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m Jpe gailjj Qstaxinu. ASTORIA. OREGON: B. C IRKI.AXI Edritor. SUNDAY ai:cii I). 1879 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Eastern Stales. In speaking of the closiijg hours of the house, Washington dispatches state that notwith tanding the partisan feeling which possessed both sides of the house during the night session, there was remarkable absence of per sonal passion. There "was less tumult and uproar than at al most any other time, and there was not the least sign of hilariousness. The attendance of members all throujrh the 22 hours of sitting was large, and whon a vote indicated the absence of a quorum, it was generally because members refrain ed from voting. Some of the old est members showed the leastsigns of fatigue, and after the recess of If hours,-they were among the earliest in attendance. The speak er 'was seldom. out of his chair. Ex-Senator Mitchell leaves Washington for Pennsylvania in a few days to give attention to pri vate business there for some time, and will return to Oresron in about a month. The president has issued a proclamation convening the 4Gth congress in extra session on the 18th of March. Tiie Moral and Religious Aspect of the Indian Question. CONTINUED. The Cay uses, according to Vi--car General Bruillett, who is now At the head of the Papal bureau at Washington, (page 87, of Protes tantism in Oregon), says: "Catho lic stations acid stationary priests were early in the country," and 'almost every Indian tribe posses sed some Catholic members as early as 1840, and that the Demer's labors among- the Cavuses, had -made there a mission so fruitful that the Protestant missionaries had got alarmed and feared that all their disciples would abandon mem it tie continued ins mission among them." The Catholic Sentinel, Aug. S, 1878, says: "The schemes of the Protestant ministers had been fought and nearly annihilated, es pecially at Nisquuly, Vancouver, Cascades, Clackamas aad Willam ette Falls, so that a viator came in 1S4 and disbanded t?he whole Methodist mission, and -sold its property." The same paper claims 6,000 christians among the Indians, at -that early dav. They claim to have babtised 510 in 1S40-4L I Jiave no doubt that such was the case, but what are we to raifer 'if it is true? They boastof having "fought and nearly annihilated '' tlie Meth odist influence over "the Indians, can we suppose they were any more friendly to the Presbyterian mission among the Nez Perces? They are frank to te&l us "in 1841 'they had made a mission so faith ful that the Protectant mission had got alarmed, and feared that all their disciples would abandon them" and what are the facts in the case? Simply that Dr. Whitman would not sell out to them; and according to Brouillett and his co-workers, the Indians superstitions are alleged, as the main cause of the murder of Dr. Whitman and his wife, and all the Americans at his station, by his own people in the winter of 1847. This tale of the Vicar General and ins pnesus ana reporters was not) believed, but the Indians must be j punished, and now the modest j Catholic Sentinel of September 32, j 187 8. tells us that the "murder of Dr. ! M.: 1 .1 l..l K-. 1.-t m imiii.iu uiu uim-i iiiiii uiuui.n;i-t v.as w ue UlsmOUteu ;UlOn w:ir against xne L&vuse trine: tnati it ksted two years (1848 and 1849), j Without catching one of the mur derers. And while it caused tho fall of the Presbyterian mission, it had the effect ol increasing those Of the Gathoiics by the establis.l menfc of St. Peters at The Dalles, and the converting of five supposed Cayuse murderers from Presbyteri anism to Catholicism." The writer of "historical sketches of the Catholic church in Oregon," while claiming great credit for the efforts of the priests to convert the Indians, at the same time shows the effects of the sectarian quarrel kept up by themselves, and is not slow to claim the murderers of our citizens as converts to his faith, and take advantage of the war to in crease their influence over the In dians at The Dalles. We find in "Western Missions, by DeSmet, published in 1S63, page 309, Father A. Hoaken, S. J., says in relation to the war of 1S57, "The country is as safe for us as ever. We can go freely wherever we desire. No one is ignorant that the black gowns are not enemies; those at least who are among the Indians." The boasted security as expressed by this priest for himself and brother "black gowns" allows a careful observer of the cause of Indian wars in our country to trace the cause not to a few "reckless or rencirade whites," but to a more carefullv studied and covertly exe-! cuted system of operations upon the superstitions of an ignorant race of natives, by teachers having naught but sectarian objects to ac complish in being in our country. The first part of the paragraph from which I have quoted says: "Father Bavalli labored as much as he could to pacify the tribes which reside towards the west, namely: the Cay uses, the Yanka inans, the Opelouses, etc." Lieutenant Rogers says in a let ter to Governor Abernethy, dated August 12, 