. s. o o o 4 0 THE ENTEBPII 03EG3X C1TV, 08EG0S, APRIL IS, 1S73. IJrig. Ceii. C 15. Canby. The sad news of the treacherous murder of Brig. Gen. E.R. S. Canby ami the Rev. Eleazer Thomas, two of the MoJoc Peace Commissioners, and the dangerous wounding of Mr. A. B. Meaeham, was received here last Saturday evening, and cast a rTooli of sorrow over onr entire eom munitv. The manner iu which thev were killed will be found in detail in our columns to-day, Gen. Canby was in command of this military- de partment, and was a man who stood. high in both his "-private relations and official position. He had gain ed the"' high position which, he was occupying at the time of his murder, by notorious and honorable services to his country. He bore a character in the army which should bo the am bition of every true soldier to emu late, and in his private walks of life Mse was a-. true christian and high minded gentleman. No man was more esteemed in Portland than the subject of this sad article. . He serv ed in the Mexican war, has been in several Indian wars, and was through the entire war of the South, in which ha gained many compliments for heroic bravery. Gen Can by leaves a wife in Portland, towhich he had been married for ovar 41 years, and thread news of the murder of her dearest companion for so long a time, (5 as prostrated her so that it is feared the shook Avill Ik? the cause of her not surviving him long. The be reavement to her is too great for mortal to picture, and none can real ize her affliction unless they have met wKh a similar circumstance. She has the sympathies of our entire State, and all that can be done to alleviator) the pangs of sorrow, warm and trpe friends will be found ready to thi. But the one dearer to her than earth itself has been taken from her by the misguided policy of the Government Jie had so long and faithfully served. The remains passed through town on a special train yesterday morning at -4 o'clock, for Portland, where they were re ceived by delegates from the City CiHineii, Citizens' Committee, and a committee from the various military Companies of that city and the reg ular army, who took charge of the body, and conveyed it to his late res idence, where the funeral services are to be held this morning at 11 o'clock. I'rom thence the remains are to be taken to Armory Hall, they will lie in state until 1 o'clock this afternoon, and then buried in a vault in the Portland cemetery. Peace be to his honored ashes. Thus a faithful soldier, an honest citizen amV, a loving husband has been calle I suddenly away through a misguided humanity of the Gov ernment lie has long and faithfully served. We take thej following sketch of the Be v. Eleazer Thomas from the If -.-rali I of last Sunday? Mr. Thomas wasa clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church; about sixtv vears of age, of tall, command ing form, clear-headed, and held a commanding place in the denomina te m of which he was a bright and shining li-rht. Was the minister-in-c!iargo-of the Niagara street Meth odist TV)!-co2al Church, a Buffalo, New York, in 1S'5; came to Califor nia in 1S .", where he was agent of tiie Methodist Book Concern; for a number of years edited the California f'ir! tiiui A'rnr-yfc, and at the time of his death was Presiding Elder of the IVtaluma District of the California Methodist Episcopal Conference. He reside ! in IVtaluma, California, where a wife and three children mourn his tragic death. The 11,-raU further states that Mr. Thomas was the Pastor w"ho solemn ized the marriage of ex-Governor r hud Mrs. Gibbs, 1S5:5. in Buffalo. THE VERY LATEST. The lied Devi's Closely Tressed. o SK-clal IiiiutcU t tlie Ilnli-rprlif. Lava-Bed, 0 r. m. April It?. I)ariti the niltt our troop hoUl the cairn" isiti" occupied at suns.-t last even- A hotly ecut st-;l lljht took plac on Col. tJr'i.-n's U.is moralivz. During tin' ni.!it mnrtjirai-udHicr the command of Maj. Tliomas, k"pt uj the fir? on the Modoc cunp, which k-tli'Mn wry much annoy ed. Tli-? Uidians could be lu.tru yelling and shouting at an awful rate. ,4t a. M.-uur troops have gained' oonsld t robl ground, and Tiring is becoming more fre.m M:t. The g 'in-ral imjMvssiou is that the Iava IVd is ours. Aluul IZ o'clock, Cols.rnson and Urern's inmiuamli felt -ctril a Junction, which en tir -ly cutsolT the Mod;es irom the water. Our 1 in the two day's fi.ht have tw.-n five killed and two wounded. Kive Indian iir only rerted kill -d. Noii of i:r kii.eu or wounded have yet fallen Into th hands of thv? enemy. it is evvlMtf th:U if our men can hold, th-ir poti.'.i on the lake shore Mr. Modoc will have to 1 .