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4 of a degree of progress which offers good reason to hope for the gradual social elevation and christianization of the race.

As encouragement to those who believe in the capacity of the Indian for civilization an examination of the report of the Acting Commissioner will show that the various tribes have raised during the year agricultural products to the value of more than eight millions of dollars not including the products of the Cherokees from whom no report has been received, but whose products last year were valued at over two and one-half million dollars, an aggregate of about ten millions of dollars worth of farm produce. It will also be seem that there are 216 schools among the Indian tribes with 323 teachers and an average attendance of 8,920 pupils.

Though this peace policy has been generally maintained and a better understanding of the designs of the Government toward them prevails among the Indians excepting a few nomadic tribes in Arizona New Mexico, and on the western borders of Texas which have not yet been so fully reached by the influence of the new policy outrages by those bands or tribes have been punished so promptly by the military authorities under the influence of which the disposition to make peace is generally manifest.

Some progress is being made towards inducing the more troublesome of those tribes to accept and enter upon reservations and there is reasonable ground to hope that it will eventually be accomplished.

For this purpose it is of importance that increased and liberal appropriations for food, clothing and farming implements be made by Congress.

On the line of the North Pacific Railroad in the Territory of Dakota the Sioux have also made some offensive demonstrations against the progress of that work but thus far judicious management has prevented serious outbreak. The hostile disposition of that numerous and powerful tribe may require skillful treatment to avoid hostilities in the future.

Encouragement is afforded to the friends of the existing policy in the fact that the Indians long in contact with the whites as in New York Michigan and Wisconsin as also of those whose proximity to the whites is not of so long standing as in Kansas Nebraska and the Indian Territory have made considerable progress in the arts of civilization in the cultivation of the soil or in the pursuit of general business, with success as well as in their increased efforts in behalf of the education of their youth.

Without progress in industrial pursuits and in education we cannot hope for any lasting good results from the new policy and it should therefore be the first effort of the Government to so act as to encourage the Indian in those directions which will induce him to cultivate habits of industry and foster a desire for mental and moral culture. It might be well to establish a system of compulsory education to such an extent, at least, as to withhold annuities from those individuals who refuse


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6 Excluding those in Alaska, and those scattered throughout the States just named, as not practically within the scope of the new policy, and the remaining Indian population is 242,371, located as follows:

The Indians under the jurisdiction of the United States are now located on reservations of land amounting in the aggregate to 228,473 square miles, or 137,846 acres. Deducting from this statement the Indian Territory south of Kansas, and there remains a population of 172,000 occupying reservations of land amounting to 96,155,785 acres; being a per capita of 558 acres. The lands composing these reservations are generally of good quality, susceptible of.profitable cultivation, and lie in the direct path of the settler. These reservations are generally held under treaties guaranteeing Indian possession against the intrusion of white settlement.

The Indian Territory, so called, lying west of Missouri and Arkansas and south of Kansas, contains 44,154,240 acres of land, and a population of about 60,000. Westward to the 96° of west longitude the soil is of the very best quality, well watered and timbered capable of producing the largest returns to the labors of the farmer. West of the 96°, and lying between that and the valley of the Arkansas River, the country is mountainous, and offers less inducements to the settler. The mountains are known to contain very rich deposits of coal, and are supposed to contain other valuable minerals. In the valley of the Arkansas River the soil is of excellent quality for a width of ten miles while to the west of that valley the. entire country, although not so desirable for location as that in the eastern portion of the Territory, is well adapted. to the wants of the farmer. The present population of the Territory is but one person to every 630 acres. Could the entire Indian population of the country, excluding Alaska and those scattered among the States heretofore mentioned, be located in the Indian Territory, there would be 180 acres of land, per capita, for the entire number, showing that there is an ample area of land to afford them all comfortable homes.

On the other hand, such a disposition of the now scattered tribes would release from Indian occupancy 93,692,731 acres of land, and throw it open to white settlement and cultivation. This gathering together of all the outlying tribes into a comparatively small territory is

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Rh the problem now before us. The proper solution of it must, in a great measure, decide the fate of that race. If they can be brought to realize their condition as we see it they will recognize the fact that if they do not speedily accept the friendly offices of the Government, and endeavor in good faith to work out their part of the policy the difficulties and dangers of their past and present condition will be increased by the increasing demand for the lands now occupied by them as hunting grounds and reservations made by our rapidly growing tide of emigration. Many of the tribes recognize the condition of things which compels the conclusions and suggestions herein made and are willing to co-operate cheerfully in the measures set on foot in their behalf.

With judicious management and a careful observance of treaty stipulations, I doubt not that the plan of gathering all the tribes into a smaller area can be successfully accomplished.

The foregoing facts induce me to regard it as of the utmost importance to the success of the existing policy that the Indian Territory be organized under a territorial government, with such restrictions and regulations as will secure the rights of the Indians in the soil, encourage them in their efforts to improve their mental, moral, and industrial condition, while at the same time maintaining a general supervisory control of their legislation as in the case of any other Territory.

The bill introduced at the third session of the Forty-first Congress for the organization of that Territory under the name of Oklahoma, and the Ocmulgee constitution adopted by a council of the Indian nations of the Territory in December last, are intended to accomplish the object referred to. Those instruments seem to be so carefully guarded as to secure the end desired, and will fully protect the Indian from imposition and injustice until he shall have made such progress as to enable him to protect himself.

As has been shown the Indian Territory is of sufficient area to locate all the Indians, and give each man, woman, and child among them 180 acres of land. With such an in gathering of the now widely scattered tribes, under an efficient territorial government, and with the nucleus of partially civilized nations and tribes already there, the entire race would be so well in hand and surrounded by such influences as to be more easily managed, thus enabling the Government to work out its humane policy toward them to its legitimate results. If it shall be deemed impracticable to bring all the Indian tribes into the Indian Territory, under an organized territorial government, I am satisfied that the good results that will accrue to those who conclude to settle in that Territory, under such a government as I have indicated, will demonstrate the necessity and propriety of locating the remaining Indians under a like territorial government, to be organized in some other place, and embracing such limits and having such location as time, experience, and subsequent information shall indicate as best adapted to the accomplishment of the great object which all good men so earnestly desire.


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Rh 29, 1872, the company leased for a term of 999 years the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, extending from Saint Louis, Mo., to Kansas City, Mo., including Carondelet Branch, (297½ miles,) and assumed the leases to said Pacific Railroad of the following-named lines 2 Missouri River Railroad, 25¼ miles; Leavenworth, Atchison and Northwestern Railroad, 21¼ miles; Osage Valley and Southern Kansas Railroad, 25 miles; Lexington and Saint Louis Railroad, 55¼ miles; Saint Louis, Lawrence and Denver Railroad, 61 miles. The cost of the surveys of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad to June 30, 1873, was $306,357.84. The amount received from passengers on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Division, was $303,357.84; on the Pacific Railroad of Missouri and leased-lines division, $1,073,981.02 total, $1,377,338.86. The amount received for freight on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Division was $945,711.69; on the Pacino Railroad and leased-lines division, $2,587,852.37; total, $3,533,564.06. The cost of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and fixtures, as appears from the accounts of the Treasurer, June 30, 1873, was $36,262,322.70. The running expenses of the road from 1st July, 1872, to June 30, 1873, were 8692,529.16. The same expenses of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri and leased lines for that period, were $2,693,926.36; total for the fiscal year, $3,386,455.52.

The indebtedness of the company is as follows: Bonded debt of the South Pacific Railroad Company, secured by mortgage of lands, assumed, 87,190,000; Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company's bonds dated 1st July, 1868—20 years—$2,945,500; Atlantic and Pacific Company's railroad and land-grant bonds, November 1, 1871, $1,190,000; same company's central division land-grant bonds, dated November 1, 1871, $797,922; same company's second mortgage railroad and land-grant bonds, dated November 1, 1871, 81,272,000; same company's scrip for bonds dated November 1, 1870, $1,718,438.36; total bonded indebtedness, $15,113,860.36; Boating indebtedness, $2,758,025.38; total indebtedness, $17,871,885.74. Assets of cash, debts due company, and securities other than of this company, amounting to 8l,340,070.31, on hand.

Stock of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to the amount of $100,000,000, has been subscribed, and certificates for 172,695 shares of $100 each have been issued. During the year 1873, the road was definitely located from the mouth of Heart River, on the Missouri, to the mouth of Glendive Creek, on the Yellowstone, a distance of 205 miles. The precise point of crossing the Missouri River has not yet been fixed by the company. The surveys necessary to complete a continuous line across the continent, which were left unfinished last year by reason of the open hostility of the Sioux Indians of Montana and Dakota, have, this year, been brought to a most satisfactory conclusion. A continuous line has been surveyed from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, and the data have been obtained for deciding the final location of the road between the above-named termini. The entire line of route has- not as yet been definitely fixed upon. The company reports that "for climate,


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8 Such an organization would have a tendency to obliterate many of the existing obstacles to Indian civilization. The traditional feuds which now keep tribes in a state of continual warfare, compelling them to live in camps for protection, would be speedily crushed out by a strong home government. The custom of holding all property in common, which is always a tax upon industry, and a premium upon indolence and unthrift, would be abolished. Frequent changes of reservations, the source of so many of our troubles with that race in the past, would cease. The rewards of industry would be so liberal as to obliterate their long-standing prejudice against labor, while the lack of opportunity to engage in the chase, or in hostile raids, would soon do away with the desire to engage in those diversions, and those who were not convinced of the propriety of industry would soon be compelled to recognize its necessity.

We must not expect to great results from the immediate operation of the new policy. We cannot hope to make intelligent law-abiding citizens of a race of unlettered barbarians in a day in a year, or a decade. Time is required to change those habits which are firmly fixed by immemorial custom. Nor can we hope to mature a perfect system by a single act of Congress. We can only shape a policy and arrange its details gradually, as experience dictates, after a careful observance of the results of measures already in operation.

