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CONTENTS:
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FIENDISH MASSACRE.
ten fan by With the Peace Commis-
sion Meet the Modoc* Under a Flag
of Truce -In the Midst of the Parley
l apt. Jacls Shoot* Gen Canby Pead-
M ibis signal the lied Fiend* Mur
der. lu fold Blood, the Best of the
fwimilisloners-The Interpreters Es
rspe-ofllolal Order Announcing to
liic.lnuy the Death of Gen. Cauby-
oiher Indian Outrages—The Apaches
Turder Three/Men, but are Pursued
b) Troops and Over One Hundred
Warriors Killed
Lava. Bed. April 11, via Yreka. April
—Yesterday afternoon five Indians and
.r squaws came into our camp, and
*-re made presents of clothing and pro
v; ns bv the Peace Commissioner, and
r..-‘>s.ige was sent out by Commit
er asking for a talk this morning at a
About a mile from the picket line,
in the evening Bogus Charley came
■dd the picket that he could take his
that; In) (Charley) d id not intend'to
n'k any more. The picket brought
a and in->k liira to the tent of Gen
'nibr, where Charley left his gun,
named at the tent of Private Rid
vrz the night. This morning Bos
airh y cameein and told the Com
ner- that Captain Jack and five
Indians w )ti!d meet the Commis
r- ;j’,d our lines. Boston Char
■'i 11 'gus, Charley then mounted a
;in■ 1 started for the Lava Bed.
■ ‘ an hour after their departure Can
dr Timnias, Mr. A. B, Meacham and
dy. r, w ith Frank Kiddle -and his
T • 'r interpreters, started for the
d poiated. The party arrived at
dd 1 -tired place, and were closely
■« i hy the signal officer, Lieutenant
- ir>-:n the .signal station on the hill
- our camp. About half an
d’er ’he party bad arrived the sig
leard, saying that the' In
a” tr kcj the Peace Commis-
. :
■r - .v
'• ■ that an encasement had com
'■ < an tin- Indians and Col. Ma
a i>. the troops were under
■ ;• ployed as skirmishers under
: f Col. Greene, and orders
Grwird double .quirk. Very
'■ ’ r Mr. Dyer relumed, and told
r ’o i:_ T iit he was the only one
i ; hut in a few moments
* - -quaw was seen entering
’.c From him \re gathered
:i ~ ieulars of how the mass*
: ‘ ; nenre i
1 Um 1;i; made a short speech to
.’ owed by General Canby,
1 -C: Tn >ma>. Then Capt, Jack
1 'D' Ca a.-kmg for Hot Creek and
■' ’ t! * f * p! ices row occupied by
Oivis, for reservation.
‘"■>i Jack that it was not
- lv *‘ him what lit* asked.
-M-acham &&sav no more
. V
oa, uad said enough upon
• • while Schonchin was
L ■' ick got up and walk
■’hers and turned back and
. r< ‘sdy,” drew his pistol
fI P a;. G mural Can by;
• • • ■ . «'*♦ » • » t ‘■VA
*•• . . • r-* -» •• ■ »'■* j
T?XJBLIBICEI> EVERY tshߣS9SSff%
cocked his; plstolagain attf i{d Geni 1
Canby feU dead, shot under tbf right eye.
Schochin then shot Meacham in the bead
and shnalder, but he is still alive. Bos
ton Charley and another Indian shot and
hilled Dr. Tbomns. Hookey Jim chased
Dyer forsomedl9tance,bul> Dyer: turned
upon' him with pistol in' hand and Jim
ran. An Indian knocked down Jim Rid*
dle> squaw and took her horse, but Capt.
Jack made him return and then'anoth
er Indian chased Riddle and shot at him.
The troops are now about a mile in the
Lava Beds lying on their.arms. and will
probably advance to-night under cover of
darkness. There are about six hundred
tr oops,.wbich can be brought into active!
service, aud it is believed they will end
the Modoc War.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT. **
New York, April 13.— The following is
a portion of the Herald special about the
massacre
Commissioners, dated Lava Beds, April
1.1,3 p.m.