- or surrender. A Iimvv liuitk'-try is now going on nnr the L-ak" 5iior. the Indians evident ly lighting lor wat;T. We notice a letter in the IJreyonian of last Wednesday, signed by S. A. Clarke, in a measure attempting, to exhonerate theAdministration from blame in the butcher v of some of our bet-eitizen and soldiers. In our ooinion the man who would in any manner attempt to exhonorate the fools at "Washington is only tit to It put on a Pvaee Commission, and have his scalp taken. Talk about erring on the i,Lside of humanity" with such devils as the Modocs is- only lit (danguoge to come from a lunatic. The Satl and Legitimate Fruits. The fruits of the infamous policy of the Administration in regard to the murderous Modocs has been reaped at a fearful cost to our nation, and has cast a gloom of sorrow over our entire State, and were there any hon or left in the Administration would cause it to hide its dishonored heads in humiliation and shame. Full accounts will be found in this issue of the most treacherous mur der of two true and faithful servants of the people, who were led into the very jaws of death by order of the Government in whose service one of them had grown old and tlie history of whose country has frequently ad ded on its pages complimentary mention of his heroic deeds; and of another who had grown old in the service of his Lord and Master. It appears that the Administration, not being satisfied with the cold-blooded murder of several innocent and un offending settlers, was determined to force a peace upon the red devils at every sacrifice of honor. To this end its entire energies were exerted. Had a poor white man in the south knocked down a negro, or killed one, the Federal Administration would have hunted him down like a dog until the fullest extremity of the law was visited upon him. But in this ease it was a set of savages who had murdered in cold blood over forty white settlers, and the Administra tion, instead of visiting sudden and condign punishment upon them, sought to make a peace with the murderers if they would only con sent, and as that block-head Secretary Delano telegraphed, "make peace if it takes all summer. We have not the langnage to express our condem nation of an Administration which will not protect the humblest of its citizens. The blood of those settlers, though they were "but poor frontier farmers " called as loud for vengeance as does now the blood of Gen. Canby and the liev. Eleazer Thomas. There was no reason why the Administra tion should have exposed the lives of these faithful public servants to the mercy of the red devils, and the Ad ministration is justly responsible for their death. Secretary Delano should go and hang himself as a par tial acknowledgement of his repent ance, and the Administration which has sanctioned this policy, is unwor thy of the respect of the people it has so grossly and outrageously neg lected and butchered. As for those in our own State who counselled this " peace policy," after the murder of the settlers, we feel assured they will get their just deserts at the hands of a people tin y have not only insulted, but have added two, and probably three more innocent victims to their already long list of victims. Our people, with a united voice, condemn the policy pursued ly the Adminis tration in this matter, and had the voice of Oregon been heeded, we would not now be called uion to mourn the death by treachery of these worthy citizens and faithful public officers. There is but one sentiment, and that is: that the death of Gen. E. 11. S, Canby and the Rev. Eleazer Thomas, with man v others is the result of the policy pursueYl by tho Administration, and that the heads of the departments at "Wash ington have their blood upon their hands. The visiting of punishment upon the savages now will not in the least take the odium from the Ad ministration, nor will it bring back the great and good men its course has sacrificed. Gen. Canby and the Rev. Dr. Thomas aro the victims of the Administration. IIjw the News ra received. The following dispatch from Wash ington shows how the news of the treacherous butchery of Gen. Canby and the Peac3 Commission was re ceived in that city: Washington-, April 1H. The ter rible news of the treacherous assas sination of lhigadier-General Canby by tlse Modocs, and the intelligence received at the same time of murdres committed by the Apaches, causes a profound feeling of grief and indig nation, which rinds expression in all quarters, particularly in the armv, where Canby was held in great es teem and affection, with utterances of an earnest desire for the extermi nation of these savages. The feeling of indignation has taken the place of all ideas whatever of peace, and the slightest consideration cannot be given to any other proposition than that to move at once to the severest punishment of the Modocs. Oilicial reports of the massaere were sent to the President at a late hour last night by Adjutant-General Towns end, and General Sherman was also apprised at a late hour of the occur rence. The feelings of the President and C leneral at the sudden announce ment were of the moct intense sor row and indignation, and there was not an instant's hesitancy in the de claration that the Modocs should be made to suffer to-the severest extent for their crime. It i noT evident that the aet was long premeditated and this fact adds to the deen sens- j m iiu i.wi i iie massacre has arous j ed. The President has unreservedly expiT-r.Red his-sanction of the severest measures necessary to properly rmn- ish the Modocs, and his views on j this subject were fully stated to the S authorities aeting under the War j Department. General Sherman also I telegraphed to General Soofield in- structions- to move at once upon the ; Indians. A petition, largely signed, has been forwarded