JlwmiQW. f.oteitm 1 . 0; A BLIBLE, P/V* TBVJtSDAY, APItIT, S 4, 1873. HEWS IN BRIEF. 'l»we6d is in Portland, Mo. —Alexis is nt Hong Kong, China. -Coin In tho Treasury, 570.111.150. —California Cbtuamou eal crows. —Early potatoes are plenty In Arkansas. —Tho yellow l*ovor is abating In Bio Janeiro. —Jackaouport, Arkansas, la flooded four feet deop. . —Tho qvmrrymau’s strike In Belgium bos ended. —Eplzooty has loft Mexico, after killing many horses. . —Blackberries are plentiful In Jacksonville, Florida. —Grasshoppers are conducting mining opera' lions In Texas, —Tho First National Bank of Toledo has been robbed of $25,000, . -Heavy and killing frosts are reported throughout Texas. • —Many companies of*U, S. Cavalry are mov tng.to the frontier. —George Colo was lined ?50, in New York, for adulterating milk. —Chicago sent one thousand dollars to the Atlantic sufferers. —Robbers of the corpses from tho Atlantic will will be prosecuted; —A heavy gale at Wheeling, last week, dam aged roofs and buildings. —lllinois pays her Supremo’Judges 55.000. and her District Judges S7,OO‘X —Tho largo dry goods importing house of Es ther & Co.. New York, has failed. —Urooklyu, lowa, has a nine-year oldtblef, who was educated on dime novels. -An organ factory cm Wortham street. Bos ton, tins been burned, iioss, 675,00 J, -Two thousand and fitly immigrants arrived nl New York on Tuesday of last week. -Dr. s. Tyler, a son of ex-Presldent Tyler, lee i tires on temperance in San Francisco. -A. collision near llllwakeo, recently, throw Oira car and injured 11 persons, 2 fatally. —Johu McDermott killed Ills wife mu Sunday , of last .week, In New York, with a hammer. v-The insurance on the life of Ilornce Gree ley, to tho amount of 5100,000, has been paid. . —llrlgham Y'ouug has resigned the presidency of Iho Ulah Central and Southern railroad. —An alarming outbreak of yellow fever has oecufrcd among the shipping at Rio Janeiro. —A boy aged afteon was nearly killed with an ■ axe, In Caudla, N. H., by a sleep-walking bed fellow. U-Mtchnol Kane killed his brother John (not Abel) In "Washington with a butcher knife, and escaped. . —The Arkansas House passed a bln making the pay of all teachers the same without regard to sex. . . —Keeuen, cashier of tho City Savings Bank,of Hoboken, N. J., lias abscounded with 530.000 of the funds. —Robert Pierce, near Utica, N. V., murdered Uls Wife last week. Ills child, four years old, accuses him. ’ —Theol Tyrer, who pleaded guilty of forgery ■ln Buffalo, has been sentenced to flveyears> im prisonment. —The steamboat Big Horn, from New Orleans, uth inst., was b.urued on the 1-ith Just,, at Point Pleasant bay. —At Newtown, Long Island, recently, a bnr glas shot several times at u man, who fired back and killed him. —General Cauby and Rev. Dr. Thomas wore Methodists, and the church will duly coinmera orato.their death. —Only four Senators and ten Representatives returned their extra paylo the treasury. Forty others did not draw It. —The Governor of Michigan has requested the Legislature to Investigate the alleged frauds in theßlale Lund OiUco. ,—Four hundred and ninety-live thousand dollars in specie were shipped to Europe lust week from Now York. —A lather is under arrest in Worcester, Mass., for whipping a one-year old child, for an hour, and dislocating Us thigh. —A quarter of a mile of th,o Memphis and Lit- Uo Rode Railroad, near tlopcfleld, was washed ■i .r. it, Urmt'tJi-u po.tUif'oldrL.'TTmTr- — etl iu Wisconsin, for burning mail matter, to ' save tiie trouble of distribution. —At Rochester, last Tuesday, Eugene Hall shot his wife In a fit of jealousy, and' then shet himself. Neither was fatally injured. —Miss Anna Dickinson is sued by a St. Louis lecture committee, for falling to make her ap pearance, after a hall had been engaged and an nouncements printed to the extent of S3OO. —Terrence Fitzpatrick tried to heat his' wife to death, in Brooklyn. She jumped from a win dow, fell 23 feel, broke her leg,, and will die. —Matthew Morrison, who was arrested In New Yerk, on suspicion of having murdered Mary Fagan, last March, died In the hospital, last week. • —ln Dutchess county, N. Y., oh the 10th Inst., tho chimney of a house fell on five little girls, killing one, injuring three dangerously and one severely. —The supposed assassin of Gen. Hindman, ol Arkansas, four years ago, was arrested at Mem phis Inst week. Ills name Is Vaughn, with sev eral aliases. —Joseph Hartnett, sentenced lust years to ten yeais* imprisonment for stealing a letter from the Now York post-office, has been pardoned by the President. —Patterson, tho convict, who stabbed Officer Sharon In the Massachusetts State Prison, was since sen fenced to'(on days' solitary confine ment and twenty years hard labor. —Jamestown, Va.,hasa post office at last. .It was settled 2C(J years ago, and during tbe rebel lion consisted of two or three old houses, the ruins of a church, and the outlines of a fort. Two convicts at Jefferson City, Mo., at tempted to board a moving freight train, The guards fired, severely wounding and capturing one. The other reached tho topofacar,wound ed, lay down and died; —Mrs, Johnson, wife of the keeper at Remain Lighthouse, South Carolina, was found dead last week, with her throat cut, and a large sum of money, known to have been in her posses-, slon. Is missing. —Tho friends of Nixon, tho condemned mur derer, gave a ball In the Bowery, New York, for the purpose of raising money to aid bis wife and children, .who had sold his horse and cart to buy food. Judge Dowilngsome time since privately gave them 5100. —At Holland settlement, near Chicago, last Friday nigbt, a family of Germans, named Al ders, got Into a diillculty, which resulted in the ■murder of ayouuger son by the eider. Tile mur derer was arrested. —The strike of the mill employees in the