; Between ten and, eleven o’clock this
morning the Peace Commission party com
prising of Gen. Canby, A. B. Meacbam,
Dr. Thomas, Mr. Dyer, Riddle, the Inter
preter and squaw, and Bogus Charley and
Boston Charley, went ont to the designa
ted spot. There they met Captain Jack,
John Schonchin, Black Jim, Bhack f Nasty
Jim, Ellen’s Man and Hawker Jim. They
had no guns with them, but e&ck carried
’a pistol at hia belt. This, however, was
hot much noticed, as in previous Inter
views they had had their guns with them.
They sal down in a kind of broken circle
and Gen. Canby, Meacham and Dr.
Thomas sat together, faced by Capt. Jack
and Scbonchin. Dyer stood by Jack
holding hia horse, with Hawker Jim and
Shack Nasty Jim to bis left. Meacham
opened the talk and gave a long history
of what they wanted to do for them, after
which Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas both
talked for some time. Capt. Jack then
talked in an apparently good, serious
strain, and when he finished stepped back
to the rear near where Meacham’s
was hitched.' John Schonchin then
to talk, and while he was speaking Dyer
heard a cap miss fire, and looking around
saw Capt. Jack to his left with his pistol
pointed at Gen. Canby. This was the sig
nal for a general massacre, and a dozen
shots were fired inside of half a minute.
Capt. Jack fired again on Gen. Canby,
aud the noble old gentleman ran off to
the left, but was speedily sjint down and
killed instantly. Meacham was shot at by
j Schonchin and wounded in the head. He
j tried to draw his Derringer, when two
j Indians ran up and knocked him down.
' Mr. Thomas was killed almost instantly
by two pistol shots in the head. Riddle
ran off and it appears they did not fire at
him, but they knocked his squaw down.
Dyer Riddle and the squaw returned in
safety to the camp. About a hundred
: yards to tho west of the place of meeting
was found A. B. Meacham, badly wound
ed, with a pistol shot over the left eye.
Fifty yards further on was the body of
Dr. Thomas lying on his face acd stripped
to the waist. Life was extinct from pis
tol shot wounds in the head. The body
of Gen. Canby was stripped of every ves
1 lige of clothing and lay about one hun
! dredyards to the southward, with two
' pistol shot wounds in the head.
Anutber Indian massacre.
San Francisco, April 12.—0 a the lllh
of March Gus. Swain .John McDonald and
Geo. Taylor were murdered by a large
band of Apache savages, who were pur
sued by the troops and seventj-nine war
riors killed and twenty-six women and
children taken prisoners. The troops
were under command of Lieut. Rice, and
are now at Fort Whipple, They follow
ed the trail of the Apaches and learned
that Taylor had been captured alive and
subjected to the most horrible tortures.
Capt. Randall reports an engagement
with Apaches, in which he killed forty
seven warriors and captured seventy wo-
men
Washikgtos, April 13. —The terrible
news of the treacherous assassination of
Brigadier Gen. Ganby, by the Modoc
Chief, and the intelligence received at the
same time of the murders committed by
the Apaches cause a profound feeling of
grief and indignation, which finds expres
sion in all quarters, particularly in the
array where General Canbv was held in
great esteem and affection, with utter
ances of an earnest desire for the exter
mination of these savages. This feeling oj
indignation has taken the place of all ideas
whatever of peace and the slightest con
sideration cannot be given to an}' other
proposition than that to move at once to
the,severest punishment of the Modocs.
The following is the dispatch received
at the office of the Adjutant General of
the Army.
BEAVE&
Sherman t
The foUowtag wport ofth# %
tretchery tnd maraer has Ja#^ t
ceired. I luurelelegrapbed
lem to let tUepUQlshaieat of
be as severe i*tWttrft»chery b*t merit-
Majbf G^tietatT^mmanilag.
