The Beaver Argus. .1. WfiIAND Denver. Pas" June 11.187 x. -.- THE ARGUS thanked the Republi me voters of the county six yealsSgo for throwing away the Delegate, 'and adopting the Popular vote system of n ominating candidates for county offices. It thanks them now for de clining the advice of irresponsible, unscrupulous parties, who used all their influence at the recent primary meetings to have that, system thrown away, and the old, rotten, delegate Method restored, THE Democratic State Committee of Pennsylvania met on the 4th inst. in the Merchants' Hotel, at Philadel phia, and agreed upon August 27 as the time and Wilkesbarre as the place for holding the State Conven tion. The Hon. Samuel Randall presided. The Chairman was direct ed to properly express in his address to the people of the State a sense of indignation at the course pursued by the Administration in the Louisiana trouble. THE corrupt influence of opulence is welt exemplified by theFonduct of our wealthy Senators In reference to the salary grab. Sprague, Pomeroy, Chandler, and Cameron, all million aires, took" their share of the "steal" and retain it. Wilson and Morton, neither of whom is rich, refused it. Fenton and Sumner, both of whom are Liberal Republicans, of course refused it, and Schurz, who is inde pendent politically as well as finan cially, also refused it._ HON. Jou:: A. BINGHAM of Ohio, ex-Congressman, has been appointed Minister to Japan, vice Mr. De Long of Nevada, recalled. Until within a year or two Mr. Bingham's appoint ment to that or almost any other po sition would have given general sat isfaction to the country, Since then, however, his Credit Mobilier connec tions have become Public, .and but few now believe-that his selection for the position named will add cred it to the country. 'Ciit•: act of Assembly caning for a constitutional convention fixed the salary of the members at one thous and dollars. The Legislature subse quently left the question of salary to be settled by the convention itself. Last week a vote was taken on the question, resulting as follows: For $2,500, '6O votes were cast; for $1.000,- 4t; 2.s members mere absent or failed voto. lion. Ueorge V. Lawrence of this District voted for $l,OOO. Our other representatives either voted for the $2,500 salary, or dodged. THE farmers' - -movement in the \Vest is becoming by its imposing importance a serious perplexity to party leaders. The number of gran ges is multiplying rapidly, arkd the disposition to mingle in political con tests bids fair to completely change the relations of the old parties. An official statement of the granges or ganized previous to May 19 gives the following interesting facts:. "Arkan sas, 15; California, 8; Georgia, 16; Illinois, 431; Indiana, 142; lowa, 1,- : - ,117; Kansas, 128; Michigan, 24; Min nesota, 219; Mississippi, 112; Missou ri, 245; Nebraska, 190; Ohio, 47; Soutl► Carolina, 118; Tennessee, 13; Vermont, 22; Wisconsin, 140—mak ing an organization, in the United States, of 3,377 granges, with an ag gregate membership of over 2,000,- fao." Taut appointment of ex-Governor Marishall Jewell of Connecticut as Minister to Russia gives general sat isfaction throughout the country. Hon. John A. Bingham of Ohio, Judge Settle of North Carolina, ex- Senator Nye of Nevada, and twocol ored men—Langston and Downing— of Washington, were all applicants for the place. That the President passed all of these "soiled doves" . by, and conferred the appointment upon a gentleman who was neither pressed by his friends nor sought the place himself, is not only creditable to Gen. Grant, but one of the very -highest compliments that could be paid to Gov. Jewell. In this instance the office sought the man, not the man the office. We only wish that cases akin to this were not so very rare. CAPT. JA 'K, together with the remnant of his small band of murder ous Modocs, having surrendered to General Davis, the question now re curs as•to what disposition the au thorities will make of them. It is stated at Washington that the Presi dent has decided not to take any ac tion on the question until it is known whether the Governor of Oregon will make a demand for sueli Indians as have been indicted under the civil laws in that State. 