Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-08

A Record Of Curious and Inflated
Schemes.
From the Detroit Evening News.

from the Detroit Evening News.
Some Oh the obscure facts of our history re-
lating to the formation, the speedy rise and as
speedy tall Of organizations that promised to
become prosperous and permanent states, are
full of interest. They have in general. no place
in the current histories of the country and
only the deliver in original records and out-of-
the way documents is likely to find them.
Now Connecticut included number of towns
on both sides of the Connecticut river, which, in
June, 1779. attempted to form separate gov
eminent but the effort was short-lived. New
Albion was grant made in 1854 by the Earl of
Stafford lord lieutenant of Ireland (the only
American grant under the great seal Of the
Emerald Ise). to Edward Plowden of the pre-
sent tract of New Jersey. with all the adjacent
islands. 1t was not utilized by Plowden. proba-
bly, on account of the Dutch claims New Am
stel was grant to the city OF Amsterdam. in
1856. by the Dutch West India Company of that
part of the same territory between the Chris
tiankil and the Delaware, In consideration of
large payment. 1t was named from suburb of
Amsterdam. 1t was successfully colOnized. but
so many difficulties were experienced in the ad-
ministration of its affairs that after eight years
the India company was asked to take it back
again.
The beginnings Of government in Kentucky
were made by party of nine North CarOlnans,
headed by Colonel Richard Henderson. In de-
lance OF the ancient policy and statutes of Vir-
ginia, which ruled the land, they assumed to
purchase from the CherOkeeS II 1000 900 acres be-
tween the Cumberland and Kentucky rivers. upon
which they tried to found 'The Colony of Tran
sylvania." A legislature of seventeen members
met under an elm at Fort Boone or Boones-
borough, May 23, 11775. the first Anglo-Amercan
government west of the Alleghanie5. Sundry
measures were passed during the five days SEES
sion. when the assembly adjourned, never to
meet again, as the movement was sguelched
by the Virginia legislature, and the refusal Of
the continental congress to receive the delegate
sent to that body.
The pOst-reyoutiOnary era was prolific In
schemes for extending the American empire.
Congress looked wisely to the early settlement
Of the western country and to its subdivision
and erection into states. In 1784-indeed be-
fore the cesson by Virginia of her vast tracts in
the northwest to the United States-an Ordi-
nance OF that body, reported by committee of
which Jefferson was chairman, provided for the
subdivision of all territory acquired or to be &C
CURED IN the then west, from the frontier of
Florida to the north line OF the union. With
the growth OF population in each prescribed
division OF 10000 or more. seventeen states
IN all were to be successfully created-eight
between the Mississippi and north and
south line drawn through the falls of the
ONO. eight between this line and meridian
through the mouth of the great kenawha. and
the seventeenth between the latter and the
western boundary of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Each state. in general. was to have breadth of
just two degrees Of latitude. without regard to
natural boundaries. A provision. doubtless in
troduced by Jefferson but which did not pass
WIN the Dill. anticipated the ordinance Of 1857
In declaring that there should be no slavery or
involuntary seryitude in the states formed Gin
his case after the year 1900, except as punish
ment tor crime The proposed division was
found inpracticabe. and was superseded three
years afterWard by the ordinance just named
lor the government of the territory northwest
OF the river Ohio
In Jeiierson's original Graft Of the act OF 1854
he provided definite bounds and titles for such
OF the states as might be formed north of Ohio
Ihat between the 45th parallel and the north
mint OF the United States was to be Sylvana;
next south OF this Michgana, east Of which,
III the present lower peninsula of Michigan
would come ChorOnesus: the two states south
OF these. Assinispia on the west and Metropo-
tamla TO the east; below these Iinoa and
Saratoga; between the latter and PENNSYLVANIA,
Washington: and between the Ohio and the doth
parallel, POlypotamia (from the many rivers
within IT., and Pelipsia (from an old name of
the Beautiful Ryer). But when the bill was
sent back to the committee the elaborate pro-
visions for these were stricken out.
In the same year Q7SD North Carolina ceded
her western lands to the general government
Among them were certain counties of east Ten
nessee. whose people rev0lted at the cession.
met at JOnesboro in December and formed q
separate organization called FARMLAND. Sewer
br1gadler general Of the military district was
made governor in March, 1855. and ruled after a
iaShioH ioI year OF TWO, until an armed COLI
sion occurred between his militia and force
under Col Upton. leader of a party fayoring
allegiance to North Carolina. The .'governor''
was defeated and taken to prison in irons; and
with his incarceration expired the embryo
states. In 1853 North Carolina passed an act of
oblivion in regard to all persons concerned in
the movement
The Republic of the Rio Grande was at
tempted by General Canales. a revolutionary
Mexican. in 1889. 1t was created from parts of
lilo
Guided a strip of the present state Of Texas
Canaes was made president. and. party of
Texas troops assisted him in the capture of
Laredo, on the right bank of the Rio Grande,
where he established his capital. The next
April. however. he was driven into Texas by
General Arista; and so made an end of his short
lived republic.