A. copx.«»t
ant Adjutant Ctenctal.
Department Calif orrifofrom Modoc expedi
tion! T ' r -•- '- u 'aTifo'?*-'**-'- *•
. Gen. Canby with the Pease Gommis*
aionera went ta, meet f tfaa
one mile In IrohUof tie
morning. At 1:30 p. m., the signatofflcer
whom X ha(L hatching the Cf. qferepogg J 9
potted drfng. Upon reaching" place
of meeting I found that Gen. Cenby ’load
Dr. Thopaa had beenk ilted.apd
wounded. The other Commissioner, Dyer,
escaped unhurt. I shall at once com*
mence active operations against the In*
diana.
, [Signed,! v Alvin .
i Col. StevSnth Cavalry Commanding. '
Dated at camp, south of Tulle Lake,
April 111h...> z: : > ;-.ur \o iio
i Similar official reports wen also nceiy?
ed by the Assistant Adjutant General*
D. Whipple, at the
and by Assistant Adjutant Genera), H.
Cloy Wood, at Portland. ;pjf€gph, where
he has been advised by Cotonei Giliem of
the tragedy. The information was com*
to theJPre#UV£ t>Vh latethdor
last night by Adjutant General Town*
send, and General Sherman was also ep*
prised at a late hour of the occurrence.^
The feeling of the President and the
General at the sudden announcement
were of the most intense sorrow and in
dignation, and there was not an instant’s
hesitancy that the Modocs shall be made
to suffer to the severest extent for the
crime. It is now evident that the act was
long premeditated, and this fact, added to
to4he dieep sense ,pf wrath that the,mas %
%as'do.
reservedly expressed his sanction of the
severest measures now necessary to prop
erly punished the Modocs, and his views
in this respect have been fully stated to the
authorities.
Acting under the War Department
General Sherman has telegraphed to Gen
eral Scofield to move his entire force at
once upon" the Indians. General Sher
man has also prepared the following or
der, announcing tbfe death of General
Canby, which will be promulgated to
morrow: r--
Headquabters of the Army, 1
Washington, April 12,1373. f <•
[GcneralOrdor No. 3.J
It again becomes the 1 sad duly of the
General to announce to the army of the
death of one of our most illustrious and
most honored comrade. Brigadier General
Edward R. S. Canby, commanding the
department of Columbia, was, on Friday
last, April 11, shot dead by Chief Jack,
while he was endeavoring to mediate for
the removal of the Modocs from their
present rocky fastness on the northern
border of California to the reservation
where the tribe could be maintained and
protected by the civil agents of the Gov
eminent.
That such a life should have been sac
rificed in such a cause will ever be a
source of regret to his relations and
friends. Yet the general trusts that all
good soldiers will be consoled, knowing
that Gen Canby lost bis life on duty and
iu the execution of his office, for he had
been especially chosen and appointed for
this delicate and dangerous trust by reason
of his well known patience and forbear
ance, his entire self-abnegation and fideli
ty to the expressed wishes of his G >vern
ment, and his large exp'erience in dealing
with the savage Indians of America. He
had already completed the necessary
military preparations to enforce obedience
to the conclusions of the Commis
sioners, after which he seemed to have
accompanied them to the last conference
with the savage chiefs in supposed
friendly council, and there met his
death by treachery outside his military
lines, but within view of the signal sta
tion. "
At the same time one of the Peach Com
missioners was killed outright and another
mortally wounded, and a third escaped
unhurt. Thus perished-one of the kindest
and best gentlemen of this or any other
country, whose social equalled his milita
ry virtues. To even sketch his army
history would pass the limits of the gen
eral order, and it must here suffice to state
that General Canby began his military
career as a cadet at West Point in the
summer of 1833, graduating in 1839 j since
which time he has continuously served
ZrOrWO per
V APRIL 18.1873.
years, passing through alllhe
ajor General of volunteers and
mera! of the regular army,
'his early life with markeddis
;heFlorida and Mexican wars»
inbreak of the civil war found
jju.Mew Mexico, where, after
i ? pf bis senior, he remained
.and defended the" country
igaliist a formidable inroad
ection of Texas. _ Afterwards
to the east to a more active
iit Sphere, he exercised the
commands, and at the close
war was in chief command of
division west of the Mississip
ihe had received a painful
. had the honor to capture
hpmpel the surrender of the
of the Southwest.
