The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-24

the flags of three nations had foated.
 Another of these old forts is Fort Stod- dard, near Mobile. famous as the prison nome of Aaron Burr. near which that brilliant but ill-fated American was cap was the stockade of Fort Madison. which on account of its proximity to the scene on the Alabama River. recalls the fa- naals, as the Canoe Fight, an episode of lsi3, which finds its historic counterpart D the conflict of Miles Standish with the Fequod Chief, or perhaps more faitn- ratous at the Bridge Not remote from thts'riyer scene in the County of Baldwin Is the bloody ground of Fort Mims, fight, occurred the frightful massacre which in barbarous and shocking details rivals the tragedy of Wyoming, so famed in song and story. Still another historic | Is the interesting old Defense of Fort Jackson, situated in what Is now Fillmore | County. The mists of three centuries It's ancient glory and lend an air of sane, | tity to the scene l1allowed by immortal memories of DeSoto, Bienville and Jack son. Its picturesque location at the ! by the winding of the Coosa and Talla- poosa Rivers, Is invested with an inter- | est which extends far beyond the time of | the forts construction. The spot IS noted | | his wandering cavaliers who pitched their tents and for a. fortnight rested here | from the fatigues of their fruitless search ! of the fabled Fl Dorado.
 | With the laurels won in the battle Of | the Horse Shoe Bend fresh upon them. the veteran troops of Jackson filed into l this, fort on April 22nd. 1874, and planted on its battlements their triumphant col | ors.t This famous battle which had oc- l cured three days before was the Appo- | mattox of the Creek War, and is noted 1 tlxA Rrrtzt xxyI1i irn he h~oV Vn l gees, or Creeks. made their last desper- l ate stand in defence of the native soil: It's sequel was the important treaty Of Fort Jackson by which peace between | Creeks and Americans was declared, and 1 more than one-half of the present area of our State was ceded by the Indians to the Federal Government. With the victory of the Horse Shoe Bend. and it's | early fruitage in the important treaty | of Fort Jackson, or Treaty of Conquest, | as it Is otherwise called. permanent 1 Territory, and the foundations for the | splendid civilization that was later to l shape the destinies of Alabama, were l firmly laid. Immigration. for long time aggression, began its gradual flow to the | wilderness. Among the earliest colonists | was the celebrated contingent of French men, who from countrymen of Napoleon
 lustrious band of immigrants never landed on American soil than this unique party of Frenchmen. who, in the winter of 1s16 sought in our desert wilds an asylum from the rage of Bourbon perse- cution which followed the downfall of Napoleon. The principal portion of the occupied sy these ss tSa ref"gees s and Tombigbee Rivers, in the County Of
 Marengo. The name of Marengo was proposed by them in honor of Napoleon's markable colony deserves a passing mo-
 tice. First in point of celebrity was Lieutenant-General Charles Lefevre Desnouttes, who, next to Marshal Ney,
 was perhaps nearer to his great com mander than any of Napoleons Mar
 shals. He accompanied the first Emperor in the disastrous Russian expedition, rid ing with him in his carriage in the Ia
 nous retreat over the snows of that
 country. General Desnouttes left Ala
 bama In 1923 and perished in ship
 wreck upon his return journey to France.
 A comrade of the great Marshars and as- d, seeiate- in his Alabama enterprise, was
 General Bertrand Clausel. who command
 ed at Bordeaux during the Hundred Days
 and won great renown as the captor or
 the Duchess Angloleme. General Clau- sel was a citizen of Mobile. where he be-
 came a truck gardener, crsvfng his vege-
 table cart to market himself.
 General Nicholas Raoul, Colonel under
 Napoleon, who shared his banishment at Elba and commanded the advanced guards of Grenadiers upon the return to
 Paris. was also numbered among the colonists. His occupation in Alabama
 was that of ferryman at French Creek, near Demopolis Still another member was J. J. Cluius, who had been private
 secretary to the Duke of Rovigo, and later the custodian of Ferdinand VII,
 King Of Spain. whom Napoleon impris- oned near the Spanish frontiers. He died in Mobile in lS45 There were men whose regulations were of literary and civic order: among them Simon Chau- dron, poet and scholar; M. Lacknal and M. Penlers, members of the National As l xr-I,1 haa Ind fnr hn hnaf nf
 Louis XVI. To further extend the list of this imported aEgregatioT of renown-
 ed Frenchmen who were fellow-citizens
 of our fathers and forefathers, and whose descendants are honored factors in the scenes and citizenship of our own times, would reveal many illustrlous names linked with immortal deeds that adorn the annals of the French Revolu- tion.
 The pioneer fathers who had blazed the path of civilizati@l through the dan gers of the wilderness. and who gave the earliest trend to the rude customs that were now about to ripen into deti- nite and enlightened policy of State, were at last to realize a result that had long rights and representation in the Enion; early in the year 1877 an act of Congress carved out of the western portion of the great southwestern domain, separate territory. and baptized the new candidate for statehood under the beautiful name we love so we'll The origin of that name, l believe, Is still considered an open question and discussed as an issue among authorities on Indian nomencla- ture. The boundaries of the newly formed territory were established as they
 now exist, and its seat of government was fixed at historic old St. Stephens The | President was empowered to appoint a Governor, and the choice for that unique distinction fell upon William Wyatt Bibb. a young Georgian, who now sleeps in the quiet churchyard at Coosada. In Jan uary, 1918, the Governor convened at St
 Stephens such members of the Legisla- tive Council and House of Representa- lives of the Mississippi Territory as fell by division within the limits of the new territory. Colonel Brewer, in his Pub lie Men of Alabama mentions sngu- lar incident, as the occasion of the pro- vision which authorized this mode of con- vening~t the Legislature; MT. James Titus Legislative Council Cor Senate. as I pre- day) whose residence fell within the linn it's of Alabama During the entire ses- sion of the first Legislature of the Terri tory. he occupied a separate chamber | and adopted and rejected measures of the | other House with all the parliamentary formalities Mir. Titus, as we can well Imagine, was President of the Senate, and were he alive and in similar capacity today his distinction would find defini- ton in the modern, if inelegant phrase
 which would characterize him as the l whole push." The House consisted of ten members of which MT. Gabriel Moore
 also of Madison, subsequently, Governor and Tinted States Senator, was chair