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The modoc war.


I The following is from Yeka,
CAL, in reference to the Modoc
trouble: From Alex. Mckay and
?. A. Doris, who just arrived from
Hot Greek, We get the following:
On last Saturday, the 21st, a wagon
with supplies from Camp Bidwell
to Captain Bcrnard's camp on Lost
river, was attacked by 56 Indians.
Two sollliers were killed aud scalp
ed, and four wounded, and five
mules killed, when III sight ofcamp.
The Captain hurried to their assiS-
talce, but before reaching them the
indians escaped to the rocks aud
got away without robbing the wag-
on. The Modocs are gradually
being reinforced by stagglers from
reservations. and it is believed
some Of the Put river Indians have
joined them. The time Of the
Oregon Volunteers has almost ex-
pired. and they will soon be mus
tered out Of service. There are $50
soldiers in the field. 1'akng those
required for guard and escort duty,
leaves only Is for fighting, which
is less than the Indians now number.
There are only II soldiers at Fort
Klamath to guard $500 Indians on
the reservation there. Should the
fight linger along for some time
there is danger of their breaking
out and joining the Modocs. 1t
seems a difficult undertaking to get
at the Nodocs in their rocky retreat
in the lava bed. We learn that
300 bombs and ordinance have
been sent for, which will be some-
thing new for the Indians. "A meet
ing Of the citizens Of this place was
held tonight to consider the pro-
priety Of asking for volunteers from
the State authorities, for a com
pany Of volunteers to protect the
frontier settlements. Letters were
read from General Ross and Others
in the Indian country, urging this
action. 7. A. Doris was deputiz-
ed on behalf of the citizens of this
county, to proceed to Sacramento
and confer with Governor Booth,
and will start tomorrow. M
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a Manly Tribute.


While many Of the opponents Of
President Grant refuse to give him
credit for any good thing, striving
rather to make it appear that all
his acts are projected on a line Of
sellishncsS, or intentional evil, a few,
like the writer ofthe subjoined let
ter, addressed to Grant, are more
masnanimouS aid just:
TO the President Of the United
StateS-Sir: | trust that ! shall
not be charged with presumption in
addressing You on the subject Of
my letter. | want to thank you,
not tor any favor bestowed upon
my friends or shown to me. Thanks
for such things are as common as
the benefits they confer. | desire
to thank you for something greater
and better than these; for some-
thing much beyond the ordinary
practice Of high official life. Idesire
to thaak you for the respect shown
by you to Mr.. Greeley on his death
bed, and for the great respect you
paid his character and memory by
your attendance on his funeral. 1t
was great compliment for the
head Of a great nation to decline
attendance on all official festivity
while a private citizen was dying;
a citl2Ad who had no claims on the
sympathy of the official, either Of
blood Or close friendship It wasa
much greater compliment when that
executive laid aside the pressing
duties OF his great office, and, max
ing a night journey Of hundreds Of
m les, at all inclement season, took
the place OF a private person, among
the thousands gathered together to
pay tie last tribute Of respect that
the living eau pay othe dead. For
your remembrance OF Mr.. Greeley,
dying; for your attendance at his
funeral; for the fearful attention
you paid to the sad ceremonies
Of that occasion, MIR. President, |
thank you with all earnestness. |
am very sure that in doing SO but
echo the sentiments of hundreds Of
thousands of our feIlow.citizens,
whose views of public affairs led
them and myselfto support in the
late canvass the man to whom you
have shown such highrespect. BY
these acts you have removed preju-
dices, changed opponents into
friends, and shown the world that
great official life need not deaden
the better instincts Of our common
humanity. BY thcSeacts you have
taught the nations that Americans
lever forget what is due to the
character Of her great citizens, and
that the passions OF an exciting po-
litical contest never destroy the res
pect that American partisan oppo-
nents have for the good lives Of
good men |
| thank you, Mr. President, and
pray that a long and happy life may |
await you. And when it shall |
please the Great Ruler to send the
angel Of death to call you hence,
may your passage to the tomb be
made smooth BY the affection Of
kind friends, and the grave close
over you with tile heartfelt prayers
Of your countrymen for your eternal
resi-. Very respectfully, your friend,
SINCLAIR TouRsEY.
80. Xyr..Ir TNn.. Io1l -.--s.1-
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The Yale School of Journalism
numbers 65 members, one or two
Of whom may possibly edit a week
" paper some day.
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I is suggested by the Jackson
E0es that bounties be offered
t-ork, Dec. IS72

Is suggested by the Jackson
n E0es that bounties be offered
Or Modoc scalps. The Times can
scarcely be in earnest III that sug-
gestion. To say nothing ofits bar
barous nature, the injustice and
cruelty which would result from 1t
would be great. The heartless Gu
pldity that would kill a AIodoc for
a bribe Of $50, would kill any hu.
man being for the same sum, and a
slaughter Of friendly Indians would
result, as their bodies Or scalps
could not be told from 1IodoC's,
and they would be much easier to
shoot.
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Father Waller.

