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About The Coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 187?-1902 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1880)
The Coast Mail. THIS MAIL. COAST I) K VOTED TO AX1Z1 Xixvia xmmxjxam. I'tllll.lHItllll KVKHY SATURDAY MORNING nv WEBSTER, HACKER & LOCKHART, Marhllol(I, Coo Co., Or. THE INTERESTS OF SOUTH ERN OREGON ALWAYS FOREMOST. Term, In Advance. Onoyeai 4- of) Six month - 1 M Three months - - - 1 00 The Development of ourMine., tho Improvement of our harbors, nnd rail road communication with the Interior, Fpceialities. VoJ.G. MARSHFIELB, OR, SATURDAY, FEB. 21, 1S80. 3So. a. official pa Pint of coos eo. Tho Ooasfc Mail. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, Slitte Orrynii. Governor, Secretary nf Slate, TitMiHiiror, Supt. Public School, W. W. Tluiver It. P. Karli'iut 10. 1 lurch J. L. Powell t.M Jmlicinl District. Judge, .1. I1'. Wntsnn District Attorney, H. Il.llii7.iinl CVim Comity. Count v .lodge, .1. II. Nosier r......iMi.,....n., jf;,,j!' iv::::: Slioriir Treasurer, A. (I. Aiken I). Morse, lr Assessor, .lolin Lane School Snporlnlundonl, .1 h Moo.o ( dinner, l.O.MacUov .1(111 1) LailO Curry County. Coitntv Jmluo. Dolo Woodruff (Yniiuissioliors. Sherill-, Cl.ik, School Supt., Treasurer, Coroner, A. 11. Mooiy Walter Suit. ,11 A. M.Gillopic M. 11 (iilit.u Tims. Cunningham , 1JI I'liviiKiinri' lis a Soclnl Cinx A late article which appeared in theK. ,11711111111 contained the following sen Hlhle view : We know ninny of tho heat, tho very hot people, the mot gifted, and uinsl cultivated, the best horn, and tho host hrcd, who are now exiles from michtl life because they cannot alford income into competition with the wealthy in Hum race of jewel and clothing thin vulvar contest of display of chops' 0011-l.-iiU and trndcsmcu'rt bauble. Wo know of jottiig ladies, just a lovely a jmiili, licanly, e.lucntion, good man ner and accomplihiuent can make ihem, ciilitled hy their social poid timis to enter society, denying" thorn- in lcs an in.lulgetic.i of their natural ' iUi though every man felt tho pros tui.s hecause they cannot honestly Lneoof danger, 110110 realized tho ter mal their more wealthy associate, ' rii,( neamo of death. Ileury Hon mid hccaiiHO Miey are loo proud to up- J Jninl wa placed a a sentinel at an el pear in harne not gilded and nilver I ovated point near hy, and all was go i'atcl with inonognuu ami cre-t j jK ,m Wcll ; when Kiiddonly, as by a xt. imped by fashionable society. We ,0li fmi,i h'-aven, the stillne-ts was think, and all gentlemen, think, tint ! luoken and Henry Iloiiland fell, rid 1. oung girl looks pretlier in it lawn, , ,n with hullot. Tho Indian roo in iiHimple uhilecamhrie, with pouch-' from atnhuslioii every baud, ami the down and a I.IuhIi, hair natural, than :(ouiu of tho ontiro pirty appeared to one in train and llounco, with hair ; lmealed. Thoonlv liojtn for lifo was chemically dyed anil f.ico painted in ' (0 ,u found in instantaneous llight ; a 'ienchcometii. Hut women .In portion of tho party ran for the fort by for women, not for men, and there is n dillerent route than that by which only one way of reforming this abuse.! they came, and eight of them reached mid that i imtriko on tho part of all j tho fort in cafety; tho remaining pretty and sensible girle against this unreasonable iMioial tyrannv. Let them not decline to attend parties, hut rally in force with plain, cheap and mmple dree.s, and with their other charm give hattlo to tho rich ones, ar mor clad in clothe of expensive ma terial and fashionable made. All thu gentlemen will be on the side of the nungand pretty ones, and wo will liio thoM'dreti.sy old maids, wives and dowager to the wall. K.xponaivo en tertainment and costly dressing arc an evil in San l-'raueibco society. There are hundreds of pleasant houses (hat never entertain because thoy can not rival the more elegant nHuir givon by millionaires. This has a tendency to discourage social gatherings of the morn unpretentious kind. An asso ciation of tho kind wo suggest would bring to it nearly all of tho young, most beautiful, and most accomplished girls of society ; all tho young marriud ladies, who, being wives of pour 111011,1 do not desire to impose upon them burdens of extravagant drosiiig, and all rich gills who have koiiso enough to know that youth and beauty are overmatches in attractiveness to the display of dross