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time. At length the walls OF the prOscenium arch,
to the private rooms In the rear OF the stage fell
with dreadful crash, and by strange freak of
fate, the catch-dr0p OF the curtain was loosened
and IL unrOlled slowly for the last time, AMI on
THE CLOSING SCENE
OF this real tragedy. The flies and sections OF the
scenes on the stage were thrown by the strange
currents Of air generated by the heat In all drec-
tiOns and Iel in mass OF dsordered ruin among
the broken statues, gllded chains and tropical
pants that had recently 0rnamented interesting
scenes OF comedy. Fortunately, however, most OF
the valuable furniture, mirrors and all OF the ward
robes were saved but the charming scenery with
which the New Magalen'' was produced upon the
stage was entirely destroyed.
Another important building, but having con-
nected with IL no such wealth OF sentiment as nat
urally surrounded the Globe Theatre was the i'm
mense and magnificent granite warehouse Of the
nrm OF Chicker1ng, the celebrated manufacturers
Sl pianos. IL began TO burn about ten O'Clock,
having caught fire in several places from the oppo
site buildings. For seine time the efforts OF the
ton, but
c,our THE HEAT
nnay became too intense, and the stream OF water
which mad Kept the facade cool for long time was
WITHDRAWN. rhe fire then made rapid advance
anu the attempts to subdue IL unavailing. The
crash, and Immediately the whole fallen mass was
covered with mantle OF fame that could not be
penetrated by Niagara OF water. Only one wall
remaihea erect, and that was On the north
and, with an awful shock, fell 10 the earth,
shaking the adjoining buildings to their founda,
lions. The Chickering warerooms contained 225
damage to them 10 about sos. 800, and that of the
building Is estimated at $4,000. The latter was re-
fitted only year ago. other important
BUILDINGS DESTROYED
are Arlington Hall, the Museum OF ANATOMY and
the International Hotel The new Pilot once was
only scorched The numbeE OF buildings wholly or
partially DESTROYED ~ twenty.seven. nine Of which
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Eis Hollis x co. estimate The losses OF the COM
panies represented by them at about 100000
The Imperial, OF London, had $4,000
An investigation OF Mr.. Chickering's insurance
gives $97, 900 in all.
The Continental, OF New York, had 5000 for
Eawley a. Folsom; $1,000 for Robert Newman;
$4,000 for Emerson; $4,000 Tor II. r. Miller, and
$1,000 to another firm.
The North American. OF New York, among other
losses, had policy OF $4,000 on the Brown prop
rfu .ttE ufrn
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-06
From the New York Bulletin
the New COttOn CrOn.

In another column, We present the
result of extended inquiries, made
through letters addressed from this
Office to n large number of practical
authorities at the South, as t. the
acreage of land planted with cotton
this year, the condition of land and
weather at the time of planting, the
supply of labor, and the prospects OF
the new crop and of the out-turn of the
crop of last year. For the convenience
of our readers, we summarize the re-
suits of these inquiries.
l. AS to the increase or decrease OF
acreage planted in cotton, i'll ca III
State, this year as compared with last,
we obtain the following result:
North Carolina increases SOLO per
cent, say average y per cent.
South Carolina increases 10 per ct.
Tennessee increases 5000 per cent
say average u! per cent.
Georgia increases 5Q01O per cent.
say average y per cent.
Alabama, about, increases q per
cent.
Mississippi increases 10 per cent.
Louisiana, no change.
Texas increases Is per cent.
From every State, except Louisiana,
an increase of acreage is reported. In
the case of each State we have given
the highest and lowest percentages re-
ported to us; and applying these ratios
to the acreage of last year, we have
the following as the comparative acre
age of the two crops; the figures for
last year being based on the returns of
the Bureau of Agriculture, which have
been generally accepted as closely APP
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-06
THE LAVA BEDS.
THE MODOCS ABOUT WHIPPED
OUT.
THEIR STRONGHOLD ATTACKED
BOSTON CHARLEY, SCAR FACED
CHARLEY AND TEN OTHERS
S y r r E NDE II E D.
CAPTAIN JACK ESCAPED.