little town of ICnightsvilie, Indiana, threatens serious results. The colored men who wore employed in their places were'attacked by the strikers, and a temporary peace was only restored thro’ the efforts of the police and militia. In the late of tile imminent danger of bloodshed, it is pro posed to withdraw the only safeguards of peace. The ruffians who are engaged in the affair de serve a lesson after the style of that received by one of their fellows in Massachusetts, In sen tencing wiiom recently the Judge pronounced an attack upon any man’s labor to bo a pro ceeding which should not excuse the guilty par ty from a fraction of the full penalty of the law. When this sound doctrine Is enforced, strikers will bo chary of interfering with men who choose to work. —Tho Augusta (ArkuubUH) JltiUelin publishes a letter from Union county, Arkansas, giving an acccount of a horrible outrage upon ami murder of a White woman by a negroin that county: A few weeks ago u married woman went to a neigh bor’s house to remain several days, but found no one at home, and started to return, when a negro stopped her horse, took her on; and drove, pushed and pulled her eight miles Into the bot tom lands, where ho tied her to a tree, and bru tally assaulted her, keeping her there for throe days. On the second day. while still tried to tho tree, she gave birth to a child. On tho third day tho husband of the tin fortunate woman, not llnd ing her at the neighbor’s house, but discovered her horse where tho negro hud Jeit it lied, col lected some of his friends together and began,a. search, which resulted In /lading,her dead body tied to tho tree, tho negio having murdered her by blows upon tho head Inllloted with a olub. The murderer was soon afterwards captured by a party of negroes who were also assisting In the search. At the husband's request, (ho negroes hnllt two log heaps, and, sotting them on flro,. placed the negro between them. They were 1M hours burning him, and at Intervals subjected him to horrible tortimvsuch as cutting on* his toes and strips from hla body. 'I hero wore throe other negroes concerned In assaulting the wo mnn. They w' r 0 t/absefpißollj- mu) shot, STATE TREASURER 808 ' MAOKEY. Of Iho tunny outrages perpetrated by tho Radical Ring at the State Capi tol, tho joint resolution of Assembly extending tho term of Sjtato Treasurer Mackey for one year, was the most un blushing and audacious. It is in posi tive violation of- tho Constitution, and at oneo an outrage and usurpation. Tho resolution which extends Mackey’s term does not provide for securities, and, as a matter of course, the men on Mackey’s bonds for his last term can not be expected to continue as such for another year. Thus Mackey will have the handling of millions of dollars of public revenue without giying the State a farthing of security for tho faithful performance of his duty, a mark of confidence highly compli mentary on the part of his devo’ted friends, but an act of legislation which illustrates how little regard is evinced for the people’s interest by those who make our laws. As usual In schemes of this kind, the bill thus extending the term of the State Treasurer for another year was never printed, it being with held purposely from the public printer to prevent the defects it contains from being seen by the people, and it was not fully understood by nine-tenths of the members of either the Senate or House. Mackey, thou, will act as State Treasurer without security, and, judging from his past history, we can form a good idea of the result that will follow. Even now it is more than sus pected that there is a defalcation in tho State Treasury to tho tone of some throe millions of dollars. Tho Treasu ry is now and has been fur many years in the keeping of the Ring, and none outside tho Rjng have knowledge of its transactions. Wo.have no doubt what ever that millions of dollars are stolen every year, and that the funds of the Gommonw'ealth are being used for banking purposes by a lew men who, if justice could overtake them, would bo consigned to the penitentiary. We now make the prediction that, sooner or later; the people will discover that their taxes liaye been used by Ring speculators, and that these speculators cannot be readied or punished because of the legislation had for, their benefit. We believe Mackey and the desperate political gamblers associated with him. are capable of doing anything to enrich themselves. We shall have more to say on this subject hereafter. In the mean time we call attention to the following article which wo And in tho New York Democrat-. Next to tho Southern carpel bagger, probably the most thrifty official in the country is the honorable Kobert W. •Mackey, State Treasurer of Pennsylva nia. -Ue double-discounts Grant as the collector of wealth, and overt Wilson, Colfax and Dawes and all the Credit Mobilier fellows don’t seem to have any show beside the loyal Mackey. Two years ago Mackey confessed that he was poor, that he had nothing, and proved it by refusing .to pay his debts. He has been Slate Treasurer and in that position has received five thousand dol lars a year. , in two years this would make ten thousand dollars a vast sum to a poverty-stricken mortal like . Bbb Mackey. Hut some how Bob didn’t seem to care much, about it, and lias squandered it with a recklessness that has been surprising. He has lived high. He has enjoyed the society of the most luxurious and extravagant females he could And ; he has occasion ally “ bucked tho tiger” with a great Republican office holder have cost Bob about twenty thousand a year, which ho has paid out of his salary of Avo thousand dollars. The failure ot Yerkes who was afterward in the penitentiary, cost Bob $105,000, which ho had to make good to the Slate. Anybody would have thought that would have