FRIDAY
.APRIL 18, IS?.
THE SODOC HORROR.
Elsewhelre we give fall accofints of
the tfrost Attrocions murder which has
ever stained American soil, and one
tt'hich for audacious daring has no
parallel in modern history. The aged
and silver haired General Canb,
whose services upon the tented field
and hi the hour of battle were all his
country's and have ever redounded
to his own fame as a skillful officer
nd a brave soldier, has at last bven
Xjfiered as a sacrifice to that cowardly
peace policy of the Government
which has been the theme of denunci
ation by the united tongues and pens
if our Oregon people since the Mo
doc War began. Assassinated while
attempting to obey orders which his
judgment never favored and his con
science never approved, he has fallen
a victim to his Government's coward
ice which has throughout this troublo
been Bering a premium for savage
treachery. The powers at Washing
ton have been repeatedly warned of
the futility as well as danger of its in
fatuous Peace Commission policy;
but with that stolid indifference to
wrong and crimiual stupidity for
which the Graut administration has
become so eminently distinguished,
the Peace Commission farce was con
tinued until it has developed into a
horrible tragedy. What else it will
add to its record of horror the future
alone must determine.
General Canby was fifty-six years
old, and leaves a stricken and sorrow
ing wife in Portland. He was a vet
eran of the Mexican War, where he won
promotion and distinction for bravery
in its many eventful battles. He was
also a conspicuous officer of the Feder
al army in the late civil war between
the Nofth and South. Temperate in
Lis habits, quiet in his deportment,
charitable in his judgments and pure
in his motives, he was & general fa
vorite with his brother officers and
soldiers as well as with those with
whom he mingled in the private walks
of life and in the social circle. His
death is a calamity which no one can
fail to deplore and his memory an ob
ject which no one should cease to
revere.
. Rev. Eleazor Thomas, D. D., who
was slain with Gen. Canby, was a
prominent and able Methodist divine
and a citizen of California. He leaves
a wife and three children to mourn his
tragic fate.
SOaiETHIXO WRONG EEKE.
Two different characters of men
with distinctly opposite ideas, must
edit the Portland Bulletin. On the
first page of that paper of bst Mon
day, immediately under the first dis
patch containing the sad news of .the
Modoo horror, the Bulletin editorially
asserts, " upon authority, that on ffce
Gih of March the Department at
Washington had transferred to Gen.
Canby the full control of the Modoc
trouble." This would convey the
horrible sentiment that Gen. Canby
was the victim of hia own folly and
virtually the murderer of those who
fell with him. Now we don't believe
the Bulletin has any foundation lor
making this grave and important as
sertion ; and we find that the editor
who writes up the inside of that paper
doesn't believe it either, for here is
what he says in that p3per of the
same date :
"General Canby. and hi3 associates
met the Modoc assassins in obedience
to instructions from Washington. A
Government which places one of its
ablest servants in a position of this
sort, where he is at the mercy of sav
age beasts whom that Government
will insist on treating with considera
tion when they deserve lead or hemp,
virtually commits murder."
We fully concur in this sentiment,
and hope the Bulletin will keep up
its war upon the Radical murderers
at Washington until they are made to
coffer the penalty of their attrocions
and cowardly murder of Gen. Canby
and Rev. Dr.' Thomas.
THE PAK3IEKS' STATE CONTENTION.
This body, -which assembled at
Salem last Thursday, was remarkably
well attended for a first meeting, and
passed off harmoniously, and, as we
hope, with much profit to the agricul
tural classes and the country gener
ally. The debates in the Convention
of coarse showed a great diversity of
sentiment upon many questions of im
portance and public interest, but all
were tempered with moderation and
an evident desire for the general good
of the whole country. The Conven
tion fully demonstrated the fact that
the agricultural classes have become
thoroughly aroused upon the grave
wrongs under which they have been
suffering in the past, and that they
have resolved to devise a remedy for
these wrongs and to apply it as soon
asrpossible. The full proceedings of
the Convention will be found on the
first page of this paper.
. Seveee but Just. The Bulletin
makes the following severe prod at
01d Flaxbrake" and one or two
others who urged on the Peace Com
mission business to a fatal tragedy :
: "The next time any blundering fool
or scheming , knave tells Secretary
Delano that the 'pow-wow policy is
the best by which to manage rebel
lious Indians, let him make them, do
the pow-wowing, or go himself.
The Prince of;, Wales was v last
Monday installed as Grand Com
wander of English Knights Templar?.
iMB,jpmmtumt 1 1 im sani i in as minim jn i bshms
ONWARD, TUB WATCUVTOUDI ---
The Farmers' Convention was a
long stride in j tho right direction.
Now let the farmers o oQ- lrog
ress is the watchword to all great suc
cesses. Farmer8'of Oregon, the tidal
wave is in motion ! Will you be sub
merged beneath its swelling volume,
or decide to mount the wave and go
with the graud current which-will
carry you on to lrcedom and 'inde
pendence? Nature's motto, speak
ing in all her truthful tongues, is "On
ward'' she never goes backward.
You that till the soil should learn
wisdom from her simple lessons. The
agitation of these grave questions in
which you are so vitally interested
should be your unceasing work.
Organize vour secret societies of
"Granges" and take advantage of all
the available means for your protec
tion which the secret "work ot that
v
order is said to afford those of your
Eastern brethren who have so univer
sally patronized it.
Put your hand to the plow and
turn back now and you are more
hopelessly slaves than ever. ,Umte,
organize, harmonize, and , press your
rights upon thoso who should bo math
to respect them, and you emblazon
SUCCESS in imperishable loiters upon
your bauners!
WUO IS TO BlAIKt
The Bulletin, in commenting upon
the murder of the Peace Commission,
says "Secretary Delano is by no
means blameless." No, nor is At
torney General Williams, who was
last consulted upon this Peace Com
raision business and who fully en
dorsed it. Don't saddle all the blame
upon poor Meacham, and old Granny
Delano who knows nothing of the In
dian character save what ho has
gleaned from Massachusetts Sunday
School books, but let a portion of the
murdered victims' blood cling to the
criminal skirts of old Flaxbrake who
is more guilty because he has the tall
est knowledge of the treacherous
character of theso hellish savages, and
ought to have known tnat it would
not do to trust unarmed whites in
their hands. Secretary Delano acted
with the sanction and endorsement of
Williams, and the Bulletin will be on
the right track when it begins to put
a twist in Williams' eaudal append-
the poan-A.vo hkkau).