Few of those now actively engaged in promoting the existing policy may live to see its full fruition, and it may never succeed, but no candid philanthropic man will deny that the policy seems to be right and proper under all the existing circumstances. A Christian Government like ours owes it to her own good name, to civilization and Christianity, to use every effort for the elevation of a race which has been placed under her gaurdianship. Should it fail, I trust it may not be through any want of fidelity on the part of any of those now engaged in its execution. The path of duty seems clearly marked; it is ours to follow it.

During the year a number of citizens of the United States moved upon the lands of the Indian Territory adjacent to the Kansas boundary, evidently for the purpose of effecting a permanent settlement thereon. They erected improvements and began to till the soil. These trespasses gave great uneasiness to the owners of the lands, who naturally inferred that they were but the beginning of an organized movement to deprive them of their territory. Upon being informed of this condition of things, I issued a proclamation to the trespassers, ordering them to withdraw at once from the Territory, and notifying them that unless they did so promptly, force would be used to secure their removal. This step seems to have been generally effective, and but few of the trespassers remain. Trespasses of another character are sill being made, however upon these lands by citizens of Kansas, and much valuable timber is being cut down and carried away. The effort of the Department will be to prevent these spoliations in the future, as they do much


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10 Cochise, the Apache chief was at last willing to cease his depredations, and would use his influence with his people to bring them upon a reservation, if they could be protected in going to such reservation, or while remaining thereon. To afford him an opportunity to manifest his good faith in making such offers, Hon. Vincent Colyer Secretary of the board of Indian commissioners was directed to visit the Territory of Arizona, and to offer Cochise the protection of the Government, while he should endeavor to bring his people upon a reservation.

Mr. Colyer set aside three temporary reservations for the purpose designated, and made encouraging progress toward inducing the Indians to enter upon them. Instructions have been given the military authorities to co-operate with the officers of the Indian Bureau, and to advise the Apaches that if they will enter upon the reservation provided them, in good faith, and live thereon peaceably; they will receive the aid and protection of the Government, but if they do not do so, and evince any disposition to renew their depredations, they will be promptly punished. The Indian agents have also been instructed to acquaint the Indians with the designs of the Government concerning them. It is sincerely hoped that these efforts will prove successful in the early accomplishment of the purpose designed. It is a subject of profound regret that so great misunderstanding of the temper and disposition of the Indians in Arizona should exist and it is hoped that both the Indians and the white settlers will so act in future as to give no ground for complaint.

Efforts are now being made to remove the Flatheads and Pend d'Oreilles from their location in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana, to the general reservation at Jocko Lake. Under the terms of the treaty of 1855, the President has declared it unnecessary to set aside any portion of that valley for a reservation and has ordered the removal of the Indians now residing there to the general reservation at Jocko Lake, after paying them for their improvements but allowing any Indians who may so desire to remain and become citizens granting them all the privileges of citizens under the homestead and pre-emption laws. This plan will when perfected, open up the valuable lands in the Bitter Root Valley to white settlement and it will doubtless be speedily settled up.

The attention of Congress has been heretofore invited to the fact that some portions of certain reservations which contain more land than the Indians need should, with their consent, be sold at their fair market value, and the proceeds applied to improvements such as building houses, fencing and breaking land, the purchase of implements and stock and the establishment of industrial and other schools. The details of this subject will be found in the report of Superintendent Janney and show that the Omahas, whose reservation contains 205,000 acres, have, by petition expressed a wish to sell from the most western portion of their reservation 50,000 acres as near as can be separated


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Rh from the remaining part of their lauds by a line running along the section lines from north to south.

The Ottoes and Missourias, whose reservation contains 160,000 acres, have expressed a desire to sell about 80,000 acres, being the western half of the reservation, and lying wholly west of the Big Blue River, partly in Nebraska and partly in Kansas.

The Pawnees whose reservation contains 288,000 acres, would sell about 50,000 acres but the location of the part to be disposed of has not yet been determined.

I expect to submit a special report concerning these lands, together with a bill providing for a sale of such portions of said reservations as may be designated. Mr. Janhey recommends that there be established a sufficient number of day-schools for all the children between the ages of 6 and 12 years, and a manual-labor boarding-school at such reservation, in which I cordially concur.

In accordance with my request, Hon. Felix R. Brunot, President of the Board of Indian Commissioners, was present at the council of the Indian tribes occupying the Umatilla reservation in Oregon. That council was for the purpose of ascertaining the feelings and desires those tribes relative to removing from said reservation upon the payment to them of certain specified annuities. The result of the council was the refusal of the Indians to leave their reservations.

Mr. Brunot's report fully details the proceedings of the council, and the proposions of the special commissioners, which the Indians declined to accept, and will be found with the report of the Office of Indian Affairs.

PUBLIC LANDS. From the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, it appears that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, the transactions of that branch of the public service were as follows:

This statement shows an increased disposal, a compared with the preceding year, of 2,511,379.03 acres. The cash receipts during the past fiscal year, under various heads, including fees to local officers, &c., amount to $2,929,284 70.


text: Talbot v. Commanders and Owners of Three Brigs


text: Respublica v. Keating

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Rh

M. Robert Gernon holds Wirecesberie [Wraysbury ]. It is assessed at 20 hides. There is land for 25 ploughs. In the demesne are 5 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs ; and 32 villeins with 1 8 bordars have 1 5 ploughs, and there could be 8 ploughs more. There are 7 serfs, and 2 mills worth (de) 40 [ ] yearly, meadow (sufficient) for 5 plough (teams) and hay for the beasts of the court (curia: woodland (to feed) 500 swine, and 4 fisheries in the Thames (in Tamesia) worth (de) 27 shillings all but 4 pence. In all (totis valentiis) it is and was worth 20 pounds ; T.R.E. 22 pounds. This manor Edmund, a thegn of King Edward, held.

M. Geoffrey de Manneville holds [Amersham]. It is assessed at 7½ hides. There is land for 16 ploughs. In the de- mesne are 2 hides, and on it are 3 ploughs ; and 14 villeins with 4 bordars have 9 ploughs. There could be 4 more. There are 7 Serfs, meadow (sufficient) for 16 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 400 swine. In all (totis valentiis) it is and was worth 9 pounds ; T.R.E. 1 6 pounds. This manor Queen Eddid held.

In [Waldridge] Suerting holds of Geoffrey half a hide. There is land for 1 plough, and it is there, and meadow (sufficient) for 1 plough (team). It is and was worth 10 shillings ; T.R.E. 1 5 shillings. This land Dodinz, a man of Asgar the staller, held and could sell.

In [(East) Claydon ] Geoffrey holds 7 hides as one manor. There is land for 5 ploughs. In the demesne are 3 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs ; and 4 villeins with 3 bordars have 3 ploughs. Meadow is there (sufficient) for 2 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 40 swine. In all it is worth 4 pounds ; when received 3 pounds ; T.R.E. 5 pounds. This manor Suen, a man of Asgar the staller, held. He could not assign (dare) or sell it without his leave.

M. Geoffrey himself holds [Quarrendon]. It is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 10 ploughs. In the demesne are 4 hides, and on it are 4 ploughs ; and 20 villeins with 8 bordars have 8 ploughs. Meadow is there (sufficient) for 10 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 300 swine. In all (totis valentiis) it is worth 8 pounds ; when received 100 shillings; T.R.E. 6 pounds. This manor Suen, a man of Asgar the staller, held. He could not sell it without his leave.

M. In [(Ivinghoe) Aston] Ger- mund holds of Geoffrey 4 hides and 1 virgate as one manor. There is land for 3½ ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs ; and 1 villein with 4 serfs have 1½ ploughs. Meadow is there (sufficient) for 3 plough (teams). It is and was worth 50 shillings ; T.R.E. 60 shil- lings. This manor Asgar the staller held in demesne.

Geoffrey himself holds in SUENEBERIE [Swanbourne] 2 hides. There is land for 2 ploughs. In the demesne is i hide, and on it is I plough ; and 3 villeins with 2 bordars have I plough. Meadow is there (sufficient) for 2 plough (teams). It is and was worth T.R.E. and after (valuit semper) 30 shillings. This manor Suen, a man of Asgar the staller, held. He could not sell it without his leave.

M. In [Leckhampstead] Osbert holds of Geoffrey 3 hides. There is land for 3 ploughs. On the demesne is I; and [ ] villeins have i ploughs and there could be half a plough more. Woodland is there (to feed) 1 50 swine. It is worth 30 shillings; when received 20 shillings; T.R.E. 30 shillings. This manor Suarting, a man of Asgar, held. He could not sell it without his leave. {[nop}}

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Author:Francis Thomas Gregory

Works

 * Journals of Australian Explorations with Augustus Charles Gregory (Brisbane, 1884)

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Rh however was, as Browne Willis tells us, * ever remarkable for its orthodoxy and strict adherence to the principles of the constitution both in church and state.' The ejection of ' scandalous ministers ' began even before the war. The first to go was James Bradshaw of Chalfont St. Peter, of whom Dr. Andrewes of Beaconsfield had spoken as a ' well-meaning man ' but ' wonderful timorous ' ; it seems that he was provoked at last into wishing the Puritan lecturers hanged. Andrewes himself did not live to see the disestablishment of the Church he loved. John Barton, prebendary of Aylesbury, and George Roberts of Hambleden were both ejected in or before 1642. Besides these, Walker in his Sufferings of the Clergy gives the names of twelve others ejected after this date, and therefore rather for political than religious reasons ; fourteen other cases may be gathered from different sources, making a total which represents about one-seventh of the clergy in this county. Their places were filled by men whose chief recommendation was that they were ' godly, diligent and painful preachers ' ; and as the people of Buckinghamshire had long set a very high value on sermons as the chief means of grace, it is probable that they were on the whole well satisfied with the change. Here and there, however, the new ministers had some difficulty in collecting their tithes, and at Hamble- den, Taplow and Monks Risborough they were vigorously resisted by the ejected incumbents and their supporters. At Maids Moreton,

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text: Respublica v. De Longchamps

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Rh where at the death of the rector in 1643, an order of the House of Commons prescribed ' that Mr. Daniel Evans shall serve the cure. . . and that the bishop be enjoined not to give any institution, induction or collation to Mr. Bate ' (presented by the lawful patron of the living) ' upon any pretence whatsoever.' Mr. Bate nevertheless became rector, and remained at his post long enough to write ' Laus Deo ' in his parish register above the year of the Restoration.