'The first question to be settled is whether the recent conflict between the Indians and the military actually Produced a state of war. It isexpect ea that the Governor of Oregon will make a requisition on the Governor Of California for the Modocs over which indictments are pending. The - Governor of California will, it is believed, respond that the Indians are not in his possession, but in the hands of the military, and will fol low this up by requesting General Schofield to turn the Indians over to the civil officers. It is said by the highest military authorities that the Itlodoes could not surrender us prisoners of war in the sense known to nations where war is declared in accordance with consti tuted forms. Not having been so re ceived they are not entitled to consid- eration as prisoners of war. The or ders issued tothe Commanding Gen eral directly after the assassination of General Canby and Rev. Dr. Thomas were not to exterminate the Modocs, bilt It was said their conduct had been such that their extermina tion would be justifiable, thus leav ing the matter to the discretion of General Davis. Therefore, if he had ordered the killing of the Indians, he would not have been censured bysu perior authority. As to their Mut disposition no one questions that they will ultimately be delivered to the Government of Oregon for trial. — Monday's papers bring us the opinion of Attorney General Wil liams, who decides that the Modoc murderers may be tried by a Court Marshal. The riecr e t ary of War. will, therefore make the detail, and have the Court organized as pa wl as possible. That Capt. Jack and the other hiodue ebeifs. will be tim i d guilty of murder and punished accor ding there nut be no doubt. pT HE PraU Basra that In obedie get 3 to orders trout head quarters all the miserable slavia - of the Ring wi tontrol weekly news papers in thIS State have opened or are about to open their fire *on the Constitutlonid Convention. The re forms enter ad upon by that body win prowl fatal to the pecuniary and biletOMS of the State treasury robbers; hence, these plunderers are getting their edlbirlal tools ready all over the ,State to oppose the new Constitution when it comes to be stibmlttel to a vote of the people. EDITOR • BRO. CURTIS gave his standing as a man and his influence as ajournal ist a fair test at the recent primary meetings. He besought the people orally, by day and by night to go against the popular vote system of nominating candidates, and he en treated them through the .Radical from week to week to do the same thing. He, doubtless, believed that his amendment would go through nearly unanimously, but the footing up showed that only 245 of the Re publican voters believed in him as a prudent counselor or set any store by his advice. Asa revolutionist he is clearly a failure. AN enterprising individual writes the Government from Tiffin, Ohio, offering to pay $60,000 for the privi lege of exhibiting Capt. Jack throughout the country during a pe riod of 60 days. The would-be show man promises to keep Capt. Jack se curely, treat him well, and return him to the Government at the end of GO days, provided he does not com mit suicide, in which case the 'Gov ernment is to receiye only $l,OOO a day for the time he remains In the showman's care alive. It is proposed to pay VO,OOO upon . the delivery of the Modoc chief at Chicago, and the remainder at the close of the two months. TIIME fiereely4ciyal persons who oppose as unpatriotic all attempts to wipe out the bitter memories of the Rebellion, and bring about good feel ing hetween the North and the South, will find food for meditation in some remarks of Mr. Peter H. Clark, a col ored orator in Cincinnati. In a re cent address to a mass meeting of men of his race he gave utterance to these generous sentiments: •'I am not vindictive in my feelings toward the men of the Rebellion. I was an' ear ly advocate of amnesty. I agree with the magnanimous Sumner. and would not ask a Southerner to enlist under a flag which bears on its folds the names of battles in which he met with huh:dilation and defeat. I would build the monuments which mark our battle-fields with the South of wood, that, when they have fallen into decay, the mempry of the strife may decay with them:" TiE editor of the Radical was a member of the Republican woven- tion which was in session in Beaver on last Monday one week ago. In that convention be made a motion for the appointment of a committee on resolutions, and of course courtesy gave him its chairmanship. Among other resolutions reported by him was the following: "Resolved, That we condemn as wrong in principle and mjst demor alizing in practice, the late congress ional retroactive salary increase and all kindred legislation." Now, it is true that Congress pass ed the "retroactive salary increase" bill, but it is equally true, that it never would have reached the stature of a law had President Grant not fa_ voted the measure and given to it his official signature. He made it the law of the land; Congress