The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-01
Solae Lost States.

Solae Lost states.
Some of the obscure facts OF our his
tory relating to the formation, the speedy
rise and as speedy fall 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 q number Of
towns OF both sides of the Connecticut
river. which, IN June, 1779, attempted to
form separate government, but the effort
was short lived. New Albion was a grant
made IN 1884 by the Earl of STAFFORD,
Lord Lieutenant Of ireland (the only
American grant under the great seals Of
the Emerald Isle), to Edward Plowden, Of
the present tract of New Jersey, with all
the adjacent islands. 1t was not utilized
bv Plowden, probably on account of the
Dutch claims. New Amstel was a grant
to the city OF Amsterdam In 1866 by the
Dutch West India Go. of the part of that
same territory between the Christ,ankill
and the Delaware, In consideration OF O
large payment. It was named from q
suburb OF Amsterdam. 1t was successful
ly colonized. but 80 many difficulties we're
| experienced in the administration of It's
affairs that after eight years, the India
company was asked to take it back again.
The beginnings Of government in Ken
lucky were made by party of nine North
Carollnians, headed by Col. Richard hem
derson. In defiance of the ancient policy
and statutes Of Virginia. which ruled the
land, they assumed to purchase from the
'Cherokees 17,O00,0 900 acres, between the
Cumberland and Kentucky rivers, upon
which they tried to found ''the colony of
Transylvania. A Legislature cot seven
teen members met under an elm at Fort
Boone, or Boonesbofough, May %, ITS,
the first Anglo-Americ Government west
Of the AlIeghanies. Sundry measures
were passed during the five days session,
when the Assembly adjourned, never to
meet again, as the movement was
sQuelched by the Virginia Legislature, and
the refusal Of the Continental Congress to
receive the delegate sent to that body.
The post-revolutionary era was prolific
IN schemes for extending the American
empire. Congress- looked wisely to- the
early settlement of the western country,
and to It's subdivision and erection into
States. In l784-indeed, before The ses-
sion by Virginia of her vast tracts IN the
nance OF that body. reported by q COM
mlLtee of which Jefferson was chairman,
provided for the subdivision of all territory
acquired or to be acquired in the then
west from the frontier of Florida to the
north line Of the Union. With the growth
OF population lp each prescribed division of
90, 600 or more, seventeen States in all
were to be successfully created-eight be
tween the Mississippi and north and
south line drawn through the falls of the
Ohio, eight between Gnis line anu u mer.
idian tnroug d the mouth Of the great Kan
awha, and the seventeenth between the
latter and the western boundary of Penn
syIvanla and Virginia. Each State, in
general, was to have breadth of just two
degrees of latitude, without regard to
natural boundaries. A provision doubt
less introduced by Jefferson, but which
did not pass with the bill, anticipated the
ordinance Of 1887 In declaring that there
should be no slavery Or involuntary scrYi-
tude in the States formed Gn this case
after the year 1se0). except for puni sh-
meat for crime. The proposed division
was found impractlcaEle, and was super
ceded three years afterward by the ordi-
nance just named, for the government of
territory northwest of the OHIO river.
In Jefferson g original draft of the act of
lSe4, he provided definite bounds and
titles for anch Of the States as might be
formed north Of Ohio. That between the
46th parallel and the moth limit of the
United States was to be Sylvanla; next
south OF this, Michigan, east Of which, III
the present lower penlnsular Of Michigan,
would come ChorOnesus the two States
south Of these, Assinispla on the west and
Metropotamla to the east ; below these,
lllinota and Saratoga; between the latter
and pennsylvania, Washington; and be.
tween the Ohio and the A0th parallel,
Polyrotamia (from the many rivers within
IT'D and Pelipsia (from an old name of the
Beautiful river). But when the bill was
sent back to the committee, the elaborate
provisions for these were stricken out.
In the same year (17eA) North Carolina
ceded her western lands to the general
government. Among them were certain
counties of cast Tennessee, whose people
revolted at the secession, met in Jones'
boro' In December, and formed separate
organization called Frankand. Sewer
brigadier-g general of the military district,
was made Governor in March, 1885, and
ruled after fashion for year or two,
until all armed collision occurred between
his militia and force under Col. Upton,
leader of party favoring allegiance to
North Carolina. The ''Governorh was de-
feated and taken to prison in irons; and
with his incarceration expired the embryo
State. In 1888 North Carolina passed an
act OF oblivion In regard to all persons
concerned in the movement.
Circus Carnage.
81 was just reading" sad an old show
man, "a letter from Billy Cole, and 1t act