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i it i Si I OSAGE IP VOL. 1. OSAGE MISSION, NEOSHO COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY NOON, JUNE 21, 1872. NO. 8.

MISCELLANEOUS. Father Bax among the Osages, attending II en jr Wilson. ANKERS. Henry Wilson was born at Farmingtoni New Hampshire, February 16. 1812.

His OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. OsauVGE MISSION) IS PUBLISHED Every Friday Noon, AT OSAGE TERMS: TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, Ztf Invariably in Adrance. the north side of County Streets, in Iarij building. C. CHOWTIIER, PubliKher.

FRIDAY NOON, JUNE 21, 1872. the sick and the dying, of the rough life he led, of the dirt he had to encounter, he contracted the sickness that was decimating them, the scurvy. In May of that terrible spring, he gave evident signs of the disease. He, however, continued his missionary excursions until he could go no more. Then, and then, only, he gave up, was brought to Fort Scott, and was attended most carefully by the liberal commanding officer and the doctor.

But it Was too late; the disease had made a frightful progress, and on the last day of July he gave up his soul to God, after having received the last rites of. the church at the hands of Bishop Miege, who had reached Fort Scott the day before. Father Bax was thirty-five years old when death put an end to his apostolic labors. He had an ardent zeal, a particular gift of speech, and the whole; crowned with the most ex 1 parents being extremely poor, lie was apprenticed at ten years of age to a neighboring farmer, with whom he remained patiently until be was of age, eing to dis trlct school meantime, for twelve months in the aggregate. But his slight schooling was by no means a measure of bis progress? He had acquired an appetite for books, ahd had managed to borrow, within a circle of ten miles arouud.

about all that were owned. Nights and Sundays, by firelight and moonlight, he had read thousand volumes, largely history and theology. HV: had also learned to use his tongue glibly in the "debating society" that Yankee iu Three settlements of Catholic -families were formed on Pottawatomie Creek, Fall River and Verdigris. These were visited regularly to the great delight of those poor people. They had thus an occasion of performing their Christian duties.

These settlements were Ovef seventy-five miles from the Osage mission Father Logan worked faithfully among the Osages, and through his exertions several were converted and baptized. But soon, although not a word of complaint passed his lips, it was evident that he suffered, and the kind Father Schoenmaker resolved to bring him back to St. Louis. He had hardly reached there when a severe brain fever set in, and he expired on the 4th of July, 1858, being thirty-two years of age, and passed from this life into the light of heaven. The 25th of August, he was replaced at the mission by Father James Van Goch.

In the fall of that year. Bishop Miege visited the settlement on the deserted the schools were very full, but no protector was near. The only breastwork was the innocence of the little children. The fact is that several guerilla troops went there to pillage and burn, and yet were restrained from it by the innocence of the little ones, who having no knowledge of friend or foe, were equally kind to all. One band, however, took all the provisions, all the clothing to be found in lxth houses, even that of the children, and retired without more injury.

This caused Father Schoenmaker to apply to Generals Charles Blair and Thomas Ewing for troops, which request was readily granted, and a company of soldiers was stationed at the mission, thus checking the constant inroads of robbers, and giving security to teachers and pupils. The mission was in great danger when a large train escorted by soldiers left the place for Fort Smith, but was captured by the Confederates near Cabin Creek, sixtv five WESTERN INDIAN MISSIONS. PIERCE MITCHELL, li KEKS, Oae Mission, Neoslio Kansas Do a General Banking Business; Receive deposits, hay and sell Gold, Exchange, Government Bonds and other securities. The Osage mission. A few after Easter of the year 1851, the news reached the mission that Pius IX.

had erected the Indian territory into an apostolic vicariate, comprising Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, and that the Right Reverand John B. Miege was already on his way to his arduous missions. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. johs aioFrrrr. geo.

a. bitter. MOFFITT RITTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 'Corner Main and County Streets, OSAG 17 MISSION, KANSAS 1-lv 1 stitution to which so many poor boys are indebted. i At the end of his eleven years lie trk all his property in a pack on his Iwck ami I walked to Natick, where he bir-d ta a 1 shoemaker, and devoted two ye' alted virtues aiiatl gentleness of mannAslnis.l delight was to" instruct Bishop Miege left at. Louis in May, lool, jnege leit or.

ixuis in 1001, with.Brc Paul twfc lay I dj 1iJom miles south. General Price and his army and gave those good people, who were over- with the Osageso-he had Acquired a greafMpoyea, atner lYrrScnafct forpattrwrTw i'hwate bat he fore brothers, went first to St. Mary's of the reaching Baxter Springs, the oidTgeucra lieve the Osage mission he was also to at Knowieuge oi meir language. ana great the future of hopes were placed on him tor FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Sell drafts, in sums to suit, on Ireland, Germany, Sweden ami other countries.

CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT Issued, payable on demand, and, after a stated time bearing interest. COLLECTIONS Made promptly on all accessible points. Negotiate County, School and City Bonus. tend the Miamis, Peorias, Weas, Piankishas, Ottawas and Chippewas. When Father Schact, a year after, was removed to Lawrence, he kept such missions, because they were French-speaking Indians, which language he spoke and they were left as a legacy to his successor, Father Favrc, now RAGER KELLERMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AXD GENERAL COLLECTING AGENTS, Osage Mission, Neosho County, Kansas.

l-i Professor of Theology at the Seminary of the Assumption, who also speaks French and did much good among them. I pass rapidly over the years that followed. STILL WELL BAYLIES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS. Will practice in the and all State Courts. 1-1 A new church was built; the exercises of Pottawatomies, and after a few weeks, in the company of Father Durink, Superior of St.

Mary's, Father Ponziglione and the brothers, went across the vast prairies, and reached the Osage mission on the 26th of June. The joy felt by the fathers was equalled only by that of the Indians. They came in groups to see theTapusca-Watanka (the priest-lord) and pay him their homages. The bishop remained a few weeks at the mission acting as a simple missionary, preaching, baptizing, visiting the wigwams and instructing the Indians. Before leaving, he solemnly administered the sacrament of confirmation, leaving Father Ponziglione at the mission.

But things were too prosperous some afflictions were at hand. The time of trial came in October. The health of Father Schoenmaker fell to an alarming degree. No doctor being at hand, he was taken in a common wagon to Fort Scott, and placed under the care of the doctors at that fort. Never will the kindness of the officers, doctors and soldiers be forgotten.

They all vied with each other to relieve the pains of the poor sufferer while Fathers Bax and Possessing ample facilities for the advantageous conduct of our business, we offer to all our customers the most favorable rates and the promptest attention. J5Attention and information cheerfully extended to strangers. Refer by permission to First National Bank. Kansas Citv: Traders" Bank. St.

Louis; Northup Chick, "New York; Phillips Scoville. Fort Scott. i lv a jubilee brought many to church; many were baptized, and the work progressed as usuaL I will say nothing of the measles which attacked again the children of the school, nor the prejudices that followad it, prejudices so lolish and vet strong that time he accumulated two hundred dollars in money, by extreme fmgrdity, and with this, at the age of twenty-three, he begn to go to school in the academies at Stafford ami Concord. The man to whom he had lent the two hundred dollars failed ii few months, and the ambitious student returned again, disappointed but plucky, to the shoe-bench at Natick. Now he began to speak at the ward meetings, and at tire country school-houses, especially in the ad-vocacyof abolitionism.

In 1810 he made vigorous canvass for Harrison, delivering upward of sixty speeches and at the Mid of the campaign was elected to the Legislature as a representative of the laboring men of Natick. During the next five years he was thrice re-elected to the House, and twice rent to the State Senate, all in both offices he was chiefly known as a zealous foe of slavery and a zealous friend of the rork ing man. In 1845 he made in the Legislature a notable speech against the extension and continued existence of slavery, declaring in favor of all constitutional resistance to it. In 48 he was a delegate to the Whig National Convention, and on the rejection of the anti-slavery resolutions 1.6 withdrew from it and took a prominent part in organizing the Free Soil party. In" '50-51 he Was President of the State Senate.

In '52 be was made president of the Free Soil National Convention, and chairman of its national committee. In the same yeat he was a Free Soil candidate for Cong res in the Eighth district, where, with a ma Father Van Goch having visited a village of RY GOODS AN1 GROCERIES. HUTCIIINGS O'GRADY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS. O.lice Ilntchinsa' Building, County Street. 1-1 W.