It is a pleasure to announce that
the Oregon Herald has again wheeled
j into the Democratic column, under
the able editorial management of our
late associate and warm friend, Hon.
C. B. Bellinger. The issue of last
Tuesday contained the following
brief but comprehensive announce
ment: I shall a worn" editorial control of the Herald
with to-Uiorrow's iue. It is my purijosp to
make it au independent UeinocTuUcni-wspanpr.
It will cot se.-k to adtanx ttie inli-rcsl 01 ludi
victuals nor inini&ier to their itrievance. Jt
will i-ntie Ivor to promote a cau Dot men. J
believe 1 approacu my task with a prolound
estimate ul its responsibilities.
; A C, li. Eelxmgeo. -
We feel confident that he will adhere
to his text and make the Herald an able
exponent of Democratic principles, and
we welcome him back to the tripod
with an earnest wuh for the success of
his enterprise
The Roseburg lantayraph, a ster
ling Republican paper, gets the fol
lowing, dig into 1$. Holladay's short
ribs. The latter lines of the para
graph are a flattering compliment to
our unflinching and incorruptible
Democratic Governor. Read and re
flect: "Ben. II., the man who 'rules to
ruin,' Bays he wants Oregon to be
in debt to the amount of one and a
half million dollars, and then the
Webfeet will .be made to stir their
stumps, instead of holding all the
lands and content with selling a buck
skin and going barefooted. , And he
has the .audacity to compare Oregon
with Kansas. Our credit remained
good, and warrants sold dollar, for
dollar until he became proprietor.
He. thinks Grover vetoed bills per
taining to the railroad , and other
schemes through fear of the appropri
ations being used against him (Gro
yer) in the next election. Would like
to see some one else in Governor.
No doubt he would. Some one that
could be bought, eh ? '. . ,r ;, . V.
Pcompt Actios. Last Monday His
Excellency, Got. Grover, telegraphed
to Gen. Ross, .at Jacksonville, to im
mediately organize a company of
volunteers and dispatch them forth
with to Linkville for the . purpose of
protecting the settlers from Indian
molestation. This is in keeping with
the Governor's prompt and decisive
conduct in behalf of the people
throughout the whole of this Modoc
trouble, and stamps him as an Exec
utive of more than ordinary nerve
and determination. This action will,
as have all his others in, this matter,
meet with the nnqualified endorse
ment of the public. . ; r ;- -
Our readers doubtless remember
how, when Congressman Cox was
using the Dictionary upon Congress
man Butlerr "But." took the Wind out
of Cox, by derisively bissing out the
words " Shoo Fly." Well, not long
since, Butler, while thanking ' his
Jesus, that he was not a "press-made
but a God made man,'? was thrown oft
his trail; by Cox, who , said, ; "you
neither look nor act like your father."
"TCjB regret the burning' of the office
of that excellent paper, the Jackson
ville Times t by ' the disastrous con
flagration, which visited . that "place
last week.! We hope ; Messrs. Hul
& Nickle will "Phoenix" at the earli
est "possible moment.' .' : . '
MODOC TREACHERY t
PEACE COMMISSIONERS ENTRAPPED
GEN. CANBY KILLED!
COMJIlSSJO.Min SIKACUAAX WOUXDKD t
Cominlxsioiier Thomas Killed!
Full Detail j of tho Masvacre!
Gen. OJloaa Resumes Active Opera
tions! Ix the Lava. nans, Cel., April 11, 1
, , .. . Via Ihkka, April Uf
esterday afternoon five lndlaua and four
squaws eame into our camp aud wnro made
nrosvnt of clothing and provision by the
Peuoo Commission, and a uiessago wn lent
out by the Commission asking fur a talk thU
morning at a point a inlltt from our picket line.
I-aur In the evening lwu Charloy came In
aud told a pluket ho could taku his gun; that
ho (Churluy) did not intend to go linuk any
more. Thu picket brought him in and took
him to thu tout of tieu. Cmiby, whnro Charley
left his pun. and roiimluod at the tout or Finnic
Kiddle durliik tut) night. Thin morning Uoston
('hurley emtio in and told the Commission that
( aptalu Juck and five -other Indian would
nut't the Commission outsldti our line, lios
ton and Ilo;us then mounted a home and Mim
ed for tho lava bed. About one hour allerthelr
departure, Jn. Canby, lr. Thomas, Mr. A. It,
Meiiehnm, and Mr. Uyai with Frank Riddle
and oImwiuuw for Interprets, mimed for the
plaoe apotiiUd. 't he pnrly nrrlv.nl ul the ap
oitited plaoe, and Were clofw-ly wulehed hy the
atonal olhcur. Ueutenant Adatux, Irom the alg
nul nut ion on the hill overlooking our eiimn.
About half an hour alter the party had arrived
a cry front the actual ntntion wu Iieard, uy Iiik
tUnt the IndluriH had attacked tlx feaeu Coin.
mlxNlon, aud that an enticement had coin
meiietxl between tho JiidUuia and Col. Mason.
In n moment the troop were under arma and
deployed ua aklrinUliera under command erf
Col. t.reen, and order were given "forward,
double qulek!" Very ahortly allrr Mr. l'yar
returned and told ua that thu Indiana had at
tneaed them, and that he thought lie iut the
on v one who had efccuped. Hut a few mo
menta after Kiddle and IiIr squaw wi tj niutu
within the pleit.-t Hues. ! rum him wo gather
the followtug account of liow too inaaaacre
cortimeiici'd :
Mi nelium mnde a abort aiieech to the Indi
ana, tollowed by Uen. Cuuby, and then Ir.
Thnmiiii. Captain Juek then made a apeech,
asking for Hot Creek and Cottonwood, the
places now occuphii by Kalrcliild and txirrta,
lor a reservation. Meachnm told Jack that It
was not HwdiJe to civ him whut h oaked.
Seouehln told Meuemiui to say no more; that
he (MeWimml had said enmiKh upon this aub.
J"ct i and while .-vtiueblii was talking Captain
Jack not upand walked behind theotti.T and
turne.1 buck and csciitloied, "All ready! drew
lua pl.iol and niipied a cap at lien, Canby,
ooeki-d his pbtol eualn and ilrcd. Canby lell
dead, shot und-r tn right ey. tscoiichiii then
shot Meaelmin In lue auoulderand In the head,
but he la ktill alive. l'otin Charley and an
(4her Indian allot and kllid lir. l'homa.
