R3NEM The Coast Mail. Tho Coast Mail. TEC El ruiii.iHiir.n KYERY SATURDAY MORNING, nv- WEDSTER, HACKER & LOCKHART, Marnhltcld, Coos Co., Or. Terms, lu Aduiiirc, One year .Six months Thiou Months -f 12 M 1 fit) 1 00 OHWIAIi PAPHIt OP COOS CO. 'Dirt .lot iul .ImIk Til! proclivity to joking In couit i)f law is ii honiii--e paid (it ifdeop hu mnii instinct. People Kkoimico best when it unhomls u tittle, nitd injustice itself may lie, widened by myromouH judges, who concillato tint Wcr with sin inoslstlblo jest. Even tl'.Hllllg grave people like llio Turks llils lovo of humor often uvoipoxvoia complaint. There is A story tit the East of a Pasha who had received n present of twii frit geese, flieso succulent birds wciv vnry fcArco nt the time, and tho grant utnnfft)lcd a foist of his iiitliintrn whriMoiirt. pxjm:, Mulled pistachios was to form the central dish. 11 iU u -ival mnfi-ns.tr, who gicntly wanted gooso for dinner, hail olfcicd the conk sO0intCTrt for bird, whereupon tlio too vcnul officer rrpaiied to the Cndt n fcifl If I give your woiship n gooso, Will you see me safe, supposing fltiyWly complains uliout the other one? The inagistrAtc. winked anil took the birdthe other also disp pen red, niid nt tin) banquet, when tho ongotly fXpottcA Aish should have been prodnccA, theie was an awful disappointment, '(ho co,k being summoned, pratestril with ninny pin testations thftt llic gee-e hiul "flnu n away" "ltcrovcr thf m." the inliiri--ilitl Pnsh:i cried, or 1 will ltMo thee bofora our Cii'li for (ho bnstiinmr-." 'l'he guilty cook i iirlied madly along 1lio highway, wondering u Initio do, 'when lie wan ticked hy a donkcy-diiv-r, "in tho name of Allah," tojielp Jiim lift liin ticnit, wliieli had fallen. Ho forthwith pulled at the donkey' talo .villi Mich thoughtleis fury that it icaine oil' in hi hand, and the conk then rushed mora frantically tli in ever, pureiicd hy tho ciios mid cureH of the driver. A little further on he ran in his hlumlcriug liut against a Christian, and knocked the man' pipe hlick into h'n eye, destroying it Yeta little further, mill wildly hur. rvmg.he came loiiud the comer f nil till upon u very fat and ugly matron, who, tieiug in an interesting coudibiu was m upset thai she th mi and there fullered nice tiriagc. Ili-ing rliH-rd hy tho liushauil and .soiuu ,iptii'n, the miserilde man tan up Xhe teps of m.iiiaiet, and when the mucriu would Jiji'h trued him, leaped down tothoi-Arth in k'u Jrcjter.ition fium thu first pialforiu, filling a Cieek rJi.i chanced to Ik ittiug with his hrtii-erhi-lovr. .Such a situation as tlt.it pii'ceiited in the above muratire, it must lie confessed, ui eiuharriitiig, veil to the humor and roituii-? of n Turkis'i Judge. To the original mii of the gooMi were now jdded four Hoparats; uiimJeuieiuiirs, and the ipiv tacle ircentcd shortly jferward he fore (lie Cadi was one terrific huh huh, though Hie prixoncr exhibited a Mlmtigo conllih'tice, which prowjd not iiiifouudcd I'irsl came th-j I'ilu, who told how tho ninful cook nie- tendetl tho geese, plucked ud drawn could lly away. "Doxt (hou then ' doubt, brother," naid the Judge, the power of Allah to call thu dead to life? Let us not limit the Divine might hy our foolish diolieliof it may have been sol flo in peace." Next the donkoyman held up tho reft tail of his bciot, and eiied for justice, hut the Cadi naid, "(Jive him the donkey, my mm, to feed and ue until the tail has grown again, then ho shall restore it to thee." Tho Christian followed, pointing to the missing oih,iiud clam ored for punishment. "It is written, naid tho Judge, that one eye of a be liever equals two of nn inlldol. Do you, therefore, sutler mo to put out thine other eye, and then it will he but right that I should order restitu tion by removing one from this ahum. inablo cook." The Chrintnin departed, mid was succeeded hy tho injuicd husband, who told liis woes, "lly tho piophet's beui il," quoth tho Cadi, "I t-eo no way in this, save that thou chouhlsi ill Mirce the lady, and miiiry her to the cook. Aftorw.ud if it ho heaven's! will that ho como again unto (ho xtato let him bend her hack to thee, and all will he well." This suitor also declined to proceed to execution, and thoio was only left tho (ireok, who voci feral ed for retaliation on theslay erof his brother. ' in-uallitli' said the Judge; "truly, hurry is of tho devil," a, tho wise say ; thocook hhall xnfler for it: this is hut just. Cot thou therefore, to the top of tho min met and jump down on this nUciider, whom I shall place below, mid it Hhall be