It was certainly intended that one-fifth of the profits of a seques- tered living should be paid to the wife and family of the ejected incum- bent ; but the order was not always carried out. At Weston Turville, the wife of the rector petitioned vainly for her portion, from 9 August, 1645, till 21 May, 1647 ; but the minister in possession utterly refused to pay, in spite of repeated orders from the Committee of Plundered Ministers ; he was evidently an undesirable person, even in the judg- ment of his own friends, and after refusing the offer of an exchange, was himself finally ejected in favour of the original incumbent. It is only fair to the Committee to show that real efforts were made to enforce these payments. They had also many elaborate schemes for re- distributing endowments and so raising the value of the poorer livings. There was real need for such measures in Buckinghamshire. As many as twenty-three churches or parochial chapels, once appropriated to religious houses, had had no regular endowment whatever since the dissolution of monasteries ; their incumbents received as stipend what- ever the impropriators, lay or clerical, chose to allow them. Twelve churches had an endowment of less than 20, and two others of exactly that amount. There were nine benefices in 1650 (including one where the endowment was as much as 30), which were returned as void for want of proper maintenance for a minister. Between 1646 and 1650 an attempt was made to provide for these needs. Those livings which were appropriated to various cathedrals and collegiate churches were augmented from the sequestered chapter endowments ; and a scheme

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text: Young v. Reuben

title: Young v. Reuben


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Executive Order 11089

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows:

John F. Kennedy The White House, February 26, 1963. [FR Doc. 1963–xxxx Filed 2–27–63; 8:45 am] Billing Code xxxx–xx–x

title: Executive Order 11089


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Author:George Gregory

Works

 * Essays Historical and Moral (1st ed. published anonymously 1783, 2nd 1788)
 * Thoughts on the Composition and Delivery of a Sermon (1st edition, 1787; 2nd 1789)
 * Translation of Bishop Lowth's Lectures on the Poetry of the Hebrews (2 vols. 8vo, 1st ed. 1787, last 1847)
 * The Life of T. Chatterton (1789, a reprint from Kippis's ‘Biog. Brit.,’ iv. 573-619)
 * An History of the Christian Church (1790, 2nd ed. 1795)
 * Dr. Hawkesworth's translation of Fénelon's Télémaque (1795 revised edition)
 * The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated on the Principles of Modern Philosophy (1796, 2nd ed. 1798, 3rd 1804)
 * The Elements of a Polite Education, carefully selected from the Letters of Lord Chesterfield (1800, new ed. 1807)
 * Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition (1808)
 * A Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1808)

title: Author:George Gregory


text: Gerard v. Basse

title: Gerard v. Basse


text: Davison’s Lessee v. Bloomer

title: Davison’s Lessee v. Bloomer


text: Tracy v. Wikoff

title: Tracy v. Wikoff


text: Wharton v. Morris

title: Wharton v. Morris


text: Wilson’s Lessee v. Campbell

title: Wilson’s Lessee v. Campbell


text: Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe

title: Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe


text:
Executive Order 11090

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, including authority vested in me by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1958 (72 Stat. 1799), it is hereby ordered as follows:

John F. Kennedy The White House, February 26, 1963. [FR Doc. 1963–xxxx Filed 2–27–63; 8:45 am] Billing Code xxxx–xx–x

title: Executive Order 11090


text: Scottin v. Stanley

title: Scottin v. Stanley


text: Buckley v. Durant

title: Buckley v. Durant


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Little Crow is Not a Coward

Little Crow is Not a Coward Thaóyate Dúta (Little Crow), August 18, 1862.

Ta-ó-ya-te-dú-ta is not a coward, and he is not a fool! When did he run away from his enemies? When did he leave his braves behind him on the warpath and turn back to his tepee? When he ran away from your enemies, he walked behind on your trail with his face to the Ojibways and covered your backs as a she-bear covers her cubs!

Is Ta-ó-ya-te-dú-ta without scalps? Look at his war feathers! Behold the scalp locks of your enemies hanging there on his lodgepoles! Do they call him a coward? Ta-ó-ya-te-dú-ta is not a coward, and he is not a fool.

Braves, you are like little children: you know not what you are doing. You are full of the white man's devil-water (rum). You are like dogs in the Hot Moon when they run mad and snap at their own shadows. We are only little herds of buffalo left scattered; the great herds that once covered the prairies are no more.

See! — the white men are like the locusts when they fly so thick that the whole sky is a snowstorm. You may kill one — two — ten; yes, as many as the leaves in the forest yonder, and their brothers will not miss them. Kill one — two — ten, and ten times ten will come to kill you. Count your fingers all day long and white men with guns in their hands will come faster than you can count.

Yes; they fight among themselves — aways off. Do you hear the thunder of their big guns? No; it would take you two moons to run down to where they are fighting, and all the way your path would be among white soldiers as thick as tamaracks in the swamps of the Ojibways. Yes; they fight among themselves, but if you strike at them they will all turn on you and devour you and your women and little children just as the locusts in their time fall on the trees and devour all the leaves in one day.

You are fools. You cannot see the face of your chief; your eyes are full of smoke. You cannot hear his voice; your ears are full of roaring waters. Braves, you are little children — you are fools. You will die like the rabbits when the hungry wolves hunt them in the Hard Moon. Ta-ó-ya-te-dú-ta is not a coward; he will die with you.

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 (Letters, ut supra, ii. 27). From the puritan divinity, in which he was deeply read, he extracted the strong evangelical kernel of his teaching. His doctrine of the Trinity was the Sabellian scheme propounded in the ‘Scripture-Trinity’ (1725) of Daniel Scott, LL.D. [q. v.], and the ‘Disquisition’ (1732) of Simon Browne [q. v.], works recommended by him to divinity students, and reprinted by his friends. The ‘rational’ dissenters repelled him by their laxity as regards the inspiration of scripture, yet he had a good word for the energetic zeal of Priestley, and viewed Theophilus Lindsey [q. v.], with whom he had scarcely an opinion in common, as ‘a glorious character’ (Letters, ut supra, i. 158, ii. 159). In spite of his connection with presbyterians, he always regarded himself as ‘quite an independent.’ A diploma of D.D. was sent him by New Jersey College in 1773, through Thomas Gibbons [q. v.] He declined it; but in 1781, when he presented to Shrewsbury school a copy of Kennicott's Hebrew bible, with a Latin inscription, he signed himself ‘Job Orton, S.T.P.’

In person Orton was tall, erect, and spare; fond of horse exercise, simple and methodical in his habits, and employing his ample means for charitable uses. An early attachment was broken off at the wish of his mother, and he did not marry. His housekeeper was a sister of Philip Holland [q. v.] Latterly he suffered from aphasia. He died at Kidderminster on 19 July 1783, and was buried near the altar of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, in the grave of John Bryan (d. 1699) [see under, D.D.]. There is a monument to him at St. Chad's; the vicar, Thomas Stedman [q. v.], was his intimate friend. Funeral sermons were preached by Fownes at High Street Chapel, and by Samuel Lucas at Swan Hill independent chapel. His portrait has been engraved.

He published, in addition to separate sermons (1751–6): 1. ‘Three Discourses on Eternity,’ &c., Salop, 1764, 8vo (translated into Welsh and German). 2. ‘Memoirs of … Doddridge,’ &c., Salop, 1766, 8vo (often reprinted; translated into German by Linder, a Lutheran divine). 3. ‘Religious Exercises Recommended,’ &c., Salop, 1769, 8vo. 4. ‘Diotrephes Admonished,’ &c., Salop, 1770, 8vo (anon.) 5. ‘Diotrephes Re-admonished,’ &c., Salop, 1770, 8vo (anon.; this and the foregoing are in defence of William Adams (1706–1789) [q. v.]). 6. ‘Discourses to the Aged,’ &c., 1771, 12mo. 7. ‘Christian Zeal,’ &c., Shrewsbury, 1774, 12mo. 8. ‘Christian Worship,’ &c., 1775, 12mo (translated into Welsh). 9. ‘Discourses,’ &c., 1776, 12mo, 2 vols. 10. ‘A Serious Dissuasive from … the Playhouse,’ &c., Shrewsbury, 1776, 12mo. 11. ‘Sacramental Meditations,’ &c., Shrewsbury, 1777, 12mo. Posthumous were: 12. ‘A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament,’ &c., 1788–1791, 8vo, 6 vols. (compiled from his papers by Gentleman); 2nd edition, 1822, 8vo, 6 vols. 13. ‘Letters to a Young Clergyman,’ &c., 1791, 12mo, edited by Stedman; reprinted, with additions, in ‘Letters from … Orton and … Stonhouse … to … Stedman,’ &c., 1800, 8vo, 2 vols.; 2nd edition, 1805. 14. ‘Letters to Dissenting Ministers,’ &c., 1806, 12mo, 2 vols.; edited by Samuel Palmer (1741–1813) [q. v.] His ‘Practical Works, collected,’ were published in 1842, 8vo, 2 vols., with letters and memoir. He revised, with an introduction, Bourn's catechisms (1738) as a ‘Summary of Doctrinal and Practical Religion,’ 1749, 12mo; edited Doddridge's ‘Hymns,’ Salop, 1755, 12mo, and the conclusion of Doddridge's ‘Family Expositor,’ 1756, 4to; issued an edition of the ‘Life of Philip Henry,’ 1764, 12mo; and reprinted in 1779 Nathaniel Neal's ‘Free and Serious Remonstrance,’ &c., 1746. At Orton's suggestion, Palmer abridged from Calamy the ‘Nonconformist's Memorial,’ 1775.