Hooka Jim etia-d liyar lor Home dlMitnee, but
liyar turned on htm with a pistol In hand, and
Jim ran. An ludinu knocked IUddl''a spiaw
down and took her horse, but Captain Jack
made him n-lurn It: and then aiiotiicr Indian
clium-d ltlddie aud shot at him. Thu last u.ay
be taken with a grain of allowance.
The troop are now about a mile In the lava
bed, laying ujM.n their anus, and will probably
advance uiul. r cover of tau dnrkuess. l iter
ar! about six liundn d troops here wtilcb can
lx-bniu-ut Into acMve btmw, aud I U?Ucve
they will end the -Mwloe war.
Ybkka. April li 10 f. M. The news of the
hornble mnere of Ucm-ral Canby and Com.
mi.skioiier 1 aomaa lias cnM a doom of sorrow
over the whole com munliy, ami I tic excitement
isluteiise. A Ic-lin cMtta that tiie Indians
should now r sjciVB tu puniotiment they so
richly deserve : that not one should bo leit to
boujtt of this terrible inaxsaere.
II. C. Tlekner, who t,rt.u-i,i in the official dis
patches, lell h. iulqllnrt. r 'nt live o'el.K-k l.ll
ev. tiin-. He says orders had Jut Iwo Issu.-d
ror an advance aloii the Mholo line at flvo
o'clock this uiiriili!-. Th plan was to advance
slowly, taking ev.-ryUiiiti; as tiiy w nt alomr.
having i r and provtsioits wuh them. in
this cose It may be two days belor" the trouble
is ended A courser iwi le n at nln o'clock to
nlht lor ii n. (.ilb'io's hi-od.mnrtTs. with dls-putcht-s
from tivu. tM-hoil'-ld. Isy many it is
belli ved that the Modor artr diJij-Taie and
will ll-ht 111 the lal man dl'-s, and that tle y
will not b-ave their caves. ii-rs think that
they have ain-july made their escaii, and will
commence a r li ntiins war Un ail weak par-tl.-a
tm-y may mwl. I: is supposi-d that the
atuick on Col. Mason's position was a blind to
attract the attention of i n. lil!-m from the
conteri-no-K'itK on b tw.x-n Jack and his lol
towers and the OiitinilMloiu ra.
TIIIKD uivfATOIf.
YltrKA. April It The excitement hers over
the news (rotu the trout Is inu-ns-. every one
condemning the p-an- s iiey of e-cr-tary I;,
hino. ivun iit watb- cii-iu-m.-i.t jat uUUi
that he Vii hung In vtngy troin a roj tn i-li-ed
across tue atre-t. 1 lie cllisy was placarded i
"C. ifc lano. Secretary of ton Interior! Thus
With the lunk'T lnaiftn roliey:" and at the
feet was a loni- card with the words: 'Mai;
P ace If it taio-s ait sut:im-r. C. iKluno."
lags are at half mast ali over town.
At i ;iS p. fti.. a court -r arrived from the front
with oi!i'-Xil dispatca.-. and also information
that the r-niaius of lien. Canby ami lr. Thorn
aa would arrive in a abort time. '1 lie strc-et
being crowded mUi topIe, a procesalon was
organized untt inan-li.-d out to -cort thi eir
U i;e into town. At l -,s p. m.. lhr.-e four-liorse
ambuinnei s ent.-ntl to3. followI by about
tlir.-e hundred citlwus. 'i he remains were eu-'as-d
In rusiKh t-ises. Gen. Canby's, wrapped
In thw na'loi.al colors, wer- tuki-n Into the
.Masi.nlv Hall, where tocy will bo embalmed.
TheyhavH r.-fe!ied hi-r in a remarkably good
state of r s r. riiiiin. Ir. 'ilwmu' Issiy was
at once p.n'xd In a ainc crflin, and will be for
warded to ton Kranelseo as ssa as fiosslbl".
Cai-t, ii. K. Atider.,n, Gen. Canby' aid.
rnsne in ehure of tne r-mains. He left Tul
Camp at twelve o'clock. i-steruay. The nlht
bciore he lell ihcro was an alarm atom; the
yleket line. 11-j was at l'i. Mason's camp
when the attack was mad? iiK,n the 1'eaee
ComniUilon l.rty, aad aays that I.teutciiaiiU
hheroo! and l!oyle wer allured out of cum!)
by a whiw unz. 'i h'-y went four or five hun
dred yanbt, wu-n they met what I hey supposed
were only two Indians, who said th-y wan.ed
to talk to the "Utile '1 yeo." Col. Mason. They
were told that they (tiia i .l. ut. ni,iil) did wot
-want to talk, and for the Indians to to back to
their camp, and tr.ey would n-lurn U theirs.
As they turned around. lb inolnus, f(Mir In
niu.io.-r. tlr-;d nfx.n liuin, wouudinif isherwool
In tiio arai and t.'.igb, the Utu r Uim; a very
s Tious wound, tho bfin beln stiuit'-red.
('apt. Anderson, who wna on duty nt the signal
st:aiorin il;e.,ll;il lUv k, r.ii-.v plainly the at
tack u;n Oil. Mason's Irrtnt. mid telegraphed
to Gen. Glilem to notb'y the 1'iwi Commission
Immediately. Col. Iilddle, wno was at the
signal sUition at Gen. Gillem'a healmiarU-r
when this message was rec-lved, atonce plact-d
his glass on General Caul.y. as the sixty aat
tojirther about one mile distant. Very oon
the whole party scniu-red. He, followed tha
Gi-neral's coursn with his tclns while ho ran
about fifty yards, threw up his arms and fell
backward, d"ad. Two of the Indiana who were
following blm, jumped ui.n him. One, le.
ncveu to ue i ait. jack, stabba-d him. lu the
neck, nod he was completely stripped. lr.
Thomas wiis aiw, (v,moletelv strlimed. Ilia
purse, conlninin'i;alA.ty Mid dollurs, WM fonnd
under his body, the Indiana haviru; dmunMl it.
