The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-05-31
Latest by Mail.

The daily To, Angeles Express, and Star, furnish the following:
 The Modoos again in Flight...They Make
 Stand and a,c Severely Punished
 4 despatch from Yreka says that twenty Modocs got out of the Lava Bed and are flee ing towards the Pitt River country, pursued by Perry and llaslrouck's commands. On Monday last the troops of lla>hroHck over took the ModOCs near Farchild's Ranch. The -ayagcs made stanj in the hall. and a lively { fight cusued. The Modors were driven back with loss of five killed, ami ten ,quaW. aui chil rcn captured. We have no report wheth CT our troops suffered loss. Cap'. Jack was going south. He evidently wishes to join the Pitt River Indians. Only few troops remain in the Lava Bed The Modor, were . last seen on the IlchnDr road. going toward ] the timberel Buttes and Antelope creek 1 A Company of Sharpshootsrs to be Raised 1 Gov. Bpoth, after conference with General ] Srhoiicld, authorizes the raising of a company of sharp>uoptrr. at Yrcka. for tn, defence of ! the country Et-t and Northeast from the MOdocs and any other war-lke Indians.
 Latest About the Modocs.
 YRExA May 2I-The latest intelligence nboit the Moipcs shows them to have gone toward the Pitt River. The Indians of that section ant tue Plutrs are well armed and supplied with large quantities of ammunition. IL i, thought they have been in constant cUm- muucatIon with Capt. Jack.
 The Supreme Court of California has af iirmci the decis,ion of tue lower court in Tee gard to the hanging of Charles A. Russell, for the murder of James Crp,ty. Russell will have to stand little hanging.
 United States forces had arrested De Blanc and other whit men, for the "crine' of de- ienuIng themselves against the negroes The prisoners were cheered on their arrival in l New Orleans
 Daily mail service had just commenced be tween Tipton and Bakersfield, and would soon be extended as far a, Lo, Angeles.
 Four hundred miles of s P. Railroad grad ed, and cars running 10 Deer Creek.
 Geo. Williamson, of Louisiana, appointed minister to Central America
 Small revolution in Panama. One or two men killed. Foreign snips' crews guarding lives of foreigners, Thing "bustedn by de- ciarlng Juan Peryet Provisional President.
 Indians of northeastern Utah threatening war.
 Evidence states that Capt. Hall, of the Po- laris, wa, poisoned by Capt. Luddington.
 Another x. '. Herald correspondent has been arrested in Cuba.
 The Pope was feeling worse.
 San Francisco county jail caught fire. No panit; not much damage.
 President Grant says that in appointing a successor to the late Cbief Justice Chase, he will sink all party and personal consdera- | tinns.
 There is a report that the government has on hand a great annexation scheme The Sandwich Islands are tu be first annexed; and. after that, another scheme proposes to annex the northern part of the Republic of Mexico. ! Arizonans would not object to the latter scheme.
 Geo. Chids shot and killed Hugh Scott and George Dufiee, near Austin, Nevada, on May 20tb.
 Grasshoppers had almcst destroyed crops | in Texas.
 kx Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, has been offered the St. Petersburg mission. | Geo. $. Fisher, Georgia, was fishing for | DeLOng's plare in Japan ] New York Court of Appeals sustains de- cison that ihe U. $. cannot receive or accept bequests. This "miy' let Government out of one-half million bequeathed by one de- ceased, Fox.
 Postal cards were being used Supply not equal to the demand
 Many persons have been arrested near the scene of the Kansas slaughter.ground.