and jewels. From this class the wive would bo chosen. The .lieu 11 .11 a 11 of DiiiiImi i-y. Kvery town has its mean man, and mi is was no exception to the rule. K111111 Smuggs our noxt door noighbor va remarkable for his closeness and inventive genius. Tho otlu'r day ho wanted topurohaso a ton of egg coal, borrowing tho morning paper from iih, he read it till ho found out whine it could ho bought for tho leant money. The only thing that troubled him wa how to get it into his backyard without any labor or oxpunso. Tliuru wa a large alleyway between our houses J which led to linns' yard, mid when tho coal arrived ho opened tho door, and walking up a few foot ho drovo an old broomstick into tho ground itnd put a largo bottlo 011 tho top. Ho wa wait ing in the yard with a shovel in his hand whuu three i-mall boys caino along and opened lire on tho bottlo with (ho piece of coal. In half an hour the sidewalk was cleared and tho coal safely Mowed away in the shod, mill then old Kntis, grinning from ear to ear, sold llio bottlo Ion junkman, I fa libit ry J'ttr. Wji.kii: Collins nay ho ha carnud $1G'),000 with hi pun. witirm.v roii tiii: coaht mail. HISTORICALJKETCHES Kt'MIICH VII. 'I'lio close of our lal nkt'lch left t lie imperiled settlor of Rogue river se curely intrenched in tlit'ir rudo foiti licat ion niul surrounded liy their Mood thirsty enemy. I n tlim Hitmit uin tint price of lifo was unremitting vigilance nnd million; for llio prowling roil men were prepared to take advan tage of every opportunity tlnit offered to roach their intended victim, who linil lliu.H far evaded their unbuilt. ,jt Lccuino necessary to muiuI out 7X ,t.ll,llimillv , nlllm provisions ... ... ... . for Hie inmates of tho fort, niul though every precaution possible was olnorv cd, these expedition Were tho oct'il- JP. Hughe ioiiH of ninny hair-breadth escapes, .1. A.Cooley!llll()f lt) ,Mm,fHOVOmi livos. W. I). I.. I'. Smith (now'n resident of Coos river) accompanied hy "Marsh" 1 Inr iiioti, ma.lu a successful raid and brought in noino cattle, narrowly es caping the savages who lay in amlnish wherever shelter for concealment could lie found. One, morning it was decided to send a strong puny to a hum belonging to .la. Hunt, uhoiit half 11 mile distant, j to bring in a supply of potatoes which were stored there. .Sixteen men were detailed for thu expedition, and "Ned" (u negro) drovo the ox team thai was to haul in tho provision. They proceeded on tho hoaeh to a point where the wagon could go no further not far from tho barn, anil eight of the paity wero soul forward to Hack and bring down the potatoo, whilo the rest roinaii'od to guard tho wagon Thorn was an ominous si lencoin Ihosiirrounillngs.and an tin iiccoiiiitahlii absonco of Indian signs; eight were cut oil'. Some, seeing all hope of escape by llight vanMi, ran frantically toward the buach, falling one by 0110 as thoy ran. One, Mip posed to ho I.owellin Oliver, ran to tho surf, threw his trusty rillo ahead of him, and, plunging into the ocean, quenched the spark of lifo in it wave rather than fall into the hand of hi merciless pursuers, M. 11. (iregory, since County Judge of Curry county, wa struck by two bullet, one taking oil' the poiutof hi elbow, and the oth er hitting him between tho shoulders. llo at llrst supposed tho latter to he n fatal shot, but on examination after arriviug at the fort, it proved to bo a spent ball that had penetrated tho clothing and lodged again-t tho skin, inflicting no more serious injury than a bruise. Ilcalouo of the eight who remained witii the wago 1, reached the fort. During tho time when tho settlor were thus besieged, the Indians wore accustomed to go down to the beach at tho mouth of thu river, to catch a small variety of eels that wore to he found thero in great numbers. The men in thu fort watched thorn closely, hoping to got a chance to slay some of tho murderous tribe. One morning very early, Inane Warwick, as daring a follow us over lived, uropt up within rillo rangoand brought down one or more of tho Indian. It was a tri umph! Ho hastened hack to the fort, and finding ltiloy still in bed, raised tho blanket under which he was sleeping and throw upon him tho reeking scalp of his Indian victim, with tho remark : " Sou what I hnvu boon doing whilo you have been sleep ing." Thus do wosoo 111011 of natural ly gonorous, huinano and tender feel ings, sometimes hucomo tinctured with the barbarism