made a big hole in the Hon. Bob’s lit tle salary of live thousand a year; but bless you, ho didn’t seem to notice it at all. Indeed so careful had he been of his tamings, that after giving up tho $165,000 all out of his salary—he had enough., left to pay over a hundred thousand dollars to tho Republican cor ruption, fund, which was used to pur chase votes for Hartrarift last October. Everybody was astonished right out ot their boots at this proceeding; and it was very generally conceded in -Pennsylvania that-Bob Mackey was a most remarkable financier. Nobody thought it possible that Sir. Mackey got money except through his salary, Which he must have saved up very carefully. . Mr. Mackey was a Republi can and of course ho must have boon honest; bessdes wasn’t he a friend and an associate of that monument of hon esty, Simon Cameron, and that pink of virtue, John P. llartranfl? Oh, of course he was, and so people settled down into a felling of security. But all this time Bob Mackey was worrying himself to death muter' all tiiis money. It was evident that unless his salary was reduced or he had some way in vented by whicli he could get rid of some more of his savings from hie sala ry, ho would spoil. Just as tho case was becoming somewhat alarming re lief came. The Hon. Bob paid a hun dred thousand dollars for the control ling interest in a.Pittsburg daily paper. This wasan eye-opener to Bob’s friends, however, and they began to Agure on it. It was only a few minutes before they discovered that tho tiling stood about this way.—Expenses of living, rioting and generally having lots of inn, $-10,000 for two years; helping himself out of trouble which Yerkes got him into, and getting Yerkes out of the Penitentiary, $105,000 ; gave to the Hartranft campaign corruption fund, $lOO,OOO, a more bagatelle; paid for newspaper stock, $lOO,OOO, some more bagatelle; total, $105,000. All this saved in two years out of a salary of $5,000 a year! Of course the thing is honest. What is Mackey a Republican for unless he’s honest? Nobody suspects him, of course not, and yet there isn’t a tax payer in Pennsylvania who wouldn’t like to know how Bob managed to save so. Bob has got a tight tiling on it now. If that daily newspaper don’t use up all his savings out of his five thousand dollars salary, then all signs fail. Pennsylvania Reserve Associa tion, —The next anniversary meeting of the Association will be held at Gotts burg, on Tuesday, May 15,1873, on which occasion all those formerly connected with the Old Division are cordially invit ed to participate. It is expected that this will be one of the most luteristing re unions of the Association, on account of the glorious historical recolieotlous con nected with tho place of meeting, S. XI. Reynolds, Esq., a member of tho Constitutional Convention from Lancaster, having resigned Ids seat in that body, tho vacancy was tilled by the election of Ex-Governor Bigler, of Clearfield. A good selection. Swinging Round the Cmor.u.— Grant and his cabinet officers are all absent from Washington swinging round tho circle in various localities. The Government is running itself. THE CLIMAX REACHED, ' Tho bickering, bullying, cheating, lying and stealing which have charac terized Iho political struggle for ascen dency in Louisiana, have at last cul minated in a bloody riot a well planned and deliberate assassination of scores of black men, Tho accounts wo publish show how merciless was tho attack by which a largo number of black men, imprisoned in tho court house, that'building set on lire, and as they attempted to escape, were shot like so many dogs. The narrative re minds one of the atrocities which char acterized the border warfare between England and Scotland, when men wore butchered or burned, just as the pas sions of tho captor suggested—or his revenge demanded. In this instance, the negroes wore tho assailed parties— the assailants provoked all the trouble, and the result is duo to the lax govern ment and want of fair dealing which now disgraces official affairs in Louisi ana.— State Journal. ■For cool, simplified, unnecessary misrepresentation the above paragraph, from tho Hlate Journal, stands without a rival. With the exception of the first half of the opening sentence a lucre unblushing falsehood never pol luted its columns, which, by compari son, is language as strong as we care to use. That “bickering, bullying, cheat ing. lying and stealing”. have charac terized the government of Louisiana over since that unfortunate State foil a prey to thn prowling caapet-bagger gang led by “ brother-in-law Casey,” and that still more infamous political strumpet, Kellogg, no ouo will at tempt to deny. Evan Grant, himself directly responsible for the outrage which placed Louisiana in tho clutches of the horde of vampires now engaged in sticking the life out of that once magnificent commonwealth, is evident ly now ashamed of the dirty business in which he engaged, and which has just culminated in riot and loss of file. But that a respectable journal, of what ever political shade, should assert that tho affair at Colfax was “a well planned and deliberate assassination,” exhibits a moral tupitude alike degrading-and repulsive. Especially in view of the plain facts of the case is such'uu -rsser inexcusable in its transcendent folly. And here a brief and truthful state ment of the event so eagerly seized upon by a certain class ns fuel to feed theexpiriug embers of sectional hatred, will doubtless prove the best answer to the malignant falsehood quoted above. At the last local election for officers of the parish in. which tho late riot oc curred the democratic ticket was elected, by a large majority, but, under the manipulation of a -rascally returning board, the Radical candidates . were counted in. For some unexplained reason these