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M. Bovle Jfc building, on Main Street. 1-1 tne nation, uemg so amiable ana unpretending, he had the confidence of the Indians and the whites. His charity was boundless, and was the cause of his death. Father Bax had desired to be buried among his dear Osages.

Hence he was brought to the mission, and the rites of the Catholic church were sung over his remains. Father Schoenmaker addressed the people, ami feelingly told of the shining virtues of the dear deceased. The congregation gave signs of the deepest sorrow. The Indians, on their way back from a partial hunt, heard of the death of Father Bax. They made haste and arrived in time.

They begged the fathers to have the bier opened. To please them, it was done. But no sooner had they viewed their father and friend, dressed in his priestly robes, resembling more a person in sleep than in death, than they raised a very loud cry, and forgetting that they were in the church, began their mourning song, as they have it at the loss of a dear friend. Their excitement was so great that for two hours they walked around the bier striking their breasts, and singing the terribly mournful song. Only then did they give up the coffin whs closed, and all in procession carried him to his resting place.

The 29th of October, 1862, Father Adrian Van Ilulst went from St. Louis to fill the place of Father Bax. His help was much needed. The gov? rnment had allowed the Quapaws to send their children to the Osage manual school, so hat the number of pupils had nearly doubled. Besides, the Indians of the six nations, generally called New York Indians, had just settled on a small stream called Little Osage, near Fort Scott, and it became necessary to visit them, as many among them were Catholics.

Father Van Ilulst went on his apostolic duties with great zeal. The Quapaws, the Senecas, the Cherokees, the Cieeks and Seininoles received his frequent visits. He extended them as far as Fort Gibson at the KPonzig-lione visited him weekly in turn. The Pioneer Still in Advance PHYSICCAN5 AND DRUGGISTS. A.

F. Neeit. R. C. Leake, the Little Osages, the chief of the tribe accused him of killing children by baptism and night coming, he was refused lodging and obliged to pass the night upon the naked prairie, cold and famished, after a whole day's ride, and that for fear that he would perform some great spell against them.

I say nothing of the increasing goodness of the half-breeds, nor the show of a desire of civilization among the wild Indians, who brought to school as many as two hundred and thirty-five children, and occasioned thus the expense of new buildings. I say but a word of the pious death of Gratamantze sucessor of White-Hair as great chief of the Osages. This old man had been baptized by Father Van Quickcnborn years before. Taken away soon after, while a small boy, he joined in all the follies of Manitou worship, but as soon as he succeeded White-Hair he became a fervent Christian. The chief of the QUawpaws Warti-shi by name was baptized that same year under the name of Joseph.

It is needless to say that in that year Father Schoenmaker, desirous of seeing the Indians at work, offered them regular wages if they would go to the woods and split rails to build fences for themselves. The father and his men went, and with the rails fenced plats of ground around the wigwams, which they ploughed and planted, while the Indians jority against his party of 7,500 he came LEAKE NEELY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Office in Neely's Building, County OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS All calls promptly attended to. 2-1 Thos. H. Butler General Dealers in Thanks to the kindness shown Father Shoenmaker, he could return to the mission in January, 1852, in good health, perfectly recovered.

About the time of the return of Father Schoenmaker, George Whiterllair, who had been ailing for some time, became very s'ek. The Indians left their towns and came in great numbers to see their chief. The "medftjine-men" also offered their services. The venerable old chief knew them, thanking them kindly for their attention, and requested them to leave him in peace and abstain from performing superstitious rites around him, for he was a Christian, and desired to die a Christian. After this, he placed himself entirely in the hands of Father Bax, by whom he had been instructed and baptized.

Soon after, he re ceived the last rites of the church, and the 23d day of January he calmly expired to enter a better life. The death of White-Hair was a terrible blow. The wild Indians, as was to be expected, became furious because their great chief had died without a medicihe-man attending him. They disliked to see him buried as a white man. He was a brave, 1 B.

D. WILLIAMS, Homeopathic Physician, OSAGE MISSION, KANSAS. Office on south side of County street, in the building occupied by lrl Warner as a drug etore. 3-1 HOWARD COOK, Druggists and Apothecaries, within ninety-three votes of being elected. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention.

