The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-02-19
ALBERT PIKE.
a Racy Description of Distinguished
Member of the Washington Bar-The
Sanscrit's Account of Eve.

Sanscrit's Account of Eve.
There is no authority given for the rulnol
that Albert Pike is to be elected to the
United States Senate in place of Powell
Clayton. Pike lives in this city, or at Alex
andria, near by, and is tho greatest Mason
in the world.
Arthur Macarthur, of Wisconsin, Judge of
the Supreme Court of the District of Col
umbia, gave me queer account of Pike
last summer.
said he: 81 had heard of Albert Pike as
being an Indian, or Texan ranger, or some
thing.
% lie came to our court and stood UP
there like Moses, or some Of the able.
bodied patriarchs. His long, gray hair in
ringlets fell down his back and shoulders.
He stood between six and seven feet high,
and stout in proportion, weighing, should
think, three hundred to four hundred
pounds. a look Of the frontiersman, the
poet, and the lawyer seemed mixed in his
face, with type of something heather and
antique.
He had big baEdana handkerchief in
his fist, clenched into little ball. Ever
and anon he drew this across his nose, and
then seized it in his fist again.
"And then this queer old wonder rolled
off law and learning, solemn and rapid,
right on in the line of his argument, as
practical as could be- but his illustrations
and quotations were rare and unusual.
was astonished.
| Macarthur, by the way, is great devour-
er Of books and men. He is a native
Scotchman. His wife is bright little
body from Madison, and both are popular
here.
Albert Pike is man
HISTORY HAS STEPPED OVER
There IS no man in the world of so many
sides to his character, and SO plain withal
lie was born at Newburyport, Mass, the
son OF q shoemaker. A wilful, poetlcal
spirit took him to Mexico, and he returned
in pack-train, as a mule driver, from
chihuahua to Fort Smith. Settling down
in printing Office at Little Rock, he be-
came an editor, lawyer, and chief Of the
| Wing party, which he led with unf1nching
consistency through perpetual minority
down to the civil war, fighting meantime
in the Mexican war, and doing the Gov
ernnent business of the Cherokees He
became rich and celebrated.
Quarreling with Jefferson Davis soon af-
ter the rebellion began, he withdrew from
the contest, and at the close was poor. He
removed to Washington city about the year
1887, and opened a law office with Robert
Johnson, ex-senator, the nephew of Vice
President johnson. His home is at Alex
andria, that formerly busy seaport, where
large house with garden, stable, and
every comfortable appurtenance of gas,
water, and police may be had for about $50
month, whereas the tyranny of fashion
makes the same style of residence cost in
Washington $500 month. There with an
unusuaIy viystcious and Intelligent uass,I-
ter,
PIKE SPENDS HIS TIME
in % large library, containing perhaps 5 1000
volumes, elegantly rebound-the collections
of a lifetime. His taste for books extends
to their covering, and he has passion for
elegant printing in common and colored
ink, all his own volumes on Masonry and
Hindoo Philosophy being produced in this
way by his amateur disciples. Fine swords,
duelling pistols which he has used on the
field, a collection of elaborate pipes, which
| he smokes pretty much all the time, and
strange things of girty, are parts of his
surroundings. His poems have been col
lected aud re-issued within the past two
years, and he has written q series of books
On Masonry, which, queerly enough, have
carried HIM from his apparently trivial
| theme back to MEDIEVAL Jewish, and final
| ly Sanscrit Masonry, as he believes. Not
being a Mason, / am only aware that, either
as poet or a scholar, Pike has traced the
germs of Masonry beyond the vestibule of
history. He isa Sanscrit scholar and has
| composed some abstruse treatise, now
| undergoing publication in Lendon, which
is spoken of with expectancy by his friends.
Some time agoI asked one of Pixies
friends if he had found anything to beat
Moses account Of the creation of man.
EYES," said this friend, /" the story in
the Sanscrit from which Moses, when he
was in Egypt, undoubtedly picked up his
accounts of Genesis, is to this effect:
THE sANscRIT's ACCOUNT OF EVE.
sGod made a man and woman, and put
them on an island in sight of the shore of
another land. God said to the man: There
is everything on the island necessary for
you. 1t is made for you that may enjoy
your happiness. Nothing is u restraint to
you except this: You must not go OF the
island. Nothing but willful spirit can
take you off for tell You here is all. ;
God said to the woman, I have no com
mands for you except to love and obey this
man, for whom you were Inade.'
"The couple got along very well until one
day the man, whose name in the Sanscrit
| resembles the Hebrew Adam, said to tile
woman: shall so over to yonder shore.
hear the music Of strange birds over there.
The flowers are brighter than these This
place is played out
sHe took the woman on his back aud,
jumping from stone he crossed the watel
! and reached tbs tempting shore Instantly
bolt Of lightning and couvalsion seorched
Iup everything around.
I THE Lord appeared before the disobedi-
ent couple with considerable sternness. Il,
y
cursed the man instantly.
Then turning to tho woman the Cleatal
said: And what made yoslleayc the island
What have you to say that may not etirs.
youtoos'
ssrhe woman leplae.l with the l,resene'
I Of mind that distinguishes her sex:
aThere Ii the man Yon told llc Il, obs. ]