worthies failed to qualify, and Kellogg, as Governor, issued com missions to the regularly elected demo crats. A member of the bogus state legislature, learning this laet, at once repaired to Colfax, the county scat, and at the head of a mixed mob of negroes and disreputable whites look forcible possession of tho court house, ajid pro ceeded to throw up entrenchments around the grounds. Thinking them selves masters of tho situation, this crew of four hundred desperadoes sal lied fortli in detachments, committing innumerable outrages upon law-abid ing citizens, until the sheriff of the county at the head of a posse comUalus of one hundred ami Arty men, deter .faw^",^flra*i¥fiTirtoril2\sf t 1873. j TUB NEXT SPEAKERSIIII*. This is termed mi “off' year in nation al politics. Woli, it is for the people at large. There are no speeqhes to be made, ami there is no voting to he done. But it is a mighty important year lor the pol iticians—l moan, of course, the leading and, would-be lending politicians, espec ially the members of the 43d Congress. These last will bo ns busy us heavers be tween now and December, concocting treasons, stratagems and plots in the in terests of their respective cliques. And all this involves any amount of traveling, letter-writing and telegraphing, which cost money, thno and labor. Thou there’s the work of, carefully preparing a choice assortment, of extemporaneous hursts of electric eloquence, impromptu hons mois etc. etc., for future use on tire Hoot- of tiro House or 'Bennie. No, Indeed, this is no “oil'" year for the aspiring congr. ssman. But, perhaps, what will cliiof.y occupy tlio time and attention of leading repre sentatives during the summer and au tumn is the constitution of tile commit tees of the 43d Congress which will de pend largely, of course, on tho next speaker. And tills naturally leads ton consideration of tho PROSPECTS OK JAMES G. BRAINI, Blaine lias been twice eleeted Speaker of tile House of Representatives, and yet hols not happy. Ho wants to preside over the -13 d Congress. Insatiate Blaine ! If, however, that were all Ire wanted, he could probably gel it. But Blaln Inis also other and higher aspirations In the not very romotc future lie has not yet quite made up his mind whether lo simps his course with solo reference to succeed ing Hamlin In tho Senate, on March 4, 1575, or In strike, boldly but cautiously, fur the llrst place on Ilia'republican pres idential tieket of 1870. ' Sh Iwjuitw■ Jllain: “Illinois will have had the presidency from the republican! party sixteen long and tedious years ; tho next uomiuatlon will certainly ho cou 'coded to tho East; and, in that case, Why not to James G. Bhtiu, of tho extreme East, it ho only plays his cards right." If tho Mouse elected Its, committees, as Uio Souato does, .Biiiin would ho all right; lint ttio Speaker having tho appointment of them, ho is iu A DEVIL OF A "FIX.” . I said just now that Blain wauls tho next Speakership. I will hotter express my Idea by saying that ho wauls the prestige of.undiminishod iuUueuoo which a third election to that prominent posi tion would give him. Ho knows, on the ono hand, that defeat in a contest for the cauoiis nomination would Injure him per inaußutly, and on the other hand, that hU declining to bo ft candidate would be attributed to Ids concioustiess of waning Inlluence. Therefore ho wants the Hpeakerahlp—but only because he does not poo how ho can have a political fu ture without it. But here Is his fix. io got the Republican caucus nomination for the speakership it will be necesawry for him to have pledged himself to such a constitution of the House committees of the 43d Congress as will place him be fore the country the endorser and patron of the congressional credit mobilicr opera tors and salary-grabbers ; abd to volun tarily assume that position would, he is well aware, densely Cloud bis prospects of the coveted seuatorshlp, and utterly deatioy his chances for the republican nomination for the presidency in '7O- He knows that tho people of all parties have condemr.ed, in the strongest language, the dishonest practices of the. very men upon whom ho would have to rely for tho speukersldf), and whom ho would have to repay in appointments; aud that they, the people, would never forgive a speak er who had deliberately insulted them by appointing- tho ringleaders of these corrupt cliques to positions of trust aud honor, in which the public interests may bo perilled, ahd money may bo scandal ously in ado,by dishonest men- WHAT lIE DANE NOT HO. Tile new speaker, whoever iie may be, will baldly dare to defy public opinion by re-appointing Garfield to tbe impor tant cliainiiuusbip of tbo Committee on Appropriations, or.Daws to that of Ways and Means; nor will lie, if bo be wise, ■continue Hooner of Massachusetts and Schofield anil Kelly of Pennsylvania in their recpective chairmanships. Aud it must bo remembered, also, in estimating the awkward position iu which tho next Speaker will find himself, that', after ho shall have disposed in some fashion, ot the chairmanship Licht in the 42(1 Con gi-'-ss by the aforesaid old -stager Who since their ru-elcctlon have been repudi ated for their misdeeds by tbe people, he will have to appoint successors to the fol lowing committee chairman, ol the 42d congress wbotiavehot been re-olcoted-to the 43d: Retiring Chairman. Utalc. Commiller. Austin llliili-, Midi. Claims. WaiuM abettu barger, Oil lot Commerce. John It. Ketclmm. N. V. nubile I anils. John F. Fanisivortu, 111. P. oUlcoiaP roads a. H. Uiu-UOLt, Mo. Manufactures. • John T. Wilson, - Ohio, Agriculture. John A. Bingham, Ohio. Judiciary. W. It. Upson, Ohio. Private hand elms N. P. Hanks, Mass. Foreign Adairs. JolmTallo. Noli. Territories. . , Jesse 11. Moore, 111. Invalid Pensions Ij. W. Peise, Miss, education .t Labor