Hon. J. H. Bryant, who was here from Princeton to attend the Dr. Everett half century celebration, is a brother of the great poet, the late William Cullen Bryant. Mr. Bryant said that his brother had told him that many of his (the poet's) friends had expressed the belief that his poem entitled 'The Past' was considered the most charming of the great poet's work, and as the lines were so appropriate for the occasion Mr. Bryant desired to repeat them to the company assembled at Dr. Everett's house on that pleasant evening. The poem was recited with very charming effect by Mr. Bryant.

To the Editor of the MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HIS

TORY :

ANOTHER RELIC OF THE PAST.

Our recent publication of the first advertisement of lots for sale in the settlement which subsequently became the borough of Elizabeth, seems to have

proved interesting reading, judging by the frequent

assurances we have had to that effect. The advertisement below, taken from a contemporary publication, while not having all the local interest attaching to the other, is yet quite interesting to any student of the early history of our region. Mr. Smith of Philadelphia, who unearthed it, sent it to Mr. Isaac Craig of Allegheny, an authority on local history, and he wrote the letter with which it is introduced, much of which has special interest to Elizabeth people:

ALLEGHANY, Nov. 12, 1885.

GEO. PLUMER SMITH, ESQ., DEAR SIR: I have received the Elizabeth Herald, containing Colonel Stephen Bayard's advertisement of lots in "Elizabeth-Town," also a copy of the advertisement of "Montmorin" from the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser of February 13, 1788, for which you will please accept my thanks.

In 1879, when my statement regarding location of Logstown was disputed, I received from many sources evidence confirming the correctness of my position. Among others Mr. John Jordan, jr., vicepresident of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

very kindly copied and sent me the advertisement of Montmorin lots. It was entirely new to me. This paper town was, I presume, named in honor of Count Montmorin, who had in his childhood been a playmate of the king of France, and about 1778 succeeded D'Ossan as French ambassador at Madrid,

and on the death of Vergennes, in 1787, became minister of foreign affairs. Spain was bitterly opposed to the United States in 1778, and Montmorin was a warm friend; but although active in promoting the alliance between France and the United States in 1778, in 1788 he, like Vergennes, became alarmed at the progress of this country and wrote to "It is not the French envoy in the United States. advisable for France to give America all the stability of which she is susceptible. She will acquire a degree of power which she will be too well disposed to abuse."

ISAAC CRAIG, ESQ. DEAR SIR: I am now able to locate Logstown beyond all question. Daniel Leet's map of surveys made from April to July, 1785, embraces all the

tracts along the north side of the Ohio from Little

run.

Sewickley creek to and below the mouth of Beaver. "Logs Town Run" is marked as entering the east side of the Ohio about one mile above the upper point of Crow's Island, on tract No. 20. "Old Logs Town" is marked as covering the ends of tracts No. 19 and 18-above the mouth of the The distance from the upper point of Crow's Island to the center of the town is about 430 perches. From the center of the town up the Ohio to the mouth of Big Sewickley, is about 24 miles. The road from Fort McIntosh to Fort Pitt runs near the river in tracts 20, 19, 18 and 17, and is marked as passing through the town, Intract 19, near the town, is marked "Good Situation."

I am, truly yours,

J. SIMPSON AFRICA,
Dep. Sec'y Internal Affairs.

Extract from the Journal of Colonel John May of May 5, 1788: "I arose early on the morning of Monday, 5th; left the people and wagon behind, and advanced as fast as possible to finish my land tracks; dined at Simmerell's, on the Yohogana, and slept at Clark's, on the Monongahela. While at

Simmerell's, they used every stratagem to detain us all night, and perhaps as long as was General Putnam, who tarried at this place two months. They said it was better boating from this river than from the Monongahela; but they are Irish palaverers, and the truth is not in them. Clark keeps a tolerable house where it is called Elizabeths town, fourteen miles from Pittsburgh by land, twenty-two by water. The town is laid out in house lots, and now settling; he intends to make a city of it, but I think he will have his match. This day was raised here a large shed for building boats. Almost all the Kentucky boats from the east pass this place; near two hundred have passed this spring."