SAN francisco, June 2-Noon.-
The renegade Modocs led the troops
to within half mile of Captain Jacks
moved to surround him, but Has
brooks command did not reach the
designated point in time to make the
capture complete. Captain Jack with
three warriors escaped Captain Jack
was surprised, and his scouts came in
crying ''Run out, run quick, the sol
diers are coming" The soldiers be-
haved well, and their gallant advance
called from the rocks EXPLANATIONS like
Surrender" eve no fight, we want
to talk peace, we like peace" Boston
Charley. who killed DIR. Thomas, came
i'll full view, and he was covered with
half dozen riff les, and quietly passed
to the rear he volunteers to put up
job on Captain Jack.
Two hours afterwards Boston Charley
was sent after the Modocs as n peace
commissioner, but failed to overtake
them.
The surprise resulted in the s1lrren-
der of Boston Charley, Captain Jack S
sister, the Princess Mary, Black jim s
woman, and other female Modocs,
ranging from to 80 years of age, and
| seven ponies. Captain Jack took
refuge In canon with walls forty feet
perpendicular.
LATER.-Scar-f faced Charley, old
Sconchln and ten other warriors have
surrendered. Captain Jack and three
others decamped during Tie night.
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DECORATION DAY.

We had laid aside a Northern paper
for the purpose of making some COM
ments upon its editorial relating to the
decoration of the graves Of Federal
soldiers, on Friday last, and it was not
our purpose to speak in any friendly
or kindly tone. Before there was time
to carry out our purpose, the following
noble words, in the New York ECcuiag
Post, met our eye, and we pub
lish them, instead of the comment we
had meditated.
The Post says
"But were there no homes south of
Masons and DiXon's line, and tonight
are not mothers there thinking of those
who died for 'Elost cause? Is not
mother love always pure and sacred,
and shall we not reverence 1t lrrespec-
tive of geographical lines and of po-
iitical differences ? Shall the bitter
ness of war last forever? Let us be
generous and wise in answering these
and kindred questions which suggest
themselves to any one when thinking
of the history of this country for the
last twelve years. Brave men and
good citizens do not quarrel over
graves"
If the spirit that pervades these
words was more frequently manifested
in word and deed at the North, il
would not be long ere far kindliel
feeling existed between the lately
warning sections than the country, has
witnessed for third of q century.
Fixed and immutable as are orl
convictions in regard to all the issues
pertaining to the late war, We are not
proof against the softening influence
of words like those the Post so bravely
addresses to its Northern readers
And we feel sure, whenever the NORTH
shall be prepared to act in accord with
the full measure of the meaning OF
the words that "brave men and good
citizens do not quarrel over graves, >
that the South will be ready to do
likewise.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-06
STATE NEWS.

Senator Ransom will deliver the St.
Johns address at Oxford on the Oath
of this month.
Two divorces were granted at the
late Court in Halifax county, and one
of the divorced men went Immediately
to the Registers Office for license to
marry another woman.
The Raleigh Sentinel Says: Presi-
dent Grant has appointed Capt. James
r. Thigpen, Agricultural editor of the
State agricultural Journal, commits
sioner to the Vienna Exposition, and
Capt. Thigpen has signitied his inten-
ton to accept the position and go.
Mr.. John Young, an old Wake
County farmer, was robbed on the
streets of Raleigh last Friday, of a
pocket-book containing 500 in mo-
ney. Two men, Frank Harrison and
Dick Crockett, both colored, are no W
in Jail charged with the robbery, but
the money has not yet turned up.
The Charlotte Southern Home says:
The Laegel gang, who were deserters
| during the war, attempted to kill Col.
Monroe Helderbrand, the late COM
mander of the Home Guards. They
| kept him shut up for four hours in a
house in South Mountain. His friends
came to the rescue, assailed the Lac
| gels ana drove them off.
The Raleigh News says: In speak
ing of the storm that passed over the
city Wednesday evening last. the old
est inhabitants say they never knew a
more terrific wind storm in the city
Large trees were blown down in seve-
raj portions of the city, and every
street was INSTRUCTED with broken
limbs and branches. No damage to
person or property.
The Fayetteville Statesman says
The suit of l.. p. Bayne & Co., ct al.
VS.. Western Rail Road Company, will
come up in the United States Circuit
Court IN Raleigh next week. We un
derstand it's object is to foreclose /
mortgage, and that it is highly proba
BILE that receiver will be appointed tt
take charge of the road during the pen
dency of the suit.
The Piedmont Press says Their,
is a rock cliff iii the South Mountain
seven miles from Montgomery, from
the face of which, after a dry spell
pure alum can be scraped off. In an
other part of the same cliff the coun
try people get the red oxide of irol
for coloring purposes. No spring la
yet been discovered at it's base. If
well were dug there the water woul,
doubtless be found to contain VALUABLE
medicinal qualities.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-06

quantity of peas, rasher of rich ba-
can, a modicum of salt and red pep
per, a slow fire and keen appetite,
and you have feast worthy of the age
in which we live. Shade of EpicurCs !!
tantalize us not with such exquisite
visions. If thou must haunt us, render
contrite the heart of the husbandman,
and bring us realization of the old
time experiences.
Under all conditions the sIeckled
pea is worthy of special exaltation.-
Whether waving its rich, velvety
greenness amid the flashing sabres of
corn, or made into fragrant hay from
bud to flower, from flower to fruit 1T
is always the same exquisitely delicious
vegetable. Wherefore this admoni-
ton.
Plant corn, if you must-put broad
acres in cotton, if you will-but, gen
tie husoandman, give us the speckled
pea, and that not scantily. It is well
to have corn and wheat. These are
substantial. But the speckled pea is
forage for man and beast, and luxury
for both. Therefore let not the seasons
of promise pass by with emptiness.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-06
LOUISIANA.