to the Governor, praying him to pardon and release Mr. j. D j..i , jcuk-i.ix'u i-o two years lor per- jury from Linn countv A BATTLE ifi THE LAVA-BED. Latest From the Modocs, YrtF.KA, April lGth. The Union has the following : IiAVA-BEus, April The day open ed warm and still, but was ushered in bv the roar of musketry and occasional looming of howitzers from Colonel Mason's camp on Hospital Rock, on the north side ot Captain Jack's position, and diiectlv under that famous strong hold. tieiieral G-illeiu, who had awaited the arrival of stores and of the Warm Springs Indians, ordered yesterday tents to be struck and drawn iu a com pact place near the hospital: for the troops to be supplied witli three day's rations and one hundred rounds of am munition; for the cavalry to move at 2 a. in. to day, and for Colonel Mason on the opposite side of the lava-bed to move at the same hour on the enemy. Colonel Perry and Lieutenant Carson of the cavalry 'were to move to a pint beyond the main cave and conceal themselves until joined iu the morning by the infantry and artillery. "These movements were fuithfullv ex ecuted, but probably hurried a little on account of the escape from the guard house of Long Jim, u Modoc prisoner of war. Just daylight we heard an irregular fusilade on the opposite side of the lava bed, and knew that Colonel Mason's skirmishers were engaged. At six o'clock we heard the booming of howitzers, and saw shells bursting Captain Jack's camp. At this time the rocks were swarming with Indians and the tiring was rapid. I attached myself to the stair of Col. Green's field olikers, and with him and the artillery left camp at 7 a. m. for the field. We "united with Colonel Perry's command, and soon the ball opened. Captain Miller of Company Klst In fantry, commanded the batallion, his company being commanded by Lieu tenant Learv. 'Miller had the extreme right, next to Captain Throckmorton's Battery M, Fourth Artillery; Lieuten ant Harris, Battery K, Fourth Artillery and Caphiin K.iga'n's Company J, Cap tain Wright's Company L (both of tlie Twelfth Infantry) in the centre, and the cavalry on tile extreme left. The plan of the battle was from the east side. Colonel Mason was to ad vance Ids command on tlie right : the Warm .Springs Indians on his li ft curl ing up along the ledge, to unite with the right of the troops from this side, leaving only the lake open for the Mo docs to occupy. Lieutenant" Green was in camp "in charge of the arms and ammunition. Captain Tremble, First Artillery, with twenty men. was left in charge of the camp oh this side. While inarching along the lake shore just at tlie head of the long cave, and one and a half miles from Jacks camp, we encountered the first opposition straggling shots at long range. The meh'ueployed in open skirmish order and advanced slowly, under such cover as the rocks atforded. To our rigid a gorge opened in tiie bind from the light irank, from which came straggling shots, while a few fell around us from the left point. Our skirmishers crept up on them, supported by the reserves, until we arrived within short range, when a severe volley was fired from the hi nfl's, there evidently beings or ;J0 Indians posted there. The lire was heavy and galling, and after standing it fifteen minutes tiie ordcj; to charge was given, and the men sprang forward amid the most deafening yells from tlie Modocs. A pack train of Warm Springs Indi ans has just arrived. It contains 17 mules an 1 1"0 horses. At 5 :lt) the first shot was fired from the mortars, plant ing the shells fair in the hluils. A few shells were thrown, going well into the heart of the biva-bcd, and apparent ly doing good work. Our line now ex tends fVoni the bluff where Jack's camo is, un the ledge to tlie south, nearly a mile. The iluli's carried by Miller's men are now held, and bi'u two ledges intervene between his men and the main plateau. At 4 :.'! the line deployed down Un like opposite Jack's camp and crossed the intervening open space on tlie double quick ithout receiving a shot. They are now in readiness fur a charge on tiie hhilfs after tiie mortars have done their work. Mortars have arriv ed on the ground and taken position. All was quiet until 5 ::',) p. m. when a sudden and heavy volley rattled along Mason's line and continued sev eral minutes. Just previous lie signal ed, ".No one killed or WjiiucIcJ here yet." Such was the rapidity of the on slaught and so unexpected, that the troops were on them before they knew it, and in a few minutes we were mas ters of the situation, and tlie nu n tool; the position behind the rocks and rest ed at leisure. Private F. O'Connor, Battery M, Fourth Artillery, was shot in tlie leg, flesh wound; Private O. Daly, Battery K, Fourth Artillery shot in the fore arm: Corporal K. iCilliek, Battery K. Fourth Artillery, scalp wound : Pi ivate M M inus, Company 11, Twelfth In fantry, thigh crushed. Ykkk'a, "April 1. M. J. Gage, who left the lava-beds at dark last night and arrived here this forenoon, having rode one horse seventy and another twenty miles, brought "full reports of yesterday's fighting. We quote from the Journal extra : ''Tiie soldiers mov ed up night before last ami commenced closing iu early next