1S47: At about 2 o'clock p. m., at this place (The Dalles), a boat arrived consigned to the French priests, who have taken up their residence here, loaded with eight casks of powder, six of them 150 pounds each, and two of them 90 pounds each, mak ing 1080 pounds. I also took fifteen sacks of balls, 100 pounds in each sack; three sacks of buck or croose shot, 100. pounds each. I counted one sack of the balls and found about 3,000 balls. I also took three boxes of guns; opened one box and found twelve guns." I would have allowed this pow der transaction of the priests to pass with simply quoting the fact, as a reason why they can boast of their safety among the hostile Indians, who are shrewd enough to favor all who furnish them with new material to let them pass safe ly among them, and to receive their aid and advice, and gain de sired information as to the move ments of their enemies, not as the Indians enemies of course, no no, but as Fathers, teachers of a, "holy religion". You will excuse me for referring to a pamphlet of eighteen pages, printed in double column by the Catholic Sentinel reply to Execu tive Document No. '67, 1 discover the mam object of the pamphlet is to contradict the facts and state ments collected by Rev. H. H. Spaulding, and to show by fre quent reference to my history that Mr. Spaulding was deranged and his statement false. As I have quoted the paragraph about the powder, 581th page Gray's history, I will quote the one I find in this pamphlet, verbatim et literatim about the same powder by the Rev. Vicar Brouillett pajrelO, hesa3Ts: lIt was not four thousand pounds, but according to Lieutenant Rog ers only eight casks of powder and fifteen sacks of balls, making ac cording to a correspondent in Grays's history, page 591, seven or eight hundred pounds of pow der and fifteen hundred pounds of lead." The total amount of ammunition in the case of these "holy Fathers" was powder l,oS0 pounds, balls 15.000 pounds, shot 300 pounds at one ounce for each charge, making 19,S00 charges of ball and shot, auoui ju loaus o eacn oi tnc sun posed 1,000 warriors bconnnrr to Jour tribes named, but Lieutenant Ivogers and others of The Dalles were satisfied that the ammunition was for the Cayuscs to continue the war, which according to Brouil- 14.. -i- k r.'.i-x T tour tnousaiul iien, women and ,.k:i.i 1..-.1 . .i umiuifii, laKuig one renin oi one load togivimriifiv loads to each of his 1000 mophites provided the priests uacl that number to the ammunition tn -tvhJrth 2:1 ve - numbering and calculation of the no Hudson Bay company, to my knowledge ever gave to the Indian hunters of those tribes. Their "women and children did not usually hunt, but were employed in digging roots, while the men, less than one thousand, were engaged in hunting or in war with enemies. In examining this Brouillett pamphlet I. find a studied effort to misquote and falsify nearly every historical fact that in the least im plicates the conduct of a single member of the order to which he belongs. No one of them accor- ding- to his statements can do a wrong- deed or commit a censura ble fault. Such writings bear in trinsic evidence of malice or false hood, hence it becomes important in the discussion of the moral and religious aspect of their Indian question to trace results back to first causes. So far as regards Rev. H. H. Spaulding's writings and reports, I have in my history 110th page, expressed my views freely, and Lsee our papal oppo nents misquote my own as also Mr. Spaulding's statements relative to their complicity in the disrruo tion of the American missions first established in this countrv. I have onlvto sav that I believe the history I have completed and written bears in its pages the im press of truth, as near as was pos sible from personal -observation, and carefully quoting of original manuscripts and documents could reach the truth, in all cases, I had no motive but to preserve the early history of Oregon as it was when I came to it; and as it progressed up to 1849 from that time to present my eyes and ears have been in con stant use, watching the movement of passing events. No portion of this coast, or its people, nave es caped a passing notice, or thought; while by such as claim to be close observers of my acts and thoughts, call me a one idea man, and as on the present occasion more than probable will demonstrate the cor rectness of the criticism. I am prepared to admit that the order of the Jesuits sanctioned by the papal sect have but one prime object, viz: To restore the tem porial power of the papacy over the earth, to accomplishing that object,numbers are essential. Petty wars among the various tribes of Indians, as among the Cay uses, and as history informs us among the German speaking people. Cut tle fish like, they assume all the names regarded as sacred by sav age, heathen or civilized man, to cover the all absorbing object; they swear by the most solemn oath known to tho human mind, to aid in accomplishing; and like the spider, their web is extended around the soul of their victim till naught but death relieves it. As in the case