Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-17

have prevented this abominab.e crime
Heaven will not always be silent. The
friends of the rights of human beings WILL
in the end. prevail
Manasseh Cutler became that friend
Early in 1877 he and Rufus Putnam. with
a number of revolutionary officers, organ
lied The Ohio Company" to promote the
settlement OF the Northwest Territory and
purchase l.JOO.OG0 acres of public land But
with slavery possible, they found 1t difficult
| to induce settlers to go west Therefore Mr..
Cutler went down to New York In 1877 to
secure the necessary protection from Con-
gress. The ordinance of 1884 was revived
| and amended and passed July b. 1877,
through his influence
The Settlement Of Marietta
Mr.. Cutler Immediately returned to Mas
sachusetts. organized party Of settlers.
including one OF his own SONS. aged nine
teen, and started from his home at Hamil-
| ton. Mass. in big wagons covered with
black canvas inscribed in white letters:
For the Ohio at the Muskingum.''
The expedition decided to locate at the
present site of the city OF Marietta. Mr..
Cutler followed them the next year. travel
ing 80 miles in a sulky with one horse in
twenty-Glne days.
He seems to have been quite as much in
fatuated with high-sounding classical names
as Mr.. Jefferson, who. in hts report to
Congress, divided the northwest into ten
states to be namel Sylvania, MichiGanta.
Assenisipia. Ilnoia. Polypotamia Cher
ronesus, Metropotamia, Saratoga. Pelisipta
and Washington. The defeat of his report
was not entirely without Its compensatiOns.
Mr. Cutler wanted to name the new town
Ade.phia but the settlers objected and
called 1t Marietta in honor OF Marie An
toinette or as some authorities say, In
honor of his two daughters. Mary and
Eta However he managed to christen
one of the public squares the -Capitolium.
the man street from the river Sacra VIA,
and the land that surrounded the DOCK
house Campus MartiuS.
| Daniel Webster George F. Hoar and
| other famous men have delivered euloSies
| upon Manesseh Cutler and have pronounced
his achievement in securing the adoption
| of the ordinance of 1887 second to the Dec
| laration of Independence.
Romantic Story of Nine. Jumel.
| Rutland had another famous citizen Of a
| very different sort. Madame Jumel the
| belle of old New York. and wife Of
| Aaron Burr, once lived here when her name
| was Betsy Bowen. In 1874 vagabond
| family, consisting of Jonathan Clark his
| wife and two stepdlughters Polly and
| Betsy Bowen. drifted into town. They
| were undesirable citizens and had been
| ordered to leave North Brookfeld by the
| salectmen They came on foot. carrying all
| their worldly possessions on their backs
| and in bags over their shoulders, and upon
| their arrival took possession of deserted
cabin, partly underground and consisting
| OF only one room on what is still called
Goose Hill. Clark was very dissipated. but
| when he sober enough to work was a
shoemaker. The mother and girls did odd
! Jobs about the town and were considered
| disreputabe. Clark finally died. and the
| widow and daughters disappeared. No
| body knew and nobody cared where they
! went, until about sixty years after the cele-
| brated lawyer of New York. Charles OCon-
| nor came here to seek evidence to sustain
the claims of the descendants of Polly
| Bowen to the estate left by her sister Betsy
| Bowen. who had recently died childless and
| had left her great wealth to the Episcopal
| Church.
Then and thus was disclosed romantic
story. 1t turned out that the widow Clark