morning. Tne Warm' Springs" Indians are working around gradually and the Modocs thev say "hen." Tlie battle was opened by Colonel Bernard on the opposite, and the Indians fought the troops on all sides, which indicates that there area great many more Indians than have been reported heretofore. Some shells were thrown into Jack's vicinity late in the afternoon yesterday, and the tight was to le resumed in closer quarters to day, with a prosjx'ct of to-day's light deciding the result, or probably con tinue till to-morrow. It is asserted that had it not been for the acquisition of thc Warm-) Soring Indians the soldiers would have got the worst of it yester day, fiie losses not known when our informant left, but were believed to be light, as the fight had not reached verve-lose quarters, except at one point where the Modocs were driven oti l3' the troops. Whfii ni-rht closed yesterday's righting our troops ir-M. the ground to within thre luiiiur.'d vanis or tie? enemy's strong--st position, and nziiting was to be resumed at seven this morning. It is Impossibl ? to omt; at tlit? Indian loss as yet. Smwaro known to have been killed. Lieutenant Kagan, Company (i, Kighteenth Intantry, who was highly coMiniend'-tl lor his dar ing gallantry, received a flesh wound ol the tnigh ; Sergeant 11. ;id.vanie compa ny, leg severely wounded : Corporal brew, some conipnnv, killed : Corporal Kilbecii, Battery K, Fourth Artilcry, scalp wound; Corporal lielano, same company, "ouml in log; Charl s Johnson, Company I j. First Cavii I rv, killed; V. F. Soar! -s, Company K. First Cavalry, (killed; E. O'Conor, Bat t -rv M. Pnnrth Art ill: -rv. 11 -sh wound of lg": O. IHk,I y. lliit: -ry K, fl sh wound in arm; T. JlcN'amn, flattery K, s vere wouna in thigh; Martin Connor, Company Twohtii Infantry, llesh wound in log; Thomas Bernard, Company K, First Cav nlry, in Fit should. r. Uroat solicitude is felt hr about Pat. McManus, one t h'? tin lejuling merchants of this city, who, while riding his mule too near th'1 r dskins' ambiisti, was wounded, and at last reorts yesterday had not been removed. His inulo was killed. Mr. Meaeham is improving, and com fortable. His wife arrived ironi Salem, Or'gon, iaj.t night, and departed this morning to join him. Mr. Meaeham will recover. Camp Title Lake, April 15. A bat e has been in progress from early tie morning. Our troops aided ,y the Warm Springs Indian allies,' have driven the Modocs from every position into their stronghold, tlie cave in the Liva-bed. nnd at six p. m. the Modocs were nearly surrounded aud the mor tars in position and throwing shells into the Indian camp. But six of our men have U-cn wounded, so far as heard irom, in the day's fi-ht Messrs building Howe &: Stephens are a tug at u'pstivirt will be an excellent and serviceable essei. rne is built for going out i J pver the bar to bring in ships, and ! for all other towing.. The hull will j . be brought up to Portland in a short ' time to recei- e the machinery. XEWS FROM Tilli MODOCS. Jacksonville, April 13. The de tails of the cruel murder of General Canby and Mr. Thomas have increas ed the public excitement. The flags of the town are at half-mast to-day, and there is much apprehension for the safety of the Lake settlers. Gov ernor G rover has been telegraphed to raise a force of three hundred volunteers immediately to protect the frontier. Ykeka, April 13. The excitement here over the news from the front is intense, every one condemning the peace policy" of Secretary Delano. So great was the excitement last night that he was hung in efiigy from a rope stretched across the street. The elligy was placarded " C. Delano, Secretary of the Interior. Thus with the Quaker Indian policy;" at the feet was a long card, with the words " Make peace if it takes all summer C. Delano." The flags are at half mast all over the town. Every one wears sorrowful countenances. At '2:41 p.m. a courier arrived from the front with oilicial dispatches, and also information that the remains of General Canby and Dr. Thomas would arrive in a short time. The streets are ei-owded with people. A procession was organized and march ed out two by two to escort the fu neral cortege into town. At 3:10 p. m. three four-horse" ambulances entered town, followed by about 300 of our citizens. The remains were encased in rough boxes. General Canby's was wrapped in National colors and were taken into the Masonic Hall, where they will be embalmed. They have reached here' in a remarkable good state of preservation. Dr. Thomas was at once placed in a zinc coilin and will be forwarded to San Francisco as soon as possible. The General's Avill remain here until u casket arrives. Captain H.'K. Anderson, General Canby's Aid, came in charge of the remains. Ha left Tule Camp at 12 o'clock, noon, yesterday. The night before he left there was an alarm along the picket line. Colonel Green oame near being killed by the acci dental discharge of a pistol; the ball passed up through the front of his forage rap. Captain Anderson was at Colonel Mason's camp when the attack was made upon the Peace Commission party, and says D. U. Sherwood and lioyle were allured out from the cam) by a white Hag; they went four or live hundred yards, when they