Governor McEnery, in view of the
Presidents proclamation sustaining
the Kellogg government, has issued a
proclamation advising the people Of
Louisiana to make no farther resist
ance for the present, but to wait until
the meeting of Congress, in the hope
that the difficulties will be speedily
adjusted, and that if they fail in Sc
touring recognition of the govern
"ment elected by the people (and an
earnest effort will be made in that
"direction), at least Congress will
'surely initiate and pass the necessary
measures, according to Louisiana a
Legitimate government, to which her
"citiZens of all classes and of all
''parties will bow in willing and loyal
obedience"
We are glad that Governor McEncry
has pursued this course. The unlawful
interference of President Grant, with
an overwhelming power at his back,
renders any efforts Lotlisianians might
make, utterly vain and impotent. They
have already done all that men could
do to maintain their rights and liber-
ties. Further resistance to Kellogg,
now that he is supported by Federal
bayonets, would result in ruin and
exile or in Imprisonment and death.
The people of North Carolina can
and do sympathise deeply with their
unfortunate brethren in Louisiana, for
they, too, have known what it is to be
oppressed and tyrannised over.
Holden and Pearson and Kirk in
North Carolina were but patterns for
Kellogg, Durre1 and Longstreet in
Louisiana.
May justice prevail in that State, at
least as much, as it has in our own.
Whether Governor McEnery's an
ticipations of relief from Congress are
well founded cannot now be known.
The Northern papers, we are glad to
say, Of every shade of political opin-
ion, concur in commencing the pru-
dence and wisdom of his course, and
they do so in such terms as to indicate
that his refusal to resist Federal
authority will, by no means, have the
effect to strengthen the Kellogg usur-
patton. Indeed if their utterances be
any proof of their feelings sentiment
OF sympathy has been called into ex-
1stence. How strong and how abiding
at is, We shall probably know about
Christmas, certainly not before. 1t is
long time to wait, but, unfortunate
~, nothing else can be done.
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DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS DE-
LAYED.
ANOTHER FIGHT IN SPAIN.
THE CARLISTS DEFEATED.

LoNDoN, June 2-Noon. Times
of this morning publishes Il special
dispatch from Berlin, which saws that
the Ge rman Government is dissatisfied
with President MacMahon's address to
the French Assembly, and will not
enter into regular diplomatic relations
with his Government until satisfied
that France will faithfully adhere to
the treaty of Frankfort.
A special dispatch to the Daily
News. from Bayonne, says that the
Carlist Gen. DOrregarrag has been de-
prived of his command
A severe engagement took place on
Saturday last i'll the province of Bar
celona, between n force of Republicans
and United Carlist bands, commanded
by Ferestang and Don Alfonso. After
a stubborn fight of several hours du-
ration, the Insurgents were defeated
and fled. They were pursued as far
as MOrestro1 de Caldcns by the Gov
eminent troops.
All the Federal Republican factionc
III Barcelona have renowned their ex-
elusive party views and united as one
body III opposition to the Monarchists.
MADRID, june -Noon.-The Gov
ernment has received dispatch from
Gen. Nouvillas stating That, with
twelve thousand men, he holds ali the
mountain passes i'll Biscay, and is
driving the Carlists in that province
toward the coast
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by it. Still he looks well and at times
his mighty soul beams from his eyes,
and bursts in eloquent burning words
from his lips when a thought or a
word arouses him. In o moment of
conversational excitement, when with
me in the privacy of my chamber, and
when his lovely wife and her children
were away at cburch-he sprang up
from his seat, and, standing before
me, vas rapturously eloquent in the
description of a scene he witnessed in
the House of Commons of Great
Britain, when the independence of our
Confederacy was under discussion
Every nerve in my body thrilled and I
shared with him the excitement which
was stirring his soul. Suddenly he
burst into u laugh, thing not usval
with him. Reseating himself he said,
mirthfully: "You are not old saw
the fire of the boy sparkle IN your eye
as talked, and thank you for your
compliment
L thought OF his father. Oh how
much there is of him in this, his glo-
rious son-I thought, too, of his
grandparents, his uncles and his
aunts, with whom [ was so familiar
when life was in the green, and could
scarcely realize that I bore the weight
of seventy-three years.
Close by, is the grave of Judge
Longstreet and his wife. Their only
two children are the wives of l.. Q. c..
Lamar and DIR. Henry Branham.-
These live on the adjoining lots in af-
fectionate relationship, their children
are grow lup, Lamar is grown father,
| and the RranhamS are f1lli,,r tho plooeS
of men and women and I was the
compeer of their grand and great
grand parents.
I must desist, for I am growing sad,
and this letter is too long. I am going
to the sea, and my next may be written
from the white beach of the foamy
deep, or from the blue mountains OF
the West. / am, yOu knOp, a acaif,
ana 90 acherc the ariiids JIOU me.
Adleu. Y, M. c..
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THE MODOCS.

