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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cherokee Indians, (search)
n agent to superintend their affairs. He then concluded a treaty of commerce and peace with the Creeks. About 1730 the projects of the French for uniting Canada and Louisiana by a cordon of posts through the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to be developed. To counteract this scheme, the British wished to convert the Indians on the frontiers into allies or subjects, and, to this end, to make with them treaties of union and alliance. The British government accordingly sent out Sir Alexander Cumming to conclude such a treaty with the Cherokees. It was estimated that they could then put 6,000 warriors in the field. In April, 1730, Sir Alexander met the chief warriors of all the Cherokee towns in council; informed them by whose authority he was sent; demanded from them an acknowledgment of King George as their sovereign, and a promise of their obedience to his authority. The chiefs, falling on their knees, promised fidelity and obedience. By their consent, Sir Alexander nomin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
nited States Senate, impeached for misdemeanor......1797 William Cobbett, for libelling the King of Spain and his ambassador, writing as Peter Porcupine in Porcupine's gazette, July 17, before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; acquitted......1797 Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland, Pa., convicted under the sedition act of libel on the administration of President Adams in Reading Advertiser of Oct. 26, 1799, imprisonment for six months and $400 fine......1799 Duane, Reynolds, Moore, and Cumming acquitted of seditious riot, Pennsylvania......1799 Matthew Lyon convicted in Vermont, October, 1798, of writing for publication a letter calculated to stir up sedition and to bring the President and the government into contempt ; confined four months in Vergennes jail; fine of $1,000 paid by friends, and Lyon released......Feb. 9, 1799 J. T. Callender, for libel of President Adams in a pamphlet, The Prospect before us; tried at Richmond, Va., fined $200 and sentenced to nine months i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
llein chief-justice, and appoint Col. John Barnwell agent for the province......1719 Lords of the regency appoint Francis Nicholson provisional governor, having decided that the proprietors had forfeited their charter......1720 Governor Nicholson arrives, summons a new Assembly, which elects the late popular governor, James Moore, speaker of the House......1721 Lords proprietors surrender the charter and government to the King, except Lord Granville's one-eighth......1729 Sir Alexander Cumming, .sent out by Great Britain, makes a treaty with the Cherokees at Nequassee, who proclaim allegiance to the King......April 3, 1730 On assuming the government, the crown divides Carolina, and appoints Robert Johnson governor of South Carolina......April 30, 1730 First newspaper in South Carolina published at Charleston, Thomas Whitmarsh, editor......Jan. 8, 1732 Forty thousand acres of land on the Savannah is given to John Peter Pury and his colony of some 370 Swiss; Purysbu
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
and their arrears of quitrents. Lord Carteret alone, joining in the surrender of the government, reserved an eighth share in the soil. This is the period when a royal governor was first known in North Carolina. Its secluded hamlets had not imitated the popular revolution of the southern province. So soon as the royal government was fully confirmed, it attempted, by treaties of union, to convert the Indians on the borders of Carolina into allies or subjects; and, early in 1730, Sir Alexander Cumming, Chap. XXIII.} a special envoy, guided by Indian traders to Keowee summoned a general assembly of the chiefs of the Cherokees to meet at Nequassee, in the valley of the Tennessee. They came together in the month of April, and were told that King George was their sovereign. When they offered a chaplet, four scalps of their enemies, and five eagles' tails, as the records of the treaty, and the pledge of their fidelity, it was proposed to them to send deputies to England; and English
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $15 reward (search)
a half per cent. from the seller for all ships he purchased. The committee show that thus far he has made over one hundred thousand dollars. This important and startling fact will account for the course pursued by the Secretary of the Navy in refusing to purchase many valuable vessels when offered, unless the purchase was made through a particular channel. It is shown by the committee that this Mr. Morgan was connected with Thurlow Weed in supplying the Cataline, and the pure minded Alexander Cumming, of the religious World of New York, and O. B. Matteson, who was expelled from the House of Representatives for corruption. In September last, the committee requested Secretary Welles to discontinue the services of Mr. Morgan, but he refused. Since that time, the committee show that Mr. Morgan has made over forty thousand dollars. This is considered a fair profit for a grocery dealer; but, as he is brother-in-law of the Secretary of the Navy, of course it is all right. In re
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Latest Southern news. (search)
e Rangers were equally reckless. The result mournful as it is in the loss of a brave and gallant soldier, a promising officer, the idol of his men, and a loved and honored citizen, adds another page to the glory of our invincible arms. It opens the ball in lower Kentucky. Stirring scenes may be expected hourly in that crowded quarter. From Gen. Zollicoffer's brigade. The Knoxville Register has been permitted to make the following extract from a private letter from a member of Col. Cumming's Regiment, in regard to the recent operations of Gen. Zollicoffer's Brigade in Kentucky, from which it will be seen that the Yankees have not forgotten how to execute the Bull Run Wild Cat manœuvre: We had crossed Cumberland river, (our regiment,) and expected to have a fight certain, as we learned that there were three regiments of the enemy within four miles of the river, who intended to plant a battery on the bank and sink our boats. But the evening before we threw over a detac