Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-23

rock, though against his own strong remon-
STRANGE, and Just escaped the fate which
Gen. Candy NIT through similar temerlty.
His name Is attached to all the early
treaties with the Iudans in that region.
| The first time he returned to the East was
to enter the United States Senate, having
been elected by fusion of the Republicans
| and Douglass Democrats On entering that
body he received very kind greetings from
Senators Fcsscnden and Collamer Judge
Collamer took paternl interest in him and
called HIM "my boy and with Reverdy
johnson, furnished the Law which he needed
in the discharge OF his important duties
on the military committee.
While in Oregon he had become intimately
acquainted with many officers OF the army
stationed at Vancouver, the post from which
30 many distinguished gan, rails have gradu-
ated, and his experience in Indian wars
qualified him for his position on the military
committee.
After serving one term the civil war
democrats defeated his reelection. He
was afterwards, however, returned to the
, House, where he was firm supporter OF
Johnsoh's policy Of reconstruction. johnson
offered him the position of Secretary Of War,
and asc that of Minister to Austria. He
has entertained in his primitive cabin
distinguished officers Of Tic army and OF the
| bul uuu ~ M p'SSNAs
home, and many other prominent men
, and ladies'. lie is still in vigorous
health and full of anecdotes and Wise say
{ ings. lie had just before visit received
letter from Senator Edmunds, addressed
, "My dear ,,Nusmith.' lie read it TO me, and
n made il the occasion Of very enthusiastic re-
! marks about Edmunds, the point of which
n was that if Edmunds was candidate for the
Presidency the Democrats would have to
= put up mighty good man or he should vote
4 for Edmunds.
{ This meagre outline can, after all, con-
i vey no idea Of the great variety in such
n life of an unschooled boy rude pioneer,
r and an able and honest senator of the United
@ States. The circumstances which admitted
;. of such career will never be repeated
q probably anywhere on the face of the earth.
v Although have proracted this sketch too
!. far already, am tempted to repeat one OF
y the Colonels stories. When Gen. 10 Lane,
o the first governor of Oregon Territory, an
e appointment by the way, which was refused
D. by Abraham Lincoln was delegate in
,r Congress, one of his constituents, thought
"a he ought to have federal office. Not being
10 able to write he employed scribe
or 10 indite letter 10 General Lane,
\. asking for some appointment in connection
!, with the Indian service. After the letter
~ was completed the "otiice seeker looked
in it over and finding the word cxigences in it
@ he remarked, The letter is all very well ex.
M cept that word tr-ig.encies. The general
rr will know that Idou't know what eT-ig eacies
r. is; if yol would strike that out and put in
re- agriculture, 1t would be better, for the gen.
Sc eral knows that know what that word
tu means and besides it is very good word
n any way Agriculture was put in, but
if did not prove to be the magical word, it was
n. believed to be by the misguided granger.
re Returning from Derry stopped over one
#. day at Forest Grove, the seat Of the Pacific
,e University and Tualatn Academy, of which
ii son of President Marsh of Burlington,
n. was the president many years, and another
ne son, Joseph Mash, and a son, Of Rev. Z. L.
re- Fcrrin, late of Plainlieid, VI, both graduates
IN of the Vermont University, are professors.
as Here is located also an Indian training
v school, supported by the federal government.
90 found Professors Marsh and Ferrin doing
- good and useful work in the college. Pro-
II lessor Marsh has acquired an appetite for
or land, which any man may be excused for
" possessing who has seen, as he has seventy
III acres of wheat yield an average of sixty
If bushels by weight and tiity-seven bushels by
III measure 70 the acre aud never failure OF a
rs crop during lis sixteen years residence on
the Tualatinc plains, and has purchased
no large farm in Clackamas county, Where he
All looks forward to rural enjoyment and pros
nj p;riy after having served lis generation"
i. faithfully in the cultivation of ideas He is
ed an enthusiastic botanist In addition TO his
he regular work Us instructor OF Latin and
re Greek, and has made very complete COL
m lection Of the fora of this coast. Professor
.rs FERN is an energetic and devoted instructor
no of science and has made two trips to the
he summit of Mount Hood, which with Mts.
in st. lelcrs and Adams, pierce the sky with
nd their snowy cr,ss in front of Forest Grove.
ir. About these mountains, rs about Niagara,
Tor there is nothing disappointing. They come
,st fully up to the ideal standard. Tacomah,
a. the greatest Of all these volcanic
ill peaks, is hardly seen from Forest Grove OF
Portland, standing as it does, nearly in line
with st. Iclens. But Mt. Hood is in full
and perfect view, and is fascinating in beauty
of outline as well us in its grandeur.
The Indian school Is one of the three
~ largest Of It's kind in the country those at
Hampton, Va, and Carlisle, Pa, bang the
other two and it is doing an excellent work.
~, There are at present 16i Intian youths of
" both sexes on The rolls, from dozen differ
IL ent tribes in Oregon, Washington and
- Alaska. It is conducted on a wise plan. In
ib addition TO schooling, the pupils are required
n 10 woEi; tive hours each day, learning some
IL useful trade, how to cook, etc. The gov
lei ernment appropriates $500 year for each
ur pupil, and ought to increase the appropra-
cl tons so the advantages of such training
n might be extended 10 all the children of
ia | lS-,UUU luul2DS WHO arc uldItT tuls SCuOOI
V than any other.
~ AT Forest Grove | also had tie pleasure Of
w q long conversation with Mrs. Walker, the
/. widow Of missionary of the American
w Board to the Indians, who made bride trip
:, across the plains on horseback in 1888, the
10 third white woman who crossed the plains,
10 and the only survivor of the three. She was
i married at Yarmouth, Maine, in March,
nj 1888, and started Immediately in a sleigh
a which took her ms far rs Saco, thence by
m wagon to Boston, thence 10 Providence by
n railroad, and SO Oh, by boat to New York,
= and by cars to Carlisle, Pa. and thence by
re stage t. Pittsburg, and from thence by river
is TO Weston, on the Missouri, ard thence on
# horseback via Forts Hull aad Boise, over
Il traCilcss plains and unknown mountains to
the Columbia rlver. She WAS stationed at
,. Spokane at the time of the Whitman massa-
q ere. She is now 10 years old aud bright
# and well as if she had remained in New
!. England all these years, instead of icing one
q of those brave men AID women who
# "butfeted the West with lifted faces" and
A marked on, the Oregon trail which gold
n hunters, lind hunters, Mormons, Indian
a fighters aud RAILROAD surveyors have since
q troddln into an iron way across the CONT
q ncnt.
y s. Is. PgTrENGuL.
? Portland, Oregon, Nov. ., 1883.