had not the cower to do so. Hence, we most respectfully ask the chairman of that committee on resolutions to point out the justice of condemning Congress, and not the President, for giving us the law to which reference is had. The latter had everything to do with putting it upon our' statute books; the former had, in reality, little or nothing to do with giving it a place there. Why then, did our county convention belabor the little con gressmen and allow the big President to go entirely free ? Mr. chairman Curtis, rise and explain. "A BAD NOMINATION." The Republican papers of the State which are independent of the Treas ury Ring, are speaking out with no uncertain tones in regard to the nom ination of the State Treasurer. Among others, the Philadelphia Sunday Times, under the above head, utters these trenchent and timely truths: "Next Fall the people will be called upon to elect a State Treasurer, and as the Republicans expect to be successful, it is highly important that they should put forward ark unexceptionable man. Appearances indicate that the pies have been 'set up' for the nomination of Rob ert W. Mackey, the present State Treas• rer, as the Republican candidate. This, in our humble judgment, .will be an unfortunate nomination, as it will not give strength to the ticket, and may possibly lead to its defeat, for the Re pubticans must not expect the over• whelming majorities next Fall which they rolled up last year In the Guberna torial and Presidential contests. This year there is no enthusiasm, and the State tickets of both parties must stand or fall upon their own merit. It is notorious that Mackey loaned out the State funds in large sums to C. T. Yerkes. Jr.. for their mutual benefit, and no one can entertain any reasonable doubt but that they divided the profits between them. The report of the joint committee of the Legislature establishes beyond question that ' Mackey had ex teustve transactions with "Yorke.. In which the money of the state was used, and its safety endangered by reckless Individuals. It is no answer to this charge to say that the deficiency was "roadegood" by Mackey and some of his friends. Ile, se a faithful officer. would not have permitted this money to be used by a stock jobber or broker for speculative purposes, yet some Maus; slif are tlackey razen e w n sw oug a h heal sayy loser through Yerkes , he should be ele cted .for another term, so that he may make himself whole!' This is logic with a venganoe i It should be the obiect to elect a man who would not speculate with the money of the State, but it Mackey is chosen, he is to haves license to do as be pleases, 'to make himself whole!' The Court of Common Pleas of this county having decided that ex- Register Keyser, of the Water Depart ment, shalt disclose what disposition he made of the money belonging to the city, why shouldnot the Supreme Court be appealed to, to compel State Treasurer Mackey to disclose, under oath. all his transactions with t.'baries T, Yerkes, and whatprofita or percentage be was promised for the use of the money of the State? Let Attorney General Dim mick do this, and be wilt have the ap proval Of every honest man in the State. The cases are similar, and if Keyser is put upon the witness stand, why should not Siebert W. Mackey be compelled to do theaamet The Legislature failed to investigate these transactions as fully as it should. and the Supreme Court la the only resource left. But to talk of putting Mackey on the ticket with a pure. high minds incorrtiptiblejurist will be to endanger the Republiesnliarty in Penn sylvania. The Republic-suf. should lork well before they incur the dl of having grace aa who s ef their ard -I:4ll2mme man record is tainted Irith ft rrOlitieln end political jobbery." M== HERE AND THERE: like short, women; short men, if they like till women, are re fered to a spite-like. damsel In Bur lington, lowa. She is six feet seven and a-half inches In stature, and is still growing. She is farther de scribed RS "good looking," . and what is still better, as "rich." Yet the swains of lowa look but shyly at this towering virgin, for if any one of them could muster courage to pro pose to her, how could ha, if accept ed, chastely_ salute her without get ting upon a chair nriialling for a lad der. —The New York Tribune says: Miss Greeley being very desirous to obtain as many as possible of the let ters of her father, the late Horace Greeley, will esteem' it a_great favor on the part of auy of his friends hav ing letters of interest written by blai, if they will kindly inclose such let ters to her by mail, that she may take•copies, after