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By WALTER of the Out of Which America Has Grown. EDWARD HARRIS. Founding were to seek (o defond Ihoniselvos the who had not- Colony so and "Tho camel hls nose into the American tent fixed purpose, that it has become familiar to ail Americans, employment under tho virgin Queen, they eage'r possible against Indians, Anglo-Saxon got been in the least cordial in their thus far. When tha . nt Jamestown on tho 13th day of May, 1(507," as [ heard Senator although' tho. story of Plymouth Rock, instead of Jamestown, cxcitement in the wilds of America. reception Danlel express lt some years ago. The camel was iwo eenturies for a long time claimed greater space in American histories. , a man of rank aud intelligonce, tried party landed at Old Point. thoy opened the box in which were tha gettlng the whole tent to himself. llis final success was but tho I cannot hope to tell anything new. in this story, nor to do for several years to interest capltallsts in his proposed venture in papers naming the councll to rulo the colony. Tho ruling councll culmination of the entrance of his nose when the Engllsh adven- lhore than set down salient facts of the old story. But it is a Virginia. Finally he attractcd the attentlon and excited the was composed of Barfholomew Gosnold, John Smith, Edward turers founded their town on thu James and established in the good time for all Virglnlans and all Americans to refresh tho interest of Captain John Smith. a man who had seen more nd- Maria Wiugtield, Christoplior Newport, John Ratcliffe, John Martin New World the.flrst permanent settlement of people of their race. mind with the outlines of the genesis of Virginia, which is the ventures than any other charactor of his time, and also enlisted and George Kendall. lt is small wonder that the terccntennial of the founding of tho genesis of America. thc interest and capital of , morchant; THE FOIXDIXU OF JAMESTOWN. a before Rev. Robert a man in and Sir John Fottlement of Jamestown should be made'the occasion of cele¬ Had' Vasco da Gama discovered the Cape of Good Hope Hunt, godly poor health, The tho on the 13th of found western the of the latter and Richard the of party proceeded up James, and, May,' bration, ia which the States and tho Federal government.the Columbus this continent, voyage Popham, Hakluyt, distinguished compilor landed on a since the eroslon of the the to search of a route India which enablo adventures of mariners.the Clark Russell of his time. These poninsula, become, through nation, if you please.have united to show to the world the wost in to would au the of Jamestown and to avold of the Medlterraaean und north¬ men formed the to send out the and finally wator, Island, aud thus founded city progress, the mighty growth, the dazzling wealth, the irreslstible navigators the pirates company expeditlon, the of After prayer by Rov. Mr. Hunt, Wingfleld a a west coast would have been Columbus succeeded in for the western world ono hundred and flvo Colony Virginia. power of America. There is not in all our history as people of Afrlca, long dolayed. starting was chosen of the Council, and he in tho blazed the but tho were to take advantage men on board the the and tho Dis- president proceeded date so approprlate'for such a celebration, and it is to be doubtcd way, English quick Godspeed, American to make a his comrades for afterwards the Cabots were Tho of the vcssols was of 100 tons burden, good way speech, thanklng whether in the history of tho race of English-speaking people of his discoveries, and five years flying covery. largest only tho honor conferred him. Siuce that was tho flrst speech the off Newfoundland and the. coast of Labraclor, next in slze was 40 tons, and tbe smallest in which these hardy upon there is an event of such far-reaching consequenee as the founding English flag on American soil a man elected to office, it is unfortunate of and came down as far as the coast of Vir¬ braved tlie of tho was a more of proba¬ made by of tho coiotiy at Jamestown. -Tlie anniversary of the battle iu lator voyages they spirits perils deep pinnace that not even a of it ls as there ls no and somo historians claim as far-as Florida- Tho lhe bly 10 tons. fragment prp.se.rvod, Jlnstings, wheu Norman power overthrew Saxon Ilarold, ginia, Spanlsh, means of knowlng how far successful candidatcs of to-day havo Buperimposed a Romaneo civilization upon thc struct.ure reared French and lhe Portuguoso wero equally oager in seizing upon .IUST TIIREE lll'XDKEU YEARS ACVO. from tho model given them hy Edward Wingfleld. tho tho tho discovery of America and sendlng forth expeditions of dls¬ departed early by our Teulonic forefathcrs; grantiug'of Magna Charta; was with much of intorost until tho The sevon members of tho Council wont to work at once ta of tlie Lord Protoctor: the dethronement of James; covory. The French mado aborfivo attempts at founding a colony Tho voyago not fraught accession West Indies had been passed, when heavy weather was encoun- build a fort, and tho rest of the party proceeded to cut down the tho enactmont of tho reform blll,. and inltiation of tho policy in Canada and New England long before'.lamestown was 'founded, the tents. In a or founded tered, and when the coast of Virginia did not show up, Captaln treos to give a space ln whlch to pltch day of a responslble mlnistry.all theso are dates chorished by Eng- and the Spaniards St, Augustlno forly-nlne yoars prior his inieution of two Indians and as they wero entirely peaceable, tha as John Smith the site of Iho first Ratcliffe, in command of the pinnace, declared appeared, lishmen and thoir tiescetulauts oh this sido the-Atlantic, just to the landing of upon p'errhaneht thus tlie of Iho received them klndly. of our Declaration of of its settlement on the new i-outinent. Martin Frobisher, Sir turning back, early in history onterpriso indicating Englishmen ¦wo cheriHh the date IndependenceJ English. a afterwards so much trouble. lleforo tho Rlchmond