.close of the war he has repeat-
tyosen foi; by
' superior knowledge of law
’Ctnroeni; btakqown fideli
isbes of theexecnllve and bis
levaliomto' bis profession, in
ih ilia success was perfect,
by long andlaborious ca
voluntarily consented to
aiand of the, department of
where be expected to enjoy
coveted. This SIo-
winter end it
■dy desirous to end it by
it seemed almost provi
should baVe occurred with
of General Canby’s com
•esponded to the call of bis
, with alacity,* and has labor
idtience that deserved better
(t alas, the end is different
hich heand his beat friends
for, and be now lies 'a corpse
mountains ofCalifornia, while
flashes his requiem to the
corner of the civilized world,
Thov .uead, the record of his fame is
resplenjfent with noble deeds well done,
and oVßfrme on our army register stands
lalirer Whighcr for personal qualities,
the; universal respect, hon*
General Canby leaves to bis country a
heartbroken Widow, bat no children.
Every honor consistent with law -and
usage shall be paid his remains, Full no
tice of which will be given as soon as his
family can be consulted and arrangements
concluded.
By order General Sherman,
W. D. Whipple,
Adjutant General.
Many personal friends and old associ
ates of the d istingaisbed deceased ca lied
at the War Department to day, though
the offices were not open to the public,
for official confirmation and the particu
lars of the painful stofy. The Officers of
the army on duty here, including those
holding official positions on General Sher
man’s staff, were appealed to, : both at
their houses and on the street, by anxious
friends of the Modoc victims to know if
there could be the slightest hope that the
tale of the savage treachery was less ter
rible than had been recounted.
General Sherman has been in confer
ence with the President to-night upon
the questions arising, or likely to arise,
from this change in the scenes of the
Modoc war; but upon the policy to be
pursued which is nothing less than already
indicated in this dispatch, namely, that
of a complete and enduring punishment
by the troops of this’government of the
heartless race which has proven how
thoroughly harsh the treatment is now
deserved by them.
From the Washington dispatches of
the 14th we learn the following additional
news concerning the Modocs.- The an
nouncement of the murder of Genera)
Canby and Dr. Thomas, ami mortally
i wounding of Mr. Meacham, of t,he Peace
( Commission, by-the Modoc Indians, while
| holding a council with Captain Jack and
. other chiefs, was at first not believed by
mhe Cabinet officers, but the detailed state
meat of the incidents of the sad occurrence
which soon followed convinced them of
Us truth. General Canby was so, well
known, not only to the army, in which
bo was considered one of the most merito
rious officers, but algo personally to many
of the citizens of Washington, where he
bad at different periods of his military
life been stationed, that bis death will
here be very generally regretted.
Mr. Meacham is a prominent citizen in
Oregon, an intimate personal and
political friend of Attorney General
Williams, at whose suggestion be was ap
pointed one of the Peace Commissioner?
to visit the Modocs, and see if some ar
rangement could not be made by which
a war with this band could be averted.
He was for several year's, and until re
cently, Superintendent of Indian Afeirs
for Oregon. It appears that the appoint-
raent, though made with the best of in
tentions, was an unfortunate one, as the
Indians were particularly incensed against
him, looking upon him as the originator
and cause of their removal from their old
homes to the reservation from which they
fled. It will be seen by the : report that
when Meacbam said they coaid not re
main In the region where they are at
present, the Indians said that' ended all
talk, and then Captain Jack, walking be
hind General Canby, shot him 4 dead, the
other Indians killing Dr. Thomas and
mortally wounding Meacbam.