ORTON, REGINALD (1810–1862), surgeon, born at Surat, near Bombay, on 27 Jan. 1810, was the only son of James Orton, surgeon in the East India Company's service and inspector-general of Bombay hospitals, whose father, Reginald Orton, was rector of Hawksworth, near Richmond, Yorkshire. Reginald was educated at the grammar school, Richmond, under James Tate. He afterwards returned to Bombay, where he was bound apprentice to his father. He returned to England on the completion of his apprenticeship, entered at St. Thomas's Hospital as a medical student, and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1833, and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in the following year.

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 practice in Sunderland, purchased it, and in the same year married. He lived in Sunderland until shortly before his death, when he took a farm at Bishopwearmouth. He was surgeon to the Sunderland Eye Infirmary and consulting surgeon to the Seaham Infirmary.

Orton, although only locally conspicuous in his lifetime, brought about, by his energy, changes which affected the whole empire. Throughout his life he was a busy medical practitioner and an active reformer. Sunderland owes to his initiative its system of lighting by gas, its water-supply, its public baths, its library, and its institute. But his services were not confined to Sunderland. It was owing to his repeated protests, and to the public attention which he drew to the iniquity of taxing light and air, that the chancellor of the exchequer was at last obliged to repeal the duty which for many years had been levied upon glass and windows. Orton suggested to the government that, if light was still to be taxed, the duty should be regulated by the size of the panes, and not by the number of windows, as had hitherto been done; so that the wealthy and those who could afford large sheets of plateglass should pay more than their poorer neighbours. He also advocated the imposition of a moderate house duty, commencing at a certain rental, to make good the loss of revenue, if it was found that the duty could be entirely abolished. The latter scheme was eventually adopted. Orton also took a lively interest in maritime affairs, and turned his attention to the means and appliances for saving life at sea. He projected a new form of reel lifebuoy, and invented a lifeboat which was light, low in the water, open so that the sea passed through it (the crew being encased in waterproof bags), and practically incapable of being capsized; for these he took out a patent in 1845 (No. 10898). The boat was used on one or two occasions. Orton died on 1 Sept. 1862 at Ford North Farm, Bishopwearmouth. He is buried in the cemetery of that town. He wrote no book; the ‘Essay on the Epidemic Cholera of India,’ London, 1831, 8vo, is by his uncle of the same name as himself.

 ORUM, JOHN (d. 1436?), vice-chancellor of Oxford University, was a member of University College, and graduated as D.D. He is mentioned on 29 Jan. 1399 (, Reg. Exeter College, p. 25;, and in 1406 and 1408 was vice-chancellor or commissary for Richard Courtenay. Orum was made archdeacon of Barnstaple on 1 Nov. 1400, and held this office till 1429; he also appears as archdeacon of Cornwall in 1411 (, ''Fasti Eccl. Angl. i. 398, 406). He held the prebend of Holcomb at Wells in 1408, and in 410 received a canonry there. On 4 Jan. he received the prebend of Fridaythorpe, York, which preferment he had vacated before October 1412 (ib''. iii. 187). On 21 Dec. he received the church of Road, Somerset (, Somerset Incumbents, p. 177), but exchanged it for Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, on 18 April 1414. On 23 Feb. 1429 Orum became chancellor of Exeter (, p. 281 ; but Tanner says 18 Feb.) He seems to have resigned the chancellorship before 21 Sept. 1436, and probably died soon afterwards. In accordance with his will, dated 27 Sept. 1436, Orum was buried in the porch of Exeter Cathedral. He left 40s. for the perpetual chanting of an antiphon there, and gave a cope to the cathedral.

Orum was author of 'Lecturæ super Apocalypsim habitæ in Ecclesia Wellensi: 1, De ecclesia; 2, De avaritia; 3-6, De cantu.' These lectures are contained in Bodleian MS. 2722. Some of the other anonymous tracts in the same manuscript may possibly be by him.

 OSBALD (d. 799), king of Northumbria, was, before his accession, one of the chief of the Northumbrian nobles, and was probably a member of the royal house. In December 779 he joined another ealdorman named Æthelheard in attacking Beam, son of Ælfwold, who had been made king the year before on the expulsion of King Æthelred. The two ealdormen are said to have burned Beam, setting fire, no doubt, to his house or fortress at Seletune (probably Silton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire). Alcuin, writing to King /Ethelred after his restoration in 793, addressed Osbald 'patricius,' and another ealdorman along with the king, the three being exhorted to good living. When Æthelred was murdered on 20 April 796, some of the nobles made Osbald king. After a reign of only twenty-seven days he was deserted by all the royal following and the nobles. He therefore fled the kingdom and was outlawed. He took refuge in Lindisfame, and while there probably received the letter sent him by Alcuin, reminding him that for the last two years the


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 writer had urged him to fulfil his intention of abandoning the world and devoting himself to God, and praying him not to attempt anything on his own behalf, or add sin to sin by devastating the country. Osbald obeyed these exhortations, and sailed from Lindisfarne with a company of the brethren of the convent to the land of the Picts, became an abbot, died in 799, and was buried in the church of York.

OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (1787–1866), sportsman, the son of George Osbaldeston (d. 1794), of Hutton-Bushell in Yorkshire, by Jane, only daughter of Sir Thomas Head, bart., was born on 26 Dec. 1787. His father, the descendant of an old Yorkshire family, was the son of John Wickins, rector of Petworth in Sussex, who assumed the name of Osbaldeston on his wife Philadelphia succeeding in 1770 to one-half of the estates of Fountayne Osbaldeston (1694–1770), M.P. for Scarborough, and brother of [q. v.], bishop of London.

Losing his father when only six years old, Osbaldeston went to reside with his mother at Bath, where his education included riding lessons from Dash, the most celebrated teacher of his day. He subsequently went to Eton, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 3 May 1805. While still an undergraduate he commenced his career as a master of hounds by the purchase of a pack from the Earl of Jersey. Having quitted the university without taking a degree, he next purchased Lord Monson's hounds, and hunted the Burton country for five years, in the course of which he acquired a fame for his pack which has scarcely been surpassed by that of any in England. Upon leaving Lincolnshire he hunted the Quorn hounds from 1817 to 1821, and again from 1823 to 1828, when he migrated to Pytchley. In the capacity of master of foxhounds no one has probably ever stood higher than Osbaldeston, and the ‘Squire,’ as he was called, and his huntsman, Tom Sebright, became ‘bywords’ in sporting circles. His bodily strength was prodigious, as is evidenced by the fact that in Leicestershire he constantly hunted six days in succession. His knowledge of hounds was unrivalled, and ‘as a breeder,’ says Nimrod, ‘he raised himself to the very pinnacle of fame.’ If the casualties inseparable from the hunting field succeeded each other with any rapidity, he showed an irascibility worthy of the best tradition.

In 1831 Osbaldeston became doubly prominent. In the first place, at the Newmarket Houghton meeting, he performed an extraordinary feat. He undertook to ride two hundred miles in ten consecutive hours for a bet of a thousand guineas, the number and choice of horses being unlimited. He divided the distance to be covered into heats of four miles each, changing his horse at the conclusion of each heat, and he accomplished his task one hour and eighteen minutes within the time specified, having ridden, allowing for stoppages, at the rate of twenty-six miles an hour. In 1831 also occurred the ‘Squire's’ famous duel with Lord George Bentinck. This sprang from a bet of two hundred guineas, claimed by Osbaldeston, and paid by Bentinck with the comment that it was ‘a robbery.’ ‘“The matter will not end here, my Lord!” exclaimed the Squire, who marched off with his bristles set.’ They met on Wormwood Scrubbs, and Osbaldeston is variously described as having fired in the air, and as having sent a bullet through Lord George's hat within two inches of his brain (compare the account under, with that in Racing Life of Lord G. Bentinck, or both with that in  Reminiscences). Some years later the antagonists were reconciled, and Lord George treated Osbaldeston with marked politeness. With reference to the propriety of Bentinck's implication that Osbaldeston was a swindler, Day remarks that ‘no one who ever knew the Squire would imagine for a moment that he was capable of doing anything approaching an ungentlemanly action.’

Osbaldeston was a daring steeplechase rider, and was well known in cricketing and racing circles, and in fact in every branch of field sports. He was a J.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire; he represented East Retford from 1812 to 1818, and he was high sheriff of his county in 1829. Some years before his death he retired from sporting life, and resided at 2 Grove Road, St. John's Wood, where he died on 1 Aug. 1866. In personal appearance he is described as below middle size, with a large and muscular frame, and ‘with legs appearing somewhat disproportioned to his body, yet, when on horseback, to belong to the animal rather than the man, so firm and steady was he in his seat.’


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 OSBALDESTON or OSBOLSTON, LAMBERT (1594–1659), master of Westminster School, born in London in 1594, was the second son of Lambert Osbaldeston, a haberdasher, of London, by his wife Martha Banks (Harl. MS. 1476, f. 100 b). His younger brother was William Osbaldeston [q. v.] Lambert was educated at Westminster School, and was elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1612. His name does not, however, appear in the matriculation register of the university until 20 Oct. 1615, when he is described as the son of a ‘gentleman’ born in London, and aged 21 (Oxford Univ. Register, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 341). He was admitted a student of Gray's Inn, London, on 25 Oct. 1615 (, Gray's Inn Register, p. 138). He graduated B.A. at Oxford on 13 June 1616, and commenced M.A. on 20 April 1619 (Oxford Univ. Register, vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 346). On 7 Dec. 1621 he had a joint patent (with John Wilson, D.D.) from the dean and chapter of Westminster of the headmastership of Westminster School, which was renewed to him alone on 27 Jan. 1625–1626 (, Registers of Westminster Abbey, p. 151 n.) He was incorporated in the degree of M.A. at Cambridge in 1628 (Addit. MS. 5884, f. 86 b).