Meacham was shot In three pbices, one ball
entrins at the Inner corner of his right eye.
and another in the eido of the head. These
aro both bulieved to Uave lixlired within hla
cranium, the third passing through his fop;.
arm. ne aiso receaveo a cut in nis jeii arm,
and a scalp wound five Inches in length. He
was found about ftfty yards from wnere the
slaui;hu-r U an, In a direction opiosi.e to that
taken by Gen. Canby. Ho wu entirely Mrlp
ped an J was bewildered In mind. The soldiers,
who were ready, started on a double quick im-
mediately upon me iinni; oi um shots. Tho
Indians retired to their retreat about oisj yards
In advance of the soldiers, who followed them
naif a mile beyond the murder ground, where
they remained until dark.
lIEAlKlt7AHTK.B. CAMP OX ROfTH TrLl
Lake. April 14. Lieut. Hherwood, Twenty-first
Infantry, died at 1 o'clock to-day of wound re
ceived on tho Uth while receiving a lliiir of
truce from the Indiana. Seventy-two Warm
Bprins Indians, under Donald McKny, arrived
at the camp cast of the Modoe position last
ii m nt. a ne army win close on tue Indians- po
sition to-morrow, and endeavor to cut off all
escape. Nocifort will be apared to make the
punisnment or the Indians severe. Jf possible
no Indian shall boast that he or his ancestors
murdered General Canby.
(Clgneui AIVIS C.tilL,L.KM.
Yreka. Anrli LI The regular courier arrived
front headquarters at five o'clock this after
noon, having lett there at ID a. m. yesterday.
Up to that time there had been'no fighting ex
cept a slight skirmish on Col. Mason's picket
line on the 12th, resulting In one dead Indian
and the capture of ten ponies.- There Is no
uouot ounne mou oes expected to get utiiem
and Col. Mason. Gen. Gillem expected to have
been present at the council, but on the morn
Ing of the massacre was too indisposed to leave
tils tent.- - '
The surgeons report Meacham's wounds to
be a gunshot wound in the right forearm; a
gunshot wound In the lett index finger; also,
one in the right ear, a lacerated wound of the
forehead and nose, and the wound of tho scalp.
six incnes in length, caused by an attempt to
scalp blm. His condition is more hopeful,
Jacob Drake, an involuntary res
ident of the Idaho Penitentiary, at
tempted to s pardon . himself out of
prison by. the use of a knife. Two or
three jobs with it into his abdomen
convinced him that .the expedient
could not succeed without producing
considerable burtness, and he . threw
away the knife and called lustily for
a. doctor.1; :':-P.,,''K.'' ' "
Ben.': Holladay won't build any
more railroad on the West Side un
less the . people', will subsidize ':, him.
The Dallas Republican says , be can
get no subsidy over there, ."unless it
be a tar barrel and a feather bed." .
GREAT BATTLE WITH MQOQCSi
TWO DAYS' FIGHTINC3 1
LAVA BED SURROUNDED
; BY, TROOPS!
CLOSING VP ON CAI'T. JACK I
We are indebted to His Excellency,
Gov. Grover, for the following im
portant dispatch:
Portland, April 10, 7 5 v. m.
M, V. BMOWN s liallii) with the Modnoa all
day yvaterduy. l.lttlu Ions to troops, who hold
their ktouiiU wltti thuir lluus entirely surround.
lutf thu Indians.
'1 he battle Is renewed to-day. The troops aro
sleudlly working la upon Cupt. Jaak.
(Sltnud) , Lm t', GltOVER.
, LATER BY TELKURAl'U.
We condense the following from yesterday's
dispatches, giving an account of thu battle of
lay before yesterday. Thu uooouut Is Irom an
ollluer In thu light i
Just ut daylight we heard an irregular fusl
linle on thu opposite side ol the. lavu bed, and
knew tlial Col. .Muaon'a alilriulsliora Wero en
gaged, .
At alx o'cliK-k wo heard the booming of how
Users, and saw shells bursting over Caul Jack's
camp. At this lime the rocks wero swurmlng
with Indians and the tiring was rapid.
Capt. Miller, of Co. K, 2lst Iniantry, coin
num. led thu battalion, hi company butiigcoui
mauded by IJeut. Uiiry. Miller had tint ex
Ireuie right, next to dipt. ThriM-kmorton'a lint
tcry M, 4th Artillery i l.leut. Herns, I lattery K,
1th Artillery, and Capt. Kugan'a Co, u, i.upt,
Wright's Co. K (both or thu l.th lafautryl In
the center, and tho cavalry on the extreme leit.
Thu plan of thu battle waa from the eaat side.
Col. Mason was to advance Ids command on
the right; tho Warm Hprlugs Indians on his
leit curling up along the ledge, to unite with
the right of tue troops Irom ibla side, leaving
only tn lakooM-n lor the Mixlocato occupy.
W hlle inarching along thu lako shore, just
at the head ol the long cave, and one and a
half miles from Jack's rump, we encountered
thu first opsttlon straggling shots at long
range. The men deployed lu o ii sklnulsn
order and advanced slowly, tinder such cover
as the riH'ks alfortled. To our right a gorge
opened III the blulf Irom the right luink, Irom
which came straggling shots, while a lew fell
around ua Irom thu leit (mint. Uur skirmishers
crept upon them, aupisirted by the reserves,
uuul we arrived in short range, when a severe
volley was tired from the blmi's. there cvbH-utly
being 2 or ' Indians posted there. The lire was
heavy and gallliiu.niid alter standing It 1 mm
UU'S the orJ. r to cliurgo was given, and the men
sprang forward amid tho most dvaleuing jells
irom thu Modocs.
At ft :il the first ahot wa fired from the iiinr
tars, pluming the shells luir In the lava bi-ds
and aputreiitiy doing gisMl work, tiur line now
extwnda irom the blmf wneru Jack's camp Is,
up thu bnlge to the south, nearly a mile. Thu
biulfs carried by Miller's men are now held,
aud but two ledgea Intervene between 1,1s llictl
and the main plateau.
At I- ) the line deployed down the lake ov
l lle Jack's eiuiip ami ers.l tne intervening
ix'n space 011 tin. urubb -oulek without n -celvtiig
a shot. Tliev are now In readiness lor
a charge on the blubs alter the mortars have
done their work. Mortars have arrived on thu
ground and taken (amnion.
All was quiet until Um k in., when a sudden
and heavy volley rattled along Mason's line
and continued several minutes. Just previous
he sigualcd, "So one killed or wound, d here
yet."