with which thoy have boon thrown in frequent contact. Tho people of Fort Orford, having had no message from their irieiid at Itoguo rivorsinco tho arrival of Ohas. Foster with tho now of tho niassucio of tho volunteers, decided to xoud a small boat down by tho ocean, tho dangers of thu treacherous deep being loss (lroadod than tho barbaio is foe that infested (ho route hy land. A paity of eight men win made up to undertake this purilous voyage, and a whalo bout was tho host mid only vos hjII at their command. Thu party consisted of Itieliurd Say, owner of tho boat, Sylvtwtur Long, II, Do Formory, II. (!. (lerow, Capl. Davis, nnd throe other whose mimes we have boon un able to learn. They left Port Orford with tho bleing of anxious friends, and many ardently expressed hopes for their safe return. They niado tho passage of thirty miles without dilli culty, mid arrived oil' thu mouth of Koguo river. Tho occupants of tho fort hailed the appearance of thy boat as a harbinger of hopo and joy, little thinking that this now born hope was so rtoon to be shrouded in a darker and more turnhlu gloom. Tho little craft approaches tho surf; tho point for landing is selected, towiiid which the prow of the bout is pointed, while it is driven forward like an arrow by tho stroke of tho sturdy oarsmen. Suddenly tho steering oar is unship ped by h breaker, thu boa I swings around into Ihe trough of the sea, and the next breaker that conies combing over, buries Ilium from sight for a mo ment and when it had passed, eight noble men are neon struggling in the lifo (iienching element. They combat tho wave for a while, hut one by one they disappear to rise no more, till only two remain on the surface. (Japt. Davis wa an "old salt," nnd clung to the keel of tho boat with the energy of despair. Ivach breaker would knock him loose, hut bo would immediately renew hi hold, and by this mean ho was carried near the shore and rescued. Henry Do For mory clung to the sail of thu boat for a while, mid after becoming exhausted ho wa so wrapped in it that bo was prevented from sinking; and as bo thu drifted near the shore, ho was taken out of thu water hy friends, more dead than alive. He recovered, and now does business in San Fran cisco, hut six of hi companions nro numborel among the dead of " The Koguo Kiver War " llriilal .llin-ilrr liy a .1I1. A I. noon, Ontario dispatch of tho Ith instant, give tho following ac count of a most barbarous murder committed near that place : A man limned Donnelly, who has for some time been suspected of incendiarism in this region, together with bis fam ily, was brutally iiMiidered hist night. His wife was implicated with him in burning a dwelling bonso and their examination was Mill pending and was to have closed to day, but the morning light displayed a ghastly spectacle of tho remains of the in mates of the Donnelly hornet-toad, af ter having boon horribly backed with a knife. It appears that about 20 men wore engaged in tho bloody work. A boy namod Conner, belonging to tho village was staying in the houto over night. When tho attack was made he crept under a bod without being discovered. When the murders, wore committed the house wa fired and the gang decamped. Tho boy then emerged from hi hiding place, start ed for thu village nnd informed the authorities. The persons murdered are .lame and Judy Donnelly. Thom as, the youngest son, and Kridget, a niece. At about (be same time (mid night) another party called at the res idence of Win. Donnelly, tbteo miles distant from bis father' house and awoke him. Hi nrotbor John being in the house, rose mid wont to the door, when two shots from a revolver wero tired, killing him. Tin: frequent lack of tact in np preaching world's people exhibited by church Christians anxious to save lost sinners is well illustrated by this instance front a down Itoston way. A pastor urged upon bis prayer meeting auditors that they attempt some work for the Lord during tho week, and make it the subject of a report at the next meeting. The seed fell into good ground. On tho next Friday ovoninp-, the first brother called upon wa ready with hi report, which ran on this wise: "llrethren, when our pastor exhorted iih to do something, I resolv ed that I would talk with some uncon verted person about religion. I begun hy inviting a man to come to meeting. "Why should 1 go to meeting?" said ho; and I told him lie might learn something worth