met what they supposed were only two Indians, who said thev wanted to talk to the little " tyee,'" Colonel Mason. They were "told that they did not want to taik, and for the Indians to go Back to their camp, and they would return to theirs. As they turned around, the Indians (four in number) tired upon them, wounding Lieutenant Sher wood in the arm and thigh, the latter being a very serious wound, the bone being shattered by the bullet, Cap tain Anderson, who was on duty at the signal station on Hospital rock, saw plainly the attack upon Colonel Mason's front, and telegraphed to General Gillem to notify the Peace Commission immediately. Colonel Piddle, who was at the signal station at General Gillem V headquarters when this message was receive, at once placed his liei.l glass upon Gen eral Canby, as the party sat together about one mile distant. Very soon the whole party scattered, he follow ed the General's course with his glass, while lie ran about fifty yards, threw up his arms and fell backwards dead. Two of the Indians who were following him jumped upon him. One of them believed to be Captain Jack, stabbed him in the neck, and he was completely stripped. Dr. Thomas was also entirely stripped; his purse, containing sixty odd dol lars, was found under his" body, the Indians having dropped it! Mr. Meaeham was shot in three places, one ball entering at the inner corner of his right eye, and another in the side of his head. These are both be lieved to have lodged within his cra nium. The third ball passed through his right fore-arm. He also received a cut in his left arm and a scalp wound five inches in length. He was found about fifty yards from the spot where tlie slaughter began, in a direction opposite to that taken by General Canby. Ho too was en tirely stripped, "and bewildered in mind. The Captain spent an hour with him yesterday morning. He was conscious and had no pain. Meaeham says he thinks he shot Seonchin in the abdomen, and blood was found, indicating that one of the Indians had been wounded. The soldiers who were ready started on the "double-quick" immediately up on the firing of the shots. Thev met Dyar and Kiddle and his wife be fore they were half way to camp. The Indians retired to their retreat, about GOO yards in advance of the soldiers, who followed them half a mile beyond the murder cronnd and there remained until dark, when they were withdrawn,-owing to not being provided with supplies. To day would be spent in closing in up on the red devils, and if a general assault was not made to-day, it cer tainly will be to-morrow. Ykeka, April 11 The remains of General Canby and.. Dr. Thomas have been lying in state in the Masonic Hall all day. They have been visited by nearly the whole population. It is estimated that over one thousand persons Lave passed in and out of the hall. At 12 o'clock the children of the public schools passed in procession by twos, num bering about three hundred. The Collins are wrapped in the National colors, and strewn with wreathes of llowers. An expression of great sor row is visable upon every counte nance. The horrible massacre seems too terrible to think of. General Canby's remains will be forwarded to Portland by this after noon's stage, in charge of the Gen eral's Aid, Captain H. K. Anderson. They will be at Koseburg Wednes day evening, and will lie conveyed from there bv a special train to Port land. Dr. Thomas' remain's leave for Kedding bv private conveyance at 2 o'clock' this afternoon. They can not go by stage, owing to the epizoo tic on the southern end of the road. No courier has arrived from the front up to this hour (2 p.m.), though one is hourly expected, and we have nothing later than last dis natches.i " Ykeka, April 14, J. G. Halleck, who went out as special messenger to rairs -vesterday -with, dipatche1? FURTHER returned this evening, but brought nothing definite from the seat of war. Mr. Ball came in from Van Bremer's just as Mr. Halleck was leaving. There had been no lighting up to the time he left, but ammunition and supplies were being pushed for ward with dispatch, Tlie surgeorrs had extracted four balls from Mr. Meacham's wounds, and he was doing as well as could be expected, but there was little hope of his recovery. There were various rumors a3 to when the attack would be made; some said to-day and some to-morrow. They were doubtless awaiting the arrival of the Warm Springs Indian scouts, who were to be used on the east, be tween the forces of General Gilem and Colonel Mason's command, they, with the Cavalry, making a third line, and all advancing together from the north, south and east, the Lake being on the west. It is be lieved that when the battle is fought it will be a hard one, and as. no quarter will be shown the Indians will tight with terrible desperation. Charles Davis, Deputy Sheriff", ar rived this afternoon in from the east ern part of the county. He reports the Pitt Kiver Indians quiet and peaceable. There are no fears of an outbreak or depredations, but should the Modocs now escape, there will be danger. Every horse iu surprise, Hot Spring and Big Valleys is down with the epizootic, but there are only a few fatal rases. llEADijfAia'Ei'.s Ti'lk Lake, , April 11th, 