that if thuusbiyest llii uono shall complain. IleieuiiMii the (Jreek also Hit IhiM'cuut, like tho (dhi'is, ninid lUTliiMuitioii fioni Ihehvstandi'is, who Were loud in nruiso (if llu Omli's wnnd- trfuldceiees;hitt tho functionary was I'lcscntly heaid to wliivpur to llio (not;, us he left the eouit, "Never you M ' 'I nie un inorcgecHe mine friend." COAST Vol. 2. wiiittk.v row tiii: coast mail. HISTOniCALJKETCHES Ol' (hM'K'iiiN Non Ihrrii 'iiin(, Nl'MIIIIll III. OjienliiU nf llir Iluiiit lllvrr XViir mi tl.t (.inial .lllilili r tif Urn Wrluhl, lilt. The winter of 1HB0-W1 was n lime to be, lomcmhciod hy tho soltlois of Southern Orogon. Thuy hail long Iiwii accustomed to thi oriliua hard ships nffioiiticr life ; they had learned to dispense with all thi luxuries, and with some of the cnmfmts of civilian trmt, and In wtcsl finin tho situation Hindi pleasures an ato hoi u of activity Mid liopo. Hut th l.i season hinttght in tkeir (loom tho loriins of savage am hue, ami inoigodnll minor ci.nsid crulioiisin the iniiniiient iciil which hUlHMimll'll lllClll. The linliaiiM of the upper Uoj?tie Uiv it Valley had hueii on tho waipath foi few n tune, hut tlio"0 of tho lower HverArtd tho coast' jirofensed friend- sliiji for the whiten, and aikcd to ho prolreled fioni tho htwtilui ol the intcnirtr, Though hoping hy n conuil-i iutorr cAiii'i'e towaid the huviikuii to avow the calamity which had isitcd tliMi-niicml up the nver, tlio settleis iHforlisl to Hiiuli piecatttiouary mens iirrj i. wrii miry prudence would HUg pet They luiill a kind of fort at the iiiMflh nf Hoiie rixer on the notth nido, r. nn elevated point in the open piiiiii'r, just hack of where Mr, .McPnriuifk now liven; and ntno or Kanixcii n einjiany of xoluntietx, o' which John I'oliiml wanCaplain. ami Kalph BIcJmh) and ). II. Miuwrvey were l.ii-uienatrU Hut for thoprotee tnui atroided hy this fort, tho iiimmm ere which w.ts inaugurated on the itd of Pehmary, 18"h5, would proha hly hftve ealed the fate of o'ery reni ilewt of what now constitutes Otniy canity. Bun Wright wa tho iiiuiio of the s'Ut in charge of tho Indians in this icgiou. lie wain man whose natural fkrewdness aud'oonsumiu ito kuowl edge of Indian ehaiactei well cjtiuli &c liiiu for tho duties of tout posi- lion. Ho kept an Intelligent squaw ( ty w,kh they were celebrated. Tho who passed as his olliojal interpreter, j hiLs-ralicfs represent the arms, thoac aiiiI for whom lie drew a salary of $00 , entitlements, tho engines of war, tho pur annum. Jleluul Iwt tho lililian tnlu'lievn that lie was endowed witli npernatural powers of self pioteelio'ii and that he could not he killed by be ing shot. Hut his squaw, although profesriug great aU'eclion for her white spouse, secretly told tin Indium that they could kill Wiight with a hatchet or knife; and with the trench-r-rv which is the leading chaiacteiis tie of the nice, he helped to betray him to hisdealn.and afterwanls boast ed that she ale n piece of his heat t. On the morning of February li-'t. ho was near the Tootootan ltaneh on Itogue ri r. when he was told by an Indian messeiigei that a sea otter had come ashoie a short distance away, and that tho Indians ami white men weie lighting over it ; ho went to the place indicated, and was surrounded .itid cut to pieces by tho Indians, A man named .eaiuaii, who had inspiicd the Indians witli awo by his Mipciior luaiksmniiship, was eu iced into ambush by similar means, and killed, and another named .Smith in the iciuity, made his way to the woods ami escaped, llo knew tho danger of attempting to go to the coast, nnd wandered northwiud through the woods to Poll Oiford, where he arrived half faiuishcd'somo days afterwards. His only susten ance had been tho snails which ho had picked upon tho way, some of which he had in his pocket on his ar lival at Port Oiford. The Mm is tho Inigost of all cemete ries, and its vast utimhcrslcop without monuments. Over their leninius the same sloims beat, and tho same ie qtiicm hy niinstiels of tho ocean is sung to their honor; tliuio uuinaiked tlieweakaudthopoweiful,the plumed and the iiuhoiuncd are alike uiidis- tinguished. Iris Nkilled labor for whicli theio is gieatest ihnuaml in these times, The "Scientific American mentions that a lecent adveitisemeiit for -." skilled woikinou luought only one applica tion, while two othei, out) font book keeper and another for a clerk, brought it 17 and 180 applications lespcclivoly, l)iH(!otitA(ii:.Mi:.NT is of all ages.; in youth it is a pieseutiment, in old ago u icmcmhrnuco. Pi.ovyilitK sweeten the