Colonel Stephen Bayard, the founder of Elizabethtown, was born in Maryland in 1748; his ancestors were Huguenots from Languedoc. He was educated by his uncle, Colonel John Bayard of Philadelphia. In 1776 he was major in the Pennsylvania regiment commanded by Colonel Eneas Mackey; He was stationed at Fort Pitt during the latter part of the Revolutionary war, and after the war he and my grandfather, Major Isaac Craig, went into partnership and did an extensive business at Pittsburgh, as their books in my possession show. Colonel Bayard married Elisabeth, daughter of Colonel Mackey, and the town was named after her. Colonel Bayard died in Pittsburgh, December 13, 1815, and was buried in the First Presbyterian churchyard.

This town, laid out at the solicitation of several gentlemen, is delightfully situated on the north bank of the Ohio river, on a beautiful plain that is not liable to overflow, in a healthy and fertile country, about eighteen miles below for Pitt on the road to Fort M'Intosh, in Westmoreland county, in the state of Pennsylvania, and at the ancient settlement formerly called Logstown, which was abandoned previous to the peace of 1763, where an extensive trade was carried on many years.

Montmorin commands an extensive view of the river; the soil is equal to any on the Ohio, and abounds in coal; the navigation from thence down the river is superior to that from Fort Pitt, as the water is at all seasons much deeper at this place, and where provisions, boats, etc., may in a little time be as well furnished. It is on the great communication or route from the eastern and middle states to the Muskingum, Miami and Kentucky set

tlements, as well as the Illinois, Mississippi, etc., and will probably become the new county seat; the rapid emigrations to the western country render it a very desirable spot, and afford a flattering prospect of its speedy establishment. The streets are spacious, being sixty-six feet wide, except Great George, Washington, Hancock and Clinton streets, which are ninety-nine feet; the squares are divided into twenty lots, each from forty-four to forty-seven feet front, and two hundred and twenty feet in depth, and all the lots are accommodated with lanes-five squares or one hundred lots, as distinguished on the plan, will be vested in trustees for public use, and to accommodate schools and religious societies of every denomination. The town contains seven hundred and forty lots, which will be numbered and arranged by draught to prevent any kind of preference, and to facilitate the settlement they will be sold at the moderate price of ten dollars each, to be paid on the delivery of certificates of purchase. Those who buy ten town lots will be entitled to a five-acre out lot gratis.

The appropriation of the lots will be made under the superintendence or direction of the Honorable Thomas McKean, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, Generals Muhlenberg and Hiester, Matthew Clarkson and Richard Bache, esqs., on or before the first of May next; after which, on application, indisputable titles in fee simple, aggreeably to the said appropriation, will be delivered gratis to the purchasers, their agents or attorneys. Certificates for lots sold, and the plan of the town to be seen at the house of Mr. Levy Hollingsworth, Mr. Marsh Wilcox, and Mr. Thomas Bradford, Philadelphia; Mr. John Delafield, New York; Major Isaac Craig, Fort Pitt; and Colonel Stephen Bayard, Elizabeth-town. ISAAC MELCHER.

Philadelphia, February 5th, 1787.

EXTRACT, PAGE 10, COLONEL BOUQUET'S ExpediTION 1764, Friday, October 5:

"In this day's march the army passed through Logstown, situated seventeen and a half miles fiftyseven perches, by the path from Fort Pitt. This place was noted before the last war for the great trade carried on there by the English and French, but its inhabitants, Shawanese and Delawares, abandoned it in the year 1750. The lower town extended about sixty perches over a rich bottom to the foot of a low steep ridge, on the summit of which, near the declivity, stood the upper town, commanded a most agreeable prospect over the lower, and quite across

the Ohio, which is about five hundred yards wide here, and by its majestic easy current add much to the beauty of the place. Proceeding beyond Logstown we passed thro' a fine country, etc."-Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, February 13, 1788.