Hticli was the rapidity of the onslaught and so
unexpected, that the Uj were on then, be
fore they knew it, and in a few minutes we
wero masters of ;ne sltuaimn, and tho men
t'Kik the posuiou behind tiin rocks and rested
at leisure.
trom S.eo ranee It wmtld aeeut that the
lower or lake oiiil of the biulfs was cleared of
Indians by Col. Mason, as our men are steadily
advancing wttiiont rrelvlng a shot. 'Ihey will
proliably hold the rucks for cover in the morn
ing. li I now six p. m., and the mortars are bring
moved lorwnnl, a our men ere now rady to
seale the heights. Col. Mason's line has not
been broken, and bv to-morrow wo will Join
wltb tlie Warm Kpring ludlnns, and have the
rtl devils eiielrel-Hl. with but til" Ink for theni
to escape by. When night closed yesterday's
fighting otirtroofMi held the ground to witiiin
tiiree lniiicir. fi yards of the enemy's strongest
position, and filiilng was to bo resumed at 7
this icornllig. It is lmiible Uimmn at the
Indian lisvs as yet, Mourn are known to have
been klll-d.
Following I the list of eisuallle among our
tro(: Kiil--l I'orjjora! l'r-w, 'o. G, Isti, In
fauiry : Cnas. Johnson. Co. I, 1st Cavalry : W.
K. tv arles, Cifc K, IM Cavairj". Wounded I Jeut.
f jigatt, Co. , isth Infantry, wound In tblgn ;
H.rjt.-ant 11. Gide, same eomimny, wound lit
leg : Corporal KlilH-ck, Itali- ry K. Mil Artillery,
sealp wound; l'orMral Is-lano, same com
panv, wound in leg ; M. lSolev.ume.-o;niiny.
wooiid In arm : K. l i'timnor. I'jittery M, an,
Artillery. f1.t!i wound of eg; T. McMabus, l!at-u-ry
K, s'-v.-re wound In thigh ; Martin Connor.
j il - t e .. .1 . .... I a..-,. et...-..u-
lt rnard. i o. K.W Cavalry. n ielt'shouid. r. i
of Yreka. while riding his mule too near the i
r lLI:i ambush, was wounded, and II Is fear
ed h has fallen Into their bands. His mule
waa killed.
Meruhant la Improving, and comforta'd".
His wife arrived at Yreka last night, and de
parted IbU looming to Join blm.
A valuable mare in Arizona City
was taken with a swelling all over.
The local horse-doctor pronounced it!
11 1 1 a . i
a weji-ueYciopoa case oi epizootic,
oarnng tne cougu. lue mare was
blanketed, smoked and rubbed, all
to no purpose. One morning how
ever, when the horse-sharp went to
his treatment, be f jund a young colt
with tho mare and the swelling was
asaa,a
The new school building erected
by the Catholics at Salem cost $GQ.
000. ' The Court House cost $00,000.
The Woolen Mill makes 300,000 yds.
of cloth and 2,500 pairs of blankets
annually. At the Oil Mill, 50,000
gallons of linseed oil were produced
last year, and Kinney's Flouring
Mills shipped over 50,000 barrels of
flour to Portland.
"Joe, you have done it for me,"
was the remark made by Tom Ham
mond, of Virginia City, Nevada, as
he thrust one of his lingers into a
hole in the back of his neck, immedi
ately nfter Mr. Gale'u pistol "went
off." "Tom, I'm sorry for it," said
Mr. Gale composedly, "but yon
know I had to do it." The chroni
cler significantly adds that Mrs.
Gale,, had she been present, could
have explained why '-Joe had to do
it."
The Bulletin says: Our Modoe war
has produced a number of celebri
ties. At all events, the Eastern
press will persist in thrusting great
ness on some of the actors in it. If
we may believe the Boston Post (which
rarely prevaricates), "the chajming
Mrs. Bob Wittlea," late Envoy Ex
traordinary of the United States to
the Modoo braves, is about to enter
the lecture field.' It is sad to think
that a female savage, who meant us
nothing but kindness, 'should have
thus early ..fallen a victim to the
depravity of civilization.
A Douglas couuty youth went
sparking one evening, and remained
at his sweetness' house all night.
Some time aftfjr retiring to his couch
he had occasion to absent himself
from the hoose a few moments, and
went out in hia scant nocturnal ward
robe. As Boon as he emerged from
the door a prodigious watch dog went
for mm and he ned for the orchard
and skinned up a tree lively. The
dog sat down , contented under the
tree and yelped . until the , fellow's
girl came out and helped her - lover
down. , j .. , ,,,..', . , , (
'. At the time Louis . Napoleon s was
lying in state in England, Colfax
was lying in state, in America and
'stately lying it was too. :
3,
PACIFIC COABTHUM. '
Hofstt disease still in Arizona.
The epieootio has got to San Diego.
Los Angeles is crazy about borax.
EpSzootio spreading in the Territo
ries. ' , '
Col. Joe Teal has returned from
tho East.
Modocism will now bo the name
for treachery.
The Carson Mint is doing a very
heavy business.
Grasa Yalley is having trouble with
its water works. ,
A Stock Exchange is to be organ
ized in Salt Lake City.
A Dalles fisherman caught a 250
lb fialmoii and a bad cold.
Truckoe says it has one of the best
water-powers in the world.
Two men were last Sunday killed
in California by teams running away.
Cows in Douglas county are dying
of a poison plant called "stagger
weed."
Sacramento wants a branch prison
built there, and thinks it can fill it
easily.
Jacksonville, Oregon, wants the
Chinese there, removed beyond the
city limits.
Los Angeles tradesmen hare taken-
to robbing each other instead of their
customers:
Mrs. Meacham left Salem last Sun
day for Yreka, to nurse her wounded
husband.
A cormorant has been shot at
Sutter lake. It will be stuffed and
sent to Agasaiz.
Nearly all tho horses of Northern
California art confined to their beds
with the epizootic.
' The measles and whooping cough
aro still occupying tho attention of
Oregon children.
The fatal 11th instant was Black
Friday indeed to tho unfortunate
Peace Coiumis&ion.
Clothes-lino thieves abound in
lioHeburg, and the inhabitants are
now a biftles set.
Craws Valley is puffed up at the
advent of a baby weighing fourteen
pounds and five ounces.
