The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-03-04

I written by Mrs. Victor, l9 just ISSUED
from the press, and from the adya0c,
lsheets of the work we take tho foil ?
ing extracts:
THE DISCOVERY or THE COLUMBIA.
j A bold and lucky man was Captai.
Grny of the ship Columbia. No exl
Iplorer he-only and adventurous and
withal, prudent trader, with an eyt
to the main chance; emulous, too, per.
haps, of little glory 1t is impossi
BILE to conceive how he could have
done this thing calmly. We think hii
stout heart must have shivered some.
what, both with anticipation and
dread, as he ran for the "opening,
and plunged INTO the frightful tumult---
straight through the proper channel
thank GodI and sailed out on the bo.
som Of that beautiful bay, twenty-five
miles by six, which the great river
forms at it's mouth.
We trust tho morning was fine foi
then Captain Gray must have beheld q
sight which q discoyerer should re-
member for lifetime. This magnifi-
cent bay, surrounded by lofty hills, clad
thick with noble forests of fir, and fret
ted along It's margin with spurs Of the
highlands, forming other small bays
and coyes, into which ran streams
whose valleys were hidden among the
hills. From beyond the farthest point,
whose dark ridge iutted across this in
land sea, flowed down the deep, broad
river, whose course and origin was still
n magnificent mystery, but which in
dicated by its volume that il drained
a mighty region of probable great fer
tility and natural wealth. Perhaps
Captain Gray did not fully realize the
importance of his discovery. If the
day was fine. with blue sky, and the
purple shadows lying among the hills,
with smooth water before him and the
foamy breakers behind-if he felt what
his discovery WAS, in point Of import
ance, TO the world, he was proud and
happy man, and enjoyed the reward of
his daring.
THE FIRST SERMON n TIE ROCKY NOUN
TArSs.
On the following day religious sery-
ices were held in the Rocky Mountain
Camp. 4 scene more unusual could
hardly have transpired than that of
n company of trappers listening TO the
preaching of the Word of God. Very
little picus reverence marked the coun-
tenances Of that Wild and motley COM
grcgation. Curiosity, incredulity, sar-
casm, or n mocking leyity, were more
perceptible in the expression of the
mems faces, than either devotion or
the longing expectancy of men habit
ually deprived of what they once high
ly valued. The Indians alone showed
by their eager listening that they de-
sired to become acquainted with the
mystery of tbs unknown God"
The Rev. Samuel Parker preached,
and the men were as politely attentive
as it was in their reckless natures to
be, in the midst of the discourse,
band of buffalo appeared in the valley,
when the congregation incontinently
broke up, without stayirg for a bene-
diction, and every man made haste af-
ter his horse, gun and rope, leaving
Mr.. Parker to discourse TO the vacant
ground.
The run was both exciting and sue
cessful. About twenty fine buffaloes
were killed, and the choice pieces
brought to camp, cooked and eaten,
amidst the merriment, mixed with
coarser, of the hunters. On
this noisy rejoicing, Mr.. Parker looked
with sober aspect: and following the
dictates of his religious feeling, he re-
buked the Sabbath breakers quite Sc.
verely. Better for his influence among
the men, If he had notdone so, or had
not eaten so heartily of the tender-loin
circumstance which his
irreverent critics did not fail to remark,
to his prejudice; and upon the princi-
pie that the "partaker is as bad as the
thief," they sat down his lecture onl
Sabbath-break as nothing better than
pious humbug.
The following rather incredible story
Of sectarian dog, is told by a Montreal
paper.
A gentleman owns dog that has some
jnstincts. On week -dnys he