In July 1629 he became prebendary of the tenth stall in the collegiate church of St. Peter at Westminster, and on the 18th of the same month he was collated by his friend Bishop Williams to the prebend of Biggleswade in the cathedral of Lincoln (, Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 112, iii. 358). He was also a prebendary of Ilton in the church of Wells, and in 1637 he was presented to the rectory of Wheathampstead, with the chapel of Harpenden, Hertfordshire (, Hertfordshire, i. 517).

In 1638 certain letters written by him were found in the house of Bishop Williams at Buckden. In these letters an unnamed person was irreverently styled ‘the little urchin’ and ‘the little meddling hocus pocus.’ There can be no reasonable doubt that Laud was the person referred to. Williams and Osbaldeston were brought to trial in the Star-chamber on 14 Feb. 1638–9, and the latter was condemned to lose all his spiritualities, to pay a fine of 5,000l. to the king and a like sum to Archbishop Laud, and moreover to have his ears tacked in the pillory in the presence of his scholars. As soon as the major part of the court had passed censure upon him, and while the lord-keeper was giving his judgment, Osbaldeston got out of the court, hurried to his study at the school, burnt some documents, and wrote on a paper, which he left on his desk: ‘If the archbishop inquire after me, tell him I am gone beyond Canterbury.’ Messengers were consequently sent to the port towns to apprehend him; but he lay hid in a private house in Drury Lane till the parliament met in November 1640 (, Hist. Collections, ii. 803–817). He had of course been deprived, in the meantime, of his church preferments, but he was restored to them by the Long parliament in 1641. Subsequently he was shocked at the lengths to which that assembly proceeded, and his benefices were again sequestered (, Sufferings of the Clergy, ii. 91). The latter part of his life was passed in retirement; and Willis says he died in possession of his preferments ‘as much as the times would allow.’ He bore the character of a learned man, and was an excellent master, being ‘very fortunate in breeding up many wits.’ It is also said that he ‘had at the present [1638] above fourscore doctors in the two universities, and three learned faculties, all gratefully acknowledging their education under him’ (, Church Hist. ed Brewer, vi. 159). The ‘Tragical History of Piramus and Thisbe,’ one of Cowley's ‘Poetical Blossoms’ (1633), is dedicated ‘To the Right Worshipful, my very loving Master, Mr. Lambert Osbolston.’ Another of his scholars was Thomas Randolph [q. v.], who addressed to him a poem, prefixed to the ‘Jealous Lovers,’ 1638. Osbaldeston died in October 1659, and on the seventh of that month was buried in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, without any memorial.

A poem presented by Osbaldeston to Prince Charles in 1632, on his recovery from the small-pox, was formerly in the manuscript collection of Nicholas Oldisworth (Addit. MS. 24489, f. 153).

OSBALDESTON, RICHARD (1690–1764), successively bishop of Carlisle and of London, born on 6 Jan. 1690, at Hunmanby, Yorkshire, was the second son of Sir Richard Osbaldeston, knt., lord of Havercroft, of the old family seated at Osbaldeston, Lancashire, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of John Fountaine of Melton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Beverley school,


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 command of the Pioneer, to which he was formally promoted on 30 Oct. By what Osborn considered a most serious error in judgment, the Pioneer, with the other ships of the expedition, was abandoned on 20 Aug. 1854, the officers and men being brought to England by the North Star, Phœnix, and Talbot on 28 Sept. (Discovery of a North-West Passage, pp. 266–7). The long and difficult service in the Arctic, including five summers and three winters, had severely tried Osborn's health, and for some little time he had charge of the coastguard in Norfolk. Early in 1855 he was sent out to take command of the Vesuvius in the Black Sea, where he took part in the capture of Kertch, and, after the death of Captain Lyons, remained as senior officer in the Sea of Azov, in command of a numerous squadron of gunboats, with which he destroyed many depôts of provisions and stores destined for Sebastopol. On 18 Aug. he was advanced to the rank of captain, but, by Sir Edmund Lyons's desire, was appointed to the Medusa, a small steamer, in which he remained as senior officer in the Sea of Azov till the conclusion of the war, for his conduct in which he received the C.B., the cross of the Legion of Honour, and the Medjidie of the fourth class. In the spring of 1857 Osborn was appointed to the Furious paddle-wheel frigate, and ordered to escort fifteen gunboats to China, a duty considered at the time one of serious difficulty. The gunboats, however, proved better sea-boats than had been expected, and they all arrived safely at Hongkong, where their presence gave a new and happy turn to the war in Canton [see ], in which Osborn was actively engaged. In December 1857 the Furious was appointed for the use of the plenipotentiary, Lord Elgin, and in the following year took him to Shanghai and the Gulf of Pechili. After the signing of the treaty of Tien-tsin, Lord Elgin, still in the Furious, went to Yedo, where he concluded a treaty which virtually opened Japan to western intercourse; and in September 1858 went up the Yang-tsze as far as Hankow, a piece of difficult and intricate navigation, which was considered to reflect very great credit both on Osborn and on Mr. Court, the master of the Furious. In 1859 Osborn returned to England in bad health, and, while resting from the active duties of his profession, laboured unremittingly with his pen, contributing many articles to ‘Blackwood's Magazine,’ mostly on naval or Chinese topics. In 1861 he was appointed to the Donegal, which he commanded in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war, and paid off in the beginning of 1862. In the following June he accepted the proposal made to him by Mr. Lay, as agent for the Chinese government, to take command of a squadron specially fitted out in England for the suppression of piracy on the coast of China. In 1863 he went out with six steamers, built for the purpose, accompanied by several officers of the navy or the mercantile marine. It had been expressly stipulated that Osborn was to receive his orders from the imperial government alone, independent of the local authorities; but on his arrival in China he found that the government had determined that in this respect the agreement should not be carried out, and that the officers of the squadron were to be under the command of the mandarins at the several ports. Osborn refused to accept the position indicated, which, he foresaw, might lead to many complications, contrary to his own sense of propriety and prejudicial to the interests of Great Britain; and, as the Chinese were equally resolute, he threw up the appointment and returned to England with the officers who had joined him [see ]. In 1864 he commanded the Royal Sovereign, a ship fitted with turrets on the plan proposed by Captain Cowper Phipps Coles [q. v.], and in 1865 accepted an appointment as agent to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the traffic organisation of which he remodelled and improved. Ill-health compelled him to resign in 1866, and in 1867 he became managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, an office which he held till 1873. In 1871 he commanded the Hercules in the Channel for a few months, and on 29 May 1873 attained the rank of rear-admiral. He had never ceased taking the greatest interest in all questions of arctic exploration, and in 1873 suggested to Commander Albert Markham to examine for himself the new conditions of the work under steam, which Markham did by a summer voyage in a whaler. The favourable report which Markham made strongly influenced public opinion. An expedition was determined on, and an advising committee of experts, of whom Osborn was one, was appointed. On Monday, 3 May 1875, when the ships were on the point of sailing, Osborn went down to Portsmouth to wish the officers farewell. He died suddenly in London on 6 May, and was buried in Highgate cemetery on the 10th. He married, in January 1852, Helen, daughter of John Hinksman of Queen Anne Street, London, who still survives him, and left issue two daughters. His more important works, including ‘The Discovery of a North-West Passage by


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 as Marquis of Carmarthen on 11 June 1767, and was created M.A. on 30 March 1769, and D.C.L. on 7 July 1778. At a by-election in March 1774 Carmarthen was returned to the House of Commons for the borough of Eve in Suffolk. He voted uniformly with the government, except on the petition from the Massachusetts, when he divided with the minority, as he 'could by no means approve of the rejecting it unheard' (Political Memoranda, p. 3), and on 2 May he spoke in favour of the third reading of the Bill for regulating the Government of Massachusetts Bay. At the general election in October 1774 he was returned for the borough of Helston in Cornwall. He voted against Lord North*s propositions for conciliating the differences with America in February 1776 (Political Memoranda, p. 4), and was unseated on petition in the following month (Commons' Journals, xxxv. 194-5, 196-197). On 16 May 1776 he was called up to the House of Lords in his father's barony, and took his seat on the following day as Baron Osborne of Kiveton in the county of York (Lords' Journals, xxxiv. 732). On the 31st of the same month he was appointed a lord of the bedchamber, an office which he resigned in December 1777, on being appointed lord chamberlain of the queen's household. Carmarthen spoke for the first time in the House of Lords during the debate on the address on 31 Oct. 1776, when he opposed Lord Rockingham's amendment in favour of an inquiry into the American grievances (Parl. Hist. xviii. 1391-2). He supported the address at the opening of parliament in November 1777 (16. xix. 388), and on 24 Dec. in the same year was admitted a member of the privy council (London Gazette, 1777, No. 11834). In March 1778 he spoke in favour of the Conciliatory Bills (Parl. Hist. xix. 849-60), and in July following was appointed lord-lieutenant of the East Riding or Yorkshire. He had, however, 'for some time lamented the notorious want of ability in the ministry,' and at length, finding himself at variance with Lord North on the subject of the York meeting, he resigned his office in the queen's household on 27 Jan. 1780 {Political memoranda, pp. 17-20;, George III, ii. 263), On 8 Feb. Carmarthen was summarily dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, and on the same day he supported Lord Shelburne's motion for an inquiry into the public expenditure, when he declared that the ministers' were the curse of this country, and he feared would prove its ruin' (''Parl. Hist. 1339-40, 1341-2, 1346). Lord Shelburne's motion in the following month with regard to Carmarthen's dismissal was defeated by ninety-two votes to thirty-two (ib''. xxi. 217-28). In March Carmarthen published 'A Letter to the Right Honourable L[or]d Thrurlo]w, L[or]d H[ig]h Ch[ancello]r of E[nglan]d, &c., &c., &c.,' London, 1780, 8vo, in which he advocated a change of government, and particularly the removal of North, Sandwich, and Germain {Political Memoranda, p. 21). At the opening of parliament on 1 Nov. he moved an amendment to the address, but was defeated by a majority of forty-five (Parl. Hist. xxi. 815–16; Political Memoranda, p. 34). On his motion the Earl of Pomfret was committed to the tower for challenging the Duke of Grafton to a duel (Parl. Hist. xxi. 864-866). In March 1781 Carmarthen resigned his commission as captain and keeper of Deal Castle (Political Memoranda, p. 40), and in the same month signed the protest against the third reading of Lord North's Loan Bill (, Complete Collection of the Protests of the Lords, 1876, ii. 208-10). Early in 1782 he published a small pamphlet entitled 'An Adoress to the independent Members of both Houses of Parliament,' London, 1782, 8vo, in which he urged them to take an active part in the business of the nation (Political Memoranda, p. 51). In February 1782 he unsuccessfully opposed Lord George Germain's promotion to the peerage, as 'derogatory to the honour of the House of Lords' (Parl. Hist. xxii. 999-1023). On the formation of the second Rockingham administration in March 1782 Carmarthen was restored to the post of lord-lieutenant of the East Riding. He moved the address at the opening of parliament on 6 Dec. 1782 (ib. xxiii. 210-11), and on 9 Feb. 1783 was appointed ambassador-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary at Paris. On the 17th of that month he seconded the address approving of the preliminary articles of peace, which was only carried by a majority of thirteen (ib. xxiii. 376). Owing to the change of administration, Carmarthen did not proceed to Paris, and in April resigned the post. He was appointed secretary of state for the foreign department in Pitt's ministry on 23 Dec. 1783, and in the following year records that he could not prevail upon the cabinet 'to give that attention to foreign affairs that I thought necessary, and consequently afterwards gave them little trouble on the subject,' adding, 'Mr. Pitt, however, for some time applied himself to the correspondence with great assiduity' (Political Memoranda, p. 101). Jealousy of France seems to have been the keynote of Carmarthen's foreign policy, his chief object at this time being to form an alliance with Russia


