The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-05

to one hundred two hundred, and three hun
dred, respectively.
of the sloops Of war ordered built by the
last Congress, one will be given to the Norfolk
navy yard and one to that Of Charleston.
-The French Atlantic cable is again work
ing.
A great struggle is said to be prevailing
in Shawoken, Penn, for the possession over
ten thousand acres in the anthracite coal re-
gions, valued at 500, 100000. One party has
burned three houses which the other side
erected, and retaliation is now threatened. D.
II. Wheeler, OF New York, represents one side
and the Reading Railroad the other
OUT WEST
"A company of Colorado scouts and sharp
shooters is to be raised to fight the Modocs,
Gen. Schofield announces his readiness to ac-
cept their services.
One thousand st. Louis ladies petition
the City Council for the repeal of the social
evil ordinance.
Correspondence from all parts of South
ern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa, pre-
dict large and excellent wheat crop, but
short crops of oats and corn.
From reports received at the Indian Bu-
reau 1t is pretty conclusiyely settled that the
working parties on the Northern Pacific are
destined to meet with considerable Interrupt
tion this summer from Indians along the route I;
and it will not be safe for them to proceed
without military protection. The Indians are
not only numerous in that region, but very
warike; and it will require very large force
to cope with them if they once start on the
war-path.
-The Michigan State Relief Committee has
closed accounts and handed small balance
to the the Governot to be disposed Of as he
thinks proper. The whole amount raised for
the relief of sufferers by the Michigan fires of
1871 was $2652
"A dispatch from Gen. Custar, dated Fort
Randall, Dakotah, contains the following
statement: Fallis, the guide, sent me from
Randall, reports positively that two hundred
warriors and young men belonging to the
Yankton Agency left their reservation few
days ago to join the hostile bands of the Up
per Missouri, and the Indians will muster five
Thousand men this summer.
Col. Davis reports that about half the
Modocs, being whipped and hard pressed by
Hasbrouck, surrundered Internationally.
Davis says he will push the pursuit OF Jack
and party, and hopes to end the war soon
"A special from Fort Sill, Indian Territory,
says that great excitement prevails among the
Wichita Indians on account Of the murder OF
their principal chief, Isadawah, by the Osages
recently The chief was out hunting alone
and the next morning his headless body was
found with bullet hole in the back. One
hundred yards away, the head was found
stripped of the scalp. Isadawah was g. eat
one of his warriors killed sentry at Fort Ar
bucle and the chief promptly brought the head
OF the assassin to the Fort. 1t is believed
that tho Whichitas and their allies will imme-
diately take the war path against the Osages
in spite Of all efforts to restrain them.
A new consolidation line of railroad from
New York to Council Bluffs, Ia, has been Or
ganized with stock of $5O,000,0O0.
-Lieut. Wheeler's exploration party leave
Washington in few days to anatomize the
backbone Of the Continent-the Rockies in
Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Maj. Forsyth, now on an expedition to
Powder River to select military posts for the
protection of the Northern Pacific road, re-
ports that the Yellow Stone is more navigable
than the Missouri above Buford.
Commissioner Meachem, wounded in the
Candy massacre, is rapidly recovering.
"A special dispatch from Austin, Texas,
says that grasshoppers in innumerable num-
bers have made their appearance in that State,
and are laying waste all vegetation. In sotho
localities they have entirely destroyed the
corn, consuming it down to level with the
ground. They seem to be moving northward,
and it is feared that Missouri, Illinois, Kansas
and Nebraska will be visited.
FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE.
In the latest Intelligence from Peru is a
brief statement to tho effect that Of S0,353
Coolies shipped from Macao to Peru during
tho past 12 years 1927 perished from ship
wreck and five per cent of the whole from
suicide or sickness.
The Emperor Of Morocco has escaped q
French invasion by paying damages done by
his rowing subjects in Algeria, and the expense
Of Frances preparation for war.
The Shah of Persia has reached Moscow,
minus his three wives whom he considerably
left at homo to mind the children.
The latest from Sumatra reports an army
Of 10000 Atchinese advancing on the Dutch
.capital.
London papers state that the clergy and
Jesults Of Belgium are making great efforts
to organize pilgrimage into the heart of
France to the celebrated Shrine at Parayle-
monial there to pray for the restoration of
the temporal power Of the Pope.
"A resolution for the admission Of Prince
Edwards Island into the Cananian Confeder-
alton on the LIST of July has passed the Do
minion House of Commons.
An election riot took place in Merido,
Mexico in which thirty persons were killed
and fifty wounded.
Spain promises to be as uncertain in its
war reports as Mexico has been for years
past. There seems, however, to be little doubt
that on the 5th the Carlists, under Gen. Dor
regaray, at the end Of four days retreat
turned upon their pursuers and defeated them
with great loss. Encouraged by this victory,
Don Carlos himself appeared in Navarro, the
14th and took command of an army said to
number $1,000 men. His cause is further
aided by loan Of 400, ,ooO, 900 reals placed al
London. There is intelligence of Carist vic.
tories in Aragon.
Among the one hundred Or more failures
which have occurred at viena during the pan
10, there was no bank involved Of any Import
ance. The houses that went down are re