knowing. "What should 1 learn?" he asked ; and I told him that ho would learn Hint ho was a sinner, "lint bow do you know that I am a sinner?" said ho ; and I told bint that (he lliblo said so. "Hut 1 don't believe the Hiblo!" was hi an swer. Then wo disputed about it ; and brethren, I got so mud that 1 could have kicked hint!" (.i:n MrDowm.i., tho division com mander, baa sent tho commanding of ficer at Camp Harney, an ollloial teln grnpliio dispatch not logo to any nioio expense to tho government than was actually nocorisary, as tho post would bo abandoned next summer, Sunday I,aVH. An exchange thu close an argu ment against tho repeal of the Sun day laws which have existed in the Now Kugland States from tho colon ial day : At all events the people of New Kngland have livod under these law without serious inconvenience for a good many year, and it may be lirly claimed that the .Sabbath of . loK "R- , '.,u tmtcil Stntos Cn ew Fngla.id, the one day's rest in leb Cnshing, William Lloyd Gamon, .von. as a conversation of force, a William Allen, Congressmen Julian fa X smooth spot in I he wear and tear of ""rir.uge.uusiavo ocu.ocner, aC r, the week's work, has done a great c- C,iruV, John A. Dix, Hon. Zuchn (Ieal toward preserving the energy ril11' Chandler, Kiehanl Sebell nnd and vitality of her people. An eliorl Congressman Lay were the most note, has been and will bo made to repeal i"Manccs, wbilu abroad Field Marshal these laws; mi effort based on the I Theodore Von Itoom, Ccrman minis- claim that the State has no right to enforce any religious observance; an elfbrl which has it origin in an im- mi I'm lit noiinbilioii Hut it. is lint, lit allnccessarv to defend tho Sunilny law on the ground of the sacred char- actor of the day. On purely secular ground and in view of the advantage which has accrued to the State from their maintenance they may be de fended and upheld ; an advantage which no careful mid thoughtful ob server will deny. Leaving sentiment, and religion entirely out of the ques tion such legislation as will enforce one day of rest in seven for every man, rich and poor alike, may be boldly advocated on tin bare ground of public policy, HV ax a Iti-iui'dy lor 'l'j' plioitl IVvcr. Dr. Cnilbissn. of the French navv. I ...,i.i,i tnV.lr III II ItLVIH IMIIH Wll .JI'WH IVIVI) sav : "Coffee has Ki von us unhoped- for satisfaction ; after having dispens oil it, we find to our great surprise that its action is as prompt as it is de isive. Xo sooner have our patients laken a few table spoonfuls of it than c tak their features became relaxed and thoy come to their senses. The. next day the improvement is such that we aro tempted to look upon cotfee as a spccilic against typhoid fever. LTn.lcr its inllucncc the stupor was dispelled, and the patient roused from the state of somnolency in which ho has been sineetheinutsion of the disease. Soon all the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon convales cence." Dr. Guillase gives to an adult two to thico tablespoonfu'.s of strong black coffee every two hours, alternat ed with one or two tuaspoonfuls of claret or Hurgundy wine. A little lem onade or citrate of magnesia should bo taken daily, and, after a whilo, qui nine. From the fact that malaise and cerebral symptoms appear first, the doctor regards typhoidi fever as a ner veous disease, and the coffee act ing on thu nerves is peculiarly indicated in tho early stages he fore local complications arise. ll llasn'l licit Iccllcl Vet,' "I say 'tis so." "I say '(isn't." They walked into a hotel down street thus talking. "We've made a wager," said one of them to the proprietor of the hotel, "and we can't settle it just now. Let us have a couple of bottles of wine." "Certainly,' said the boss, "mako it three." "Willing to wait till wo decide tho bet ain't you?" "Oh, certainly. Anything you want. Havo tho house if you want it." "We will fix it up as soon as wc can decide it." '"Don't mako your mind uneasy about that, I'm satisfied." Tho wine was produced and squan dered, "What is tho hot?" asked the land lord after tho wine had disappeared. "Well, Jack hero, bet that when Trinity Church steple fell it would fall in Hrondway and I bet that it would topple over into the graveyard and break sixteen or seventeen tomb stones, As soon a we find out who wins wo will coino round and pay for the wine. Two brothers named Chnrlcs nnd Thomas Denton had a conflict with deadly