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 and Austria, and to destroy the existing connection between France and Austria. He, however, defended Pitt's commercial treaty with France in the House of Lords on 5 March 1787 as a measure 'which he was firmly convinced would prove of infinite advantage to this country' (Parl. Hist. xxvi. 571). On 3 March 1789 Carmarthen was personally thanked by the king 'for his affectionate behaviour during his illness' (Political Memoranda, p. 142), and on the 23rd of the same month he succeeded his father as fifth Duke of Leeds. He was elected and invested a knight of the Garter on 15 Dec. 1790, but was never installed (, History of the Orders of British Knighthood, 1842, vol. ii. p. lxxiii). In consequence of a disagreement with his colleagues on the question of 'the Russian armament,' Leeds resigned office on 21 April 1791 (Political Memoranda, pp. 148–74). During the debate in February 1792 on Lord Fitzwilliam's resolutions with respect to our interference between Russia and the Porte, Leeds referred at some length to the change of opinion in the cabinet, which had caused his resignation (Parl. Hist. xxix. 805–6). In the summer of this year Leeds, at the instance of the Duke of Portland, took part in some abortive negotiations for forming a coalition between Pitt and Fox (Political Memoranda, pp. 175-200, see also pp.2016) While speaking in support of the second reading of the Alien Bill on 21 Dec. 1792, Leeds declared he 'would always be so much of an Englishman as to believe it unlikely that a Frenchman should be a friend to England' (Parl. Hist. xxx. 160). In February 1793 he expressed his approbation of the war with France {ib. xxx. 423), and in February 1794 opposed Lord Lansdowne's motion in favour of peace {ib. xxx. 1415-16). Later on, however, he became more placable. At the opening of parliament on 30 Dec. 1794 he refused to vote for the address, 'because it went to pledge the house never to be in amity with France whilst that nation continued a republic' (ib. xxxi. 99l; Political Memoranda, p. 213), and on 27 Jan. 1795 he supported the Duke of Bedford's motion that 'any particular form of government which may prevail in France should not preclude negotiation or prevent peaces consistent with the interest, the honour, and the security of this country' (Parl. Hist. xxxi. 1277). In the following May he spoke in favour of an inquiry into the circumstances of Lord Fitzwilliam's recall from Ireland (ib. xxxi. 1506). He spoke for the last time in the House of Lords on 30 May 1797, during the debate on the Duke of Bedford's motion for the dismissal of the ministry, when he ridiculed the idea that 'the existence of the constitution was inseparably connected with the continuance of the present ministry in power,' and expressed his opinion that parliamentary reform was 'a most dangerous remedy to resort to' (ib. xxxii. 762-3). He died at his house in St. James's Square, London, on 31 Jan. 1799, aged 48, and was buried in All Saints Church, Harthill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 15 Feb. following.

Leeds was an amiable nobleman of moderate abilities and capricious disposition. His vanity was excessive and his political conduct unstable. While secretary of state for the foreign department the chief despatches, though formally signed by him, were really the composition of Pitt. According to Mrs. Montagu, he was 'the prettiest man in his person ; the most polite and pleasing in his manners, with a sweet temper and an excellent understanding, happily cultivated' (, A Lady of the Last Century, 1873, p. 258; and see Selections from the Letters and Corresp, of Sir James Bland Barges, p. 62).

Leeds was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 1 April 1773, and a Busby trustee on 22 April 1790. He was appointed governor of the Scilly Islands on 11 June 1785, high steward of Hull on 11 April 1786, vice-admiral of the county of York on 5 March 1795, and colonel of the East Riding regiment of provisional cavalry on 24 Dec. 1796. Though generally styled Francis Godolphin Osborne in the peerages, Godolphin was not one of his names (Gent. Mag. 1799, pt. i. p. 286; see also Journals of the House of Lords, xxxiv. 732). His 'Political Memoranda,' edited by Mr. Oscar Browning, throw an important light on fragmentary portions of English history of the latter part of the last century. They form apart only of the valuable collection of the 'Osborne Papers' preserved at the British Museum, which includes eight volumes of his official correspondence (Addit. MSS. 28059-68). Two comedies written by him (ib. 27917) and several of his letters (see Indices of ib. 1854-75 and 1882-7) are preserved in the same place. A portion of his political correspondence in 1784-5 and 1787-1790, including a number of letters to him from Pitt, is in the possession of the present Duke of Leeds (Hist. MSS. Comm. 11th Rep. App. vii. pp. 2, 63-6).

Leeds married first, on 29 Nov. 1773, Lady Amelia, only daughter and sole heiress of Robert D'Arcy, fourth earl of Holderness, afterwards Baroness Conyers in her own right, from whom he was divorced by Act of Parliament on 31 May 1779. By his first marriage he had two sons — viz. George William Frederick, born on 21 July 1775,


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Rh word o' kindness o the bit desolate orphan; no an offer that if she was na comfortable wi' the like o' us, that she would do a kinswoman's part by her; no a question aboot what sor o' life she led, or if she saw her way to anything better; but exhortations to her to be grateful, and a lang story aboot her ain bairns and her ain goodman. Grateful to us for what? 'Deed it's us that should be grateful, and so I would like to tell baith her and Mrs. Hammond. But ye say that Amy's downcast aboot it. Nae wonder; sic professions and sic self-seeking are nae cheerful subjects to consider. But I'll tell her ha we canna but rejoice that there's nane to take her away, for I'm sure it's nae empty words I mak use o' when I say she is like a bairn o' my ain, and your father is o' the same mind, though he says less aboot it."

Amy had other letters by the mail; one from the proprietor of the Palladium, regretting the untimely death of her father, his good friend Gerald Staunton, praising his talents, and saying that the journal had missed him, and could see no one to supply his place satisfactorily. From him Amy had expected nothing, and the well-turned phrases of regret and sympathy soothed her and comforted her. There was a longer letter from an old friend, an artist, into whose sudio

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144 Amy had been often taken by her father—full of surprise, full of grief, full of wishes that he could do anything for her; but he was poor, often in difficulties, and generally imprudent. If the bereavement had happened in England, Amy might have been asked to share his scrambling life, and divide his crust with him, but the distance was an insuperable bar, and he could only express regretful pleasure that others were so much more able than himself help her. She had not written to Mr. Hubbard, but Mr. Loder of the Palladium had told him of the sad catastrophe, and though the artist hated writing, he could not help expressing his feelings and his sympathy with his dear friend Staunton's orphan. To the Derricks Amy had made no communication; there was a short postscript to her aunt's letter, which Amy had kept back, saying that perhaps it was as well she had not applied to them, as she had no claim on the old gentleman whatever, and it was likely that her brother and sister did not know of her existence.

Mr. Hammond, therefore, was doomed to disappointment; here had been no offer from England to give Amy a home. She was sill to remain within five miles of them, a thorn in his wife's side, and a mortification to himself. Mrs. Hammond was sorry, and she said so, but yet

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Rh she did not wish she had acted otherwise. She could not have offered Amy a home when she felt such intense dislike and suspicion of her; when the tones of her voice, the changes of her countenance, the air and manners, all reminded her of one whom she had good reason to dislike and despise. She could not have done her duty by her. Amy Staunton was better situated with the Lindsays, and since her aunt would not take her, let her stay at Branxholm, whatever it might cost Mrs. Hammond, for the time could not be long now that the family would be kept in South Australia. Mr. Hammond was seeing his way now to returning to England himself for some years at least, and, as Mrs. Hammond fondly hoped, for life.

She disliked the colony more now that she had lost prestige in the neighbourhood, and she directed all her influence with her husband towards such arrangements of his affairs as would enable him to leave the colony.

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, Australian, —57,, etc., Adelaide River, North Australia,. ——— City, return to,. Albert River,, etc. Anlaby Hill, ,. Arnhem's Land,. Auriferous Features,.