air, lejoiitu tliu eye, link in with iinlura and inno cence, and inc. something In love. Tun Old Smith Ohurali at Nowport, , II., colelinitud its eoulouiil luuout. Iy. lfluis novor boon oloked for tt hiu- jle Suhlmtli, MA-RSI-IFIJELJD, Ti'iiJiih'm .'oIiiniii, Tiiijmi'n Golnnin wan hreeted nl itiiine in tho middle of tho forum mimed alter tho Hame omperor: hut the other hiiildingHof llii fornm the palace, K'iniiaKiiiin, library, templeH, aiehoH, poiticoes, HtatuiM, etc. liave all lieen thrown down, leaving the column alonontanditiK in its minimi! ixmition. It was erected h) tho Son ate and people of Itoino in cointuomo raton of victories ohtained hy tho Km- peror Trajan in his two expeditiono apiinel tho DacianV in tlio llrnt of which ho compelled them to mio for peace, and in the hccoiiiI conquered them entirely. There doe not, prohahly.exint any monument in tho world mora precious or mora exquixitc in it proportion) than Trajan' Column, nor ouo that has rendered more capital service. It isofpuro Carrara mnrhle. The nhaft inaboiit ninetyneven Hiifjli.sh feet, hy twelve diameter at tho hane, and ten hclow tho capital, which, like the nhaft, is Doric, and composed of iiftiu le hlock of Htono. Tho Htatuc is com posed of thirty-throe enormous hlookn of mat hie, of which eight eomposo the , iln. twentv-thrco tltc shaft, ono tho Hqnlal. and one tho pedestal nuppor- ing the statue. Kvury atone is hol lowed iiT the middle, so as to consist, in fact, of a mere ring ; and a central vciiical apcriiturc is thus formed, which is occupied hy a spiral staircase fiom thehnttou to the top. The col umn was anciently surmounted hy a ctalue of theempcror, and later hy n. figure of the apostle St. Paul. The head of the original figure supported a golden hall, which is now preserved in the capital, and which is said to have contained tlio ashes of the emperor. A very remarkable fcatuic in this column is the mode in which it is dee eorated. There is n scries of bas-re liefs running round the column in an ascending spiral ribbon, which makes twenty revolutions or turns of the spi ral before reaching tho top. On this is repicscnted the chief incidents in the D.iciiin ietoiies of Trajan, togeth er with the two triumphal processions dwellings of the baibatiana; wo dis- ri'in tho hu-ed of to warriors and their horses; we look upon tho ships of the time canoes and (uiuquoremcs; women of nil rank, pricM of all the ologies, sieges and assaults. Such aie the merits of this K'lilptutcd host. that Polyhireof Caravaggio, (Julio Ko inano, Michel Angelo and all the ar tists of the ltcmiissancc have drawn thence models of stylo nnd pictures- ! que statuary. The hgurcs nro not I f..t. ..m tlin. l...l.n.... .... .....I tl...... thousand, the figure of Trajan him self occtiriing as many as lifty times, lu the lower part of theshaft tho tig tires ara each about two feet in height ; but us they ascend, and are faither io moved fiom the eye, their dimcusous aie enlarged and they are mora deep ly woikcd,ti!l at the top they become licit rlv douhlo the size of those below The Stumlunl thinks the Democrat of Now Jersey huvo heretofore been too magnanimous in granting tho ad verse party a minority representation in tlio Supreme Court of that State. I t says : "Of tho nine Judges of tho Su premo Court of New Jersey tho terms of thrceare about to expire, and it is expected that Governor MeClellau at the next session of tho Legisleturo will send in the names of tluee Republi cans ns their successors, it being old usage in that State to give tlio patty in power a majority of ono only, and five ol thoMcsout bench ara Demo crats. Thero aro various names men tioned in connection witli the ap pointment, hut us the salary is only 15,000 n year, there is no great clamor for the places among lawyers having a paying practice. It would be just as well for (Inventor McClolhui to change tho custom and appoint nil Democrat." Tlio custom hero refoned to should be observed in all of tho States, and the United States Government as well, The Judicial should ho nnn-paitizau and the appointment of Judges .should he made an exception to the doctrine that, "to tho victors belong tlio spoils." Tin: Junction Republican gets oft' tho following: A man living on Long Tom hhearcd ids sheep just hefoio tlio recent cold snap, and lie lias been going in liis shiit slcoves ever since trying to make thu sheep believe it is win in w outlier. UKi.r.CMTK Dennett, of Dekota, is ono of tlio directors of thu Port Meitdo llydraullo Gold Mining Company, ic oonlly organized witli Gen. Sturgis as Piestdent. It is located on Rapid oreokand tho piospoeta for u bright future iuo good. Oil., 8ATUBDAY, Jan. 17, 18SO. WIIITTIIS FOIt Till: COAST MAIL. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, NCMIir.lt III. Oiinlfl lloonc. It is fteldum that fame, wealth, or power, comes upon n man unsought mid uudesircd. The hermit or miser may unconsciously achieve a limited ami short-lived notoriety, horn only of the interest excited hy the eccen liicilicsof its subject; but that action which leaves it impress upon men and things, which stamps the mime of its subject uiion the face of the catth, or wtite.1 it in lclibly upon tho page of history, is generally tho result of nn earnest purpose, in which all possible advantages are considered. There nro instances, however, where the most humble and unselfish pursuit of the lino of apparent duty, even ac companied hy mi effort to avoid pub lie appreciation, have brought to the actor a higher meed of praise than w.mld tho achievements of the moot unbounded ambition. Of thischarao ter was Daniel lloone, the famous pio neer of Kentucky. Daniel lloone was horn in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in February, 17:o, of English parentage. His earlv life was spent in the frontier settle ments of his native Stale, whole he became familiar witli all forms of war fare, with the various foieesof nature, as well as witli wild beasts and barbar ous liicn. He acquired a limited knowledge of reading, wilting, and atithiiictic, hut loved the book of na ture hotter, and gave to her his most devoted attention. Heforohe reached his majority, he went with his father to the region of tlio Yadkin river, in North Carolina, and here it was he married Rebecca Ilryun, who proved a faithful wife, and shared many of the hardships of his eventful life. After following the life of n farmer for sever al years, he joined, for it time, n party of explorers in tiic wilderness fait her west. Having a thoiough contempt for the forms of law nnd the usages of refined society, he decided to leave the Yadkin country, which was then becoming settled, ami to visit the most unexplored region known ns Kentucky. On the first of May, 17G9, with n pin ty of six men, of whom he was tho loader,, he started westward, ami in June theyieachcd the country drained by the Kentucky river and its tribiitiiiies. Heie they hunted till December, without seeing an Indian. Tho party now separated, lloone going in company with a man named Stew ait, and on the "2d of December they were surprised and captured by In dians, who robbed thoiu of everything they had. After seven days captivity they made their escape, but their con dition would have been precarious, had they not met his hiother Squire, ami another hunter, who hud come from North Carolina, bringing sup plies and ammunition, and what was more highly prized, news front his wife and children. After many nar row escapes, and the death of Stewart and the hunter who came with his biother.nt tho hands of the Indians, u 1771 lie returned to tho Yadkin country, accompanied by his brother, and witli all the peltry their horse could carry, llo immediately set about pieparations to remove witli his family to Kentucky; he sold his faun, and in September, 177.'', ho and his brother with their families set out on the jouiney for their new home in tho wilderness. On their way they were joinodby five other families and foity men well armed. At Cninbeiland Gap they were attacked hy the In- Hans and compelled to retreat, leaving Uoone's eldest son, James, and five others slain. This unexpected repulso caused tho party to delay further movement till 177o, when, having been appointed by the Pennsylvania Company to puichitso lands in the West, ho pushed forwaul to tho Ken tucky river.nnd established a fort, nnd il was named llooncsborongh. His wife and daughters were the llrst white women who evor. saw the Ken tucky liver. Though tho Indians were iinfiicnd ly, no open hostilities occurred till in Juno. A daughter of Col. Hoone. with two girls named Callaway, ventured out of the fort, nnd getting into a c.i noo, unconsciously diiflcd too near tho upjiosite hank. Five Indians weio concealed watching tin m, and as they approached the opposite shore the eanoo was seized and taken, with tho tenilled and shiieking girls, up tho river out of sight of tlio foil, lloone and Callawlty made pursuit tlio next niorning.camo upon tho Indians by surprise, and rescued tlj,e girls before they had t into to minder them. In 1778 