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I • WI'AUTNKittllll' UEllKTO *««i>a in John K*«ter «net- P« ^ H'*m« Hotel, and doiug bud* '^'Uzuur, ,,rm nat "« *»f Kutiler k Pett-roou. at Hr u». ltu g; county, j. x., a* b«en duwolTed •'***• Poab*r having purchased the »...- Mr - t'elcruon. win cuutibae to conduct 'P* Ul * lt *>* premioca m* heretoior«. receive 'Gr.f lli, î Iirm, M»<1 pay »II the ilabiimoa . T . Ml* KOSTER. " ao . J T. 'anturjr lk»i~vA.l THE WEEKLY WORLD thi LARGEST, C EAPEST AND BEST PAPER IN IDAHO. i ( $5.00 PER ANNUM. Postage paid. A MOTHER'S GIFT. [The following lines were written l»y a mother on the fly-leaf of a Bible—her gift to a son.] Remember, love, who gave thee this, When other days shall come— When she who had thy earliest kiss, Bleeps in the narrow home; Remember, 'twas a mother gave The gift to one she'd die to save. That mother sought a pledge of love The holiest for her son; And from the gitt of God above Bhe chose a godly one; Bhe chose for her beloved boy The source of life and light and joy. Bhe bade him keep the gilt—that when 1 he parting hour should come 'I hey might have hope to meet again In her eternal home. Bhe said his faith in that would be Bweet incense to her memory. And should the scoffer, in liis pride, Laugh that fond gift to scorn, And bill him cast his pledge aside 1 hat lie trom youth had borne! Sin* bade him pause and ask his breast It he, or she, had loved him best. A parent's blessing on my son Goes with this holy thing; d lie love that would retain the one Must to the other cling. Remember, 'tisno idle toy, A mother's gilt— i:i;mi:mukk, nov! THE MJKliAN li.YiA'ERY Apropos ol ri.til low Weeds recent letter tin tie* subject ol Morgan, tin* alleged v.ctiin of Masonry, Mr. A. 1*. I.Vgi js, a c;ti/.»*n of Minnesota, writes to the St. Paul Prr.'S: Perhaps 1 can throw more light up* » »! 1 tli «• 1 ate «»I Mi»r *an than any other ; M *i Si 1 ii living. Prior to 1 >'2Ct. t in* t ime of 1 i s ; «1 isapjie; iirance, tu v t at In *1 *, then a v t 11 ] mg man, f<»ri ne» 1 his acquaintance, an« 11 ;n< •\v him w»*ll. I ll tin i* v»*ar 1S2T or 1S2 H my fating w<* II' r;i ist wan 1 as far as ( » rand Falls, i N. H where i ic iemaineil a lew years. !!«* IV In • marri <•«1, and her e lie experi < "I M ' ■»*».! 1 r* •liginJl and tiniti *d wi th the ;.\b* t!i< ,<! is! Fpi set.pal Chur eh. 1 •'ei ling ja -' • (* i»! <i\ <* f, » r tii»* cause he si. lately ,**.-p 1 -Ii [ >1 ' «1. he »] vtermin« »! t a (lev ->t<* the Main,., which was npciHsi up to civiliza-! je, I in view, he ......red the inii.mtry, rem.nmler of bis life to tlx* cause of Christ ami humanity. With this o li fo r tlx ami started as a missionary wilds of Northern i then just b< ( tion. Arriving at Moulton, Me., decided to locate there and enter ded for a number <»f yeats. In 1S44 lic went still furl. »er mutli. and settled at fort 1 airfield. I his part of Maine was then an unbroken wild<*mc?ss, save a few straggling settlements that were many miles apart. In these mis-j ! niiinary lalmrs he visited these -ettfa*| „„•nts Iron, Sabbath to *ahhath. I |> on »me of these routes that he travel» d ouee up,,,, his work, and here he resi-] through the f*»rest, guided only by the trees that were blazed to mark the wav, stood a solitary cabin, with but a l.mely occupant, a man well ad vanced in years. Thc cabin, as well as tlx* little clearing around it, showed marks of age, and led one to the con clusion that its occupant had long been a denizen of these wilds. ^ ith this strange old man my father often tarried and passed many pleasant hours while resting his weary limbs. Not only the hermit, but thc cabin ex cited his astonishment, being built in a very unique manner, and construct ed without the use of nails or anything else, save what he could procure from the forests. In conversation -with thc strange man the conviction gradually forced itself upon my father that he had seen him before—but when and where? These questions be could not answer at once, but the truth finally flashed upon him that this lonely old man was none other than the friend of his early years, William Morgan. With this truth pressing upon him he resolved to keep it a secret for a while until he should make himself doubly sure of the fact by watching him close ly, and by tracing the resemblance, if any existed, between this old man and young Morgan. Thus with that hermit not at all aware that bis true identity was suspected by tiny one, my father watched and studied him until he bad not a slu.di»w of doubt but what this was the veritable William Morgan, who, it was alleged the Masons had murdered so many years before, Up on making inquiry in the settlements of those who cum»* there first, they sta ted that they knew nothing about him only this, that w! en they carne be ! was there. He told some of his dis ; covery, which reached the ears of the : hermit, when he silently and unknown i to any one departed in tit * darkness of jtho night ; none knew where, but doubtless to seek a new s une secluded spot where he could remain in solitude j undisturbed by his brother man. When William M e gan was abducted i by his brother Masons and carried to j Fort Niagara, lie »1 »ihtless escaped from their hands, ami, fearing that his life would pay the forfeit of his das ! tardly outrage against tin* Masonic fraternity if seen again by »»ne of their j number, he ll«*d to tin* b Mindless f«>r ■ ests of Northern Maine. And here he had lived these many