Baker's, Mr., station,,. Barkly's Tableland,. "Ben Bolt," trader,,. Bierly, Mr.,. Binoe Creek,. Blanchewater Station,,. Bowen River,. ——— Township,,. Brahe, Mr., of Burke's party,, ,. Broad Sound,,. Brown's Creek,. Browne Creek (W. H. Browne),. ——— (J. H. Browne),. Buchanan Lake, or Cudgeecudgeena,. ——— Mr., of Anlaby,. Bullenjani, a native,, , , ,. Burke's Creek,. ——— Mr., his death, ; his grave, Burke and Wills' Expedition in 1860-61, —27. ——— first to cross Australia,. ——— their lamentable fate,. Burdekin River,. ——— mouth of;. ——— crossing on raft,.

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42 He forms some valuable friendships, and at the end of the term goes into a great manufactory of electric motors. These are in great demand. They are let by the government to those who need them in the preparation of produce, in manufacture, or for pleasure. They are made by the government, and do not belong to private individuals. Those who use them, it appears, have the rent charge debited in their private account.

About the end of his five hundred-day term at the technical school our diarist writes:—"I have passed the final examinations with flying colors. As a student of the theoretical branches I was very eager. I desired to master the mathematical sides of the electrical problem as well as the mechanical ones. I plainly saw that very low rates of vibration would produce sound, that higher rates would give power in higher and still higher grades of intensity; that higher rates would give chemical action and still more rapid would give beat in a diffused gentle form; increase the rate of vibration still more and we reach the point where red heat gives off the first rays of red light. From this point to the extreme violet light is again only a series of changes in rate of vibration.

In these light vibrations I was not particularly interested, but I saw that even yet there was much to be discovered regarding the effects producible by electricity in the various states and rates of motion between the highest sound vibration and the lowest of the heat and light series. It appeared to me that if these rates could be utilised they might, by acting on the soil, the water and the air, increase productiveness, there being no need to hesitate in drawing upon an illimitable supply of force.

I had read a deal about the time following upon the 'Black Century,' and of the marvels wrought by the new source of power, and I had seen that the introduction of abundant heat, light and power had so stimulated industry and production that life had become easy and the means of sustaining it had become abundant, with the result that the population doubled in a little more than a century. In the 'Black Century' we lost five hundred millions, and before the conclusion of the second century from then our population had almost reached its present enormous number, for the size of our planet, of over five thousand millions.

My idea was, and is still, that further knowledge in chemical vibrations will double or treble the productiveness of the soil, and both reduce the labor of the agriculturist and increase indefinitely the amount of his productions. Why may we not have two harvests in place of one? Why may we not get chemically from air, water, and earth the foods that plants combine in their organised structures?

I left Bertrand's school full of new ideas and quite ready to commence learning my trade, but my father was fully determined that I should spend half a year at home and visit the Central Museum in his company for a

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Rh week or two. To this I fully agreed, especially as another spring was already here, and I might make one or two preliminary experiments on a small scale.

CHAPTER VIII.

HAVE not previously mentioned in these diaries the fact that electricity is supplied free to everyone who uses it on our planet. There is no attempt to measure the consumption and no stint placed on its use. For the supply is inexhaustible, and even the use does not diminish force; it merely makes it serve our purpose in passing. When we release the electricity it just runs back into the down current, and may be in our hands again in a few seconds later.

There was, therefore, no difficulty in getting a wire laid into a carefully prepared garden plot. In this I had planted a few common vegetables. I passed the current through a regulator and then laid coils all over the plot just beneath the soil. My object was to raise the temperature of the soil a little higher than that of the surrounding air, and to keep it night and day in the same condition.

I had another plot of the same size planted in a similar manner, and fertilised with the same ingredients. In ninety days the plants had attained the ordinary maturity, but I allowed them to remain thirty days more and they reached quite double size. The crop sown in the same way, and grown in the ordinary way, was as far advanced in one hundred and eighty days as the other in ninety. On analysing the soil from the two plots I found that the quicker growing and bulkier plants had taken little, if any, more out of the soil than the ordinary plants had absorbed, I therefore came to the conclusion that the gentle stimulus of a little warmth in the soil had caused a more rapid absorption of water and atmospheric constituents.

We, father and I, sent an account of our discovery to the Minister of Agriculture in the Planetary Executive. He advised further and more extended experiments. He said we must find out if the extra crop paid the extra cost in labor and material involved by the laying of wires and attention; that we must have the bulkier productions analysed to see if their nourishing qualities were increased in proportion to their increased bulk, for there would be no gain in causing a plant to swell by the absorption of fluid.

We made the experiments as advised, and found that the invention could be advantageously utilised if the wires were laid in tubes at a depth of from twelve to fourteen inches, and made a permanent fixture, that the best results ware produced by turning on the electricity at nightfall, that pound

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190 his master, he said "What a pity that people have not the same license here as they have in Australia." Charlie, understanding Donald's impatience, replied "I know, Donald, your finger is itching to pull that trigger; I will be responsible for you this evening, at least, so you may fire away." Munro needed no more encouragement, for the reports from his double-barrel told that the work of destruction had commenced.

On the party approaching Mr. McKay's house, a noise, as of revelry met their ears as it issued from the dining-room, which drowned the sound produced at their entrance. When they had gained the dining-room, the door of which was open, a scene presented itself which exceeded any Australian bushman's spree they ever saw.

Around a large table, on which were scattered a number of half-emptied decanters and glasses, a large party of dissipated sportsmen, evidently affected by drink, were seated. At the opposite end sat the host, George McKay, who, although taking part in the scene, was not overcome by imbibing, neither did he seem altogether at ease with the dissipation around him. At the nearest end, and with his back towards them, sat the profligate Lord Lundy, apparently the ringleader of the riot.

On seeing the strangers George rose in confusion, and some of the guests, whose eyes were less clouded by their deep potations, endeavoured to follow his example, but in attempting it they fell over their chairs, rendering the confusion still greater. Lord Lundy, who was ignorant of the cause of the commotion, roared out, "What are you all about," accompanying it with a fearful oath.

George McKay now advanced towards the strangers, and instantly recognized his cousins, who introduced the officers, but taxed his own memory with the recognition of the other couple, Charlie and Bella. The latter, who was veiled, stood aloof, but Charlie, advancing towards his brother-in-law, said, "You do not appear to recognize me, George." The voice was sufficient, the two friends were instantly locked in each other's embrace, and for the first time for many a year, George McKay dropped

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Rh a tear on his friend's shoulders, whispering, with a tremulous voice, "All would he well now, if she were here." Charlie, who understood the remark, exclaimed triumphantly (at the same time stepping over to his wife, and removing her veil), "Behold her George! I have brought her back again! She was not drowned, as was supposed, but was for years a captive in the power of savages, from whom I rescued her, and for which she has rewarded me with her hand, and you now see Charlie Stuart and Bella McKay man and wife."

The latter portion of this sentence fell with a heavy shock on the ears of the half-stupified Lord Lundy. His former hatred and animosity towards his now successful rival returned with tenfold force, but which was arrested by the affectionate meeting of George and his long-lost sister. Not an eye in that room was free from tears, oven the callous debauchees were obliged to turn their heads, and hide their emotion.

Lord Lundy could not bear to hear the glowing terms in which Bella eulogized her husband's bravery when rescuing her, and see the sweet looks with which she acknowledged Charlie's devotion. The enraged spendthrift picked up his hat, exclaiming in a rage, "I thought Charlie Stuart knew his place better than to place a foot on an estate from which he had been so ignominiously expelled, and from which he would be horsewhipped, were it not for the connexion he has so surreptitiously formed."

On hearing this Charlie, in a delightfully cool and defiant manner, walked across to where Lord Lundy stood, when, standing erect, and fixing his eye firmly upon him, said, "I beg your pardon, my Lord, but I will just inform you that, so far from the proprietor of this estate inflicting any such punishment upon me, he would rather apply it to your Lordship." At this moment he handed a sealed packet to Lord Lundy, and added, "In place of your horsewhipping me off your estate, I have now to request that you will quit my estate at your earliest convenience."

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192 eyes were terrible proofs of Charlie's remarks, that the Lochlinn estate was now the property of his rival Charlie Stuart, who added, "I am sorry to be the bearer of your downfall, my Lord, and also having to present it on the present occasion, for it never was my disposition to triumph over the misfortunes of a rival; however, you must blame yourself, and I hope the lesson will be of benefit to you hereafter. You are young, and by at once seeking and following the paths or truth and rectitude, may yet regain that position which you have so foolishly sacrificed."

The company's attention was now drawn to some fresh commotion on the stairs, which sounded like forcible pushing and dragging, accompanied by the following expressions:—"Come up here my beauty. I'll soon show you manners for poaching on a nobleman's estate. His Lordship and Mr. McKay will put you through your facings, my fine gentleman."

The cause of all this bouncing and scuffling turned out to be our old acquaintance, John Brown, Lord Lundy's valet, who had met with his former rival and adversary, Donald, shooting. Being this day at the Post-office, and having to call at Mr. McKay's as he returned to leave the letters, he met with Donald. Not recognising him, Brown demanded his license for shooting on the estate. Munro, not wishing to make himself known as yet, admitted that he had no license, when, after giving other unsatisfactory answers, Brown marched him off to the factor's house, where he would be dealt with by his Lordship and Mr. McKay. In order to make himself more officious, he used several unnecessary epithets, and pushing Donald into the presence of his judges, laid the charge in the following words:—"My Lord, I have just popped on this here man, shooting, as if he had full liberty from you to do so. I hope you will make an example of him." Lord Lundy, whose mind was occupied with his own misfortunes, only asked Brown if he had any letters for him,—on receiving which, his Lordship was more confirmed in his downfall, and immediately took his departure.

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 antckuˊ, give me your hand! aˊkhu to give to eat; ạtcˊkhu, you give to eat. athiˊsi tcikuˊ, you give medicine.

ạkĭfhûⁿˊtku, Saturday.

akĭktceˊhi, a flower. — ila akĭktceˊhi, sunflower.