In '57, by a coalition between the Americans and the Free Soilers, he was lectcd to the United States Senate to succeed Edward Everett, and, shortly after taking his seat, made a most effective speech advocating the repeal of the fugitive slave law. Being challenged to fight a duel by Bully Brooks, he declined on the grontHf that dueling was an illegal and barbarous practice. During the succeeding four years he took a very prominent part in debate. His peech in defense of free labor; in reply to Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, attained an immense circulation throughout the North. Being re-elected, he was, in '61, made chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate.

His labor during the war was quite enormous and the cast his soldiers into the State of Missouri. All the soldiers scattered alout, and indeed all available men were mustered into service to defend our State from invasion. Soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln peace was proclaimed, confidence was restored, and the settlers returned to their homes. As is always the case after Mich wars, suspicious characters remain for the spoils, and steal now in the dark, since they can not rob publicly as before. Thus in one night all the horses and the greater part of the stock of tbe mission were removed, and no tidings were ever had of their whereabouts.

The mission lost considetably during this unhappy war, without the hope of ever receiving one cent back. In the year 1865, Father Hooken was removed from the mission, and Father John Cunningham sent to reside at Fort Scott, where Father Ponziglione had finished a good church and formed a congregation. In the fall of the same year, the United States government sent its agents to a great council with the Osages. All the chiefs and braves met on the Insea-pa-oushu Creek, and the white men met on Canville Creek. Father Schoenmaker was officially invited to attend, and taking the stand, lie explained to the Indians the advantage resulting for them from a treaty with the United States.

This treaty was signed by both parties on the spot. As soon as the land was open for settlement a rush was made, and the work increased considerably. A church was built and congregation formed at Humboldt But great confusion followed the taking of claims by men who had no rights to such. Quarrels followed among the settlers, but all were happily adjusted, and the church could not contain all the Catholics. Another missionary was sent to help in the good and difficult work.

This was Father John Schonsetters. The distant missions were again visited to the great joy of the Catholic population. Father Schoensctters attended the white populations of Carthage, Granby, Newtonia and Neosho, in Missouri, and the new settlements on the Quapaw, Seneca and Cherokee lands, also Cow Creek, Spring River and Neosho, in Kansas, and Baxter Springs. The Osages, six months after the treaty, having removed to their new reservation. Father Schoenmaker followed them, in order to instruct them.

Starting from the mission, he followed the Osage trail, and reached first the bands of Clermont and Black Dog, on Pumpkin Creek, in the Verdigris Valley, thence to Big Hill, a large Osage town of one hundred lodges. Leaving Big Hill, he came into the camps of Beaver, White-Hair, Nantze-Waspe and Little Osages, at the junction of Fall River and the Verdigris. During these last years, the Catholic population of the Osage Mission has increased so much that a large church is in way of construction a convent lias been built for the sisters of Loretto; and a residence will soon be built for the fathers. A large circulating library has been estab- lished by Father Colleton, who succeeded Father Schoensctters. So that everything goes prosperously.

Many churches have been built and congregations established in the neighborhood, and constantly some of the fathers are on missionary tours. The Jesuit fathers of the Osage missions have been the pioneers of Kansas. They have, according to the text of the Scripture, sown the seed of the Word of God into those wild countries; others will come who will in joy reap the harvest Perhaps lofty cathedrals will be raised where the poor pioneer priest has rejoiced in raising a small cross. All the good performed will be known at the day of reckoning, when all nations shall stand" before the throne of God and be judged according to their works. Jaues II.

Defoctki. J- junction of the Neosho with the Arkansas River. Thetruits derived from these visits Groceries, Provisions, were sitting in the shade smoking. When County Street. OSAGE MISSION, were immense.

But, alas! the hardships he experieeed in traveling through these boundless deserts so impaired his health that his superiors had to recall him to rest for a while. He left for St. Louis on the 14th of October, 1854, having spent two corn grew, tuey ate tne green ears, ana all was over. But let us pass from these trifles to the KANSAS. 2-1 hard times experienced bv the missions MISCELLANEOUS.