weapons a few dayssincoat tho Dalles, There was a quarrel between thorn, having its origin in iv dispute between them eoncorning the owner ship of a lino fenco dividing their proporty. Charles tired two shots at his brother and tho two bullets perfor ated the coat of Thomas, whoso escape from being killed or wounded is re markable. Churles was arrested and had u preliminary examination boforo Justice of tho Peace, Michel and at tho conclusion ho was hold in .f50U bail to await the action of tho grand jury. Tho Denton brothers nro wcll known ami aro very respectably eonnugtcd. Ileal li Itccora Tor I?U. An exchange give tho following list of distinguished personages who died in the past year: In tho ranks of royalty Prince Louis Napoleon Honapurte, Ameer Shore Ali and the Countess Montijo were the only deceases. Of statesmen and per sons of political prominence the list is terofwnr; Jacob Steainpli, the cele brnte.l Swiss politician ; Dr. Isaac Utttt. M. P. ; llaron Von Gcrolt, privy conn" collorto the emperor of Oermnny ; Sir J "wlnnd Hill. Herr Von lltilow, the German diplomat, and the Duke of Portland, must be added to the long roll of deceased notabilities. The fol lowing prominent authors died during the year just past : George S. Hilliard Richard Henry Dana, William Hew itt, Klihu Uurritt nnd Uernhard Col la, the eminent German geologist. In the army nnd navy the number of names is fewer, comprising, in our own I country, Mr.j. Gen. T. W. Sherman, Maj. Gen. Jetrerson C. Davis, Lieut. Gen. Kichard Taylor, Henr Admiral Sylvanus Gordon, Gen. James W. Shields, and Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Hooker. Across tho water Suleiman Tasha and Maj. Cavagnari are the most ! prominent persons mong other vbo died dnr- , , . ., . . lw'8licd l-"" who die, 1 dim . ling 1879 may be mentioned Henry Goodyear, the rubber manufacturer; John Illnir Scribner, head of the wcll k,low" l'iR liou-.e; Madame "orson Honnpartc, Judge Asa Pack- cr' lhe wealthiest man of Ponn ; in two Goolet brothers, the well known Xew York millionaire!) ; Uaron Lionel Hothschild, the head of the famous banking house ; Daniel Drew, the old time Kingof Erie; Mrs.Charles Dick ets, wife of the novelist; Henry Lin derinan, director of the mint at Phihi. ; William M. Hunt, the famous Iioston artist, and Recorder Hackett, the up right New York judge. A Smart Monr.v Colh-ctor. The Hartford correspondent of the Springfield Jlepublienn says: "That was a prctly bright thought of one of tho Hattersons. who, when employed some year since as a lad in an otliee in X'ew York, was sent to present a bill to a shaky concern, with orders to collect it at all hazards. After much urging the head of the debtor house gave him a check for100'the amount of the bill. Hurrying to tho bank at which it was payable, the lad presented the check only to bo told, "Not enough funds to meet it." "How much is the account? short?" was the boy's quick retort. 'Seven dollars," said the teller. It lacked but a minute or two of three o'clock, and the teller was about to close, the door on the boy when the latter suddenly pulled seven dollars out of his pocket, nnd pushing it over with a deposit check said : "Put that to the credit of it Co.," the par ties who had given the check. The teller did so, when the lad at once presented tho cheek for $100, and drawing the full amount thereof, went back to his employers in triumph, but, as he puts it, ' it Co., who failed the very next day, wero hop ping mad when they found they had no funds in their bank." A Had IlHtnke. There is an old story about an Irish man who stoped over night in a crowd ed inn, and was compelled to occupy the same bed with a negro. He asked to bo called early, and before going to sleep indulged in unfavorable com ments upon the complexion of his bed-follow. Tho latter, dctermineu to bo revenged for tho affront, during the night obtained a bottle of ink and blackened tho visage of the slumber ing Colt. When ho was called in the morn ing tho Irishman dunned his clothes and proceeded to comb his hair at tho mirror. Discovering tho ebony hue of bis face, ho gave a look of horror, and exclaimed, "Do jabors tho black, guard have waked up tho nagur in stead of me." And ho hurried down stairs and proceeded to pummel the waiter who had made the mistake. That was a scrupulous young lady in lloston who refused to moot her lover Justus his name was at homo because sho