which she will re turn the originals to their several owners. Such friends wilt pleasead dress Ida L. Greeley, Chappaqua, Westchester county, N. J. —Laura 1). Fair never enters a Western court but she comes out the conquerer. The proprietor of a San Francisco hall recently rein* the use of his premises to the Fair celebrity for one of her edifying discourses. Whereupon Laura sued him and was fortunate enough to obtain judgment in S9G against the unaccommodating leeree. Whenever Laura now Chooses to tell the tale of her Wes tern flirtations she is pretty likely to find a hail, whatever she may do for an audience. —An unfortunate culprit was re cently brought before an lowa Jus tice charged with assaulting and bat tering a maiden. Investigation showed that the defendant had mere ly saluted the damsel against her will. She was in court, and gave her testimony looking so very beautiful.; ly that the Judge was compelled to make a special ruling. He could not, he said, in conscience fine the man for doingwhat was done; for said His - Honor, I `l have been obliged to hold on to-the arms of my chair to keep from kissing-the com plainant myself." Never did ajudge give a more rational decision. —A book agent recently invaded a snug in Pittsfield, Mass., wh ere he found a bright-looking lit tle woman sewing by the window• So he began to descant volubly on the merits of the book which he had for sale. This he kept up for half an hour, and as the little Woman made no answer, he concluded that he had found a customer. He handed her the pen which he had ready for her to make her subscription; whereup on, instead of putting her autograph on the list, she wrote upon a scrap of paper from her work-box, "Ime defe and dum." it was too much for the disappointed man, and he evacu ated the cottage without saying an. other word. —lf the laborer be worthy of his hire, may he not properly sue for it? A church in lowa neglected to pay its pastor's salary. Not relishing this, be brought his action and got a judgment. This was thought to be a proceeding demanding a council of investigation, and that tribunal ar rived at four findings, viz: That the church did wrong in failing to pay the pastor his salary; that the pastor did wrong in suing the church; that the church should apologize to the pastor, and that the pastor should apologize to the church. There couldn't be anything fairer and squarer than this; and if broth erly love isn't restored to thlt church, It must be past praying for. —Mr. Frank Reynolds recently eloped with Mrs. Sidney Brown, of Golden Bridge, N. J., but they were arrested at Chatham and detained till the husband arrived. He thrashed Reynolds vehemently, on sight, and the latter disappeared, but came around again next day, boarding the train on which were Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Brown gave him another pummeling, and then he was glad to crawl into the baggage car, where . he was soon seized by the Sheriff, and the crowd wanted to tar and feather him. He escaped eventually, and is satisfledthat the path to happin es s with Mrs. Brown is too stormy. That exemplary dame says that her husband is an old fool, and she will have Reynolds yet, in spite of him. —ln spite of the pretty things which are said about love, and the amiable assumption that it levels all distinctions, there are such things as ill-assorted marriages. Every news paper will remember the aristocratic maid of Chicago who married her father's English coachman. We sup pose that the romantic facts were given In every newspaper in the land. The finale isn't romantic in the least. The young woman has left her husband and gone back to her father's house. The bereaved coachman took legal measures to re cover his wife—brought trover or re plevin or something of that sort we suppose; but the court non-suited him, and left the lady with her fath er. Divorce, we pr es ume, will fol low—an awful warning to every young lady of susceptible turn against marrying even the hand somest coachman that -ever handled harness. —On the Nth of May, just as the steamer Contra Costa was about to start from her landinzat Point San Quentin, Cal., a wagon was driven down from the prison with what seemed to be a box of wagon spokes. This was soon trundled on board, and set on deck end up, when one of the deck hands heard a voice say, "Turn the box over on its side—turn It on the side." The man surmised that the order came from the captain. but that functionary upon being ques- tioned said that it didn't. Again came the supulchral and mysterious words: "For }leaven's sake turn the box over—turn it over!" A voice from