of all Protestant missions among our Indian popu lation that could by any means be destroyed. See historical sketches of the Catholic church in Oregon. Sketch xxix, Catholic Sentinel, August 29, 1878. "Effect of the murder and war upon the Catholic and Protestant missions." The murder of Dr. Whitman and others had the effect of bring - ing in imminent danger the lives of the bishop and his clergy. JLhe war which followed brought the Cayuse mission to an end only for a short time; for a few months after, the Cayuses of Umatilla re called their .priests, and the bishop started from Vancouver June 4, 1848, to return to them. He reached The Dalles, when he was forbidden to go further by Air. Lee, superintendent of Indian affairs, and he began a mission at The Dalles, which was a part of his diocese. The imminent danger the lives of the bishop and his clergy were in from January 1, 1S48 to June 4th, four months and three daTs, did not last very long for we now find them on their way back; some of "the oblate Fathers returning unmolested to the Yaki ma mission about the same time." The Yankama missionit will be remembered was at that time at the mouth of the Yankima river, at the junction with the Columbia. At which mission m tho war of 1835, see correspondence and of ficial proceedings relating to the expedition against the Indians, house, Dec. 10 tb, Salem, Oregon, 1855, pare44, "several caches had likewise "been fcund in the vicinity of the mission. These contained a varietv of articles: such as vegeta- ! bles, produce", lead, old guns, gunsmiths' tools, &c, with sundry papers discovered in the mission building was a letter written by the priest to Kamican, the head chief of the Yankama tribe, addressed to the officer in command of the troops, a copy of which is commu nicated with this report. (Not jound in this report.) There was also found an account book kept by this priest, Pondosy, which is now in the custody of Major Raines. This book contains daily entries of Pondosy's transactions with the Indians, and clearly de monstrated the ;n;efnw; t-- iiiuiojuiuuiu lu.jV that he was furnishing the Indians with large quantities of ammuni tion, and leaving it a matter of un certainty whether gospel or gun poicder was his principle stock in. trade. The priest had abandoned the mission, but it gave unmistak able evidence of being cared for, by some Yankama Indian parishion ers. We will now turn to the reply "to the executive document, No. 37, page 11." Alter telling us the book was written in French, the officer who had it in charge not understanding French, handed it to the writer. This was no doubt great confidence placed in a man who had been charged by Rev. Mr. Spaulding and other of instigating Dr. Whitman's Protes tant Indian to murder, and thereby destroy the protestant mission among the Indians. But let us read his translation, he says: "What did the book prove after all? That over twelve months previous the priest had purchased at Vancouver one cask of powder of one hundred pounds; that he and his companions had lived upon it for over a year; that they had purchased with it their fish and game, and paid for the care of horses and cattle and other trifling work, and yet the cask was more than half full when taken possession of by the volunteers, making the quantity used during the whole year less than forty pounds." A. J. Donaldson says: "That he was present at the Yankama mission between the 11th and 15th of November, 1855, with Colonel J. W. Nesmith, Oregon volunteers, and saw five kegs of powder and part of one keg seized by the vol unteers, besides saw guns and parts of guns that had been, or were being repaired at the mis sion, which were destroyed by the volunteers. A. J. Dokaldsox. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this day of February, 17J, Justice of the Peace for Astoria precinct, Clatsop county, Oregon. To be Continued. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GIRL WANTED. To do general house work in a small family. Apply at THIS OFFICE. "VTOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. Notice is - hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned In the practice of law, has this day. by mu tual consent, been dissolved. Astoria, March 8th. 1879. J. W. ROBB, C. W. FULTON. C w. fuitox, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 1 street, Astoria, Oregon. OfPTPI. "Pnrrpo nnw litiilflinrr Cimnmnnhn NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all persons holdinir receints for lots nur- chased in the City Cemetery to have the same filed with the Auditor and Clerk with in ten das from this date, and procure their deeds. This is for the purpose of enabling them to have their deeds recorded and to save confusion of titles in the future. By order of the Common Council. JR. H. CARDWELL. Auditor and Clerk. Astoria, March 8, 1ET79. 