heard her mothcrsay that "Justice should be meted out." Miis Nancy ?u tii, admitted to tho bar at Keokuk, wa.s banqueted by her bretbern in the law. Feed nt tho very outset. JrrancMw of Alnnka Wc take the following extract from an nrtielc published in the Anliquur tan : Alaska is an Knglish corruption of AI-ak-Mink of tho natives, meaning "thu great land." It is indeed 11 great I land, covering over "90,107 square I mile. It is the great island region of the United States, rivaling in number and size thu great archipelagoes of j Southern Pacific. These islands cov er 11 total area of 31,000 sqtinre miles. Stretching along the Akutin Islands for 1,500 miles nrc sixty-one vnleanoes ten of which arc active. Thu rnngnifl. cent Shishaldin, nearly 0,000 feet above the waves that break on either base, Akution, Makushin and others .arc belching out fire and smoke. j This is the great glacier region. I From Uutc Inlet to Unimak Paw nearly every deep gulch has its gla cier, somn of wluc'i are vastly greater and grander than any glacier of the Alps. The American student need no longer go abroad to study gla cier action. In one of the gulches of Mount Fairweathcr is a glacier that extends fifty miles to the sea, where it breaks of a perpendicular ice wall 300 feet high and eight miles broad. Thirty-five miles above Wrangle, on the Stickine River, between two mountains 300 feet high, is an im mense glacier forty miles long and at the base four to five miles across, and variously estimated at from 500 to 1,000 feet deep. The principal fur bearing animals of Alaska nrc the fox, martin, mink beaver, otter, linx, black bear and wolverine. There are also the coarser furs of reindeer, mountain sheep, goat wolf, musk rat nnd ermine. The ex tent of the range and the quality of the fur in that extensive northern region is conductive to a very valu able fur trade, in addition to which arc the fur eenl fisheries, that since 1871 have yielded to the Government an income of 11,891,030. Besides the fisheries and funs are the valuable deposits of coal, copper, sulphur, jc troleum, and amber, with gold and silver. The gold and silver so far have been found only in limited quantities. It is the great lumber region of t he country. The forest of yellow cedar hemlock and balsam fir will supply the world when the valuable timber of Pugct Sound is exhausted. It has the great mountain peak of the country St. Elias. 19,500 feet high: and the great river of tho world the Yukon, one of the largest rivers of the world. The Yukon district, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, is remarkable for one thing. From three to four feet below the surface there is a subsoil of frozen earth from six to eight feet deep. This phenomenon is ascribed to the want of drainage, together with a covering of moss that shields- the ground from tho hot suns of the Arc tie summer, and yet, notwithstanding this subsoil, during the summer months there is a luxurnnt growth of vegetation. The great distinguishing feature of this district is the wonder ful Yukon river, 2,000 miles long, navigable for steamers for 1500 miles. In some places on the Lower Yukon one bank is invisible from the other A thousand miles above its mouth I it is, in places, twenty miles wnie, in cluding the intervening island. It is one of the great rivers of tho world, and upon it upper waters, within the Arctic Cirele, is Fort Yukon, t a post of the Hudson Hay Company. At this far distant post, where tidings from the outside world only reachea onco a year, is a Scotch missionary. The llritish Church looks well after its own people. On its banks live thousands who know neither it3 outlet or its source and yet recognizing its greatness, proudly call themselves the "Men of Yukon." Tho principal settlement is St. Paul on Kodiak Island. Hut for political 1 purposes, Sitka was inndo tho capital of tho Russian colonies in America,' .Mill ilB Dlll-ll II. . l-UJHVU ll JJIUII14- nenco that has made its namo as fa miliar as that of Alaska itself. It has the largest foreign population and tho best houses in the Territory, Capo Princo of Wabs and tho Is land of Alton aro theextremo western points of bind in tho United States intholongitudo of 167 dog. 59 min. 12 see. as far west from Portland or San Francisco as tho extremo eastern point of Maine is east. Fort Wrangle, a village of 100 hous es, is on thu northwestern coast of Wrangle Island, at tho