Harvey Donncly was lost Monday
killed near Portland by chopping
down a tree on himself.
A Utah man attempted to rake off
bark from a fence with bia gun, and
be is now single-handed.
A poor laborer was found in a starv
ing and dying condition in an East
Portland barn last Sunday.
An Oregon reporter has upent
$12,23 learning to play billiards,
and can't run over twelve now.
Wine bibbers mourn because the
grape crop of Southern California bos
been almost destroyed by frost.
S;venty-nine Apaches were made
"good Indians" by the bullcU
of
Men. Crook a HOldtcrs laat
week.
Chos. F. Powell, formerly a resident
of 1'ioche, has been appointed by the
President as Consul at Morianda,
Peru.
The whisky "ring" carried the city
election in Olyinpia, and tho Good
Templars low wear melancholy coun-
J
tenances.
Virginia City complains because
little whirl-winds playfully scatter
"about a barrel of dust" in the faces
of pedestrians.
The State University will be 35
feet wide by 112 feet long, two sto
ries, with basement and Mansard
roof. It will bo built of brick.
The I'laindcaler says a post master
who could distribute the mail in half
a day would be a novelty which tho
people of Roseburg could appreciate.
A side whiskered fop at Salt Lake
was shot for a rabbit, and the coroner
said it was all right, and that he knew
of a dozen others that ought to be
shot.
Some "ornery" devils steal flowers
from graves in Vancouver graveyard,
and if the people over there catch
'em at it there will be another mas
sacre.
The Nevada City Daily Transcript
congratulates itself and the world
generally because up to its going to
press no murder has been committed
on that day!
An Oregon editor relieves his pent-
up bosom by calling an opposition
quill-driver "a snarling cur, a coarse
boor and a dirty blackguard," and
now his mind is easier.
Sacramento recently tried to get
up a coursing match, but the dogs
bad got so used to the ways of the
humans of that section that they
would do nothing but fight.
The city of San Salvador, Central
America, was a few days ago destroy
ed by an earthquake and over eight
hundred people either swallowed up or
crushed to death in its ruins. . ,
In Utah ducks flying high in the
air were killed by lightning during a
recent storm. This demonstrates
the usefulness of feather beds as a
protection against the thunderbolt.
The, Yreka and Jacksonville citizens
burn ed Secretary Delano in effigy,
because he is partly responsible for
the Peace Commission murder. Now
le t them do likewise with Old Flax
brake. .
. . The juvenile hodlums of Corvallis
have a new amusement, which con
sists in pelting one another with eggs,
Sidewalks, buildings and fences bear
the marks of "sanguinary egg con'
flicts." '
A ghost in Virginia City rings bells
and puts out lights in a faro-room
The "call-beU" has no wire; connect
ed with it and is done by drawing its
clapper back.? In the gas-light, with
no one n'e'ai1, . and twenty persona
watching, the hammer is seen to ba
drawn slowly back and the bell rung.
The gay gumboliers don't understand
it, and when the bell rings it takes
two of them to stand up.
, The Sheriff at Olympia is adver
tiseing two printing presses for ' sale
for delinquent taxes of the year 1872.
And yet some people think printers
are equal in wealth to bloated bond
holders. A Douglas county convict of tho
Penitentiary writes homo to his
friends a big puff for the State Hotel
under Mr. Watkins' able management
but he says he don't hanker after it
any way it is too confining.
A Portlopd lady patriotically pre
sented her liege lord, yesterday with
a trio of cherubs two boys .and a
girl weighing respectively, 12, 10$,
and 4 bounds. The last one was
just thrown in for good measure.
The citizens of Portland held a
mass meeting last Monday and passed
resolutions in respect to tho memory
of the slain Pence Commissioners
and indignantly denouncing the Gov
ernment's cowardly Indian policy.
The Pioche liecord is going to en
large. The pressure of murders and
shooting scrapes on its local columns
necessitates either an enlargement or
else the printing of nothing but
bloody news, and it chooses to en
large. A contribution was gotten up by
the people of an Arizona town to raise
money for Sabbath school books, but
before the books were received a ma
jority of the contributioners of the
fund voted to start a joint stock
"whisky mill" with it.
Mrs. Gen. Canby lies perfectly
prostrated at her house in Portland
and refuses to take nourishment.
Her grief is most pitiable and heart
rending and it is feared that she will
hardly survive the shock of her noble
hero husband's brutal murder.
An Idaho Judge referred some
caies to bis ton to take testimony
and reduce the same to writing.
Since then the lawy rs who are com
pelled to read the testimony through,
ask the Judge to commute their pen
alty to imprionment for life.
James Crowford, of the Vivian
mill, on the Canton river, Nevada,
was recently treated to a free ride by
getting entangled in the machinery
of the mill and being whirled round
a shaft about forty or fifty times.
Strauge to say he was i.ot seriously
injured.
About 81 Indians of the Warm
Springs Reservations, the same who
fought the Snakes under tho orders
of General Croo'i, are now with the
troops under the command of General
Gillem. Th f e ore brave and experi
enced Indiaus, and are expected to
do good p .-rvice.
An Idaho wedding is thus descrip
ed by an exchange: "When the
ceremony that made them one was
performed, the happy couple retired
to their camp, partook of a supper
of fclap-jack aud eoffee, after which
the wagon bed was improvised into a
bridal chamber and all went as
gay as a marriage bell."
A Montana man, on suicide intent,
threw bemself from an overhanging
rock a distance of 40 feet to the
Baud below. He struck on his head,
bounced over on bia feet, gave an
Indian yell, said he was too good a
man to die, and went back to Helena
and licked a Chinaman.
J. Quiun, of Portland,, was invol
untarily persuaded by the judicial
authorities to contribute to the pub
lic exchequer the munificient sum of
fifty dollars because he became ex
cessively affectionate upon the partner
of his domestic hearth while caress
ing her with bis horny hand.
A Vallejo man didn't think giant
powder had so much strength as
folks thought, so be exploded a little.
When be saw the floor of the house
go to interview the roof and found
himself sailing over tho front yard
fence, he began to think there was
some strength in that powder, afte r
all.
On the 10th, as .John Taylor was
walking in the woods in the vicinity
of Bartlett Springs, accompanied by
his dog, a panther sprang upon the
dog and tore him to pieces. "While
the panther was thus employed Mr.