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KAXSAS. 0-i AGE MI8S10X, OSAGE MISSION KANSAS. Wu have in store value of his services incalculable. It was declared by Geneial Scott that he did more work in the first session than all the other committees bad done in twenty yeais-, ami Secretary Cameron in a published letter, said of him, in 62, "No man, in my opinion, in the whole country, has done more aid the War Department in preparing the mighty army how under arms." After the close of the war31r. Wilson published three volumes, detailing recent anti-slavery and reconstruction history, and during the present vear has issued his first vnitime on The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power." TlioiigH he has been the public life for thirty years, he is still almost as poor as when, in '36, he made shoes at Natick.

He has occupied positions of the highest trust, where it was easy for an officer not quite scrupulous to get rich, but his repultitn for perfect honesty is as clear as Abrahani Lincoln's was. No man in America is more highly respected than Henry Wilson. An Incident in a Tenneee Mnrdrr Trl: The following incident is related in the Editor's Drawer of H-irper" for June You have thousands of readers (vrrites correspondent at Nashville, Tenri.) and appreciate a od thing at the expense evtti of that "bulwark of our lilerties," the trial by jury. The Hon. many years before the war.

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during the late war. When, on the 12th of April, 1861, the first gun was shot at Fort Sumter, it reached all over the land, and the forest Indians themselves felt it. Placed so near the border, the Osage mission suffered much from incursions of the military. The fact is, that some demanded all because they were enemies, and the others demanded all because they were friends. Steadfast in his duty toward the Union, Father Schoenmaker was in particular the object of the hatred of all the troops of guerillas which passed by.

Five hundred dollars reward was offered for his head. Hence he left the mission, and for some months retired to St. Mary's. The storm over, he returned home. During his absence, Father Ponziglione was throttled to give up the arms that were said to be concealed at the mission- After a brutal search, finding none, they abused Father Hooken, whom they met.

A dastardly attempt was made upon the life of Father Van Goch. On his return from Fort Scott, where he had been attending the numerous soldiers professing the Catholic faith, he fell into the hands of a band of robbers dressed in military. They ordered him from his horse, made him kneel down, their guns levelled the word only was wanting. But the leader, more humane than those Sends, said there was no glory in killing a man without arms and making no resistance. He promised to attend to him in due time, and had him conveyed to the house of a friend, whence he reached the mission in safety.

Some speculators, desiring to enrich themselves, came among the Osages and raised recruits. But an Indian remains an Indian, although dressed in soldier's clothes. They all left the ranks and returned home, where they sold their clothes for a dram of whisky, and went buffalo-hunting. They drank'freely, and Father Ponziglione, not knowing this, arrived at the Osage town of Nantze-waspe. There he was surrounded, complaints were made against the officers who enrolled them and paid them not.

then against all white men knives were brandished around the father, and poised to stab him. Just then a cry of terror was heard Union troops were near and he was saved. Several tribes of Indians flying from the South came up among the Osages. These more or less demoralized the Osages, as well as those who had been in the army. In vain were they instructed, invited to be civilized and cared for it was useless.

"Father," they would say, "you promised us very great things in the name of your Great Spirit in another land. We are poor now; why does He not give them now We are bound to work for you or starve." Thus they reasoned for heavenly things they had no relish; sugar, tea and coffee werj better to them. As soon as the spring opened they rushed to their forests, and while the Easter offices were performed at the mission, you might have heard, one mile further in the woods, the mournful song of the Ta-hi-un, their worship song, accompanied by the drum, and if penetrating nearer you should be able to see them you would find them in their forest recess sacrificing their bird to the Great Spirit, and like the ancient augures consulting the palpitations and convulsions of the dissected animal to foretell their success in war or the hunt. In the meanwhile the dangers increased; they said, and he must be buried as a brave. They found fault with all the attentions lavished upon him by Father Bax.

Why did he talk in secret to their chief Why did he anoint him, except to perform a bad charm upon him What did he give him to eat that he called communion, if not to poison him? They went about sowing dissatisfaction among the ignorant, saying that the fathers were going to put their chief in a hole like a dog instead of burying' him with all the honors due to such a chief, a brave killing his horse on his grave and hanging around the scalps of his enemies. They went so far that they accused the fathers of killing him by inducing him to abandon the worship of his nation to adopt a strange one. "What did baptism avail him? He displeased the Great Spirit, and that is all," they would cay. Hence they concluded it was useless to follow such a belief, and that they should stand by their old ways. Several who were preparing to receive baptism were discouraged; all the ceremonies of Pagan worship were put iu use.