the tomb is impressive, but a voice from a box of wagon spokes is harrowing. The captain thought the thing worth looking in to, and when he looked into it he found. in this box only four feet long and two feet deep and wide, two con victs - who had secreted themselves for the purpose at escape. As the position of the box brought one of the convicts bead downward with his companion's weight on, top of him ; it may be readily imagined' that both came out bathed in perspi ration and nearly stifled. Very Mau the gentlemen were to get out and se back to their old quarters. . ELECTION •I'RICINVII Dig Beaver Township Beaver Borough Borough Township Bridgewater Borough • Brighton Township • Baden Borangb Beater Falls Borough Cbippewa Township Dirlington Township Sconotny Township FaUstOn Borough Franklin Township Freedom DistriM. Freedom Borough Frankfort District Glasgow Borough Greens, Township Georgetown Borough Ilarmony Township !foveae U Township Independence Township Industry Township 'Marton Township McGuire District Moon Township New Brighton—North Ward Biddle Ward South Ward New Sewickly (Feasts District) North Sewickly Township. Now.Galllee ...... Ohio Township Patterson Township Phillipsburg Botough Pulaski Township Raccoon Township Roches er Borough Rochester Township South Bearer Township tit. Glair Borough Total A MODEL LAW OFFICER• The Little Irregtilarities o of Mach Bucks County's District Attorney is Guilty. The late serious charges against Di s t r ict A.ttoraiw Helot are:too welt known to the people of this county to need recapitulation. The report of the committee appointed to inves tigate them was filed at the last term, and he was ruled to answer at the adjourned Court in June. The tes timony is of such a character that it is believed there would be no other course left the Court than to strike his name from the list of attorneys. But, if common report be true, he has saved the Court this trouble in advance of its meeting, and left for parts unknown. As the circum stances of his leaving Doyleston, some of which come from his coun sel, detailed below, have been the subject of public conversation on our streets since Saturday. we feel inkified in giving them currency in our columns. We do not vouch for them, but our community be lieve them to be true. On Wednesday last be and his wife, formerly Miss Bush, left on the afternoon train for Bethlehem where they arrived last evening. He told her that he had business in Harris burg, and that if he did not come back by Saturday she should re turn home. As he did net make his appearance by the time appornted„she returned to Doylestown on the Sat urday evening train. It is said that instead of going to Harrisburg he returned down the North Penn Road, going on to Philadelphia; that on the way or in the city he was joined by a young lady of Montgom ery county. to whom it is said he was married several months ago, and before his marriage to Miss Bush, and in order to make this latter marriage invalid; and that they stopped at the Bingham House, where they registered under false names. They left the city on Friday for- parts unknown, and since then nothing has been heard of them. We are told that his resignation of the office of District Attorney has been left in the hands of a friend, and we presume it will be presented at the adjourned Court next week. In addition to the above facts, we are told that Mr. Heist was engaged last week In collecting up rozne.little debts due him around town. His clothes have been taken from his of fice, and it is said that his trunk was spirited away, so as not to excite suspicion, in a very ingenfous man ner. For some little time before he left Mr. Heist had in his hand a thousand dollars belonging to the law library fund, arising from a for feited recognizance, but this he paid to the Treasurer of the Library Com pany, less his commission for collect ing, one day last week. In regard to the young lady who went with him, it• is said they were engaged to be married before he got into his trou bles, and that they were secretly married before his compulsory mar riage with Miss Bush. Of conrse this conduct of the District Attorney creates great indignation in our com munity. is severely criticised. We have given the circumstances as we have received them from several sources, without vouching for the truth in any particular. Some of them are known to be positively true. We have no hesitancy in saying that if these things all be true,our late District Attorney has added bigamy to his other offenses, and that those who have been injured by his con duct should bring him to the bar of Public justice.