Rev. A. i. Waller, wen known
! throughout the State as one of the
Oldest and most respected ministers
of the Methodist Church, departed
this life at his home in Salem, on
Thursday Of last week, in his sixty.
fifth year. He came to this State
in l84O as a missionary. For q
period of thirty.two years he labor
ed indetatigably and with marked
success in building up the religious
and educational interests Of his de-
nomination. The Willamette Uni
versity owes much Of its prosp rity,
financial and otherwise, to his we'll
directed and persistent effort. 1t
may be well said Of him that his
life was not in vain, The impress
Of his pious life, his intelligent effort
and benevolent zeal, will live to
influence the minds of those who
knew him, long after tile clods Of
the valley have been heaped over
the ca~ket which contains his body,
Peace to his memory.
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Among the relics Of the Boston
fire is d melted brick wall, from
which the liquid brick has run over
q considerable space
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-01-03

Six girls and one boy persisted in
the Central street fire, New York,
il is reported.
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schuz made a speech in the
Senate the other day in which he
said that the Liberal movement had
played out the Democracy as .
party. Ills speeches assisted very
materially in procuring their death
for which they are said to have
paid $3.50 a piece.
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EASTERN NEWS.
Summers health is pronounced

precarious.
In Harlem, n. T.. on the 2Sth
ult., the bursting Of a range water
pipe killed a lady and wounded a
boy.
The Board Of Education Of Pat
teRon, N. j., have resolved that
colored children shall be allowed
to attend public sciioolson the same
footing as whites.
The ship Penrica has been lost
off Cape Cod with all hands. She
was insured for 100000.
Edward G. Bates, a well known
Boston merchant, died Of heart dis
ease the other day.
A fire visited New York city on
the 9th ult., burning three tene-
melt houses, and then spreading to
a building occupied as Mailard's
Hotel and confectionery, which
were completely gutted. Great
CONSERVATION prevailed among
dodgers on the upper floors, and
number were nearly sutfocated
when rescued.
Several persons were frozen to
death in Brooklyn, N. y, OH the
night Of the Goth ult.
New York Inspectors have been
examining the theaters to see if
they are tireSafe.
A telegram Of the Oath ult. an
nounces the destruction Of Barnum's
Museum, in New York, by fire.
But two elephants and a camel
were saved, all the rest Of the ami
mails, all the birds and contents Of
the museum generally being de-
stroyed. The front of the building
was composed Of corrugated iron
and wood, but the whole structure
burnt as though it were a tinder
box. The heat was 50 intense that
tiremen were unable to stand with
in one hundred feet Of the building.
1t cracked the windows in the
Academy OF Music. Grace Chapel
was entirely consumed, as we'll as
a large carriage mandatory, and
several dwellings. i5arnum's loss
was estimated from 100000 to
$780, 900, and the rest more than
as much more.
An entire block in New York
burnt on the evening Of Christmas.
Six girls were reported as having
perished in the flames, but the re-
lacked confirmation; loss of block, |
$5OO,OOO.
Eastman, a we'll known banker
Of Chicago. died OH the 23d ult.
from an overdose of arsenic, taken
when in a fit Of temporary insanity.
The mercury indicated $50 be.
low zero at Bath, Me-, on Christ
ma.
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller arriv-
ed in Chicago on the 24th ult.
Eighteen miles north Of Indian
apol,S, on tile night Of tile 24th
nit, on the I.l'. and 9. Il. Il. a
coach was thrown from the track,
more or less iIjuring 20 persons.
An afternoon train OH the Bufa-
10, Cory and Pittsburg Railroad,
leaving Cory on the 24th ult.,
when within about eighty rods of
The station was thrown from the
track at the trestle work, the pas
'enger, baggage car and tender Y
alling 26 feet. The engine passed !
,ver unhurt. AT the time the dis
patch was sent, the dead bodies of
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a dispatch from New York on
the 22d ult. says that after consid-
cradle negotiations, William Orton
resold to Whitlaw Reid fifty shares
out Of the fifty-one which he owned
in the capital stock Of the Tribune
Association, for q large advance on
the price at which he on the week
before purchased them. he is to
be elected q trustee Of the a@ocia-