This was disheartening; but it was not enough. A Quapaw Indian went from his country to visit his daughter who was at school. He fell sick on the way, and when he reached the mission he was in a dying state. His sickness was the measles. The man was kept in a secluded room, but it was to no purpose.

The infection spread around and soon one-half of the children were down sick. The mission was a hospital. All care was taken, but a few died. When the Indians heard of the epidemic, they were frantic; they rushed for their children and took them home, for they found fault that they were not treated as Indian children ought to be treated. "You know nothing about Indians," they would say.

Thus the parents took their children and brought them into the Neosho to call their fever and wash off the sickness, and, as could be expected, almost all died. Children dying so fast in the camps of the Indians moved the heart of Father Bax to follow and baptize them. He went, traveled constantly, lived in all the dirt of the Indian wigwam, and was satisfied with their fare, poor and dirty as it was. Thus he baptized many before they gave up their lives. But this very thing caused the bitterest rage of the medicine-men.

The medicine-men were and are still a set of crafty men, who, mixing sorcery with cunning, act as doctors, and sometimes perform wonderful tricks. This is the way they make a living. These men, fearful of the presence-of Father Bax, and seeing the number of their dupes diminishing, went about slandering him, accusing him of killing children by baptism. As in all times of excitement, the foolish accusation is believed, Father Bax is refused admittance, he is is called a murderer of children, and even illustrated. It was expected that the mission would be destroyed.

The crisis, however, took place when adults began to be attacked with the epidemic. Not only the measles, but also he scurvy, was making frightful ravages. Its malignity was unprecedented. Over eight hundred Osages died during the spring. Many having died who were not baptized, the survivors noticed the circumstance, and soon they returned, begging forgiveness for that baptism had killed them, since so many died who were not baptized, and they were the first to laugh at their own terror.

In consequence of the incessant visits of years at the mission. The half-breeds gave the fathers great consolation, but for the Osage Indians it was difficult to do anygood among them. They were glad to hear the Word of God, and could well take a rebuke, frequently acknowledging that they deserved it but when it was a question of Christianity in practice, of civilization, they covered their heads with their blankets, kept silence, and as soon as politeness could allow, they would leave. It was not that they did not understand the importance of Christianity. AVhen sick, they all desired to be baptized but, for the sake of truth, we must say that many on recovering, returned to Pagan worship, respect and interest did that great evil.

The following will illustrate that matter: A brave of the Beaver band of Osages had a nephew at school. The young boy was gifted, and had been baptized and received communion. His uncle went to the mission, and said he should take his nephew home. Father Schoenmaker objected, because it was the epoch of the foolish worship of the Osages. But he would have his nephew and take him to the worship.

The father argued with him and proved to him that he was wrong. The old brave listened in silence, and acknowledged that it was interest that made him ask the like that he did not care for Indian worship that but few believed in it but that if he took his nephew there he would get a large share of buffalo on account of the boy's father having been a great brave, who died in a war with the Comanches, and as he was a poor man he would have his own and his nephew's share for the winter. During that year, lands in the newly-formed Territory of Kansas began to be opened for settlement, and many families settled about the mission, on account of the advantages of schools. Thus the congregation was much increased. Father Ponziglione, this same year, from the Mi amis, went to visit the Chippewas and Ottawas, living near the mouth of Ottawa Creek, near the Osage River.

Most of these Indians were Catholics but not having been visited for years, he had hard work baptizing and instructing them. This mission gave him much consolation. In September, 1855, Right Reverend Bishop Miege took to himself Father Hei-mann, who had been now for six years at the mission. During this time he had so organized the schools that the children were the delight of all who saw them. Their jnodesty and good behavior, along with their progress, were remarkable.

Twice a year they gave public exhibitions, that were attended by all, Indians and whites. The mission lost a great help by the removal of Father Heimann, who, besides his noble school, had attended the Germans of Deep-Water. In the summer of 1857, a brother priest was sett from St. Louis to work among the Osages. This was "Father Joseph Van Lengenhage, commonly called Father Logan.