—Doylestoten Demo ciat. -.11. • 4111. A Wholesale Poisoner on Trial. The trial of Mrs.-Charlotte Lamb, the Wisconsin wholesale poisoner, was commenced a few days ago in the Circuit Court of Edsworth. She is accused of having caused the death by poison of two of her own children, a boy and girl, the former thirteen, and the latter ten years of age, of Mrs. Ottman, a neighbor, and of one Royal Garland. She Is also said to he responsible for the "sudden taking off" of her husband, a young woman who had been her rival in his affections before marriage, the first Mrs. Lamb, and a Mr. Fuller, all of whom died between 1853 and 1871. She Is about forty years of age, and, according to the opinion of a reporter, who visited her in prison, has not the appearance of a murder. ess. It has already come out in evi dence that she had during many years been considered the possessor of a valuable specific, and that those who had died suddenly- outside her own immediate family had partaken freely of it. Garland was a person of such weak mind that he had excited her pity, and she was known to \ have repeatedly mended hisclothing,' from motives of pure Charity. The dose that killed him was administered at his own request, to cure him of "stomaeb-ache." Mrs. 'Ottman was dosed to cure her tendency to faint at inconvenient times. The defense, as a matter of course. Is that the woman is insane, and the prosecuting counsel are putting forward quite an array of medical experts to proVe that she is at present, and waawhen the poisoning was done, of perfectly sound mind. —The Missouri Democrat seems to wonder at the hesitation of the Con stitutional Convention sitting at Philadelphia to modify the libel•iaw so as to secure the admission. of the truth as evidence in criminal prose cutions. Commenting on the action of the Convention. it says: We ask our readers to pause and. censifliT the great work the honest press of the United States has recent ly accomplished in the exposure and denunciation of dishonest- officials. In New York , city a prompt and fearless press has throttled and de feated the most powerful gang of official thieves which ever plundered a free people. The.exposure of the Credit Mobliler scandal, - and the prompt denunciation of the salary grab, are other instances of fidelity of i a free-spoken press to its duty to the public. We have good reason to hope that newspapers of,this fearless type are increasing In the land. To secure public support, the newspaper must be the servant of the public, quick to fly to the defense of Its in terests. and allowing- no personal or party considerations to shield dis honest officials from exposure and punishment. ft4bolootarf: r!1" . r . t - 1.4 g t j '• l - 1 ./ • • 61 791 43 CAI . 10 - TO 1 , 9 . , 4'l t : I n, - 181 § ativ Or 1 15 4, 4 4 19i 1 45 eh 42 3.1! ' i 27 4'... a . 85. 49, * ail 24 21 lI Intl 7 4 19 1 9 .... 5 111 1 4 49;.... 3t) 2 , 11 13! N 1.... 51,.... 28 12, 1. , 751 1; Tj 10S 2! 3tlSi . 20; 8 1 GI G , 61 1 oil 271.-1 I 21 • 51 . 171 441.... 61 421 r 8, 8 3I 1141 T I I MI ffIE3E THE WARM MintlNG INDIANS: A Description of the Dead and their Chicia—Donald McKay. HEAVES MoDocMtrEnyttox, FArnenirth's BANcIr, SATURDAY., May 24. 1873. The Warm Spring Indians days so important and: arsenal a part in the Modoc war, that a sketch of them will be interesting to the public, and your correspondent has the advant age of acquaintatice with,''and resi dence for a while, among them— eleven years ago—so can speak with some knowledge` of his subject. In the first place, these Indians do not all belong to the proper Warm Springs band, but derive their title in this connection from the fact that they reside on the Warm Springs reservation, which lies at the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains, with Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson in the centre of the Cascade range, as northern and southern corner posts of the west, and bounded on the north by the Mutton Mountains, about fifty miles south of the Colum bia by and east of the Oeschutes River. It contains very little good agricultural land, and "Is, in many respects, the poorest Indian reserva tion in Oregon. There is a large and singular hot spring on this reserva tion which gushes out of the - foot of the wall of a deep canon, through which runs the Warm Springs River, which is a turbulent mountain stream. The agency is at least ten milts south of these springs, but they were the favorite haunt of this , band or tribe, whose wigwam were pitched in the narrow valley near the spring, and they had great faith in its curative and medicinal effects. These