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A STORY OF EVERGLADES. Recalled by the .Transfer of Billy Bowiegs's Last Befuge to Private Owners. Allanta Journal. Up to a few years ago all that was^known of that vast inland see the southern border of Geosgia called the Okesenokee Swan**? was that it had once been the strong hold of "Billy Bowlegs." . Even those who had heard the euphoni ous name often enough to form some idea as to the topograph of the swamp, received an entirely erroneous impression of its character. They regarded it as a mere waste of malarial waters, like the Everglades of Florida or the ^Dismal Swamp of Virginia. Within the past two years however, tue invasion of capital into the recesses of its cypress . and magnolia groves has revealed a wealth of natural resources un . surpassed, and Bhown that instead of being an impenetrable swamp, the Okesenokee is a gieat inland sea of very much the same type in , the quality of its water as Lake j Superior. Away back in the early days of the century, just prior to. the Seminole war, Gen^, Clinch of Georgia marched into Florida and penetrated the everglades with a regiment of soldiers, his purpose being tcT induce the Sominole chiefs to sign a treaty .relinquish ing their possessions to the Gov ernment. He pitched his . tent in the heart of the swamp, and invited the Indian chieftains to a conference at which they were to sign the papers ceding the land to the United States. The chief bf-the Seminoles at thai time was a halfbreed named Smith-a man of strikingly handsome ap pearance over six feet in height and as straight as an arrow. Thie leader, together, with two of hifi sub-chiefs was standing, in Gen. Clinch's tent listening to the read ing of the deed which took away .their laudSjOlf At the conclusion ol the reading the two 3ub-ceiefs wht: could neither read nor write made their , marks Turning tc Smith, who stood in contemplative mood, gazig with fixed eyes upon the papers before them, Ger Clinch asked: "You . can write your nam Smith?" "Yes," he replied, quickly, but this is one time when I intend t make my mark." Quick ?is thought, the powerful half-breed. whipped out a long keen knife and lightning-like buried it to the hilt in tE?\ hear! , of one of the sub-chiefs, then in that of the others and finally in the breast of the Government agent, killing the three ' almost instantly. The soldiers about Gen. Clinch flew to arms and were in the act . of making Smith their prisoner . when he calmly called to them to look outside the tent. Doing so, they found" the camp completely surrounded by a band of at least 3,000 Indian braves ready to 'obey their chief's command. Smith did not order the massacre of the com pany but without as much as harming a hair of the head of Gen. Clinch or any of his solders marched them to the edge of the --swamp and in parting said : "Now. G?n. Clinch, you and your soldiers may go, but I warn you that if ever a white man places his foot upon our lands again he had better beware of the Seminoles." As Gen.' Clinch marched his - men away the In i an braves j enthusiastically [crowded about th eir great chief, aud raising him high upon their shoulders, cried out in a mighty chorns, ^Osceola I Osce?la 1" whioh means "the rising sun.'\This was the beginning of the Seminole war, and it wa " in this way the half-breed chieftain received the name by which he is known to history. The end of.his career is* familiar to all. The manner in which he was enticed to Washington, where he attracted much attention and was the observed-of all observers," under cover of a flag of truce and confinement until his death in Fort Moultrie, at Charleston, are remembered. Smith's sucessor in command of the Seminoles was Billy Bowlegs a chief of diminutive stature but undaunted courage. During the war which followed Billy found refuge in Okefenokee Swamp, and one of the principal islands of this inland sea now bears his name. Okefenokee Swamp was, until 1390, the property at the State of Georgia. An act of the Legislature, approved in ?October, 1889, provided for the sale of the swamp i& the highest bidder, the minimum price being fixed at 12? cents an acre. When the bids were opened by Gov. Gordon on March 18,1690, that offering 26* cents per acre was accepted. A' ladv has been appointed pro fessor of elocufion in King's Col- J lege, England. 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