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NATIVE or SiBERIA.-A large congregation listened Il few evenings since in this City, ihe Methodist Church, 10 q native of Siberia, who made some thing ofa Speech or Lecture. and sung in hIs own languag ge and In that of the Flathead lndans- He does not seem to be a travelling Lecturer, but spoke here at the request of several genle- men. His history ls truly wonderful one. He was born in Siberia, serf of the Russian power; and was converted 10 Ch, siianity under the Ministry of Messrs. White and Holbrook, Missionaries from i ondOn to that cold and inhospitable cline. Pre- vsusly to hIs conversation he had been in the habit of going with his tribe fifty miles to worship tha North Star, in temple erected for that purpose i; aad his description of his worship was simple and | thrilling. The priests would say to the tribes, "lf ye die here, well; frye die coming well if ye die going, well matter where ye die, il will be well five worship the North Slar-hgh over all" And then, sprnkling water upon them, he would bid them depart. But, said this man, (his name is a Russian one, and unpronounceabie) the Worth Star did me good, and l WAS in darkness until the bright light of the Gospel broke upon me, and show ed me the true way. Soon after his conversion, he escaped, with seven hundred others. from Siberia to North America, having crossed the Straits of Bel- ring the ice, distance of Ihirty-six miles; and the leaders of ihe company having heard from the Missionaries of better land farther South--ihe United States-iley kept on by the course of the sun through ile Russian and British Possessions, unil, with the Aci6c heir right, and the Rocky Mountains their Jeff, they entered the Flathead Indian Nation. Here they tarried for time, but afterwards went into Oreso son, from whence OUT Siberian made his way thus City on foot, having passed the Yellow Sione, St. Louis, Nashville. Knoxville, and the Warm Springs, in Buncombe.- From this place he said he designed going to Will mington, to see brother of his, who has been there number of years.

 He sung in his native tongue Bishop HEBER's most beautiful Missionary Hymn, and also 2 song of the Flaihead Indians; and he translated inio the language of that tribe var ous passages of the Scrip iures show the difficulty interpreter encounters in making the Holy Buok ineligible 10 the Indians His manner is forclbe. hut rough; and his general bearing, even after fieen years residence in North America, shows that he has indeed been degraded and suffering serf. His talk ahou, Oregon was inc teresting. He sad the British had but one fort and one trading house in that Territory, whereas the Americans had ten or dozen; and that the British power was very much dislked by the Amer'csn set. tiers. who were rapidly and constantly pouring in

 He desc' ibed with some accuracy the habls and appearance (judging bv il,e accounts have in the books) of the kamschatdaes, and wa find him rect. according to the books, R his account of the chief cities of Siberia. The follow ng are the De. partuhents of Siberia: Iobolsk, Tou,sk. l,kuisk. Yakutsk, Kantschaika, 0kl,otsk, aud Yenesu k- At Okhotsk. {pronourced Ocofs) as he snys, he converted. The population of Siberia in 1898 was 2,64o, 500. t'' -e a1

 We are not very credulous, and, after all, this man may not be what he says he is. Al any rate. T Raleigh N. c. Standard.