Taylor suddenly remembered a press
ing engagement and sauntered toward
home. :-'
Its name was Buck, and it was the
first boy baby born in Maricopa coun
ty, Arizona. It weighed 18 pounds on
the day of its debut into the world,
and shot at the old Buck (its father)
when it was three years old. It ex
pects to be Governor of Arizona and
get teamed and divorced in due pro
cess of time. '
A Virginia City mother learned of
her daughter's contemplated elope
ment, and on the night appointed for
the flight she put some laudanum in
the girl's tea. The latter fell asleep
and did not wake up till next morn
ing, and in the meantime Romeo
got tired of waiting and went Koine
disgusted. l' He goes with another
girl now. , ' - '
A Vallejo doctor has discovered the
hollowness and deceit of base-ball.
He was watching a game, waiting
until some of them got a leg or fin
ger broken, when a boy let a bat fly
out of his hand, and the ; doctor got
his nose comminutely. fractured and
several teeth struck out. Ho : now
eaya base-ball is a fraud." . ' '
npSsa
ttOBBElia PARDONED Iff THE PRESS
' . . ; DENT.
.: It is possible that the wholesale
pardoning of thieves, robbers and de
faulters by the President may have
a salutary influence on the morals of
the people, but we confess to an in
abil:ty to so interpret the result of
such .action The pardon of Hodge,
who robbed the government of near
ly half a million, has been followed
by the letting loose of a score of
other villains, the last of which is one
Daniell, who robbed the Webster
Bank in Boston of $46,000, and was
sentenced to five years' bard labor in
Dedham jail. By the rule which the.
President seems to have adopted in
exercitting the executive clemency,
the robber shuts who has disappeared
with $250,0i0 of' the funds of the
Exter banks is in no danger of being
subjected to any very severe punish
ment, should he be caught. There is
no reason why he should not be par
doned as well as Hodge and Daniell.
The Massachusetts people are justly
indignant at tho pardou of the latter.
They have a lively appreciation of the
enormity of his crime, though it was
but a drop in the bucket compared
with Hodge's or Shute's. In relation
to the pardon of Daniell the Boston
Netct says :
Had' Daniell entered the bank by
burglary instead of by confidence,
and stolen $46 only, and not $46,000,
in place of "partoniztng the Italian
opera," this winter, his opera would
be a synonym of VAwren. The lesson
which the President's complaisance
teaches its that a man's chance of
escaping justice is somewhat pro
portioned to the extent of his
robberies. If Shute bad bagged bia
$2'i0,0 -0, it was hardly neceary for
him to go abroad, for "money an
sweretb all things. "
" GIVE
THE t'OLoaeo
CHAXCE."
BROTHER A
A C'aa of Brutal Rape,
Gkoeoktowx, March 24 Th:s
morning while the daughter of John
Lank, a repectahle gentleman resid
ing near Hehoboib station, was re- j
turning from the house of her uncle, j
she was accosted by a negro named j
Jos. Green or Burton, who tore off
her clothes and violated her person.
After the assault Burton fled, and the
girl, who is only fifteen years old,
managed to reach her father's resi
dence, where she made known the
facts. Burton was surrounded in the
woods and captured about two miles
from the place where he committed
the outrage, and the ptUoner, in cus
tody of the officers, arrived in this
city this evening and was lodged in
jnil to await trial in April. He is a
hardened criminal aud makes light of
his offence.
The Navy Department announces
the death of Hear Admiral John B.
Montgomery, at Carlisle, Pennsyl
vania, on the 25lh ult. He entered
the Navy in 1812. and was on the re
tired lift. He was midshipman on
the fla-i-fchip Niagara in the victory of
lake J'-rie.
A Connecticut youth, who read in
a Hartford paper of the large clerical
force employed by one of the in
surance companies, called at the
ofSce the other day with a young
lady and politely asked to have one
of the clergymen marry them.
When a Kansas lawyer quotes latin
to the jury he in fined by the Judge
"for profanity and contempt."
Vermont forgets all the hardships
of the past winter in jubilation over
its maple suar season, and cheer
fully amcs, what s the odds S3 long
a it a happy?
Read Tbw, asd bb IIai-pt! TUo large
stork of Mi-n's. Do-, and Children's Clothing
ever brought ap from Knn Francisco Is at N
Daum'a store, and the rush It IbK; there U do
ono leaving the store without buying a Coat,
i'nnU or Vest, llat or Cap, Boots or Shoes.
Hhlrt or Drawers, Collars or Neck-Ue, etc, and
everybody at-enx to be pleased and satisfied
that they bought cheap, aa that la the plaoe to
gi t bargains.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Half Alive.
It Is a sad thing to pass through life only half
live. Yet there are thousand whose habitual
condition is one of languor and debility. They
complain of no specific disease;' they cutler no
positive pain ; but they have no relish for any
thing which affords mental or sensuous pleas
ure to their more robust and energctlo fellow-
beings.
In nine cases out of ten this state ef lassitude
and torpor arises irom a morbid stomach. In-
dilation destroys the energy of both mind and
body. hen me wast of natum is not sup-
iiiimi oy a aue ana recuinr assimilation oi tne
ooo. every organ is starved, every function in
terrupted.
Now, what doe common sense suggest under
these circumstances of depression? The sys
tem needs rousing and strcticthenlnc;; not
merely for an hour or two, to sink afterwards
Into a more pitiable condition than ever (as It
assuredly would do If an ordinary alcoholic
stimulant wns resorted to), but radically and
permanently.
How la this desirable object to be accom
plished I The answer to this question, founded
on the unvarying experience of a quarter of a
century, is easily given. Infuse new vigor into
the tUirestive organs hy course of Hos tetter's
ntomacn Hitlers, do not waste time in ailratn
lstcrtne temporary remedies, but wake the sys
tem up by recunerntinir tho fountain head of
pnysicai girenctn anu energy, tne great organ
uxn which ail tho other organs depend for
their nurture and support. -
Hy the time that a dosen doses of the great
vegetable tonic and invlgnrant have been ta
ken, the feeble-fnime of the dyspeptio will be
gin to feel its benign Influence. Appetite will
be created, and with- appetite the capaqity to
digest what it craves. Persevere until the cure
Is complete until healthful blood, fit to be the
material of flesh and muscle, bone and nerve
and brain, flows through the channels of cir
culation. Instead of the watery pabulum with
which they have heretofore been Imperfectly
nourisnea.