tion, Ifthis is true, and no other
change is madC, neither Coltax nor
Blaine will likely b selected to fill
the editorial chair.
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says five negro women were shot
fatally during Christmas festivities
by their husbands, and Others BY
colored admirers.
In Williamsport, Penn, during
service IN the Baptist church, on
the 26th ult., the iloor and ceiling
gave way precipitating about 800
persons into the cellar below. Four
teen were killed and about forty
hurt.
An Ice gorge broke above Mem
phis, Tenn, on Christmas morning,
and rushed down with terrific force,
crushing dry-docks. wharf boats
and steamers lying at the levee,
some seven or eight Of which were
totally wrecked. The loss of coal
is $780, The price went up to
50 per barrel.
Little lsock, Ark, was totally
without ccal on the 9th ult.
General Francis A. Walker has
rendered the President his resigna.
ton as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, to take effect on the 1st Of
January.
The Potomac was frozen over on
the 9th ult., six inches thick.
Andrew Strong, one OF the no.
torious Lowrey gang Of outlaws,
of North Carolina, was shot and
killed by a young man named Will
son, who had been warned by
Strong to leave the country. Steve
Lowery is the only one Of the gang
left.
Street car lines are resuming
business in New York city.
The Commission to inquire into
the depredations Of the Mexicans
in Texas on the frontier, expect to
leave Washington on January 7th
to assume their labors. Meade,
one Of the Commissioners, has re.
signed.
1t is rumored that Secretary
Boutwell, has written his resigna-
tion to take effect February 18th.
William Cullen Bryant weighs
only one hundred and thirty pounds.
a boy at South Bend, Indiana,
thought he would see how the cold
iron of his skate tasted the other
morning. He now wears what is
left Of his tongue in sling.
A Danbury girl has married a
poet and carries her own coal.
Discoveries Of lead mines in
Missouri are reported quite often.
The District of Columbia has
had TAO cases Of smallpox during
the year.
Only four counties in Ohio have
a population Of over $4,000.
England this year is one hundred
million bushels Of wheat short. She
is now receiving 100000 bushels
per week.
Enoch Jacobs, Of Ohio, has been
appointed Consul at Monteviedo.
A Chinaman at Tuapeka com-
mitted suicide by stufing paper in
his nostrils.
The President is to give the first
State dinner on January Stb. The
guests will be the members of the
Cabinet ard their wives, Vice
President and Mrs. Colfax, General
md Mrs. Sherman and Admiral
ina Mrs. Porter. Alter that, din
leS will be given every alternate
Thursday during the session.
Excitement is subsidiug at New
= .
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It now comes to light that the
late Mr.. Greeley made at least five
wills, which have been found. The
last one he made was just before he
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On the isl'nds late in dispute be-
tween England and America, Of
which San Juan is the principal
one, there are about $50 inhabi-
tants. San Juan Island alone has
nearly 45O inhabitants, and 65
farms. Oras Island has 165 in
habitants, and 40 farms. Lopez
Island has 1876 inhabitants, and 25
arms-and few inhabitants on
the smaller islands.
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Since the death of the King Of
the Sandwich Islands, in view of
the fact that he left no successor,
the future Of that Kingdom is ex-
citing considerable comment and
speculation. 1t is thought by some
who profess to be informed in re-
gard to matters on the Island, that
if our Government wants to annex
it, it can be done without much
trouble.
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Don't.

Speculation puts Andrew John
son in the United States Senate in
the place of Parson Brownlow, who
is to resign. We hope Tennessee
will commune often, fast often, and
pray, before she ventures to foist
that played-out iniquity upon the
country. The Senate should not be
the place for q State to place her
chief example, or specimen, Of po-
litical depravity. johnson should
be permitted to rot out in obscuri-
ty.
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cidens and piracy fortunes of the nquton wonderful
bugaies. underworld of the great cities etc. ETC.
We this work which give exclusive territory Agents
make $lOO week selling this book Send circulars and special
agents.
j. B. BURR & HYDE, HARTFORD Conn, CHICAGO, ILL
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A Mysterious work of fart,