MR. C. B. JOHNSON CRITICISED. The following notice from the September number of the Southwestern Journal of Education will be of interest. The point made against Mr. Johnson's article in the September issue of the Magazine of Western History, "Slavery in America," has pith in it:

MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY, illustrated. 145 St. Clair street, Cleveland, Ohio. $5. The engravings in this magazine are works of art The field of its work is virgin soil. The great west, rich in unwritten history, offers to the investigator the most fertile and freshest field of labor. The September number is one of the most instructive and entertaining magazines we have ever read. The following subjects are treated: Slavery in America, C. B. Johnson; Indian Territory, Isaac Smucker; Pioneers of the New School of Medicine, D. H. Beckwith; The French in Texas, Will M. Clemens; The Municipal Growth of Cleveland, J. H. Kennedy; Samuel F. Hodge, W. B.; Hervey C. Park, Walter Buell; The Discovery of New Mexico by Fray Marcos, of Nizza,

Prof. Ad. F. Bandelier; An Antiquarian's Scrap Books, Hon. E. C. Mason; I. N. Topliff, J. H. K.; Michigan Jurists, Roger W. Butterfield; History of Ohio-I., C. W. Butterfield; The Defence of the Alamo, Charles K. Bolton; The Michigan Lumber Interests, W. B. Mr. Johnson's article, "Slavery in America," is well written, instructive and entertaining. We are so much pleased with its general tenor that we desire to see it complete, and venture to supply a slight omission. Mr. Johnson opens his article by telling us that in August 1620, a Dutch ship landed a cargo of negro slaves at Jamestown, Virginia. In December of the same year, he says, the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachu setts. He adds that slavery was thus planted at Jamestown, and liberty at Plymouth. "These events, so nearly coincidents, contained the germs of two antagonistic civilizations that were to have place in the New World." To complete his picture, Mr. Johnson should have told us that these settlers in Massachusetts soon devoted their attention to the lucrative business of trading slaves. He might also have shown us how the early fortunes of Boston were acquired by selling negroes to the south. He might also have shown that the abolition of the slave trade was delayed by the urgent solicitation of New England slave-traders, who pleaded that time should be allowed to enable them gradually to withdraw their large capital invested in this nefarious business. The whole country was responsible for slavery, and no one of the thirteen original states can wash its hands of the transactio

1886, 279.

America, Narrative and Critical History of,
411.

"Americanna," German and French purveyors
of, 859.

Andre, Major, names of his captors, 721.
Anian, the straits of, 13.

"An Inscriptionless Monument," 722.
"A Pioneer's Grave," (a poem), 187.

Archæology of the Ohio Valley, 281.

Art and Artists in Ohio, 152-166, 314-326,
485-493.

Astor Library, fund of, 137.
Atwater, Caleb, mentioned, 152.

Bagley, John Judson, biographical notice of,
516-524.

Baker, Dr. Geo. C., sketch of, 449.
Baldwin, Henry P., biographical sketch of,
180-186.

"Bibliotheca Hispano-Americanna," an early
Mexican book, 601.

Bingham, William, 4.

Blennerhassetts, the, 28.

Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, a description

of, 599.

Boone, Squire, letter of, 408.

Brannan, William P., portrait painter, 163.

Brayton, Dr. S. N., biographical sketch of,
353-356.

Brooks, Dr. M. L., sketch of, 95-101.

Brooks, Mrs. Caroline S., sculptor, 315.

Browne, Henry Kirk, sculptor, 165.

Brûlé, Etiene, early exploration of, 702.

Brush Electric Light Company of Buffalo,

594-597.

Buffaloes on the Maumee, an account of, 284.
Burton, Dr. Elijah, sketch of, 444.
Burritt, Dr. Alexander H., 626.

Butterfield, Consul Willshire, is to write a
History of Ohio, 722; poem by, 826.

first newspaper in, 283.

some of, 40-54.

Barber, J. J., landscape painter, 318.

Carnegie, Andrew, notice of, 279; his generous

gift, 600,