the settlements worn Mill'oring for want of salt, and Uoouo hoitdod a party to go to tho salt spiings to su euro n Mipply. lie was surprised and MAIL. made prisoner by the Indians. His knowledge of Indian character ena bled him, by piofessions of friendship, to icciiro their good-will; he went through the form of being adopted by the tribe, had his hair pulled out ex cept the scalp-lock, his white blood washed out and hiH face painted. lie learned that the Indians were about to attack IJooncsborough, and know ing that nil would be murdered unless they weie warned of their danger, he iiiikIo his escape at great peril, and miule his way ICO miles to IJooncsbor ough in time to place the fort on a ba sis of defence. His long absence led his wife to suppose him to he dead, and she, witli her children, had re turned to North Carolina. August 8th, 177H, tho fort was besieged hy n large party of Indians led by Cana dian officers, hut a vnlli.mt and suc cessful defence was made under Col lloone, and the assailants retired with heavy loss. In the latter part of the same year lie went to North Carolina to see his family, nnd the following year on his way to Richmond lie was robbed of ?20,000 in paper money, in to whicli he converted all Jiis property with a view to buying land. In 1780 he again went west with his family, and in October of that year, in two engagements witli the Indians, he lost another son and a brother. At the cloe of the Revolutionary War, ho settled down to the life of a farmer; hut he despised lawyers nnd all legal formalities, and neglected to perfect the title to ais lands and ulti mately lost them. lie again wctn west, this time to Missouri, then under Spanish Dominion, where ho was made commander of a district and re ceived a grant of 8,00 acres of laud. This land he also lost because ho re fused to go to New Oilcans and take the necessary steps to secure the title. In 181" he was about to lose another tract of 850 acres which had been granted him hy Spain, hut Congress confirmed his title. The remainder of his life was passed in quiet, and in the enjoyment of his favorite pastime j hunting, lie died September 2Cth, 1802, in his 88th year, surrounded hy five generations, of his desend.ints. He wa3 a man of chaste, moral, and temperato habits, but of many eccen tricities of character. His coflin was prop.ir.cd at his older, and was long kept under his bed, waiting the readi ness of its occupant. The remains of Col. Hoone and his wife were removed in 1S45 to the cemetery of Frankfort, where they were deposited with ap propriate public ceremonies. Scnulor Staler. A Vashington correspondent gives the following brief biographical sketch of Senator Slater: James 11. Slater, of La Grande, was born in Sangamon county, Illinois. Deeemhej- 28, 1S20 ; received a com mon school education ; emigrated to California in 1S40; settled in Oiegon inlSoO; studied law and was admit ted to tlio bar in 1054 ; served ns clerk of the district court of tho Territory of Oiegon for Denton county from 1ST;' to lS5fi ; was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of tho Stato of Oregon ; was elected district attorney in the fifth judicial district in ISCO.'was elected Presidential elect or on the Seymour ticket in 1S0S; was elected a Representative front Oregon in the Forty-second Congress ; was elected to the United States Sen ate as a Democrat to succeedJohn II. Mitchell, Republican, and took his sett March 18, 1S79. His term of ser vice will expire March '1, 1885. ".lor.li.' lUIII iim-KiUe. Thero has been nionny a hero horn, lived and died unknown, just for the want ov an opportunity. Tlioio aiii't nothing tosho the vii tews and vices of a man in so vivid a light as profuse piosperity. Mi dear hoy, alt wuss keep some thing in reserve. Tho man who kan jump six inches further than ho haz over juincd ts n hard customer to heat. Most wiuiiiiiu would like to have their husbands lions hut well bro ken to their halter, Thcic ain't nothing on art h that will take tho starch so clean out ov us as to git kitught hi thophellow wo are tricing to ketch. It is a good deal ov a loro to have otherslovus niorothan we lov thorn. A woman in tho hospital in Flor enco has astiango story. She enter ed tho Italian army in order to save her brother, it married man, from mil itary service. She served with dis tinction during tho war with Austria and received a initial for bravery in tho field. When these fin ts woro known to King Humbert ho ptcsonled her with the moss of his older, and gave directions for