A. WHKKLKR. C. P. ROGUE. C. R. WHEKLKK.
A. WHEELER & CO.,
SIIEDD'S STATION, OREGON,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MER-
' . ' CHANTS.
APE) DEALERS nr
MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE!
A eood assortment nf all kinds of goods al
ways in store at lowest market rates, . .....
V. i -- i Agents for sale of, ,
WAGONS, GRAIN DRILLS, CHURNS,
CIDER MILLS, ETC.
Cash paid for" Wheat. Oats. Fork. Butter.
Eggs and Poultry.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IIC.VKI F. S1YRS,
GENERAL BUSINESS COLLECTION,
ASP
INSURANCE AGENCY,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Particular attention given to the adjudication
oi aocouuis.
, Collections mads In all parts of the State.
y Office next door above the Eee-Hive Store.
1 . ' . . -.v8o33tf. - , , ,
aaaajiiilinlilisinrsi
ft ET AD V
SEMENTS
t t4 a n vMt .
JB. a-fate, sitimt"d three
FOR 8ATJ5 I
burg, eoriMntojf , acres,
belnir in CUUvu.i,ion. and
from Harris-
n proved ts
wheat land.
It contains a oood residence
stock water, and all other
id. t
rd. !
oreoaro
Termaeasy. Innolfeof . Rfl
nienees
bunr. Oregon, JAM KH If
Ilarrla-
ami.
in
notice or rraAX.
Est mt Jonathan lint tain, Xe
PAUt. BRATTAIX, EXECTrfoB Ot THE
estate of Jonathan HmttMn, deo.d
having filed his final account for th Nnsj mC
tlement In tho County Court of Linn eomtr
Oregon, by order of the court, notice j hu,hr
gives that . , , ,
Tuesday, tfte 3d day of Jane, 18"USf
at 1 o'clock r. it, Is set for hearing objections
to said account! if any there be, in open court,
at the Court House In the City of Albany, la
Linn county, Oregon. PAU EBATTAI.V,
n30w4. Executor,
ALABAMA RESTAURANT.
3. H. STVABT, Proprietor
On EroadalWn street, next to Taylor's Saloon,
"Keep the Ball Rollins; and Glre
urn an Erea 8 how."
MEALS AT ALL HOURS,
Day or Xlght. -
T 33 JR, MS :
ler Week
Vttr Ifmy
Mingle 3feal
4 SO
1 OO
SO
This house has been thoroughly renovated
and re-funiished. The table will be supplied
wltb the choicest delleactes of the season, and
the very best rf everything. ,
tWtme and get s square me, and If yoa
iiiivFi i Eov ine money, rorae any now. o man
snail go nungry aronna trie "AUA
kBAMA."
vsn.tf.
HARNESS SHOP ATSHEDD, OREGON.
T. FORTIXER,
Manufaeturerof, and Healer InllAI'.NESSsnd
HAIAjLJH. A good V-le for aair price,
vtnlfitf.
. HEMOltRHOlJDS.
A.. CAROTIIEBS COS "PILE FILLS
ANo OINTMKNT" bare now become roe ef
tli standard preparation of the day; is pre
pared and rwummeoiltil fur Pile cav f wbetuer
ebronie or recent j. SnfTerers nsv defend noon
it, that tbis remedy will gir tbem permanent
relief from this trvablesome and dataagiBr. com
plaint.
fceot postpaid to ary address (witbin tbe Uni
ted States) upon receipt of price, $1.50.
A. C AKOTHEKS A CO., .
o40yl Albany, Line Co., Oregon.
JFRANKLIN
MEAT MARKET !
J. C IIEKKEX, Pro?.
YV-HX, KFTEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
the best meat tbe market affords, and
will always be found ready to accommodato
tho- who may favor blm with a rail.
BVHighest market one paid for perlcS
vavifttf.
WATCHES
J TH WELRY
THE CNDERJSIONED HERKBY ANNOCN
ees to th fit jr ens of Albany and sur
rounding country toat he ha just opened a
JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT !
at Albany, at tbe place known as "
John Ganter's Shop
I shall keep on "band and for sale
ALL GQCOS PERTAINING TO THIS LINE.
AT THB ' J
LOWEST LIVING RATES !
Especial attention paid to '
REPAIRING FINE TIME PIECES,
wherein an experience of many years enables
me, I trust, to give . ,., . .
PERFECT SATISFACTIONS'. ,
All Goods
Sold and Work
Warranted.
Done
CHARLES BOUBOARDES.
Albany, Jan. 28, ISi3 n25tf. ,
FOR THE E1RTEST OP 1S7J.
'Ji?i77ei.tFr'
The "jETSi" is the latest and best Mower
or Self-Hake Reaper In the country.
It possesses not only all the advantages of
every other Improved machine, but has that
whtoh no other has a Patent oubl Matiom
by which, (simply on moving a lever at the
hand of the driver.) either a Out or slow speed
may be given the knives or sickles In a mo.
ment, ana wimoiu in wo least aisiuruinK las
ordinary gait of the team. " -
Treadwell & Co's list of Har
vesting Machines,
embrace the Standard Improved Machines of
the country, fresh Irom the manufactory this
year. -- . 5 ';; ' - y ' . "
TNA MOWERS AND SELF-RAKE REAPERS I
HAINES HEADER, ITHICA HORSE RAKES,
HOADLY'S ENGINES, PITT'S HORSE.
POWERS, KUSSELLiSEPARATOKS, .
V WHITEWATER WAGONS,
Ktrbjr a ad MeCoraalcfc Mowers and Kemp-.
cra, Russell Hon Powers, Culti-vators,
Header Tracks, Hay Presses, Barley
Forks, Bay Cutters, Victor slay
Forks, Ubud Rakes, Scythes, . ,
Snaths, and e-rery descrip
tion nt IsipMTsd
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
and a Fresh Stock of
HAKDWABE--
1 gyour Headers are "built this season', and
have all the improvements for 1S73, with also
the In. Vatent Adiu.mWe Keel. Our
Russell Separators have the Lawfenberjr Pat
nt End-Snake Sk when desired. . i
sypiease send for circulars and prices. .. (
TREAD WELIi & CO.,
at thb- I Cofe. Market A Frshtoht St.
6ld S.1 SAN FRANCISCO.
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