G. A. Halsey, N. V. Bidl'gs & Orouuds. James U. McGrow, W. Va. Mileage.. John neatly. Ohio. Printing. John A. Peters. Ale. ' Library. C; W. Buckley, Ala. Enrolled Bills,. John Lynch, Me. Uxp’rs In Treasdpt John Hill. N. I. isxp’rsln luti'dpt Many of the above'committees, it will be seen, are among Hie most important ones; and tlio country will keep a watch ful eye upon tbe policy by which the Speaker will bo guided in selecting chair men for them, Aud Blain sees this. He knows Hint bo cannot ride two horses— that ho most either boldly and unmistak ably repudiate the erod'd mpbilier opera tors and tuo salary-grabbers,- or accept the speakership from them, constitute the committees tosiiittliem, then order a cof fin and a shroud,Head a pious, prayful life, and get-otherwise ready to bo buried, at the close of tile 43d congress, in a politi cal grave which will never give up its dead. A. F. B. THE. MODOO WAR Two Days' Fighting—The Savages Com pletely Hemmed In-Only five Soldiers Killed, llhadqua utiohs Moboo Expedition, South of Tule Hake, April- lo.—The day opened warm and still, but was uab ereb in by the roar of musketry and occa sional booming of howitzers. Col. Ma son’s camp was at Hospital Hock on the north side of Captain Jack’s position, and directly under that famous strong hold. Gen. Gillum, who has been wait big tho arrival of his stores, and Warm Spring Indians, issued orders yesterday for tents to be struck and drawn iu a com pact shape to a place near Hospital Hock; for the troops to bo supplied with three day’s rations and one hundred rounds of ammunition ; for the cavalry to be ready to move at two A. M. io-day ; lor Col. Mason, cm tho opposite side of tho Hava Ik’d, to move at the same hour on the enemy. Colonel Perry and'Lieuteuaut Cresson, with tho oxvuiry, were to move a point IK-yuml the main cave, and conceal them hclves untU joined In the morning by the infantry and' artillery. ..It was hoped that when the latter companies left camp the Modocs would observe them, and iu an attempt lo put them off fall into the Jiands ol the cavalry. These movements were’ faithfully executed, probably hur ried a little on our side by tho escape of •Long Jim. a Modoc, wuo was under guard as a prisoner ol war. At midnight bo leaped, the guard, and escaped, though many shots were tired at him. At daylight we heard an irregular fnsl* lade on tho opposite side ot tho Hava bed, and knew Colonel Mason’s force or his skirmishers were engaged. At six o’clock we heard the boom of the howit zers and saw shells bursting over Cap tain Juck’seamp. At this Umo the rocks were swarming with Indiana and the bring was rapid. The plan of battle was from the north side, Col. Mason was to advance hia com maud on the right, the Warm Spring Indians on his left circling up along tho ledge to unite with the troops from this side, leaving only tho lake for the Modocs to escape by. Hieut. Greery was in camp in charge of the. arms and ammunition. Captain Trimble, of the First Artillery, with twenty men, was left in charge of the camp on this side. Col. Green, nt7 A. M. united with. Col. Perry’s command iu about an hour and a-hulf after leaving camp, and soon the bull opened. Cap tain Miller, Company E, of the Twelfth infantry, commanding a battalion, his company being commanded by Lieuten ant Leary, had the extreme right. Next to him were Captain Throckmortin’s Battery, M, Fourth Artillery, and Lieut. Mania’- Buttery, K, Fourth artillery. Captain Egan’s company ami Captain 'Wright’s company, E, both of tho Twelfth Infantry, formed tho centre. The cavalry wcioou tho extreme loft. While marching along the shore, just at the head ot Long oavp, about a mile and a-hall from Jack’s camp, the troops en countered the first opposition. Strag gling shots were fired from the bluff at long range. The men wore deployed iu open skir mish order, and advanced slowly under such cover as tho rocks afforded. Our rigbtopeueda gorge in the bind, fiom tho right bank of which came straggling shuts, while a low fell around us from the left bank. Our skirmishers crept up, supported by the reserves, until we ar rived at short range, when a severe vol ley was fired from tho bluff, there evi dently being Hour3o Indiana posted there. Thu fire was heavy. After standing about fifteen minutes the order to charge was given, and the men sprung forward amiu the most dnUeniug yells from the Modocs. Such was the rapidity of the onslaught, and so unexpected, tho troops were on them before they knew .it, and in a few,minutes wo wore musters of tho situation, and onr bravo boys wore be hind tho rocks, resting at their leisure. General Gillum had sent an order to Col. Mason to stir them up on hla side, and helot into them with a vengeance, dis tracting their attention, and materially nssi-ting our troops. The churgo was ouo. Mean while we oxtricdTeii our wounded—four In number. None were killed, Captain Egan mid ids men fought gallantly; so did uli engaged. Captain Egan was wounded Iu tho arm, but would not leave the field* 15. O. Conner, private of Bat tery M, Fourth Artillery, was shot In the lot —a llush wound; Private J. Hanley, Battery K, Fourth Artillery, 'vaa shot in the forearm ; Corporal 15. KellesK, Bat tery C, Fourth Artillery, received a scalp wound: Private McManus, Co. Jlj, Twelfth Infantry, had hia I hightcrushed, p. McManus, of. tho linn McCounel & McManus, meruhiintyal Yreku, ventured between Uio advance lino held by Lap luin .Miller,s ilien, Who curried the bluff under ordor.y in suedi a gallant style, mid tbo reserve Hue, aud was shot firm the high bluff and loft, on the ground. The tinea were 505 yurda apart, and tbe ground between tbeiu uncovered. When tbo mortars arrive tbe bluu will bo shell ed aud recovered. It is supposed that McManus was shot through the heel, by the way bis mule was