tbo most carefal doc-
wring and a connsultatlon of physicians
failed to relieve him. he used the Cuticuba
and was cured and has rcmslned
so to date,
John ThM, M llkenbnrre, Pa., wiltrt:
I have suffered from Halt Rheum • for over
cUbtyeer - . Rtilmes s° had that I could not
attend to my buslueas for weeks at a tine.
Three boxes of Citicura and four boules
KEsoLviNT have entirely curod me of this
dreadful dlseaso. *
Bold by all druggists. Price: Cuticura SO*.;
Bend for “how to Cure Skin .Dlaensea."
TIT! A TT TIPY tho complexion aud »kla ty
using the Cuticura :?oap.
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