people, and Virginiaus generally, may regard lt as Yorktown. of tho of our Federal Gilbcrt, and other hardy spirits, under tho flag of splrit "which gave final achioveniont at adoption Humphrey with him a came up and drove them that Newport nnd Smith were not long at Jamestowu others in letters of red in our mado to Northern all of them others had sottled storm signiflcaut Constitution, and a dozen marked England, expeditions America, on the of the 2(Jth ol! beforo made a party of twenty and started for Richmond, some them back to to tho wostwartl, and morning April, 1007, they up national calondar. looking for gold, of carryiug England bright the mariners encountered the coast by boat. John Smith has loft this account of tho city ol never set foot on Jamestown blts of whoso that of tho when llght camo, lying going But. had the Norman English soil, pebble, gleam thoy thought pr'eclous between what. is now and Reach. Powliatan, at tho falls of tho Powhatan, which the Engllsh at au dato than, 1 GOT, metal. Slr Walter aetually set up a colony, at Ocraeoke Virginia rwould have been founded, probably earllor. Raleigh lt was but' natural that some of the should wish to go tho James iu honor of the English King: was ever a new fleld of North Carolina. in but the colonists too much party named for the restless, roving Saxon seekins Inlet, 15S't-'5; paid near tho site the "Powhatan is a'town of some twelve houses, seated pleas¬ The attentlon to and.not enough to enltivating the land, ashore, and thirty men landeu of present light- adventuro and endoavor. prlnclples guaranteed by Magna gold-sceking on was thus named on that But ant on a before it threo fertile lsles, about it many of the colonists at James¬ Sir Francis Drako off the coast with a houso Cape Henry, which day. ly hill, Charta were demanded at au early clay by and whon saaeared the not were attacked their eorntioUls. Tho place ls very pleasant- and strong by the flrst went. much further on his homo from an adventurous party did lingor long. Thoy town, but these hardy pioneers from squadron of English vessels, way expeditlon two of the whltes were wounded. lt nature. Of thls placo the Prince is called Powhatan, & his and ouforced and tho in southern waters, were too glad by Indlans, and soverely ihan the barons, and demanded rights appliod agalnst Spanish they only a matter.of that (he of tho or PowhatiuiH. To this place tho rlver is navigable: unheardof ln all tho world until to aboard and back homo. Ilut it was while followlng a ls rogret management exposition, peoplo prlnclples of free government got go somo enterprising conoessionnire, hns not arrangetl to present a but hlgher within a mylo, liy reason of tho Rocks and lsles, Jamestown was founded. Aiul soit was that when Thomas Jef¬ band of Indlans, leading them to tho northward, In'lSSl, that is not for a small boat. This thoy call the declaration of series of moving pictures designed to givo a lifellko reproductlon ihoro pnssago ferson sat hlm down to write tho immortal prin- tho colonists discovered Chesapeake Dny. to the the first Falls. Tlu? ln all parts klndly intreated them (us) form a statement of of that foot-rnce back boats, probably athletlc people ciples he only had to put into concroto COLONY THAT DISAIM'EAKHI). event. ln white mon on thls continent. till lioing returned withln twenty miles of lamestown, they inaliennblo tho Great Charter, as amonded pnrilelpntod by blessed iho rights recognized by his on Roanoko off lt. wns in conimemoration of this landitlg at. Cape Ilenry that gavo Just causo of joalousles; but bad not God and in tho Colony of Virginia. In 15S7 Raleigh founded colony Island, an by Englishmen Anglo-Americans tho North Carolina coast. The colony seemed to bo thrlving when tbe date of the opening of the Jamestown Exposltion was flxed for discovoiios Qtherwlse thni'i at tbo Port there had been I'EUIOn.OF STIKKING IXCIDENTS. left but on the return of the a year or so tho 2Cth of April. ond uf that plantation." Raleigh it, vossel, lator, while Smith and and tholr party wero away tho There is no so to tho American there was not a trace of tho colony to bo found, and lts Tho party ontorod tho capos, namlng thc one to tho north Por Newport perlod in history iutoresting myfeto- at Jamestown was attacked the Indlans. and seventeon ol ns that a few to tho sottlemont of James¬ rlous has novor been and has furnished Capo Charles, ln honor of tho Princo of Wales, and proceeded fort by beginning years prior tlisappearance explained, the whito men woro wounded and a slaln. It is nnd a It is one so fllled tho hasis of many pooms and stories of llctlon. leisurely up tho bay. It ls known thoy went ashoro at what is boy probabU town, endlng half-century afterwards. ( that tlio rotreated to the boats as fast as for tha with inciclont that It onthralls means of tho world-old was not dauntod by tho failuro of his Roanoke vt now Old Point, and it is not improbablo that some of them landed whltes posslble, stirring by Raldlgh historlan says a "eross-harro" lired from tho ship frightened th« love of tales of sea and lt ls becauso iure, It was a good time- to Hnd advonturors wllling to go l. on other sido of Hampton Roads, tlu. site ot' tlie exposition udventuro by and by land, thp Indians so ran awny. had been of this lovo of of oncountorod and obstaclos now world and found a stato. Tho exceodingly pueilie. oponell yesterday. Evideutly the lopograpby ol' Iho country dld badly thoy Wingfleld opposeii primal stories dangers ehararj who had tu ',bo nt tho fort fur somo reason, but hi ovorcomo, of courago in tho .faco of disaster, oC rockless bouts ol' Jamos, eonfrnatud with tho warllko spirit of Elizaboth, yiuu nol ciiuuuoud itsolf to (lio leaders of the expeiliiluii, numiuitig nrtlllory bo to lucat'o whero 11 would b» ou Second - - - » - \, iWilh tlealli, of steady, advancouiejjt ln' tiio accoaiPlishuieMt "f a uot pleasing io tho inarlial characlors wlio had found couslaW learned that lt would nccessary .i.CouUiiucd PagQi),