There is now exhibiting in Paris one
OF the most startling works of genius
and art that we have ever witnessed.
1t is diorama of the seige of Paris,
and all Paris Is running wild to view
1t. There Is some species of optical
illusion in connection with il that no
one seems able to understand. AL
though painting, it so closely resem-
bles nature that ON suddenly entering
the hall the spectator is bewiIdered,
and invariably complains of dizziness
as liis,cye scans the intervening scenes
and the distant horizon presented 10
view. OF course, as We could not I'M
derstand we cannot describe, and
we scarcely expect the reader to be-
lieve that it was difficult to realize that
we were not only really standing on a
lofty eminence between the lines of
the contending armies, and viewing
the progress of the siege. The bull
ding In which the diorama is exhibited
is circular, and about three hundred
feet in diameter, with a glass dome,
On entering it the visitor passes along
a rather dark passage TO what seems
the centre of the building, and then
proceeds up circular series of stone
steps, about forty in number, and finds
himself on a circular platform on the
top of veritable hill of earth, strewn
with cannon ball and shell, the object
of the artist being to place him in the
Fort of Issy, surrounded on every side
by the incident of the seige, with the
city of Paris and its monuments. domes
ami steeples in the distance. BY close
examination it could be discovered that
the nearer earthworks of the picture,
and even some of the cannon, for dis
lance of fifty or sixty feet from
the edge of the platform, is
verltable earth and undoubted
cannon, and real willow gabi-
ons and sand-bags, but the exact spot
where the substantials ended, and the
canvass begun was not SO easily detec-
ted. The reader must take our word
for it that, as We stood on the platform
representing an elevated position on
one of the bastions of Fort Issy, that
il appeared to the mortal vision of all
of us just as if we were in reality in
the midst of the siege. We could
scarcely believe we were inside of a
building, as nature was so closely inn
itated that it seemed as if the vision
embraced every tree and hillock up to
Fortress Mont Valerien, eight or ten
miles distant. The horizon was per-
feet all around the circle, and there
was nothing visible to indicate that
we were not out in the open air, ex-
cept circular canvass, suspended as if
from the clouds. high up over our
heads, and nothing visible anywhere
TO Indicate that we were in reality i'll
side of building drawing a painting,
The whole seems 10 be piece of le-
gerdemain in art that has never been
attempted before. When we came out
ofthe building we Involuntary turned
around and measured its size with our
eyes. in. vain attempt to unravel its
mystery.-Futton's Cor. Bait. diner.
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Preservation of q Baby.

a Mrs. King had surprise at
Shaweetown. ILL.,, the other day. 1t
was an accident that Mrs. King hap
pened to be at Shawneetown. She
did not intend to 60 there. but the
steamboat Jennie Howell, OH which
she was travelling, struck a snag and
sank III the Ohio river. Several of
the passengers were drowned. and
among them some children. Mrs.
King had child ON board whom she
mourned as lost, and was taken to
ShawnectOwn without the babe.
The Jennie Howell sunk deep in the
water, aud the next morning men
went out to the vessel to recover the
bodies of the lost. Soon after day
light a mattress was discovered floG..-
ing in the cabin, which was filled with
water nearly TO the ceiling. Upon
examination a child, little boy, was
discovered Oh the mattress sleeping as
peacefully as il nothing unusual had
happened. His bed was not very
dry; for it had sunk good deal from
soaking, but still sustained its living
freight In due time the child was
sent to Shawneetown, where the 9th
er passengers had been landed the
evening before. Its coming made
an excitement among the wrecked
travellers, for more than one mother
had lost children by the disaster.
1t was touching scene when Mrs.
King recognized the child as her boy
whom she mourned as lost for nearly
twenty-four hours, The preservation
of Moses in the bulrushes was not so
miraculous as the safety of Mrs. Kings
boy He had been tossing about on
the waste of waters in the cabin all
night, and was brought to his mother
alive in the hour of her deepest afflic>
ton.
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We have Btdcktoood for September.
Contents How Jnhn was Drilled
The Parisians, -Book X,-Don Carlos,
Duke of Madrid.-My active Subaltern.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The
Sparrows ofthe Temple. New Books.
The British Quarteriy-The Failure
of the French Reformations.
The public Health.
Catholicism and Papal Infalibility.
MaZini and New Italy,
Recent Travels and Explorations in
Syrice.
Miracles. Visions. and Revelations.
The Gladstone Administration.
Contemporary Literature.
Address L. s. Sc UT, Publishing Co.
New York.
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OBITUARY.
James f. IIoge.