found to bo wound ed. ... At 2 P. M. tbo order was given to ad vance tbo mortars. Major Thomas, in command ; Lletit. Cranston Howe,of the 4th artillery, aud Sergeant Earner, with nineteen men, composed the party. At 4.30 the lino was deployed down the lake opposite Jack’s camp, and crossed the in terviewing open space at double quick without receiving a shot. They are now In readiness to charge the blufl's, when the mortars have done their work. Tito mortars have arrived on the ground and taken position. All Was quiet until 5.30,.when a sudden and heavy volley rattled aloug'Col. Masoh’s Hue, aud continued several minutes. Just previous to tills it was signalled that no ono had beoq killed or wounded. . A pack train .of Warm Spring In dians has just arrived, composed of 17 mules and 150 horses. At 5.10 V. M. the first shot was fired from the mortars any planted right into tho bluffs. A few shells were thrown, going well into part of the lava beds, apparently doing good work. Our lino now extends from under tho bluffs, where Jack’s cave is, up to tho ledge to the south for nearly a mile. The bluff's carried by Capt. Milier are now held. Two ledges intervene between- the men and the main plateau. Now,-at 6 P. M., tho mortars aro being moved forward as our men are ready to scale, the heights. If Colonel Mason’s line has not been broken, by tomorrow we shall bo with the Warm Spring Indians, and have tho red fiends encircled, with but the lake left them to escape by. From ap pearances it would seem that the lower lake shore and tho bluffs have been cleared of the Indians by Colonel Ma son, as our men are steadily advancing without receiving any shots. The troops will probably hold the low rocks for cover, uutll morning. ' San Francisco, April 17. —The fol lowing official despatch has been re ceived here: HEADQUARTERS MODOO EXPED’N, 1 Lava Beds, April 15. j Maj.. Gen. Schofield, San Fran cisco : Have fought the Indians-all day and driven them to tho immediate vicinity of their, strongholds. Our losses are one officer,. Lieut. Egan, wounded, not seriously, and three en listed men killed and nine wounded. We hope to surround them to-morrow. A. 0. Gillbm, Colonel Commanding. TUB FIGHTING ON WEDNESDAY, Lava Beds, April IG.—During the night the Modocs’ position remained the same as they occupied at sunset yesterday evening; This morning a hotly emtested tight took place on Col. Green’s left. The Indians endeavored to get to the lake for water, but out troops succeeded in keeping them away. At 7A. M., a despatch was re ceived from Mason’s camp saying some Modocs had passed out on his loft, and were then on his flank, and rear. During the night tho mortars, under command of Major Thomas, opened Are on the Modoc camp, which was kept up, and very much annoyed the In dians. who could be heard yelling and shouting at an awful rate. At 2P. M. ihe troops under Colonel Greene were ordered to move forward from the position they had held .during the the top ol the ridge next to Captain, Jack’s camp, which was so hotly con tested yesterday, and which had been so nearly deserted to day. When our men reached this position cheers could be heard along the whole lino. .Orders were then given to sweep the Lava Bods. A despatch was sent, by signal to Capt. Bernard, ordering him, in case the Modocs had got out on Col. Mason’s left, to pursue them immedi ately with cavalry and give them no rest. At 10 o’clock our troops had gained considerable ground,, aud the tiring was becoming more frequent, and the general impression was that the Lava Beds were ours. Orders had been given for Col. Mason to move his right forward rapidly, and if possible join Col. Greene’s left. This will cut the .Modocs off. From ton to twelve o’clock there was considerable firing from south to tho lake. Only part of the Modocs could have got out on Col. Mason’s left, as Indians can bo heard in the vi cinity of Jack’s cave. Tho motrars, which .have ceased tiring since day light,. have been ordered to a new position within GOO yards of the cave aud near the water of the lake. About 12o'clock Cols. Green and Ma son’s commands effected a junction, which entirely cuts off the Modocs from the water. After this movement was effected, occasional tiring was heard at different parts of tho line. It was decided not to pusheur men on the In dian stronghold, as wo might lose many men without killing an Indian, where as, if we could keep them from the wa ter they would have to leave their posi tion. Wo could nut find them in a stronger. Our losses in tho two days’ tight have deen five killed and ten wounded. The only 'officer yet wound ed is Lieutenant Egan, a flesh wound in the leg, and he is doing well. Tho junction has been formed between Greene’s right and Mason’s left. Five Indians are reported killed; of these wo have some scalps. Noneof our kill od or wounded have yet fallen into the hands of the Indians. It is evident that if our men can hold their position on the lake shore the Mo docs will have to surrender. There is at present a heavy Are of musketry near the lake shore, aud the Indians are evidently fighting for water. Every one who has seen our troops in action speaks of them in tho highest terms. Ykeka, Cal., April 20.—A courier who-just returned from the front brings tho intelligence that tho Indians have escaped from the lava beds, and that our troops are in hot pursuit. Ykeka, Cal., April -20.