General Canby, from the tone of his dis
patches to the War Deparment, appears
never from the first to have had the
slightest confidence in the success of the
attempted peace negotiations. Though a
very humane man, desirous of avoiding
bloodshed if possible, from this thorough
knowledge of Indian character, gained by
long service on the frontier, he was con
vinced that the Indians would come to no
terms unless they were dictated by them
selves, principal among which was not
only protection for the murders they had
committed, but also a reservation secured
to them in the region from which they
had been previously removed, and which
would of necessity dispossess certain of
the white settlers.
TN ADVANCE.
BBATKB ACADEMY.
Beaver, Pa., April 3, 1873.
Mr. Editor: Believing as we do, that
your paper ia interested in the good and
wellbeing of this community, we send
you this communication.
We are glad to learn that the people of
Beaver are at last trying to find out why
the Academy has been stopped so long,
and whether or not the Trustees elect
have been doing their duty, or violating
their oath of office, with which they have
been charged. We may be permitted at
this stage of the case, with the rest of
mankind, td give our view of the matter. |
In passing the Academy grounds, not
many days since, we were induced by cu
’ riosity to climb the fence, finding the
gates at both ends of the lot nailed last,
m order"the better .count
the panes of glass broken, when behold,
one missile had apparently not only bro
ken the glass, but had also made a hole
in a valuable globe standing ou a nicely
varnished table inside the room. Our
motive is to call the attention of the Trus
tees as well as the citizens to the fact that
the building is doing no good nor gaining
anything the way it how stands. We
think it not wise for the citizens of this
place to submit to be dnuued from day to
day for money to erect new school build
ings, and let this one go to loss in such a
manner. True this building is not ex
tensive, but it is all we have to show for
the beautiful National building, which
was sold by the Trustees on the pretext
of its being to large, just as if they could
not have rented out some of the rooms,
and students often do reqt rooms for self
hoarding, but we will scarcely find now
any one to dispute the fact that the Na
tional building is worth twice as much
as the Academy, and just the one the
Trustees should have.
There is an old English proverb which
says; "‘Money makes the mare go,”
and yet we have hundreds of dollars com
ing in every year to make our Academy
go, but it don’t go. Can this be any fault
or mismanagement on the part of-lhe
Trustees, or are the citizens to b-lame ?
Might we not expect a different result
if the majority of the Trustees were pro
perty holders ot this town? And, fur
thermore, could we not find men enough
in town to act as Trustees bf the Acade
my without taking those who are -acting
in that capacity for other institutions
Seminary' or College? It is said if
equal forces draw a body in opposite di
rections at the same time it will remain
stationary, or at a stand still. Now we
rather incline to think this is the way
with our Academy,some working in the
interest of one school and some pulling for
another. Lately it was noised abroad that
the Academy bell was taken away and
found down on the river bank. All honor
we say 1 to the one by whom it was recap
tured, fib l possibly it was only borrowed,
as we understand some of the apparatus
has been. Now this apparatus was pur
chased for Beaver Academy it is supposed,
and if the Trustees cannot be prevailed
upon to take care of it for the Academy,
should we not employ some one else.
We learn frog those who are judges in
such that a telegcope belonging
to the Academy is as good as any in
Western Pennsylvania, but at the present
time needing two or three dollars worth
of repairs. One of the air pumps too, is
said to-jhe an excellent one of the kind.