mouth of tho Stiekino river. Owing to the exten sive gold mines at Cafsa'r, on tho Stiekino river, it has become thochiof businoss center of Alaska. Tho Cas sairminos are employ ing this onsm about 2,000 men. which creates consid erable trade. For this trade Wrangle is at the end of ocean and commene ment of river navigation. Tho coaft of Wrangle and the mouth of Stiekino river was first visited hy the American ship Atahulpa, of Uoston, in 1802, three years before Lewis and Clarke descended the Columbia. Tho per manent population is nboutlOOwhitcH and Russians, nnd 500 Indians. Re sides there is a large winter, popula tion of miners, and a floating Indian population of 500 to 700 more, come times being from 2,000 to 3,000 In dians in the plncc. It i on the great highway of the Indians to and from the mines, also to their hunting and fishing. The native rnccs in Alaska number about 25,000 ; Russians, 300 or 400; Americans and other?, 500. The In dians can bo divided into three great classes : The Innuit of Yukon district ; the Aleutian nnd the Tuscan of the Sitkan dstrict. And these again arn divided into trfbes, settlements nnd familci?. These are largely in a con dition of degraded superstition and li able to all the horrible cruelties of heathenism. The old, sick and use less are put to death with various cruelties and disgusting rites. The Indians are again subdivided into various familcs, each of which have their family lodge. The badge are the whale, the porpoise, tho eagle the coon, the wolf nnd the frog. These crests extend through different tribes, and their members have a clos er relation. For instance, members of the tame, tribe may marry, but not members" of the same badge. Thus, a wolf may not marry into wolf family, but may into that of the whale. Queer Tnlo of Africa. The Comtc dc Semmelle, who has rccentlvscturned from the banks of the Niger, whither he was sent when Marshal jfcMahon was President of the French Republic, has just pub lished a few more chapters of his startling narrative. The Count says that on reaching Lokodga he offered the Sultan of that place sotne cot ton goods whereon his Majesty shouted, "I am the great Sultan, and not a dog ! I don't want your present?, give me gin and rum !" Tho Count thought he was going to be assassinated, but he forced his in terpreter to say he was not English but French ; that he had never be fore been received by such a dog ; that he feared neither fire nor poi son, etc. This language' having sob ered the Sultan, the Count gave him a bottle of gin, which produced an other fit of delirium tremens. The Count adds that the Sultan is com pletely "rtbruli," and that he has no authority over his subjects, who have imposed upon him a Parliament with which he gets drunk from morn ing till evening. Geu. Chamberlain. GEK.CHAMBErtLAix i9 a man of such interest that tho public will not readi ly forget him, although he has retired to the presidency of his college, tho state of Maine no longer bcig in any exigency to require the services of her general of militia. Gen. Chamberlain is a native of Bangor and 51 years of age. His education was at a military academy and the Bangor theological seminary, whence ho went as professor to Bowdoin in 1S55. In 1862 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of tho 20th Maine regiment; in 18G3 became colonel ; in 1SG4 bricadier general for gallantry at Petersburg, where ho was severely wounded. He was in 24 pitched battles during tho war and was six times wounded, rivaling tho ser vices and scars of our Gen. Bartlett. Commanding tho 1st division, 5th corps, as major-general, he led the ad vanco at Appomattox and received Lee's surrender. After tho war he re newed his professorship of modem languages at Bowdoin, and was elected presidont of the college in 1871, after having been four years governor of Maine. The grave of Thomas Lincoln, fa ther of tho martyred President, is in a country chureh-yard near Mat toon, Ill marked only by a small heap of bowl dors. When Abraham Lincoln was on his way to Washington to tako his scat as Presidont, ho stopped at Charleston, paid hii father's grave a visit, and, it is said, left $50 for a head stone, but his instructions were not carried out, and tho money went whoro the woodbine twinoth. SwnzKitt.ANO is this winter almost one mountain of snow ; trains, steam boats and telegraphs havo been ift, ft, chronic-xtttto of interruption,