Ina previous number Of the AeWs.
we announced the death on the 5th inst.
of MIR. James +. HOge, distinguished
citizen, and much esteemed lawyer of
the County of Montgomery. He was de-
soended from a very prominent family,
being the son of Gen. - Hoge, who
was largely and very favorably known
by the leading men of Southwest Vlr-
ginia. At the opening of his business
career, he was married to Miss Eliza
Jane Johnston, daughter OF Col. An
drew Johnston of Pearisburg. We do
not remember the number of children
which sprang from this marriage, but
they are not fewer than nine in num-
Der, and they and the mother are left
to mourn the loss, and honor the MEM
ory of father and husband, whose af-
fections and virtues were of that lofty
order, which both sharpens the edge of
sorrow, rnd brightens the face of hope.
For many years, Mr.. Hoge moved
and labored among the best anu
brightest characters of the New, and
Roanoke River Valleys. He was a
leading and pious member of the Pres
bvteriau Church. and q devoted Ma
son. In these and all other capacities,
whether in that inner sanctified world,
which anglo saxons term Home, or in
all those delicate relations which
spring up between, and unite man and
his fellow, he was the soul of honor
and generosity, and now at the age OF
IS years, he has gone to the grave
mourned and respected by all who
knew him. We had rather write of
him that the cold eye of criticism may
peer mercilessly into his character, and
find therein, no fault which the mfr
nifty of the flesh can not cover, than
to say of him, that by the arts of the
demagogue he came 20 be Governor of
Virginia, He has finished a good Ca
reer, and gone to q splendsd reward.
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SUNDRIES.

Bargains in Pongee Parasols, from
81 so to 81.
A large Stock of fancy Parasols.
White Silk parasOls with Lace Covers.
Ladies Umbrellas.
Fans of every description.
Fine Fans at 81 to S1.25, worth double
the money.
Initial Handkerehiefs for Ladies and
Gents, Every Letter.
Lace aud Danlask Curtains
Large White Quilts at 81 20.
Large White Quilts with Colored Bor-
ders at S13o.
MaiseiIles Quilts.
Summer Balmorals, with Bias Plait-
ing and Embroidered. $3.50.
Good White UnderskirIs from Toe. to
81.
Grass Balmorals with Quilted Frilling.
Ladies City made Shoes all kinds war
ranted.
500 yards Ladies Hamburg Trimming.
1900 pairs Ladies and Gents Kid
Gloves from soc. to 81. 90 pr.
Wh.te and Checked Mattings very
cheap.
Goods sent G. o. d. wherever there
is an express office.
Small packages sent by mail at a
triaing cost.
To their lady customers they beg
leave to say they will send samples Of
any line of goods, without 0r1sln6li1g,
wherever they are reIut sted to do so.
GUGGENHEIMER & CO..
Lynehburg, Va.
March Ally.
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Have not suspended.
l. G. FOWLER.

Bunting & Pepper" but are now
receiving the most complete assert
nent of Drugs, Chemicals. Paints,
Oil, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass, Lamps,
Lamp Goods, Lanterns, Brushes, Soap
Extracts, Colognes ever brought to this
market. - ~rrf.
Also Paints, Varnish, CalcemiRin z
White Wash Brushes, Tobacco, Cigars
and Snuff. Whistles, Brandies and
Wines for Medicinal and Sacremental
purposes. All of which in quantities
quality and prices to suit the trade.
Sept Soft.
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The chronological Journal for Octo-
Der is q good average number and con-
taing articles on several important
subjects. The Genesis of Geology
is popular and not exhaustive trea-
ties on the subject from the stand
point of an evoIutionist. A paper on
the "rrue Law of Population" which
is copied from the Medical Press and
Circular, contains some valuable in
formation and suggestions. "Is Spir-
itualism in the Bible ?" is discussed by
the Rev. DIR. John Hall from the or
thodox side of the question. Besides
these notable articles there are several
of less pretention but readable, and
some poetry.
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ALL-W00L INGRAM CARPETS.
THE CHEAPEST IN THE UNITED
STATES, at 75c. worth Sl.00 Whole
sale.
Black Alpaca Mohairs at 55c. Coo.
and 75c.
ga Table Oil Cloth at 75c.. worth 100.
ID do. at soc. worth 75c.
Black Drab France, at 75c.