Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-11-10
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necessary for the colony to establish a tempo.
raryE government, 81 for which purpose a set ol
laws was psssed and published ybeing nail
ed 70 a tree an the viltage, and Return Jona-
than Meigs was appointed to administer them,
IT is strong evidence of the good habits Of the
people ofthe colony, that during three months
but one difference occurred, and thatwas com
promised.-lndeed, better set of men. alto
gether, could scarce have been selected for the
purpose.than Putnam's little bandw The wri-
ter adds other curious particulars respecting
the infant settlement, for which we must refer
to the Review ITSELF siJ4i t.tqa,,1 r.oi .sss7a
f. The next attempt tocolonize Ohio was made
in far more fertile section of the country, the
region situated between the two Miamies of
the Ohio. ~ The pioneer IN this settlement
was John Cloves Symmes, a representative in
Congress from New Jersey, in 1895. During
the sitting OF Congress a. western man came
to Philadelphia, and gave soiiinteresting an ac-
count of the Miami valley, Which, he had ex-
plored, that Mr.. Symmes was irduced to visit
it. On his return home in August, 1857, he
applied to Congress for ieage to purchase all
the lands between the Miamies, and north as
far as the purchase of the Ohio Company, (Put-
nam and others.) The authority to contract
with him was given to the Treasury board by
Congress the following October. sa.k sis a1
% In January, 1888, Symmes sold to Matthias
Denman, of New Jersey, tract comprising
the site of Cincinnati, where, with tive asso-
ciates, he proceeded to lay out the town, to
which they gave the name of Losantville, which
was made q shire town in 1880, and the name
changed to Cincinnati in honor of the Society
of that name, Symmes wrote the nameECincin-
natl. For Washington was built upon spot
in the new town, "since made classic" says
the reviewer, by the bazaar of Mistress Troll
lope." Congress appointed Mr.. Symmcs one
of the judges of the new territory, and Arthur
st. Clair governor. The difficulties encoun-
tered by the Miami colonists were more seri-
GUS than those suffered by the Musklngum COL
ony, especially from the Indians. Bnt neither
settlement enjoyed much tranquility until after
thevictory of Wayne, and the treaty of Green
vile, in 1895. From that event is dated the
rapid growth of the colony. g aB b,s-ef saN
Il A French colony founded Gallapois, about
1892, when considerable body of emigrants
arrived from France, who had purchased their
supposed titles of Joel Barlow of Paris, The
deception practised on these people reminds
one of the Texas operations of later times,
which are certainly not without precedent.
The reviewer gives an interesting account Of
the colony. In the midst of their troubles ari-
sing from the Indians, want Of title to the lands
they occupied, and destitution of the neces-
saries of life, these poor colonists contrived
to support their characteristic uyacity; twice
in a week the whole colony come together and
danced off hunger and care to the sound Of the
violin. 49," The savage scoute,o says the re-
vieu,ar hut ha henr slurkrlt oil 5a % in fha