ạkishoˊtiạˊtabạ, a lizard.

aˊkiska, grass, bush. — aˊkiska ktceˊhi, rosebush.

akoˊhi, to shout, to call out. — bakoˊhi I shout; tcakoˊhi, you shout. kiaˊwa ĭñkoˊhi, what do you call? miⁿˊte kiaˊwe ibakoˊhi, what am I calling? tcaˊkohi, you are calling.

akoˊcka, gizzard, his gizzard.

ạkoⁿˊsi, bee. — ạkoⁿˊsi wiⁿˊshu, honey.

akôⁿˊti, a peach. — ạkôⁿt atcûˊti, a plum; akôⁿt palăˊska, an orange or a lemon. (The Jesuit missionary Poisson mention contai as the name which “our Indians” give to the plum, and this may have been taken from the Ofo language, but it is at least as likely that it is from Quapaw, Poisson having had the Quapaw (or Arkansa) mission.)

akshiˊki, mad, crazy.

akshoˊti, alligator.

aktcạˊhi, to boil. — aˊni aktcạˊhi, water boils.

ạktcaˊpi, near. — abạktcaˊpi, near to me; atcạktcaˊpi, near to you.

aˊktchĕ, to spit (cf. tcahe). — baˊktchĕ, I spit; tcaˊktchĕ, you spit; oⁿaˊktchĕ, we spit; tcaktchĕˊ, spittle, your spittle (?).

aktaˊtci, friend. — abaktaˊtci, my friend; tcaktaˊtci, your friend.

aˊktạti, to love. — baˊktạti, I love; tcaˊktạti, you love.

akteˊhue, akteˊhu, to shup up. — bakteˊhue, bakteˊhu, I shut up; tcakteˊhue, tcakteˊhu, you shut up; oⁿakteˊhue, oⁿakteˊhu, we shut up; akteˊhu, shut it! abakteˊhu, I shut it; atcakteˊhu, you shut it.

aˊktha, to watch. — baˊktha, I watch.

aˊkti, bug, insect.

aktiˊsi, paper. — akteˊsue, to write; bakteˊsue, I write; tcakteˊsue, you write. akteˊsue iⁿˊfpe, to read; bakteˊsue, I read.

aˊktucpôⁿˊcka, to splice, to patch. — baˊktucpôⁿˊcka, I splice or patch; tcaˊktucpôⁿˊcka, you splice or patch.

aˊktuwa, to gather, collect. — baˊktuwa, I gather or collect; tcaˊktuwa, you gather or collect.

aˊkuitcuⁿˊ, to be stingy. — baˊkuitcuⁿ, I am stingy; tcaˊkuitcuⁿ, you are stingy.

akyuˊwe, to send. — bakyuˊwe, I send; tcakyuˊwe, you send.

alaˊhi, alahiˊ, skin, bark, also the shell of a turtle, etc. — balaˊhi, my skin, tccalaˊhi, your skin; iˊtxa ạlaˊhi, buckskin, deerskin; aphaˊ alahiˊ, scalp, “head skin.”

alaphaˊ, whisky. — alapha tcuˊti, red whisky.

aluˊthĕ, to be drowned. — baluˊthĕ, I am drowned; tcaluˊthĕ, you are drowned; oⁿluˊthĕ, we are drowned; miⁿˊti baluˊthĕ, I drown myself; mihiⁿˊsa baluˊthĕ, I drown myself; mihiⁿˊsa etciⁿˊti baluˊthĕ, we are drowned each other; ihiⁿˊsa baluˊthĕ, he drowns himself.

amạphoˊaka, amạphûˊska, the common partridge (Creole: perdrix).

amashûˊpka, palmetto

amạskuˊwĕ, salt. — atk amạskuˊwĕ, sugar; ạfhoˊti atk amạskuˊwĕ, sugar-cane.

amaspoˊhi, amaspohiˊ, tobacco-pipe (cf. pûhi, hole).

amatchoⁿˊ, ạˊmatcha, aˊmạtchôⁿˊ, down, low, low down. — ạˊmatcha bạteˊkna, I go down.

amawactĕ (?), to let go, release. — baˊmawactĕ, I let it go; tcaˊmawactĕ, you let it go.

amaⁿˊ, turkey. — amaⁿˊ iyaˊñki, female turkey; amaⁿˊ itoˊki, male turkey.

aˊmaⁿ, land, country, ground. — aˊmaⁿ tuˊfhahe, to hoe land; aˊmaⁿ kheˊwe, to plow land.

aˊmifĕ, to sneeze. — baˊmifĕ, I sneeze.

amĭfhĭˊpi, parasol, umbrella. — amĭfhiˊpi tcaˊni, you take your parasol; amĭfhiˊpi baˊni, I take my parasol.

amiˊhuⁿ, amiⁿˊhuⁿ, fever. — amiˊhuⁿ fhi, yellow fever.

amiˊshu, to fan, a fan. — bamiˊshu, I fan; tcamiˊshu, you fan.

amôⁿˊfi, amôˊfi, iron, a pot, pottery.— amôˊf okhoˊe, lid of a pot; amoⁿfhạsiˊ, amoⁿfhạˊsi, money. amoⁿfhạsiˊ ishuˊhi, amôˊfi iwôˊfi, brass, copper. amoⁿfhạs afhaⁿˊ, amoⁿfhạˊsi afhôⁿˊ, silver. amoⁿˊ fhạs ĭ fhiˊ, amofhạˊsi fhi, gold. amôⁿs taˊnufhaⁿˊ, one dollar. amoⁿˊfi ạtkûˊsi, scissors. amôˊfkĕ, scythe.


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Rh Charlie now told Donald of his fortune, and the turn affairs had taken; on hearing which Brown attempted to follow his master, but Donald was too quick for him, and held him firmly by the collar, threatening to give him up to justice for perjury at the trial.

It was amusing to see the terror-stricken valet; his knees shook under him, and his looks were fearful, seeming almost as if it would be his death; Charlie here told Donald to let him escape a little longer, as his conscience would be a source of punishment to him.

Another person now appeared on the scene, Mary Munro, leading her two children; hearing that her husband had been accused, and brought before Lord Lundy, had entered to plead his cause, but she was delighted on seeing him not as the accused, but the accuser. The guilty conscience of the valet quailed under the gaze of the faithful mother on recollecting his own diabolical charges against the father.

Donald agreed to his master's lenient mode of dealing with him, and allowed him to follow his disgraced master.

On the departure of the revellers, and order being restored, Charlie's friends flocked around him, congratulating him on his fortune in becoming the possessor of the Lochlinn estate, and his happy wife teazed him a little for his closeness in keeping the secret, when he reminded her that he promised her a surprise some day when they were in London. It then occurred to her that the article which he cut out of the paper had a reference to the estate, which was the case, for, on running his eyes over the list of estates for sale, he saw the following:—"For sale, by order of the trustees, the Lochlinn Estate, the seat of Lord Lundy, in the Highlands, apply," &c, &c. Charlie cut the advertisement out, applied to the agents, and a bargain was immediately made.

It appeared that through Lord Lundy's extravagance and his being disinherited by his father, he had been obliged to mortgage his estate heavily. As the trustees could see no prospect of reform in the young spendthrift's habits, or hopes of the estate being released, its sale became necessary.

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194 What were the feelings of the profligate as he left the house where an hour before he was leading the revelry, cannot be described. He now saw himself to be what he really was, an outcast, without a friend on the face of the earth. Even his associates of the last hour deserted him on learning his downfall leaving him a solitary wanderer to commune with his own harassing thoughts. He cursed the first morning that he saw the Bridge of Linn, and he believed himself bewitched on that occasion by its romantic scenery, and above all, by the fascinations of Bella, whom he now blamed for all his misfortunes.

But why had she appeared before him again to open afresh the wounds she had caused? And how had she come? Why, as the bride of another and that and one his rival! What a triumph! He who was turned off the estate as the stumbling-block to his Lordship's happiness, now returning to retaliate, not only as being the possessor of the prize, but also the owner of the estate, driving him as an outcast from the last possession he had. And they so happy; how lovingly they gazed on each other! How happy would he be were the least of those smiles bestowed upon him. He would have gladly endured all Charlie had done, if he were to be rewarded with but one single glance of kindness from her.

These and such were the thoughts which harassed his troubled mind as he wended his steps towards that castle which was now no longer his, and which he would be compelled to leave without a soul near him, with the exception of the perjured Brown.

The thoughts which tormented the latter were no less excruciating than his master's. The vengeance which awaited his previous conduct began to loom over his guilty conscience. What a pitiful contrast his harrowing thoughts and situation presented before his innocent, manly, and happy rival and former victim Donald Munro; the fond, matronly wife Mary, and the beautiful children.

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Great were the rejoicings among the tenantry and all others in the district on hearing of the arrival of its present proprietor, Charlie Stuart and his wife, for whom they had mourned for years.

A bonfire on an extensive scale was given by the proprietor in commemoration of the happy event which every person on the estate attended. Games and sports of all descriptions, calculated to enliven the guests, were introduced. After the banquet dancing was commenced which was kept up with great spirit. About one o'clock Charlie led his lovely wife to seek the refreshing, air on the balcony, when they halted on the very spot where ten years before they had exchanged the sighs of ardent love. Ten years! and through what vicissitudes they had passed during that period! So awful that they were now almost afraid to think of them! Would it were in reality a dream! "Yes! ten years!" whispered Charlie, "and you are as lovely as ever."

A great rustling of silk and shuffling of feet could now be heard by them, and the whole company came out to inhale the fresh air.

It was now proposed that a procession should be formed, when each gentleman leading his partner, was to proceed to the side of the lake, and see what was going on there; they accordingly started, the whole being led by Charlie and his wife. Immense cheering, and throwing of hats and bonnets, met the new proprietor and his wife, as they walked among the tenantry, and many blessings were heaped upon them.

Around one of the fires was seen a crowd of curious spectators apparently enjoying something which was quite novel in the Highlands, judging by the strange sounds issuing from the group and the additional spectators it was constantly receiving. Charlie and the party now directed their steps towards it, when they beheld to their astonishment, a representation of an Australian corroboree.

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