Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-08

sOnE LOsr srArEs
A Beeor d Of Curious ana IN.
Faled Schemes which
Came 10 Naught.

spesdy rise ard a. speedy fall 81 or
~eaniSations that promised to become
prosperous and permanent States, are
.ull Of interest. They have,in general
no place In the current histories of the
country; aud only the delivers In origi.
nal records and out ofthe way docu-
ments is likely TO hEd'them.
Now Connecticut included 3 number
of towns on both sides OF the Connec-
ticut river which, in June, 1779, at
tempted to form separate government
but the effort was short lived. New
Albion vas 9 grant made 10 1884 BIZ
the Earl Of STAFFORD, Lord Lieutenant
Of Ireland (the only American grant
under the great seal Of the Emerald
Isle), to Edward Plowden, Of the
present tract OF New Jersey, with ell
The adjacent islands. Ii was not
utilized by Plowden. probably on &C
count Of the Dutch claims.
New Amstel was a grant to the city
Of Amsterdam in 1886 by the Dutch
West India Company, Of that part Of
the same territory between the Christ
iAnkill and the Delaware, in consid.
gvion Of a large payment. Ii was
named from a suburb Of Amsterdam.
Il was successfully colouiEed, but so
many difficulties we're experienced in
the administration of its affairs that
after eighteen years the IndiaC Company
was asked to take 1t back again.
The beginnings of government in
Kenucky were made by a party Of
nine North Caroliniaus, headed By
Colonel Richard Henderson. In de-
fsnee Of the ancient policy and stat.
utes Of Virginia, which ruled the
land, they assumed to purchase from
the Cherokees II. 600. O00Acres, between
the Cumberland aud Kentucky rivers,
upon which they tried to found the
colony Of Transylvsnia.n A Legisla-
.are Of seventeen members met under
an elm at Fort Boone, or BOonesbor.
ough, MAY % ms, the first Anglo
American government west OF the
Alleghenies. Sundry measures were
passed during the i've days session,
when the Assembly adjourned, never
TO meet again, as the movement wa.
squelohed by the Virginia Legislature
and the refusal Of the Continents
Congress to receive. the delegate sen.
TO thAt body.
The post revolutionary era was pro
life in schemes for extending tn
American empire. Congress loOket
wisely TO the carly settlement OF tht
western country, and to its subdivision
and erection into States. In 1881
indeed, before the session BY Yirginii
Of her vast tracts in the northwest /,
the United States -an ordinance o
that body. reported By a committee o
which Jefferson was chairman, pro
vided for tho subdivision of all ter
rltOry acquired or to be acquired il
che then west from the frontier O
Florida to the north lineo Of the Union
With the growth Of population il
each prescribed division of 20 OOl
or more, seventeen States in all wer
to be successfully ereated-eight be
tween the Mississippi and a north an
south line drawn through the falls o
the Ohio, eight between this line an,
q meridian through the mouth Of tn,
great Kanawha, and The seventeenth
between the latter and the western
boundry Of Pennsylvania and Vir
GINA Each state, in general, was .,
have a breadth Of just two degrees O
latitude, without regard to natura.
boundaries. A provision, doubtles
introduced by Jefferson, but which
did not pass with the bill, anticipated
the ordinance Of 1887 in declariuG
that there should be no slavery 81
involuntary servitude in the State,
formed Tin this case after the wear
l0OO), except for punishment for
CRIME. The proposed division Was
found impracticable, and was super.
oeded three years afterward by tbt
ordinance just named for the govern :
Te9t OF the territory northwest Of the
Ohio river.
In Jeferson's original draft of the
act Of 1884, be p~rovideded definite
bounds and titles for such of the
States as ndght be formed north Of
Ohio; That between the forty 9Th
parallel and the north limit Of the
United States was to be Sylvania.
next south Of this, Michigania. east ~
which, 10 the present lower peninsular
Of Michigan would come Choropesus.
!ne two States south OF these, ASSN
lSpla on the west and Metropotamia IN
the east; below these, Illinota and
Saratoga; between the latter and
pennsylvania, Washington, and be
tween the Ohio and the 10th parallel
foiypotamla (from the mapv rivers
within It aud Pelipsia (from an old
name OF the Beautiful riyer). Rut
when the bill was sent hack n tbe
committee, the elaborate provisions
ioT these were stricken out.
IN the same year (l784) North Car
DINA coded her Western lands N tSo
general government. Among Then,
were certain counties of East Tennes.
see, whose people revolted at the
secession, met in JonesbOro' in De.
cemoer, and formed a separate oreani.
1eoloA called FARMLAND. Sev;er
brlgadler General of the military d;s.
1Tlst, was made Governor ia March
IIoo' and ruled after a fashion for !
year or Two, until an armed collision
occurred between his militia and =
iorce under Colonel Tipton, leader II
parry iayGoTlng allegiance to North
fina, The Governor vas do.
leased and taken 10 prison in irons,
and with his Incarceration ~ n;roI
the embryo State. In 1873 NORTH
carolina passed an act of obi;v;on T.
regard to all persons concerned m tbe
Inc republic Of the Rio Grande wa,
attempted by General Canales a Tsvo.
%lutlonsry Mexican, in 1888 II Wa,
created from parts Of T-sm.niipoH
Oosnuila aHd Durango, and included
strip OF the present State Of Teas
Sanaies vas made President. and 4
party OF Texas troops assisted him II
,he capture Of Laredo. on the ran,
bank Of the Rio GrsnSs 49, H'
e'tanllshed his capital. The neSi
mprli, however, he vas driven int
Texas BY General Arista: and a. mad
an end OF his short lived republic,
n ~ f'N'
THE RAW, BLUsrERTTa w..
WISrERi search out the weaknesses r. ~
lender chested ,anfin conseouencos w
auu colds lung and bronchial comma 4 y
Iore OF less prevail, Should yop con-.
araet a cold, do not imprnde5tlvu o Ssa;,