the blazing pyre and burnt to death in sight of thcir retreating comrades.

Such aro the acts that lead to terrible recriminations on the part of the Indians. Individual cases of the kind lwell in the rocollections of whole tribes, and it is n point of lonor and con- science to avenge them.

The records of the wars betwccn the carly settlers of Virginia and New England and the natives exhibit eruclties on both sides that make one shudder. * * *When the Indian would tear the scalp from the crown of the scarcely yet dead victim, and muti late the body, could he be expected to reform those cruelties when he saw the white man in his turn cut off the heads of his people, and mutilatc and quartcr their bodics, as was doue with King Philip's, whose head, after being cut of, was sent to Plym outh and lung up there on a gibbet, where it remained twenty years, while one of his hands was sent to Boston as a trophy, his body being quartered and hung upon four trees?-MKENNEY'8 IHistory and Tracels

Port Orford, Oregon Terrilory, Febrnary 5th, 1S64

"I grieve to report to you that a most horrid massacre, or rath- er nn out-and-out barbarons murder, was perpetrated on a portion of the Nason tribe, residing at the mouth of the Coquille River, on the morning of the 38th of January last, by a party of forty miners. Before giving you the result of my examination and my own conclasions, I will give you the reasons which that party as sign in justification of their acts.

They avow that, for some time past, the Indians at the mouth of the Coquille have been insolent; that they have been in the habit of riding the horses of white men without permission; that of late they have committed many thefts, such as stealing paddles and many other articles the property of white men; that onc of their number recently diseharged his gun at the ferry-housc; and that but a few days prior to the attack on the Indians, the chief, on leaving the ferry-housc, where he had just been fed, fired his gun at a party of four white men stauding ncar the door of the house. They furthor state that, on the 27th of January, thcy sent for the chief to come in for a talk; that he not only refused to come in, but sent back word that he would kill white men if they came to his home; that he meant to kill al! the white men he conld; that he was determined to drive the wite men out of his