—Later ac counts from the front state that tho In dians are still in the lava beds, sur rounded by our troops. This is all the nows wo have up to the time of going to press. McDonald, collector of customs at Halifax, on tho ISth lost., gave judg moiit in the Atlantic inquiry in open court. He commended the conduct of the olßcors after the ship struck, but condemned her management from the lime she boro up for Halifax, at I P. M. on tho 31st of March, especially, the captain’s conduct in leaving tho deck at midnight. His certificate might he cancelled, but, In consideration of ids efforts to save life, it shall be revoked for two years; John Brown, fourth officer, to be suspended for. three months. lx has been discovered that “it is un lawful for tobacco ohewora to beg a chew." The .United Slates • Internal Revenue law allows no person or persons to soil or dispose of tnbocco in any form, no matter how small or great the hulk, without first paying a license of live dol lars- local itl ms. 'l'iuAt, OF ALIIERT ZITZF.It FOII THE Murder OF ills Father.- Tile trial of Alliorl Ziizer for tlio murder of Ilia fnlli er, Dr. Clinrlea F. Zltzur, commenced on ■Wednesday of last week, holoru Ills' Honor Judge Junltln, and closed on Friday. W F. Sadler, District Attor ney, and A. B. Sharpe, Esq., conducted the prosecution, and C. E. Maglaughiln, Esq., appeared for Hie prisoner. Tho Court delivered their charge to the jury on Friday evening,and on Monday night at half past fen o’clock, the jury-after being out seventy-nine hours—returned with a verdict of “manslaughter,” with a recommendation for' mercy. Young Zitzer is sixteen years of ago and about live feet six Inches in height, and from tho general appearance of the youth no person would suppose that ho had any thing bad In him. Change of Base.—The last Carlisle Herald informs its. readers that hereafter that paper will be published by a stock company, with a capital of $25,000. We are really sorry to see this change In the old Herald. Stock company .papers In a country town wore never, known to pay the stockholders, and have often been a source of.annoyanca to the editors. ‘I Too many cooks spoil the broth,” is a trite but true saying, and too many proprie tors' in a newspaper are not desirable. Nor i 5525,000 much of a capital forastookcom pany to boast of. Wo have had about that amount invested in the Volunteer es tablishment for the last eight years, and could not get along very well with less. When we discover that we are unable to carry this amount of capital in our business we will throw up the sponge and quit. We will have no stockholder or stockholders about us. However, we sincerely wish our neighbors success in their, enterprise, if enterprise it can be called, and hope the new order of things may be the means increasing the revenue of the Herald. Death’s Doings.— Our readers will re gret (o learii that Sussie, daughter of I?. A. and Susan Tanuohlll, formerly of this place, died at Toronto, Canada, on the 3d lilt. Those of our citizens who visited Helen D’Bste’s. entertainment iu this place, in July last, will remember that she took part In the play of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as “Eva,” and gave universal satisfaction. We do not know whether Mr. Tannehill intended to educate her for the stage or hot; but If sho had lived ond followed the occupation, would have made a first-class actress. She has been however out down at the tender age of seven, years, by that- terrible disease, typhoid fever. Her remains were for warded'from Toronto tp this place on the 16th Inst., and interred in the old grave yard. Peace to her ashes. We regret to announce that our towns-, man, A. B. Zelgler, was prostrated,by a apoplectic- stroke on Friday night lash His recovery is considered doubtful. N. B.—Since writing tbe above Mr. Zeigior has died, remaining unconscious from the time of the first attack. Improvements, —Wo hear it said that several new dwelling houses will bo erected in Carlisle during the course of the coining summer, . On East Main Street, Win. Barnitz, Blair McCora mon and J. P. Bixler have already broken ground, and will shortly erect for themselves handsome brick houses. On East Pomfret street, Mrs. Bender is having put up a brick tenant house, and. nitnouKli the times are hard and money unusually tight, we have no doubt other buildings will bo erected in different sections of the borough. If so, we will make a report of them at the proper time ■ • Accidental Poisoning.—Od Satur-. day morning' last Mrs. Jeremiah, resi ding on Louther street, accidentally poi soned herself by taking a largo dose from u bottle containing horse liniment in mistake for medicine she had obtained from her physician. •_ When found she' was slttiug on a chair in an apparently helpless condition. Her daughters im mediately assisted her to bed and called in the services of a physician, who ap plied the proper restoratives., and at last accounts she was in a fair way of recove ry. Mrs. J’s. mind has been greatly Impaired for some years past. The Coleman Sister s—This celebra ted troupe wilt give an entertainment in Bheera’s Hall, on next Saturday eve ning, April 2G. Those of our citi zens who desire to witness a first-class play, splendidly rendered by one of the l»o.“t dramatic companies now travelling, should procure seats aud bo‘on hand on iho night of the edtcrtainraent. The banjo duets and solos, cornet duets, songs and dances of the Misses Alice, Louie and Clara are alone worth the price of admission. This company has given several entertainments in Harrisburg during the past week, and the papers of that city speak of it in very flattering terms. Changes.