years, his only companions the !» ids of tiie air and til»* wild beasts of the ! >r *-o. His wants that in* c mid n«*i >UjV'. v lmtii the soil and {Vorn tin* gam»* that is abundant in those parts, were pr >l»ildy met by tie life that he led here must have in v is t ing the settleimmts <d llie French .. . ■. » î « refugees iij»»»ti tu»* N. Johns r.ver.j I an(l ^ ti „ „ Ust j ]kl} Selkirk, hci' Wl)11 | ( j Il|#t | le was "monarch of all ! Ik* surveyed." deed been a singu'ar and a lonely one, and doubtless the first years of his life were full of terror, <»f fear, and dis quietude. At the rustle of every leaf, and tin* breaking of every twig, he would fancy an assassin was creeping upon him to strike him down; but as | ycafl) st(J | 0 i, v . this lectin« would 'give way to one »»f greater security {Vom his own lips, and they can be re jj e( | aa strictly true. He knew hermit to be William Morgan, ami ij,^ eoïiolusive evi^îence to me that Morgan was not murdered by the Ma sons, but that he led a lone, exile life, MH , t |,., t ir he is now ,| ea d he has died |mt|lnl , ,| cuth . . r ,. î . r My father died in lSoi, but the fore-1 in facts w , rc lvct . iv0(1 at thc timc j 1 ( But some may .ask, if this be true, why was it not made public before? This is readily answered. At this time there was no paper published nearer my father than one hundred ami fifty miles, and reporters were not quite so thick in those forests as the mosquitoes were, and my father not being a newspaper correspondent it is easy to perceive why it did not find ils way into public print. I decided a number of years ago to make these facts public when anything occurred to call them out; and as this seems to be a proper time, I send them forth to your readers and to the world. --------►♦*•—:—i---- SHEEIDAN'S FIRST BATTLE. An Encounter With Indians on the Columbia River—A Recent Visit to the Scene. I Portland Oregonian, Sept. 2d.] Gen. Phil Sheridan and party will go up the Columbia river this morning for the purpose of seeing the landscape and noting the improvements which have taken place within the last fifteen years. The general will, no doubt, look upon the Cascades with interest, as it was the scene of his maiden en gagement, when he wrote after his name second lieutenant United States army. He came to the Dalles to re lieve the men, women and children who were besieged in the block house by the savages, and a company of 125 young men, hastily gathered together witli a fife and drum in this city, ap proached the same objective point front the lower Cascades Landing. The beau tiful place then lay devastated by the Indians, while the smoke from the hab itations yet hanging like a pall over the gorge, and the evidence of the slaughter were everywhere visible, and the blood of the slain cried aloud for vengeance at the hands of the troops as well as the volunteers. Lieut. Sheridan, with only a handful of men, beat back the Indians as he ad vanced, and after releasing the bel eaguered people, he marched the whole' length of the portage now spanned by the railroad, and he laid hors du com bat many a stalwart savage who had been in the habit of acting as waiters at what is now known as the Cosmo politan hotel in this city, and who would call the volunteers by name, and promise that by a certain time they would have their scalps. Had the volunteers known that Phil. Sheridan, as lie was then familiarly called, was coming, they might have brought tlio Indians to such close quarters as would have resulted in their annihila tion. Gen. Sheridan, even at this early »lay, evinced that fire and indomitable courage which has since made him fa mous as a military leader all over tin? world, which demanded at tlio hands of congress a special recognition and 1 ' ° the shoulder strops of lieutenant gen eral. Captain «I. C. Ainsworth, now president, of the Oregon steam naviga tion company, during this trying time was a captain upon the river, and he piloted the steamer Jenny Clark, which conveyed the 125 men from Portland who started f»»r the Cascades to light tin* battle which Gen. Sheridan fought a half hour before their arrival. All vas e ' !litom f 1 ,ho " " lo "S, tl f ! l>la r,vor * all<1 , eV01 ?' of . the fore ? was suspected to be but a breastwork for a stealthy Si wash, and as the cap , , ' j •«»» was a man whom the party cou J 1 ill atlbrd t»> lose, the pilot house was made boom-proof py the placing of three-inch oak plank all around the in terior, inside of which were piled sacks of Hour, which it was supposed would serve an emergency as well as Jackson's cotton bal»*s. As a coinci dence, we may state that the captain accompanies the general and his par ty to-day, but instead of a light craft glittering with the evidences of war, they sail in a very floating palace, and they need not fear any hostile démon strations, as all of the Si washes that figured in the drama then have either gone to the happy hunting grounds or were reduced to such a state of de pendency that there is no sting in them. The general cannot but see the change that has taken place in litt!» more than a decade, and the scene, al though now a smiling one, cannot but bring to his mind memories ol early days, and the cheery gallant follows ( who then fought beside him, but who, alas! were opposed to him in the great national struggle, many of whom, no doubt, weic brought down to the grave by a shot, trom the c»»rps commanded by him whom they wcbfc once phased to cal! him their comrade.