This good man was strong and full of zeal. He sej to work at once. But, alas! his conversations with the Indians terminated as did all such conversations, by utter silence, and retiring as soon as possible. Evidently were not for Christianity and civilization, and although they did not believe in Manitou worship, yet it paid them better, these same Indians had, besides, beeu imbued by careless white trappers with all the false ideas of soeptaeism and infidelity. Our stock is always full and complete, and purchasers can rely upon getting ANYTHING THEY" NEED, STODDART HOUSE, The Best Hotel in Osage Mission, Corner Main and County Streets.

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is one well worthy tf preservation in ynir treasury of good things, the Editor Drawer. Not many years ago, the judge says, a man. was on trialat Wanesborongh, in this Stat; on a charge of murder. The evidence for the- State in of itself fatally defer- tive the defendant on his part, by the testimony of several unimpeachable witnesses, established a peifoc-t "alibi." The judge and every one else sup posed the pros-cuting attorney would thereupon give up the 2ase. But no he was an obstinate fellow, whom the defendant's counsel had made mad.

and, moreover, he Iiao no use for" the defendant any way. and argue the case he would. Court adjourned; till the next morning. Meanwhile our Attorney General spent a good portion of the day in ransacking the books for "bloody cases." more especially those in which the judges had indulged ia a vast deal ot rhetoric in their descriptions of the horriablc nature of the crime of murder. These extracts he read to the jury in his speech the nTct morning, quoting als freely from the Old Testament as to the proper disposition to be made of the murderer, and closed np in a perfect conflagration of English adjectives in giving his own notion as to the iwicecrib-c bis Iceino utiles of the crime of murder.

The court then charged the jury briefly. w1h. after a few moments retirement, brought ia a verdict of "guilty of murder in the degree!" Of course a new trial was at once granted. Defendant? counsel, however, as naturally curious to know how the jury could have found that verdict, and so walking np to one of the most intelligent of the twelve, he said to him, "How on earth dil you find that verdict? on what evidence did you base it?" "Oh!" said the jarymn: har wasW The new postal bill, which became a law just before the session closed, makes some changes in the existing postal regulations, which are of general interest. The most important is the authorization of one cent postal cards for correspondence or for printed circulars, similar to those which were introduced in Great Britain nearly two years ago, and are now in use in nearly all European countries.

The House provided in the bill for cards, with paper flap, to cover and conceal the writing. The seuate changed this to an open card. In the conference committee the style of the card was left to the discretion of the Pstmastcr General, who prefers the open canL and will order that kind only to be manufactured. The face of the card will bear a one cent stamp, and will be provided with lines for the address, and the back will be ruled for the letter. The price" of the card and stamp will be only one cent.

It will probably be three or four weeks before they will be ready for sale, as the plates for printing liave yet to be prepared. A Western dairyman says the best remedy he has found for preveting cows holding up their milk is to "take a loghain, double it, then lay it gently over the cow's back. or the small of the back, so that the ends of the chain will clear the floor. The cow loses the power holding up her milk, and after a few trials will forget the habit." Kingbirds, that there is so much said about, only eat tbe drones or stingless bees. Hence I think that instead of injury to the bee-hive, they are a blessing, assisting the T.

SMYTH'S MEAT MARKET, Next door to Lybrand Main Street, Orders Solicited and Promptly Pilled. 1-4 W. H. FLAXBEARD, Agent. jpoCXDRY AXD MACHIXE SHOP.

Is constantly stocked with the CHOICEST MEATS the country can prodnce, and of every variety. In connection will be found A No. 1 FEED STORE, ftsady at all times to supply the demands of the trade. The highest cash price paid for THE FOIIT SCOTT TOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. CORN, OATS, Iron and Brass Castings of all kinds, including Store Fronts, made to order.

POTATOES, HIDES. l-i Engine Cylinders Bored. To Teachers, There will be a Public Examination held, at the School Ilouse in this place tbe first Saturday in each month until further notice. nothing in he ertfewc that tc1 him but. workers in ridding themselves of loaters Keep all sizes Steam and Water Pipes, and Fitt tings.

Job Work and Repairs Done on the Shortes- EO. A A WFORD. Prop'r. 46-ly FRANK J. Nt TZ, Sup't.

both the white settlers and the maians you fc-e, tht hut vcxt ts -d abandoned the country, and the mission was that cat and labor not. J. L. Evass..