warm springs deserve men tion, for the volume of water is so great that It forms a stream that fills a canal about four feet deep and twelve feet wide. The water comes out boiling hot from below, and is gradually booted as it flows through the canal, so that persons can choose a point between thesprings and the river where the temperature will suit them, and enjoy a bath mbst luxurious, though not accomplished without a fair share of difficulties. The results are certainty luxurious to a traveler who has ridden sixty miles at a gallop in the July sun and over the alkali plains, Rs 1 have oc casionally tested. As- to the medic inal qualities of the springs, they have been telategin rheumatic maw, and have eirec wonderful cures. The water is strongly impregnated with sulphur, as are most of the hot springs of that region. Some of our party started up a rattlesnake, which species abound in all this interior region, and drove the reptile through the tall rye-grass and sage-brush into the streatm and then lashed the sur face behind it with willow switches, and made it swim up the current, which it continued to do until it be came parboiled and gave up the ghost. Eggs can be boiled with the water; and theaprings, as mere curi osities, and as remedial agents, would be highly prized if plesantly situated where fashion and its fancy invalids could make August' pilgrimages td appreciate and enjoy them. Donald McKay, the leader of these Warm Springs braves, is a man just six feet high and well-proportioned, the son of a noted Scotch fur trader of the Hudson Bay Company, by his Indian wife. - Donald has intelli gence, is companionable and cool, speaks seven Indian dialects. thor oughly understands the Indian loaracter, and has the judgment to ntrol it admirably and to leaed it to successful battle, His men were originally about seventy-five. two- , thirds of them are of the true Warm Springs band and the other third are Wascopums, except on ewho Is a Walla Walla and one who is a Uma tilla. The Warm Springs band has been considered the most warlike on the reservation, and until lately has been disposed to conform to the ideas of civilization or religion, but the present agent, Capt. John Smith, is a man of sincere piety, and has done much for their advancement. The band here contains two men who preach the Christian religion, as Donald McKay tells me, and they hold religious services each Sabbath, which are attended by most, though some of them. are still attached to the Smoholla faith. Donald al.§) explains that in his opinion. Smoholla. many years ago, invented his faith from what he could learn about the Christian re ligion from Catholic priests, from officers of the Hudson Ray Company, and front Mr. Spaulding, a Protest ant missionary. From all this in quiry he developed a religion, that he thought suited. to his own race, and has become a prophet and dreamer• amorig t them. Qui-pre mah was, ten yaws ago, the leading spirit of Ihe.Warm Springs band of the adherents of Stpoholia, and he used to dream,. as I remember to have beard. when there, that the time was, soon ,coming when the white men should die offandthe red race bold their own, again with all the rut things`lett by the'lteatons" addedithereto, including thEtatoek of whisky on hand, ..tuad- that; to the Indian appetite,•was a great blessing of itself. and Donald says the Solo holia,faith is like that of the ancient Fpicureans, a sort of free love and bayou good time generally "sort-of a philosophy, with • a belief that the good dead - shall repossess and enjoy Me earth again icoomefutureperiod of existence, „ In the Indian war of 1855 and '56 these Indianswere among the nos tile tribes, but• they were eonquered and made peace • ill• 1856, - .and since that time have.been reliable. 'Their faith 2in Qui-pe4nah • died out; and many of them yield a.sort 'of.belief in the Christian faith. During the wars with the Snake* Gen. Crook used; to great advantage, it company of them es scouts and fighters. They became expert warriore;..and (were well led by Donald - McKay. Now they are againba-the 3 -field, endure even more useful-than before, as their _ services are more neeessary;- because the war is much =more difficult to conduct, and such services are' more imperatively needed. ' ' 'Under the- present system, each reservation elects its head chief, and I - pairlel.a, brother of Qui-pe-mah, • aged about sixty, was lately elected to the _position:. :Ile cis evidently very popular, or. else - .put: - up the primaries remarkably . well; SS MO rormer head chiefswere . candidates against hire, but he: was elected two I 2! !I! C