57-dlOt IF YOU "Want a cook. IVxuit a clork. Want a partner. Want a situation. Want to hiro a man, Want to hiro a woman. Want to di?po;u of a. farm ant to purchase a farm. A nnt to buy ur ?ell a house Want to borrow or loan money. u ant to buy or sell city property ant to lease or let houses or lots. ant to buy or sell goods of anv kind, u ant to charter a steamboat or plunder. VI ant to sail a crnrt of any kind anywhere, W ant to recover any lo.t or stolen property. ADVERTISE IX TIIE ASTORIAN, Advertising secure permanent customers, -ridvcrti-iirig retains your oM customers. Advertising makes a business a success, Adieiti iug i evidence of confidence, AdyertiMiig helps the town and city Advert i-nng direct? peoplo arislit. Advertising i tho road to wealth, Aoverti-ins evidences energy, Advortiinjr brins a reward. Advertising deserves muoh Advertising gains- much. Advertising N a protH. Advertising i pluck, AdvortMus is biz. AdvertiMiigpajs, Advert iso now. On trial for a Quarter or A year. ( I-Il PAPKUS.-Vt. Have a old papers on hand, jus a valuable lot of making senm-books. or what housewives need for shutf covers. Will be sold in lots to suit purchasers at so cents per leu. First llict tlifk tttmrfnf J come, ilrst served. ASTOR1AN OFFICE. NSW ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Auction Sale. I have received instructions to sell on Tuesday March 11, 1879, For account of whom it may concern, to pay freight, storage and charges, a lot of HOrSKHOLU FIKXITURE, Consisting in part of 3 Cottage Bed-Room Sets. Com. Slete: Spriiip: Ztlnttvastecs and leather Pillows; ALSO : Three Lounges ; 1 fine Carpet do ; 1 black walnut gold stripped Hep Sofa : 1 dozen oak C. I). IJlUimr-rooin Chairs : 1 do7en iliirfc e h i,v.,!i"s-.111. l,:ure ".--- e ""vit Him i uairs ; i dozen oaK arm c. D. 1 dozen (ink lar-mnni PlinfiM 1 i-unirs ; Hocking Chairs: 3 Children's Hmii iW- Tables, etc., etc. Also : One Iarlc Rosewood Parlor Set, Complete, censisting: of 1 Fine Hair Cloth Sofa. 2J-asy Chair and 4 Parlor Chairs. Worth JMSO; also a Family Conic Stove Avith Furnitnre. and a Variety of other articles. For convenience of sale, the goods will bo removed to my auction rooms-, and this pre emptory sale will commence at half past ten A . M. Terms Cash. V. S. gold coin. E.C.1I0LDEN, Auctioneer. BUSINESS CARDS. Tn. F. CKANG, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ASTORIA. OREGON. Office Room .no. 7 over C. L. Parker store, Opposite Demcnt's drug store. Du J. W. OLIVER, II OMEOPATHIST, m Office. Tn Shuster's Dagucrrean build ing. Entrance Second door above that of the Daily Astokian. Cass street- Residence on Jefferson street, corner Main. of "TVOCTOI. HATCH, Successfully treats all Chronic Disease. AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AlSuD CHILDREN. Cancer cured by a new and painless method. Office Chennmus street, corner of Mans street, Astoria. DK J. O'BRIEX. CURES BILLIOUS AND INTERMITTENT FEVERS With from one to three doses of his harm less medicine. Also, Private diseases successfully treated. Office O'Brien's hotel, Astoria". Oregon. O. F. IIKL.L. A. MEACIIKX. BFIili & 3IEACHEX, Attorneys at Law and Notaries Public. Commissioner of Deeds for California awl "Washington Territory. Astoria, Oregon. Office Corner of Squemocqhe and Ca streets, up stairs, over E. S. Lnrsen's store. B. F. DEN'ISON. DENNISON F. J. TAYLOR & TAYLOR, ATTORNEYS AT IAW. ASTORIA. OHEOOX. j Office Up stairs in Parker's building,. -corner Clienamus and Benton streets. 'rf- F. D. WJNTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in City Hall Building. ASTORIA. OREGON. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. Private Boarding House. MUS.QU1NN - - TROrRIETOR. "Will accommodate day hoarders or accom modate any with hoard and lodging. Prices reasonable. Tn Ingulfs building. Jefferson street, opposite Wells, Fargo & Co' Express oflice. pARKER HOUSE, ASTORIA, OREGON, II. R. PARKER. Proprietor. THIS HOTEL is the largest, most comforv nhle and best kept hotel in the city, ft supplied with the heat of spring water, ho and cold baths, harher shop, and a first-clas saloon with best of liquors and cigars, and fine billiard table. Free coach to and from the house ; charges reasonable, SI W to S'ic per dav, according to room occupied. A. J. aXEOLKIt. C S. WTUGHJ-. OCCIDENT HOTEL. MEQLER & WRIGHT. Proprietors. Astoria, Oregon. THE PROPRIETORS ARE HAPPY TO announce that the above hotel has heen repainted and refurnished, adding greatly to the comfort of its guests and is now the wart hotel north of San Francisco. pKXTEXXIAIi HOTEL, Water street, near the 0. S. N. Cos Wharf, ASTORIA. OREGON. HENRY ROTI1E T. PiiorniErroE. THIS IS A NEVHOTEL RUILDINC. newlv furnished, is cmeniently situa ted to business, and will be conducted so as make it a first class stopping place for tho public generally, and will be open from th day. muni'zx' ziorsK, D. L.TUIIPIN - PROPRIETOR MAIN STREET. Retween Squemocqhe and Jefferson. ASTOKIA. Okkgon. Hoard and lodging per week.... Hoard tmV day Single Meal Tne table will be supplied at the best the liiarket allot d&. $1 co 1 CV - 25- dl times vritli RESTAURANT, TIIEO. IJROEMSER. - - rjtorimrron. -r Freh oysters, and other deli cacies ot sue seasou, crc-u i,g even style. llS?i.-c Opposite the Telegraph office, bquemotjl., street, Astoria, Oregon. COTilEALS AT ALL HOUR-"S.