We think, Mr. Editor, if you could
publish the whole or part of the charter
of our Academy as well as the oath of
NUMBER 16
office taken by the Trustees, it would be
eagerly scanned by the people. We are
aware of the fact that there is no salary
connected with the office of Trustee of
Acdaemy, and are sorry it Is so, but is this
any reason why the board should call a
meeting two or three times before they
can get a quorum ? We would suggest
the idea of getting a bill passed bjr the
Legislature providing that the county
Commissioners act as part of the Hoard
of Trustees, in connection with their
other duties, for surely three men com
petent to superintend the affairs of a
county, would make good Trustees. Since
the death of the late Rer. Mr. Lowary:, ■
not one of the remaining Trustees is a
resident of Beaver, the place where the
Academy is located, and the place where
citizens would take as much, if not more;'
interest in seeing thto institution prosper
than those of any other locality or neigh
borhood. Could we find one or more citi
zens of this place, or old students of Bea
ver Academy with phiJaolhropby enough
to make up ten thousand dollars for the
National building and.-present it to the
Academy, we think it would be just what
is needed. There seem to be persons id
Beaver who think the Board of Trustees
have not had a meeting for a year, how
true this may be, wC are not prepared to
say, but we do say gentlemen Is it not
pretty near time.to have a meeting and
tell us what you are doing aud what you
propose to do about it.
BLOODSHED KN LOUISIANA,
Serious Conflict Between Whites an<*
Blacks at Colftex-One Rnndrofl Ne
groes Reported Killed.
New Orleans, April 15.— The sleana- j
boat Southwestern, which arrived ai
about 1:30 o’clock this evening, brings '■*’
stirring and important news from Grant? '
parish. The whites have retaken Colfax
and there is not a negro to be found for
miles around. From passengers on the
Southwestern we gleam the following:
The had strongly entrenched
themselves in the CounHouse,ami built
breastwoxka .lhrae. and four feet high.
There were, it is said about four hundred
men armed and equipped thoroughly.
On Sunday at about twelve o’clock about
one hundred and fifty white men, who
had gathered from the surrounding par
ishes, made an attack on the breastworks,
and a brisk fight was kept up until some
where near three o’clock. The breast
works were then stormed and captured,
the negroes taking refuge in the C?urt
House. The doors were barricaded, and
after further fighting, the negroes threw
out a flag of truce, and several detach
ments of men advanced on It, when they
were fired on by the besieged party,
wounding several, one of whom was Cap
tain Hadnot, who was shot in the bowels,
and, it is feared, fatally wounded. They
retreated on the outside of the breast
works, and as the Only means of dislodg
ing the negroes, the Court House was set
on fire, and they were shot as they came
f.orn the burning building. It is reported
that between eighty and one hundred
negroes were killed, and there were none
to be found for miles around.
The captain of the Southwestern makes
the following statement :
We arrived at Colfax on Sunday evening
about eight o clock, and found that the
white people, the Sheriff I suppose at
their head, had captured the town, after
having had a conflict with the negroes.
It was reported to me that about one
hundred negroes had been killed and
many others wounded. We saw from the
boat eighteen or twenty lying around ca
the tanks dead. One white man was
reported killed, whose name I did not
learn, and two very seriously wounded,
Messrs. Hidnot and Harris. Mr. Harris
was shot through the bowels, and it is
supposed that he is mortally wounded.
We brought Messrs. Hirris and Hadnot
down from Colfax to Alexandria. Three
or four others, white men, were slightly
wounded. About one hundred negroes
escaped, but it was reported that the
whites were still pursuing them. All of
the leaders of the riot escaped, especially
the white men. Thejnegroes ambuscaded
themselves in the Court House, and the
whites, finding that no other
mode of attack left them, set fire to the
building. The whites numbered in the
neighborhood of one hundred and fifty
men. The fight lasted from about 12 a.m.
until nearly 5 p. whites are now
in posession of Colfax, and when I left,
late last Sunday night, everything was
very duiet.— Pittsburgh Comrn-'.rciiL
A POST OFFICE was established at James
town, Virginia, last weelt, ! for the first
lime, although) Jamestown was the first
place permanently settled on this coaL —
hent.
t
Two Citizens,