The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-21
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.

Tauassee. April 2o.-(Special Corre- .nondence 1-Tukabatchie, the an- cjent capital of the Creeks, is now a cotton fiat, without a stick or stone' as A memento of its former importance. Jt is only a fertile field of the Sistrunk place, bordered on the one side oy the TaIIapoosa River and skirted on the other by the line of the Tallassee ana Montgomery Railroad.
 OnIy tradition and history mark the place. There Is no visible evidence that on that spot the chiefs Of the war like Creeks gathered for counsel or 10 meet and treat with the white men who came bringing gifts and represent ing sometime King George of England, and sometime George Washington, President of the United States The Council House perished from the earth many years ago, and not vestige re- mains of seed house or wigwam or chief or brave.
 Ii is a splendid piece of farming land, the site of the old Indian town For nearly a mile square, fruitful and Ter tile. 1t stretches as level as a billiard table. It is three miles and a half south of Tallassee, and the traveller on the short line between Milstead ana TaIIassee gets a splendid view or the site of the old town, but to the man who glances carelessly out Of the Win dow it means no more than any other stretch of fine farming land. There IS naught to mark 1t or indicate the dls- function history has given it.
 solemn oak, old and gnarled, main tains a dignified watch over the leVel nlain. If the oak was the most faith full of sentinels there would be noth- ing to watch but the tender young cot ton just peeping above the sod ana the farm house and quarters Of the Sls- trunk place in the distance.
 Local tradition in a way keeps alive the memory of the old place. The local man says:
 DO yeu see that old oak? Right under it's shade, old Tukabatchie. the Indian chief for whom the town IS named had his wigwam. And Jack son after he had whipped the Indians at Horseshoe Bend camped by the oak"
 Such is the epitaph of tradition up- m the largest and most important of the Indian towns. Its desolate state ls emblematic of the people who built anc inhabited, a people who have been SC thoroughly destroyed that their con ouerors have almost forgotten tna' they once lived and fought braVely foi their own.
 Forgotten by the Visitors.
 Thirty miles away, almost in sight is the white dome that marks the seal of government of the dominant wnlt' race Mt sits in a city of civilization teeming with people, city inhnltelA larger than any town or village or Ala bama Indian history.
 Just what Montgomery is to the grea St ateof Alabama, so was Tukabatchi' to the warlilIe Creek Nation befor' such a State had been dreamed or Even as the people of Alabama tur. their eyes to Montgomery, the Indians braves and warriors. turned their face hat Q even as the chosen delegates go t' Montgomery to make laws and decla- policies so did the representatives the tribes and communities of Indian meet in Tuskabatchie to counsel am define policies.
 The fate of Tukabatchie was the fat of Carthage. the ancient and honorabl rival of Rome. Rome fought that riva and that enemy so persistently that ls said that Carthage was so thorough h y destroyed that not one stone re nained on top of another and that n nan could now mark out the site O he city Even so today is Tukabat hie The white man has done his worl Reu. The Indian fled before him 0 Perished from the face of the cart md his habitatlon has become fiel md a farm.
 Across the river on the east bank O the Tallapoosa, was located too, tn important town of Tallassce. Tn rorerunner by many years of the whit mans town of the same name. It l an odd fact that there have been n less than five towns, which have beel called by the name of Tallassee. Tn first of these was the Indian tow across the Tallapoosa river in tn point of land formed by the junctio of the river and Eufawbee Creek. In dian history is sufficiently exact t know that this town was founded Il 1756 hv a tribe of Indians who move down from Talladega County in tha year. It was inhabited by trib whose head was the Tallassee king, al important Indian chief during the wa of 1812-1s15.
 The site of the town is upon tn