REMARKABLE MEMORIAL HORN, MOT 
curious relic of a conference with the warriors of the Creek nation 
in 1765, away on the opposite side of the globe, on one of the 
remote tributaries of the Ganges. 
The style of engraving of the horn fully accords with its date. 
A shield, left blank, has inscribed below it : 
‘*Wi~iIAM SHARP, Esq., Lirur. or THE NintH Reciment, 1766.” 
This is, no doubt, the original owner of the horn, At a table, seated 
under a canopy, are a group apparently of British officers, wearing 
the three-cocked hats of the 18th century. In front a group of 
Indians appears seated on the ground: with the exception of two 
who occupy chairs nearer the table, and smoke their tomahawk pipes. 
Behind the officers another group of Indians engage in a dance: and 
this inscription is graven below: ‘An Indian beloved dance per- 
formed by ye Creeks.” Underneath the whole is this inscription : 
“The Congrass held at Picalata betwixt Governor Grant the Head 
Men and Warriors of the Creek Nation, November the 17th, 1765.” 
Beneath this, in reverse, is a man shooting at a flying deer. 
The horn, it may be added, appears to have been originally a 
powder horn. But it was cracked, and the bottom detached from it, 
as its late owner believed, owing to the native Sewor, from whose 
body he took it, having fallen on it when he received his death blow. 
It has subsequently been protected, as will be seen, by a silver rim 
placed round the lower end, so as to give it the appearance of a 
hunting horn. 
Picalata may probably still be identified in the Picolata, a small 
portal town, in St. John’s County, Florida. If so, it indicates the 
site chosen for the Congress of 1765, considerably to the south of 
the region occupied by the principal members of the Creek con- 
federacy. 
In Brownell’s ‘‘Indian Races,” and also in Drake’s ‘“ Biography 
and History of the Indians of North America,” notices occur of 
Colonel James Grant—the same person, in all probability, as is 
named on the inscribed horn as Governor Grant. French emissaries 
were busy fomenting strife, and exciting the Indians of Carolina 
against the English. At a grand conclave of the Cherokee nation 
in 1760, Latinac, a French officer, stepped out and drove his hatchet 
into a log, calling out; “ Who is the man that will take this up for 