her disohargo on an annual pension ot U00 francs. IS o. 8. C'liriMtlit-t Slot-nix nn1 tlie Inl Ilo SoIiooIm. . By request wo print the following extracts from n paper read hy Rev. James M. King, before the Evangeli cal Alliance, in St Louis, Oct. 2'Jth 1870 : "M'r. (trea Chrinlian nation. Every government necessarily has some form of religion recognized in its State institution, and is molded by its power. Historically we are a Chris tian nation. Tiiediviuc authority of tho Bible is certainly taken for grant ed in the very make-up of our Gov ernment. Every officer, from the President down to the lowest official, is inducted into office under the so lemnity of an oath on that volume. The Christian religion and the morali ty that it tenches, in one w ay or anoth er, permeate all our institutions. Ev ery thing in our political system in dicates its recognition of the princi ple, that tho Bible is the common standard of right and wrong in mor als. In all the evidences of the prev alencc of religion in a nation wc pre sent an array most formidable. Look upon our Christian churches and Sab bath schools; upon our colleges and seminaries of Christian learning; up on the distribution and study of the Bible; upon the sacredness of the Sabbath; upon the unstinted henifi cencc and multiform charities, almost all the overflow of Christian love. Government requires the Christian oath as the standard, both for enter ing upon the duties of citizenship and of office-holding. American jurispru dence, as well as English common law, rejects the testimony of atheists, because an oath has no meaning, no sanction in the mouth of one who does not believe in a just God and a future retribution. Government ap points days of thanksgiving, fasting, and prayer. The Congress of the na tion and the armv and navy have their chaplains, with the salaries paid from the national treasury. States exempt Church property from taxa tion, and employ the ministers of re ligion in all their penal, reformatory, and ueiiificcnt institutions. The State punishes offenses against God and religion, such as Sabbath-breaking, blasphemy, perjury, sacrilege, re ligious impostors, and violation of burial places. m Christianity constitutes the most important part of the common law of the laud. It is the strength of the law, because it is intrenched in the sentiments and affections of the peo ple. No less learned a jurist than President Dwight, of the Columbia Collogo Law School has recently writ ten: "It is well settled by decisions in tho courts of the leading States of the Union that Christianity is a part of the common law of the State Its recognition is shown in the adminis tration of oaths in tlio courts of jus tice, in the rules whicli punish those who wilfully blaspheme, in the obser vance of Sunday, in the prohibition of profanity, in tho legal establish ment of permanent charitable trusts, and in the legal principles which con trol a parent in tho education and training of his children. One of the American courts states the law in this manner : "Christianity is and always has been a pail of the common law of this State Christianity without the spiritual artillery of Eureopean coun tries not Christianity founded on any particular religious tenets not Christianity with an established Church and titles and spiritual courts, hut Christianity with liberty of con science to all men." "The American States adopted these principles from the common law of England, rejecting such portions of the English law on this subject as weio not suited to their customs and institutions. Our national develop ment has in it the best and purest ele ments of historic Christianity as re lated to tho Government of States. Should wo tear Christianity out of our law, we would rob our law of its faiiest jewels, wo would deprive it of its i idlest treasures, wo would arrest its giowtli, and bereave it of its ca pacity to adapt itself to tho progress in culture, telineinont and morality of thoso for whoso benefit it properly exists." What constitutes real education, and what aro tlio perils of education when purely secular? Education con sists in tlio symmetrical development of tho whole man for the purpose of his creation. This purposo is admit ted to Ik) moral, Tho Stato is prepar ing citizens to lo coiupetont to their responsibilities, and these ara all mor al. Secularised education is it misno mer. It is not education at all. Nev er before has tho attempt been made; tho verdict of inankied in every ago under every civilization, is against it. DEVOTKDTO Ai.r, XiX-v-m xmnxjiam. THE INTERESTS OP SOUTH ERN OREGON ALWAYS rOKEMOST. The Development of our Mines, tho Improvement of our harbors, nnd rail road communication witli the Interior, specialities. Daniel Web ter, in his argument against the Girnrd will, said : "In what age, by what sect, where, when, by whom, has religious truth been ex eluded front the education of youth? Nowhere, never. Ever' where, and nt all times, it has been regarded as es sential. It is of the essence, the vi tality of useful instruction." Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, recently said : "I lift up a warning voice, with re spect to the inadequacy and perils of our modern system of one-sided edu cation, which supposes it can develop manhood and good citizenship out of mere brain culture." In case secular education is to 1ms made non-Christian, in order to Ik consistent, thero must be non-Christian editions of text-books prepared by the State. And these must cover the fields of history, natural science, mental and moral philosophy, and general literature. Christian truths and facts arc so ingrained in the sources of knowledge of Engish-speak-ing peoples, that the secular tcaeher who seeks to avoid the assertion or de nial of them will find his teaching re duced to very naked rudiments. To avoid, in instruction, the facts con cerning the work and worth of Chris tianity in our history is to impart anti-Christian instmction, not only, but to misrepresent, and this is to des troy the basis of all morals ; and mor al instruction cannot be separated at any point or for any period of timo from the intellectual, without injury. But the government and discipline of the school must be purely secular, nnd thus deny the one only ground of moral obligation, the will of God as expressed in his word and ratified by his dealings with men. And this schooling in discipline is designed to fit the youth for the responsibilities of self-governing citizenship, and thus nothing less than pagan morality conies to be the highest sanction for the reciprocal duties of the people, and the basis of American institu tions. A wise man has said: '"To educate the mind of a bad man with out correcting his morals, is to put a sword into the hands of a maniac." And the philosopher, John Locke, wrote: "If virtue and a well-tempered soul be not got and settled so as to keep out ill and vicious habits, lan gurges and science and all the other accomplishments of education will bu to no purpose but to make the worso or more dangerous man." It is difficult to definitely deter mine whether merely mental cul ture is in itself elevating, because heretofore this culture has been un der the influence of Christianity, and Christianity has been the principul promoter of education. Purely secu lar instruction shuts out the best teachers, because front the intellect ual and moral necessities of the case the best teachers arc truly Christians, and genuine Christians from the very law of their life could not refrain from inculcating Christian morality. An Oregon Cukc at Watilitn- ton. The following is ono of tho cases de cided in the Supremo Court of the United States, on the 5th iust. Lydia C. Hill, wibow.ctcfiaplaintifTs; ap peal from tho District Court of tho United States for tho district of Ore gon. The question presented by this case is whether tho heirs of a settler under the Oregon Donation Act who died before the four years' rcsideneo and cultivation required to perfect his title, took by doscent from the settler as donee and of tho United States. The court holds that the heirs took as donee and of tho United States; that when the settler .died before complet ing his titlo ho had nothing in tho laud which he could transmit to his descennants. Tho decree is affirmed, with costs. The Chief Justice deliv cd tho opinion. A i.atk Washington dispatch says: Lucy W. 11. Horton, who shot John II. Morgan, son of Senator Morgan, was arraigned in tho polico court. Mor gan not being able to appear on ac count of his injuries, the ease was con tinued, and Miss llorgau released in ponds of $1,000 for her appearance Mrs. ltelvu A. Lockwood becamo surety. An Indian cnino homo to his dusky spouse in n besotted condi tion, and bent her severely, after which tho noble red man took out their only little boy nnd hung him to a tree till ho win a corpse. Strick en witli griof nt the loss of her child tho poor old squaw went down to tho river bank nnd drowned herself. This occurred in Eastern Oregon. Simsauiiit: for tho Mail. $- 50 per annum. s 3- I