1873. Lieut, Sherwood, of the Twenty first Infantry, died at 1 o'clock, to day, of wounds received on the 11th inst., while receiving a Hag of truce from tiie Indians. Seventv-twp Warm Spring Indians, under Donald Me Kay, arrived in camp east of the Modoc position last night. The army will close on the ludian's position to-morrow, and endeavor to cut off all escape. No effort will be spared to make the punishment of if possible, no that he or his the Indians severe. Indian shall boast ancestors murdered Gen. Canby. (Signed) Alvax C. Gillem. Ykeka, Cal., April 15. The l'eg ular courier arrived from headquart ers at f o'clock this evening, having, left there at 10 a. m. yesterday. Up to that time there had been no light ing, except a slight skermih on Col. Mason's piclt line on the 12th, re sulting in one dead Indian and the rapture of ten ponies. The Warm Spring scouts arrived on tlie 13th. They would be armed yesteivlay, and beyond a doubt the troops moved in to the. lava bed last night or to day. Yesterday morning, while the sig nal oiiieers were engaged Between Gen. Gillem' s headquarters and Col. Mason's camp, a Modoc got upon a ridge near Jack's cave with a white rag on a pole, and imitated the move ments of the signal 'officers, waving it to and fro. Lieut. W. L. Sherwood died at one o'clock yesterday morning from wounds received while ofiircr of the day. receiving a Hag of truce. Mr. Meacham's condition is more hoi f 111. Mr. Dvar, tlie eomm isi.:ier who was unhurt, telegraphs to Washing ton for instructions, saying it is use less to try longer for peace with those Indians. There is no doubt but the Modocs exported to get Gil lem and Col. Mason. Gen. Gillem expected tr; have boon present at the council hut u the morning of the massacre was too indisposed to leave his tent. It is now stated that both Generals Canby, Gillem and the Commissioners talked about Kiddle's warning, and came to the conclusion ruse of Kiddle's that it was otilv a to delay negotiations. It is also stat ed that thev ad not the most confi dence m J addles veracity. But on this occasion it seems he was right in his supposition The surgeons report Mr. Meacham's wounds to be a gunshot wound of the right forearm, a gunshot wound of the left index linger, also one of the right ear, a lacerated wound of the-forehead and nose, and the wound of the scalp, six inches in length, caused by an attempt to seal) him. Fanaticism. Fanaticism seems to have taken possession of the people of certain States as is indicated by the passage by the Senate of Michi gan a bill making of it a crime for any Catholic priest or bishop to pro nounce or publish a sentence of ex communication upon anybody in that State; but we take it for granted that the Assembly will reject it. The adoption of such a statute would have a pernicious effect through the Union. The government should let everybody choose his own church, and every church choose its own members. The expulsion of a Ma son from his lodge, the dismissal of a clerk from a kank, and the refusal of children dressed in velvet to play with children dressed in calico might just as well be made occasions for the interference of the State, as the admission or expulsion of church members. The State has had too much to do with the church. Does it Fit? We mentioned last week that a certain member in the last Legislature from this county, had recieved a surveying contract and. also stated that it was in considera tion of his vote for Mitchell. There were three Kadical members from this county, but one of them, who resides not a thousand miles from this city, eagerly took it to mean him, and has been very active during the past week in denying the charge. We have not heard that the other two have made any denial of the matter. All we have to say is, that the facts as stated, came to us from what we regard good authority. The conclu sions in the premises are our own. Now the matter is very plain. Had there been no truth in the charge as made by us, said member would not have been so eager to deny it, and certainly would have done as the others did, let it alone, until he was designated as the identical individual. We have this to say, if the boot fits the said member, he is at liberty to wear it. From the fuss he lias made since our last issue, it evidently fits him pretty wtlL Summary of State Xews Items Koseburg is said to have a popula tion of four hundred. J. G. Wilson, M. C, will return to Oregon about the first of July. Umpqua farmers have lost man cows this spring from poison herbs. The Forest Grove Intlvpeuilenl now publishes litigant notices for Wash ington county. Fares and freights have been re duced on the railroad from, Kose burg to Portland. The Springfield mill Company, of Lane county, will fatten eight hun dred hogs for market next fall. The Oregon Central Kail road Co. paid taxes in Washington county last week, amounting to 1,000. Tlie last two steamships leaving for California, took away nearly 30, 500 dozen eggs, valued at $7,000. James Maxey, a former resident of Umpqua valley, in this State, died suddenly in San Francisco on the 3d inst. The Mount Hood jiostolTice has been re-established at Tygh Valley, with Mr. Hollingsworth as postmas ter. Douglas county is estimated to have 200,000 sheep from which will le sheared this year 800,000 pounds of wool. Mr. Stergill will race his mare against Flannagan's horse for SI 000 a side, over the Baker City track, May 11th. Salem returns $2,210,098 of assess able property and debts amounting to Sl,0."