—Within the last week we have had several changes of olfico-bol* dors in Carlisle. Muj. Patton has been superseded as Collector of U. ti. Taxes, and Mr. Williams of York, put in his place. John Campbell, ticket agent for the Cumberland Valley rail-road, bus been supplanted, u gentleman from Chambersburg having temporary charge of the office.. A. J. Duncan baa been appointed agent for Adams' Express, Mcg A. iNoble. Dit. W. Z. Bentz, dentist, baa located at No. 24 West Pomfret street, in this place, and oilers bis professional services to tile public. Teeth made to order, bad ly fitting remodeled, teeth filled and diseased gums treated in the moat ap proved manner. The Doctor is a gradu ate of the Pennsylvania College of dental surgery. Ois Friday, May 2d, there will be a meeting of the various School Boards in the county, to dual action on the report of tGo Committee appointed to report a uniform series of text books for use in the schools of the county. All are requested to bo present. The meeting will bo held in the Court Boom, nt 10 o’clock, A. M- The Meohanlcsburg band passed thro’ tills place bn Friday last en route for Charabersburg to attend the parade of the American Mechanics, which took place ou the above day. Uev. J. S. Foulk will preach the next of liis series of sermons to young men on next Habbath afternoon, at 4 o’clock, in Emory Chapel. All are Invited. Keep a lookout for Harper's now advertisement next week. A now and beautiful stock of goods Just received. Good beam hand wanted. idee adver tisement in another column. Fic-nic parties are already tnlkctj of, A drenching rain fell on Pri(|„ v evening Inst. • The ice wagons will soon bo on i|, t . move, Delaware has some peaches yet in spite of the frost. ' Stomach bitters are in demand. You take your choice. Are you nicely fixed In your now dwelling? Here and there—the hairs of a young man’s moustnobe. A question of privilege—asking to go home with a girl. Don’t bite off more than you can chow when you borrow tobacco. ' Corner loafers are requested to attend church for a change. The latest parasol handle is as big nan sbillelab. It Is legal to kill mosquitoes now, but it Is inconvenient. Woman’s coming motto—“No ballot, no Babies.” Book keepers and chickens have to scratch for a living. Candidates for the various county offices are becoming numerous. Our young men are agitating the qus 3 . tion of spring suite. Gardening, planting and pruning is brisk. Several accidents of a slight nature occurred at the market-house on Satur day morning. Women are said to bo angels Just two months—a month before marriage, ami for thirty days after death. 1 Advertising reminds peopleof things they had been wanting all along, but had forgotten all about. We arc not In the habit of kicking ut every our that happens to bark at our heels. The Silver Spring trout propagation company will soon commence the sale of their delicious fish. ** Notwithstanding the Local Option Law has passed, Tho volunteeu Eating Saloon Is still in full blast!” The next holiday will bo' "Decoration Das,” when the graves of our soldiers are to bo strewn with flowers. It occurs on the 30th of May. Sassafras tea is becoming a favorite beverage with-souie of our citizens In lieu of laget beer. Court Proceedings.— l The follow ing cases are continued from our last issue Comth. vs. Amos A, Walker.—Se duction, fornication and bastardy. Pleads guilty. Sentenced to pay $l5 lying in expenses, $3O for pnstiinainte nance, and 50 cents per week for G years and 4,months. Comth. vs. P. Pritsch.—Selling liquor to minors, selling on ' Sunday,- selling without license, &c. Settled. Comth. vs. K. Minich.—Bawdy house, disorderly house, &c. Pleads guilty. Sentenced 30 days to jail, and $1 fine and coats. Comth. vs. 0, Windemaker, ot. ah— Aggravated assault and battery. A nolle prosequi entered by leave of Court. Comth. va. W., Windeamker, A. Snavely, H. Welsh,—Biot and assault, aggraved assault and battery. A noth prosequi entered by'leave of Court. Comth. vs. J. Dougherty, A; Snavely and H. Welsh. —Assault aud battery. A nolle pvoseqiii entered by leave'of Court. . Comtli. vs. W v Thompson.—Assault and battery. Guilty. Sentenced to enter bail to keep the,peace. Comth, vs. David Fisher.—Assault and battery, assault with intent to kill. Not guilty. Costs divided. Comth. vs, P. D. Johns, E. Johns, J. Johns. Aggravated assault, assault and battery. A nolle iirosequi entered by leave of Court. * Comth, vs. 0. Brown. —Assault with intent to commit rape, assault and bat tery. Not guilty. County for costs. ‘ Com. vs. Albert Zitzer. Murder, man slaughter. The jury after being out seventy-nine hours returned a verdict of manslaughter, with a recommehdat/on for mercy. Com. vs. John Umbergor, Jacob Wag goner,.Eliaa B. Eyster aud Henry Sny der, Neglect of duty—the first three, not guilty—and- Henry Snyder guilty iu manner aud form as indicted. Motion made for arrest of judgment. ; Com va. Bobert Bowermastor. Forni cation and bastardy. A true bill. Not arrested. Com vs. Chas. Branson. Assault with intent to commit rape, assault and but tery. True bill. Not guilty. County to pay costs. Com. vs. Isaac Sampson et nl. Assault and battery. Continued. Com. va. John J. Enford. Adultery, fornication and bastardy. True bill. Continued. Com. vs. Wm. Morris. Fornication and bastardy. True bill. NoUcproseqni entered by leave of co Com. vs. Jus. Cuff. Assault and bat tery. Ignored. Georgia E. Cuff to pay, costa. Com. vs. Sam’l Thompson. Fornica tion and bastardy. Ignored. County to pay costs. Com: vs. John P. Boyer. False pre tences. Continued. Com. vs. Margaret Harlan. Liquor without license. Plead guilty. Com. vs. Chas. Fry. Assault and bat tery, Ignored. Joseph lokes to pay costs. Com. vs. Mrs. Brown, Continued from January term. Pleadsgullty. Sentence suspended upon payment of costs. Com. vs. Wm. Peters. Assault and battery. Bill ignored. County to pay coats. Com. vs. A. Lane. Assault and bat tery. Bill ignored. County to pay costs. Com. vs. Margaret Harlan. Bawdy house and disorderly house. Plead gull • ty. Sentenced ns to disorderly house to pay a fine of $5O and costs, and sentence as to bawdy house held over until Au gust court. Com. vs. George L. Goucher. Assault and battery. Ignored. Clara I. Piper to pay costs. Com. vs. Joseph Darr. Embezzlement. True bill. Continued. . Com. vs. S. R. Grove. Selling H