With the surrender of Captain Jack,
the Modoc War may be considered as
being ended . war that probably
ought never to have been begun; yet
one, that having been begun ought
long ago to have terminated.
The Government has now question
to decide that will doubtless cause it
some perplexity, and that is, having
Captain Jack and his tribe in its
power, what is to be done with them?
If they be prisoners of war, it is
difficult to see how they can be tried
by any civil court for any crimes they
may have committed against the civil
law, and it is probably no easy
matter to determine whether these
lately captured Indians are now right
fully in custody as prisoners of war,
or in custody as criminals forviola-
tons of the civil law.
The policy of the United States to-
| ward the Indians has not been alto
gether consistent. Until late years,
we believe, the Government has, by
treaty after treaty, recognized theN
tribal relation and tribal existence, i
not their tribal sovereignty and indie
pendence. Recently, however, there
has been change in our policy in thi:
respect, and an effort has been made
to deal with Indians as individuals ani
citizens.
Whatever fate my befall Captain
Jack, the world generally will scarcel,
deem it too severe for his many crime:
against civilization, though there vii
be many men who, remembering tina
he is savage, and admiring thu
courage and generalship he manifested
in holding at bay, with literally
handful of men, the power Of th,
United States in the protracted strug
gle just terminated, will think it wer
worthier for him to die the death of
| warrior than that of a common felon
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draw out a pistol, when 1 shot hin,
He then came towards me, and T I'LL FL
three other shots at him. WIZ +
fired the last shot at him he had vel
the collar. / only regret this on accom-.
of the effect it will have on nv fam;I ,.'
[ would like Judge Barbour to Ena,,-
this, as lie was interested in the caso
before.
The Doctor did not find INV
pistol in the pockets of the deccascj
but found a note left for him lv H.
son, in his breast pocket. The follow.
ing is copy of the note: At 3 o'clock
I want to try to settle some family
matters. Call at the Strrteyant
House after an hohr or two. and if
am not there, Twill leave word at the
office. (SigncO
+. W. WALvoRTU.
Coroner Young committed the mur-
derer to the Tombs until such time sc
the inquest may take place.
The falling walls of burning build-
ing on Howard street, near Elm. This
morning, seriously wounded NJ. Welsh
and Edward Wilhelm, two fremen OF
engines and slightly injured number
of firemen.
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.S,G5 SOL 9,313,033

Total S,G55504 9,313,03D Csc, 81.
Upon this basis Of estimate, the in-
crease of acreage planted, in the whole
cotton region, would be $50, 529 acres.
2. Our Inquiries as to the use of fer
tilizers this year, compared with last,
elicit the following result
In North Carolina 10 per cent. in
crease.
In South Carolina % to 100 per cent.
increase,
In Tennessee about as last year
In Georgia 40 to 200 per cent. in
crease.
In Alabama moderate increase.
In Mississippi moderate increase.
In Louisiana about rs last year.
In Texas scarcely at all used.
Evidently, therefore, there has been
an increased application of fertilizers; ;
which is important, not only as calcu-
lated to give an enlarged yield, but
also, other things being equal, to force
the crop to an earlier maturity, and,
therefore, to secure a more favorable
picking season.
3. Our next questiOn-as to the con-
dition of land and weather in each
State at the time of planting-brings
out the following statements
In North Carolina lands in a fine
condition.
In South Carolina about as last
year.
In Tennessee land better, weathe /
cold
In Georgia generally MUCH better
than in 1872.
In Alabama generally more favora-
BILE, but exceptions.
In Mississippi more favorable.
In Louisiana land more favorable,
but weather unfavorable for the carly
planting.
In Texas land and weather less
favorable.