The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-04

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THE CRAYON PAPERS OF IRVING.
The Knickerbocker for October is in no re-
spects behind its predecessors for August and
September-and higher praise we need not
award it. 1.-THE American in London" by
the entertaining and popular American in
Paris continues his admirable papers there
is stirring sketch of the last wartime, call
ed Running the Gauntlet" in which Hon.
Samuel Cunard, Of the new English and Amer
lean line of steamers, is iii part the hero; John
Waters, Schoocralt, and other popular writers,
are represented, as usual; the Literary Notices
are discriminating and judicious; while the
Editors Table presents even more than its
usual variety; among which we observe ORR
ginal autograph letters from Benedict Arnold,
Arnold's mother, General Horatio Gates, etc,
and many other capital articles-partcularl
one exposing gross hereditary abuse, entitled
"Iaitors and The 1aitored,' and another called
tTheatricals," which exposes the temerity of
humbugeous theatrical adventures. And be-
sides all these, Washington Irving, the mimi
table Godfrey Crayon, appears with his "Cray
on Papers," and revels, as is his wont, with his
theme, when his "grey goose quill is in his
good right hand.'' We make sin. lie extract,
describing 'Ralph Ringwood,' p alias Governor
DuVal, among the Seminoles, nipping insurrec-
ton in the bud.-N. Y. Mirror.
In the autumn of 1929 Governor Duval and
other commissioners on the part of the United
States, concluded treaty with the chiefs and
warriors of the Florida Indians, by which the
latter, for certain considerations, acceded all
claims to the whole territory, excepting a dis.
trict in the eastern part, to which they were to
remove, and within which they were to reside
for twenty years. Several of the chiefs signed
the treaty with great reluctance; but none OPP
posed it more strongly than Neamathla, princi-
pal chief of the Mickasookies, fierce and
warlike people, many ofthem Creeks by origin
who lived about the Mickasookie lake. Me
msthla had always been active in those depre.
dations on the frontiers of Georgia which had
brought vengeance and ruin on the Seminoles.
He was remarkable man; upwards of sixty
years of age, about six feet high, with fine
eye and a strong marked countenance, over
which he possessed great command His hatred
OF the white men appeared to be mixed with
contempt; on the common people he looked
down with infinite scorn. He seemed unwill-
ingto acknowlede any superiority of rank Or
dignity in Governor Duva, claiming 10 associ-
ate with him on terms of equality, as two great
cheftians. Though he had been prevailed up
on to sign the treaty, his heart revoted at it.
In one ofhis frank conversations with Governor
TO the red man; and if l had the number of war
riors at my command that this nation once had,
would not leave white man on my lands.
would exterminate the whole, can say this to
you,for you can understand me; you are man;
but would not say it TO your people. They'd
cry out | was savage, and would take l. y
life. They cannot appreciate the feelings of
man that loves his county," ok
AS Florida had but recently been erected
farrt rot in do and
simple style. The governor to make himself
acquainted with the Indians, and to be near at
hand TO keep an eye upon them, fixed his re-
sidence at Tallahassee, near the Fowel towns,
inhabited by the Miclsasookies His govern
ment palace for a time was mere log house,
and he lived on hunters fare. The village of
Neamathla was but about three miles off, and
thither the governor occasionally rode, to VISIT
the old chieitain. In one Of these visits, he
found Neamathla seated in his wig wan, in
the centre of the village, surrounded by his
warriors. The governor had brought him some
liquor as present, but it mounted quickly in
10 his brain, and rendered him quite boastful
and belligerent. The theme ever uppermost
in his mind, was the treaty with the whites.
sit was true,' he said, ''the red men had made
such a treaty, but the white men had not acted
up to it. The red men had received none of
the money and the cattle that had been promis-
and they did not mean to be bound by it,
Governor Duval calmly represented to him
that the time appointed in the treaty for the
payment and delivery Of the money and the
cattle had not yet arrived. This the old chief
tian knew full well, but he chose, for the mo-
meat, to pretend ignorance. He kept on drink
ing and talking, his voice growing louder and
louder, until it resounded all over the village.
He held in bis hand long knife with which he
lad bten rasping tobacco; this he kept -four
ishing backward and forward as ne talked, by
way of giving effect to his words, brandishing
il at times within an inch of the governors
throat. He concluded his TRADE by repeating,
''tha. the country belonged to the red men, and
that sooner than give it up, bis bones and the
bones of his people should bleach upon its
soil.''
Duval saw that the object of all this buster
was to see whether he could be intimidated.-
He kept his eye, therefore, fixed steadily on
the chief, and the moment he concluded with
his menace, seized him by the bosom of his
hun ting shirt, and clinching his other fist:
"I've heard what you have said" replied he
"Yo have made treaty, yet you say your
bone shall bleach before you comply with it.
AS sure as there Is sun in heaven, your bones
shall bleach, if you do not fulfil every article oil
that treaty! I'll let yeu know that i am first
here, and will zee that you do yo,.r dutyl''
Upon this the old cheftain threw himself back,
burst into fit of laughing, and declared that
all he had said was in Joke. The governor
suspected, however, that there was a grave
meaning ut the bottom Of this iocluarity.l
Dor two months every t ing went on smooth.
y; the indians repaired daily to the log cabin
lalace of the governor at Tallahassee, and ap-
Feared perfectly sontented All at once they