Show converting THE INDIANS the christian churches have been engaged for some time past in the laud laudable ablo labor of attempting to convert the be he athens both at homo ionic and abroad and for this purpose vast sums of money have been devoted bythe by tho numerous mission mission ary boards among the rest of the he athens the redskins red skins have become tho the wards of these christianizing institutions the conference committee of both houses of congress lately inserted in the appropriation bill an item of to which was afterwards added more for the instruction of the young aborigines in agricultural and other industrial arts the souls of the indians are being looked after by the missionaries of the different sectarian churches but in this branch of their labor they do not appear to be very sue successful cess ful tho the faith of poor lo 10 has been trifled with by liis his pale faced brother too often the indian has lost faith in him the first treaty that was made with tho the in 1825 was broken by the whites since then many other treaties have been made and as many broken in 1864 it will be remembered U S troops troop under tinder ono one of our gallant colonels massacred in cold blood scores of men women and children of the this led to a war which cost the government and so embittered the indians that they have since since wreaked wrecked fearful vengeance on the white traveling community after cutting off a persons car it would be difficult to persuade him to come near to you that you may whisper to him some good advice so after the red mans confidence lias has been forfeited through the perfidy of his palefaces pale faced brother it has proved of little avail for the missionary to endeavor to convert him from his heathenism ani to christianity 11 the onondaga indians arc are one of the five tribes of the iroquois which gave their name to onondaga county new york the county is in the tile center of the state the onondagas Onon dagas were once a numerous powerful and warlike race rae e of redskins red skins often engaged in hostilities with their neighbors whose rhose settlements tle ments they devastated and left in ruins their reservation is in onondaga county their numbers arc are email small being less than four hundred they are partly civilized and missionaries have endeavored to convert them to the christian religion not long since bishop huntington in a letter to the new york evening post gave an account of their moral and religious condition in which he draws a picture that is not very flattering natt ering to the civilization or christianity of tho the present day the bishop says the women cling to heathen styles in dress and manners they are made to work in the field the worship is it a howling superstition wedlock is neither respected nor practised practiced the men exchange their female companions or wives from time to time as they do their cattle home is a word without a meaning the dreary monotony of an ill supplied animal existence is broken only by coarse amusements their sports at their annual feasts are characterized by the grokest and most brutal indulgences A number of white people have visited them at such time from a curiosity to witness their grotesque caremon bals but those who had bad any self respect have hurried away from the scenes before the performances were over disgusted and appalled but says the bishop immature and vicious visitors of both sexes arc are attracted to their unclean orgies ending ia in drunkenness and pollution nol lution he complains too that these practices arc are scarcely alluded to in the sermons and appeals to tho the journals and assemblies where christians aro are besought to take pity on a foreign heathendom and money is given to send missionaries to all corners of the earth what appears to mortify bishop huntington most in relation to this matter is the fact that for twelve years the protestant episcopal church has bas had bad a mission establish cd ed at the reservation and ministers mini stera jiahe been employed ard paid to chow show the ignorant heathen the more excellent way but it appears to havo have been in a measure as with the people so with the priests tho the bishop says agriculture aa as a science is unknown the christians have built ft a few frame houses and hild painted them but the fences are rude the roads scarcely passable rubbish litters the door yards the swine run at largo large and the meals arc are cooked and eaten at irregular times the methodist also have a mis missionary there for a dozen years these missionaries have been preaching inato to these denizens only odly three hundred and fifty in number and no results appear what ia is the trouble A number of the people in this nation make no profession prof emion of any religion mil lions of others do but says a writer on this subject the tile lied heathen then do not discriminate between them they look upon the white race as christians and they regard all the action of white men good or bad as the legitimate outgrowth of chris ti anity he adds there is no reason why the indian should not do so for it is ono one of the fictions with which nearly all are pleased to console themselves that this is a christian nation tho the fact f act ia jig patent that the redman of the forest owes the vi vices cos of drunkenness etc to the examples of the palefaces pale faces they were ignorant of the use or the effects of drinking firewater fire water until their christian brethren introduced introduce dit it among them for the purpose of destroying ying their reason to enable them to plunder them of their lands and drive them beyond the confines of civilization they have spread disease and death among the aborigines until the once powerful pow ersul nations on this continent have been decimated and become well nigh extinct the examples of the preachers nullify their precepts and these arc are among the chief causes of their failure to convert the indiana to christianity ti y UNDER THE head of the r face FA ahree ce of temptation the thes S F call of the narrates the following story of youthful demoralization maurico maurice levy who is but seventeen years old was before judge rix yesterday for trial upon a charge of petit larceny committed in stealing an amethyst ring from the room of wm Mas mason in the new washington gion hotel on fourth st some time since the defendant pleaded guilty and made a statement as to the motive that prompted him to commit the crime crime some time ago he lie found himself indebted to the proprietor of the hotel named for room and board and agreed to go to work and pay off his indebtedness in weekly installments instalments but after he had paid one weeks inseal ment he was called away to the country to see a sick relative when he came back here he found himself dead broke without work and no one to turn to for assistance therefore he went to masons room took the ring and pawned edit it when the money ho be obtained on the ring was spent all but awen ty five cents lie invested that sum in strychnine which he lie swallowed but being detected shortly after ho lie had taken it he was taken to the receiving hospital where he was pumped out and his life saved regretting his act ho be made up his mind to go to work found a place where he could earn a week but before be could go to work ho he was arrested he ile was remanded for sentence LAST WEDNESDAY a tel telegram eram t from san francisco conveyed the ead rad news that a house with its inmates was burned at orland colusa calusa county cal from the Bra examiner miner we learn tho the following particulars of the appalling event the house of briggs flack about two miles from here waa was burned at this morning the occupants at the time wore ware mrs flack her baby and her bister sister who were in bed mr flack was away from home at the time and a lad who has just kindled a fire in the cooking stobo had bad gono gone to the barn to attend to tho the stock the tile sister miss rice aged 12 years was burned to death and mrs r flack lack and the baby were shockingly in aured the baby is perhaps fatally burned the fire is supposed to have caught from the stovepipe in the roof and spread very rapidly the ladies were daughters of rev john rice orland |