-i,80(j. " This is a prodigious indebtedness. Surveyor General Odell has sent to the Commissioner of the General Land Oflice his report on the swamp land question. Owing to the severe illness of Judge A7 J. Thaver of the 2nd Judi cial' District, Judge P. P. Prim will take his place. W. W. Piper, architect, of Tort land, is engaged in drawing a plan for the State University to be erected at Eugene City. Sheriff Poindcxter of Lane county conveyed an insane man named Kieh ardson to the asylum at East Portland on Wednesday. We learn that the railroad rases at Albanv were all decided against the subscribers. They w ill take them to the higher courts. A sturgeon was caught in the Col- umbia last week, throe miles below the Dalles. which weighed two hun- dred and fifty pounds. On Friday last K-v. J. C. Allyn of Yamhill county, was thrown from a horse and severely injured, having his collar bone broken. T 1 he loneer Oil ix s: Mills at Salem have received s f tin ( La:: seed from Indiana which will bo dis tributed among the farmers. Twenty thousand eight hundred and twenty two children attended school in Oregon in 1870. aceordiii" to the census report just out. A reduction of from twenty-live to fifty cents at each station has been made on passenger tariffs by the Or egon Central Kallroad Company. Trof. Kobb of McMinnville college has been appointed County Super intendent f Schools in Yamhill county, vice H. II. Hewitt, resigned. Circuit Court for Linn county af ter br-infr in session for two weeks and a half, adjourned last Wednes day. This is the longest term ever known in Linn On the night of the 0th, two horses were stolen from tlie farms of J. H. Ilichey and P. Howell, near Weston. Adams brothers lost a saddle and bridle tlie same night Arrangements are being made by which grain will be carried from Kosebui'fr, Oakland, and other points in the Umpqua valley to Portland, for seven dollars a ton Tlie horses of .the Northwestern Stage Co.. at Baker City, and along the entire lino to Boise City, took the ''epizooty" a week ago, causing some delay in running tlie stages. The City Council rf Portland and the various military companies held meetings Monday to express their re grets for the death of Gen. Canby, and to prepare for receiving his re mains. A Keform School Incorporation was organized at Portland last Satur day, with eighteen incorporators, and fifteen trustees. Henry Failing is Ghairman of the Board and J. K. Gill, Secretary. The Corvallis Gazette of last Satur- .i ......... ttiA . . j i i t i i -T 7 a- VV i ' a . i President Arnold has had the stu- ! dents out in full force, sowing wheat and oats received from the Depart ment of Agriculture." The State Journal says: We regret to learn that Mr. Jno. Brat tain of Baker City, formerly a resident of this county, is still" confined to his house from the breaking of his leg ! some time last fall. Mr. K. V. Howard of Long Tom, Lane county, claims to be the first man in the State to introduce steam threshing in Oregon. His machine is capable of threshing 1,000 bushels a day on an average. Two hiprh-toned Chinamen were booked at the St. Charles, at Albany last Tuesday, and one of them stated that in about three weeks he would bring up from Portland 150 Celestials to work on the Santiam canal. Mrs. A. B. Meaeham left for Jack sonville last Sunday to see her bus- nana, n nia wounds aro oi such a nature that removal is impossible j she will remain at headquarters with j the wounded husband and father. j People who live at the foot hills of j the Cascade range complain that since the game law went into force i the deer and elk tramp up their gar- j r their elother from the ! dens and tear fine in tlie banc yards. They can't bother at this thing much longer. It is stated that, in consequence of the surveying meiaVr from this county having "blowed" on himself, the Surveyor General may be deter ed from confirming the contract which he was awarded. He had bet ter taken .-?1,500 coin for his vote than a $5,000 surveying contract and bother with the chances of selling it Telejrraphlc News Summary. New Haven-, April 9. A terrible accident occurred this afternoon at Middletown, about four o'clock. The nearly completed brick building o known as Shepard block fell in, bury- o ing fifteen men. Six bodies have been recovered up to the present time. New Yokk, April 10. The insur ancc on Horace Greeley's life of $10,000 has been collected. Tho policy is the largest paid into tho last decade. A commotion has been created in Wall street by the announcement that the grand jury has summoned several leading bankers wlio are in dined to tell all they know abott cliques formed and forming and h give tne names oi usuit-i. The Albany correspondent gives tlie following as a list of Sen ators who last year received $5,000 each for voting against the pro rata freight bill, as brought out in tho Erie investigation: George Bowen, Laren L. Lewis, Wm. B. Woodin, Norman M. Allen, Gabriel T. nar rower, and Jas. Wood. . . .... Paris letters say tnat oi twenty million francs subscribed in Franco for the construction of the imagin ary Memphis and El Paso Railroad, eighteen and a half millions went into the pockets of those engineering the scheme. The remainder was used to make extravagant contracts,, that the sale of bonds might be fur thcr stimulated. PiTTsnuKG, April 0. At McKeys port, Pennsylvania, this afternoon, three bridge trestles, supporting seventy feet of the national Tube Works, gave way, breaking a gas Conductor leading from the gas pro ducer to the nited and the furnaces. The fras ir- entire mill buildiiif-. one of tne largest kind, was imme diately wrapped in flames. Two hundred men were at w ork under the. roof when the trestle gave way. Fortunately part of the wall fell in such a manner that the nen who able to pass under it, protected from the sea of flames. But one life was lost. Washington, April 0. The attor neys f the Central Pacific Railroad Co. served a motion to dismiss tho appeal taken by that corporation to the United States Supreme Court, that said State has the right to tar the road and other property of tho company. The decision of the Cal ifornia Courfc will therefore stand. Aspixwal, via Havana, April 10. The city of San Salvador, Central America, has been destroyed by an earthquake. Eight hundred persons lerished and $12,000,000 worth f proj erty was destroyed. The earth quake was followed ly a conflagra tion and many buildings wen1 burned. For a few days previous slight shocks of earthquake, luul occurred frequent ly, but no serious apprehensions were entertained. On tiie afternoon f the 1th instant, almost without warning, a great pari of the city was reduced to little more than ruins. Tito ground heaved like a ship in a d. a term tie thunoering burst fi't-m under, the foot walls tottered and were rent in many places with wide ere ices and roof sank to the ground. Three violent shocks fol lowed in succession. Servants com menced to scream piteous y and could hot be pacified; wild birds llew to the houses; horses grew fran tic in the stubles; do.ns howled and slunk into houses for protection. Every few minutes shakings of los violence occurred. The scene beg gars description. Kuined houses; the panic-stricken people men, women and children tied to the fields with valuables hastily collect ed; then the ringing of the alarm bells and beating of drums railing all soldiers under arms, for in San Salvador murder and illage accom pany the confusion of great eaith quakes and the frightened citizens leave the town and the Indians from 'tlu1 forests prowl into it for prey art only checked by the bayonets of Government troops, which are post ed in squads at short distances all over the city. Thomas Jackson of Rhode Island retained by the Attorney-General to assist in the prosecution agatnst the Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific. It is proposed to prepare a bill in equity in which the Government, as creditor, will seek first to compel the stockholders to pay into the treasury of the corporation the par value of full-paid stock, as requiietl by the charter, but which was issued for much less; secondly, to compel the Credit Mobilier stock-holders to restore to the company treasury their illegal and inordinate profits, which have endangered the credit of tho Government loan to the road. Ni:w Yokk, April 12. Three men to-night attacked Charles Schell of No. 151 West Forty-second street, in the store at Sixtv-second street and Tenth avenue, and cut his throat from nA, i .,. .,i Following are the Pacific coast postal chances ordered during tho past week: post-oltie.es established Bel!".-- station, Santa Clara countv, L. Bell, Postnve-ter; Mitchell, Ww co county, Oregon, W. Johnson, Postmaster: Indian vallev, Union countv, Oregon, John W. White, I i'osima sier; xsianu , eiuun i I . 11 T county. Oregon, Marsh B. Malory, Postmaster: Walla Walla, Unions county, Oregon. John Snodgrass, Postmaster; Wallos Prairie, Stevens, rountv. Washington Territory, Guy j Haines, Postmaster; Crab creek Stevens county, Washington Terri- tory, K. M. Bacon, Postmaster; I Ellenshurgh, Yakima county, Wash ! ington Territory, John A. Shouldy ' Postmaster. Names changed Klam ath, Jackson oounty, Oregon, to Lakeport. Discontinued Tanenmr Yakima county, Washington Terri tory. Appointed Postmasters Vir ginia City, Storey count v, Nevada,, D. A. Disken; Buel, Elko county, Nevada. Davis Bassett. At the annual meeting of the stock holders in the Oregon and California lhiilroad Company on the 8th inst., ie Board Directors were re-elect- ed for the ensuintr Tear, as follows:. Dr. J. C Hawthorne, H. C. Lewis, Medorem Crawford. I. K. Moores, Geo. W. Weidler, W. L. Halsey and Ben. Holladay. The Directors meet next month. , o The election on Monday for citv officers, of Eugene City, resulted a follows: President of the Council, ,loel Ware; Recorder, T. J. Holland; Marshal, Richard Rush: Treasurer, Mark Stevens; Councilmen, J. R. j Ream, H. F. Stratton Win. Osborn. O G O G O O o O o o o 3 o O r-- O e O o o O o J o 7 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, nTrTtL'-CT T'V r t Tcnm.TT